Search results for "aid"

Investigating Bidirectional Links Between the Quality of Teacher-Child Relationships and Children’s Interest and Pre‐Academic Skills in Literacy and …

2020

This study investigated bidirectional links between the quality of teacher–child relationships and children's interest and pre‐academic skills in literacy and math. Furthermore, differences in the patterns of bidirectionality between boys and girls were explored. Participants were 461 Finnish kindergarteners (6‐year‐olds) and their teachers (n = 48). Teachers reported their closeness and conflict with each child twice throughout the kindergarten year. Children rated their interest in literacy and math, and were tested on their pre‐academic skills. Cross‐lagged path models indicated that teacher‐perceived conflict predicted lower interest and pre‐academic skills in both literacy and math. Re…

CASE tool support for co-operative work in information systems design

1998

The need for asynchronous co-operative work in design is shown by many surveys of CASE tool use and research on design. MetaEdit+ is a metaCASE environment that allows multiple simultaneous modellers to work together on designing information systems and also information systems design methods. We describe the automatic locking strategies that enable MetaEdit+ to offer a high level of concurrency whilst guaranteeing consistency, enabling effective co-operative work. In particular we describe a new collection data structure that allows high concurrency of updates even at small sizes, fulfilling the need in CASE for largest growth of design information at the start of a project. Finally, we ev…

Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls. 2015, Nr. 2 (95)

2015

Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds

Vaginadialogeja : kuukautisveren tabu Hanni Haapaniemen Neitsyt Maria -maalauksissa

2015

Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa käsitellään kuukautisveren symboliikkaa taiteessa. Tutkimuskohteina ovat Hanni Haapaniemen kolme kuukautisverellä maalattua Neitsyt Maria -aiheista teosta. Tutkimuskysymys voiko lika rikkoa pyhän idean? johdattaa selvittämään pyhän käsitteen muodostumista sekä kansanuskon että kristinuskon konteksteissa, sillä yhteisöt ovat jo ennen kirkkouskontojen syntymistä erottaneet pyhää määrittäneet kohteensa profaanista erilaisin tabusäännöin määritellyin rajanvedoin. Kuukautisveren symboliikka on kahtiajakoinen, sillä se pyhän veren metaforana yhdistyy ruumiineritteeseen, joka ylittää ihmisruumiin symboliset ja fyysiset rajat ”tunkeutuen” ulos pyhän, eheän ruumiin yhte…

Hellēņu dimensija Eiropai : Rīgas 1. starptautiskās hellēnistikas konferences "Hellēņu pasaule un mēs" materiāli

2003

Emotional and Altruistic Values as Drivers for a Loyalty-Based Segmentation in Retailing: An Approach to Postrecession Spanish Apparel Consumers

2016

ABSTRACTResearch on consumer behavior has supported the usefulness of the experiential approach to explain shopping and consumption in the context of retailing. The present article aims at assessing the soundness of an extended experiential value concept for segmenting apparel retail customers in terms of their loyalty toward the store. A CHAID algorithm based on a sample of postrecession Spanish apparel retail customers has identified three segments of customers with differentiated levels of loyalty toward the store: play (emotional value) and ethics (altruistic value) are the most relevant variables for defining these segments.

Franchisee’s entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and performance. Evidence from France

2020

Franchisee’s performance has been frequently positively related to entrepreneurial orientation (EO), but the EO is a multidimensional concept and the interest of the literature on the dimensionalit...

Advertisers' perceptions of search engine marketing

2009

The objective of this study is to examine advertisers' perceptions of search engine marketing. The theoretical part of the study investigates the two aspects of search engine marketing, namely advertising and optimisation. With the use of a qualitative case study conducted with leading search engine marketers and experts in Finland, the paper suggests that search engine marketing is still in its infancy among Finnish companies. Whereas small-sized dot-com companies operating in the Business-to-Business (B2B) sector have been most active in search engine marketing, traditional brick-and-mortars are just starting to set plans for search engine marketing. Finally, the study discusses the impli…

Exploring the challenges of remote work on Twitter users’ sentiments: From digital technology development to a post-pandemic era

2022

The boost in the use and development of technology, spurred by COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, has sped up the adoption of new technologies and digital platforms in companies. Specifically, companies have been forced to change their organizational and work structures. In this context, the present study aims to identify the main opportunities and challenges for remote work through the use of digital technologies and platforms based on the analysis of user-generated content (UGC) in Twitter. Using computer-aided text analysis (CATA) and natural language processing (NLP), in this study, we conduct a sentiment analysis developed with Textblob, which works with machine learning. We then …

Combining the COM-B Model and Habit Theory to Leverage Understanding of Adolescents’ Tooth-Brushing Behavior

2022

Although brushing teeth twice a day is not difficult, a surprisingly large proportion of adolescents do not behave accordingly. This paper brings together the COM-B model and the habit formation theory in order to create a basis for a more comprehensive, customer-oriented, theory-based understanding of the issue. A total of nine focus group interviews were conducted among adolescents to further understand underlying aspects and develop solutions. In findings, barriers related to adolescents tooth brushing behavior were identified in all areas of COM-B model. Especially the role of automatic motivation was highlighted as in mornings tooth brushing seemed not to have a stable place in daily r…