Social sciences
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This thesis addresses important issues about how to make game characters and virtual agents more realistic or believable by using cognitive-social personality theories. We begin motivation by discussing two examples. The first is from a television series and the second is a more concrete example that will be used throughout the thesis to explain concepts and the model. These examples represent the ideal goal of our work.
261p runthenight07 01-03-2023 5 2 Download
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The above aims raise the following research objectives: To identify and analyse how people from Bogotá living in Melbourne understand, perceive and position themselves in relation to the Colombian socio-economic stratification system; To explore how people from Bogotá living in Melbourne re-think and reposition themselves in terms of socio-economic stratification once in Australia; To assess whether and how their perceptions of socio-economic stratification and repositioning after migration affects their self-perception and their perception of others.
273p runthenight04 02-02-2023 11 2 Download
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The study examines how Small-Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) demonstrate a range of innovation capabilities when they collaborate with a regional university research centre. This collaboration is shown to be important to create and exchange new knowledge to advance the firms innovation performance. The study demonstrates the ability of firms to acquire and exploit this knowledge, which is a business competency described as absorptive capacity (AC). AC relies on several antecedents or factors to engage with a collective learning process.
243p runthenight04 02-02-2023 8 3 Download
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This project approaches capacity building by focusing on practices described in the literature that foster the development of capacity building. This approach adopts systems theory to understand how change matter more systematic and identifiestwo components: the first, four levels of capacity, and the second, six essential criteria that enable the development of capacity building.
165p runthenight04 02-02-2023 5 1 Download
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This thesis investigates the choice behaviour of first year undergraduate students through proposing and testing a conceptual model. The psychological constructs of personal values, motivation, selection criteria, demographic and socioeconomic factors introduced as underlying drivers provide invaluable insight into the pathways of influence and relationships between student types and their preference towards a particular degree program at a particular university.
321p runthenight04 02-02-2023 5 2 Download
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This thesis aimed to explore a range of social-ecological factors in the understanding of adolescent suicide ideation. Comprising two studies, the first study examined adolescents’ differential perceptions of mother involvement and father involvement, and their association with adolescent suicide ideation and psychological well-being.
168p runthenight04 02-02-2023 3 2 Download
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This qualitative study offers a significant contribution to addressing the increasing youth suicide rate in Australia, with suicide now the leading cause of death for young people aged 15 to 24 years old (AIHW, 2017, 2020b; Robinson et al., 2016). The research goal is to investigate what guides and shapes school social work practice in preventing and responding to suicidal students in Victorian secondary schools, and the implications for social work practice and education.
197p runthenight04 02-02-2023 8 4 Download
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The thesis "Evaluating climate change mitigation and adaptation considerations in the Victorian planning system, Australia" is structured as follows: Chapter one: introduction; chapter two: climate change and the land use planning context: a review of literature; chapter three: policy and institutional framework for land use planning and climate change in Victoria; chapter four: research design; chapter five: assessing the state planning framework for awareness and analysis of climate change; chapter six: assessing local land-use implementation and action on climate change; chapter seven: c...
199p runthenight04 02-02-2023 6 3 Download
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This study aimed to gain an understanding of negative L1 transfer on the use of English prepositions from a CL perspective. Since there is a vast difference between English and Vietnamese prepositions both in their cognition and the structure of the two languages, Vietnamese learners might transfer some of their cognition from their language, culture, and lived experience to their English usage.
219p linyanjun_2408 21-04-2022 14 4 Download
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This study aims to investigate the language used for denoting graduation in English literary discourse. Basing on the theoretical framework of Appraisal proposed by Martin and White (2005), it lays its focus particularly on how intensification as graduation is realized via linguistic and stylistic means in English literary discourse. A comparison among expressions for intensification is established to recognize what sub-groups are preferable to be used in this type of discourse.
250p linyanjun_2408 21-04-2022 29 2 Download
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The thesis aims at examining the metaphors of season in English and Vietnamese songs in the light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Subsequently, a comparison is made to find out the similarities and differences between the conceptual metaphors of season in English and Vietnamese song lyrics when SEASON is treated as a target domain as well as a source domain. Simultaneously, several explanations are given as causes for these similarities and differences.
230p caphesuadathemtieu 02-03-2022 18 4 Download
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This study aims at investigating the linguistic features of verbal repairs in English and Vietnamese conversations in films via the pragmatic, semantic and syntactic features. Besides, the similarities and differences in linguistic features of verbal repair in two the languages were to be recognized. Finally, some implications were given to help English and Vietnamese interlocutors, researchers of films learn about how to overcome the breakdowns during their conversations.
246p caphesuadathemtieu 02-03-2022 16 3 Download
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The research objective of this study was to evaluate these answers, describe the current situation and put forward recommendations to policy makers to prepare highquality primary school teachers in Thailand. The study was based on future research design using the methodology of the Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research (EDFR) as a way to reflect the needs of the organizations.
6p guernsey 28-12-2021 18 1 Download
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The objective of this study was to examine the effects of happy Muslim family activities on a decrease in domestic violence against Thai-Muslim spouses in Satun province, Thailand. This experimental study was conducted with 40 married Thai Muslim couples in Satun province, with 20 couples in the experimental group, and the other 20 in the control group.
6p guernsey 28-12-2021 5 0 Download
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This research investigated the report choices used for corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and the determinants of CSR disclosure of firms listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). Since 2014, firms listed on the SET have been required to disclose CSR in either an annual registration statement or a separate report called a sustainability report. It was, therefore, noteworthy to examine the choices these firms chose in the first year of disclosure.
7p guernsey 28-12-2021 16 0 Download
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This paper investigated the names given to Thai local community products and provides a description of the use of the English language in naming products in Thailand. The business names of Thai local products under the program One Tambon One Product (OTOP) were selected for analysis, focusing on language characteristics and semantic appropriateness by using onomastics to some extent.
6p guernsey 28-12-2021 14 0 Download
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This research explored information on basic education policy for the ethnic groups in the Thai highland and border areas, identified factors that influence the education policy for ethnic groups, and provided a mechanism and process of basic education for ethnic groups in the Thai highlands and border areas.
8p guernsey 28-12-2021 9 0 Download
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This research examined how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) can improve upon the common economic community through the revision of policies related to labor and migration. The literature review suggested that economic prosperity and growth are significantly related to national openness to naturalization and foreign investment.
9p guernsey 28-12-2021 11 0 Download
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This study was based on research and development design. The main purposes of this study were to develop an instructional process for enhancing mathematical literacy among students in secondary school and to study the effects of the developed instructional process on mathematical literacy.
9p guernsey 28-12-2021 9 0 Download
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This paper estimated the degree of elasticity substitution of inputs, particularly young labor, older labor, and physical capital. The elasticity of input substitution was estimated using a nested constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function and nonlinear regression analysis. Research data were obtained from the annual secondary data of government sources from 1990 to 2013. The findings indicated that the input substitutability of young and older labor was low. However, capital and labor could substitute for each other.
5p guernsey 28-12-2021 16 0 Download