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Parent Goals and Beliefs and their Prediction of Behaviour during Shared Book ReadingAudet, Diana Rose 09 May 2013 (has links)
In this dissertation two studies are reported to explore the relation between parents’ goals for, beliefs about, and behaviour during parent-child shared book reading. In the first study, 92 parents rated the importance of potential reasons for reading with their children using the Parent Goals for Shared Reading Questionnaire (Evans & Williams, 2003). Ratings were completed longitudinally each year from their child’s junior kindergarten to grade 1 year. Factor analysis largely confirmed previous cross-sectional findings that the questionnaire items reflect distinct parent goals for shared book reading, including fostering reading skills, stimulating development, engaging in an enjoyable activity, and experiencing closeness with their child. The second study used data from the senior kindergarten year of this same sample of children to investigate the
relation between parents’ beliefs about how to teach reading, how highly they rated fostering reading skills as a goal versus non-reading goal subsets, and their behaviour during shared book reading (i.e., the nature of the extratextual comments and error corrections made). Results demonstrated that, as parent goals to foster children’s reading skills increase, their tendency to provide the correct word in response to their child’s miscues decreases. When goals to foster reading skills were high, parents were more likely to use strategies that help their child to read misread words, regardless of their ratings of goals to engage in a positive experience with their child. However, when goals to foster reading skills were low, increasing ratings of the goal to engage in a positive experience related to decreasing instances of parents helping their child to read misread words. Furthermore, the goal to engage in a positive experience with one’s child was positively related to extratextual conversation not related to teaching reading but only when goals to foster reading skills were also low. Finally, goals to foster reading and constructivist beliefs both made independent contributions to the prediction of parents’ use of context cues to correct reading errors. Implications of these findings for literacy intervention programs targeted at the shared-book reading interaction are discussed.
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High performance distributed shared memoryAnanthanarayanan, R. (Rajagopal) January 1997 (has links)
No description available.
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Interprofessional Shared Decision Making in NICU: A Mixed Methods StudyDunn, Sandra I. 19 April 2011 (has links)
Background: The process of shared decision making (SDM), a key component of interprofessional (IP) practice, provides an opportunity for the separate and shared knowledge and skills of care providers to synergistically influence the client / patient care provided. The aim of this study was to understand how different professional groups perceive IPSDM, their role as effective participants in the process and how they ensure their voices are heard.
Methods: A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used consisting of a realist review of the literature about IPSDM in intensive care, a survey of the IP team (n=96; RR-81.4%) about collaboration and satisfaction with the decision making process in NICU, semi-structured interviews with a sample of team members (n=22) working in NICU, and observation of team decision making interactions during morning rounds over a two week period. A tertiary care NICU in Canada was the study setting.
Findings: The study revealed a number of key findings that are important to our increased understanding of IPSDM. Healthcare professionals’ (HCP) views differ about what constitutes IPSDM. The nature of the decision (triage, chronic condition, values sensitive) is an important influencing factor for IPSDM. Four key roles were identified as essential to the IPSDM process: professional expert, leader, synthesizer and parent. IPSDM involves collaboration, sharing, weighing and building consensus to overcome diversity. HCPs use persuasive knowledge exchange strategies to ensure their voices are heard during IPSDM. Buffering power differentials and increasing agreement about best options lead to well-informed decisions. A model was developed to illustrate the relationships among these concepts.
Conclusions: Findings from this study improve understanding of how different members of the team participate in the IPSDM process, and highlight effective strategies to ensure professional voices are heard, understood and considered during deliberations.
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Investigations of collaborative design environments : a framework for real-time collaborative 3D CADNam, Tek-Jin January 2001 (has links)
This research investigates computer-based collaborative design environments, in particular issues of real-time collaborative 3D CAD. The thesis first presents a broad perspective of collaborative design environments with a preliminary case study of team design activities in a conventional and a computer mediated setting. This study identifies the impact and the feasibility of computer support for collaborative design and suggests four kinds of essential technologies for a successful collaborative design environment: information-sharing systems, synchronous and asynchronous co- working tools, project management systems, and communication systems. A new conceptual framework for a real-time collaborative 3D design tool, Shared Stage, is proposed based upon the preliminary study. The Shared Stage is defined as a shared 3D design workspace aiming to smoothly incorporate shared 3D workspaces into existing individual 3D workspaces. The addition of a Shared Stage allows collaborating designers to interact in real-time and to have a dynamic and interactive exchange of intermediate 3D design data. The acceptability of collaborative features is maximised by maintaining consistency of the user interface between 3D CAD systems. The framework is subsequently implemented as a software prototype using a new software development environment, customised by integrating related real-time and 3D graphic software development tools. Two main components of the Shared Stage module in the prototype, the Synchronised Stage View (SSV) and the Data Structure Diagram (DSD), provide essential collaborative features for real-time collaborative 3D CAD. These features include synchronised shared 3D representation, dynamic data exchange and awareness support in 3D workspaces. The software prototype is subsequently evaluated to examine the usefulness and usability. A range of quantitative and qualitative methods is used to evaluate the impact of the Shared Stage. The results, including the analysis of collaborative interactions and user perception, illustrate that the Shared Stage is a feasible and valuable addition for real-time collaborative 3D CAD. This research identifies the issues to be addressed for collaborative design environments and also provides a new framework and development strategy of a novel real-time collaborative 3D CAD system. The framework is successfully demonstrated through prototype implementation and an analytical usability evaluation.
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A psychodynamic perspective on the implementation of shared leadershipsFitzsimons, Declan 02 1900 (has links)
A
key
debate
within
leadership
research
is
whether
leadership
can
be
conceptualized
as
a
specialized
role
occupied
by
individuals
or
as
a
shared
influence
process
amongst
all
members
of
a
group
(Yukl,
2006).
Since
the
mid-‐
1990s
some
leadership
scholars,
as
a
counterpoint
to
the
dominance
of
the
former
and
using
terms
such
as
shared
and
distributed
leadership,
have
attempted
to
elaborate
new
‘post-‐heroic’
leadership
models
(Badaracco,
2001)
of
the
latter,
in
which
leadership
is
something
that
involves
all
group
members.
These
new
forms
of
leadership
are
often
positioned
as
something
that
organizations
can
implement
as
part
of
an
adaptive
response
to
a
rapidly
changing
world.
Despite
a
50-‐year
tradition
of
construing
leadership
as
a
group
level
construct,
little
attention
has
been
paid
in
these
emerging
debates
to
the
systems
psychodynamic
perspective.
From
this
perspective
there
are
grounds
for
suspecting
that
attempts
to
implement
shared
leadership
may
compound
rather
than
ameliorate
issues
related
to
adaptive
challenges
(Huffington,
James
and
Armstrong,
2004).
This
thesis
engages
with
the
shared
and
distributed
leadership
literatures
and
examines
how
a
systems
psychodynamic
perspective
can
contribute
not
only
to
debates
within
these
literatures
but
to
the
wider
controversies
in
the
leadership
literature.
This
thesis
reports
on
the
findings
of
a
single,
18-‐month,
longitudinal
case
study
of
a
senior
team
whose
managing
director
attempted
to
implement
shared
leadership.
Using
a
clinical
fieldwork
methodology
(Schein,
1987)
in
the
systems
psychodynamic
tradition
(Miller,
1993b;
Miller
and
Rice,
1967),
this
study
advances
a
number
of
contributions
to
theory.
These
include:
findings
that
challenge
existing
approaches
to
conceptualizing
leadership
–
shared
or
otherwise;
the
elucidation
of
complex
unconscious
team
processes
that
are
mobilized
as
a
senior
team
undertakes
adaptive
work;
and
thirdly,
a
more
sophisticated
and
theoretically
robust
conceptualization
of
leadership
as
a
group
level
phenomenon.
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Agent behavior in peer-to-peer shared ride systemsWu, Yunhui Unknown Date (has links) (PDF)
Shared ride systems match the travel demand of transport a client with the supply of vehicles, or hosts, so that the client find rides to their destinations. A peer-to-peer shared ride system allows a client to find rides in an ad-hoc manner, by negotiating directly with nearby hosts via radio-based communication. Such a peer-to-peer shared ride system has to deal with various types of hosts, such as private cars, taxicabs and mass transit vehicles. Agents, i.e. a client and hosts, have diverse behaviors in such systems. Their different behaviors affect the negotiation process, and consequently the travel choices. Preliminary research (Winter et al. 2005) has investigated peer-to-peer shared ride systems with homogeneous hosts and immobile client. This thesis extends their work to multiple types of agents. It focuses on what are typical agent behaviors in peer-to-peer shared ride systems, and how these behaviors affect negotiation processes in a dynamic transport environment. (For complete abstract open document)
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A framework for interactive three-dimensional sound and spatial audio processing in a virtual environmentWozniewski, Michael. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.Eng.). / Written for the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/01/14). Includes bibliographical references.
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Migrating-home protocol for software distributed shared-memory system /Cheung, Wang-leung, Benny. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-159).
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Large object space support for software distributed shared memoryCheung, Wang-leung, Benny. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.
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Something old, something new. A research project submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture (Professional) at Unitec New Zealand /Jones, Elysse Sarah. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (M.Arch)--Unitec New Zealand, 2009. / Statement of responsibility from cover. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54 & 56).
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