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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.

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This thesis explores the intersection between cartography and strategic thinking utilising a Strategy-As-Practice lens. Maps have long been used to (re)present our world and they form an epistemology of knowing. Mapping practices, whilst widely adopted, are still contested spaces. Although we know what maps are, we know less about how they work. This research identifies eleven elements of maps and proposes that they can be arranged in an epistemic technology as a mechanism for managers to explore their strategic thinking.

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This thesis bridges a gap in extant research by examining key factors that play a role in behavioral grocery shopping routines following minor and major disruptions. The present research involves two interrelated investigations incorporating mixed methodologies (Cresswell, 2003). The primary research objectives of the present thesis are: To model how consumer routines are established and maintained over time (i.e., model of routinization); and to investigate the impact of no, minor, and major disruptions on routinized grocery shopping behavior.

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This research study aims to examine the question: what challenges are presented, and changes required, to adapt authentic, experiential learning opportunities to the virtual environment in order to develop students’ competencies to communicate interculturally and collaborate effectively in global virtual teams? The research is located within theories associated with experiential learning and authentic learning. It explores how these theories can be extended to student learning in, and for, the global business context, using the virtual learning space.

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This research demonstrates how housing demand can be modelled by using a System Dynamics approach. This modelling concept has been set up, using the root causes which generate housing demand. Causal factors which influence housing demand are collated, and mapped. A model simulating housing demand was developed. Keys to this are demographic, social and economic factors. This model is presented with a view to pursuing new approaches for housing demand modelling.

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This dissertation presents a creative practice-based experiment in civil celebrancy with the focus on contemporary celebrancy. The dissertation constructs and reflects upon a Ceremony of Restoration to give meaning, healing, and mending for people’s lives in the wake of traumatic, chaotic, and unresolved events. This ceremony can be used by the person, or people, at its centre to give expression to such experiences and feelings and to build resilience through a secular ritual involving their stories, memories, images, personal artefacts, and music.

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This thesis contributes to the existing literature in the following ways: First, presenting a systematic study with empirical evidence on the functioning and quality of corporate governance and its impact under the contractual form of FMC. Second, this research represents a step forward from the extant studies focusing on how board characteristics and composition in fund companies by investigating a wider range of relevant governance mechanisms that affect board effectiveness which other studies have not attempted.

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The increasingly important role played by family firms in China’s fledging capital market calls for a better understanding of how it works and is governed. This study aims to explore how corporate governance issues in family firms are tackled from the perspective of investor protection. The thesis addresses the question by first presenting theoretical models showing the relations among investor protection, family governance, and agency costs in family firms.

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Bài giảng môn Tiếng Anh lớp 7 - Unit 1: Back to school (Names and addresses - B2) được biên soạn với mục tiêu nhằm giúp học sinh hoàn thành mẫu giới thiệu bản thân và viết về bạn của em; hoàn thành đoạn hội thoại bằng cách điền các từ để hỏi who/what/where/how vào chỗ trống;... Mời quý thầy cô và các em học sinh cùng tham khảo chi tiết nội dung bài giảng!

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Bài giảng môn Tiếng Anh lớp 3 năm học 2021-2022 - Unit 4: Lesson 2 (Trường Tiểu học Thạch Bàn B) được biên soạn với mục tiêu nhằm giúp học sinh có thể hỏi và trả lời về độ tuổi của người nói khác; lắng nghe và điền vào các câu bị thiếu; đọc và đánh dấu vào độ tuổi chính xác; hát bài Let’s count from one to ten;... Mời quý thầy cô và các em học sinh cùng tham khảo chi tiết nội dung bài giảng!

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This research aimed at studying how to apply CBI method in teaching Speaking skills for third-year students in Tourism Faculty effectively. With the expectation of being able to help those students improve their speaking skills, this thesis was conducted to evaluate how content-based instructions could help students to be better at speaking or making presentations.

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Research objectives of the thesis: Research the theories of complex fuzzy sets, complex fuzzy logic and measures based on complex fuzzy sets; research and development of fuzzy inference system based on complex fuzzy sets; research applied techniques to reduce rules, optimize fuzzy rules in complex fuzzy inference system; research on how to represent rules based on fuzzy knowledge graphs to reduce inference computation time for the test set and deal with the cases where the new dataset is not present in the training data set.

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The present study investigates teachers‘ perceptions of the values of the CEFR, the perceived readiness and necessity of its application, and the work involved in its application process. Also, it explores teachers‘ responses to the use of the CEFR to renew the general English curriculum, reflected in how they changed their teaching activities, adapted the assigned textbooks and modified their assessment practice. The study was a case study applying the mixed method sequential explanatory model (Creswell & Clark, 2007).

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The present study sets out with three main aims. First, it aims to understand how Vietnamese EFL teachers perceive LA and express it in their teaching practice. Second, it explores students’ understanding of LA and the ways they learn English autonomously. Lastly, it investigates the relationship between the EFL teachers’ and the EFL students’ perceptions and practices of LA.

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The content of the thesis presents the scale and concentration level of total assets of the industry that affect the financial performance of commercial banks; how the effect of equity on financial performance varies between scale thresholds; How does the role of marginal and non-marginal returns on financial performance vary across scale thresholds.

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This study is aimed at making a successful presentation for the 1st year students at Haiphong Private University. It includes the participation of 60 the first year English majors who are in their second semester at Haiphong Private University. Some possible solutions are given to help my students overcome those difficulties so as to make a successful a presentation.

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This course aims to provide student tools to conduct general ecological researches both in the field and laboratory. After successfully completing this course you should be able to: demonstrate understanding of procedure for planning an ecological research project; describe project design and data management in field research; Understand how to choose and describe the research sites; describe general sampling techniques for static and mobile organisms;...

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This chapter aims at providing a research background on mobile commerce. Also, this chapter postulates the research gaps. Briefly, it is the if and how the perception of risk and security simultaneously affects continuance intention to use mobile commerce under the influence of considerations of future consequences that generates the need to conduct this study. Also, based on the research gap, this study delineates the research methodology and research scope. Regarding the research methodology, this research includes two studies: the pilot study and the main study.

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The intent of this study is to present a clear picture about how the PMJDY is being implemented in Andhra Pradesh and north coastal Andhra in particular so as to find out the bottlenecks the program comes to face at the field level.

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The aim of the present research is to study how the interface structure is affected by FSW parameters and how the formation of interface structure affects fracture of Al-Steel and Al-Ti FSL welds.

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