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The study is focused on the experience of conferencing from the perspective of young people (offenders), their families and supportive others. Of particular interest is the role of the offender’s family (and/or significant others), the nature of their support, and how this impinges on the conference and its outcomes. Although the supporters’ role is pivotal in the conferencing process, its significance has remained largely implicit in the research to date. The objective of the study is to explore this crucial element, using an interpretive approach.

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In this study, MCS is applied to compute the reliability of the nodes and the network under uncertain demand and roughness, and to determine how reliability is distributed among the various nodes of WDN, as well as assessing the reliability of the network as a series or parallel system. The effect of the resilience index on the nodal and network reliability is also assessed.

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This research has two main objectives. The first is to examine how PPP operational phase partnership, risk and performance management practices can be improved to achieve better VfM outcomes. This involves developing a generic conceptual integrating model, intended to assist government decision-makers to allocate and make better use of public sector resources during the operational phase of PPPs, that may have significant and / or long-term consequences for achieving strategic objectives using an integrated partnership, risk and performance management approach.

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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 was aimed to develop guideline to foster consumer trust and purchase intention to shop online for e-vendors. It was achieved by using mixed methods: quantitative and qualitative studies. In the quantitative study, an online survey was created as an instrument for capturing attitude of consumers related to trust in B2C e-commerce in a global scale. The objectives of this research are: To understand trust issues from the consumer point of view in the online environment; and to provide a comprehensive guide to e-vendors on how to improve consumer trust and enhance B2C e-commerce.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore how metaphor-based interactions can enhance the behavioural interactions in project environments to deliver better outcomes. It documents the processes and findings from an action research program to investigate the impact of combining metaphor, conversation and reflective practice techniques into a new model, the Reflective Performance Cycle (RPC) to stimulate richer and more productive interactions between project team members.

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This qualitative study focuses on identifying the formal and informal performance management (PM) practices currently in use in Australian public universities for academic staff Levels A, B and C.

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This study addresses the question: “How do small and medium Asian grocery retailers (SMAGRs) manage their relationships with suppliers in relation to their power positions under different circumstances?” Using the Kraljic matrix as its analytical base, this study incorporates power relations, in addition to the strategic importance and supply risks of the items purchased, as a third dimension to examine the relationship management strategies SMAGRs used to deal with different suppliers.

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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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The main aim of this investigation was to develop a low-cost solution to remove trace metals from the aqueous phase using biochar. This study investigated (i) the effect of giant reed-based biochar produced at varying temperatures in the treatment of aqueous solutions polluted with lead; and (ii) how the production of biochar at different temperatures affected its adsorption capacity for lead from the aqueous phase.

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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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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.

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This piece of research is expected to inform teachers of English at Quang Nam University of the problems students usually encounter in IELTS Writing Task 2 and to gain an insight into how students perceive their using of collocations in academic IELTS Writing Task 2. It will also put forwards some recommendations on the use of collocations for improving band score on IELTS Writing Task 2.

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This study primarily concentrates on the metaphors used in economic reports. Its aim is to have an insight into how metaphors are correlated to human physical experience and constructed in economic reports. In addition, the analysis of this correlation will set foundation for later categorization of the source domains which are exploited in the metaphors in these economic reports.

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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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This study primarily focused on metaphors relating to a certain number of animals and how people use it in both speaking and writing.

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This chapter tries to introduce the subject of intonation and its form and how it is transcribed on paper. It then focuses on intonation in English and its five different forms followed by the a summary of the different models of intonation and the research in applied linguistics. It also informs about action research and the rationale for its being used for this project. Finally it provides a brief introduction of some of the studies in teaching intonation and their limitations.

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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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This study makes an original contribution to both of theory and practice through forming and validating the ERP success model for accounting professionals only. In a little more detail, it provides empirical evidence regarding Hunton’s accounting value chain (2002). In addition, it discovers and proves effective use as the most appropriate system-use concept so far. Moreover, it makes an effort to investigate outcomes of accounting benefits perceived from ERP system, which related-studies are much further underresearched.

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In order to further test the hypothesis, this paper will first present a history of globalization in China as well as research on income inequality before the creation of the Open Door Policy. Second, research will be conducted on the impact of globalization in China post Open Door Policy using multinationals as case studies. The research results will provide evidence that the process of globalization led by the economic reform has changed the Chinese economy outlook, and caused income inequality comparing to how it was before the economic reform.

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