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A Method of Analyzing Linear Perspective for Presentation to Junior and Senior High School Students

Description: The general purpose of this study is to develop a series of peep shows, or visual models, which will enable the young student to understand what the laws of perspective are, how they were found, and why his drawings will appear to have three dimensions if he follows the rules. The study is based upon a widely accepted idea--that it is much easier for most people to understand and remember a principle when they can actually see how it works. When rules are merely memorized, one is not assisted b… more
Date: 1950
Creator: Lacy, L'Louise Dial
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Putting Bullying into Perspective: Peer Aggression as a Function of Perspective Taking, Empathy, and Psychological Willingness

Description: Bullying has long-term negative effects on the mental health and wellbeing of everyone involved. School-wide interventions have been successful in some contexts, but they often require significant institutional and financial resources. Empathy is comprised of a cognitive component (perspective taking) and an affective component (empathic concern), both of which may be necessary for prosocial behavior. According to relational frame theory (RFT), empathy involves a transformation of stimulus func… more
Date: August 2018
Creator: Moyer, Danielle N.
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Structuralist and interactionist perspectives of collective behavior and control of crowds.

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the concept of collective behavior from different theoretical perspectives and the policy implications they imply for the Turkish Riot Police Units. The civil disturbances in the 1960s have clearly illustrated range of problems in the domain of crowd control. This work will start with the general characteristics and the classification of collective behavior. Second, two main perspectives on collective behavior, which are the structuralist and the inte… more
Date: August 2001
Creator: Gunes, Ismail Dincer
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Twenty-five years of Scholarship: A Sociology of The Review of Higher Education Contributors, 1977-2002

Description: Given today's hurried pace of change in higher education and its institutions, it is imperative for the higher education research community to reflect on its current composition and resulting ability to understand and respond to the breadth and rapidity of that change. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to identify selected social and academic characteristics of the primary contributors (authors, editorial board members, and editors) to The Review of Higher Education, to categorize ins… more
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Date: August 2005
Creator: Moss, Ron W.
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Three Essays on the Role of Social, Legal and Technical Factors on Internet of Things and Smart Contracts Adoption in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic

Description: I extended and adapted the current technology acceptance models and privacy research to the peculiar context of the COVID-19 pandemic to ascertain the effective "power" of IT in fighting such a pandemic. The research models developed for the purpose of this study contain peculiar modifications to the technological-personal-environmental (TPE) framework and privacy calculus model because of the unique technologies implemented and the peculiar pandemic scenario. I developed three studies that inv… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Guerra, Katia
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Intergenerational Influences of Aggression: Social Cognitive Processes in Perspective-Taking and Aggressive Behavior in Young Adults' Romantic Relationships

Description: The focus of the current study was to determine if SIP biases and perspective-taking serve as mediators between parental intimate partner violence (IPV), aggression, and interpersonal dominance in emerging adults' romantic relationships. We analyzed archival data comprised of self-report measures and TAT stories administered to 84 undergraduate students (women n = 62, M age = 21.73) between the ages 18 and 35. To test our hypotheses, we modified the social information processing model by incorp… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Shamji, Jabeen
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Future time perspective, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment: The mediating effect of self-efficacy, hope, and vitality

Description: This article analyzes the mediating role of self-efficacy, hope, and vitality in the relationship that future time perspective has with job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
Date: March 8, 2018
Creator: Arturo Cernas-Ortiza, Daniel; Mercado-Salgado, Patricia & Davis, Mark
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Partner: UNT College of Business

Fake It Till You Make It: Social Media Archiving at Different Organizations for Different Purposes

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This workshop focuses on social media archiving and the perspectives and archiving methodology of different institutions with relation to their goals.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: van den Eijkel, Susanne; Kavvadia, Zefi & Wijsman, Lotte
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Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

[Kick'em off the road]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark utilizing forced perspective and a bit of trick photography to make it appear as though he has kicked a vehicle, raising it on two wheels. An identical photo in the collection is inscribed with, "Kick'em off the road", on the back side of the print.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Kick'em off the road]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark utilizing forced perspective and a bit of trick photography to make it appear as though he has kicked a vehicle, raising it on two wheels.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Student Interior Design Laboratory Manual for Perspective Drawing 134

Description: This paper is to present a student interior design laboratory manual for Perspective Drawing 134. A mechanical and freehand approach to the grid method of perspective is used. Chapter I reviews the significance of the problem, definitions of terms of perspective, data sources and method of procedure. Chanter II explains a brief overview of perspective from primitive man to its present use in interior design. Chapter III reviews the general principles of perspective. Chapter IV presents the grid… more
Date: May 1977
Creator: Farias, Anna Laura
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Teachers' Technology Adoption in Cross-Cultural Classroom: A Transformative Perspective

Description: In the current globalizing society, teachers are provided opportunities to move across their national borders to seek learning, professional development, and working opportunities. Technology-related professional development is particularly valued for teachers' sojourn to the technology intensive cultures. This qualitative cross-case study explored the K-12 Chinese language teachers' changes of teachers' application and perspective toward educational technology in cross-cultural teaching contex… more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Meng, Nanxi
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An Evaluation of Effects of Collective Shaping on Perspective Taking and Social Empathy Statements Related to Social Justice

Description: Prejudice establishes coercive contingencies that restrict human rights and diminish quality of life. Social media has made the oppression experienced by individuals more apparent. Perspective taking and empathy can change prejudicial behavior by fostering relationships and encouraging self-identification with those who are different from ourselves. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of a guided collective shaping program on the occurrence of perspective taking and emp… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Love, Alexandra K
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Facilitating Energy Savings through Enhanced Usability of Thermostats

Description: Residential thermostats play a key role in controlling heating and cooling systems. Occupants often find the controls of programmable thermostats confusing, sometimes leading to higher heating consumption than when the buildings are controlled manually. A high degree of usability is vital to a programmable thermostat's effectiveness because, unlike a more efficient heating system, occupants must engage in specific actions after installation to obtain energy savings. We developed a procedure for… more
Date: May 23, 2011
Creator: Meier, Alan; Aragon, Cecilia; Peffer, Therese; Perry, Daniel & Pritoni, Marco
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Kick'em off the road]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark utilizing forced perspective and a bit of trick photography to make it appear as though he has kicked a vehicle, raising it on two wheels. An identical photo in the collection is inscribed with, "Kick'em off the road", on the back side of the print.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Predictors of Quality of Life (Qol): Comparing Baby Boomers, Older Adults, and Younger Adults Using Data From the 2010 National Health Interview Survey

Description: The purpose of this study was to identify factors that predict quality of life (QOL) for aging adults and to examine and compare Baby Boomers', Older Adults' and Younger Adults' responses to the 2010 National Health Interview Survey/QOL Functioning and Disability. Significant findings included several significant values based on the multivariate regression to estimate a model to predict QOL. In particular, being male, four ethnicities other than white, being older than Boomer, age in 10 years, … more
Date: December 2012
Creator: Bryce, Helen Roult
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