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Construct Standards in Skilled Action

Child Development, 1974
ECKERT, HELEN M., and EICHORN, DOROTHY H. Construct Standards in Skilled Action. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1974, 45, 439-445. Factorial analyses of various eye-hand coordination tasks were computed by age and sex for longitudinal data from ages 41 through 8i. The results indicated a reduction from 3 to 2 factors between 41 and 51 years for females and between
H M, Eckert, D H, Eichorn
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Alienability splits in action nominal constructions

STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2018
AbstractAdnominal alienability splits typically involve a coding asymmetry: inalienable possessive constructions are shorter (or zero-coded) and/or more bound than alienable possessive constructions. This has been explained using one of two functional principles: iconicity (possessive constructions reflect differential conceptual distance) or economy ...
van Lier, E., van Rijn, M.
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Constructing transnational action research networks

Action Research, 2009
This article examines the construction of transnational action research networks that bridge local and global, practice and research, North and South, and many disciplines. Using an ‘insider—outsider’ approach the article examines the emergence of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability as a network of partners
L. David Brown, John Gaventa
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Interpretative Action Constructs

1981
In this short contribution* I intend to reveal by way of epistemological argumentation as well as by providing some examples of how the extensive discussion in the analytical philosophy of action bears on social scientific approaches to the analysis of sport including in particular the social psychological analysis of motivation, the sociological ...
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Social Action and Personal Constructs

Theory & Psychology, 2001
Personal construct theory (PCT; Kelly, 1955) had its focus of convenience in psychotherapy, and consequently has been developed as an individualistic approach to the person. However, it has its roots in pragmatism, a movement which had a thorough appreciation of both the individual and the social world.
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Constructing Grandparenthood: Anticipating Appropriate Action

Sociology, 1985
Drawing on data from a study of grandparenthood, this paper examines the nature of projected action, and the value of the concept of `rule' in both lay and sociological reasoning. The way in which people becoming grandparents for the first time defined grandparenthood is analysed through an examination of their formulations of appropriate ...
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Construction noise action area model.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009
A model developed by the Washington State Department of Transportation to be used by biologists to determine the action area for highway construction projects is presented. The model conservatively estimates the distance at which construction noise would match ambient background sound levels. The model propagates the combined maximum sound level (Lmax)
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Co-constructing Innovation: Action Research in Partnership

2014
Very few of the many innovations proposed by research have been adopted by family farms. The main reason is that these innovations are out of step with the technical, economic and organizational needs of farmers. We assume that the establishment of a partnership between the actors of family farming systems and research is essential to overcome this ...
Vall, Eric, Chia, Eduardo
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Community Action and Research as Citizenship Construction

American Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
AbstractSocial change, well‐being and liberation have been intertwined in community research and action, as much as being used as political common‐places. In this paper, it is argued that community research and action can have a political character.
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Constructing Finite Unlabeled Structures Using Group Actions

Annals of Combinatorics, 2001
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