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Combining musical identities through composition and improvisation [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel UniversityThis research project aims to: - Examine how my musical identity as Music-maker can be fused with those of contributing improvising musicians ...
Perks, Richard
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Improvisation and teacher expertise: a comparative case study
, 2014 This thesis reports on an enquiry into the nature of teacher expertise which pays particular attention to its improvisatory nature. The study draws on three main areas of literature and theory: critical studies in improvisation; expertise and expert ...
Sorensen, N
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Institutional Fragility and E‐Business Adoption: A Study of SMEs in a Conflict‐Affected Economy
Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines e‐business adoption among SMEs in Yemen, a conflict‐affected and institutionally fragile economy. Drawing on a mixed‐methods design, it combines Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS‐SEM) with qualitative interviews to analyse how war and firm size moderate the effects of key adoption drivers and barriers.
Ahmed Abdullah +5 more
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Improvisation in teaching and education—roots and applications
Cogent Education, 2016 The main aim of this review article is to understand and discuss the concept of improvisation as a professional skill for teacher educators. The literature review suggests that five academic traditions are especially relevant to examine: Rhetoric, music,
Kari Holdhus +6 more
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Journal of Business Management and Accounting, 2014 This study examined the empirical association between personality traits, work experience, and improvisation. Big five personality traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness) and individual work experience
Darwina Hj. Ahmad Arshad +1 more
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Movement Disorders, EarlyView.Abstract Background Cumulative head trauma, encompassing repetitive head impacts (RHI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), has been associated with later‐life neurodegenerative disease. Studies on parkinsonism/Parkinson's disease (PD) have evaluated RHI and TBI in isolation, yielding mixed results.
Annalise E. Miner +14 more
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Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in
Faisal S. Cheema +3 more
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, 2021 In their contribution, Alessandro Bertinetto and Marcello Ruta argue that, even considering the most radical forms of improvised painting (such as Pollock’s Action Painting, or its quasi-ancestor Cozens’s blotting), key differences remain between ...
Bertinetto, Alessandro, Ruta, Marcello
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Hospitality and the Ethics of Improvisation in the Work of Ingemar Lindh [PDF]
, 2008 Ingemar Lindh's work on the principles of collective improvisation has crucial implications for the history of twentieth-century laboratory theatre.
Camilleri, Frank
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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
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