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Making Sense of the Seascape

open access: yesCahiers Mondes Anciens, 2021
This paper is based on the notion that the sea is a knowable, textured place that through senses, observations, skill, myths and narratives can be described and mapped.
Jan Paul Crielaard
doaj   +1 more source

Can I Have A Word? Social Worker Interaction and Sense-Making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper explores the ways in which practitioners in children and family social work teams make sense of information in their work. By examining observations and recordings from an ethnographic study, the paper focuses on how informal discussions ...
Duncan Helm, Helm, Duncan
core   +1 more source

Making Sense of Magna

open access: yesOsgoode Hall Law Journal, 2011
In 2010, Magna International Inc. (Magna) obtained court approval of an arrangement to buy back its super-voting shares, which placed control in the hands of a shareholder with 0.6 per cent of the equity, at a 1,800 per cent premium to non-voting shares.
Edward Iacobucci
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Making Sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook

open access: yes, 2021
The first dedicated textbook for Criminology students studying homicide. As the authors explain, criminal homicide is but one form of lethal violence victims may suffer, leading them to describe a much broader range of scenarios.
Winch, Ronald   +3 more
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Making Sense of Antisense

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1999
Since the identification of the DNA double-stranded helix, the gene as a target of therapy and, moreover, the use of DNA as a drug have been possibilities.
Bruce R Yacyshyn, William R Shanahan
doaj   +1 more source

Sense Making of (Social) Sustainability

open access: yesInternational Studies of Management & Organization, 2010
Although sustainability is often discussed solely in ecological terms, it cannot be disconnected from the way humans behave in their social environment. This article presents a theoretical approach toward sustainability that takes a human behavior and knowledge view on sustainability as a starting point.
Faber, Niels R.   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making sense of Indigenous youth night patrols [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We use Weick's sense-making and Lipsky's street-level bureaucracy to tease out understandings and perspectives about youth night patrol services in New South Wales, Australia.
Scott, John   +7 more
core   +1 more source

From Information to Sense-Making: Fetching and Querying Semantic Repositories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Information, its gathering, sharing, and storage, is growing at a very rapid rate. Information turned into knowledge leads to sense- making. Ontologies, and their representations in RDF, are increasingly being used to turn information into knowledge ...
Omitola, Tope   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Hermeneutics: Interpretation, Understanding and Sense-making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Gadamer (1989: xxxiii) describes hermeneutics as ‘a theory of the real experience that thinking is’. In this chapter, we explore two main aspects of this experience of thinking - interpretation and understanding. We draw on the work of Schleiermacher (1768-1834) to review the origins of modern hermeneutics as an activity of interpretation, and on ...
Tomkins, Leah, Eatough, Virginia
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