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How Institutional Logics Influence Venture Growth: A Field Experiment with Tunisian Women Entrepreneurs
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Entrepreneurial training programs promoting women’s entrepreneurship in low- and middle- income countries command significant global attention and concomitant resources. Despite this broad investment, many ventures in these contexts fail to grow. Prior research suggests that institutionalized...
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Fall 2023
The recognition performance of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models can be sub-optimal when document images suffer from various degradations. Supervised learning-based methods for image enhancement can generate high-quality enhanced images. However, these methods require the availability of...
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Fishing via Meaning Infrastructure: Entrepreneurial Search and Possibility Development in the Emergent AI & ML Field
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This monograph broadens the scope of cultural entrepreneurship by exploring the link between entrepreneurial search activities and the level of institutionalization of fields. Cultural entrepreneurship involves manipulating cultural repertoires to gather support from relevant audiences, but this...
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Missing the Mark: Student Clinicians Write Psychological Reports for their Supervisors Instead of their Clients
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Decades of research revealed that effective psychological reports are those written at a lower reading level, are formatted by functional domain, and communicate the results in an integrated client-centered manner. However, psychological reports continue to be difficult to read for non-...
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Student, Parent, and Teacher Perspectives to Inform and Strengthen School-based Sleep Promotion
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Sleep deprivation is a public health concern among school-aged children. Schools are an ideal setting to influence children's sleep behaviours as children spend a significant amount of time at school during key developmental periods, and programs that influence students' overall wellbeing also...
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Electric Vehicle Charging Station Resource Allocation: A Data-Driven Robust Optimization Approach
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The adoption of electric vehicles has been growing steadily in recent years, and projections indicate that this trend will continue. However, the availability and capacity of charging stations have not kept pace with this growth, leading to long wait times and congestion at charging stations. The...
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From Patricide and Child God to Revolutionary Martyr and Filial Son: Changing Ideological Representations of Nezha in Two Chinese Animated Films
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Through a comparative close reading of four Chinese animated films adapted from the story of Nezha, a Chinese patricide and child god best known from the Ming dynasty novel Creations of the Gods, this study examines how animated films about Nezha reflect changing ideologies about rebelliousness...
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Listening-Based Pedagogies: Story-Listening and Other Educational Approaches Attuned to a Critical + Indigenous + Clown Framework
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This transparadigmatic study is driven by the guiding curiosity 'what could a listening-based pedagogy entail?' alongside other research questions derived from it. The universe in which this project lives proposes a recognition of more-than-human voices and agency, wondering with(in) phenomena...
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Fall 2023
Simulation-based training is widely adopted amongst surgical specialties that have a minimally invasive approach such as laparoscopic surgery and predominantly open surgical specialties such as cardiac surgery remain in an apprenticeship model. The growing complexity of cases, scrutinized...
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Exploring The Relationship Between Thai Science Teachers’ Metacognition And Their Perceptions Of Metacognitively Oriented Learning Environments
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Thailand reports low levels of students' science achievement. Many studies suggest that developing students’ metacognition, which is knowledge, control, and awareness of one’s own thinking and learning processes, could enhance students’ science learning. To develop learning environments that...