Essays about: "prototypicality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word prototypicality.

1. 1. Flexible Working Arrangement : Exploring leader prototypicality, endorsement, and employee's respect in SMEs

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Företagsekonomi; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Lena Sugita; Zixiang Zhao; [2017]
   Keywords : Flexible Working Arrangements FWAs ; SME; leader prototypicality; leader endorsement; respect; worklife balance; social identity model of leadership SIMOL ;

   Abstract : Background: Today ’s organizations receive increasing pressure from society and workers to maintain good work life balance. Flexible working arrangement is one of the HRM policies to improve employee’s work performance, job satisfaction and retention. Prior discussion still does not find the clear result on the positive effect of FWAs. READ MORE

3. 2. Effect of depth cues on visual search in a web-based environment

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)

   Author : Ulrika Andersson; [2017]
   Keywords : Web design; 3D; Visual search; User performance;

   Abstract : In recent years, 3D graphics has become more available for web development with low-level access to graphics hardware and increased power of web browsers. With core browsing tasks for users being to quickly scan a website and find what they are looking for, can 3D graphics – or depth cues – be used to facilitate these tasks? Therefore, the main focus of this work was to examine user performance on websites in terms of visual attention. READ MORE

4. 3. Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Robert Farren; [2014]
   Keywords : Irish; Middle Irish; Old Norse; loanwords; semantic domains; lexical borrowing; Vikings; prototypicality; radial networks; semantic change.; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study questions the received wisdom that surviving Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish are fewer than 50 in number and are mostly shipping-related. The eventual goal is a complete survey of all Old Norse loanwords still “in common use in modern Irish” (Greene 1976: 80), since nothing of the sort has been found in the literature. READ MORE

5. 4. The Perception of Lexical Similarities Between L2 English and L3 Swedish

   University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Darja Utgof; [2008]
   Keywords : master; master s programme; master s programme in language and culture; language; culture; general linguistics; linguistics; foreign language acquisition; similarity; formal similarity; semantic similarity; functional similarity; transfer; transfer of learning; language acquisition; form; form-based research; crosslinguistic infuence; one-year master; english; swedish; lexical similarities; false friends; cognates; deceptive cognates; origin; words of the same origin; proto-germanic; proto-indo-european; competence; performance; comprehension; corpus; corpus-based data; corpus-based research; levenshtein distance; objective similarity; perceived similarity; frequency; prototype; prototypicality; proficiency; context; informed guess; simchecker; word recognition; tachitoscopic experiments; semantic correspondence; similarity judgements; eurocom; surface transfer; deep transfer; lateral transfer;

   Abstract : The present study investigates lexical similarity perceptions by students of Swedish as a foreign language (L3) with a good yet non-native proficiency in English (L2). The general theoretical framework is provided by studies in transfer of learning and its specific instance, transfer in language acquisition. READ MORE

6. 5. Visual perception and preferences of depicted mobile telephones

   University essay from Psykologiska institutionen

   Author : Christian Scharf; [2008]
   Keywords : Human factors; ergonomics; aesthetics; industrial design; mobile telephones;

   Abstract : The visual design of twelve mobile telephones was studied and compared. Thirteen university students completed sorting tasks and were also interviewed. Significant correlations were found for most phones between ranks of beauty and desire to possess. Preferences varied among participants. READ MORE