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Showing 1 to 20 of 163 for “""Alternative Instrumental Practice, Conventional""”.
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Participation in policy and practice : conventional and deliberative roles for the public in water resources management and environmental decision-making
… most cases, public participation takes place in conventional forums such as public hearings, meetings, and workshops. These forums have limited capacity for true deliberation or discussion between the public and the government agency. In this conventional view, the competency of the citizen in …
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Elastic design. Tools for alternative understandings
… thoughts is genuinely expanding your mind. This practice-based project in speculative design explores possibilities for disrupting everyday constructs of reality, which are apparent in regulations of time, space and matter. These constructs underpin notions of predictability and universal …
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Searching for Sounds: Instrumental Agency and Modularity in Electroacoustic Improvisation
<p>In their radical departure from conventional instrumental technique and standardized instruments themselves, the practices of electroacoustic improvisation present a particular challenge to prevalent Western concepts of musical instruments. These concepts—which generally treat instruments as …
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Locating the mediator within workplace discourse: supporter of the status quo or humble "midwife" of dialogue? Developing an alternative workplace mediation practice.
… towards dialogue, had been supplanted by an instrumental application inside the workplace. Building on a critique that posits workplace mediators acting as proxy managers, an alternative, counterfactual, style of mediating is proposed that may help to partially free mediation practice from …
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The Ethical Justification of Extending Holistic Care to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
… argument for the inclusion of complementary and alternative medicine in the provision of holistic care. Over the course of history the practice of medicine has evolved with developments in science and technology and transitioned into away from its holistic origins to a more fragmented practice. …
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Complementary and alternative medicine : nature, origins, ethics and regulation
Types of healing alternative to conventional medicine became increasingly popular in the latter quarter of the twentieth century and some physicians, hospitals and governments have begun to take the field seriously. While alternatives to whatever is considered to be conventional medicine have …
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"We're all individuals": postmodernity and alternative health practices in Northern England
This thesis explores the use and practice of crystal and spiritual healing - therapies located on the fringe of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - and what these 'represent' in the context of a profound socio-cultural transformation, characterised by the shift in Western societies from …
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Alternative patch repair materials for rebar corrosion damage
… of the structure is maintained. However, in practice countless RC constructions are failing prematurely due to a large number of factors of which the corrosion of steel embedded within concrete is the most significant (Matthews et al., 2003). Steel corrosion is particularly pernicious to …
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Historical regimes of socio-natures in farmlands: practices of conventional farming in Fukuoka, Japan
How do conventional farmers engage with farmland, especially rice paddy, nature in contemporary Japan? To answer this question, I examine multiple ways in which they practice their relationships with “socio-natures” and how those practices have historically and transnationally developed, especially …
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An impact assessment of alternative access roads to the Mohale Dam, Lesotho
… but still efficient. lA falls short In practice, the influence of lA on the planning process has been called into question: its recommendations are not always implemented, and some of its mitigatory measures have been narrow and naive. The gap between lA principles and lA praxis needs to …
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Irrigation Practice Adoption: Causes and Consequences in the Arkansas Delta
<p>Concerns about groundwater depletion from conventional irrigation agriculture in the Arkansas Delta region have led to the promotion of more efficient irrigation practices. With Arkansas being the largest producer of rice, the 10th largest producer of soybeans and the 16th largest producer of …
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Alternative passivation for silicon (100), environmentally benign manufacturing, and cooperative strategy in semiconductor industry
… methoxy passivation compatible to industrial practice. In addition, a preliminary gate oxide test demonstrated that this methoxy terminated silicon (MeO-Si) yielded a thinner ultra thin gate oxide than those wafers cleaned by IBM's conventional RCA and dilute hydrofluoric acid last clean …
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Kangaroo Care in the NICU: A Practice Guideline
… (Johnson, 2005). This method was developed as an alternative to the conventional method of care, in which infants are cared for inside an incubator by highly trained professionals. With the KMC method, the mothers are used as incubators and are the main source of food and stimulation for the LBW …
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Supplemental High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication Experiences: a Study on Graduate Student Self-Efficacy, Confidence, and Knowledge with Pre-Service Training
… and intervention with high-tech augmentative and alternative communication is within the scope of practice of American Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPS). Therefore, SLPs should be able to properly identify and implement assessment, intervention, and caregiver coaching strategies in this area of …
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Cross-culturalizing history : journey to the Gurindji way of historical practice
… Australian historical studies by validating the alternative historical practices of Indigenous Australians. The conventional practice of academic history, which is based on time-oriented chronology, teleology, and historicity, is only one mode of exploring the past. My thesis explores Aboriginal …
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Cross-culturalizing history : journey to the Gurindji way of historical practice
… Australian historical studies by validating the alternative historical practices of Indigenous Australians. The conventional practice of academic history, which is based on time-oriented chronology, teleology, and historicity, is only one mode of exploring the past. My thesis explores Aboriginal …
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Criminal Justice in British Playwriting and Theatre Practice, 1979-2017
… the art of playwriting/dramaturgy and theatre practice. It investigates how playwrights, and theatre companies have created and curated these narratives by employing a spectrum of techniques from the conventional to the immersive play, from forum theatre to cognitive behavioural therapy and …
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Tackling climate change through community: the politics and practice of the low carbon communities challenge
… The thesis highlights a conflict between the instrumental understanding of community as a delivery-mechanism for government policy on environmental change, and the normative understanding of community based on social relations and identification with place held by residents in the communities …
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The Thessaloniki Biennale: The agendas and alternative potential(s) of a newly-founded biennial in the context of Greek governance
… is that the Thessaloniki Biennale fulfils an instrumental role linked to financial and political interests, particularly tourism and cultural diplomacy. The second hypothesis concerns the possibility that the Thessaloniki Biennale may have alternative potential(s), and explores to what extent …
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Forming of economies of wellbeing through responsive practice in everyday life
… well-documented. This has led to the growth in ‘alternative economics’ that addresses these critiques and proposes new economic models. However, alongside these critiques, there is another that questions the modern scientific approach underpinning economics, arguing that it overlooks the …
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