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Showing 1 to 20 of 2365 for “"Absent"”.
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Present absence /Absent Presence
In this project melancholy and the related experiences of loss and longing as explanatory concepts, are the basis fromwhich visually interpret the body of practical work that emphasises the role of emotion and personal experience in locating meaning.
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The Presence of The Absent
Life is a series of illusions; everyone creates their own life with their personal mindset. We all have our own story. My thesis is part of my story. It was influenced by my life, my illusions, my fears, and my beliefs. This project is dedicated to my brother, whom I lost five years ago. This …
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Absent Others: dark tourism, theatricality, and ethical spectatorship
… consider the relationship between spectator and absent other. I intend to demonstrate that a theatrical analysis helps us to understand such encounters, touristic and theatrical, more clearly.
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Absent Mandate? The Role of Positional Issues in Canadian Elections
Positional issues are political issues that generate disagreement among citizens and divide the electorate. Voting theories conventionally assume that positional issues have little effect on how individuals vote and that parties have little incentive to develop issue-based electoral strategies. …
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Absent meaning: Fascination, narrative, and trauma in the Holocaust imaginary
<p>Examining post-1970 representations of the Holocaust and Nazism along with critical responses to these representations, the dissertation demonstrates how a use of the term "fascination" has shaped contemporary understandings of how the Holocaust should and should not be represented and …
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Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
<p>Through four novelists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-Haywood, Defoe, Austen, and Chopin-this work examines the way the mother's importance evolves throughout literature. In Haywood's works, motherhood is seen as a dominant force in her child's life, but not a dominant force in …
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Absent Presence: an exploration of memory and family through printmaking
Visual and linguistic metaphors help to conceptualise memory by reducing its physiological and philosophical complexities to a degree that allows its processes to be easily understood. Two commonly used metaphors are ‘memory as an imprint' and ‘memory as a photograph'. However, these metaphors …
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Asssessing the Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Abilities of Eyes Absent Protein
The Eyes Absent (EYA1-4) family of proteins are critical gatekeepers for cellular responses to environmental stressors. This gatekeeping function is exerted through two pathways; EYA proteins act as a switch between proliferation and apoptosis in response to DNA damage, and directly regulate …
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Blithe Spirits: Absent British Women Couturiers – The Rahvis Sisters (1928 – 1981)
… research project explores the Rahvis Sisters as ‘Absent British Women Couturiers’ in the established canon. As my title states, here they become ‘Blithe Spirits’ located in the virtual world. My project is multifarious: it repeats, returns and is polymorphic, in approach, methodology and outputs. …
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Values-Based Cartooning: Mothers Storying the Absent Father (A Case Study)
… lived experience of single mothers storying the absent biological father or sperm donor. Graphically facilitated interviews and workshops were undertaken with twenty single women aged between sixteen and fifty-two, all pregnant or first-time mothers of babies. Participant responses were filtered …
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Absent fathers and their impact on role confusion among adolescent males
… put forward by Seligman (1986) that the absent father causes the child to remain enmeshed with the mother. Without a father's emotional support, it becomes almost insurmountably difficult for a child to negotiate the unavoidable separation from the mother, a prerequisite for the …
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"Absent Students: A Critical disabilities studies approach to accessibility services "
This thesis explored the experiences of students with auditory disabilities that affect learning in university settings. The objective was to examine services offered to university students with auditory disabilities from the perspective of the students receiving the services. This included an …
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Regulation of Drosophila eye development by the transcription factors : eyes absent and Spenito
… two downstream transcriptional effectors, Eyes absent (EYA) and Spenito (NITO), in Drosophila eye development.
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Isolated, Absent Cavum Septum Pellucidum: A Single Center’S Outcomes and Review of The Literature
<p>An absent cavum septum pellucidum (CSP) has traditionally been associated with a wide range of neuroanatomical anomalies. With recent advancements in prenatal imaging, however, an absent CSP that occurs in isolation of other anomalies is becoming a more frequent finding. Yet knowledge of …
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Why is Chasmanthe spp. absent from the archaeological record of the south-western Cape?
In the archaeological record of the south-western Cape one finds corm residues in deposits mostly in the form of the netting which surrounds the corm. These plant residues seem to be a widespread feature in the archaeological record of Later Stone Age sites in Southern Africa. Corm residues nave …
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State aristocracy : resident senators and absent emperors in Late-Antique Rome, c. 320-400
In the early fourth century AD, the Roman Empire underwent at least two significant transformations in the ways it was governed. Firstly, Rome ceased to be the residence of emperors. From the last visit of the emperor Constantine in 326 until the end of the century, there were only two imperial …
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Impossible to Write Alone: Expanded I and Absent Addressee in Chris Kraus's I Love Dick
Although Chris Kraus's I Love Dick has been largely read as autofictional or autotheoretical, I argue that its formal characteristics and innovations can be better understood by looking at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century precedents in the amatory epistolary genre. By examining the formal …
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An exploratory study of the influence of an absent father on the identity formation of women
… the significance of the experience of an absent father on the identity formation of women in an attempt to understand the psychological effect of father absence and the role this experience plays in terms of the daughter's, confidence, self esteem, social identity and intimate …
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