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Showing 1 to 20 of 428 for “"Ambivalence"”.
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The ambivalence of gentrifiers
This thesis explores the paradox faced by 25-34 year-old, White, well-educated persons who choose to live in predominantly low-income neighborhoods. In particular, this thesis asks if gentrifiers are aware of gentrification and their role in it, and then how they navigate that paradox. The thesis …
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Ambivalence in attitudes towards robots
… social psychological perspective. While ambivalence has been a research topic for almost a hundred years, it is often overlooked in the context of attitude research. When an attitude towards an attitude object is not clearly positive or negative, it is often interpreted as neutral. …
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Ethnographies of Contentious Criminalization: Expansion, Ambivalence, Marginalization
This dissertation addresses the challenge of liberal democracies to deal with fundamental conflicts in society about, for example, political representation and natural resources, and the subsequent transfer of such conflicts into the criminal justice arena when actors fail to deal with competing …
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Madness in African literature : ambivalence, fluidity, and play
Madness in African Literature: Ambivalence, Fluidity, and Play examines how representations of madness in six literary pieces are used to reflect upon discourse.
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Boundary Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Military Family Reintegration
… ambiguity and family and deployment-related ambivalence on family functioning. Quantitative data were taken from a national survey of service members from multiple branches of the United States military. A hierarchical regression analysis revealed that, as a whole, the addition of the …
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The Human Body is Not Designed for Ambivalence: Odes
… praise its subject, allowing for the speaker's ambivalence toward the subject. Meditation is a key element of the ode, since the poet uses the subject as a means for moving to the meditation or as a conduit through which the meditation occurs. The meditation in the poem is also a way for the …
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Unprotected Intercourse: The Value of Motherhood, Ambivalence, Masculinity, and Femininity
… were: greater motherhood value, higher levels of ambivalence, and high femininity and low masculinity would be correlated with higher frequency of Unprotected Intercourse (UI). An online survey was administered to sexually active women at Texas State University, who were not intending to become …
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Explicit-Implicit Attitudinal Ambivalence in Romantic Relationships: Antecedents and Outcomes
… implicit attitudes, let alone explicit-implicit ambivalence. Those that have, have shown explicit-implicit attitudinal ambivalence to influence thoughts and judgments, and predict behaviour/behavioural intentions. Few studies however have taken an interest in the interplay between explicit and …
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Studies of Phase Inversion and Ambivalence in Liquid-Liquid Systems.
The literature relating to liquid-liquid mixing, and the factors determining which phase is dispersed in batch or continuous systems, and studies of phase inversion have been reviewed. A mathematical model has been developed to predict the limits of phase inversion. The model is based on the …
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Hélio Oiticica: Politics and Ambivalence in 20th Century Brazilian Art
This study investigates the presence of ambivalence as a strategy of cultural politics from modern to contemporary art in Brazil. It focuses on the development of modern art leading to the work of Hélio Oiticica, whose approach to avant-garde practice in Brazil was concurrent with intense …
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Headquarters on campus : student entrepreneurship and the ambivalence of incubation
Entrepreneurship increasingly takes place in universities, by faculty and students. Whereas the entrepreneurial pursuits of faculty have received significant scholarly attention, those of students have been largely neglected. Our knowledge of students' endeavors is limited to their entrepreneurial …
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The Flawing Effect of Ambivalence in Selected Poetry of Matthew Arnold
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The Adaptive Function of Freudian Ambivalence, A Freudian Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
… a proposal for the adaptive function of Freudian ambivalence through evolutionary psychology, a neo-Darwinian sub-paradigm. This proposal posits that Freudian ambivalence is a grand-superordinate adaptive program composed of two integrated bivalent superordinate programs that in turn instigate …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
“Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain” examines the relationship between romance and partisan history-writing in Britain following the English Civil War and 1688 Revolution. Considering works of fiction by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine …
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Daughters and Their Countries: Nostalgia and Ambivalence in Transnational Feminist Practice
"The four ostensibly different narrative projects share an almost obsessive sifting through past experience; and in confronting the hauntings of self through sexual and national identities, these texts inscribe the complex emotions and subjectivities generated by their ""fixation"" on past homes. …
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Ambi_ : enterprise artworks, the artist-consultant, and contemporary attitudes of ambivalence
… business-and regard for sustained attitudinal ambivalence. This paper aims to aid the reading of the growing field of artistic undertakings that deal with business practices, especially focusing on those in which an artist avails knowledge to a non-art market. To this end, the thesis lays out …
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