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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Blind spot"”.
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Literature's Blind Spot: Event and Remainder in Tom McCarthy's Fiction
… 59). This thesis explores the question of the blind spot in his work, the way in which his fiction, in contrast to this mode of realism, focuses not on content or narrative but on what cannot be represented. McCarthy's novels obsessively attempt to write the impossible—a facet of his work that …
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Unveiling a blind spot... a moment of truth. Psychotherapists’ lived experience of psychological blind spots and moments of self-awareness: findings from a hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry
… of moments of self-awareness and psychological blind spots by means of an exploratory qualitative study. The primary aim was to provide evocative descriptions of the phenomena together with an understanding of its implications, for psychotherapy research, training and clinical practice. …
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Integrative therapists’ clinical experiences of personal blind spots: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… lived experience of recognising a personal blind spot in their therapeutic work. The five female participants aged between 42-60 years have between two and twenty years clinical experience. Each participant was interviewed on two separate occasions, with a period of one month between …
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Exploring the technics of computer representation : three 'prepared' instruments for plotting, meshing and rendering
… Historian Robin Evans draws attention to the "blind spot between the drawing and its object" as a productive site in architecture. Instead of a "uniform space through which meaning may glide without modulation", the "substratum" of this "gap" is uneven and unpredictable, a space of "entropy" …
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Governance Networks in Night-time Economies
… importance in social life, night-time was a blind spot for social sciences. However, in the 2000s, there was a notable increase in the number of works on night-related studies and some scholars argue that "night studies" (Kyba et al., 2020) can claim its own right to be treated as a …
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Implications of floodplain dynamics for reservoir operation
… decreasing downstream variability. However, one blind spot in current reservoir operation, specifically considering flood and drought management, is the impacts of current operation on the demands which operation is subject to in the future. Reservoirs are operated considering event and seasonal …
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Morphogenesis of the lateral geniculate nucleus in primates
… at a point coincident with small gaps due to the blind spot in the retina. This thesis investigates the hypothesis that the singularities produced by the gaps induce the laminar transition at its normal location. A three-dimensional model of the LGN morphogenesis is developed, in which local cell …
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The English piano in the Classical Period: Its Music, Performers, and Influences
… style – still remains something of a blind spot. This thesis attempts to address this imbalance by providing an overview of the most significant literature of the period, guided by the premise that the characteristics of the English instrument led to a style of keyboard writing that is …
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Building Resilience in MBA Students: Bouncing Back and Forward through Challenges
… challenges awaiting MBAs, however, reveals a blind spot in business education: It doesn’t necessarily prepare MBA students to operate effectively in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world of today. This paper suggests that resilience training can help fill the void by …
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Building Resilience in MBA Students: Bouncing Back and Forward through Challenges
… challenges awaiting MBAs, however, reveals a blind spot in business education: It doesn’t necessarily prepare MBA students to operate effectively in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world of today. This paper suggests that resilience training can help fill the void by …
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Cortical Responses to Illusory and Surface Color
… eyes, layers ofoccluding retinal neurons, the blind spot that is devoid of photoreceptors, objects and shadowsoccluding other objects, and retinal inhomogeneities. Ultimately, we obtain information thatencodes relative brightness and colors that allow us to recognize different objects and …
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The Challenges and Potentials of Circular Economy in Sub- Saharan Africa – Analysis of drivers and barriers for waste exchange and utilization based on five case studies
… behavior). Consequently, the issue resembles a blind spot for research and for policy, as well. Therefore, the motivation of this thesis work is to explore this domain and provide primary data and develop a research toolkit which can be used in following research activities. Moreover, it is of …
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Punk Identification With Middle-Class Values
… community building. However, punk in Reno has a blind spot when it comes to race issues within the scene and understanding the issues faced by people of color attempting to enter the scene by white punks. There is still a vibrant punk scene that has a history of political actions and printing …
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Religious dialogue as a peace building tool between India and Pakistan : the Ulema as peace builders
… theory, which identifies religion as the blind spot in international relations, lends support to such a dialogue. Strongly supported by the international relations theories of neoliberalism and constructivism, religious peace building offers opportunity for hope and experimentation. By …
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'Shadowy Copies'? Film Adaptations of the Second Austrian Republic
… and literary landscape remains an academic blind spot. This study aims to address this gap in critical knowledge, reviewing the potential function of filmic adaptations within the field of Austrian studies. Through five case studies of canonical works of post-war Austrian literature, this …
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WOMEN WRITERS AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE GENTLEMAN: MASCULINITY, AUTHORITY, AND MALE CHARACTERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS BY WOMEN
… of the Gentleman addresses this critical blind spot by focusing on one of the most iconic archetypes of masculinity: the gentleman. I argue that women writers used their novels to define and popularize the gentleman as the ideal version of Western masculinity, and that they did so for …
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Writing the behind: Schreber, Genet, Joyce, and the poetics of the penetrated male body
… and 'psychosis', it in turn marks a discursive 'blind spot' which the thesis terms the 'behind', in order to highlight its links to the anus - a site of anxiety for masculinity. This articulation of a discursive aporia and corporeal liminality is shown to generate a specifically modern 'poetics'. …
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Is there a place for sexual difference in Ernesto Spinelli's existential phenomenological psychology? An Irigarayan response to the work of Ernesto Spinelli
… assumptions concerning sexual difference. This blind spot in his praxis prevents Spinelli from realizing certain inter-subjective possibilities in his work with clients; namely, the possibilities afforded by articulating a sexually specific other. I arrived at this conclusion based on my …
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Heidegger and Nishitani: nothingness, nihilism, and the possibility of meaning
… a way that they are not immune from a certain blind-spot. The thesis argues both thinkers mis-characterize nihilism due to fundamental tensions in their core concepts being at once ontological, existential, and ethical. True understanding of nihilism and possibility of both meaning—and abiding …
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Condom use and HIV testing behaviours of men working in the construction industry in Western Cape, South Africa
In 2017, UNAIDS published a report titled “Blind Spot: Reaching Out to Men and Boys”, which highlighted a global pattern where men experience worse outcomes than women in the HIV prevention and treatment cascade. This issue is particularly evident in South Africa, where men have been found to be …
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