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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Blurred Boundaries"”.
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Blurred boundaries: Social services and the mixed economy of welfare in Aotearoa New Zealand
… how these initiatives have further eroded the boundaries between the state, the private sector and the community and voluntary sector and the extent to which these changes can be seen as furthering the privatisation of social services in Aotearoa New Zealand. While drawing upon international …
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"""A Choice Among No Choice"": Exploring Taiwanese Mother's Agency and Identity Along the Blurred Boundaries Between Leisure, Work, and Consumption"
"Through the scope of women's determination toward their leisure, women's shopping, as a fundamental activity in women's everyday life, successfully represents the importance of this ""choice among no choice"" situation of mothers, in relation to the multiple functions and varied enjoyments …
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How do midwives and obstetricians communicate at the primary/secondary interface?
… to negotiate differing philosophies, to clarify blurred boundaries that sometimes led to lack of clear lines of responsibility, and the importance of three-way conversations. When three-way communication between midwife, obstetrician/registrar and woman occurred effectively, communication was …
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Coaching in the digital age : how is digitalisation influencing executive coaching? : a grounded theory exploration
… by a disturbed presence, loss of physicality and blurred boundaries in a video coaching setup. The study found that coaches encounter digitalisation-driven change both directly and indirectly. As coaches prepare to navigate the future through their actions, they simultaneously experience both …
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Past, Present & Future: Decolonization Through American Indian Performance & Installation Art
… outlets which have the benefit of undefined or blurred boundaries. Both performance art and installation art provide creative formats which present a means to address the cultural struggles that Indians face throughout the Americas. In examining the work of artists like the Postcommodity …
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Solving residual spaces: a template for cities in envisaging disregarded public space into places that encourage and promote socio-economic development and prioritise pedestrianism
… The process has been one of reconciling the blurred boundaries between conflicting ideas of a design that is economically realisable in the short term and experimenting with new and largely unexplored ways of city-making in radically changing cities in which urban land is scarce and …
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The growth of 'connected' firms: a re-appraisal of Penrosian theory and its application to artisanal firms operating in contemporary business networks
… analysis of growth processes that span the ‘blurred boundaries’ of the connected firm. An empirical study of the growth of connected artisanal firms demonstrates the application of this modified framework. The study is presented in the form of an analytically structured narrative, illustrated …
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Interactive Framing Dynamics and Ideological Boundaries in the American Abortion Debate
… I show how such framing complicates the boundaries between these movements' ideologies. What was once demarcated as progressive becomes a champion of conservative causes and vice versa. I extend social movement theories of interactive framing processes and boundary demarcation by …
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Female friendships in the workplace: A qualitative study of women's relationships in the Kuwaiti education sector
… attached to these friendships; and 3) the blurred boundaries between family and friends, which result in unique workplace-friendship relationships. This study contributes to current knowledge on friendship development and, specifically, the issues associated with women’s development of …
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Madness and narrative understanding: A comparison of two female firsthand narratives of madness in the pre and post enlightenment periods.
… to firsthand narratives of madness. First, the blurred boundaries between madness and mysticism and the role of metaphor in understanding distressing experiences. Second, the complex, multi-dimensional nature of subjective timespace that challenges the linear assumptions underlying both …
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Client's perceptions of the oncology social work service at cancer care
… of social workers and psychologists, and the blurred boundaries between the professions in terms of services offered. Participants identified six aspects of the service that were helpful. The challenges encountered with the service were presented in terms of the lack of clarity on the role of …
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Form in the [middle]-ground : urban/suburban sprawl in Georgia & Tennessee
… of disorientation as the spatial growth has blurred the boundaries between the rural landscape and urban/suburban cities and towns, leading to the creation of amorphous regions. This disorientation and the rapid increase in population are generating undesirable environmental consequences. …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… home and the ‗unheimlich‘ and homesickness, the blurred boundaries between the static and the mobile with regards to ‗home‘, and the continuous quest for new frontiers.
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Automated Identification and Tracking of Motile Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells (OPCs) from Time-lapse 3D Microscopic Imaging Data of Cell Clusters in vivo
… cell population and temporally inconsistently blurred boundaries between touching cells. We also designed a data association algorithm to address the violation of usual assumption of small displacements. Recognizing that the violation was in the mixed cell population composed of two cell groups …
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Marketing Marginalized Neighborhoods: Tourism and Leisure in the 21st Century Inner City
… on the other hand have become increasingly blurred. This, I argue, not only brings about significant changes with regard to cities' tourism and leisure landscapes. Rather, I also find evidence that the increasing pervasiveness of mobility and tourism as well as its increased …
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Transcending trauma: connecting to life in the face of death
… divide. The findings also highlighted blurred boundaries between posttraumatic growth and PTSD and were consistent with existential philosophy on the nature of living and dying. It is argued that the participants’ powerful group identity and cohesion, strongly sustained by the British …
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Rituals of the enchanted world: Noh theater and religion in medieval Japan
… world view, which is an enchanted world with blurred boundaries between the visible and invisible world, human and non-human, sentient and non-sentient, enlightened and conditioned. The introduction traces the religious and ritual origins of Noh theater, and establishes the characteristics of …
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The (Un)Settling of America: Science and the Search for the First Americans
… in modern America. It is an investigation of the blurred boundaries between science and myth as well as between fact and theory that ultimately weaken the credibility of science as a cultural mechanism for interpreting the natural world. Finally, this dissertation concludes that the absence of a …
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Understandings of integration amongst highly educated Indian women migrants living in the UK
… debated’ one (Castles et al. 2001: 12) with blurred boundaries and content. Policy documents and scholarly literature on integration are mainly concerned with social policy aspects of integration, ways integration may be achieved, barriers to integration, and identifying good practices. …
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Career ladders and work pathways : organizational shifts toward job-placement programs in Boston
… also seems to be fundamentally bluffing the boundaries between traditionally male-based job training and unemployment insurance and traditionally female-based aid for families and related services. In addition to a blurring of the boundaries between male and female systems of aid, there seems …
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