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Showing 1 to 20 of 1204 for “"Borders"”.
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Ambiguous Borders: the European Commission and the reconstruction of borders
… a critical reading of the configuration of borders through the discourse of one of the main institutions of the European Union (EU), the European Commission. My starting point is the observation of multiplication and transformation of EU and European borders as a result of the process of …
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Tales of Borders
… rooted in the landscapes of the Scottish Borders and Likhu 3, (Nepal). Tales of Borders is an exploration of the power of stories to connect people over borders of time and space.<br/>Engaging creatively with the research material Tales of Borders uses the medium of film to demonstrate the …
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Borders and Bandaids
… definition and implementation of international borders and treatises. Reconsideration of a lineament in the slightest form has the potential to drastically change the execution and enforcement of a lineament in tangible materials and their assembly during construction. The chosen design proposes …
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UNITING THE GOLDEN BORDERS
… of the contemporary notion of constructing borders for separation, borders should be redefined to create and enhance collaboration. This new borderscape will allow tourists to better appreciate the cultural and natural endowments of the golden triangle and at the same time promote social …
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Borders: Separation, Detention, and Dehumanization
Borders: Separation, Detention, and Dehumanization is an exhibition that calls attention to the worsening situation at the southern border. The show is composed of large paintings and drawings, depicting scenes of either separation or detention, and an element of human suffering portrayed by …
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Islam's bloody borders?
… Samuel Huntington stated that "Islam has bloody borders." Separatist conflicts in which Islam plays a major role are sometimes seen as justifying this statement. This thesis looks at three of these conflicts in order to determine how Islam is used to justify separatist actions. The role of Islam, …
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Clearance systems at brain borders
Submitted to the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences on May 8th, 2023 in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience. The glymphatic movement of fluid through the brain powerfully clears metabolic waste. We observed multisensory 40 Hz …
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Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies: the 'Gender Refugee' and the imagined South Africa
… and asylum, identity politics, the control of borders, human rights and protections, documentation and the ongoing bureaucratisation of sex/gender.
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The recyclists : bikes, borders and basura
In January, 2009, I joined Bikes Across Borders, a local grassroots organization, on their yearly bike caravan to Mexico. The group works to promote bicycles, both here and in Mexico, as an environmentally and financially sound alternative to motorized transportation. Each winter, members ride …
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Escuela sin Fronteras, School without Borders
… but an architectural one. If we are to build our borders, they should be built as places of shared infrastructure, an economic investment in creating a zone of shared culture and learning that can still be simultaneously a place of security. Escuela sin fronteras, School without Borders, is a …
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Truth Telling Beyond Borders: An African Perspective
<p>The dissertation focuses on answering the question of how can patient’s autonomy, privacy and liberty be safeguarded especially within cultures that do not regard them as primordial principles? In some communities, truth-telling is one of the moral principles unquestioningly inherited from the …
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Borders: visualizing temporal changes in border disputes
Disputes and changes of international borders have been an area of study for cartographers since long ago. Now, with online maps growing faster than printed maps, the task also transfers to online map creators. Companies like Google and Bing provide personalized maps where disputed international …
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Rewriting Hmong womanhood: literacy that mediates borders
… moving family and home literacies across borders to public spaces such as schools, workplaces, and political realms while also using those same literacies to stay connected to their diasporic community. This dissertation addresses questions related to how literacy transforms cultural …
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Crossing borders: conscious journeys with my family
… the birth of a democratic South Africa. Crossing borders refers to both personal and physical expansion, juxtaposing the isolation of apartheid with the freedom to explore that which was foreign. The main theme is that of leaving home to extend one’s view of self in relation to the world, …
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Floating infrastructures : architecture beyond borders : united points
… us to draw a new non geopolitical map without borders for our planet to address our challenges more effectively. Being adoptable and flexible is one of the solutions or at least a condition where we could discuss and resolve differences. This project on its path is criticizing UN's inflexible …
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Sites of friction : borders of the banal
… the introduction of a series of physical borders which are housed within several seemingly banal commercial buildings.The border is offered here not an object to further divide, but paradoxically as a necessary edge condition which permits contact and thus re-establishes friction between …
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Interagency Working Groups: Allegiances Across Agency Borders
… challenges of working across agency borders in highly bureaucratic cultures, empirical studies to advance theoretical development are much needed. Cross-boundary studies are often conducted under the umbrella of network theory; however, they have generally explored collaboration …
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Architecture as Living Memory: Building Across Borders
Border delineations and walls have been used to protect cities and towns throughout history. In the present age of modern surveillance and advanced military technology however, physical walls have much less significance for the protection of present-day states and nations and have become artifacts …
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O. Douglas and the borders of fictional identity
The purpose of the thesis is to contribute to the developing research in Scottish literature and the broader movement of recovery of forgotten or comparatively neglected Scottish (women) writers.
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