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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Caravan"”.
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Caravan second homes: an empirical study of consumer behaviour towards a depreciating property asset
… data to investigate the role static caravans play within second home consumerism. Fundamentally it seeks to explain why people buy such a fast depreciating property asset. Results suggest how irrespective of their income two thirds of such consumers show a passionate loyalty towards …
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Group Identity, Ideology, and Mass Media: Content Analysis of the 2018 Media Spectacles Family Separation and Migrant Caravan
… family separation at the border and migrant caravans. This thesis examines the themes that emerge across politically diverse news outlets and categorizes them in terms of how the phenomena is represented among distinct group identities utilizing Ethnographic Content Analysis methodology …
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The stereotype caravan: Assessment of stereotypes and ideology levels used to portray Gypsies in two European feature films
The dominant ideology in Eastern Europe has kept and still keeps Roma people at the lowest level of society through a long list of negative stereotypes and active discrimination. Up to the end of the twentieth century, cinematography tended to portray Gypsies as an exotic element in romantic …
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Post-war Tourism in the Tendring District and Beyond: The Rise of the Holiday Caravan Park, c. 1938-1989
… addresses the history of the static holiday caravan site in Britain. Commercial holiday camps, such as Butlin’s and Warner’s, have been seen by many to be the epitome of UK post-war working-class holiday making. But despite some shared characteristics and developmental roots, it is argued …
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Trafico De Caravanas, Interaccion Interregional Y Cambio Cultural en La Prehistoria Tardia Del Desierto De Atacama
… rather than the products being traded by caravans, on the caravan routes ad spaces produced by them rather tan the settlement-axes, and on the socio-political aspects of caravan trade rather than the socio-economic ones.
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The water resources structures on the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim routes to Makka and Medinah
… way station/stopping place on the ancient trade caravan road between south western -Arabia and Bilad AI-Sham,' now Syria. In part the inhabitants of MAKKA practised this trade because their environment was not suitable for other alternative economic activities. The importance of MAKKA, as a …
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Reduce, reuse, redefine: An interactive framework for repurposing packaging materials through a sustainability-focused craft kit system using traditional and digital methods
… learning environment, established as the Caravan Craft Kit System, promotes consumer-driven methods for reusing materials found in homes, offices, and community spaces with increased accessibility and community connections regarding environmental education. The Caravan Craft Kit System …
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The Afar Caravan Route: Insights into Aksumite (50 BCE-CE 900) Trade and Exchange from the Low Deserts to the North Ethiopian Plateau
… research on the contemporary Afar salt caravan route in Northern Ethiopia documents the location of the route, feeder routes, and key nodes and demonstrates that the least costly paths were used by caravaners. Evidence was also collected on the organization of the contemporary trade and …
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A caravan of hope-gay Christian service: Exploring social vulnerability and capacity-building of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identified individuals and organizational advocacy in two post Katrina disaster environments
… on the East Coast and they tagged it as the "Caravan of Hope" and staged the distribution at MCC Baton Rouge to address the needs of pets and an outreach to lgbti and others left behind.
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Grey nomads: Retirement, leisure and travel in the Australian context
… grey nomads as an important market niche and caravan and motorhome manufacturers foresee ongoing growth in their industry. This thesis investigates how grey nomads make sense of their peripatetic lifestyle. It uses an ethnographic approach to uncover how the grey nomad lifestyle is defined by …
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The recyclists : bikes, borders and basura
… 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 bicycles they build out of salvaged parts to border …
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Application of reinforcement learning methods to computer game dynamics
… to learn a steering policy for the untried caravan reversing problem and for the kerb avoiding steering problem of racing car both using negative rewards on failure and a simple aggregation. The output policy for the caravan is validated as non jack-knifing for a high proportion of start …
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Interfaces of location and memory: An exploration of place through context-led arts practice.
… of the research and the fieldwork project – caravanserai – an arts residency based at a caravan site in Cornwall, UK. Expanding on Lippard’s educative proposal for ‘place ethical‘ arts practice (1997: 286-7) Interfaces of location and memory offers a contribution to existing knowledge in the …
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The Economic Organization of Early Camelid Pastoralism in the Andean Highlands of Bolivia
… cultivation intensification, and increased caravan exchange. I conclude that camelid pastoralism developed as a long-term ecological adaptation and as an efficient economic strategy capable of managing diverse processes of environmental and socio-political change.</p>
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Spatiality, political identities and the environmentalism of the poor
… Secondly, a project called the Inter-continental Caravan, which united activists from the Indian New Fanner’s Movements and activists from Western European green movements to contest the unequal social and environmental relations of contemporary neo-liberal globalisation. Thirdly, the political …
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A journey back home through a mask for the 21st century : the legacy of Commedia dell'Arte in postdramatic theatre with particular focus on the centrality of the actor in devised performance : a practice-as-research PhD based on three years of research, culminating in this thesis, an ensemble devised performance A Floating Caravan Under the Moon (2015/16) and a solo piece Home/Finding Home (2017/18)
… Utilising the ensemble devised piece, A Floating Caravan Under the Moon, and the solo-piece Home as case studies, this thesis discusses and analyses my work as a tutor, a director and a performer. It explores the efficacy of my physical approach to characterisation; more specifically my use of …
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Ladakhi Traditional Songs: A Cultural, Musical, and Literary Study
… and consumers.</p> <p>Situated as it was on the caravan routes between India, Tibet, China, and Central Asia, Ladakhi culture developed distinctive hybrid characteristics, including in its musical styles. Analysis of the performance practices, musical structures, form, and textual content of …
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Entwicklung eines UV-Lasertransmitters und Aufbau eines flugzeuggetragenen DIAL für Ozonmessungen in der Troposphäre
… Flugzeug wie die DLR Cessna 208 Grand Caravan notwendig ist. Es wurde speziell für dieses System eine neue, über den Bereich von 281 bis 300 nm kontinuierlich durchstimmbare “all solid state” Laserlichtquelle auf Basis eines KTP OPO mit intracavity Summenfrequenzmischung (SFM) …
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Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Lithuania in American Fiction
… or completely unknown, such as Goldie Stone's My Caravan of Years and Margaret Seebach's That Man Donaleitis. Besides these English texts, I discuss Lithuanian novels by Algirdas Margeris and Rojus Mizara and treat them as specimens of multilingual American literature. I claim that pre-World War …
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Postwar British Fictions of Inhabitation
… Here, I consider Alison Smithson’s essay on the caravan, her affinity with the sheltered space of children’s books and her weekend house ‘Solar Pavilion’ as examples of ‘mobile domesticities’. Chapter 3 examines the self-proclaimed affinity between B.S. Johnson and Alison and Peter Smithson. This …
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