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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Co-habitation"”.
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Premarital cohabitation as a pathway into marriage. An investigation into how premarital cohabitation is transforming the institution of marriage in Ireland. Athlone as a case study.
… of this study is to investigate how premarital co-habitation is transforming the institution of marriage in Ireland. I conducted forty-one in-depth interviews in Athlone in 2007. The sample comprised cohabiting couples with plans to marry, cohabiting couples with no plans to marry, as well as …
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How do first graders define a family?
… An instructional unit depicting various family constellations was implemented along with authentic discussions, a student survey, an interactive bulletin board, a classroom library containing family books, and writing prompts contained in My Family Journal. The data collected and analyzed was …
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Freestyle Bearing: Work, Play, and Synergy in the Practice of Everyday Life Among Mongolian Reindeer Pastoralists
… realize their livelihoods? Does qualifying corporeal manners, or bearings, in which livelihood practices are performed in the moments of actualization offer insight into ways in which longer-term decision-making processes like nomadic settlement and livestock management are embodied? …
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Organizzazione del consenso e strategia militare del Partito Comunista Indocinese nel nord Vietnam dalla conferenza di Pac Bo al 2 settembre 1945
… everything about the first (1946-54) and the second Indochinese war (1964-75), the French-Japanese co-habitation in Viet Nam, which ended with the 1945 Revolution, did not raise any particular interest among Western scholars. Nevertheless, the research began because of the dissatisfaction …
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Cultural interfaces : (in)visible spaces in the Old City of Jerusalem
This thesis starts with the contemporary problematics of the famously contested place, Jerusalem, and tries to understand the impact of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians on the fabric of the Old City. The goal is to describe how the inhabitants of this contested place deal, everyday, …
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The roles of secondary metabolites in microcystis inter-strain interactions
… on the genomic as well as on morphological and secondary metabolite levels. Microcystis communities are composed of a variety of diversified strains. The focus of this study lies on potential interactions between Microcystis representatives and the roles of secondary metabolites in these …
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Embedded autonomies projecting an American middle-Class polis
… have? Along with long established tactics on the consumption side of the production equation -- namely collective housing and collective purchasing -- a new form of economic autonomy is emerging from within the very tool-kit of Neoliberalism. Due to its vastly smaller scale and increased …
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Pan climatic humans : shaping thermal habits in an unconditioned society
… is often oversimplified in the design of conditioned spaces, assuming occupants have unchanging thermal preferences and no desire to participate in the shaping of a building's microclimates. While we gain a basic satisfaction of thermal need from this simplified view, we lose much by …
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Third Landscape
The global energy sector accounts for over 60 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of this research is to investigate the agency of bottom-up approaches and local initiatives to build energy projects with renewable technologies. The greatest challenge these projects face are their …
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Making social relations and identities through consumption: A Botswana case study
This research utilises the concepts in Miller’s anthropology of consumption (1987; 1988; 1994; 1995a; 1998a; 1998b) to enable an analysis of social relations, including gender, through looking at what and how people consume. Goods not only express individual identity and status, but are used as a …
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Mauritianism or the mitigated euphoria of the rainbow nation
Extensively hailed as an economic miracle, an irrefutable ile durable that even defies until today the extrapolations and predictions of the greatest of writers such as Trinidadian V.S. Naipaul about the economic status of the country after it achieved independence, Mauritius has also grown to be …
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Multivariate statistical modelling of family formation processes among women in Namibia
Family formation is a significant event in life-course of individuals. Many studies have revealed shifts in demographic processes including child-bearing patterns, age at sexual debut and first marriage, and marital status over the years. While there have been numerous studies in demographic …
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'The reader and I are making faces': W. S. Graham's Management
… the dilemmas of these critical negotiations of control and contingency, wondering how we might attend to a presence that appears only to vanish, how Graham offers critics red-herrings and false-starts, how we might arrest and organise the ephemera of his verse—or how we let them go. It begins …
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Evaluation of risks associated with close environmental contact to swine that are transgenic for a bovine milk protein alpha-lactalbumin
… to transgenic animals is important to the future contributions of transgenic livestock to society. Evaluation of the potential for transfer of a transgene (Tg) from livestock to a non-transgenic animal during parturition, mating, gestation, or lactation is the initial step in a risk assessment. We …