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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Common Life"”.
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Greek Elements in John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea
… to the Sea, is Greek in essence, it throbs with life — a simple common life as felt and seen and sung by Synge among isolated humanity, the poor Irish peasants on the rock-bound Aran Islands thirty miles off the western coast of Ireland—a life of enduring suffering and struggling' with the soil …
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Finch, Burney, Barbauld and the Brontes: feminine identity
… Proponents of the 'nurture' camp suggest that common life experiences within western culture, including a shared literary history, political invisibility, and domestic responsibilities which set definite limits on intellectual pursuits worked to create in these women a shared consciousness, …
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Mechanical design and prototyping of a neonatal incubator for areas with intermittent electrical grid power
… thermal regulation. Neonatal incubators are common life-preserving devices for preterm infants in developed countries, but are under-utilized in much of the developing world due to designs intended for large hospital settings their need for constant electrical grid power and. A design is here …
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Celebration of change : an exploration of meaning, form and material on the Chelsea waterfront
… finding a route to positive change in one's life through a sharing of common life experiences among group members. Second, concrete is used as a primary structural and textural material and as the point of departure for an exploration of all other materials. The integration of material and …
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Did Sarajevo's Multiethnic Spatiality Survive?: A Study of a Residential Building in the City through War and Peace
… identities harmoniously co-exist and share common public spaces in their everyday life. The ethnically mixed urban population of prewar Sarajevo lived multiethnic spatiality as ‘zajednicki zivot’ (common life). This notion referred to neighborliness, cooperation and trust within and across …
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Development and Characterisation of Solid-State Ion-Selective Electrodes, and their Application to Sweat Analysis for Cystic Fibrosis Diagnosis
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common genetic diseases affecting Caucasians that leads to early deathi. It is Ireland’s most common life- threatening inherited disease. Early diagnosis facilitates early implementation of therapy, which can significantly improve the prognosis and life …
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The Gun in US American Life: An Ethnographic Christian Ethics
… hold a vexingly unique place in US American life. The United States has by far the highest rate of private firearm ownership and firearm-caused death among high-income nations in the world. Further, guns and conservative evangelical Protestantism stand in an intimate cultural relationship to …
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Documentation: Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult
<p>Background: Delirium is a common, life threatening and preventable geriatric syndrome. Because this condition is frequently addressed by administering dangerous antipsychotic drugs, it is imperative that accurate systematic assessments are charted to determine the actual need for these …
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Imitations of Christ: Ignatius of Loyola, Philip Neri and the influence of the Devotio Moderna
… between them. Similarities are noted in their common concern for personal sanctification and in the case of Ignatius, the methodical approach of spiritual exercises and the encouragement of affective spirituality. However, neither Ignatius nor Neri shared the defining characteristic of the …
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The Effects of Urbanization on Tick Parasitism Rates in Birds of Southeastern Virginia
… in predicting tick parasitism rates, as did bird life history traits, such as foraging and nesting behavior. The most common life stage and tick species collected from birds were larval rabbit ticks (Haemaphysalis leporispalustris), followed by larval bird ticks (Ixodes brunneus). This study …
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Dewey and Kuyper: A Common Grace in the Public Sphere
… for the scope and depth of religiosity in public life. Although Kuyper was a Christian and Dewey did not consider himself a theist, each understands religious experience as informing every sphere of existence. According to their thought, a distinction exists between a religion and the religious. …
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The Connective Power of Reminiscence: Designing a Reminiscence-based Tool to Increase Social Interactions in Residential Care
… powers therapeutic interventions such as Life review and Reminiscence therapy, with well known positive outcomes on the wellbeing of older adults. In particular, reminiscence therapy supported by technology can increase self-esteem, facilitate social interactions and increase opportunities …
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Political theology and the conflicts of democracy.
… of a vibrant, pluralist, and participatory common life. An introductory first chapter frames the dissertation's key claims with respect to recent scholarship in political theory and political theology on the relationship between religion, democracy, and pluralism. The following chapter …
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Host-Parasite Interactions Within Food Webs
<p>Parasitism is one of the most common life history strategies employed in nature, yet the effects of parasites are often thought to be minimal, and the vast majority of studies fail to consider parasites and their effects on host organisms. This is likely a problem, as the magnitude of …
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Affinity for Aloneness and Shyness in Childhood and Adolescence: Differential Longitudinal Associations with Socio-emotional Adjustment
… investigation of AFA compared to shyness in common life setting in which children tend to spend much of their time, such as organized sports activities. My doctoral dissertation specifically addressed all of the aforementioned gaps in the literature. Results of Study 1, a longitudinal study …
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LAICITÀ DELLA REPUBBLICA E PROGRESSO SPIRITUALE DELLA SOCIETÀ
… “sets of values of human action deriving from a common life and made manifest by a common experience and culture” (thus in the perspective of the axiological theory of law). This is a thesis that we have attempted to prove by means of a diachronic investigation, having as its object not only the …
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Isothermal Nucleic Acid Assays for the Detection of HIV Drug Resistance and Sickle Cell Disease in Low-Resource Settings
… of a method to discriminate M184V, the most common HIV-1 drug resistance mutation, from wild type DNA, and to detect the products in a paper-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) format. First, a section of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase is isothermally amplified using a recombinase …
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Nunavut, A Creation Story. The Inuit Movement in Canada's Newest Territory
… movement outcomes are directly informed by life experiences, particularly those of leaders. Ganz argues that those experiences were essential in shaping their thought processes, their motivations, their repertoires of collective action, and their extensive use of networks (Ganz, 2000, p. …
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Water sourcing by riparian tree species in ephemaral rivers
… depends. Trees and shrubs are the most common life forms along these river systems, because surface flows are too erratic for aquatic organisms to flourish. There is concern that alterations to the current water regime of ephemeral rivers will affect the distribution of riparian …
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Dangerous Subjects: U.S. War Narrative, Modern Citizenship, and the Making of National Security, 1890-1964
… to address changing orientations toward civic life and foreign policy. Compelled by the turn toward the state in American Studies, “Dangerous Subjects” interweaves its account of almost one-hundred literary texts with currents in cultural history and political theory. In interdisciplinary …