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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Contemporary Human"”.
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Art and the contemporary human condition
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1969 H45
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Art and the contemporary human condition
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1969 H45
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Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Spiritual Virtue and its Implications for Contemporary Human Rights
… culture and legal structure of international human rights needs to be more flexible and inclusive if it truly aims to be universal in scope. This is because The Universal Declaration and its offshoots are still underpinned by secular-liberal principles and therefore, they are at odds with …
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Forensic anthropology : its contribution to forensic cases submitted to the University of Montana for analysis
… Montana on cases suspected to involve skeletal human remains. In this paper, how specifically Forensic Anthropology contributes to these cases is examined. Cases submitted to the UM Lab for analysis between the years of 1971 and 2004 are followed up and the agencies involved are asked specific …
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Forensic anthropology : its contribution to forensic cases submitted to the University of Montana for analysis
… Montana on cases suspected to involve skeletal human remains. In this paper, how specifically Forensic Anthropology contributes to these cases is examined. Cases submitted to the UM Lab for analysis between the years of 1971 and 2004 are followed up and the agencies involved are asked specific …
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Human Resources Programming and its Impact on Leadership within Governing Boards of Ontario Community Colleges
… the scholarly literature in the domains of contemporary human resources management as well as board governance and leadership. Particular attention was paid to two recent models developed by Leblanc and Gillies (2005) and Chait, Ryan and Taylor (2005) which focus attention on desired …
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Participation in employee involvement programs
… from attempts to isomorphically replicate contemporary human resource management practices. This qualitative and quantitative study provides important lessons for managers of small to medium sized manufacturing organisations, particularly as it relates to governing issues associated with …
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A Bog Approach: An Ethnography, Or, An Anthropology Of Climate Emergency
This dissertation investigates contemporary human, social, and cultural responses to climate emergency. My ethnographic field research localizes vanguardist “solutionist” discourses where marginalized environments and aspirational state actors intersect on “The Flow Country” blanket bogs in the far …
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Urban Growth and Segregation in the Roanoke, Virginia, Metropolis: The Effects of Low-Density Development on Low-Income Populations and Racial Minorities
… metropolis. It draws on the literature of contemporary human ecology and social area analysis to examine the effects of low-density development on low-income populations and racial minorities. The continuous spread of residential development beyond the boundaries of the central city and …
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A study of the 2011 floods on human security in Namibia: A case study of the Oshoopala informal settlement in Oshakati
… extent to which the 2011 floods affected basic human security needs in the Oshoopala informal settlement in the Oshana region of northern Namibia. Northern Namibia experienced severe floods in the seasons 2007-2008, 2009-2010 and 2011. The contemporary human security concept has been broadened …
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An analysis of the USMC FITREP: contemporary or inflexible?
… the USMC promotion and assignment process with contemporary human resource management practices. Using data from the USMC Officer Accession Career file (MCCOAC), a logit model is used to estimate the effects of TBS preference and other officer characteristics on retention to the seven year mark. …
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Color/Shape/Form/Space
… the daunting quality of trying to keep up with contemporary culture and the rate at which it expands. My research considers our culture of instant gratification and contemplates how to compete with it. We are consumed by pleasure and the ease of its acquisition. It is my intent to express this …
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Color/Shape/Form/Space
… the daunting quality of trying to keep up with contemporary culture and the rate at which it expands. My research considers our culture of instant gratification and contemplates how to compete with it. We are consumed by pleasure and the ease of its acquisition. It is my intent to express this …
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Realising the effective enforcement of civil and political rights in Africa: an analysis of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
The task of drafting the standard of human rights is largely complete, and monitoring and enforcement institutions are functioning as intended. However limited that intent may have been, research has shown that the violation of human rights, particularly civil and political rights, are prevalent in …
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An attempt to develop a laboratory model of superstitious learning of threat
… of events, or adventitious conditioning. Contemporary human superstitious learning research (e.g. Matute, 1994, 1995) has demonstrated that non-contingent delivery of reinforcers can lead to illusion of control if the person is actively making instrumental responses to gain those …
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Sanktionerat motstånd : Brukarinflytande som fenomen och praktik
… within political rhetoric’s as well as in human service practices. However, user involvement is known to be an imprecise phenomenon that can take on different meanings (cf. Cornwall 2008; Patterson et al. 2008), opening for potential conflicts between service users and organisation …
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An Analysis and Rejection of Arguments for Religious Accommodation
… violation of modern standards of individual human rights and freedoms. Furthermore, most arguments for religious accommodation are shown to be reducible to a demand for upholding traditional religious practices simply for the sake of tradition, and without adequately examining whether or not …
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Cinema of the Self: A Theory of Cinematic Selfhood & Practices of Neoliberal Portraiture
… and argue that there is a loss of selfhood in contemporary culture. Via Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gerhard Richter and the method of deconstruction of language, I theorise selfhood through the figurative and literal analysis of duration, the frame, and the mirror. In this approach, …
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Impact of Human Resource Management on Federal Employees' Positive Attitudes and Behaviors
… presents three article manuscripts investigating contemporary human resource management issues in the United States (US) federal government. Drawing on the behavioral public administration approach, the three articles hypothesize and test theoretical models using data from the US Office of …
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