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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Contemporary state"”.
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Institutions by imposition : colonial lessons for contemporary state-building
… under foreign occupations? Why do some state-building missions produce effective and durable state institutions, while others leave a legacy of weak or dysfunctional ones? I explored these questions through a comparative study of the Japanese colonization of Taiwan (1895-1945) and the …
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How to build a living thing
… work provides a lens through which to view the contemporary state of progress toward the ancient and ambitious goal to take what was not alive before and make it live. Starting from an initial plan to make a self-assembling, self-replicating membrane containing a self-replicating genetic …
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The promiscuity of freedom : development and governance in the age of neoliberal networks
… and subjectivities cultivated under two contemporary state-led projects: an initiative promoting intellectual property rights among traditional artisans as tools for rural development, and a national effort to encourage the uptake of free/libre and open source software based resources. …
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Structure of an African city : study of Ibadan, Nigeria : city structure and morphology
… presented in this study does not reflect contemporary conditions in Ibadan due to limited access to data, and should be viewed as an analysis of the planimetric form based on urban design principles. Development concepts are reflective of conditions between 1972 and the early 1980's and …
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Low fidelity
… is a four-part essay on image-making within this contemporary condition. The four probes of the essay mine the contemporary state of image culture within architecture. Each of the probes engages a facet of image culture--namely, the mediums through which images are disseminated, consumed, curated, …
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Russian Internet Censorship and Its Future Perspectives in Comparative Context
… of this work is to provide an analysis of the contemporary state of the Russian internet in regards to both the freedom of information within it and the government's influence over it. This project also examines the potential state of that situation in the coming years. Public statements, …
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Hauntological Videogame Form: Nostalgia and a "High Technology" Medium
… Hauntological Form as a means of examining the contemporary form of mainstream videogames. The increasing presence of nostalgia is deemed paradoxical to a forward-facing high technology medium such as videogames. Yet, this is only a symptom of an underlying problem with the medium. By expanding …
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Punk pedagogy: Teaching to confront intersecting discourses of domination
… and defined as within the context of contemporary urban education in the United States? (b) How could such a pedagogy be applied in order to contest current inequalities and inequities that are the direct results of education being grounded in historical discourses of domination? and …
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A Review of Business/Education Partnerships in Southwest Iowa During the Late 1990s
… questions were pursued. (a) What was the contemporary state of partnerships in southwest Iowa? The community results varied, but the southwest Iowa partnerships appeared to as good as or better than the national average. The influence of STW legislation was dominant throughout the report, …
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The use of private military and security companies in international society: contestation and legitimation of state practice
… is to understand how the legitimacy of the state’s international use of PMSCs is evolving in contemporary international society. The first part of the dissertation develops an analytical framework that combines theoretical propositions of the English School and the ‘German’ constructivist …
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Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria
… has developed as an ideology within a regional state system where Kurds lack national representation or recognition. This ideology has manifested itself into a fractured movement where the contemporary state borders that separate the Kurdish population at large have proven to be both a limiting …
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Marena a Lesotho: chiefs, politics and culture in Lesotho
… and the chieftainship were created, to contemporary regional and local rural contexts, in which the chieftainship exists. The discussion illustrates how chiefs have been personifications of family and society, and how this representation is being challenged amongst the rural populace …
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The Peninsula Shale Renosterveld of Devil's Peak: phytosociology, system drivers and restoration potential
… Renosterveld is situated in the Groote Schuur Estate, currently conserved within the Table Mountain National Park. Due to a history of diverse land-use impacts, what remains today is a complex mosaic of alien invasive species and indigenous vegetation in various states of degradation. As a …
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Aligning Models for Human-Centric Decision Systems
… demonstrate consistent improvements over the contemporary state-of-the-art, and highlights the importance of taking a holistic approach to decision systems rather than simply focusing on the machine learning methods in isolation.
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When citizen politics becomes uncivil: Between popular protest, civil society and governance in Jamaica
… in this context. It scrutinizes the tenor of contemporary civilian politics and assesses the consequent impact on the quality of civil society more broadly. The thesis challenges the assumption within accepted definitions of civil society that civic participation is always positive. It does so …
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Arab Protestant women in theological education: a contribution to ecclesial understanding of Christianity in the Middle East
… of Protestantism for the ME. In this thesis the contemporary state of APW is explored in the context of dialogue with the Eastern Christian traditions which are the dominant ecclesial of the Christian tradition in the Middle East. I propose a reorientation away from the ecclesial perspectives …
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Non-timber forest product livelihood opportunities in Appalachia
… conducted an embedded case study to understand contemporary NTFP harvest, perceptions of community-based development of NTFP livelihood opportunities, and the extent to which forest landowners are interested forest farming. One case study focused on Grayson County, Virginia and included …
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The Beloved: A documentary film on the history and aftermath of Fremantle’s Rajneesh sannyasin community – and – Hidden Realities: Transcendental Structures in Documentary Film: An exegesis
… landscapes from the concentration camps in their contemporary state; and sleep furiously (Koppel, 2008), in which the unprocessed trauma of community disintegration is registered through affect-based experience rather than the narrative or representational programme. From the sum of this research, …
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Exploiting multimodality and structure in world representations
… algorithms. Both approaches competed with contemporary state-of-the-art graph classification methods, even outside social domains in the second case, where the inductive bias was PageRank-driven. Finally, the third contribution delves further into relational learning, presenting a …
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LA RESPONSABILIDAD DEL ESTADO JUEZ EN TORNO AL DERECHO DE LOS CIUDADANOS A LA INDEMNIDAD
Se demuestran las falencias e insuficiencias de los tres títulos tradicionales de imputación de responsabilidad al Estado por las actuaciones judiciales para garantizar el derecho a la indemnidad de los ciudadanos, teniendo en cuenta el rol actual del juez y los postulados teóricos a los cuales …