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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Contextualisation"”.
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The contextualisation of Crusader mass graves from Sidon, Lebanon.
The reliability of historical accounts regarding the number and nature of battles, sieges and smaller conflicts during the Late Medieval period (AD1000-1500) is hotly debated due to the relative lack of physical evidence for these events and processes. The Crusades in the Levant have been …
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Re-contextualisation of the Lukan Oikos : a social scientific approach
… of the present context will facilitate a re-contextualisation of the church as oikos in the new South Africa. Chapter one outlines the methodology. A social-scientific study of the concept of oikos in Luke-Acts is engaged in chapter two. Chapter three commences with a sociological perspective …
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Critical perspectives in the construction and contextualisation of minoritised students in UK Higher Education
Within the current context of UKHE, there is a strong focus for institutions to enact Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity initiatives. This tends to place emphasis on the minoritised home student experience and their outcomes, and neglects the minoritised international student experience. Instead, …
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Necrolabour: A postqualitative contextualisation of contemporary work in respect to the philosophy of Georges Bataille
This thesis represents a reading, existential at its base, of the protean space of contemporary labour, under the lens of French philosopher Georges Bataille (1897–1962). A historical overview of the understanding of labour reveals the contemporary moment as positioned on the threshold of the …
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Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice
In this thesis, I will examine pattern making in art practice from two cultural perceptions, Slavic and Australian. Existing differences between the two cultural backgrounds will be used to debate how pattern is understood by the viewer or practiced by an artist in a particular chosen environment. …
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Exploring ethnography and digital visualisation: a study of musical practice through the contextualisation of music related projects from the Seán Ó Riada Collection
This thesis explores how cultural data of musical practice is contextualised during the process of digital visualisation and ethnographic research. The investigation utilises a two-pronged approach to examine music related projects from an archive, the Seán Ó Riada Collection, and focuses on how …
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Transparency and Accountability Mechanisms in Ghana's Petroleum Revenue Management Act: A Critical Analysis and Socio-Political Contextualisation with Counterpoints from Norway and Botswana
Once known as the Gold Coast due to minerals, Ghana has very little to show for that. The revenue generated from minerals in Ghana went into the Consolidated Fund associated with mismanagement and corruption. Auditor-General's annual reports support this assertion, and the Commission of Inquiry set …
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Contextualisation of instructional time utilising mobile social networks for learning efficiency: a participatory action research study for technical vocational education and training learners in South Africa
Despite the fact that some studies have shown a connection between learning efficiency and instructional time, there is lack of research that has been carried out within the Technical Vocational Education and Training sector with a particular focus on National Certificate Vocational programmes. To …
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Network church: a Pentecostal ecclesiology shaped by mission
… of networks that leads to a fresh approach to contextualisation. It addresses the neglect in pentecostal scholarship of church structures beyond the congregation and of critical approaches to contextualisation. The pentecostal systematic methodology of Amos Yong is utilized, based on the …
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Christian virtue in a West African context : a study of the interaction and synthesis of the methodist and Fanti moral traditions as a model for the contextualisation of Christian Ethics
… of ethics as a heuristic tool in analysing the contextualisation of Christian ethics. Ethical contextualisation is thus understood as the interaction and synthesis of particular Christian moral traditions with the moral traditions they encountered in the different cultures where the Christian …
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Technological coalescence, recombinant innovation and future work; Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the workforce
… in this thesis is a human centric competency and contextualisation model. The model captures six significant areas of competency that represents a human comparative advantage that professional workers provide over emerging technological change. These areas are an ability to ‘assess, create, …
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Arquitectura Software para el Enriquecimiento del Contexto y Detección de Eventos Significativos en Dominios Smart Everything del Internet de las Cosas Colaborativo
… application domain, which limits information contextualisation and misses a significant opportunity to improve it by discarding data from domains without an apparent relationship. Furthermore, the absence of a common criterion for defining and structuring data generated across different …
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Modelling context in information brokering processes
… these processes is analysed and a framework of contextualisation goals and appropriate contextualisation techniques is developed. Finally, a general context modelling framework is developed based on the definition of context modelling requirements. This context modelling framework provides …
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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)
… theatre. Rather than a reinterpretation or re-contextualisation, my work can be described as a reinvention of Commedia Masks through a rediscovery of Commedia dell’Arte’s principles, as discussed by Flaminio Scala in his prologue to Il Finto Marito (1619); first and foremost, the notion of …
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'n metaleksikografiese ondersoek na konteksleiding in Afrikaanse vertalende woordeboeke
… for it and the definitions of the terms context, contextualisation and contextual guidance. The discussion produces the identification of the types of contextualising entries, among others meaning explanations, lexicographical labels and glosses, which fall under the main class of discriminators …
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State-sanctioned torture in Uzbekistan and beyond : a legal analysis
… comparisons with Uzbekistan, and to provide contextualisation. This involves examining key cases such as Ireland v UK, Tomasi v France and Selmouni v France. The conclusions drawn from the European legal landscape illustrate that torture is very much the exception rather than the norm, and …
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Reviving Hellas: the body and natural movement in early twentieth-century Britain
… practice-research methodology), and an in depth contextualisation of the discursive dimensions of the period's corporeal practices, training regimes, and body techniques. As a methodological tool and mode of analysis, the reconstruction process provided access to the materiality of the body and …
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A cross case thematic analysis of systemic leadership development.
… traverse interventions, namely Delivery, Contextualisation, Performance, Impact and Values integration; and what constitutes systemic leadership development. A Social Constructivist position was adopted which explains the nature of the phenomena underlying systemic leadership development.
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Représenter l'Holocauste : le traitement et la représentation de l'Holocauste dans les musées-mémoriaux d'Amérique du Nord : étude comparative--le United States Holocaust Memorial Museum et le Centre commémoratif de l'Holocauste à Montréal
… de l'Holocauste en Amérique du Nord, une contextualisation de l'histoire des deux institutions et une description sommaire des expositions permanentes présentées par celles-ci, une analyse de la présentation est proposée. L'objectif premier est de mettre en relief les partis-pris des …
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The Letter of James and Middle Platonism: Tracing Early Christian Engagements with Greek Philosophy
… for the letter, offering a historical contextualisation that is attentive to the place of Judaism and Christianity within the Greco-Roman world.
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