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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Counter-Claims"”.
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Object-oriented programming : bringing perspective to the claims and counter-claims
This study attempts to bring insight into the claims and counter-claims made about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). A rich understanding of OOP enables us to maximize OOP's potential and uncover its limitations in practice. OOP rose from relative obscurity in the 1960s to the mainstream of …
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MOVEMENT WITHOUT MOTION: THE RHETORIC OF CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-CLAIMS TO GLOBAL WARMING THEORY
… conservative think tanks, this thesis analyzes counter-claims to global warming theory to identify rhetorical artifacts that typically characterize conservative responses to issues, and to show how rhetorical theory can help anticipate the nature of such responses. The research identifies …
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Democratizing money : from the federalist papers to the community currency movement
… (Wood, 1995: 213), and critically evaluates counter claims to be democratizing money made by advocates of community currencies.
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Self-determination as resistance to legal violence: Jurisdiction, property, and the geographies of conflict in Unistoten and Xolobeni
… right to self-determination are often framed as claims against a unified state. However, explanation of the forces inhibiting the expression of Indigenous self-determination should not settle with an understanding of the imposing power of the state. As I show, the realization of …
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Dialogues of persuasion: the Reformation dialogues printed on the Continent during the reign of Henry VIII
… allowing the author to neutralise any counter-claims to his arguments. This renders the English Reformation-dialogues from 1527 to 1547 formulaic, but allows for the establishment of clear interpretative framework for them. The five rhetorical devices the dialogue authors consistently …
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The scope for strengthening the procedural rights of third party groups in ISDS
… and international courts, amicus curie and counter claims are limited in terms of effectiveness. This thesis recommends the introduction of an African Investment Court under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as a solution to the prevailing bottlenecks to third party access to …
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Factors associated with Co-trimoxazole table inventory control-Assessment of primary health facilities in Lusaka Zambia
… There have been reports of thefts, with no counter claims of losses, which could be inferred that facilities were not able to detect it due to failures in the accountability system or that there is rampant theft in the health facilities. An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on …
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Ghana 'rising'?: A socioeconomic snapshot of Ghana's place in the 'Africa rising' narrative
… However, there are many who dispute these claims, arguing instead that recent economic growth has not been inclusive and sustainable, and many challenges still exist. This dissertation takes the case study of Ghana as a lens through which to explore the arguments in more detail and …
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German Identity in the Court Festivals of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Holy Roman Empire
… rising families. It demonstrates how competing claims and counter-claims to legitimacy were made as festival occasions attempted to weave their protagonists into the fabric of ‘German’ history together with an associated possession of ‘German’ virtues, and how these claims to legitimacy were …
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Return on inspiration : a socio-psychological investigation into the impact of lateral thinking upon individual, group and organisational performance
… The study begins by investigating a plethora of claims and counter-claims in the literature on the impact such interventions can have, and it leverages the cognitive, affective, and behavioural framework developed by Kraiger, Ford and Salas (1993), and social factors surfaced by Amabile (1983), …
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Critical examination of the ethics in research involving Indigenous peoples
… of two worldviews enables a negotiation through counter claims as a process of developing an alternate model of knowing that illustrates a different perspective on researching. Critical theory is utilized as a methodology to analyze the existing power structures and social inequalities that play …