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CRAFTING THE FEVER
<p><em>The Hibiscus Snake</em> is a collection of poetry investigating the female experience encountering danger. She explores psychic landscapes descended in the unconscious uncanny, the feminine body within the context of horror, and lyrical poems about living in working class communities in San …
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Crafting Iron and Other Stories
<p>The stories that follow in this collection attempt to reveal studies in characters facing loneliness, and to do so by following Alice Munro’s conception of plot—the notion that characters shape the plot according to their position in the various “rooms” of the story. Feelings of loneliness look …
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Crafting Dreams of Lucid Shape
<p>To be a Poet, a Writer, and thereby human, is to be vagrant--one who wrestles with identity by wandering the varied landscapes of both societal and individual beliefs, treading ground that is free from, but dependent upon, temporal and spatial irregularities. Tradition, Mythology, Experience, …
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Crafting identities : tableware for the Meiji Emperor
As Japan struggled to free itself of the ‘unequal treaties’ imposed upon it by foreign powers in the mid-nineteenth century, the Meiji Emperor (1868–1912) was also seeking to establish his position as ruler in the eyes of both the citizens of Japan and audiences overseas. While the country embarked …
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Crafting Democracy : Civil Society in Post-Transition Honduras
Civil society is frequently singled out as one of the most important factors in the democratization process, but existing research is often imprecise with regard to civil society’s relation to democratic development. This study analyzes how, and under what circumstances, civil society can …
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Crafting Culture: Scrapbooking and the Lives of Women
My dissertation examines the process of consumption and how women's relationships with business owners, with other women and with the products that they purchase, enhance commercial activity. Specifically I observe the scrapbooking industry (currently the fastest growing hobby and cottage industry …
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Crafting safe human-centric agents with risk intelligence
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Crafting unusual programs for fuzzing deep learning libraries
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Crafting life : a sensory ethnography of fabricated biologies
… about making new biological things as a form of "crafting," an analytic that illuminates five aspects of contemporary biological manufacture: 1) sensory cultivation, 2) ongoing participation with biological media and forms, 3) the integration of making biological things and practitioners' …
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Crafting certified elliptic curve cryptography implementations in Coq
Elliptic curve cryptography has become a de-facto standard for protecting the privacy and integrity of internet communications. To minimize the operational cost and enable near-universal adoption, increasingly sophisticated implementation techniques have been developed. While the complete …
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Job Crafting and Employee Engagement Among Millennials in Retail
… exploring the interrelationship between job crafting and employee engagement within this demographic group in the retail sector. The research employed a constructivist-interpretivist approach, emphasising the active role of participants in co-creating meaning. This study involved 24 …
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Crafting a Place of Transition: From Refuge to Reconnection
The feelings evoked by sterile, socially isolating clinical settings are counterproductive in biopsychosocial healthcare environments such as addiction treatment, where the survival of the individual depends not only on the treatment of their medical needs, but also on helping them rebuild their …
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Crafting the commons : modern approaches to music as product
In this dissertation, modern approaches to record labels, music as product, and copyright in the music industry were investigated. The possibility of successfully creating, implementing, and operating an independent, not‐for‐profit, commercial record label that services the needs of the South …
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Executive coaching : crafting a versatile self in corporate America
In recent years, coaching has become a major form of personal and professional development service offered to executives to help develop leadership skills, enhance performance, and remediate patterns of problematic workplace behavior. This dissertation examines the emergence and development of …
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Psychological Ownership of Simple Jobs: The Effect of Job Crafting
… for simple jobs with the inclusion of job crafting? The study proposes that job crafting can be used to make cognitive and physical changes in the task and/or relational boundaries for simple jobs. A large portion of the research in this study involved teasing apart the job crafting, job …
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Piecing together creativity: feminist aesthetics and the crafting of quilts
<p>When traditionally feminized crafts such as quilting are embraced as fine art, the discourses surrounding their "elevation" often serve to bolster the power of art world establishments by referencing the tenets of modernism and employing mutually reinforcing aesthetic hierarchies. In this …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
<p><em>CRAFTING OPPRESSION OF WOMEN </em></p> <p><em>IN NOVELS BY WRITERS OF COLOR</em></p> <p><em>Abstract: </em></p> <p><em>This thesis explores methods used by the writers of five realist novels, to create oppressive situations for female characters in their work. In writing about these novels, …
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