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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Cultural interface"”.
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The Arabesque as a cultural interface for contemporary packaging design in the Arabian Gulf
This thesis explores the graphic symbol as an interface for communication in a local as well as globalized environment. Specifically the research examines the arabesque as a cultural interface for contemporary packaging design in the Arabian Gulf by addressing the graphic application of the …
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Looking after country : examining conditions for effective community-based natural resource management in Aboriginal Australia
… for mediating ontological differences at the cultural interface of ALM (usually known as 'coordinators' or 'facilitators'). This research explores the challenges brokers face and the dependence on non-Aboriginal brokers in Central Australian ALM, highlighting the task of navigating differing …
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Looking after country : examining conditions for effective community-based natural resource management in Aboriginal Australia
… for mediating ontological differences at the cultural interface of ALM (usually known as 'coordinators' or 'facilitators'). This research explores the challenges brokers face and the dependence on non-Aboriginal brokers in Central Australian ALM, highlighting the task of navigating differing …
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Pastiche as technique : inside an American palace
… mere decoration, form a membrane which acts as a cultural interface to site the building in a strong, diverse, and ultimately stubborn community.
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Crowded Voice: Speech, Music and Community in Milan, 1955-1974
… the city of Milan, a powerful political and cultural interface between Italy and Central Europe; secondly, the years 1955-1974, key decades in the constitution of Italy’s first democratic government and years of vertiginous anthropological changes across the peninsula.Across the four chapters …
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Aliwa! A reimagined journey: A stage play and exploring a Nyoongar theatre text with pre-service teachers: An exegesis
… in education as a means of promoting intercultural understanding and improving educational outcomes for Indigenous students. The Australian Curriculum has advocated that Indigenous histories and cultures be embedded into every subject rather than taught separately. Drama is a curriculum …
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Cultural reciprocity in deep knowledge co-production
… Chapter Two is a literature review exploring the cultural interface between Indigenous knowledge and science, and the challenge of braiding these bodies of knowledge within research projects. Chapter Three describes the foundations of cultural reciprocity and the dimensions and attributes that …
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He aha kei tua atu o te kohu kawata? What lies beyond the silvery mist? Epistemic agency at the intersection of mātauranga Māori and biological science knowledge worlds
… are students who come from a range of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and socioeconomic backgrounds. They bring with them into the biology classroom knowledge from their life worlds. While for some, these knowledge resources are front and centre, for others their cultural knowledge remains hidden …
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar
… the investigation of translation as a place of cultural interface. The complexity and subtlety of this poetry make it notoriously difficult to render into other languages, leading to claims that this genre is `untranslatable'. While this is patently untrue, any attempt to maintain the form of …
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The Impacts of Culture on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Post-Financial Performance in the Banking Industry using Multi-Group Structural Equation Modeling
… framework has been developed based on the GLOBE cultural project. It perceives the national culture as a multi-dimensional construct that interacts between levels. The thesis consists of a mixed methods approach which investigated international mergers and acquisitions by banks in Egypt and the …
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The Politics of Numbers: Statistical Fairness, Market Justice and the ‘inclusion’ of First Nations people in Australian Universities
… stance, is Indigenous Standpoint Theory, the Cultural Interface (Nakata 2007) and Critical Indigenous Studies. I also engage with critical statistical studies, critical policy studies on governing, and social justice theories. To answer the research question above, I added an additional set of …
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Cell Phone Interface Design Preferences from the Perspective of Nationality and Disability
… industry the cell phone industry has no standard interface, and manufacturers have the freedom to gradually improve the user interface (Kiljander & Johanna, 2003). For a user interface to be well accepted by a target population it is necessary to identify and explore the underlying design …
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Transformando blogues em artefatos da mídia-arte : experimentações poético-pedagógicas
… os blogues são produtos da linguagem midiática, interfaces culturais, resultantes dos avanços propiciados pela Web 2.0, no contexto da cultura participativa. Nesse sentido, o problema de pesquisa buscou compreender como a transformação de interfaces culturais em artefatos da mídia-arte podem …