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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"DEMARCATION"”.
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The rhetorical construction of science: Demarcation as rhetorical practice
… activities. This dissertation develops a view of demarcation as a practical matter which is rhetorically negotiated by scientists in ongoing scientific activity. The rhetorical demarcation of science is a discursive accomplishment of the everyday productive and evaluative activities of scientists.
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Demarcation of coding and non-coding regions of DNA using linear transforms
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) strand carries genetic information in the cell. A strand of DNA consists of nitrogenous molecules called nucleotides. Nucleotides triplets, or the codons, code for amino acids. There are two distinct regions in DNA, the gene and the intergenic DNA, or the junk DNA. Two …
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Marking Territory: demarcation of the DRC-Zambia boundary from 1894 to the present day
… in Africa prior to 1914, the process of demarcation was an exercise focused more on mapping and exploration than on clearly defining boundaries at the local scale. The division of territorial sovereignty through boundaries was known only at a small geographic scale. However, in 1927 a …
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Municipal boundary demarcation in South Africa: processes and effects on governance in traditional rural areas
… are investigated and the processes of municipal demarcation and boundary dispute resolution are analysed against a number of frameworks such as the goals of good governance in land administration, management paradigm, rights, restrictions and responsibilities, Kotter's eight stages of change …
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Kant's Epistemological geography : the role of Schwärmerei and demarcation in the conception of critical philosophy
… of possibility of human knowledge. For , the demarcation between the phenomena and noumena relies on an assumption of the particular nature of the knowledge-claims, modelled upon the claims of Schwärmerei, pertaining to objects which are beyond our grasp. In addition, Kant's concept of Grenze …
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Rescinding Rights: An analysis of governmental changes and indigenous land demarcation in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
This research project seeks to understand the relationships surrounding indigenous land rights in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil to determine if and how changes in governmental administrations have impacted indigenous land rights over the past 30 years. It addresses a gap in literature pertaining to …
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Using ICT tools in managing customary land, demarcation, conflict and tenure data in Developing Countries: A case study of Zambia
… conflicts in Zambia. The unsuitable land demarcation mechanism and partial documentation of customary land parcels has contributed to the prevailing land disputes. The study proposes the utilization of Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as the Participatory Geographical …
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Using ICT tools in managing customary land, demarcation, conflict and tenure data in Developing Countries: A case study of Zambia
… conflicts in Zambia. The unsuitable land demarcation mechanism and partial documentation of customary land parcels has contributed to the prevailing land disputes. The study proposes the utilization of Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as the Participatory Geographical …
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The Encomienda in the Philippines: The Dawn of Spanish Colonialism
… over the Indies and decreed that | "an imaginary demarcation line he drawn 100 leagues west of the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands; that Spain could claim all lands found or to he found West and South of the demarcation line towards the Indies, provided they had not been occupied by any other …
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Ethnicity and the making of local boundaries in South Africa: perspectives from Vuwani and Malamulele
The study examines local boundary demarcations in the South African context, specifically exploring the relevance of ethnicity as a determining factor in Vuwani and Malamulele. The study explores the nature and significance of boundaries and, drawing upon a comparative perspective from various …
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An International Comparative History of Youth Football in France and the United States (C.1920-C.2000): The Age Paradigm and the Demarcation of the Youth Game as a Separate Sector of the Sport
… period. Youth football underwent a process of demarcation from the adult or elite game but maintained and furthered specific mechanisms linking the two across sporting, educational, and professional bridges. With the decade of the 1970s serving as a turning point, the youth level achieved a …
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An exploration of the "feeding partnership" between patients with late stage dementia and nursing staff
… amount of food successfully fed to the patients. Demarcation of feeding was lost when there were high levels of speech, suggesting that staff members' communication should be task related so as to enable feeding cues to be detected. The findings were interpreted against a summary model which was …
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Spaces of New Labour Youth policy
… theoretical logic which is termed the logic of demarcation. The logic of demarcation is then deployed along with other concepts, rooted in the post-Marxist political theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, such as political, social and fantasmatic logics, to investigate changes in New …
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Genetic diversity and taxonomical relationships among the tacaribe serocomplex viruses (family arenaviridae)
… and 3) establish genetic criteria for species demarcation within the Arenaviridae. Study 1 -- The results indicated that Neotoma macrotis (large-eared woodrat) is the principal host of Bear Canyon virus, the present-day association of Bear Canyon virus with Peromyscus californicus (California …
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Reading contamination : an environmental education center at the Wells G&H Superfund Site
… with the site. These entities - the wetlands demarcation zone in particular - begin to organize the site in a way which speaks not to the site's (natural) systems, but to the institutional systems which govern the site, and the means by which these systems deal with contamination. The site is …
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Here be dragons: exploring the hinterland of science
… relatively little philosophical excitement. The demarcation project has fallen on hard times, and many philosophers have grown suspicious of the very term ‘pseudoscience’, as it is believed to suggest a naïve conception of science and its borderlines. In this dissertation, I argue that, instead …
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ΤΟ ΚΟΥΤΣΟΒΛΑΧΙΚΟ ΙΔΙΩΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΣΑΜΑΡΙΝΑΣ. ΦΩΝΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ
… RELATIONS-RAISING DELETION-METAPHONY-PROSODY-DEMARCATION-SYLLABLE-MORPHOPHONEMIC REFERENCES). FINALLY A SAMPLE OF DIALECTIC TEXT IS GIVEN FOR THE SAKE OF VERIFICATION OF THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE ANALYSIS.
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The legal relevance of man-made constructions in maritime zones
… or states utilising such area. The lines of demarcation are imaginary in the sense that they cannot be observed (as opposed to natural dividing lines on land such as rivers, mountains or even fences) but they are real in the sense that they exist, and recognition of their existence is vital …
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Higher than those of their race of less fortunate advantages:Race, ethnicity, and West Indian political leadership in Detroit's African American community, 1885-1940
… parts, with the Great Migration as the line of demarcation. The research method consists largely of collective biographies and a survey of periodicals, census records, and records generated by the institutions that had West Indian leaders. The dissertation concludes that West Indian immigrants …
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The Darkening of the Other: Demarcating Difference in Cantar de Roldan, Cartas marruecas, and La reina del sur
… analyze how variation in faith served as primary demarcation of Otherness. I then analyze Cartas marruecas and how race also becomes an identifier of Otherness; I end the thesis analyzing La reina del sur and the role of racial discourse as the primary identifier of Otherness.
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