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Showing 1 to 20 of 479 for “"DIS"”.
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(DIS)JOINING (DIS)JUNCTURE
… encounter with a place, an ambivalent place of disjunction between a mountain and a wasteland in the city. The subsequent uncovering of untold stories, traces of memory, about that place, reveal a site laden with a history of a deep connection between a people and their natural surroundings. …
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(Dis)connected
I have been interested in learning about alternative lifestyles for years. This may be because I've known so many miserable people trapped within serial-monogamous lifestyles, and I wanted to break away from this chain of misery. For a long time, I thought that all I was interested in was sex. I …
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Conditions on (dis)harmony
… Chapter 4 turns to microvariation within the (dis)harmony system of a single language, examining transparency variation in Hungarian front vowels, and distance-based variation in Hungarian neutral vowel sequences, and in the dissimilative voicing of Embu prefixes. The proposal is that variation …
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(Dis)Locations, (Dis) Placements and (Un) Belonging in Zimbabwean White Farmer's Auto/biograhies 1995 to 2010
… polyphonic narratives that refuse totalizing discourse, this compromises claims to belonging by the authors’ claiming to be legitimate figures whose writing espouse the white community’s contestation of the abrogation of their citizenship and mastery in economic production while that …
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Complicating understandings of dis/ability apparentness: developing a scale of dis/abled apparentness in educational settings
This research study presents the Scale of Dis/ability Apparentness in Education Settings (SDAES) to explore the complex and dynamic nature of dis/abled apparentness among college students. The study combines qualitative and quantitative data to examine five key domains: Environment, Ableism, …
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Dissecting the Dark Figure of Dis/ablist Violence: Intersectional Variations in Reporting Across Dis/ability Types
Individuals with dis/abilities are at a heightened risk for lifelong violent victimization. Although victimized by the same types of crimes as non-dis/abled individuals, a deeper examination reveals dis/abled individuals experience unique circumstances that increase opportunities for victimization …
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Sex, Metaphysics, and Mental 'Dis-ease'
… thesis posits the source of this metaphysical discontent to be the Platonic/Aristotelian conception of essence (or form) as a purely immaterial, male preserve, thereby reducing woman to the material source, (Logical) properties and (sexual) demise of man’s essential being; this phallocentric …
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(Dis)identifying female archetypes in live art
… on three sets of DVDs and a written dissertation. Female archetypes, which have tended to be associated with the canonical, underpin my research investigations. Through my arts practice I intervene in three archetypal images of women that are representative of the patriarchal canon: …
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Polypeptide (dis)assembly in bacterial spores and microalgae
… shells that surround the spore, forming a distinct layered coat. This thesis begins with experimental work to characterise the proteins in the bacterial spore coat and cytoskeleton of microalgae. Using early versions of AlphaFold2 that were released during the course of the work, the thesis …
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Um modelo partônico para a difração aplicado ao DIS
… pela QCD. OS dados existentes não permitem distingüir qual a dominância e possivelmente há uma mistura de efeitos perturbativos QCD e não-perturbativos (Regge). Neste trabalho contrapomos o modelo de Regge e o Modelo Partônico para a difração. O observável físico utilizado nas análises é a …
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MELTING INTO THE MARGINS: THE DIS-APPEARANCE OF NORMALITY
… thesis traces the emergence of the contemporary discourse which suggests that the normal is being displaced into the margins, away from the centre, 'disproved' as a lived condition and shown to be ‘untrue’ as an ideological concept and examines the implications and effects of this discourse. A …
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Existing through dis-ease: Autoethnographic renderings of disability experiences.
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Country Quares: (Dis)identification Discourse in Black Country Aesthetic
… on the production of culture perspective, disidentification, quare studies, and musical construction of identity.
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Violence, (dis) Loyalties And The English Subject-Citizen, 1569 - 1588
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Violence, (Dis)Loyalties, and the Emergent English Subject-Citizen, 1569 - 1588</p> <p>by</p> <p>Renee A. Bricker</p> <p>May 2010</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Eric H. Ash</p> <p>Major: History</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>This dissertation examines how late Tudor government …
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Dispositions and Dis/ability in Teacher Education: Teacher Educator Perspectives
… qualitative study explores the connection of dis/ability and dispositions in teacher education. Although dispositions have been part of contemporary teacher education discourse for over thirty years, their continued ambiguity is a source of debate and contestation (e.g., Diez, 2007; Katz & …
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Representation of displacement in the exhibition Dis-Location/Re-Location
… precisely at the point when there has been a displacement (Bhabha cited in Papastergiadis 1995:17, emphasis added). In this study I focus on the condition of displacement, placing emphasis on the disjunctures of identity arising from temporal and physical dislocations and relocations in …
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Consumer satisfaction and dis-satisfaction with long-haul inclusive tours
… and specifically consumer satisfaction and dis-satisfaction (CS/D) with long-haul inclusive tours. An emphasisis placed on the supposed antecedents of CS/D - expectation, performance, disconfirmation, attribution, emotion, equity - and the change in CS/D through time. The research rationale …
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An EcoJustice analysis of dis/ability: Reimagining diversity and inclusion
<p>Individuals who are labeled with dis/abilities are oppressed, marginalized, and devalued in Western industrial society. This domination is grounded in specific, historically-rooted perceptions and assumptions embedded in our language and value systems –– especially individualism and …
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Dis/abling mobilities: urban-rural experiences of impairment & well-being
Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 103398 on 2019-09-30T09:15:32Z.
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