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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Death Sentence"”.
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From Death Sentence to Disappearance: The Invisibility of West Asian LGBTQ Refugees
West Asian queer refugees face severe oppression, such as moral exclusion, denial of existence in their home countries, and multi-marginalization in Canada, making them invisible and one of the most understudied populations. I believe the invisibility of vulnerable populations is one of the highest …
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The application of the Death penalty law in Zambia: What is the justification
… legislation that allows the State to invoke a death sentence for specific offences. The death penalty Law is applicable in the Zambian criminal justice system.This dissertation was seized with the task of ascertaining whether or not the application of death penalty Law has any justification. …
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“You Must Live, and Show to the World What They Have Been Doing Here”: The Survival of the “Rabbits” of Ravensbrück
… </em>or “rabbits” arrived at Ravensbrück with a death sentence. As a result of their work for underground organizations back in Poland, the camp administration planned to execute them within a few years. Because the women were already intended to die, they were chosen as the subjects of …
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Participatory Democracy in the Chinese Cyber World: Case Studies from Weibo
… the response to street vendor Xia Junfeng’s death sentence, the sanitation workers’ strike in Guangzhou, and the anti-trash incineration protest in Yuhang, and triangulates the results with an online survey and examination of the extant literature.</p>
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Extenuating circumstances in murder
… conferred with a discretion to impose either the death sentence or any other sentence. This concept applies only to the crime of murder. The introduction of this concept was a welcome development in our law because for the first time a discretion was conferred on a trier of facts notwithstanding …
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“I Knew These Marvelous People”: Gay Men’s Experiences of Long-Term HIV/AIDS Survival
… mid-1990s were given what was expected to be a death sentence. Instead, the majority of those who began the newly available treatments outlived not just their initial prognoses but their lovers, friends, and community members who had already perished. This study used grounded theory analysis of …
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Shrinking gracefully : looking for effective planning and design approaches for small town America
The term "shrinking" is often considered a death sentence for Small Town America. Public officials, planners and residents often try to "solve" the condition of shrinking, applying the same tool kit used for growth, with little success. A widespread assumption is that shrinking is the opposite of …
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The lived experience of posttraumatic growth in gay men after an HIV diagnosis: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… long-term chronic health condition instead of a death sentence. Nonetheless, receiving a positive diagnosis can still be an extremely traumatic experience. Whilst there are many people living with HIV who struggle with their diagnosis, some can also manage to find meaning from it and so …
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The impact of gruesome evidence on mock juror decision making : the role of evidence characteristics and emotional response
… had an effect on mock jurors verdicts or sentence decisions. However, the manipulation check failed to indicate that participants perceived the evidence differently in terms of gruesomeness. Experiment 2 was designed to address whether inducing specific emotions in participants would …
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Social factors associated with adherence/non adherence to Antiretroviral therapy among People Living with HIV/AIDS. The case study of three CTCs, Mwananyamala, Amana and Temeke in Dar es Salaam
… patients who otherwise regarded themselves as on death sentence. However, antiretroviral therapy adherence poses great challenges not only to patients but also to the whole health care system. The study was conducted to assess the social factors associated with adherence or non adherence to …
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Gender, crime and discretion in the English criminal justice system, 1780s to 1830s
… are more readily acquitted, or receive lighter sentences than males. However, reasons for this remain elusive. References to the paternalism of those involved in the system, together with notions about masculinity and femininity in a patriarchally ordered society, have been offered in the …
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Crime and punishment in the Delaware River area, 1740-1790, as reported in the Philadelphia newspapers
… arson, sodomy, buggery, rape, concealing the death of a bastard child, advising the killing such a child, and witchcraft. Later in the period counterfeiting was added to the list. Offenses which were not deemed capital were punished generally with some form or corporal punishment. Whipping, …
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Drugi Potop: The Fall of the Second Polish Republic
… the Soviet Union into the Allied cause proved a death sentence for the Second Republic, despite the Poles contributions they paled in comparison to those of the USSR. The London Poles defense of their national territory and people in the face of Soviet demand aggravated the Western Allies, …
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From Surviving to Metaviving: A New Rhetorical Formation in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient Discourse
… breast cancer (MBC) has shifted from an imminent death sentence to a potentially chronic disease. War rhetoric, of which the survivor trope is a part, has been the primary mechanism by which healthcare defines the cancer experience. Using Celeste Condit's framework of rhetorical formations, I …
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MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF HIV-1 TAT INDUCED NEURONAL DYSFUNCTION
… that causes the disease was considered a virtual death sentence. But with the development of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), many infected with HIV-1 are living much longer. In fact, it is estimated that by 2015, about half of all HIV-positive individuals will be older than 50. Yet …
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Governmentality/Animacy/Mythology: A Biopolitical and Rhetorical Mosaic of HIV Stigma in a Time of PrEP-aration
… condition", an HIV diagnosis is no longer the death sentence of the early outbreak in the 1980's. A major factor in the continuing endemic of HIV in the United States is stigma surrounding the HIV virus, modes of transmission (anal sex and injection drug use), and a pervasive belief that HIV …
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Fear of Longevity: Everyday Struggles in the Pharmaceutical Age of AIDS, Taiwan
… 1997, the diagnosis of disease was an inevitable death sentence. Longevity was desired, but unattainable, by ganranzhe. In contemporary Taiwan, when ganranzhe can access pharmaceuticals which enable a prolonged life with prevention and treatment of HIV-related symptoms, an unexpected fear of …
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Fear of Longevity: Everyday Struggles in the Pharmaceutical Age of AIDS, Taiwan
… 1997, the diagnosis of disease was an inevitable death sentence. Longevity was desired, but unattainable, by ganranzhe. In contemporary Taiwan, when ganranzhe can access pharmaceuticals which enable a prolonged life with prevention and treatment of HIV-related symptoms, an unexpected fear of …
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No money, no treatment, no life : the lived experiences of haemodialysis patients in Nigeria
… people living with ESKD in Nigeria, reported as ‘death sentence’. Those who the money to access dialysis services had survived longer while those who had no money died early. However, that survival came at a price, often the family, friends and even whole villages would sell assets to fund short …
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