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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Defacement"”.
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Facing Defacement: Factors influencing indigenous patients in provider-patient communication in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala
… finding of this research was a new construct, defacement, which is purposeful communication that dehumanizes by destroying other-face. Four levels of defacement, each increasing in intensity and dehumanizing content, emerged from the data: disregarding, degrading, regaño-ing, and abusing.
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Reanimating the Wound: Dermatilliomanic Practice and the First World War
… notebooks, develops into painterly strategies of defacement, compulsive excoriation (the ‘dermatillomania’ of the title) and eventually the deliberate deformation of the picture plane itself. A deep emotional immersion in accounts of the war is sought in order to to establish mindscapes of trauma, …
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Tension, transgressions, and (contested) coexistence: Linguistic landscapes of Barcelona
… of linguistic vandalism and make visible the defacement of Castilian in its attenuated role in contemporary local politics. Such acts of linguistic transgression foreground newer forms of representations, meanings, and messages now mobilized through Catalan. In conclusion, this paper shows …
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Virtual Graffiti: Dyscribing Humans
… candidates, and distinguishes website defacement as the most appropriate homologue to traditional graffiti in the virtual world. Chapter 4 then explores the nature and problematic features of such virtual dyscription, generating a working taxonomy of dyscriptive praxis in general; and …
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Cyber security information sharing in the United States : an empirical study including risk management and control implications, 2000-2003
… primarily through Denial of Service and Web Site Defacement attacks. However. areas for new exploration existed especially as they related to U.S. critical infrastructure protection (Karestand. 2003. Vatis. 200 I. U.S. General Accounting Office. 2000. Alexander and Swetham. 19(9). Finally. …
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Collection security in Natal libraries
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a collection security problem in South African libraries, with specific reference to Natal, to determine the extent of the problem, to find out why these problems exist, and to see if the countermeasures applied by the Natal libraries were …
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The Aesthetics of Censorship and the Russian Avant-Garde: Abstraction Beyond Art
This thesis reconsiders the art of the Russian avant-garde by exploring its engagement with, influence from and contribution towards an unconventional area of culture: censorship. Although extensive research has already considered the way artists such as Malevich, Rodchenko and Stepanova blurred …