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Showing 1 to 20 of 382 for “"Demise"”.
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Speleothem climate capture of the Neanderthal demise
… across the period encapsulating the Neanderthal demise. Contemporary cave monitoring of Cueva de las Perlas has demonstrated the potential for speleothems to be used as indicators of past climate and environmental conditions. Assessment of cave dynamics through a comprehensive monitoring …
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The post-1990 demise of the alternative press
… studies the reasons for and implications of the demise of the South African alternative press, from the 1980s, after the end of apartheid. The concept of this press carried important democratic values, which contributed to media diversity, but when the 1990s ushered in the democratic era, theses …
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A Certain Trumpet: Margaret Chase Smith and the Demise of McCarthyism
No abstract prepared.
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The demise of the dialectic: historical consciousness and the American experience
<p>This thesis originated out of a desire to utilize some of the basic insights of the Frankfurt school in order to analyze the significance and meaning of the structural dynamics of the American past. In doing this, I have attempted to provide some of the basic categories of Critical Theory with a …
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The demise of industrial paternalism: the case of southern textiles, 1880-1940
… villages. This thesis attempts to explain the demise of industrial paternalism in the case of the Southern textiles. Conventional treatments of paternalism regard its disappearance as either a product of the inevitable progression toward pluralistic industrialism or as a result of one or more …
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Legal change in an interest-group perspective: the demise of special corporate charters
… and shown to be reliable predictors of the demise of special corporate chartering. In England, changes through the common law courts produced an inexpensive alternative to the corporate form and lowered the rates of return to legislators from passing special acts. In the United States, the …
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Resurrecting the Error Choice Technique: The premature demise of an indirect measure of attitude?
The error choice (EC) technique was among the earliest indirect attitude measures developed and was originally designed to overcome social desirability concerns (Hammond, 1948). This programme of research set out to advance EC research in several ways. First, an exploratory factor analysis examined …
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History and Demise of The University Foundation in St. Augustine, Florida: An Institutional Autopsy
… streams, faculty, curricula, and the ultimate demise of The University Foundation were also addressed in this study. Recommendations are included for higher education administrators, faculty, researchers, fund-raisers, and others whose efforts may be directed toward the launching and operation …
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Spacecraft design-for-demise strategy, analysis and impact on low earth orbit space missions
… such that the spacecraft components ablate (demise) during uncontrolled reentry post-mission disposal is referred to as Design-for-Demise (DfD). Re-designing spacecraft parts to demise guarantees adherence to NASA reentry requirements that dictate the risk of human casualty anywhere on Earth …
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Déjà vu all over again! : the reluctant rise and protracted demise of Scott Lithgow Limited
This thesis charts the growth and demise of the two largest shipbuilding firms on the Lower Clyde in Scotland, Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Limited of Greenock, [established 1711 ] and Lithgows Limited of Port Glasgow [established as Russell & Company in 1874 and as Lithgows Limited …
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Mediation and Middlemen Undone: The Demise of the Colonial Go-Between in Revolutionary New York
The American Revolution was revolutionizing for multiple reasons, and the changes in intercultural relations between the British Army, imperial and provincial leadership, and the Iroquois were some of them. The colonial go-between who had mediated exchanges between these two groups since contact …
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Towards a new understanding of mineral tenure security : the demise of the property-law paradigm
South Africa's rich mineral endowment makes it a geologically favourable country for investment in its mining industry. However, even countries with geologically favourable conditions will not attract investment in its mining sector if the regulatory regime does not provide certainty and stability. …
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A viable supranational court born from the experiences of the demise of the Southern African Development Community Tribunal
Does the effective disbandment of the SADC Tribunal and its mooted resurrection in a largely diminished capacity spell the end of any possibility of developing a supranational organ capable of adjudicating on disputes between SADC members, as well as disputes between natural persons and Member …
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The negative effects of the liberals' usurpation of th Green Movement : a study in the demise of the liberal paradigm
… domination of the green movement has caused its demise. The systematic entrenchment of their role and status in the green movement has created the impression (sometimes believed by many) that green issues are theirs, and their alone. The thesis highlights the weaknesses of the South African …
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Five things (and a series of comments on liberal space, the demise of the square, and alternatives for its substitution)
Few histories have defined contemporary cities as much as liberalism' betrayal of public space. In this history, few chapters have been as regrettable as the castration of the public square. When it was only a fragile project, liberalism was nursed by the rich and diverse social life of public …
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