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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Domestic environment"”.
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Cultural Preservation in a Saudi Domestic Environment in the Eastern Province
… the transformations that have taken place in the domestic environment of Saudi Arabia following the discovery of oil. While most previous research in this area has highlighted the loss of identity caused by this transformation, my research reveals how these developments have also resulted in new …
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In Search of the DomoNovus: Speculative Designs for the Computationally-Enhanced Domestic Environment
… although they have the ability to transform the domestic experience and the understanding of what a personal space is. For this reason, this work investigates the domestication of computational media technology; how objects, systems, and devices become part of the personal and intimate space of …
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Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) regimes and institutional responses: a case study of Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria
… of security and other state institutions in the domestic environment. The investigation focuses on the complex dynamics of the transmission process, from international to national, and inter-institutional diffusion involving internal institutions in Nigeria as a developing state. By critically …
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Folding Wall
… Most significant is the change from a familiar domestic environment to a care based situation that includes incremental levels of medical support, often in spaces that are modeled after hospitals. The core of this thesis is grounded in the believe that an architectural familiarity of space …
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Menopausal Transition: Psychosocial Aspects and the Role of Melatonin in Psychogenic Symptoms
… care was of most concern to all participants, domestic environment, including quality of relationships and communications, was the main predictor of successful transition when assessed as the ability to maintain a normal lifestyle during transition. No significant differences were found between …
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Compasso d'Oro and Changes in the Italian Domestic Landscape
… Compasso d'Oro objects that pertain to the domestic environment. A discussion of the themes the objects represent reveals the changes that have occurred during each decade as well as over the course of half a century. This examination helps designers understand the links between trends and …
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The design of intelligent cookware
… ordinary objects, and to assess its impact in a domestic environment.
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Personal exposure of children to formaldehyde in Perth, Western Australia
… sectional study was to investigate whether the domestic environment is the most significant source of personal exposure of formaldehyde in children. Forty-one primary school children (aged between 8 and 12) were recruited from two areas of Perth, Western Australia. Each child wore a personal …
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Masters, master, masturbate (a master's debate) - relooking at the home, body and self through seventeenth century Dutch still life painting
… women to the private sphere of society and the domestic environment. As an accompaniment to my Masters in Fine Art exhibition titled Masters, Master, Masturbate (A master's debate), this text explores what still life painting may reveal about the relationship between the home, the body and the …
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The great American garage
… culturally flexible space in the entire American domestic environment. In this flexibility, it stands opposed to many of the established notions of suburban domestic context. It is illustrative of the displayed, hidden, and forgotten wonders of the American home. Within the context of this thesis, …
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The Residue of a Deep Past: Struggle over cultural transmission in southwest China
… in the experience of the physical body, the domestic environment, the local landscape and beyond. These practices are crucial means to inhabit a world at the margins of the Chinese nation-state. It is a world in which decades of state sponsored violence followed by market changes in the late …
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Moterų įvykdyti intymaus partnerio nužudymai smurto artimoje aplinkoje kontekste /
… frequently associated with the experience of domestic violence. Although domestic violence victimization among females might be perceived as only on of the antecedents of intimate partner homicide, it often becomes a significant source of strain that contributes to the exercise of informal …
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The Politics of Foreign Policy Change : Explaining the Swedish Reorientation on EC Membership
… The structural changes in the international and domestic environment were perceived and acted upon by Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson. Forming an informal coalition with Minister of Finance Allan Larsson, Carlsson launched the policy reorientation in the midst of a severe balance of payments …
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Translations of culture and identity : a study of Internet use in the Haitian community
… the role of the technology is shaped within the domestic environment - how it is manipulated to compliment existing patterns of behavior and routine. The purpose of this research is to ask what domestic Internet users do with their media and how they construct it as meaningful in the existing …
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The Sociocultural Milieux of ‘Chinese’ Language Learning in Belfast: Diaspora and Difference
… explores their attitude to language learning in domestic and Chinese Language School (CLS) environments and their parents’ and teachers’ engagement. Looking at this broader social context, it investigates the inter-linkage between linguistic practices and claimed ‘Chinese identities’, the …
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Europeanization of Corporate Lobbying in the Enlarged EU: The Missing Link in the Case of Hungary
… to the EU level, it creates a ‘golden cage’ for domestic businesses. I find indeed that the ‘door’ of the golden cage is open to foreign firms, but creates a barrier of entry, whereas networks ‘lock in’ local firms and thus create a ‘barrier of exit’.<br/>Besides I argue that the organizational …
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Greening for Self-Conservation? Energy Security and Responses to Climate Change in the Small Gulf Monarchies
… of these two monarchies’ governments at both domestic and foreign policy levels. In parallel, the study examines the emerging natural resource-related challenges and vulnerabilities. Positioned in the intersection of Middle East studies and International Relations, the study pursues a …
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South African foreign relations with Angola, 1975-1988 : a structural realist perspective
… theories typically concerned with South Africa's domestic environment. This dissertation demonstrates, through the actual events, the utility of these two distinct theoretical approaches. Given the above approach and objectives, the methodology consists firstly of a critical conceptual review and …
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Antibiotic and biocide resistance in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli 0157
… and often unnecessary inclusion of biocides into domestic products. Addition of antimicrobials, to domestic disinfectants has raised concern about promoting microbial resistance and potential cross-resistance to therapeutic antibiotics. This study investigated the potential for resistance in …
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Evaluation of a domestic photo sharing environment
… needs to be cohesive with the environment people live in so as to maximise the interaction possibilities. Photographs are a very affective and efficient way of connecting people to each other. We should not forget the social role photographs have to play. The most important …
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