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Showing 1 to 20 of 571 for “"Engagements"”.
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Freiwilligenmanagement als Instrument zur Förderung Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements in Nonprofit-Organisationen
… (NPO) der Anspruch des Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements auf Praktiken des Freiwilligenmanagements trifft. Ausgangspunkt dieser Fragestellung ist eine doppelte Diagnose: Zum einen setzen NPOs aufgrund mehrerer Faktoren - u.a. Ressourcenknappheit, Wettbewerb und Nachahmungseffekten – vermehrt …
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Expansionary engagements : Butterworth's didactic-democratic spectrum model in physical theatre choreography
This study aims to identify my personal choreographic approach to physical theatre-making and then to experientially expand on it by engaging with Joanne Butterworth‘s five-tier Didactic-Democratic spectrum model for choreography. Being accustomed to, and trained predominantly in, one mode of …
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Choosing your engagements: tenure and work life at state comprehensive universities
… see tenure as an opportunity to choose their own engagements with the aspects of faculty work life that most suit their interests, abilities, and personalities. A sense of liberation, flexibility, and control is grounded, post-tenure, in an increased sense of responsibility that is located and …
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Writing Resistance in the Three Punjabs: Critical Engagements with Literary Tradition
This dissertation analyses post-colonial Punjabi writing on the left as a critical engagement with literary tradition that re-interprets tropes of resistance embedded in popular, oral genres to articulate political critique in the contemporary. Drawing on Punjabi texts from India, Pakistan, and …
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Enabling tactical autonomy for unmanned surface vehicles in defensive swarm engagements
… framework is first described for analyzing the engagements based on game theory by constructing the defense scenario as a three-party differential game. MATLAB is then utilized to demonstrate optimal solutions to this scenario as an application of game theoretical guidance, which was developed …
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Operationalizing Data Culture: The US Army's Engagements With Data Science 1961-2023
Culture frames what an institution values, reveres, and rewards. It emerges over an extended period, sometimes deliberately, often indirectly. As a subset of organizational culture, a common understanding of both data and culture is needed in order to build the data culture the Army desires. This …
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Pre-Service Teacher's Professional Knowledge Development Of Phonological Awareness Through Constructivist Learning Engagements
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Creolizing the canon: engagements with legacy and relation in contemporary postcolonial Caribbean writing
… lies a fundamental question: what makes these engagements with legacy a postcolonial, rather than counter-colonial, response? In turn, through a critical reading of Peter Hallward’s Absolutely Postcolonial (2001) in Chapter Two, I argue that the postcolonial may be defined as that which is …
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The Iran-Iraq conflict: recent developments in the international law of naval engagements
Iraq invaded Iran on the 20 September 1980. Initial advances into Iranian territory were repulsed and by 1982 Iraq had withdrawn to previously recognised international boundaries. The war on land lapsed into statemate with neither side being capable of launching a sufficiently strong offensive to …
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The Iran-Iraq conflict : recent developments in the international law of naval engagements
Initial advances into Iranian territory were repulsed and by 1982 Iraq had withdrawn to previously recognised international boundaries. The war on land lapsed into statement with neither side being capable of launching a sufficiently strong offensive to terminate hostilities. Partly in retaliation …
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Double Engagements: the Transnational Experiences of Ethiopian Immigrants in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area
… United States as well as in Ethiopia. The double engagements of Ethiopians challenge either/or views of immigrants and demonstrates how transnationality works in both directions.</p> <p>My research, based on 12 months of fieldwork in the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., used participant …
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The Letter of James and Middle Platonism: Tracing Early Christian Engagements with Greek Philosophy
This thesis situates the letter of James within the philosophical context of Greco-Roman antiquity, and argues that what are typically seen as Jewish “Wisdom themes” in the letter should instead be understood in terms of Greek philosophical discourse. Through comparative analysis, it shows that the …
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A Discrete Event Simulation of Network Centric Operations: Modeling Unbalanced Combat Configurations in Symmetric Engagements
… Unbalanced combat configurations doing symmetric engagements were selected as the prime focus. They were studied and simulated to gain insights into the dynamics of networked operations. The proposed discrete event combat model displayed significant increases in efficiency and speed of running …
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Examining Combat Effectiveness in Asymmetric Engagements with Balanced Forces Using the Information Age Combat Model
… force configurations in the realm of asymmetric engagements. Specifically, the research question is, how should an information age combat force be networked in order to increase its combat effectiveness in asymmetric engagements with balanced forces? The objective of this research is to identify …
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When "I Do" Becomes "I Don't": Exploring Communication Behaviors and Dialectical Tensions in Broken Engagements
… in order to determine the causes of broken engagements, communication strategies used in sharing the disengagement narrative, advice given and received, and the presence of relational dialectics (both tensions and coping strategies). Data revealed that broken engagements more closely mirror …
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The Effects of Degraded Vision and Automatic Combat Identification Reliability on Infantry Friendly Fire Engagements
Fratricide is one of the most devastating consequences of any military conflict. Target identification failures have been identified as the last link in a chain of mistakes that can lead to fratricide. Other links include weapon and equipment malfunctions, command, control, and communication …
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Decoding dominant ideals of beauty : Young women’s engagements with media representations, social environments, and media literacy
Beauty is an important and complex concept. A variety of sociocultural environments articulates beauty and physical attractiveness to success and popularity. The influence of media deserves particular attention as it is able to create and circulate dominant ideals of beauty. Research suggests that …
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