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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"Escapes"”.
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Boredom Escapes Us: A Cultural Collage in Eleven Storeys
Few sociologists have addressed the concept of boredom despite interest in the subject and experience of boredom from psychology, philosophy, the arts and popular culture. Classical sociological concepts of alienation, anomie and disenchantment are related to boredom, but do not address it …
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Narrow escapes: A feminist deconstruction of anorexia nervosa in women
This thesis is a feminist deconstruction of anorexia nervosa (AN) in women. It begins with questioning the truth claims about AN established by the psychological and psychiatric fields. After an overview of the medical model literature and the feminist literature on eating problems, a critical …
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Accounting for system level interaction in knowledge management initiatives
… the right manner, can reduce the occurrence of escapes (i.e., a deliverable that does not meet customers' expectations). The context of this thesis is the complex system design, and development process, of a commercial aircraft gas turbine engine (specifically the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine …
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Phage host range and definition of genes implicated in Type III toxin-antitoxin-mediated abortive infection
… genomes of several phages that could not evolve escapes, or were insensitive to Abi, are sequenced and these data exposed interesting curiosities regarding Abi (as well as the discovery of several novel and rare phages). Previously, no coliphage was identified that was capable of escape of the …
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Rainbow beach
Rainbow Beach is the story of a family that escapes to a faraway place to forget the past and the past that follows them there. It is the story of a landscape, at times serene, at times explosive, that mirrors them and that they come to adore and yet resist. And it is the story of a father …
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Critique and neoliberalism in Michel Foucault
… of its historical present on the basis of what escapes this identity. It participates in these escapes by exploring how they challenge the concepts of extant critical discourse and illuminate the existing order of things in their contingent historicality. As the limits of a historical present …
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Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks
… I tell the story of a Black woman who escapes into an alternate reality made up of only herself, her hair, and the clothes she wears. This text is centered on a chapter of this ongoing narrative, <em>Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks, </em>2022, an installation designed for the …
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Some anthropological and clinical aspects of nasal morphology
… causing an individual to succumb while another escapes, one dies from a trivial electric shock while another survives contact with a high voltage. The factors known to be involved in this variability of response includes race, heredity, nutritional state, climate, social environment, …
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Design and control of a mobile light ballet platform
… inside of an opaque, perforated box. Light escapes through the perforations and creates a display of lights on surrounding surfaces. This thesis documents the process of transforming the generally stationary art display into a mobile exhibit. The light ballet modules will be placed on a …
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An experimental study of lifting and moving forces in air conveying systems
… top surface that is a flat perforated plate. Air escapes through the openings, creating a layer that supports and drives the articles along. This thesis provides information on the lifting and moving forces. It summarizes the results of both analytical and experimental studies. Most of the effort …
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Diary of "a mass of stones": Borobudur in people's experiences
… it is for in our contemporary world completely escapes the attention of many scholars. This thesis is therefore an attempt to fill the gap in existing literature by researching on human activities at Borobudur. Through observing and participating in major events such as the upacara Waisak and …
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Rejecting the rejecters: The latent effect of policy on subculture
… is a part of all us, and that it never quite escapes our cultural products, our work and those things we create. </p>
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The In/Authentic Subject: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Selfhood
… I argue Heidegger’s concept of authenticity escapes this problem and offers a rigorous theory of socially embedded authentic selfhood. Taking both Kierkegaard and Heidegger together, I propose, allows us to understand what the self is, what it means, and how it makes us who we are.</p>
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Helium-Air mixing in simulated reactor cavities of Very High Temperature Reactors
… of a primary circuit pipe break, the coolant gas escapes into the surrounding reactor cavity until the pressure between the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and cavities equalize. At this point, it is possible for air to flow back into the RPV, where it can react exothermally with high temperature …
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Air Installations Compatible Use Zones: an assessment of the development of the Department of Defense policy and the implementation by the Department of the Navy
… above causes, it should be noted that some data escapes the eye of even the most diligent researcher. Nevertheless, these gaps have been kept to a minimum and it is considered that they do not severely effect this study in an adverse way.
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Physical and genetical investigation of the Xp11.3 region on the short arm of the human X-chromosome
… undergoes normal inactivation and the second escapes this process. The status of the UBEl gene has been controversial, although it is widely excepted that it does escape X chromosome inactivation. Physical mapping of the region employing YACs and subsequently P ACs has been undertaken, but was …
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The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs
… rhetorical practice that confronts, rather than escapes, the enduring violences of settler colonialism.
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Association of <i>glpQ</i> with serum-resistance in <i>salmonella typhimurium</i>
… gastroenteritis and systemic disease when it escapes into the bloodstream. The human serum complement system is central in fighting systemic bacterial infections. <em>S. typhimurium</em> exhibits resistance to killing by complement (serum-resistance), a trait conferred by several known …
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The Stocksman's Shadow: An Ethnography of Ethics and Symbolism in the Yorkshire Dales
… question: if a farmer has thirty sheep, and one escapes, how many sheep does that farmer have left? A clue: the answer is not as straightforward as you might think. For, dear examiner, sheep are not as straightforward as folk tend to imagine. On the contrary, they are wily and elusive creatures. …
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Stevens After Deleuze: The Effects of a New Ontology on the Problems of Poetics
… for the immanence of "a life," an outside, that escapes the limits of the subject and is "disappointed" with the function of transcendence, rather than being explained by them. The study argues that Stevens's poetry can be read as a dramatization, itself regulated by an affective charge, of the …
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