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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Esposito"”.
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Neo-orientalism? A critical appraisal of changing Western perspectives: Bernard Lewis, John Esposito and Gilles Kepel
… Western Islamologists, Bernard Lewis, John Esposito and Gilles Kepel, have been selected and different aspects of their perspectives, their methodologies, their views on Islam and modernity, their political propositions and Islamic belief and law in their vision, are closely compared and …
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American Multitudes: Immunity and Contagion at the Turn of the Century
… identify what contemporary theorist Roberto Esposito terms the "immunitary regime" as the true difficulty to overcome. For Esposito, the biopolitically engendered immunitary dispositif protects modern individuals from "a risky contiguity with the other, relieving them of every obligation …
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Barriers to Social Change: Neoliberalism and the Justification of the Status-Quo among Low-Income African Americans
… behavior at the individual level (Brown, 2003; Esposito and Finley, 2014; Gershon, 2011; Klein, 2012; Leve, 2011; Martin, 2000). This study uses qualitative methods in order to understand how individuals internalize, rationalize, and explain a hierarchical social order and inequities in society. …
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MUSIC OF THE BRITISH ISLES: AN EXPLORATION OF MUSIC WRITTEN FOR THE VIOLIN BY COMPOSERS FROM ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND DURING THE ROMANTIC ERA
… here include Ethel Smyth, Edward Elgar, Michele Esposito, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ina Boyle, John B. McEwen, Alexander Mackenzie, and Alfred Moffat. In highlighting the particularly unique and creative aspects of each composers’ compositional …
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Teaching Nutrition and Health in the Urban-Science Classroom A Blended-Approach to Culturally Relevant, and Problem Based Learning.
… that aligns itself with social justice theory (Esposito, J. & Swain 2009), and problem-based learning (Bouillion & Gomez 2001). Using a variety of techniques and researched based theories within a single unit of study will best address the engagement based issues within the urban science …
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Figure di un ossimoro. Interpretazioni della filosofia italiana dall'Unità ai nostri giorni
… sulla declinazione del tema offerta da Roberto Esposito, il quale, attraverso l’uso della geofilosofia di Deleuze e Guattari, si è recentemente impegnato nella ricostruzione della genealogia dell’Italian Thought. Il rapporto dialettico tra le categorie geofilosofiche di ‘terra’ e ‘territorio’ …
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Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture
… Achille Mbembe, Adriana Cavarero, Roberto Esposito, Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, and with close reference to the ‘necropolitical’ theory and cultural texts authored in Mexico, I posit excess as an analytical term that can encompass both reflexive critiques of spectacular violence …
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Islamophobia in Public Schools: A Mixed Methods Look at the Effectiveness of Parental Ethnic-Racial Strategies in Promoting Resilience Among Muslim Children
… and increased violence toward Muslims (Esposito & Kalin, 2011; Trudo, 2021), and Islamophobia has further disadvantaged Muslim American adolescents through various forms of discrimination against them in schools. In fact, Muslim American students report the highest rate of discrimination …
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Factors in the Undergraduate Experience that Influence Young Alumni Giving
… substantially in recent years (Alexander, 2000; Esposito, 2010; Mortenson, 2012; NACUBO, 2011; Redd, 2014; Serna and Harris, 2014), while operating costs and demand have increased (Desrochers and Kirshstein, 2012; Mortenson, 2012; Mumper and Freeman, 2011; NCSES, 2014; Serna and Harris, 2014; St. …
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The artistic discovery of Assyria by Britain and France 1850 to 1950
This thesis provides an overview of the engagement with the material culture of Assyria, unearthed in the Middle East from 1845 onwards by British and French archaeologists. It sets the artistic discovery of Assyria within the visual culture of the period through reference not only to painting but …
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ADVANCED AAV-MEDIATED LIVER-DIRECTED GENE THERAPIES FOR HAEMOPHILIA A AND MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE VI
Liver-directed gene therapy using adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors holds significant promise for providing long-term transgene expression following a single systhemic administration. However, both the limited cargo capacity (~4.7 kb) and the non-integrative nature of AAV vectors prevent their …
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NOVEL INSIGHTS ON ALLAN-HERNDON-DUDLEY SYNDROME: TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILING AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THREE GENETIC VARIANTS IN SLC16A2 GENE
Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome (AHDS) is a rare genetic X-linked pediatric disorder, affecting essentially males, with intellectual and motor development impairment. It is caused by mutations in the SLC16A2 gene, which encodes for MCT8, a transporter responsible for thyroid hormone (TH) transport …
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THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF TARGETING THE FLNA-REGULATED WEE1 KINASE PATHWAY IN ADRENOCORTICAL CARCINOMAS.
Adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) are highly aggressive tumors with very limited treatment options. Alterations in cell cycle-related genes have been identified as key ACC drivers, and they are largely present in the most aggressive tumor subtypes. Compared to benign adenomas (ACA), the cytoskeletal …
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ONLINE LEARNING, UNIFORM CONVERGENCE, AND A THEORY OF INTERPRETABILITY
This doctoral thesis covers various aspects of theoretical machine learning relative to two of its most fundamental paradigms: batch learning and online learning. In particular, we address the role of feedback models for multiple online learning problems, the sample complexity for uniform …
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REPRODUCTION AND CHILDBEARING HEALTH: REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE FROM ADMINISTRATIVE DATABASES
Introduction. Over the last three decades, especially in high-income countries, reproduction has undergone significant changes, influenced by a combination of social, economic, technological, and cultural factors. The delay in the age at which individuals and couples decide to have children is one …
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The Huhugam Heritage Center: An Administrative History and Case Study in Tribal Museum Issues
The Museum Studies thesis project represented by this document entailed the compilation of a board of directors orientation packet for the Gila River Indian Community's recently established Huhugam Heritage Center (HHC) in Chandler, Arizona. The packet, including an administrative history of the …
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Differential Sedimentation In A Mississippi River Crevasse Splay
In this study the patterns of sediment transport and deposition in the channels and receiving basin of a crevasse splay in the modern Mississippi River delta are examined, with emphasis on the development of a distributary mouth bar. Simultaneous hydroacoustic and optical measurements on the mouth …
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Functional studies of <i>Ci-Gsx</i> gene in the developing central nervous system of <i>Ciona intestinalis</i>
Gsx genes encode for members of ParaHox family of transcription factor and are highly conserved throughout the animal kingdom. They are expressed mainly in the developing CNS in members of all major groups of metazoans. Gsx function, in the few organisms in which it has been investigated, is …
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Stakeholder Contributions and Benefits: A Case Study of a Third Sector Organisation in Wales
In this thesis, I aim to identify all stakeholders’ voluntary contributions and the benefits it brings to a South West Wales charitable organisation, the local community and to the contributing individuals. There is a large body of research that is concerned with the contributions of traditional …
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