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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Excavate"”.
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Novel mitochondrial metabolism in excavate protists
… a plethora of different trophic niches. Many excavates are free-living and little-studied, but there are also many examples of parasitism evolving multiple times within the group. Trypanosoma brucei is a euglenozoan parasite that is responsible for causing Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) …
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Cellar Dwellers: Historic Feature Sampling Strategies in Ontario Commercial Archaeology
… consultant archaeologists are only required to excavate a minimum of two opposing quadrants of the feature, or 50 percent of the contents. A best practice guideline, alternatively, gives the consultant the option to excavate the feature wholly. As a document governing cultural resource …
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Image Slavery and Mass Media Pollution: Examining the Sociopolitical Context of Beauty and Self Image in the Lives of Black Women
… in relationship to mass media, I seek to excavate a set of realities known to many, but rarely articulated in academia. This study utilized empirical and qualitative methods that engage African American women, across four different generational groups, through in-depth interviews, a series …
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The map of me: caring through clothing. An empathic co-design, art-based intervention that explores personhood through garments of significance for people living with dementia
… uses garments of significance as a trigger to excavate the lived experience of people living with dementia. The global prevalence of dementia is over 50 million and is set to rise to 152 million by 2050 (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2021). People who live with dementia often live at home …
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THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON: ESSAYS AND EXPERIMENTS
… in the wake of the death of my mother, to excavate the relationship between memory and narrative, identity and belonging against a backdrop of the main forces that have influenced my familial group, namely generational poverty, a changing relationship with our Athabascan and Caucasian …
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Life Excavation Through the Imaginarium: An Emancipatory Model of Arts -Based Inquiry
… facilitates empathic dialogue as a means to excavate embedded perceptions, and to heighten self-awareness and social responsibility. Three models are provided that guide pre-service students, change-agents, and recovery groups into arts-based encounters of deep reflection, and active critical …
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Digging the dirt: a comparative analysis of excavation methods and recording systems in relation to their applications in forensic archaeology.
… system were the approaches most often used to excavate and record graves. Second, the four defined methodological approaches were assessed experimentally, using a grave simulation of known properties to test the excavation, recording, and interpretation of material evidence, the definition of …
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How Far Does the Grid Go?
… I create organic forms and grids that abstract, excavate, ground and find universal truths in the quotidian. They also serve as platforms for engaging obliquely with history, science, archeology, philosophy, and magic realism. My artwork invites viewers to reach interpretations based on their own …
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Show of Force: film, ghosts and genres of historical performance in the Indonesian genocide
… as processes that seek to record, circulate or excavate such historical performances, including our filmmaking process. In the case of this film project, perpetrators are lured by the apparatus of filmmaking into naming names and revealing routines of mass murder hitherto obscene to official …
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The Usefulness of Ground Penetrating Radar in locating burials in Charity Hospital Cemetery, New Orleans
… information. GPR anomalies were used to excavate 3 areas where bones and hospital supplies were subsequently found, unfortunately very limited analyses were possible on the analog GPR data. The study presented here involved digitizing data and conducting a more thorough analysis of map …
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Ruination
… Institute, which is bidding on a concession to excavate the Mayan ruins at Chichén Itzá. As governor, Felipe attempts to break the caste system of Yucatecan society and improve the lot of the impoverished Maya through land redistribution, education, women's suffrage, and access to birth control. …
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Mending
… argument that one must intellectually excavate deep memory. Rather, the processes used to create the body of work engage a sensorial approach, and attempt to both reconstruct embodied memory and reconcile trauma. The act of mending is an historically feminine gesture appropriate for …
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The Dramaturgy of Evocation: A visual dramaturgical framework
… that prompted the research is: how can we excavate historical tragic events in theatre and dramaturgically posi:on them on stage, to reach ‘evoca:on'? The research considered how the palimpsest of haun:ng as a device improves the in-depth evoca:on of narra:ve, deepens the audience's …
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The Stories We Tell: Narratives of Spiritual Development of Black Undergraduates
… a different set of theories and methodologies to excavate the spiritual and religious from ostensibly secular spaces and practices. In postsecondary education the need to better understand shifting terrains of spirituality and religion among young adults is particularly acute. As such, this study …
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Comparison of Invasive and Non-Invasive Techniques for Measuring Fiddler Crab Density in a Salt Marsh
… not in a salt marsh, nor has anyone attempted to excavate traps repeatedly for multiple days. Previous comparisons have not examined these techniques over the course of several months, nor considered the cost and precision associated with each technique. Therefore, from May of 2007 to April 2008, …
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Political Participation in the Twittersphere and the Nigerian 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections: A Cultural Underpinning
… a qualitative approach was necessary to excavate underlying factors that influence political communication in the (digital) public sphere. The purpose of using the connective approach was to understand the extent to which online political participation influences offline political …
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Our Collective History: The Curation Crisis and the Excavation of an Archaeological Repository
… research projects—having a tendency to survey, excavate, analyze, publish, and move on to the next project, often with little regard for the long term curation of the collections. What happens to these artifacts? Will they be available for the future? Here I examine the literature discussing the …
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Our Collective History: The Curation Crisis and the Excavation of an Archaeological Repository
… research projects—having a tendency to survey, excavate, analyze, publish, and move on to the next project, often with little regard for the long term curation of the collections. What happens to these artifacts? Will they be available for the future? Here I examine the literature discussing the …
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
… of the following four significant figures to excavate connections between childhood, citizenship, and the civilizing mission: Charles Loring Brace, the founder of the Children's Aid Society; Jacob Riis, author of the famous How the Other Half Lives; Julia Lathrop, resident of Hull House and …
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Virginiana
… the scarred landscapes of Virginia. These poems excavate the collective trauma caused by mass tragedy, as well as individual trauma caused by suicide. They explore what it means to continue to live and make meaning despite the harrowing, shattering, and fragmentary experience of complicated …
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