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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Farah"”.
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Individualism in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah
… across the novels of Somali writer, Nuruddin Farah. This thesis locates a reading of individualism in Farah's novels in the context of the historical and philosophical development of modern identity in the societies of the North-Atlantic. It relies primarily on the analysis of philosopher, …
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How does Olympic and biographical media coverage affect fan and social identification with Mo Farah?
Mo Farah is a quadruple Olympic gold medalist who has won distance gold medals in track competition in the London and Rio De Janeiro Summer Olympic Games, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Farah’s national and ethnic identity are complex. Often, news coverage of him has mentioned his heritage. Using …
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Multiply Voiced, Multiply Heard: Double-Voiced Discourse in Toni Morrison, Maryse Conde, and Nuruddin Farah
… discourses that are. Morrison, Condé, and Farah overlap contradictory forms in order to show that narrative boundaries are self-imposed, mythical, and arbitrary. Intersection among these differing narratives in each text creates dialogism--a balance between dominant and counter-discourse. …
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Una e plurima: riflessioni intorno alle nuove espressioni delle donne nella letteratura italiana
… Christiana de Caldas Brito, Cristina Ubax Ali Farah, Gabriella Kuruvilla, Ingy Mubiayi, Ornela Vorpsi, Laila Wadia, Jarmila Očkayová. La tesi consta di una premessa, un primo capitolo in cui sono riportate le interviste fatte alle scrittrici, un secondo capitolo di analisi dei loro testi, un …
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Construction of history : Mohammad-Reza Shah revivalism, nationalism, and monumental architecture of Tehran, 1951-1979
… of 2500-year monarchy, and a prayer-house in Farah Park built in 1978. These monuments participated and contributed to the national narrative through revivalistic forms from the pre-Islamic architectural history, hence they underlay specific political agendas and were nationalistic in nature. …
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Woman as enemy of the nation-state: citizenship, transgression and legacy in Maps and Half of a Yellow Sun
… characters, Misra of Maps by Nuruddin Farah and Kainene of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. These transgressive characters are placed at the centre of their respective narratives. The aim is to demonstrate the way they transgress conventional political, social, national …
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They did not know how to journey with me: Exploring Rugby Union injury experiences among wāhine in Aotearoa, New Zealand
… was adopted. An online survey was sent to Farah Palmer Cup players to explore injury history, return-to-play (RTP) outcomes, and emotional responses. Findings (n=50) showed that while most players returned to play within expected timeframes, many did so lacking confidence and with ongoing …
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"Sometimes Folk Need More": Black Women Writers Dwelling in the Beyond
… found that their work was at odds with what Farah Jasmine Griffin calls, "the promise of protection," propagated by Black Nationalism. In response to this patriarchal promise, writers like Toni Morrison, for example, created characters, who like Sula Peace, chose a space of solitude over the …
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Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction
… Dust by Gillian Slovo and Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah. My theoretical framework combines genre theory and postcolonial theory. By combining two critical strands I demonstrate that the intimacy of civil war and the returnees' ambivalent attitudes to home and away unsettle crime genre conventions, …
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Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization
… Saidiya Hartman, Gaiutra Bahadur, Cristina Ali Farah, and Igiaba Scego through the lens of affect to show how migritude texts share a structure of feeling particular to global migrants with an emphasis on anger, shame, and ambivalence. A careful study of these literatures makes their urgency in …
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The Effect of Frontal Lobe Stress on Gambling Task Performance: Implications for Understanding Addictive Behavior
… making are reversal learning (e.g. Fellows and Farah, 2005) and working memory (e.g. Hinson, Jameson, and Whitney, 2002; Jameson, Hinson, and Whitney, 2004). The purpose of the current research project was to better understand how these processes affect performance on a decision making task and …
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RICS professional education and training for quantity surveyors and the extent to which it is relevant in the current UK built environment market
… and dispute in UK construction (Allen 2013; Farah 2015; Rogers 2019); and equally the development of professional education and training for quantity surveying practitioners that enable these issues to be addressed with competence, probity and altruism. Reflection in practice developed the …
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Machine Learning Based Prediction of Reinforced Concrete Members’ Shear Friction Capacity
Shear friction theory describes the mechanisms by which shear forces are transferred across concrete-to-concrete interfaces. Shear transfer across a plane involves a complex interaction of several phenomena, such as concrete surface condition and cohesion, concrete strength, and steel reinforcement …
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HIGH SENSITIVITY C-REACTIVE PROTEIN AND RISK OF STROKE IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: THE REASONS FOR GEOGRAPHIC AND RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN STROKE (REGARDS) STUDY
Background and Purpose- High sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), a marker of systemic inflammation, is a predictor of cardiovascular events in the general population. We compared the association between hs-CRP level and subsequent stroke events in in individuals with and without atrial …
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Explorations of Wellness and Resilience: A Yoga Intervention for Post-traumatic Stress
Post-traumatic stress is a highly prevalent mental health condition. Mind-body interventions like yoga are increasingly being utilized in the treatment of PTS, but further research is needed to assess its effectiveness. This present randomized control study was designed to supplement the current …
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DRUG AND/OR ALCOHOL ABUSE OUTCOME IN MENTAL ILLNESS:THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT
ABSTRACT Introduction: The present study examined whether social support served as a mediator (i.e., an apparent causal mechanism) for the relationship between mental illness (MI) and drug and/or alcohol abuse (SA). Objective: This study’s objective was to determine the role of social support as a …
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Long-Term Neuropsychological Effects in Survivors of Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas
Statement of the problem: Survival rates of low-grade gliomas (diagnosed and treated during childhood) have improved resulting in a population of long-term survivors, albeit with limited knowledge of their neurocognitive function, quality of life, and adaptive function. Methods: Patients treated at …
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Use of Geospatial Methods to Characterize Dispersion of the Emerald Ash Borer in Southern Ontario, Canada
Since the introduction of the Asian Emerald Ash Borer beetle (EAB, Agrilus planipennis) to Southern Ontario in 2002, the condition of all species of Ash trees (Fraxinus) in the province is currently at risk. In this research, the effects of positive spatial autocorrelation on the EAB data as a …
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An AI-Based Machine Vision Model for the Diagnosis of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affect more than 1 billion of the world’s population[1], and yet, the area of rapid diagnostics is still in its infancy. Much work has been done on machine learning and integration of AI into the medical workflow with cancer and other diseases but the area of NTDs …
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