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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Fashions"”.
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Management Gurus and Management Fashions: A Dramatistic Inquiry.
… performance improvement programs or management fashions that have greatly influenced both the pre-occupations of academic researchers and the everyday conduct of organizational life. This thesis provides a rhetorical critique of the management guru and management fashion phenomenon with a view …
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Pluriversal Fashions: Towards an Anti-Racist Fashion Design Pedagogy
This thesis explores ways of devising an anti-racist fashion design pedagogy. The research comprises a two-stage investigation: Part 1, a scoping study of undergraduate fashion design education in the UK and a case study analysing how racialised and gendered differences are currently represented in …
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‘Fashions of the mind’: Modernism and British vogue under the editorship of Dorothy Todd
Vogue has no intention of confining its pages to hats and frocks. In literature, the drama, art and architecture, the same spirit of change is seen at work, and to the intelligent observer the interplay of suggestion and influence between all these things is one of the fascinations of the study of …
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On The Visualization of Time-varying complex Electromagnetic Field lines in 3D and 4D Fashions
Die Existenz mindestens einer Symmetriefläche sichert, dass sich die Linien in Form von Schleifen schließen. Solche geschlossenen Linien haben sich als die beste Möglichkeit zur Wahrnehmung von Feldern erwiesen. Entweder wird ein bestimmter Zeitpunkt dargestellt (3D) oder man stellt die Entwicklung …
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A human fashion brand model to define critical symbiotic relationships for celebrity fashion emulation
… shaping the way celebrities communicate their fashions to their fans. This is because it facilitates a more direct connection with celebrities. Celebrities are used as a reference point for entertainment to fill a gap or numerous gaps in individuals’ and consumers’ lives (Rojek, 2001). Why …
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The Changing Style of Playing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Music
… argue that these have caused <br/>performance fashions to change in specific areas and periods. From time to time, pianists have also reacted against existing norms. In the last two decades, fashions seem to have altered again: many pianists are now starting to return to an 'authentic' …
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Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"
… British, thus developed a taste for chinoiserie fashions and wares via their European heritage. While most European countries had direct access to the China trade, colonial Americans were banned from any direct contact with the Orient by the British East India Company. They were relegated to …
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International project finance : the case of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
… Development (KFAED) in light of changing fashions regarding the proper role and management of such funds in the development finance process. The key questions addressed are whether its concessional aid is allocated according to Donor Interest (DI) or Recipient Needs (RN), what precisely is …
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Sculptured computational objects with smart and active computing materials
… (including new physical interfaces, electronic fashions, and embroidered musical instruments), and the smart and active sculptural computing materials and processes (in this case smart textiles), which make that transformation possible. Projects from the design portfolio include: The Triangles, …
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Influence Of Applied Potential And Metal Ion Concentraion On Metal Electrodeposition At Micron Gap Gold Electrodes
… were deposited, they deposited in different fashions. Ag grew in the form of wires and Palladium deposited in the form of dendrites. Here we investigated the factors such as applied potential and metal ion concentration on the morphology of the metal electrodeposition across the micron gap …
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Communicating Culture Through Capoeira
… my thesis analyzes the movements, manners, and fashions of capoeira. I conclude that capoeira constitutes a cultural communication that has evolved from its roots in human slavery, suffering, and rebelliousness to a modern-day expression of athleticism, art, and community-building.
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Characterization of the roles of Xrn1p in small-RNA-mediated gene-silencing pathways
… able to silence its target RNAs in a variety of fashions, including by slicing them. RNAi is ubiquitous in eukaryotes with pathways found in plants, animals and fungi, suggesting its early origins and importance. Despite the usefulness of this pathway as a mechanism of genomic defense, the model …
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War and fashion: Political views and how military styles influence fashion
<p>Women’s outerwear evolves and recreates new fashions based on new materials and historical influences. Whenever the United States goes to war, military styles emerge. However, the outerwear category of women’s apparel has not been thoroughly researched in regard to military influences. …
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The influence of organisational control practices on knowledge production
… control impacts, influences, shapes, fashions and lay the foundation for the creation of the various types of knowledge within a research organisation. In particular, the aim of the study is to explore the influence that organisational control systems have on knowledge workers’ …
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O pombalino religioso: na estética das igrejas cariocas setecentistas
… militar engineers’ background to the new fashions deriving from Italy and Germany.
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Images as tools of social control: an analysis of the production of identities in contemporary mass-culture
… an insatiable appetite for new images and fashions, to the extent that culture and fashion converge. Despite the fact that these mass-cultural stereotypes appear to be in a constant state of flux, it is important to realise that the vast majority of these changes are changes in appearance …
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Conceptualising organisation development: practitioner and academic perspectives. A UK study
… occurred, the theories of Institutionalism, Fashions, Fads and the Dissemination of Management Ideas were applied. The work is situated within a Critical Realist ontology and in the research strategy three methods were applied. Content analysis was carried out on job advertisements in the …
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Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
… jogakbo, patchwork in contemporary Korean fashions, and the Korean plastic surgery industries through the processes of cutting, sewing, mending, wrapping, healing, and becoming. Locating and situating the practices of collecting jogakbo under General Park Chung Hee’s cultural reform …
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Null Models For Cultural And Social Evolution
… data regarding the copying of baby names, the fashions of dog breeds, and the use of rare languages, and discuss the implications for cultural diversity.
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Microcapsule Containing Lactic Acid Bacteria for Treatment of Peptic Ulcers
… be delivered to the infected areas in multiple fashions, microencapsulation is a newer form of delivering probiotics straight to the infected area. A whey protein microcapsule is thought to protect the probiotics from stomach acid and delivers the treatment to the affected area. To ensure this …
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