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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"Five Decades"”.
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The rise of the ‘new’ lad in men’s lifestyle magazines : an analysis of GQ front covers throughout the last five decades
… representing masculine identity through the last five decades. By studying the design as well as the content of the magazine front covers, a semiotic analysis is carried out in order to reveal these changes which have led to the emergence of the ‘new lad.’ Apart from this, this dissertation …
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The Rhetoric of Rape-Revenge Films: Analyzing Violent Female Portrayals in Media from a Narrative Perspective of Standpoint Feminism
… female protagonists throughout the past five decades of the “rape and revenge” genre of filmmaking to understand the extent to which probability and fidelity function in these five films to create empathy for the victims of sexual violence. Narrative criticism is used to assess motives …
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Compasso d'Oro and Changes in the Italian Domestic Landscape
… and design history covering nearly five decades. This study explores the relationship between selected items of the Compasso d'Oro prizes, and discusses how they reflect the changes in technology, design, and society over five decades from 1950 to 2000. A computer-generated …
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Enterprise software : analysis of product strategies
… of IBM 360, the first computing system about five decades ago, the processing and software capabilities have grown by leaps and have become major components of businesses. The software applications and capabilities for major business have become necessity rather than a "differentiating" factor …
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Continuity and Change in Botswana’s Democracy: An Assessment of the Presidency
… and how the presidency has changed over the past five decades. The paper traces the constitutional, institutional and external and internal socio-political dynamics that have facilitated the centralisation of power in the presidency. It further explores the relationship between the presidency and …
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A Study of Differentiation within the Ontario College Sector and the Impact of Geography
… to local education and training needs. Over five decades later, although colleges have evolved in numerous ways, this study demonstrates that these key characteristics are still present. In 2012 the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) indicated it would be pursuing a policy …
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Staging disassembly : incubating post-industrial renewal
Over the past five decades, the American urban industrial landscape has become marginalized as the expanding global economy has sought international markets for manufacturing. At the agency of the user-as-investor, this proposal seeks to re-manufacture the post-industrial site to explore the …
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Chien, Auo, Shih : evolution of space perception and space making in China
… i on of Traditional Chinese Architecture Studies five decades ago . This thesis attempts to answer the question by exploring some spatial concepts which have not been clearly documented before. Based on the exploration of those spatial concepts, a new historical perspective will be introduced to …
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Health education needs among individuals with low back pain
… pain has assumed an upsurge trend in the last five decades despite the many interventional strategies. One interventional strategy that has been unsuccessful has been patient education. Lack of positive results from many of the existing patient education programmes is probably due to the type …
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Effect of vacuum level on the vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding process
… have become increasingly popular during the past five decades for the production of complex composite parts. Resin transfer molding (RTM) and structural reaction injection molding (SRIM) are the most widely used LCM processes. These two processes have the potential to become major mass production …
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Varying Priorities in Strategic Nuclear Arms Control
… differences in priorities throughout the past five decades, as well as showing what outcomes these priorities produced. The potential for any future negotiations on strategic nuclear forces will also be considered, noting issues that may hinder such discussions. Priorities for any future …
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Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
<p>This dissertation posits that in the five decades following the American Revolution, there was a movement among the elite of Virginia's rising generation to envision a future different from the path that would ultimately take the state toward the retrenchment of slavery and even secession. This …
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Nuclear Proliferation: Assessment of the Nuclear Capabilities to the Year 2000 Among Selected Nth Countries--India, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea
… economic and military incentives. Despite nearly five decades of efforts to manage proliferation, the United States has failed to convince these four countries to abandon interest in nuclear weapons development. To counter the potential challenge to U.S. national interests, more effective measures …
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Plastic city and other stories
… of one family. The stories traverse more than five decades of the family's years lived in Cape Town, South Africa. While the stories are essentially about the individual, greater matters - outwardly beyond the character's experience - affect and influence the decisions, choices and, ultimately, …
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Rapid Urbanisation in Zambia – the challenge of providing low-income housing in urban areas – 1964 to 2018: The case of the city of Lusaka
… to the independence government. In the last five decades, Zambia’s Capital City, Lusaka has been growing most rapidly. Unfortunately, most of this growth has been in informal settlements on insecure land because most residents cannot afford formal lowincome housing. Since 1964, government has …
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Perception of the School Experiences of Five Generations of Deaf Students
… the last 50 years. The study was comprised of five deaf participants educated in the public school setting, and four deaf participants educated in the residential setting. The qualitative study utilized three in-depth interviews, a survey, and the researcher’s reflections/notes. The findings …
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Personal and Contextual Resilience Factors and Their Relations to Psychological Adjustment Outcomes Across the Lifespan: A Meta - Analysis
… were clarified, and findings from the past five decades of lifespan resilience research were reviewed. A meta-analysis designed to summarize the existing research and uncover the true nature of the relationships among resilience factors and positive adaptation outcomes among adult trauma …
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Current and future trends in object detection
… of the field of Computer Vision more than five decades ago, as always, there is scope for further improvement. This is especially true in the case of object detection where a myriad of factors including variation in object instances through pose and appearance, along with other …
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Searching for patterns in Conway's Game of Life
… to answer unsolved problems in Life for the past five decades. Finding patterns in Life is difficult due to the large search space. Current search algorithms use an explorative approach based on the rules of the game, but this can only sample a small fraction of the search space. More recently, …
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Participatory Zoning: Collectivity, contradictions, and the politics of inclusion in neighborhood planning
… participatory land use and zoning decisions over five decades in Two Bridges, this thesis analyzes the formations through which residents engage in public processes and asses how property relations and transformations in broader planning contexts structure those engagements. It traces a genealogy …
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