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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Freedom of movement"”.
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Freedom of movement: Unequal intra-European Union migration due to economic and linguistic barriers
Freedom of movement is hailed as an accomplishment of the European Union, but it also hinders EU member states that experience significantly higher levels of emigration than immigration. While the European Union likes to believe that EU citizens can move to any member state, this is difficult …
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The Modern Woman's Business Suit - An Investigation into Incorporating Freedom of Movement in the Block-pattern Construction for Soft-tailored Mass-produced Womenswear
This study is situated in the field of garment construction for mass-produced womenswear, as it is the repeatable and time and cost sufficient method of flatpattern construction. In Europe the mass production of womenswear dates from the post World War 2 period. In the 1950s, traditional menswear …
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Darbuotojo sąvoka Europos Sąjungos darbo teisėje (Definition of Worker in the European Union Labour Law) /
Definition of Worker in the European Union Labour Law Definition of worker indefiniteness in European Union legal regulations is causing theoretical and practical problems in European Union Labour law. This question is important not only because of increasing foreign persons being employed in other …
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Connection and Resistance: Civilian experiences of violence in conflict zones and their impact on civilians’ political preferences for violent and nonviolent resistance
Under what conditions is state use of force successful at containing militancy, and when might it simultaneously, or instead, radicalize members of the civilian population? I present a new theory evaluating social isolation and social connection as mechanisms affecting civilians’ political …
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El Shabab Bayn Naran - The Men Are Between Two Fires: A Study on How a Denial of Civil Rights Affects Palestinian Men’s Performance of Masculinity in Lebanon
… and gendered expectations. Drawing on two months of ethnographic fieldwork in Shatila and Burj Barajneh refugee camps, including interviews and a focus group conducted with Palestinian men and women, the study explores three central themes: mobility, providing, and love. Findings show that men …
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Rex 2 : design, construction, and operation of an unmanned underwater vehicle
The practical usage of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) is limited by vehicle and operation cost, difficulty in accurate navigation, and communication between the vehicle and operator. The "Rex 2" UUV employs a system design where a submersible is connected to a float at the water's surface by …
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Humanseat : semi-wearable seating concepts for vehicle control, medical, and wellbeing applications
This thesis explores how natural bodily movements can be translated into a control interface for vehicles. Focusing on the car, our goal is to increase human performance and wellbeing while eliminating the traditionally antagonistic relationship between comfort and freedom of movement vs. support, …
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Consuming, producing, defining halal : halal authorities and Muslim consumers in South Africa
… authority was the Muslim Judicial Council of Cape Town and the product was Flora-margarine. The certification of a non-meat product signaled a major shift in halal in South Africa. It represented the development of a halal consciousness that extended beyond the realm of purely meat products …
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Investigating the effects of free lactation crates on sow and piglet welfare
… up and lie down and not turn around for a period of five weeks around farrowing. This study compared the welfare of sows and piglets housed in two types of farrowing accommodation, free lactation pens (Free, n = 22) and conventional farrowing crate pens (Control, n = 24). Free lactation pens …
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The political economy of migration in China.
… 1970s, China has undergone the largest transfer of rural populations to urban eras in modern history. In order to achieve these growth levels, massive migration was necessary in order to provide the armies of cheap labor that has been China's comparative economic advantage and the very core of …
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Design, and characterisation of impact based and non-contact piezoelectric harvesters for rotating objects
This thesis highlights two different methods of extracting electrical energy from rotational forces using impact based and non-contact based piezoelectric harvesters. In this work, the centripetal force is used as the main acting force that causes the piezoelectric harvesters to produce output …
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Building (as) performance : a material approach to adaptive architecture
One measure of performance in adaptive architecture is its ability the respond effectively to the environment and evolving program. As architects strive to create designs that respond to external change, more and more literally and actively, they are inevitably faced with the challenge of merging …
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Bat Inspired Lifesize Ornithopter with Passive Lateral Wing Retraction
… dexterous in capturing prey and have great freedom of movement in flight. Bats' wings have a wing membrane that is tensioned by their fingers and arms, allowing them to retract their wings laterally in flight. This distinct motion has allowed bats to be the only mammals capable of sustained …
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Implantable electromechanical displacement blood pumps : systematic design and validation methods
… to optimal medication therapy in the treatment of heart diseases. This dissertation describes the systematic design and validation methods of two implantable electromechanical displacement blood pumps, currently under development at the Helmholtz Institute Aachen: the total artificial heart …
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The Intervention for Peace and Border Control Safety in South Africa
… in South Africa. This paper analyses challenges of illegal immigration that poses danger and threats into South Africa which triggered the intervention of peace and border control for safety and security as a measure. The illegal migration and refugee crisis in South Africa post 1996 has reached …
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Mourning rituals and their psychosocial and rights implications among black middle-aged widows in Collins Chabane Local Municipality
Mourning rituals remain widely practiced and are often experienced as meaningful and a burden by widows in South Africa. This study explores the multifaceted impacts of mourning rituals among black middle-aged widows in Collins Chabane Municipality, Vhembe District, and Limpopo Province. The study …
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A Study of the Posture of the Tongue in Individuals with Normal Occlusion
… organ. It is a highly specialized combination of muscles and nerves and contains one of the five senses, the sense of taste. As H.B. Walter and L.F. Sayles stated in their book entitled: “Biology of the Vertebrates,” “The tongue serves many purposes. It is capable of great freedom of movement; …
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The energetic and demographic payoffs of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) migration in Norway
… an annual cycle. If migration has a fitness payoff, it follows that barriers to migration may have a measurable demographic cost. My thesis is that migratory behaviour has a demographic payoff that is mediated by access to energy during the season of greatest resource limitation. I tested this …
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The ‘rule of the recognised helm’: How does European Union membership impact upon UK Parliamentary sovereignty?
… upon historically precedented understandings of UK parliamentary sovereignty. The position adopted is critical of other approaches within a neo-Diceyan, popular sovereigntist and common law paradigm which have accorded too little significance to the past historical precedents defining …
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