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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Global structures"”.
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Humanitarian Sheltering: Analysing Global Structures of Aid
… over those decisions. This thesis analyses the global shelter sector though a systems-thinking approach, including the structures which affect behaviour in this system, the relationship between different actors, and the relationship between decisions taken over time. It identifies key decision …
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User profiling in social networks based on graph data: bridging local and global structures
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Global Structure of the Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities and Site Response Effects in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain
… two different topics in seismology: imaging the global structures of the mantle transition zone discontinuities and studying the site response effects in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Global structures of the mantle transition zone discontinuities provide important constraints on thermal …
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Operads and Homotopy Theory
… actions of an operad and to understand the global structures of homotopy groups. This new idea is established if the operad is equivalent to the classifying operad of a group operad, and thus in particular produces a conceptual description of the structures of the homotopy groups of double …
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Resource nationalism in Southern Africa : ethnic control and political ideology
… The study also interrogates the impact of global structures upon state decisions. In both case studies, I show that minority ethnic dominance has been a more important driver of nationalisation/privatisation cycles than political ideology.
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Seeing Beyond Service - Redefining the Problem of Water and Sanitation Service Delivery in Resource-Limited Settings to Enable Effective Solutions
… that barriers to effectiveness are rooted in global structures that tend to present at local levels helps redefine the problem leading to comprehensive policies and practices. The guiding research questions included an identification of an effectiveness gap in services delivered in developed …
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DUALITIES AND EXACT RESULTS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC QFTS
… groups of N=3 S-fold SCFTs as well as their global structures by analyzing the maximal refinements of their charge lattices. We study the charge lattices of S-folds and exceptional S-fold SCFTs of type E. We find that all but one of the exceptional S-folds do not admit a charge lattice …
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Lokalisationsmikroskopie mit mehreren Farben und ihre Anwendung in biologischen Präparaten
… is an important method for studying biological structures. By intrinsic properties of the fluorophores it is possible to separate and individually localize their signals. These quantitative position information enable an improved structural resolution and a statistic analysis of the data. In …
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Egyptian Civil Society (Transnational vs. Local): The Distinction Between Theory and Practice
… with them or are working or the goals of Western global structures. What the investigative research found is that there is a dynamic, grassroots, and voluntary group of unaffiliated members of society although they’re not considered to be civil society by national or foreign governments, and …
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Displacing War Experience: Military Technology and the More-than-Human Politics of Empire
… to particular visions of international order and global structures of power? Bringing together historical analysis with theoretical insights from Science and Technology Studies, Human Geography, Black Studies and Feminist Theory, I argue that a more-than-human conception of war experience has been …
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Multiscalar Toxicities: Mapping Environmental Injustice in and Beyond the Nail Salon
… environments as well as have broader roots in global structures of extraction. The dissertation employs multiple methods grounded in feminist methodologies, centering the experiential and embodied knowledges of 37 Toronto-based nail technicians through occupational health mapping – a …
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Network Structures Arising from Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity
… useful ways. n this dissertation, I study the structures arising from STDP in a population of synapses with an emphasis on the interplay between synaptic stability and Hebbian competition, explained in Chapter 1. Starting from the simplest description of STDP which relates synaptic modification …
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Women in Science and Technology in Higher Education in Ghana: Policy Environments and Experiences
In the current era of globalization, knowledge-based innovations are critical for socio-economic development. In most African countries, however, the level of African-based research and development is minuscule. In addition, there continues to be a considerable gender gap in higher education …
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Religious freedom as a practice of the nation: religious minorities, Islamic revival and the emergence of defensive inclusion in Turkey
… the nation and the state through renewed local/global structures and actors in historical context to explain the meaning of recent changes. The Ottoman millet system produced a pre-modern form of religious pluralism until the rise of nationalism in the nineteenth century although non-Muslim …