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Showing 1 to 20 of 3461 for “"Governing"”.
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Governing Global Migration
… to this end tracing the political rationality of governing migration from the global description of migration and migration politics. Its findings suggest that when the circulation of migration is addressed as a global concern, it is being conceptualized in a way which both furthers and modifies …
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Governing Immunization in Canada
Modern immunization’s role in health systems is threefold: it is simultaneously a pharmaceutical product, a personal health care intervention, and a public health measure, each constituting a distinct, yet overlapping set of governance arrangements. This thesis examines immunization policy change …
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Factors governing gastrointestinal motility
Introduction: The reasons for the rapid resolution of diabetes (DM) following bariatric surgery in a significant proportion of patients with morbid obesity remain unclear. This thesis investigates the putative role of changes in gastrointestinal (GI) motility and GI hormones as well as the possible …
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Spatial practices of governing carbon.
… One consequence of this is that sub-national governing organisations are being confronted with a need to re-think their own governing logics. This includes new strategies for reducing emissions and perhaps different ways of viewing spaces within their jurisdiction. Research in this area …
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Governing bodies through space, governing space through bodies: Police power, planning, and race in Central Atlanta
This exploratory research identifies strategies and propositions for studying the relationship between policing and planning institutions. Scholars within planning and cognate disciplines identify the police as agents in urban social cleansing, social stratification, and segregation. Yet these …
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Subcortical Inputs Governing Cortical Network Activity
Sensory information is represented in cortex by cascades of excitation, the patterns of which are constrained and biased by anatomical connections between neurons. Additionally, in the living animal, functional connectivity is dynamically adjusted by internally generated background activity, which …
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Towards Bridging and Governing Decentralized Communities
"Unless the spaces in a building are arranged in a sequence which corresponds to their degrees of privacy the visits made by strangers, friends, guests, clients, family, will always be a little awkward." (Alexander, 1977) — Unlike physical spaces, where we can move seamlessly between different …
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Mechanisms governing phosphorus retention in streams
… but offer little information about mechanisms governing nutrient dynamics. In contrast, nutrient spiralling, as described by Webster and Patten (1979), provides a method to evaluate retention and the mechanisms governing it. A nutrient spiral is defined as the distance traveled by a nutrient …
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Governing the conduct of migrant agricultural workers
Contemporary society is moving increasingly toward relations characterized by international arrangement and organization. This analysis of the forms of governance surrounding migrant workers has incorporated an examination of the implications and effects of such associations through the theoretical …
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Factors Governing Gastrointestinal Colonization of Candida albicans
… light on mechanisms that might be critical in governing C. albicans gastrointestinal colonization levels. It provides mechanistic insights into the importance of gut microbiota-derived metabolites in maintaining C. albicans colonization resistance and may have therapeutic implications for …
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Governing quality in Indonesian early childhood education
… contradictions, while diversifying quality-governing tools.
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From data to dynamics: discovering governing equations from data
Governing laws and equations, such as Newton's second law for classical mechanics and the Navier-Stokes equations thence derived, have been responsible throughout history for numerous scientific breakthroughs in the physical and engineering sciences. There are many systems of interest for which …
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Biochemical mechanisms for selectivity governing RNA and DNA replication
Enzymes that catalyze DNA and RNA replication are biologically important and provide examples to understand enzyme specificity as the correct substrate and alternate substrates are well known. The DNA polymerase from bacteriophage T7 has been a model system for understanding high-fidelity DNA …
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Analysis of the Law Governing E-Commerce in Tanzania
Technology is an essential tool in development of any nation; electronic commerce is currently booming in Tanzania and the rest of the world. There have been dramatic increase in transaction and trades which use or performed electronically. The current laws under the commercial laws in Tanzania, as …
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The Rise of Civil Society in Governing Flood Resilience
… issue and explores ‘The Rise of Civil Society in Governing Flood Resilience’. Conducted in the Netherlands and England, this PhD research identifies civil society contributing physical actions and resources, knowledge, and advocacy activities for flood resilience. Civil society can take actions …
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Gendered governing: Leadership experiences of seven women former governors
<p>Fifty years ago, Second Wave feminists theorized that American culture was dominated by patriarchal systems that subordinated women to second class citizenship status (Brown, 1988; Dolan, Deckman & Swers, 2010). In the 21st century, women have become highly visible candidates for office on a …
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Governing Social Bodies: Affect and Number in Contemporary Cricket
Two recent cybernetics-derived academic disciplines, biomechanics and operations research, have worked to reshape cricket. Liberalization and the consequent large flows of money into the game have resulted in a transformation in how the game is regulated, coached, and played. In this dissertation, …
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Mechanism Governing the Cellular Susceptibility to Secretory Phospholipase A2
Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is an important part of apoptosis and disposal of damaged and dying cells. However, healthy cells are not susceptible to attack by sPLA2. Recent studies have focused on membrane properties necessary to induce susceptibility in both artificial and biological …
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The Bachelor Industry: The Surveillance and Governing of Women
"The dissertation looks at the reality-based television series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette as rich and germane contemporary televisual sites for a cultural analysis of images of women in popular U.S. culture. Methodologically, I use a feminist cultural studies framework influenced by Michel …
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