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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Gown"”.
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Exploring town-gown developmental paradigms : A case of University of Venda's 'Univen Town concept'
University towns or town gown relationships are increasingly becoming an accepted developmental narrative between institutions of higher learning and their host communities. The University of Venda was mandated by the Honourable Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr. Blade Nzimande, in …
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Town for all, gown for all : a framework for equitable university-led urban development
Universities and the cities they are located in often have contentious relationships. As anchor institutions, urban universities provide significant employment and educational benefits, though their success and expansion often leads to rising housing costs and displacement in surrounding …
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Communities and colleges: utilizing public relations techniques and strategies to solve chronic town-gown problems
<p>The purpose of this thesis was to determine what public relations techniques and strategies could be utilized to alleviate or even solve the five most prevalent problems faced by colleges and their communities. This researcher also verified that the top five problems as determined in a 1998 …
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University-community relations and the need for a representational discourse : exploring town-gown at the University of Pennsylvania
This thesis examines university-community relations, arguing that the current discourse requires rigorous theoretical attention to the use of representation in media and in physical design to adequately gauge and understand this relationship. Modeled after Naomi Carmon's framework of urban …
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Ozone Inactivation and Attachment of Listeria Monocytogenes to Abiotic Surfaces
… and LO28 wild-type strains showed motility when gown at both 24 and 37°C although flagellin production was reduced during growth at 37°C. Both the wild-types and flagella minus mutants showed similar cells counts when attached over time on polystyrene microtiter plates and on stainless …
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A Cleave within the Piney Woods: Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University and How Racial Integration Divided the Town and Gown
… traditions of Nacogdoches divided the town and gown to where the relationship has never fully recovered.</p>
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The analysis of retail business trends at small college towns in Iowa: as a case study of town and gown relationship
The study focused on retail business environment at small college towns in Iowa, in order to find if rural small towns had prevented their economic decline by the presence of higher educational institutions. Eleven small towns with four-year private colleges were selected as research objects. …
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University involvement in downtown revitalization: stakeholder perspectives and opportunities
… the perspectives of stakeholders on the town and gown relationship, what extending the educational component into the downtown would do to the town and college, and how this would foster the relationship thereafter. These stakeholders, eight on the side of the town and nine on the side of the …
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A practise-based action research self-study : "how do I improve my practice as a bridal-gown designer in a highly-competitive market?"
Submitted in partial fulfillment for Masters in Fashion, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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Town and gown bikeways planning : an analysis of bicycle planning within the greater University of Texas-Austin community and the City of Austin as compared to similar college communities
This paper will focus on the “town and gown” relationships between cities and universities and their combined planning efforts for bikeway networks. An examination of the bicycle plans, use of bicycle boulevards and bike lanes, etc. will be applied to towns known for their university populations …
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An extensive analysis and testing of wedding dress fabric
… silk taffeta that are utilized in the wedding gown industry today. Each of the five fabrics are extensively tested in the laboratory to determine cover factor, drape, abrasion, crocking (wet & dry), stiffness, tensile strength, and seam strength. These fabric properties are usually considered …
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Injustice sheltered: Race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962
… injustice perpetuated within this town-and-gown community and how those who were disconcerted with it struggled, resisted, challenged, and changed aspects of this system. Playing host to major overlapping institutional spheres and linked together in fundamental ideological, economical, …
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"Real" lives and "ordinary" objects: Partisan strategies of art making with garment makers of the Western Cape
… the sunflower seed, the table/shoe and the ball gown to address globalisation, modernisation, the plight of the worker, the consequences of colonialism and war and how we live in the aftermath of an oppressive regime inspired me to use ordinary objects to create political art and render the lived …
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Royal Rhinestones: The Beauty Pageant and Female Beauty in American Literature
… the metaphors of the swimsuit, talent, evening gown, and interview competitions, I explore components of beauty relating to sexuality, occupation, consumerism, and speech issues respectively. The dissertation explores these beauty issues through a wide cross-section of American novels written by …
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Utilisation of assessed losses in South Africa and an overview of some of the lessons to learn from some reported judgments on the topic
… with respect rather unceremoniously, armed with gown and gavel (perhaps much to the relief of the taxpayer's counsel), into a hysteria of emotional outburst as follows: [f]he avoidance of tax is an evil. Not only does it mean that a taxpayer escapes the obligation of making his proper …
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New towns from gowns : urban form and placemaking at college campuses
… Rather, they need to have a complementary "town/gown" relationship with their host community. The "college town" -a quintessentially American ideal city formcan provide a very high quality of life, both for students of college-age and for faculty, alumni, and retirees who choose to live in these …
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Simulating COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Use in Acute Care Hospitals
… N95 facepiece respirator use by 47%, and gown and glove use by over 50% in acute care hospitals during a COVID-19-type pandemic. In an environment where significant attention is being paid to increasing supply capacity, a focus on shaping demand at the source is an often neglected, but …
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Consumer satisfaction, preferences and care procedures for selected women's sleepwear fabrics
… and care procedures of selected nightgown fabrics. Additionally, demographic information was obtained to characterize the sample. The data were provided by 54 females in Delaware, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia. Eight subjects, each wearing …
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Listening to the Community: An Appreciative Case Study of Service-Learning Initiatives Within a Higher Education Institution
… this study illustrated examples of positive town-gown relationships whereby institutional constituents and community partners created collaborative experiential learning which fostered benefits on multiple levels. Issues such as sustainability, applying research to practice, honoring individual …
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Translating Justice : between Al-Farabi and Derrida
… image of the kingly cape turned into a wedding gown, it argues that the translation of sovereignty is an aesthetic shift from a divine-kingly model to a more secular one. The thesis, then, explores traces of this shift within al-Farabi’s model of the Virtuous City where the weeds, dissenting …
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