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Showing 1 to 20 of 194 for “"Grappling"”.
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Grappling with grapes : wine tourism of the Western Cape
This thesis acts as a series of 'snapshots' into the meaning of 'wine tourism'. Each chapter of my main body of work looks at a different segment of wine tourism in the Western Cape: a fast growing industry that inherits attributes from both the wine and tourism industries. Themes of landscape and …
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Machine-Vision-Based Pose Estimation System Using Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Satellite Grappling
When capturing a non-cooperative satellite during an on-orbit satellite servicing mission, the position and orientation (pose) of the satellite with respect to the servicing vessel is required in order to guide the robotic arm of the vessel towards the satellite. The main objective of this research …
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Grappling With a New Culture: Dynamic Courses of Action and Cognition of Indonesian University Students in Japan
… of action and cognition by Indonesian students grappling with a new culture in Japan.
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More Abundantly
… Jean, a college student and part-time stripper grappling with an unexpected pregnancy, and a cast of characters each searching for their own form of redemption.
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Aristotle and the allegorical aesthetic: Poetry and the limits of philosophy from Alan of Lille to Edmund Spenser
… suggests that the allegorists studied were grappling with the problem of how to wrest a description of the divine from philosophical language, a problem which, as Derrida observes, involves moving beyond ""the limits of philosophy."""
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Information needs and rights of shareholders
Thesis commences by grappling with the fundamental issues of knowledge, information and communication. The author develops fundamental definitions of each of these. In particular the author defines communication as the endeavour of passing knowledge by information from one person to another. This …
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Hep: Jazz Modernisms
… with a residual sense of the music as a form grappling, head-on, with a modern, national economy."
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Divine and the Everyday Devil (Short Stories)
… Gospel of Peter" tells the story of a husband grappling with his wife's religious beliefs. "The Mechanics of Projects" relates the experiences of a woman looking for love in Mexico. "The Rocky Normal Show" involves a husband growing apart from his wife and "Mutant: An Origin Story" is about a …
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Some geographies
… of the sections works from a different premise--grappling with precursors, locating the page and the imagination, and trying to make sense of language that appears to be nonsensical--the three parts work together in order to form a whole that is primarily obsessed with place. This obsession …
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Further fictions in print
… I have set myself the task of the translator by grappling with the elements of an image that defy translation from one medium to another.
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Much to be done: towards an effective transitional justice model for dealing with conflict-related crimes of sexual and gender-based violence
… violence. Several of these are currently grappling with the difficult issue of addressing the wrongs of the past while at the same time trying to secure a stable and democratic future. This study considers what an appropriate model of transitional justice should be in the African context, …
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I carry you in my heart : facing an incurable prenatal diagnosis
… that prospective parents and their doctors are grappling with ethical questions unheard of just half a century ago. Legislators try to demarcate what choices are "good" and "bad". However, there is no good choice when it comes to a fatally ill infant. While archival research is used to frame …
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Dream Machine
… constructs a body of contemporary mythology, grappling with themes of American paranoia, online identity formation, and bodily alienation. Stories such as "Offerings" and "Pareidolia" explore the digital commodification of the body, following characters who—through Instagram-sourced sugar …
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Hybrid-industrial zoning : a case study in Downtown Los Angeles
… to the regional economy, planners are grappling with the issue of how best to secure these viable but vulnerable sites of employment and production. Advanced technologies that are changing the nature of manufacturing and logistics present an exciting opportunity and potential solution: …
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The World Takes
… features two young brothers and their father grappling with their own fragility as they navigate an impending eviction from their home in Trenton, New Jersey. The power is out, the heat is off, and the family car is on the back of a tow truck. At just 13 years old, Joop, the film’s …
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Body, Mat, Mark-Making
… and abrupt switching between mark-making and grappling activity. The repetition involved in this structure fuses these two distinct activities into one. The experience of mushin (no-mind), a state one enters when deeply immersed in martial art activity, overlaps into the process of …
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City of devils
… body and an expanding series of murders while grappling with good, evil, and shaken faith.
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From a Christian Socialist to a Christian Realist: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Soviet Union, 1930-1945
… of the nature of religious faith itself. Second, grappling with this communist religion also drove Niebuhr to see more clearly the impotency of Western Christianity on the problem of justice. Third, his "flirtation" with Marxism not only led him to "rediscover" sin, the linchpin of Christian …
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A View from Within: Timbre as an Analytical Tool in Contemporary Viola Music
… physicists, and cognitive scientists have been grappling with for centuries. While timbre can roughly be defined as an auditory attribute that distinguishes one tone color from another, this definition does not capture the complexities of sound and our perceptions thereof. Research on timbre has …
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Meaning making amongst South African survivors of violent crime
… meaning making (3) meaning making strategies (4) grappling with meaning and (5) areas of significance/benefit or posttraumatic growth. While some themes reflected previous findings in the international trauma literature, others appeared to be context-specific. The results imply several …
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