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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Harman"”.
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Characterisation of mammalian cytochrome P450 enzymes by their metabolic activities.
… transformation of the B-carbolines, harmine and harman. Comparative studies were also carried out with rat liver microsomal P450s, where the effects of induction on the metabolism of harmine were investigated to define which rat P450s contribute to microsomal harmine metabolism. 1) Human liver …
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Encountering Statues: Object Oriented Ontology And The Figure In A Sculptural Practice
… engagement with Object Oriented Ontology (after Harman). Through this process, my initial findings are subsequently expanded and further enhance a re-conception of the encounter and of statues as objects. Finally, I argue for the importance of considering this reappraisal of the role the …
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"Saapuaksein aina takas maahan mämmin" : käännösstrategioita ja -tendenssejä Hectorin käännöslaulutuotannossa
… -tutkielmassa tarkastellaan Heikki ”Hector” Harman kääntämää populaaria laululyriikkaa. Tutkielman tavoitteena on selvittää, millaisia keinoja Hector on käyttänyt tuodessaan angloamerikkalaista populaarimusiikkia Suomeen. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan erityisesti sitä, miten Hector on käsitellyt …
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ARISTOTELIAN-INSPIRED MODEL FOR CURTAILING ACADEMIC DISHONESTY IN THE UNITED STATES
… situationists, John Doris (2002) and Gilbert Harman (2000) with a model consistent with Rachana Kamtekar's (2004) depiction of character in Aristotelian virtue ethics that adopts a holistic view of character incorporating motivation and proper intellect as necessary elements in practical …
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Perspectives of People with Dementia: Experiencing Shame. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… & Monsch, 2006), and fears of stigma (Harman & Clare, 2006). Public Health guidance has emphasised the importance of addressing the stigma and marginalisation of people with dementia (Department of Health, 2009; World Health Organisation & Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2012). …
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Rumo a uma Teoria Social Alternativa (T.S.A): as implicações do vitalismo nas ciências humanas e sociais
… having as background the writings of Graham Harman and many other representatives of OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology). "Irreductions" is actually an appendix to the book "Pasteurization of France", published in 1984. With its 86 pages, accompanied by an aphorismatic tone, very close to …
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Mesotopia: Towards a Place of Lyrical Inquiry
… the object-oriented ontologies of Graham Harman and Timothy Morton which have encouraged me to significantly re-think my relation to a compositional environment; secondly, an incorporation of our Kernewek language into my lyrical compositions; finally, my experiments to develop a mode of …
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The View from Somewhere: A Personal and Professional Journey in Counselling Psychology
… at risk (Jim & Anderson, 1997; Soothill, Morris, Harman, Francis & Mcmurray, 2001). Such distress has recently been connected to the way identities are renegotiated after cancer, with acknowledgment of the individual’s lived experience and the social context in which identities are crafted. …
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Anchoring the Practice — Contemporary Artists’ Books as Translational Objects
… this context of valuation (Krauss, Graw, Latour, Harman) and how contemporary artists’ books function as such art objects (Drucker, Ludovico, Carrión). The theoretical inquiry is echoed and amplified by an empirical inquiry of biographing contemporary artists’ books in actual situations of …
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intersect/surface/body: A Choreographic View of Drawing
… agency and materiality developed in the work of Harman (2013), Bennet (2010) and Barad (2013) and a reconsideration of horizontality through Steinberg’s notion of the ‘flatbed picture plane’ (1972) which informs a choreographic view of drawing in relation to orientation and surface distribution. …
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The Intersection Of Image, Rhetoric, And Witnessing: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal
… interpretations: that of Specialist Sabrina Harman, a primary witness attempting to "bear witness" in the classical sense of the term; the Taguba report, complied before the scandal and argues that the images merely captured the result of policies fostering an "anything goes" post-9/11 …
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Effects of Smoking and Gender on Tetrahydroisoquinolines and Beta-Carbolines in a Healthy Population and During Alcohol Detoxification
… to assess plasma concentrations of BCs, harman and norharman, while a HPLC-ESI-MS/MS method was validated to quantify the TIQs, R/S-salsolinol along with dopamine. Forty-one young volunteers were recruited including 19 nonsmokers (NS), 11 light smokers (LS) and 11 heavy smokers (HS), …
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Understanding the Volunteer Youth Coaching Environment: A Psychological Contract Perspective
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the volunteer coaching environment using psychological contract theory. Psychological contract posits that volunteers and their organization have implicit and explicit expectations of each other, and the breach and fulfillment of these expectations …
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The 'good mother syndrome' and playgroup: The lived experience of a group of mothers
Using a qualitative approach, utilising a semi-structured narrative interviewing technique, I interviewed 21 participants through one-on-one interviews and focus groups to examine how participants experience parenting and playgroup. The good mother syndrome refers to the social, historical and …
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Re-thinking workplace learning : worker subjectivity/ies as sites of alignment and resistance
The concern of this thesis is the way workplace learning is able to be known and spoken about and the effects of the contemporary privileging of an experiential learning discourse in the workplace. Following an analytic method outlined by Foucault, I explore a field of multiple and mobile force …
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Functional models of procedural programs
This thesis shows how any Procedural Programming notation may be modelled by a purely Functional notation and discusses the applications and implications of this modelling approach. Existing ad hoc modelling techniques are gathered together within a common framework. The thesis shows that these …
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A One Percent Chance: Jabotinsky, Bernadotte, and the Iron Wall Doctrine
<p>This thesis is an examination of the long historical processes that have led to the Israel/Palestine conflict to the contemporary period, focusing mostly on the period before Israeli independence and the 1948 war that created the Jewish state. As Zionism emerged at the turn of the twentieth …
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Investigating the role of histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation in regulating disease-associated vascular smooth muscle cell gene expression
Widespread changes in gene expression accompany vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic switching, a hallmark of vascular disease. Upon insult, VSMCs downregulate contractile proteins and upregulate genes linked to vascular remodelling, such as matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and …
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Characterising the conformational dynamics of β₁-adrenergic receptor activation and G protein coupling
The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family of seven-transmembrane signalling proteins facilitates cellular responses to environmental stimuli. GPCRs are integral to numerous physiological signalling pathways and thus many therapeutics have been developed to modulate receptor activity. Stimulation …
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