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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Historical reconstruction"”.
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Malaria Risk on Ancient Roman Roads: A Study and Application to Assessing Travel Decisions in Asia Minor by the Apostle Paul
… roads with the goal of providing a tool for historical assessment of travel accounts from antiquity. The project includes: identification of malaria risk factors and associated spatial datasets, malaria risk model construction, verification and validation against available pre-eradication …
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Finding Onesimus: Recovering the Story of a First-Century Fugitive Slave
… purpose, this project challenges a popular historical theory for Onesimus’ flight, the so-called <em>Amicus Domini</em> theory. This is the theory that Onesimus fled his master Philemon with the premeditated intention of seeking out the Apostle Paul as a peacemaker in a conflict Onesimus was …
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Kasia the Melodist. And the Making of a Byzantine Hymnographer
… the most famous hymnographer of her time. Reconstructions of her character and work have largely been done in specialized categories, thus leading to many isolated and idiosyncratic readings. In contrast, this dissertation shall use a mosaic methodology, examining the various historical and …
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Discerning Witnesses: First and Second Century Textual Studies in Christian Authority
… Christian church. Combining textual analysis and historical reconstruction, this study draws upon both the extant works of these early writers and the modern treatments of authority in early Christianity, finding that these authors navigated multiple forms of textual and non-textual authority in …
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CULTURAL ROOTS OF TECHNOLOGY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF AUTOMATED SYSTEMS FROM THE ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE
… automaton, we examine all technical, literary, historical available sources, in order to get the descriptions not only of the actually built or designed automata, but also of the ones that were imagined in literary texts. From the work of historical reconstruction it has also been possible to …
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An Historical Analysis of the Organized Labor Movement's Influence on Corporate Public Relations Theory and Practice
… this contention is the juxtaposition of an historical reconstruction of the development of both organized labor and corporate public relations from the mid 19th century to the present.
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A Critical Examination of the Later Omrides
… Strange indeed throws new light upon the historical reconstruction now being written concerning the middle of the ninth century B.C.E. in Israel and Judah. This article challenges contemporary scholarship of the Omride period with the identification of Joram, son of Ahab, as a phantom of …
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A phonological reconstruction of Proto-East-Katuic
<p><p>The principal problem in the historical reconstruction of Proto Mon-Khmer is the great diversity between the modern descendants. This paper proposes to simplify that problem by reconstructing the East-Katuic branch of the Mon-Khmer family. </p> <p> Three languages are compared: Brou, Pacoh, …
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Truth and reality in Jürgen Habermas' Pragmatic Realism
… and truth. The second section provides both a historical reconstruction and a theoretical discussion of the notion of truth in the philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. It shows how Habermas' approach to truth changes during the years. In the '60s (chapter one) he maintains a weak kind of realism, …
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'A band of Evangelists, native and "foreign"': the story of Japanese initiatives in indigenizing the Japan Evangelistic Band 1903-1940
… and handing them over to nationals. This is a historical reconstruction of the indigenization of a mission organization, the Japan Evangelistic Band (JEB), from 1903 to 1940. I argue that in a period when missionaries led mission organizations in the mission field, the JEB was led by the …
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Gaming and the simulation of history constructing perspectives of Machu Picchu
… I have developed a new method for depicting historical sites using game-design concepts and technologies. I argue that using computer games, design environment researchers can integrate and consolidate historical documents, challenging the dichotomy of space and time as two discrete …
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Light in the Cave: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Philosophy
… and serious philosopher. But it seems that no reconstructions of Illuminationist philosophy are satisfactory. I propose a Cave Story approach, which relates Suhrawardī’s ambitious Illuminationist project to Plato’s cave allegory. By following this approach, I present a historical reconstruction …
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The Value of Dress in the Cecil Household, (c. 1550-1612)
… and letters alongside extant objects with historical reconstruction. This methodology moves beyond a linguistic or semiotic interpretive system for dress to investigate ‘materiality’ and lived practice in order to gain access into clothing as embodied practice. This methodology considers …
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Critical systems thinking and pluralism : a new constellation
… draw on an analogy of dream-analysis and on historical reconstruction as ideology-critique. It is suggested that any social inquiry must contain elements of "reflexive" (philosophical) and "scientific" (practical) inquiry together with ideology-critique and critical self-reflection in order …
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Washington, D.C. and the Idea of America: A reappraisal of the 1791 plan for the Nation’s Capital
… residential urban fabric. Through a conceptual-historical reconstruction of the relationship between the plan for the capital, national expansion and American democracy, my project seeks to recover the significance of Washington, D.C. as a seminal reflection of the collision of a European urban …
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The role of ideology in Hebrew nation-making
… cannot offer conclusive arguments to support the historical reconstruction proposed herein, it does put forward plausible explanations for the manner in which Hebrew nationhood began. By means of this method, ideology is identified as a primary motivating force behind the merging of three disparate …
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Persecution and Cosmic Conflict in Galatians
… with other authors. Chapter 5 offers a historical reconstruction of the instances of persecution mentioned in Galatians. Four instances of persecution in Galatians are examined: (1) Paul the Persecutor (1:13, 23). (2) Paul the Persecuted (3:1; 4:13, 19; 5:11; 6:17) (3) The Opponents as …
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The sovereignty of the African districts of the African Methodist Episcopal Church :a historical assessment
… in this thesis is therefore one of a historical reconstruction, namely to identify, describe and assess the configurations of factors which contributed to such tensions in relationship between the AME Church in America and Africa. The relationships between the American and the African …
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The Participation Of NGOs In Healthcare: The Case Of Pediatric Cancer Treatment In Argentina
… contradictions, and negotiations, reflecting the historical trajectory of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the transformations of the public health system. These problems are specifically evident in programs that focus on pediatric oncology treatment due to the fact that ideas about …
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Il progetto e la sorpresa. Giuseppe Pontiggia critico e saggista tra metodo, verifica e retorica
… Methodologically, the thesis combines literary-historical reconstruction, narratological tools, and— crucially—analytic philosophical scrutiny. Pontiggia’s essays and aphoristic pronouncements often present themselves as if their validity were self-evident; yet they routinely imply claims about …
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