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Showing 1 to 20 of 3489 for “"Histories"”.
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Narrativising Dispossessed Histories
… for the voided experiences, traumatised histories, and injured spaces to attain symbolic and real meaning. In line with social constructivist theories, grief, mourning, reconciliation, and cultural healing are considered not primarily interior processes but intricately social ones. The …
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Life Histories of Women in Coaching
The Canadian sport system is challenged by the lack of representation of female leaders and coaches. This is, in spite of statistics showing that female athletes account for almost half of all participants in sport, a number that is still growing (Sport Canada, 1999). Women have acquired equity in …
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Oaths and Greed in Tacitus' Histories
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2017-08-10 without embargo terms
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Deciphering evolutionary histories of Southeast Asian Ungulates
Im Verlauf von Jahrmillionen gestalteten evolutionäre Kräfte die Verbreitung und genetische Variabilität von Arten, indem sie die Anpassungsfähigkeit und Überlebenswahrscheinlichkeit dieser Arten beeinflussten. Da Südostasien eine außerordentlich artenreiche Region darstellt, eignet sie sich …
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Rekindling histories : families and British polar exploration
… in which people maintain or revive particular histories in public and in private, and probes the intersection between memory and history, family and nation. What people do is not necessarily unusual, but using a case-study allows for an appreciation of the extent to which their practices may be …
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Reconstructing Population Histories in Relation to Ecology
We live in an era of significant environmental and climatic change and it has even been suggested that the world is entering a new epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’. To understand better how species might cope under different future climate scenarios, studies are now frequently looking to explore how they …
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Below Bordeaux : hidden histories in Sea Point
Includes bibliographical references.
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Transforming histories: the visual disclosure of contentious pasts
The thesis and exegesis examines the potential of visual art to provide fresh forms of engagement with historical story than the archived and the written. The place of memory, forgetting, absence in Australian history, in particular in Indigenous and non Indigenous encounter are investigated. …
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CONTESTED HISTORIES AND IDENTITIES: ROMANI REFUGEES IN TORONTO
This thesis examines the larger themes and processes involved in identity reconstructions, and the appropriation of labels and categories at various levels as part of a struggle by the Roma against their marginalization and persecution. Through a focus on several significant sites of negotiation …
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Change Analysis Across Version Histories of Systems Models
Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) elevates models as first-class artifacts throughout the development process of a system’s lifecycle. This makes it easier to develop standard tools for automated analysis and overall management of a system process; thereby, saving cost and minimizing errors. …
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Qualitative spatial change: space-time histories and continuity
… spatio-temporal theory based on space-time histories is developed. I formalize the intuitive notion of spatio-temporal continuity and christen it strong firm continuity. Continuous transitions in mereotopology for space-time histories are investigated. For strong firm continuity, transition …
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Embodied narratives: Ways of reading student literacy histories
… as cultural critics in crafting their literacy histories, pointing to a fundamental incoherence in what we believe constitutes good writing, academic excellence and "success." One of the purposes and central challenges in this dissertation is to develop ways to "listen to...the competing …
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Assessing risk within primary care: Logics, contingencies, histories
There has been an explosion of discourse about risk and risk assessment beginning in the 1980s, growing during the 1990s and continuing to accelerate. This has extended to the arena of mental health care where there is an expectation for services to assess and manage risks, and high quality …
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Late Antique Basilicas on Cyprus sources, contexts, histories
It is commonly accepted that Late Antiquity Cyprus emerged from relative isolation to greater engagement with Constantinople. This thesis reverses the paradigm and offers a contextual account of the island’s basilicas in support of the proposition. Located between New Rome and New Jerusalem, …
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Histories of Liberty in Scottish Thought, 1747-1787
In the decades following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, a group of Scottish jurists, historians, and philosophers turned to history in order to understand the parliamentary monarchy to which Scotland had attached itself in the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. In doing so, they stumbled upon the …
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Modelling the star formation histories of nearby elliptical galaxies
… this thesis also constrains the star formation histories of 21 nearby elliptical galaxies, finding that they formed 13.26 +0.09 -0.06 Gyrs ago, that all mergers are dry, and that galactic winds are formed from AGN activity (rather than being supernovae-driven). This thesis also finds evidence to …
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Constructed histories: storytelling and the practices of architectural conservation
A fundamental concern of the practices of architectural conservation is the protection of history, identity, and place, against a modernizing world that displaces and forgets. To achieve this, these practices have relied on recourse to the past, attaching themselves to the environment of old, as …
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The Textile Archive: curating personal histories and family narratives
… for their ability to prompt personal and family histories and stories, in a phenomenon identified within the study as the personal textile archive. Textile design research is increasingly concerned with incorporating interdisciplinary social and cultural frameworks within its traditional research …
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Retrospective Practice Histories of Expert and Novice Baseball Pitchers
… study was to compare the retrospective practice histories of expert and novice baseball pitchers. Eleven minor league pitchers (experts) and ten players who pitched in high school, but did not pitch in college (novices) served as participants. All participants were interviewed to elicit …
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