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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Human, Non-human"”.
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Indigenous worldviews meet Western paradigms: a path to renewal of human/non-human relationships
… Western and Indigenous worldviews regarding our human relationship with more-than-human nature. Issues of discrimination and epistemic injustice are contextualised with existing minority and intersectional thought, and distinguished from particular incommensurabilities between the two worldviews …
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Dog owner interaction style: the transmission of working models in human/non-human caregiving relationships
… the potential effects of owner behaviour on the human/dog bond. The results could be used in assessing owner dog relationships that may indicate risk of animal/human abuse; assist dog shelters in the successful re-homing of insecure dogs by identifying secure households; and to enable greater …
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Ethnoprimatology of Urban Cebus Yuracus: An evaluation of Human-non-human interactions and local perceptions in Misahualli, Ecuador
… (<em>Cebus yuracus</em>) coexisting alongside humans in the town of Misahuallí, Tena, Ecuador. This ethnoprimatological study focuses on the human-nonhuman interactions and the perceptions of the local people about the capuchin group. Behavioral interactions were examined using all-occurrence …
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Modalities of regulation In the informal economy: a study of waste collectors in Cape Town
… regulated in the city? Drawing on the idea of non-humans as actors (in Actor Network Theory terms) this thesis argues that informal activities are regulated by hybrid modes of regulation that include human/non-human and formal and informal assemblages. The research was conducted between 2008 …
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Performing Trans-disciplinarity: Exploring Subjectivity and Objectivity in Knowledge Production
… challenging categorical thinking and draw upon non-human perspectives as a starting point to propose a pre-linguistic root to categorization by situating the concept of categorization into a sensory paradigm. Later I highlight a selection of 3 artistic projects that look at human-non-human …
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CEDAR: Collective Environmental Data Sensing using AR
… the project explores how AR can mediate complex human, non-human, and technological entanglements to create more meaningful public engagement. CEDAR contributes a novel conceptual framework for participatory data visualisation that integrates aesthetic, emotional, and spatial dimensions, …
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ECOCUIR AESTHETICS: GENDER, ECOLOGY AND FORM IN LATIN AMERICAN FICTION
… binaries such as masculine/feminine and the human/non-human and nature/culture divides, the texts I analyze revisit moments in which colonial images of Nature are sedimented. By rewriting foundational texts, historical scenes or engaging directly with literary traditions that carry forward …
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The construction of group ecological identity : a case study of communities in Hout Bay, South Africa
… experience of complex webs of social as well as human-non-human and non-human-non- human relations. Living in and as part of the environment, according to the groups, is informed by a sense of a moral way of being, closely linked to the groups' perceived 'right' and 'wrong' ways of how 'to be' …
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Paradigms of refuse: waste abjection and rejection in contemporary Italian literature and cinema
… dumping sites where the material as well as the human excess of our modern societies are discarded. In this study, I propose the concept of refuse– which refers both to the matter thrown away or rejected as worthless, as well as to the acts of refusing, declining and rejecting – as a theoretical …
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On Stories of Liveliness: following the Arts of Living on a Damaged Karoo Veld
… of the Karoo landscape. This is a result of human/nonhuman relations that have been grounded in a colonial mastery of the land, whereby the advent of private property regimes, modernist technologies and capitalist extraction has allowed for the land to be cheapened, exhausted and severely …
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The ray of hope : hidden work and the pursuit of accuracy
Informed by the study of humans and machines in heterogeneous networks, this thesis examines how relations are made and how the discursive ordering within networks of associations can shape technologies and their worlds. In a critical exploration of the introduction and use of X-ray Volumetric …
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Actualising children’s ideas for health-promoting neighbourhoods through impactful co-design: insights from children and adult decision-makers
… and they demonstrated three threads of more-than-human thinking: care for humans and non-humans, vital interdependence of human-non-human relations, and understanding complex urban environments through everyday activities. Insights from adult participants informed a novel framework for impactful …
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Modeling Shape, Appearance and Motion for Human Movement Analysis
… Motion are the most important cues for analyzing human movements in visual surveillance. Representation of these visual cues should be rich, invariant and discriminative. We present several approaches to model and integrate them for human detection and segmentation, person identification, and …
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Ethics beyond immanence: rupturing law’s method through sex research
… and categorisation (male, female, straight, gay, human, non-human). These definitions conflict with the materialities of the body and the materialities of the encounter of sex, which are inclined to ‘push’ at and reterritorialize these boundaries. Legal and ethical frames restrict the ability of …
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Stepping in Iration: Rastafari Ital Livity, Ecologies and Ecotheologies in Saint Lucia/Iyanola
… and most natural form of all in creation - human, non-human, earth, spirit. “Livity” itself serves as a broad categorisation for an individual’s own spiritual outlook, a “lived” spirituality in contrast to one that exists purely conceptually. “Ital” serves an Iyaric ‘I’ form of the word …
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Self-Renewal Requirements of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Their Engraftment Potential in Mouse Blastocysts
<p>Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are a unique population of cells derived from a 6 day old human embryo that can be maintained indefinitely in vitro and have the ability to differentiate to all adult cell types. In addition to their potential for cell based therapies in the treatment of …
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Immune function alterations in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) infected with Mycobacterium species
… due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of human tuberculosis, though mechanisms underlying elephant susceptibility are unknown. In humans and other studied species, disease progression is dependent on the character of the host immune response. Following infection, leukocytes secrete protein …
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Producing Humans: An Anthropology of Social and Cognitive Robots
In this thesis, I ask how the human is produced in robotics research, focussing specifically on the work that is done to create humanoid robots that exhibit social and intelligent behaviour. Robots, like other technologies, are often presented as the result of the systematic application of …