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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Illegitimate"”.
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Illegitimate Celebrity in the British Long Eighteenth Century
… a veritable textual and historical oblivion. Illegitimate Celebrity considers the careers of Dorothy Jordan, William Henry West Betty, Edmund Kean, and Margaret Agnes Bunn, and offers a historical genealogy of "illegitimate" performers who dared to break with social convention and struggled to …
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Exposing the Fallacy: The Jihadist's Illegitimate Quest for Power
<p>The Jihadist quest for power is illegitimate because it distorts the religious foundations upon which its authority is based. These distortions take the form of a historical, strategic, theological, tactical and societal warping of reality to justify the jihadist strategic aim of instituting a …
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In the Eye of the Beholder: A Daily Diary Investigation of Appraisals of Illegitimate Tasks
<p>Traditional research on illegitimate tasks has focused on two dimensions, unreasonable tasks and unnecessary tasks, and has assumed that threat appraisal is the underlying mechanism explaining their effects. This study introduced a revised three-dimensional framework of illegitimate tasks that …
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Illegitimate settlements in West Beirut : a manipulation of tenure policies and class struggle over land
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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An investigation into attitudes towards illegitimate birth as evidenced in the folklore of South West England
… By contrast, a fairly narrow depiction of "illegitimate" pregnancy is given in supernatural legends and memorates, local legends and local character anecdotes, where it is consistently seen as having negative repercussions for the woman and sometimes the child, concerned. An extensive …
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The Power to Speak Out: The Effect of Legitimate and Illegitimate Power on Confrontations of Prejudice
… when the participant had legitimate power or illegitimate powerlessness in their group’s interaction. However, neither the power main effect nor the Power x Legitimacy interaction reached significance. On the other hand, there was a marginally significant main effect for legitimacy of power …
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From illegitimate disruption to failing state : how South African newspapers framed 'service delivery' protests in 2013
This study unpacks the key frames and sources used by the South African print media in their coverage of the ‘service delivery protests’ in 2013. It explores how the frames are linked to each other, how the sources link to each other, and how the frames and sources correlate. The study focuses on …
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Factors which influence the decision of unwed mothers to keep or surrender their illegitimate children to a public adoption agency
<p>The general purpose of this study is to turn to the possibilities of a second focus of research into the adoption process, that is, to what can be learned about the natural mother.</p><p> The particular purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to identify the socio-economic characteristics of …
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A critical analysis of Resolution 1117/19 of the Organization of American States Permanent Council declaring illegitimate the Presidency of Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela
… (OAS) on 10 January 2019, in which it declared illegitimate the second presidential term of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela. The decision of the OAS Permanent Council merits attention as it represents a significant development for the role of the OAS in the protection of democracy in …
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Political crime: an application of Merton's theory of social structure and anomie
… goals using legitimate means. Thus, they find illegitimate means, i.e. unlawful behavior, to obtain their goals. Specifically, the analysis of this thesis examines: (1) how the CIA defined their goals; (2) how the CIA justified the use of their innovative means to achieve the ends; (3) how the …
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The victim role: an exploration into descriptions and evaluations of victims
… that legitimate victims ought to be helped and illegitimate victims ought to be punished. Yet, people disagree about who is a legitimate victim. Victimologists theorize that legitimate occupants of the victim role possess characteristics which make them worthy of sympathy. However, this …
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It’s Always Been Fanfiction; The Boundary of Legitimacy Between Fanfiction and Adaptation
… is established of what creates a legitimate and illegitimate work in the mainstream, this paper examines how the boundary does not ultimately stand up to scrutiny by examining two works: BBC’s Sherlock and Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments. These works do not hold up to the boundary, as …
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Modeling and detecting anomalous topic access in EMR audit logs
… object access model or ROA. This approach models illegitimate users who randomly access records. The goal is to use statistics, machine learning, knowledge of hospital workflows and other techniques to support an anomaly detection framework that finds such users. In this work we introduce and …
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Pandangan aktivis perempuan dan anak Kota dan Kabupaten Malang terhadap putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi No.46/PUU VIII/2010 tentang status anak luar kawin
… No. 46/PUU-VIII/2010 related to legal status for illegitimate children in 2010. The decision as the answer of material test UU No. 1, 1974 that have did by Machicha Mochtar to Constitutional Court to get confession about legal status for her child who was born of the sirri(illegitimate) marriage …
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Pandangan aktivis perempuan dan anak Kota dan Kabupaten Malang terhadap putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi No.46/PUU- VIII/2010 tentang status anak luar kawin
… No. 46/PUU-VIII/2010 related to legal status for illegitimate children in 2010. The decision as the answer of material test UU No. 1, 1974 that have did by Machicha Mochtar to Constitutional Court to get confession about legal status for her child who was born of the sirri(illegitimate) marriage …
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Living in Fear: An Analysis of Writings by Elizabeth Tudor, 1544-1565
… when Elizabeth’s position was altered from illegitimate to presumptive heir. My major finding is that a close reading of Elizabeth’s letters from 1544 1565 give insights into how the future queen managed to survive a difficult childhood and adolescence at court and away.
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Informal constitutional change: towards a South African theory of unconstitutional constitutional change
… constitutional change insofar as it implies an illegitimate use of judicial authority. I offer a South African case study of this phenomenon and conclude that the Constitution has been changed unconstitutionally at least once.
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The Tide of History: Australian Native Title Discourse in Global Perspective
… acquisition of sovereignty in Australia was illegitimate but valid. This thesis attempts to identify the underlying structures beneath this and other contradictions and inconsistencies by tracing the features of a recent determination of a native title claim back through time. In 1994, the …
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The Dynamics of Human and Rattlesnake Conflict in Southern California
… extremity, distal to the ankle or wrist, and via illegitimate provocation of the snake. Snakebite severity was positively associated with snake size, negatively associated with patient mass, and independent of patient age, snake taxon, anatomical location of bite, legitimate versus illegitimate …
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An Assessment of Technical Barriers in Central American Agricultural and Food Trade
… the WTO and the US, in reducing the incidence of illegitimate regulations in intra-regional trade. Central America may implement illegitimate barriers more against others in the region than against the US. Although the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) may support Central America's …
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