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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"Inaccessibility"”.
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KANT ON THE INACCESSIBILITY OF NON-SENSIBLE REALITY
The goal of my PhD dissertation is to provide a contribution to the ongoing debate on Kant’s transcendental idealism, more precisely on his stance towards non-sensible reality.
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Transcending inaccessibility : reassessing the Action Painters in the light of rhetorical theory
This interdisciplinary thesis investigates the Action Painting movement using rhetorical theories and models with the intent of producing a higher level of understanding of the paintings and increasing their approachability. A brief history of nonobjective painting, the technique of automatism, and …
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Improving Accessibility of safe and clean water in Maroroni ward in Meru district, Arusha
… prevail at Maroroni ward. It was depicted that inaccessibility of safe and clean water among various communities of Maroroni ward is the major pressing need which require immediate attention. When the problem was analysed using participatory tools such as questionnaires, survey and focus group …
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Geophysical and geochemical constraints on submarine volcanic processes
… been historically limited due to their relative inaccessibility, recent observations from active systems provide valuable opportunities to address key open questions in submarine volcanology. This thesis provides new insight into submarine volcanic processes using observations and samples from …
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Doula Support as a Means to Improve Birth Outcomes for Minority Women
… status, availability of services, and cultural inaccessibility. This paper focuses on my capstone experience with UCSF and Roots of Labor Birth Collective as we created a program to provide and evaluate the impact of culturally competent doula care to improve the birth experiences of women of …
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Navigating Advocacy as a Disabled Woman: A Qualitative Study of Gender and Disability in Pakistan
… navigate several challenges: structural inaccessibility, restricted mobility, familial surveillance, institutional exclusion, and uneven access to disability organizations. In response, they develop strategies rooted in faith, identity, and relationality that challenge Global North models …
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Digital Tools and Design: Improving Participation in Policymaking
… the public in policymaking because of their inaccessibility. I then explore ways to make government consultations more accessible and engaging, taking findings from: a literature review; interviews with policy practitioners; and case studies of real-world consultations that were effective in …
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Encouraging collaboration through a new data management approach
… management methods often result in data loss, inaccessibility or repetition of simulations. We propose a framework which promotes collaboration and simplifies data management. In particular we have demonstrated the proposed framework in the scenario of handling large scale data generated from …
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Scratching with all your fingers : exploring multi-touch programming in Scratch
… used a multi-touch interface; but, due to the inaccessibility of most tablet software development kits, very few of these people have ever developed their own multi-touch interactions. This thesis discusses the challenges in developing a toolkit that allows novices to easily make simple …
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Examining complex diabetes and patient illness experiences: utilizing syndemic and health capabilities approach
… social circumstances, financial insecurity, and inaccessibility to healthcare resources. Implications of this study suggest that access to social and economic resources built into the structure help shape a person’s health capability. Fundamental to the syndemic phenomenon associated with complex …
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Exploring Accessibility and Companionship in Boardgames via Alexa
The inaccessibility of rulebooks hinders the rule learning experience of boardgame players who are blind or low vision (BLV). We explore the design of conversational agents (CAs) to support players' learning needs and provide companionship by conducting two qualitative studies. In study 1, 14 …
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Holosuite : an exploration into interactive holographic telepresence
… light modulation materials. Due to the niche and inaccessibility of holographic display research, however, literature on applications of holographic display technology remains scarce. In this thesis, we describe a holographic display application that combines remote telepresence with interaction …
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An Examination of Settler-Colonial Genocide in Canada at the Microlevel of Reserves
… residential schools, overincarceration, obesity, inaccessibility of safe drinking water, opioid use, and the 60s scoop to present day millennial scoop. In a given Indigenous society, the elements and acts defining genocide are discernable, here from documents such as reports by the departments and …
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Ultraviolet Light and Fluorescence in Medicine: Their Application to the Problem of Microscopic Localization of Tetracycline
… whose vastness is exceeded only by the inaccessibility of much of the basic work which has been printed in German journals and is not generally, if at all, available in this country. | Fluorescence is a physical phenomenon whose manifestations can be found in the mineral, petroleum, …
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Barriers to gender-based violence care: a qualitative study of migrant and refugee women
… language barriers. This is compounded by social inaccessibility due to cultural norms against reporting GBV and bureaucratic inaccessibility from prolonged documentation processes. Acceptability of services found multiple reports of xenophobic treatment and victim-blaming behaviour from service …
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Against Modalities: On the Presumed Coherence and Alleged Indispensability of Some Modal Notions
… the threat of incoherence, their epistemic inaccessibility, and the dispensability of modal talk in the sciences.
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Development of a to-scale fluid mixing visualization process for analysis of cold-flow mixing
… large amounts of biomass go underutilized due to inaccessibility and transportation costs. A by-product of torrefaction is volatile gas, thus, a system may be built to harness this otherwise wasted energy and use it to power the treatment of biomass. An efficient fuel-mixer and combustor system …
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Air Installations Compatible Use Zones: an assessment of the development of the Department of Defense policy and the implementation by the Department of the Navy
… gaps are the result of the unavailability and/or inaccessibility of certain data due to a number of reasons. Certain information was classified for security reasons and, as such, could not be included in this analysis. A more frequent reason for the gaps was that some information was available …
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Socio-Economic Impacts of Micro-enterprise Credit in the Informal Sector of Managua, Nicaragua
… sector growth has been constrained by the inaccessibility of credit. However in recent years, credit programs that focus on micro-enterprise lending have been established and are significantly stimulating informal sector activities. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of micro-enterprise …
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General practitioners' perceptions of mental health services and factors influencing their referral decisions: a comparative, qualitative study
… female GPs. Findings indicated the importance of inaccessibility in influencing how mental health services were used and suggested that GPs adopt different strategies to manage difficulties associated with this. Clinical psychologists were perceived as inaccessible by all participants whilst …
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