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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Incoherence"”.
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Embracing incoherence: perspectives on the performance of Almeida Prado's fourteen nocturnes
This dissertation lecture-recital delves into the interpretation of Almeida Prado's fourteen Nocturnes. Using a multidisciplinary approach that includes an investigation of the composer's output and musical philosophy, postmodernist ideology, comparison of currently available scores of the fourteen …
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Efficiency of international organizations’ conflict resolution strategies in the midst of intra-organizational incoherence – The Libyan civil war as a proxy stage
• A vizsgált periódus alatt számos jel utalt Oye nemzetközi rezsimek megtorló mechanizmusára vonatkozó elméletének pontatlanságára. Bizonyos tagok politikai súlya érzékelhetően befolyásolta a szervezeteken belüli folyamatokat akár a bürokratikus folyamatok lelassításával, akár más módon, hogy ezzel …
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Philosophical exploration of transsexuality
… medical model of transsexuality conceptual incoherence. Second, to establish an alternative model for understanding transsexuality: the model of authenticity. The current medical model is based on an assumption that the sexed body and gender identity are distinct, so that gender is different …
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Bridging urban discontent
There exists an incoherence in many contemporary cities between built architectural, urban fabric and the main transport arteries that feed the city. This incoherence leads to dangerous and disused space in the city which leads to disconnected parts owing to the untraversable nature of these …
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Damned If You Do: Judas Iscariot And The Invention Of Medieval Literary Character
… as a case study to argue that the seeming incoherence of medieval characters can reframe characterization as a tactic deployed by the text, rather than an unmediated reflection of human subjectivity.
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Coherent control of quantum information
… implemented entangling operation, where incoherence can be difficult to separate from decoherence. By studying the fidelity decay under the cyclic entangling map, the effects of incoherence are easily distinguished from decoherence in experimental data. Decoherence free subspaces (DFSs) …
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Partial belief and expert testimony
… I distinguish between Dutch books that reveal incoherence-like the diachronic Dutch book for conditionalization-and Dutch books that reveal a type of problem I call selfdoubt. I argue that violating Reflection is a type of self-doubt rather than a type of incoherence.
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An aquatic and racquet center for the Federal City
… contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. Instead, I speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on the richness and ambiguity of modern experience, …
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Queering the Real: Antisociality and the impossible nothing of queer
… lines as aporetic junctures, opacity, and incoherence. This approach is developed in conversation with Lee Edelman’s Bad Education where he conceptualises queer aligned to the incomprehensibility of the Lacanian Real – as being outside of identity markers or systems of recognition. Queer as …
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Performing the Loop
… the work as moments of encounter within a bodily incoherence. This thesis project is constituted as 80% practice-based work accompanied by a 20% exegesis.
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British Eugenics Failure and Success
… whether due to social backlash or internal incoherence. The British Eugenic Educational Society as the foundational point of eugenics, has therefore been overlooked as a result of it’s perceived lack of contribution to eugenic thought and its failure to pass eugenic legislation. Founded by …
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The US-Israeli partnership & America’s search for strategy in the Middle East, 1945-1974
… by two key characteristics: reaction and incoherence. These descriptors are especially true of Washington’s strategic partnership with Tel Aviv – an arrangement that emerged relatively late in the development of US regional strategy, in response to the stagnation of primary efforts to …
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Synthetic aperture sonar imaging using compressive sensing and an ultrasound transducer array
… that is based on the principles of sparsity and incoherence. Sparsity refers to the fact that a signal of interest is sparse and compressible and can be represented concisely in a given basis. Incoherence refers to the idea that a sparse signal is spread out in the basis in which it is acquired. …
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Soil-structure interaction effects of simple structures supported on rectangular foundations
… power spectral density function and a spatial incoherence function. The structures examined are considered to have one lateral and one torsional degree of freedom in their fixed-base condition. The response quantities investigated include the ensemble means of the peak values of the lateral and …
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Likeness in Utopia: Situation and Metaphor from Thomas More to Edward Bellamy
… and utopian colonialism as a central incoherence in the utopian imaginary. Ultimately, this paper argues for a productive misreading of literary utopias, pointing to the way utopia has escaped and even refashioned its authors and the way readers’ misinterpretations have opened new …
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Maneuvers in the Oeuvre: The problem of confession in the works of Foucault, Mishima and Winterson".
… establish their works as a site where deliberate incoherence, as much as much, can be produced. In Chapter 1, I argue that Foucault?s works demonstrate the importance of considering the self-representing subject in his works. Focusing on Mishima?s Confessions of a Mask and Winterson?s Oranges Are …
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Rewriting the grammar of secondary schools: lessons in paradigm change from multi-age organisation
… a multi-disciplinary perspective. They speak of incoherence in the traditional structure of schooling caused by same-age organization, more accurately, an incoherence in structuration, the duality of structure and agency described by Giddens (1979). The public works argue that as the complexity …
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El Baile de los que Sobran. Literatura y Negatividad en el Caribe Hispano
… as the embodiment of psychic and social incoherence and disobedience. This approach allows me to focus on authors and artists from Colombia, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic that not only question identity as a discursive construct, but also through the ways in which the (re)mediation of …
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Against Modalities: On the Presumed Coherence and Alleged Indispensability of Some Modal Notions
… of arguments against modalities: the threat of incoherence, their epistemic inaccessibility, and the dispensability of modal talk in the sciences.
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Raping the raced body: Trauma in Asian North American women's literature
… psychological states of unrest, instability, and incoherence. Most importantly, this study examines the frequently simultaneous narrations of sexual trauma and racial awareness, of how personal narratives of trauma against the physical body become entangled with narratives about racial awareness, …
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