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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Insularity"”.
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Reproductive insularity in a migratory sparrow: A field study of Lincoln's sparrow populations in Southern California
Melospiza lincolnii -- San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountain ranges -- migrational return -- Dispersal - Morphometric analysis.
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Reproductive insularity in a migratory sparrow: A field study of Lincoln's sparrow populations in Southern California
Melospiza lincolnii -- San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountain ranges -- migrational return -- Dispersal - Morphometric analysis.
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Insularity and Interaction: Investigating the role of exchange and inter-island interaction in the Banda Islands, Indonesia
Trade and exchange exerted a powerful force in the historic and protohistoric past of Island Southeast Asian communities. Exchange and interaction are also hypothesized to have played an important role in the spread of new technologies and lifestyles throughout the region during the Neolithic …
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The Crete and Cretans of Euripides: Perceptions and Representations
… terms of two contemporary, theoretical models - insularity and interconnectivity-, which offer insights into the complex relationships of difference and similarity between islands and the mainland. In terms of insularity, Crete is viewed as an ‘island’, distant and distinct from Athens. The model …
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Most Alive, Most Dead
Finding spatial solutions to insularity, space shortage and loss of value in a rapidly changing urban cemetery and context by investigating new relationships between the sacred and profane
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Modern radiocarbon offsets within the land snails Cyclophorus: a tropical karst case study from Northern Vietnam
… a tower karst area of high endemism and habitat insularity. Archaeological sites in the region contain abundant shell middens, composed mainly of terrestrial Cyclophorus molluscs.<br/><br/>The reliable interpretation of radiocarbon (14C) dates of terrestrial mollusc shells depends on an …
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Family, Feud, and the Conduct of War in Anglo-Saxon England
… practices that probably reflect the insularity and hostility toward those outside the kin group typical of a feuding culture.</p>
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Strange Measure
… gaze when in flight paired with the aircraft's insularity, interested me initially as a metaphor. To inhabit the infinitude of the sky within a protective vessel, moving through, and suspended within, space, extending the boundaries of the subject. Each scale -- the scale of expanse, and the …
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From Myth to Meth: Viewing the American Small Town Through the Lens of Psychoanalytica Fantasy
… a symbol for benevolent hospitality and hostile insularity, the American small town and its surrounding rural areas have assumed many faces and forms in both filmic and literary representations over the last hundred years. Whereas the metropolis carries with it a specific history and culture that …
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Enacting Privacy and Everydayness online: The case study of the Spiteful Tots community
… from scrutiny and created a zone of "relative insularity"' (Cohen 2000); b) a rejection to heteronormativity is enabled by (re)asserting the right of privacy and validating everyday life as a gay or queer subject, and c) therefore, there needs to be consideration and recognition of gay or queer …
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THRELFALL’S BOULDER: An investigation into the relationship between accent, dialect and identity.
… dialect. The play deals with themes of identity, insularity and fear of the outside world. The play uses expectations of identity though speech and seeks to both subvert and reaffirm these expectations. Further to this, the play highlights the issue of how the local pub and its loss affects local …
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Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
… around three key concepts associated with insularity -tropical light, the coast, and the sea/ocean- and the ways in which they force a rearrangement of enduring philosophical concepts: respectively, vision and sense perception, time and space, and history.<br><p> <italic>Imagined …
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Avant-Garde and Socialist Dreamworlds in Latin America: Global and Local Designs, 1919-1939
… kind of autonomy, one not based on innocuous insularity but on a socially conscious critical capacity. The revolutionary discourse that resulted from the combination of political and artistic realms aimed at addressing the masses as an integral part of a new modern society. The chapters …
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'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities
… by the poet’s own gruff assertion of comfortable insularity - is all too often perceived on narrowly English terms. Larkin’s cultural and national identity is taken for granted; his disparaging comments about abroad (“I hate being abroad. Generally speaking, the further one gets from home the …
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Quantity surveying education and the benchmarking of future needs
… to be done to move away from the speciality and insularity of the typical BE discipline to the more pluralist and collaborative multi-disciplinary curricula of the future.
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Island bodies: registers of race and 'Englishness' on Tristan da Cunha c.1811 - c.1940
… to the island has either focused on its supposed insularity, or has completely elided it in the broader thematic and theoretical studies that often dominate scholarship of the Atlantic world. By placing Tristan da Cunha and metropolitan Britain together within the same analytic field and using an …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… the limitations of both interconnectedness and insularity recurrent themes in short stories of the period. This dissertation begins by arguing that formal features which limit narrative length – summary, ellipses and a restricted scope for plot – lend themselves to thematizing various forms of …
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Redefining learning environments in conflict areas : a Palestinian case study
… and public school systems. In considering the insularity of learning environments in the OPT, this thesis finds that despite increased school construction since 1994, public and refugee student drop-out rates have increased, enrollment rates have decreased, academic achievement is low, and …
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When Pākehā Feminism Met the Movement for Māori Sovereignty, 1975–1990
… is said to have been one of increasing feminist insularity or disintegration. Revealing how and why different Pākehā feminists allied with the Māori sovereignty movement, this thesis explores an untold history of Aotearoa through case studies of women working together to produce a range of texts. …
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