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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Interdisciplinary Methods"”.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in and Beyond the Writing Classroom: Teaching Writing through Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Methods
The following project investigates how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives like Students' Right to Their Own Language in writing and composition studies gets taken up in writing pedagogies. The project includes research into Gender, Race, and Identity (GRI) pedagogies as well. DEI …
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Chimie Intégrative dédiée aux morphosynthèses de matériaux composites multi-échelles et étude de leurs applications en photoluminescence, photocatalyse et photovoltaïque
… in creating complex solid architectures using interdisciplinary methods such as sol-gel chemistry or complex fluids physics. Therefore, it is possible to synthesize Titanium Dioxide macroscopic fibers or films which possess a hierarchical porosity. This organization allows the optimization of …
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Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction
… and discourses can be recognized. Employing the interdisciplinary methods of ecocriticism and cultural materialism, I read Cold War trash to provide a new account of American Cold War culture and literature by tracing the emergence of household garbage as a significant trope in varying cultural …
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Using geographic information systems to identify student retention patterns
… have recommended finding innovative, interdisciplinary methods to address the “student departure puzzle.” In this pioneering study, a geographic information system (GIS) was innovatively used to develop a habitus retention model based on U.S. Census Bureau socioeconomic and demographic …
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Imifino yasendle, imifino isiZulu : the ethnobotany, historical ecology and nutrition of traditional vegetables in KwaZulu-Natal
… ecological and nutritional dynamics. Interdisciplinary methods incorporating anthropology, ecology, nutrition and history are required to present holistic insights into the processes of imifino use and disuse. These techniques are focused on the community of Nkonisa, a forced …
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Revisioning transformation : towards a systematic proto-evangelical paradigm of the Christian life.
… a revision through ecumenical “ressourcement” or interdisciplinary methods. These often-conflicting approaches leave a landscape characterised by pluralism, division, fragmentation, confusion, relativism, individualism, pragmatism and subjectivism. Although evangelicalism is seen by some as a …
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Are Elephants Flagships or Battleships? Understanding Impacts of Human-Elephant Conflict on Human Wellbeing in Trans Mara District, Kenya
… and 500 resident animals. This study used interdisciplinary methods to gain insights into the nature and consequences of conflict on the wellbeing of communities living with elephants. In particular, I used a combination of existing wellbeing indices and a set of indicators developed …
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Runic writing in Orkney: expression of a Norse identity?
… the corpus, and put into a wider context, using interdisciplinary methods from runology, linguistics, philology, onomastics, and archaeology. The inscriptions are used as sources of identity expressions for various aspects of the Norse in Orkney, such as gender, linguistic identity, personal …
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Teaching About Genocide: A Cross-Curricular Approach in Art and History
… recognition of the promises and struggles of interdisciplinary methods, and the value of instructional strategies, that include non-discursive sources of testimony, for Holocaust and genocide education.</p>
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Behind the Waterfront: Enduring Inequities and Illusive Renewals in the Making of Mediterranean Port Cities
… coastal neighborhoods. Its findings and interdisciplinary methods reveal the spatial inheritance of contemporary inequities, fostering the adoption of inclusive urban narratives, acknowledging plural pasts, and envisioning reparative futures.
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Visions of Possibilities: (De)Constructing Imperial Narratives in Star Trek: Voyager
… theories of cultural studies and empire, I use interdisciplinary methods of narrative analysis to examine threads of imperial ideologies that are (re)told and glorified in popular American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001). Voyager follows the Star Trek tradition …
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The Take Up and Use of Green Technologies in Low Carbon Communities: A Case Study of North West Cambridge
… and carbon 'footprint' of the community? Using interdisciplinary methods, the study uses primary data analysis to create behavioural groupings which are then matched to energy profiles. By linking specific policies, programmes and urban design features to each group, we can project technology …
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From street to screen: Linguistic productions of place in San Francisco's Mission District
… these interactive spaces. Uniting theory and methods from anthropology, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics and corpus linguistics, I explore what language does in these open and expanding interactive environments to gain insight on the reciprocal dynamics of individuals, …
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DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CULTURE SYSTEMS TO ACCESS UNTAPPED OVARIAN RESERVES FOR IMPROVING REPRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY
… female fertility preservation. Following this, interdisciplinary methods were adopted to elucidate the web of interacting genes governing primordial follicle fate in vitro and in vivo. The conducted transcriptome and network analyses indicate that ferroptosis and autophagy are the elected …
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Novel approaches for modelling changes in phytoplankton diversity and lake ecosystem function
… system dynamics. Due to the simplicity of the methods, regular use of perturbation methods is suggested to assess model uncertainty and to better understand the model. Chapter 3 used interdisciplinary methods to identify changes in dissolved oxygen (DO) observations caused by biological …
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Irish Sea : a socio-ecological system
… apparent that there is an urgent need for new, interdisciplinary, methods with which to address management holistically and under conditions of uncertainty. This research aimed to examine the data-policy and theory-practice divides which currently hinder effective implementation of marine …
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Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places : An Exploration of the Bjäre Peninsula
… traditional landscape archaeology and through interdisciplinary methods, in order to arrive at an understanding of the conditions in which people lived in prehistoric times. Extensive fieldwork has also been done to give a more complete and fair picture of the rock carvings in the area. Another …
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Investigating the association between the built environment and active travel of young adults using location based technology
… an active lifestyle. In this study, I employed interdisciplinary methods from geography, public health, and urban planning. I attempted to integrate realms of urban planning and public health by using innovative technologies such as GIS and smartphone sensors to examine travel behaviors. This …
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HIDDEN IN THE COAT: GEOMICROBIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF ROCK ART ECOSYSTEMS AND CHALLENGES FOR THEIR SUSTAINABLE PRESERVATION
… both geology and biology, therefore we combined interdisciplinary methods in geochemistry, molecular biology and bioinformatics to further understand how microbial communities are involved in the formation of rock art coatings. In the last part of this thesis we present a paper that utilized …
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Environmental Change Based on Earth Observation and Field Data -- A Local Study in the Sahel Zone of Mali and Senegal
… of Senegal). Intensive ground-truthing using interdisciplinary methods validates and explains vegetation changes observed in satellite data. High-resolution Corona (1965) and RapidEye (2011) imagery show woody vegetation and land cover change at tree level. Results reveal a significant …
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