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Showing 1 to 20 of 242 for “"Krishna"”.
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Surrender to Krishna : religious conversion and cultural change
… qualitative conversion narratives of four Hare Krishna devotees obtained in unstructured 'free attitude' interviews (conversations), and participational observations of that movement geared towards gaining an explorative, and where possible an indigenous picture of the life-world of Hare Krishna …
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Exploring the experiences of depression within Krishna consciousness devotees: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… depression. A new religious movement known as Krishna Consciousness (KC) has lately become a topic of interest with research indicating a large presence of depression alongside other mental health difficulties in this growing movement. Investigations have consistently explored follower’s mental …
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Spiritual Agency and Sustainability Transitions Exploring Food Practices in Three Hare Krishna Eco-Communities
… observation and in-depth interviewing in Hare Krishna communities in Europe. Three eco-farms were selected to represent different features of spirituality and ecological commitment. Data collection and analysis were guided by Social Practice Theory which enables close-up scrutinising of …
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The Krishna Temple Complex, Hampi: An Exploration of its identity as a Medieval temple in the contemporary context
… same location or the same circumstances as the Krishna Temple, and therefore reactions to such an endeavor may vary according to the surrounding community and their thought, their belief system. The Krishna Temple is one example out of many. It has prime location, its community has a need for …
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Conversion and Ritualisation: an analysis of how westerners enter the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and assimilate its values and practices
… background enter the International Society for Krishna Consciousnes (ISKCON), a transnational religious movement with its roots in Chaitanya Vaishnavism, a Hindu tradition originating in India. The central argument of my research is that extant models of conversion do not do justice to the …
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Master's recital (flute)
Sri Krishna / John Mayer -- Javārī ratios / Meera Gudipati -- L'aube enchantée / Ravi Shankar -- Uttishta / Asha Srinivasan
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Vishram ghat, Mathura, India: a conservation model for ghat restoration in India
… landscape associated with the life of young Krishna, the Hindu god. This cultural heritage is sustained by ritual behaviors that commemorate her mythic role in bathing, worshipping, and circumambulating the land-water interface of steps known as ghats. Vishram Ghat in Mathura, the birth place …
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Parts of Women
… concerns a man who enters the lives of his Hare Krishna neighbors, and "Rio" involves a word-struck man in his attempt to form a personal relationship.
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A Qualitative Analysis of the ISKCON Movement in South Africa
… thesis explores the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) movement in South Africa. I employ qualitative analysis and use David Chidester's theory of symbolic exchange to analyze contestations over symbols between ISKCON devotees and proponents of competing perspectives in …
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Sustainable agricultural management : a systems approach for examining food security tradeoffs
… depletion. We apply the framework in India's Krishna river basin and find that reallocating resources to meet or exceed current production can lead to 96% gain in net revenue as resources over an estimated current baseline. Resources in this case are moved to high-yielding cash crops. Imposing …
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Social capital and sustainability in a Newfoundland fishing community
… or communal gain (Coleman, 1988; Putnam, 2000; Krishna, 2002; Onyx, 2005). High levels of social capital can lead to collective activism, which according to some, is the single most important contributing factor to sustainability because without activism, an outcome of social capital, there …
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Evaluating the criteria for successful elections in post-conflict countries : a case study including Iraq, Sierra Leone, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
… to the success of an election. This is found in Krishna Kumar’s focus on international assistance (Kumar, 1998), Staffan Lindberg’s attribution of success to repetition of the election process (Lindberg, 2006), Paul Collier’s focus on per capita income (Collier, 2009), and Marie-Soleil Frere’s …
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The religious and political thought of Swami Vivekananda
… to many different interpretations. In the 1890s. Krishna Verma, writing for the journal Sociologist, claimed that Vivekananda was influenced by the evolutionary ideas of Herbert Spencer, which emphasized struggle and the eventual survival of the fittest. Verma therefore concluded that Vivekananda …
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Supercharging Programming through Compiler Technology
… Zhao, Ludger Paehler, Jan Hückelheim, Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Michel Schanen, Johannes Doerfert, Paul Hovland, Ivan R. Ivanov, Jens Domke, and Toshio Endo.
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Through illusion into transcendence : a narrative criticism of the Bhagavad gita
… thought describes a mythic dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, in which the issue of Arjuna's fighting against his family is discussed. Topics ranging from caste-bound duty to the metaphysical structure of reality are covered in this relatively short text. Whereas previous inquiries have …
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Discovery of Alternative Artemisinin Binding Sites in Plasmodium falciparum ATPase-6
… protein target except for PfATP6, proposed by Krishna, et al. His work suggested that artemisinin binds to the homologous thapsigargin binding site of PfATP6. Herein, knowledge of the previously proposed mechanisms was utilized along with numerous computational techniques to determine a more …
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The importance of the ‘urban’ in agricultural-to-urban water transfers: Insights from comparative research in India and China
… to three growing cities: Hyderabad in the Krishna River Basin; Coimbatore in the Cauvery River Basin (both in India); and Kaifeng City in the Yellow River Basin (China). The thesis explores three research areas. The first is the influence of urban attributes – groundwater availability, …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Primary Care Physician Message Strategies to Correct Patient-Held Health Misinformation: An Application of Goals-Plans-Action Theory
… to combat this detrimental health issue (Krishna & Thompson, 2021). Guided by goals-plans-action theory (Dillard, 1990), which explains the communicative process of creating and implementing influence messages, the purpose of this dissertation was to: (a) uncover primary care physician …
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Social capital and social entrepreneurship : analysing links and implications for sustainability in third sector organisations in West Bengal
… social capital development is context specific. Krishna (2002) found that in a poor socio-economic context, social entrepreneurs acting as mediators can activate social capital and bring development. Social entrepreneurs act as catalysts to social change (Alvord et al. 2004), but limited studies …
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Towards energy-performance trade-off analysis of parallel applications
… Moreover, in a recent IEEE computer article, Krishna Kant argues that ""A formal understanding of energy and computation trade-offs will lead to significantly more energy-efficient hardware and software designs"". We believe that examining the relation between the performance of parallel …
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