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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Laing"”.
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Descandalizing Laing: R.D. Laing as a social theorist
The scandal surrounding R.D. Laing’s work concerns both his life and his theories. Given that there is sufficient biographical material on Laing already in existence, this thesis focuses upon his theoretical contributions. No substantial review and critique of the criticism of Laing is currently in …
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A missionary life among the amaXhosa : the Eastern Cape journals of James Laing, 1830-1836
… a section of the journals of the Reverend James Laing of the Glasgow Missionary Society. The first scholarly study of the Laing journals, this thesis seeks to contribute towards a new understanding of the early days of transcultural interchange on the Eastern Cape frontier. The only previous …
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Reading Material: Literary, Picturing, and Representational Strategies in the work of Carol Laing, Sue Lloyd, Andy Fabo, Sharon Switzer, Jane Buyers, and Allyson Clay
To employ a critical process that draws upon the network of relations and associations between works of art and literature, that generates different ways of reading and viewing that are inclusive and meaningful, and that introduces new strategies for visualizing what is possible, requires breaking …
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Molecular genetic investigation of autosomal dominant muscular dystrophy
… for this form of distal myopathy, now known as Laing myopathy. The MPD1 candidate region was excluded as the disease gene location for two other forms of distal myopathy. Silburn myopathy in 1994, which established the genetic heterogeneity of distal myopathy, and Felice myopathy in 1996. The …
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Professional perceptions of domestic violence: The relationship between causal explanations and views on prevention and intervention
… remain controversial across professions (Laing, 2002). Based on the literature supporting the importance of consistent professional perceptions and responses towards domestic violence, the current qualitative research aimed to measure the consistency of perceptions across five Perth …
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Transverse polarization structure of parsec-scale radio jets
… already proposed in the literature (examined by Laing 1981) are tested against observations and enhanced accordingly in order to account for any discrepancies with observations. These enhancements include the addition of a tangled magnetic field component and radial compression at the outer …
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"The inlegebill scribling of my imprompt pen": the production and circulation of literary miscellany manuscripts in Jacobean Scotland, c. 1580-c.1630
… Chapter Two, is Edinburgh University Library MS Laing III.447. For the largest part, the content of this manuscript has been printed, as a supplementary volume to the works of Alexander Montgomerie. This print is problematic in many respects, however, since it reorganised the entire content, and …
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In Ordinary Trauma: Notes on Time
… like Maggie Nelson, Sinéad Gleeson, Olivia Laing and Helen Mc Donald. These writers highlight the role of time in relation to trauma and self. I built on some of the ideas they introduced, and time became the organizing principle around which discussions of rupture, fragmentation, …
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A rationale for a correspondence version of a first-year university expository writing course.
… Volume: 39-02, page: 0327. Adviser: Donald Laing. Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1998.
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The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.
… to the framework devised by Benskin and Laing (1981) in their study of Middle English scribes. A detailed linguistic comparison of OEB witnesses combined with a close examination of the physical manuscripts reveals the working methods of scribes involved in their production. The …
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Dan Graham's Video-Installations of the 1970s
… of Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and R.D. Laing informed his post-Minimalist work and how concepts gleaned from these sources are manifest in his video-installations. Also undertaken are discussions of the artist's interest in aestheticized play, the just-past present, the debate between …
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One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South
… including Edmund Husserl, Jurgen Habermas, R. D. Laing, Pierre Bourdieu, and Francisco Varela, who all recommend a practice of self-observation as a kind of “portable laboratory” for investigating the intersections of embodiment, habit, and history. I conclude that the self-knowledge gained …
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Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe
… Adler, Jung, Winnicott, and Suttie, as well as Laing, via Daniel Burston's typology of psychoanalytic theorists. Extensive discussions of Howe's views on depression, the inferiority complex, the psychology of love, and the psychology of the self were also provided. Part III demonstrated Howe's …
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Digitised engineering knowledge for prefabricated façades
… general contractor (and façade manufacturer) Laing O’Rourke. The research has explored ways of using design and manufacturing knowledge and it has developed a digital tool and tested its functionalities. In the first part, after a review of the state-of-the-art in knowledge-based approaches in …
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Modern Scottish Theatre: the Creation of a Tradition
… and the auteur director/designer Stewart Laing.<br/><br/>Finally, in Chapter 4 and the Conclusion, the thesis considers the way in which the National Theatre of Scotland (established in 2006) has mapped onto and contributed towards the European Modernist strand in Scottish Theatre. This is …
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The effectiveness of the Impulse Adjusting Instrument® compared to dry needling in the treatment of upper trapezius myofascial trigger points
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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Severance packages: a crime paranormal novel and exegesis focussing on the electronic and digital publication of creative writing
This Master of Arts project comprises a novel, Severance Packages, written for electronic and digital publication, and an accompanying exegesis that contextualises the novel in relation to its genre and to the emerging field of electronic and digital publication in Australia.
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Rapture : excursions in little tyrannies and bigger lies
This research project in performance studies is anchored around the writing, devising and performing of a series of three solo performance works entitled Rapture, Rapture II, and Rapture III. Rapture III was examined in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. …
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Blithe Spirits: Absent British Women Couturiers – The Rahvis Sisters (1928 – 1981)
This practice-led research project explores the Rahvis Sisters as ‘Absent British Women Couturiers’ in the established canon. As my title states, here they become ‘Blithe Spirits’ located in the virtual world. My project is multifarious: it repeats, returns and is polymorphic, in approach, …
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