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Losing home: Housing, displacement, and the American Dream
<p>Over the past decade, new oral history archives and self-publishing platforms have led to an explosion in the production of memoirs and oral histories of homelessness. This dissertation frames the growing genre of homeless life narratives as a form of urban theory that has been largely displaced …
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Losing ground : locational formulations in argumentation over New Travellers
This thesis is an exercise in discursive psychology. The body of discourse analysed concerns the defence of rural space against New Travellers. In contrast to previous sociological and human geographical work in this area, instead of newspaper articles and Parliamentary discourse, participants' …
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Losing or choosing faith : mother loss and religious change.
Maternal religiosity is often associated with children's religiosity even as children grow into adulthood. However, experiencing the death of one's mother during adolescence or young adulthood may modify the transmission of maternal religiosity across the life course. Drawing on national data on …
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Losing out: the Social Service Employees Union, 1962-1969.
Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 1973
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Eudora Welty: Family, Place, and Human Identity in Losing Battles
No abstract prepared.
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Losing Connection: Developmental Stress and Synaptic Loss in Caenorhabditis elegans
Synapses are connections that propagate neural transmissions within the nervous system and throughout an organism. They begin to form during development and are in a continuous state of formation and elimination as animals age. A deficiency in formation or improper elimination of synapses could be …
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Losing the Cosmos: Arendt and Voegelin on the Origins of Modernity
Engaging the work of Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin, two foundational twentieth-century political philosophers, I examine the historical origins of the loss of cosmos, interpreted here as the ongoing crisis of modernity characterized by alienation and Gnosticism. Three themes are discussed with …
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Finding and Losing Meaning: Understanding Change in Employee Meaning of Work
Meaning of work is an important topic in organizational studies because how people relate to their work can influence workplace attitudes and behaviors. However, despite a long history of research on meaning of work, an agreed-upon theoretical framework of meaning is yet to emerge. Further, while …
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‘Fighting a losing battle’: A Glaserian Grounded Theory of midwives’ workplace stress
… in midwifery is presented entitled ‘Fighting a Losing Battle’: Midwives’ Experiences of and Response to Workplace Stress.
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Gifts Rescinded: The Impact of Losing the Gifted Label due to Relocation
… This work examines the impact of gaining and losing the gifted label due to relocation on students’ understanding of the their own identify as related to their understanding of their own intelligence, social interactions, and the development of their academic self-concept. The study was …
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From Losing Everything to Finding Community: How Homeless People Narrate their Lived Experiences
… and analyzed in chapters entitled: Losing Everything, Navigating the System, Manipulating the System, and Seeking Recognition/Finding Community. Based on my analysis of these narratives, I propose suggestions for how public policy can better respond to the needs of the homeless by …
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The experience of losing a sibling in adult life: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… of this study is to explore the experience of losing a sibling in adult life. The research investigates the participants’ individual experience from an existential perspective, with the view of contributing to the field of bereavement in counselling psychology and psychotherapy; and adding to …
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Training to failure or how i learned to stop winning and love losing
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Are Cape Cormorants (Phalacrocorax capensis) losing the competition? Dietary overlap with commercial fisheries
Characterisation of the diet of pelagic feeders can be regarded as key to development of ecosystem-based management plans, conservation of predators as well as understanding of ecological and trophic interactions. Therefore, long term studies on dietary changes provide insights into the nature of …
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Ruin and Redemption: Losing and Regaining Honour in the Canadian Officer Corps, 1914—1945
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study to trace the evolution of military dishonour and dismissal from an historical perspective in the Canadian armed forces during the First and Second World Wars. Using extensive general court martial records, archival documentation, and restricted …
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As you cannot hear the sound of losing: researching the gambling environment through performance
… The performance As you cannot hear the sound of losing grew from this research, into an exploration of the melancholy that can be felt by the individual as a result of engaging with gambling environments. You cannot hear the sound of losing in these places; the reality of losing does not exist …
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Losing our lakes: an assessment of the human dimensions of lakeshore landowner shoreland management
The fragility of shorelines and the impact of residential development on habitat and water quality led to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource's interest in promoting native vegetative buffers. First, I used the Integrative Model (IM) (Fishbein & Yzer, 2003) to evaluate lakeshore …
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