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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Lukes"”.
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Parent Perceptions and Experiences in Child Custody Decision-Making
Using the works of Lukes (2005) and Gutierrez (1994), this dissertation provides a critical view of the study findings through a discussion of power and empowerment to illustrate that, within child custody decision-making, one‟s capacity for power is affected not just by scope and significance, as …
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Land titling as women's empowerment: critical observations from Recife Brazil
… two gaps are explored in this thesis. I use Lukes’ three-tiered concept of power as a framework for examining how titles and titling shift the relative power of the individual and embedded in interpersonal and institutional relationships. I use Lukes’ to examine the Ponte do Maduro Project, …
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ΔΙΑΤΑΡΑΧΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΝΟΣΟΣΦΑΙΡΙΝΩΝ ΣΤΑ ΚΑΚΟΗΘΗ ΜΗ HODGKIN'S ΛΕΜΦΩΜΑΤΑ ΑΠΟ Β ΚΥΤΤΑΡΑ
… HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA, ACCORDING TO THE CRITERIA OF LUKES AND COLLINS, FOR THE DETECTION OF MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINS. QUANTITATION OF SERUM IMMUNOGLOBULINS, DETECTION OF CRYOGLOBULINS AND INVESTIGATION OF THE MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINS FOR AUTOANTIBODY SPECIFICITIES, WAS ALSO PERFORMED. THE OVERALL …
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Some results on nonlinear optimal control
… point and periodic cases studied earlier by Lukes and Zhang, respectively, to the case where the invariant target set is a compact submanifold of the state space.
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Power and the People’s Action Party : a study of two parliamentary schemes
… the nation became independent in 1965. Steven Lukes' framework of understanding how power opérâtes from his 1974 book Power: A Radical View will be employed. This thesis will deal with two Parliamentary schemes introduced by the PAP. The Non-Constituency Member of Parliament ( N C M P ) scheme …
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Local Amenity Societies - Participation and Power: A case study on the St Marylebone Society 1948 - 2021
… of both overt and covert power, as identified by Lukes (2005). The strategies and tactics they employed to exercise their power are considered in detailed historical narratives, with reference to Flyvjberg’s (1998) theories relating to power, rationality, rationalization and how long-standing …
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Analysis of Model-driven vs. Data-driven Approaches to Engaging Student Learning in Introductory Geoscience Laboratories
Increasingly, teachers are encouraged to use data resources in their classrooms, which are becoming more widely available on the web through organizations such as Digital Library for Earth System Education, National Science Digital Library, Project Kaleidoscope, and the National Science Teachers …
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Power and wind power: exploring experiences of renewable energy planning processes in Scotland.
… which may be exercised the research employs Lukes three-dimensional view of power as a framework of how the concept is to be understood. Through this framework, the thesis does not only consider the power of objectors, but also of prospective developers and the forms of power that are found …
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The campaign for the tenant right to purchase in Greater Boston
… in state and local governance. I argue that Lukes' three dimensions of power are at work in this case: first, landlords and real estate interests have won all recent open political conflicts with tenants in Massachusetts, creating a path-dependence effect that reinforces the power imbalance; …
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Listening to the Community: An Appreciative Case Study of Service-Learning Initiatives Within a Higher Education Institution
… The concept of power, as described by Lukes (2005), provided the primary theoretical framework for this case study informed by Appreciative Inquiry. Data were collected through interviews with community partners who had collaborated with the university in service-learning activities, as …
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Vélomobility - A critical analysis of planning and space
… Harvey and power theories deriving mainly from Lukes’ three dimensions of power. The materialisation of power relations is analysed with the example of modern planning in Sweden and Denmark. Overall this thesis manages to show how cycling as a mode of transport is marginalised in urban space, …
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The participation of stroke survivors in service development and research: an ethnographic study
… period in south London.<br/><br/>Drawing on Lukes’ three-dimensional view of power and embodied health movement theory, the thesis considers the implicit claims of user involvement policy that involving the public in the work of professionals will lead to patient empowerment, creation of new …
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The effect of selection for milk yield on net energy balance and plasma concentrations of endogenous hormones and metabolites in primiparous Holsteins
The effect of genetic selection for milk yield on lactation yield, net energy balance (NEB) and on plasma growth hormone (GH), insulin (INS), prolactin (PRL), nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA) and glucose was studied in primiparous Holstein cows. Net energy balance was calculated and serial blood …
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Power relationships and authentic organisational learning : daring to break the silence on meaningful dialogue in policing organisations
… of power drawn individually from Dahl through to Lukes and Foucault. Notions such as ‘meaningful dialogue’ and ‘liberated learning space’ are introduced as a means to explain the capacity or ‘power to’ question the existing order of things: including the traditional dominant attitudes, beliefs, …
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A Sociological Study of Addiction: Power and Social Change from the "rock bottom up"
… (and its relation to social determination)” (Lukes quoted in Archer, 1996:93) and have a conditioning effect on “the degrees of freedom within which power can be exercised” (Archer, 1996: 93-94). However in this study by applying Smith’s reformulation of Parsons’ work (non equilibrium …
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The road to nowhere? A critical case study of the political discourses in the debates around the decision to construct a bypass road around Aberdeen.
… study of urban planning in Aalborg, Denmark, Lukess theories on the second dimension of power and a Foucauldian conceptualistion of power were found to have more acute explanatory power. These major theories have been applied tentatively to the field of public relations by Burkart (2009) who …