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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"MATERIALISATION"”.
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… Exact Fantasies: Practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art. The term fetish conjures sensuous objects of fixation and perversion. The dissertation argues that the negative perceptions of the fetish derive from its history as an Occidental construction and …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… Exact Fantasies: Practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art. The term fetish conjures sensuous objects of fixation and perversion. The dissertation argues that the negative perceptions of the fetish derive from its history as an Occidental construction and …
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The XFM view adaptation mechanism: An essential component for XML data warehouses
… into a single view graph called the XML Fragment Materialisation (XFM) View Graph, where common parts between different views are shared and appear only once in the graph. Fragments within the view graph can be selected for materialisation to facilitate the view adaptation process. While changes …
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Materialising cultural value in the English lakes, 1735-1845 : a study of the responses of new landowners to representations of place and people
… landowners estates are examined to evidence the materialisation of cultural values, whether through the agency of discourse, the influence of others, or personal experience. During the eighteenth century the Hospital responded to criticism minimally, by planting the Derwentwater shore. Lord …
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Cervical Cancer at the Crossroads. An historical ontology of evidence in cervical cancer prevention
… politics' that can capture and critique the materialisation of care and disease, by interrogating the normative capacity of statistical ways of knowing and doing in science and medicine. Finally, this thesis articulates the value of ‘black swan’ irregularities for understanding and improving …
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Multidimensional aggregation in OLAP systems
… been to select the minimum number of views for materialisation, while retaining fast query response time. This thesis makes significant contributions to this area by introducing the Low Redundancy (L-R) approach which provides the means for the selection, computation and storage of nonredundant …
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Site specific performance and the mechanics of becoming social
… (Heddon, 2010) performance that encourages the materialisation of what psychologist Charles Fernyhough (2016) refers to as the voices within. Interrelationality, intimacy, proximity, place and social space are explored, with concepts of hosting, caretaking and hospitality mobilised in …
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Accounting for taste : conversation, categorisation and certification in the sensory assessment of craft brewing
… expressed or recorded, and as a re-enactment and materialisation of individual cognitivist models of assessment. Through exploring the ways a classification system is assembled, translated and made authoritative this thesis extends the conceptualisation of what is considered a technology in …
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On the origins of buildings: A social-ecological network approach to contemporary bioregional architectures of American earth, Norwegian timber & Balinese bamboo
… value chains hold potential to transform the materialisation of the built environment into an impactful climate solution. A circular bioeconomy is recognised as more complex than a linear fossil economy, yet the ways biospheric resources are owned, distributed, managed, processed, and embedded …
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Making Resource Futures: Petroleum and Performance by the Norwegian Barents Sea
… and how futures are made and broken by the materialisation of the petroleum projects on- and offshore. The second part of the thesis is concerned with how the industry, the state and environmentalists creatively engage with conference settings, state rituals and the legal system, to …
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Continuity of practice in two international schools: taking a distributed perspective of leadership
… continuity of practice was achieved through the materialisation and routinisation of processes and systems, and relied on the communication of expectations to all stakeholders and the distribution or embedding of practice at multiple levels. In School B, continuity of practice was achieved …
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The Impasse of Liberal (In)Equality: Materialising Egalitarian Politics Through Collective Fidelity
… the notion of faith as a process for the materialisation of egalitarian politics. Against Badiou, political fidelity will be conceptualised as a subjective as well as an objective procedure. The object of political fidelity is the actual constitution of a collective. To the extent that …
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The plastic dynamism of the human aesthetic : employing futurist methodologies in the cross-disciplinary design of social robot morphologies
… consciously engaged approach to the matter and materialisation of non-human bodies in a technologically-driven discipline that is rapidly shaping, and being shaped, by society. Through a survey of social robot morphologies from the last 25 years, it is shown that roboticists are designing robots …
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Tricks of perspective: magic as a metaphor for translation
… text, subjecting it to transformation and re-materialisation across time and space. Key to this thesis, in that regard, is the distinction between reality and representation; the binaries we tend to fall back on to conceptualise and categorise translation techniques obscure the fact that …
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Vélomobility - A critical analysis of planning and space
… 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, and that urban space wars between …
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Women's experiences of gender and sexuality within football contexts in England and Wales
… possibilities female masculinity offers for a re-materialisation of gender and the sexed body. The contribution this thesis offers is to the field of sports sociology. The research reflects an engagement with feminist epistemology and methodology and the analysis draws on poststructuralist theory. …
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Composing Paradoxes Feminist Process in Sound Arts and Experimental Musics
… Such a discourse seeks to contribute to the materialisation of alternative sound and music economies through the subtle calibration of compositional strategies that seek to displace dominant compositional processes intent upon regulating the noise of the social as a field of normalisation for …
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Climate Justice and the Distribution and Scarce Resources
… resource. Adaptation measures aim to prevent the materialisation of future climate risks that threaten the lives, health, homes, and economic prospects of many people. A central characteristic of global adaptation policy is the scarcity of adaptation finance. Accordingly, distribution criteria are …
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Intellectual property, innovation and trade: strategies for the actualisation of agenda 2063 of the African Union
… rights have the potential to facilitate the materialisation of Agenda 2063 goals, many African countries face challenges that undermine their effectiveness in promoting agricultural development. Most intellectual property laws strictly comply with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of …
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Employee status and collectivism: a study of managerial and professional trade unionism
… and workplace change has produced an unlikely materialisation in the form of collectivism. This research demonstrates how facets that have previously characterised, in existing literature, the managerial and professional worker, are undergoing something of a reconfiguration. For example, …
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