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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"MODEL OF ANALYSIS"”.
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Transnational Space and the Discourse of Multiculturalism: Contemporary Canadian Fiction
This thesis engages in a study of the construction of identity as “process” in four contemporary English-Canadian novels. The novels under discussion are: Cereus Blooms at Night, by Shani Mootoo; Life of Pi, by Yann Martell; Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels; and Childhood, by Andre Alexis. It …
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The Fiscal Resilience of American Cities
This paper brings together the concepts of fiscal health and resilience as they are understood in a contemporary context while seeking to establish whether a quantitative model of analysis can be meaningfully derived and applied to major American cities. Using major recessions from 1977 to 2015 as …
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Managing ourselves: young people, soap opera and technologies of self-government
… operas and their consumption by a select group of teenagers. The soap operas in question, Neighbours and Home and Away, are produced in Australia and watched by large audiences in the UK. The study's broadest aim is to discover the nature of the relationship between the programmes and their …
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Συμβολή στην ανάλυση των εκσκαφών με την μέθοδο των πεπερασμένων στοιχείων
THE SIMULATION OF AN EXCAVATION, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, INVOLVES THE ANALYSIS OF FACTORS SUCH AS UNLOADING, SINGULARITIES LIKE CORNERS, EXISTENCE OF STRUCTURES BEFORE EXCAVATION, ARTIFICIAL INCLUSION OF GHOST ELEMENTS AND MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION. THE CONVENTIONAL APPROACH …
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A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Analysis of Experimental Infant Research
… research literature by reexamining a collection of infant research records from a phenomenological, non-dualistic perspective. Grounded in the recent convergences between phenomenology and cognitive sciences, this project utilizes a combined phenomenological-hermeneutic method. This model of …
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Breaking the wall, preserving the barrier: gender, space, and power in contemporary mosque architecture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… particularly one that is reinforced in the name of religion, is often blamed for fortifying gender discrimination in society as a whole. This dissertation examines this assumption in Islamic society and investigates how such segregation may actually benefit Muslim women. This dissertation …
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Understanding therapeutic traditions in a multilevel framework - new methodological approaches
Background: The observation of differences in the way apparently similar patients are treated from one health care setting to another, i.e., practice variation, have been recognized in numerous studies. The variations across the health care settings have been shown to exist for different outcomes. …
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The Chaos of Convergence: A Study of the Process of Decay, Change, and Transformation within the Telephone Policy Subsystem of the United States
… Chapter 3. These two chapters examine the nature of both policy analysis and organizational theory in terms of their development within the American versions of Public Administration and Political Science. I conclude that the distinctions that have been created between the two areas of research …
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Living with schizophrenia: A phenomenological study of people with schizophrenia living in the community.
… and their carers live with a diagnosis of schizophrenia? Research aim: To gain a greater understanding of the meaning and experience of schizophrenia. The objective of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of schizophrenia. Sample: Self-selected sample of 35 …
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Shakespearean Polyphony. An exploration of female voices in seven selected plays using a dialogical framework.
This thesis employs the concept of 'voice' in order to explore the variety of dialogic relationships between men and women in seven Shakespeare plays. Here, 'voice' is defined as an ideological position held by a character and voices within a dialogical relationship test dominant social ideas. In …
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La construcción discursiva de la identidad en los nuevos movimientos sociales: el caso español del 15M.
The main objective of this Doctoral Thesis is to contribute to the study of discursive construction of identity in social movements, delving into the characteristics of the new social movement, the processes of construction of identity and the discourse dimension of identity. For this, discourse …
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Consequences of Environmental Projects on Development : Pilot Case Study of a Company-Community Partnership in Espírito Santo - Brazil
… Brazil. Conclusions shall be drawn on the case of the “Forestry Partners” program of the firm Aracruz Cellulose, in the state of Espírito Santo. The methodology is theoretically based on studies of governance in general and environmental governance in particular within the analytical framework …
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Analysis Strategies for Configurable Systems
… individual system variants based on a selection of configuration options. To cope with the often huge number of possible configurations, several analysis approaches (e.g., for verification of configurable systems) implement different strategies to account for configurability. One popular …
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The significance of composition in supplementing extratextual narrative: a topical cue analysis of Star Trek: discovery to provide narrative meaning within instrumentation
This dissertation is an exploration of the latest instalment of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Discovery. In its most rudimentary form, this is a study of the characteristics of the soundtrack, but intrinsically, it is an investigation into the extratextual narratives which the music conveys – …
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Sociala normer och regelefterlevnad : Trafiksäkerhetsfrågor ur ett rättssociologiskt perspektiv
… as well as increasing the understanding of how the shaping of different public instruments of control affects the chances of success; and (b) contribute to the development of theory and methodology within sociology of law. The relationship between legal rules and social norms play a …
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Misrepresentation and Construction of Meaning in Translation of News Texts in the Context of Conflict and Intervention: the Application of Systemic-Functional Linguistics
This study presents an analysis of misrepresentation and construction of meaning in the translation of news texts in the English and Russian news media. The texts analysed are published online by the U.S. and Russian media. They discuss events in contexts of sociopolitical instability, military …
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ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ ΕΓΧΕΙΡΙΔΙΩΝ ΞΕΝΩΝ ΓΛΩΣΣΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΗ ΤΟΥΣ ΩΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΤΑΛΛΗΛΟΤΗΤΑΓΙΑ ΕΠΙΔΙΩΞΗ ΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΤΟΧΩΝ
IN THIS THESIS THE RESEARCHER PROPOSES A NEW MODEL FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS ANALYSIS, WHICH IS BASED ON "CURRICULUM THEORY" AND MORE SPECIFICALY ON ITSBRANCH KNOWN AS "TAXONOMIES OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES". THE MODEL PERMITS THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE OF EACH …
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17 registros : Facultad de Ingeniería de Montevideo (1936-1938) de Julio Vilamajó, arquitecto
… arquitectura uruguaya. Al mismo tiempo, como un modelo de análisis generalizable a otros casos, se propone indagar según múltiples líneas, conexas pero independientes. Más que un discurso cohesivo y unificador, el enfoque presenta el tema desde lo simultáneo, complementando la linealidad. No hay …
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Between surfaces: a psychodynamic approach to cultural identity, cultural difference and reconciliation in Australia
… research questions: “Why does the existence of an Aboriginal Other threaten a white sense of belonging?” and; “What are the mechanisms and purposes of aggression towards, or exclusion of, that which represents otherness in the Australian context?” In the introductory chapters, the author’s …