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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Modern context"”.
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Terrorism from a Qur'anic perspective : a study of selected classical and modern exegeses and thier interpretation in the modern context
… with special reference to selected classical and modern exegeses and how they are understood by modern scholars. The study is divided into an introduction, five main chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction, a brief background about the tafsar (exegesis) genres is provided with special focus …
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Editing in America
<p>A survey and discussion of modern copy editors that attempts to provide perspective on their role in the communications and publishing industry. This capstone compares past research perspectives on copy editors with new survey responses to create a modern context for professional copy editors, …
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Acts of Liturgy
… of church design and applying them in a more modern context.
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Nature versus freedom : Hannah Arendt's theory of the political sphere from the polis to the modern world
… the ancient Greek polis to its deployment in the modern context. With The Human Condition as the central text in my analysis, I consider the key philosophical-theoretical commitments surrounding the theory of the political sphere, notably Arendt's opposition of freedom to nature. I argue that …
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Forms for change : an architecture of meaning
… are in a state of constant change. In the modern context, various forces have accelerated this change. Therefore an architecture which either reflects or responds to change creates more meaningful environments. This becomes increasingly necessary. Through an analysis of three dwellings. …
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Towards a middle townscape
… of urbanism and its built structures in the context of history, technology and sociology. One interpretation which challenges the current urban development, such as the issue of the sprawl of mid size towns, has the potential to direct planning tools and clarify intentions towards a more …
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Design a Meme: Visual Representation, Creative Strategies and Memetic Culture
… of memes that lead its popularization in the modern online environment. Additionally, I detail the creative strategies of meme-making to explore the potential to apply memetic methods to design as a form of criticism. It is essential to understand the culture behind constitutive memes and …
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Going Negative in the Era of the Super PAC and Social Media: Negative Political Communication in the United States on Television and Facebook
… Theoretical positions simply inapplicable to the modern context also continue to feature in much of the literature. Work on negative campaigning has also insufficiently accounted for two prominent contemporary changes in the campaign landscape: one regulatory, one technological. The major …
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The dialectics of textile hand production : In search of poetic content : an enquiry into the position of the traditional textile crafts
… by which society transforms from the pre-modern context into the late modern, the changing nature of the crafts is explained. The research also examines wider social losses, gains and unforeseen consequences that occur in the continuous process of social transformation. My art praxis is …
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City Living: Exploring the Modern Rowhouse Typology
… economical. Popular attempts to accommodate modern needs into these buildings have lead to implementing the "open-plan" concept and creating a series of floors verses a series of rooms. This thesis explores the rowhouse within the modern context of Washington D.C. and attempts to redefined …
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Contested identity : Macedonians in contemporary Australia
… with the issues that confront them in the modern context. This identity is not a static fusion of discrete 'traditional' and 'modern' identities, which come together to constitute another (composite) self-contained identity. Rather, the Macedonian-Australian identity is viewed as …
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Hive thinking : a theory on the evolution of cognitive specialization and applications to digital marketing
… computer interaction by demonstrating it in a modern context. For millennia, great minds have wrestled to build a typing model to classify the differences in human behavior. Recent theories have driven towards a theory of four functional abilities of the mind coming in two attitudes that drive …
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Unity Concert Hall: A Monument of Stillness, a Vessel for Harmony
… rises beside the USIP, quietly contrasting its modern context. Where the USIP represents diplomacy and dialogue, the Unity concert hall embodies listening and reflection. One volume, one voice.
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Clarinet Thumb-rest Function: The Pedagogy of Positioning and Electromyography Evidence
… This document establishes a historical and modern context for the use of the clarinet thumb-rest. It reviews traditional and non-traditional medical approaches that individuals use to help clarinetists with supporting the instrument. This document presents data and analysis from an …
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The sustainability of local authority museums: a legislative anomaly working in a conflicting policy framework?
… rests upon. The second chapter appraises the modern context within which local authority museums operate. Chapter three assesses the historical development of museums and how this has affected the legal framework. In the fourth chapter, the focus is upon the problems of permanent acquisition …
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The role of sediment supply and sea-level changes on a submerging coast, past changes and future management implications
… and placed them within their geomorphological context. The provisional regional sea level curve has been updated and clarified following the discovery and successful dating of a submerged forest. This sea level curve was then used to constrain the development of the coast of Sanday into …
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The history of the Moravian Brass Band Union of South Africa (BBSA) as told through the personal histories of members, and its contemporary role in the Moravian Church in South Africa (MCSA)
… and opportunities faced by the BBSA in the modern context, including its efforts to maintain musical standards and adapt to changing social and cultural environments. In conclusion, this thesis provides a comprehensive account of the historical development, cultural significance, and …
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Deus É Brasileiro: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Religiosity in Late Modern Brazil
… seeks to determine the role of religion in late modern neoliberal Brazil. Religious adherence represents the distinct and often creative ways that individuals of diverse backgrounds and identities deal with the trials arising from the interface of the individual life world with wider structural …
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In Summaries and Diagrams: Teaching Prayer and Poetry in Lancelot Andrewes and Edmund Spenser
… logic books, and beginning to establish an early modern context of instrumental ‘diagrammatic reading’ by taking a particular interest in the work of curly braces as a ‘didactic technology’ which both performs and instructs prayer on the printed page. Chapter two considers Spenser’s Fowre Hymnes …
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Discovering, Learning, and Exploiting Visual Cues
… cues, this thesis explores visual cues in the modern context of data-driven imaging techniques. We first explore how visual cues can be learned from and exploited by combining physics-based forward models with data-driven AI systems. We first map the space of physics-based and data-driven …
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