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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Mystification"”.
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Care-Stories: Using storytelling to address the mystification of women’s health experiences
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Subcultures, the Media and the Law: The Creation and Mystification of the Rave Scene
This study examines how rave subculture is constructed differently by participants of the rave scene and by external observers of the rave scene. Mainstream national media articles are compared to interviews with self-identified ravers to understand how rave subculture is constructed. Subcultural …
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Artificial Intelligence Mystification and Data Financialization: An Intensive Case Analysis of User-data and Value Realization in the Platform Firm
… and infrastructures. I posit the processes of AI mystification and user securitization as mechanisms of value realization that suggest the dilation of an entrenched social relation rather than a divergence from capitalism. The study places financialization as a critical factor in data seeking and …
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Mystification as a cultural and humoresque phenomenon in modern Czech literature against the background of European cultures (with special reference to Jára da Cimrman)
The subject matter of this dissertation is mystification in Czech literature and culture on the background of European culture. In order to define mystification, the dissertation illustrates various types of mystification from ancient times to modern day. The dissertation describes the …
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Schizophrenia and the family : an application of Laing's theory to a descriptive study of four Coloured schizophrenic males, using Kelly's repertory grid
… in terms of Laing's concepts of invalidation and mystification. Data was obtained from structured and unstructured interviews with father, mother and son in each family. Kelly's repertory grid was the main structured technique used.
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Blood money: The commodification of menstrual education in the United States
… is a mystifying process for young girls, and the mystification is intensified through the lack of open conversations between pre- and post-menarcheal females. While pedagogical strategies in period education have evolved over time, the one constant within menstrual education is silence. This …
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Previsão da demanda: uma aplicação prática na distribuidora XYZ
… diagnosed that the most efficient model was the mystification between linear regression and seasonal adjustment
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SU-OLSR une nouvelle solution pour la sécurité du protocole OLSR
… L’objectif est de faire face aux attaques par mystification de lien où un noeud malicieux cherche à forcer ses voisins à le choisir comme MPR. Le nouveau protocole SU-OLSR (SUspicious OLSR) empêche tout noeud qui présente des comportements suspects d’être choisi comme MPR. Grâce à diverses …
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Learning through Drawing: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of the Experiences of Drawing Practitioners.
… of human capabilites and intelligences. The mystification and spiritualisation of art out of connection with our everyday lives is discussed as it affects the instrumentality of drawing.Through a discussion of the experiences of the participants involved in this research we can come to a …
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Sociological critique and the philosophy of practice
… as ideology; which means both as theoretical mystification and beyond that, phenomenologically, or in substantive terms, as systematic deception and containment.
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A darker shade of blue: From public servant to professional deviant; Law enforcement's special operations culture
… Manning (1980) describes the powerful mystification of policing as the “sacred canopy”. He further asserts that “the police role conveys a sense of sacredness or awesome power that lies at the root of political order, and authority, the claims a state makes upon its people for deference …
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La légende du Chat Noir. Genèse, dynamique, discours
… intégralité. Son goût pour la fumisterie et la mystification complexifie le traitement de ses éléments historiques. Qu’était Le Chat Noir ? Comment est-il devenu légendaire ? Afin de répondre à ces questions, nous avons examiné le développement du Chat Noir tout au long de trois parties : …
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The Fullness of Time: Christological Interventions into Scientific Modernity
… this project addresses in turn. The first is the mystification of theology by questions of human origins, especially as those questions are addressed by figures of scientific authority. The second is the problem of progress and politicized eschatology, in which securing a desired vision of the …
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Allegorical Structure in Little Dorrit
… "His [Dickens] incurable love of labyrinthine mystification, when it really ran away with him, certainly defeated all precautions; not even old Dorrit’s Marshalsea, not even Flora and Mr. F’s Aunt, can do anything to carry off the story of the Clennams. ... It is strange that he should have …
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Joint venture and production sharing contracts in less developed countries – a critical legal analysis
… laws in the petroleum industry and the attendant mystification. This practice would have been simple if renegotiation clauses were enshrined in the agreement, enabling changing circumstances; and confidential clauses removed, aiding transparency in the transaction. The study finds that some of the …
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Academic staff’s career pathway design in English pre-1992 universities: contemporary evolution or systematic de-construction of Homo Academicus?
… may represent the de-construction, or de-mystification, of the craft of academia by managers without clear performance gains. If what was observed was a varied occupation being broken down into describable elements, then what this study observed was the start of the destruction, rather …
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Falsos mitos e heróis vencidos em O Pagador de Promessas e O Bem-Amado: do texto dramático para a tela
… in which we see a reflection about the myth and mystification in modern society, through characters-type that comprise it. We consider, in the study, the differences between media, the peculiarities of the language used, the historical context and production circumstances in which dramatic texts …
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Narrativas intersexo: um nó nos mitos epistemológicos fundantes
… crystallized truths responsible for the air of mystification attributed to maternal instinct and the omission of the rape culture and specify the contradictions of binary predominance, identity impositions, binding nominations and intersectional paradoxes as a safeguard for differences; based on …
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Machine Performers: Agents in a Multiple Ontological State
… conclusions from this study are that fakery and mystification can be used as persuasive elements to enhance agency. Morphologies can also be applied that tightly couple brain and sensorimotor actions and lead to a stronger stage presence. In fact, if this lack of presence is left out of human …
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Space, place and spatial loss in North African and Canadian writing in French
… Edward Soja and Henri Lefebvre refer to as the “mystification” of space and spatiality. The main aim of this research is to investigate how the literary treatment of space and place shapes the representations of space, place and spatial loss in the writing of ten postcolonial Francophone authors …
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