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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Nepali"”.
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Subjects And Subjecthood In Nepali: An Analysis Of Nepali Clause Structure And Its Challenges To Relational Grammar And Government & Binding
Both Early and Modern Nepali use a variety of nonbasic clause structures, including dative-subject (inversion) clauses, obligational (gerundive) clauses, passive clauses, and, in Early Nepali, ergative clauses. The properties of basic clause subjects are split in these clauses between two NPs--the …
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Jhakris and the urban Nepali conflict : chaos and confusion
… the intercultural conflict between urban Nepalis, who believe in Western medicine, and the Jhakris, Nepalese traditional healers. Nepalis in Western influenced urban areas made traditional healing practices illegal, resulting in violent arrests and beatings of Jhakris by police and …
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A contrastive analysis of the English and Nepali past tenses and an error analysis of Nepali learners' use of the English past tenses
… (a) to provide an analysis of the past tenses in Nepali and compare them with those of English from a discourse pragmatic perspective; and (b) to investigate how Nepali learners of English use the English past tenses in terms of forms, meanings, and functions.A major claim of the dissertation is …
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Being Dignified: Understanding Socio-Spatial Exploitation and Agency in Nepali Domestic Work
… work, the experiences and conditions of Nepali domestic workers have remained both physically and conceptually ‘hidden’ to the global and national labour movement, and to the wider field of employment studies. Drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork with 20 domestic workers, this …
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Adoption Determinants and Economic Benefits of Integrated Pest Management for Nepali Vegetable Farmers
… information on the extent of IPM practices by Nepali vegetable farmers, adds to the understanding of factors that influence the IPM adoption decision, and compares the economic benefits and performance of IPM to other conventional pest management practices. Our survey of 346 vegetable farmers …
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Adoption Determinants and Impacts of Tuta absoluta Integrated Pest Management for Nepali Tomato Farmers
… loss. In response, chemical pesticide use by Nepali farmers is increasing. Integrated pest management (IPM) practices have been implemented in hopes of reducing the frequency of chemical pesticide use while controlling yield risks. This study examines the extent and determinants of Tuta …
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Going with the flow: Using menstrual education as a tool for empowering post pubescent Nepali girls
<p>Global discourse and research evidence on the benefits of girl’s education show that prioritizing girl’s education is the most successful strategy of breaking the cycle of poverty, gender inequality, and overpopulation. Moreover, there is a growing interest in closing the gender gap in …
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Social networks and code-switching in the Newar community of Kathmandu City
… in their use of Newari, the ethnic language, and Nepali, the national language. Specifically, the study attempts to explain the hypothesis that the Hindu (Shrestha) Newars are becoming monolingual in Nepali while the Buddhist (Udas) Newars are maintaining their bilingualism in Nepali and Newari. …
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An Assessment of the Social Impact of Feminist Network Organizing: A Qualitative Study of the First Nepali Women's Global Network (NWGN) Conference
… of one transnational feminist network, the Nepali Women’s Global Network (NWGN) to organize through a conference addressing gender inequality matters that shape the experiences of Nepali women on a global and national level and the variant experiences of conference participants based on …
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Planning and practice: factors impacting on the development of initial education in Nepal, with special reference to English language teaching, 1950-1995
… in Nepal against which the modernization of Nepali education was attempted. The thesis elaborates on the profusion and confusion of educational aims of Nepali government planners and foreign aid workers, and the ways in which these plans impact on Nepali classroom practice and conditions, …
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The Sense of Identity in a Limbu Community of South Wales
… ethnic group that are components of a federated Nepali community indigenous to the easterly regions of Nepal, and were among one of the favoured groups recruited by the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas. The transnational Nepali community in the focused region of South Wales (based in the town of …
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The Role of Gender in Post-Disaster Recovery and Disaster Risk Governance in Nepal: Examining Links Between Women, Institutions and Capacity-Building
… strengthened and built the capabilities of Nepali women since the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Thus, the objective of this study was to undertake an institutional analysis of the role of gender in post-disaster recovery in Nepal. This overarching goal has been divided into two key research aims: …
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"When He Comes Home, Then He Can Decide": Male Out-Migration, the Feminization of Agriculture, and Integrated Pest Management in the Nepali Mid-Hills
As part of a USAID-funded integrated pest management (IPM) project, this thesis presents research conducted across four communities in midwestern Nepal We conducted semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation with local farmers and NGOs. Grounded in feminist …
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Adaptation of the Nepalese in the United States
… both Hindu and American holidays/festivals. Nepali was the dominant language spoken at home and with children. Most of them had friendship with Nepalese and socialized with Nepalese. The majority of the Nepalese interacted with whites in the workplace and lived in white neighborhoods. The …
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Birds with Wolf Hearts, a Collection of Poetry, with an Analysis of Contemporary Nepalese Women’s Poetry
… traditions and tropes utilised in the poetry by Nepali women. Though they are written from my Western perspective, these poems acknowledge and explore the poetic devices used by some of these female Nepali writers, experimenting with characterisation, metaphor, structure and language in a way …
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Culture and Christianity negotiated in Hindu society: a case study of a church in Central and Western Nepal
… thesis examines in what ways and to what extent Nepali Christians retain or change their way of living after they become Christians. This is achieved through a case study approach focusing on four selected congregations. These cases examine the life of the Christians from conversion through …
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Dissecting the 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Rural Response and Way Forward for Nepal
… be derived based on those findings. METHODS: The Nepali government's home ministry and ministry of health's documents on disaster response protocols were reviewed in detail. Published reports addressing earthquakes in Nepal, Armenia, Japan and Haiti were analyzed for comparison including those …
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Evaluation of the KanchanTM Arsenic Filter under various water quality conditions of the Nawalparasi District, Nepal
… disseminated in approximately 24,000 Nepali households. However, recent studies have indicated that under certain raw water conditions, the KAF may inadequately reduce groundwater arsenic concentrations to levels below the Nepali government guideline of 50 ptg/L. The present study …
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Gender Positioning in Textbook Images and Their Interpretation by Young Readers in Nepal
… in their textbooks alongside existing Nepali social context and gender attitudes. Their drawings showed an iconic and idealised Nepali environment, for example, presenting the typical houses of the textbooks rather than the type of houses they actually lived in. Children’s gender …
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Point-of-use water treatment for arsenic removal through iron oxide coated sand : application for the Terai region of Nepal
… (III) + As (V)), minimally, below the Interim Nepali Standard of 50 [mu]/L; possibility of local manufacture with locally available materials; affordable to the Nepali citizens affected by arsenic contamination; socially acceptable in terms of maintenance, operation and water demand. The …
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