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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"Nomadic"”.
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(The) nomadic ideal in Israel.
Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Nomadic intertextuality and postmillennial children's gothic fiction
… postmillennial children’s Gothic imagines a nomadic subject, constructing child protagonists and readers across a multiplicity of subject location and identities. There is not one child, but multiple figurations. The transgressive and liberating energies of Gothic play a part in this …
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A Nomadic Furniture Design for College Students
… and last long. In this thesis design a new Nomadic Furniture Design for College Students is created that addresses five major design issues: functionality (i.e. storage convenience, etc.), enhanced form quality (aesthetics), flexibility, simplicity and durability (eco-aspect) to promote …
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Contextual awareness, messaging and communication in nomadic audio environments
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Model-driven dual caching For nomadic service-oriented architecture clients
Mobile devices have evolved over the years from resource constrained devices that supported only the most basic tasks to powerful handheld computing devices. However, the most significant step in the evolution of mobile devices was the introduction of wireless connectivity which enabled them to …
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(RE)MEMBERING THE SUBJECT: NOMADIC BECOMING IN CONTEMPORARY CHICANO/A LITERATURE
… the subject, this study utilizes the notion of nomadic subjectivity, influenced by poststructuralist thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The study also incorporates contemporary Chicano/a criticism surrounding this topic as well as the specific texts, in order to contextualize the …
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Nomadic migration : a service environment for autonomic computing on the Grid
In den vergangenen Jahren ist es zu einer dramatischen Vervielfachung der verfügbaren Rechenzeit gekommen. Diese 'Grid Ressourcen' stehen jedoch nicht als kontinuierlicher Strom zur Verfügung, sondern sind über verschiedene Maschinentypen, Plattformen und Betriebssysteme verteilt, die jeweils durch …
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Seeing the future, speaking to the past : nomadic projects and thoughts
… a foreigner, I have become interested in global nomadic behavior and it's effect on the socio-psychological experiences of individuals and the development of new social formations. In my projects, I attempt to address the issues of alienation, disorientation, and cultural marginality by using …
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“Names portable as alter stones”: Nomadic Movement and Recollection in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry
… beyond the deterritorialization process, the nomadic movement of Deleuze and Guattari, by demonstrating that space is never fully, or stably, “striated.”</p> <p>Rather than taking on a certain responsibility through his poetry, Heaney’s milieu works to empower, equally, the perspectives of his …
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The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Nomadic Behavior in the Clonal Raider Ant, Ooceraea Biroi
<p>Nest relocation is integral to the lives of many social insects. Army ants have taken this behavior to the extreme, with many species relocating an entire colony of over 100,000 ants plus brood almost daily. Despite its prevalence, the question of how army ant colonies emigrate has been debated …
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The shadow of a nation : remembering the Black woman in the nomadic picture
Francois Malepart de Beaucourt (1740-1794), an artist of Parisian and French-Canadian heritage, allegedly painted Portrait of a Negro Slave in 1786. Also known as La Negresse, or The Negress, the portrait has since become one of Canada's most famous historical paintings. After two centuries, it …
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Education for all (EFA): reaching Nomadic communities in Wajir, Kenya - challenges and opportunities
… using semi-structured interviews designed for nomadic parents, focus group discussions with education officials and teachers, and a questionnaire for nomadic students in secondary schools. The research instruments were designed to find out the challenges, perceptions, preferences and policies …
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Non-verbal interaction in the design of telepresence robots for social nomadic work
… to meeting the social communication needs of nomadic workers. This thesis provides an overview of non-verbal communication cues for telepresence robot applications, and a snapshot of the competitive landscape for commercially available telepresence robots today. It then follows the design of a …
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Negotiating Nomadic Identities : The Tensions of Exile in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French and Spanish
… The consideration of these questions points to a nomadic configuration of identity that is located in mobility and transition, between fixed sites, and posits exiled women’s identity as an ongoing process of becoming rather than a static state<br/>of being.
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The E-government artifact in the context of a developing country : towards a nomadic framework
This thesis is concerned with exploring alternative conceptualizations of the e-government artifact relevant to developing countries in Africa. The premise is that e-government, as an artifact of human conception, remains relatively poorly developed at the levels of theory, methodologies and …
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Semi-nomadic pastoralism and the conservation of biodiversity in the Richtersveld National Park, South Africa
… thesis presented here is about traditional semi-nomadic pastoralism and the conservation of biodiversity in a semi-arid South African National Park. The aim was to help improve farmer livelihoods without compromising the unique biodiversity of the area, especially the succulent plants. The thesis …
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