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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Normalcy"”.
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Recognizing deviations from normalcy for brain tumor segmentation
… algorithm attempts to recognize deviations from normalcy in order to compute a fitness map over the image associated with the presence of pathology. The resulting fitness map may then be used by conventional image segmentation techniques for honing in on boundary delineation. Such an approach is …
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Achieving normalcy: possibility and permanence in a workshop for artists
University of Minnesota M.Arch. thesis. August 2012. Major: Architecture. Advisor: Marc Swackhamer. 1 computer file (PDF); ii, 55 pages.
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Assuming the female part : a critique of discourses of bodily normalcy
In this thesis, I examine the concept that discourses which utilise a stable notion of womanhood inevitably exclude some by the very boundedness of their definitions. Such definitions are premised by a notion of gendered normativity, and are often implicit and unconsciously evoked. Principally, I …
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Beyond the return to normalcy : the decline of organized paperworkers, 1921-1926
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Easing the return to normalcy: Reintegrating victims of domestic violence into the workplace
The present study aimed to provide actionable solutions to organizations regarding how they can best help reintegrate victims of domestic violence into the workplace following a domestic-related incident. Study one surveyed 59 domestic violence survivors using open-ended questions regarding what …
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The intraorgan lymphatic system of the rat left ventricle in normalcy and aging
Intracardiac lymphatic vessels of the rat heart left ventricle were studied quantitatively at the ultrastructural level in order to establish baseline morphometric data and also to assess age-related variability in the accepted visible macromolecular transport pathways. Lymphatic vessels were found …
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Teaching normalcy, learning disability - the risky business of special education : exploring the retrospective reflections of schooling experiences by learning disabled post-secondary students
… education, ability, disability, meritocracy and normalcy. Collecting data through semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted during the Spring and Fall of 2007, the students actively engage and challenge the author’s original theoretical and methodological assumptions. Anticipating …
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Evaluating the Borderline Personality: A Study of Identity and Narrative Voice
… existing foundations upon which standards of normalcy become determined. Examining the film Thirteen from the perspectives of the visual and the plot narratives demonstrates ways in which the film challenges prevailing cultural definitions of normalcy. Doing so also provides insight into the …
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Perception and Reality: An Examination of American Print Advertising
… inform our cultures ideas on gender and normalcy. By depicting unrealistic images of normalcy and unattainable representations of beauty, advertising not only creates consumer anxiety to purchase products beyond economic means, but also to manipulate our bodies unnaturally, and it creates …
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Reimagining Education in the New Normal: What Student Stories Can Teach Us
… shift in delineating the boundaries of normalcy in everyday experiences brought on by the pandemic. Thus, this research also seeks to interrogate the definitions of "normalcy" and "exceptionality" as part of the study, exploring these terms as they relate to student educational …
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Uphill All the Way: The Fortunes of Progressivism, 1919-1929
… election of Warren G. Harding and a mandate for Normalcy. And yet, as this dissertation explores, progressives, while knocked back on their heels by these experiences, nonetheless continued to fight for change even during the unfavorable political climate of the Twenties. The Era of Normalcy …
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The Politics of Emergencies: War, Security and the Boundaries of the Exception in Modern Emergency Powers
… events? What is the vision of political "normalcy" in relation to which a state of exception can be declared, and in light of which the legitimate ends of exceptional, emergency powers defined? How do the background conceptions that define an "emergency" also shape the political dynamics …
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Staying Power: Aging in Community and the Village Model
… and the other did not. The theory of residential normalcy provided the theoretical framework for examining how the older adults adapted to their environments through service use and support. Data analysis from interviews revealed four themes: access to information among the Village members and …
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dysfunction
dysfunction examines how we perceive normalcy and in turn, differentiate those who are abnormal through visual metaphors of the interior structures and features of the home. My thesis exhibition explores psychological disorders through installation, painting, drawing, sculpture and performance. The …
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dysfunction
dysfunction examines how we perceive normalcy and in turn, differentiate those who are abnormal through visual metaphors of the interior structures and features of the home. My thesis exhibition explores psychological disorders through installation, painting, drawing, sculpture and performance. The …
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Navigating ‘normal’: the writing lives of students on the spectrum
… for writing classroom practices that decenter normalcy as the goal of pedagogical intervention, instead foregrounding student self-advocacy.
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Bridging the Gap: A Workshop to Support Sexual Education Outside of School
… connections with peers, and instill a sense of normalcy and self-‐authenticity.</p>
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Architecture's Invisible Tie to Loneliness
… In a time when we are slowly moving towards normalcy, if normalcy still is physically going to places, I wanted to take into account some factors to help me identify a suitable site - access to public transportation, walkability, property prices, access to a grocery store, census data on …
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Terrence McNally’s Universalizing Model: The Role of Disability in <em>Andre’s Mother; Lips Together, Teeth Apart</em>; and <em>Love! Valour! Compassion!</em>
… characteristically presented as the contrast to normalcy are in fact normalized and hegemonized.</p>
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Virgin State of Mind
… named Charlie who struggles to maintain normalcy in his life in the months following a devastating sexual assault, and how an unexpected reunion with his assaulter one snowy December night sets Charlie on a path toward destruction he may never be able to escape from. Meanwhile, a …
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