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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Normalise"”.
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Default and Liquidity in the Management of the Bnda Lending Program in Ivory Coast
… for the case of the "Pret de Faisance Valoir Normalise" (PFVN), a BNDA credit program for individual medium-sized Ivorian farmers.
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The development of a rule based expert system to automate the digital analysis of condition monitoring parameters captured on rolling element bearings subjected to simulated failure
… Included is a discussion on techniques used to normalise and adjust the vibration parameters to allow analysis under any operating conditions. Finally the synopsis is concluded with a discussion on the performance of the system and contributions made to the developing field of condition …
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A modernised man? : changing constructions of masculinity in Drum magazine, 1951-1984
… in Drum, which in turn helped legitimise and normalise particular ways of being a man in mid to late twentieth century South Africa.
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Foreign Object
… of a recursive society determined to ignore or normalise climate events. The narrative of <em>Foreign Object</em> focuses on John Salmon, a university professor who has been infected by an ancient spore, and the bizarre series of events that follow in his life. <em>Foreign Object</em> is also …
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Transgenic complementation of rumpshaker with wild type proteolipid protein
… with wild type Plp1 (Readhead et al., 1994) to normalise the levels of proteolipid protein (PLP) and it’s smaller isoform DM20. The presence of the wild type protein improves the survival of the mice, decreases oligodendrocyte apoptosis and restores normal periodicity to the myelin, however …
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Just not 'girly': Clothes, appearance and 'alternative' femininities.
… non-conformity they simultaneously attempted to 'normalise' in other ways particularly when related to narrowing gendered boundaries of age.
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Perspectives of students and staff on the causes of underreporting of gender-based violence at a selected university
… theory, which highlights how societal norms can normalise GBV and prevent victims from coming forward. A qualitative research approach was employed, using open-ended interviews and a focus group discussion to collect data from participants selected through purposive and snowball sampling. …
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Resultant Suicide from Prolonged Grief for Caregivers of Cancer Victims
… The key findings developed were the need to normalise grief, for NHS to focus on carers from cancer diagnosis. Psycho-education is necessary, both within the industry and in the public domain. Isolation in bereaved carers is a huge problem, and mental health practitioners need to have an …
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The behaviour of modern flexible framed structures undergoing differential settlement
… The results show firstly that it is possible to normalise structural behaviour to the soilstructure stiffness ratio, secondly the importance of 3D deformation of the structure and thirdly that stiffer load-displacement responses of foundations may also affect the behaviour of the structure. A …
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SMARTGIRLS.TV: DISCOURSES OF ACHIEVING GIRLHOOD IN SCHOOLS, ON SCREEN AND ONLINE
… and narratives are not equally available, but normalise middle class values and practices at the same time as promoting a model of the self-creating successful subject. I find that girls, with varying degrees of knowingness, draw on these tropes to frame stories of intelligible selfhood and to …
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“What country are you from originally?” A conversation analysis of black clients' and black therapists' talk during therapeutic encounters
… specifically to do with race and culture to both normalise and demonstrate cultural awareness and sensitivity, c) Blackness is also at times drawn upon as a distinct tool with Black clients. The key contributions to counselling psychology are that therapists can use the ‘Self’ with Black clients …
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Contesting the European Union in times of crisis: an analysis of Facebook interactions
… utilize social media in order to respond to and normalise public discontent, whereas elite interviews triangulate the findings. The analysis of EU-focused transnational discussions complements the existing studies drawing on public opinion polls regarding public attitudes towards European …
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Mothers matter: a critical exploration of motherhood and development through a video card intervention in a local clinic
… discourses and interventions that reinforce and normalise dominant discourses of motherhood. More specifically, it will be shown how three different maternal figures – 'the waiting mother', 'the educated mother', and 'the ideal mother' – were produced, developed and 'made to matter' within public …
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Studies of biofluid analysis using 2D-IR spectroscopy
… for 2D-IR spectroscopy to internally normalise spectral signals, allowing normalisation of the protein response to the thermal response of water which is temporally separate from the protein signal, reducing the impact of measurement fluctuations on the data. Furthermore, normalisation …
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Getting Out of Debt Poverty
… number of analogous programs and proposals that normalise and contextualise its novel government program. The dissertation extends a framework drawn from antitrust law to argue that state intervention in the marketplace is best understood as falling along a spectrum, from the provision of a …
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National identity and "Muslim immigrant" representation in the British and Danish press, 2005-2015.
… select 'Muslim voices' are used in the media to normalise negative discourses of Muslims. Furthermore, following image analysis of selected texts, the thesis recommends that further research should be conducted, focusing on the use of images in the press when representing Muslims.
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The role and value of workplace-based assessment in learning in postgraduate medical education
… complex to articulate. Ongoing work is needed to normalise the assessment-feedback process and to influence a positive learning trajectory.
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The impact of the regicide of Charles I on contemporary English notions of time and the future
… I conclude that the early moderns tried to normalise the disruptive regicide by embedding it within larger narratives of time. They downplayed the radical nature of the event in search of order, incorporating it within grand narratives of God’s providential plans on earth, of generational …
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Studying Models of the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis Using Single-Molecule Imaging
… aggregates. Moreover, novel methodologies to normalise conditioned media samples and study Aβ aggregates in the synapses have been described, and therapeutics against Aβ has been characterised. Overall, this thesis investigated the ACH in a range of cellular and murine models, providing …
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The time course of sentence interpretation
… the impact of reading skill on the tendency to normalise implausible sentences yielded inconsistent results, and there is apparently little difference in the processing styles of skilled and less-skilled readers when reading implausible material. The thesis concludes with suggestions for future …
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