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Showing 1 to 20 of 548 for “"Paradoxical"”.
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The view from the paradoxical world
… realization of organizationally closed (paradoxical) unities, suggest a nervous system where processes and descriptions are more fundamental concepts than time and space. While the consequences of this new approach remain still to be explored, a sensitive reader will already enjoy them.
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Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories
… into women's talk about birth, resulting in paradoxical and contradictory forms of subjectivity.
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The zoo as paradoxical discourse : a social space of paradoxical construction and deconstruction of knowledge about animals
The thesis focuses on the role of the zoo for people in today's context. It explores the construction, deconstruction or reconstruction of the knowledge and meaning of non-domestic animals. It examines the influence of current animal rights and conservation discourse on the evolution of the zoo's …
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Paradoxical Religious Posture: Occupying the Liminal Space
… as an area of response and invention. In the paradoxical threshold of liminality, one is able to develop a religious posture, a way of standing in relation to the transcendent. The character of that posture will be discovered in a process of inquiry and incongruity.</p>
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The Paradoxical Feminine - Eating Disorders Beyond Gender
This thesis distils from a mass of research the patterns of expressions and etiological factors in eating disorders. Drawing on a diversity of research fields - epidemiology, historical accounts, femininity theories, clinical and social psychology, neuroscience, and object relations models -, I …
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Paradoxical power: Victim claims as a rhetorical genre
When Michael Brown was shot and killed, the country picked sides – either white police officer or black decedent – which led to increasingly public skirmishes in the war over who the United States accepts as a victim. From a rhetorical standpoint, these interactions posed some interesting questions …
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Oh, What a Novelty! The Paradoxical Pop-Up Book
In this thesis, I argue that the familiar novelty of the pop-up book, in the century since its invention, has become the most vivid icon of ‘children’s literature’ in contemporary Anglo American culture – a recognisable shorthand for the book made for the child, the childlike or childish story, or …
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS BETWEEN BUREAUCRACY AND POST-BUREAUCRACY: A PARADOXICAL PERSPECTIVE
… operations and management, often described as ‘paradoxical’. Paradox theory provides a framework for understanding and addressing these tensions, positing that paradoxes consist of contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time—appearing logical in …
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Associative Processes in Statistical Learning: Paradoxical Predictions of the Past
<p>The ability to process sequences of input and extract regularity across the distribution of input is fundamental for making predictions from the observed past to the future. Prediction is rooted in the extraction of both frequency- and conditional statistics from the distribution of inputs. For …
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The Paradoxical Roles of Cell Death Pathways in Immune Cells
Cell death plays a vital role throughout the immune response, from the onset of inflammation to the elimination of primed T cells. Understanding the regulation of cell death within immune cells is of vital importance to understanding the immune system and developing therapies against various …
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Paradoxical Resolutions: James Joyce and Contemporary American Fiction - Multicommodity Model
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Exploring the Paradoxical Role and Experience of Fallback in Developmental Theory
Constructive-development and stage development theory, which posits that individuals move through different stages or action logics throughout life, has been the foundation for several models of human transformation. The literature on the leading stage theories indicates that research has focused …
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Paradoxical Insomnia, a Chronic Insomnia Subtype in Patients with Temporomandibular Disorder
… point to a chronic insomnia subtype called paradoxical insomnia, where individuals may mistake their sleep for wakefulness and a bidirectional link between subjective daytime function and sleep. Future studies should further examine the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in …
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Out Of Sync: Analyzing The Paradoxical Impact Of Synchronous Learning In Distance Education
<p>Modern forms of distance education provide students and instructors with the ability to access their online experiences without being limited by time or place. Though this quality is convenient for many, the predominantly asynchronous nature of online learning creates transactional distance that …
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Healthy realism: paradoxical aesthetics, ideology, and nation- building in Taiwan cinema 1964- 1982
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