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Showing 1 to 20 of 3324 for “"Performances"”.
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Famous Performances
Academic Abstract: Famous Performances examines the complications and struggles that people face attempting to maintain a sense of authentic humanity in the twenty-first century. Through various performances, the collection deals with how human-made phenomena like popular culture, technology, and …
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Autobiographical performances and intimacy
… is to lend understanding to autobiographical performances that promote a closer relationship with the audience, whether they ask for explicit participation of the audience or not. I will argue that autobiographical performances are understood through the relation between autobiography and …
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Sustainable energy performances of urban morphologies
… measured by urban morphologies energy performances and throughput measured by land unit. This is a normative framework. It can only indicate relative levels of sustainable energy of urban morphologies. Within a specific urban system this framework can allow us to measure which part of …
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems¿ and Social Startups¿ performances
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Performances of an Able, Academic Mind
<p>Western culture individualizes issues of public health. This is especially clear in academic life, where the structures of the university disable atypical bodies and minds in order to force them to simultaneously perform the roles of scholar, teacher, and colleague. The university not only fails …
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Use phase performances of photocatalytic cements
Photocatalytic concrete containing nano TiO2 particles has generated interest in the 21st century for their air pollutant removal and self-cleaning performance on civil infrastructure components. In this research, photocatalytic cement pastes were evaluated for NOx removal in a laboratory …
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Performances of Marginalized Identities in Virtual Worlds
This dissertation explores performances of identities in virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. While virtual worlds are popularly imagined as spaces where any performances of identity are possible and welcomed, constraints of both design and culture create a dominant or …
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Performing folk punk : agonistic performances of intersectionality
… goal of this project is to argue that folk punk performances offer spaces where a listening audience is exposed to a radical and intersectional politics, and enable that audience to identify with those views. By considering the performances of Inky Skulls, Pussy Riot!, and Against Me!, this study …
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"""Been there, did that"": Contemporary sport performances"
… in Barcelona, Spain are examined as cultural performances in this dissertation. Participant-observation was used, and ethnographies for each temporal site were produced. Sport-art relationships, especially drawing upon postmodern discourse, are examined. Additionally, a proposal for a change …
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A Comparison of Sub-National Class Decathlon Scores and Event Performances with National and Elite Decathlon Scores and Event Performances.
… sub-national class decathlon scores and event performances with national and elite class decathlon performances and scores. The 2002 United States all-time decathlon performances and the 2002 world all-time decathlon performances were separated into elite, national or sub-national classes …
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Anaerobic performances and anaerobic characteristics of asthmatic children
The focus of this research was to examine the anaerobic characteristics and the related physiological effects of short-term, high intensity exercise on the asthmatic child. The research incorporated three studies that measured the physiological responses of asthmatic and non-asthmatic children to …
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Evaluation of the Performances of Electrically Heated Clothing
… of the heated clothing. In this thesis, performances of electrically heated garments were compared and evaluated on two thermal manikins. The factors that affect on the clothing heating efficiency were thoroughly studied. It was found that the ambient temperature (or temperature …
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Masada performances : the contested indentities of touristic spaces
… others do at Masada. I frame these actions as performances, conscious and deliberate acts that constitute who a person is and how they want to be seen. I argue that the touristic performances at Masada are expressions of the meaning that people get from the site and from being on tour. I …
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Performers' Experiences of Participation in Sensory Friendly Performances
… the following four themes: sensory friendly performances as novel experiences, enjoyable performer experiences, performing was different but not lesser, and performers encouraged the expansion of sensory friendly performances. Themes were consistent with the research found in the existing …
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Dancing the feminine : performances by indonesian migrant women
… community. Each chapter is based on particular performances and how each performance evolved from creation to reinvention taking into account factors such as community feedback, and reaction to the group's participation in local multicultural festivals and national celebration days. The thesis …
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Grey zones: performances, perspectives, and possibilities in Kashmir
… consisted of devised theatre workshops and performances with Civil Society and Ex-Militants in Kashmir. Exploring instances from these projects through thick description, critical analyses, and auto-ethnographic writing, the grey zones of Civil Society in Kashmir are situated as being within …
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Danger-zone tourism: Emotional performances in Jordan and Palestine
… in Jordan and Palestine. It explores emotional performances in tourist places of ongoing socio-political conflict. I bring together dark tourism, emotional, affectual and sensuous geographies as well as psychoanalytic theories on the death drive to examine danger-zone tourism as a form of …
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