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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Periodisation"”.
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An examination of the training loads within elite professional football
… elite teams. Little is also known regarding the periodisation strategies employed by elite soccer teams across a competitive season and whether they follow traditional models of periodisation. With this in mind, the primary aim of this thesis is to therefore characterise the current training …
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Quantifcation of Physical Loading, Energy Intake and Expenditure In English Premier League Soccer Players
… soccer training displayed evidence of training periodisation. Having identified typical training load during the weekly micro-cycle, it was recognised that soccer match play comprises a large portion of the weekly physical load. Accordingly, Study 2 quantified differences in season long physical …
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A study of strategy formulation in an automotive manufacturer
… can be assessed. The thesis questions the periodisation approach normally adopted in longitudinal studies and proposes an alternative method which the author believes generates a better understanding of the operations and future potential of the organisation. This method also produces …
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Class and ethnicity : the politics and ideologies of the Greek community in South Africa, circa 1890-1924
… of the Greek community in South Africa. The periodisation of the history of the Greek community in south Africa undertaken in this thesis supports five major hypotheses which are tested, i.e. that ethnic and national solidarity are socially created - phenomena, class factors play an important …
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Religion, class and culture : indigenous churches in South Africa, with special reference to Zionist-Apostolics
… into the explanation of indigenous churches. A periodisation of the South African social formation, and three corresponding forms of indigenous churches is proposed. Part two considers each of these in a schematic form. It is hypothesized that Ethiopian churches arose at the turn of the century …
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Action Sports in Transition: Optimizing Performance
… risk management, decision-making, and the periodisation of risk.
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Ideology in Modern Hebrew Literature in A Post-ideological Age
… Each topic is chronologically researched by the periodisation of pre-Zionist, Zionist, post-Zionist, and neo- Zionist age. The chronological research shows interconnected literary traits that commonly prove the literature’s continued engagement to finding the meanings of the ever-changing Jewish …
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Company Colonisation and the Settler Revolution, 1820–1840
… capitalism, while challenging the conventional periodisation and spatial parameters of chartered enterprise.
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A History of Sport on Commercial Television, 1955-1992
… with those focusing on ITV structured by periodisation. Key themes are developed within each chapter, and four case studies on specific programmes are used to illustrate the history of sport on commercial television.
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A case for the comparative study of the dramatisation of socio-political transition in South African theatre and Iranian cinematography
… The intention is not to offer a survey or linear periodisation of major works and auteurs. Instead, the aim is to explore how an intertextual comparison between specific South African and Iranian texts can offer additional perspectives by reading them in tandem, and in relation to their respective …
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State power and revolution : toward a strategic-relational analysis of the 1979 revolution in Iran
… revolutionary moment in 1979 and provide a periodisation of state (trans-)formations in Iran. It identifies two main periods: national state building (1848-1970) and expansion (1970-). By exploring the recontexualization and changing articulation of three discursive formations and taking …
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Abstraction, Experience, Reduction: Time and Periodicity in the Work of Myron Stout and Postwar American Art History
… periods raises questions about how models of periodisation continue to drive the way art history is written.
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Medievalism in the French Renaissance: Literature, History, and Nation in Claude Fauchet's Veilles ou Observations (1555)
… I conclude that traditional literary-historical periodisation which isolates ‘the Middle Ages’ from ‘the Renaissance’ does not reflect the reality of early modern French culture. Rather, the Veilles testify to the way these period concepts were themselves forged through the recovery of a native …
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Elite Landscapes in Late Medieval and Early Modern East Anglia: Families, Residences and the Development of Exclusivity
… as a unity. However, by dismissing conventional periodisation it has been possible to examine the processes that gradually changed the relationship between residences, elite households and their surroundings. The research presented here traces the rise and decline of families and their houses as …
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Urban Water Infrastructure in Britain and China (1600–1840)
… 1840. This period is defined not by Eurocentric periodisation but by the genealogies of technical knowledge and urban governance: from the seventeenth-century emergence of specialised printed works on hydraulic technology to the First Sino-British War, which marked the first direct convergence of …
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Second-hand Stories: Reported Testimonies in Contemporary Italian Literature (1980-2020)
… history of literary forms that challenges easy periodisation and the adoption of restrictive labels; second, it suggests the emergence of a relational paradigm in contemporary Italian narrative.
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Of good use or serious pleasure : Vitruvius Britannicus and early eighteenth century architectural discourse
… 'Whig' interpretation of history emphasising periodisation, style, revolution, development, and the search for origins. In contrast I argue that Vitruvius Britannicus met the demands of a market interested in architecture as a topic of polite conversation. The subscription lists for Vitruvius …
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The PPTA and the State: from militant professionals to bargaining agent : a study of rational opportunism
… three parts. Part one is a regulationist-derived periodisation of the historical development of the New Zealand wage earners Welfare State and education. This is followed by a consideration of the economic-liberal challenge to this State Part two considers the development of PPTA's professional …
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Using the Repetitions in Reserve-based Rating of Perceived Exertion Scale to Autoregulate Powerlifting Training
Autoregulation is a training approach where adjustments are made based on the recovery, performance and readiness of the individual. By providing greater individualisation, autoregulation may optimise muscular adaptations. This thesis investigates the practical implementation of autoregulation in …
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Lost in Transition: How Ireland and Three Other Small Open Economies Responded to Europeanisation 1987-2013
… to deepening EU integration over a four stage periodisation broadly aligned to critical junctures of integration, and closing with the fifth anniversary of the Lehman Bros bank collapse on 15th September, 2013. Particular attention is paid to the Irish case, with a view to resolving the …
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