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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"Power and control"”.
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The Caribana Parade: Storming and Issues of Power and Control
… which has become an important part of Torontos and Canadas identity; but for more than twenty years it has been affected by storming, an act of transgression in which mostly young male individuals breach fences and security along the route to participate for free in the official parade. Their …
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Child sexual abuse: making sense of the abuse of power and control
… base, the conceptualisation of problems and the delivery of therapeutic skills. The central is sues in CSA of power and control exemplify this absence of clarity. A review of the literature on these issues revealed that few empirical studies have examined how power and control are …
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Power and Control in Disinvested Affordable Housing: San Francisco’s Limited Equity Housing Co-operatives
… of democratic participation, where ownership and limited equity combine to provide both collective and shareholder ownership of a valuable community asset. Contentiously, local governments and civic institutions seek certainty and control in housing, prioritizing technical expertise and …
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How Power and Control Drive Behaviour & Identity Modification Among Cruise Ship Workers: A Qualitative Study
… The study aims to evaluate the complexities and common influences of both work and social experiences of cruise ship officers as they negotiate, create and modify their identities in the cruise ship workplace. The qualitative approach adopted, used semi-structured interviews in a …
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A hybrid solution for distributed energy storage for microgeneration in microgrids: Design of the electronic power and control system
… las topologías de potencia y estrategias de control, para el diseño de convertidores electrónicos de potencia utilizados en estos sistemas de potencia. En dichos sistemas, un bus de CC actúa como punto de intercambio de potencia entre el convertidor de red de CA/CC en el punto de acoplamiento …
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A Powerful Word: On Defining and Responding Justly to Abuse
… received increased societal scrutiny of late, and with good reason. Yet the very subjectivity of the term can be problematic, as most resources on abuse do not give adequate attention to the question of definition. In this dissertation, I define abuse as selfish compulsion to the pronounced …
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The processes and outcomes of implementing peer mediation services in schools: a cultural-historical activity theory approach
… for interpersonal conflict resolution in schools and outcomes attributable to this intervention. To illuminate such an analysis, the thesis argues the utility of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). This argument is based on the need for a theoretical approach that conceptualises processes …
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The End of an Era: A Case Study of the Dissolution of a Special Education Governance Structure
… to political maneuvering, coalition building, and negotiation. Specifically, concerns over the fundamental tensions of power and control, fiscal and administrative redundancies, and the rising cost of providing special education services contributed to the dissolution of the organization. As an …
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Design criteria of a transcutaneous power delivery system for implantable devices.
… cardiac assist devices such as artificial hearts and blood pumps are a rapidly growing therapy used for treating moderate to severe congestive heart failure. While current treatments offer improved heart failure survival and increased patient functionality with enhanced quality of life, powering …
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Aggression In Lesbian And Bisexual Relationships
<p>For years, researchers, clinicians, and those working with victims/survivors of domestic abuse have overlooked the issue of same-sex partner aggression among lesbians and bisexual women. Through in-depth interviews with 19 women who identify themselves as either lesbian or bisexual, information …
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The influences on the two inner city housing projects of the Bo Kaap and District Six in Cape Town that were built between 1938 and 1944
This study examines the social, political, and architectural influences that shaped the two Cape Town inner city housing projects in the Bo Kaap and District Six that were built after the introduciton of the Slums Act of 1943, between 1938 and 1944. During this period there there were changes in …
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The design and construction of electronic motor control and network interface hardware for advance concept urban mobility vehicles
… is to develop Wheel Robot systems in which all power, transmission, suspension, and steering functions are incorporated into self-contained units with a simple, standardized interface providing for mechanical mounting, electrical power distribution, and access to the vehicle control network. …
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The Ritualization of Violence in <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>
… will explore the way Philip treats puppets and masks as pseudo-sacred objects in order to maintain control in Angela Carter’s work <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>. To show the implications of the pseudo-sacred, I will use <em>Violence and the Sacred</em> by Rene Girard that examines the way …
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‘One thing I’d never stand for in a relationship is violence, so when she tried to kill me, that was it’: The impact of heteronormativity and assimilation on Domestic Violence and Abuse in same sex women’s relationships
Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) is most commonly spoken of as a heterosexual issue and as such it remains hidden within the lesbian community both from the inside and the outside. In the era following civil partnership and same sex marriage legislation, it may be logical to assume that speaking …
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Expanding the scope of interpersonal violence: An examination of violence, authority, and status within street harassment
… examine interpersonal violence among strangers and loose acquaintances. In this project, I conceptualized the issue of street harassment by foregrounding inequalities—positioning cultural understandings of gender, race-ethnicity, and sexuality—as central to the experience of harassment. Street …
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Development of a control system for a SMA actuated medical manipulator
… thesis discusses the development of a digital control system for the operation of a conceptual robotic manipulator for use in minimally invasive surgery. The motion of the manipulator is envisioned to be accomplished with actuators made of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA). SMA has the ability to …
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Corporate Governance in Kuwait: the role of merchant families
… current companies Act (article 15) is adequate and whether these practices coincide with international codes, such as the OECD principles of corporate governance, and the UK combined code. Twenty-three interviews have been conducted and 819 questionnaires have been distributed to legislators, …
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Sexual tension : the imagined learner projected through the recontextualising of sexual knowledge into pedagogic communication in two curricula in South Africa and Ontario, Canada
… conducts a textual analysis of the structure and discourses present in two sets of sex education curriculum documents - one from South Africa and one from Ontario, Canada. It did so to make visible the imagined learner projected by these curricula in the recontextualising of sexual knowledge …
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