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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Pretence"”.
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Pretence and Counterfactual Reasoning: What is the nature of the relationship
… aims to explore the theoretical assertion that pretence and counterfactual reasoning involve the same cognitive mechanisms. However, there is little empirical evidence concerning the nature of the association between pretence and counterfactual reasoning (CFR), and the associations of these …
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The threshold of 'normality' : transformation in theatre for adults with learning disabilities and recovering from mental illness
… relationships between individual and group, the pretence and the real, and the self within the pretence and the real. Methodological and ethical issues arising from this are discussed. Turner's theory of the 'liminal zone': the space 'in between' one state in ritual and the next, is applied to …
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The critique of the traditional theory of rationality
… of rationality. The essay does not make any pretence at being a complete survey of the critical appraisals which this theory of rationality has received. It has confined itself to a selection of those theoretical contributions believed to be most useful in illustrating certain fundamental …
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'An economic analysis of East African unity, 1960-2000'
… admit, to govern is to choose, and there was no pretence that each state could have all the manufacturing sectors they wanted immediately. Analysing the forms of protection and market access industrialists requested, and often received, should allow for a more comprehensive view of the mechanics …
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A Portfolio of Compositions and Commentary
… The Forest (chamber orchestra)<br/>3. A Pretence of Wit (soprano and piano)<br/>4. Concerto (solo violin and seven players)<br/>5. Parallels (symphony orchestra)<br/>6. Chants of Night (15 players) <br/>7. Deor (baritone and 10 players)<br/>In these pieces I explore a variety of melodic …
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Hauntological Videogame Form: Nostalgia and a "High Technology" Medium
… medium presents itself, gradually dropping the pretence that it is a forward-facing medium and instead relying on its past to sustain the medium long term.
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An intelligent prosthetic hand using hybrid actuation and myoelectric control
… sensors. A prosthesis as a tool makes no pretence of trying to replace the lost limb physiologically but it works as an aid to help provide some of the lost functions and is an interchangeable device worn and used as needed. Much research has been carried out to develop artificial …
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The ideology of Labourism and Britain's withdrawal from East of Suez
… the East of Suez role as the basis of Britain's pretence to remain a great power. When that proved also a chimera the right repudiated the imperial role. This explains why the Labour leadership could embrace the imperial role with considerable enthusiasm and abandon it with alacrity when …
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Contestations Over Macedonian Identity, 1870-1912
… nature. The European Powers maintained their own pretence and acted as patrons of the small Balkan States. Although churches, schools and paramilitary bands were the primary instruments of the Greek, Bulgarian and Serb states, expansion into Macedonia was ultimately achieved by a full military …
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The Scottish literary renaissance reborn: a re-evaluation of the cultural directives of King James VI, as defined in his 'Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie' (1584)
… of texts in which the author, under an explicit pretence of modesty, explores thoroughly the concepts of authority and authorship, both from a literary and political perspective. James sets out Christian-humanist paradigms for both his reading audience and aspiring poets to embrace, with a …
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Consolidating a Model of Camouflaging in Autism Spectrum: An Integrative Systematic Review
… and experiential facets of ‘neurotypical' pretence. Aims and Objectives. We conducted an unfunded, integrative systematic review towards consolidating qualitative conceptions of camouflaging in AS adults into a single model by way of thematic meta-synthesis. Our objectives were to unpack …
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'The report on her transfer was shell shock': a study of the psychological disorders of nurses and female Voluntary Aid Detachments who served alongside the British and Allied Expeditionary Forces during the First World War, 1914-1918
… being the preserve of men is essentially pretence, and that this ‘focus’ on male sufferers means the history of the condition is incomplete. Chapter four essentially examines the issues of repatriation faced by these nurses, specifically examining the evolution of war disability pensions …
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"Da sind gar kein grün" : dyadische Kommunikation sprachentwicklungsgestörter Kinder
… that language is the central means of creating pretence. This way children seem to enhance their socio-pragmatic linguistic skills effortlessly. There are still insufficient studies, examining the child-to-child interaction of German speaking children with SLI. So the main questions for my study …
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A study of the nature of religious knowledge and its role in the life of the individual and the community, with special reference to the content, aims and methods of bible teaching
… the development of a methodology. It makes no pretence to be itself a methodology. Even for this purpose, however, it was felt necessary to review Goldman's contribution and to look at its roots in Piaget, in order to see what, in the light of our findings about essence, was still lacking. To …