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Reaching across difference
There are growing numbers of trans and non-binary whānau accessing perinatal healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). International literature shows that their perinatal healthcare needs, including their lactation and chestfeeding/breastfeeding information, care and support needs, are not well …
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Reaching for Fairies
<p><em>Reaching for Fairies</em> is a New Adult fiction novel about the slow process of healing from generational trauma in young adulthood. The story is told through a close-third person perspective focused on the inner thoughts of Cadence Marsh, an insightful and people-pleasing 20-year-old with …
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Reaching Constituents in the Digital Age
Canadian politicians have long been tasked with how best to communicate with their constituents, with new digital communications tools being utilised as they have become available. Constituency communications as currently practised offers an alternative to and exists in tension with the …
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Computationally-efficient methods for reaching consensus
Los sistemas de votación se remontan a la antigüedad y son un elemento clave de la vida cotidiana en las sociedades actuales. Durante los últimos siglos se han propuesto muchas metodologías para llegar a decisiones colectivas. En esta tesis nos centramos en la parte del campo de teoría de la …
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Reaching for Opacity: Contemporary Afrodiasporic Literature
My dissertation engages anew with the theme of alterity across a range of contemporary Afrodiasporic literature. Over the last four decades, scholarly debates around the statues of “the other” have led to a number of theoretical approaches, which focus on questions of responsibility, recovery, and …
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The bliss of reaching: an online magazine
<p>My final project/thesis consisted of learning about online journals (how they function, what makes them successful, etc) and creating one of my own. I created an online journal, East of Eden, and uploaded one issue. The issue I created, "The Bliss of Reading," is a magazine that has 100 poems …
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Reaching Consensus with uncertainty on a network
As modern communication networks become increasingly advanced, so does the ability and necessity to communicate to make more informed decisions. However, communication alone is not sucient; the method by which information is incorporated and used to make the decision is of critical importance. This …
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Challenges and solutions towards reaching SDG6 in Malawi
… and sanitation as well as the future threats to reaching SDG6. Firstly, the thesis explores challenges to water security, considering both water quantity and quality to ensuring SDG6. Analysis of challenges to water quantity involves exploration of the interface between groundwater and surface …
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The control of reaching movements by young infants
Infant reaching movements have tortuous handpaths and multipeaked speed curves. It has been hypothesised that these movements comprise sequences of ballistic motor units whose boundaries are marked by troughs in the speed-time curve. Error correction, if any, is assumed to take place between and …
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The control of reaching movements by young infants
Infant reaching movements have tortuous handpaths and multipeaked speed curves. It has been hypothesised that these movements comprise sequences of ballistic motor units whose boundaries are marked by troughs in the speed-time curve. Error correction, if any, is assumed to take place between and …
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Leadership in Reaching Global Consensus on Technologicl Standardization
<p><em>Problem</em>. Today there is an environment in our organizations represented by “islands” of information. Information cannot be exchanged easily. The information is stored in computers that cannot talk to each other. Archaic paper processes, lack of non-proprietary international standards, …
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Wildly Inaccessible: Reaching Public Lands via Public Transit
Public transit offers a valuable method to sustainably connect people to highly sought amenities, including outdoor spaces. Outdoor recreation has grown in popularity, with a particular uptick in outdoor activity in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, a growing body of research has …
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Explicit Attention to Allocentric Landmarks Improves Memory-Guided Reaching
… and implicit influences on reaching performance However, it is not known how the instruction itself (to rely either on egocentric versus allocentric cues) influences memory-guided reaching. Here, 13 participants performed a task with two instruction conditions (egocentric vs. …
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Reaching out from within: Poet’s soft lightning delivered with thunder
In this critical autoethnography, I explore my transformative life journey profoundly shaped through mentorship, analyzed within the conceptual frameworks of ecological systems theory, social networking theory, social capital theory, identity theory, and transformational leadership theory. Through …
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Reaching for a connection: hand imagery in Emily Dickinson’s poems
<p>This study analyzes hand imagery in Emily Dickinson's poetic oeuvre. It examines a series of poems where the word "hand" appears, and offers extensive interpretations of the figurative value of the symbol. It questions whether this figurative value informs the critical discussion of authorship …
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The development of spatially-accurate reaching behaviour in early infancy
… spatial characteristics of objects with their reaching and prehensile behaviours. The reaching behaviour of infants ranging in age from two to seven months was videotaped to determine whether they tended to adjust their reaching appropriately to variations in the physical distance, solidity and …
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The development of spatially-accurate reaching behaviour in early infancy
… spatial characteristics of objects with their reaching and prehensile behaviours. The reaching behaviour of infants ranging in age from two to seven months was videotaped to determine whether they tended to adjust their reaching appropriately to variations in the physical distance, solidity and …
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The Ministry of Dan Kimball: A Model for Reaching Emerging Generations
THE MINISTRY OF DAN KIMBALL: A MODEL FOR REACHING EMERGING GENERATIONS Blake Thomas Ring, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011 Chair: Dr. Charles E. Lawless, Jr. This dissertation examines the ministry of Dan Kimball to determine if his ministry is a contributing model for …
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