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Showing 1 to 20 of 223 for “"Recent Past"”.
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Neo-vernacular trends towards the recent past in Greece
… advanced countries, fragments of the past are preserved, or new environments are created to match this past image. The reappropriation of old forms includes what can be called the neo-vernacular as a way to meet emotional demands, economic needs or as one mode of intellectual …
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God's agency and the recent past in Carolingian history writing, c.750-900
… exceptions, frequently ascribed events in recent history to God. Where they have been noticed at all, these statements of God’s agency have usually been explained as political propaganda, to demonstrate God’s favour towards the reigning dynasty. Alternatively, they have been explained by …
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Identifying key problems regarding the conservation of designed landscapes: Designed landscapes of the recent past.
… the conservation of designed landscapes of the recent past. Another aim was to investigate roles and initiatives undertaken by key stakeholders and recommend key areas for measures and action to enhance the conservation and protection of designed landscapes of the recent past. The emphasis of …
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African river basins : their present geometry and recent past as a framework for their evolution
… basin patterns are also used to reconstruct the past network geometry of rivers, and to shed some light on the drainage evolution of major African rivers.
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Women in Academic Leadership Roles at Research Intensive Universities: Examining the Recent Past Using NSOPF-93
This study investigates gender differences in personal and institutional factors that impact women's advancement to academic leadership roles at research intensive universities. It uses data from a 1993 national collection of information on post-secondary faculty. Academic leaders were defined as …
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Integrated process-based simulation of soil carbon dynamics in river basins under present, recent past and future environmental conditions
… the assessment of soil C dynamics under present, recent past and future environmental conditions is not only of scientific interest and requires an integrated consideration of main factors and processes governing soil C dynamics. To perform this assessment an eco-hydrological modelling tool was …
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Navigating History and Memory in China: Perspectives on the Recent Past from a Case Study of Chinese Students at an International High School
… region, understand their nation’s recent past as they prepare for university in the United States. Set against China’s intensified efforts to shape public memory through historical education, this research examines how young people actively construct their historical understanding …
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The Effects of Life Change on Selected Comprehensive Employment and Training Act - Classroom Training Participants' Program Completion Intentions (Ceta)
… was to (1) examine the relationship between the recent past life change of selected samples of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act - Classroom Training (CETA-CT) trainees (267) and the trainees' intention to complete the program; (2) determine the life events the samples anticipated because …
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Netolimos praeities reprezentacija ir istorinės atminties formavimas: šiuolaikinio Gruzijos kino atvejis /
The Representation of Recent Past and the Formation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Film The Representation of Recent Past and the Formation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Films Memory studies are gradually developing into a very important tool for historical research …
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Houses of History and Homepages: Museums of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe and their Online Presence
… how they present, represent, and deal with the recent past, museum websites also give insight into the museums' greater outreach. Communism is portrayed in several ways in different countries, but they generally depict the country as a victim of Soviet rule and influence. This study examines …
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Localizing immigration enforcement: “secure communities,” § 287(g) and Arizona law 1070
… proposals designed to avoid the problems of the recent past.</p>
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The Deirdre Theme in AE, W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge
… heroic age rather than the sorrows of her more recent past. How the best-loved and most enduring of the legends, “Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach,” was woven by these two dramatists, and later by their younger colleague, J. M. Synge, into plays of outstanding worth without losing any of its …
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Effect of pH on the denitrification of activated sludge effluent at high oxygen tensions
In the recent past more and more attention has been given by sanitary engineers to the problem of nitrogen removal in sewage treatment. This attention is brought about by several problems associated with nitrogen. First, in some locations, such as our southwest United States, there is both an …
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Calendars and the Cosmic Race: Popular Art and the Negotiation of National Identity, Idigeneity, and Gender in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
… in la Revolución. In so doing, they re-wrote the recent past through various forms of media including calendar art in hopes of uniting the Mexican people behind their cause. By the time the calendars had reached the height of their popularity, a particular vision of la Revolución had been …
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The taxation and regulatory characteristics of Offshore Banking Centres (OBC's) with special reference to United Kingdom, Singapore, Philippines, Ireland, Cyprus and Australia
… little attention has been paid to it in the recent past.
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Dynamics of adaptive recurrent neural networks
… as a function of their correlation in the recent past. Initially an analysis of networks of two neurons is presented, which exhibit relaxation oscillations in which one neuron switches between an ’off’ state, where it takes a negative value, and an ’on’ state, where it takes a positive …
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Economic and social change in the communities of the wetlands of Chobe and Ngamiland, with special reference to the period since 1960
… of Chobe and Ngamiland from c.1870 to the recent past. Beginning in the 1870s with the arrival of European hunters and traders and the Declaration of the Bechuanaland Protectorate in 1885, the economic and social change among the peoples of this region are explored. It tracks the efforts of …
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The effects of the liberalisation of capital controls with respect to the inflow of foreign direct investment in the mining industry in South Africa
South Africa has in the recent past endeavoured to attract foreign direct investment through the liberalisation of capital controls. The question that has been raised is whether, in the wake of the recent global financial crisis and the corresponding response of economists that now more than ever …
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Implications of Martian polar insolation levels on the climatic cycling of volatiles
… obliquity has varied greatly in the geologically recent past and this would have had a profound effect on the past climate. Previous studies have always assumed a spherical planet when calculating insolation. This study uses a geodetic elevation model (GEM) of the elevation data from the Mars …
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Time and teachers : an empirical and conceptual study of the competition for the available time in the classroom practice of teachers working in the Western Cape, 1989-1990
… teaching or who had been teaching in the recent past. The interviews explored the attitudes and practices of the teachers regarding their timetables, free periods, extra-murals, marking practices and lesson preparation, meetings, homework practices, tests and examinations, and …
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