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Showing 1 to 20 of 437 for “"Rethink"”.
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FROM BATCH TO FLOW: RETHINK THE WAY OF DOING CHEMISTRY
In this thesis, the application of flow chemistry to overcome batch limitations in the process development of organic reactions was explored. Specifically, novel and challenging protocols for the synthesis of APIs were investigated, with the aim to develop alternative synthetic methodologies, and a …
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ReHABit : claiming endangered structures in Washington DC to rethink subsidized housing
There is an affordable housing crisis today in Washington D.C. that is the result of a uniquely complicated history of a capital city and a current economic boom. This thesis responds to that crisis by proposing a new program of subsidized housing that differs from the historically large scale, …
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Fight, Flight, or Rethink: Using Cognitive Reappraisal in Response to Anger and Anxiety
Emotion regulation strategies are used as a way of managing one's emotions in response to adverse events. Cognitive Reappraisal is one strategy that has been shown to be a healthy way of controlling emotions, while others have been shown to have negative effects depending on the emotion. The …
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Are We Out of the Woods Yet? How Democrats and Progressives Need to Rethink their Message Framework
<p>The aftermath of the election revealed that the Democratic Party made critical errors and had structural issues that made executing our messaging more difficult. The Democratic Party needs to return to a set of principles that prioritizes all people and their wellbeing to win elections. What do …
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The prevalence of pain catastrophising in pregnancy and its influence on latent phase hospital admission The RETHINK Study
Background: Women experiencing an uncomplicated pregnancy are at increased risk of interventions if admitted to hospital during the latent phase of labour. Women expecting their first child (nulliparous) are more likely to be admitted during the latent phase than women who have had one …
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From the demise of theory to its resurgence. A retrospective on the postmodern turn to rethink the 'desire for narrative' and the sublime untimeliness of emancipation
Cultural Marxist Theory, commonly known as theory, enjoyed a moment of extraordinary success in the 1970s, when the works of leading post-war French philosophers were published in English. After relocating to Anglophone academia, however, theory disavowed its original concerns and lost its ambition …
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Application of the ISO 9283 standard to test repeatability of the Baxter robot
… more cost-efficient and safer to work with. Rethink Robotics has created an industrial robot called Baxter that is less expensive and more compliant. Unfortunately, while Rethink has an accuracy specification for Baxter, there is some confusion about the repeatability specification of Baxter. …
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In Search of Identity: Hafus in Japan
… topic. I argue that the Japanese majority should rethink the Japanese identity to be more inclusive of hafus, as many are often stopped to do so because of hafus’ foreign looks. Hafus should also rethink their identity by challenging the label “hafu” itself that carries many negative connotations. …
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Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater
… fiction text "Vampyroteuthis Infernalis" to rethink "inscription"; ocean data visualizations to rethink "database"; and Jacques Cousteau's diving narratives to rethink "interface." Focusing on the ocean expands the critical discussion of the relation between embodiment and knowledge taken up …
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Autonomous city form
Innovations in transportation give us a chance to rethink and redefine the art of city design, centered as much on the quality of public space as on economic efficiency. Transportation is the backbone of urbanism. What is a city if not a group of buildings distributed in space and thus functioning …
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The Construction of Personal Meaning in the Transformation of a School's Culture: Three Journeys Along the Pathway of School Improvement
The study recommends that administrators rethink the traditional, single-reality, cause-effect world view and consider a constructivist world view that supports the existence of multiple realities, multiple paths to understanding, and the possibility of influencing rather than directing change. It …
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Ecological and evolutionary processes in two southern African endemic birds
… integrates ecology and population genetics to rethink the mechanisms that promote divergence. To accomplish that I studied two southern African endemic Cercotrichas scrub-robins: C. coryphaeus and C. signata. Despite its phylogenetic proximity the two study species occupy the two ends of the …
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Secreted Behind Closed Doors : Rethinking Cather's Adultery Theme and "Unfurnished" Style in My Mortal Enemy
… relation to the visual art scene of the time, to rethink assumptions about the novel and about its protagonist. I use Cather's 1923 novel A Lost Lady and the criticism that surrounded it to rethink My Mortal Enemy and provide a new way of reading the novel, solidifying My Mortal Enemy's place in …
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ARTISTS' SPACE : CITY STUDENT LIVING
… part of the living routine. The thesis seeks to rethink the student living environment in a city context. In this case, one is immersed in a city living environment where certain facilities and lifestyle are shared with the larger public. Explorations of interactive spaces encompass public …
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IMPROVING STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR FEDERAL PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES THROUGH COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
… preparedness have created an opportunity to rethink the collaborative approach to strategic planning. This thesis considers the role that collaborative strategic management and collaborative frameworks may play in strengthening strategic planning at the federal level through a policy options …
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Change of heart: Rethinking the prescriptive medical environment
… to us. This thesis addresses the need to rethink the use of environmental qualities in medical facilities, looking to and expanding upon how they were used in past paradigms.
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Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and its Queer Afterlives
… attention to anti-Asian violence, this project rethinks violence beyond its familiar terms as a scene of spectacular, individual, and repetitive injury. This dissertation offers a critique of the dominant protocols of documentation and representation of violence, what I refer to as the …
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'Post-1994 challenges facing South African NGOs : a case study of six Western Cape Non-Governmental Organizations that have a development focus'
… monitoring and evaluation tools Government to rethink strategies for a more effective NGO-government partnership and to rethink the criteria for allocating much needed funds to NGOs. Further research regarding the nature and impact of services should be made.
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Rethinking computer architecture and operating system abstractions for good & evil
… abstractions of the OS and hardware layers and rethink their synergy from scratch. This thesis takes the first steps toward answering this question, while following two central themes: (a) uncovering security vulnerabilities and building defenses at the boundary between hardware and OS, and (b) …
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Architecture in an unstable territory
… objects to designing systems, 3. architects rethink the use of materials and get involved in their projects' production process and 4. architects acknowledge that design is by necessity incomplete.
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