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Showing 1 to 20 of 636 for “"Rethinking"”.
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Rethinking Shame
My dissertation defends the place of shame in moral psychology. I critique the two dominant accounts of shame in the current literature: the optimistic view, which states that shame is the experience of failing to live up to a virtue or excellence that one values, and the pessimistic view, which …
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Rethinking rubbish
Industrial processes forms have dominated the landscape with their linear and degenerative processes. The imposition of these forms in the landscape is exemplified by the industrial area adjacent to the harbour in Cape Town, which was located on the coastline prior to the reclamation of the …
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Rethinking Civil War
<p>Why do some civil conflicts simmer at low-intensity, while others escalate to war? When and why do some civil conflicts experience cycles of escalation and de-escalation? This dissertation challenges traditional approaches to intrastate conflict by arguing the need to distinguish both …
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Rethinking adaptive reuse
Adaptive reuse of manufacturing plants in post-industrial countries has become an increasing trend. In the United States, evidence of our industrial past is present in both urban and rural landscapes. The appearance of "brownfields" is due to the change in the U.S. economy from heavy industry and …
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Rethinking the book
Electronic media have lagged behind their paper progenitors in the clear, usable display of large bodies of information. New visual languages have been created for information display which exploit the computer's unique ability to render dynamic and three-dimensional typography. These languages …
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ReThinking Modular Architecture
Undertaking a work of architecture utilizing modular construction is, in most cases, a design project dominated, or at least driven by, the most technical aspects of architecture. Technical aspects which haven't been completely figured out yet. Rather than making the decision to use a …
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Rethinking Vertical Living
I have always been fascinated by vertical living, especially in the dense Urban context. I wonder how families become neighbors and create a sense of neighborhood when under a single roof in a multifamily/ multi storied housing complex. Whereas the building also serves the various amenities to its …
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Rethinking Maximum Likelihood Estimation
This thesis is a culmination of my doctoral work which addresses the issue of bias in statistical parameter estimation, with a particular focus on deep generative models. I propose a novel alternative to Maximum Likelihood Estimation, most popular method for estimating parameters, and show how my …
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Rethinking community benefits agreements
Across the United States, conflicts often erupt when large-scale real estate development projects are proposed and executed in low-income neighborhoods of large cities. Communities increasingly ask for benefits to offset negative impacts caused by new development. These requests often take the form …
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Creative Participation: Rethinking Reclamation
This project investigates the development of Western Man's relationship with nature by comparing and contrasting it with the relationship that Native Cultures, particularly Native American Cultures have with nature. This reveals Western Man's reliance on the concept of objectivity and the resultant …
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Rethinking scientific literacy standards
This thesis explores some of the implications of contemporary science studies for current science education reforms. The scientific literacy effort proposed by Project 2061 is described and criticized with regard to its educational and philosophical commitments. It is argued that a number of …
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Rethinking Education for Modern Man
The purpose of this study is to examine the general framework of Sidney Hook’s philosophy of education. It will give special attention to Hook’s Education for Modern Man, his primary work on his philosophy of education, though it will also include additional relevant articles. It provides a …
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Rethinking dance in higher education
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Rethinking cognitive style in psychology
This thesis proposes to answer a single question: do the stylistic features of cognition operate independently of cognitive contents? The question itself has a history, and the way it has been framed, and the types of answers it has attracted have been related to ideological and political …
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Rethinking the application-database interface
Applications that interact with database management systems (DBMSs) are ubiquitous in our daily lives. Such database applications are usually hosted on an application server and perform many small accesses over the network to a DBMS hosted on a database server to retrieve data for processing. For …
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
Although Amanda Wingfield, Blanche DuBois, and Maggie Pollitt are examined frequently in scholarship on Tennessee Williams's plays, many critics assume that the three women's Southern femininity translates to fragility and that their nostalgia for the Confederate past constitutes delusion. …
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Digital + Physical: Rethinking the Playground
The increasing presence of digital play experiences has become an undeniable part of many childrenâ s lives. These digital experiences have begun to rival traditional physical play. Even with the introduction of the Nintendo Wii digital and physical rarely cross paths. This masters thesis …
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Rethinking Legal Pragmatism: A Philosophical Approach
In "Rethinking Legal Pragmatism: A Philosophical Approach," I take issue with the position of Judge Richard A. Posner, a contemporary spokesperson for legal pragmatism and the law and economics movement. Posner holds that academic philosophy and philosophical pragmatism in particular has no role to …
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Towards deliberative environmental governance: Rethinking participation
In the face of more and more conflicting demands for management of the environment, deliberative governance approaches are failing to build the institutions that scholars and leaders advocate as solutions to the complex pressures. While the practice of participation has become a mandatory principle …
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