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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Rowlands"”.
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The Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals
… moral commitments; Rawls (and consequently Rowlands) uses the original position as a method for making moral decisions that are both fair and consistent without proposing a normative moral code, and DeGrazia adds content to this method by spelling out what interests are and which individuals …
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A study of Indian Pentecostal Church membership with reference to a model of religious change
… Pentecostal Mission in Pietermaritzburg by J.A. Rowlands and Ebenezer Theophilus. Although the appeal of Pentecostalism was limited among Indians initially, and there is some evidence that early Christian converts were ostracised by their relatives, when J.F. Rowlands, the elder son of J.A. …
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Therapist's Use of Continuous Client Feedback to Influence Therapy
… (Anker, Duncan, and Sparks, 2009; Norsworthy, & Rowlands, 2009; Reese, Toland, Slone, & Norsworthy, 2010), but according to the literature, additional information was needed on how feedback works (Anker, Duncan, and Sparks, 2009). A qualitative, phenomenological study was chosen to further …
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'Do non-human animals have some form of moral sense which informs the way that they live and act towards members of their own and other species?'
… beings. While some philosophers such as Mark Rowlands consider that some animals may be moral subjects (but not full moral agents), others (after Descartes) have argued that only humans possess the requisite cognitive capacities. Three common objections discussed in the essay are that animals …
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Congress and Immigration Policy: A Study of the Member-level Motivations and Agenda Setting Strategies Surrounding Immigration Reform
This dissertation project unpacks a micro- and macro-level behavioral quandary: the constraint of member-level motivations on majority party agenda setting strategies, existing in policy contexts that generate internal divisions within political parties. In particular, I do this through the lens of …
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‘Illuminating the past to make the future safer?’ Exploring the potential and peril of domestic homicide reviews as a mechanism for change
Since 2011, domestic abuse (DA)-related deaths in England and Wales have been subject to a ‘Domestic Homicide Review’ (DHR). A DHR brings together a range of stakeholders – including representatives from organisations that had contact with a victim, as well as those who knew them – to build a …
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A Dramatist's Intent : Performativity, Relationality & Being
Within the limitations of this document, written as supplement to the three portfolio texts developed in New York between 2007 and 2013 (Desire Lines, Troyanne and A / The Biography of a Thing), I have striven to achieve three things. Firstly, to contextualise the self (I) as dramatist in relation …
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Mapping the knowledge base of information policy: clusters of documents, people and ideas
This thesis investigates aspects of the intellectual and social structure of the field of information policy through a detailed examination of the serials literature. The aims of the research are to explore how information policy scholarship is organised—in terms of its relation to other fields and …
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Fear Not: Exploring the Role of Memory Suppression During Pavlovian Fear Extinction
The overarching aim of this thesis is to provide the first direct assessments of the retrieval stopping model of fear extinction—a model reframing century-old theories of how we overcome fears. The model marries two hitherto disconnected research areas: memory suppression and Pavlovian fear …
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A multiscale study on the origins of the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect in polycrystalline nickel-based superalloys
Various engineering alloys display load drops and strain localisation during constant strain rate tensile testing, termed the Portevin-Le Chatelier (PLC) effect. This includes nickel-based superalloys, between approximately 200 °C and 600 °C. The PLC effect is widely attributed to Dynamic Strain …
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The Emperor's New Clothes: Media Representations Of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 1990-2005
The purpose of this dissertation is to reflect on the author’s published work in the field complementary and alternative medicine, specifically that produced between 1996 and 2005. It examines how the production of this work was influenced by the author’s previous and concurrent experience as a …
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Ecological and Comparative Performance Studies on High-rate Sewage Filter Media
Used waters containing high concentrations of organic materials have proved difficult to treat to suitable standards for discharge to inland waters ,using conventional biological filtration, The use of two stage filtration has been shown to produce effluents of a higher standard than single stage …
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A Sequentially Modulated Ruby Laser System for Transmitted and Scattered Light Dynamic Photoelasticity
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:25:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6808208.pdf: 3987782 bytes, checksum: b1b2dca733b57d2d43829cf85d16c453 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Spectral and dynamical properties of disordered and noisy quantum spin models
This thesis, divided into two parts, is concerned with the analysis of spectral and dynamical characteristics of certain quantum spin systems in the presence of either I) quenched disorder, or II) dynamical noise. In the first part, the quantum random energy model (QREM), a mean-field spin glass …
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A Different Subject: Autotheory in Contemporary French Self-Writing
This thesis considers the increased entanglement of contemporary French self-writing and theorising in the 2000s, with particular reference to questions of gender, sex and sexuality. The study of modern French autobiography has long emphasised the intimate connection between developments in …
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The effects of recreational activities on aquatic avifauna
The Rietvlei wetland system, 10 km north of Cape Town, South Africa, supports 158 species of birds (Winterbottom,1960), and is the principal wetland for breeding waterbird numbers in the south-western Cape Province. It is an important collection, pairing and distribution centre prior to the …
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