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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Self-preservation"”.
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A Framework for Web Object Self-Preservation
… emergent behavior principles for the long-term preservation of digital data using the web infrastructure. We present the development of the framework called unsupervised small-world (USW) which is at the nexus of emergent behavior, graph theory, and digital preservation. The USW algorithm …
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The Federated States of Micronesia: Control, Self Preservation and Continuity
The history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s engagement with the outside world has been a neglected area of academic scholarship. Historians often treated the topic as a footnote since Micronesians were perceived as unseen participants of colonial processes. To this end …
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The Federated States of Micronesia: Control, Self Preservation and Continuity
The history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s engagement with the outside world has been a neglected area of academic scholarship. Historians often treated the topic as a footnote since Micronesians were perceived as unseen participants of colonial processes. To this end …
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The ancient notion of self-preservation in the theories of Hobbes and Spinoza
… the many ways in which the ancient accounts of self-preservation helped to unify large aspects of Hobbes’s and Spinoza’s own philosophical corpus, while equally showing how a well-developed account of bodily tendencies might challenge the scholastic worldview and expand further the boundaries of …
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"A kind providence" and "The right to self preservation": how Andrew Jackson, Emersonian whiggery, and frontier Calvinism shaped the course of American political culture
Andrew Jackson has inspired numerous biographies and works of historical scholarship, but his religious views have attracted very little attention. Jackson may have been a giant on the political landscape, but he was also a human being, an ordinary American who experienced the same difficulties and …
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To the Forgotten : for orchestra
… between humanity and nature by the method of self-preservation. I discovered a similar approach toward nature in three main references for this piece, including a Chinese poem “Moon Over Frontier Mountains” by Li Bai, the philosophy of Zhuangzi (369 BC-286 BC), and my journey in Northeast …
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Exploring community and enacted stigma among South African bisexual women of colour
… contexts; (2) strategic identity management in self-preservation; and (3) resilience through community, language, and self-affirmation. Participants reported bisexual invalidation, hypersexualisation, and conditional acceptance from both heterosexual men and lesbian women. Cultural and religious …
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Claiming Iris
… her relationships, not only with her new, scared self, but also with her overbearing mother, her best friend, her rescuer and her antagonistic roommate. She has just moved to a strange city and still has not found a job. So, she has the overwhelming stress of the attack to contend with and the …
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Cheat River
… novel about balancing family obligations against self-preservation. That is what's at stake for Allison and Andrew McKenna, a pair of siblings in rural Appalachia who must endure their father's abandonment and their pregnant mother's breakdown. At first, the two find solace from their parents' …
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Numerical Modeling of a Turbulent Plane Jet Impingement on a Solid Wall
… a common problem for engineers. Owing to self-preservation in nature, a submerged jet has been well solved by the zero-equation turbulence model. However, in practice, the flow field is often confined by side walls or normal walls. Near those solid boundaries, flow situations depend highly …
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Daytona sands
… a similar fate, August grapples with concepts of self-preservation and interpersonal trust as she begins to peel back the layers of what she once perceived to be reality and attempts to convince herself that we are not what has happened to us — that we are forever capable of self-reinvention. At …
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A theory of state behavior under threat the tragedy of domestic realism
… and values. The prime concern for security and self-preservation trumps all other legal constraints and ethical considerations. In spite of its tragic and unsettling nature, it behooves us to accept the domestic realism notion that aberrations in behavior are inevitable in the face of looming …
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Texturalism and Performance - Adorno's Theory of Truth
… necessity of concepts in the requirements of self-preservation. The agent’s performative interaction with the text is held to provide access to truth by virtue of interfering with the conceptual mediation of the agent’s experience. I go on to argue that this conception of truth is also at play …
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Power, identity, and social positioning in the professional lives of Black counselling psychologists: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… among the participants, including practices of self-preservation and social activism. The analysis reveals that the participants’ identities are not fixed or uniform but are constantly constructed and negotiated within their professional lives. Implications: The findings of this study underscore …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… of cultural reinvention in the interest of self-preservation—a practice consistent with the cultural survival and legacy of other Native Americans in the region. As individuals, genízaros underwent social and cultural transformations upon leaving their native communities and entering …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… of cultural reinvention in the interest of self-preservation—a practice consistent with the cultural survival and legacy of other Native Americans in the region. As individuals, genízaros underwent social and cultural transformations upon leaving their native communities and entering …
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Invincible but Invisible: A Phenomenological study of African American Female Principals in Wisconsin’s Public K - 12 Schools
… relational leadership practices, and intentional self-preservation strategies to remain effective and resilient in their roles. The study concludes that the persistent structural inequities affecting African American female principals require systemic responses. Recommendations include the …
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Recollection
… events in our lives is no less than an act of self preservation. We are preserving ourselves by creating a context in which we can find our self. Time is relative to the paintings in terms of content, medium and the participants themselves. Temporal experience with this work constitutes a …
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Recollection
… events in our lives is no less than an act of self preservation. We are preserving ourselves by creating a context in which we can find our self. Time is relative to the paintings in terms of content, medium and the participants themselves. Temporal experience with this work constitutes a …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
… physical re-enactment. As an artist, I found myself equipped with the will for self-preservation and the drive to find a sense of being in contextualizing home through the act of art. In Chapter One, I use women's intercultural performance, feminist nomadism, and postmodern fairy tales and myth …
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