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Showing 1 to 20 of 2607 for “"Societies"”.
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Women in contemporary Islamic societies
… status of women in contemporary Islamic societies. The approach adopted to develop the discussion is an analytical one. Because of the wide controversy over status of women in Muslim societies, particular and deliberate emphasis is given to the Islamic rules and principles and how they …
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Multiscale dynamics in honeybee societies
… social interaction that occurs in honeybee societies, and find that the distribution of trophallaxis durations is similar to the distribution of face-to-face interactions among humans. I propose a scaling argument to explain the scaling exponent of these distributions, and test the argument …
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Self-adapting simulated artificial societies
… social phenomena that gave rise to ancient societies all over the world. Despite their potential, ABM are limited by the fact their agents are rarely adaptive despite adaptability often touted as one of Agent-Based Modelling's greatest strengths. In this work we remedy this by investigating …
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Some mathematical societies and journals
… is devoted to some of the major mathematical societies and journals of the world. In these letter sections there is information concerning 23 societies from 11 different countries. Particular emphasis is placed on the American Mathematical Society and its publications as it is one of the …
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Regulating competence-based access to agent societies
… around the concept of artificial agent societies, to which access would be possible only by a positive evaluation of an agent's application. The agent will provide the Authority Agent with the role it is applying for and its competencies in the context of a protocol, i.e., the messages …
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Smooth operators: architectural Deleuzism in societies of control
This thesis is concerned with the contributions of certain tendencies in architecture to the operation of contemporary modalities of power, especially in respect of its processes of subjectivation. Focused upon the mechanisms of what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze termed a ‘society of control’, it …
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Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
… the central place that representations of secret societies and conspiracies occupied in literature in France in between the two World Wars, reappearing in various guises in works by authors across aesthetic and ideological traditions. My examination situates these literary representations within …
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Friendly societies in the rural East Riding, 1830-1912
Local and affiliated order friendly societies which together formed the largest working-class movement in Victorian Britain have been largely ignored by social and labour historians. Oddfellows, Foresters, Druids, Shepherds and Gardeners with their ritual, regalia, and secrecy imitative of …
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Cooperation And Competition In Paper Wasp And Human Societies
… affect cooperation and conflict within insect societies engaged in intergroup competition. In chapter 5, I consider competition over foraging contributions in P. dominulus, and show in a field manipulation that aggression towards experimentally removed workers is higher when these wasps …
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
My doctoral thesis delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic late antique Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the seventh century, Arabia was on the …
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Reproductive plasticity and the evolution of the insect societies
A fundamental goal of evolutionary biology is to understand how novel traits arise. Eusociality represents an extreme form of social organization which has evolved independently a number of times across insects and is characterized especially in the Hymenoptera by a novel polyphenism between …
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Economic development, employment and income distribution in developing societies.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. M.C.P.
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Conceptualizing Regional International Societies: Examining the Post-Soviet Space
… literature on regional level international societies. Thus far English school scholars have demonstrated the existence of a post-Soviet regional international society. However, what is lacking is a clear defining of the members and institutions of this society. This paper gives particular …
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The Economics of Violence and Development in Post-Conflict Societies
… and socio-economic factors affect post-conflict societies. This thesis builds on the observation that both socio-economic development and armed conflict vary substantially across time and space and contextualises their relationship in the post-conflict setting. Across three articles it examines …
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Indebted societies : modern labor markets, social policy, and everyday borrowing
Debt has become an essential part of families' daily lives in many countries. This dissertation examines under what circumstances credit markets replace the role of welfare states to address social risks and promote social mobility in advanced democracies. It sheds light on the socio-economic and …
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THE IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN POST-SOVIET SOCIETIES
… on national identities in post-Soviet societies. Contrary to previous scholarship studying identity narratives enhanced and produced by political and economic elites within the space of the former USSR, this thesis focuses its analysis on how the wider public’s perception of their …
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The Social and Cultural History of Irish Musical Societies, 1890-1990
… of the newly formed Association of Irish Musical Societies (AIMS), and in 1973 the author became its librarian and information officer. She was elected as a national councillor for the association, a position she held until 1992. Together with other councillors, she visited newly formed societies, …
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Firearm Adoption in the Societies of the Lower Zambezi, 1600-1888
Firearms have been present on the African continent almost from their very inception, with many regions in North Africa as well as a select few coastal areas in West, Central and East Africa either accessing or being in contact with guns from as early as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. …
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