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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Structural conditions"”.
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Socio-Economic Structural Conditions and Hate Crimes
<p>This dissertation is an explorative study that utilized Social Network theory (SNT) that examined interracial demographic relationships and community characteristics that affect bias or hate crimes in Los Angeles County. In evaluating the relationships among racial groups of White, Latino, and …
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Structural Conditions for Global Existence in Some Chemotaxis Systems with Different Logistics
… nonlocal type. The central aim is to identify structural conditions ensuring the global existence, boundedness, and qualitative stability of classical solutions, while also exploring the onset of blow-up phenomena. The study begins with two-signal systems incorporating both attractive and …
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Race and Anomie: A Comparison of Crime Among Rural Whites and Urban Blacks Based on Social Structural Conditions.
… were studied alongside community level conditions to establish whether anomic conditions did coincide with specific types of crimes and whether individuals from each group would commit the same types of crimes. The study population came from the rural counties of Graham, Alleghany, …
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Marketisation and professionalisation of campaigning of political parties in the new democracy: an investigation of the structural conditions and factors that determined the development of marketization and professionalization of campaigning of the Indonesian political parties in the Post-Soeharto New Order.
… to provide a systematic understanding of the structural conditions and factors that determine such developments in a new democracy. The following propositions commence this study. In new democracies that are indicated by a set of conditions postulated by Strömbäck (2007: 63), Strömbäck (2010: …
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The Processes of Degeneration: The Spanish and Russian Revolutions Compared.
… and Anarchism—operating under similar structural conditions (underdevelopment, civil war, and crisis) follow parallel trajectories of what I call the processes of degeneration. These are the mechanisms through which the democratic visions of direct political and administrative …
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A study of academic resilience amongst first generation university students in South Africa
… this study aims to generate insight in to the structural conditions of first generation students who have accessed higher education and to better define the “overwhelming odds†that are frequently deemed to be against them. More importantly perhaps, this study seeks to generate understanding …
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A critical analysis of the themes of disability, welfare and community in the Thai documentary series Kon Kon Kon
… self-change in order to gain control over structural constraints or predicaments. Such stories of personal triumphs and struggles are a main feature of media in late modernity. Late modernity is a period when human beings gain a central role and individuals are given autonomy to construct …
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The risks of nonfatal violent victimizations across individual-and structural-level characteristics
… the impact of individual characteristics and structural conditions on non-fatal violent victimization risks. Using the criminological theories known Routine Activities/The Lifestyle Model and Social Disorganization Theory, each provided explanations how and why crime and victimization are …
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LAND DISPOSSESSION AND JURIDICAL LAND DISPUTES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN NORTHERN MEXICO: A STRUCTURAL DOMINATION APPROACH
… by examining the way dominant groups shape the structural conditions for land appropriation and its perpetuation over time. This is pursued by exploring the link between the Rarámuri communities’ decision-making power and their potential to resists land dispossession. The research contributes to …
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Existence of smooth shock profiles for hyperbolic systems with relaxation
… with relaxation fulfills easy-to-check sructural conditions. In general, the ODE system for the relaxation shock profile has a singular right-hand-side. The structural conditions allow the construction of a locally invariant manifold M, where the vector field to this ODE system has a smooth …
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Invited but excluded: Examining the underrepresentation of African American women and girls in STEM-based fields of education, and how historically Black colleges and universities are bridging the equity gap
… explores the social, institutional, and structural conditions believed to be at the center of the racial disparities that influence access and participation within secondary and post-secondary environments of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. More …
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Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding
… interdependence is presumably caused by structural conditions, such as the local dependence on the military and financial resources of the statebuilders. I will argue in this essay that local resistance is made possible by a second set of structural conditions that attenuate the …
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The Relationship Between Teacher Perceptions Of Professional Learning Communities And Shared And Supportive Leadership
… and vision, collective learning, supportive conditions, and shared personal practice. This study utilized the five Madison County (KY) middle schools to assess the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of shared and supportive leadership practices and the other indicators of an effective …
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An exploration of how creative arts lecturers in higher education talk about reflecting on their teaching
… and practices, cultures, and conventions) and structural conditions (institutional policy and practice, external regulations, and environment) mediating the talk. The research findings highlight that pedagogic theories and concepts used in reflective teaching can be alienating for dual …
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Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the United States: A Structural Approach
… an in-depth understanding of the impact of local structural conditions on Americans' attitudes. Using a survey design, I rely primarily on the 2000 General Social Survey (GSS), a large cross-sectional nationally representative survey. Multilevel modeling is employed to analyze the hierarchical …
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Waging a Living in Casual Dining Restaurant Chains
… As a response to difficult and inflexible structural conditions present in restaurant work, servers establish short-lived camaraderie with each other through games, harassment, and deriding low-status customers to get through their shifts. The thesis closes by examining possible ways to …
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'A Bridge Over the Chasm': Rhetoric and Reflexivity in Housing Advocacy
… of critical reflexivity, I identify interlocking structural conditions, or “blueprints,” that constitute housed rhetoric and relations. I propose adapting a series of existing action-based tools to unpack these blueprints and support inclusive, collaborative policy work across difference
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Identification of civil structural parameters using the extended Kalman filter
… the context of civil and industrial structures, structural control and damage detection have recently become an area of great interest. The safety of a structure is always the most important issue for structural engineers, and to achieve this goal, the discipline of Structural Health Monitoring …
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Crime organizado transnacional: a relação entre tráfico de drogas e violência estrutural no Brasil
… profitability of drug trafficking and a set of structural conditions such as social exclusion, marginalization, inequality, unemployment, lack of access to quality education and impoverishment. As an important country in the route of international trafficking in illicit drugs, Brazil suffers …
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Managing More Than Just Athletes: Impression Management Among Canadian High-Performance Sport Coaches
… of identity, power, and belonging and how structural conditions can shape minoritized coaches’ daily lives.
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