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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Stuff"”.
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Touchy-Feely, Gross Stuff
Physical affection and visible emotion were not the way of my family. Compassion, concern, judgment, really any sentiment was expressed almost exclusively verbally while I was growing up. To me this very normal, and as an only child, I did not have much to compare it to until I started school. It …
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"Mood-Stuff" and "Metaphoric Utterance": Norman Corwin's radio art
Norman Corwin (1910-2011) is widely acclaimed as the best radio writer in early American radio art (from the early 1920s to 1950). Ample research has been done on him as a radio dramatist, patriotic propagandist, and innovative journalist yet there are areas of his radio art career that have had …
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Stuff happens: a material culture approach to textile conservation
… and social process is<br/>emphasised as ‘stuff happens’. This research proposes, and provides<br/>evidence for, a material culture approach to textile conservation, and<br/>demonstrates its development and application. An analysis of case studies<br/>shows how the material and the social …
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The stuff that affects you: Fiction, poetry, and doggerel
1 PDF file (vi, 87 pages)
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InMind : mobile application for sharing the status of serious stuff
Individuals under unusual stress, whether due to bereavement, illness, serious conflict, or other transitions can benefit from social support. Support is a valuable resource, but there are many psychological and technical obstacles that can get between an individual and those he gets support from. …
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The Spirit of Stuff: What I Learned When I Sold (Almost) Everything
<p>The following document is a report submitted in conjunction with a video project. The video is a personal documentary, filmed in Denver, Colorado and Mexico City, Mexico, which explores the spiritual connection that people have with their material objects. The report is comprised of a project …
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Factors affecting the performance of food stuff retail trade at Urban District in Zanzibar
… the factors affecting the performance of food stuff retail at urban district in Zanzibar. It was conducted in Zanzibar, Urban district incorporating 80 people all of them dealing with food stuff retail trade. Probability and non probability sampling methods were used. Structured questionnaires, …
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Differential treatment for stuff and things: A simple unsupervised domain adaptation method for semantic segmentation
… shift issue. Based on the observation that stuff categories usually share similar appearances across images of different domains while things (i.e. object instances) have much larger differences, we propose to improve the semantic-level alignment with different strategies for stuff regions …
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'We do Stuff!' Understanding the experience of developing a professional identity among early-career social workers
This research explores the development of professional identity in social work within the distinctive bicultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand. While social work professionalisation, including mandatory registration and formalised education pathways, was intended to strengthen the profession, it …
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Woven Into the Stuff of Other Men's Lives: The Treatment of the Dead in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland.
Atlantic Scotland provides plentiful and often dramatic evidence for settlement during the Iron Age but, like much of Europe, very little is known of the funerary traditions of communities in this region. Formal burial appears to have been rare, and evidence for alternative mortuary treatments is …
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A proposal for the inhabitation of space ... : or how to put more stuff in less space Mark D. Jewell.
… The investigation then becomes how to put more stuff in less space. The objective, however, is not a technical optimization exercise, but rather the pursuit of a palatable set of ideas that enable densification. This presupposes an essential net gain from the trading of personal space for …
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How did I learn all this stuff?': The socialisation of coaching knowledge and learning practices within a sub elite coaching population
Coach education in its entirety has been identified as a key vehicle for raising the standard of coaching practice and that of which creates a good coach. In saying this, existing literature (Barker-Ruchti et al., 2016; Cushion et al., 2010; Hodkinson et al., 2008; Gheradi, 2008; Corsby, 2017; …
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“Basic Stuff I Should Know About My Kids, I Don’t Know”: Incarcerated Mothers’ Perception Of Incarceration’s Effects On Mother-Child Relationships
<p>Tougher sentencing policies have resulted in a dramatic increase in the jail and prison populations in the United States over the past few decades. The number of women who are spending time behind bars have vastly increased as a result of this. Despite increased interest in this area of …
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“Stuff from which her roots are grown”: sourcing the educational roots of gendered racial intellectual activism for Black women and girls
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Speaking in Two Tongues: an Ethnographic Investigation of the Literacy Practices of English as a Foreign Language and Cambodian Young Adult Learners’ Identity
… Gee (2008, p. 1) has identified as the ‘other stuff’ of language. This other stuff includes ‘social relations, cultural models, power and politics, perspectives on experience, values and attitudes, as well as things and places in the world’ that are introduced to the local culture through …
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Human-centred computer architecture: redesigning the mobile datastore and sharing interface
… led me to prototype a mobile datastore – My Stuff – and design new file abstractions that foreground the social nature of the stuff we store and share on our mobiles. I study how that stuff is handled and shared in the Cloud by developing, documenting, and interrogating a cloud service to …
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The South African flag controversy, 1925-1928
… Narrative, analysis and description are the stuff of written history and their blend must vary according to the nature of the topic tackled. In a comprehensive history of a most complex subject such as the flag controversy, a story which has never been fully told and in which numerous …
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