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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"TENET"”.
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Autonomy and neutrality in liberal political thought
A central tenet of liberal political philosophy is the claim that the role of the state is to remain neutral among citizens’ varying conceptions of the good life. In addition to this tenet, some liberals hold the view that we ought to define freedom as individual autonomy. Moreover, such liberals …
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Structural Analysis of Family Dysfunction (Interaction, Interpersonal Assessment, Scapegoating, Direct Observation, Markov Analysis)
A central tenet of family systems theory has been that family members behave in a manner that maintains dysfunctional perceptions of other family members and of themselves. One of the key ways in which this tenet has been described is through the construct of scapegoating. This construct was …
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From Our Democracy to Yours
… has viewed promoting democracy as a longstanding tenet of its foreign policy. This has manifested itself in many ways, including in its foreign aid projects. This thesis sought to better understand what the U.S. did in promoting democracy through its foreign aid. Specifically, it what the U.S. did …
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Bodies, minds and materialism
… phenomenon. This core assumption is a central tenet of our intellectual history. How this bears on our ability to take seriously new theories of mind in light of progressive discovery is what is at issue in this paper. Herein, it is argued that because the idiom we use to speak about the mind …
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Factors Related to Changes in Infant Attachment Security: A Test of the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis
A major tenet of attachment theory is that the stability of the caregiving environment drives the stability of infant attachment security. The research investigating the factors related to the stability and change of infant attachment is limited by its lack attention to infant characteristics …
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Applications of legal maxims in Islamic criminal law with speciual reference to Shariah law in northern Nigeria (1999 - 2007)
… upon among the Islamic scholars on which the tenet of Islamic law is based. Each one of these six legal maxims has some sub-maxims which are either functioning as further explanation to the grand maxim or condition and restriction to it. This thesis attempts to analyze those six legal maxims …
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Because I Am Human: Centering Black Women with Dis/abilities in Transition Planning from High School to College
… Womanist/Black Feminist Theory and their shared tenets of voice and counternarratives and concepts of social construction and falsification of consciousness to analyze the narratives of BWD participants. I drew from the DS/DSE tenet of interlocking systems of oppression, DisCrit tenet three, race …
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Biodiversity, bioprospecting and patents: a case study of traditional knowledge in French Guiana.
… of the French republic is a fundamental tenet of French identity. However, this tenet has harmful repercussions for indigenous French Guianese peoples when it comes to the consideration of the recognition of their rights and their capacity to control their own knowledge and access to …
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Place in social process : an exploratory data analysis of outcomes from localised labour exchange
The principle tenet of this Study is that place and its role in social process is poorly understood. This is a serious problem in human geography where one of the major tasks is to elucidate the spatial elements in social process. The resulting difficulties are compounded in empirical analysis …
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Place in social process : an exploratory data analysis of outcomes from localised labour exchange
The principle tenet of this Study is that place and its role in social process is poorly understood. This is a serious problem in human geography where one of the major tasks is to elucidate the spatial elements in social process. The resulting difficulties are compounded in empirical analysis …
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Metaphors of the sea : a critical study of five Anglo-Saxon poems
… in and through metaphor. This is an axiomatic tenet of the criticism of modern poetry. But criticism of Anglo-Saxon poetry, if it bases its insights on a detailed reference to metaphor, must justify itself on theoretical grounds.
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A guest lodge and associated buildings for a State Forest preserve
… of New York, are intended to illustrate the tenet of contemporary structures for the needs of contemporary man.
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Walking and the Reinvention of Space
… an ideological production. While it is a basic tenet of rhetoric that it always occurs in a given location, only recently have scholars of rhetoric begun to privilege space both as a theoretical lens and as part of everyday rhetorical practice. By positioning the walker as an embodied rhetorical …
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An experimental investigation of the effects of perceived price fairness on perceptions of sacrifice and value
The basic tenet of this dissertation was that buyers may compare the prices they are charged for identical products purchased from the same seller. Price discrepancies uncovered through this comparison process were shown to affect perceptions of the fairness of the charged prices. Perceived price …
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Eucharistic belief and practice in Ireland, 1660-1740
… of simply denying the central Eucharistic tenet of Roman Catholicism, officials had to publicly receive the sacrament in the Church of Ireland as a symbol of their political loyalty. This manifestation of the sacred in the secular world was the instigation for this thesis, and provides the …
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FeSb2: a riddle, inside an insulator, wrapped in a metal Electric and magnetic properties of the unconventional insulator iron diantimonide
… metals and insulators forms a fundamental tenet of condensed matter physics. Over the past decade or so, the explosion of interest in topological insulators – materials that host a metallic surface state atop their insulating bulks – has demonstrated how the contrasting properties of …
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Charlotte Mason: An Introductory Analysis of Her Educational Theories and Practices
… in six essays that discuss major educational tenets of Mason’ s educational philosophy. The second goal is studied through a case study on The Children’s Community School. The six essays based on major tenets of Mason’s educational theories and practices begin with the principle, "children are …
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A Model Reading Program For Gifted Students
… for the study abided in the fact that a basic tenet of our democratic society is that each child is entitled to an education that is best suited to his or her unique abilities and needs. The foundation for the development of the model gifted reading program was attained from a review of related …
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Creation Through Destruction: Artifacts of Worldbuilding in Experiential Legacy Games
… through destruction” emerged as the central tenet of memorable, meaningful legacy games.
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