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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Technological means"”.
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Looking Down on Chicago: The Elevated Perspective in the Visual Representation of Landscape and Place
… and the social construction of its technological means of production. That is, elevated perspective representations are imbued with communicative significance by their ability to not only invoke specific visual conventions, but also be symbolic of the very technologies that produce …
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Theory and Practice in the Study of Technological Systems
… those tools in combination to study complex technological systems in an historical context. The first chapter of the dissertation examines in detail four influential models by which complex technological systems have been analyzed: Hughes's system model, Bijker's social construction model, …
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Media Scores : A framework for composing the modern-day Gesamtkunstwerk
Media Scores provide a theoretical and technical means to orchestrate multiple modalities in the creation of expressive works of art and performance. New technologies afford numerous opportunities to tell stories and create expressive artworks through a variety of media. However, the tools of …
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Policy and design in urban social housing : a reconciliation
… objectives into physical environments through technological means and spatial articulations. Third, the INHABITATION stage involves management of the resulted environment, and its use by inhabitants. The quality of the end product and the user's satisfaction with the product depend on who is …
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The impact of anti-money laundering legislation on the legal profession in South Africa
… schemes. Criminals make use of sophisticated technological means to transfer money and launderers routinely approach lawyers to assist them in their illegal endeavours. The legal profession is almost tailor-made for abuse by launderers, because lawyers work with huge amounts of money, clients …
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Implementing precision agriculture in the oil palm industry: a case of oil palm management system (OPAMS)
… world; and at a micro-level it’s advancement of technological means in order to adapt to the macro environment changes. The need of drastic changes in the global food system in order to achieve a more sustainable agriculture is inevitable. Agriculture industry stakeholders, especially those in …
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Leisure and surveillance in Irish childhoods: A cross-class study of Cork city
… defined as the adult monitoring of children by technological means, physical supervision, community supervision, or adult supervised activities (Nelson, 2010; Lareau, 2003; Fotel and Thomsen, 2004). This research adds significantly to understandings of Irish childhood by providing the first …
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Early human adaptation in the northern hemisphere and the analytic implications of taphonomy
… and small game in modelling the social and technological means of survival. The research results call for alternative reconstructions of early human adaptation which take account of the variability apparent in the ethnographic record as well as engendered approaches to interpretation.
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Investigations of ‘universality plus difference’ as being a ‘partial way of seeing’
… described by Kwame Anthony Appiah, are used as a means of exploring a partial way of seeing. This is explored by a series of works: OneSixty Characters, Roaming Sweets, Ringe Raja, and the final set of works using the camera obscura technique (Accidental Surveillance, Outside In, and Outside …
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Image Based Sexual Abuse: The Effectiveness of Malawi s Legal Framework
… women which occurs online or with the use of technological means is referred to as technology-facilitated violence, a term which includes a plethora of actions such as harassment and image based sexual abuse. Image based sexual abuse (IBSA) is “non-consensual sharing of images or videos- real …
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Grains of truth : science and the evolution of international desertification policymaking
… responsible for the problem and prescribed technological means for its amelioration. In the 1990s policies emphasized the local variability of land degradation. They attributed desertification to complex interactions involving ecological, political and economic factors, and called for …
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Consequences of Environmental Degradation in Developing Countries
… capable to protect against it for institutional, technological, and financial reasons (Barbier, 2010; Blaikie, 2016). The asymmetry of environmental deterioration and of its effects is observable in many indicators. For instance, soil erosion is affecting ever larger areas, most of them in …
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Long-distance assessment of high-risk sexual behavior: A comparative analysis of postal, telephone, electronic mail and internet administrations
… and telephone interviews to newer and more technological methods of electronic mail and Internet.</p> <p>Seven hundred and eighty participants were randomly assigned into four groups. Each group received the Sexual History Survey in a different long-distance assessment method (i.e., postal, …
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Sense of place visualization for the whaling station remains of South Georgia Island
… this relationship establishes the foundation for technological evocation of embodied virtual experience.<br/><br/>This thesis contributes a deeper understanding of sense of place visualization through practice by delivering spatial and sensory information that promote empiricist understandings of …
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Information communication technology and the management of change in two educational institutions
… and analysis of student participation through technological means coupled with the analysis of responses to a student questionnaire, enabled an evaluation of each approach. These evaluations coupled with a consideration of government policy were evaluated within a Marxist reductionist approach …
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O blogue da biblioteca de turma na promoção da leitura e da escrita
O presente trabalho teve como principal objetivo investigar a forma como o blogue poderia ser uma ferramenta potenciadora da aprendizagem da leitura e da escrita. Nessa perspetiva, foi realizado um estudo numa turma do 2.º ano do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, em que se iniciou uma atividade semanal – …
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Sensing impacts to the Earth-ionosphere waveguide from terrestrial and space weather
… This fact is useful for communication and other technological means, and also allows for the location of global lightning by sensing the radio waves emitted by lightning strokes, called sferics. Previous work has analyzed signal propagation in this waveguide from both natural (lightning) and …
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A framework using the internal and external perspectives and its application to online copyright infringement: an analysis of copying and communication to the public.
… experience we project into the future expecting technological advances to escalate at an advanced rate. Most would argue that technology is neutral in the sense that it can be used for positive or negative purposes. Either way, is clear that the development of technology is quickly progressing …