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Showing 1 to 20 of 2216 for “"Tensions"”.
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Zozobra: the tensions of urban space
My enquiry starts from a practical perspective: that of the intractable problems of our inner cities; inadequate service delivery, absent infrastructure, poverty, unemployment. Themes unquiet and persistent. I offer a critique of approaches to policy and argue that post-structural theoretical …
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Alice Walker’s Womanist Fiction: Tensions and Reconciliations
… of her fictional works, and considers where tensions arise in her application of what is intended to be a universalist, humanist, project. For, in many of her novels, it is women’s sexuality and sexual power that are the focus, often at the cost of developing the potential of male characters’ …
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Comparison of predicted and measured towline tensions
Thesis (Nav. E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1994, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Tensions and Metaphors in Higher Education Fundraising Profession
<p>This research examined the language used by higher education development professionals, specifically similar and dissimilar tropes and how they shape the perception of those development professionals. By studying these linguistic devices, insight is provided into this particular occupation and …
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Towards self-discovery: Elucidating adolescent intra-psychic tensions
In this research piece I set out to shed light on narratives of recovery from adolescent depression. I interview ten adults in their twenties, both male and female who deem themselves to have recovered from adolescent depression, and I analyse their stories from the perspective of Narrative …
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Technology in Teachers' Work Lives: Tensions and Tactics
… to acceptance and cover story, resolution of tensions occurred very rarely due to the teachers' lack of language for thinking critically about educational technology. Also, educational systems allowed very little space for teachers to question and resolve conflicts, resulting in limited …
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Anglo-American Relations and Bureaucratic Tensions, 1927-1930
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606888.pdf: 11759556 bytes, checksum: 3abd657747824a3a4bdbf326c5043471 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Dynamic states and spinning plates: Microfoundations of balancing tensions
… holds a prominent position in theories about tensions (Schad, Lewis, Raisch, & Smith, 2016). Tensions are situations involving ‘stress, anxiety, discomfort, or tightness in making choices and moving forward’ (Putnam, Fairhurst, & Banghart, 2016, p. 68). Through balance organizations can …
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Exploring digital discourse with Chinese characteristics: contradictions and tensions
Capitalism in China is under transformations. This research aims to register and interpret China’s discourse on network technologies, reveal the underlying ideologies, and tie this discourse to the transformation of China’s capitalism of which it is a part. Digital discourse, as this thesis defines …
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Walking the Tightropes: Tensions in High School Religious Education
… dioceses. The dissertation explored four key tensions the literature indicates have emerged in Catholic education since the Second Vatican Council: (1) balancing catechetical and academic approaches, (2) navigating the dual role of educator and minister, (3) reconciling prescribed curricula …
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Tensions Between Theory and Practice in Sustainable Architectural Design
Architectural practice is often criticised for being contingent on a plethora of standards, regulations and commercial pressures. Such contingency is concerning given that the objectives for architectural and urban sustainable design are based on a reductive epistemology that places ‘zero-carbon’ …
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Investigation et modélisation des tensions circonférentielles en simulation méridienne
The computation time and the extraction of useful information remain severe drawbacks to systematic use of modern 3D Navier-Stokes codes in a design procedure of multistage turbomachines. That explains why throughflow simulation is still widely used at industrial scale. The main limitation of …
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Secure coding in organisations: practice, culture, motivations and tensions
This thesis considers how to measure and improve secure software development in organisations. The thesis comprises three studies; a literature review, a large-scale survey of software developers, and a study comprising interviews with software professionals. The work is motivated by the continuing …
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Distributed tensions: managing collaboration across organizational actors and boundaries
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Slow Practice -(re)drawing time. Balancing narrative, ghosts and tensions.
… our built environment: Ghosts, Narratives, Tensions and aspects of Time. It does this through [re]drawing & reflecting on key projects. Drawings are the instigators, the place of discussion and explorative devices for examining the processes by which I design and think about space. They form …
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Navigating values tensions in organisational life : coaching as values work
… them. The client’s experience of such values tensions, and the role of coaching in supporting them to navigate these moments, remains largely unexplored. This study addresses that gap through a qualitative inquiry involving interviews with 10 coaching clients and 11 coaches, analysed using …
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Modélisation des tensions circonférentielles en simulation méridienne d'écoulements en turbomachines
Le recours systématique à des simulations fluides tridimensionnelles Navier-Stokes étant trop exigeant en phase de conception de turbomachines, la simulation méridienne, bidimensionnelle, plus simple et plus rapide, est utilisée de manière intensive à l'échelle industrielle. Cependant, sa …
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Controlling the "Uncontrollable": Tensions, Agency and Control in AI-Augmentation
… (i.e., our identities). This can create tensions for humans, particularly when working closely with AI, as in AI-Augmentation. As AI is here to stay, it is important that we understand these topics in-depth to support a successful human-AI collaboration in the future. Therefore, this …
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