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Showing 1 to 20 of 4251 for “"The Natural"”.
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The natural gas controversy
"During the first and second Session of the Eighty-Fourth Congress the natural gas controversy evolved into a vital national issue. Not only was the issue "hotly" contested in Congress but it was also highly controversial at the state, city and community levels. Actually the issues over natural gas …
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Perceptions of the natural
This thesis takes on the difficulty of defining a clear line that connects and separates natural and artificial in a contemporary landscape. It is a proposal for a park that addresses the image and understanding of nature. Playful, perverse, and perpetually unfinished elements use the existing …
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Gogol and the Natural School
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T00:12:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7310016.pdf: 11297508 bytes, checksum: 71b179d59f06022955a34a516d333251 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The Natural Mother of the Child
<p><em>The Natural Mother of the Child</em> is a memoir-in-essays about Belc’s experiences as a transmasculine birth parent. These essays use text and images to explore parenting on the margins of both motherhood and fatherhood. They also examine the ways in which legal and identity documents are …
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Jacques Rohault and the natural sciences
… aimed at giving a description and analysis of the career of Jacques Rohault and his work in the natural sciences. More specifically, I have attempted to identify the sources of inspiration of his Traité de Physique. Most historians of science have paid little more than casual homage to …
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The natural history of clonal haematopoiesis
… expansion. Such expansions are frequent in the haematopoietic system of healthy individuals and have been termed clonal haematopoiesis (CH). While CH predisposes to myeloid neoplasia and other diseases, we have limited understanding of its natural history and how this relates to clinical …
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Regenerative Leisure Experiences in the Natural Environment
This research thesis aims to explore how nature-based experiences can foster nature connectedness and the development of ecological identity, theorized to enhance participants' health and wellbeing. In addition, the research thesis investigates Regenerative Nature-Based Experiences (RNBE) in …
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The natural history of post-traumatic algodystrophy.
… delays rehabilitation. This study investigated the incidence, natural history and morbidity of post-traumatic algodystrophy. In addition a therapeutic trial of nasal calcitonin was undertaken. Quantitative and semi-quantitative techniques were devised to assess the clinical, skeletal and …
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Sensory representations optimized for the natural environment
The limited resources available to the visual system must be allocated efficiently to support its function. To achieve this, our brain needs to take advantage of the statistical regularities of our visual environment. In this thesis, I systematically explore how different aspects of natural …
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The Natural Embroidery of Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko
In this thesis, I plan to investigate the role of the landscape in Thomas Southerne's play Oroonoko. Most scholarship on Oroonoko focuses on the relationship between Southerthne's play and Aphra Behn's novella of the same name. In particular, the scholarly conversation has focused on the way that …
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The natural history of a lost sense
This thesis is an investigation of the vomeronasal organ, which senses pheromones. It traces the use of the organ in land-dwelling vertebrates, and suggests evidence that the organ is vestigial in humans and Old World monkeys. Possible explanations for the loss of the vomeronasal organ in these …
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The natural family and residential care : a study of the psychosocial impact on statutory child removals on the natural parents
This study examines the experiences of 12 parents at a Children's Home, whose children were removed from their custody in terms of the Child Care Act. Act 74/83, and placed into residential care. The statutory removal of children from the custody of their parents is defined as a traumatic event …
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Intimacy with the natural world: A humanistic perspective
<p>Thomas Berry's "intimacy with the natural world" is not an alternative to the anthropocentric-biocentric dispute, which belong to the same rationality. The frontier story and environmentalism are both part of the same rationality because they ignore people. While anthropocentrism is focused on …
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The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
One of the most unsettling problems in the history of philosophy examines how mathematics can be used to adequately represent the world. An influential thesis, stated by Eugene Wigner in his paper entitled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences," claims that "the …
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Calpain inhibitor design inspired by the natural inhibitor calpastatin
… proteases that depend on Ca2+ for activation. They have many roles in the cell; hence modifications of calpains or changes in their levels of activity can lead to altered physiological states. Thus, it is of great interest and medical relevance to design inhibitors that can specifically target …
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