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Showing 1 to 20 of 669 for “"The Return"”.
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The return-sweep in reading.
Return-sweeps are saccadic eye movements that take a reader’s fixation from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. Our current understanding of return-sweeps is limited to a description of their physical characteristics. Moving beyond these descriptive characteristics, this thesis …
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Flashback : the return of psychedelic medicine
In the 1960's, psychedelic drugs were a part of not only popular culture, but also cuttingedge psychology research. Scientists were studying these drugs in the hope of understanding and treating various psychological and societal ills; but as psychedelics got caught up in the counter-culture, they …
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THE RETURN OF THE RADICAL RIGHT IN SPAIN
Despite the political pressure resulting from the surge of radical right-wing parties’ electoral success in the West—from the victories of President Donald Trump in the United States and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to Matteo Salvini in Italy—Spain was, until recently, one of the few European …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
The objective of this dissertation project is to theorize and understand Black embodiment within the context of white hegemony, that is, within the context of a white racist anti-Black world. I theorize the Black body as a site of lived historicity vis-á-vis whiteness as the transcendental …
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The return of the infrastructure "Muti-Platform City"
Cities, spaces that always coexist with the old and new, are similar to realms of production. Cities have complex layers of construction over time, including all types of transport infrastructure roads, railways, highways, etc. This infrastructure reflects the city's history and evolution. The …
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Factors affecting the return for management on Kansas farms
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The Return of the Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering
<p>This thesis examines Fred Chappell’s virtually overlooked collection of poetry <em>Family Gathering </em>(2000), and how the poems operate within the mode of the grotesque. I argue that the poems illuminate both the southern grotesque and Roland Barthes’s theory of photography’s <em>Operator, …
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Return to Duty Readiness Questionnaire
Chronic pain due musculoskeletal injury is the leading cause of disability and reduced combat readiness in the U.S. Army. Unidimensional pain management systems are not effective in addressing the complex phenomenon of pain-related disability. Growing evidence has supported use of the Fear …
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Religion and the Return of Magic : Wicca as Esoteric Spirituality
Keith Thomas' celebrated theory of the decline of magic during the seventeenth century, and its disappearance by the twentieth century, stands in stark contrast to the magia naturalis of the Renaissance and the later occult revival of the fin de siecle from which Wicca developed. In this thesis we …
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The Return: Understanding why Black Women Choose to "Go Natural"
The purpose of this study is to analyze and understand why some Black women in Greensboro, North Carolina have made the decision to wear their hair naturally, in its original kinky, curly, non-straightened form. I’ve chosen this topic because “in our society, long straight hair has generally been …
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Factors that impede the return of the adult woman to college
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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"The Return of Adam to Paradise Lost: Camus' ""Le Premier Homme"
"One of the first theses devoted to Camus' autobiographical novel, this dissertation probes the orphan legacy that triggers the 'first man's' search for origins. My first chapter traces themes in his last work through the three 'cycles,' or 'myths,' which organize Camus' oeuvre, from manuscripts of …
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Disciplining water – risk, environmental politics, and the return of water infrastructure
… a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Reconciliation, Rhetoric, And The Return Of The Political To Its Practical Calling
This dissertation is about the political rhetorical process of reconciliation in the wake of crimes against humanity. In contrast to war crimes trials, the political process of reconciliation aims to bring together parties in conflict under the auspices of what are most often called "truth and …
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Beyond the return to normalcy : the decline of organized paperworkers, 1921-1926
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Assessing the return on investment for various types of break-in training
This thesis presents a Return on Investment, or ROI, model for various types of break-in training by utilizing employee learning curves as a factor of the cost. The model captures the additional profit earned when a company makes an investment in break-in training, training employees receive at the …
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