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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Traditional practice"”.
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The Implementation of the Rights of the Child; Transcending the Traditional Practice of Child Marriage in Niger, Yemen, and Thailand
"Child marriage is a harmful traditional practice that affects approximately 60 million children around the globe. This thesis examines the different laws that protect children from this practice and analyzes its implementation in countries where traditional practices violate children’s rights. …
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Modeling The Functional Human Brain: A Network-Based Approach
Traditional practice in neuroscience has been to examine the brain in terms of isolated components extracted from images. However, more recent trends have moved towards the examination of the entire brain in order to observe the complete topology and to capture emergent behavior not present at the …
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The inner journey : pilgrimage in South Africa and the modern world
… pilgrimage but does not overrule obligation or traditional practice.
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Consonance, Tertian Structures and Tonal Coherence in Wladimir Vogel's Dodecaphonic World
… elements that are demonstrably related to traditional practice- such as tertian melodic/harmonic outlines reinforced by rhythmic features that are common to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practice. The compositional features evident from the serial structure of the work are addressed in …
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Architecture in an unstable territory
This thesis argues that traditional architectural practice is insufficient to respond to the instabilities of rapid informal urbanization in Latin America. Traditional practice has mostly focused on designing objects, but informal territories instead need architects able to embrace complex social …
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Mambila traditional religion : Sua in Somie
… their adherence to Christianity (and to Islam), traditional practices continue to be of great importance in everyday life. In order to examine traditional practice descriptions are given of divination and oath-taking rites. Translated transcripts of the different forms of the sua-oath form the …
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Mambila traditional religion : Sua in Somie
… their adherence to Christianity (and to Islam), traditional practices continue to be of great importance in everyday life. In order to examine traditional practice descriptions are given of divination and oath-taking rites. Translated transcripts of the different forms of the sua-oath form the …
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Early Attachment Stress, Attentional Control Dysfunction and Problems with Self-Regulation
… special interest and use, because, despite the traditional practice of conceptualizing cognitive and emotional processes independently of one another, the construct of EC places emotional, cognitive, and behavioral self-regulatory capacities together. EC is meant to refer to emotional, social, …
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The Gendered Interpretation of Child Marriage: A Niger Case Study
… scholarly articles that explain why the harmful, traditional practice of child marriage is an issue that predominantly affects girls globally. I also utilize the feminist theory of international relations to support my analysis of child marriage as a gender issue. Incorporating evidence from …
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Factors associated with anaemia in pregnancy: a case study of Matibidi Village, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga, South Africa
… maternal chronic conditions, and religious and traditional beliefs and cultural practices of the participants R ecommendations were made based on the study's findings. R ecommendations included the need to start administering intravenous supplements like Ferramed to pregnant women who are …
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Integrating natural coping and survival strategies of African American women into social work practice: lessons learned from the works of Nannie Helen Burruoghs
… that can be integrated into current social work practice. This research is important because is describes, explores and analyzes culturally relevant helping traditions, among African American women that have historically promoted their emotional and psychological well-being. An analysis of …
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Wrestling with Tradition: Japanese Activities at Amache, a World War II Incarceration Facility
… research, and oral histories to investigate traditional Japanese practices that were performed at Amache, a World War II Japanese American incarceration facility. I argue that these inter-generational practices helped to bridge a cultural gap that existed between several generations of …
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Constant Time Delay Leader Following for Mobile Robots by using Model Predictive Control Tuned on Estimation Uncertainties
… of noisy odometry sensor data compared to the traditional practice equallyweighted state errors. This approach reduces the dependence on empirical tuning and performance was studied both in simulation and on real robots in representative o - road environments. Currently, the system is designed …
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Contending art education paradigms and professionalization.
… across the grades, contrasted sharply with traditional practice that focused on the student's innate creativity and expressiveness. A controversy ensued as the Getty Center and the National Art Education Association, the field's professional affiliation, each tried to advance a definition of …
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Imfihlo
… as secret. I discuss the ways in which my own practice as an artist and isangoma troubles the threshold. Considering the ideological function of the secret, my work examines the power relations implied in both keeping and divulging 'secrets'. This research poses the question: how does the …
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Patterning tectonics : the making of the forum on the Bund, Shanghai
… polarized approach between the contemporary and traditional practice of architecture. The spirit of the Bund is about its unique urban tension between the animated continuity of the Baux-arts faCade wall on the old city side, Puxi, and the contest of contemporary architectural iconography on the …
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Literacy, new capitalism, and new work orders: Case studies from school-to-work education
This dissertation examines literacy practices in settings that have been transformed by changes in capitalism of the last forty years. These settings are characterized by increased technologization, accrediting processes, team-building, and a requirement for independent critical thinking on the …
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Why We Draw: An Exploration Into How and Why Drawing Works
… regardless of artistic background or traditional practice, and to encourage a reevaluation of drawingâ s role in the problem-solution process.
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A comparison between traditional and modern circumcision practices in the prevention of HIV and other STIs transmission in Chavuma and Kapiri Mposhi districts.
The study made a comparison between traditional and modern circumcision practices in the prevention of HIV and other STIs transmission in Chavuma and Kapiri Mposhi districts. Zambia is a multi-cultural society, characterized by different racial, ethnic, religious, and traditional groupings. These …
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A comparison between traditional and modern circumcision practices in the prevention of HIV and other STIs transmission in Chavuma and Kapiri Mposhi districts.
The study made a comparison between traditional and modern circumcision practices in the prevention of HIV and other STIs transmission in Chavuma and Kapiri Mposhi districts. Zambia is a multi-cultural society, characterized by different racial, ethnic, religious, and traditional groupings. These …
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