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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Twin Cities"”.
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Twin cities : cyberspatial qualities of contemporary Tokyo
… Contemporary Tokyo is found to contain two cities: the visible chaotic city and the invisible ordered city. In the visible city, the intonation of criteria used to form the mental image of a city is transformed; time is given importance over space; schizophrenia is a persistent theme; the …
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Biking, Identity, and Belonging in Twin Cities Bike Shops
Systemic and cultural change is needed in bike shops for everyone to feel welcome. Even though cyclists may not spend much time in bike shops, these spaces can have a significant impact on the relationships a rider forms with their bike and with others in the community. Drawing from feminist and …
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Biking, Identity, and Belonging in Twin Cities Bike Shops
Systemic and cultural change is needed in bike shops for everyone to feel welcome. Even though cyclists may not spend much time in bike shops, these spaces can have a significant impact on the relationships a rider forms with their bike and with others in the community. Drawing from feminist and …
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Step twin cities? : Exploring uneven spaces in Waterloo-Cedar Falls business landscapes
1 PDF file (vii, 81 pages)
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Defining Twin Cities Wicca: The Emergence of Wicca as a Polyaffiliated Pagan Movement
… The history of Wicca from England to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the focus of this study, is outlined. Building on Murphy Pizza’s ethnographical research of Wicca in Paganistan (the Twin Cities), I confirmed Pizza’s hypothesis of Paganistan Wiccans polyaffiliating with a …
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Twin Cities Temporalities: Queer Blackness and Hmong Refugeeism in The Hip Hop Dance Scene
… the temporalities and choreographies of the Twin Cities Hip Hop (TCHH) dance scene, explicitly focusing on the interactions between groups with the battle cypher. The study adopts a qualitative research approach, combining ethnographic elements and choreographic analysis, spatial analysis, …
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Digital Transformation Practices in the College of Education and Human Development at University of Minnesota Twin Cities
… (CEHD) at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities (TC). Using a qualitative single case study design, this study addressed four basic research questions, including: What has been the evolution of DT? How has it affected the workplace culture? How has DT contributed to performance …
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The Tibetan diaspora and the politics of belonging in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
… and among the youth particularly those in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota) have significant roles to play in this discourse. This thesis aims not just to represent their voices but also to examine the nature of Tibetan socialisation through cultural re-education, political …
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Providing unity where there is division: Rethinking public space in the twin cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Palestine
… that examines the everyday life inside the twin cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh. It looks beyond the physical materiality of public space to incorporate various forms of individual and collective processes that extend beyond the bounded space and connect it with other spaces, activities, and …
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“Assimulation” in the Land of Ten-Thousand Iranian Communities: Public Assimilation Strategies, Private Preservation Identities
… and gender change. This study addresses the Twin Cities’ Iranian community as a dynamic, dispersed body of relationships and interactions characterized by an institutional fission-fusion pattern with consequences for ethnic group consciousness and individual identification with and expression …
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Advancing the Ascent into Higher Education: An Exploration of College Access Programming
… conducted as a master’s thesis on Breakthrough Twin Cities, a college access program located in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota. This study explored the perspectives of participating students, parents, staff members and the board of directors through individual interviews …
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Community and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian Examination of The City, Inc. 1987-1992
… a compilation of articles drawn from prominent Twin Cities’ daily newspapers. Positioned within a conceptual framework based on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this study explores how the idea of community, as constructed and reinforced through organizational initiatives and local …
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The Latino Public Sphere in Minnesota: Enacting Cultural Citizenship Through Media
… theory, the research shows how Latinos in the Twin Cities formed enclave and counter publics that aimed to transform dominant national narratives about immigration. The study examines how federal and state public policy defines undocumented immigrants as second-class non-citizens, thereby …
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Accessibility Impacts of Bus Access to Managed Lanes
… bus routes in the Minneapolis - St. Paul region (Twin Cities). The change in operating speed along portions of the selected transit routes is translated to changes in the job accessibility of the surrounding communities. The percent change in the worker-weighted average job accessibility for the …
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Designing and evaluating a UI for helping users uncover and create missing road segments on a Geowiki
… for cyclists that has been deployed in the Twin Cities in Minnesota for five years. In addition to being a collaboratively edited geographic system, it is also a computational system that computes bike-friendly routes for cyclists. Like other map applications, it too has suffered from the …
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Perceptions of the Role of the Oral Healthcare Providers in HPV-related Oral Cancer Education and Advocacy for the HPV Vaccine
… clinics that serve at-risk patients in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. The aim of this study was to improve the oral health literacy for at-risk patients through a set of recommendations to increase education about HPV-related oral cancers and advocacy for HPV-vaccines among oral healthcare …
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Development and estimation of traffic data-based operational measures for effective winter snow management
… was then applied to a sample snow section in Twin Cities, MN. The results of the example application showed that the operational measures can reasonably measure the performance of snow plowing operations by reflecting the impacts of the traffic flow resulted by the time-variant road weather …
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Investigating the Properties and Existence of a Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram for Arterial and Freeway Traffic Systems
… downtown area and 600 loop detectors in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Freeway network (Minnesota, USA).
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Nonlinear simulation of tumor growth and chemotherapy
We implement numerically a model for free boundary necrotic and non-necrotic tumor growth and chemotherapy, where the tumor-healthy tissue interface is a moving deformable boundary. In the process, we improve upon existing techniques and develop new finite difference and ghost fluid / level set …
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Targeting Audiences for Improved Lawn Management: Can Grouping Households Assist with Nonpoint Water Pollution Reduction
… through a 2008 mail survey completed by the Twin Cities Household Ecosystem Project in Ramsey and Anoka Counties, Minnesota. Responses to questions pertaining to fertilization, leaf and lawn clipping management, vegetation choice, and lawn management attitudes were analyzed. When households …
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