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Showing 1 to 20 of 293 for “"Unrest"”.
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Civil unrest
This creative thesis is comprised of a novel-in-progress, which currently stands at approximately 72,000 words, representing approximately a quarter of a complete draft. The novel follows the foiling of a domestic terrorist plot during the 2016 election by a middle-aged mother and her teenage son, …
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Media Coverage and the Ferguson Unrest
The media aids in bringing to light many social issues across the nation each and every day. Historically, police force on African Americans can be seen amongst many media outlets. However, with technological advances the media has flourished which makes it possible for the media to supply coverage …
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Modeling volcanic unrest by data assimilation
… investigate the mechanisms involved in volcanic unrest, such as deformation, failure, and pore fluid migration. First, using a series of tests based on the synthetic data, I optimize a data assimilation technique, Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), to improve its performance in forecasting volcanic …
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Forecasting volcanic unrest through geodetic data assimilation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Geochemical signals of volcanic unrest at the Virkisjökull Glacier Iceland
Understanding the relationship between areas of active geothermal or volcanic activity and the glaciers that overlie them remains a significant knowledge gap in the earth sciences. Using Virkisjökull glacier in south east Iceland as a case study, a geochemical approach is taken to this problem by …
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The Conflict in Kashmir: Down the Corridor of Uncertainty and Unrest
<p>Control over the region of Kashmir has been a contentious issue for the past fifty-six years. The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 led to the separation of Pakistan from India, and all princely states on the subcontinent were ordered to accede to either India or Pakistan according to …
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Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
<p>This essay explores the purpose and function of the police in a modern state. It draws mainly from the ideas put forth by Walter Benjamin in his 1921 essay, Critique of Violence, and focuses exclusively on the events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. By applying political theory to …
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Predicting social unrest events in South Africa using LSTM neural networks
… an approach to predict the count of social unrest events in South Africa. A comparison is made between traditional forecasting approaches and neural networks; the traditional forecast method selected being the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA model). The type of neural network …
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Tokusei: The Causes and Motivations of Rural Unrest in Fifteenth Century Japan
… deterring further uprisings, instead intensified unrest, leading to larger, more violent revolts that targeted a broader range of institutions in both the capital and Nara. The shared experience of shogunal repression fostered new subaltern alliances that transcended both regional and social …
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Conflict and Stability in the Neoliberal Era: Explaining Urban Unrest in Latin America
… theories, explanation and prediction of urban unrest remains challenging. This dissertation contributes to ongoing efforts to improve understanding of urban unrest through specification of a novel model that utilizes meso-level mechanisms to link insights from existing theories. I show that, …
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Feeding unrest : food prices, food security and protest participation in Africa and South Africa
… connection between food prices and social unrest. This dissertation addresses the question how do rising prices and food insecurity contribute to socio-political unrest of all types, rather than focusing on events labeled food riots in the popular media. The dissertation addresses this …
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The Causes and Management of Students’ Unrest at the University of Arusha in Tanzania
… causes, aftermath, and management of students’ unrest in a higher learning institution. This descriptive case study survey was guided by the theories of campus ecology, cognitive dissonance, and relative deprivation to identify the root causes of students’ unrest.The research focused on the …
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The Causes and Management of Students’ Unrest at the University of Arusha in Tanzania
… causes, aftermath, and management of students’ unrest in a higher learning institution. This descriptive case study survey was guided by the theories of campus ecology, cognitive dissonance, and relative deprivation to identify the root causes of students’ unrest.The research focused on the …
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Exploring the Correlation between Civil Unrest and the Mobilization of Hate in the United States
… why hate crimes continue to persist, but civil unrest seems to be one of the biggest factors. Through correlation analyses and regressions, we see that different types of civil unrest; response to police action, social/economic civil unrest, and politically motivated civil unrest, are …
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The effect of civil unrest on nursing personnel and nursing services in the Cape Peninsula during 1986
Civil unrest has become a feature of South African society and has resulted in varying degrees of social disruption. Health services, particularly those located in residential areas, have been affected. As nurses constitute the largest group of health care professionals in South Africa, and often …
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A phenomenological photovoice study on black/white biracial individuals' experiences amid ongoing racial unrest in the United States
… Biracial individuals amid ongoing racial unrest in the United States. Critical race theory provided a theoretical framework that indicated the counter-narratives of Black/White Biracial individuals are necessary to confront and reframe dominant racial discourse that contributes to …
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Black, white, and blue : media and audience frames from visual news coverage of police use of force and unrest
… media coverage of police brutality and social unrest to understand how audiences interpreted visual messages and frames, highlighting the differences in these interpretations for Black and White audiences. A secondary content analysis explores how digital news outlets portrayed the issue …
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