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Showing 1 to 20 of 4315 for “"Vulnerable"”.
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Being Vulnerable: Distances of the Sublime Anthropocene
… from a methodology built around the idea of the ‘vulnerable practitioner’, open to failure, seeking collaboration and acceptant of unknowns. Her practice has become, through collaboration with others and her own acceptance of vulnerability, a slower, lengthier process, where her assumptions are …
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Forensic Psychologists: Vulnerable Adjuncts of Penal Power
This thesis explores the experiences of forensic psychologists who are employed within the contemporary prisons of England and Wales. It is concerned with their occupational morality and perspectives, their experiences of power, as well as the emotional impact of their prison work. Since 1992 there …
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Resilience-building in communities vulnerable to climate change
The aim of this thesis is to explore how vulnerable communities can strengthen their resilience to adapt to climate change and for that purpose, a case study of vulnerable communities in Malawi, that recently faced climate related challenges, was conducted. A case study was chosen as it allows for …
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Homeplace of Hands: Fractal Performativity of Vulnerable Resistance
Homeplace of Hands: Fractal Performativity of Vulnerable Resistance is a feminist autoethnography of possibility that puts on display two new concepts I’ve named fractal performativity and vulnerable resistance. Fractal performativity as a way of seeing is an integrative performance methodology …
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Identification of Vulnerable Zones on Steel Railway Bridges
This research presents the static and dynamic analyses of steel railway bridges subjected to the action of moving trains on the Crocodile, Kalbaskraal, and Van Staden railway bridges located in the Western Cape. The parameters of the bridges were taken from the existing desktop information. …
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Vulnerable Sovereignty: A cybernetic essay in political sciences
This thesis, entitled Vulnerable Sovereignty: A cybernetic essay in political science, attempts to investigate an area usually related to the sphere of military or national defence. Nevertheless sovereignty as conceived in this study enables the analysis to be set in a broader context using the …
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Vulnerable infants: Prediction and diagnosis of respiratory outcomes
… approaches to three health outcomes in vulnerable infants associated with respiratory system disorders: (i) Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, the most common adverse outcome in premature infants, (ii) Childhood Asthma, the most common chronic condition among children, and (iii) Sudden Infant …
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Giving voice to the vulnerable: Advocacy and oncology nursing
… methodology. Oncology nurses as voices for the vulnerable, the core finding, characterizes the lived experience of advocacy among the study sample. Identified themes were: 1) The meaning of advocacy as a component of ethical practice; 2) Nurses’ ways of being combine holistic philosophy, …
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Psychology in schools: understanding and intervening within vulnerable populations
This portfolio has three parts:Part one – A systematic literature review of targeted group-based interventions in schools to promote emotional well-being.Part two – A qualitative research study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to understand the experience of Looked After …
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Identifying Vulnerable Plaques with Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
<p>The rupture of arterial plaques is the most common cause of ischemic complications including stroke, the fourth leading cause of death and number one cause of long term disability in the United States. Unfortunately, because conventional diagnostic tools fail to identify plaques that confer the …
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Design for the most vulnerable: Preventing sudden infant death
There has been a significant decrease in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) since 1992, which may be a direct result of public awareness programs promoting supine sleep position (e.g. Back to Sleep Campaign). However, over 2000 infants in the United States still die of Sudden Infant Death …
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Three Essays on the Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations
This dissertation is composed of three essays that measure the impact of social programs and policies on the well being of their target populations. The first essay entitled "The Wage Impact of Historically Black College and University Attendance" examines the impact of attending a Historically …
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Improving smoking cessation for vulnerable populations in low-resourced settings
… addresses the burden of tobacco use among vulnerable populations that experience greater tobacco-related health disparities by informing effective strategies or combinations of strategies to improve cessation efforts among PWH and adolescents in low-resource settings. In Aim 1, we examine …
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The IMAGINE Project: Inspiring Vulnerable Adults Through Art and Mindfulness
<p><em>The IMAGINE Project</em> tackles the issue of stress reduction for a population that faces high stress levels due to environmental instability with co-morbidities of prior physical, cognitive, and social issues. Despite the need of stress reduction approaches in a population under these …
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Participatory Perspectives: A Photovoice Narrative Study of Zambian Vulnerable Youth
<p>The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals aim to meet the needs of the world's poorest people by 2015 through universally agreed upon targets. Goal number two aims to provide universal primary education and states that "by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to …
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AVOIDING COLLAPSE: RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN VULNERABLE SMALL ISLANDS
… on reef fisheries, farming and tourism are vulnerable to rising human and natural pressures and may target "sustainable" development. Marine Protected Areas (MPA) have a proven ability to meet ecological goals, such as restoring fisheries and preserving ecosystem function across scales. …
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America the Vulnerable: Terrorist Threats Using Biological and Chemical Weapons
The events of September 11th have shown that Islamic terrorist groups have the means and the will to inflict substantial damage to the United States. This thesis sought to determine the threat posed by terrorists using biological and chemical weapons. The evidence provided in this thesis has …
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