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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"alternative possibilities"”.
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Incompatibilist Alternative Possibilities
… The first aim is to defend the position that the alternative possibilities that are required for basic desert moral responsibility are incompatible with causal determinism. The second aim is to investigate such incompatibilist alternative possibilities, specifically in relation to manipulation, …
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Orientation Device
… for understanding the other towards recognizing alternative possibilities, for care and compassion, for expanding our culturally and politically bounded mindset, a tool of vital nausea and questioning compulsory heterosexuality. The work is a series of augmented reality (AR) experiences for …
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Sowing her seeds : imagining transnational social movements in the face of global capitalism
… organizing and activism, and to imagining alternative possibilities and paths to liberation.
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Spatial manifestations in pluralist cultures : the case of the Isleta de San Juan
… made in architecture, in order to reveal alternative possibilities for the production of architecture. I have focused on two ways that power defines and impacts architecture: capitalism and historical rationality. I propose that more important than style is how we conceptualize space and …
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Algorithms for the application of Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensors in ophthalmology
… to a modal approach with Zernike Polynomials, alternative possibilities of representation of the wavefront with non-modal and heterogeneous procedures are presented. Within the framework of this thesis, extensive measuring software was developed. An additional program that simulates image data …
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Kaleido : individualistic visual interfaces for software development environments
… Kaleido, and finally a discussion of future and alternative possibilities.
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Modified Libertarianism: An Analysis of Eleonore Stump's Interpretation of Augustinian Freedom
… G. Frankfurt’s rejection of the principle of alternative possibilities and her own interpretation of Aquinas’ position on the will’s ability to stop resisting God’s gift of faith—which she refers to as quiescence—her position goes too far in its desire to remain libertarian and is …
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Untold Narratives: Realizing Personal Design Identities
This thesis introduces alternative possibilities for structuring design education to emancipate designers’ personal creative identities. It was motivated by personal experiences and a series of observations and case studies recorded and conducted at MIT’s graduate and undergraduate architecture and …
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The Economics of Building Life Cycle Costing
… the investment . 1. Comparisons to be made with alternative investment opportunities 2. Limited life of certain components in a building which may have to be repaired or replaced 3. Comparisons to be made with alternative materials and/or forms of construction 4. The total costs and income …
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From aspiration to attainment: Exploring the university access pathways of first-generation graduates from a West Coast town
… challenged fatalistic pathways, thereby enabling alternative futures for access to higher education. Situated within an interpretivist paradigm, the study employed a retrospective and blended ethnographic design, described as ethnography on the move (Fataar, 2010, 2015, 2019), to explore how …
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Geometrism: How geometrical fundamentalism came to shape our world
… has been to diminish and disparage the creative possibilities inherent in lived places, circumscribing, and even physically eliminating, social and ecological diversity. Put bluntly, now, more than ever, geometrism poses the risk of producing a relatively lifeless and ultimately unliveable world. …
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Towards a Poetics of Bafflement: the Politics of Elsewhere in Contemporary Black Diaspora Visual Practice (1990-Present)
… blackness differently and conceptualizes new possibilities for world making. Black artists have long since occupied spaces of creative and critical thinking about aesthetics, race, and the politics of vision, which inform contemporary social, historical, and cultural climates. Multiculturalism …
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Conversing with ‘monsters’? Narratives about men who sexually abuse(d) children
… men who sexually abuse(d) children and tell of alternative possibilities are evident in some narratives. My research shows that narratives can accumulate and reinforce assumptions over time and in many respects be discriminatory and exclusionary as well as being liberatory, enveloped in healing …
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Learning Disabled Women on Locked Wards : Living at the Intersection of Gender, Disability and Deviance.
… learning disability and deviance, exploring alternative possibilities articulated by women on locked wards.
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Chance, indeterminacy, and explanation
… scientifically significant role. I suggest an alternative view, according to which chances are the probabilities that play a certain explanatory role-they are probabilities that explain associated frequencies. In the second chapter, "Chance, Explanation, and Measure", I build on the view that …
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Effects of Social Stereotypes on Evidence Processing: The Cognitive Basis of Discrimination in Juridic Decision Making
… attention to stereotype-consistent evidence. The alternative possibilities that stereotypic inferences serve as independent information in the judgment process and that stereotypes affect the interpretation given to specific pieces of evidence were not supported. Experiment 2 provided further …
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Beyond the outfield: Baseball fiction and historical fantasy, 1864-present
… and early twenty-first centuries imagines alternative possibilities within this history. My goal is, in part, to materially interrogate the mythologies and histories surrounding baseball, which has long been imagined as a uniquely American sport, thought to be invented by a U.S. citizen …
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INVESTIGATING MODEL SELECTION AND PARAMETER RECOVERY OF THE LATENT VARIABLE AUTOREGRESIVE LATENT TRAJECTORY (LV-ALT) MODEL FOR REPEATED MEASURES DATA: A MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY
… one may compare the fit of a chosen model to alternative possibilities or use to empirically guide the selection of a model in the absence of theory, prior research, or standard practice. To date, however, there has not been any robust analysis of the efficacy or usefulness of the LV-ALT model …
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Complicating the Single Story: A Visual Analysis of Images of Forced Migrants
… with creative works can lead to imagining alternative possibilities. Situated within visual culture studies, I used the visual analysis techniques of compositional interpretation and semiological analysis to analyze my objects. In chapter three, I examined images from two NGOs and four news …
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Going Viral: A Critical, Post-Structural Exploration of Feminist Culture Jamming As Cultural Therapeutic
… culture, effect changes in the discourse, see alternative possibilities, and connect with each other, and argue that these elements are not only culturally, but also individually healing. </p><p> I assert that culture jamming may be a particularly effective cultural therapeutic, not only …
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