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Showing 1 to 20 of 607 for “"as/if"”.
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The Phenomenology of Role Play: Are Children “Thinking-As-If” or “Behaving-As-If”?
When children role play, they do things such as change their tone of voice or take on the character’s emotions or needs. These behaviours make it appear as though children adopt the mental perspective of the character they are pretending to be, which has led some researchers to argue that children …
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Reading and Writing As/if: US Literary Criticism and Identity
<p>As/if: US Literary Criticism and Identity turns to early queer and third-wave feminist scholarship to identify a unique strategy and style of literary criticism, which I name as/if criticism. As/if criticism is both born of and resistant to two conflicting imperatives in the US academy, which …
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'It was as if she had said....': May Sinclair and reading narratives of cure
May Sinclair was one of the most widely read and successful English women novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. She had interests and themes in common with many of those now considered to have been at the heart of English modernism. In terms of formal experimentation too her …
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“As if it had Growed There”: resort architecture and the New England landscape, 1875-1915
… late nineteenth-century architecture of Northeastern resort and country destinations and situates the development of a new style - later named the Shingle Style - within period interpretations of the region’s landscape. Contextualizing designs, buildings, and material choices with …
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Being in the world as if there's nothing from the first : a praxis-framework for emergence
Life is an ongoing process of unfolding within a continuum of matter-cognition-semiotics. Evolutionary dynamics and biophysical forces exhibit end-directed (teleonomic) behavior. They increase interconnection over time, integrating antecedent foundational emergent layers into new aggregations, with …
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Urbanization as if people mattered: why the rural urbanization-industrialization complex does not bring its promised welfare impact--three alternative explanations
… their livelihood in rapidly urbanizing rural areas. I hypothesize that for farming households, the unfortunate event of losing farm landholding directly results in a medium term reduction in household income and consumption. Using data from Indonesian Family Livelihood Survey (IFLS), I test …
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A critical analysis of statutory deeming in the context of the interaction between South Africa's controlled foreign company regime and model-based bilateral tax treaties
… is plainly counter-factual. The question arises as to what the fiction means when constructed in the context of tax treaties? This minor dissertation draws a comparative analysis between the statutory construction of two opposing international tax treaty cases, one more recent than the other, in …
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Dirge in Georgia Minor
… its obstinate earth baking its people hard as rock from meridian to meridian. This earth blowing itself apart as fast as we can arrange it. As if death and nature behold with surprise we trembling sinners. As if we are just descended, and our entire bodies— somehow negotiable across this …
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Dirge in Georgia Minor
… its obstinate earth baking its people hard as rock from meridian to meridian. This earth blowing itself apart as fast as we can arrange it. As if death and nature behold with surprise we trembling sinners. As if we are just descended, and our entire bodies— somehow negotiable across this …
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Public perception of the effectiveness of public input in the parks and recreation planning process at the Boone County fairgrounds
… in the panning process would like to feel as if the final decisions are shaped by their input. The research design for this study was a cross sectional, relationship study to determine the relationships between perceived effectiveness of public input, access and availability of information, …
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The new Suffolk hymnbook : a novel
Sing, cries Jonah, softly, under his breath, as if the word were his last. To sing would be to release the sum of his afflications to the sky.
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Estimating the Benefits of Public Recreation Sites in Illinois
… growth in outdoor recreation activity has created a need for a method of estimating the economic value of the enjoyment that consumers obtain from using recreational facilities and resources. In the case of recreation where prices seldom exist, the market fails to register the value of …
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The Economics of Gender Relations in London City Comedy
This thesis examines the influence of nascent capitalism on gender interactions in three London city comedies—Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl, and Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside— to reveal men’s commodification of women as a defining …
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The Dirty Five
… at first it didn’t seem like stealing.</p> <p>If only the world had been kinder to us. If the world told us the truth about how cold it was and you are nothing until you prove something, maybe we wouldn’t have done it. If we had the virtue of being patient, perhaps we could have worked our way …
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Domain of the Marvelous
… Encounter of the Umbrella,' contains poems told as if dream stories, happening outside the realm of an identifiable speaker. Strangeness or absurdity with emotional regulation. These poems are rely heavily on imagery and often reflect a surreal playfulness as if resulting from surrealist word …
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Robust Normativity in Complexity Science
… that scientists often do—and always should—reason about complex adaptive systems as if they were bound by normative standards that exist independently of (a) the scientists’ own normative commitments and (b) the actual features of the complex adaptive systems (including their normative …
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The architectural design process and indoor air quality
Bringing a building into existence that has never been made and used before is a kind of invention which is made by an architect. Being an architect necessitates the ability to synthesize separated things besides talent. The architect should relate different things such as people's needs and …
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Unstable Consumer Learning Models: Structural Estimation and Experimental Examination
… examines situations in which consumers may act as if quality is changing when it is stable or vice versa. This examination proceeds in two essays.</p><p>The first essay uses two experiments to examine how consumers learn when product quality is stable or changing. By collecting repeated measures …
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