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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"capacity to act"”.
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Literacy Potentials: Agency, Embodiment, And Hybridity In Cesar Chavez's Discourse Practices
… the Community Service Organization in the 1950s to understand hybrid literacies and agency as an embodied aspect of literacy. Using a theoretical framework grounded in embodied cognition, this dissertation develops the concept of discursive readiness potential to describe agency as a capacity to …
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Social Innovation in Higher Education: The Application of Carspecken’s Critical Qualitative Research Methodology to Understand Social Innovation as Systems Change in a University Context
… are both good for society and enhance society’s capacity to act, is widely explored in literature across a range of disciplines. However, little empirical research on social innovation in Higher Education exists, with none identified involving professional service departments. To explain social …
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Order versus Justice: An Assessment of the Challenges Faced by The Commission of Experts and The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia During Their Attempts to Investigate and Prosecute Atrocity Crimes
… in an equally stark form. Diplomatic attempts to facilitate a negotiated settlement to an armed conflict (order) may be undermined by attempts to investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes (justice), particularly where individuals deemed crucial to any settlement become the specific focus of …
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Mega projects - strategic design management, time for a new framework.
… ever-changing economy, the built environment sector endeavours to work with-, coordinate- and advise key stakeholders; more focus is required on coordination and communication for the management of the iterative design process and intensely apparent. Lead Management must provide fresh, innovative …
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Barriers and opportunities for improving energy efficiency in the social housing sector : case study of E4C's division of housing and mental health
… efficiency improvements in the social housing sector have the potential to produce a range of environmental and social benefits. These improvements can be produced through retrofits that deliver energy savings or new construction built to a high standard of energetic efficiency. However, …
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The feasibility of a systems-based approach in non-profit strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation: development and asssessment of the SAMEL toolkit
… increasing interest in using systems thinking to enhance the relevance and suitability of evaluation in complex social settings. However, the literature reveals a significant gap in practice-oriented empirical research on applying systems thinking to monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) …
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Navigating values tensions in organisational life : coaching as values work
… in coaching, where they are widely used to support clarity, motivation, and purposeful action. Yet coaching literature has paid far less attention to what happens when values themselves become sources of tension. In contemporary organisational settings, marked by shifting demands, …
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Violence Between Equals. An Investigation on the Ontological Concept of Change.
… in the field as a concept closely related to power (Sorel 1976, Harendt 1972, Betz 1977, Dewey 1980, Graver 1970, Morriss 1987, or Paul Wolff 1969 among others). Nonetheless, after examining the existing bibliography, there is no consensus over the concept itself and there is no clear …
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Exploring the transformative potential of citizen science in marine governance processes
This study takes a critical approach to examining the participatory research practice of citizen science, examining the potential that it has to transform two key challenges facing regimes of marine governance: (i) knowledge rationalisation and (ii) the marginalisation of local communities. …
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Immuno-modulatory functions of CD1d-restricted natural killer T cells
… presented by CD1d, expression of NK receptors and rapid production of large amounts of cytokines, such as IL-4 and IFN-gamma,?upon activation. This early and robust cytokine burst is believed to give NKT cells the capacity to act as a link between innate and adaptive immunity. NKT cells …
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Subjekt und Handlungsfähigkeit : ein Versuch der Verknüpfung des Entfremdungsbegriffs mit der Subjektwissenschaft Kritischer Psychologie
… Status quo kaum möglich sei. Für eine emanzipatorische pädagogische oder politische Praxis sind diese Schlussfolgerungen enttäuschend, weil sie eine kritische Analyse der Gesellschaft liefert, dem Subjekt aber die Handlungsfähigkeit zur grundlegenden Veränderung seiner Lebensbedingungen …
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Narrative Power Europe? : Change and continuity in the European Union’s policy narrative to the Israel–Palestine conflict
… within the European Economic Community to the European Union’s present-day position. Despite a rich literature on the Israel‒Palestine conflict and the European Union, scholarly attention to the EU’s policy narratives on the conflict has been limited. This study bridges the existing gap, …
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Plant communities along Irish roads: the impact of humans and potential to improve biodiversity
… addition, a controlled experiment was undertaken to assess the vulnerability of road verges (which followed different landscape treatments) to invasive non-native species. Regarding species richness, the road verge habitat was significantly greater than that found in the agricultural landscape …
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Medicating the Crisis: Investigating the Links Between Precarious Employment, Mental Health Issues, and the Reliance on Antidepressants as Treatment
… medication. In this dissertation, I aim to contribute to this discussion by a) situating the relationship between precarious labour conditions and mental health within a specifically capitalist society, and b) investigating the pharmaceutical treatment of individual illness experiences …
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Characterising the immune response to Salmonella and Salmonella surface antigens during a systemic infection
Immunity to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (STm) is complex and requires both cell mediated and humoral immunity at different stages of infection. In infants in sub-Saharan Africa infection with non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS), such as STm, can commonly cause fatal invasive disease. …
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Small islands and global action: Coming of age in global change
… (IR). It does this by examining their interaction between, participation in, and contribution to, IR within the framework of the UN. The literature on small states in IR was reviewed, in order to develop a conceptual framework for critiquing the small states paradigm, which is based on …
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Replication and Silencing at the Hmr-E Compound Origin in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
… and an origin of DNA replication. Replication activity assays of the HMR-E region revealed that it consisted of not one, but a minimum of three independent subregions capable of ARS (autonomously replicating sequence) and chromosomal origin activity. Each subregion was also tested for silencing …
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Sociala utredningar om barn : En rättssociologisk studie av lagstiftningens krav, utredningarnas argumentationer och konsekvenser för den enskilde
… is about the social services’ investigations into childrens need of protection and support. The principal purpose is, from a critical perspective, to analyse and discuss how the legally-accorded procedural directives for the execution of an investigation, and therein the integrated support and …
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Microbial-Induced Calcite Precipitation in soils: use of alternative raw materials and analysis of environmental implications
… carbonate minerals as a result of microbial activity. In MICP via urea hydrolysis, urea, calcium, and simple carbon and nitrogen chemical compounds are supplied to stimulate degradation of urea by ureolytic microorganisms to produce carbonates and induce precipitation of calcium carbonate …
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The seeds of solar innovation : how a nation can grow a competitive advantage
… years, the world has been inundated with stories which, when connected, describe an informal and disorganized race by many nations to establish a leadership position in capturing the economic rewards from the pressing need to clean up the worldwide energy supply. At the forefront of this …
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