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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"conceal"”.
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Facial creation: using compositing to conceal identity
… identities. However, does the act of compositing conceal the identity of the donor faces? Two applications of these created faces require donor face identities to remain concealed: Covert social media profiles provide a way for investigating authorities to survey online criminal activity and, as …
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"It Is Useless to Conceal the Truth Any Longer": Desertion of Virginia Soldiers From the Confederate Army
This study of Virginia desertion differs from other desertion studies in several respects. The statistical analysis of the patterns of desertion within the army is one of the most unique characteristics of this study. Several other scholars have attempted to track desertion across the Confederacy, …
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To Conceal or Reveal: left-hand pianism with particular reference to Ravel's Concerto pour la main gauche and Britten's Diversions
This thesis aims to explore both compositional and performance techniques associated with music for the left hand and the circumstances of its performance, thereby allowing a much clearer appraisal than has previously been available of canonic works for the medium. Leopold Godowsky's transcriptions …
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Dynamics of Concealed Disabilities among Students at a Major Research University in a Rural Area
… with disabilities at Virginia Tech who choose to conceal their identity as individuals with disabilities in various contexts. The definition of disability is expanded to include those individuals who perceive themselves to be disabled, with or without meeting diagnostic or legal criteria, since …
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Relational Transgressions in Romantic Relationships: How Individuals Negotiate the Revelation and Concealment of Transgression Information within the Social Network
… how individuals negotiate the revelation and concealment of information following an act of infidelity within the social network. Research has shown that individuals experience a tension when deciding to reveal and/or conceal information regarding a relational transgression (Baxter, 1994, …
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Relational Transgressions in Romantic Relationships: How Individuals Negotiate the Revelation and Concealment of Transgression Information within the Social Network
… how individuals negotiate the revelation and concealment of information following an act of infidelity within the social network. Research has shown that individuals experience a tension when deciding to reveal and/or conceal information regarding a relational transgression (Baxter, 1994, …
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Memory and Neoliberal Discourses in Chile
… in Chilean political rhetoric that serve to conceal and transform political memory through discursive structures. Second, it investigates how political rhetoric transformed state violence through a re-narrativization of neoliberalism, which effectively detached neoliberalism from its violent …
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The flick of the wrist and the wave of the wand: low-level mechanisms for inducing change blindness
… detection tasks, transient color-change signals conceal targets that change color and transient motion signals conceal targets that generate motion, but each one is relatively ineffective at hiding the other. Based on these data, this thesis proposes a theory of “change camouflage” as a means of …
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Rugby Union Men: Body Concerns
… will use sport and health-related sports acts to conceal these concerns from others. Accordingly, men’s body dissatisfactions are documented less frequently because the practices drawn upon to conceal them are perceived as routine forms of masculine behaviour. Rugby union is one of the most …
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Some Things Askew: Cautionary Quips and Satirical Scenarios
… and existence within it. Faux paint treatments conceal the diverse materials employed in the creation of these works. This self-reflective story conveys themes of perseverance and hope as the characters strive to survive—and even flourish—amidst the dark and unusual circumstances they face. A …
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The divine horseman in the art of the western Roman Empire
… the Celtic Mars and Jupiter, whose Roman names conceal their Celtic identity, Epona, the Dioscuri in the western Empire, the Thracian Rider and the Danubian Rider cult.
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The Morisco House in Granada : domestic space in cultural transition
… attempts by a subordinated cultural group to conceal meaning from the dominant Christian population.
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Our Hiding Places
… life, and how we have heretofore attempted to conceal them.
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Living in Fear: An Analysis of Writings by Elizabeth Tudor, 1544-1565
… I analyze how Elizabeth used language to both conceal and reveal knowledge of her precarious status as a princess-in-waiting. The thesis considers who were the major figures in Elizabeth’s early life and how did their actions and inactions affect her. I examine how the nature of letters changed …
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Learning to Talk: Men's Management of Distress Through Disclosures
… gendered expectations, many men continue to conceal their problems from others and are reluctant to seek help. Such behaviour is assumed to contribute to these men getting fewer health consultations, having high suicide rates and the associated large number of avoidable male deaths. As a …
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Khwaja Sira: Culture, Identity Politics, and "Transgender" Activism in Pakistan
… `game', that is, as the art of manipulation and concealment. I argue that the games of secrecy and deception in which this minority population engaged were responses to the stigma they experienced in everyday life.</p> <p>Khwaja sira relationships with the general public were strategic game-like …
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A collaborative, multi-agent based methodology for abnormal events management
… instrumentation installed often compensate and conceal faults, causing many faults in the process to remain undetected, until serious consequences occur. This thesis strives to explore new methodologies suitable for fault detection and identification (FDI) during transient mode of operations. …
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self-imAGE
… accepting ourselves, we are taught to judge and conceal. This project seeks to address inner beauty as a reflection of our energy, vitality, wisdom and the mental, as well as emotional, engagement in our lives. The terms perfection and imperfection will be redefined and applied to inward rather …
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Concealment of nonreligious identity: Scale construction and validation
… This may compel some nonreligious individuals to conceal their identity in order to manage stigma in areas with high proportions of religious individuals. However, no existing measures systematically assess the concealment of nonreligious identity. To address this gap in the literature, I created …
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Organizational Strategies of Influence on American Environmental Policy, 1976-2006: A Network Exploration of Power Elitism versus Pluralism
… and 2006, I find that industrial corporations conceal the public footprint of their involvement by financially encouraging "independent" research centers to provide favorable testimony. Meanwhile, nonprofit organizations are more likely to be co-represented by shared experts, a resource that is …
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