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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"core and periphery"”.
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An Initial Exploration of the Undergraduate English Major Curricula Issued by the 2000-2001 Member Schools of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
… of the 2000-2001 Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), describing their nature and state and discerning evidence of Christian thought.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Stewart’s (1989) Modified Categories of English Majors and Eisner’s (1991) education criticism provided frameworks to …
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Improvement of movement function using bespoke virtual reality based computer games
… of body segments. There is evidence that the core (trunk and pelvis) of the body activates prior to the periphery (extremities) during human movement, and so improvement in controlling the core first, then the periphery, could lead to carrying out activities of daily living more effectively. …
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Comics in education. The link between visual and verbal literacy: how readers read comics
… how readers read comics. The work, based upon Roland Barthes' concept of relay discussed in Image, Music, Text (1977), considers that a reader understands the comic at the higher level of the diegesis by switching between signifying systems. The research findings suggest that the reading of comics …
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Closed System Precepts in Systems Engineering for Artificial Intelligence- SE4AI
… intelligent systems, such as continuous learning and sensitivity to environmental changes. Furthermore, it argues for the mitigation of these gaps through the formalization of closed systems precepts. It adopts a systems-theoretic perspective to elucidate the phenomena of closed systems and their …
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A matter of evolutionary life and death: an ecological model of growth and development in Homo erectus
… of age-specific mortality, encephalisation, and the rate and energetic burden of growth, in order to identify the mechanism by which H. erectus adapted to a diverse range of climates and environments, and how thoroughly that adaptation was achieved. An exploration of the environmental …
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Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony
<p>The improbable trajectories of Mexico and Cuba give rise to compelling questions: in what ways have the revolutionary governments of Mexico and Cuba been able to practice successful defiance of the United States hegemon of the twentieth century? And how has that defiance helped to define U.S. …
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Vihreä ekstraktivismi osana uuskolonialismia: maailmanjärjestelmäteoreettinen katsaus vihreään siirtymään
Tutkielmassani tarkastelen, miten ekstraktivismi eli luonnonvarojen intensiivinen vieminen, erityisesti vihreän siirtymän tarpeisiin toimii keinona toteuttaa uuskolonialistista hallintaa globaalia etelää kohtaan. Tarkastelu etenee ekstraktivismista sen rinnalle kehittyneeseen vihreään …
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The Flow of Water, Power, and Ideas: Water Commodification in Cape Town, South Africa and the Stratified Experiences of Time and Space Compression
… business-friendly tariff policies, and prepaid management devices keep people along the periphery from accessing water, power, and ideas – thus causing a stratification of time and space compression between the core and the periphery.</p> <p>By painting a theoretical picture of world …
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Three Essays on International Political Economy
… or Divergence? A Comparative Study of US and China's Outgoing FDI to Africa Research question: We study the determinants of US and Chinese foreign direct investment in African countries, with a particular focus on examining if the determinants are becoming more convergent or divergent. …