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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"critical research"”.
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The mother(land) through narrative and nostalgia : the role stories play in the crafting of imagined (exiled) communities
Comprising three novellas and critical research, this project defines and examines the possibilities of creative writing to expound upon and provide insight into issues of citizenship, belonging and memory. This interplay of narratives (creative and critical) speaks to the complex and intertextual …
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A Critical Spatial Econometric Counter Analysis of the Impact of New Toxic Facilities on Local Wages
… and Spatial Econometric methods within a critical framework. A call is made to develop more broadly the practice of Counter Analysis, which is presented as an analogue of Counter-Mapping that repurposes Spatial Analytic methods for the pursuit of critical research agendas.
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Community participatory design in the information systems development process in Africa: a systemic literature review
… constitute the possible ways of classifying PO research and practice in African settings. The results demonstrate that there is a wide belief that participation is one of the vital ingredients necessary for successful designing of IS artefacts for human development. However, the different …
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Student perceptions of the writing process
Based on the critical research paradigm and using a mix of methodologies, this study examined student perceptions of the process approach used to teach writing. A class of 19 ESL students in an academic writing class at a small university paliicipated in the study. As collaborators in the study, …
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A arte civil de Mestre Valentin: um programa de sombra e de água fresca
… visual arts. The analysis is carried out through critical research of the History of Art, a study open to interdisciplinarity, approximating the concept of production relations of the artistic evente, proposed by Damisch, Duvignaud and Panofsky, within the notion of discontinuous time contained in …
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Towards a model for IS research methodology selection : the effect of epistemology choice on a consolidated research evaluation tool
Information Systems research is, for want of a better word, inadequate. Whilst there is nothing wrong with the quantity of the output or the abilities of the researchers themselves, the irrelevance (to practitioners) of much of the research has rendered if largely incapable of serving and …
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The Office of experiments: experimental research in the expanded field of contemporary art.
… enclosures of interdisciplinary or boundary research between art and other disciplines, the thesis provides an analysis of a series of critical research projects undertaken since 2004. The author argues that through critical forms of artistic research, new forms of knowledge production are …
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The Performers Alliance: Conflict and change within the Screen Actors Guild
This paper takes an historical critical research perspective on rapid change within one of the highest profile unions in the world, the Screen Actors Guild and in particular the emergence of a political force that identified itself as The Performers Alliance. The author was a member of the National …
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Dignity, respect and grace in participatory research involving university teams.
… challenges through collaborative interventionist research efforts with organizational partners. By doing so, they increasingly engage in roles previously the purview of international development organizations. This research, through a critical research in information systems (CRIS) lens, evaluates …
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A high-speed hysteresis motor spindle for machining applications
… machining spindle was performed to determine critical research areas. The focus is on a hysteresis motor topology using a solid, inherently-balanced D2 steel shaft. An analytical model of the motor is devised in order to make performance predictions and optimization, and an experimental …
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Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Impact of Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals
… the rhetoric of the conduct manuals, this researcher has identified the audience, the rhetorical situation, the exigence of that situation, and the use of <i>phronisis</i>, <i>areti</i>, and <i>euonia</i> by both authors. <br> Because the rhetoric of the conduct manual has not been …
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47 Via Ricasoli, Florence, an English Translation of the Novel By Thierry Laget
… of this twentieth century classic, but the critical research he undertakes takes an unexpected turn. In an old bookstore on the Via Ricasoli in Florence, Italy, Thomas discovers an unknown poem of Poppet's, printed in 1924, with a dedication autographed by the author . . . It is there, too, …
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Defense against network attacks using game theory
… Effective defense against such attacks is a critical research area. In this thesis, we demonstrate how game theory can be used to devise effective defense systems. We utilize game theory for defense systems in two scenarios in this thesis. The first scenario is that of the attacker carrying …
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(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces: A Critical Qualitative Study of Spanish as a Foreign Language Educators’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners in Mixed Classrooms
… Gloria Anzaldúa has been an integral part of research on hybrid identities and consciousness. In an increasingly multicultural and multilingual school system, educators of Spanish as a foreign language are faced with a different audience to the ones they were trained to teach: students who …
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Jewish Jesus, Gentile church - Jewish meal? The origins and development of the Lord's Supper through a Jewish prism
… distinction between ethos and practice. The four critical research questions that govern the thesis are: Firstly, why did the Lord’s Supper come about in the first place? Secondly, are the Passover, messianic banquet, Last Supper and Lord’s Supper linked through the death of Jesus? Thirdly, was …
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Documenting the Impact of Lifeline Service Disruptions on Healthcare System Performance Following Earthquakes Since 2000: A Reconnaissance Report Analysis
… post-earthquake when they are needed most. This research assesses if and how reconnaissance reporting has covered the impacts lifeline service disruptions have had on healthcare system performance for earthquakes magnitude 6.0 and greater since 2000. Utilizing content analysis methods, 104 …
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From Static to Adaptive: Dynamic Cost Function Weight Adaptation in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Sustainable 6G Radio Access Networks
… BS switching has therefore become a critical research focus. Traditional solutions rely on static thresholds or fixed cost function weights, limiting adaptability in dynamic environments. This thesis investigates how cost function design and weight adaptation influence the trade-off …
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Towards automated remote inspection of anomalies in offshore components.
… evaluation of advanced deep-learning models. The research encompasses: a thorough literature review, identifying innovation opportunities in deep learning for industrial inspections; the development of a general classification model using cutting-edge architectures for precise classification of …
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Kritikai Emberi Erőforrás Menedzsment. A szervezeti életvilág szimbolikus szerkezeteinek újratermelése a vállalati karácsony kolonizációjának esetén keresztül = Critical Human Resource Management. The Reproduction of Symbolic Structures in the Organizational Lifeworld through the Case of the Colonization of Corporate Christmas
… a vállalat falai közé. _____ The purpose of my research is to explore the relationships between system and lifeworld within the organization, and the tensions and the manifestations of crisis emerging at their "interfaces" (Kemmis 2001). Corporate Christmas as a cultural phenomenon is one such …
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Architecture, dance and materiality : using choreology and sensuous materials to enhance the experience of architecture
… now the first section of this project, titled 'Critical Research'. The second (and final) section of this project, titled 'Design Project', is my interpretation of this research in order to design a building. There are three parts to this section, 'Programme', 'Site Research' and 'Concept …
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