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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"demarcate"”.
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The rhetorical construction of science: Demarcation as rhetorical practice
… the unique and essential characteristics which demarcate science from other intellectual activities. This dissertation develops a view of demarcation as a practical matter which is rhetorically negotiated by scientists in ongoing scientific activity. The rhetorical demarcation of science is a …
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Citizen or subject? Freedom of information and the informed citizen in a democracy
… and control of information allows us to demarcate who controls or influences the political system. Freedom of Information (FOI), rooted in Enlightenment values, contains within it a key principle of democracy that there must be access to information (and knowledge) for all equally. My …
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Demarcating political frontiers in Turkey: "Europe-as-hegemony" and discourses after 1999
… with understanding how political frontiers are demarcated in Turkish politics, I aim to show how ‘Europe’ contributed to such a process of constructing political frontiers during the 1999-2008 period. Rather than looking at the debates on ‘Europe’ within the Turkish political landscape through a …
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I carry you in my heart : facing an incurable prenatal diagnosis
… of just half a century ago. Legislators try to demarcate what choices are "good" and "bad". However, there is no good choice when it comes to a fatally ill infant. While archival research is used to frame modem perspectives, this thesis aims to explore the different choices women make and the …
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Hotel and Conference Center for Foreign Dignitaries
… walls buffer the interior from the exterior and demarcate the program. Punched voids provide natural light. Each element including entry, wall, stair, column, and fireplace is designed to comply with the collective composition. The circulation is situated along the building\'s edge, thus guiding …
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Exploring Perceptions of Aging and Ageism Among Personal Support Workers
… analyze and generate recurrent themes. Findings demarcate some existing gaps relating to views on aging and ageism among PSWs, indicating that the quality of training and education on aging and ageism are needed to support the care PSWs deliver. Understanding the impact of age-related bias on …
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Demystifying the Placebo Effect
… alternative medicine for discussions of how to demarcate between science and pseudoscience within philosophy of science. Finally, I offer a bioethical argument that maintains that the neglect of the placebo effect within medicine may be contributing to an increase in health disparities along …
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Transcriptomic and Secretomic Profiling of Isolated Leukocytes Exposed to Alpha-Particle and Photon Radiation - Applications in Biodosimetry
… and principal component analysis were able to demarcate radiation type with some success. By comparing the biological effects elicited by photon and alpha-particle radiation, significant contributions have been made to the field of radiation biodosimetry.
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CD21 and CD24 Co-expression: A Translational Model between Mouse and Human
… by 7-color flow cytometry, can be used to demarcate developmental subsets of B cells. A comparison of analogous B cell subsets in mice and humans showed that the B cell subsets distribution differs between the species suggesting differences exist in mechanisms that regulate and maintain the …
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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo
… and <em>Last Standing Woman</em>. To close, I demarcate the trend of American television shows to appropriate the wendigo, ascertaining a fundamental misunderstanding of indigenous cultural beliefs by American popular culture.</p>
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Essays On Consumption Risk-Sharing In Emerging Economies
… in terms of financial market integration to demarcate regimes with varying extent of international risk sharing in emerging economies. In Chapter 2, I study a model of a small open economy to see how default decisions affect incentives for international consumption risk-sharing based on …
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The auditory environment of the young child
… behaviour, verbal or non-verbal". To demarcate our area of interest more precisely it is necessary to attempt an a priori classification of the total acoustic environment of an individual of a given language and culture.
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The neuropsychological effects of pituitary macroadenomas and their treatment
… the texts put forward to date, texts that demarcate adenoma treatment effects to the realm of the physicaL The mechanism(s) behind these supposed deficits have not yet been identified, largely because of problematic research designs and sampling. In the South African context, practitioners …
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Anish Kapoor: The Formation of a Global Art
… and global. By transgressing the borders that demarcate these discourses, Kapoor’s art enters an in-between state; through both formal and thematic strategies, his sculptural forms orchestrate viewers so they are able to move beyond distinct, fixed, and stabile meanings and view the works as …
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Growing Babies, Growing faith: The Formation of Faith in The Life of the Child
… and devotion to Islam. Lastly, notions of time demarcate and shape how caregivers temporalize their child-rearing practices. The aim of this research is to contribute towards the growing discourses around childhood and religion through an ethnography of child-rearing in Cape Town.
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VIRGIN POLITICS: AN IDEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "VIRGINITY" IN THE EGYTPIAN VIRGINTY TESTS
… religious and patriarchal meta-discourse used to demarcate the role of the "good women." I also analyze Samira Ibrahim's response to the virginity tests and argue that her use of a rhetorically rich counter-cultural discourse interrupted the operationalization of "virginity" in the military's …
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The specter of Salem in American culture
… era of national Reconstruction Salem served to demarcate cultural boundaries and define national identity.</p>
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It Doesn't Take Walls
… a diversity of architectural devices designed to demarcate functional units in the house with respect to their varying demands for solitude. Individual spaces are examined based on where they fall on the spectrum: from the most secluded to the most inclusive. Efforts are made to refrain from …
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The change of position defence in comparative perspective
… limiting mechanisms are chosen, the system must demarcate their contours and establish the inevitable exceptions. Thirdly, that legal system, as a consequence, must also decide whether to require a symmetric ‘gain-loss’ situation, i.e., whether to insist that the measure of recovery be limited by …
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The ontogeny and functional distribution of novel, neurochemically-defined columns in mammalian visual cortex
… plane at PD50, Zn-rich patches were found to demarcate columnar compartments in layer IV of area 17.The columnar expression of Zn exhibited similar temporal and spatial characteristics as 5-HT1c/2receptor columns. When compared in adjacent sections at PD50, columns demarcated by …
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