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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"descendent"”.
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
This dissertation explores how afro-descendent Creoles from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua engage the politics of femininity and masculinity, indigeneity and blackness, tradition and modernity, and autochthony and diaspora in their struggles for communal land rights. The historical part of the …
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Population Structure and Demographic History of Human Arctic Populations Using Quantitative Cranial Traits
… population structure differences and ancestor-descendent relationships. Most prominently, a pattern of ancestry and descent emerges from two primary sources, the Ipiutak at Point Hope and the Birnirk at Point Barrow. Overlapping in time, these two occupations along the north coast of Alaska …
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“Let’s Do The Time Warp, Again!” <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</em> as Hysterical Theatre
… The Rocky Horror Picture show as a radical descendent of the theatrical legacy of Jean- Martin Charcot’s lectures on hysteria. His “theatre of hysteria” is a retroactive terminology for the physician’s highlytheatricalized lecture series at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris in the 1880s on …
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Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Vulnerability of the Garífuna Women in Guatemala; An Exploratory Study on Underlying Causes
… Guatemalan society on the other hand. The afro-descendent Garífuna community forms a small part of the overall indigenous group in Guatemala alongside the Maya and the Xinca groups; however unlike the larger indigenous groups and the remaining non-indigenous population, the Garífuna are ignored …
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Cultivating Earthworks of the Anthropocene: A Laboratory for Land and Environmental Art in Lime, Oregon
… architecture that is both dependent on and a descendent of the landscape.
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GOGO: An Improved Algorithm to Measure the Semantic Similarity Between Gene Ontology Terms
… contribution of an ancestor node giving to its descendent nodes. GOGO can calculate functional similarities between genes and then cluster genes based on their functional similarities. Evaluations performed on multiple pathways retrieved from the saccharomyces genome database (SGD) show that …
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Drinking straws and shaman melodies: a historical and analytical study of the taepyeongso
… closely related to the Chinese suona and a descendent of the Persian zurna. The instrument is examined from a number of perspectives: historical, theoretical, practical, and personal. For historians and musicologists, I compile core background information about the instrument from a variety …
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Digitisation and access to Archives: Case study of Sarah Baartman and Khoi San Collections
… collections that belonged to indigenous people/ descendent communities within South Africa and how to access these collections. The key purpose of the study is to determine the implications that digitisation has on Public Access. The aims of the study were to investigate the factors that …
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Malaysian Muslim Society responses about human immunodeficiency virus test as a requirement of marriage registration in the human rights perspective: Study of Hulu Langat Selangor Darul Ehsan Society
… is to ensure the health of spouse, the health of descendent, welfare of families and to reduce divorce cases. The second, about the human rights on obligation of HIV test before marriage, they assume that this regulation does not against human rights and it is in line with the Islamic Sharia, …
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Disruption of UHRF1 expression in chicken DT40 cells
… of accurate epigenomic information to descendent cells. Depletion of UHRF1 proteins in nuclear significantly blocked DNA replication in Xenopus egg extracts. However, the mechanism underlying the role of UHRF1 in DNA replication remains unclear. Considering the effects of UHRF1 …
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Topics in symplectic Gromov–Witten theory
… the Kontsevich-Manin axioms and are extended to descendent Gromov--Witten invariants. I show that our definition of Gromov--Witten invariants agrees with the classical Gromov--Witten invariants defined by [RT97] for semipositive symplectic manifolds. Given a Hamiltonian group action on the target …
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Prime Number-Based Hierarchical Data Labeling Scheme for Relational Databases
… captures the parent-child and ancestor-descendent relationships between nodes. There exist a number of different ways to capture and manage hierarchical data while preserving such relationships. For instance, one may use a custom system designed for a specific kind of hierarchy. Object …
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The Future Inheritance of Land in the Pauline Epistles
… people enter their inheritance, David's royal descendent will reign over them forever (Ezek 36-37; cf. Dan 7). Chapter 5 demonstrates that the Second Temple literature, in line with the Psalms and Prophets, expands the inheritance to include the whole world (e.g., Sir 44:21; Jub. 22:14, 32:19). …
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Paternity and father-offspring relationships in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii.
… to testing for kin discrimination amongst non-descendent paternal kin. Thus, in Chapter 1, I first determined paternal relationships and explored patterns of male reproductive success relative to dominance rank and the priority of access model, as well as fathers' mating strategy and age. Then …
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Unearthing Collaboration: Community and Multivocal Archaeology in Highland Guatemala
… of the ancient past but now must consider the descendent communities and local communities living among and on the sites. Chocolá and Tecpan serve as a model for understanding multivocal and collaborative archaeology as well as the overall role of archaeology today. The overall aim is a …
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Born of war in Colombia: Narratives of unintelligibility, contested identities, and the memories of absence
… December 2015 and June 2016 in a rural Afro-descendent community in Colombia that was occupied by paramilitaries for approximately five years. Paramilitaries systematically used sexual violence against women and girls and, because of those abuses, children were born and later single out by …
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Descendents: Research in Architecture
… spur relationships to other works in progress; descendents. The projects are a testing ground for the ideological content in an architects work. Each project we undertake is a part of a much larger whole that may or may not be a life's work, but is, certainly, an influence in the creation of …
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Dependent Independence: Toward a Theology of Southern Baptist Associationalism
… century, the Philadelphia Association, as a descendent of English Particular Baptists, fostered vibrant relationships among member churches that offered mutual care, doctrinal accountability, as well as unity between and among partnering churches⎯but also labored to preserve local church …
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Ngāti Rehua o Te Moananui o Toi: Cobwebs of Colonisation
… thesis tells their story, through the words of a descendent of Rehua himself, revealing how our people never ceded sovereignty to the British Crown. Rather, despite our more recent history, we have remained strong in the struggle against colonisation and ongoing colonialism. This thesis is a …
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