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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"disjointed"”.
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The social construction of harm reduction expertise: disjointed actors across a fragmented urban health landscape
In the last two decades, overdose deaths have risen to over 100,000 people each year in the United States, facilitating an outpouring of federal, state, and opioid lawsuit payout funds toward a range of initiatives that intervene in the lives of people who use drugs. One of these initiatives, and …
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Crossroads Center, Homeless Mission and Transitional Shelter
… both individuals and communities, precipitating disjointed and fragmented lives. I hoped to design a dignified urban dwelling where man is able to remember who he is, his purpose, and his direction, while also participating in healthy and fruitful community.
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The architectural vanguard
… universe; when all is wrong we seem to be alone, disjointed. Things are going on without us .... Robert Henri
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A Promenade for Isolation
… from obscurity. Its form is a composition of disjointed rooms connected by common themes: frontality, obscurity, artifice, and seclusion.<br /><br />In the first part, the plan appears as a map of a promenade which is the main ordering device of the building structure.<br /><br />In the second …
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A case study of shared decision making in a large urban high school
… within the school system or at the school level. Disjointed activities and responsibilities in the guise of shared decision making were parcelled out by the division superintendent to the schools to be implemented. Opportunities for stakeholder participation were better organized and managed in …
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Subversive Intimacies: Resisting Settler Colonialism's Shallow Attachments
… asks, how does settler colonialism depend on disjointed and shallow attachments, and how do Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists respond to and rise above the asociality of this structure? I draw on a range of creative responses—graphic novels, music, poetry, fiction, activism—as a means of …
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Old southern open clusters
… thesis, the end product is of necessity a little disjointed. This approach has been adopted because 'the publication of the results has higher priority than the presentation of a thesis. The style is as compact as seems consistent with reasonable clarity and I hope that reading it will not present …
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Juha the Whale
… This domestic reality is juxtaposed with Noors disjointed auditory memories of her father as she struggles to mentally cope with war-related trauma. Through these creative elements, Juha the Whale seeks to authentically portray the complex and desperate experiences of a broken family caught …
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Time / schedule control of engineering projects in the South Western Cape
… there seems to have developed greatly disjointed theory on project control. As a result, the modern practitioner is often faced with contradictory and confusing advice on project time/schedule control requirements. This research integrates and extends present time/schedule control …
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Color and Consciousness: Research and Painted Process of Inundate, Intumesce, Hermetic, and Luminiferous
… I have grappled with understanding my own disjointed internal experience and conveying it through my paintings. I braided together the different elements of water, fabric, color, and life to visually communicate the ineffable. Color and self-consciousness, and the link between the two, are …
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Sillage
… and fragment into one another and become disjointed. Within this tension, the significance and vastness of tangled space envelops the figures, more grandly connecting place and form. The two push and pull against each other as the space threatens to overwhelm the presence of the figure. In …
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Digital Supply Chain Connectivity and Capacity Analysis for Strategic Production Planning in Biosurgery Oxidized Regenerated Cellulose
… In addition, the ORC digital data thread is disjointed across multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and various teams. Consequently, planning activities that support strategic investment decisions are increasingly burdensome and require a significant level of effort. This …
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Culture and the modern self: a comparative analysis of the cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson
… find the connecting thread of our increasingly disjointed social reality to history. The following work is but a brief account of these wide-ranging theories. Its order of progression starts with contextualizing Bourdieu and Jameson in the framework of cultural debates, followed by an analysis …
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Toward a Convergent Evidence-Based Urban Design Approach
… However, the emerging approaches can be disjointed. Tensions arise when deciding between the many types of evidence urban designers can use, and the different ethics they represent. In this thesis, I analyze three existing approaches to evidence-based urban design, including their …
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Similarity Assessment and Retrieval of CAD Models
… partitioning has been applied to find out disjointed sub-graph from the FDAG representation, by examining the reachability of a POSET data. The found disjointed sub-graphs are equivalent to reusable CAD partial components, which are further compared by the partial shape aggregation (PSA) …
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A Country Of Giants
… my heavy use of metaphor and simile--as well as disjointed sentence structure--renders this lack of understanding as accurately and as vividly as possible. Lastly, in addition to my stories I include an introduction to my thesis discussing the influence of other writers, including their …
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Joan Jonas and the Object of Performance
… however, these pieces only provide a fragmented, disjointed image of a complex, multidimensional work. To more closely analyze problems associated with performance art, I refer to Joan Jonas and several of her pieces to serve as a case study for the overarching problems associated with performance …
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Between Law and Justice: Kant, Derrida, and Religious Violence
… of the rightful condition) and peculiarly disjointed (in Derrida's reflections on the possibility of "justice beyond law"). We provide a preliminary account of the necessary conditions for a future theory of religious violence based on our effort to recontextualize the discussion of the …
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Civic Space: An Architectural Framework for Urban Invention
… of public space--space to relieve the culturally disjointed condition of modern urban life by acting as a sort of stage for creative expression and collective improvisation. This also involves the making of characteristic places, which by energetically acknowledging, confronting, challenging, or …
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