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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"dominant paradigm"”.
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Extending the Boundaries : Portraits of Activism in Perth, Western Australia
… driven to challenge those consequences of the dominant paradigm, activism is deemed to be a potent force for effecting social and political change. The aim of this study was to establish how activists integrate issues, context, strategies, personal factors and other influences into a strategy …
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Attributes of individualism/collectivism and the behavior of representatives in intergroup negotiations
The dominant paradigm in negotiation research has virtually ignored the cultural context in which negotiations occur. The present study sought to expand the dominant paradigm by incorporating the theory of individualism-collectivism, one of the primary dimensions on which cultures vary, into …
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Beyond the Missions: Ethnogenesis in Colonial Paraguay, 1556-1700
… of African slavery. This argument challenges the dominant paradigm scholars have applied to the conquest of the Río de la Plata and builds on recent scholarship suggesting that ethnogenesis should be applied to the colonizers, not only the colonized. By examining ethnic relations in one of the …
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VERTICAL ELASTICITY OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON CLOUDS
Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant paradigm for efficiently managing and utilizing computing resources. However, the variability and fluctuations in workload experienced by long-running applications on clouds pose challenges in resource management, necessitating elastic resource allocation …
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The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics
… project known as hypermodernity. The dominant paradigm of hypermodernity, as consumption and commodity culture, elicits particularity of embedded responsiveness situated within history. Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson contend that communication ethics are “value-laden philosophies of …
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Examining Japanese tourists' U.S.-Bound Travel Constraints
… conducted in western countries under a western-dominant paradigm (Iwasaki, Nishino, Onda, & Bowling, 2007). It is not clear if people from non-western countries, such as Japan, are facing different outbound travel constraints from their western partners, and if constraint research in the Asian …
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A Critical Interpretation of Olivier Roy: On Globalization, the Cosmopolitan and Emerging Post-Secular Religiosities
… which is modernization writ large, is the dominant paradigm through which I conceptualize these changes. The theorist whose work I use as a lens to interpret secularization, religion and societal transformation is Olivier Roy. Roy's theories are of significance within the contemporary …
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HIV/AIDS in South Africa : Towards a New Paradigm
… These are now central components of a dominant paradigm that has informed but also limited research. This paradigm also informs and limits responses to and strategies to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Besting the tract home : a software-based bricolage approach to affordable custom housing
… has earned its position as the overwhelmingly dominant paradigm of home building and ownership in America because it's such an efficient and therefore cost-effective system. Custom-designed housing has provable benefits over a one size-fits-all approach, but has remained unreachable for the …
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The participation of women in urban regeneration : a longitudinal study in Sheffield
… <p>The findings are used to inform the dominant paradigm of urban governance: regime theory. Integrated regime theory is proposed as a more inclusive way of exploring the governance of urban regeneration. The research also contributes to the policy debate by confirming that there is a …
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The Financialization of the Business Enterprise
… SSA to the Contemporary SSA was accompanied by a paradigm shift in in the field of economics from the Keynesian/institutionalist to the neoliberal paradigm. Simultaneously, the nexus of contracts definition replaced the resource-based definition as the dominant paradigm of the economic theory of …
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Examining bacterial variation with genome graphs and Nanopore sequencing
… are highly adaptable and thus variable. The dominant paradigm for analysing genetic variation relies on a central idea: all genomes in a species can be described as minor differences from a single reference genome, which serves as a coordinate system. As an introduction to this thesis, we …
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An illustration of changing paradigms in water resource management in South Africa
… studies the characteristic features of shifting paradigms in South African Water legislation over the past hundred years and aligns these changes in legislation with established world views in water resource management. A comparative analysis is used to describe and compare how changes in South …
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The Dominant Human Trafficking Paradigm and Economic Elite Interests
… decades within the United States. However, the dominant discourse surrounding the issue has been become a hyperbolic and sensationalized account of the issue, in which important dimensions are omitted, complicated, and, in some cases, distorted. Also, given the clandestine nature of human …
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Lexical syntax for statistical machine translation
… Machine Translation (SMT) is by far the most dominant paradigm of Machine Translation. This can be justified by many reasons, such as accuracy, scalability, computational efficiency and fast adaptation to new languages and domains. However, current approaches of Phrase-based SMT lacks the …
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(Non-)Religious Bias in Secularization Research
… declines as modernization unfolds. Once a dominant paradigm, it is now one of the most contested areas in the sociology of religion: even rigorous empirical studies reach contradictory conclusions. This PhD thesis asks whether part of this variability stems not from the social reality under …
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Understanding change in the public sector:a local authority case study
… with more radical transformations as the dominant paradigm guiding the organisation shifts. However, such paradigmatic shifts in local government may be less obvious than in the private sector due to the diverse nature of the former.
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Exploring life changes for patients diagnosed with 'Alcoholic Liver Disease' - A qualitative study in Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's thought.
… involves mental processes that interconnect. The dominant paradigm showed these are bodily related involving self-evaluative behaviour that is weighed up under the gaze of others. These connections were embodied in various social identities and subjectivities related to living with a …
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Indigenous rights under the Australian constitution :a reconciliation perspective
… requires the courts to free themselves from the dominant paradigm of strict positivism so that they are liberated to pay due regard to questions of morality. Given this framework, the thesis then sets out to examine the purpose and scope of the race power (section 51(xxvi)) of the Australian …
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Transformation Paradox: A Framework for the Analysis of Politics in Enterprise Transformations
… can be paradoxical as enterprises revert to the dominant paradigm that affirms present realities rather than developing a critical posture to break the constraining paradigm. The dialectical approach used embraces the power of multiple theoretical perspectives in the transformation process, …
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