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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"effacement"”.
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Feminised AI and the Technologies of Effacement: How Border Bureaucracy Redefines Care and Control in Migration Governance
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζει τον ρόλο της έμφυλα θηλυκοποιημένης τεχνητής νοημοσύνης στη διακυβέρνηση της μετανάστευσης, εστιάζοντας στο πώς τα έμφυλα ρομπότ λειτουργούν ταυτόχρονα ως εργαλεία και ως σύμβολα καινοτομίας, φροντίδας και φαινομενικά ουδέτερης αποτελεσματικότητας. Μελετώντας …
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Electron microscopic morphometry of podocyte foot process effacement as a tool to distinguish primary from secondary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)
… microscopy (EM) foot process width (FPW) and effacement (FPE), and treatment options. Primary FSGS commonly presents as nephrotic syndrome (NS), shows diffuse FPE with a FPW >1500nm, and is generally responsive to steroid therapy. Secondary FSGS does not present with NS (non-nephrotic), shows …
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Beschreibung und Charakterisierung einer neuen Pathogenitätsinsel, integriert in das selC-Gen von "Locus of enterocyte effacement"-negativen, Shiga-Toxin-produzierenden Escherichia coli
… die Pathogen-itätsinsel LEE (locus of enterocyte effacement) nachgewiesen werden. Der LEE ist stromabwärts des Gens für eine Selenocystein-tRNA (selC) ins Chromosom integriert. Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war die Charakterisierung von STEC, denen der LEE fehlt und die funktionelle Analyse von …
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
… thesis extends Frederic Jameson’s theory of “effacement” and Jean-François Lyotard’s “postmodern condition” to investigate the spread of the magical realist genre and techniques beyond its postcolonial beginnings and into a postmodern means to insert an element of the unknown back into a …
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False presences: Fanon's reinforcement of the female subaltern
… the female subaltern through silencing, effacement, and stereotypical language. The second chapter concerns the similarities between racial and gendered power relations within his books. In the third chapter, I discuss hierarchies of power and their establishment through gendered …
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The Problem of Coming to Terms with the Past: A Post-Holocaust Theology of Remembrance
… the Holocaust in order to avoid forgetfulness or effacement of the past. Whitehead's philosophy provides a metaphysical means for considering how the past remains with us in the present and into the future. Out of this injunction to remember comes a theology of remembrance, which draws heavily …
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Palaeobiology of Silurian trilobites from North Greenland
… confirming the polyphyletic nature of effacement. Counts of trilobite sclerites from thirteen reef localities are analysed using cluster and correspondence analyses to identify trilobite associations, and taphonomic signatures. Seven trilobite associations are identified: …
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Cellular subversion: towards a complete repertoire of type-III secretion system effectors in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7
… that are encoded within the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) have been studied extensively. This study aimed to characterise a selection of recently discovered non-LEE-encoded effectors using a variety of model systems. Firstly, a β-lactamase translocation assay was used to demonstrate …
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The Functional Characterization of QSEC a Bacterial Adrenergic Receptor and the LuxR Homologue SDIA in EHEC
… These factors include the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) genes which facilitate attachment and effacement (AE) of the gut epithelium, Shiga toxin (Stx) which causes HUS, and secreted effectors like NleA. We had previously reported that QseC is autoregulatory and regulates the flagellar …
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Glomerulosclerosis in the Col1a2-deficient mouse model : homotrimer pathogenesis and MMP expression
… the renal mesangium, resulting in podocyte foot effacement and proteinuria. In this study we examine the pre- and post-translational expression of type I collagen and MMPs -2, -3, and -9 in wildtype, heterozygous and Col1a2-deficient glomeruli to determine whether the pathogenic collagen is …
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Silence as Voice: Silence, the Body and the Decoloniality of Quiet in Raduan Nassar and Sara Gallardo’s novels of the country.
… not only reveals the mechanisms of erasure and effacement but also opens pathways for resistance, transformation, and the reimagining of literary and political agency.
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Ruinscapes in poetry and architecture
… in the context of visual grids, the fragmentary, effacement and breaking, cryptograms, elliptical transcriptions, errors, letter phanopoeias, and palimpsests. Architectural ruinscapes are seen as spatial manifestations of the conflicting dipoles which constitute the poetics of ruin-habitation: …
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The role of prostaglandins in spontaneous and induced labour
… if certain precautions are adhered to. 10. Effacement of the cervix in the latent phase has been measured and may be used in order to predict the rate of progress in the first stage of labour in primigravidae. The results are presented in the text.
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La figure d'autrice : mises en scène de soi et réception des écrits intimes de Claire Martin, Marie Uguay et Nelly Arcan
… la chercheuse Audrey Lasserre, je constate « un effacement globalisé des femmes et une surreprésentation des hommes de lettres que l’on pourrait expliquer par une réception critique négative des œuvres de femmes. » (Lasserre, 2009 : 45) Ce constat se présente comme une invitation à réfléchir …
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Muriel Spark’s Authorial Strategies
… herself. Through the authorial strategy of self-effacement in her novels, Spark may offer her readers a truer version of her fiction-writing self.
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Jan Sanders van Hemessen and Antwerp Painting before Bruegel
… how references to artistic labor (and its effacement) by Van Hemessen interact with depictions of labor and leisure in his innovative genre imagery, notably of tax offices and brothels. Van Hemessen’s career clarifies how art embraced emerging values of the open market at the outset of the …
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Temps de réaction à l'Évocation d'une image mentale et évaluation de la clarté chez des sujets bilingues
… constitue un facteur séparé, ou d) marquer un effacement face à l'expérience linguistique des sujets.
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Second generation South Asian Muslims' conceptualisations of religious and ethnic identity
… some of them come to undergo a degree of ethnic effacement.
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Spiritual Struggle and Gregory of Nyssa’s Theory of Perpetual Ascent: An Orthodox Christian Virtue Ethic
… the virtues and the self-centeredness and self-effacement of virtue. This project goes on to provide two of many potential concrete examples of this Orthodox ethical model as applied to the body in the practice of asceticism and as applied to Scripture in the practice of sacred reading. In the …
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The narrative thematics of the late style of Henry James : incorporating an analysis of The wings of the dove
… The specific facets discussed are those of the effacement of the authorial narrator and the representation of consciousness; this discussion also deals with James's approach to these facets of narrative representation. Part III consists of an examination of selected 'Prefaces' to James's novels, …
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