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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"fiasco"”.
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Fiasco - From Religious Sanctuary to Art and Culture Complex
Near the end of a building's lifecycle, many times when the building is no longer deemed useful, decisions are made whether to wait out a new tenant for the structure or to destroy it to make way for new construction. If the latter, while the building waits, its materials are left to the elements …
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Project Fiasco: An Analysis of Ontario's Electronic Health Record Project
… solution. These two errors resulted in a policy fiasco that was manifested in almost total project failure and a resulting high degree of public outrage. We also speculate on why these errors were made.
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The Castillo de San Fernando de Omoa : The History of a Fiasco
<p>The concept behind the fort of San Fernando de Omoa grew from the unrest caused by pirates along the coasts of Central America in the 17th and 18th centuries. The poor condition of the Caribbean defenses resulted partly because Spain did not know how to deal with the pirates. The latter did not …
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The Stress of Her Disregard: Britannia’s Suez Fiasco in Consideration of Anglo-American Diplomacy
<p>The Suez Crisis of 1956 was an unmitigated disaster for the United Kingdom. For the vast majority of historians, it marks the effective downfall of the British Empire. In reviewing the series of events preceding and throughout the crisis, it becomes evident that the reason for the failure of the …
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Les implications de la littérature dans l'avènevement de la démocratie dans les pays du Golfe de Guinée entre 1988 et 1998
… like Benin, Mali and Niger. But it was a fiasco in others like Togo. Others like Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea opposed that spirit of national consensus and held National Forums. The causes of the movements were sociopolitical and economic. In fact, since the acquisition of their independences …
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Desperately seeking depth: global and local narratives of the South African general elections on television news, 1994 - 2014
… the AIDS crisis in 2004, and Zuma's Nkandla fiasco in 2014 results in narrow reporting that limits the substantive information available during the election periods. All channels to some extent seek narratives that attempt to explain and explore South Africa's complex democracy, but these …
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La televisión digital terrestre en España: 1997-2004
… servicios). Estigmatizado en buena medida por el fiasco que supuso Quiero TV, el modelo de la TDT en abierto no ha terminado de arrancar, lo que le ha llevado a entrar en un «círculo vicioso» del que no ha logrado salir. ¿Qué le ha impedido entrar en una dinámica virtuosa?, ¿qué cambios …
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Molecular markers for the assessment of genetic variability in threatened plant species
… ipervariabili ho utilizzato il protocolllo FIASCO (Fast isolation by AFLP of sequences containing repeats- Zane et al. 2002) che permette di costruire una libreria genomica arricchita partendo dal DNA estratto da P. apennina. Tale procedura ha previsto la digestione del DNA genomico per la …
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The effect of social exchange relationships on peer reporting fraudulent financial misconduct: a case study of an UK-non-profit organization
… surrounding charities, such as the Oxfam fiasco, have shaken the industry as recent as 2018, showing that principled companies with the intention to support society can also take ethics for granted. The extant literature reveals that people's capacity to identify and interpret moral …
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William Walker and the Republic of Lower California
… to Mexico. Perhaps this is because the whole fiasco was such a dismal failure and does not fit well into the rest of Walker's life story. All of his other ventures reached their zenith before crumbling He was a physician, attorney, and newspaper editor by the time he was twenty-six, and when …