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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"guise"”.
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Human Rights Violations under the Guise of Counter-Terrorism Measures: A Question of Reconciling Security Concerns and Protecting the Fundamental Right to Life
Both security and human rights are important to all within the civilized world. Yet there are some serious tensions between the two political norms. For instance, it may not be easy for a state or the international community to reconcile well intentioned acts to maintain security and to preserve …
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An exploration of the lived experiences of men who have an eating disorder in the guise of anorexia or a-typical anorexia/EDNOS
Background: In the United Kingdom (UK) the number of males with Eating Disorders (ED) admitted to hospital has risen by 70% since 2000. Taking account of under-reporting and misdiagnosis, men are now thought to represent 25% of those diagnosed with anorexia. To date, within academic literature, …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
… media in which the sitter is represented in the guise of a mythological, historical or religious figure, like a god or a biblical character. These portraits, known from various studies as allegorical, historié, composite, or augmented have never been analysed as a genre and their function has so …
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Post-Apartheid Legislative Recognition of Traditional Leaders in South Africa: Weak Legal Pluralism in the Guise of Deep Legal Pluralism An analysis and critique of the legislative framework for the recognition of traditional leadership in South Africa under the 1996 Constitution
This study explores the limitations of recognising traditional leadership as institution through legislation. The legislative recognition of traditional leadership has serious implications for the processes of change within customary law from 'official' customary law to 'living' customary law. The …
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Helene Stöcker, Weimar Germany and Prophylactics: An Investigation Into the Context and Effects of the Reichsgesestz zur Bekämpfung Geschlechtskrankheiten
… It seeks to show how women were presented with a guise of freedom, while living in a truly paternalistic society.</p>
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Argent Sound Recordings: Multimodal Storytelling
… and interpret a constructed narrative under the guise of an independent record label website.
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Behind the Mask
… herself, has to not only maintain her masculine guise, but also has to fight to cure the plague, deal with betrayal, and grapple the loneliness that surrounds her life as a woman in a man’s world.
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A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Language Attitudes Among Youth in Morocco
… Bentahila 1983; Marley 2004). Using a matched guise test, this dissertation broadens the scope of sociolinguistic research to analyze the covert language attitudes that shape the presence of H codes (Standard Arabic and French) and an L code (Moroccan Arabic). This analysis of covert attitudes …
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Fiction Selection
… who stumbles across a mythological figure in the guise of a hobbled woman. The Reedlands touches on the randomness and oddity of anonymous sexual encounters, while bringing together elements of Egyptian funerary ceremony.
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Fiction Selection
… who stumbles across a mythological figure in the guise of a hobbled woman. The Reedlands touches on the randomness and oddity of anonymous sexual encounters, while bringing together elements of Egyptian funerary ceremony.
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LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION AFGHAN-AMERICANS AND IRANIAN-AMERICANS TOWARD DARI AND PERSIAN
… group solidarity traits to their own dialect guise. It is further hypothesized that the second generation from both immigrant groups will hold the same language attitudes as their parents. The primary method of investigation for this study was a modified version of Lambert et al.s (1960) …
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Making with attention
… in contemporary western society through the guise of utilitarian objects. By using materials that have been classified as waste to create sculptural works I bring value to something that had little. I use low-tech and old-world methods to create, allowing myself to experience the true labor …
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One Hundred and Fifty Percent Elasticity
… synthetic hair and paint are associated with the guise of the makeup artist. Frantic rehearsal logic prevails as a dress is repurposed into a male giant's costume and window blinds are used to construct a boat's deck. This collusion asks the viewer to transgress the boundary of the stage, becoming …
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Effects of Brain Injury Severity and Effort on Neuropsychological Tests of Attention
Attention impairment is one of the most common complaints following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Multiple studies have shown that performance on neuropsychological tests of attention is affected by many factors, including injury severity and effort. The aim of this study was to determine the …
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Nigerian Pidgin: The Identity of a Nigerian Away from Home
… positive attitudes toward NP than men. Matched-guise results indicate that a female speaker was rated more favorably in English, whereas the male guise received higher ratings in NP, reflecting gendered linguistic perceptions (Eckert & McConnell-Ginet, 2003). Education also influenced attitudes, …
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Restrained eaters' food-related thoughts in a suppression paradigm
… eaters were led to eat cookies under the guise of a study of taste preference. Subsequently, they were asked to suppress thoughts about the tasting while thinking aloud. Restrained relative to unrestrained eaters experienced more intrusions of cookie-related thoughts. Implications for …
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On the plurality of discourses
… debate, notably those of Michael Dummett (in one guise at least), Crispin Wright and Simon Blackburn. They believe that language is divided up into discourses corresponding to traditional areas of philosophical interest, like ethics, physics, aesthetics and mathematics. They think, moreover, that …
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Erasing the object : sculptural manoeuvres into the sublime
During the Spring of 1969, as if adopting the guise of the explorer/adventurer of yesteryear, the American artist Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973) and his artist-wifeNancy Holt (1938 - )2 travelled to the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (Roberts 2000: 552).Over a century earlier, in 1841, the American …
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A sociolinguistic investigation of Acehnese with a focus on West Acehnese: a stigmatised dialect.
… semi-structured interviews, and the matched guise test. The data from the questionnaire of the matched guise test was analysed statistically in order to determine the significance of the results. There are salient differences between North and West Aceh dialects regarding several key …
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