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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"inter-disciplinary"”.
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CAD-GIS Interoperability Issues for Facilities Management: Enabling Inter-Disciplinary Workflows
… building. Observed user experience and user interview responses were incorporated in recommendations for the ultimate campus GIS database, which will eventually include all University buildings and infrastructure.</p> <p>Using the University of South Carolina as a case study provided benefits …
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Special Species of Space: making room for Geography within Education an Inter-disciplinary conceptual Exploration.
… position by attempting to imagine further what a disciplinary fusion of geography and education might look like, how it might be conceived form an Irish sensibility. It asks what education geographies might emerge from this deliberate investigation, an exploration undertaken as an educationalist …
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A portrait of the Arts Centre in rural Ireland: an inter-disciplinary mix-methods approach
… arts to engage people and prompt discourse and interactional exchange on difficult personal issues. The engagement with, and responses to the shows were used as an entry point to reflect on the wider role of the Arts Centre in the community. The data gathered included: (a) observation and …
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dreamtime uncapitalised, -joining our own dots .
… employed in making art as a means of encouraging inter-disciplinary learning. Drawing on key processes in art‐making, this project recorded the development of phenomenological thoughts and concepts that arose during the creation of a variety of cognitive spaces, chiefly the making of artworks. It …
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Solar House
… House is an investigation that resulted from an inter-disciplinary, design built competition ( the Solar Decathlon). This event was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy in an atempt to integrate architecture, technology, and dwelling. The investigation focused on making a house using matter …
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TQM : fad or fixture? Implementing total quality management in health care setting through the development and use of customer-supplier models
… to test whether it can provide the framework for inter-disciplinary quality improvement. In essence this thesis examines whether it is possible to implement a quality assurance system in a large London teaching hospital based on the TQM philosophy, and whether the development of customer-supplier …
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Contradictions in the Arab media: The case of Arabsat
… undertaken as the basis of a Ph. D. thesis in an inter-disciplinary department, the research is informed by a strong inter-disciplinary perspective, but with a clear political economy emphasis. The study seeks to examine whether there is a clear media policy in the Arab world, either at a national …
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Riparian Restoration, Success Criteria, and Application to the BART Sabrecat Creek Riparian Restoration Project in Fremont, California
<p>Riparian restoration is a complex, inter-disciplinary field that is open to interpretation by its practitioners. This research reviews some of the critical elements of riparian restoration, including the watershed, surrounding land use, adjacent habitat, and riparian buffers; special-status …
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Whitewashing or amnesia: a study of the construction of race in two Midwestern counties
This inter-disciplinary dissertation utilizes sociological and historical research methods for a critical comparative analysis of the material culture as reproduced through murals and monuments located in two counties in Missouri, Bates County and Cass County. Employing Critical Race Theory as the …
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Connecting silos with distributed and private computation
… covers methods introduced for the same in an inter-disciplinary manner to tackle several such problems using distributed and private computation.
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An assessment of recent ethical discourses on globalization: comparing the critique of Joseph Stiglitz on global capital with ecumenical globalization debates on the Accra declaration
… Schweiker and Sacks. The important goal of this inter-disciplinary exercise is to bring about a balance between the discrepancy of the proclaimed benefits and the extreme negative effects which globalization has for millions of people worldwide, as expressed by Stiglitz and confirmed by various …
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Provenance in personal documentary: My Mother's Village
… of women, colonialism, religion, ritual, and inter-generational change. My Mother's Village explores how both the filmmaker and participants are navigating heredity and inheritance. Supplementing the film, the exegesis component, Provenance in Personal Documentary interrogates the conceptual …
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Cybernetic thinking and share-price prediction
… prediction. Cybernetics is seen as an inter-disciplinary study (as opposed to multi-disciplinary) in which the barriers between living and non-living systems are ignored. Suggestions from two independant studies in investment analysis are taken tip and a theory of investment is proposed …
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Constitución y guerra: Una revisión del sistema de derechos fundamentales de Colombia durante el siglo XX
… great stability. In this study we reconstruct inter-disciplinary Constitutional History of Colombia to incorporate into it the armed confrontations. Through an anthropological and historiographical understanding of the culture war and constitutional cover both periods of violence as the …
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Writing in the borderlands: A critical review of literary journalism and historiography, 1989-2011
… and their writing; the centrality of an inter-disciplinary approach to narrative writing in both fields and how the professional authority faces significant challenges of identity and methodology in the digital age.
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Circular Progress: Health and Healthcare within Albertan Indian Residential Schools, 1920 - 1950
… on a single province – Alberta – and utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach to understand how the interaction between the biological and the psychosocial conditions of the schools contributed to both immediate and chronic health problems for Aboriginal students. Through an examination of …
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Intersections : an addition to the School of Architecture, the Institute, and the City
… - sometimes more, sometimes less explicitly - an interpretation of man and the world." -Paulo Freire .The assumption made is that formal decisions are not · neutral nor value-free. Form decisions embody interest and a theoretical/philosophical stance. Form does matter. The making of architecture …
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"She's an All-in-One Guru": Devotion to a 21st century Mystic
… of meditation and "spirituality" situated at the intersection of Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi and Sikh mystical traditions. This dissertation, employing inter-disciplinary methodology, provides an in-depth study of Gurumaa and her rapidly developing, disciple-driven transnational spiritual movement. I …
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Modelling the Perinatal Network System
… We wish to predict when this will occur. An inter-disciplinary approach to this problem is taken incorporating a Management Science / Operational Research perspective. The subject is the Perinatal Network System, which is described, analysed and modelled. An illustrative Case Study is taken …
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Psychosocial discourse and the "new" reproductive technologies : a critical analysis
… economic contexts of these practices. Within an inter-disciplinary, social-constructionist framework, this study presents a feminist critique of the NRTs in which they are argued to be biopsychosocially noxious to women. Modern biomedicine's appropriation and ownership of infertility as "disease" …
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