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Whose Meanings: Constructing Environmental Justice
This study interprets language use and meaning with regard to race in a state regulatory process before the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB). The document researched is the legal transcript of the EIB Hearing in 2006. The hearing was held to revise the New Mexico Solid Waste …
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Motives and Meanings in Psychedelic Use
This thesis examines two underexplored determinants of psychological outcomes in ketamine treatment and naturalistic psychedelic use: acute subjective experience and user motivation. Study 1 synthesised qualitative evidence on the acute experience of ketamine treatment for mental health problems. A …
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Word meanings in the first grade
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Understanding heritage: multiple meanings and values.
… the non-expert view of heritage and the multiple meanings and values that heritage represents within this context. The rationale for this research is based on the increasingly important role heritage plays within the wider visitor economy and the recognised interrelationships between heritage and …
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Kristevan theory: meanings, contexts, feminist "uses"
In the first two sections of this thesis, I interpret aspects of Kristeva's theories and contextualise her thought by means of original insights and some secondary materiaI also include a series of twenty-one art-works as a fictocritical gesture within the text. It becomes clear that there are …
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Exploring Storybook Illustrations in Learning Word Meanings
… storybook illustrations in learning word meanings among English learners in a university intensive language program. The impact of children’s literature on the comprehension and vocabulary development of second language children is well-documented. However, the use of the literature with …
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Alcohol and social work: Context and meanings
… using semi-structured interviews to capture the meanings social workers attribute to their experiences of alcohol use. The survey found that the overall alcohol consumption of Saskatchewan social workers may be lower than that of the general Canadian population. The survey also found find higher …
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Making, remembering, remaking : personal meanings in symbolization
My silent voice spirals out of me with your stories I remember they have fused, intertwined and woven themselves into my story My primary goal in the following research is to examine my own sense of ethnic identity, and in the process better understand my own cultural experience through the process …
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Unpacking Child -Centeredness: A History of Meanings
… until the 1930s. I explore how underlying meanings of the term child-centeredness have changed---which were lost and which survived---by tracing the educational and philosophical currents of each historical context. The term balances on many layers of complex and sometimes contradictory …
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Adult numeracy, mathematical education and social meanings
In sum, the theoretical framework proposed here for adult numeracy, and developed from a discourse of mathematics education, has as its task the elaboration of the social implications of principles in adult education and the pedagogic outcomes of three sets of numeracy materials.
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Japanese syntactic structures and their constructional meanings
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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Moving Targets: Meanings of Mobility in Metropolitan Nairobi
<p>This dissertation is an ethnographic and historical study of the urban transportation system in Nairobi, Kenya and the large youth workforce who operate it. Currently, the informal mini-bus taxi system made up of vehicles called matatus, carries nearly 80% of the urban population in Nairobi on a …
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Exploring the meanings of porn use as leisure
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Men's body-related practices and meanings of masculinity
… appearance related practices in relation to meanings of masculinity. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with fifteen men between the ages of 18 and 38. Using that method of discursive analysis developed specifically for the investigation of masculinities by Wetherell & Edley …
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Acquisition of adjective meanings : a lexical semantic approach
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1992.
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Meanings and Markets: Reading Food Commodities in Postwar America
Meanings and Markets investigates the literary construction of food commodities in the United States after World War II. Because of the war effort's ramping up of industry and technology, the exchange of new and rationalized food commodities traded in the marketplace becomes the dominant mode of …
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Depression across the generations : intergenerational stories, meanings and resilience
This qualitative study explored the meanings and stories held by families with multiple generations of depression. Two families with three different generations in each were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. The chosen method of data analysis was interpretative phenomenological …
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