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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"meeting point"”.
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The meeting point : rethinking public space in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Can urban intervention affect social behaviors within a city? And if so, what happens when that city is partial to cultural restrictions? The target in question here is the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The dilemma is that the city has no true form of public space; despite having spaces designated …
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A Meeting of Land and Water
… Can a building respond to a threshold, or meeting point between two distinct geographical conditions? In particular, the duality of land and water and the moment when these two elements meet, could indicate and influence form and structure. What is a potential response to such a condition …
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Representation of Southern African National Liberation Movements at the United Nations, 1962-1975
… one of the hot topics and the one which offers a meeting point for the fields of politics, law, and international relations. This meeting point emerged in 1962 when the UN GA decided to implement or apply the 1960 Declaration on Decolonisation/Impendence. By 1975, a precedent and a major change …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… of medieval Europe. The Iberian Peninsula, the meeting point of France and Spain (the Pyrenees), harbored an exchange of culture in the twelfth century; this thesis will explore the themes of forbidden love found in Arabian love poetry and their influence on the writing of the troubadour poets.
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Inscrutable Islands: Narrative Difficulty and the Rhetoric of Creolization in Twentieth-Century Caribbean Novels
… classes of people. This perception occurs at the meeting point of social differences, and the theorists employ a rhetoric of metaphor and figurative language to describe it as obscured or otherwise inhibited. Ultimately, this mode of perception is homologous with the interaction between a …
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The Incorporated Hornist: Instruments, Embodiment, and the Performance of Music
… from the bell, but at the very least at the meeting point of the player’s breath, the surfaces of the body, and the tube of the instrument. This project of instrumental incorporation understands music as a place where bodies technological and corporeal, real and conjectural meet. Using …
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National parking
… find a "perennial rebirth" on the frontier, "the meeting point between savagery and civilization." However, the close of the frontier produced an epochal shift in the American psyche. The National Park System was born, "setting aside by-passed land to remain wilderness in perpetuity, simulating …
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Practice of Traditional Bonesetters (TBS) and People’s Decisions to Seek Treatment for Fractures from TBS Among the Frafras of Northern Ghana
… be formally combined. This research can be the meeting point for possible biomedical training for TBS and vice versa and facilitate the integration of traditional bone-setting with biomedicine in the trajectory of the health care system.
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Learning in Architecture
… in scale and structure, come together at one point. The architecture of that point is a transitional condition. Each element has integrity on its own, and at the same time is a part of the system. The primary requirement for the architecture of this place is to be elegant and thoughtful. This …
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Analysis on the Role of Seaport in facilitating growth of trade in Tanzania. “Case Study of Dar es Salaam Port
The port is a compulsory meeting point between ships and goods; Port plays an essential part in the maritime trade of country. Despite the great important played by Seaports in Tanzania to facilitate growth trade, but still there is low rate of growth of trade due to inadequate roles employed of …
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Beyond the Aesthetic Machine: Disney's Multiplane Camera and the Role of Special Effects Technologies in the Animation Industry
… the fragility of special effects labor as a meeting point of aesthetics, technology, and industry. It shows the negotiations required to sustain special effects technologies in practice and how once special effects become ordinary and then obsolete.
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Ysbrydoliaeth - R.S. Thomas - Inspiration, an Exhibition of Poems by R.S. Thomas, with Paintings by Nineteen Welsh Artists, interviews with seven of the artists and an interview with R.S. Thomas himself
… exhibition 'environment' itself as an artificial meeting-point in general, and the traditions which make this coincidence possible. Although the subject of the work is the marginalisation of a culture, this culturally specific 'manufactured space' can act as a 'hypertext' for universal models of …
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eBhish' - articulations of Black Oceanic presence eThekwini
… (the ocean) and engage with the beach as a meeting point of Black people in summer holidays, and as an articulation of an unnameable space (a metaphysical realm) beyond the constraints of capitalist leisure which is crucial for spiritual survival. Through my work, I'm contributing to a …
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"Life is good. Life is what you make it" The significance of a third place: an ethnography of Masters swimming.
… explored in the research which included: the meeting point or “Third place”, active lifestyles, ageing, serious leisure and exercising to excess. The key message emerging from the data highlighted the complexities of a relatively small locale. The findings concluded that older swimmers …
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FROM DG-CATEGORIES OVER K TO K-LINEAR STABLE INFINITY-CATEGORIES
… com- plete ∞-categories”. This result is a meeting point between algebraic topology and algebraic geometry. In 2013 L. Cohn proved it in a preprint, and in 2016, he updated the preprint to its latest version. Since then the ∞-category theory and the spectral algebraic geometry theory have …
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The lifecycle of a social media beauty trend: a case study of the Instagram body. [Thesis]
… breeding ground for beauty trends and a cultural meeting point for interactions with these trends, which drive billions of dollars in consumer spending. This is exemplified by the Instagram body, a body type characterised by a small waist, thick thighs, and large buttocks. Despite the popularity …
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Velodrome
… an urban setting park on the Charles River edge(meeting point of the Atlantic Ocean) without destroying the life of the town, its physical presence should accompany it. The urban question posed by the velodrome facility project involves presence and absence. The Velodrome's juxtaposition with the …
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Music journalists, music press officers and the consumer music press in the UK
… and how music journalists deal with their main point of informational contact, the press officer. Drawing on original interview and participant observation research, the thesis considers: the economic and bureaucratic forces within magazine publishing organisations; how titles are positioned …
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Ordinamento giudiziario amministrativo e garanzie statiche della giurisdizione
… of the due process clause. The starting point of this analysis is the fact that administrative justice historically stands at the stormy meeting point between the executive power and the judiciary and in Italy, as it is and as it was in other countries, administrative justice was born …
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Utopian fantasies of the perfected imperial prospect and fractured images of unresolved ambivalence and unsuppressed resistance : the Groote Schuur landscape considered as an imperial dream topography of Cecil John Rhodes, 1890-1929
… space in Africa; Groote Schuur would be a meeting point where Africa and Europe would fuse in the same frame, where the wildness of Africa and the empire would energise the classicism of European civilisation. The idea of Britain in Africa perhaps found its most expressive form in the …
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