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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"middle ground"”.
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Hybrid sketching : a new middle ground between 2- and 3-D
This thesis investigates the geometric representation of ideas during the early stages of design. When a designer's ideas are still in gestation, the exploration of form is more important than its precise specification. Digital modelers facilitate such exploration, but only for forms built with …
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Form in the [middle]-ground : urban/suburban sprawl in Georgia & Tennessee
… the landscape and resources. I proposed the middle-ground, a term I use to suggest a place found between the rural and suburban/urban boundaries as a new landscape for development. Using U.S. Census data, GIS information, site visit and interviews I assess the impact of growth and sprawl in …
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"Conserving" The Middle Ground: Tennessee's Unionist Press in the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861
… that spoke to the concerns of the white, middle-and lower-class readers who likely comprised their base of subscribers.</p>
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Facilitating Corporate Social Responsibility through Company Law: A Middle-Ground Proposition for Kuwait.
… company law and which builds the foundation of a middle ground approach. This is further supported by middle ground components of contextualism, constructivism, legal transplants and institutional theory.
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Professional practice and the middle ground : an understanding of order in participatory housing interventions
… an approach is the second issue. This is the middle ground, where decisions are ordered by the participation of those involved. Change is assembled piecemeal, as participants meet, discuss and make informed decisions. Order and context are developed in the argument that follows. Housing is …
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Figuring the Middle Ground: A Search for Authorship in Perceiving China's COVID-19 Lockdowns
… of my positionality, I find myself in an obscure middle ground where my voice is filtered as inauthentic and unheeded. I ask myself: What should I do? What can I do? This project is an effort to give myself a voice in the process of figuring out the “middle ground”—a gradient of unsettled …
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No Triassic structural control of the development of the Middle Ground Arch, Eastern Gulf of Mexico
… the southern boundary of a basement high, the Middle Ground Arch/Southern Platform, to determine if there is a fault present. The seismic data show an ENE-WSW (055, 45°NW) trending normal fault; however, the downthrown block is on the NW side.Offset stratigraphic units show that the fault was …
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A tenuous middle ground : conflicting rationalities and the lived negotiation of low income housing in Cape Town
This thesis explores debates surrounding the social production and interaction of divergent housing rationalities through qualitative research in a low income housing development called Stock Road and in the offices of the para-statal company that developed and administered the area, the Cape Town …
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The Rise and Fall of the Minnesota Middle Ground: Henry Hastings Sibley and the Ethnic Cleansing of Minnesota
… of what historian Richard White called a “Middle Ground,” a racially mixed and symbiotic society. Later in his life, however, he assisted in negotiating treaties that transformed that frontier society into a racially divided and oppressive one. The result was the outbreak of hostilities …
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Enabling sustainable river futures: Exploring institutional interventions
… are key to enabling this transition. ‘Middle ground’ frameworks are considered to promote and enable sustainable river management, as they integrate ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ frameworks. This thesis seeks to provide a nuanced understanding of the precise structure, mechanisms and …
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The Core Relation Between Hospitality (Philoxenia), Dignity and Vulnerability in Orthodox Christian Bioethics: A Contribution to Global Bioethics
… differences. This dissertation argues that a middle ground can be identified between the plurality of value systems in contemporary bioethics based on an anthropological approach. This middle ground that reflects commonalities of the human condition can be explored in relation to the …
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Searching for a middleground in children’s rights: the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Ghana
… does not help us to protect children on the ground. Hence, it is necessary to move beyond the binary debate relating to the universality and relativity of children’s rights and engage with children’s local realities, which illustrate that there is, indeed, a middle ground in which people live …
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Public high school principals' expectations for clergy in fostering working relationships between schools and churches
… principals educate clergy on a dual concept: middle ground can be found relative to clergy presence on campus; clergy must function within the parameters of this negotiated middle ground. Certain research applications for Christian leaders are suggested. First, prioritize and practice open …
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The genesis and development of the Groote Schuur neurocognitive screening battery : a neurocognitive screening tool for the South African context
… The design of this battery constitutes a "middle ground" between the hypothetico-deductive and psychometric approaches to neurocognitive assessment. However, the Prototype had a number of limitations: it was not available in languages other than English, it contained many culturally biased …
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Believing Anew: Gianni Vattimo and A Form of Faith in Contemporary Culture
… allegiance to any religion.Thereis, of course,a middle-ground between thetwo religious sensibilities, which will be the focus of this dissertation. Thismiddle-ground constitutes the reality, and the difficulty,ofdeveloping a religious life in contemporary culture. Itmight be best understood in …
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Solving planning problems with deep reinforcement learning and tree search
… reinforcement learning method that bridges the middle ground between these two approaches. When evaluated on the complex domain of Sokoban, the model-based method was found to be more performant, stable and sample-efficient than a model-free baseline.
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Investigating musical copyright infringement: Examining International Understandings of Musical Copyright Infringement for Potential Adaptation into South African Copyright Law
… The findings are used to create a robust middle-ground approach to be adapted into the South African copyright infringement framework. Further considerations that impact infringement outcomes are addressed to the extent that they are contextually relevant. These include a discussion of …
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Toward a theory of organizational elements
… keystroke and communique. In order to provide a middle ground between superficial Organizational Charts and elaborate workflow models, this thesis develops a simple and broadly applicable method of modeling organizations. In particular, ideas from computer program structuring are transplanted …
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