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Showing 1 to 20 of 1547 for “"opposition"”.
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Harmony and opposition
… but through the ordering of relations of opposition inherent in specific situations. These oppositions align with their built counterforms to produce a richly articulated structural framework. Yet, instead of grounding architectural decisions on an pposition of willful contradiction, this …
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Megaform : a frame of opposition
… a piece the urban fabric to define a space of opposition, civitas and ultimately, Metropolitan Urbanity. Through the design of enclosure types, overpass infrastructures and a novel public terrain, this project questions the potentialities for an architecture and urbanism of the electric vehicle.
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Die politische Opposition in autoritären Regimen
… untersucht die Rolle und Funktion politischer Opposition in autoritären Regimen. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass sich an der Opposition eine signifikante Charakteristik autoritärer Regime manifestiert. Das akteurszentrierte Projekt ist der qualitativ orientierten Politikwissenschaft zuzurechnen …
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Opposition Poetry in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
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Contemporary political opposition in Russia’s competitive authoritarian regime
… came to power in 2000, the Russian political opposition has faced increasing levels of oppression by the state. As elections have become less democratic and the governing practices of Putin have become more authoritarian, Russia has come to resemble a competitive authoritarian regime type. …
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Community opposition to affordable housing : jamming the system
This thesis explores community opposition to affordable housing in the suburban communities of Massachusetts. In the twenty years since Chapter 774 was enacted, a significant amount of affordable housing has been developed. However, there are still many communi ties with less than the required ten …
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Understand acceptance and opposition to geothermal energy in Iceland
… Energy projects, however, often face public opposition even if they are renewable, particularly from the communities in which they are being developed. This research investigates the successful development of geothermal energy in Iceland through a literature review of energy development in …
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Containing the opposition : selective representation in Jordan and Turkey
… representation. I focus on the experience of opposition parties in two cases, Jordan and Turkey, an autocracy and a democracy, to analyze the impact of engineered election mechanisms on their representation. I contend that parties in power exploit the rules of the electoral game to contain …
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Preparing for Power: Margaret Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition
… Margaret Thatcher’s years as Leader of the Opposition, by examining how this period helped to shape her as a credible leader and future Prime Minister. Specifically, this research analyses the idea of ‘soft power’, demonstrating that domestic and foreign politics are essentially the same …
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Voices in the Wind: American Opposition to the Korean War
<p>Very little has been written on the peace movement during the Korean war. Historian Joseph Conlin assessed the period and concluded that "when hostilities with North Korean troops commenced in 1950, the American antiwar movement stood at its nadir." Lawrence Wittner's fine book Rebels Against …
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Opposition and Barriers to Conservation Easements: Insights from Montana Landowners
… landowners view conservation easements, where opposition to easements arises from, and how these perspectives might inform efforts to conserve private lands. An additional goal of this project was to investigate how landowner views and interests relative to easements differ between different …
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Opposition and Barriers to Conservation Easements: Insights from Montana Landowners
… landowners view conservation easements, where opposition to easements arises from, and how these perspectives might inform efforts to conserve private lands. An additional goal of this project was to investigate how landowner views and interests relative to easements differ between different …
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Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70
… of his project of theorising a conservative opposition party for India. He cast ‘free economy’ as a negative vision of freedom from the ‘permit-and-licence raj,’ an oligarchic coalition of big business, bureaucrats, and the dominant Congress Party. Chapter Four by contrast reconstructs the …
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Novel opposition-based sampling methods for efficiently solving challenging optimization problems
In solving noise-free and noisy optimization problems, candidate initialization and sampling play a key role, but are not deeply investigated. It is of interest to know if the entire search space has the same quality for candidate-solutions during solving different type of optimization problems. In …
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