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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"organizing principle"”.
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Rights jurisprudence and the charter : evaluating the changing structure of Canadian federalism /
… in 1867. Between this date and 1982, the organizing principle of Confederation - federalism - has kept this jurisprudence solely within the supremacy of Parliament, subject to its confines and division of powers. After 1982, however, a new constitutional organizing principle was …
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A forma do privilégio: renda, acessibilidade e densidade em Natal-RN
… structure. It endeavors to identify a functional organizing principle regarding the intra-urban space of Natal capital city of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, the research focus. In order to achieve this, census data as well as syntactic data were utilized for mapping and spatial analysis of …
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Action-related organization of object representations in human visual cortex and topographic models
… are organized by multiple spatial and functional principles, including category-selective areas and large-scale topographic maps structured by properties such as animacy and real-world size. In parallel, recent work has proposed a functional dissociation within OTC, with a ventral pathway …
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Changes in the rhetoric of realism : Henry Kissinger on MFN trade renewal for China.
The concept of realism is a fundamental organizing principle of modern international relations theory. This thesis examines the ways in which realism functions rhetorically as a persuasive discourse. Specifically, this project examines the rhetoric of Henry Kissinger in regards to a speech he …
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Modular Compilers and Their Correctness Proofs
… in compiler proofs as well as a useful organizing principle for such proofs.
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Little Dorrit: A Study in Viewpoint
… of his consciousness is a key factor in the organizing principle governing plot structure; secondly, that as the various plots progress, and as Arthur becomes more or less personally involved, Dickens shifts the voice structure from subjective to objective methods of presentation, sometimes …
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Built open field : observations and projections
… exercise focusing on dimensional stability as an organizing principle.
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The mystic 'it' and the centre of culture : an ethnographic experience with a women's drumming circle
… ritual around a feminine energy spirit and the organizing principle of consensus; as well as an examination of individuality and the process of group formation.
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Wives, Witches, And Warriors: Women In Arabic Popular Epic
… from feminist theory, the study takes as its organizing principle the categories of “power-over,” “power-to,” and “power-with,” showing that how a woman is judged for expressing power depends upon how her actions fit into one of these three categories. Moreover, each expression of power tends …
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A Rudimentary Framework Of The Emergence Of Naturally-Occurring Mentorships
… coding. Critical realism was used as an organizing principle during the selective coding process. Three core categories emerged from the data–factors of readiness, approaches of engagement, and states of alignment. These constructs in conjunction with influences of group-level and …
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"Of things related": network assemblages in the longform poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Melvin Tolson, Langston Hughes and Louis Zukofsky
… regard its outcome – organization without organizing principle – as a necessary feature of a prosocial and democratic society.
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Cooperative Construction in Schools in California
… elements. Taken together they represent a new organizing principle for the construction industry, cooperative construction.</p> <p>Also concurrently, a previously little-used provision of the California Education Code allows schools freedom to contract for school construction in nearly any …
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Logical Data Structures for Spatial Analysis
… structure uses topological information as its organizing principle, and also provides for the organization and analysis of thematic and locational data collected at different levels of spatial aggregation. The structure is implemented for a test region in Eastern Iowa using software written for …
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Whiteness and the Movement of Signification: Toward a Deconstruction of Ontologies of Absolute Difference
… difference) reinscribing the logic of race as an organizing principle of social and political life. This thesis uses deconstructive theory to suggest that whiteness needs to be understood as a discursive formation operating within a movement of signification. Deconstruction allows for an …
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"I Don't Want to Hurt Anyone's Feelings": Using Race as a Writing Prompt in First Year Writing
… college level. One of the most common methods of organizing FYC is to use a topic as the center of all the reading and writing prompts. The use of outside subject matter to teach FYC is a common practice that is rarely interrogated for its effectiveness. However, the Hairston debate in the early …
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Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau
… literary device identified by Shklovsky, as an organizing principle, I investigate the cultural shift towards an underlying crude, elemental, and ultimately `savage' aesthetic that is treated in the work of the three authors I examine, and which sanctions a shift towards de-acculturation, …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
… that values its social currencies without that organizing principle of virtue to give them stability. Each novel has some relationship with the codes of etiquette of its day, and contains many of the same currencies, though valued at dramatically different rates in each context. Female …
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Expanding vision : Exploring value in youth-led restorative practice
… and changemakers. The model serves as an organizing principle for the data that were collected during virtual class sessions as well as from the virtual circle with members of the school community because it is illustrative of what was found. A community of practice is more likely to …
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"Teamsters are Beautiful" in the Twenty-first Century: The 'Sisterly' Organizing Rhetoric of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
… seeks a generic understanding of Teamsters organizing rhetoric through analysis of the unique rhetorical situation at hand: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) organizing female members by using rhetoric that invites women to identify themselves as Teamsters. This approach …
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In Ordinary Trauma: Notes on Time
… the ideas they introduced, and time became the organizing principle around which discussions of rupture, fragmentation, intergenerational, historical, personal and societal trauma could be framed.</p> <p>In Ordinary Trauma: Notes on Time uses various expressions of the temporal: the ancient …
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