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Showing 1 to 20 of 209 for “"paradoxes"”.
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The nature, value and paradoxes of pleasure
This thesis addresses some of the most important objections to Prudential Hedonism. Prudential Hedonism is a theory of wellbeing⎯the good life for the one living it. Substantively, Prudential Hedonism consists in the claim that pleasure is the only intrinsic prudential good for the subject’s life …
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Paradoxes and Potential of Tourism Development in Nicaragua
<p>This dissertation research evaluates the successes and challenges of tourism integration and expansion as both a broad human development strategy and a catalyst for local populations to achieve greater economic and social opportunities. The country of Nicaragua serves as the primary case study …
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Paradoxes and the foundations of semantics and metaphysics
… world). All such problems can justly be called paradoxes. The paradoxes I examine are the liar paradox, the sorites paradox, and the personal identity paradox posed by the fission problem. I argue that, in all of the cases examined, the claims that jointly lead to absurdity really are …
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Living Within Hyphenated Paradoxes - The Canadian Adolescent Refugee Experience
In 2018, the Canadian government admitted 46,500 refugees. This followed a remarkable record resettlement of Syrian refugees in Canada from 201517, with just under half aged 17 or younger. This dissertation addresses how adolescent refugees negotiate the issues and aftermath of living in civil …
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Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes
Over the past decade clinical psychologists have increasingly begun to work in general hospital settings, but little published research has dealt in depth with the adjustments and negotiations that need to occur at the interface of clinical psychology and medicine. In this dissertation, the …
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Composing Paradoxes Feminist Process in Sound Arts and Experimental Musics
This thesis addresses the question of how socio-political differences and lived experiences of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity may be perceived to manifest in the making of sound arts and experimental musics with a specific focus upon works made by women. Drawing upon compositions, …
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Developing a design methodology to represent paradoxes in gameplay systems
… framework for developers aiming to utilize paradoxes as part of their game design. Research has shown that games do not follow the laws of paradoxes while integrating paradoxes as part of their design. As such, these games misinterpret paradoxes with two different concepts: Contradiction and …
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The Massachusetts lead poisoning prevention law : the environmental equity paradoxes
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Paranthropus paradoxes: Patterns of morphological variation in East African 'robust australopithecines'
The genus Paranthropus represents an iconic taxon in the hominin fossil record. Its early discovery, together with its morphological distinctiveness, have defined this genus as a unique hominin lineage parallel to our own. Paranthropus boisei, who lived in East Africa between 2.3 and 1.4 million …
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STATUS AND THE PSYCHE: HOW MENTAL HEALTH PARADOXES CHALLENGE THEORIES OF INEQUALITY
… sociodemographic patterns they call health paradoxes or epidemiological paradoxes. Like all paradoxes, such findings compel scholars to reconsider their assumptions about the social world—findings are only “paradoxical” when viewed from a certain perspective. This dissertation centers on …
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Queer Checkpoints: Sexuality, Survival, and the Paradoxes of Sovereignty in Israel-Palestine
… nationalism, queer Palestinians embody a set of paradoxes that exposes the constructedness of the nation and its categories of belonging. But in the corporeal spaces of everyday life, they navigate a geographical and discursive terrain structured by the very real practices of the Israeli state, …
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Paradoxes of hybrid organizing in the Cambridge Energy Alliance by Jason Jesurum Jay.
… internal and external stakeholders navigate two paradoxes characteristic of hybrid organizing. The first is the paradox of hybrid legitimacy: hybridity expands success to a broader range of exchange relationships, but undermines exchange partners' willingness to commit resources to an …
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The Paradoxes of Peruvian Infrastructure: NGO Governance, Rural Energy Transitions, and Public-Private Partnerships
What are the policies and procedures that have led to successful NGO delivery of solar energy in Peru, from both the perspective of the institution, as well as the rural campesinos it serves? And how can the Peruvian government replicate this solar energy program’s success at national scale through …
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The production of marginality. Paradoxes of urban planning and housing policies in Cali, Colombia
Despite massive investments and the deployment of a wide gamut of policies during the last 70 years, urban marginality persists in most Latin American cities. Although this condition has been strongly associated with informal settlements, the premise underpinning this research is that marginality …
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A cross-cultural study of the paradoxes of mobile technology in the mobile technology industry
… is to explore the theory of mobile technology paradoxes in a cross-cultural context, by examining relationships between cultural dimensions, perceived mobile technology paradoxes, the enacted coping strategies and consumer loyalty. A two-stage study is designed. Focus groups are used to explore …
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A group of satirical sculptures examining social and political paradoxes in the South African context
… of satirical sculptures thematically embracing paradoxes within the broad South African context. My intention was to work within the tradition of social and political satire. Strict definitions of satire were to be expanded to include both comedy and tragedy. By satirising particular …
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