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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"pirate"”.
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Sailing in the Pirate Sea of Art
“Sailing in the Pirate Sea of Art” is a manual for the public to replicate and innovate artist Tzu Tung’s projects. Tzu Tung sees zer art as a creative common for public use and an open-source path for creators to innovate together. The manual includes the following: Writing the Time Lag (2016–), …
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The private market and the process of lower income urbanization in Colombia : the pirate housing submarket of Medellín (with related analysis of the pirate submarket of Bogotá.
Thesis. 1979. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Pocket Monsters And Pirate Treasure: Fantasy And Social Platforms In The 21st Century
POCKET MONSTERS AND PIRATE TREASURE: FANTASY AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY is an anthropology project examining media, fantasy, ideology, and social groups in order to build a better foundation for the ways in which economic and social changes influence social networking, popular media, …
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Taxonomic Revision of the Pirate Perches (Percopsiformes: Aphredoderidae) Reveals Three New Species and Elevates Two Subspecies
… ranges without any hypotheses for dispersal. Pirate Perches, Aphredoderus, are a widespread lowland freshwater fish native to the Eastern half of the United States. Aphredoderus was thought to contain a single species divided into an Eastern and Western subspecies on either side of the …
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Modified constraint-induced movement therapy for children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: The Pirate group intervention.
Contains fulltext : 89029.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Construction of interpersonal helping behaviours exhibited among pirate taxi drivers in the city of Lusaka: an embedded mixed methods design.
… helping behaviours that are exhibited among pirate taxi drivers. Amixed methods study emedded design guided thi study. One hundred and sixty nine pirate taxi drivers who were enlisted using cluster random sampling reponded to a survey questionnaire. A further 41 among them partcitated in the …
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Construction of interpersonal helping behaviours exhibited among pirate taxi drivers in the city of Lusaka: an embedded mixed methods design.
… helping behaviours that are exhibited among pirate taxi drivers. Amixed methods study emedded design guided thi study. One hundred and sixty nine pirate taxi drivers who were enlisted using cluster random sampling reponded to a survey questionnaire. A further 41 among them partcitated in the …
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Unbinding Piratical Themes: Treasure Island, The Unbinding of Mary Reade, and Piratical History
… themes and tropes as well as the classic pirate archetype, which has been emulated in fictional pirates ever since. Long John Silver, the basis for this archetype, has been analyzed by these critics for over a century for his exciting personality, his moral ambiguity, and his thirst for …
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Writing at the Edge of the Empire: The Poetics of Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World
My dissertation examines four pirate-authored texts from the early modern period, each of which centers on the development of piracy in the Atlantic world. Contrary to popular opinion, not all pirates were illiterate thugs. Many wrote about their experiences, and their narratives were immensely …
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Investigating Consumers' Software Piracy Using An Extended Theory Of Reasoned Action
… was useful in predicting students' intention to pirate software. Seven out of eight hypotheses were supported. Consistent with The Theory of Reasoned Action, attitudes toward software piracy and subjective norms were significant predictors of intention to pirate software. However, our findings …
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Investigating Exoplanets and Transients Using Small-Aperture Telescopes
This work characterises PIRATE’s primary camera, the SBIG STX-16803, as well as assessing the usefulness and impact of a small-aperture semi-autonomous facility in Mallorca for exoplanet studies and studies of transient sources. Additionally, a method for exploring the Roche lobe of an exoplanet …
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Queen Anne's revenge : a systems analysis of Blackbeard's flagship
… study was to examine the life history of the pirate flagship Queen Anne's Revenge using a functional systems approach to observe how the ship affected and was affected by the macrosystems operating around her and the microsystems operating within her. To this end, I examined the archaeological …
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Pirates on the poopdeck: a study of the international law of piracy
… can be considered an odd thing, since the term pirate was originally meant to apply to the subject of this thesis - the maritime criminal who plagues our oceans and threatens our ships. This confusion as to the meaning of the term, and its subsequent adoption by the software and music industries …
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Investigating Factors Influencing Game Piracy in the eSports Settings of South Korea
… results showed that males were more likely to pirate game materials over the Internet than were females. The more intention individuals had, the more they were likely to commit game piracy. Attitude towards game piracy and subjective norm played significant roles in the behavioral intention. …
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Pirates in the Age of Projects, 1688-1707
This dissertation retells the history of pirates in the anglophone world, 1688-1707. It argues that the appellation “pirate” became applied to some within global seafaring communities as part of a contest among people of middling means to define the purpose and organisation of overseas expansion. …
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The payment and insurance of ransom: an analysis of legality, morality and possible solutions in the case of ship hijackings by pirates
… gold. In recent years, however, a new type of pirate has emerged in one of the most lawless spots in the world. The pirates of Somalia increasingly threaten one of the busiest commercial shipping routes, thus forcing shipowners to pay higher insurance premiums or to reroute around the Cape. …
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Enemies of Mankind: the Developing Threat of Modern Maritime Piracy and Terrorism
… century came to a close, the number of maritime pirate attacks began to increase worldwide. These attacks ranged from simple thefts to the wholesale hijackings of large ocean-going vessels and the murder of their crews. While pirates have roamed the seven seas for countless centuries, modern …
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