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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"powerless"”.
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InsulPatch: A Slim, Powerless Microfluidic Patch-Pump for Insulin Delivery
… and battery-powered pumps because it is slim, powerless, painless, and relatively inexpensive. The majority of this thesis focuses on the fabrication and testing of microfluidic devices for the delivery of insulin, which is a model drug that is widely used and needs to be delivered …
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Monstrous Children, Powerless Parents and the Unnarratable Body in Gothic and Horror
Monsters are not uncommon in Gothic and horror fiction. However, while the traditional vampire may be easy to recognize and categorize, others defy description. To make sense of the ineffable, a framework is created that focuses on the grotesque, the abject and the abhuman and how they relate to …
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Powerless responsibility: women’s experiences of caring for their late preterm baby/babies.
… and they are required to mother with ‘powerless responsibility’. Institutional and professional barriers to mothering/caring are numerous. The study recommends organisations and healthcare professionals listen to women, hear their stories and use their experiences of mothering/caring to …
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Leadership as Rhetorical Action: The Power of the Powerless in Search of Its "People"
… and applied to Havel's text The Power of the Powerless. Havel's text reveals his implicit theory of rhetoric that enhances McGee's original theoretic contribution. The thesis concludes that leadership is an interaction imbedded in rhetoric, and argues that a rhetorical theory of leadership …
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The powerless position : the commanding general of the Army of the United States, 1864-1903
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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The powerless position : the commanding general of the Army of the United States, 1864-1903
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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AZ ERŐTLEN KOMMUNIKÁCIÓ EREJE – THE POWER OF POWERLESS COMMUNICATION. A szelíd retorika, mint meggyőző kommunikációs stratégia megalapozása és sikertényezőinek feltérképezése a CSR-típusú és társadalmi célú reklámokban
… céljaiban pedig együttműködésre törekvő, s a powerless powerful communication („erőtlen erőteljes” kommunikáció) irányelvét fogalmazza meg. Az értekezés abból a probléma-felvetéséből indul ki, hogy a szelíd retorika és a nem meggyőzésre törekvő meggyőzés módszere sikeresebb meggyőzési …
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The effects of grammatical structure and feelings of power on risk behavior prevention
… participants were primed to feel powerful or powerless via a writing task and then matched by assigned power condition to act as the provider (powerful) or recipient (powerless) of help regarding binge drinking. Study 1 established that powerful subjects express stronger intentions to engage …
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Cultural enrichment: connecting african american elementary children to academic achievement
… the right to vote subjects this population to a powerless status. They exist in society, but are politically powerless to influence their lives or the lives of their families. Consequently, the future of America's economic, political and social fabric is weakened as the number of well educated, …
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The Effect of Power on Empathy for Pain
… assigned to the role of a powerful manager or powerless subordinate prior to completing the same empathy task used in studies 1 and 2. Across behavioural studies 3 and 4, I report results on differences in empathic responses between powerful and powerless participants. Building upon results …
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Journey from the Rainbow Bridge Separated Christian Socialities in an Indigenous Truku Village of Taiwan
… face challenges stemming from their relatively powerless social circumstances. As they have sought ways to cope with the impacts of their colonised status, the Truku people have converted to Christianity: Presbyterianism, then Pentecostalism. These conversions have led the Truku to develop …
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Journey from the Rainbow Bridge Separated Christian Socialities in an Indigenous Truku Village of Taiwan
… face challenges stemming from their relatively powerless social circumstances. As they have sought ways to cope with the impacts of their colonised status, the Truku people have converted to Christianity: Presbyterianism, then Pentecostalism. These conversions have led the Truku to develop …
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RFIDSim : a discrete event simulator for Radio Frequency Identification systems
… discovery and identification process of passive powerless RFID tags--a category of low cost tags that harvest all of their energy from the radio frequency signals sent by the reader. RFIDSim currently supports the Auto-ID Class 0 and Class 1 UHF RFID protocols, and is designed to be an extensible …
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Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives
… of resistance can help us to understand how the powerless mediate power relations, and they can actually give hope to the powerless. This study looked at the issues of power and resistance through critical and feminist perspective. A central concept of feminist theory is that women, and thus …
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Violência doméstica contra a mulher: caracterização e atitude da equipe de saúde da família frente a este problema
… serious and important in society, yet some feel powerless to assist the women in this situation. It proved necessary to make manifest the problem of domestic violence against women within the health services so that the situation can be understood in all its complexity as a problem that is social …
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Breakdown in the broker state: The Cio in southern Nevada during World War Ii
… Commission and the National War Labor Board powerless, thus revealing the weakness of the national broker state when confronted with determined local resistance.
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Exposing the pain and celebrating the triumphs of the black female spirit: an analysis of Alice Walker's In Love and Trouble
… nourishment has been given to those labeled powerless and unimportant, whereas our society has encouraged white males to embrace their race and gender as symbols of authority. Unfortunately, their maleness has meant a history of oppression for minority men and women. I believe the internal …
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A case study of high school students affected by school closure
… sense of belonging, fear of the unknown, being powerless, and student voice. Through the completion of the study, the researcher was able to contribute to the understanding of the experience of displaced high school students as they transitioned to their new school. This study contributed to the …
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ʼn Psigoanalitiese lees van die ouer-kind-verhouding in die romans Kinnes van chase rhys en hy kom met die skoenlappers deur valda jansen.
… and how environment can make an individual feel powerless. These books shed light on how relationships, especially violent relationships, may affect a child’s identity. Kinnes and Hy kom met die skoenlappers addresses uncomfortable silences within the coloured or brown community. This includes …
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