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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"raison d'etre"”.
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South African urban solid waste legislation and its application : proposals towards reform
… and fulfils its functions in terms of its raison d'etre, and achieves its objectives; b) to formulate guiding principles for reform of the legislation. In order to achieve the overall objective, the following five specific objectives were undertaken: 1; To ascertain which existing and …
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Political globalisation and the process of the restructuring of the United Nations
… As such a process reaches wider dimensions, the raison d'etre of the United Nations and the practical applicability of its policies are questioned. States as well as people have been pressing for the adoption of sound policies and collective action. The pendulum has now gathered momentum. …
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Circuit-switched multicomputers and heuristic load placement
… must communicate to be effective. We assume the raison d'etre of ensemble systems is performance; the methods used to solve problems, and the implementation of those methods on an ensemble system depend on the communication and computational performance of the ensemble system.
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Urban Stitch
… to the identity of a city. Rivers are often the raison d'etre of cities, and their inhabitants have an intricate relationship with it. Such sites are often a target for impulsive and premature development. in the case of zahle, a city established on the banks of the berdawni river, the area has …
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The views of primary state school teachers on the national minimum curriculum
… of the National Minimum Curriculum and its raison d'etre. The study also proposes primarily to review the implementation of the NMC through the eyes of the teachers who are working with the NMC and the headteachers who are implementing it. The political perspective is also analysed in …
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From the streets to the villages: aboriginal movement in Taiwan; the transformation of ethnic identity from the 1980s to 1990s
… of movement mobilization. Moreover, if the raison d'etre of aboriginal movement is to rescue their tribes, then the proposition of and tribalism is eventually inevitable.
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Paisley Abbey and its remains
… the abbey. Since the OPUS DEI was the raison d'etre of the monastic life, I have discussed the architecture of the abbey church in chapter II, while the discussion of its cloistral and out-buildings follows in Chapter III. My conjectural reconstructions of different aspects of the …
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Conjecture on the Failure of Henry James as a Dramatist
… . A search for these conjectures is the raison d'etre of the following essay.
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Interest mediation and democratic transitions : NEDLAC and South Africa's experiment in Corporatism
… to public administration reform. Ultimately the raison d'etre of a political transition period is encapsulated in the attempt to create a utopian ideal state or political entity which corrects the perceived injustices and faults of the system it is attempting to replace or redesign. This …
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The Brummeria judgment: a comprehensive discourse on this case and its application to interest free loans granted to trusts
… in which circumstances this is applicable. The raison d'etre why the judgment was unexpected was due to the fact that taxing notional income is contrary to what was held by Feetham JA in the Butcher Brothers case3 where in the context of lease premiums, the consideration had to have an …
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"The ""Fabulae Hygini"" reappraised: A reconsideration of the content and compilation of the work"
… authors is scrutinised in order to discern its raison d'etre, the intention here is to treat ""Hyginus"" and his myth register in a like manner and see what new information, if any, comes to light. The investigation approaches the Fabulae from a different viewpoint and seeks to apply information …
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Peripheral timber applications for waste wood material in extreme climates and earthquake risk regions
… et al. 2016). After fulfilling their assumed raison d'etre, the cement-flaked shuttering boards and stubby scaffolding poles arrive amongst the discards, eventually deformed beyond utility. This thesis explores the possibilities of reusing wood that sits at the fringe of construction projects, …
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Academic capitalism and Jesuit higher education: a critical discourse analysis of mission statements
… Mission statements convey an organization's raison d'etre. As a discursive tool that reflects and contributes to the construction of JHEI identity and purpose, mission statements may provide insight into how these institutions communicate their purpose and identity to internal and external …
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Le Corbusier's Unite d'habitation: a slab for all seasons?
… judged to be an inadequate and over - exclusive raison d'etre.
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Building parallel to the Nile
… agricultural research centre which by its raison d'etre will maintain a distinction of what landscape is built and what remains free for new cultivation. The building will include work spaces, labs, sleeping and living facilities for both permanent and short term staff.
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Genealogies of the Postcolonial State: Insurgency, Emergency, and Democracy in Sri Lanka
… which has constituted the emancipatory raison d'etre of the postcolonial state. The visibility of this rationality has been obscured by liberal constitutionalism's ideological narrative of Sri Lankan constitutional history, and I recover and explore the anticolonial, nationalist contexts …
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Consumer credit and over-indebtedness: the parliamentary response: past, present and future
… ultimately regarded consumer protection as the raison d'etre for consumer credit regulation; as the centuries have progressed, it has been the borrower and the changing nature of his/her condition that has captured the legislature's imagination. The welfare of this individual has become of the …
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The Evolution of Prenatal Care in the United States : The Formative Years
… of maternal and infant mortality rates was the raison d'etre of prenatal care. Scattered studies on the effects of prenatal care on mortality rates did indicate a decrease in perinatal and maternal mortality rates with exposure to prenatal supervision. Though these studies became more …
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The community radio station operator in Malta
… take place. Aspects such as ownership, raison d'etre, coverage, staff, funding, and network affiliation will be addressed. An analysis of all these four elements will provide a profile of the community radio station operator in Malta.
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Hegemony, Habitus and Identity in Japanese University Men's Rowing
… is a home, family, foundation, social nexus and raison d'etre. Rowing is indeed a method par excellence for bodily discipline and spiritual development.
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