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Farm-animal-assisted interventions: a systematic scoping review, realist synthesis, and realist evaluation
… FAAIs improve human health, and for whom; a realist synthesis was conducted. A realist evaluation explored in which circumstances FAAIS are adopted by the NHS in Northern Ireland.<br/><br/>Results: <br/>Thirty-six publications were identified via the scoping review. Positive results …
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Alliance disintegration in a realist? world
This thesis extends the existing research on alliance disintegration by more fully specifying the values which motivate states' foreign policy behaviors. Previous research held that security is the foremost good which states pursue. An implication of this assumption is that states forge alliance …
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Harold Frederic as a pioneer realist
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
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Lawrence and the Edwardian realist theatre
'The plays are very interesting, but again, formless,' was Violet Hunt's criticism of Lawrence's plays in 1912. This sort of comment is fairly predictable when the formal structure of drama in England, whether from the pen of Ibsen or Pinero, was expected to conform to the tenets of the well-made …
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A Realist Exploration of Social Prescribing Evaluation
… for social prescribing. Project 2 comprises a Realist Review exploring how and why social prescribing evaluations work. Project 3 comprises a Group Concept Mapping consensus study to develop a framework of good practice for social prescribing evaluation. Each project is supported by a selection …
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Landscapes Of Memory In German Realist Writing
… practices in selected prose works by German realist authors Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Fontane, and Wilhelm Raabe. I argue that landscape reflects a contemporary perception of loss initiated by rapid modernization processes and a transformation of social life. Landscape in the literature of …
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A critical realist perspective on lesson study
… lesson study, and to theory, through a critical realist approach to professional learning. The literature and my personal experiences are used to highlight various issues with lesson study implementation indicating it might not be sustainable within the English secondary school context. Through …
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Negotiating Gossip in the Spanish Realist Novel
… device and narrative dynamic in four canonical realist novels of the Spanish Restoration of the 1880s by Emilia Pardo Bazán (Chapter 1), Benito Pérez Galdós (Chapter 2) and Leopoldo Alas (‘Clarín’) (Chapter 3). An Introduction presents a theoretical analysis and framework of chisme, beginning …
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Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel
<p>This article analyzes George MacDonald’s realist novels. It looks at how <em>David Elginbrod</em>, <em>Alec Forbes of Howglen</em>, and <em>Lilith </em>engage with scientific discourse and epistemological concerns of the period. These scientific and epistemological dealings include a positive …
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Reference, coherence, meaning : a realist epistemology of art
Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Arthur Raper: Modern realist in the New Deal South
<p>Arthur Raper was a progressive sociologist and controversial voice for racial and social equality in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. Son of a white, North Carolina farm family, Raper became allied with modernist voices at Chapel Hill and the University of Chicago. Raper's research was …
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Revelations: Spirituality as Privileged Perspectivism in Magical Realist Distortions
<p>This thesis examines the role of spiritual beliefs in the literary mode now known as magical realism in Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949), Indian-Born British and American Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), and a lesser-known novel, Household Saints (1981) by …
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Wallpapering the novel: economics, aesthetics, and the realist home
Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin (lspradl2@illinois.edu) on 2013-11-20T17:45:30Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Stein_Faith.pdf: 1180863 bytes, checksum: 40754670aa2811f88279d9e174bb8ce0 (MD5) Stein_FaithWilson.pdf: 1180863 bytes, …
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Figurative art in Soviet Russia circa 1921-1934 : situating the realist-anti-realist debate in the context of changing definitions of proletarian culture
… self-referential works indicative of an anti-realist philosophy and that figurative artists produced social commentaries informed by a philosophy of realism which led 'inevitably' to Socialist Realism. Although a few recent texts warn against oversimplifying this debate, none go far enough in …
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Theology and the Narrative Form of the Victorian Realist Novel
… that Christian theology informs how Victorian realist novelists understood narrative perspective and the formal strategies used to communicate a narrator’s knowledge. Although the Victorian realist novel has typically been considered a secular form, I challenge this assumption by showing how …
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U.S. Relationships with Iran, Israel, and Pakistan: A Realist Explanation
<p>The purpose of this work is to assess U.S. relations with Iran, Israel, and Pakistan throughout the Cold War into the contemporary age of Islamic extremism. It demonstrates how the international relations theory of realism is most applicable to these relations when compared to the four competing …
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George Liska's Realist Alliance Theory, And The Transformation Of Nato
… permutations around and within NATO, the basic realist principles that may explain the mechanism of this alliance's formation and cohesion still apply to the contemporary organization.
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Low-technology innovation in a sectoral system:a critical realist perspective
… (SSI) perspective. Embedded in the critical realist paradigm, this study espouses the notion of a stratified ontology. Moreover, it considers innovation to be systemic and nonsequential influenced by multiple objects and their relations. Deriving from a systematic literature review, this …
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The Colorado Community Organizing Collaborative: A Critical Realist Case Study
<p>This study utilized the ontological and epistemological foundations of critical realism posed by Margaret Archer (2000) to deepen social work's understanding of collaboration. Through the use of Danermark et al.'s (2002) stages of explanatory research based on critical realism, the author found …
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