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Showing 1 to 20 of 279 for “"reclaiming"”.
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Reclaiming Craftsmanship
In upcoming years, many institutions in the private and public sectors will lose valuable organizational knowledge due to organizational restructuring, departmental consolidation, retirements and attrition. This can have a potentially crippling effect on organizational effectiveness and service …
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Reclaiming and Reconceptualizing Accountability
<p>This body of work contributes to the exploration of the intended and unintended consequences of the policy levers, referred to as education accountability policy, that have driven entire systems toward the inclusion of student performance data into educator performance ratings and the impact on …
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Remembering Danzig and Reclaiming Gdańsk
<p>This thesis will highlight a number of traumatic memories chronologically in the history of this city. The Versailles Conference will be the beginning of the tale of these two cities in the first chapter, Danzig before 1945. The history of the interwar years reveals a severe rift between Poland …
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Spoken Self: Recognizing, Renaming, and Reclaiming
In the era of standardization, how can educators explore ways to hear the beating hearts of the students they encounter? How can educators recognize the multitudinous sounds of the students when each marches to the beat of a different drum? With these questions in mind, how then can educators …
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East of Liberty : reclaiming Main Street
Although we were taught about the success of the Civil Rights movement in elementary school, it is undeniable that socioeconomic differences create community borders throughout the world. Specifically discussed here is East Liberty part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's "East End." Over a forty-five …
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Fourth Belgrade : story about reclaiming land
In light of Yugoslavian socialist heritage, the violent transition into capitalism and current developer's logics, this thesis is using architecture to imagine a path not taken, an alternative outcome and value system which challenges the idea of one-directional progress. In August of 2018, PKB- a …
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Strategies for reclaiming urban postindustrial landscapes
Expanding the primarily expert-driven and site-specific efforts to solve brownfield problems, this thesis develops a process framework for planners and developers to organize the brownfield redevelopment process through strategy formulation based on a site-context relationship with interacting …
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Layering Connections: Reclaiming Abandoned Post Industrial Infrastructure
Industrial Infrastructure fueled the birth and growth of countless small towns and cities throughout the United States. In many instances, the railroad served as the main source of employment. Local economies were often tied to the continued success of the railroad industry and mirrored their …
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Alternative Models of Connectivity: Reclaiming Networked Spaces
<p>Alternative networking is a growing field of study and practice due to advancements in computer networking hardware, and software protocols. Methods of integrating alternative networking configurations into infrastructure present enhanced forms of empowerment and embodiment for participants. …
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Reclaiming the Radical Economic Message of Luke
<p>Of the four canonical gospels of the New Testament, the one most concerned with poverty, wealth, and the ethics of possession is Luke. It contains more economic material and a sharper message than do Mark, Matthew, or John. A centuries-long debate rages over just how revolutionary Luke’s message …
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After the crash : reclaiming Bangkok's city of ghosts
This thesis addresses the issue of ghost buildings in Bangkok, Thailand - buildings left unfinished since the financial crisis of 1997. Predicated by massive foreign investment, profligate lending and speculative construction, the crash left over five hundred 'interrupted' projects - buildings …
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Reclaiming the estranged : imagining an architecture of excess
A consumer's contact with plastic is typically a brief affair, while plastic's intimacy with the earth is immortal. Our initial fondness fades into estrangement much like a tragic love story. We essentially ghost our waste by disassociating from it entirely. We force it beyond our immediate cone of …
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From Governance to Consciousness: Reclaiming Participatory Agency Beyond Neoliberalism
This thesis argues that today’s ecological and social crises stem from governance built for control, not collaboration. Representative democracy and capitalism have fused into a system that concentrates power, hollows agency, and accelerates environmental collapse. The solution is not better …
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Reclaiming British Gujarati culture after conversion to Evangelical Christianity
When the Gujarati diaspora from India and East Africa arrived in Britain from the mid twentieth century onwards, their religio-cultural beliefs were based on replications and adaptations due to their migratory history. Their primary goal was to fulfil their religious duty to the whole extended …
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Reclaiming Identity: Utilizing Historic Fabric to Revitalize Downtown Rochester
… the unused skeletons of past endeavors by reclaiming these spaces. The opportunity to reclaim the abandoned Erie Canal aqueduct and Broad Street Bridge, through programming will fit the needs of the downtown. The development of the structure as a centerpiece will assist in the city’s …
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Reclaiming Embodiment: An Existential-Phenomenological Exploration of Women’s Tattoos
<p>This dissertation is a phenomenological research study about the lived experiences of women who elected to get tattoos in the last five years. Due to historical and present discourses on female embodiment and persistent stigmas and pathologies often associated with tattoos, I sought to generate …
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Reclaiming the periphery: Kinetic perimetry in patients with glaucoma
Static automated perimetry of the central 30˚ is the most often used visual field test in glaucoma patients. Short test durations are achieved by focusing on a central region, which constitutes ~20% of the visual field. However, ignoring the periphery may sacrifice information on how patients are …
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Reclaiming Indigenous Land and Livelihoods in North-East Cambodia
Cambodia's upland regions are currently sites of contest and conflict over land between diverse actors, including the Indigenous populations that hold customary rights to these landscapes. In North-East Cambodia, the state has exerted its authority and control over resources and lands by zoning …
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Reclaiming Indigenous Land and Livelihoods in North-East Cambodia
Cambodia's upland regions are currently sites of contest and conflict over land between diverse actors, including the Indigenous populations that hold customary rights to these landscapes. In North-East Cambodia, the state has exerted its authority and control over resources and lands by zoning …
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