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Showing 1 to 20 of 372 for “"reframing"”.
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Reframing the Neolithic
In advancing a critical examination of post-processualism, the thesis has – as its central aim – the repositioning of the Neolithic within contemporary archaeological theory. Whilst acknowledging the insights it brings to an understanding of the period, it is argued that the knowledge it produces …
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Reframing the Ditch
Reframing the Ditch explores the application of native canopy using green street tools as a method to move beyond minimums and improve biological diversity of stormwater conveyances in a way that is consistent with visual landscape preference theory. Small stream water quality impairment is an …
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Fashion in Cinema: Reframing the Field
In this critical appraisal I set out to demonstrate my contribution to the field of fashion in cinema, and use the particular interdisciplinary scope of my work as a lens through which to reframe this field. As many have argued already, problems of fashion and costume in cinema have traditionally …
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Performing Moving Image: Reframing Live Visual Practice
The dominant framing of live visuals through the lens of the moving image has long overshadowed the performance aspect of the practice. This practice-based research seeks to redress the balance by taking a holistic approach in re-framing live visuals as both moving image and performance practice. …
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Projective preservation : reframing Rudolph's Tower for Boston
By 2012, the fate of Paul Rudolph's tower in downtown Boston has been in question for years while a vision of a denser city calls for its demolition. Projected development on the site currently argues that to move forward, the existing building must be erased entirely. While progressive at the time …
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Reframing Harlem River : Manhattan-Bronx waterfront community design
Today a renewed interest in the recreational value of the Harlem River, paired with new real estate pressures that are reshaping East Harlem and the Southern portion of the Bronx, the moment is ripe to rethink the current scalar incongruence between city, mobility corridors and the water edge. Both …
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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama
Portrayals of Turks in early modern cultural discourses resisted historical accuracy: Turks are represented as violent, lustful, barbaric, and despotic despite the existence of numerous seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman correspondence documents, in which Turks are often associated with wealth, …
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Reframing Lesson Plans: The Foundation for Improving Instruction
<p>This dissertation is a policy advocacy document that boldly states that it is our moral imperative to change the current educational landscape for the students attending Milwaukee Public Schools. In advocating for such a change, it is strongly suggested that the way to accomplish this …
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Immigrant Inclusion: Reframing Local Politics in Immigration Debates
Through a three-paper dissertation, I explore the causes and consequences of local immigrant integration policies, such as the adoption of sanctuary practices, municipal IDs, the establishment of local immigrant affairs offices, and more. While these policies have gained traction in recent years, …
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Reframing teachers' conceptions of assessment and data use
… climate. Collectively, these papers support reframing conceptions of assessment and data in DDDM research to provider clearer explanations of what “use” of data for instructional decision making actually means.
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‘Standing in the shadows’?: Reframing homosexuality in musical theatre
This thesis explores how the gay male is represented in musical theatre and considers how musical theatre writing practice can be utilised to create new iterations of the homosexual male character in musicals. The study has three main objectives: to explore the persistent patterns of gay …
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Reframing and Resolving Conflict : Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations 1988-1998
… core of the research problem: (i) meaning, (ii) reframing and (iii) resolving. These concepts are advanced throughout this study by an adaptive interplay between theoretical concepts and empirical analysis. The meaning of conflict highlights the dominant frames of political actors and the …
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Reframing parental involvement of black parents: black parental protectionism
In 1787, Prince Hall, a Revolutionary War veteran, community leader, and Black parent, petitioned the Massachusetts legislature on behalf of Black children demanding a separate “African” school. Hall claimed that Black children were met with continuous hostility and suffered maltreatment when …
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Reframing theories of evil: ethics, violence and the state
<p>Which theoretical frameworks are most powerful in providing us venues to think about evil, and how do they contribute to making “the social production and distribution of evil” visible or invisible? In its everyday usage, evil is a category that is often ascribed retrospectively, named after the …
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School counselors in action reframing professional development to engage families
<p>Co llege enrollment rates in the U.S. have increased over the last 40 years, yet students from undcrservcd communities remain underrepresented. Families in these communities aspire for their children to go to college, but often lack access to the necessary social capital to transform aspirations …
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Evil as Ontological Ignorance: Reframing Proclus' De malorum subsistentia
Αυτή η διατριβή διερευνά το πρόβλημα του κακού στο De malorum subsistentia (Περί της Ύπαρξης των Κακών) του Πρόκλου, μια σύντομη αλλά πλούσια σε εννοιολογικά στοιχεία πραγματεία στην οποία ο νεοπλατωνικός φιλόσοφος επιδιώκει να εξηγήσει πώς μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ότι το κακό υπάρχει χωρίς να …
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Functional Unexpectedness: Reframing the role of predictability in language comprehension
This thesis explored the role of unexpected information during naturalistic language comprehension to determine if decreased predictability supported improved communication outcomes. Individuals listened to 12 short stories while measuring their electroencephalography, then were tested on their …
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Towards sustainable land stewardship : reframing development in Wisconsin's dairy gateway
Changing economic realities in the dairy industry have profoundly affected the viability of the dairy farming community in Wisconsin. In addition they face mounting local opposition to dairy modernization and expansion, and an increased regulatory burden. This survey looks at ten farms in the Dairy …
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Housing La Habana Vieja: Reframing the Formal and Informal Vernacular
The design of housing in an urban fabric designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site requires consideration of the historic character and how each building contributes to the streetscape. Beyond the facade, one discovers the unique story of each parcel through the transformations that its residents …
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Reframing Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Big Data and Neural Networks
In many medical and biomedical applications, we measure the outcome as a “time-to-event” (e.g., disease progression or death). The aim of this dissertation is to propose frameworks for survival analysis and prediction with survival data that include many observations, ultra-high dimensional …
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