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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"sanctuaries"”.
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Everted Sanctuaries: Increments of Silence
… necessary to revitalize themselves. <i>Everted Sanctuaries</i> communicates about the complex needs of introverts. The author explored introversion through sketching, object transformation, kinetic sculpture, material, and sound. In <i>Everted Sanctuaries,</i> transformed objects become …
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Sovereigns of Sanctuaries: Host State Responses to Transnational Repression
While political scientists have long studied nation-states’ domestic repression of anti-government dissent, there is a growing awareness that such coercion extends across international borders. Nation-states pursue and repress their nationals abroad through a predatory process known as …
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Beyond the temple : establishing a context for Gallo-Roman sanctuaries
The thesis focuses on Gallo-Roman temple sites in the Burgundy region, based on published and archive sources. It uses these sites to illustrate an exploration of interconnected themes relating to the study of temple sites, with a view to developing an integrated approach to site and surroundings. …
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In Search of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, and Territory in the Peloponnese
… scholarly models for the distribution of Greek sanctuaries, this is the first comprehensive and critical study of “border sanctuaries,” a type of sacred site that has been strongly associated with territorial borders of poleis in ancient Greece. When used as a distinct site type, it correlates …
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<i>Hoi perì tò hierón</i>: A Study of Sacerdotal Housing at Ancient Greek Sanctuaries
… personnel residing at or near ancient Greek sanctuaries. It begins with a review of the textual evidence for the activities of cultic personnel at sanctuaries that may have necessitated their residence on site. At the core of the study are nine case studies that focus on the issue of …
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“Envisioning Digital Sanctuaries”: An Exploration of Virtual Collectives for Nurturing Professional Development of Women in Technical Domains
… for mobilizing collective action, and constitute sanctuaries of support and companionship. Yet, recent scholarship points to the negative ramifications of such channels in perpetuating social prejudice, directed particularly at members from historically underrepresented communities. Using a novel …
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Sensory Stimulating Sanctuaries - Creating spaces that improve and benefit wellbeing and mental health through sensory stimulating architectural techniques
The rise of the ‘modern-day illnesses' such as anxiety, mental health struggles and issues relating to posttraumatic stress, influence people on a daily basis. I wonder how architectural techniques could be used to stimulate one's senses so as to allow for a calming feeling or create a sense of …
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Evaluating compassion satisfaction and the risk of compassion fatigue among those working at non-human primate sanctuaries and wildlife centers
<p>Compassion fatigue, an occupational risk commonly associated with caregiving professions, can have adverse effects for individual employee wellbeing, organizational productivity, and the quality of care that patients receive. Within animal-care worker samples, previous research suggests that …
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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency
… with bases in neighboring states (transnational sanctuaries) are relatively more difficult to defeat than comparable groups without such bases. Insurgents with transnational sanctuaries benefit from relative protection from attack by counterinsurgents, they may recruit, train, and arm safely in …
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The Challenges for a Closed-to-the-Public Animal Sanctuary: Prioritizing animal welfare while engaging in educational community outreach
… help me understand the goals and limitations of sanctuaries. I also designed and conducted two educational programs for local area schools as beta tests for educational outreach program design. My research revealed that resource limitations like staffing and funding often prohibit sanctuaries …
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An evaluation of governance systems for tourist-accessible animal sanctuaries in emerging economies and an assessment of their effectiveness from the perspective of stakeholders
Animal sanctuaries have proliferated around the world in recent decades and play an important role in the growing wildlife tourism industry. With a general expectation that animal sanctuaries ensure animal welfare and conservation, the lack of an officially agreed definition and the absence of …
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Primates in Proximity: The Lives of Monkeys in Costa Rican Sanctuary Tourism
… to highlight animal interests, welfare, and sanctuaries as potential sustainable tourism sites through a case study of the lives of monkeys in Costa Rican wildlife sanctuaries. First, it applies an animal geography lens to wildlife tourism, highlighting animal stakeholders, ethics of care, …
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Seasonal Habitat Use of The Florida Manatee (Trichecus Manatus Latirostris) In The Crystal River Natural Refuge With Regards To Natural And Anthropogenic Factors
… aggregated in areas containing both springs and sanctuaries, where human activity was high and vegetation coverage low. In the non-winter, manatees were most abundant away from springs, where there was higher vegetative coverage and lower human activity. In the winter season, manatee spent most …
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Sanctuary in Sixteenth-Century England
… manner as it had done for centuries. ‘Common’ sanctuaries (a customary right pertaining to all churches and churchyards) permitted felons to seek refuge for a maximum of forty days, before they were either exiled (by availing themselves of the peculiar English custom of ‘abjuring the realm’), …
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The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece: Understanding Greek Religion Through Patterns of Dedicatory Practice and Thought, ca.750–480 BCE
… world through the material they deposited in sanctuaries. I simultaneously consider gift-giving in relation to the mental and emotional experiences of worshippers, exploring the relationships created between humans and things, and between humans and the divine, as well as the agency of …
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La Fortuna romaine et l'héritage grec
… gradually finally became exclusively in its sanctuaries of Latium, a goddess of luck. (...)
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Globalizing the Sculptural Landscapes of the Sarapis and Isis Cults in Hellenistic and Roman Greece
… viewership of sculptural assemblages set up in sanctuaries to the Egyptian gods. Focusing on cognitive dissonance, cultural imagining, and manipulations of time and space, I theorize ancient globalization as a set of loosely related processes that shifted a community's connections with place. My …
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An evaluation of protected area management planning and policy in Bangladesh
… in Bangladesh via a case study of two Wildlife Sanctuaries and one National Park. Using a mixed method approach, the research evaluates the perceptions and attitudes of local residents and other stakeholders towards the effectiveness of protected area planning and management, specifically …
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The Material Construction of Identity in Sparta and Lakonia (750–480 BCE)
… practices, remains extremely limited. Spartan sanctuaries, by contrast, have been extensively excavated and enable us to explore how the ancient Spartans developed and maintained individual and group identity through objects made, worn, and dedicated at each site. Through an examination of key …
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Evaluating the Conservation and Ecological Roles of Large Marine Protected Areas for Threatened Sharks
… jeopardizes the conservation goals of shark sanctuaries that continue to permit commercial fishing, by developing a data integration workflow to predict shark bycatch and incidental mortality from longline fishing in remote ocean sectors, based on the level of fishing effort observed via …
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