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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"second half of the 20th century"”.
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Flags of convenience: legal responses to a 20th century shipping phenomenon
1999 a global tour of the International Transport Worker's Federation (ITF) vessel Global Mariner marked the 50th anniversary of the ITF's campaign against flags of convenience. For the second half of the 20th century this phenomenon has been subject both to constant public debate and to legal …
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Sharing school of architecture
… shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the 20th century. Along the history, the architecture discipline developed and struggled for new territories by articulating its relationship to the technological, socio-political and cultural transformations of the time -- and …
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Classical music on UK radio 1945-1995.
This thesis comprises the first comprehensive narrative account of the history of classical music radio in the UK between 1945 and 1995, from before the launch of the Third Programme until after the launch of Classic FM. It describes and analyses the rich range of output across all relevant radio …
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Sociální psychologie nacismu: konformismus, poslušnost a zneužití moci
Social psychology of Nazism: Conformism, Obedience and Abuse of Power Thesis Social Psychology of Nazism: Conformism, Obedience and Abuse of Power deals with a human behaviour at the time of Nazism. Since the end of the Second World War, we have been trying to find an explanation of our actions at …
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Network control in a globalized world : how Visa and Swift's founding structures serve their stakeholders on the International stage
The Visa credit card network and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) network both provide a backbone for financial interchange across the world. Visa's network connects consumers, merchants, banks, and processors to ease the purchases of millions of …
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Ocean fertilization : ecological cure or calamity
The late John Martin demonstrated the paramount importance of iron for microscopic plant growth in large areas of the world's oceans. Iron, he hypothesized, was the nutrient that limited green life in seawater. Over twenty years later, Martin's iron hypothesis is widely considered to be the major …
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The impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on Libya foreign policy during the period from 1991 to 2003
One of the most notable events in world politics in the second half of the 20th century was the Soviet Union’s fall in December 1991 which profoundly changed the outlook of the global political scene and the balance of power among its key actors. This thesis studies the impacts and significance of …
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O estilo da negação: o papel do desvio e da vanguarda na superação da arte proposta por Guy Debord
This work aims to investigate the contribution of modern art, along with the experience of avant-garde movements at the turn of the 20th century, to the political theory of the French strategist Guy Debord. We start from the hypothesis that to understand the critique of late capitalism expressed by …
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Ombyggnad pågår : Lunds tekniska högskola och ingenjörsrollens förändring
This study deals with the transformation of institutions of higher technical education in Sweden. It situates those processes in the context of educational reforms during the second half of the 20th century. Lund Institute of Technology, Lunds tekniska högskola (LTH), is focused upon. It was …
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Salvaging salmon: Shasta Dam and the conservation movement
<p>The story of the salmon runs of Shasta Dam offers a microcosm for the conservation movement as a whole in the 1930's and 40's, a period that is not yet well studied in US environmental history. It is a time when conservationism was largely a focus of well-off and well-educated people, without …
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El desarraigo en la narrativa latinoamericana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX : el caso de Juan Rulfo.
… with an emphasis on cultural criticism, this thesis analyzes the concept of unhomeliness reiterated throughout Latin American narratives published in the second half of the 20th century. Specifically, it examines this concept's trajectory in the short stories, "No oyes ladrar los perros", …
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Voices from the other side of the wall: the case of Romanian libraries of the 1970s and 1980s
In the second half of the 20th century, the communist regime in Romania developed a centralized, national system of public libraries. The system had a clear purpose: to act as one of the regime’s propaganda tools. This study provides insight into the history of librarianship and of the public …
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First War Syndrome : military culture, professionalization, and counterinsurgency doctrine
… important challenge to military organizations in the second half of the 20th century and seems likely to continue to pose a challenge in the 21st century. This makes understanding how military organizations respond to this challenge both an important policy question and a fruitful area for …
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Factors of material consumption
… by many researchers, and, in order to identify the main drivers of consumption, special attention has been given to material intensity, which is the consumption of materials (in mass quantities) per GDP per capita. For our analysis, a new factor, material price, has been taken into account when …
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Divergence or Convergence? South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy and corporate expansion in Africa : the cases of Shoprite Holdings Limited and Standard Bank of South Africa Limited
The political significance of multinational corporations (MNCs) in Africa dates back to the colonial era, when they acted as agents of their home countries after colonial conquest. The attainment of independence and the demise of apartheid in the second half of the 20th century necessitates …
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Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Historical Fiction
… But it seems that Americans can’t agree on the definitions of the terms of the debate, let alone on how to tackle any of the substantive issues that face our communities, country, and planet. Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Literature intervenes in this moment of crisis …
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Reproductive function in young Swedish men - Time trend, prenatal and adult exposure to smoking and phthalates
… function, including sperm counts, during the second half of the 20th century, has been postulated. During this period, testicular cancer has increased several-fold. Environmental and lifestyle-related factors have been proposed as explanations for a possible negative trend in male …
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Emotions in Christian Psychological Care
The role of emotion with regard to human functioning and human well-being has been a topic of much consideration and debate throughout the ages. In both secular and Christian fields of study (e.g. philosophy, theology, biology, psychology, and psychotherapy) people have examined emotional …
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A Comparative Study on the Integration of Culturally Diverse Zimbabwean and Somali Communities in Leicester.
Post-war immigration which radically transformed the ethnic profile of most English cities ushered in official debate on the need to formulate policies in managing ethnic and racial diversity. Following the 2001 racial riots in the Northern English industrial cities, the city of Leicester has been …
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