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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"social instability"”.
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Devaluation of Sucrose Caused by Social Instability Stress in Adolescent Male Long-Evans Rats in the Presence of an Unfamiliar Peer
Rats that undergo the Social Instability Stress procedure during adolescence (SS: daily 1-hour isolation + re-pairing with an unfamiliar cage partner for 16 days) display changes in reward-related behaviour. Specifically, SS rats spend less time in social interaction but more time in social …
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Reexamining 1930s American Art: The 'Realisms' of Archibald Motley, Jr. And Reginald Marsh
… one that arises during a time of political and social instability in order to offer a vision of composure and orderliness. I contend, however, that Motley and Marsh used realism to comment on its own inherent instability; these two artists employed fantasy, distortion, and self-reference in …
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Using Archetypal Metaphor to Analyze Cultural Landscape: A Chlilean Case Study
… conflict management and assessing risk for social instability or escalation of violence.
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Industrialisation, Politics, and Banking Instability in Late Imperial Russia
… industrialisation, politics, banking and social instability in late Imperial Russia. The early-to-mid-1890s were characterised by rapid industrial growth, which was driven by protectionist policies and the state procurement of industrial products. The period 1899-1902 saw a severe …
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The Tunisian Revolution as a Catalyst to the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Revolution in North Africa and the Middle East
… outlining political, economic, cultural, and social phenomena that precipitated the Revolution, as well as the dynamics following the Revolution. Chapter 1 provides a discussion of various competing theoretical perspectives on social movements, introduces the methodological approach and …
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Understanding student engagement: Insights from an all-girls urban neighborhood public high school
… school completion predicts future financial and social instability for not only those individuals who drop out of school, but also for their surrounding community. The research on dropouts highlights the significance that students' low levels of academic and social engagement in school have on …
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Trauma experiences of ex-combattees
… dignity in situations of extreme poverty and social dislocation or become involved in violent crime as well as ongoing political and social instability in the communities where they reside. As pan of an ongoing trauma counselling programme, this research explicated narrations from …
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Genome scale metabolic modelling to identify metabolic responses of resistant bacteria to antibiotic challenges
… times, in every aspect from economic losses to social instability. The pace of antimicrobial target research is being overtaken by the pace of resistance developing among disease causing pathogens. In order to explore solutions for AMR, INNOTARGETS , a consortium of academic and industrial …
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Based on True Stories: Representing the Self and the Other in Latin American Documentary Narratives
… My corpus covers a wide range of topics such as social protests, dictatorships, civil wars, natural disaster, crime and migration. While scholars have focused on the rhetoric and history of this kind of narratives, my reading considers the real, face-to-face encounter between the journalist and …
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Academic perceptions of educational technology: towards communicative rationality in the higher education institution
… were categorised as examples of Habermasian social pathologies (anomie, alienation, disintegration and social instability) rooted in concerns about an increasingly powerful HEI systemworld. When discussing Educational Technology, participants expressed socio-cultural concerns more readily …
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Tail-biting in growing-finishing pigs with intact tails: evaluating group size and litter origin
… of this dissertation was to investigate social and behavioral risk factors of tail-biting in pigs with intact tails, using group-level and individual-level approaches, and to evaluate associated welfare outcomes across diverse contexts. Two major research projects were conducted, which …
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A Theory and Implementation Evaluation of The Allan Gray Entrepreneurial Challenge
… due to the associated ramifications of poverty, social exclusion, inequality, crime, and social instability. Despite a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship, South Africa lags in entrepreneurial activity compared to other developing countries. Recognizing the pivotal role of entrepreneurial …
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Social structure, individual fitness and the effect of climate in an obligate cooperatively breeding bird, the white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
During my PhD I examined the social structure of white-winged choughs (Corcorax melanorhamphos), a highly social species of Australian bird, which are obligate cooperative breeders, meaning they must breed in groups to successfully produce offspring, living in groups from three to up to 20 …
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Social structure, individual fitness and the effect of climate in an obligate cooperatively breeding bird, the white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
During my PhD I examined the social structure of white-winged choughs (Corcorax melanorhamphos), a highly social species of Australian bird, which are obligate cooperative breeders, meaning they must breed in groups to successfully produce offspring, living in groups from three to up to 20 …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
… argued that the conditions of colonial Ireland – social instability, the absence of an independent middle class, bilingual culture, and the alternative expectations of plot and narrative engendered by a primarily oral culture – were at odds with the conditions conducive to the realist novel, …
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Essays on Environmental and Labor Economics
… against on demographic characteristics or social instability. Results reveal wealthier communities appear to induce facilities to increase their environmental efforts and improve wastewater management practices but this effort fades as the distance to the facility grows. The third chapter …
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Linking behaviour and physiology of female bonobos (Pan paniscus)
… of genital rubbing was not influenced by social status. The data do no support the hypothesis that genial rubbing serves to form or maintain alliances, to reduce competition among females or to reconcile former opponents. However, genital rubbing may be a display of social status or may …
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Gender Inequality and Levels of Female Homicide in Cities: Examining the Influence of Race, Poverty Context, and Family Structure for Levels of Female Homicide Victimization and Offending
… that relative differences in men and women’s social and economic positioning in the United States, known as socioeconomic gender inequality, are important for city levels of female homicide victimization and offending. Few of these studies, however, have considered other structural factors …