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Child neglect from the standpoint of mothers
This study documents the standpoint of mothers in relation to the child welfare system using institutional ethnography as the research method. Specifically this research explores the contradiction between the crucial role mothers play in protecting children and the absence of their standpoint in …
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Dysentery in Egypt from the clinical standpoint
In all tropical and sub- tropical countries bowel disorders are of Prìrne importance: particularly is this so in Egypt, where every newcomer develops, sooner or later, intestinal upset - popularly designated "Gippy Tummy" - possibly one attack and then apparent immunity for years, more frequently …
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Weak Decay Studies From An Effective Theory Standpoint
<p>In this doctoral dissertation I discuss the phenomenology of some weak interaction decays using a model independent approach by employing effective field theories. I discuss the soft photon contribution and background effect to the rare dimuonic decay of the neutral B meson. I also study some …
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F.A. Lange's "standpoint of the ideal" : reform or revolution?
… The worldview that Lange offers is called the Standpoint of the Ideal. As a modification of Kant's critical philosophy, it asserts that a part of the human constitution is a universal, poetic inclination that underlies experience and acts to synthesize experience into a harmonious unity. This …
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HTML5 vs. Adobe Flash : from the end user standpoint
For NetApp products to be the best in the market, NetApp has to make the correct technology decisions to insure it leads in innovation. In this thesis, I focus on a product called NetApp Unified Manager, examining whether HTML5 satisfies its needs. I evaluate NetApp from a user's perspective using …
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Strategic implication of the change, from a Korean oil co.'s standpoint
Even though oil industry have been dramatically experiencing the changes such as Super-Merger, deregulation, and liberalization, almost all players share the similar strategies that tend to converge along the same basic dimensions of competitive option. That is Best product strategic position by …
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The evaluation of food packaging materials from the standpoint of protection against insects
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 1943.
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Embodied and Emotional Knowledge of Oppression: Positive Contributions of a Relational Feminist Standpoint Theory
… social location of knowers. I turn to feminist standpoint theory as a theory that can address these problems. I argue that incorporating relational theory into standpoint epistemology enables us to pay attention to the various intersections of oppression and the ways in which we are shaped in …
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An examination of the MH-60s common cockpit from a design methodology and acquisitions standpoint
Over the last two decades, cockpits have migrated from the traditional analog gauges of moving dials to computer displays representing an assortment of flight data. To keep in stride with this modernization trend, the U.S. Navy determined that the newest rotary-wing fleet aircraft, the MH-60S and …
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"I Feel At Peace". A Standpoint Feminist Perspective of Canadian Muslim Women Studying the Qur'an
Background: Well-being encompasses physical, mental and social aspects of life. For Canadian Muslim women, the intersection of their identity, faith and contextual factors all shapes their well-being, now more than ever at a time when we see an increase in gendered Islamophobia. Rationale: The …
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Foucault, Rogerian argument, and feminist standpoint theory: intersecting discourses concerning welfare reform during the 1990s
… it combines Foucault's parrhesia with feminist standpoint theory and applies them to the interviews of women living in poverty. This approach not only rethinks and revisions how these theories could work together to examine language, but it also explores how they could be used to grant dignity …
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A Standpoint for Critique: The Metaphorical Status of Critique in Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
… are that it allows one to adopt a variety of standpoints from which to contemplate or think rational ideas, and that built into the capacity to adopt standpoints for this purpose is the ability to think from both particular and universal points of view -- e.g., to make subjective claims that …
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Exploring Girl Scouts' self-perceptions as geoscientists using a feminist standpoint lens and transformative mixed methods
… questions guided the study: (1) What are girls' standpoints on "science"? (2) How might the Girl Scouts offer an alternative environment for learning and doing science while at the same time allowing them to be scientists? (3) How might this Girl Scout experience transform the ways girls engage …
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Is the classroom better? An introspective look at e-learning and classroom from a GED standpoint
The present study examined whether participants assigned to a well-executed e-learning program would show greater improvement in mean test scores pre-post instructional intervention compared to those learning through the traditional classroom method. In the last ten years, many organizations have …
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An Evaluation of Commonly Used Speech Articulation Tests From the Standpoint of a Public School Therapist
It is the purpose of this study to administer five commonly used tests and evaluate them according to ease of administration and the value of the information received. Because this study is to be essentially exploratory in nature, and not experimental, the evaluation of the tests will be largely …
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Object, standpoint, and partial truth: Sartre, Heidegger, and Hegel on consciousness, human being, and the absolute
This dissertation is an attempt to make sense of why (sometimes) philosophers reject past theories of x (reality, knowledge, morality, etc.) while they acknowledge at the same time that the theories being rejected contain philosophically interesting truth about x (philosophers will typically say …
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Bohr's atomic model from the standpoint of the general theory of relativity and the calculus of perturbations
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1924.
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Analysis of the Aboriculture Industry Safety Culture from the Standpoint of Injures, Illnesses, Employee Response, and Industry Standards
<p>The author researched 215 recorded injuries and illnesses to all field employees between January 1, 1991 and July 1, 2002 at an arboricultural company in California. Detailed interviews were conducted with each of the 38 field employees to determine employee perceptions of safety training, …
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