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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"stratagem"”.
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Attitudes of Principals Concerning Their Role as a Result of Professional Negotiations in the State of Washington
… by professional negotiations, and (4) what stratagem principals may follow in the future as a reaction to teacher militancy.
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"Poetic Surrealism in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci: ""The Spider's Strategem"", ""The Conformist"" and ""Last Tango in Paris"""
… film chapters examine surrealism in The Spider's Stratagem, The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris as it developed out of a series of formal models that derive from surrealist painting, photography and film. Subliminally registered images that show the union of irreconcilable elements as they are …
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Integral ecopsychological investigation of bonsai principles, meaning and healing
… art adds another dimension to the intervention stratagem. One aspect of an intervention strategy is to reduce the burden of mental illness and related conditions. Bonsai as an intervention combines meditation, spirituality, responsibility and the ability to express oneself through this timeless …
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Bush's hedges on the environment : an analysis of George Bush's rhetoric on the environment.
… discovered that Bush utilized several rhetorical stratagems in representing himself as the "environmental president" while maintaining his relationship to business. These strategies included redefinition, leaks, moderation, and policy efficiency. Chapter One outlines the research problem. …
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Rethinking the modern : imagining the future of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
… the gentrification of museum neighborhoods, a stratagem that cheers civic boosters and troubles social critics. All these point to a social, philosophical, political critique of the museum as an institution. The thesis does not attempt to resolve all the issues rooted in the current museum …
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The regency and administration of James Douglas, fourth earl of Morton
… former dominance - hence, so it would appear, a stratagem such as the proscription of the Hamiltons. He was disastrously indecisive in 1580, thus permitting the Lennox-Arran faction to attain an overwhelming supremacy against which he and his supporters found it impossible to offer a serious …
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The triangular merger structures: the use of the forward and reverse triangular merger structures to circumvent the voting and appraisal rights of minority shareholders and potential shareholder remedies
… use of a separate legal entity as a device or stratagem to defeat their rights); and/or (ii) filing a complaint with the relevant statutory body citing the provisions of s 115(4) of the Act. In either case, and as an alternative submission, shareholders can also argue that such conduct falls …
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Reduced-basis methods applied to problems in elasticity : analysis and applications
… the reduced-basis off-line/on-line computational stratagem; and Method II, a posteriori error estimation procedures which rely only on the rapid convergence of the reduced-basis approximation, and provide simple, inexpensive error bounds, albeit at the loss of complete certainty. We illustrate and …
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Moral Identity Work in Senior Business Managers
… to the theory of resistance as an identity work stratagem. It also contributes to practice with the findings that feelings of isolation persist beyond middle management, and that moral issues in the workplace are experienced in a remarkably similar way in individuals from different business …
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"The whole earth as village" : a chronotopic analysis of Marshall McLuhan's "Global Village" and Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner
… global village. The comprehensive methodological stratagem for this thesis includes Marshall McLuhan's "mosaic" approach, Mikhail Bakhtin's concept ofthe "chronotope", as well as a Foucauldian genealogicallhistorical discourse analysis. In the process of deconstructing McLuhan's texts and The …
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Electrical Demand Analysis Software Tool Suite and Automatic Report Generation for Energy Audits
… defines an energy audit through a multi-tiered stratagem characterized by the level of in-depth analysis. The Level 1, or walkthrough survey is highlighted by low to no cost energy efficiency evaluations and a list of improvement measures that warrant further inquiry. Through the Industrial …
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Exploiting the Conflict Within: Examining Tripartite Interactions for Development of Next Generation Mosquito Microbiome Vector Control Strategies.
… development of a robust microbial driven control stratagem. Next generation sequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene was utilized to examine the microbiome in each of the objectives presented here. The first objective explored how different sugar types influence the microbiome of Aedes aegypti …
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English smuggling in the eighteenth century
… intimidation. The use of violence as a business stratagem raises questions concerning the smugglers' status as 'social criminals.' Illicit importation enjoyed high levels of popular support, but whether contemporaries saw the pursuit of the contraband trade as legitimising murder and mayhem, …
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Architecting Optimal (Space) Strategies: A Quantitative Framework
… introduces a state-of-the-art agentic-flow tool, StratAgeM, which builds a network topology of a strategy based on a specialised ontology. A strategy’s “connectedness”—quantified via the spectral gap of its architecture—hints at a relationship with performance in capability development, with …
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A theological assessment of the socio-political role of the Church of the Province of South Africa (1904-1930) with special reference to the influence of Archbishop William Marlborough Carter
… White unity and control was the political stratagem. However, the British colonial powers did not reckon with the resolve of the Afrikaner to recover political power. Afrikaner political groupings regained control of the Free State and the Transvaal and, when the union of the four provinces …
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EVASIONI ALLO SPECCHIO: EVOLUZIONE E ASPETTI DELLA NARRATIVA DI ARTURO LORIA DAI PRIMI INEDITI A "LA SCUOLA DI BALLO"
… his stories and on himself through them. It is a stratagem to enshrine in his volumes both his autobiography and the “biography” of his writing technique. This incessant reflection is related ultimately to the modern conscience of the crisis of the subject and of reality: a crisis that in the …
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Development of SNAP-tag based fusion proteins as novel auristatin F-containing immunoconjugates and photoimmunotheranostics in the detection and treatment of triple-negative breast cancer
… a shift towards a personalized medicine stratagem. In conclusion, the combination of such immunoconjugates with a robust companion diagnostic panel provided by SNAP-tag, represents a first step towards the effective management of TNBC, with potential impact on the economic, social and …
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Fauxtopia
To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... …