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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"stumbling"”.
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Building or stumbling, blocks anyhow: a comparative approach of regional labour mobility frameworks towards global solutions
While concessions to labour mobility at the international level seem off the agenda, with the General Agreements on Trades in Services essentially tabled, the past decades have produced a proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs), some of which are facilitating labour mobility specifically. …
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Jacques Derrida, the sacred other and Seventh-day Adventism stumbling on the creative play of différance in Genesis 1
This thesis searches for that which is sacred to Jacques Derrida and ultimately concludes that if anything is sacred to him it is the other. This concern for the sacred is an attempt to ascertain Derrida’s relevance and value for religious traditions. Derrida’s ideas serve to destabilise (sacred) …
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Is international law a building or stumbling block to States' response to a legacy of massive atrocities? Reassessing the obligations to investigate and prosecute
Post-conflict situations, regime changes, and peace processes within situations of active hostility pose tremendous challenges for the governments and societies involved. The inherent dilemma between justice and the international obligations to investigate and prosecute a legacy of large-scale …
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Is the TRIPS Agreement and its' safeguards still a stumbling block in fulfilling the right to health and if so what should be done?
In order to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 the world must radically rethink the means of achieving the targets set by these Goals. The developing world is crippled by poverty and disease; HIV/ AIDS is rife in Africa and is spreading at frightening speed to many other parts of the …
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Using narratives and storytelling in career development : a South African distance learning perspective
… their framing of the nature of a career. Second, stumbling blocks acting as constraints not just to the lived experience but towards career development are presented in this thesis. Third, the way individuals work around these stumbling blocks through a process referred to as enacted negotiation …
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Partnering in Practice: A Look at Collaborative Student Teaching
… student teaching as well as overcome potential stumbling blocks. The successful experience described in this study demonstrates that paired student teaching can be an effective alternative to traditional student teaching.
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A technical evaluation of a novel cell-surface cytokine detection technology
… through high specific impulses. However, a major stumbling block to their widespread integration is uncertainty about the thruster plume's interaction with spacecraft components. While in-space data is difficult to collect, much experimental data from vacuum tank tests is readily available. …
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Computational modeling of a Hall thruster plasma plume in a vacuum tank
… through high specific impulses. However, a major stumbling block to their widespread integration is uncertainty about the thruster plume's interaction with spacecraft components. While in-space data is difficult to collect, much experimental data from vacuum tank tests is readily available. …
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Towards a deployable framework for delegation of authority in network applications
… Framework focus on addressing some of the stumbling blocks that have prevented delegation systems from becoming widely deployed in real world network applications. The Delegation Framework makes it possible to integrate delegation into an existing client-server network application without …
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Development of Software to Measure the Gravitational Redshift with RadioAstron
… (GR) and quantum theory continues to be a stumbling block in the unification of our understanding of the physical world. Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle, lying at the core of GR, are vital to constrain new theories that require departures from GR's predictions. One such test is …
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Re-examining the Cartesian mind: Dispelling a myth
… the Cartesian theory of the mental as the major stumbling block to any viable theory of either mental representation or consciousness. Accordingly, they take part of their task to be the undoing of the Cartesianism that infects our thinking about the mental. In The Concept of Mind, for example, …
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FACTORING CULTURE AND DISCOURSE INTO AN APPRAISAL OF THE NEOLIBERAL SYNTHESIS OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
… lies at the very core of CWM a more profound stumbling block: the conflict between indigenous African beliefs and rituals towards wildlife and the cold market rationality of CWM in its current form. As well as exploring these cultural dimensions, CWM is also analyzed as a discourse in which …
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The problem of sexuality: philosophy’s weak spot and the inconsistent nature of nature
… us to speculate beyond this traditional stumbling block. Through an investigation of Freud's theory of sexuality, this dissertation seeks to open up a series of philosophical questions that force us to re-think not only the nature of sexuality, but also the nature of nature itself. The …
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Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of selective sphingosine kinase inhibitors
… of isoenzyme-selective inhibitors has been a stumbling block for probing the exact roles of these two isoforms in disease progression. This report documents our efforts in developing SphK2-selective inhibitors. We provide the first demonstration of a SphK inhibitor containing a quaternary …
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Fight the Power: Protest, Showdown and Civil Rights Activity in Three Southern Cities, 1960-1965.
… reveal the racial injustice of the South. Stumbling into a campaign in Albany, SCLC found thr right method in the use of nonviolent direct action. While Albany was a failure, it was this campaign that led to the campaigns of Birmingham and Selma which led in passage of the Civil Rights Act …
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Development of a robotic platform for the exploration of hazardous environments
… design features and failings to avoid the many stumbling blocks for development of such a platform. Commercial robotic platforms such as the iRobot? Pock Bot were also investigated.
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A Study Of Effective Moment of Inertia Models for Full-Scale Reinforced Concrete T-Beams Subjected to a Tandem-Axle Load Configuration
… T-beam bridge. A bridge type that is a stumbling block for U.S. Army field engineers due to the unknown amount and placement of the flexural reinforcement in the T-beam girder cross-sections. Personnel from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineer's Waterways Experiment Station in cooperation with …
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PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN SCALABILITY: ADVANCEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND THE FUTURE
… such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have faced stumbling blocks in the form of scalability. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum process fewer than 20 transactions per second, which is significantly lower than their centralized counterpart such as VISA that can process approximately 1,700 transactions per …
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