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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"world society"”.
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Cross-border spatial planning in world society: a systems-theoretical perspective
Contains fulltext : 325170.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Can we be Civil? What Activists and Policymakers Tell Us about Human Rights and World Society
… in turn tells us about international and world society. It does this by identifying some underlying fissures in this debate that require a closer examination. These features are moral agency, the relationship between order and justice, and the basis of human rights, they each represent …
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International, National, and Local Notions of the Public Library: An extended case study in Namibia
… the diffusion of public libraries around the world. I used a sociological approach and the Extended Case Method (Burawoy, 1991; 1998). Two theories framed the research: World Society Theory (Meyer et al. 1997) and New Institutional Theory (Powell and DiMaggio, 1991). World Society Theory was …
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Shadows and light - a story collection
… a narrow understanding of ourselves and of the world. Society and any human being in it can't be so easily defined. The individuals that live within these pages are as flawed as any human, yet they have fascinated me with their ways of perceiving the world around them, of fitting into it, or …
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Panspermia
… of short stories set (mostly) in a near-future world. The stories included follow an arc starting in an early 90s arcade and ending with the founding of a new civilization on a distant planet. Technology plays a major part in each of the stories—ranging from video games to a Neuromancer-level …
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Inmate and Prison Gang Leadership.
… of a few concrete buildings, represent a society that is dissimilar from the free-world society.</p> <p>The purpose of this phenomenological study was to determine the characteristics of an inmate leader. Research data were collected through interviews with 20 prisoners located in the …
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La comunicazione della cooperazione allo sviluppo: gli Enti Pubblici. Analisi discorsive dei Siti Web
… consideartion the fact that in our contemporary society (that is to say a ‘Western’ and ‘First World’ society), the internet is a crucial public space for the mediation and the management of collective immagination, we chose the web sites of Public Bodies which are dedicated to International …
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The use of private military and security companies in international society: contestation and legitimation of state practice
… PMSCs is evolving in contemporary international society. The first part of the dissertation develops an analytical framework that combines theoretical propositions of the English School and the ‘German’ constructivist strand with a reflective-analyticist philosophical ontology and with content …
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Open abdomen therapy with vacuum-assisted wound closure and mesh-mediated fascial traction
… system for the OA has been proposed by the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WSACS), aimed at improving OA therapy and facilitating clinical research, but has not previously been evaluated. Aims: The aims were to study: - Short-term clinical outcome of OA therapy with …
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Application of the principle of minimization of entropy in the achievement of steady-state solutions for dynamic systems
… has identified attainment of a steady-state world system as an essential goal for human culture. This study investigates implications of steady-state systems using principles of thermodynamics in conjunction with Systems Dynamics simulation techniques. Evaluation of Forrester’s World Dynamics …
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As relações entre o direito internacional e a constitucionalização nos estados da sociedade mundial: a experiência da Assembleia Constituinte no Brasil de 1987-1988
O direito internacional se estrutura como um sistema da sociedade mundial que interage comunicativamente com o sistema de organização criado para manifestar o poder constituinte por meio de decisões que resultarão no texto constitucional. A doutrina descreve o sistema de direito internacional a …
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Psycho-history: An Integrated Approach to the Teaching of History in the High School
… land that no man cares about.|A child enters the world without knowledge of it. In the long run, what he can know and believe about the world depends on the attitude he learns to adopt toward it and toward himself. His early years are spent in exploring what the world contains, how he feels about …