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Riehm, Brian E. "FTS2000 : failed incentives, lessons learned." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23909.
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Mitchell, Nathaniel. "Perceptions of Failed Foster Care." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6246.
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The purpose of this action research study was to investigate social workers' perceptions of the problems that prevent successful family reunifications after foster care. The study explored social workers' perceptions of barriers that prevent family reunifications in central Mississippi. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory as the framework, the research question explored the problem from multiple levels of practice including family, individual, institutional, and community. The focus group approach aligned with the project goal by allowing participants opportunities to share experiences and perspectives regarding family reunifications. The study used a purposive sample of 10 participants who were practicing licensed social workers or certified mental health professionals in central Mississippi. Focus group responses were transcribed and coded by defining categories, assigning labels, and classifying relevant information using the comparative method. The key results of the study included that family reunification was impeded by the lack of training of child welfare social workers and limited resources to address psychosocial issues. The recommendations of the study included improving practice by engaging in mental health screening for foster children and families, promoting current knowledge and interventions by addressing psychosocial issues, and participating in program evaluation by targeting and strengthening policies. The impact of this study for positive social change includes understanding critical issues of family reunification after foster care stemming from lack of resources, unstable placements, and mental health issues.
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Čepilová, Barbora. "Failed States in International Relations." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-18244.
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The aim of the work Failed States in International Relations is the examination of this phenomenon regarding the terminological discrepancy, causes of the state fragility, security and social aspects and the various attitudes from the side of the international communities. A special part is dealing with so called "successfully failed states" where despite the obvious non-functioning the state is able to survive due to the revenues from the natural resources. The ?ndings are represented on the case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a country with huge potential but miserable performance by now.
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Přikryl, Pavel. "Failed states - případová studie Jemen." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-73566.
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The submitted diploma thesis deals with failed states and tries to find out whether the Republic of Yemen can be classified as a failed state. First of all, the diploma thesis defines the term state and its functions, and then focuses on the terminology of weak statehood that has come into existence in the international politics. The thesis concentrates on the Failed States Index and analyzes its social, political and economic indicators. The theory is later applied on the case of Republic of Yemen.
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Swinfield, Thomas William. "Failed replacement enhances tropical tree diversity." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574564.
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The Janzen-Connell (JC) hypothesis is a leading explanation for plant-species diversity in tropical forests. It predicts that host specialist natural enemies drive the disproportionate mortality of con specific juveniles close to adults, particularly when density is high. The survival of heterospecifics is thought to be unaffected because apparent competition is generally weak or absent. Consequently, if the JC effect is sufficiently intense, adults will not be replaced by conspecific individuals and species turnover will be promoted at forest sites, which has the potential to greatly enhance diversity. This thesis first demonstrates experimentally that natural enemies are capable of driving overcompensating density dependence in the seedlings of a tropical tree and that these natural enemies do not generate apparent competition. The potential for these short-term processes to develop into long-term recruitment inhibition is assessed by showing that adults are rarely replaced by con specific individuals, using Barro Colorado Island 50 ha plot datatset. However, self-replacement rates are shown to vary with landscape-scale abundance, adult-tree size and growth form. Finally, the diversity enhancing potential of self-replacement inhibition is measured using a simulation model in which the strength of density dependence is manipulated and the JC mechanism is compared to several alternative mechanisms for enhancing coexistence.
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Ruvalcaba, García Aldonza María. "How television failed to integrate Europe /." Genève : Institut européen de l'Université de Genève, 2007. http://www.unige.ch/ieug/publications/euryopa/ruvalcaba.pdf.
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Lewis, Avery. "An Overview of a Failed Thesis." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/503.
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An overview of a project based thesis that did not have the support or funding to be carried out to completion. The project was based around starting up a summer recruitment program for the East Tennessee State University Music Department. The program would consist of various summer events for high school students used to recruit for the department as well as encourage music and fine arts degrees.
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Sicksch, Lynsey Charlotte. "Auguries of Innocence: Failing Failed States." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104467.
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Thesis advisor: Gerald Easter<br>Thesis advisor: Timothy Crawford<br>Currently there are millions of people trapped within the confines of a failed state, where each day they are met with extreme risk in order to acquire the basic human needs. While these situations are easily classified as humanitarian emergencies, more often than not, the billions of dollars sent in aid harms the very communities they are charged to help. Through the case study of the world's most failed state, Somalia, this thesis defines and deconstructs state failure, explains life on-the-ground in Somalia, while suggesting solutions for the future<br>Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2010<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Political Science
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Petrik, Helena C. "The Chilean Model: Has it Failed?" Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556278330481684.
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Rahmanovic, Faruk. "Humanitarian Military Intervention: A Failed Paradigm." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6748.
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Since the end of the Cold War, traditional justifications for war have diminished in relevance and importance, while the use of Humanitarian Military Interventions (HMI) has proliferated, to the point that formerly traditional wars – e.g. Afghanistan and Iraq invasions – have become retroactively redefined as HMIs. While HMI suffers from a number of problems, from international law to historical track record, its proponents have managed to turn aside all arguments by claiming they represent either statistical outliers, improper implementation, or at best indicate a need for a certain degree of fine-tuning. Crucially, the validity of the HMI practice is never brought into question. In order to attempt to break this dialectic stalemate, this dissertation recasts HMI as a Kuhnian paradigm. Doing so provides for a better understanding of HMI as a holistic Weltanschauung, and allows the problems of HMI to be understood as anomalies. Unlike arguments, anomalies need not engage with every discrete position held by the paradigm. Instead, they serve as a direct demonstration of the untenability of a position, as evidenced by systemic failure to produce the desired results. Consequently, the paradigm approach allows for a binary resolution to the problems of HMI: either the anomalies can be explained by the paradigm, or the paradigm has failed. The present analysis begins with an examination of paradigms and their structures, and then follows the history and context of HMI is considered from a philosophical and historical perspectives. Then, the structure of HMI as a paradigm is unpacked, with the attendant ends, means, justifications, and implications. Finally, four categories of HMI anomalies are presented, leading to the conclusion that the HMI paradigm is a failed one.
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Niazaliev, Ouran. "Failed Democratic Experience In Kyrgyzstan: 1990-2000." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605282/index.pdf.
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This study seeks to analyze the process of transition and democratization in Kyrgyzstan from 1990 to 2000. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened new political perspectives for Kyrgyzstan and a chance to develop sovereign state based on democratic principles and values. Initially Kyrgyzstan attained some progress in building up a democratic state. However, in the second half of 1990s Kyrgyzstan shifted toward authoritarianism. Therefore, the full-scale transition to democracy has not been realized, and a well-functioning democracy has not been established. This study aims to focus on the impediments that led to the failure of establishing democracy in Kyrgyzstan. It analyzes the role of economy, political elites and political culture in the form of tribalism in Kyrgyzstan within the framework of the economic and political changes that have been undergoing since independence. The political and economic developments in Kyrgyzstan are discussed with specific reference to the hardships in economic transition, elite continuity and role of tribal and clan structures in present politics.
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Holmgren, Johan. "Terrorism : And its connection to failed states." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Political Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-8090.
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<p>Through the increase in globalization over the last twenty years the world has become ’smaller’. The many positive aspects of the phenomenon sometimes make us overlook the negative aspects of globalization. Just as economic markets and communication has moved beyond national borders one of the most negative aspects of society has also become global, namely terrorism. As terrorism has moved on to the global spectrum so has the prevention of terrorism. National governments that are trying to combat terrorism have begun to realize that problems that other nations are facing in another continent could eventually affect their national security. Other nation states that are experiencing state failure may become a national security risk. The aim of this thesis is to examine if global terrorist organizations take advantage of the many problems that a nation faces when it is subject to state failure. It has not been to examine the phenomenon of global terrorism itself or why certain nation states fail. It has rather been to see if there is a connection between the two and if so, how do global terrorist organizations take advantage of these opportunities?</p><p>The most famous, or infamous, global terrorist organization al Qaeda has on many occasions used the fact that a state is experiencing failure to their advantage. Many of the more common problems that a failed state will face (loss of territorial control, disastrous domestic economy, and bad leadership) have been exploited by al Qaeda who have been able to build an effective infrastructure, build training cams and religious schools, and gain public support in two of the most troubled nations in the world; Afghanistan and Sudan.</p><p>The conclusion that can be drawn from this examination of the connection between global terrorism and failed states is that terrorist organizations have on several occasions taken advantage of the problems associated with state failure in order to become stronger and build a working infrastructure. It is, however, important to note that terrorism is very rarely the reason fore state failure. Furthermore, the fact that a sate is experiencing state failure does not automatically mean that it will be a breathing ground for global terrorism.</p>
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Hedberg, Malin. "Failed Feminism? : Ursula K. Le Guin's Tehanu." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1743.
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<p>Failed Feminism?: Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel Tehanu</p><p>The purpose of this essay is to show that Ursula K. LeGuin’s fantasy novel Tehanu instead of breaking away from traditional gender roles maintains them, despite the novel’s promises of change. I begin by showing the places where the possibilities of change are indicated, and then I use feminist criticism to show that there is no change in the gender roles.</p><p>I have examined the gender roles in Tehanu, by taking a closer look at the characters and the roles they have in the plot. Numerous critics claim that this novel is Le Guin’s attempt to revise her earlier, more traditional fantasy novels in the Earthsea trilogy, and that Tehanu works as a feminist reaction to the Earthsea trilogy. However, even though Le Guin makes the traditional patriarchal gender roles apparent to the unaware reader, the protagonists have internalised the patriarchal values of their society when the novel closes, which may be fairly disappointing to the reader who brings feminist awareness to the reading of novel. The women are depicted as caregivers, and the men are portrayed as the decision-makers. The gender roles are as traditional as they can be with Ged as the man who is capable to read the wizard’s books, with Tehanu who stays with her family and does not leave with the dragons, and with Tenar as the woman who takes care of the household.</p>
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Burns, Christine Vanda Law Faculty of Law UNSW. "Online legal services - a revolution that failed?" Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Law, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/32468.
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In the late 1990s a number of law firms and other organisations began to market online products which "package" legal knowledge. Unlike spreadsheets, word processing software and email, these products are not designed to provide efficiency improvements. Rather, online legal knowledge products, which package and apply the law, were and are viewed by many as having the potential to make major changes to legal practice. Many used the term &quitrevolution" to describe the anticipated impact. Like any new technology development, many intersecting factors contributed to their development. In many ways they built on existing uses of technology in legal practice. The various information technology paradigms which underpin them - text retrieval, expert systems/artificial intelligence, document automation, computer aided instruction (CAI) and hypertext - were already a part of the "computerisation of law". What is new about online legal knowledge products is that as well as using technology paradigms such as expert systems or document automation to package and apply the law, they are developed using browser-based technologies. In this way they leverage the comparative ease of development and distribution capabilities of the Internet (and/or intranets). There has been particular interest in the impact of online legal knowledge products on the legal services provided to large commercial organisations. With the increasing burden of corporate compliance, expanding role of the in-house lawyer and pressure to curb costs, online legal knowledge products should flourish in commercial organisations and many have been adamant that they will. However, there is no convincing evidence that anything like a "revolution" has taken place. Success stories are few and far between. Surprisingly few have asked whether this "revolution" has failed, or seriously analysed whether it lies ahead. If it does lie ahead, what factors, if any, need to taken into account in order for it to take place? If there is to be no revolution, what value should be placed on online legal knowledge products? In this dissertation I use the findings of my own empirical work, supported by a literature survey, to demonstrate that the impact of online legal knowledge products has been modest. I argue that in order to build successful online legal knowledge products it is necessary to appreciate that a complex system of interacting factors underpins their development and use,and address those factors. I propose a schematic representation of the relationships involved in producing an online legal knowledge product and use the findings of some empirical work, together with a review the literature in related fields, to identify the factors relevant to the various components of this framework. While there are many interacting factors at play, four sets of considerations emerge from my research as particularly important: integrating different technology paradigms, knowledge acquisition, usability, and implementation. As a practical matter, the implication of these findings is that some online legal knowledge products are more likely to be successful than others, and that there are other technology applications that may represent a better investment of the limited in-house technology budget than many online legal knowledge products. I also argue that while most of the challenges involved in integrating different technology paradigms, improving usability, and effective implementation can be addressed with varying levels of effort, the problem of the knowledge acquisition bottleneck is intractable. New approaches to knowledge acquisition are required to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck. I identify some potential approaches that emerge from my research: automation, collaboration and coalition, phasing and simple solutions.
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Malandra, Allyson Jean. "How I failed to get my MFA." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1687.
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This is the thorough examination of Allyson Malandra's process of becoming a character, and the many different challenges and triumphs she has faced throughout the past three years of developing her craft. It also aims to bring into focus where the work will be headed throughout the many years to come.
The goal of this process paper is to examine the many different details and intricacies that go into a role, and also how to troubleshoot problems that may arise throughout the journey. Our process is how we, as actors, attempt to create life on stage, and discover and unfold the underlying truth that connects all human beings. It is understood that each role for an actor will present a different set of chges, and therefore it is important to understand a baseline process that gets at the core of the actor's work. Through examination of this process, previous and current chges in the work will be discussed, as well as ways to move through these issues. Ideas on what is valuable in acting will be discussed, as a way of staying centered and focused, and also retaining quality in the craft. The examination will also explore three main pillars of the work--breathe, listen, and play--and how these anchor Allyson's artistry. The ultimate goals of this examination are to create a support for the process, to chge her work in the future, and to help her continue to grow and expand, both as an artist and as a person.
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Gerke, Jill R. "Failed Supernovae, Dusty Stars and Cepheid Distances." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405528289.
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Adams, Scott M. "Stellar Death by Weak or Failed Supernovae." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468850125.
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Chang, Ava. "Linguistic Deception Cues in Selected Narrative Disclosures Contained in Prospectuses of Failed and Non-Failed New Zealand Finance Companies." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Accounting and Information Systems, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8926.
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With the judicial system worldwide investigating finance companies for misleading disclosures, deception has become a topical issue. However, deception is an area that has historically not been favoured in academia. The paper aims to determine whether disclosure practices of failed companies show more characteristics of deception than those of viable companies. The research will involve a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including the use of content analysis and the software DICTION. An index of deception is constructed. The higher the deception score, the more deceptive the authors are deemed to be. This study tests this argument with respect to the prospectuses of a sample of failed and non-failed New Zealand finance companies.
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Ferretti, Silvia. "Failed Cross-Cultural Humor in English-Italian Interactions." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20568/.
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The aim of this dissertation is to investigate why some humor attempts in cross-cultural interaction between English and Italians can fail. Although both countries are located in the same continent, are only divided by about 2,000 km and share a lot of similarities, they also have profound cultural and language-related differences. In particular, cultural differences and language-related problems are often the cause of misunderstandings and awkwardness in cross-cultural interaction, and humor understanding and production is particularly challenging for L2 speakers. For this reason, understanding the causes behind some failed humor attempts could be an effective way to gain a deeper understanding of humor dynamics in both cultures, without forgetting the role played by individual factors. The aim of this dissertation will be achieved through the analysis of 23 examples of recorded interaction taken from TV shows, interviews and podcasts in which there were (at least) one Italian and one English interlocutor and (at least) one of them was an L2 speaker of the other language. Most examples are taken from food-related broadcasts and football interviews and press conferences, as both fields of emerged as the ones with some of the most prominent shares of Italian native interlocutors, given that Italian cuisine is highly appreciated in the UK and that many Italian managers and footballers are hired by Premier League football clubs.
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Hsu, Hwa-Hsien. "Corporate governance of failed firms in the UK." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494589.
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A series of financial collapses in the UK in the late 1980s resulted in public concem about failures in the governance of companies, leading to the Cadbury Report (1992). However those scandals have not resulted in much attention being paid to the corporate govemance characteristics of failed firms in the empirical analysis. This thesis uses a dynamic view to extend existing knowledge of corporate govemance mechanisms in the context of corporate failure in the UK. The purpose of this thesis is to empirically examine the effects of static and dynamic governance characteristics on corporate failure, and to investigate the telationships between changes in govemance mechanisms and changes in performance prior to failure.
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Benson, Josef D. "Failed Heroes: Hypermasculinity in the Contemporary American Novel." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3975.
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My study highlights a link of U.S. American hypermasculinity running through Cormac McCarthy's two novels Blood Meridian (1985) and All the Pretty Horses (1992), Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), and James Baldwin's Another Country (1960). My literary interpretations of these texts suggest that U.S. American hypermasculine man originated in the American frontier and transformed into a definition of hegemonic masculinity embraced by many southern rural American men. These southern rural American men then concocted the myth of the black rapist in order to justify the mass murder of African American men after Reconstruction, inadvertently creating a figure more hypermasculine than themselves. Many black men embraced the myth of the black rapist as well as the baser patriarchal aspects of white male southern power. Consequently, black hypermasculinity evolved into the paragon of American hypermasculinity.
Failed Heroes further argues that some protagonists in postwar American literature heroically fail in order not to perpetuate hypermasculinities. Continuing a modernist trend of anti-heroism, the selected protagonists develop into marginalized men due to their failure to live up to hypermasculine societal expectations. The protagonists' failure to perpetuate hypermasculinities proves heroic since it illustrates the destructiveness of these sensibilities; as a result, a sense of ironic heroism emerges from the narratives.
In Blood Meridian, set in the mid-nineteenth century U.S. American West, the kid fails heroically to construct a masculine identity outside of the textual order of the judge, indicting the hypermasculine philosophies of the judge and calling into question the book's violence. In no way is the kid a classic hero; rather, his collapse exists as a direct critique of the judge's destructive philosophies.
In All the Pretty Horses, set in the mid-twentieth century U.S. American South, John Grady fails to actualize his cowboy fantasy, but proves heroic in exposing its danger and destructiveness. At the end of the novel he vanishes into the countryside a failure, but unlike the mythic cowboy, he assumes the role of heroic failure because his narrative contributes to the relinquishment of a destructive male myth.
In Song of Solomon, set in Ohio and Virginia during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movements, Milkman Dead functions as a black man who has the opportunity to break free from choking definitions of black masculinity. In the end he fails to break free and flies to Africa, leaving his family and his only hope at real freedom, his aunt Pilate, to die. Continuing a cycle of male flight at the expense of his family, community, and cultural guide renders him a failure. Morrison's final critique of hypermasculinity positions Pilate as the failed hero and shifts the emphasis of the novel to the women who represent victims of kinship systems and the incest taboo. The incest in the novel functions as a metaphor for Pilate's philosophy that black identity ought to come from black culture, a notion I call cultural incest.
Another Country, set in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s, details the plight of an urban African American man struggling to reconcile his homosexual desire with the black hypermasculine cool pose he dons as overcompensation. Rufus Scott's death proves heroic as a critique of the rigid definitions of urban black masculinity.
African Americans, and by extension all Americans, might employ their U.S. American history of oppression as a platform for a new vision of masculinity based on heteronormative failure and queerness. The association of blackness with oppression, and as a result non-normative sexuality, presents an opportunity to redefine blackness as abjection. The very failure of African Americans in measuring up to destructive notions of hypermasculinity might exist as a new definition of blackness and masculinity for all Americans.
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Saouma, Sophie M. "Lebanon and Hizbullah: Investigating the Failed State Model." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/504.
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This thesis investigates the failed state label on Lebanon. The thesis explores how Lebanon falls under the paradigm and how Lebanon contradicts, at times, the failed state model with the inclusion of Hizbullah.
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Fitzpatrick, Lacey. "African Failed States and the Personal Rule Paradigm." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1167.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Sciences<br>Political Science
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Rivera, Elias Alexander. "Fatigue Assessment for Failed Bridge Deck Closure Pour." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33242.
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After 17 years in service, a 3 ft by 3 ft closure pour section of an Interstate 81 (I-81)
bridge deck failed by punching through near Marion, Virginia. Visual inspection noted
that there was considerable corrosion on some of the reinforcing bars in the vicinity of
the construction joint, while other failure bars had little or no corrosion. Sections of the
bridge deck were cut and delivered to Virginia Tech for further investigation.
It was clear from an initial investigation that shrinkage of the deck concrete had caused
the construction joints to open and thereby allow water and chlorides to enter the joint. In
addition, it was observed that several bars across the closure pour construction joints had
suffered significant section loss due to corrosion, but it was not clear if fatigue and
strength failure of the reinforcing bars were also contributing factor in the closure pour
failure.
To study the problem four fatigue tests and five strength tests performed. The specimens
included six slab strips cut from the I-81 bridge deck, with the 3-ft closure pour included,
and three additional specimens that were cast in the laboratory to represent a base line for
performance. A three-point loading setup was used for both fatigue and strength tests.
However, for the final strength and fatigue tests, a jacking system was designed and
implemented in an effort to open the closure pour construction joints to simulate the open
joints of the I-81 bridge.
The objectives of this research program are to provide a better understanding of the
closure pour failure mechanism, develop inspection procedures for Virginia Department
of Transportation (VDOT) to assess its bridge inventory containing similar construction
joints, and to develop recommendations for future construction of similar construction
joints.<br>Master of Science
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Abbas, Ebrahim K. "Corrosion Assessment for Failed Bridge Deck Closure Pour." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36352.
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Corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete is a significant problem around the world. In the United States, there are approximately 600,000 bridges. From those bridges 24% are considered structurally deficient or functionally obsolete based on the latest, December 2010, statistic from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Mainly, this is due to chloride attack present in deicing salts which causes the reinforcing steel to corrode. Different solutions have been developed and used in practice to delay and prevent corrosion initiation.
The purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of corrosion on the failure mechanism that occurred on an Interstate 81 bridge deck. After 17 years in service, a 3ft x3ft closure pour section punched through. It was part of the left wheel path of the south bound right lane of the bridge deck. The bridge deck was replaced in 1992 as part of a bridge rehabilitation project, epoxy coated reinforcement were used as the reinforcing steel. Four slabs from the bridge deck, containing the closure, were removed and transported to the Virginia Tech Structures and Materials Research Laboratory for further evaluation. Also, three lab cast slabs were fabricated as part of the assessment program.
Corrosion evaluation and concrete shrinkage characterization were conducted in this research. The corrosion evaluation study included visual observation, clear concrete cover depth, concrete resistivity using single point resistivity, half-cell potential, and linear polarization using the 3LP device. Shrinkage characteristics were conducted on the lab cast slabs only, which consisted of monitoring shrinkage behavior of the specimens for 180 days and comparison of the data with five different shrinkage models. Based on the research results, guidance for assessment of other bridge decks with similar conditions will be constructed to avoid similar types of failures in the future.<br>Master of Science
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Roupcová, Martina. "Zhroucené státy v mezinárodních vztazích na příkladu Afghánistánu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-18305.
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This work contains 4 main parts. Firstly, it is focused on application of the concept of failed states and the theoretical point of view. Second part offers 4 theoretical principals concerning with the problem o failed states. In the third part it brings an analysis of the situation in Afghanistan by using Failed state Index. The last part offers case study about Czech mission in Afghanistan.
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Wells, Jessica. "Puerperal Fever in Britain: Failed Models of Disease Causation." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3699.
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In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, a bacterial infection which we now
know to be caused primarily by a streptococcus, was killing women in childbirth at an
alarming rate. The disease, called puerperal, or childbed, fever, was being transmitted
primarily from doctor to patient by a doctor’s unwashed hands and filthy, contaminated
clothing and linens. Despite this evident and, in retrospect, obvious vector, the doctors of
this period never discovered how to prevent their patients from dying a gruesome and
painful death. Many physicians wrote extensive accounts of the illness but often ended
their works in despair, unable to find the cause. Much of the historical literature blames
this befuddlement on personality traits of the physicians, arguing that egos and
professional hostilities prevented the kind of cooperation that could have led to progress.
This study attempts to show that this failure was not a product of personalities but
of the modern physicians’ assumptions and logic. The assumptions were the stillpowerful,
but often unnoticed, dictates about the human body handed down from ancient
Greek medicine. The logical errors were a product of pre-scientific notions of definition,
explanation, and evidence. The author argues that it was not a lack of data that thwarted
the physicians, but a series of these intellectual roadblocks that prevented them from
understanding and extended the terror of puerperal fever for another two centuries.
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Kim, Yejoo. "Why corporatism failed : comparing South Africa and South Korea." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95881.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study the aim is to examine what the impact of the imbalance in the power dynamics between the state, business and labour is on corporatist institutions in South Africa and South Korea. In both countries, the corporatist institutions have failed to bring the actors together and to resolve the various issues as these institutions were expected to do. When looking at the establishment of corporatist institutions in the two countries it is clear that the state had to incorporate the interests of labour in their decision-making process due to the increasing power of labour during the democratisation process. However, the current situation proves that the corporatist institutions in South Africa and South Korea have faced various problems. Therefore why the corporatist institutions in the two countries have not functioned properly is explored in this study.
It was found that labour has been placed at a disadvantage compared to the state and business. The influence of labour as an agenda setter and a representative of labour has diminished. On the other hand the state and business, which used to form a coalition under the authoritarian governments, have started gaining power along with globalisation. The adoption of neo-liberal economic policies, has resulted in the fragmentation of labour, generating unemployment and irregular jobs. The imbalance of power between the actors has negatively affected the corporatist institutions. Under the circumstances, the corporatist institutions did not ensure that the voice of labour was heard and heeded. Instead of using corporatism, labour in South Africa tends to use the tripartite alliance in order to advance its interests. Labour in South Korea is likely to use mass action, and this tendency prevails in South Africa as well. Also, the corporatist institutions have been criticised due to their lack of accountability and institutional problems; this has negatively affected their credibility. The corporatist institutions have become little more than names.
In the cases of South Africa and South Korea, corporatism seems to have been adopted as a mere crisis response when the two countries faced political economic crises and it is seen as another control mechanism created by states experiencing democratisation. Furthermore, the imbalance in the relationship between actors negatively affected the corporatist institutions and in the end they collapsed.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie word die impak van die magsbalans tussen die staat, sakesektor en georganiseerde arbeid op korporatisme in Suid-Afrika en Suid-Korea ondersoek. In beide gevalle het die korporatiewe instellings nie daarin geslaag om die nodige konsensus tussen die drie sleutel akteurs te bewerkstellig nie. As gevolg van demokratiseringsprosesse in beide state, en die toenemende invloed van arbeid, was die staat verplig om die belange van arbeid in besluitnemingsprosesse in ag te neem. Die korporatiewe instellings in Suid-Afrika, nl. NEDLAC en die KTC in Suid-Korea staar egter verskeie probleme in die gesig, Waarom die korporatiewe instellings nie behoorlik gefunksioneer het nie, word in die studie onder die loep geneem. Arbeid het in ‘n onderdanige posisie jeens die staat en die sake sektor te staan gekom aangesien die invloed van georganiseerde arbeid as ‘n agenda skepper en verteenwoordiger van arbeid afgeneem het. Aan die ander kant het die aanvanklike koalisie tussen die staat en die sakesektor gedurende die outoritere periodes - voor demokratisering - weer eens verstewig as gevolg van die invloed van globalisering. Namate neo-liberale ekonomiese beleide nagevolg is, het die vakbond beweging al meer gedisintegreer, werkloosheid het toegeneem en gelei tot werksgeleenthede wat al meer tydelik en ongereguleer is. Die ongelyke magsbalans tussen die rolspelers het die korporatistiese instellings negatief beinvloed.
Onder die omstandighede, kon die korporatistiese instellings nie daarin slaag om aan die stem van arbeid gehoor te gee soos wat gehoop is nie. In plaas daarvan om dus van die korporatistiese instellings gebruik te maak, het arbeid in Suid-Afrika eerder van die vakbond beweging se rol in die regerende alliansie gebruik gemaak om beleid te probeer beinvloed. Arbeid in Suid-Korea, soos in Suid-Afrika, is ook meer geneig om van massa aksie gebruik te maak. Daarbenewens is die korporatiewe instellings daarvan beskuldig dat hulle nie deursigtig is nie en gebuk gaan onder institutionele gebreke, wat die geloofwaardigheid van die instellings ondermyn het.
In die Suid-Afrikaanse en Suid-Koreaanse gevalle blyk dit dat korporatisme bloot as ‘n soort ‘krisis reaksie’ tot ekonomiese en politieke probleme ontwikkel het – in samehang met demokratisering - en nie as diepgaande beieldsprosesse in eie reg nie. Die gebrek aan ‘n magsbalans tussen die drie rolspelers het daartoe gelei dat die korporatiewe instellings in beide gevalle effektief tot niet gekom het.
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KUNIEDA, Minoru, Yoshihito YAMAMOTO, Hikaru NAKAMURA, and Y. Hanifi GEDIK. "3D-RBSM ANALYSIS OF DEEP BEAM FAILED IN SHEAR." 日本コンクリート工学会, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/20928.
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MacCarthy, Conor. "Failed entities : culture and politics in Ireland 1969-1991." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309443.
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Geiß, Robin [Verfasser]. "»Failed States«. : Die normative Erfassung gescheiterter Staaten. / Robin Geiß." Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1238345581/34.
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Rajakumar, Nolan. "Why Empirical Studies of the Groupthink Model have Failed." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2080.
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The theory of groupthink has been highly beneficial in the study of how groups make decisions. It has permeated almost every field containing decision making groups. Despite its popularity, there has been a surprising lack of empirical support for the model. It is the aim of this paper to suggest a possible explanation for the current state of groupthink research. First the groupthink model is described briefly, followed by a look at several selected empirical and case studies of groupthink. A potential reason for the dearth of empirical is then proposed along with a suggestion for future groupthink research.
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Mihatsch, Moritz Anselm. "Stories of a failed nation : Sudanese politics 1945-69." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:96421286-02ab-49bd-92be-31f74526110d.
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Between 1945 and 1969 the Sudanese achieved independence and overthrew a military junta with a popular uprising. Nevertheless both democratic periods were quickly ended by military coups. At the same time a civil war divided the country. The thesis asks why the democratic structures were so unstable, and unable to end the conflict between north and south. It argues that the ideas about the Sudanese nation by different groups were so contradictory, that no nation could be built. As a result, the political system failed to find a stable form and to deliver policy results to the constituents. The thesis is using political parties as units of analysis and primarily the constitutional process and, secondarily, questions of independence and sovereignty, as prisms. It discusses the history of the political parties within the context of the political history of Sudan. The discussions about the constitution are understood as one form of expressing ideas about the nation. The thesis presents the different suggestions for the constitution by different parties, especially in regards to governance, federalism, and religion. These contradictory ideas led to the failure of the constitution writing process. The thesis argues that the contradictory positions of the parties created a dual deadlock, which led to a breakdown of democracy. Firstly, due to reciprocal distrust, widely diverging platforms, and generally the difficulty of forming coalition governments, especially in the absence of a democratic tradition, coalitions became extremely unstable and politicians were forced to invest a lot of time and effort to keep coalitions alive and in consequence concrete political actions did not receive enough attention. Secondly, the divergent perceptions of the nation led to a situation where they stopped to see each other as part of the same nation and therefore stopped to recognise others as legitimately participating in the political process.
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Carlisle, Jane. "Lone motherhood and failed transitions : pathways to criminal careers?" Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10873/.
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Heinimann, David. "A portrait of the young man as a failed artist /." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66151.
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Nuzum, Robin. "Jean Toomer, or, How the failed race man performed modernity." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0002580.
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Schröder, Hinrich. "Die völkerrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit im Zusammenhang mit failed und failing States /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015477608&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Lin, Jason C. "Assessment of prematurely failed pavement sections with accelerated load testing." Ohio : Ohio University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1175186324.
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Olinger, Mary L. "Proplast Implants: Journalists Failed to Inform Consumers About the Risks." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292255.
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Wu, Cheng-Chung. "Railway privatisation in Taiwan : a case of failed policy transfer." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510682.
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Gibson, Andrew Edward. "The abandoned ocean : a history of failed U.S. maritime policy." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336505.
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Lotrionte, Catherine B. "The missing piece why intelligence reform failed after 9/11 /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3315459.
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Burke, William Paul. "The North Carolina Loyalists: Faulty Linchpin of a Failed Strategy." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539624400.
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Wilson, Ronald 1950. "Richmond's 6th Street Marketplace : assessment of a failed festival market." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79951.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.<br>Title as it appeared in M.I.T. Graduate List, Sept. 1989: Richmond Festival Marketplace.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92).<br>by Ronald Wilson.<br>M.S.
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Yadav, Ajitkumar. "Fault Diagnosis in Failed Functional Test Sequences at RTL Level." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2041.
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Proposed is a formulation for quick diagnosis of the sources of failure in a failing system level test when functional input sequences are applied. We use implicit function based methods to identify the set of all possible input test sequences corresponding to a given output sequence. Our approach does quick defect isolation due to reduced complexity at the RT level abstraction of the circuit. The proposed formulation is modeled using Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). Solvers based on SMT can effectively model RT level circuit descriptions written in behavioral and structural Verilog and much more efficient than traditional Boolean satisfiability. We are able to generate test pattern for all ISCAS’89 RTL benchmark and synthetic (ISCAS’89 RTL module connected to each other) circuits. Our result demonstrates quick defect detection and diagnostic test generation.
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DiRutigliano, Corey Michael. "City Centered; Debating the Future of a Failed Downtown Mall." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243531685.
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Kenning, Douglas W. "A failed religion : necessity and freedom in the Romantic poets." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19007.
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Tokumoto, Hiroko. "The god that failed : the literary trajectory of Shimao Toshio." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31148.
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The topic of this thesis is the literary career of Shimao Toshio, as far as possible considered as a whole. It is my contention that previous scholarship has merely focused on the details of his sometimes riotously surrealistic storytelling, and has almost entirely neglected to ask what was the course of his overall development and the forces which drove his evolution as a writer.
The first chapter covers Shimao's early work, life, and wartime experiences. Drawing on his pre-war writings, which have been almost entirely neglected by previous scholars, I demonstrate that the sense of alienation engendered by his unusual life experiences and upbringing already flourished before he entered the military as a suicide pilot. His military career on the one hand reinforced earlier trends, in that he was never sent on an attack and was thus once again rejected by death, and on the other put him in a unnatural and displaced position, as he unwittingly became almost a deity to the simple islanders among which he was stationed. Marrying an island woman, he took this social displacement along with him in the microclimate of his family for the first decade of the peace.
The second chapter covers Shimao's period of falseness, the time in which he still tried to maintain the unnaturally prominent position his experience on the island had thrust him into. His tensions erupt in his stories, many of which are set in entirely surrealistic surroundings. Any account of his career must explain why he writes precisely this type of story at
just this time: the "dream" fiction is characteristic of this time, and he does not write it before or afterwards. The story "Everyday Life in a Dream" is analyzed as the novelist's hara no naka "inner reality" - a fantasy of utter passivity, resenting the present inability of the other, the one above, to take its superior place. (It is most definitely not allegorical of the birth of the writer, but rather of his dissolution.) During this time, the false god is rebelling against his fate, in concealed and indirect way. However, we note that he is also undermining himself in real life, by episodes of poorly concealed infidelity.
The third chapter deals with the stories of retrospective confession he wrote after submitting to the leadership of his wife, which used a realistic mode of narration to relate how inadequate he really had been. They are dry relations of inferiority and internal conflict. "When We Never Left Port," the chief work under analysis here, could well have been subtitled, "Why I Was Never Fit to Become a God."
The fourth chapter deals with The Sting of Death, the series of linked stories in which Shimao wrote a history of his fall and his wife's rise. "The Sting of Death" - is sin, but what is the primary sin in Christianity? The pride that leads man to set himself equal to or above god - read here, the pride that leads Shimao to set himself equal to or above his wife. His false pride must be broken before they can live in peace, through a long process of interrogation and humiliation. The end product is a reversal of roles, the symbolic death of incarceration in a mental home, and a rebirth into her mileau. The image of their rotten old bamboo fence being replaced with a
new, white one drives home the reality of the new god in the shrine of the home. Images of darkness and rain are prominent - the bright, male deity is being extinguished and reborn as a follower
Thus Shimao's career may be seen as a journey that began with him in a false role, sinning against his wife in the same way Lucifer sinned against God. "Beware pride, by that sin the angels fell." However, he has a chance to recompense his sin by sacrificing all his poor shreds of individuality on the altar of his wife's worship. When he does, they for the first time enter a state of solidly founded relative happiness, and his work ceases to show the surrealistic strain it demonstrated before. Indeed, it soon degenerates into something rather mediocre and workmanlike.
Finally, we attempt a very brief comparison of Shimao and Tanizaki as woman-worshippers. Both are submissions based on blind idealization, but in Tanizaki's case, the submission is made freely - his characters blind themselves with open eyes, so to speak, as in A Portrait of Shunkin (where this is literally true). Tanizaki's "mad old man" chooses of his own free will to spend eternity beneath the feet of his daughter in law - he wants it, he schemes to have it, for the good reason that this is what he enjoys. Even in slavery he excercises his own powers of free choice. But poor Shimao has no such choice. He can merely struggle along, waiting to be put back in his natural position, that of the shadow. Only then is he happy.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Asian Studies, Department of<br>Graduate
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Beckerman, Drew M. "Short-Term Stock Market Response to “Say On Pay” Failed Votes." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/492.
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The Say on Pay vote, part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed into law by Barack Obama in July 2010, is a non-binding vote that either approves or disapproves of the compensation given to Named Executive Officers. As of June 21, 2012, there have been 103 companies that have failed to reach 50% approval in this vote. For this paper I analyze the 103 companies over event windows of two, four, and ten days around the date of the failure to test for statistically significant abnormal stock market returns. None of the average cumulative abnormal returns for the three event windows are significant at any level, and I find no evidence that failing the Say on Pay vote corresponds to an increase or decrease in stock market returns.
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Lisbona, Allan Elie. "Apoptosis at the pseudomembrane-bone interface of failed total hip arthroplasties." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21596.
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The terminal events leading to periprosthetic osteolysis are multifactorial and attempts to modulate this process after the stage of modulator release have been futile. Cell death at the osteolytic interface of failed total hip arthroplasties (THAs) may occur via one of two modes---Apoptosis (programmed cell death/cellular suicide) vs. Necrosis. Apoptosis (PCD) is an active form of cell death that results in---among other things---orderly fragmentation of DNA and specific protein synthesis. The purpose of this study was to determine the mode of cell death at this interface. TdT-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) stain and immunodetection of terminin protein were used to identify apoptosis.<br>Our studies demonstrated that 31% (range 7--56%) of cells of pseudomembrane were positive for TUNEL stain. Moreover, the presence of apoptosis was the same at both the femoral and acetabular sides of the prostheses. In addition, pseudomembrane (PM) specimens stained for the 30 kDa terminin protein, an apoptosis-specific protein. The results demonstrate that apoptosis is occurring at the PM-bone interface of THAs suggesting that apoptosis, related events may be associated with periprosthetic osteolysis.