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Swart, Elizabeth. "Strategies for coping with gender-based violence a study of young women in Kibera, Kenya." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5060.

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Research on gender-based violence in the developing world is finally beginning to get serious attention. But that research is, unfortunately, still overlooking violence to women in the burgeoning slums and informal settlements around the globe. The current study is one of the first to address the issue of gender-based violence in slum communities by presenting both qualitative and quantitative data from Kibera, Kenya--the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa. Qualitative data were derived from the diaries of twenty women between the ages of 18-30 living in Kibera. Diary data were collected from 2007-2010. Quantitative data were derived from a survey administered to 200 Kiberan women in December, 2009. Results of the study's qualitative component show that women in Kibera use three main coping strategies to deal with gender-based violence. Although none of the strategies guarantees a cessation of violence, the endurance and faith strategy appears to be the most frequently chosen strategy and the one most effective in keeping women safe. The study also reveals a parallel between coping strategy and narrative style among the diarists, raising provocative questions about the relationship between journal writing and women's agency. Survey results show a higher rate of gender-based violence among women in Kibera (84.5%) than was measured among the general population (39%) in the KDHS (2008). The study also reveals that, although both diarists and survey participants appear to endure gender-based violence more often than they rebel against it, their attitudes toward gender-based violence are anything but accepting. Instead, both diarists and survey participants report that they do not believe gender-based violence is justified and that they are angry and upset over the amount of violence they experience.
ID: 029809162; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-208).
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Sociology
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Sun, Brian John. "Kibitz : a framework for creating recommender systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113103.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62).
Recommender systems are one of the most vital and ubiquitous parts of the modern web. They are used by many major internet services such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. However, there is a wealth of content and data that remains untapped by mainstream commercial recommender systems. We have designed and implemented Kibitz, a framework that allows anyone to create a recommender system on top of an arbitrary collection of items. We have developed a web application that facilitates the creation, customization and deployment of standalone websites for browsing and rating items as well as receiving item recommendations. We have also created a set of libraries for embedding rating and recommendation functionality into other websites. Partnering with local bookstores, we evaluated the process of using Kibitz to build recommender systems for their communities.
by Brian John Sun.
M. Eng.
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Ghidini, Alessandro. "A visão das problemáticas habitacionais segundo perpetivas modulares." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12687.

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Rosenblad, Anton, and Sebastian Nyström. "Pamoja FM – The voice of Kibera : How young Kenyan adults in Kibera perceive the local urban community radio and how it influences the community." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-17120.

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Media in Nairobi is segmented when it comes to news and information; different media target different audience groups in the society through their preferred channels in search of news and information.     In Kibera, the biggest slum area in Nairobi and in whole East Africa, the urban slum community radio station Pamoja FM only works for the citizens living within Kibera. We aimed to find out how the youth in Kibera perceive the efficacy of the radio station as a viable source of news and information. We wanted to establish how important this radio station is to them as a tool of empowerment and knowledge to the youth.   Through semi-structured interviews with the youth in Kibera we carried out a qualitative research study during ten weeks, from October until December in 2011. We walked the field in Kibera to gather as much data as possible, and our findings were very interesting.   Key theories used in this study included the participatory communication model, the media dependency model and the uses and gratifications model.   The findings indicated that Pamoja FM has a great influence in the community as it is considered the most important source for news and information for the youth in this slum, and provides a platform that meets their needs as active participating audiences to the content supplied by the radio station. The radio is accredited to have changed the citizens´ way of thinking about tribalism since the post-election violence in 2007; the young women have assertively declared their space by playing a more proactive role in the community and audiences are empowered with home-grown problem solving skills that have bettered their lives and in pursuit for peace.
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Pandurangi, Sindhu. "Diffusion Tensor Imaging Investigation of Kibra Genotypes." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244485.

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A sample of 130 adults over the age of 50 underwent diffusion tensor imaging and KIBRA genotyping. The relations between KIBRA genotype and white matter integrity were investigated through measures of Fractional Anisotropy and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient. No statistically significant findings were obtained.
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Osborn, Michelle. "Authority in a Nairobi slum : chiefs and bureaucracy in Kibera." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573588.

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This ethnography focuses on the contemporary existence of chiefs'in Kenya as situated in the longue duree of colonial and post-colonial history, tracing how sl)ifting Kenyan rule has contributed to chiefs' changing authority. Kenya's chiefs offer a unique lens for exploring urban govemance and the establishment and negotiation of local authority and legitimacy. Chiefs form the foundation of Kenya's Provincial Administration, which has remained the comerstone of the Kenya state and local govemance since its colonial inception. However, . chiefs' sovereignty has become increasingly fragmented over the last twenty years, particularly within urban areas, through the reintroduction of multi-party politics, the politicized mobilization of militant youth, and policy amendments related to chiefs' authority. This study is set in Kibera, which is one of the oldest and largest urban settlements in Nairobi, and where Kenya's flourishing political pluralism is particularly evident. Historical and political forces converge in Kibera to reveal changing and negotiated interactions between state and local actors. Chiefs struggle to negotiate authority and legitimacy; nevertheless they remain crucial to contemporary urban govemance at the local level. Providing a study of the Kenyan state in practice, this dissertation accounts for the creation of chiefs as well as their changing role within the evolution of the Provincial Administration. This study also enhances understanding of govemance within informal settlements through its examination of the history of local authority in Kibera, and in particular the way local authority has been contested and continues to change. The contemporary role of chiefs in Kibera is ultimately that of petty bureaucrats. How this role is conducted and its limitations are examined through case studies that range from the banality of bureaucracy to violence and civil unrest. As the first historically situated, ethnographic account of Kenya's urban chiefs, this study contributes to our understanding of governance in practice and reveals how the colonial imprint remains visible within the postcolonial state.
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Runner, Adam D. "Investigating informal development: a case study of Kibera and Sultanbeyli." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8617.

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Master of Regional and Community Planning
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
As global development trends continue, planners and social scientists of the future will have an increasingly pressing responsibility to effectively and sensitively address and interact with informal development. This report seeks to provide theoretical research to expand the knowledge base of planners and social scientists with respect to informal development. It aims to begin to explore and explain how informal development and living conditions interact, and to understand what the role of the planner and social scientist should be in interfacing with informal development in the future. Through case study this report considers two distinct typologies of informal settlements in order to compare and contrast factors in each settlement‘s history and development, living conditions, and overarching administrative relationships to identify trends in the development and manifestation of informal settlements.
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Sörman, Linnea. "”Fought by two oppositions” : Om andebesättelse och rörelse mellan gränser i en kenyansk evangelisk församling." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-134162.

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De praktiker och föreställningar som hör samma med den magiska verkligheten under etiketten ”witchcraft” verkar öka i popularitet i dagens Afrika. Medan vissa postmoderna antropologer har tolkat fenomenet som en kritisk kommentar mot moderniseringsprocesser är det troligt att föreställningen om den magiska verkligheten kan göra anspråk på fler uttryck än så. Syftet med den här undersökningen är att analysera hur informanternas syn på andebesättelse i en Luo-dominerad kristen evangelisk församling i Kibera, kan tolkas utifrån vissa ekonomiska, sociala och kulturella processer. Jag undersöker hur andebesättelse kan förstås med hjälp av informanternas förhållande till och synen på hemmet, familjen, könsroller, staden, landsbygden, avundsjuka och framgång. I analysen tolkas informanternas föreställningar om andebesättelse utifrån rörelser mellan de kenyanska gränserna rikedom/fattigdom, stadsliv/landsbygd och offentligt/privat. Andebesättelse kan därefter förstås som en slags medlare mellan dessa gränser, där de som befinner sig mellan någon av dessa oppositioner tenderar att vara särskilt utsatta för andliga attacker.
The notion of witchcraft seems to grow in popularity in the contemporary Africa. While some postmodern anthropologists have interpreted the phenomenon as a critical commentary on the processes of modernization, it is likely to be able to claim more than that. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse the notion of spirit possession by the informants in a Luo dominated evangelical church in Kibera, and how it may be interpreted through certain economic, social and cultural processes. This is made by investigating the views on the home, family, gender roles, urban, rural, jealousy and prosperity. The informant’s notion of spirit possession is interpreted in the analyse as movements across the Kenyan boundaries of rural/urban, public/private and rich/poor. Spirit possession is understood as a mediator between these boundaries, and those who is found to be in between some of these oppositions tend to be most vulnerable to spirit attacks.
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Schurek, Eva-Maria. "Expression und Funktion des Proteins KIBRA im Podozyten." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=984812644.

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Eriksson, Linnea, and Lisa Sundberg. "Pathogen inactivation and quantitative microbial risk assessment for Peepoo sanitation system, Kibera." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-420176.

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Unsafe sanitation systems poses a risk for pathogen transmission, wherefore it is important to both inactivate pathogens present in human excreta and conduct safe sanitation systems from use to end-use. The Peepoo toilet, using ammonia sanitisation, have been suggested as a low-cost sanitation solution and is implemented in schools in Kibera, an urban slum in Kenya. This master thesis aim to study the inactivation efficiency of ammonia sanitisation when treating human excreta with urea, and to quantify the risks of exposure to microbial hazards from the Peepoo sanitation system using faecal indicator bacteria. Excreta was collected from four schools in Kibera. After adding urea to mimic the inactivation of the Peepoo in the laboratory, the inactivation rate was correlated to temperature and free ammonia concentration for Campylobacter spp., Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp.. Campylobacter spp. and E. coli both had a high inactivation rate even at low temperature and low addition of urea. Inactivation rate of Enterococcus spp. was lower and close to zero when 1.87 % urea was added for 15 °C. For Enterococcus spp. a lag-phase was observed, which was not affected by temperature but by concentration of free ammonia. For investigated bacteria, inactivation rate increased with increased temperature and free ammonia concentration. Along the Peepoo management chain, several hazardous events were identified such ascontamination during usage, handling and transportation. Sampling showed a higher contamination of Enterococcus spp. than of E. coli. Enterococcus spp. was used as a faecal indicator for Ascaris and E. coli was used as an indicator of E. coli O157:H7 in a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA). Through the QMRA, the risk of infection of Ascaris and E. coli O157:H7 for one exposure event was simulated based on a Exponential and a Beta-Poisson dose-response model respectively. The risk of infection of Ascaris was around 12 % regardless of where exposure occurs, if Ascaris eggs were present. For risk for infection with E. coli O157, the simulated risks were below 10 % at almost all exposure points, with most of the high risk exposure points located in the schools. There are risks of pathogen transmission in the Peepoo management chain that should be further investigated. Ammonia sanitisation permits a high degree of microbial inactivation but to secure a safe end-product it is recommended to be kept in room temperature (24.05±0.62 °C) or higher.
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Bengtsson, Ida. "Sanitet i informell bosättning : En intervjustudie om förändringsprocessen vid införandet av ny sanitetslösning i Kibera." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-254768.

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Tillgång till sanitet är en mänsklig rättighet och en förutsättning för liv och hälsa. Trots det lever miljontals människor världen över med bristande sanitet. Den här uppsatsens syfte är att studera hur sanitetssituationen i informella bosättningar kan se ut och hur den upplevs av de boende, samt hur det är möjligt att förbättra den situationen. Genom att utföra en intervjustudie i den informella bosättningen Kibera i Kenyas huvudstad Nairobi, har de boende där fått ge sin bild av hur de upplever sanitetsproblemen och hur det gått till när sanitetslösningen Peepoo introducerades i området. I den här uppsatsen står själva förändringen i centrum och Kurt Lewins teori om förändringsprocessen används som teoretiskt verktyg. Med hjälp av den har informanternas svar analyserats för att se hur processen fortgått och vilka krafter som drivit respektive hindrat förändringen. Det framkom att ett framgångsrikt sätt att genomföra en dylik förändring är genom att minska motståndet till den genom information, både från formella och informella kanaler. Det är också viktigt att det finns tydliga incitament till att genomföra förändringen, både direkt märkbara och ur ett längre perspektiv.
Access to sanitation is a human right and a prerequisite for life and health. Despite that millions of people worldwide lives without adequate sanitation. The aims of this thesis is to study how the sanitary situation in informal settlements might look like and how the situation is perceived by the residents, as well as how it is possible to improve the situation. By conducting an interview study in the informal settlement of Kibera in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, the residents got to give their own view of how they experience the sanitary problems and how the implementation of the sanitary solution Peepoo was conducted in the area. In this thesis the change itself is in the centre and Kurt Lewin's theory of change is used as theoretical tool. With this tool the informants' answers were analysed to see how the process of introducing Peepoo proceeded, and what forces drove and hindered the change. It emerged that a successful way to implement such a change is by reducing the resistance through information, both from formal and informal channels. It is also important that there are clear incentives to implement the change, both directly perceptible and from a longer perspective.
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Backman, Enelius Moa. "En slum bortom hopp och förtvivlan? : Diskurser om Kibera i tidningen the Guardian." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-176299.

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This thesis examines the media discourse surrounding Kibera, an urban informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. Using a qualitative content analysis, this study identifies and critically analyses reoccurring themes in the descriptions of Kibera in the UK broadsheet paper The Guardian. The claimed relevance of such analysis rests upon the assumption that discourse matter; certain narratives can influence beliefs and policy concerning the management of urban informal settlements, with material effects for these places and their residents. The result of the analysis shows there are varying and conflicting themes in the portrayal of Kibera, describing the community in both negative and positive terms. However, the imageries move between two extremes, either describing Kibera as an urban dystopia of crime, suffering and filth, or emphasising stories of hope, success and the entrepreneurial spirit of Kibera’s residents. Missing in the articles are descriptions of Kibera in terms of being an ‘ordinary place’, where people live their everyday lives and make ends meet. Drawing on earlier research about connections between language and representation in the construction of marginalized places, this paper discusses the possible consequences of hyperbolic and sensationalistic discourse, arguing for a more nuanced portrayal of the Kibera community and its residents – depictions that won’t further marginalise Kibera and its people, nor romanticize life in this highly populated low-income community.
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Fernandes, Flynn M. "TheCosmic Mystery of Mary and the Action of the Holy Spirit: A Study of Marian Apparitions and Manifestations and Their Significance for the Pilgrim People of God." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108625.

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Thesis advisor: Margaret E. Guider
The cosmic mystery of Mary draws attention to what the Roman Catholic Church celebrates as her heavenly reign, an aspect of which is the proliferation of Marian apparitions and manifestations around the world particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries. This dissertation underscores that these historical interventions are manifestations of the action of the Holy Spirit in the particular figure of Mary and is attentive to the different ways God’s graces flow to the whole people of God without conflating the person of Mary with the Person of the Spirit. The instrumental nature of Mary’s relation to the Spirit in carrying out Christ’s salvific work is the centerpiece of this study. A key aspect of this work is the mutual recognition of non-Christians in that Mary’s appearances to a number of seers is not contingent on their being or becoming Christian. A number of modern apparitions have assumed political significance because of the social turmoil of the periods when they occurred. Of interest here, is an understanding of the Spirit’s implementation in Mary’s intellect and will, and the reception of her apparition messages in ways that are transformative for ecclesial life and all God’s people. This work includes an exposition of some of the scriptural, ecumenical, interreligious, and ecclesiastical foundations for understanding the Spirit’s action in Mary, and their influence on contemporary mariological discourse since the Second Vatican Council. It reviews some of the key insights from the two-thousand year history of Marian apparitions, the complexity of the phenomenon, and the trends observed during the modern period. Vailankanni (India), Zeitoun (Egypt), and Kibeho (Rwanda) are three case studies included based on the persistence of a Marian cult, pilgrim growth, and contemporary sociopolitical and religious concerns. The rise in Hindu nationalism in India, political tensions and growth of pan-Islamism in North Africa and the Middle East, and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda are studied using the historical-critical method and comparative studies of religion within the scope of apparitions, drawing attention to the marginalization of particular demographics based on religious or ethnic origin. Understanding the Spirit’s implementation in Mary enhances the analysis of the implications of these phenomena. The Spirit’s work through Mary’s cosmic mystery has profound, far-reaching significance for the world church and all God’s people. The three cases reveal how Marian apparitions evolve from obscure events in insignificant places to global centers of Christian spirituality. They make known the hidden potential of the gospel to apply Christian revelation to localized, particular challenges in new situations with permanent, prophetic, and eschatological implications. The permanent examines how the repetitive or apocalyptic nature of Mary’s appeals mobilizes the sensus fidelium through the transforming power of pilgrimage, its impact on Marian devotion, and the emergence of new ecclesial movements. The prophetic addresses Christian and interreligious unity through dialogical encounter, equality for all, God’s justice, and the preferential option for the poor. The global reach of Marian apparitions expresses the oneness of Mary operating under the power of the Spirit, accompanying a global humanity-in-pilgrimage towards the eschatological reign of God
Thesis (STD) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
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Kibria, Raihan Hassnain [Verfasser], and Hans [Akademischer Betreuer] Eveking. "Soft Computing Approaches to DPLL SAT Solver Optimization / Raihan Hassnain Kibria. Betreuer: Hans Eveking." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1105563952/34.

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Hiltunen, Anssi. "Waste, livelihoods and governance in Nairobi, Kenya : A case study in Kibera informal settlement." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology (INK), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42467.

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This paper analyses the solid waste management (SWM) process in Nairobi, Kenya and studies the roles and actions of the actors involved in this process, putting emphasis on the role of informal actors and their relationship with the city authorities. Based on semistructured interviews and participant observation conducted on the field in Nairobi, Kenya, the results of this paper suggest that the role of informal waste collectors in the Kibera settlement is essential. In most parts of Kibera, the municipal SWM seems to be non-existent. Thus the collection and transport is often carried out by informal waste collector groups. Furthermore, the relationship between informal actors and authorities is highly complex and ambivalent. The local authorities claim to have acknowledged the important role of the informal actors; however the latter are more or less neglected by the NCC in the overall solid waste management sector.

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Cheng, Rachel K. "'Something radically wrong somewhere' : the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, 1920-1932." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7693/.

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This thesis examines the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a co-educational outdoors organisation that claimed to be a youth organisation and a cultural movement active from August 1920 to January 1932. Originally part of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, the Kibbo Kift offers rich insight into the interwar period in Britain specifically because it carried forward late Victorian and Edwardian ideology in how it envisioned Britain. Members constructed their own historical narrative, which endeavoured to place the organisation at the heart of British life. The organisation’s internal life revolved around the unique mythology members developed, and the movement aspired to regenerate Britain after the First World War physically and spiritually. This thesis argues Kibbo Kift was a distinctive movement that drew upon its members’ intellectual preoccupations and ideals and inspired its members to create unique cultural artefacts. While the Kibbo Kift was ultimately too politically ambiguous to have lasting political impact on a national scale, examining the organisation offers important insight into intellectual thought and cultural production during the British interwar period. This thesis charts the changes the organisation underwent through its membership and the different trends of intellectual thought brought in by individual members, such as its leader, John Hargrave, brought to the group. It examines the cultural production of the organisation’s unique mythology, which created a distinctive historical narrative. It surveys gender issues within the organisation through the “roof tree”, an experimental family unit, and the group’s increasing anti-feminism. Finally, it considers how Clifford H. Douglas’ economic theory of social credit caused the Kibbo Kift to transform into the Green Shirts Movement for Social Credit and later into the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Innocenti, Nicola. "Kibi - social game interattivo in ambiente iOS." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/6642/.

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Hilton, Heidi Nicole Garvan Institute of Medical Research Faculty of Medicine UNSW. "Investigation of the role of novel hormone regulated genes in mammary gland development and carcinogenesis." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43344.

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Mammary gland development is controlled by hormones such as progesterone and prolactin, which activate a genomic regulatory network. Identification of the components and regulatory links that comprise this network will provide the basis for defining the network's dynamic response during normal development and its perturbation during breast carcinogenesis. This thesis investigates two molecules in detail, Elf5 and KIBRA, which were identified as potential prolactin targets in a transcript profiling screen for key members in this genetic program of mammary morphogenesis. We examined the effect of expression of Elf5, a transcription factor critical in alveolar differentiation, in a 3D culture model of non-transformed mammary epithelial MCF-10A cells. We discovered that Elf5 expression was selectively repressed over time in these cells when cultured on a basement membrane, and that Elf5 overexpression disrupted the architecture of acini resulting in luminal filling. This occurred due to an increase in the expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) with repressed the induction of the pro-apoptotic molecule, Bim. We also observed that Elf5 is up-regulated with progesterone treatment, and that suppression of Elf5 expression in T47D breast cancer cells inhibits proliferation. Data obtained from the suppression of Elf5 expression in the presence of progesterone suggested that the role played by Elf5 in the Pg signalling pathway in T47D cells is relatively minor, and that rather than being a major downstream factor, the induction of Elf5 expression is utilised more to influence and potentiate other signalling pathways, such as the Prl pathway. We characterised expression of KIBRA in the mammary gland and breast cancer cell lines, and observed that KIBRA was also up-regulated with progesterone treatment. Using a bioinformatic approach, we identified the tyrosine kinase receptor DDR1 as a binding partner of KIBRA. We have demonstrated that the WW domains of KIBRA bind to a PPxY motif in DDR1, and that these molecules dissociate upon treatment with the DDR1 ligand, collagen. Finally, overexpression and knockdown studies demonstrate that KIBRA promotes the collagen-stimulated activation of the MAPK cascade. Thus KIBRA may play a role in how the reproductive state influences the mammary epithelial cell to respond to changing cell-context information, such as experienced during the tissue remodelling events of mammary gland development. Overall, the data presented in this thesis contributes to our growing knowledge of the genetic program responsible for mammary development and carcinogenesis.
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Ishihara, Satoshi. "The informal economy of Kibera, Kenya : the study of the interplay between culture and political economy." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407917.

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Mailu, Dennis Matia. "A critical assessment of governance of water : a case study of Kibera informal settlement Nairobi, Kenya." Thesis, University of Reading, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739384.

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Increasingly, the linkages between the role of ecosystem services and the complexity of the relationship between human well-being and poverty are being addressed in the literature. Yet, research on the role and cultural value of ecosystem services in poor urban areas has been limited to date. This novel work, in contrast, focuses on the under explored role of water services, the institutions that mediate these services, and the cultural values that are placed on water by poor informal settlements in developing countries. Water poses the largest problem in Africa’s largest urban slum, Kibera, located in Nairobi, Kenya. The communities there rely heavily on hawked water drawn from piped water and a borehole to meet their water needs. Historical and socio-political factors have led to improper urban planning, resulting in extensive environmental pollution and drainage problems. In this context, the connection between poverty and water services is evident, and it is emerging that they exacerbate each other. This study critically examines the meanings and value of water among people in two villages in Kibera, and explores the assumptions underpinning the institutions that mediate these values. This study is informed by (n= 37) community interviews, (n= 25) key governance actor interviews, (n=10) focus groups, and documents and participant observations conducted in Nairobi and Kibera at two stages in November-January 2014 and December 2014-February 2015.
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Misiunaite, Viktorija. "The means and positive outcomes of affordablesolar-powered public lightingin the informal settlement of Kibera, Kenya." Thesis, KTH, Ljusdesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280057.

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We live in a time of a relentless change.Technology allows us to connect to each other beingmiles away, and even though we all come fromdifferent cultures with distinctive mentalities, one thingaffects us all - the inevitability of change.Everything changes constantly - the way of life, ideas,climate, you name it.Around the world, people migrate to cities foropportunities and a better life. While life qualityis increasing as a whole, more and more peoplecome to live in slum conditions - somewhere whereit is considered to be below the human dignity. Manybig cities are not prepared to house their ownnationals arriving from rural areas, who leave theirslow pace of village life for a chaotic, noisy and riskycity dwelling. There are no investments for a decentaffordable housing initiated by the governments andtherefore large groups of new and poor arrivals areleft on their own.United Nations aims to connect people to electricityby 2030, and many large and small projects arehappening in various corners of the world.But how exactly does this work? What does it take toconnect people to a modern source of energy?How can the latest technology be implemented intribal communities and make them acceptant of it?How can sustainable local resources be usd in theprocess?These questions are the main objectives of thisthesis. I had an opportunity to vitness a fraction of asolar energy project in a Kenyan slum Kibera, and Iwant to examine the importance of using solar energyfor lighting up people’s environments in a sustainableway.I have spent 11 weeks in Nairobi (160116-030416),where I worked in one of the Kibera’s villages -Kianda. This thesis will aim to answer the question:What are the means and positive outcomes ofaffordable solar-powered public lighting in thesettlement of the urban poor in Kianda?To answer the question, the thesis starts withliterature reviews and definitions of slum,organisations and what the international aims are.A discussion of two case studies expands theunderstanding of the research objectives andcommon elements of solar projects.All background research and conclusions are thenapplied in the public lighting proposal for a pilot studyof community-driven solar project.I hope that this work will deepen a generalunderstanding about rural-to-urban movement aroundthe globe, why affordable energy and lighting is vitalfor the urban poor and why this is important to all of us.
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Lönnström, Ida. "An Idle Mind is the Devil's Workshop : Fem unga människors syn på att vara ungdom i Kiberaslummen, Nairobi." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-134190.

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Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur ungdomars liv ser ut i Kiberaslummen, Nairobi, utifrån intervjuer med fem nyckelinformanter. Studien utgår från fyra huvudämnen; att vara ungdom, utbildning, att söka arbete och genus och könsroller. Dessa fyra huvudämnen är högst relevant för att förklara hur unga människors liv ser ut i Kibera. På grund av ungdomars socioekonomiska status har de begränsad tillgång till bland annat utbildning och arbete. Mina informanters syn på unga människor i Kibera har jag valt att knyta samman med en teori av Alcinda Honwana som kallas waithood, där unga människor hamnar i ett ”glapp” mellan childhood och adulthood.
This thesis aims to explore how young people’s life is in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, seen from five key informant’s point of view. The study has four bigger subjects; being a youth, education, seeking for employment and gender/gender roles. These subjects are highly relevant to explain how young people’s life looks like in Kibera. Youths socioeconomically status limits their assets to education and employment, for example. I have tied my informants view on youths living in Kibera to a theory by Alcinda Honwana called waithood, which is a term for the “gap” some youths experience between childhood and adulthood.
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Craven, Josef Francis Charles. "Redskins in Epping Forest : John Hargrave, the Kibbo Kift and the woodcraft experience." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1348858/.

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This thesis attempts to locate and explore the world of the Kibbo Kift, a camping and handicraft organisation established in 1920, by John Hargrave. The Kibbo Kift proved to be the most controversial, complex and colourful component of the English Woodcraft movement. The aim of this thesis is three-fold. First, to explain what is meant by the term Woodcraft and to examine the varied cultural influences that lay behind its growth in Edwardian England. Second, to give a more balanced and detailed historical account of the development of the Kibbo Kift, its secession from the Boy Scouts and its transformation into the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit. Finally, it will orientate the movement within the English pro-rural tradition. In doing so, I hope to develop the idea of there being a collection of diverse and often contradictory strands within this culture, with the Kibbo Kift occupying a so-called pastoral Liberal-Transcendentalist stance, in contrast to the more agrarian Tory- Organic wing of the movement. It will be argued that the Kibbo Kift was 'progressive', forward looking and essentially 'modern', representing, in effect, a suburban interest in the inter-war countryside. However, the ultimate failure of the Kibbo Kift's Woodcraft strategy adds to the argument that the English rural revival of this period was not as hegemonic as once thought and that pro-ruralism was limited in its cultural scope and impact.
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Rieger, Ernst. "Das Urkundenwesen der Grafen von Kiburg und Habsburg : mit besonderer Betonung der innerschweizerischen, Zürcher und thurgauischen Landschaften /." Köln ; Wien : Böhlau Verl, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb366280655.

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Grünewald, Niclas, and Gabriella Rullander. "Charcoal vertical gardens as treatment of drainwater for irrigation reuse : a performance evaluation in Kibera slum, Nairobi." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala University Sustainability Initiatives (UUSI), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-408805.

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Mac, Phail Abby. "Trading sugar : teenage girls, older men, sexual choice and gender inequalilty in the slums of Kibera, Kenya." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11725.

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This thesis describes and analyzes the lived realities, sexual choices and the meanings accorded to these experiences of six sugar girls who have relationships with sugar daddies. These girls are aged 18 to 20 and from the slums of Kibera, Kenya.
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Faltisová, Tereza. "Problematika slumů a možnosti jejího řešení na příkladu Keni." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-192560.

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This thesis is focused on the elimination of slums in Kenya. It is currently facing a huge challenge - improving the quality of life of slum dwellers. Despite the large amount of efforts developed to promote the slums in Kenya, the situation remains problematic and local slums has already grown to such proportions that it was not easy efficient and sustainable. Thesis is divided into three subsequent chapters. The first chapter focuses on the economic, political and social situation in Kenya. In the second chapter I explain term slum, it's history, the life of slum dwellers and I also think about causes of their origin and subsequent dynamic urban sprawl. The third chapter is focused on the actual Kenyan slums and projects dedicated to tackle the challenges of their elimination. My goal is to identify the causes that lead to the extension of slums. Further I want to analyze how the issue of slums in Kenya is solved and whether these projects are effective and sustainable.
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Stickel, Ariana, Kevin Kawa, Katrin Walther, Elizabeth Glisky, Ryan Richholt, Matt Huentelman, and Lee Ryan. "Age-Modulated Associations between KIBRA, Brain Volume, and Verbal Memory among Healthy Older Adults." FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626550.

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The resource modulation hypothesis suggests that the influence of genes on cognitive functioning increases with age. The KIBRA single nucleotide polymorphism rs17070145, associated with episodic memory and working memory, has been suggested to follow such a pattern, but few studies have tested this assertion directly. The present study investigated the relationship between KIBRA alleles (T carriers vs. CC homozygotes), cognitive performance, and brain volumes in three groups of cognitively healthy adults-middle aged (ages 52-64, n = 38), young old (ages 65-72, n = 45), and older old (ages 73-92, n = 62)-who were carefully matched on potentially confounding variables including apolipoprotein epsilon 4 status and hypertension. Consistent with our prediction, T carriers maintained verbal memory performance with increasing age while CC homozygotes declined. Voxel-based morphometric analysis of magnetic resonance images showed an advantage for T carriers in frontal white matter volume that increased with age. Focusing on the older old group, this advantage for T carriers was also evident in left lingual gyrus gray matter and several additional frontal white matter regions. Contrary to expectations, neither KIBRA nor the interaction between KIBRA and age predicted hippocampal volumes. None of the brain regions investigated showed a CC homozygote advantage. Taken together, these data suggest that KIBRA results in decreased verbal memory performance and lower brain volumes in CC homozygotes compared to T carriers, particularly among the oldest old, consistent with the resource modulation hypothesis.
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Odeny, Millicent Akinyi. "The relation between access to water poverty and patriarchy : the case of women slum dwellers in Kibera Kenya." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76755.

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Šataitė, Rasa. "Between real and virtual: and ethnographic research of MMORPG phenomenon." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120612_140953-54143.

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In the wake of recent discourses growing around metaphors like globalization and information age, information society, information and communication technologies move into cyber anthropology's focus. Although online games and online gaming communities are not new, the rising interest in online games and the number of people playing online games means that such games and the corresponding communities that seem to evolve out of then have potential to be fertile ground for social researchers. One particularly useful method is that of virtual ethnographies, or participant observation in the game itself. Through an ethnographical research of the Lord of the Rings Online and an online gaming community that has emerged within this game, this work attempts outline the process of virtual ethnography that combines emic and etic methods of data gathering adapted to the virtual context to provide a ‘true’ accounting of the social constructs inherent in the virtual world. Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are present for almost a decade now, but they have become significantly popular only over the past through years. During the past 6 years the MMORPG turned into a thriving cultural phenomenon with over 20 million people daily involved in various social interactions. MMORPGs provide a unique space for social interaction as players no longer share the same physical environment and the non-verbal communication in no longer available. In such games players also are no... [to full text]
Pastaruoju metu vis dažnesnis diskursas tokiomis temomis kaip globalizacija ir informacijos amžius, informacinė visuomenė, informacinės ir ryšių technologijos pereina pereina į kiber-antropologijos sritį. Nors internetiniai žaidimai ir internetinės žaidėjų bendruomenės nėra naujiena, tačiau vis augantis visuomenės domėjimasis žaidimais ir vis didėjantis žaidėjų skaičius parodo, kad šie žaidimai ir su jais susijusios bendruomenės sukuria gerą tyrimo pagrindą socialinių mokslų atstovams. Vienas iš itin naudingų metodų yra virtuali etnografija bei dalyvaujamas stebėjimas pačiame žaidime. Šiame darbe siekiama pateikti tikrą socialinių konstruotų virtualioje erdvėje formavimosi aprašą remiantis etnografiniu Žiedų valdovo internetinio žaidimo (Lordo of the Rings Online) bei tame žaidime susikūrusios bendruomenės tyrimu naudojantis virtualios etnografijos metodu apjungiančiu eminę ir etinę perspektyvą. Internetiniai žaidimai (MMORPGs) gyvuoja jau beveik dešimtmetį, tačiau pastaraisiais metais itin išpopuliarėjo. Per paskutinius 6 metus žaidimai virto klestinčiu kultūriniu fenomenu su daugiau kaip 20 milijonu žmonių kas dieną įsitraukusių į įvairias socialines sąveikas. Internetiniai žaidimai sukuria socialinių sąveikų unikalią aplinką, nes žaidėjų nebesieja ta pati fizinė aplinka, o neverbalinė komunikacija tampa nebeįmanoma. Internetiniai žaidimai leidžia žaidėjams bendrauti su kitais pasaulio žaidėjais, o pats žaidimas nebėra asmeniškas ar privatus, nes jame susitinka daugybė... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Garnier, Xavier. "Le poète swahili et sa légende. Le cas de Hemed Abdallah el-Buhry dit «Mzee Kibao»." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-107420.

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Hemed Abdallah el-Buhry (1850-1928), known as Mzee Kibao and coming from a prestigious family of poets from Tanga, can be considered as the inventor of a new relation between poetry and reputation in the context of the German conquest of Tanganyika. The aim of this paper is to analyse how the ap¬parently anti-epic attitude of ‘reputation through non-action’ is the main narrative device of Hemed’s tenzi. This poetry of ‘prevented actions’ can be considered as an important turn in Swahili poetry in the new historical context of colonisation.
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Qugana, Hana Fe. "The cultural politics of Englishness : John Gordon Hargrave, the Kibbo Kift and Social Credit, 1920-1939." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1575562/.

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This thesis explores the idea of Englishness in the context of a social movement that lasted from 1920 to 1951, known as the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift and later, the Green Shirts and Social Credit Party. It is primarily a study of the movement’s founding leader John Gordon Hargrave (1894-1982), who sheds light on the reinvention of English identity, politics and culture in interwar Britain. It surveys how Hargrave and his Kindred constructed their Englishness against the backdrop of cultural change in the 1920s, before assessing their engagement with young, likeminded national movements on the European continent. It concludes with an appraisal of Hargrave’s attempts, after he adopted the ideology of Social Credit in 1925, to translate his movement’s cultural sensibilities into a mainstream political directive, positioning it against (and at times within) contemporaneous projects elsewhere, including European fascism. Assessing these thematic treatments collectively, I argue that the Kibbo Kift was an innovative expression of Englishness that embodied a libertarian impulse to ‘decolonise’ the metropole, before turning in on itself and finally fragmenting. This study seeks specifically to interrogate cosmopolitan Englishness—a patriotic sensibility associated with the breakdown of the imperial system and premised on notions of cultural relativism. Many of its proponents have posited it as a means of bridging class, gender and ethnic divisions at home and abroad. This concept elucidates, in the first instance, the logic of Hargrave and his followers in blending professed traditions of colonised and so-called primitive peoples with those of England’s pre-imperial past. They domesticated these elements in various ways, thereby conveying a compelling response to Britain’s perceived decline following the Great War of 1914-1918. Concurrently, the Kindred’s utopian proposals, which resonated most profoundly with the literary and artistic intelligentsia, former Suffragists and European youth movements, alluded to an alien, totalitarian quality that became more pronounced, distorted and inhibiting as the group ventured into British mass politics in the guise of the Social Credit Party. It was not merely political extremism and violence that limited the SCP’s success, however. This thesis attributes the decline of the movement to tensions inherent to its cultural politics—between intellectualism and activism, and cosmopolitanism and Englishness.
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Sibhatu, Kibrom Tadesse [Verfasser], Matin [Akademischer Betreuer] Qaim, Bernhard [Gutachter] Brümmer, and Xiaohua [Gutachter] Yu. "Farm Production Diversity and Dietary Quality in Smallholder Farm Households / Kibrom Tadesse Sibhatu ; Gutachter: Bernhard Brümmer, Xiaohua Yu ; Betreuer: Matin Qaim." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1123803374/34.

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Ochola, Sophie Atieno. "Evaluation of two counseling strategies improving exclusive breastfeeding among HIV-negative mothers in Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya : a randomized controlled trial." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1460.

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Thesis (PhD (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences. Human Nutrition))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
Objectives: To determine the impact of facility-based semi-intensive and home-based intensive counseling strategies to improve exclusive breastfeeding rates and to identify factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding. Methods: This was a randomized trial in which villages in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya were assigned to two intervention groups and a control group. Study participants from among 34-36 week pregnant, HIV-negative women, attending antenatal clinic at Lang’ata health centre, were assigned to study groups and followed up in their homes until 6 months postpartum. Experimental group 1, the Home-Based Intensive Counseling Group (HBICG)] received 7 counseling sessions; 1 prenatally and 6 postnatally. Experimental group 2, the Facility-Based Semi-Intensive Counseling Group (FBSICG) received 1 counseling session prenatally. The control group (Control Group) received irregularly provided health education by health personnel. Information on infant feeding practices, using a validated 24-hour recall questionnaire was collected monthly at participant homes; observations were conducted on a random 10% sub-sample to verify the reported information. Qualitative data from focus group discussions provided information on the rationale for feeding choices. Information on infant morbidity and weight measurements were taken on a monthly basis. Results: At six months, exclusive breastfeeding rate was 23.6% in HBICG; 9.2% in FBSICG; and 5.6% in CG. Mothers from HBICG had a 4.2 increased likelihood to exclusively breastfeed compared to those in the CG (RR=4.20; 95% CI; 1.66-10.64; p=0.002). Cumulative exclusive breastfeeding rate for 6 months was 3.2% in the CG; and 6.9% and 15.6% in the FBSICG and HBICG respectively (p<0.00001). Mothers from HBICG had a 3.4 increased likelihood to practice exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months compared to those in CG (RR=3.4; 95% CI: 1-34-8.80; p=0.010). Exclusive breastfeeding rates in FBSICG were insignificantly higher than those in the CG. The median duration of exclusive breastfeeding was one month in both the CG and FBSICG and three months in the HBICG. The predictors of exclusive breastfeeding were non-giving of post-lacteal feeds; planned long breastfeeding duration; living in smaller households; non-ownership of telephones and televisions; absence of breast health problems; and correct knowledge of breastfeeding duration. The major hindrances to exclusive breastfeeding were: inadequate knowledge of exclusive breastfeeding; cultural perceptions about infant feeding; and absence of mother from home for long periods. The prevalence of acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea were significantly lower among exclusively breastfed infants than those non-exclusively breastfed. The prevalence of underweight was significantly lower among the exclusively breastfed infants than those non-exclusively breastfed at one month (p=0.006) and three months (p=0.005). Conclusions: It is feasible to promote and sustain exclusive breastfeeding for six months in low socioeconomic conditions, using the home-based intensive counseling strategy. Breastfeeding promotion programmes should adopt strategies to allow for wider dissemination of information, targeting both mothers and the community at large, as this study showed family members were major decision-makers in the choice of infant feeding practices. Hospital-based breastfeeding education should offer detailed information on a consistent basis. Breastfeeding promotion messages should be re-packaged to address cultural perceptions in infant feeding practices.
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Rupprecht, Melina. "The Paradox of Kenyan Slum Upgrading Programme - An interpretative case study about socio-spatial exclusion in the informal settlement of Kibera." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21788.

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This interpretative case study examines the ways in which socio-spatial exclusion is main-tained though urban planning designs in the informal settlement of Kibera in Kenya. It ap-plies the theoretical and analytical framework of T. Mitchell and A. Church, M. Frost, K. Sullivan to investigate how the urban design of the Kenyan Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP) contributes to the maintenance of socio-spatial hierarchies that allow for the ex-clusion of Kibera’s urban residents. This investigation is a reaction to the lacking considera-tion of implanted structural violence in place and urban development.The study found that persisting socio-spatial exclusion of residents in Kibera is in-deed sustained through KENSUP. The built environment functions as power medium that excludes some people based on their socio-spatial status in the city. The applied framework confirmed that the urban planning programme KENSUP maintains existing forms of eco-nomic, physical, and geographic exclusion, besides the exclusion from facilities through the built environment.The findings suggest that urban planning designs require a shift from the focus on the built environment towards the focus on human rights and inclusive participation in order to reduce the structural influence of socio-spatial city hierarchies.
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Guske, Katrin [Verfasser], and Eva [Akademischer Betreuer] Brand. "Gewebespezifische und epigenetische Regulation der KIBRA-Expression in humanen Nieren- und Nervenzellen / Katrin Guske ; Betreuer: Eva Brand." Münster : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1138281441/34.

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Moleirinho, Susana. "Mammalian upstream Hippo signalling pathway proteins activate core pathway kinases and functionally antagonize oncogenic YAP." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3662.

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The mechanism of body and organ size control is an unsolved puzzle. Initially characterized in Drosophila melanogaster, the Salvador/Warts/Hippo (Hippo) signalling pathway, highly conserved throughout evolution, defines a novel signalling cascade regulating cell contact inhibition, organ size control, cell growth, proliferation, apoptosis, and cancer development in mammals. The upstream regulation of this pathway has been less well defined than the core kinase cassette. Previously Willin/FRMD6 has been proposed as the human orthologue of Expanded and, to date, little is known about the functional role of Willin in mammalian cells. My study elucidated the mechanism by which Willin antagonizes the transcriptional co-activator YAP. In MCF10A cells, Willin ectopic expression antagonizes YAP-induced epithelial-mesenchymal phenotypes via YAP Ser127 phosphorylation site. Loss of Willin expression attenuates MST1/2, LATS1, and YAP phosphorylation promoting YAP's oncogenic transformation activity in vitro, as analysed by its ability to display epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) features. These biological outputs are YAP dependent. These data support the involvement of Willin in the regulation of the mammalian Hippo signalling activity by activating the core Hippo pathway kinase cassette. KIBRA has been shown to function as an upstream member of the Hippo pathway by influencing the phosphorylation of LATS and YAP, but the functional consequences of these biochemical changes have not been previously addressed. I showed that in MCF10A cells, loss of KIBRA expression displays EMT features, which are concomitant with decreased LATS and YAP phosphorylation, but not MST1/2. In addition, ectopic KIBRA expression antagonizes YAP via the Ser 127 phosphorylation site and I showed that KIBRA, Willin and Merlin differentially regulate genes controlled by YAP. Willin/FRMD6 was first identified in rat sciatic nerve, which is composed of Schwann cells and fibroblasts. To elucidate the function of Willin in the mammalian sciatic nerve, I showed that Willin is predominantly expressed in fibroblasts and that its expression activates the Hippo signalling cascade and induces YAP translocation from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. In addition within these cells, although it inhibits cellular proliferation, Willin expression induces a quicker directional migration towards scratch closure and an increased expression of factors linked to nerve regeneration. These evidence show that Willin modulates sciatic nerve fibroblast activity, indicating that Willin may have a potential role in the regeneration of the peripheral nervous system.
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Rosengren, Alexandra. "Projekt Kibera : att skapa en trygg och inspirerande miljö för fl ickor i slummen genom att öka deras sociala samvaro i vardagen." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-95529.

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Kibera är världens näst största slum, livsvillkoren är ofattbara. Allra värst är situationen för flickor som av olika anledningar inte kan eller får gå i skolan och ständigt nedvärderas i samhället. Det finns ett starkt samband mellan flickors begränsade sociala samvaro och deras frånvaro från skolan.  Projektet undersöker hur arkitektur kan skapa en tryggare miljö och öka interaktionen flickor emellan. Mitt projekt är en strategi med det slutliga målet att generera en trygg och inspirerande miljö för flickor, en hållbar utveckling genom social förankring. Strategin handlar om att öka flickornas samvaro i vardagen genom att skapa en gemensam plats för sysslor och möten. En gemensam plats, en station som tar tillvara på klimatets möjligheter och effektiviserar sysslorna, samtidigt som flickorna träffas, utbyter kunskap och delar erfarenheter.  I samarbete med olika grupper för flickor och kvinnor som finns i Kibera, kan stationerna byggas på för att innehålla flera olika funktioner. Det kan t.ex. vara bibliotek, verkstäder för arbete, samlingsrum för möten och utbildning.
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Kibere, Faith Njeri. "The capability of mobility in Kibera 'slum', Kenya : an ethnographic study of how young people use and appropriate new media and ICTs." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37699.

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This multidisciplinary thesis explores the relationship between new media and young people in Kibera using ethnographic research methods. The research aim is to interrogate the optimism about the use of new media and ICTs for development by amplifying the rare voices of technology users in a marginalised context. The focus on young Kiberans is significant for emergent Global South media audience literature and the ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) field. The communicative ecologies framework and the domestication of technologies approach facilitate the identification of dominant forms of local information and communication flows in the communicative environments of the young Kiberans. In light of the analysis of the empirical findings derived from 22 semi-structured interviews, participant observation, go-alongs and documentary evidence, the thesis argues that the mobile phone and the mobile Internet emerge as the most significant forms of new media and ICTs. Additionally, the local information flows of youth groups, youth forums, community radio ( Pamoja FM), Church and school emerge as complementary to the use and appropriation of new media and ICT artefacts. Grounded in the philosophical paradigm of critical realism and drawing upon Amartya Sen’s Capabilities Approach, the social conversion factor of educational attainment is identified as a dominant factor in enabling the Kiberans to appropriate the mobile phone and the mobile Internet into the capability of mobility, a form of development. The mobile phone emerges as a socio-cultural artefact that facilitates the maintenance and extension of social ties. However, the environmental conversion factor of Kibera as the young people’s place of residence and their perceived lower class restricts their creation and extension of social ties in higher class Kenyan networks. Therefore, “the digital spaces created by new media and ICT use and appropriation are simply continuities of the offline” hierarchical social environment in which they exist (Boyd, 2013: 204).
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Kauppi, Karolina. "Genes to remember : imaging genetics of hippocampus-based memory functions." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för integrativ medicinsk biologi (IMB), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-71141.

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In the field of imaging genetics, brain function and structure are used as intermediate phenotypes between genes and cognition/diseases to validate and extend findings from behavioral genetics. In this thesis, three of the strongest candidate genes for episodic memory, KIBRA, BDNF, and APOE, were examined in relation to memory performance and hippocampal/parahippocampal fMRI blood-oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal. A common T allele in the KIBRA gene was previously associated with superior memory, and increased hippocampal activation was observed in noncarriers of the T allele which was interpreted as reflecting compensatory recruitment. The results from the first study revealed that both memory performance and hippocampal activation at retrieval was higher in T allele carriers (study I). The BDNF 66Met and APOE ε4 alleles have previously been associated with poorer memory performance, but their relation to brain activation has been inconsistent with reports of both increased and decreased regional brain activation relative to noncarriers. Here, decreased hippocampal/parahippocampal activation was observed in carriers of BDNF 66Met (study II) as well as APOE ε4 (study III) during memory encoding. In addition, there was an additive gene-gene effect of APOE and BDNF on hippocampal and parahippocampal activation (study III). Collectively, the results from these studies on KIBRA, BDNF, and APOE converge on higher medial temporal lobe activation for carriers of a high-memory associated allele, relative to carriers of a low-memory associated allele. In addition, the observed additive effect of APOE and BDNF demonstrate that a larger amount of variance in BOLD signal change can be explained by considering the combined effect of more than one genetic polymorphism. These imaging genetics findings support and extend previous knowledge from behavioral genetics on the role of these memory-related genes.
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Thomas, Christian [Verfasser], and Hermann [Akademischer Betreuer] Pavenstädt. "Charakterisierung der Interaktion des KIBRA-Proteins mit der Protein-Kinase M Zeta (PKM Zeta) / Christian Thomas ; Betreuer: Hermann Pavenstädt." Münster : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1138279900/34.

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Kibies, Patrick Jascha [Verfasser], Stefan M. [Akademischer Betreuer] Kast, and Roland [Gutachter] Winter. "Integral equation-based calculations of the electronic structure of small molecules under high pressure / Patrick Jascha Kibies ; Gutachter: Roland Winter ; Betreuer: Stefan M. Kast." Dortmund : Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1194647006/34.

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Kibies, Patrick [Verfasser], Stefan M. [Akademischer Betreuer] Kast, and Roland [Gutachter] Winter. "Integral equation-based calculations of the electronic structure of small molecules under high pressure / Patrick Jascha Kibies ; Gutachter: Roland Winter ; Betreuer: Stefan M. Kast." Dortmund : Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1194647006/34.

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Thillberg, Emil. "In The State We Do not Trust : A Field study in Social Control by Informal actors in Kibra settlement Kenya." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82502.

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Mbanza, Edgar Charles. "Vie sociale des objets communicationnels dans les marges : une ethnographie de l'ordinaire des technologies de communication dans les bidonvilles de Kibera (Nairobi) et Pikine (Dakar)." Paris, EHESS, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EHES0022.

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Ce que nous appelons médias du quotidien (téléphone mobile, audiovisuel domestique et Internet en l'occurrence) dans les ghettos urbains africains constitue un formidable objet de recherche pour qui s'intéresse aux mutations de la communication médiatique. Il nous permet aussi d'éclairer de façon inédite l'imbrication dialectique entre la technologie et la société. A l'aide d'une démarche basée sur l'immersion ethnographique dans la vie enquêtée et la comparaison de deux sites localisés dans des bidonvilles de Kibera (Nairobi) et de Pikine (Dakar), la recherche porte globalement sur l'intégration des acteurs marginalisés dans la modernité technologique. Plus de la moitié de l'Afrique urbaine vit aujourd'hui dans les bidonvilles ; et s'il est souvent avancé que les urbains pauvres sont parmi les plus frappés par la « fracture numérique », ou à l'inverse des bricoleurs inventifs, rares sont les travaux qui explorent empiriquement les « arts de faire » et les modes de présence des technologies dans ces milieux singuliers. Comment les objets technocommunicationnels, dont les propriétés et les modes de circulation ont considérablement changé ces dernières années, s'insèrent-ils au sein de l'« économie morale » de survie? Avons-nous ou non l'émergence d'un « milieu » médiatique « associé » présenté comme un espace de partage participatif contrairement aux technologies des générations précédentes ? Ce travail rappelle l'impérative nécessité de resituer les acteurs marginalisés au centre de l'analyse des cultures contemporaines. Il invite aussi à sortir des « grands partages » dans nos manières de penser les rapports entre le local et le global, la production et la réception
What we call daily media (mobile phone, television and internet in this case) in African urban ghettos is a wonderful research subject for those who are interested in mutations of media communication. It also allows us to explain in new ways the dialectic imbrication of technology and society. Using an approach based on ethnographie immersion in the life of people, and comparing two sites located in the slums of Kibera (Nairobi) and Pikine (Dakar), our research generally focuses on the integration of those marginalized actors into the technological modernity. More than half of urban Africa nowadays lives in slums; and if it is often argued that the urban poor are those who are the most affected by the "digital divide", or conversely, that they are some inventive"bricoleurs"(digital do-it-yourselfers), there are few empirical works that explore the "arts of doing" and the modes of presence of those technologies in the environments of live. How technocommunicationals objects, whose properties and circulation patterns significantly have changed over the last years, do fit in the "moral economy" of survival context? Is there or not an emergence of a "milieu (médiatique) associé" presented as a space of participation and sharing, unlike previous generations of technologies? This work recalls the urgent need to relocate the marginalized players in the center of the analysis of contemporary culture. It also invites us to overcome the "Great Divide" in our ways of thinking about the relation between local and global, production and reception, individual and collective, private and public, etc
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Gedgauda, Alise. "Digital Media (ICT) for development. The use of crowd sourcing maps as a tool for citizen empowerment and engagement. Case study of Map Kibera Project." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21368.

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Map Kibera project and it’s Voice of Kibera reporting initiative present an example of new media applying the principle of crowd sourcing to foster social change and provide voice to community of Kibera, Kenya. The aim of this study was to analyses, firstly, how the concept of participatory communication has been applied during the implementation of the project. As a basis for this approach an Integrated Model of Communication for Social Change was applied during the analysis of articles being produced on two project blogs to identify what steps have been implemented and what new aspects could be brought. Secondly, it was important to understand what social change the implementation of such project could bring to community it serves for. Finally, in order to develop a strategy for sustainability possible barriers/limitations of citizen/actor engagement were identified. Research tools used for this analysis were qualitative semi-structured interviews with project team members as well as participants/non participants of the project combined together with quantitative content analysis applied on articles produced on Map Kibera and Voice of Kibera blogs.Most important findings indicate that the application of IMCFSC took place almost fully but was applied on a particular community – project team. At the same time the use of crowd sourcing platform and reporting gave citizens of Kibera an opportunity to create their own agenda and provide a real picture of the area thus gaining a “voice” and possibility to speak out loud to broader communities. Nevertheless it is important to mention that the access to information created during the project was possible mostly in the offline form (printed materials, maps) and via mobile phones thus indicating to such barriers as the lack of such ICT tools as computers and also to the need to co-operate more closely to broader community of Kibera to avoid possible misconception of the work of the project. These findings are important to consider when planning implementation of similar projects in other communities located in different geographical, political and social settings.
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Cherrett, Claire. "Structural and functional studies of proteins from the Hippo signalling pathway." Thesis, University of Bath, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548103.

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The paralogous multi-functional adaptor proteins YAP and TAZ are nuclear effectors of the Hippo pathway, a central regulator of developmental organ size control, tissue homeostasis and tumour suppression. YAP/TAZ target the TEAD transcription factor family to promote cell survival and inhibit apoptosis. TEAD proteins contain a DNAbinding domain and a YAP/TAZ interaction domain. PCR analysis of medaka fish TEAD cDNA revealed the presence of alternative TEAD splice-forms with variations at the C-terminus of the DNA-binding domain. Structural analysis indicated the YAPbinding domain of TEAD proteins is folded and globular. NMR spectroscopy showed that the TEAD binding domain of YAP does not contain secondary structure. YAP and TAZ both contain WW domains, which are small protein-protein interaction modules. Two YAP isoforms are known, YAP1 and YAP2 that contain one and two WW domains, respectively. To date, only a single WW isoform of TAZ has been described. PCR analysis of medaka TAZ cDNA identified both single WW and tandem WW isoforms of TAZ. NMR spectroscopy was used to characterise structural, conformational, and peptide binding features of the tandem WW domains from YAP and TAZ. The YAP WW2 solution structure confirms that the domain has the canonical anti-parallel β-sheet WW fold. WW1 of YAP and both WW domains of TAZ undergo conformational exchange. The region linking the two WW domains is flexible and allows interaction of both WW domains with peptides containing single and dual PPxY binding motifs. In addition to YAP and TAZ, tandem WW domains are also present in the core and upstream Hippo pathway proteins Salvador and Kibra. Both proteins contain one atypical WW domain; the tandem WW domains of these two proteins are unstable. Understanding structure and function of Hippo pathway components could contribute to drug development and will also contribute to knowledge of protein folding and interactions.
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Mbungu, Grace Kageni [Verfasser], and Ortwin [Akademischer Betreuer] Renn. "Factors that enable or hinder sustained access to sustainable and effective cooking energy services : the case of the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya / Grace Kageni Mbungu ; Betreuer: Ortwin Renn." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1217658394/34.

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H, Samsom Ridder. "‘Hammatbihi wahammabiha’: fasihi ya Kiswahili na kisa cha Yusuf." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-100770.

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The story of Joseph (in the Bible), Yusuf (in the Quran), has inspired literatures in many languages. This paper explores how some Swahili writers and translators have dealt with this inspiration, the implications for their language use and the way they have interpreted Yusuf as a theme for their writings. After a brief introduction on the importance of the story itself and putting the focus on a major theme of the plot, the following works are discussed: the new Quran translation by Sh Ali Muhsin (1995), a short novel by Mzee Salim A. Kibao (1975), two short stories by Amur bin Nasur il-Omeiri (1894), the utenzi Qissat-il Yusuf (l913) and Abdulrazak Gurnah\'s English written novel Paradise (1995). The paper concludes with the observation that in analyzing how these Swahili writers have integrated the story of Yusuf in their writings, prose as well as poetry, it becomes clear that attempts in defining what is ‘foreign’ (or ‘Oriental’) and what is ‘indigenous’ (or ‘African’) are bound to fail.
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Brébant, Emilie. "La Vierge, la guerre, la vérité: approche anthropologique et transnationale des apparitions mariales rwandaises." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209913.

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Depuis le début des années quatre-vingt, la petite localité de Kibeho - un hameau particulièrement difficile d’accès situé aux confins d’une région rurale du sud-ouest du Rwanda, à environ deux cents kilomètres de Kigali - s’est muée en une destination de pèlerinage prisée par de nombreux Catholiques rwandais et, désormais, étrangers. L’origine de ce changement de nature du lieu se confond avec les apparitions de la Vierge (mais aussi du Christ et d’autres personnages du « panthéon » catholique) dont ont été favorisées plusieurs jeunes filles scolarisées au collège catholique local au début des années quatre-vingt, puis un certain nombre d’adolescents des environs. De spontanés et irréguliers qu’ils étaient dans les premières années du phénomène, encore liés aux performances publiques des voyants qui bénéficiaient des apparitions à heures fixes sur un podium surélevé, les déplacements d’individus se sont graduellement organisés. Aujourd’hui, à Kibeho, les apparitions publiques ont pris fin. Les pèlerins, qu’ils appartiennent à l’un ou l’autre mouvement d’Action catholique ou à un groupe de prière et de pèlerinage né des apparitions, se regroupent dans différents centres urbains du pays pour rejoindre le sanctuaire de Notre-Dame des Douleurs, érigé suite à la reconnaissance des apparitions par l’Eglise catholique en 2001 et en perpétuelle expansion depuis lors.

En 2001, la déclaration de reconnaissance mentionne, parmi les signes de crédibilité des apparitions, « la journée du 15 août 1982 qui fut marquée notamment, contre toute attente, par des visions effroyables, qui dans la suite se sont avérées prophétiques au vu des drames humains vécus au Rwanda et dans l’ensemble des pays de notre région des Grands Lacs ». Cette lecture officielle qui confère un horizon de sens aux événements, instituant la prophétie en des termes choisis permettant d’y entrevoir le génocide comme l’hécatombe du choléra dans les camps de réfugiés du Congo, est diversement négociée par les acteurs locaux, même si la conviction de la réalisation d’une prophétie est quasi-unanime. Du point de vue des pèlerins, les apparitions demeurent relativement problématiques. Elles exigent de chacun qu’il négocie sa position en fonction d’une représentation de l’orthodoxie constamment réévaluée dans les limites de ce qui est expérimenté et affirmé comme une identité catholique. Cette difficulté est notamment due à la multiplicité des individus qui ont revendiqué ou revendiquent encore des visions ou apparitions, alors que seules trois jeunes filles ont été reconnues par l’Eglise catholique en 2001.

Après avoir soigneusement défini le cadre socio-historique des apparitions rwandaises, en abordant la question depuis le point de vue de voyants non reconnus - dont l’une expatriée en Belgique - et de ceux qui leur sont proches, la thèse propose une analyse des discours par lesquels ceux-ci se définissent et négocient la légitimité de leur pratique religieuse. Une attention particulière a été portée aux outils stéréotypés de la critique (sexualité, politique, vénalité…), mobilisés dans le cadre des tensions et conflits qui opposent différents acteurs individuels et collectifs. Par ailleurs, les mécanismes qui président aux rhétoriques de la construction de soi ont été mis en lumière, notamment par le biais des récits de guerre qui fondent une identité de survivant liée à la conviction d’une intervention mariale. Ce processus se confond souvent avec ceux qui président à la construction du pouvoir de la Vierge, et donc des voyants. Finalement, au travers de l’analyse des représentations touchant notamment à la prophétie du génocide et de la guerre civile, les nouveaux rapports au national se font jour, les violences des années nonante étant intégrées dans un schéma biblique qui opère un basculement significatif :parce que le Rwanda serait touché de plein fouet par la Mal, il a été choisi par Dieu et par la Vierge comme noyau de la Nouvelle Evangélisation. À travers l’analyse du rapport au divin, à l’autorité, aux représentations de la modernité que les mots des acteurs reflètent, c’est le catholicisme vécu qui s’éclaire à l’ombre du sanctuaire et de son appareil médiatique foisonnant, ce catholicisme empirique dont la richesse se renouvelle à chaque « enculturation » comme au passage des générations successives et dont il importe, pour l’anthropologie comme pour l’histoire du christianisme, d’approcher l’infinie variété.


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