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Scott, Helen. "Putting the 'critical' into critical studies in art education." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/580123/.
Full textKerich, Christopher. "Critical breaking." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111301.
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Utilizing critical and feminist science and technology studies methods, this thesis offers a new framework, called critical breaking, to allow for reflective and critical examination and analysis of instances of error, breakdown, and failure in digital systems. This framework has three key analytic goals: auditing systems, forging better relationships with systems, and discovering elements of the context in which these systems exist. This framework is further explored by the examination of three case studies of communities of breaking practice: video game speed-runners, software testers, and hacktivists. In each case, critical breaking is further developed in reflection of resonant and dissonant elements of each practice with critical breaking. In addition, artistic productions related to these case studies are also introduced as inflection points and potential alternative expressions of critical breaking analysis. The goal of this thesis is to provide a way to engage with breakdown and error and more than simply the negation of the good or as a sensationalist talking point, and instead use it as a fecund place for reflective, analytic growth.
by Christopher Kerich.
S.M. in Comparative Media Studies
Radovich, Tom. "Critical Mass." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/494.
Full textNunes, João. "Rethinking emancipation in critical security studies." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/177aca5b-1155-4b95-8766-35bd37250899.
Full textHartley, John. "Television studies: Creating a critical discourse." Thesis, Hartley, John (1990) Television studies: Creating a critical discourse. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1990. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50587/.
Full textDunbar, Anthony W. "Critical race information theory applying a CRITical race lens to information studies /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1779835191&sid=16&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textFameli, Nicola. "Optical studies of critical phenomena in fluids." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56538.pdf.
Full textWong, Yin-chong Yvonne. "Liberal studies students' conceptions of critical thinking." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40039997.
Full textCarter, F. V. "High pressure studies of quantum critical systems." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597327.
Full textWong, Yin-chong Yvonne, and 黃燕莊. "Liberal studies students' conceptions of critical thinking." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40039997.
Full textPetruska, Karen C. PhD. "The Critical Eye: Re-Viewing 1970s Television." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/38.
Full textMalpass, Matt. "Contextualising critical design : towards a taxonomy of critical practice in product design." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2012. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/280/.
Full textFalco, Gregory J. "Cybersecurity for urban critical infrastructure." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118226.
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Our cities are under attack. Urban critical infrastructure which includes the electric grid, water networks, transportation systems and public health and safety services are constantly being targeted by cyberattacks. Urban critical infrastructure has been increasingly connected to the internet for the purpose of operational convenience and efficiency as part of the growing Industrial Internet of Things (HoT). Unfortunately, when deciding to connect these systems, their cybersecurity was not taken seriously. A hacker can monitor, access and change these systems at their discretion because of the infrastructure's lack of security. This is not only a matter of potential inconvenience. Digital manipulation of these devices can have devastating physical consequences. This dissertation describes three steps cities should take to prepare for cyberattacks and defend themselves accordingly. First, cities must understand how an attacker might compromise its critical infrastructure. In the first chapter, I describe and demonstrate a methodology for enumerating attack vectors across a citys CCTV security system. The attack methodology uses established cybersecurity typologies to develop an attack ruleset for an Al planner that was programmed to perform attack generation. With this, cities can automatically determine all possible approaches hackers can take to compromise their critical infrastructure. Second, cities need to prioritize their cyber risks. There are hundreds of attack permutations for a given system and thousands for a city. In the second chapter, I develop a risk model for urban critical infrastructure. The model helps prioritize vulnerabilities that are frequently exploited for HoT Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Finally, cities need tools to defend themselves. In the third chapter, I present a nontechnical approach to defending against attacks called cyber negotiation. Cyber negotiation is one of several non-technical cyberdefense tools I call Defensive Social Engineering, where victims can use social engineering against the hacker. Cyber negotiation involves using a negotiation framework to defend against attacks with steps urban critical infrastructure operators can take before, during and after an attack. This study combines computer science and urban planning (Urban Science) to provide a starting point for cities to prepare for and protect themselves against cyberattacks.
by Gregory J. Falco.
Ph. D.
Klassen, Gerald D. "Towards a critical social studies pedagogy and practice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq24543.pdf.
Full textLevans, Nathan Emmett. "Critical thinking in the secondary social studies classroom." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2007. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Levans_N%20MITthesis%202007.pdf.
Full textSchrock, Lauren. "Organisational dystopia : surrealist paintings for critical management studies." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/102821/.
Full textvan, Ingen Michiel. "Rethinking conflict studies : towards a critical realist approach." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16202.
Full textIzuka, Akihiro. "Studies on viscoelastic properties of polycaprolactone critical gels." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/145384.
Full textArregui, Buldain Amaia. "Stability studies of critical components in SOFC technologies." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368096.
Full textArregui, Buldain Amaia. "Stability studies of critical components in SOFC technologies." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2013. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/974/1/Doctoral_thesis_Amaia_Arregui_Buldain.pdf.
Full textHollstein, Matthew Scott. "CRITICAL PEDAGOGY: PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1155328467.
Full textSmith, Spencer J. "To Build Maps of Writing and Critical Consciousness: Transfer in Writing Studies & Critical Pedagogies." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490294362562497.
Full textAshcroft, David. "A critical evaluation of theories of nationalism." Thesis, Aston University, 1987. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/12198/.
Full textBoscarino, Mary Anita. "Desiring Japan: Transnational Encounters and Critical Multiculturalism." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313179889.
Full textvan, Eck Henriette. "Peace psychologists| Determining the critical contributions." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3722716.
Full textPeace psychology was recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) as a specialty area of psychology in 1990. This research study analyses the past 25 years of peace psychologists’ efforts as the Society of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology Division 48 of the APA (Division 48). Today the field has grown to include an international network of educators, researchers, practitioners, and advocates. The core mission of peace psychology is the transformation of conflict resolution away from violence and toward peacebuilding through psychologically informed interventions that operate at all levels of human relationships.
This research study focuses on both the theory and practice of peace psychology. The psychology informing peace building interventions is reviewed from the inception of psychology to the present, with specific emphasis on contributions from clinical and depth psychology. The research demonstrates how the organized psychological relationships among conflict, peace, and violence form a central axis which governs human relationships. Clinical and depth psychology contribute significantly to understanding the psychological processes of conflict, aggression, and interventions that promote mental health and wellbeing within both individuals and relationships. While these theories illuminate key operations within the mental framework, they also govern processes addressed directly by peace psychology’s interventions.
The three areas reported in the findings include the professional functions performed by peace psychologists, the essential characteristics that are at the center of the practice, and lessons from the lived experiences of the participants. The various roles represented by peace psychologists’ contributions are described because they illustrate specific, identifiable contexts within which participants engaged professionally, and help illuminate how and where peace psychology is practiced. The researcher interviewed seven past presidents of the Division following oral history methodology. The interviews were analyzed using grounded theory. Advice from the leaders informs present and future challenges for the field of peace psychology.
Miller, Dane Eric. "Micah and its literary environment: Rhetorical critical case studies." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185441.
Full textMcDonald-Morken, Colleen Ann. "Mainstreaming Critical Disability Studies Towards Undoing the Last Prejudice." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27446.
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Svyantek, Martina V. "Institutional Counter-surveillance using a Critical Disability Studies Lens." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103643.
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This study examines policy and procedure documents related to Disability at 3 U.S. institutions of higher education over a 25-year time frame. Policy and procedure documents are the foundation that govern how institutions "handle" Disability, outlining expectations and guidelines for providing services and establishing bureaucratic channels used to determine who has access to those services. This research employs a comparative case study mixed methods approach. The found documents and their online contexts are analyzed according to four qualities: findability, cohesion, consistency, and transparency. A document's findability refers to the ability of a user to locate the original document, and a document's cohesion, consistency, and transparency, refer to respectively where, what, and how these documents persist from their original creation date. As I collected these documents, I constructed comparative matrices to track these qualities within and across three different universities. The initial findability of documents demonstrates two key results: 1) during the overall 1990– 2015 time frame, there was a marked change in the availability of materials in a digital format, and 2) the emergence of a way to describe documents via the phrase "Does Not Exist." These materials definitively did not exist prior to a given time frame, but later versions of such documents included an earlier start date. Cohesion results indicate that the documents most likely to be presented in a single source were broadly usable to a large portion of the university population: the general student body. Consistency results address a major issue with the document search: while these materials were likely to exist, at each of these institutions and time frames (barring the DNE documents), they are very difficult to track down. Transparency across found, single-source documents was ubiquitous; if it could be found, it had searchable text. Beyond the findings of the document collection, there are two major products as a result of this dissertation work. First, key recommendations for different stakeholder groups (SEEKERS, WRITERS, and KEEPERS) are outlined; these recommendations are intended for the entire audience as practices that they can incorporate within their own documents. Second, the work undertaken to create a repository using materials from my document collection, utilizing the Qualitative Data Repository (based in Syracuse University) as the host for a curated exhibit of VT-specific materials, is described.
Nimmo, Graham R. "Cardiorespiratory and metabolic studies in shock and critical illness." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21447.
Full textDey, Tushar Kanti. "Women in O. Henry's short stories : a critical studies." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1176.
Full textWatts, Janay Mae. "The Critical Race Socialization of Black Children." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750855.
Full textThis qualitative research study offers a new model through which to examine Black motherhood as resistance to institutionalized racism, being driven in part by the current mortality rate of Black children in the United States of America. Six mothers who self-identify as Black and activists were interviewed about how they resist racism through how they raise their children. Two major findings emerged and are discussed at depth within this study: Critical Race Socialization and Countering Mis-education. The Critical Race Socialization process is a new way to examine a critical, intentional process of racial socialization towards liberation taken on by Black mothers. The Critical Race Socialization process combines key components of Critical Race Theory, Pedagogies of the Home, Oppressed Family Pedagogy and Harro’s cycles of socialization and liberation. Recommendations provided in the conclusion of this study encourage new Black mothers to center race and other sites of oppression in their pedagogy, utilizing age appropriate material for children when speaking about the truths of the world and Blackness. The study also calls for a village of support to be built around Black children, and for educators working with Black children to develop a critical repertoire of the lived experiences of Black people and trauma.
Siddle, Andrew McCalman. "Decentralisation in South African local government : a critical evaluation." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10838.
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The South African local government model is considered to be decentralised in character, incorporating various constitutional, policy and statutory instruments to enable local government to achieve its constitutionally mandated developmental objectives. Yet local government is widely viewed as being in a state of crisis. Many municipalities are seen as dysfunctional and incapable of performing their duties. The hypothesis underlying this study is that the effective application of the principles of decentralisation, to the extent that they have been incorporated in the constitutional, policy and regulatory framework of local government in South Africa, is endangered by a lack of commitment to the concept of decentralisation by central government and by the failure by municipalities to implement at local level those rules, systems, mechanisms, powers and functions which are intended to reflect the principles of decentralisation; and that the achievement of the constitutional objectives of local government is thereby in turn endangered.
Marr, Vanessa L. "Growing 'homeplace' in critical service-learning| An urban womanist pedagogy." Thesis, Wayne State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3616706.
Full textThis dissertation explores the role of critical service-learning from the perspective of urban community members. Specifically, it examines the counternarratives produced by Black women community gardeners who engage in academic service-learning with postsecondary faculty. The study focuses on this particular group because of the women's deep involvement with grassroots organizing that reflects their sense of self and other community members, as well as their personal and political relationships to Detroit, Michigan. Given the city's economic disparities rooted in racial segregation, structural violence and gender oppression, Detroit is a site of critical learning within a postindustrial/postcolonial context. This intersectionalist approach to service-learning is likened to bell hooks's concept of homeplace, a site of resistance created by Black women for the purposes of conducting anti-oppression work. Integrating community member interviews and the author's autoethnographic account to dialogically co-construct meaning, the study employs the womanist epistemological tenet of multivocality through connections to place, community, and activist praxis. Presenting Black female cultural expressions and life stories illustrated in the data, the study identifies holistic community-campus partnerships as those that emphasize environmental insight, cultural representation, reflexive relationships, and collective action. The dissertation has strong implications in service-learning research and practice, advancing an ethos of responsibility that provides a space for unheard voices to speak and for relationships among community members and academics to reflect a model based on solidarity as opposed to traditional paradigms centered on charity.
Herrera, Prisma L. "“An Awakening of Critical Consciousness: Unfurlings of (Re)Memory, Resistance and Resiliency”." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1181.
Full textHicks, Shari Renee. "A critical analysis of post traumatic slave syndrome| A multigenerational legacy of slavery." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3712420.
Full textThis integrated literature review compiles past and present literature on the African Holocaust or Maafa to provide a more in-depth understanding of the unique sociopolitical narrative of the enslavement and oppression of Africans and African Americans for half a millennium in the United States. This study integrates historical data, theoretical literature, and clinical research to assess immediate and sequential impacts of the traumatization of the African Holocaust on enslaved and liberated Africans, African Americans, and their descendants. This investigation engages literature on trauma (Root, 1992), historical traumas (Duran, Duran, Brave Heart, & Yellow Horse-Davis, 1998), historical unresolved grief (Brave Heart & DeBruyn, 1998), and multigenerational trauma transmission (Danieli, 1998) to explore claims of slavery and relentless oppression leaving a psychological and behavioral legacy behind to the contemporary African American community (Abdullah, Kali, & Sheppard, 1995; Akbar, 1996; Leary, 2001, 2005; Poussaint & Alexander, 2000; B. L. Richardson & Wade, 1999). By and large, this study provides a comprehensive exploration and critical examination of Leary’s (2005) Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome theory (PTSS), which suggests that the traumatization of slavery and continued oppression (i.e., racism, discrimination, and marginalization) endured by enslaved Africans in the United States and their descendants over successive centuries has brought about a psychological and behavioral syndrome prevalent amongst 21st century African Americans. Findings from the critical analysis revealed that in addition to inheriting legacies of trauma from their enslaved and oppressed African ancestors, contemporary African Americans may have also inherited legacies of healing that have manifested as survival, strength, spirituality, perseverance, vitality, dynamism, and resiliency. Clinical implications from this research underscored the importance of not pathologizing present generations of African Americans for their attempts to cope with and adapt to perpetually oppressive environmental circumstances. Further quantitative and qualitative research that directly tests the applicability of PTSS within the African American community is needed to better grasp the representational generalizability of PTSS. Lastly, rather than focus on the repeated victimization of African Americans, the findings from this study suggest that future research should focus on the mental sickness of African Americans' oppressors in addition to identifying and delineating intergenerational legacies of survival, resilience, transcendence, and healing birthed out of the historical trauma of slavery.
Boyer, Jacob L. (Jacob LeGrand) 1972, and Thomas G. 1967 DiNanno. "Critical success factors in entertainment-based retail development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64907.
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There is a development phenomenon spreading across urban areas of the United States. Municipalities are undertaking multi-million dollar investments to support new stadiums for professional sports franchises. Accompanying these high profile investments is a concurrent investment in museums and cultural attractions of all types aimed at attracting tourists and local interests alike. This phenomenon is part of a wave of well planned and executed economic development initiatives that are using the development of cultural icons such as sports stadiums and museums to anchor commercial and retail development in the area. This thesis will look to identify the critical success factors in creating an urban entertainment district that encompasses sports venues, museums or other cultural icons, and an entertainment based retail center. It will identify the stakeholders in such an initiative and analyze the driving factors in the development and planning process. The combination of the three elements - stadium, museum, retail entertainment center- creates a critical mass of development that will serve as a model for other municipalities as they look to create their own downtown entertainment districts. It will also look at any combination of elements as a possible economic development initiative rather than a strict definition and closely defined form. Four case studies will be presented and analyzed, Faneuil Hall in Boston, Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Gateway/North Harbor in Cleveland and The Gateway in Salt Lake City as four projects undertaken in four large U.S. cities. We will also try to superimpose these success factors to secondary markets.
Jacob L. Boyer and Thomas G. DiNanno.
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Nibo, Joseph I. (Joseph Ike). "Return to traditional town planning : a critical assessment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69344.
Full textNalimova, Elena. "Demystifying Galina Ustvolskaya : critical examination and performance interpretation." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2012. http://research.gold.ac.uk/8013/.
Full textCarroll, Tony. "Educating the critical mind in art : practice-based research into teaching critical studies in A level art." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393251.
Full textMcGillivray, Glen James. "Theatricality: A critical genealogy." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1428.
Full textHenry, Colin, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "CASE STUDIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND CRITICAL EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE." Deakin University. School of Education, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20041214.144057.
Full textVilla, Silvia Maria Teresa. "Concept of canon in literary studies : critical debates 1970-2000." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7853.
Full textLeung, Hai-ka Elaine, and 梁凱嘉. "Critical thinking and knowledge in liberal studies: ways of seeing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48364915.
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Miller, Ann. "Contemporary bande dessineÌe : contexts, critical approaches and case studies." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401834.
Full textHowse, Jonathan R. "Reflectivity studies of non-critical interfaces in binary liquid mixtures." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310789.
Full textCheng, Wing Ming (Clement). "Liberal Studies in Hong Kong, 1992-2014 : a critical history." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53345/.
Full textWensley, Joanne Ruth. "High pressure studies on magnetic metals near quantum critical points." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609926.
Full textKerr, Alison. "Critical account of clinical and physiological studies in Rett syndrome." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8756.
Full textMadkour, Azzeldin Zaid Hamed. "Studies on virulence-critical proteins of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC)." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3942.
Full textMonyake, Moletsane. "Measuring generalised trust in sub-Saharan Africa : a critical note." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14272.
Full text"Generally speaking, would you say most people can be trusted or that one must be careful in dealing with others?" For the past 50 years this question has been used extensively and almost exclusively as a measure of generalised trust in both national and cross-national studies. However, it was not until very recently that scholars focused on the question's validity and reliability as a measure of generalised trust. Besides that these studies' findings are largely contradictory, few of them examine the validity and reliability of the trust data in the African context. This study is motivated by this research gap and the fact that the levels of trust from the Afrobarometer surveys seem to challenge what the literature suggests about the causes and consequences of trust. The study finds that the question is a reliable measure of trust in 'most people' since it obtains largely similar country level estimates when used alone over a period of time. However, African respondents do not consistently interpret 'most people' as 'non-co-ethnics' as previous studies have suggested. In addition, the question does not alternate very well with other measures of bridging trust. This measure is also weakly correlated with measures of civic engagement and associational membership than its alternative, the trust in non-co-ethnics question. However, both measures produce expected linkages with measures of ethnic diversity, economic development and democracy.