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De, La Fuente Jesus Miguel. "Visualization in Genealogical Data : Genealogical tree application for Facebook." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13991.
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Garrett, Christine Jakeman Robert J. "Genealogical Research, Ancestry.com, and Archives." Auburn, Ala., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/2014.
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D'Cruz, Glenn. ""Representing" Anglo-Indians: a genealogical study." Connect to thesis, 1999. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/412.
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This dissertation examines how historians, writers, colonial administrators, social scientists and immigration officials represented Anglo-Indians between 1850 and 1998.Traditionally, Anglo-Indians have sought to correct perceived distortions or misinterpretations of their community by disputing the accuracy of deprecatory stereotypes produced by ‘prejudicial’; writers. While the need to contest disparaging representations is not in dispute here, the present study finds its own point of departure by questioning the possibility of (re)presenting an undistorted Anglo-Indian identity. (For complete abstract open document)
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Fujisawa, Tomochika. "Statistical analyses of genealogical-phylogenetic data." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556548.
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Thanks to the recent advancement of the sequence technologies, generating large volumes of DNA sequence data is now becoming more feasible. Sequencing several samples across many species from a range of clades enables us to connect the two fields of study previously separated due to the lack of data: population genetics and phylogenetics. The former has focused on detailed genetic processes in a few species, while the latter has studied large-scale evolutionary relationships across many species. In this thesis, methods to utilize the new type of data, genealogical-phylogenetic data, are explored to tackle the problems lying between the two fields, including how to delimit species with genetic information and how ecological traits affect species genetic properties. First, a method of species delimitation based on single locus gene tree, called the generalized mixed Yule coalescent method (GMYC method), is evaluated. Its statistical properties are assessed on both simulated and real data, and the method is extended to relax some simplifying assumptions and to give a robust confidence measure. The simulation studies showed that the reliability of the delimitation depends on population parameters and patterns of diversification processes. Assessment of the performance on a dataset of 5196 water beetle mitochondrial DNA sequences sampled from across Europe showed that the method accurately delimited half of the studied species. The accuracy was affected by several factors, notably the presence of pseudogenes and potential undersampling of species range. Then, the water beetle data and the GMYC method are used to test the effects of species ecological traits on genetic properties, focusing on species habitat type. Habitat type had significant effects on genetic variation and substitution rate via effects on range size and latitudinal distribution of species. However, direct effects of habitat type on genetic properties were not observed.
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Murray, Douglas B. "Yeast death : chronological and genealogical studies." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/727.
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Merrick, Allison M. "On Nietzsche's genealogical mode of inquiry." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/79363/.
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The subject of this thesis is Friedrich Nietzsche’s methodology, the genealogical mode of inquiry, which came to fruition in On the Genealogy of Morals. The precise nature of the genealogy, as a mode of inquiry, is a site of contest amongst scholars, with the central debates pivoting around four questions which arise upon considering the methodology: (1) what is the critical import of Nietzsche’s genealogical mode of inquiry? (2) What form of critique does it take? (3) To whom does Nietzsche address his reflections? And (4) what role, if any, does history play in Nietzsche’s genealogical narratives? Accordingly, this thesis seeks to offer and to defend answers to the central questions that are generated by the consideration of Nietzsche’s methodology. In order to get a foothold into these debates and to provide the boundary within which these disagreements occur the first chapter has as its object of inquiry an examination and evaluation of Nietzsche scholars’ responses to these issues. In chapter two I defend my interpretation against these rival views, and contend that the genealogy takes the form of an immanent critique, and that it is intended, at least, to reach all of Nietzsche’s contemporaries. The adage “genealogy is history correctly practiced” is treated in the remaining three chapters, in which I attempt to morph what appears to be at present an uninformative formulation into an informative one by arguing that for Nietzsche historiography is best seen as a form of artistry. And, this I submit, serves to shed light upon the genealogical mode of inquiry, and to shape the boundary by which the equation of genealogy as methodology with history becomes instructive. 3.
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Goode, Catherine Felicity. "Genealogical history and character in Homeric epic." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11352/.
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This thesis examines how individual characterisation in the Homeric poems is informed by and reflects the traditional narrative of genealogical history which is embedded in the early hexameter tradition. By reading specific characters in the context of their place in traditional history, I move closer to how they may have been received by their earliest audiences, while also interpreting them as individual mimetic characters as may be found in a work of written literature. My aim is to demonstrate that large-scale patterns which can be seen across the hexameter tradition have relevance to the small-scale details which create a compelling character in an individual poem. In part I of the thesis I examine how the Hesiodic and Homeric poems present a narrative of cosmic history which is structured by certain repeated patterns of change over each generation. Over a vast and unspecified period of time, men become gradually more distant from the gods, and are physically weaker; but this is balanced by social strengthening and an increasing awareness of justice. Although the different poems of the hexameter tradition articulate this history in different ways, they share an awareness of these patterns. In part II I examine how this traditional narrative of genealogical history can help us to understand three Homeric characters, chosen as particularly fruitful examples because they mark crucial changes in genealogical history. I argue that the characterisation of the Homeric Helen reflects her role in the wider tradition as an instrument of Zeus’ plan to destroy the heroes, and this is one reason why she is depicted as so detached, isolated, and as uttering uniquely vehement expressions of self-hatred. I then examine the characters of Penelope and Telemachus, both of whom are subject to the competing imperatives of traditional patterns of change on the one hand, and Odysseus’ inevitable return on the other hand. While Penelope’s struggles to suspend the passage of time in her husband’s absence are rewarded on his return, Telemachus’ partial but incomplete transition to manhood leaves him frustrated. The traditional patterns of genealogical history have varying effects on each of these three characters, but in each case I show that we can gain a fuller and more coherent understanding of their presentation by placing them in the context of that wider tradition.
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Mcfall, Elizabeth Rose. "Quaint devices : a genealogical study of advertising practices." Thesis, Open University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343743.
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Casely-Hayford, Augustus Lavinus. "A genealogical history of Cape Coast stool families." Thesis, Online version, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.325493.
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McGillivray, David Gordon. "Governing working bodies : a genealogical analysis of organisational wellness." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404678.
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Wolff, Gabriella Hannah. "Genealogical Correspondence of Learning and Memory Centers across Phyla." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556847.
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Across bilaterian phyla, learning and memory allows animals to benefit from central-place foraging, return to ideal food sources, choose mates and avoid dangerous or harmful external stimuli. Although these behaviors are comparable in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals, it is unknown whether or not they are mediated by homologous brain structures. In insects, paired, lobate forebrain structures called mushroom bodies receive input from primary sensory neuropils and are necessary for learning and memory, whereas in crustaceans, this behavior is mediated by paired, compact forebrain structures called hemiellipsoid bodies. Mammalian learning and memory is mediated by the paired, horn-shaped hippocampi, which also receive sensory input and are likewise situated in the forebrain. Did these structures evolve independently along with the ability for animals to learn and remember associations and places? Alternatively, the hypothesis posited in this dissertation is that the last bilaterian ancestor already possessed the ability to learn and adapt to its environment, behavior mediated by paired forebrain structures that evolved divergently into the elaborated forms we observe in extant, crown-group taxa. This hypothesis is investigated and discussed in the following reports: 1) a review of insect brain anatomy and functional connectivity, including a description of mushroom bodies, in the context of arthropod evolution; 2) a comparison of neuroanatomy, circuitry, and protein expression between insect mushroom bodies and Malacostracan crustacean hemiellipsoid bodies, using cockroaches and Caribbean hermit crabs as representatives of their classes; 3) a deeper investigation of the fine structure of neuronal organization in the hemiellipsoid body of the Caribbean hermit crab, focusing on electron microscopical observations and comparisons to the ultrastructure of the fruit fly mushroom body; 4) a survey of four invertebrate Phyla, employing the strategy of comparing neuroanatomy and protein expression to investigate whether higher order forebrain structures in these animals were inherited from a common ancestor; 5) a comparison of neuroanatomy, connectivity, and protein expression in insect mushroom bodies and mammalian hippocampus, including a survey of PKA-Cα in these and corresponding structures across the Chordata. The total evidence suggests that a common Bilaterian ancestor possessed a center that evolved to become mushroom bodies in invertebrates and hippocampus in vertebrates.
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Galea, Simone. "Symbolising the maternal : a genealogical study of Maltese women educators." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393394.
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This thesis aims to symbolise the maternal through an exploration of the associations of women teachers with mothering practices, focusing in particular on how these develop within a Maltese context. The main argument of the thesis is that as women's and especially Maltese women's subjectivities are identified through their various associations with the maternal, it is difficult, as it is ineffective to completely disregard such discourses in attempting to symbolise women. The research explores the ways women use their maternal positionings as women, and especially those as teachers to go beyond limited associations of the maternal. The theoretical framework for this study is made up of some of the most important ideas of Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault. Foucault's work on power and selfcreation inspires the research but especially his method of genealogy that informs the analysis of the associations between teaching and mothering, as we know them in the present. The study also draws on Irigaray's critique of phallocentric social systems; her notion of establishing relations between women and maternal genealogies and above all her arguments for women's own symbolisation of themselves as subjects. The thesis, however, is not entirely framed by what these theorists say. It is directed by the conversations with eleven women teachers about mothering and teaching. This is an original attempt to intertwine the theories of two well established authors with the ideas and philosophies of these women teachers aiming at symbolising these women as creators of their own know ledges as well as creators of their own selves.
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Rauch, Erik 1974. "Diversity in evolving systems : scaling and dynamics of genealogical trees." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30091.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.Includes bibliographical references.
Diversity is a fundamental property of all evolving systems. This thesis examines spatial and temporal patterns of diversity. The systems I will study consist of a population of individuals, each with a potentially unique state, together with a dynamics consisting of copying or reproduction of individual states with small modifications to them (innovations). I show that properties of diversity can be understood by modelling the evolving genealogical tree of the population. This formulation is general enough that it captures interesting features of a range of natural and artificial systems, though I will pay particular attention to genetic diversity in biological populations, and discuss the implications of the results to conservation. I show that diversity is unevenly distributed in populations, and a disproportionate fraction is found in small sub-populations. The evolution of diversity is a dynamic process, and I show that large fluctuations in diversity can result purely from the internal dynamics of the population, and not necessarily from external causes. I also show how diversity is affected by the structure of the population (spatial or well-mixed), and determine the scaling of diversity with habitat area in spatial systems. Predictions from the model agree with existing experimental genetic data on global populations of bacteria. I then apply the method of modelling the genealogical tree of a population to further questions in evolution.
(cont.) Using a generic model of a pathogen evolving to coexist with a population of hosts, I show that the evolutionary dynamics of the system can be better understood by considering the dynamics of strains (groups of individuals descended from a common ancestor) rather than individuals. A fundamental question in the study of evolution is how selection can operate above the level of the individual, and these results suggests a more general mechanism for such selection.
by Erik Rauch.
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Walker, B. "Grammatical and genealogical investigation : two models of antidogmatic philosophical method." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/42949/.
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Crane, Peter (Peter Ryan) Carleton University Dissertation English. "The genealogical autobiography: writing history in time and the body." Ottawa, 1993.
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Strickland, Sharon K. "Rhyme and reason a rhetorical, genealogical examination of undergraduate mathematics /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 14, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-216). Also issued in print.
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D'Cruz, Carolyn. "Ecofeminism as practice, theory, discourse: An Archaeological and genealogical study." Thesis, D'Cruz, Carolyn (1990) Ecofeminism as practice, theory, discourse: An Archaeological and genealogical study. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 1990. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/13246/.
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The central aim of this thesis is to examine the usefulness of the archaeological and genealogical methods, as explicated by Michel Foucault, for exploring ecofeminism as a liberation movement and emerging field of academic inquiry. In particular, I will be using Foucault's concepts of "discursive formations", "discursive practices" and "power/knowledge relations" in order to investigate the factors which constrain and enable the circulation of ecofeminism as it enters the academy and appears in grass roots liberation movements. The purpose of studying ecofeminism in this way is to enable a bringing into play of the activist voices displaced by some philosophical commentaries. On a more implicit level, the inquiry is guided by Donna Haraway's concepts of "situated knowledges" and "cyborg politics". Together, the works of Foucault and Haraway will be employed to argue for a politics which aims at avoiding the use of essentialist and universalising frameworks. I am also arguing that it is, perhaps, a shared ethics and politics, rather than a unified epistemology, that gives rise to ecofeminist positions.
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Woodbury, Charla Jean. "Automatic Extraction From and Reasoning About Genealogical Records: A Prototype." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2335.
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Family history research on the web is increasing in popularity, and many competing genealogical websites host large amounts of data-rich, unstructured, primary genealogical records. It is labor-intensive, however, even after making these records machine-readable, for humans to make these records easily searchable. What we need are computer tools that can automatically produce indices and databases from these genealogical records and can automatically identify individuals and events, determine relationships, and put families together. We propose here a possible solution—specialized ontologies, built specifically for extracting information from primary genealogical records, with expert logic and rules to infer genealogical facts and assemble relationship links between persons with respect to the genealogical events in their lives. The deliverables of this solution are extraction ontologies that can extract from parish or town records, annotated versions of original documents, data files of individuals and events, and rules to infer family relationships from stored data. The solution also provides for the ability to query over the rules and data files and to obtain query-result justification linking back to primary genealogical records. An evaluation of the prototype solution shows that the extraction has excellent recall and precision results and that inferred facts are correct.
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GHIROTTO, Silvia. "Genealogical inferences based on comparison of modern and ancient DNA." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2388776.
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The study of genetic variation within and between populations can help us understand
aspects of human demographic history over the past thousands of years, i.e. well beyond the timescales
of historical evidence. Demographic and evolutionary dynamics influence the distribution of
the observed genetic diversity, and so one can retrospectively reconstruct episodes in population
history on the basis of genetic diversity data. One way to do this is to make extensive use of
simulations, considering evolution as a stochastic process in which the genetic data are modeled
as random variables. The simulation of genetic data under various scenarios allows one to explore
how demographic and evolutionary parameters can affect genetic variation, also making it
possible to approximately estimate the historical parameters that produced the observed data. To
this aim, many statistical approaches have been developed, but, when models are complex or
datasets are large, they often become computationally expensive, or analytically intractable.
Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods overcome these problems allowing, for the
first time, to analyze large datasets and to interpret them in the light of realistic (i.e. complex)
models, thus enabling the probabilistic comparison among different models of evolution, the
simultaneous estimation of demographic and evolutionary parameters, and the quantitative
evaluation of the results credibility. In this context, we analyzed datasets of modern and ancient
genetic variation in order to understand the demographic histories of these populations, to
highlight traces of past genetic variation in modern populations, and to evaluate whether, and to
what extent, ancient and modern populations that have lived in the same place in different period
of times can be considered genealogically related. We tried to address three anthropological
questions, namely the interaction of anatomically modern humans with archaic forms (i.e.
Neandertals in Europe), evidence for genealogical continuity in Sardinia since the Bronze-age, and
the origins and evolution of the Etruscan population. Within the ABC framework, in each of the
three studies, we explicitly compared several models, differing for the demographic processes and
the genealogical relationship among population, to identify the model best accounting for the
observed variation, and to estimate its demographic and evolutionary parameters. This way, it has
been possible to shed light on past population history and to address questions about the nature
and the extent of genealogical links between modern and ancient populations, clarifying aspects
of human history that have long been controversial in population genetics and evolutionary
biology.
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Gullette, David Cameron. "Kinship, state, and 'tribalism' : the genealogical construction of the Kyrgyz Republic." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252029.
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Frangou, Anna. "Using genealogical trees to examine admixture between modern humans and Neandertals." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ca235cb7-4d90-41d6-ad3d-0883567783a1.
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This thesis uses genealogical trees to identify, date, and quantify patterns of admixture between Neandertals and individual modern human populations, using a combination of high quality data and parametric methodology. Previous methods on this subject have either approximated features of trees, or inferred them indirectly. Here, genealogical trees are used directly to understand the admixture process between humans and Neandertals by extending a recently developed method named CEPHi: Coalescent Estimation of Population History. CEPHi uses recombinationally cold regions of the human genome to build genealogical trees specifying the relationships between individuals in two input populations (one Neandertal, one human), including estimated population size histories, split times, and coalescence and mutation times. Using CEPHi, a Neandertal-human population split time of ~712,000 years in the past is estimated, as well as uncovering loci introduced by Neandertal-human admixture, revealing distinct bimodal distributions of estimated coalescence times between non-African and Neandertal haplotypes. A Neandertal population history is inferred, from the time of their split with humans up to ~50,000 years ago (the fossil age), showing this archaic species to have suffered a bottleneck at this time, consistent with leaving Africa, followed by a further reduction to extinction. Contrasting African-Neandertal and Eurasian-Neandertal analyses are used to define admixture using genealogical trees, and test our procedures in CEPHi via coalescent-based simulations. This region-level definition of admixture is used to specify sets of introgressed coldspots across 13 modern human populations. These sets are compared between pairs of populations, revealing information about the possible timing of interactions between Neandertals and modern humans, and sharing of admixture events between human groups, especially with respect to the split time between European and Asian populations. Online sets of introgressed regions for each of the four continents in our dataset are provided: African, American, Asian, and European. Finally, in order to investigate the variation in time of contact between Neandertals and individual human populations, a novel method is described and implemented which dates admixture between individual human populations and Neandertals, using information from genealogical trees. Dates of admixture are estimated as ~50-60,000 years in the past in European populations, and ~80-90,000 years in the past in Asian populations, suggestive of potentially somewhat distinct histories between European and Asian populations. This method can be applied to date any set of introgressed regions, including those shared between particular populations, enabling a clearer picture of the joint evolutionary history of modern humans, Neandertals, and other archaic species.
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Naicker, Veeran. "The use and abuse of genealogy : genealogical critique from Nietzsche to Said." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20134.
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This thesis traces the use and abuse of genealogy, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Edward Said. After elucidating Nietzsche and Michel Foucault's coherent configuration of the genealogical method in their own philosophical projects, it critically deconstructs and rejects the claim that the post-colonial thinker in Edward Said's book 'Orientalism' is a genealogy in a similar sense to Nietzsche and Foucault. The rejection of Said's texts and Orientalism's status as a genealogical history is premised on a critical analysis of Said's misreading and negation of key Nietzschean and Foucauldian concepts such as power, discourse and the body. Following a rejection of the post-colonial appropriation of genealogy, this thesis concludes by suggesting some revisions for a more coherent deployment of genealogy in post-colonial theory through a closer reading of the relationship between the body and power, with regard to the question of subjectification.
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Shuey, Megan Marie. "Development of novel YSTR assays for applicationi to genealogical research (lineage reconstruction)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192967.
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Shah, Pooja P. "Combination of a Probabilistic-Based and a Rule-Based Approach for Genealogical Record Linkage." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2015. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1353.
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Record linkage is the task of identifying records within one or multiple databases that refer to the same entity. Currently, there exist many different approaches for record linkage. Some approaches incorporate the use of heuristic rules, mathematical models, Markov models, or machine learning. This thesis focuses on the application of record linkage to genealogical records within family trees. Today, large collections of genealogical records are stored in databases, which may contain multiple records that refer to a single individual. Resolving duplicate genealogical records can extend our knowledge on who has lived and more complete information can be constructed by combining all information referring to an individual. Simple string matching is not a feasible option for identifying duplicate records due to inconsistencies such as typographical errors, data entry errors, and missing data.
Record linkage algorithms can be classified under two broad categories, a rule-based or heuristic approach, or a probabilistic-based approach. The Cocktail Approach, presented by Shirley Ong Ai Pei, combines a probabilistic-based approach with a rule-based approach for record linkage. This thesis discusses a re-implementation and adoption of the Cocktail Approach to genealogical records.
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Waltho, Simon. "A genealogical critique of Beauchamp and Childress' for principles approach to medical ethics." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54192/.
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Brunskell-Evans, Heather. "The construction of child sexual abuse : The politics and ethics of genealogical knowledge." Thesis, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514232.
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Igarashi, Motomichi. "Genealogical analysis of the dispositive of humanitarianism/trusteeship : from colonial administration to peacebuilding." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/46590/.
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By using genealogy, this study analyzes the dispositive of humanitarianism/trusteeship, which has constituted the power relationship between trustees and target societies and fields of intervention of power in international society. This dispositive has been reproduced from the colonial period to the present. However, this study does not attempt a complete history of humanitarianism and trusteeship. Its aim is to follow the formation and reproduction of power relations in international society. In this study, ‘trusteeship' refers to a relation of inequality and a field of intervention, rather than a specific or particular historical practice. Thus, the concept of trusteeship includes various practices such as colonial administration, development assistance, and transitional administration. Equally, the category of ‘humanitarianism' also includes practices such as protection from anarchy, relief from oppression, and freedom from poverty, which are above and beyond the direct relief of suffering. Examining IR theories which employ genealogy, this study adopts sociological genealogy as a methodology. Previous studies on new trusteeship tend to presume that new trusteeship is rooted only in liberal internationalism. However, this study argues that it is underpinned not only by liberal internationalism but iii also by humanitarian discourse. Furthermore, some existing works on humanitarian intervention and new trusteeship presume that there are two kinds of humanitarianism: ‘humanitarianism separate from politics' and ‘humanitarianism abused by politics.' The former means that politics is just a tool for humanitarian purposes; and the latter means that humanitarian discourse is a convenient cloak for political interests. This dichotomy leads to the distinction between ‘good trusteeship embodying humanitarianism' and ‘bad trusteeship abusing humanitarianism.' This study aims to show that this dichotomy is highly questionable and to indicate the co-constitutive nature of trusteeship and humanitarianism. The language of trusteeship harks back to the colonial period even while the humanitarianism of today tends to reject political and colonial content. While trusteeship requires strong moral justification, humanitarianism contributes to the constitution of trusteeship when it attempts to alleviate human suffering. Although humanitarianism has represented trusteeship as universal and impartial, trusteeship has tended to expand and defend the interests of particular communities in international society. This study indicates the inherent danger of trusteeship and humanitarianism.
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Buijs, Lorena Maria Elisa. "September 11 : catalyst for structural-genealogical narrative of a new world (Dis)order." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006463.
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The attacks of September 11, 2001, have changed America forever. In a horrific manner the vulnerability of the highly developed states was demonstrated and exposed in world politics. The event is ushering a new political era where far reaching shifts in international relations are under way. In the post Cold-War international world it appears that the ideological conflict between capitalism and socialism has been replaced by a new world order. One that has retained the binary conflict structure of the Cold War, except that this binary is now presented by political Islam and consumerist's capitalism (Martin, 2000:155). Indeed, in the previous bipolar world order, the acute distinction between capitalism and communism served to attenuate the discord in and between religions. This complex blurring of distinctions has been systematically heightened since the end of the Cold War, as it has allowed Western governments to maintain controlling interests outside of their dominions (Gupta, 2002:6) . This struggle has since been conceived in a variety of different, but related ways: A 'Clash of Civilizations' (Huntington 1996), or as an inescapable dialectic typical of the process of globalization itself (Barber, 1996:245). In the case of Huntington's (1996:19-20) genealogical narrative, he refers to global politics and the way in which the future will be reconfigured according to cultural identities. The division along these cultural lines, will furthermore "shape" the patterns of cohesion, disintegration, and conflict in the Post-Cold War world" (Huntington, 1996:20). Huntington's thesis is rather overriding in explaining the clash between the supposedly 'West' vs. 'Rest', whose interaction is historically determined. Yet, the genealogical narrative is not sufficient in taking into account the dynamics of globalization. Benjamin Barber's structural narrative, on the other hand, goes to great lengths to illustrate the paradoxical relationship between Jihad and McWorld, and how both forces tend to survive in a world that they inevitably create. By' acknowledging the relevance of both binaries (East/West), it is hoped to transcend them by presenting a structural-genealogical grand narrative, which will essentially allow one to understand Jihad as being a structural moment of the genealogical narrative. Given this general strategy, it will become perceptible that Jihad is one form of anti-globalization as the structural narratives become part of the genealogical and the genealogical part of the structural. In essence, then, this thesis is attempting to come to grips with the phenomenon of September 11, from a political-philosophical perspective. More specifically, this study will firstly be looking at two different, but related narratives that have emerged post-September 11, to make sense of the event. Given the structural-genealogical approach, the central concern in this study is consequently to look at two separate but related interests. The one pertains to history and the other to historiography.
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Johns, Jennifer S. "The curse of Eve : a genealogical analysis of the discursive practice of contemporary childbirth." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ27082.pdf.
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Glöde, Patric Karl [Verfasser], and Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Greven. "Dynamics of Genealogical Trees for Autocatalytic Branching Processes / Patric Karl Glöde. Betreuer: Andreas Greven." Erlangen : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1033029912/34.
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Rauscher, Martina [Verfasser], Thomas [Gutachter] Wiehe, and Michael [Gutachter] Nothnagel. "Topology of genealogical trees - theory and application / Martina Rauscher ; Gutachter: Thomas Wiehe, Michael Nothnagel." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1172879435/34.
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Camp, Nicola J. "Methods for genealogical analysis, with particular reference to Type II diabetes in the Pima." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364310.
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Glöde, Patric [Verfasser], and Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Greven. "Dynamics of Genealogical Trees for Autocatalytic Branching Processes / Patric Karl Glöde. Betreuer: Andreas Greven." Erlangen : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-opus-45453.
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Mehr, Kahlile B. "Preserving the Source: Early Microfilming Efforts of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1938-1950." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1985. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,41488.
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Dean, Kenneth Marvin. "A comparison of the genealogical method of textual criticism with the Claremont profile method." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Dillman, Casey B. "Phylogenetic systematics of Orconectes stygocaneyi, with a genealogical analysis of the Ozark cave crayfishes /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1421131.
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Gao, Jun. "Higher education policy in China 1992-2010 : a genealogical analysis of the enterprise university." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/52846/1/Jun_Gao_Thesis.pdf.
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In the context of globalisation and the knowledge economy, universities worldwide are undertaking profound restructuring. Following these pressures for reform, the entity of the "enterprise university" has emerged internationally. Characteristics of this new form of educational institution can be summarised as deploying corporate styles of governance and management in order to enhance economic competitiveness and academic prestige. The higher education sector in China is no different, as it has undergone extensive reforms particularly since the "socialist market economy" was introduced in 1992. Hence, this study aims to investigate the emergence of the enterprise university in a Chinese context. The research question is: How have discourses of globalisation manifested and constituted new forms of social and educational governance within China's higher education sector during the period 1992 to 2010? Following this research question, the study uses a genealogical methodology to conduct a critical analysis of reforms in Chinese higher education (1992 -2010). At a national level, China's higher education policy is examined using the analytical framework of governmentality. This discloses the underlying rationalities and technologies of Chinese political authorities as they seek to refashion higher education policy and practice. At a local level, a case study of a particular university in China is conducted in order to facilitate understanding of reform at the national level. The aim is to uncover the kinds of educational subjects and spaces that have been constituted in the university's efforts to reconfigure itself within the context of national higher education reform.
The study found that the concept of the enterprise university in China has features shared by the one that has emerged internationally. However, the analysis showed that the emergence of the enterprise university in China has specific social, economic, political, and cultural environments which impact on local educational practices. The study is significant because it is one of the few examples where the framework of governmentality.a research approach or perspective employed largely to examine Western society.is applied in a Chinese context, which is a non-Western and non-liberal democratic site.
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Brown, Margaret Mary Selman. "Genealogical Family History in Aotearoa-New Zealand: From Community of Practice to Transdisciplinary Academic Discourse?" The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2561.
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Genealogical Family Historians conduct research in order to reconstruct genealogical families, through the application of a rigorous methodology: weighing the evidence for placing each individual in a family group, linking family groups of the past and making contact with kin of the present. Genealogical Family Historians trace the movements and migrations of identified individuals and family groups; and study the local, national and international social settings of lives lived in families and households in different times and places, over many generations. A large worldwide Community of Practice with many constituent groups, including the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Incorporated, has formed itself around this research activity. In this transdisciplinary study focused on social learning, I have explored and analysed the domain, the practice and the community of Genealogical Family Historians researching in and from Aotearoa-New Zealand during the past 50 years. Genealogical Family Historians meet formally and informally, in small groups or at large conferences to pursue their self-directed learning. The collaborative practice includes publishing and teaching; and the locating, preserving and indexing of records. Many conduct research and communicate with others in the new world of cyberspace. My overarching research question has been: where is the future place for this scholarly discourse? My approach to this study is transdisciplinary: my point-of-view is above and across departments and disciplines. The ethos and vision of transdisciplinarity is attained only through existing disciplines, and transdisciplinary research has the potential to contribute to those disciplines, as I demonstrate in this thesis. The transdisciplinary scholarly discourse of Genealogical Family History owes much to the disciplines of history, geography and sociology; and draws on biology, law, religious studies, linguistics, demography, computer science and information technology. I have also drawn on understandings from my own prior and concurrent disciplinary knowledge and experience for this study. Other Genealogical Family Historians bring different disciplinary understandings to the discourse that is Genealogical Family History. My positionality is that of an insider, an involved member of the Community of Practice for many years. In this study, I have allowed my key informants to speak with their own voices; and I have sought illustration and evidence from documentation and observation in the wider Genealogical Family History Community, past and present. I have used enhanced reflection on my own practice in my analysis and in case studies. This study demonstrates how the Community of Practice has played an important role in developing a transdisciplinary mode of inquiry and suggests that there are some generic features of the field and practice of Genealogical Family History that form the substance of a transdisciplinary discourse ready to take its place in academia.
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Bullock, Erika C. "An Archaeological/Genealogical Historical Analysis of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards Documents." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/110.
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Since the mid-20th century in the United States, there have been several reform movements within mathematics education; each movement has been subject to its own unique socio-cultural and -political forces. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ (NCTM) Standards documents—Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989), Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (1991), Assessment Standards for School Mathematics (1995), and Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000)—not only represent the most recent of these reform movements but also the most enduring. Collectively, these documents have formed a discourse (cf. Foucault, 1969/1972)—Standards-based mathematics education—that has guided mathematics education through the 1990s and beyond. This study uses Foucaultian archaeological and genealogical methods (cf. Foucault, 1969/1972, 1975/1995) to explore Standards-based mathematics education as a “discursive formation” (Foucault, 1969/1972) and the complex power relations (cf. Foucault, 1976/1990) that made it possible for the formation to become The discourse of school mathematics, making others impossible. Data for the exploration includes the Standards documents, earlier histories of the NCTM Standards moment, scholarly and policy literature surrounding the NCTM documents, and oral history interviews with several of the writers of the NCTM documents. The study presents a historical narrative of mathematics education in the 20th century that both contextualizes Standards-based mathematics education and problematizes NCTM’s efforts; a key focus is the strategy that NCTM deployed to maintain the viability of Standards-based mathematics education as a discourse. Foucault’s (1984) “author function” is used to address the ways that the writers, externalities, and NCTM as an organization “authored” the Standards documents. The study concludes arguing that perpetuating the discursive formation of Standards-based mathematics education is neither good nor bad but only dangerous; therefore, it requires mathematics educators to maintain a sense of pessimistic activism related to present and future reform efforts (cf. Foucault, 1983/1997).
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Irwin, Robert. "A history and genealogical analysis of psychosexual nursing in England, 1973-2000 : a case study." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436900.
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Yoruk, Zafer Fehmi. "Identity crisis in Turkey : a genealogical inquiry into the exclusion of the others (1985-2004)." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423711.
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Muir, Rachel. "Rethinking conflict resolution research in post-war Bosnia and Hercegovina : a genealogical and ontological exploration." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15000.
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This thesis explores how research is implicated in the constitution of post-war environments, and gives an account of being and becoming a researcher in post-war Bosnia. My main contention is that when peace and conflict researchers conduct research in post-war contexts, their presence, practices, and the consequential production of knowledge and representations, have political effects. I argue that the implications of this have not been fully explained, acknowledged, or problematised within Conflict Resolution, which tends to rely on research approaches and assumptions taken from ‘normal’ science. This thesis suggests how reflexivity and alternatives methodologies, including visual research might be used to represent the emotional, sensory, and often intangible elements of post-war realities. It enacts an engagement in the politics of research and uses reflexive writing and visual methods to draw attention to the importance of the relational aspects of research in postwar environments. Visual journeys are also used to argue that visual methods can provide a way of revisiting the epistemological and ontological assumptions about lived experiences and realities in post-war settings. The thesis is based upon one year of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Bosnia, and is also informed by eighteen months of volunteer work with a Bosnian Community Centre in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
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Winges-Yanez, Nick. "A Foucaultian Discourse Analysis of Person-Centered Practice Using a Genealogical Framework of Intellectual Disability." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4505.
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A genealogical framework highlights the important role sexuality has played in constructing the current label of intellectual disability (ID). The genealogical framework is meant to replace the social, medical, and/or rights-based model(s) that have dominated social work and social services working in the disability field. With this framework, or perspective, I use a Foucaultian discourse analysis to read through seminal texts regarding person-centered practice.
Person-centered practice is the foremost intervention used in social work, and other disciplines, to work with people labeled with intellectual disability. My research questions focus on what is revealed about ID in PCP through a genealogical framework and what implications do these discoveries hold for sexuality education and social services, including social workers?
Predetermined concepts taken from the genealogical framework are used in the Foucaultian discourse analysis. These concepts (subject, government, biopower, and normalization) provide insight into how ID has been constructed and maintained through the practice of person-centered processes. Paradoxes emerge throughout the analysis, providing space for productive resistance by professionals working in sexuality education and social services to improve equity for people labeled with intellectual disability, specifically regarding their sexuality and healthy expression of it.
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Shirota, Maree. "Unrolling history : fifteenth-century political culture and perceptions on the Canterbury Roll." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/11080.
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The Canterbury Roll is a fifteenth-century genealogical chronicle roll that traces the succession of English kings from Noah until the Wars of the Roses. Created in a period when genealogy and ancestry had practical and ideological meaning in society, the Canterbury Roll is symbolic of the ideas of dynasty, myth and heritage that its original creators and readers valued. This thesis departs from previous historiographical approaches to genealogical rolls by treating the Canterbury Roll as a document that reflects the political culture in which it was produced. By examining the image, text and materiality of the manuscript, the thesis develops on existing scholarship and offers insights into the depiction of political prophecies, political theories of effective kingship, the justification of royal deposition and English perceptions towards foreign kingdoms and dominions. Political prophecies on the roll reveal how genealogy and prophecy contribute to a broader sense of history and prestige that the Lancastrian kings claimed to inherit. By using mythical royal depositions, the roll justifies the removal of Richard II and the Lancastrian dynasty’s legitimacy through not only hereditary right, but also contemporary political theory that validated the ousting of ineffective kings. The thesis also establishes that the roll reveals contemporary English attitudes towards other territories such as Scotland, Wales and France, which reflect the political and diplomatic context of the period. These themes demonstrate the capacity of genealogical manuscripts to present a nuanced view of contemporary political concepts. In doing so, this thesis both provides an in-depth textual analysis of the Canterbury Roll, and contributes to the historiography of medieval genealogical literature and political thought by approaching the manuscript as a source for the political culture of early fifteenth-century England.
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au, Zsuzsanna Millei@newcastle edu, and Zsuzsa Millei. "A genealogical study of the child as the subject of pre-compulsory education in Western Australia." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20081002.80627.
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The study produces a genealogy of the child as the shifting subject constituted by the confluence of discourses that are utilized by, and surround, Western Australian precompulsory education. The analysis is approached as a genealogy of governmentality building on the work of Foucault and Rose, which enables the consideration of the research question that guides this study: How has the child come to be constituted as a subject of regimes of practices of pre-compulsory education in Western Australia?
This study does not explore how the historical discourses changed in relation to the child as a universal subject of early education, but it examines the multiple ways the child was constituted by these discourses as the subject at which government is to be aimed, and whose characteristics government must harness and instrumentalize. Besides addressing the research question, the study also develops a set of intertwining arguments. In these the author contends that the child is invented through historically contingent ideas about the individual and that the way in which the child is constituted in pre-compulsory education shifts in concert with the changing problematizations about the government of the population and individuals. Further, the study demonstrates the necessity to understand the provision of pre-compulsory education as a political practice.
Looking at pre-compulsory education as a political practice de-stabilizes the takenfor-granted constitutions of the child embedded in present theories, practices and research with children in the field of early childhood education. It also enables the de- and reconstruction of the notions of childrens participation, empowerment and citizenship. The continuous de- and reconstruction of these notions and the destabilization of the constitutions of the child creates a framework in which improvement is possible, rather than a utopian, wholesale and, thus revolutionary, transformation in early education (Branson & Miller, 1991, p. 187). This study also contributes to the critiques of classroom discipline approaches by reconceptualizing them as technologies of government in order to reveal the power relations they silently wield.
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Williams, Carolyn, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. "Identity, difference and the other : a genealogical investigation of lesbian feminism, the 'sex wars' and beyond." THESIS_FHSS_XXX_Williams_C.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/187.
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This thesis is an investigation into lesbian, and its primary focus is an analysis of the discursive conditions of the ?sex wars?: a moment in feminist politics in which contestations over sexuality became the central focus of feminist debate. In particular, the question is asked how it was possible for lesbian sadomasochism to be problematized as an ?anti-feminist? sexual practice. Lesbian feminism was committed to a modernist logic which compelled the production of ?regimes of truth?, which promoted a certain construction of ?lesbian? as a privileged form of feminist while problematizing lesbian sadomasochism. This problematization is traced to Enlightenment and humanist logics and precepts operative within feminist, lesbian feminist and gay liberationist discourses. The tendency of modernist discourses to produce singular, exclusionary identity categories and a hierarchical ordering of subject positions is also found to be present within the discourse of contemporary ?queer? theory. It is the contention of this thesis that the work of lesbian writers like Judith Butler, Shane Phelan and Teresa de Lauretis disrupts the modernist logic of the ?one? operative in both lesbian feminism and ?queer? theory and points to the theoretical and political work that needs to be done. The most urgent task facing current lesbian, gay and ?queer? theorists is the elaboration of an ethico-politics of difference, one that is attentive to the mutually constitutive multiple differences within and between subjects.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Grieshammer, Max [Verfasser], and Andreas [Gutachter] Greven. "Measure representations of genealogical processes and applications to Fleming-Viot models / Max Grieshammer ; Gutachter: Andreas Greven." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2017. http://d-nb.info/1135779805/34.
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Kinyanjui, Sarah Muringa. "A genealogical analysis of the criminal justice system in Kenya : rebirth of restorative justice for juveniles?" Thesis, University of Leicester, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4495.
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This thesis explores restorative justice practices as a modality of intervention in juvenile crime in Kenya. To analyse current restorative justice practices, the thesis adopts the Foucauldian concept of genealogy and examines the processes through which contemporary penal practices have become acceptable. The thesis links reforms in the juvenile justice system in Kenya to the process of legal globalization and highlights the role of the ‘law and development’ discourse in this process. Identifying pitfalls intrinsic to the Westernization of Kenyan law, the thesis engages in a postcolonial critique of law and development. Inspired by Foucault’s analysis of power/knowledge, which postcolonial theory heavily relies on, the thesis examines the conditions that make the Westernization of Kenyan law possible. In particular, the thesis analyzes the conditions that have made certain penal practices acceptable. Using data collected through original empirical research and existing literature on the Kenyan justice system, the thesis examines these penal practices. The research reveals that there have been attempts to incorporate restorative justice practices in the formal juvenile justice system. However, the system underutilizes these practices in favour of conventional court-based penal practices. On the other hand, restorative justice values are embraced in informal forums. Arguing that restorative justice values are compatible with the cultural ethos of communities in Kenya, this thesis examines why restorative justice practices in the formal juvenile justice system remain underutilized. The thesis identifies imprisonment as the predominant modality of punishment in Kenya and analyzes how restorative justice fits in within this context. Analyzing the current underutilization of restorative justice, the thesis highlights the failure to tailor legal structures to fit the contextual realities as a major drawback to the Westernization of Kenyan law. Inspired by postcolonial theory, the thesis underscores the need for local solutions to structural challenges besetting the legal system. It further emphasizes the need for a careful analysis of the compatibility of global penal trends with the contextual realities of a country still beset by the aftermath of colonialism.
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McCoy, Katherine E. "Looking awry : a genealogical study of pre-service teacher encounters with popular media and multicultural education /." Connect to resource, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1110482673.
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Varilo, Teppo. "[The]age of the mutations in the Finnish disease heritage : a genealogical and linkage disequilibrium study." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 1999. http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/laa/haart/vk/varilo/.
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