Dissertations / Theses: 'Movement'

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Bobbitt, Rachel. "Applying Movement Success Models to Marian Apparition Movements." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1556.

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This research seeks to explore Marian apparition movements as applied to movement success models. Among the numerous reports of the Virgin Mary appearing to the faithful, a select number of these experiences have developed into social movements. These movements take on similar patterns in their development and are contingent upon group involvement and support. This analysis researches how certain cases of Marian apparitions transition from lone psychic experience into a social movement and seeks to expand upon existing movement success models.

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Mello, Brian Jason. "Evaluating social movement impacts : labor and the politics of state-society relations /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10711.

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Bågander, Linnea. "Body of movement : (in)forming movement." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-13271.

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In dance many choreographers uses neutral garments not to distract too much from the movement the ”natural” body performs. Still these garments paints the body with color, form, identity and movement qualities. The work exemplifies how the body can extend into materiality and through this it questions the borders of the body not only in form, which is usually the case in fashion design, but also in movement qualities as temporal form. Further it high lightens the importance of awareness of movement qualities in materials of dress as they express the form. The potential of dress in dance is explored in three chapters. For each of these, materials were chosen and arranged in order to provide an additional layer to the movement that the body naturally performs, allowing material to transform the body into various figures of movement. The first part introduces the use of dress in dance and how dress acts with the moving body. The second part explores how movement with the origin in the body can extend spatially and the last part focuses on the materials ability to interpret and materialize the movement. The result of this work suggest that dress has the potential in dance as both choreographic tool and movement quality of equal importance as the movement of a body in a dance performance. Further it intersects the aesthetics of dance, a temporal aesthetic, with the aesthetics of garments, as a form based aesthetic, as it suggests dress as temporal design, allowing dress to create a new body of movement.

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Matushansky, Ora. "Movement of degree/degree of movement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8149.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-196).
In this project we examine the DP-internal behavior of degree operators contained in attributive extended APs, specifically degree fronting (so sunny a day) and degree right extraposition (a day sunny enough). We argue that both processes have to do with the scope of the degree operator, namely, that degree fronting is a diagnostic of clausal scope of the degree operator, while right extraposition is overt QR to the DP-internal landing site where a quantifier can be interpreted. We first show that pre-determiner APs in Germanic languages (so sunny a day) are moved to [Spec, NumP] only if they contain a degree operator, i.e. an element that cannot be interpreted in situ. We will then show that the appearance of the adjectival projection in that position is due to pied-piping, and that different degree operators behave differently with respect to how much material is moved overtly (pied-piping). We then turn to right extraposition. We will show that it can be differentiated from other cases traditionally denoted by the same term (e.g. a professor proud of her children). On the other hand, it has certain properties permitting to assimilate it to DP-extraposition to the right periphery of the vP (Heavy NP Shift) - it has new information status and permits stranding of the argument of the degree operator (a more interesting problem than this). These and similar factors suggest that right extraposition of degree-containing extended APs is overt QR of the degree operator accompanied by more or less pied-piping. The overall picture seems to be that QR an overt movement processes examined for clausal projections exist in nominal projections as well and have similar properties.
by Ora Mitchell Matushansky.
Ph.D.

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Cramer, Aaron Richard. "The significance of the similarities and distinctions between the anti-abortion movement and the civil rights movement." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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J, Haddadian Afsaneh. "Social Movements' Emergence and Form: The Green Movement in Iran." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334502194.

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Wooten, Martin Edward. "The Boston movement as as "revitalization movement"." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Mitchell, Lauren Coleen. "Movement in Architecture: A Spacial Movement Theory." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34210.

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As the body moves through space ephemeral lines of movement are created. These lines of movement are influenced by body tendencies. We learn from the body by watching the path and patterning of movement. From the study of the movement of the body, theories of spacial movement were developed. The goal of my project is to draw from spacial movement theory to create an architectural expression that motivates movement of the body on my site and through my building. The focus of my thesis is the movement theory of Rudolph Laban (1879-1958), a modern dance pioneer and a spacial movement theorist.
Master of Architecture

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Runnoe, Mary Jo. "Building a movement the Volunteer Missionary Movement /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Einwohner, Rachel L. "The efficacy of protest : meaning and social movement outcomes /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8922.

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Glover, Jeffrey T. "Adventure Movement Project| Building a sustainable adventure movement." Thesis, Prescott College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557871.

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This thesis introduces the question of how to intentionally build a sustainable adventure movement, which is a grassroots effort to intentionally and significantly increase the use of outdoor adventure education as an innovative educational tool for schools, communities and businesses in perpetuity. Taking a whole-systems approach and applying leading social movement and diffusion theories, the Adventure Movement Project (AMP) seeks to develop a framework for integrating outdoor adventure education into whole communities to inspire servant leadership, achieve sustainability, and drive innovation. A socially just and sustainable planet can thrive with outdoor adventure education acting as a highly effective catalyst, which drives social, economic, educational, and environmental change. To that end, this thesis presents original applications of diffusion models and social movement theories to outdoor adventure education. The research used an original Delphi study—of outdoor adventure education experts—which explored how to build a sustainable adventure movement. The study aimed to understand ideas related to best practices and successful strategies for expanding outdoor adventure education participation. Findings exemplified for increasing outdoor adventure education include embracing a clear, unified message that establishes why outdoor adventure education matters as a tool, which can lead to achieving sustainability, driving innovation, and inspiring servant leadership. A second key finding calls for outdoor adventure education to be part of something larger and through integration into the larger experiential education and sustainability movements it may reach critical mass.

Key Words: outdoor adventure education, sustainability, servant leadership, innovation, social movement, experiential education

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Wänman, Magnus, and Christopher Staversjö. "Lower Jaw Movements Measured by Optoelectronic Movement Recording : A pilot study." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för odontologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-143860.

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Due to the complex nature of jaw movements, three-dimensional (3D) movement recording provide information about the jaw movement capacity. The aim of the present report was to test the reliability of measuring lower jaw movements using a 3D movement recording system and to calculate the lower jaw movement volume. Lower jaw movements, recorded by 3D optoelectronic movement analysis system (MacReflex®) was compared with reference values from a digital caliper. Pre-tests were performed to develop a software to calculate the lower jaw movements in separate dimensions and its volume. Pilot tests with two test persons followed to register the lower jaw movements and calculate lower jaw movement volume. The results indicate low reliability of lower jaw movements measured by movement recording system compared with reference values from digital caliper, reflected by delta values (D = max-min). The values from the movement recording system indicate high variability reflected by higher levels of standard deviation for movement recorded values compared with digital caliper and by percentage values calculated from the differences between mean values of movement recording and digital caliper. The calculated lower jaw movement volume was 10.3 cm3 and 17.2 cm3 for the test persons, respectively. Conclusively, the results imply that further testing of the method is needed with larger series and test-retest reliability analysis to evaluate the possibility to improve accuracy of tracing jaw movements with recording device. The 3D-movement recording system together with the software could be used for calculation of lower jaw movement volume but its accuracy could not be validated.

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Avedissian, Karena. "A tale of two movements : social movement mobilisation in Southern Russia." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5966/.

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The thesis employs the political process approach within social movement theory (SMT) to examine in a comparative fashion two distinctly different opposition movements in southern Russia. One is the environmental movement in Krasnodar Krai and the other is the ethno-national Balkar movement in Kabardino-Balkaria. The political process approach focuses on the role and interaction of political opportunities, mobilising structures, and social movement framing for both movements, and seeks to explore their role in social movement mobilisation dynamics in Russia’s non-democratic context. The combination of the analysis of the three variables of political opportunities, mobilising structures, and social movement framing allows for fresh perspectives on both SMT and post-Soviet area studies. The thesis is particularly concerned with networks. It argues that in non-democratic contexts, the role of networks is more important than in democratic contexts.

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Hicks, Isaiah Deonte. ""We Don't Want Another Black Freedom Movement!" : An Inquiry into the desire for new social movements by comparing how people perceived both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement versus the Black Lives Matter Movement." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1587123845884206.

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Ramos, Audrey Marie. "Framing Movement." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99034.

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This thesis seeks to understand how architecture and concepts of movement can inform each other. In this context, the relationships of permeable frame and impenetrable mass become the main constituents of a space in which movement is celebrated. A frame system serves as the principal container for movement, providing a sense of order and orientation defined by architectural rhythm and regularity. Conceptually, the solid mass operates as the grounding element in which the more delicate frames hosting the dancers are secured and presented. The thesis proposes that contrasting notions of frame and mass are together able to foster an architecture, a spatial realm in which the culture of dance can teach and present the quintessential choreographed artistic human movements that we deeply admire.
Master of Architecture
This thesis seeks to understand how architecture and concepts of movement can inform each other. Architecture can use elements of frame and mass to assist in the presentation of movement. The frame provides a sense of order and orientation and acts as the container of movement. Mass provides solidity and acts as a grounding element in which it is able to receive the frame and present it forward. These interactions reveal the duality of the mass and the frame, the static and the dynamic, to enhance the spectacle of movement.

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Robbins, Christen Jean. "Studying Movement." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46186.

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Studying movement, through the design and development of a narrow residential site with access from water and land at opposing ends. Utilizing parallel planes, connect three zones of the site and maximizing directional views along its length, while formulating an architectural language of path and passage. The faÃ§ade design is a layering of fixed and active colored glass planes to allow dominate parallel wall, to run through the site without the obstruction of frames. Active glass planes rotate along horizontal and vertical axis and connect the interior and exterior living spaces. Glass faÃ§ade design led to development of a hinging mechanism to provide rotational movement at various opening increments and locking points, while incorporating it into the fixed glazing system.
Master of Architecture

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Johnson, Kody Winship. "Rhythmic Movement." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/johnson/JohnsonK0508.pdf.

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Hanna, Jennifer. "Movement transistor." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2006. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Fung, Chi-ming. "History at the grassroots : rickshaw pullers in the pearl river delta of South China, 1874-1992 /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17537058.

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Christopher, Michael Edward. "Thinking green and the prescriptive reaction to modernity : a theory of social change and objectivity /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9808980.

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Wachsmann, Emily Brook. "Social Movements, Subjectivity, and Solidarity: Witnessing Rhetoric of the International Solidarity Movement." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12211/.

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This study engaged in pushing the current political limitations created by the political impasse of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by imagining new possibilities for radical political change, agency, and subjectivity for both the international activists volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement as well as Palestinians enduring the brutality of life under occupation. The role of the witness and testimony is brought to bear on activism and rhetoric the social movement ISM in Palestine. Approaches the past studies of the rhetoric of social movements arguing that rhetorical studies often disassociated 'social' from social movements, rendering invisible questions of the social and subjectivity from their frames for evaluation. Using the testimonies of these witnesses, Palestinians and activists, as the rhetorical production of the social movement, this study provides an effort to put the social body back into rhetorical studies of social movements. The relationships of subjectivity and desubjectification, as well as, possession of subjects by agency and the role of the witness with each of these is discussed in terms of Palestinian and activist potential for subjectification and desubjectifiation.

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Shroff, Sara. "Muslim movements nurturing a cosmopolitan Muslim identity the Ismaili and Gulen movement /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/456412291/viewonline.

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Wachsmann, Emily Brook Lain Brian. "Social movements, subjectivity, and solidarity witnessing rhetoric of the international solidarity movement /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12211.

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Herring, Horace. "Energy Utopianism and the rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the UK." Thesis, n.p, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Lavelle, Lise. "Amerta movement of Java 1986 - 1997 : an Asian movement improvisation /." Lund : Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund Univ, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0701/2006402578.html.

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Llewellyn, C. B. "Social movement and double movement : the examples of community business." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363533.

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Lasen, Ulrik Martin. "Dressing wearing : Movement directed by dress - dress directed by movement." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-11052.

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Contemporary dance and modern ballet often focus on conveying emotions through patterns of movement which may be abstract, obvious, or anywhere in between, supported by music, sound, or spoken words that set the mood. Scenography is typically sparse or confined to the available space, leaving the dancers as the main instrument of communication. This work explores dressing and wearing, with a focus on how garments can inform and direct movement, choreography, and performance, and in turn how movement may inform and contribute to the development of dynamic garments. Through a series of live experiments, ranging from self-instigated performance/video work in collaboration with choreographers and dancers to performances of garment interaction associated with everyday life dressing, the performative, spatial, and interactive properties of garments are explored. The results present alternative models of collaborative interaction related to various aspects of kinaesthetics, choreography, scenography, and performance space, and offer wide-ranging creative potential. The work shows how designers and choreographers can collaborate on performance scenarios within the context of modern ballet and contemporary dance productions, thus creating conceptual garments that influence the design, choreography, and movement pattern based on a re-conception of what it means to dress and to wear. In relation to the act of dressing and undressing, alternative types of garment and ways of wearing and performing were found where garments act as co-choreographers in the development of performances. Moreover, by having wearing and dressing as a form of choreography these acts, act as the co-creator of garments both in our everday lives and on stage. As a consequence, the results also demonstrates how the agency of garments can function as a manuscript in modern dance, and how performance itself redefines the notion of wearing and the concept of garments.

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Golob, Polona. "Movement and Creativity." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta. Knihovna, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-391712.

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Tématem této magistrské práce je průzkum metod a principů pohybové výchovy, která je vyučována na Katedře Autorské tvorby a Pedagogiky (KATaP). Magisterské studium Herectví se zaměřením na autorskou tvorbu a pedagogiku začalo být vyučováno na DAMU v roce 2015. V průběhu dvou let jsou pohybové kurzy vyučovány třemi profesory. Všichni tři mají odlišné pojetí výuky, avšak usilují o společný cíl – aby studenti získali větší povědomí o svým těle a dosáhli lepší kontroly nad každodenními pohybovými návyky, stejnak tak i o pohybu na jevišti. Přestože je program navržen jako obdoba česky vyučovaného programu, různorodost kultury a temperamentu studentů přispěla k určitým obměnám, což představuje velkou příležitost, jakým směrem se obor na katedře vyvíjí. Diplomová práce je rozdělena do tří hlavních kapitol, které se zabývají: držením těl, prostorem a představivostí. Každá kapitola zahrnuje popis cvičení, jež bylo součástí kurzu pohybu na KATaPu a které se vztahuje k danému tématu. Zdrojem popisu cvičení, stejně tak úvah a změn, které jsem pociťovala v průběhu a po cvičení, jsou převzaty z mých poznámek a ze semestrálních poznatků. Každá kapitola je podložena publikovanou teorií, jež dodává pohybovým kurzům teoretický základ. Poslední kapitola je věnována průzkumu vztahu mezi představivostí a pohybem a jak tento vztah ovlivňuje hercovu kreativitu. Hlavním motivem pro vznik diplomové práce je můj vděk za transformaci, kterou si mé tělo prošlo během studia na KATaPu. To je důvod, proč se domnívám, že obsah výuky mého oboru je obohacující jednak pro teoretiky, učitele nebo jiné odborníky ve světě múzických umění, stejně tak jako pro lidi, kteří mají jen zájem dozvědět se něco jiného o svém těle.

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Swiatocha, Andrea Leigh. "Learning through Movement." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51847.

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Humans are designed to move. Movement is a key component of physical and mental maturation in children. It can take place in various settings, with different levels of intensity. During the developmental years of a child, it is imperative that a child is active. Most often movement and play are thought to occur outdoors. The idea of the"playground" activity does not have to be isolated to the outdoors. Children should be encouraged to be physically active in structured play, allowed free play with peers for social and emotional development, as well as learn through hands-on experiments that are important for their cognitive development. Play is how children experience their world and create new discoveries about themselves and others. This thesis will be explored through the design of an elementary school for Alexandria, VA. An elementary school creates the perfect setting for which these elements of movement and learning to combine. This thesis explores the way in which the movement of the outdoor school yard can occur within the school building. The school grounds serve as demonstration to the community for active learning. Incorporating active design through elevation changes, material changes and the transition between indoor and outdoor allow the school to be a model for "learning through movement." This school also begins to address the larger issues of our society's unhealthy lifestyle by designing three levels of active design for the community, building, and individual child.
Master of Architecture

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LeFrancois, Yvonne M. "Music and Movement." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3838.

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The focus of this project is to provide a musical hub for the learning, practice, and performance of music for students ages 10-18 in order to cultivate trust and education in the community. This project examines the role music plays as a vital part of our communities and city resources. The communities we live in should not only supply opportunities for the music but support the music. Support of the music can allow cultural learning in the community and create a new pattern of education between parent and child. Just as most school systems support the learning of math and science, an emphasis should also be placed on the arts for educational, societal, and individual life success as the benefits are numerous. This project looks to provide a centralized space where a relationship between music and young people can be cultivated and expressed. Many public schools have small facilities, but a large center could provide a hub for musical activities for the local community.

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Shaheen, Aliah Faisal. "Tracking scapular movement." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/5685.

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Measuring the three-dimensional movement of the scapula provides vital information in the analysis and treatment of shoulder clinical disorders and contributes to our understanding of its complex kinematics. However, the thick layer of skin overlying the scapular region means that all skin-based techniques inaccurately determine the scapular kinematics. The scapula locator makes use of a palpation technique in order to reduce the problem of skin deformation. At present, the scapula locator is the most accurate noninvasive method of measuring scapular movements, but to date the method has only been used to measure the scapula position statically. Here, a new method was developed to measure the scapula movements dynamically; the method makes use of the scapula locator and feedback from pressure-sensors attached to the locator probes to track the scapula during movement. The reliability of the method after short-term practise as well as the intra-observer and inter-observer variations and the inter-session repeatability were tested and quantified in a series of studies. The method was found to be able to measure dynamic scapular movements in slow to medium paced arm movements to a good degree of accuracy as well as provide scapulothoracic measurements of high reliability compared to using the scapula locator on its own and to previously reported results in the literature. Finally, the new locator method was used to calibrate the acromial tracker in order to improve the accuracy of the device and facilitate its use as an alternative to the scapula locator in clinical studies involving fast (higher than functional velocities) dynamic activities. The new scapula locator method and the calibrated acromial tracker method present significant improvements on the available scapular measurement techniques particularly in measuring subtle scapular rotations of clinical importance, such as the scapular tilt. The methods described will be used in future clinical and sport-related studies.

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Mitchell, John Dickerson. "Estuary Water Movement." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617567.

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Robert, Darren L. "The effects of a preschool movement program on motor skill acquisition, movement concept formation, and movement practice behavior." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1193.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 1999.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 233 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-126).

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Famiglietti, Antonio. "The theory of social movements and the British Labour Movement, circa 1790-1920." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369424.

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Johnson, Jordan. "Revolutions as rhetorical movements: a movement study of the Egyptian Arab Spring Revolution." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19705.

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Master of Arts
Communications Studies
Charles J. Griffin
The 2011 Arab Spring Revolutions across the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region drew international attention to the collection action phenomenon of revolutions. Despite having a significant impact on today’s globalized world, revolutions have been widely unexplored by social movement rhetorical scholars. This lack of study has prompted scholars to call for the investigation of the role human agency plays during revolutions (Morris, 2000). Rhetorical scholars are well-suited to meet this call but lack a methodological framework to examine revolutions. In responding to Morris’ call and with an interest in adding to the body of rhetorical social movement literature, this thesis asks two research questions. What are the rhetorical characteristics of revolutions? Are revolutions rhetorically distinct from social movements? To answer these questions, this thesis translates Jack Goldstone’s (1998) Divergent View of Social Movements and Revolutions into a rhetorical model for studying revolutions. This adaptation of the political science model relies heavily on Leland Griffin’s (1969) and Charles Stewart’s (1980) models of social movements. Additionally, the adapted model also incorporates James Wilkinson’s (1989) discussion of revolutionary rhetorical functions. The application of the new rhetorical model to the Egyptian Arab Spring reveals revolutions rhetorically develop and function in ways that creates a clear distinction between revolutions from social movements. These findings prompt discussion of methodological and critical implications.

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Gencel, Sezgin Ipek. "Political engagement patterns of islamist movements : the case of the Nizam/Selamet movement." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0046.

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Plus précisément, cette étude couvre la période 1960-1980 et examine la genèse du Mouvement Nizam/Selamet ainsi que son organisation en tant qu'un parti politique. I En outre, a travers ce travail sont mis en évidence ses objectifs et particularités : idéationnelles par rapport aux autres Islamistes passés et contemporains en Turquie, ainsi que sa souplesse considérable dans le choix de ses stratégies et alliés, à l'instar du Parti du Peuple Républicain, considéré comme le plus grand ennemi des Islamistes. En faisant usage du cas du Mouvement Nizam/Selamet, cette thèse soutient que Iles Mouvements Islamistes sont des phénomènes sociaux complexes qui émergent et i survivent à travers un processus incrémentaI faisant interagir des ensembles complexes voire même indéterminés de facteurs cognitifs, relationnels et environnementaux. La réponse à la question réside donc dans ces configurations de facteurs qui doivent être découverts en effectuant des allers retours entre des échelles macro (le champ politique), méso (l'organisation et les réseaux' sociaux) et micro (les acteurs) aux niveaux à la fois national et local du champ politique et du mouvement. Une dimension historique c’est aussi nécessaire qui permet d'étudier les facteurs interagissant au sein de chaque phase du mouvement qui lui donnent la forme et la substance de son engagement politique; et de prendre en compte de l’influence d’une phase sur l’autre
Focusing on the Nizarn/Selamet Movement, this dissertation studies why and how there are variations in the political engagement patterns of "moderate" Islamist movements operating within the same institutional/political context. ; Specifically, covering a period from the 1960s through the 1970s, this study I examines why and how the Nizam/Selamet Movement emerged and established political party; produced goals and ideational elements distinct from contemporary and past Islamist movements in Turkey and showed considerable flexibility in its choice of allies, strategies and policies, including formation of a coalition government with the archenemy of the Islamists, the Republican People's Party. Drawing on the Nizam/Selamet case, this study argues that Islamist movements are complex social phenomena that emerge and survive through an incremental process entailing interacting, complex and even undetermined sets of cognitive, relational and environmental factors. The answer to the research question thus lies in unearthing these configurations through descending up and down the macro (political field), meso (network and organization) and micro (properties and trajectories of the movement elites ! and activists) echelons at both national and local levels of the political field and the movement. A historical dimension is also necessary to highlight intra-and extra-movement factors at different life phases of the movement (accumulated resources and inherited constraints), which shape the form and substance of its political engagement; and to take into consideration the influence of one stage over the other

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Ozden, Tugba. "The Dalit Movement Within The Context Of The Indian Independence Movement." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606575/index.pdf.

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This thesis analyses the Dalit Movement with regards to the twentieth century Indian nationalism and independence movement. Within this epoch, India was dealing with both internal and external problems, and this thesis confronts with the process of double freedom movement rolled into one, in India. On one side Indian nation was fighting against the British Imperialism and on the other hand the least level of the ancient Hindu social order varna, the Untouchables, were fighting against the higher castes for eradication of their historical backwardness. This solution of both problems pointed out changes in social and political terms. The mentioned movement under the leadership of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, who is recognized as the architect of the Indian constitution, aimed to obtain both political and social rights and freedom for the Untouchables. By this movement, Dalits initially managed to attain political rights and to outlaw discrimination among people. And then, in order to facilitate the integration of Dalits within the social sphere, they decided to convert from Br&
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hmanism to Buddhism in year 1956 and ten thousands of Dalits converted following Dr. Ambedkar. In the present day, the ex-Untouchables are living under the umbrellas of Buddhism, Islam or Christianity in various parts of India. Even though the mentioned ex-Untouchables survive normally and non-problematically in urban, those of them living in the rural front against the violence of radical rightist, nationalist Hindus.

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Oncan, Mehmet Onur. "Neoliberalism And The Alternative Globalization Movement." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610743/index.pdf.

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This thesis aims to analyze the social reactions against neoliberalism by using the Polanyian concept of double movement. The goal is to first to understand the nature of alternative globalization movement and provide a better framework of analysis for theorizing these social reactions. The criticisms of the alternative globalization movement against the World Trade Organization will be analyzed in order to provide a specific case example for the concerns and goals of the movement regarding the global political economy. It has been found out that the alternative globalization movement, which signalled a growing concern over the implications of the efforts to form a global free market on the state-society-market relations since the 1980s, forms the second counter-movement that resists the expansion of contemporary self-regulating market.

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Allen, Ardith Matilda. "The deradicalization of Columbus, Ohio's antirape movement, 1972-2002." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211996569.

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Edjoc, Rojiemiahd. "Movement interference effects during the tracking of biological and non biological movement." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27840.

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Are the neural and behavioural mechanisms underlying the tracking of another human's movement different from that of tracking the movement of a non-biological system? In an experiment by Kilner, Pauligan, Blakemore, (2003) an interference effect was found during the observation and tracking of incongruent biological movements (another human performing a different action), but not so with incongruent nonbiological movements (a robot performing a different action). They defined this interference effect as the degree of change in the movement trajectory of the observer due to observed movement. Recent studies have shown that interference of this kind was subject to both biological and non biological stimuli. However, the question of whether a similar interference effect is present during the observation of movements that possess the same invariant characteristics of human movement such as minimum jerk trajectories with bell-shaped velocity profiles but are not produced by a human (Flash & Hogan, 1985) has not been previously addressed. The present experiment asked eight participants to perform vertical and horizontal movements either congruently or incongruently to novel non-biological movement stimuli sets that resemble human movement (added invariant characteristics) ranging from point light displays to 3D virtual models of humans. This was followed by an interpersonal task while tracking the movements of a human experimenter. Results demonstrated that a congruency effect was observed where incongruent human movements exhibited the most interference. In other conditions, similar congruency effects were observed where the magnitude of the interference was dependent on the biological similarity of the stimuli to actual human movement. Also a main effect of "biologicalness" (Sinusoidal vs. Sinusoidal with noise vs. Minimum Jerk), type (3d human vs. Human) and a main interaction of type and congruency (3d human vs. Human) were observed. We argue that the central nervous system is highly attuned to biological characteristics at the most deep-rooted level. It seems that biological characteristics such as movement optimality leading to the abstract representation of human movement are tightly coupled as they elicit similar interference effects as tracking movements performed by a human.

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Henriks, Olof. "Mapping physical movement parameters to auditory parameters by using human body movement." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-200831.

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This study focuses on evaluating a system containing five different mappings of physical movement parameters to auditory parameters. Physical parameter variables such as size, location, among others, were obtained by using a motion tracking system, where the two hands of the user would work as rigid bodies. Translating these variables to auditory parameter variables gave the ability to control different parameters of MIDI files. The aim of the study was to determine how well a total of five participants, all with prior musical knowledge and experience, could adapt to the system concerning both user generated data as well as overall user experience. The study showed that the participants developed a positive personal engagement with the system and this way of audio and music alteration. Exploring the initial mappings of the system established ideas for future development of the system in potential forthcoming work.

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Grip, Helena. "Biomechanical assessment of head and neck movements in neck pain using 3D movement analysis." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Umeå University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1600.

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Hanna, Esmée Sinéad. "Student power : a social movements analysis of the English student movement from 1965-1973." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589034.

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This thesis investigates the English student movement between the years of 1965 and 1973, offering the first sustained exploration of this 'case study' of a particular type of social movement, i.e. movements of students. The research looks at this movement in relation to social movement theories, as a sociological explanation for this historical movement is sought. New , social movement theory has long been viewed and accepted by some scholars as the explanatory theory for movements such as student movements that were emerging since the 1960s. However, in this thesis I challenge this assumed dominance of New Social Movement theory in relation to the English student movement, arguing that complex social movements may require more holistic explanations in order to fully understand the features and attributes that comprise these movements. The English student movement was a complex and varied movement, with its specificities often relating to location, thus any explanation of the movement needs to be able to grant flexibility to the variances as well as the commonalities present. Sociological attention has been limited in relation to the English student movement, even though the English student movement was significant within the history of our universities as well as broader English radical traditions and left wing actions. This thesis thus attempts to right that lack of attention in some small way, making use of previously unused documentary sources and documenting the voices of those involved within the English student movement before the details of the events are consigned even further to the realms of history. The thesis looks at two stories of the movement, stressing "the importance of full understanding and theorising accordingly. The use of a theoretical synthesis, fundamentally drawing upon the work of Canel (1992), is employed in order to understand the empricial exploration of this movement. This thesis offers an orginal contribution to the understanding of the English student movement, via grounding in empirical data and sustained sociological explanation.

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Gitchel, George Thomas Jr. "Development of an Accurate Differential Diagnostic Tool for Neurological Movement Disorders Utilizing Eye Movements." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4109.

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Parkinson’s disease and Essential tremor are the two most prevalent movement disorders in the world, but due to overlapping clinical symptoms, accurate differential diagnosis is difficult. As a result, approximately 60% of patients with movement disorders symptoms will have their diagnosis changed at least once before death. By their subjective nature, clinical exams are inherently imprecise, leading to the desire to create an objective, quantifiable test for movement disorders; a test that currently is elusive. Eye movements have been studied for a century, and are widely appreciated to be quantifiably affected in those with neurological disease. Through a collaborative effort between the VA hospital and VCU, over 1,000 movement disorder subjects had their eye movements recorded, utilizing an SR Research Eyelink 2. Patients with Parkinson’s disease exhibited an ocular gaze tremor during fixation, normal reflexive saccades, and reduced blink rate. Subjects with Essential tremor exhibited slowed saccadic dynamics, with increased latencies, in addition to a larger number of square wave jerk interruptions of otherwise stable fixation. After diagnostic features of each disorder were identified, prospective data collection could occur in a blinded fashion, and oculomotor features used to predict clinical diagnoses. It was determined that measures of fixation stability were capable of almost perfectly differentiating subjects with PD, and a novel, combined parameter was capable of similar results in ET. As a group, it appears as if these symptoms do not progress as the disease does, but subanalyses show that individual patients on constant pharmaceutical doses tracked over time do slightly change and progress. The near perfect separation of disease states suggest the ability of oculomotor recording to be a powerful biomarker to be used for the differential diagnosis of movement disorders. This tool could potentially impact and improve the lives of millions of people the world over.

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Koelman, Johannes Henricus Theodorus Maria. "Dystonia reflexions on movement /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2001. http://dare.uva.nl/document/84836.

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Manuel, David James. "Ahmadiyya movement in Islam." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Skinner, Tobin. "Investigations of downward movement." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66855.

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Under a non-lexicalist view of word formation, such as Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993), morphemes combine to form complex words during or after –but not before– narrow syntactic derivation. Such a model inevitably requires the availability of downward transformations, e.g. affix-hopping. This thesis provides a detailed investigation into such downward movements. Whereas previous analyses have relegated downward movements to a position outside of core derivational processes (e.g. Chomsky 1981 and, to a lesser extent, Embick and Noyer 2001), I argue that certain downward movements, namely head-to-head Lowering, form part of the central architecture of syntactic derivation and are motivated by fundamental properties of that architecture, such as phase impenetrability (Chomsky 2001). Though this thesis addresses certain properties of other types of apparent downward movement (e.g. morpho-phonological merger; i.e. Local Dislocation), it focuses primarily on the defining characteristics of head-to-head Lowering. Central to this investigation is the observation that Lowering is a highly syntactic operation. In Chapter 2, I argue that a Lowering head may freely target any intermediate syntactic position of the complex head of its complement, thus deriving several cases of morphological optionality; e.g. reduplicative variability in Tagalog and Ndebele and the variable positions of agreement markers in Turkish. Chapter 3 addresses tense-hopping, a canonical case of downward movement. I argue that certain asymmetries between English and Swedish provide evidence that these two languages derive their respective tense-hopping patterns via different means. Namely, Swedish tense-hopping is a case of Lowering, whereas English tense-hopping results from Local Dislocation (following Ochi 1999). Additionally, I propose a detailed theory of the Lowering vs. Raising distinction. Based in the observation t
Selon une conception non-lexicaliste de la formation du mot, telle que la Morphologie Distribuée (Halle et Marantz 1993), les morphèmes se combinent pour former des mots complexes pendant ou après—mais pas avant—la dérivation syntaxique étroite. Un tel modèle requiert inévitablement la disponibilité de transformations descendantes, par exemple la transformation afﬁxale. La présente thèse procure une investigation détaillée de tels mouvements descendants. Tandis que les analyses précédentes ont relégué les mouvements descendants hors du cœur des processus dérivationnels (p. ex., Chomsky 1981 et, dans une moindre mesure, Embick et Noyer 2001), je soutiens que certains mouvements descendants, soit l'abaissement tête-à-tête, forment une partie de l'architecture centrale de la dérivation syntaxique et sont motivés par des propriétés fondamentales de cette architecture, tel que l'impénétrabilité phasique (Chomsky 2001). Bien que la présente thèse examine certaines propriétés d'autres types de mouvements descendants apparents (p. ex., fusionnement morpho-phonologique, c'est-à-dire, la Dislocation Locale), elle se concentre principalement sur les caractéristiques déﬁnitionnelles de l'abaissement tête-à-tête. L'observation que l'abaissement est une opération proprement syntaxique est centrale à cette investigation. Au chapitre 2, je soutiens qu'une tête abaissante peut librement cibler toute position syntaxique de la tête complexe de son complément, dérivant ainsi plusieurs cas d'optionalité morphologique, par example, la variabilité reduplicative en tagalog et ndebele et les positions variables des marqueurs d'accord en turc. Le chapitre 3 examine la transformation du temps. Je soutiens que certaines asymétries entre l'anglais et le suédois fournissent la preuve que ces deux langues dérivent leurs patrons de transformation du temps respectifs par des mo

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Griffiths, Glyn. "Wh-movement in Kadiweu." Thesis, University of Reading, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333354.

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Li, Yafei. "Conditions on x-̊movement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14145.

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Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka. "Movement out of focus." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93027.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200).
This dissertation investigates the consequences of overt and covert movement on association with focus. The interpretation of focus-sensitive operators such as only and even depends on the presence of a focused constituent in their scope. I document the complex conditions under which operators are able to associate with a focused constituent which has moved out of their scope. In particular, I concentrate on the ability of English even but not only to associate "backwards" in this configuration. I propose a theory based on the Copy Theory of movement which predicts the attested patterns of backwards association. When an operator gives the appearance of associating backwards, it is in fact associating with focus in the lower copy of the movement chain, within its scope. This is possible with even but not only due to independent differences in their compositional semantics: only uses focus alternatives to compute new truth conditions, whereas even uses the alternatives to introduce a presupposition without modifying the truth conditions. I furthermore argue that neither syntactic reconstruction nor covert movement of even (the scope theory) are adequate as a general solution to the problem of backwards association. This analysis supports a view where focus is represented in the narrow syntax and then interpreted at the interfaces. The analysis is built upon a general framework for focus interpretation based on Kratzer (1991) which I apply to structures involving copy chains, combined with new facts regarding the projection behavior of the scalar inference of even. After presenting my proposal, I discuss its implications for the internal structure of DPs and show that it offers a new structural diagnostic for the derivational path of movement. Moreover, the inbty of scope reconstruction to feed focus association in English motivates a new approach to syntactic reconstruction. The proposal developed here explains a range constraints on patterns of focus association, and more generally contributes to our understanding of the interaction of syntactic operations such as movement with the semantic and information-structural notion of focus.
by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine.
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