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Barbieri, Francesco Eugenio <1982>. "Global cities, global literature: New York e Tokyo nella narrativa contemporanea." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5414/1/barbieri_francescoeugenio_tesi.pdf.
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Scopo del lavoro è quello di tracciare un parallelismo tra la narrativa giapponese e angloamericana contemporanea, viste come parte di un sistema di significati che trascende la dimensione nazionale e si installa invece in una dinamica di tipo globale. Le opere letterarie prese in considerazione sono alcune fra quelle ambientate nelle due vere e proprie capitali culturali dei paesi, rispettivamente New York per gli Stati Uniti e Tōkyō per il Giappone.
Spunto di partenza dell’analisi è stato il concetto di “global city”, formulato dalla studiosa e sociologa Saskia Sassen, che permette di mettere in relazione dal punto di vista economico, strutturale ma anche sociale le città di New York e Tōkyō. Tale formulazione consente infatti di ragionare in maniera motivata sull’esistenza di un rapporto di flussi di scambio di tipo culturale e, parallelamente, sull’acquisizione di una dimensione di tipo transnazionale di soggetti e tematiche della letteratura. In questo senso, il rapporto tra economia e globalizzazione evidenziato da Sassen può essere paragonato a quello che intercorre tra la letteratura e la globalizzazione.
Punto di snodo metodologico del lavoro è rappresentato dall’analisi dello spazio urbano, esaminato sia in chiave urbanistico-architettonica che più specificamente letteraria.<br>The research aims at drawing a parallelism between contemporary American and Japanese fiction. Moving from the definition provided by Saskia Sassen of “global city”, the analysis concentrates on the representation of urban space in a selection of novels set in New York and Tōkyō, to underline similarities in subject and themes of contemporary literary expression that are valid in a transnational dimension.
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Barbieri, Francesco Eugenio <1982>. "Global cities, global literature: New York e Tokyo nella narrativa contemporanea." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5414/.
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Scopo del lavoro è quello di tracciare un parallelismo tra la narrativa giapponese e angloamericana contemporanea, viste come parte di un sistema di significati che trascende la dimensione nazionale e si installa invece in una dinamica di tipo globale. Le opere letterarie prese in considerazione sono alcune fra quelle ambientate nelle due vere e proprie capitali culturali dei paesi, rispettivamente New York per gli Stati Uniti e Tōkyō per il Giappone.
Spunto di partenza dell’analisi è stato il concetto di “global city”, formulato dalla studiosa e sociologa Saskia Sassen, che permette di mettere in relazione dal punto di vista economico, strutturale ma anche sociale le città di New York e Tōkyō. Tale formulazione consente infatti di ragionare in maniera motivata sull’esistenza di un rapporto di flussi di scambio di tipo culturale e, parallelamente, sull’acquisizione di una dimensione di tipo transnazionale di soggetti e tematiche della letteratura. In questo senso, il rapporto tra economia e globalizzazione evidenziato da Sassen può essere paragonato a quello che intercorre tra la letteratura e la globalizzazione.
Punto di snodo metodologico del lavoro è rappresentato dall’analisi dello spazio urbano, esaminato sia in chiave urbanistico-architettonica che più specificamente letteraria.<br>The research aims at drawing a parallelism between contemporary American and Japanese fiction. Moving from the definition provided by Saskia Sassen of “global city”, the analysis concentrates on the representation of urban space in a selection of novels set in New York and Tōkyō, to underline similarities in subject and themes of contemporary literary expression that are valid in a transnational dimension.
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Hale, Michael T. "New Deal To New Majority: SDS’s Failure to Realign the Largest Political Coalition in the 20th Century." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1447966535.
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Glore, Anna K. "The Creation of Radical Empathy in "Let the Great World Spin"." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1513350608859531.
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Ng, Ting, and 吳婷. "Decoding China's new left phenomenon." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47869422.
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China has been through tremendous changes in the past thirty years. The
country not only experienced a drastic transformation in its socioeconomic
sphere, but also in its academic field. One of the most notable academic
movements is the on-going debate between China’s New Left scholars and the
Chinese liberals, which is developing alongside the deepening of reform in the
country. The New Left scholars argue that China must design an original
development path and to avoid excessive copying from the modernization model
in Western countries. They have identified many problems that occurred in the
society in recent years, which arguably resulted from the country’s rapid
development. This thesis aims to decode the two most prominent perspectives
from the New Left scholars – China’s revolutions and its economic reform.
To explicate their perspectives, I draw on the studies of New Left scholars
such as Wang Hui, Cui Zhiyuan and Gan Yang, as well as a few selected articles
from the liberal side of the debate. Through exploring the various publications,
this thesis has hopefully demonstrated a coherent clarification of the
still-blossoming new intellectual phenomenon. Furthermore, this thesis also aims
to alter the stereotypical discrimination against Leftism and its derivatives, as the
results have clearly shown that the New Left scholars are not anti-development
and in fact, they are calling for no more than an alternative modernization path for
the country.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Comparative Literature<br>Master<br>Master of Philosophy
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Kudelka, Amy. "Just left of paradise /." Full text available online, 2006. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Romero, Adrienne. "Left of perfect /." Full text available online, 2004. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Lin, C. "The British New Left 1957-1977." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276174.
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Sweeting, Theodore Patrick Abraham. ""Many Columbias" : remembering the New Left." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.595308.
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In narratives of the New Left, a number of key events and ideas are often used as symbols for broader movement trends. The Columbia University protests of the spring and summer of 1968 are one such example. Many Columbias examines a variety of autobiographical writings by one-time New leftists, using the protests as a thematic nexus. It examines how the texts coalesce to form a composite narrative of the protests, written by a group of autobiographers involved in the discursive process of creating cultural memories. The first chapter examines the Columbia protests as a broad coalition that brought together seemingly disparate groups into a moment that encapsulated many of the oppositional political trends of the late 19605. The protests were immediately mythologized by a variety of different presses, a process explored in Chapter Two. This examines how they were mapped in different journalistic contexts, including New Journalism, the underground press, and the mainstream press. Subsequently, the Columbia protests have become entrenched within dominant readings of the New Left and the American "1968". Such narratives often t race the rise and fall of SDS as a synecdoche for the New left and, in this way, Columbia is seen to precipitate the emergence of Weather Underground and the destruction of SDS. Accordingly, the events have been read primarily through the memories a few key Columbia SDS leaders who helped found the Weather Underground. Such narratives are explored in Chapter Three, which contextualises a group of participant histories and memoirs written in the 1980s via the Cold War and culture wars. Participants have subsequently been involved in a process of reinstating the idea of Columbia's political and racial diversity. Chapter Four examines how the protests were remapped around the fortieth anniversary in 2008, and how participants helped to complicate an SDS-centric reading of the events, as they were reclaimed by, and for, marginalised groups, particularly African American participants. Exploring similar t hemes, Chapter Five deliberately forgoes chronology to examine the personal relationship between Mark Rudd and Jane Alpert, as represented in a variety of autobiographical texts, which sheds light on how gender affects the memory of Columbia, the New Left and feminism. Primarily concerned with autobiography, memoir and participant history, this thesis contextualises these genres with a number of other cultural forms, including archival material, academic histories of the New left and of the 1960s, cinema, political-essay and journalism, and the reunion as cultural phenomenon, in order to build a rich historiography of the protests that investigates layers of their representation.
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Bell, Robert A. "The changing voice of Left history, new Left journals and radical American history." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ52025.pdf.
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Goldie, Christopher Thomas. "Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2005. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3194/.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between the New Left and modernisation, and to suggest that modernisation provides a powerful means of understanding the underlying dynamics of Britain's history in the 1960s. This relationship is understood in terms of a politics of space. The New Left is defined broadly for this purpose as a movement emerging from the dislocating experiences of social, cultural and physical mobility in the postwar period. What is termed the 'modernisation project' is more expansive than the technological and scientific modernisation espoused by Harold Wilson in the early 1960s and is understood to address these new, politicized forms of mobility. Whilst one element of this Politics of dislocation and mobility was a concern about affluence and new forms of cultural consumption, another was concerned with the cultural and geographical dislocation of the upwardly-mobile (sometimes thought of in the language of the 'scholarship boy, ' but with the growth of the student population also associated with the notion of a counterculture). The significance of an enlarged and dislocated intelligentsia is explored through the example of British Pop theory, the approach of which was to engage positively with popular culture, emphasising the value of mass-produced cultural forms which had the qualities of rawness and vitality on the one hand, and expendability on the other. British Pop theory employed pop to explore an alternative historical approach to working class culture but also suggested a different approach to upward-mobility. Contested geographies are explored through the example of New Left attitudes towards suburbia, megalopolis and the cultural geography of the North- South divide. 1968 is explored as the moment when the New Left engaged in a particular form of spatial politics: certain types of space were valued for their psychological characteristics, their sociological inaccessibility to the manipulative power of capitalism, and their capacity to liberate the subject from new forms of alienation. The spaces of New Left protest in 1968 are then compared to other examples of radical space based on radical architecture theory. The politics of the barricade are compared to the politics of indeterminacy.
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Cook, V. Marie. "Revising the bureaucratic ideal the new left and the new public administration /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2004. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2004.<br>Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2937. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as 3 preliminary leaves (iii-v). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-54).
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Carter, Bryan. "Left behind : passing through African American literature to posthumanity /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3025609.
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Yang, Manuel. "Yoshimoto Taka'aki, communal illusion, and the Japanese new left /." See Full Text at OhioLINK ETD Center (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing), 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?toledo1122656731.
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Wilkins, Anna Jane. "Intersection Performance and the New Zealand Left Turn Rule." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Civil Engineering, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1778.
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This thesis reports the use of Paramics microscopic simulation software to model the differences between the performance of ten Christchurch intersections under the existing New Zealand road rule which requires left turning vehicles to give way to vehicles turning right into the same road, and a changed rule that would see the right turning vehicle have priority.
Previous research concerning this issue is reviewed and the history of the existing road rule and recent moves to change it are discussed.
At each of the ten intersections a range of traffic volume combinations was assessed and the journey times and queue lengths were compared. The ten intersections represent a range of different layouts and forms of control including give way signs, stop signs and traffic signals.
The impact of a rule change on the use of shared lanes at intersections using a Paramics model of the Christchurch Central Business District, as developed for the Christchurch City Council, is also reported.
Conclusions are drawn about which types of intersections and traffic volume combinations are likely to be affected by a rule change. The features of intersections that contribute to this susceptibility are identified and conclusions drawn about whether positive or negative effects are likely.
It is concluded that there is no compelling intersection performance reason why the rule could not be changed. The successful implication of such change would require a review of the road network to identify critical intersections. Some monitoring and mitigation measures may also be required.
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Thompson, Duncan. "The movement of the New Left Review, 1960-1992." Thesis, University of Brighton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363851.
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Gordon, Daniel Alexander. "Immigrants and the New Left in France, 1968-1971." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368495.
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Khan, Usman Awais. "Neighbourhood forums and the #new left' in local government." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282119.
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Evaristi, Maria Franscesca. "New biomarkers and therapeutic targets in left ventricular hypertrophy." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU30047.
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L'hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche (HVG) est un remodelage prédicteur du développement d'une insuffisance cardiaque et de la mortalité cardiovasculaire. L'hypertension artérielle est une cause majeure de l'HVG, puisque 30% des patients hypertendus développent une HVG. Un dépistage biologique précoce de l'HVG post hypertensive permettrait d'optimiser la prise en charge des patients et d'empêcher que l'HVG évolue vers l'insuffisance cardiaque. L'utilisation de biomarqueurs est un outil rapide, efficace et peu couteux pour le diagnostic de nombreuses pathologies. Dans la pratique clinique il n'existe pas de biomarqueurs pour identifier les patients hypertendus avec HVG de ceux sans ce remodelage. Le premier objectif de notre étude a été d'identifier des biomarqueurs plasmatiques de l'HVG post hypertensive. Une analyse métabolomique obtenue par spectroscopie de résonance magnétique nucléaire du proton (H1) a été effectuée sur les échantillons de plasma de 48 patients hypertendus avec HVG, 48 hypertendus sans HVG et 24 témoins. A l'aide d'outils bio-informatiques et d'analyses statistiques adaptées, nous avons mis en évidence la présence d'un ratio des groupements chimiques méthylène/ méthyle (-CH2-/-CH3) des chaines aliphatiques des lipides plasmatiques augmenté chez les patients hypertendus avec HVG (p<0.001). Ce ratio détecte la présence d'une HVG chez les patients hypertendus avec une sensitivité de 52.08% et une spécificité de 85.42%. Nous proposons que le ratio -CH2-/-CH3 des chaines aliphatiques lipidiques présent dans plasma représente un biomarqueur diagnostique de l'HVG dans l'hypertension artérielle. L'incidence de l'HVG est aussi augmentée chez les patients qui souffrent du syndrome métabolique (MetS). Le MetS est défini par la présence d'une obésité abdominale plus deux facteurs parmi la dyslipidémie, l'insulino-résistance et l'hypertension artérielle. Ces facteurs synergisent et sont les responsables de l'instauration d'une HVG et d'une progression vers l'insuffisance cardiaque. Des données publiées montrent que les patients MetS ont un taux réduit de l'insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 (IGFBP2). L'IGFBP2 a un rôle potentiel dans le diabète et dans le métabolisme, mais il n'existe pas d'étude sur son rôle dans les pathologies cardiaques causées par une dérégulation métabolique. Le premier objectif de notre étude sur l'IGFBP2 a été de mesurer le taux plasmatique d'IGFBP2 et le taux d'expression cardiaque de l'ARN messager d'IGFBP2 dans une cohorte de patients avec et sans MetS. Nous avons montré que le taux plasmatique ainsi que le taux d'ARN messager cardiaque d'IGFBP2 sont diminués chez les patients avec le Mets comparé à des témoins. Puis, nous avons mesuré le tôt cardiaque d'ARN messager de l'IGFBP2 dans un model murin de MetS. Pour générer ce modèle, nous avons nourri des souris C57BL/6J avec du régime gras à 60% pendant 15 semaines. Le taux d'expression cardiaque de l'ARN messager de l'IGFBP2 est réduit chez les souris avec Mets, en accord avec les résultats obtenu chez l'homme. Enfin, nous avons testé si la thérapie génique utilisant un virus adeno-associé qui exprime l'IGFBP2 humaine (AAV9-hIGFBP2) pouvait restaurer un niveau normal d'IGFBP2 et interférer avec l'HVG causé par le MetS chez ces souris. Nos résultats montrent que l'injection de l'AAV9-hIGFBP2 rétabli durablement le niveau cardiaque d'IGFBP2 chez la souris avec MetS et qu'IGFBP2 prévient l'épaississement des parois du ventricule gauche, l'hypertrophie et la dysfonction cardiaque. Nos résultats suggèrent qu'IGFBP2 est une nouvelle cible thérapeutique potentielle de l'HVG<br>Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a strong predictor of future heart failure and cardiovascular mortality. Arterial hypertension is considered as the main causative agent for LVH as 30% of hypertensive patients develop LVH. These patients have an increased risk for cardiovascular complications and heart failure. Early diagnosis of LVH and prompt treatment are crucial to reduce LVH and stop its progression towards heart failure. Biomarkers could represent a rapid, effective and low-cost tool to discriminate hypertensive patients with LVH from those with normal LV size. Therefore, we aimed to identify plasma metabolomics biomarkers by 1H NMR to provide novel diagnostic tools for rapid detection of LVH in populations of hypertensive individuals. We realized a cross-sectional study including 48 hypertensive patients with LVH matched with 48 hypertensive patients with normal LV size, and 24 healthy controls. Two-dimensional targeted M-mode echocardiography was performed to measure left ventricular mass index. Partial least squares discriminant analysis was used for the multivariate analysis of the 1H NMR spectral data. From the 1H NMR analysis, we found that the methylene/methyl (-CH2-/-CH3) ratio of aliphatic chain from plasma lipids was significantly increased (p<0.001) in hypertensive patients with LVH compared to hypertensive patients without LVH and to control. Receiver operating characteristic curve showed that a cutoff value of 2.34 provided a 52.08% sensitivity and 85.42% specificity for discriminating LVH (AUC=0.703, p-value<0.001). We propose the -CH2/-CH3 ratio from plasma aliphatic lipid chains as a biomarker for the diagnosis of LVH in arterial hypertension. LVH incidence is also increased in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS). MetS is defined by central obesity plus any two medical conditions such as dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension. These factors synergize to cause LV dysfunction and HF. Published data have shown that MetS patients have low plasma insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 (IGFBP2). IGFBP2 was shown to play a role in diabetes and metabolism, but studies investigating its role in cardiac diseases are lacking. We first aimed to investigate plasma IGFBP2 levels and cardiac IGFBP2 mRNA levels in MetS patients. Both plasma levels and heart expression levels of IGFBP2 were decreased in patients with MetS compared to control patients. Further, in a C57BL/6J mouse model of 60% high fat diet-induced MetS, we measured cardiac mRNA IGFBP2 levels. According to the observed data in human, mice with MetS showed a decreased cardiac IGFBP2 mRNA level. Finally, we investigated whether a gene therapy strategy using adeno-associated virus 9 carrying human IGFBP2 coding sequence (AAV9-hIGFBP2) could prevent from MetS associated left ventricular hypertrophy. Our data showed that AAV9-hIGFBP2 injection restored durably cardiac IGFBP2 levels in mouse heart and prevented from left ventricle wall thickening, hypertrophy and dysfunction. These clinical and animal data suggest that IGFBP2 is a potential new cardiac therapeutic target in MetS
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Yang, Manuel. "Yoshimoto Taka’aki, Communal Illusion, and the Japanese New Left." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1122656731.
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Kohlmann, Benjamin. "Ambiguities of political writing : Left-wing literature in the 1930s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530045.
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Cohenour, Gretchen M. "Eighteenth-century Gothic novels and gendered spaces : what's left to say? /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2008. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3314452.
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Geddes, Gregory Edmund. "Literature and labor Harvey Swados and the twentieth-century American left /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.
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McAdam, Lindy. "Seeking a new agenda for the left : Marxism versus post-Marxism /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm113.pdf.
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Biegon, Rubrick. "Reconstituting hegemony: US power and the New Left in Latin America." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654100.
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, and in stark contrast to the immediate postCold War period, Latin American politics was defined by the ascendency of leftist and centre-left forces. The emergence and consolidation of the 'New Latin Left', as this thesis terms these governments, signalled a profound challenge to the longstanding hegemony of . the United States in the Western hemisphere. In their foreign and domestic policies, the countries of the region began distancing themselves from Washington's geopolitical and economic agenda. This thesis examines the ways in which US foreign policy responded to the counter-hegemony manifested in the New Latin Left. Defining hegemony as an asymmetrical and dialectical relationship patterned by multiple and overlapping fOlIDS of power, it investigates US efforts to reconstitutJ its hegemonic position in the Americas. Building on Gramscian historical materialism, it Situates US hegemony alongside the political economy of the Post-Washington Consensus. The analysis utilises the taxonomy of power developed by Barnett and Duvall to examine the interplay of the different facets of US hegemony in Latin America, which, as the argument goes, are inextricably interlinked with on-going processes of neoliberalisation. Empirical chapters focus on: the coercive leverage of US compulsory power; as realised through. the Pentagon's resources and strategy in the region; the institutional power of the Organization of American States in relation to newly-created and Latin American-led mechanisms ofmuitilateral cooperation; the structural power of the US's multi-track free trade agenda; and the productive power expressed in the discursive construction of Latin American populisrri. By exploring the different facets of US power in the region, the thesis brings clarity to what remains an open and contested process of hegemonic reconstitution. In doing so, it contributes to critical International Relations/International Political Economy scholarship on US hegemony, US foreign policy and contemporary US-Latin American relations.
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Kivari, Carson Alexander. "No man left behind : towards new models of male engaged therapy." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45986.
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Counselling literature often focuses on men’s limited help seeking behaviours. Less explored is how men engage or disengage when they actually do enter helping programs. Contrasting decades of quantitative research pairing masculine ideology with low help seeking (i.e., identifying the problem), this article looks qualitatively at the factors that help men to become engaged and committed to therapy (i.e., identifying solutions). This study examines a treatment program with high success rates and virtually no drop out–a unique occurrence in men’s psychotherapy. Enhanced Critical Incident Technique data suggest that helping men to feel competent, free from judgment, and in the company of down-to-earth and genuine practitioners are all instrumental in helping this sub-population engage in therapy. Further, it is suggested that while appealing to male gender roles may be critical at the outset of therapy, men transition to broader non-gendered (i.e., that might be shared by men and women alike) and universal human needs as therapy progresses.
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Wang, Yu. "A NEW DEVELOPMENT OF FEEDBACK CONTROLLER FOR LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2386.
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The rotary Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) is a mechanical pump surgically implanted in patients with end-stage congestive heart failure to help maintain the flow of blood from the sick heart. The rotary type pumps are controlled by varying the impeller speed to control the amount of blood flowing through the LVAD. One important challenge in using these devices is to prevent the occurrence of excessive pumping of blood from the left ventricle (known as suction) that may cause it to collapse due to the high pump speed. The development of a proper feedback controller for the pump speed is therefore crucial to meet this challenge. In this thesis, some theoretical and practical issues related to the development of such a controller are discussed. First, a basic nonlinear, time-varying cardiovascular-LVAD circuit model that will be used to develop the controller is reviewed. Using this model, a suction index is tested to detect suction. Finally we propose a feedback controller that uses the pump flow signal to regulate the pump speed based on the suction index and an associated threshold. The objective of this controller is to continuously update the pump speed to adapt to the physiological changes of the patient while at the same time avoiding suction. Simulation results are presented under different conditions of the patient activities. Robustness of the controller to measurement noise is also discussed.<br>M.S.E.E.<br>School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<br>Engineering and Computer Science<br>Electrical Engineering MSEE
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Hair, Steven. "New Methods for Finding Non-Left-Orderable and Unique Product Groups." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9633.
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In this paper, we present techniques for proving a group to be non-left-orderable or a unique product group. These methods involve the existence of a mapping from the group to R which obeys a left-multiplication criterion. By determining the existence or non-existence of such a mapping, the desired information about the group can be concluded. As examples, we apply this technique to groups of transformations in hyperbolic 2- and 3- space, and Fibonacci groups.<br>Master of Science
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Wu, Di. "New Therapeutic Target in Pressure-Loaded Left Ventricular Remodelling and Fibrosis." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29856.
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Background:
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a key role in regulating the pathophysiological signalling in heart disease. FXYD1 protein as a subunit of Na+-K+ pump shown a protective effect on acute oxidative inhibition of the cardiac membrane Na+-K+ ATPase. However, the effects of FXYD1 on protecting against longer term cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophy have not been examined. We hypothesized that absence of FXYD1 would worsen transverse aortic constriction-induced cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophy. Dysregulation of the redox signalling pathway and post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump is well understood to play a role in the development and progression of cardiovascular disease. However, antioxidant therapy targeting the redox signalling pathway has remained unsatisfactory in clinical trials. Therefore, a great space exists for the discovery of novel therapies. Previously, we found that the post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump occurred at a particular site (cysteine 45) on the β1 subunit of the Na+-K+ pump. We designed a novel transgenic mouse, herein referred to as the redox-null mouse, by CRISPR/Cas9 technology with a cysteine to serine modification at site 45 of the β1 subunit of the Na+-K+ ATPase. This engineered mutation allows us to examine the in vivo role of post-translational redox signalling through this single reactive cysteine with important mechanistic and therapeutic implications for heart disease.
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Aim 1: To examine whether deletion of the FXYD1 protein exacerbated heart failure and LV remodelling in transverse aortic construction-induced mice (Chapter 3).
Aim 2: To investigate the characteristics of cardiac function in CRISPR-ATP1b1 mice, in which cysteine is replaced with serine at site 45 on the β1 subunit of Na+-K+ ATPase (Chapter 4).
Aim 3: To investigate whether inhibiting the post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump plays an important role in mediating LV remodelling induced by Ang II and TAC (Chapter 5).
Methods and Results:
TAC surgeries were performed on FXYD1+/+ and FXYD1-/- mice to establish pressure-loaded LV remodelling and cardiac fibrosis. Heart function was determined by high-resolution echocardiography using the Vevo 3100 imaging platform. A series of pathophysiology and molecular biology analyses were conducted and are presented in Chapter 3. The results demonstrated that after the TAC procedure, FXYD1-/- mice exhibited significantly impaired LV function and myocardial fibrosis as compared to their wild-type (WT) counterparts, which were caused by modified redox signalling and a post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump. The observations of the biological and molecular characteristics of redox-null mice are summarized in Chapter 4. A similar protocol including echocardiography, western blot and PCR were applied to these mice to uncover whether targeting the post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump can lead to novel therapeutic targets. It was found that redox-null mice had improved resistance to TAC-induced cardiac dysfunction, myocardial fibrosis and hypertrophy. In response to Ang II infusion, it was found that redox-null mice had improved cardiac function and reduced myocardial fibrosis and hypertrophy relative to Ang II-treated WT mice in Chapter 5.
Conclusion:
The first finding in this thesis was that targeting FXYD1 may be a novel therapeutic strategy to ameliorate TAC-mediated fibrosis. Secondly, it was found that the protein residue changes at site 45 in the Na+-K+ ATPase β1 subunit, did not affect the development of major organs or the reproductive ability of the mice under physiological conditions. Thus, these mice will be a useful and novel platform for studying the redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump β1 subunit. The third finding was that abolishing post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump β1 subunit has a profoundly protective effect against heart failure induced by TAC and hypertension.
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KRALJ, Karlo. "Pathways to politics: new left movement parties in Post-Yugoslav space." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11384/125842.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
This thesis investigates processes behind the formation of new left movement parties in post-Yugoslav space by tracing and comparing the emergence of two movement parties: Initiative for Democratic Socialism (Slovenia) and Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own (Serbia). Its main aim is to describe mechanisms through which activist groups with long-term experience of nonelectoral activism engage in movement party formation, which is conceptualized as a core change in social movement strategy. The central argument of the thesis is that movement party formation can be explained by two key mechanisms: strategic learning, which takes place over a longer period of time, and cognitive liberation, which is provoked by the experience of eventful protest. In addition to establishing similarities across the two cases, comparative design serves to investigate to what extent and how each of the two contexts structured different movements’ strategic articulations. It identifies two strategic articulations of the electoral new left in the post-Yugoslav space: national-level democratic-socialist pathway and local-level green-municipalist pathway.
Empirically, the thesis combines theory-building process tracing and cross-case analysis, outlining the movement parties’ long-term origins through detailed case studies. In addition to in-depth interviews with activists from various sub-sectors of left-wing activism in Slovenia and Serbia, the case studies draw on the analysis of activists’ strategic framing within protest events, media appearances and organizational documents.
The thesis aims to contribute to the body of research on stability and change in social movement strategy as well as to update the literature on left-wing movement parties with cases that remained relatively underinvestigated. At the same time, the thesis takes a novel approach to postsocialist left-wing activism, going beyond the usual analytical division between electoral and nonelectoral forms of activism. Against the backdrop of the assumptions on the static, transactional and NGO-ized nature of postsocialist activism, it shows activists’ capacity for strategic change.
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San, Jule Susan Jo. "Self-regulation in college composition: No writer left behind." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280645.
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Four-year colleges and universities in the US have a lengthy history of educating traditional students from privileged backgrounds. Such students usually arrive on campus with behaviors, beliefs, and learning strategies designed to help them succeed in classes that depend upon lectures as the primary mode of instruction. As increased numbers of nontraditional students have gained admission to four-year schools, college instructors have struggled to accommodate the diverse learning styles of this burgeoning student population. Unlike traditional students, nontraditional students generally lack a large repertoire of effective behaviors, beliefs, and learning strategies needed to succeed in college. Poor learning practices mean less learning and less learning transferred across assignments and courses. Although college composition classes tend to provide student-centered instruction designed to facilitate learning, nontraditional students continue to struggle to learn. In response to the learning challenges and failures that nontraditional students encounter at college, some four-year schools have chosen to redirect these students to two-year colleges. This dissertation argues in favor of equipping nontraditional students at four-year schools with effective learning practices via instruction in student self-regulation and self-efficacy inside the college classroom.
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Hyde, Sarah Jane. "From old socialists to new democrats : the realignment of the Japanese left." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7acd9f90-0e06-41a2-83c5-76d8d8de7f82.
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In 1996, a new left of centre party emerged in Japan called the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and effectively replaced the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) as the main opposition party. This thesis asks what conditions caused this realignment and how the DPJ differs from the JSP. An increasing distrust and disinterest of politics and politicians has meant that the non-aligned voter in Japan forms the largest group of the electorate. Every party has lost support, but the left faced the worst drop of support. With the end of the Cold War, and the intensifying call for Japan to reassess its role on the World stage, the traditional ideology of the Japanese left, which has become synonymous with peace and preservation of the Peace Constitution, has lost its stabilising effect on the party and on its supporters. The labour unions, which were once the key mobilisational force for the left-wing parties at election time, began to question their relationship with the JSP and found new links to government. Simultaneously, they were also losing members so mobilisation of voters for the left also declined. Finally, a new electoral system did not reward the opposition as much as the LDP. Overall, the mobilisation of the electorate has become increasingly difficult for the Japanese left as a result of these factors. The DPJ has had to find ways of dealing with them and also has had to create its own identity. The way in which the party has dealt with this is by 'widening out' its types of candidate and using new methods to attract support. Furthermore, the DPJ has become more aware of its party coherence and has ensured that party unity is maintained even when ideological disputes occur.
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Rooksby, Edward. "State, power and socialism : towards a new stategy for the socialist left." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444763.
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Cord, Florian. "Postdemocracy, the New Right and the Paralysis of the Left: A Commentary." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21113.
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Jordan, Tim. "Reinventing revolution : value and difference in new social movements and the left." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19883.
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The problems of post-nineteen sixties left-wing politics are explored by analysing a hypothetical collective memory of the left. This memory claims that the hegemony over thought and practice held by Marxism has been broken down since the nineteen sixties by many different non-class based forms of oppression. The nature of Marxism as one political movement among other such movements is then explored and implications for any movement that tries to base itself on unified and universal values are outlined. It is argued that any politics based on unified values will create oppression because the values of such a politics will exclude the values of some other group. The possibility that politics can be based on difference is then explored. The works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and Jean-Francois Lyotard are examined as examples of difference based political theories. It is then concluded that, in general, difference is an inadequate basis for liberatory politics because difference based politics is only concerned to protect the process of differentiation and so ignores the particular values on which anti-oppression movements have been based. The possibility that difference and value based theories and movements are actually part of the one debate and do not follow each other in a linear progression is then analysed. The difference/value debate is characterised as consisting of paralysed motion because both difference and value have important critiques of each other and answers to those critiques, thereby creaating a constant motion between the two poles of difference and value which yet never moves beyond these two poles.
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Kramer, Howard. "The apocalyptic speculation of the New Age Left: Social and political implications." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1456673.
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Rinn, Daniel. "John Dewey, the New Left, and the Politics of Contingency and Pluralism." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12965.
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Most histories of the New Left emphasize that some variant of Marxism ultimately influenced activists in their pursuit of social change. Through careful examination of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), I argue that New Left thought was not always anti-liberal. Founding SDS members hardly rejected liberal political theory during the early years of the movement (1960-1963). New Left thought was profoundly indebted to John Dewey's political and philosophical method. Deweyan liberalism suggested theory should be directly applicable in the world of social action and truth should always be regarded as contingent. The connection between Dewey and SDS becomes apparent when one considers the role of Arnold S. Kaufman in the movement. Kaufman, a University of Michigan philosopher, applied Dewey's political and philosophical method in his work as an activist and academic. He coined the term "participatory democracy" for the New Left. Consequently, this key New Left concept was itself grounded in Dewey's philosophy.
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Boraman, Toby, and n/a. "New left and anarchism in New Zealand from 1956 to the early 1980s : an anarchist communist interpretation." University of Otago. Department of Political Studies, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20060830.113811.
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This thesis draws upon anarchist communist theory in order to provide a historical account of the New Left and the anarchist movement in New Zealand from 1956 to the early 1980s. This account explains, describes and evaluates critically these movements.
The praxis of the New Left and the anarchist movement can be explained by a variety of social, economic, political, cultural and psychological factors. However, overall, it is argued that these movements were largely shaped by the underlying antagonisms of global capitalism. Because the New Left emerged during a lull in working-class self-activity, the politics of the early New Left and the anarchist movement from 1956 to the late 1960s were generally reformist and quietist. The later New Left emerged during a global resurgence in class-struggle from 1968 to the early to mid 1970s. Consequently, the demeanour of the later New Left and anarchism during this period was boisterous and ebullient.
The New Left in New Zealand was unique in that, compared with the New Left overseas, its major organisations were neither campus-based nor dominated by students. It consisted of young workers and students who jointly established numerous small affinity groups. The early New Left was less action-oriented than the later New Left. It was formed by dissidents from the Old Left and was closely associated with anti-nuclear protest. The later New Left issued from the more confrontational wing of the anti-Vietnam War and anti-apartheid movements, and then dispersed into various new social movements from the early 1970s onwards. The anarchist movement of the 1960s and 1970s was intimately interrelated with the New Left, and hence shared most of its characteristics.
This work employs anarchist communism as a theoretical tool to evaluate critically the innovations and limitations of the New Left and the anarchist movement. In particular, the class-based "non-market" anarchist communist theory of Peter Kropotkin is utilised. The main criterion used for judging the New Left and anarchist movement is their emancipatory capacity to spark a process whereby the underlying social relations of capitalism are fundamentally transformed.
The key strengths of the New Left and the anarchist movement were their sweepingly broad anti-authoritarianism, their festive politics and their focus upon everyday life. The primary weakness of these movements was their isolation from the working-class. The New Left concentrated on supporting nationalist struggles overseas and mostly overlooked domestic class-struggle. Numerous New Leftists and anarchists championed self-management yet did not question the market and the wage-system. This thesis highlights the complexities of the New Left. For instance, the later New Left was genuinely anti-disciplinarian yet often supported totalitarian Stalinist regimes overseas. As a result, it is argued that the New Left was paradoxically both anti-authoritarian and authoritarian.
It is claimed that an updated anarchist communism, integrating the best qualities of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s with classical anarchist communism, is highly relevant today because of the rise of neo-liberalism and the anti-capitalist movement, and the demise of Stalinism and social democracy.
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Tardi, Rachele. "Representations of Italian left political violence in film, literature and theatre (1973-2005)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446520/.
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The thesis investigates representations of 'red' political violence in Italy of the so- called anni di piombo and later memory of it in selected films, theatrical works, novels and stories. After the Introduction, which includes a discussion of aims, key concepts and methods, there are four main chapters. Chapter One examines representations of the abduction and killing of Aldo Moro in two thematic groups; those which focus respectively on Moro and the brigatisti during the imprisonment and on the Via Fani massacre and the alleged conspiracy behind it. The analysis of these texts serves as a case study, highlighting key themes and issues that will recur in the next chapters. Chapter Two deals with texts that link political violence to relations between the generations - conflicts between father and son, relationships between mother and daughter/son - and reflects on the implications of their emphasis on the family. Chapter Three analyses texts that centre on women militants. It draws attention to two recurrent female types: the woman who strays from her maternal role in joining the armed group and later seeks 'normalization' and the ex-militant who remains committed to her former beliefs, in contrast both to a male character and a female 'good double'. Chapter Four concentrates on the representations of the post-anni di piombo. It deals first with self-narratives of Italian political refugees in Paris and then with fictional or semi-fictionalized representations of 'dramatic encounters' between former activists, and between activists and their children. A short Afterword concludes on the principal findings and reflects on the methodology.
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Gomes, Jenna M. "The Things He Left Behind." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1525359214648996.
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Adkins, Bethany I. "Skin Story: with critical introduction: “Scars left by the commonplace for women”." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/110.
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A creative thesis with a story about themes of domestic violence focused particularly on an aspect of rape culture that does not directly involve rape: blamed femaleness. The critical introduction seeks to make this tie explicit to the text of the story.
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Ejsmund, Arnika Nora. ""Light is the left hand of darkness" : breaking away from invalid dichotomies in science fiction." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2002. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06172005-111926.
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Mulkern, Matthew. "Feasibility Of Left Side Rumble Strips On Rural Arterial Freeways In New Bunswick." Thesis, Fredericton: University of New Brunswick, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1882/44575.
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This study evaluated the feasibility of adding rumble strips
to the left side of rural freeways in New Brunswick. A
review of 940 collisions that occurred on Route 2 and Route
95 was supplemented with an analysis of 547 incidents that
occurred on the Brun-Way owned and operated sections of
Route 2 and Route 95.
The study revealed that despite significantly more traffic
travelling in the right lane, a larger number of ROR crashes
occurred to the left side. Four Crash Modification Factors
(CMF’s) ranging from 0.87 to 0.96 were developed in order to
estimate the potential benefit of left side rumble strip installation. A left side specific CMF of 0.95 was developed for all crashes and a CMF of 0.93 was developed for Fatal
and Injury (FI) crashes. A benefit-cost analysis revealed that the B/C ratio of the installation of left side rumble strips ranged from 7.9 to 9.4.
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Hanna, Karen Buenavista. "Unity and the Struggle of Opposites| The Evolving New York City Filipino Left." Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1548245.
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<p> My main research questions explore how contradictions of unity, organizing structures, gender, sexuality, citizenship, class, and ability are addressed within Filipino leftist organizations that utilize dialectical materialist theory. I also ask: How have US-based women of color feminist and queer of color theory impacted Filipino nationalist frameworks in the US? How do they also remain at odds with one another? I interviewed 21 NYC-based activists and organizers involved in anti-imperialist Filipino organizations the summer of 2012. I also used participant observation as an active member of study groups, educational workshops, and a town forum. </p><p> My central framework explores conflict as contradiction using Mao Tse-tung's "On Contradiction" and the Haitian concepts of balans and konesans. In doing so, I examine how hard-lined leadership has impeded dialogue. I also interrogate how sexism, transphobia, masculinist organizing structures, and neoliberalism impact women, trans, queer, disabled, working class, and undocumented organizers—particularly those with overlapping identities of marginalization. "The Movement's" familial dynamic, combined with the value of <i>utang na loob,</i> creates hierarchies that cause some members to feel both silenced and guilty. I name these feelings as indicators of invisible emotional labor "for the sake of the movement" that lead many members to eventually leave their organizations. Their departures raise questions of sustainability. Lastly, I ask how the Fil-Am Left can draw strength from its familial dynamic but still address hierarchical issues that mirror societal hierarchies of oppression.</p><p> Applying work by Patricia Hill Collins, Audre Lorde, and other women of color, along with feminist grounded theory and sociological movement theory, I highlight three strategies that New York City based Filipino organizations have taken within the past ten years. I argue that organizations have recognized problems with sustainability and are creating their own interventions as theory-producers. Organizers' relationships to the National Democratic movement in the Philippines shape both the creation of interventions and how they respond to new ideas. Drawing on Arlie Hoschchild's concept of "stalled revolution," individual behaviors lag behind organizations' formal ideological shifts. Thus, they are works in progress.</p>
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Van, Dyck Brandon Philip. "The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Survival and Collapse in Latin America." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11221.
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Political parties are the basic building blocks of representative democracy. They reduce information costs for voters, enhance executive accountability, and contribute to democratic governability by facilitating legislative organization and aggregating the interests of powerful societal groups. Yet we continue to know relatively little about the conditions under which strong parties form. The dominant theories of party-building are mostly based on historical studies of the United States and Western European countries, almost all of which developed stable party systems. Drawing on this literature, a segment of the early scholarship on party-building in third-wave democracies optimistically took "party development" for granted, assuming that parties would follow from democracy, cleavages, or certain electoral rules. Yet party-building outcomes in third-wave democracies fell short of scholars' initial, optimistic expectations. In many third-wave polities, social cleavages, attempts at electoral engineering, and decades of democratic competition did not produce durable parties. On the other hand, in numerous third-wave democracies, new political parties did take root. What accounts for the variation in party-building outcomes observed across the developing world? More generally, under what conditions does party-building succeed?<br>Government
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Piatt, Jennifer Lauren. "Pink Tides: Femininity, Dictatorship, and the Rise of the New Latin American Left." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579025.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, military dictatorships came to power throughout Southern Cone Latin America and contributed to the continued patriarchal tradition of the region. A literary and art movement arose after these dictatorships fell, centered on the patterns of re-victimization of the feminine and criticism of the atrocities carried out by the dictatorships. In my honors thesis, I argue that along with the rise of the marea rosada, the New Left in Latin America, we have witnessed a turn in post-dictatorship literature towards a criticism of the society that fostered the dictatorships and that continued the patriarchal traditions of the region. I also argue that the authors and directors of these texts and films advocate that in order to change the patriarchal pattern of society, it is necessary to participate within that society and manipulate the society's discourses to one's own advantage.
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Söderqvist, Emil. "New approaches to monitoring of cardiac function." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknik och hälsa (STH), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4211.
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Left ventricular pumping performance may be described by intraventricular pressure and volume variables, usually presented as a pressure-volume plot. However, on-line monitoring of left ventricular pressure and volume with high temporal resolution requires the use of an invasive catheter technique such as, for example, the conductance catheter method. On the other hand, the very invasiveness and complexity of this approach makes it less suitable for clinical use. It is then not surprising that there has been long-felt need to make the conductance method less invasive and attempts have been made to adjust the method to clinical demands and routine in order to extract more information from pressure-volume interplay and possibly translate relevant data to their non-invasive estimates. In the present studies, a standard five segmental conductance catheter was used in animal (pig) experiments. Segmental conductances were compared to global conductance. Since the mid-ventricular segment was shown to reflect global volume, which was also shown on theoretical basis, it was concluded that a single segmental catheter most probably could be used to estimate global left ventricular volume. Subsequently, a thin and flexible single segmental conductance catheter was constructed and applied to an animal (pig) experimental model. Results were reproducible and very few arrythmias were detected. At the next stage, left ventricular isovolumic phases were investigated using the standard conductance catheter method, as well as echocardiographically derived tissue velocity doppler. Conductance was shown to decrease during isovolumic contraction, and an adjustment method was proposed in order to account for the subsequent decrease in pressure-volume loop area. In separate experiments, the left ventricular pressure wave form during left ventricular systole was examined, and an algorithm was proposed to discriminate between the changes in afterload, preload and contractility. Results showed clearly discernible patterns of the respective load and contractility alternation. Finally, the left ventricular continuous area was monitored continuously during the entire cardiac cycle as a measure of left ventricular volume dynamics in normal subjects and three patients with left ventricular abnormalities using echocardiographic automatic boundary detection. The left ventricular area thus obtained was plotted against its first derivative, to form a flow-volume estimates loop, in accordance with the flow-volume examinations used in respiratory physiology. Data obtained from the abnormal ventricles were presented as flow-volume estimates loops, exemplifying the possible use of the method.<br>QC 20100922
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Coleman, Hildy Michelle. "Out of Left Field: William Saroyan's Thirties Fiction as a Reflection of the Great Depression." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625708.
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Vergottini, Giulia. "Women, comrades, and feminists : how the discourse about genderdeveloped in the press of the Italian revolutionary Left, 1974–1976." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-188229.
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Carpenter, Susan Streeter. "Liberty Boulevard." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1122389263.
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