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THE MEANING OF CULTURAL FESTIVALS
International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2007 Cultural festivals and events are increasingly becoming arenas of discourse enabling people to express their views on wider cultural, social and political issues. Often the debates polarise into those advocating change and those wishing to preserve “traditional” or “local” culture in the face of modernisation and globalisation.
Crespi Vallbona, Montserrat +1 more
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A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION OF ISSUES OF RELIGION AND CULTURE IN AFRICA [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examined the contentious issues in the relationship between religion and culture. This relationship appeared to have been cordial and crucial for the corporate existence and development of the society.
Udoh, Emmanuel Williams
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South Asian Visual Culture: From Traditional Arts to Mediums of Modernity [PDF]
, 2017 South Asia is home to myriad expressive traditions spanning from classical sculpture and painting to popular illustration and film. While medium is important, especially in shaping the meaning of a cultural expression, this exhibit uses visual culture as
Dillon, Daniel
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski +9 more
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Nordic Working Life Research - Continuity and Renewal
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 Working life research does not have clear boundaries; however its focus is quite clear: Changes in working life and how these changes affect qualifications, health, occupations, innovation, the economy, identity, social orientation and culture.
Helge Hvid +9 more
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Thoroughly modern Mannheim and the postmodern Weltanschauung. [PDF]
, 1997 There are a number of features of Mannheim’s method for the interpretation of weltanschauung that laid the foundations for his later sociology of knowledge and that could be considered as prefiguring the methodological principles of a postmodern world ...
Dant, Tim
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Multiple Forms of Professional Agency for (non)crafting of Work Practices in a Hospital Organization
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 In recent working life studies, professional agency is seen as pivotal to the development of work communities and work organizations. This paper addresses professional agency during a practicebased intervention (work conference) in a Finnish hospital ...
Kaija Collin +2 more
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[Review of] Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives [PDF]
, 1985 American Indians are not conquered. The heart of the American Indian woman is not on the ground. In taking over the control of the telling of her life, she preserves the reality and meaning of tribal history and culture.
Scott, Carol J.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman +8 more
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Work, Sickness, Absence, and Identity-Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 This article explores how a group of industrial workers experience long-term sickness absence and how they cope with this situation. The article presents data from in-depth interviews with male industrial workers employed in a Norwegian factory.
Trude Gjernes
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