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Showing 1 to 20 of 15421 for “""Resolution and Independence"”.
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Thomas Paine: Author of American Independence
My paper will argue that for his efforts and writings in 1776, Thomas Paine should be considered one of the primary author of American Independence. It will illustrate how the writings of Thomas Paine helped propel America towards Revolution and independence. In an age where monarchs held power, …
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Independence and other poems
… of all the different meanings of the word "independence". In the description of singular events, people and places and in a deliberate rootedness in concrete things, the poems also try to capture complicated states of being and to illustrate questions relating to various aspects of freedom: …
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Central bank independence and inflation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Explanation of independence
An axiomatic treatment of `independence relations' (notions of independence) for complete first-order theories is presented, the principal examples being forking (due to Shelah) and thorn-forking (due to Onshuus). Thorn-forking is characterised in terms of modular pairs in the lattice of …
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Matrix Factorization: Nonnegativity, Sparsity and Independence
… arises in a wide range of application domains and is useful for extracting the latent features in the dataset. Examples include recommender systems, brain data analysis, and document clustering. In this dissertation, we are interested in matrix factorizations which impose the requirements of …
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Independence in exponential fields
… Cexp. In this thesis we study this class and the more general classes ECFSK, also defined by Zilber, and ECF, studied by Zilber and Kirby. We investigate stable-like behaviour modulo arithmetic in these classes by developing a unique independence relation for each class, and in ECF we use …
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The Philippine Independence Movement: The First Independence Mission to the United States and its Antecedents
<p>This thesis covers the first Philippine Independence Mission made to the United States in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. Shortly following the conclusion of World War I, representatives from the Philippines sought to gain fulfillment of its independence. The origins and history of the …
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Winning an Independence Achievement Game.
<p>The game "Generalized Kayles (or Independence Achievement)" is played by two players A and B on an arbitrary graph G. The players alternate removing a vertex and its neighbors from G, the winner being the last player with a nonempty set from which to choose. In this thesis, we present winning …
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Archaeology and politics in post-independence Malta
… The study of Malta’s archaeological history and the role that politics has played in its development in the years following post-Independence, has received limited attention. This study focuses on the relationship of archaeology and politics and the manifestation of that liaison through the …
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Promoting Independence and Responsibility in the Classroom
… How canI improve my practice to promote independence and responsibility in my classroom? I adopted a self-study approach within the action research paradigm to reflect on my practice with a view of learning how to improve it. My epistemological and ontological values underlie the research …
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Rethinking Judicial Independence in Democracy and Autocracy
… leaders that they are willing to tie their hands, restrain their (often arbitrary) power, and respect judicial decisions even if the courts rule against them. But if political leaders are rational, why do they persist in their respectful behavior towards independent courts even when such …
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The continuum hypothesis : independence and truth-value
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Philosophy, 1974.
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Dependence, independence, and interdependence in world politics
… international system of trade. Examining macro and submacro levels of the international system of trade from 1962-2003, we find the presence of a Scale-Free Network with a Multiscalar Hierarchy. Such structures are resilient to bottom-up economic collapse, but are susceptible to top-down and …
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Framing Analysis of Kosovo Independence
On February 17, 2008 Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia and the event spurred significant media attention. Countries like Spain, Romania, and Russia feared that the event would engender separatism on their own territories, while the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, and UK regarded it as a …
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The making of regulatory independence
… question: how does a regulatory agency become and remain independent? Relying on an analytical framework based on scholarship in legal anthropology, this study provides elements of an answer based on an insider’s view of regulation, illuminating the complex, messy, and political nature of what …
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Three Studies of Auditor Independence
This dissertation investigates auditor independence by examining the effects of various factors on independence, both in fact and as perceived by several distinct groups. The first study examines the effects of auditing students' cognitive moral development and client risk on students' judgments …
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Network Inference Using Independence Criteria
… models play a crucial role in the analysis and reconstruction of such processes. It is possible to derive regulatory models using network inference algorithms from high-throughput data, for example; from gene or protein expression data. A wide variety of network inference algorithms have …
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Independence Polynomials of Molecular Graphs
… noticed by molecular chemists that the stability and boiling point of certain molecules were related to the number of independent vertex sets in the molecular graphs of those chemicals. This led to the definition of the Merrifield-Simmons index of a graph G as the number of independent vertex sets …
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Independence of Banco de México
… Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994, and Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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