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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"ALEC"”.
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An examination of music for trumpet and marimba and the Wilder Duo with analyses of three selected works by Gordon Stout, Paul Turok, and Alec Wilder.
… of works by Gordon Stout, Paul Turok and Alec Wilder. These analyses examine sound, form, harmony, melody and rhythm for each piece. Musical illustrations are included. These analyses are divided into chapters. Each chapter begins with a short biography of each composer. A short …
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Model Legislation as a Measure of Special Interest Influence: The American Legislative Exchange Council and the Koch Network
… the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the groups funders, their ideology and relationship to political parties, and the impact these factors have on policy at the state level. Using a sample of 171 model bills drafted by ALEC, we utilize preliminary natural language processing …
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The function and structure of the entorhinal cortex in mild cognitive impairment
… that the posteromedial (pmEC) and anterolateral (alEC) subdivisions of the EC are involved respectively in navigation and object-location memory. The advent of immersive VR (iVR) technology provides an opportunity to determine whether tests of pmEC and alEC function has value in the detection of …
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Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel
… It looks at how <em>David Elginbrod</em>, <em>Alec Forbes of Howglen</em>, and <em>Lilith </em>engage with scientific discourse and epistemological concerns of the period. These scientific and epistemological dealings include a positive evaluation of evolution, a resistance to pseudoscience and …
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Uniqueness problems in mean curvature flow
… Colding–Minicozzi. For the second problem, with Alec Payne, we examine the level set flow as a weak formulation that ensures long-time existence and uniqueness of mean curvature flow past singularities. This approach, however, can lead to fattening, a phenomenon reflecting genuine non-uniqueness …
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The Unraveling Of America's Education System
… by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an independent committee assigned to collect and analyze educational data. The data was collected and then correlations were run between the expenditures per pupil, number of pupils per teacher, standardized test scores, such as average ACT, …
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Adaptive learning for event modeling and pattern classification
… for Event Modeling and Characterization (ALEC) system is proposed to deal with this problem. Within this framework, a wavelet-based hierarchical fuzzy clustering approach which integrates several advanced technologies and overcomes the disadvantages of traditional clustering algorithms is …
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THE INFLUENCE OF JAZZ AND ITS PREDECESSORS ON PIANO CHAMBER MUSIC AFTER 1920
… D’Rivera, the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Alec Wilder, the Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Trio for Piano, Flute, and Cello by Nikolai Kapustin. Recordings can be accessed in the Digital Repository (DRUM) at the University of Maryland.
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George MacDonald and Victorian Society
… with a wide range of MacDonald’s texts, such as Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865), Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879), The Marquis of Lossie (1877), A Rough Shaking (1890), and Heather and Snow (1893). <br/><br/>Chapter Five offers a short summation of the thesis. It affirms that MacDonald was deeply …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… repertory: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Alec Rowley, Gerald Finzi, Michael Head, Benjamin Britten, and Edmund Rubbra. Church music composers are represented by five composers who have composed sacred solo literature primarily for the church soloist, but whose sacred songs are also …
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Outdoor education : its origins and institutionalisation in schools with particular reference to the West Riding of Yorkshire since 1945
… the thesis explores how, under the influence of Alec Clegg, outdoor education was used by the West Riding to mitigate social and economic inequalities. Later, under the influence of Jim Hogan, outdoor education was also used to give substance to the belief that children should be treated equally …
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In the Mouth of the Cave: Subterranean Site-Specific Writing Practices in Britain from William Wordsworth to Katrina Palmer
… Drew Milne’s The View from Royston Cave (2012), Alec Finlay’s Global Oracle (2014), Maria Fusco’s Master Rock (2015) and Hanna Tuulikki’s Women of the Hill (2015), with brief forays to Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer’s The Cave (2009) and the culmination of Lee Ann Brown’s project Philtre: …
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Augmented manual fabrication methods for 2D tool positioning and 3D sculpting
Augmented manual fabrication involves using digital technology to assist a user engaged in a manual fabrication task. Methods in this space aim to combine the abilities of a human operator, such as motion planning and large-range mechanical manipulation, with technological capabilities that …
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3D modeling with silhouettes
With the increasing power of computers and the spread of dedicated graphics hardware, 3D content has become ubiquitous in every field, from medicine to video games. However, designing 3D models remains a time-consuming and costly process, so far limited mainly to professionals who have trained …
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A system for procedurally generating puzzles for games
In this thesis, I designed and implemented a set of designer-targeted tools and libraries for procedurally generating puzzles for video games and interactive fiction. The system has the goals of producing solvable and flexible general-purpose puzzles through the use of simple tools targeted at …
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Natural Resource Needs Assessment Survey and a Nonmarket Valuation Study of Nevada's Big Game Hunts
This thesis has four parts. First, we discuss natural resource conservation in Nevada. Second, we describe the development and implementation of a general population natural resource needs assessment survey. Third, we present and discuss the data collected in Clark County, Nevada and Lincoln …
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Product stewardship: Linking waste back to primary production
RESEARCH QUESTIONS: In what ways are regulated Product Stewardship schemes likely to contribute to waste reduction in New Zealand? a. How do organisations explain and make sense of Product Stewardship? b. How do people explain and make sense of Product Stewardship? c. What impacts will Product …
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Mechanical properties of boride based ceramics
<p>“This research focuses on the elevated mechanical properties of diboride based materials at room and elevated temperatures. These materials include a ZrB<sub>2</sub> ceramic, a ZrB<sub>2</sub>-WC-SiC ceramic, and a (Hf,Mo,Nb,Ta,W,Zr)B<sub>2</sub> high entropy boride (HEB). The room temperature …
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Historical Narrative in the Music of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
<p><em>Sid Meier’s Civilization VI</em> is a 2016 strategy video game in which the player leads a historical civilization from 4000 BC to the present. The <em>Civilization</em> series is the subject of much scholarly writing, especially its representation of history and non- Western cultures. My …
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