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Showing 1 to 20 of 307 for “"Abandon"”.
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Abandon
This work owes a great deal of its spirit to the experience of travelling and living in Romania, and is in part an exploration in poetry of that country's troubled, complicated story. Three voices attempt in three sections to disclose their culture, obsessions and personal tales. The first voice is …
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The Quest For A Uniform Multimodal Regime: Persevere, Abandon Or Start Again?
… whether the quest for uniformity should be abandoned or, if the process were to begin again, what lessons can be learned from the failures of these attempts.
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L' actualisation du potentiel intellectuel, l'efficience cognitive et le rendement scolaire chez des élèves de niveau collégial à risque d'abandon scolaire
… d'étudiantes et d'étudiants qui risquent d'abandonner leurs études collégiales. La première hypothèse stipule que la méthode API permettra d'augmenter de manière significative le niveau d'efficience cognitive globale des participants du groupe expérimental, comparativement à celui des …
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La France et l'élargissement de l'Union européenne aux pays d'Europe centrale et orientale de François Mitterrand a` Nicolas Sarkozy : continuité ou abandon d'une conception française de la construction européenne?
… Mitterrand Nicolas Sarkozy : continuité ou abandon d'une conception française de la construction européenne ? » tente d'évaluer dans quelle mesure les éléments constitutifs de la conception française de la construction européenne ont été modifiés par l'élargissement de l'Union européenne aux …
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Étude des relations entre les styles d'attribution, l'optimisme, l'estime de soi, les mécanismes d'adaptation et le niveau de stress, avec l'abandon scolaire
La présente recherche a étudié les relations entre les styles d'attribution, les dispositions optimiste et pessimiste, l'estime de soi, les mécanismes d'adaptation et le niveau de stress, chez des décrocheurs et des non-décrocheurs scolaires. Les décrocheurs étaient des participants au sein …
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Life history trade-offs in a parental care-providing fish: the role of reproductive value, predation threat, and physiological condition on brood abandonment decisions by paternal largemouth bass
… parental care decisions using offspring abandonment as a direct and ultimate fitness affect, and fewer yet have adopted a holistic approach to test how physiological and environmental conditions compare in influencing the decision by a parent to abandon their brood. I performed two …
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The abandonment of landownership: a proposed model for regulated exit
The question whether it is possible to abandon landownership is unresolved in South African law. The subject has only rarely been the subject of attention by scholars, with legislation and existing case law providing little in the way of clear guidance. This lack of clarity is obviously not ideal. …
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Waccara's Utes: Native American equestrian adaptations in the Eastern Great Basin, 1776-1876
… acquisition of horses, but the Utes did not abandon their diversified subsistence system to specialize in buffalo hunting as did many Plains equestrian groups. Western Ute equestrian adaptations changed and evolved throughout the nineteenth century in response to environmental, cultural, …
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Concepts of soul : an investigation into the concepts of the soul current at the inception of Christianity
… Conference, Pavlov declared that we must abandon the misleading term "soul". He stated that, in his opinion, "the proper study of psychology is physiology".
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Conjunctive polymorphic type checking with explicit types
… Two extreme alternatives to this dilemma are to abandon type inference (and force the programmer to, essentially, supply a derivation for his type claims) or to abandon (or restrict) type conjunction. This work presents a third alternative in which the programmer, at times, may be required to …
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Nuclear “Pork” Revisited: Organizational Imperatives and Nuclear Weapon Program Abandonment
… Over two-thirds of those countries have abandoned their nuclear weapon activities as a matter of policy, making nuclear abandonment the dominant historical tendency. Understanding why countries abandon their nuclear weapon activities holds the promise of allowing policy makers to improve …
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Sellars and Socrates : an investigation of the Sellars problem for a Socratic epistemology
… I argue that the Sellars problem forces one to abandon the foundationalist project for empirical justification. In the place of foundationalist I offer a nondoxastic coherentist account of empirical justification. This account solves the epistemic regress problem. It also secures a positive …
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Credit: Part IIIof a Three Part Novel
… junior year in high school: whether to defend or abandon his single mom who has fraudulently charged $56,000 worth of gas, groceries and orthodonture for the needy on Cory’s wealthy employer’s credit card. With the help of his “Existential English” professor, a week spent alone on a vision quest …
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Citizens Electoral Behavior in Autocratic Regimes, Venezuela, Turkey, Russia
… power democratically at some point but will not abandon it when they ought to. Research shows leaders will employ any and every mechanism to remain in power, from restricting liberties to turning to violence as a method of repressing dissidence yet voters continue to vote them back into power. …
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Interior landscapes: Personal perspectives on professional lives: The first generation of librarians at the Illinois Library School, 1893-1907
… circumstances, which often forced them to abandon school plans, change jobs, or re-enter the job market after a long absence.
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An Examination of the Stability of Cooperation in an Ongoing Collective Action: The Case of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Lake Pittsfield
… additional incentives, farmers are likely to abandon their voluntary agreement and resume their use of atrazine within the watershed. It is then demonstrated how a combination of policy instruments can be used to alter the underlying game configuration of the collective action problem, …
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HiBi: A hierarchical bigram model for associative learning
… in the AI research where people gradually abandon traditional statistical models in favor of deep neural architectures. While effective in learning input-output mappings from two arbitrary distributions, the complex nature of neural models makes them hard to interpret. In this thesis, we …
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Dream Machine
… and "Dream Machine" involve characters who abandon their physical forms to disappear into the internet, existing as free-floating data and radiant frequencies. "Downstream," "Grass So Green," and "Little White Crosses" engage with the stark landscape of a country starved of its spirituality, …
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Imaginary Interfaces
… that the way to achieve ultimate mobility is to abandon the screen altogether. These wearable devices are operated using hand gestures, voice commands or a small number of physical buttons. By abandoning the screen these devices also abandon the currently dominant spatial interaction style (such …
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Rethinking Chinese Territorial Disputes: How the Value of Contested Land Shapes Territorial Policies
What explains the timing of when states abandon a delaying strategy to change the status quo of one territorial dispute? And when this does happen, why do states ultimately use military force rather than concessions, or vice versa? This dissertation answers these questions by examining four major …
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