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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Acting-upon"”.
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A Collaborative Journey: Exploring and Acting Upon the Concerns of Beginning Teachers
"Beginning teachers are confronted with the challenge of translating the theory, content, and skills learned in their preparation programs into their own individual practices. While university preparation tends to present the ""ideal"" world, teaching positions are situated in the ""real"" world. …
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Ethnicity Matters: Implications for Understanding and Acting upon Disparities in Health Affecting Black Men in the United States
<p>Compared to non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks have higher rates of mortality from heart disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and HIV/AIDS. Black men have a life expectancy approximately 4.7 years than the life expectancy of non-Hispanic white men, due in part to higher prevalence of …
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Russia in the Holy Land: Acting upon Imperial Russia's Soft Power in the Schools of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1882-1914)
The decision of Ibrahim Pascha to allow foreign powers to open consulates in Jerusalem in the 1830s transformed the Holy Land into yet another scenario where the rivalries among the Great Powers for influence over the decaying Ottoman Empire could unfold. The pretext: the Great Powers’ ‘historical’ …
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Making a change : Aristotle on poiêsis, kinêsis and energeia
… account of change and that the agent’s acting-upon (poiêsis) should also be construed as a non-self-contained change, just as the patient’s being-acted-upon (pathêsis), and therefore cannot be conflated with exercising one’s nature or craft. I also point out that a genuine Aristotelian …
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Memoir and Truth: How the Genre Re-frames Reality
… the ways in which memoirs are rhetorically acting upon the culture at large through their narrative and emotional aspects.
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Imaginary Forces: The Reformist Poetics of Victorian Fairyland
… how the tales acknowledged the difficulties of acting upon those reformed identifications and rejected their most subversive implications. The dissertation begins with an analysis of George MacDonald's fairy tale theory and then proceeds through close rhetorical analyses of George MacDonald's …
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Painting a Vision of Global Ecological Ethics Through the Synhesis of Godess Spirituality and Buddist Philosopy
… have instigated a state of ecological crisis by acting upon false premises regarding our relationship to each other and to the planet. Since false premises are at the root of this problem, the cultivation of alternative paradigms could present a remedy. Such alternate thought modalities can be …
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Dahl friction modeling
… proposed that friction behaved as a stress acting upon the quantum mechanical bonds at the interface. Thus, the relationship between frictional force and position would be analogous to a stress-strain curve, complete with hysteresis should there be permanent displacement akin to plastic …
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Efficient data collection strategies for rapid learning in physical environments
… systems capable of sensing, inferring and acting upon their surroundings, it becomes critical to learn rapidly about unknown systems or environments. However, obtaining empirical data is often costly and involves setting up time consuming experiments or deploying specialized sensors. We are …
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Believing at Work : modeling the interplay of religious faith and business
… become more externally focused, recognizing and acting upon their potential to impact the world for good or ill.
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Studies On The Behaviour Of Solid Particles In Turbulent Gas Flows
… simulation of the pseudo-turbulence was based upon a vortex method in which the velocity fluctuations of the turbulent flow were simulated by arrays of randomly positioned vortices. The calculation of the motion of the spherical particles was based upon the forces acting upon a particle as a …
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Exploring the Biocybernetic loop: Classifying Psychophysiological Responses to Cultural Artefacts using Physiological Computing
… to cultural heritage artefacts or materials and acting upon these responses to drive adaptations in content in real-time.Real-time biocybernetic control is the central component of physiological computing wherein physiological data are converted into a control input for a technological system. At …
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Models of intelligence operations
… that the cycle of gathering, analysing and acting upon intelligence is as efficient as possible in the face of an ever increasing volume of available information. The collection, processing and subsequent analysis aspect of the intelligence cycle is modelled as a novel finite horizon …
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Reinterpreting The Moral Economy – Building on the Economic Possibilities of Selflessness
… societies are unreasonably slow at imagining and acting upon desired forms and states of coexistence and progress. In the field of economics, internal scrutiny appears to have transgressed constructive levels. The connection between the moral economy and moral economics concepts is established in …
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Analyses of flame response to acoustic forcing in a rocket combustor
… representative of a high frequency instability upon a cluster of five coaxial injection elements in the center of the chamber. The response of the elements to the imposed acoustic disturbance is observed using high speed optical diagnostics. The main aim of this project is to develop methods for …
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The gendered body in virtual space : sexuality, performance and play in four Second Life spaces
… tensions that occur as a result of the normative acting upon the subversive that forms the basis of investigation, specifically the relationship between corporeal normativity and screen culture as well as the tensions between cultural conservatism, subversive representation and gender conformity.
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Hidden Pedagogical Entanglements: A Depth Hermeneutic Study of Intercultural Dynamics
… (interdependent, dynamic, unfolding, and acting upon us) would allow us to see and live otherwise. From this position, I explore the significance of unseen classroom dynamics between teachers and students through myth, ancestors, dream, memory, and image. Composed and expressed as a …
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requiem: a chapel for blacksburg virginia
… the drama between interior and exterior forces acting upon it. We construct walls to keep out from becoming in. At the same time, the wall is where a controlled out is allowed in. What penetrates our world, must come through the wall. The wall must be made to accept openings, carry loads, or …
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Quantitative evaluation of rejuvenators to restore embrittlement temperatures in oxidized asphalt mixtures using acoustic emission source location techniques
… to the virgin condition. The rejuvenator kept acting upon the binder after four weeks of dwell time. At the end of the sixth week, the embrittlement temperature was observed to be homogeneous across the height of the specimen, and after eight weeks the specimen had an embrittlement temperature …
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