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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"Alvin"”.
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The design of a surface launch and recovery fender for DSRV "Alvin"
… Tne use of such a bumper in the recovery of DSRV ALVIN by her catamaran mother ship, LULU, is the subject of this study. It was determined, from first order analysis of the surge velocities of these two vessels in recovery position in a sea state 6, that any such bumper or combination of bumpers …
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Strengthening Alvin Plantinga’s Felix Culpa Theodicy Through the Addition of Eschatological Hope
Alvin Plantinga’s O Felix Culpa theodicy posits that worlds with incarnation and atonement are of maximal value, inherently containing evil as a necessary condition. While Plantinga’s Free Will Defense has garnered extensive analysis, his theodicy remains underexplored. This dissertation presents O …
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The Modern Ontological Argument: in Which the Position of Alvin Plantinga Is Refuted
… Second, I introduce and explicate the work of Alvin Plantinga—a prominent proponent of theistic belief—and in such a way that it may be clearly understood even by those without prior experience of modal logic. Finally, I adopt a polemical stance against Plantinga, and reach the following …
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A comparative study of the religious epistemology of Carl F. H. Henry and Alvin Plantiga
… epistemology of Carl F. H. Henry and of Alvin Plantinga. Chapter 1 briefly examines the impact of the Enlightenment and its subsequent developments upon religious epistemology and provides an overview of the thought of Carl F. H. Henry and of Alvin Plantinga. Chapter 2 examines the …
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The Modes of Intervention in Alvin Lucier’s <i>I Am Sitting in a Room</i>
<p>Alvin Lucier’s <em>I am sitting in a room </em>(1969) is an icon of experimental music and sound art. The sizable literature addressing the aesthetic and philosophical implications of this piece rarely discusses the performance practice beyond what is indicated in the score itself. This is …
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A Comparative Analysis of Divine Action Methodologies in the Works of Robert John Russell and Alvin Plantinga
… IN THE WORKS OF ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL AND ALVIN PLANTINGA John Paul Wilkinson, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: Theodore James Cabal This dissertation explores the relationship of epistemology to special divine action theory. Chapter 1 sets the goals, parameters, …
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Evaluation of a 23-cm (9-in) Minimum Length Limit for Black and White Crappies in Lake Alvin, South Dakota
… and white P. annularis crappies in 36-ha Lake Alvin , South Dakota beginning 1 January 1996. Both relative abundance [catch per unit effort (CPUE)] and size structure [e .g., proportional stock density (PSD)] increased following implementation of the length limit. However, these changes were …
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Futures studies in contemporary Islamic and Western thought: a critical study of the works of Ziauddin Sardar, Mahdi Elmandjra, Alvin Toffler and Daniel Bell
… study of future, and also two Western scholars, Alvin Toffler and Daniel Bell as representatives of Western tradition in studying future. Secondly, this research traces the development of futures thinking in both Western and Islamic context and argues that futures thinking, indeed Futures …
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Evaluation of Largemouth Bass Harvest Regulations For South Dakota Waters
… on largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides in Lake Alvin and Lake Yankton, South Dakota. No largemouth bass longer than 350 mm were collected during pre-regulation electrofishing samples conducted on Lake Alvin. After imposition of the length limit, the quality of the largemouth bass population …
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Characterization of pathogen transport in overland flow
… Three soil types are tested (Catlin silt-loam, Alvin fine sandy-loam, Darwin silty-clay), spanning the entire spectrum of typical Illinois soils, in terms of soil texture. A 20-minute rainfall event is produced using a small-scale (1.07 m x 0.66 m) laboratory rainfall simulator over a soil box …
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On Improving Distributed Transactional Memory through Nesting, Partitioning and Ordering
… appropriately. Our third main contribution is Alvin, a system for managing concurrently running trans- actions on a geographically replicated data-store. Alvin supports general-purpose transactions, and guarantees strong consistency criteria. Through a novel partial order broadcast protocol, …
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Testing Gouldner's coming crisis theory: on the state of contemporary sociological theory
Alvin Gouldner, in his 1970 work The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, put forth the proposition that the discipline of sociology would soon witness the decline and eventual entropy of the then dominant functionalist theoretical perspective. This thesis is tested vis-a-vis the measurement of …
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Dance and Sport
… such as STREB, Pilobolus, Bandaloop, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; and the athleticism in the dance training system of Lester Horton. Similarities in corporeal and intellectual practices of athletes and dancers are also explored as they manifest in cross-training, somatics, dance …
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Between consonance and dissonance
… and through the influences of James Tenney, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, and painters Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter. The first section provides background and places my work within the compositional/artistic canon while the second section discusses the work in more technical detail. At …
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Voiko järkeen luottaa? : C.S. Lewisin käsitys järjen ja naturalismin suhteesta
… lähtien. Muun muassa Victor Reppertin (2003) ja Alvin Plantingan (2011) luomat formuloinnit Lewisin argumentista ovat kestäneet aikaa hyvin, ensimmäisen mahdollisesti jopa paremmin kuin jälkimmäisen. Lewisin argumentista käyty keskustelu osoittaa, että laajempi keskustelu naturalismista ja …
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A Mixed Methods Study of Student Horizontal and Vertical Networking and Associated Impacts on Student Performance
… using a model based on prior research by Alvin Hwang, Eric H. Kessler, and Anne Marie Francesco (2004). This networking schema links students’ personal orientations, classified as individualist or collectivist, with behaviors such as networking among peers (horizontal networking) and …
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An investigation into the characteristics and sources of light emission at deep-sea hydrothermal vents
… and the Juan de Fuca Ridge during 1997 and 1998 Alvin dive cruises. ALISS is a low-light digital camera with custom-designed optics. A set of nine lenses, each covered by an individual bandpass filter (50 and 100 nm nominal bandwidths), allows vents to be imaged in nine wavelength bands …
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Development of the Learning Resources Center, School of Nursing, University of Alabama in Birmingham.
As portions of George Orwell's 1984 (1949) and Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock (1970) approach the realm of reality, it is possible that human learning in the future will likewise have characteristics that most people deem an impossibility today. Tomorrow's learner will demand accessibility to a …
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Aural evolutions: intersections of sound with the physical space
… Practitioners in this territory include Alvin Lucier, Sato Minoru and Carsten Nicolai. The present study extends this territory in order to focus on the representation of mechanisms that affect the evolution of a sound from the moment it is produced and until it reaches our perception. …
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