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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “"Baron"”.
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Edward Harriman: Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman?
People and events do not live on merely because they occured or existed. An event ends as soon as the action is done. A person would be forgotten when he dies unless someone were to write of that person and his deeds. The work of the historian is to preserve for posterity the events of the past. In …
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WRITING THE REAL: THE COLLAGES OF HANNELORE BARON
Baron's work has not been extensively studied nor is it known in full. Critical writings and scholarly attention have focused on the work as representative of Holocaust suffering. This thesis intervenes in that assumption by arguing that it is possible to understand Baron's processes of making …
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The nature of Christian mysticism in the thought of Baron von Huegell and George Tyrrell
This thesis seeks to establish the place of Baron von aigel and George Tyrrell in the revival of interest in mysticism at the beginning of the present century. Though leading figures in the modernist movement in the Roman Catholic Church, their collaboration on the subject of mysticism was central …
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Money Does Grow on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Lumber Baron
… pursuing individual wealth. The opposing "robber baron" perspective holds that the capitalist free-market system engendered a great disparity of wealth and resulted in social and environmental costs while accruing benefits to the few.</p> <p>In seeking to understand the Industrial Era historians …
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Money Does Grow on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Lumber Baron
… pursuing individual wealth. The opposing "robber baron" perspective holds that the capitalist free-market system engendered a great disparity of wealth and resulted in social and environmental costs while accruing benefits to the few.</p> <p>In seeking to understand the Industrial Era historians …
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Searching for a Path to Authenticity Through Physical Theatre Practices as the Baron Docteur in Parks' Venus
This thesis explores my attempt to develop a system to help achieve authenticity in performance. My primary research involved reading the works of such authors as Kristen Linklater, Anne Bogart, Michael Chekhov, Keith Johnstone, and several others. This theoretical understanding was supplemented by …
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Investigating Emotional Intelligence in Children: Exploring its Relationship to Cognitive Intelligence
… primarily with adults. With the advent of the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth Version, it has become possible to measure this construct in children. In the current study, sixty children ages nine to twelve were administered the BarOn EQ-i:YV and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for …
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Youth at Risk for Gang Affiliation, and Measures of Social/Emotional Competency in Early Adolescence
… between group and gang affiliation on the BarOn EQ-i: YV (BarOn & Parker, 2000), and the Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992). Significant relationships were found between gang affiliation and the BarOn EQ-i: YV Interpersonal and Adaptability composites, and Total EQ scores, as …
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Emotional Intelligence, Social Competence, and Success in High School Students
… of school groups and were asked to complete the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth Version (BarOn EQi:YV) (BarOn & Parker, 2000), which assessed emotional intelligence, and the Social Skills Rating System - Secondary Student Form (SSRS) (Gresham & Elliott, 1990), which provided an …
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Emotional Intelligence in Adolescents: How it Relates to Giftedness
… emotional intelligence. With the advent of the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory and BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth Version, it became possible for the first time, to measure emotional intelligence in adults and adolescents. However, up to this point, there has been very little if …
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Thinking Fast and Missing the Opportunity: An Investigation into Cognitive Processing Style and Opportunity Recognition
… to use and potentially benefit from heuristics (Baron, 1998, 2004; Busenitz & Barney, 1997). Some heuristics, particularly well-refined and accurate prototypes, may be valuable to entrepreneurs in recognizing opportunities (Baron, 2004). I seek, however, to consider how other types of heuristics …
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Background to the murder of Major Denis Mahon, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon on 2 November, 1847.
… Mahon was bestowed with the title of first Baron Hartland of Strokestown. This peerage was a further reward by the British crown for voting for the Act of Union. However, the prestigious title became extinct in 1845 on the death of Maurice, grandson of the first Baron Hartland. The estate, …
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Resource Allocation on Networks: Nested Event Tree Optimization, Network Interdiction, and Game Theoretic Methods
… comparisons with the commercial software BARON. The developed set of algorithmic implementation strategies and enhancements are shown to outperform BARON over a set of simulated test instances, where the best proposed methodology produces an average optimality gap of 0.35% (compared to …
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Peer Attitudes Toward Giftedness
… Weiner, 1980) to test for the mediating effect (Baron & Kenny, 1986) of the affective variables of admiration (Hareli,& Weiner, 2002) and envy (Hareli, & Weiner, 2000) between perceptions of controllability and the behavioral response of affiliation. Multiple factorial ANOVA’s were used to …
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Peer Attitudes Toward Giftedness
… Weiner, 1980) to test for the mediating effect (Baron & Kenny, 1986) of the affective variables of admiration (Hareli,& Weiner, 2002) and envy (Hareli, & Weiner, 2000) between perceptions of controllability and the behavioral response of affiliation. Multiple factorial ANOVA’s were used to …
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Francesca da Rimini.
… is a rather literal translation of the work of Baron Guglielmo Localla titled Dante's Francesca da Rimini in der Literatur, Bildenden Kunst and Musik printed in 1913, Greiner and Pfeiffer, Kgl. Hofbuchdrucker, Stuttgart, pages 4-88. I have used particularly what Locella had to say concerning …
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What's odd? Cognitive processing of social contexts based on autistic traits within the general population
… can affect perception of social contexts (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001; Bayliss & Tipper, 2006; Ruzich et al., 2015). ASD-like traits were measured by the Autism Quotient (AQ; Baron-Cohen et al., 2001). Participants completed a visual/social oddity task that varied on whether complex or simple …
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