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The Secular Choral Music of Jean Berger
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The roles of language in selected novels of Thomas Berger.
… fiction of contemporary American novelist Thomas Berger demonstrates the ways language may alter--or define--reality. This study investigates some of the roles language plays in selected novels. In Neighbors (1980), language acts as an antagonist, defeating the protagonist of the book, Earl Keese. …
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Legitimating a theodicy : Peter Berger and the search for meaning in post-Enlightenment society
… significant contemporary sociologist, Peter L. Berger. Berger is concerned with the issue of how meaning is constructed in modern, secular, bureaucratic society. Furthermore, this thesis seeks to outline, and trace the development of, Berger's thought. To achieve this the thesis examines …
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Optimierung von Fehlererkennungsschaltungen auf der Grundlage von komplementären Ergänzungen für 1-aus-3 und Berger Codes
… der Logischen Ergänzung und der Verwendung von Berger-Codes und dem 1-aus-3 Code. Die neue Fehlererkennungsmethode der Logischen Ergänzung gestattet einen hohen Optimierungsgrad der benötigten Realisationsfläche der konstruierten Fehlererkennungsschaltungen. Außerdem ist eins der wichtigen in …
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Assessment of species boundaries of the Moringa Ovalifolia (Dinter & A. Berger) in Namibia using nuclear its DNA sequence data
The genus Moringa comprises of thirteen (13) species of trees and shrubs, widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions. For its size, this genus is one of the phenotypically varied group of angiosperms whose members are mostly sought after for nutritional, nutraceutical and industrial …
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Three Essays on Private and Public Finance in Argentina
… the Distribution-Free Approach, introduced by Berger (1993), and then banks with different characteristics (private vs. public and domestic vs. foreign) are evaluated based on their cost distribution by using quantile regression analysis. In chapter 2, three well-known measures of scale and …
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Using religious discourse to construct reality: President George W Bush and Osama Bin Laden
… as it was originally presented by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann in the 1960s. I conclude that religious discourse allowed Bush and bin Laden to, in the words of Berger and Luckmann, "nihilate" each other rhetorically and to create and maintain their own constructions of reality---their …
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Identifying a low-order beat-to-beat model of arterial baroreflex action
… function from blood pressure to heart rate (Berger et al.,1989, Akselrod et al., 1981,1985). Of the parametric models proposed, most focus on matching empirical transfer functions with continuous-time models (Berger et al., 1991). Use of these models is often restricted to simulation, and …
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Tinkering with technology and religion in the digital age : the effects of Internet use on religious belief, behavior, and belonging.
… on the concept of "tinkering" discussed by Berger, Berger, and Kellner (1974), Turkle (1997), and Wuthnow (2010) to argue that Internet use affects how people think about and affiliate with religious traditions. Using data from Wave III of the Baylor Religion Survey (2010), I find that …
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College Wheelchair Basketball Players' Construction Of Identities: A Symbolic Interactionism Approach
… Athletic Association (NCAA) standards (Berger, 2004, 2008; Larkin, Cottingham & Pate, 2014; Shogan, 1999), and its perception of being a charity sport, where bodies that have disabilities do not play "natural body" sports (Berger, 2008). By using the collegiate environment to further …
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The social costs of paper and electronic payments
… in a 1987 paper by David B. Humphrey and Allen Berger. This paper updates the calculation of the total social cost of paper checks and their electronic substitute, automated clearinghouse payments.
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Rethinking the social: from society to zones of social making
… Giddens and Bauman); social constructionists (Berger, Berger and Kellner) and cultural absorptionists (Baudrillard, Lash and Urry). In each case the consequences of change have been registered to effects and experiences in the ‘ground of social activity’: i.e. reciprocity, mutuality and …
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Towards the Development, Application, and Evaluation of the Student Success - Oriented System Design Methodology
… enhancing student success in higher education (Berger & Lyon, 2005). This research has resulted in a better understanding of why some students decide to leave while others persist on to graduation. Despite a sizable body of knowledge that has identified the various factors associated with …
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Structural Octatonicism in Cindy McTee's Symphony No.1: Ballet for Orchestra
… focusing particularly on the work of Arthur Berger, Pieter C. van den Toorn, Richard Taruskin, and Allen Forte. Next, the octatonic structure of the symphony is shown in the thematic material. Finally, the harmonic support and large-scale structure of the piece are shown to contain octatonic …
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Hermitian Maass Lift for General Level
… this isomorphism with the recent work of Berger and Klosin and a modification of Ikeda's construction we prove the existence of a lift from the space of elliptic modular forms to the space of hermitian modular forms of level $N$ which can be viewed as a generalization of the classical …
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Exploring ideologically diverse friend groups among college students.
Von Berger and Bresslen (2017) define viewpoint or ideological diversity as "an honest consideration of multiple views, often competing for claims that privileges a vigorous or spirited debate of ideologically different ideas which are to be judged on their logical soundness and intellectual merit" …
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Transition to Kindergarten: exploring concepts of worry, transition activities, and parent efficacy
… and social successes (e.g., Ahtola et al., 2011; Berger et al., 2017; Williams et al., 2020). While adults often act on behalf of young children to design and engage in transition supports during this time, with intentions to ease the transition, what remains largely unexamined is how children …
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The organisational capacity for social innovation: an experiential exploration in re-ordering institutional practices
… systems. Based in the social constructivism of Berger & Luckman (1966), and the associated institutional theory, seeing the structures which "enable and constrain agents" (Cajaiba-santana, 2014), the research contributes to the fields of collaborative experiential surfacing (W. Nilsson & …
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Finding Voice along the Appalachian Mountains: An Autoethnographic Journey of a Female Immigrant Student
… make sense of the complex lifelong experiences (Berger, 2004) of an immigrant student, but also to make connections with many other female immigrant students, and to bring new light to the understanding of their struggles, difficulties, and challenges. I use various literary styles and the …
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Géneros imaginarios. Diseño de retratos fotográficos, a través de mediadores tecno-ópticos, para la configuración subjetiva del propio imaginario de género
… constituyó por los aportes realizados por John Berger, Jean-Louis Deotte, Jaques Lacan desde la teoría de medios y Barthes como problematizador de las relaciones en el retrato y la fotografía. Se realizaron entrevistas a especialistas del área, pruebas de materialidad para la selección de los …
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