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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Blum"”.
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NON-LINEAR PSEUDORANDOM BIT GENERATION BY COMBINING BLUM BLUM SHUB AND LINEAR FEEDBACK SHIFT REGISTER SEQUENCES
… of a pseudorandom bit generator that combines Blum Blum Shub and linear feedback shift register sequences using a shrinking generator configuration. We sought to answer the questions: (1) What are the strengths and weaknesses of this type of combiner? (2) What constraints must be placed on the …
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Leon Blum: Socialist and French Premier During the Spanish Civil War
<p>This study will investigate Blum's response to the Spanish Civil War. Contemporaries and later scholars have differed in their assessments of this response.</p> <p>First, Blum's most recent biographers, Colton and Lacouture, maintain that his fear of taking risks prevented him from taking a …
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Alternative resources for theatre: 3D printing, woolen felt and gelatin adapted to produce The kiss of blood: developing alternate techniques to implement renewable, biodegradable, and local resources to decrease the carbon footprint
… completed under the direction of Justin A. Blum. Blum was familiar with the work. The costumes and special effects for The Kiss of Blood were my assignments. Designs for The Kiss of Blood were facilitated by my research which focused on manufacturing procedures, including digital …
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Tussen mentors en minnaars: ʼn Voorstel vir ʼn nuwe leesmodel vir die lees van werke deur skrywers soos Peter Blum en lna Rousseau, waar ʼn persoonlike verhouding tussen die skrywers bestaan het
… the relationship between Ina Rousseau and Peter Blum, and the second example the relationship between Sheila Cussons and N.P. Van Wyk Louw. After this, the relationships between international writers are investigated - firstly the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and …
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From Afghanistan 1979 to Afghanistan 2001: How Three Current High School History Textbooks Frame the Origins of the “War on Terror” Historical Analysis and Interviews with William Blum, Noam Chomsky and James Loewen
… are examined. Interviews with authors William Blum, James Loewen, and Noam Chomsky are also reported. Findings indicate factual errors regarding historical events, as well as numerous omissions of historical context. Such errors and omissions may lead the high school reader to form inaccurate …
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Staff Support Worker perceptions of adolescent patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… the therapeutic alliance (Bender, 2005; Black, Blum, Pfohl, & Hale, 2004; Cruz & Soriano, 2014). It is apparent that many mental health professionals hold negative attitudes towards this group and report feeling underequipped to work with the challenges associated with BPD ((Bland, 2003; Cleary …
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Creating Conditions For A Collaborative Relationship Between Principals And Their Supervisors: A Change Initiative
… by Kelley and Peterson (2002), Drago-Severson, Blum-DeStefano & Asghar (2013) and other researchers, have shown that in order for principals and other building leaders to be able to demonstrate the required expectations of “new” principal standards, they must engage in ongoing supervision, …
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A geometric theory of outliers and perturbation
… is easy to solve. This is joint work with Avrim Blum, Daniel Spielman, and Shang-Hua Teng. This result forms part of the smoothed analysis project initiated by Spielman and Teng to better explain mathematically the observed performance of algorithms.
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23 Illinois Administrative Code 50: Redefining The Formal School Site Observation In Principal Evaluation (A Policy Advocacy Document)
… and intrapersonal capacities (Drago-Severson, Blum-DeStefano, & Asghar, 2013). This document outlines the positive and effective impacts in the contexts of educational, economic, social, political and, moral and ethical disciplinary areas; and advocates that the establishment of a PESC becomes …
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Optimal Oblivious RAM with Integrity
… memory checking techniques, as introduced by Blum et al. (Algorithmica, 1994).
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An Examination of the Relationship Between Ethical Work Climate and Moral Awareness
… (1987, 1988), Rest (1979, 1986, 1994), and Blum (1991, 1994), seven hypotheses were formulated and tested to determine the nature of the direct relationship between the organizational level Ethical Work Climate and individual level moral awareness, and that relationship as moderated by four …
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Provable Instantiations of Correlation Intractability and the Fiat-Shamir Heuristic
… Fiat and Shamir (1986) proposed (and Blum extended) a heuristic methodology for removing interaction from a huge class of interactive proofs. This methodology is ubiquitous and essential for practical applications, but for over thirty years, we had no proof of its security, even for a …
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Requests and refusals in English and Chinese
… Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP)' (Blum- Kulka et al. 1989). In addition, it is designed to research the extent to which these two speech acts threaten the participants' face in the two languages, and what part social variables such as relative power, social distance and some …
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Imagination and the affirmation of the ordinary : words and deeds in the films of Frank Capra
… of these films. By drawing on the writings of Blum, Frye, Emerson, and Rousseau, Chapter One reconstructs a quarrel between imagination ('idealism') and pragmatism ('realism') as it appears in the above named films. The progress of this quarrel serves to underscore the vicissitudes Capra's good …
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Variation in the performance of speech acts in Peninsular Spanish: apologies and requests
… of Peninsular Spanish. Based on studies by Blum-Kulka, et al. (1989), nine situations were created, varying from less severe to more severe, to elicit natural responses for apologies and requests. Forty participants from Castile and Andalusia were interviewed, and the data were coded to …
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Optimal temporal planning using the plangraph framework
… innovation was Graphplan, first developed by Blum and Furst in 1995 and soon became one of the best approaches for optimal classical planning systems. Planning systems that use Graphplan’s plangraph framework can find optimal plans for temporal planning problems, in which actions have …
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Opening doors : identifying factors that influence students’ use of pastoral care and school-based health services related to tobacco and other harmful drug use
… initiating smoking (Resnick, Harris, & Blum, 1993). School-based health/pastoral care services staff seem ideally placed to support studentsto build resiliency, and therefore help them to overcome risks and empower them tomake informed health decisions (Hearn, Campbell-Pope, House, & …
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Japanese-English Bilinguals’ Competence Of Speech Acts In Politeness
… depending on the actor’s culture and language (Blum-Kulka, House, & Kasper, 1989; Rinnert & Kobayashi, 1999). Politeness also has diverse benchmarks depending on culture and language, as noted by Ide et al. (1992) who argue that the concept of politeness is different in Japanese and English. …
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Investigating religious identity in family discourse in Saudi Arabia : a study of moral order, narratives, power and solidarity
… negotiated. It also draws on narrative analysis (Blum-Kulka, 1997) as it pertains to identity construction in family interaction (Tannen, Kendall and Gordon, 2007). This study identifies several strategies by which religious identity is individually and collaboratively (co-)constructed and …
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