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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Brilliance"”.
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Reshaping Black Brilliance: Towards the Development of a Pan-Afrikan Pedagogy
… through deficit paradigms. Reshaping Black Brilliance is informed by the axiom that the academic experience of Afrikan students should be grounded in the richness and complexities of Afrikan culture, as opposed to the deficit paradigms. This project proposes to reimagine the possibilities of …
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Who’s brilliant – men or women? Measuring implicit stereotypes about gender across development
… to require high levels of intellectual ability (“brilliance”). These fields may be unwelcoming to women because of a pervasive “brilliance = men” stereotype. This hypothesis is termed the Field- specific Ability Beliefs (or FAB) Hypothesis (e.g., Leslie, Cimpian et al., 2017; Storage et al., …
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The roots of gender gaps: investigating the development of gender stereotypes about intelligence
… The earlier children acquire the notion that brilliance is a male quality, the stronger its influence may be on their aspirations. Our present research shows that, by the age of 6, girls are less likely than boys to believe that members of their gender are “really, really smart” – a …
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"The frequency of ""brilliant"" and ""genius"" in teaching evaluations predicts the representation of women and African Americans across academia"
… abilities, academic fields that prize brilliance and genius might be unwelcoming to members of these stigmatized groups. A recent nationwide survey of academics provided initial support for this possibility, insofar as the fields whose practitioners believed that natural talent is …
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To Love of Useful Clory: Prince Henry the Navigator and the School at Sagres.
… between the glories of its past and the brilliance of its future.
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Do Early Promotion and Tenure Processes and Outcomes Differ for Women Faculty Members?
… traits, expressions of doubt, descriptions of brilliance, and references to early promotion, and if gender moderates those relationships. Finally, we investigated the association of ERL linguistic features with P&T voting outcomes. We found that women are less likely to apply for early tenure …
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Do Early Promotion and Tenure Processes and Outcomes Differ for Women Faculty Members?
… traits, expressions of doubt, descriptions of brilliance, and references to early promotion, and if gender moderates those relationships. Finally, we investigated the association of ERL linguistic features with P&T voting outcomes. We found that women are less likely to apply for early tenure …
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Inverse Compton Light Source: A Compact Design Proposal
… X-ray sources were either high flux and brilliance at a large facility or many orders of magnitude lesser when produced by a bremsstrahlung source. A recent compact source was constructed by Lyncean Technologies using a storage ring to produce the electron beam used to scatter the …
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The Circumlocution Office of Dickens' "Little Dorrit"
<p>Although writers have commented on the brilliance of the satire on the Circumlocution Office in Dickens' novel Little Dorrit. no one to my knowledge has made a detailed analysis of the particular techniques which Dickens employs. The need for such a study may be indicated by reviewing the course …
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Perils of the Heroine: The Historic Role of Woman in Comics
… female sexualization of the 90s, examples of brilliance and drudgery will be investigated in order to gain a better understanding of how comics became what they are today.</p>
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Compact tomographic X-ray phase-contrast imaging of breast cancer
… modalities. However, the reliance on high-brilliance synchrotron sources significantly limits the use of XPCI in medical applications. In this thesis, we address this challenge by developing a compact XPCI system compatible with low-brilliance laboratory sources that retrieves phase from …
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A study on performing the Hungarian Rhapsodies in the Liszt tradition
… also long garnered a reputation for “superficial brilliance and effect” which seems to have influenced the way that famous pianists play the works in public. But would a performer immersed in the Liszt tradition have approached them differently? This dissertation aims to promote a re-evaluation of …
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Learning Through Lowriding: Knowledge in the Garage
… are intergenerational and draw from a collective brilliance of community-sourced innovations. Pláticas provided original lowriders, particularly those from the 1970s and 80s, the agency to share how their lowriding practices, from hydraulics to pinstriping, function as a visual curriculum of …
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When startups start down : how leadership, vision, strategy and design can enable a startup to breakdown the barriers killing the company
… startup that had grown quickly because of the brilliance of the ideas behind their technology and the founder, and offers suggested remedies.
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Detection of Vancomycin resistant Enterococci from clinical specimens at University Teaching Hospitals
… of VRE isolates was carried out using Brilliance VRE chromogenic media. Identification to species level, antibiotic susceptibility testing and minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) was determined with the Vitek 2 compact. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to confirm presence of …
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Detection of Vancomycin resistant Enterococci from clinical specimens at University Teaching Hospitals
… of VRE isolates was carried out using Brilliance VRE chromogenic media. Identification to species level, antibiotic susceptibility testing and minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) was determined with the Vitek 2 compact. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to confirm presence of …
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Generation of ultra-bright MeV gamma-ray beams from intense laser-matter interactions
… demonstrated experimentally which implies a peak brilliance of ∼ 1020 photons s−1mm−2 mrad−2 0.1% BW will be presented before a discussion of the likely future work that has been planned is given.
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The Mirrored Walls Of Reality:a Journal Of Shattered Reflection
… hope, fear, self-doubt, passion, joy, despair, brilliance, destitution, and desire. It becomes the image of all that man hopes to be, yearns to achieve, and knows he has destroyed. Theatrical performance is without equal in its ability to conjure visible truth from the reflection man sees …
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