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Showing 1 to 20 of 18481 for “"Class"”.
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Working class single mothers : performing middle class identity
… motherhood has been devoted to poor or middle class single mothers. In this study I interviewed working class single mothers. Their unique position between the poor and the middle class leads to interesting observations about how women at the boundaries do and perform class. These women, while …
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Drug discovery at class A and class B GPCRs
… the drug discovery at adenosine receptors, class A GPCRs, and gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR), a class B GPCR. Given the possible therapeutic effects of modulating GIPR signalling pathway in diabetes and obesity, the primary objective of this thesis was to discover and improve …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… what is collectively understood by working-class identities, their boundaries and markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting class realignment of the working-class, understood as the reshuffling of …
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Investigating Ensembles of Single-class Classifiers for Multi-class Classification
Traditional methods of multi-class classification in machine learning involve the use of a monolithic feature extractor and classifier head trained on data from all of the classes at once. These architectures (especially the classifier head) are dependent on the number and types of classes, and are …
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The Hollow Class: African-American Class-Passing and the Popular
… and I study the African-American focus on class as explored by E. Franklin Frazier. In focusing on the popular, I highlight the everydayness of class and race anxieties. I build on Gwendolyn Foster’s work on class passing but stress racial intersections with identity performance. I rely on …
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Total synthesis of Class II and Class III Galbulimima Alkaloids
I. Total Synthesis of All Class III Galbulimima Alkaloids We describe the total synthesis of (+)- and (-)-galbulimima alkaloid 13, (-)-himgaline anad (-)-himbadine. The absolute stereochemistry of natural (-)-galbulimima alkaloid 13 is revised to 2S. Sequential use of catalytic cross-coupling and …
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Studies of the Class A and Class C scavenger receptors
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 1997.
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A class-D-tracking-rail class-A audio power amplifier
… and high power efficiency. The design uses a class-A amplifier, known for its low signal distortion but low power efficiency (less than 50%), to amplify the audio signal. Class-D amplifiers, known for their high power efficiency (greater than 85%) but high signal distortion, provide a signal …
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Poor and Working-Class Clients' Social Class-Related Experiences in Therapy
This investigation explored how poor and working-class people experience, understand, and negotiate class issues and class differences with their therapists. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 22 self-identified poor and working-class people with experience as clients in …
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Class Roots: The Genesis of the Ontario Class Proceedings Act, 1966 - 1993
Nearly 25 years since its passage, the Ontario Class Proceedings Act has become one of the most frequently debated procedural mechanisms of its kind. The CPA came about following the release of the Attorney Generals Advisory Committee (AGAC) Report in 1990. None of the current narratives explain …
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Social class: the role of class identity management strategies in higher education
… of an educational achievement gap between lower-class students and their higher-class peers has led to a growing interest in the psychological dimension of social class in higher education. Complementing objective and subjective measures of social class, this thesis explores the role of class …
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Effects of the working class label: increased affect and social class identification
… model of the self, we show that relatively lower-class individuals who value their social class identity (as activated by the “working class” label) experience elevated group identification and well-being. First, we found that social class identification significantly predicted self-esteem while …
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The Effects of Teacher Stratification on in Class-to Class Verbal Behavior
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:45:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7207057.pdf: 5060404 bytes, checksum: 62eb3f547f7cd6dffe7d1f9ed6c48265 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Bayesian Latent Class Models
The latent class model (LCM) is a statistical method that introduces a set of latent categorical variables. The main advantage of LCM is that conditional on latent variables, the manifest variables are mutually independent of each other. In some scenarios, the LCM makes the modeling or computation …
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Social class and education: the relationship between social class and engagement with education.
… study explores the relationship between social class and engagement with education. A qualitative approach was used in the investigation. Four participants narrated their stories of their journey through the education system. Three participants were at Bachelor of Arts level in a community …
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Institutionalizing class conflict : Gouverneur Morris on mediating class warfare through separation of powers.
… theory, which brought together aspects of the class-based mixed regime with strict separation of powers, but is not reducible to either of those doctrines. Morris thought that class warfare was an inevitable feature of politics, but that separation of powers provided the proper institutional …
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Domain latent class models, equivalent set latent class models, and kernel factor analysis
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-11-26 at 08:35.
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Student attitudes about class absences, class attendance, and requiring attendance at Virginia Tech
… in February, 1992, to determine attitudes about class attendance, class absences, and required attendance. Three hundred undergraduates were selected in a random sample; seventy-nine attended one of the six group interview sessions. The reasons students gave for skipping classes included being …
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The portrayal of the working-class and working-class culture in Barry Hines’s novels
… representation of contemporary British workingclass and working-class culture. The corpus includes the writer’s nine novels: The Blinder published in 1966, A Kestrel for a Knave in 1968, First Signs in 1972, The Gamekeeper in 1975, The Price of Coal in 1979, Looks and Smiles in 1981, Unfinished …
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