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Nathan Cohen : the making of a critic
… journalist and broadcaster the late Nathan Cohen was already making a unique contribution to Canadian journalism, not only as a theatrical critic, but as a social critic as well.Cohen, who is today primarily remembered as drama critic of the Toronto Star, in fact made his reputation as a …
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Representation Theory of Orders over Cohen-Macaulay Rings
… an R-order is an R-algebra which is a maximal CohenMacaulay</p> <p>R-module. In this thesis we consider orders, Λ, over Cohen-Macaulay local rings</p> <p>R possessing a canonical module, ωR. In this case a great deal of structure is imposed on Λ.</p> <p>In Chapter 3 we focus on the use of …
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Parent and Child Wellbeing in a Humanitarian Context By Flora Cohen,
There are increasingly more children and families affected by conflict and displacement. Conflict and displacement can cause severe mental health challenges and social fragmentation. Programs that support the mental health and wellbeing of communities and families living in humanitarian contexts …
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The Problem of Easy Knowledge - Critical Perspectives on Cohen and Others
… problem of easy knowledge, outlined by Stewart Cohen (2002). I will examine the solutions given by Cohen (2002, 2005), Markie (2005), Black (2008),Klein (2004) and Becker (2013), and outline the problems that each faces. These problems, I will argue, constitute sufficient grounds to reject each …
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A compact moduli space for Cohen-Macaulay curves in projective space
… finite maps from a projective (locally) Cohen-Macaulay curve to a fixed projective space. The definition of the functor includes a number of technical conditions, but the most important is that the map is almost everywhere an isomorphism onto its image. The motivation for this definition …
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Facing inequality : Rawls, Sen and Cohen on the space of egalitarian justice
… scheme of primary goods by Amartya Sen and G.A. Cohen and their respective egalitarian evaluative spaces--capabilities and midfare. It is suggested that these spaces are helpful extensions of Rawls' scheme, however, they are not decisive against it. Contrary to Sen's and Cohen's critiques, Rawls' …
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Evaluating Clinger-Cohen Act Compliance in Federal Agency Chief Information Officer Positions
… have complied with the intent of the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) of 1996 as they established Chief Information Officer (CIO) positions. The research is important because the CIO position, as envisioned by the CCA, oversees a growing information technology infrastructure that is increasingly …
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Four Generated Rank 2 Arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay Vector Bundles on General Sextic Surfaces
… generated indecomposable rank 2 arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay: ACM for short) bundles on a general sextic surface.</p><p>In Chapter One we introduce preliminaries and prove on a general sextic surface, every four generated indecomposable rank 2 ACM bundle belongs to one of fourteen cases. In …
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Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural nationalism and the growth of English-Canadian drama, 1945 to 1960.
"Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural Nationalism and the Growth of Canadian Drama 1945-1960" is concerned with the texture and substance of English-Canada's cultural life in the decade and a half following World War II. This thesis represents a case study in English-Canadian …
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A Comparative Study of the Triadic Relation Between Time, Identity and Language in the Works of Julio Cortázar, Marcelo Cohen and Nāgārjuna
… philosophy. The Argentine author Marcelo Cohen has also engaged with Buddhist ideas in his works; his Buda (1990), a biography of the historical Buddha, testifies to this interest. Again, however, this aspect has not received full attention in critical scholarship. Given the importance of …
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Memory functioning in children exposed to domestic violence trauma
… functioning. The Children's Memory Scale (CMS) (Cohen, 1997) was administered to 22 children residing at a shelter for battered women in Delran, New Jersey. The children's mothers completed the Child Behavioral Checklist (CBC) (Achenbach, 1991).</p> <p>The data were analyzed comparing the …
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A study of the social support construct with a group of cancer patients
… and processes of studying social support (Cohen, Underwood, & Gottlieb, 2000) and many definitions of the construct (Hupcey, 1998). Along with the increased interest in the social factors that influence psychological and physical health (Cohen & Syme, 1985), the diverse ways of examining …
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The relations between the formal structure of educational governance and classroom practice
… codes, mandated curricula, and the like (Cohen, 1990; Cohen and Spillane, 1992). It seems that there are systematic relations between curriculum policy and classroom practice.
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Patterns of Cocaine Consumption: A Sub-Analysis of the Drugnet Survey
… patterns are compared to those found by Cohen (1989) and Cohen and Sas (1993, 1994, 1995). DRUGNET is an online survey of recreational drug use by nondeviant adults via the WWW. Self-selected subjects completed a survey over the Internet between February and October 1997 (N= 701). This …
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Art Therapy Peer Support Group for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Children of Divorce
… for remarriages. (Blaisure & Geasler, 2002, and Cohen, 2002)</p> <p>As a result, over one million children are impacted annually by divorce - ultimately 40% of all children, (Cohen, 2002; National Institute of Health, 2002; Resnikoff, 2001; Taylor, 2001; Winslow, Wolchik, & Sander, 2004) with the …
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Obstructions to rational and integral points
… P1 \ {0, 1, [infinity]}. We follow work of Dan-Cohen-Wewers and Brown in applying a motivic version of the non-abelian Chabauty's method of Minhyong Kim to find polynomials in p-adic polylogarithms that vanish on this set of integral points. More specifically, we extend the computations already …
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THE EFFECT OF GROUP SIZE ON SYNCHRONY AND THE SYNCHRONY EFFECT
… activity as measured by pain threshold (Cohen, Ejsmond-Frey, Knight, & Dunbar, 2010; Sullivan & Rickers, 2014). Although research on synchronous behaviour and the synchrony effect has noted instances of the synchrony effect in multiple physical activities (Cohen et al., 2010; Davis, …
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Pressure filtration of destabilized colloidal systems in an unstirred batch cell: Experimental investigation
… colloidal suspension was proposed by Cohen (3). It was shown mathematically that the cake permeability was a function of flocculation rate $\omega$. Thus by controlling the flocculation rate it is possible to alter the structure of the cake formed which in turn affected the efficiency …
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