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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Conant"”.
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Meritocracy: A Socio-Educational Policy Conundrum Transversing Selected Works of James Bryant Conant
… aristocracy of talents as proposed by James Conant through the development of Scholastic Aptitude Tests, or by expanding the structure of opportunity to all individuals and leveling uneven terrains through social policies like desegregation of schools and affirmative action. In other words, …
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Partial Pressure of Hydrogen Chloride Above its Solutions in Non-aqueous Solvents. II Nitrobenzene Solutions
… by such investigator s as Latimer, Rode bush, Conant, Hall, and others. Rodebush and Ewart indicate that the dielectric constant of a solvent must also be considered, although to a lesser degree than basicity, in predicting the behavior of an acid in a solvent. In a solvent which possesses …
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Comparative Phylogenetic Analysis in Populations of the Western Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon Piscivorus Leucostoma) Distributed in Three North American Drainage Basins
… in both Texas and Florida (Van Devender and Conant 2000). It is thought that post glacial dispersal patterns using stream corridors have resulted in the present biogeographic assemblage of populations in different drainage basins. Here I use the molecular marker mitochondrial cytochrome b in …
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Führung von Produktionsnetzwerken
… of this thesis follows the principle of the Conant-Ashby theoreme as well as the cybernetical view of Stafford Beer’s viable system model. In the first two chapters the basic background definitions and state of the art definitions of network and collaboration management are presentet. In …
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The Collective Communication of Social Choice Messages
… von Neumann and Morgenstern, Shannon, Ashby and Conant, philosophical foundations are established and nineteen theorems are derived to predict the transmission of information in a basic game and in a metagame whose outcomes describe constraints to be imposed upon strategic behavior in the basic …
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Writing for numbers: The Cultural Production of Good Writers in the Time of High Stakes Writing Assessments
… its schools from the Great Depression when James Conant first identified the SAT as a vehicle to a classless society to the current era when neo-liberal policies assert that standardized testing will ensure that all students receive the education necessary to succeed in life. I argue that …
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The negative relationship between immunization rates and outbreaks: an argument for improving awareness and provider recommendations, advocating for, and developing intervention strategies to increase immunization rates across California.
<p>Prevention is the key to public health and immunizations is one of the most effective and efficient means of protection against infectious diseases. The California Immunization Coalition (CIC) is a public-private partnership whose mission is dedicated to achieving and maintaining full …
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Planning for Anti-Displacement Development: An Affordable Housing Study in Central Falls
… and Providence. Simultaneously, the city’s Conant Thread Mill District and Roosevelt Historic Mill District have dozens of old textile and manufacturing mills which are seeing rising speculative interest from both private investors and public entities. These two forces – improved public …
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The Impact of an Instructional Intervention Designed to Support Development of Stochastic Understanding of Probability Distribution
Stochastic understanding of probability distribution undergirds development of conceptual connections between probability and statistics and supports development of a principled understanding of statistical inference. This study investigated the impact of an instructional course intervention …
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George Herbert and Aristocratic Identity
"Chapter 1 examines Herbert's family's role in inculcating and maintaining Herbert's aristocratic status. This chapter also treats the influence of Westminster School and Cambridge University in fortifying class-consciousness. Chapter 2 explores ""The Church-Porch"" as Herbert's early attempt to …
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Information Transfer in Complex Systems, With Applications to Regulation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:24:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6812097.pdf: 6504789 bytes, checksum: d1634a1eb61f15901767ee8e92502b56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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A Study of George Gascoigne's Poetry
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500842.pdf: 8426679 bytes, checksum: df8e55598e8989c0bc4fbbfb28fa1f5f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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A procedure for the redevelopment of industrial areas
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1951.
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Review of the smelting works of the Revere Copper Company
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy, 1868.
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Furniture explorations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1973. M.Arch.
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A study of variation in the shell of the marine gastropod, purpura lapillus
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 1900.
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Memory Change and Cognitive Function among the Elderly
The Problem: The deleterious effects of aging on various cognitive abilities are widely recognized, yet little is known regarding what constitutes "normal" memory test performance in individuals over the age of 74. In this study, forgetting rates for verbal and nonverbal material from the Wechsler …
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Resolute readings of later Wittgenstein and the challenge of avoiding hierarchies in philosophy
… of Wittgenstein. I discuss the readings of James Conant, Oskari Kuusela, and Martin Gustafsson. I follow Oskari Kuusela’s claim that in order to fully appreciate how later Wittgenstein meant to achieve his goal, we need to clearly see how he aimed to do away with hierarchies in philosophy: Not …
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A mathematical model of geophysical exploration for elongated ore deposits
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1958.
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Modeling variability for biologics strategic planning
Making strategic decisions about resource capabilities in the uncertain business of drug development is a challenging task. Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, is expanding from its success in small molecule therapeutics into the attractive area of biologic therapeutics, both monoclonal …
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