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Showing 1 to 20 of 1661 for “"Controversial"”.
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Some Controversial Problems Regarding Censorship
<p>“Nobody, the compiler learned in preparing this volume, believes in censorship....No one goes as far as to suggest prohibition of the publication of anything,” writes Walter Daniels, the editor of an anthology published in 1954 concerned with The Censorship of Books. In the same volume an editor …
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The Latin Controversial Dialogues of Late Antiquity
… catalogue and discussion of the twenty-one controversial dialogues from late antiquity. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the entire corpus, it also treats the historical context and argumentation for each individual dialogue. ❧Chapter Three illustrates how Jerome used both the …
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The Controversial Career of George Nicholas Sanders
<p>George Nicholas Sanders' involvement in regional, national, and international affairs in the mid-nineteenth century significantly shaped the history and unique character of America, as perceived by both Americans and Europeans. Sanders influenced the course of national political events not by …
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Maximum containment : the most controversial labs in the world
… Laboratories (NEIDL) has remained the more controversial given the urban community it resides in. However, increasingly the mandate of these labs has been expanded from biodefense to all infectious disease, regardless of their potential probability for use as a weapon. These include looking …
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Models for stakeholder relationship management at socially controversial facilities
… performance indicator of project success in controversial projects. Construction projects, power production, medical research, and waste disposal are examples of such large-scale projects. Many of these are critical assets and yet are often at risk of being shut down due to key stakeholder …
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Controversial Issues in United States History Classrooms: Teachers' Perspectives
… level United States History teachers approached controversial issues in their standards-based, high-stakes testing classrooms. Controversial issues consisted of multiple points of view, were socially constructed, and had the potential to challenge belief systems. The audience and their perception …
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Understanding misinformation on Twitter in the context of controversial issues
… challenging when the issue under discussion is a controversial topic. In this thesis, four main controversial topics are studied, each of which comes from a different domain. This variation of domains can give a broad view of how misinformation is manifested in social media, and how it is …
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On the Local Economic and Political Consequences of Controversial Policies
… landscape in Europe has been marked by major, controversial developments, such as the implementation of severe austerity measures throughout the continent, and growing nationalistic tendencies in many countries, perhaps best represented by the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European …
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New perspectives in IQA: from biochemical applications to controversial chemical bonds
Desde su surgimiento unos quince años atrás, el método de descomposición de la energía de átomos cuánticos interaccionantes (IQA) ha demostrado ser un útil descriptor del enlace químico. Sin embargo, la aplicación de dicho método libre de referencias e invariante orbital se ha visto fuertemente …
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Chief Illiniwek: understanding the controversial discourse and the politics of power
Prominent discourses surrounding the Chief Illiniwek mascot controversy on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, between the years of 2000-2007, will be examined using textual analysis. Utilizing Tribal Critical Race Theory as a guiding framework for the analysis, various materials …
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Synthesizing controversial sentences for testing the brain-predictivity of language models
… the predictions of a set of language models ('controversial stimuli'), which would not naturally occur in large language corpora . To do so, we develop a platform for systematizing this sentence synthesis process, providing a way to test different model-based hypotheses easily and efficiently. …
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Controversial advertising in the UK : its regulation and practitioner ethical decision making
This thesis explores the phenomena of controversial advertising, its regulation, and the ethical dimensions of its practice in a UK. context. The £19bn advertising industry is a major contributor to the British economy, helping to stimulate consumer demand, market competition and employment (IPA, …
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Cognitive Versus Affective Factors in the Learning and Retention of Controversial Materials
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Organ donation after death determination by circulatory criteria: Evaluation of two controversial practices
… criteria (DCC). This thesis evaluates two controversial practices specific to DCC: (1) antemortem heparin administration to DCC donors with the aim of improving organ function, and (2) cardiac donation after DCC, which has not yet been adopted in Canada. Objectives (1) Describe antemortem …
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