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Limited Conventions about Morals
In this thesis I describe how conventions specify how to put normative principles into practice. I identify a class of recurring situations where there are some given normative principles in effect, but they underdetermine what each individual should do, and what is best for an individual depends …
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Architectural conventions and contextual cognition
What is offered herein are some tools of architectural criticism. The focus of these criticisms is concerned with the environmentally-public edge between individual buildings and their site-specific contexts. Within such a domain, the particular interest of this investigation pertains to the formal …
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Constitutional conventions in South Africa : a reappraisal
… the important role played by constitutional conventions in this country, drawing extensively upon local, British and other Commonwealth materials for this purpose. Reference to British and other Commonwealth experience of conventions is justified, because South Africa enjoys a constitutional …
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L'homologation judiciaire des conventions. Essai d'une théorie générale.
… lequel s’inscrit l’homologation judiciaire des conventions. Cette partie est axée sur les deux aspects que comporte ce contexte; le premier titre est consacré au rôle du juge face au litige et le second au rôle du juge face au contrat. La seconde partie de l’étude contient les développements …
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Social Capital and Conventions: A Social Networks Perspective
… which may be characterized by coexistence of conventions. In the long run, when mistake probabilities are small but nonvanishing, coexistence of conventions is no longer sustainable as the risk-dominant convention becomes the unique stochastically stable state. We create and investigate a …
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A Language-Independent Static Checking System for Coding Conventions
… against the Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) Coding Conventions and a checker for HTML pages against a site-specifc standard. A third system is targeted at a variant of the Python language, written by the author, called python-csp, based on Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes.
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Culture and conventions: writing and reading Dutch scientific English
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_381102564.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
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Negotiated interaction in the learning of written discourse conventions
… negotiate the variations in written discourse conventions they encounter in an all-English program at a university in Japan. Textbooks, samples of the students' essays, and written feedback from instructors were analyzed, and interviews were conducted with the students in order to demonstrate …
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National Black Political Conventions in Black Politics, 1830-1976
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7714958.pdf: 9779240 bytes, checksum: b5aac18f8049a9780b60d91ee931d471 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Swimming In The Shallows: Drowning The Standard Conventions of Directing
… staging issues that stem from the problematic conventions required by Bock’s specific instructions regarding any mounting of the play. In particular, Bock suggests an abandonment of some traditional conventions in the fundamentals of directing, particularly the creation of three- dimensional …
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Prospects for permanence and change : conventions of dimension in architecture
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983.
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African and European narrative conventions in the novels of C.T. Msimang
Like many other nations, around the globe, Zulus are well known for their story telling techniques that is evident in their folktales, praises, riddles, songs and many other art forms of yesteryears. Emanating from such artistry of narrating, the Zulus have also joined forces with the other artists …
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Gay Comics and Queer Male Comics in America: History, Conventions and Challenges
… gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and reinforce a dominant gay male habitus that is both sexual and social. Drawing on interviews as well as close readings of a number of case studies, I discuss the ways in which …
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Constitution Making in Illinois: A Comparison of Two Conventions, 1920 and 1970
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317518.pdf: 10100867 bytes, checksum: 2009b5e3aed2bd8c321606c9b2b2bd01 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Scholarly figures and the conventions of mockery on the early modern English stage
In this paper, I argue for the existence of a pervasive atmosphere of hostility toward knowledge workers in early modern England. My evidence consists of plays by Brome, Chapman, Heywood, Middleton, Shakespeare, and Sharpham; Ciceronian texts in the English grammar school curriculum, especially the …
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