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Showing 1 to 20 of 1638 for “"Divide"”.
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The Great Divide: Citizenship And Statelessness
This thesis investigates the implications of State control of citizenship upon the individual's ability to choose membership in a given State polity. It briefly examines how States gained absolute control over the granting, denying and revoking of citizenship and demonstrates how the acquisition of …
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Systems Thinking Applied to Digital Divide
… that could enable them with it. "Digital Divide" is a term that is commonly thrown around for multiple reasons. There is a lack of standardization and vocabulary that limits collaboration and creates barriers to entry for new entrants, let alone awareness among others who have not even …
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Mobile retrospective : shrinking the digital divide
The concept of the digital divide is a condition in the urban context where informationalization via computer technology exacerbates a duality that consists of those who have access to information technologies, and those who do not. The resultant outcome is a marginalized community left behind - a …
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Divide and recombine: Autoregressive models and STL+
… of the CIDR series is performed under the Divide and Recombine for large data framework. And we conduct a theoretical Divide and Recombine time series estimation study. ^ We also study the performance of Divide and Recombine estimates for Gaussian auto-regressive time series, Gaussian long …
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Autotuning divide-and-conquer matrix-vector multiplication
Divide and conquer is an important concept in computer science. It is used ubiquitously to simplify and speed up programs. However, it needs to be optimized, with respect to parameter settings for example, in order to achieve the best performance. The problem boils down to searching for the best …
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Biochemical, structural and functional analysis of the cell division site determinant MinD(Ng): To divide or not to divide
The Min system, constituting MinC, MinD, and MinE proteins plays an essential role in regulating cell division in Gram-negative bacteria. MinD, a peripheral membrane ATPase, functions by recruiting the cell division inhibitor, MinC, to the membrane where it prevents septation. Counteracting this …
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The Digital Divide: A Study of the Intra-Ethnic Divide within the African American Population in Johnson City, Tennessee.
… from the study revealed that a digital divide existed within the African American community, with income being a strong determinant of access to computers. The highest level of access for the sample was in the salary range of $50,000-74,999. Computer access at home was 95.2% and 97.3% at …
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Across the great divide : chimeras and species boundaries
We have always been fascinated by borderline creatures. Chimeras, hybrids of multiple animals-and sometimes humans-appear repeatedly in mythology across cultures from ancient times to the present. Since the early 1980s, scientists have been creating cross-species chimeras, first combining mouse …
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Family Business Daughters: The Ties that Bind and Divide
… assumptions concerning the public-private divide and the assumed separation of family and work. I argue family business daughters have inherited a phenomenal work ethic that makes them successful business women yet they have also inherited the legacy of the founder's sexist attitudes toward …
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Democracy after deliberation: Bridging the constitutional economicsdeliberative democracy divide
… deliberative democracy---which amount to a 'deep divide'---an opportunity to produce a genuine synthesis of the two approaches arises inasmuch as it is possible to overcome several points of opposition in their separate research programmes. The central thesis of the dissertation is that it is …
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Communication Unplugged: A Qualitative Analysis of the Digital Divide
… in this dissertation indicate that the Digital Divide is still an issue in the 21st century. Through participant observation, narratives and interviews over a four-year period, the results signify a discursive disconnect between policymakers and community leaders, and the underrepresented …
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Bridging the divide between primary health care and community
South African cities have a complex social and physical post-Apartheid layering. The historical legacy, referring here specifically to the inadequate roll-out of public facilities in areas and uprooting as well as separating of communities, have resulted in under serviced environments that can lack …
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Handling the cultural divide: Discussing unfamiliar territory in the classroom
This research explores the vast possibilities and benefits offered to students by teachers utilizing culturally relevant teaching practices, materials, and language in the classroom. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the positive affect culturally aware teaching practices and pedagogy …
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Reconsidering The Theoretical/Practical Divide: The Philosophy Of Nishida Kitarō
… approach to the theoretical/practical divide in philosophy, by going from ancient, to contemporary, and finally back to the thought of Nishida. The theme of this work will be to encourage a comparative dialectic.
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
<p>If one were to look for a Platonic definition of a sophist, it would seem that there could be no better place than Plato’s <em>Sophist</em>, in which the Stranger and Theaetetus lay out a series of definitions in an attempt to articulate what makes a sophist. The Stranger’s definition of a …
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