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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"EVENTUALITY"”.
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The Eventuality of Space : Adaptability and Incrementality in the Suburban Hinterland of Mamelodi
… embraces diversity, multifunctionality, and the eventuality of incremental development. Drawing from theories such as Control of Complexity (Habraken 1987), Space as Ritual (van Rensburg & da Costa 2008), and Safe-to-Fail (Ahern 2011), the research explores the possibilities of designing for …
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Eventuality-based interval semantics and Free Logic: what if there, like, is no future, man?
Future contingent propositions have famously been a source of trouble for philosophers and logicians committed to any variety of indeterminism on which facts about the future are not yet fixed. One possible answer to the problem involves presupposition—namely, that propositions lack truth-value …
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"Y'all Done Up and Done It": The Semantics of a Perfect Construction in an Upstate South Carolina Dialect
… as being connected to the reference time. If the eventuality under the scope of done is a state, then done allows for a continuative reading, in which the eventuality is still on-going at the reference time. Roseanne done lived in Columbus for three years, which describes a …
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The Semantic Basis for Subject/object Asymmetries in English
… the temporal location of the subject in the eventuality and other constituents in the sentence, such as Aunt May resembled Sally, where Aunt May is dead and Sally is alive. The state of resembling cannot be contained wholly in the past and exclude the present. In such a situation, neither …
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Formal verification of distributed deadlock detection algorithms
… logic of actions and discuss the invariant and eventuality properties. The contributions of this research are the development of a distributed deadlock detection algorithm and the formal verification of this algorithm.
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Subatomic Semantics and the Active Participle in Egyptian Arabic
… Analyzing temporal adverbials as modifiers of eventuality arguments, I demonstrate that only present adverbials can be grammatically licensed as modifiers of states, and that only past adverbials can be licensed as modifiers of onsets. Therefore, sentences with AP predicates can license past …
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Money supply and inflation in virtual economies : creating the appropriate tools for virtual economic management in collaboration with NARC Ltd.
… studio that wishes to prepare for this eventuality by creating useful and effective tools for the management of price levels. This formed the basis of our research question: For the purposes of developing a massively multiplayer online video game, what are the appropriate tools for …
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La gestion des plaintes des usagers des services de santé : réflexion sur la transposition du droit québécois au droit Néo-Brunswickois
… has to be taken in consideration in the eventuality of a transfer, because of a possible barrier between the two families of law. In this context, we are focusing on a qualitative data analysis through documentary observation in administrative law. A retrospect examination of the past ten …
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The U.S. Army's Early Search For Relevancy in the Nuclear Age
… is the only way to prepare for such an eventuality.</p>
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An Economic Analysis of Cyber Warfare Governance Models
… U.S. officials have all but assured the eventuality of a devastating attack. In anticipation, political, legal, and industry experts are now seeking to codify and inculcate international norms to govern acts of war prosecuted via cyberspace. Two of the most prominent governance models to …
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Mercenaries in History and the Modern Era: Impact of the Privatized Military Industry on U.S. Security Interests
… military firms will be used to fight wars, an eventuality that would encourage marginalization of the national military. Therefore, privatized military firm employment could be a sign that the United States is entering a decline.
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Social studies reform in Illinois: Teachers' perceptions of the Illinois educational reform package of 1985
… Structuring curriculum to teach to the test, an eventuality predicted by most of the sample, is viewed as counter-productive by teachers. (6) Teachers view the state reform program as having failed to address the real needs of Illinois schools and social studies. (7) Teachers feel they are being …
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Quantifying Flexibility in Naval Ship Design
… warship can be altered to respond to almost any eventuality. The difficulty lies in constructing warships with future uncertainty in mind and in such a manner that they can be upgraded quickly and cheaply. Put more simply, the difficulty lies in designing warships to be flexible. Taken a step …
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Open crisis, hidden opportunity : Europeanization, the Euro Crisis, and the case of social policy
… a binary option between a negative or positive eventuality. Rather, this thesis purports that a crisis creates a range of possibilities. To demonstrate this, theories of Europeanization are combined with a novel ‘crisis spectrum’ concept comprising of three crisis logics; ‘crisis progression’, …
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Application of statistical techniques in assisting maintenance activities at the Neal South Fossil Power Plant
… equipment and the best course of action for that eventuality. However the R.C.M. could not track the failure mode and therefore was only a reactive procedure. To tackle this problem we listed measurable characteristics corresponding to the modes of failure and tracked them using a S.P.C. chart. …
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A systems approach to uncovering the adaptive response of cancer to targeted therapies
… proliferation; however, an unfortunate eventuality for most patients receiving these treatments is the development of resistance that renders these drugs almost completely ineffective. While a number of mechanisms can evolve within a tumor to mitigate effects of kinase inhibitors, we …
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A Bioethical Paradigm for Enhanced, Post or Transhumans in Medicine and Biological Research
… trying to ascertain and prepare for any negative eventuality, and proaction where we move directly ahead after we have done all we can to prepare but opt to adjust along the way as the need arises. The ethical argument I make for the protocol that I think must be adopted does not just come from an …
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Evaluating discipline in sport: fairness, consistency and human rights
… of the HRA is addressed in the event of this eventuality. This work analyses how the HRA affects sports persons if no public authority is party to the proceedings. It concludes that horizontal effect of some form will be deployed and highlights that this could be the way that sports persons …
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The Australian Defence Force and the executive power : limiting the indefinable?
… to have a case authority for every possible eventuality and, given the lack of litigation on some of these questions, there is little authority at all. Instead, the exercise of such powers is limited primarily by necessity. The circumstances of the case dictate the limits of the power, which …
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The Australian Defence Force and the executive power : limiting the indefinable?
… to have a case authority for every possible eventuality and, given the lack of litigation on some of these questions, there is little authority at all. Instead, the exercise of such powers is limited primarily by necessity. The circumstances of the case dictate the limits of the power, which …
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