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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Encyclopedia"”.
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Soul, World, God: Hegel’s Vorbegriff to the ‘Science of Logic’ in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
… on the Vorbegriff to the 1830 edition of Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. The Vorbegriff is a frequently overlooked text and is often mistaken for an introduction, but it has a significant role to play in undergirding and justifying the remainder of the Encyclopedia-system. The …
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The Dialectic of Naturgeist in Hegel’s Anthropology: Soul, World, and Bodiliness
… of the “Anthropology” section in Hegel’s <em>Encyclopedia</em> of 1830 is the relationship between soul and body: how the soul gains an immediate, bodily existence through embodiment, why and how this immediate mode of the soul’s bodily existence is precarious, and how the soul becomes second …
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Pragmatic referring functions as Montague semantic operators
… traditional difference between dictionary and encyclopedia. One consults a dictionary to find out what the word lemon means (on the assumption that one knows what lemons are), while one goes to the encyclopedia to find out about lemons (on the assumption that you know how English speakers name …
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Textual curators and writing machines: authorial agency in encyclopedias, print to digital.
… the first massively collaborative, Web-based encyclopedia that belongs to the public domain. While it’s true that wiki technology enables large-scale, distributed collaborations in revolutionary ways, the concept of a collaborative encyclopedia is not new, and neither is the idea that private …
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An investigation of the educational environment in the homes of third, fourth, and fifth grade students and its relationship to pertinent variables
… home with their children, and the dictionary and encyclopedia are used more in the home. Analyses also indicated that the family is more involved with household chores, and the dictionary and encyclopedia are used more in the home when children watch ten hours of less of television per school …
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An Evaluation of the Information Retrieval Skills of Students With and Without Learning Handicaps Using Printed and Electronic Encyclopedias
… use of printed and electronic forms of an encyclopedia, (b) examining the effects of menu or command driven interfaces and task difficulty on students' success of retrieval of specific factual information using encyclopedias, and (c) assessing students' attitudes toward information …
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Encyclopædia Mundi: A digital experience
… presents itself as a genuine 90s digital encyclopedia, but the absurdity of the generated text, which is syntactically correct but semantically dubious, subverts the audience's expectation and reveals its true nature as an artwork. In this context, the audience is prompted to reflect on …
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James Boswell: Writer and Advocate
… been fostered by Lord Macaulay's essay in the Encyclopedia Britannica which painted Boswell in just such a light. The truth is that Boswell, although delighting in the company of the great, also envisioned fame for himself.
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The political economy of wilkiality: a South African inquiry into knowledge and power on wikipedia
… established during the Enlightenment. The online encyclopedia relies on well-established institutions and discourses of knowledge as sources of its content, and these, coupled with its particular preferences for some sources and topics over others, give it a particular slant in favour of the …
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Bullipedia: un caso de construcción social de conocimiento gastronómico
… for gastronomic knowledge held within an online encyclopedia on cuisine. However, this is an idea yet to be developed. Thus, the question to answer at this point is: What should the Bullipedia be like? In this thesis, I have identified several requirements that Bullipedia should meet –mainly, …
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The Trouble with Knowing: Wikipedian consensus and the political design of encyclopedic media
Encyclopedias are interfaces between knowing and the unknown. They are devices that negotiate the middle ground between incompatible knowledge systems while also performing as dream machines that explore the political outlines of an enlightened society. Building upon the insights from critical …
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Sociapedia : online collaboration over a social network
… web users to construct the comprehensive encyclopedia Wikipedia, and is built on top of the largest social network currently in existence. Several lessons from the evolution of Sociapedia are discussed. In order to learn how people would use a collaborative social network like Sociapedia, …
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An ensemble based approach for drug sensitivity prediction
… applied our approach to the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia database and it produced high accuracy drug sensitivity prediction with the ability to extract the top targets of an anti-cancer drug. The results illustrate the effectiveness of our approach in predicting drug sensitivity from …
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Tyndale, a Zwinglian theologian? A comparison between Tyndaleʼs and Zwingliʼs doctrines of the Lordʼs Supper
… congruent, an idea prominently figuring in the Encyclopedia Britannica (1964) claiming that Tyndale adopted Zwingli’s advanced Eucharist position. But a second look reveals various divergences, and a third look, finally, corroborates the latter and even reveals considerable dissimilarities, …
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Wikipdf - A Tool To Help Scientists Understand The Literature Of The Biological, Health, And Life Sciences
… WikiPDF relies on the Wikipedia®, an on-line encyclopedia created and supported by a host of volunteers, as a source of definitions used in its glossaries. WikiPDF uses the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medline/PubMed database of journal papers to organize, index, and locate WikiPDF …
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Haemobartonella Felis (Mycoplasma Haemofelis) Molecular Diagnostics and Genomic Studies
… analysis, these BACs were ordered into a genomic encyclopedia with a restriction map. The BACs were then sub-cloned into a plasmid to generate high throughput genomic sequencing surveys (GSS) data. These GSSs were compared to the four completed sequenced mycoplasma and deposited in GenBank. This …
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Towards abstractive captioning of infographics
… inputs include documents such as news stories, encyclopedia entries, books, and many others. However, little research has focused on understanding text-based information without this structure. Current text understanding models fail when information is presented in less structured ways, without …
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"The Hazards of Being Free": Thinking About Not Thinking in Infinite Jest
… like other large novels before it, as a kind of encyclopedia of contemporary culture. The novel, in large part, treats self-consciousness—a distinctly human phenomenon, one which certainly accounts for our dominance as a species—as a problem (on both an individual and collective level) that needs …
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Pengaruh tipe-tipe stresor terhadap proaktif koping mahasiswa baru Fakultas Psikologi angkatan 2013 UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
… diri, sehingga disebut sebagai stresor (Encyclopedia of Social Problem, 2008:2). Stresor bisa berkaitan pula dengan tugas perkembangan mahasiswa sebagai seorang remaja. Stresor yang beragam mengharuskan mahasiswa untuk mampu mengatasinya secara proaktif atau melakukan koping proaktif. …
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The Third International
… of the Third International, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, are to "quicken steps toward world revolution," by creating revolutionary proletariat parties which shall be the advance guard of the revolution, to bind the organization together by a common programme and principles and to …
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