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The Trans-Mississippi Exposition
International expositions have received relatively little attention from scholars in the past. Nevertheless, expositions are illustrative of man's progress and development. There is hardly a more striking example of this fact than the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition held at Omaha, …
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An Exposition Of Dirichlet’s Theorem
Though Euclid probably knew there were infinitely many primes, Euclid was the first to provide a proof of the fact. Since then, mathematicians have asked much more detailed and difficult questions about the location and size of the prime numbers. Arithmetic progressions are very easily described …
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE RIEMANN ZETA FUNCTION
This thesis is an exposition of the Riemann zeta function. Included are techniques of analytic continuation and relationships to special functions. Some generalizations of the Riemann zeta function are outlined, as well as the calculation of zeta constants and the development of some identities. …
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An Exposition of Agent Movement Models Over Graphs
Multi-agent systems have become popular recently with applications ranging from computer science to bioinformatics. Many of these systems utilize autonomous agents that interact and move about a graph consisting of a set of interconnected nodes. Therefore, agent movement, i.e. selecting the next …
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Philo of Alexandria's Exposition of the Tenth Commandment
<p>As part of a larger exposition on the Ten Commandments, Philo offers in Spec.4.78b-131 a detailed exposition of both the Tenth Commandment, which he reads simply as "You shall not desire," and the Mosaic dietary laws, which he identifies as a distinct set of subsidiary laws designed to promote …
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Einfluss rekurrierender Exposition gegenüber TLR3-Liganden auf Lungenfunktionstrajektorien
… untersucht, inwiefern rekurrierende virale Exposition in der frühen Lebensphase durch epigenetische Umprogrammierung bronchialer Epithelzellen die Prädisposition für allergisches Asthma modulieren. In einem murinen Zweiphasenmodell wurden juvenile Mäuse rekurrierend mit poly(I:C) behandelt. …
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The Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition and Seattle's Health Modernization
… was presented at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. During Seattle’s modernization phase, public health, sanitation, and racial fears associated with disease were of utmost importance. By looking at Seattle and its relationship with the AYPE, it becomes clear that the …
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Conservative Modernism at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris
In opposition to the prevailing tendency of historians to characterize French modernization as backward and interwar French society and culture as stagnant and even reactionary, I illustrate how the organizers' focus on human production and its representation in a conservative modernism was a valid …
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A critical exposition of Nelson Goodman’s concept of metaphorical exemplification
In tackling the concept of expression in Languages of Art Goodman first defines the concept of exemplification and then that of metaphor. The terms being presented, he proceeds to define expression as a metaphorical sub-species of the relation of exemplification. I follow Goodman in first …
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1897 Exposition Congolaise, Tervuren: Colonialism and the Belgian Avant-Garde
In May of 1897, the Exposition Coloniale in Le Palais des Colonies, opened on the site of the Royal Park in Tervuren in conjunction with l'Exposition internationale de Bruxelles held at the same time in the city center. This exhibition satisfied King Leopold II’s longstanding interest in civic …
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Peter L. Berger's Early Conception of Agency: Exposition and Evaluation.
<p>Peter L. Berger's conception of agency in his earliest writings (c.1954-1960) is logically and empirically inadequate. At the root of this inadequacy is an idealism that prevents him from providing a compelling account of actual empirical agency. Chapter 1 asserts that Berger's earlier works …
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Mechanics of informal land and housing markets : a theoretical exposition
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Defining wedding exhibitors and their wedding exposition return on investment practices
This study is exploratory in nature. Data was collected from 201 wedding exhibitors within the United States via mailed self-administered questionnaires. The results of this study are used to create a standard wedding exhibitor profile including basic marketing activities, market positioning, and …
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Lebensqualität im ländlichen Niedersachsen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Exposition gegenüber Intensivtierhaltungsbetrieben
In der hier vorliegenden Teilstudie der Niedersächsischen Lungenstudie wurde die Lebensqualität der niedersächsischen Landbevölkerung in einer landwirtschaftlich intensiv durch Tierzucht genutzten Region untersucht. Ziel der Auswertung war die Untersuchung der Lebensqualität der Probanden, der …
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Design considerations in manufacturing composite conductors: An exposition of Percolation Theory
This dissertation is an exposition of Percolation Theory, directed to the audience of beginning undergraduate mathematics students, though this can include gifted high school students. The vehicle by which the theory is taught is that of problem solving. The reader of the dissertation is invited …
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A critical exposition of historicism and implicit activism in Elundini Lothukela
… practices. We use these aspects to reinforce our exposition of this novel as a work of art that refutes all negative labels that were attached to the Nguni Indigenes.
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O! Canada? : a pavilion for the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai
… of a pavilion for Canada at the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010 this thesis aims to draw these elements together to stand as a critique of the single family home that is their apotheosis. Also addressed are the ramification of large crowds on the display of objects, the potential for …
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New Orleans, the New South, and the Fight for the Panama Exposition
… efforts to gain federal rights to host an exposition in celebration of the Panama Canal, this study argues New Orleans not only became a New South city, but an international trade entrepôt. Though the exposition efforts failed, the efforts of the city to cultivate its business and …
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Blarney in St. Louie: Performing Irishness at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904
… apparent at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. While natives from many countries were displayed in ethnographic villages, the Irish were represented in the Irish Industrial Exposition concession on the Pike. A group of ninety performers came from Ireland to show their …
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