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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Fillmore"”.
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Millard Fillmore, Anti-Mason to Know-Nothing: a moderate in New York politics, 1826-1856
<p>The discovery of the Millard Fillmore Papers at New Haven, New York, in 1966, gave those interested in the study of the country’s thirteenth President a virtual gold mine of new information. These papers, containing the correspondence of Fillmore for his entire adult life, had been thought to …
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The Impact of Housing Insecurity on Community Health Outcomes: Exploring Collective Community Solutions and Housing Models in The Western Addition
… are in panic. Historically, the Western Addition/Fillmore is ground zero for Urban Renewal. This community is still bouncing back from the negative effects of the out migration of Black residents, Japanese internment, and rapid gentrification. For twenty years, this part of the city was known as …
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Urban Stratigraphy: The Backstory on Thirty-One Buffalo Blocks
… miles east of downtown Buffalo, NY, the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood was the historic epicenter of the city’s Polish community starting in the 1880s. Using case studies, the following work investigates the natural and architectural history of one corner of the neighborhood, recognized in the …
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Narrativas orais amazônica: análise dos frames boto e cobra grande sob o enfoque cognitivo-cultural
… (LC), especificamente da Semântica de frames (FILLMORE, 1977; 1982; 1985), além de contribuições da teoria da mesclagem conceptual (FAUCONIER e TURNER, 1974). Quanto às contribuições da Linguística Textual (LT), nos debruçamos sobre as pesquisas que envolvem, sobretudo, o fenômeno da …
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Teachers' perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism: the effect on language arts pedagogy
… these students receive (Bielenberg & Wong Fillmore, 2005; Evans & Hornberger, 2005; Garcia & Bauer, 2009; Jimenez & Teague, 2009; McCarthey, 2008; Valenzuela, 2005), none of these studies have examined teachers’ perceptions of bilinguals and bidialectals and the effects of teaching them …
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Adapting to the new normal: The process of relational change after stroke within romantic dyads
… to impact communication (e.g., Fridriksson, Fillmore, Guo, & Rorden, 2015) and alter behavior (e.g., Fann, Uomoto, & Katon, 2000), both of which have individual and relational consequences (see Anderson & Keating, 2017). The current study extends the literature on life after stroke by …
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What Makes a Founder? : Determining the Founder of New Thought
… in New Thought including Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, the founders of Unity; Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science; Annie Rix Militz, the founder of Homes of Truth; and Malinda Cramer and the Brooks sisters, the founders of Divine Science. These activities establish her status as …
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Frame anaphora: The definite article in discourse
… using the notion of frame (Minsky, 1975; Fillmore, 1975, 1976; DuBois, 1980). A theory of frame anaphora, which is a modified version of Hawkins• (1978) theory of the definite article, is developed and used to analyze essays written by university students in response to a writing task …
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A Radical Construction Grammar Analysis of Antipassive Constructions
… Instantiation (INI) in construction grammar (Fillmore 1986) and the Conative Alternation (Levin 1993). Many antipassive constructions code additional functions; some of which pattern with syntactic coding. Correlations between the syntactic strategy and the functional characteristics of the …
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The influence of Isaiah's concept of faith upon that of St Paul
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1935. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Multi-scale problems: an improved non-intrusive algorithm that enhances FEA platforms with the generalized finite element method; An improved preconditioned conjugate gradient solver for hierarchical generalized finite element systems of equations
The finite element method (FEM) discretizes an object of interest, say a cube, and solves for its dis placement and stress under a certain loading. The FEM is used by many commercial softwares. The generalized FEM (GFEM) adds information in the solution process that improves the displacement and …
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Exploring the gene regulatory dynamics of the maturing human brain
The human brain develops gradually overtime where distinct molecular profiles are established in the embryo. These molecular profiles continue to change through aging and in response to environmental factors. The complexity and dynamics of gene expression and regulation at the cell type-specific …
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The effects of preoperative teaching on anxiety levels of hysterectomy patients
This study investigated the effects of a preoperative teaching class on State Anxiety levels of patients scheduled for hysterectomy surgery. The Neuman System Model primary prevention mode of intervention was the conceptual framework on which this study was based. The subjects were a volunteer …
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An evaluation of intermediate care in the community
This study is a result of one not-for-profit organization’s aim to develop and evaluate a new approach to intermediate care (IC) by drawing together three separate enterprises; a not-for-profit charitable organization, a primary health care trust and local referring hospitals and social care …
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Observations on the Application of the Buccal Arch Positioner
<p>Some of the difficulties of achieving individual tooth to tooth relationships in finishing orthodontic cases can be associated with the appliances. In an attempt to overcome many of these difficulties, the Buccal Arch Positioner (BAP) has been theoretically proposed.</p> <p>This Study adapted …
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Grit and beliefs about intelligence: the relationship and role these factors play in the self-regulatory processes involved in medical students learning gross anatomy
Background: Gross anatomy is a foundational medical school course upon which other courses and patient care is grounded; however, variability in student performance suggests potential in studying underlying non-academic factors to explain some of these inconsistencies. Thus, this study examined …
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Genetic and Sex Steroid Hormone Contributions to the Sexual Dimorphism in Murine Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis
We found that the composition of the adjuvant used to induce EAE had important implications on the degree of genetic susceptibility necessary to result in disease. We also found that of the many quantitative trait loci (QTL) identified to date, genetic linkages to mouse chromosomes 7 and 11 were …
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With reference to truth : studies in referential semantics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1982.
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Bases para el desarrollo de una semántica ontológica en los dominios conceptuales del cambio y la posesión. Aplicaciones e implicaciones para la interfaz léxico-sintasis-cognición y el desarrollo
… representativos (ej. la Gramática del Caso de Fillmore, la Gramática de Construcciones de Lakoff, la Gramática Cognitiva de Langacker, la Gramática de Construcciones de Goldberg, la Gramática de Construcciones Radical de Croft, el enfoque de los marcos semánticos de Boas, la Gramática de …
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Frequency stability in a compact, deployable optical atomic clock
The advent of ultra-narrow lasers, ultra-fast lasers, and optical frequency combs in the last several decades have enabled a new generation of atomic clocks based on optical transitions as opposed to microwave transitions While optical atomic clocks in the laboratory outperform microwave standards …
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