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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Gelman"”.
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Memoria, lenguaje poético y horizonte ético en "Mundar" de Juan Gelman
This study analyzes the poetic language of Juan Gelman´s Mundar (2008). It identifies a fragmentation between the literal and the metaphoric planes, which we refer to as the Aesthetic of interruption. This phenomenon provides coherence across the poems in the book, in which we can distinguish …
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Clinical Studies of Counting Problems With Primary School Children
… Five counting principles proposed by Gelman and Gallistel (1978) and three additional principles proposed by the author gave focus to children's counting tactics. Easley (1974) provided a diagramatic form for constructing explanations of the children's counting behavior. Children's …
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On the classification of business strategy
… Lakoff) and cognitive science (especially, Susan Gelman and Douglas Medin) to produce a new, bespoke theoretical framework for the subsequent case studies of these business strategy classification schemes. It recognises the artifactual nature of such schemes and endorses a pragmatic and …
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Early conceptions of national identity: causes and consequences
… social categories (e.g., gender; Rhodes & Gelman, 2009). I tested the prediction that at the age when children first become aware of their national identity as a category marker, they will hold an essentialist conception of nationality, believing that it is a biologically-based, stable, and …
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A psychophysical investigation of quantum cognition: An interdisciplinary synthesis
… acute “statistical crisis” in science (Loken & Gelman, 2017a) and the various paralogisms associated with Fisherian/Neyman-Pearsonian null hypothesis significance testing, we contrasted various alternative statistical approaches which are based on complementary inferential frameworks (i.e., …
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Exploring animacy as a mnemonic dimension
… of the first categories children learn (Opfer & Gelman, 2011). Work in neuroscience points toward a fundamental role for animacy in semantic memory (Caramazza & Mahon, 2003), and linguists have identified animacy as a “linguistic universal” (Comrie, 1989). Despite seemingly overwhelming evidence …
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Incumbency Effects in English Local Elections 1974-2010: Assessing the Advantage of Electoral Defence
… Fiorina 1977; Cain, Ferejohn & Fiorina 1987; Gelman & King 1990; King 1991). Conversely, the study of political incumbency in Britain can be attributed to a handful of scholars who tend to consider the repercussions at parliamentary level (Williams 1967, King 1981, Cain, Ferejohn and Fiorina …
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The prevalence and detection of possible minor psychiatric morbidity in students attending the Student Health Services at the University of Cape Town : a pilot study
This study reports upon the point prevalence of possible minor psychiatric morbidity in students attending the Student Health Service at the University of Cape Town. It also establishes the prevalence of exposure to trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and substance abuse (alcohol and drugs) and …
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The Bronx is burning a hole in my pocket : why gentrification may never come (and what might happen to lenders, landlords, renters & buildings instead.)
Bronx buildings appear to face a split possibility for their future: gentrification, as the city housing market continues to tighten; or abandonment, as inflated prices come down and leave owners in the red. This thesis takes stock of the buildings, the players and regulation, and looks at what …
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Radical Democracies: The Politics of the Aesthetic in the Southern Cone
… Lemebel and Néstor Perlongher, and by poets Juan Gelman and Raúl Zurita – and locates within them a desire to radicalise the democratisation processes that were only superficially carried out in the 1990s. And as this work describes, this is a uniquely aesthetic project. In its association of the …
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Lucky Pennies and Four Leaf Clovers: Young Children's Understanding of Superstitions
… forces at work in the environment (Bullock, Gelman, & Baillargeon, 1982; Rosengren & Hickling, 1999). Paradoxically, at about the same age at which children demonstrate they have a fundamental understanding of natural causal forces operating in the world, they are introduced by our culture to …
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Comparison of model checking and simulation to examine aircraft system behavior
Automation surprises are examples of poor Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) where pilots were surprised by actions of the automation, which lead to dangerous situations during which pilots had to counteract the autopilot. To be able to identify problems that may arise between pilots and automation …
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Cellular influence on protein folding
Advances in the study of protein folding and structure have greatly expanded our understanding and ability to predict and modify protein structure and, increasingly, even function. Attention has now turned to developing a better understanding of how protein structure, function, and folding interact …
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A numerical study of the response of blast loaded thin circular plates, with both clamped and integral boundary conditions
This report sets out the results of a numerical investigation into the response of thin circular plates subjected to impulsive loads, using the commercial finite element code ABAQUS. iv Previous theoretical and numerical predictions of plate response have assumed a fully constrained boundary …
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Walkability through Challenging terrain: Connectivity between Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and Anacostia Community Museum
This thesis is an investigation of how to achieve walkability over steep urban topography greater than Americans with Disabilities Act accessible 8.33% standard. I studied how landscape architects and architects have overcome challenging topography in a variety of international cities and how to …
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Laying the Foundation in Genetic Medicine: Understanding Why African Americans and Hispanic/Latinos are Underrepresented in Genetic Testing and in Genetic Research
… between the researcher and participant (Gelman, 2010). These cultural histories have become particularly salient as the field of genomics becomes increasingly reliant on initiatives to increase minority participation in research efforts. In order to explore beyond what previous …
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Mantle thermal evolution of tidally-locked super-earths
Most super-Earth (mass < 10M[mathematical symbol]) detection techniques are biased towards massive planets with close-in orbits. A planet's orbital decay timescale decreases with a lower semi-major axis, thereby providing a high probability of detecting exoplanets which are in tidal-lock with their …
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Distance estimation through wavefront curvature in cellular systems
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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