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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Idealizations"”.
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48 Children, 2 Teachers, 1 Classroom, and 4 Computers: A Personal Exploration of a Network Learning Environment
… by its historical development and the emergent idealizations of the two classroom teachers. For the students, the NLE was a mediating factor for numerous learning activities. For the teachers, their images of teaching and technology shaped this innovation. This study also revealed timely …
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Green Grass and Dirty Old Sidewalks: Evolving Images of the Rural and Urban in Honky-Tonk Country Music
… as a backdrop for not only espousing the genre’s idealizations of its imagined rural roots, but also serves as a backdrop for exploring a number of other important and constantly evolving concerns in country including gender relations, politics, modernity, and technology. In this paper, I have …
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Creep buckling of shells of revolution loaded under uniform external pressure
… The linear and non-linear visco-elastic material idealizations are used in the various theoretical procedures. The critical buckling time is greatly influenced by the parameter a/h ratio, magnitude of initial imperfections and material selection. The spherical shell has a lifetime longer than the …
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Alguns aspectos da análise dinâmica de estruturas offshore
… Frequency Response Analysis, it included certain idealizations whose effects were also studied. At the same time a prograrn for the Direct Integration Analysis was also developed in order to compare the results. Using these programs a group of typical structures were analysed. The results and …
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The Productive Roles of Falsehoods In Science
… a massless pulley, a point mass, etc. These idealizations are conceptual analogues to numerical approximations: we have good reasons to suppose that the differences between our model and the world are negligible. My interest lies predominantly in those falsehoods which cannot so easily be …
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Calculations of the effects of peak clipping on speech-like signals
… speech remains highly intelligible. Using idealizations of vowel sounds based on the mechanism of speech production, calculations were made of the spectra resulting from clipping these speech-like signals. The results indicate a high degree of similarity between the spectra before and after …
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Truth in explanation
… paribus laws in the special sciences, appeals to idealizations in the application of theories, and the analysis of explanations quite generally, exemplified in the asymmetry of explanation. In each case, prominent philosophers have argued that a proper treatment does not focus on truth. In each …
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Justifying Bayesianism
… comes at a cost: that it requires too many idealizations. This thesis aims to provide a justification of classical Bayesianism. Chapter One defends probabilism, classically understood, against the charge that by requiring credences to be precise real numbers, classical Bayesianism is …
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Analysis and comparison of connections in steel structures
… as an alternative to the conventional idealizations of perfectly pinned or rigid connections will be addressed. Included will be methods to model and design semi-rigid connection behavior within frames. The effects of connection behavior on frames will also be considered.
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Topology of learning and correction in dynamic balance
… between [our personal experiences] and our idealizations of knowledge leads us into counterproductive strategies for learning and thinking" (Papert 1993). This discrepancy has driven most research towards understanding how people fail to accomplish a task, while few researchers have focused …
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Response of ten story, reinforced concrete model frames to simulated earthquakes
… Several analytical methods and structural idealizations were evaluated by comparing the response calculated by them with the observed response of the test structures. A special formulation of a general method, “System Identification Parameters, (SIP)”, was used in an attempt to determine …
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
… Southern films such as Gone With the Wind: idealizations of the Southern lady, the plantation home, and the land itself. This dissertation examines these anti-nostalgic tendencies through the work of Julia Kristeva – particularly her concept of the (maternal) abject – alongside film genre …
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An investigation into the impacts of the Benguela Niño on rainfall over southern Africa
… Model version 3 and experiments using idealizations of observed regional and remote SST anomalies during various Benguela Niño events were performed. It is found that SST forcing in tropical South East Atlantic induces a regional baroclinic response and that a Benguela Niño is capable …
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The Cape Breton fiddling narrative : innovation, preservation, dancing
… the Cape Breton fiddling tradition, from the idealizations of Enlightenment Scotland to the manipulation and commercialization of the folklore and Celticism of twentieth-century Nova Scotia. These contexts romanticized older practices as “authentic,” a construct that deeply impacted the …
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The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings From the Home to the Colonial Landscape
… of the home which has its own roots in colonial idealizations of womanhood.
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Beyond pastoralism : through community gardens to a model of sustainable design and a metaphor of integration
… "nature," it is necessary to discard popular idealizations of "nature." The pastoral ideal is particularly prevalent in America and represents a common mythos which constructs an idealized middle landscape between city and "nature," isolating both. Community gardens present us with a …
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FORWARD AND INVERSE MODELS IN ELECTRONEUROLOGY (SPINAL STIMULATION, NEUROGRAPHY, CIRCULAR LIMB, NEUROLOGY, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY)
… of many assumptions in the forward model. The idealizations underlying both forward and inverse models are discussed in light of these results, and some of the initial geometric and electrical modeling restrictions are relaxed. Finally, it is shown that the same forward and inverse modeling …
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Numerical Simulation of Surface Effect Ship Characteristics and Dynamics
… modeling a surface effect ship; however, some idealizations had to be made. The air cushion fans are represented as constant momentum sources while the seals are represented as shortened and rigid. Throughout the simulations drag, pitch, and heave were constantly monitored for comparison …
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Critical Moments: Exploring Critical Pedagogy in an Adult ESL Classroom
… classroom. This conclusion is followed up with idealizations (‘Pedagogies of Hope’) of how stakeholders involved in adult ESL programs can effect change. Within this framework, key factors influencing the implementation of critical pedagogical changes include developing appropriate program …
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