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Can Savonarola be Justified?
In the Museum of St. Mark in Venice may be seen a portrait labeled: "Frs Girolamo Savonarola." It is a profile and in it Art has achieved, if not a masterpiece, at least a bit of work that has the power to fascinate the beholder. No feature in itself is attractive; the nose is over-prominent, the …
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James Hogg's Ambiguously Justified Sinner
… indeterminacy both throughout his career and in Justified Sinner, especially in the character Gil-Martin. Hogg seems to reject the tradition of choosing one side over another in such a dichotomy, and instead chooses to look at both extremes as equally co-present. Hogg wrote Justified Sinner …
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Justified generalization : acquiring procedures from examples
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985.
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The Justified Lawman: Cowboy Killings in the Modern Era
… here, is that the popular television program <em>Justified</em> does precisely this by normalizing police violence and the ways that the police underpin and reproduce profoundly disparate class and racialized social order. While in many ways a typical police procedural, <em>Justified</em> is a …
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Formally justified and modular Bayesian inference for probabilistic programs
Probabilistic modelling offers a simple and coherent framework to describe the real world in the face of uncertainty. Furthermore, by applying Bayes' rule it is possible to use probabilistic models to make inferences about the state of the world from partial observations. While traditionally …
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Justified: A sacred cantata based on Paul's doctrine of Justification
Justified is a musical work for choir and orchestra that uses prose Scripture alone as its source of text. The text incorporated is drawn from Romans chapters 3-11 with additional text from Genesis 15 and 17 and 2 Timothy 2:12; the work is a setting of Paul's explanation of the doctrine of …
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Paying the Penalty: The Role of Punishment in Theories of Justified Civil Disobedience
… of (i) whether such dissent can be morally justified in a legitimate constitutional democracy; and, if it can be justified, (ii) roughly what the conditions are under which this is the case. The received view among liberal political theorists, as I understand it, is that civil disobedience …
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Pathological vs non-pathological incapacity: are the differences in requirements and consequences justified?
… to determine whether those differences are justified in order to ascertain whether it is necessary to have these different requirements or whether it would be more reasonable to have a single set of requirements applying to both considering that both defences give the accused the potential …
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WHEN STEALING TIME AT WORK SEEMS JUSTIFIED: THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE ON TIME BANDITRY
<p> Interest in the study of time banditry at work is relatively new to researchers. Existing research on this phenomenon has focused primarily on antecedents to the time banditry relationship, such as personality and organizational justice (Brock, Martin, & Buckley, 2013). This study further …
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James Hogg's the Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Background, Text, and Analysis
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:39:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7013334.pdf: 10378599 bytes, checksum: b33563aa7183fa0667fa55416bff42a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Urban Megaprojects: How they are justified and who they benefit. The case of Century City
All over the world, megaprojects have become entrenched and firmly positioned in the development of cities and have become instrumental and critical in their position and functioning. The need for sites to be developed encompassing mixed-use requirements, was soon to make its impact in developing …
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"Nobody with a Good Car Needs to be Justified": Materialism and Commercialism in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction
<p>Flannery O’Connor was writing in a time of great transition for American society. The 1950s brought with them a post-war economy that was creating a middle class that suddenly had disposal income and leisure time. To O’Connor, this translated into a culture that was becoming increasingly more …
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Calling the shots on vaccination: when is the state justified in overturning a refusal to vaccinate?
Public perceptions of vaccination have changed greatly since George Bernard Shaw unleashed his diatribe against the practice. Today it is recognised that, far from spreading disease, vaccination is one of the cheapest and most effective public health interventions. Immunization against infectious …
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Calling the shots on vaccination: when is the state justified in overturning a refusal to vaccinate?
Public perceptions of vaccination have changed greatly since George Bernard Shaw unleashed his diatribe against the practice. Today it is recognised that, far from spreading disease, vaccination is one of the cheapest and most effective public health interventions. Immunization against infectious …
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Portrait of the Calvinist as a young killer : confessions, fanaticism, and satanic horror in Hogg's Justified Sinner
James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner innovated several important novel genres in the Romantic literary era. The novel centers around a young man, Robert Wringhim, who, along with his devilish double, Gil-Martin, goes on a religious-based killing spree in late 17th …
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Global responsibility : humanitarian intervention as a justified mechanism to end post-conflict widespread and systemic sexual violence
Sexual violence and conflict go hand in hand. In ancient warfare, sexual violence was a common procedure, perceived as an inevitable consequence of war. Soldiers needed to 'release' after heavy fighting; sexual distraction would reward, motivate and relax them. In other words, sexual violence was …
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"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive": Using FX's Justified to Form A Cultural Understanding of Crime in Harlan County, Kentucky
… and violence is the television network FX’s Justified, set in Harlan County, Kentucky. The storyline follows US Marshal Raylan Givens as he is sent back to Kentucky after a misstep during his tenure in Miami. After arriving in his home state, he finds himself constantly drawn back to his …
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Trade liberalisation vs public morality : can the European Union seal ban be justified under the GATT Article XX (a)?
The objective of the research is to assess the strength of a potential exception available to the EU under Article XX (a) of the GATT. This is not the first time that issues to do with animal welfare are being challenged at the WTO dispute settlement system. Animal welfare issues have been at the …
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How Inequality in Education in Ireland is Produced, Reproduced, Justified, and Resisted at the Intersection of Disability and Social Class
This is a study about how disability and social class intersect in the lives of young adults in higher education in Ireland to reveal complex inequality, oppression, privilege and power. The overall aim of this study is to identify how disability and social class are constructed and enacted in …
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