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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Langer"”.
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Lange Arbeitszeiten : Untersuchungen zu den gesundheitlichen und sozialenAuswirkungen langer Arbeitszeiten
Die aktuelle Diskussion um Arbeitszeitverlängerungen orientiert sich oft ausschließlich an vermeintlich wirtschaftlichen Kriterien, ohne dabei mögliche gesundheitliche und soziale Effekte zu berücksichtigen. Mit zunehmender Dauer der Arbeitszeit steigt jedoch das Risiko für Beeinträchtigungen der …
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Ambitious Beginnings: The Early Life and Political Career of William Langer
<p>This essay examines William Langer' s early life and political career until his abortive attempt to become governor of North Dakota in 1920. It argues that William Langer was a man driven by a need for status. It was this quest for status that drove him to politics and explains his rapid rise …
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Wild Bill goes to Washington : a reassessment of the Senate career of North Dakota's William Langer
<p>William Langer is firmly established as a legend in North Dakota history. The legend began during his controversial terms as attorney general (1916-1920) and governor (1932-1934 and 1936-1938). A maverick in the United States Senate after his election to the upper chamber in 1940, admirers saw …
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The source of uranium and vanadium at the Langer Heinrich and Klein Trekkopje uranium deposits-genesis and controlling factors for uranium mineralization, Western Namibia.
The Langer Heinrich and Klein Trekkopje U deposits are located within the Namib Desert in Central Namibia. Both deposits are hosted by calcretes developed within palaeo-channel systems of Tertiary age. The sources of both U and V in the two deposits and the reasons why the two deposits differ in …
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Semantische Kategorien und Merkmalswissen : eine experimentelle Studie zur semantischen Repräsentation konkreter Objektbegriffe
… verifizierende semantische Merkmal erschien. Bei langer Präsentationszeit des Objektbegriffes zeigten sich für Objekte der unbelebten Domäne schnellere Reaktionszeiten beim Verifizieren von distinktiven funktionalen Merkmalen als beim Verifizieren von distinktiven enzyklopädischen Merkmalen. …
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Susanne K. Langer's Epistemology of Mind as an Interpretive Resource for Music Education
"Within music education, the work of Susanne K. Langer has often been used to construct or support the idea of music as aesthetic. This study examines the contrary claim that Susanne Langer's work is primarily epistemic rather than aesthetic. This claim is developed and supported through the …
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Early stage innovation ; matching opportunities with inventions
… inventions in four different organizations: The Langer Lab at MIT, IDEO, The MIT innovation ecosystem, and LargeCo (a large multinational company whose name has been disguised). The analysis is conducted by describing each organization, gained through interviews and research, with specific …
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Handlungsdeterminierende Prozesse beim Aufgabenwechsel und die Notwendigkeit der Dekomposition von Wechselkosten
… erfasst werden. Wechselkosten, die nach langer Vorbereitungszeit für die Aufgabe verbleiben (residuale Wechselkosten) spiegeln nicht den Aufwand exekutiver Prozesse wider. 3. Wechsel zwischen Intentionen verursachen mehr exekutiven Aufwand, wenn die Zielzustände der …
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Learning by self-study of a statistical analysis technique
… a deep level of understanding of the material. Langer (1989) addressed this problem proposing mindful interventions such as instructions to enhance learning in students. The design of the present study is an extension of Langer's experimental design with the aim of developing a novel technique …
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Mindful Teachers: Case Studies of Intermediate Teachers and Their Mindful Teaching Practices
… a place where mindful individuals can flourish. Langer (1989, 1997) described mindful individuals as displaying the following characteristics: (a) openness to novelty, (b) alertness to distinction, (c) sensitivity to different contexts, (d) awareness of multiple perspectives, and (e) orientation …
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Reconstructing Paradigms of Expression
… The philosophers, R. G. Collingwood, Suzanne Langer, and Nelson Goodman are cited to support ideas discussed in this paper. In addition, the aesthetic theories of Expressionism and Cognitivism are also discussed as an underlying correlation between the images in my thesis exhibition.
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Tissue Engineering bei peripheren Nerven : dreidimensionale Fibrin/Schwann-Zellen-Matrix in Poly-Caprolacton-Konduiten zur geführten Defektüberbrückung
… kultiviert. Als Läsionsmodell diente ein 10mm langer Defekt im bukkalen Ast des N. facialis der Ratte, der überbrückt wurde mit PCL-Konduiten. Nach 4 Wochen wurden die Implantate histologisch und morphometrisch innerhalb von 4 Schnittebenen untersucht (S1=2,5mm, S2=5mm, S3=7,5mm, S4=10mm). Zur …
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The potential commercialization of neuronal replacement therapy using smart polymers
… in the MIT laboratories of Drs. Robert Langer and Mriganka Sur. My thesis addresses the challenges and possible strategies in commercializing this technology. The need for this treatment was evaluated in the context of current therapies available for the treatment of relevant …
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Display structures on de Rham-Witt cohomology
… for all $a,b \ge 0$. This was conjectured by Langer and Zink [LZD]. We use the formalism of predisplays from [La18], more precisely we show that $\underline{P}^l$ is a display over the Witt-frame $\underline{W}(R)$. This is achieved by constructing and investigating a complex …
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Interconnections between Self and Others: Building an Ethical Foundation for a Mindful Model of Spatial Literacy
… by recasting mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn, 2013; Langer, 1989) as literacy (Soloway, 2015) so as to bridge mindfulness studies with contemporary socially situated understandings of literacy (Cazden et al., 1996; Gee, 2015; Street, 1984). My aim is to redress personalized and individualized notions …
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Superconductor -Insulator Transition in Quasi-One-Dimensional Nanowires
… phase of the SIT are well described by the Langer-Ambegaokar-McCumber-Halperin theory of thermally activated phase slips. No resistance ""tails"" characteristic of quantum phase slips were observed. Wires in the insulating phase of the SIT follow the predictions of the theory of weak Coulomb …
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Superconductor-insulator transition in quasi-one-dimensional nanowires
… phase of the SIT are well described by the Langer-Ambegaokar-McCumber-Halperin theory of thermally activated phase slips. No resistance “tails” characteristic of quantum phase slips were observed. Wires in the insulating phase of the SIT follow the predictions of the theory of weak Coulomb …
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HeartBit : mindful control of heart rate using haptic biofeedback
… between the MIT Media Lab and the Ellen Langer Mindfulness Lab at Harvard, HeartBit has been tested under two scenarios. First, showing how people can learn to voluntarily control their heart rate using mindfulness, assisted by portable technology to accelerate the learning process. …
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