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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Loren"”.
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Refugees and public health in the Cape Town area : treating the Other
… pattern of multiculturalism and citizenship (Loren Landau, Alessandro Dal Lago, Francesco Remotti, Jonathan Crush, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Jeremy Waldron, Etienne Balibar, Catherine Cross); the latter used as unit of analysis to understand the perverse mechanism of inclusion/exclusion from basic …
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Eulogy.
… the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke and writings of Loren Eiseley; the ideas of philosophers G. W. F. Hegel and Slavoj Žižek, and art historian James Elkins.</p>
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The art of collaboration (four contrasting compositions) : critical commentary
… Black Fire, was writtenfor conductor Dr. Gerald Loren Welker, Peter Sheppard Skaerved and theAlabama Wind Ensemble. The final composition is Fanfares & Celebrationscommissioned by the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall for their150th Anniversary celebration on 1st August 2007.All …
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Sport and the College Volunteer: Teacher Perceptions of a Supplemental Reading Program Using Social Capital Theory
<p>The purpose of this study was to evaluate an in-school supplemental reading program that promoted independent reading to Kindergarten through eighth grade students in low-income urban neighborhoods. Using social capital theory as a framework to analyze the program, sought to evaluate from the …
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Abundance and Blame: The Case of the California Sea Lion
Since the enactment of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, California sea lions have become increasingly abundant along the West Coast of North America. Their predation on commercially valuable and depleted salmon populations has contributed to a social conflict over their management. My research …
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An Airloads Theory for Morphing Airfoils in Dynamic Stall with Experimental Correlation
Helicopter rotor blades frequently encounter dynamic stall during normal flight conditions, limiting the applicability of classical thin-airfoil theory at large angles of attack. Also, it is evident that because of the largely different conditions on the advancing and retreating sides of the rotor, …
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BAYESIAN SEQUENTIAL OPTIMAL EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS USING DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
We perform a comprehensive study on Bayesian sequential optimal experimental design techniquesapplied to inverse problems. We transform the Bayesian sequential optimal experimental design problem into a reinforcement learning problem to gauge the power of recent deep reinforcement learning …
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General Vector Explicit - Impact Time and Angle Control Guidance
This thesis proposes and evaluates a new cooperative guidance law called General Vector Explicit - Impact Time and Angle Control Guidance (GENEX-ITACG). The motivation for GENEX-ITACG came from an explicit trajectory shaping guidance law called General Vector Explicit Guidance (GENEX). GENEX …
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Effects of macromolecular crowding and small ions on the folding, structure, and stability of Desulfovibrio desufuricans flavodoxin
The intracellular environment in which most proteins fold and function contains a range of biomolecules that results in significant volume exclusion, thus contrasting to the dilute buffer conditions common to most in vitro studies. In addition to intracellular macromolecular crowding, cells are …
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The new childbirth : an analysis of planned cesarean sections
1 PDF file (v, 82 leaves ; 28 cm)
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An American Jesuit Treasury of Religious Art: The Van Ackeren Collection in the Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University
Abstract On 13 October 1967 Virginia P. and Robert C. Greenlease donated a walnut crucifix by French sculptor César Bagard to Rockhurst University’s Jesuit community in Kansas City, Missouri. This gift initiated a collaboration of thirty years between Mrs. Greenlease and Rockhurst’s president, …
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Platonic and Stoic Passions in Philo of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria forged his theory of the soul and its passions while<br/>expositing the meaning of Torah. Though writing as a Jewish teacher and disciple of Moses, his biblical reflections display a strong orientation toward Middle-Platonic philosophy. On the topic of the soul and its passions, …
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Machiavellianism and female friendships: Investigating behaviour through self-report and observational methods
There is a paucity of research investigating Machiavellianism and its influence on female behaviour, and specifically, female behaviour with same-sex friends. Furthermore, there is a lack of research investigating the subtle (manipulative) behaviour that may be associated with Machiavellianism. The …
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Linear Trend Analysis: Implications for a Structural Fracture System and Applications of Subsurface Fluid Migration, Northwest Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma
<p>Lineaments are mappable, simple or composite linear or curvilinear features of the Earth’s surface longer than one mile, which differ from the patterns of adjacent features and are presumed to reflect subsurface phenomenon such as faults and fractures. The usage of the term refers to the …
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Beyond behavior: An intersectional analysis of the impact of sexual networks, segregation, and incarceration on disparities in STDs
There are approximately 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States every year (Satterwhite et al., 2008).. Although the entire society is encumbered by the economic impact of STDs, the burden of these diseases is not equally borne along racial and gender …
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Clarifying the concept of disease: how science determines the biologically normal from the abnormal
This is an investigation of the modern concept of disease and an explication of the concept consistent with scientific and medical usage. The core notion involved in the modern concept of disease (taken broadly as pathology) is biological abnormality in form or function, for a circumscribed …
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Risk Managed Demand: Proof of Concept for an Evidence-Based Framework, Operationalized to meet the Demand for Order in a Civil Society
Is it safe to send a non-police “responder” to calls traditionally handled by police (911 in the US, 999 in the UK)? If so, what calls (categories and/or types) should be considered? How should they be identified (criteria) and with what operational procedures or systems? This study explores the …
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An investigation into the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust effects in South African survivors
This study focuses on the intergnerational transmission of Holocaust effects among South African Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and their children. Its aim is to ascertain whether common patterns exist among survivor families that could be attributed to the parents' Holocaust past. Early …
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Educating for citizen leadership: exploring the University of Cape Town’s global citizenship programme
This dissertation explores the University of Cape Town’s Global Citizenship (GC) Programme as a site for teaching citizen leadership. We live in times that are marked by complexity, uncertainty, and a plethora of global challenges, many of which have resulted in injustices in people’s lived …
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