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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"McDowell"”.
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Freedom and Nature in McDowell and Adorno
John McDowell claims that a 'human' (as opposed to 'animal') orientation towards the world is characterised by a 'deep connection' between reason and freedom. In this thesis, I argue that McDowell cannot make good on this coincidence, since his Platonic conception of rationality serves to bind free …
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Coal Mechanization and Migration from McDowell County, West Virginia, 1932-1970.
<p>The economy and population of McDowell County, West Virginia, drastically decreased between 1950 and 1970. The increased reliance of the coal industry, McDowell County's primary industry, on labor saving machinery resulted in a loss of employment opportunities. This study seeks to investigate …
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The relationship between research and practice in conflict resolution / by Andrew James McDowell.
Bibliography: leaves 631-667.
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The Social and the Real: The Idea of Objectivity in Peirce, Brandom, and Mcdowell
… dissertation focuses on Robert Brandoms and John McDowells philosophies of mind and language. Its particular emphasis is on the idea of objectivity as it is presented within the framework of Brandoms and McDowells normative theories. Theres a general agreement in the literature that the two …
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Addressing the Unmet Need of Preconception Counseling for HIV Positive Women
… to be used by the HIV and OBGYN providers at McDowell Health Care Center (McDowell Clinic) for preconception counseling of WLWHIV. Design: The design of this DNP project is quality improvement utilizing the plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle to determine: 1) What do providers want in a toolkit for …
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German Idealism, Analytic Philosophy, and Realism
… writings of Moore, Russell, Strawson, Sellars, McDowell and Brandom. One objective of this text is to explicate the manner in which these Analytic Philosophers either reject or borrow from German Idealism. </p><p> A second objective of this text is to answer the following question: "what does it …
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The molecular structures of chlorpromazine and thiethylperazine and a discussion of the action mechanism of the phenothiazine derivatives
… abridged form has been published (Feil, Linck & McDowell, 1965, Nature) and condensed versions of Sections B and C have been submitted for publication to Acta Crystallographica (McDowell, Chlorpromazine, accepted Dec. 1968; McDowell, Thiethylperazine, accepted Sept. 1969). The structure of …
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The role of hydraulic strategies in understanding the response of fynbos to drought
… the relevance of the hydraulic framework (sensu McDowell et al., 2008) in understanding the response of diverse communities to drought. This framework distinguishes species that respond to dehydration by rapidly decreasing stomatal conductance (gs) (isohydric), thereby maintaining relatively …
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Attitudes toward Suicidal Women Based on Gender of the Participant and Race of the Target Figure.
… Scale (SAVE) (Stillion, White, Edwards, & McDowell, 1989). The research design was a 2 (sex of participant) x 2 (suicide ideation of participant) x 2 (race of target figure) independent groups factorial. Independent ANOVAS were performed to interpret the significance of main and interaction …
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Experiments in Social Salvation: The Settlement Movement in Chicago, 1890-1910
… such as Jane Addams, Graham Taylor, and Mary McDowell fused their personal motives to their expanding assumptions regarding public welfare in their pursuit of social salvation. The settlement community advanced a methodology of experimentation and flexibility, which was instrumental to the …
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Dark-Light Imagery in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
… criticize the Christian ideal of self sacrifice. McDowell gives his discussion a less allegorical focus and endeavors to relate various images to the actual lives of Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead in society. Alastair Smart, on the other hand, explores the influence that art and artists had on …
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Dissecting Transcriptional Regulation of Rpp8 in Arabidopsis thaliana
… parasitica isolate Emco5. Previous work in the McDowell lab suggested that RPP8 is upregulated during defense responses. My research shows that RPP8 alleles from the Columbia and Landsberg erecta ecotypes are upregulated by H. parasitica and the defense signaling molecule salicylic acid, …
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Building a community of reflective practitioners : a reflection-in-action with MIT DUSP
… and observations. I worked with Professor Ceasar McDowell this Spring of 2019 to facilitate reflective sessions for practicum classes, and through observation, surveys, and interviews, I studied the reflections' effects on class learning and effectiveness and on how students and faculty value and …
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Acting in Light of One's Acting: Practical Reasoning and the Excellences
… by first describing Michael Thompson’s, John McDowell’s, and Jonathan Dancy’s work in action theory, thus providing context and introducing central ideas. Chapter Two responds to Bernard Williams’s concerns about the role of virtues in first-personal deliberation by defending a novel, but …
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Elite networks of the London Season: perspectives from the New Mobilities literature
… from within historical geography (Blunt, 2000a; McDowell, 2004) to utilise biographical material in understanding the past. Individual experiences of the Season are contrasted throughout the thesis, revealing that the period should not be understood as a single, indivisible „Season‟, but instead …
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Sequence Stratigraphy and Architecture of Lower Pennsylvanian Strata, Southern West Virginia: Potential for Carbon Sequestration and Enhanced Coal-Bed Methane Recovery in the Pocahontas Basin
… strata within the Bradshaw CBM field, southern McDowell County, WV. Analysis of outcrop, gamma ray and density logs, and eight cross-sections within the study area reveals a hierarchy of bounding discontinuities and architectural elements. Discontinuities are both erosional (unconformable) and …
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Resistance to School Consolidation in a Rural Appalachian Community
… their local schools open. Many schools in McDowell County have been consolidated or are scheduled to be consolidated in the near future. For example, Big Creek High School, which was at the center of many consolidation debates, will be closed in 2010. Its students will be bused to a new, …
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A New Democracy for Professional Development and Research: Learning to Find the Future
… Andy Hargreaves; and geographers including Linda McDowell, Neil Smith and Doreen Massey. Seeking connections and distinctions between the qualitative material and the theoretical framework, the research process has revealed an attitude to learning which was inclusive, expressive, interactive and …
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Perception and cognition : insights from Kant and cognitive science
… personal and subpersonal levels straight, John McDowell and Tyler Burge can each describe an aspect of a perceiver’s perceptual experience without issue. Taken together, I argue that their theories of perception can contribute to a synoptic understanding of human perception.
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