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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Open Form"”.
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Lloyd's open form 1980 and 1990: born of necessity, has it succeeded?
… development was the introduction of· Standard Forms of Salvage Agreements. These provided for quantification of the salvor's remuneration by arbitration if it could not be agreed upon by the parties.
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Analysing the decline of the usage of the Lloyd's Open Form Agreement (LOF) for a vessel in distress at sea
The Lloyd's Open Form (LOF) standard form salvage contract emerged in the late 19th century and for about a century has, through its various revisions, been the most widely used international salvage contract worldwide. The latter part of the 20th century has seen a steady decline in its usage …
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War and Return
… in Turkey. These narrative poems are mainly in open form with a few in closed form as well. As I write in open form, I am not bound by line length or sound repetition. Other elements such as imagery, cataloging, and metaphor are my primary concern. With the ghazal form, however, one rooted in …
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A Portfolio of Original Compositions (Andrew Dolphin)
Sound toys as open work, composition medium and compositional tool. A collection of interactive sonic centric audiovisual systems, designed and influenced by aesthetics, processes and techniques familiar to the field of electroacoustic music, and informed through the composition and realisation of …
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Because a Fire, A Lover's Quarrel: Poems
… The majority of these poems are written in an open form, and all of them fall under three general categories: autobiographical, absurdist, or formal. </p>
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The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown
… elucidates the relationship between notation, performance practice, and musical realization in several indeterminate compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown. While both Cage and Brown emphasized the multiplicity of possible outcomes in these works, the distinct configurations of fixed and …
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UNDERSTANDING ONLINE INNOVATION COMMUNITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF GROUP DIVERSITY IN OPEN COLLABORATION
… is still challenging for companies and platform operators. Specifically, it is important to explore how to facilitate value co-creation as well as group efficiency in the open form collaboration. This dissertation seeks to examine open collaboration management and group formation in …
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Human testis angiotensin-converting enzyme: crystal structure of a glycosylation mutant and investigation of a putative hinge-mechanism by normal mode analysis
… congestive heart failure. Protein structural information about ACE is an important key for the understanding of the mechanism and substrate-specificity of the enzyme. However, this information has only begun to be elucidated in the past year, with the solution of crystal structures of human …
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Approximation of Quantiles of Rank Test Statistics Using Almost Sure Limit Theorems
… some cases, the asymptotic distribution is in an open form or is intractable. One possible solution is the logarithmic quantile estimation (LQE) method introduced by Thangavelu (2005) for rank tests and Fridline (2010) for the correlation coefficient. LQE is derived from an almost sure version of …
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Experimental Approaches to the Composition of Interactive Video Game Music
… The project created music for three ‘open-form’ games : an example of the racing genre (Kart Racing Pro); an arena-based first-person shooter (Counter-Strike : Source); and a real-time strategy title (0 A.D.). These games represent a cross-section of ‘sandbox’- type games on the …
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A New Space (new) for Mixed Jazz Chamber Ensemble
… I try to stand, such as Earl Brown and his open form orchestral innovations, Butch Morris with his ©Conduction improvisation techniques, and Walter Thompson and his ©Soundpainting method. The inspiration for the scoring and directions for rehearsing and conducting improvisation in this work …
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Amino acid interactions of spiropyran
… in its merocyanine zwitterionic merocyanine 'open' form and amino acids. The principal amino acids chosen for investigation were β-Alanine, L-Phenylalanine and 8-Aminocaprylic acid. Both single phase and two-phase switching experiments were undertaken to document the photochromic …
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Investigation of spiropyrans and merocyanines in mixed thin films with long chain alkyl silanes: Towards a command surface for liquid crystal realignment
… Irradiation of the films causes the formation of the open form of the spiropyran, which can be detected by absorption spectroscopy. The rate of the thermal reaction from the open (merocyanine) to the closed form of the spiropyran was measured, and shows no dependence on the length of …
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Northeast Tennessee Educators’ Perception of STEM Education Implementation
… setting were surveyed.</p> <p>The closed and open form survey consisted of 20 research items grouped by 5 core research questions. Quantitative data were analyzed using single sample t tests. A 4 point Likert scale was used to measure responses with a 2.5 point of neutrality rating. The …
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Visual form, visible nature: radical landscape poetry and Romantic environmental aesthetics
… emerging body of criticism on innovative and open form poetries, particularly from ecocritical and environmental perspectives, the related but distinct genre of radical landscape poetry receives little specific attention. Named by Harriet Tarlo, the genre is so far represented by a single …
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COALITIONS IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT: PARTY POLITICAL STRATEGIES IN HUNG COUNCILS
… a variety of approaches are utilised, including formal coalition theory and case studies of local authorities. A major aim of the thesis is to analyse questionnaire and case study data which will further improve our understanding of coalitional activity. Although the primary purpose is to inform …
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El contrato de salvamento marítimo
… del siglo XIX, conocida como LOF ?Lloyd?s Open Form?; siendo el tipo de contrato de salvamento más utilizado en la práctica mundial cuya última versión data de 2020. Para estudiar el contrato, debemos estudiar previamente el régimen legal del salvamento marítimo, para lo cual acudiremos al …
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A comparison of perceived problems of urban black and white women principals in elementary, middle, and junior high schools in obtaining the principalship and functioning in that role during their first year
… the first year.ProcedureA twenty-two-item closed-form and open-form type questionnaire was developed, tested, and mailed to a selected sample of 173 urban black and white women elementary, middle, and junior high school principals from three selected urban areas located in the Western and …
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An Experimental Research into Inhabitable Theories
… poetics, and related to this, a new form of discourse as poetry of an architectonic order. The research was initiated through a series of questions that architects confront when asked to create and to speak about what can be understood to be(come) frameworks for (unknown) life. It …
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Enzymatic Ring Formation in Polyether Tetronate Antibiotic Biosynthesis
The formation of rings in carbon backbones is essential for the biological activity of many natural products. The polyether tetronate antibiotics tetronasin, tetronomycin, and tetromadurin (SF2487/A80577) are notable for their ring diversity, each possessing a tetronate, cyclohexane, …
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