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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Pocock"”.
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Evaluating Alpha Spending Functions Applied to Observational Time-to-Event Analysis
… the study compares the performance of the Pocock and O’Brien-Fleming alpha spending functions, revealing that the Pocock method can become highly conservative under conditions of high censoring or small sample sizes. Third, the results provide insight into sample size requirements necessary …
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Speculative Economic Ideology and Dramatic Strategies in Susanna Centlivre's the Basset Table and the Busy Body
… Debt were established; specifically, J.G.A. Pocock tells us, because of the audiences' and writers' "conscious recognition of change in the economic and social foundations of politics and the political personality." As the social consciousness of the English commonality became indefinite, …
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A multi-contextualist approach to Albert Camus's 'The New Mediterranean Culture': A case study in Intelletual-Historical Method
… with the complementary approaches of J.G.A. Pocock and Reinhard Koselleck, which focus on discourses and concepts respectively. Discussing humanist and postcolonial approaches to Camus's lecture, I show that both are ultimately unsatisfactory, whether at the textual or the contextual level. …
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Northern English Dialects: A perceptual approach
… & Preston, 2003) as well perceptual geography (Pocock, 1972). The link between map-based perception and reaction to voice samples is examined, with interesting conclusions. Four key research questions are addressed: 1. Do respondents have a linguistic ‘cognitive map’ of a north of England, and …
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3D Scan Campaign Classification with Representative Training Scan Selection
Point cloud classification has been shown to effectively classify points in 3D scans, and can accelerate manual tasks like the removal of unwanted points from cultural heritage scans. However, a classifier’s performance depends on which classifier and feature set is used, and choosing these is …
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Evaluating the training and supervision of home visitors in a Parent-Infant Home Visitation Programme
The training and supervision of home visitors for the Parent Centre's Parent-Infant Home Visitation Programme (PIHVP) was evaluated. The evaluation aimed to determine whether training and supervision prepared the home visitors to deliver the PIHVP as intended. The supervision questionnaire measured …
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Biogeographic and biological comparisons between the Emu Bay Shale (Kangaroo Island, South Australia) and other Cambrian Burgess Shale-type biotas
… from the Emu Bay Shale, Estaingia bilobata Pocock, 1964 and Redlichia takooensis Lu, 1950, and how this compares with other BST assemblages. Specimens from the EBS were examined and arrangements of exoskeletal elements likely representing moult ensembles identified, from which moulting …
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‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’
… <br/>I use the work of J.G.A. Pocock, S.J. Barnett, Bruno Latour and others to establish a context of eighteenth-century modernity, or what was modern to Enlightenment minds.4 In addition, my critical analysis of Burke demonstrates how the same characteristics and themes …
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An Analysis of Precision teaching
This research examined three components of precision teaching; charting, timed practices, and performance aims. In the first study beginner skaters performed two roller skating skills, forward crosses and back scissors, with the aim of increasing fluency in these skills using precision teaching …
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Between reality and mystery : food as fact and symbol in plays by Ibsen and Churchill.
In Henrik Ibsen's and Caryl Churchill's plays, food is both fact and symbol, a reminder of both the shared physicality of the actors and spectators and of an equally powerful human desire for symbolic significance. This thesis examines the depictions of both facets of human consumption in Ibsen's A …
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The relationship between alternative project approaches, integration, and performance
This work compares the performance of traditional design-bid-build projects with alternative approaches. It verifies that partnered, design-build, and combination projects offer significant advantages in cost growth, schedule growth, modifications, and design deficiencies.
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Human Cytomegalovirus and the Neutrophil
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a highly prevalent opportunistic infection and a major pathogen in immune-compromised patients. The virus exhibits a wide cell tropism and is able to lytically infect virtually any cell type, with detectable gene expression and release of new virions, but not the …
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Social engineering : a discourse in applied social science
[ page 92, 93, 94 missing] The following is a general overview of methodology. For a detailed examination in this area see Appendix III. The methodology of this work is based upon a modified Versteen principle. The present writer gathered 'evi- . 1 dence' and gave it form until it became clear …
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The Taxation of International (non-resident) Sportspersons in South Africa
… on the right person in the appropriate State (Pocock, 2001). The South African withholding tax on sportspersons should be aligned with the sportsperson article in the interim (or a replacement article in the future). South Africa should also continue to actively pursue exchanges of information …
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Ecology and restoration of Sumatran tigers in forest and plantation landscapes
… the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae Pocock, 1929) is the most seriously threatened. Currently determined as Critically Endangered under IUCN criteria, the Sumatran tiger is likely to become extinct unless effective conservation measures are enacted. Threats to the tiger include …
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Thomas Paine nella trasmissione atlantica della rivoluzione
… dentro la vicenda rivoluzionaria americana. John Pocock riconosce la difficoltà di comprendere e spiegare Paine, quando sostiene che Common Sense non evoca coerentemente nessun prestabilito vocabolario atlantico e la figura di Paine non è sistemabile in alcuna categoria di pensiero politico. …