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Showing 1 to 20 of 314 for “"Postulates"”.
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Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields
The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). These five …
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Four Multistage Accounting Postulates in an Array Framework
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An Empirical Investigation for Patterns of Belief Change in Human Reasoning
… the new information. Our work surveyed postulates of belief change with human reasoners. First, we studied the role of the postulates of belief revision and belief update in the literature. Next, we decomposed the postulates of revision and update into material implication statements, …
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A conflict-theory approach to understanding adolescents' health behaviour
… explain adult decision making, Conflict-Theory postulates were applied to health decisions in adolescents, thus extending the model to a new population. Conflict-Theory proposes that coping styles moderate relations between health beliefs and decisions, such that perceptions of threat and …
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Examining key mobility resources through denial of service attacks on proposed global name resolution services
… from the current Internet architecture, and postulates the existence of globally unique, flat identifiers. In order to support mobility in this context, it also postulates a global name resolution service (GNRS). In this thesis we examine three alternative designs for the GNRS and the …
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TOPIC SENSITIVE BELIEF REVISION
… in a supra-classical logic and provide a set of postulates which express constraints on the sorts of change that are, in principle, formally rational. In 1999, Rohit Parikh proposed that signature disjointness captured a reasonable notion of topicality but that taking topicality into account …
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The European Community and devolution in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
… between 1945 and 1990, this dissertation postulates that: The European Community's united external trade policy towards Central and Eastern Europe has weakened the cohesion of, and contributed to the devolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance into its national entities.
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Citizens changing ideas into action: a phenomenological study of community learning
… This study applies Morse’s (2006a) six postulates of community learning to the creation of Chattanooga Venture, a non-profit organization in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1984. Three primary sources — personal interviews, organizational documents, and newspaper accounts — ground the study …
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Foundations of geometry
… and as such is founded on certain definitions, postulates, and some assumptions or axioms which are said to be self-evident. It is a physical science idealized. The oldest and best known form of this science is the Euclidean Geometry which was developed by the Greeks.
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
… has had thus far within the state. Finally, it postulates the future of Arizona’s immigration policy.</p>
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Sinkhole Form as an Indicator of Process in Karst Landscape Evolution
… then using a random, stratified sampling design, postulates and evaluates the importance of non-solutional processes in the development of sinkholes in two contrasting karst subtypes (normal and exhuming fluviokarst) of the Mitchell Plain, south central Indiana.
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Light Dance: Beyond the Dichotomy of Light and Vision
… performances are used to generate a series of postulates testing this refined understanding of light and vision. Working closely with this documentation, the author builds upon the postulates to a thesis statement proposing a principle of equivalence between light and vision. The postulates and …
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A QoS enabling queuing scheme for Fourth Generation wireless access networks
… through the network is determined. The author postulates that the statistics indicate the QoS capabilities of the network and can therefore be used to select the best network to serve the mobile user.
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Universal sound attenuation in amorphous solids at low-temperatures
… and (b) even if it is, it is not clear that the postulates of the original model remain necessary. The purpose of this study is to derive the universal acoustic absorption and related quantities observed in disordered solids by starting from a many-body quantum theory of unspecified amorphous …
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Depression-Era Coloma: A World-Systems Study of Mining and Daily Life Experiences in a Reoccupied Montana Ghost Town
… historical records about the area, this thesis postulates on the possible daily experiences of the people responsible for the creation of this dump. The data is then used as the foundation for a World-Systems perspective on the site, which, in turn, connects this mining camp to the world at …
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Depression-Era Coloma: A World-Systems Study of Mining and Daily Life Experiences in a Reoccupied Montana Ghost Town
… historical records about the area, this thesis postulates on the possible daily experiences of the people responsible for the creation of this dump. The data is then used as the foundation for a World-Systems perspective on the site, which, in turn, connects this mining camp to the world at …
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An experimental study of exposure-based and emotion-focused interventions: Strange bedfellows, or a match made in heaven?
… being contested. Emotional processing theory postulates that habituation of fear is the primary predictor of change during exposure, while inhibitory learning theory challenges that and postulates that variability in the intensity of fear is the predictor of change. Moreover, recent evidence …
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The effects of simplification, linguistic item, and language experience on second language learners' attention to form contained in the input
Cognitive theory postulates that during the early stages of second language acquisition (SLA), constraints on adult second language (L2) learners' information processing mechanism are largely responsible for what is attended to in the input. Recently, some psycholinguistic studies have begun to …
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An inquiry into the factors affecting the demand for professional baseball
… model. Lastly, the validity of the theoretical postulates is tested through use of regression analysis. All the empirical findings are tabulated and analyzed in light of the theoretical model in order to determine the relative impact of each variable on attendance. Current winning percentage, …
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The Methodology of Loop Quantum Gravity
… the author, an abstract proof showing that the postulates - general covariance and background independence of a classical theory imply the postulate - diffeomorphism invariance.
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