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Showing 1 to 20 of 283 for “"Prize"”.
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian
In Canada, as elsewhere, major literary prizes certify the works they distinguish, spurring a more intensive engagement with them at the levels of criticism, pedagogy, and popular culture, and effecting a major shift in the way this literature is discussed and evaluated, marketed and consumed. …
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The Prize Collecting Steiner Tree problem
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Argument quality in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting
… arguments presented by journalists in Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. Journalists strive to inform citizens about the way their world is, was, and will be. These claims about the world are descriptive arguments, which can be accepted or rejected based on the quality of their reasons and …
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Node-weighted prize-collecting survivable network design problems
… survivable network design problem SNDP and its prize-collecting version PC-SNDP. The input consists of a node-weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and integral connectivity requirements $r(st)$ for each pair of nodes $st$. The goal is to find a minimum node-weighted subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that, …
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Chinese Eyes on the Prize: Strategic Partnerships and Changing Priorities
<p>The overall theme of this paper is increasing knowledge of the evolution of Chinese priorities and strategy since the Korean War, and how the evolution of China's relationships reveals changes in priorities. Why were these partnerships entered into on the part of China? What was China's …
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The Uses of Reason in Critical Judgement: Commentaries on the Turner Prize
… and other commentaries on the annual Turner Prize shortlist exhibitions, I examine a philosophical problem which has put into question the rational basis for evaluation in art criticism: the lack of any agreed criteria for the evaluation of artworks. This problem has been most often addressed …
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'The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed,' by John Fletcher: A Critical Edition
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6303240.pdf: 7718986 bytes, checksum: 160ea960894450d3b701a2b2512a6a6d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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The admission of slaves and 'prize slaves' into the Cape Colony, 1797-1818
This study supports the thesis that slaves were admitted into the Cape colony by the Cape colonial government, even though the government was opposed to slave importation in principle and law (Slave Trade Act, 1807) from 1797-1818. The colonial demand for slaves was at its height after the …
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Re-introducing prize-linked savings products in South Africa through business model innovation
… model innovation can be used to re-introduce prize-linked savings (PLS) products in South Africa in the context of the illegalization of FNB's Million-a-Month-Account (MaMa) by the Supreme Court of Appeals ruling in 2008. The study first explores the detailed underlying factors that led to the …
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Some things never change : myth and structure in Pulitzer Prize feature stories, 1997-2012
… used in 15 of the most recent winning Pulitzer Prize features by examining patterns in structural elements and cultural messages communicated in each story. This study found myth is inseparable from the feature story and subjective writing. In these narratives, myth was observed to influence the …
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No More Heroes? The Representation of the English Working Class in the Booker Prize Shortlists
… in 1969, statistics show that the Booker Prize has had a substantial influence on which novels written in the English language are bought and read. Most studies of the Booker’s influence concentrate on its creation of ‘literariness,’ its links with prize culture and its influence on the …
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Music for Solo Bassoon and Bassoon Quartet by Pulitzer Prize Winners: A Guide to Performance
The Pulitzer Prize in Music has been associated with excellence in American composition since 1943, when it first honored William Schuman for his Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song. In the years that followed, this award has recognized America’s most eminent composers, placing many of their works …
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Gastric haemorrhage in acute intracranial vascular accidents: submitted for the William Leslie Prize in Medicine
Seven cases are described of gastrointestinal haemorrhage occurring in association with a cerebro- vascular accident. In five instances the intracranial lesion was a cerebral haemorrhage, and in two it was a subarachnoid haemor- rhage. Haematemesis occurred in five cases, and melaena in one ; in …
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Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913
… dissertation illuminates the social meaning of prize fighting between 1882 and 1913 considering interactions between culture and power relations. My dissertation understands prize fighting as a cultural text, structured in conjunction with social relations and power struggles. In so doing, the …
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The incentives and disincentives of innovation prizes : a survey of the dropout teams from Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE
… to this understanding by focusing on innovation prizes (as applied to the energy industry). It aims to examine how prizes provide a useful but also a limiting incentive for companies in a particular arena of R&D. Specifically, the thesis involves a survey of the teams that dropped out from a …
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