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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Relativity Theory"”.
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Multiscale Modelling of Foodborne Diseases
… and concepts of the transmission mechanism theory that considers transmission to be the primary cause of infectious disease spread at the macroscale. Modellers of infectious diseases are increasingly using multiscale modelling approach in response to this challenge. Multiscale models of …
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DEVELOPING THINKING IN L2 SPEAKING: EVIDENCE FROM SPATIAL-TEMPORAL SYSTEM IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH LEARNERS
… speaking,' and applies linguistic relativity theory and Vygotsky's theory on thought and language to investigate how L1 thinking influences L2 speaking in Chinese native speakers learning English and English native speakers learning Chinese. It examines (a) habitual language use of …
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The Development and Application of Coupled Multiscale Models of Malaria Disease System
… diseases: (i) the transmission mechanism theory, (ii) the replication-transmission relativity theory. A significant difference exists between these theories in that (i) the transmission mechanism theory considers transmission to be the primary cause of infectious disease spread at the …
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Spinors, embeddings and gravity
This thesis is concerned with the theory of spinors, embeddings and everywhere invariance with applications to general relativity. The approach is entirely geometric with particular emphasis on the use of natural structures. A clear indication of the interaction between the above topics is given; …
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Cosmographic Origins for a New Classicism
… world. What emerges from the ideas given by relativity theory, quantum physics, string theory, and the mathematics of astro-physics is a profound and far reaching cosmography resembling nothing like that of the Renaissance or of classical Greece. Non-Euclidean geometry and the math of higher …
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Multiscale Modelling of Hepatic Viral Infection
… by applying the Replication-Transmission Theory at the cell level of biological organisation. In addition, a hybrid model was developed with the inclusion of the life-cycle of the pathogen which represents the within-cell submodel of the nested multiscale model and the comparative analysis …
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… interpretations of modern science (e.g. relativity theory, Big Bang cosmology, quantum physics).</p> <p>Several themes emerge in these examinations. – One is that an assessment of the validity of Whitehead’s reading of Plato involves ambiguities that have their root in inherent …
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Watching children: A history of America's race to educate kids and the creation of the 'slow-learner' subject
… alternative models of time and progress (e.g., relativity theory; quantum theory; chaos theory) that are more accurate in describing the phenomenon of time and arguably are more appropriate for use in American schools. The significance of the dissertation emerges when we realize that in …
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"LANGUAGE PREFERENCE AND COGNITIVE AVAILABILITY OF SEXUAL IDENTITY IN GAY JAPANESE BILINGUALS: AN ANALYSIS OF HABITUAL USE OF LINGUISTIC CATEGORIES"
… hypothesis (the weak form of the linguistic relativity theory: thinking Running head: LANGUAGE PREFERENCE AND COGNITIVE AVAILABILITY 2 varies for different languages) and Zipf’s Law (more frequently used words are shorter) informed the analyses and interpretation. It might be that using a …
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Dynamika przestrzeni i dynamika w przestrzeni: wpływ nowej fizyki oraz technologii na obrazowanie czasoprzestrzenne w wybranych utworach pisarzy amerykańskich z lat 40. i 50.
… focus is placed on the influence of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and outer space exploration on the creation of literary space-time imagery in selected works of American late modernist prose of the 1940s and 1950s. The paradigm shift induced by Einstein’s groundbreaking publication from 1905 …