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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Symposium"”.
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Plato's Symposium: the Other Half. A study of Phaedrus', Pausanias', and Eryximachus' Speeches (Symposium, 178a6-188e4)
… speeches uttered in praise of Erôs in Plato's Symposium (178a6-188e4). Less studied than the following speeches, these encomia are often dismissed as lacking in argumentative consistency, cultural originality, and philosophical insights. I disprove these three criticisms by showing that, in …
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Truths of Indian Boarding School: A Symposium
… issues. The following project will propose a symposium stemming from the need for more conversation in museums about the difficult truths of Indian Boarding Schools, as current dialogue is limited. This project will examine and gather scholars, museum professionals, and community members from …
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The Literary Past and the Hellenistic Symposium
… It utilises the interpersonal context of the symposium to understand the place and significance of literature as a social phenomenon. Methodologically, it combines art and text, synthesising literature which represents, and literature visualised and depicted at, Hellenistic symposia. My …
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Sensitivity Training Symposium: For Museum Staff and Docents
… this capstone posits a Sensitivity Training Symposium for museum docents, staff, and volunteers. These disabilities range from vision impairment to dementia and even autism. This study will analyze how to treat people with disabilities, sensitivity training techniques in the workplace, and …
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Elitism and Identity at the Roman-Era Symposium
This dissertation approaches the symposium of the first and second centuries CE from a cultural historicalstandpoint. This iteration of the symposium has not been studied through such a lens, and this dissertation describes many of its unique aspects while analyzing its use as a tool for cultural …
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Leadership Initiatives: A Mixed Methods Assessment of Psychological Empowerment
… if, and to what degree, the Women's Leadership Symposium and Student Leadership Institute at a small Midwestern university impacted psychological empowerment among program participants. In this mixed methods thesis on psychological empowerment among Women's Leadership Symposium and Student …
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A question of substance
… of January 27th to February 2nd, 1986 a design symposium was held in the Department of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This symposium, entitled "An Architecture of Substance" was wholly student initiated, organized, and executed. The symposium was organized around ·an …
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A composium in four quarters
composium = compose + symposium The use of a music/architecture analogy is employed in the design of a place for the study of composition. Four models for examination include Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, and Arnold Schoenberg.
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Regional accreditation and learning outcomes assessment: mapping the territory
… for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) Symposium on student learning outcomes assessment, in October 2009. The information gathered from the documents, interviews, and the symposium were reviewed and analyzed for emergent themes. These themes reveal similarities and differences between …
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Status and Distribution of Manatees in Honduras and the Use of Side-Scan Sonar
… them throughout their range.</p> <p>The First Symposium for the Biology and Conservation of the Antillean manatee <em>(Trichechus manatus manatus)</em> in Mesoamerica, was held in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, November 1-2, 2006. The primary purpose of this symposium was to update the current …
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Pancreatic fluid collections : towards a classification to facilitate treatment selection
… based on definitions established at the Atlanta Symposium in 1992. The chronic pancreatitis related pseudocysts were further selected anatomically into intra or extra pancreatic.
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All of a Sudden: The Role of Ἐξαίφνης in Plato's Dialogues
… vii, and heralds the vision of the Beautiful in Symposium. Commonly translated in the Parmenides as "the instant, " ἐξαίφνης also surfaces in a crucial section of the dialogue's training exercise. This dissertation demonstrates the connection obtaining between the thirty-six scattered …
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Desire Informing Philosophy in Plato: The Lover, the Tyrant, and the Citizen
… through the following the chronology: <em>Symposium, Phaedrus, Republic, Statesman, and Laws</em>. That human failing and ambition equally find desire couched between lack and satiation is radically reconsidered in the course of the <em>Symposium</em> to aim eros towards the possession of …
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Toward a Democratic Science? Environmental Justice Activists, Multiple Epidemiologies, and Toxic Waste Controversies
… and anti-toxics activists. A 1991 national symposium on health research needs and the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, established in 1993 to advise the Environmental Protection Agency, provided important locations through which activists advocated an environmental justice …
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Production of Ultra-Thick Sodium Nitroprusside Absorbers for the Determination of Mössbauer Transmission Integral Parameters.
At the 1974 Moessbauer Methodology Symposium, a paper by Agresti et al., introduced a novel method for determining recoil-free fractions, namely, the spectra of a series of thicknesses of absorbers are fitted simultaneously under a least squares minimization criterion to the transmission integral. …
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Performance benchmarking physical and virtual linux envrionments
… paper "Xen and the Art of Virtualization" at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in October 2003 by Barham et al. (2003). Clark et al. (2004) performed a similar study and produced similar results. In this thesis, a similar performance analysis of Xen is undertaken and also extended to …
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Continuous-time multivariable system identification
… submitted as an invited paper at the 1991 IFAC Symposium on Identification.
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A study to determine how many person hours are expended by learning consultants and school psychologists to complete an evaluation from initial referral to final placement
… Learning Consultants by Dr. Stanley Urban at a symposium of Learning Consultants held in Bridgeport New Jersey. Based on the responses, it was determined that both School Psychologists and Learning Consultants spend an average of fourteen hours on an initial evaluation. These results have …
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A plea for time : northern aboriginal peoples advocate for the right to communicate on the information highway
… Connecting the North, an interactive broadcast symposium held in 1994, as it represents a large-scale non-government initiated public consultation which impacted on the federal government's national policy for the information highway. Innis' theory of communications provides a theoretical …
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Computing Exact Bottleneck Distance on Random Point Sets
… analyze a new algorithm by Lahn and Raghvendra (Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2019). Our experiments show that our approach outperforms the HK-Algorithm based approach for computing bottleneck matching.
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