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Showing 1 to 20 of 1978 for “"distinction"”.
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The Machine–Organism Distinction
… by defining or relying on a Machine–Organism Distinction (MOD). We are often able to take biological theories that are thought to characterize organ- isms, such as theories of organismal autonomy and stability, and apply them to machines. I argue that we should not provide an analysis of …
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Retaining Distinction; Restructuring a Small Town
… growth, publicly shared urban spaces, and the distinction between town and country. A new organization of building types reflects the modern lifestyle of the town which focuses on the integration of school and community activities. Boundaries are used as barriers to prevent horizontal sprawl.
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The False Intent-Purpose Distinction In Textualism
… purpose,” but they fail to make any meaningful distinction between such purpose and an intent they are imputing to the enacting legislature. The paper concludes that the intent-purpose distinction is a false one that makes for disjointed interpretations and obscures the real debate over …
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Feeding Distinction: Constrictions and Constructions of Dietary Compliance
In this work, moving back and forth along complementary perspectives, I aim to provide an in-depth analysis of the social stratification of eating and feeding practices in an Italian context, with a special focus on the school canteen as a possible enhancer of children’s dietary compliance. …
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Due Distinction: Elite Student Status Hierarchies In China
How do students sort each other into different status groups in school? Research primarily conducted in the United States conceptualizes student status hierarchies as multidimensional systems. Scholars portray multidimensional status systems as exclusionary, constructed by and in the best interests …
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The A/A-bar distinction and movement theory
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990.
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Youth, elites and distinction in a Northern Namibian town
This thesis illuminates the process of elite formation and the making of the public space in Rundu, an African middle-range town, against the background of wider transformations in postcolonial Namibia. I address these theoretical issues by bringing to the fore an intergenerational dialogue in the …
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The (in)distinction between wh-movement and c-selection
This thesis asks the following question: what can wh-movement teach us about verb phrase structure? I examine two apparent interactions between wh-movement and Voice: Mayan Agent Focus and the Double Object Movement Asymmetry (DOMA) (Holmberg et al., 2019). In certain Mayan languages, subject but …
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Literature and Medicine and Narrative Medicine: A Distinction between Terms
… education. In this dissertation, I explore distinctions between literature and medicine and narrative medicine and assert that a conflation of these terms is inaccurate. I discuss the legacy of the medical humanities in medical education and examine literature and medicine as a …
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Familiarity, context, and the distinction between literal and nonliteral language
Six experiments investigating the relationship of familiarity and context to the processing of metaphor are presented. Experiment 1 compares time to understand sets containing idiom or metaphor targets following 1-2 sentence contexts in four conditions: NONLITERAL, where the context was completed …
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The Consonant/Vowel Distinction: A Cognitive Difference Evidenced by Glides
The consonant/vowel distinction is surprisingly poorly understood. Consonants and vowels are often distinguished either by constriction degree or syllable position, but neither of these is exceptionless. This dissertation presents a new account of the distinction: the Domain Prioritization …
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The count/mass distinction in native and non-native grammar
… universals in L2 acquisition of the count/mass distinction. Furthermore, this dissertation also examines how similarly/differently L2-learners behave in online and offline tasks regarding the acquisition of the count/mass morphosyntax in English. As current literature does not provide a …
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The distinction between interviews and interrogations in the criminal investigation process
… will focus upon a qualitative research of the distinction between interviews and interrogations in the criminal investigation process. The intention is to present the differences that exist between both questioning techniques and how they are viewed upon by lawyers and police officers with …
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NOTIONS OF DISCONTENT AND DISTINCTION: REFLECTIONS OF YOUNG DIASPORIC TAIWANESE AMERICANS
<p>In 1971, Taiwan lost its seat in the United Nations and has been vying for international validation ever since. The Kuomintang’s (KMT) loss and the development of Taiwan’s democracy has left millions with varying opinions pertaining to the status of Taiwan. It also brings up the importance of …
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A consideration of two attacks upon the sharp analytic-synthetic distinction
… to the attacks upon the sharp analytic-synthetic distinction made by Quine in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and by White in "The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism". This essay attempts to show not only that these attacks are ill-conceived, but also that Carnap's semantic methods can be …
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