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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"encyclopaedia"”.
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A Comparison of the Treatent of Selected Subjects in American History in the Ninth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Editions of the Encycloaedia Britannica
… to confine myself to various editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; that reference work being quite representative, in its historical material, of any trends occurring in the field of American historiography.</p> <p>I have selected, therefore, for my subject A Comparison of the Treatment …
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Jesus Caesar : a Roman reading of John 18:28 - 19:22
… Umberto Eco’s semiotics, that the Roman cultural encyclopaedia could shed light on the Gospel of John, particularly in the Roman trial narrative for a Roman-aware audience. Some words in particular intersect with important Roman concepts: πραιτώριον, βασιλεύς, υἱὸς θεοῦ and ἐξουσία. The phrase …
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The age system of the Nilo-Hamitic peoples : a comparative analysis.
… by Driberg under the issue "Age-grades" in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. He writes: "The Galla, with their very complex system (of age-grades), are the centre and source of this (Hamitic) culture; and from them it has permeated all the Nilo-Hamitic tribes which cluster round them, the Masai, the …
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A study of the constitution of Grade 8 mathematics within the context of the Revised National Curriculum Statement in five Western Cape schools
… announced by teachers and use the mathematics encyclopaedia as a resource to ascertain the content that substitutes for formal mathematical definitions, axioms and propositions.
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The Integration Of Synthetic Biology With Metabolically And Phenotypically Emergent Multicellular Simulations For Medical And Other Applications
… The novel cytohistological genetics encyclopaedia and biological network explorer, BioNexusSentinel, developed here evidenced artificial intelligence mediated development and R preprocessing as beneficial. Omics data was implicated for future parameterization of translational medical …
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The Integration Of Synthetic Biology With Metabolically And Phenotypically Emergent Multicellular Simulations For Medical And Other Applications
… The novel cytohistological genetics encyclopaedia and biological network explorer, BioNexusSentinel, developed here evidenced artificial intelligence mediated development and R preprocessing as beneficial. Omics data was implicated for future parameterization of translational medical …
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Applying Wikipedia to Interactive Information Retrieval
… use. This online, collaboratively generated encyclopaedia is one of the largest and most consulted reference works in existence. It is broader, deeper and more agile than the knowledge bases put forward to assist retrieval in the past. Rendering this resource machine-readable is a challenging …
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Debating the European Union transnationally : Wikipedians’ construction of the EU on a Wikipedia talk page (2001-2015)
… of Wikipedia since this collaboratively created encyclopaedia has received little research attention. Taking the EU on Wikipedia as a starting point, this thesis presents a foray into how Wikipedia can be approached from a CDS perspective. That is, on the one hand, it identifies central aspects …
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Åldrandet och språket : en språkhistorisk analys av hög ålder och åldrande i Sverige cirka 1875–1975
… age and how to best care for the elderly. Encyclopaedia entries from both the beginning and the end of this period describe ageing as a medical process of physical decline. Since much current research also uses such a medical perspective on ageing, it is tempting to conclude that ageing …
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La Tavola Ritonda tra intrattenimento ed enciclopedismo
… the myth of Tristan and Iseult in a sort of encyclopaedia, capable of creating an original dialectic between different literary and light non-literary genres.
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The sound of the hidden curriculum: music and sound design in baby-boomer era social guidance films in the United States
… companies such as Centron, Coronet, and Encyclopaedia Britannica made social guidance films to address topics such as social courtesy, career-planning, relationship health, personal responsibility, and emotional management. This paper examines the sonic materials in a collection of 104 …
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Bowu and the Natural World in the Formation of Modern China
… major reference books, such as the Qing imperial encyclopaedia *Qindin Gujin tushu jicheng* 欽定古今圖書集成. The following three chapters focus on the transitional period, starting from the 1850s, during which *bowu* experienced profound and rapid changes in meaning. Chapter Two examines one of the most …
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Encyclopaedic Question Answering
… from diUerent sources to be linked to the encyclopaedia, further enhancing the coverage of the system. The viability of the proposed approach was evaluated in an independent setting by participating in two competitions at CLEF 2008 and 2009. In both competitions, EQUAL outperformed standard …
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Risk-Based Game Modelling for Port State Control Inspections
… Basic vessel information from the World Shipping Encyclopaedia (WSE), casualty information from IMO and Lloyd's Register of Shipping, PSC Inspection records from Paris MoU online inspection database, and the estimated value of different cost types from Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd. The …
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
… expression, I argue, in the later allegorical encyclopaedias of ‘Chartrian’ poets, Bernard Silvestris and Alan of Lille (1140s–80s). The final part of the thesis discusses Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Poetria nova (c. 1215). Here the mechanical arts are enlisted to represent the student of the verbal …