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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"errant"”.
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First, do not speak: Errant doctors, sexual abuse, and institutional silence
This dissertation looks at the power of silence, uncovering the repressed history of physicians who sexually abuse their patients. This research is an effort to understand how institutional practices create and sustain an atmosphere of silence in which such abuses can continue unchecked, if not …
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Errant Family Ties: Migratory Identities in Latina and Hispanic Caribbean Cultural Production
This dissertation examines how contemporary cultural production from Hispanic Caribbean and Latina female voices have altered patterns of the traditional family unit and a modern conceptualization of the nation-state. In the literary trajectory of Latin American and Caribbean cultures, the family …
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(Hi)stories in Displacement: The Poetics and Politics of Errancia in Post-1960s Latin American Literature
… traits, imaginary biographies of errant subjects and alternative historical discourses. Errancia features mechanisms of transgression that challenge territorial boundaries, contest rooted conceptions of Being, and destabilise the aesthetic, racial, gendered and disciplinary regimes …
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Automatic annotation of error types for grammatical error correction
… system is called the ERRor ANnotation Toolkit (ERRANT) and is the first toolkit capable of automatically annotating parallel sentences with error types. I demonstrate the value of ERRANT by applying it to the system output produced by the participants of the CoNLL-2014 shared task, and carry out …
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Automated Filtering and Attribution of Archive Bathymetry Based on A Priori Knowledge
… of existing bathymetric topography to remove errant soundings and concurrently provide an estimate of uncertainty.</p>
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'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
… half-monster, half-woman ‘Errour’ and Plato’s ‘Errant Cause’ – that recalcitrant aspect of matter which, in the Timaeus, interferes in the realisation of a perfectly Euclidean universe. I explore how halves in The Faerie Queene (‘halfe’ lines, ‘halfe’ things) seed unresolved fractions – …
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Writing at the Edge of the Empire: The Poetics of Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… By representing themselves as chivalric knights-errant, pirate-authors transformed themselves from thieves to gallant knights, they recast their raids as knightly quests, and they re-imagined their gruesome acts of violence as heroic feats of daring at arms. The romance form thus allowed …
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Clean Break
… evening before their departure, Jimmy makes an errant move in placing a large bet against a vindictive bookie. The result of Jimmy’s gambling is a severe beating and all of his travel money being stolen. Jimmy has to think fast in order to save his trip, so, he plans a new route for him and …
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Comparative neuroanatomy within the context of deep metazoan phylogeny
… and other subcompartments, are only observed in errant polychaetes but not in sedentary polychaete species, nor in clitellates representatives. The implications of an assumed homology between annelid and arthropod mushroom bodies are discussed in light of the "new animal phylogeny". It is …
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Strengthen What Remains: The Rhetorical Situation of James Montgomery Boice
… that helped shape his desire to stay within an errant denomination to strengthen what remains rather than abandon it. These influences are Donald Grey Barnhouse, Harold John Ockenga, Robert J. Lamont, and John Gerstner. Chapter 5 provides examples from Boice’s sermons and writings during the …
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An invitation to thought: ambiguity in the apologetic of C. S. Lewis
… the ambiguity evidenced in Lewis, while at times errant, is often employed with great strategic value, carrying the reader further along Lewis’s desired apologetic path. Chapter one provides an introduction to the thesis. Chapter two provides a systematic literature review for works related to …
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An Innocent Bystander Walks into a Bar: The Influence of Temporal Proximity and Familiarity on Unconscious Transference
… identification as a contributing factor to these errant convictions. Psychologists have contributed towards minimizing mistaken identifications by proposing best practices that law enforcement still follow today. One understudied cause of mistaken eyewitness identification is unconscious …
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An Agroecological Response to the Militarized Urban in Vieques, Puerto Rico
… shift from a rural to urban society. After an errant bomb killed a local, intense grassroots mobilizations succeeded in ousting the Navy from Vieques in 2003, but the extensive ecological and social harm it generated was devasting and enduring. This thesis will contextualize within Vieques the …
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Often treated harshly: Girls and young women in 1957 Perth
… long-standing Perth institutions for allegedly errant young women. I contend that the “tolerance, fair play and compassion for those in need” touted by then Prime Minister John Howard in 2006 as inherent Australian values did not exist in the period researched and that many young women suffered …
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A method for the spatial functionalization of the dynamic response of a structure with structural stability considerations
… algorithm is used to reduce the effect of errant data recorded by the LDV data acquisition system. A means of evaluating the performance of this process is developed. Finally, an experiment to determine the relationship between structural response stability and ambient temperature and …
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The Utilization of a Theology of Human Embodiment to Address Body Image
… of the body from Paul’s confrontation of this errant thinking in 1 Corinthians 6:12-20. In this passage, Paul argues for the value of the body based in Trinitarian involvement with the body—through the bodily resurrection of embodied believers by the Father, the bodily atonement offered for …
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Narratives of Crime and Disorder: Representations of Robbery and Burglary in the London Press, 1780-1830
… problematic, such as juvenile offending and errant servants, creating criminal stereotypes and giving rise to beliefs in the existence of organised gangs, a criminal class and a criminal underworld, serving to demonise the poor as inherently deviant. Such representations found a targeted and …
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Biochemical and Structural Characterization of the Atg8/LC3 Lipidation Pathway
… thioester bond from wayward reactivity toward errant nucleophiles, while Atg8 lipidation cascad
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High School Student Narratives of Error Analysis: A Qualitative Investigation into Literacy for Geometry Learning
… Prior research revealed how narratives about errant situations subconsciously affect errors from real-life experiences to problems in a course like Geometry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000; Mertova & Webster, 2020). The errors included a wrong strategy needing comprehension, a miscomputation …
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