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Showing 1 to 20 of 232 for “"fictitious"”.
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Fictitious Ecology
… From these terms, I navigate the idea of a fictitious ecology, an encapsulated anthropomorphic world governed by the creator’s personal experience with nature. This essay seeks to understand how the Primary and Secondary world inform W.H Auden’s idea of the “historian” and “poet,” using the …
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Towards a fictitious domain method with optimally smooth solutions
… is the smoothness of the solutions provided by fictitious domain methods for elliptic boundary value problems, and the construction of a new fictitious domain method which does not introduce artificial singularities, yielding better performance. After settling the notation and the theoretical …
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A counter-example to Karlin's strong conjecture for fictitious play
Fictitious play is a natural dynamic for equilibrium play in zero-sum games, proposed by Brown , and shown to converge by Robinson . Samuel Karlin conjectured in 1959 that fictitious play converges at rate O(t- 1/ 2) with respect to the number of steps t. We disprove this conjecture by showing …
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New full wave theory for plane wave scattering by a rough dielectric surface - the fictitious current method
… source equations. This is done by introducing a fictitious volume current distribution. Since the original problem does not possess a volume current distribution, its introduction represents a measure of the error in the postulated zero-order solution. To improve this solution, the fictitious …
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Author and Authorship in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman's Attempts to Author a Nostalgic, Fictitious Past Lead to His Downfall, While Linda Loman’s Miller-Authored Warnings Fall on Willy’s Ever-Deaf Ears
<p>Throughout the 20th century, the American male protagonist’s obsession with and longing for a past that never existed brings about his own downfall. In <em>Death of a Salesman, </em>by Arthur Miller,<em> </em>Willy Loman nostalgically fantasizes about a bygone era, the pre-war days of glory and …
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Assessing therapists’ attitudes toward consensually non-monogamous clients
… CNM. Differences in therapists’ perceptions of a fictitious client as a function of relationship orientation (e.g., monogamous, polyamorous, sexually open) were also assessed. A sample of 127 therapists and graduate student therapists-in-training was obtained. As predicted, therapists’ CNM …
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We May or May Not Rock You
<p>This project is a series of reality-based fictitious short stories about a group of rowdy musicians. Many of the characters and events are based on real people and occurrences intermingled with fiction to create a fast paced work focusing on dialogue and action while avoiding excessive …
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Mathematical and Physical Methods to Construct Approximately Neutral Surfaces
… the quality of an ANS by focusing on the fictitious vertical diffusion caused by lateral diffusion being applied in the wrong direction. This thesis shows that the spurious advection through an ANS is another important consideration that limits the accuracy and usefulness of an ANS. …
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Modern Western discourse on the subject
… psychoanalysis will be used to show how this fictitious feature is constituted by the Oedipus story and how it works. This thesis will show that the modern Western politics was based on this fictitious subject, exemplified by Hegelian subject, Freud's ego and masculine subject, and Lacan's moi …
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Geometry Projection Methods for Shape and Topology Optimization
The objective of this thesis is to develop fictitious domain methods for shape and topology optimization of continuum structures in which an unambiguous definition of the geometry is available. We use fictitious domain methods because they simplify the response analysis by eliminating the need for …
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Time and school learning
… conducted at Poor Man's Friend Secondary School (fictitious name), describes the use of Time Tabled School time. In fact, it quantifies the Time spent on Instruction and relates it to Learner Engagement-rates. Cumulatively, these variables impact on Learner Outcomes.
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Marx at 200 – Inquiries into the Measurement of Profitability and its Determinants: The US Economy, 1950-2016
… profit resting on surplus-value production from ‘fictitious’ components deriving from relations of credit/debt. This ‘normalization procedure’ permits a more realistic assessment of the amount of actual surplus-value transferred to finance, and therewith a more accurate calculation of the average …
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Critical comparison of "Swanson's mean rule" and "fully probabilistic" approaches to economic evaluation of exploration prospects
… The economics methodologies are tested on a fictitious prospect that is generated based on prospects and fields analogs in the North Sumatra Basin offshore Indonesia. Preliminary results suggest that the outcomes from Swanson's mean approach and a fully probabilistic economic evaluation are …
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Fauxtopia
To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... …
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The process of changed meanings: A study of the Canadian experience of Somali women in the Kitchener-Waterloo area in regard to female circumcision (Ontario)
… of changed meanings. My research tells the fictitious story of a Somali woman named mary. She has been in Canada for less than five years, and she moved to the Kitchener-Waterloo area, almost immediately. The narrative tells of her transition and the issues she had to handle. Female …
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The One
… presents large photographs as ‘stills’ from a fictitious movie set in late 20th century China, after the suppression of the Tiananmen Square Protest and the inauguration of the one- Child policy. The artist plays multiple roles in sites that are specifically gendered, to expose the exceptional …
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ΤΑ ΣΧΕΤΙΚΑ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΗ ΑΧΡΙΔΑΣ ΣΙΓΙΛΛΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΥ Β'
… A TRUE COPY OF AN ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, BUT IT IS A FICTITIOUS DOCUMENT, WHICH IS CONSISTED OF A COLLECTION AND OTHER PAPERS. THE THREE SIGILLIA DO NOT HAVE THE TYPICAL FORM OF AN ORIGINAL DOCUMENT AND THEIR DEVIATIONS ADVOCATE THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE ARGUMENT THAT THE PAPERS ARE FICTITIOUS. THE REVIEW …
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She Will Be the Last of Us
… of Mexican women. They are all members of the fictitious Belmonte family, once a stronghold in Mexican politics and high society, now nearing extinction. The collection explores the idea of legacy and repeated history, and what matters and remains when a family line dies out. Other thematic …
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Artifacts of the Kree
… to simultaneously explore and create a wholly fictitious civilization as a means of self-actualization and a grasp at the ineffable. The "Artifacts of the Kree" is a real-time interactive rendering of digitally fabricated objects belonging to a civilization that inhabited a planet far beyond …
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Fiction Selection
… of 2011 to 2013. Rain in Paluma consists of a fictitious community based upon island life in Australia. Stroke deals with the relationship of father and son, both facing the consequences of Alzheimer’s disease. The Desert Keeper centers upon a young girl who stumbles across a mythological …
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