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Showing 1 to 20 of 2475 for “"imperative"”.
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Interface issues in the English imperative
Two puzzles in the syntax of the English imperative are treated here as consequences of interface conditions. The first concerns the inability of certain predicates to take an overt subject in the imperative. The second concerns the ungrammaticality of certain negative and emphatic imperatives with …
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The Canadian Nondelegation Doctrine: An Architectural Imperative
Delegation of legislative authority to the executive branch is a dominant practice in the modern Canadian administrative state. This dissertation argues that such delegation is unconstitutional. The unwritten principles of democracy, the separation of powers, and the rule of law – all defining …
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Organizing imperative programs for execution-based retrieval for reuse.
… the thesis, we propose a method for organizing imperative program components in a library for supporting execution-based retrieval. A prototype system, called OERS, is developed using OOD and OOP. This system could be used to construct and maintain an organized reuse library through the …
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AMIBE: an Imperative Programming Language with First Class Continuations
… COMET). We present a prototype imperative programming language with first class continuation -- AMIBE. AMIBE uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure which is attractive for its optimizing tools and overall modern organization. However, LLVM does not support the implementation of …
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The redevelopment of Columbia Point : financing a political imperative
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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The American college and its architecture : an institutional imperative
… investigates the notion of the Institutional Imperative in America at the turn of the century so to understand both the evolution of American civic architecture and the process whereby the individual architect made his formal decisions with respect to his larger philosophies and national …
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Negotiating the Capability Imperative: Enacting Disability Inclusion in Medical Education
… logic of medical education, the capability imperative. Dominant conceptions of disability as individual inability contrasted with expectations of hyper-ability in medicine. Student and school-official accounts illuminated the capability imperative, which consists of three motifs: selfless …
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Proving Self: The Problematic Imperative (Mainstreaming, Mentally Retarded, Integration, Phenomenology)
This dissertation is an interpretive phenomenological study of the integration of mentally retarded and non-mentally retarded children in play settings. The study attempts to unravel and display the structures of the lived experience of mentally retarded children who are placed into play situations …
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The empathy imperative : primary narratives in South African history teaching
… memory studies questions this ‘never again’ imperative, pointing out that remembrance does not necessarily lead to redemption. The aim of this research is to conduct a similar exercise by investigating the following paradox within South African history education. On the one hand, public …
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Verification of full functional correctness for imperative linked data structures
… full functional correctness for a collection of imperative linked data structures implemented in Java. A key technique that makes this verification possible is a novel, integrated proof language that we have developed within the context of the Jahob program verification system. Our proof language …
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Environmental journalism curriculum as an imperative of democracy: A philosophical exploration.
Economic retrenchment, social shifts, and technological changes endanger journalism's democratic role. Journalism education faces parallel threats. I review the state of journalism and education, linking the crisis to society's loss of story, framed philosophically by the Dewey-critical theory …
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The Vocational Imperative: Kazuo Ishiguro's Fictions and the Discourse of Denial
… of 'interpretive consonance' and 'vocational imperative' as a means of understanding Ishiguro's writing as a fictional embodiment and exploration of these ideas.<br/><br/>Following a general introduction, the first chapter establishes frames for a reading of Ishiguro's works by elucidating the …
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Kantian Meadows: A Just Nursing Home Grounded in the Categorical Imperative
… this project employs the Kantian categorical imperative as its theoretical framework. Based on that framework Kantian Meadows is created as an example of a just nursing home.
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The nature of synthetic judgements a priori and the categorical imperative
… five different formulations of the categorical imperative that Kant provides are all equivalent, in spite of their apparently differing meanings. To meet this goal I propose to display the nature of synthetic judgements a priori, since Kant claimed that the categorical imperative was this sort …
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Relational compilation: Functional-to-imperative code generation for performance-critical applications
Purely functional programs verified using interactive theorem provers typically need to be translated to run: either by extracting them to a similar language (like Coq to OCaml) or by proving them equivalent to deeply embedded implementations (like C programs). Traditionally, the first approach is …
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The imperative of experience and strategies for designing experiences at scale
… in place of transactional exchanges. The imperative of offering experiences presents significant challenges for nearly all companies, as they will be required to shift from being product-centric to being customer-centric. Recognizing that experiences reflect many technology products in …
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Sheltering our homeless : individual and institutional responses to the moral imperative
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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