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Showing 1 to 20 of 2997 for “"kinds"”.
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All Kinds of Touching
Poems about skin, fucking, death, disaster, growing up, blood, caves, art and general stickiness.
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Disease Kinds and Functional Explanations.
… thesis is concerned with the character of kinds in human somatic pathology and the relation that these kinds and their members have with function-based explanations. More precisely, in the first part of the thesis I investigate whether diseased organisms, grouped together on grounds of …
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Protein Classification and Natural Kinds
… practices to the debate over natural kinds. I address which classificatory practice is likely to pick out a natural kind. I defend the thesis that dynamics is a fundamental description of proteins as kinds. This view is widely held in biochemistry but is absent from philosophical …
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Engaged Time in Two Kinds of Classrooms
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7811237.pdf: 4657415 bytes, checksum: 3b30b75affab93923a026d3427138385 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Kinds of spaces : poststructural concepts and metafictional appropriations
"Kinds of Spaces: Poststructural Concepts and Metafictional Appropriations" emerges from studies in structural linguistics, contemporary critical theory, and metafiction and thus moves into the realms of poststructuralism and deconstruction while developing a theory of space in writing. Its central …
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Distinguishing Dynamical Kinds: An Approach for Automating Scientific Discovery
The automation of scientific discovery has been an active research topic for many years. The promise of a formalized approach to developing and testing scientific hypotheses has attracted researchers from the sciences, machine learning, and philosophy alike. Leveraging the concept of dynamical …
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Depression, anxiety and anger symptoms among children in different kinds of custodies
Divorce rate has increased in the past years. It is also more common that children live with both parents in shared physical custody instead of single parent’s households. The aim of this study is to examine whether different forms of custodies impact adolescent’s mental health in the forms of …
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Why it takes all kinds: diversity mechanisms and patterns in ecological communities
This work explores the effect of diversity of individuals on a community. The mechanisms generating diversity are explored, their effects on patterns of diversity are examined, and the impact of diversity on community properties (such as productivity and stability) is investigated. Three …
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Parent expectations of teaching and caring at different kinds of higher education institutions
… the teaching and caring functions of several kinds of institutions, which were grouped by two variables: Sponsorship (public, private non-sectarian, or private religious) and Institution Type (research/PhD or liberal arts). One purpose of the study was to compare expectations of parents who …
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Stimulus-Set and Response-Set: Considerations of Two Alleged Kinds of Selective Attention
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:21:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606817.pdf: 3082405 bytes, checksum: 87c581c0e557d22a28ad0faea00694f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Kinds of Concepts and Teaching Strategies
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:25:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6910626.pdf: 5921628 bytes, checksum: 70ddec3ffc9ff8629aab7dd25f06a9ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Making Change Intelligible: Why The Study of Human Kinds Is Just Science As Usual
… sciences due to the interactivity of human kinds. By examining the concept of classificatory looping and its impact on human kinds, the author argues that understanding the causal pathways and utilizing behavioral science can offer reliable generalizations about human kinds. The paper …
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Genomic Designation: New kinds of people at the intersection of genetics, medicine and social action
… of reductionism and examine the emergence of new kinds of people at the intersection of genetics research, clinical practice and social action. For over fifty years, conditions like the XXX, Edwards, Fragile X and 22q11.2 Deletion Syndromes have been discovered, delineated and diagnosed strictly …
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Non-Hostile Casualties in These Kinds of Wars from the Korean War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
This thesis provides a detailed study of the non-hostile deaths of the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. This document examines the causes of the non-hostile deaths, from illnesses, accidents, friendly fire, and other injuries, as well as the trends …
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The same cognitive mechanism underlies reasoning about the features of kinds and the traits of individuals
… we propose that inferences about the features of kinds and the traits of individuals are in fact computed by the same cognitive mechanism. To test this hypothesis, we investigated whether kind-feature and individual-trait inferences share two distinctive signatures: namely, whether they are both …
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Effect of different kinds of organic materials & fertilizers on the accumlation of ammonia & nitrate nitrogen in composts
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Soils, 1940
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