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Representative Volunteerism in Museums
<p>While increasing diversity is becoming more commonplace, it still remains a difficult subject to approach and handle effectively and correctly. This project is important because it will help to remove the invisible barriers that make institutions categorize groups based on race, class, gender, …
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Representative selection of variables
The classical and most frequent use of the discriminant function is for the purpose of classification, by obtaining a combined measurement such that the difference between two or more groups is as large as possible. The linear discriminant function for the special case of two groups was first …
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Summarizing data with representative patterns
… studied the problem of summarizing data with representative patterns. The objective is to find a set of patterns, which is much more concise but still contains rich information of the original data, and may provide valuable insights for further analysis of data. In the light of this idea, we …
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John Stuart Mill on representative government
… The first is Mill's theoretical approach to representative government, which requires an analysis of his views regarding the political development of society, the development of representative government, the individual in society and the nature of "true" and "false" democracies. Special …
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Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Representative Democracy
… that he is one of the few thinkers to theorise representative democracy as his preferred form of government explicitly, Jeremy Bentham is conspicuously absent from current scholarly work in these fields. This thesis contends that Bentham put forward an original, realist theory of representative …
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Diversity and Expertise in Representative Governance
Representative democracy is a widespread and essential part of democratic governance. Our understanding of it has been largely shaped by the triumph of elections that vest peripheral access to power through episodical polls. How would representative democracy look under different selection rules? …
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Representative Biodiversity: The Ecosystem of Cartoon Network
<p>As a capitalist organism the television program, as explained by Todd Gitlin, uses its slant to sell itself to advertisers with similar leanings on contemporary social issues to maintain its flow of revenue. However, this concept of slant does not account for the broader network, which, like the …
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Generating Representative Benchmarks by Automatically Synthesizing Datasets
… Datamime, a profile-guided approach to generate representative benchmarks for production workloads. Datamime uses the performance profiles of a target workload to generate a dataset that, when used by a benchmark program, behaves very similarly to the target workload in terms of its …
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Automatic identification of representative content on Twitter
… longitudinal basis in order to identify representative tweets across prominent election issues. The framework consists of two main components, (1) a dynamic topic model that identifies all tweets related to election issues using knowledge from news stories and continuous learning of …
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An integrated model of a representative defense contractor
A model of a representative defense contractor is formulated. The model is formulated in segments which correspond to the markets in which the defense contractor operates. The supply of input segment describes the input variables in the model. The manufacturing segment characterizes the defense …
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Exact And Representative Algorithms For Multi Objective Optimization
… effort. Decision maker generally needs only a representative set of solutions from the actual Pareto front. First algorithm we present is for efficiently generating a well dispersed non-dominated solution set representative of the Pareto front which can be used for general multi objective …
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Cost of raising pullets on representative Michigan farms
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Poultry Husbandry, 1955
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Musical attitudes and activities of representative American statesmen
… toward music and the musical activities of such representative American colonial statesmen as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams.
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Six Representative Women Novelists of Mexico, 1960-1969
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Iron recovery from a representative water treatment plant sludge
Water treatment plant sludge disposal has become a timely problem to consider. While many methods of sludge treatment and disposal have been suggested, coagulant recovery may prove to be the most economical. This investigation was concerned with recovery of iron coagulant by chemical addition. …
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