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Gathering as significance
The architect gathers his knowledge along the wandering path of life. He approaches a threshold and a new journey begins, a process of design into which he is gathered to embark on the task of touching peoples lives in hope that they may gather together. "One cannot be together with others in a …
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In search of significance
… This dissertation advocates that meaning and significance are achieved in landscape design through the use of landscape narrative. The author argues that meaning neither resides in the landscape itself nor with the creator but with the mediation between user, the landscape and its elements. …
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The significance of metaphysics
… address some general reasons for doubting their significance, arguing that they are not compelling. In Chapter Three I contrast my approach with some other recent defenses of metaphysics, with particular focus on the views developed by Theodore Sider. Metaphysics is, on these views, an inquiry …
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The significance of fairness/
This dissertation is about fairness and the role it plays in political and personal morality. Specifically, I investigate when it is appropriate to rely on considerations of fairness to draw substantive conclusions about what we should do. In Chapter 1 ("Numbers, Fairness and Beneficence") I …
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The Significance of ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa
… might the Ktunaxa Nation Council incorporate the significance of ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa (Ktunaxa Homelands) into the organization. An Indigenous Research Methodology was utilized, which included a focus group and a kitchen table conversation as methods. Ktunaxa Elders and Knowledge Holders participated …
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Software-defined Significance-Driven Computing
… suitable for approximation. We introduce task-significance, a novel concept that describes the <br/>contribution of a task to the quality of the result. We use significance as a channel of communication from domain specific<br/>knowledge about applications towards the runtime-system, where we …
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The Rational Significance of Desire
… This is because a desire has no more rational significance than a guess or coin-flip. My argument relies on what I call the non-substitutability principle, the thesis that (all things being equal) one cannot substitute something that lacks rational significance, relative to some attitude, A, …
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Purchasing cooperatives : structures and significance
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Gender Terms and Normative Significance
… paper I will address a puzzle about normative significance of gender terms. On the one hand, gender is tied to many normative judgments, and questions about gender make a difference in what one should do. On the other hand, everyday use of gender terms is in flux, and there is not a consensus …
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Civility: Its Distinctness and Significance
… its distinctness as a virtue, others its moral significance. In this essay, I attempt to meet both challenges by offering an account of civility that stands distinct from other concepts and holds great value, both intrinsically and instrumentally. I claim that we show civility toward others when …
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Iran's Ground Forces: Significance and Implications
The current Iranian military buildup has received much recent attention with the emphasis on Iran's acquisition of advanced aircraft, Kilo-class submarines, sea-skimming cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, chemical and biological weapons, and possibly nuclear weapons. In most analyses of the arms …
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Clinical significance of certain electrolyte disturbances
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Modern Methods for Variable Significance Testing
… the ubiquitous statistical problem of variable significance testing. The first chapter contains an account of classical approaches to variable significance testing including different perspectives on how to formalise the notion of `variable significance'. The historical development is contrasted …
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The semantic significance of referential intentions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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Geochemical Significance of Biomarkers in Paleozoic Coals
Diese Arbeit analysiert extrahierbares organisches Material von 40 paläozoischen Proben mit dem Ziel, Einblicke in die biochemische Evolution der Landpflanzen zu gewinnen. Zusätzlich wird der Zusammenhang zwischen sauerstoffhaltigen Verbindungen und den nichtfunktionalisierten aromatischen …
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Valletta : the significance of its architectural evolution
… has become today means something, and it is this significance that this dissertation aims to bring to light.
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The significance of the treaty of 1806
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1918. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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Test of Significance about Two Population Proportions
<p>A new method is given for testing if there is a difference between two population proportions. The size of the test is exact in the sense that it is the maximum probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis. A method is given for determining a greatest lower bound on the power of the test over …
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