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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"specific performance"”.
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Site-specific performance rituals in the Anthropocene
… this creative practice PhD, I investigated site-specific performance rituals in the Anthropocene. Driven by the urge to respond to the challenges of the current time, I examined how different seasonal rituals might be expressed in specific sites in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Furthermore, including …
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Site specific performance and the mechanics of becoming social
… that includes video documentation of one to one performances, performance lectures, critical writings and first person reflective narratives that give new insights into the potential of site-specific performance art and social space. Key themes, questions and concerns across performance studies …
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The Stagehands of Subversive Spaces: Site-specific Performance and Audience Labour
… as aesthetic resources in contemporary site-specific performance and relational art. Collaborating with three Canadian companies as a participant-observer, interviewer, and in some cases, documenter, I develop case studies that track flexible stage-audience relationships in public spaces. By …
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Critical Velocity is Associated with Combat Specific Performance Measures in a Special Forces Unit
… are in the process of transitioning to a more specific combat readiness test. However, specific assessments to predict operational success/readiness are inefficient or lacking. A single test that requires minimal time, but provides simultaneous assessment of the necessary physical …
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Comparison of the Efficacy of General and Specific Performance Dimensions in an Operational Assessment Center
… to compare the effectiveness of three general performance dimensions and 14 specific dimensions on various aspects of rating quality.</p> <p>The categorization phase of the research tested the hypothesis that categorization accuracy and reliability would be a significantly greater for the …
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Site and sound: musical composition and site-specific performance – developing a creative practice through practical methodologies
… Ph.D. investigates ways of developing site-specific performances through a variety of methodologies in order to sonically address the relationships between space, mobility and sound, focussing on mobile communication technologies as well as objects and locations such as bridges and rivers. …
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Some Concept Regarding Breach and Remedies under the Scope of CISG in 21st Century
… and remedies such as avoidance of the contract, specific performance, damages. it contains some specific examples regarding the categories of breach and remedies.
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GIUDICARE L'AMMINISTRAZIONE È AMMINISTRARE? PROFILI EVOLUTIVI DELL'AZIONE DI ADEMPIMENTO
L'innovazione legislativa - consistente nel riconoscimento al giudice amministrativo del potere di condannare la P.A. ad un facere (e, segnatamente, al rilascio del provvedimento amministrativo richiesto dal privato cittadino) - si colloca in un percorso giurisprudenziale e dottrinario che, sotto …
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A CASE STUDY OF THE ATTEMPTS TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE PROGRAM OBJECTIVES IN AN IOWA AREA EDUCATION AGENCY DIVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
… an annual plan which contained objectives with specific performance levels. As part of this effort, a stratified random sample of students identified as handicapped was used to select the records to be reviewed. The review of records was done to provide evidence of the pro vision of services. …
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Numerical and experimental investigation of composite heat pipe technology
… cooling, and permafrost retention. To improve specific (per unit mass) performance and reduce manufacturing cost, we present here a concept for a composite heat pipe that utilizes different materials for the adiabatic and evaporator/condenser sections. Such composite heat pipes can be …
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A Dual-Process Account of Reactions to General and Specific Events: The Roles of Counterfactual Thinking and Pre-Event Expectations
… dual-process account of reactions to general and specific cases, counterfactual thinking was hypothesized to occur more frequently in response to specific events than to general events. Cognitive reactions to general events were expected to be influenced by pre-event expectations, whereas …
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Exploring theatrical conventions and the application of palimpsest, polyphony, hauntology, and site-specific, through a scenographic lens
… as a frame to understand and generate a site-specific performance that is through a scenographic lens. Scenography as defined through The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography (McKinney & Butterworth, 2015), states that scenography is a vital part of performance. By focusing on the …
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The effect of modular acoustics on a performer's perception in multi-use (symphonic and operatic) concert halls
… the difference in the adjustable acoustics of a specific performance hall, namely, what is the difference between the opinions of instrumentalists and vocal musicians? Reverberation times in the Rogers Center auditorium in Andover, MA were taken onstage with the hall's acoustical curtains either …
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Effects of yoga on physical characteristics on NCAA division I baseball athletes
… with respect to injury prevention and performance. Professional and intercollegiate programs employ various methods of flexibility training; however, to date, no literature exists with regard to the effect of a yoga-based training program. The purpose of this investigation was to …
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Training load monitoring in soccer : the dose-response relationships with fitness, recovery and fatigue
… issue of recovery between games and subsequent performance to the fore in soccer related research. Studies have described the time-course of recovery for numerous biochemical and physiological measures of performance, fatigue and recovery from match-play. However, the research also suggests that …
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Overcoming the Expressivity-Efficiency Tradeoff in Program Induction
… in program synthesis show strong domain-specific performance, but are both less sample-efficient and less flexible. Large language models improve upon this sample-efficiency and domain-generality, but lack robustness and still fall far short of people and traditional approaches on …
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Comparison and optimization of control policies in automobile manufacturing systems by simulation
… the efficiencies of the systems in terms of specific performance measures of interest. Among the control policies, Control Point Policy (CPP) is deeply studied, because this policy is designed for controlling complex manufacturing system with multiple product types. First, fundamental …
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Situational constraints: their measurement and role in a dynamic model of performance
… constraints measured with reference to a specific performance domain had greater predictive validity than those representing a general performance domain. The data did not support the contention that problem-focused coping and the perceived controllability of constraints would interact in …
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A Comparative study of the contract remedy systems between Anglo-American law and Chinese law
… two contract remedy systems: the principle of specific performance in Chinese law versus the use of monetary damages in Anglo-American law; and the principle of punishment in Chinese law versus the principle of compensation in Anglo-American law. The study strives not only to identify the …
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GPU-Optimized Molecular Dynamics Simulations
… substituent particles. We then present novel GPU-specific performance optimization techniques for MD simulations, including 1) a new Verlet-type neighbor list algorithm that is readily implemented using the CUDPP library and 2) data type compression scheme, as well as standard GPU-optimization …
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