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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"stumble"”.
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Times to stumble, times to learn: Problematic situations in early childhood student teaching
The purpose of this interpretive study is to examine the problematic situations a prospective early childhood teacher, Carolyn, perceives during student teaching and how she experiences those problematic situations. Three questions are raised: (a) What are the problematic situations that the …
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The geology of the Khayyam and Stumble-On deposits, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
The Khayyam and Stumble-On deposits are stratiform copper-zinc-gold-silver massive sulfide deposits within the late Proterozoic(?) to pre-Middle Ordovician Wales Group, a metamorphosed volcanic arc complex within the Alexander tectonostratigraphic terrain. These massive sulfide deposits are …
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Navigating choreographic transitions through the use of personal narrative and storytelling an investigation into the choreographic process and performance of 'I stumble every time (2010)'
… the making of the dance theatre performance ‘ I stumble every time...’ which was performed as part of my Masters in Choreography as a practical examination held, at Joseph Stone Auditorium in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2010.
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The Mermaid of Champion Mill
Three Missoula misfits stumble upon a mermaid in an abandoned lot. The mermaid becomes the center of a freak show in which the three misfits perform their individual quirks for a constantly growing audience. Gradually, the repeated performances take their toll and the misfits find themselves …
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The Mermaid of Champion Mill
Three Missoula misfits stumble upon a mermaid in an abandoned lot. The mermaid becomes the center of a freak show in which the three misfits perform their individual quirks for a constantly growing audience. Gradually, the repeated performances take their toll and the misfits find themselves …
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Patch Based Models for Image Enhancement
… stimuli as a function of image degradation. We stumble on the well known but less understood fact that enhancement does enhance human interpretation, though the quantification of such behavior has still remained an open question.
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The Viscous Display : a transient interface for collective play in public space
… spaces via the Viscous Display for people to stumble upon. This thesis will describe the approach and process of designing, constructing and testing the Viscous Display project. The Viscous Display aims to create landscapes that are charged with the traces and messages of others that have …
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The Martingale Approach to Financial Mathematics
… Under this no-arbitrage assumption alone, we stumble upon a strange new probability measure <em>Q</em>, according to which every risky asset is expected to grow as though it were a bond. As it turns out, this measure <em>Q</em> also gives the arbitrage-free pricing formula for every asset on …
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The Blue Lights: Stories
… pre-cell phone Florida where characters stumble into small yet illuminating moments of self-realization set in recognizable, though run-down, places.</p> <p>Though the stories vary stylistically, The Blue Lights relies on a visual style heavy in its employment of metaphor and lyricism, …
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Graphical Security Sandbox For Linux Systems
… confidence in various applications that they stumble upon and use on a daily basis. Developed sandboxing facility monitors a targeted application’s activity and imposes restrictions on its access to operating system resources during its execution. Using a simple but expressive policy language, …
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How Students Access, Filter and Evaluate Digital News: Choices That Shape What They Consume and the Implications for News Literacy Education
… are mostly information scanners and more often stumble upon news online than seek out specific news of interest. Participants have a strong social interest in news, like to share stories with others, and are often trusting of their social networks and technology to filter the news they consume. …
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Moving Toward Understanding: Negotiating Survival and Wellbeing while Living in Poverty
… reproduced. Individuals and communities do not stumble upon poverty. Classism, colonialism, racism, homophobia, ableism, and marginalization, which are visible through poverty, lend themselves to the perpetuation of poverty across generations, as well as purposefully disenfranchising particular …
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Unlocking the self in self-writing
… and ‘post-modern’. Criticism is also found to stumble on the ineluctable complexities of such concepts. Philippe Lejeune (in, On Diary); Jacques Derrida (in, The Postcard: from Socrates to Freud and Beyond and, Writing and Difference); Ihab Hassan (in, ‘Quest for the Subject: The Self in …
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Modeling Protein Regulatory Networks that Control Mammalian Cell Cycle Progression and that Exhibit Near-Perfect Adaptive Responses
… their parameter space such that they eventually stumble upon a region where they score well under a pre-defined scoring metric. We find many such parameter sample sets across various classes of topologies.
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A Computer Language Transformation System Capable of Generalized Context-Dependent Parsing
… deterministic parser generators do not stumble in this area, but they sacrifice the generalized parsing abilities that transformation systems depend on. When it is hard to get the input into the system as a correct and accurate parse tree the utility of the unified transformation …
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Courting strategy management through the intervention of liberation leadership
… approach towards strategy management. They stumble into the process inadvertently as part of what they do as liberation leaders; the process is neither structured nor formalised.Recommendations are put forward to help make the schools more aware and more responsive to strategy management and …
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Die advertensie
… success and saving the language. A young girl stumbles upon the lead character in this deserted landscape (almost as one would stumble upon a new piece of literature). The girl's father is "out of town", and therefore can't help. So, she tries to save him herself, giving him nourishment and …
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The life-world of the black child in ex-model `C` schools
… and highly politicised militant adolescents, who stumble though life with a feeling of insecurity, a lack of self-confidence and opposed to any form of authority. They have a a sense of impending failure, which encourages black learners to wander aimlessly along the road of violence, alcohol and …
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New approaches to open problems in gene expression microarray data
… Data -MGED- Society [1]) it is not unfrequant to stumble in a clinician's question that do not have a compelling statistical method that could permit to answer it.The contribution of this dissertation in deciphering disease regards the development of new approaches aiming at handle open problems …
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Confrontation: Endeavors in Futility
This paper is intended to compliment and describe the body of work that has been produced within the time I have been enrolled as a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University's Photography and Film department. The paper will include information on both my MFA candidacy presentation as …