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Showing 1 to 20 of 4075 for “"the real"”.
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The Real Thing
<p>THE REAL THING is a collection of short stories released from the confinement of the everyday. The stories allow characters to pop off the page from every angle. With an eye for anthropomorphism and ear for lyric, the collection is comprised of twenty-nine short stories, nineteen of which work …
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The Real Estate Sector's Reflection on Sustainability in the Real Estate Sector
… climate change and prioritise sustainability, the Real Estate Sector (RES) is a pivotal yet complex arena for sustainable development. Despite international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, carbon emissions have surged, with the RES significantly contributing to this …
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Searching for the Real McCoy
Masters thesis in Creative Nonfiction Writing
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Searching for the Real McCoy
Masters thesis in Creative Nonfiction Writing
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Theorem proving with the real numbers
This thesis discusses the use of the real numbers in theorem proving. Typically, theorem provers only support a few 'discrete' datatypes such as the natural numbers. However the availability of the real numbers opens up many interesting and important application areas, such as the verification of …
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The Real Blurred Lines: On Liminality in Horror and the Threatened Boundary Between the Real and the Imagined
The horror genre is obsessed with being treated as fact rather than fiction. From movies that plaster their title screens with "Based on actual events" to urban legends that happened to a friend of a friend, the horror genre thrives on being treated as fact even when it is more often fiction. Yet …
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Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
This thesis examines the prospects for a theory of metaphysical modality according to which modal truth is determined by conventional rules governing the terms in a natural language. I label this theory ‘linguistic modal conventionalism’, or ‘LMC’. My focus is on articulating and responding to a …
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Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
This thesis examines the prospects for a theory of metaphysical modality according to which modal truth is determined by conventional rules governing the terms in a natural language. I label this theory ‘linguistic modal conventionalism’, or ‘LMC’. My focus is on articulating and responding to a …
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Retail prices and the real exchange rate
This paper uses daily frequency relative prices gathered from online retailers for a basket of countries to investigate the Purchasing Power Parity relationship, exchange rate pass-throughs and the effect of price shocks on nominal exchange rates. We fit a structural VAR model on exchange rate and …
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Blockchain : digitally rebuilding the real estate industry
There are tremendous potential applications for blockchain technology, an innovative distributed ledger database system, within the real estate industry. This paper will explore one aspect-recording property titles- by comparing the benefits and limitations of a blockchain with those of the current …
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Überweiss: Moving fictional brands into the real world
Brands are everywhere. Even in the fictional worlds we escape to for fantasy, comfort and entertainment. Real brands placed in fiction for marketing purposes is generally called product placement or brand placement. Recently, scholars have been wading into a related field called reverse product …
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WRITING THE REAL: THE COLLAGES OF HANNELORE BARON
… writings and scholarly attention have focused on the work as representative of Holocaust suffering. This thesis intervenes in that assumption by arguing that it is possible to understand Baron's processes of making collage as a significant case study in the problematic of signification and a …
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ESSAYS ON THE REAL EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL FRICTIONS
… explores how different shocks affect real economic outcomes in the presence of financial frictions. The first essay shows that a decline in trade costs facilitated by railroads in the 19th century US increased wealth inequality. Using the universe of household-level wealth holdings …
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A fast Prolac TCP for the real world
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Essays on consumption and the real exchange rate
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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(Re)viewing big brother and (per)forming the real
This research project, [Re]Viewing Big Brother and [Per]Forming the Real, set about a critical examination of watching and being watched; specifically, ‘everyday’ people in the traditionally private space of the home mediated by surveillance technologies. The research methodology was …
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Pricing of contingent claims under the real-world measure
The aim of this thesis is to price contingent claims under the real-world probability measure. Real-world pricing results naturally by selecting the numeraire as the growth optimal portfolio (GOP). Under this approach, the existence of an equivalent risk-neutral probability measure is not required. …
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