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The Whitehead Link on the Cubic Lattice
… or z-direction. This thesis will show that the Whitehead Link needs at least 34 steps to be embedded on the cubic lattice.
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Becoming Otherwise: Politics, Metaphysics and Power in Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead
… from the work of Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Read through and out of these two philosophers of becoming is a post-secular political ontology that is embedded within a metaphysics of creativity, a metaphysic that is itself already infected by the political. At the intersection of the …
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Establishing a successful biomedical research institute : the story of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
… thesis analyzes the founding and growth of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, a leading not-for-profit biomedical research institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in an attempt to identify its critical success factors. The Whitehead Institute was founded in 1982 with a …
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An ideal of personal growth implied in the psychology of Jung and the metaphsics of Whitehead
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1936. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Managing a data analysis production line : an example from the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genomic Research
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2003.
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A Theology of Divine Calling in Light of Karl Barth, A.N. Whitehead, and Meister Eckhart’s Theological Forms
… The theology/philosophy of Karl Barth, A. N. Whitehead, and Meister Eckhart is utilized. They represent three distinctive theological forms: revelational, metaphysical, and experiential. This dissertation studies their theology/philosophy according to their forms and creates conservations …
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Le geste philosophique de Whitehead : éléments pour une lecture de Modes of Thought autour du concept de vie
… de la conception de la vie telle que Whitehead la développe dans son dernier ouvrage, 'Modes de pensée' (1938), et de révéler les enjeux que cette conception charrie par rapport aux ouvrages précédents de Whitehead. A cette fin, nous nous penchons sur des thématiques comme la dimension …
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
… Suzan-Lori Parks, Natasha Trethewey, and Colson Whitehead – within the African American Literary Tradition explore relationships to history in light of a dominant rhetoric that represents African American history through a white, hegemonic lens. In Parks’ The America Play, Trethewey’s Bellocq’s …
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… in the philosophical expressions of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). It was Whitehead who issued the well-known remark that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists in a series of footnotes to Plato" -- the purpose of this project is to …
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Knots Not for Naught
… family of knots is generated from placing the Whitehead link into a solid torus, slicing the torus at a spot where the Whitehead has no crossings and then twisting the torus 360 degrees in either direction an integral number of times. Let L(n) denote the knot obtained by twisting the torus 360 …
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"Live in the country with faith": Jane and Ralph Whitehead, The Simple Life Movement, and Arts and Crafts in The United States, England, and on The Continent, 1870-1930
American artist Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead (1858-1955) and her English husband Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead (1854-1929) are best known for co-founding the Byrdcliffe Art and Crafts school and colony in Woodstock, New York, which was active from 1903 into the present. Long before Byrdcliffe, however, …
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How can I, as a Froebelian Teacher, practice Active and Experiential Learning in an Irish- Language Early Immersion Education (Luath-Tumoideachas) Setting?
… Research (SSEPR) Project (Huxtable & Whitehead, 2021) was to identify how I can improve and adapt my practice in language instruction in order to align my practice with my Froebelian values. This research project took place in an Irish-Language early-immersion, or tumoideachas, …
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Abductive empiricism: the significance of substance in Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
… connections among entities. Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Peirce see interconnectedness in a continuous process of becoming, Karen Barad explores the constant creation of entities through intra-action, and Erwin Schrӧdinger quantifies the connection between the quantum and the …
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DW complexes and their underlying topological spaces
… the so-called CW complex (introduced by J.H.C. Whitehead in 1949).
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A Delphi study to gain the consensus on the definition, domains and elements of physical literacy
… 2009; Keegan et al., 2013; YST, 2014). Margaret Whitehead predominantly evolved and developed the concept (Whitehead 1999, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2010), which is beginning to embed as an outcome of physical education curricula around the world (YST, 2014; Keegan et al., 2016; PHE Canada, 2016). …
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The Development of Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophical and Educational Thought
… was to show the importance of Alfred North Whitehead's educational writings and how they are related to his metaphysical-cosmological writings. The dissertation makes the point that since Whitehead's educational writings originally appeared during the years spanning 1912-1922, Whitehead was …
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The Relationship Between Metaphysics and Logic
… demonstrative, scientific, knowledge claims. Whitehead is a prime example for the opposite side of the debate which argues for the primacy of metaphysics over logic. He explicitly claims that logic presupposes metaphysics in his Modes of Thought because logic presupposes the metaphysical …
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Privileging Tacit Knowledge within a Software Engineering Curriculum: A Living Educational Theory of Practice
… me to develop my ‘living educational theory’ (Whitehead, 1989, p.41) of privileging tacit knowledge within a Software Engineering curriculum. My living educational theory is grounded in ideas of professional knowledge, relationships, competence, and expertise. In developing my theory, I explain …
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