Encounters and careers of postdoctoral students [PDF]
Includes vita."Increasingly, the doctorate is no longer the terminal point for advanced education in the United States. Especially in the sciences, significant numbers of doctoral recipients seek temporary positions where they may augment their education
Maines, David Russell
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ORTHOGONAL WAVELET FUNCTION FOR COMPRESSION SATELLITE IMAGERY OF PEAT FOREST FIRES [PDF]
Background: In the process of digital image data representation, constrained the number of data volumes are required. One of the main sources of information in data processing of imagery is satellite imagery.
Kristianti, Novera+2 more
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Investigating Reading Behavior and Inference-making in Advanced L2 Reading Comprehension Assessment Tasks [PDF]
Despite the ubiquity of reading comprehension tasks in English language proficiency tests (or sections of tests), the constructs underlying successful reading comprehension in English as a second/additional language at the advanced academic level are ...
Tywoniw, Rurik
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Changing Narratives, Changing Destiny: Myth, Ritual and Afrocentric Identity Construction at the National Rites of Passage Institute [PDF]
According to the National Rites of Passage Institute (NROPI), African Americans have lost their authentic identity, which has led to inauthentic, broken individuals and communities. In order to reverse these trends, according to NROPI, African Americans
Karlin, Michael
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The secularism debate : between revision and critique in Habermas, Taylor, Asad, and Brown [PDF]
The controversial advent of a late modern ‘post-secular’ moment has pushed political philosophers and theorists back to the drawing board on the question of the place of religion in a secular age, and from there to more fundamental questions about the ...
Badar, Usman
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Working Against Racism from White Subject Positions: White Anti-Racism, New Abolitionism & Intersectional Anti-White Irish Diasporic Nationalism [PDF]
This dissertation is an intervention into Critical Whiteness Studies, an ‘additional movement’ to Ethnic Studies and Critical Race Theory. It systematically analyzes key contradictions in working against racism from a white subject positions under post ...
Horton, Matthew
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Origins, Ancestry and Alliance [PDF]
Ethnography; Kinship; Social life; Customs; Islands of the pacific; South east ...
J. Fox, James, Sather, Clifford
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Skizzieren bei der Konzeptentwicklung [PDF]
Sketching is a basic activity in conceptual design. It combines aspects of design methodology, cognitive psychology and work science. Surveys among designers from industry have shown that the paper-sketch is the main design tool besides CAD.
Pache, Martin Walter
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A theory of effective computer-based instruction for adults [PDF]
Computer-based instruction (CBI) was considered the technological phenomenon to revolutionize education and training. Today, the Internet and computer technology are reported to have significantly altered the education landscape (Johnson & Aragon, 2002).
Lowe, Janis Sue
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Aspects of multilingual storage, processing and retrieval [PDF]
The reason for my long-term interest in multilinguality derives from the fact that, as I explain in Chapter One, a large proportion of language users and learners in the world are no longer monolingual, nor even bilingual, but rather multilingual.
Gabryś-Barker, Danuta
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