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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens 1879-1955, American poet, b. Reading, Pa., educated at Harvard and New York Law School. After 1916 he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, and from 1934 until his death he served as its vice president. A master of exquisite verse, Stevens was specifically... Read more |
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university press
UNIVERSITY PRESSES Established by universities to promote scholarly communication, university presses publish books and related material in a wide range of academic, creative, and professional subjects. They provide college and university faculty and other serious researchers with outlets for... Read more |
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Nicolai Hartmann
Hartmann, Nicolai (1882–1950) German realist philosopher. Although influenced by Plato and Immanuel Kant, he proposed, in Outlines of a Metaphysics of Knowledge (1921), that existence is an essential prerequisite for knowledge, a reversal of Kant's idea. He finally rejected Kantian ideas in... Read more |
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Incompleteness
INCOMPLETENESS In psychoanalysis, the state of "incompleteness" does not connote an imperfect or unfinished state, but rather implies openness and retrospective reexamination. The notion of incompleteness in the work of Sigmund Freud presupposes two possibles and one constraint: the... Read more |
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975
ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION Adapted physical education (APE) is specially designed instruction in physical education intended to address the unique needs of individuals. While the roots of adapted physical education can be traced back to Swedish medical gymnastics in the 1700s, adapted physical... Read more |
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The New York Idea
New York Idea, The (1906), a play by Langdon Mitchell. [Lyric Theatre, 66 perf.] Since Cynthia Karslake ( Mrs. Fiske) and John Karslake ( John Mason) are divorced, there seems to be no reason why Cynthia should not marry Judge Phillip Phillimore ( Charles Harbury), who himself has been divorced... Read more |
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Domain names
I NTERNET Information Superhighway The revolutionary technology of the Internet and the World Wide Web created a whole new digital culture in America during the 1990s. The idea of an "Information Superhighway" that could link anyone in the world through nearly... Read more |
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sublimation (psychology)
SUBLIMATION Sublimation is a process that diverts the flow of instinctual energy from its immediate sexual aim and subordinates it to cultural endeavors. The idea of sublimation leads back at once to the alchemical metaphor of the transmutation of base metal into gold, and to aesthetics, which... Read more |
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Invariant
INVARIANT In the first chapter of his book Transformations: Change from Learning to Growth (1965), Wilfred Bion defined the idea of the invariant and elucidated the link between transformations and the invariant. He used the metaphor of a painter, a painting, and a field of poppies to... Read more |
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Effects of pulse shaping in laser spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance.
Effects of Pulse Shaping in Laser Spectroscopy...mathematical similarities. The idea of using enhanced control...spectroscopic measurements is not new; sequences of "rectangular...spectroscopists, all proton spin flips have the same...sources, and the entire ... |
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Polymer suppliers pouring energy into shaping fuel-cell technology.
...Fuel cells are not a new concept. The first were...based on a fairly simple idea: Combine hydrogen and...manager for DuPont's new $50 million fuel-cell...type of fuel cell, the proton exchange membrane...In using plastics, the idea is to ... |
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Big Bang investigators want new atom smasher
...scientists want a new-generation machine...experiments are more about shaping our understanding...will have a better idea of how much it costs...Instead of crashing protons together, the new...created. Two beams of protons ... |
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POST-BANG THEORIES CHALLENGED
...appreciably - an idea that few scientists...explain the result of a new analysis of a nearby...matter - made up of protons, neutrons and electrons...either the standard idea about formation of...with the standard idea about how the ... |
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The Singapore Clones; Temasek started as a novel experiment in state-run...
...directing investment and shaping national industrial...considering a similar idea to reorganize and...Temasek. In 2002 a new executive director...including car manufacturer Proton and conglomerate Sime...s not clear the new agency can ... |
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Physics is my d:ream job
...cards were formative in shaping the self-confessed...famously revived for New Labour's 1997 election...And people like the ideas in it. Not just facts. Ideas." Though a layman...Understanding the structure of a proton can be extremely dry... |
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Dark Matter And Other Universal Truths
...S.C.) retires. 4. Protons decay. 5. Heat Death of the...They have spent lifetimes shaping a view of the universe that...scientific counterpart of the ancient idea of the eternal return, and...works at AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey. He's got a tweed... |
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Good, evil in Nortonspotlight; Exhibit features iconic film, TV costumes in...
...role costume design plays in shaping the audience's perception...Film is one of the great new art forms of the 20th century...of life is distilled into the ideas of good and evil and the characters...Batman & Robin and the jumpsuit, proton pack and utility ... |
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Gene Decoders Dominate 1993 Nobel Science Prizes
...understanding how these life-shaping molecules work and the...different advance - each a new laboratory technique for...genes work and to make new genes and proteins that...atomic level. Many of the ideas and the apparatus of atomic...especially electrons ... |
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