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Devenney, Mark. "Critical theory and radical democracy." Thesis, University of Essex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284602.
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Manolakaki, Eleni. "Truth evaluability in radical interpretation theory." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1791.
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The central problem of the dissertation concerns the possibility of a distinction between truth-evaluable and non-truth-evaluable utterances of a natural language. The class of truth-evaluable utterances includes assertions, con. ectures and other kinds of speech act susceptible of truth evaluation. The class of non-truth-evaluable utterances includes commands, exhortations, wishes i.e. utterances not evaluated as being true or false. The problem is placed in the context of radical interpretation theory and it shown that it is a substantial problem of Davidson‘s early theory of radical interpret at ion. I consider the possibility of distinguishing between locutionary and illocutionary act in uttering a sentence and its significance in the present project. I discuss the suggestion that the mood of the verb of the sentence signifies the required distinction between truth-evaluable utterances and non-truth-evaluable ones. I argue that no criterion for the distinction based on the mood of the verb is adequate. The solution that I propose to the problem of classifylng truth-evaluable utterances appeals to mental states. The view that grounds this line of inquiry is that the truth-evaluability of an utterance is a characteristic of it exclusively relevant to the doxastic dimension of the speaker’s mind. I discuss the constraints that the nature of radical interpretation puts upon the way we construe the notion of belief. I propose that a possible classification of mental states into doxastic and non-doxastic that would result in a classification of utterances into truth-evaluable and non-truthevaluable ones can be given by an elaborated version of a decision theoretic scheme. I suggest that a decision theoretic scheme based on a decision theory that, like Savage’s theory, grants independence axioms is a better candidate to offer a solution to the central problem of the dissertation than a scheme based on a non- standard decision theory such as Richard Jeffrey’s. I conclude by showing that the proposal I make satisfies the constraints I have considered and that it can be accommodated by a radical interpretation theory.
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Weems, Lisa. "Embracing Radical Feminism: Theory into Practice." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391778413.
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Liu, Chi-Ming Louis. "A Modular Theory of Radical Pro Drop." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11577.
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Mandarin Chinese is said to be a radical pro-drop language, in the sense that verbal arguments in this language can be dropped rather freely. However, in this dissertation, I show that the omission of arguments in Mandarin Chinese is in fact constrained by various conditions. First, I demonstrate that the availability of a discourse topic is insufficient to license empty categories in Mandarin Chinese by showing that subject and object positions cannot be left empty at random. Some empty subject positions are neither true instances of nominal ellipsis nor variables bound by discourse topics; instead, they are a side effect of verb or vP movement followed by TP-ellipsis. Next, I address the issue of when objects can be "dropped" in Mandarin Chinese. I argue that structural parallelism built on verbal identity between sentences plays an important role in licensing `objectless' sentences. I propose that the mechanism responsible for the creation of such sentences is V-stranding VP-ellipsis rather than argument ellipsis. In the last part of this dissertation, I show that, although we cannot rely on the strength of discourse alone to account for empty categories, the concept of topic-hood is nevertheless implicated in the appearance of certain empty argument positions in sentences used in monologues. I claim that subject pro in Mandarin Chinese must have as its antecedent an element located in an A'-position, which can be overt or covert. In addition, I suggest that the differences between Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese with respect to the use of subject pro can be boiled down to the featural properties of the covert topic TOP preceding subject pro: this covert topic has inherently valued phi-features in Italian and Japanese, while its counterpart in Mandarin Chinese does not.Linguistics
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McInnis, Shelley, and n/a. "An experiment with radical pedagogy." University of Canberra. Education, 1989. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060928.122201.
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This thesis is an analysis of some research undertaken with
students in a unit on human sexuality. It is a critical account
of an experiment with 'radical' pedagogy which deliberately
forsakes the pessimistic determinism of social reproduction
theory in education and assumes the fundamental optimism of
resistance theory, wherein human actors are capable of
penetrating oppressive ideology and practice and working towards
emancipation and social change.
The experiment is an attempt to implement radical pedagogy
in a particular classroom, and the body of the thesis consists of
a critique of data collected from participants' notes and
transcriptions of video and audio-tapes of thirteen, two�hour
class sessions. The first chapter of the thesis outlines the
nature of a pedagogical style which could be described as
counter�hegemonic, non-reproductive, or liberatory, and it
specifies the elements of a 'radical' approach to classroom
process and content, which is distinguished from a 'traditional'
one. Subsequent chapters present a critical analysis of actual
classroom 'content' and 'process', which is based on a study of
reconstructed sessional data, and the final chapter discusses the
factors which limited the 'success' of the experiment, and
attempts to draw some conclusions about the liberatory
possibilities of radical pedagogy.
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Mbeki, Nobantu Lerato. "Kaleckian theory of the firm and radical uncertainty." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498797.
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This contribution relates uncertainty to time. It illustrates that the uncertainty inherent in different theories diverges in a manner dictated by the time system used and its associated construction of how agents perceive time to pass. Different time systems relate to different contexts. Only one time system is shown to be consistent with fundamental uncertainty. If this so, then it can be shown that Kaleckian theory of the firm can be consistent with post Keynesian radical uncertainty.
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Stewart, Colin. "Educational extremism : the function and failure of radical theory." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1994. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU067391.
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The thesis opens with a discussion of the need or otherwise for radical intervention in educational theory and practice, and the manner in which such, when it occurs, may be interpreted as 'extremism', seriously disabling any contribution that the radical might make. It is proposed that a series of confrontations with reality, in the form of specific incidents, comprise the fundamental building blocks of an individual's experience. An analysis is presented of the manner in which the confrontation between an individual and an incident develops; this includes the development of extremism. The resultant schema is of relevance to the entire thesis. Having argued that there is a real problem (when radicals, in confronting reality, see some people as marginalised and attempt to help them, they themselves are marginalised and rendered ineffectual), the thesis proceeds to look more closely at radicals. In an attempt to clarify the situation, a detailed description is offered of the factors responsible for the genesis of the radical: whence comes his or her philosophy? Notwithstanding the legitimacy (in the opinion of the thesis) of the radicals' reaction to reality, it appears, as has been noted, that their voices are not heard. The mechanisms that produce this deafness in society are discussed, and the manner in which many individuals who are aware of the unjust marginalisation of some groups nevertheless become passive and inert before a problem that is, they feel, too great for them. Fundamental to this inertia is the ultimate acceptance of a vision of the person which tolerates inequity and injustice so long as they are features of someone else's experience. Opposed to this inertia, radicals seek to accompany marginalised individuals and groups.
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Chin, Melanie Soo, and m. chin@cqu edu au. "Towards a Reinterpretation of the Radical Theory of Associative Rings Using Base Radical and Base Semisimple Class Constructions." Central Queensland University. Computer Science, 2004. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20050411.102928.
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This research aims to refresh and reinterpret the radical theory of associative rings using the base radical and base semisimple class constructions. It also endeavours to generalise some results about ideals of rings in terms of accessible subrings. A characterisation of accessible subrings is included. By applying the base radical and base semisimple class constructions to many of the known results in established radical theory a number of gaps are uncovered and closed, with the goal of making the theory more accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students and mathematicians in related fields, and to open up new areas of investigation.
After a literature review and brief reminder of algebra rudiments, the useful properties of accessible subrings and the U and S operators independent from radical class connections are described. The section on accessible subrings illustrates that replacing ideals with accessible subrings is indeed possible for a number of results and demonstrates its usefulness.
The traditional radical and semisimple class definitions are included and it is shown that the base radical and base semisimple class constructions are equivalent. Diagrams illustrating the constructions support the definitions. From then on, all radical and semisimple classes mentioned are understood to have the base radical and base semisimple class form. Subject to the constraints of this work, many known results of traditional radical theory are reinterpreted with new proofs, illustrating the potential to simplify the understanding of radical theory using the base radical and base semisimple class constructions. Along with reinterpreting known results, new results emerge giving further insight to radical theory and its intricacies. Accessible subrings and the U and S operators are integrated into the development. The duality between the base radical and base semisimple class constructions is demonstrated in earnest.
With a measure of the theory presented, the new constructions are applied to examples and concrete radicals. Context is supported by establishing the relationship between some well-known rings and the radical and related classes of interest.
The title of the thesis, Towards a Reinterpretation of the Radical Theory of Associative Rings Using Base Radical and Base Semisimple Class Constructions, reflects the understanding that reinterpreting the entirety of radical theory is beyond the scope of this work. The conclusion includes an outlook listing further research that time did not allow.
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Picard, E. Kezia. "A radical relational agency : Foucault, complexity theory and environmental resistances." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11450/.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine a radical relational agency, applied to contemporary environmental resistances, that incorporates both the thought of Michel Foucault and complexity theory. While Foucault’s thought, following from his argument that power is a relation, implies a relational agency, it does not, however, account for the agency of nonhumans and environments. Because power is a relation and not a possession, it can no longer be viewed as an attribute of individual subjects. Similarly, a relational agency is defined as an aspect of power relations. Complexity theory, on the other hand, acknowledges that humans interact with nonhumans and environments, but does not acknowledge that all relations are relations of power. In addition to Foucault’s explanation of power relations, complexity theory explicitly describes the processes of self-organization through which individual and diverse agents interact and change can emerge. Thus, a radical relational agency is defined as an aspect of the power relationships between many diverse agents. Change, according to both Foucault and complexity theory, happens nonlinearly. As a result, it often occurs unpredictably. However, change within complex systems is also limited by previous historical emergences. In this sense, both possibility and risk are inherent in the relationships between humans, nonhumans and environments. Indeed, I argue that a radical relational agency occurs because there are both possibilities and risks generated within ecological relations and relations of power. Therefore, I argue that any environmental action must account for the unpredictability inherent to the complex interactions between humans, nonhumans and environments.
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Woodford, Clare M. "Democracy, subjectivity and voice : Emersonian perfectionism and radical democratic theory." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/179917/.
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Motivated by concern about growing social marginalisation and injustice in Western democracies, this thesis examines these issues from the perspectives of post-structuralist and perfectionist traditions of democratic political thought. Both traditions fear that dominant contemporary political theory, here represented by Rawlsian liberalism, is insufficiently attentive to voice. I seek to explore the critique put forward by each tradition, and demonstrate how in contrast to Rawls, the post-structuralists seek an open, revisable democracy, achieved via a culture of dissent or a democratic ethos. However, since post-structuralism lacks attention to the formation of democratic subjectivity I suggest that it may be productive to look to Cavell’s work on this topic, to help improve the post-structuralist ability to be attentive to the emergence of voice. Yet, given Cavell’s neglect of constructive social power, it becomes necessary to first bridge the gap between Cavell and the post-structuralists by examining the move from voicelessness to voice in more detail. I therefore propose using Rancière’s work on the development of subjectivity, complemented by reference to James Tully and Cristoph Menke, to show how Cavellian aversive thinking can help develop democratic subjects. This also leads me to challenge the strict nature of the divide that Rancière envisions between la politique and la police, making it possible for me to read Rancière as a call for political action, re-casting the ordinary as extraordinary. Hence I suggest that radical democratic political thinkers need to attend to the background police order to consider if it is possible to institutionalise conditions to encourage eruptions of politics, by supporting the cultivation and emergence of individual voice.
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McQuaker, Stephen. "Functional molecules to test the free radical theory of ageing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4211/.
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Oxidative stress at a cellular level resulting from reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been implicated as a key factor in the ageing process and the development of age-related diseases. Mitochondria are the primary source of endogenously generated ROS through the leakage of electrons from the respiratory chain to molecular oxygen. Therefore there is a lot of interest in investigating ROS production and their biological impacts on both a cellular level and whole organism level. A mitochondria-targeted hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) probe (MitoB) i and a mitochondria-targeted nitric oxide (•NO) probe (MitoDA) iii have been prepared to allow the detection and quantification of mitochondrial concentrations of these species in vitro and in vivo. These utilise the selective reactivity of boronic acids with H2O2 and 1,2-dianilines with the combination of •NO and oxygen respectively to afford specific reaction products. These conversions are readily detectable by ESI-MS and quantified using deuterated internal standards. The mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) is directly linked to levels of ROS production, with an elevated ΔΨm resulting in increased ROS production. Mitochondrial membrane potential moderators that release uncoupling molecules from caged precursors selectively in the presence of H2O2 were developed. Two untargeted analogues, DNP-SUM v and FCCP-SUM viii were prepared to release 2,4-dinitrophenoxyl anions (DNP–, vi) or carbonyl cyanide-p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazonyl anions (FCCP–, ix) respectively and their pseudo-first order kinetics assessed. Two mitochondria-targeted analogues, MitoDNP-SUM(1) x and MitoDNP-SUM(2) xi designed to release DNP– vi inside the mitochondrial matrix were prepared. Their abilities to lower the ΔΨm and therefore the ROS producing capabilities in isolated rat skeletal muscle mitochondria in response to endogenously generated H2O2 were assessed. Work was also conducted towards the development of mitochondria-targeted photo-activatable probes that could potentially release small functional bioactive compounds from caged precursors inside individual mitochondria upon selective irradiation.
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翁正石 and Ching-shek Yung. "A theory of understanding first meaning: a critical study of Davidson's theory of radical interpretation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31211100.
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Yung, Ching-shek. "A theory of understanding first meaning : a critical study of Davidson's theory of radical interpretation /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1347876X.
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Ssevviiri, David. "A contribution to the theory of prime modules." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019923.
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This thesis is aimed at generalizing notions of rings to modules. In par-ticular, notions of completely prime ideals, s-prime ideals, 2-primal rings and nilpotency of elements of rings are respectively generalized to completely prime submodules and classical completely prime submodules, s-prime submodules, 2-primal modules and nilpotency of elements of modules. Properties and rad-icals that arise from each of these notions are studied.
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Doncaster, Deborah (Deborah Anne) Carleton University Dissertation Law. "Civil society and Green political theory; the potential for radical reform." Ottawa, 1996.
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Neve, Richard. "The limits of contestation : towards a radical democratic theory of emergency politics." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2012. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8z86x/the-limits-of-contestation-towards-a-radical-democratic-theory-of-emergency-politics.
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The claim that the exception has become the norm dominates the discourse of emergency politics. Theories of emergency politics need not rely on norm/exception binary because it closes down possibilities for radical democratic political contestation. Attempts to define a situation as exceptional by powerful political elites are a claim that politics must be foreclosed until they decide that the exigency has been resolved and a ‘normal’ state of affairs has resumed. A theory which conceptualizes space for radical democratic contestation is essential because such contestation is crucial to preserving and enhancing liberal-democratic governance despite claims that they are facing an existential threat. This thesis lays the foundation for such a theory. First, it presents a criticism of the reliance of the norm/exception binary in the discourses of emergency politics. I argue that ‘normal’ and ‘exceptional’ are polemical concepts used to in the defense of particular articulations of hegemonic and political power not liberal-democracy as such. Second, I develop a radical democratic theory of emergency politics. This theory is based on an account of political contingency which conceives of the political realm as being unstable and continually evolving. Thus liberal-democratic regimes never exist in ‘normal’ states because they are constantly engaging with exigencies which that emanate from the political realm. Furthermore, this thesis contends that emergency politics should be inscribed within wider hegemonic practices. What I identify as a paradox of contestation at the heart of liberal-democratic regimes is the terrain on which emergency politics are contested. Liberal-democratic regimes can absorb situations sometimes defined as emergencies. The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate theoretically how liberal-democratic regimes can preserve the possibility of radical democratic politics in the face of claims on the part of powerful political elites that an emergency or exception exists, which must be met with unrestrained violence and by severely reducing the scope of legitimate political contestation.
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Cheung, Ka-ho Ferdinand. "Media-matrix : the park of radical artifice /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25946912.
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Weir, Richard Andrew. "Plural bodily subjects : a radical account of thinking and acting together." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60421/.
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The primary aim of this thesis is to defend the idea that there are ontologically collective forms of thought and action. This is to say, that there are at least some instances in which a thought or action is appropriately ascribed not to the individual members of a group, but only to the group as a whole. In chapters 2 and 4 existing attempts, primarily in analytic philosophy, to defend such phenomena by appealing to either the content, mode, or subject of intentional states are criticised. These criticisms in turn motivate an alternative understanding of subjectivity, outlined in chapters 3 and 5. This alternative draws on the phenomenological work of Dan Zahavi and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to argue that subjectivity must be understood, firstly, as constituted by the pre-reflective self-awareness that is central to all intentional experience and, secondly, as intrinsically bodily. Finally, in chapter 6, and by drawing on Merleau-Ponty's thoughts on habituation and intersubjectivity, it is argued that it is possible to understand groups as continually in the process of developing such a form of plural bodily subjectivity through processes of group-level habituation. Overall, therefore, a radical position will be defended, which holds that not only can groups think and act in an ontologically collective sense, but that they can do so in virtue of the fact that they can achieve a certain level of phenomenal self-consciousness. However, this position will be tempered by the thought that unified self-awareness and subjectivity is a matter of degree; where to have a unified pre-reflective sense of self is to be an individual subject, groups must be understood as always in the process of developing a form of unity that is, ultimately, out of their grasp.
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Lu, Aiyan. "Density functional theory study of the conductivity of the biphenalenyl radical dimer." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39740.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-33).
We present ab initio molecular calculations at different levels of density functional theory (DFT) for the spiro-biphenalenyl neurtral radical in its singlet and triplet states. We performed calculations on the dimer to study its conductivity by investigating the ground state energy, HOMO-LUMO gap, charge localization, and reorganization energies, as these are the main contributing factors to crystal conduction. We find that there is only a slight difference between the singlet state and triplet state HOMO-LUMO gaps. In addition, the negative charge spreads throughout both the interior and exterior units of the molecule in both the singlet state and the triplet state, this is in disagreement with the original argument that the conducting diamagnetic state is a result of the migration of the unpaired electrons to the interior units of the molecule. Finally, we find that the triplet state has higher reorganization energy than that of the singlet. Thus, if conduction were assumed to proceed via a hopping mechanism, the experimental observations would be explained.
by Aiyan Lu.
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Doyle, Emma B. B. "The Sound & the Surplus: Speculation as a Radical Mode." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1559139514065567.
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Oelgemoller, Eva Christina. "Migration management : the radical violence of the international politics of migration." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39688/.
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In the 1980s, the narrative of international migration was significantly altered in Europe. This thesis examines how this new narrative was brought about by policy-makers and shows how the narrative re-configured our understanding of international migration. Empirically, the focus of the thesis is the Inter-Governmental Consultations on Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies in Europe, North America and Australia (IGC). These consultations are situated in the context of debates in the 1970s and 80s concerning ‘free-market conservatism'. The thesis argues that these debates comprised the conditions of possibility for the emergence of an 'informal plurilateralism'. Through thus far confidential memos between high ranking public servants, summaries distributed across embassies, background papers, minutes of meetings and personal letters, I trace the development of an altered discourse and the construction of a new figure: the ‘illegal migrant'. ‘Migration Management', I argue, is best seen as a hegemonic paradigm which embodies a tool-box of mechanisms for governments to deal with international migration; introduces a distinctive way of treating human mobility; prescribes specific ways of constructing migrants, including a minority of illegal migrants who remain just outside of the European external boundaries, stripped of their juridico-political status. As such, these migrants are suspended from the community of those with a place and function. The figure of the suspended migrant points to the disappearance of the political, understood as a space where public encounter of the heterogeneous is possible. This raises crucial questions about what democracy is, how it works and how the political can be realised in a climate where the logic of necessity and efficiency has filled the space previously occupied by bipolar grand-narratives. Most urgently, it raises questions about the way in which the value of a human being is established, granted or denied. Arendt and Rancière help me to start addressing these questions.
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Rothman, Hayyim. "Reason's Rebellion, or Anarchism Out of the Sources of Spinozism:." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107277.
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Thesis advisor: Jean Luc SolèreIn my dissertation, I aim (1) to render, from Spinoza’s philosophical system, a critique of the State form or, more broadly, of political coercion and (2) to supply, on the basis of the same, a positive account of the alternative. It is, in essence, my goal to derive anarchism out of the sources of Spinozism. My claim is that, in Spinoza’s work, there obtains a tension between force and freedom as models for political organization. While other interpreters have tended to synthesize these opposing tendencies in one manner or another, I endeavor to highlight their incompatibility and to show that, for Spinoza, they produce two distinct forms of political life. One, the passive foundation of political union, which grounds the State. Two, the active foundation of political union, which grounds the rational community. Having identified this theoretical breach, I proceed to examine the affective structure of each foundation as conceived by Spinoza. I find an inescapable contradiction in the first, which — contrary to the best intentions of the founders of State — tends not only to maintain citizens in a condition of perpetual minority, but progressively erodes their capacity for autonomy, thus inviting a parallel and equally progressive enhancement of coercive intervention. This result implies the moral necessity of revolution, the spinozian contours of which I examine in detail. In the second, which I consider in both affective and ontological terms, I discover the opposite movement. That is, a progressive escalation of reason together with its affective modalities that enhances the human capacity for political and social harmony, rendering political coercion obsolete
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Rumford, Chris. "Laclau and Mouffe's theory of radical democracy and political identity in contemporary Europe." Thesis, City University London, 1995. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7706/.
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The rapid social and political transformation of post- Communist Europe has necessitated a re-examination of the question of political identity, particularly in relation to democracy and the nation-state. Laclau and Mouffe's post-Marxist notion of 'radical democracy', incorporating a non-essentialist conception of hegemony, promises much in this regard. Their work on the contingent nature of political identity and their understanding of the range and importance of the political and social changes in contemporary Europe is especially valuable. Although their work is a significant contribution in this area their project is ultimately more applicable to post-industrial Western Europe before the collapse of Communism than it is to post-'89 Europe. Laclau and Mouffe's work can be divided into 'early' and 'later' periods. Their 'early' work includes their Marxist and post-Marxist formulations, while their 'later' period, influenced by post-Communist events, is characterised by a growing liberalisation of their thought. As a result of the epochal changes stemming from the fall of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe the question of Europe becomes crucially important in this 'later' period. Mouffe holds to a notion of Europe that is constituted through its democratic heritage. It is argued that this constitutes an exclusive identity and that European identity should not be dependant upon such a narrowly defined sense of tradition. Laclau and Mouffe place great emphasis on the constitutive role of antagonism in the construction of both identity and democracy. Throughout their work it is possible to identify a tendency towards a politics of 'us and them'. An emphasis on the role of exclusion in identity formation is particularly marked in their 'later' work. The case of nationalism highlights a problem with Laclau and Mouffe's approach to conceptualising collective identity. This stems from their reliance upon democratic political identity as the sine qua non of democracy. Against this it is argued that the construction of national and ethnic identity cannot be understood in this way. The nation-state has been the single biggest factor in shaping European political identities in the post-war period. Challenges to the primacy of the nation-state from regional or ethnic separatism are having a similarly important influence in the contemporary context.
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Day, Frederick George. "Thomas Hodgskin and economic progress : a radical reconstruction of his endogenous growth theory." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2009. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/323627/.
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By means of a close reading of early 19th century economic works, and by reconstructing aspects of Thomas Hodgskin‘s political economy, this thesis presents an exposition of those parts of his work that contributed to his position on growth. Rather than concentrating on his ideas on capital, we have centred on his concept of political economy as a science concerned with labour as the sole creator of wealth. We present his political economy as having labour as its focal point within a hypothetical pure market economy. From here he sought a foundation to economic growth derived from human action rather than capital or other material circumstances. Hodgskin saw human knowledge and the use of technology as the starting point that would, from his perspective, lead inevitably to those economic conditions that produce improvements in economic welfare and by doing so allow for an increase in population. In order to demonstrate his ideas on growth, we reconstruct his concepts of what was natural and artificial to equate to the modern notions of endogenous and exogenous. Improvements to knowledge and technology that stemmed from the very temper of humanity and its tendency to multiply, were the endogenous fount of growth. In this way as Hodgskin stressed - necessity was the mother of invention. We also illustrate how, from Hodgskin‘s perspective, exogenous issues were the non-economic influences such as governments, legal (rather than natural) laws and tithes that tended to act counter-productively to human progress. Our reconstruction also resolves some of the dissonance that has long been associated with Hodgskin‘s economics, by addressing some of the apparent contradictions that otherwise persist.
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Norberg, Daniel. "Quantum Chemical Studies of Radical Cation Rearrangement, Radical Carbonylation, and Homolytic Substitution Reactions." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8178.
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Cheung, Ka-ho Ferdinand, and 張家豪. "Media-matrix: the park of radical artifice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984484.
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Kassama, Alexandre Gonçalves. "Leituras da modernidade no funcionamento radical: da teoria dos sistemas à pós-modernidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2136/tde-17122015-113802/.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar as bases sistêmicas do pensamento de Günther Jakobs, fazendo o cotejo com o pensamento teórico de Niklas Luhmann, sobretudo no tocante à polêmica teoria do Inimigo. Nesse passo, após uma breve digressão sobre a teoria dos sistemas de Luhmann, analisa-se a forma como a matriz sistêmica aporta no pensamento geral de Jakobs, sendo, em sequência, desenvolvido o pensamento inicial em relação à teoria da pena. Através da ligação radical entre a função da pena e a culpabilidade, verifica-se que os conceitos de acoplamento estrutural e encerramento operativo fornecem as bases para o desenvolvimento teórico da dogmática de Jakobs, sem, contudo, serem desenvolvidos até suas últimas consequências. Por fim, ante a comparação da teoria dos sistemas com os desenvolvimentos dogmáticos, analisa-se o quanto de Luhmann há em Jakobs, e o quanto ambas as teorias se distanciam, em especial, no tocante ao Direito Penal do Inimigo.The present work aims to analyze the systemic basis of the thought of Günther Jakobs, making comparisons with the theoretical ideas of Niklas Luhmann, particularly with regard to the controversial Enemy´s Theory. In this step, after a brief digression on Luhmanns systems theory, we analyze how the system approach brings in the general thought of Jakobs, being, in sequence, developed the initial thought in relation to the penaltys theory. Through the radical connection between the penaltys function and culpability, we noted that the concepts of structural coupling and operational closure provide the foundation for the theoretical development of Jakobs dogmatic, without, however, being developed to their ultimate consequences. Finally, the comparison of the systems theory with the dogmatics development provides the analysis of how much Luhmann is there in Jakobs, and how long both theories depart, in particular, in regards the Enemy Criminal Law
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Phillips, Janice Paige. "Rearrangements of Radical Anions Generated from Cyclopropyl Ketones." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40178.
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Cyclopropyl-containing substrates have been
frequently utilized as "probes" for the detection
of SET pathways in organic and biorganic systems.
These reactions are based on the
cyclorpropylcarbinyl - homoallyl rearrangement,
which is fast and essentially irreversible.
The implicit assumption in such studies is that if
a "radical" species is produced, it will undergo
ring opening. We have found that there are two
important factors to consider in the design of
SET probes: 1) ring strain, the thermodynamic
driving force for the rearrangement, and
2) resonance energy, which may help or hinder
rearrangement, depending on the specific system.
Delocalization of spin and charge were found to
be important factors pertaining to substituent
effects on the rates of radical anion
rearrangements.
Previous studies from our lab have
centered on highly conjugated phenyl
cyclopropyl ketones. This work considers a series
of compounds varying in their conjugative
components from a highly conjugated
spiro[2.5]octa-4,7-dien-6-one and derivatives to
simple aliphatic ketones. Utilizing cyclic,
linear sweep voltammetry, and preparative
electrolysis techniques, it was discovered that
all substrates yielded ring opened products with
rates and selectivities that will prove useful
and informative in the design of mechanistic
probes based on the cyclorpropylcarbinyl -
homoallyl rearrangement. Rates of homogeneous
electron transfer from a series of hydrocarbon
mediators to substrates were measured using
homogeneous catalysis techniques. Standard
reduction potentials and reorganization energies
of substrates were derived using Marcus theory.
Conjugative interactions with the cyclopropyl
group are discussed.Ph. D.
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Scally, Dorothy Butler. "Personal sexual story : a radical vehicle for transformative learning in adult education." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5184/.
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This thesis identifies personal sexuality as a significant and crucial site for transformative adult learning. Personal sexuality is shown to be an important adult problematic vital for individual and social transformation. Adult education of the radical/transformative tradition professes to respond to adult learning needs through a process of liberative critical reflection. However, the thesis shows that personal sexuality is an adult learning domain which, in fact, is largely overlooked both in theory and in practice by adult education. The study is cross-disciplinary. Its theoretical framework is drawn from theories of transformative learning in adult education together with psychological, sociological and feminist theories of personal development and social relations. Based on original, qualitative case study fieldwork, the findings from the personal and stories of seventy six participants reveal a hitherto secret and complex swathe of interconnecting learning strands. These strands are shown to operate throughout different life transitions and extend to encompass the next generation and the wider community. The issue of communicative competence in relation to personal sexuality emerges as central to participants’ relational concerns, learning, agendas, intergenerational educational roles, work roles and to their capacities for transformative action. Major themes in childhood and adolescent learning reveal patterns of sexual repression and oppression as de facto key constituents in the psycho-cultural construction of personal sexual identity. These themes show that the culture of sexual silence, initiated in childhood learning, is maintained in adult relationships of intimacy and contributes to further embedding oppressive gender relations in the socio-cultural fabric to the detriment of both sexes and of society. Major themes of adult sexual experience are identified as relating to a) self-image and sexual self-esteem; b) the challenges of intimate partnerships and changes in relationships; c) parenting and the inter-generational tendency to reproduce personal sexual learning.
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O'Brien, Emily Jane. "Reclaiming Abortion Politics through Reproductive Justice: The Radical Potential of Abortion Counternarratives in Theory and Practice." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami154363378481013.
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Bones, David Lawrence. "Liquid Aerosol Photochemistry." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Chemistry, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1500.
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Aerosols of nitrate solutions were irradiated in the presence of radical scavengers in an attempt to measure the yield of hydroxyl radical in both the aqueous phase and the gas phase. Carbon monoxide, benzoic acid, benzene and cyclohexane were used as scavengers to trap hydroxyl radical. The products from the reaction of these scavengers with hydroxyl radical were analysed with High Performance Liquid Chromatography and mass spectrometry. The radiant flux in the chamber was measured via ferrioxalate actinometry, both with bulk liquid and aerosol droplets. Many quantitative results were obtained but several anomalies were found. This suggests that Mie theory is not capable of predicting rates of photochemical reactions within droplets.
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Belcher, Donald Dewayne. "Radical p-chains in L3(2)." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0328101-161103/unrestricted/belcherd.pdf.
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Dario, Ronie Peterson. "Propriedades aritmeticas de corpos com um anel de valorização compativel com o radical de Kaplansky." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/306508.
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Orientador: Antonio Jose EnglerTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação Cientifica
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Resumo: Esta tese é um estudo das propriedades aritméticas de corpos que possuem um anel de valorização compatível com o Radical de Kaplansky. São utilizados os métodos da teoria algébrica das formas quadráticas, teoria de Galois e principalmente, a teoria de valorizações em corpos. Apresentamos um novo método para a construção de corpos com Radical de Kaplansky não trivial. Demonstramos uma versão do Teorema 90 de Hilbert para o radical. Para uma álgebra quaterniônica D, demonstramos que um anel de valorização do centro de D possui extensão para um anel de valorização total e invariante de D se, e somente se, for compatível com o Radical de Kaplansky
Abstract: This thesis is a study of the arithmetical properties of fields with a valuation ring compatible with the Kaplansky¿s Radical. The methods utilized are algebraic theory of quadratic forms, Galois theory and valuation theory over fields. We present a new construction method of fields with non-trivial Kaplansky¿s Radical. We also prove a version of the Hilbert¿s 90 Theorem for the radical. Let D a quaternion algebra and F the center of D. A valuation ring of F has a extension to a total and invariant valuation ring of D iff is compatible with the Kaplansky¿s Radical
Doutorado
Algebra
Doutor em Matemática
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Schneider, Stephen R. "Obstacles to collective action in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods : toward a radical planning theory of community crime prevention." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25154.pdf.
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McSorley, Leaza. "A radical institutional analysis of the economic theory and empirical reality of the British national minimum wage." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415440.
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Pelmenschikov, Vladimir. "Theoretical Modeling of Enzyme Catalysis with Focus on Radical Chemistry." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Dept. of Physics, Stockholm university, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-513.
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Thompson, Ashley. "Understanding the Impact of Radical Change on the Effectiveness of National-Level Sport Organizations." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38085.
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The purpose of this dissertation was to understand how radical organizational change impacts the effectiveness of national-level sport organizations, during the process of change, through the perceptions and experiences of internal and external stakeholders. Four research questions were addressed: (1) What success factors and challenges do national-level sport organizations face while undergoing radical change? (2) How does radical change impact the goals, internal processes, resources, and multiple constituents of the focal organization? (3) How does radical change impact external stakeholders? (4) How does radical change impact the effectiveness of external stakeholders’ own organizations? A single case study was built using 32 semi-structured interviews and 61 documents, and data were thematically analyzed. Results showed an initial decline in overall organizational effectiveness in the early stages of the change process followed by an increase. Findings highlight similarities and differences between internal and external stakeholder perspectives, demonstrating the importance of obtaining both perspectives when studying organizational effectiveness during radical change.
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Buhusayen, Bassam. "The first-line manager’s role during radical organisational change: A social exchange perspective." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2295.
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This study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the first-line manager’s (FLM) role through Social Exchange Theory. It focuses on experiences of senior managers, FLMs and employees during radical organisational change (ROC). This phenomenological study used 40 semi-structured interviews analysed by thematic analysis. The study finds the FLM-employee relationship was underpinned by high reciprocity and group gain. FLMs also played an active role in facilitating ROC but they were challenged by inadequate resources and poor communication. FLMs overcame these obstacles by being pragmatic and by mobilising a social exchange-based strategy that gained employees’ buy-in and clients’ friendships.
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Hale, Evan L. "Knowledge, Truth, and the Challenge of Revisability: A Critique of Actor-Network Theory." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333733604.
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Alcoforado, Diogo. "M. Merleau-Ponty-a pintura como interrogação radical do mundo : algumas reflexões em torno de O Olho e o Espírito." Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Letras, 1990. http://dited.bn.pt:80/30382.
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Matos, Fábio Alexandre de 1976. "Teorema 90 de Hilbert para o radical de Kaplansky e suas relações com o grupo de Galois do fecho quadrático." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/306552.
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Orientador: Antonio José EnglerTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Computação Científica
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Resumo: Apresentaremos neste trabalho um estudo sobre a aritmética corpos de característica distinta de 2 com um número finito de classes de quadrados. Dividido em duas partes, começaremos com um estudo do radical de Kaplansky de um corpo F e seu comportamento em 2-extensões de F. Na segunda parte introduziremos um novo objeto, as bases distinguidas, e exploraremos suas propriedades obtendo uma generalização do Teorema 90 de Hilbert, versão para o radical de Kaplansky, e propriedades cohomológicas de corpos que possuam base distinguida
Abstract: We will present in this work a study about the arithmetic of fields of characteristic different from 2 with a finite number of square class. Divided in two parts, we will start with a study of the Kaplansky¿s radical of a field F and its behavior in 2-extensions of F. In the second part will introduce a new object, the distinguished bases, and we will explore its properties obtaining a generalization of Hilbert¿s Theorem 90 for the Kaplansky's radical and cohomological properties of fields that own distinguished basis
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Matematica
Doutor em Matemática
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Lee, Jamie Ann. "A Queer/ed Archival Methodology: Theorizing Practice through Radical Interrogations of the Archival Body." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556236.
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This project uses the body as a framework to understand and re-imagine the archives (here referring to the professionally managed repository). It argues that the archives as a body of knowledge, like the human body, does not and cannot fit into normative stable categories. Tracing the shift in archival paradigms from modern to postmodern, I employ the posthuman to argue for a concomitant shift in understanding of the archival body, which I conceive of as comprising both human and non-human corpora of knowledge and knowledge-making practices. These corpora are simultaneously becoming and unbecoming as multiply-situated identities, technologies, representations, and timescapes. Using temporality as a key element in analyzing archival productions, I consider how this body might sediment. This research, written from my insider perspective as an archivist, implements a transdisciplinary approach that draws from the disciplines of archival and queer studies as well as from somatechnics, embodiment and affect studies, and decolonizing methodologies to advocate for a proposed Queer/ed Archival Methodology, Q/M, that is designed to trouble the concepts of archival theory and production. It also employed on-site observation and interviews at the Transgender Archives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, observation and narrative analysis of recordings held by the Arizona Queer Archives and the Arizona LGBTQ Storytelling Project, and online interviews with the developer of the Skeivt Arkiv, Norway's first state-sanctioned queer archives. Three overarching questions guided the research: 1) How can archives simultaneously hold normative and non-normative stories, materials and practices together as both complementary and also contradictory without subordinating or otherwise invalidating either and so that each can still be considered worthy of archival attention? 2) How might a Q/M be a radical intervention into normative archival practices and structures and to what ends? 3) What might it mean and look like for a queer/ed archives to be a radically open space? For whom? As we encounter multiply-situated subjects in the postmodern approach and follow traces in order to interrogate the force and function of respectability politics within the archival body, the modern and anthropocentric Cartesian statement 'Je pense, donc je suis' (I think, therefore I am) can no longer support the human and records as the central theme of archival endeavors. The posthuman approach offers many possibilities. Through the understanding that human bodies are relational and contingent in complex ways to non-human bodies and each to bodies of knowledges, human and non-human bodies come together in complex relations and assemblages within the archives. Archival productions can thus represent new and emerging thoughts on lived experiences as these are situated in various structures and systems. The Q/M offers a way of thinking and acting with, about, through, among, and at times in spite of traditional as well as emerging archival practices and processes in order to facilitate new, imaginative, irrational, and unpredictable re-configurations of bodies and archives and the many histories and records therein. Its flexible foundation in the theories employed in the research support Q/M's seven key approaches: 1) Participatory Ethos, 2) Connectivity, 3) Storytelling, 4) Intervention, 5) Re-framing, 6) Re-imagining, and 7) Flexibility & Dynamism.
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Agoglu, Eser. "Appropriateness Of A Cognitive Approach To Donald Davidson'." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12610178/index.pdf.
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The purpose of this study is to discuss the appropriateness of a cognitive approach to Donald Davidson's meaning theory. Davidson makes the bold proposal that a truth theory, modified for a natural language, may be treated as a meaning theory for that language. According to Davidson, a meaning theory is an empirical theory. Radical Interpretation is at the center of such an empirical inquiry which places restrictions on the truth theory to make it suitable as a meaning theory without appeal to semantic notions. Davidson&lsquo
s aim in presenting this bold proposal and radical interpretation is to shed light on the concept of meaning, not to define the actual semantic competence of language users. But what Davidson&lsquo
s project does not aim to define is the main thing that a cognitive approach must account for. Whether a truth theory can represent the semantic competence of language users is discussed in this work. It is concluded that, although there is no a priori reason for such a representation claim, the cognitive approach&mdash
with the right assumptions to make the claim testable&mdash
can lead to an empirical research programme.
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Smith, Christopher Edward. "Development and Application of Coupled Cluster Ground- and Excited-State Models." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27421.
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We give an overview of quantum chemical methods with a particular emphasis on the development of high-accuracy quantum chemical models. The reliability of these methods often hinges on whether enough electron correlation is included in the truncated wave function.
As an example, we investigate the structures of m-benzyne and its fluorinated derivative, tetrafluoro-m-benzyne where the inclusion of triple excitations is paramount to correctly describe through-bond delocalization of the monocyclic form. At the CCSDT/6-31G** level of theory, the C1â C3 distance of the minimum energy form of m-benzyne is 2.0°A and the profile of the PES along the C1â C3 distance is that of an asymmetric, single-well, in agreement with previous density-functional theory and coupled cluster studies. In addition, the calculated CCSD(T) fundamental frequencies are in excellent agreement with the measured infrared frequencies, thus confirming the monocyclic form of m-benzyne. For tetrafluoro-m-benzyne, however, the increased eclipsing strain between the ring-external Câ X bonds stabilizes the bicyclo[3.1.0]hexatriene form: the C1â C3 distance is calculated at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVTZ level to be approximately 1.75 °A, which is in the range of elongated CC bonds. Computed harmonic vibrational frequencies compare reasonably well with the experimental neon-matrix difference spectrum and provide further evidence for the existence of a bicyclic form.
We also report an extension of the coupled cluster iterative-triples model, CC3, to excited states of open-shell molecules, including radicals. We define the method for both spin-unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) and spin-restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock (ROHF) reference determinants and discuss its efficient implementation in the PSI3 program package. The program is streamlined to use at most O(N7) computational steps and avoids storage of the triple-excitation amplitudes for both the ground-and excited-state calculations. The excitation-energy program makes use of a Lowdin projection formalism (comparable to that of earlier implementations) that allows computational reduction of the Davidson algorithm to only the single- and double-excitation space, but limits the calculation to only one excited state at a time. However, a root-following algorithm may be used to compute energies for multiple states of the same symmetry. Benchmark applications of the new methods to the lowest valence 2B1 state of the allyl radical, low-lying states of the CH and CO+ diatomics, and the nitromethyl radical show substantial improvement over ROHF- and UHF-based
CCSD excitation energies for states with strong double-excitation character or cases suffering from significant spin contamination. For the allyl radical, CC3 adiabatic excitation energies differ from experiment by less than 0.02 eV, while for the 2§+ state of CH, significant errors of more than 0.4 eV remain.
Finally, ground- and excited-state dipole moments are derived diagramatically and were recently developed within the PSI3 quantum chemistry package. However, convergence problems with computing the left-hand excited-state has prevented us from reporting any meaningful results. Thus, future work includes solving this convergence problem before the effects of triple excitations on one-electron properties can be reported with certainty.Ph. D.
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Hardes, Jennifer Jane. "SPORT, POLITICS, AND THE 2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES: SYNTHESIZING IDENTITY POLITICS AND GLOBAL EMANCIPATION THROUGH NEO-PRAGMATIC RADICAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1210586293.
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李昌運 and Cheong-wan Lee. "Time-resolved resonance Raman and density functional theory investigation of the T1 triplet states and radical cations ofsubstituted biphenyl compounds." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31224623.
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Lundberg, Marcus. "Challenges in Enzyme Catalysis - Photosystem II and Orotidine Decarboxylase : A Density Functional Theory Treatment." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of physics, Stockholm university, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-486.
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Pagnotta, Murillo. "Living and learning together : integrating developmental systems theory, radical embodied cognitive science, and relational thinking in the study of social learning." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16386.
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Behavioural scientists argue that ‘social learning' provides the link between biological phenomena and cultural phenomena because of its role in the ‘cultural transmission' of knowledge among individuals within and across generations. However, leading authors within the social sciences have proposed alternative ways of thinking about social life not founded on the Modern oppositions including nature-culture, biology-culture, body-mind, and individual-society. Similarly, the distinction between a domain of nature and a domain of nurture has also been extensively criticized within biology. Finally, advocates of ‘radical embodied cognitive science' offer an alternative to the representational-computational view of the mind which supports the conventional notion of culture and cultural information. This thesis attempts to integrate developmental systems theory, radical embodied cognitive science, and relational thinking, with the goal to bring the field of social learning closer to these critical theoretical developments. In Chapter 2, I find no justification for the claim that the genome carries information in the sense of specification of biological form. Chapter 3 presents a view of ontogeny as a historical, relational, constructive and contingent process. Chapter 4 uses the notions of environmental information, abilities, affordances, and intentions to make sense of behaviour and learning. In Chapter 5, I argue that the notion of social learning can be understood in terms of relational histories of development rather than in terms of transmission of information. I then report empirical studies investigating behavioural coordination and social learning consistent with this theoretical framework. Chapter 6 presents evidence that dyads in a joint making activity synchronize their attention constrained by their changing situation and that coordination of attention is predictive of implicit and explicit learning. Chapter 7 presents evidence that joint attention does not require gaze following and that attentional coordination is predictive of learning a manual task. Together, these theoretical and empirical studies suggest a new way of thinking about how humans and other animals live and learn socially, one that is consistent with critical theoretical and philosophical developments that are currently neglected in the literature on social learning.
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Lee, Cheong-wan. "Time-resolved resonance Raman and density functional theory investigation of the T1 triplet states and radical cations of substituted biphenyl compounds." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22956311.
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Devaney, Kieran John Michael. "Europe after the rain : Alan Burns and the post-war avant-garde." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15212.
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Alan Burns was one of the key figures in the group of experimental writers working in Britain in the nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies, which included writers such as B.S. Johnson, Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin and Giles Gordon. All of them sought ways to update and radicalize the techniques of modernism to make them relevant for their contemporary situation. Alan Burns took the novel to more radical extremes than his counterparts, eschewing traditional narrative in favour of a dense accumulation of detail. This is the first full length study of Burns' work, which has largely been neglected by scholars and, for the most part, remains out of print. I provide a thorough account of Burns' life and work and theorise the reasons for his obscurity. I examine the role of trauma in his work. For Burns the experience of the traumatic moment is one in which the violence that underpins everyday society is momentarily unveiled, the sheer and explicit violence of the event produces a rupture that displays the deeper and more insidious violence that exists beneath it and gives it structure. I draw on theories of visual art, music and cinema, both of the 'classical' avant-garde and more recent, as much as of literature and philosophy, to attempt to account for the strategies, techniques and approaches that Alan Burns engaged with in his writing. Avowedly left-wing, in interviews Burns is frequently optimistic about the possibility for political change in the world, and is even confident about the role that literature can play in fostering that change. However, I argue that his novels present a rather different, and much more pessimistic picture: each of them shows the way in which any activism can ultimately be constrained and co-opted.