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Andersson, Boel. "Repetition." Thesis, Konstfack, Textil, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3821.
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Taket utgör en stor del av hur vi upplever ett rum men är ofta en bortglömd del av det - ett trassel av ventilationsrör och eldragningar eller täckt av vita ljudabsorberande plattor. Syftet med projektet är att med textila experiment hitta vägar att utnyttja taket och på så vis ge rummet en ny karaktär. Resultatet av mitt arbete är en textil där en geometrisk form i upprepning blir något väldigt komplext och organiskt. Textilen kan i detta projekt användas rumsligt, för att skapa form och drapera rum.
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Yost, Betsy J. "Repetition." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3590.
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My work is about memory, and my awareness of the repetition of large and small events in my life. In my paintings, drawings, and mixed media I create rhythmic patterns with images and colors to imply a sense of recurrence. I often repeat imagery such as paper dolls or geometric and organic shapes in my work. I choose and repeat shapes and colors that remind me of events in my childhood and in my life as an adult. I see these multiple images as symbolic self-portraits which prompt memories of recurring events, such as waking up each morning or remaking a mistake or running into an old friend. By incorporating personally familiar and repeated imagery, I want to trigger a déjà vu experience. I want the presentation of my memories to evoke the same in the viewer.
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Tigner, Robert Bruce. "Overcoming Repetition Blindness: The Effect of Repetition Salience /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487935125881498.
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Haidary, Anita. "CONTROVERCY OVER GRADE REPETITION : Afghan Teachers’ View on Grade Repetition." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31337.
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Since 75 years research results has failed to change the practice of repetition among the educational community. Research has found grade repetition ineffective and inefficient in terms of academic and socio-emotional development of students. Furthermore repeaters tend to drop out from school earlier and may end up with behavior problems and low self-esteem. Despite strong evidence against the use of repetition majority of teachers around the world practice it, which makes the issue controversial. The reason is likely that research findings are seldom communicated with teachers and parents. As a result teachers mainly rely on their own experiences. Parents and teachers over-focus on the short term benefits of repetioin, and take repetition decisions on unjustified assumptions. Moreover, student’s vioce is largely missed in repetition decission. In Afghanistan a seven fold increase in access to education in the last decad, put pressure on MoE in provission of quality education. Low quality education causes high drop out and repetition rates. On average, these rates are estimated to be 5 % and 19 %, respectively. However there is not much research found that gives a clear idea of repetition reasons. Besides, many studies in developing countries have shown that teachers have an important role in repetition decisions. The general aim of the study was to find whether the theoretical understanding and practical approaches among Afghan teachers differ or are similar to the rest of the world. The particular aim was to find how teachers perceived grade repetition as an educational policy. Most finding of this study corresponds to what has been found in many other studies conducted in developing countries. The fact that teachers, although aware of the negative effects of students’ feelings and self-confidence believed in learning effects of repetition says something about teachers’ understanding of how and when learning occurs best.
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Bavelier, Daphne. "Phonological repetition blindness." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13206.
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Sutter, Jon. "Structure and Repetition." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1834.
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This work is the result of an exploration into the relationship of form and pattern. Its inspiration began as an experiment where certain two dimensional graphical patterns were interpreted as three dimensional elements in a lattice-like assembly. The resulting compositions are built entirely of MDF, and each piece is made from multiple copies of one or two identically shaped parts that are joined with shallow grooves. Some of the pieces resemble Asian architectural lattices as well as the scientific models of molecules in crystals. Often, the flat components seem to undulate in space or twist into impossible shapes. Although the various compositions appear dissimilar, the differences are a result of only minor changes to the individual parts that comprise them. Therefore, the work is metaphorically analogous to other complex systems made from simple components such as the structure of matter, the organization of cells, or primordial life in general.
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Lin, Chun-Yu. "Examining the Relationship between Behavioral Repetition Priming and fMRI Repetition Suppression." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193841.
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Priming refers to a change in the ability to identify, produce, or classify a stimulus as a result of a previous encounter with the same or a related stimulus. Recent neuroimaging studies often found behavioral priming to co-occur with a reduction in neural activations in various cortical regions, which is called repetition suppression. It is thought that repetition suppression is closely related to behavioral priming, and may even be the underlying neural mechanism that supports priming. However, current literature still has several unsolved questions about the relationship between repetition suppression and priming. The present dissertation set out to further elucidate their relationship. In Study 1, a mirror-word identification task was used to limit overlap between study and test to a primarily perceptual level with little or no conceptual overlap nor top-down modulation. Repetition suppression was found in visual perceptual and frontal phonological regions involved at both study and test, supporting a "component process" view that repetition suppression and priming can occur at a perceptual level with limited conceptual or top-down processes involved. In Study 2, three perceptual priming tasks and one conceptual priming task were used to directly examine component process view's prediction that perceptual priming would be correlated with posterior repetition suppression and conceptual priming would be correlated with frontal repetition suppression. The results showed that both perceptual and conceptual priming involved repetition suppression in both frontal and posterior perceptual regions, at least when measured with our paradigm and tasks, and both frontal and posterior repetition suppression effects were correlated with behavioral priming in all four perceptual and conceptual priming tasks. This finding suggests that both frontal and posterior perceptual regions are involved in perceptual and conceptual priming, and that they are most likely working in concert with one another during priming, as exemplified by an interactive view of priming. Taken together, our data suggest that priming may be supported by several different underlying mechanisms, such as bottom-up processes (component process view of priming), top-down modulation and frontal-posterior interaction/synchrony.
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Nishitani, Mariko. "Repetition in Yeats's Poetry." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/202784.
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Guess, David R. "Repetition as teaching methodology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
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Sokolova, I. V. "Author's Intention Through Repetition." Thesis, Черкаський державний університет, 1999. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/62550.
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У рефератах представлені результати дослідження використання навмисних повторень для виконання текстових намірів авторів.The abstracts represent results of investigation of usage of intentional repetitions to fulfil an authors text-forming intention.
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Bäckström, Josefine, and Elisabeth Meijer. "Repetition är kunskapens moder." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34693.
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”Repetition är kunskapens moder – en studie om hur två arbetslag på olika skolor arbetar med läs- och skrivinlärningsmaterial i år 1”, ett examensarbete skrivit av Josefine Bäckström och Elisabeth Meijer. Vi har redogjort för tidigare forskning som berör lärobokens auktoritet och vilken betydelse lärarens personliga och pedagogiska roll har för undervisning. Teorier från Vygotskij lyfts i studien, att det är eleven självsom ska lära sig att läsa och skriva, men hon behöver inspiration, motivation och uppmuntran på vägen. Studien är baserad på kvalitativ forskningsmetod genom insamling av intervjuer och observationer som har resulterat i en redogörelse för de material arbetslagen använder. Materialen kan vid första anblick liknas med varandra, trots att delar har ålderskillnad på cirka 25 år, de använder läsebok, skriver från större till mindre bokstäver och båda arbetslag betonar finmotorikens betydelse. Vid närmare jämförelse använder de olika verktyg och tillvägagångssätt för att en elev ska lära sig att läsa och skriva, det skiljer sig bland annat i hur bokstäver lärs in. Slutsatsen för studien är att så länge som lärare använder sig av varierat och inspirerat material finns det goda utsikter för en elev att lära sig att läsa och skriva, alltså ålder på materialet har ingen direkt betydelse.
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RIERA, BRIGITTE. "La repetition du texte beckettien -pour un lyrisme de la repetition chez samuel beckett-." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA030074.
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La repetition, du verbe repetere ("aller chercher pour reprendre"), est marquee par les figures de reiteration, de variation, d'echo et de refrain chez s. Beckett. Le recit ressasse au niveau des structures syntaxiques bien que l'expression du meme se retrouve a differents niveaux du texte. Impregne de tradition irlandaise, s. Beckett vit neanmoins dans le contexte du paris de l'apres-guerre parmi les ecrivains du nouveau roman. Les principes de la repetition dans l'oeuvre se concentrent autour des notions d'ecart, d'entre-deux et de souffle au sein de l'indecidabilite de la voix narrative. L'oeuvre emprunte nombre de ses references a la peinture et a la question de la representation. Elle cultive aussi le gout des nombres et de l'art combinatoire qui calme l'angoisse du narrateur beckettien. La posture philosophique de belacqua, heros de dante, et son absence de volonte constituent un point d'ancrage du ressassement au meme titre que la reference au texte biblique jalonne les topoi de l'oeuvre. Dans les variations musicales et les rythmes s'exprime une repetition pathologique, compulsion pour le sujet a repeter la rencontre avec le traumatisme ou la contiguite d'une naissance reelle, un vendredi saint, et d'une mort symbolique. Le nom de beckett s'inscrit aussi dans l'oeuvre, par le bec de perroquet, dans la faille du langage ouverte par l'ecart entre les mots ou le metalangage que constitue le recours a l'ironie. Au niveau intertextuel, la tradition de dante, joyce, proust et des philosophes constitue avec l'autocitation la forme de reprise la plus puissante. Traducteur de ses propres oeuvres, beckett en accentue l'intention premiere, les echos, au fil d'une voix insistante qui vide l'oeuvre a la recherche du pur point d'enonciationRepetition, from the verb repetere ("to fetch so as to recapture"), is characterized by the figures of reiteration, of variation, of echo and of refrain, in samuel beckett's work. The narrative keeps repeating at the level of syntaxical structures although the expression of the sameness can be found at different levels of the text. Impregnated with irish tradition, beckett lives, however, in the context of the after-war paris among writers of the "nouveau roman". The principles of ceaseless repetition in the work are centered around the notions of gap, of interval and of breath in the bosom of indecidability of the narrative voice. The work borrows a number of its references from painting and from the question of representation. It also favours the taste for figures and combinatory art that smooths the anguish of the beckettian narrator. The philosophical attitude of belacqua -dante's hero- and his lack of will constitute a rooting point of ceaseless repetition in the same way as the reference to the biblical text can be found all along the "topoi" of the work. In the musical variations and the rythm, a pathological repetition is expressed, compulsion for the subject to revew the meeting with traumatism or contiguity of a real birth -a good friday- and of a symbolic death. Doing so, beckett puts down his name in the work, by the peak of the parrot, in the gap of language opened by the space between words or the metalanguage that constitutes the use of irony. On the intertextual level, the tradition of dante, joyce, proust and of philosophers constitutes with the autoquotation the most powerful form of recapturing. Translator of his own work, beckett emphasizes so the initial purpose, the echos going along a voice, insistence that empties the work in search of the pure point of enunciation
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Wagle, John P., Christopher B. Taber, Kevin M. Carroll, Aaron J. Cunanan, Matt L. Sams, Alexander Wetmore, Garett E. Bingham, et al. "Repetition-to-Repetition Differences Using Cluster and Accentuated Eccentric Loading in the Back Squat." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4665.
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The current investigation was an examination of the repetition-to-repetition magnitudes and changes in kinetic and kinematic characteristics of the back squat using accentuated eccentric loading (AEL) and cluster sets. Trained male subjects (age = 26.1 ± 4.1 years, height = 183.5 ± 4.3 cm, body mass = 92.5 ± 10.5 kg, back squat to body mass ratio = 1.8 ± 0.3) completed four load condition sessions, each consisting of three sets of five repetitions of either traditionally loaded straight sets (TL), traditionally loaded cluster sets (TLC), AEL cluster sets (AEC), and AEL straight sets where only the initial repetition had eccentric overload (AEL1). Eccentric overload was applied using weight releasers, creating a total eccentric load equivalent to 105% of concentric one repetition maximum (1RM). Concentric load was 80% 1RM for all load conditions. Using straight sets (TL and AEL1) tended to decrease peak power (PP) (d = −1.90 to −0.76), concentric rate of force development (RFDCON) (d = −1.59 to −0.27), and average velocity (MV) (d = −3.91 to −1.29), with moderate decreases in MV using cluster sets (d= −0.81 to −0.62). Greater magnitude eccentric rate of force development (RFDECC) was observed using AEC at repetition three (R3) and five (R5) compared to all load conditions (d = 0.21–0.65). Large within-condition changes in RFDECC from repetition one to repetition three (∆REP1–3) were present using AEL1 (d = 1.51), demonstrating that RFDECC remained elevated for at least three repetitions despite overload only present on the initial repetition. Overall, cluster sets appear to permit higher magnitude and improved maintenance of concentric outputs throughout a set. Eccentric overload with the loading protocol used in the current study does not appear to potentiate concentric output regardless of set configuration but may cause greater RFDECCcompared to traditional loading
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Pickering, Peter Edward. "Verbal repetition in Greek tragedy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1318016/.
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This thesis examines the ways in which critics, ancient and modem, have looked at verbal repetitions in the texts of Greek tragedy, in particular those repetitions of lexical words which may seem careless or unintentional. It compares surviving plays (taking a sample of those of Euripides). An index of repetitiveness for each play is calculated; it emerges that while Aeschylus' plays have a wide range, there is a statistically significant difference between those of Sophocles and those of Euripides, the latter being more repetitive. The Prometheus, whose authenticity has been doubted, has a much lower index than any other tragedy examined (though that of the Alexandra of Lycophron is much lower still). A comparison of repetitiveness within a small sample of plays has failed to find systematic differences between passages of dialogue and continuous speeches, or according to the category of word. Some verbal repetitions may not have been in the original texts of tragedies, but may appear in manuscripts because of errors made by copyists. A systematic examination has been made of the manuscript tradition of selected plays to identify the instances where some manuscripts have a reading with a repetition, while others do not. The circumstances in which erroneous repetitions are introduced are identified; one conclusion reached is that copyists sometimes remove genuine repetitions. Modem psychological research has thrown light on the processes of language comprehension and production, in particular a process known as 'priming' whereby an earlier stimulus facilitates the naming of an object. The thesis discusses the relevance of this research to the observed phenomena of verbal repetitions by authors and copyists. The thesis concludes with a detailed examination of passages in three plays, and the remarks of commentators on them. Aesthetic and textual matters are discussed.
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Evans, Ian Jason. "High repetition rate tunable lasers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:500e50c7-91bd-4d45-859b-9cf91a4b9808.
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Copper vapour laser (CVL) pumped dye lasers offer a source of high power, kilohertz repetition rate, tunable narrow-bandwidth radiation suitable for many spectroscopic applications in the visible and infra-red. Furthermore, the nonlinear frequency conversion of CVL-pumped dye laser radiation extends the wavelength range of these laser sources into the blue and ultra-violet. A series of experimental investigations have been undertaken to gain a physical understanding of the fundamental parameters necessary for the optimization of the CVL-pumping of dye lasers. Issues addressed include the influence of the CVL cavity design, the pump beam polarization and geometry, the dye oscillator cavity design, the choice of grating materials, and the dye flow rate. A model based on the rate equation analysis of the kinetic processes relevant to optical amplification in dye lasers has been developed, and the results have been used to design amplifiers with extraction efficiencies in excess of 45 %. As a result of the aforementioned investigations, three commercially available pulsed dye lasers have been successfully optimized for CVL-pumping for the first time. Once modified, these dye lasers have typically shown conversion efficiencies in excess of 20%, with frequency bandwidths as narrow as 800MHz, and beam qualities approaching the diffraction limit. The theory of second harmonic generation is reviewed, and a suite of corresponding computer models have been developed to form the basis for a coherent experimental investigation of UV generation using the CVL and CVL-pumped dye lasers. CVL SHG has been demonstrated in jS-barium borate (BBO) and lithium triborate (LBO), with SHG efficiencies in excess of 18% realized for the CVL 511nm line in BBO. For the first time, an experimental comparison of spherically and elliptically focused second harmonic generation has been undertaken. Optimized elliptical focusing is found to be up to 30% more efficient than using conventional spherical focusing in agreement with theoretical predictions. The superior divergence and transverse coherence of CVL-pumped dye lasers, in comparison to those of the CVL, is reflected in the SHG efficiencies achieved in BBO, LBO and lithium iodate. Conversion efficiencies approaching 40% have been demonstrated in lithium iodate, with harmonic conversion coefficients approaching 2400mW/W2 realized at low input powers. The Boyd and Kleinman theory of SHG with focused Gaussian beams is found to provide an excellent description of SHG with CVL-pumped dye laser radiation, and accurately predicts the optimum strength of focusing and harmonic conversion coefficient. For the first time, sum frequency mixing (SFM) of the CVL with a dye laser has been demonstrated, and found to provide a potentially efficient source for tunable UV radiation. Finally, the application of CVL-pumped dye lasers to resonant ionization mass spectrometry and tropospheric hydroxyl (OH) radical detection is discussed, and the spectroscopic potential of a frequency doubled CVL-pumped dye is demonstrated by recording the absorption spectrum of OH at 308nm.
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Yi, Ching Lin. "Loss, repetition and the everyday." Thesis, University of East London, 2017. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/6362/.
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My doctoral research aims to explore artistic obsession through repetitive documentation of the domestic and the everyday. Drawing upon the resources of my cultural heritage, I experiment with synthesizing cross-cultural and cross historical forms. Through theoretical research and creative practice, I use photography, large-scale installations, moving image projections and two dimensional visual images (paintings, drawings and prints) to articulate my relationship to family and memories. Starting with research into masters of the moving image such as Andrei Tarkovsky, photographers of the American 'underclass' Robert Franks, and installation artists Mona Hatoum and Yayoi Kusama, I articulate my own relationship to family and memory through various mediums in my practice. My varied cultural background - Taiwan, Japan, the US, the UK - as well as my personal experiences, are the basis of my exploration of still photography and the moving image, particularly as projected onto objects and environments, and my development of large-scale installations and two-dimensional works. Through further research into historical painting and printmaking traditions, and contemporary visual artist On Kawara, I explore the tensions and exchanges between the aesthetic concerns of 'east' and 'west' which became the most significant resource for my works. I take inspiration from my culture, background, memories, a traumatised childhood in Taiwan and Japan; my early adulthood in the US and this last decade in UK. These experiences and memories are the fertile ground for my art practice. Art practice allows me to bring new energy to the burden of memories and dealing with loss, to make sense of the world and of myself. Although the content of my work seems personal, loss is a universal human experience. Throughout the last two decades I have been writing, drawing and taking photos. These activities become my research tools for my practice. Like an archaeologist, I take inspiration directly from the accumulation of these primary research materials, I then develop them into projects with various mediums. I believe through the process of documenting life as it happens, new works will organically develop. I find narratives of human nature in these developed materials. I believe artists' ultimate responsibility is to reveal universal truths through exploring their lives and experiences.
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Chen, Jian Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "High repetition rate fiber lasers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55093.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis reports work in high repetition rate femtosecond fiber lasers. Driven by the applications including optical arbitrary waveform generation, high speed optical sampling, frequency metrology, and timing and frequency distribution via fiber links, low noise fiber laser sources operating at multi-gigahertz repetition rates are developed systematically. A 200 MHz fundamentally mode-locked soliton laser and a 200 MHz fundamentally mode-locked similariton laser are first developed. Intra-cavity soliton formation is recognized as the optimum route towards achieving high fundamental repetition rates compact lasers, under the limitation of realistically available pump power. A 3 GHz fundamentally mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser is developed and verifies the soliton formation theory. Techniques in external cavity repetition rate multiplications are also discussed. A theoretical model that relates the repetition rate of the soliton laser and its other physical measurable parameters is developed to guide further high repetition rate laser development.
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Walter, Mary Ann Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Repetition avoidance in human language." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41694.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-225).
Repetition is avoided in countless human languages and at a variety of grammatical levels. In this dissertation I ask what it is that makes repetition so bad. I propose that at least three distinct biases against repetition exist. First, repetition of articulatory gestures is relatively difficult. This difficulty results in phonetic variation that may lead to categorical phonological avoidance. I call this set of claims the Biomechanical Repetition Avoidance Hypothesis (BRAH), and support it with evidence from cross-linguistic patterns in repetition avoidance phenomena, articulatory data from music performance, and a series of phonetic experiments that document the proposed types of phonetic variation. Based on these data, I give an evolutionary account for antigemination in particular. The second anti-repetition bias is a perceptual deficit causing speakers not to perceive one of a sequence of repeated items, of any conceptual category. This bias is already well-documented, as are the grammatical effects (primarily haplology). I provide here the evidence of gradient variation in production bridging the two, from avoidance of homophone sequences in English corpora. The third factor is a principle disallowing the repetition of syntactic features in certain configurations within a phase domain. I document categorical effects of it in Semitic syntax of possession and relativization. These elicit repair strategies superficially similar to those of phonology (specifically, deletion and epenthesis/insertion). Repetition effects, then, are traceable to a variety of independent, functional biases. This argues against a unitary, innate constraint against repetition. Rather, multiple anti-repetition biases result in particular avoidance patterns, with their intersection producing additional asymmetries. Possible categorical repairs are further constrained by the nature of the formal grammatical system.
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Rigatti, Roberto. "An investigation of exon repetition." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29697.
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Exon repetition consists in the presence of tandemly repeated exons in mRNA. In all the cases reported so far, the trivial explanation that the phenomenon arises from a duplication of specific exons in the gene was ruled out by southern blot analysis. It is therefore assumed that exon repetition is the result of a post-transcriptional process involving two pre-mRNA molecules transcribed from the same gene. Exon repetition of SA is of particular interest, since it is both tissue and strain-specific. This at first suggested that repetition in SA might be caused by a tissue and strain-specific trans-acting factor. This work has shown that the property of exon repetition is allele-specific in the two best characterised examples, represented by the SA and COT (carnitine octanoyltransferase) genes in rat. Allele-specificity of exon repetition is therefore the underlying cause of strain-specificity of exon repetition in SA and also in COT.;The biological significance of exon repetition remains unknown. One possible function is the generation of new proteins. Quite often though, repetition of the exon that contains the AUG translational start codon creates a short upstream open reading frame (uORF) that precedes the ORF encoding the full length protein. The effect of this has been investigated and the results show that translation of the downstream open reading frame is significantly reduced by the presence of uORFs.;The mechanism that generates exon repetition is not well understood. It was initially proposed for the COT gene that the presence of a putative exonic splicing enhancer (ESE) in exon 2 conferred exon repetition. This work demonstrates that the presence of the ESE is not sufficient to cause exon repetition in-vivo.
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BENADON, JEAN-LOUIS. "L'instant d'angoisse : repetition, scansion, pulsation." Paris 7, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA070088.
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Mesure-t-on assez les consequences inouies du premier instant, celui de la rencontre d'une personne, d'un auteur, d'un livre ? l'espace d'un instant, l'angoisse et la temporalite contraignent la philosophie a s'ecarter du droit chemin. Les instants feconds de l'histoire de la pensee surgissent dans la crise et le paradoxe; en ce sens, l'histoire de la pensee est, un peu a sa maniere, l'histoire d'une peur qui ne trouve pas les mots pour se dire. On suivra la genealogie de l'instant d'angoisse sous la plume de platon, hegel, kierkegaard et freud. Ce cheminement epistemologique tachera de donner a penser aux psychanalustes sur l'abord therapeutiqueDo we sufficiently measure the unheard consequences of the first moment, that of the meeting of a person, an author, a book ? the space of an instant, angst and temporality, force philosophy to go off the straight path. Fertile moments of the history of thought spring up in times of crisis and paradox ; thus the history of thought is somewhat the history of a fear that finds no way of expressing itself in words. We shall follow the genealogy of the moment of angst as written by plato, hegel, kierkegaard and freud. This epistemological development will attempt to give psychoanalysts something to think about concerning the approach to therapy
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Carlsson, Emma. "SÅNGERSKAN SOM INSTRUMENTALIST : REPETITION SOM FÖRÄNDRING." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5222.
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Eriksen, Niels Nymann. "Kierkegaard's category of repetition : a reconstruction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265430.
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In 1843 Kierkegaard (or his pseudonym, Constantin Constantius) introduced the category of repetition as a paradigm of modern choughc. Greek t hought, he argued, belongs to the paradigm of recollection, and virtually the entire history of philosophy falls under this category. Modern thought can free itself from the hegemony of the Greek logos only when repetition replaces recollection. On the basis of this distinction between recollection and repetition, my dissertation analyses and explores the meaning of repetition as a paradigm of modern thought. The subtitle, 'a reconstruction', involves a double task. On the one hand, the book Repetition and the early notes on the category of repetition are reconstructed against the background of an understanding of the authorship as a whole. It is argued that Kierkegaard must be approached as a religious writer rather than a metaphysical thinker, and that, consequently, the meaning of the category of repetition can be grasped only on the basis of the distinction between religion and philosophy. Secondly, the category of repetition is reconstructed against the background of the thematization of nihilism in thinkers such as Nietzsche and Heidegger. Kierkegaardian repetition, it is argued, assumes th~ end of traditional metaphysics, but it interprets the event of nihilism in a way which is radically different from Nietzsche and Heidegger. According to Kierkegaard's line of thought, a paradigm of post-metaphysical thinking is provided by the Christian teaching of the incarnation. The six chapters of the dissertation are structured according to three guiding questions which reflect Kierkegaard's basic claims concerning repetition. The first claim is chat this category provides a new understanding of the historicaliry of existence. Whereas in the Greek paradigm, recollection implied 'backwards living', in the modern paradigm of repetition life must be lived forwards . This notion of historical ity is analysed in Chapters One and Two. The second claim is that repetition implies a happy relation to the other. Though this point plays an important role in Repetition, it is only brought out conceptually in some of the later writings. Chapters Three and Four therefore concentrate on select passages from The Concept of Anxiety and Philosophical Fragments (1844). The third claim is that the category of repetition provides an answer to the question of becoming. This theme is developed in Chapters Five and Six through a comparison with Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence.
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Udayakumar, P. "Repetition, time and structure in Ulysses." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329022.
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Ciccoricco, Dave. "Repetition and recombination: Reading network fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4770.
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Repetition and Recombination: Reading Network Fiction is the first full-length
study devoted to network fiction. Network fictions are narrative texts in digitallynetworked
environments that make use of hypertext technology in order to create
emergent and recombinatory narratives (unlike interactive, or "arborescent," fictions that
employ mutually exclusive plotlines). They represent a coalescence of works that predate
and postdate the World Wide Web but share an aesthetic drive that exploits the
networking potential of digital composition and foregrounds a distinctive quality of
narrative recurrence and return.
The thesis consists of (1) a critical and theoretical component that returns to printbased
narratology in light of digital literature; (2) analyses of network fictions from the
first-wave of digital literature published as stand-alone software applications; and (3)
analyses of second-wave network fictions published on the World Wide Web. The
analyses each focus on the interplay of the material, formal, and semantic elements of
network narrative, an jnterplay that is framed by the dynamics of repetition. Furthermore,
the thesis illustrates how concepts of orientation, immersion, constraint, and mobility,
which have long informed the experience of reading narrative fiction, take on new
meaning in digital environments.
The primary contribution of the thesis is to an aesthetic and narratological
understanding of this nascent form of digital literature. However, cybertext theory,
systems theory, postfeminist theory, and post-structuralist and deconstructionist theory
(when dissociated from early hypertext theory that claimed to literalize, embody, or fulfill
it) all inform its critical understanding.
The movement in the arts away from representation and toward simulation, away
from the dynamics of reading and interpretation and toward the dynamics of interaction
and play has led to exaggerated or alarmist claims for the endangerment of the literary
arts. At the same time, some have simply doubted that the conceptual and discursive
intricacy of print fiction can migrate to the screen, where performativity and immediacy
are privileged. Against these claims, the thesis attests to the verbal complexity and
conceptual depth of a body of writing created for the surface of the screen.
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Dean, Michael P. "Identifying the locus of repetition priming." Thesis, Durham University, 1995. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5133/.
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People are able to respond more quickly to stimuli following a recent encounter with those same items. This facilitation in processing a stimulus as a function of a prior encounter is known as repetition priming. This thesis contains eleven experiments that attempt to describe the nature of the representations in memory underlying the effect. Changing aspects of the stimuli and task between the initial encounter and the subsequent test encounter allow examination of the kinds of information contained in these representations. The effects on repetition priming of recombining the pairings of simultaneously presented items in a speeded same/different matching task were examined (Experiments 1,2, 3 & 6). Despite priming being insensitive to the pairings of items, subjects were able to recognise this information (Experiment 4), revealing an item-specific locus for the priming effect and a dissociation from explicit memory. Priming was shown to be based on domain- specific and not conceptual information (Experiment 5). Experiments 7 and 8 examined the role of repeating the decision and response to stimuli in producing repetition priming. Results suggested that any such role reflects subjects' use of explicit memory as a basis for responding in the task, rather than reflecting automatic priming effects. Manipulating the semantic interpretation demanded of a homograph between training and test did not affect repetition priming (Experiment 9). The independent representation of simultaneously presented stimuli did not necessarily depend upon the activation of pre-existing representations or connections (Experiment 10). Experiment 11 revealed a necessary role for the identification of stimuli in producing repetition priming. The results of these eleven experiments pose problems for accounts of repetition priming based on the retrieval of processing episodes, or the reinstatement of processing demands. The results are consistent with a perceptual locus of the priming effect, based on representations of structure and form employed in the identification of individual stimuli.
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Fraser, Matthew Paul. "Repetition priming of facial expression recognition." Thesis, University of York, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431255.
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AMADO, CAROLINA MARINHO. "LOVE CHOICE: FROM REPETITION TO TRANSFORMATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=3741@1.
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O presente estudo tem como objetivo a compreensão da
escolha amorosa a partir da teoria psicanalítica. Partimos
da hipótese de que as relações amorosas são, muitas vezes,
repetições de certos padrões de comportamento da infância.
As escolhas amorosas repetem essencialmente dois aspectos
da formação do sujeito: a relação mãe/bebê e o Édipo. No
entanto, isso ocorre de diversas formas a partir das
histórias familiares de cada cônjuge. Cada sujeito, na sua
singularidade, vai dar um destino para aquilo que lhe é
transmitido. Mas, muitas vezes, é difícil escapar de algo
que não foi representado nas gerações anteriores. O que não
pôde ser revelado vai aparecer de alguma forma, ainda que
disfarçado.The aim of this paper is to try to understand the love choice from the psychoanalytical point of view. We assume that loving relationships often repeat some patterns of childhood behavior, mainly the Oedipus and the mother/child relationship. Nevertheless, the choice occurs in different ways according to each partner`s family history. Each individual, with his own singularity, will give a destination to his heritage. Sometimes, however, it becomes difficult to run away from something that has not been expressed at preceding generations. Things that could not be revealed will somehow appear, even though disguised.
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Antoniades, Constantine G. "The function of repetition in typology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71070.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-93).
The purpose of this thesis will be to attempt an analogy between the topography of architectural production, as witnessed by the evolution and employment of architectural typologies, and the topography of mental production, as proposed by Sigmund Freud. The premises for the analogy will be the assumption that architectural production constitutes part of the cultural production, and the Freudian thesis of the connection between the development of the individual and the development of culture under the domination of the same form of instinctual repression. The first part of the thesis will examine the role of repetition in the evolution of architectural typology, in parallel to the role of repetition (compulsion to repeat) in the mechanism of instinctual repression of the Freudian model. The analogy will not serve as a claim for the nature of the productive mechanism in architecture , but as a vehicle for the analysis of the participating forces during its operation. The second part will attempt a more direct extrapolation from the development of cultural ideas to the development of architectural ideas during the period of the Enlightenment in the work of Piranesi, Boullee and Ledoux.
by Constantine G. Antoniades.
M.Arch.
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Kuzucu, Oktay Onur 1980. "High repetition rate Ti:Sapphire modelocked laser." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87364.
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Barnitz, Peter. "Repetition and the Power of Simplicity." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1300.
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My art consists of the repetition of patterns, shapes, numbers, text, and found objects that communicate concepts in language, science, and math as art. My work addresses aesthetic and formal aspects of the art itself and embraces the process and experience of creating. I use repetition of lines and shapes to create a complex mass of infinite amounts of shapes, which create what I regard as a peaceful gathering of energy. These patterns can be freely interpreted as the co-dependency between everything in existence, which contributes to the changing balance of life. Similar to my patterns, my sculptures fuse several layers of found objects to form a larger structure with the intention of creating a new meaning and life of those objects. The wide variety of subject matter in my artwork stems from a continuous and honest investigation into our constantly changing world.
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O'Dell, Jade J. "Developmental Education Repeaters: Stories About Repetition." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1470.
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Developmental education students make up almost half of the community college population in the United States (Bettinger & Long, 2005). Approximately 42% of first-time freshmen at community colleges must enroll in at least one developmental education course in English, reading and/or math (NCES, 2010). Many developmental education students are unsuccessful in passing a developmental education course in their first and second attempts and retake the course sometimes five times before passing. There is substantial research on persistence among college students, but the research fails to link persistence to developmental education repeaters. My study sought to explore community college developmental education repeaters’ experiences with and stories about repetition in a reading course. My study was framed around developmental education and its students, course repeaters, and persistence.
I used qualitative research methods with a narrative research design. Two methods of data collection included multiple one-on-one interviews and document collection. Four participants were selected from one community college in the New Orleans area, two who repeated and completed developmental reading upon their third attempt and two who were in the process of completing developmental reading a third time. Data analysis revealed six themes. The information gleaned from the inquiry may inform community college faculty practice with regard to not only reducing and preventing course repetition but also increasing persistence and retention of developmental education students.
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ADAMCZYK, KATARZYNA. "Analyse des experiences factorielles sans repetition." Paris 11, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA112348.
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Dans l'analyse des resultats d'une experience factorielle sans repetition on est confronte au probleme de l'estimation de l'ecart-type residuel. Le nombre d'unites experimentales etant inferieur ou egal au nombre des effets a estimer, l'estimateur classique de n'est pas defini et les tests usuels permettant de detecter les effets non-nuls ne sont pas utilisables. Il faut donc trouver un autre moyen d'estimer. Ce besoin a motive ce travail de these. Tout d'abord nous presentons une revue des differentes methodes d'estimation de l'ecart-type residuel. Les approches que nous abordons ici peuvent etre classees en trois categories principales : les methodes graphiques, la methode de reduction de la dimension parametrique et les methodes appliquees lorsque le pourcentage des effets non-nuls est petit. Les proprietes de chacune de ces methodes sont discutees en detail. Ensuite nous proposons une nouvelle methode d'estimation de et de la proportion p des effets non-nuls. Notre estimateur maximise la vraisemblance qui est calculee a partir d'une proportion fixe des plus petites observations prises en valeur absolue. Nous demontrons l'existence et l'unicite de la solution des equations du maximum de vraisemblance ainsi defini. Nous donnons les proprietes asymptotiques de l'estimateur et nous examinons ses performances pour un echantillon de taille finie. Enfin nous montrons que cet estimateur, qui prend en compte la proportion p des effets non-nuls, reduit le biais de certaines des methodes qui ont ete presentees dans la premiere partie.
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Elkon, James Tamor. "Trauma and repetition : an intersubjective perspective." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7994.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-108).This research study employed the single case-study method with the aim of illustrating how extraordinarily difficult it can be within a South African context to name racial, gender and class differences and their concomitant painful histories within the therapeutic space. The evolution of trauma is followed with particular emphasis on its relationship to gender. This case study focuses particularly on the intersubjective space generated between a White, male intern psychologist and a Coloured, female survivor of gender based violence. Material gathered over an eleven-month treatment period highlighted a resistance of both parties to acknowledge and engage with issues, such as race and gender, which threatened both client and therapist with early traumatogenetic repetitions within the therapeutic space.
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Doughty, Adam H. "Persistence of response variation and repetition." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1627.
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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2000.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 46 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-46).
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Eriksen, Niels Nymann. "Kierkegaard's category of repetition : a reconstruction /." Berlin : W. de Gruyter, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37222580f.
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Robards, Andrew. "Repetition, revision, appropriation and the Western." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12843.
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The aim of this research paper is to demonstrate the innate dialogue that exists between the Western genre and Contemporary Art practice. Initially, the fundamental qualities of a ‘Classic’ Western are defined, before moving on to a broader examination of the genre’s key developments and evolutions post World War II. Using George Steven’s Shane as a case study, the paper traces the prominent position of appropriation inside the meta-cinematic form, whilst also tying various filmic examples to the practice’s of visual artists who employ congruous strategies when developing their own work. The paper concludes with a detailed exploration of my own creative practice, highlighting how my theoretical research has informed a body of work that employs prominent connections and appropriations from both cinematic and artistic forms of expression. The exhibited component of my studio research is a three part installation and accompanying online database of film stills. Each piece in the body of work explores the position of the Western genre in the cinematic and contemporary art contexts, representing a refined culmination of my various work and its development through a sustained process of visual and theoretical investigation. All four parts of the project employ the well established revisionist imperatives that characterise the Western and Contemporary Art spheres. Through the combination of these shared practices my work seeks to hybridise the two traditionally separate, but increasingly homogeneous creative mediums.
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Morosin, Maria Simona <1974>. "Repetition: in language, learning and teaching." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/233.
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Armstrong, Irene T. "Repetition deficit effects in serial recall, finding a common account for repetition blindness and the Ranschburg effect." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/NQ27814.pdf.
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Moy, Ka-yiu Cephas. "The impact of grade retention on junior secondary students : a case study /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21184860.
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Cameron-Minard, Doris. "An Exploratory Study of Student Retention in Kindergarten and Grade One and the Associated Decision Making Processes as Perceived by Principals and Teachers." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1137.
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Students who fail to achieve in school are frequently retained in grade to remediate their lack of satisfactory progress. In this study, elementary school principals, kindergarten, and first grade teachers were interviewed to explore their perceptions of the decision making processes used in recommending retention. The belief systems which underlie their reliance on retention as a remedial option were also examined. Three research questions were addressed: 1. What is the relationship between the written retention policy of a selected school district and the actual decision making process used by its schools? 2. What are the influences by district socio-economic level which impact the decision making process used in student retention? 3. What are the perceptions across district socioeconomic level of teachers and principals regarding the use of retention as an intervention for students? Some additional questions related to the three research questions were also explored in the study. The primary method of data collection consisted of interviews with nine participants. In addition, principals, kindergarten, and first grade teachers from 12 schools, representing three socio-economic levels, were surveyed. Data were integrated to develop a more complete narrative of retention practice as perceived by these practitioners. The results of this study indicate several factors influence retention decision making and practice: 1. expectations of other teachers 2. pressure of curriculum standards 3. the availability of alternatives 4. the perceived needs of students 5. the belief systems of teachers 6. knowledge of retention research. Recommendations are presented for encouraging practice more aligned with current research and to assist district policy makers in developing alternatives for retention. The research suggests that future study be conducted to further explore teacher belief systems underlying retention practice.
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Adorjan, Maria [Verfasser]. "Lexical Repetition in Academic Discourse : A Computer-Aided Study of the Text-organizing Role of Repetition / Maria Adorjan." München : GRIN Verlag, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1182543049/34.
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Bernhardsson, Jonathan. "Demokrati eller autokrati som utgångspunkt för kammarmusikalisk repetition : Hur omstruktureringen av repetition kan påverka i en kammarmusikalisk ensemble." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Musikhögskolan, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-86523.
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Nyberg, Jonas. "Repetition av matematikkunskaper med hjälp av IT." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för elektronik, matematik och naturvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12872.
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Syftet med denna rapport är att undersöka effekterna och deltagarnas attityd då informationsteknologiska verktyg används repetera grundläggande kunskaper från gymnasieskolans matematik A och B. Repetitionen skedde inom ramen för en begränsad mängd självstudier som inte skulle överskrida en timme i veckan. Applikationen Khan Academy användes under två veckor och resultaten mättes via för- och eftertest. Studiens deltagare svarade också på en enkät om deras syn på Khan Academy och självstudier. Resultatmässigt uppvisades en statistiskt signifikant förbättring och deltagarnas attityd till applikationen var vid enkäten överväldigande positiv. Studien indikerar att möjligheterna att använda Khan Academy och liknande applikationer till repetition och självstudier är goda.
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Wang, Ming-wei. "Periodicity and Repetition in Combinatorics on Words." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1136.
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This thesis concerns combinatorics on words. I present many results in this area, united by the common themes of periodicity and repetition. Most of these results have already appeared in journal or conference articles. Chapter 2 – Chapter 5 contain the most significant contribution of this thesis in the area of combinatorics on words. Below we give a brief synopsis of each chapter. Chapter 1 introduces the subject area in general and some background information. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 grew out of attempts to prove the Decreasing Length Conjecture (DLC). The DLC states that if ′ is a morphism over an alphabet of size n then for any word w, there exists 0 ≤ i < j ≤ n such that |′i(w)| ≤ |′j(w)|. The DLC was proved by S. Cautis and S. Yazdani in Periodicity, morphisms, and matrices in Theoret. Comput. Sci. (295) 2003, 107-121. More specifically, Chapter 2 gives two generalizations of the classical Fine and Wilf theorem which states that if (fn)n≥0, (gn)n≥0 are two periodic sequences of real numbers, of period lengths h and k respectively, (a) If fn = gn for 0 ≤ n < h + k - gcd(h;k), then fn = gn for all n ≥ 0.
(b) The conclusion in (a) would be false if h + k - gcd(h;k) were replaced by any smaller number. We give similar results where equality in (a) is replaced by inequality and to more than two sequences. These generalizations can be used to prove weak versions of the DLC. Chapter 3 gives an essentially optimal bound to the following matrix problem. Let A be an n × n matrix with non-negative integer entries. Let f(n) be the smallest integer such that for all A, there exist i < j ≤ f(n) such that Ai ≤ Aj, where A ≤ B means each entry of A is less than or equal to the corresponding entry in B. The question is to find good upper bounds on f(n). This problem has been attacked in two different ways. We give a method that proves an essentially optimal upper bound of n + g(n) where g(n) is the maximum order of an element of the symmetric group on n objects. A second approach yields a slightly worse upper bound. But this approach has a result of independent interest concerning irreducible matrices. A non-negative n × n matrix A is irreducible if ∑{i=0}^{n-1}Ai has all entries strictly positive. We show in Chapter 3 that if A is an irreducible n × n matrix, then there exists an integer e > 0 with e = O(n log n) such that the diagonal entries of Ae are all strictly positive. These results improve on results in my Master's thesis and is a version of the DLC in the matrix setting. They have direct applications to the growth rate of words in a D0L system. Chapter 4 gives a complete characterization of two-sided fixed points of morphisms. A weak version of the DLC is used to prove a non-trivial case of the characterization. This characterization completes the previous work of Head and Lando on finite and one-sided fixed points of morphisms. Chapter 5, 6 and 7 deal with avoiding different kinds of repetitions in infinite words. Chapter 5 deals with problems about simultaneously avoiding cubes and large squares in infinite binary words. We use morphisms and fixed points to construct an infinite binary word that simultaneously avoid cubes and squares xx with |x| ≥ 4. M. Dekking was the first to show such words exist. His construction used a non-uniform morphism. We use only uniform morphisms in Chapter 5. The construction in Chapter 5 is somewhat simpler than Dekking's. Chapter 6 deals with problems of simultaneously avoiding several patterns at once. The patterns are generated by a simple arithmetic operation. Chapter 7 proves a variant of a result of H. Friedman. We say a word y is a subsequence of a word z if y can be obtained by striking out zero or more symbols from z. Friedman proved that over any finite alphabet, there exists a longest finite word x = x₁x₂ ··· xn such that xixii+1 ··· x₂i is not a subsequence of xjxj+1 ··· x₂j for 1 ≤ i < j ≤ n/2. We call such words self-avoiding. We show that if “subsequence” is replaced by “subword” in defining self-avoiding, then there are infinite self-avoiding words over a 3-letter alphabet but not over binary or unary alphabets. This solves a question posed by Jean-Paul Allouche. In Chapter 8 we give an application of the existence of infinitely many square-free words over a 3-letter alphabet. The duplication language generated by a word w is roughly speaking the set of words that can be obtained from w by repeatedly doubling the subwords of w. We use the existence of infinitely many square-free words over a 3-letter alphabet to prove that the duplication language generated by a word containing at least 3 distinct letters is not regular. This solves an open problem due to J. Dassow, V. Mitrana and Gh. Paun. It is known that the duplication language generated by a word over a binary alphabet is regular. It is not known whether such languages are context-free if the generator word contains at least 3 distinct letters. After the defence of my thesis I noticed that essentially the same argument was given by Ehrenfeucht and Rozenberg in Regularity of languages generated by copying systems in Discrete Appl. Math. (8) 1984, 313-317. Chapter 9 defines a new “descriptive” measure of complexity of a word w by the minimal size of a deterministic finite automaton that accepts w (and possibly other words) but no other words of length |w|. Lower and upper bounds for various classes of words are proved in Chapter 9. Many of the proofs make essential use of repetitions in words.
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Flude, Brenda M. "Long term repetition priming of familiar faces." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358733.
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Budd, Mary-Jane. "Simulating children's picture naming and auditory repetition." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528847.
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謝錦樂 and Kam-lok Tse. "Repetition as a subversive artifice in narrative." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44569750.
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Marsh, Paul N. "Development of high repetition rate VUV lasers." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7394.
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The work described in this thesis was aimed at developing a field of expertise in short wavelength lasers within the department of Physics and Astronomy at St. Andrews University. Electrical discharge pumping was selected as the excitation mechanism while the Lyman band of hydrogen was identified as the initial target for the vacuum ultraviolet work. Due to the short upper state lifetime of the laser transition (~0.8ns), fast voltage pulse risetimes and an accurately timed, travelling electrical excitation wave matched to the speed of light in the discharge were required. Initial work succeeded in producing voltage pulses at high repetition rates having leading edges exhibiting risetimes of under 300psec with voltage magnitudes in the 30-40kV regime. This was achieved by designing and building non-linear ferromagnetic shock lines whose purpose was to sharpen the output pulse from a thyratron having a risetime of 40-50ns. Voltage pulse risetime reductions on this magnitude have not been seen previously in the literature by this author. By the accurate timing of the outputs of ten such lines placed in parallel, the travelling electrical excitation wave could be created. Allied to work conducted simultaneously upon flat plate Blumlein driven hydrogen lasers, this culminated in the production and operation of a thyratron driven, sectional longitudinal hydrogen laser capable of high repetition rates. This is the first of its type of which this author is aware. Laser pulse energies of 4.7μJ on the 160nm Lyman band transitions were observed while the only limitation encountered in running the laser at multi-kilohertz repetition rates in burst mode was that imposed by the charging rate of the available power supply. Despite this, 1kHz operation of a hydrogen laser was amply demonstrated for the first time.
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Wright, Catherine. "Repetition in the works of Anne Hebert." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391428.
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Hodgson, Elizabeth Mary. "Monitoring of high repetition rate excimer lasers." Thesis, University of Salford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334073.
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