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Teaching and coaching behaviors of dual role college physical educator/coaches: A case study
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The purpose of this study was to compare the behaviors of two physical educators who were employed in dual roles of teaching and coaching at a NCAA Division II institution. Each held a masters degree in physical education and had 25... Specifically, this study sought to determine: how the subjects' behaviors distributed by percentage within 15 categories in their (1) teaching and (2) coaching assignments; and (3) differences between the subjects' teaching and coaching... In order to gather quantitative data, the Arizona State University Observation Instrument was utilized and expanded to 15 behavioral categories by the inclusion of humor. This instrument is effective for observing both physical education... Three behaviors--instructional, silence/monitoring, and management--accounted for 50% or more of the total behaviors shown by both subjects in their teaching and coaching roles. In contrast to prior studies which indicated that role...
Intelligent fuzzy reasoning models with application to fuzzy control
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The successful application of fuzzy reasoning models to fuzzy control systems depends on a number of parameters, such as fuzzy membership functions, fuzzy implication operators, and the fuzzy relation matrix, that are usually decided...
Images of teachers in the instructional systems design literature over time
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The purpose of the study was to uncover the kinds of teacher image held by researchers and practitioners in ISD. The study examined not only current images but also past images since the process of image formation is cumulative. And also... Qualitative content analysis utilizing the constant comparison method was selected as a research approach. This approach allows a researcher to explore and discover attributes or images of a particular point of interest held by a... The findings of the study revealed a variety of teacher images, which was categorized into two distinct groups. One of them, shared by most of the articles was named traditionalists, while the other, which emerged recently was called...
Assessing school effects with a two level hierarchical linear model
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In this study a hierarchical linear model was applied to the analysis of data collected at the student level and the school level in an attempt to address the following issues: (1) The applicability of a two-level hierarchical linear... The study showed that about 11% of the total variance in the outcome scores was due to differences between the schools while 89% was due to differences within the schools. Within the schools, about 70% of the variance was jointly explained by the students' sex, verbal ability, and minimum competency level. Virtually no variance could be related to race or ethnicity after controlling for the other variables... The HLM model and the traditional model explained approximately equal amounts of the between school variance in mathematics achievement. The two models also ranked schools in a fairly similar fashion on their residuals, although...
The fact that Eudora Welty is childless might suggest that she would have little interest in children. Yet, the opposite has proven to be the case. This interest is evident in comments in recorded interviews, the prevalence of child... This dissertation analyzes her five novels and twenty-nine Southern stories in order to determine the picture of Southern childhood presented in her fiction and, also, examines her use of children rhetorically and thematically. The... The emphasis in Chapter One is on Welty's Southern childhood. Chapters Two through Seven classify examples of and interpret major child characters' experiences and those disclosed through adult characters' memories: love and security, ...
In a poetic fashion: An inquiry into language, world, and religion
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The question is: what sense does it make to regard religions as languages? The first step is to explicitly state a theory of language. From Ferdinand de Saussure comes the importance of context, from Ludwig Wittgenstein the relation... The third step is to explore the implications of religion as language, using the paradigms developed in step one. As poem, a religion is a context constituted by the counters of which it is composed, counters whose value is relative to...
Disturbance, dispersal, and patch insularity in a marine benthic assemblage: Influence of a mobile habitat on seagrasses and associated fauna
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Unattached benthic algae are a common component of seagrass meadows and other benthic systems. I used a series of field experiments to investigate (1) whether competition by algal mats represents a disturbance force capable of opening...
A comparative critical analysis of contemporary appropriation art and print advertising for arts administrators
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Arts administrators are charged with a number of responsibilities, one of which is to educate the public concerning art. In a rapidly changing, pluralistic, and information packed society, the important task of understanding how to... "Reading" images is dependent on a combination of direct experience and applied knowledge resulting from life experience. It has been argued that audiences of all ages can learn to look at both advertisements and appropriated art images... Working from the premise that art is a language in the broad sense of its being communication, the purpose of this study was to analyze and interpret appropriated art images and contemporary print advertisements to understand their...
A study of supply and demand of library and information workers in Kuwait: Five-year projections and recommendations for human resources planning
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the current status of library and information workers in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion, to project future man-power requirements for the next five years (1997), and to propose... Data were collected with (a) a questionnaire sent to respondents in five types of library and information centers and (b) interviews with key officials, head librarians, and directors of libraries and information centers. A manpower... The study projects the manpower requirements for five types of library and information centers at three levels: high, middle, and low projections. According to the study findings, the shortage of library and information workers in Kuwait is very real and will increase sharply by 1997. To address this shortage a number of changes should occur: (a) The level of library and...
This dissertation applies the human capital model to explain school retention decisions of teenagers. The probability of school retention among children ages 15 through 19 in 1960 and 1980 is determined using logistic regression. Census... Changes in the probability of school retention as well as variations in the significance of explanatory variables over time are examined. Consequences of changes in social, political and legal preferences in the twenty year period are... The results of this dissertation suggest that maternal education, family income, family size and status, and full-time, long-term maternal employment are important determinants of a child's decision to remain in school. Teenagers living... Finally, given the trends in the distribution of children by maternal education, maternal labor force participation, and family status, the opportunity costs faced by teenagers as well as the quantity and quality of parental inputs...
The effect of a marriage enrichment program on marital satisfaction and gender role attitudes among African-American couples
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of AAME, a marital enrichment program for African American couples, on martial satisfaction. The major thesis was that racism, sexism, and incongruent gender role attitudes were the... The research design combined both single case and traditional group methodologies. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed. The dependent variables were marital satisfaction and gender role attitudes. The... Results indicated no statistically significant differences between groups. Qualitative interview data suggested congruence in gender role attitudes was an important factor in marital satisfaction. Furthermore, knowledge of the effects of... Future practice research should replicate the study with larger samples, and include greater heterogeneity of subjects' demographic characteristics. Future social policy and practice efforts should focus on marriage enrichment as a...
In order to accurately describe the cutoff dependence of the Higgs mass triviality bound, the $\varphi\sp4$ theory is formulated on an $F\sb4$ lattice which preserves Lorentz invariance to a higher degree than the commonly used... We solve this model non-perturbatively by evaluating the linked cluster expansion through 12th order following the approach of Luscher and Weisz. The results are continued across the transition line into the broken phase by integrating... Attempting to produce a heavier Higgs on the lattice, additional four-derivative terms are introduced in the naive action which serve to parameterize the leading order cutoff effects. Using a cluster reflection algorithm of the Swendsen...
In search of the genuine article: A cross-linguistic investigation of the development of the English article system in written compositions of adult ESL students
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This study is an examination of the use of English definite and indefinite articles in 900 compositions written by 475 adult ESL students from nine different L1 backgrounds: Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, ... These compositions were written placement and exit examinations of international students at the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University between 1983 and 1991. They were analyzed for omissions, additions, or... Development was found to be strikingly similar among students with L1s which contained articles, and also strikingly similar among students whose first languages did not, although some of the latter were quantitatively different in...
The role of informal social support networks in the life satisfaction of the Egyptian elderly
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This dissertation examines the role of informal social support networks (family, friends, and mosque members) in the life satisfaction of the Egyptian elderly. Indicators of informal social support were frequency of interaction, and... Participants were 60 elderly Egyptians from a senior center in Cairo, Egypt. Personal interviews were used to collect data. The data collection instruments were the Informal Social Support Questionnaire (National Survey of Black... Data were analyzed with univariate, bivariate, and content analysis. The quantitative analysis indicates that monthly income had a significant association with the level of life satisfaction of the Egyptian elderly. The qualitative... Based on the findings, implications for social work practice and research with the elderly in Egypt are discussed.
Targeting the "real" economic costs of teen pregnancy: A skill building approach for early adolescents
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of the real life cost model (RLCM), an educational, cognitive-behavioral, skill building approach with early adolescents. Based on developmental and social learning theories, the model addresses the... A total of 74 male and female, ethnically diverse students were selected from two middle schools and randomly assigned to either a treatment or control group at each school using a pretest-posttest control group design with one follow-up... Improvement in locus of control, problem-solving and knowledge of pregnancy costs at posttest and 8 week follow-up were found for the treatment groups but not the control groups. Experimental group scores on a self-esteem measure showed... These findings provide evidence that this school-based educational, cognitive-behavioral treatment program produced significant changes in the treatment subjects' perceptions of locus of control, self-esteem, problem-solving/decision... The utility of this treatment modality is discussed and implications for social work research and practice are considered.
Achieving comprehensive curriculum reform: An analysis of the implementation of a mathematics and science education policy
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The 1983 Educational Reform Act in Florida mandated the development of the Comprehensive Plan for Improving Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education in Florida. In the plan, eight overall goals provided a framework for improving... The purpose of this study was to provide a systematic profile of what has been done in schools, districts, and the State of Florida to reach the goals of the Comprehensive Plan and to determine key issues pertaining to implementation. A... Findings of the study illuminate state, district, and local level happenings with respect to each of the eight goals of the Comprehensive Plan. It can be interpreted from the findings that the degree of implementation of this plan varied...
The relationship between high school athletic administrators' job satisfaction and job related stress
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The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the relationship between high school athletic administrators' job satisfaction and job-related stress. In addition, differences in the levels of administrators' job satisfaction... Data were obtained from 371 high school athletic administrators employed in public schools from North Florida and South Georgia. Specifically, the subjects were head coaches who coached sports such as football, basketball, volleyball, ... Three instruments were used in the investigation. They included a Personal Data Sheet, the Job Satisfaction Scale, and the Job-Related Stress Scale. The Pearson-Product Moment Correlation was used to test hypothesis one and a one-way... The following conclusions were made: (a) There is a positive correlation between satisfaction and job-related stress; (b) Gender appears to have an affect on job stress; (c) Gender does not appear to be a factor in the perception of job... The following recommendations were made: (a) Similar studies should be conducted using a national sample of head coaches and athletic administrators to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and job stress; (b) Future research...
Variational and Green's function Monte Carlo study of lightly doped quantum antiferromagnets
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The two-dimensional t-J model on the square lattice is studied as a relevant model to capture the essential physics of the high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors. In order to gain understanding of the basic physics of the model, ...
A woman's place is on patrol: Female representation in municipal police departments
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Until recently, female police officers held very traditional stereotypical positions within law enforcement. Despite equal employment opportunity laws, affirmative action policies, and the influx into patrol assignments, women still... The present study examines the variation in female representation among sworn full-time personnel in municipal police departments serving populations of 2, 500 or more in the State of Florida. A tobit censored normal regression analysis...
Makin' a life: Perspectives of women in culturally and structurally diverse families on their roles in children's learning
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the behavior and perceptions of a group of adults in culturally and structurally diverse families concerning their role in their children's learning. Five women of color, four African American... The women's narratives provide a rich perspective on education in the intimate context of a family as well as the wider community. Parents' stories reveal the impact of historical, political, economic and cultural factors on their roles, ... The results of the study broaden our notion of "family" and "parent". They suggest that adult educators need to reexamine their theoretical and methodological frameworks in order to give more effective support to parents like those...
The charge storage capacity and electrical conductivity of polypyrrole are followed through regimes of chemically reversible and irreversible electroactivity. Overoxidation of polypyrrole occurs at potentials in excess of 0.7 V vs. a...
Factors influencing the distribution, abundance, and host specificity patterns of anemonefishes
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The ecology and behavior of nine species of anemonefishes and ten species of sea anemones were studied at a variety of sites in the region of Madang, Papua New Guinea. More than 95% of the suitable anemones in the region were occupied by... The host location and association behaviors of laboratory raised anemonefishes were examined. Juvenile anemonefishes that were competent to settle were released in the field at different distances and orientations away from anemones. The...
A learned helplessness explanation for individual resistance/acceptance of information technology
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This dissertation offers a theoretical explanation for information technology implementation failure based on a learned helplessness approach to individual resistance. Numerous propositions and theories have often neglected the specific...
Investigation of the torsion rotation energy levels of the carbon-hydrogen asymmetric stretches in methanol
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The CH asymmetric stretching region of the methanol spectrum has been measured from 2900 to 3200 cm$\sp{-1}$ using the newly constructed Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS). The nominal resolution, the reciprocal of twice the maximum... The objectives of this investigation were to identify, assign, and analyze the torsion-rovibrational transitions of the CH$\sb3$ asymmetric stretching fundamentals $v\sb2$ and $v\sb9$. The theory used in the investigation is principally... A total of 13 P branch and 11 R branch series were assigned (13 series representing 6 excited states belonging to the $v\sb2$ fundamental and 11 series representing 5 excited states belonging to the $v\sb9$ fundamental). A partial... A criterion was used to divide the assignments between two separate bands. A comparison between the asymmetric stretch data of methyl fluoride, the OH and CO stretch data of methanol indicates that our assignments are reasonable. Tentative assignments of several series observed in the spectra based on calculations, using the fitted parameters and normal state parallel combination differences, are also given.
An analysis of time usage, rehearsal activity, and student off-task behavior during the initial minutes of high school choral rehearsals
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The study investigated how high school choral music educators begin choral rehearsals. Utilization of rehearsal time from the sound of the tardy bell to the rehearsal of the first selection of choral literature (i.e., what is considered... Thirty-three high school choral directors were audio tape recorded and observed during one mixed ensemble rehearsal. Interval observation techniques were utilized in collecting student off-task data and in coding rehearsal activities.... Conductors averaged 43.45 elapsed seconds from the tardy bell to the first verbal statement to begin. Elapsed seconds ranged from 0 to 230 seconds. Conductors averaged 859.64 seconds or 14 minutes 19 seconds of elapsed time prior to the... Percentages of rehearsal time allotted to initial activities were: Sightreading, 22.23%; Vocal Warm-Up, 9.63%; Getting Ready, 6.75%, Physical Warm-Up, 3.37%; Lit/Instruction, 1.84%; and Other, 1.46%. Student off-task behavior during... Results indicated that the highest percentages of off-task occurred during activities requiring less active participation. Off-task behavior appeared to be a function of the activity rather than the percentage of time spent in the activity.
Ribosomal RNA operons in Streptococcus pneumoniae: Gene organization and copy number
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Ribosomes and transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNAs) are integral parts in the cells protein synthesis machinery. tRNAs are small polymers of ca. 77 RNA residues in length. The ribosome is a ribonucleo-protein, a large heterologous complex... Isoleucine and alanine tRNAs are encoded tandemly within the 16S-23S intergenic spacer of some eubacterial rRNA operons. A previous study has demonstrated that the intergenic spacer in the eubacterium S. pneumoniae is unconventional. The... Reported herein is a characterization of the distal spacer regions of the rRNA operons on the S. pneumoniae chromosome. Dot-blot hybridization analysis shows that the number of 16S rRNA genes on the S. pneumoniae chromosome is four. This...
The effects of prior strategy use, motivation, and locus-of-control when using embedded cognitive strategies in daily work and posttest performance for minority students
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of motivation, prior strategy use, and locus of control when using embedded cognitive strategies for daily work and posttest performance. A secondary purpose of the study was to...
An examination of Level Four evaluation in the context of Rogers' Innovation-Decision Process model
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The purpose of this study was to use Everett Rogers' Innovation-Decision Process model as a basis for examining Level Four (Business Results) evaluation practices to gain greater insight into Level Four evaluation and to determine the... This study's sample was 315 training evaluators and training directors/manager/coordinators who were members of the National Society for Performance and Instruction (NSPI). Data were obtained using a 39 item mailed survey instrument and... Results indicated that 85.2% of the training professionals possessed sufficient knowledge of Level Four evaluation to consider it for adoption. Additionally, results showed that the overall extent of use of Level Four evaluation is quite...
Characterization of an endogenous stimulatory rhythm regulating prolactin secretion in the female rat
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Prolactin secretion is regulated by an endogenous rhythm of prolactin-releasing factors. This rhythm has a bimodal periodicity with distinct nocturnal and diurnal phases. Oxytocin, vasoactive intestinal peptide and serotonin play... This endogenous rhythm is also important to prolactin secretion during lactation. Suckling-induced prolactin release was greater during the nocturnal and diurnal phases. Freely lactating rats secreted prolactin in a bimodal rhythm... Oxytocinergic neurons were analyzed for the presence of Fos protein as a marker of neuronal activity. A bimodal rhythm of oxytocinergic activity was present in the paraventricular nucleus. There was also a bimodal rhythm of oxytocin... A diurnal rhythm of activity of vasoactive intestinal peptide neurons was detected coincident with the nocturnal phase of the endogenous rhythm in the paraventricular nucleus. A diurnal rhythm of activity of serotonergic neurons was detected in the paraventricular nucleus coincident with the diurnal phase of the endogenous stimulatory rhythm. These data clearly show that the endogenous stimulatory rhythm is an important regulator of prolactin secretion. Activity of oxytocin, vasoactive intestinal peptide and serotonin neurons are consistent with their proposed roles in...
Information-seeking behavior of judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal
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Appellate judges, in their roles as decision-makers, are extensive users of information. Information to assist the judges in making their decisions, is provided in court records, attorney's briefs and oral arguments. Judges also seek... This research identified, isolated, and described the factors which comprise the information seeking behavior of appellate judges. Information seeking behavior is described by studying the how, when, why, where, and what about the... The judicial group studied was the fifty-seven judges of the five Florida District Courts of Appeal. All districts were visited. No sampling occurred. Twenty factors organized in three categories were identified to guide the description... When taken together, the data provides evidence that there are patterns of information seeking, affected by factors within the individual judges, their organization, and their legal environment. In total, the evidence supported the...
School administrators' use of a performance appraisal process: A study of levels of use and stages of concern
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This study determined the degree of implementation of the State mandated and approved Leon County Administrator Assessment to assess its impact on the elementary, middle, high, vocational and district administrators in a supervisor... The purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which the performance appraisal process, the Leon County Administrator Assessment, is being used (Levels of Use) by the Leon County administrators and their specific concerns ... One major finding of the study was that Levels of Use for the performance appraisal process, were higher than the Stages of Concern for administrators in the study. A second finding was that... It is concluded that most administrators either by choice or external influence, are using the performance appraisal process on a routine basis with changes based on individual or group needs. Their concerns indicate the need for more... The need for more awareness and information about the process, the experience administrators have with performance appraisal and how they view themselves as users should be utilized by the change agent(s) to prescribe specific...
On the characterization of turbulent thermal convection as spatio-temporal chaos
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Direct numerical simulation of two dimensional turbulent thermal convection of an incompressible fluid (Prandtl number = 0.71) in a laterally heated rigid box has been carried out for a range of Rayleigh numbers. The nonlinear dynamics...
Those whom Jesus loved: The development of the paradigmatic story of Lazarus, Mary, and Martha through the medieval period
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This dissertation examines the interpretation of the story of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany in the West from the earliest telling to the early sixteenth century. It begins by exploring the biblical texts from which later... Fully developed, the paradigmatic story of the Bethany family shaped the description of the characters, the narrative, and the application of the story to the life of the faithful. Dominating the medieval paradigm was the combination of...
The effects of self-focus and self-concept of ability on performance, effort, and interest
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of variations in the levels of self-focus and general and task-specific self-concepts of ability on performance, effort, and continuing interest. It was hypothesized that in... A total of 129 ninth and tenth graders from a high school in a small southern city participated in the study. Premeasures of reading and problem solving ability and test anxiety were collected and used as covariates. Subjects were... The treatment effects for performance, and interest were analyzed using ANCOVA. The results indicate that students in the high self-focus group performed more poorly on the lesson posttest, and expended less effort than students...
Voltage-dependent potassium and calcium currents in normal and clonal pituitary cells
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Voltage-dependent potassium (VDK) and calcium currents were studied in normal and clonal (GH$\sb3)$ rat pituitary cells that secrete prolactin (termed lactotrophs) using the whole-cell voltage clamp technique. Normal lactotrophs were found to possess at least three distinct components of VDK current: (1) a low threshold, transient current sensitive to 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) and relatively insensitive to tetraethylammonium (TEA); (2) a high... GH$\sb3$ cells have at least two components of VDK current: (1) a low threshold, TEA-insensitive, inactivating current, and; (2) a high threshold, TEA-sensitive, sustained current. The inactivating component bears similarities to both... The kinetic and pharmacological properties of the low threshold, transient calcium current of GH$\sb3$ cells were also studied. Two features set it apart from similar currents in other cells: (1) the rate-limiting transition in channel...
Decision tables for interdisciplinary communication in intelligent tutoring systems
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The design and implementation of intelligent tutoring systems requires the close interaction, cooperation and communication of a number of disciplines. Among these disciplines are cognitive scientists, educators and computer scientists.... Many intelligent tutoring systems rely upon elements of user feed-back to more precisely tailor the tutoring session to individual needs and requirements. Many significant interrelationships are generated within the intelligent tutoring... This dissertation explores the potential for using both precise and imprecise decision tables as not only software engineering tools but also as communication tools. These devices graphically represent interrelationships among elements...
Over the past two or three decades there has arisen a fairly widespread dissatisfaction with the usefulness of the formal logical techniques of Frege and Russell for teaching the evaluation of reasoning in natural language. The problem... My own case will rest mainly on the following three claims: first, that the millennia old belief that there are two fundamentally different types of argument, viz., induction and deduction, is crucially mistaken and hampers rather than...
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