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| | A QUESTION OF CHARACTER |
 | | Once one understands that one possesses the faculty of volition, or the power of choice, that particular individual will go about seeking the character traits and integrating them into his personality structure or character structure. | | | It is the power of choice and the power inherent in your choices that serve to mold you, your life, your character, and your legacy. | | | And this is not to suggest that Mike was perfect (he would have been the first to admit that he was not), but he made it a point to put forth the effort to fulfill his human stature and, unlike most, he was aware of the significance that attended one's doing so. |
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http://www.mikementzer.com/character.html
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| | Power Structure Software -- Story Development Software for Writers who Know... |
| | However, if you're a writer who wants to write, then Power Structure is for you. | | | Until Power Structure, the only sort of programs available were ones designed for writers who wanted writing help from some sort of electronic muse, and if you're anything like us... | | | Built by the same team that brought you ScriptThing and Movie Magic® Screenwriter , Power Structure brings the same intuitive ease-of-use, power and flexibility that these programs are known for, and applies them to the story development process. |
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http://www.write-brain.com/power_structure_main.htm
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| | Social structure of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Social class, in the sense discussed in this article, essentially consists of three factors: wealth, power and prestige. | | | Whether or not this is sociologically accurate is a matter of debate, since there are a number of models of America's class structure, each with a different definition of "middle class". | | | Furthermore, a person's social class may change throughout his or her life. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure_of_the_United_States#The_Upper_Middle_Class
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| | Power (sociology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Even in structuralist social theory, power appears as a process, an aspect to an ongoing social relationship, not as a fixed part of social structure. | | | The laws of power are an interpretation of evolution, used by individuals, with the goal to let an individual evolve to the highest level of comfort he can attain in his social setting. | | | The exercise of power seems endemic to humans as social and gregarious beings. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(sociology)
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| | Researching Organizational Systems using Social Network Analysis |
| | Where the social structure reflected conflicted relationships and a strict, centralized hierarchy, CMC was appropriated in a way that reinforced the hierarchy. | | | Social content includes the culture, distribution of power, and the social norms, habits, practices, expectations and preferences held by an organization about its present and past interaction. | | | In the structuration sense, organizational systems both affect the social communication structures and are socially constrained by those structures. |
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http://web.cba.neu.edu/~mzack/articles/socnet/socnet.htm
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| | Discursively elaborated, it plays a role in our understanding of the power of discourse ("The crowd was carried away by the demagogue's powerful oratory"), social institutions ("The tax system drove them to ruin"), and our psychological and emotional life ("He was swept along by his love for her"). | | | One way in which an individual signals/maintains power over another is by containing the space of the other person, generally by encircling the body with the arms and/or legs. | | | The structures of bodily and interactional experience to which Lakoff refers are called by Johnson (1987) and others "kinesthetic image schemas", each of which has certain structural elements, a basic logic, and can be discursively projected to give structure to a wide variety of cognitive domains, including discourse and other forms of social interaction. |
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http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/umikerse/papers/power.html
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| | JoSS: Journal of Social Structure |
| | In this paper, we report of both viewers' accuracy in perceiving change in status from formal to informal relationships and viewers' interpretation of how social structure data informs their perceptions of managing of organizational change. | | | Any given network structure can be displayed in different ways to highlight different features of the network. | | | In this study, we consider the effect of motion to highlight change across structural relationships, graph layout to communicate structural characteristics of power within the organization, and congruence of node positioning between the first and second network layouts. |
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http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume5/McGrathBlythe
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| | Social Networks and Social Networking |
| | This approach shows the persuasive power of mobilizing concepts such as social networks: as people see their social interactions illustrated in these feedback displays, their feelings of social isolation are subtly and gently refuted. | | | Sociometric analysts in the US during the 1930s, whose work had roots in Gestalt psychology, aimed to investigate how feelings of well-being are related to the structure of people's social lives. | | | Social networking is built on the idea that there is a determinable structure to how people know each other, whether directly or indirectly. |
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http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/0510&file=w5gei.xml&xsl=article.xsl
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| | Is Knowledge Power? - Pop Occulture |
| | power is a will to effort, which has a different motivational structure as the will to knowledge. | | | Back to these hypothetical social examples though, while this knowledge doesn’t give you power (you’re simply reacting), it does put you into a position where you can stand up and take an action of your own. | | | Sure, you can’t change that your wife cheated on you, you don’t have “power” to change that that happened. |
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http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/02/is-knowledge-power
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| | Social Structure |
| | Though, even with the changing structure of the family the economic labour power has not significantly increased. | | | The reproduction of labour power is, however, private; it generally takes place outside the jurisdiction of capital, in families and households, and is separated from the circuit of capital. | | | Lastly, the evolution of the family dispersed from economic development and instead become a more social issue. |
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http://www.onlineessays.com/essays/issues/iss147.php
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| | SUNY Press :: Writing Power |
| | It breaks new ground in our understanding of genre theory and lends new insight into the intertwining of knowledge, text, and social structures, and to current understandings of the relationship between power and writing in organizational contexts. | | | By encouraging us to see texts and writing as powerful operators in the corporate world, this book presents a case study focused on how one engineering organization uses texts to create and maintain its knowledge and power structure. | | | Based on over five years of observations, the book describes the co-generation of power/knowledge/text from several points of view, including that of managers, engineers, interns, and blue-collar workers. |
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http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60766
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| | :: 士éæ£å® :: Masamune Shirow Hyperpage |
| | The Databook is a collection of chronological events, administration structure, character design and profile, essays, encyclopedia of terms etc. related to the Appleseed world. | | | A female warrior and her cyborg lover try to stop a plot to destroy the balance of power between humans and the race of clones. | | | The Appleseed story focuses on two main characters- Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires. |
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http://mshp.motime.com/archive/2005-01
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| | Build a Power Cage |
| | The four most common materials for a home-built power cage are wood, angle iron, welded pipe, and screw pipe. | | | Furthermore, I am not recommending a particular design or size of material: I am merely presenting a power cage project as I have built it. | | | You should have a pretty good handle now, on how to try a piece and then determine how much too short it is. So, referring to the illustration (the side view of the complete structure) add the rack points for Bench Pressing. |
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| | Who Rules America: Power Structure Research |
| | Power structure research was new because it had several methods and also a theoretical stance that stood between previous traditions in ways that will be explained in a minute by contrasting power structure research with the pluralist and Marxist approaches. | | | A decisional mapping of a power structure is based on case studies of the people, organizations, and pressure groups that become involved in trying to influence the outcomes of specific policy initiatives in a range of "issue-areas" ranging from local planning policies to federal taxation policies to foreign policies.. | | | The emphasis within power structure research is not on the day-to-day routines of the lower levels of the power system, which tends to be the case in mainstream studies of organizations. |
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http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/theory/power_structure_research.html
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| | Who Rules America: Power Structure Research |
| | Power structure research was new because it had several methods and also a theoretical stance that stood between previous traditions in ways that will be explained in a minute by contrasting power structure research with the pluralist and Marxist approaches. | | | The fifth and final concern of power structure research has been the role of "the state" (ie. | | | Mills explicitly relegated legislative battles to the "middle levels of power." Hunter's brief account of relations between the Atlanta power structure and the Georgia state government left little room for independent action on the part of elected officials. |
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http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/theory/power_structure_research.html
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| | Conference Devoted to ``Publishing and the Power Structure'' |
| | A conference devoted to publishing and the power structure had to make room for examination of the new technologies that are transforming authorship and publication, together with the traditional supports of the craft of writing (the book, the magazine, the journal). | | | Things are rather confused, they explained, because a power structure grown obsolete has had to give way to another that has yet to demonstrate its worth. | | | The transactions of this year's conference, ``Publishing and the Power Structure,'' are being drafted and will be appearing late next year. |
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| | GaN Power FET achieves 174 W output at 6 GHz., Toshiba Corp. C I Dept. |
| | The result is a GaN power FET with eight times the power density of a GaAs FET and the world's highest output power at the 6GHz frequency level. | | | Working with the new epitaxial layer structure, Toshiba processed and optimized the FET unit structure, including gate length and distance of source and drain electrodes and this produced high performance in the C-band and higher frequencies. | | | Ever increasing communications flows are driving demand for higher output power in the amplifying devices used in base stations for terrestrial and satellite microwave communications. |
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http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/467398/rss
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| | Power Structure Research |
| | Power structure research is an approach to the study of power that highlights the unequal distribution of resources upon which power is based (e.g., wealth, political office, control of the mass media) and the importance of formal and informal social networks as the means by which power is concentrated and institutionalized. | | | Much power structure research is conducted by academic social scientists, although similar studies are often undertaken by independent scholars, investigative journalists, trade union researchers, and social movement activists. | | | Power, Politics, and Social Change (5th ed.), remains the best and most complete introduction to power structure research available today. |
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| | pills2.htm |
| | These four powers (Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Britain) established a world structure that was centered entirely on Europe and characterized by mutual bargaining and the use of "spheres of influence" to preserve stability. | | | Given these calculated power scores, Chinese analysts of the future focus intensively on assessing the intentions of Japan and the United States toward China, especially the strength of the "slanderous" and dangerous "China Threat Theory" in Tokyo and Washington. | | | It is only a setback in the transition to a new world structure: "For the world to advance toward multipolarization is the inevitable trend of history. |
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http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/books%20-%202000/China%20Debates%20Future%20Sec%20Environ%20Jan%202000/pills2.htm
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| | TOWARD ACCOUNTABILITY AND EFFICIENCY: REFORM OF THE BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION |
| | As the BPA is presently organized, it lacks the incentive structure to operate in a commercially sound manner or in the long-term interests of electric power consumers and producers of the Pacific Northwest. | | | Finally, the regulatory structure governing nonfederal utilities has been shown to be capable of protecting power consumers. | | | The BPA is the power marketing agency for the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS), which also consists of the Pacific Northwest generating facilities operated by the Army Corps of Engineers and nonpower-related projects of the Bureau of Reclamation. |
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| | Reconstruction 5.2 (Spring 2005) |
| | Alternately, schizoanalysis argues that for some texts – while the parental-power formation remains present – the parental-power structure is not the pivotal relationship within that structure. | | | Schizoanalysis is but one method for investigating video games in a manner that respects their formulation through game-play, game design, and narrative, because it retains the complex interrelations of power and social structures and sees them in relation to the subversive structures created by the game narrative and the actions of game play. | | | Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari explain the significance of sibling relationships for social change in the context of schizoanalysis, which they consider to be an alternative to psychoanalysis which respects the relationship of siblings and equals instead of predicating all relationships on the dominant family structure with father and mother: |
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http://reconstruction.eserver.org/052/taylor.shtml
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| | advances.txt |
| | Hydro Plant, Hoover Dam, Computers, SETI Program, Rocketry, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Unit, Space Flight, Nuclear Plant, SS Structure, Apollo Program, Plastic, SS Component, Superconductor, Robotics, Fusion Power, SDI Defence, Artillery, Mfg Plant, SS Module Steel | | | Electronics, Hydro Plant, Hoover Dam, Computers, SETI Program, Advanced Flight, Bomber, Carrier, Rocketry, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Unit, Space Flight, Nuclear Plant, SS Structure, Apollo Program, Plastic, SS Component, Superconductor, Robotics, Fusion Power, SDI Defence, Artillery, Mfg Plant, SS Module Industrialization | | | Frigate, Electricity, Electronics, Hydro Plant, Hoover Dam, Computers, SETI Program, Advanced Flight, Bomber, Carrier, Rocketry, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Unit, Space Flight, Nuclear Plant, SS Structure, Apollo Program, Plastic, SS Component, Superconductor, Robotics, Fusion Power, SDI Defence, Artillery, Mfg Plant, SS Module Steam Engine |
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http://apolyton.net/civ1/faqs/advances.txt
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| | 美国专利申请公开说明书 20040104687 - [STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING SOURCE LINE RESISTANCE OF LIGHT EMITTING DIODE] |
| | A light emitting diode display has at least a light emitting diode, a power source and a power source line structure for guiding the power source to provide the required power for driving the light emitting diode. | | | The structure for reducing the source line resistance has an insulation layer formed on at least a part of the source line structure. | | | A conductive layer is formed to cover the insulation layer and is in electrical contact with the source line structure through the openings. |
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http://cxp.paterra.com/uspregrant20040104687cn.html
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| | Low-power Branch Target Buffer for Application-Specific Embedded Processors |
| | Exact application knowledge regarding the control-flow structure of the program obviates the power expensive BTB operations, thus enabling the utilization of contemporary branch predictors in high-end, yet power-sensitive embedded processors. | | | Such information is used to completely eliminate the power hungry Branch Target Buffer (BTB) lookups which normally occur at every execution cycle. | | | In this paper we present a methodology for a low-power branch identification mechanism, which enables the design of extremely power efficient branch predictors for embedded processors. |
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| | To resolve these and other wireless power transmission issues, a test and verification facility is needed to develop techniques and make actual measurements of the various spectrum sidelobe and grating lobe levels from a large power-transmitting phased array. | | | Other applications include beamed power to communications and information-gathering stations on planetary surfaces or in orbit; e.g., high-power radar mappers; mobile robotic systems; remote sensing stations; dispersed habitation modules; human-occupied field stations; and supplementary power to surface solar power systems during periods when they are shadowed. | | | In the case of microwaves, the diffraction due to the low frequency of the power beam would require enormous receiving antennas or reflectors in orbit. |
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http://www.house.gov/science/grey_090700.htm
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| | Electric Power Risk Assessment |
| | However, the impact of natural hazards on the power grid is the most manageable because utilities have years of experience with this threat and have designed facilities and infrastructure elements to minimize the impact of such events. | | | This overview describes the structure of the electric utility industry, identifies the roles of key industry players, and explains the basic structure of an electric power transmission and distribution system with an emphasis on the mission, functions, and system components of a typical electric utility control center. | | | The basic structure of an electric power transmission and distribution system consists of a generating system, a transmission system, a subtransmission system, a distribution system, and a control center. |
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http://www.aci.net/kalliste/electric.htm
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| | precis on marg'n feminism |
| | Marginalization theory sees the male power structure as monolithic. | | | As a theory of a monolithic power structure, marginalization theory doesn't pay enough attention to how power is constituted and how women might participate in this, wittingly or unwittingly. | | | Feminists should look for more openings in the dominant power structure; they should be a little more Gramscian. |
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| | IGBT - Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors :: Joliet Technologies |
| | This parasitic structure causes the latch-up effect in IGBT that makes the current to be no longer controlled by the MOS gate. | | | With the combination of MOS gate structure and bipolar current conduction, the IGBT structure can give not only a very high input impedance but also the high operating forward current density. | | | For this reason, this device more preferable over Power Bipolar Transistors and Power MOSFETs in many electronic systems and applications. |
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| | Solar power satellite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A solar power satellite, or SPS, is a proposed satellite built in high Earth orbit that uses microwave power transmission to beam solar power to a very large antenna on Earth where it can be used in place of conventional power sources. | | | A terrestrial solar station intercepts only one third of the solar energy that an array of equal size could intercept in space, since no power is generated at night and less light strikes the panels when the Sun is low in the sky. | | | Alternatively, the ground-based power could be used on-site to produce chemical fuels for transportation and storage, as in the proposed hydrogen economy. |
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| | Paradigm Shift in Planar Power MOSFET Technology |
| | Although the development of power MOSFETs began with the V-MOS structure, the first commercially successful devices were based on the DMOS structure | | | In a typical 12-V power supply delivering power at an output voltage of 1.2 V, the duty cycle is 10% — with the control FET on for 10% of the time and the Sync FET on for 90% of the time during each period. | | | As the power supply current required by the microprocessors has increased, it has been found that multiple phases of the sync-buck circuit are required. |
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