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[W. Brian Arthur] explores not only the concepts involved in technology but also the language. Where else can one expect to encounter vocabulary like "kludged" and find oneself resorting to a visual thesaurus for definition and amplification? (Note: and unconsciously slipping into multisyllabic diction).
No doubt he is qualified to do so. Yet starting most paragraphs with the pronoun "I" is less than attractive. Surely an editor should have advised a little more modesty of approach.
Arthur is unlikely to encounter critical responses from his peers to his highly sophisticated perspective on technology. He explains his intention is "an attempt to construct a theory of technology... to create a theory of evolution for technology.
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... an exemption would have to fulfill the definition of a statutory instrument set out in s.2 of the St...Webster’s thesaurus of the English language lists a number of synonyms...
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Improving student achievement in science is a major thrust of current educational policy in the United States. Can US school library media specialists use articles in recommended school library media publications to approach science-related topics in collection development, collaboration, professional learning, and curriculum integration and be effective partners in achieving this educational imperative? Many school library media specialists use professional periodicals to stay current with new resources and learn role-enhancing strategies, but science topics represented a small number of the total citations of these publications. This study used citations in two major subscription periodical databases and analyzed them for selected aspects of frequency. Few citations described articles...
... governed by a controlled vocabulary; a thesaurus of this vocabulary was not available to the databa... or database provider-supplied definition list for the article-type terms, it is impossible ...
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...Burton, William C. Legal Thesaurus, 2nd ed. Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1992. ...Définition du critère préliminaire de preuve. 16 Le juge en...
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...The definition of the word apartheid is "the policy of racial sep... people according to race, caste, etc." Thesaurus words for "apartheid" are numerous and include ali...
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... maritime au sens qu'en donne la définition du droit maritime canadien que l'on trouve à l'ar...Le Oxford Compact Thesaurus , 2001, 2 e édition, Oxford University Press, à ...
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... l’un des alinéas c ) à g ) de la définition de «perte apparente » à l’article 54;. b ) au...D’après le Oxford Compact Thesaurus , 2005, le terme « apply » a le sens des mots su...
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...", which brings us full circle to a definition of "immediate as "a situation that presents a dang...Notably, Roget's Thesaurus (Pan Reference Books, 1952, at paragraph 111 on pa...
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... Barton s'en remettait à une définition de dictionnaire, sans donner de référence préci...Quant au In Extenso Thésaurus , Larousse, 1999, il définit « indu » comme sui...
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... demanderesse tant sur le plan de la définition formelle que de la connotation;. - Cette conclusio... outre, selon le Roget's International Thesaurus , les mots « choice » et « decision » sont syn...