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Acousmatic sound

More recently, in the article Space-form and the acousmatic image (2007), composer and academic Prof. Denis Smalley has expanded on some of Schaeffers' acousmatic concepts.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

Bowdoin prize

William Pannapacker, 1994, 1999, academic and journalist (graduate, English, American Civilization)

Charles Raven

Charles E. Raven (1885-1964), English theologian, academic and pacifist

David R. Knechtges

An expert on Han dynasty and Six dynasties period literature, Knechtges' studies of Chinese fu poetry are largely responsible for the revival of Western academic interest in the subject, a major genre which had become largely neglected until the mid-20th century.

Distraction

Multitasking could also be considered as distraction in situations requiring full attention on a single object (e.g. sports, academic tests, performance).

Florence Benoît-Rohmer

Her academic interest is focused on mechanism for the preservation of human rights both within the European Union and the Council of Europe, especially the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter.

G. T. Abraham

While attending the Lambeth Conference, 1998, the Virginia Theological Seminary conferred upon Abraham an honorary doctorate at a special academic convocation on 27 July 1998 in Canterbury Cathedral's Crypt in Canterbury, Kent by Bishop Peter James Lee of Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

Government Polytechnic Amravati

The institute is approved by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi & Government of Maharashtra has awarded an academic autonomy to the institute since 1995.

Hi-Q

Kimberly-Clark Hi-Q is a U.S. high school academic quiz competition originating in Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Hugh Owen

Huw Owen (1926–1996), Welsh theologian, writer and academic

Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit

These consortium members included the three commercial partners GE Corporate R&D, Kitware, Inc., and MathSoft (the company name is now Insightful); and the three academic partners University of North Carolina (UNC), University of Tennessee (UT), and University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

International Leadership Association

Some notable members of the International Leadership Association include Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns, and Warren Bennis.

John McNeill

John J. McNeill, Jesuit priest, psychotherapist and academic theologian

John O'Sullivan

John M. O'Sullivan (1881–1948), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael politician, TD, cabinet minister and academic

John Ondawame

John Otto Ondawame (born November 30, 1953 in Wanamum, Mimika Regency in West Papua) is an academic and activist of the West Papua liberation movement.

Jon Stratton

Jonathon, or Jonathan, (Jon) Stratton is an Australian academic currently serving as Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

Joseph Heath

He has published both academic and popular writings, including the bestselling The Rebel Sell.

Josiah S. Carberry

The lecture, on "Archaic Greek Architectural Revetments in Connection with Ionian Philology" was, of course, never given, and when asked, John Spaeth obligingly provided false details about the professor's (fictional) family and (non-existent) academic interests.

Katharine Goodson

When her sister Ethel, who had stayed with her during much of her time in Vienna, went to Budapest to become the governess to the son of Count István Tisza, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Goodson went to stay with academic and parliamentarian William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington and his wife Lady Katrina Conway at their London house.

Khazar University Department of History and Archaeology

The Department of History and Archaeology (formerly the Department of History), within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, established in June 1993, is one of the first and leading units of Khazar University with wide academic and research interests.

King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

KSAU-HS has a number of licensing agreements to develop its academic programs with prestigious universities worldwide: University of Sydney (Australia); University of Liverpool (UK); South Alabama University (USA); Flinders University (Australia); Arkansas University (USA), Thomas Jefferson University (USA) University of Maryland (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), The University of Oklahoma (USA) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (USA).

Ksenija Atanasijević

An excellent student, she decided to pursue an academic career in philosophy and soon after graduation, began working on a doctoral thesis on Giordano Bruno's De triplici minimo.

Lisa Bluder

She coached two Academic All-America Players of the Year in current Hawkeye Associate Head Coach Jan Jensen (1991) and Tricia Wakely (1996).

Louise Cox

During her time at the National Academy of Design, Louise Cox learned an academic style of painting, grounded in the style of Jean-Léon Gérôme (One of her instructors, Professor Lemuel Wilmarth, was taught by Gérôme).

Michael Battle

Michael J. Battle (born 1964), American theologian and academic who worked with and was ordained by Desmond Tutu

Monroe Spaght

A named Chair in Chemistry was created in his honor at Stanford University; the incumbent Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry is Edward I. Solomon.

Nina Berberova

She began her academic career in 1958 when she was hired to teach Russian at Yale.

Old Scona Academic High School

Numerous student-run clubs are available at Old Scona Academic, such as Multicultural Club, Speech & Debate Club, Go Club, Business/Finance Club, Hip Hop Club, Bollywood club, Reading Buddies, and Discussion Club.

Pagan studies

Pagan studies scholar Chas S. Clifton argued that the discipline had developed as a result of the increasing "academic acknowledgement" of contemporary Paganism's "movement into the public eye", referring to the emergence of Pagan involvement with interfaith groups and the Pagan use of archaeological monuments as "sacred sites", particularly in the United Kingdom.

Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

According to informed academic observers such as Cheng Li, a scholar at Brookings Institution, and Susan Shirk of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, rise in the Chinese political system and selection to the Standing Committee depends more on family connections and loyalty to powerful patrons than on ability.

Portadown College

Portadown College (often shortened to the College) is an academic selective grammar school in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, founded in 1924.

Prostitution in Sweden

But Susanne Dodillet, an academic at Gothenburg University and author of Är sex arbete? (Is Sex Work?),

Protect the Boss

Spunky and tough Noh Eun-seol (Choi Kang-hee) is struggling to find full-time work because of her juvenile delinquent record and poor academic background.

Robert Bilheimer

Robert has also taught, lectured, and spoken at distinguished academic institutions around the world, including the Eastman School of Music, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Robert Carroll

Robert Todd Carroll (born 1945), American academic and well-known skeptic of pseudoscience

Robert Daines

Robert H. Daines (1905-1985), American academic and Latter-day Saint

Robert P. Schumaker

Robert P. Schumaker is an American academic best known for creating the AZFinText textual financial prediction system and is also a Sports Data Mining expert.

Scott Pilarz

Pilarz is a member of numerous professional, academic and cultural organizations including the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Academy of American Poets, the Modern Language Association, the John Donne Society and The Renaissance Society of America.

Seneca Valley School District

In 2009, the 8th grade was ranked 34th out of 141 western Pennsylvania middle schools based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and one year of science.

The Basil and Josephine Stories

Unlike other rebellious teenagers, such as Holden Caulfield, Josephine understands her academic problems will sort themselves out on their own.

The Phenomenology of Spirit

Regardless of (ongoing) academic controversy regarding the significance of a unique dialectical method in Hegel's writings, it is true, as Professor Howard Kainz (1996) affirms, that there are "thousands of triads" in Hegel's writings.

The Third of May 1808

Although these observations may be strictly correct, the writer Richard Schickel argues that Goya was not striving for academic propriety but rather to strengthen the overall impact of the piece.

University of Chicago Press

It currently publishes 58 titles in a wide range of academic disciplines including the social sciences, the humanities, education, the biological and medical sciences, and the physical sciences.

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering

The College of Engineering is an academic department at the University of Illinois at Chicago offering both undergraduate and graduate programs of study.

Virginia College

ECA also owns Virginia College Online, which offers distance education academic programs via the Internet; Golf Academy of America; Culinard, the Culinary Institute of Virginia College, offering degrees in the culinary arts; and Ecotech Institute, offering degrees in fields of renewable energy, sustainable design, and energy efficiency.

Vungwi Primary School

It is along the road between Cha Cha Cha Township or, Donga Town Ship and Tongogara High School in Shurugwi Rural Areas under the chieftainship of Chief Nhema.The school was known for its academic excellency during the late 80s and early 90s when it was used to attain a pass rate of 100% on the national grade 7 examinations set by the Ministry of Education, Zimbabwe.

Walter Cocking

In 1937, Cocking was hired to improve academic standards at the University of Georgia's College of Education.

William Snow

William Snow (academic), Stanford University professor affiliated with formation of the American Social Health Association

Xavier Newswire

The Xavier Newswire (established 1915) is an independent newspaper published weekly during the academic year by the students of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.


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