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Ferner, Rosalie Elaine. "Intellect in neurofibromatosis 1." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283079.
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Gallagher, Peter. "Gnosis and intellect : Plotinus's corrections of some Gnostic misunderstandings of his theory of intellect." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300160.
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Проняєва, Вікторія Едуардівна, Виктория Эдуардовна Проняева, Viktoriia Eduardivna Proniaieva, and A. Kobzar. "The truth of emotional intellect." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2008. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16013.
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Guha, Swapan Kumar. "Intellect and emotion in existentialism." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/45.
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Marcotte, Roxanne D. "Ibn Miskawayh's concept of the intellect (ʻAql)". Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56920.
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Miskawayh's theory of intellect is the subject of this thesis; in addition, the historical and conceptual sources--Greek and Islamic--that were to shape Miskawayh's noetic are examined. The first part of this thesis examines the Greek tradition and its first most complete work dealing with the intellect, Aristotle's De Anima. Then, Alexander of Aphrodisias' noetic, as it is found in his Risalah fi/ 'Aql, Plotinus' conception of Intelligence, as it occurs in his Theologia Aristotelis and Proclus' conception of Intelligence, as it occurs in his Liber de Causis and finally, Themistius' noetic which is elaborated in his commentary of Aristotle's De Anima will be examined and evaluated in relation to Miskawayh's noetic. The second part of this thesis examines the Islamic tradition. The noetics of al-Kindiand of al-Farabi elaborated in their respective Risalah fi al-'Aql, are examined. In spite of Miskawayh's apparent shunning of his Islamic tradition, he is greatly influenced by it. The last part of this thesis examines Miskawayh's noetic as it can be reconstructed from his works: the Risalah fi al-Nafs wa al-'Aql, the al-Fawz al-Asghar and the Tahdhib al-Akhlaq. However, the use of the Risalah fial- 'Aql wa al-Ma'qul, a text attributed to Miskawayh, for the reconstruction of Miskawayh's noetic is more problematic. At he end of this study, it will appear that Miskawayh's noetic is indebted to both Greek and Islamic traditions. In spite of Miskawayh's explicit emphasis on Aristotelian aspects, he implicitly adheres to cosmological and anthropological speculations belonging to his Islamic tradition, which in turn, are greatly influenced by Neoplatonism. Thus Miskawayh, in an attempt to revive and utilize the Greek heritage, operated a rearticulation of the noeticsphere.
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Engel, Michael. "Elijah Del Medigo's theory of human intellect." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708715.
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Janos, Damien Triffon. "Intellect, substance, and motion in al-Farabi's cosmology." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32583.
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This dissertation offers a new and comprehensive analysis of Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī's (d. 950) cosmology by focusing on various important issues that have been largely neglected by the modern scholarship. It provides an examination of the physical, metaphysical, and astronomical aspects of al-Fārābī's cosmology by adopting a multidisciplinary approach that takes into account the history of philosophy and the history of astronomy. Accordingly, my dissertation explores how al-Fārābī attempted to reconcile features of Ptolemaic astronomy with Aristotelian and Neoplatonic theories, an endeavor which resulted in the formulation of innovative cosmological ideas. Chapters I and II provide background information on al-Fārābī's activity as a commentator and his relation to the Greek commentatorial tradition and assess the relevant primary sources. In addition, they examine al-Fārābī's approach to cosmology and his scientific method in terms of both the Ptolemaic astronomical tradition and the Aristotelian corpus. Chapter III addresses problems related to the structure of al-Fārābī's cosmology, especially the origin of his ennadic cosmological model and his spherology. Particular attention is devoted to the question of how Aristotle's unmoved movers and Ptolemy's astronomical theories are reconciled. Chapters IV, V, and VI analyze the place of celestial matter, intellect, and motion respectively in al-Fārābī's cosmology and attempt to redefine the second teacher's relation to the various trends of Greek philosophy. The study stresses al-Fārābī's connection with the Neoplatonic and Peripatetic currents, particularly with thinkers such as Alexander of Aphrod<br>Cette thèse présente une analyse novatrice et exhaustive de la cosmologie d'Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī (mort 950) en exposant divers concepts issus de ses ouvrages. Les deux premiers chapitres récapitulent la contribution d'al-Fārābī à la tradition des commentaires grecs et arabes, évaluent les sources premières, et examinent la méthode cosmologique du deuxième maître, autant vis-à-vis de la tradition astronomique ptoléméenne que vis-à-vis du corpus aristotélicien. La place de l'astronomie, de l'astrologie, de la physique et de la métaphysique dans la méthode cosmologique, et l'importance de la démonstration et de l'analogie, sont examinées afin de reconstituer la méthodologie employée par al-Fārābī. La structure de sa cosmologie, et en particulier la question de l'origine de son modèle énnadique, ainsi que la relation entre les moteurs immobiles aristotéliciens et les théories cinétiques ptoléméennes sont soulevées dans le chapitre III. Les chapitres IV, V, et VI, étudient, quant à eux, la matière céleste, l'intellect, et le mouvement des astres, tout en délinéant l'influence que les auteurs grecs eurent sur al-Fārābī. L'analyse montre les liens étroits qui unissent al-Fārābī aux mouvances péripatéticienne et néoplatonicienne de l'antiquité, et particulièrement à Alexandre d'Aphrodise, Themistius, et Proclus. Conséquemment, l'auteur critique la thèse Mahdienne selon laquelle la philosophie d'al-Fārābī serait principalement redevable à la philosophie politique du moyen-platonisme. L'accent est placé non seulement sur les correspondances entre le deuxième maître et ses prédécesseurs grecs, mais aussi sur les$
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Price, Stephen C. "Close ISR support re-organizing the Combined Forces Air Component Commander's Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance processes and agencies." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FPrice.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.<br>Thesis Advisor: Jansen, Erik. Second Reader: Freeman, Michael. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 28, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance; ISR; counterinsurgency operations; COIN; Combined Forces Air Component Commander; CFACC; airborne ISR; collection. management; ISR planning; ISR Liaison Officer. Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-369). Also available in print.
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Fabbri, Renaud. "Frithjof Schuon the shining realm of the pure intellect /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1175881809.
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Stumm, Sophie von. "Intelligence, investment and intellect : re-examining intelligence-personality associations." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/4764/.
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This dissertation emphasises a developmental perspective on intelligence-personality associations, whereby personality traits are thought to affect when, where and how people apply and invest their intelligence and thus, to shape adult intellect. A first study addressed methodological issues in computing intelligence-personality associations and demonstrated that failure to separate variances of latent traits of ability into specific and common components affects the magnitude of correlation coefficients; these distortion effects, however, were overall small suggesting negligible consequences for the understanding of intelligence-personality associations. Secondly, existing investment trait constructs were identified from the psychological literature, and their associations with indicators of adult intellect were meta-analysed. The results suggested that investment was significantly (positively) associated with intellect, and consistently so across traits and indicators. A third study confirmed that the investmen-tintellect association was not confounded by general intelligence but remained significant after controlling for ability. Subsequently, investment traits were newly conceptualised in terms of a multifaceted curiosity construct, including epistemic, perceptual and social curiosity. These facets were examined in relation to a newly developed knowledge test, which spanned thirteen domains of knowledge to comprehensively assess adult intellect. The results showed that curiosity was related to knowledge, even though associations varied in their strength and direction across curiosity facets, and they also differed in their relationship to general intelligence. Specifically, diverse perceptual curiosity, which refers to exploratory behaviour in response to sensory (e. g. visual, auditory, and tactile) stimulation, had a positive effect on knowledge independently of general intelligence. In conclusion, the investment theory was supported as an underlying mechanism of intelligence-personality associations, even though the nature of investment was found to differ from traditional conceptions. Specifically, intellect may be significantly shaped by a healthy sense of exploration and a general hunger for experience, which are not necessarily ‘intellectual’ per se.
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Гладченко, Оксана Робертівна, Оксана Робертовна Гладченко, Oksana Robertivna Hladchenko, Антоніна Євгенівна Сірик, Антонина Евгеньевна Серик, and Antonina Yevhenivna Siryk. "Badminton as means of the development of human intellect." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49502.
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Human Psychophysiology forms mutually agreed unity where
targeted development of one of the components can ensure the
development of the other. Mass character and attractiveness of
physical culture and sports as leisure components make urgent the
task to develop intellectual abilities.
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HARTMANN, JEAN MARIE Resweber Jean-Paul. "LA DIALECTIQUE DE L'INTELLECT ET DE LA VOLONTE. ENJEUX THEOLOGIQUES D'UN DEBAT PHILOSOPHIQUE /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1994. ftp://ftp.scd.univ-metz.fr/pub/Theses/1994/Hartmann.Jean_Marie.LMZ9414.pdf.
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Wolf, Mark B. "Extraversion and Intelligence: a Meta-Analytic Investigation." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06072004-131415/unrestricted/wolf%5Fmark%5Fb%5F200405%5Fms.pdf.
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Bolick, Laura. "Culture, humanism and intellect : Cardinal Bessarion as patron of the arts." Thesis, Open University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602374.
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To date many scholars seem to have agreed that Cardinal Bessarion was a physical and spiritual exile from Constantinople who sought to preserve his national culture in the alien environment of fifteenth-century Rome. In this thesis I am seeking to re-open the debate about Bessarion's role and aspirations in western Europe as expressed through the mechanism of his cultural projects. I argue that, in his guise as a Roman cardinal, he endeavoured to establish a western identity for himself that furthered his political goals. Though he never rejected his Byzantine roots, the messages he seems to have conveyed through artistic and literary patronage suggest that he was working towards some sort of assimilation into his Italian environment. By examining key projects that the cardinal patronised I identify strong western characteristics in terms of style and message. His major fresco commission for his burial chapel in SS Apostoli, Rome was executed by Antoniazzo Romano, a local Roman artist, using stylistic and iconographic H vocabularies that were. current in quattrocento Italy. Bessarion then commissioned an icon from the same artist rather than from a Greek icon painter. In the literary sphere we can also recognise an effort to establish a library in the tradition of his Italian peers. And he even dabbled in the western technological advances in printing, becoming one of the first contemporary authors to have his work printed. This thesis seeks to re-focus a spotlight on Bessarion as an immigrant who was not compelled to leave his native land but who chose to relocate. It is proposed here that the cardinal's cultural projects reflected his efforts to integrate and to succeed in his adopted surroundings.
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Hartmann, Jean-Marie. "La dialectique de l'intellect et de la volonté : enjeux théologiques d'un débat philosophique." Metz, 1994. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/1994/Hartmann.Jean_Marie.LMZ9414.pdf.
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La dialectique entre l'intellect et la volonté que l'on peut initier à partir du débat entre Aristote et Zénon d’Elee décide d'effets de sens et de vues qui font époque. Sur ce fond aristotelicien, nous lisons transversalement cette dialectique au cours de trois débats : 1) le débat entre Thomas d’Aquin, Duns Scot et Guillaume d'Ockham inverse la primauté de l'intellect pour celle de la volonté et affecte l'image de dieu. Luther figure ce qui arrive. 2) le débat entre Descartes, Kant et Hegel finit par écraser l'un dans l'autre l'intellect et la volonté et signe la mort philosophique de dieu. Il suscite une démaîtrise. Nietzsche figure ce qui se fragmente. 3) le débat entre Heidegger et Lacan décentre l'intellect et la volonté et pose un espace du sacre ou figures et D/dieu/x peuvent ou ne peuvent pas venir. Le sens se donne finalement entre l'originaire et l'ailleurs. Vues et figures ont encore un avenir<br>The dialectic between intellect and will that one can begin from the debate between Aristotle and Zeno of Elee decides on epoch-making effects of sense and views. On this aristotelian background, we read this dialectic crosswise in the course of three debates : 1) the debate between Thomas d'Aquin, Duns Scot and William of Ockham reverses the primacy of intellect for the one of will and affects god's image. Luther figures what happens. 2) the debate between Descartes, Kant and Hegel ends by crushing intellect and will the one into the other and signs the philosophical death of god. It arouses a discommand. Nietzsche figures what fragments itself. 3) the debate between Heidegger and Lacan decentres intellect and will and states a space of the sacred where figures and G/god/s can or can not come. Finally sense gives itself between original and somewhere else. Views and figures have still a future
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Miranda, Robert. "Suggestions for improving the recruitment of al-Qaeda sources lessons derived from counter-ideological programs and the targeting of Type B terrorists /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/March/09Mar%5FMiranda.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2009.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Strindberg, Anders ; Shapiro, Jacob. "March 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 23, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Al-Qaeda; FBI; human intelligence sources; recruitment of sources; risk and commitment; part-time and full-time jihadists; instrumental and emotional aggression; Social Intensity Syndrome; terrorism; counter-terrorism; counter-ideological. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-128). Also available in print.
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Brockway, Stephanie Kay. "The theory of multiple intelligences a study of educational implementation /." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998brockways.pdf.
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Williams, Joseph W. "The role of the intellect in eighteenth-century Evangelicalism and early Pentecostalism a comparative study /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Khan, Abdullah. "The relationship between breakfast, academic performance and vigilance in school aged children." Thesis, Khan, Abdullah (2006) The relationship between breakfast, academic performance and vigilance in school aged children. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/127/.
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This research was designed to investigate the relationship between breakfast habits and academic performance and vigilance in upper primary children. The content of breakfast consumed, the frequency of skipping breakfast, gender differences, social impacts and reasons for skipping breakfast in upper primary school children are also examined. There is little Australian research on children's breakfast habits or its relationship with academic performance and vigilance. Hence there is a need for research on this issue in the Australian context.
The study involved 72 children of 5th, 6th and 7th grades from two schools in Western Australia. Data were obtained in three ways (a) the children completed a questionnaire which explored their breakfast habits, (b) the class teachers recorded the classroom performance/grades based on their classroom evaluations, and behaviour of the children based on the observations, and (c) the children were then given three vigilance tasks approximately one and a half hours into the school day. The children were divided into breakfast and no-breakfast groups based on the self-report of breakfast consumption on that day.
The study found that more than half of the children at least sometimes skip their breakfast, with no differences attributed to gender. A number of children reported eating breakfast on the way to school but the proportion of those having a nutritious breakfast on the way to school was almost negligible. Even those having breakfast regularly (55%) might not be consuming a nutritious breakfast. Children reported feeling sleepy, inactive and forgetful as a consequence of skipping breakfast on the day. Reasons offered for skipping mainly had to do with personal choice and convenience, rather than with dieting and concern about body shape. There was no relationship found between breakfast skipping and academic performance and vigilance. Evidence that breakfast skipping affects concentration span of children was found for year 6 and 7 students in the study.
Potential strategies based on the findings of this study are discussed. Providing a nutritious breakfast for children or supplementing their daily diets with fruit are interventions which have the potential to make a significant impact on children's health and well-being. In order to have a nutritious breakfast, children should be encouraged to have breakfast at home before leaving for school as they usually tend to eat a less nutritious breakfast on the way to school or at school. Organizing a breakfast day at school will also promote the importance of having breakfast. Further emphasis on nutrition and healthy eating in schools could make a difference.
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Khan, Abdullah. "The relationship between breakfast, academic performance and vigilance in school aged children /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060505.150942.
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Wade, Lucie. "Ideologies of intellect: a critical examination of the hype surrounding cognitive enhancement." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106307.
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In the field of bioethics, the relatively recent phenomenon of cognitive enhancement—the idea that one might improve upon their typical, or "healthy," level of intellect through the use of pharmaceuticals developed to treat medical conditions—has garnered considerable interest from bioethicists and the popular media. The high level of coverage related to this phenomenon has prompted concern that a misrepresentation of the scientific facts related to the safety and efficacy of the drugs involved may encourage public interest, with potentially negative effects on social conformity and loss of diversity.One drug in particular, donepezil, has become known as a "cognitive enhancement agent" based mainly on the findings of one small-scale study. Its genesis from contested Alzheimer's drug to revolutionary "smart-pill" has provoked questions related to the level of evidence driving this reconceptualization. Recent reviews have determined that the findings of the primary study were limited, and additional analysis of a possible link between donepezil and a cognitive enhancement effect have also found the study to be lacking. This thesis characterizes how media and bioethics literature has shaped the discourse of donepezil as a cognitive enhancement agent in the absence of solid scientific evidence. A systematic content analysis was conducted to determine how media and bioethics articles portray donepezil and present the results of the landmark study. We found much hype of the possibility that donepezil could produce cognitive enhancement effects in typical individuals. Additionally, we identified a complex interaction between high expectations for a cognitive enhancement effect and ambiguous conclusions at the level of the primary paper. Together, these factors contribute to the portrayal of donepezil as a cognitive enhancement agent in secondary literature and point to important consequences for individual decision making, clinical care, and policy development. Further, hype of the phenomenon of cognitive enhancement implies that there is general interest in the goal of increasing intelligence and inspires interest in further examining why we are so involved in this end. Propagating the ideology driving those captivated by cognitive enhancement may negatively affect people with intellectual disabilities. To explore the connection between the desire to enhance cognition in typical individuals and a potential negative effect on people with intellectual disabilities, we introduce a distinct example of media hype related to drugs that target intelligence in this population. Failure to question the underlying assumptions that are driving the cognitive enhancement debate amongst individuals with typical intelligence risks further devaluing the lives of people with intellectual disability and subverting current social movements to empower these individuals and build a truly accepting and diverse society.<br>L'utilisation, par des individus sains, de médicaments pour améliorer leurs fonctions cognitives suscite l'attention autant des bioéthiciens que des médias. L'importante couverture médiatique de ce récent phénomène soulève la préoccupation qu'une fausse représentation des données scientifiques, relativement à la sécurité et à l'efficacité de ces médicaments, pourrait, par conséquent, éveiller l'intérêt du public. Potentiellement, cela pourrait causer des effets négatifs au plan social, par exemple, en encourageant la conformité et donc une perte de la diversité.Un médicament en particulier, le donépézil, s'est vu reconnu comme étant un « produit d'amélioration des fonctions cognitives ». Cette affirmation est basée essentiellement sur les résultats d'une seule étude, marquante dans le débat entourant le donépézil. L'évolution de ce médicament, passant d'un traitement contesté pour la maladie d'Alzheimer à une « pilule d'intelligence » (ou smart-pill), a soulevé des questions relativement aux données probantes justifiant ce nouvel étiquette de « produit d'amélioration des fonctions cognitives ». Par ailleurs, des articles de revue de littérature ont récemment conclu que les résultats de l'étude en question sont limités, et le lien entre le donépézil et l'amélioration des fonctions cognitives n'est pas clair.Le présent mémoire a pour objectif d'examiner comment la couverture médiatique et le débat bioéthique a influencé le discours sur le donépézil en tant que produit d'amélioration des performances cognitives, et cela, malgré l'absence de données probantes. Pour ce faire, nous avons procédé à une analyse systématique du contenu des médias et d'articles spécialisés en bioéthique afin d'examiner comment le donépézil et les résultats de l'étude y sont présentés. Nous avons identifié un enthousiasme débordant concernant la possibilité que le donépézil puisse améliorer les fonctions cognitives d'individus sains ainsi qu'une interaction complexe entre les attentes élevées et des conclusions ambigües au niveau de l'étude principale. Ensemble, ces facteurs ont contribué à la représentation du donépézil en tant qu'agent d'amélioration des fonctions cognitives dans la littérature et laissent supposer des conséquences importantes pour la prise de décision, les soins de santé et le développement de politiques.L'engouement entourant l'effet du donépézil au niveau de l'amélioration des performances cognitives démontre un intérêt général par rapport à la possibilité d'accroître l'intelligence et confirme ainsi la nécessité d'un examen plus approfondi à savoir pourquoi un tel but est recherché. L'augmentation, au sein de la population, du désir d'accroître l'intelligence pourrait avoir comme conséquence de nuire aux personnes atteintes d'une déficience intellectuelle. Afin d'établir le lien entre le phénomène de l'amélioration des fonctions cognitives d'individus sains et l'effet négatif potentiel sur les personnes atteintes d'une déficience intellectuelle, nous présentons dans ce mémoire un exemple d'engouement des médias autour de médicaments qui cible l'intelligence chez cette population. Ne pas s'interroger sur les présomptions sous-jacentes qui motivent le phénomène de l'amélioration des fonctions cognitives chez des individus sains risque de causer plus de tort dans le débat du « traitement » de la déficience intellectuelle et de rendre impuissants les mouvements sociaux qui visent à améliorer l'acceptabilité sociale et à promouvoir la diversité au sein de la société.
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Lounsbury, Mary Laird. "Crafting the Mythos-Sphere| Toward the Practical Integration of Intuition and Intellect." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10812368.
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<p> This production dissertation examines the role of the creative process in balancing intellect and intuition in the individual; and the potential of collaborative creativity to support the integration of intuition and intellect on a social level. The <i>mythos-sphere</i> is given as a metaphor to conceptualize the human experience, which extends from the physical, but always includes much more than one knows: inner and outer, conscious and unconscious, physical and imaginal altogether comprise this sphere of influence. </p><p> The mythic imagination aids social cohesion when there is sufficient shared experience. This research addresses a disconnect between inner experience and collective experience. This gap might be bridged by a social context that encourages awareness of our immersion in a mythic environment, built upon common ground. </p><p> The third is considered as the space between inner-outer and self-other, that allows negotiation without loss of self, and from which creative solutions emerge. A discussion of the third examines Winnicott’s transitional space and Jung’s archetypal theory. The space of the third is “expanded” by admitting the unknown and the ambiguous as real and meaningful, but “collapsed” by reductionist thinking. Participation, or being present and phenomenologically engaged, relaxes the tension wrought by protracted rational focus. Metaphor is proposed as the essential bridge that mediates the “in-between” area of the third. </p><p> Giving physical form to images emerging from the unconscious is considered as “applied metaphor.” Connecting inner with outer, known with unknown, and rational with non-rational, the creative process generates meaning for the individual. A collaborative creative process is therefore suggested as a way to develop shared meaning. </p><p> Concluding that creative collaboration encourages communication and group cohesion, a method is proposed. The production presents the application of this method via a three-day collaborative art-and-story making event, documented as an interactive digital magazine. </p><p> Keywords: expressive arts, collaboration, creativity, metaphor, participation, narrative, myth, imaginal, archetypal.</p><p>
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Lysaght, Thomas Alexander. "On the grounds of a transcendental intellect for a philosophy of leadership." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2012. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/1eec95134b81093671b20caeb2e10f695cf261bb29ffe6fcdd28c58b3a2d6c1e/1358078/64973_downloaded_stream_198.pdf.
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Aim: This thesis sets out to cover the matter of leadership as it is informed by science, art, and philosophy. The research involved entails a corresponding consideration of the sensibility and intelligibility, morality and ethics of leadership along with accounts of their relationship to the notion of the mature human intellect as well as to that of the idea of a university. Scope: The work proposes that the transcendental intellect is the ground for notions and principles of leadership. Opting for a schema of the universe of the intellect over a Kantian model of the faculties of the intellect, the notion of leadership can be clearly seen to belong not in the general intellect of science, made up of understanding and reason, but in a transcendental intellect comprised of comprehension and judgement. A science of leadership is a contested idea because it does not and cannot take into account values and ends, regardless of whether or not those values are based on formal universal principles or on particular substantive judgments. The human understanding is the only intellectual grounds for a science of leadership and a critique of those grounds could be reinforced by a similar treatment of human reason being the grounds for the art of leadership. (....)
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Цитатов, Цитат Цитатович. "Магістерська робота зі штучного інтелекту". Master's thesis, ЗДІА, 2016. http://dspace.zsea.edu.ua/jspui/handle/12345/15.
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Broadway, Jr James M. "Running memory/working memory span tasks and their prediction of higher-order cognition /." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22629.
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Pettinger, Terry Lynn O'Brien. "Where Intellect and Intuition Converge: Epistemological Errancies in the Poetry of Jorie Graham." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31158.
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Over the past two decades, American poet Jorie Graham has composed six books of poems. Graham struggles to understand how we make sense of the world through thinking grounded in the logical operations of reason and through thinking that operates as more of a detached wandering that enables direct experiential participation in the present moment-modes of thought occasionally differentiated as "intellect" and "intuition." Throughout her work, Graham repeatedly experiments with ways to "frustrate" the intellect in order for intuition to wander over an idea while at the same time she relies on the intellect to rescue the mind from directionless wandering. In her early poetry Graham explores ways of defining and describing what it feels like to think. Later, she enacts thinking within the lines of her poems, sometimes allegorizing the operation of the intellect and intuition and sometimes provoking readers into an experience of one particular way of thinking through the act of reading.
This study examines Graham's various successes and failures as she struggles to discover "blossoming" moments of balance between the controlling intellect and the wandering intuition. Beginning with the origins of this line of thinking in Graham's early work, this study traces the poet's path of development through each book of poems in order to demonstrate the back and forth momentum shifts of intellect giving way to intuition and intuition being organized by rational thought. Through her epistemological errancies, her wanderings within and without ways of knowing, Graham discovers "blossoming" moments of wholeness where both modes of thought meet "in solution, unsolved."<br>Master of Arts
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Meservy, Thomas Oliver. "Augmenting Human Intellect: Automatic Recognition of Nonverbal Behavior with Application in Deception Detection." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194056.
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Humans have long sought to use technology to augment human abilities and intellect. However, technology is traditionally employed only to create speedier solutions or more-rapid comprehension. A more challenging endeavor is to enable humans with technology to gain additional or enhanced comprehension that may not be possible to acquire otherwise. One such application is the use of technology to augment human abilities in detecting deception using nonverbal cues. Detecting deception is often critical, whether an individual is communicating with a close friend, negotiating a business deal, or screening individuals at a security checkpoint.The detection of deception is a challenging endeavor. A variety of studies have shown that humans have a hard time accurately discriminating deception from truth, and only do so slightly better than chance. Several deception detection methods exist; however, most of these are invasive and require a controlled environment.This dissertation presents a technological approach to detecting deception based on kinesic (i.e., movement-based) and vocalic (i.e., sounds associated with the voice) cues that is firmly grounded in deception theory and past empirical studies. This noninvasive approach overcomes some of the weaknesses of other deception detection methods as it can be used in a natural environment without cooperation from the individual of interest.The automatable approach demonstrates potential for increasing humans' ability to correctly identify those who display behaviors indicative of deception. The approach was evaluated using experimental and field data. The results of repeated measures analysis of variance, linear regression and discriminant function analysis suggest that the use of such a system could augment human abilities in detecting deception by as much as 15-25%. While there are a number of technical challenges that need to be addressed before such a system could be deployed in the field, there are numerous environments where it would be potentially useful.
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Labuschagne, Antoinette. "South African personality inventory : the development of an investigation into the psychometric properties of the intellect cluster / A. Labuschagne." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4587.
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The Employment Equity Act, 55 of 1998, Section 8 (Government Gazette, 1998) provides clear guidelines for psychometric testing in South Africa. Due to the cultural complexity of the South African population, personality tests in particular do not always comply with these specifications. Most personality tests used in South Africa have been developed in and imported from other countries, and are consequently not always appropriate for all cultural groups. Also, the majority of indigenous personality tests were developed and standardised specifically for the white population. Today a major challenge in personality assessment development is to develop and standardise inventories for the 11 official language groups in South Africa. The objectives of this study were to develop valid and reliable items for an Intellect–measuring instrument that will form part of a larger personality inventory, to investigate the factor solution of this Intellect cluster, and to compare the factor solutions of the white and African race groups respectively. An Intellect questionnaire consisting of 202 items was developed based on the qualitative phase of the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI). This research served as a pilot study. The sample consisted of (N=524) students from tertiary institutions in the Gauteng and the North West Provinces of South Africa. A quantitative design with an exploratory approach was used to collect data. Statistical analysis was used to analyse the data.
The results indicated that only 18 of the original 202 items proved to be unreliable. Acceptable reliability levels for all facets were found. First–order factor analysis produced two sub–clusters: Aesthetics and Intellect. The Aesthetics sub–cluster consisted of the Artistic, Concrete work and Creative facets, and the Intellect sub–cluster consisted of the Intellect, Knowledgeable, Logical, Self–insight, Articulate, Competent, Enterprising, Perceptive, Social Intellect and Understanding facets. Second–order factor analysis indicated a single–order factor for the Intellect cluster with two second–order factors: Aesthetics and Intellect. Support was found to discard the Musical and Enterprising facets from the Intellect cluster. Similar factor solutions were found for the white and African groups - except for the Musical facet, which loaded on the Aesthetics sub–cluster for the white group and on the Intellect sub–cluster for the African group. Recommendations were made for future research.<br>Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Witheford, Nicholas. "The contest for general intellect, cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq24366.pdf.
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Khan, Shahadat H. "The freedom of intellect movement (Buddhir Mukt Andolan) in Bengali Muslim thought, 1926-1938." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ27977.pdf.
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Clements, J. R. "'The intellect has failed us' : mysticism and ethics in the Anglophone novel, 1953-1980." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597773.
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This thesis traces how, in the decades following the Second World War, dissatisfaction with prevailing ethical philosophies led several novelists to turn towards mystical concepts in order to recover an understanding of goodness as a property that exists separately from individual acts of will and rational reasoning. In Iris Murdoch’s 1970 essay ‘Existentialists and Mystics’ she argued that the major writers of the early twentieth century – Camus, Sartre, Lawrence, Hemingway, Amis – subscribed to a philosophical system that considered human agency and will to be the sole source of morality. She suggested that, by the mid-1950s, this dominant belief was challenged by the novels of writers – she names, among others, William Golding, Patrick White and Saul Bellow – who were possessed by ‘genuine intuitions of an authoritative good,’ and who suffered from ‘the uneasy suspicion that after all man is not God.’ Each of these novelists believes in the existence of a transcendent God or Good, which cannot be approached through rational means; instead, goodness is encountered by attempting to move beyond selfhood through acts of attention that suppress intellectual or egoistic forms of thought. This thesis analyses this mystical-ethical concept within the novels of Murdoch, Golding, Bellow and White. The central concern is how this moral philosophy affects the novel form: how a writer attempts to approach an ineffable reality through language, and how this endeavour contributes to the moral dimension of literature.
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Magee, David S. K. "Popular periodicals, common readers and the 'grand march of intellect' in London, 1819-34." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496580.
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Nesmith, Tom Carleton University Dissertation History. "The philosophy of agriculture; the promise of the intellect in Ontario farming, 1835-1914." Ottawa, 1988.
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Anspach, Leonard Max. "An examination of the renewing of the mind in Romans 12:2." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Chan, Sau-yan, and 陳秀茵. "The interactive effects of competition and theories of intelligence on motivation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/196504.
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Past research has revealed that both people’s beliefs and situational factors affected people’s goal orientation. This study investigated the interactive effects of competition and theories of intelligence on people’s goal orientation. A 2x2 between-subject factorial design was adopted. Seventh graders (N = 132) were primed with either incremental or entity theory of memory. The students were randomly assigned to either competitive or non-competitive condition. Motivational outcomes were measured after all the four groups received failure feedback. Findings showed that the effect of competition marginally overrode the effect of theories of intelligence in the entity condition. There were no statistical significant changes in self-efficacy and interest on the task before and after the setback in the groups.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Educational Psychology<br>Master<br>Master of Social Sciences
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Lynch, Timothy J. "Aquinas, Lonergan, and the a priori." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343058.
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Coles, Matthew Adrian. "The intellectual virtues as morally good the perfecting of the human capacity to understand /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0734.
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Contreras, Carlos Lucio Macias. "The role of inspection time in factor and path analytic models of intelligence /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Mauriège, Maxime. "L'auto-intellection de Dieu chez Maître Eckhart." Thesis, Metz, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010METZ014L.
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La présente étude s’emploie à reconstruire et à analyser la conception eckhartienne de l’auto-intellection de Dieu, afin de mettre en évidence les divers enjeux de cette question, et par suite de mesurer l’importance exacte qu’elle revêt dans l'œuvre et la pensée du Maître rhénan – surtout quant à son effort spéculatif pour accuser la réalité métaphysique de l’Intellect divin et rendre compte de son opérativité. L’ensemble de cette recherche se fonde sur un extrait du Sermon allemand 80, qui expose avec force et concision la richesse de l’intellectualité de Dieu à travers l’étendue de son acte d’auto-intellection, et propose ainsi une vue synoptique d’un traitement systématique de la question. Dans cette perspective, il s’agit en outre de montrer la cohérence systématique de la métaphysique eckhartienne du flux – caractéristique de l’école albertinienne –, qui correspond à une logique de l’actualité et de la productivité de l’Intellect divin, en établissant alors le lien causal et progressif entre : 1. la définition de Dieu comme intellectus per essentiam (un leitmotiv de la pensée spéculative d’Eckhart), 2. l’acte pur d’auto-intellection qui traduit son intelligere, 3. la procession des Personnes in divinis comme déploiement formel de cet acte (bullitio), et 4. l’émanation des créatures comme mouvement proversif de l’Intellect divin s’intelligeant lui-même, et exerçant de la sorte sa causalité créatrice (ebullitio). Cette étude permet dès lors de dégager une triple considération de l’acte d’auto-intellection de Dieu comme Pensée substantielle et subsistante, comme Pensée trinitaire et bouillonnante, et enfin comme Pensée créatrice et débordante<br>The present study is devoted to the reconstruction and the analysis of the Eckhartian conception of God’s self-knowledge, so as to emphasize the diverse stakes of this question, and to measure the exact importance which it hold in the work and the thought of Rhenish Master – especially concerning his speculative effort to describe the metaphysical reality of the divine Intellect and to report its operativity. The whole of this research bases on an extract of the German Sermon 80, which explains with strength and conciseness the wealth of God’s intellectuality trough the area of his act of self-knowledge, and so propose a synoptic view of a systematic treatment about this topic. Furthermore, the question is whether to show the systematic coherence of the Eckhartian metaphysics of flow – characteristic of the Albertian school –, which corresponds to one logic of the actuality and the productivity of the divine Intellect, establishing then the causal and progressive link between: 1. The definition of God as intellectus per essentiam (a leitmotiv of Eckhart’s speculative thought, 2. The pure act of self-knowledge, which translates God’s intelligere, 3. The procession of the Persons in divinis as formal deployment of this act (bullitio), and 4. The emanation of creatures as exteriorized movement of the divine Intellect knowing itself, and so exercising its creative causality (ebullitio). This study allows consequently to draw a triple consideration of the act of God's self-knowledge as substantial and subsisting Thought, as Trinitarian and boiling, and finally as creative and overboiling
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Lacrosse, Joachim. "Le statut métaphysique du noûs (intellect) et sa pratique discursive dans la philosophie de Plotin." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211994.
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Cavallin, Samuel. "Thomas Aquinas’ Universality Argument for the Immateriality of the Intellect : a reconstruction by Gyula Klima." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-176275.
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The paper investigates Gyula Klima’s reconstruction of Aquinas argument for the immateriality of the intellect by the concept of human thought and its success to avoid the Content Fallacy. This fallacy, which is coined by Robert Pasnau, describes an illicit inference from a description of the nature of a thought, to what a thought represents, its content. The focus will be on a debate between Klima and Pasnau in Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, but also on Adam Wood’s critique of Klima. The paper concludes that if Klima is interpreted correctly, the argument is valid and Klima’s reconstruction of Aquinas argument does not fall victim to the Content Fallacy.
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Laine, Colin J. "Relationships between the structure of intellect and characteristics of students identified as gifted and selected for special programming." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27668.
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Fundamental assumptions concerning the cognitive characteristics of gifted students in special education were presented. Prerequisites for operationalising them were extrapolated. The importance of clear parallels between identification and programming in gifted education, and of the role of informal and formal indicators was discussed. Guilford's Structure of Intellect model (1967) was examined in relation to the identification of cognitive ability.
Achievement, measured by the Canadian Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS), and aptitude, as measured by the Structure of Intellect (SOI) Learning Abilities Test, identified differences between students who had been nominated to participate in an enrichment program. There were some who were also identified by the resource teachers as being gifted.
Subjects were 100 students from grades three, five and, eight previously nominated for the program. Sixty were selected to participate in the program, and nineteen were identified as being gifted. The groups were age and gender balanced. The students were given the CTBS as part of the district's annual testing program. The SOI was given at the start of the enrichment program, at the end of the twelve-week program and at the end of the academic year.
Analysis of variance and multiple regression analyses suggested significant relationships existed between various dimensions of achievement and aptitude, and that the treatment group differed significantly from the control group in aptitude. The gifted differed from the non-gifted in achievement (CTBS). Transformational ability on the SOI distinguished giftedness which supported Guilford's hypothesis of gifted ability.
Teacher ratings of the objectives of the enrichment program were not predicted by either aptitude or achievement scores. Repeated measures ANOVA indicated that lower-level abilities were enhanced the most in the treatment group. Age contributed significantly to aptitude dimensions indicating non-school, or developmental factors were intertwined in the relationships.
Findings were discussed and implications for subsequent research with the SOI in examining cognitive style in learning, and for both instruments use in special education identification programs were drawn.<br>Education, Faculty of<br>Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of<br>Graduate
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Stakutienė, Aida. "Ugdytinių ugdymo ir intelekto struktūros ypatumai." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050526_085258-12237.
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Many researches prove that the success of learning at school decides the intellectual able. The intellectual estimation and determination must be based by parameters of systematic research and estimation. To foresee these directions of training, content and ways it is important the analysis of intellect reasons and intellect structure. The are not enough psychological and pedagogical works where would be the experimentally based connection of slight intellectual disorder and limited intellect. The object of this research is the training peculiarity, looking at the structure of the intellect. The aim of the research is to estimate limited and slight intellectual disorder content specify after the made comparative analysis of the disorder having schoolchildren training, the quantitative and qualitative their structure characteristic. The main tasks of the research are: to analyse the similarity and differences limited and slight intellectual disorder structure and to discover the training peculiarity of schoolchildren with the intellectual disorder. There were used these methods of the research: the analysis of schoolchildren anamnesis data, the talk to pedagogues, the analysis of D. Wechsler intellectual test (WISC – III)LT . The data were treated by SPSS 11.0 version, the parametrical T test (T - Test) and not parametrical Mann – Whitney test. At the research were pedagogues (lithuanian and mathematics teachers, special pedagogues and class teachers) working at diferent... [to full text]
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Ostfield, Danielle. "The typical developmental trajectory of early numerical concepts : the relationship between approximate arithmetic and nonverbal intelligence across childhood." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98565.
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The developmental trajectory of basic numerical skills and sequential processing was systematically investigated among a sample of 5 to 11-year-old typically developing boys. Performance was defined in terms of reaction times and error rates during novel computerized tasks that measured sequential and numerical concepts related to cardinality and ordinal knowledge. Analyses revealed that fast and accurate performance was attributable to children at older ages. At younger ages, task manipulations exclusively related to ordinal relationships demonstrated a significant influence over error rates. Furthermore, nonverbal intelligence predicted a significant amount of the variance related to an understanding of the ordinal properties of numbers. The findings support developmental theory regarding age-related changes in early mathematical performance and extend pedagogical research concerning the cognitive capacities that contribute to approximate numerical knowledge.
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Yaldir, Hulya. "Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Rene Descartes on the mind and body problem." Thesis, University of Reading, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301933.
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Brenet, Jean-Baptiste. "Transferts du sujet, la noétique d'Averroès selon Jean de Jandun /." Paris : J. Vrin, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391099264.
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SPENCER, REED FRANK. "RAISING INTELLIGENCE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A THEORETICAL MODEL." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187964.
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The problem addressed in this theoretical study was that although current knowledge and research indicate clearly that intelligence can be raised in the regular classroom, there did not exist a model to guide teachers in doing so. The purpose of this study, then, was to construct a model which would guide teachers in adapting their instruction so that "teaching was thinking," or teaching to raise intelligence be deliberately addressed by the way existing subjects are taught, rather than (or in addition to) as a separate subject. In other words, the purpose of the study was to propose a model which would help teachers deliberately and systematically improve students' generic skills of intelligence in the course teaching normal curricular subjects--a way of teaching rather than a separate subject. The first issue addressed is the historical context surrounding the debate over the construct of intelligence as alterable--that intelligence is not an immutable "amount," but the orchestration and use of malleable, teachable processes. Second, philosophic, psychological and educational foundations were laid and examined, and the model was proposed and discussed. Particular emphasis was given discussion of model theory, including the need for and structural parameters of academically honest models. Third is the review and discussion of research and writing relating to the instructional attempts to raise intelligence. This review begins with seminal theoretical works, and progressing through to those with increasingly specific applications to actual instruction in the classroom. Fourth, the model was used to generate specific, substantive examples--lessons plans--of instructional strategies within various subjects. Although the content used is from elementary school curricula, the model is equally applicable to high school, college, or any other instructional area. Fifth and finally, the problems and promises inherent in the attempt to implement such a curricular effort were examined.
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Jabbour, Jawdath. "L'âme et l'unité de l'homme dans la pensée de Fārābī." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE5091.
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Notre étude interroge de manière systématique ce qu’est l'âme humaine et comment elle constitue un individu dans la pensée de Fārābī. Nous y avons établi que la triade néoplatonicienne nature, âme et intellect structure sa pensée naturelle et qu’elle correspond en l'homme à la substantialité, la vie – en tant que principe général aux êtres vivants – et la pensée. Cette triade est liée à la notion de substantification et permet de comprendre la manière par laquelle différentes fonctions, naturelles, animées et intellectives, peuvent émaner d’une substance une. La constitution de l'individu humain se présente ainsi comme une substantification progressive par ces trois principes. Elle est marquée par une forte téléologisation qui assure l’unité substantielle de l’homme, puisque, lors de la génération de ce dernier, la substance réalisée par la nature puis par l'âme est dès le départ en vue de la réalisation de l'intellect et de sa perfection ultime, comprise comme un retour à soi. Face aux lectures dualistes de son époque, Fārābī revient à une compréhension particulière de l'âme comme forme du corps, et comme principe de l'unité le plus parfait dans le monde sublunaire. Sa compréhension originale de l'hylémorphisme permet de soutenir en même temps la séparabilité de l'intellect, à travers des éléments issus de la tradition néoplatonicienne, notamment l’organisation des fonctions et principes présents en l’homme en différents rangs intermédiaires<br>Our work examines in a systematic way what is the human soul and how it constitutes an individual in al-Fārābī’s thought. We have shown in it that the Neoplatonist triad of nature, soul and intellect structures his natural thought and that it corresponds in man to substantiality, life – as a principle shared with all the living creatures – and thought. This triad is linked to the notion of substantification and allows us to understand the way different functions can emanate from what is a single substance. The way man is constituted by these three principles is presented as a progressive substantification characterized by a strong teleologisation. This teleologisation insures man’s substantial unity since, in the process of his generation, the substance realized first by nature and then by soul exists for the sake of its realization by the intellect and the attainment of man’s perfection, perceived as a return to the self. Facing the dualist positions of his time, al-Fārābī upheld a particular reading of the soul as the form of a body and as the most accomplished principle of unity in the sublunary world. His original comprehension of hylemorphism asserts the separability of the intellect through his usage of neoplatonist elements, notably the organization of the principles and functions that are present in the human substance into various intermediary ranks
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Harris, Robin O. ""A new representative of southern intellect" : Julia Anna Flisch, a new woman of the New South." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/25725.
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Landry, Annie. "Le rôle et la symbolique de la narratrice au sein du traité Le Tonnerre, Intellect Parfait." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/24233/24233.pdf.
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