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  • 31Chantecler (play) — Chantecler is a verse play in four acts, written by Edmond Rostand. The play is notable in that all the characters are farmyard animals including the main protagonist, a chanticleer, or rooster. The play centers on the theme of idealism and… …

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  • 32Design of quasi-experiments — The design of a quasi experiment relates to a particular type of experiment or other study in which one has little or no control over the allocation of the treatments or other factors being studied. The key difference in this empirical approach… …

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  • 33Massimo Negrotti — Massimo Negrotti, has been since 1980 Full Professor of Methodology of Human Sciences at the Universities of Parma, Genoa and currently at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo where he chairs the LCA (Lab for the culture of the artificial) [1]. His… …

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  • 34Minimal Wave — is a contentiously named[1] genre of electronic music which focuses on electronic, pre MIDI (1982, but not pre sequencer) instrumentation and themes of sincere, rather than ironic, detachment.[1] It comprises obscure, atypical examples of genres… …

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  • 35Циммерман, Маттиас (художник) — Эта статья предлагается к удалению. Пояснение причин и соответствующее обсуждение вы можете найти на странице Википедия:К удалению/11 июля 2012. Пока процесс обсуждения …

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  • 36affectation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Artificiality of manner Nouns 1. (affected quality) affectation, affectedness, artificiality, insincerity, histrionics, ostentation; charlatanism, quackery (See deception); pretense, gloss, veneer,… …

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  • 37naive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ingenuous, unsophisticated, unworldly, artless. See simpleness, credulity. Ant., knowing, sophisticated. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ingenuous, artless, unsophisticated, unaffected, innocent, simple …

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  • 38affectation — n 1. pretension, pretentiousness, af fectedness, unnaturalness, studiedness, artificial manner; simulation, make believe, artificiality, insincerity; posing, posturing, peacockery; foppery, dandyism, coxcombry. 2. pretense, show, false show, mere …

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  • 39naive — or naïve [nä ēv′] adj. [Fr, fem. of naïf < L nativus, natural, NATIVE] 1. unaffectedly, or sometimes foolishly, simple; childlike; artless 2. not suspicious; credulous naively adv. naïvely SYN. NAIVE implies a genuine, innocent simplicity or… …

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  • 40affectation — noun Date: 1548 1. a. the act of taking on or displaying an attitude or mode of behavior not natural to oneself or not genuinely felt b. speech or conduct not natural to oneself ; artificiality 2. obsole …

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