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recognition and legacy
In the last phase of the Spaghetti Western, with the Trinity films, the Leone legacy had been transformed almost beyond recognition, as ( low ) comedy reigned and terror and deadly violence gave way to harmless brawling.
After the Second Sino-Japanese War, the People's Republic of China has refused recognition of the name Mǎnzhōu ( Manchuria ), only using " the Northeast " for the region to avoid acknowledging the Japanese imperial legacy in the area ; the title of Manchuria is still often associated in China with the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
It has been claimed that Solander deserves a great deal more recognition than he has received, and that he was denied his legacy by the high standing of Banks, who treated Solander, and Jonas Dryander before him, as his servants rather than as botanists of equal standing to others in the botanical establishment.
In recognition of its place in history, not just in environmental issues controversy, the organisation has employed staff to work on the legacy and cultural heritage of the Hydro.
Alongside his legacy in songs and movies Buscaglione deserves mention for having encouraged musicians and singers from the newer generation ( the one influenced by the earliest forms of rock and roll ) to stand up against the conservative producers and discographers of the time, demanding recognition for their art and their style.
In recognition of this being the final episode of the original series, the nebula is filled with newly-born stars, symbolic of the post-series legacy of the show.
He is considered by some to be the rightful pretender to the defunct Portuguese throne by virtue of his ancestors ' uninterrupted domicile on Portuguese soil, although the duke makes no active claim to that legacy and accepted recognition of his ducal title from the Portuguese nobiliary institution headed by another pretender, Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza.
The important legacy of this period of Greek science included substantial advances in factual knowledge, especially in anatomy, zoology, botany, mineralogy and astronomy ; an awareness < sup > 2 </ sup > of the importance of certain scientific problems, especially those related to the problem of change and its causes ; and a recognition of the methodological importance of applying mathematics to natural phenomena and of undertaking empirical research.
In the late 1960s, her acting legacy was resurrected when film scholars invited her to Europe to receive recognition for her work.

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In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.
Incidentally, one cannot miss the significance of this gesture, for Dickens reintroduces it associatively in Pip's mind at another moral and psychological crisis -- his painful recognition, in a talk with Herbert Pocket, that his hopeless attachment to Estella is as self-destructive as it is romantic.
In New York, Lydia Maria Child welcomed him enthusiastically: `` I have lately heard of you from the Legislature of Louisiana, and felt joy at your public recognition of the brotherhood of man ''.
The general tone of articles appearing in such important newspapers as the Manchester Guardian and the Sunday Observer implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant churches.
The trend throughout the world's religions has been toward a recognition of at least the practical validity of this constitutional enactment.
EveR-1's advanced computing processing power enables speech recognition and vocal synthesis, at the same time processing lip synchronization and visual recognition by 90-degree micro-CCD cameras with face recognition technology.
Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.
An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.
Sazonov received this recognition at a ceremony held at the Wearable Technologies Show at ispo 2010, a trade show for sporting goods.
In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.
Although a recognition of sainthood by the Pope does not directly concern a fact of divine revelation, it must still be " definitively held " by the faithful as infallible under ( at the very least ) the Universal Magisterium of the Church since it is a truth connected to revelation by historical necessity.
The disciplinary sections received official recognition at provincial synods and were enforced by the bishops.
In his definitive study of the taxonomy of the coyote, Jackson had, in response to Miller, queried whether Heller had seriously looked at specimens of coyotes prior to his 1914 article, and thought the characters to be “ not sufficiently important or stable to warrant subgeneric recognition for the group ”.
After meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, Whitlam observed that the reason Japan at that time was hesitant to withdraw recognition from the Nationalist government was " the presence of a treaty between the Japanese government and that of Chiang Kai-shek ".
The research team went on to " point out that, in recognition of the fact that dysprosium is named on the basis of a Greek word meaning ' difficult to get at ,' that the searchers for another element a century ago found it difficult to get to California.
On the way back to Shannon, the head of the Children's Fund, Maurice Pate, had the seat next to Danny Kaye and spoke at length to him about the need for recognition for the Fund.
At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.
Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.
Byzantine recognition of the imperial dignity of the Bulgarian monarch and the patriarchal dignity of the Bulgarian patriarch was again confirmed at the conclusion of permanent peace and a Bulgarian-Byzantine dynastic marriage in 927.
Christianity at last found recognition by the State ; and this brought new problems — apologies of a different sort had to be prepared.

recognition and University
The recent recognition of the Bronx as an important center of African-American culture, led Fordham University to establish the ongoing
* Online Demo: Emotion recognition from speech, University of Patras, Wire Communication Lab
In addition to recognition by the International Olympic Committee and Special Olympics, the IFF is also a member of the General Association of International Sports Federations ( GAISF ), and co-operates with the International University Sports Federation ( FISU ).
In 1885, the same year that he published his monumental work, Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, he was made a professor at the University of Berlin, most likely in recognition of this publication.
* Janus Recognition Toolkit ( JRTk ), a general purpose speech recognition toolkit developed and maintained by the Interactive Systems Laboratories at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
In 2010 Jamison was conferred with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews in recognition of all her life's work.
Formerly an interdisciplinary major at the University of Virginia the Department of Media Studies was officially established in 2001 and has quickly grown to wide recognition.
Psychoanalysis started to receive recognition in the United States in 1909, when Sigmund Freud delivered a series of lectures at Clark University in Massachusetts at the invitation of G. Stanley Hall.
In 2008, savate was recognised by the International University Sports Federation ( FISU ) – this recognition allows savate to hold official University World Championships, the first was held in Nantes, France in 2010.
In recognition of his distinguised services to the Victorian community, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws ( honoris causa ) – LL. D ( h. c .) by Deakin University on 27 April 2010.
In 2006, Google published a trillion-word corpus, while Carnegie Mellon University researchers found no significant increase in recognition accuracy.
On 27 February 1858 the University received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, giving degrees conferred by the university rank and recognition equal to those given by universities in the UK.
Durkheim's articles gained recognition in France, and he received a teaching appointment in the University of Bordeaux in 1887, where he was to teach the university's first social science course.
It is also home to the Ionian University, established in 1984, in recognition, by the administration of Andreas Papandreou, of Corfu's contribution to Education in Greece, as the seat of the first Greek university in modern times, the Ionian Academy.
To gain public recognition and honours he set up a retirement home for French sailors, while a chair in aerodynamics at the University of Paris gave him the rank of an officer.
In 1992 ISL and Sussex University won an ICP Million Dollar award in recognition of Poplog exceeding sales of 5 million dollars.
He was given an Honorary Doctorate of Music by the University of Miami in 1956 in recognition of his career.
At the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities house of his fraternity, Sigma Chi, Nagurski's jersey and Significant Sig recognition certificate are on display.
In recognition of his achievements and contributions to education in Manchester, the Whitworth Building on the University of Manchester's Main Campus is named in his honour, and graduation ceremonies are held in its Whitworth Hall.
Mann holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD in Media Arts and Sciences ' 97 ) and McMaster University, where he was also inducted into the McMaster University Alumni Hall of Fame, Alumni Gallery, 2004, in recognition of his career as an inventor and teacher.
In recognition of this generous gift, the Board of Governors of the University named the library the Taylor Family Digital Library ( TFDL ).
Many of the techniques of digital image processing, or digital picture processing as it often was called, were developed in the 1960s at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Laboratories, University of Maryland, and a few other research facilities, with application to satellite imagery, wire-photo standards conversion, medical imaging, videophone, character recognition, and photograph enhancement.
His number two spot was in recognition of his $ 150 million pledge to Stanford University which was the largest single gift to Stanford since the founding grant and among the largest ever in higher education.

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