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Marginal

Incremental.

Marginal

Describing the effect, if any, of adding one additional unit to a calculation.
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Marginality in the work of anthropologist Deborah James is situated in South Africa's debt crisis that ensued in the post-apartheid era.
Ethnographies of marginality
However, social psychologists Morris Rosenberg and Nancy Schlossberg, who draw on the sociological concept of marginality in their work and are often cited in student affairs research, offer a different perspective from which writing centers can meaningfully approach this issue.
"You cant get anywhere without relationships": marginality and mattering in the writing center
Ecumenism, Marginality, and the Challenge of Manyness
The emerging face of being one: reflections from an Indian perspective
As suggested by marginality factor coefficients, watercourses (i.
A presence-only habitat suitability model for Persian leopard Panthera pardus saxicolor in Golestan National Park, Iran
Many of the barriers to participation that fall under the marginality hypothesis (poverty, lack of transportation, never learning how to participate in the types of activities offered, lack of exposure, etc.
What's going on
Finally, the last chapter, "Satire and the Grotesque", depicts the contributions that contemporary writers such as Toby Litt, Will Self, and Jeannette Winterson made to the concept of marginality.
Nicola Allen. Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel
It is, of course, the marginality that tragically trumps the love and the Kochs and their extended family--the numerous talented well-off cousins and aunts who make the early chapters of this memoir as confusing as an epic Russian novel--are pushed out of Germany, out of Europe, out of life in those death camps where the lingua franca is German.
Small mirror, large landscape: a European Jew charts his metamorphosis from alien to Canadian
18, 2004, the Globe and Mail's Jeffrey Simpson alluded to "the marginality of Parliament" that had persisted despite every promise that had been made before Martin came to power.
The Liberal trail of broken promises
Cinematically speaking, we need only recall the works of Ottawa's late Frank Cole and, in more antic versions of marginality, the films of Lee Demarbre.
Gary's Touch
Regression analysis indicated that loneliness was not related to dropout risk; interpersonal competence and marginality were unique predictors of risk.
Personal and social contributors to dropout risk for undergraduate students
For a number of reasons, including the not-so-trivial ones involving the forces that have centered early modern studies in American scholarship associated with the New Historicism and its predilection for "hot" topics and the English national forces that have relegated early modern Scottish studies to relative academic marginality, the excitement, rigor, and imaginative critical breadth of developments in early modern Scottish scholarship have all but gone unnoticed.
Literature, Letters and the Canonical in Early Modern Scotland
Melosh also probes American attitudes toward secrecy and disclosure as a measure of the cultural status of adoption--"its acceptance by mid-century, its marginality after 1970, its anomalous position throughout" (p.
Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption

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