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Doctor Thirteen


Dr. Terrance Thirteen (sometimes Terrence), known simply as Doctor Thirteen, Dr. 13 and The Ghost-Breaker, is a fictional character in comic books set in the DC Universe. The character's first published appearance is in "Star Spangled Comics" #122 (November 1951). Dr. Thirteen, also known as Dr. Thirteen the Ghost Breaker, debuted in his own feature in "Star Spangled Comics", from issue #122–130 (Nov. 1951 – July 1952). The feature then moved to "House of Mystery
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The Doctor (Doctor Who)


The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme "Doctor Who". Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by thirteen lead actors. In the programme, "the Doctor" is the alias assumed by a centuries-old alien—a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey—who travels through space and time in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of "regeneration
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Masaru Tomita


From Oct. 2005 to Sep. 2007, he served as Dean of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University. He received an M.S. (1983) and a Ph.D. (1985) in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under Jaime Carbonell, and two other doctoral degrees in electronic engineering and molecular biology from Kyoto University (1994) and Keio University (1998). At CMU, starting in 1985, Dr. Tomita achieved a series of academic promotions from assistant professor to associate professor of computer science and from 1986
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Thirteen (Transformers)


firmly differentiated, greatly hampering interdimensional travel and isolating worlds such as the Axiom Nexus. This event also caused the Thirteen's various manifestations across reality to be separated from each other, each Prime ceasing to be a multiversal singularity. In the fictional narrative of the "Transformers" universe, the Prime lineage began with the Thirteen Original Transformers created when the universe began by Primus to aid him in his battle against Unicron. They went on to become the foundation of life on Cybertron. The story concept of the Original Thirteen, as
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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Traci Thirteen


Traci Thirteen, also known as Girl 13 and Traci 13, is a fictional character and superheroine featured in comic books published by DC Comics. Traci Thirteen first appeared in "Superman" #189 (February 2003), and was created by writer Joe Kelly and artist Dwayne Turner. The latest in the long line of "Homo Magi," humans born with innate powers of sorcery, Traci is forbidden by her father, Doctor Thirteen, to practice magic, since her mother, Meihui Lan, died due to magical influences
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Hussainiwala


,Sep Baban Falke, Sep Vasu Naik, Sep Raghunath Chalke, Sep Shankar Bhosale and Sep Mahadeo Paste. The battalion lives true to its motto, Kartavya Maan Sahas meaning 'Duty, Honour and Courage'. It defended the Hussainiwala headworks against an attack by a full infantry brigade supported by armoured columns of the Pakistan Army. The tower on the other side of the river was captured and razed to ground. Lt KM. Palande, Lt. Feroz Doctor, Lt. S Deshpande showed great courage and ingenuity by targeting
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List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens (H–P)


This is a list of fictional creatures and aliens from the universe of the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who", including "Torchwood", "The Sarah Jane Adventures", "K-9" and "K-9 and Company". It covers alien races and other fictional creatures, but not specific characters. Individual characters are listed in separate articles. Note that some information on the page is taken from spin-off media. Haemovores appeared in the Seventh Doctor story "The Curse of Fenric" (
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Jandhyala Papayya Sastry


1991 Viswa Sandesa Lahari Moral Poems 1991 Karunasri Part II (Story of Buddha) Poetry 1991 Papayya Sastry was awarded Honorary Doctorate from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati 12th Mar 1984. Kavita Kala Nidhi Awarded By Sahiti Sravanti, Rajole 5th Sep 1982. Kavi Kulalankara Awarded by N.K.V Peettam, Bapatla 17th Apr 1989 Telugu Akadamy Award Madras 29th Apr 1985 Rasamayi Award Hyderabad 27th Jun 1987 Abinandana Award Hyderabad 21st Sep 1987 Subhangi Award Hyderabad 27th Jan 1989 Abhiruchi Award Ongole 9th Apr 1989 Nalam Krishnaraya Award Bapatla 17th Apr 1989 Sindhuja Award Secunderabad 8th Nov
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The Fringe of the Unknown


" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Jun. 1969) 8. "Dinosaurs Today" (original title: "Dinosaurs in Today's World") (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Mar. 1968)br 9. "Mammoths and Mastodons" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", May 1965)br 10. "Death Comes to the Megafauna" (from "If Worlds of Science Fiction", Sep. 1971)br 11. "Xerxes' Okapi" (original title
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Omega (Doctor Who)


his thirteen children. After she was shot in the matter universe (in Parkin's Virgin Missing Adventures novel "Cold Fusion"), Omega rescued her and brought her to his universe. Omega appears as a nemesis to the Sixth Doctor in the "Make your own adventure with Doctor Who" ("Find Your Fate" in the United States) book "Search for the Doctor" by Dave Martin. In this book, the reader must make the right choices in order to rescue the Sixth Doctor from Omega. Earlier
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Bircham International University


jurisdictions. In 2003, South Florida's "CityLink" magazine reported that Oregon education officials said that Bircham was "totally bogus". In July 2007, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico issued a notice stating that degrees lacking RVOE (Official Recognition from the Mexican Government) will not be validated by the SEP. Degrees via online or distance learning issued by foreign institutions like Bircham University will not be recognized by the SEP. In April 2008 the "Nairobi Business Daily" reported that Bircham International University was
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Doctor Thirteen


titles at the time — Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid — to convince them to include them in the new Universe. The story ends with Dr. Thirteen warning his companions and the readers of a new danger. Post-"Infinite Crisis", Dr. Thirteen lives with his daughter Traci Thirteen in Doomsbury Mansion, still working as a paranormal investigator. Traci is a sorceress, a fact that he finds "most" upsetting. In the alternate timeline of the "Flashpoint" event, Dr. Thirteen was rescued from Paris
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List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens (Q–Z)


This is a list of fictional creatures and aliens from the universe of the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who", including "Torchwood", "The Sarah Jane Adventures", "K-9" and "K-9 and Company". It covers alien races and other fictional creatures, but not specific characters. Individual characters are listed in separate articles. Note that some information on the page is taken from spin-off media. The Quill were a humanoid species from the planet Rhodia who had a long
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Silver Lining (audio drama)


Silver Lining is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". "Silver Lining" was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine #351. Although a stand-alone adventure, "Silver Lining" theoretically fits into Season 5 of the Bernice Summerfield adventures from Big Finish Productions. "Silver Lining" occupies the fourteenth to twenty-first tracks of the CD, the first thirteen
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Doctor Who (series 3)


The third series of British science fiction programme "Doctor Who" was preceded by the 2006 Christmas special "The Runaway Bride". Following the special, a regular series of thirteen episodes was broadcast, starting with "Smith and Jones" on 31 March 2007. In addition, a 13-part animated serial (equivalent to one regular episode) was produced and broadcast as part of "Totally Doctor Who". The series stars David Tennant as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space
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Doctor Who – Main Range


The Doctor Who – Main Range series consists of full-cast audiobook adventures based on the British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who", produced by Nicholas Briggs and Big Finish Productions and starring one of the original actors to play The Doctor on television in the classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December. Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring
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Society of Experimental Psychologists


conduct plenary sessions in which members can present papers. It holds meetings every spring, scheduled by a member at the host university who serves as the chair of the SEP for that year. The meetings are open to all members and to students and faculty from the host university who are invited by the chair. Membership in the SEP is by invitation only and is considered to be a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field of experimental psychology. The SEP currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the
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List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens (0–9, A–G)


This is a list of fictional creatures and aliens from the universe of the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who", including "Torchwood", "The Sarah Jane Adventures", "K-9" and K-9 and Company. It covers alien races and other fictional creatures, but not specific characters. Individual characters are listed in separate articles. Note that some information on the page is taken from spin-off media. Alien creatures, nicknamed "Abzorbaloffs", that can absorb any living thing into its
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Doctor Who (series 4)


The fourth series of British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who" was preceded by the 2007 Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned". Following the special, a regular series of thirteen episodes aired, starting with "Partners in Crime" on 5 April 2008 and ending with "Journey's End" three months later on 5 July 2008. "Partners in Crime" marked the debut of Donna Noble, as played by Catherine Tate, as a full-time companion to the Tenth Doctor, after she first appeared in
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Universe 2


Universe 2 is an anthology of original science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr and illustrated by Alicia Austin, the second volume in the seventeen-volume Universe anthology series. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in 1972, with a British hardcover facsimile edition following from Dennis Dobson in 1976. The book collects thirteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors. As in "Universe 1", each story is accompanied by a full-page illustration by Alicia Austin. With the change of publisher for "
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Doctor Thirteen


, Dr. Thirteen unites with other characters from cancelled series, including Genius Jones, Andrew Bennett, Anthro, the Primate Patrol, Infectious Lass from the Legion of Substitute-Heroes, Captain Fear from a 1970s feature within the pages of "Adventure Comics", and the Haunted Tank, in a story that repeatedly breaks the fourth wall and comments on the then-current state of DC Comics and its continuity. Dr. Thirteen's group fights the Architects, the four writers who were heavily involved in the direction of the DC Universe
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Karl Otto Hunziker


Unterstrass from 1867–1871, then a teacher at the seminary school of Küsnacht, and a professor and headmaster at the state college of higher education. Karl Otto married Luise Pupikofer 22 Sep 1868 in Bussnang or Wängi, Canton Thurgau, Switzerland. In 1875, Karl Otto Hunziker received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Zürich. From 1872–1878, Dr. Hunziker was member of the Zürich canton parliament. From 1886–1907 he taught as a private lecturer (Privatdozent) at the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum (today known as ETH Zurich or the Swiss Federal
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Doctor Who (series 2)


The second series of British science fiction programme "Doctor Who" began on 25 December 2005 with the Christmas special "The Christmas Invasion". Following the special, a regular series of thirteen episodes was broadcast, starting with "New Earth" on 15 April 2006. In addition, two short special episodes were produced; and an interactive episode, as well as 13 "TARDISODEs". This is the first series to feature David Tennant as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and
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Television show


long-running science fiction show "Doctor Who" in 1963 featured forty-two 25‑minute episodes, this dropped to twenty-five by 1970 to accommodate changes in production and continued to 1984. For 1985 fewer but longer episodes were shown, but even after a return to shorter episodes in 1986, lack of support within the BBC meant fewer episodes were commissioned leading to only fourteen 25‑minute episodes up to those in 1989 after which it was cancelled. The revival of "Doctor Who" from 2005 has comprised thirteen 45‑minute installments.
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Nike Sulway


' Prize, Asia Pacific Region. She completed an undergraduate degree in literature and theatre at Griffith University, gained First Class Honours and the University Medal, and subsequently completed a doctorate in Creative Writing (2002) at the same university. Her doctoral thesis was title "From the Cradle to the Grave: A History of Infanticide" and included the novel "The Bone Flute". She has published widely, both nationally and internationally as a short fiction writer, and as a reviewer and non-fiction writer, contributing articles
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Ernest L. Wilkinson


university and his aggressive recruiting policies. The number of colleges at the university increased from five to thirteen and the number of faculty members increased four-fold. Wilkinson focused on recruiting more faculty and convincing current faculty to receive education outside the university. As a result, the number of teachers with doctorate degrees increased from 50 to 500. Associate and doctoral programs were created for Brigham Young University. The J. Reuben Clark library (now the Harold B. Lee Library) was built and library resources were expanded by 500 percent. The
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Thirteen (Transformers)


well as three of their members (Prima, Liege Maximo and The Fallen), were created by comic book writer Simon Furman. Within the multiverse in which most Transformers fiction occurs, the Thirteen are multiversal singularities—across all the different universal streams, only one incarnation of each of the Thirteen exists, moving between worlds. Within the Aligned continuity family, which was once considered to be "separate" from the rest of the Transformers multiverse and consists of the television series "" and its related media, each member of
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İbrahim Kavrakoğlu


İbrahim Kavrakoğlu (Feb 24, 1941—Sep 29, 2016) is a Turkish engineer, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Dean of the School of Engineering and Provost of Boğaziçi University. Ibrahim Kavrakoglu completed his doctorate at University of London after undergraduate studies Robert College in Istanbul. He returned to his alma mater as a professor. In the ensuing years, he served as Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Dean of the School of Engineering and Provost of Boğaziçi University. Kavrakoglu twice accepted academic posts abroad.
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Lester Lefton


for his expense accounts charged to the university. Between July 2006 and July 2007 Lefton expensed $36,741.93 on entertainment and $44,249.34 on travel. In a Sep 26, 2007 editorial in the Akron Beacon Journal Lefton was criticized for extensive travel to Europe a portion of which was charged to the University, as well as hiring two additional vice presidents during a time when university tuition and fees increased for students. Further controversy in 2007 included an agreement to pay $88,000 for a Vice President to pursue a doctorate at Case Western Reserve
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Time War (Doctor Who)


The Time War, more specifically called the Last Great Time War, is a conflict within the fictional universe of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The conflict pitted the Time Lords against the Daleks and culminated in the apparent mutual destruction of both races, caused by the Doctor. In the "Doctor Who" continuity, the war occurs between the events of the 1996 film and the 2005 revived series. It was frequently mentioned and alluded to from the first series of the show's return, but was
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Marjorie Harris


Marjorie Harris (born 15 Sep 1937 as Marjorie Stibbards in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian non-fiction writer who has published numerous books on gardening. In 1959, she graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Her first marriage was to television producer and musician Barry Harris. Currently, she lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her second husband, writer Jack Batten. Besides writing 15 books she was a radio host job at CBC radio's "Metro Morning"
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Stanford Exploration Project


The Stanford Exploration Project (SEP) is an industry-funded academic consortium within the Geophysics Department at Stanford University. SEP research has contributed greatly to improving the theory and practice of constructing 3-D and 4-D images of the earth from seismic echo soundings (see: Reflection seismology). The consortium was started in the 1970s by Jon Claerbout and is currently co-directed with Biondo Biondi. SEP pioneered innovations in migration imaging, velocity estimation, dip moveout and slant stack. SEP has recently been involved in 3-D seismic applications such as
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


Acapulco, Ciudad Altamirano and Taxco. On May 20, 1983, the roving radio station came to an end, with the university broadcasting once more from Chilpancingo — this time, without interference. 1984, however, presented yet another problem to the university radio station: a budget crisis spurred by a suspension of payments from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP). Workers spent all of 1984 without receiving their salaries, and in January 1985, the university and SEP began negotiating. The federal government required the university to shut
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Doctor Who Roleplaying Game


The Doctor Who Roleplaying Game, formerly Doctor Who: Adventures in Time And Space is a role-playing game published by UK-based Cubicle 7 Entertainment. It is based on the BBC science fiction television programme "Doctor Who", and allows roleplayers to adopt the role of characters from that fictional universe. Unlike most RPGs, the rules featured in new editions of the game remain largely unchanged. The updates consist of layout, images, and characters with rules provided. The first edition matched the style of the David Tennant
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Time Lord


"thirteen lives" rule was too deeply entrenched in the viewer consciousness for his throwaway line to affect it. It is revealed in "The Time of the Doctor" that this was in fact false and that due to his various regenerations, the Eleventh Doctor was in fact his last incarnation. However, the Time Lords intervened through a crack in time to grant him a full new regeneration cycle. The Time Lord homeworld, Gallifrey, is an Earth-like planet in the fictional constellation of Kasterborous. Its capital city is
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UNIT: The Coup


UNIT: The Coup is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It stars Nicholas Courtney reprising his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the former commander of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). "The Coup" was given away free with "Doctor Who Magazine" #351 as a prologue to a . "The Coup" occupies the first thirteen tracks on the CD, the fourteenth to twenty-first being occupied by Silver Lining, and
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Dalek


The Daleks ( ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who". The Daleks were conceived by science-fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1963 "Doctor Who" serial "The Daleks", in the shells designed by Raymond Cusick. Drawing inspiration from the Nazis, Nation portrayed the Daleks as violent, merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, who demand total conformity to their will, and who are bent on the conquest of the universe and the extermination
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Charles McKenny


Charles McKenny (Sep. 15, 1860-Sep. 23, 1933) was president of Central State Normal School (now Central Michigan University), Milwaukee State Normal School and Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University). McKenny was born in Dimondale, Michigan. He received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) and masters from both Olivet College and the University of Wisconsin. McKenny married Minnie E. Alderman (1869–1942) in 1890. She was a native of Vermontville, Michigan. They
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Volkmar Andreae


composed opera, symphony and chamber music, piano, violin, and oboe concertos, piano music, as well as choir music and songs. He died in Zurich. He is mentioned in Chapter XXI of Thomas Mann's novel "Doctor Faustus", where he is cited as conducting the "Thirteen Brentano Lieder" by the fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn. This fictional concert is said to have taken place in 1922 in the Tonhalle in Zurich. His grandson is the conductor Marc Andreae, who recorded various of his grandfather's works
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


down the station, and on January 15, 1985, Radio Universidad Pueblo went off the air. In the meantime, university students went as far as organizing a hunger strike in Mexico City in order to protest the SEP's demand to close the station. The SEP, however, failed to keep some of its promises to the university. A new rector, Ramón Reyes Carreto, decided that if the SEP would not keep its promises, the university did not have a reason to stay off the air. In June 1987
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Head Games (novel)


Jason, the young Writer who was returned to Earth by the Time Lords after the Doctor's last encounter with the Land of Fiction. As the fictional energy floods into this Universe, Jason finds that his wishes and dreams are coming true. A fictional double of the Doctor, Dr. Who, appears in the TARDIS, knocks out the real Doctor before he can enter the crystal, and sends him to the fictional Galactic Prison for the crime of trying to wipe out the Detrians. Dr. Who then picks up Jason, his
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Willis E. McNelly


Willis Everett McNelly (December 16, 1920 – April 7, 2003) was a professor and writer best known for "The Dune Encyclopedia", the 1984 companion to Frank Herbert's classic "Dune" series of science fiction novels. The son of an avid science fiction reader of the same name, McNelly grew up immersed in science fiction, which he later preferred to call "speculative fiction." Securing a doctorate in English literature from Northwestern University, McNelly later edited the first university-level textbooks on science fiction as
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Traci Thirteen


and meets Madame Xanadu for advice. When she tries to stop the heroes from launching nuclear weapons, her father drugs her and proceeds to start the countdown. Traci teleports to find help, but is unsuccessful, and returns to face her father. Doctor Thirteen magically attacks her, apparently having learnt the art of black magic. Failing to defeat her father, Traci decides to teleport to Western Europe to sacrifice herself. Doctor Thirteen arrives and finally accepts his daughter back. But when Traci is impaled by Amazons, Doctor Thirteen becomes
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Head Games (novel)


is allowing energy from the Land of Fiction to seep through. The Doctor and his companions must close the gap to save the Universe, but the TARDIS is unable to navigate the crystallised cloud of fictional energy around the gap. The Doctor lands on the crystal's surface, and he, Benny and Chris pass through the crystal, navigating through their individual dreams as the fictional energy gives them form. Once they reach the crystal's interior they must put force-field generators in place around the gap, and Roz, who
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Doctor of Professional Studies


study of professional doctoral education and related programs. In the United States, the DPS was once considered by the United States Department of Education and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be a research doctorate equivalent to the Ph.D. Along with the Doctor of Education, the Doctor of Social Science, the Doctor of Applied Science, and the Doctor of Library Science, the NSF no longer includes the DPS in its periodic Survey of Earned Doctorates (SEP) report, a statistical report on the number and range of research doctorates awarded
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The Fringe of the Unknown


Astounding Science Fiction", Jun. 1961)br 3. "Appius Claudius Crassus" (original title: "Appius Claudius Crassus: Roman Builder") (from "Science Digest", Jun. 1962)br 4. "The First Missile Launchers" (from "Science Digest", Oct. 1960)br 5. "The Iron Pillar of Delhi" (from "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact", Sep. 1972)br 6. "The Mechanical Wizards of Alexandria" (from "Science Digest", Aug. 1962)br 7. "The Landlocked Indian Ocean
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Sarah Jane Smith


Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running BBC Television science fiction series "Doctor Who" and two of its spin-offs. In the fictional universe of "Doctor Who" and its spin-offs, Sarah Jane is a dogged investigative journalist who first encounters alien time traveller the Doctor while trying to break a story on a top secret research facility, and subsequently becomes his travelling companion on a series of adventures spanning the breadth of space and time. After travelling with the Doctor
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Superhero fiction


of the newsgroup rec.arts.comics.creative, which spawned a number of original superhero shared universes. Magazine-style websites that publish superhero fiction include "Metahuman Press", active since 2005, and "Freedom Fiction Journal". Superhuman fiction has also appeared in general science fiction/speculative fiction web publications, such as the weekly "Strange Horizons", a publication that pays its contributors. Two examples there are Paul Melko's "Doctor Mighty and the Case of Ennui" and Saladin Ahmed's "Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions".
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Doctor Thirteen


Dr. Thirteen also appeared in "Batman" #341–342 (Nov.–Dec. 1981) to research a mystery in the abandoned Wayne Manor involving the Man-Bat. He reappeared in Gotham City in "Batman" #354 (Dec. 1982) to reluctantly aid Rupert Thorne, who believed that he was being haunted by the ghost of Hugo Strange. Dr. Thirteen is a parapsychologist who investigates reports of possible supernatural activity with the goal of proving them to be hoaxes. Dr. Thirteen's stories are set in the DC Universe, where many
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Daphne Oxenford


appear in the 2008 Doctor Who TV episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp" as an elderly Agatha Christie. The scene was filmed, but was cut from the final broadcast version. Born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, to chartered accountant Dudley Oxenford and his wife Marie (née du Grivel), a writer of historical fiction, Oxenford first appeared on stage at the age of thirteen and trained at the Embassy School of Acting in Swiss Cottage, North London. She was briefly employed by a bank before working in censorship during World
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Kurse


Kurse is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/artist Walter Simonson, the Algrim version of Kurse first appears as the Dark Elf Algrim the Strong in "Thor" #347 (Sep. 1984). He is later transformed into Kurse in "Secret Wars II" #4 (Oct. 1985). Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje portrayed the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "" (2013). The Dark Elf Algrim the Strong was created by Walter Simonson
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Halflife (comics)


Halflife is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. These characters have two distinct origins, and are detailed separately below. The first Halflife is a Marvel Comics supervillain. She first appeared in "West Coast Avengers" vol. 2 #12 (Sep. 1986). The second character in the Marvel universe to take the name Half-Life was a gamma-irradiated fiend and enemy of the Hulk. He first appeared in "The Incredible Hulk" vol. 1 #334.
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Matrix of Leadership


. In the fictional narrative of the "Transformers" universe, the Prime lineage began with the Thirteen Original Transformers created when the universe began by Primus to aid him in his battle against Unicron. They went on to become the foundation of life on Cybertron. The story concept of the Original Thirteen, as well as three of their members (Prima, Liege Maximo and The Fallen), were created by comic book writer Simon Furman. The evidence for "Prime" being a rank in the original comic and cartoon is weaker
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Gillian Polack


University of Toronto) and submitted her thesis for Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of Sydney. She later took out teaching qualifications at the University of New England and a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Western Australia. She currently lives in Canberra, ACT. Polack was the Australasian delegate for the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention and presented the Hugo award for Best Fanzine in 2014. In 2009, she was also the co-convener for Flycon, the first online international Science Fiction Convention. Polack
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Sep Lambert


though, against Scotland in 1920 and against the Irish Military and Scotland in 1921. In all matches for Ireland, Sep Lambert scored 342 runs at an average of 20.12, with a top score of 60 not out against Oxford University in May 1902, his only half-century for Ireland and also his top first-class score. He took ten catches and no stumpings. Sep Lambert came from a cricketing family. His brother Bob was one of Ireland's finest cricketers, and his nephew Ham also played cricket for Ireland
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Liz Shaw


Elizabeth Shaw is a fictional character played by Caroline John in the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" and its spin-offs. A civilian member of UNIT, an international organisation that defends the Earth from alien threats, she was the companion of the Third Doctor for the 1970 season. Liz appeared in 4 stories (25 episodes). Liz Shaw first appears in the first serial of the seventh season (1970), "Spearhead from Space", having been drafted from the University of Cambridge
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Adric


Adric is a fictional character played by Matthew Waterhouse in the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". He was a young native of the planet Alzarius, which exists in the parallel universe of E-Space. A companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, he was a regular in the programme from 1980 to 1982 and appeared in 11 stories (40 episodes). The name Adric is an anagram derived from Nobel Prize-winning physicist Paul Dirac. Waterhouse is the youngest male actor to play a
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Philip Purser-Hallard


characters appealing, interesting and consistent", and that it was based on "that rarest of fantasy beasts – an original idea". Prior to 2014, his best known fiction was set in shared universes with origins in Doctor Who licensed fiction. From 2015 he is the editor of "The Black Archive", a series of book-length critical studies of individual "Doctor Who" stories. The series is published by Obverse Books, and features contributions from Simon Bucher-Jones, Simon Guerrier, Kate Orman and others
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History of the Daleks


The Daleks ( ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The mutated remains of the Kaled people of the planet Skaro, they travel around in tank-like mechanical casings, and are a race bent on universal conquest and destruction. They are also, collectively, the greatest alien adversaries of the Time Lord known as the Doctor, having evolved over the course of the series from a weak race to monsters capable of destroying even the Time Lords and achieving control of
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users. It is maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from many academic institutions worldwide. Authors contributing to the encyclopedia give Stanford University the permission to publish the articles, but retain the copyright to those articles. , the "SEP" has nearly 1,600 published entries. Apart from its online status, the
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Martin J. Whitman School of Management


Partnership (SEP) is a collaboration between the Whitman School and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. The SEP conducts research through the Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program, holds seminars on ways for businesses and organizations to incorporate sustainability into their products and practices, and awards scholarships for students and researchers interested in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. The SEP also offers a Certificate of
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Summer Enrichment Program (University of Colorado)


The Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) is a summer camp for gifted and talented children entering grades 5 to 10, located at Center for the Education and Study of the Gifted, Talented, Creative at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. SEP consists of one two-week session in mid-July, during which students reside in the university dormitories and eat in campus dining halls, supervised by camp counselors assigned to each grade. The students choose four classes which they attend every day from Monday to Friday.
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Jago & Litefoot


Jago & Litefoot is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It stars Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter as Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot, their characters from the 1977 TV story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". "The Mahogany Murderers" was an entry in the Companion Chronicles range of audio plays and acted as a pilot for this series. Justin Richards is the script editor. Thirteen series were released between 2010 and 2017, along
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Simon Guerrier


Simon Guerrier (born June 1976) is a British science fiction author and dramatist, closely associated with the fictional universe of "Doctor Who" and its spinoffs. Although he has written three "Doctor Who" novels, for the BBC Books range, his work has mostly been for Big Finish Productions' audio drama and book ranges. Guerrier's earliest published fiction appeared in "", the first of Big Finish's "Short Trips" range of "Doctor Who" short story anthologies. To date, his work has
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The Reluctant Shaman


of contemporary fantasy stories de Camp set in the fictional town of Gahato and the surrounding Adirondack region of New York, the others being "The Hardwood Pile" ("Unknown", Sep. 1940) and some of his Willy Newbury stories, notably "The Lamp" ("Fantasy and Science Fiction", March 1975), "Algy" ("Fantastic", Aug. 1976), "Darius" ("Escape!," fall 1977) and "The Huns" ("Fantasy and Science Fiction",
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Central European University


that are locally accredited, would remain in Budapest. "The university retains accreditation as a Hungarian university and has sought to continue teaching and research activity in Budapest as long as possible, with current students completing their studies in Budapest. As of 2017, the university has 1,448 students, 868 of which are masters students and 436 of which are doctoral students. CEU offers PhD programs in thirteen different majors, as well as masters programs in nineteen different majors. The university also offers degrees through its School of Public Policy, Doctoral
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Ian Ousby


, Ousby was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize for the best doctoral thesis of the year. Following graduation, he became an academic, teaching English literature at Durham University and the University of Maryland. An "intense dislike of organisations, as well as strong and divergent specialist interests", resulted in him leaving the University of Maryland in 1983 to become a freelance writer. The subjects of his books ranged from detective fiction, with "Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle" to military history
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Robert Bernasconi


Robert L. Bernasconi (born 1950) is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, and for his work on the concept of race. He has also written on the history of philosophy. Bernasconi received his doctorate from Sussex University. He taught at the University of Essex for thirteen years before taking up a position at the University of Memphis. In the fall of 2009 he moved from Memphis to the philosophy department at Pennsylvania State University.
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Robert Sternberg


Sternberg has a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University, under advisor Gordon Bower. He holds thirteen honorary doctorates from two North American, one South American, one Asian, and nine European universities, and additionally holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany. He is a Distinguished Associate of the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge. Among his major contributions to psychology are the triarchic theory of intelligence and several influential theories related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love, and hate
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Soft science fiction


already established shift from hard sf (chemistry, physics, astronomy, technology) to soft sf (psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, and even [...] linguistics) is continuing more strongly than ever." Poul Anderson, in "Ideas for SF Writers" (Sep 1998), described H. G. Wells as the model for soft science fiction: "He concentrated on the characters, their emotions and interactions" rather than any of the science or technology behind, for example, invisible men or time machines.
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Robert Sternberg


1,100 a month until May 31. Sternberg holds thirteen honorary doctorates, including some from universities outside the United States. The list of foreign universities that awarded the degrees includes Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), University of Durham (UK), University of Leuven (Belgium), University of Cyprus, University of Paris V (France), and St. Petersburg State University (Russia). Sternberg began serving as editor of the prestigious "Perspectives on Psychological Science" in 2015. As editor he published eight commentaries in his
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Final Blackout


by critics as the best examples of Hubbard's pulp fiction works. Chuck Moss of "Daily News of Los Angeles" called the book "extremely good science fiction". The book has been included in the curriculum of a science-fiction writing class at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Cal Poly Pomona professor Steve Whaley told "The Press-Enterprise" that he thinks Hubbard was a "damn good storyteller". Karl Edward Wagner cited "Final Blackout" as one of the thirteen best science-fiction horror novels
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Written works of L. Ron Hubbard


fiction". The book has been included in the curriculum of a science-fiction writing class at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Karl Edward Wagner cited "Final Blackout" as one of the thirteen best science-fiction horror novels. "Kingslayer" is a collection of science fiction short stories by Hubbard. It was first published in 1949 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,200 copies. The title story first appeared in this collection. The other stories had previously appeared in the magazine "Astounding"
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Shira Nayman


century, has inspired her fiction. Nayman graduated with honors from Melbourne's Monash University, with a Bachelor of Science in physiology and psychology. After graduating, she spent a year studying literature and history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem before moving to the United States, where she received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University. After completing a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in psychology at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, Nayman earned her master's degree in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New
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Doctor Spectrum


Doctor Spectrum is the name of several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. There have been five versions of the character to date—three supervillains from the mainstream Marvel Universe belonging to the team Squadron Sinister (Earth-616) and two heroes from different alternate universes. The two heroes each belong to a version of the team Squadron Supreme, the Squadron Supreme of Earth-712 and the Squadron Supreme of Earth-31916 respectively). Doctor Spectrum is a pastiche of DC's Green Lantern. The first version of the character appears
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Warriors' Gate


Warriors' Gate is the fifth serial of the 18th season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was written by Stephen Gallagher and was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 3 January to 24 January 1981. The serial is set at an intersection between the universe of E-Space and the home universe of the alien time traveller the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker). In the serial, the Doctor and his travelling companion Romana (Lalla Ward) seek to free the time-sensitive
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Romana (Doctor Who)


"The Day of the Doctor", it is possible that Romana may still be alive as Gallifrey did not fall, but was instead sent to a pocket universe through the combined efforts of the first thirteen incarnations of the Doctor. Outside of the television programme, the Fourth Doctor and Romana II also appear in Australian-filmed television advertisements for PR1ME Computer, Inc. in 1980, which played in a tongue-in-cheek way with the idea that the two characters shared a romantic relationship, climaxing with the Doctor proposing marriage
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Donald MacAlister


Council. MacAlister took a leading part in the university business of the country. He was one of the founders of the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, and was for many years Chairman of the Standing Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the British universities. MacAlister's work was widely recognised; he received honorary doctorates from thirteen universities and was appointed KCB in 1908 and created a baronet, of Tarbert, Cantire, in the County of Argyll, in 1924. In 1917, he was elected a Fellow of the
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Nikki Gemmell


Nikki Gemmell (born 1966) is a best-selling Australian author. She resides in Sydney, Australia. Gemmell is the author of thirteen works of fiction and five non-fiction books. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. Nikki was born in Wollongong, New South Wales and attended Kincoppal School, Sydney on a scholarship. She graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a Masters in Writing and worked as a radio journalist for ABC Radio and the BBC World Service. Her distinctive writing, including her
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University of North Texas academics


The University of North Texas (UNT or North Texas) is a public university located in Denton. The flagship campus of the University of North Texas System, Denton also includes the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, the University of North Texas at Dallas, and The UNT Dallas College of Law, scheduled to open August 2014. The University of North Texas offers 97 bachelor's, 81 master's and 34 doctoral degree programs within the university's 12 colleges and schools. The University of North Texas confers degrees from thirteen
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Robert J. Sawyer


series "Doctor Who" for the CBC's online documentary "The Planet of the Doctor", frequently comments on science fiction movies for TVOntario's "Saturday Night at the Movies", and co-edited an essay collection in honor of the fortieth anniversary of "Star Trek" with David Gerrold, titled "Boarding the Enterprise". Sawyer has taught science-fiction writing at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Humber College, and the Banff Centre. In 2000, he served as Writer-in-Residence
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Operation Ouch!


and in patient's homes as they assist with medical emergencies. The first series has 13 episodes, the first of which aired Wednesday, 3 October 2012 on CBBC. A second series began on 30 Sep 2013 and consisted of 10 episodes. A fourth series is currently being broad cast (2016) on the CBBC channel in the UK. The hosts, Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken, were trained in medicine at Oxford University, and both graduated in 2002. Dr. Chris van Tulleken is a practicing doctor while Dr. Xand
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Mary Shelley (Doctor Who)


Mary Shelley, the English writer best known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus", has been featured in the fictional universe of the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" on a number of occasions, most prominently as a character voiced by Julie Cox in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the series. In the various audio plays, she is a companion of the Eighth Doctor. Mary Shelley's appearances with the Eighth Doctor were the fruition
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All-Consuming Fire


All-Consuming Fire is an original novel written by Andy Lane and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The novel is a crossover with Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes featuring the characters of both Holmes and Doctor Watson, and also with H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Lane, appeared in "Doctor Who Magazine" issue 213. "I've been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in
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Southeastern University (Florida)


of Natural and Health Sciences. Southeastern University offers 55 majors leading to the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degrees. In addition to these, the university also offers 16 master's degrees and two doctoral degrees. They also incorporate a full online program that offers 23 of their own campus degrees including nine undergraduate degrees, thirteen master's degrees, and their Doctor of Education degree. Held annually on the university's Lakeland campus, the Forum at SEU provides actionable leadership training. The Forum has hosted such notable speakers as George
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University of Central Florida


than any other Florida public university that year. UCF is ranked 2nd in Florida, and 34th in the United States, by the number of National Merit Scholars enrolled. 74 National Merit Scholars enrolled at UCF for the Fall 2012 term. The university currently houses thirteen colleges that offer 90 baccalaureate programs, 87 master's programs, 31 doctoral programs, three specialist programs, and one professional program (Medicine). In addition, 75% of the faculty have doctorate degrees, and 46% currently have tenure at the university.
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Seyed Reza Naghbaei Langroudi


published in papers such as Resaneh (specialized in Communication) and Jahan-e-Eghtesad (which covers Economic topics) and a book titled "The Principles of Press & Broadcasting Journalism". However, his main endeavor was to compile a work useful for the Iranian so he directed his energy to put together "Lexicon Encyclopedia of Communication" published by Avina Publication. He has been in India for about three years (Sep. 2005 – Sep. 2008), while involved in doctorate studies in Mass Communication & Journalism. He defended
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Irving Braxiatel


Irving Braxiatel or Cardinal Braxiatel is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures—spin-off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". He subsequently became a regular character in novels and audio dramas in the "Bernice Summerfield" universe. In the Big Finish Productions audio dramas he is voiced by Miles Richardson. He is also stated to be the older brother of the Doctor. Braxiatel, a Time Lord, first appeared in the novel "Theatre of War" by Justin Richards, although the
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George Zinkhan


University of Michigan in 1979. Zinkhan also received his doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Michigan in 1981. Zinkhan was the Conn Professor of Marketing for thirteen years at the University of Houston beginning in 1981. While there, he sexually harassed multiple female academics and ultimately had a lawsuit brought against him. For one year he also was an associate professor for the University of Pittsburgh in 1987. He began as a professor at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business in 1994 and served as department head for Terry
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Jeffrey Zeldman


his family moved to Long Island. When he was eight, they moved to Connecticut, and at age thirteen, they moved to Pittsburgh. He earned an undergraduate degree from University of Indiana, and an MFA in fiction writing from University of Virginia. Jeffrey Zeldman briefly worked as a reporter for "The Washington Post" and ten years as an advertising copywriter before turning to web design in 1995. He rose to prominence as an authority on web design in the second half of the nineties by advocating a middle ground between the
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Time Lord


known as the Moment to destroy the Time Lords and Daleks. However, after being shown the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors during "The Day of the Doctor", he works together with them to change the assumed outcome of the Time War: thirteen incarnations of the Doctor team up together to freeze Gallifrey in time and place it outside of their universe, protecting it and the remaining Time Lords while the Daleks destroy themselves in their own crossfire once Gallifrey was gone. The War Doctor does not retain the memory of these events and
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Twelfth Doctor


worried that he’s swept someone else up into his adventures without quite preparing them." The Twelfth Doctor makes a first, uncredited appearance in the programme's fiftieth anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), when thirteen incarnations of the Doctor unite to save his home planet of Gallifrey from destruction during the Time War. At first, Time Lords in Gallifrey's war room spot twelve blue TARDISes approaching and encircling the planet. This count is then corrected to thirteen, and Capaldi's hands, eyes
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Sara Gruen


, the BookBrowse Diamond Award Best Book 2006, the Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction 2007, the Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award for fiction, the ALA/Alex Award 2007, the Carl Sandburg Award, 21st Century Fiction, 2007, and the Friends of American Literature Adult Fiction Award. Additionally, she was a 2006 Quill Award nominee for General Fiction, and a nominee for the Entertainment Weekly Best Novel of 2006. She also received a Doctorate of Humane Letters, Causa Honoris, from Wittenberg University. Her fifth novel,
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Chaviva Hošek


Chaviva Milada Hošek, ; (born 6 October 1946) is a Canadian academic, feminist and former politician. Hošek was born in Chomutov, Czechoslovakia. Her mother was imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. The family initially moved to Israel but then emigrated to Montreal in 1952. She received her undergraduate degree from McGill University and earned a doctorate in English literature from Harvard in 1973. She worked as a professor of English Literature at the University of Toronto for thirteen years, achieved tenured status and served on the University's
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Meelis Friedenthal


Meelis Friedenthal (born 24 October 1973) is an Estonian writer of speculative fiction/science fiction. He has a doctorate from the University of Tartu, where he also taught in the faculty of theology and history. Friedenthal's first novel "Golden Age" was published in 2004. His story "Nerissa" won an Estonian science fiction prize in 2005. His second novel "Mesilased" ("The Bees") is a work of historical fiction and won the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. The novel has been
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Jon Claerbout


of earthquake seismic data frustrating and decided to study atmospheric gravity waves during his PhD. His advisor was Theodore R. Madden and the title of his thesis was "Electromagnetic Effects of Atmospheric Gravity Waves". Claerbout is the founder of the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP), the first geophysical research consortium funded by the oil and gas industry. Claerbout has been a doctoral advisor to many of influential geophysicists who joined SEP such as Oz Yilmaz and Biondo Biondi. The term and concept of exploding reflectors in reflection seismology is often attributed to Jon
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Patricia Petersen


Patricia May Petersen is an Australian academic from Ipswich, Queensland. Petersen holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland in 2002. Petersen has been a lecturer at Central Queensland University. Petersen has run unsuccessfully for political office thirteen times, and has been referred to as a serial candidate. Petersen ran as an independent candidate for the federal seat of Warringah in 2004 and 2007. She lost both times to Tony Abbott. Petersen also contested the mayoral
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Yang Chen-Ning


of Sep 30, 2015 and reclaimed his Chinese citizenship. On Yang's religious views, he is an agnostic. Yang has worked on statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, particle physics and gauge theory/quantum field theory. At The University of Chicago, Yang first spent twenty months working in an accelerator lab, but he later found he was not as good as an experimentalist and switched back to theory. His doctoral thesis was about angular distribution in nucleon reactions. Later he worked on particle phenomenology; a well known work
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Torch Trinity Graduate University


recognized by each school's national government (100% doctoral rate for full-time members). In addition, most have been educated in at least two countries, earning a degree from each country. The international faculty consists of native Koreans, Korean-Americans, and non-Koreans. In addition, the school hires part-time instructors. Students can take classes from any of the thirteen adjuncts, who also have doctorates. Renowned guest professors and researchers are invited to teach modular courses at the end of each semester
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