Citations:qual

English citations of qual

• 1993 May 31, David Stein <dstein@oak.math.ucla.edu>, "Re: Reasoning and memory Was: Re: SPEAKING OF CHEATING...", message-ID <1993May31.115754.6729@math.ucla.edu>, comp.sys.hp48 et al., Usenet [1]:

  One of the most dispiriting experiences I went through in graduate school was the "qualifying exams" system here: it requires huge amounts of memorization and encourages the mastering of tricks and the knowledge of solutions to a large number of certain "qual" type problems. About one half of a qualifying exam is made up of problems from textbooks (but not necessarily the ones used in class) or from previous qualifying exams--often verbatim.
  Once I questioned this practice, and a professor answered that there is only a finite number of problems one can give on a qual. Each qual has about 10 problems, 5 in the M.A. section, 5 in the PhD section. On my algebra qual, all three group theory questions came straight from the book or from a previous qual.

• 1997 January 14, Brent Hetherwick <hetherwi@math.wisc.edu>, "Re: Algebra problem.", message-ID <5berjr$1mng@news.doit.wisc.edu>, sci.math, Usenet&nsbp;[2]:

  What's the ring R? Is '*' the torsion product or the free product? Does '+' denote the direct or normal sum?
  I'm sorry. I'm just a bit giddy after taking a 6-hour algebra qual.

• 2006 July 15, Snis Pilbor <snispilbor@yahoo.com>, "Three practice algebra qual problems", message-ID <1153005173.872889.201770@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, sci.math, Usenet [3]:

  Here are 3 practice algebra qual problems which stumped me.

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Portuguese citations of qual

• 2006, Daniela Zaitz, Direito & know-how, Jurua Editora, →ISBN, page 31:

  Outro tipo de conceitualização é aquela dada por François Magnin, que tenta sistematizar as diversas definições de know-how analisando a quais elementos a expressão se aplicaria. O autor conclui que podem ser objeto do know-how quatro tipos de elementos, considerados isoladamente ou em conjunto: a habilidade técnica, a experiência técnica, os conhecimentos técnicos e os processos.

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