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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"‘It rains’"”.
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Creating A Stormwater Runoff Model For The City Of Oxford, Mississippi: When It Rains, Where Does That Water Go?
The city of Oxford, Mississippi (home of the University of Mississippi) has experienced, in recent years, a rapid growth of urbanization. This rapid increase creates more impervious cover, such as bridges, roads, parking lots, etc., which can cause a stress on the capacity of stream load and causes …
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Inventory and analysis of proprietary, small-footprint storm water best management practices
According to the 2000 National Water Quality Inventory Report to Congress, over forty percent of our nation's lakes and rivers still do not meet water quality standards. Urbanization is one of the main causes of poor water quality in America. Increased impervious surface area due to new buildings …
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Essays on Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries
… studies have found that government expenditures are procyclical in developing countries, unlike the countercyclical expenditures observed in high-income countries. This dissertation attempts to explain this phenomenon and to refine this empirical observation. It contains two essays. The …
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A Study of Teaching Under the Weather: The Influence of Weather on Participant Mood and Engagement During an Informal Summer Camp Program.
… out if and how weather influenced students’ positive and negative mood, as well as cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement. This study also inquired if these results were similar to what prior research has found regarding how weather affects people’s mood and learning. The results from …
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From the Unexpected to the Unbelievable: Thetics, Miratives and Exclamatives in Conceptual Space
… existentials (e.g. There are apples in the kitchen); presentatives (e.g. Heres your book); weather statements (e.g. It rains); physical sensation statements (e.g. My HEAD hurts) and hot news (e.g. MIchael JACKson died). Thetics do not perform a predication but present the state of affairs as …
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Assessment of passengers satisfaction with bus rapid transit: the case of Dar Es Salaam Rapid Transit (DART)
This study was carried out in the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in June 2018. Its main objective was to investigate how the current DART services are delivered with a view of improving urban transport in the city of Dar as Salaam. In all, 260 city residents using DART services were interviewed …
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‘“Tantalizing Vagueness”: Intimacy and Distance in Edward Thomas’s Poetry’ with a practice-by-research poetry collection, ‘The Things I Could Not Say’.
… compelling and satisfying poems. However, writing is, to some extent, an unconscious act, and Thomas’s techniques have bled into my poetry collection, ‘The Things I Could Not Say’, rather than being methodically copied. Four chapters investigate how Thomas’s poems are tantalisingly vague, and …