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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"911"”.
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Physiological And Psychological Responses To 911 Emergency Tapes
… to war. A specific aspect of the news, emergency 911 tapes, and their influence on viewers' physiological and psychological health was investigated. Research regarding the relationship between physiological arousal and exposure to brief traumatic stimuli, as well as research addressing the …
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Moving: knowledge, image, embodiment and Iranian-American identity in the post-911 USA
… and affective crossways symbiotic with post 911, late capitalism, in the United States and on the Transnational Stage. It introduces a performative approach derived from Somatics and forms of improvisation to further elucidate notions of presence as culture in this particular context. It also …
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Ideological Collocation in Meta-Wahhabi Discourse Post-911 : A Symbiosis of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.
This thesis attempts to answer the following overarching question: How has Wahhabi Islam been ideologically recontextualized across post-9/11 opposing discourses via collocation? Drawing on a methodological synergy of corpus linguistics and CDA (Baker et al. 2008; Salama 2011), I propose a …
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Terrorism, securitization of the nation and refugee flows: Implications of policies and practices in a post-911 era
This Master's thesis examines the impact of the events of 9/11 on the discourses and practices that attempt to regulate the flow of refugee populations in Canada. Discourse analytical techniques are used to analyse a corpus of official documents that have contributed to the reframing of the status …
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Spatial Analysis of Motor Vehicle Accidents in Johnson City, Tennessee, as Reported to Washington County Emergency Communications District (911).
<p>This study spatially analyzes emergency 911 call-for-service records from January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2009 for motor vehicle accidents inside the corporate limits of Johnson City, Tennessee. Records were compared according to the land use classification for adjacent properties, roadway …
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Master's thesis recital (piano)
Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 / J. S. Bach -- Sonata in E flat major, op. 27, no. 1 / L. V. Beethoven -- Faschingsschwank aus Wien, op. 26 / R. Schumann.
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Data Fusion For Improved TOA/TDOA Position Determination in Wireless Systems
… (PL) information of a user, requesting for E-911 service, by October 2000. The wireless 911 rules adopted by the FCC are aimed both for improving the reliability of the wireless 911 services and for providing the enhanced features generally available for wireline calls. From the service …
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Location based technology and services : a business plan and in-depth industry analysis
In the United States, the forthcoming E911 Phase II Mandate specifies that cellular service providers must be able to provide caller location to Public Safety Answering Points (i.e. 911 operators). The mandate specifies that a caller's location must be pinpointed within a radius of 125 meters for …
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A Causal Framework to Evaluate Racial Bias in Law Enforcement Systems
… from the general public in reporting (e.g. via 911 calls) against the other race. Through an extensive empirical study using police-civilian interaction (stop) data and 911 call data, we find an instance of such a counter-intuitive phenomenon: in New Orleans, the observed bias is against the …
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Decision Making and Reform Within the United States Criminal Justice System
… types of actors in the criminal justice system: 911 call-takes, prosecutors, and law enforcement. As most citizen-officer interactions arise from 911 calls for service, the first chapter of this dissertation is a study on the “priming” effect 911-call-takers have on officer decision to arrest and …
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Truce structures : examining cross-professional coordination in the wake of technological and institutional change
… historical data and quantitative analysis, of 911 emergency management organizations in the United States. In Chapter 2, I focus on the mechanisms to facilitate cross-professional coordination in conditions that are marked by protracted jurisdictional conflicts. My findings articulate the …
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Data-driven optimization for police beat design in South Fulton, Georgia
… which leads to low policing efficiency and long 911 call response time. We balance the police workload among different regions in the city, improve operational efficiency, and reduce 911-call response time by redesigning beat boundaries for the SFPD. We discretize the city into small geographical …
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Benefits of Advanced Traffic Management Solutions: Before and After Crash Analysis for Deployment of a Variable Advisory Speed Limit System
… will be utilized including Washington County 911 call data, Oregon incident reports, and official Oregon Department of Transportation crash data reports. The analysis results are compared between data sources to determine the reliability of 911 call data as a proxy for crash statistics. The …
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Risk Managed Demand: Proof of Concept for an Evidence-Based Framework, Operationalized to meet the Demand for Order in a Civil Society
… to calls traditionally handled by police (911 in the US, 999 in the UK)? If so, what calls (categories and/or types) should be considered? How should they be identified (criteria) and with what operational procedures or systems? This study explores the viability of a diversified response …
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Formulation and physico-chemical characterisation of novel films and wafers for mucosal drug delivery
… prepared from two polymers (κ-carrageenan (CAR) 911 and poloxamer 407 (P407)), two types of plasticizers (glycerol (GLY)) and various grades of polyethylene glycol (PEG) using paracetamol (PM), ibuprofen (IBU) and indomethacin (IND) as model drugs. The investigations involved extensive …
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An investigation of the variables related to competitive employment and earnings of vocational rehabilitation consumers with blindness or visual impairments
… (RSA) and becomes a part of the RSA-911 data file. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among demographics, service provisions, competitive employment, and earnings of vocational rehabilitation consumers with blindness or visual impairments. Using a sample of …
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An analysis of the impact of wireless technology on public vs. private traffic data collection, dissemination and use
… Commission (FCC) mandates concerning E-911 have led to the development of new technologies for tracking wireless devices (i.e., cellular phones). Although developed to assist mobile phone companies in meeting the FCC's E-911 mandate, a great deal of interest has arisen concerning their …
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Evaluation of TDOA Techniques for Position Location in CDMA Systems
… (PL) information for a user requesting E-911 service. The Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) technique is one of the most promising position location techniques for cellular-type wireless communication systems. The IS-95 Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system is a popular choice for …
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