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Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture
Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture is almost the first twenty thousand words of a novel. These five chapters detail Calvin Green's discovery that his dreams are being shown at the Aztec Theater in Denver, CO. Clearly, the novel has supernatural elements, and it offers a voice in the magical realism …
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Leading Before, During, and After a Major Organizational Transition.
… leadership styles before, during, and after a major organizational transition. The purpose of the study was to determine if a major organizational transition affected the leadership styles of organizational leaders. It also sought to determine how the major organizational transitions affected …
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Centralization of manufacturing processes at a major automotive OEM
Ford is moving from decentralized control of manufacturing processes to centralized control. Prior to this centralization effort, product development occurred as a central function, but individual plants were largely allowed to select vendors, machine tools, suppliers, etc. for production without …
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Metánoia (Repentance): A Major Theme of the Gospel of Matthew
Mετάνοια (repentance) is a major theme of Matthew, manifested in Jesus’ first words in Matthew 4:17. Matthew 4:17 summarizes Jesus’ teaching and ministry (cf. 3:2) and the command to turn (μετανοέω) in view of the imminent coming of the kingdom of heaven to be a major message of Jesus’ teaching in …
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Analysis of a Major Electric Grid – Stability and Adaptive Protection
… with a lower limitation on loadability.When major disturbances occur, the power balance between load and generation might be disturbed causing the generators to lose synchronism (to be out-of-step) with each other. Out-of-step protection against power swings is essential to provide …
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Solving a corrosion quality problem at a major US automaker
This project addresses a corrosion quality problem at an automaker. The problem, hem flange corrosion, involves the appearance of red rust along edges of closure panels (doors, hoods, deck lids, etc) after three to four years in service. This project focuses on finding a solution for a particular …
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Copley Place : the design development of a major environmental intervention
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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The Functional Analysis of A Major Tyrosine Phosphorylation Site On Actin
<p>Actin is an abundant and evolutionarily conserved protein and a key component of the cytoskeleton. Post-translational modifications of actin are emerging as an important mechanism for regulating actin functions, and may form an ‘Actin Code’. In this work, I investigate the role of actin …
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Understanding Streamflow Change at the Scale of a Major City: Chicago
Urban and economic development and climate change have made the non-stationarity of stream flow records an emerging phenomenon in hydrology. This thesis studies the systematic shifts in stream flow that have been observed in urban, suburban and agricultural watersheds in and around the Greater …
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A Major Cell Envelope Protein Of Escherichia Coli K12: Purification And Properties
The isolation and characterization of a major cell envelope protein from E. coli K12, the so-called "succinate eluted protein" (SEP) is reported. SEP was released by EDTA-sucrose and osmotic shock treatments, or during the formation of spheroplasts. The protein was purified on columns of …
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Focal adhesion kinase, a major regulator of oligodendrocyte morphological maturation and myelination
The formation of the myelin sheath is a crucial step during development because it enables fast and efficient propagation of signals within the limited space of the mammalian central nervous system. During the process of myelination, oligodendrocytes actively interact with the extracellular matrix …
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Epidemiology of Traumatic Brain Injuries at a Major Government Hospital in Cambodia
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of Ara h 3, a Major Peanut Allergen
<p>Abstract There are eight foods that contribute to food allergies in the western world and peanut is the most common. Currently, there are no medical treatments that can cure an individual of food allergy, so avoidance of the allergic food is the only option. In the United States, there are three …
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The American church/state quagmire: A major cause and a proposed solution
… gave sovereignty to the individual in two major societal systems: the political and the religious. The consequence of this was the recognition that churches and governments are simply institutions organized by people. Each of which has its own responsibilities within society. There was no …
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Radar-derived Thermodynamic Structure of a Major Hurricane in Vertical Wind Shear
Investigating the physical mechanisms that determine the location and timing of eyewall convection is critical to understand intensity changes in tropical cyclones. Observations within the eyewall are essential to identify these physical mechanisms, but high resolution measurements of both …
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Thermal transient computation for a CTR blanket following a major plasma disruption
… the transient thermal behavior following a major plasma disruption (MPD). Besides, neutrons with a kinetic energy of 14 MeV were usually assumed by ignoring the energy distribution of fusion neutrons. Furthermore, the cross-sections of the interaction between the incident neutron and the …
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Factors in Choosing Landscape Architecture as a Major: A National Student Survey
… landscape architecture students decision to major in landscape architecture and to describe influential factors and reasons associated with the decision to major in landscape architecture. The design of this study is descriptive with data obtained from a questionnaire. The questionnaire …
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