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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"AGER"”.
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An experiential course in exploring music for the academies of the Seventh-Day Adventists : with syllabus and student reports
… knowledge and social cooperations for the teen-ager, and the curriculum of the Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools does not yet take proper advantage of it as an educational means.</p>
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SuperAgers : do octogenarians with exceptional memory hold the key to healthy aging?
… people keep the recall you'd expect of a middle-ager well into their 9th and 10th decades. The scientists do everything they can to get to know these the owners of these brains -- their abilities, their genes, and the stories of their lives -- then, when they die, dissect the brains themselves. …
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Conceptualizing Integration: Resettlement Experiences of Bhutanese Refugees in Pittsburgh, PA
… from the Indicators of Integration Framework (Ager and Strang, 2004), a model that incorporates key dimensions of integration, and through interviews with Bhutanese refugees and resettlement professionals. Results characterize integration as a largely social phenomenon, although …
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Exploring the Gender-Specific Needs of Female Refugees During Resettlement and Integration: A Case Study in Pittsburgh
… resettle and integrate into Pittsburgh. I used Ager and Strang's (2004) Indicators of Integration framework, with a focus on the indicators of "employment," "social bridges," "language and culture," and "rights and citizenship," and adapted it to a gendered perspective to analyze data from two …
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Autonomous Racing and Overtaking for the Voyager Unmanned Ground Vehicle
… obstacles are mathematically modelled. The Voy-ager platform is represented by a differential drive kinematic model. The racetrack is mapped using simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM), and the resulting occupancy grid is processed to extract the centreline and track widths. The extracted …
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Supporting the integration of refugee and asylum-seeking health professionals into the South African Health System
… perspectives on integration, drawing from Ager and Strang's (2008) multidimensional framework and newer research that highlight how integration can involve unequal power relationships and unfair expectations (Spencer & Charsley, 2021). In doing so, the research highlights how historical and …
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Universities and festivals : cultural production in context
This thesis critically examines universities as cultural producers within the creative ecologies of their cities, with a focus on the occasions when they produce cultural events for the public. It is a context-specific and empirical study that examines events at three individual universities in …
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Crime and the economy of makeshifts: Kent and Oxfordshire 1830-1885
This thesis examines the link between legislative reforms, crime and the makeshift strategies that the poor used to support their households in the Medway basin and rural districts in north Oxfordshire between 1830 and 1885. In short, this thesis considers whether the poor relied on different …
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The Association between the Immune Proteome and Brain Function and Socioemotional Development in 5-Year-Old Children
… identified TNFRSF11B, VEGFD, CCL4, CCL26 and AGER from which TNFRSF11B showed most robust associations with global functional network organization. Voxel-wise analyses further revealed TNFRSF11B and CCL26 to be negatively associated with local functional connectivity within frontal and …
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Candidate Genes for Late Diabetic Complications
… we showed that polymorphisms in the LTA, TNF and AGER genes were associated with diabetic complications. The association was complex and dependent on the HLA-DQB1 genotypes, with partly different alleles conferring susceptibility in type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients. We cannot exclude that these …
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The effects of permanent creasing on two types of 65/35 polyester- cotton blends as measured by appearance, abrasion resistance and breaking strength
This study compared the creasing qualities of two types of 65/35% polyester/cotton broadcloth fabrics. The wash-wear fabric (pink) had been finished by a conventional pre-cure method and the permanent-press fabric (white) by a post-cure or delayed-cure method which requires a final oven-cure after …
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Forced Migration and Mothering Kiwisitos: Young Colombian Women Navigating Motherhood in New Zealand.
… integration, and marginalisation) and Ager and Strang’s (2008) domains of integration were used to frame the study and undertake initial analysis. The purpose of the study was to learn from the young Colombian mothers in order to inform and improve the resettlement experiences of future …
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Characterization of bioflocculant produced by Proteus mirabilis PJC12 isolated from Tendele coal mine wastewater and its application.
… was selected for the study. In the nutrient ager plate, the colony appeared as round and cream white in colour. The isolate was identified by 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) as Proteus genus. The analysis of 16S rRNA nucleotide sequence of the bacterium showed 99% similarity to Proteus …
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The Role of Unrealistic Optimism in Explaining Preventive Behaviors in High Versus Low Endemic Malaria Settings in Belize
… reasons for this finding are unclear (Morrison, Ager, & Willock, 1999).</p> <p><strong>Purpose: </strong>In this study I examined risk perceptions about malaria, specifically absolute and comparative risk for the disease, and the role such perceptions play in encouraging or discouraging …
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Proyección territorial y colonización romana. El caso de Hasta Regia.
… el núcleo de la locución. Por ejemplo, la forma ager precede y agrupa una serie de núcleos terminológicos como son arcifinalis, colonicus, compascuus, etc. Esta configuración de los índices es conveniente para el tratamiento de algunos topónimos en especial, pues muestran múltiples núcleos, por …
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Besondere magnetische Eigenschaften der Ozeanbasalte im Altersbereich 10 bis 40 Ma
… aus dem Atlantischen und Pazifischen Ozean. Tr¨ager der Magnetisierung bei den meisten Proben ist je nach Alter der Ozeanbasalte Titanomagnetit oder Titanomaghemit. Um den Oxidationsgrad der Titanomaghemite zu bestimmen, wurden die davon abh¨angigen Parameter Curie-Temperatur und Gitterkonstante …
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Intratumoral Sting Activation Sensitizes Poorly Immunogenic Cancers to Checkpoint Blockade Immunotherapy
<p>Unprecedented durable tumor regression can be achieved in patients with checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, yet these responses are rare and are not observed in all tumor types. Castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are two common lethal cancers that …
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Möglichkeiten eines DMO-Prozesses in der CMP-Refraktionsseismik
… Stapelgeschwindigkeiten entlang schr¨ager Geraden erfolgen. F¨ur die iterative Geschwindigkeitsbestimmung ben¨otigt man statt LMO-, DMO- und inverser LMO-Korrektur nur eine einfache DMO-Korrektur. Diese Erkenntnis f¨uhrt zu dem in Kapitel 3 beschriebenen Processingvorschlag. Aus den …