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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"ARCHER"”.
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Hydrodynamics of jumping in archer fish, Toxotes microlepis
… of the behavior of Toxotes microlepis, the archer fish, as it jumps for bait above the water surface. Two separate studies provide information on both the kinematics and hydrodynamics associated with the jump. The kinematic study makes use of high speed backlight videos and image processing, …
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Biological propulsion for water exit : 3D experimental study of archer fish jumping
… propulsive power and precise aim to succeed. Archer sh, better known for their spitting abilities, will jump multiple body lengths out of the water for prey capture, especially in competitive foraging scenarios. Prior to jumping, archer sh aim from a stationary position with the snout located …
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The Integration of Spirituality and Evangelism in the Ministry of Reuben Archer Torrey
Reuben A. Torrey (1856–1928) was a missions-minded pastor and evangelist whose legacy includes a robust spirituality coupled with the practice of evangelism. In this research, I address the integration of spirituality and evangelism in Torrey’s ministry. I demonstrate that the vibrancy of Torrey’s …
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The integration of apologetics and evangelism in the ministry of Reuben Archer Torrey
… and evangelism in the ministry of Reuben Archer Torrey (1856-1928). Chapter 1 introduces Torrey's ministry through selections of his using apologetics in evangelistic encounters. Previous Torrey research is referenced to establish the scholarly framework for this dissertation. The broader …
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Reality and imagination: the authorial decisions of May Welland Archer and Emma Woodhouse
… order to write and innocently manipulate Newland Archer's every move without him ever knowing. Although Wharton's May successfully controls the entire novel, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse does not try to hide her knowledge and relies more on her imagination than reality, so when she attempts to …
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Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?
<p> <p>This thesis argues that Isabel Archer of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady and Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth were nineteenth-century characters struggling to assert their social and sexual independence in a male dominated society. Although Isabel inherits a …
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A Plantation Mistress of the Old South: The Life of Ann Barnes Archer of Mississippi
… southerner Ann Barnes married Richard Thompson Archer, a successful planter twenty-one years her senior. Over the course of their thirty- two years of marriage, the Archers raised ten children and acquired over five hundred slaves. Their family and bondpersons were the defining elements of their …
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The Relationship of MMPI-A Item Effectiveness to Item Content, Diagnostic Category, and Classification Accuracy
<p>Archer, Handel, and Lynch (2001) recently compared the item endorsement frequencies for the MMPI-A normative sample against two adolescent clinical samples. Results showed that the MMPI-A contains a substantial number of items that do not show a significant difference in item endorsement …
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A Sociological Study of Addiction: Power and Social Change from the "rock bottom up"
… used to ‘test’ the conceptual ideas of Margaret Archer (1996) and Thomas Smith (1995). Both are systems theorists’ and both engage in cause and effect analysis. As they hold contrasting views on how personal and cultural change takes place this study is an attempt to establish the direction of …
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Educação e desencantamento do mundo: contribuições de Max Weber para a sociologia de educação
… particularly in Luiz Pereira and Margareth Archer works. L'étude met em evidence le thème à la education dans l'ouvrage de Max Weber en valorisant l' abordage du sociologue, que a conçu comme un large procès de socialisatíon pas restrict à l'institution scolaire. Dans la thèse sont …
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MMPI-A structural summary approach : characteristics of gifted adolecents
… the eight-factor structure identified by Archer, Belevich, and Elkins (1994) in the MMPI-A normative sample and by Archer and Krishnamurthy (1997) in a clinical sample. Results yielded eight factors which accounted for 69.57% of the total variance. Six of these eight factors appeared …
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Psychometric Functioning of The MMPI-A Restructured Form VRIN-R, TRIN-R, CRIN, and Cannot Say Scales with Varying Degrees of Randomness, Acquiescence, Counter-Acquiescence, and Omitted Items
<p>The MMPI-A-RF (Archer, Handel, Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2016) is a new measure of adolescent personality and psychopathology derived from the MMPI-A (Butcher, Williams, Graham, Archer, Tellegen, Ben-Porath & Kaemmer, 1992) item pool. Similar to the MMPI-A, the MMPI-A-RF includes indexes designed …
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The Colorado Community Organizing Collaborative: A Critical Realist Case Study
… of critical realism posed by Margaret Archer (2000) to deepen social work's understanding of collaboration. Through the use of Danermark et al.'s (2002) stages of explanatory research based on critical realism, the author found that agential and structural interactions of the Colorado …
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Multisyllabic Word Reading in Grades 4 and 5: Accuracy, Errors, and Associated Child-Level Skills
… in print beginning as early as Grade 3 (Archer, Gleason, & Vachon, 2003; Nagy & Anderson, 1984; Zeno, Ivens, Millard, & Duvvuri, 1995). Students who continue to struggle with word reading through elementary and into secondary school often have a particular difficulty with longer words …
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Exploring information systems development in English local government : a morphogenetic approach
… the agency/structure dynamic devised by Margaret Archer (1988, 1995, 1998b, 1998c, 2002) - was adopted for the research in order to avoid treating either agents or structures as largely epiphenomenal to each other.<br></br><br></br>A detailed analysis of the IS environment of the case study …
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Gender differences in attitudes towards aggression
… examine the generality of the findings shown in Archer and Haigh (1996)1 amongst a sample of male and female prisoners, and to further assess the hypothesis that high instrumental (and low expressive) scores, would predict high levels of self reported aggression, particularly physical aggression. …
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The Functions of the Gamemaster: A comprehensive, practice-based overview of the role of the gamemaster of tabletop roleplaying games
… -driven) research, using the structure of Archer (1995) and Frayling (1994): The research is through practice – investigation by the attempted constructing/enacting of some work made to embody, explore or test the subject (Archer 1995: 11). This investigation is also autoethnographic, in …
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