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Aerosols and alternatives
Aerosol products have been widely used in both the home and industry forover thirty years. Consumption has grown steadily from their introduction until the mid 1970s when they became implicated in a major environmental controversy. This caused scientists, governments and the media to question the …
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Overweight Vehicle Permitting Alternatives
<p>Overweight vehicles exceed the federal and/or state statutory limits for either the gross vehicle weight (GVW) or the weight of individual axles or axle groups. National and state limits on vehicle weights were established to preserve the highway infrastructure. Past research has shown that …
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Alternatives to skid row.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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Alternatives to Reading Expectancy Formulas
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Predictive Alternatives in Bayesian Model Selection
Model comparison and hypothesis testing is an integral part of all data analyses. In this thesis, I present two new families of information criteria that can be used to perform model comparison. In Chapter 1, I review the necessary background to motivate the thesis. Of particular interest is the …
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Juvenile Justice Sentencing: Are There Alternatives?
Research indicates that states have implemented juvenile justice reforms to enact harsher punishments, to transfer greater numbers and younger juvenile offenders to adult criminal court, and to restrict discretion of the juvenile court judges. Social science studies have found that harsher …
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On Test Efficiency Against Normal Alternatives
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Alternatives to the Black-Scholes model
In this paper, I consider alternative models to the one posited by Black and Scholes. I consider discontinuous security price movements, non-constant volatility, and models very different from the Black-Scholes model. I found that most of the model prices for the close to at-the-money options are …
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Design Alternatives to AI Proctoring Software
… with an online education company to provide alternatives to AI proctoring that include assessment design and administration, honour code, and in-house authentication. In addition to recommending the alternatives, a phased implementation plan was also created.
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Alternatives to [4+1] carbocyclic annulations
6-Carboethoxybicyclo [3.3.0] oct-6-en-2-one has been prepared by the intramolecular [4+1] cyclopentene annulation method. This compound and its precursor, 6-vinyl-6-carboethoxybicyclo[3.1.0]hexan-2-one were attained as the necessary standards for the investigation of the course of intramolecular …
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Evaluation of Military base Closure Alternatives
… the benefits derived from implementing various alternatives. By incorporating a group participative process using multivoting and the Dunn-Rankin technique, the values resulting fro m benefits have yielded a benefits score. The Brown-Gibson model, which considers both subjective and objective …
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Curriculum alternatives in graduate dental hygiene education
The nursing profession has designed a variety of curriculum options for individuals who wish to pursue graduate education in nursing. These options have been created to meet the changing needs of their profession, society, and potential students in the field. The profession of dental hygiene has …
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Elektrostimulation der weiblichen Harninkontinenz - ein alternatives Therapiekonzept?
In dieser prospektiven Studie wurden 22 harninkontinente Patientinnen mit der Elektrostimulationstherapie ambulant behandelt und über ein Vierteljahr betreut. Um die Entwicklung unter der Therapie zu registrieren, kamen die Patientinnen insgesamt dreimal, in 6-wöchigen Abständen, in die …
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Scalar implicatures in children: alternatives and relevance
… alternative salient. However, the exact role of alternatives in generating SIs remains contested. Furthermore, it is not clear whether children take into account the goal of the conversation in considering scalar alternatives and generating SIs. We present three studies with English-speaking …
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Analysis of Wavelet Based Alternatives for OFDM
… of this thesis is to analyze wavelet based alternatives for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and find whether a better system performance is achieved when compared to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based OFDM. We analyze DFT, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and dual …
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An Ethical Analysis of Alternatives in Childbirth
… components. The first component is that certain alternatives to what has become the typical U.S. childbirth experience are, under appropriate circumstances, safe and provide benefits which justify their protection as childbirth options. This factual conclusion, which has ethical significance, is …
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Using Protein-Likeness to Validate Conformational Alternatives
… validation techniques to validate conformational alternatives in a variety of settings. First, I extended previous work introducing the backrub, a local, sidechain-coupled backbone motion, by demonstrating that backrubs also accompany sequence changes and therefore are useful for modeling …
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State Preferences, Viable Alternatives, and Covert Action
<p>This dissertation seeks to build a model of when and where the United States</p><p>engaged in covert action during the Cold War. This study introduces novel data on</p><p>American covert action during the cold war, as well as new data on the presence of</p><p>viable alternative (VA) governments …
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