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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Asides"”.
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Schoolwide Services for Students That Attend Private Schools: A Policy Recommendation to the Every Student Succeeds Act
… mirrors NCLB in all areas but three: (1) set asides discontinued; (2) state appointed ombudsman; and (2) state as the provider of services. Upon reviewing the reauthorized law, I found an area that allows for inequitable services to students who attend private schools wherein excess of forty …
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W.M. Thackeray : nostalgic satirist : a reappraisal of some aspects of his style
… on Thackeray's habit of commenting in asides, a habit much criticised and which I have attempted to defend in terms of the genre of Thackeray's works, which I take to be closer to the eighteenth century than to the Victorian era. I have attempted to explain his tendency towards towards …
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Texts and contexts: a study of aristocratic influence on Latin and vernacular historical narratives in twelfth century England
… could also include classical references, pious asides, and an extensive use of Latin source material. They are thus the product of many influences, including the historian’s education, their piety and the way in which they intend to use the past. They cannot be defined by the language they are …
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Oscillations and Sterile Neutrinos
… of neutrino oscillations I will make several asides, notably on the specifics of detector types and the concept of neutrino mass. Finally I will introduce GLoBES simulation and present examples of my published work on simulations of oscillation with one light sterile neutrino. These analyses …
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Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses and Government Contracting: Assessing the State of Texas Procurement and Contract Management Guide Using the Federal Acquisition Regulation
… federal standard reviewed by this research. Set-asides are a fundamental component in government contracting and instrumental for SDVOSBs. By using the federal standard, policy recommendations for the State of Texas Procurement and Contract Management Guide are made.
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Stance and engagement in postgraduate writing: a comparative study of English NS and Arab EFL student writers in Linguistics and Literature
… self-mentions, reader references, directives, asides, questions, and references to shared knowledge. The primary data used consisted of a corpus of 39 master’s dissertations and discourse-based semi-structured interviews with 15 of the writers. While a corpus analysis helped to reveal which …
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Real options and strategic interactions in imperfectly competitive markets
… aspects of advertising in a new market which, asides from routine expenditure, requires a lumpy initial investment outlay in the development of a viable competitive advertising campaign. We view this as a real options investment with a differential game played at the advertising-efforts …
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Business sustainability: understanding the influence of managers and stakeholders on adopting sustainability practices in Nigerian SMEs
… and the dimension of stakeholders’ intervention. Asides from the contribution to knowledge, the result presented national, organisational and managerial practical implications. Diverse organisational and regulatory policy implications were also presented with future research directions.
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Lady Macbeth and Gertrude: A Study in Gender
… belong to them, as they seem to serve as mere asides to the inevitable "manly" action. Striving to meet the expectations of the men they loved, Lady Macbeth and Gertrude lose themselves in the process.
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An assessment of financial incentives for encouraging South Africa's domestic solar water heater market
… technologies. Investment incentives and set-asides were identified as potential financial incentive options for SA. A literature review of the SWH market identified the existing structures and capacity of expertise, and identified options for reducing SWH barriers. A criteria analysis was …
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The economic and ecological sustainability of the Amazonian timber industry
… report areas of unlogged forest set-asides as required by Brazilian law. Selective logging leads to several forms of collateral damage (CD) to the residual forest stand. This pattern of structural disturbance is poorly quantified or understood despite representing a key form of forest …
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"All hayll, all hayll, both blithe and glad": Direct Address in Early English Drama, 1400-1585
… the project's methodology. Chapter 2 considers asides, showing that they were atypical in medieval drama but became common during the sixteenth century. Chapter 3 examines how direct address is used by special personages (Expositors, Prologues), showing how special personages in medieval drama …
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Cultivating Presence: A Conceptual Autoethnography Examining Neofolk and Its Relation to Contemporary Miracle and Mystery Traditions
… Marcel at the University of London, as well as asides by Rudolf Otto (1946) and my ultimate source Stockhausen (1991).<br/><br/>As such, I have divided this commentary into two sections including an autoethnographic introduction, and a conceptualist conclusion. Noted in this manner, neither my …
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"Art for Truth's Sake" : James A. Herne as Social Critic and Literary Artist
… but soon he began to eliminate villains, asides, stereotyped characters, and other trappings of that earlier dramatic form. When Hamlin Garland saw Herne's play dealing with the drinking problem, <em>Drifting Apart</em>, he was convinced that Herne could be groomed into a sort of American …
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Deriving high resolution 3D information using multibaseline airborne SAR interferometry
… localization accuracy typically better than 1 m. Asides from a slight underestimation, the tree heights agreed well with the reference data, and the estimation of the crown diameter was accurate in the mean. Results were more accurate for conifers than for broad-leaf trees. All these results are …
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The sense of Conrad's endings: a study of the five major novels
… a definite end. Therefore, despite theoretical asides to the contrary, fiction has always—by its nature—violated the demands of “realism” when that term is used in its strictest sense. Unlike reality, novels <em>end</em>. Fiction—just as early critics forewarned—“has to lie” (Kermode 140).</p> …
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Policy Implementation by Executive Order: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Agency Decisions and Organizational Characteristics on Government Expenditures Through a Minority Businesses Enterprise Set-Aside Program in Ohio
Government agencies use minority business enterprises (MBEs) to provide goods, services, and access to opportunities as strategies to respond to citizens’ demand for equality in obtaining governmental bids. Set-aside programs have come under scrutiny in the United States since their inception in …