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Poe's Literary Battles
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Winning at Pokémon Random Battles Using Reinforcement Learning
… Elo) on the official Pokémon Showdown gen4randombattles ladder, which is the best known performance by any non-human agent for this format. This strong showing lays the foundation for superhuman performance in Pokémon and other complex turn-based games of imperfect information, expanding the …
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Equity Battles: Multicultural Leadership for English Language Learner Students
<p>The focus of this study was to increase teachers’ and school leaders’ capacity and awareness to be better multicultural leaders for English Language Learner (ELL) students. This study produced several recommendations to address this issue. During this study, I used improvement science as the …
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The first battles for Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864
… siege.This study investigated the opening battles for Petersburg on three levels. First, the strategic dispositions and movements of the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia are discussed prior to and during the battles. Secondly, the study looks carefully at …
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Eudora Welty: Family, Place, and Human Identity in Losing Battles
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Community, Place, and Cultural Battles: Associational Life in Central Italy, 1945-1968
… important sites in culture wars and political battles between the Christian Democratic government in Rome and the defiant Leftist opposition that had a stronghold in central Italy. This history of associations is also a history of postwar Italian democracy: highlighting the struggles of …
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The Representation of Battles and War in Late Quattrocento and Cinquecento Venice
… the representations of Venetian warfare and battles in different ways to benefit their own ambitions and agencies. The scope for this thesis is reflected by crucial changes in the Republic’s political history. The first part focuses on the last quarter of the quattrocento which manifests the …
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Media agenda-building battles between Greenpeace and Shell : a rhetorical and discursive approach
… this research comprises the UK television news battles between Greenpeace (a highly media-aware International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO)), and the oil company Shell (a multinational corporation (MNC)). Specifically, two such media battles are examined, both receiving international …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
<p>While some might consider epistolary novels of the long-eighteenth century as the sentimental purview of women readers, this research proposes that many of these epistolary novels serve as powerful markers in the gender wars of this era. While an overall sense of optimism pervaded Britain’s …
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Only the Dead: The Construction of Memory and Myth in New Zealand’s Lost Battles of the Mediterranean
This thesis examines official, personal, fictional, and biographical accounts of New Zealand military participation in Greece and Italy in World War Two, considering how they attempt to make sense of traumatic wartime experiences, and how personalities and events have been mythologised in ways that …
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Simulated Battles, Real Lessons: Analyzing The Impact of The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Problems on Battle in The Pacific War
… ideas and technologies were tested in simulated battles. While the methodology behind the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Problems has been written about before, there remains little direct analysis as to how wargaming and fleet exercises impacted the outcome of actual engagements such as Coral Sea, Midway, …
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Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
Battle of the Sexes Onstage: Explorations of Changing Gender Roles by Four American Women Playwrights of the 1910s-1930s analyzes plays by Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, and Dawn Powell in order to discover how these playwrights dealt with changing female social roles throughout …
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Contemporary Pirates: An Examination of the Perceptions and Attitudes Toward the Technology, Progression, and Battles that Surround Modern Day Music Piracy in Colleges and Universities.
The pilot study used in this thesis examined the attitudes and perceptions of a small group of students at the University of North Texas. The participants in this pilot study (n=22) were administered an online music file sharing survey, a Defining Issues Test (DIT), and participated in a small …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Contests
… in which two groups compete in a series of battles with complete information. Each group has multiple heterogeneous players. The group who first wins a predetermined number of battles wins a prize which is a public good for the winning group. A discriminatory state-dependent contest success …
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Factors in the spiritual preparation and motivation of Muslim armies
… of the Muslim military in five important battles fought during the first two decades of Islam (2/624-16/638). The study comprises an introduction, seven central chapters, and a conclusion (an Arabic-English glossary is placed at the end of the study). The first chapter includes a general …
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Regional logistics capability and economic development of the regions in Great Britain
… supply is the key to success of not only battles in war, but also equally intense battles in the business arena.
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Digital Regulation Contested: Regulatory Approaches of the US, the EU, and China to Cross-Border Personal Data Transfers
… of cutting-edge technologies, regulatory battles among great powers to set the rules for international personal data transfers increasingly intensify. In the unfolding digital era, the regulatory battles over international personal data transfers have increasingly come to the foreground of …
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Digital Regulation Contested: Regulatory Approaches of the US, the EU, and China to Cross-Border Personal Data Transfers
… of cutting-edge technologies, regulatory battles among great powers to set the rules for international personal data transfers increasingly intensify. In the unfolding digital era, the regulatory battles over international personal data transfers have increasingly come to the foreground of …
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Close Range: a Study of Battlefield Ranges At Shiloh and Antietam
A study of the range of fire at the battles of Shiloh and Antietam is based on an analysis of data found in the after-action reports printed in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. The data collected was any linear measurement, such as …
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British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front 1914 - 1918: A Case Study in Tactical Evolution
… through an assessment of 21st Division in four battles during the war. The achievements of the division are analysed using a series of performance indicators, taking into account variables such as the weather, the terrain, and the enemy. The relative successes and failures of 21st Division at …
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