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Showing 1 to 20 of 319 for “"Brent"”.
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Exploring Brent-Kung Adders in Balanced Ternary CMOS Logic
<p>The modern computer operates on a 64-bit architecture. These devices can store large numbers and precise decimals, but more advanced devices are needed to support progressing technologies every day. A more efficient system with higher speeds and larger operable numbers would be a key to …
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Diagnetic modelling in Middle Jurassic clastic sediments from the Ravenscar group, Yorkshire, and the Brent group, northern North Sea
… outcrop on the North Yorkshire Moors and the Brent Group from Wells 3/3-1, -2, and -3 in the Ninian Field, and 210/15-2, also in the Northern North Sea.The Ravenscar Group is interpreted as being deposited in a fluvio-deltaic complex. Here, attempted equilibration of non-marine sediments with …
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An analysis of the OPEC Reference Basket with regards to African Pricing and Spread to the WTI and Brent
… OPEC Reference Basket relative to the WTI and Brent benchmarks which are considered as global pricing benchmarks for the period starting from 1997-2008. The Nigerian Bonny Light and Algerian Saharan blend were the two benchmarks used for this study. A time series analysis was applied to the …
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The Impact The Price Of Oil Has On A Product Manufacturer In The Oil And Gas Industry
… a revenue forecast based on the price of Brent crude oil. The analysis finds that over 94% of the variability in OFITE's revenues is explained by the price of Brent oil. This information is important to OFITE owners and management if they wish to increase revenues when oil prices are flat …
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How do third-party evaluations of judgments affect decision quality on ill-structured problems? An interactive experiment
The student, Brent Garza, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-14 at 13:51.
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Assessing the impacts of human disturbance on wildlife: insights from wildfowl on the Exe Estuary.
… disturbance relative to two species of wildfowl, Brent goose (Branta bernicla, L.) and wigeon (Mareca penelope, L.), on the Exe Estuary, during the winters of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. This included: identifying environmental variables that lead to overlaps in space and time between wildfowl and …
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Media agenda-building battles between Greenpeace and Shell : a rhetorical and discursive approach
… and Greenpeace over the deep-sea disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform;- The battle between Royal Dutch/Shell's Nigerian subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) (hereafter referred to as Shell-Nigeria), and Greenpeace (amongst others) over environmental pollution in …
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Previsões do PIB brasileiro a partir de informações de mercado: aplicações com dados de diferentes frequências
… Índice Dow Jones, o preço do barril de petróleo Brent, a cotação do câmbio Dólar PTAX e a taxa CDI. As previsões dos modelos MIDAS utilizados foram realizadas para três horizontes de previsão diferentes, 1, 2 e 4 trimestres à frente. Essas previsões de modelos MIDAS foram comparadas com as …
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Architectural, numerical and implementation issues in the VLSI design of an integrated CORDIC-SVD processor
… Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based on the Brent, Luk, Van Loan array. The use of COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer (CORDIC) arithmetic results in an efficient VLSI implementation of the processor that forms the basic unit of the array. A six-chip custom VLSI chip set for the processor …
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Precio de abastecimiento de Gas Natural Licuado (GNL) en Argentina: Un análisis de cointegración con los mercados de referencia mundiales
… de referencias mundiales, como ser el precio del Brent (Petróleo) y los denominados Hubs de gas (Henry Hub de Estados Unidos, Title Transfer Facility “TTF”, usado en Holanda y Japan Korea Marker “JKM”, referencia en los mercados asiáticos).
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"both nourished at my grandmother's breast": Eating, Feeding, and the Subverted Female Ideal in Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
… particularly Mrs. Flint, Aunt Martha, and Linda Brent, highlight the distorted nature of womanhood in the context of slavery and point to the subversion and perversion of the nineteenth-century ideals associated with True Womanhood. Each element of the ideal—piety, purity, submissiveness, and …
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Data Analysis and Visualization to Dismantle Gender Discrimination in the Field of Technology
… yet not thriving in technology occupations. <em>Brent Ozar Unlimited </em>and <em>PayScale </em>have provided data from the past seven years on top tech companies demographics and salaries. I have analyzed this data using various statistical methods and created <em>Envision Equality</em>. Using …
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The competitive female skater: what motivates her?
… Scale for Sporting Environments developed by Brent Rushall and Randy Fox in 2000. The scale asked 28 questions to which four response alternatives were provided. These were: always, frequently, sometimes or never. The scores that were generated indicated whether the respondent had a Motivation …
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Bible as Interface
… Rooted in the material religion approaches of Brent Plate and James Watts and animated by the interface theory of Johanna Drucker extended through a Levinasian optics of proximity, I will explore the many contact points of high surface area, the interruptive processes of collaboration, and the …
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Cyclical narratives and the power of three: Institutional histories and pedagogical practices of gamelan ensembles at the University of Illinois
… in the United States, particularly the work of Brent Talbot and Elizabeth Clendinning, by focusing on discourses of music transmission, pedagogical lineages, and the Balinese concept of air mengalir (“water flows”). In this thesis, I provide a history of gamelan music and gamelan ensembles at …
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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of and Preference for Differential Reinforcement and Response Cost within Token Economies
… to be more effective than the other (e.g., Brent & Routh, 1978; Iwata & Bailey, 1974; Tanol et al., 2012). Therefore, it is possible that certain variables (e.g., experimental design, back-up reinforcers, or opportunities for net tokens) may influence the efficacy of the two procedures. In …
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Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity
… in "Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse" and Brent Hayes Edwards in "The Uses of Diaspora", I conduct a close examination of the primary novels, addressing the maternal discourse and the Diaspora construction in each. Moreover, these texts are woman-centered, which, I argue, re-locates …
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From here to diversity : ethnicity in the national health service
… twenty years after the ground-breaking report by Brent Community Health Council (CHC) (1981) into the standard of health care provided to minority ethnic communities, there is continuing evidence of failure on the part of the National Health Service (NHS). One of the ways in which the New Labour …
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Righteous Remixes, Sacred Mashups: Rethinking Authority, Authenticity, and Originality in the Study of Religion
… by Jonathan Z. Smith, Russell T. McCutcheon, Brent Nongbri, Jane Iwamura, and others, I am concerned with how individuals who are not part of the religious studies scholarly community participate in the processes of constructing religion, and in this case, in constructing and contributing to …
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An analysis of the impact of crude oil price shocks on the exchange rate in South Africa
… This study reveals that the movement in Brent oil prices has a relatively insignificant impact on the movement of the South African rand on a monthly basis.
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