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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Challenger"”.
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An Unfolding Voyage: Rephotography and the Challenger Expedition
… 1872, the British scientific research vessel HMS Challenger undertook a three-and-a-half-year voyage to further scientific understanding of the world’s oceans. In addition to surveying responsibilities, the expedition and its crew were charged with obtaining “photographs of native races to one …
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A Case Study of the Challenger Learning Center of Greater Rochester
The Challenger Learning Center of Greater Rochester (CLCGR) is a privately funded hands-on math, science, and technology educational facility for the Greater Rochester area which serves groups from all over Western New York. It is a computer-driven simulation of a space mission that motivates …
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The cosmic challenger : what American evangelicals think about Islam and why
… of these Christians is that Islam is a cosmic challenger to Christianity. In other words, Islam and Christianity are in an existential competition to win souls. This thesis utilizes perceptions of Islam as the analytical reference point by which to better understand American evangelicals. The …
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Managing the Risk of Failure in Complex Systems: Insight into the Space Shuttle Challenger Failure
… case study, the failure of the space shuttle Challenger. Sources, including literature and popular press articles published prior to and after the failure and NASA documents are reviewed to determine the utility of each paradigm. These reviews are supplemented by interviews with individuals …
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Technological review of deep ocean manned submersibles
James Cameron's dive to the Challenger Deep in the Deepsea Challenger in March of 2012 marked the first time man had returned to the Mariana Trench since the Bathyscaphe Trieste's 1960 dive. Currently little is known about the geological processes and ecosystems of the deep ocean. The Deepsea …
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The Establishment of Blame As A Framework for Sensemaking in the Space Policy Subsystem: A Study of the Apollo 1 and Challenger Accidents
… those who were blamed for the Apollo 1 and Challenger disasters were from both NASA and the contractor; and their culpability was publicized. The space policy subsystem assigns the blame to its members and the process of blaming becomes the framework by which the Nation makes sense of the …
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Effect Of Candidate Spending On Vote Share
… with some research finding that only spending by challenger candidates has an effect on the vote outcome and other research finding incumbent and challenger spending roughly equally effective. The paper explores two suspected causes of the discrepancy in prior results: measurement error and …
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Cura e armazenamento de batatas destinadas ao processamento industrial
… ensaio, tubérculos das cultivares Markies e Challenger foram submetidos a danos mecânicos e armazenados em câmaras climatizadas nas temperaturas de 8, 14 e 20 °C (UR ± 90%) por 14 dias para determinação do período de formação da periderme de dano. Após este período, avaliou-se taxas de perda …
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Civil Conflict in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Spain, Italy, and Britain, 1968--2001
… converge and, importantly, shape the actions of challenger groups and target states.
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Advertising in Markets with Consumption Externalities
… are analysed when an incumbent firm faces a challenger with a product of equal quality. I show that strategic entry deterrence using advertising is possible and optimal entry deterrence involves strategic pre-commitment to over-investment relative to the non-strategic simultaneous advertising …
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The Dynamics of Border Disputes in State Making: The Fragile Borderlands in the Northern Region between Nigeria and Benin Republic in West Africa
… dispute was linked to tenure elongation in the challenger state while the persistence of the dispute was due to the challenger state’s resilience and dependence on policies and decisions of their previous Government and the nonchalant attitude of the target state, Nigeria towards its borders and …
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Battleground Blog: Analyzing the 2006 U.S. Senate Campaign Blogs through the Lenses of Issue Ownership, Agenda setting, and Gender Differences
… to evaluate candidate issues, incumbent and challenger strategies, and message tactics used by the candidate to reach a wide classification of voters. The entire population of posts from the ten candidate blogs (N = 474) was included in this analysis. The thesis assesses candidate blog …
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Media Use and Time of Decision in the 1980 Presidential Election
… among Democratic incumbent Carter, Republican challenger Reagan, and Independent party candidate John Anderson. It follows the panel design of previous mass commmunication election studies; Lazarsfeld (1940), Berelson (1944), Mendelsohn and O'Keefe (1972), Chaffee and Choe (1976).
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The role of the Vibrio cholerae Type VI secretion system during kin cell interaction, biofilm formation and priority effects
… given and maintain a fitness advantage over the challenger strain. Additionally, microscopy images suggested the first colonizing strain to have an advantage in the spatial structure of the biofilm, forming and expanding its clusters at a greater scale than the challenger strain, only when the …
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The politics of accession to international organizations
… most is whether there is an objecting state, a challenger, blocking the membership of the acceding state. I test these arguments using quantitative and case-study analysis using original data on accession to the World Trade Organization from 1950-2008 and on accession to the European Union from …
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Developing knowledge for real world problem scenarios : using 3D gaming technology within a problem-based learning framework
… in emergency evacuation procedures at the Challenger gold mine in South Australia. Two groups of participants representing experienced and novice personnel were utilised to ascertain the effectiveness of FUMES as a training platform in this regard. Findings demonstrated that FUMES …
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The taming of the red dragon: The militarized worldview and China's use of force, 1949-2010
… during Mao’s reign, when Beijing acted as a challenger against the international system. Due to this worldview, the challenger tends to overestimate the threats to its security, and places a premium on preparing for and engaging in violence against real or perceived enemies. Since Mao’s …
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Three essays in political economy
… to measure the causal effect of incumbent and challenger spending could lead to biased estimates, and could be driving previous results that have found incumbent spending to be less effective than challenger spending.
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