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Showing 1 to 20 of 412 for “"Clearing"”.
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Clearing financial network and its stability
… of this thesis, we study the application of a clearing mechanism of a financial network to a specific type of financial network, which is established upon an abstract underlying asset. In particular, we focus on the stability of the network against the fluctuation of underlying market, which is …
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Clearing the Pathway to Chemotherapy Certification for Inpatient Nurses
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p> A clinical nurse leader (CNL) project was conducted, in a medical-surgical oncology unit in a community-based hospital, to evaluate and improve upon the decreasing number of chemotherapy certified nurses. A Likert survey of the nurses provided a self-assessment …
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Autonomous ground cover clearing utilizing a robotic wheel loader
… a robotic system capable of autonomous clearing of non-compacted material is presented, focusing on detection, clearing strategy and clearing validation. The robotic design is based on an articulating wheel loader, electrically driven with hydraulic articulation. The sensor suite …
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Clearing out: Escape genres and American culture, 1880-1915
Imaginary worlds proliferated in turn-of-the-century American literature and culture, including the White City at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Boston in 2000, Mars, Oz, and the West. Focusing on utopian, fantasy, and western writings, this project theorizes the white middle-class …
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Improved methods for rapid and scalable tissue clearing and labeling
Combined measurement of diverse molecular and anatomical traits that span multiple levels remains a major challenge in biology. Here, we introduce a simple method that enables proteomic imaging for scalable, integrated, high-dimensional phenotyping of both animal tissues and human clinical samples. …
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The clearing of being: a phenomenological study of openness in psychotherapy
… was guided by Heidegger’s image of a forest clearing (die Lichtung), a metaphor for the Openness of Being. Through phenomenological description the research explores how Openness enables the dialectic between disclosure and concealment in the therapeutic space. At the same time it …
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Contextual Meaning Given To The Family Heir Property Title Clearing Process
… are eliminated through local county-based title clearing processes. It is generally known that FHP owners experience difficulty navigating FHP title clearing processes. Thus, the purpose of this study was to use the experiences of five Black-American residents (ages 30 to 80) with an FHP title …
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Improved transient earth fault clearing on solid and resistance earthed MV netwworks
The aim of this thesis is to endeavour to develop, through a literature study, a method or methods whereby transient earth faults on neutral earthed MV networks may be cleared without customer supply interruptions, without compromising public safety and without compromising network integrity. In …
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Real estate auctions as a market-clearing mechanism for repossessed real estate
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Regional flow conditions associated with stratocumulus cloud-clearing events over the southeast Atlantic
Large, abrupt clearing events have been documented in the marine stratocumulus cloud deck that resides over the subtropical Southeast Atlantic Ocean. In these events, clouds are rapidly eroded along a line hundreds–to–thousands of kilometers in length that generally moves westward away from the …
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The jungle in the clearing : space, form and democracy in America, 1940-1949
Combining aesthetic theory with theories of the public sphere, this dissertation examines the brief appearance of a publicly empathetic civic realm in the United States during the 1940s. The argument begins with a reevaluation of the debate over monumentality initiated in modernist architectural …
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A clearing in the woods : self & city in Frank Lloyd Wright's organic communities
This dissertation undertakes a comparative and developmental analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's community scale planning projects executed in the wake of Broadacre City during the decade of the Second World War (1938 - 1948). These include the Sun-Top Homes built in Ardmore Pennsylvania, the Usonia I …
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Development of Mechanical Optical Clearing Devices for Improved Light Delivery in Optical Diagnostics
… blood, and protein structures. Tissue optical clearing is a recent area of study within biomedical optics and photonics, where chemical agents have been used to alter tissue optical properties, reducing optical absorption and scattering and enabling light delivery to and collection from deeper …
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Organisational change and the introduction of activity based costing in a UK clearing bank
… change that has taken place in the UK Clearing banks over the last fifteen years. It draws from and informs organisational change processes to help understand the effects of environmental disturbance, that is, the changes in the regulatory framework. The effect of environmental …
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Characterization of grapevine vein clearing virus expression strategy and development of caulimovirus infectious clones
Grapevine Vein Clearing Virus (GVCV) is a newly discovered DNA virus in grapevine that is closely associated with grapevine vein clearing syndrome observed in vineyards in Missouri and surrounding states. However, Koch's postulates have never been completed. Four chapters discussing four projects …
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The restoration of riparian plant communities following alien plant clearing in the Western Cape
Few of the riparian zones of the Western Cape Province, South Africa, can still be described as 'natural', as many, if not all, have been impacted upon in one way or another. They are, therefore, frequently disturbed environments that are highly susceptible to invasion by alien plants. the …
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The Growth of Trade Unionism in the London clearing banks, 1960-1970:a sociological interpretation
… with the growth of unionisation in the London Clearing Banks between 1960 and 1970. In Chapter One the growth of white collar occupations and white collar trade unionism in the British economy is briefly characterised. After a review of the literature on the determinants of white collar …
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An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to the Scheduling of Impatient Jobs in a Clearing System.
A single server is faced with a collection of jobs of varying duration and urgency. Before service starts, all jobs are subject to an initial triage, i.e., an assessment of both their urgency and of their service requirement, and are allocated to distinct classes. Jobs in one class have independent …
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An investigation of riparian vegetation recovery following invasive alien tree clearing in the Western Cape
… and biodiversity have been countered by manual clearing in order to protect the valuable ecosystem services provided by intact riparian zones, as well as the biodiversity of indigenous communities. The Working for Water programme is tasked with the important role of controlling invasive alien …
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