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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Conspire"”.
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The structure of things to come: New movements in the architectural profession
… they developed over the century, all seemed to conspire against such a reality; but the industry has not come to the point the team and entity Gropius wrote about are impossible. This thesis is an analysis of the building-design industry today, its development and by applying certain business …
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"An Ardent Military Spirit": William C. C. Claiborne and the Creation of the Orleans Territorial Militia, 1803-1805
… powers such as Spain and Great Britain could conspire to subvert American government in Louisiana by rebellion and invasion.
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Sightfulness
… and screen resolution. These technologies conspire not for a fidelity to reality but to promote social and political agendas-truth is not truth. Conversely, rapid improvements in camera technology attempts an objective unification of what qualifies as "clear" and "crisp" photography to …
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A Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Duct Flow in A Non-Uniform Magnetic Field
… of the field lines and the duct geometry conspire to produce this weak force. Secondly, the non-uniform generates a radial velocity profile with multiple overshoots of the core value. Several divergence angles are considered.
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Operating Room Awareness with the Smart Trocar: Innovative Laparoscopic Surgery
… rooms originally built for open surgery, conspire to make the surgeon's work more difficult and less efficient. We present a new technology, the Smart Trocar, which can compensate for these drawbacks by providing a global positioning system of the laparoscopic tools that are inserted into …
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Everyday Challenges of Building Community and Empowerment: An Ethnographic Study of Immigrant Mexican Parents Advocating for School Reform
… battles and a generalized colonial mentality conspire to silence the parents' basic claims for respect, dignity and their children's rights. Their efforts take place in a racially divided city where a community of working-poor Latino American immigrants is arguably forming. The experiences and …
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Practical probabilistic inference
… I show that patients and physicians conspire to preferentially report findings that suggest the presence of disease. Because the QMR-DT does not contain an explicit model of this reporting bias, its disease posteriors may not be useful for diagnosis. Correcting these posteriors …
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On Someone Else's Dime
… crime, and the social conditions that the two conspire to create. Therefore, I consider my work to be an extension of literary naturalism, which explores how social conditions, heredity, and environment shape the individual. While the characters in my collection occupy the same physical …
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Towards an integrated understanding of low-dose chemical exposures in the development of human cancer
… range of mechanisms, pathways, and systems could conspire to instigate environmental carcinogenesis. Additional research on carcinogenesis is needed and the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to mixtures of chemical that act selectively to enable these hallmark phenotypes also needs to …
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Creating communities of practice : using information technology for learning and communication in automobile dealerships
… and culture, rather than the individual, that conspire against creating communities of practice or increased use of IT for learning and communication. The study also demonstrates that dealership employees are not a monolithic group. Technicians, parts employees, service advisors and salespeople …
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Assessment and adaptive management of Orange Roughy off Southern Africa
… are controversial. All of these factors conspire to make orange roughy easily susceptible to over-fishing. Discoveries of fishable aggregations of orange roughy were made off Namibia in January J 995. In a short period of time, the annual catch became the second greatest in the world …
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Relations of Care: Framing the Social Worlds of Young Adults with Complex Needs
… with geographical and resource constraints may conspire, resulting in reduced social opportunities and impoverished social networks. Centred within an ecological framework, this mixed-methods study used interviews, an online survey and case-study methods to investigate the ways in which care is …
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Virtual pooling approximation using longest path network optimization
… long factory lead times - these three factors conspire to create a situation in which dealers must either maintain high levels of on-hand inventory or sacrifice customer service level. Virtual pooling can be a powerful technique for reducing held inventory and improving customer service level. …
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Bifurcations, Multi-stability, and Localization in Thin Structures
… etc.). Geometric and material nonlinearities can conspire together to create complex phenomena in thin structures. This dissertation studies snap-through, multi-stability, and localization in thin rods and sheets through a combination of experiments and numerics. The first work experimentally …
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A Comparative Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog
… linguistic, social, and contact-based factors conspire to give rise to variability and change among heritage speakers.
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The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal's Abductive Anthropological Argument
… the observation that imagedness and sinfulness conspire to render the human condition paradoxical: humans are self-opposing. Chapter 5 applies this understanding of the imago Dei to the explanatory stage of Pascal’s anthropological argument, showing that the doctrine of the imago Dei provides a …
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Naming and Namelessness in English and French Medieval Romance
… and namelessness are crucial. These factors conspire to make a concern with naming conventional, even in romances whose writers show no concern with philosophy.
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Conceptualizing Sustainability: the Case of Johannesburg and Water
… of water by 2015. Many demand and supply factors conspire to affect adversely the “sustainability” of water and any “sustainable development” trajectory in SA. Accordingly, I survey the literature on “sustainability” and “sustainable development” (S/SD) to see if it might offer some way out of …
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Role of IL-17A and Acaid in the Maintenance of Corneal Immune Privilege
… The myriad of immunoregulatory components that conspire to maintain the immune privilege of the cornea can be assigned to one of two extensively studied subsets. They include: (a) immunosuppressive molecules and membrane molecules present in the aqueous humor and on the surface of corneal cells …
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The architectural details of Alvaro Siza : a chorology
… space. By considering the effects which conspire to compose a detail, in conjunction with the effects that are generated, a new understanding of the immeasurable complexity of an architectural assemblage and its' relations to space might be understood. Affording criteria for testing …
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