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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Contraband"”.
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Contraband
<p>This dissertation consists of a poetry manuscript that primarily explores themes of class, sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity. The collection is divided into three sections. The first addresses the coming of age of the speaker in Chicago. The second primarily takes place abroad and explores …
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Contraband tobacco on post-secondary campuses in Ontario
… of decline. The availability of inexpensive contraband tobacco products maybe contributing to this situation. Limited research has been conducted on the use of contraband tobacco and despite the increasing availability of contraband 'Native cigarettes', no studies to date have examined their …
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Pedagogical contraband: A phenomenological approach to understanding student engagement during simulations
1 PDF file (xi, 128 pages)
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The Grass-Roots Challenges with Administration: Conscription Evasion, Contraband, and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe
… on an international level. Conscription fraud, contraband, and resistance to government officials reveal that the local reaction in the French jurisdiction was based on contempt for both economic and military policies. The research exhibits that the grass-roots nature of the resistance against …
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Fast neutron scattering analysis
… N and O, which are the principal constituents of contraband materials, such as explosives and narcotics. Scattered neutrons are detected by liquid scintillators located at forward and at backward angles, and different elements are identified by their characteristic scattering signatures derived …
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The Political Economy of Transnational Drug Trafficking: Criminal Rackets and State-Making in Modern Mexico
… argues that criminal activities (in particular contraband and drug trafficking) were important political economies supporting the development of the state security apparatus under the PRI regime in Mexico (1940s to 1990s). The thesis documents the paradoxical but regular input of criminal …
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An investigation of the effect that the availability of legitimate channels for acquiring digital music has on piracy in South Africa
… and contrasted against a popular source of contraband (“The Pirate Bay” website). Factors often cited by literature (“Risk”, “Price”, “Convenience” and “Availability”) have been incorporated into a conceptual model employed by this research to measure the influence of these elements on South …
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An Analysis of the Correlation Between the Attitude, Belief, Opinion, and Demographic Components of Voluntary Forfeiture of One's Fourth Amendment Constitutional Right in Order to Permit Police Officers the use of New Concealed Weapons Detection Technology
… hands-off, non-intrusive body searches for contraband such as plastic explosives, drugs, and concealed weapons, specifically concealed guns. The study questions that Constitutionality of permitting police officers the use of such CWDT, and the Constitutionality of one's voluntary forfeiture …
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Search and seizure in education
… are not subject to the warIant requirement (9) Contraband seen in plain view is subject to seizure without a warrant.
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First impressions: the prohibition on printed calicoes in France, 1686-1759
… been masked in prosecutions for other types of contraband. The complex processes involved in imitating Indian techniques, and the widely accepted method of transfer of technology from Asia are re-examined, confirming that French cotton prints were technically inferior throughout the period, and …
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English smuggling in the eighteenth century
… when their interests were threatened. The contrabanders extended their penetration of legal markets and distribution networks in the second half of the eighteenth century, but this was accompanied by increasing levels of violence. Studying the confrontations between the smugglers and the …
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Markets and Hierarchies in Late Colonial Spanish America: The Royal Tobacco Monopoly in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1752--1813
… more effective regulations in the control of contraband in combination with high prices. The dissertation also addresses the institution and early closure of the State's tobacco factories (1780--1791). One interesting finding is the great degree of path dependence of monopoly regulations. …
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Archaeology and Settlement Histories Along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… which made it ideal for trade particularly in contraband, possibly including a continued trade in slaves during the nineteenth century following the abolition. The locality's comparative isolation again played out in Wawase, the successor town of Supomu in the second quarter of the twentieth …
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Archaeology And Settlement Histories Along The Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… which made it ideal for trade particularly in contraband, possibly including a continued trade in slaves during the nineteenth century following the abolition. The locality’s comparative isolation again played out in Wawase, the successor town of Supomu in the second quarter of the twentieth …
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Careless Human Acts
… to Johannesburg. Elsa, who has concealed sexual contraband, is nervous. Her irascible husband, Derk, is drunk; plagued by impotence, shortness of breath, existential angst and a creeping sense of failure. Despite his success as a creative director for an international advertising agency, his …
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Searching for potential markers for monitoring the presence of opiates in urine exposed to oxidising adulterants
… to individuals that have been found to be using contraband drugs. Being labelled a “drug addict” or a “drug cheat” in sports can potentially be detrimental to a person’s reputation. As such, it is not surprising to learn that they are motivated to discover and utilise new and ingenious ways of …
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The innate ability of pet dogs to spontaneously anticipate epileptic seizures
… shown an astonishing ability to detect concealed contraband in support of law enforcement, or to find people trapped in hostile terrain or under collapsed buildings. Dogs have also begun to assist with medical diagnosis of life-threatening conditions like cancer and in the prediction of hypo and …
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A new approach to neutron spectrometry with multi-element scintillators
… requirements that entail the monitoring of contraband material including explosives in transit, and the need to enhance occupational safety as well as environmental radiation protection in respect to nuclear power generation. Moreover, the regulatory authorities require routinely employed …
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Defense d'afficher : the wartime art of Jean Lurç̧at and Jean Dubuffet
… in themes and imagery, the efforts of French contraband and militant poetry, and he included many of these poems in his tapestries. Dubuffet, in the 1940's, took up the 'wall' and public spaces as the subjects of his series: Vues de Paris, Un Voyage en métro -- les dessous de la capitale, …
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Dawn of Freedom:' The Freedmen's town of Mitchelville On Hilton Head Island, S.C.
<p>Soon after the Union Army took control of the Sea Islands along the southern coast of South Carolina, enslaved people there took their first steps towards freedom. The transition from slavery to freedom was most profound in Mitchelville, a town on Hilton Head Island. General Ormsby M. Mitchel …