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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Cormack"”.
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Recovering from repeat sprint activity and elite Australian football training and competition: do compression garments help?
… from such sessions (Dawson, Gow et al. 2005; Cormack, Newton et al. 2008a; Cormack, Newton et al. 2008b; Elias, Varley et al. 2012; Elias, Wyckelsma et al. 2012; Mooney, Cormack et al. 2012). To overcome the stressors from training and competition, sports compression garments which offer low …
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Aspects of laryngotracheobronchitis in African children
… in 1765 by the Scottish physician Home (Cormack, 18750). Both used the term in descriptions of what was probably diphtheria.
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Intubation during spinal motion restriction using the Lubo TM cervical collar a minikin simulation study
… outcomes compared intubation success rate, Cormack-Lehane grade, ease of intubation and dental trauma. Methods: A randomized, cross-over, equivalence study was performed. Eighty full-time physician anaesthesia providers were recruited. Participants performed tracheal intubation using direct …
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StoneLion: A Narrative of a Kansas City Puppet Theatre
… the founding and artistic director, Tim Cormack, senior head puppeteer, and Taylor Gass, puppeteer and office manager. Lastly, I incorporated my personal experience in a case study when I worked with StoneLion both building and performing their 2012 Mother’s Day for Mother Earth …
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The measurement of the output spectrum of a cobalt 60 teletherapy unit
… favorably with the theoretical data derived by Cormack and Johns.
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Using mark-recapture methods to estimate population size and survival of pyjama sharks (Poroderma africanum) in Mossel Bay, South Africa
… design (with the conventional tag data) and Cormack-Jolly-Seber (CJS) models (with the acoustic tag data) to analyze the mark-recapture data. In addition, a von Bertalanffy model was fit to the data to estimate individual growth. The best-fit robust design model showed the population as …
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Nesting Ecology Of Red-Headed Woodpeckers (Melanerpes Erythrocephalus) In Central Minnesota
… MARK, I analyzed mark-resighting data using a Cormack-Jolly-Seber (CJS) model to estimate annual apparent survival and detection probability. In the most parsimonious model, apparent survival varied by year and detection probability differed by sex. Annual apparent survival ranged from …
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On the use of demographic models to inform amphibian conservation and management: A case study of the reticulated flatwoods salamander
… their final body size. In chapter 3, we employ a Cormack-Jolly-Seber model, modified to include continuous covariates, to generate size-dependent survival curves. Survival of A bishopi exhibits dramatic annual and seasonal variability, but is always positively correlated with body size. Lastly, in …
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Once an other, always an other: Contemporary discursive representations of the Asian other in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Developments in the theorising of representation and the constitutive nature of language have encouraged an increased scholarly interest in the discursive construction of social identities, relations, and realities. This includes a growing body of literature internationally that focuses on the …
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Sport and Physical Education in the Northern Mainland Burghs of Scotland c. 1600-1800
British sport history has become a serious branch of historical enquiry over the past three decades. Yet, many questions as regards regions, chronology, space, gender and power remain unexplored, especially in Scotland before 1800. This study examines sport and physical education in the northern …
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Evidence being disseminated
The aim of this thesis was to examine racism in order to participate in the development of anti-racist strategies. For this reason it investigated two central features of racism - the philosophical and the political. In connection with the philosophical feature it examined racism in relation to the …
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Gambling against Rawls
In A Theory of Justice (1971) John Rawls attempted to solve the problem of distributive justice by combining self-interest, ignorance and risk-aversion. He argued that if self-interested persons in a situation of uncertainty imposed by a veil of ignorance were choosing principles for the basic …
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Psychiatric nursing described : an investigation of the role of the psychiatric nurse using Flanagan's critical incident technique
The major aim of this thesis was to describe the work of six grades of ward-based psychiatric nurses. The major data collection tool used was Flanagan's critical incident technique. Four thousand, four hundred and seventy seven incidents were collected from 1,637 staff and patient respondents in …
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Values in psychotherapy: an exploration of their role and function in professional practice
This thesis explores the values of a group of practicing psychotherapists and examines the function these values have for their personal and professional lives with a view to both clarifying and deepening an understanding of the role of values in professional life and practice. The study is …
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Assessing the global conservation status of ecologically poorly undertood, threatened chelonian species : the case of the critically endangered Madagascar spider tortoise (<i>Pyxis arachnoides</i>)
… area of occupancy. A Mark-Capture-Recapture, Cormack-Jolly-Seber model and a stage class, projection matrix was developed to model mean annual survival, finite growth rate and population survival. Finally, remotely sensed habitat loss was monitored within the core of the species range. These …
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An economic history of shipbuilding and marine engineering
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Overview of fiber optics technology: industrial and military
Fiber optics technology is being used in many applications, both in the military world and in the industrial world. A broad overview of this technology is provided, including a discussion of the fundamentals of fiber operation and component characteristics. Applications of fiber optics in both …
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Population Dynamics of Threatened Piping Plovers on the Niobrara River, Nebraska
… River, 2010–2016, using logistic exposure and Cormack-Jolly-Seber models, respectively. We monitored 1,874 banded hatch-year and adult birds across the regional population (Niobrara River, Lewis and Clark Lake, Gavins Point Reach segment of the Missouri River), and used multi-state …
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