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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"David A."”.
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Pastor's son
… closest to Eric--his family, led by his father, David, a small town Methodist minister; Bryce, a gay man and Eric's friend and coworker; and Josh, Eric's best friend while growing up, the young man who accidentally kills Eric--all struggle to understand the meaning of Eric's death, to forgive …
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Negotiating Identity in the Transnational Imaginary of Julia Alvarez's and Edwidge Danticat's Literature
… of Édouard Glissant, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, and David A. Hollinger—explores the effects of cultures founded on ideas of relation and affiliation rather than on rooted socio-cultural legitimacy and ethno-political authority. Danticat and Alvarez's characters engage in a process of present living …
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Marksistinių ir čiabuvių perspektyvų santykis zapatistų politiniame diskurse /
… It is based on a theory of framing, developed by David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford. Theory helps successfully study social movements, as well as ideologies. In the context of this work, it also helped to explain the complex identity constructed by the Zapatistas from the two specific ideological …
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Matthew’s Presentation of The Son of David: Davidic Tradition and Typology in the Gospel of Matthew
… the Gospel of Matthew and its interaction with Davidic tradition and use of Davidic typology. Throughout the narrative, the evangelist makes pervasive use of Davidic tradition from the Old Testament in his portrayal of Jesus. This begins from the first verse and the declaration that Jesus is the …
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Architectural form from human nature
That Christopher Alexander, Serge Chermayeff, David A. Crane, Aldo van Eyck, Louis I. Kahn, Peter and Allison Smithson and Robert Venturi are evolving a theory of architecture based on human nature and that the accommodation of human nature is a prime determinate of architectural form and that the …
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Learning Style AND Entrepreneurial Operations:A Small Business Study
… decision making by using the construct of David A. Kolb's Learning Style Inventory to examine an entrepreneurial operation in the pet dog-training industry. The researcher worked hand-in-hand with the entrepreneur in a collaborative partnership to explore the phenomenon using narrative …
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Extraction of caprolactam in a rotating disk contactor extractor
Caprolactam (C₆H₁₁NO) is produced in industry primarily as a monomer to be converted to nylon-6 via a polymerization reaction. More demanding purity requirements for nylon-6 have increased the performance requirements of extraction columns in the purification train of caprolactam production. …
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Experimental study of internal gravity waves over a slope
A series of laboratory experiments were conducted in a glass wave tank to investigate the propagation of internal gravity waves up a sloping bottom in a fluid with constant Brunt-Vaisala frequency. Measurements of the wave motion in the fluid interior were primarily taken with electrical …
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Bridging Atomistic, Mesoscale, and Systems Perspectives in the Design of Vanadium-Based Energy Storage Technologies
Several origins of battery performance degradation are traceable to multi-field and multi-physics coupling originating at atomistic scales, manifested at mesoscale dimensions, and compounded up to the level of electrode architectures. A detailed understanding of electrochemistry—mechanics coupling …
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STOMACH CONTENT ANALYSIS OF BOTULISM-AFFECTED BIRDS IN LAKE MICHIGAN
<p>Avian botulism type E has caused large-scale bird and fish die-offs on the Great Lakes annually since 1998, and continues to threaten breeding and migratory waterbirds in the region. From 2010 to 2012, several northern Lake Michigan beaches were monitored for avian mortalities by National Park …
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A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong -- their History, Culture and American Journey
<p>Keightley, David, M.A., May 2010 History A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong – Their History, Culture and American Journey Chairperson: Michael Mayer Following the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian refugees fled their homelands for America, …
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Identification of hepatitis C virus core protein residues critical for the interaction with the cellular DEAD-Box Helicase DDX3 and their functional relevance
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the Flaviviridae and infects approximately 170 million people worldwide. Unlike other known RNA viruses, HCV causes a persistent infection in the majority of infected people and can lead to cirrhosis of the liver and hepatocellular …
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Application of molecular mechanics polarization to fragment based drug design.
Polarization is a term that is often excluded from almost all virtual screening. Polarizability helps explain interactions between nonpolar atoms and electrically charged species. When studying fragments in FBDD these minor interactions could have large effect in changing how well a ligand will …
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The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business
<p>The labor of enslaved Africans and Black Americans played a large part in the history of colonial America, with the American plantation being the epicenter for all that was to be produced. While the two have never been completely tied together, capitalism and modern day slavery have been linked …
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A Semester Long Classroom Course Mimicking a Software Company and a New Hire Experience for Computer Science Students Preparing to Enter the Software Industry
<p>Students in a Computer Science degree programs must learn to code before they can be taught Software Engineering skills. This core skill set is how to program and consists of the constructs of various languages, how to create short programs or applications, independent assignments, and arrive at …
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Discovering the behaviors that facilitate or impede the dissertation completion of selected doctoral students having the all but dissertation (ABD) status
The purposes of this study were: 1) to better understand the doctoral experience as participants described the meanings they gave to their experiences, and 2) to increase understanding about the ways in which the meanings attributed to their doctoral experiences enhance our understanding of …
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