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Bioagent defeat in shock driven gas flow
The problem of planar shock interaction with gas cylinders whose axis of symmetry is parallel to the plane of the shock has been well studied both experimentally and numerically, and in this case, the flow evolution driven by Richtmyer-Meshkov instability is well characterized (although, as this …
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Defeat in victory : organizational learning dysfunction in counterinsurgency
Two puzzles dominate the study of organizational learning and counterinsurgency. First, militaries often struggle to develop effective strategies to address the problem of counterinsurgency. Second, their strategic performance seldom improves over successive counterinsurgency campaigns. This study …
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Unconquerable Defiance: Richmond Newspapers and Confederate Defeat, 1864-1865
… for reassurance that victory was still possible. Defeats were minimized and even the tiniest victory in the most insignificant skirmish was magnified. When the Northern army began its strategy of hard war, the Richmond press seized on that to help create a demonized portrait of the Yankee and the …
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The 1944 Senatorial Election: The Defeat of Gerald P. Nye
… is to investigate the causes for Senator Nye's defeat in the 1944 Senatorial election. The particular problem involved here is that isolationism has been commonly interpreted as the decisive reason for his defeat. This, however, is a singular interpretation of history largely stemming from the …
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From Victory to Defeat: The Chinese Mission in Japan, 1946-1952
… seven-year period that witnessed the military defeat of the Kuomintang. As the Kuomintang fought to retain control of the Chinese mainland between 1945 and 1949, the Chinese Mission vied for influence in Japan with the three leading Allied powers—the United States, the United Kingdom and the …
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On the Impact and Defeat of Regular Expression Denial of Service
Regular expressions (regexes) are a widely-used yet little-studied software component. Engineers use regexes to match domain-specific languages of strings. Unfortunately, many regex engine implementations perform these matches with worst-case polynomial or exponential time complexity in the length …
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Virility and Defeat: Masculinities in Italy between Fascism and the Sexual Revolution
… were fundamentally reshaped by violence and defeat. At the same time, consumer culture, exemplified by American GIs and expanding continuously through the 1950s and 1960s, encouraged the emergence of a new kind of man, only for this type, too, to be contested in turn in the wake of the New …
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The Toronto globe and mail and the defeat of the German Air Force.
Dept. of History, Philosophy, and Political Science. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1976 .E44. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1976.
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To defeat a maverick: Foreign policy, Barry Goldwater and the 1964 presidential election
… of foreign policy issues to the Arizonan's defeat in the 1964 presidential election. World War II and the Cold War increased the importance of foreign policy considerations in presidential elections, and from 1948 through 1964, every major party nominee advocated the militant containment of …
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Social defeat and oxytocin regulation of social avoidance and stress-related signaling proteins
… population is poorly understood. The social defeat paradigm is considered one of the most representative animal models to study the neural mechanisms associated with stress-induced social avoidance. Particularly, social defeat in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) advantageously allows the …
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The Lost Cause: An Examination of the Defeat of the Confederate States of America
… Cause of the Confederacy and the reasons for the defeat of the Confederate States of America. The Confederate States of America was created with propaganda, lofty ideals and unbridled optimism. With the outcome of the American Civil War known, this study seeks to answer the question, was the …
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Vulnerability and Resilience to Social Defeat: The Role of Neuroplasticity Within the Mesolimbic Dopamine Circuit
… an inbred population of mice subjected to social defeat can be separated into susceptible and unsusceptible subpopulations which differ along several behavioral and physiological domains. Through a series of molecular and electrophysiological techniques, we identify signature adaptations within …
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Religion as a factor in the defeat of Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928
… of this interpretation of the cause of Smith’s defeat in the election of 1928, in the hope that a careful representation of the past will enable us to understand the living present and to predict the uncertain future.</p>
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The invincible defeat of a violent innocent : entertaining paradox and paranoia in the therapy of a borderline patient
In this thesis I use the case study to understand and interpret the manifested transference-countertransference anxiety in the therapy as it was expressed largely through the patient's and the therapist's paranoia. The experience of the sense of aliveness and deadness in the therapeutic hour, and …
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When will parties comply with electoral results? Political institutions and strategic choices of political parties following electoral defeat
… when deciding how to respond to electoral defeat. Most prominently, political parties take into account their chances of winning in the future electoral cycles when responding to current electoral outcomes. Moreover, the characteristics of individual political parties, including their …
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Narratives of a Fallen Army: Japanese Veterans' Concepts of Defeat and War Crimes Responsibility in World War Two
… Japanese military experienced different types of defeat in World War Two (WWII) both during and after the war, including loss in battles and war crimes trials. This dissertation analyses Japanese veterans’ postwar narratives in relation to the concepts of defeat and addresses the issue of war …
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The Appalachian Power Company Along the New River: The Defeat of the Blue Ridge Project in Historical Perspective
… lawyers and the State of North Carolina defeated a considerably enlarged version of the proposal after a legal battle lasting over a decade. Why was this double impoundment not successfully constructed? What had changed in the last decades to influence Appalachian Power's previously …
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