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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Derby"”.
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Derby, Kansas: cold war boomtown
This thesis explores the development of Derby, Kansas, from the arrival of its first settlers in 1869 through the early 1970s. During its first seventy-five years, Derby never grew beyond its origins as a tiny trade center for local farmers, its economic growth constantly stymied and overshadowed …
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Derby, Disraeli and the Reform Bill of 1859
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7514174.pdf: 12315697 bytes, checksum: 0569251d74cc7f608711f1e978c773fb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Poems concerning the Stanley family (Earls of Derby) 1485-1520
… family of Stanley, Lords Stanley and Earls of Derby, at the battles of Bosworth (1485) and Flodden (1513). The introduction discusses the manuscripts and editions, the conditions for which the poems were composed, the style of the poems, and their contributions to the history of the period. The …
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Gender and Bodily Transformation in Women's Flat Track Roller Derby
… and violence into the male body. Roller derby, which is a full-contact, highly physical sport, offers women the opportunity to renegotiate these stereotypical gendered and embodied ideas of gender. Drawing on bodily theory, contact sport, and self-defense literatures this study explores …
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How Media Frame Roller Derby Around the World in 20 Different Countries
… was conducted to analyze how media frame roller derby. The research included an analysis of newspaper articles published all around the world in 20 different nations from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2011, and different languages were considered. The research did not support previous studies …
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Motivational Differences in Why Sports Fans Attend Minor League Baseball and Roller Derby Events
… (Minor League baseball) and atypical (roller derby) fans. Eighty-one fans (40 Minor League baseball and 41 roller derby) completed an 8 question demographic survey, a 26-item Sport Fan Motivation Scale, a 7-item Sport Spectator Identification Scale, and a 10-item Sport Fan Exploratory …
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The Ferrers Earls of Derby : a study of the Honour of Tutbury 1066-1279.
… with special attention to the Earldom of Derby.
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Low lignin hull, high oil groat oat grain in lactating dairy cow rations
… (low in ADL and high in EE) was compared to Derby oat, and CDC Dolly barley grain. Twenty-one Suffolk wethers were randomly assigned diets, 100% barley silage or barley silage with 50, 75, or 90% (DM) LLH-HOG oat or CDC Dolly barley. Apparent digestibility of DM, CP, EE, NDF, ADF, and GE were …
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF HENRY ISAAC STEVENS — ARCHITECT
… born in London in 1806, but working from Derby between 1837 until his death in 1873, has provided an excellent subject for research. Stevens, and his contemporaries of a similar age, who completed their training in the early 1830s were fortunate to embark upon a career in building design …
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Designing Tomorrow's Reality: The Development and Validation of an Augmented and Mixed Reality Heuristic Checklist
… to develop an AR and MR heuristic checklist (Derby & Chaparro, 2022). This work resulted in 11 heuristics and 94 checklist items; however, validation of this checklist was limited. This dissertation broadened the heuristic checklist to ensure applicability to more application types, device …
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Pressure-Based Interaction Techniques for Supporting Feedback Strategies in Sports
… from feedback. One such scenario is Roller Derby skating, a full contact sport played on quad roller skates. This thesis identifies the need for providing lap time performance information during skating and provides a detailed exploration of interaction design using pressure as an input …
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GATD : una eina simplificada per la gestió de les actuacions tècniques a domicili
… empra EJB 3, Java Server Faces 2 i JavaDb (Derby) com a SGBD. A més de l'executable, el producte inclou el codi font Java, el projecte Eclipse amb que s'ha desenvolupat, la documentació JavaDoc, una breu guia pels usuaris i el resultat de les proves realitzades. A banda, s'hi publica la …
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Estudo de virulência de Salmonella spp. isolados de linfonodos mesentéricos suinos: uma abordagem utilizando o sequenciamento de genoma completo
… Salmonella spp., compreendendo os sorovares S. Derby (n=4), S. Give (n=2), S. Cerro (n=3), S. Typhimurium (n=4), S. I.4[5],12:i:- (n=4), S. Panamá (n=3), S Infantis (n=1), S. Bredeney (n=4), S. London (n=1) e S. Bovimorbificans (n=1) oriundos de linfonodos mesentéricos suínos dos Estados de …
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Allergenic pollen concentrations in the United Kingdom
… up to 30 years in length at London, Cardiff and Derby has been incorporated into the database, along with between 2 and 7 years of retrospective data from 7 other European Aeroallergen Network(UK) sites. Annual grass and birch pollen concentrations, start of season dates and seasonal severities …
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Characterization of Mercury Transport and Fate in the Truckee River, NV, USA
… of non-point source of pollution, and below Derby Dam, the main obstacle in the river. The reach above the city may be characterized as a pristine river system and it was reflected in sediments, fish, and macroinvertebrate Hg concentrations. Even though within the city reach there were no …
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Diversity Analysis of Soil Fungus Communities in Disturbed, Nursery, and Mature Forest Conditions
<p>Populations of soil fungi were examined in Derby Canyon Natives, Coeur d’Alene Forest Service nursery, Swamp Lake, and the Keechelus Lake wildlife overcrossing soils. All sampling sites were connected by their relation to the revegetation and native soil plug inoculation of the wildlife …
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Hidden from Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration of the Sherwood Foresters’ Involvement in Easter, 1916
… known officially as the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, were created in 1881 in England after combining the 45<sup>th</sup> (Nottinghamshire) and 95<sup>th</sup> (Derbyshire) Regiments of Foot and had previously served as part of the guard to the royal family. Four battalions were …
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Interpretable semantic representations from neural language models and computer vision
Recent years have seen a remarkable increase in the computational power we have at our disposal, which has been the driving force behind the emergence of large scale deep learning systems. Today, the field of computational linguistics is dominated by high capacity neural models that in many cases …
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Playing with Relatives: Genetic Kinship and Play Behavior in Juvenile Tibetan Macaques
<p>This thesis is composed of a journal-ready article and an accompanying appendix containing data and figures. In this thesis, I statistically analyzed the relationship between player age, player sex, genetic kinship and social play duration in juvenile Tibetan macaques.</p> <p>Chapter I provides …
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'These Things Don't Happen by Magic': Charismatic autonomy in festival production in the English East Midlands
… Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival and Derby Festé. It asks if festivals are hetero-regulated institutions or autonomous, charismatic actors within their localities and concludes the case-studies were strongly influenced by their founders’ professional habitus within their artistic …
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