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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Dexter"”.
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The Trial of Harry Dexter White: Soviet Agent of Influence
… members of the communist underground. Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury was accused of being a Soviet agent of influence. This paper will analyze the current issues in the discussion of Soviet espionage and focus on White's activities in this regard. The evidence on …
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Geochemistry of Arsenic, Manganese, and Iron in the Dexter Pit Lake, Tuscarora, Nevada
The Dexter pit lake is a mine pit lake located in north-eastern Nevada, located in the Tuscarora volcanic field. The pit lake formed in 1990 following cessation of open-pit gold and silver mining operations. This pit lake has been the subject of previous geological study, which served to outline …
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A Deconstruction of Dexter: An Analysis of Noble Cause Corruption Within a Crime Drama
… also how media, through television shows such as Dexter, portrays NCC. These two shows were chosen because they desensitize viewers to noble cause corruption by portraying those who are corrupt in a positive light. </p> <p>Dexter revolves around the life of one man in the Miami Metro Police …
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Jamaican Composers in the Classical Tradition: Three Vocal Works by Dexter, Ashbourne, and Marshall
… stages. Jamaican art music composers, Noel Dexter (b.1938-), Peter Ashbourne (b.1950-), and Andrew Marshall (b.1982-), have fulfilled these functions of hybridization through their works and as a result, have aided in strengthening Jamaican culture. With a plethora of cultural influences in …
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Spectroscopic investigation of photo-induced proton-coupled electron transfer and Dexter energy transfer in model systems
Spectroscopic investigations of systems designed to advance the mechanistic interrogation of photo-induced proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) and proton-coupled (through-bond) energy transfer (PCEnT) are presented. PCET is ubiquitous in Nature, where it is at the heart of bioenergy conversion …
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A Latina Captain in Showtime's Dexter: (Un)Veiling a Progressive Image of Latinas through Discourse Analysis of Media-Audience Co-constructions of Latinidad'
This thesis focuses on Showtimes series Dexter as a rich text through which to study the production and consumption of racial and gender representations in media. More specifically, this research examines the representation of a prominent Latina character (Captain Maria LaGuerta) in Dexter and the …
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An Extensible Framework for Annotation-based Parameter Passing in Distributed Object Systems
… types, and (ii) a plugin-based framework, DeXteR, that enables the programmer to extend the native set of remote parameter passing semantics, without having to understand or modify the underlying middleware implementation. DeXteR treats remote parameter passing as a distributed …
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Mitochondriale DNA Mutationen und Untersuchungen zum oxidativen Stress beim idiopathischen Parkinsonsyndrom
… Lipidhydroperoide) in der Substantia nigra (Dexter et al., 1989 b, 1994) und ein abnormaler Eisenstoffwechsel in den Basalganglien des Gehirns (Dexter et al., 1987; Dexter et al., 1989a; Cadet, 2001; Hirsch et al., 1991) einiger Patienten nachgewiesen worden. Erhöhte Eisenwerte in …
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Carbon fiber surface treatments for improved adhesion to thermoplastic polymers
… surface energy analysis. Hercules AS-4, Dexter Hysol XAS, and Union Carbide T-300 fibers were examined by STEM, angular dependent XPS, and breaking strength measurement before and after commercial surface treatment. The fibers from the three companies were anodized to create similar …
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Design for a sewerage system for the western district of the city of Central Falls, Rhode Island - considering the Dexter Street division in detail and a brief sketch of the accompanying sewage disposal plant
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1891
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A study of the effect of temperature and relative humidity on the drying rate and equilibrium moisture content of hay
… Heat in Mow Drying of Hay - Part Two", and Dexter, Sheldon and Waldron², "Equilibrium Moisture Content of Alfalfa Bay". In Mr. Davis I report the drying rate factor for the 68°F. dew point only was given, and the study by Dexter, Sheldon and Waldron was limited to a constant temperature …
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"All Necessary Force": The Coast Guard And The Sinking of the Rum Runner "I'm Alone"
… stop. On March 22, 1929, the Coast Guard Cutter Dexter sank the Canadian-flagged rum runner I'm Alone in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering an international incident that centered on "hot pursuit" and treaty jurisdiction. International encounters occurred frequently during Prohibition. The I'm Alone …
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Relationship of Weather Phenomena and Disruptive Behavior in Special Education Classrooms
… the present study differ from that reported by Dexter (1899) in these respects: (1) that behavior disturbances be objectively described; (2) that weather phenomena be recorded only for the time that school is in session; and (3) that specific probability levels for occurrence of behavior …
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Charles Ruggiero's "Tenor Attitudes": An Analytical Approach to Jazz Styles and Influences
… Michael Brecker, John Coltrane, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, and Sonny Rollins. This document discusses the lives and careers of each of these musicians. It analyzes their personal histories, preferred genres, and styles in an attempt to aid performers in accurately and sincerely performing …
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The fundamentals of the separation of a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide by gaseous diffusion
… fiber glass called Dexiglas mat obtained from Dexter and Sons, and 0.018-inch thick fiber glass Ultra Efficient Filter media mat obtained from Mine Safety Appliance Company. It was found that the hydrogen permeated at a rate greater than could be explained by diffusion alone, but which could be …
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Leadership and digital maturity in schools. Evidence from the Croatian Public School System
… del model de lideratge informàtic de Sara Dexter afegint una dimensió per fomentar les pràctiques digitals sostenibles. Aquest model pretén orientar altres escoles en el seu camí de maduració digital i informa els futurs cursos de formació en lideratge per a la maduresa digital. La tesi es …
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Photoluminescent energy transfer from poly(phenyleneethylene)s to a series of dyes
… dyes. This result suggested that an alternative Dexter mechanism substantially contributes to efficient energy transfer beyond the "through-space" dipolar mechanism of the Forster theory. This process is additionally assisted by the internal free volume within specific polymer hosts that prevent …
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On the Fault-tolerance and High Performance of Replicated Transactional Systems
… last contribution, this dissertation presents Dexter, a replication framework that exploits the commonly observed phenomenon such that not all read-only workloads require up-to-date data. It harnesses the application specific freshness and content-based constraints of read-only transactions to …
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Dynamics and spectra in condensed phases : single molecule spectroscopy, electron transfer, and excitation energy transfer
… are investigated by generalizing the Forster-Dexter theory of excitation energy transfer to the case of the nonstationary bath relaxation.
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