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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Disconnections"”.
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Living drosscapes, remediating urban disconnections
“Adaptively re-using waste landscapes has become one of the twenty-first century’s great infrastructural design challenges” - Alan Berger The study of this dissertation aims to understand how the principles of landscape architecture and the theory of urbanisation can be used to reprogram “waste …
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Connected Disconnections Negotiating family separation, membership and conflict: A discourse analysis
Parental separation affects family forms and creates challenges around managing co-parenting relationships. The literature has identified a change in how western families are viewed, moving away from traditional identifiers to a role-based and social practices construct which includes the growing …
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(Re)connecting disconnections: the role of Cogenerative Spaces in our awareness of how learning is mobilised in schools
There is little doubt that school improvement is a complex endeavour. School organisations are dynamic systems where individuals interact in different ways on any given day, and where both adults and children are constantly changing and growing within their own unique contexts. In addition, school …
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Disconnection of outlet glaciers and vulnerability of Harding Icefield, Southcentral Alaska
… yr−1 to 32.1 km2 yr−1. A total of 124 glacier disconnections were identified (61 total and 63 partial) across 26 glaciers, with most occurring between 2009 and 2018, and concentrated on the eastern side of the icefield. Disconnected glaciers lost an average of 28.8% of their 1986 area, …
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Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission
… barriers and strong social and cultural disconnections between the educational system and underrepresented low-income minority social groups. Social, cultural and educational disconnections and inequalities can be challenged by creating third spaces to encourage the development of …
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Armadillo
… results of the node's mobility, such as frequent disconnections and changing IP addresses, are introduced into the model. TCP may timeout and quit as a response to these events and therefore yield a suboptimal performance. This work introduces Armadillo, a protocol to hide intermittent …
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Database-as-a-service integration with ad hoc mobile cloud-powered GUISET
… is not achievable at all times. The Internet disconnections result in cloud resources being unreachable by the mobile users, which has a negative impact on most applications. In an attempt to mitigate the connectivity outage issue between mobile devices and the cloud, this work proposes the …
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Phase-Locked Loops, Islanding Detection and Microgrid Operation of Single-Phase Converter Systems
… of the PLL controller which is sensitive to grid-disconnections. This method is advantageous over other methods of active islanding detection mainly due to the need for those methods to perturb the output to test for islanding conditions. The PLL stability method does not inject signal …
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Design considerations for fixed node assisted multi-hop mobile sensor networks
… routing protocol; it causes link breakages and disconnections between the nodes. This instability in the network leads to a drop in the successful transmission of data packets to the main station. In order to understand the key factors in the performance degradation in a mobile network and …
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The impending retirements of community college presidents: A higher education leadership crisis
… and concluded that there are a number of disconnections between the role expectations of today’s community college president and the professional and personal expectations of potential candidates to fill the upcoming vacancies. These disconnections and their application for practice are …
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The Relationship between Policy, Program, and Implementation in Sustainable Urban Water Management
… creation, extracted some common connections and disconnections (gaps) between policies, programs, and implementations. Moreover, I have discussed the role of these gaps in the efficiency of municipalities' approaches. This is followed by a framework to fill out these gaps between policies, …
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Mars, Tennessee
… novel that explores the connections and disconnections of individuals working at a chocolate factory in a small southern town, Mars, Tennessee showcases the daily moments of employees – from temp workers to executive management – that define them as people. In the short story “Beyond Our …
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Ultra-Fast, Autonomous, Reconfigurable Communication System
… 1,900 deaths, three million land-line phones disconnections, and more than 2000 cell sites going out of service. This incident highlighted an urgent need for a quick-deployment, efficient communication network for emergency relief purposes. In this research, a fully autonomous system to deploy …
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The relational construction of woman abuse : narratives of gender, subjectivity and violence in South Africa
… on the other hand, were characterised by major disconnections in the content and function. It was concluded that, although presumptions about homogeneity prevail, greater sensitivity to heterogeneity amongst victims, perpetrators and couples is appropriate. This study provides insight into the …
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The Rhetoric and Realities of Social Impact Bonds
… any results. This study investigates possible disconnections between the arguments for and the practice of SIBs through textual analysis and elite interviewing. I identify three major disparities between the rhetoric and realities of SIBs: measurement of social impact, complexity of …
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Development of virtual network computing (VNC) environment for networking and enhancing user experience
… of nomadic clients with their much frequent disconnections. I have designed a conceptual algorithm called Improved Collaborative Quality of Experience (IC‐QoE), an algorithm that aims to eliminate frustration and improve QoE of users in a collaborative session in the case of disconnections …
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Exploring the Development of Fourth Graders' Environmental Identity Through Participation in a Semi-Formal Nature Club
Nature deficit, where disconnections occur between children and nature have come to the forefront of environmental education in recent years. This study explored how fourth graders in an after-school Nature Club developed or strengthened their environmental identity, thus decreasing nature deficit. …
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No contest: theorizing power through aspects of health and social care policy in the wake of the demise of the internal market in NHS Wales
… social care policy may help to explain apparent disconnections between policy intent and the effect of policy in practice in the context of post-devolution Wales; • suggests that, at its most extreme, neglecting to take into account the role of power in the design, implementation and review of …
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Not One Without Water
… represent an exploration of connections and disconnections between the author’s Native American heritage, the female body and violence, and a strong sense of place. Major themes interact with and weave around one another, creating a kaleidoscopic vision of the narrator’s experiences. Always, …
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