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An algorithm for a dollar bill recognition system
This paper presents an algorithm for a dollar bill recognition system. Although this thesis describes it in detail for the specific application of designing a dollar bill recognition system, the algorithm is quite general and can be applied to a variety of pattern recognition problems. The scheme …
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BRICS Currency and Dollar Hegemony: Passing of the Torch?
… currency has the power to challenge the U.S. Dollar for currency hegemony, creating an unprecedented situation in the global economy. In the present study, the author explores the viability of a BRICS currency acting as a meaningful source of counter-hegemonic power which could, in reality, …
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The Million-Dollar Question: Why Pre-Adolescents Watch Television
<p>This study presents qualitative research examining the relationship youth have with television. Information for this study was collected through media journals, personal essays, in-depth interviews, and focus groups held with eighteen sixth-graders who attended a charter elementary school in …
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Improved Strategies for Dollar Spot Suppression Using Ferrous Sulfate
Dollar spot is one of the most common diseases of warm- and cool-season turfgrass stands and is especially devastating on creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.). The fungus Sclerotinia homoeocarpa degrades the foliage by creating silver, dollar-sized depressions of dead and bleached turf. …
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Dollar Stores and Supermarket Survivability in Non-metropolitan US Communities
<p>With the growing popularity of dollar stores, concerns have surfaced over the potential relationship between dollar stores and the closures of grocery stores. Healthy food accessibility for consumers, particularly those in rural areas, has additionally become of great interest. This thesis aims …
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"If it quacks like a sphere" : the million dollar problem
Grigori Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematician, may have proved the Poincare Conjecture, a statement first poised by Jules Henri Poincare in 1902. The problem is the most eminent challenge in the mathematical field of topology. Perelman posted his proof on the online informal preprint server …
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Three essays on the black market for the Dollar in Brazil
The existence of black markets for foreign exchanges has been a common characteristic of economies of many developing countries. These markets surge as a direct consequence of adoption of exchange rate controls in economies facing substantial macroeconomic imbalances.
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Determinants of credit spreads on U.S. dollar-denominated Asian corporate bonds
… determinants of credit spreads on U.S. dollar-denominated Asian corporate bonds. Using a country-level unbalanced panel dataset of Asian corporate bond indices, I find that global factors including U.S. corporate bond spreads and the U.S. long-term Treasury yield are main determinants of …
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Beyond Food Access: Accumulation by Dispossession and Dollar General in Central Appalachia
Dollar General has seen massive growth, opening almost 1,000 stores per year for ten years. Executives attribute the company's success to their attention to the expanding poverty class in low-food-access urban and rural areas. Central Appalachia in particular -- which has one of the highest rates …
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A Critical Examination of Dollar Unit Sampling in the Audit of Accounts Receivable
… selection techniques used in conjunction with dollar unit sampling (DUS) and examines the behavior of five DUS bounds proposed in the accounting literature when applied to simulated accounts receivable populations. This research recognizes that large differences exist between the various …
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Wage determination theory and the five-dollar day at Ford : a detailed examiniation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1987.
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Predictability of the Dollar- Rand exchange rate using Taylor Rule fundamentals and commodity Prices.
… vis-à-vis its major trading currency, the US dollar. South Africa being a small open commodity exporting economy with inflation targeting as a monetary policy framework is quite vulnerable to international shocks. This paper is an attempt to forecast the US/ R exchange rate using time series …
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A Fifty Million Dollar Piece of Dirt: Somerville as a Case Study in Development
In May, 2023, the City of Somerville achieved the highest S&P Global Ratings AAA credit rating. The accompanying report, citing one gentrifying neighborhood as a “notable contributor to increased market value,” signaled the city’s “attractiveness” to potential investors by promising low interest …
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Morphological and Biochemical Changes of Sand Dollar Larvae in Response to Variation in Diet and Salinity
<p>Larval growth and development of two sand dollars, <em>Mellita isometra</em> and <em>Dendraster excentricus</em> was investigated by assigning larvae to several single and mixed algal diets, three levels of salinity and salinity-diet combinations in the laboratory. For <em>M. isometra</em>, …
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Zimbabwe dollarisation: short term gift, long term curse - reintroducing the Zimbabwe dollar using the gold standard
… suggests that in the short to medium term, dollarization as a monetary policy measure, post a period of high inflation, reduces economic volatility, stabilises the inflation of goods and services, and restores economic predictability. However, in fully dollarized economics (as opposed to …
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The 1,000 dollar home : a scalable business model to build disaster relief dwellings and upgrade slums
This thesis proposes a new model for the private markets to build disaster relief dwellings or to upgrade degraded neighborhoods of very low income communities. The study offers a way to empower the dwellers of very poor communities or the victims of natural disasters not only by providing them …
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The Effects of Job Characteristics and Task Decomposition on the Estimation of the Dollar-Value of Performance
… of the standard deviation of job performance in dollars (i.e., SD<sub>y</sub>). The job characteristics consisted of critical incidents of work behaviors and existing performance appraisal dimensions. The structuring aids consisted of full algorithm and partial algorithm procedures. In addition, …
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Evaluation of bacterial strains for control of dollar spot on creeping bentgrass and brown patch on tall fescue
… homoeocarpa F.T. Bennett, causal agent of dollar spot on creeping bentgrass (Agrostis palustris Huds.); and Rhizoctonia solani Kihn, causal agent of brown patch on tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.), are important pathogens of turfgrass. This research evaluated the ability of twenty …
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