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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"FLOSS"”.
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Thermal Analysis of Milkweed Floss Using TG/FTIR
… (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) of the floss. During pyrolysis, acetic acid, formic acid and methanol are formed 1n addition to CO2<em>, </em>and H2O<em>. </em>The data also show that pyrolytic decomposition of the three chemical constituents of milkweed occur without any apparent …
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Gender tragedy in George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss"
… George Eliot examined these roles in Mill on the Floss. She did so through her representations of Tom and Maggie Tulliver and by examining how each of these characters deal with the respective roles for his or her gender while living during the Victorian age. Tom strictly follows the imposed roles …
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The Victorian Woman in Mary Barton and Mill on the Floss: What Causes the Angel to Fall
… I suggest that Eliot and Gaskell, in Mill on the Floss and Mary Barton, utilize elements of reality in their novels to inspire the reader to sympathize with their characters.
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Efficacy of the FlossPro Flosser versus Finger Flossing in Orthodontic Patients
… preference of orthodontic patients when using a floss aid compared to conventional finger flossing with a floss threader. Methods: Thirty-four adolescent and young adult patients with fixed orthodontic appliances and poor oral hygiene were enrolled from the Loma Linda University Graduate …
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A Gentlemen's Benevolence: Symptoms of Class, Gender, and Social Change in Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Mill on the Floss
… advantages. Eliot's Bob Jakin in The Mill on the Floss engages in benevolence out of true sympathy unhindered by self-interest. His freedom from social constraint and self-interest allows him to truly help Maggie Tulliver when no one else can. These authors' depictions of benevolence all …
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Low-latency network coding for streaming video multicast
… tight arrival deadlines. This thesis presents FLOSS, a wireless protocol for streaming video multicast. At the core of FLOSS is a novel network code. This code maximizes the decoding opportunities at every receiver, and at the same time minimizes redundancy and decoding latency. Instead of …
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Kommerzielle Entwicklung von Open-Source-Software: Idealismus, Pragmatismus oder Strategie? Eine Fallstudie über Entwickler des Linux-Kernels in großen Firmen der Informationstechnologie
Free/Libre and Open-Source-Software (FLOSS) im Allgemeinen sowie das Betriebssystem Linux im Speziellen erfreuen sich seit rund zehn Jahren zunehmender wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung und sind heute ein wesentlicher Baustein der professionellen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie. Entwickelt …
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Participatory design and free and open source software in the not for profit sector – the Hublink Project.
… of a Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) based information system in a consortium of small-scale community organisations. The research is centred on the design, production and implementation of a case management system with and for a group of nine not-for-profit organisations in the …
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Adopting agile methodologies in distributed software development
… approaches in the software development. FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) has been proposed as possible different solution to the software crisis that is afflicting the ICT worldwide business. If the AMs improve the quality code and allow to respond quickly to requirement changes, …
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A poetics of Jesus: a/christology in the early fiction of George Eliot
… of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and The Mill on the Floss - as an exercise in developing what I have termed a poetics of Jesus. This constitutes a poetics that is a space of continual clearing (lichtung) and an ultimate deconstruction of barriers that inhibit the nexus of the subject and the sacred. …
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The Effectiveness of Oral Health Computer Assisted Instruction on Increasing the Oral Hygiene Status of Children
… dental kit containing a toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and an oral health instruction pamphlet. The Personal Hygiene Performance Index was performed on each student prior to, one day following, and one month following oral health instructions. Results indicated that oral health computer assisted …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner, resist or rewrite English cultural myths that embody shame as a method of social control, especially myths from the Bible related to the doctrine of election. Eliot employs a two-level structure suggested by her reading of …
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Toothbrushing, Flossing, and Preventive Dental Visits by Richmond-Area Residents in Relation to Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors
… Females were more likely than males to brush and floss their teeth at the recommended frequencies (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.4-5.1; OR 2.8, 95% CI 1.5-5.1 respectively). Individuals with higher levels of education were more likely than those with lower levels of education to brush twice daily and have …
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The Effect of Mechanical Plaque Control on the Clinical Parameters of Human Periodontal Disease
… instructed in the use of toothbrushes, dental floss and interdental brushes where indicated. Measurements were repeated at monthly intervals until no significant changes in any of the clinical parameters were noted for two consecutive months. At this time the Perio-Aid<sup>® </sup>was …
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Assessing the functional adequacy of children's phonological systems
… be critical for the . occurrence of homophony. FLOSS-values and IMH have been calculated for a selection of phonological processes commonly found to operate in the speech of young normal children and children with disordered phonologies, on the basis of a sample of common vocabulary of normal …
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George Eliot’s Generative Economies: transactional maternal sacrifice in social realist fiction, 1853-1894
… to a consideration of Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) alongside Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth (1853). It then reads Daniel Deronda (1876) as a proto-Freudian fragmentation point for the novel form, before turning to an analysis of infanticide in Adam Bede (1859). The final chapter reads George …
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Some sociolinguistic aspects of second language teaching and learning of Xhosa
… by a character in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss. When Mr Tulliver uttered the above he was, unconsciously though it may have been, making a statement about how language operates in society. This, of course, is putting it in a nutshell. In fact, what Mr Tulliver was saying, was that: (i) …
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Expanding community art practice: an analysis of new forms of productive site within community art practice
… social media, Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and open data. In combining existing community art methods and methodologies, with those taken from the social use of digital technologies, an attempt has been made to expand community art to include these social sites productively within its …
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Dynamics of confined chemical gardens and implications for submarine methane hydrates
… filament wrapping around an expanding “candy floss” structure, forming a new pattern resembling an Archimedean spiral. The effective density of the precipitate as well as the permeability of the membrane were estimated from the results. Finally, in a fourth study, these findings were applied …
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