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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Fay"”.
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Body/sexuality/control : female identity in four Fay Weldon novels
… the concept itself deployed in four novels by Fay Weldon (1931- ), a contemporary English writer. The novels examined are Puffball (1980), The President's Child (1982), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) and Growing Rich (1992). The thesis's· theoretical focus is feminist, and it makes use of …
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Fay-Herriot Small Area Estimation in the Survey of Business Owners
This paper will study the use of the Fay-Herriot small area estimation model on the Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons (SBO) 2002 data. Small area estimation continues to be an important topic as the demand for reliable small area statistics continues to grow. Because direct …
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Masks of the Dark Goddess in Arthurian Literature: Origin and Evolution of Morgan le Fay
… primary example of such a character is Morgan le Fay, who, by the time Sir Thomas Malory writes Le Morte d'Arthur in the fifteenth century, has assumed a range of roles from sister to King Arthur, Queen in her own right, wicked sorceress, and healer. Using both Post-Colonial and Feminist lenses, …
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An examination of the life and thought of Zina Fay Peirce, an American reformer and feminist
Zina ray Peirce (1336-1923), the first wife of Cnarles S. Peirce, America’s great philosopher, was a woman who devoted her life to cause of improving the position of women in America. This study examines her specific accomplishments as a reformer; attitudes about women in nineteenth-century America …
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Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
<p>This master’s thesis explores Fay Weldon’s implementation of Menippean satire in her 1983 novel, <em>The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. </em>The present discussion argues Weldon utilizes this specific satiric mode within her novel in order to convey a story of radical female empowerment and …
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Architectural contextualism in the twentieth century, with particular reference to the architects E. Fay Jones and John Carl Warnecke
… These architects are John Carl Warnecke, E. Fay Jones, and George White and others. This research has yielded the systematic, comprehensive definition of contextualism, a set of metrics which can be used as a basis of design and aid in the evaluation of the degree to which a building or set …
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A numerical model study about the impacts of dry air on tropical cyclone formation
… model simulations of ex-Gaston (2010) and pre-Fay (2008). The former can be regarded as a non-developing system as it failed to redevelop after being downgraded into a remnant low, and the latter developed into a tropical cyclone despite lateral dry air entrainment and transient upper-level dry …
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An accurate junction circulator design procedure
… for a digital computer representing this model, Fay & Comstock’s design method to calculate electrical and physical properties of applied ferrite cylindrical resonators and measured impedance values of those, for computation of designed circulator performance. The main results are summarized as …
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A comparison of one-sided variables acceptance sampling methods when measurements are subject to error
… population variance;In the late 1950's, David, Fay and Walsh2 suggested a one-sided variables acceptance sampling method (David) for problems where the measurement error variance is known. A competitor to this plan (MLE) is one based on plugging maximum likelihood estimates for the parameters of …
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A proposal for a computer-based system to support the Chinese Marine Corps Field Maneuver Controlling and Evaluation Operation (FIOP).
… It initially describes the current manual system fay identifying each organizational group and the functions each perform. BSP is then defined including its background, underlying concepts and potential benefits. Finally, the 3SP methodology is applied to FIOP resulting in a list of data classes, …
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Roughness length variability over heterogeneous surfaces
… 1-4 June 2008 and the passage of Tropical Storm Fay on 18-21 August 2008. Spatial and temporal variations in roughness lengths for a period of one year are compared to landscape features near the three observation platforms using shadow analysis of satellite photographs. Wind speeds during the …
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Seasonal Roads
<p>Lynn Kimball Fay has been publishing for twenty-five years under the pen-name L. E. Kimball.<br />As a writer, I’m interested in the way Truth seems to me—intuitively—nonlinea. I’m interested in story cycles that examine Truth from different points of view, usually nonlinearly; and I’m …
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"The Only Way I Was Going to Be Lovable." A Grounded Theory of Young People's Experiences of Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
… (Gunstad & Phillips, 2003; Phillips, Menard & Fay, 2006) and is estimated to affect 2.2% of the UK adolescent population (Veale, Gledhill, Christodoulou, & Hodsoll 2016). There is a dearth of research into children’s and young people’s (CYP’s) lived experiences of BDD, particularly in relation …
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Experimental and analytical investigation of the Spin-Valence kirigami space frame
… Professor at the University of Arkansas in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Professor Baker's motivation and research approaches concerning the creation of this original frame draw from "disciplined play" with patterns in search of creative, structurally refined solutions (Baker …
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Temporal stability of rating behaviors: effects of differences in rater and ratee samples
Latham, Saari, and Fay (1980) asserted that their behavioral observation scales (BOS) produce stably high scale reliabilities across rating occasions. Kane Bernardin (in press) argued that this was due to methodological flaws. They faulted Latham et al. first for scale optimization and secondly, …
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Field Observations and Numerical Simulations of Groundwater Dynamics Within Cabretta Island, A Georgia Barrier Island
… the beach. </p><p>In August 2008, Tropical Storm Fay came within 200 kilometers of the study site, bringing a one meter storm surge and 8.5 centimeters of precipitation. Groundwater monitoring data showed that the storm significantly altered hydraulic gradients and increased hydraulic head by 50 …
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Re-situating the body : history, myth, and the contemporary women's writings in English and Japanese
… Carter (who lived in Japan), Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon, Muriel Spark, Yuko Matsumoto, Rieko Matsuura, Yoriko Shono, Yumiko Kurahashi. Their work is situated in relation to earlier imaginative writing, myth, legend and examples of the Gothic mode.
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Citizen perspectives on community policing : an examination of theories, philosophy and principles at work
… the component parts of critical social science (Fay, 1987), normative sponsorship theory (Sower, et al., 1957) and community education for development (Compton & McClusky, 1980).A purposive sample was utilized to examine this topic. This sample was composed of citizens (N = 71) from Fort Wayne, …
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With good intentions: Appalachian service providers in human services and community mental health
… of their use in the study: H.T.Wilson, Brian Fay, Alfred Adler, Stephen Fawcett, and George Gazda. Presenting one subjective view of reality, conclusions of the study pointed to unconscious guilt on the part of participants with respect to system inadequacies, marked by a desire to feel …
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