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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Flags"”.
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Fisheries management and flags of convenience
… IUU fishing is facilitated by the use of flags of convenience (FOC), which enable fishing vessel owners to escape regulations, and often avoid liability for their actions. Many measures have been introduced and many existing laws have been reinforced to address the implications of FOCs in …
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Web Conference Summarization Through a System of Flags
… articles do. This thesis proposes a system of flags used to extract information from sentences, where the flags are fed into Machine Learning models to determine the importance of the the sentence with which they are associated. The system of flags shows promise for multi-speaker conference …
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Recollecting history : songs, flags and a Syrian square
Symbols have played a major role in the development of a Syrian national identity since the beginning of the 20th century. These representations are national, official, and/or public (flag, song, and square), that are repetitively performed by successive generations of Syrian citizens, thus forming …
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Relational Red Flags: Detecting Undesirable Qualities in Initial Romantic Encounters
… main types and 23 subtypes of relational red flags, which also included the identification of the most severe relational red flags. Gender differences were also discovered. Study 2 built off the foundation provided by Study 1, revealing that relational red flags change across young adulthood, …
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Speed limits and red flags: why number agreement accidents happen
Trouble in language production sometimes surfaces in errors and sometimes surfaces in delays. Since these two symptoms of difficulty can trade off, theories may make predictions that are confirmed with measures of accuracy but disconfirmed with measures of speed, and vice-versa. In work on …
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Flags of convenience: legal responses to a 20th century shipping phenomenon
… 50th anniversary of the ITF's campaign against flags of convenience. For the second half of the 20th century this phenomenon has been subject both to constant public debate and to legal scrutiny. Generally, public opinion associates flags of convenience with ships owned by unscrupulous …
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Between two flags: cultural nationalism and racial formation in Puerto Rican Chicago, 1946-1994
… produced within social movements, Between Two Flags sheds new light on the history of attempts by forces within Chicago's Puerto Rican community to define its identity in the face of external pressures. The first two chapters investigate three early efforts to deploy cultural nationalism on a …
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Vietnam and the More Flags campaign, 1964--1965: The search for American allies in the Commonwealth
… April 1964, the United States initiated the More Flags campaign in an attempt to establish a western coalition force and diplomatic support system for the South Vietnamese government and for American intervention against the North. Three of the most heavily courted nations were the Commonwealth …
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Flags of Caution for Future Downturns in the Housing Market Prediction Using the Markov Chain Model
… Depression's comparable statistical data raise flags of caution for future downturns in the housing market. One of the major similarities is a housing boom, which in both periods preceded a downturn. Precipitous growth reached unsustainable levels; then, a big decline burst the real estate …
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Protocolo y Ordenación de Banderas. Repercusión Mediática en la Prensa Española
This doctoral thesis aims to analyze flags from an interdisciplinary approach from different perspectives as protocol, vexilology and theories of communication like study of the media. This research studies the flags as symbols that represent groups, institutions or countries as well as …
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What does this Mean?: Understanding how Women make Meaning of Text Messages while Developing an Intimate Relationship
… landscape?, (2) how do I figure it out?, (3) red flags, and (4) a red flag means. Participants described the context in which they enter relationships, and the role texting plays. Different strategies they used to make meaning of ambiguous text messages were discussed. Participants reported …
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THE INVISIBLE FRAUD: THE IMPACT OF INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS ON AUDITOR FRAUD DETECTION
… in these cases failed to attend to fraud red flags within the substantive testing evidence. Research in psychology regarding inattentional blindness (IB) provides a theoretical framework for explaining why auditors may be prone to missing fraud red flags. This study examines the presence of IB …
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THE SHIELD BEARING WARRIORS OF BEAR GULCH: A LOOK AT PREHISTORIC WARRIOR IDENTITY IN ROCK ART AND PLACES OF POWER
… shield for a body, a head, feet, and weapons or flags protruding out from behind the shield. At Bear Gulch there are elaborate headdresses, flags, shields, weapons, bustles, and wolf tail moccasins. Many of these elements are only found in the ethnographic literature and rarely occur in rock art. …
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THE SHIELD BEARING WARRIORS OF BEAR GULCH: A LOOK AT PREHISTORIC WARRIOR IDENTITY IN ROCK ART AND PLACES OF POWER
… shield for a body, a head, feet, and weapons or flags protruding out from behind the shield. At Bear Gulch there are elaborate headdresses, flags, shields, weapons, bustles, and wolf tail moccasins. Many of these elements are only found in the ethnographic literature and rarely occur in rock art. …
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The War on Terror and the War of Terror: Revealing the post-transformation separatism Kremlin, Radical Salafism and Post-Soviet Dagestan on a Road from the Peace to the Violence
… separatists did not officially gather under the flags of nation but under the flags of Islam. Soon, Dagestan entered a period of instability and violence which turned into a vicious circle of bloodshed. In a short period of time, Dagestan radically turned from stability to large scale violence, …
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Virginia Wastewater Surveillance: Can SARS-CoV-2 Once-Weekly Sampling Predict Imminent Rises in Community COVID-19 Disease Burden?
… sufficiently out of normal variance by assigning flags. The flags for both VL and cases were compared to each other, and performance metrics calculated. When using the SD multiplier threshold of 3 for both changing VL and cases (daily cases for next 7 days), the alert flags matched each other 88% …
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Polynomial partitioning and incidence problems in higher dimensions
… in Rn and a tight bound on the number of flags in Rn. The proofs are based on the polynomial partitioning technique and its variations..
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The impact of White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) sightings and attacks on recreational water use patterns in False Bay
… how shark sightings (accompanied by warning flags and/or a siren) as well as attacks influence water use patterns amongst bathers, surfers and paddlers. In the period from 2006 to 2012, the total number of shark sightings recorded was 531 at Muizenberg and 322 at Fish Hoek, with a notable …
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Copper mineralization in the Coed-Y-Brenin Porphyry Copper Deposit, North Wales: Mineralogy and Textures
… upper Cambrian sediments, namely the Ffestiniog Flags Formation, Dollgellau Formation, and the Dol-Cyn Afon Formation. These geological units were later intruded by the Rhobell Fawr volcanics during the Ordovician. The deposit is located within the Welsh basin, which was a back-arc setting on the …
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