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Showing 1 to 20 of 978 for “"Frontier"”.
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Quasars at the High Redshift Frontier
In recent years the formation of primordial galaxies, cosmic metal enrichment, and hydrogen reionisation have been studied using both refined observations and powerful numerical simulations. High-redshift quasars have become a ubiquitous tool in the study of this era with more than 115 quasars now …
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Urbanizing the North-eastern Frontier: the frontier intelligentsia and the making of colonial Queenstown, c.1859-1857
… rich and varied literature on the eastern Cape frontier has not yet reached the north-eastern frontier of the mid-nineteenth century. Urban centres and towns have also been largely ignored. Moreover, the perspective of the Anglophone intellectuals in these towns has rarely been analysed, and has …
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Niagara Frontier and the War of 1812
Abstract not available.
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A design project for an urban frontier
… that they can be employed for public use as a frontier in the urban psyche. The design for such a frontier would support a variety of programs based on public events. As soon as one event takes place, another would follow according to the rhythm of the city. In this way, it could act as a …
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The Scientific Frontier within Presidential Appeals to Science
… to inspirational scientific rhetoric: the frontier. This research reveals an ongoing narrative of how a particular rhetorical strategy can endure multiple decades and accompany scientific controversies. The use of the scientific frontier appeals to Americans’ desire for: fulfilling their …
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Childhood on the Southern Plains Frontier, 1870-1910.
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NONPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS
… identication and estimation of stochastic frontiermodels. It is composed of three chapters. The rst chapter investigates the identication and estimation of a cross sectional stochastic frontier model with Laplacian errors and unknown variance, which is built on a nonparametric density …
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Essays on Characterizing Inefficiency for Stochastic Frontier Models
… consists of three essays on stochastic frontier models in characterizing inefficiency for a cross section of firms in essays one and three and a set of firms overtime in essay two. The first essay looks at stationary points for several models used in stochastic frontier analysis. The …
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The Northern Cape frontier zone, 1700 - c.1815
This thesis is a history of the northern Cape frontier zone between the years 1700 and c.1815. It describes and analyses the interactions which occurred between the principal peoples of this spatio-temporal area as the Cape colony expanded into the arid heartland of South Africa. The study's …
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Equity market-neutral strategies: Efficient frontier and style analyses.
Equity market-neutral strategies: Efficient frontier and style analyses.
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Lieutenant George S. Patton, Jr., Frontier Soldier, 1915-16
No abstract prepared.
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New Analytical Methodologies at the Frontier of Cellular Lipidomics
Lipids were once thought to only be the building blocks of cell membranes and to serve as energy reserves. With time however, it became increasingly clear that they are actually involved in many more roles. Not surprisingly, the comprehensive characterisation of lipids in cells and tissues has …
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Perceived Needs of Frontier Midwestern Adults with Multiple Sclerosis
… multiple sclerosis (MS) living in a midwestem frontier area and to compare them to the perceived needs of individuals with MS living in western Washington state. Telephone interviews using the University of Washington's Questionnaire on medical and social service needs of individuals with …
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The academic origins of John F. Kennedy's new frontier
This thesis seeks to introduce the reader to the underpinnings on which John F. Kennedy's 1960 Presidential campaign was based. Well before Kennedy declared his candidacy for Democratic Party nomination for President he gathered together a group of academics from in and around the Boston area and …
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