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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Gillette"”.
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William Gillette and American Theatrical Realism of the Late Nineteenth Century
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Design of a new impact tester for Gillette safety razor blades
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1951
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Reducing inventory by simplifying forecasting and using point of sale data
… from them. In particular, we look at how The Gillette Company can use point of sale data generated by two of their customers, (Wal-Mart and Target), to predict the orders of all of Gillette's customers combined. The thesis also examines the impact on forecasts of shortening and simplifying the …
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"One Long Route"
<p>Gillette Vaira presented research in a series of broadcast television news stories about one of the longest school bus routes in Montana. The stories include the following: "500 Miles," "Driver Education," Drop Outs," and "One Long Route." Discover the sacrifices students and families make in …
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"One Long Route"
<p>Gillette Vaira presented research in a series of broadcast television news stories about one of the longest school bus routes in Montana. The stories include the following: "500 Miles," "Driver Education," Drop Outs," and "One Long Route." Discover the sacrifices students and families make in …
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Improving supply chain performance by implementing weekly demand planning processes in the consumer packaged goods industry
… levels and customers service levels at the Gillette Company. The processes designed by the project team has been tested and executed in a real production environment. The weekly forecast volumes generated by the demand planning team were successfully deployed by the manufacturing plant …
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Design of A Variable-Stiffness Ankle-Foot Orthosis Emulator
… product is implemented in a clinical trial at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare.
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Design of mechanical testing device to measure break angle of thin, stainless steel
Working with Gillette Corporation, an automated mechanical testing tool that bent a small flat piece of steel was designed. The design of the tool was an effort to improve upon previous generations of the same tool. It consisted of three main elements; a servomotor, connected to a torque …
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Studies on Species of the Aphid Genus Cinara on Pinus Edulis and Pinus Monophylla
… wahtolca, C. edulis (Wilson) and C. terminalis (Gillette and Palmer) feeding on the two pinyons. All three species were larger when on P. monophylla, but the rostrum of C. terminalis showed the reverse trend, being shorter when feeding on P. monophylla than when on P. edulis. The analysis of …
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From the 'traditional' game to the 'modern sport'. First class cricket in change, 1945-1963
… the one-day game was underway in the form of the Gillette Cup and there was an increasingly commercial presence in the sport. This study highlights that there can be no argument that 1963 was a watershed in the development of cricket, not just as a game but as an establishment, and that by 1963 it …
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Multitrophic Interactions in a Prairie Insect Community: Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation
… and females of the gall wasp Antistrophus rufus Gillette whose larvae fed in S. laciniatum and S. terebinthinaceum. I used olfactometry bioassays in the field and lab and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to identify the chemical cues they use to identify their natal host plant species. I used …
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Optical Orbit Tracking and Estimation
<p>Angles-only initial orbit determination methods are currently limited in their use as they require some prior knowledge of where the observed object will be and when it will be there. This research aims to produce a viable method to automate this process so that objects whose trajectories are …
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Relationships between middle childhood outdoor experiences and an adult individual's knowledge of the environment
During the last several decades, the nature of childhood has changed. There is not much nature in it anymore. Numerous studies in environmental education, environmental psychology, and conservation psychology show that the time children spend outdoors encourages healthy physical development, …
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Modernism's Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900--1945
"""Modernism's Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900-1945"" credits modern fiction as a principle architect of twentieth-century American abortion politics. Drawing together a wide range of abortion plots from canonical, avant-garde and popular early twentieth-century texts, …
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Structural and functional heterogeneity of cells in the rat hippocampus
… an open question. Preliminary evidence from Gillette lab revealed for the first time that hippocampal astrocytes in the ML/DG region in brain slices undergo significant changes in structural and morphological complexity over the day-night cycle (Irving et al., 2015). However, this observation …
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Profiles of Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Using the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
<p>Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is often diagnosed in childhood. However, the disorder can be more complex to diagnose in adulthood as several comorbid disorders may also impact attention. Many symptoms, often prevalent in childhood, taper off in adulthood, adding to the …
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Studies of Metathesis for Materials Applications: Present and Future Possibilities
Compounds containing multiple metal-carbon bonds are now widely used as catalysts for organic and materials synthesis. Among such transformations, olefin metathesis (OM) occupies a position of pre-eminent significance. Alkyne metathesis holds great promise, but remains in a much lower state of …
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