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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Grantham"”.
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Mutation detection for genotype/phenotype correlation studies in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
… more than 10 million people affected worldwide (Grantham, 1997). Mutations in at least two genes (PKD1, PKD2) can lead to the disease (European PDK Consortium, 1994; Mochizuki, et al, 1996). This project deals with autosomal dominant PKD, caused by mutations in the PKD1 gene, which account for …
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Community Mental Health Ideology, Job Satisfaction, and Managerial Orientation in Community Mental Health Centers
… Mental Health Ideology Scale (Bartlett & Grantham, 1980), A Managerial Orientation Self Assessment Instrument (Blake & Mouton, 1964), and a brief demographic questionnaire developed by the author.
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Closing in Action: Towards a Polarisation Around the Future and Memory of Catholicism in Québec? Ethnography and Media Analysis of Three Notable Church Closures at the Beginning of the 21st Century
… and near by Drummondville (Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham) - selected from more than 600 cases to capture urban, regional, and rural contexts, using immersive ethnography to understand actors' competing logics. It examines secularization in the 21st century, highlighting a shift from lived …
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Considering distributed leadership and its effects on teacher leadership practices and student achievement
… methods study of the leadership practices at Grantham Middle School and Bishop Elementary. The findings suggest that distributed leadership practices do enhance the agency of teachers within the leadership structures of schools. Likewise the findings suggest that teaching and learning are …
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Margaret Thatcher. Formazione e ascesa di un leader.
… which have in time contributed to turning the “Grantham girl” into a world leader. The investigation covers three decades during which Thatcher has evolved from “the grocer’s daughter” into “the iron lady”. The originality of the research consists in its attempt to show to what extent the main …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… Lady Polwarth; Mary Robinson, Baroness Grantham; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Frances Boscawen; Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery; Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough and Lady Sarah Bunbury. The third and final section discusses the architectural …
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Race and Online Hate: Exploring the Relationship between Race and the Likelihood of Exposure to Hate Material Online
… hate material" (Costello, Hawdon, Ratliff, and Grantham 2016: pg. 313). That dissemination of radical rightwing ideologies, such as white supremacy, racial purity and racial solidarity, exists is not enough in understanding what individuals are exposed to race-based hate ideologies in online …
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The role of Sir Joseph Banks, K.B., P.R.S., in the promotion and development of Lincolnshire canals and navigations
… he was 'President' of the company, while on the Grantham Canal he was a protector of the Witham Trusts' interests during the promotion period. In his different capacities Sir Joseph was often in contact with the most important canal engineers of his time. With them he developed different …
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The Maintenance Of Ethnic Culture And Manifestations Of Ethnic Identity In The Life Stories Of Finnish Immigrants
This study examined whether Finnish immigrants show evidence of assimilation or if they have maintained their ethnic culture in the United States. More specifically, the purpose was to examine how the ethnic culture has been maintained and the ways that ethnic identity manifests itself in their …
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Innovative Teaching Strategies and Lesson Plans to Support Students with ADHD
<p>This thesis explores how creativity, imagination, and problem-solving can be harnessed to improve student outcomes – specifically engagement, motivation, and academic achievement – for students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in elementary classrooms. Rather than conducting …
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AI Enabled Drug Design and Side Effect Prediction Powered by Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms & Transformer Models
Due to the large search space and conflicting objectives, drug design and discovery is a difficult problem for which new machine learning (ML) approaches are required. Here, the problem is to invent a method by which new, therapeutically useful, compounds can be discovered; and to simultaneously …
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Generation of non-verbal behavior for an embodied conversational character
This thesis discusses the generation of multi-modal conversational cues in animated computer characters. Drawing from psycholinguistic literature of behaviors observed in human-human interactions, a study of turn-taking cues in a human-computer interaction, and previous work in creating animated …
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The physiological characteristics of elite women's basketball
… Basketball League (WNBL). According to Leanne Grantham, Chief Executive of the WNBL, record crowds were recorded throughout the 1995/96 seasons with a subsequent rise in the level of media interest. The WNBL was one of Australia's first full home and away sporting competitions for women and is …
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Where Are All The Gifted Black Girls? Giving High School Girls Voice Via Qualitative Research Approach And Black Feminist Theory
… by 50% in gifted education, and 60% in 1998 (Grantham & Ford, 2003). Further, some speculate that gifted education programs are the most segregated educational programs in the nation (Ford, 1995). This proves especially true for Black gifted girl in urban educational arenas, where gifted Black …
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Confessionalism and Cooperation in the Baptist Movement, 1609–1925
… Helwys, John Spilsbury, Thomas Collier, Thomas Grantham, and Benjamin Keach. Several influential confessions of faith are analyzed. Baptist associational activity is surveyed. The chapter also sets the developing doctrine within the cultural and religiopolitical matrix of seventeenth-century …
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Da releitura à escritura : um estudo da leitura pelo viés da pontuação
Esta tese constitui-se em um estudo sobre a leitura. Essa noção é investigada através de textos reescritos – aos quais denominamos, genericamente, de reescritas – e de dois sinais de pontuação – reticências e interrogação. Aos textos que apresentam esses sinais de pontuação designamos de textos …
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Fishing At Karluk: Nature, Technology, and the Creation of the Karluk Reservation In Territorial Alaska
<p>Fishing gear is indisputably central to the act of fishing, yet its importance to the history of commercial salmon fishing has been neglected. This thesis investigates the manifold ways that Native and white fishermen, canners, and federal bureaucrats utilized the beach seine and purse seine to …
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Truth, Justice and the American Way: Structure, Narrative and Nation in Tourist Performances in Salem, MA
Looking at six performances (including tourist `museums' and walking tours) for the October influx of tourists to Salem, Massachusetts, this work outlines the way each performance encodes within a structural perspective on the nature of the Salem Witch Hysteria through the selective inclusion, …
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