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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Hobo"”.
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Labor's unsettled vagrancy: The rise and fall of the hobo labor movement, 1865-1929
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Alternative realities: the absence of men and the quest for autonomy in female Hobo narratives
This work begins by offering a definition of the hobo, a character found throughout sociological and literary study, and frequently gendered as male. I have provided an overview of the male hobo as he is most commonly portrayed in studies and literature, whilst characterising the nature of his …
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Hobo orator union: the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916.
From 1909 to 1916 thousands of hobos joined the Industrial Workers of the World and participated in major fights for free speech in several dozen cities in the American west. During this period, the union organized over two dozen confrontations with municipal authorities to challenge repressive …
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"""I Was a Bum Once Myself"": Harry Partch, ""U.S. Highball"", and the Dust Bowl in the American Imagination"
… for Partch himself, surveying his eight years of hobo wandering in the American Southwest (1935--1943) and his subsequent move to New York (1943), ultimately re-situating him within New York City's artistic milieu. Partch's work within the realm of Dust Bowl imagery and resulting acclaim are then …
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Hobohemia on the plains: labor, leisure, and industrial discipline in Kansas City, 1873-1915
… years, the promontory colloquially known as “Hobo Hill” had served as a gathering point for the migratory workers who were variously derided as vagrants, tramps, and hobos. These men served as the primary labor source for industries such as logging, railroad construction, and, in the Midwest, …
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Addressing Water Resource Issues In Barbados Through An Isotopic and Atmospheric Characterization of Precipitation Variability
… karst areas. At Harrison’s Cave, Barbados, a Hobo Onset event data logger was attached to a tipping bucket rain gauge to count the tips and record the total rainfall every 10 minutes. In the cave a Hobo data logger was used to record relative humidity and temperature at 10-minute intervals. …
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Investigating Subsurface Flow Delivery to a Small High Arctic River
… (2014) presented a modified version of the Onset HOBO Pendant waterproof temperature and light logger with the ability to assess relative EC, however it was not dimensional EC (i.e. µS/cm). This work demonstrates these economical loggers can be calibrated and applied to quantify EC in the field …
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Speleothem Palaeoclimatology in the Maya Lowlands of Northwestern Yucatán, Mexico
… palaeoclimate record from the stalagmite HOBO-5, spanning the last 1,500 years. I use combination of the traditional stable isotopes δ<sup>18</sup>O and δ<sup>13</sup>C, and calcium isotopes (δ<sup>44</sup>Ca), a novel speleothem proxy which I use to estimate semiquantitative …
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MLPerf PowerPack: Defining MLPerf Inference Benchmark's Power Profile
… of our system under test was measured using a HOBO Plug Load Data Logger to determine the energy consumption distribution among the CPU, GPU, and disk drive. Our findings reveal the power consumption characteristics for the seven major functions of the MLPerf Inference benchmark. The major …
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Frances R. Donovan and The Chicago School of Sociology: A Case Study in Marginality
… and Ernest Burgess, this series included The Hobo, The Ghetto and The Gold Coast and The Slum, among other publications now regarded as early classics in urban ethnography. These studies also are known for their middle class preoccupation with marginal "types" and deviant subcultures, as well …
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Reproductive Parameters of Nesting <em>Caretta caretta</em> on Georgia's Barrier Islands
… for sex determination were evaluated using Hobo ® temperature data loggers and hatchling gonadal histology. Data was also collected to assess possible effects of nest relocation, hatchling size, and nest hatching success in Georgia. Results of this study did not reveal a discemable …
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La huella del pasado colonial en la alimentación actual de los afroecuatorianos del Territorio Ancestral Imbabura-Carchi (2007-2017)
… guandul, plátano, yuca, camote, zapallo, bledo, hobo, caña de azúcar, arroz, carne de cerdo y de res, pollo, huevos, ají, entre otros. Han perdido vigencia en su alimentación habitual; la carne de chivo y de borrego, harina de maíz, sémola, chuchuca, bledo, tunas. Las comidas en extinción fueron …
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A Comparison of the Singing Activity of Carolina Wrens <i>(Thryothorus Ludovicianus)</i>) in Urban and Rural Settings
… for 3 minutes at the beginning of every hour. A Hobo® data logger was deployed with each SongMeter© SM2 data logger to record temperature and relative humidity at 15-minute intervals. One week of data in May and one week of data in July were analyzed. Both weeks had similar photoperiods, …
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Bluesman, Guitar, And Migration
This project examines how the bluesman, guitar, and migration have interacted with each other and brought about transformations to American popular music, based upon scholarly works, magazine articles, and the sound recordings of the prewar blues performers. In popular theory, the blues sprang out …
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Perkawinan adat Batak di Daerah Padang Sidimpuan, Sumatera Utara: Kajian fenomenologis
… in customary marriages in the desert sidimpuan hobo. 3. How is the analysis of Islamic law on marriage sidimpuan semarga in desert areas. Writing method using analytical descriptive phenomenological study of the results obtained from this research are to provide comprehensive and systematic …
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Making homes on the road: Transient mobility, domesticity, and culture in the United States, 1870s-1930s
… of transient workers, popularly known as hobos, across the United States from the 1870s through 1930s. On top of, inside, and underneath freight and passenger trains, men, women, and others moved about the nation as a matter of work, escape, liberation, or fortune. These evasive figures …
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The use of corn treated with various applications of foliar fungicide to increase corn silage quality and performance of Holstein cows
… during wk 5. Activity was measured using the Hobo Pendant® G logger. Blood samples were taken on d 1 (covariate) and d 29 to assess blood metabolites. Corn silage was analyzed for nutrients and density weekly, and mold and yeast for each period. All data was analyzed using a MIXED procedure in …
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Revisión experimental de los registros de las trayectorias condilares en el plano sagital
… base del uso de los articuladores (SHILLIMBURG, HOBO y WHITSETT, 1978). La determinación de la misma, se realizó en un principio mediante registros plásticos, basados en el “fenómeno” y la técnica de Christensen (1905, citado por SAIZAR, 1958), pero dada la trayectoria curvilínea del movimiento …