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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"IRMA"”.
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Understanding housing reconstruction in Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria
Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the archipelago of Puerto Rico during the 2017 hurricane season, amidst a long term financial crisis already present on the Island. As a territory of the United States; policy, resources, and decision making relevant to housing reconstruction post-disaster in …
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Representations of the Black subject in Irma Stern's African periods : Swaziland, Zanzibar and Congo 1922-1955
This dissertation explores the major themes of Irma Stern's (1894-1966) representation of the black figurative subject in her African periods: Swaziland, Zanzibar and Congo (1922-1955). Germane to these periods are Stern's childhood experience in the Transvaal and her training and influences in …
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Irma Stern (1894-1966) : the creation of an artist's reputation in her lifetime and posthumously, 1920-2013
… examines the reception of the artist, Irma Stern, from 1920 until 2013. Irma Stern has, since her lifetime, been one of South Africa's most celebrated artists. She has received a great deal of scholarly attention, attention in the popular press and on-going recognition in the market …
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Assessing the Recalibration Interval for Nearshore Sediment Assemblages after Hurricane Irma: implications for Developing Long-term Records of Overwash Deposits
… This study documents the impacts of Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm, on nearshore sediments off the coast of Anegada (British Virgin Islands) using distributions of <em>Homotrema rubra</em>, an encrusting foraminifer with a defined provenance in coral reef ecosystems. Over four sampling …
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Pictures That Satisfy: Modernist Discourses and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Nation in the Art of Irma Stern (1894-1966)
… dissertation examines South African artist Irma Stern’s contributions to modernism in South Africa and to modernism as a global movement. It analyzes how Stern’s interactions with South Africans, combined with her early artistic training in Germany and her cultural connections to the South …
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Multicast Support for Heterogeneous Packet Flows
… which provides a common framework for both IRMA and MHPF. In this framework, a virtual network of specialized multicast servers, i.e. IRMA servers or MHPF servers, is overlayed on top of the standard IP multicast infrastructure. Using this architecture, MHPF can be incrementally deployed …
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The atmosphere above Mauna Kea at mid-infrared wavelengths
… infrared radiometer for millimeter astronomy (IRMA I), which was ued to measure atmospheric water vapour column abundance, this thesis presents results from a second generation radiometer (IRMA II) operating at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii from December, 2000 to …
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Femicide in Mexico: From Malinche to Modern Women
… of receiving higher education, Olga's mother. Irma. also worked several jobs, including selling hamburgers and hotdogs in front of her house, selling used clothing, and serving as a part-time housekeeper (Valdez 7-8). One evening Olga did not return home after a meeting (Valdez 7). It can be …
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Development of a Chemiluminescent Assay for Autoantibodies to Thyroid Peroxidase
… been measured using an immunoradiometric assay (IRMA), an enzyme-immunometric assay, and three other immunoassay systems which incorporated the chemiluminescent label acridinium ester (AE).<br/><br/>The IRMA successfully utilised a commercial preparation of TPO labelled with [<sup>125</sup>I] and …
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Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Emergency Evacuation Traffic
… statewide traffic volume data from Hurricane Irma (2017), Michael (2018), Tubbs Fire (2017), and Thomas Fire (2018) evacuations, these methods were able to describe and address several key questions about these events. The methods described herein estimate the start and end of the auto-based …
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The ‘non-ideal’ victim: factors influencing perceptions of sexual abuse victims
… found that individuals who scored high on the IRMA scale, and therefore have stronger acceptance of rape myths, were more likely to think that the defendant was not guilty. It was also found that as IRMA scores increased, victim credibility ratings decreased. These results suggest that people …
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Fire, flooding, and felids: Deer and puma spatial ecology and predator-prey interactions in dynamic, subtropical wildlands
… to an extreme disturbance event (i.e., Hurricane Irma), examined behavior of females with different fate outcomes to varied ecological disturbances and predation, investigated how ecological disturbance mediates the influence of human disturbance on predator-prey interactions, and quantified deer …
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Oceanic response observations due to passing tropical cyclones : an assessment of drag and sea spray parameterizations
… ahead of Hurricane Ignacio and three others-Irma, Florence and Michael, using the Price-Weller-Pinkel 1/2 order closure model, via comparisons of the depth of the 26°C isotherm, tropical cyclone heat potential and vertical velocity. When modeling the total stress, two other traditional ideas …
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Safety Investigation of Crash Rates During Hurricane Evacuations
… non-emergency—during Hurricanes Matthew (2016), Irma (2017), and Michael (2018). A notable gap in existing research pertains to understanding crash rates during these critical phases of hurricane events. By addressing this gap, this research contributes to a deeper comprehension of evacuation …
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Sexism and how it mediates the relationship between gender and rape myth acceptance
… and the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (IRMA). Mediation analyses were tested using the bootstrapping method with bias-corrected confidence estimates. It was found that HS, CGD, and HI mediated the relationship between gender and RMA. This suggests that the role of traditional gender role …
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Sea Level Rise and Commercial Office Markets in Southeast Florida
… major recent hurricanes, Katrina in 2005 and Irma in 2017, have lower sales prices and rental values when compared to properties that have not experienced historic hurricane flooding in comparable flood risk zones. Our results also indicate that generally, commercial office properties that are …
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Black parents’ perceptions of involvement in their children’s schooling during middle childhood within the U.S. Virgin Islands
… (2) What ways have the experience of Hurricane Irma and/or Hurricane Maria influenced involvement in children’s schooling among parents of children in middle childhood within the U.S. Virgin Islands? Ten Black parents were interviewed using a semi-structured meeting guide. Interviews were …
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