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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Idiosyncrasies"”.
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Three essays on the idiosyncrasies of a perennial crop : the case of the US almond market
… essay a proposed framework that captures supply idiosyncrasies of perennial crops is developed to estimate the excess demand elasticity for US almonds. Global supply, demand and price transmission elasticities are estimated and excess demand elasticities computed. The 2003-2013 mean export demand …
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Own-made in the (post-)new South Africa : a study of theatre originating from selected townships in the vicinity of Cape Town
… organizational and aesthetic character, its idiosyncrasies and performance strengths, its concerns, and its struggle for distinction within the field of theatre in Cape Town.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne as Revealed Through His French and Italian Notebooks
… works, in that they reveal not only his peculiar idiosyncrasies, but also characteristics which tend to humanize the man. For over one hundred years Hawthorne has seemed more or less to the vast majority of his readers to bear a resemblance to his ghostly characters, or, to use the words of his …
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an Architecture Manufactum
… instilled into any work, immortalizes the idiosyncrasies descriptive of its creator. Rather than viewed as anachronism, inculcating the human component, "manufactum", into modern design reacquaints us with our own capricious temperaments. As powerful tools of the contemporary world heighten …
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A Study of Evolutionary Contingency: Characterisation, Mechanisms, and Evidence
… I investigate its converse: `evolutionary idiosyncrasies' or the singular evolution of certain forms, and I argue that they are supportive of evolutionary contingency. Armed with convergent evolution's counterpart (i.e. idiosyncrasies), I formulate a likelihood framework (whilst making …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Immigration to the United States
… to the hypothesis of unit root. Given the series idiosyncrasies, the performances of the Hasan-Koenker robust unit root test and least square based tests are compared. The tests exhibit some contradictory results. The residuals of the augmented Dickey-Fuller models are heavy tailed distributed. It …
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An application of a model of public management reform to tax administration reform in South Africa
… SARS? Secondly, with respect to the structural idiosyncrasies which define SARS, which of these elements most significantly distinguish SARS from the rest of the South African public administration and other semi-autonomous revenue authorities and what led to these structural idiosyncrasies? The …
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FACTS OF THE IMAGINATION (FROM THE INSIDE OUT)
… in its production, these are some of the idiosyncrasies that I bring to my work. My investigations are rooted in combining a rediscovery of the sensuousness of the natural world and an investigation of the poetics of everyday life. Choosing materials and situations within the realm of the …
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Scaffold
… attempt to capture their essence, character, and idiosyncrasies as strategies to create a uniquely subjective view of the lived experience of their trade. It is my hope to capture the sentiment of a contemporary multicultural city by filtering it through this lens.
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Multi-Modal Recognition of Manipulation Activities through Visual Accelerometer Tracking, Relational Histograms, and User-Adaptation
… task orders and are subject to personal idiosyncrasies. Video data and data from embedded accelerometers provide complementary information, which motivates an investigation of effective methods for fusing these sensor modalities.<br/><br/>This thesis proposes a method for multi-modal …
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The glocalization and acculturation of HIV/AIDS: The role of communication in the control and prevention of the epidemic in Uganda.
… The study emphasizes the integration of cultural idiosyncrasies in any health communication campaigns to realize behavioral change.
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Instrumentation in the Works of Witold Lutoslawski
… on the identification of instrumentational idiosyncrasies and the relationship of timbre, texture, and structural concerns. A biographical synopsis is included as well as a brief discussion of the background of the use of chance procedures and the implication of this usage on a study of …
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Superman's Ancestors - Beowulf, Odysseus and Roy Hobbs: Application and Analysis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Theory
… location, religious affiliation or cultural idiosyncrasies. This thesis will apply Campbell’s monomyth theory to literary classics such as <em>Beowulf</em>, Homer’s <em>The Odyssey</em> and Malamud’s <em>The Natural</em>. These diverse pieces will test Campbell’s theory and will reveal if the …
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"Neither Believer nor Infidel" Dialogic Portraits of Agnostic and Pragmatic Methodologies in Moby-Dick and Clarel
… formal analysis tends to highlight Melville’s idiosyncrasies rather than determine their function. This thesis uses the Bakhtinian concepts of dialogism and polyphony to show that Melville’s poetic techniques create open texts, allowing readers to freely engage with multiple religious views …
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Shared Consciousness: A Social History of Tourette Syndrome and its Treatments
… practice today are often based on certain idiosyncrasies of an individual’s condition. As a result, a variety of different treatment methods have been used by Touretters in recent years.
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Shared Consciousness: A Social History of Tourette Syndrome and its Treatments
… practice today are often based on certain idiosyncrasies of an individual’s condition. As a result, a variety of different treatment methods have been used by Touretters in recent years.
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Tyndale, a Zwinglian theologian? A comparison between Tyndaleʼs and Zwingliʼs doctrines of the Lordʼs Supper
… dissimilarities, disclosing Tyndale’s idiosyncrasies in his doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. The thesis argues against a sweeping assertion of Tyndale being an undiluted Zwinglian. This is demonstrated by a comprehensive balance of the two Reformers’ respective concepts, which are finally …
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Application of lean and continuous improvement methodologies at a biopharmaceutical manufacturing site
… can fit into the biotechnology industry with its idiosyncrasies.
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Essays on the eclectic paradigm and foreign direct investment into India
… three paper dissertation seeks to explore the idiosyncrasies of post-millennial India and how they connect to the current motivation of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) to invest into the Indian market. While the research is theory-driven, the empirical findings provide a new …
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An edition of the Middle English Pains of Sin from Cambridge, Magdelene College Library, Ms Pepys 2498
… of meaning, descriptions of manuscript idiosyncrasies, and other points of interest. The text is a meditation on death and the afterlife, including the seven pains of purgatory, a catalogue of venial sins, the last judgement, the sufferings of hell and the joys of heaven, and special …
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