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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Kidd"”.
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Ancestry Informative Markers Tailored to Hispanic Populations
… by the Seldin group and 55 SNPs developed by the Kidd group using STRUCTURE, PCA, a naive Bayesian classifier and MLR. In STRUCTURE, the Setser80 was able to distinguish Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia at K=4, where the Seldin and Kidd panels were optimized at K=3 and distinguished …
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Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, the Hive, and Identity in Women's Writing
… Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, and a drama by Elizabeth Bussey Fentress, The Honey Harvest. In looking at how the women writers construct identity using bee imagery, I propose that they actually subvert the societal devaluation of women. The beeswax …
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The Application of Post Consumer Glass as a Cementing Agent in Mine Backfill
… candidate mines, namely Stobie, David Bell and Kidd Creek. Each backfill was prepared using unique recipes, and the strength and other properties were evaluated at cure times of 7, 14, 28, 56, 112 and 224 days. Laboratory work involved visual, physical and chemical material characterization …
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Nanoscale examinations on the sequestration of Cu by organic material in contaminated surface soils in Timmins, Ontario
… by mining related activity at the Timmins Kidd Creek metallurgical site, Canada. The sequestration and mobilization of Cu by organic material (OM) in the soil layer is investigated using focused ion beam (FIB) technology and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Copper occurs as …
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Sport and Social Capital: Perceptions of Sport for Development Organization Leaders in Kigali, Rwanda
… can encourage the development of social capital (Kidd and Donnelly, 2007; Nicholson and Hoye, 2008; Lyras and Welty Peachy, 2011; Coalter, 2013). This dissertation investigated those researchers' claims by exploring the relationship between two SFD organization sports programs and social capital …
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On the midwater fish faunas of Gulf Stream rings with respect to habitat differences between slope water and northern Sargasso Sea
Forty-three 1000-in oblique Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl collections were made on six cruises. In most cases, these were accompanied by 1500-m hydrocasts and plankton tows to 800 m. The fish collections comprise 19,400 specimens in 129 species, from Slope Water, Gulf Stream, Northern Sargasso Sea, …
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Uma Análise exploratória de práticas de gestão de TI no setor de serviços financeiros brasileiro
… advantage, according to Dove(1996) and Kidd (1995). The agility theme is not a new one. The manufacture industry is already studding it by a long period thru the Agile Manufacture concept. This fact provides a subject maturity with several researches case studies in this theme. This …
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Envisioning basketball: a socio-biographical investigation of Ruth Wilson - one of western Canada's sporting pioneers
… North American context (Hall, 2002; Cahn, 1994; Kidd, 1996; Hult and Trekell, 1991), to date there has not been a significant examination of the development of basketball for women and its early advocates in western Canada. Celebrating heroines of sport is not a straightforward matter. The …
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Can sharing education between home and school benefit the child with autism?
… are considered in the light of similar studies (Kidd and Kaczmarek, 2010; Hurlbutt, 2011) into the experience of parents homeeducating their children with autism, together with a study (McDonald and Lopes,2014) into parents sharing the education of their autistic children between home and the …
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Enter the Water Carriers: Embracing Parenting Experience in Work Teams
… contribute to the American workplace (Borrill & Kidd, 1994; Jenner, 1994; Rodgers, 1993). The dynamic complexity of parenting and the concomitant necessity to make constant response shifts and navigate incessant uncertainty, is not acknowledged as collateral for the responsiveness required by …
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Social Media and Critical Digital Museum Pedagogy: A Multicase Study of Institutions in Alberta
… effective and ethical social media use (Kidd, 2011). At the same time, the educational dimensions of museum social media practices remain largely underexamined and a more nuanced understanding of the informal and nonformal learning facilitated by museums’ social media engagement is …
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Development discourse and the Batwa of South West Uganda: representing the 'other' : presenting the 'self'
This thesis focuses on a group of former forest based hunter-gatherers, the Batwa of South West Uganda, whose livelihoods and situations have been dramatically affected through their recent interactions with non-Batwa peoples. Once inhabitants of the rainforests of South West Uganda, the Batwa …
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A Catharanthus roseus mutant with trace levels of secologanin and monoterpenoid indole alkaloids does not express BIS1/BIS2 transcription factors and fails to activate iridoid biosynthesis.
The Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) is the sole source of the monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs) that result in several essential anti-cancer chemotherapies as well as being an important source for other MIA derived pharmaceutical agents. Most of the alkaloid and pre-alkaloid iridoid …
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The staying power of perceptions in a dynamic system : a longitudinal stakeholder analysis in the Yellowstone River Valley
Understanding how stakeholders conceptualize the dynamic environmental systems they live within and act upon is essential for long-term sustainability planning. For shared resource systems where decision making is increasingly democratized, agencies engage stakeholders to document local …
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Investigation and validation of mammalian telomeres as biomarkers for health and disease
Telomeres play a crucial role in safeguarding chromosomal integrity and have emerged as promising biomarkers of aging, oxidative stress, and disease. However, accurately quantifying telomere length (TL) remains technically challenging, particularly in murine models whose telomeres are substantially …
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Implementing global citizenship education: A case study of exemplary practices, opportunities, and challenges
<p>The purpose of this qualitative case study was to begin to explore the challenges, opportunities, and benefits of a differentiated curriculum for gifted middle grades students that was based on both state standards and within a global citizenship education framework (GCE). The study used active …
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Bestial rooms : a work of prose fiction
This work of prose fiction traces the recollections of a young narrator as she attempts to piece together her own past through stories and letters written to her infant daughter. Particular emphasis is placed on the way the narrator's faltering memory figures and disfigures her sense of physical …
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The evolution of the Baie Verte Lineament, Burlington Peninsula, Newfoundland
An area measuring about 5 km by 30 km, of the relatively well-exposed central part of the Baie Verte Lineament, has been mapped in detail. Two major rock divisions are recognised by their differing structural and metamorphic histories. A terrain of psammitic, semipelitic and mafic schists borders …
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