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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"Leaning"”.
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Analysis of the deflections, vibrations, and stability of leaning arches
In recent years, leaning arches have been used in frameworks for some tent structures. Various people have studied the behavior of a single vertical arch; however, only a few researchers have considered the three-dimensional behavior of arches and leaning arches. The objective of this thesis is to …
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Leaning into Love and Compassionate Care in my Early Years Practice.
‘What does education need now?’ My research suggests the violence children are subject to is at an all-time high. The need for children to experience Love and Compassionate Care within our early years education system is needed now more than ever. Our policies favour terminology such as ‘whole …
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Leaning left: a case study of media bias in the 2004 presidential election
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Araucaria in the Urban Landscape: A Novel Leaning Pattern and Evidence of Cultivated Hybridization
… evidence for a hemisphere dependent directional leaning pattern. Trees in the northern hemisphere lean south, and trees in the southern hemisphere lean north. Additionally, the lean becomes more pronounced at greater distances from the equator.</p> <p>We also gathered morphological and genetic …
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A novel approach by integrating physically and Machine leaning-based models for landslide susceptibility assessment
One of the most destructive natural hazards is landslide, and Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (LSM) estimates the probability of the hazard in a region. Physical and Machine Learning (ML) based models are common methods for evaluating landslide susceptibility. Physically-based models are …
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Finite Element Analysis of a Pair of Leaning Pressurized Arch-Shells Under Snow and Wind Loads
… the Pacific Tower in Paris, France. A series of leaning arches was incorporated in the frame of the Museum of the Moving Image, a temporary structure in London, England, during 1992-1994. Pressurized arch-shells made of a flexible material have been utilized as part of the framework for some …
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Association of Obesity and Lower Limb Muscle Strength and Power with Balance Recovery from a Forward Leaning Position
… to recover balance when released from a forward leaning position. This forward leaning assessment was used as a surrogate for a balance recovery from a fall. The maximal body lean angle from which the subject could recover their balance was referred to as LeanMax. The primary aim was to assess …
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The Effect of Political Advertising on Perceived Bias and Credibility of Online News Stories
… news article based on participants’ political leanings. Media priming and the hostile media effect were the theoretical underpinnings. Participants were asked to read an unbiased news article placed alongside 3 advertisements. Participants were put into 1 of 3 conditions — right-leaning …
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Dynamic analysis of Calatrava's la Devesa footbridge
… describe the static and dynamic behaviors of the leaning arch bridge system. In doing so, the finite element method is employed intensively through the use of ADINA. The FEM model is an attempted reproduction of Calatrava's la Devesa footbridge. While Calatrava has developed the form through …
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Partisan politics and the resolution of international economic disputes
… government regulatory actions. I argue that left-leaning governments, which represent labor interests that rely on the employment and economic opportunities created by FDI, are more inclined than right-leaning governments to settle ISDS claims involving major infringements of property rights. In …
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Framing of immigrants and refugees : a content analysis of mainstream and partisan news coverage of immigration
… The news outlets consisted of mainstream, right-leaning and left-leaning partisan news outlets. Results showed that right-leaning news outlets were more likely to frame immigrants and refugees as a risk to Western society and America, while left-leaning news outlets framed immigrants and refugees …
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Overturning of No-Tension Towers
… study investigates the overturning behavior of leaning masonry towers on a rigid foundation. Unreinforced masonry is assumed to be incapable of withstanding tension, thus anticipating a progressive fracturing to occur outside the compressive zone of masonry towers as they incline under the force …
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Do Women Ask? Gender Differences in Applying for Internal Job Openings
… that would lead us to suspect that they are “leaning out” of opportunities. We study the internal labor market within a single firm to examine the extent of gender differences in application to internal job openings. Importantly, in determining the rates of application, we have the advantage …
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Political Echo Chambers: The Internet Facilitates Identity Confirmation
… variable was the variety of politically leaning webpage links selected from those provided in the questionnaire. Self-uncertainty was found to affect variety of link selection such that participants in the high self-uncertainty condition selected more weblinks that were Democrat-leaning. …
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To trust or not to trust: Examining trust and perceptions of police in the United States
… age, gender, education level, and political leaning. In addition, the study examines the relationship between the decline in other forms of institutional trust, such as political trust and media trust. The final purpose of the dissertation is to determine if an individual’s level of police …
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“I Must Write from Memory”: Reading Katherine Anne Porter’s The Old Order as a Reconstructive Process of Memory
… more than thirty years in three collections: The Leaning Tower and Other Stories (1944), The Old Order: Stories of the South from The Leaning Tower, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and Flowering Judas (1955), and The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965). Individually, each story is its own …
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Analysing Ontario Public Health Nurses Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs about Roles and Responsibilities in Addressing Climate Change
… to address climate change. Liberal leaning participants were more likely to agree that climate change posed a local risk than Conservative leaning participants. However, Conservative leaning participants reported more current action or intention to act on several specific actions …
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Hot Stocks and Cold Comfort: A Comparative Study of Optimism in Financial News and Household Participation in Equity Markets in the U.S., France, and Hong Kong, 1985-2008
… bias within countries. In other words, a left-leaning French publication looked much more like a right-leaning French publication than it looked like a left-leaning U.S. publication. Positive story bias does not, on its own, fully explain the extremely high level of American household stock …
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Collapse of masonry structures
… The capacity is further reduced by outward leaning of the buttresses, a common source of distress for masonry structures due to movements in the supporting foundations. Based on these considerations, new measures of safety are proposed for buttresses under horizontal loading. Outward leaning …
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Strength And Power Training To Improve Performance On Recovery From A Simulated Trip
… recover from a postural perturbation. A forward leaning task has been used to simulate the biomechanical requirements of a slip, trip or perturbation and quantify maximum recoverable forward lean angle (FLean<sub>max</sub>). We also used a lateral leaning task to determine maximum recoverable …
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