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Just Another PR Tactic?: Discourse, Expertise, and Social License in the “License to Farm” Campaign
Social license is the need for, and attempt to, garner and maintain public approval of industry/corporate practices. The License to Farm campaign responds to the public pushback regarding industrial farm practices, and claims to educate the public on Canadian farming. in I analyze the campaign to …
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Positional competition: from low-number license plates to McMansions
… two positional goods: Delaware low-number license plates, and luxury houses, sometimes referred to as "McMansions." First, because car-owners in Delaware actually own their license plate numbers, the state has an active secondary market in low-number tags. These are perfect positional …
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The Effects of Open Source License Choice on Software Reuse
… and that the adoption of a specific open source license can influence how a software product is received by users and programmers. This study attempts to bridge these two research areas by examining how the adoption of an open source license affects software reuse. Two reuse metrics were applied …
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Experiments in Image Segmentation for Automatic US License Plate Recognition
License plate recognition/identification (LPR/I) applies image processing and character recognition technology to identify vehicles by automatically reading their license plates. In the United States, however, each state has its own standard-issue plates, plus several optional styles, which are …
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License to Discriminate: Structural Stigma and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Health
A growing body of research suggests that a lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) persons’ stigmatized status impacts their health relative to heterosexuals. However, less research has examined how differences in stigma towards LGB people across geographic locales influences these health differentials. …
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Using Incumbent Channel Occupancy Prediction to Minimize Secondary License Grant Revocations
… field trials is the timebound evacuation of unlicensed secondary users from a frequency band by the SAS on the arrival of an incumbent user. In this thesis, we propose a way to optimize the evacuation process by reducing the number of secondary spectrum grant revocations to be performed. The …
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A License to Kill: Understanding Natural Killer Cell Licensing to Fight Cancer
… effector function, that renders some NK cells “licensed” and others “unlicensed” (with heightened or lowered effector function potential, respectively) against tumor and targets lacking self-molecules. However, the underlying mechanisms responsible for the heightened effector responses of …
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Factors influencing hunting license sales in urban and rural areas of Illinois
Sales of hunting licenses have fallen in the past decades. To seek the means to maintain or increase current hunter numbers, state agencies need to understand their existing market base before developing strategies to boost sales. This can be achieved by exploring the characteristics of the hunting …
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Maximizing nuclear power plant performance via mega-uprates and subsequent license renewal
… commercial nuclear power plants were initially licensed for 40 years. A successful license renewal program is being executed to extend operational lifetimes to 60 years, which has supported the installation of more than 7000 MWe of generating capacity via power uprates. Yet improvements in …
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License to change : the first ninety days as head of an organization
… organization be like? Indeed: What is her/his License to Change?
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Relationship between socioeconomic status and hunting/fishing license sales in Cook County, IL
… be attained by understanding factors influencing license sales. Previous studies suggest socioeconomic status significantly influences participation in recreational activities and license sales. However, few of these studies connect socioeconomic status and license sales on an aggregated community …
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Monostatic Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Commercial WiMAX Transceivers In the License-exempt Spectrum
… systems to work as an airborne SAR sensor. The unlicensed devices of Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) are the first option, owing to their accessibility, similarity and economy. This dissertation first demonstrates the feasibility of applying WiMAX to SAR by discussing their …
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Factors associated with the decision not to become 7–12 principals by those holding the license
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