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MACON: memory-augmented continual learning for open-world classification
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Resegregation and Educational Apartheid in Macon/Bibb County, Georgia: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
… and the continued segregation of schools in Macon, GA has affected Macon's Black community. Archival data included newspaper accounts of Macon's educational climate from Brown v. Board of Education to present day. Interviews with five African-American women who lived in Macon during the time …
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A Study of the Ceramics at the Ebert Canebrake Site (1MC25)
… site is a small multi-component village in Macon County, Alabama. The primary focus of this thesis is to explain the presence of two distinct ceramic traditions on-site during the Mississippi period (AD 1000-1450). Local Shine II ceramics are typified by sand tempering and are related to the …
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Developing Production Techniques and A Site Assessment Tool for Forest Farmed Ramps in Appalachia
… ranges from 21.5% in Haywood County to 49.6% in Macon County. Similarly, moderately suitable areas range from 36.7% in Macon County to 54.5% in Lawrence County. Ground truthing was performed to validate the model. Ramp patch locations within each county were geocoded in the final suitability …
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"Super-Port to the World?" : an impact assessment of the Midwest Inland Port
In Macon County, Illinois, one of the most recent and high profile economic development strategies involves the creation of the Midwest Inland Port (MIP), an inland port and intermodal facility. A privately owned public initiative, MIP is an infrastructure-strategy package. Part of the …
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The Inhibitory Effect of Rhododendron maximum L. (Ericaceae) Thickets on Mycorrhizal Colonization of Canopy Tree Seedlings
… in a mature, mixed hardwood/conifer forest in Macon County, North Carolina. Planted seedlings of red oak (Quercus rubra) and hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) were harvested at the end of the first and second growing seasons. Litter manipulation had no effect on total mycorrhizal colonization. …
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Understanding Reading Challenges Among Black Boys: A Case Study of Third-Grade Title I Students
Macon, Dorothea Abstract Black boys in the United States continue to underperform on standardized reading assessments despite Title I support. Despite decades of policy, including No Child Left Behind (2001), Every Student Succeeds Act (2015), and Wisconsin's Act 20, third-grade Black boys in a …
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Coupling tough2 and SEAWAT variable-density models to understand potential geologic carbon sequestration impacts on groundwater resources
… saline reservoir at the injection location (Macon County), but its salinity decreases to the north, becoming a source of drinking water in Wisconsin. In the current study, an improved understanding of the possible e ffects of potential future commercial-scale GCS projects in the south on …
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Prototyping as a User-Centered and Risk Reduction Approach to the Planning, Design, and Construction of More Sustainable Infrastructure
… in two prototyped projects: a road network in Macon, Georgia and a re-designed city block in Akron, Ohio. The researchers coded the interviews for evidence of how prototyping enhanced citizen engagement and how the design team was willing to adopt unconventional designs after prototyping. …
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Evaluating the Efficacy of a Childhood Lead Poisoning Risk Model as an Accurate Predictor of Lead Exposure
… three years (N=2429) of blood lead records from Macon-Bibb County, which has the second highest prevalence rate of lead exposure in Georgia. Physical addresses obtained from the blood lead records were geocoded and assigned a risk by the model. The predictive risk was compared to blood lead …
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Soul as a Gateway to Erotic Possibilities: An Afrocentric Study of Black Women’s Musical Narratives as Extensions of Agency and Freedom
This dissertation examines Black women’s sexual narratives in contemporary Soul music. Through a close analysis of various songs, videos, and images from Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Syd Bennett, and Ari Lennox this research explores the relationship between sexual narratives in contemporary-Soul music …
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Walter Barnard Hill: Constructive Southern American
… this study of Walter Barnard Hill (1851-1905), Macon lawyer and Chancellor of the University of Georgia, is to explore his ideas on court reform, the labor problem, the Negro question, and southern education. Based primarily on his public statements, the study will show that when Hill considered …
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Speaking the Unutterable: White Teachers and Black Children
… teachers teaching in a high-minority school in Macon, Georgia. Emily, Deanna, Richard, and I have crossed racial boundaries to establish successful teaching careers as White teachers working with Black students. Using a curriculum of place (Casemore, 2008; Kincheloe & Pinar, 1991; Whitlock, …
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The roommate
<p>THE ROOMMATE is about Donna, a restless 25-year-old stuck in a passionless relationship with her too-nice boyfriend in the Midwest. When she inherits a bungalow on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the home of her recently-deceased grandmother, she's thrilled to seek the sunshine of the West Coast …
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A Conceptual Basis for Productive Capacity: An Accounting Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T23:09:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6706589.pdf: 12853217 bytes, checksum: 851cc96f17c544e4855bf2e3f1d1c50d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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Buried Treasure? Excavating Active, Meaningful, and Worthwhile Learning from an Elementary Time Capsule
… students at Springdale Elementary School in Macon, Georgia in 1980. Dan, Trevette, Bryan, Lee Ann, Stephen and Rhonda are six adults who, in seventh grade, filled a trash can with time treasured relics and promised to return and unearth their treasure in 2000, but when they grew up and moved …
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Securitization : a platform for organic economic growth in emerging markets : authored
One of the keys to building a solid economy is the existence of a long term debt market. Long term borrowing is crucial for personal home ownership, the creation of critical infrastructure, and the development of major real estate projects. Most emerging market economies do not have a long term …
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The Rise and Fall of the Hillbilly Music Genre, A History, 1922-1939.
<p>This research will examine the rise in popularity of the hillbilly music genre as it relates to the early part of the twentieth century as well as its decline with the arrival of the western hero, the cowboy.</p><p>Chapter 1 examines the origins of traditional music and how instrumental the …