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Margin squeeze in the South African context
Following the introduction of the margin squeeze cause of action into South African competition law jurisprudence, the question arises whether the Senwes decisions, have definitively clarified the criteria against which future margin squeeze abuse cases will be dealt with and whether these criteria …
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Power, load, and margin : relationships between professional development and margin in life among student affairs professionals at Ball State University
Using McClusky"s (1963) Power Load Margin (PLM) theory, this study employed a correlational research design to investigate if relationships existed between involvement in career-related professional development outlets and activities, and Margin in Life (MIL) scores for full-time student affairs …
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Geology of the passive margin off New England
… the geologic history of the passive continental margin off New England. Rifting between northeastern North America and Morocco during the Middle-Late Triassic produced a complex series of horsts and grabens in Precambrian/Paleozoic crust. Intra-rift sediments consist of clastics, evaporites, and …
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Large Margin Random Forests On Mixed Type Data
… of data is thus important. We propose a large margin random forests classification approach based on random forests proximity. Random forests accommodate mixed data types naturally. Large margin classifiers are obtained from the random forests proximity kernel or its derivative kernels. We test …
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Continental Deformation: Collisional Orogenesis to Passive Margin Processes
… cycle, intracontinental collision and passive margin development. I present a map of NW Nepal river channel steepness (ksn), a proxy for rock uplift rate over 103-105 years, coupled with a seismotectonic model, and then expand this map and accompanying model to the entire Himalaya; and a …
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Geology of the passive margin off New England
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1979.
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Rebuilding the urban margin and the modern ideal
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Essays on Margin Requirements, Endogenous Illiquidity, and Portfolio Choice
… essays. The first essay studies the effects of margin requirements. The second essay studies how asymmetric information and imperfect competition affect equilibrium illiquidity. The third essay derives new comparative statics results for the distribution of portfolio payoffs. Margin requirements …
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Narrowing the Margin: The Role of the Black Superhero
<p>Comic books can be understood as a visualization of popular culture in the U.S. For a long time these tales were formed by a white power fantasy, circulating in mainstream culture as over-exaggerated narrations. To give an example of white power fantasy, Dwayne McDuffie, a prolific writer in …
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The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood
… past, Isherwood and his characters escape to the margin, hoping to find there people who share alternative values and ways of living that might ultimately prove more meaningful and enlightened than those they leave behind in the mainstream. In so doing, they both discover that the margin is a …
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The Quaternary evolution of the mid-Norwegian continental margin
… 150,000 km2. First, the analysis of broad-scale margin architecture demonstrates the gradual development and increase in number of cross-shelf troughs produced by past ice streams that periodically drained the growing and decaying Fennoscandian Ice Sheet since approximately 1.5 M.y. ago. The …
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Observations of Dynamic Topography from South American Atlantic Margin
… expressions along the South American Atlantic margin. First, the spatial pattern of dynamic topography is examined through the study of residual depth anomalies on oceanic crust abutting this margin. An extensive seismic reflection and refraction database is compiled, and a revised and …
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Men on the margin: onscreen outsiders and American masculinity
… by society, who find themselves on the relative margins of the patriarchal society they expected to embrace them. There is one question at the core of this exploration: If masculine identity is socially determined in accordance with strict normative values, what then of the outsider, who has …
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Potential Future Exposure in the Presence of Initial Margin
… of potential future exposure, and how initial margin can be used to mitigate it. In addition to this, the cost of implementing initial margin is estimated, and some of the difficulties associated with it are addressed. The two primary techniques for calculating initial margin considered are …
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Large-margin Gaussian mixture modeling for automatic speech recognition
… of discriminatively trained models, a large-margin training framework has recently been proposed. This work investigates large-margin training in detail, integrates the training with more flexible classifier structures such as hierarchical classifiers and committee-based classifiers, and …
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Deep-sea sedimentation on the northwest African continental margin.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1972.
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