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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Mascot"”.
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Why Mike the Tiger is the Best Mascot Ever
… because the world knows that there are no other mascots better than Mike the Tiger at LSU! Case Closed!</p>
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In-Group/Out-Group Dynamics of Native American Mascot Endorsement
<p>The use of Native American names and mascots by professional and college sports teams has become a controversial issue. However, very litde research has investigated attitudes towards Native Americans, regarding relationships between team names and mascots on prejudice and discrimination. This …
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Visualizing belonging : Deliberation and identification in the Vestavia Hills mascot controversy
1 PDF file (vii, 115 pages)
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MASCoT : a model-based automatic software compensation toolkit for feedback systems
… and very easy-to-use software toolkit called MASCoT. This toolkit allows a designer to quickly visualize and automatically evaluate several solutions to a compensation problem. MASCoT is written in Java and can run on any platform as well as on the web. The software is free to use and …
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The mascot and the refugee : survival strategies for the new urban jungle
As humans rebuild the world to suit our needs, many of our fellow creatures simply get out of the way-but others try their luck alongside us. Austin, Texas is home to two notable urban wildlife populations. In the early 1980s, one and a half million Mexican Free-tailed Bats moved into a bridge in …
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Geology, paragenesis, and geochemistry of sphalerite mineralization at the Young mine, Mascot-Jefferson City zinc district, East Tennessee
The Mascot-Jefferson City zinc district of East Tennessee is the major source of zinc in the United States. Sphalerite mineralization which occurs as a breccia infilling in the Lower Ordovician Knox Group carbonates has been studied in detail at the Young Mine, located in the central portion of the …
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Cultural Appropriation: The Continued Phenomena Of American Indian High School Mascots
… the identity of their school’s American Indian mascot and how it creates school culture, views of American Indians, and cultural appropriation. Critical race theory offered a positional framework to contextualize the phenomena as experienced by each participant. Understanding the influence of an …
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Jumpin’ Jacks : Social Marketing Campaign Aimed to Increase Awareness of Healthful Behavior in South Dakota Fourth Grade Students
… South Dakota State University (SDSU) Jackrabbit mascot as a marketing tool to promote fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption and physical activity (PA) among fourth grade students. Methods: Nutrition faculty and students cooperated with collegiate graphic design students to develop eight posters …
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The influence of brand-equity mascots used by U.S. food, beverage, and restaurant companies on the diet of American children and parents
… beverage and restaurant companies use brand mascots to influence the dietary preferences and choices of children and their parents. This M.S. thesis is comprised of two studies that address this knowledge gap. The first study conducted a nutrient-profile analysis of 20 food, beverage, and …
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Chief Illiniwek: understanding the controversial discourse and the politics of power
… discourses surrounding the Chief Illiniwek mascot controversy on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, between the years of 2000-2007, will be examined using textual analysis. Utilizing Tribal Critical Race Theory as a guiding framework for the analysis, various materials …
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Revisiting the Concept of Adaptive Familial Roles and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA): Forty Years Later
… roles of Hero (responsible overachiever), Mascot (family clown), Scapegoat (rebellious/disruptive behaviours), and Lost Child (withdrawn/isolated). Data were collected from 327 participants (M age = 35.3 years) who self-identified and were grouped as ACOA, Abused, ACOA+Abused, or Control. …
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Amazonification: A Warehouse Worker’s Manifesto
… by Danbo, Amazon’s “adorable” cardboard mascot whose “cuteness” obscures the violence of Amazon’s labour practices. In chapter two, “Seeing Orange,” symbolized through an orange ball, I make connections between Amazon’s orange mascot, Peccy, and prison jumpsuits, carcerality, and labour …
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Whites' racial affect: understanding the antiracist type
… issues, (e) perceptions of the former racialized mascot of the university, and (f) expressions of racism. Further validating the PCRW, findings indicated that White students who scored as antiracist differed in important ways from those who did not score as antiracist. Moreover, the students in …
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Testing the effects of social pressures through signaling, shaming, & communication to reduce pollution
… the participants’ community via their university mascot or peers. The effect of communication is also tested. Results indicate that giving participants a mechanism to signal their individual stewardship actions is the most effective way to reduce pollution levels and encourage adoption of “green” …
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Geology of the Blacksburg area, Montgomery County, Virginia
… the Ordovician Chepultepec, Longview, and Mascot-Kingsport Formations, the Middle Ordovician limestones, and the Liberty Hall Formation; and the Mississippian Price and Stroubles Formations. All fault structures within the area have formed during post-late Mississippian time. The apparent …
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Overexpression of active AKT3 induces differential binding of coregulator proteins to the estrogen receptor as a possible mechanism of Tamoxifen resistance
… By searching protein databases through the MASCOT website for protein identification, we have identified estrogen receptor co-regulator proteins that may play a potential role in tamoxifen resistance. Current studies are focused on addressing the role of differential protein binding as a …
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Synthesis of bespoke matrices to investigate a novel anti-tumour molecular target using affinity chromatography. The design, synthesis and evaluation of biotinylated biarylheterocycles used as novel affinity probes in the identification of anti-tumour molecular targets.
… by MALDI MS and MS/MS and identified using Mascot database searches. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonuclear protein A2/B1 was found to selectively bind to the affinity probes.
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The Wolverhampton Express and Star and the depiction of the volunteer soldier in the First World War, 1914-1916
… figure of the volunteer soldier as a commercial mascot in order to attract readership and generate favourable publicity to satisfy advertisers. The newspaper was fortunate in that the volunteer also fitted its Liberal tenets of self-determination and freedom of the individual. The study explains …
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RAMIE (BOEHMERIA NIVEA): AN UNDERUTILIZED PLANT FOR A MULTIPURPOSE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; A PERENNIAL PLANT WITH PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION USING MALDI-MS, A BIOSORBENT FOR Hg (II) REMOVAL FROM WATER AND AS A BAST FIBER PRODUCTION VIA ENZYMATIC DEGUMMING
… after peptide mass fingerprinting analysis in mascot based based on their matched peptides. These proteins were known to contain some essential amino acids that are useful for food applications and in medicine. These findings may be some of the reasons why most ramie growing countries consume …
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Distinguishing Macrophage Activation States by Mass Spectrometry
… tryptic fragments analyzed by MALDI MS. A MASCOT database search suggested the macrophage-capping protein (CAPG) as source of the peptide, which could be validated through peptide sequencing through post-source decay experiments conducted on the tryptic fragments</p>
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