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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"McBride"”.
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Master's recital: Max McBride
1 PDF file (27 pages)
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Spatial Poisson regression : Bayesian approach correcting for measurement error with applications.
… another common problem that plagues count data. McBride (2006) proposed a Bayesian Poisson regression model which accounts for overdispersion in count data. We extend this model by adding parameters to accommodate the problems associated with under and over reporting in the count data. We then …
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The Effects of Training in Rapid Reading on the Reading Rate and Comprehension of Braille and Large Print Readers
… of rapid reading training (as described by Vearl McBride) on the reading rates and comprehension of large print and braille readers. Of specific interest were comparisons among a group taught by McBride and two taught by the researcher under McBride’s tutelage, furthermore, it was a purpose of …
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The 'Uncreated' Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman
… Doyle, Patrick McCabe, Jamie O’Neill, Eimear McBride, Seamus Deane, and Bernard MacLaverty examine the tension between liberation and oppression, hope and despair, to explore the complexities of these tensions untapped by Joyce, paradoxically producing darker conclusions in the Free …
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New Adaptive Iir Filtering Algorithms
… algorithms is proposed based on the Steiglitz-McBride identification scheme. The algorithms are shown to be close approximations of one another for slow adaptation. Because of the non-vanishing gain, they are suitable for filtering applications and are simple to implement. A convergence proof …
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Sexual Health Education (SHE) in Ontario: Exploring a Sample of the Public Discourse Surrounding the 2015 Update to Ontario’s Human Development and Sexual Health Curriculum
… is well established (Bourke, Boduszek, Kellher, McBride, & Morgan, 2014; Frappier et al., 2008; Reis, Ramiro, Matos, & Diniz, 2011). Ontario, as part of its ongoing comprehensive curricular review and revision processes, updated the Human Development & Sexual Health curriculum, a central …
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A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis of deaf reading practices in China: case studies using teacher interviews and classroom observations
… skills (Ho & Bryant, 1997; Huang & Hanley, 1995; McBride-Chang & Zhong, 2003), and radical awareness- all argued to be essential skills in deciphering the character-based script. Given the more visual and semantic structure of Chinese, would reading Chinese be easier for deaf students than a …
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“I’m not just a Jew, I’m a trans jew, and I’m not just trans, I’m trans and Jew”: agency and identity in the experiences of gender diverse former students in non-Orthodox Jewish day schools in the United States
… 2017; Grant et al., 2011; Kosciw et al., 2022; McBride, 2021; Su et al., 2016). While the impact of recent anti-trans trends on the previously-afforded protection for gender diverse students in public schools is yet to be seen (Mayo, 2022; McQuillan, 2023), such protection in privately-funded …
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Numerical Modelling of Sediment Delivery from Tidewater Glaciers to the Marine Environment
… record. The SedPlume Model is applied to McBride Inlet in Alaska, as an example of a glacial meltwater-dominated sedimentary environment, with input data and ice-proximal sedimentation rates taken from published data. The influence of various parameters on sediment deposition is …
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State aid to private higher education in North Carolina: a historical description
… State Convention of North Carolina), Virgil McBride (former Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of Independent Colleges and Universities), and John Henley (current President of the North Carolina Association of Independent Colleges and Universities). Proponents of the aid …
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The chronology of Waikato pā: A spatio-temporal investigation of pā in the middle Waikato basin
This study considers the chronology of pā construction, proliferation, and development within the Middle Waikato Basin through a spatio-temporal investigation of palisade construction activity as identified at six pā (fortified places). The chronological approach applied in this thesis uses 14C …
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Ecuadorian Children: an Investigation Into the Effects Frequenting the Street Has on the Children of Cuenca, Ecuador.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects frequenting the street had on the social-emotional development of children in Cuenca, Ecuador. While the study sought to discover who these children were, it primarily observed the levels of trust these children felt in the various contexts of …
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Purification of Global Regulator, Spx, and RNA Polymerase from Staphylococcus aureus for Use in In Vitro Transcription of Redox Genes
Spx is a global regulator discovered in Bacillus subtilis to suppress basal growth and development processes and activate transcription of genes involved in thiol homeostasis when a cell encounters oxidative stress. Its activity relies on reversible thiol-disulfide bond formation and binding RNA …
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Efficacy of a Magnetic Drug Delivery System and Development of an Orthotopic Lung Tumor Imaging Model
<p>The aim of this work was the development of a novel drug delivery vehicle termed nano-in-microparticles (NIMs) to evaluate the magnetic-field dependent targeting of dry powder NIMs administered endotracheally using an ex vivo and in vivo rodent model. NIMs are a novel dry powder drug delivery …
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Moral Equality: Article of Faith
In the first part of this thesis I demonstrate that the best arguments we have for the equal moral worth of all human beings are incorrigibly defective. This is a problem because many people hold that equality between persons in the political, legal and social realms depends on and is justified by …
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An Examination of Associations Among Psychopathology, Personality, and Coping
Associations among personality, coping, and psychopathology have long been established (e.g., Folkman, Lazarus, Gruen, & DeLongis, 1986; Kobasa, 1979; Wheaton, 1983). This study assessed reported distress on the MMPI-2-RF (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008), coping and appraisal styles via the Cognitive …
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Culture, crystallisation and courtrooms: the legal challenges presented by the criminalisation of child soldier recruitment
The text of the Rome Statute leaves many key elements of the crime of child soldier recruitment to judicial interpretation, and this thesis asks how the international legal institutions - namely the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court - have handled the challenges …
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A Critical Analysis of Harms Experienced by Transgender Individuals
This study critically analyses trans people’s lived experiences of harm in relation to the wider socio-political economic neo-liberal environment. Through ethnographic interviewing methods that produced thick-data from 11 trans individuals, identifying variously within the broad umbrella term of …
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