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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"McKinnon"”.
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Testing the asymmetric effects of Interest Rates in Botswana: A NARDL Approach to the McKinnon-Shaw hypothesis
… Distributed Lag (NARDL) approach to the McKinnonShaw hypothesis in Botswana. More precisely, the study seeks to test the asymmetric effects of interest rates on the level of savings and investment and the impact of financial liberalisation on economic growth. Till date, there is very …
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Capital Markets in the Development Process: The Case of Brazil
… non for stable economic growth (see especially McKinnon, 1987, and Shaw, 1972). Since 1964, Brazilian policy makers have actively promoted financial market growth not only through the more traditional interest rate liberalization scheme (indexing) but also through the creation of institutions …
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Getting out of town
… collection of stories is centered around Nancy McKinnon, a young woman who unconsciously struggles to break free of the close-knit yet restricting society she was born into. Set in small-town Nova Scotia, these stories offer a glimpse into a world where traditional and conservative values …
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Predictors of Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Among Counselors-in-Training in CACREP Accredited Master's-Level Training Programs
… the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (Spreng, McKinnon, Mar, & Levine, 2009); a Religiosity Index (Statistics Canada, 2006), Spiritual Transcendence Index-Modified (Seidlitz et al., 2002), the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale-Sort Form C (Reynolds, 1982), and additional survey items to …
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Using movement homework activities to enhance the phonological skills of children whose primary communication difficulty is a phonological disorder.
… as having noticeable phonological problems (McKinnon, McLeod, & Reilly, 2007). There are several concerns to be considered when choosing and applying a therapeutic approach when teaching preschool children with phonological processing disorders. First, a lack of progress is noted when the …
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God of Toil
God of Toil is a feature screenplay in the fantasy genre that questions the concepts of destiny and birthright while exploring the morality of war. The hero Rufus is a retired warrior of mythical stature desperate to leave behind his violent ways in order to live a life of pacifism and service. …
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Medicinal cannabis for neuropathic pain
Neuropathic pain is caused by a dysfunction of the nervous system. It differs from normal pain sensations as it is no longer protective and can be present in the absence of a stimulus. It affects eight percent of the population worldwide and has several causes. Diabetes is the most prevalent cause, …
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Development of a Model for Flaming Combustion of Double-Wall Corrugated Cardboard
Corrugated cardboard is used extensively in a storage capacity in warehouses and frequently acts as the primary fuel for accidental fires that begin in storage facilities. A one-dimensional numerical pyrolysis model for double-wall corrugated cardboard was developed using the Thermakin modeling …
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Battle Mound: Exploring Space, Place, and History of a Red River Caddo Community in Southwest Arkansas
<p>This research is a synthesis of archaeogeophysical and archaeohistorical data collected from the Battle Mound site (3LA1). Using these data, this research seeks to understand how the site is organized in terms of architectural variability and how differential use areas, such as domestic or …
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An exploration of control in schools : a discourse analysis of secondary school mission statements in the greater Cape Town region
Given the political changes in South Africa in recent years, an exploration of any particular set of education-related documents, as far as the impossibilities/possibilities they allow for action, is made tempting and promising. This is what the present study takes on; more particularly, a …
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Decreased Peak Muscle Power is Associated with Motor Unit Loss in the Lower Limb of Older Adults
This study investigated the relationship between motor unit (MU) properties and the strength and power of two lower limb muscles in healthy young and old adults. Twelve older adults (mean age, 77 ± 5 yrs) and twelve young adults (mean age, 24 ± 3 yrs) were studied. MU properties of the tibialis …
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An Examination of Factors Contributing to Critical Thinking and Student Interest in an On-line College-level Art Criticism Course
This qualitative case study research examined how constructivist problem-based learning facilitated higher level thinking, increased interest in art, and affected attitude toward on-line courses in an undergraduate philosophical aesthetics and interpretation of art criticism course. The research …
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A study of the prose style of selected sermons of John Keble
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the prose style of two sermons of John Keble. The two sermons chosen for analysis are "The Duty of Hoping Against Hope," delivered by Keble in 1846 and Sermon L (Russian War), delivered in 1854. The method for analysis is taken from the essay, "A Method of …
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Structural diagenesis of bed-parallel and bed-normal fractures, Cretaceous Crato Formation carbonate rocks, NE Brazil
Here I show that structures exposed in the limestone quarries of the Araripe Basin provide information on the fracture porosity evolution in laminated members of early Cretaceous Brazilian interior basins and provide insight in to the Crato Formation as an analog for offshore reservoirs and its …
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Academic Optimism of Schools and Student Achievement
<p>The pressure to perform well on high stakes testing may have caused many educational leaders to shift their focus away from developing a healthy organization that may enhance and possibly even predict student achievement to simply focusing on test scores. Hoy, Tarter and Hoy (2006) suggested …
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Use of support vector machines and fabry-perot interferometry to classify states of a laser
<p>This thesis develops an algorithm that can determine if a laser is functioning correctly over a long period of time. A Fourier fit is created to model fringe profiles from a Fabry-Perot interferometer, and singular value decomposition is used to reduce noise in each signal. Levenberg-Marquardt …
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