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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Michael Douglas"”.
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The Gekko Effect: The Media's Framing of Michael Douglas' Ambiguous Public Health Disclosure and the Public's Online Health Information Seeking
… June 2, 2013, The Guardian published a story on Michael Douglas where he stated his previous battle with throat cancer was due to a cancer-causing strain of the human papillomavirus, which he claimed he contracted by performing oral sex. This case study investigated the presence and frequency of …
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Intergenerational Discipleship for Leadership Development: A Mixed-Methods Study
… DEVELOPMENT: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY Scott Michael Douglas, Ed.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013 Chair: Dr. Brian C. Richardson The purpose of this study was to examine the leadership development of Millennial associate pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention by exploring …
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A textually-arranged, genre-sensitive, rhetorically-informed homiletical approach
… RHETORICALLY-INFORMED HOMILETICAL APPROACH Michael Douglas Williams, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: Dr. Robert A. Vogel Chapter 1 introduces the subject of this dissertation, which deals with the relationship between a biblical text’s substance and structure to …
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Information Processing In Chronic Pain: The Role Of Depression
Over the last three decades, chronic pain has become conceptualized as a multidimensional phenomenon, in that cognitive and emotional factors have become acknowledged as important contributors to the experience and expression of chronic pain. Although this general theoretical understanding of …
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Amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity in F344 rats
Amiodarone (AD) is gaining support as a first-line antiarrhythmic drug despite its potentially fatal pulmonary toxicity involving inflammation and fibrosis. The goals of this study were to develop and characterize a rat model of amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity (AIPT). A protocol was developed …
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Effects of sediment upon benthic macroinvertebrates in forested northern Appalachian streams
Excess fine sediment negatively influences the fauna of North American streams. With the current emphasis on multiple-use forests, the question is not whether fine sediment is detrimental, but what is the threshold of fine sediment that is tolerable?;To determine a threshold tolerance of fine …
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An improved chip-level test generation algorithm
An improved algorithm for the automatic generation of test vectors from chip-level descriptions written in VHDL is described. The method offers an order of magnitude speed improvement over earlier test generation algorithms. The algorithm accepts data flow circuit descriptions written in a subset …
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LETS MAKE IT OUTBACK TONIGHT
<p>When I was younger, shortly after my father died, my mother bought me a t-shirt that I loved and wore till it was worn out. On the shirt there was an image of a man, strapped into an electric chair, holding pieces of bread in each hand. A sign above him read, "Making the best of a bad …
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The poetics of sketch comedy
The Poetics of Sketch Comedy labels, defines and analyzes the conventions of sketch comedy. The comic sketch is examined for its structural conventions, and is broken into categories for analysis. The superstructure of variety entertainment, and conventions used to simulate cohesiveness in variety …
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Composite Right-Left Handed Stripline Structures for Antenna Array Feed Networks
<p>In this dissertation composite right/left-handed striplines are proposed as viable key structures in antenna array applications, enabling reduction of the overall feed network sizes as well as allowing integration opportunities and possible reduction of radiating beam pattern distortions.</p> …
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Battle For the Bible: a Rhetorical Analysis of the Inerrancy Movement in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1979-1985
Between the years 1979 and 1985 the Inerrancy Movement was the latest controversy in Southern Baptists' "Battle for the Bible" in the twentieth century. Analyzing this movement the historical-interpretative method of rhetorical analysis was used. The hypothesis was proved: rhetorical themes and …
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Numerical Solutions for Two- and Three-Dimensional Non-Reacting Flowfields in an Internal Combustion Engine
The numerical solution for the flowfield established in a spark- ignition internal combustion engine during the four-stroke (intake, compression, power, exhaust) cycle is considered. Only fluid-dynamic effects are treated with combustion simulated by constant- volume heat addition near …
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Macroinvertebrate community of ecology of lowland, subtropical streams in Louisiana
Freshwater ecosystems, particularly streams and rivers, have been the subject of prodigious research. Unfortunately, in comparison to neighboring regions, the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain has not received as much attention. Therefore, I collected data on the macroinvertebrates of these streams to …
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Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham : civilization's secrets and nature's truths
John Wyndham's four major novels: The Day of the Triffids , The Kraken Wakes , The Chrysalids , and The Midwich Cuckoos . Wyndham has been dismissed by many critics as a writer of "cosy catastrophes", a term coined by Brian Aldiss. This title is meant to suggest that Wyndham's works are critically …
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Dynamic response and noise of recording media
A study of medium noise and Neutron Depolarisation in recording media has been made as a function of remanent magnetisation along the isothermal remanence and dc demagnetisation remanence curves. The measurements are discussed in relation to VSM measurements of the remanent characteristics. Medium …
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The Literary Landscape of The Trans-Mississippi West: 1826-1902
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:34:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114691.pdf: 17293193 bytes, checksum: 06fb9087242a19aa51420e3a6291101b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Using event-related potentials to monitor the time course of mental processing during eye fixations in reading
A new method for measuring the temporal course of processing events that take place during eye fixations in reading was tested. The method was employed to determine the earliest point in time that orthographic information is utilized during an eye fixation in normal reading. Right handed male and …
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Are they family?: Queer parents and queer pasts in contemporary American culture
The early twenty-first century saw a marked increase in depictions of LGBTQ people and communities in American popular culture occurring alongside political activism that culminated in the repeal of the Pentagon's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy (2010) and the Supreme Court's overturning of same-sex …
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Modelling regime shifts in the southern Benguela : a frame-based approach
Small pelagic fish populations in productive upwelling systems are characterised by long-term patterns of alternating dominance. Sardine and anchovy are the most important small pelagic species in the southern Benguela ecosystem, which has been shown to have undergone regime shifts during the past …
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