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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Mirage"”.
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Enforceable accountability: a corporate governance mirage for South African state-owned companies
This research examines the operational and financial shortcomings of South African State-Owned Companies (‘SOCs') which is shown to primarily stem from a lack of enforceable accountability. The resolution of this accountability issue begins with the identification of SOCs. An analysis is undertaken …
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Do pull-out programs create a mirage of long-term results for at-risk youth?
1 PDF file (vi, 61 pages)
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Bricks Without Straw: The Mirage of Competition in The Desert of Phoenix Daily Journalism Since 1947
Contrary to the rationalizations of apologists for free enterprise, it has become almost impossible to establish a new metropolitan daily newspaper in a city with an existing morning and evening monopoly of the market. This holds true even in Sunbelt areas enjoying phenomenal growth, and the …
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The Biodiversity Mirage: the Effects of Habitat Degradation and Exotic Predators on Ground-Dwelling Forest Birds, Tenrecs and Lemurs in Northeastern Madagascar
Madagascar is one of the world's top conservation priorities due to the intense anthropogenic pressures on its diverse and endemic wildlife. There have been very few studies conducted in the largest protected area complex in Madagascar, the Masoala-Makira landscape (northeastern Madagascar). My …
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Secure resource management in networks
… of CRAFT. In the third part, we present Mirage, a deployable DoS defense. Prior defenses require other network operators to deploy the same defense mechanism. Mirage does not impose this requirement. Our analysis and prototype system show that Mirage does not require other network …
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Skies and Horizions for Wind Ensemble
… Separating Circle (1:45'), Celestia (2:30'), Mirage (2'), Kite-Flying (3'), Redwoods (3'), Soarin' (2:30'), Sky Dive (2:45'), Vanishing Point (2:00'), and Fireside (3:30') for a combined duration of approximately 24 minutes. While unified under the concept of Skies & Horizons, each piece are …
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A numerical investigation into the tactical advantages of supercruise for combat aircraft
… The airframe is largely based on the Dassault Mirage III, and the engines are based on the SNECMA Atar 9k50 and M53. A brief overview of recent developments in combat aircraft design and engine performance is provided which illustrates the trend towards high thrust to weight ratio aircraft …
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Isolation of ambient aerosols of known critical supersaturation: the differential critical supersaturation separator (DSCS)
… Impact on Regional And Global Environment (MIRAGE) field campaign in Mexico City, Mexico. Throughout the MIRAGE field campaign a Differential Mobility Analyzer/Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer (DMA/TDMA) system measured aerosol size distributions and size-resolved hygroscopicity of DScS …
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The Material Construction of Identity in Sparta and Lakonia (750–480 BCE)
… BCE. To resolve the lingering shadow of the mirage Spartiate, an image of Sparta constructed through a retrojection of later sources onto the Archaic period, I turn my attention in this thesis to the evidence that can be gleaned from the material world, with all its agency and affordances. As …
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The Voice of people living with mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) disease: a grounded theory to understand the illness experience and support needs of people living with mycobacterium ulcerans disease in a rural district of central Ghana.
… of Delayed treatment, Quality of life as a mirage and Seeking to be myself and a Basic Social Psychological Problem (BSPP) of Reliving the trauma of my ulcer were derived. These led to an encompassing core category of My needs matter. The theory explains the needs of people living with …
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The relationship between casino drop and gaming stock performance: A multivariate analysis
… Entertainment, MGM Grand, Mandalay Resort Group, Mirage Resorts, and Station Casinos, all five independent variables were proven statistically significant at a .10 confidence level. However, the results of the study were deemed inconclusive due to the presence of negative coefficients for craps, …
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Application of Active Noise Control to Reduce Cabin Noise in Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft
… Skyhawk, a Piper Cherokee 140 and a Piper Malibu Mirage. The recorded data is used in laboratory tests to evaluate the capability of the control system to reduce the cabin noise signal with the recorded reference signal. The reference signal was found to lack coherence with the cabin noise in most …
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The Dualities of Home: Hong Kong Citizens in a Mobile World
… each chapter follows the central framework of a mirage: the mirage is the traversing of space as one seeks to reach a tantalising desirable object that has appeared in the distance. However, as the viewer comes closer, the tantalising object disappears - and subsequently appears anew elsewhere. …
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Private network access management systems in wi-fi environments
… in real-world environments. Finally, I develop MIRAGE, a system enabling dynamic MAC randomization during active AP connections through multi-interface coordination, addressing a critical limitation where devices remain trackable throughout network sessions. Collectively, this research reveals …
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Exploiting visual motion to understand our visual world
… to the sensor, like the shimmering in a hot-road mirage. Finally, the objects in a scene might move, either actively, like a person walking along a street, or passively, like a tree branch that is vibrating due to wind. All of these movements reveal information about our visual world. In this …
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Különböző szisztemikus fungicidek hatásvizsgálata a meggy moníliás virágelhalása és gyümölcsrothadása ellen
… ellen: Folicur solo (250 g/l tebukonazol), Mirage 45EC (450 g/l prokloráz), Signum WG (267 g/l boszkalid és 67 g/l pyraclostrobin), Switch (62,5 WG 250 g/kg fludioxonil és 375 g/kg ciprodinil). A kísérletet szabadföldön, egy hajdúdorogi meggyültetvényben végeztem 2017-ben. A vizsgált …
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Manufacturing and Characterization of Gold-Black and Prediction and Measurement of its Directional Spectral Absorptivity
… incident zenith angles, where an unanticipated mirage effect is observed.
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