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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Newcomb"”.
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A Chemical and Morphological Study of Nicandra Physalodes (L) Pers.
… seed having been received from Professor E. L. Newcomb, Director of the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy Drug Gardens, in the Fall of 1917. Professor Newcomb reports that the seed had been purchased from Haage and Schmidt, Erfurt, Germany, in 1914. The writer has undertaken a …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… losing in the Republican primary to James Newcomb, a white, fire-extinguisher salesman. Newcomb went on to lose to Democrat Susie Sharp, who became the first elected female state Supreme Court chief justice in the country. Alexander’s loss prompted changes to North Carolina judicial …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… losing in the Republican primary to James Newcomb, a white, fire-extinguisher salesman. Newcomb went on to lose to Democrat Susie Sharp, who became the first elected female state Supreme Court chief justice in the country. Alexander’s loss prompted changes to North Carolina judicial …
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Healthcare Provider and Community Adult Knowledge and Beliefs about Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
… (Mustanski, Birkett, Greene, Hatzenbuehler, & Newcomb, 2014a). Researchers have demonstrated connections between discriminatory beliefs (e.g., homophobia), beliefs about environmental etiology of SGM, and SGM moral condemnation among United States adults (Wood & Bartkowski, 2004). Previous …
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Doing your best (while making do with less) : the actual value conception of instrumental rationality
… offered for Two- Boxing over One-Boxing in the Newcomb Problem. I also show that the picture is incompatible with evidential decision theory. Evidential decision theory sometimes recommends preferring one option to another even though you are certain that the actual value of the latter exceeds …
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Holocene Mollusks of the Knife and Heart Rivers, Southwestern North Dakota
… moist conditions, and Discus cronkhitei (Newcomb), preferring woodland conditions, are adequately met.</p> <p>Therefore, a significant change in the regiman of the rivers is not evident as the total species are essentially the same, living or fossil.</p> <p>The molluscan faunal fossil …
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The Impact of Chinese Investments on the Kenyan Economy
<p>The involvement of China in Kenya has been increasing in recent years. China’s investments in Kenya are still impacting the Kenyan economy significantly. This thesis will examine the positive and negative impacts that the Chinese investments have had on the Kenyan economy.</p> <p>This thesis …
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A Study of Preconditions and Postconditions as Design Constraints for LLM Code Generation
<p>Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced automated code generation, but current methods predominantly rely on natural language descriptions. This approach encounters challenges when handling complex, class-level software generation tasks due to inherent ambiguity and …
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The volute in architecture and architectural decoration with particular reference to its introduction into the Ionic order
Made available in DSpace on 2014-09-18T16:20:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) voluteinarchitec00newc.pdf: 5765070 bytes, checksum: b6d66fe7c582a527df2730f4ca358c19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1918
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Fulke Greville's Caelica: The Work of an Elizabethan
In 1633, Fulke Greville's sonnet sequence, Caelica, was posthumously published. In 109 sonnets of varying length, Greville addresses his poems to the woman of the title as well as to "Myra," "Cynthia," and "Gala." The names of these women were used, it seems, quite arbitrarily, and may possibly …
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Geology, structure and metamorphism of the Chuacús Group, Rio Hondo Quadrangle and vicinity, Guatemala
<p>The Chuacús Group, of probable Paleozoic age, crops out in the Rio Hondo, San Agustín Acasaguastlán, and El Cimiento quadrangles, east-central Guatemala. Its members, in structurally ascending order, are: the San Agustín Formation (cataclastic gneiss and migmatite), the Jones Formation …
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Virginia Principals and School Law
This quantitative study examined the level of school law knowledge possessed by secondary principals and assistant principals in Virginia public schools, including its relationships to the type, length, quantity, and recency of their law-related professional preparation and training, and years of …
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A study of the social adjustment made by patients at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital who received electric shock treatment
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University, 1945. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Social and Emotional Development and Language Outcomes in Mixed Income Preschool Classroom Environments
<p>Two different publicly funded preschool programs exist within Arkansas: Head Start and the Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) program. Though philosophically similar, the different programs have dramatically different income eligibility guidelines resulting in classrooms with differing levels of …
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Maximal Lattice-Ordered Algebras of Continuous Functions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T22:17:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6706686.pdf: 2406441 bytes, checksum: de78b8fcba1fb597e1f35989fb6ef525 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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Effect of nutrient intake on pigs treated with porcine somatotropin
An experiment was conducted to develop a technique for hyperalimentation of growing swine and to evaluate the effect of hyperalimentation on feedlot performance and carcass criteria. To allow for infusion of feed into the stomach, a cannula was implanted. The implantation of a cannula into the …
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A Scalable Approach to Multi-core Prototyping
In recent years, multi-core processors and multi-processor networks have grown in popularity as a solution to the limits on increasing clock speed, rising power consumption, and the nanometer manufacturing processes. Multi-core processors and multi-processor networks are seen as the next step in …
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Imagine Blacksburg: Using immersive 3D models to explore density
This project explores the challenges of increasing density in a college town grappling with how to appropriately respond to expected population growth. It presents a concept idea for a section of Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia that meets the various planning goals for the community. It also …
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The Metaphysical Drama: A Study of the Similarities Between the Poems of John Donne and Certain Jacobean Plays, Particularly Those of John Webster
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6206258.pdf: 26699297 bytes, checksum: 183d10e3c37fbfb75328cdb26c8ee061 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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