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Nexus of indeterminacy
Every year, China experiences the largest human migration in history during the 40 days of Chinese New Year (Chun Yun). It is a period when migrant workers travel from coastal industrial cities to inland rural areas for family gatherings. Just in 2012, over 235 million people migrated across the …
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The Security & Development Nexus
… 1 Importantly, the Council stated that the nexus between security and development should help define strategies, policies and programming. This means that at policy and operational levels, the linkages between security and development should be taken into account. For my thesis I will …
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Nexus Project: three electro-acoustic compositions.
This Ph.D. dissertation consists of three compositions--a concert piece, an intermedia collaboration, and a structured improvisation--presented as digital audio recordings. This project aimed to meet two objectives. At the most conceptual level I attempted to explore how uniquely conceived …
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The Electrical Characteristics of The Nexus
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:39:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7616094.pdf: 5140400 bytes, checksum: bf3ab8f05ee8bdd0387eedbf4fb2f2a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Menningarkimi í Nexus: Heterótópía nörda í Reykjavík
Í rannsókninni er rakin saga verslunarinnar Nexus, frá upphafi hennar sem verslunin Goðsögn fram til núverandi staðsetningar í Glæsibæ. Einnig er greint frá fimm stærstu áhugasviðunum sem verslunin býður upp á, ásamt þætti hennar í Midgard ráðstefnunum. Megináhersla er lögð á greiningu á þeim …
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The Water-Energy Nexus for Hydraulic Fracturing
<p>The water energy nexus represents the intersection of water use, energy production, electricity generation, and waste generation and disposal. The rapid rise of unconventional natural gas and oil production through the combined processes of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have …
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The Finance-Growth Nexus in South Africa
The finance-growth nexus remains a divisive topic within macroeconomic discourse. Despite the plethora of studies devoted to understanding the causal relationships, there is still vast disagreement. This study comprehensively examines the relationship between economic growth, financial development …
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De-Isolate: The Water-Food-Shelter Nexus
… accommodate that population too. The intertwined nexus of freshwater shortage, food, water and energy security is an issue we are already grappling with today, which is likely to be exacerbated in the future. These issues cannot be reviewed and analyzed as separate phenomena, but rather as a …
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The development-security nexus and security sector reform
… and security - the ‘development-security nexus’- which emerged during the 1990s, facilitated by the formulation of human development and human security. It examines how this development-security nexus has evolved over time and has influenced the interrelated significance of development and …
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Global Food Security Under Climate-Water-Energy Nexus
… enhancement and assessing food-water-energy nexus to enhance global food security in a sustainable manner considering current available resources. As decision-makers try to improve food security, it is important to identify the impact of technology enhancement and major climatic patterns that …
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The Finance-Growth Nexus in Britain, 1850-1913
This thesis argues that the financial sector played a positive, but limited role in British economic growth from 1850 to 1913. It examines empirically the role played by different types of financial institutions: commercial banks, stock markets and merchant banks. To this end, the thesis uses …
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24x7 Make Mart : the future nexus of innovation
There is a total of more than 9700 convenient stores in Taiwan. In Taipei, the capital of the country, there is 1 convenient store in every 400 meters, which is equivalent to one convenient store in every 5 minutes. This thesis aims to explore the possibility of optimizing the notion of …
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The nexus between soft power and US foreign aid
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] What is the role of soft power in US bilateral foreign aid allocation? Drawing on insights from Joseph Nye's soft power concept, I examine the relationship between US bilateral development and military aid allocations …
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The Water/Energy Nexus: Climate, Consumption and Ecosystem Services
… work provides an assessment of the Water Energy Nexus in the United States, comparing the well-watered north-east and the arid west. Electric grid systems are most stressed on hot summer afternoons. Grid stress can lead to cascading failures of electricity, water and wastewater treatment systems. …
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Nexus of water and energy: resilience through decentralized operation
… fashion, upon need. Considering the nexus of water and energy offers an opportunity to improve the overall performance of both systems and to provide added reliability and resilience in the wake of large-scale disturbances. In this thesis, a framework is proposed for optimal design …
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An Analysis of the Finance Growth Nexus in Nigeria
This study empirically examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Nigeria. It employs statistical techniques such as the Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach as well as a short and long run Granger Causality test on time series data spanning from 1960-2016. …
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Integrating children's art and environmental education : exploring a nexus
Current environmental problems necessitate the development of apporaches that facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and nurture an affective personal response to the natural environment. To this end, the study explores connections betweeen children's creative art and environmental education, in …
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Resource Distribution for Robots and Nexus between Water and Energy
… using multi-objective formulations. We propose a nexus between water and electrical power that satisfies the water and power demands, ensures a sufficient quality of water, and minimizes the total cost. Here we consider multiple power sources such as thermal, hydro, wind, and solar. Also, the …
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Entrepreneurial Dynamics of Internationalising Ventures: The Opportunity-Value Creation Nexus
International Entrepreneurship (IE) theory has developed extensively over the last two decades by drawing on various theoretical perspectives. While this growing body of knowledge has provided rich insights into the internationalisation behaviour of firms from multiple theoretical perspectives, it …
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EU-South Pacific: trade-developments nexus in Economic Partnership Agreements
… to examine the nature of the trade-development nexus in economic relations between the European Union and Pacific island states. Two interrelated but competing International Relations theories are utilised as tools for analysis: the dependency theory and realist theory. The research consists of …
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