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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"PITT"”.
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The Ripple Effect: the Implications of Shootings At Institutions of Higher Education
… and practices were reviewed at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), James Madison University (JMU) and the University of South Carolina (USC). To better understand the development and implementation of policies and practices at each institution, this study uses a multiple case study approach.</p> …
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The effect of the flue-cured tobacco (U.S. types 11 and 12) price support program on the sale value of farm real property
… distinctly different flue-cured tobacco regions--Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and Wilson, Greene, and Pitt Counties, North Carolina. These data were analyzed by a multiple regression statistical technique designed to measure the value of an acre of tobacco allotment es a right to produce. The …
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British Foreign Policy from the Munich Conference to the Polish Guarantee: A Study in Imponderables
… World War, and reaching back to the time of Pitt, the great classic enunciator of British foreign policy, historians had enjoyed the phenomenon of a mighty power whose continental foreign policy held no deep mysteries. It was a clear, pragmatic Realpolitik. England found her greatness by …
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Latent State and Parameter Estimation of Stochastic Volatility/Jump Models via Particle Filtering
… et al. (2008) all attempt to extend the work of Pitt and Shephard (1999) and Liu and Chen (1998) to adapt particle filtering to latent state and parameter estimation in stochastic volatility/jump models. This dissertation will review their extensions and compare their accuracy at filtering the …
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Sport/utility vehicles as technologies of the suburban self: The only civilized way to leave civilization
… (including John Dewey, G. H. Mead, and Joseph Pitt) to fill out this Foucaultian idea. This forms the theoretical core of my essay. I go on to analyze the historical formation of the sport/utility vehicle, beginning in World War II through the present. I then bring together the history and my …
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Contested power, identity and status : an historical case study of library paraprofessionals in Australia
… provision and funding, publicised by the Munn-Pitt Report of 1935 and reiterated by a series of later international consultants; conflict and contestation between librarians from different areas of the library and information sector; a lack of occupational status and measures undertaken to …
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Scotland and the British army, c.1700-c.1750
… origins in military service well before William Pitt the Elder boasted of ‘harnessing’ the military resources of the Highlands in 1762.
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Investigating speech technology for monitoring disease progression in the context of neurodegenerative disease
… of them is a monologue, task-based corpus: the Pitt Corpus; and the other one is a dialogue, conversation-based corpus: the Carolina Conversations Collection (CCC). Acoustic features are extracted from both datasets and used as input for machine learning classification, achieving a …
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How efficient are Kenyan hospitals? : an application of frontier analysis techniques
… gave a range of scores that were between 0.62 (Pitt and Lee and Battese and Coelli) and 0.85 (true effect models). There was no evidence of patterns in efficiency scores over time based on both DEA and SF A approaches. This data did not suggest a significant effect on efficiency based on …
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Comparing University Entomology Outreach Events While Examining Public Views of Arthropods and Pesticides
… insects and other arthropods is also lacking (Pitt and Shockley, 2014). Several studies have been conducted in other states to investigate public attitudes toward arthropods and pesticides (Baldwin et al., 2008; Byrne et al., 1984; Frankie and Levenson, 1978; Hahn and Ascerno, 1991; Potter and …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… fetish discourse and fieldwork at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and Mus{u00E9}e du quai Branly, Paris, provide a theoretical and material framework from which to reconsider the fetish artefact. The sculptural work incorporates perceptions of purity and contagion through principles of …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… fetish discourse and fieldwork at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and Mus{u00E9}e du quai Branly, Paris, provide a theoretical and material framework from which to reconsider the fetish artefact. The sculptural work incorporates perceptions of purity and contagion through principles of …
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Party conflict and foreign crisis at Cambridge University, 1745 to 1806
… Jacobite Rising in 1745 to the death of William Pitt the Younger in 1806. Cambridge University has frequently been a partisan and ideological battleground in British political history. The university’s leaders and ideas have been featured in a wide range of studies of eighteenth-century Britain, …
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Investigation of the presentation of Ainu identity in British museums and exhibitions
… the British Museum; National Museum of Scotland; Pitt Rivers Museum; and the Victoria and Albert Museum. I also covered two exhibitions: ‘Ainu Stories: Contemporary Lives by the Saru River’ at Japan House and ‘Art Without Heroes: Mingei’ at William Morris Gallery. Results were derived through …
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Geophysical characterization of onsite wastewater treatment system effects on groundwater quality, eastern North Carolina
… field. The current study utilized seven OWS in Pitt and Craven Counties, located in the Inner Coastal Plain of North Carolina. CCR and GPR surveys were conducted in conjunction with laboratory analysis of water samples and environmental water quality readings collected in the field on three …
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THE IMPACT OF THE USE OF PROFICIENCY-BASED RUBRICS ON STUDENT GRADING
… given to both principals and teachers within the Pitt County School District. In order to provide findings regarding the research questions, survey and interview questions were categorized under the classifications of impact, consistency or communication. The data from the surveys and focus group …
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Potential solutions for reducing environmental impact of pest mammal monitoring in New Zealand: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
The environmental impact of plastic-based monitoring tools, such as chewcards and tracking tunnels is an underexplored issue. This thesis investigates the use of single-use plastic in the New Zealand conservation sector, assessing its environmental impact and exploring sustainable alternatives. …
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Modulation der synaptischen Langzeitplaztizität durch Lithium und Lamotrigin
In dieser Arbeit wurde die Modulation synaptischer Plastizität in CA1- <br>Pyramidenzellen durch die beiden Medikamente Lithium und Lamotrigin mit <br>Ganzzell-Ableitung in der Patch-Clamp Technik untersucht. Synaptische Plastizität wird als ein zelluläres Korrelat für Lernen und Gedächtnis …
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