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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"POW"”.
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The Representation of Japan in British POW films of the 1950s
… of Japan's maltreatment of prisoners of war (POWs) became known. The thesis considers four films and the novels or scripts from which they were made: The Wind Cannot Read (both David Lean's and Ralph Thomas's version), A Town Like Alice, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and The Camp on Blood …
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Resisting captivity: An analysis of the New Zealand POW experience during World War Two
… men were confronted by the challenges of disempowerment and a prolonged imprisonment. However, histories of captivity have tended to portray the prisoner-of-war (POW) experience as a continual attempt to disrupt the enemy war effort from behind the wire. More recent scholarly works have …
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An assessment of the effectiveness of the POW plus TREE and COPS writing strategies
… teach <em>Plan, Organize your notes, and Write (POW)</em> plus <em>Topic Sentence, Reasons, Explain your reasons, and Ending (TREE)</em> to write a well-written opinion essay. Also, the SRSD approach will be used to teach <em>Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, and Spelling (COPS)</em>, an …
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Reinforcement Learning assisted Adaptive difficulty of Proof of Work (PoW) in Blockchain-enabled Federated Learning
… in blockchain technology's Proof of Work (PoW) consensus mechanism. Existing consensus algorithms, such as PoW, PoS, and PoB, have succeeded in public blockchains but face challenges due to heterogeneous miners. This thesis highlights the significance of considering miners' computing power …
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POW/MIC: Prisoners of Words/Missing in Canon: Liberating the Neglected British War Poets of The Great War.
<p>Since the First World War ended in 1918 and anthologies began to emerge, limited attention has been paid to the poets of this era. While a few select male poets have achieved canonicity, women war poets of this era have fallen into enigmatic obscurity.</p><p>The intention of this paper is to …
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"Dance your style!" : towards understanding some of the cultural significances of pow wow references in First Nations' literatures
… Some of the Cultural Significances of Pow Wow References in First Nations' Literatures References to pow wows, pow wow dancers, and pow wow songs abound in First Nations' literatures. This dissertation proposes attending, observing and listening at pow wows - an aural principal and …
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German POWs, Biopolitics, & the Piney Woods: Using Foucault to Analyze Resistance at Camp Shelby's POW Camp During World War II
… a detention site for German prisoners of war (POWs) where the United States government engaged in reeducation efforts to de-Nazify soldiers in order to create a democratic Germany after the war. The U.S. War Department hoped the success of this program would create allies and prevent another …
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Muscle strength and activation characteristics of power- trained and non-athlete boys and men
… believed to be involved. In adults, training for power sports has been shown to enhance muscle strength and activation. The purpose of this study was to examine muscle strength and activation in power-trained athletes (POW) compared with non-athletes (CON), in boys and in adults. After …
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Proof-of-Work Based Mitigation of Real Time Video DDoS Attacks
… investigates the use of a novel proof-of-work (PoW) based mitigation method to respond to such attacks, specifically in the context of WebRTC video conferencing applications. PoW aims to shift the computational burden from the server to the client, by utilizing a hard to solve puzzle that is …
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The Effect of Transient Mood on Performance Outcomes and Levels of Motivation Variables
… (n Ach), need for approval (n App), need for power (n Pow), and performance outcome measures. It was hypothesized that subjects experiencing negative transient mood states would be associated with lower n Ach, lower n Pow, and higher n App than in a neutral mood state. It was further …
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Analysis and design of blockchain systems
… particular emphasis on analyzing Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains and designing new algorithms and incentive mechanisms to enhance their performance and security. Central to the design of these protocols is the need to characterize and incentivize rational behavior, as cryptocurrencies depend on …
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Wood Duck Use and Nesting Success in Artificial Nesting Structures in Eastern South Dakota
… in 1991 was: 331 plastic double-walled (POW), 11 plastic single-walled (PSW), and 154 wooden nesting structures; in 1992, 382 of the boxes were PDW, 13 PSW, and 264 wooden. In both years an additional 10 nest boxes of fiberglass or metal were also monitored. Overall, 206 wood duck nesting …
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Security for proof of work blockchains via checkpointing
… finalizing blocks produced by a Proof-of-Work (PoW) or Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chain protocol. They have become very popular methods for combining the best features of the BFT and PoW protocols and are proposed for deployment in many major blockchains. While the finality gadget architecture has …
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Formally verifying the security properties of a proof-of-stake blockchain protocol
… from the longest-chain rule and Proof-of-Work (PoW). Briefly, it allows and encourages all parties to participate in picking the longest chain in the system and solving a cryptographically difficult puzzle to declare the next block of transactions for that chain. PoW is sometimes referred to as …
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Developing a New Model of Care for Patients' Medication Supply at Hospital Discharge: A Multi-Perspective Approach
… of information. This programme of work (PoW) aimed to develop an innovative model of care for the supply of medication at hospital discharge to provide safe, quality and effective transfer for patients from hospital to community care. The PoW consisted of four phases which used both …
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Simulating Internet of Things Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Distributed Ledger Technology: "Which DLT is Best?"
… that are especially suited to covering low-power decentralized environments. We identify an under-studied niche of IoT Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) to best utilize DLTs, and challenge ourselves to put an entire cryptographically secure DLT on a \$46 Arduino MKR WAN 1310. To accomplish …
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Civil War prisons in American memory
… culminating in the 1998 opening of the National POW Museum at Andersonville, Georgia, site of the most infamous Civil War prison. The museum presented a universal narrative of the POW experience that interpreted Civil War prisons not as a terrible exception, but as the first in a series of modern …
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Proof-of-stake longest chain protocols: security vs predicability
… with less than 50% of the total hashing power. Proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols are an energy-efficient alternative; however existing protocols adopting Nakamoto’s longest chain design achieve provable security only by allowing long-term predictability, subjecting the system to serious …
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Electrodeposited nanoparticles: properties and photocatalytic applications
… of the polyoxotungstate anion α-[S2W18O62] (POW) on the two osmium polypyridyl complexes in solution has been identified by analysis of the Stern-Volmer plots. The quenching of monolayers of these complexes by POW, coupled to the electrochemical regeneration of the ground state osmium complex …
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Improved blockchain - Proof-of-work consensus protocol - performance using machine learning
… its consensus protocol known as Proof-of-Work (PoW). Many industries, researchers and organisation have been working on providing a solution to the performance issues of the technology but most of the proposed solutions has so far ended in proposing a newly designed protocol which ends up facing …
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