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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Perils"”.
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The promise and perils of molecular combing
<p>Dynamic Molecular Combing (DMC) is a method of making visible single molecules of DNA. The method stretches the molecules, attaching them to a glass coverslip; labels them with an intercalating dye or fluorescent antibodies; and images the molecules with fluorescent microscopy. After combing, …
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Avoiding the perils of cyclic growth on Dell's direct environment
The high technology industry suffers from a phenomenon that is common to many businesses and industries throughout the world - a "hockey-stick" demand skew. Such a skew derives its name from the shape of the quarterly demand curve as it is viewed across time. The demand curve is characterized by …
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Perils of the Heroine: The Historic Role of Woman in Comics
<p>Now more than ever the comics industry is welcoming diversity in its creators and stories, but with its historically misogynistic past, what legacy are creators inheriting? This essay seeks to explore that history, delving into the various eras of American Comics and how sexism shaped them. From …
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POSSIBILITIES AND PERILS: EXAMINING THE EXPERIENCES OF NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions and development of community college students as they navigate stigmas associated with a 2-year collegiate institution within the mid-Atlantic region. Community colleges continue to be labeled as a disservice in regard to …
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Automating Health: The Promises and Perils of Biomedical Technologies for Diabetes Management
Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is an irreversible chronic autoimmune disease that affects millions in the United States. Individuals with T1D rely on biomedical technologies to manage their disability and to stay alive. The increased use of and reliance on automated technologies creates complex …
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Getting on Nicely in the Dark: The Perils and Rewards of Annotating Ulysses
The problem of how to provide useful contextual and extra-textual information to readers of Ulysses has vexed Joyceans for years. The debate has generated lively and opinionated discussions in print and at Joyce meetings, forums and listservs. On one side are scholars who argue for scaled-down …
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Getting on Nicely in the Dark: The Perils and Rewards of Annotating Ulysses
The problem of how to provide useful contextual and extra-textual information to readers of Ulysses has vexed Joyceans for years. The debate has generated lively and opinionated discussions in print and at Joyce meetings, forums and listservs. On one side are scholars who argue for scaled-down …
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Beyond the Cheated Eye: Modern American Poetry and the Perils of Post -Romantic Subjectivity
Though resurgent interest in social context has reinvigorated literary studies during the past generation, my dissertation argues that we have not adequately considered how subjectivity defines the threshold of the social. I focus on American poetry from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth …
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A persuasive approach to designing interactive tools around the promises and perils of social platforms
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15661 on 2020-10-02 at 15:14:25
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Pueblos, Planets, and Permian Puzzles: The Perils and Promise of Analogical Evidence in the Historical Sciences
How do scientists investigate the deep past when material traces are fragmentary and direct experimentation is impossible? This thesis explores the epistemic role of analogical reasoning in historical science, arguing that analogy is not merely interpretive but can function as a method of …
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We Can Come Back From This: Navigating the Perils of the Anthropocene in The Walking Dead
<p>Humanity has become increasingly aware of the Anthropocene and the impact of a worldview based on prioritizing human progress above all else. We’ve always used stories to navigate and negotiate the world in which we live. We have also continually developed new and different ways of telling those …
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COVID-19 brought the perils of 'short-termism' back to the fore : how will corporate governance respond?
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the academic eye onto corporate governance and its current shortcomings. Shareholders are at the centre of the company and its decision-making which is the consequence of the prevalent & well-established shareholder primacy model of corporate governance. This …
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The promise and perils of personalized learning : keeping students at the center of the ed tech revolution
As access to education technology - high-speed Internet connectivity, lower-cost computers, and online learning programs - has increased over the past five years in K-12 schools in the United States, the debate over technology's place in the classroom, specifically its ability to usher in a new era …
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The perils of workplace recognition: antecedents and consequences of discomfort associated with being the target of threatening upward comparison
This dissertation explores theoretical links among interpersonal, perceptual, and situational variables and sensitivity about being the target of threatening upward comparisons (STTUC) within a workplace setting. It also investigates affective and behavioral responses outperformers may enact to …
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Shaping Spirits, or, Imagination and "Abstruse Research": the perils of metaphysics and Coleridge's loss of form in the years of his philosophical accomplishment
The mystical nature of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel' and 'Kubla Khan' has intrigued readers for over two centuries. Of these full poems only the "Rime" is complete and yet they all still enjoy the scrutiny of a wide audience. This thesis examines …
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The potentials and perils of public urban land ownership and management : a case study of the Lagos executive development board (Nigeria) 1928-1972
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Atmospheric Rivers Effects on Severe Convective Storm Environments from 1979 to 2023
… against the region's top 30 SCSE days for six perils (tornado, significant tornado, hail, significant hail, wind, significant wind). Results indicate that broader, less restrictive ARDTs captured a higher frequency of AR Peril days particularly for tornado and wind related events, whereas hail …
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Children of Prometheus
… ingenuity both liberates his body from mortal perils and binds him to indefinite dependence with the complex, the external, and inhuman. Architecture as an extension of mankind's agency which asserts and protects his will against unknown forces contends with this implicit contract; a contract …
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The Feminine Metamorphosis
… of society, the corrosion of girlhood, or the perils of a difficult home-life. The feminine ability to persevere intrigues me, because it never takes the same shape twice. Rather than setting out on an exploration of femininity and masculinity as opposing forces, one good and one evil, I focus …
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Gambling with virtue: The moral ramifications of female gaming in the early novels of Frances Burney
… as a tangible social vice; the financial perils and moral recriminations suffered by literary characters is an essential part of their personal development; Frances Burney uses gaming as a fundamental element in her early novels; the trials her heroines experience during their forays into …
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