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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Points of origin"”.
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Variation in sepsis symptoms of hospital patients admitted from different points of origin
In 2011, the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S. was septicemia. Sepsis is a disease pathway that leads to death by infection of the blood and is a process that is highly time dependent. The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a relationship between patients that come from …
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Spectral analysis of total suspended solids mixtures for solids composition determination
… basic measure for study and characterization of water quality. The present tedious procedures used for the identification of different solids constituents present in TSS and for the classification or insight into the origins of those solids are time-consuming and expensive. The research …
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Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology
This project argues that traditional puppetry offers a practice-based approach to think through political and ethical issues in technology and communication. Drawing on three summers of ethnographic participant engagement at Bread and Puppet Theater, a historic and internationally famous political …
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O Kae? An Autoethnographic Dramaturgy Through A Deliberate Incommensurability
This study focuses on the erasure of the black woman from the mainstream theatre space of South Africa as a provocation towards the creation of a dramaturgical process that pivots around the notion of 'deliberate incommensurability' as a catalyst for exploration. 'deliberate incommensurability' is …
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The South African clarinet concerto : An examination of the clarinet genre within the South African context
… With this in mind, the aim is to look at each of these works, and then examine them from their points of origin, through to their stylistic conception and their musical characterisation. Up to this point, there has been very little discourse, almost none in fact, that has focussed on this genre …
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A simulation study for hazardous materials transportation risk assessment
… to risk by hazardous-materials shipments. Some of these shipments take place locally or regionally, but a large number of them involve inter-provincial movements across significant distances, and this introduces further complications. According to a 1997 report of Transport Canada, roughly 56% …
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Military band musicians on the border: crossing over musical genres in the transnational space of the Korean War
… collaboration between South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and the United States in the initial stage of the Cold War. In particular, this dissertation looks closely at South Korean military band musicians who played a wide range of music for both military and civilian audiences, crossing over the …
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The chamber music of Hendrik Hofmeyr: an investigation and stylistic analysis of selected works
Hendrik Hofmeyr, professor and head of composition at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, is probably the most performed and commissioned composer living in South Africa today. Chamber music forms an integral part of Hofmeyr’s musical output. The overwhelming majority …
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Myology of the pectoral girdle of the golden hamster
… is not much reference made to the morphology of the golden hamster. Parsons (1896) reports on some hamsters that he dissected. Priddy and Brodie (1948) have published the only recent work on the morphology of the golden hamster. This study is concerned with the myology of the pectoral girdle …
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Morphologische Grundlagen für ein Forward-Dynamik-Modell der Schultergliedmaße des Deutschen Schäferhundes und invers dynamische Untersuchungen zu den gelenkresultierenden Kräften der großen Gliedmaßengelenke
… Shepherd. The main focus lay on the joints of the forelimb, as these have been hardly investigated so far. But also the joint forces of the joints of the hind limb were demonstrated. Additionally the foundations for a forward dynamic model were developed for the forelimb. The study …
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Essays on transport economics
… address different topics on the economics of transportation. The first two essays analise the demand side of transportation services. In the first essay, we study the phenomena related to the first two steps in the traditional four-step model for traffic assignment: trip generation and trip …