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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Precondition"”.
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Devotions born of distress: anomie as a precondition for charismatic following
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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Property Rights as a Precondition to Development: A Case Study of Jamaica
Emerging research suggests that property rights play a significant role in the economic and social development of nations. To test this proposition, this study examines the case of Jamaica and whether there is a relationship between property rights and development. In order to carry out this …
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NOVEL STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE METABOLIC PARAMETERS AND PRECONDITION DIABETIC HEARTS AGAINST ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION INJURY
… strategy to improve metabolic parameters and precondition diabetic hearts against IRI.
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Policy-Based Pervasive Systems Management Using Specification-Enhanced Rules
… propose a rule framework called Event-Condition-Precondition-Action-Postcondition (ECPAP) that contains axiomatic specifications of rule actions, for designing management policies. These specifications formally state the effect of an action using Hoare logic as pre- and post-conditions. This …
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Preconditioners constructed from the interpolative decomposition for the variable coefficient Poisson problem
… iteratively, it becomes important to be able to precondition the coupling between the subdomains. Using the Poisson problem as a test case, this thesis explores one idea for preconditioning this coupling, an idea based on interpolative decomposition and random matrices. We find that this …
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Studies on preconditioning with adenosine, glutamate and ouabain in rat hippocampal slices
Preconditioning is the phenomenon whereby tolerance to lethal insults is induced by exposing the tissue to a prior sublethal stimulus. This exists in several forms, such as ischaemic preconditioning, adenosine preconditioning and excitotoxic preconditioning. Adenosine preconditioning is known to be …
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A toolkit for constructing refactoring engines
… language. Part II focuses primarily on precondition checking, the procedure which determines whether or not a refactoring can be performed. It identifies preconditions as checking three properties: input validity, compilability, and preservation. Then, it shows how a language-independent …
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"Reciprocity and the Divine: A Study of the Major ""Homeric Hymns"""
… (quid pro quo) reciprocity, which is the precondition for the gods' reappraised status. The study of reciprocity reveals a consistent, systematic structure of the Hymns and sheds light on the value of reciprocity in the religious and social realms of Archaic Greece.
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A Parallel Aggregation Algorithm for Inter-Grid Transfer Operators in Algebraic Multigrid
… problems, or even better they can be used to precondition the conjugate gradient method, yielding better results in general. Capabilities of multigrid algorithms rely on the effectiveness of the inter-grid transfer operators. In this thesis we focus on the aggregation approach, discussing how …
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Colonialism and Displays of Third World Dependency Among Thai Sex Workers
… history of colonialism or imperialism is a precondition for displays of dependency to exist among sex workers today, this paper tests the same theoretical framework in Thailand, which is the only Southeast Asian country to have retained sovereignty over its kingdom. This paper specifically …
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Hypertext navigation, goal (dis)orientation, and the role of mental models : an empirical investigation
… of links within a hypertext, a necessary precondition for the development of mental models which incorporate both the conceptual and structural elements required for effective learning from, and the reduction of disorientation within, this medium. The results obtained, although …
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Just Not Enough: Reframing Just Peace in an Era of Persistent Conflict
… integrated into ad bellum decision-making as a precondition to meeting jus ad bellum criteria by using the maximum obtainable peace equation to estimate whether a just peace can be obtained at a reasonable expense in blood and treasure. Doing so will result in fewer decisions to go to war and a …
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Approximate inverse scattering using pseudodifferential scaling
… estimate the solution of the inverse problem or precondition iterative methods. Application of the normal operator requires an expensive solution of large scale PDE problems. However, the normal operator approximately commutes with pseudodifferential operators, hence shares their near diagonality …
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Confronting Theory with Data: the Case of DSGE Modeling
… statistical adequacy. The latter provides a precondition for the reliability of any inference based on the statistical model. Once the statistical adequacy of the respecified model is secured through thorough M-S testing, inferences like the likelihood-ratio test for the overidentifying …
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Heimdallur - Interface For Publicly Accessible Internet Services
… for cyber threats increases as well. As a precondition for mitigating this at scale, oversight over the state of security on the internet is required. Towards that, the internet threat scanner Heimdallur was developed to scan the Icelandic internetwork and gather information about potential …
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Synthesis of batch processing schemes for the production of pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals
… the applicability of the operation, the preconditions of the operation are assessed against the current process state. If any of the preconditions is violated, operations called "White Knights" are selected and applied before the current operation to alter the current state and remove the …
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Domain knowledge acquisition via language grounding
… learning framework to jointly learn to predict precondition relations from text and to perform high-level planning guided by those relations. When applied to a complex virtual world and text describing that world, our relation extraction technique performs on par with a supervised baseline, and …
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Rivalry for nutrient resources : is there competition below ground between leguminous trees and grasses in a mesic and arid savanna in the Kruger National Park?
… rooting niche separation is not an essential precondition for grass-tree coexistence, competition in the rooting zone can shape patterns of tree dominance in savannas, which may help in dealing with the problem of bush encroachment in savannas.
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Fast and scalable solvers for the Helmholtz equation
… boundary integral formulation that is easy to precondition. The computation is divided in two stages: an offline stage, a computationally expensive but embarrassingly parallel precomputation performed only once; and an online stage, a highly parallel computation with low complexity performed …
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