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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Reinventing"”.
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Reinventing Aromatic Substitution: A Novel Look
<p>Electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) and directed <em>ortho</em>-metalation (DoM) involve the direct substitution of an arene hydrogen. A major drawback involving EAS is the necessity for harsh forcing conditions for the reaction to proceed. Catalysts such as Lewis acids FeBr<sub>3</sub> …
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Reinventing Infrastructure Economics: Theory and Empirics
… increase efficiency and equity outcomes. Second, reinventing reforms by focusing on all manipulable variables for supply optimization and demand responsiveness, because profit in public utilities is a function of several manipulable variables, not only fares and wages. Third, agency, through …
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X-Conference : reinventing a teleconferencing system
In looking forward to more natural we can anticipate that the teleconferencing system of the future will enable participants at distant locations to share the same virtual space. The visual object of each participant can be transmitted to the other sites and be rendered from an individual …
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Side By Side: Reinventing Mother/Daughter Relationships
Beginning with mother/daughter film classics such as Stella Dallas (1937) and Mildred Pierce (1945), and moving to consider recent mother/daughter texts, Anywhere But Here (1999) and "Gilmore Girls" (2000 -), this thesis, in both its written and visual components, examines the multiple and often …
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StreetSmart: Reinventing Retail Through Smarter Small Business
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the retail market in U.S. cities was widely acknowledged to be overbuilt by about one billion square feet¹. The wave of lockdowns and restrictions on retail operations further exacerbated the distress in the retail market, with bankrupt major retail chains closing …
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Woven Networks: Reinventing Street Life in Downtown Minneapolis
<bold>Woven Networks: Reinventing Street Life in Downtown Minneapolis</bold> The most unique feature of downtown Minneapolis is the extensive Skyway system that links over sixty city blocks above the streets and sidewalks allowing its users to completely ignore any activity occurring below them. …
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Barack Obama's rise to power : reinventing political campaigns
This research paper uses content analysis to analyse the subtext of Obama's campaign messages and virtual ethnography to analyse the way that information technology was used to further his campaign's goals. The findings suggest that while historic forces, such as economic turbulence and the …
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Reinventing the Medical Request Process in a Correctional Healthcare Setting
<p>This project was developed as part of a Clinical Nurse Leader course of study with the goal of gathering and evaluating microsystem data, and the creation and implementation of a process improvement project. The project was conducted in a correctional setting which houses male and female …
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Bodies of information : reinventing bodies and practice in medical education
This dissertation recounts the development of graphic models of human bodies and virtual reality simulators for teaching anatomy and surgery to medical students, residents, and physicians. It considers how researchers from disciplinary cultures in medicine, engineering, and computer programming …
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Reinventing the (Spinning) Wheel: Maps to Scale Bacterial-Grown Materials
As we move to decarbonize and transition to a sustainable economy, we can tap into nature’s intelligence to find materials whose properties often surpass those manufactured by industry. However, accessible biomaterials that can be extracted from nature represent only a small fraction of biology’s …
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Reinventing flexibility : a hybrid paradigm for Thai markets in Bangkok, Thailand
This thesis asserts that the current form of the proliferating modernization of Thai markets in terms of economic growth and the incorporation of building technology to improve goods storage, attractive envelope, and shopping environment, is actually neither modern nor sustainable for the Thai …
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Reinventing the rattling tin : explaining the dynamics of social networking site fundraising
… a theoretical contribution to knowledge.Finally, Reinventing the Rattling Tin lays claim to a few methodological innovations. It is the first UK study, for example, to use web content analysis to code the content of charity Facebook pages, and the first to devise and use a ‘shareability’ metric to …
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Reinventing VAT collection : industry vertical assessment, revenue increase, and public sector reliability
This dissertation shows how administrative reforms of the State Tax Administration Bureaus (STABs) in Brazil between 1997 and 2005 contributed to strengthening public sector bureaucracies and institutions at the sub-national level, while increasing tax revenues and compliance. STABs' administrative …
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Reinventing retail properties : adaptive reuse strategies that make sense and create value
… a solution to the capital intensive process of reinventing retail properties.
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Through a design education lens: Are we reinventing the wheel for entrepreneurial education?
Entrepreneurial education is the fastest growing field of education, but the academic discourses have remained firmly planted in the business and management school literature, and miss insights from other disciplines. This thesis discusses a portfolio of 14 papers that were published during the …
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Reinventing the Wheel: Examining the Antecedents, Moderators, and Outcomes of the Innovation Process
This study extends research on the innovation process at the individual-level by examining antecedents, moderators, and outcomes associated with the generation, promotion, and implementation of innovative ideas in the workplace. In a sample of 667 working adults, this study found that high …
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Reinventing the Self: Narrative Persona in Five Autobiographical Works of Viktor B. Shklovsky
Although the works vary in terms of form and content, certain stylistic features and devices make them all unmistakably Shklovskian. An intrusive narrator who both acts in and directs the story is common to all these works. Also consistent is the flippant tone the narrator uses when talking about …
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Reinventing Poetry: Popular Audiences And Polyphonic Space During The Song-Jin-Yuan Transition (1050–1300)
This dissertation studies poetry as a linguistic topos that traveled across cultural and class boundaries during the Song-Jin-Yuan transition (1050–1300). Literary scholars often examine poetry in light of leading literati’s cultural practices and political experience. Moving away from canonical …
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