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Showing 1 to 20 of 22654 for “"Resources"”.
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Regions and resources
The goal of this thesis is to bring together several topics for the purpose of site prediction and significance assessment in management archaeology. This was approached as a survey project along a great transect with three sample areas at Boorowa, Cobar and Tibooburra. The field operation was …
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Regions and resources
The goal of this thesis is to bring together several topics for the purpose of site prediction and significance assessment in management archaeology. This was approached as a survey project along a great transect with three sample areas at Boorowa, Cobar and Tibooburra. The field operation was …
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Statistics for electronic resources
Electronic resources represent a large portion of many libraries' information resources in the current climate of hybrid libraries where print and electronic formats coexist. Since the dramatic uptake of electronic resources in libraries during the 1990's the topic of usage statistics has been on …
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A Tale of Three Resources: The Influence of Multiple Resources on Plant-Herbivore Interactions
… that plant growth can be co-limited by multiple resources, particularly water, nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P), the role of co-limiting resources in driving plant-herbivore interactions remains poorly understood. Evidence indicates that the resources that limit plant and herbivore growth may …
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Substituting Security: Economic Resources, Strategic Resources, and the Security Policy Choices of Minor Powers
… amount of threat facing the state and economic resources. In addition, I argue that strategic resources, which represent the willingness of security providers to offer security to minor powers, plays an key role in determining minor power security choices. I develop hypotheses based on the role …
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Active management of Cache resources
This dissertation addresses two sets of challenges facing processor design as the industry enters the deep sub-micron region of semiconductor design. The first set of challenges relates to the memory bottleneck. As the focus shifts from scaling processor frequency to scaling the number of cores, …
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Electric Vehicles as Grid Resources
… Such features enable the extraction of resources from these batteries in order to benefit the power system and even EV owner's themselves. However, the challenge remains on how to reduce the issues of EV ownership while the power system extracts services from EVs that benefit operations. …
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Essays on resources and institutions
… four essays covering two sets of issues linking resources to institutions. Chapter 1 provides a summary of the thesis. Chapter 2 provides a general overview of the resource curse literature, emphasising the role of institutions, the nature of the political regimes in resource-rich countries and …
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Governance of Offshore Freshwater Resources
… unique nature of freshwater, offshore freshwater resources will become more attractive as the quality and quantity of land-based supplies dwindle.The purpose of this thesis is to fill the void in legal scholarship concerning governance of offshore freshwater resources. At least three different …
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Protecting our most valuable resources
<p>The purpose of the study is to determine the effectiveness of school supervision, policies, and procedures relating to the safety of the students at Collingswood Middle School using interview and action research. The study will result in a report to inform administrators and board members of …
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Resources and Customer Engagement Behaviours
… to engage with firms. Faced with limited firm resources, marketers would benefit from leveraging resources from customers through their engagement behaviours. This dissertation explores resources and customer engagement behaviours (CEBs). It includes two essays: “A Resource-Based Perspective of …
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Property Rights in Environmental Resources
… property rights over environmentally sensitive resources and develops a new conception of property in these resources. It has implications for the design of property law, environmental law, and the ethical responsibilities of business in the use of resources. I pursue this project by examining …
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Scheduling task systems with resources.
Thesis. 1980. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Online education through shared resources
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Parsing with sparse annotated resources
… parsing within the context of sparse annotated resources. Despite recent progress in parsing techniques, existing methods require significant resources for training. Therefore, current technology is limited when it comes to parsing sentences in new languages or new grammars. We propose methods …
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Optimal Designs with Limited Resources
… optimality of block designs with limited resources. The dissertation is organized as follows. The first chapter outlines the theory of optimal block design. The second chapter shows new work in optimal minimally connected block designs with spatial correlation structure. The third chapter …
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Articulating Value of Archaeological Resources After Damage, Archaeological Crime and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act
… vest national ownership rights in archaeological resources, there are stringent means to enforce federal property rights in cultural resources that exist on federal lands under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) as well as the Embezzlement and Theft, and Malicious Mischief federal …
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