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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Romney"”.
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Analysis of the effects of sire and age on wool quality traits in Romney ewes
… of a wool breeding trial being conducted with Romney ewes in North Canterbury, New Zealand. Wool trait data collected from the first generation progeny was analysed. The trial aims to increase the value of Romney wool by improving its quality. Key wool traits which affect processing performance …
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Sublime and infernal reveries : George Romney and the creation of an eighteenth-century history painter
The image of George Romney presented in his early biographies is of a successful society portraitist by day but the creator of `sublime and infernal reveries' at night by candlelight. Today these passionate designs from literature are characterized as proto- Romantic but, paradoxically, they were …
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Visual framing and social networking: a content analysis of the 2012 Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Facebook pages
… study is to discover how Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were framed visually on Facebook during the 2012 presidential election. Frame theory has been studied in various forms of media. However, this study is the first, to the researcher's knowledge, to use frame theory to analyze Facebook. A …
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Seismic Facies Mapping for Source Rock Distribution of the Rakopi Formation in Deep-water Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
… Basin into the deep-water to the northwest. The Romney 3D survey and Romney–1 well are some the first public exploration projects to supply data from this area. The objective of this study is to estimate source rock quality and distribution of the Rakopi Formation in the Romney 3D survey …
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Use of carbon isotope and C/N geochemistry in reconstructing vegetation communities: a mid- to late- Holocene palaeoenvironmental investigation from Romney Marsh, Kent, UK
… particularly alder carr and saltmarsh. Romney Marsh is a large, extensively studied reclaimed coastal wetland in south east England containing a 2-metre thick peat layer that formed between c. 5500-1500 cal. yrs. BP. The palynological data from two mid- to late- Holocene cores, Hope Farm …
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Prolactin and wool growth in the Romney ewe : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in animal science at Massey University
… on wool growth in non-pregnant and breeding Romney ewes were assessed. Seasonal changes in plasma PRL concentration appeared to be primarily determined by photoperiod, rather than ambient temperature. The seasonal winter decline in wool production was prevented when circulating PRL levels …
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The New Welfare Queen: A Narrative Analysis of Mitt Romney's 47% Speech
<p>Mitt Romney's "47%” speech drew substantive media criticism for its unabashed description of those individuals who do not pay income tax as "entitled,” and guaranteed to vote for Barack Obama. The study argues that the speech, which, when released, had a meaningful impact on polls in swing …
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Dangers of Credulity: Mary Robinson and the Trope of Victimization
… artists of the day, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, were painting dazzling portraits of Mrs. Robinson, she found herself lampooned in the satirical cartoons of James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson. The multifarious representations of Mary Robinson seem an apt …
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The relationship between representational, beat, and cohesive gestures and speech disfluency in the 2012 presidential debate
… between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. Specifically, the frequency and type of speech disfluencies and gesticulations generated by candidates were identified, annotated, and compared. Speech and gesture variables were examined across multiple speech domains, including utterance …
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Do Social Values Trump Economics for Wealthy Voters: An Empirical Analysis of "Trading and Voting"
… The analysis yields a similar result with Mitt Romney as the nominee, showing that the effect is not limited to Trump.
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Estimation of important genetic and phenotypic parameters of some productive traits in the New Zealand Romney Marsh sheep : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Agricultural Science at Massey University
Early in the 1920's, Fisher, Wright and Haldane provided the theoretical basis for studies in quantitative inheritance which was later extensively applied to animal breeding problems by Lush (1937), Dickerson and Hazel (1944) and others. The pioneering work of these authors led to the basic concept …
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Paradigmatic Self-Deception
… as revealed in the particular case of the Mitt Romney campaign's self-deception during the 2012 presidential election. Next, the third chapter explores how paradigmatic cases of self-deception are plausibly intentional, drawing on the empirical literature on attention and mindfulness meditation …
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Kandidatų į Lietuvos prezidentus Facebook paskyrų analizė rinkiminiu laikotarpiu: kokius komunikacinius įrankius naudoja politikai? /
… on the successful examples of B. Obama and M. Romney political marketing strategies in Facebook.
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Metric geometry of the Grushin plane and generalizations
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2018-03-13 without embargo terms
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The characterization of major histocompatibility complex class II signal transduction pathways in antigen presenting cells
Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) molecules, which can be broken down into three different human isotypes, HLA-DR, HLA-DP, and HLA-DQ, are expressed on a wide range of immune cells including B lymphocytes, monocytes/macrophages and dendritic cells. Although MHC-II molecules are …
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Self-Efficacy and Job Satisfaction as Predictors of Burnout Among School Psychologists in the Midwest United States
<p>Problem</p> <p>The concept of burnout is expressed as a syndrome evidenced by chronic exhaustion, depersonalization, and a lack of personal accomplishment. Burnout or work burnout syndrome is conceptualized as a prolonged process of emotional fatigue, involving loss of motivation and …
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Attentional Factors in Learning From Written Texts
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:24:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6812183.pdf: 5591834 bytes, checksum: 7187f6aa14c2f0af4e8687fba167d9ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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“Cookie Mom-ster,” “Mom in Chief,” and “Sugar Mommy” : [de-] constructing ideal femininty of Presidential candidate wives
… that began two decades ago, in 2012 both Ann Romney and Michelle Obama delivered speeches at the Republic National Convention (RNC) and Democratic National Convention (DNC) respectively. Prompting a continued study of the first lady include not only Michelle Obama’s self-titled “Mom-in-Chief” …
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