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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Rubicon"”.
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Beyond the Rubicon: Command and Control in Regional Nuclear Powers
<p>What factors explain the origins of command and control systems in emerging nuclear powers? Why do some states implement robust administrative, physical, and technical controls over their nuclear arsenals, while others limit safeguards against nuclear use?</p> <p>The nature of a state’s nuclear …
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Uncrossing the Rubicon: Transitions from Violent Civil Conflict to Peace
What are the impediments to and stimuluses for transitions from violent civil conflict to peace? This dissertation investigates factors that influence civil conflict resolution. There are four key findings. First, democratisation reforms are likely to prompt peace talks with rebel groups. There are …
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New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution
This study describes and interprets the American Revolution in the region of eastern Sagadhoc, now eastern Maine. Attention is concentrated on the sequence of events in this area and their relationship with activities in the remainder of New England and in contiguous Nova Scotia all within the …
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Biochemical and Genetic Studies of Beclin 1 Function in Autophagy
… interaction proteins Atg14L (yeast Atg14-like), Rubicon (RUN domain and cysteine-rich domain containing, Beclin 1-interacting protein) and Nrbf2 were identified from mouse tissues. Gel filtration and co-immunoprecipitation show that these proteins co-exist in one large in vivo protein complex, …
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Crawl Space: Driving Over the Anthropocene in a Jeep
… done in Northern California along the Rubicon Trail, a historical, long unimproved road that is claimed to be the toughest in North America. Operating within the ideology of American automobility, four-wheelers have historically used the Rubicon Trail to make and reproduce a natural …
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Barriers to Leaving Poverty
<p>Rubicon Programs transformed its programs through recent strategic planning efforts to address the change in their mission that refocuses their goal on the eradication of poverty. The challenge for the design team was reimagining with fresh eyes the organization’s programs and service delivery …
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A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)
… as pointed out in Chapter 7, have crossed the Rubicon in diverse ways. They are assertive, independent, proactive and relentlessly opposed to male dominance. Chapter 8 sums up the main points in relation to the Xhosa woman's attitude towards Western feminism: while many Xhosa women feel …
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Integrating cognitive, motivational, and emotional self-regulation in early stage entrepreneurs
… process. The model draws on: Heckhausen’s (1991) Rubicon Model; Frese’s (Frese & Zapf, 1994; Frese, 2007) Action Theory; Locke and Latham’s (1990, 2000) Goal-Setting Theory; Kanfer’s (1992) proximal-distal distinction in classifying motivation theories; Kehr’s (2004) Model of Work Motivation and …