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Salinity Tolerance of Flowering Rush, Butomus umbellatus
<p>Flowering rush is an invasive aquatic plant in North America that causes deleterious effects to native ecosystems. There are two cytotypes, a triploid and diploid, and multiple genotypes contained within the diploid cytotype currently established in the U.S. Despite its presence in river …
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The Toxic Legacy of the Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush has often been told as a story of a brief, environmentally benign, even romantic ‘rush’ that ended as quickly as it began. In truth, gold mining in California was highly extractive and industrial, and continued well into the 20th century. Over time, miners developed …
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The modern day gold rush ; private military corporations
Since wars have existed, there have been soldiers for hire. As the state evolved, originating during the peace of Westphalia, and matured, the definition and the business of mercenarism have gone through many mutations. Today, and particularly since the 1970s, mercenaries have banded together, …
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The history of Tuolumne County during the gold rush
… in search of the “El Dorado.”</p><p>The gold rush days found Tuolumne a wild and rough country, with the most varied population of any country in the whole region. Yankees, Mexicans, Englishmen, “Sidney Ducks”, Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, Chinese, Negroes, Irishmen, and Chileans rubbed …
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U.S. Arms Control Negotiations: From the Rush-Bagot Agreement to 1970
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Stampede: the Klondike Gold Rush and the individuals who experienced it
<p>The Klondike Gold rush took place roughly 125 years ago, and much has been written about this event. I realize the challenge for me as a historian is to bring something new to the table that can add to this already well-researched and discussed topic. I am confident that this paper has done just …
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Electrifying Boost: Design & Optimization of a Hybrid Powertrain for the Rush SR
… the integration of a hybrid powertrain into the Rush SR, a compact, gasolinepowered race car, focusing on the incorporation of the ME1616 electric motor into the vehicle's drivetrain. The project aimed to develop a bolt-on hybrid kit that owners can independently purchase and install. Utilizing …
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The Planning and Adoption of a Merit Program for the Rush-Henrietta Central School
… evaluation program for the teachers at Rush-Henrietta Central School. Details include a history of teacher evaluation at Rush-Henrietta, committee formation, program chronology, and arguments opposed to the merit program. The author discusses the difficulties of defining merit-based …
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Contraceptive Controversy in the Affordable Care Act: Sandra Fluke's Testimony and Rush Limbaugh's Response
… of the mandate without a religious exception. Rush Limbaugh then responded to her testimony by discussing it on his radio talk show. In this study, the rhetoric of Sandra Fluke's testimony before a Democratic congressional committee and the responses Rush Limbaugh made on his radio show are …
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Farewell, Kelsey: An Historical Overview and Oral Histories of a Disappearing Gold Rush Town
<p>Kelsey, California, a Gold Rush town located in El Dorado County in the Sierra Nevada Range, survived for 146 years. After the Gold Rush of 1848 - 1868, the mining camp first known as "Kelsey's Diggins" settled into a rugged, self-reliant community whose economy depended on mining, timbering, …
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Political rush hour on the Tobin Bridge : receivership and the redevelopment of Chelsea, Massachusetts
In September 1991, the Massachusetts State Legislature passed an Act that placed the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts under state receivership. Though the State justified receivership as a response to the City's bankruptcy, they acknowledged that the fiscal problems could not be solved without …
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Subway Shuffle, 1 × 1 Rush Hour, and Cooperative Chess Puzzles: Computational Complexity of Puzzles
… reduction shows that the puzzle game Rush Hour is PSPACE-complete when all of the cars are 1 × 1 and there are fixed immovable cars. We show that two classes of cooperative Chess puzzles, helpmates and retrograde Chess, are also PSPACE-complete by reductions from Oriented Subway …
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Canadian mayors respond to Tent Cities: The old bums rush or a new script for homeless populations?
This paper seeks to examine how Canadian urban mayors respond, in the media, to homeless encampments in their communities. A qualitative content analysis of news articles involving tent cities and the current mayors of two Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) in British Columbia is completed. Social …
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Exploring the Polyvocal Leadership Problem in the Pro-Life Movement: The Case of Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
… thesis focuses on examining the statements that Rush Limbaugh's made regarding Sandra Fluke following her Congressional testimony on the Conscience Clause in February of 2012. In particular, I investigate the way that Rush Limbaugh's statements, and their subsequent circulation, made him a leader …
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Remaking the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands: The North-West Mounted Police, the United States Army, and the Klondike Gold Rush
… and academic historians of the Klondike gold rush have long positioned the Alaska-Yukon border as an established fact, serving as a firm dividing line between perceived American lawlessness and Canadian order as thousands of miners rushed to the Yukon and Alaska from 1896-1899. A wider, …
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The Marvel of Civilization: A Missiological History of the Evangelical Missionaries to California During the Gold Rush Era (1848 - 1861)
… missionaries to California during the Gold Rush Era asserted a missiological synthesis of Great Commission Theology, American civilization, and California exceptionalism. The missionaries viewed their mission as exceptional, believing they played a providential role in advancing American …
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Adsorption of ammonia and carbon dioxide in solutions of magnesium sulfate / by Ernest T. Schoenwald, Frank E. Rush, Richard J. McGarry.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1944
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