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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"SPADE"”.
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Sam Spade as the detective next door: industry, culture, and class in post-war radio adaptations of hardboiled detective fiction
… This thesis examines The Adventures of Sam Spade (1946-1951) as an adaptation ofHammett's most famous detective. I argue that crime series adapted from popular mystery novels, like Sam Spade, were shaped by a number of factors, including the source material, the industry production codes …
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Quantum Imaging of Biosamples
… of the spatial mode demultiplexing technique (SPADE), an arbitrarily small separation between two point sources can be resolved, given a sufficiently large total number of photons N. This quantum metrology approach to super-resolution has since then been demonstrated and generalized to more …
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Performance of a propped retaining wall at the CTRL, Ashford
… of the over-read associated with the use of spade cells (used to measure<br/>lateral earth and pore water pressures) in overconsolidated deposits was determined by<br/>comparing readings from a spade cell aligned to measure vertical stress with the estimated<br/>overburden acting on it as the …
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Validation of N-STaR Nitrogen Rate Recommendations and Evaluation of N-STaR Soil Sampling Procedures for Clay Soils in Arkansas
… by the N-STaR bucket and drill (BD), Kleen Hole Spade dry (KHS-D), Kleen Hole Spade lubricated with water (KHS-W), and Kleen Hole Spade lubricated with WD-40 (KHS-40) were compared against the dutch auger (DA) control. The alternative sampling methods were not statistically different in AH-N …
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From Alerts to Defense: Towards Building Adaptive Frameworks for Detection, Correlation, and Response
… investigation times. Finally, we present Spade, a response framework that assists containment on endpoints while keeping humans in control. Spade encodes a typed view of the host state and lets a learned agent propose an action to mitigate or disrupt attacker actions. Every proposal passes …
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Uma abordagem para geração e visualização de regras de associação de acesso a conteúdos de portal de notícias
… generate sequence rules, the algorithm used was SPADE. Parallel coordinate graphs were used to visualize the association rules and graphs for visualization of sequence rules. An outstanding aspect of the proposed approach is the visualization of the rules obtained using graphic resources to …
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Taking Parties Seriously: Gendered Sexuality and Hook Up Culture at Greek Social Events
… as isolated organizations (Boswell and Spade 1996, Sanday 1990), this research takes into consideration that sororities and fraternities are constantly interacting within the Greek system and therefore must be analyzed together. I intervie14 sorority and fraternity members in order to …
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Human-centered fashion
… sales point, the handbag iconic brand Kate Spade ideated dozens of concepts to enhance the in-store experience of guests. However, the precise process of how to integrate human-centered design process with fashion design is ambiguous. This creates challenges for fashion designers to use this …
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The Uses of ‘Bēlu’ and ‘Marduk’ in Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and other Sources from the First Millennium BC
… in a temple, or in the form of his ‘symbol,’ the spade – the name ‘Bēl’ was primarily only used for the god when manifested in his primary statue in Babylon. My dissertation further examines the implications of this distribution.
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Effective Altruism on Animal Activism — A Site of Ableism and Neoliberal Co-optation of Neurodivergence
… a neoliberal vision of charity over solidarity (Spade, 2020). However, in the spirit of “wounded flourishing” (Haraway, 2016, p. 120; Shotwell, 2016), I nonetheless identify in EA valuable insights that can be transferred to an alternate, autism-inclusive animal liberation framework. I conclude …
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Fractured communities: Natural gas, resource control, and social response in Bradford County, PA
This thesis examines natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation through a case study and research conducted in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Drawing upon the literatures of environmental justice and accumulation by dispossession, this thesis examines the impacts natural gas drilling has …
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"I am Not a Hijra": Transgender Women Claiming Citizenship in South India
… My analysis is aligned with Brandzel (2016), Spade (2015) and Haritaworn (2013 & 2015), among others, who assert that citizenship operates as an exclusionary category and should therefore be understood as antithetical to social justice struggles.</p>
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The in situ compressional wave properties of marine sediments
… Sediment Probing Acoustic Detection Equipment (SPADE). Compressional wave properties were measured from 16 to 100 kHz in a range of sediment types (medium to fine sands and medium to fine silts), with several closely spaced locations examined at each general site to assess the local variability …
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SEED PRODUCTION OF MIXED PRAIRIE IN GRASSLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SASKATCHEWAN
… physically disturbed (loosening soil with spade cuts), and chemically disturbed (spraying strips with glyphosate) grassland in the upland, slope and lowland communities. Seed production was not increased by physical disturbance in any community. Chemical disturbance was effective for …
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Droughts and flooding rains: a fine-resolution reconstruction of climatic variability in Western Victoria, Australia, over the last 1500 years.
… were retrieved from Lake Surprise, a frozen spade core of the most recent sediments and a hammer-driven piston core of the older sediments. The combination of both cores provide a 344 cm record of the last ca. 1425 years. Cores from both lakes were sampled contiguously for fossil diatom …
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Parapsychological investigation of the theory of Psychopraxia: experimental and theoretical researches into an alternative theory explaining normal and paranormal phenomena
… or goal. Participants had to locate 5 aces of spades in 5 'hands' of cards, while avoiding the aces of clubs. A significant negative relationship was found between spade hitting and club hitting, suggesting that 'compliant' pro attitudes and 'noncompliant' pro attitudes are incompatible. Post …
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Cenozoic deep-water agglutinated foraminifera in the North Atlantic
… utility for paleoceanography. Towards this end, spade core samples from a 3912 m deep station in the Panama Basin were studied to determine abundance and microhabitat partitioning among living agglutinated foraminiferal populations and the preservation of dead assemblages. The genera Dendrophrya, …