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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Spalding"”.
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Spalding Gray's Life As Art Story: Toward A Critical Perspective Of The Autoperformance
Spalding Gray's "life as art" stories represent a new intergeneric genre in theatre and in literature. During this century, Gray's autoperformance has emerged as part of a new oral tradition. Using the form of the one-person show, he and other autoperformers transform their lives into art, as they …
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Arthur Whitefield Spalding : A Study of His Life and Contributions to Family-Life Education in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
… study documented the contributions of Arthur W. Spalding to family-life education within the Seventh-day Adventist church. The contextual milieu revealed that Spalding was current with his times in fostering family-life education, but unique in his approach.</p> <p>Method. The author examined …
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ADIPOSE TISSUE GROWTH AND MAINTENANCE
… turnover within the human adipocyte population (Spalding et al., 2008), the source of new adipocytes during one’s lifetime has been entirely attributed to the differentiation of new adipocytes from preadipocytes and/or stem cells (Avram et al., 2007; Greenwood and Hirsch, 1974; Hausman et al., …
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Heat as medicine - a study of the ceiling retrofit programme in South African low cost housing
… energy consumption can be made during winter and Spalding-Fecher et al (2002) found a R781 saving in energy per year per household from ceiling installations. With ceilings having such a substantial cost-effective impact on energy efficiency, this paper will be focusing on the ceiling retrofitting …
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The Evolution of Pre-Service Teachers TPACK After Completing an Undergraduate Technology Integration Course
… dramatic changes over the past five years (Spalding, 2016). According to the 2016 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP), educational institutions that prepare educators often fail to give teachers the technology skills required to do their job well. Many teacher preparation programs …
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How Administrators Perceive Reductions In State Funding Higher Education
… cut in Kentucky in the decade starting 2008 (Spalding, 2019). Due to several contributing factors, including entitlement programs, healthcare costs, the great recession, and other competing demands at the state level, this is a nationwide trend and is not predicted to reverse any time soon. …
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The numerical analysis of turbulent flow around off-shore structures
… based on work conducted by Prof. D.B. Spalding and Co-workers. Several computations have been performed, for three models: a single cube, a pair of cubes with different spacing, and a rudimentary representation of an offshore oil platform stucture. The prediction procedure was first …
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Qualitative and Quantitative Regulation of the Leptin Gene in vivo
… eventually regained the weight (Arner and Spalding, 2010a). As such, biological factors including genetic contributions have become the research focus on pathogenesis of obesity and the target of effective disease control. Central to energy homeostasis is the mechanism by which animals …
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Minicontos: uma prática de letramento emergente na escola
… as well as studies by researchers and writers as Spalding (2007; 2008; 2011), George (2007), Freire (2004) and Trevisan (1994), among others who are dedicated to study Flash fiction. In the methodological field, the proposed perspective anchors itself in an action-researching guidelines (MOREIRA; …
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Octant Analysis of the Reynolds Stresses in the Three Dimensional Turbulent Boundary Layer of a Prolate Spheroid
… of the measurements. A least-squares fit of the Spalding wall law was used to both correct the measurement locations and estimate the wall shear stress. This paper presents a previously unpublished assessment of the technique. Octant analysis was performed on the corrected data under free-stream …
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Visible Disabilities and Students in Higher Education: Equality and Fairness and the Reality of Inclusion
This study consists of a literature review concerning the experiences of visibly disabled students in higher education in the UK and to what extent universities are meeting their equality duties to provide an equal and inclusive student experience. Research concerning the experiences of visibly …
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Rubber Tummy
This hybrid collection of poems and essays explores hunger and desire through the lens of a ravenous woman. I wrote Rubber Tummy to grant women the freedom to talk about eating, sex, and indulgence outside the current cultural limitations, which ask that these desires be small, infrequent, and …
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A numerical analysis of turbulent flow along an abruptly rotated cylinder
… equations. The monograph (2) of Launder and Spalding presents an excellent review and evaluation of current mathematical models of turbulence. On account of their simplicity, the mixing length/eddy viscosity models are relatively straightforward to implement and economical to use. Thus they …
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Characterisation of Treated Timber Sources of Pesticide Contaminants using Source Modelling Techniques
Exposure to indoor air contaminants is recognised as a major contributor to human health risk. Level of contaminants are generally higher indoors than outdoors. As people spend 80 to 90% of their time indoors, these elevated contaminant levels cause high exposures which may increase the risk of …
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Aboriginal Britain: Ethnological folkloristics and the origin of the nation in the work of Sir George Laurence Gomme, Sir John Rhŷs, and Alfred Nutt
Through a close reading of the theoretical work of folklorists Sir George Laurence Gomme, Sir John Rhŷs, and Alfred Nutt and extensive research into the discourses of human and social origins in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this thesis examines the use of folklore as a tool for the …
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A Phenomenological Study of Health Professionals’ Perceptions of Good and Bad Pediatric Hospital Deaths, Self-Care Needs and Lingering Distress
<p>The death of a child is devastating. Although death is a part of every life, a child dying seems out of order in current times and in the context of Western Healthcare. Health professionals (HP) caring for dying children frequently report suffering. In the past four decades, HP have been …
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