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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Spoilers"”.
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Avoiding Spoilers on Mediawiki Fan Sites Using Memento
… their viewing they run the risk of encountering spoilers" -- information that gives away key plot points before the intended time of the show's writers. Enterprising readers might browse the wiki in a web archive so as to view the page prior to a specific episode date and thereby avoid spoilers. …
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Spoiling the Peace or Seeking the Spoils?: Civil War Outcomes and the Role of Spoilers
… peaceful resolution of civil wars comes from ""spoilers,"" leaders and factions who use violent or nonviolent strategies to alter the course and outcome of a peace process. Spoilers have successfully wrecked peace agreements in contexts as diverse as Rwanda, Angola, Northern Ireland, and Bosnia. …
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Passive methods for suppressing acoustic resonance excitation in shallow rectangular cavities.
… round, and different configurations of spoilers are considered. The effect of the spoilers dimensions is investigated to provide criteria that help designing and optimizing spoilers. Some of the spoilers are found to be effective in suppressing the acoustic resonance excitation, while …
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Applications of the achmatowicz rearrangement in natural product synthesis
… activity against several important food spoilers. The work that follows details the design and development of a novel method for the generation of the isocoumarin core from isobenzofuran utilizing the Achmatowicz rearrangement of a-hydroxyisobenzofurans. Spirocyclic pyrans such as …
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Aeroacoustics of perforated drag plates for quiet transport aircraft
… characteristics of laboratory-scale perforated spoilers were measured in an acoustic chamber at MIT. Based on the experimental data a noise prediction model was developed for the bluff-body and turbulent mixing noise generated by a perforated drag rudder. Acoustic phased array measurements of …
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Development of a design methodology for transport aircraft variable camber flaps suitable for cruise and low-speed operations
… The deflections of the flap as well as spoilers under critical loads were below the allowable limits, which had a minimal effect due to the additional lift force generated from the movable surfaces.
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The politics of change? A critical analysis of power sharing in Kenya after Kofi Annan's mediation in 2008
… to the balance of power, inside and outside spoilers, identity and political accountability problems and credible commitment problems, barriers to a successful power sharing agreement can be examined. To analyse how the mediation affected power sharing, five variables concerning the mediation …
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Afghanistan and transnational war: Interlocking security dilemmas and strategic challenges
… territorial disputes, state and non-state spoilers, armed conflict, and the effects of the Indian-Pakistani nuclear deterrent taints the politico-social environment, stymieing efforts to allay entrenched suspicions. Third, advocates of a regional strategy have failed to consider fully how …
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Predicting the Interaction Between Energy Saving Devices on Surface Ships
… microbubbles with vortex generators, Grothues Spoilers and Kappel Blades, and Becker Mewis Duct with rudder bulb.
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The use of paratextual devices in broadcast promotion: a content analysis of season three of Glee on Facebook
… peeks/promos, cast-member specific posts, spoilers or teasers, and music video clips. Posts were about equally split in terms of being related to specific episodes versus the show in general. Almost half of the overall posts displayed high interactivity, which prompted the users to leave …
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Negotiating with Separatist Terrorists
… findings further illustrate that the absence of spoilers and spoiler-induced violence, combined with the guidance of a forceful mediator, most significantly contributed to a successful negotiation. Certainly, ripe environments foster negotiation. It is complete negotiation readiness, however, …
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Aircraft loss-of-control prevention via backup flight control law design and flight envelope protection
… continued large deflection of the aircraft's spoilers. In addition, the flight control law incorporates an L1 adaptive augmentation loop that is designed to restore prescribed flying qualities for a family of uncertain aircraft models with similar vertical-tail damage. Simulation results with …
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THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT: TRANSFORMING NORTHERN IRELAND
… intermediaries, promoters of peace and spoilers. I also looked into the potential role elections and agreements had to play. I then looked into the state of organizational dynamics in the period leading to each of my cases, what was going on within the organization, was there preference …