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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Starship"”.
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Shifting Understandings of Imperialism: A Collision of Cultures in Starship Troopers and Ender's Game
In this paper, I consider how Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959) and Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (1985) allegorically treat U.S. Cold War fears of invasion by the Soviet Union. Given the texts' historical relationship to the Vietnam War and their use of very similar science fiction …
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Fables of undiscovered cities
… final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life; new civilizations... To boldly go where no one has gone before!" -- Jean-Luc Picard, Captain, Starship Enterprise; NCC-1701D. Humans have always felt …
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Game for Health: Development and Evaluation of eHealth Interventions for Addressing the Psychological Needs of Children and Young People with Long-Term Physical Conditions
… eHealth game for treating anxiety called ‘Starship Rescue’. 6. An open trial with 24 children and young people with LTPC aged 10–17 years to evaluate the acceptability, usability and effectiveness of Starship Rescue. Results: 1. Anxiety was the most common psychological issue identified by …
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Pathologic Fracture Secondary to Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis in Children in New Zealand
… between January 2009 to December 2019 at the Starship Children's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand were identified. These patients were compared with a age and sex matched control group of twenty-seven children with Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis without a pathologic fracture. A …
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Assessing General Propulsion Architectures for Fast Transit Times to Mars for Crewed Missions
… to develop their programs with Artemis and Starship, respectively, it is becoming more and more apparent that the program developments are ultimately for finding a way to put humans onto Mars. However, when we approach the current timeline of going to Mars, it usually involves a 6-9 month …
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Towards a Circular Lunar Economy: Incentivizing the Design of Multi-Purpose Reusable Lunar Landers and Rovers
… and launch emissions associated with the SpaceX Starship lander. The rovers redundancy and maintainability ratings also constrained the overall sustainability rating – highlighting a gap in the availability of tools suitable for EVA-based repairs on the lunar surface. Subsystems most at risk of …
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Cost Optimized Logistics for Commercial Operations in Low Earth Orbit and Cislunar Space
… supporting a closed loop system, using Starship as the launch and landing vehicle, a prepositioned stockpile of resources at the lunar surface, and a hydrogen reduction agent is most cost optimal, with an annual operating cost of 19,275,486,559 USD, and profitability achieved at the …
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Mechanisms of Cerebral Autoregulation in Traumatic Brain Injury
… in Severe Head Injury in Paediatrics (STARSHIP) is the first multicentre prospective trial and aimed to characterise PRx in 135 children with pTBI. Firstly, I investigate the duration and magnitude of PRx disturbance following pTBI, and its association with outcome at 12 months post …
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Multiple Asteroid Retrieval Mission
In this thesis, the possibility of enabling space-mining for the upcoming decade is explored. Making use of recently-proven reusable rockets, we envision a fleet of spacecraft capable of reaching Near-Earth asteroids. To analyze this idea, the goal of this problem is to maximize the asteroid mass …