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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Sunset"”.
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Sunset View
Sunset View is a linked collection of short fiction that explores the dynamics of dysfunctional families. Characters in this collection have been affected by the neglect, absence, or death of their family members and friends. They search for recognition and love as they try to find their place in …
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500 feet of Sunset
The Sunset is a natural phenomenon that occurs every single day. Arguably, the sunset is one of the most romanticized natural event in all forms of art. In this wider context, the hypothesis posits architecture as an instrument to amplify specific visible aspects of the setting sun. The guidance …
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Sunset Warriors: Cowboys, Samurai, and the Crisis of Masculinity
In the writing on men and masculinities there is a pervasive sense that the essence of masculinity has somehow been lost. While often attributed to the angst-ridden exaggerations of privileged white men, the notion that masculinity has become synonymous with loss is a global theme and this …
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Sunset magazine : in search of a house for western living
This thesis inquires into Sunset's activity as a home magazine in the 1930s and 1940s. In viewing this period, this study draws from Sunset's entire history: from its inception in 1898 as a travel brochure for Southern Pacific Railroad, through a period as a literary magazine, through the late …
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Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
… have moved out to new communities, such as Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This thesis applies descriptive methods to compare and contrast several historical communities that are similar to Sunset Park, and then evaluates the impact of landscape and other elements in urban design on their community …
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The Digital Diaspora in Sunset Park: Information and Communication Technologies in Brooklyn’s Chinatown
… adaptive ways that working- class newcomers in Sunset Park find to acquire and use digital technologies. While the access they manage to achieve connects them to a larger circle of news, ideas, people, and learning opportunities than they would otherwise encounter, it does not eliminate the …
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A Statistical Examination of the Climatic Human Expert System, The Sunset Garden Zones for California
… In the latter half of the Twentieth Century, the Sunset Magazine Corporation develop a purely empirical set of Garden Zones, first for California, then for the thirteen states of the West, now for the entire nation in the National Garden Maps. The Sunset Garden Zones are well recognized and …
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Management of Potato Leafhopper and Maple Spider Mite on Nursery Grown Maples
… <em>E. fabae</em> and <em>O. aceris</em> on `Red Sunset' red maple and `Autumn Blaze' Freeman maples. Bifenthrin applications directed against leafhoppers reduced damage to both cultivars, but increased <em>O. aceris</em> on Autumn Blaze. Using a threshold of one leafhopper per branch to trigger …
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Plant Characteristics and Chromosome Numbers of Four Reciprocal Crosses in Dendrobium
… Reciprocal crosses of D. schulleri x D. Sunset differed in flower quality and in chromosome numbers. Two offspring of D. schulleri x D. Sunset were triploid with 2n = ca. 57. Ten offspring of D. Sunset x D. schulleri were diploids with 2n = ca. 38.
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Autoradiography of Photomembrane in HEMIGRAPSUS NUDUS
… microscope autoradiography. Two hours before sunset, crabs were injected with a single dose of tritiated leucine and sacrificed at time intervals coincident with dynamic retinal changes observed in electron microscope (EM) studies of related Arthropods (Blest, 1978 and Stowe, 1980).</p> <p>Two …
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Diversity and flight activity of Staphylinidae in a citrus orchard of the Catania Plain (Sicily)
… Flight activity s end takes usually place at sunset or twilight. Flight activity after dusk up to an hour after sunset has been detected in the Paederinae Scopaeus debilis, Hypomedon debilicornis, Astenus b. bimaculatus and Astenus pallidulus. There are also seasonal variations of the distance …
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Influence of flight activity and octopamine on hemolymph trehalose titers in Heliothis zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
… sunrise at 0300 EST (Eastern Standard Time) and sunset at 1700. Males exhibited greater flight activity than females at all ages examined. Flight began near sunset, continuing through the night and ending around sunrise. Females flew continuously throughout the night, whereas males exhibited two …
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Measurement, Characterization, and Source Apportionment of the Major Chemical Components of Fine Particulate Material, Including Semi-Volatile Species
… the first time in Fresno, CA. Either a modified Sunset Laboratory carbon monitor, collocated with a conventional Sunset carbon monitor employing a common inlet, or the newly developed dual-oven Sunset monitor allowed for the semi-continuous determination of both nonvolatile and semi-volatile …
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Thermoregulation and behavior of a peripheral population of evening bats (<i>nycticeius humeralis</i>)
… range in Lenawee Co., Michigan. Temperature at sunset, diurnal temperature, and nocturnal temperature significantly correlated with use of torpor, whereas ambient temperature at sunset of the previous night, temperature at sunrise, amount of precipitation, abundance of insects, roost type, …
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Vocalizations influence roost-site selection in overwintering cavity-nesting birds in Eastern Washington
… I conducted an 8-minute point count prior to sunset. Following the initial point count, I conducted a second point count with 1 of 3 broadcast treatments: 1) no call 2) alarm call and 3) contact call. I compared the number of cavity-nesting birds observed and mean temperature to time before …
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The Nocturnal Low-Level Jet in Tropical West Africa: Generation and Representation in Various Data Archives
… often experiences a low-level jet stream after sunset. In general, such jets are believed to be produced as a response to the sudden decrease in turbulence in the boundary layer when daytime heating ceases. However, the nocturnal low-level jet (NLLJ) in West Africa exists in a complex …
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The Possibilities of Sort Of
… investigate Pulp Fiction, Bose Wave CD player, Sunset Boulevard, American Apparel, and The Uncanny.
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The role of tax incentives in addressing the energy crisis in South Africa
… and administratively efficient with sunset clauses to address short-term challenges. The importance of base load electricity generation is highlighted and there is a potential to enhance incentives for such technologies. The Research and Development incentives are in line with …
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Habitat Use of Urban Bats in Springfield, Missouri
… significant at the reading taken 3 hours after sunset. Eptesicus fuscus activity was significantly higher in the urban environment while Myotis septentrionalis activity was significantly higher in rural environments. For Myotix lucifugus, M. grisescens, M. sodalis, Lasiurus borealis, L. cinereus …
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