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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Tenability"”.
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Analysis of tenability, ventilation, and water application in large-scale residential fires
… Illinois. These experiments were focused on the tenability conditions within residential fire environments and the effect of ventilation and water application on the fire environment. Experiments were conducted in one-story and two-story residential structures, with nine occurring in the …
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On quantification of hydrogen cyanide in residential fire environments and its implications on occupant tenability
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Occupant tenability in large-scale residential fires: an analysis of heat exposure, toxic gases, water application, and fire-service ventilation
The fire dynamics of residential fires has been drastically changing in the past 50 years. Modern fires burn faster and produce more toxic gases due to the increased presence of synthetic materials and plastics in the fire environment. In order to gain a better understanding of the risks present in …
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Fire Scenario Development for South African Hospitals
… practices and system reliability influence tenability conditions in SA hospitals, where prescriptive fire-safety standards may not account for the complexity of hospitals and are often poorly enforced. This study investigated the development and spread of heat, smoke, and combustion products …
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An application of item response theory to language testing: Model-data fit studies
… of IRT modeling in language testing. The tenability of the strong assumption of unidimensionality has not been studied systematically, and little is known concerning the effects of departure from unidimensionality on the estimation of parameters and on model fit. Furthermore, no study has …
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The Relation of Eye-Contact to Retention of Information in a Public Speaking Situation
… practice demands the scientific testing of the tenability of these accumulated traditions.
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Reference and Grammar: Reasserting Wittgenstein's Picture
… Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky to undermine the tenability of Millian externalism, all the while generating insights into the nature of an adequate semantic theory as it proceeds. And third, from the fact that Millian externalism fails insofar as it purports to be a scientific theory of meaning, …
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Rights-based evaluation of government responses to a given 'natural' disaster : Katrina as case study
… dynamics of that place call into question the tenability of place. The overarching question of the research is "How is disaster socially constructed at the largest societal scales and how do differences in these interpretations interact in a crisis?" Specifically, I break down this broad …
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Fire modelling of passenger trains
… This study investigates fire growth and tenability conditions in a single passenger carriage through numerical modelling using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS). Generic material properties have been incorporated to broaden the applicability of the results and offer adaptability for future …
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An Aesthetics of Exclusion: Konstantin Vaginov's Kozlinaia pesn'
… as the nature of the life culture dualism, the tenability of culture a priori and framings of rebirth in projections of cultural history are dialogised with the theories of Viacheslav Ivanov, Viktor Shklovskii, Roman Iakobson, Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Pumpianskii. In addition, critical reception …
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Geriausio paaiškinimo išvedimo patikimumo ribos /
… stands for. Secondly, the thesis evaluates the tenability of the truth aspirations of IBE, it analyzes to what extent a hypothesis can be claimed to be true, given that it is the best explanation for some phenomenon of interest. IBE is explicated as a form of material inference that ascribes …
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Fiction and Fictionalism
… an argument that calls into question the tenability of fictionalist theories in general. In order to advance this argument, I will discuss three of the extant theories of the ontology of *ficta*; I will advance a novel proposal thereof, and I will articulate an original solution to a …
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Chemical crystallography at the interface of physics, chemistry, and in engineering: structure determination of highly correlated extended solids, main group compounds, coordination complexes, and bioceramics
… of various substituents and its electrochemical tenability, unmasking a high temperature binary polymorph (CoAs), identifying a minor organic product (dimer of two planar fused-carbon ring moieties) that may help mechanistically how to improve synthetic yields, and developing implants from …
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Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
… gendered dimension of grief to challenge the tenability of these prescriptive rules, resulting in a distinct dissonance that exposed the period’s inability to recognize that women’s experiences with death and mourning were much more complex. In some cases, the women were simply rule-breakers, …
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Factors influencing functional literacy performance among adult basic education students
… regression analysis was used to determine the tenability of ten research hypotheses that each included one of the ten literacy subtests of the Adult Performance Level Assessment. A secondary analysis was performed across sex and race subgroups to determine if the hypotheses were valid for those …
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Work and family roles, gender, socioeconomic status and health : a study of employed Canadian men and women
… The purpose of the third paper was to test the tenability of a psychosocial model of health status incorporating both proximate and distal health determinants. Using path analysis, the results suggest that qualitative aspects of triple-role Canadian women's work and family roles, along with a …
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A Conceptual Model on the Impact of Mattering, Sense of Belonging, Engagement/Involvement, and Socio-Academic Integrative Experiences on Community College Students’ Intent to Persist
… degree completion. The proposed model tested the tenability of seven propositions examining how the above constructs interact to influence intent to persist. The sample consisted of 2,088 multiply diverse community college students. The conceptual model was grounded on Astin’s (1991) …
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Effects of Motivational Beliefs and Instructional Practice on Students' Intention to Pursue Majors and Careers in Engineering
… active learning approach. Further, it tested the tenability of the domain identification model. The domain identification model was used to understand students' decision-making processes in committing to engineering majors and engineering careers. The data for this study was collected via online …
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Islam and Democracy. Prospects and Possibilities. A Critical Analysis of the Theory of the Religious Democracy of Dr Abdulkarim Soroush
… on Islam and democracy and illuminates the tenability of the debate by raising serious doubts about the authenticity of the debate on Islam and democracy.
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Investigations towards the development of a novel multimodal fibre optic sensor for oil and gas applications.
… mode confinement characteristics and wavelength tenability features (from visible to near infrared), which can be utilised for multi-wavelength applications. Enhancing core refractive index of the PCF improved the electric field confinements and thereby the signal intensity. Doping rare earth …
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