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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Thayer"”.
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Competitive strategic advantage through disruptive innovation dc by Jeffrey S. Thayer.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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The Ten American Painters: definition and reassessment
… Benson, Thomas Dewing, Robert Reid and Abbott Thayer. Thayer first agreed to join but later changed his mind. The <em>New York Times</em>, however, was unaware of his decision and the first report concerning the newly formed group was entitled, "Eleven Painters Secede.” Although Winslow Homer …
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Does the sum of the parts equal the whole: relationships between executive function, visual attention and heart rate variability in ROTC cadets
… nervous system and heart rate variability (HRV) (Thayer & Lane, 2000). Each of these processes has been examined separately, but none have explored the relationships among them. The current study examined visual attention, executive functioning, and HRV in undergraduate ROTC cadets. Forty-one …
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A Landfill Reclamation Project: an Observatory that Observes the Self
… essential ingredient to sustainability" -Robert Thayer from "Green World, Green Heart" Current land filling practices that bury waste and debris below layers of earth and synthetic caps do not take into account the potential of reclamation of the site after the landfill debris has become stable. …
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Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860
… most elite class of citizens, led by Eli Thayer, mobilized their networks of philanthropy in New England to ensure the Kansas-Nebraska territory did not embrace slavery. The effort by the New England elite to make the territories free was intertwined in a larger web of philanthropic …
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Introversion and the Use of Parasocial Interaction to Satisfy Belongingness Needs
… than those of extraverts (Berry, Willingham, & Thayer, 2000; Watson, Hubbard, & Wiese, 2000). Thus, supplementary ways of filling belongingness needs might benefit introverts. According to the Social Surrogacy Hypothesis, one such way is through parasocial interaction (Derrick, Gabriel, & …
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Working Memory Load Under Anxiety: Quadratic Relations to Cardiac Vagal Control and Inhibition of Distractor Interference
… proxy for load-related inhibition under anxiety (Thayer and Lane, 2009). The present study examined whether: (1) the enhancing and impairing effects of load on inhibition exist together in a nonlinear function, (2) there is a similar association between inhibition and concurrent vagal control, (3) …
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Maritime strategy in the era of control and denial of visibility
… 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett. Yet the political, strategic and technological environments have changed a lot since those periods, with the current context marked by advancements in information and communications technologies and their …
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Powernap
… otro en el sector de Lyon y el último en Luis Thayer Ojeda. Para el desarrollo del presente proyecto es necesaria una inversión inicial de $ 45.119.474 más un capital de trabajo de $ 18.262.262. Finalmente según el cálculo de los Flujos de Caja, se puede determinar que el proyecto al quinto año …
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Examining the neurovisceral integration model through fNIRS
… of this flexibility is behavioral inhibition (Thayer and Friedman, 2002). During a behavioral inhibition task, the central autonomic network (CAN), which is comprised of a series of feedback loops, must be able to integrate information and react to these inputs flexibly to facilitate optimal …
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Regenerative Design Theory and Practice: A Demonstration of the Integrated Framework in a Resort Development at Mountain Lake, VA
… development. The theories of John Lyle, Robert Thayer, and William McDonough are examined to assist in the establishment of a new framework for regenerative design which is can be used in the design process or evaluation. Case studies of the Center for Regenerative Studies, the Ford Rouge Plant …
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The New England Emigrant Aid Company and the response in Massachusetts to its goals and efforts to create a free Kansas, 1854-1856
… proposal without a struggle.</p> <p>Eli Thayer, a freshman Congressman in the Massachusetts State Legislature, invisioned a scheme to use Douglas' concept of squatter sovereignty to the North's advantage. He proposed and guided through the Bay State Legislature a charter for a large …
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THE EFFECTS OF GASTRIC AND HOMEOSTATIC AUTONOMIC AFFERENT REFLEXES ON CARDIAC AUTONOMIC EFFERENT ACTIVITY IN HEALTHY HUMAN VOLUNTEERS
… their central pathway (Kubin et al., 2006; Thayer and Lane, 2009). In conclusion, the cardiovascular responses to water drinking are influenced by its hypo-osmolality properties and temperature, not by the volume loading effects.
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THREE TRAVELING WOMEN WRITERS: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF BRAZIL, PATAGONIA, AND THE U.S., 1859-79
… traveled from the U.S. to Brazil with the Thayer Expedition from 1865 to 1866. Her travel narrative is structured as a scientific account informed by natural history discourse. In her work, Agassiz innovates by including aspects of social organization, an anthropologic view, to her …
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Sculpture as artifice: mimetic form in the environment
… examining essays by Charles Darwin, Abbott Thayer, Ann Elias and David Haskell, and explore its militaristic uses, focussing on the development of camouflage patterns by Roy R. Behrens, Norman Wilkinson and United States Army field manuals. I will also consider alternative adaptations of …
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Salivary VIP concentrations are elevated in humans after acute stress
… s-NPY and s-VIP were measured. Assessments (Thayer Activation-Deactivation Checklist, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion Scale) were also administered in order to evaluate the psychological state of the subjects with respect to anxiety and their perception of …
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American intellectuals and the idea of an 'Atlantic Community' c.1890-1949
… of its main proponents, including Alfred Thayer Mahan, Walter Lippmann, Francis P. Miller, Reinhold Niebuhr and Clarence Streit. Although each strand had its specific focus and audience, all three of them shared the same underlying assumption: in order to tackle the issue of world order in …
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Special education eligibility following the COVID-19 pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 an official pandemic (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022a), immediately changing the structure of education across the country as many schools closed to in-person learning, transitioning to virtual platforms or shifting …
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Trust Trajectories as a Function of Violation Type and Repair Efforts
Across domains, organizations and society are facing a trust deficit (Twenge, Campbell, & Carter, 2014). This is problematic, as trust is important to a variety of critical organizational outcomes, such as perceived task performance, team satisfaction, relationship commitment, and stress mitigation …
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