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Showing 1 to 20 of 628 for “"The Cycle"”.
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Arresting the cycle : design for porous prisons
… over two million prisoners a year costs the government an astounding twenty-six billion dollars annually, which means the government spends the same amount of money on each inmate as any American would make a year working a minimum wage job. Although cities "generate" the majority of …
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Representation of special polynomials by the cycle indicator
… of special functions have been shown to have Cycle Indicator representations as well as recurrence relations. Most remarkably, it is shown how the Cycle Indicator can be used to unify or generalize special functions. Methods of unifying special functions are elaborated on. It follows that …
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An Evolution of Evil: the Cycle of the Vampire
The vampire story has been around for ages, and still remains as popular today as ever. As times change, so do the vampire stories. In this master thesis, the author gives a timeline of the vampire story and how it reflects the culture of the time it was written in, showing how the vampire moves in …
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The Role of Cortisol In The Cycle of Violence
… and aggression; this phenomenon is known as the cycle of violence. Despite a wide body of research demonstrating this phenomenon, the processes which mediate this relationship remain largely unknown. One potentially relevant result of abuse and neglect may be disruptions in the development of …
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The Cycle of Book Publishing through a Queer Lens
<p>This capstone assesses the current landscape of the publishing industry with regard to Queer authors and stories that have been published within the United States. It will start off with a literature review utilizing secondary research upon the current publishing landscape, as well as the rules …
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Ending the cycle: Scholars' perspectives on hazing prevention
The purpose of this study is to synthesize the knowledge of hazing experts to explore hazing prevention techniques. Preventing hazing in sport has been studied, analyzed, and explored through various research designs centered on strategies of athlete education, cultural change, and replacement …
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The Cycle of Transformation in Home School Families Over Time
The purpose of this study was to examine from an insider's perspective the goals, motivations, and curricular implementation of home school families. This 23 month naturalistic, multi-site study was conducted with 17 families in central Ohio. Data collected included interviews, case studies, …
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Maternal History of Neglect, Mind-Mindedness, and The Cycle of Neglect
… perpetration have been established, support for the intergenerational cycle of maltreatment remains weak due to definitional and methodological issues. In addition, less severe forms of child neglect that do not result in Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement have not been extensively …
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SISYPHUS GETS TO THE TOP (Breaking the Cycle of DC Prison)
"Sisyphus Gets to the Top" explores the psychological effects of confinement and the adverse impacts of prison architecture on human behavior. In a country with one of the highest incarceration rates, the United States suffers from a cycle of recidivism. Facilities that suppress self-growth and …
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An investigation into the cycle and prediction of organisation facility management procurement
… in Australia and in various nations throughout the world. The annual Australian national investment of the FM industry contributes approximately 4% to GDP and there are more than 404,000 people working in FM service industries. Some conjecture exists to whether or not FM is a discipline in its …
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Developing Country Business Cycles: Characterizing the Cycle and Investigating the Output Persistence Problem
Identifying business cycle stylised facts is essential as these often form the basis for the construction and validation of theoretical business cycle models. Furthermore, understanding the cyclical patterns in economic activity, and their causes, is important to the decisions of both policymakers …
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BREAKING THE CYCLE? AN EXPLORATION OF ACADEMIC MATCHING AND RURAL STUDENTS' COLLEGE CHOICE PROCESSES
The issue of academic undermatching involves students enrolling at colleges and universities below the level of selectivity to which their academic profiles indicate they could gain admission. Undermatching has received significant attention because students who undermatch have been shown to …
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Breaking the Cycle: the Rise and Fall of Conversion Cycle Limited Three-Wave Mixing
The cyclic exchange of energy between the pump, signal, and idler fields that characterizes optical parametric amplification (OPA) places a fundamental limitation on efficiency for Gaussian-shaped beam and pulse profiles typical of real laser sources. This is because the intensity dependent …
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Evaluation of the Cycle Profile Effect on the Degradation of Commercial Lithium Ion Batteries
… vehicle manufacturers are committed to expand their electrified vehicle fleet in upcoming years to meet fuel efficiency goals. Understanding the effect of the charge/discharge cycle profiles on battery durability is important to the implementation of batteries in electrified vehicles and to the …
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The cycle and the spiral: rhetorical strategies in Malory's "Morte Darthur"
The cyclical and spiral structures which are typical of medieval romance inform Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur. Despite the fact that his prose narrative includes native elements of realism and directness, Malory utilizes the cycle and the spiral as methods of arrangement. These patterns …
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After the Class: Intergroup Dialogue Students' Actions Through the Lens of the Cycle of Liberation
… in-depth qualitative interviews and explored the ways participants did and did not put their learning into action at least a full semester after IGD course completion. Narrative data were analyzed through the lens of the Cycle of Liberation (Harro, 2010) and student actions were categorized as …
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Nikolai Medtner's Forgotten Melodies Op. 39: Exploring The Narrative Mosaic Of The Cycle
… composer, pianist, and pedagogue, bridged the Late Romantic and Modernist periods, yet he firmly opposed the modernistic trends of his time. In his essay, The Muse and the Fashion, he critiqued modernism's complexity and novelty as a mere trend, advocating for music that remains true to …
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The Cycle of Abuse for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities who Engage in Sexually Offending Behaviour
… higher rates of childhood sexual abuse than other clinical groups, and the general population. Over the past 15 years, research has lent support to the theory of a cycle of abuse, which postulates a relationship or pattern between prior experience of sexual abuse and later sexual offending. …
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Return to sender. Closing the cycle from domestic implementation experiences to the formulation of European legislation
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