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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Throws"”.
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"Throw Me Something, Mister": The History of Carnival Throws in New Orleans
… Visitors soon discover the thrill of catching "throws" tossed to paradegoers by members of parade organizations' riding floats. For tourists and locals alike, throws become the cultural currency of New Orleans during Carnival. Beads, doubloons, coconuts, cups and other throws develop an inherent …
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The Effects of Stress on American Football Overhand Throw Accuracy
… and psychological stress, the first set of 15 throws, and the second questionnaire to measure the same variables. For the next set of 15 throws on that day, the opposite condition was used. The second day, the sequence repeated for questionnaires and for the throws with the stress and …
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Actual Causality in Autumn
… to turn off? Another example follows: If Suzie throws a rock at a bottle and later Billy throws a rock at the same bottle, a question of actual causality is, did Suzie throwing a rock cause the bottle to break? One common method to answer questions of actual causality is to evaluate the …
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The effect of extrinsic reward on sport performance, perceived competence and intrinsic motivation
… aged 13 and 16 performed 20 basketball free throws on three occasions, completing the IMI after occasion 1 performance, a singleitem perceived competence (PC) measure, and the IMI before and after occasion 2 and 3 performance. Before occasion 2 performance, half the males and females from …
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Electrolytic production of hydrogen peroxide
… and oxygen. The mechanism of this reaction throws light on the production and chemistry of hydrogen peroxide, electrochemistry of hydrogen, oxygen and water and the mechanism of corrosion. This investigation involved the study of the formation and decomposition of hydrogen peroxide at the …
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Structural geology of South Hadhramaut area Yemen Republic
… which have strike lengths in excess of 50 km and throws over 1000 m to those that are too small to be recorded on the maps. By measuring the geometry of bedding in the rollover anticlines in the hanging walls of selected faults, the trajectories of the faults at depths were computed. These show …
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Exploring the effects of mental fatigue on perceptual motor task performance and kinematics
… of participants performed two sets of dart throws, one group undergoing a mentally demanding task and one as a control. No significant changes in accuracy performance or kinematic variables were associated with mental fatigue apart from a significant decrease in shoulder angle of elevation …
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Effects of throwing on rotator cuff strength and proprioception
… an overhand throwing session consisting of 75 throws at 75% of perceived maximum effort at a distance of 60 feet 6 inches. This was followed by a posttest that was identical to the pretest. The results revealed a significant difference in the ARPP pre and post-test values for the recreationally …
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Daytona sands
… Peterson, an adolescent girl growing up in the throws of the ever-growing opioid epidemic on the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida. After witnessing the passing of her own father due to substance abuse and watching as her mother stumbles toward a similar fate, August grapples with concepts of …
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A Critical Examination of the Later Omrides
… as an ancient source of history. Strange indeed throws new light upon the historical reconstruction now being written concerning the middle of the ninth century B.C.E. in Israel and Judah. This article challenges contemporary scholarship of the Omride period with the identification of Joram, son …
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Physiological and Performance Effects of 11 Weeks of Training in Division 1 Collegiate Throwers: An Exploratory Study.
… in an 11-week periodized resistance training and throws program. Volume load was recorded throughout the study. Measurements of maximal strength (isometric mid-thigh pull), vertical jumping ability, dynamic mid-thigh pulls (across a spectrum of loads), hormones (testosterone and cortisol), and …
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André Malraux: Évolution de la pensée et constance du mythe profond
… thought of the writer. This 'personal myth' throws light on the writer's inner world, and on the direction his intellectual thought took. Consequently, the theological function of art in Malraux's aesthetical conception stems from his unconscious personality, which gives a profound meaning …
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Eliminating Plastic Waste by Transitioning Machine Shop to Produce Its Own 3D Printer Filament
… All of these tools generate waste products; LMP throws out barrels of plastic every semester. To better align with MIT’s commitment to fighting climate change, LMP needs to cut down on its excess plastic. Filament extrusion and injection molding testing was conducted to pave the way for the LMP …
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Technique and Performance Level Comparisons of Male and Female Hammer Throwers
… using three Canon 60 Hz cameras. The best throws of each athlete were digitized and analyzed using the Peak Motus 8.2 motion analysis system. T-tests revealed that athlete mass, athlete height, velocity at release, timing components, and centripetal force were different between sexes. The …
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Recycle : resource recovery in Belmont Massachusetts
… improper disposal of trash. The average American throws away 3.5 pounds of trash daily. While we have focused our concerns on the arms race and other looming and important issues, the day to day levels of trash coming from our homes and industries continues to grow. In many areas of the country …
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Milton's Emerging View of Fame and the Heroic Life
… terms. His method is generally parodic; he throws into relief true fame by parodying its false varieties. Thus he makes a clear distinction between earthly fame and heavenly fame. Chapter 1 traces Milton's struggle to define fame in his early poetry. His major works are treated independently …
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Far from the dragging plough : veterans in trade and business during the Roman Principate.
… evidence directly from inscriptions, this study throws light on those veterans who set up as manufacturers and traders of various commodities, and discusses the reasons why they are so elusive within the epigraphic record itself. Summaries of the key themes of the study, along with potential …
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Preparation of nanovehicles for targeted drug delivery
… for selective and enhanced absorption. This work throws light on the preparation of biodegradable and non-toxic nanoparticulate systems for targeted drug delivery. The drug vehicles were made by two different processes namely electrostatic interactions and desolvation process. The drug carriers …
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Creating suspense and surprise in short literary fiction: a stylistic and narratological approach
… reader to reassess the story in the new light it throws on events and to look for some further message; this is often a main aim of the literary fiction which ends in surprise.
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Bunkerology - a case study in the meanings, motives and methods of urban exploration
… Inevitably, the passage of time and thought throws up issues that could have been dealt with more extensively, differently, or at all. The absence of any consideration of gender was noted by my dissertation's examiners. I am addressing that separately. Other tangents left on the 'cutting room …
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