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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Upper levels"”.
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Essays on political accountability in non-democratic regimes
… highlights that officials that were appointed by upper levels of government have a stronger incentive to continue to use local patronage networks to signal their alignment to upper levels of government, in order to protect their jobs. Therefore, if the previous dictator's party has a substantial …
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Using the Monte Carlo Method to Teach Probabilistic Problem Solving to Ninth Grade General Mathematics Students
… to a few mathematically talented students at the upper levels of secondary education.
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Nematofauna da planície de maré de Coroa Grande, Baía de Sepetiba, RJ
… transect strata which represent the different levels of the intertidal zone. Samples for granulometric composition, organic matter anel chlorophyll analysis were also collected. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was used to evaluate the community structure. Two different classifications …
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Kinetics and radiactive processes of a XE and I2 inductive RF discharge at low pressure
… 512 nm and 804 nm emission indicates that the upper levels of atomic iodine are populated in the same proportions across the radius of the discharge. The difference between the I* emission at 206 nm and I** emission indicates that the upper levels of atomic iodine leading to I** emission are …
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The cook as physician: medical philosophy, nutrition, and diet in England, 1450-1650
… medical philosophy on the practices of the upper-class cook. Much of the literature treating the subject of diet in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England has concentrated upon the role that Church doctrine and seasonality played in determining food habits. Historians tend to ignore the …
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Two Screens and an Urban Place
… is a grocery store, shops, and offices. On the upper levels, there are townhomes and apartments, one and two bedroom.
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Walls || Memory
… use program (Retails on the lower and ground levels, and residences on the 2 upper levels). This experimentation invites further questions. How strictly should the concrete representation of the memory guide the design? What are the qualities of the spaces resulting of such rules? How to …
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The connective service : a research laboratory for the University City Science Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
… industry which is both private and public. The upper floors house the private research laboratories. Elevators carry scientists to these upper levels. In order to encourage gathering and exchange among scientists. a sky lighted stairwell links the three floors. In addition. on the north side is …
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Spanish II Students’ Decisions to (Dis)continue to Spanish III: A Case Study in a U.S. Midwestern School District
… of the district’s Spanish curriculum for levels I through III, a preliminary questionnaire administered to interested participants, and semi-structured interviews with three continuing and three non-continuing students. The findings of the study indicated that continuing students found …
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Excited State Spectroscopy of Diatomic Argon
… that the predissociation lifetimes of these upper levels fall rapidly for $\rm v\sp\prime>1.$ Data presented lead to rotational energies and molecular constants for the $a\ \sp3\Sigma\sbsp{u}{+}$ and $7p\sigma\ \sp3\Sigma\sbsp{g}{+}$ states, including the effective rotational constant …
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Exploring the experiences and persistence of women in undergraduate mathematics and statistics programs
… instead, on women who have continued into the upper levels of their STEM majors, what factors explain their persistence? Through student surveys and focus group interviews, this study extends existing research by exploring the experiences and persistence factors of women who continue in …
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The acquisition of inductive constraints
… Hierarchical Bayesian models include multiple levels of abstraction, and the representations at the upper levels place constraints on the representations at the lower levels. The probabilistic nature of these models allows them to make statistical inferences at multiple levels of abstraction. …
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A web-controllable shaking table for remote structural testing under seismic loading
… receiving accelerometer readings from its three levels. Registered Internet users may upload their own input data, such as the seismic ground acceleration of a newly occurring earthquake, and therefore study the corresponding behavior of a real structure. The system is designed with an expandable …
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A formal description language for specifying and verifying real-time software systems.
… of temporal logic. The rules ensure that lower levels correctly refine upper levels of a specification. The conditions for checking consistency between a ‘high-level’ and its direct refinement are constructed automatically using the refinement approach. The conditions can be validated using an …
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The trend of wind speed over the United States during 1998 - 2011
… near the surface and an increasing trend at the upper levels, which is consistent with previous studies. The decreasing trend of near-surface wind speed is statistically significant (p<0.01). However, the statistical significance of the decreasing trend drops with increases in altitude. We …
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Achieving organizational excellence through managing diversity: enhancing productivity, self concept, and career development
… gender-related microinequities on women in the upper levels of government. Microinequities were defined as subtle forms of differential treatment toward any person who is different than the others in a group. Subjects were selected from eight federal agencies and included 114 women and 30 men at …
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Geology and mineralization in the vicinity of the Morning Star precious-metal deposit of the Ivanpah Mountains, San Bernardino County, California
… occurs at the Morning Star deposit, in the upper-plate of the Morning Star thrust which represents intermediate age (105 and 90 Ma) faulting along the Mesozoic foreland fold and thrust belt (MFFTB). Deformation along the Morning Star thrust consists of both ductile and brittle events, and is …
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Re-evaluation of Kombat-style mineralisation and implications for exploration in the Otavi mountainland, Namibia
… sediments and precipitation of Cu-Pb ore at upper levels in the carbonate host rocks due to structural traps and chemical interaction. The syn-sedimentary Fe-Mn ore, which is largely associated with calc-silicate lithologies, consists mainly of magnetite and hematite with minor pyrite, …
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Investigating media narratives of bisexual people in sport settings
… environments. Being openly bisexual in upper levels of sport is overwhelmingly framed as brave and a positive step in the direction of LGBTQ+ equality, however the components of bivisibility are also contested with regards to significance over talent. Finally, future areas for research …
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Groin-Associated Rip Currents Measured Using a New Digital Current Meter
… directed onshore while the time mean flow in the upper levels was nearly always directed offshore. The presence of the rip current reduces groin effectiveness by transporting sediment from the compartment seawards beyond the groin ends. The complex vertical structure of the time mean flow makes …
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