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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Vail"”.
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Recreation conflict and management options in the Vail Pass Winter Recreation Area, Colorado, USA
… conflict among winter recreationists in the Vail Pass Winter Recreation Area (VPWRA) in central Colorado. Data for the first manuscript were obtained from surveys collected in 2003 (n = 224, response rate = 93%) and again in 2014 (n = 242, response rate 89%) from randomly selected VPWRA …
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FIELD METHOD EFFICACY TO DETECT MEDIUM AND LARGE MAMMAL PRESENCE NEAR ROADWAYS AT VAIL PASS, COLORADO
… to build a wildlife bridge on I-70 just west of Vail Pass. This study is aimed at testing which field techniques are most effective at documenting species presence in order to develop an appropriate long term monitoring strategy for this area. Four sampling methods are compared (track transect …
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FIELD METHOD EFFICACY TO DETECT MEDIUM AND LARGE MAMMAL PRESENCE NEAR ROADWAYS AT VAIL PASS, COLORADO
… to build a wildlife bridge on I-70 just west of Vail Pass. This study is aimed at testing which field techniques are most effective at documenting species presence in order to develop an appropriate long term monitoring strategy for this area. Four sampling methods are compared (track transect …
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Fluvial influence on high-frequency sedimentary cycle geometry: The transition from strandplain to deltaic deposition in the Cretaceous Point Lookout Sandstone, San Juan Basin, Colorado
… tract deltaic deposition. Posamentier and Vail's (1988) model of deposition during base-level fail in the absence of fluvial incision predicts many of the stratigraphic relationships observed in the field, and provides the best sequence stratigraphic model for deposition within the study …
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Impact on employee motivation of management's perception of what employees want from their work: An application to the ski resort industry
… of ski resort employees. Hotel properties in Vail Valley, Colorado served as the population for the study. The study examined what ski resort employees want from their work and established their orientation to work. The relationship between what employees identified they wanted from their work …
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DADA / USA: connections between the Dada movement and eight American fiction writers
… Djuna Barnes, William Carlos Williams, Laurence Vail, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and Nathanael West, and was affected by Gertrude Stein, are examined in chapters 4 to 11. DADÁ / EEUU: CONEXIONES ENTRE EL MOVIMIENTO DADAÍSTA Y OCHO NARRADORES NORTEAMERICANOS El propósito de esta tesis es …
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The Role of Computer and Internet Access in Business Students' Acceptance of E-Learning Technology
… NTIA, 1999b; Carey, Chisholm and Irwin, 2002; Vail, 2003 Zeliff, 2004; Glenn, 2005). The Technology Acceptance Model developed by Davis, Bagozzi, and Warshaw (1989) was used to investigate whether computer and Internet access influenced the acceptance of e-learning technology tools such as …
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Eine Evaluierung des außergerichtlichen Schuldenregulierungsversuchs nach § 305 InsO unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Frage der Anwendbarkeit mediativer Elemente im Bereich der vorgerichtlichen Schuldenregulierung von Verbrauchern
… debt adjustment negotiations occur under the vail of discretion, big mounds of data regarding the actual reasons for its success or failure is not available. Hence, the research approach intends to adopt the characteristics of debt negotiations as good as possible by interviewing its …
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Explorations in Monocular Distance And Ranging (MODAR) Techniques for Real-World Applications
… retrieving depth-from-focus using commercially available components. To achieve this, an iterative exploration of existing techniques was performed to verify their utility in the final ensemble of processes to retrieve depth from 2D images. Initially, blurry images were simulated by applying …
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Communication patterns following the acquisition of a sexually transmitted infection
This study examines the relationship between personality traits and communication patterns following the contraction of a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Participants were 148 college students (46 men, 104 women) attending a large Mid-Atlantic University. Seventy-four of the participants …
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Rapid identification, confirmation, and quantitation using an open-air ion source coupled to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer
<p>The ability to identify and confirm a compound using mass spectrometry usually involves time consuming sample preparation and method development. The open-air ion source DART (Direct Analysis in Real Time) can ionize compounds in the gas, solid, or liquid phase without chromatography or sample …
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Teachers' professional development experiences: Implications for teaching practice
<p>The purpose of this study was to inquire into the ways in which participation in physical science professional development impacts science teachers' professional learning and ultimately their practice over time. This study strove to provide a greater understanding of teachers' processes as they …
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Balancing Flavors, Constructing Identities, and Building a Community: Rethinking Diaspora and Migration Through the Foodways of a Thai Community in Washington, D.C.
<p>As globalization intensifies, human movement becomes increasingly common. A nuanced investigation into the processes of adjustment and community construction among relocated people is now more necessary to understand the effects of these processes on cultural ideology and behavior. My focus on a …
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Examining Hope and Resilience among Mississippi Adolescents
<p>Hope theory involves the way in which individuals perceive their abilities in relation to three factors: 1) clearly defined goals, 2) the specific strategies necessary to obtain those goals (called “pathways”), and 3) the sustained motivation necessary to use those specific strategies (called …
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Impacts of Race/Ethnicity and Self-Esteem on Body Dissatisfaction in Women
In the United States, there is a push for individuals to be of a particular size, and for women, that ideal size is extremely thin (Katzmarzyk & Davis, 2001). Overall, females indicate a greater drive for thinness and put more emphasis on weight and shape salience than do men (Anderson & Bulik, …
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The Development and Use of an Intraoral Force Transducer in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis
Myasthenia gravis is a neuromuscular disease characterized by variable weakness following voluntary muscle exertion. Because responses to the disease vary considerably between muscle groups, as well as between stages of the disease, diagnosis sometimes becomes a difficult and subjective evaluation. …
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Experimental Investigation of Liquid and Particle -Laden Flows in Microtubes
Since flow blockages are the ultimate form of increased flow resistance, the research emphasis is focused on the mechanisms that lead to blockage. Different blockage mechanisms are observed in different regimes defined by the ratio of particle diameter to tube diameter. For example, for 0.33 D < dp …
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Flutter of Viscoelastic Two Degree of Freedom Uniform Wing in a Two Dimensional Supersonic Flow
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