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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"Verge"”.
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The verge : transforming an insufficient edge
This thesis considers a new edge strategy for an Insufficient waterfront. The shore of Bass Harbor poses a problem significant to the whole Maine coast, as the access and Infrastructure imperative to the fishing industries is unable to compete with the economic power of the private second home …
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On the Verge of Change: Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em>
<p>This thesis discusses the effects of war on the southern plantation lifestyle depicted in Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em>. This thesis focuses on the female characters who adapt to the absence of the husbands during wartime. Wars are the catalyst for societal change in the novel, and the …
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Eric Overmyer's on the Verge a Production Focusing on Feminine Values
<p>Eric Overmyer's play On the Verge focuses on three women who leave their world in the year 1888 and enter Terra Incognita, a fanciful world that propels then into the future until they land in the year 1955. The women in Overmyer's play are three extraordinary explorer/adventurers whom, I …
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Random perturbations of delay differential equations at the verge of instability and periodically driven nonlinear oscillators
… equations (DDE) whose fixed point is on the verge of instability. With appropriate scaling of coordinates, the dynamics close to the fixed point can be cast in the form of a linear DDE perturbed by small noise and small nonlinearities. The instability scenario considered is the following: a …
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Youth in conflict with the law: a case study of critical issues that arise in sentencing youth who are on the verge of adulthood
Crime among youth in South Africa is a very serious and complex problem because it encompasses a lot of social issues that are deeply rooted. These issues encompass but are not limited to poverty, unemployment, disorganised families and communities, association with deviant peers, easy …
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Plant communities along Irish roads: the impact of humans and potential to improve biodiversity
… soil nutrients and soil seed banks of road verges (located along a national road scheme in the south of the Republic of Ireland) were examined along with their adjacent fields plus reference points in the non-road landscape. In addition, a controlled experiment was undertaken to assess the …
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Racines
… oli d'oliva en dos formats diferents: extra verge ecològic a granel i extra verge ecològic mil·lenari embotellat. Aquests aliments, produïts i elaborats en almàsseres del Baix Maestrat, es vendran en la botiga situada a París. La vocació principal de Racines és satisfer les necessitats dels …
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The Verging Cities
… cities and explores themes built around the word verge.</p>
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Le sense de la destinee chez Gerard de Nerval
… the last years of his life were spent on the verge of mental collapse. The author's mental illness, however, did not impair his great literary output. In fact, his greatest works Les filles du feu and Chimères were written during this period. In our research, we set ourselves the goal of …
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The Language of Dolls
… and distinguish themselves. Teetering on the verge of a collapse, whether men or women, poor or psychologically impoverished, they all emerge triumphant or often signal ambiguous resolutions. Most of the stories present the struggle of women in adverse circumstances. The Language of Dolls is …
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Catalyst: Architecture for Change and Social Justice
… a community composed of 8 neighborhoods on the verge of being gentrified, by incoming development. Through investigating the key issues present in this community for many years, this thesis will attempt to develop a catalytic environment, which will facilitate change within the community by …
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Phonemic inventory of the Shor language
… territory of Russia, and it is currently on the verge of extinction. The language is characterized by agglutinative morphology, vowel harmony, and consonant assimilation typical of Turkic languages, which are discussed in the project. The main phonological processes, morphotactics, and some …
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Interacting fermions : a holographic approach/
… liquid theory. These are quasi-2D metals on the verge of becoming insulators, and they happen to become superconducting at low temperature, by a mechanism different than BCS superconductivity. The physics of these materials calls for a new strongly coupled universality class of interacting …
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Information visualization for the people
… graphical presentation of data, is on the verge of a significant paradigm shift brought on by the continued maturation of the Information Age. Its traditional role as a scientific tool deployed by rigorous data analysts is in the process of expanding to include more mainstream uses and …
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A study of the attitudes of college seniors toward the church and toward some church-related questions
Young people who are on the verge of maturity today have come of age during a period of rapid social change. The impact of such changes on personal values and attitudes raises the question as to whether these young people have lost formerly accepted social values, have retained them in part or …
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Capacité de germination de trois espèces exotiques et trois expèces indigènes au parc national du Canada Kouchibouguac, N.-B., Canada
… étroites (Epilobium angustifolium) et la verge d'or toujours verte (Solidago sempervirens). Le but ultime était de déterminer si les caractéristiques de germination diffèrent entre les deux types d'espèces, favorisant possiblement les espèces exotiques à mieux coloniser les habitats …
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Impact of ride-sharing on mobility trends and vehicle stock
North American transportation industry is on the verge of a revolutionary change. With the advent of car-sharing services and ride-sharing companies, the transportation industry is experiencing a fundamental way in which people choose to travel. This particular thesis looks at the impact of these …
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Someplace Else
… of Lumi—a small-town Wisconsin adolescent on the verge of womanhood—the novel examines how childhood innocence is exemplified and threatened by the homes in which females are raised and raising themselves. Someplace Else serves as Lumi's avenue for figuring out how to put to words what exactly it …
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