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Showing 1 to 20 of 988 for “"Weakness"”.
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The Strength of Weakness: Weaponized Information
The Russian Federation has recently implemented a foreign policy strategy aimed at subverting the West’s ability to deter Russia from destabilizing its neighbors. This strategy combines elements of conventional military strategy with “weaponized information” in order to achieve success in the …
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The Good Life: Weakness in the Survival Years
… but through the tools made available by their weakness within an inescapable system.
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Silence as Weakness or Strength in Hurston and Morrison
<p>In literature, voice is a literary device authors use to empower their characters. In fact, both Zora Neale Hurston, in her renowned novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Toni Morrison, in her 1981 novel Tar Baby, exploit voice in different ways. This thesis will investigate and explore the …
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Growing Pains in financial development : institutional weakness and investment efficiency
There is little evidence that the expansion of microfinance has reduced poverty, but is instead increasingly associated with problematic multiple borrowing at high interest rates and high levels of debt and default. We develop a model that rationalizes these outcomes-if entrepreneurs cannot commit …
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America's Provocative Weakness: the U.S. Policy of Vulnerability to Ballistic Missile Attack
… analyze the policy's potential strengths and weaknesses, and identify possible alternatives to the current administration's missile defense policy.
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Russian Influence and Kyrgyz Weakness: A Realist Understanding of Kyrgyz National Interest
This thesis explores whether the Kyrgyz Republic has operated in its national interest during the post-September 11, 2001 era by examining the Kyrgyz government’s decisions in the cases of the American and Russian military installations leased within Kyrgyzstan. It uses a Realist approach to …
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Rhetoric, Gender, Weakness, and Shame: Paul’s somatic self-presentation in the Corinthian correspondence
… to exercising his authority only in keeping with weakness, lack of rhetorical power, and feminized shame. He boasts that his own servile and feminizing sufferings are patterned after those of Christ. Even the apostle’s apparently glorious experiences are accompanied by the infliction of suffering …
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Skeletal muscle weakness and mitochondrial dysfunction in the osteogenesis imperfecta murine (oim) model
… prominent manifestation of OI, skeletal muscle weakness, cardiopulmonary complications, short stature, and craniofacial abnormalities are also common. There is currently no cure for OI and therapeutic options rely on mitigating symptoms, primarily through the use of bone anti-resorptive agents …
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Rethinking the Weakness of Stream Ciphers and Its Application to Encrypted Malware Detection
<p>Encryption key use is a critical component to the security of a stream cipher: because many implementations simply consist of a key scheduling algorithm and logical exclusive or (XOR), an attacker can completely break the cipher by XORing two ciphertexts encrypted under the same key, revealing …
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David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History
… and two mechanisms help explain “the power of weakness.” After it decides to abandon peaceful conflict resolution, the weak side must cultivate the cause that inspires its members to kill and die, to torture and suffer. Next, it requires safe havens. If the VNA cannot avoid the state’s reach, …
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Neuromuscular electrical stimulation to improve muscle weakness in hip osteoarthritis: A feasibility study
… counterparts. When compared to a control group, weakness was observed in the maximal strength of the knee extensors (-22%), knee flexors (-34%) and hip abductors (-46%), but knee extensor endurance was the most considerably impaired measure in the affected (-70%) and contralateral limb (-62%) of …
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Weasels and Angels: Rhetorical and Communicative Strength and Weakness in Selected Women of The Canterbury Tales
… spoken language to examine the dichotomy of "weakness in strength" and "strength in weakness" these characters portray.
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Strength out of Weakness: Harnessing Information Gained from the Pair Structure of Composite Marginal Likelihood Estimation
Discrete choice models (DCMs) are ubiquitous in various disciplines, particularly in transportation planning, where they inform high-stakes infrastructure investments and policy decisions. However, the subjective nature of utility function specification has the potential to introduce variability in …
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Mechanisms underlying the development of weakness in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: an in vitro single muscle fibre contractility study
… are different, the unifying feature is that of weakness caused, in some way or another, by an inflammatory attack on muscle. The mechanism by which weakness develops is still unclear, but experimental animal data suggest that dysfunction of the contractile apparatus might contribute to muscle …
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FORGETTING THE WEAKNESS OF HER SEX AND A WOMAN'S SOFTNESS':HISTORIANS OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD AND THEIR FEMALE SUBJECT'
The number of historians who wrote during the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries creates the unusual problem of too many sources. The sheer number of interesting and powerful women does the same. In order to narrow the topic of the presentation of women in texts from this period, I have …
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The effect of inspiratory muscle training on clinical outcomes and health-related quality of life in children with neuromuscular disease and respiratory muscle weakness.
Background: Progressive respiratory muscle weakness and ineffective cough contributes to pulmonary morbidity and mortality in children with neuromuscular disease. Inspiratory muscle training aims to preserve or improve respiratory muscle strength, reduce respiratory complications and improve …
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Identifying a weakness in the UK education system of supporting children with complex social, emotional and behavioural difficulties/ADHD - is government policy preventing effective inclusion for some pupils?
A short attention span, impulsivity, distractibility, and hyperactivity are characteristics that are commonly found in young children and sometimes in adults. These difficulties also meet the American Psychiatric Association diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). …
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Visual intelligence for online communities : commonsense image retrieval by query expansion
This thesis explores three weaknesses of keyword-based image retrieval through the design and implementation of an actual image retrieval system. The first weakness is the requirement of heavy manual annotation of keywords for images. We investigate this weakness by aggregating the annotations of …
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Explaining Civil War Persistence in Afghanistan
… especially prone to (prolonged) civil war; state-weakness seems to be the variable around which there is the most theoretical agreement. There is a strong sense that state failure ? whether defined as failure to monopolize legitimate violence or failure to deliver development, good governance and …
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The Impact of Meeting Analyst Earnings Expectations on the Market Response to the Announcement of Internal Control Weaknesses
… expectations on the market response to material weakness disclosures identified under Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2020. Utilizing a sample period spanning 15 years, I find that the market response to material weakness disclosures is significantly influenced by earnings …
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