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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Whirlwind."”.
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Engineering the Whirlwind
An analysis of atmospheric buoyancy vortices is made, suggesting they can be usefully analysed as heat engines, converting Convectively Available Potential Energy (CAPE) contained in a rising columnar core, into rotational kinetic energy. The cold reservoir of the heat engine is considered as being …
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The programming of Laplace's equation for solution by iteration on Whirlwind I
Thesis (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics, 1950.
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The whirlwind and the lynching tree : apocalyptic and liberation theology in the black Waco tradition.
This dissertation explores the work of theology in terms of discerning the liberative reality of God in history. At the heart of the dissertation is a black oral tradition emerging and circulating in Waco, Texas which claims that an event of sudden climate change—a tornado disaster—striking the …
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Redesign of the double hand rim modification of the "Whirlwind" Wheelchair for manufacture in developing nations
… by persons with hemiplegia. Ralf Hotchkiss's "Whirlwind" Wheelchair is currently manufactured with local materials in many developing nations. It provides both an affordable source of quality wheelchairs for the populace as well as a source of employment. J.A. van Alphen and D.R. Arbib made …
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Divine-Human Dialogue and Resolution in the Book of Job
… is evident from the text of the divine whirlwind speeches (38:1–42:6) and Epilogue (42:7–17) read in context. Divine-human dialogue has the capacity to define and redirect the central issues of the book and to furnish resolution that is principally and fittingly relational. Finally, this …
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"We Need the Storm, the Whirlwind, the Earthquake": The Intersection of Language and Violence in Nat Turner's "Confessions" and Frederick Douglass's <i>My Bondage and My Freedom</i>
<p>Resistance literature is an established genre, dating back to the late eighteenth century, but it underwent a rhetorical revision as slavery increased within the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. As slaves and free blacks began to rebel against their oppressed condition, …
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Conversations about chaos and order: making the world in the Book of Job
… and ought not to be. In his speeches from the whirlwind, God identifies himself as the world’s creator, presenting an ordered world that is vastly different from what Job presumes order to be. Regardless of how Job’s response to God in 42:6 is understood—and it is interpreted in a great number …
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CONTIGO Y LAS ESTRELLAS
… relationship to her mother launches her into a whirlwind of events that lead her to seeing her past in front of her. This novel is a multiple-perspective book that details the anxieties and brightness that comes with learning about time travel and having a willing protagonist who is trying to …
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Evaluation of Failure Mechanics of the Malpais Landslide, Eureka County, Nevada
… fault-controlled Malpais Rim, flowed north into Whirlwind Valley. It has a surface area of approximately 2.2 km2 and volume of approximately 0.032 km3. The landslide mass is composed of the Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic rocks. The only Paleozoic rocks in the landslide are remobilized clasts …
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Mathematical methods for classifying fast radio bursts
… of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has ignited a whirlwind of research, and numerous fundamental questions about them are being studied. This thesis delves into this field, aiming to bridge the gap in our exploration of FRB populations. The FRBs are cosmic transients characterised by powerful …
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Chinese investment in US real estate : potential growth and constraints
… name in the U.S. 2017, however, has been whirlwind for Chinese investors in the U.S. Along with the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States, the Chinese government imposed capital control on foreign investment. Although the mainstream is saying that the new …
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Roman Nostalgia Exemplarity and Romanitas in Late Republican and Imperial Literature
… calmly to certain death. Scipio Africanus, a whirlwind of energy, defeats Hannibal. Cato, finally, refuses to bow to Caesar’s rule and kills himself at Utica.</p> <p><em>Romanitas</em> is constantly negotiated throughout Rome’s history, even its authority relies on the fiction that it is …
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Trouble on the Range: When Does a National Park Become a Bison Zoo?
… lasted for decades. But in the late 1990s, a whirlwind of decisions reduced (and maintained) elk herds to a more manageable level. Scientists thought that finally, the northern range’s native flora and fauna might have a chance to recover. For many years, it seemed like an ecological revival …
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Genealogies of the Citizen-Devotee: Popular Cinema, Religion and Politics in South India
… For many political and social commentators this whirlwind success could only be explained by the power of his cinematic image as god and hero! The films thus came to be seen as major contributing factors in the unusual and undesirable alliance between cinema, religion and politics. This …