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Showing 1 to 20 of 4680 for “"Wild"”.
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Wild Embrace
<p>WILD EMBRACE is a collection of poetry that explores the themes of abuse, survival, and fragility. The speaker of these poems, older and distanced from the abuse, asks what it means to be a survivor, and explores our obligation of compassion that, as human beings, we owe one another.</p> …
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The Wild Diamond Diaries: Healing Alongside America's Wild Horses
… my lifelong interest in Mustangs’ lives in the wild and journey into domestication, especially via the federal Wild Horse & Burro Program (WHBP). While visiting Mustang handling facilities with my mom and sister, interviewing dozens of adopters and trainers, and conducting supplemental research, …
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Real Wild West
A series of poems on the landscape and politics of the American West.
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Real Wild West
A series of poems on the landscape and politics of the American West.
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Defending Wild Dogs: Population Dynamics and Disease in Endangered African Wild Dogs
<p>African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are endangered carnivores whose population is decreasing from habitat loss and fragmentation, interspecific competition, and disease. Survival rates are especially low in Kruger National Park (KNP), though it is unclear why. I estimated the abundance in KNP and …
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The wild olive bowl
Set against the political backdrop of the boycotts, arson and funerals of July 1980 in Grahamstown, this novel explores how the discovery of the dead body of a street child under the walls of St Jude’s Chapel sets events in motion that provoke the spiritual crises faced by the two protagonists. …
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Human Detection in the Wild
Human detection remains a challenging task due to the problems caused by occlusion variance. Visible-body bounding boxes are typically used as an extra supervision signal to improve the performance of human detection. However, visible-body assisted approaches produce a large number of false …
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Behavioral ecology of wild turkeys
Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopovo) hens are solitary and cryptic during the reproductive season, sensitive to observer presence near the nest site, and as a result our understanding of their incubation behavior is limited to a handful of studies. Lacking this important behavioral information, it …
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A Comparison of Eastern Wild Turkeys and Rio Grande Wild Turkeys in Northeastern South Dakota
… the Department of Game, Fish and Parks, National Wild Turkey Federation, and area landowners is to restore the most suitable subspecies of wild turkey in the remaining suitable habitats of South Dakota. Rio Grande wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo intermedia) were successfully introduced into …
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Monitoring Gait Complexity in the Wild
Human steady-state gait exhibits subtle stride-to-stride fluctuations that produce complex patterns, termed gait complexity, which provide information about the quality of gait control and adaptive capacity of the walker. Our knowledge of gait complexity is premised on studies estimating nonlinear …
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Wild & Wonderful: a Collection of Stories
My thesis is a collection of literary short stories, many of which spring from my life experiences: people I've known, places I lived, jobs I worked, or subjects I have researched. Some stories are more "realistic," where landscape and geography—often West Virginia, or my native Pennsylvania—is an …
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Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater
… the alterity of the deep sea, my dissertation, "Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater," considers how the ocean environment produces cognitively estranging conditions for conceptualizing media and media theory. Concepts in media theory have thus far exhibited what I call a "terrestrial …
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Wild: Paintings Intertwining Body and Mind
… consciousness and femininity. My work creates a wild boundless space, welcoming all emotions and thoughts to manifest into gestural and abstract landscapes. There is no right or wrong way to experience the work, what matters most is the totality of presence and observation of the spaces …
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A geometry theory of wild arcs
… in the 3-sphere is called an arc. Arcs which are wild at a single point have been the subject of a number of studies over the past twenty five years. They have proven to be interesting in their own right as well as being sources for examples of topological embeddings in 3-manifolds. This thesis is …
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A geometry theory of wild arcs
… in the 3-sphere is called an arc. Arcs which are wild at a single point have been the subject of a number of studies over the past twenty five years. They have proven to be interesting in their own right as well as being sources for examples of topological embeddings in 3-manifolds. This thesis is …
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Tracking certificate misissuance in the wild
Certificate Authorities (CAs) are responsible for delegating trust in the TLS Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Unfortunately, there is a long history of CAs abusing this responsibility, either due to negligence or in some cases, falling victim to attacks. As a result, the PKI community has …
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York's Wild Kingdom : a development proposal
York's Wild Kingdom is a privately held zoo and amusement park in York, a Massachusetts based shopping center developer and investment compa Kingdom and the 150 acres that surround it. The community is culturaIl ( and York Beach, which is relevant to the entitlement process. The site is new public …
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