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Showing 1 to 20 of 375 for “"ZIP"”.
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Zip Codes: Stories and Essays
Short stories & essays.
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Designing for a new "ZIP code destiny"
… one of the reasons that America is the land of “ZIP code destinies”: the geographic and social contexts in which a child grows up often dramatically affect the opportunities they are able to capitalize on. Advances in social media and communications platforms were supposed to create new …
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A Simulation Study to Evaluate Bayesian LASSO’s Performance in Zero-Inflated Poisson (ZIP) Models
… the variable selection in zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) models. This thesis work is motivated by Brown et al. (2015), who considered the excessive amount of zero in their data structure and the site-specific random effects, and used Bayesian LASSO method for variable selection in their post-fire …
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Integration of Zip-formwork and conventional formwork systems for shape-optimized concrete in large scale construction
… paper presents the results of optimizing the Zip-Form, a digitally fabricated formwork system made from mild steel, designed for forming shape-optimized concrete beams, and its integration with conventional formwork equipment. The study evaluates the structural performance, embodied carbon, …
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Ecologic factors and tick-borne relapsing fever in the western United States: county and zip code analyses
… This study employed ArcGIS to map counties and zip codes with identified cases of TBRF and neighboring control counties and zip codes. A total of 140 counties with reported cases of TBRF, identified in a previous publication, and 243 counties with no reported cases in 12 states were included in …
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Phenotypic and genetic variation in an Apios americana breeding collection; and characterization of the HD-Zip gene family, involved in abiotic stress responses in Glycine max
… of the soybean (Glycine max) homeodomain leucine zipper (HD-Zip) transcription factor family (involved in abiotic stress responses), and identification of candidate genes for dehydration and salt stress. In these projects, next generation sequencing (NGS) is evaluated as a tool for rapidly …
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A máquina de adição bilateral
… Utilizando a estrutura do espaço simbólico Zip, originalmente proposta como uma extensão do shift bilateral, chamada de Zip-Shift, construímos uma extensão específica do odômetro denominada máquina de adição bilateral. Para essa nova classe de sistemas, fornecemos uma caracterização em …
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Decreased Emergency Department Utilization by Lower Socioeconomic Status Population as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic
… status by examining differences in ED volume by zip code stratified by the SocioNeeds Index, a measure of socioeconomic need correlated with poor health outcomes. Our hypothesis was that decrease in patient visits due to the SIPO was not uniform across Dallas County but was based on socioeconomic …
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Predicting the number of potential military recruits over the next ten years with application to recruiter placement
… (2) recruiter assignment histories; (3) station ZIP codes; and (4) predicted populations within each ZIP code. ZIP code-level analysis was performed on more than 4 million records provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). The records consisted of all military applicants (those who …
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Socio-spatial inequalities in late-stage cancer diagnosis in Illinois: spatiotemporal trends and methodological challenges
… methodological challenges surrounding the use of ZIP codes as a study unit in analyzing late-stage cancer at diagnosis. Given that my dissertation follows the ‘three-paper’ format, the abstract section is divided into three parts to describe each paper respectively. The first paper entitled …
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Zipped assembly
… building blocks assemble into chains, are zipped into strands and folded into structures. This thesis is a macroscale implementation that aims to do the same, assemble, zip and fold, in an inorganic system. This system, Zipped, utilizes distributed coalescence of parts, aiming for faster …
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Demand and Capacity Problems in the Next Generation Air Transportation System
… study aims to estimate the potential market for Zip Vehicles, an advanced commuter type of aircraft equipped with automation and electric propulsion technologies. A Multinomial Logit Model was developed to estimate the mode choice behavior of commuters between Zip vehicle, auto and transit in …
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Tornado in Credit Desert: Role of Consumer Credit Access in Disaster Recovery
… approach, I find that borrowers in border zip codes are less likely to be delinquent on mortgage debt, and have a lower drop in credit score in the post-disaster period in comparison with borrowers in center zip codes. The result is consistent with the adverse effects of credit rationing …
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Nebraska federal aid project number 88-C
Zip file contains volumes 2-5, supplementary materials.
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Spatial Distribution of Obesity among West Virginia 5th Grade Children: Analysis of the Socioeconomic, Physical, and Personal Environment
… in age from 10-12 years old with a verifiable zip code for the state of WV. Study indicators used to quantify socioeconomic, physical, and personal environmental attributes were derived from various data sources. Data were gathered for the academic school years of 2007/2008 and 2008/2009. …
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Assessing Maintenance and Management of Infrastructure Systems Using Citizen Reported Service Requests
… requests were compared to socio-economics within zip codes. Zip codes were clustered by four socio-economic variables including median house value, percent of the population with a bachelor's degree, unemployment rate, and percent non-white to represent socio-economic differences between zones in …
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An Examination of Factors that Influence Health Behaviors among Low Income African American Women with Type 2 Diabetes in Memphis, TN: A Qualitative Inquiry Using Mixed Methods
… obesity and type 2 diabetes. In Memphis, TN, the ZIP codes of 38106 and 38109 have the highest rates of diabetes hospitalizations in the city. Further, African American women in Memphis, TN have been identified as being most vulnerable to experiencing a potentially avoidable hospitalization due to …
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Automation Script For Evaluation Of Source Codes
… database name, and .NET version, build status zip files, generate comprehensive reports, and present key metrics on a dashboard.</p> <p>The automation script was implemented in Python, utilizing packages such as os, subprocess, zipfile, re, json5, shutil, and xml.etree.ElementTree. The script …
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The control of embryogenic competence in Alfalfa (Medicago falcata L.)
… lysophospholipase, [PLP]) and gene regulation (bZIP and HD-Zip class transcription factors) were selected for further characterisation. 5' RACE and 3' RACE products of the original clones were sub cloned in order to extend the DNA sequence information. These DNA sequence data were used to search …
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