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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"active agents"”.
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Designing (with) Trees: Active Agents in Architectural Production
This thesis embarks on a multifaceted exploration of the relationship between urban trees, architectural representation, and the legal framework governing their existence, with a particular focus on tree hearings in Boston as a platform for this study. Against the backdrop of capitalist influences …
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Studies on the Adsorption of Surface Active Agents by Staphylococcus Aureus
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Typographic performance : continuous design solutions as emergent behaviors of active agents
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Heroines, victims and survivors: female minors as active agents in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts
… thesis analyses the representations of girls as active agents in fictional films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts. Representations of these girls are located within local and global contexts, and viewed through an intersectional lens that sees girls as trebly marginalised as …
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The ground and excited state molecular structure of model systems undergoing photochemical processes and the characterization of active agents by means of vibrational spectroscopy and theoretical calculations
… photochemical processes and pharmaceutically active compounds, respectively. Infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopy were applied for the characterization of the ground state molecular structure. Moreover, resonance Raman (RR) spectra contain additional information about the resonantly enhanced …
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The Wancho of northeast India in the 1970s and 1980s: Individuals and structures in a study of change
… and which accommodates a view of individuals as active agents in societal transformation.
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The Socialization of the 2003 United States of America Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team
… of wheelchair basketball to closely consider the active agents and agencies in their recruitment of athletes for the sport. Additionally, the study noted a need to pass along valuable information about wheelchair basketball.
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Black Reconstruction in Norfolk, Virginia, 1861-1870: the struggle for change
… realms. This study shows Norfolk blacks were active agents whose actions shaped the course of Reconstruction in their city.
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Delft Campus Of Schools - A Network Of Educational Offerings
… my Honour year investigations of the youth as active agents in the urban environment, this Masters dissertation looks at youth development through an educational lens.
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Enantioselective (Formal) Aza-Diels-Alder Reactions with Danishefsky's Diene and Non-Danishefsky Type Dienes
… are found in natural products and medicinally active agents. As a direct result, efforts to develop enantioselective diene-imine (aza-Diels-Alder) reactions to efficiently access these substructures have increased. We have developed highly enantioselective silicon Lewis acid mediated formal …
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Pharmacologic investigation of the anti-inflammatory activity of cryogenine and selected benzoquinolizine derivatives
… apparent in recent years that many centrally active agents possess potential anti-inflammatory capabilities. The central or peripheral mechanisms of action for these agents have not been delineated nor has their clinical efficacy baan established or refuted. The centrally active drugs, …
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Translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of diffusion of planned lexical innovations: The francophone case
… translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of planned lexical innovations promoted by the French government. The two major research questions were: (a) whether there are relationships between sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and socioprofessional variables and reported adoption, …
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Projective Citizenship--The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American Poetry
… of the citizen, conceiving of citizens as active agents rather than passive subjects.
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Bacterial coagulation by a chlorinated solvent
… from room temperature. S. proper surface active agents aided in the coagulation of bacteria in the solvent ooagulation process. 6. Almost all of the bacteria in suspension after the coagulation process were not viable. 7. Good removals were observed using the solvent coagulation process on …
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The immanent life of things : embodiment, materiality, and agency in Virginia Woolf’s “A sketch of the past,” and To the lighthouse
… entities participate in such human phenomena as active agents, sorting and regulating them -- either in/via the human memory, or through the ways in which human emotions are channelled. In order to demonstrate the affective and embodied intimations by which material entities are attributed agency …
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The amino acid and monosaccharide content of the cell walls of Thiobacillus thiooxidans
… Type Culture Collection Number 8085. The surface active agents Tergitol 08 and Tween 80 were investigated for their ability to reduce the lag period found in the growth of T. thiooxidans. Although a concentration of 12.5 ppm Tween 80 did decrease the lag period, the use of these surfactants was …
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Brave new forms: Adaptation, remediation, and intertextuality in the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret
… once-passive readers and spectators into active agents in the intellectual and creative process of interpretation. This thesis examines the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret—the hybrid graphic novel, the film adaptation, and the novel’s official website—in an effort to better understand how …
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Complementary use of computer simulations and molecular-thermodynamic theory to model surfactant and solubilizate self-assembly
Surfactants, or surface active agents, are used in many pharmaceutical, industrial, and environmental applications. Selection of the appropriate surfactant or mixture of surfactants for any given application is driven by the need to control bulk solution micellization and solubilization …
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The Everyday Breakaway: Participant Perspectives of Everyday Life Within a Sport for Development and Peace Program
… objectivity as beneficiaries of development, to “active” agents in their every day lives. This dissertation presents the dramatic processual complexities of ‘choice,’ or lack of choice, for participants in a sport for development program. By using their bodies, cyclists from within this particular …
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