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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"arduous"”.
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WORK SHIFT FOOD DELIVERY STRATEGIES DURING ARDUOUS WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION
… Work shift food delivery strategies during arduous wildfire suppression Chairperson: Dr. Blakely Brown Co-Chairperson: Dr. Steve Gaskill PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to compare two isocaloric feeding strategies for wildland firefighters (WLFF) on total kcal and macronutrient (e.g. …
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WORK SHIFT FOOD DELIVERY STRATEGIES DURING ARDUOUS WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION
… Work shift food delivery strategies during arduous wildfire suppression Chairperson: Dr. Blakely Brown Co-Chairperson: Dr. Steve Gaskill PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to compare two isocaloric feeding strategies for wildland firefighters (WLFF) on total kcal and macronutrient (e.g. …
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Searching for an Answer: A Humanbecoming Research Study
… disparate affiliations, and enduring amid the arduous. The answer to the research question is searching for an answer is bewildering contemplation emerging with the unease-ease of disparate affiliations while enduring amid the arduous. Contributions for this study include new knowledge for …
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The Backgrounds and Outcomes of Allopathic Medical School Applicants: Exploring Stratification and Inequality
… in medicine remains one of the most rigorous and arduous journeys in higher education. The time and cost to train coupled with the academic and extracurricular requirements have resulted in challenges in diversifying the profession. This study utilizes an HLM and HGLM to model the influences of …
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Scrambling for Care: Autism in Rural America
… diagnosis and intervention has always been arduous, but families in small towns with limited access to healthcare services are at a much greater disadvantage. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the surge in virtual services for autism has offered clinicians and researchers a unique opportunity to …
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Data-mining natural language materials syntheses
… designing, and developing a novel material is an arduous task, involving countless hours of human effort and ingenuity. While some aspects of this process have been vastly accelerated by the advent of first-principles-based computational techniques and high throughput experimental methods, a vast …
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Development of an Intervention to Reduce Psychological Distress in Post-Treatment Upper GI Cancer Patients and Family Carers
… curative treatment, associated with an arduous post-surgical recovery and sustained impact on health related quality of life. However, as with many cancers of the digestive tract, there has been a dearth of research into the impact of the diagnosis and treatment on the patient’s …
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The local-global principle in number theory
… can be resolved, if at all, only by deep and arduous methods ". -- J. W. S. Cassels The first Local-Global Principle, formulated by Hasse in 1921, relates the behaviour of rational quadratic forms in [Special characters omitted.] (global field) to their behaviour in the p -adic fields [Special …
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The iLab Debugging Service Broker : a module for facilitating development of online laboratories
… debugging new labs under this architecture is an arduous process. The primary reason behind this is the use of Web services for communication. No standard tools exist for debugging Web services, so this naturally adds to the system's complexity. The Debugging Service Broker, a new implementation …
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Building blocks for regenerative medicine : vascularized models and immunomodulation to engineer hepatic cell therapies
… solid organ systems like the liver is an arduous task and faces many challenges. This thesis sought to address two of these challenges: hepatocyte (liver parenchymal cell) sourcing and immune compatibility. The main hurdle in primary human hepatocyte sourcing is the loss of regenerative …
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A whole new world: the experiences of adolescents with beta-thalassemia major as they transition to adult care
… illness management requires adherence to arduous medical treatment to ensure a life free of life-threatening complications. This qualitative study characterizes the experiences of adolescents living with, and managing b-TM on the cusp of transitioning from pediatric to adult orientated …
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Vessel : a lightweight container for network analysis
… performance, some of these tools are outdated or arduous to easily use. The primary contribution of this thesis is Vessel, a tool to supplement existing tools with per-connection instrumentation, improving the ability to perform network analysis tests while providing sufficiently detailed …
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rMPI : an MPI-compliant message passing library for tiled architectures
… have evolved to help the programmer with this arduous task, from standardized shared memory and message passing application programming interfaces, to automatically parallelizing compilers that attempt to achieve performance and correctness similar to that of hand-coded programs. One of the …
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Examining Tantalum-Based Photocatalysts for Photoinactivation of E. coli
… photoinactivate E. coli, but quantification is arduous and challenging. Current laboratory constraints including access to better analytical tools made it difficult to evaluate the hypothesis effectively. Further experiments must be conducted in a controlled manner to verify the results seen in …
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An evaluation of states’ delivery of substance abuse treatment
… are forced to grapple with the progressively arduous task of administering substance abuse treatment programs. Using the Open Systems Model, this research examines external and internal environmental factors that influence goal displacement as it is hypothesized to occur in states’ treatment …
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Análise e superação de algumas dificuldades na calibração automática do modelo SMAP-II - versão suavizada
… The calibration is one of the most difficult and arduous phases in the simulation process. This work analyses the difficulties encountered in the automatic calibration of the SMAP-II model, smoothing version. A possible interdependence between the parameters of the channel phase and the runnoff …
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Machine perception and learning of complex social systems
… complex social systems has traditionally been an arduous process, involving extensive surveys, interviews, ethnographic studies, or analysis of online behavior. Today, however, it is possible to use the unprecedented amount of information generated by pervasive mobile phones to provide insights …
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Applying Information Visualization Techniques to Visual Debugging
… inevitable, and tools that assist in this often-arduous task become very important with respect to reducing the cost of debugging as well as the cost of the software life cycle as a whole. Many tools exist with this aim, but all are lacking in a key area: information visualization. Applying …
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Estrategia de sensibilización para evitar la deserción escolar de niñas y niños de nivel primario a través del proyecto "Pienso, opino y participo" de Global Humanitaria Perú
… On the other hand, teachers have been doing an arduous task for their students to continue with their daily learning, many times without success, which causes demotivation on both sides. Faced with this scenario, the Global Humanitaria Peru association has been working on a project called: "I …
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A Case Study in Nineteenth Century Medicine: Robert Ellett's Medical Practice, 1850-1904
… gradually thrived despite operating within an arduous social and geographic environment. Initially Ellett's entrance into Montgomery County society depended solely upon his elite stature and adherence to their established "common interests." However, as time passed his identity became …
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