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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"back-in-time"”.
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Looking back in time, staring into history: an autobiographical sketch of an elementary school teacher from Appalachia
Filled with both painful and joyful memories, curious turning point moments, strange epiphanies and numerous significant others, this autobiographical sketch is the story of an oppressed young man from Appalachia who shunned his roots searching for answers. Ethnographically, it is the study and …
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PECCit: An Omniscient Debugger for Web Development
<p>Debugging can be an extremely expensive and time-consuming task for a software developer. To find a bug, the developer typically needs to navigate backwards through infected states and symptoms of the bug to find the initial defect. Modern debugging tools are not designed for navigating …
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Ruby's Eyes, a Novel Excerpt
… first part of the story will set up Ruby's place in her family, her struggle with her identity and her fascination with her house. The focus will gradually shift from present to past as Ruby travels back in time and meets her great-grandparents. In this past world, Ruby will make discoveries that …
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ANOMALIES ZERO and BRIGHTWOOD (Two Screenplays)
… ZERO</strong></p> <p><strong>SYNOPSIS</strong> : In a world of designer babies, one infant, preordained to become an ultramarathon champion, wins race after race. His rival, a “natural” whose genes have traversed down through generations of ancient tribesmen, faces him head to head in a world-wide …
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"Between Illusion and Reality": Presentations of the Past in Canadian Streetscape Exhibits
Since Canada’s first streetscape exhibit opened in the British Columbia Provincial Museum in 1972, visitors have immersed themselves in partial historical narratives. Built up with half-sized façades inspired by historical buildings and staged with historical artifacts to make the settings appear …
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Faust and Fust: A case of mistaken identities
This thesis explores the confusion of the book printer Fust with the semi-legendary figure Dr. Johann Faustus. The primary prupose has been to show the development of this confusion prior to the publication of Friedrick maximilian von Klinger's novel Fausts Leben, Thaten und Hollenfahrt in 1791. …
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En búsqueda del equilibrio entre la protección de datos personales, el deber de transparencia y el derecho de acceso a la información pública
… data protection rights and access to public information has done so by addressing specific needs, according to its own socio-historical cultural context; and Peru is no exception. To fully understand the protection of these rights and determine the criteria with which a sufficient balance …
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El Ritmo del Westside: Exploring the Musical Landscape of San Antonio’s Historic Westside
… throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s, demonstrating the results of cross-cultural exchanges reflected in music. From Conjunto and Ranchera music, to R&B and Jazz, a wide range of music genres was celebrated in the historic westside, eventually shaping the birth of the area’s own Westside Sound, …
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Passive mobile robot localization within a fixed beacon field
… algorithm for the localization of mobile nodes in networks of sensors and robots using bounded regions, in particular we explore the range-only and angle-only measurement cases. The algorithm is a minimalistic approach to localization and tracking when dead reckoning is too inaccurate to be …
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Neural Activity During Human Episodic Memory Encoding and Retrieval
… literary history, the ability to travel in time has been a source of wonder and amusement. Why this fascination with moving through time? One reason may be that people are especially attuned to the concept of time travel because we each possess our own personal mental time machine: …
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Graduate Recital, Cello
The program of my Masters Recital is an integration of many different styles of music, while containing an underlying theme of nonstandard repertoire from composers representing countries typically unassociated with the production of classical music. The first piece, Malinconia, was written by …
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Detection of positive selection resulting from Nevirapine treatment in longitudinal HIV-1 reverse transcriptase sequences
Nevirapine (NVP) is a cheap anti-retroviral drug used in poor countries worldwide, administered to pregnant women at the onset of labour to inhibit HIV enzyme reverse transcriptase. Viruses which may get transmitted to newborns are deficient in this enzyme, and HIV-1 infection cannot be …
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Fabrication of an Apparatus for All-Optical Production of Metastable Krypton
… Trace Analysis (ATTA) has made radiokrypton dating of polar ice and groundwater samples a possibility for scientists all over the world, allowing them to date samples further back in time and more accurately than other methods. However, this technique is hampered by the 36-hour cleaning process …
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Modeling of Potential Historical Tsunamis from Large Earthquakes in the Izu-Bonin Mariana Subduction Zone
<p>The Izu-Bonin Mariana (IBM) subduction zone is an over 3000-km long oceanic-oceanic convergence zone with no instrumental record of great subduction-zone earthquakes (M<sub>w</sub> > 8.0). Due to the lack of great earthquakes and the oceanic-oceanic subduction style, previous researchers have …
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Conflicting Perspectives of Socioeconomic Change and the Pan - Africanist Ideal of Self-Determination, 1912 - 2002
This dissertation interrogates the debate on socioeconomic change in Africa post 1912. It examines the leading currents of thought on what is now popularly termed as development, starting with New Institutional Economics (NIE). Focusing on NIE, it contrasts recent policy implications maintained in …
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Listening through the cracks
Kyne is an outsider: a white, Danish girl, living in a country where the majority are blacks and the few whites are English. Her sentiments of belonging and integration are lost when her family's farms are taken away by the dictatorship government in 2004. The country, Zimbabwe, spirals out of …
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Application of a New Tree-Ring Based Drought Reconstruction Method at Multiple Forest Sites Across Indiana, U.S.A.
… research used techniques of dendrochronology to investigate the efficacy of using multiple co-occurring species (MCOS) in a climate reconstruction model compared to a single species (SS) in four old-growth forests in Indiana: Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest (PM), Donaldson Woods (DW), Hoot Woods …
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Test-driven fault navigation for debugging reproducible failures
… of software failures tends to be very cost-intensive because their debugging is an often time-consuming development activity. During this activity, developers largely attempt to understand what causes failures: Starting with a test case that reproduces the observable failure they have to …
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Physical control of the distributions of a key Arctic copepod in the northeast Chukchi Sea
… is one of the most important zooplankton taxa in the Arctic shelf seas where it serves as a key grazer, predator, and food source. Its summer distribution and abundance have direct effects on much of the food web, from blooming phytoplankton to migrating bowhead whales. The Chukchi Sea …
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Evaluating the efficacy of Tridacna derasa and Hippopus hippopus for measuring ENSO signatures in Palau
Tridacna shells are valuable archives in paleoclimate research due to their incremental growth bands, which record environmental conditions such as sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity through variations in oxygen isotopes (δ18O). Their potential for reconstructing past climate variability …
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