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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"boots"”.
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The Man with the Blue Boots
The story is written for both children and adults. It is a story of friendship, self-discovery, and childish enthusiasm. I wrote this story in response to a strong friendship, full of creative energy and imagination. This friendship reminded me to keep actively dreaming and creating. Things that …
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Changing Ideological Boots: Adaptive Legislator Behavior in Changing Districts
Congressional roll-call votes are often used to investigate legislative voting behavior. To depict adaptive roll-call behavior in response to demographic changes that occur during redistricting, I use issue specific interest group scores from the ADA, NFU, and COPE. This exploits the bias in the …
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Walking Through the Progressive Era in the Jenness Miller Boots
… Miller (1895-1939) and the Jenness Miller Boots she created. My research examines shoe reform, sheds light on Annie Jenness Miller as a reformer, and the shoes she constructed. Jenness Miller was a dress reformer who believed that fashion should be 'hygienic' and comfortable for women. She …
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An investigation of the forces within the tibiae at typical blast loading rates : with different boots
… the lower tibia load cell shows that the combat boots mitigate the peak tibia force and delay the time to peak force. However, the results from the upper tibia load cell show that the boots did not reduce high-severity force, but only the delays the time-to-peak force. The upper tibia load cell …
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Vývoj lyžařské obuvi od počátků lyžování až po současnost
Title: Development of ski boots from the beginning of skiing to the present Objectives: The aim of the bachelor thesis is to create a comprehensive and chronological development of ski boots used in various forms of skiing from the beginning to the present. Methods: The thesis has a historical …
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THE EFFECTS OF SHOE TYPE ON BIOMECHANICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO STEPPING AND INCLINED WALKING
… to examine the effect of hiking shoes and hiking boots on the biomechanical responses to a stepping task and physiological responses to an inclined walking task. Participants (n = 16) performed six two minute stepping trials at a stepping rate of 72 bpm; three trials in hiking boots and three …
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Efficacy of Wearable Therapies on the Ability to Improve Performance and Physical Health in Sport Horses
… to tear or rupture. Protective wraps or boots are typically applied to the distal limb prior to exercise to prevent superficial injury from the environment or interference. However, these preventatives can trap heat against the skin which can have detrimental effects on the fibroblasts …
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Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy
… and Frederic Jameson about Van Gogh's A Pair of Boots creates an intertextual framework for examining the connection between Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and William Faulkner's Light in August. This examination demonstrates that Cormac McCarthy provides a sophisticated aesthetic and moral …
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Impacts on Balance When Walking in Occupational Footwear
… 3 different types of occupational footwear: Work Boots (WB) (mass 0.39±0.06 kg), Tactical Boots (TB) (mass 0.53±0.08 kg) and Low Top Boots (LT) (mass 0.89±0.05 kg) with a minimum of 72 hours of rest between conditions. Balance dependent variables were evaluated using a 3 x 9 (Footwear [WB v. TB v. …
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Landscape and Society in Orkney during the First Millennium BC
… in one of two schools; one rooted in a ‘muddy boots’ approach to landscape archaeology which centres on the empirical collection and analysis of data; and a second more theoretically driven approach, which draws heavily on phenomenology to consider the ways in which people would have dwelt …
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Ixion's wheel: Masculinity and the figure of the circle in the novels of Charles Dickens
… pretty lips, rings, necklaces, fur ringed boots, as well as the grinding wheels and gears of the legal system. As Dickens's career progresses, the novels become more and more haunted by the sense that the magic circle of personal fantasy is inhabited by the violent, whirling motion of the …
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Design of an endoskeleton ski boot
The design of ski boots changed continually from the 1950's until the 1980's, at which point ski boot manufactures started making a plastic shell around a soft liner. This design, which hasn't changed significantly in the last three decades, has a few underlying problems that prohibit it from ever …
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A classification of the dress of heavy metal music groups using content analysis
… The primary shoes observed were western boots. Straight, shoulder-length black or blond hair with no head covering was predominant. Beards, makeup, tattooing, and other forms of corporal adornment were observed. Although some dress categories were dominated by single items, changes were …
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A Collection of My Work
… Maiden and the Horse or How the Horse got its Boots”, a poem written in blank verse. The analysis was presented at a week-long intensive at Dominican in January 2022.</p> <p>After the analysis of the poem, I present a copy of a workshop given at Dominican in October of 2021, entitled “The …
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A Comparison of Feedforward versus Feedback Interventions for Safety Self-Management in Mining Operations
… and five non-target behaviors (gloves, hard hat, boots, knee position during lifts, body position during lifts) across phases. Results showed the safety self-management intervention significantly increased safety performance across both target and non-target behaviors during the Intervention phase.
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Comparing Women In Substance Abuse Treatment Who Report Sexual And/Or Physical Abuse With Women Who Do Not Report Abuse History
This descriptive study explored whether women in substance abuse treatment who report a history of sexual and/or physical abuse have different drug use profiles than women who do not report such abuse. The data originated from a NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) study designed to evaluate the …
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The resolution by elementary principals of incongruencies in teacher and assistant superintendent expectations for leader behavior as inferred from self and teacher perceptions of actual leader behavior: a case study
The purpose of the study was to investigate sent-role conflicts in expected leader behavior of elementary principals and whether the Real leader behavior of those principals more closely approximated that behavior expected by teachers or their immediate superior, an assistant superintendent. Three …
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An Urban Dwelling Place for Farmers
… neo-farmer may be the practice of cleaning off boots and placing them in lockers before returning home after a long work day.
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A social constructivist grounded theory exploration into the impacts of infant sleeplessness on ‘normal’ experiences within the transition to motherhood
… deserve systematic and compassionate support” (Boots Family Trust, p.1), with particular reference to early relationship formation, and to encourage opportunities for translation from multidisciplinary research into practice. Method: Five semi-structured interviews were conducted. Four with …
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