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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"border crossing"”.
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An Investigation of a Theoretical Zigbee-Based Border Crossing System
Excessive delays at border crossings threaten the mobility of people and trading of goods. The management of transportation infrastructure generally requires continuous and real-time monitoring, formulation, and dissemination of information and guidance to motorists and other parties. This thesis …
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Border-crossing knowledge networking among multinational firms : the case of R&D facilities
(cont.) which is expected, given their additional knowledge resources. The respondents' urgency in looking for the relevant knowledge is the primary explanation for this difference between the two networks. This difference in knowledge networking among the different groups did not result in more …
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Military band musicians on the border: crossing over musical genres in the transnational space of the Korean War
… music for both military and civilian audiences, crossing over the national and cultural borders between the two countries. Locating their experiences within the South Korean and US military music systems and more broadly within their socio-cultural, historical, and transnational context, I …
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Negotiating the border in Song China: foreign policy, border management, and border-crossings, 1005-1122
… thesis discusses the issue of foreign policy, border management, and border-crossing incidents during Song-Liao peacetime (1005-1122). It focuses on one of the earliest borderlines drawn between two great powers of northeast Asia in the eleventh century, the Liao and the Song. This thesis not …
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Becoming Japerican And Amerinese: An Ethnographic Study Of Employees At A Multicultural Workplace
… questions because of my positionality as a "border-crossing" ethnographer/writer, who was a Japanese non-native English speaker and who engaged in ethnographic writing in English. I address border-crossing ethnographic practices while connecting to issues of representation, legitimacy, and …
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Working across cultures in indigenous science education
… process, is examined in relation to the ideas of border crossing and culture brokerage. A number of issues were raised, some through the literature, which became foci for the research. Examination of border crossing indicated that some westerners were successful as cross-cultural communicators but …
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Send my love to Tijuana -- Tijuana sends her love : the transcendental Tijuanense telecommunications bridge to everywhere
… maintaining visibility from the United States Border and the San Ysidro Border crossing, the most heavily trafficked border crossing in the world. There, passage is tightly controlled, extending wait-times to unbearable lengths for even those permitted to cross legally. Nearby, my project …
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Discovering Border Crossings in Pagan Epic Literature
<p>This dissertation argues that border crossings were important to the ancient Celts and Norse as evidenced by the vast quantity of occurrences in their literature,and have remained important themes in literature throughout the ages. Border crossings reflect man's fascination with concepts beyond …
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Studying Regional and Cross Border Freight Movement Activities with Truck GPS Big Data
… associated industry, observed routes, and border crossing time/location if the trip was international. The processed trips derived from GPS data are applied towards a better understanding of inter-regional and cross-border truck movements. This area is underrepresented due to the …
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An assessment of U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking
… by U.S. motor carriers engaged in cross-border trade to and from Mexico. The quality of transportation service is investigated via an assessment of U.S. motor carriers' evaluation of their Mexican motor carriers' partner(s) performance and quality of service. Additionally, U.S. motor …
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Santo Toribio: The Rise of a Saint
… He places the pain and social distortion of Border crossing in Roman Catholic contexts of holiness and divine intervention. This thesis begins to catalog and analyze the nature of Santo Toribio's unofficial patronage.</p>
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“I, Too, Am an Occupied Territory”: Border Crossings and Personal Sovereignty in Three Novels by Dominican American Women
<p>Border crossing(s) and personal sovereignty are intimately and complexly connected in novels by and about Dominican American women. Through readings of In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez, Dominicana by Angie Cruz, and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, I argue that patriarchal forms of …
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Cultivating Global Citizenship? Life In Transit
This study explores my border crossing experience among and between cultures. Although a large portion of my narrative addresses my time living as a Fulbright grantee in Latvia, this study is much more than a solitary six-month sojourn. It is a lifelong journey and an attempt to understand what is …
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A new perspective for creating geographic products for drug interdiction
… Products such as likely trafficking routes, border crossing observation points, and potential processing plant locations represent combinations of geographic and intelligence data which would be assets in drug interdiction. The approach described in this paper is significant in that it …
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Migrant-Funded Development: The Influence of Mexican Hometown Associations on Development Indicators
… on individual migrant experiences, including border-crossing methods, jobs held, and participation in migrant hometown associations, amenities found in individual households, and available services in communities. No support was found for the first hypothesis, which predicted that relative …
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Coping Behaviors of Day Laborers in San Mateo, California
… areas: sample and timeframe, family separation, border crossing, perception studies, quantitative and qualitative case studies.</p>
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The Lamb
… takes them prisoner, attaching himself to their border crossing plan. In the end, Eddie has to come to terms with how evil his father is and throws him from a moving car, allowing him and his mother to escape.
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From Margins to the Center Through the Film Lens: Gender and Turkish-German Cinema
… of Migrant Cinema explores issues of memory, border crossing, third space, masculinity in crisis, homosexuality, assimilation, integration, and women as the embodiment of the homeland. Utilizing mainly feminist and feminist film theory, along with Marxist and Marxist Feminist theories as well …
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Leveraging the Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area to Address Trade Facilitation Challenges in Southern African Borders
… intraregional trade. Incorporating evidence from border crossing reviews, and key informant interviews of trade facilitation experts and practitioners in the SADC region, the study undertakes a detailed inductive thematic analysis of the SADC cross-border environment to investigate the potential …
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