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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"both/and"”.
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Factors contributing to young worker ATOD use both and off the job
… found stronger relationships between ATOD use and workplace factors when ATOD use was measured on and off the job separately. To isolate on the job factors from off the job ATOD use, participants were asked to complete daily diary entries regarding their workday. It was predicted that workers …
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‘Both/and rather than either/or’: an insight into the real-life experiences of Asian/Irish youth in contemporary Irish society
This research investigates and analyses the factors that influence the lived experiences and identity negotiations of young people, who have grown up in Ireland, in families with mixed-ethnicity. Unlike research on this conducted previously in Ireland, it focuses on young people who have one Asian …
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To both/and, either/or, in-between, and beyond! Queering the normative construction of entrepreneurship for the inclusion of queer entrepreneurs.
… of entrepreneurship as a neutral, meritocratic, and accessible means through which individuals are free to realise their socioeconomic potential has been challenged. The entrepreneurship literature is dominated by a narrow stereotype of the entrepreneur (white, neoliberal, Western, male, …
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“Cookie Mom-ster,” “Mom in Chief,” and “Sugar Mommy” : [de-] constructing ideal femininty of Presidential candidate wives
… the trend that began two decades ago, in 2012 both Ann Romney and Michelle Obama delivered speeches at the Republic National Convention (RNC) and Democratic National Convention (DNC) respectively. Prompting a continued study of the first lady include not only Michelle Obama’s self-titled …
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The Renaissance Reception of Terence: Grueninger's Editions of Terence, Strasbourg, 1496/1499
… the play for readers. However, the frontispieces and texts are a distorting lens in two respects. The central mediating characters are often very minor characters in the plays themselves, and Terentian ambiguity is systematically ignored. Things are magnified or suppressed to fit the overall …
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Capacities of erasure networks
… at either the transmitters, the receivers, or both; and in the availability of feedback at the transmitters. The crux of this work involves the investigation and analysis of several different performance measures for these networks: traditional information capacity (including multicast capacity …
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Television meets Facebook : social networking through consumer electronics
… the merging of ubiquitous consumer electronics and the sociable web improve the user experience of these devices, increase the functionality of both, and help distribute content in a more sociable way. The project will consist of one well fleshed out principal application: a digital video …
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A Higher-Order Perfectly Matched Layer for Open-Region, Waveguide, and Periodic Electromagnetic Problems
… Using a metric coefficient that includes both the regular and the complex frequency shifted (CFS) PMLs, it is possible to obtain a PML that includes the advantages of both of them. The second-order PML is applied to waveguide, periodic, and open-region electromagnetic problems and its …
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Algorithms to Schedule Tasks With And/or Precedence Constraints
… are completed. We call such a task an AND task. In many applications there are tasks which are ready to execute when some but not all of their predecessors are complete. We call these tasks OR tasks. The resultant task system, containing both AND and OR tasks, is said to have AND/OR …
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Layamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchia
… cultural signifiers in medieval English and Welsh culture and the methods by which the poet adapts and grafts them together to form a culturally amalgamated text—neither explicitly English nor Welsh but yet simultaneously both - and the political implications of this amalgamation. Though …
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The Social Structures of OSINT: Examining Collaboration and Competition in Open Source Intelligence Investigations
… novice sleuths but also by professionals -- in both competitive and collaborative environments. These investigations rely on publicly available information, called open source intelligence (OSINT). However, due to their online nature, OSINT investigations often present coordination, …
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animal vegetable mineral
… This guiding principle, a life spent by the sea, and an enduring fascination with nature’s forms, has resulted in my current body of work. By combining formal references to animals, vegetables and minerals I create intentionally ambiguous ceramic sculptures that seem to exist in the fluid margin …
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animal vegetable mineral
… This guiding principle, a life spent by the sea, and an enduring fascination with nature’s forms, has resulted in my current body of work. By combining formal references to animals, vegetables and minerals I create intentionally ambiguous ceramic sculptures that seem to exist in the fluid margin …
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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
… from an animistic perspective that valued nature and superstition to a humanistic perspective based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates characters that fall on either side of this divide, and he shows humanism triumph over animism when Henry deposes Richard. In …
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Normative discourse and social negotiation
… intersection of philosophy of language, social and political, and feminist philosophy. The first half of the dissertation is primarily about the ways language can be used to stereotype, denigrate, oppress, or otherwise harm. The second half is about how language can be used to resist and …
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Lattice points in disks and strongly convex domains
This thesis examines the history and some major results of the Gauss Circle Problem. The goal of the Gauss Circle Problem is to determine the best bound for the error between the number of lattice points inside a disk and that disks area, otherwise known as the lattice point discrepancy. First we …
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Demography and movements of montain sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) in the Kingston and Clark Mountain ranges, California
… telemetry studies in the eastern Mojave Desert, and concludes that for this purpose, Loran-C has a limited utility. The second chapter defines the demography of mountain sheep (Ovis canadensis) populations in the area of the Kingston and Clark Mountain ranges in the eastern Mojave Desert, …
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A piezo-tunable gigahertz cavity microelectromechanical resonator
… need high-frequency widely-tunable high-Q bandpass filters for channel selection filters and local oscillators. This thesis describes the design, fabrication and testing of a electromagnetic cavity resonator designed for such applications. Alternative technologies provide wide tuning or high …
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Promoting sustainable transportation through the integration of cycling with public transit : lessons from Copenhagen and Munich for Singapore
Sustainable modes of transportation like cycling and public transit are always desired, but trying to achieve a mode shift from the automobile to cycling and public transit can be quite a challenge because cycling and public transit on their own cannot easily replace the convenience and comfort …
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Multivariate Comparison of Experts' Versus Users' Reviews Online
This study aims to compare and contrast professional critics’ movie reviews with those of general public users’ to understand the differences and similarities between both and its effect. This will allow better informed decisions to be made highlighting when and for what ends the use of each type …
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