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Clean Break
Clean Break is a feature-length screenplay about a pool hustler named Jimmy Grey and Blake, Jimmy’s threemonth pregnant girlfriend. The couple attempt to take one last vacation before the baby arrives. On the evening before their departure, Jimmy makes an errant move in placing a large bet against …
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Break-Even Volatility
… to price the option and implement the hedges. Break-even volatility is a method of solving for the volatility which yields no profit or loss based on replicating the hedging procedure of an option on a historical share price time series. This dissertation investigates the traditional break-even …
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Snacks Saludables. ARCOR Natural Break
Para Arcor el proyecto bajo análisis consiste en el desarrollo de un nuevo segmento de SNACKS SALUDABLES elaborados a partir de la combinación de frutos secos, semillas, frutas deshidratadas y cereales, categoría conocida mundialmente como TRAIL MIX / NUTS. Dicha oportunidad surge por un lado a …
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Characterizing the dam break release
… thus understanding the nature of a dam break is of utmost importance. A model of a dam break was built and used to profile the resulting wave. The gate release was characterized to check for consistency, maximum velocity, and it's profile. Matlab code was created to analyze both the gate …
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The Break Between Taft and Roosevelt
During the years that Mr. Taft was Solicitor General of the United States, it was a most соmmоп sight to see a thin, energetic man rush into the solicitor's Office with his white teeth gleaming and shout some idea at the man behind the desk. Thus, in 1800, while Mr. Roosevelt was Civil Service …
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Spring Break: The Economic, Socio-Cultural and Public Governance Impacts of College Students on Spring Break Host Locations
Spring Break, which has been transformed from a rather mild mid-winter vacation to a cultural rite over the past seventy-years, allows students to bring their values en masse to the host locations they visit. While only visiting these locales for a short time, college students nonetheless …
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The Molecular Mechanism of Break Induced Replication
DNA double strand break (DSB) is one of the most threatening of all types of DNA damages as it leads to a complete breakage of the chromosome. The cell has evolved several mechanisms to repair DSBs, one of which is break-induced replication (BIR). BIR repair of DSBs occurs through invasion of one …
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Algorithm to enable intelligent rail break detection
… factor. The intensity factor corresponds to break-no break information and can now be used as a feature to classify the vertical acceleration as a fault or no fault. Support Vector Machines (SVM) is used for this binary classification task. SVM is chosen as it is a well-studied topic with …
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Steady state sifting of first break wheat stock
Typescript (photocopy).
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Steady state sifting of first break wheat stock
Typescript (photocopy).
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Field scale trials of a geosynthetic capillary break
… product, a geosynthetic capillary break (GCB). The GCB was developed for use in engineered soil covers when a cover incorporating a capillary break effect would be desirable, but the coarse-grained material (gravel or sand) is unavailable or uneconomical. Engineered soil covers aim …
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Break-even volatility for caps, floors and swaptions
This dissertation investigates break-even volatility in the context of the South African interest rate market. Introduced by Dupire (2006), break-even volatility is a retrospective measure defined as the volatility that ensures the profit or loss from a delta hedged option position is zero. …
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Studies on break detection in financial time series volatility
… the performance of a CUSUM type statistic for break detection. In particular, we study the statistical properties of a non-parametric approach for single and multiple breaks detection by employing a large number of different long run variance estimators and different types of breaks. However it …
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Design for Relationship Break Ups: Curation of Digital Possessions
… a romantic relationship ends in a break up, separation, or divorce, the digital possessions that once connected partners in a positive way become responsible for maintaining a connection that no longer accurately reflects the ex-partners’ relationship status. The persistence of …
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Break free : building a critique of social marketing theory
This study develops a critique of approaches to persuasive social change known as social marketing. The focus is on social marketing's theoretical underpinnings of social change, motivation and media effects, and how these influence the development and implementation of social change communications …
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When governments break contracts : foreign firms in emerging economies
… on emerging economy governments to honor or break contracts with foreign firms. I find that foreign firms' national origins play a key role in their contract sanctity. Firms of the same nationality are more likely to share political risks thanks to a variety of institutional and historical …
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Dam break risk assessment in Baker Valley (Chilean Patagonia)
… flooding caused by a dam failure. A dam break risk assessment was performed for the so called Baker 2, a proposed concrete gravitational dam located on the Rio Baker, upstream the small community of Caleta Tortel, an area of concern for potential flooding. Using ORSA Code, software …
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Beint flug Super Break til Akureyrar : væntingar farþega og upplifun
… sýnilegur, þar sem að ferðaskrifstofan Super Break hefur hafið beint millilandaflug inn á svæðið frá Bretlandi. Meginmarkmið rannsóknarinnar er að skoða viðhorf og væntingar farþega Super Break á dvöl þeirra á Norðurlandi eystra og hvort væntingum þeirra sé mætt. Til þess að fá svör við þessum …
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Double-Strand Break Repair Mechanisms in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
… form of DNA damage is the DNA double-strand break (DSB), which is managed by cells through complex mechanisms, designated the DNA damage response. There are two major types of DSB repair; homologous recombination repair (HRR) and non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), both of which are regulated …
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