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The Political Career of Erskine Hamilton Childers, 1905-74
Erskine Hamilton Childers, hereafter cited as Childers, was born on the 11 December 1905 and died during his term as President of Ireland on 17 November 1974. First elected to Dáil Éireann in 1938, Childers successfully contested all subsequent general elections until he resigned his Dáil seat to …
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Narrating Friendship: The reciprocal relationship between J.B. Childers and myself
… of a deceased artist named Joseph Barley "J.B." Childers. In the graduate catalog Gregory Volk summarizes Childers as, "an alienated Korean War Veteran, who took up painting as a refuge from his troubles, and who also doesn't exist. Childers who is naturally right-handed, painted everything …
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Tommy Atkins, War Office Reform and the Social and Cultural Presence of the Late-Victorian Army in Britain, c.1868-1899
… of the ordinary ranks initiated by the Cardwell-Childers Reforms. Venerated in popular culture, Tommy Atkins became a symbol of British imperial strength and heroism. Socially, however, attitudes to the rank-and-file were defined by a pragmatic realism purged of such sentiments, the likes of …
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PERSUASION IN REWARD-BASED CROWDFUNDING: THE ROLE OF VISUAL IMAGE
… Given the picture superiority effect (Childers & Houston, 1984), the research about visual information and text-picture integration is missing. Take restaurant reward-based CF as an example, this research is designed to fill the research voids by answering to the following research …
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Tykkäyksistä ja klikeistä vuoropuheluun : Viestinnän vaikuttavuuden mittaaminen ja arviointi sosiaalisessa mediassa
… tarkastelussa nojaudutaan erityisesti Linda Childers Honin ja James E. Grunigin sidosryhmäsuhteiden mittaamista koskevaan tutkimukseen, jonka pohjalta suhdetoiminnan mittaamista on hahmotettu myös sosiaalisen median osalta. Myös Grunigin muuta tutkimusta koskien suhdetoimintaa on hyödynnetty. …
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Where the Zigzags go: a microhabitat analysis for the Plethodon dorsalis complex within the Tennessee River gorge
Understudied high-biomass animals such as the Northern Zigzag salamander (Plethodon dorsalis) are known contributors to essential nutrient cycles within their respective habitats. Knowing that these sensitive creatures serve as bioindicators for the overall health and quality of many ecosystems, we …
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Fully Integrated Modular and Mixed-Scale Systems for Processing the Molecular Cargo of Liquid Biopsy Markers
Precision medicine is the concept of delivering the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time. However, accessibility to precision medicine is still a major challenge. The field of distributive medicine aims to rectify this by creating biomedical solutions that increase access to …
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Studies on Gopala-Hemachandra Codes and their Applications
Gopala-Hemachandra codes are a variation of the Fibonacci universal code and have applications in data compression and cryptography. We study a specific parameterization of Gopala-Hemachandra codes and present several results pertaining to these codes. We show that GH_{a}(n) always exists for any n …
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X-ray Radiative Signatures Influenced by Nonthermal Effects in High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasmas of Mid-Atomic-Number Z-pinches
Spectroscopy is a powerful utility for noninvasive investigation of high-energy-density (HED) plasma environments with broad application to atomic physics, astrophysics, and HED laboratory physics, including inertial confinement fusion (ICF), making it an inimitable tool for interdisciplinary …
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Counselor Expectation Effects on Disability Referrals
The problem. Client cases referred to vocational rehabilitation from Social Security Disability Determination Services are found eligible at a much lower rate than cases from other referral sources. This might be due to a negative attitude of vocational rehabilitation counselors toward referrals …
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Examining the Relationship Between Academic Optimism and Successful School Leadership in Title I Public Schools in Rural South Alabama
This research investigates the relationship between successful school leadership and academic optimism, a top predictor of student achievement, in rural Title I public schools in South Alabama. Researchers analyze the construct of academic optimism which includes academic emphasis, collective …
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Scale, ecological fallacy, and the river continuum concept
Concern over scale is not new, and it is not restricted to geographers. Spatial and temporal scaling is a conceptual and methodological problem for all sciences using geographic information. This paper teases out issues of scale and ecological fallacy from the literature and discusses how these …
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Attitude Change Over Time: A Study of Adjacent Landowners Along the Frisco Highline Greenway Trail, Greene and Polk Counties, Missouri
The practice of converting abandoned railroad lines into public recreational greenways has become a popular planning technique over the past two decades. This method of developing public recreational opportunities is supported by many citizens but opposed by others. The objective of this study is …
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Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860
The doctrine of popular sovereignty emerged as a potential solution to the crisis over slavery in the territories because it removed the issue from the halls of Congress. Most historians have focused on its development and implementation beginning in the late 1840s and culminating with passage of …
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Subgroups of the Torelli group
Let Mod(Sg) be the mapping class group of an orientable surface of genus g, Sg. The action of Mod(Sg) on the homology of Sg induces the well-known symplectic representation: <BR> <BR> <center>Mod(Sg) ---> Sp(2g, Z).</center> <BR> The kernel of this representation is called the Torelli group, I(Sg). …
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Biodata: A Thing of the Past? Examining the Predictibe Validity and User Reactions of Rationally-Selected, Empirically Keyed Biodata
HR professionals often fail to implement the best selection practices (Rynes, Colbert, & Brown, 2002), proving very costly to organizations. Biodata inventories represent one selection tool that is underutilized, due to being poorly understood and fear of negative user reactions (Hausknecht, Day, & …
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Hybridization of Four Species of Sunfishes (Centrarchidae)
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