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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"courier"”.
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Courier of Souls
<p>Abriel is a courier in a world plagued by curses cast by spiteful deities, and the only safe haven from curses are the roads themselves, which cause curses to burn. Following in her father’s footsteps, she strives to match his skills as a courier, and respect the legacy of her adoptive father, …
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The Making of a Victorian Newspaper during a Period of Social Change
… deals with the origins of The Daily Telegraph & Courier, during a period of social change, under the direction of two successive proprietors from 1855 to 1865. Extensive research was undertaken to examine the proprietors’ control of the newspaper - with particularly significant findings on the …
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Analysis of a diagnostics firm's pre-analytical processes
… through an analysis of phlebotomy services, courier route planning, and specimen accessioning to find precisely the source and cause of challenges preventing Quest from achieving their turnaround time goals. Prior to this research, Quest hypothesized that their logistics network could provide …
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Editorial reaction of selected major Indiana daily newspapers to a national controversy : the Truman, MacArthur conflict
… base.Of the five newspapers, the Evansville Courier was one of two that retained a consistently rational outlook toward the American scene during the Truman-MacArthur conflict. It took the position early that the Korean War should not be expanded, that the chance of an expanding war with …
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Meal Delivery Optimisation for the Restaurant Chain
… we underscore the significance of integrating courier resources along the chain in the SOCSS to allow couriers to pickup new meal orders from different restaurants of the chain, and for the first time design a novel Branch-and-Price-and-Cut (BPC) approach by introducing an adaptive implicit …
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A Study of How Four Black Newspapers Covered the U.S. Masters Tournament 1994 through 2001.
… two from the North, the <em>New Pittsburgh Courier</em> and the <em>Chicago Defender</em>, and two from the South, the <em>Atlanta Voice</em> and the <em>Birmingham Times</em>. It is my contention that U.S. Masters coverage in the aforementioned black papers is dependent upon the presence of …
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Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879
… the editors of the local newspaper, the Clarke Courier, encouraged the restoration of white supremacy with their negative writing about African Americans. White concerns about potential black challenges to their political and social supremacy created cultural space for African Americans to …
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Choosing transportation alternatives for highly perishable goods
… alternatives currently used: ground courier, FedEx Express, commercial airline and chartered aircraft. The third and final stage of the study analyzes three hypothetical distribution scenarios. Its purpose was to challenge the restrictions and determine the opportunity cost of …
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MetaFormances : the hermeneutics of play in language/art/life
… Each letter was mailed via overnight express courier along with a disposable 35 mm. camera and self-addressed, self-stamped envelope. The project engaged a motley crew of 32 characters - a mailman, a confettiologist, a Dutch man, a computation origami expert (and his dad), a pom artist, a …
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Euphoria: The Transition from Prescription Opioids to Heroin in Kentucky
… existing academic literature, Louisville Courier-Journal news media articles, and federal official reports, this paper argues that after a long history of over prescribing opioids and the creation of pills mills, followed then by the implementation of harsh prohibition laws against …
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Delivered: Living and Working with Algorithms
… working alongside platform-based food delivery couriers in Mexico City, 75 semi-structured interviews with platform-based food delivery couriers, and online ethnography conducted in online Facebook communities. This dissertation is organized in three articles. The first article draws primarily …
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Outcomes and cost-effectiveness of different models of delivery of antiretroviral therapy
… GP versus clinic for public sector patients and courier versus collect pharmacy for private sector patients. In the third analysis (Chapter 7), we present a paper which reviews cost-effectiveness studies in LMICs and explores the relative impact of various factors on costs and mortality in …
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The distributed air wing
… Corps aircraft, a seaborne unmanned aircraft courier system, and a carrier-based unmanned air-to-air vehicle. The analysis within shows that a mixture of these alternatives in varying degrees delivers the Fleet’s most critical capabilities— Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), …
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Control of mobile networks using dynamic vehicle routing
… many practical applications, including taxi and courier services, manufacturing and inventory routing, emergency services, mobile sensor networks, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) routing, and delay tolerant wireless networks. The main contribution of this thesis is the quantification of the delay …
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Three essays on Platform Capitalism and its alternative
… dependence. This essay examines the Artisan Courier Model (ACM) by interlocking framework enriching our comprehension of labor control and precarity dynamics. The third essay offers a model to counter the pervasive influence of platform capitalism. This paper advocates the state-platform …
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Francis W. Dawson and Daniel H. Chamberlain: a political flirtation, 1874-1876
… editor of the influential Charleston News and Courier, and Daniel H. Chamberlain, last Reconstruction governor of South Carolina, developed a close working relationship during the years 1874 through 1876. The two Southern emigres had opposing political affiliations. Dawson, a Democrat, bitterly …
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Valentin Landry (1844-1919): patriote de la renaissance acadienne
… XIXe siècle notamment Le Moniteur Acadien et le Courier des Provinces Maritimes, sur microfilms aux Archives Acadiennes ont également été des instruments précieux pour ce travail. Quelques informations ont aussi été obtenues par correspondance, de l'Ecole Normale de Truro (Nova Scotia Teachers …
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The Role of Newspapers in Russell County School Consolidation
… scattering articles in surrounding media and The Courier-Journal, I think the story of consolidation up to now has been fully told. It will be my task at this time to sum up, as it were, what has been done. But I hope to go a little further than that: to record the frustrations and difficulties …
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The effect of field pea (Pisum sativum L.) basal branching on optimal plant density and crop competitiveness
… yield at lower densities, while Carrera and Courier required higher densities to reach the same proportion of potential yield. Weed biomass was lowest in plots sown to longer vined cultivars with normal leaf type. Branching habit did not affect the competitiveness of pea cultivars. Potential …
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Estudio de mejora en mi tienda online Belcorp
… a supply chain process was implemented, with a Courier and assembly line different from those of direct sales, to ensure the immediacy in the delivery of products to customers. On the customer service side, a process was also designed in which both consultants and clients of Mi Tienda Online …
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