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Showing 1 to 20 of 2256 for “"dark"”.
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Dark Legends
<p>Dark Legends is a story about how five normal teens --Mya, Lei, Tamara, Kimi, and Cruz –are thrust into the dark unknown left to navigate spaces on their own with only each other to rely on. As they maneuver through this new world, they discover dark family secrets and learn about culture …
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Single-Fluid Approach to Modeling Dark Matter and Dark Energy
… overwhelming evidence for the ex istence of dark energy, a mysterious and dominant component responsible for the accelerated expan sion of the universe. The nature of dark energy remains one of the most intriguing puzzles in modern cosmology. This dissertation presents a comprehensive …
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Galactic Dark Matter
… distribution and properties of Galactic dark matter necessary for its direct and indirect detection are currently unknown. Since the distributions of normal and dark matter in the Milky Way are coupled to each other as they both move in the same gravitational potential, constraints on the …
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The Dark Ride
… architecture studies and American studies, "The Dark Ride" defines the standard amusement park attraction both generally within the contexts of horrific iconography and the history of amusement devices and structures, and also specifically within the contexts of five amusement park environments. …
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The dark South
This thesis contains a portion of my novel, The Dark South, as well as a craft essay titled “The Use of Plain Style in Modern Fiction Writing.” The craft essay examines how a plain style of writing can be used to great effect in fiction. I explore how simple writing can improve action, description, …
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The Fertile Dark
The Fertile Dark is a portfolio comprised of approximately forty poems and an introductory essay. All of the poems were written and revised by me while I was a student in the Master of Arts in Professional Writing program, working under the direction of Dr. Jim Elledge and Dr. Ralph Wilson. …
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Dark matter dynamics
… have revealed a wealth of information about dark matter halos but their results are largely empirical. Here we attempt to shed light on simulation results by using a combination of analytic and numerical methods. First we generalize an analytic model of halo formation, known as Secondary …
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Dark Matter Detection with the Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber Collaboration
<p>Evidence from many sources suggests that dark matter (matter that does not interact electromagnetically) accounts for a significant fraction of the mass density of the universe. The fact that dark matter has yet to be observed directly is one of the biggest outstanding problems in modern …
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Lies in the dark: An analysis of dark personality traits and dishonesty
… been conceptualized and measured using the dark triad model, which identifies the core malevolent traits as Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). More recent research has proposed a broader model that encompasses more dark traits than the dark triad model, …
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Flickers in the Dark
<p>Alayna "Laney" Moreland is living in an emotional and abusive household. Her mother, Janelle, is an alcoholic. Laney grew up at a young age taking care of her. Janelle's boyfriend, Nick, is physically and verbally abusive towards Laney. Janelle tries to prevent it, but can't. Janelle eventually …
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Parametrically driven dark solitons
This is a study of the dynamics of the dark solitons described by the parametrically driven nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We prove that both types of dark solitons (the Bloch and Néel walls) are stable throughout their existence regions, and that in the region of their coexistence, a family of …
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Rendering dark energy void
… very large scales. Further assuming flatness and dark energy in the form of Einstein's cosmological constant A then implies that the latter contributes roughly 73% of the total energy of the universe, cold dark matter (CD'I) 23SiC, and baryons, the matter we are made, only 4%.
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Hot and dark matter
… media, and we propose two new reactions for dark matter in the early universe. In the first part, we analyze the transverse momentum broadening in the absence of radiation of an energetic parton propagating through quark-gluon plasma via Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). We show that …
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Light, dark, and architecture
The thesis explores the relationship of light, architecture, and humans focusing on both the mathematics of solar movement that informs the architecture and the experiential and spiritual response of human perception to it. The exploration uses the celestial realm as the inspiration and canvas that …
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Shedding Light on Dark Comedy: Humour and Aesthetics in British Dark Comedy Television
Abstract The term ‘dark comedy’ is used by audiences, producers and academics with reference to an array of disparate texts, yet attempts to actually define it perpetuate a sense of confusion and contradiction. This suggests that although there is a kind of comedy that is common enough to be widely …
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The Rise of the Dark Side: Dark Pool Trading and the Two-Tiered Implication
… and public trading venues, creating a framework dark and light trading liquidity. Private or non-publicly visible liquidity is housed in dark venues while liquidity visible to the public sits in light locations. Light markets follow strict real-time public reporting requirements for trade volume …
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