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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"dueling"”.
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Dueling Perspectives on School to Home Literacy
The purpose of this qualitative study is to research what the different perspectives are on how to enhance literacy at the home along with what home literacy strategies parents, teachers, and principals would like for the school or district to provide. The goal of this research study is to help …
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Dueling shares: comparative EU-US corporate governance practices
The purpose of this study was to discover if and how the EU and US have approached dual-class shares and the one share-one vote principle in different manners. The EU and US have become thought leaders in security regulation and installing methods of best practice into their laws and corporate …
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Dueling markets : capitalizing on the non-institutional and institutional asset arbitrage
The rising supply of both domestic and international capital pursuing yield in major U.S. real estate markets is staggering and has resulted in substantial unmet demand for quality, institutional assets. This thesis examines the pricing and yield arbitrage between institutional and …
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Dueling and Identity: Constructions of Honor Violence In Nineteenth-Century Southern Letters
… of rhetoric and violence as it is represented in dueling, the settlement of honor disputes through ritualized gunplay or the threat thereof. The duel has long served in historical interpretations of the South as a signal scene of violent masculine honor. Indeed, its life and death consequence has …
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Adaptive Preference Learning With Bandit Feedback: Information Filtering, Dueling Bandits and Incentivizing Exploration
… existing work on classical multi-armed bandits, dueling bandits, and incentivizing exploration. For each type of feedback and application setting, we provide an algorithm and a theoretical analysis bounding its regret. We demonstrate through numerical experiments that our algorithms outperform …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… communicated. As a case in point, these “dueling Dionysianisms” are assessed through a contrastive analysis of Franciscan and Thomistic poetics. Poems composed by Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, and Iacopone, read in light of the early development of a Franciscan theological school,” …
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Dual mandates or dueling mandates : federal energy efficiency programs and the Recovery Act
In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law, providing billions of dollars in funding for federal energy efficiency programs. ARRA represented different things to different people and the programs it funds are being used to accomplish …
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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… indicating a connection between authorship and dueling. This study explicitly examines this connection, particularly as it relates to social acceptance, the gentrification of authorship, and the business of publishing. The act of publishing, putting one's work into the public sphere for …
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Optimizing Routing Strategy in Software Defined Networking
… efficiency. The project employs a combination of Dueling Deep Q-Networks (Dueling DQN) and real-time traffic state predictions to create a dynamic routing strategy. The methodology includes extensive simulation using SDN environments to evaluate the performance improvements over traditional …
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Ozark Superstitions: A Collection
… after birth of the youngest daughter. The dueling narrative is interrupted in key places by their father’s stories that extend beyond the traumatic event and provide links to the past. A motherless girl buys tampons from the local feed store, where she becomes trapped in conversation with a …
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Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments with Deep Reinforcement Learning
… with the innovations of double Q-learning and dueling Q-networks, is applied. Two modifications of this architecture are presented to incorporate direction heading information that the reinforcement learning agent can utilize to learn how to navigate to target locations while avoiding …
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The Lived Experience of African American Pastors: A Phenomenological Study
… African American Christians must wrestle with dueling identity consciousnesses of who they are as Christians considering cultural context, they must also reconcile whether their experiences have contributed to making them who they are and if those experiences have hindered or helped them in …
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Implementing Differential Privacy for Privacy Preserving Trajectory Data Publication in Large-Scale Wireless Networks
… poses a threat to privacy of users. The dueling need for utility and privacy must be addressed. This thesis studies the concept of differential privacy for fulfillment of these goals of releasing high utility data to researchers while maintaining user privacy. The focus is specifically on …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, letters, and the writings of his contemporaries, instructors, and friends, in …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, letters, and the writings of his contemporaries, instructors, and friends, in …
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The Lived Experience of African American Pastors: A Phenomenological Study
… African American Christians must wrestle with dueling identity consciousnesses of who they are as Christians considering cultural context, they must also reconcile whether their experiences have contributed to making them who they are and if those experiences have hindered or helped them in …
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HAMSTRING INJURIES IN FOOTBALL: A COMPLEX SYSTEMS APPROACH THROUGH VIDEO ANALYSIS
… actions such as passing, lunging, dueling, and ball-related movements. Second, a case report using Model-Based Image Matching reconstructed, for the first time in football, the full-body 3D kinematics of run-type and stretch-type hamstring injuries from uncalibrated broadcast …
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Multifunctional woody polycultures and their influence on soil organic carbon
… changes in SOC as well as Bray I P reveal the dueling influences of vegetative inputs to the surface and landscape controls on soil movement.
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Public planning processes for post-industrial places : recommendations for Madison's Oscar Mayer site from Milwaukee and Saint Paul
… with the rest of the city fabric. These dueling pressures come to a head when large, prominent industrial employers close their operations in a municipality, leaving a gap in both the local economy and in the landscape. Often redevelopment is largely private-sector endeavor, but the …
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Cover stories & undercover stories apartheid South Africa 1969-1984
… opponents. In narrating this dual story of dueling undercover realities, the structure of this dissertation encourages readers to hold onto the perspective of the apartheid state and their radical opponents – at once and in parallel. Jeanette Schoon’s life – and death – was irreparably woven …
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