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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"epicenter"”.
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Tailored Precision Building: DC Fashion Incubator/Epicenter
… as a fashion capital of the world by being the epicenter to the new movement on fashion in DC.
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Relocation study of Virginia earthquakes (1959-1981) using the Joint Hypocenter Determination and Joint Epicenter Determination methods
… Hypocenter Determination (JHD) method. Joint Epicenter Determinations (JED) were used in conjunction with a companion single event location program (SE77) to relocate hypocenters from data sets in the Giles County seismic zone (GCSZ) in southwestern Virginia and the central Virginia seismic …
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Evaluation of Strength, Stiffness and Ductility Requirements of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Data From Chile (1985) and Michoacan (1985) Earthquakes
… event off the coast of Central Chile, with its epicenter located approximately 80 km southwest of Vina, and (2) a magnitude 8.1 earthquake, with its epicenter located in the Pacific coast of Mexico between Michoacan and Guerrero, 400 km southwest of Mexico City.
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Let me learn you something! : tools for Black self-determination in a swampy school system
There are times when New Orleans feels like the epicenter of America. Maybe only proud residents and natives feel this way, but in the last ten years it has surely become the epicenter of educational debate. The same catalyst of such debates, Hurricane Katrina, has also ushered in a new world of …
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Investigating Factors Associated with Burglary Crime Analysis using Logistic Regression Modeling
… burglary activity as it relates from a determine epicenter of activity. The predictors selected have all be shown, through research to be significant, characteristics of activity as they relate to burglary but have not been incorporated together to develop a significant model. The model compared …
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HAIGHT-ASHBURY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT
… the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, was the epicenter of the American Counterculture Movement in the mid to late sixties. The social, cultural, and political impact of this movement is vast and widely known. This thesis provides a themed historical narrative of the Haight-Ashbury, …
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NATIONAL ACADEMY CENTER - ADVANCING U.S. SOCCER TO INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE
… and international players to US Soccer, and be epicenter of a thriving sports community in the heart of the nation.
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Pulsed-Laser Ultrasound Generation in Fiber-Reinforced Composite Material
… presented for the surface displacement at the epicenter. Prediction based on numerical simulations are compared with experimental results.
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Politics, chess, hats: the microhistory of disunion in Charleston, South Carolina
… of disunion at the Confederacy’s unlikely epicenter, Charleston South Carolina. Viewed from street level, through the words and actions of more than three hundred ordinary men—those who joined the radical Vigilant Rifles in 1860, and others who did not—the break-up of the Union appears …
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The Journal of Elizabeth Maxwell Alsop Wynne, 1862-1878
… describing the dramatic experiences at the epicenter of civil war and growth into womanhood in its aftermath.
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Afro-Latinx Transnational Identities: Adults in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Area
… Black and Latina/ o/x concentrated are at the epicenter of disenfranchisement caused by the globalization of neoliberalism. Neoliberal reforms to education restrain the various nuances of pluralistic teaching, focusing only on the performance of standardized tests thus pressuring schools to …
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Deposition and Characterization of Silicon Nitride/gallium Arsenide Metal Insulator Semiconductor Structures With Heteroepitaxial Interlayers
… the unique and powerful capabilities of the Epicenter growth and analysis facilities at the University of Illinois. The novel heteroepitaxial interlayers employed between Si$\sb3$N$\sb4$ and GaAs are Si, Si/Ge, Si/Al$\sb{0.3}$Ga$\sb{0.7}$As, Si/GaP, and Si/In$\sb{0.05}$Ga$\sb{0.95}$As. …
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Understanding The Positive Correlates Of Veteran Suicide: A Review And Call For Research
… the risk factors for suicide is at the epicenter for a population health approach. Positive correlates have been studied and reported in isolation and there is a mounting body of knowledge that may shed light on the risk factors that place individual and veteran populations at higher …
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Community, Spirit, and Soul in the Lower Ninth Ward
… architectural intervention to function as an epicenter for community life and serve as a catalyst for rebuilding. The design proposition includes an intervention along the neutral ground on Claiborne Avenue with market, bar, performance, and festival spaces across the intersection of Claiborne …
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Rocks! (Are Hard To Care For)
… The two Act play finds Mark, in his 40s, at the epicenter when his safe, predictable life routine is shattered as his relationship with his wife Molly collapses and his boss Derek sacks him. He appears to find redemption in a new relationship with Susan who is constructing a Rock Peace Garden, a …
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Facades of modernity : image, performance, and transformation in the Egyptian metropolis
… within the city's history, I will focus on the epicenter of the modem city, wust-el-balad, Downtown. It has recently been appropriated through a dual process of asserting the city's modem heritage. The first part of this process utilizes popular media such as period-based soap operas, …
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Agricultural revolutions in America’s heartland: the corn belt and the making of American capitalism
… and Iowa, the heart of the Corn Belt, were the epicenter of two successive agricultural revolutions that fundamentally transformed world accumulation and world nature. The analysis is centered on the development of successive agricultural revolutions over the longue durée of capitalism, with the …
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Nurse Beliefs And Other Influencing Variables On Nurses' Intentions And Decisions Regarding
… same patient care unit. Because nurses are the epicenter of much of what goes on with patient care throughout the hospital in general and in particular, in intensive care units, it is important to understand how nurse beliefs and attitudes influence associated behaviors. This study examined …
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Financial Sector Development and Agricultural Productivity
… an ever-increasing nutritional demand. At the epicenter of the concern is declining productivity due to poor financial inclusion of the sector leading to low investment and returns to agriculture. A cursory examination of the existing literature on the subject reveals quite varied dimensions to …
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The Impetus For Transitions From Relief to Development In Post-Conflict Environments: Food Security, Land Access, and Livelihood Reconstruction Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda
… Internal displacement has undoubtedly become the epicenter of focus for all development actors in the region and as a result of this, development has hinged upon people leaving internal displacement camps and returning home. However, there are countless obstacles complicating their return.</p> …
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