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Fences
The following is a memoir of the author‟s childhood in southwestern Idaho. It recounts his family's ties to the local landscape, to the cattle industry, and to hunting big game in central Idaho. The essays explore questions of the history of the West and of its romance, particularly how that …
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Fences
The following is a memoir of the author‟s childhood in southwestern Idaho. It recounts his family's ties to the local landscape, to the cattle industry, and to hunting big game in central Idaho. The essays explore questions of the history of the West and of its romance, particularly how that …
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Gated Fences
<p><em>Gated Fences</em> is set in 1941 America and revolves around the lives of two families: The Hendersons and the Rivers. This novel addresses discrimination that existed among acquaintances, neighbors, friends, and even family members due to the lingering effects of slavery. It tackles issues …
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Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares
The following collection of poems, Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares, attempts to chart the hierarchies mapped in the English language. Those in power–governments, churches, movements, militaries, businesses–manipulate our language to bait us, the threat of violence hanging overhead like a …
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Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares
The following collection of poems, Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares, attempts to chart the hierarchies mapped in the English language. Those in power–governments, churches, movements, militaries, businesses–manipulate our language to bait us, the threat of violence hanging overhead like a …
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Border fixity : when good fences make bad neighbors
Since the end of the Second World War, a norm of "border fixity" - a proscription of foreign conquest and annexation of homeland territory - has become prevalent in world politics. Such practices are no longer acceptable tools of policy. Has the international norm of border fixity made …
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Techniques for low overhead fences and sequential consistency violation recording
Fences are instructions that programmers or compilers insert in the code to prevent the compiler or the hardware from reordering memory accesses [20, 43]. Fences can be expensive because all of the accesses before the fence have to be finished (i.e., the loads have to be retired and the writes …
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Tortoise mortalities along fences in the southeastern Karoo, South Africa
… prone to dying from electrocution along electric fences than any other taxa. However, no studies have quantified tortoise mortality along non-electric fences or assessed the impact of fence structure. With South Africa being home to more tortoise species than anywhere else in the world, thus is a …
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: The Rio Grande Arrival/Departure Shelter
"Where the power of the wall is to deny, the power of the door is to permit, and allow entry. 1" Borders are represented on maps as thick, predetermined lines that delineate, separate, and segregate one area from another. A whole is divided into two or more parts. Borders become boundaries and, in …
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A Quantamental approach to Bitcoin trading: Are we swinging for the Fences?
Financial companies from all around the world have started to focus their investments in quantitative and algorithmic funds. Those methods run in server applications that execute automatic trades. It is important to distinguish high frequency trading from machine learning trading. The latter is …
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Crystal Fences and Golden Gates : The Magic of Being Oneself in Some Novels by Hugh MacLennan and Chinua Achebe
La Terre est un seul pays," disent certains écologistes. Si cette formule unificatrice peut servir avec efficacité l'environnement physique et peut-être aussi l'économie internationale qui exigent l'harmonisation voire même la standardisation des moyens d'action, elle ne facilite pas la tâche des …
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Dendroarchaeology in the Mackenzie Mountains: The Moose Horn Pass Caribou Fence (KjRx-1)
… Fence site is a collection of three wooden fences located in the Tulita District of the Sahtu Settlement Area, of the Northwest Territories. Situated in traditional Shúhtagoťine (Mountain Dene) territory, it is believed to have been used to assist past hunters in harvesting local game, …
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Essays on the development of the American economy
… 19th century. Farmers were required to construct fences to be entitled to compensation for damage by others' livestock. From 1880 to 1900, the introduction and universal adoption of barbed wire greatly reduced the cost of fences, relative to predominant wooden fences, most in counties with the …
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Habitat Use And Seasonal Activity Of Selected Snakes On John F. Kenned
… four habitat types varied from nine to 12. Drift fences in ruderal habitats had the highest species richness, while fences in swales captured the greatest number of individuals. The most dissimilar habitat pair was scrub and swale, while the most similar pair was ruderal and hammock. Box traps …
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Drag reduction of cube-van through boundary-layer control: wind tunnel experiments and prototype road tests
… well as the tripping of the boundary-layer using fences reduce the pressure drag coefficient. Although both the concepts are promising, application of the entirely passive fence procedure appears more attractive from an economic consideration as well as the ease of implementation. The road tests …
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Memory abstractions for parallel programming
… transactions, and (v) location-based memory fences. To demonstrate the utility of memory abstractions, my collaborators and I developed Cilk-M, a dynamically multithreaded concurrency platform which embodies the first three memory abstractions. Many dynamic multithreaded concurrency platforms …
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Three-dimensional magnetotelluric modelling of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
… the distortion of MT data caused by electric fences, which is a common problem with measurements taken on farmland in New Zealand. It shows on one hand that not all electric fences distort the MT signal and on the other hand that low level noise from electric fences recorded at remote …
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