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Showing 1 to 20 of 724 for “"fighting"”.
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Fighting spirit: Victorian women's ghost stories
Abstract available: p. i-ii
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Fighting the Invisibility of Domestic Violence
<p>Analyzing the invisibility of domestic violence in New York City as 32% of women in the city experience intimate partner physical violence. In this project, domestic violence refers to all different kinds of violence that occur in a home between all the members who live there regardless of …
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Fighting phishing at the user interface
The problem that this thesis concentrates on is phishing attacks. Phishing attacks use email messages and web sites designed to look as if they come from a known and legitimate organization, in order to deceive users into submitting their personal, financial, or computer account information online …
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US War Fighting Capabilities: Present and Future
No abstract prepared.
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The Barbaric Spectacle of Late Modern Fighting
… A fascinating new development - human cage fighting - has generated massive audiences and significant media attention. Existing beneath the visceral spectacle of mediated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is an underworld of human fighting that is gripping contemporary popular culture. By offering …
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Application of Retrograde Analysis to Fighting Games
<p>With the advent of the fighting game AI competition, there has been recent interest in two-player fighting games. Monte-Carlo Tree-Search approaches currently dominate the competition, but it is unclear if this is the best approach for all fighting games. In this thesis we study the design of …
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Fighting Words: Slurs, Semantics, and the Law
<p>Oppressive slurs like the n-word are fighting words <em>par excellence</em>. Their power to incite conflict and inflict emotional injury is unmatched by that of other, more commonplace insults. But what is it that makes oppressive slurs such potent verbal weapons? A commonplace view among both …
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Algorithms for Understanding and Fighting Infectious Disease
Infectious disease is a persistent and substantial threat to human health, with consequences that include widespread mortality, suffering, and economic disruption. This thesis presents several algorithmic advances that, when coupled with biotechnologies for data collection and perturbation, are …
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Dynamically fighting bugs : prevention, detection and elimination
This dissertation presents three test-generation techniques that are used to improve software quality. Each of our techniques targets bugs that are found by different stake-holders: developers, testers, and maintainers. We implemented and evaluated our techniques on real code. We present the design …
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Demand for Extinguishing Media in Manual Fire Fighting
… between the area of the fire and the fire-fighting measures employed. This data, together with data from two old investigations, published in the literature, were used to evaluate existing models for the dimensioning of manual fire suppression using water. The demand for water was also …
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Fighting Extremism: Strategies Used to Combat Extremism and Radicalization
Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has been awakened to the threat that extremist organizations pose to our national security. The greatest transnational terrorist threat to the United States right now comes primarily from extremist groups such as Al-Queda, …
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The image has the power : fighting blight in Philadelphia
Blight has plagued Philadelphia for the better part of a century, though the understanding of blight has changed dramatically over time. Originally used to describe neighborhood overcrowding, the term retained its currency even as once-overcrowded neighborhoods emptied out in the decades after …
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Fighting for more--the sources of expanding war aims
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1994.
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Water for life : fighting water pollution in Eastern Europe
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1993.
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Normal Violence: The Case of Fighting on a College Campus
… showed that psychological reactions to college fighting were explained by individual, trait-based differences between the witnesses, as well as by variation in the specific situations where the altercations occurred. Drawing on dispositional and situational perspectives, a theory of normal …
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Undocuactivism: Latina/o undocuactivists fighting for change in the U.S.
… their lack of legal status in the U.S. and are fighting for the rights of all immigrants. The guiding research question is, ""How do Latina/o undocuactivists understand and contest illegality?"" Using an intersectional methodological and theoretical approach, I investigate the way that …
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