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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"fudge"”.
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The Effects of Allopregnanolone on Feeding: A Behavioural Investigation
Allopregnanolone (5α-pregnan-3α-ol-20-one), a neurosteroid, has been shown to produce hyperphagia in rodents. The effects of allopregnanolone on appetitive and Consummatory behaviors associated with feeding were examined. Allopregnanolone had no effect on consummatory behaviors, as measured by the …
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Continuous living cover for the Upper Midwest: from hairy vetch nodules to the lanscape scale
The work in this dissertation illustrates challenges and opportunities related to implementing continuous living cover across the Midwestern U.S. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 exemplify the challenges specific to one crop, hairy vetch. Temperature constraints in the region limit the utility of hairy …
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Reconciling Economic Efficiency and Social Needs? The EU, Objective 1 and Civil Society in Wales
This thesis is a qualitatively based study exploring the development of the 'European social model' and the particular argument that EU policy initiatives in this area indicate the end of old style, elite decision-making where the market was the primary frame of reference. It has been claimed that …
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The participation of stroke survivors in service development and research: an ethnographic study
Policy to involve patients and the public in health service development and medical research has been widely promoted in the United Kingdom on the grounds that this will improve the quality of services and research.<br/><br/>This thesis investigates how stroke survivors were involved in two …
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The re-engineering of VHF mobile radio services in the UK
This thesis covers the work and considerations necessary for the design of VHF mobile radio systems, and is directed particularly at the requirements of the emergency services of the United Kingdom. It was occasioned by an international regulatory decision to re-allocate part of their existing …
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Diet, hydration, lifestyle and training practices of elite Kenyan endurance runners
Since the emergence of Kenyan endurance runners on the world stage at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, where they won 8 medals ranging from 400 m relay to the 10 000 m, Kenyan success has grown year on year. The staggering success of a country that compromises just 0.5 % of the world population has …
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Topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Balinese based on the dialect of Singaraja, North Bali
… hypothesis, and in support of the findings of Fudge (1970). I propose an (ultimately pre-linguistic) explanation for this interaction. The findings support and enrich optimality theory, which seeks to formalise the gradient nature of wellformedness (Prince & Smolensky 1993). The semantic …
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Topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Balinese based on the dialect of Singaraja, North Bali
… hypothesis, and in support of the findings of Fudge (1970). I propose an (ultimately pre-linguistic) explanation for this interaction. The findings support and enrich optimality theory, which seeks to formalise the gradient nature of wellformedness (Prince & Smolensky 1993). The semantic …
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Assessment of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Nuclear Power Plant Fuel Optimization
… derived for the core design that behaves as a fudge factor that affects the stability of the learning. But also an exploration/exploitation trade-off that manifests through different parameters such as the number of loading patterns seen by the agents per episode, the number of samples …
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Fauxtopia
To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... …