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Showing 1 to 20 of 10772 for “"give"”.
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The Give and Take on Restaurant Tipping
… examines aspects of both the consumer (the "give") and the server (the "take") sides of restaurant tipping. On the consumer side, I address both why, and how much, people tip in restaurants. I also examine a policy issue related to the recent Supreme Court decision in United States v. Fior …
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You give me fever : practical protection for metropolitan neuroses
The emergence of Swine Flu in the past six months has once again heightened the world's fears of a coming flu pandemic. Although H1N1 is only slightly more pathogenic than the common seasonal flu, which kills approximately 30,000 Americans each year, its rapid transmission around the globe is …
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Park Park Fabric Landscape: Landscape Systems Give Form to Architecture
… can an understanding of landscape as a system give form to architecture? In natural systems nothing is wasted, everything is interconnected and self-sufficient at the same time. How can we model our buildings -- our built landscapes -- after nature? Three natural systems are key components to …
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"TO GIVE OR NOT TO GIVE:" INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RURAL RELIEF CLIENTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS DURING THE EMERGENCY RELIEF PERIOD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1933 TO 1935
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, millions of Americans suffered from long term unemployment and subsistence poverty while the federal government's New Deal attempted to address the problems of poverty. But the rural poor were affected by a kind of chronic poverty that would prove more …
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"I just want to give something back" Peer work and desistance
This thesis is a qualitative study into peer work and criminal and drug desistance/recovery in prisoners, probationers and former probationers. In 2012, the Justice Secretary highlighted peer mentoring as a key criminal justice issue and there is research emerging to support the strengths of peer …
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Should human resources managers utilize affirmative action to give diversity programs legitimacy?
Since 1987, the valuing and managing of diversity has been on the radar screens of most human resources managers. Specifically, many are wrestling with how to establish the "perfect" diversity program that serves to get the message out to their organizational members that individual differences …
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Give me that old time religion: reclaiming slave religion in the future
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents tell the story of a young visionary, Lauren Olamina, in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Lauren, the fifteen year old daughter of a black Baptist minister, reveals a religious philosophy called Earthseed as a means of helping her …
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Chemistry of the Degradation of Vinyl Polymers to give Carbon Fibre Precursors
An investigation of the oxidative degradation of polyacrylonitrile, a precursor for carbon fibre manufacture, has been made by examining the oxidation of 'model* compounds of the polymer. During the attempted preparation of one of these 'models', 2,)-dicyanopentane, it became apparent that this …
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Environmental science in the new millennium : a model to give structure and guidance
… was explored and means for improving them are given. One major finding relates to using a management model for promoting faculty improvements. A common thread identified in all programs was problem-solving and its related skills. In every program, at all levels, the need for students to master …
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Give Hate a Chance: An Exploration of the Affective State of Interpersonal Hate
<p>Interpersonal hate, the affective state of one individual experiencing hate toward another, is widely experienced. However, to date there is no experimental evidence of interpersonal hate. This phenomenon was explored, as was its place in the triad of hostile emotions. It was theorized that …
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Insights into the evolution of protein domains give rise to improvements of function prediction
The growing number of uncharacterised sequences in public databases has turned the prediction of protein function into a challenging research field. Traditional annotation methods are often error-prone due to the small subset of proteins with experimentally verified function. Goal of this thesis …
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Local Government in Tanzania: does the local government law give autonomy to local government
Despite a highly centralised system of government, Tanzania, has attempted several measures aimed at achieving decentralisation of its immense powers to allow people to have a say on matters affecting their respective areas of jurisdiction. By discussing the autonomy of local government in …
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'The names we give' : narratives of identity and positioning of the 'helpers' in Pofadder
This thesis examines the subjective constructions of identity in the narratives of 'helpers' in the small town of Pofadder in the Northern Cape. It focuses on the impact of historical narratives on their intersectional positioning. This was part of a broader, national, Small Towns and Rural …
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What can the site give to the building and the building to the site?
This thesis explores the relationship between the "constructed" (built) environment and the natural environment. What defines such a relationship and can the relationship be formulated? Surely a successful union is much like a marriage whereby one part is better than either of the individual parts. …
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How do leaders, in a multiple leader context, give sense to the same strategic change?
… of organisational change; that is how leaders give sense to strategic change. The study is set in a multi-leader context where leaders compete to give sense to the same change. Theoretically, the investigation is grounded in sensegiving (Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991) which is recognised as an …
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“Give my baby everything I didn’t have”: a study of young men’s experiences of fatherhood
The subject of young fatherhood has not been widely addressed in academic research, and until recently most studies on young parenthood have concentrated mainly on teenage mothers. This thesis explores how men who became fathers at a young age narrate their experiences of fathering and their …
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What accounts do young people give of their experience of person-centred annual review meetings?
They’re helpful Because it tells you about About all the stuff you need to work on And what stuff you are good at already (Nick aged 10) Following recent reform in special educational needs (SEN) education in England, schools and settings are expected to include children with SEN in statutory …
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Building the 3D Genome from the Ground Up: Local Interactions Give Rise to Global Order
… mechanisms by which local molecular interactions give rise to global chromatin architecture remain an active area of study. Interactions between nucleosomes—modulated by histone tail post-translational modifications, histone sequence variants, and the DNA sequence itself—are thought to be a major …
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An investigation to detemine that grading of Scituate Gravel which will give the strongest concrete
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1918
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