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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"global comparison"”.
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Research, Science and Technology Parks: A Global Comparison of Best Practices
The purpose of this study was to determine if significant differences exist in the evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency between North American, European, and Asian research parks (RPs). Park directors and staff responded to 25 questions from the Survey for Research, Science and Technology …
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Hydrated silica on Mars: Global comparison and in-depth analysis at Antoniadi Crater
… The two sections of this dissertation provide a global and in-depth view of Martian hydrated silica deposits, thereby broadening and refining our search for past water on Mars.
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Essays in the efficient provision of health care: Temporal issues in childhood immunization policy
… rates for children aged 2 are low by global comparison. In response to goals of a 90 percent immunization rate by the year 2000, federal and state governments are looking for ways to improve immunization delivery. This thesis addresses various economic aspects and policy issues …
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Visual health assessment of parous female southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off the southern Cape coast, South Africa
… Ocean, representing food availability. To allow global comparison of the results, the method used for the visual health assessment was developed in collaboration with international southern right whale researchers from Australia and South Africa. The health indices were adapted from a visual …
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Educating the Protestant International : the influence of Halle Pietism in eighteenth-century charity education.
… of Halle to their own settings without global comparison. This study also seeks to continue the recent global turn within studies of international Protestantism by including the cooperative Protestant activity in India within its scope.
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Cloud Observations From Eos-Terra: From Conception to Interpretation of Cloud Climatologies With a Focus on Small Clouds
Global comparison between the MISR and MODIS cloud masks shows large discrepancies over regions dominated by small clouds. This discrepancy was further explored using an ASTER dataset at 15m resolution over the tropical western Atlantic. On average, MODIS and MISR overestimate cloud fraction by 18% …
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BioInformatics, Phylogenetics, and Aspartate Transcarbamoylase
… from the contiguous sequence. This allowed a global comparison to other known aspartate transcarbamoylases (ATCases) and once deduced, a translation of the sequence gave the stop codon and thus the complete sequence of the open reading frame. When this was complete, upstream and downstream …
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Open Education and the Creative Economy: Global Perspectives and Comparative Analysis
… economy” develops within the context of “global neoliberalism” and “knowledge economy”. These three notions are all concerned with economic development. In addition, the creative economy emphasizes the importance of creativity and cultural commodities in cultural and economical …
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MODELLING AND DESIGN OF DIAMOND POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
… devices. Moreover, by means of a more global comparison technique and through accurate theoretical analysis, diamond FETs and diodes’ performance have been projected and compared with that of GaN and SiC devices. This work concludes with possible implementations of diamond devices in …
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Pathosystems Biology: Computational Prediction and Analysis of Host-Pathogen Protein Interaction Networks
… manipulated by pathogens. We present the first global comparison of the host-pathogen PPI networks of 190 different pathogens and their interactions with human proteins. We also present the construction and analysis of three highly infectious human-bacterial PPI networks: <i>Bacillus …
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Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention on Human Rights : Particularly concerning Military Conflicts
… extraterritorial application of the ECHR. For a global comparison other human rights treaties and their jurisdiction clauses are reviewed in order to evaluate the status quo in this field and the impacts on states’ actions and respective policies thereof. The Article 1 plays a fundamental role in …
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Abnormal Pattern Recognition in Spatial Data
… Traditional outlier detection mainly focuses on "global comparison" and identifies deviations from the remainder of the entire data set. In contrast, spatial outlier detection concentrates on discovering neighborhood instabilities that break the spatial continuity. In recent years, a number of …
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The Vertical Globe: Altitude and Science in the Exploration of the Himalaya, 1800-1850
… and expertise. Secondly, it details the role of global comparison in the rise of verticality as a framework for understanding both human and nonhuman worlds. The thesis consists of five thematic chapters, each of which deals with a different type of science: measurement, physiology, geology, …
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Comparison study of SEASAT scatterometer and conventional wind fields
… this requirement for a surface wind field with global coverage and improved spatial and temporal resolution. This development led to the 1978 deployment of the SEASAT Satellite Scatterometer (SASS). Evaluations of the three months of SEASAT data have established the consistency of SASS winds …
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Peatland Afforestation: Effects and Restoration
… afforestation on the biodiversity of this globally important peatland, the ecological outcomes of restoration interventions, and the implications for conservation management and policy. Using a combination of comparative global assessments, long-term species monitoring, and large-scale …
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A performance-based design framework for base-isolated buildings against ground-borne vibration
… a scalar quantity that leads to a meaningful and global comparison of the change in vibration levels. In the context of design, it is desirable to consider simplified methods and models that are able to capture the underlying physics of the problem and to provide an estimation of the isolation …
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A methodology for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of residential building stocks retrofits in Italy and Denmark
… to achieve the double advantage of reducing the global energy consumption level within the private sector and increasing investments, favoring the creation of additional cash flows as well. The possible combination of such multiple benefits makes the building sector a crucial field for policy …
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Passivity, no-regret, and performance in online learning and games
… Using passivity, we cast the performance comparison as a passivity question: passivity of an associated comparison system is equivalent to uniform dominance of one learning algorithm over another. This yields several free-lunch results: predictive exponential replicator dynamics with a …
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Validation, trend analysis & bias reduction through satellite fusion of the cloud-top height record from terra MODIS & MISR
… subtropical highs. Since the response in global CTH is the most robust of such responses, accurate estimation of long-term variability in the vertical distribution of CTH on a global scale is important for reducing climate modeling uncertainty and understanding long-term variability in …