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And Her Increase and Selected Stories
… a dystopian future. The historical novel And Her Increase and these widely varying stories coalesce around themes of freedom and oppression, choice and desire.</p>
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Does open data increase government accountability?
… It critically assesses open data’s ability to increase the accountability of government in practice. The study offers insight into the positive dividends and potentially negative consequences of open data. It considers the potential barriers to open data’s increased dissemination and its …
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Could Alexa Increase Your Social Worth?
<p>People have historically used personal introductions to build social capital, which is the foundation of career networking and is perhaps the most effective way to advance a career (Lin, 2001). With societal changes, such as the pandemic (Venkatesh & Edirappuli, 2020), and the increasing …
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Improving inventory management to increase profitability
ShopSabre, a leading designer and manufacturer of computer numerical control (CNC) routers and plasma tables, is experiencing robust growth, with revenues growing an average of 40% each year since 2015. Due to this growth, ShopSabre maintains an average backlog of 130-140 machines and an average …
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Intervening to Increase Expressions of Gratitude
Five studies examined interventions to increase the frequency of expressions of gratitude by psychology students in two classes of a psychology course at a large university in southwest Virginia. Studies 1 and 4 included signing a paper when declaring an intention to express gratitude to people …
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Administrators Using Technology to Increase Family Engagement
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate and evaluate what happens when Title 1 administrators implement emerging technologies to facilitate school-home communications. This study explored the affordances and constraints to using technology tools to promote family engagement, determined …
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Does working together increase flow with age?
Improved understanding of the motivational precursors to maintaining an active lifestyle across the lifespan is key to the development of interventions supporting successful aging. One such motivational precursor is Flow, the optimal experience of an activity that is predicated on a perceived …
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Diagnosing the Increase in Homicides in Montevideo
After many years of being remarkably flat, in 2012 the homicide rate in Montevideo (the Capital city of Uruguay) started rising. By 2018 it had almost doubled and there is nothing yet to suggest that homicides might start to reverse to their pre 2012 numbers any time soon. Though this has naturally …
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Gamification in Marketing to Increase Customer Retention
… such as AR, VR, and AI, alongside the increased adoption of gamified strategies on social media platforms and mobile devices. However, marketers must remain mindful of potential challenges and strive to balance innovative gamified experiences with responsible marketing practices, …
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How to Increase Attendance in a Mexican School
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Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p><strong>Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities for the Underserved Population</strong></p> <p>My project aims to improve access to healthcare for the underserved population living in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District by reconnecting them …
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Chemical Surface Modification of Polycarbonate to Increase Hydrophilicity
… Many chemicals were tested to see if they could increase the polarity of polycarbonate. Polycarbonate was partially submerged in pure chemicals for 2 hours at room temperature to determine its chemical compatibility. Compounds with aromatic rings, like aniline, altered the appearance of …
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The Impact of Population increase around Lake Babati
… This work evaluates the impacts of population increase around Lake Babati in Babati Town Council. Primary data were gathered by administering the questionnaire to a sample of 100 households. Participatory rural appraisal techniques, participant observation and checklist were employed in data …
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A Strategy to Increase the Utilization of RRT
<p>Literature has shown that at-risk patients on units outside of the ICU have often received suboptimal care resulting in serious adverse events including cardiac arrest, multi-organ failure and death (Jones, King, Wilson, 2009). Outcomes for patients are often dependent on nurses’ ability to …
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The Use of Soundabet to Increase Phonemic Awareness
… is to determine if the use of Soundabet can increase students' ability to match all consonant and short vowel sounds to their corresponding written form. By looking at 77 kindergarten children this study evaluated the effectiveness of using Soundabet to teach both English language learners …
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Nutritional Approaches to Increase Intramuscular Fat in Pigs
… evaluate if intramuscular fat content can be increased in pigs by feeding vitamin A deficient diets. This study demonstrated that there was no effect of feeding vitamin A (P > 0.05) on chemically determined IMF content (3.15 vs. 2.94%, SEM = 0.164; for adequate and deficient diet, …
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Potentials for COP increase in vapor compression systems
… study of three different opportunities for COP increase in vapor compression systems: work recovery ejectors, condenser subcooling and increase of relative size of heat exchangers (HXs). Regarding work recovery ejectors, experimental results showed that the COP of the ejector system increased …
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Output power increase at idle speed in alternators
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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