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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"ingenuity"”.
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Adaptability, Creativity and Ingenuity in Disaster Education : Curriculum Challenges in Healthcare Provision
By their very nature disasters are emotive, challenging and dynamic events. This thesis is focused on the education, training and preparedness of healthcare professionals for deployment to some of the most demanding and potentially dangerous areas of the world. Education action research forms the …
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Employee rights over inventions and innovations in employment in Kenya
… or groups who apply their creativity and ingenuity appropriately. The result of such ingenuity and creativity is product that is deemed to be so important that it qualifies for legal protection. Such assets will benefit any individual, business, company or enterprise that has the ownership …
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Matthew Boulton and Francis Eginton’s mechanical paintings: production and consumption 1777 to 1781
… the role played by the reproductive process’s ingenuity in marketing the finished product. Mechanical paintings were symptomatic of wider eighteenth-century concerns – imitation leading to invention, the transfusion of existing technologies, and the role of cultural goods in marking distinction …
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Children of Prometheus
… tools. This bound condition of dependence with ingenuity both liberates his body from mortal perils and binds him to indefinite dependence with the complex, the external, and inhuman. Architecture as an extension of mankind's agency which asserts and protects his will against unknown forces …
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Enantioselective Syntheses and Chemical Investigations of Plant-Derived Bioactive Volatile Compounds
… provides ample opportunity for discovery, ingenuity, and creative endeavor. For these reasons, the work and accomplishments presented herein focus on the total syntheses and related investigations of a variety of natural product derivatives, specifically (+)-nootkatone and jasmone. While …
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A Wall Building
… this project seeks to demonstrate the role human ingenuity, patience, attention, and perception can continue to play in architecture and construction. The project focuses on an experimental wall type consisting of regular eight inch concrete half-block masonry units, stack-bonded in elevation and …
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Proteomic identification of putative biomarkers of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy resistance in luminal (ER+) breast cancer
… 3 2D-PAGE/MS experiments was then analysed using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA; Ingenuity Systems). A pilot series of archival samples was used for clinical validation of putative predictive biomarkers.Results:89 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were seen in the 4 further AbMA …
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Building together : tiny house villages for the homeless : a comparative case study
… quality and both celebrates the independence and ingenuity of tiny house villages and makes the case for greater municipal regulation of the structures.
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Minoan Barbotine Ware: Styles, Shapes, and A Characterization of the Clay Fabric
… period, Barbotine Ware exemplifies the creative ingenuity of the Minoan potter. The vessels’ elaborate decorative motifs play an integral part in the development of Minoan pottery. Barbotine Ware remains an ill-defined tradition. This paper will analyze the styles and shapes of Barbotine Ware …
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Data-mining natural language materials syntheses
… involving countless hours of human effort and ingenuity. While some aspects of this process have been vastly accelerated by the advent of first-principles-based computational techniques and high throughput experimental methods, a vast ocean of untapped historical knowledge lies dormant in the …
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A Theater for Gallaudet University at Florida Avenue Market
This thesis was inspired by the ingenuity of the inhabitants of the Florida Avenue Market, in Washington DC. Through small scale iterative design solutions and creative use of public space the residents, street vendors, and small business owners in the area have reinvented their urban condition. …
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In vivo Genome-wide Expression Study on Human Blood B cells Suggests a Novel ESRI and MAPK3 Network for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
… group. Those genes were further analyzed using Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (Ingenuity® Systems, www.ingenuity.com) and a network involving estrogen receptor 1 (ESRl) and mitogen-activated protein kinase 3 (MAPK3) was identified. Real-time RT-PCR confirmed the differential expression of 8 genes, …
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A cognitive poetic exploration of Elena Poniatowska's La noche de Tlatelolco.
… both the historical veracity and literary ingenuity of the text by highlighting literary elements and asserting that they strengthen rather than weaken readers' historical understanding of the censured collective trauma. This study applies theories of readers' literary perceptions to …
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Proteomic identification of putative biomarkers of radiotherapy resistance
… all 7 novel RR cell lines was carried out using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) which identified canonical pathways associated with the data. Protein candidates from selected canonical pathways were confirmed by western blotting and assessed clinically using immunohistochemistry.ResultsFollowing …
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Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
… cooking. Broadcasts regularly emphasized women’s ingenuity and ability to cook nutritious meals using limited food options while also devaluing women’s existing knowledge. Men were frequently considered experts whether or not they were authority figures. Also, the association of meat with …
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Living in an Artistic Labour Market: The Experiences of Gig Musicians in Calgary
… by talking about individual artists, their ingenuity and their inspirations. People may view musicians as professionals, but this profession is rarely understood as a practice which has many layers and nuances. This study provides such an understanding by asking musicians who play gigs for a …
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John Donne's interest in death.
… from tradition to write poetry of exceptional ingenuity. The figure of death pervaded the subject matter, conceits, and descriptions with intellectualized and exaggerated glamor. Done achieved renown in his early middle age as a controversialist, writing on such subjects as martyrdom, suicide, …
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The Garabit Viaduct: A Historical and Structural Study
… of its truss arch. It aims to unravel the ingenuity behind the arch's elegant shape and design process. By examining historical plans and the memoirs of engineers such as Gustave Eiffel and Léon Boyer, this research uncovers the evolution of the viaduct's design and shape, revealing that …
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Functional genomics in the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat: genome wide and candidate gene analysis
… glutathione s-transferse mu type 1 (Gstm1). Ingenuity pathway analysis of renal microarrays in 5 and 16-week SHRSP, normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) and chromosome 2 congenic rats identified differential expression of several glutathione cycling genes. The Gstm1 promoter was investigated by …
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The Little Giant in the South - the Education of Blacks at Oakwood University, Alabama
… paper contributes to studies on African American ingenuity within the context of racial discrimination in education. As a member of an ethnic minority group in the United States and a native of the Caribbean, I understand the value of education and consider myself a social justice advocate. My …
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