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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"junk"”.
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Beating the Dead Horse: Deconstructing the Junk Genius of Naked Lunch
… In "Beating the Dead Horse: Deconstructing the Junk Genius of Naked Lunch," I illustrate Burroughs' means of exposing the flawed binaries that undergird the Aristotelian Logic of language. In Naked Lunch, the author bares the slippery nature of any such Logical language, whereby each word comes …
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Rickettsia prowazekii and its ‘Junk DNA’: The Identification and Characterization of Small RNAs
As the etiologic agents of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and epidemic typhus, Rickettsia are obligate intracellular Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria. Genomic sequencing determined that ~24% of the Rickettsia prowazekii genome was noncoding DNA due to genomic reduction. Regions of bacterial …
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Reducing paper and sugar for fiscally sustainable healthcare systems. Studies on administrative costs and junk food tax policies
Contains fulltext : 232974.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Essays on taxation: positive and normative aspects
… of Deaton and Muellbauer to estimate demand for junk food as well as calculate the incidence of taxes on junk food. The model assumes households consume three goods -- a composite healthy food good, a composite unhealthy food good (junk food) and a composite nonfood good. Data on household …
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FAMILY EATING BEHAVIOURS AND SCHOOL CHILDREN ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
… overall grades. Moreover, children’s intake of junk foods affected the relationship between overall family general eating behaviours and child’s extracurricular activity; children’s intake of junk foods also affected the relationship between the child’s specific eating behaviours and child’s …
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The symbolism and self-imaging of Marcel Duchamp
… including Neo-Dada, Op, Pop, Mobile Sculpture, Junk Art, Assemblage, Body Art, Happening, and Conceptual Art. Given his profound influence on contemporary and subsequent artists, Duchamp's own work remains extremely elusive and germinates all kinds of readings. The reason perhaps is that Duchamp …
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Organizing the middle landscape : a proposal for mixed-use nodal development in Atlanta
(cont.) of streams and adjacent junk spaces and serves to link areas of the city that are currently accessible only by automobile. The second involves the engagement of this new infrastructure through the addition of dense, walkable urban nodes composed of a variety of the elements that make up a …
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Architectural Consumption in Los Angeles: Modernism, Power, and the Aesthetic of Plenty
… or novelty, massive homes are turned to “junk” in pursuit of the ‘new’.
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Mammalian-wide interspersed repeats (MIRs) and their role in mammalian gene function and evolution
… Though originally considered as 'parasitic' or 'junk' DNA, TEs are now thought to have played a role in shaping genomes during evolution, contributing to genome plasticity and diversity. All classes of retrotransposons accumulate in the genome via a process termed retrotransposition, wherein the …
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Martyred Cars
… explore the daily business and labor of a desert junk yard and its brushes with the supernatural. Each chapter takes the point of view of a different character in their own struggles with work, life, and the entities and elements that taunt them from beyond the boundaries of known science. The …
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“Mexico, Public Policy and Obesity in a Global Context”
… about the risks and consequences that junk food may inflict; 3) encourage the drinking of water instead of soft drinks; 4) regulate food sold in and around schools; 5) implement further fiscal regulations on low nutritional value products; 6) regulate marketing towards children from …
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Towards a health promoting University: an exploratory study of the University of Cape Town
… integration, and availability of cigarettes and junk food on campus were found to be some of the factors that influence and constrain students' weIIbeing. It was also found wellbeing is not an explicit consideration in the university plans and policies, even though implicitly these are meant to …
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Taming Consumer Culture: A Contractarian Ethic for Advertising
… on childhood obesity and the advertising of junk foods. These chapters support the call for an ethic based on the principles of contractarianism by exerting three principles: (1) acknowledge advertising as a social institution that generates textual meanings of significance, influence and …
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Proximity operations of a miniature inspector satellite using emulated computer vision
If a micrometeoroid, a piece of space junk, launch debris, or a major system failure impacts the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), it can cause life-threatening damage. Past International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle repair missions have shown that inspection of a damaged system is crucial …
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Exploring Geographic Variations in Community and Consumer Food Environments for Children
… of socioeconomic distress are associated with junk food outlet density around elementary schools, while urbanicity is associated with branded marketing and inclusion of unhealthy desserts on children’s menus. When comparing London and Rochester, results indicate Canada-US differences exist and …
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An Analysis of the Potential Fiscal and Health Benefits of the Legalisation of the Sale of Marijuana in South Africa
… regarding an increase in the consumption of junk foods. The marijuana market already exists in South Africa, in both rural and non-rural areas and as such, both poorer and more developed communities could gain from the legalisation of marijuana in South Africa. Data was collected through …
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Globalizing Kenyan Culture: Jua Kali & the Transformation of Contemporary Kenyan Art: 1960-2010
… evidence of which is what Kenyan artists call `junk art'; which is made from global garbage garnered from dump sites, then recycled into original artworks, and finally shown/sold in local and transnational art markets, thus reflecting global flows. This genre of contemporary Kenyan art defies …
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Essays on risk assumption and liquidity management
… and a counter- factual CDS sample around the junk bond crisis of 1990. Taken together, estimates from theses two exercises suggest that CDS makes constrained firms more cautious in their in- vestment decisions when the economic environment is uncertain. Our result indicates that CDS could …
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Dross : re-genesis of diverse matter : a design post-praxis
… consumption modes, immense amounts of 'techno-junk' are being produced, not only in the size of objects (defunct computers), but also in the size of rooms (oil tanks, air-conditioning tubes, containers etc.) and buildings ('brownfields', abandoned landscapes). The content of this thesis engages …
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