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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"lifelines"”.
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Primary Lifelines: Friendship Groups of Women in Higher Education
A qualitative study of women in seven informal friendship groups identified the cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes utilized to support women working in higher education and traced the movement of each group through the friendship phases of formation, maintenance, and dissolution. …
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RHETORICAL LIFELINES: QUEER AND FEMINIST SURVIVAL IN RIYOKO IKEDA’S THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES
This dissertation explores the rhetorical lifelines of queer and feminist survival in the adapted animation of Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the rhetorics of place/space and embodiment in the animation. Drawing from feminist and …
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Determining the Damage State of the Electrical Distribution System Following an Earthquake
… a natural disaster strikes a populated area, the lifelines which support the area, water, electricity, etc., are all affected. These effects intertwine and affect the local populace, causing hardship and harm. The goal of this research was to attempt to reduce the harm done to the affected …
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Predictive earthquake damage modeling for natural gas distribution infrastructure
… power, and transportation services, these lifelines serve critical functions throughout multiple communities. Considering PG&E provides services in both densely populated and seismically active areas, the organization has invested extensively in modeling technology to help estimate resource …
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Earthquake loss estimation including transportation network damage
… industrial production capacity, and damage to lifelines, residential clusters and other structural components in an integrated framework. By modifying input parameters, one can evaluate the effect on the losses of various mitigating actions. The methodology is thus useful for prioritizing …
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A User Centric Interface for the Management of Past, Present and Future Events [PhD thesis presentation]
… to meet every individual's needs. The concept of lifelines has been introduced for the organizational requirements of a single person's life events that made it possible to distinguish from being the part of an event and being the witness of an event. This visualization model made it easier to …
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A User Centric Interface for the Management of Past, Present and Future Events [PhD thesis full text]
… to meet every individual's needs. The concept of lifelines has been introduced for the organizational requirements of a single person's life events that made it possible to distinguish from being the part of an event and being the witness of an event. This visualization model made it easier to …
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An evaluation of the motivational factors of network marketing independent distributors using Vroom's work motivation theory
… have existed, as these entrepreneurs are their lifelines.
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Seismic Risk Analysis for Mid-America Communities
… the dominant seismic risk source for lifelines in communities in the small source zone is the New Madrid seismic fault, and in the large and the outside source zones the whole of Mid-America. These results have positive implications for Mid-America communities. The communities can …
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Evaluation of Tsunami Design Codes and Recommendations for Bridges Susceptible to Tsunami Inundation
… tsunami inundation zones provide critical lifelines to coastal communities, the effects of tsunamis on transportation systems have not been evaluated. The high fluid velocities, wave heights, long period waves and inundation speeds of tsunamis are not typically seen for storm surges or …
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Cotheorizing Healing With Undergraduate Queer and Trans Latina Survivors of Power-Based Violence
… culturally rooted campus resources as critical lifelines for achieving safety and healing, particularly when these spaces reflected shared identities and relational care. Cocreators critically assessed institutional resources and made intentional decisions about when, if, and how to seek …
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Seismic loss assessment of sequential rupture of New Madrid Seismic Zone on the Central US
… incur severe damage. Transportation and utility lifelines experience serious functionality impairments. Catastrophic consequences result in nearly 86,000 casualties and approximately $300 billion in direct economic loses. Finally, essential components of future research work are identified. The …
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Coming Out of Childhood: Adolescents and Art Therapy
… and the past through childhood symbols and lifelines, and that deals ' with crucial issues of adolescence through emerging symbols and identity issues. These projects were used with 20 adolescents from ages 12 to 15 years. Due to the informal nature of this study, it is not possible to …
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Seismic behaviour of shallow foundations on layered liquefiable soils
… and has been observed to severely affect key lifelines.<br/>Settlement and tilting of shallow foundations resting on saturated sandy/silty<br/>soils has been repeatedly observed throughout the world as a consequence of<br/>liquefaction or softening of the foundation soil. Such settlements and …
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Development and application of a microfluidic single-cell cultivation device to simulate dynamic environmental conditions for Corynebacterium glutamicum
… dMSCC device with traditional devices, cellular lifelines representing cells travelling through the different substrate zones of a large-scale bioreactor, created using computational fluid dynamics simulations, were analysed in the dMSCC system for the first time. It was found that the …
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Experimental and numerical investigations to assess the behaviour of a buried pipeline in areas with high geological instability
… important part of research and a challenge for lifelines owners that are interested in prevent or limit pipeline damages. Within the framework of GIPIPE1 research program (SAFETY OF BURIED STEEL PIPELINES UNDER GROUND-INDUCED DEFORMATIONS) new full-scale facilities have been developed and …
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Characterization of nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices amongst agricultural extension agents and their beneficiaries in the dry corridor of Honduras
… of Honduras. Agricultural extension agents are lifelines for rural farming communities, offering knowledge and resources to support agricultural productivity. Integration of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programs into agricultural extension services (AES) has shown some prior …
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Soil-pipeline interaction in unsaturated soils
… of energy and services are very important lifelines to modem society. Though pipelines are generally buried in unsaturated soils, the design guidelines are based on the assumption that the soil is either dry or fully saturated. For certain geotechnical problems, this assumption may not be …
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