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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"medal"”.
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Evaluating the Impact of Equipment Investments on Olympic Medal Probabilities for Australian Professional Cyclists
… in new cycling equipment to boost their expected medal counts. This research takes a three-phased approach at selecting an efficient equipment investment portfolio for AusCycling that results in high medal probability. Using machine learning techniques, we first build a CATBoost prediction …
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Techniques used by elementary library media specialists to teach Caldecott Medal and Honor Award books
… perceptions of the usefulness of Caldecott Medal and Honor Award books in the elementary library media center curriculum. The study was conducted to measure the techniques elementary school library media specialists considered the most effective towards increasing student reading and reading …
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‘On account of high merits’: The portrait medals of Isabella d’Este and the image of the female collector
… opulently embellished personal portrait medal. This gold and diamond encrusted medal was kept in Isabella’s private studiolo; however, there was also a base medal version which was mass produced and widely circulated. This paper examines the ways Isabella d’Este negotiated her anomalous …
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Heroes of Peace:The Royal Humane Society and the Award of Medals in Britain,1774-1914
… the United Kingdom and overseas, whilst the medal which it established in 1775 to reward such deeds became the first British bravery medal to be widely distributed to both men and women of all social classes and also served as a model both for other societies and the Crown. Unlike continental …
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Awards and public perception: exploring the relationship between the evolution of American military awards and the changing American public
… to the changing beliefs of the public. The Medal of Honor is prevalent among these awards, both as a well-studied subject and as an award with clear alterations over its existence, and as such, provides a focused case study furthering the argument of the thesis. Looking at the history of …
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Performance trends of seasoned Two Oceans Ultramarathon runners
… sex, number of ultramarathons completed, medal category of peak performance and age at debut Two Oceans Ultramarathon; 2) to determine average performance, peak performance, worst performance and the pattern of improvement or decline in performance in seasoned ultramarathon runners over 20 …
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A social and Military History of the 1/8th Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, in the Great War
… public collections, as well as the war diaries, medal rolls and service papers held at the Public Record Office (PRO), Kew. Local newspapers have also been widely consulted.
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The Printed Work of Vivant Denon (1747--1825)
… other subjects, scenes from Napoleon's battles, medal designs, society portraits and objects from Denon's private art collection.
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Benjamin E. Mays: The Role of Character in the Prolonged Struggle for African American Civil Rights
… 49, respectively) to award Mays the Presidential Medal of Freedom “in honor of his distinguished career as an educator, civil and human rights leader, and public theologian,” the Medal was denied by the Reagan and G.W. Bush administrations. The equality issues that existed during Mays's life …
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Effects of action video game training on spatial attention
… were trained for ten hours on either Tetris or Medal of Honor. Mean reaction time across all conditions was significantly improved in both groups. However, there was no evidence for enhanced top-down control due to video game training in this experiment.
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On the Burnside Problems
… areas. Since Zelmanov was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 mainly because of his work on the Restricted Burnside Problem, there has been increasing interest in understanding or studying Burnside Problems. In this paper, formulation of various Burnside Problems will be given, development and …
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The question of value: Reading Stephen King in a literary context
… awarded best-selling author Stephen King the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A number of scholarly elitists, including renowned critic Harold Bloom, vehemently condemned the National Book Foundation's decision to offer such a prestigious award to a popular fiction …
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The physiological characteristics of elite women's basketball
… Junior Women's Team (Gems) won a silver medal at the 1997 World Junior Championships and is currently ranked two in the World and the Senior Women's Team, which won its first ever Olympic medal (bronze) at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, is currently ranked three. Given the increase in …
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The Iconography of Kee -Chung Sohn in Korean Cultural Memory
… legendary figure in Korea since he won the gold medal in the marathon in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. His achievement has a great symbolic meaning to the Koreans because it happened during the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula, the most agonizing period in Korean history. Using …
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Writing the Young Adult Novel: Analysis and Process
… young adult novels that received the Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to children's literature. The creative section is an original young adult novel that incorporates some of the characteristics uncovered …
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The sculptor Sir George Frampton
… at the Royal Academy, after winning the Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship (which took him to Paris), in 1899. He went on to regularly exhibit at the RA and was elected an Associate in 1894 and full RA in 1902. His range of work was widespread in the fields of architectural decoration …
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An Analysis of the Changing Roles of Female Characters in Newbery Award-Winning Fiction Since 1964
… novels were selected from the list of Newbery Medal and Honor books because they dealt with contemporary themes and settings. These books have been .analyzed by categorizing each major or supporting adult female character into one of five categories of the "Occupational Prestige Rating Scale'' …
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