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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"misfits"”.
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A Collection of Misfits
… creative writing thesis, <em>A Collection of Misfits</em>, includes a critically informed introduction which places my works of fiction within the larger conversation of contemporary fiction. These short stories explore numerous ways in which characters fail to connect to the world around …
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Maypoles and Misfits : A Study of Puritan Orthodoxy and Anglican Heterodoxy in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts
<p>The particular ideas and history of Puritanism in America has been the focus of historians of many different persuasions for diverse purposes. The relationship between Puritanism in England and the evolution of Puritanism in America, as it relates to the history of Anglicanism and American …
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The impact of Europeanisation on policy-making inTurkey: controversies, uncertainties and misfits in broadcasting policy, 1999-2005
The recognition of Turkey’s candidacy for European Union (EU) membership at Helsinki European Council Summit in December 1999 marked a profound shift in EU-Turkey relations, which has been difficult and turbulent for decades. Turkey started undergoing a drastic transformation after the Helsinki …
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The Mermaid of Champion Mill
Three Missoula misfits stumble upon a mermaid in an abandoned lot. The mermaid becomes the center of a freak show in which the three misfits perform their individual quirks for a constantly growing audience. Gradually, the repeated performances take their toll and the misfits find themselves …
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The Mermaid of Champion Mill
Three Missoula misfits stumble upon a mermaid in an abandoned lot. The mermaid becomes the center of a freak show in which the three misfits perform their individual quirks for a constantly growing audience. Gradually, the repeated performances take their toll and the misfits find themselves …
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Emergent properties of misfit layer compounds from first principles.
… trial-and-error synthesis, making the design of misfits’ emergent properties hindered by a lack of a global picture. Our work offers an original perspective by deriving misfits’ properties from those of their constituent layers. We identify the fundamental mechanism governing charge transfer and …
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Reaction Paths for Self-Organized Surface Roughening of Silicon-Germanium Alloys During Hydride Gas-Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy
… steps associated with the interfacial misfits. The surface steps are preferential H desorption sites, thus the increased total step length results in a decrease in thetaH on terraces which increases RSiGe and allows higher adatom ascending step crossing probabilities which, driven by …
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Gravity constraints on extension and magmatism in the northernmost Rio Grande rift, northern Colorado
… reveal, large amplitude, long wavelength gravity misfits showing a gravity overestimation in the Park Basins region and underestimation near the Colorado-Utah state border. These misfits were reduced by adding igneous features at various depths within the lithosphere and lateral density and …
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Cheat River
… in with political activists and a household of misfits. He disappears, and Allison comes to the city to look for him. By retracing her brother's life, she realizes not only what he meant to her but what it will take to survive on her own.
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Community spaces in elderly housing: a study of design research communication
… responsive settings for daily living. Existing misfits between behavioral needs of the elderly and the community spaces in planned residential environments are explored. It was found that the designer often worked with inadequate and sometimes misleading information while confronted with tasks …
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Quantitative Analysis of River Profiles and Fluvial Landscapes
… features of the African landscape with average misfits of O(10)s of metres, yielding sediment flux histories with misfits of <20%. The effect of varying precipitation rate is investigated using increasingly severe tests. Inverse modelling of synthetic fluvial profiles from the resultant …
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Investigation of the structure and elemental composition of 2D Interfaces in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
… of TMDs should have minimum number of defects, misfits, or inclusions of other elements. This indicates a need to understand the structural and elemental composition of the 2D materials to atomic scales, and this is where techniques like (scanning) transmission electron microscopy (S)TEM and …
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Rural Homes and Secondary School Integration
… this we get a group of educated and "uneducated" misfits in the world. Again, money is held up to the child as the goal of life. We honor those of great wealth rather than those having achieved great things in this world. Because of this many boys and girls leave honest labor and try their hand at …
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U.K. youth television: moral panic and the process of U.S. adaptation in Skins
… to the U.S. in the form of shows like Skins and Misfits. The original versions of these programs are very popular, and when these programs are adapted, they remain popular but lose their unique stylistic qualities and their alternative political messages about youth. This thesis examines how the …
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Strength and ductility of Mg alloys from first-principles
… Additionally, we study solute stacking fault misfits for the pyramidal (1-101) plane as a secondary slip system.
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Crossing the boundary: transnationality and interracial marriage encounters in Jane Katjavivi's undisciplined heart and Trudie Amulungu's taming my Elephant
… traditions and languages. The children became misfits in the new school environments and trying to overcome adversity in strange environments. They felt distanced and alienated from their cultures, which negatively affected their family relationships and performance in school. The study …
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End-to-End (E2E) solutions: an exploration of value conversion contingencies in a developing country
… Ability, Complementary Resources, Software Misfits, Integration, Customer Readiness, Information Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure and Regulatory Environment.
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Probabilistic Programming for Postoperative Bleeding
… Concept-based Analysis of Surface and Structural Misfits, we analyse the conceptual fit between clinicians' mental models of uncertainty and the ways uncertainty is represented in these computational modelling tools. This work moves beyond traditional goals of AI interpretability in clinical …
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