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Showing 1 to 20 of 240 for “"nice"”.
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Nice Polynomials
… of finding, constructing, and classifying nice polynomials. After a short history of previous results, we present a general property of nice polynomials which leads to an important modification of the concept of equivalence classes of nice polynomials. We give several important results on …
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Opening the black box of the health technology assessment process at NICE
… Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and its Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process. The HTA process represents many diagnostic areas within one centralised, calculable process. The qualities of calculative practice, which mediate such complexity within one central framework, …
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The NICE-OHVMS technique: realizing the full potential of precision molecular ion spectroscopy
… Heterodyne Velocity Modulation Spectroscopy (NICE-OHVMS) is one of the most sensitive spectroscopic techniques specific to molecular ions. NICE-OHVMS relies on the combination of three separate techniques, each of which is a powerful tool. Cavity enhancement extends the interaction pathlength …
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Being Nice is Lethal: Disciplining and Subverting Southern Femininity in Contemporary Southern Popular Culture
<p>This thesis focuses on the performance of southern femininity in contemporary southern popular culture, specifically prescriptive literature and reality television. Both texts provide valuable insight into how southern femininity is disciplined and subverted by individual women and the public. …
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Be Nice or Pay the Price : Added Value of Interpersonal Skills Training on Analogue Consultation Outcomes
School psychologists are trained in various models of problem solving and interviewing, however the interpersonal skills that play an integral role in consultation are not uniformly taught to trainees. The primary objective of this study was to examine the added value of an interpersonal skills …
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"Nice ink, man": a biocultural, mixed methods approach to tattooing as costly honest signaling among southern women
In this thesis I examine the influence of a cultural model of tattooing on psychological and biological stress in a sample of Southern tattooed women. The handicap principle of sexual selection states that a high risk ornament is utilized by a mate to show high-quality health. The handicap …
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Assessing risk of familial breast cancer: effectiveness of current UK guidelines
… Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines use family history to stratify patients by 10-year risk of breast cancer from the ages 40-49. Patients are divided into low (10-year risk <3%), moderate (3-8%) and high risk (>8%). Those with a BRCA mutation are considered to be …
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Learning-based Scheduling
… Neural network IP Coefficient Extraction (NICE), a novel technique that combines reinforcement learning and integer programming to tackle the problem of robust scheduling. More specifically, NICE uses reinforcement learning to approximately represent complex objectives in an integer …
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A Computational Tsirelson's Theorem for All Compiled Nonlocal Games
… nonlocal games. Building on the notion of nice sum-of-squares certificates, introduced by Natarajan and Zhang (FOCS' 23) to bound the value of the compiled CHSH game, we extend the niceness framework and construct a hierarchy of semidefinite programs that searches exclusively over nice …
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Transferring big data across the globe
… this dissertation is the development of a new, "nice" model for big data transfers, which is based on a store-and-forward methodology instead of an end-to-end approach. This nice model ensures that big data transfers only occur when there is idle bandwidth that can be repurposed for these large …
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The candidate countries and institutional reform of the European Union
… it was not until the European Council meeting in Nice in December 2000 when the Intergovernmental Conference2 (IGC) was concluded and a new treaty3 came into being introducing the necessary and anxiously awaited basic institutional changes. The objective of this research paper is to analyze the …
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Comparison of Revvity soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and Placental Growth Factor methods on the DELFIA Xpress with Roche methods on the cobas e411: in a patient cohort with suspected preeclampsia as defined by NICE
Background: Measurement of angiogenic biomarkers; soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt-1) and placental like growth factor (PlGF), are increasingly used to support the diagnosis of preeclampsia in routine clinical practice. There are an increasing number of methods available for the analysis of …
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An Algorithm to Generate Two-Dimensional Drawings of Conway Algebraic Knots
… knots with a large number of crossings will not nicely generate two-dimensional drawings. This thesis presents an efficient algorithm to generate a knot and to create a nice two-dimensional embedding of the knot. For the purpose of this thesis a drawing is “nice” if the number of tangles in the …
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Progress in sensitive mid-infrared spectroscopy of cooled molecular ions
… optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy (cm-NICE-OHMS) on a continuous gas-flow pinhole supersonic expansion discharge source for the study of cooled molecular ions. The instrument, which began as a difference-frequency generation (DFG) based system, is upgraded to include a continuous-wave …
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Development of a sensitive mid-infrared spectrometer for the study of cooled molecular ions
… optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS) system has been developed and characterized through rovibrational spectroscopy of methane. In addition, an attempt was made to use this spectrometer to probe molecular ions focused into an ion beam. Challenges inherent to laboratory …
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Petechiae in Children (PiC) study: evaluating potential clinical decision rules for the management of feverish children with non-blanching rashes, including the role of point of care testing for Procalcitonin & Neisseria meningitidis DNA
… Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines CG102 and NG51demonstrated specificities of 0·00 and 0·01 respectively for the identification of MD. The specificities of the NICE CPGs were significantly lower(p<0.0001) than all other CPGs. The best performing CPGs were the London …
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Studies in belief and belief attribution
… willing to assent to pairs like (1) 'Hesperus is nice' and (2) 'Phosphorus is not nice.' I assume an interpretivist account of belief content, according to which an agent has the beliefs that best explain her behavior, and I propose certain principles of interpretation to substantiate this view. I …
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Sensitive and high-precision rovibrational spectroscopy of molecular ions relevant to astronomical and quantum chemistry
… Heterodyne Velocity Modulation Spectroscopy (NICE-OHVMS) combines the sensitivity of cavity-enhanced methods with the selectivity of velocity modulation. In this work, a NICE-OHVMS instrument which suffered from parasitic etalons and a sub-optimal mid-infrared (mid-IR) detector was …
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Dynamics of bankrupt stocks
… the Hard-to-Borrow stocks. Besides the general nice feature of the Hard-to-borrow feedback for the buy-in demand, the bankrupt stocks could exclude the diffusive effects. This nice property would modify the Marco Avellaneda and Mike Lipkin's jump-diffusion model for the Hard-to-Borrow stocks …
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