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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"novel theory"”.
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Functional Imagery Training, a novel, theory-based motivational intervention for weight-loss
… FIT is based on Elaborated Intrusion Theory, delivered in the style of Motivational interviewing (MI), and designed to promote sustained behaviour change and address cravings. It trains the habitual use of affective, goal-directed mental imagery of personal incentives, using imagery to …
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Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin
… based on financial, monetary, or economic theory. Recycling the same theoretical frameworks when performing hypothesis-deductive analysis of Bitcoin has the potential to create systemic-level analytical bias which could negatively impact public policy making efforts and could even pose a …
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A NOVEL THEORY OF SUPPORT IN SOCIAL MEDIA DISCOURSE (WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS)
… social media. It explores their utilisation of novel salient high-frequency and diverse device-enabled discourse categories of purpose and content. The predominate analysis is from computing and artificial intelligence. It is with an aspiration for the novel methods and novel theory to find its …
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Violence and American Statebuilding, 1860-1895
… over the legitimate use of violence, per the theory of Max Weber, or whether it represented a different kind of state entirely. Its answer rests in the latter camp: the US was not a Weberian state and demands a novel theory of violence grounded in historical research.
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Characterization of structural changes in thermally enhanced Kevlar-29® Fiber
… properties of heat-treated Kevlar-29® fibers. A novel theory was set forth that hydrogen bond disruption and concurrent misorientation of crystallites may account for the observed augmentation of compressive properties. To examine the said theory, virgin Kevlar-29® fibers were characterized by …
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Ionospheric imaging with compressed sensing
Compressed sensing is a novel theory of sampling and reconstruction that has emerged in the past several years. It seeks to leverage the inherent sparsity of natural images to reduce the number of necessary measurements to a sub-Nyquist level. We discuss how ideas from compressed sensing can …
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An event restriction interval theory of tense
This dissertation presents a novel theory of tense and tense-like constructions. It is named after a key theoretical component of the theory, the event restriction interval. In Event Restriction Interval (ERI) Theory, sentences are semantically evaluated relative to an index which contains two key …
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A Novel Fiber Jamming Theory and Experimental Verification
<p>This thesis developed a novel theory of fiber jamming and experimentally verified it. The theory relates the performance, which is the ratio between the stiff and soft states of a fiber jamming chamber, to three relative design parameters: the ratio of the wall thickness to the membrane inner …
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Design of sampling and interpolation systems with applications to medical imaging
Various aspects concerning the theory and design of sampling and interpolation systems are investigated in this dissertation. The first investigation is of time-sequential sampling. A novel theory of time-sequential sampling is developed which links time-sequential sampling with generalized …
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Heterogeneous Entrepreneurial Action: A Knowledge Problem Approach
… around the world. Subsequently, by providing a novel theory and empirical treatments of the causes of heterogeneity of entrepreneurial action, the dissertation signifies the continued relevance of the entrepreneurship discipline to the spheres of academia and practice.
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J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel
Scholars argue that Coetzee’s novels critique and disavow the origins and legacy of the novel tradition and its influence on the contemporary novel. They also claim that J.M. Coetzee’s novels herald in the demise of the contemporary novel. These interpretations are motivated by the political …
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The Storytelling Entrepreneur Has No Clothes: Risks and Rewards of Narrative Pitching
… the first catalog of startup stories and a novel theory of narrative backlash to entrepreneurship research, strategic communication, and institutional theory.
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
… commentators on 1790s radicalism, pedagogy, and novel conventions, their writings for children and for adults tend to be studied separately. Indeed, despite each writer's familiarity with the others' work, these figures are rarely discussed together. I argue that studying these authors' …
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Models of propositional content
… true, necessary, and known? One ambition of a theory of propositional content is to point to a class of entities that can be modeled in a way that satisfies the philosophical demands of each of these roles. To this end, I provide a novel theory of propositional content and show that it yields …
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Systems and control theoretic approaches to engineer robust biological systems
… of biomolecules that allow the cells to have novel sensing, computing, and actuation capabilities. However, most success stories to date rely heavily on trial and error. This is mainly because genetic systems are context-dependent: the expression level of a synthetic gene often depends not …
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Building partner armies : US lessons for an era of strategic competition
… and original interviews to generate and test a novel theory of SFA effectiveness. The empirical foundation is a controlled comparison of three cases of American SFA in a previous era of strategic competition: South Korea before and during the Korean War, Turkey in the aftermath of World War II, …
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Efficient algorithms for phylogenetic post-analysis
… post-analysis. In this dissertation, we present novel approaches and efficient algorithms for three post-analysis tasks: taking distances between (typically, all pairs in a set of) trees, bootstrapping, and building consensus trees. For instance, it is often the case that reconstruction finds …
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Biotic pump of atmospheric moisture: A conceptual model
The Biotic Pump Theory, as described by Drs. Makarieva and Gorshkov (M&G), defines the mechanism by which water vapour is transported from areas of low evaporation to areas of high evaporation, conveniently termed “donor” and “acceptor” regions, respectively, and where only the latter exhibits …
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Nationalism and Common Prosperity: The Impact of Ideological Symbiosis on Redistributive Preferences in China
… To address these questions, I develop a novel theory of ideological symbiosis to explain the relationship between nationalism and redistributive preferences in China. I argue that the regime has promoted a symbiosis between nationalism and socialism to sustain its legitimacy. Nationalists …
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Microstructural alterations in bearing steels under rolling contact fatigue
… of cyclic rolling contact. In this context, a novel theory is postulated to describe the migration of carbon caused by gliding dislocations. The theory combines the Cottrell atmosphere theory with the Orowan equation and is capable of quantifying the dislocation-assisted carbon flux. Based on …
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