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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"overreaching"”.
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Incremental Quantities Based Permissive Overreaching Transfer Trip Scheme for Protecting Inverter-Based Renewable Resources
… voltage and current coupled with the Permissive Overreaching Transfer Trip scheme (POTT) provide a remarkable ability to detect a spectrum of fault conditions with a marginal fault current. A spectrum of simulation studies is conducted to test the proposed protection scheme’s effectiveness under …
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THE IMPACT OF AMERICAN TELEVISION ON CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTS
… and more importantly, the results confirmed the overreaching impact based on substantial significant differences found between viewing groups. However, values are relatively hard to change and significant difference in values was only found between long-term and short-term viewers, which …
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Elementary preservice teachers' beliefs about teacher effectiveness
… about teacher effectiveness dwell around 12 overreaching categories; five regarding effective instruction (e.g., the physical environment of the classroom, types of pedagogical approaches), four about the characteristics of effective teachers (e.g., teacher persona, teacher control), and …
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Preparing the young offender for return to society: A theoretical evaluation of Guyanese juvenile delinquents' narratives based on general treatment models
… trouble, peer pressure, poverty, idleness and overreaching are among the factors highlighted in this analysis of youthful offending. Other findingsare presented in the form of theoretical analysis which demonstrates their fit with theoretical perspectives on delinquency and which explores the …
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A convergent parallel mixed method study on the experience of coping during high-risk pregnancy and prescribed bed rest
… denial and behavioral disengagement. The overreaching theme from the qualitative analysis was Coping in High-Risk Pregnancy. Seven themes were identified from the transcripts: Family Burdens, Fearfully Waiting, Leaning on Faith, Hope, Acceptance, Knowledge Seeking and Support Enhances …
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Confiscation or Serving the Public Good?
<p>Throughout the past decade, the idea of overreaching government policy has sparked a disconcerting impression among the American people. Is it true that the government can take private property for the benefit of private interests? After the Supreme Court decision in <em>Kelo v. City of New …
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The development of commercial mediation in South Africa in view of the experience in Europe, North America and Australia
… for an informal process, can in practice prove overreaching or inappropriate. A possible middle path could protect mediation confiddentiality and also allow evidence about the mediation to be admitted in limited curcumstances to be specified by the court on a case-by-case basis.
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Blackpool's Aerodromes 1928-36: Politics and the Local Media
… provided suggests that the Corporation's overreaching ambition to demonstrate 'airmindedness' was only partly responsible for the aerodrome's failure and that successive governments' air policies gave neither useful guidance to local authorities, nor sufficient funds to support aerodrome …
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Eyes In The Text: Surveying The Ocular Aesthetic In Pat Barker's War Trilogy
… of eyes and visuality in her war trilogy. The overreaching goal of the thesis to examine Barker's aestheticized notion of ocularity. It is my aim to come some conclusions about how vision / ocularity signal the emergence of a few central themes in the texts such as power relationships, …
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Switch-on-to-fault scheme for transmission line protection
… a faulted line. This is accomplished by enabling overreaching directional and nondirectional protection elements for a short window of time shortly after the transmission line breaker closes. When line potential transformers (PTs) are used to polarize directional distance relays, there is no …
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Supporting Large Scale Collaboration and Crowd-Based Investigation in Economics: A Computational Representation for Description and Simulation of Financial Models
… all levels, from personal investment choices to overreaching global economic policies, rely on some variation of try-and-error and are mostly non-scientific by definition. We lack transparency for procedures and evidence, proper explanation of market events, predictability on effects, or …
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Effects of Central Bank Independence in Emerging Market Economies
… attack in recent years, in some cases for overreaching their mandates and in others by powerful political actors wanting more expansionary monetary policies. To fight such pressure was the major reason that central banks were given independence. This study differs from much of the earlier …
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Normal Glycolytic Enzyme Activity Is Critical For Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1A Activity and Provides Novel Targets For Inhibiting Tumor Growth
… traditional chemo and radiotherapies. Thus, the overreaching goal of this research is to identify viable dual inhibitors of energy production and specific stress survival pathways to be used as a combinatorial therapy for patients in which tumor hypoxia has rendered standard therapeutic tools …
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Why we need to talk about preferences: A federalist proposal
… made by different research programs than from overreaching narratives about ‘what preferences really are.’
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Constitutional limits on the application of the political question doctrine: a study of Kenya, South Africa and Ghana
… urged to exercise deference to cure the claim of overreaching. However, principled approaches have yet to be proffered to guide the institution in the deference to employ when reviewing political questions for their constitutionality. This study fills the gap by offering a principled approach to …
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Novel Interventions to Improve Cerebral and Peripheral Vascular Function
… cerebrovascular function are unknown. The overreaching aim of this thesis was to investigate whether acute and repeated rIPC could enhance cerebral and peripheral vascular function in cohorts with increased risk of CVD. In a crossover study design, Study 1 aimed to assess the impact of a …
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The role of household wealth in funding self-employment in European countries
… Doing so allows this thesis to address three overreaching objectives: (1) to identify the difference in household wealth between self-employment and paid employment; (2) to investigate the impact of household wealth on the decision to be self-employed; and (3) to examine whether household …
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Dishonesty and social presence in retail
… of a social presence on consumer behaviour. The overreaching research question then guiding this dissertation is: What effect does a social presence have on thefts at self-service checkouts and can social presence be effectively implemented via technology? Three exploratory qualitative (Studies …
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Effect of acute and chronic exercise on immunoendocrine responses in professional rugby union
Prolonged and intense exercise is known to modulate and suppress certain aspects of the immunoendocrine system. Such effects are thought to be largely mediated by the release of stress hormones and regulatory cytokines which originate from a variety of stress related paradigms in sport. These …
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Monitoring neuromuscular fatigue in high performance athletes
With improving professionalism of sports around the world, the volume and frequency of training required for competitive performances at the elite level has increased concurrently. With this amplification in training load comes an increased need to closely monitor the associated fatigue responses, …
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