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Showing 1 to 20 of 950 for “"overwhelming"”.
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An argument of the overwhelming: architectural forms in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
This is a thesis investigation of the potential of architectural form in its ability to overwhelm. Architecture cannot be measured by bolts or decorative elements; it must be measured by its capacity to move us. Technological feats, humanistic comforts, or historical legacies will never yield the …
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Overwhelming responsibility : divorced mothers of children managing type 1 diabetes with their children
… theory describes the psychosocial process of overwhelming responsibility divorced mothers experience in managing T1D with their children. This process includes cooperating in co-parenting, living with diabetes, and assisting children in taking responsibility.
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An overwhelming journey: Mothers of children cochlear implant users experiences with speech-language pathologists
… that their child has a hearing loss as an overwhelming journey with much to learn and many decisions to make, especially in their child’s first year of life. Parents rely on professional support in developing their child’s listening and spoken language development. A phenomenological …
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The centrality of legitimacy and the limitations of the small footprint approach to military operations
… environment. The Powell Doctrine advocates overwhelming force to ensure victory. Detractors, such as David Kilcullen, argue that overwhelming force in the current environment breeds host nation dependence and resentment among the people, and that a “small footprint” approach is more …
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Roosevelt Island, NYC
… a mediating datum will be necessary given the overwhelming horizontal datum set by the bridge.
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Commercial Banks and the Availability of Agricultural Credit: The Effects of Bank Structure and Other Characteristics
These results showed no overwhelming evidence in favor of or against the trend toward commercial bank consolidation as it impacts agricultural lending. Therefore, further research into the issue is merited.
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Mothers and Medical Professionals in the NICU: A Look at Partnerships
… to what mothers want and need during this overwhelming time in their lives.
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Dynamic Discriminant Analysis with Applications in Computational Surgery
… capable of classifying data given systems with overwhelming similarity. Methods: Four new machine learning algorithms were developed (DLS, DPP, RELIEF-RBF, and Intent Vectors). These algorithms were then applied to the open problems within computational surgery. These algorithms are designed …
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… Manovich, and Ian Bogost have demonstrated the overwhelming complexity of life in an age of accelerating globalization. Building on their work and the narrative theory of Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris, I explore how literary narratives employ newly prominent composite narrative structures to …
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
… dynamics within Arizona that contributed to the overwhelming public support for SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact the law has had thus far within the state. Finally, it postulates the future of Arizona’s immigration policy.</p>
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Aligning intent and behavior in software systems: how programs communicate & their distribution and organization
Managing the overwhelming complexity of software is a fundamental challenge because complexity is the root cause of problems regarding software performance, size, and security. Complexity is what makes software hard to understand, and our ability to understand software in whole or in part is …
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Without Them
… how to rebuild a life and a home in spite of overwhelming grief.</p>
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“That Those Hearing or Reading Might Strive to Imitate”: Donative Intent, Positive Triangular Mimetic Desire, and the Portrayal of the Mediator-Divine (non)Object Relationship in Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, and Richard Crashaw
… language and stylistic choices communicate the overwhelming and displacing aspects of these events, while bringing about a reading experience that is in its own way overwhelming and displacing. Julian of Norwich, I will demonstrate, undertakes a hermeneutic of identification conflating mediator …
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A methodology for integrating maintainability into large-scale software using software metrics
… the development life cycle as possible to avoid overwhelming maintenance costs at later stages. This research describes a methodology which assists in the development of maintainable systems and does so without disrupting industry standard development techniques. The process uses software metrics …
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Transcriptional response of O⁶-methylguanine methyltransferase deficient yeast to methyl-N-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG)
… was found to be repressed in the WT. The overwhelming induction of ribosomal protein synthesis genes in both WT and mgtl in response to MNNG is an unexpected result that could signify a successful recovery following wide-spread cellular damage.
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Whispering Images Howling Words
… the abundance of news, voices, and events is so overwhelming that it leads to confusion and anxiety among the people, causing them to lose their ability to comprehend the situation and make decisions.
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An Algorithm for the Detection and Integration of Highly Oscillatory Ordinary Differential Equations Using a Generalized Unified Modified Divided Difference Representation
… which implements the algorithm and exploits the overwhelming similarity between the generalized methods and conventional integration methods, is discussed along with some numerical results.
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Facilitating the development of learning strategies in an online learning environment
… a mixed-methods approach. The module had an overwhelming response with the enrolment of more than 16,000 learners’ notably more female learners than male learners. The findings indicate that learners prefer metacognitive strategies and they have a tendency to combine them with general …
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Curved brick design methodology and manufacturing system
… the financial expense of construction can be overwhelming. There is a need for more appropriate technologies for low-cost construction. This thesis presents a concise review of construction technologies and then offers a design methodology for creating curved, interlocking brick geometries …
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