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Relationship preservation
This thesis deals with a number of puzzles related to word order, in which the co-occurence of two elements in the same clause imposes a restriction on the distribution of these elements. I suggest that elements involved in Agree relationships [Chomsky (2000, 2001)] are subject to a requirement …
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Fabricated Preservation
"Fabricated Preservation" aims to push the boundaries with traditional theses, creating a multi-layered experience that blends fact and fiction through a performance that centers around environmental storytelling in virtual reality. The experience questions the balance of theatrical elements in …
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Preservation of a species
To put it simply, humans are going extinct. I identify the source of the problem as an imperceptible societal trend to eliminate the experience that authenticates us as a living species: failure. We've unanimously designated its unattainable opposite as the standard of success: perfection. This …
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Experiments on biomarker preservation
… processes associated with body fossil preservation in Holocene-age concretions that have encapsulated partially-to-fully decomposed fish (capelin - Mallotus villosus). Here I focus on two environments that have produced highly contrasting preservation endmembers that serve as …
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Transplant organ preservation cooler
… time has been developed in the transplant organ preservation cooler. The preservation cooler enhances organ viability by maintaining a temperature controlled organ bath and pumping perfusate through the transplant organ. The emphasis on the transplant organ preservation cooler is to provide a …
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Pathways to family preservation services
… in Las Vegas, Nevada's Intensive Family Preservation Program, the crisis precipitators that these families experience, and the services that were directed at the identified crisis precipitators. A qualitative research design was utilized in the analysis of 15 case files. Majority of the …
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Gravegoods: A Primer for Preservation
… Texas is home to many historic cemeteries. The preservation of these cemeteries includes the care of gravemarkers and the management of cemetery grounds. Unfortunately, these practices often neglect gravegoods. The Caddo people have some of the earliest gravegood usage in Deep East Texas, dating …
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Improving female fertility preservation care
Contains fulltext : 129682.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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A contextual approach to preservation.
Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Modelling historic preservation tax incentives
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Contributions to Exceptional Fossil Preservation
… critical factors involved in exceptional fossil preservation will ultimately our advance our knowledge regarding the history of the biosphere and the Earth system as a whole. Each chapter of original research in this dissertation includes an innovative and distinct approach for studying …
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Donor heart preservation for heart transplantation
… deaths as either infection or rejection. Optimum preservation of the donor heart has also provided a difficult challenge, such that, despite a considerable scientific effort little advance has been achieved to extend the 4 hour safe storage limit which has remained in place over the past 20 years. …
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Destructive preservation : figuring the urban ground
What does it mean to invert the urban fabric? When figure becomes ground, and ground becomes figure, how does a neighborhood adapt to moving from extreme privacy to communal living? Despite the complete destruction of the existing fabric, the proposition immediately disallows a Utopian, …
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Preservation and development of ethnic neighborhoods.
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch. in Advanced Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1977.
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Future past: integrated preservation information systems
… an interdisciplinary dialogue concerning preservation goals and objectives. A comprehensive, integrated information base is essential to sustaining the viability of this diverse cultural heritage and to promoting a national preservation agenda. The collective experiences and practices of …
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