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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"purging"”.
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Electroosmotic purging of contaminants from saturated soils
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1990.
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A Multi-Site Comparison of Purging-Type Disorders
… nervosa-binge/purge subtype (AN-B/P), and purging disorder (PD) patients. Data were collected from large multi-site centers in the US. Subjects (N = 2966) included current anorexia-binge/purge subtype (n = 138), current bulimia nervosa (n = 854), and current purging disorder (n = 41) …
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Purging God's People and Place: Levitical Sacrifice as a Prolegomenon to Hebrews
Chapter 1 first establishes the study's methodology, then explores Hebrews' interest(s) in Leviticus as a pathway into Leviticus itself, sketching Hebrews' appropriation of the Day of Atonement, the high priest as sacrificial officiant, daily sacrifices, the inauguration of covenant and cult, and …
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The Genetic Epidemiology of Purging Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa, and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
… 1 addressed the prevalence and heritability of purging and purging disorder in a population-based sample of female twins from the United States; and Study 2 investigated the nature of the co-morbidity between anorexia nervosa and obsessive compulsive personality disorder in a population-based …
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Evaluation of purging methods when sampling for volatile organic compounds from low-yield monitoring Wells
… study was to determine the effects various purging procedures have on chlorobenzene and 1,1,1-Trichloroethane concentrations in a simulated monitoring well and how effective purging procedures were in providing representative samples. The experimental apparatus consisted of a teflon …
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Sampling for volatile organic compounds from an aquitard: A field evaluation of screen length, purging method, and sampling time
Purging method, sampling time, and screen length were compared to determine their impact on the collection of representative ground-water samples from monitoring wells sited in an aquitard contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOC); Two well-purging methods--(1) pump to the bottom of the …
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Purging e alte dosi di chemioterapia con reinfusione di cellule staminali autologhe in linfomi non Hodgkin follicolari resistenti/refrattari
… after re-infusion. In 19 pts the SC underwent purging: in 10 harvests the CD34+ were selected by immunomagnetic beads, while in the other 9 pts, only Rituximab was used as “purging in vivo” agent. The remaining 9 pts received unpurged SC. Before ASCT 11 pts were in complete response (CR), 9 in …
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Prediction of bulimic behaviors: social learning analysis
… stressful events, and (5) number of binging and purging episodes. Participants were asked to monitor these events four times a day for seven days. Measures of locus of control and enjoyment ratings of binging and purging were also gathered prior to monitoring. Results indicated that components of …
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Unbalanced Exchange Flow
… of unbalanced exchange flow for the overnight purging of warm air from a room with a high-level and low-level ventilation opening. Existing design guidance for natural ventilation systems states that the airflow will be unidirectional, with flow in through the low-level opening and out through …
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The relationship between eating disorder symptomology, body image concerns, and early maladaptive schemas
… specific eating disorder symptoms were binging, purging and restricting. Participants were undergraduate college women. Eating disorder symptomology was measured along a continuum so that the sample encompassed individuals with eating disorder pathology ranging from asymptomatic to severe …
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Preparation of CO2-Switchable Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Latexes by Surfactant-Free Emulsion Polymerization
… by NaOH neutralization, followed by simple CO2 purging for redispersion. Full recovery of particle size and distribution, solids content and latex stability was achieved within 5 min of applying the triggers. The second switching cycle was carried out by alternating N2/CO2 purging. Sonication …
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Pathogenic Eating Behaviors and Psychological Risk Factors of Weight Preoccupied College Students
… this study confirmed high levels of bingeing and purging behavior (44%) among college men and women.
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Does individual ability play a role in educational attainment over and above household, school and other socio-economic circumstances?
… regarded as measures of manifest ability. After purging out the effects of age, education level, as well as household and schoollevel characteristics from these test scores, a latent measure of ability is obtained, which is relatively independent of socio-economic status.
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Guidelines towards the design and implementation of an inpatient treatment program for bulimics : a cognitive behavioural approach
… by binge eating followed by vomiting and/or purging, and a morbid fear of becoming fat (Russell, 1979) has only recently been identified and accepted as a discrete clinical syndrome (DSM III classification, 307.51), separate from the other major eating disorder classified in the DSM III, …
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Reconciling the Functions of Tragedy and Fantasy
… perform the same task through the provoking and purging of different emotions. The conclusions of this research support the idea that applying the tragic mode to fantasy can help to critique contemporary socio-political events, as well as to question received versions of history, through the use …
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Innovative Interventions for Disordered Eating: A Pilot Comparison Between Dissonance-Based and Yoga Interventions
Disordered eating, including bingeing, dieting, purging, and clinical and subclinical forms of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder, is prevalent among college-aged women. To date, few interventions have successfully reduced risk factors related to disordered eating. One …
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Field comparison of groundwater sampling methods
… devices which minimize or eliminate the need for purging would help to alleviate these problems. In this field comparison study, the performances of seven ground-water sampling devices, including two in situ sampling systems, were evaluated to determine if these devices would yield accurate, …
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Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry response pattern analysis of volatile organics in soils
… standards to the sample matrix just prior to purging the sample with an inert gas. Addition of the standards at this point in the analysis provides no information regarding the effect that the sample matrix has on the target compounds, with a resultant artificially low calculated value for the …
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Through the Heart of the City: Interstates and Black Geographies in Urban America
… improving Little Rock’s national reputation by purging the city's social memory and legacy of racial violence. Planning strategies elucidated the local, state, and federal confluence of power systems responsible for transforming urban spaces in Little Rock to the aims of white supremacy. This …
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Gas chromatographic determination of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitric oxide in diesel exhaust
… sieve column was achieved by heat-treating and purging with nitric oxide. The chromatograph was calibrated by introducing sample mixtures of known concentration and measuring the responses. The exhaust gases of a diesel engine were analyzed while the engine operated at constant speed and load. …
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