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Showing 1 to 20 of 409 for “"ride"”.
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The Dark Ride
… studies and American studies, "The Dark Ride" defines the standard amusement park attraction both generally within the contexts of horrific iconography and the history of amusement devices and structures, and also specifically within the contexts of five amusement park environments. As a …
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To Ride On
<p>This is a collection of creative nonfiction essays.</p>
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Paper Dolls Ride Shotgun
<p>Each of the four characters represent four approaches to the dynamic between the academy and the inner city because the novel lies at the intersections of four critical frameworks. First, the post and post-postmodern literary theory of Calinescu, McHale, and Huber, who do excellent work in …
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Designing & Manufacturing Free-Ride Skis
… To do this, first a detailed design of a freeride/powder ski was created. From there, and with lots of learning and guidance in the machine shop, a pair of skis and a press were manufactured. When it was all said and done, the skis looked like skis; albeit homemade skis but skis nonetheless. …
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Dark Ride: A Novel in Verse
This novel in verse, titled Dark Ride, is a coming-of-age story set in and around Gibsonton, Florida, a city established in 1949 as a winter home for carnival and circus showpeople. The collection engages with disability studies through the lens of the protagonist—a young woman named Emanuela—and …
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Three essays on ride-hailing markets
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Choosing Networks for Ride-Hailing Platforms
… As companies prepare to deploy these vehicles on ride-hailing platforms, a key operational challenge is determining the networks on which to train the vehicles. Our work contributes toward addressing this challenge on three fronts. First, we develop a theoretical model of the network selection …
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Creación del videojuego Time Ride en Unity
… desarrollo y pruebas de usuario de Time Ride, un videojuego para la plataforma Windows creado mediante el entorno de desarrollo Unity y el lenguaje de programación C#. Time Ride es un roguelike 2D con estética píxel art en el que el jugador debe conducir al personaje a través de las …
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Analysis of On-Demand Ride-Hailing Systems
… there has been a rapid rise of on-demand ride-hailing platforms, such as Uber and Didi, which allow passengers with smartphones to submit trip requests and match them to drivers based on their locations and drivers availability. This increased demand has raised questions about how such a …
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Hitching a ride: A gastropod-associated microbiome community at a Hydrate Ride methane seep and impacts on local biogeochemical cycling
Exploration of cold seeps from geological, chemical, and biological perspectives has grown exponentially in recent decades since the first discovery of cold seeps in the 1980s. Symbiotic relationships, often rooted in geochemistry of the environment, have proven to be ubiquitous at cold seeps. …
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Why do White men ride the glass escalator?
Women face barriers to advancement in male-dominated fields (Glass Ceiling) and in female-dominated fields (Glass Escalator). More research is needed to elucidate the causes of these barriers in order to reduce the negative effects on women’s advancement. This study attempted to broaden the …
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Impacts of ride-hailing services on travel behavior
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Managing multiple services on a ride-hailing platform
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-12-01
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To What Extent Do Ride-Hailing Services Replace Public Transit? A Novel Geospatial, Real-Time Approach Using Ride-Hailing Trips in Chicago
Existing literature on the relationship between ridehailing (RH) and transit services is limited to empirical studies that rely on self-reported answers and lack spatial and temporal contexts. To fill this gap, the research takes a novel approach that uses real-time geospatial analyzes. Using this …
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Effects of stabilizer bars on road vehicle ride quality
… the effects of such stabilizer bars on ride quality. The purpose of the research is to determine the need for further studies in the area of active roll stabilizer systems. Two dynamic vehicle models are developed: the simplified front-car model and the full-vehicle-body …
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Rural Midwestern Public College Safe Ride Program Case Study
… decisions to institutionalize a safe ride program at a small, rural college. The purpose of this single/within-site case study was to describe the changes that happened at a rural public institution of higher education and the surrounding community in the Midwest where safe ride …
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