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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"sleeper"”.
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Sleeper Cell
<p>This thesis contains the manuscript of a genre prose novel, as well as a critical introduction detailing the study of specific elements of craft experimented with in this novel--chiefly, the use of multiple narrators in a novel and the use of traditional stories to inspire and inform new works. …
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Reviving the Sleeper Effect
… to delve into the cognitive dynamics of the sleeper effect. The study investigated the role of persuasive message repetition (once, twice), the position of a discounting cue, which challenged the stated position of a communication, the cue’s credibility (high/low) and the timing of the cue …
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Design and performance evaluation of railway sleeper baseplate hold-down system for timber sleeper elastic fasteners
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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The Sleeper Effect: an Alternative Direction For Investigation
As revealed by research in 1949, the sleeper effect is the increased attitude change of individuals over a period of time when compared to attitude change immediately after listening to a message. During the intervening years between the initial studies and the present day, the sleeper effect has …
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Track behaviour: the importance of the sleeper to ballast interface
… of the mechanical behaviour of the<br/>sleeper/ballast interface, related in particular, to the forces applied by high speed tilting trains on<br/>low radius curves. The research has used literature review, field measurements, and laboratory<br/>experiments on a single sleeper bay of …
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The artificial gravity sleeper--a deconditioning countermeasure for long duration space habitation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1988.
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Elements and stable isotopes as tracers for sleeper shark biology and the Iceland marine food web
… was investigated. The element analysis of two sleeper shark species, Pacific ('Somniosus pacificus') and Greenland ('Somniosus microcephalus'), collected from different ecosystems demonstrated that elements are useful indicators of physiological and exposure differences between closely related …
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Sleepers and Creepers, Colony Polymorphisms in Metarhizium robertsii
… phenotypes: a highly conidiating phenotype (Sleeper), a primarily hyphal phenotype (Creeper) and an intermediary (Mixed) phenotype that represents the middle range between the Sleeper and Creeper phenotypes. Based on our findings, Sleepers typically have a higher fungal mass recovered from …
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Condition assessment methods for prestressed concrete railway sleepers: feasibility for South African applications
Concrete sleepers are a key component of railway systems, with estimates showing between 20 million to 35 million currently installed within the South African railway network. The condition assessment of concrete sleepers in South Africa poses a challenge for two main reasons: the scale at which …
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Condition assessment methods for prestressed concrete railway sleepers: feasibility for South African applications
Concrete sleepers are a key component of railway systems, with estimates showing between 20 million to 35 million currently installed within the South African railway network. The condition assessment of concrete sleepers in South Africa poses a challenge for two main reasons: the scale at which …
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An investigation of the identification of subjective and objective daytime cognitive failures in people with psychophysiological insomnia and good sleeper controls
… SATcomplex differentiate a group of PI from good sleeper controls (GS). The study concludes that the CFQ is a useful inclusion to PI research and provides more detailed evidence relating to the occurrence of daytime cognitive deficits in PI, however a measure with a stable multifactor may be more …
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A Procedure To Develop Scalable Reduced Models For The Transient Response of Sleepers In Conventional And High-speed Railway Lines.
… and traveling wave effects of distant sleepers in a long railway track. For development purposes, and, without loss of generality, the geometry of the sleepers is consistent with the UIC-60 track system commonly used in European High Speed Rail. The proposed reduced models are based on …
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Evaluation of the residual prestress force in aged railway concrete sleepers considered for reuse
… railway track is the prestressed concrete sleeper. In South Africa, these sleepers are designed to last for 40 years, and their replacement plan is aligned with their design life. Given the desire to extend the useful life of sleepers, aged concrete sleepers are often removed from primary …
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Investigating the link between depression and restless legs syndrome: a controlled comparison of mood and motor restlessness in restless legs syndrome, with primary insomnia and good sleeper controls
… insomnia group (PI), and non-restless good sleeper controls (NRC). Fifteen participants were recruited to each group. To elucidate the mechanisms of the observed comorbidity between RLS and Depression, measures of mood/affect prior to, during and immediately following a Suggested …
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Bridge approach slab analysis and design incorporating elastic soil support
… have been discussed. Moreover, the functions of sleeper slab at the pavement end of the conventional design are studied. It is replaced by a modified end-section reinforcement detailing to provide enhanced local two-way action, providing increased flexural rigidity in the direction transverse to …
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Injurious Distances: Mobility, Space, Realism
… way to such new spatial phenomena as the Pullman sleeper, the stock-exchange floor, and the traffic jam, space itself quickly became more mediated by text. Text not only represented space, but textuality took on a more crucial role in the process of knowing and using spaces. This dissertation …
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A Geochemical Assessment of Potential Groundwater Storage Locations within the Yakima River Basin
<p>Currently in the Yakima River Basin more people possess surface water rights than there is available surface water. As a result, the local community devised the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Management Plan, with the goal of creating a sustainable source of water for the foreseeable …
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Grounded SCAN Human: A Benchmark for Zero-Shot Generalizations
In this work, we collect a new human annotated dataset called Grounded SCAN Human (gSCAN Human) as an extension of the original Grounded SCAN (gSCAN) dataset. The original gSCAN dataset was created to test various compositional generalizations by holding out certain examples during train time. …
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Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine
… I argue that in The Time Machine, When the Sleeper Wakes, The First Men in the Moon, We, and “The Machine Stops,” Wells, Zamyatin and Forster create worlds where technocratic authorities apply science to create closed-system, totalitarian states. The thesis explores how these authors …
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The effects of short term interpersonal cognitive problem solving therapy with young children
… stable over at least seven months and a sleeper effect from the MT treatment. Behavioural observation revealed improved social interactive behaviours following treatment, but there is some indication that behavioural gains may not be stable. The influence of music on AST and CT was …
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