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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"source research"”.
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Study of an American Civil War chaplaincy: Henry Clay Trumbull, 10th Connecticut Volunteers
… constitute an important collection of primary source research material. Reverend Trumbull provides us with an in-depth portrait of a highly qualified, dedicated and concerned chaplain. Because he exposed himself to the hardships and uncertainties of warfare, he earned the respect, admiration …
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An Investigation Into How Sources of Information Influence Consumers' Perceptions and Decision Making
Consumers rely on sources of information to learn about products and make informed purchasing decisions. In fact, one of the first factors consumer consider when evaluating product information, is the source of that information. Yet despite the importance of the source, research on this topic is …
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Role of Inspiration in Increasing Situational Motivation in Male Team Athletes
… room speeches from coaches as a motivational source. Research in and out of sport psychology has developed and verified theories to describe mechanisms of motivation change (Deci & Ryan, 1985; Vallerand, 1997), but there is little research on the role of inspiration (Thrash & Elliot; 2003, …
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Whose Woods These Are: Human-Environment Relationships Among Stakeholders of South Mississippi's Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
… resilient forest with reduced biodiversity. This research looks at the human geography of remnants of the longleaf pine ecosystem in South Mississippi and the nature of contemporary relationships between South Mississippi residents and this ecosystem.</p> <p>In an effort to make sense of the …
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Exploiting irregular parallelism to accelerate FPGA routing
… routing phase of VTR 8.0, a commonly used, open-source research tool for FPGA CAD flow. We show that despite the lack of regular parallelism, routing still exhibits significant irregular parallelism. This parallelism can be exploited on parallel architectures that provide hardware support for …
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Cashing in on Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in the United States
… admissions process. I rely upon historical research, policy analysis, primary source research, and interviews in order to analyze the actions of the College Board and connect those actions to predatory practices within higher education, delving into a discussion of enrollment management, …
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Having a bath in Japan: a biographical study of actress and black belt jūdōka Sarah Mayer (1896-1957)
… and drawing on a large volume of primary source research, this work places Sarah’s achievement into a context of not only time and place, but social mobility and agency, considering, firstly, Sarah’s life before she went to Japan. Central to the thesis, the work then continues with an …
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The impact of Amtrak performance in the Northeast Corridor
… minimal attention in the compendium of open source research literature. Amidst leading discussions in U.S. Congress to reduce Amtrak's funding, the finances and policies required for track renovation, infrastructure maintenance and quality train operations are also compromised. This provides …
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The East African community‘s maritime domain: an innovative institutional framework
… which are analysed for comparison. The research uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches and a case study technique to obtain primary data through in-depth interviews, non-participatory observation and focus group discussions during two fieldwork visits in the EAC …
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The middle kingdom in Africa: a quantitative study of support for the China model
… development. The paper is structured around two research questions. First, what is the rate of preference in Africa for the China model? Second, what are the determinants that underlie this preference? The China model is a contested construct. An extended literature review is therefore employed …
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Fatal and Non-Fatal Police Shootings in the United States, 2015: An Examination of Open-Source Data
… States. To fill the gaps, this dissertation research uses open sources to create a crowdsourced national database on FNFPS in the United States in 2015. The creation of this database provides researchers insights into the suitability and sustainability of open-source research applied for …
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Combined finite-discrete element modelling of key instabilities which characterise deep-seated landslides from massive rock slope failure
… for improving such understanding. The open source research code, called Y2D, developed at the Queen Mary, University of London by Prof. Munjiza has been used. Considering that this code has not yet been applied to slope stability problems, a series of numerical tests have been carried out to …
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Characterising the microbial communities associated with the water distribution system of a broiler farm and their role in Campylobacter infection
… from the farm environment. Different sources have been recognised, but their actual contribution to Campylobacter epidemiology remains a matter of debate. Water has rarely been identified as a possible source of Campylobacter contamination of chickens, but represents an understudied …
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SELF(ISH)-FUSION THINKING AND PRACTICE- A (MAINLY) VISUAL INVESTIGATION OF POLY-MODAL ART-MAKING
… a view of myself (and what I make) as a form of 'research object'. But on another hand, the very intersection between these modes of practice has inevitably involved a form of experimentation and enquiry that has stretched far beyond the boundaries of 'self '. Not only have these diverse practices …