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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"spears"”.
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Objects As Polyagents: Tracing The Histories Of The Gweagal Spears
… repatriation case involving the Gweagal Spears, currently owned by Trinity College and held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. This application illustrates the impact that innovations in theory and repatriation cases can have on the perceived role of museums …
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Percussion scoring and orchestration in the wind and percussion ensemble literature of Jared Spears and David Gillingham
… extensively in their compositions, Jared Spears and David Gillingham are renowned wind ensemble composers who have also written specifically for the percussion ensemble. Within their writing, both have exploited percussion through innovative scorings and their interest in rhythm, timbre, …
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To end a mandate : Sir E.L. Spears and the Anglo-French collision in the Levant, 1941-1945.
… from it, is an attempt to understand Sir Edward Spears and to establish his role. The Anglo- French collision in the Levant involved some remarkable personalities on both sides. The most striking character of them all was Spears, the man at the centre of the controversy. His papers and diaries …
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The application of machine vision to the selective harvest of green asparagus
… and tested to select and locate harvestable spears of asparagus. An image acquisition vehicle was fabricated to videotape portions of asparagus rows. The difference in reflectance between soil and vegetative material to near infrared light was used to obtain contrasted images of asparagus …
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Effect of the number of breakfasts and the amount of breakfast consumed by 4th grade children on total daily nutrient and energy intake
… a Universal Free Breakfast Program. Methods: The Spears Point of Sale Dietary Assessment Tool (Spears POS-DAT) was used to determine which subjective dietary assessment tool was most accurate: 24-hour recall or food record. Breakfast and lunch was collected for 7 school days at an elementary …
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Comparison of Children's 24-Hour Recalls and Food Records Using Two Methods of Analysis
… yield data that equates the greatest to the Spears Point-of-Sale-Dietary Assessment-Tool (Spears POS-DAT). The second purpose of the study was to determine which analysis method, the conventional approach or the reporting-error-sensitive approach, accurately reflected a child's reported …
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For the good of the group: how empathy and self-interest simultaneously condition individual support for economic redistribution
… 2015-07-22T22:45:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 SPEARS-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf: 1125836 bytes, checksum: f3e3bd18c56cdf5a8d3612e86af7f38d (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: 8635ef2393bd946c8c53287e6f1f265e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-01
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Time-of-flight perception pipeline for selective green asparagus harvesting: Theory and application
… of detecting, and localising, harvest-eligible spears in real-time from a commercial asparagus field. This thesis presents a novel perception pipeline for time-of-flight images that can achieve this task, and describes the implementation of the proposed perception pipeline into two functional …
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"""I Love Myself When I Am Laughing"": Tracing the Origins of Black Folk Comedy in Zora Neale Hurston's Plays Before ""Mule Bone"
… dissertation introduces three selected plays---Spears (1925), Color Struck (1926), and De Turkey and De Law (1930)---that Hurston wrote before and during her collaboration with Hughes on Mule Bone. The aim of this dissertation is three-fold. First, it examines the way in which Hurston's three …
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What makes war? Assessing Iron Age warfare through mortuary behaviour and osteological patterns of violence.
… instruments of violence (i.e. swords, spears, hillforts) as functional tools of war and as ritual symbolic devices. Human skeletal remains provide the most unequivocal evidence for violent encounters, but were often missing from these debates in the past. This thesis addresses this lack …
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Apparent lesbian performances, heteroflexibility and sexual identity: Fluid sexuality among young women in public places.
… by pop culture icons like Madonna and Britney Spears who have popularized the female kiss on TV in 1993. The notion of heteroflexibility and fluid sexuality is examined in relation to the many ways that the young women in this study used apparent lesbian performances to construct, test, …
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Conflict management styles : a predictor of likability and perceived effectiveness among subordinates
… supervisor than for any other reason (Agrusa, Spears, Agrusa, & Tanner, 2006; Joyce, 2006). The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in supervisor’s conflict management styles and to determine how they relate to both effectiveness and likability among their subordinates. …
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Me, myself, and my hyperego : understanding people through the aggregation of their digital footprints
… impression formation. The first work, Is Britney Spears Span?, examines a way of prototyping strangers on first contact by modeling their past behaviors across a social network. Landscape of Words identifies cultural and topical trends in large online publics. Personas is a data portrait that …
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A Theological Comparison Between Social Science Models and a Biblcal Perspective of Servant Leadership
… Further, it delves into the work of Larry C. Spears, Kathleen A. Patterson and others in the social sciences who have proposed various models and theories of servant leadership. Chapter 5 examines Walter C. Kaiser’s Principilizing Model for moving beyond theology to propose a means to discover …
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Autism : assessment and intervention practices of school psychologists and the implications for training in the United States
… (i.e., Filipek et al., 1999; Ikeda, 2002; Spears, Tollefson, & Simpson, 2001) suggest school psychologists need more formal training and experience in meeting the needs of individuals identified with autism.
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ESR studies of some iron(II) spin crossover complexes.
… is accompanied by a phase transformation. The spears show that during the transition there are separate domains for each spin state. Attempts to simulate the powder ESR spew of Mn2+ in [Fe(5-NO2-sal-N(1,4,7,10))] complex were unsuccessful owing to their poor quality, and further ESR study of …
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Component-Oriented Software Development in Java
No abstract prepared.
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Tumor Suppressor APC and Musashi1: Double-Negative Feedback, Wnt Signaling and Colon Cancer
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. Approximately 80% of all colon cancers are associated with a mutation in the Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor gene. We study the intracellular functions of normal APC and how loss of APC …
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Reduced corticosteroid sensitivity in smokers with asthma: potential mechanisms and treatment
Smokers with asthma display reduced responses to both inhaled and oral corticosteroids with associated increased symptoms, accelerated decline in lung function and increased use of health care services. Little work has been undertaken to address the possible causes of this reduced response and to …
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