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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"spiraling"”.
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Nitrogen spiraling in stream ecosystems spanning a gradient of chronic nitrogen loading
… between nitrogen (N) availability and spiraling (the paired processes of nutrient cycling and advective transport) in stream ecosystems. Anthropogenic activities have greatly increased rates of N loading to aquatic ecosystems. However, streams may be important sites for retention, …
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Effect of a Water Treatment BMP on Nutrient Spiraling and Leaf Litter Breakdown in an Urban Stream
… to determine the effect of this BMP on nutrient spiraling and leaf litter decomposition in a 2 km stretch of Weracoba Creek. I hypothesized the BMP would (1) reduce leaf mass loss over time and (2) interfere with nutrient concentrations and uptake lengths. I characterized leaf litter …
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Spiraling effects of firefighters’ emotional demands and off-duty unhealthy behaviors: psychosocial resources and healthy behaviors as moderators
Unhealthy eating and substance use have been linked to numerous adverse long-term and short-term health and well-being outcomes; however, work-related predictors of these behaviors have been largely ignored. One possible explanation why individuals eat unhealthy foods and use substances is to cope …
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Traditional and Alternative Methods of Identifying Differential Item Functioning in a Brazilian Achievement Test Administered Using the BIB Spiraling Design
Recommendations for practitioners and directions for future research are also provided.
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Rising Healthcare Costs in the United States: Contributing Factors and Potential Solutions
United States healthcare costs have been spiraling out of control for the last few decades. With no universal healthcare system in effect, more than forty seven million Americans lack health insurance and cannot afford even the most basic care. This thesis addresses the factors contributing to the …
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(In)Visible
… others. The essay engages poetry as a means of spiraling around the invisible, limitless center, and proposes, as a poetic device that enables this spiraling, the (In)Visible Image, and the palimpsestic, polyvocal sequence as a form that can carry the formless. The essay introduces my book of …
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The Search for High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with a Modified Axion Detector
… higher frequencies may indicate signs of in-spiraling primordial black holes, or other beyond the standard model phenomena. With careful calibration used to distinguish between the two signals, we introduce the first simultaneous search for both axions and gravitational waves using a …
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Productivity and costs in the transit sector : the impact of Baumol's cost disease
… to Baumol's cost disease theory, this leads to a spiraling trend in cost escalation over time and it is a threat to long run financial sustainability. In fact, we find that transit costs increase not only above the inflation rate but above the rate predicted by Baumol's theory, which is evidence …
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The organic nature and atmosphere-climate dependency of nitrogen loss from forest watershed ecosystems
… 2, I present the results of a study of DON spiraling that showed enormous capacity for stream microorganisms to immobilize and transform organic nutrients. Although most DON in surface waters is highly refractory products of SOM dissolution, this study revealed very tight internal cycling of …
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Accretion topics in astrophysics
… studies the tidal stripping of a white dwarf spiraling into a massive black hole. The stripped matter accretes onto the black hole producing a transient emission, presumably periodic, observable with X-ray and optical telescopes. At the same time the white dwarf emits gravitational waves as it …
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The Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Civil War
… the Eastern Shore of Maryland might go spiraling toward secession. It could also decrease Union sentiment and progress in lower Delaware. With this in mind, Dix decided to make a preemptive strike on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in late 1861. Although this campaign describes only part …
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A critical discourse analysis of news reports on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in selected Arab and western newspapers
… outlets, especially since the outbreak of the spiraling violence that marked the end of the peace process and the beginning of the second Palestinian uprising in the fall of 2000. The discourse of the conflict is as ideological and controversial as the conflict itself. Even news reporting, …
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Positive Affect, Coping, and Student Engagement In Early Adolescence
… coping, which will result in a continually spiraling increase of social resources and positive student outcomes, as measured by student engagement. The sample included seven hundred and fifty-two 7th and 8th grade students from a Southeastern US middle school who completed self-report …
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Mentoring Dialogues: An Investigation of the Dialectical Tensions and Management Strategies in Mentoring Relationships
… Five management strategies were also discovered: spiraling inversion, segmentation, reaffirmation, balance, and denial. The identification of these tensions and management strategies led to a greater understanding of mentoring relationships, built on existing research to highlight the complexity …
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Giraffes, Ferris Wheels and Royal Reenactments: Hits and Misses in the Reinvention of a Joseon Palace
… the same images. Olivia Jenkins has described spiraling circles of representation linked to Australia’s iconic symbols, and Herbert Bix, Carol Gluck and Kosaku Yoshino have applied a similar logic to processes facilitating much greater shifts in the image of the entire nation of Japan. Success …
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Co-Optimization and Co-Learning Methods for Automated Design of Rigid and Soft Robots
… accurate, useful simulators leads to expensive, spiraling, hardware intensive iteration. This thesis introduces methods to marry all aspects of robot design into combined algorithms for holistic cyberphysical design. Core to this solution is co-optimization and co-learning methods which can …
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Behind "successful" land acquisition : a case study of the Van Quan new urban area project in Hanoi, Vietnam
… industrialization. In order to accommodate the spiraling land demand triggered by urban and economic growth, the Vietnamese government has been using the mechanism of compulsory acquisition at an astounding scale to convert massive amount of agricultural land to urban land for non-agricultural …
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(Re)vivendo amores pretos: mapeamento dos afetos nas danças d’quebradas contemporâneas
… its subtexts (EVARISTO, 2020); Performance of spiraling time (MARTINS, 2022); Structural racism (ALMEIDA, 2019); Quilombismo (NASCIMENTO; 2019) and Beatriz Nascimento: Intellectual Quilombola (NASCIMENTO, 2018). This research is expected to structure the Mapping of Affections based on the …
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Divalent metal nanoparticles
… into ordered domains encircling or spiraling around the core. Topological constraints inherent in assembling two-dimensional vectors (e.g., ligands) onto a sphere (the core of the nanoparticle) dictate the necessary formation of two diametrically opposed defect points within the …
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More than Words, More than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women and Healing Pedagogies
… Such (re)writing acts move beyond repetition, spiraling to and promoting individual and communal healing while connecting personal stories to a shared social story of women, trauma, and healing. These claims are emphasized in the final chapter, where I engage with the limitations and …
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