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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"splinter"”.
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Splinter
<p>A full-length collection of poems.</p>
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Splinter : practical private queries on public data
Every day, millions of people rely on third party services like Google Maps to navigate from A to B. With existing technology, each query provides Google and their affiliates with a track record of where they've been and where they're going. In this thesis, I design, engineer, and implement a …
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Organizational Fragmentation and the Trajectory of Militant Splinter Groups
… to Iraq to Afghanistan, militant groups have splintered and proliferated in this way, creating fragmented oppositions that significantly complicate the conflict landscape. This process of organizational splintering historically has created some of the deadliest and most well known …
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Factors influencing the formation of splinter unions from the Zambia National Union of Teachers: a case of Southern Province
… the factors influencing the formation of splinter unions from the Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) in Choma, Pemba and Monze districts of Southern province of Zambia. The general objective was to establish the factors influencing the formation of splinter unions from ZNUT. It was a …
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Preventing data leakage in web services
… presents two practical, secure systems, Veil and Splinter, that prevent some of this data leakage. Veil minimizes client-side information leakage from the browser by allowing web application developers to enforce stronger private browsing semantics without browser support. Splinter allows the …
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In an Expression of the Inexpressible: Even this title is stolen, but I chose it
… about the paintings included in the thesis show, Splinter Paintings.</p>
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On the Origin of Phenotypic Variation: Novel Technologies to Dissect Molecular Determinants of Phenotype
… of a novel set of algorithms, SNPseeker and SPLINTER, applied to next-generation sequencing data. The second part of my work describes the creation of a reporter system for DNA methylation for the purpose of dissecting the genetic contribution of tissue-specific patterns of DNA methylation …
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Race and the Modernist Imagination: The Politics of Form, 1900--1940
… abstract and material racial alterities to splinter the legacy of Victorian patriarchy and nation-building. Finally, George Orwell's colonial fiction protects the imperial machine from the racial ambiguities of abstract modernist art. If British modernism performs a series of diverse …
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The Palestinian Liberation Organization: Is Reform Possible?
… many Protestant churches. The PLO and the many splinter and subgroups it is composed of have shown themselves to be a highly militant and at the same time rigidly structured and hierarchically composed organization. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether or not the structure of the PLO …
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Germany, the European Union, and the Euro: the primacy of politics in treasure
… the crisis, to enact substantial reforms, or to splinter and break-up the Union. The results support the choice for greater political integration and the need for the issuance of Eurobonds.
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Inter -Rebel Group Dynamics: Cooperation or Competition. The Case of South Asia
… recruits; in the process groups merge, disband, splinter or are eliminated. Therefore the interactions of rebel groups merit attention. I develop a typology of rebel groups as well as a typology of the interactions among them. Next, using game theory I model the strategic decision-making involved …
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Transitional Discourses: The (Psycho)somatic Fiction of Juan Jose Millas
… book to the same anxiety and fragmentation that splinter the writer's self. I conclude that through the body and illness, Millas's fictions contest the forces that attempt to forge a Post-Franco Spanish identity."
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Militants Going Through Changes: A Qualitative Analysis of Ideological Modification and Group Splintering
The probability of militant group splintering is a relatively rare phenomenon that exponentially increases with the introduction of a peace process and associated negotiations (Duursma and Fliervoet, 2021). Militant groups that do splinter hold the potential for increased violence that can spoil …
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A study on the perceptions of Teachers on Teacher Unions representation at the School level: A case of selected Primary and Secondary Schools in Lusaka District
… and meetings at school level (6) To determine if splinter unionism affects representation of teacher members at school level.A descriptive survey design was used with combined qualitative and quantitative methods. Data was collected through interview schedules and questionnaires. The sample …
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A study on the perceptions of Teachers on Teacher Unions representation at the School level: A case of selected Primary and Secondary Schools in Lusaka District
… and meetings at school level (6) To determine if splinter unionism affects representation of teacher members at school level.A descriptive survey design was used with combined qualitative and quantitative methods. Data was collected through interview schedules and questionnaires. The sample …
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Political Identities: The Miners of the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1926
… tendencies that could have otherwise led to splinter groups.<br/><br/>Lifeworld and civil society provided the context in which the organisations sought to create their identities. In the Ruhr these identities were more doctrinal than those in South Wales and were often defined as much by …
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An investigation into how elderly persons perceive elder abuse.
The international concern about human rights, gender equality, domestic violence and the increase in the aging populations has brought elder abuse into the public focus. Elder abuse is a complex, multi-faceted health, social, criminal justice, international public health and human rights issue. The …
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Tephrostratigraphy, petrography, geochemistry, age and fossil record of the Ganigobis Shale Member and associated glaciomarine deposits of the Dwyka Group, Late Carboniferous, southern Africa
… clay mineral-quartz mixture. Rare fragments of splinter quartz, completely recrystallized ash-sized particles of former volcanic glass and few apatite and zircon grains are the only juvenile components. The tuff beds contain as non-opaque, juvenile heavy minerals mostly zircon, apatite, monazite …