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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"staggering"”.
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Effects of Consuming Beans Before or With a Meal on Satiety and Gastrointestinal Hormones Concentration in Obese Men and Women
… Consuming beans and staggering meals may control energy intake. We examined the effect of consuming 0.5 cup of beans 15 minutes before a meal on gastrointestinal (GI) peptides concentrations in obese men and women.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A randomized …
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Peril, Pestilence, and Perfidy: The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877
… and European fatalities from disease were staggering. In short, the strategically unsafe, disease-ridden, and hostile city had to be transformed into an environment that would be conducive to colonial occupation.
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Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo
… the 1850s with numerous murders and lynchings in staggering proportions. This thesis studies the rise of violence in SLO, its causation, and effects. The vigilance committee of 1858 represents the culmination of the violence that came from sweeping changes in the region, stemming from its earliest …
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Frequency-based training in the acquisition and retention of reading skills in students with emotional and behavioral disorders
… condition with the accuracy-only condition by staggering the introduction of each condition. Results indicate that frequency-based training was a more effective and time-efficient approach in teaching reading skills to students with emotional/behavioral disorders.</p>
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Boisen's pioneer studies with schizophrenia
… either in terms of dollars or human lives, is staggering. Psychiatrically, it is a baffling problem, and has been tackled from almost every conceivable angle of pathology and etiology. There is, however, generally in creasing optimism at the prognosis of schizophrenia and a much better …
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Improving Mobile SOC's Performance as an Energy Efficient DSP Platform with Heterogeneous Computing
… (SOC) technology is improving at a staggering rate spurred primarily by the adoption of smartphones and tablets. This rapid innovation has allowed the mobile SOC to be considered in everything from high performance computing to embedded applications. In this work, modern SOC's …
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Dynamically motivated spectroscopy of small polyatomic molecules
… enables characterization of the source of staggering in the antisymmetric stretch progression of the C̃ state of SO₂, which arises due to vibronic interactions that lead to non-equivalent equilibrium SO bond lengths.
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An Innovative Coupling Scheme of FEM And BEM Solvers
… and couples, without iterations or solution staggering, the solvers of the independent systems in the direct time domain. The proposed method is based on substructuring concepts but adopts an explicit enforcement of displacement compatibility and force equilibrium at the interface boundary …
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Questioning the SENIOR COHOUSING CHALLENGE: A Cross-Sector Analysis of Interviews with Leading Experts
… cohousing are numerous - the failure rates staggering. What factors contribute to this challenge? What could the way forward look like? This thesis searches for answers in the perspectives of professionals representing sectors of the development process. Interviews were conducted with …
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Remote controlled drug release in drug-eluting stents
… present in the 21st century, attributing to a staggering 7.2 million deaths annually across the globe. After implantation of currently the most successful coronary intervention, drug-eluting stents are placed within obstructive arteries to restore blood flow to the heart and reverse …
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Factors That Affect Developmental Education In Rural Appalachia
… must take a developmental education course. The staggering fact is these students are traditional students who recently graduated from high school. This study will shed light on factors that affect student’s college readiness at the community college level in the rural Appalachian Mountains. …
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Curcumin-related hybrid compounds as potential antimalarial agents : design, synthesis, mechanistic investigations, biological evaluation and pharmacokinetic studies
… of the most devastating tropical diseases, with staggering infection and mortality statistics. Over 200 million clinical cases of malaria (resulting in 1 - 3 million deaths) are reported annually. Africa bears the greatest burden of this disease. with the vast majority of malaria cases (>85%). …
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Practical automated picking and packing
… labor for order fulfillment. However, with staggering growth in Internet retail and labor intensive order fulfillment processes, companies will increasingly turn to automation to enable growth and make better use of the people they have. The materials handling automation industry is …
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Optimization of a fast-response distribution network
… offered in each store based on local sales, and staggering shipments to stores of each new reference in order to acquire more accurate sales forecast and enable better subsequent inventory allocation decisions. My thesis will detail the development and implementation of new optimization models …
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A labyrinth of endless steps : the postmodern city and Paul Auster's urban detective
… modernity to postmodernity, cities have grown to staggering proportions. The sheer immensity of the postmodern city has rendered the detective's task of bringing a series of disparate and random facts together nearly impossible. This inability to comprehend the totality is precisely the effect of …
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A Local Solution to Plastic Pollution
… is a well-known issue across the globe with staggering facts such as: “Only 9% of all plastic produced has been recycled,” and “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating island of plastic waste spanning an area that is over twice the size of the state of Texas.” Locally, this issue …
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Maternal Mortality: A Policy Comparison Between Nigeria and India.
<p>A staggering number of women die from preventable deaths each year from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. India hosts the greatest number of actual maternal deaths in the world, although Nigeria’s ratio of maternal deaths to live births is greater than India’s. This thesis focuses on …
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Novice Teachers: Using Professional Development to Discover Whether They Continue to Use the Behavior Management Strategies Taught in the Undergraduate Program
… new teachers are also leaving the profession at staggering rates (Clark, 2012). According to Ingersoll (2012), between 40% and 50% of all new teachers in the United States leave the profession in the first five years. This research was designed to study teacher professional development with …
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Architecturing the future national security space domain awareness acquisition enterprise
… including SDA capabilities. Concurrently, staggering growth in commercial space activity is making the space environment more congested and increasing difficulty of the SDA mission. Fortunately, commercial capabilities that can support the NSS SDA acquisition enterprise have also evolved.
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Representing and manipulating spatial data in interoperable systems and its industrial applications
… The amount of information available nowadays is staggering and increases exponentially. Making sense of this data has become increasingly difficult because of the two factors: · The sheer volume of data · The lack of interoperability between disparate data sources and models While one can do …
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