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Smooth Isotopies of Manifolds Surrounding Polyhedra
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Airport surrounding area development in China
… and civil aviation industry is Airport Surrounding Area Development (ASAD). There has been plenty of research on western ASAD and of Chinese ASAD by scholars from each respective side, but communication between the West and China on this topic is sparse. Growth coalition and urban regime …
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Misconceptions Surrounding Child Sexual Abuse In Durban
… to investigate the existence of misconceptions surrounding CSA amongst the general public of Durban in South Africa. A further purpose was to explore differences in rates of myth endorsement in this context, firstly between males and females, and secondly between two levels of education. The …
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Nursing Students' Lived Experiences surrounding Medication Administration
Medication errors are abounding and the complexity of medication administration creates an environment where health care providers are at risk for making errors. This environment includes nursing students learning medication administration. Coupled with a rigid, protocol-driven pedagogy, nursing …
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Authorship Attribution Through Words Surrounding Named Entities
In text analysis, authorship attribution occurs in a variety of ways. The field of computational linguistics becomes more important as the need of authorship attribution and text analysis becomes more widespread. For this research, pre-existing authorship attribution software, Java Graphical …
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A public silence : discursive practices surrounding homosexuality
Considerable research points to an elevated prevalence of mental health problems and suicide for men who have sex with men (MSM). Yet there is little research on how public mental health services (PMHS) does, or could, address the needs of MSM. When such literature does appear, a common suggestion …
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Emotions surrounding restrained eating in young adult students
… to develop our understanding of emotions surrounding dieting, diet violation and diet abandonment, thought to precede issues with weight management and disordered eating behaviours. Method: Using the participant selection model variant of the sequential explanatory mixed method design …
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Giant Pair Halos Surrounding Non-Thermal Extragalactic Objects
Hochenergetische (E>100 GeV) Gammastrahlen aus extragalaktischen Quellen werden infolge der gamma-gamma-Paarbildung (PP) von der kosmischen Infrarot-Hintergrund-strahlung (CIB) absorbiert und loesen elektromagnetische Schauer durch Paarbildung und inverse Comptonstreuung aus. Dies fuehrt zur …
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Assessment of material properties in bone surrounding microdamage
… 5 μm of a μcrack, pointing to a zone of surrounding collateral material damage, beyond which modulus was unchanged from baseline. Tissue modulus was dramatically reduced in remodeling suppressed bone (fatigue plus 4 months ALN treatment) by ~40% versus control. Again, tissue modulus was …
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Critically discussing the trends surrounding novel psychoactive substances.
… for the critical discussion of the trends surrounding NPS and this thesis is the culmination of this work.
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Aerial jurisdiction over safety zones surrounding maritime installations
Extending the search for oil and gas into the marine areas is a relatively recent phase in the production of oil and gas. Although shallow water mining has been conducted since the 1940's, these attempts have been seen more as extensions of terrestrial mining than as serious offshore attempts. The …
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Investigating Student Discourse and Literacy Development Surrounding Peer Reading
This study investigates the types of talk students engage in during peer reading and its relation to literacy learning. Participants were observed when engaged in peer reading over a course of six weeks. The data for this study was collected through observations, video recordings, and interviews. …
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Vegetation on Icelandic Turf Houses and in Surrounding Habitats
Torfbæir eru tákn íslenskrar arfleifðar, byggðir að hluta úr torfi sem var meðal annars fengið úr efri lögum íslenskra mýra þar sem grös og starir voru ríkjandi. Torfbæir voru áður taldir merki fátæktar og í byrjun 20. aldar voru margir þeirra eyðilagðir. Þetta verkefni er hluti af verkefninu The …
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An investigation of factors surrounding food insecurity in kwaMthethwa
The study “An Investigation of Factors Surrounding Food Insecurity in KwaMthethwa”examines the factors responsible for food insecurity with specific reference to the rural people of KwaMthethwa. The investigation found that many factors coalesce to worsen the problem of food insecurity in the area …
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Interactions between Atmospheric Deep Convection and the Surrounding Environment
… between atmospheric deep convection and the surrounding environment. First, I explore the effects of global warming on convective precipitation extremes. I show that, in idealized convection-permitting simulations, updraft velocity profiles associated with extreme precipitation collapse to a …
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The dynamics of litterfall in eucalypt woodland surrounding pine plantations
… pines (wildings) from plantations into surrounding vegetation, very few studies have considered the impacts of pine plantations and pine litter on surrounding native plant communities. Pine litter is defined here as structures shed from pines; primarily needles and pollen cones, but also …
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Spontaneous communities of learning: Cooperative learning ecosystems surrounding virtual worlds
This thesis is the culmination of a five year research project exploring online gamers and the cultures they engage with, both virtually in the many massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds online, and in the physical spaces they inhabit in various play spaces around the world. The primary …
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Closing the knowledge gap surrounding nitrogen cycling in Minnesota lakes
Nitrogen (N) is an element necessary for life, but in excess quantities in aquatic systems leads to hypoxia, loss of biodiversity and harmful algal blooms. Allochthonous inputs are typically the critical drivers of eutrophication, but it is also important to understand how those inputs interact …
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