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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"survival strategies"”.
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Flood Survival Strategies of Overwintering Snakes
This thesis investigates snake flood survival during hibernation and how anthropogenic habitat alteration and climate variability may affect habitat quality and overwintering survival. Chapter one reviews the current understanding of ecophysiology of hibernation in snakes. In chapter two, I …
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Survival Strategies of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
… wasta served as both a cultural practice and a survival strategy, allowing refugees to navigate precarious labor markets, uncertainty, and limited support from humanitarian agencies. Examining Syrian refugees' informal communication networks in Jordan contributes a non-Western perspective to …
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Survival strategies of eelgrass in reduced light
… between light availability, growth and survival (Chapter III). The study concluded that at temperatures between 18°C and 23°C, eelgrass plants can thrive at light levels of 58% surface irradiance (SI) and above, and are light-limited at 34% SI and below, but that the minimum …
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Survival Strategies of Streptococcus mutans during Carbohydrate Starvation
… used up within one day of starvation, and yet survival of the parental strain was extended by at least 15 days beyond that of the glgA and pul mutants; potentially, some feature of IPS metabolism, distinct from providing nutrients, is important for persistence. IPS was not needed for …
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Persistence in Aurora, Nevada: Survival Strategies of the Northern Paiute
Negotiation and agency are crucial topics of discussion, especially in areas of colonial and cultural entanglement in relation to indigenous groups. Studies of agency explore the changes, or lack thereof, in material culture use and expression in response to colonial intrusion and cultural …
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Survival strategies of the human respiratory tract pathogen Haemophilus influenzae
Haemophilus influenzae is an important respiratory tract pathogen responsible for a variety of infections in humans. Encapsulated H. influenzae belongs to one of six serotypes (a-f), of which type b is the most virulent one causing serious and sometimes life-threatening diseases (e.g., …
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Survival Strategies of Low-Income Households in a Colombian City
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Survival strategies for the architecture firm : meeting the business cycle challenge
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1980
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Survival strategies of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in a variety of microenvironments.
… unfavorable conditions, it has developed several strategies to survive. However, the mechanisms by which MAP survival is achieved remains incompletely understood. The goal of these studies was to determine how MAP may survive and disseminate under unfavorable conditions, which included nutrient …
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Queering urban autonomy in greater Los Angeles: Latinx poli-creative survival strategies
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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The mascot and the refugee : survival strategies for the new urban jungle
As humans rebuild the world to suit our needs, many of our fellow creatures simply get out of the way-but others try their luck alongside us. Austin, Texas is home to two notable urban wildlife populations. In the early 1980s, one and a half million Mexican Free-tailed Bats moved into a bridge in …
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Survival strategies among informal economy businesses: the case of small maize millers in Zambia
… data on the practices of informal maize millers' survival in a competitive environment. Primary data were complemented by use of secondary sources, which included various documents from the public sector, civil society and international organisations in the quest to have a deeper understanding of …
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Management Survival Strategies and the Decision to Reduce Pension Plan Funding: An Empirical Test (Tax)
Many firms have reduced funding of defined benefit pension plans by either contracting or terminating the plans. These actions have raised both accounting and regulatory concerns. From an accounting standpoint, the nature of the transaction must be reported in a fair and representationally faithful …
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"Strenuous Life" Strained: Political and Social Survival Strategies of the New Orleans Athletic Club, 1923-1940
… straits, the club looked for alternative strategies to survive. Its "social life" strategy relied on the club's various political ties to cut expenses and increased incentives for membership, which led to a larger, albeit, limited presence of women at the club.</p>
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The Survival Strategies of Immigrants in Limpopo: A case Study of Mozambican Immigrants in Nkowankowa Township, Tzaneen
This study examined the survival strategies of Mozambican immigrants who reside in Tzaneen‟s Nkowankowa Township. This was done under the premise that these immigrants are excluded from participating in South Africa‟s labour market. Thus, the study sought to determine how these supposedly excluded …
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Adoption of survival strategies by agro-small and medium enterprises in the challenging rural environment in Zimbabwe
… climate change pose formidable challenges to the survival and growth of agro-SMEs. These complex challenges and barriers compel! agro-SMEs to adopt survival strategies in order to remain operational. Strategies that can appropriately enhance the resilience of agro-SMEs to shocks and how best to …
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Married to the state : mothering on welfare : survival strategies of single mothers in a UK public housing estate
… of the thesis are to explain and interpret the survival strategies of working-class women whose lives are characterised by physical and emotional hardships, multiple deprivation and violence. Two issues in particular are addressed. The first is the construction of gender role norms and to …
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The Household Survival Strategies of Manufacturing Workers Displaced in Henry County and the New River Valley, 1990-2010
… this loss of manufacturing jobs? And third, what survival strategies have displaced workers and their households employed as a result of being displaced? In carrying out this research, I engage with four theoretical discussions: (1) deindustrialization of the US South, (2) the impact of …
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The effects of municipal by-laws and the survival strategies of street vendors in Harare Central Business District, Zimbabwe
… come up with appropriate response mechanism strategies to deal with such and design a supportive policy framework that promotes an environment for earning livelihoods through street vending.
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