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Showing 1 to 20 of 1058 for “"the domestic"”.
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Energy utilization in the domestic sectors.
In South Africa the domestic sector is an important energy user. Information is available on how much energy is supplied to this sector but little is known about how this energy is utilized. The purpose of this thesis is to try and gather information on this area of domestic energy utilization. As …
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The domestic travel sector in China
China is already the largest domestic tourism market in the world. Chinese citizens made as many as 800 million overnight domestic trips in 2005. While travel is not a new concept in China, the disposable income they wield, the range of options becoming available and individual tastes are changing …
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Oophorectomy and Ovariectomy in the Domestic Animals
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. June 1920. Major: Anatomy. 1 computer file (PDF); 63, iii pages.
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Fridge space : journeys of the domestic refrigerator
My dissertation emerges from a curiosity about the mundane objects and machines with which we live and it pauses in Britain’s kitchens to ask what we might learn from looking in the fridge. Considered by many to be a rather ordinary and unremarkable appliance, the refrigerator forms a virtually …
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Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic
<p>Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic, addresses the development of the contemporary US carceral state, foregrounding the confinement and control of women and the evolving ideological frameworks and disciplinary techniques that guided women’s incarceration beginning with the inception of …
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Economics of the domestic borate industry, The
Includes bibliographical references.
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The enigma machine : unravelling the domestic experience
In today's capitalist society, the environment of the home has become increasingly insular. Though there may be television, Internet and other forms of technology that connect one to the 'outside world', time spent indoors is for many people time spent alone. My body of work is concerned with an …
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Diet-induced thermogenesis in the domestic chicken
Four experiments were conducted to examine the energetic responses of chicks from lines divergently selected for 56-day body weight to caloric intake. Caloric overconsumption or calorie-protein imbalances were induced by providing glucose solutions (16% w/v) in lieu of water in the first …
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Neuroendocrine regulation of broodiness in the domestic hen
Broodiness in the domestic hen is characterized by incubation of eggs and subsequent care of the young. Incubation behaviour is initiated by increased plasma progesterone and oestrogen from maturing ovarian follicles that induce nesting behaviour. This is subsequently transformed into incubation …
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Regulation of Estrogen Biosynthesis in the Domestic Hen
The focus of this dissertation was a definition of the mechanism(s) which cause(s) suppression of estradiol (E(,2)) biosynthesis during follicular maturation in the domestic hen. Theca and granulosa layers from the largest (F(,1)), second largest (F(,2)), and third largest (F(,3)) follicles were …
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The Forbidden Female: Epistemophilia in the Domestic Gothic Tradition
… portrayed by scholars as mildly rebellious in their characters and behaviors, but ultimately submissive to male characters until eventually returning to domestic circumstances similar to their origins. I join these scholarly conversations about Gothic heroines through my analysis of female …
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Mass Media and the Domestic Politics of Economic Globalization
This dissertation argues that the mass media have played a critical but misunderstood role in the variety of national political responses to economic globalization around the world since the 1960s. More specifically, quantitative as well as qualitative methods across three article-length studies …
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Implementation in Reality: Magistrates and the Domestic Violence Act
… dissertation examines magistrates' assessment of their experiences in implementing the Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998. The data has been gathered from in-depth interviews with 6 magistrates from different magisterial jurisdictions in the Western Cape. This study has uncovered many barriers to …
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South Africa's foreign policy and the domestic developmental agenda
This thesis seeks to explore to what extent the domestic developmental agenda (DDA) informs the formulation of South African foreign policy with regards to national development priorities. The DDA does not refer to a formally agreed consensus-based national agenda; instead, it is used in this study …
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Central control of food intake in the domestic fowl
… was initiated to determine if factors exist in the blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of the domestic fowl that act upon the central nervous system to control food intake. Plasma collected from free-feeding and 24-hour fasted leghorn cockerels was lyophilized, reconstituted to 2, 4, or 5 times …
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Opioid regulation of ingestive behavior in the domestic fowl
Six studies were conducted to examine the role of endogenous opioid peptides in the regulation of ingestive behavior in the domestic fowl. In the first study, the dose-response relationships of two opioid antagonists, naloxone and naltrexone, were evaluated in Rock-Comish (RC) and Single-Comb White …
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Peripheral regulation of food intake in the domestic fowl
… factors involved with food intake regulation in the domestic fowl. In the first study, the mechanism by which tryptophan depresses food intake was clarified. Intraperitoneal injections of tryptophan methyl ester were demonstrated to inhibit feeding in Single Comb White Leghorn (SCWL) cockerels. …
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The Domestic Politics of Entering International Communities: An Exploratory Analysis
In the last thirty years, there has been a significant increase in the globalization process, or as other refer to it, the internationalization, free trade, or liberalization. This trend was reflected in the increasing number of newly formed international organization (economic and security) as …
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