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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"treading"”.
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Treading the (corporate) board. A critical analysis of organisational diversity discourse
My aims in this thesis, in terms of analysing the persistence of gendered occupational segmentation in the UK, are three-fold. The first is to explore the extent to which organisational diversity discourse is the outcome of essentialist, binary thinking; the second is to examine whether …
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Effects of severe cattle treading on soil physical properties and pasture productivity
Severe cattle treading can result in compaction and pugging, of which the latter was the focus of this thesis. Pugging is one of the severest forms of treading damage to soil, and occurs when soil is grazed while near saturation, resulting in plastic and liquid soil deformation. The research …
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Themes and theories of the insider treading provisions of the 2004 securities services act
According to Blackman et al, ‘insider trading’ initially referred ‘to the sale and purchase of a company’s shares, debentures or other securities by persons connected or associated with the company (the ‘insiders’), who are in possession of confidential, ‘price-sensitive’ information…gained as a …
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Themes and theories of the insider treading provisions of the 2004 Securities Service ACT
According to Blackman et al, ‘insider trading' initially referred ‘to the sale and purchase of a company's shares, debentures or other securities by persons connected or associated with the company (the ‘insiders'), who are in possession of confidential, ‘price-sensitive' information…gained as a …
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
<p>The United States has a longstanding practice of ascribing the language and imagery of martyrdom to political and cultural figures, resulting in a variegated canon of American martyrs outside the strict bounds of religious tradition. As a contribution to religious studies, American studies and …
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Electrohydrodynamic Simulations of the Deformation of Liquid-Filled Capsules
… the deformation and cause transition from tank-treading to tumbling for the red blood cell. However, the applied electric field will slow down the transition from tank-treading to the tumbling motion or even stay in the tank-treading motion with stronger electric field.</p>
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Treading a tightrope: A rhetorical study of the tension between the executive and collective leadership of the African National Congress (ANC): From Nelson Mandela to Thabo Mbeki
This thesis endeavours to look at the rhetorical techniques or tropes employed by Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in their capacities both as the Presidents of the African National Congress (ANC) and South Africa. In this regard, the speeches of the respective former Presidents are analysed from a …
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The use of foil generated vorticity as a hover actuator system for undersea vehicles
… of 3.1 at G0=600, hdc= 1.5, and f=0.4Hz for the treading water mode. Significantly lower thrust coefficients are observed for the figure eight mode with maximum of 1.8 occurring at G0=300, hdc=1, and f-0.2Hz. In addition to finding the optimal regime of thrust coefficient, the total thrust is …
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Throwing performance and shoulder injury risk in adolescent male water polo players in South Africa: exploring anthropometric and musculoskeletal parameters and evaluating the impact of a four week in-season conditioning program
… predominantly rely on the dominant arm whilst treading water. Although shoulder injuries are common, limited research exists regarding the specific factors that contribute to both sub-acute and chronic shoulder pain. Additionally, there is a dearth of evidence on the effectiveness of injury …
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An evaluation of diver performance using different safety vest detonators
… on the diver's personal floatation device while treading water. Three shapes, three sizes, and three positions of the detonator knob were tested to determine their effects on the time it took divers to activate the emergency detonator. Three different glove conditions were also tested (bare …
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Development of positioning devices for MRI-guided high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for abdominal, thyroid and brain, tumours
… Meanwhile, new investigations are underway for treading cardiac arithmia, strokes, palliative pain treatment of bone metastases and brain disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and neuropathic pain. These optimistic investigations have encouraged physicians and provided them …
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Rhetoric of trans* identities: public reactions to private confessions
… of the transgender community and an individual treading the barrier between Caucasian and black identities, ultimately leading to a discussion about how language confines personal and socially structure identity and identification. The implications of this identity work tangles with the reliance …
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Looked after children's experiences of self-harm : a qualitative analysis
… the ultimate blame; vigilant parenting: treading carefully; and the ripple effect. Findings demonstrated the impact of adolescent self-harm on parental wellbeing, the challenges of understanding self-harm and how this behaviour influenced their ability to support their child. This …
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Evolution of innovation : fiber optics and the communications industry
… to present. In closing various strategies in treading the evolution of innovation are described. The evolution life cycle
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Numerical Simulation of Red Blood Cells in Capillaries
… in front of the computational domain. The tank--treading and the inclination angle of a cell in a simple shear flow are briefly discussed for the validation purpose. We then present and discuss the results of the motion of red blood cells behind a moving interface in a capillary, which show that …
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Boethian Colorings in Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame
… to analyze the "Boethian poems" would also be treading over familiar scholarly ground. In examining an intermediary group of texts as a bridge between Boethius's classical philosophy and Chaucer's courtly poetry, particularly The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of …
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Electrohydrodynamic Simulations of Capsule Deformation Using a Dual Time-Stepping Lattice Boltzmann Scheme
… of the electric field on the tumbling and tank-treading modes of biconcave capsules is discussed.</p>
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Mixed Signals: Communication with the Alien in Cold War Radio Astronomy
… scientific research, they were simultaneously treading upon the rights and desires of the communities where their instruments were deployed. Furthermore, CETI radio astronomers became adept at developing tools and techniques to identify intelligent extraterrestrial signals from space. That …
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'We Will Remember; We Will Not Stay Put': Ethics and Politics after the Sewol Ferry Disaster in South Korea
… politics. I recount the complexities inhered in treading a balance between a victims’ movement and a political movement, and in challenging normative ideas about how victims ought to engage with the field of politics. The chapter calls for attention to how ethical projects are shaped by and …
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