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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"unfit"”.
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RPE "Drift" in Fit and Unfit Males Cycling in a Hot and Cool Environment
… RPE-Legs and RPE-Chest between fit (n=7) and unfit (n=6) males. Subjects completed a graded cycling test and then, in a counterbalanced order, on two separate days cycled for 60min (intensity~90% of the Onset of Blood Lactate Accumulation (OBLA) - determined via gas exchange indices) at 30}1 …
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Fit to fight or unfit for the purpose? : a review of the effectiveness of the Intelligence Cycle in UK counter-terrorism, 2003-2013
The Intelligence process has increasingly found itself in the public eye in modern times. The Al Qa’eda attacks against the USA in September 2001 led to a rapid spread of other international terrorist attacks. The invasion of Afghanistan occurred soon afterwards, followed by the invasion of Iraq in …
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Respiratory diseases, as affecting the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces serving in France and United Kingdom: an analysis of the histories of 2433 men boarded as unfit for further service, June 1916 to December 1918
… The fact that the men were evacuated if still unfit for service after a period of three months or more,probably prevented the developetent of T.B.in a greater ratio. By watching the future of the suspects ,fresh grounds for opinion will arise.In the meantime the men should not be lost sight of. …
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Particle Thompson sampling
… main findings are that, fit particles survive, unfit particles decay, and most particles eventually decay. Secondly, we propose regenerative particles Thompson sampling (RPTS), an attempt to improve PTS based on the heuristic: delete the decaying unfit particles and regenerate new particles in …
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The relationship between occupational risk and labour relations in a tyre manufacturing company
… examined for this purpose to determine how an unfit workplace can influence employee productivity and work performance, as part of the employee's right to a safe -, healthy -, and workable workplace. The relationship between man, machine and environment was investigated to understand how …
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Philodemus' ''peri poiematon'' and Horace's ''Ars Poetica'': Adapting Alexandrian aesthetics to Epicurean and Roman traditions
… carefully Epicurus' rejection of poetry as unfit for his followers, and give poetry a facade compatible to Epicureanism. Philodemus' Epicurean poetic theory ultimately recalls in many respects the Alexandrian poetic ideals: poetry should aim at hedonism, delighting the public with elegant …
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The influence of personnel selection on the nature of psychiatric illness in the services
… in addition to his usual role of weeding out the unfit.
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Traumatic Appropriation in Maus and In The Shadow of No Towers
… Though comics are often considered low art – unfit for serious themes – through an examination of Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers and Maus, this thesis explores how one can utilize structural qualities of comics to create a moral depiction of trauma by embracing intertextuality and …
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Geographies of nowhere : Smeltertown and the rising wave of environmental refugees
… from our memories. Pollution made these places unfit for human habitation. It turned the residents of these communities into environmental refugees. Another kind of pollution climate change - threatens to push even more people from their homes. That these communities are gone is tragic. That …
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A system analysis of improvements in machine learning
… run in an offline batch-mode operation and are unfit for real time needs. Newer machine learning algorithms are being designed that make better use of sampling and distributed methods to speed up the learning performance. In my thesis, I identify unmet market opportunities where machine learning …
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Attitudes and opinions toward stress-related support services among police in a southern state: a qualitative study
… resulted in a perceived threat of being deemed unfit for duty by supervisors for using a support service. Similarly, a fear of appearing weak to other officers keeps officers from seeking needed services. However, participants recommended several feasible implications for lowering these barriers …
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Physical Activity, Cardiorespiratory Fitness and the Clustering of Cardiovascular Risk Factors In Adolescents and Young Adults
… 2.09, 95% CI 1.46 - 2.99). Subjects going from "Unfit" to "Fit" had lower risk of developing MetSyn compared to individuals staying "Unfit", even after adjusting by baseline and change in abdominal adiposity (HR 0.53; 95% CI 0.30 - 0.99). In conclusion, large individual and population benefits …
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Characterization of the Bacterial Communities of the Tonsil of the Soft Palate of Swine
… of the tonsil of the soft palate of 126 unfit and 18 healthy pigs. The T-RFLP analysis method was first optimized for the study of the pig tonsil microbiota and the data compared with culture-based identification of common pig pathogens. Putative identifications of the members of the …
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Governing the conduct of migrant agricultural workers
… and directing conduct of a group considered unfit for self-government.
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Fearless and Fit: American Women of the Cold War
… itself with soft' corporate men and physically unfit youth. The Soviet government continued to emphasize physical culture, as a natural byproduct of Communism. Though American society idealized women for feminine virtues, both women and men craved fitness and strength, offering an opportunity …
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Some Limnological Conditions Relative to Winter Kill of Fish in Ice-Covered Representative Farm Ponds in Eastern South Dakota
… disturbances may cause the environment to become unfit for economically important forms of life. Human interferences often causes polluted waters and naturally occurring disturbances are common. A disturbance of this kind is one of the major problems of fisheries management in the northern Great …
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Let Him Be an Honor to the Country: Veteran Violence and Public Opinion after the Civil War
… soldiers' homes, asylums, and prisons, but these unfit facilities were last resorts for men with no place in society and no options. For many veterans, readjustment would prove a struggle more complicated and disheartening than the war itself.</p>
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Development of techniques to determine temperature coefficient of resistance
… probe was tested, but was found to be unfit for the intended use as a temperature probe on a polycarbonate surface due to catastrophic failures in the film, most likely caused by the different thermal expansion rates of the carbon and polycarbonate. Further research should be conducted …
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Studies on real world visual field data in glaucoma
… [CI]: 87-95%) probability of being legally unfit to drive. The second study used a statistical model to estimate the number of patients progressing at rates that could lead to this landmark of significant visual impairment or blindness in their predicted remaining lifetime. A significant …
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