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Designing for human use: recreational use of residential streets.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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Evaluating the use of mediation in land use decision-making
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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Generics in Use
… plays in thought and speech. I argue that because generic beliefs are non-specific, they are also evidentially undemanding: they take whatever evidence they can get. This allows us to form inferentially powerful beliefs and even gain knowledge about kinds based on limited evidence. In Chapter …
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USE-LESS Building
A USE-LESS Building aims to use less square feet and resources by adapting over time and by accommodating various uses like apartments, stores, offices, cafes, etc. Adhering to the USE-LESS concept, this project was developed 4 dimensionally on a site in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC. The …
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Validation of the motivational inventory underlying substance use engagement (MI-USE)
… growing number of fatalities associated with the use of multiple types of drugs, there is an urgent need for a tool that allows clinicians and researchers to quickly assess diverse reasons for substance use. Here, we sought to validate the Motivational Inventory Underlying Substance Engagement …
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Discouraging the use of single-use plastics through graphic design strategies
<p>Single-use plastics, or disposable plastics, have become entrenched in the daily lives of college students across the country. Whether it is a plastic bag from grocery shopping, a stirrer from a morning coffee, a clamshell container for that convenient on-the-go lunch, or even a simple straw — …
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Teachers' Use of Fitness Tests and the Factors Influencing Their Use
… overall attitude (r = 0.97). Most teachers (83%) used fitness tests in the last two years. The most frequently used fitness test was The President's Challenge (40.3%). No common purposes, problems, or reasons for using or not using fitness tests were identified. No significant difference was found …
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Carbon dynamics of global land use, land-use change, and forestry
… wood bioenergy can exacerbate climate change because it is less efficient than the fossil fuels it displaces, and because regrowth takes time and is uncertain. Other land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) practices can also cause significant carbon fluxes to and from the atmosphere that …
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Land use and landscapes: the future of Alaska land use control
The role of the state in land use control was examined in general, and in relation to the land use context of Alaska. The study provides a brief overview of the history of land ownership and land control in Alaska as well as the particular difficulties attendant to the control and management of …
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Comparing Dispositional and Episodic Assessment of Drug Use Motives among College Students: Prediction of Use and Use-Related Consequences
… on motivational models of alcohol and marijuana use. Specifically it was intended to evaluate the relative benefits of assessing motives for using these drugs during a specific episode rather than in the dispositional fashion utilized in virtually every existing study on the subject. Affect …
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Associations Between Drinking, Condom Use Resistance, and Condom Use Among College Students
<p>Alcohol use and sexual intercourse are common behaviors among young adults in college. Drinking is considered a risk factor for unprotected sexual intercourse. Having condomless sex is associated with increased risk of contracting an STI or becoming pregnant unintentionally. Although correct and …
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The Anglo-Saxon Use of The Psalms: Liturgical Background and Poetic Use
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7804024.pdf: 7802769 bytes, checksum: 8bad473f07b804323e3a8326a02d4dcd (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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The relationship between journal use in a medical library and citation use
… the relationship between the library journal use and journal citation use in the medical sciences. The journal use study was conducted in the Library of Veterans General Hospital--Taipei for six months. The data of citation frequency, impact factor, citation age and citation half-life were …
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Imagery use in fencing
… motivational and cognitive components of imagery use among fencers, and (2) to determine if these motivational and cognitive components and the use of imagery among fencers is a function of skill level, experience, primary weapon, gender, or handedness. A survey containing the Sport Imagery …
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Contraceptive use in Nepal
… investigating different aspects of contraceptive use in rural Nepal.<br/><br/>The intrauterine device (IUD) is one of the most cost effective methods of reversible contraception available but is not well known or understood and consequently not well used in Nepal. This has not always been the …
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Machinery investment and use
… the average replacement cost of various machines used by farmers in Northeast Missouri. 2. To determine what machines farmers in this area have and to what extent they use various machines. 3. To determine the average present investment in machinery by various size and organizational …
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How Voters Use Issues
… democracy, with politicians being elected because they match the policy preferences of their constituencies. But, in practice, how much of voter decision-making is driven by political issue information? Much of the literature on this topic has narrowly debated whether the mass public uses …
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Extended-Use ECG Monitor
… 5 days. The high-quality measurements can be used to identify markers indicative of various detrimental heart conditions. Measurements recorded by the device are encrypted and stored onto a micro-SD card. Current Holter monitors are expensive and have functional lives less than 48 hours; …
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Use-driven concept formation
… I call the equivalence class principle. I then use the domain of two-player, perfect-information games to test and refine those principles. I show how the principles can be applied in a semiautomated fashion to identify strategically-important visual concepts, discover highlevel structure in a …
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