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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"vacations"”.
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Between summer vacations
Thesis (B.A.)--Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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A study of some M[x]/G/1 type queues with random breakdowns and bernouilli schedule server vacations based on a single vacation policy
… queue waiting for the service to resume. Server vacations are assumed to follow a Bernoulli schedule under single vacation policy. We consider the above assumptions for different queueing models: queues with generalized service time, queues with two-stages of heterogeneous service, queues with a …
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An Exploratory Study of the Effects the Year Round School Calendar has on the Family Vacation
Family vacations are a way of life for many families. Now those family vacations are changing due to the change to a Year Round School (YRS) calendar and other changes within the family. The YRS calendar is being implemented in a greater number of schools around the United States each year. The …
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A Study of Role Overload, Nonmarket Time Use, and Coping Strategies of Middle Class, Employed Women in Intact Families
… periods: day-to-day, weekends, holidays, and vacations. In addition, the frequency of use of three coping styles found in Hall and Hall's (1979) Role-Coping Inventory was assessed: Type I coping, or structural role redefinition, Type II coping, or personal role redefinition, and Type III …
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VIP: Finding Important People in Images
… of events such as birthdays, weddings, or vacations by capturing photos, often depicting groups of people. Invariably, some individuals in the image are more important than others given the context of the event. This work analyzes the concept of the importance of individuals in group …
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Rebuild performance enhancement using onboard caching and delayed vacation termination in clustered raid 5
… Also proposed is the delayed termination of vacations with two user requests as this improves the rebuild performance with a negligible negative impact on user response time. Finally, the effect of limiting the rebuild buffer on the rebuild performance is presented in the context of three …
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Geografiese aspekte van rekreasie en vryetydsbesteding in Bellville-Suid
… time during the day, over weekends and during vacations of the inhabitants of Bellville South? How does the politico-economic structure influence the supply? Lastly, recommendations were made with a view to alleviating the problems which have been identified. It was felt that immediate …
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The impact of the 4th industrial revolution on traditional travel agents in the Tourism industry: Richards Bay Airport.
… agent -the prospect of preparing and scheduling vacations on the internet. This study aims to examine how the introduction of the 4thindustrial revolution has impacted on traditional travel agents in the tourism industry. Using a qualitative and exploratory approach, this study has collected data …
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Learning outcomes of leisure travel : explorations towards the development of educational programs
… were unique, ranging from Caribbean sun vacations to European excursions to safaris through Africa. Study participants were all affected by the tumultuous times in which they were born. They were eager to speak about their travels because it afforded them an opportunity to reflect and to …
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Alternative Breaks: The impact of student-to-student connections in non-classroom service-learning experiences
… forego traditional break activities (e.g., vacations) to participate in community service with their peers through university sponsored programs. Despite their growing popularity these programs are understudied. Research that has examined alternative breaks has arrived at claims based on …
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Intergenerational Conflict Between Emerging Adults and Their Parents in Asian American Families
… parents during certain times of the year (e.g., vacations), or who had once lived with their parents as adults. Intergenerational conflict was measured using the Asian American Family Conflicts Scale (Lee, Choe, Kim, & Ngo, 2000) and the Intergenerational Conflict Inventory (Chung, 2001). …
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Migrant Filipino Seafarers In the Global Cruise Industry: Discourse, Risk and the Geographic Limits to Labor Flexibility
… within the global system. In short, cruise vacations could not exist in their present form without a highly uneven world.</p>
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Archipelago: a Literary Ecology of Heligoland and the Frisian Coast
… radical poet whose work was inspired by his vacations on the islands of Heligoland, Norderney and on the North German coast: however, I supplement his outsider viewpoint with native voices, histories and legends. As narrator, I negotiate my outsider status and engage with the different, …
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Black professional women in dual-career families: the relationship of marital equity and sex role identity to the career commitment of the wife
… supported equal sharing in decision-making (eg. vacations, relocation, financial matters). While couples' sex role identity scores were significantly different, they had no significant effect on the wife's career commitment.
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History of road development, Knox County, Indiana, from 1840 to 1860
… township roads, county roads and changes and vacations of each.In Knox County, Indiana, most early routes were established to connect citizens with Vincennes, the county seat. However as settlers moved into the countryside, roads were needed to reach river crossings, mills, churches, …
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Dead dogs, electrified earthworms and restrained ruminants: student opinion on animal use in preclinical veterinary education
… techniques. They will work on farms in their vacations where the standard of animal welfare may not be what they would hope to expect. But do they complain? The covert power structures between lecturers and students mean making negative comments is difficult. The very fact they are being …
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Analysis of spanish coastal tourism on the national, regional and local levels
… in an environmentally friendly manner during vacations. Here, we can conclude that policymakers still have a colossal amount of work to design and adopt a proper management model of sustainable development involving all coastal stakeholders to reach sustainability and maintain the quality of …
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Memory-craft: The Role Of Domestic Technology In Women's Journals
… of the everyday--birthday parties, family vacations, and wedding anniversaries--grow to be culturally significant over time. Through the use of domestic technology, which today includes both paper scraps and home computer systems, memory-crafts assist in the interpretation of the present …
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Idealism in the novels of Sinclair Lewis.
… finds hardships rather than romance when he vacations in Canada. Both return to the world of reality. Arrowsmith does reach his goal, the opportunity to do pure research, but he must leave society by retreating to the woods to do so. Though Elmer Gantry becomes a successful minister, Lewis …
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