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Showing 1 to 20 of 430 for “"vitality"”.
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Vitality studies on frozen wheat
Three times in the past three decades frost has caused exceptionally severe crop damage in Western Canada. Although early autunm frosts are a recurring hazard, damage usually is scattered and light, often being confined to the more northerly areas. It has been estimated that one-half of the grain …
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Intermediacy : extracting vitality from intersecting borderlines
… seeks an approach to extracting the disregarded vitality of an intermediate area,and to introduce proposals that generate their own ways to vitalize an area. The study of an intermediate area, Alewife in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through range of scales and means, from diagrammatic mapping to …
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Oral history heirlooms: vitality and substance in learning
<p>The major problem confronting educators is incorporating a simple, profitable, stimulating, and integrated learning technique in the classroom that motivates students, internalizes lessons, and produces active, enriched learners. This thesis demonstrates that the oral history genre is the viable …
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Pendulum V: DM "Vitality, Exhaustion and Fleeting Equilibrium"
This dissertation is in two parts: Part A is the score for the original composition, PendulumV: DM. Part B is a companion essay to the musical composition. Pendulum V: DM is a 17-minute work for large ensemble and live electronics. It was commissioned jointly by the Wet Ink Ensemble and AMP, with …
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Urban dialysis : [re]invigorating urban vitality using adhocism
… and users pass by? How can adhocism improve the vitality of a community that needs [re]invigoration? We will call this process 'urban dialysis' and for this inquiry we will investigate an ad hoc application - as an architectural condition and as a tool - to reinvigorate community vitality by …
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Be The Light: A Leader’s Vitality Fuels Extraordinary Results
… leaders must first nurture and protect their own vitality. Rather than focusing on burnout and what drains leaders, this literature review explores how to systematically build what energizes them. The framework examines how leaders can cultivate physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual …
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The vitality and viability of streptococcus hemolyticus in various waters
… checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) vitalityviabilit00livi.pdf: 2790750 bytes, checksum: 171f16e6059463f059c75a1ef3c26c00 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1920
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The object as a vessel for vitality : a design methodology
"To Build, form blocks, like a ladder into the sky, into the Earth,to bind the elements, Water and Fire". Like Wittgenstein's this is an attempt to define a personal methodology, which when documented and left behind might help others along a similar path of exploration. I began in an art museum, …
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The Vitality and Revitalization of International Organizations: The Case of UNASUR
… Julia Gray, highlights their varying states of vitality: alive, inert, repurposed, or dead. This study introduces "revitalized" as a new category within Gray's typology, defining it as IOs recovering from periods of inactivity or underperformance. The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is …
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An investigation into the correlation between ethnolinguistic vitality and well-being
… the sociolinguistic concept of ethnolinguistic vitality and the notion of well-being. French, English, mixed Aboriginal, and Chinese university students in Montreal participated in this research. One issue explored is whether the groups perceived their ethnolinguistic vitality and their …
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Community Connectedness and Congregational Spiritual Vitality
… connectedness in the community to the spiritual vitality, growth, and giving levels of the congregations in the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Previous research and literature is scarce on this topic, therefore a survey was developed, administered, and tested for content validity, …
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Vitality and viability in the contemporary English High Street: Understanding the changing relationship between the commercial ‘viability’ and social ‘vitality’ of town centres in a period of economic transition
… the changing relationship between the social vitality and commercial viability in the English town centre from 1945 to the early 2020s, and in particular, it asks how town centres might continue to be a relevant social and civic, as well as a commercial hubs. This research builds on previous …
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Career development and the vitality of academic women in an era of intensifying globalisation
… further reflection: i) career depictions, ii) vitality, iii) radical feminist theory, iv) globalisation, and v) critic and conscience of society. Examined separately these themes allowed for a particular view into aspects of participants’ lives with confluences and divergences of ideas within …
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RURAL COMMUNITY VITALITY; THE CASES OF FORT BENTON, MONTANA AND WATFORD CITY, NORTH DAKOTA
… specific efforts designed to contribute to rural vitality that are undertaken in both communities. The research renders that rural community vitality depends on a comprehensive investigation of the dimensions of economy, population, amenities, and social capital. In addition, it is noted that if …
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RURAL COMMUNITY VITALITY; THE CASES OF FORT BENTON, MONTANA AND WATFORD CITY, NORTH DAKOTA
… specific efforts designed to contribute to rural vitality that are undertaken in both communities. The research renders that rural community vitality depends on a comprehensive investigation of the dimensions of economy, population, amenities, and social capital. In addition, it is noted that if …
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Immigrant language vitality: exploring the language practices of some Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town
… migrants' language practices or choices on the vitality of their heritage languages in Cape Town. The present study, therefore, focuses on some Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town by examining the effect of space and identity negotiation in the diaspora on their home languages. It raises the …
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Determination of vitality from a non-invasive biomedical measurement for use in integrated biometric devices
… project is one method to provide fingerprint vitality authentication in order to solve this problem. Using a sensor that is composed of an array of capacitors, this method identifies the vitality of a fingerprint by detecting a specific changing pattern over the human skin. Mapping the …
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