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OPTIMALITY OF CHEMICAL BALANCE WEIGHING DESIGNS.
… matrix in D(N,n) or D'(N,n) will be called a weighing design matrix. If X(,0) minimizes (PHI)(X('T)X) over D(N,n) for some real valued function (PHI), then X(,0) is said to be (PHI)-optimum over D(N,n). The characterization of such X(,0) arises from the statistical problems of weighing …
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Weighing the Milky Way While Exploring Dynamical Disequilibrium
Modern cosmology suggests that galaxies and galaxy clusters formed in gravitational potential wells defined by dark matter overdensities in the structural formation stage of the universe. Therefore, the decomposition of matter into baryonic and dark contributions is a fundamental problem for …
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A microprocessor based weighing and feed control system
… computer control system for the raw material weighing and feed system of a submerged arc ferro-alloy furnace. The system is designed to replace the more conventional semi-automatic analogue controller at present in use in many installations. It may be used either as a stand-alone unit or as an …
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Weighing Preaspiration: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology of a Laryngeal Phenomenon
Preaspiration is typically discussed as a rare phenomenon, with the reasons for its relative rarity compared to postaspiration being important to investigate. This approach parallels research on typologically rare segments like postaspirated fricatives (Jacques, 2011) or glottalized sonorants …
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MICROMANIPULATOR-RESONATOR SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE WEIGHING OF INDIVIDUAL MICROPARTICLES
Over the past decade, MEMS-based cantilever sensors have been widely used in the detection of biomolecules, environmental pollutants, chemicals and pathogens. Cantilever-based sensors rely on attachment of target entities on their surface. The attachment causes either change in surface stress or …
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The Implications Of Accountability Models Weighing The Same Student Data Differently
<p>There is little debate about whether or not the U.S. education system is in need of reform. Some people believe that public education reform will come about with high-stakes accountability and policies like No Child Left Behind (2001). States around the nation are facing similar questions. For …
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Weighing the Options: Assessing Two-A-Day Practices in Collegiate Football
The following study examined the effectiveness and administrative implications of Virginia Tech football's two-a-day practice schedule changes. More specifically, the research examined the relationship between weight loss and hydration as associated with two-a-day practices and studied the …
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A comparison of hydrostatic weighing with other methods of determining body fat
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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A comparison of hydrostatic weighing with other methods of determining body fat
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Weighing in on teacher attitudes of obese students: a descriptive correlational design
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate teacher attitudes towards obese students. The investigation focused on the correlation between (a) attitudes and beliefs about obese students; and (b) predictive abilities of participant's self-esteem with attitudes and beliefs. The three surveys …
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Weighing the rights of consumers against credit providers – aspects of debt review
… and giving absolute discretion to the courts in weighing the parties’ rights and bringing them into balance. Debt review is an improvement on previous debt relief measures in South Africa and especially in today’s economic climate the debt review procedure enables consumers to financially survive …
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Head above water weighing: A valid method to measure body fat storage?
1 PDF file (vii, 34 pages)
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Weighing Consequences: An Ethnographic Study of Mexican-American Women with Coronary Heart Disease
Weighing Consequences: An Ethnographic Study of Mexican-American Women with Coronary Heart Disease Publication No._____________ Rosemarie R. Garza, PhD The University of Texas Medical Branch, 2013 Supervisor: Elnora (Nonie) P. Mendias Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is a major cause of death in U.S. …
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Weighing the Financial and Sustainable Benefits of High Performance Structures in Seismically Active Regions
<p>This thesis investigated the potential advantages and disadvantages of high performance structures by comparing the financial and environmental impacts of a <em>performance based </em>four-story office building to one designed to meet minimum code-level requirements.</p> <p>To generate a …
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Weighing Sermon Substance: Evaluating a Sermon's Degree of Expository Merit, Doctrinal Essence, and Christ-Centeredness
This dissertation develops and demonstrates a method for evaluating a sermon's degree of three aspects: expository merit, doctrinal essence, and Christ-centeredness. The work argues that the gravity of expository, doctrinal, and Christ-centered preaching calls for a substantive and well-balanced …
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Feasibility of Online Nutritional Counseling and/or Remote Self Weighing in Pregnant Women With Obesity
… with the study interventions of weekly weighing and online nutrition counselling. Aim 3: <strong>(</strong>a)<strong> </strong>Explore the differences in gestational weight gain from enrollment to 6 weeks later and at 28 weeks among pregnant women with obesity who were not given any …
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"This Link between Narrative and Reality": Weighing the Ethics and Implications of Trauma in The Moviegoer
Since its 1961 publication, Walker Percy's seminal novel The Moviegoer has primarily received critical attention in the form of either biographical criticism or allegorical interpretation. Problematically, however, in seeking to reconcile the imaginative work of his fiction with Percy's …
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