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Showing 1 to 20 of 5408 for “"worldwide"”.
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Towards a worldwide storage infrastructure
Peer-to-peer systems have recently gained a lot of attention in the academic community especially through the design of KBR (Key-Based Routing) algorithms and DHT (Distributed Hash Table)s. On top of these constructs were built promising applications such as video streaming applications but also …
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An Infrastructure for Worldwide Parallel Computing
In this thesis, we describe the robust information acquisition techniques, software design, prototype implementation, and performance evaluation of a Java-based infrastructure for supporting large-scale parallel computing on the Internet. We present results on the projected cost and performance of …
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Why Refugees Rebel: Militarization in Jordan and Worldwide
Why do some refugee groups militarize while others do not? Existing literature focuses on structural explanations and neglects factors related to refugee groups themselves. While acknowledging the importance of exogenous factors in enabling militarization, I fill this gap by proposing a framework …
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Women's Studies Worldwide: Cartographies of Transnational Academic Feminism
This dissertation retells the history of women’s studies from a global perspective, challenging traditional U.S. and Eurocentric narratives about this emerging interdisciplinary field. Beginning with questions about why women’s, gender, and sexuality studies has incited backlash across a range of …
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Creating a sustaining value engineering function within worldwide manufacturing
… products that have these characteristics. Cisco Worldwide Manufacturing has thus devoted itself to improving Cisco's value engineering capabilities to a world class level. Value engineering at Cisco refers to product cost reduction activities that occur during sustained manufacturing. The …
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Intelligent product placement strategies for Amazon.com's worldwide fulfillment centers
Online retail has radically changed traditional supply chain operations by providing a direct-to-consumer model that eliminates the need for traditional brick-and-mortar retail stores. With this new order, retailers have had to design warehouse solutions that fit the changing operational …
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Personal stories go worldwide: the ritual of storytelling through Weblogs.
The once private traditional written diary is shifting to an electronic storytelling tradition. Online diaries or weblogs are a growing phenomenon that scholars have ignored until recently. This qualitative project uses narrative and rhetorical analysis to focus on storytelling themes in weblogs, …
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Worldwide Computing With Universal Actors: Linguistic Abstractions for Naming, Migration, and Coordination
… carrying remote exception-handling code, a worldwide migrating agent, and a buffering messenger. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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A Novel Approach for Implementing Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access for Video Surveillance
… have the potential to be implemented on a WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) network. Moreover, WiMAX devices have been used widely in the market and WiMAX-based video surveillance products have also been available. As a radio technology, WiMAX is a wireless broadband system …
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Tuberculosis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control in the United States and Worldwide
TB is one of the most common infectious diseases worldwide. Approximately one-third of the world’s population is infected with TB. In 2011, there are about 9 million new infections and almost 1.4 million deaths. Furthermore, TB is the leading cause of death in HIV-positive individuals. With the …
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Assessment of alkali aggregate reaction avoidance measures and alkali aggregate reaction tests worldwide
… AAR damage. Different tests are also performed worldwide to assess AAR. With the variety of AAR avoidance measures and AAR tests performed worldwide, it is necessary to have a thorough compilation and critical assessment of these AAR avoidance measures and AAR tests, which may be of assistance …
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Consumer law and unfair contract terms: the Austrian answer to a worldwide challenge
the object of this thesis is to give a comprehensive description and a critical evaluation of consumer law, a field of law which has developed rapidly in the last two decades and the exact contents and function of which are the subject of keen academic debate.
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Analysis of the interaction between air transportation and economic activity : a worldwide perspective
Air transportation usage and economic activity are interdependent. Air transportation provides employment and enables certain economic activities which are dependent on the availability of air transportation services. The economy, in turn, drives the demand for air transportation services resulting …
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Early adolescent students’ argumentation in a worldwide science education activity about global lunar phases
… and data received from students in other worldwide locations? Some researchers have studied argumentation from the perspective of an observer being in one location, but this researcher looked at students making arguments based on observations made from multiple locations on Earth. Findings …
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Factors Associated With 'Honour' Based Violence in Middle Eastern and South Asian Communities Worldwide
Despite increasing interest there has been significant disagreement and lack of clarity regarding the factors that are pertinent to ‘Honour’ Based Violence (HBV) in Middle Eastern and South Asian communities. This thesis attempted to identify these factors via two approaches: a systematic review, …
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The behaviour of style anomalies in worldwide sector indices : a univariate and multivariate analysis
… (ICB) level 4 (sector) index returns. A worldwide study of 48 developed and emerging countries is conducted, considering up to 38 sector indices per country. In cluster and factor analyses of the sector returns all the developed markets are found to cluster together, as are the emerging …
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Scrub typhus: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control in the Asia-Pacific Area and Worldwide
… of scrub typhus in the Asia-Pacific region, and worldwide. This analysis will aid in the control of the disease and promotion of public health. This project helps better understand the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and control of scrub typhus. It can aid in the identification of effective …
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Advancing Global Tobacco Control: Exploring Worldwide Youth Attitudes and Behaviors toward Tobacco Use and Control
… a gap exists in literature to understand worldwide youth tobacco use and control. The purpose of this study is to 1) identify factors that influence never-smoking youths‟ smoking susceptibility, 2) explore characteristics that influence youth exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) …
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Basic Legal Principles for International Electric Power Interconnections: Regional Perspectives to foster their Worldwide Application
… lack of support. Currently, there are several worldwide attempts to interconnect different electricity markets, including Canada and the United States, the European Union’s internal market, Australia's National Electricity Market, the Central American Electrical Interconnection System, and the …
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