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Paixão, Shigeaki Ueki Alves da. "Dinâmica fronteiriça entre Guiana e Brasil : um estudo sobre o comércio-formiga." Universidade Federal de Roraima, 2014. http://www.bdtd.ufrr.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=371.

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A presente pesquisa versa sobre a dinâmica fronteiriça entre Brasil e Guiana, considerando as implicações do comércio-formiga entre as cidades-gêmeas de Bonfim, do lado brasileiro, e Lethem, do lado guianense. Trata-se de questões conceituais de fronteira, território, relações comerciais, de segurança e vigilância na faixa de fronteira. Busca, também, fazer uma análise histórica da geopolítica brasileira com a preocupação de entender o atual contexto das fronteiras brasileiras e de como melhor aproveitar a posição geográfica estratégica do Estado de Roraima, que tem seus limites territoriais com dois países, os quais, bem explorados, podem contribuir para o desenvolvimento econômico do Estado. É um tema complexo e intrigante para qualquer pesquisador, além de envolver questões de segurança, ocupação e proteção do território brasileiro. Consiste numa dimensão grande de discussão amplamente pesquisada por vários autores que buscaram discutir as políticas de governo com relação às fronteiras, por isso é um tema que está longe de se esgotar. Esta pesquisa é apenas um ponto de discussão e entendimento do chamado comércio-formiga que, bem organizado e devidamente fiscalizado, poderá impulsionar a frágil economia desse Estado.

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Souza, Dorcílio Erik Cícero de. "Desenvolvimento da faixa de fronteira do extremo norte de Roraima: área de livre comércio de Bonfim (Brasil) e Lethem (Guiana)." Universidade Federal de Roraima, 2016. http://www.bdtd.ufrr.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=412.

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Os estudos sobre a ocupação e os espaços de fronteiras são objeto de discussão na academia pela economia, geografia, política, envolvendo as relações transfronteiriças entre culturas e identidades diferentes. O Brasil mantém com os países limítrofes de suas fronteiras, relações cordiais, legalizadas por acordos internacionais de comércio, ciência e tecnologia. Com base nestas fronteiras brasileiras, lançou-se o Programa de Desenvolvimento das Faixas de Fronteiras, que abrange os 588 municípios brasileiros. Para este trabalho dissertativo, escolheu-se a análise da política pública do estado nacional para a Amazônia Ocidental das Áreas de Livre Comércio ALC, com o estudo de caso da ALC de Bonfim (BR) e Lethem (GY). A partir da hipótese levantada que serviu de orientação para a pesquisa, inferiu-se que a política brasileira de desenvolvimento de sua faixa de fronteira com a República Cooperativista da Guiana se caracterizou pelo hermetismo, apesar da retórica oficial do governo federal sinalizar no sentido da integração regional sul-americana. Desta forma, o objetivo geral do trabalho, foi direcionado para analisar o modelo nacional de desenvolvimento da fronteira com a Guiana, com a revisão do conceito de fronteira à luz da geopolítica e das teorias da integração nacional; examinar os principais vetores de formação ao longo da história dos atuais territórios que compõem a faixa de fronteira do Brasil e analisar a política nacional do governo brasileiro tendo em vista o desenvolvimento das fronteiras do Brasil com a Guiana. Como metodologia, utilizou-se de uma revisão bibliográfica e documental, além do estudo de caso da ALC de Bonfim. Foram utilizados como norteadores para o trabalho, os documentos oficias do Ministério da Integração Nacional, Proposta de Reestruturação do Programa de Desenvolvimento da Faixa de Fronteira e Bases para uma Proposta de Desenvolvimento e Integração da Faixa de Fronteira.

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Carron, Delphine. "Figures du détective dans le polar américain contemporain." Phd thesis, Université d'Angers, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00961471.

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Le polar américain contemporain se pose en continuité et en rupture avec l'âge d'or des années 1930-1950 en reprenant les codes et représentations mythiques du hard-boiled et du modèle anglais pour les confronter au monde contemporain. A la ville des années 1930, terrain privilégié du détective progressant méthodiquement vers la clé de l'énigme, s'oppose l'univers urbain contemporain - New York et plus particulièrement Brooklyn - au coeur duquel l'énigme initiale reste sans véritable dénouement. Les méthodes traditionnelles n'ont plus cours, laissant place à l'incertitude et au doute ; il n'est plus question de héros triomphant contre le Mal au coeur de l'univers urbain, mais des efforts d'un détective perdu dans sa propre fragmentation. Ainsi, la focalisation ne porte plus sur l'aboutissement de l'enquête mais sur la quête interne du détective qui, avant même d'élucider le mystère, est d'abord en quête de lui-même. Le polar d'avant-garde sous toutes ses formes, et en particulier la bande dessinée et le roman, détrône le statut mythique du détective pour en proposer de multiples figures, prétextes à la redéfinition des codes bien connus du genre et à l'exploration métaphysique du monde contemporain.

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Williamson, Jonathan Paul Allan. "Cognitive Neuropsychological Investigations of Letter-by-Letter Dyslexia." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522055.

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Ma, Hong Newman Harvey B. "Experimental tests of electroweak theory with [Greek letter mu]+[Greek letter mu]- and [Greek letter mu]+[Greek letter mu]-[Greek letter gamma] final states from e+e- annihilation /." Diss., Pasadena, Calif. : California Institute of Technology, 1988. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-12072006-093947.

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De, Bruijn Oscar. "The exterior-letter advantage in linear multi-letter arrays." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14596.

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When linear arrays of unrelated letters (e.g., 'sfdthnc') are presented tachistoscopically centred across a fixation point, letters presented at exterior positions (e.g., 's----c') aregenerally reported more accurately than letters presented in interior positions. This "exterior-letter advantage" suggests that processing is more efficient for exterior letters than for interior letters. Previous researchers have argued that the exterior-letter advantage can be fully accounted for by the influences of lateral interference and mask configuration. However, the processes responsible for the exterior-letter advantage are far from resolved, despite the robustness of the phenomenon and its occurrence in numerous investigations into visual information processing. The experiments reported in this study investigated the role of lateral interference and backward pattern masking in the exterior-letter advantage. To investigate the role of lateral interference, performance was compared across complete 7-letter arrays and arrays in which the presence and proximity of flanking letters was varied by (i) presenting only exterior letters and their immediately flanking interior letter, (ii) varying the number blank letter-spaces by which these letter-pairs were separated, (iii) varying the nature of the characters presented in these displays, and (iv) presenting each exterior/interior letter-pair in isolation. The role of backward pattern masking was investigated (i) using different mask configurations which either matched or exceeded the left and right boundaries of complete letter arrays, and (ii) using masks which overlay only the positions of each exterior/interior letter-pair. The findings indicate that while lateral interference and mask configuration each played a part, neither an imbalance in the number of immediately flanking letters for interior and exterior letters nor mask configuration can entirely account for the exterior-letter advantage.

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Nehring, Wendy, Jacek Smurzynski, and Lisa Haddad. "Letter from Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol2/iss2/1.

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Haddad, Lisa, Jacek Smurzynski, and Kenneth D. Phillips. "Letter from Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol3/iss1/1.

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Ike, Obiora Uzukwu Elochukwu Eugene. "Letter from Editor." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 1997. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,578.

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Schmitt, Andreas [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Lachmann. "What makes a letter a letter? – New evidence for letter-specific processing strategies / Andreas Schmitt ; Betreuer: Thomas Lachmann." Kaiserslautern : Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1122110987/34.

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Ingles, Janet L. "Cognitive mechanisms underlying a case of letter-by-letter surface alexia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ57347.pdf.

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Cullen, Doug. "Focussing selection to the letter level : Understanding the letter search task." Thesis, Bangor University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505988.

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Parish, William Everett Glyn. "The lethal and sub-lethal effects of low temperatures on insects." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.291072.

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Godoy, Ruben D. "Lethal and sub-lethal effects of hydrodynamic forces on animal cell culture." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1206393724.

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Meng, Helen M. "Phonological parsing for bi-directional letter-to-sound/sound-to-letter generation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11413.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-195).
by Helen Mei-Ling Meng.
Ph.D.

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Nehring, Wendy M., and Jacek Smurzynski. "Letter from Co-Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol1/iss1/1.

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Nehring, Wendy, and Jacek Smurzynski. "Letter from Co-Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol2/iss1/1.

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Haddad, Lisa, Kenneth D. Phillips, and Jacek Smurzynski. "Letter from the Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol4/iss2/1.

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Haddad, Lisa, Jacek Smurzynski, and Kenneth D. Phillips. "Letter from the Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol5/iss1/1.

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Haddad, Lisa. "Letter from the Editor." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol6/iss1/1.

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Lewis, Colin A. "A Scottish bellfounder (letter)." The Ringing World, 2000. http://www.ringingworld.co.uk.

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Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.

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Lewis, Colin A. "Eastern Cape bells (letter)." The Ringing World, 1997. http://www.ringingworld.co.uk.

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Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa. This correspondence was sparked by the author's article: "Bells and Bellfounders of the Eastern Cape, South Africa" which appeared in The Ringing World No. 4477. 14th February 1997, pp. 161-162.

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Disque, J. Graham. "Letter to the Editor." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2796.

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Bitter, James. "Letter for a Change." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2001. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6066.

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Still, Mary Lynn. "Identifying the contributions of letter identity and relative letter position to orthographic priming." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.

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Murdock, Jacob M. "Lethe and the Twin Bodhisattvas of Forgiveness and Forgetfulness." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10258489.

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Journey with the myth of Lethe, spring of oblivion and mother of anxiety, into the land of radical forgiveness and forgetfulness, healing the soul of the world. Forgetfulness is defined as proactive and positive, not reductionist or regressive. The research includes a comprehensive research survey of over 300 papers and 100 works of literature related to concepts of forgiveness and forgetfulness. Qualitative, alchemical hermeneutics, intuitive inquiry, and shamanic participatory epistemology methodologies are applied to investigating how life might be improved by a deeper level of healing of the soul provided by forgiveness and forgetfulness. The findings indicate that forgiveness and forgetfulness heal the individual, collective, and the planet as a whole. Recommendations are made for further psychological research, clinical implementation, and inclusion of forgiveness and forgetfulness in the areas of general psychotherapeutic theory and practice; wisdom psychology; posttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED); and transgenerational transmission of trauma, suicide, and trauma.

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Poston, Sarah E. "Unitization of familiar letter patterns." Connect to resource, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6006.

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Thesis (Honors)--Ohio State University, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formattted into pages: contains 23 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-23). Available online via Ohio State University's Knowledge Bank.

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Voleš, Jakub. "Řízené odvlhčování v letním období." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-372115.

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The subject of the diploma thesis is the design and the assessment of two variants of existing HVAC system, that serves the microelectronic laboratory premises of GL Electronic company, which are situated in JIC INMEC center. The aim of the designing process is to find the optimal solution of the problem, which is concerned of excessive air humidity gains in the clean rooms. The first proposed approach is the installation of controlled dehumidification in the form of direct cooling into the yet existing device. The second considered approach is a complete deconstruction of implemented air conditioning unit and subsequent reinstalling of the brand new unit, which would meet all the requirements. Both two variants will be in the beginning outlined in a form of pre-study, selected option will be later on processed as project documentation for construction. The winning solution will be designed in the way that will satisfie the criteria of hygiene, function, and economy. The next section of the text will be dedicated to the research regarding the topic of the physical nature of air humidity, of the transportation of humidity, dehumidification of the space, also. Last but not least, the heat recovery efficiency will be measured (in the form of thermal glycol tubes). The experiment provides evidence of the system's real-time performance.

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Smith, Grace Elizabeth. "The Opened Letter: Rereading Hawthorne." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278343/.

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The recent publication of the bulk of Hawthorne's letters has precipitated this study, which deals with Hawthorne's creative and subversive narration and his synchronic appeal to a variety of readers possessing different tastes. The author initially investigates Hawthorne's religion and demonstrate how he disguised his personal religious convictions, ambiguously using the intellectual categories of Calvinism, Unitarianism, and spiritualism to promote his own humanistic "religion." Hawthorne's appropriation of the jeremiad further illustrates his emphasis on religion and narration. Although his religion remained humanistic, he readily used the old Puritan political sermon to describe and defend his own financial hardships. That jeremiad outlook has significant implications for his art.

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Findlay, Kellyanne. "Letter recognition and categorical perception." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395788.

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Oakes, Peter. "Philippians : from people to letter." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307477.

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Mycroft, Rachel Helen. "Causes and mechanisms of letter-by-letter reading : the roles of visual and language processing." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391887.

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Yuill, Proctor Kirsty Ann. "Herbicides and their Lethal and Sub-lethal Effects on the Chemical Communication System of Xenopus laevis." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Zoology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1593.

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Amphibian populations are in mass decline on a global scale. Various explanations have been considered, including harmful effects from exposure to toxicants. Using Xenopus laevis adults and tadpoles, potential sublethal effects of atrazine, a herbicide, were investigated in this thesis. I also investigated the toxicity of an organic herbicide compared this with the toxicity of a synthetic herbicide, using LC50 values. Whether X. laevis adult frogs could communicate chemically was tested experimentally. The results suggest that adult female X. laevis communicate chemically, but there was no evidence that male individuals did so. For testing tadpoles I used a kin-preference assay. An encouraging trend for kin preference was evident, for both an outbred and an inbred line. Tadpoles changed their behaviour after exposure to l0μg/L of atrazine for 24 hr. Kin preferences in the control tests were reversed after exposure. A hypothesis of altruistic kin avoidance was suggested by these results. However, when individuals were isolated and then exposed, these individuals had more pronounced preference for kin compared to controls. X. laevis tadpoles exposed to Organic Interceptor (organic herbicide) had a LC50 that was more than 7000 times lower than the 20% recommended dose, whereas Roundup Renews' (a synthetic herbicide) LC50 was around 8 times lower than the 1% recommended dose. This research adds to evidence that toxicants have a negative impact on amphibian populations, and suggests that more research needs to be conducted to identify other sublethal effects of toxicants and to clarify the implications these effects might have for the amphibian populations in nature.

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Gover, Jane Charlotte. "The lethal and non-lethal effects of ivermectin on cattle dung on the fly Neomyia cornicina." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295023.

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White, Teresa. "The effects of mnemonics on letter recognition and letter sound acquisition of at-risk kindergarten students." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1100.

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Ide, Junya. "Behavioural ecology and habitat utilization of the satyrine butterfly Lethe diana." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/150030.

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Hansel, Mischa. "Lethal Weapons : zum verhinderten UN-Waffenhandelsvertrag." Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/6191/.

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Staaten und Nichtregierungsorganisationen bemühen sich seit zwei Jahrzehnten um eine stärkere globale Regulierung des (Klein-)Waffenhandels. Im Juli 2012 wurde im Rahmen der UN erstmals über einen Waffenhandelsvertrag verhandelt. Doch ein solches Abkommen kam nicht zustande. Was sind die Hinter- gründe dieses Scheiterns? Welche Perspektiven gibt es nun und warum sind internationale Regeln unverzichtbar?

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Lindin, Carl-Hampus. "Letter of intent - ett avtalsrättsligt janusansikte?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-201177.

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Green, John K. Kaminer Isaac I. "Lethal unmanned air vehicle feasibility study /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA305574.

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Troolin, Eric Calvin James H. "A seven-letter word for art." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5921.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (February 26, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Daybell, James. "Women letter-writers in Tudor England." Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259915.001.0001.

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Salatino, Richard 1956. "Analysis of lethal (1) myospheroid mutants." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291438.

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I report a characterization of several alleles of the myospheroid (mys) gene which encodes the beta-chain of the Drosophils PS integrins. Genetic analysis revealed that the mysˣᴿ, mutation is antimorphic and the mysˣᴺ mutation is hypomorphic. Protein was detected on Western blots from hemizygous mysˣᴿ and mysˣᴺ animals. No integrin beta-subunit was detected in in situ immunofluorescence assays in mysˣᴿ embryos. However, antigen was detected in a small subset of muscle attachment sites in mysˣᴺ embryos. mysˣᴳ and mysˣᴮ alleles behaved, genetically, as null alleles and no protein was detected on Western blots or in immunofluorescence assays. Complementation tests between mysᵗˢ¹, mysᵗˢ³, and the other lethal mys alleles unusual results which suggest that mys may be a transvecting locus.

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Green, John K., and Isaac I. Kaminer. "Lethal unmanned air vehicle feasibility study." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/35138.

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The 1991 Gulf War revealed to U.S. military planners a serious weakness in the ability of our nation's armed forces to detect and destroy mobile theater ballistic missiles systems before an enemy has the chance to use these weapons at least once, and in some cases, multiple times. Since that time there have been various studies done to show that unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) could be used to more effectively locate these mobile missile threats. However, few, if any studies, have addressed the subject of using these same UAVs to not only locate an enemy target, but to also destroy it. Therefore, this thesis provides a survey of both recent and expected future advances in UAV technology with the purpose of showing that a 'Lethal' UAV is both viable and desirable as an attack platform in the U.S. weapons arsenal. To accomplish this goal the reader is given a historical review of UAVs and their important missions, an in- depth overview of the Department of Defense's most capable UAVs, and a description of the sensors and payloads most likely to be used in the design of a Lethal UAV. Lastly, some possible Lethal UAV systems are presented along with an assessment on the feasibility of fielding such systems. While the primary objective of this thesis is to show that UAVs can be used to effectively locate and destroy mobile weapon systems, this document should also be used as a reference for those persons desiring an update on UAV technology and the DoD programs for testing and utilizing this technology.

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Reynolds, James H. "Spoken letter recognition with neural networks." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b30872a7-7bd8-437f-bd3a-649de981d352.

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Neural networks have recently been applied to real-world speech recognition problems with a great deal of success. This thesis developes a strategy for optimising a neural network known as the Radial Basis Function classifier (RBF), on a large spoken letter recognition problem designed by British Telecom Research Laboratories. The strategy developed can be viewed as a compromise between a fully adaptive approach involving prohibitively large amounts of computation, and a heuristic approach resulting in poor generalisation. A value for the optimal number of kernel functions is suggested, and methods for determining the positions of the centres and the values of the width parameters are provided. During the evolution of the optimisation strategy it was demonstrated that spatial organisation of the centres does not adversely affect the ability of the classifier to generalise. An RBF employing the optimisation strategy achieved a lower error rate than a multilayer perceptron and two traditional static pattern classifiers on the same problem. The error rate of the RBF was very close to the theoretical minimum error rate obtainable with an optimal Bayes classifier. In addition to error rate, the performance of the classifiers was assessed in terms of the computational requirements of training and classification, illustrating the significant trade-off between computational investment in training and level of generalisation achieved. The error rate of the RBF was compared with that of a well established method of dynamic classification to examine whether non-linear time normalisation of word patterns was advantageous to generalisation. It was demonstrated that the dynamic classifier was better suited to small-scale speech recognition problems, and the RBF to speaker-independent speech recognition problems. The dynamic classifier was then combined with a neural network algorithm, greatly reducing its computational requirement without significantly increasing its error rate. This system was then extended into a novel system for visual feedback therapy in which speech is visualised as a moving trajectory on a computer screen.

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Koch, Tanja. "Pathomorphologische Charakterisierung der "spotting lethal rat" /." Hannover : [s.n.], 2000. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009476425&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Tan, Yian Kim. "Novel functions of anthrax lethal toxin." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3451.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2009.
Vita: p. 141. Thesis director: Charles Bailey. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biodefense. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 10, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-140). Also issued in print.

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Dwyer, Edward J. "Developing Writing Skills Through Letter Writing." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1996. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3391.

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Intended specifically for tutors who want to use proven teaching techniques but who have limited time and resources, this book offers dozens of teaching ideas as well as useful information on curriculum development, instruction and appropriate reading materials.

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Zhang, Jie M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Diplomatic : letter from the architectural enclave." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97279.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149).
Seeing Architecture as a political art, this thesis concerns itself with boundaries: those of regimes, of culture, of law, and of social strata. In a silent crisis where sustained inscription of physical and social boundaries evacuate urban space into archipelagos of enclaves, Architecture with only ambiguous claims of public space is rendered both accomplice and victim, impotent against forces of capital and concerns of security. Exposing the absurdities in urban geopolitics and persistent spatial logics of exclusivity is as important as proposing to hack into them. Critical of the innocence of so-called public space and the underlying architectural impasse, the thesis offers an investigative commentary on the state of urban enclaves, while speculating on alternative strategies by designing an embassy, a bounded pseudo-extraterritory and the epitome of an enclave. Through absurd couplings and blatant image-making, a seemingly open US embassy is proposed for Beijing as an imploded fragment of a boundary, its incompleteness buttressed by territories of privilege and its disparate barriers articulated as a mechanism of filtration. Away from popular strategies of conceptual and spatial blurring, the thesis defines an architectural porosity to orchestrate spaces of varying openness, as a nuanced response to both the embassy's double identities and schizophrenic agendas of city building. With an architecture that is diplomatic by function and diplomatic by disposition, one experiments with an agency beyond the single pursuit of public-ness and an escape from the ideological enclave of positivism. Ultimately, the goal is to suggest and develop a methodology of designing with oppositions, irony and latency.
by Jie Zhang.
M. Arch.

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Alexandrou, Olga. "Sub-lethal injury to Salmonella enteritidis." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1997. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/843803/.

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The effect of acids on the growth, survival and detection of Salmonella enteritidis PT4 is particularly important in view of the number of outbreaks in which mayonnaise has been implicated as a vehicle. Capacitance measurement was compared with colony counting procedures for the enumeration and determination of sub-lethal injury of Salmonella enteritidis during storage under varied conditions of pH, acidulant and temperature. Capacitance monitoring was shown to offer an improved technique for the measurement of sub-lethal injury in cell populations. Higher levels of sub-lethal injury were detected by the extension of capacitance detection time than were indicated by differential colony counts on selective and non-selective media. The extension of detection time noted with sub-lethally injured cell populations was shown to be due to an extended lag phase when cells were placed in the capacitance growth medium and not the result of delayed detection of the growth of a small, uninjured sub-population. Plots of percentage survival and extension of detection time in survivors gave similar curves for acetic and lactic acid. These acids showed both greater lethality and greater ability to inflict sub-lethal injury than the stronger citric or hydrochloric acid. Sub-lethal injury and lethality were not simply related, as little sub-lethal injury was observed with the stronger acids even under conditions that were ultimately highly lethal. The results indicate that weak organic acids cause more reversible damage to cellular sites prior to death: an observation that has implications for choice of resuscitation procedures when examining acidified foods. Injured cells were found to contain lower levels of ATP than healthy unstressed cells. Inhibition with chloramphenicol did not appear to increase injury and total protein patterns for injured and uninjured cells were similar, suggesting that protection afforded by the synthesis of stress proteins is not a significant factor in this case. The recovery of sub-lethally injured cells in various pre-enrichment and selective enrichment media using capacitance detection times and colony counts on selective and non selective media was determined. Buffered peptone water appeared more effective in recovering injured Salmonella compared to Lactose broth. Additionally, selenite cystine was shown to recover cells faster than the other two selective broths tested; the Muller-Kauffmann Tetrathionate broth and the Rappaport Vassiliadis enrichment broth. In this study, different injury conditions were applied; these included acid stress, heating and freezing. According to the lag phases of injured cell populations, short pre-enrichment is not recommended in the present study.

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Braidwood, Luke Anthony. "Engineering resistance to maize lethal necrosis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273678.

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Modern agriculture is dependent on both global supply chains and crop monocultures. These features aid the evolution and spread of novel plant pathogens. Limited genetic diversity in commercial crop lines can result in widespread susceptibility to emerging pathogens. Pathogen resistance may be developed through conventional breeding approaches, or a number of transgenic strategies. This thesis focuses on the characterisation of an emerging maize disease, Maize lethal necrosis (MLN), and engineering resistant maize lines using an artificial microRNA (amiRNA) approach. MLN is a synergistic viral disease caused by the interaction of Maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV) with any maize-infecting member of the potyviridae. I used next-generation RNA sequencing to characterise the MLN outbreak in East Africa, discovering that local and Chinese strains of the potyvirus Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) typically coinfect with MCMV. A first global MCMV phylogeny was constructed using these samples combined with new Sanger sequencing of samples in Ecuador and Hawaii. The phylogeny supported previous hypotheses of a link between the Chinese and African outbreaks, and suggested a novel link between the Hawaiian and Ecuadorian outbreaks. The SCMV sequences generated demonstrated strong evidence of extensive recombination, in line with previous reports on SCMV and potyviruses. These data also produced first reports of a number of RNA viruses in East Africa, and five novel viral-like sequences, with their presence confirmed by RT-PCR. RNA silencing is an important component of the plant immune response to viral infection. amiRNAs can be used to generate specific and effective viral resistance through Watson- Crick base pairing between the amiRNA and the (RNA) viral genome. Previous amiRNA approaches have targeted invariable genomic regions using consensus sequences. However, the high mutation rate of RNA viruses means single cells contain a variety of mutant genomes, collectively called a quasispecies. To deter the evolution of resistance breaking I devised a novel strategy to include intra-sample variation from NGS data in amiRNA design, and constructs, each containing five of these amiRNAs, were transformed into tropical maize lines. RNA silencing may be hampered by the expression of viral suppressors of silencing (VSRs). Local VSR assays demonstrated that there are no local VSRs in the MCMV genome, while systemic VSR assays showed a possible systemic VSR role for the unique P32 protein, and an interesting link between photoperiod and systemic silencing more generally.

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