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Fields, Alexander James. "Nature of anger in the workplace| Exploration of relevant variables and their structure." Thesis, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1605134.

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<p> In the workplace, counter productive work behaviors (CWBs) are strongly discouraged. Vardi and Weitz (2004) concluded that counter productive work behaviors are a fairly common occurrence and cost businesses billions of dollars each year. Many of these CWBs are perpetrated by angry or disgruntled employees. When angry employees are identified they can be helped with coping strategies to productively manage their anger, as opposed to engaging in CWBs (Hargrave, Hiatt, Dannenbaum, &amp; Shaffer, 2008). This paper seeks to better equip professionals and researchers with tools to identify th
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Reno, Dorothy. "Sage and the city: A case study of identity at an urban Aboriginal organization." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28417.

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In the past few decades, Aboriginals in Canada have undergone a steep urban transition. The challenges associated with the city, such as racism, poverty, feelings of dislocation, coping and thriving within the broader Canadian society, and negotiating identity, are all issues which led to the creation of urban cultural centres and organizations. Within the context of these organizations, the communities that are formed are multicultural in the sense of bringing together all Aboriginal peoples from a variety of First Nations, Metis and Inuit backgrounds. On one hand, Aboriginal cultural centres
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Javeau, Alain. "L'information en tant que lien essentiel entre les sciences de la nature et les sciences humaines : axe principal : incidences de l'information sur le fonctionnement et le comportement de l'homme considéré en tant que structure dissipative." Thesis, Dijon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016DIJOL009/document.

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Cette thèse a pour objet d’aborder l’information en tant que lien essentiel entre les sciences de la nature et les sciences humaines. Il y est principalement fait état de principes de la science physique, alliés à un ensemble d’approches scientifiques issues, notamment, des théories de la complexité, du chaos, de l’information, de l’auto-organisation, des émergences et des écosystèmes. Les lois de la thermodynamique jouent un rôle central dans ce contexte, où l’organisation et la néguentropie sont directement inscrites dans le champ de la production d’informations. Il y est en particulier fait
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Schlevogt, Kai-Alexander. "The art of Chinese management : an empirical study of the nature, causes and outcomes of organizational structure and management practices in companies from selected cities in mainland China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:83824892-085f-42dc-ab99-a4d78d11f480.

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An empirical study was undertaken (a) to examine the characteristics, influencing factors, and effectiveness of a distinctive Chinese management model adopted by the newly founded private enterprises in mainland China, as well as (b) to test the "fit" notion in contingency theory. The study was based on a random sample of 124 standardized personal interviews with CEOs of Chinese industrial and service companies in Beijing and Shanghai. The standardized questionnaire mainly contained the Aston structure scales (Pugh and Hickson 1976) and Khandwalla's (1977) management schedules. Besides, three
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McCrea, Genevieve Rosalind Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Self organization in nature." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Art, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43573.

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Sand is an appropriate material to embody and make visible the impulses which may pass through the moving hand and also permeate the universe. Its ability to absorb impressions means it can take on the full range of material states, solid, liquid or vapour, and allows it to speak with the rhythmic language the whole of nature itself uses. Developing a language of forms which more closely speaks this rhythmic language of nature requires an intimate knowledge of the processes of nature. Sand experiments undertaken show the formation a rich array of dazzling patterns. Chaos theory explains this
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Dolan, Jamie Marie. "'Do Good Things for the Fish': Organizational Innovation in Tribal Governance." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195674.

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This dissertation examines the organizational aspects of fish and wildlife management for Native American nations. Fish and wildlife management is an arena of great importance to many Native nations in subsistence, economic and cultural realms. Additionally, fish and wildlife, being common-pool resources, offer interesting management challenges. My research focuses on what happens when Native American nations exercise self-determination in this arena which requires them for both political and practical reasons to interact with state and federal governments and for economic reasons to deal w
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Turpo, Gebera Osbaldo. "The virtual education fractality: nature and organization." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117610.

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The potential generated by ICT in education raises reflect on the underlying frameworks. In this sense, the fractal is an opportunity to explain how it organizes and manages virtual education.This approach recognizes that educational dynamics are recursive and iterative processes instituted as progressive sequences, by way of fractals. This understanding enables becoming as mediated and articulated successive levels. In each dimension are embodied own activities and in turn, involves the recurrence of subsequent levels as possible solving of problem situations. Thus, the knowledge built in res
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Dudy, Lenart E. "Nature and organization of the CuO 2 -plane." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15928.

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Diese experimentelle Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Einkristallen der Bi Kuprate. Mittels Rastertunnelmikroskopie und der Beugung langsamer Elektronen wurde die strukturellen Eigenschaften untersucht. Es wurde ein bestehendes pseudobinäres Blei-Temperatur Phasendiagram erweitert. Mittels der Charakterisierungsresultate der energiedispersive Röntgenspektroskopie und der AC-Suszeptibilität wurde gezeigt, dass an bestimmten Lochdotierungen die Sprungtemperatur unterdrückt ist. Diese Tatsache wird für zwei Variationen des Bi2201 Kuprat-Systems bewiesen - durch Literaturdaten auch für LSC
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Gao, Yongmei. "SPANNING Between Structure and Nature." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34699.

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The design project, a new student union building for the Virginia Tech campus is a 420-foot-long structure spanning from earth to water. Along a steel-glass bridge, three simple volumes play together to achieve the functions of the student union. There is an order among Nature, Architecture, and People in this project. Simple geometric forms and the elegant structure interact with nature to achieve the order. People animate the serenity and become the core of the poetic environment. The building is also a spanning between the past and the future. Imagining that many years later, when gradua
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Hsueh, Chun-Ying. "Training needs at non-profit organization Nature Park X /." Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008hsuehc.pdf.

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Kaizer, I. Yu. "Nature and structure of educational interest." Thesis, БДМУ, 2020. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/18269.

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Vigneaux, Gregory J. "An organizational perspective on U.S. wildland firefighting operations| Opening the black box." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10195159.

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<p> The U.S. federal wildland fire management system continues to experience rises in the number of acres burned annually and increases in management expenditures surrounded by firefighter death and injury. Despite a wealth of relevant academic research regarding wildland firefighting operations, a prominent nexus of these dynamics, there is little research regarding the response organization used to facilitate these operations on the fireground. Owing to a lack of research, wildland firefighting operations have remained a black box, meaning something with unknown internal workings, between th
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Pannabecker, Bradford W. "Natural Leaders| How Interacting with Nature Impacts Leadership Practices." Thesis, Saint Mary's College of California, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13807233.

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<p> Within today's technologically enmeshed world, people are spending more and more time in front of screens (both large and small). This comes at a cost; time spent outdoors is becoming scarce. How does engaging with nature impact our practice of leadership? A Collaborative Inquiry carried out by four individuals with personal leadership practices explored this question. We found that our leadership practices were improved through spending time in nature. A significant impact we identified was that our experiences in nature had an ego-reductive influence, turning our focus outwards and impro
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Ohlson, Elizabeth Ann. "The symbolic nature of teacher leadership /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7624.

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Babiuk, Gary Eugene. "Holistic changes in school structure and organization." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0020/NQ53698.pdf.

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Zaidi, Faraz. "Analysis, structure and organization of complex networks." Thesis, Bordeaux 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR14112/document.

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La Science des réseaux est apparue comme un domaine d'étude fondamental pour modéliser un grand nombre de systèmes synthétiques ou du monde réel.La découverte du graphe petit monde et du graphe sans échelle dans ces réseaux a révolutionné la façon d'étudier, d'analyser, de modéliser et de traiter ces réseaux. Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à l'étude des réseaux ayant ces propriétés et souvent qualifiés de réseaux complexes.A notre avis, les recherches menées dans ce domaine peuvent être regroupées en quatre catégories: l'analyse, la structure, le processus/organisation et la visualisa
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Keeley, Jared Wayne Blashfield Roger K. "Analysis of the hierarchical nature of clinicians' organization of mental disorders." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/master's/KEELEY_JARED_29.pdf.

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Fiorentino, Robert D. "Lexical structure and the nature of linguistic representations." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3896.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.<br>Thesis research directed by: Linguistics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Basa, Frank Edward. "Project management and organization structure in drug development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11353.

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Wright, Pamela A. "Perceived structure of the environmental/conservation organization market /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487760357823173.

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Powell, Mark. "The nature, structure and management of management consulting organisations." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389488.

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Marsh, Michael Stewart. "The structure and dynamic nature of the solar atmosphere." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2005. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/7952/.

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This thesis presents an examination of a range of dynamic phenomena present throughout the solar atmosphere, from the photosphere to the corona. Above the photosphere, where the plasma fi is small, the emitting plasma structure and dynamics are tied intimately to the solar magnetic field. Firstly, a wavelet analysis is applied to multi-temperature spectroscopic data observing network-internetwork regions across a coronal hole boundary region. The nature of quasiperiodic variability is investigated through the different temperature lines across the observed structures. Statistically significant
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Gambarotto, Andrea. "Vital forces and organization : vitalism and philosophy of nature in Germany (1752-1802)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010701.

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Forces vitales et organisation : vitalisme et philosophie de la nature en Allemagne (1752-1802)<br>In the course of the last thirty years, a considerable body of scholarship has examined the life sciences that arose in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century. This literature has shown that previous dismissals of this tradition, assumed to be infected with a pathological imagination, were unwarranted. Yet the interpretations of the period have not always been consistent with each other, and they often have been characterized by vagueness. Generally speaking, the scholarly debate has focuse
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Johansson, Julia. "A Structure for Impact : Using benchmarking to revise the organization structure of an INGO." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385946.

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This thesis investigates what the possible benefits and challenges are with different organization structures from the perspective of an international non-governmental organization (INGO). Based on learnings from other organizations it is examined what a revised structure could look like for Organization X in order to maximize their use of internal resources. The aim of the study is to achieve a structure more aligned with the strategic priorities of Organization X. As well as contribute to the field of organization theory from an INGO perspective. To achieve this benchmarking against other or
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Connelly, John. "The structure and nature of English local government, 1834-2004." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2007. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/575/.

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In a drive to make local government as interesting and popular as generations of Westminster's politicians have believed it ought to be, the reform of local government as become as English an obsession as the weather. Throughout the 20th century a range of subjective criteria have been developed to justify reorganisations of local government, along with increasingly complex models of how subjective measures can be used to justify change. The complex and time-consuming procedures that characterised the 1929 'review' of local government were compounded by a layer of additional complexity in the,
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Ifill, Tim. "Seeking the nature of idioms a study in idiomatic structure /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2003. http://thesis.haverford.edu/45/01/2003IfillT.pdf.

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Laias, Naima Mahhmoud. "Structure and organization of esterase B1 amplification in Culex mosquitoes." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363711.

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Barras, Kazue Saito M. de. "Topical organization in the classroom : internal structure and conversational markers." Thesis, University of Essex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302765.

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Harmon, Derek J. "The structure of strategic communication| Theory, measurement, and effects." Thesis, University of Southern California, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10243673.

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<p> This dissertation advances a novel approach that I refer to as the structure of strategic communication. Leveraging theory on how people naturally structure their arguments, this approach contends that organizational actors deploy arguments to influence others at two structurally distinct levels&mdash;<i> within</i> the rules of the game or <i>about</i> the rules of the game. This dissertation&rsquo;s primary claim is that talking more about the rules of the game, which exposes the assumptions underlying our social institutions to direct examination, may have profound implications. I build
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Fisher, Matt. "Mind as creative organization : the nature and development of human cognition as a creative process /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armf5331.pdf.

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Dembeck, Thomas J. "A Case Study on the Nature of Informal Conversation in an Organization Utilizing Microblogging Technology." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557491.

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<p> The purpose of this case study was to determine the nature of conversations that occur within an organizational microblog and compare them to traditional informal conversations. Since informal conversations are closely associated with reaction to change, this study explored how organizational microblog conversations may be understood to affect outcomes resulting from organizational change. </p><p> A sequential transformative design was used to collect four sources of evidence (Yin, 2009): microblog responses for 90 days; focus groups at the beginning, middle, and end of the 90-day peri
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Kornberger, Martin, Stephan Leixnering, Renate Meyer, and Markus Höllerer. "Rethinking the sharing economy: The nature and organization of sharing in the 2015 refugee crisis." AOM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amd.2016.0138.

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Our paper focuses on a non-standard sharing example that harbors the potential to disrupt received wisdom on the sharing economy. While originally entering the field to analyze, broadly from a governance perspective, how the 2015 refugee crisis was handled in Vienna, Austria, we found that the non-governmental organization Train of Hope - labeled as a "citizen start-up" by City of Vienna officials - played an outstanding role in mastering the crisis. In a blog post during his visit in Vienna at the time, and experiencing the refugee crisis first-hand, it was actually Henry Mintzberg who sugges
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Soueidan, Lama. "3D organization of the chromatin fiber." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENSL0980/document.

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L’état local de la chromatine joue un rôle crucial dans tous les processus génétiques comme le contrôle de la transcription, de la réplication et de la réparation de l’ADN, de la signalisation, etc... La structure précise de l’organisation 3D du deuxième ordre de compaction de la chromatine, aussi appelé fibre de 30 nm, a été le sujet d’intenses débats durant les 40 dernières années. En se basant sur les données in vitro, deux modèles concurrents se distinguent: le solénoïde et le zigzag. Dans le modèle solénoïde, des nucléosomes consécutifs interagissent pour former une trajectoire hélicoïdal
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Austin, M. J. "The nature and structure of the winds of galactic O stars." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1318063/.

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O stars are highly important objects in their host galaxies due to the impact of their powerful stellar winds and strong flux output. The details of their physics and evolution as individual entities and as populations have important consequences for understanding the stars themselves and their environments. Two major issues are currently challenging the successful theory of line-driven winds; that the winds are clumped and not smooth or homogeneous, and that some objects appear to have weaker mass-loss than prescribed by theory; in the case of O supergiants by a factor of a few, and for late
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Zhao, Tianming. "A Water Garden: Celebrating the Beauty of Nature." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/92872.

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Nature, as the major consideration of the Organic Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, has constantly been favored as a path for a pure soul to communicate with the spiritual. Inspired by Wright's Organic Architecture and Traditional Chinese Garden, this thesis celebrates the beauty of Nature in Pandapas Pond, Giles County, VA, where a "Water Garden" is created on the open space defined by its water. Formally, the whole garden complex takes the inspiration from lotus flowers floating on the water, which could be thought of as an "organic system of architecture."<br>Master of Architecture
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Lamarre, Patricia Grace. "The structure and organization of professional development : perceptions of FSL teachers." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28097.

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Two developmental theories propose guidelines for professional development programs. The basic assumption shared by both these theories is that teachers' preferences will vary between individuals and that this variation reflects different stages of teachers' development. Teachers at lower levels of development (either professional or conceptual) will prefer highly structured programs that focus on "concrete" concerns, with little interaction between peers. Teachers at higher levels of development will prefer loosely structured programs, with more teacher interaction, autonomy, and discussion o
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Smith, Steven W. "Information systems : how they affect and are affected by organization structure." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23928.

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Ghifari, Najla. "Microfluidic-based colloidal ZnO microcapsules : synthesis, structure,organization and first applications." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPAST066.

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Ce travail se concentre sur le développement d’une approche microfluidique originale à base degouttelettes pour générer des sphères de ZnO de taille micrométrique très monodispersées avec une taille et une morphologie bien contrôlées. Cette approche est simple et prometteuse non seulement pour la fabrication de microcapsules de ZnO de taille uniforme, avec une taille ajustable et un contrôle précis à l’échelle micrométrique, mais aussi pour acquérir de nouvelles connaissances sur la compréhension des processus de croissance colloïdale et l’auto-organisation des nanoparticules de ZnO par la voi
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Jurkovic, Dominika Angelika. "Structure, Organization, and Function of the Terminal Organelle in Mycoplasma penetrans." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1346776623.

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Can, Süleyman Zühtü. "Molecular structure and organization in organic monolayers at aqueous/vapor interfaces." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8030.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Federmeier, Kara D. "Sense and structure : electrophysiological investigations of semantic memory organization and use /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9952655.

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Grenda, Donn Robert 1966. "Site structure, settlement systems, and social organization at Lake Elsinore, California." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282507.

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This report documents excavations at the Elsinore site (CA-RIV-2798/H) which is located at the mouth of the outlet channel on the northeast side of Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California. Lake Elsinore is one of the only natural lakes in southern California, and is located at the eastern base of the Peninsular Range at the terminus of the San Jacinto River. Following the methodological approach of behavioral archaeology, this report explains how changes in lake level affected the lives of the people that lived on its shores. Identifying changes in site structure in relationship to the nat
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Cerasi, Vittoria. "Banking competition and the internal organization of a commercial bank." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244504.

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Markowitz, Timothy Michael. "Social organization of the New Zealand dusky dolphin." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/537.

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Social organization of dolphins in extensive societies has not been well studied. Off Kaikoura, New Zealand, thousands of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) gather, feeding nocturnally on deep scattering layer prey, resting and socializing diurnally. During 1997-2003, interval sampling was used to monitor large assemblages numbering hundreds (n=169), smaller mating groups (mean+s.e.=7+1.6 adults, n=42), mother-calf nurseries (mean+s.e.=13+1.6 adults, 1+0.5 juveniles, 4+0.7 calves and 1+0.4 neonates, n=41), and non-mating adult groups (mean+s.e.= 9+1.3 adults, 1+0.2 juvenile, n=37). Grou
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Vickers, John. "Patent races and market structure." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9e3df3d2-b58a-48cc-b639-78c7c48bd3cd.

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This thesis is a theoretical study of relationships between patent races and market structure. The outcome of a patent race can be an important determinant of market structure. For example, whether or not a new firm enters a market may depend upon its winning a patent race against an incumbent firm already in that market. Moreover, market structure can be a major influence upon competition in a patent race. In the example, the asymmetry between incumbent and potential entrant has an effect upon their respective incentives in the patent race. Chapter I discusses models of R and D with uncertain
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Moldón, Vara Francisco Javier. "Structure and nature of gamma-ray binaries by means of VLBI observations." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/96996.

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Gamma-ray binaries are extreme systems that produce non-thermal emission from radio to very-high-energy (above TeV) gamma rays, with the energy output in the spectral energy distribution (SED) dominated by the MeV–GeV photons. Their broadband emission is usually modulated by the orbital cycle of the system, which suggests that the physical conditions are also periodic and reproducible. The diversity of systems, together with the reproducibility of the conditions within each system, makes gamma-ray binaries excellent physical laboratories in which high energy particle acceleration, diffusion, a
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WHICHER, Ian. "THE MIND (CITTA): ITS NATURE, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING IN CLASSICAL YOGA (1)." 名古屋大学文学部インド文化学研究室 (Department of Indian Studies, School of Letters, University of Nagoya), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19203.

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WHICHER, Ian. "THE MIND (CITTA): ITS NATURE, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING IN CLASSICAL YOGA (2)." 名古屋大学文学部インド文化学研究室 (Department of Indian Studies, School of Letters, Nagoya University), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19213.

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Elliott, Keith Eric William. "The nature of the correlation structure of traditional and alternative asset classes." Thesis, University of Reading, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602538.

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The goal of this thesis is to increase the understanding of 'alternative assets' and their interaction with other asset classes. This is a relevant area of focus as there are currently more assets available to investors than at any other time. Firstly several assets are reviewed to see if they should be considered for further analysis. This process examines the philosophical question of what is an asset class and also considers the ease of investing in each. The asset's return drivers are analysed using statistical and macroeconomic factor models. Most assets are found to be explained by up to
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Demarre, Gaëlle. "Etude des intégrases d' intégrons : nature des substrats et relations structure / fonction." Paris 6, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA066291.

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