Browsing ETDs: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) by Title
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Male Street Prostitution in Dublin and San Francisco: A Psychocultural Analysis (abstract)
This study was designed to assess the role of culture in male street prostitution (MSP) by comparing 11 MSPs in San Francisco with 12 MSPs in Dublin, Ireland. The methodology included locating the participants through a ... -
Mapping Inferences: Constraint Propagation and Diamond Satisfaction
(Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2002-12)The main theme shared by the two main parts of this thesis is EFFICIENT AUTOMATED REASONING.Part I is focussed on a general theory underpinning a number of efficient approximate algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction ... -
Maritime Arrest: Legal Reflections on the International Arrest Conventions and on Domestic Law in Germany and Sweden
(University of Stockholm, 2001-03)The paper on maritime arrest describes the work of the international community for the arrest conventions from 1952 and 1999 as well as the practical impacts of the codes of civil procedure in Germany and Sweden. -
Marketing of Community Managed Resources from Nepal: Issues of Benefits and Sustainability
The study is about the market analysis of major products from community-managed forest (CF) in Nepal. The objective of this study is to analyze comparative marketing systems of forest products for better watershed condition ... -
The Measurement of Quality of Life and its Relationship with Perceived Health Status in Adolescents
(University of British Columbia, 2007-08)Several assumptions of the indirect reflective model of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS) were tested to assess its validity as a measure of adolescents’ satisfaction with life generally and ... -
Medición integral de la pobreza crónica profunda y estrategias de políticas sociales para el desarrollo temprano
(2010-09-01)Se amplía la metodología del índice de pobreza crónica generacional en el desarrollo temprano incluyendo la posibilidad del uso de las variables riqueza o consumo como representación alternativa al ingreso de la dimensión ... -
Mejoramiento de la Calidad Nutricional y Panadera del Trigo por Ingeniera Genetica
(National University of Rosario, 2000)Wheat-derived products provide the basic nutrition for more than a billion of people in the world (about 40% of humankind). Humans consume more proteins from wheat than from any other source. However, the nutritional quality ... -
Microarray Approaches to Experimental Genome Annotation
(Yale University, 2005-03)This work describes the development and application of genomic DNA tiling arrays: microarrays designed to represent all of the DNA comprising a chromosome or other genomic locus, regardless of the genes that may be annotated ... -
Minding the Gap: Time in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and the Hermeneutical Inquiry
(University of Houston, 2004-05)I begin this thesis with a discussion of Neil Gaiman’s career and my interaction with his first novel, Neverwhere. I define time in the novel as the succession and interrelatedness of events and divide this definition into ... -
Modelos Estatísticos Espaciais no Planejamento da Prestação de Serviços
(Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2005-02)This thesis has the objective of systematizing the use of spatial statistical models for use in the planning of services, through the use of computational tools that allow the construction of those models. From a bibliographical ... -
Modulation of the effects of lindane on cognitive function and oxidative stress by neurosteroids in rats
Neurosteroids are recognized as important modulators of functioning of the nervous system. They have been recognized to influence several neurobehavioral processes including memory and cognition. Lindane, an organochlorine ... -
MPEG-4 sobre CATV
(Universidad Católica del Uruguay, 2003-03)This dissertation study describes and presents an alternative method for delivering digital video, the MPEG-4 compression format, through the use of an analog cable network for direct viewing on television sets. The purpose ... -
Mujeres: literatura, representación en los sistemas de clasificación y estudio bibliográfico
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008)Este trabajo nació de la inquietud personal de la autora a partir de algunos cursos y lecturas en torno al binómio litaratura-mujeres. En el primer capítulo la autora hace una revisión del feminismo y las teorías literarias ... -
Multirate and Perceptual Techniques for Haptic Rendering in Virtual Environments
Haptics is a field of robotics that involves many aspects of engineering, requiring the collaboration of different disciplines like mechanics, electronics, control theory and computer science. Although multi-disciplinarity ... -
Neuronal basis of horizontal eye velocity-to-position integration
(2007-01-20)Motion of an image across the retina degrades visual accuracy, thus eye position must be held stationary. The horizontal eye velocity-to-position neural integrator (PNI), located in the caudal hindbrain of vertebrates, is ... -
NGO Influence on Forest Legislation: Experiences from Federal Forest Management in the United States
(Lund University, 2003-12)In the last two decades, a concern on how federal forests in the United States are managed has provoked concerns among different stakeholders, including NGOs. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding ... -
"No peito e na raça" - a construção da vulnerabilidade de caminhoneiros. Um estudo antropológico de políticas públicas para HIV/AIDS no Sul do Brasil
(2008-05-05)The main goal of this study, in the field of the Anthropology of Policy, was to analyze the social construction of the AIDS vulnerability of truck drivers in the South of Brazil, examining the national HIV/AIDS prevention ... -
Nominal Determination: Focus on a Few Operations in Cameroon Pidgin English
(Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, 1996-06)Based on a contrastive and variationist approach, this research work sheds light on the study of the structure of the Noun Phrase in Cameroon Pidgin English in contrast with Standard British English. Among other relevant ... -
The object-oriented composition of DES simulation software from prefabricated components developed within different programming environments
(University of Lancaster, 2007-01-05)Developers of simulation software have responded to the increasing commercial demand for customised solutions by adding new features and tools to their existing simulation packages. This has led to huge, monolithic ... -
Oncology and Infectious Diseases in Ancient Egypt: The Ebers Papyrus’ Treatise on Tumours 857-877 and the Cases Found in Ancient Egyptian Human Material
(University of Manchester, 2009-06)This dissertation focuses on pathogenic elements found in the Ebers papyrus: a series of prescriptions that are believed to be the remains of a “book of tumours” which deals with what appear to have been benign ganglionic ...
