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SafeID HazMat Solutions
(2014)A leading force in current business practice is the inclusion of safety awareness in every circumstance. Whether this is in an industrial setting, such as manufacturing, or in the service sector, such as a business office, ... -
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Sagebrush Laborers: Basque Immigrants in Nevada’s Sheep Industry, International Dimensions, and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954
(2016)This study explores the history of Basque immigration to the rangelands of Nevada. It views the Basque immigrant sheepherder labor within the social, economic, political, and cultural context of Nevada. Tensions and conflicts ... -
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Sales Tax Competition: Empirical Business Implications for Policymakers
(2013)The exhaustive existing literature on sales tax competition has had a focus on state data or case-studies of specific areas. This is natural because these data are usually easily obtained, and the concept of a national ... -
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Saliency-driven Robotic Perception and Odometry Estimation
(2020)Deployment of autonomous mobile robots in GPS-denied environments or even subject to conditions of poor illumination and texture requires reliable estimation of the robots' position, as well as fast detection of objects ... -
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Salt-Gradient Solar Pond and Membrane Distillation System for Water Desalination Powered by Renewable Energy
(2012)A salt gradient solar pond (SGSP) coupled with a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system was investigated to desalinate water for reclamation of Walker Lake, a terminal saline lake in Northern Nevada. Two ... -
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Salt-Gradient Solar Ponds for Renewable Energy, Desalination and Reclamation of Terminal Lakes
(2010)Terminal lakes are water bodies that are located in closed watersheds with the only output of water occurring through evaporation or infiltration. The majority of these lakes, which are commonly located in the desert and ... -
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Same Problems, Different Responses: Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Social Media, and Ideological Translations
(2013)This thesis research project is an attempt to understand the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements as mass responses to the consequences of neoliberal policy over the past thirty years that culminated into the U.S. ... -
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Sanctioned Self-Immolation: Suicide in the lives of women in China, 17th-21st Century
(2012)Women in China have not always been constrained by Confucianism; women were once able to participate in social and political spheres that were later dominated by men during the Neo-Confucian period beginning during the ... -
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Scalable and Efficient Machine Learning as a Service
(2022)Driven by the sustained advances of machine learning and its application to multiple domains ranging from image recognition, text prediction to translation and autonomous driving, the past few years have witnessed a surging ... -
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Scan Speed Induced Phenomenon in Contact Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy
(2022)Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) has been widely used to measure nanoscale properties in fieldssuch as material science, biology, and medicine. Unexplained phenomena in AFM generate unknown forces that must be understood to ... -
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Scarp degradation and fault history south of Carson City, Nevada
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1979)Examination of faults south of Carson City indicates that scarps erode more rapidly in non-indurated alluvium and that Pleistocene soils, developed on older scarps, prevent scarp degradation and result in faults with steeper ... -
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Scheduling production from underground mines by linear programming
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School Breakfast Program Intake of Selected Nutrients in Relationship to 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans in Third, Fourth and Fifth Graders
(2013)Background: A child's diet has a direct impact on the risk for several chronic diseases including obesity, certain types of cancer and cardiovascular disease. School meal programs, such as the School Breakfast Program ... -
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SCOTUS ’Decisions on Sentencing Juvenile Offenders: An Examination of Risk and Protective Factors of Juvenile Conduct Disorder and Adult Offending
(2017)Conduct disorder is one of the most frequently diagnosed mental illnesses in children in the United States today and consequently, is responsible for a great deal of juvenile delinquency. Extant research and the Supreme ... -
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Screening of Coagulants for the Removal of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
(2019)Treatment and removal of 98 pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from the secondary effluent of two water reclamation facilities (WRFs) was evaluated using the coagulation process. The plants include Truckee ... -
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Screening Trans-Uranium Compounds for Small Molecule Activation Reactions
(5/1/2020)Uranium (III) complexes have been shown to be effective for activating nitrogen1 as well as other small molecules, such as water (H2O), methane (CH4), and hydrogen (H2). Given the chemical similarities between uranium (U) ... -
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Screening Urban Road Network for Corridors with Promise
(2015)Both federal and state policy makers increasingly emphasize the need to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries. Finding improved methods to enhance roadway safety has become a top priority. In an attempt to reduce ... -
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Scripting Mass Atrocity: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge
(2018)Research on mass atrocity sometimes ignores regional variations in violence when seeking to better understand the conditions under which this type of violence occurs. Using the performative framework, it has been possible ... -
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Searching for Life in Salt: An Investigation of the Stability and Microbial Habitability of Possible Martian Brines, and Experimental Determination of the Chaotropicity and Kosmotropicity of Inorganic Solutes
(2021)Liquid water is typically unstable at the surface of Mars due to the combination of low temperatures and pressures. However, present-day surface conditions are close to the triple point of water and the presence of dissolved ... -
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Seasonal Changes in Muscle Gene Expression Associated with HPA Axis Signaling: A Migrant and Resident Songbird Comparison
(5/1/2020)Significant expression patterns of glucocorticoid receptors and their metabolizing enzymes indicate that HPA axis mechanisms fluctuate over an annual cycle and must be considered in addition to corticosterone levels in ...