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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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Schools as Societal Change Agencies
(2024)There is a call to action to close disparities and address inequalities throughout various institutions across the United States. There is a growing amount of research on the topic of education in relation to how schools ... -
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Schools as Societal Change Agencies
(2024)There is a call to action to close disparities and address inequalities throughout various institutions across the United States. There is a growing amount of research on the topic of education in relation to how schools ... -
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Schools as Societal Change Agencies
(2024)There is a call to action to close disparities and address inequalities throughout various institutions across the United States. There is a growing amount of research on the topic of education in relation to how schools ... -
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Schools as Societal Change Agencies
(2024)There is a call to action to close disparities and address inequalities throughout various institutions across the United States. There is a growing amount of research on the topic of education in relation to how schools ... -
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Schools as Societal Change Agencies
(2024)There is a call to action to close disparities and address inequalities throughout various institutions across the United States. There is a growing amount of research on the topic of education in relation to how schools ... -
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Schools as Societal Change Agencies
(2024)There is a call to action to close disparities and address inequalities throughout various institutions across the United States. There is a growing amount of research on the topic of education in relation to how schools ... -
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Schools as Societal Change Agencies
(2024)There is a call to action to close disparities and address inequalities throughout various institutions across the United States. There is a growing amount of research on the topic of education in relation to how schools ...