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"And he knew our language": Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest C…
This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and in…
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Adapting for Inertia
Abstract Despite much learning and research over many decades, large ICT software projects have continued to experience poor outcomes or fallen short of original expectations—some spectacularly so. This is the case in the Australian and New Zealand public sectors, even though these projects operate within historically developed institutional frameworks that provide the rules, guidelines and …
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"A Road to Peace and Freedom": The International Workers Order and the Strugg…
Zecker examines the multicultural civil-rights activism and union militancy of the International Workers Order and other left-leaning immigrant groups, investigating the program of such organizations regarding civil rights, unionizing, and workplace justice. It looks at what these organizations did that caused the U.S. government to prosecute them and how these groups sought to defend themselve…
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Adaptation of the Root System to the Environment
eywords TIFY; Populus trichocarpa; protein interaction network; phytohormone treatment; abiotic stress; bioengineering; Carpinus betulus; Fagus orientalis; tensile force; Acer pseudoplatanus; competition below ground; extracellular enzymes; Fagus sylvatica; intraspecific and interspecific competition; toot economic spectrum; toot respiration; tree root traits; soil compaction; N loading; fine …
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Adaptation of Dryland Plants to a Changing Environment
Abstract This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential …
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" . . . A Right Good People"
A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974, the stories collected in "... A Right Good People" were originally published in the ###Charlotte Observer,# the largest newspaper in the Carolinas in the 1970s. These stories were written with the intention of illustrating the heritage of the Ap…
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Advanced Mathematics and Computational Applications in Control Systems Engine…
Control system engineering is a multidisciplinary discipline that applies automatic control theory to design systems with desired behaviors in control environments. Automatic control theory has played a vital role in the advancement of engineering and science. It has become an essential and integral part of modern industrial and manufacturing processes. Today, the requirements for control preci…
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Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence
Abstract This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of nov…
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“3D” Parametric and Nonparametric Description of Surface Topography in Ma…
In present book, an analysis of the literature pertaining to parametric and non-parametric descriptions of surface topography in basics manufacturing processes (e.g., turning, milling, grinding) has been performed. The book focuses on the improvement of machining processes, with particular attention to the functional properties of surfaces, and, also, in the control of process parameters by a s…
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Adams and Jefferson
Abstract Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue documents the public lives and personal friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, from their first meeting as delegates to the Second Continental Congress to their deaths on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This study takes a look at some of the famous correspondence between the two statesmen who devoted th…
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