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Showing 1 to 20 of 1786 for “"ADAM"”.
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Cane: the American Adam rekindled
… literature because it calls for an Adamic personality to combat the complexities of the enigmatic American scene. Moreover, the study suggests that <i>Cane</i> belongs among those famous American writings by Emerson, Hawthorne, Whitman, Twain, and Melville because it too investigates …
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Performance portfolio Steven Adam Frey DMA 2015
What are the next steps to continue the growth and appreciation of the euphonium as a solo instrument? The instrument now occupies a prestigious role in the brass band and its influence in the wind band continues to rise. Yet, in the orchestral realm, it continues to not gain traction. This DMA …
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The Romantic Other: Adam Mickiewicz in Russia
… dissertation examines the role of Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz as the Romantic Other in the formation of Russia's Romantic identity during his Russian sojourn between 1824 and 1829. Analysis of Mickiewicz's image as the poetic Other, with respect to his Russian contemporaries, reveals the …
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Adam Smith and the Consequences of Inequality
This is the first book-length study of Adam Smith’s thoughts on inequality. The scholarly literature on Smith is vast, but hitherto comparatively little has been written on this feature of his thought. The prevailing interpretation of Smith as a thinker primarily interested in the plight of the …
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Vitamin D, ADAM-12 and Carotid Artery Disease
… the activity of proteolytic enzymes such as ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinases). ADAM-12 cleaves proHB-EGF (Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor) activating EGFR, resulting in increased proliferation of smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Our lab has reported that vitamin D …
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Welsh Identity and Adam Usk’s Chronicle (1377-1421)
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer, wrote a chronicle during the early fifteenth century. In the work he recounts events that took place during his lifetime including the Glyndŵr rebellion in Wales (1400- 1415). In modern scholarship, however, Adam’s chronicle has been categorised as an ‘English’ chronicle …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able to challenge it severely. Only with Adam …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able to challenge it severely. Only with Adam …
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Examining "The Adam Smith Problem": Individuals, Society, and Value
In this paper I offer an analysis of the Adam Smith Problem. This Problem arises from perceived inconsistencies between Smith's economic work, The Wealth of Nations, and his moral theory, the Theory of Moral Sentiments. I argue that far from being inconsistent with Smith's economic theory, his …
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"Let Us Make 'adam": An Edenic Model of Personal Ontology
<p>Personal ontology studies human constitution and human nature, an increasingly debated topic in Christian theology. Historically, the most prominent models of personal ontology in Christian theology have been substance dualist models. More recently, physicalist models have offered prominent …
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Capital Without Capitalism: Adam Smith, Arrighi, and Cultural Political Economy
… not been resolved. Recently, Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing contributes to these debates by returning the conversation to the inheritance of classical political economy. Arrighi offers fresh readings of Adam Smith and Karl Marx to redefine capitalism and national development for the …
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Hearing Adam: Gender Relationships in the Short Fiction of Caroline Gordon.
<p>Writer and critic Caroline Gordon has been a participant on the Southern literary scene since the early 1930s, yet her works have been neither studied nor appreciated as frequently as the works of her male contemporaries. Her novels and short fiction never received the critical acclaim that they …
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"The Return of Adam to Paradise Lost: Camus' ""Le Premier Homme"
"One of the first theses devoted to Camus' autobiographical novel, this dissertation probes the orphan legacy that triggers the 'first man's' search for origins. My first chapter traces themes in his last work through the three 'cycles,' or 'myths,' which organize Camus' oeuvre, from manuscripts of …
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Modulating ADAM-10 activity and expression in cervical and oesophageal cancer cells
The ADAMs (A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase) is a family of transmembrane and secreted proteins essential in cellular fate determination, wound healing, cell migration, proliferation and angiogenesis. Previous studies have linked a range of ADAMs, which include ADAM10 to cancer development and …
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Adam von Bartsch (1757-1821) and the Invention of the Original Printmaker
… Austrian printmaker, curator, and author, Adam von Bartsch (1757-1821), developed and disseminated concepts and methods of investigation that formed the foundation of the rational and empirical study of prints. The analysis of Bartsch’s publications, which included new editions of …
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