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Fail to Appear
Fail to Appear is a feature length drama about Isolde, a new case manager in a low income neighborhood of Toronto, and her client Eric, a man with a history of mental illness who runs into trouble with the law. This film combines fictional and documentary elements to create an observational film …
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Closer Than They Appear
Closer Than They Appear is a short story collection of approximately 23,500 words. The seven stories delve into themes of human connections and desire, set against the backdrops of uncertainty and the uncanny. Too, objects and material culture function across the collection as speculative lenses …
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Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
<p>The short stories in this collection move between two women, Fiona and Jane, who were close friends as teenagers but drift apart in their twenties. The women find each other again, later in life, and ease into an unsettled truce. As a writer I am interested in questions of gender and sexuality, …
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The Classical Lie algebras are more simple than they may appear
The purpose of this dissertation is to consider the classical Lie Algebras, namely: so(n, C), sl(n, C) and sp(n, C), n ≥ 2. Our aim will be to prove that if a Lie Algebra L is classical, except for so(2, C) and so(4, C), then it is simple. The classification and analysis will include finding their …
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An analysis of planning standards as they appear in Massachusetts adjudications
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1962.
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Correlates of protective immunity in individuals who are exposed to Hepatitis C but appear uninfected
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) currently infects 3% of the world’s population, with chronic infection in 50-80% of exposed individuals. A small subset of individuals who are exposed to HCV do not develop anti-HCV antibodies, persistent viraemia or chronic hepatitis despite generating HCV-specific CD4+ …
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Academic optimism in middle schools: a study of factors that appear to contribute to its development
… and observations revealed three themes that appeared to be prevalent in middle schools with high academic optimism: communication, collaboration and support, and a culture of excellence. Teacher communication with parents and with one another is evident in schools with high academic optimism. …
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Sometimes Sharks Appear in Lakes Too: Tridirectional Insights on Leader Humility and Its Influence on Employee Behavior
Most research on leader humility to date has focused on positive outcomes, portraying humble behaviors as unequivocally beneficial to followers and leaders. However, scant research has examined the detrimental aspects of leader humility. This thesis challenges the consensus that leader humility is …
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Sometimes Sharks Appear in Lakes Too: Tridirectional Insights on Leader Humility and Its Influence on Employee Behavior
Most research on leader humility to date has focused on positive outcomes, portraying humble behaviors as unequivocally beneficial to followers and leaders. However, scant research has examined the detrimental aspects of leader humility. This thesis challenges the consensus that leader humility is …
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Public relations in print: a study and profile of public relations-generated news stories that appear in Delaware Valley daily newspapers
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine public relations practice's impact on journalism throughout the Delaware Valley through analysis of journalistic attitudes about public relations and the success of public relations practice on publicity for Rowan University.</p> <p>The study analyzed the …
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Patient and Physician Discordance in Reporting Symptoms of Angina: Insights From the Angina Prevalence and Provider Evaluation of Angina Relief (APPEAR) Study
A principal goal of treating patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) is to minimize their angina and optimize their quality of life. In order to accomplish this, physicians must accurately assess the presence and frequency of patients’ angina. The accuracy with which cardiologists estimate …
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Dissertation in Which There Appear Lost Punchlines, Dreadful Puns, Low Resolution, etc.: On the Failure of Humour in Avant-garde Film and Video
This dissertation explores the overlooked functions that humour has served in American avant-garde film and video, arguing that humour is involved consistently in many of the key operations and philosophies that have energized these moving image practices. Taking humour as an alternative historical …
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Multimodality in the Art & Media Arts Classroom: A Qualitative Study of Multimodal Literacies as They Appear in Art & Media Educator Classroom Curriculum and Practice
<p>As a visual arts educator, I understand the unique opportunities students have to learn by making, inventing, and creating, to communicate their ideas. The work of the New London Group (2000), the more recent National Core Arts Standards and the National Core Media Arts Standards (2014) and the …
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The Effects of The Extent to Which Metaphors (Figurative Language) Appear in Prose on The Reading Comprehension of Selected Groups of Fifth and Eighth Grade Elementary School Students
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009211.pdf: 6426783 bytes, checksum: 154f43d04f08a066a826f86a7202371b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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'Separate Realities': An Investigation Into The Social Behaviour Of A Group Of Adults With Severe Learning Difficulties And A Discussion Of The Factors Which Appear To Motivate This Behaviour
… explores a range of underlying factors which appear to motivate the social behaviour of adults with severe learning difficulties. While there is ample evidence to suggest that these adults often behave in ways viewed as unacceptable by the wider population a skills deficit approach to the …
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“Citizenship is what you are, what you do, and how you appear in Front of Other People in [the] Society you Live”: Lessons on Gendered Citizenship in a Tanzanian School
This case study examines how civics education and forces of schooling shape Tanzanian girls’ perceptions of citizenship. Girls often experience multiple barriers, including gender discrimination, when participating as young citizens. Gender concepts have been incorporated into the Tanzanian civics …
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Bacteriurua in mental disease, its frequency and possible significance, being an analysis of the urinary flora in 50 cases of mental disease, with a note on the associated clinical condition, and the pathological constituents of the urine
… streptococci and coliform organisms. III. They appear in 90% of the cases in this series, 10% being sterile. IV. They appear in various forms of mental disease. V. They appear in both male and female patients, coliform organisms appearing in nine cases out of twenty-four females and in only one …
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Linguistic Cues to Deception
… those linked to a deceiver's attempt to appear truthful, and those resulting from deceivers' high cognitive load. Cues caused by a deceiver's negative emotions were mostly absent in the results, although deceivers did use fewer first-person pronouns than truth tellers. That indicated …
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