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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Baillie"”.
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The Lady Showroom: Optical Representations in the Works of Joanna Baillie and Louisa Stuart Costello
… eighteenth century. I focus on works by Joanna Baillie and Louisa Stuart Costello, who theorize the viewing process in their prose and manipulate the viewing process in their drama and poetry, respectively. By manipulating the gaze these authors show readers new ways of seeing women, and …
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Joanna Baillie: The Theory in Her Plays on the Passions and an Analysis of Four Dramas Within that Series
… the theatre theory as outlined by Joanna Baillie in the Introductory Discourse to her Series of Plays in Which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind: Each Passion Being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy (the Plays on the Passions). It has become common among …
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The Sublime Actor and the Poetics of Emotions: Agency, Affect, and the Theatrical Sublime
… of Phaedra by Euripides, Jean Racine, Joanna Baillie, and Eugene O’Neill. These plays are of significance not just because of their thematic interest in powerful emotions and their expression, but because they express these themes through a shared formal device, which I call the scene of …
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Appropriations of the Gothic by Romantic-era women writers
… based on a well-known highland legend, Joanna Baillie’s _The Family Legend_ and Thomas Holcroft’s _The Lady of the Rock_. I elucidate the role played by genre and gender in formulating two adaptations that bear, each in its own way, on themes of liberation, tyranny and domestic violence. One of …
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Elizabeth Inchbald's Role in Eighteenth-Century Dialogic: the Complex of Utterances in I'Ll Tell You What! and Everyone Has His Fault
… as her late eighteenth-century contemporaries Baillie, Wollstonecraft, and Edgeworth. This study will show that such assumptions about a radical role for Inchbald do not take into account the complexity of utterances in her writing. Two typical plays, I'll Tell You What (1785) and Everyone Has …
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Lord Byron and women's writing
… Mary Wortley Montagu, Madame de Staël, Joanne Baillie, and Mary Shelley – are framed within wider considerations of Byron’s engagement with women writers. Building upon formative inquiries into the idea of influence (Kristeva and Barthes), and more recent studies (Anderson, Elfenbein, Bellonby, …
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Pell Equation - Theory and applications to cryptography
… to the Lucas test included in the widely used Baillie–PSW test. In particular, the new primality tests are equipped with adaptations of the Selfridge method for choosing the parameters, resulting in very powerful tests.
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From Virtue to Sympathy: Perspectives in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature on the Disintegration of the Social Bond
… Pope, Jane Austen, Ann Yearsley, Joanna Baillie, Ann Bannerman, Dorothy Wordsworth, and William Wordsworth from 1730 to 1816 reveals a variety of ways in which an understanding of sympathy changes: from a fully integrated and immediate virtue-based response within a functioning social …
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
… from William Collins, Charlotte Smith, Joanna Baillie, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, and others. The edition also includes a list of textual variants for the material collected in <em>Poems, A New Edition</em>, an index of first lines, a bibliography, and four …
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Understanding the evolution of cymothoid isopod parasites using comparative genomics and geometric morphometrics
One of the single most extraordinary examples of host-parasite co-evolution is shownby the isopod family Cymothoidae, of which all species are obligate parasites of fishes,including many commercially important fish species. Cymothoids are one of the mostdiverse isopod groups, with 400 species …
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Effects of a Professional Learning Experience on Middle School Teachers’ Perceptions, Experiences, and Implementation of Curricular-Embedded Self-Regulated Learning and Motivation
<p>During the middle school transitional years, students face potential obstacles that can affect their achievement and motivation. It is essential that they learn how to self-regulate their learning and motivation so that they can persevere in an increasingly challenging academic environment. …
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Failure to Engage: Exploring Treatment Initiation Delays for Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among the Canadian Armed Forces
Despite the availability of mental health resources available to members and veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), there are significant concerns regarding post-deployment mental health, including failure to initiate treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a timely manner. The …
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Housing- and neighborhood-related stress of female heads of single-parent households
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of housing- and neighborhood-related deficits and stress in female heads of single-parent households. The main objectives were to determine: (1) if a correlation existed between the characteristics of the housing and neighborhood occupied by …
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Guano Rain and Growing Pain: Co-Nesting Dynamics of Double-Crested Cormorants and Black-Crowned Night-Herons at Tommy Thompson Park
This study investigates the co-nesting dynamics between double-crested cormorants (Nannopterum auritum) and black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) in Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto, Canada, from 1992 to 2023. Linear mixed models with Bayesian inference were used to examine the impacts of …
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Retroviruses in the common brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
This study details the search for, and characterisation of, retroviruses in a marsupial, the common brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Initial efforts were directed at detecting exogenous retroviruses in possums, but the majority of the work described in this thesis involved the isolation …
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Synthesis and structural studies of some metal complexes of tetraaza macrocyclic ligands
A series of dibenzo macrocyclic tetraamine ligands with 14-, 15-, 16-, 17- and 19-membered inner great lings (L14 to L15) has been synthesized to investigate the effect of ring size variation on their complexation behaviour with the metal-ions, Ni(Il), Zn(ll) and Cd(II).
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Exploring the role of resilience and perceived organizational support in the secondary trauma experience of Canadian post-secondary student affairs professionals
This quantitative study explored the secondary trauma experience of Canadian student affairs professionals. Using a composite scale comprised of the Secondary Trauma in Student Affairs Professionals scale (Lynch & Glass, 2019), the Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., 2008), the Survey on …
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Modern languages in the junior high school
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1917. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Application of acoustic emission sensing for the non-destructive evaluation of advanced composite materials
To evaluate the state of health of the composite, a real-time, in-situ acoustic emission (AE) damage detection system has been developed, where the monitoring of AE activity emitted from within a carbon/epoxy composite material (CFRP) is achieved using an all-fibre Mach-Zehnder interferometric …
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A Comparison of the Effects of Two Adult Cardiovascular Education Approaches on Risk Reduction Behaviors of Adults and Their Children
The major problem yet unsolved in community based health education programs is the determination of the minimum degree of personal instruction needed to give maximum yield from mass media at the lowest possible cost. The present research provides an assessment of amount of individual contact …
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