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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"Brittany"”.
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… fieldwork was undertaken for Breton in western Brittany and for Gaelic in the core Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland (Western Isles), and was principally conducted by means of a semi-structured interview schedule administered to 51 sets of parents. In both locations, results indicated that most …
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The Spanish Intervention in Brittany and the Failure of Philip II's Bid for European Hegemony, 1589-1598
"My dissertation ""The Spanish Intervention in Brittany and Philip II's bid for European Hegemony 1589-1598"" investigates the failure behind Spain's attempts to impose its hegemony over Western Europe and critiques two current theories on the subject. In the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers …
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An Approach to the Problem of Regional Definition: The Case of Brittany, a Region of Western France
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Fishing as a way of life: a cultural geography of fishing communities in Castletownbere (Ireland) and Le Guilvinec (Brittany)
… Castletownbere (County Cork) and Le Guilvinec (Brittany) through relational and reciprocal processes. Drawing on the hermeneutics of both Gadamer and Ricoeur, I argue that pre-understandings are essential to the awareness of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’. This approach fuses different strands of cultural …
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Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders the Case for Feudal Constraint
… imprisonment of Joan of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany and Countess de Montfort during the Hundred Years War was not for her so-called madness, but was political. Joan of Flanders, who had led a defense of the castellany of Hennebont that routed the French and saved Montfortist Brittany, …
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The Celts: an ancient exonym for a modern mind-set?
… of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. On the one hand, the peoples labelled as Κελτοί/Celtae by the Greeks and Romans did not suddenly appear in continental Western Europe in the first millennium BC but had lived and developed there over many generations. Much of what we know …
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Nonfiction forms in contemporary poetry by Black and Asian American Writers
… Choi, Alison C. Rollins, Victoria Chang, and Brittany Rogers. The forms these writers employ are varied including definitions, flow charts, tables, and obituaries. Sometimes adaptations of nonfiction forms are a better fit for the subject matter writers seek to express through poetry.</p>
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The female saints of Cornwall.
… Celtic countries, namely Ireland, Wales and Brittany. These formed a clear pattern of their own, with regard to the location of the saints in Cornwall.
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Minority language television - social, political and cultural implications
… television by comparing the cases of Wales and Brittany, and in particular the social, political and cultural implications of the Welsh language television channel S4C. The thesis is divided up into two interrelated parts, where the first part is an analysis on state level of French and British …
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The role of a circalunar clock in speciation
… an endogenous clock. On the northern coast of Brittany, France populations have recently diverged into several sympatric chronotypes, though the mechanisms remain unclear. By combining modeling, field studies, laboratory experiments, and molecular techniques, my thesis examines the mechanistic …
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Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century)
… (Sweden) and one variety of feudal system (Brittany). Traditional society does not seem to have been very homogeneous: many distinct patterns of family and kinship organization, or of geographical mobility, existed in 18th and early 19th century Europe. Although certainly not the only one, …
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The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland: Liturgy, Practice, and Society
… the other Celtic regions (Scotland, Wales, Brittany, etc.) it is possible to study the Eucharist in Ireland as there still exists enough textual and historical evidence for such a study. V The main contribution of this thesis is that it provides the first major analysis of Eucharistic …
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Applications of Distributed Temperature Sensing in Subsurface Hydrology
… field trials at the Ploemeur research site in Brittany, France. In particular, three methodological approaches are developed: thermal dilution tests, point heating, and the hybrid cable method. A numerical model was developed to assess the sensitivity range of thermal dilution tests to …
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Reservoir Management Techniques to Enhance Biological Productivity and Protect Water Quality
… Norwood) in the second year, as one lake (Lake Brittany) remained a control. Due to difficulty in scaling and manipulation cost, small-scale microcosms experiments were used in 2012 directly prior to each whole-lake experiment. Microcosm experiments were used to derive appropriate whole-lake …
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Identification of Recharge Source Areas in a Fractured Crystalline-rock Aquifer in Ploemeur, France
… hydrogeologic site, near the southern coast of Brittany, France, is characterized by a structurally complex fractured mica-schist and granite confined aquifer system. A contact zone, which acts as the main localized flow path through the aquifer, separates the two crystalline units, and a …
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En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
… and female members of the houses of Anjou and Brittany would have been seen with a `situational eye' that was informed by the requirements of patriarchal, aristocratic families, and by the dangers surrounding childbirth. My thesis demonstrates that this situational eye can be extended beyond …
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SOURCES AND STRUCTURES OF COMMONLY OCCURRING HIGHLY BRANCHED ISOPRENOID ALKENES
… only, whilst two strains isolated from southern Brittany were found to co-produce the common C25 and C30 HBI isomers. Four diatom species belonging to the Haslea genus have also been newly identified as producers of C25 HBI alkenes. The HBI distributions in H. salstonica, H. crucigera, H. …
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A comparison of ground source heat pumps and micro-combined heat and power as residential greenhouse gas reduction strategies
Both ground source heat pumps operating on electricity and micro-combined heat and power systems operating on fossil fuels offer potential for the reduction of green house gas emissions in comparison to the conventional approaches for providing heating, air conditioning and electric power to …
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An examination of the pursuit of nuclear power plant construction projects in the United States
The recent serious reconsideration of nuclear power as a means for U.S. electric utilities to increase their generation capacity provokes many questions regarding the achievable success of future nuclear power plant construction projects. The troublesome nature characterizing much of the history of …
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