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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Callistus"”.
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Mimicry, Mirroring, Subversion, and Critique: Reading Heterotopia in the Cubicula of the Sacraments
… Cubicula of the Sacraments, five rooms in the Callistus Catacomb in Rome, in light of Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia. I argue that the Christian communities that created the Cubicula constructed their spaces and construed the symbolic worlds they conjured there as a way of mimicking, …
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The Spatial Agency of the Catacombs: An Analysis of the Interventions of Damasus I (305-384)
… <p>The bishop’s interventions at the catacomb of Callistus serve as a prime example of his use of architectural features, materials, decoration, and rhetoric to forge a distinct collective memory for visitors to the space – memory that was both manifestly Christian and manifestly Roman. Damasus’ …
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Media Images of Sub-Saharan African Countries on the Three U.S. Television News Networks (Abc, Cbs, and Nbc) From January 1980 to September 1988: a Content Analysis
This study was undertaken to provide an understanding of how the networks gave news coverage of Sub-saharan African countries from January 1980 to September 1988. The research questions were: what sort of news coverage do these countries get, and more specifically, what salient events are more …
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Three Instances of Western Colonial Governments and Christian Missions in Cameroon Education: 1884-1961
<p>This dissertation is a historical comparative education study that revisits colonial education in Cameroon. The purpose of the study is to undertake a broad, documentary, synthetic analysis of the colonial policies of the three formidable Western powers that colonized the country: the Germans …
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Advanced Statistical Process Control Techniques for Analysis of Medical Linear Accelerator Performance
Statistical Process Control (SPC) is an approach to measure normal and abnormal variations of a process. Its success rests upon the fact that any process can be mapped by a series of inputs and outputs. SPC techniques are displayed using process behavior charts which are graphs that contain data …
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An Interface for Analysis of Medical Linear Accelerator Parameters Using Process Behavior Charts
Modern medical linear accelerators are complex digital devices capable of producing photon and electron beams of multiple energies. These accelerators are comprised of a number of subsystems that facilitate the treatment of cancer using an expanding range of clinical approaches. Accelerator design …