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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Demon"”.
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Demon Horse: The Functions of Family
<p><em>Demon Horse: The Functions of Family</em> is a collection that showcases how family relationships can affect people, especially those navigating grief, parenthood, abuse, mental health, betrayal, and ancestry. As a collection,<em> Demon Horse: The Functions of Family </em>looks at family as …
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From demon to god : the evolution of the vampire in literature.
Vampires may be centuries-old mythological creatures, but depictions thereof abound in our modern society in literature, film, and television. The prevalence of the vampire is related to its enormous symbolic power to reflect socio-cultural conditions of society at the time of its creation, which …
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Deammonification Process Kinetics and Inhibition Evaluation
… same reactor such as in the DEaMmONification (DEMON) process. Despite intensive laboratory research for the last 10 years to fully understand these processes, there is still a high level of skepticism surrounding the implementation of full-scale systems. The reason for this skepticism could be …
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… medicine, with the highly imaginative ideas of demons, spirits, and magic which swayed the ancients for century upon century. | The records of early Egyptian, Chinese and Hindu medicine are saturated with such superstitious ideas. The former believing that food was the chief source of disease …
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Developing Fixed-Bias Langmuir Probes for Multi-Point Constellation Deployments
… mission and the Sporadic E ElectroDynamics Demonstration (SpEED Demon) sounding rocket (launched on August 24, 2022). We begin with a basic treatment of the relevant background material, including ionosphere fundamentals and Langmuir probe theory. Next, we discuss the development process of …
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That Which Binds Us
… devoting his life to the hunting and killing of demons. After fighting a particularly powerful demon, he finds himself indebted to a young woman who guilts him into being her companion and prompts him to doubt his convictions about his own place in the world. Marcus, a demon able to live on Earth …
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The New American Book of James
… a vivid night terror and claims it was a demon. His father clumsily attempts an exorcism, traumatizing his son and robbing him of sleep. Daniel, believing he’s cast out a demon, grows increasingly fanatical, and as Dickie ages his doubts not just about Christianity but also his father …
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Grave Desires
… collection: “Blood for Breakfast,” “Boognoog,” “Demon,” “My Boyfriend is Such a Loser,” “Whitewashed,” “Disappear,” “Ten Seconds,” and “Papercut.” The collection begins with the story “Blood for Breakfast.” It is set up on the form of an interview, and it introduces the realm of the unknown by …
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Wildlife: Stories
… a mythos of Marjorie—as rampaging mutant, demon ghost, televised prophet, kiosk salesperson, vengeful aunt—in new and surprising settings across time and space. London and Marjorie occupy two very distinctive functions in fiction writing, using different points of view and narrative …
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Softwarový nástroj pro kontrolu bezpečného nastavení MySQL a MariaDB databází
… praktické ověření funkčnosti nástrojů. Obsahuje demon- strace možných útoků na nedostatečně zabezpečené konfigurace a diskutuje limity řešení, možné scénáře nasazení a návrhy na další rozšíření. Výsledkem práce jsou nástroje na automatické testování databázových systémů, které své poznatky …
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Two Songs from "War is Kind" for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
… poem. The second song, "The Chatter of a Death Demon", is in form A-B-A, also in keeping with the poem. Both poems deal with individual horrors of war and are set for mezzo-soprano and orchestra in such a way as to enliven the text.
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The Healing Ministry of Jesus as Recorded in the Synoptic Gospels
… of society during Jesus' time. He healed demon possessed persons, beggars, lepers, women suffering from incurable diseases, and those who were racially discriminated against by the Jews. Other healing narratives deal with the understanding of faith, the message of forgiveness, and the …
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Welcome Home Stranger: The Evolution & Assimilation of the Queer Monster
… ostracized queer figure. How better to accent a demon, than with the demonized? This essay explores why queerness clings to the monstrous, and how this dynamic has shifted over time. When does monstrosity feed into queerness, and when does queerness enhance the monstrous? Using the character …
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A Christian perspective of the world of spirits : a trans-ethnic examination
… forces. Although subjected to debate by some demon possession is one of the ways that Satan uses to disrupt the holistic wellbeing of a person. Research in the region of Isipingo in Kwazulu-Natal verified the existence of demon related problems and their hindrance to spiritual growth among …
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Woman Has Two Faces: Re-Examining Eve and Lilith in Jewish Feminist Thought
… identities. Instead, Lilith, the independent, "demon" and "first wife" of Adam is praised as a symbol of female sexuality for "Transformationist" Jewish feminists. Re-claiming Lilith as the "first Eve," "Transformationist" Jewish feminists turn scripture on its head. Eve's creation and her …
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Non-Equilibrium Transport Across Liquid Membranes Using Coordination Cages
… liquid membranes, analogous to the Maxwell’s Demon thought experiment. Light irradiation drives directional transport of FAB away from its initial equilibrium. Introducing a concentration gradient of naphthalene further drives the system out of equilibrium, elucidating competitive displacement …
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Automating Self Evaluations for Software Engineers
… New Basic Interactive Automated Self-Evaluation Demon- stration, is a web application designed to tackle the challenges of performing a self- evaluation by automatically gathering data from existing third party APIs, perform- ing an analysis on the data, and generating a self-evaluation starting …
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Bioaugmentation and Retention of Anammox Granules to a Mainstream Deammonification Bio-Oxidation Pilot with a Post Polishing Anoxic Partial Denitrification/Anammox Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor
… collected from the underflow of a sidestream DEMON® process. The bioaugmentation rate was based on several factors including full-scale sidestream DEMON® wasting rate and sidestream vs mainstream AMX activity. The retention of bioaugmented AMX granules required a novel settling column at the …
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Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: A Study
… on Sondheim’s 1979 work, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (referred to simply as Sweeney Todd from now on), and serves as a brief study of the piece, examining its musical and dramatic significance. Sondheim’s score for Sweeney is one of his richest and most complicated, while …
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