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THE POETRY OF RONALD DUNCAN
… critical analysis of the poetry of Ronald Duncan (1914-1982). As this is the first study of Duncan's poetry, a substantial part is exegesis and follows a chronological pattern. Duncan was a man of letters who wrote poetry, plays, librettos, songs, short stories, journals, autobiographies, …
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Duncan Hines The Man Behind the Cake Mix
To many Americans Duncan Hines (1880-1959) is just a name on a cake mix package. Few would suspect that in the 1940s and 1950s Duncan Hines was the most trusted name in the food industry. In the early twentieth century Hines was a traveling salesman of printing wares who was keenly interested in …
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A critical evaluation of road pricing in South Africa Duncan Lishman.
In an attempt to provide much-needed finance for road investments, the government’s national road agency has introduced numerous toll roads over the last three decades. It is currently in the process of introducing open road tolling on a network of Gauteng’s highways. Economic theory provides a …
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Scars of an Empire: A Juxtaposition of Duncan Campbell Scott and Jacques Soustelle
… careers of the Canadian poet and civil servant Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) and the French ethnologist and politician Jacques Soustelle (1912-1990). The work adopts a transnational approach to intellectual history that involves Algeria, Canada, France and Mexico. It argues that a …
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Corpoduncan: o legado de Isadora Duncan e suas reverberações em processos artísticos na Bahia
… the history of the North American dancer Isadora Duncan, a precursor of modern dance. It is a narrative about her origins and the pathways that made possible for her to create a dance style that is connected with the elements of nature, Greek mythology and the Renaissance. The creation of this new …
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING The Autobiographical Subject in the Drama and Memoirs of Ronald Duncan
… and cataloguing data contained in Ronald Duncan's archive. Familiarisation with the material led to my identifying a need to explore the elusive nature of the personality that biographical material should hope to uncover. Duncan was prone to mainly confessional writing, a kind of writing …
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Nuclear Belief Systems and Individual Policy-Makers: Duncan Sandys, Unmanned Weaponry, and the Impossibility of Defence
… thesis attempts to explore the influence that Duncan Sandys' experiences of the Second World War had on his policy preferences, and policy-making, in relation to British defence policy during his years in government. This is a significant period in British nuclear policy which began with …
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An Examination of the Impact of Duncan Era Higher Education Policy as PeRceived by Proprietary School Leadership
… perceptions of leaders who experienced the Duncan Regulatory Era and its legacy impact on the sector. Key to this study is understanding how proprietary education leaders perceive the impact that federal regulation has on low income and first-generation minority student populations, …
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Where the dancer meets her divine: dance as religious experience in the lives of Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan
… the lives of dancers Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan, both creators of influential new styles of dance in the late nineteenth century. I begin with a study of the religio-cultural atmosphere of modern society from which Fuller's and Duncan's dances emerged. With a sense of the religio-cultural …
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The Other in the Other: Using the Stories of Quince Duncan to Teach Costa Rican Culture and History in the Foreign Language Classroom
… short stories of the Costa Rican writer Quince Duncan, students will be able to learn about the country’s history and culture from the perspectives of his characters while, also, still learning grammar and vocabulary. Duncan’s characters are members of the country’s minority West Indian …
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The 1995 Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act and the Cps Ceo: A Historical Examination of the Adminstration of Ceos Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan
… Chief Executive Officers Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan. It provides an analysis of words and actions of the two CEOs through the interpretive framework of Thomas Serviovanni's Five Sources of Authority. The sources of authority are bureaucratic, psychological, technical-rational, professional and …
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The Commemorative Activity at the Grave of Munich Air Disaster Victim, Duncan Edwards: A Social and Cultural Analysis of the Commemorative Networks of a Local Sporting Hero
… to be extensively commemorated, especially Duncan Edwards. This research considers the commemorative activity associated with Edwards since his death and was initiated when the researcher pondered the extensive commemorative activity by strangers that she encountered at the family grave of …
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Studies in glucose tolerance: (1) the intravenous glucose tolerance test; (2) cortisone induced impairment of glucose tolerance in the detection of the diabetic diathesis.
… INTRAVENOUS GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST By L. J. P. DUNCAN REPRINTED FROM THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY (Vol. 41, No. 1) 1956.
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In|And|Of|Through
… espoused by pioneering modern dancer Isadora Duncan to aesthetics from Asian artwork in the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art. This paper is a written account of the choreographic investigations and creative processes that formed the concert, including foundational concepts of Duncan dance …
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Efecto de diferentes frecuencias de corte sobre la producción de materia seca del pasto Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandú CIAT 6780, en época de verano, zona del Pacífico de Nicaragua.(Managua)
… varianza y prueba de rangos múltiples (Tukey y Duncan) mostraron que las frecuencias de corte no tuvieron diferencias estadísticas (0.01>P<0.05) sobre la producción de materia seca , número de macolla, diámetro de macolla y materia verde. El mejor rendimiento de materia seca se obtuvo en el …
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Therapist's Use of Continuous Client Feedback to Influence Therapy
… regardless of treatment modalities used (Anker, Duncan, and Sparks, 2009; Norsworthy, & Rowlands, 2009; Reese, Toland, Slone, & Norsworthy, 2010), but according to the literature, additional information was needed on how feedback works (Anker, Duncan, and Sparks, 2009). A qualitative, …
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Estudio sobre la efectividad de los nosodes, para la prevención del tórsalo en bovinos de diferentes categorías: departamento de Boaco
… y comparación de medias con la Prueba de Duncan, utilizando el Sistema de Análisis Estadístico (SAS). El análisis de varianza para la variable número de tórsalos determinó que el tratamiento al cual fueron sometidos los grupos experimentales de ambas categorías, no fue significativo (P > …
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Learning styles and achievement in postsecondary classrooms
… very similiar to those of the original study. Duncan's multiple range test revealed that Concrete Sequential (CS) teachers assigned significantly lower grades than did teachers dominant in any of the other three learning styles. Post hoc testing revealed that students 25 years of age and older …
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