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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Eggers"”.
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Narrating Literary Transnationalism in Zake Smith and Dave Eggers
… Smith's novel <em>White Teeth</em> and Dave Eggers' novel <em>What Is the What</em>. Smith's work focuses intently upon the friction people experience in the face of transnationalism when they refuse to let go of their colonial mindset. Eggers' text centers on a Lost Boy from Sudan and, …
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Invariants des singularités de courbes planes et courbure des fibres de Milnor
… explícito permite comparar el diagrama de Eggers con el grafo de intersección de las componentes del divisor excepcional de una resolución sumergida minimal de la singularidad del germen. Este diagrama de Eggers, que describe el contacto y los exponentes característicos de las diferentes …
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Straddling the Line
… of Maya Angelou, Augusten Burroughs, and Dave Eggers. The concept of reader’s “belief” as they relate to a given creative non-fiction piece and the reality of perspective as a means to position and understand this type of writing is also explored. The reminder of the project includes original …
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Surveillance: The Digital Dark Side
… sphere of our world. By closely examining Dave Eggers’ novel <em>The Circle, s</em>pecifically by tracing the character arc of the main character Mae, this dystopian novel will track how Mae’s evolving relationship with the digital sphere is much like society’s newfound relationship with digital …
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Analysis of MHPDM algorithm for data hiding in JPEG images
… algorithm, MHPDM which was first developed by Eggers and then modified by Tzschoppe, Bauml, Huber and Kaup. The MHPDM algorithm preserves the histogram of the stego image and is thus perfectly secure in terms of Cachin's security definition. The MHPDM algorithm is explained in detail and …
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Camping in clearcuts: the impacts of timber harvesting on USFS campground utilization
… none have focused on campgrounds specifically (Eggers et al., 2018; Harshaw and Sheppard, 2013). Past studies find that intensive forest management changes the degree of naturalness of a forest and generally negatively impacts recreation. The research we conduct builds on these studies to apply …
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Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction
… past and problematic current circumstances. Dave Eggers' nonfiction book Zeitoun, which follows the travails of a Syrian-American unjustly imprisoned in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, exposes some of the reasons behind the occurrence of human rights violations in contemporary America, …
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States of displacement: voice and narration in refugee stories
… between narration and refugee voices. In Dave Eggers’ text What is the What (2008), the words ‘novel’ and ‘autobiography’ on the title page set a framework for an exploration of the displacement of both genres. As Achak Deng, the Sudanese refugee-exile claims to have “gone out in search of a …
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Stochastische Wellenpaketdynamik in Laserfeldern
Aufgrund thermischer Einflüsse im Laserresonator und aufgrund unvermeidbarer spontaner Emission beim Pumpprozess und im aktiven Laserübergang <br>selbst, fluktuieren Laserfelder stochastisch. Die Arbeit befaßt sich mit der Dynamik <br>hochangeregter Wellenpakete in atomaren oder molekularen …
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Vivirán en un Paraíso: El Barrio Parque Chas y su irrupción en la grilla porteña (1911-1925)
Cuando conocí Parque Chas lo primero que llamó mi atención fue su trazado laberíntico. ¿Por qué en medio de una ciudad en damero, como mandaban construir las Leyes de Indias, aparecía esta informalidad? Ningún dato respondía la pregunta. Sólo relatos de difícil verificación entre los que se …
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Prevalence and selected risk factors for neck, shoulder and low back pain among primary school teachers in the Central Durban area : a cross-sectional study
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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Optical variability of radio-luminous palomar-green quasars
The goal of this project is to test the shocked jet model for quasar variability at optical wavelengths. The ten quasars with the highest radio core luminosity at 5 GHz in the Palomar Bright Quasar Survey were selected for this monitoring program; Seven out of the ten radio-luminous quasars …
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Einfluss der Osteopontin Defizienz bei Mäusen auf allergische Hautreaktionen vom Spättyp
Osteopontin (OPN) ist ein von Immunzellen sezerniertes, saures Phosphoprotein. In <br>verschiedenen Modellen konnte eine Th1-Zytokinartige Wirkung von OPN nachgewiesen <br>werden. Kürzlich wurde gezeigt, dass OPN während der Sensibilisierungsphase einer <br>Kontaktallergie in der Haut und in den …
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Isolierung, Sequenzierung und Charakterisierung der genomischen Region von Frunx2, dem Fugu-rubripes-Ortholog des humanen RUNX2-Gens
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde eine 105 kb lange Sequenz des genomischen Lokus von Frunx2, einem hier identifizierten und charakterierten Fugu-Ortholog des humanen RUNX2-Gens untersucht. Sowohl die Aminosäuresequenz als auch die genomische Organisation von Frunx2 sind in hohem Maße identisch mit …
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Teacher Morale in Rural Northeast Tennessee
<p>The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the factors that influence the morale levels of teachers in the public school systems of 3 contiguous counties in rural northeast Tennessee. The level of teacher morale was measured using the Purdue Teacher Opinionaire. Data associated …
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