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John Graves and the Pastoral Tradition
John Graves's creative non-fiction has earned him respect in Texas letters as a seminal writer but scarce critical commentary of his work outside the region. Ecological criticism examines how language, culture and the land interact, providing a context in which to discuss Graves in relation to the …
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Molecular Etiology of Graves’ Disease and Associated Ophthalmopathy
Graves' disease (GD) is a complex autoimmune disorder characterized by hyperthyroidism and diffuse goitre. 25-50% of the patients with GD develop eye symptoms, Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO). The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the molecular etiology of GD and GO. By studying gene expression …
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The evolution of the autoantibody response in Graves’ disease
Graves’ disease (GD) is an antibody-mediated autoimmune disease caused by thyroid stimulating antibodies (TSAbs) activating the thyrotropin receptor (TSHR). Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to pathogenesis and one such factor is the infectious agent, Yersinia enterocolitica. Two …
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The contextualisation of Crusader mass graves from Sidon, Lebanon.
The reliability of historical accounts regarding the number and nature of battles, sieges and smaller conflicts during the Late Medieval period (AD1000-1500) is hotly debated due to the relative lack of physical evidence for these events and processes. The Crusades in the Levant have been …
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Detecting graves in GPR data: assessing the viability of machine learning for the interpretation of graves in B-scan data using medieval Irish case studies.
… landscape-scale surveys, small features like graves become more difficult to identify and interpret. In order to increase the rate and confidence of grave identification before excavation using geophysical methods, the accuracy and speed of survey outputs and reporting must be improved. The …
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Diretiva Seveso: avaliação de medidas de segurança para a prevenção de acidentes graves
… industriais de grandes dimensões que trazem graves consequências para a saúde humana e para o meio ambiente, como os que aconteceram nos acidentes de Seveso, Bhopal, Schweizerhalle, Enschede, Toulouse e Buncefield. A causa destes acidentes está muitas vezes associada ao manuseamento e …
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Addie Graves (1922-2007) and the Creation of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Columbus, Georgia
<p>Addie Graves (1922-2007) grew up in Wilcox County, Alabama, which at the time was a center of Lutheran African-American missions. After moving to Columbus, Georgia, in the early 1950s, she became the first black member of a Lutheran church in the city (Lutheran Church of the Redeemer). This is …
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Manifestations of identity in burial: evidence from Viking-Age graves in the North Atlantic diaspora
… critical destination points. Approximately 500 graves are catalogued and assessed using multivariate statistics. Six case studies, selected from the study areas, are used for comparative purposes. The analysis of the overall data-set and the case study sites indicates that there are key …
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Preocupación e intolerancia a la incertidumbre en víctimas de robo agravado con armas y lesiones graves
Fil: Tejada, María del Rosario. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad Teresa de Ávila; Argentina
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A Cross-Cultural Assessment of the Maitland Graves Design Judgment Test Using U.S. And Nigerian Subjects
Presently there is no acceptable visual art test instrument. Existing tests have failed to live up to claims made by their authors. Although researchers have identified the inadequacies of these tests, none has conducted a detailed empirical study to ascertain what they actually measure, and none …
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Critical assessment of archaeological excavation and the development of processes required for successful investigation of mass graves.
… process for the scientific investigation of mass graves was developed and published, together with guidance for the management, coordination and training required for implementing successful investigations. During my international professional practice, I saw technical methods, the model process …
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Regionalism as autobiography : a study of John Graves's Goodbye to a River and Hard Scrabble.
John Graves, a Texan writer of the post-World War II period, has written two major narratives, Goodbye to a River and Hard Scrabble. Both books are classified as "regional" because they focus on a certain locale, but Graves uses regionalism as a pathway for more than mere description. Regionalism …
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The narrative structures of Robert Graves' historical fiction: a progression toward a conception of the hero in history
Most commentators on Robert Graves’ writings agree upon the importance of his ideas on mythology to the development of his unique theories on poets and poetry. Few critics have undertaken to apply the same approach toward an understanding of his fiction. This thesis undertakes to fill that gap by …
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Representations of the muse in the writings of Robert Graves: a study of five prose texts (1944-1950)
The conventional view of Robert Graves’s ideas about poetic inspiration is that they are presented in their entirety in The White Goddess - A Historical Grammar o f Poetic Myth (1948). However, this dissertation aims to argue that Graves’s four prose works, published in the 1940s and early 1950s - …
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3D GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (GPR) INVESTIGATIONS: BURIED CULVERTS, HISTORICAL GRAVES, A SANDSTONE RESERVOIR ANALOG, AND AN IMPACT CRATER
… targets such as buried culverts, historical graves, reservoir analogs, and impact craters. In the first case of “buried culverts” I evaluated the GPR performance across five antenna frequencies to determine which would best image buried culverts. Laboratory measurements of soil were made to …
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A multi-temporal approach to using multispectral remote sensing for the prospection of clandestine mass graves in temperate environments.
Recent years have seen mass graves resulting from human rights abuses and violations become a stimulant for criminal proceedings and investigations. As a consequence the prospection for clandestine mass graves is at the forefront of international forensics and is considered of ever increasing …
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A Baptist doctrine of ordination studied in confessional tradition, the works of J.R. Graves and R.B.C. Howell and actual practice in Kentucky
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1959
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A personal and collaborative journey of change: Lessons learned about leadership, mentoring and motivation from an educational community's work with Donald Graves
… an administrator who collaborated with Donald Graves in Atkinson, New Hampshire during his groundbreaking research project on the writing process of young children (1978-1980). This study also explored the evolution and sustainability of instructional practices developed in the classrooms at …
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