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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"James Stewart"”.
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From Film Sets to Front Lines and Back Again: Reinventing Star Image in Post-World War II Hollywood
… to a changed postwar film industry, specifically James Stewart, Robert Montgomery, Marlene Dietrich, and Myrna Loy. By looking at each of these actors’ prewar star images and their individual acts of war service, this thesis analyzes how their postwar star images were altered by their war …
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Negotiating hybridity in Gu Hongming’s English translation of Confucian texts
… materials of his private correspondence with James Stewart Lockhart and Richard Wilhelm, in order to unfold what role translation played in re-envisioning the cultural exchange between China and Anglophone countries. <br/><br/>This thesis explores the multi-layered dimensions of Gu’s hybrid …
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Kat River revisited
… to activists - such as the late Manie Loots, aka James Stewart - are set in the broader context of a selective Kat River history from 1829 to the present. Vagrancy legislation during the historical period is discussed; showing the link between pauperism, vagrancy, and colonial perceptions of …
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Design and Synthesis of Covalent Inhibitors as Novel Anti-Infective Compounds
This thesis describes approaches to develop selective, covalent inhibitors of enzymes in infectious diseases.<br/><br/> Covalent inhibitors are drugs which are capable of forming a covalent bond to their target. This can give them many advantages over traditional, non-covalent drugs from a …
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Influence of Carbon Dioxide on Electrophysiology and Ionic Permeability of the Basolateral Membrane of Frog Skin (Epithelia, Ionic Flux, Cellular Ph)
When short-circuited epithelia of frog skin bathed in an alkaline Ringer solution equilibrated with room air, are exposed to a Ringer solution equilibrated with 5% CO(,2), inhibition of transepithelial Na('+) transport is observed accompanied by a marked depolarization of the basolateral membrane …
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Stability of Moral Reasoning Levels Across Moral Dilemmas Categorized by Topic Area and Student Strength of Feeling
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709043.pdf: 3417160 bytes, checksum: 921a1cd32f05ad5210bd6ee706bc3209 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Environmental Factors Affecting the Movement and Persistence of Chloramben in Soils
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T00:17:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405566.pdf: 3901316 bytes, checksum: 89661743f632bb84f38ff848d9b77dd4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Comparing long-term antiplatelet strategies to prevent morbidity and mortality in patients with drug-eluting coronary stents
Background: The optimal long-term antiplatelet therapy (APT) that balances the benefit of preventing myocardial infarction (MI) with the risk of severe bleeding is unknown in patients greater than one year after drug-eluting stent (DES) placement. Methods: We modeled life expectancy (LE) using …
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Melody : a distributed music-sharing system
Text search has been an important feature of file sharing applications since Napster. This thesis explores a directory hierarchy for categorizing and retrieving content in peer-to-peer systems as an alternative to keyword search. This thesis discusses Melody, a music sharing system that implements …
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Design of a gas force simulator for the MIT Electromechanical Valve Drive project
The MIT electromechanical Valve Drive (EMVD) is a continuously variable valve actuation device for an automotive internal combustion engine. Current experimentation of the EMVD has been limited to intake valve events. When the exhaust valve opens into the cylinder it must do so against gas forces …
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An experimental investigation of liquid jet impingement heat transfer theories
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1990.