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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Keri"”.
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Creating Aotearoa through Discourse: Language and Character in Keri Hulme's The Bone People
I will be looking at Keri Hulmes novel The Bone People as a postcolonial text. The beginning will explore the current conversations taking place about the importance of language(s) within texts that are deemed postcolonial as they relate to Hulmes novel which is written in both Maori and English. …
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53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film
… way of life. My findings thus suggest that Keri Hulme's The Bone People is the only text examined here that represents asexuality as a viable subject position that is "unproblematic."</p>
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The ‘Marae on Paper’: The Meeting House in the Anglophone Fiction of the Maori Renaissance
… these themes: Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme and Alan Duff. More specifically, it explores the role of the Maori meeting house – and the material arts it houses – as both a formal and thematic influence in their fiction. The meeting house is a wooden apex structure that …
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The effect of photoperiod on juvenile turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
… sem 25 einstaklingsmerktir fiskar voru í hverju keri. Þyngd fiskanna var mæld í hverjum mánuði og fóðurtaka var skráð daglega. Þegar þyngd fiskanna var mæld voru tekin blóðsýni úr 6 fiskum í hverjum meðferðarhópi til þess að mæla ýmsa blóðþætti. Á meðan á tilrauninni stóð var fylgst með atferli …
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Evaluation of agonist pharmacotherapy for cocaine dependence: effects of continuous d-amphetamine treatment on cocaine self-administration in rats
Cocaine dependence is a chronic disease which causes an immeasurable amount of detriment at both individual and societal levels. Although several promising pharmacological treatments are under development, the process of bringing an investigational drug to market requires substantial investments of …
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Peer learning and mentoring as strategies to increase professional identity and the perception of inclusion as applied to an all-male clinical group in cegep nursing
Males face many challenges in nursing education. The clinical environment is not always supportive to the unique needs and challenges of male nursing students. A review of the literature identified four major obstacles that have a negative effect on male nursing students’ success rates: cultural, …
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The Impact of Contemplative Practices on Anxiety Level of Middle School Students
A review of recent literature has revealed that the anxiety level of middle school students continues to rise. In addition, it has been documented that when anxiety is untreated, it will often lead to significant and crippling disorders throughout adulthood. Contemplative practices, or practices …
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The effects of preschoolers' goal setting, decision making, and self-recording on academic achievement
This study investigated to see if preschool children could determine their own achievable goal and use self-recording of the step by step instruction to achieve the goal. In addition, children presented their goals to their peers. To investigate the effect of self-recording of step by step …
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Assessing Mesoscale-Equivalent Temperature in Kentucky
<p>The purpose of this research is to investigate mesoscale-equivalent temperatures (TE) in Kentucky and potential land cover influences. Kentucky presents a unique opportunity to perform a study of this kind because of the observational infrastructure provided by the Kentucky Mesonet …
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Negotiating for nature: Conservation diplomacy and the Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere, 1929--1976
<p>In 1941, as the United States entered the Second World War, leaders from twenty American nations signed into effect a broad-based treaty for the protection of migratory wildlife at the Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation in the Western Hemisphere. This dissertation …
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Stand-Alone Personalized Normative Feedback for College Student Drinkers: A Meta-Analytic Review, 2004 to 2014
Personalized normative feedback (PNF) has shown promise as a stand-alone intervention for reducing alcohol use among college students. PNF uses norms clarification to correct drinking norms misperceptions by highlighting discrepancies between personal alcohol use, perceived peer alcohol use, and …
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Nurses With Substance Use Disorder: A Narrative Inquiry
Background: The prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD) in United States nurses has been estimated to be 10%-20%. Fear, shame, and rejection from coworkers are just a few of the reasons nurses cited for not disclosing their SUD and seeking help or treatment. There is a gap in the literature …
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Parietal dysfunction in children with prenatal alcohol exposure
The parietal lobe has been shown to be one of the regions most affected by prenatal alcohol exposure. Functional domains dependent on intact parietal functioning, including mathematical and visuospatial ability, have been consistently implicated in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. This thesis …
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"I'm Your Biggest Fan, I'll Follow You ... " Lady Gaga, Little Monsters and the Religious Dimension of Fandom in Pop Music
This thesis examines the religious dimension of fandom in popular music, taking as an object of reflection Lady Gaga and her fans. I combine fan studies with theories of immanence as well as Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the process of becoming, and provide a theoretical reading of the …
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Ontario's curriculum for individuals with disabilities : a textual analysis
The purpose of this study was to examine the disability discourses present in Ontario elementary schools curriculum. The study used a critical social analysis perspective to employ a textual discourse analysis on the Planning [title of subject] Programs for Students with Special Education Needs …
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Tissue segmentation of the cerebellum from MR images
The cerebellum is known to be very susceptible to prenatal exposure to alcohol and people affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) show a decrease in cerebellar volume. Unfortunately, there seems to be little work that focuses specifically on cerebellum tissue segmentation. We set out to …
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Memory-craft: The Role Of Domestic Technology In Women's Journals
… Jar Journal, a weblog written by illustrator Keri Smith, where she journals her life and creative process and often mixes textual and visual elements in her blog posts. Writer and blogger Heather Armstrong from Dooce.com is another case study included in this project as her blog is an example …
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Syntactic Influences on Processing of Metaphors and Literal Equivalents
… Priscilla Hancock, Tim and Marsha McKay, Keri Kinniard, my fellow Rod and Gun Club members, Ed Wike, and everyone I've ejected from the numerous baseball, softball, and basketball games I've worked in the past two years: they have all contributed to my well-being in one way or another. …
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Sensorimotor Recovery, Functional and Structural Brain Plasticity, and the Development of Chronic Pain Following Upper Limb Peripheral Nerve Transection and Microsurgical Repair
Following peripheral nerve transection and microsurgical repair (PNIr) most patients retain significant sensorimotor impairments, a proportion of which also develop chronic neuropathic pain. Individual psychological factors may contribute to the development, intensity and duration of chronic pain. …
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