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Does Urbanization Facilitate the Establishment of Introduced Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) Populations?
… niches for colonization by novel species. The Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) is a prime example of an introduced species that has gone through the colonization process and successfully established breeding populations in urban environments. While much of this is due to urban areas being a …
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The Monk As An Executive: The Monastic Influence in the Career of Gregory the Great
This study is "based on the first five books of Gregory's correspondence. Assuming that the chronology is generally correct, these five "books cover the first one-third of Gregory’s career as pope. Being 55 years old by this time, Gregory must have become quite firmly established and fixed in his …
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An original composition, Symphony No. 1, "Eustace the Monk" and compositional techniques used to elicit musical humor
Part I – “Symphony No. 1 – ‘Eustace the Monk’” is based on a figure from medieval legend. Although Eustace Busket is a historically documented person that lived c.1170-1217, the exact details of his life are shrouded in legend. Many of the details of the legend of Eustace were passed down through …
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An Analysis of Joe Lovano's Tenor Saxophone Improvisation on "Misterioso" by Thelonius Monk: An Exercise in Multi-Dimensional Thematicism
… in relation to "Misterioso" by Thelonius Monk. Thematicism is defined more broadly in this study to include reference to the form, phrase structure, and harmony of "Misterioso". Methodological models provided by Gary Potter, Henry Martin, and Paul Hindemith serve as points of departure for …
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The effect of natural alternative sweeteners lucuma, yacon, and monk fruit on the growth of probiotic lactic acid bacteria
… for artificial sweeteners. Yacon, lucuma, and monk fruit are novel ingredients that exhibit low calorie sweetening power in addition to multifunctional attributes that make them useful as alternatives to artificial sweetening substances. Fermentable sugars contained within these sweeteners have …
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The eschatological garden : sacred space, time and experience in the monastic cloister garden
… also with the Virgin Mary, which both offer the monk a gateway to eternity in Paradise. Physically the enclosed garden becomes the very center of the monastic precinct, offering through a ritual-sensory experience of its spatial qualities an experience which allows the monk a moment of spiritual …
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The eschatological garden: sacred space, time and experience in the monastic cloister garden
… also with the Virgin Mary, which both offer the monk a gateway to eternity in Paradise. Physically the enclosed garden becomes the very center of the monastic precinct, offering through a ritual-sensory experience of its spatial qualities an experience which allows the monk a moment of spiritual …
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"Queen of All Islands": The Imagined Cartography of Matthew Paris's Britain
… of the thirteenth century, the Benedictine monk and historian Matthew Paris drew four regional maps of Britain. The monk's works stand as the earliest extant maps of the island and mark a distinct shift from the cartographic traditions of medieval Europe. Historians have long considered the …
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Minding the margins: opportunities for an expanded maintenance practice
… research and close collaboration with David Monk and Heartland Pathways. They evolved through conversations, interviews, and field trips led by David Monk. The Heartland Pathway became a laboratory for testing generative stewardship techniques and conservation maintenance practices. …
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
… to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk, meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monastery there by writing monastic manuals, the <em>Institutes</em> and the …
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Cyclic Patterns in John Coltrane's Melodic Vocabulary as Influenced by Nicolas Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns: An Analysis of Selected Improvisations
… on the important influence of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Ornette Coleman. Chapter headings include: Literature Review and Methodology; Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Ornette Coleman: Converging Influences; Analysis: Coltrane's Major Thirds Harmonic Cycles Used as Melodic …
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3D Reactor Physics Modelling Of Reduced-Moderation Water Reactor (RMWR) Fuel
… results using three computational codes: WIMS, MONK and EVENT. It is worth addressing that Deterministic code WIMS and Monte Carlo code MONK are the reactor physics software package developed by the ANSWERS Software Service. In addition, EVENT (Even-parity Neutral particle Transport) is …
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Thomas Merton : life, work & thoughts on Zen
… challenges. Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, had a unique spiritual journey with the ability to be open to new experiences and to embrace the good in other religions. Today in our global village, we live and work among people who practise religion differently to what we might think and …
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"The church and clergy in Johannes Pauli's ""Schimpf und Ernst"""
Johannes Pauli, OFM (c. 1450-1520), was a monk, priest, preacher, teacher, and administrator, who late in his life became an editor, compiler, and writer. His major work was Schimpf und Ernst (1522), a collection of 693 short Schwanke with commentary. Although more than a third of these focus on …
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Let these things be written
… from the point of view of the anonymous monk of Lindisfarne who compiled Cuthbert’s first Vita or Life. It follows the journey of this monk from reluctant child novice to the unlikely author of an historic text which spawned a series of hagiographical accounts of the saint. The novel also …
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Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, the Hive, and Identity in Women's Writing
… by Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, and a drama by Elizabeth Bussey Fentress, The Honey Harvest. In looking at how the women writers construct identity using bee imagery, I propose that they actually subvert the societal devaluation of women. The …
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The transforming muses: stage appropriations of the gothic novel in the 1790s.
… 1790. Works discussed in detail include: *The Monk*, *The Romance of the Forest*, *The Castle Spectre* and their adaptations, re-writings and afterlives. The author examines many intersemiotic practices in the above works as well as in several others, drawing her examples from the whole …
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A study of Bill Frisell through Paul Motian's On Broadway recordings
… On Broadway Volumes 1, 2, 3, Bill Evans, and Monk in Motian while simultaneously examining Frisell’s guitar technique and his musical influences. The analysis of his solos on Motian’s album draw from a selection of twenty transcriptions with a focus on five elements: 1) Controlled Dissonance, …
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Rethinking Vivekananda through Space and Territorialised Spirituality, c. 1880-1920
… Vivekananda (1863 - 1902) as an itinerant monk rather than the nationalist ideologue he has become in recent scholarship. Historians have approached Vivekananda as either a pioneer of Hindu nationalism or as the voice of a universalist calling for service to humanity. Such labelling …
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
… to changes in monastic life for the individual monk and his cloistered community. This thesis explores the repercussions of Vatican lion the time-honored typology of a medieval Cistercian monastery. A hypothetical community of twenty-four Cistercian monks attempting to locate on a strip of land …
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