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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"MUTED"”.
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Muted Resistance
… and energy that are manifested form the muted resistance that constitutes the body of work. My paintings are heavy, dark, and psychologically intense. Angst and brutality are pervasive in them. They depict the depths and disappointments of existence and the potential for defiant …
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Muted Blue
Muted Blue (Whale Level) is a Virtual Reality educational experience that explores the possibility of creating an alternative learning method in an informal learning setting such as a museum. This project seeks to merge art, technology and education to create an immersive, interactive learning …
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"Hey, You're Muted" : Lessons Learned on Remote Onboarding During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
This thesis aimed to explore the experiences of organizational newcomers to a suddenly virtual workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. A large Canadian employer granted me access to 12 individuals who remotely onboarded during the qualifying period, and a series of structured interviews took place. …
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Lending a Megaphone to the Muted: The Merits of Comprehensive Conflict Engagement through Photovoice in Refugee Resettlement Communities
<p>Local refugee resettlement sites are often overlooked as hotspots of conflict because of the unstated assumption that resettlement and escape from militarized conflict automatically mean peace. However, refugees are resettled in local communities into which old conflicts are imported, and where …
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Influence of the potency of antigen presentation on CD8+ T cell differentiation and memory
… Mycobacterium bovis (BCG) which induces muted T cell activation, and Listeria monocytogenes (LM) which induces massive T cell activation, the influence of T cell stimulation on memory development was discerned. It was hypothesized that muted activation of CD8+ T cells by BCG might result …
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BEGINNING A TRADITION: IRISH WOMEN'S WRITING, 1800-1984 (EDGEWORTH, JOHNSTONE, KEANE, IRELAND).
… in the writers considered, often results in a muted plot. On the overt level the plot reifies the values and tenets of the establishment, but, at the muted level, the plot often expresses contradictory and subversive values. In 1800, Maria Edgeworth employs a "naive" narrator who both expresses …
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Head Tracked Multi User Autostereoscopic 3D Display Investigations
… optical system and evaluation of two EU-funded (MUTED & HELIUM3D projects) glasses-free (autostereoscopic) displays is described. Four iterations of the display were built in MUTED, with the results of the first used in designing the second, third and fourth versions. The first three versions of …
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Age differentiation of rat smooth muscle cells : altered proliferation profile, cellular changes, and implications for atherosclerotic plaque destabilization
… response of aged smooth muscle cells was muted in response to stimulation by FGF-2 and inhibition by heparin. This muted response occurred in the aged cells despite their having a higher percentage of receptor-expressing cells and experiencing elevated MAPK activation. We conclude that …
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Memories of the Struggle: Representations of Political Violence in the Highlands of Scotland and the Pacific Northwest of the United States
… narratives, particularly when it comes to ‘muted’ narratives of political violence experienced by women. I used a range of methods in my research project, including oral history interviews, experimental video and sound work, digital media production, community engagement, and archival …
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The Beaten Pathos
… miter saw. Additionally, a handful of poems are muted and cool (like Miles Davis' trumpet), and, consequently, more direct in their expression of the poet's emotional vulnerability. Whether the poems in this manuscript are of the miter-saw or trumpet variety, their speakers--although frequently …
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Imperial precedents in the Home Rule Debates, 1867-1914
… constitutional nationalist agitation was greatly muted, and the repeal tendency within Irish politics was generally subsumed within the Liberal party. The Fenian movement, founded in 1865, which advocated total separation from Britain, officially ignored and forbade constitutional methods. The …
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Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City
… category means that their ethnic specificity is muted. This story of invisibility is not a story of assimilation, it is a story of racialization.</p>
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It Will Come Like a Wave
… lead to meditation or imagination through its muted aesthetics, material reverence, dream-likeness and subtle cultural references. The exhibition It Will Come Like a Wave is the result of my MFA in Visual Arts thesis research. Per the installation conceiving of moments of water dripping and …
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Paleolimnological Study of Chironomidae (Diptera) Assemblage Responses to Multiple Stressors in Lake Nipigon (Northwestern Ontario)
… assemblage changes in Gull Bay were relatively muted, while recent increases in the warm-adapted taxon Stempellina in South Bay suggest a response to warming in the nearshore environment. South Bay also documented declines in cold, oxygen-sensitive Heterotrissocladius grimshawi-type. This study …
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"Sparks From Law's Anvil": The Evolution Controversies in New Mexico, 1925-2008
… that the evolution controversy remained largely muted in 1920s New Mexico. Next, I examine the brief, but unique, 1927 evolution controversy sparked by a rumor of legislation to mandate the teaching of evolution. From there, I describe New Mexico's high-profile role in the ongoing modern debate. …
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GENDER AND JOURNALS: LIFE AND TEXT IN COLLEGE COMPOSITION
… in large part, are a consequence of the dominant/muted and public/private relationships men and women have held with regard to language. Implications for teaching and further research are discussed.</p>
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"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun": fool-characters and comic dramatic structures in Hamlet, Twelfth night and Troilus and Cressida
… result of which they eventually become expelled, muted, or forced to adjust to the final social and political constellation emerging at the conclusion of the plays.
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The impact of political institutions and state capacity on antiretroviral drug coverage : a cross country analysis of determinants
… The effect of political institutions is muted when we control for state capacity and funding. We apply two broad measures of state capacity, namely tax revenue as a share of GDP and our own state capacity index developed using Principal Component Factor Analysis. We find evidence that …
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Metonymy and metaphor in the fiction of John Cheever
… Lodge has explained, this evolution can have a muted impact on the realistic text if the author draws his figurative language from the field of contiguities, or context, of a setting; Cheever's fiction illustrates this process. This paper also points out that Cheever's adoption of metaphoric …
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A comparison of runoff quantity and quality among three cattle stocking treatments
… that the variability within treatments likely muted any treatment effect on the response variables. Therefore, we concluded that further research is needed to determine treatment effects on runoff quantity and quality.
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