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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"McGlynn"”.
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An overview of the choral music of Michael McGlynn with a conductor's preparatory guide to his Celtic Mass
Michael McGlynn, Irish composer and director of the choral group Anúna, is a fresh and engaging voice in the world of choral music. This paper delves into the sacred and secular works of Michael McGlynn to yield a clearer understanding of the style of this unique composer and the performance issues …
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Image Based Sexual Abuse: The Effectiveness of Malawi s Legal Framework
… audience without consent.5 Rackley and McGlynn argue that such a violation is two-fold. Firstly, it may occur where a perpetrator breaches the trust of a victim and non-consensually distributes images that were consensually created; and secondly, such a violation may occur where the …
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Play Girl
… Influenced by the work of writers such as Karyna McGlynn, Diane Seuss, Ross Gay, and Diane Cook, this thesis proposes a poetics of oscillation: between interiority and spectacle, softness and artifice, survival and play.
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Interaction Design for Digital Musical Instruments
The thesis aims to elucidate the process of designing interactive systems for musical performance that combine software and hardware in an intuitive and elegant fashion. The original contribution to knowledge consists of: (1) a critical assessment of recent trends in digital musical instrument …
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Community Educators and the Struggle for Recognition Theorising meaning, educator and institution in Ireland’s community education field using a generative grounded theory approach.
This thesis explores community education in Ireland in a threefold enquiry examining; (a) the core meaning which community education holds for practitioners in the field, (b) how the role of community educators shares a connectedness with liberatory struggle for social justice, and (c) what space …
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Investigating age-related differences in spatial presence formation and maintenance in virtual reality
Virtual reality has numerous applications with the potential to support physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional well-being across a range of users. The effectiveness of these applications in achieving desirable outcomes (e.g., transfer of training, enjoyment, treatment efficacy) has been shown to …
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Alternative groundwater resources in North-central Texas for the development of the Barnett Shale gas play
Texas water resources are under pressure due to population growth expected in the coming decades, increasing industrial demands, and frequent periods of drought. With this increasing demand for limited water resources it is important to explore alternative water sources within the State. One of …
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The transient composer: rearrangement of pre-existing music in the film score
This thesis addresses a prominent gap in existing film music scholarship by examining rearrangement as a recurrent and important practice in contemporary screen scoring. While the use of pre-existing music in the soundtrack is a vibrant area of inquiry (see Ashby 2013; Godsall 2019; McQuiston 2013; …
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Metamemory and frontal lobe function in the elderly.
Several measures were used to investigate age differences in metamemory, and to examine the relation between metamemory and frontal lobe function in the elderly. Three age groups were included in the study to address these issues: a Young Control group (18-30 yrs); a Young-Old group (60-75 yrs); …
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A psychometric investigation of group differences in mean and variability as measured by the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Plus
Researchers and the general public alike continue to debate ‘which is the smarter sex?’ Research to date suggests that males outperform females, females outperform males, while others find no differences in mean or variance. These inconsistent results are thought to occur for two reasons. First, …
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Understanding the chemical impacts of biogenic volatile organic compounds and the physical drivers of their observed seasonality
Emissions from natural ecosystems, broadly classified as biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), contribute 90\% to the VOC budget. Individual BVOCs vary widely in their reaction rates with atmospheric oxidants, making their atmospheric impact highly dependent on VOC composition. Their …
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Facing the Leadership Challenges on Decommissioning United States Navy Ships
Since the late 1980s, hundreds of U.S. Navy ships have been decommissioned. Although ship decommissionings were postponed immediately after the September 11th attack, today the Navy is again engaged in “rightsizing” its force. Depending on the type of ship and its age, a ship faces different fates …