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Performance portfolio : Matthew James McKay
This folio brings together four projects that are representative of the practice-basedactivities I have undertaken while studying for the DMA.My first studio recording project aims to demonstrate how the flute can be used toreinterpret a vocal line in the context of a modern deep funk track. My …
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Aspects of the (0,2)-McKay Correspondence
<p>We study first order deformations of the tangent sheaf of resolutions of Calabi-Yau threefolds that are of the form $\CC^3/\ZZ_r$, focusing</p><p> on the cases where the orbifold has an isolated singularity. We prove a lower bound on the number </p><p>of deformations of the tangent bundle for …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… works of fiction of the Jamaican author Claude McKay (1889-1948) as a coherent transnational trilogy which dramatises the semi-autobiographical complexities of diasporic exile and return in the period of the 1920s and 1930s. Chapter One explores McKay’s urban North American novel, Home to Harlem …
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Claude Mckay: The Later Years, 1934--1948
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7309977.pdf: 13972183 bytes, checksum: 2941bb4de8e71d5a946576262938d3d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Verification of the McKay-Alperin-Dade Conjecture for the covering groups of the Mathieu group M(22)
The McKay-Alperin-Dade Conjecture states that the number of complex irreducible characters with a given defect d in a p-block B of a finite group G can be expressed in terms of an alternating sum of the numbers of complex irreducible characters with related defects $d\sp\prime$ in related p-blocks …
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HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS
… has been adopted and adapted by poets such as McKay, Cullen, Hughes, and Brooks. The formal and social characteristics of sonnets by African-Americans function synergistically: the way that the octave and the sestet respond to each other in a single poem is also similar to the "call-and- …
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Occupational Engagement Scale for Creative Students: Initial Validation and Development
… Engagement Scale for Creative Students (OES-CS; McKay & Krieshok, 2007) is the first measure of occupational engagement specifically for creative adolescents. Initial reliability and validity of the OES-CS has been investigated in creative high school students who participated in the Counseling …
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An Analysis of the Effects of the Social Disorganization Theory on Juveniles in Georgia
… problems (Bursik, 1988). Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay were the first sociologists to denote this occurrence in Chicago. Shaw and McKay are examined as reputable sociologists and a summary of their work on this topic is discussed. This thesis sought to determine the social disorganization in …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Malcolm Muggeridge, Paul Robeson, John Steinbeck, E.E. Cummings, Mike Gold, Elmer Rice, Lillian Hellman, Theodore Dreiser, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Waldo Frank, Josephine Herbst, Abraham Cahan, and many …
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Réactions des femmes au sexisme ambivalent et santé mentale: une analyse selon la technique du journal quotidien
… face à la discrimination sexiste (Beaton et McKay, 2007). Elles ont recours à une variété de modes de réponses, et sont ainsi capables de transformer la façon dont leur santé mentale est affectée par leurs expériences (McKay, Beaton et Lanteigne, 2015). Toutefois, peu de recherches …
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The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940
… such as Eliot, Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Claude McKay. Chapters on H.D., Eliot, Hughes, and McKay demonstrate the many inconsistencies present in the rhetoric of Romanticism and nineteenth century liberalism, and why poets felt these ideologies represented a dead end; while a chapter on William …
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Alis volat propriis: pathways, challenges and strategies for Australian women in elite-level sport leadership
… Cameron, 1996; Hartmann-Tews & Pfister, 2003; McKay, 1997; Robertson, 2010). Researchers have identified barriers that have inhibited women’s progression to elite-level roles. Little is known, however, about the pathways or experiences of women who do advance to elite-level positions. The …
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Institutionalizing Juveniles: An Analysis By Social Disorganization Controlling For Arrest Rates
… famous of these studies was done by Shaw and McKay (1942). The present study analyzes juvenile incarceration data by geographic location, measures of social disorganization, gender and race for the years 1993, 1994, and 1995 for each county and independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. …
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Beta-ensembles with covariance
… the Jacobi parameters and free cumulants of the McKay and Wachter laws. We also present an algorithm that uses complex analysis to solve "The Moment Problem." It takes the first batch of moments of an analytic, compactly-supported distribution as input, and it outputs a fine discretization of …
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On Problems in the Representation Theory of Symmetric Groups
… for symmetric groups in the context of the McKay Conjecture, a fundamental open problem in the representation theory of finite groups. Linear characters of Sylow subgroups have also played a central role in character correspondences verifying the McKay Conjecture, becoming the focus of much …
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Radical <em>p</em>-chains in L<sub>3</sub>(2).
<p>The McKay-Alperin-Dade Conjecture, which has not been finally verified, predicts the number of complex irreducible characters in various <em>p</em>-blocks of a finite group <em>G</em> as an alternating sum of the numbers of characters in related <em>p</em>-blocks of certain subgroups of …
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Queer Natives
… who anchor this study---Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Leopold Senghor, Jomo Kenyatta, and Frantz Fanon---both constructed and contested black normativity across diaspora."
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Archival Vagabonds: 20th-Century American Fiction and the Archive in Novelistic Practice
… associated with archival practices--Claude McKay, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Jack Kerouac. In juxtaposing their dual roles as public novelists and private archivists, I expose how their literary practices echo with core concepts in archival theory and position the novel as an …
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A COLLABORATIVE PIANIST'S SURVEY OF MEZZO-SOPRANO TROUSER ROLES IN OPERA
… as well as sopranos Elisa Sunshine and Maureen McKay. The dissertation recording can be found in the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM)
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