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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Metz"”.
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Groundwater and Tidal Controls on Wetland Hydrology, Julie J. Metz Wetland Mitigation Bank, Woodbridge, Virginia
<p>Julie J. Metz Wetlands Mitigation Bank, a 92-hectare freshwater wetland located in Woodbridge, Virginia, borders the tidally-influenced Neabsco Creek. Seven pods separated by earthen berms were built by Wetland Studies and Solutions Inc. (WSSI) in 1995 and 1997 by removing the toe of small sandy …
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La causalité concourante en noétique : étude de la q. 2, d. 17, du livre II des Sentences de Jacques de Metz
… théologien et philosophe dominicain Jacques de Metz (†1301?). Cette théorie est présentée à la question deux, distinction dix-sept, du livre deux de son Commentaire des Sentences. Dans cette question, l’auteur se demande si la faculté active de l’intellect – l’intellect agent – laisse quelque …
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Examining the relationship between physical activity psychological well-being and stress in a college population
… (Nguyen‐Michel, Unger, Hamilton, & Spruijt‐Metz, 2006). Additionally, research has found physical activity is connected with overall well-being and lower levels of mental health issues. The results from an online survey collection (n=291) suggest that physical activity, at least as …
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Practical Identity and Meaninglessness
… of meaninglessness. </p> <p>I adopt Thaddeus Metz's (2013) analysis of meaninglessness presented in his new book, Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study. For Metz, meaninglessness is not the absence of meaningfulness but a positively bad state to be in - one that can detract from the overall …
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Cinema, Culture and the Social Formation: Ideology and Critical Practice
… in cinema studies, to the work of Christian Metz, and to its elaboration in the project of the journal Screen. The Culturalist Approach is seen as operating with a sociological focus; conceptualizing ideology in terms of the reproduction of the social formation. The Structuralist Approach is …
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Through the looking glass: a semiotic analysis and experimental test of pace and angle effects in television advertising
… built upon the work of C.S. Peirce, Christian Metz, Gerard Genette, and Herbert Zettl. Using our normal experience of time and space as a kind of deep structural baseline, it formally defined such montage variables as pace, angle, horizon, color, the camera cut and camera movement, and …
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The ethics of war, protest, and South African state-sanctioned violence
… as Michael Walzer, Jeff McMahan and Thaddeus Metz. I raise an objection of applicability to McMahan’s revisionist theory and similarly raise three problems for Metz’s African Relational Just War Theory in its application to a single case of intrastate violence in South Africa, the Marikana …
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Radiant Sites: Projection and the Mobile Spectator in Contemporary Moving-Image Installations
… 1970s by authors such as Laura Mulvey, Christian Metz, and Mary Ann Doane. Furthermore, the “suture” theory of Kaja Silverman and others offers a link between classical Hollywood editing conventions and the spatial orientation of the gallery spectator. From these theorists, I ultimately offer a …
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Physiological and behavioral responses of genetic lines of chickens to physical and auditory stimuli
… is, the same individual (usually John Michael Metz) who obtained the data also performed the routine husbandry. None of the husbandry settings appeared to create a stress as measured by heterophil/lymphocyte ratios and production of antibody to sheep erythrocytes. Behavioral and production …
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Adaptive value and development of nest-building in Red Bishops (Euplectes orix)
In some polygynous bird species, e.g. some weaverbirds, male mating success is mainly determined by the number of nests built by a male. In weaverbirds, nest-building is a complex sequential behavioural pattern that needs to be learned in the first two years of life. I analysed what aspects of nest …
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Higher Order Trapped Lee Waves in the Stratosphere
Wave activity with maximum amplitude in the stratosphere downstream of major mountain ranges has previously been explained as a result of wave breaking inducing secondary wave generation in the stratosphere (Vadas et al., 2003) or the vertical propagation of low-amplitude waves from below. However, …
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A quasi-dynamic and self-consistent rupture model to simulate earthquake ruptures
Dynamic earthquake rupture modeling provides information on the rupture physics as the rupture velocity, frictions or tractions acting during the rupture process. Nevertheless, as often based on spatial gridded preset geometries, dynamic modeling is depending on many free parameters leading to both …
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Herstellung von monoklonalen Antikörpern gegen die Cuabhängige dissimilatorische Nitritreduktase
Ziel dieser Arbeit war es ein serologisches Testystem für die Beantwortung ökologischer Fragestellungen zur Denitrifikation zu etablieren. Für den in situ-Nachweis der Expression des denitrifizierenden Enzymsystems in Bakterien wurden spezifische monoklonale Antikörper gegen die Cu-haltige …
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Delineation of Aeromonas hydrophila Pathotypes by Dectection of Putative Virulence Factors using Polymerase Chain Reaction and Nematode Challenge Assay
<p><em>Aeromonas hydrophila </em>is a Gram-negative, bacterial pathogen of humans and other vertebrates. To delineate pathotypes, the genomes of twenty-eight <em>Aeromonas </em>isolates<em> </em>were screened by PCR to determine the presence of virulence factors including: aerolysin …
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A politikai vezetés három arca. A politikai vezetés értelmezési lehetőségei és gyakorlatai a demokráciában
Talán nem túlzás azt állítani, hogy a demokrácia és a vezetés között érzékelhető elméleti és gyakorlati feszültség a politikatudomány – pontosabban a politikai vezetéskutatás – egyik nagy kérdése. Erre mutat rá az egyre táguló szakmai diskurzus és érdeklődés, amely egyaránt vitára késztet …
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Oceans of Literature - The Little Mermaid
<p>Mermaid stories have existed for millennia, stemming back to the ancient cultures of the world. Influenced by the mythos established in books like The Iliad, sirens and mermaids were a part of European culture for centuries. The mermaid as chimera monster that represented the duality of danger …
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Notes of Venom and Vengeance
<p>In this new adult epic fantasy, the land is either poisoned or poisonous, the Gods don’t listen, and the Silvan High Fae have vanished into the mists of time. In the Silgan Empire in the city of Fall’s End, humans run the Kingdom while Low Fae like Madrigal struggle to make ends meet in the …
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Job satisfaction, job stress and burnout within the practice of clinical psychology in the Western Cape
The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the practice of clinical psychology in the Western Cape. This exploratory study described biographical information, characteristics, activities, and the nature of satisfaction and stress experienced. In addition, it established the degree of burnout …
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