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Mark Oliphant FRS and the Birmingham Proton Synchrotron
… of Birmingham by Australian-born physicist Mark Oliphant FRS. Nearly concurrently, two similar machines were commenced in the United States, the Cosmotron at Brookhaven and the Bevatron at Berkeley. While it is generally acknowledged that Oliphant was one of three researchers (the others being …
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Echoes of Insidious Geographies: The Life History and Object Biography of a Carved Elephant Tusk from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Metropolitan Museum, circa 750 CE to Present
… I situate the carved horn, a so-called oliphant, within its early life history in the medieval Mediterranean (ca. 750–1792 CE) and its later, documented object biography including its accession into the Met and its role in the development of the discipline of Islamic art history …
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Church, chapel and clergy in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford
… thesis examines the fictional works of Magaret Oliphant’s Chronicles of Carlingford in order to explain her understanding of the significance of Church and Chapel communities and their clergymen within an insular and atypical provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. By drawing on …
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"The object of their life": defining female self in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Miss Marjoribanks
… in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Margaret Oliphant in Miss Marjoribanks. For the most part, these choices have been perceived negatively by critics because the resulting text does not produce evidence of either twentieth-century aesthetics or themes. However, as recent interpretations based …
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Extending the Information Partition Function: Modeling Interaction Effects in Highly Multivariate, Discrete Data
… function (IPF) derived by Engler (2002), Oliphant (2003), and Tolley (2006) that will allow modeling of discrete, highly multivariate data in linear models. We report results of the modified IPF model on the World Health Organization's Survey on Global Aging (SAGE).
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Expository Preaching at the Dawn of the Reformation: An Evaluation of Martin Luther as Preacher in Light of Modern Expository Theory
… James MacKinnon, John MacArthur, and Hughes Oliphant Old describe Luther as an expository preacher, yet none of them clarifies how or in what way they reach that conclusion. To that end, chapter 1 introduces Luther as a preacher and the need for this study. Chapter 2 defines modern expository …
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Girls of the Period Women Critics and Constructions of the Feminine in the Mid-Victorian Novel.
… in the reactions of reviewers such as Margaret Oliphant and Geraldine Jewsbury to images of the feminine in sensation novels, but no study exists that brings together a body of women's criticism of this period, or examines the critical responses of women to a much wider spectrum of female …
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Country Clergymen: National and Religious Mediations on the Victorian Clerical Novel
… Published at mid-century, Margaret Oliphant's The Perpetual Curate offers insight into the financial and relational problems facing ordinary hardworking clergymen, and Oliphant manipulates ideals of national heroism in order to appropriate a high regard for dedicated parish clerics. …
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Contextualizing Value: Market Stories in Mid-Victorian Periodicals
… Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant, were writing and printing them. Navigating discourses about literature and writing to delineate and ascertain the implications of the contextual position of certain short stories, this study characterizes a previously unexamined genre, …
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International trade and economic growth : the case of South Africa
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-51).
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A multireference coupled-cluster method using a single-reference formalism.
The coupled-cluster (CC) equations including single, double, triple and quadruple excitations (CCSDTQ) are qraphically derived using Feynman diagrams. These equations are programmed and an iterative reduced linear equation method is used to solve these equations. A few points on the potential …
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Exegetical Study of Romans 1:18-3:20
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Hot-wire chemical vapour deposition of nanocrystalline silicon and silicon nitride : growth mechanisms and filament stability
Nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) is an interesting type of silicon with superior electrical properties that are more stable compared to amorphous silicon (a-Si:H). Silicon nitride (SiNₓ) thin films are currently the dielectric widely applied in the microelectronics industry and are also effective …
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Numerical Modeling of Friction Stir Welding: A Comparison of Alegra and Forge3
The objective of this research was to evaluate the capabilities of ALEGRA, a Sandia National Labs hydrocode, and Forge3, a Transvalor S.A. product, to accurately model the Friction Stir Welding Process. ALEGRA and Forge3 are discussed in light of the inherent challenges of modeling Friction Stir …
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Multiple arenas and professional identity : locating and defining the professionalism and accountabilities of the teacher educators in Lesotho
Challenged by the granting of institutional autonomy to his institution - the Lesotho National Teachers Training College (now Lesotho College of Education) - the author explores the professional identities of teacher educators in Lesotho. Considering and analysing Lesotho's socio-political …
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Mapping Elaeagnus Umbellata on Coal Surface Mines using Multitemporal Landsat Imagery
Invasive plant species threaten native plant communities and inhibit efforts to restore disturbed landscapes. Surface coal mines in the Appalachian Mountains are some of the most disturbed landscapes in North America. Moreover, there is not a comprehensive understanding of the land cover …
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The Impact of Generational Intelligence and Its Relationship With Team Cohesion and Team Performance in a Jamaican Multi-Generational Workforce
<p>Problem</p> <p>The Jamaica Union Conference (JAMU) currently faces a phenomenon of having a multi-generational workforce that includes four generations working alongside each other across its five fields for the first time in its history. This intersection of generations brings challenges …
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The specter of the American Civil War in British writing of the mid-nineteenth century.
In this project, I argue that in the years leading up to the American Civil War, America became Britain's gothic double, making manifest some of Britain's most keenly felt anxieties. The increasing tensions in America, which finally erupted in civil war in 1861, unsettled the relationship between …
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The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
… Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, and George Eliot, it follows that, at the very least, we should entertain the possibility that the serial form was indeed one and the same as that of the Victorian novel itself. Each of these novelists had a hand in developing the serial …
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