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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Pharaoh"”.
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A Comparative Study of Cognitive Systems for Learning
… to retrieve past experiences. SOAR, myCBR and Pharaoh are three systems considered for this thesis. Linear and multi-branched cognitive scripts were considered in order to measure the capacity of those systems to allow learning using cognitive scripts representation. The results of this work …
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Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
… his sexual fetishism for the matriarch pharaoh, and how their relationship functions as sadomasochistic, defining Antony as the masochist and Cleopatra as the sadist. In conclusion, I focus on Antony’s suicide, and determine the masculine value of his final moments within the play.</p>
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The Towneley Tyrants
<p>Pharaoh, Caesar Augustus, Herod the Great, and Pontius Pilate—the four tyrants of the Towneley or Wakefield cycle of Corpus Christ! plays --have a predominant role throughout the range of the cycle. Both Pharaoh and Caesar Augustus appear in single plays named after them. Herod the Great …
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Queen Nefertiti: Power and Intrigue Amidst Gender Inequality
… a pivotal role as co-regent with her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, and perhaps even ruled in her own right after his death. This thesis explores the complex interplay of power, gender, and political intrigue in the reign of Nefertiti. Through an examination of her historical and cultural context, …
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Death on the Horizon: Osteoethnography of the People of Akhetaten
… known as Amarna, founded in 1355 B.C.E. by the Pharaoh Akhenaten. Osteoethnography looks at how people are shaped by and shape their environment, how culture impacts health, and how culture informs the lives of its practioners. Osteoethnography employs life course theory, and the concepts of …
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Super-Organismal Effects Of A Widespread Insect Endosymbiotic Bacteria
… and uninfected colonies of the pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis. I show that Wolbachia-infected colonies have higher colony growth and reproductive investment that arise due to individual-level differences in the queens. Wolbachia infection doesn’t seem to exact a detectable …
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Exploring the possibility of low temperature glazing in faience from the Djoser Step Pyramid through compositional analysis
… tiles from the Step Pyramid of the Third Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser (2667 - 2648 BCE). Based on past research, these tiles have been supposed to be glazed in a range of firing temperatures from 850°C to 900°C. Recent research of efflorescence-glazed tiles has introduced the possibility that the tiles …
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The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
… Canaan. This corpus of letters, directed to the pharaoh from Canaanite kinglets, dates to the fourteenth century B.C.E. and is inscribed on clay tablets in cuneiform writing. The dissertation focuses on the nature of the linguistic system of the letters and on their verbal system, its morphology …
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Assessing the effect of cone ratio, feed solids concentration and viscosity on hydrocyclone performance
In the mineral processing industry, comminution circuits contain slurries composed of a mixture of particles of varying degrees of liberation and size. Hydrocyclones are commonly used to classify these particles. If the classification stage is not efficient, both grinding and flotation cannot be …
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Half-bound states of a one-dimensional Dirac system: their effect on the Titchmarsh-Weyl M([lambda])-function and the scattering matrix
We study the effect of the so-called half-hound states on the Titchmarsh-Weyl M(λ)· function and the S-matrix for a one dimensional Dirac system. For short range potentials with finite first (absolute) moments, we gave an M(λ) characterization of half bound states and, as a corollary, we deduce the …
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Da Alessandro ai Theoi Adelphoi. Fondazione e legittimazione della dinastia tolemaica, tra IV e III secolo a.C.
… and Macedonians and naturalizing Alexander as a Pharaoh. Chapter II: In the name of Alexander: how Ptolemy adapted to the hierarchy of proximity to the king to legitimate his power in Egypt and finally to establish a new dinasty; main topics are the use of Alexander's body in the historical …
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Studies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus
… in the Egyptian logos (especially where the pharaoh Psammetichus’ investigation of the origins of Egyptian language, nature, and custom are concerned) to be viewed within the methodological continuum of the Histories at large. Chapter Three connects Herodotus’ programmatic interest in the …
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Hybrid data-driven models of machine translation
… and compares favourably with the stateof-the-art PHARAOH SMHT decoder (Koehn, 2004a).