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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Phoebe"”.
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Ultraviolet reflectance of nestling plumage and the provisioning strategies of adult Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe)
… breast and belly plumage of nestling Eastern Phoebes (<em>Sayornis phoebe</em>) reflects in the UV and adults may use variation in this reflectance to evaluate nestling quality and vary their provisioning behavior accordingly. To examine this possibility, I manipulated UV reflectance of …
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Tidally Driven Oscillations in KIC 4544587: a δ Scuti Binary System
… code was used to model the Quarter 3.2 data and PHOEBE was used to model the Quarter 7 data; the results of these two methods were then compared. Using PHOEBE the rate of apsidal advance was determined to be 0.0001179(1) rad d-1, which gives 145.9(1) yr for a complete precession. Subsequently the …
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Nantucket
… In the course of this chapter, Love's sister Phoebe goes missing, and the chapters that follow chart what happens to Phoebe through a variety of perspectives and voices: a young sheep on the island, a Wampanoag woman named Dorcas Never, a baby sperm whale and her herd, and a band of mermaids …
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A comparative study of binary synthesis modelling software for neutron star mass estimates
… of the two most common spider modelling codes, Phoebe and Icarus, following the first ever comparison between them. We find that the codes behave quite similarly, as is expected, though there are some differences in how the surface gravity of the companion star is handled, which has some effects …
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Heartbeat Stars and the Ringing of Tidal Pulsations
… heartbeat stars, which is a combination of phoebe, emcee and my own codes. One of the features added to the phoebe modelling software is the ability to model tidally induced pulsations simultaneously with the binary star features, enabling a complete and accurate heartbeat star model to be …
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Showing the Unsayable: Trauma and Juxtaposition in Persepolis and A Child's Life and Other Stories
… and A Childs Life and Other Stories by Phoebe Gloeckner, which explores parent-child incest and coming of age in the wake of the American sexual revolution. It argues that Satrapi and Gloeckner, two women comic artists, push the limits of the comics medium and of memoir by using …
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Observations and Light Curve Analysis of Transiting Extra-Solar Planets
… were used to process the resulting images. The PHOEBE program was used to model the data to determine the properties of the exoplanets, which were then compared to the results obtained by other astronomers. The data collection process as well as the modeling successfully yielded results that …
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Spectroscopic and photometric investigation of selected hot stars
… ických technik a programů na modelování (PHOEBE 1) určeny vlastnosti delty Orionis A a je ukázáno, že by mohla být pravdivá domněnka o přítomnosti okolohvězdné hmoty dle analýzy tvaru H alfa čáry. Z analýzy radiálních rychlostí, poměru V/R a asymetrie pro- filů pro omega Canis Majoris …
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Comics as Confrontation : A Case for Breaking Silence around Sexual Abuse in Comics
… Naming and Shaming (2018) , American artist Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life and Other Stories (1998), and my own comic Feral (2025), to elucidate the ways in which comics are a potent medium for survivors to confront, not only our own memories by stringing together a sequential narrative, …
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A Complete Catalog of a Japanese Basket Collection
… baskets and other woven objects within the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. This inventory project will therefore provide the museum with a more thorough research tool of other cultures for students and scholars. Through scholarly texts from the Smithsonian, AAM, and curators or …
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A sense of place in selected African works by Doris Lessing read in conjunction with novels of education by contemporary white South African women writers
… Freed's Home Ground (1986), E.M. / MacPhail's Phoebe and Nio (1987), and Menan du Plessis's A State of Fear (1983).
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Three Studies in Characterization
… use the characters of the major fair maidens--Phoebe, Priscilla and Hilda-- to show how Hawthorne both individualized and humanized these maidens to bring them our [sic] of the realm of the stereotyped ideal into the world of humanity.</p> <p>Some of the characteristics the girls share are …
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Analysis of Contributing Factors to Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Southwest Georgia
… was sought by the Institutional Review Board of Phoebe Putney Memorial Health System and Albany Area Primary Health Care. A total of 71 children and adolescents ages two to 18 were surveyed. I analyzed the data using chi-square, 2-way ANOVA, and 1-way ANOVA testing for significant relationships …
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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure
… of gender and sexuality: Killing Eve (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and Sense8 (The Wachowskis). Through an analysis of each texts’ signifying practices—as influenced by contemporary screenwriting paradigms—I will demonstrate how Killing Eve’s adherence to traditional storytelling standards …
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The Space of Clay: an investigation of contemporary clay-based art practice as a site of embodied viewer experience
… media are integral to the thesis: Sam Bakewell, Phoebe Cummings, Nao Matsunaga, Ingrid Murphy and Johannes Nagel offer crucial maker perspectives. Interviews and analyses of artworks provide vital experiential data whilst also demonstrating theoretical claims. The synthesis of theory with the …
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The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
… Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, and Phoebe Palmer. While an emphasis on experiencing God exists in all forms of Christianity, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and the various forms of Protestantism, the expression and development of experiential Protestantism faces …
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Foraging habitat niche comparisons and foraging behavior of seven species of flycatchers in southwest Virginia
… in open habitats and one species, the Eastern Phoebe, was found in both open and woodland habitats. Among forest species of flycatchers and open habitat species there was considerable similarity in vegetational characteristics of the foraging habitat. Contrary to previously published studies, …
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Astrometria, efemérides e ocultações estelares de satélites irregulares e corpos do sistema solar exterior
… stellar occultation by an irregular satellite (Phoebe) ever observed, the astrometry of the Neptune- Triton system and the prediction work of the recent successfully stellar occultation by Triton at October 05, 2017. During an 1-year stay at the Observatoire de Paris during my PhD, I developed, …
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Dental Variation in Central Mexican Latinx Individuals
… at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Chiba University, the Christy G. Turner II Dataset, and the Tsunehiko Hanihara Dataset. The results of this study demonstrated that population history can be seen in the dentition of a Mexican Latinx samples. …
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