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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Piper"”.
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Rose Piper: New Discoveries
Rose Piper (1917- 2005) was an African-American artist, based primarily in New York, who garnered attention with her success in oil painting. She utilized her talent to transcend medium in a multidisciplinary career. Although Piper is not a widely known artist, her ability and skill make her …
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Playing the Piper: A Narratological Interpretation of John Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy (1982)
John Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy is a rather unusual concerto in the flute world. Written for and premiered by James Galway in 1982, the piece tells the familiar tale of the Pied Piper in Hamelin. In addition to being technically challenging, the piece has a music-theatrical dimension, …
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John Piper: The Making of a Christian Hedonist
This dissertation on noted pastor and author John Piper (1946- ) constitutes an early effort in the field of intellectual biography, tracing four key influences--in roughly chronological order--upon Piper's life and theology. Those with primary influence in Piper's formative years were his parents, …
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Piper in the Woods: An opera in one act
“Piper in the Woods” is a one act opera for six principal singers plus SATB chorus, along with an ensemble of nine instrumentalists. The piece is based on a short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick. First published in 1953 in the Sci-Fi magazine Imagination, “Piper in the Woods” has since …
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Shedding Light on Phytochemical Diversity: Photochromism of chromenes isolated from Piper kelleyi
The following chapters are focused on understanding the photochromic behavior of naturally occurring chromenes and its role in the biosynthesis of a variety of natural product architectures. Ultimately, chromenes and ortho-quinonemethide derived natural products will be used to understand their …
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Moving from Orthodoxy to Orthopraxy: Sermon Application in the Doctrinal Preaching of John Piper
… application in the doctrinal preaching of John Piper. The work argues that Piper’s use of application is characterized by multifaceted purpose and the qualities of consistency, creativity, clarity, recurrence, cumulative and/or climactic effect, and contextualization. The critical model utilized …
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Optimization of a Vortex Generator Configuration for a 1/4-Scale Piper Cherokee Wing
… configuration for a 1/4-scale model of the Piper Cherokee wing. Several variables were incorporated into this experiment in an effort to determine their influence on vortex generator performance enhancement (or degradation). Vane type vortex generators were used with 3 different leading edge …
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The Role That Asexual Reproduction Plays in the Regeneration of Tropical Piper Shrubs: Habitat Differences and Genetic Consequences
… reproductive success in five co-occurring Piper species using a combination of field experiments and molecular approaches. Working at the Barro Colorado Nature Monument (BCNM) Panama, I found that shade-tolerant species use asexual reproduction more often than do light-demanding species. …
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Regrowth of Festuca hallii (Vasey Piper) and Stipa curtiseta [(A.S. Hitch.) Barkworth] following defoliation on a hummocky landscape in Central Saskatchewan
… height on the growth of Festuca hallii (Vasey) Piper and Stipa curtiseta (A.S. Hitch.) Barkworth. Green standing crop (GSC), dead standing crop (DSC) and above ground net primary production (ANPP) were compared to an unmowed control after a single mowing in April, May, June, July, August, …
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Fenologia de Piper gaudichaudianum Kunth e P. vicosanum Yunck. (Piperaceae) em fragmento de Floresta Atlântica, com enfoque na biologia floral de P. vicosanum
Estudos fenológicos em espécies de Piper são escassos. Essas plantas são importantes componentes de sub-bosques de florestas tropicais e possuem flores e frutos morfologicamente semelhantes entre espécies do gênero. Devido às semelhanças de habitat e morfológicas, informações fenológicas são …
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Biotic and abiotic mechanisms shaping multi-species interactions
… in Costa Rica and focus on one plant genus, Piper (Piperaceae). The final data chapter (Chapter 5) was conducted within a working landscape of soybean (Glycine max) fields in eastern Maryland, USA. In Chapter 2, I explore intra- and inter-specific dietary niche partitioning of Piper fruits …
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Jurassic stratigraphy of the southern two-thirds of North Dakota
… of limestone, shale, anhydrite, and salt of the Piper Formation; shaly limestone, calcareous and non-calcareous shales of the Rierden Formation; shale and sandstone of the Swift Formation; and, at the top, non-marine shale and local sandstones of the Morrison Formation.</p> <p>The units generally …
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Discovery of Novel Neurologically Active Phytochemicals in Neotropical Piperaceae: An Ethnopharmacological Approach
… unstudied Neotropical members of the genera Piper and Peperomia. Firstly, the literature was reviewed and a regression analysis method was used in order to quantitatively determine which plant families are preferred for the treatment of mental, behavioral and neurological health disorders in …
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Application of Active Noise Control to Reduce Cabin Noise in Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft
… during flight in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a Piper Cherokee 140 and a Piper Malibu Mirage. The recorded data is used in laboratory tests to evaluate the capability of the control system to reduce the cabin noise signal with the recorded reference signal. The reference signal was found to lack …
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Palynofacies and sedimentology of some Late Jurassic sediments from the British Isles and northern North Sea
… sediments except when redeposited. The Oxfordian Piper Formation was deposited in an aerobic, hydrographically unstable, shallow shelf regime. palynofacies trends suggest an approximately NW-SE onshore-offshore gradient. Apart from scale the Piper sequence is analogous to coeval onshore sediments …
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GraphPipe: Improving the Performance and Scalability of DNN Training with Graph Pipeline Parallelism
… pipeline-parallel systems such as PipeDream and Piper by up to 1.6×. Despite the fact that GPP involves a much larger search space of parallelization strategies, GraphPipe reduces the search time by 9–21× compared to PipeDream and Piper.
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Estudos de modelagem molecular da piperina e CYP3A4 : a influência na biodisponibilidade de fármacos
Piperine is the major alkaloid of Piper nigrum Linn., used as spice and in popular medicine. We present a molecular docking study supporting experimental data about the enhance in bioavailability of propranolol, theophylline, phenytoin, nevirapine, rifampicin, nimesulide, pyrazinamide , …
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Food and the Social Body in US Performance Art, 1962–1980
… on performances by Alison Knowles, Adrian Piper, and Suzanne Lacy, this dissertation argues that these artists used food to engage what I call the “social body”—an experience of the physical body as entangled with, interpellated by, and sustained by its social and political roles. This …
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