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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Queen Mary"”.
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Women who served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth : Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553-1603.
… turns to the criteria used by the queens in selecting their women and discusses specialised duties (laundry, dancing etc.), the use by the queens of service as a form of house arrest, the eager pursuit of places in the Privy Chamber by women and their families and the alternatives …
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Francois Hotman and Jean Bodin. Political Activity in Sixteenth Century France
… monarchy. In England, during the reign of Queen: Mary; Christopher Goodman and John Ponet called for resistance. In France, the Huguenots produced an abundant literature in support of rebellion.</p>
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On an epidemic of smallpox of irregular type in Trinidad during 1902-1904
… to this scourge in speaking, of the death of Queen Mary from it in 1694: "That disease over which science has achieved a succession of glorious and beneficent victories was then the most terrible of all the ministers of death. The havoc of the plague had been more rapid, but the plague had …
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‘Knot of Love and Concord’: Loyalty in the Life of Mary I
… loyalty as an emotional practice that shaped Queen Mary I’s queenship. Emotion has always been at the centre of scholarly assessments of Mary, but it has been used predominantly to dismiss her as hysterical and poor in judgement – in other words, a poor politician, monarch and head of state. …
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Between Here and There: Navigating the Danish Colonial Past and United States Imperial Present through Public Sculpture in the Virgin Islands
… collaborative artist-led sculpture project I Am Queen Mary. They represent the first public sculptures dedicated to people of African descent in Denmark. Utilizing Agency Reduction Formation, Black Cultural Mythology and the Nzuri Model as theoretical frameworks, this study asks the following …
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The determination of the crystal structure of four compounds of industrial importance
… was recorded on the CAD-4 diffractometer at Queen Mary College, University of London, by arrangement with Dr M Hursthouse. A variety of techniques were used in working out the crystal structures. One was solved by the MULTAN direct methods computer program, two by the use of the NRC direct …
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Selling the British Empire Exhibition 1924 Through Mass Media and Material Culture
… memorabilia, and this is explored along with the Queen’s dolls’ house, presented to Queen Mary at the exhibition and described in the press as the highlight of the exhibition. The dolls’ house was designed to be the epitome of upper class material culture of the 1920s and this work considers how …
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What makes a passenger ship a legend: The future of the concept of legend in the passenger shipping industry
… in the top three legend classifications; except Queen Mary 2, built, marketed, and viewed as an ocean liner; indicating that the public views ocean liners and cruise ships as distinct entities.
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From Adoption to Actionability: Investigating Learning Analytics Integration in Learning Design for Higher Education Teaching Practice
While learning analytics has gained significant attention in higher education, educators find it a constant challenge to translate learning analytics insights into actionable learning design decisions. This thesis investigates the integration of learning analytics in learning design through a …
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Discourse‐pragmatic features of spoken French: analysis and pedagogical implications
My research focuses on selected discourse features of spoken French, especially those typical of present-day youth language. The dissertation has two parts: 1) Analysis of features typical of spoken language, based on a corpus of recorded data from young people aged 20 to 30, speaking to each other …
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The history and politics of civilisation: the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder
… contributes to the revision of the customary portrayal of the Enlightenment as a unified ‘project’ based on a universalising and rationalistic approach to the human sciences, and marked by a concomitant inability either to appreciate the complexities of historical development or to …
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Combined finite-discrete element modelling of key instabilities which characterise deep-seated landslides from massive rock slope failure
… research code, called Y2D, developed at the Queen Mary, University of London by Prof. Munjiza has been used. Considering that this code has not yet been applied to slope stability problems, a series of numerical tests have been carried out to assess its suitability to properly and efficiently …
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St. Thomas More's Treatice to Receave the Blessed Body of Our Lorde: An Edition
… his works fell under a ban until the time of Queen Mary Tudor; and after her reign they were suppressed entirely.</p> <p>Recently, especially since More's canonization, both the man and his works have received widespread recognition. But his collected English works will not be easily …
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Bio-physical controls on tidal network geomorphology
… A geo-spatial analysis was performed at Queen Mary, University of London (UK), to address the variability of tidal network patterns. A series of network scale morphometric variables was extracted using airborne LiDAR data among selected tidal networks across the UK depicting different …
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Reflection in Creativity Support Tool Interaction: Characterisations for AI-based Music Composition
Creativity Support Tool (CST) evaluations in Human-Computer Interaction predominantly apply mixed-methods to assess user engagement. For example, CST evaluations include questionnaires based on the theory of flow: an optimal state where people feel in control and lose self-awareness. Reflection is …
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Friend Me Your Ears: A Musical Approach to Human-Robot Relationships
A relationship is something that is necessarily built up over time, however, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) trials are rarely extended beyond a single session. These studies are insufficient for examining multi-interaction scenarios, which will become commonplace if the robot is situated in a …