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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Reena"”.
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JUST SEE: AN ANALYSIS INTO THE CULTURAL DUALITY OF THE MUSIC OF REENA ESMAIL
… for quality performance. With the music of Reena Esmail, learning more about her life’s journey, as well as the fundamentals of Hindustani music that she uses in her compositions, is vital to a thoughtful and thought-provoking performance. In this era of multiculturalism, having the cultural …
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Composing community: social practice composition and the performance of community in choral works by Reena Esmail, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang
… three recent choral works by American composers: Reena Esmail’s Take What You Need (2016), Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields (2014), and David Lang’s crowd out (2014). Drawing from literature on “social practice” in art criticism and performance studies (Jackson 2011; Bishop 2012; Courage 2017), I …
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Mean girls in the press: a content analysis of two Toronto newspapers
… attention to youth aggression around the time of Reena Virk’s murder contributed to this moral panic in Toronto newspapers. Results indicate that Virk’s murder helped change the frequency and nature of news coverage of girls’ bullying. Reporting on girls’ bullying significantly increased and the …
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Changing the Landscape: Toward Equitable Programming Highlighting Choral Works by Women Composers
… and "Even After All This Time..." (2016) by Reena Esmail. I append interviews with Jocelyn Hagen, Dale Trumbore and Ellen Gilson Voth.
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Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Contemporary India: Examining the Link between Cross-region Marriages, Neoliberal Capitalism, and New Forms of Gender Subordination
In India, in the mid 1990s, a new form of non-customary marriage emerged on the rural North Indian marriage-scape. Transgressing rules of caste endogamy and marriage within one’s religion, the men, largely drawn from the lower classes of Meo Muslims and the dominant-peasant Hindu castes, travelled …
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Vibrational Spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Silane Adsorption onto Silicon and Glass.
The adsorption of two surfactants, n-octadecyltrichlorosilane and perfluorodecyl(ethyl)trichlorosilane, onto silica surfaces, was investigated by Fourier transform infrared attenuated total reflection, (FTIR-ATR), spectroscopy and by atomic force microscopy, (AFM). The rate of formation of the …
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Biophysical characterization of hydrogel-core, lipid-shell nanoparticles (nanolipogels) for HIV chemoprophylaxis
Nanoparticles are emerging as versatile vehicles for drug delivery, providing targeting, protection, and controlled-release capabilities to encapsulated cargo. Polymeric nanoparticles made from poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) are biodegradable, exhibit tunable drug release, and have encapsulated …
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Experiential factors which influence how female students perceive computing and computing careers at different stages in their education
The declining numbers of women in computing is a cause for concern for those in education and the IT industry alike. The need for a diverse workforce is necessary in order to have a creative balance in the IT Industry. The reasons for this decline are varied and can be attributed to factors such as …
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Exploring the experiences of depression within Krishna consciousness devotees: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Background: Depression is a widespread difficulty seemingly increasing around the world. With the prevalence of this concern having grown in the past few years in the UK and other areas (Lewandowski et al, 2016), researchers have dedicated their time and resources in trying to uncover solutions and …
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Impact of Enterprise Inventory Software Optimization on Inpatient Pharmacy Operational Metrics
Introduction: Effective inventory management is a cornerstone of pharmacy operations, ensuring the availability of medications while minimizing waste and controlling costs. Hospital pharmacies face unique challenges in inventory management due to the increasing costs of medications, the regulatory …
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Exploring Meanings of Identity, Selfhood, and Migration in the Lives of First- Generation Gujarati Asian Indian Americans: A Narrative Study
Asian Indians today are the fastest growing Asian group in the United States. This increase is especially evident post 1965, when changes in immigration policy allowed for greater numbers of immigrants from India. This group of immigrants is poorly represented in the literature, and the present …
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Identity, women managers and social change: Comparing Singapore and Britain
This study concerns the examination of women managers' identities in Singapore and Britain, against a context of global, national and corporate change. Identities are multiple, shifting and ambivalent. They are ascribed through structures and cultures, but also subject to negotiation through …
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Expression and Localization of Foreign Proteins in Soybean and Tobacco Seed Tissue
Another objective of this research was to test a transformation procedure for soybean with an expression vector containing a casein gene, under the control of the seed-specific lectin promoter. Soybean is one of several crop plants which are still difficult to transform even in the hands of plant …
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Landscape design criteria for creating a restorative environment in outdoor areas of Ikenberry Commons Residence Halls
On a daily basis, university students face significant challenges in sustaining their capacity to pay attention. Students are involved in numerous activities throughout the day that require them to draw on their attentional capacity – a capacity that often fatigues before the students have …
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Mothers' perceptions of housing space : an analysis of 3 married student housing sites: Eastgate, Westgate and Peabody Terrace
What is a good housing environment for nurturing, a place where the physical environment reinforces the lives of both parents and child? This thesis looks at three married student housing sites in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in relation to these qualities, focussing on parents with children under …
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An unstructured finite volume simulator for multiphase flow through fractured-porous media
Modeling of multiphase flow in fractured media plays an integral role in management and performance prediction of oil and gas reserves. Geological characterization and nmultiphase flow simulations in fractured media are challenging for several reasons, such as uncertainty in fracture location, …
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Using Deep Learning to predict the mortality of Leukemia patients
“If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.” Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and McGill alumnus, quoted in 1892. Personalized medicine is the approach that tailors the treatment of patients based on their unique genetic makeup …
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Multiscalar Toxicities: Mapping Environmental Injustice in and Beyond the Nail Salon
The dissertation attends to the entanglement of toxicities at multiple temporal and spatial scales from bodies to workplaces to homes to communities as well as across generations. This work centers the nail salon a site of potential environmental and occupational health harms due to routine …
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Improving results for the INEX 2009 and 2010 relevant in context tasks.
Information Retrieval Systems focus on retrieving information relevant to the user’s query. Many strategies have been developed to retrieve documents. Due to the increase in the data across the web, it is very important to retrieve relevant elements at the appropriate level of granularity. Our …
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Investigations on the Phenomena of Accumulation and Mobilization of Heavy Metals and Arsenic at the Sediment-Water Interface by Electrochemically Initiated Processes
Metals occur naturally and are commonly found as contaminants in areas where industrial and municipal effluents are discharged. Aquatic sediments/environments are often polluted by heavy metals due to the temporal variations in anthropogenic input of contaminants via atmospheric deposition, …
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