Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Siena"”.
-
St. Catherine of Siena: Vocation as Engaged Scholarship
… of this project is: "How is St. Catherine of Siena an exemplar of engaged communication scholarship?" This project covers five essential facets of communicative inquiry into a deeper understanding of St. Catherine of Siena and her embodiment of engaged communication scholarship. The five areas …
-
Design analysis for collective spaces : piazzas and contradas in Siena
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983.
-
"Oh, happy day!": uma análise semiótica da campanha do Fiat Grand Siena 2013
… nos três filmes da campanha do Fiat Grand Siena 2013 e identificar as possíveis relações entre as narrativas e outros textos culturais. A estratégia metodológica adotada consiste na análise estrutural da narrativa de cada filme, a fim de verificar as semelhanças e traços distintivos que …
-
Wolves in Lamb's Clothing: Redeeming the Images of Catherine of Siena and Angela of Foligno
… a Franciscan tertiary, and Saint Catherine of Siena (1347 – 1380), a Dominican tertiary. They were Catholic holy women from medieval Italy. These two women had mystical visions and practiced extreme mortification. While such behaviors may seem strange and somewhat detrimental to the modern …
-
Assessment and optimisation of MRI measures of atrophy as potential markers of disease progression in multiple sclerosis
… between them. Atrophy measurements from SIENA and the BBSI (registration-based techniques) were significantly more precise than segmentation and subtraction of brain volumes, although larger percentage losses were observed in grey matter fraction. Ventricular enlargement (VE) gave similar …
-
I "Gradi di san Girolamo" in due inediti testimoni settentrionali (Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, I.II.37 e Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, It. I.14 [5173])
… French treatise from the late 13th century: mss. Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, I.II.37 and Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, It. I.14. A linguistic commentary and a glossary complete the edition of the manuscripts. The Gradi di san Girolamo is a religious florilegium in thirty …
-
Popularity in fifth grade friendship networks: selection and influence processes
… A longitudinal social network analysis (SIENA) was utilized to study 613 fifth grade students in 26 classrooms in two study sites. Results showed that youth chose their friends based on similarity in popularity more than similarity in aggressive or prosocial behavior. Friendship between …
-
Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
… three religious women rhetors – St. Catherine of Siena, Sarah Grimke, and Mary Daly – rhetorically navigated and ultimately subverted the stringent ethical codes and gendered expectations imposed on “virtuous women” by crafting an ethos of interruption. Aristotelian ethos, a distinctly male …
-
The role of teachers in classroom peer networks
… year. Longitudinal social network analysis (SIENA) was conducted on a sample of 2,389 elementary children in 107 classrooms to investigate the development of friendship networks and victimization over time. Meta-analytic random effects and mixed effects models were applied via ‘metaphor’ …
-
Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… point, that people from Bologna, Pistoia, Siena, Pisa, Genoa and even his beloved Florence, should be reviled or exterminated. He vindictively roots for ethnic cleansing. The lower construction of Dante’s Hell appears to have little to do with Christian theology but, rather, is a …
-
Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
… of Brabant, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena. Not only do these writers draw a picture of a feminized Christ, they often draw a motherly Christ. The following pages explore the place of femininity in the Christianity of the High Middle Ages: how feminine relationships and allegories have …
-
Parámetros cuantitativos de la resonancia magnética cerebral en esclerosis múltiple y su correlación con la discapacidad
… resonancia magnética por medio de la herramienta SIENA. Se cuantificaron el volumen del parénquima cerebral, sustancia gris, sustancia blanca y volumen de lesiones hipointensas en T1. Posteriormente, se relacionaron estos resultados con la escala de discapacidad extendida de Kurtzke previamente …
-
The Ontology of the Venetian Halo in its Italian Context
… in various media in Florence, Rome and Siena, and a consideration of haloes within other, mainly Italian, centres. Additionally, the fugitive and transient qualities of the nimbus are noted, with its mimesis of the dying corporeal body in its fading insubstantiality, a further factor in …
-
In Savonarola's Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
… Giacomo e Filippo in Genoa, Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, San Vincenzo in Prato, and San Domenico in Lucca. It evaluates the impact of contemporary religious reforms on the construction of communal identities and the development of artistic workshops within these communities during the …
-
Behavioural and Neural Investigation of the Subjective Experience of Remembering
The ability to recollect personal events in vivid multisensory detail from a first-person perspective is thought to be critical to the subjective experience of episodic memory. This PhD thesis comprises three experiments investigating these memory qualities and their parietal neural bases in …
-
Image processing for in-situ feedback control of fiber spinning of carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have gained momentum in industrial applications over the last few decades due to their versatile mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. Demand for manufactured CNT structures to have precise properties has increased, and with it emerge new manufacturing techniques. …
-
Lucca in the Signoria of Paolo Guinigi, 1400-1430
… that was successfully met; unlike Pisa, Siena, Perugia, and various other major Tuscan cities, Lucca did not succumb to Milanese or Florentine aggression in the early Quattrocento. Why it did not is a major topic of discussion here. One of the means in which the Lucchese faced the new …
-
Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Italy, c. 650 - c. 900
… are those between the bishops of Arezzo and Siena, between the patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado, between the abbots of Nonantola and neighboring bishops, and those within the diocese of Lucca.
-
Computational optimization methods for modeling the effect of muscle forces on bone strength adaptation
An improved understanding of the mechanical influences that alter the strength of a bone can aid in the refinement of the wide array of currently available techniques to counteract the losses of bone strength that occur due to age or disuse both on Earth and in Space. To address this need, …
Page 1 of 2