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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Sirens"”.
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War sirens: how the sheet music industry sold World War I
During World War I the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI) sponsored a national culture of war in posters, speeches, and films. Against this war-soaked cultural backdrop, the sheet music industry echoed the pervasive messages of the CPI, often using images of women to appeal to the American …
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Mermaids and Sirens as Androgynous Figures in Victorian Art and Literature 1870-1915
… the androgynous depictions of mermaids and sirens in Victorian art and literature. It focuses on three Pre-Raphaelite artists – Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919) and John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) – who produced prolific mermaid and siren output, alongside …
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Investigating the properties of gamma ray bursts and gravitational wave standard sirens as high redshift distance indicators
… we investigate gravitational wave standard sirens as an alternative high-redshift distance indicator. We first illustrate their strong diagnostic potential through a Bayesian model comparison between the standard Unified Dark Matter model and a variant in which the dark component is redshift …
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Spatial Activity, Growth, and Population Characteristics of Siren Intermedia in an Intensively Managed Wetland
Most aspects of the ecology of lesser sirens (Siren intermedia) are poorly known. I conducted a mark/recapture study from March 1998-May 1999 at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR), Stoddard County, Missouri, to examine spatial activity, growth rates, and population characteristics of lesser …
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You Make the Call: Using Officer Discretion In Selection of Emergency Response Mode for Fire and EMS
… or EMS deserved an emergency (use oflights and sirens) or non-emergency (no lights and sirens) response. </p> <p>Data from a volunteer fire department were then analyzed and compared to criteria established under a Fire Officer Discretionary System (FODR) and the more traditional Blanket Lights …
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Emergency vehicle siren noise: A potential for hearing loss
… critically investigate the noise produced by the sirens fitted to South Australian Police general patrol vehicles and calculate if this noise was of an intensity to cause noise induced hearing loss. Previous studies in Western Australia and in South Australia examined noise emissions from …
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A Moral Being in an Aesthetic World: Being in the Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… that this paper will address are Player Piano, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions. Player Piano and Sirens of Titan are Vonnegut’s first two novels, and they approach being in terms of what Heidegger referred to as “throwness.” These initial inquiries into aspects …
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Reproduction, Body Condition and Dietary Variation of the Lesser Siren (Siren Intermedia)
… I estimated the body condition of adult male sirens using a mass/length regression analysis and found that breeding males were in poorer body condition than nonbreeding males. Dietary analysis showed that sirens are generalists consuming a wide variety of prey taxa, although cladocerans were …
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Design and testing of a roadside traffic threat alerting mechanism
… Two of these alarm prototypes were auditory sirens and two were haptic vibrations, one placed at the waist, and one at the wrist. Haptic vibrations, which we hypothesized would be more salient in a loud and visually stimulating environment, proved to induce statistically significantly faster …
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Kurt Vonnegut's Early Novels: Searching for Meaning in a Meaningless World
… three novels by Kurt Vonnegut: <em>The Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle</em>, and <em>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater</em>, and the philosophical stance which informs these works.<em> The Sirens of Titan</em> represents Vonnegut’s cosmology as well as his first attempts to propose one purpose …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… Kurt Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and by viewing each text as being subject to contemporary …
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Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
… safety critical sounds such as fire alarms and sirens to more mundane but useful cues such as microwave beeps or door knocks. The current solutions used by DHH people—such as flashing doorbells or vibratory alarm clocks—only substitute for some specific sounds, but do not provide a general …
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Designing an Emergency Traffic Signal System (ETSS): A Case Study of an Intersection Along U.S.1, Fairfax County, Virginia
… often do not see flashing lights or hear sirens from the approaching emergency vehicles (EV) until emergency vehicles reach the highway entrance, often too late to take appropriate action. Many locations have installed special signals called emergency traffic signal systems (ETSS) or used …
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The Dilemma of Existence in the Nuclear Age: Four Views
… Lie Down in Darkness, by William Styron; The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; and The Martyred, by Richard Kim. Findings. The novels approach the problem from various positions: theism, existentialism, black humor, and humanism. They deal with six common themes: war, God, human …
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Oceans of Literature - The Little Mermaid
… the mythos established in books like The Iliad, sirens and mermaids were a part of European culture for centuries. The mermaid as chimera monster that represented the duality of danger and seduction was subverted in 1837, when Hans Christian Andersen wrote the seminal fairy tale “The Little …
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Antický hudební mýtus a jeho responze ve středoškolské hudební výchově
… myths of Apollo, Dionysus, Orpheus, Pan and Sirens. The chapter presents particular versions of the myths and conducts their interpretation. The third chapter focuses on the selected mythological motifs as inspiration for the musical work in the historical perspective. The fourth chapter …
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Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading
… especially those essays contained in The Sirens' Song, as a framework through which to engage with the three novels. Blanchot underscores the necessity of the reader to let the literary text be and not to attempt to subsume the narrative within his/ her hermeneutic expectations. To read …
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Pop culture’s influence on mythological monsters as seen in children and young adult’s films
… dissertation explores mythological monsters’ (sirens, gorgons, fauns, and centaurs) origins as opposed to how they are portrayed by film adapters nowadays by applying theories from Roland Barthes, Gérard Genette and Robert Stam. The examples chosen are: 'The Little Mermaid', 'Clash of the …
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The Value of Classical Allusions in Six of Milton’s Minor Poems (L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Cornus, Lycldas, Samson Agonistes, and Arcades)
… groups - such as the Dryads, Muses, Satyrs, Sirens, Fates, Titans, and the like - as well as the various aspects of nature which the ancients surrounded with legend or preserved in their literature. In this latter group come the references to the river Acheron, the Cimmerian desert, Elysium, …
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