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Showing 1 to 20 of 181 for “"Spirits"”.
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Hungry Spirits: Anishinaabe resistance and revitalization
Tribal members of the White Earth Band of Anishinaabe-Ojibway have struggled for generations to maintain their collective rights to Turtle Island, their vast homelands and territories stretching throughout North America, especially through the Upper Great Lakes region where they have lived and …
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Can Animal Spirits Solve The Forward Premium Puzzle?
… premium estimator. Furthermore, a tour of Animal Spirits is given and how applications out of control theory, or Robust Control, serves as a vehicle of implementing Animal Spirits within modern macroeconomics as a potential resolution to the anomaly.</p> <p> In Chapter 2, a dynamic stochastic …
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Testing the Spirits: A Biblical Assessment of the Islamic Jibril
The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the nature and character of the Islamic representations of Jibril by means of biblically derived criteria for identifying spiritual beings and by comparing the representations of the Islamic Jibril with the representations of the biblical Gabriel. …
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Aging of whiskey spirits in barrels of non-traditional volume
ABSTRACTAGING OF WHISKEY SPIRITS IN BARRELS OF NON-TRADITIONAL VOLUMEByJohn D.E. Jeffery In the aging of whiskey spirits, oak barrels provide vessels for containment which are semi-permeable to the spirit and to outside air. The barrel wood itself provides extractives derived from structural …
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Animal spirits: Examining stock market irrationality via effects of language
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Blithe Spirits: Absent British Women Couturiers – The Rahvis Sisters (1928 – 1981)
… As my title states, here they become ‘Blithe Spirits’ located in the virtual world. My project is multifarious: it repeats, returns and is polymorphic, in approach, methodology and outputs. I start with the Rahvis Sisters virtually, as conduits for a practice grounded in an online photograph …
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Singing With the Spirits: Musical Life in Sao Luis, Northeast Brazil
This dissertation describes and compares three musical-religious traditions practiced by descendents of African slaves in Sao Luis, an urban, socially stratified, and economically marginalized city in northeast Brazil. The first, Tambor de Mina, is part of a complex of African-based …
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Carving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations
This thesis is a study of the role of material forms as mediators of cross-cultural encounters in the Trobriand Islands. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in Kiriwina and other parts of the Massim region, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The dissertation analyses …
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Calling spirits from the deep : competing for and through sophisticated customers
This thesis explores why professional services industries stratify into hierarchies and how firms change their positions in those hierarchies over time. Essay one is entitled "Reinforcing feedback between market position and firm capabilities" and asks why Merrill Lynch succeed in building a …
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High Spirits - With an accompanying exegesis - Behind Dry Ink in Set Patterns
… thesis is in the form of a novel titled 'High Spirits' and an exegesis, 'Behind Dry Ink in Set Patterns'. The novel traces the life of an Australian girl from birth to her mid-teens. Rose Sommers is adopted by a couple who have returned from prisoner-of-war camps in Singapore after World War …
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A Christian perspective of the world of spirits : a trans-ethnic examination
… intermediaries, the importance of appeasing the spirits of the dead and the value of symbolism and rituals. One reason for such commonality is perhaps due to similar cultural patterns. Both these religions offer valuable principles and guidelines to practitioners in response to the spirit world. …
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An Unprecedented Research Project into the Alcohol Retention Variation of Flavored Spirits
… are proving inaccurate with new flavored spirits. Specifically, control experiments showed that increasing concentrations of sugar led to increasingly inaccurate ABV determination. We hypothesize the intermolecular forces present in these beverages are significantly altered by the presence …
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The Narrative Function(s) of Evil Spirits in the Gospel of Luke
… of the narrative function(s) of evil spirits as dominant characters in Luke’s Gospel. In addressing this issue, this work adopts a literary reading of character within a broader narrative-critical model of the textual, symbolic, and real worlds. The textual analysis comprises two major …
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True and ancient properties: naming and spirits in the novels of Toni Morrison
Since the ancient Egyptians inscribed "Man, know thyself" above the entrances to their mystery temples more than five thousand years ago, humankind has continued its quest for self-understanding. This quest is a common theme in American literature, indeed in all literature. It is particularly …
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An investigation of the action of chloride of sulphur upon spirits of turpentine
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, 1876
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Identification of rotundone as an important contributor to the flavor of oak aged spirits
The practice of barrel aging of spirits has been used for centuries. It began as an alternative storage and transportation method, but aging in an oak cask is now exclusively used as a means to impart flavor to the spirits. Oak wood is the wood of choice for barrel making, not only for its physical …
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An analysis of three choreographic works : old friends, sacred spirits and cool wind blowing
My choreographic career commenced in 1975 when my first work, Aexia, was presented as part of a third year choreographic examination at undergraduate level. Between 1979 and 2000, I created a number of dance works for CAPAB Ballet Company (now Cape Town City Ballet Company) and the University of …
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