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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Stoker"”.
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Letteratura e identità irlandese nell'opera di Bram Stoker
… in the recent desire of reappropriating Bram Stoker as an Irish author that can be noticed both in academia and in the wider public. In the past, Stoker was often included in anthologies of British writers without mentioning his being Irish, sometimes being even explicitly described as an …
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Bram Stoker and cultural unification: colonialism, hybridity and the gothic
… and Nationality that occur within Bram Stoker's narratives through the representation of an ancient version of the past that actively engages with the Victorian present. This construction of the past demonstrates Stoker's political views surrounding the strengthening of a British Empire …
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The suitability of Virginia coals for underfeed stoker equipped plants
Performance of Southwest Virginia coal: The results of the 24-hour tests herein recorded indicate that nut and slack coal from Southwest Virginia can be burned economically at burning rates of from 15.36 to 27.20 pounds of dry fuel per square foot of projected grate area per hour with an average …
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The Monitoring and Control of Stoker-Fired Boiler Plant by Neural Networks
… (ANNs) to monitor and control chain grate stoker-fired coal boilers with a view to improving the combustion efficiency whilst minimising pollutant emissions. A novel Neural Network Based Controller (NNBC) was developed following a comprehensive set of experiments carried out on a stoker …
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Neural Network Modelling and Control of Coal Fired Boiler Plant
… Network Based Controller (NNBC) for chain grate stoker fired boilers. The objective of the controller was to increase combustion efficiency and maintain pollutant emissions below future medium term stringent legislation. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were used to estimate future emissions …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… novels that span the nineteenth century—Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie—join then-contemporary conversations about medical reform. The novels explore the ethical ambiguities inherent in medical practice in the nineteenth century …
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Castles in the Air
… that uses elements of the original Stoker text while also diverging from the story and exploring victim narratives and queer subtext. The project explores the limitations and possibilities of transformative texts, such as, essentially, fanfiction.</p>
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The determination of the optimum operating conditions of an eight year old, E. Keeler, 500 horsepower, three drum, bent water tube steam generating unit in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Central Heating and Power Plant
… fired by a Westinghouse five retort underfeed stoker with link-grate section. Soon after the installation of this unit, W.F. Diamond and C.F. DeBush made an investigation to determine the effects of various fuel bed depths on the efficiency of the unity. Approximately 6 1/2 years have elapsed …
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A study of various curing systems for flue-cured tobacco and their effects on various quality factors
… curing systems, namely: wood, oil burner, coal stoker, and conditioned air. The items investigated included color, aroma, loss of weight, government grade, market value, and chemical properties. The results were analyzed statistically.
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,,Ef þú smælar framan í heiminn…”: Um pólitískt gildi samhygðarkenningar Dalai Lama á nýrri öld
… byggir á umfjöllun stjórnmálafræðingsins Gerry Stoker um aukna pólitíska óánægju og vantraust í nútíma lýðræðisríkjum. Gagnrýni Gerry Stoker á markaðsmiðaða áherslu á stjórnmálum og í fjölmiðlageiranum, og gagnrýni Dalai Lama á rótfestu efnis- og einstaklingshyggju í efnahagslega þróuðum …
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Doing Community Safety by Locality Working: Regime Theory and Micro-Climates of Crime and Disorder Co-Governance
… shifted to the micro-level of the neighbourhood (Stoker: 2004). Hughes and Edwards (2005) have proposed examining these micro-climates of crime and disorder co-governance in attempts to understand the importance of contextual factors in structuring of forms of community safety. My research …
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A study on green water problem with dam break model and the BIV technique
… Analytically, both the Eulerian and Lagrangian Stoker solutions are introduced to study the dam break wave in a dry horizontal channel. The two Stoker solutions have an intersection point at the dam section at instant t ∗ 1 = √ 10 3 . In the initial stages, the “sudden dam break” concept is …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… that Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Bram Stoker use sleep and wakefulness as vehicles to navigate gendered fluctuations of power and loss. <em>Jane Eyre, The Woman in White</em>, and <em>Dracula</em> each present sleep as a gendered space in which power is contested. I argue that …
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Through the eyes of a vampire: the effects of rhetorical context in two of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles
… of protagonist and antagonist. By comparing Bram Stoker's Dracula with Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, I have found that context affects the reader's perception of the character and that even deeply ingrained ideas, such as the evilness of vampires, can be affected …
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"'The Dead Travel Fast'": The Gothic Politics of Irish Literature
… and Dracula, specifically how LeFanu and Stoker utilize the figure of the vampire not only to allegorize their struggles with Anglo-Irish identity, but also to show how that figure represents native Irish rebellion and its destruction and also how it emphasizes the importance of …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
… recognition than his contemporaries such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Maturin—even though he likely influenced these later authors. Le Fanu’s novels and short stories explore the cultural zeitgeist of nineteenth-century Ireland and England in great detail—with …
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Tradition, management, democracy and governance in Scottish local government 1996-2008
… local government' in England (Wilson and Stoker 2004: 248). This thesis suggests that Scotland is different and that an understanding of how Scottish local government operates still requires knowledge of the institutional structures associated which traditional municipal local government. …
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Dracula: Infection, Disease and Illness
This essay examines Bram Stoker’s Dracula and how the author carefully constructed the main antagonist, Count Dracula, one of literature’s most monstrous and notorious villain, to reflect late-nineteenth-century anxiety and fear of contagion, disease, and illness. It explores how the Count and …
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