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The Mormons: Their Trek Across Iowa and Their Settlement in Kanesville
… being used. | Chapter Two, dealing with the trek across Iowa, has been written chronologically telling a few interesting little details in their camp life. This chapter is an attempt to trace accurately their old trail across the State of Iowa and the establishment and background of many of …
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Trek : hitchhiking on the ox-wagon of destiny : voortrekker, draadtrekker, saamtrekker
… to have this identity defined. I am positing saamtrekking as a method of practice for an identity that can be practiced by all race, colours and creeds of South Africans. Saamtrekking is a coming together, it is the acknowledged acceptance of some manner of change towards transformation. It …
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Visions of Possibilities: (De)Constructing Imperial Narratives in Star Trek: Voyager
… American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001). Voyager follows the Star Trek tradition of exploring the far reaches of space to advance human knowledge, and in doing so writes Western imperial practices of difference into an idealized future. In chapters 2 through 5, I …
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The splice variants of TREK-1 act as dominant-negative suppressors of human uterine relaxation: Implications for preterm labor
… cells from a resting state to one of excitation. TREK-1, a member of the K2P channel family, has previously been shown to exhibit elevated expression in pregnant human myometrium during gestation. In this study, three splice variants of intact human TREK-1 were identified in myometrium. For the …
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From Star Trek to Siri: (Dis)Embodied Gender and the Acousmatic Computer in Science Fiction Film and Television
… such as Gene Roddenberry's television show Star Trek and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey in order to create more effective voice-interactive programs. Such comparisons between present-day technology and past Science Fiction (hereafter, Sci-Fi) texts are even more apt than computer …
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The significance of composition in supplementing extratextual narrative: a topical cue analysis of Star Trek: discovery to provide narrative meaning within instrumentation
… exploration of the latest instalment of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Discovery. In its most rudimentary form, this is a study of the characteristics of the soundtrack, but intrinsically, it is an investigation into the extratextual narratives which the music conveys – the story the music …
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TREK-1 confers differential effects on contractile dynamics in myometrium and the oviduct, indicating a unique role in endometriosis and labor
… in contractility. It has been established that TREK-1, a potassium channel, plays a major role in quiescing the myometrium, which is essential for maintaining pregnancy. However, the effects of IL-6 and the role of TREK-1 in the fallopian tube have yet to be fully determined. We hypothesize that …
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Art, gender ideology and Afrikaner nationalism : a history of the Voortrekker Monument tapestries
… central topic under discussion, namely the Voortrekker tapestries, but also on the discourses that informed the production of these tapestries and the circumstances surrounding the decision to commission them. The Voortrekker tapestries were commissioned in 1952 by the Vrou-en Moederbeweging van …
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Die storie van my lyf
[pg 93 is missing] Dit was soos om 'n trek te vat aan 'n joint en te voel hoe jou kop lig raak, en jou glimlag groter en groter - 'n glimlag nadcrhand so groot dat dit uit jou bors uit wil klim en opstyg sodat jy hoop die glimlag trek wyd oor die aardbol en bereik elke kleine mens en elke grote …
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The Perceptions of a Planned Change Strategy on a Transitioning Middle School
… more accurate picture of the perceptions of the Trek trained staff toward this change process.
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Identification, Characterization and Function of Voltage-Gated and Two-Pore-Domain Potassium Channels in the Mouse Myometrium.
… the K2P potassium channel proteins, TASK-1 and TREK-1. These protein levels are dramatically reduced, although at different time points, throughout pregnancy. TREK-1 protein reductions occur within the first 7 days of gestation and remain at significantly reduced levels throughout gestation. …
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Between the candle and the star.
… of sf on television with series such as Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Dr Who, The X Files, Space: Above and Beyond and Stargate: SG-1. Part Four examines the five-season text of Babylon 5, arguing that in form and content it creates an ideological break …
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An enterprise for magic, dragons, and Impalas: An evaluation of parasocial interactions and fan discourse in four genre fandom online discussion forums
… presence of PSRs in the fandom forums of Star Trek, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Supernatural. Additionally, this study conducted a preliminary content analysis evaluating the use of language to understand how fans are reinterpreting (Rabinowitz, 1985) text during discourse online about a …
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An enterprise for magic, dragons, and Impalas: An evaluation of parasocial interactions and fan discourse in four genre fandom online discussion forums
… presence of PSRs in the fandom forums of Star Trek, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Supernatural. Additionally, this study conducted a preliminary content analysis evaluating the use of language to understand how fans are reinterpreting (Rabinowitz, 1985) text during discourse online about a …
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'For the Hills of Santa Fe': The Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 and the Southwest Market Economy
… the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny and turned the trek into a liberation mission. Moreover, Texans desired an overland route to Santa Fe to attract merchants to their otherwise inactive ports. Texans invested much into the expedition both economically and culturally; however, the Texan Santa Fe …
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The cultural significance of the Church of the Vow in Pietermaritzburg KwaZulu-Natal
… built in fulfilment of a vow taken by the Voortrekkers before the Battle of Blood River (also referred to as Ncome in Zulu and Bloedrivier in Afrikaans) on 16 December 1838. Afrikaner farmers (later referred to as Voortrekkers) were leaving the Cape Colony for several reasons and wanted to …
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VENI, VIDI, VIDS: TRANSFORMING CULTURAL NARRATIVES THROUGH THE ART OF AUDIOVISUAL STORYTELLING
… show Supernatural and the 2009 film Star Trek to understand the ways diverse characters were presented and what types of cultural narratives existed. Then I sampled from seven different vidding communities, collecting a total of 105 vids and 6509 comments on those vids as the second part …
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Uncanny Reminders: The 'Nazi' in Popular Culture
… Twilight Zone), and “Patterns of Force” (Star Trek); and Serdar Somuncu’s performances/readings of Mein Kampf. The temporal and geographical context of the episodes (1960s America) seem far removed from Somuncu’s performances (1990s/2000s Germany), but analysing the production and effects of …
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