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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"Tears"”.
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Angel’s Tears – multimedia work project
“Angel’s Tears” is a multimedia work for an eight-player chamber ensemble, musique concrète, and video, divided into eight chapters that explore the stages of alcohol intoxication, each corresponding to the levels of blood alcohol content (BAC). Inspired by the cocktail "Angel's Tears," the piece …
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Meniscal root tears and repairs
Meniscal root tears are defined as radial tears of the meniscal insertions and lead to an inability for the menisci to transmit compressive loads into circumferential hoop stresses. These are common among the posterior meniscal insertions due to acute or chronic conditions. Anterior root tears have …
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Different Coloured Tears: Bicultural Bereavement Perspectives
The research explored the pathways that Māori and Pākehā bicultural whānau follow in mourning, grieving and moving on through life, in response to the death of a signficant loved one. Of specific interest were sites of conflict, processes of negotiation and pathways to resolution occuring across …
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The Luxury of Tears: A Secondary Survivor's Story
As the written accompaniment for The Luxury of Tears, a twelve-minute documentary video exploring the emotional impact of sexual assault on male survivors and their partners, this document examines the visual texts of both the fiction and nonfiction genres. Specifically, I contend that fiction film …
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Writing and directing the short film, Bloody Tears.
… of writing and directing the short film, Bloody Tears. It will also examine many of the underlying theoretical and filmic influences that have informed the director's creative decisions and methodological approach. Their personal goals and thematic content are discussed, and a full script …
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Pouring out tears: Andromache in Homer and Euripides
This thesis begins to examine the role of Andromache in the Trojan War saga and tradition by providing an in-depth analysis of Andromache in the Iliad, Euripides’ Andromache and Euripides’ Trojan Women. Using theories of character derived from the narratological study of modern fiction, it strives …
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Testing Soccer Cleats Designed to Reduce ACL Tears
… lower extremity injuries in soccer are ACL tears which have a long recovery time of 6-13 months and have a high risk of reinjury. The majority of ACL tears are non-contact and the mechanism behind them has been explained to be related to landing flatfooted. This provides an opportunity for …
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Effects of rotator cuff tears on glenohumeral capsule strain
Rotator cuff tears (RCTs) account for more than 4.5 million physician visits annually in the United States and are a primary source of shoulder pain and dysfunction. Approximately 250,000 rotator cuff repair surgeries are performed each year, and the success rate of repair is variable with 20% to …
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Turning Tears into Sweets: CandyCollect for Pediatric Salivary Pathogen Sampling
Open microfluidic channels are gaining widespread use in biotechnology, biology, and diagnostics due to their broad applicability and user-friendly design, which enables easy addition or removal of components. Chapter 1 reviews capillary-driven open microfluidic systems and the implementation of …
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Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
This dissertation is a study of metaphors of emotion in rebétiko song texts. Rebétiko is a major popular-music style of modern Greece, consisting mostly of melancholic songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a …
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Baptizing the nation with tears : political forgiveness in South Africa
This dissertation explores the dynamics of post-apartheid reconciliation in South Africa and offers a model of political forgiveness as a process. Drawing upon a series of interviews conducted in South Africa in 2000, as well as scholarly and journalistic publications on such topics as forgiveness …
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Development of a Clinical Pathway for Patients with Chronic Rotator Cuff Tears
… the healthcare system with chronic rotator cuff tears. Specifically, the research questions examines what gaps in quality of care exist in the current system based on a comparison of the ideal and current standards of care for patients presenting to the healthcare system with chronic rotator cuff …
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A Journey of Tears: What They Don't Tell You About America, a memoir
<p>This capstone project explores different themes ranging from bureaucracy to suburban life, from popularity of guns in the South to suburban life and metal fandom, both borrowing ideas from scholars who have done research on these subjects before as well as employing different experiences of mine …
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And Drops of Rain Fall Like Tears: A Composition for Electroacoustic Music and Video
And Drops of Rain Fall Like Tears is a composition for electroacoustic music with an optional ambient video component. The composition consists of a single movement electroacoustic work twenty-two minutes in duration. The piece creates an immersive sonic environment within the confines of a typical …
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A Rich Reward in Tears: Hippolytus and Phaedra in drama, dance, opera and film
This thesis is a study of thematic clusters in the performance reception of the Hippolytus and Phaedra tradition – the body of reception material based on Euripides’ Hippolytus, Seneca’s Phaedra, and/or Racine’s Phèdre. This is the first comprehensive study of these three major source texts as a …
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Blood, Tears, and Sweat: An Intersectional Excavation of the Literary Vampire in Neoliberal Discourse
<p>This project engages in a critical examination of the figure of the sympathetic vampire in paranormal romance novels and its relationship to neoliberal individualism, using an analytic frame informed by Valerie Smith's conceptualization of black feminist thinking; it focuses on the portrayal of …
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IMPLICATIONS OF AGING AND DEGENERATIVE ROTATOR CUFF TEARS FOR UPPER LIMB MUSCLE MORPHOLOGY, STRENGTH, AND FUNCTION
… that neither age nor age-related rotator cuff tears affect the strength required at the shoulder to successfully complete upper limb functional tasks and older adults with and without a rotator cuff tear maintain an excess of reserve strength for these task demands. Limitations of …
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The Effects of the Handwriting Without Tears Program on the Handwriting of Students in Inclusion Classrooms
… examined effects of the Handwriting Without Tears program with special and general education students enrolled in inclusion classrooms. Two experimental classes received instruction with the HWT method while two comparison classes received instruction using traditional methods. Handwriting …
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