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The Biography of Dr. Terry Winkler
… skillfully written biography of the life of Dr. Terry Winkler. I obtained information on Dr. Winkler's life by working in conjunction with Dr. Winkler, his friends, and family members. In preparing for this thesis, I researched the multiple considerations of biographical writing in texts such as …
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Engaging with comedy as social conscience in Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld”
… culture, exploring the ways in which people read Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. The primary research objective was to ascertain whether political values encoded within the comedic text would be understood by its readers. An iterative mixed methods approach was used to gauge audience engagement. Of …
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Modelling Outcomes in Canadian Professional Football via Generalized Bradley-Terry Models
… games are identified and discussed. The Bradley-Terry Model and various generalizations are presented as potentially useful for making such predictions, alongside derivations of well-known minorization-maximization (MM) algorithms and descriptions Artificial Neural Net- work (ANN) processes that …
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Trapped in Bluebeard's Chamber: Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century "Desperate Housewives."
… American literature, the New England writer Rose Terry Cooke elicited great popular appeal during the peak of her career. The admiration Cooke received from her readers and fellow writers compels one to question Cooke’s present-day obscurity. Cooke’s fiction and poetry seem inconsistent with the …
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An investigation of a Hudson River clay deposit of the Terry Brick Corp
… of a deposit of Hudson River clay from the Terry Brick Corp. of Kingston, N.Y., to determine the best possible uses for the clay in the ceramic industry. The effect of blending the Goldrick clay with shale, and the addition of sodium carbonate and chestnut extract as electrolytes in the …
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Recasting the social critic : social commentary in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
… in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett. Charles Dickens has been considered a social commentator and critic by modern critics as much as his contemporaries. His novels aided in exposing several social problems present in Victorian England, which include the treatment of …
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White Knowledge and the Cauldron of Story: The Use of Allusion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
<p>In the last twenty years, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series has become very popular. Pratchett's success hinges in part on his use of allusion, in what Tolkien called the "Cauldron of Story," and what Pratchett refers to as "white knowledge." This paper explores the Discworld novels and …
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Political fanaticism, alienation and the Trickster archetype in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland
… Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland (2005). Based on del Toro’s artistic rendering of the Spanish Civil War and Gilliam’s depiction of the Canadian prairies as an isolated and hostile landscape, it will be argued that political fanaticism and alienation are, …
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Strategy and procedures for translating proper nouns and neologisms in Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel Small Gods into Afrikaans
… translating proper nouns and neologisms used in Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods. It is limited to the study of the neologisms that act as proper nouns, and does not look at other neologisms in the novel. The study identifies translation procedures that retain the meaning potential of the proper …
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Repetition and the drift towards constant focus in the pattern-pulse works of Terry Riley and Steve Reich
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A New Archaic Avant-Garde?: Tradition and Experimentation in the Neo-Mediaeval Cinema of Terry Gilliam, Derek Jarman, and John Boorman
The films of Terry Gilliam, Derek Jarman, and John Boorman are united by their tendency to look to an idealised mediaeval past as a solution to a troubled present. More than this, however, these filmmakers share an interest in evoking, incorporating, and participating in the art and practices of …
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Audience engagement and immersion: the expanded narrative from the early works of La Monte Young and Terry Riley to the digital era
… interprets the praxis of La Monte Young and Terry Riley’s early work during the 1960s to present both composers as pioneers of what we now consider immersive artistic practice. Through a consideration of multidisciplinary fields, and both composers’ innovative and engaging early works – which …
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Ruminant yemlerinin sindirilebilirliklerini saptamada uygulanan çeşitli in vitro yöntemlerinin karşılaştırılması üzerinde bir araştırma
… hy various in vitro methods #uch as Tilley-Terry, Yan Soest, Cellulase and Concentrates. In the evaluation of the digestibility results, Tilley-Terry method was taken as the control method since it is com parable with;, the in vivo. Although the digestibility value of the dry matter in the …
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Parse reranking with WordNet using a hidden variable model
… that extends work in (Michael Collins and Terry Koo 2004) by incorporating WordNet (Miller et al. 1993) word senses. Instead of attempting explicit word sense disambiguation, we retain word sense ambiguity in a hidden variable model. We define a probability distribution over candidate …
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Examination of the Experience of Music in Sport Among NCAA Division I Athletes: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation
… & Rawal, 2005), motivation (Karageorghis & Terry, 1997), and mood levels (Gfeller, 1988). Research has also shown that music can be a facilitator to athletic performance (Dorney & Goh, 1992; Karageorghis & Terry, 1997; & Krumhans, 2002). Although a great amount of research exists that …
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Multidimensions of Poverty: An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Racism and Poverty on Skeletal Growth
… skeletal and documentary data from the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Collection and the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection, with the goal of addressing the impacts of racism, poverty, and chronic stress on growth and development. Specifically, this study used Ecofeminist theory to look at why …
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Dimensionality of management tasks performed by department heads of emerging universities
… pursuing change. In a related (1979) study, Terry encountered the suggestion that the activities and behaviors of administrators in reality may not be one dimensional as described in the literature. Consequently, in this doctoral analysis, Terry formally examined the following possibilities: …
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Confirmatory factor analysis of the narcissistic personality inventory (NPI) and the self-report of psychopathy scale (SRPII)
… factor analysis. From the literature, Raskin and Terry (1988) provided a seven factor NPI model, whereas Emmons (1984; 1987) suggests a four factor model. Harpur and Hare (personal communication) provided a two factor model for the experimental SRPII. Exploratory factor analysis (n=581) provided …
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A sakk matematikája - Élő-pontszámok
… mögött levő statisztikai modellt, a Bradley-Terry modellt mutatjuk be, valamint az erre épülő Élő-pontrendszert. Foglalkoztunk a győzelem valószínűségévél olyan játékoknál, amelyeknél két kimenetel lehetséges. A pontrendszer egyes változatait röviden ismertetjük. A dolgozat végén …
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The rank analysis of triple comparisons
… which was developed by R. A. Bradley and M. E. Terry, are considered. Four generalizations to triple comparisons are discussed. One of these models is used to develop methods of analysis of data obtained from the ranks of items compared in groups of size three.
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