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Showing 1 to 20 of 667 for “"affinities"”.
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Elective Affinities: Heidegger and Adorno
In spite of their historical, geographical, and intellectual proximity, Heidegger and Adorno never entered into dialogue with one another. Heidegger claimed not to have read Adorno, while Adorno wrote only polemically on Heidegger. In the past thirty years, scholars have attempted to initiate …
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The phylogenetic affinities of Crenichthys and Empetrichthys using mtDna
… supports a model of historical biogeographic affinities between fishes of the Mexican Plateau and fishes of the Mojave and Great Basin deserts.
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The sacralization of time : contemporary affinities between crisis and fascism
… as a method entails seeing how examples produce affinities with each other and how they are displaced from one semantic field to another as well as how they create unpredictable analogies between them. Thus, the thesis explores possible analogies between the examples by means of the signatures of …
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Writing Away: Old Affinities and New Itineraries in Contemporary African Writing
… on the texts themselves and the series of affinities that emerge at the levels of style, intertextuality, focalization, and aesthetic inclinations. Guided by traces of referentiality and self-reflexivity within the texts, as opposed to an existing theoretical frame, I read for the …
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The Turn to the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas's Conceptual Affinities with Liberation Theology
My dissertation establishes some conceptual affinities between the philosophical project of Emmanuel Levinas and liberation theology. I analyze Levinas's work by comparing it to two important liberation theologians, Gustavo Gutiérrez and Jon Sobrino, whose work, like his, needs to be brought into …
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Origins and biological affinities of the modern Thai population: An osteological perspective
"The work focuses on the assessment of population affinities based on craniofacial skeletal data. The main objective is to test the ""immigrant"" and ""endogenous"" hypotheses for the origin of the modern Thai. The former proposes that the ancestors of the modern Thai migrated from China during the …
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Fungi-derived natural products with binding affinities for human opioid or cannabinoid receptors
… of fungi-derived natural products with binding affinities for opioid or cannabinoid receptors.
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Affinities and innovations in selected piano music of Béla Bartók and György Ligeti
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Beyond the Movement: Contention, Affinities and Convergence in New York, Cairo and Paris
Amid the 2011 Arab Revolts, and the subsequent worldwide Occupy movement, social movement scholars faced sudden, powerful mass mobilisations without easily identifiable resources, networks, or forms of organisation underlying them. These instances of mobilisation beyond the scope of what we …
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Towards more robust and efficient methods for the calculation of Protein-Ligand binding affinities
… accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is of central importance in structural based drug design. Although many techniques exist for calculating protein-ligand binding affinities, ranging from techniques that should be accurate in principle, such as free energy perturbation …
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Determination of the proton affinities of gas phase peptides by mass spectrometry and computational chemistry
… effect of the helix confonnation on the proton affinities ofbasic amino acids placed at theN- or Ctenninus of helical model peptides in the gas phase. Several series of model peptides having a basic residue, lysine (K) or 2,3- diaminopropionic acid (Dap ), located at either terminus were …
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Making Sense in Nineteenth Century Britain: Affinities of the Philosophy of Mind, c.1820-1860
This work examines British inquiry into the human mind in the early nineteenth century using a multivalent structural analysis of ideas and practices within traditions established by Hume, Hartley, and Reid. While these traditions were propagated into the nineteenth century by such figures as …
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The biological affinities of several Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon populations as shown by dental morphology
The aim of the research presented in this thesis is to test the applicability of some of the techniques of dental anthropology to begin to provide answers to certain questions facing British archaeology. The question directly confronted in this thesis is how the change in fifth century Britain, …
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The seaweed flora of the Palm Beach area, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa and its biogeographical affinities
… Africa, and to determine its biogeographical affinities. A collection from the Palm Beach area produced a list of 130 taxa, comprising 13 Chlorophyta and 15 Phaeophyta 102 Rhodophyta. Included in this list are 56 species from neighbouring sites, Trafalgar and Port Edward. Data from existing …
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Assessment of the current population status, genetic diversity and phylogenetic affinities of the rare South African moss, Zygodon leptobolax
The rare moss Zygodon leptobolax is endemic to Table Mountain, where it is found growing on alien Quercus hosts. The present study aims to investigate this species, place it within a phylogenetic framework and answer the key questions I) what is the current status of Z. leptobolax? 2) what level of …
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Something rich and strange: a psycho-geographic unconcealing of the genius loci of Shoreditch, London, exploring affinities between generative artificial intelligence and Shakespearean text
This arts-led research project investigates the creative potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in a visual art practice. To stimulate human/computer creative collaboration I introduce the imaging power of GenAI models to the words of William Shakespeare (1564 –1616). Text, themes, …
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Dwelling in Contingency: Towards a Reappraisal of the Late Work of the British Photographer Raymond Moore, in Light of its Affinities with a Zen Buddhist Worldview
Raymond Moore operated quite apart from the mainstream of the British photography scene, with its emphasis on socially engaged and documentary approaches. He created his compelling images from the most mundane subject matter, seeking out the 'uncommonness of the commonplace' as he himself put …
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