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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"cling"”.
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"I am moved by fancies that are curled / Around these images, and cling": Photographic Narration and Creative Subjectivity in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway wrote <italic>The Great Gatsby</italic> and <italic>The Sun Also Rises</italic> in an age marked by an onslaught of images, and particularly by the proliferation of the photograph. Modernity’s preoccupation with the photographic medium raised urgent …
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Mechanisms and mechanics of non-structural adhesion
… adhesion are addressed: an investigation of the cling of thin polymeric films and an analysis of the effects of viscoelasticity on adhesive systems involving curvature mismatch. The results of an investigation into the mechanisms of adhesion and debonding energy associated with the cling between …
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Factors affecting the quality and shelf-life of cooked chilled foods with special reference to full meal vending.
… and chicken a la king were either individually cling wrapped, vacuum packed or packed under modified atmosphere (70% CO , 30N 0) and stored for up to 21 days in a chilled foot vending machine. The growth of naturally occurring micro-organisms was delayed in vacuum packed samples, compared with …
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Intention to screen for sexually transmitted infections: A terror management health model perspective
… when facing a health decision, people tend to cling to what increases their self-esteem rather than behave in a way that would actually minimize the health threat. The first study hypothesized that exposure to a brochure rife with reminders of “creatureliness” would increase death thought …
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The evaluation and optimization of sensorial comfort
… fibre shedding, initial cold feel, wet cling and tacky cling. Four of these sensations: tickle, local irritation, fibre shedding, and tacky cling had not been investigated before. A glossary of terms was compiled to describe these sensations and this is proposed as a standard …
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The Little People of Pea Ridge
… will show that the people of Peytonsburg still cling to a lifestyle that disappeared in most of the United States more than half a century ago. A farmer who uses only mules as a source of power splits fence rails from hickory logs; two women still spin wool on their spinning wheels, and most of …
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The Effects of Odonates on a Littoral Prey Community
… Island, Michigan. These opportunistic predators cling to littoral vegetation and consume aquatic insects and microcrustaceans. To monitor the effects of these odonate predators on community dynamics, a 2X2 factorial in situ enclosure experiment was set up and monitored over an eight-week period. …
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The Marinhieros Project: Roseneath Rd & Patterson Ave
… of language.The cultural connotations of 'weed' cling to it like barnacles, removing the word from its true value. We reevaluate meaning, chronicling all the possible constructions of a word, all the possible varieties, where it came from, what its uses are, etc. We can then begin to develop an …
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Reading Placelessness and Suburbanization in Richard Yates
… commonplace and mediocre experiences, they must cling desperately to safety and security at any price.
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Reading Placelessness and Suburbanization in Richard Yates
… commonplace and mediocre experiences, they must cling desperately to safety and security at any price.
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Human Love and Divine Love: The Platonic Matrix in C.S. Lewis
… in The Abolition of Man, that man must cling to the traditional notion that a sense of right and wrong is inherent in all men. Illustrated in the measurably modified version of the Cupid and Psyche myth retold in Till We Have Faces, Lewis reveals that man’s natural relationships cannot …
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“Pleasant Episodes” of Gastronomy: Food and Drink in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Beautiful and Damned</em>
… can be read as Anthony's quest to assert and cling to his own brand of decadence, which is tragically distinct from that of his wife Gloria's.
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Repression, Elections, and Competitiveness in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
… that utilize democratic institutions, but cling to authoritarian tendencies to remain in power. I posit that these authoritarian tendencies towards repression are limited by the competitive nature of the regimes. Examining competitive authoritarian regimes from 1990 to 2008, I use data from …
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Won, but Not One: The Construction of Union Veteranhood, 1861-1917
… which people actively reconsider themselves to cling to these identities in response to changes in their surroundings.
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ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SUPERCONDUCTING PARTICLES FROM NON-SUPERCONDUCTING PARTICLES AND IMPROVEMENT IN FUEL ATOMIZATION BY ELECTRORHEOLOGY
… particles forces them to aggregate into balls or cling to the electrodes. In fabrication of superconducting materials, especially HTSC materials, it is common to come across materials with multiple phases: some grains are in superconducting state while the others are not. Our technology is proven …
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Organizational identification, organizational citizenship behavior, and employee silence behavior: A case study of public employees in Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… citizenship behaviors, the enthusiasm to cling to the organization much longer, and leaving employees with no choice but suppressing their concerns regarding corporate matters. The study sought to determine the association between organizational identification and organizational …
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All-American
… and racism that girds the faith to which they cling. Whereas many contemporary poets eschew the confessional in storytelling, All-American employs it unabashedly. Moreover, All-American is interested in language poetry, not only that which plays with various Englishes but also with the …
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Unresolved: notions of ‘truth’ in interpretations of post civil war era artworks by Akram Zaatari and Walid Raad
… the different parties involved continued to cling to mutually exclusive narratives, and so both artists see truth as a continuing casualty of the events of the civil war. While one artist, Zaatari, seems to believe that historical truth can be collected, recovered and represented, the other, …
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Continuity and change among the 'Utaiba tribe in the Al-Duwadmi province of Saudi Arabia: a socio-anthropological study
… by settlement and development, though they still cling to camel breeding as a source of status and symbol of identity. Various traditional crafts are declining under competition from mass-produced products, but education is making wider opportunities available to them. Increased reliance on hired …
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A Comparison of Infant and Toddler Reactions to Strangers who Have Similar Attributes to an Established Attachment Figure vs. Strangers who Have Different Attributes
… A moderate agreement was found for the cling/smile category (.57), and a fair agreement was found for the remaining three categories: crying (.22), following (.28), and reaching (.32).</p>
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