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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"cursed"”.
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Cursed complexity. Computational properties of subcortical neuronal microcircuitry in sensorimotor control
One of the big obstacles for understanding the nervous system is its inherent complexity. It poses problems when interpreting both experimental and theoretical studies since we are currently forced to consider only reduced variants of the actual circuitry of the brain. Since there exist problems …
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Cracked commodities, cursed gifts: Transacting women and conceptualizing exchange in early modern England
This study explores the role of exchange in creating, solidifying, or de-stabilizing the bonds and hierarchies structuring social and power relations in early modern England. The symbolic economies of gift and commodity--in social practice and as constructed in treatises and the theater--provided …
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, Romantic Philosopher in Modern Realistic Drama
The industrial revolution blessed and cursed the English Victorian age. Blessed was the progress of invention and manufacture; cursed was the rugged individualism of selfish men. During this revolution, three great Victorian authors—Arnold, Ruskin, and Carlyle— rose to criticize England’s shallow …
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Bomb
… characters who have set out on a road race in a "cursed” automobile. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of the picaresque novel using modern concerns and fears – holding closely to the established traditions of this lineage, but updating the subject matter in an attempt to move …
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Dynamic retail assortment models with demand learning for seasonal consumer goods
… As a result, many retailers are seemingly cursed with simultaneously missing sales for want of popular products, while having to use markdowns in order to sell the many unpopular products still accumulating in their stores. Recently however, a few innovative firms, such as Spain-based Zara, …
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Black girl magic: the (re)imagining of Hermione Granger: an analysis and autoethnography
… in the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" other iterations of the character have come to the forefront. In a survey and various virtual interviews with 193 participants, I dissected and discussed why the reimagining of a Black Hermione Granger came to be and why she is …
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Election, Brotherhood and Inheritance: A Canonical Reading of the Esau and Edom Traditions
… with. Thus, the unchosen brother is by no means cursed or excluded from the divine economy. These motifs find resonance in Deuteronomy, which in particular construes the issue of land possession in explicitly theological language, while reinforcing the kinship motif. Second, it is put forward …
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The crown of madness.
… new faction arises that worships the demon that cursed them. Aeacus must reassess his leadership and team-up with new allies to regain control of his kingdom. There are several subplots that spawn from these primary plots, these include: a reincarnated seer who seeks the leader of Aarden Hall and …
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‘Harry Potter and the Transmedia Wizarding World’: Paratexts of the Harry Potter Franchise, 2011-17
… explores the stageplay Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016)and its status as a transitional franchising text. This research utilises two methodological frameworks, textual analysis and empirical research, in order to shed light on the importance of paratexts – traditionally considered …
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Straight and narrow - Irish witch belief, trials and memory : Straight and narrow: a novel, and Irish witch belief, trials and memory: a critical component
… in 1711, and a case involving the cure of a cursed nine-year-old girl in Antrim town. <br/><br/>In my conclusion I discuss the waning of witch belief on the part of the State and elite society, following the Witchcraft Act of 1735. <br/><br/>The thesis concludes with a bridging statement …
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British Attitudes to the German Economic Miracle, 1948 to circa 1971
… British much less so than before. The British cursed their debts, their problems with sterling’s international role and their global military commitments but the underlying problem judging by contemporary voices was the failure of Britain to organise itself in the workplace and achieve the …
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Breaking the MF curse: the regulatory role of the Methyl farnesoate – MEKRE93 pathway in crustacean molting
… remains unknown and thereby is considered to be "cursed". The differential effects MF has on molting and ecdysteroidogenesis is hypothesized to be regulated through the Methoprene tolerant– Krüppel homolog 1– E93 (MEKRE93) transcriptional cascade. Using bioinformatic approaches, the components of …
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A Conceptual Model for the Professional Practice of Seventh-day Adventist Educational Administration Based on the Proclamations of the Three Angels of Revelation 14
… two change methodologies, one of which was cursed and the other commended as making men saints. Thus the administrator can gain knowledge of heaven-approved change methodology.</p> <p>Step 2: Examination of the cross-filed individual concepts of all three messages resulted in the development …
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Courier of Souls
<p>Abriel is a courier in a world plagued by curses cast by spiteful deities, and the only safe haven from curses are the roads themselves, which cause curses to burn. Following in her father’s footsteps, she strives to match his skills as a courier, and respect the legacy of her adoptive father, …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… involving spontaneous combustion and a cursed manuscript, that seems in some ways to prefigure Borges (with a dash of M.R. James). Owen‘s book, difficult to find, has itself become a talisman, possession (unless it can be passed on to an unsuspecting recipient) conferring malfate, …
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The art and tradition of Black autobiography in the eighteenth century
… be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face. (16-17)</p> </blockquote> <p>The merging of “his double self into a better and truer self” has especially concerned the black autobiographer …
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An assessment of external HIV-related stigma in South Africa: implications for interventions
… AIDS are dirty; (2) People who have AIDS are cursed; (3) People who have AIDS should be ashamed; (4) People with AIDS must expect some restrictions on their freedom; (5) A person with AIDS must have done something wrong and deserves to be punished. As explained above, the specific external HIV …