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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"diva"”.
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Diva Voce : reimagining the diva in contemporary feminist performance
… study investigates and invigorates the diva icon’s usefulness to feminist theatre praxis. It traces the research journey from an unexamined belief in the diva as an icon of empowered, independent and expressive womanhood, to a more nuanced conception of the diva as boundless feminist …
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Queer-Diva Collaboration in 20th Century Pop Music
This thesis explores the practice of “Queer-Diva collaboration” as it pertains to the work of pop music icons Grace Jones and Annie Lennox. Queer-Diva collaborations are a surprisingly common yet undertheorized artistic phenomena wherein female pop singers co-create music and art with members of …
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‘Alma diva leggiadra Simonetta’: culture and politics in literary representations of Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci
This thesis examines literary representations of the noblewoman Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci (c. 1453- 1476) written in the Florentine vernacular in the mid- 1470s and 1480s. Composed during the reign of Lorenzo de’ Medici, de facto ruler of Florence from 1469- 1492, these portrayals of Simonetta, …
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The making of Disgrace Kelly: Dragging the diva through cabarets, pubs and Into the recital hall
… was a final performance program entitled Diva Bites the Dust. A study of the diva and her role within different musical forms has played a key role in the research and creation of Diva Bites the Dust. I developed a diva character named Disgrace Kelly, an aggregate of a multitude of divas …
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Implementación y validación de una prueba sanguínea DIVA con antígenos ESAT-6, CFP-10 y Rv3615c para el diagnóstico de tuberculosis bovina en Chile
… infectados de aquellos que han sido vacunados (DIVA). En función de lo anterior, el Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero del Ministerio de Agricultura de Chile solicitó un estudio de evaluación de la aplicación de la vacuna BCG y el test DIVA para la prevención y diagnóstico de la infección por M. bovis …
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Radiant divas: In pursuit of the queer sublime
Radiant Divas: In Pursuit of the Queer Sublime considers the importance of the figure of the diva within a queer cultural imaginary in the long twentieth century. Divas, through a performance of the sublime, productively stretch the boundaries of queerness and race into new directions. I argue that …
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The development of novel diagnostic countermeasures for Rift Valley fever virus
… differentiate infected from vaccinated animals (DIVA). This is critical for assessing the return to ‘disease free’ status after an outbreak. Unfortunately, there are limited RVFV diagnostic tests that are versatile and DIVA compatible with the newest RVFV vaccines. We describe the development of …
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O trono do pop em jogo: tensionamentos discursivos entre crítica, fãs e haters sobre divas pop no metacritic
… fãs e haters em relação aos sentidos de “diva pop”. A análise se dá a partir dos comentários e avalições deixadas no site Metacritic e tem como pressupostos teóricos e metodológicos perspectivas advindas dos estudos culturais, como as noções de cultura pop, gênero musical e afetos, e o …
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Development of plant-produced Bluetongue virus vaccines
… virus vaccines is that they are not DIVA (differentiate infected from vaccinated animals) compliant, this means that naturally infected animals cannot be distinguished from vaccinated animals. Recombinantly produced vaccines would be preferable to minimize the risks associated with …
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Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… expectations, centering around the figure of the diva as celebrated emblem of transportative, ethereal beauty, and simultaneously reviled as an object of uncomfortably revealing physical display, inspiring fear and paranoia. This diva focus brings to the fore questions of uncertainty regarding the …
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Characterisation of porcine cytomegalovirus and development as a vaccine vector for classical swine fever virus
… between infected and vaccinated animals (DIVA), Suvaxyn® CSF Marker vaccine, is commercially available. However, due to e.g. trading issues caused by vaccination of animals this vaccine is not used prophylactically and is only used in emergency situations to prevent spread of CSFV to wider …
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Plant-expressed diagnostic proteins and their use for the identification and differentiation of infected and vaccinated animals with foot-and-mouth disease virus
… between infected and vaccinated animals (DIVA). I selected the non-structural 3ABC polyprotein of FMDV to express, as it is a suitable candidate as a coating antigen in a competitive enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (C-ELISA) for the detection of neutralizing antibodies in livestock sera. …
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Black women, HIV/AIDS, and the media: communicating an epidemic in the hip hop era
… Rae Lewis-Thornton on her personal health blog ""Diva living with AIDS."" Each text generates alternative representations of HIV-positive black women that contest familiar stereotypes and clichés. Overall, this study helps scholars better understand the various meanings and definitions surrounding …
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Functional analysis and development of novel marked vaccines against Myxoma virus
… controlar la enfermedad, basada en una vacuna DIVA, para lo cual se postuló la construcción de un virus mixoma recombinante marcado por deleción de un gen antigénico, además de una prueba serológica diferencial capaz de distinguir animales infectados de los vacunados. Tras una exhaustiva …
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Creating a Marked Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Vaccine Strain and Detecting Marker-Specific Immune Responses in Calves
… infected from vaccinated animals (DIVA). Specialized transducing mycobacteriophages were used to replace a gene coding for an immunogenic protein (MAP1693c) in the MAP genome with an HA (human influenza hemagglutinin) epitope-tagged immunogenic gene (PepA) via allelic exchange. Once …
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Development of plant-produced African horse sickness vaccines
… vaccine strains. Furthermore, the vaccines lack DIVA capacity, the ability to distinguish between vaccine-induced immunity and that induced by natural infection. These concerns have motivated interest in the development of new, more favourable recombinant vaccines, initially focusing on the use …
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Enchufad@s : representations of the internet and new technologies in queer Latin American literature
… convergence culture, and a heavy-handed dash of diva studies, this dissertation explores how Internet spaces as represented in the novels and poems serve to enhance as well as hinder human connection, while also making the readers more aware of their Internet dependence.
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Estimating the economic cost of sea-level rise
… rise of one meter per century, the use of DIVA generally decreases the protection fraction of the coastline, and results in a smaller protection cost because of high spatial concentration of capital. As in past studies, wetland loss continues to be dominant for most regions, and the total …
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A indumentária do espetáculo cênico da Paixão de Cristo, em Nova Jerusalém (PE): transformação dos figurinos de Herodes e Pilatos, e transfiguração dos demônios – de 1954 a 2004
… imagens de livros de Carlos Reis, Jamildo Melo e Diva Pacheco, pois resgata parte da história do teatro histórico, religioso e cultural pernambucano, nordestino e até brasileiro. Somada a investigação fontes bibliográficas, e levando em consideração à história oral, nas entrevistas e depoimentos …
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Kunstdiva versus Stimmediva Callas and Sutherland in Bellini’s Norma
… considered as the principal domain of the Stimmediva. The dissertation includes a survey of the characteristics of bel canto, Bellini’s contribution to it and the performance history of his opera Norma. Furthermore, it investigates the German differentiation between Kunstdiva and Stimmediva as …
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