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Sir Isaac's Duel (Original play)
The play Sir Isaac's Duel concentrates on Edmond Halley's discovery of the genius of Isaac Newton. Halley attempts to bring Newton's theories out to the public, Newton refuses, and the "duel" begins. Other characters in the play are as follows: Mary Halley, the wife of Edmond; Catherine Barton, …
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Dueling and Identity: Constructions of Honor Violence In Nineteenth-Century Southern Letters
… of rhetoric and violence as it is represented in dueling, the settlement of honor disputes through ritualized gunplay or the threat thereof. The duel has long served in historical interpretations of the South as a signal scene of violent masculine honor. Indeed, its life and death consequence has …
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Hombres de Steven Spielberg: un análisis de la representación de masculinidades en los textos fílmicos "Duel", "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" y "War of the Worlds"
… con respecto al mismo. El corpus lo forman Duel, Jaws, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park y War of the Worlds, y coincide con el agrupamiento que Lester Friedman (2006: 123-124) hace de esta películas, catalogándolas como pertenecientes al género de monstruos. Se sigue un método …
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Models of Reception in the Divine Audience of the Iliad
… the gods also attend, a spectacle for which the duel in Book 3 provides a paradigm. Chapter 4 interprets the duel in Book 7 as a reevaluation of that paradigm, motivated intratextually by the internal audience of Apollo and Athena. Chapter 5 shows that the climactic duel in Book 22, and …
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Magic Integrated: Competitive Video Games in Elementary School Classrooms
… by typing words and solving math problems. Duel of the Products is a minigame where each player boosts their magical energy by solving math problems. The Matching Battle minigame asks each player to find pairs of cards. Maze Finder is a minigame where each player is presented with a maze and …
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From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier
… disputes, and in 1806 he was forced to fight a duel with a local merchant named Thomas Stewart. The microhistory describes Bates life within the context of American history during the early Republic.</p>
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Scandinavian and other influences on the Tristan story, with special consideration of the Morholt episode
… particular interest is the duel between Tristan and Morholt which is described in detail by many redactors of the romance, while the fragments of Béroul mention it only casually. Although there seems to be agreement that the episode existed in oral tradition before it was …
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Race and Gender in the Leadership Experiences of Three Female African American High School Principals: A Multiple Case Study
… interviews, rich narratives revealed how the duel oppressions of race and gender intersected the professional lives of the three principals involved in the study. The theoretical foundation for the study was black feminist thought as defined by Patricia Hill Collins. Black feminist thought …
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Soccer Last Touch and Automatic Event Detection with Skeletal Tracking Data
… build a decision tree algorithm for classifying duel-like events and goalkeeping outcomes with the additional context of player joint location.
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Brazilian science fiction: the construction of national identity
… works written during the 60s - "O Desafio" [The Duel] by Antonio Olinto and "O Menino e o Robô" [The Boy and the Robot] by Rubens Teixeira Scavone; two works written during the seventies - Umbra by Plinio Cabral and Asilo nas Torres [Asylum in the Towers] by Ruth Bueno; one work from the 80s - …
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Data compression, storage, and viewing in classroom learning partner
… to a database for future viewing and study. This duel functionality allows for the analysis of student work from multiple lessons at the same time, as well as backup of student work in case of system failure. Teachers can compare the work from multiple students, as well as create portfolios of …
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Tacit to Explicit: How Can ‘Gan Jue Cinema’ be Illuminated?
… Catching the Wind: The Evil Woman’s Magnificent Duel (2022–2023) as well as a virtual exhibition Chinese Gan Jue (2021-2022) that exchanges works and ideas on the cinematic practice and communication of Gan Jue with a broad group of practitioners around the world.
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Building a Dataset and Developing a Video Event Classifier for Football
… which share a similar context, such as types of duels, saves, fouls, stoppages, and restarts. Video classification, a well-established computer vision tool for identifying events in video clips, can be used in applications where tracking data alone fails to retell the game in its entirety. In …
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Electrospinning of biphasic biopolymer and polymer : a feasibility and characterization study
… separation. The next study involved using a duel solvent system to electrospin fibers. The polymer of choice is Poly (1-lactic acid) (PLLA) combining with collagen. This approach has given fibers with diameter ranging from 650nm to over a micron. This method of electrospinning is the least …
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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the duel of honor functioned as a formal recourse to attacks on a gentleman's reputation. Concurrently, many notable literary figures such as Samuel Johnson, William Gifford, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron were involved in literary disputes featuring …
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Body Composition Assessment Results And Predicting Injury Patterns In Collegiate Musicians
… Methods: Body composition was measured using a duel X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan at the beginning of both the fall 2018 and 2019 seasons. Data on injuries were compiled from the electronic medical records (EMR) system kept by the athletic trainer. Prior to getting a DXA scan, subjects were …
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Going in Circles: Male Cyclic Automobility in U.S. Fictions 1950-1970
… Rebel Without a Cause, and Steven Spielberg’s Duel. I contend that the fictional transport technologies in these texts can be read as a metaphor for the double-binds faced by mid-century men—a metaphor that undercuts the assumption that automobiles, roads, suburbs, and other forms of post-war …
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Cultural Ecosystem Services as a Framework for Evaluating Wilderness Values in Public Land Settings
… model is ideal for facilitating the complex duel goals of securing benefits and preserving wilderness resources. Ecosystem Services directly addresses benefits derived from a landscape, even if the specifics of the benefits change over time. This dissertation employs Ecosystem Services as a …
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A pilot study toward the development of ERD and SSVEP based hybrid brain computer interface
… the synergies of SSVEP and ERD modalities. A duel task experiment was performed on 4 healthy subject, ages 22-35, in which they must look at a flickering LED and move their wrist in the direction corresponding to that LED. Four LEDs are setup about a point, providing intuitive directions for …
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Self-Assembly of Calix[4]Arene Amine Derivatives
… and lower rim have been developed as potential duel metal ion binding complexes, and all were fully characterised. The lower rim was first functionalised with various groups such as benzyls and pyridyls to give stability to the calix[4]arene unit, followed by functionalisation of the upper rim …
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