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Concerning Begum Akhtar: ''Queen of Ghazal''
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:53:57Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
… reading of the akhbar frame in which Umayyad-era ghazal is presented, then provides translations and philological commentaries on four of Kuthayyir’s ghazal poems. The translations are followed by two essays studying aspects of Kuthayyir’s poetics, comprising a study of the poet's frequent …
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Currents that Puncture
… began as: three sonnets, one sestina, and one ghazal. All the poems, but the ghazal, reflect a divergence from traditional structure and/or rhyme scheme. Although knowledge of standardized poetic form has been beneficial to me as a poet, the importance of freedom from such restraints allows for …
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To Sing Of Mountains
… consists of twenty-six free verse poems and one ghazal. The poems call upon the ancient mountains as witnesses to civilizations of past and present, using them to trace the cycles of cultural and geographic change that occur throughout the ages. This collection weaves itself among the histories …
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The Grief You Can Swallow and the Rage You Can't
… The work engages with established forms like the ghazal and tanka while simultaneously developing experimental structures that challenge conventional approaches to grief poetry. Central to the manuscript is the metaphor of mutation, both in its exploration of cancer and in its formal innovations. …
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Orifice of Return
… and future. These poems use received forms (the ghazal, the ode, the cento, the obverse, litany, etc.) and employ stylistic devices like (direct address, song lyrics, colloquial speech and slang, etc.) These poems interrogate histories and imagine speculative futures for Black folks. They exist …
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War and Return
… and metaphor are my primary concern. With the ghazal form, however, one rooted in the Middle East, I am bound by steadfast tradition and, in these, I reach for my Armenian-ness that may have been otherwise inaccessible. On the whole, the poems in this thesis give shape to the unseen and the …
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Evaluating the Potential of Scaling due to Calcium Compounds in Hydrometallurgical Processes
A fundamental theoretical and experimental study on calcium sulphate scale formation in hydrometallurgical solutions containing various minerals was conducted. A new database for the Mixed Solvent Electrolyte (MSE) model of the OLI Systems® software was developed through fitting of existing …
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Opportunities and Challenges for Using Modular Buildings to Support Affordable, Low-Carbon Housing in British Columbia
British Columbia faces two major challenges: climate change and a housing affordability crisis, both requiring innovative and scalable solutions. Among the available options, modular construction presents notable opportunities, such as shorter delivery timelines, improved cost certainty, and …
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The Impact of Selected Gene Mutations to the Activation and DNA Binding Activity of the Transcription Factor VraR
VraSR two-component system in S. aureus senses bacterial cell wall damage caused by antibiotics (vancomycin or -lactams) and regulates a set of genes. We have undertaken the study of the role of certain amino acids in the function of VraR, which undergo mutation in clinical S. aureus resistant …
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Comparative analysis of deep learning and graph cut algorithms for cell image segmentation
Image segmentation is a commonly used technique in digital image processing with many applications in the area of computer vision and medical image analysis. The goal of image segmentation is to partition an image into multiple regions, normally based on the characteristics of pixels in a given …
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Combustion Kinetics of Advanced Biofuels
<p>Use of biofuels, especially in automotive applications, is a growing trend due to their potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions from combustion. Ketones are a class of biofuel candidates which are produced from cellulose. However, ketones received rather scarce attention from the combustion …
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Women, Fertility and Labor Market
In this dissertation research, the empirical analyses are developed to investigate the role of different factors on female's fertility decisions as well as female labor force participation. This research contains two major parts related to women: first, the impact of State Children Health Insurance …
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Link Prediction on Distributed Systems
Microservices are a fundamental component of modern distributed systems, enabling scalability, flexibility, and resilience. However, understanding and predicting the interactions between microservices, which evolve over time, remains a significant challenge. Traditional static models fail to …
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Translingual nostalgias in modern Sanskrit and Indian poetry in English
… to Agha Shahid Ali, whose attempts to write Urdu ghazal poetry in English uniquely evince nostalgia’s inventive, non-dogmatic side. Finally, Chapter 4 turns to the linguistic pole furthest from English in the Indian nationalist imagination: Sanskrit. Contrary to popular perception, Modern Sanskrit …
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ACCURACY OF SURVEYED CROWN DESIGN DUPLICATION WITH CAD/CAM TECHNOLOGY COMPARED WITH CONVENTIONAL METHODS IN PARTIALLY EDENTULOUS KENNEDY CLASS III ARCH FORM
Fabrication of a surveyed crown under an existing RPD requires designing a crown pattern that duplicates the coronal anatomy of the existing tooth including all undercut and non-undercut areas and occlusal rest seats. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of surveyed crown design …
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Modelling and experimental investigation of Structured Optical Fibres: Optimisation of drawing conditions
Structured Optical Fibres (SOFs) are the new generation of optical fibres characterised by their air-hole patterns. SOFs are advantageous over conventional optical fibres for their great flexibility in structure design that offers many new features such as significantly extended single-mode regime. …
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