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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"harbinger"”.
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The music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes; harbinger of American art music's transition into the modern age
Charles Tomlinson Griffes heralded a new era of twentieth-century internationalism for American music. Rather than restrict himself to writing American nationalistic or German romantic music like most American composers of his time, Griffes built upon his classical background to write eclectic new …
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Low engagement and failed choices : exploring the mechanism for harbingers of failure
… research has documented the existence of 'harbingers of failure', who systematically purchase new products that fail. This paper proposes an explanation for the harbinger effect. We establish consumer engagement in decision making as one mechanism for the harbinger effect using evidence …
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The rhetoric of restoration: Alexander Campbell and the rhetoric of affect
… Letter"" which appeared in The Millennial Harbinger (1837), and The Missionary Cause (1860). These case studies present evidence that Campbell consistently employed this ""affective"" philosophy of rhetoric in a representative and chronologically diverse selection of his discourse and that …
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"Sometime There is Breath": Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons as Maternal Lexicon
… this thesis identifies Stein's poetry as a harbinger of Kristeva's semiotic register yet resists its categorization as feminist. Interpreting Tender Buttons instead as a portent of diachronic linguistics, I hope to extend the analysis of the collection beyond the feminist position that …
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Consuming Japan: Cultural Relations and the Globalizing of America, 1973-1993
… national power, others imagined Japan as the harbinger of of globalized future of economic prosperity and cultural homogeneity. Popular cultural representations of Japan reflected such understandings but also addressed the postmodern nature of the Japanese future, framing it as a borderless …
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Gorbachev, the Generals and the "Turn to the Right"
… diplomacy of 1989 and 1990 but is not a harbinger of a return to old relations. There is a power struggle going on in the USSR. Earlier, with Gorbachev on their side, the reformists were at the helm. As a result of their policies Eastern Europe was freed, the Cold War thawed, and East and …
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Can individuals be influential in driving sustainable and responsible investing?
… in the investment arena and may serve as a harbinger to changes in fiduciary relationships as we know them. Further research can be done in this area that will assist policy makers to consider regulation changes that could lead to the greater inclusion of final beneficiaries in the …
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Aura, craft and labour: the critical dialogue between photography and painting
… engendered a compulsion to read Benjamin as a harbinger of post-modernism, a tendency responsible for severe miss-interpretations of his work. This is most evident in accounts of arguably his most famous thesis: the philosophy of the aura. For scholars aiming to renounce autonomy, originality …
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Britain's new industrial space? A case study of high technology Hertfordshire'
… the rise of "high technology" industry is the harbinger of structural change and its spatial development indicative of the new geography of production we may expect throughout North America and Western Europe (Scott and Storper, 1986; Scott, 1988a; 1988b). This thesis outlines a theoretical and …
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Leapfrogging or green washing? An economic, social, and environmental impact analysis of rural solar electrification programs in the fatick region of Senegal.
… Electricity is widely-perceived as a harbinger of economic, environmental and social change. Through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, companies and countries qualify for Carbon Credits by transferring green technology, such as solar electricity, to …
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Examining Aspects of Role and Practice Changes for School Psychologists in Georgia: A Mixed Methods Analysis
… beyond assessment and special education. The harbinger has been to move away from traditional roles towards including all students in prevention, mental health and regular education initiatives. Recent legislation passed including NCLB, 2001 and IDEA, 2004 for schools across the country …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… courtier Pentz in Unwiederbringlich becomes a harbinger of dangerous, queer knowledge similar to the way Crampas' use of Heine quotations negotiates sexually suggestive knowledge in Effi Briest. In a final step, the aforementioned queer/ironic strategies are employed to read texts by Oscar …
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Il Qualunquismo Storico. Le idee, l’organizzazione di partito, il personale politico.
… aim to study this particular movement as the harbinger of a rather broader frame of mind, therefore it considers right wing thought and opinion in postwar Italy and qualunquismo long-lasting legacy. The second part focuses on qualunquismo as a political party, studying it with a political …
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Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960
… industry's early exodus from the downtown as a harbinger of the postwar decentralization of shopping to the suburbs. Amidst perennial concerns over rising burial costs and calls for greater simplicity, funeral directors created spaces that married simplicity to luxury, a paradox that became a …
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Integrated Switching DC-DC Converters with Hybrid Control Schemes
… and functions in such systems has also been a harbinger for the power increase. Power management techniques have thus been introduced to mitigate this urgent power crisis. Switching power converters are considered to be the best candidate due to their high efficiency and voltage conversion …
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Mitochondrial Dynamics: Exploring A Novel Target Against Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
… c release into cytosol, and caspase 3 cleavage (harbinger of apoptosis). Subsequently, and consistent with Hypothesis II, we established a cause-effect relationship between DRP1 translocation and cardiomyocyte injury in the setting of HR injury. Both pretreatment with Mdivi-1 (a specific …
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Aging among baby boomers
… 1998), chronological age was not a salient harbinger of aging readiness, mastery, or transcendence. Self-transcendence was authenticated as a “developmental fluidity” that unites the youthful-self (past) and the aging-self (present). The knowledge gained about Boomer aging has implications …
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Oribasius’ Woman: Medicine, Christianity and Society in Late Antiquity
… Oribasius has often been dismissed as a harbinger of late antique medical decline. This dissertation challenges this long-lived assumption by revaluating the compiler and his writings, and the place of medicine in the cultural and social landscape of late antiquity. Chapter one examines …
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An exploration of characteristic elements intrinsic to the matrix of John Steinbeck's fiction and their effect on the critical reception of his work, with particular reference to a God unknown
… seminal importance in his canon and therefore a harbinger of later works. As such it reveals a great deal about the author's outlook on life, early influences on his work, theoretical and practical approaches to his writing, and the various techniques employed to achieve his goals. The novel is …
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Corporeal Configurations of the Heroic and the Monstrous: A Comparative Study of 'Beowulf', 'The Shahnameh' and 'Tristan'
… unstable and fluid, is both susceptible to and a harbinger of change. In light of the fluidity of this space, the dismemberment and incorporation of bodies marking monstrous encounters take on added significance. One of the primary consequences of monstrous conflicts is ‘incorporation’, a …
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