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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"lass"”.
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The Lass o' Pairts: Social mobility for women through education in Scotland, 1850-1901.
… to discover whether there was a so-called ‘lass o’ pairts’ - a woman who was able, regardless of her social background, to achieve upward social mobility through educational opportunity and career advancement. <br/><br/>This aim was achieved by examining the lives of women at various stages, …
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The development of the Leeds alliance in supervision scale (LASS): A brief sessional measure of the supervisory alliance
… Objectives: To develop a short-form measure (LASS) of the supervisory alliance from the perspective of the supervisee that has the clinical utility to be used on a sessional basis, and the psychometric properties to be a credible instrument for research. Study 1: Items from existing measures …
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Assessing land administration systems with their legal frameworks: the case of peri-urban land in Ekiti State, Nigeria
… and effective land administration systems (LASs) and legal frameworks are crucial for ensuring pro-poor objectives in land administration. Women, the vulnerable and the poor who are denied access to efficient and effective land administration services tend to experience tenure insecurity. …
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Implied social mobility and its effect upon late adolescent perception of parent-child personality evaluation
… parents would describe them, their social class of origin, and the degree of their implied social mobility. The present study specifically investigates the proposition that as the late adolescent implies an attempt to change his social lass of origin (as measured by Hollingshead’s Two Factor …
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The Relationship Between The Oral Language of Black English Speakers and Their Reading Achievement
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709066.pdf: 3820534 bytes, checksum: f72ab0fac312a450ea58207756ecc08d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Broadside ballads and bawdy ditties : Music in the plays of Richard Brome.
… the role of music in four plays, The Northern Lass, The City Wit, The Weeding of Covent Garden and The English Moor by the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome. The use of music in Brome's plays has received little scholarly investigation despite the sudden research interest in the playwright, …
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Estimating the thickness of an ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) terrane: insights from phase equilibria modelling and Zr-in-rutile thermometry, Dulan area, North Qaidam terrane, China
… assemblage Grt + Omp ± Ky ± Ph ± Zo ± Qz/Coe. LASS U-Pb analyses of zircons yield weighted mean ages of 463-425 Ma, and REE patterns indicate that these ages record the eclogite-facies metamorphism. Inherited zircon cores yield ages of 928-905 Ma, and REE patterns indicate that the eclogite´s …
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Allusions of grandeur : figurative language use in rap lyrics
… literature, popular or contemporary culture (Lass, Kiremidjian, & Goldstein, 1987); Gorham and Gilligan (1997) distinguishes media allusions, calling them, “adaptations of or reference to a scripted line from the popular media” (p. 1), and referring to them as “cultural handshakes.” The …
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On the asymptotic behaviour of deterministic and stochastic volterra integro-differential equations
… of stability that has been established for this class of equations is important in a variety of real-world problems which involve feedback from the past, and are subject to external random forces. These include modelling endemic diseases, and more particularly the modelling of inefficient …
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Globalisation versus internal development: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English
… TRAP when compared to Received Pronunciation (Lass & Wright 1986). This raising wasparticularly evident in the speech of middle class white speakers of South African English, as well as coloured speakers in the Cape. Recent scholarship has suggested that this raising is being reversed in the …
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Temporal and petrological constraints of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism and exhumation of crustal material from mantle depths to Earth's surface: Insights from a large and small ultrahigh-pressure terrane
… inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LASS-ICP-MS). These Scandian-aged zircons were subsequently analyzed by ID-TIMS-TEA. The LASS analyses reveal a spread in results from both samples, with ages between 414 and 397 Ma. In comparison, the ID-TIMS analyses from the exact same zircons …
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Optical micro- and nanofibres: Higher mode generation and particle manipulation studies
… observing pulling dynamics and progressive mode-lass behaviour, it is possible to produce a nanofibre which supports only the TE01 and TM01 modes, while suppressing the HE21e,o elements of the LP11 group. This result provides a basis for experimental studies of atom trapping via …
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Entwicklung, Validierung und Anwendung einer neuen translations- und rotationsinvarianten 3D-QSAR-Methodik
… Dabei werden neben der sehr anspruchsvollen ‚Lass-mehrere-Objekte-heraus’-Kreuzvalidierung als Gütefunktion der Variablenselektion auch ein Permutationstest der Modelle sowie eine Testdatenvorhersage angewandt. Durchläuft ein Modell all diese Validierungsschritte erfolgreich, so ist die …
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A Wonder Whose Origin is not Known: The Importance of the Orphan Hero in Otherworldly Film
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the importance of the orphan hero in film and his resonance with the American people. It explores the orphan and the American identities, the archetypes found in myths, and the hero in American culture. The three heroes (Batman, Anakin Skywalker, and Harry …