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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"lively"”.
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Atrazine: a lively chemical journey
Atrazine is a widely used pesticide, particularly popular in corn plantations for its herbicidal properties of killing and preventing the growth of certain weeds and grasses. Evidence of its neurotoxicity, hormone disruption and reproductive toxicity led the EU to ban the chemical in 2003. Despite …
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As lively mock’d as ever: Plasticity and the aesthetic image of life
This dissertation contends with the treatment of the biological in literary representation, arguing that the biological lacunae particularly visible in critical practice are best redressed by a formal exploration of aesthetic images of life. Biology, as I will show, admits of contingency, …
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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
… saw images as highly vivid, or in their words ‘lively’. The fact that, in our own time, viewers have been so quick to dismiss English visual art as dull and limited shows that our framework for interpreting these artworks is anachronistic, informed more by our own surroundings than by the …
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To test by fire: The assayer in the American mining West, 1848-1920
… if assayed high in gold or silver, caused a lively stir in the Western mining camp.
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Living in the city: housing in Washington, D.C./
… a deteriorated old commercial block to a lively residential neighborhood by introducing attractive urban characters to the area while maintaining the existing context.
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Piazza Navona, Harvard Square, Piccadilly Circus : a study about morphology and use
This thesis is about lively urban spaces and their distinctive characteristics. Its objective is to look at the various aspects responsible for the dynamic atmosphere of such environments, identifying the role played by their physical configuration within this context. It recommends the inclusion …
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How to Represent a Country in a Foreign Land: Italian Cancelleria
… abstract, but help to engage the building in a lively conversation with its historic context.
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Making kin and taking care: intra-active learning with time, space and matter in a Johannesburg preschool
… neighbouring park emerge as key players in the lively thinking-with that is sparked off by our engagements with each other: people, other creatures, plants, spaces, things, energies, pasts, presents and futures. The spaces cannot be separated from their relationships with time and matter (of …
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Shadow of dew drops for piano trio
… traditional Chinese poetry. Exploring fresh and lively sound effects to present this style become the goal of the piece. By using pizzicato followed by a glissando, fine harmonics of violin and cello, ornamentations and high repeated notes on piano, etc. to describe a lively picture of a little …
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Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora
… to characterize the music of the "Big Drum," a lively ancient dance rite of the island of Carriacou, and "Shango," another African based religion in Grenada, and their influences on calypso, reggae, Latin music, jazz, blues, gospel, soul music, and other sub-genres in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
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An analysis of the capital account in South Africa's balance of payments, 1960 - 1977
… 1978. This study, which was inspired by the lively debate on this issue, is an attempt to analyse the general trends in the capital account particularly those related to the supply of foreign capital, the exchange control policies of the authorities to protect the capital account from sudden …
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The effects of state subventions to political parties : a case study of the Green Party of Canada
… Political scientists, though, have conducted a lively debate about the effect of these state subventions on parties and party systems. With the introduction of state subventions in Canada, there is a significant opportunity to study the effects of the subsidy on parties. This thesis is a case …
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A "Living Political Dialect": The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse
<p>This dissertation investigates the lively interchange between Victorian literature, the science of language, and liberal politics. I argue that Victorian authors used language-science, the study of the origins and nature of human speech, as a powerful model for engaging the diminishing status of …
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Toward a large-scale environmental performance
… space if it is to continue being fresh, lively and spontaneous. Today the developments in electronic imagery systems have broadened the language in the theatrical arena. As a result, performance can even reach beyond earthly communication. In order to understand the role of performance …
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Archaea
… sinks below the horizon. The third movement, a lively percussive dance, represents nighttime, which, for me, has always been filled with energy and possibility. The piece incorporates into its language elements of traditional fiddle music; some of my earliest musical memories are of dancing …
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City of Life: Re-Imagining the ByWard Market
… rise of supermarkets have eroded their role as lively urban anchors. This thesis asks whether the loss of the dynamic urban market is inevitable, and if not, what architectural strategies might sustain it? The project re-imagines the ByWard Market by proposing a new building for farmers and food …
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Women as Heroes in the Patrirchal Society: The Roles of Susanna, Esther and Judith
… Esther, and Judith invite analysis for their lively depiction of women in ways that both confirm and contradict patriarchal assumptions. In these narratives there are defining examples of the use of prayer by women. The prayers employed by these women in their struggles are at times distinctly …
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Living coal : Robert Boyle, John Holland, and the bodily passages of chimney sweep literature, 1684-1824
… exchange between the child-sweeps and the lively matter of and within the chimneys. Together, place-thinking and transcorporeality help us see the way in which dwelling within toxic places might involve processes of what Rob Nixon has called “slow violence,” a violence often culminating in …
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A Translation of Den Spyeghel Der Salicheyt Van Elckerlijc and a Study of its Relationship to Everyman
… question, it has been a topic of lively discussion in Belgium and the Netherlands for some seventy years. Having become interested in the subject, I have therefore taken it upon myself to investigate the possibilities that have been advanced for Everyman1s being a translation of …
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A school of architecture addition & renovation: a design pertaining to our process of education
… the student acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling of values. He must acquire a sense of the beautiful and the morally good. Otherwise he - with his specialized knowledge - more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person. He must learn to understand the …
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