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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"moonlight"”.
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Plowing by Moonlight: Notes from a Food Oasis
Plowing by Moonlight is a creative nonfiction exploration of the relationship between the people of Bainbridge Island, Washington, and the food they grow, eat, and share.
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Aristocracy and Appalachia: Edith Vanderbilt and Her Moonlight School
<p>A short biography of Edith Vanderbilt, focusing chiefly upon her marriage to George Vanderbilt.</p>
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Spinning a Web with Smudge Smoke, Bear Grease, and Moonlight
… a Web with Bear Grease, Smudge Smoke and Moonlight, an abstracted support paper that doubles as an art object shown in an online gallery. Bear Grease & Smudge Smoke investigates the role of the artist in relation to the body, ancestral materials, site, time, and conversations of …
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Two shadows in the moonlight : music in British film melodrama of the 1940s
In this thesis I examine the differences between music in the two cinemas. Concentrating on exemplary films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, I show how the apparent differences are manifested, and by analysing a number of key British films, I illustrate the modes of musical expression used. …
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“I knew you wasn’t soft”- masculinity in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk
The focus of this study is black masculinity presented in films written and directed by Barry Jenkins, as the director’s approach to African American manhood is arguably modern and offers a new, fresh perspective. As this dissertation asserts, characters created by Jenkins are complex and not easy …
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A Qualitative Investigation Of Clinical Mental Health Counseling Interns’ Experiential Reflections On The Popular Film, Moonlight: An Intersectional Activity In Multicultural Counselor Education
… counseling interns exposed to the popular film, Moonlight. Five final themes emerged as a result of this study. 12 master’s level counseling interns engaged in a focus group interview, completed written reflection responses, and participated in member checks to discuss their experiences and …
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Changes in the seasonal activity of bats occuring in the Kunene region, Namibia: Influence of environmental factors
… measured with data loggers at sampling sites and moonlight was compared using lunar phases. Activity was positively correlated with temperature at all sites and rarely occurred when temperatures were ≤ 11°C. Moon lunar phase did not affect activity as there was no significant difference between …
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Evaluating the Use of Autonomous Recording Units to Monitor Yellow Rails, Nelson's Sparrows, and Le Conte's Sparrows
… temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure, moonlight, and hours after sunset as fixed effects. The best supported model for YERA indicated highest detection probability occurred 4 hours after sunset, early in the field season, with lower wind speeds and no precipitation. The best supported …
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Folkloric and Ethnic Elements in Four Chinese Trumpet Compositions
… four representative compositions: Dancing in the Moonlight(n/a) by Hesheng Wang, Driving Cart (1961) by Jiazhou Tao, The Spring of Pamirs (1972) by Ping Luo, and Gada Meilin Theme and Variations (1950) by Rizhao Huang. These works showcase the stylistic diversity and deep cultural influences …
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Interaction of Low Frequency Sound with Glass and other Building Materials in the Design of a Concert Hall for Symphony Orchestra and Choir
… the outside: Whether itâ s a time of daylight or moonlight, rain or shine, summer or winter, spring or autumn, the environment within remains the same all the time. I asked the question: â What if a concert hall offers views outside?â To be more specific, the question is: â What if a concert hall …
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Motion Processing in Direction Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells through Dynamic Environments
… DSGCs adapt to changes in light level, spanning moonlight to daylight. In Chapter 2, I describe the development of a functional classification method to identify and classify DSGCs. In Chapter 3, I show how NMDA-dependent synapses improve direction coding in DSGCs at threshold contrasts. In …
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Lemonade, gin, and juice: the performance and deconstruction of black masculinity from n**gers to negus
… Utilizing three media texts Fences, Moonlight, and Empire, I analyze the trajectory of Black male performance through the gaze of fatherhood to examine the parallels of historical and contemporary gendered performativity as symptomatic results of white supremacy and internalized …
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Ecology of Audubon's Shearwaters (Puffinus lherminieri) at San Salvador, Bahamas
… microhabitat, chick behavior and the effect of moonlight on the onset of calling of the Audubon's Shearwaters nesting on the satellite cays of San Salvador Island, Bahamas. The population of nesting shearwaters on the cays was estimated at 107 pairs. The size of the rock over a shearwater burrow …
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A homoeopathic drug proving of Acacia Xanthophloea 30CH, with subsequent comparison to the doctrine of signatures
Submitted in complete fulfilment for the Degree of Master's Degree in Homeopathy, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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Winter vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton
… is seen at 110 m, indicating a depth limit of moonlight perception. A new type of migratory behaviour is described: Lunar Vertical Migration (LVM) which exists as LVM-day (24.8 hour periodicity) and LVM-month (29.5 day periodicity) on a pan-Arctic scale. The strongest LVM-day is seen at 50 m …
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L'influence de la réforme du contrat d'occupation d'étudiants du 1er janvier 2012 sur les acteurs du monde du travail
… between students and job seekers and (5) moonlighting. Methods: I carried out a qualitative study on 42 labor market actors belonging to the following categories: students, employers, representatives of temporary work agencies and union representatives. I interviewed these persons with a …
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Dismantling Lost Cause fables : a content analysis examining narrative and visual representations of slavery in U.S. history textbooks.
… illustrated antebellum contrasts from moonlight and magnolia imagery of plantation homes and heroic portraits of Confederate generals to distressing images lash-scarred backs of enslaved people and Ku Klux Klan members threatening Black families in their homes. The findings illustrated …
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Once Upon a Queer Time: A Study of Reparative and Speculative Histories in the Work of 2SLGBTQ+ Contemporary Artists
… this looks like is varied; some of the artists moonlight as archivists or historians, others engage magical realism and/or speculative fiction as historical methodologies, and still others seek to reactivate the past in the present. Across the case studies, I focus on speculative fiction as a …
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Investigation of m6A-regulated RNA-binding proteins
… sev- eral more generic RNA-binding proteins that moonlight as non-canonical m6A readers. The most well characterised of these proteins are the IGF2BP (IMP) family of proteins which have also been shown to directly interact with m6A, but with more modest affinities as m6A-binding is not necessarily …
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