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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"mortal"”.
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Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction
<p>The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ritualization of death in British literature of the interwar period and its implication for narrative and genre. The authors under consideration include poets of the Great War (Robert Graves, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, the Sitwells), and …
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Altruism, Autonomy, and Human Dignity for the Sustainability of Post-Mortal Organ Donation
… It is a model for a sustainable source of post-mortal organ donation. The model encourages deceased organ donation by assurance of the core value of donation act- altruism, and the protection and appreciation for donors as well as healthcare professionals. Most importantly, the model targets on …
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Secreted Behind Closed Doors : Rethinking Cather's Adultery Theme and "Unfurnished" Style in My Mortal Enemy
In recent years, My Mortal Enemy (1926) has been virtually ignored in Cather scholarship. I place the novel in its literary and critical context by building on information from the critical reception and recent scholarship on Cather's work to see how My Mortal Enemy fits into the expectations of …
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Gene expression analysis of head and neck cancer development
… The panel of cultures included normal cells, mortal and immortal cultures of dysplastic keratinocytes and mortal and immortal cultures from carcinomas, all grown to a standard protocol. The overall GEP revealed that many of the well-established HNSCC molecular markers associated with motility …
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Higher Powers: The Metrics of Divine Will and Agency in Euripides' Hippolytos and Herakles
… Herakles exhibit a high level of control over mortals. Each play has one primary god whose statements of will, identity, and offense control the actions of other characters. Each play features a distinct god/human dialectic, in which certain actions performed by mortals threaten or affirm …
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Death and Value Reignition: Lucky in the Chance to Die
… thesis I examine life-extension and embodied immortality and ask whether these are intrinsically problematic or undesirable. I examine the history of the concept of immortality and find that the usage of the term has nearly always referred to extended but mortal lifespans. I observe that modern …
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THE EMBRACE IS ALL: GALWAY KINNELL'S POETRY, 1950 - 1985
… from the 1950s to 1985, focusing on the poems of Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, the books of poetry represented in Selected Poems, and Kinnell's latest collection, The Past. Section I of the dissertation charts the evolution of Kinnell's poetics and his major themes through the individual poets who …
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As time passes: garden, monument, ruin
… and become a ruin. What happens to the mortal remains? The conventional cemetery does not have to consider this issue, as the bodies are simply allowed to deteriorate in the ground, and the grave marker is able to withstand much more abuse than a building. The manner in which I have …
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Conditions in architecture
<i>Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren I saw the hawk ride updraft in the sunset over Wyoming. It rose from coniferous darkness, past gray jags Of mercilessness, past whiteness, into the gloaming Of dream spectral light above the last purity of snow-snags. There-west-were the Tetons. Snow peaks …
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Molecular changes involved in oral cancer progression and their relevance to keratinocyte immortalisation
… reported previously that acquisition of the immortal phenotype is an early event in oral cancer development (McGregor et al. 1997): data obtained during the course of this thesis project indicate that about half of oral dysplasia cultures are immortal and this is associated with loss of …
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Aristotle on the concept of life
… a single definition is that it encompasses both mortal forms of life and immortal, divine forms of life (in particular, the gods and the stars). Without a univocal definition, however, “life” seems to lack the conceptual unity required to explain its privileged ontological status. I argue against …
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Ancient Greek Maenads: Comparing Mythological Worshippers of Dionysos to Reality
… maenads in the Bacchae reflects the behaviors of mortal women in the cult of Dionysos. By looking at contemporary visual images, textual sources, and archaeological evidence, is it possible to draw connections between the extreme worlds of Euripides (and mythology) and the mortal women who were …
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Children of Prometheus
… with ingenuity both liberates his body from mortal perils and binds him to indefinite dependence with the complex, the external, and inhuman. Architecture as an extension of mankind's agency which asserts and protects his will against unknown forces contends with this implicit contract; a …
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Electromigration-Induced Interconnect Aging and its Repercussions on the Performance of Nanometer-Scale VLSI Circuits
… increase in the wire, rendering a wire EM-mortal. The resistance increase in these mortal interconnects can potentially result in circuit performance failure within the lifetime of a product. The classical methods for EM circuit analysis that are used in the industry to design EM-safe ICs …
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Chronolibidinal Reading: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
… of temporal experience and the vulnerability of mortal life. Nevertheless, their works have persistently been read in terms of a desire to transcend mortal life. In contrast, I develop a theory of "chronolibido" that calls into question the very desire for immortality. The fear of time …
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The Limitations of Governance Indicators in Relation to Post-Disaster Recovery
… disasters remain a constant and recurring mortal threat to people around the world. Since prevention of the events themselves is impossible, it is important to examine those factors which can reduce the loss of life and enable successful recovery. We intuitively expect good governance to be …
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Stress response genes in the human proximal tubules
… The goal of this study was to determine if the immortalized HK-2 human proximal tubule cell line could provide a model system to study the stress response of the proximal tubule cell. Heat stress, elevated temperature at 42.5°C for 1 hr, caused a marked increase only in hsp 70 mRNA and …
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Morality in War: A Comparison Between Bhīma from the Mahābhārata and Achilles from the Iliad
… this thesis shows how outside influences (mortal or immortal) placed upon each warrior ultimately determine the warriors' actions, especially those towards their enemies. As the treatment of these warriors in their respective epics remains unbalanced, this analysis will account for how …
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Evolución del Signo Gráfico en la Cultura Mediterránea
… en este deambular histórico hubiera resultado mortal. Tendremos pues ante nosotros, posiblemente, la más lenta evolución del hombre, que no por ello dejaría de ofrecernos riquísimas muestras artísticas comparables a cualquier período de la historia.
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