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Passages
The term passages, evokes the French term for landscapes, paysages. These poems are concerned with mapping: alternately marking new trails and finding paths through forests, bodies of water and cityscapes: places both familiar and unknown. As a whole, these Passages explore a personal vision of the …
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Inside Passages
A collection of personal essays exploring the author's childhood years in Southeast Alaska with a single mother and two siblings.
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Inside Passages
A collection of personal essays exploring the author's childhood years in Southeast Alaska with a single mother and two siblings.
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Heat transfer in rotating passages
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1995.
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Passages : a hospice for New York City
At the beginning of the 20th century most Americans died at home from diseases whose onset was quick and aggressive. The average life expectancy was only 50 years. Antibiotics first appeared in the 1940's and when the baby boomers were born medicine entered an unprecedented age of transformation, …
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Improved return passages for multistage centrifugal compressors
This thesis presents a design concept for return passages in multistage centrifugal compressors. Flow in a baseline return passage is analyzed to identify loss sources that have substantial potential for reduction. For the geometry analyzed, it is found that mismatched incidence of the return vane, …
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Three Ango-Saxon prose passages: A translation and commentary.
… with relevant commentary, the three prose passages found in the MS. Cotton Vitellius A. xv. The contribution we are convinced this translation makes to Old English studies, along with the importance attached to the manuscript containing Beowulf, is the justification for our thesis. After …
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Studies on the development of the upper air passages
In this paper the writer proposes to give an account of the development of the nose, mouth, and pharynx. The methods of research employed in this piece of work have been mainly the use of wax plate reconstructions, while some embryos have been examined by the microscope alone. However, as the …
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A commentary on selected passages of Statius, Thebaid 6
Book 6 of Statius’ *Thebaid* narrates the climax of the Argive army’s stay at Nemea: the funeral of the royal prince Opheltes, who had been killed by the serpent of Jupiter in Book 5, and the athletic games held in his honour. This thesis contains a line-by-line commentary on the opening section, …
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Passages: A case study of an Iowa female secondary principal
1 PDF file (ix, 269 pages)
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'Painful Passages': Death, Ritual, and Literature in Post -Reformation England
"This dissertation examines forms of writing that emerge in seventeenth century England as Protestants struggle to reform older Catholic traditions and discover new ways of representing death. Cultural and literary studies in this period have usually seen this transition as an attack on traditional …
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Interactions of Electrostatic Field, Flow, and Surfaces in Precipitator Passages
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T22:48:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405676.pdf: 3821278 bytes, checksum: 099ca42b3e5c103b0bca89af49c89e37 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Implementation of low thermal inertia injection molds using conformal passages
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1995.
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Epiphanies of the Principalship: A Study of Passages in Educational Administration.
<p>This scrapbook of biographical sketches serves as an exhibition of portraits in the elementary school principalship through experiencing a gallery of leadership interviews. Perspectives have been framed in compositions that represent the practical realist, the idealist, and at times even a …
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A Comparative Study of Yoga’s Most Foundational Scriptures and Relevant Biblical Passages
This dissertation is an analysis of yoga’s most foundational scriptures: the Patanjali Yoga Sūtras (PYS) and the Bhagavad Gītā (BG) in their original Sanskrit. My thesis is that these yogic scriptures contradict sound, biblical teaching. The significance of this thesis is that, insofar as a yoga …
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Spatial coordination - human and robotic communicative whole-body motions in narrow passages
The focus of this thesis is the nonverbal communication via robotic and human whole-body motions in HRI. Humans have the natural ability to nonverbally communicate with each other via whole-body motion and are very able to interpret and predict motions of others, e.g., in order to coordinate …
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Poetic Anatomy of the Numinous Creative Passages into the Self as Beloved
This research is shaped by the actual experience of practice: as painter and writer. My preoccupation is with the nodal moment when conscious awareness is suspended, and both the corporal and psychic involvement in realising the work almost transport one to another zone of effectiveness. This zone, …
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Strategies for Identifying the Main Idea of Expository Passages: An Experimental Study
… students to identify the main idea of expository passages. These interventions were based upon research in cognitive psychology and task analysis, and were implemented via a computer-assisted instruction program. The study randomly assigned students to treatments in a 2 x 2 factorial design. The …
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8 Readers reading: The intertextual links of able readers using multiple passages
… tableau. Each reader silently read the passages and reported aloud their thoughts during a $2{1\over2}$ to 3 hour session. Three scholarly paths--cognitive psychology, semiotics, and literary theory--were used as guide posts for constructing a framework to analyze the intertextual links …
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Forced convective heat transfer to supercritical water in micro-rocket cooling passages
An investigation of heat transfer to supercritical fluids in micro-channels was completed to assess the cooling characteristics of the MIT micro-rocket engine. Previous results from supercritical ethanol heat transfer tests were compared to water tests to establish a baseline for future fuel …
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