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Showing 1 to 20 of 1846 for “"plot"”.
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The Other Plot in The Ambassadors
… <em>The Ambassadors</em> (1903) as a double-plotted novel. The traditional plot which follows Lambert Strether to Paris provides cover for the detailed story of Strether’s experiences in Paris as a homosexual man seeking his identity. James conveys the Other Plot by means of code, the primary …
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Multiple Dalitz Plot Analysis At Cleo-C
<p>Dalitz Plot analysis is a standard technique for the study of weak hadronic 3-body decays. This technique allows us to extract the relative amplitudes, phases, and fit fractions of the resonances that are the primary product of such decays. A Dalitz analysis is complicated by the presence of two …
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Hall plot analysis for horizontal well injectivity
The Hall plot method, proposed by Howard Hall in the 1960s, is a widely-used tool for analyzing injectivity. Over the past decades, industry has been modifying the Hall plot method for applications in various scenarios such as formation damage and/or stimulation diagnosis, polymer injection, and …
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Learning From Plot and Characters in Musical Theatre
… the American people and attempts, through the plot and characters, to convey concepts from which all should learn.</p>
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Second-order sub-array Cartesian product split-plot design
… or inconvenient to change can lead to a split-plot experiment. Restricted randomization due to resource limitation can lead to blocking. Situations that require fitting a second-order model under those conditions lead to a second-order block split-plot experiment. Although response surface …
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Text to Text : plot unit searches generated from English
… use the same concept to draw meaning from them. Plot units, revenge included, are the common set of structures found in human narrative. They are the mistakes, the successes, the revenges and the Pyhrric victories. They are the basic building blocks of stories. In order to build a computational …
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The Plot and The Archive: Curation, Provisional Histories, and Novels
The Plot and the Archive applies museum studies and curatorial techniques to post-1960s novels dealing with history and outlines the importance of a figure called the character-as-curator within such spaces. This figure exemplifies different strategies employed to interrogate, analyze and reconcile …
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From Empty Lot to Garden Plot: Urban Agriculture in Chula Vista
<p>This project is an exploration of how agriculture can be incorporated into the fabric of the city of Chula Vista, which has both uniquely urban and suburban areas. The proposal is to integrate agriculture as a design tool to reconnect to the city’s agricultural past and as a model for cities of …
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The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot
… in her heroines, Jane Austen uses marriage plot novels to romantically idealize the role of being a wife. In particular, heroines Catherine Morland, Marianne Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, and Emma Woodhouse lose autonomy and become more limited within their characters as they are influenced by …
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Brand video virality: The role of audio, visual and plot characteristics
… characteristics (visual graphics, audio and plot) might have in driving large numbers of consumers/social media users to create online stories about the same brand video by sharing, commenting or liking it in social networks. To examine this, engagements of Social Media users with brand …
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Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning
… details, connecting given events into coherent plot arcs. In my research, my first step was to analyze a range of story summaries in detail. Using nearly 50 rules, applicable to brief summaries of stories taken from international politics, group dynamics, and basic human emotion, I demonstrate …
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Transformation du plot lausannois: repenser le logement collectif face aux mutations sociétales
… Le projet, quant à lui, propose une relecture du plot lausannois, typologie emblématique du logement collectif bourgeois du XXe siècle, qui compose une part importante du patrimoine bâti de la ville de Lausanne. Il se caractérise par son implantation dans la pente, son ouverture au paysage, ses …
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The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930
In "The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930," I argue that a new type of imperial novel emerged in the nineteenth century where marriage and its adjacent forms—alliance, coalition, union, association—became extraordinarily fraught proxies for understanding a convoluted, …
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Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot
… treatment of matchmakers in British marriage plots across the nineteenth century. In an era of increasing state control over marriage and the rising ideology of romantic marriage, the matchmaker represents the communal courtship practices of the past. As such, she offers both a threat to the …
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The Ends of Plot: Rupture and Entanglement in <i>L’amica geniale</i>
… rooted in a movement away from a belief in plot’s semantic potentialities and into the postulation of a poetics of <em>smarginatura </em>or rupture. I support this contention by scrutinizing the text’s several endings, as well as its apparent linear trajectory, through Genette’s notion of …
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Estimating Plot-Level Forest Biophysical Parameters Using Small-Footprint Airborne Lidar Measurements
… polynomial on both profiles. The ground-truth plot design followed the U.S. National Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) field data layout. The lidar-derived tree measurements were used with regression models and cross-validation to estimate plot level field inventory data, including volume, …
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The duke of Ormond, the Popish Plot, and the Exclusion Crisis, 1677-82.
… first by using the discovery of several Catholic plots and the resultant political instability in England and Scotland to expose the tensions inherent in the duke of Ormond’ s position as lord lieutenant of Ireland; second by highlighting the dynamics of instability that distorted his position …
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Design for Low Power Irrigation Systems for Small Plot Farming in Eastern India
irrigation on small-scale farms (~ 1 acre) in Eastern India. The pump is part of a larger irrigation system powered by 300 watts of solar panels and includes batteries as an energy buffer. The pump was designed for and achieved a performance point of 13 gal/min and a pressure head of 1 bar and …
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