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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"polyvalence"”.
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Pleasures and Powers of Affective Disorientation: Iconoclastic Ambivalence and Polyvalence in the NDW
This dissertation analyzes the rich affective dynamics characterizing the music of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) and its ambivalent critical reception, with a particular focus on gender representation. It argues that NDW music expresses the conflicted structures of feeling (Williams) that …
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Topology of spatial texture in the acousmatic medium
… processes, spatial design, and spatiotemporal polyvalence.
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Countering Foundational Myths and Cultural Beliefs: The Reportage of Anna Politkovskaya
… seemed to irritate rather than inform. The polyvalence of her message can be explained in part through a close textual analysis of her stories, which shows that her writing countered numerous foundational Russian myths and ideas that undergird the culture. Much of what she wrote attacked the …
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Science and service in the National Socialist state: a case study of the German archaeologist Herbert Jankuhn (1905-1990)
… For one, the thesis emphasises the extreme polyvalence of National Socialist ideology. Jankuhn adhered to and promoted his own idiosyncratic selection of politico-ideological elements. The dissertation also underlines the impact of longstanding and far-reaching intellectual, political and …
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"Unpredictable symmetries": the discursive functions of early seventeenth-century Scottish romance
… This study thus foregrounds the deliberate polyvalence of these texts, and identifies those particular aspects of seventeenth-century socio-political history that have rendered these texts so disparate not just from one another, but from the British and Continental romance tradition more …
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Simulating Disempowerment: The Rhetoric and Reception of Social Realism in Video Games
… members. In examining the roles of realism, polyvalence and emotion in video game reception, the thesis argues that whilst games of disempowerment can be effective tools for the simulation and exploration of complex political and social problems, the distinctive features of the video game …
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Structually diverse Cu-64-labeled RGD peptide conjugates for PET imaging of αvβ3 expression
… microPET imaging of a murine U87MG tumor model. Polyvalence has known to have a profound effect on receptor-binding affinity and <italic>in vivo<italic> kinetics of radiolabeled multimers. The goal of accomplishing higher binding affinity through multivalency has been pursued by evaluating the …