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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"relics"”.
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Cosmological Probes of Light Relics
… cosmological observations are light thermal relics of the hot big bang. Within the Standard Model of particle physics, an important thermal relic are cosmic neutrinos, while interesting extensions predict new light particles which are even more weakly coupled to ordinary matter. These elusive …
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Multicolor analysis of galaxy clusters with radio halos and/or relics
… that exhibit extended radio sources called radio relics and radio halos. The relics tend to be found in the peripheral regions of galaxy clusters while halos tend to be located at the central regions. These two types of sources share many of their characteristics but some of their key difference …
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Signatures of the first stars in relics of the first galaxies
… An alternate approach is to study local relics that have survived from ancient times. Indeed, the old dwarf galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galaxy today have descended from the first galaxies and contain stars that retain a remarkably detailed record of their past. In this thesis, I use …
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Relics of Battle: War, Memory, and New Museum Theory in Military Museums
<p>The anthropology of museums, or museum ethnography, is a useful tool for critically analyzing the representational strategies of museums and their collections. This thesis focuses on the anthropological discussion of military museums and analysis of the material culture of conflict, and …
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Magnaporthe Oryzae Telomeric Retrotransposon (moter) Relics Further Highlight Telomere Dynamics In A Rapidly Evolving Fungal Pathogen
… The purpose of this study was to examine MoTeR relics within 10 genomes of strains of M. oryzae to document telomere instability among strain lineages, as well as to uncover MoTeR relic distribution, shared evolutionary history, and associated genome rearrangements. A series of local BLASTn and …
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Relics and artifacts: The materiality of holy bodies in Italian culture from 14th century novella to modern film
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Constructing community from corpses in Medieval English and Icelandic Literature
… The most famous textual medieval corpses are the relics of saints as described in hagiographies, relics which, outside of these texts, became the centerpieces of many medieval communities, both religious and secular, as demonstrated by Patrick Geary and Carolyn Walker Bynum. More broadly, material …
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A Case Study of the Leadership Program at Andrews University: its Origins and Early Development as Reflected in Documents and Relics, Participant and Faculty Interviews, and Participant-Observation, 1994-2003
<p><em>Purpose</em>. The Leadership Program was established at Andrews University in 1994 as a non-traditional, competency-based, adult-oriented doctoral program. The purpose of this case study was to relate the story of the creation and development of the Leadership Program from 1994 through 2002 …
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A Physiological Age-Grading System for Female Hydrellia pakistanae Deonier (Diptera: Ephydridae)
… Changes in the appearance of follicular relics in ovaries with oviposition provide a reliable method to estimate fecundity. Characteristics of follicular relics were used to develop a system with eight physiological age classes, three nulliparous and five parous. Changes that occur in the …
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Orkney pilgrimage: perspectives of the cult of St. Magnus
The early Christian cults of saints and relics as well as the act and process of pilgrimage were central themes in the religious practice of the Middle Ages. The veneration of saints and relics, the belief in miracles, and the act of pilgrimage were aspects of Christianity rapidly adopted by the …
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Appalachian quilts of Floyd County, Virginia
… of the county natives. Both documents and relics were examined and methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis were utilized. The relics were any existing quilts made in Floyd County, while the documents included not only those in traditionally written form, but those in the unwritten …
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Road Noise
… forms representative of history and tradition as relics and of technology and virtual artifact.</p>
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National heritage and nationalist narrative in contemporary Thailand : an essay on culture and politics
… similar to animals under threat of extinction, relics are kept in enclosed areas that safeguard and allow their display while lists of crumbling monuments are drawn up to establish a Noah's Ark of cultural remnants. Removed from daily vicissitudes, heritage becomes an essential element of …
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National heritage and nationalist narrative in contemporary Thailand : an essay on culture and politics
… similar to animals under threat of extinction, relics are kept in enclosed areas that safeguard and allow their display while lists of crumbling monuments are drawn up to establish a Noah's Ark of cultural remnants. Removed from daily vicissitudes, heritage becomes an essential element of …
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The Voyage of the 'Prince Albert', 1850
… near Cape Riley where Snow obtained news of the relics that had been found by another expedition and which indicated that Franklin had wintered in that vicinity. Further relics were brought back to Britain by Forsyth. The return caused much disappointment to Lady Franklin and Sophia Cracroft. …
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Phylogeographic patterns in three South African forest mosses
… are confined to forest patches believed to be relics of vast forests that existed before the Pleistocene glaciation period. These two species exhibit similar distribution and ecologies and frequently co-occur. Wardia hygrometrica is a southwestern Cape endemic that is restricted to streams …
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A Song of the Bluff: The Phoenix of Pine Bluff Arkansas - Documentary
… residents tend to score the town’s successes as relics of the past. Economic decline, negative migration systems like white flight and brain drain, and racial disparities ties to the city’s roots has continued to take its toll on the city. Nonetheless, the community of Pine Bluff knows excellence …
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A historical study of women's costumes as a reflection of the culture in Virginia from 1608-1900
… shoes, and other apparel still in existence are relics of past days. Thirty-eight illustrations on costumes have been included in this study.
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Pryor Mountain mustangs: on the range or on the bring?
… stake. The horses are some of the last surviving relics of an old-world horse lineage that dates back to the equines originally brought to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors. It’s a lineage on the cusp of being eclipsed in the wild.
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Pryor Mountain mustangs: on the range or on the bring?
… stake. The horses are some of the last surviving relics of an old-world horse lineage that dates back to the equines originally brought to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors. It’s a lineage on the cusp of being eclipsed in the wild.
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