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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"spy"”.
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An investigation of arsenic in Spy Pond
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
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The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800
<p>This project traces the emergence of the spy in the literature of the eighteenth century, arguing for spying's ideological transition within the cultural and literary imagination from a profession to a way of being. At stake in "The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800" is the idea that …
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The Spy in Early America: The Emergence of a Genre
"The theory of most analyses of ""spy fiction"" presumes that it emerged as a colonizing literature of the waning days of the British empire. This study, reading spy literature as a much earlier genre, examines American spy fiction as a genre which is both postcolonial and colonizing, reflecting …
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Agent + Image : how the television image estabilizes identity in TV spy series
… of self-identity. I examine two TV series in the spy genre -- Alias (2001 - 2006) and The Prisoner (1967 - 1968) -- discussing how each employs strategies of visual representation to present its protagonist as decentered or unfixed; in so doing, these programs complicate and problematize within …
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Bondmania: Spy Films, American Foreign Policy, and the New Frontier of the 1960s
The topic of this thesis are spy films that were produced during the Cold War, with a specific focus on the James Bond films and their numerous imitators. The goal is to explore why these films were popular, particularly during the decade of the 1960s, and how these films and characters were used …
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Thriller, Horror, Hacker, Spy: The Hacker Genre in Film and Television from the 1970s to the 2010s
This thesis argues that hacking and surveillance have formed a ‘hacker’ genre in film and television that begins to emerge from the influences of 1970s films, forming between the 1980s and 1990s and continuing to develop through to the 2010s, grouping together computer hacking, surveillance and …
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News Framing: A Comparison Of The New York Times And The People's Daily Coverage Of Sino-U.S. Spy Plane Collision Of April 1, 2001
… major incident of the 21st century when a U.S. spy plane accidentally collided with a Chinese fighter plane. The dialogue that followed between the two countries, as well as the tenor of the incident as reported in the international press, provide some interesting and insightful glimpses into …
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Production, characterization and evaluation of the chemotherapeutic and immunogenic potential of protein based virus-like particles in tumoral and immune cell lines
… with free DOX. In the second chapter, the Spy Catcher/Spy Tag technology was used to conjugate different peptides to rod-shaped virus-like particles (VLPs). It is shown that two different types of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) can take up decorated VLPs and this promotes the activation of …
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Hell's Black Intelligencers: Representing Clandestine Labor on the Early Modern Stage
… Neill, I look at the exchange of service between spy and spymaster as an accumulation of social and cultural capital. Thinking through spying in this light, this dissertation explores how playwrights represent these service relationships which fall outside of systems of patronage-driven reward. …
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Rebels, Wanderers, and Castaways: Characterizing Small Social Groups in the Literature of Empire, 1849-1914
… school stories, the historical novel and spy fiction—to argue that literary representations of small social circles create distinct narrative shapes and modes of characterization. The small groups that shape these texts generate an ambivalent dynamism of small circles that offers modes of …
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Astraea Unmasked: The Desires of Aphra Behn
… She traveled to the New World, served as a spy for Charles II, and created controversy both as a result of her work and her lifestyle. This imaginative work examines the unique spirit of a remarkable woman through dramatic interpretation and historic research and illustrates how Behn’s …
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Star Eater: A Novel
… and El strikes a risky deal. She will act as a spy against her own Order in exchange for access to illegal sterilization procedures. But far more is at stake than El realizes, and her own secrets are at risk of being discovered. Star Eater is a 103 000 word secondary world fantasy novel about …
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Analyzing Volatility and Policy Changes in the Financial Market: Three Essays in Applied Finance
… set of options on the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY). We leverage the full options chain to analyze the full forecasted distribution of prices through N(d2), which we compare to the distribution of prices of SPY. Using non-parametric GOF tests, such as the Kolmogorov Smirnov and Anderson-Darling …
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Macro-Financial Linkages and Perspectives in Economic Development
… traded options on the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY) from January 2005 to December 2020. Using each day’s complete option chain, we derive a measure to forecast the implied distribution of prices through N ( d 2 ), which we then compare to the realized distribution of SPY prices through the …
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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze
… Louise Fitzhugh’s <em>Harriet the Spy</em>, and Alan Bradley’s <em>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie</em> provide examples of empowered, intelligent, and capable young girls living in a mid-20th century environment and successfully subverting patriarchal norms. Drawing on Laura …
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's...a Girl?!: Analyzing Representations of Femininity on The CW's Supergirl
… Kara Danvers/Supergirl, Kara's sister/super spy Alex Danvers, and Nia Nal/Dreamer, this analysis argues that the show presents complex and nuanced depictions of femininity that are a strong step forward for the genre.
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The design of a compliant underwater angle sensor to investigate the kinematics of burrowing razor clams
… to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), to spy equipment.
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Empirical Analysis of Neural Architectures and Side Information in Financial Time Series Forecasting
… on predicting the weekly close price of the SPY index. We explore the integration of options-derived features alongside traditional price data, compare recurrent architectures and transformer-based models, and evaluate multiple training strategies. Our key contributions include: (1) evidence …
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The shield
… helped make it a weapon, and once from a former spy recalling parallels to historical events. In viewing parallel events from each of these smaller pieces the reader is able to see how all of the individual actions are rational despite the wholly catastrophic result, and the works also fill in …
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A Secure Software Platform for Real-Time Embedded Systems
… everyday cars and dishwashers to sophisticated spy satellites and remote sensing equipment. As the applications for embedded systems increase in number and diversity and continue to pervade our lives, a need arises to secure these systems. Whether the need arises from a desire to protect …
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