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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"tango"”.
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Building the Tango
This is building the tango, a constructive investigation into the material consequences of dancing the tango. Building the tango is about the resurrection of passion and life, as well as passion for life, of which the reality is now. It also involves resurrecting passion and life on a site occupied …
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Tango Mulatto: The Untold Afro-Argentine History of Tango, 1800s-1900s
… nonwhite and particularly African cultures. Tango is likely a synthesis of candombe, a dance developed from the African nations in the River Plate region and from milonga which stemmed from the payada traditions of the gauchos. However, because of the insistence on erasing African elements in …
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Three to tango: explaining expansion of militarized interstate disputes
Why do some international conflicts diffuse and expand beyond its initiators? This dissertation answers this question by identifying the potential third party states to a conflict and focusing on their decisions to join (or not) in an ongoing conflict. Why do some third parties intervene in …
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The movement of Argentine Tango: an ethnography of improvisation and transnationalism
Argentine tango is a global social dance genre. This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography of how this dance moves, both on the dance floor and transnationally. Research was carried out using multiple methods as ethnographic and autoethnographic data were collected through observant …
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Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning
… War (1975-1990), the pseudo-documentary film Tango of Yearning (1998) follows the lives of several subjects who speak of love, loss, dreams, and cinema as they navigate their fragmented postwar city. Directed by underground Lebanese filmmaker Mohamed Soueid (b. 1959) and shot purely on video, …
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Functional Labeling of Individualized Post-Synaptic Neurons using Optogenetics and trans-Tango
… Neurons using Optogenetics and trans-Tango, which is a method developed to fulfill all three of these conditions. FLIPSOT uses a pre-synaptic driver line to drive trans-Tango, triggering heat-shock-dependent expression of post-synaptic optogenetic receptors. When heat shocked for a …
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It takes two to tango. El Acuerdo de Asociación Estratégica Unión Europea-MERCOSUR
El 28 de junio del 2019 la Unión Europea y el MERCOSUR concluyeron las negociaciones del Acuerdo de Asociación Estratégica entre ambos bloques regionales. No solo se trata de un acuerdo sin precedentes a nivel global, sino que su particularidad también reside en el proceso del que surgió: veinte …
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It Takes Two to Tango: Explaining Caregiver Attitudes Toward Seriously Mentally Ill Persons
Previous research has demonstrated that the caregivers of seriously mentally ill (SMI) persons influence the course of illness and outcomes of SMI persons. This study examined the variation in caregiver attitudes and the specificity of those attitudes. In addition, the relationship between …
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Speaking of culture : the tango of cultural sensitivity and language learning in a study abroad context
Increasingly, government and educational institutions are turning to study abroad programs as one of the primary means of providing students with important cross-cultural and linguistic skills. However, because of constraints on time and financial resources most students participate in short term …
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A Performer’s Guide to Astor Piazzolla's <i>Tango-Études pour flûte seule</i>: An Analytical Approach
… deeper insight into the style of the <em>Tango-Études pour flûte seule</em> and tango music in general as they seek to learn and apply tango performance conventions to the <em>Tango-Études</em> and other tango works. Significant research elements of this dissertation include a complete …
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Does it take one or two to tango? : language skills, physical appearance, and immigrant integration in Germany
Breaking with a long-held political stance that Germany is, despite a sizeable share of permanent immigrant residents, not a country of immigration, the German legislature has drawn up a new immigration law, which entered into force in January 2005. It states a new commitment to integrate legal …
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"Poetic Surrealism in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci: ""The Spider's Strategem"", ""The Conformist"" and ""Last Tango in Paris"""
… The Spider's Stratagem, The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris as it developed out of a series of formal models that derive from surrealist painting, photography and film. Subliminally registered images that show the union of irreconcilable elements as they are reconstituted in a dream or …
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The Spacing of Bodies In Heartbreak Tango (1969) and the Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) by Manuel Puig.
<p>Postmodern writing opens up a unique textual space that allows for the revision of socio-political truths imposed by authoritarian regimes. In this thesis I discuss the instability of the spatialized dichotomies between history and fiction that are found both in certain historical figures in …
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Activity Dependent Trans-synaptic Tracing Of Neural Circuits In Drosophila
… synaptic connections. We have developed HA-Tango-trace, an activity-dependent trans-synaptic tracer to define neural circuits that convey information from the inner photoreceptors in the retina to the lobula complex in the Drosophila visual system. Elucidation of neural circuits and the …
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DD34E DNA Transposable Elements of Mosquitoes: Whole-Genome Survey, Evolution, and Transposition
… and open reading frames. One such element, AgTango, was also found in a distantly related mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, at high amino acid sequence identity (79.9%). It was discovered that Tango transposons have patchy distribution among twelve mosquito species surveyed using PCR as well as …
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An experimental study of mobile device localization
… text-based SLAM algorithms. A Google Tango and Android application were used and developed specifically for this experiment. The Tango logged visual-inertial-odometry, images, and depth readings at a rate of 1 hz each. The dataset was taken over 2 floors of MIT's New House dormitory …
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Michael Daugherty's Red Cape Tango: A Comparative Study of the Original Version for Symphony Orchestra and its Transcription for Wind Orchestra, with Four Recitals of Selected Works by Beethoven, Dvorák, Verdi, Bartók and Daugherty
… by icons of American popular culture. Red Cape Tango is the final movement of his Metropolis Symphony, a work inspired by the life and times of the comic book character Superman. This movement in particular deals with the death of the superhero through the use of musical elements, most notably …
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Doctoral thesis recital (violin)
… no.1 in G major, op.78 / Johannes Brahms -- Tango (por una cabeza) / Carlos Gardel
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