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Bringing Kurdish Music to the West
This document will examine the music of two Kurdish composers, Dalshad Said and Brahim Shexo. It will begin with a biography of each composer that discusses important influences and elements of their musical styles. Because Kurdish music is not well known outside of Kurdistan, the document will …
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Native traditions in the West Indian novel
The introduction to this thesis argues that it is not yet possible to exclude awareness of the social and political development of the West Indies from any adequate appreciation of the West Indian novel. It is suggested that national identity and cultural values in the region are so fluid as to …
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Macrobenthic ecology of the West Shetland Slope
An unusual and complex hydrographic regime in the Faeroe-Shetland Channel makes it one of the best-studied oceanographic provinces in the world. However, few benthic ecological studies of the region have been undertaken since the early 1880s. The present study examines the influence of a number of …
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The Politics Of Atheism In The West
Though the term "atheism" encompasses all persons without belief in god(s), more people claim unbelief in god(s) than describe themselves as "convinced atheists" in every society on earth. While the extant social science research on religion and secularism rigorously explores the nuances of the …
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The West End theatre audience 1981-1986
… between 1981 and 1986 at a sample of London theatres, and covering a wide range of productions, with the aim of establishing a profile of the West End theatre audience. Prior to this research, audience surveys in the U.K. had take place primarily outside London, or had been limited to one or …
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Glacier surging in the West Kunlun Shan
The cryosphere of High Mountain Asia represents the third-largest glacial system on Earth, with a glacierised area of ~40 800 km2 (Bolch et al., 2012) and a mass balance of -26 ± 12 Gt a-1: ~10% of the global contribution of the cryosphere to sea level rise (Vaughan et al., 2013). The glaciers of …
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A fraternity house for the West Campus
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1952
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Inner-city residential restoration: the West End
This article is concerned with the reapplication of procedures used by Mr. Wade D. Burns in his West End Restoration Project in other inner-city reviving and borderline neighborhoods. Besides a basic historical account, it includes an article written by Sheila Ochner about West End for publication, …
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“Man’s Country. Out Where the West Begins”: Women, the American Dream, and the West in Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem
<p>This paper examines the feminist perspective in Didion’s collection of essays <em>Slouching Towards </em><em>Bethlehem</em><em>.</em> Throughout the text, Didion looks closely at the West and the changing social climate which surrounds her. Her essays chronicle women struggling to find a balance …
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Family and land in the West of Ireland
[From the introduction]: This thesis is about families and land in the West of Ireland. More precisely, treating land as a basic resource, it examines the social relationships which spring up around it; how land is acquired, utilized, valued, competed for, hoarded, bought and sold are central …
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Residential redevelopment of the West End of Boston
Thesis (B.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1956.
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Risk Mitigation in the West Coast Commercial Fishing Fleet
… and financial risk are inherently part of the commercial fishing industry. Working in rough seas for long hours with heavy equipment is notoriously hazardous and harvesters face some of the highest fatal and non-fatal occupational injury rates. Harvesters also face some of the highest …
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Mutational analysis of the West Nile Virus NS4B protein
West Nile virus (WNV) is a member of the genus Flavivirus in the family Flaviviridae. The WNV genome is a positive-sense RNA molecule approximately 11kb in length encoding a single polyprotein that is cleaved by a combination of viral and host proteases to produce three structural and seven …
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