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Engaging the Savage Imagination: an actors search for the heart of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream
This thesis will explore the notion of the Savage Imagination as it applies to an actors' process in preparation for and performance of the role of Bottom in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It establishes ...
Dharma noise: parergonality in Zen Buddhism and non-idiomatic improvisation
The objective of this dissertation is to explore philosophical and practical approaches to the study of improvisation in relation to Japanese Zen Buddhist doctrine and aesthetics. It specifically asks whether free form ...
Tomorrow's Godly Americans: Citizenship Education and National Identity in Conservative Christian Homeschools
"This dissertation examines citizenship discourse and national identity in conservative evangelical homeschools in the U.S. Using the Christian Home-Educators of Colorado (CHEC) as an ethnographic case study, it elucidates ...
Individual tree delineation and species identification in deciduous and mixed Canadian forests using high spatial resolution airborne LiDAR and image data
Analysis of individual trees in forests is of great value for the monitoring and sustainable management of forests. For the past decade, remote sensing has been a useful tool for individual tree analysis. However, accuracies ...
Putative axonal input and output pathways of the circadian clock system in the brain of the insect Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera)
The lateral clock neurons (LN s) arborize in the accessory medulla ( aMe) and the dorsal midbrain. In hemimetabolous insects, this latter region appears highly developed and has been extensively studied in the insect ...
Integrated cardiovascular disease management: how do non-cardiac and polyvascular patients fare?
The incidence and prevalence of non-communicable disease is increasing. Preliminary evidence suggests that benefits of cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) participation are observed in patients with stroke and diabetes ...
On the concept of religion in Walter Benjamin's critical theory
"In this dissertation I explore the concept of religion in the philosophy that underlies Walter Benjamin's critical theory. This analysis leads me to suggest two related conclusions: 1) contrary to secularist discourses, ...
Search beyond traditional probabilistic information retrieval
"This thesis focuses on search beyond probabilistic information retrieval. Three ap- proached are proposed beyond the traditional probabilistic modelling. First, term associ- ation is deeply examined. Term association ...
Early 21st century Jazz composition
In this thesis the author distills a sub-genre of 21st century Jazz music through a collection of five compositions. The author's compositions are based upon relevant techniques and materials found in Pop, Rock, and Jazz ...
Part I: Backbone modification of n-heterocyclic carbenes: new ligands and applications to catalysis Part II: Large scale synthesis of NHC precursor 2,6-di(3-pentyl)aniline
The first part of this research is focused on the development and application of backbone-modified N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands in palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling. Various backbone substituted imidazole-2-ylidine ...