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Impossible grief: motivation and intention in Macbeth
This paper considers the issues of identification and motivation in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Proceeding from the proposal that the play allows for a remarkable level of audience identification for the characters of Macbeth ...
Comparing higher order likelihood inference for location-scale models
For parametric models, the third order asymptotic theories for approximating tail probabilities are extremely accurate even for small sample size. These methods only require the likelihood function and the observed sample. ...
Lloyd Richards in rehearsal
"This dissertation analyzes the rehearsal process of Caribbean-Canadian-American director Lloyd Richards (1919-2006), drawing on fifty original interviews conducted with Richards' artistic colleagues from all periods of ...
Stable carbon isotope composition of ambient VOC and its use in the determination of photochemical ages of air masses
Stable Carbon Isotopic Composition measurements can provide valuable information about the processing of trace gases in the atmosphere. Not only can it be used to distinguish physical processes such as dilution and mixing ...
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 ...
The role of the posterior parietal cortex in cognitive-motor integration
"When interacting with an object within the environment, one must combine visual information with the felt limb position (i.e. proprioception) in order compute an appropriate coordinated muscle plan for accurate motor ...
Wildlife, cattle, and people in the limpopo national park: a more-than-human political ecology of conservation-induced displacement and resettlement
"Established in 2001, the Limpopo National Park (LNP) in Mozambique joined South Africa's Kruger and Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park a year later to form the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park with the aim of creating a ...
Photoelectrochemical studies of sensitized solar cells: sensitization of TiO2 with ruthenium complexes and cadmium seleno-sulfides
Photoelectrochemistry (PEC) of dye- and semiconductor sensitized solar cells is studied. In the first part, the structural effect of terpyridine (tpy) and dipirazinilpyridine (dpp) sensitizing dyes on the performance of ...
Disrupting the discourse: Canadian Black women teachers in the lives of marginalized students
"This dissertation begins with a specific question: What can education learn from experiences of Black women teachers about meeting the educational needs of marginalized learners? It explores this question by focusing on ...
Formal verification of a concurrent binary search tree
In this thesis, we formally verify a simplified version of the non-blocking linearizable binary search tree of Ellen et al., which appeared in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed ...