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Davey, Philip. "Crawford Creations: What would we have done without Crawfords? An exploration of Crawford Productions' contribution to the development of an 'Australian Consciousness'." Thesis, Davey, Philip (2014) Crawford Creations: What would we have done without Crawfords? An exploration of Crawford Productions' contribution to the development of an 'Australian Consciousness'. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2014. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/24628/.
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Between 1946 and 1987, Crawford Productions was a major independent Melbourne producer of radio and television drama, and innovative musical and educational programs. Led by orchestra conductor Hector Crawford, his sister Dorothy Crawford and her son Ian Crawford, Crawford Productions, or simply Crawfords, was influential in developing an ‘Australian consciousness and identity’ through its many successful programs. This dissertation explores several elements of Hector Crawford’s quest to create an ‘Australian consciousness’, including the opportunities he provided for many singers and artists through live musical radio programs. I argue that Dorothy Crawford’s production skills were pivotal throughout this process as well as during the formative years of television. Hector lobbied against the dominance of American television programs and in support of Australian dramatic television content which, I argue, added greatly to a public awareness that television was not portraying Australia’s national traditions and culture. I contend that this awareness helps explain why Crawfords’ television drama series such as Homicide (1964) and Division 4 (1969) were so readily accepted by national audiences. Through employee oral history accounts I demonstrate how Crawfords engendered a collegiate training environment with a ‘get the job done whatever the cost’ attitude. The ensuing employment, training and career opportunities benefited the entire television and film industry and contributed to an evolving ‘Australian consciousness’. This dissertation also examines the rationale behind Melbourne’s third commercial television licence being granted to Ansett Transport Industries and why Crawfords’ bid failed. In response to the existing literature, I argue that the Federal Government was not biased towards Ansett as a ‘business friend’. While Hector Crawford has often been described as the ‘Father of Australian Television’, I argue that his entrepreneurial and business skills alone may have been ineffectual without the contributions of family members and senior staff. I contend that ‘The Family of Australian Television’ is a more accurate epitaph.
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Nilagiri, Vinay Kumar. "Subjective measurement of the Stiles-Crawford effect." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212371/1/Vinay%20Kumar_Nilagiri_Thesis.pdf.
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The Stiles-Crawford effect (SCE) is the differential effectivity of light entering the eye at different positions in the pupil. Its parameters are directionality (rate of change across the pupil) and peak location in the pupil. Using a spatial light modulation system, I investigated influences of field size, accommodation (focusing), and flicker frequency on the subjectively-measured SCE. SCE directionality increased with increase in field size, while peak location shifted temporally in the pupil with increase in focusing, but the SCE was not affected by a range of flicker frequencies. The field size results support a photoreceptor absorption model of the SCE.
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Crawford, Kevin R. "Enhanced air tasking order optimization model / Kevin R. Crawford." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1994. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA286250.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1994.Thesis advisor(s): Richard E. Rosenthal,Thomas E. Halwachs. "September 1994." Bibliography: p. 70. Also available online.
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Wulff, Theodore. "A woman's face: the films and performances of Joan Crawford." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12684.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston UniversityAn examination of eight films starring the American actress Joan Crawford, covering the period 1927 to 1962, analyzing performative style, character construction, utilization and subversion of gender norms, cultural context, and importance of costuming
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Young, Holly. "The John H. Crawford Papers: Letters from the Civil War." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/15.
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The purpose of my thesis research was to transcribe a collection of letters to John H. Crawford about the formation and actions of the Sixtieth Tennessee Infantry (Confederate) in Jonesboro during the Civil War, annotate them, and provide an introduction that details the events and people described in the letters. These letters are important because they describe first-hand the process of formation of this Confederate infantry unit in an area of East Tennessee that predominately supported the Union. The letters themselves can be found in the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University’s Charles C. Sherrod Library.
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Singh, Nisha. "Variation of the Stiles-Crawford effect with accommodation and myopia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/31299/2/Nisha_Singh_Citation.pdf.
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Background: Mechanical forces either due to accommodation or myopia may stretch the retina and/or cause shear between the retina and choroid. This can be investigated by making use of the Stiles-Crawford effect (SCE), which is the phenomenon of light changing in apparent brightness as it enters through different positions in the pupil. The SCE can be measured by psychophysical and objective techniques, with the SCE parameters being directionality (rate of change across the pupil), and orientation (the location of peak sensitivity in the pupil).
Aims: 1. To study the changes in foveal SCE with accommodation in emmetropes and myopes using a subjective (psychophysical) technique. 2. To develop and evaluate a quick objective technique of measuring the SCE using the multifocal electroretinogram.
Methods: The SCE was measured in 6 young emmetropes and 6 young myopes for up to 8 D accommodation stimulus with a psychophysical technique and its variants. An objective technique using the multifocal electroretinogram was developed and evaluated with 5 emmetropes.
Results: Using the psychophysical technique, the SCE directionality increased by similar amounts in both emmetropes and myopes as accommodation increased, with an increase of 15-20% with 6 D of accommodation. However, there were no significant orientation changes. Additional measurements showed that most of the change in the directionality was probably an artefact of optical factors such as higher-order aberrations and accommodative lag rather a true effect of accommodation. The multifocal technique demonstrated the presence of the SCE, but results were noisy and too variable to detect any changes in SCE directionality or orientation with accommodation.
Conclusion: There is little true change in the SCE with accommodation responses up to 6 D in either emmetropes or myopes, although it is possible that substantial changes might occur at very high accommodation levels. The objective technique using the multifocal electroretinogram was quicker and less demanding for the subjects than the psychophysical technique, but as implemented in this thesis, it is not a reliable method of measuring the SCE.
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Biddle, Dean Leslie. "Investigation of water-mineral interactions in gneissic terrain at Mt. Crawford, South Australia." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb584.pdf.
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Diskette for IBM/PC in pocket on back end paper. Copies of author's previously published articles inserted. Bibliography: leaves 186-207. An evaluation of spatial and temporal variation in composition of soil solutions collected from a hydro-toposequence with seasonally saturated soils ranging from Xeralfs to Aqualfs. The sub-catchment is under native eucalyptus and is formed from granite gneiss. The study shows that mineral weathering under eucalypt vegetation contributes substantially to the quantity of elements measured in soil solution with some aeolian salts. Migration of soil solutions to low lying areas promotes dryland salinity in these landscapes.
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Crawford, Kevin Charles. "Men's stereotypes of women in management are women aware of how they are stereotyped? /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/crawford/CrawfordK0506.pdf.
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Huffman, Demie R. "Refractory black carbon at Crawford Point, Greenland: Implications for mitigation policy." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534523019443308.
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Miloudi, Chahira. "Conception d'algorithmes innovants de traitement d'images de la rétine chez l'homme." Thesis, Paris 6, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA066048/document.
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Notre objectif a été d'analyser l'influence de la variabilité spatio-temporelle de la réflectance des cônes sur le comptage des cônes par imagerie à haute résolution par optique adaptative plein champ, et de proposer des méthodes pour pallier ces difficultés. La première partie des travaux porte sur l'étude de la variabilité temporelle des cônes. Nous avons confirmé la présence d'un phénomène de scintillement des cônes à une fréquence au moins égale à celle de notre système d'acquisition. Nous avons proposé une procédure d'analyse d'images incluant restauration par déconvolution myope, recalage rigide, fusion d'images pour la construction de cartographies de cônes. Nous avons montré que dans le cas des sujets sains, la procédure de fusion d'image permet de rapprocher la mesure de la densité des cônes des références histologiques. La directionalité de la réflectance des cônes est appelée effet Stiles-Crawford optique. Nous en avons identifié une nouvelle manifestation clinique, à travers une étude portant sur l'analyse d'images d'optique adaptative en périphérie de la rétine. Nous avons montré, à travers l'alternance des mosaïques positive/négative, que la réflectance des cônes peut devenir inférieure à celle des bâtonnets. La comparaison avec les données de la tomographie de cohérence optique a montré une forte corrélation de cette commutation avec la couche des segments externes des cônes. Nous avons proposé une procédure d'intégration de la variabilité spatiale pour la construction des cartographies. Cette procédure a été évaluée sur des sujets sains et pathologiques et a montré un gain significatif (en termes de dénombrement des cônes) chez les cas pathologiquesOur objective was to analyze the importance of spatial and temporal variability of the reflectance of cones in counting for adaptive optics high resolution imaging, and propose ways to overcome these difficulties.The first part of the work focuses on the study of the temporal variability of cones. We confirmed the presence of a scintillation phenomenon at a frequency at least equal to that of our acquisition system. We have proposed an image analysis process including restoration by deconvolution, rigid registration, and image fusion for cone mapping. To validate this approach, we conducted a validation test for two deconvolution methods. We have shown that in the case of healthy subjects, the image fusion procedure to bring the measurement of cone density and histological references. The angular variation of cone reflectance is called optical Stiles-Crawford effect. We have identified a new clinical manifestation of this phenomenon, through a study on the analysis of adaptive optics images periphery). We have shown, through the alternation of the positive / negative mosaics, that the reflectance of the cones may become lower than that of rods. Comparison with the data of the optical coherence tomography showed a strong correlation of the switching with the outer segment layer. We then proposed a procedure of integration of spatial variability for cone mapping. This procedure was evaluated in healthy and diseased subjects and showed a significant gain (in terms of cone enumeration) in pathological cases
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Wanto, Mônyka Maria. "Biologia e exigências térmicas de Trissolcus urichi Crawford (Hymenoptera: Scelionidade) em laboratório." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/27318.
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Diversas culturas são atacadas por percevejos fitófagos, especialmente da família Pentatomidae, que se alimentam de estruturas de plantas hospedeiras e causam danos severos, sendo as sementes e frutos imaturos os locais preferenciais para sua alimentação. Na cultura da soja, os ovos destres pentatomídeos são eficientemente parasitados por microhimenópteros pertencentes às famílias Scelionidae e Encyrtudae. Dentre as espécies de parasitóides encontradas, os gêneros Trissolcus e Telenomus apresentam-se como principais agentes de controle, pelos altos níveis de parasitismo natural. Ovos e adultos de Pellaea stictica Dalas (Heteropetera: Pentatomidae) foram coletados em Ligustrum lucidum Thunb (Oleaceae), conhecido popularmente como alfeneiro. Parte destes ovos encontravam-se parasitados por microhimenópteros. Os parasitóides emergidos foram encaminhados à Doutora Marta Laiácono, do Museo da Universidad de La Plata, Argentina, que os identificou como Trissolcus urichi Crawford (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Foi avaliado se este parasitóide de ovos apresenta perspectivas como auxiliar no controle biológico de pentatomídeos. Avaliou-se a preferência de T. urichi por quatro espécies de pentatomídeos hospedeiros: Nezara viridula (L.), Euschistus heros (FAB.), Acrosternum (Chinavia) pengue Roston e Pellaea stictica Dallas. Determinou-se ainda a fecundidade e longevidade do parasitóide em ovos do hospedeiro preferencial. Avaliou-se o efeito de cinco temperaturas constantes entre 15ºC e 29ºC no desenvolvimento e na capacidade de parasitismo de Trissolcus urichi Crawford (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) utilizando-se ovos de Pellaea stictica Dallas (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) como hospedeiro. Os ovos das quatro espécies testadas foram parasitados, entretanto para N. viridula não foi registrada a emergência de adultos. Os ovos de P. Stictica proporcionaram os melhores índices de parasitismo e emergências de parasitóides emergidos, entretanto não houve diferença sobre o tempo de ovos parasitados e parasitóides emergidos, entretanto não houve diferença sobre o tempo de desenvolvimento e a razão sexual da progênie. No teste com as temperaturas os parasitóides completaram seu desenvolvimento e emergiram em temperaturas entre 18ºC e 29º. A 15ºC o parasitóide atingiu a fase de pupa, mas morreu nesta fase do desenvolvimento. O tempo de desenvolvimento variou entre 11 a 28,5 dias. A constante térmica foi calculada em 250 graus dia. A média de ovos parasitados foi significativamente diferente nas temperaturas de 18ºC e 29ºC, e não houve diferenças entre as temperaturas de 21ºC e 25ºC.
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Smith, David Gray. "Archaeological systematics and the analysis of Iroquoian ceramics : a case study from the Crawford lake area, Ontario." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=76753.
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This study is an analytical examination of a stylistic anomaly observed among Middleport Iroquoian village sites (dating c. A.D. 1300-1450) located near Crawford Lake in southcentral Ontario, Canada. The anomaly is characterized by differing percentages of two forms of ceramic smoking pipes from closely spaced, contemporaneous village sites. This distinction occurs throughout southern Ontario, but is particularly pronounced in the Crawford Lake area. In order to develop and test a model to explain this anomaly, an approach employing a hierarchy of inference, including formal, spatial, temporal, economic, social, and cultural levels, is proposed. This is applied to an analysis of pottery and smoking pipes from eight Middleport sites. The key elements of the explanation are: (1) the two styles represent two distinct prehistoric communities; (2) these communities competed with each other for limited resources; and (3) they symbolized this competition through differences in pipe styles. This conclusion indicates that both the material culture and social relations among Middleport communities may be more complex than has previously been inferred.
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Prevost, Roxane. "A transformational analysis of Ruth Crawford Seeger's Sonata for Violin and Piano (1926)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/MQ58007.pdf.
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Urquhart, James Keith. "The clinical paradigm in organisational analysis : with reference to Beamish and Crawford plc." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10011.
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There has been much discussion in the literature in the past decade as boards of directors worldwide have faced increasing stakeholder demands for accountability. The conventional wisdom that stakeholders were passive players, who ceded responsibility for the company to the board, has gone and been replaced by a growing sensitivity to the risk of corporate liability. It is still not widely understood that business enterprise is as much a moral act as an economic one. In the 1980's, boardroom behaviour was perceived as unresponsive, mercenary, formal, guarded, ritualistic and legalistic. However, we know little about the culture of these 'managerial elites' (Pettigrew and McNulty, 1995) but one approach is to adopt a psychoanalytic perspective. Psychoanalytic theory is, inter alia, a method of understanding group processes. Bion (1959) and Bridger (1986) postulated that rationality in groups could be compromised by the activity of 'basic assumptions' or unconscious mechanisms that, in turn, can impact upon the formation of the group as a social institution (Fenichel, 1945). The search for deep, underlying structures has been continuously advocated by Geertz (1973), an anthropologist, and the need to distinguish between 'thin' and 'thick' description; the former relating to what is merely observable and the latter to an interpretive, iterative process that seeks out the basic significance of events. The psychoanalytic model, with its premise of not taking for granted what is directly observable, presents an opportunity to examine the power of unconscious group processes in the construction of boardroom decisions. This research aims to demonstrate that the application of clinical concepts to the analysis of boardroom relationships can produce an enriching effect on more traditional theories of organisational functioning.
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Radcliffe-Meyers, Lori. "A Landscape of Memories: A Master Plan design for the Crawford Town Hall." The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292285.
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As we continue to lose valuable landscapes to the pressures of growth and development, we need to keep in mind the history that some of these landscapes hold. They help tell the stories of our past and hold a special place in the hearts and minds of many. Historic buildings are typically recognized for their value and history that they tell and are often restored, helping to preserve a part of a community’s past. Yet the landscapes that helped shape the community and give meaning to the place are often overlooked. Looking at these landscapes, and putting as high of a value on the landscape as the buildings that are set upon them, is important and continues to be a topic that has come to the forefront.
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Forsberg, Andreas. "Spatial variation of radio frequency magnetic field exposure from clinical pulse sequences in 1.5T MRI." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för fysik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-90391.
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Cell biological exposure studies in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment, where a complex mixture of strong magnetic fields are present, have attracted considerable interest in recent years. The outcome of such studies might depend strongly on the conditions, for example exposure parameters and spatial variations of exposure. The aim of this thesis has been to give a detailed description of how the radio frequency (RF) magnetic field varies with position and sequence choice within an MRI bore from a patient perspective and to highlight the need of better consistency in future research. Method: A straightforward theoretical description on the contribution to the RF magnetic field from a birdcage coil is given. A one dimensional coaxial loop antenna has been used as a probe to measure spatial variations of the RF magnetic field in a 1.5T MRI scanner. An exposure matrix containing RF magnetic field strength (H1-field) amplitudes in three dimensions was constructed and used to study several clinical protocols and sequences. A qualified correspondence measurement was also made on a 3T MRI scanner. Results: Around isocenter, for a common field-of-view (FOV), changes in exposure conditions were small; however, rapid changes of exposure conditions occurred upon approaching the end rings. The dominating H1-field component switched from lying in the xy-plane to pointing the z-direction and was roughly 3 times larger than in isocenter. Practical difficulties indicate even larger differences at positions not measurable with the equipment at hand. The strongest H1-field component was 32.6 A/m at position (x,y,z)=(-24,8,24) cm from the isocenter. Conclusions: Machine parameters such as repetition time, echo time and flip angle have little to do with actual exposure. Specic absorption rate (SAR) values correlated well with the square of measured root-mean-square (RMS) values of the magnetic field (B1,RMS) but not with peak values of the magnetic field (B1,peak), indicating that peak values are not unlikely to be part of compromising factors in previous contradictory exposure research on genotoxicity. Furthermore exposure conditions depend strongly on position and unfavorable situations may occur in the periphery of the birdcage coil. Potentially elevated risks for conducting surfaces, for example arms or external fixations, in the proximity of the end rings, are proposed. Aside from spatial variation consideration on which type of geometry exposed cell-biological samples are placed in should be held since eddy currents, hot-spots and proper SAR depend on geometry. Conditions may vary considerably between in-vitro, ex-vivo and in-vivo studies since geometries of test tubes, petri dishes and humans differ.
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Cox, Jonathan Mantele. "Lindsay Earls of Crawford : the heads of the Lindsay family in late medieval Scottish politics, 1380-1453." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6507.
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This thesis examines the careers of the first four Lindsay earls of Crawford, 1380-1453. Each of these four Scottish earls played an important role in Scottish politics, though they have not been closely examined since A. W. C. Lindsay’s Lives of the Lindsays, or a memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres, published in 1849. This is despite the fact that these men figured in some of the major events in late medieval Scotland. David 1st earl of Crawford can be linked to the murder of David Stewart duke of Rothesay in 1401-2. David 3rd earl of Crawford (d. 1446) was a marriage ally of William 6th earl of Douglas who was judicially murdered in 1440 by William Crichton and James Douglas earl of Avondale in 1440. Evidence suggests this marriage alliance was a factor in the decision to commit the murder. Alexander 4th earl of Crawford (d. 1453) was involved in the famous Douglas-Crawford-Ross tripartite bond which cost William 8th earl of Douglas his life. All of the first four earls were involved, in different ways, in the disputes to determine the succession of the earldom of Mar during their careers. Although the barony of Crawford was in Lanarkshire, the earls’ main sphere of influence was south of the Mounth, where they held lands stretching from Urie near present-day Stonehaven to Megginch near Perth. Glen Esk, their largest holding, was in Forfarshire, which was where they exerted the most influence. They also maintained a degree of influence in Aberdeenshire, where they were the hereditary sheriffs. A few factors explain their ability to maintain this sphere of influence. The first was an ability to call out a significant armed band of men, something which the first, third and fourth earls of Crawford are all recorded to have done. Most also had an income from annuities from various burghs including Aberdeen, Dundee, and Montrose totaling about £200, and they can be demonstrated to have owned a house in Dundee and maintained connections with burgesses there. This may suggest they were involved in trade. David Lindsay, 1st earl of Crawford (d. 1407), who used all of the above means to propel himself to the top ranks of Scottish politics, also promoted himself through active engagement with the culture of chivalry and crusade. This earned him much praise from the contemporary chronicler, Andrew Wyntoun. There are hints that the third and fourth earl may have maintained this interest as well.
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Larentzaki, Eleni. "Evaluation of 'Franklinothrips vespiformis' (Crawford) (Thysanoptera: Aeolothripidae) as a natural enemy of glasshouse pests." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415969.
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Martin, Andrew V. "Investigating the archaeological potential of rockshelters : an example from Crawford and Perry Counties, Indiana." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1164836.
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Problems with the identification and interpretation of rockshelter and cave sites were recognized in the archaeological literature from Indiana. Often, when these sites are identified in archaeological research and survey reports, realistic views of the potential cultural significance they may actually have is lacking. Based on data obtained from recent rockshelter surveys in southern Indiana, a method for evaluating the archaeological potential of rockshelter sites is presented. This methodology systematically accounts for geomorphological and geological factors as well as environmental considerations. Geographic information system (GIS) software is used to assist in the analysis and visualization of the variables associated with these rockshelters. While stressing the importance of these sites as potentially providing conditions for the preservation of cultural material, this method can also be used as a model for further studies on this topic.Department of Anthropology
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Hodgson, John. "Class acts : the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford and their manuscript collections." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/class-acts-the-twentyfifth-and-twentysixth-earls-of-crawford-and-their-manuscript-collections(3ed36c16-23f9-4b9c-85d5-21070eea9984).html.
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Throughout Victoria's reign, Lord Lindsay and his son Ludovic, respectively twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford, created one of the largest private libraries ever assembled in Britain. The Bibliotheca Lindesiana included some six thousand manuscripts, which Ludovic sold to Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 for £155,000. The principal problematic that I address in this thesis is: Why did the earls of Crawford invest vast amounts of financial and cultural capital in this endeavour? In other words, what factors - both structural and specific - led to the formation of the library, what purposes did it serve, and what roles did its manuscript components in particular perform? Other questions include: How - and how successfully - did Lindsay and Ludovic maintain physical and intellectual control over the rapidly growing library? How did they position themselves within networks of connoisseurship and collecting in Victorian Britain? How was the formation of the Oriental manuscript collections connected with Lindsay's interest in racial classification and with wider racial discourses? And how did the library reflect and reinforce Lindsay's identity as a gentleman-scholar? Previous studies of this and other manuscript collections have adhered to an antiquarian, bio-bibliographical model, focusing on the detailed matter and mechanisms of collecting, rather than exploring the socio-cultural and epistemological contexts of their development. This thesis, by contrast, constitutes the first extended application of cultural theory to a manuscript collection, or indeed to any private library, in the nineteenth century. I combine close archival work with Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital and habitus to reveal the complex structuration and signification of the library, and to investigate the imbrication between the earls' personal agency and wider forces operating upon the library. My examination of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana has uncovered several key issues and themes hitherto unexplored in this or any other major private library of the nineteenth century. First, I argue that the reasons for the library's development reside principally in various forms of classification, which preoccupied Lindsay and reflected wider societal trends and taxonomies: the classification of libraries and the ramification of knowledge; Lindsay's deployment of the library to corroborate his and his family's social and cultural distinction (i.e. social classification); and an interest in racial classification, which reflected Orientalist discourses associated with imperialism. Secondly, while the dispersal of aristocratic collections in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a familiar trope, this study is the first to contextualize the decline of a private library within the struggle between the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. Finally, this is the first examination of the impact of professionalization upon private as opposed to public libraries, revealing the tensions between amateur traditions and growing professionalism and specialization in the nineteenth century. I thus 'read' through the library some of the wider socio-economic and cultural issues operating in Victorian Britain and its empire.
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Eames, Robin. "Harry Crawford v History: Problem Bodies, Queertrans Cosmogonies, and Historiographical Ethics in Cases of Gender Transgression in Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Australia." Thesis, Department of History, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18906.
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The predominant cultural metanarrative of transgender existence is that we sprang fully formed into being sometime in the 1960s, like Athena stepping out of Zeus’s skull. And yet in every corner of human history we find people who might fit modern definitions of ‘transgender’. This thesis does not seek to retrofit contemporary understandings of gender onto the past. Rather, it sheds light on queertrans antecedence, through the case of Harry Crawford in 1920s Sydney. Crawford was ostensibly on trial for murder, but his court case was more concerned with the social crime of gender transgression. He had been assigned female at birth but lived, worked, and married as a man. Much of the subsequent literary and academic work on Crawford has reproduced the assumptions, stigmas, curiosity, and censure of the 1920s, putting him on trial again and again. This thesis examines Crawford’s life and afterlives, his disallowed embodiment, and the cultural myths that were read onto him, by reading resistantly into and against court transcripts, papers and depositions, contemporaneous newspaper records, and secondary scholarship. Crawford’s case articulated a number of cultural anxieties around aberrant bodies, marginalisation, and the maintenance of social hierarchies. It continues to provide insights into undercurrents of paradox, power, self-definition, and historical futurity. This study also investigates possibilities for culturally respectful and harm-reductive approaches for future historiography. By mapping out the histories of people pushed to the margins, we may gain greater understandings of the ways in which cultural identity is defined both from within (i.e. from interior subjectivities) and from without (i.e. against the Other). The work of filling in historical gaps and silences also allows marginalised people to reconnect with a sense of cultural self, and perhaps to more fully realise our place in the universe.
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Wilson, Andrew Crawford. "Rome's relations with the Goths, AD 376-382 : exorcising the spectre of Adrianople / Andrew Crawford Wilson." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27838.
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Breyley, Gay Jennifer. "Memory, music and displacement in the minor memoirs of Evelyn Crawford, Ruby Langford Ginibi and Lily Brett." Access electronically, 2005. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060220.164144/index.html.
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Mazoff, C. D. (Chaim David) 1949. "Allegiance anxiety identity : the rhetoric of legitimation in the early Canadian long poem, from Carey to Crawford." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28840.
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The early Canadian long poem has often been faulted for its lack of aesthetic integrity, being seen in many cases as little more than poorly "versified rhetoric," but it has never been submitted to a thorough rhetorical analysis. An investigation of the rhetorical devices at work in the early Canadian long poem, however, reveals them to be highly strategic operations of both the imperial-colonial project in British North America and the emerging national consciousness of the new nation of Canada. These operations may be understood more clearly through the close examination of periodic "ruptures" in the texts--inconsistencies, contradictions, anomalies, and deflections--which underscore the frequently conflictual nature of the "unsaid" (the real historical, economic and social conditions) and the surface level of the narrative (the aesthetic and generic constraints). Such an analysis reveals the extent to which the problems of allegiance, anxiety and identity were inextricably involved in the colonial and national projects, an involvement which the poetry, despite its intentions, could neither mask nor resolve.
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Crawford, Nicholas Stephen. ""Beyond the maps of language" reconsidering Don Delillo's rock novel /." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/rp/crawfordn/nicholascrawford.pdf.
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Carlyle, Jennifer Leigh. "The size of the moon." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/rp/crawfordn/nicholascrawford.pdf.
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Pace, Cynthia Margaret. "Ruth Crawford's final solo piano works : an analysis of FOUR PRELUDES FOR PIANO and PIANO STUDY IN MIXED ACCENTS /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1989. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10903598.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1989.Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Lenore M. Pogonowski. Dissertation Committee: Harold F. Abeles. Bibliography: leaves 322-324.
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Selden, Justin D. "The Effect of Dredging on Fish Communities in Agricultural Streams in Crawford, Sandusky and Seneca Counties of Ohio." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1372421206.
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Koschnick, Tyler J. "Documentation, characterization, and proposed mechanism of diquat resistance in Landoltia punctata (G. Meyer) D.H. Les and D.J. Crawford." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010743.
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Catalano, Joshua Casmir. "The Commemoration of Colonel Crawford and the Vilification of Simon Girty: How Politicians, Historians, and the Public Manipulate Memory." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429202111.
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Davis, Brian Gerard. "A rhetorical analysis of the preaching style of three itinerant preachers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Gruber, Martin [Verfasser], Dorle [Akademischer Betreuer] Dracklé, and Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Crawford. "Liparu Lyetu - Our Life : Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking in Applied Contexts [[Elektronische Ressource]] / Martin Gruber. Gutachter: Dorle Dracklé ; Peter Crawford. Betreuer: Dorle Dracklé." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1072304201/34.
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Summar, Sarah Page. "Fidget, Sway, and Swerve: Three Works Inspired By Movement From the Intricate Maneuvers Series." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177259/.
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Intricate Maneuvers is a series of musical works that were composed using movement as a model for compositional processes and forms. This essay presents in-depth analyses of three works from the series; Fidget, Sway: The Mildest Form of Falling, and Swerve for Chamber Ensemble. The analysis of each work highlights correlations between the musical characteristics of that work and the temporal, spatial, contextual, and psychological implications of the motion after which it was modeled. The third chapter also demonstrates the ways in which the creation of Sway was influenced by materials and processes taken from Ruth Crawford's String Quartet 1931. In order to investigate the question of how life experiences can function as models for compositional processes, the essay examines precedents for the compositional modeling of extra-musical ideas and images in the works of Bed?ich Smetana, Elliott Carter and Roger Reynolds. It also discusses approaches to modeling movement in music created for dance. Throughout the Intricate Maneuvers series, movement is modeled not merely to create an association between a musical work and a particular movement pattern, but rather to infuse the compositions with the dynamism that defines a particular kinetic experience.
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Burke, Alexander. ""Dae Scotsmen Dream o 'lectric Leids?" Robert Crawford's Cyborg Scotland." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3272.
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This thesis applies a Cybernetic interpretation to a selection of poetry by the Scottish Informationist poet Robert Crawford, drawn mostly from two collections: A Scottish Assembly (1990) and Sharawaggi: Poems in Scots (1990). Crawford is contextualized by observing the poetic influences of Robert Burns, John Davidson, and Hugh MacDiarmid, as well as the philosophical influence of George Elder Davie’s The Democratic Intellect. This paper argues that, in response to the Two Cultures hypothesis put forth by C. P. Snow and the widely-held belief that Scotland is irrevocably fractured, the shifting boundaries of the many disparate Scottish cultures are mediated by technologies of communication within A Scottish Assembly, updating both Scotland’s identity and its cultural canon not by merging these cultures into a single Universal Scot, but by holding them in tension—and Sharawaggi is observed as a means of grounding the languages and peoples of Scotland within the landscape.
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CHUA, EMILY YAP. "SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC INFLUENCES IN RUTH CRAWFORD'S MUSIC." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1021661917.
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Crawford, Michael Scott [Verfasser], Florian [Akademischer Betreuer] Jeltsch, Volker [Akademischer Betreuer] Grimm, Felix [Gutachter] May, and Uta [Gutachter] Berger. "Using individual-based modeling to understand grassland diversity and resilience in the Anthropocene / Michael Scott Crawford ; Gutachter: Felix May, Uta Berger ; Florian Jeltsch, Volker Grimm." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1221183605/34.
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Mack, John Joseph. "At the Tip of the Prairie Peninsula: Flora and Natural History of Prairie Remnants in the Sandusky Plains of Crawford, Marion and Wyandot Counties, Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396352347.
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Dhommée, Isabelle. "Les cinq "empoisonneuses" : G. Garbo, J. Crawford, M. Dietrich, M. West, K. Hepburn et les Etats-Unis des années trente : analyse du phénoméne social de la star." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030090.
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En mai 1938, periode ou l'industrie cinematographique hollywoodienne arrive au paroxysme d'une crise a fronts multiples, les exploitants independants denoncent dans un placard publie par le hollywood reporter la contre-productivite au box-office de cinq stars feminines : mae west, greta garbo, joan crawford, katharine hepbum et marlene dietrich. Ce travail de these tente de comprendre comment lesimages de ces stars se sont inscrites dans l'imaginaire collectif americain d'avant-guerre et pourquoi elles ont ete tantot sources de plaisir, tantot source d'irritation. A cette fin, nous avons emprunte la voie ouverte par richard dyer, celle qui choisit de considerer la star comme un vehicule de desirs, de contradictions et de negociations sociales, intervenant de maniere complexe sur un film. Notre etude montre que la popularite de ces stars s'est enracinee dans les fissures ideologiques provoquees par la depression et qu'a partir de 1935-36, leurs images sont devenues problematiques au sein d'une production cinematographique qui revisite les plus dures annees de la crise en idealisant les roles sexuels et au sein d'une societe qui, apres l'effondrement de 1930-33, reconstruit l'hegemonie economique et sociale de sa classe moyenne autour de la quete d'une identite et d'une unite americaines. Suite au coup d'eclat des exploitants independants, toutes les actrices concernees, sauf mae west, se preteront au remaniement de leur image, une reconversion menee avec plus ou moins de succes.
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Billock, Rebecca. "Selected intermediate piano pieces by seven women of the twentieth century : Marion Bauer, Germaine Tailleferre, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Sofia Gubaidulina, Emma Lou Diemer, Chen Yi, and Karen Tanaka /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11367.
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Crow, Vincent. "A study of the History curricula of Professors Wood and Roberts at the University of Sydney and of Professors Scott and Crawford at the University of Melbourne, c. 1910-50." Master's thesis, Faculty of Education and Social Work, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13920.
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La, Spata Adam Nunzio. "Psalms, Hymns, and Commercial Songs: Tradition and Innovation in James Lyon's "Urania"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707400/.
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This dissertation asserts the value of James Lyon's Urania to the field of American music history as a vital contribution to the development of music in the British colonies prior to the War for Independence. While previous scholarship acknowledges Urania's importance as the first publication in America to contain music by a native-born composer, this study argues that its subscription list and selection of anthems (both of which were new to the field of American music publishing) contribute to the status this compilation is due. The confluence of the English chapel tradition and American singing school tradition contributes to the theological universality and accessibility of its twelve anthems. An introductory chapter discusses the secondary literature upon which this study is based - notably that of Oscar Sonneck and Richard Crawford - and posits applications for the idea presented herein beyond the field of musicology. Chapter 2 provides biographical information on James Lyon and contextualizes Urania within the broader framework of the English chapel tradition and the American singing-school tradition. Chapter 3 discusses the marketability of music in colonial America and explores the biographies of the subscribers to Urania using modern databases. Chapter 4 concerns the confluence of music and sacred text by placing Urania as a spiritual and cultural descendant of the theological universality preached during the Great Awakening. It concludes with an analysis of the anthems, taking into account both text and music. Chapter 5 concludes the study by showing how Urania affected music in the generations after its publication. My dissertation concludes with four appendices. Appendix A is an annotated list of Lyon's subscribers. Appendix B parses out basic information on the anthems, notably the texts. Appendices C and D provide critical notes and editions of the anthems, respectively.
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Caldas, Ana Luiza Paganelli. "O filosofar na arte da criança surda : construções e saberes." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/8735.
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Esta dissertação analisou como se deu o filosofar na arte das crianças surdas e na busca por práticas estéticas visuais no processo da construção deste filosofar. Para isto, foram realizadas entrevistas (individuais e coletivas) com 10 sujeitos surdos de uma escola municipal de surdos de Gravataí no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, onde foram apresentadas algumas pinturas dos artistas Da Vinci, Picasso, Portinari e Baird (artista surdo). O objetivo foi o de provocar uma reflexão destes sujeitos, a partir de experiências estéticas, no sentido de que cada um pudesse expressar seus saberes, praticar a vivência do olhar, trazendo suas hipóteses e compreensões sobre as pinturas, observando como estas experiências podiam colaborar para a construção dos filosofares na arte dos sujeitos surdos. Os principais pressupostos teóricos foram os estudos de Michael J. Parsons sobre os níveis estéticos de compreensão da arte, que foram tabulados e sistematizados para uma melhor análise qualitativa dos dados, proposta metodológica optada para a pesquisa. Marly Meira e Walter Kohan perpassam a pesquisa como os alicerces da criação filosófica e o pensar sobre o pensar. Destaco também os estudos de Duarte para a educação do sensível e de Pillar na educação para o olhar. Pôde-se constatar que houve uma notável relação entre as experiências estéticas e os diálogos com a possibilidade de novas compreensões sobre arte e com a criação de novos pensares filosóficos.This study analyzed the development of the capacity of philosophize in the deaf children art and in search for visual aesthetics practice in the process of constructing this capacity. For this, 10 deaf research subjects were interviewed (individually and collectively) in a municipal deaf school in Gravataí in Rio Grande do Sul state, were they were presented to some pictures from Da Vinci, Picasso and Baird (deaf artists). The goal was to stimulate these subjects to reflect, from aesthetics experiences, in a way of expressing their knowledge and of practicing view experience, bringing their hypothesis and understandings about the pictures and observing how these experiences could contribute to construct the capacity of philosophize in the deaf subject art. The main theoretical support was the Michael J. Parsons’ studies about the aesthetics levels of art understandings which were tabulated and systemized to better qualitative analyses of data. This methodological proposal has been adopted for us in this research. Marly Meira and Walter Kohan’s studies pass through our research as the basis of the philosophical creation and the thinking about the thinking. I would also emphasize the Duarte’s studies in sensitive education and the Pillar’s studies of education for view. We could verify a notable relation between aesthetics experiences and the dialogues with possibilities of new understandings about art and with the creation of new philosophical thinking.
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Wedge, Lucius G. "Andrew Johnson and the Ministers of Nashville: A Study in the Relationship Between War, Politics, and Morality." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1374506911.
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Slach, Petr. "Pracoviště pro zkoušky odolnosti zařízení vůči silným vysokofrekvenčním elektromagnetickým polím." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-218038.
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This thesis investigates into possibilities of a design of a workplace for device endurance experiments against strong high-frequency electromagnetic field. It deals with testing methods, describes advantages and disadvantages of such methods. It investigates possibiities of testing devices, possible magnitudes of fieldstrenght. One can find in the thesis a review of a way of testing using a high-intensity electromagnetic field. A concept of a construction of a stripline including a practical example is a part of the thesis.
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Chao, Christopher Chi Ying. "Modelling retinal photoreceptor directionality in the human eye." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36173/1/36173_Chao_2002.pdf.
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Retinal photoreceptor directionality of human eye refers to the fact that, for a normal and healthy human eye, visual sensitivity is greatest for light entering near the centre of the eye pupil and the response falls off from this peak roughly symmetrically across the pupil. This is also known as the Stiles-Crawford effect (SCE). It is achieved by the directionality of retinal cones that act like waveguides. It has a positive effect on
human vision since the optical aberrations of the eye normally increase in the pupil periphery. The measured SCE is used in clinical cases to indicate the stage and degree
of various retinal abnormalities. Directionality of human cones is traditionally measured either by psychophysical or reflectometric methods; several other methods
have also been proposed for measuring and modelling the cone directionality. Cone directionality and aberrations of the eye are widely varied from subject to subject. It
has been suggested that they are actively controlled and there may also exist a natural relationship between the directionality and aberrations. But the current methods to accurately measure the cone directionality are difficult and time consuming. In this research, we developed a mathematical model of the cone directionality based on the measured monochromatic aberrations of the human eye. We show that cone directionality can be modelled using a two-dimensional Gaussian function whose parameters vary according to the measured monochromatic aberrations of the eye. Our modelling is based on a hypothesis that cones directionality is optimised so that the
resulting retinal image quality is maximised. This methodology can also be used in
automatic image enhancement systems for correcting higher-order aberrations. The modelling of the SCE of the human eye as a Gaussian function has been demonstrated.
The optimisation process that we developed has been used to optimise ten different eyes, which all have significant amount of higher order aberrations. It has shown significant improvement in the corresponding Point Spread Functions. The proposed methodology could be used for cost-effective image enhancement in optical systems,
which suffer from higher-order monochromatic aberrations. Currently such systems have to be corrected with adaptive optics.
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Chaplin-Kyzer, Abigail. "Searching for Songs of the People: The Ideology of the Composers' Collective and Its Musical Implications." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157558/.
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The Composers' Collective, founded by leftist composers in 1932 New York City, sought to create proletarian music that avoided the "bourgeois" traditions of the past and functioned as a vehicle to engage Americans in political dialogue. The Collective aimed to understand how the modern composer became isolated from his public, and discussions on the relationship between music and society pervade the radical writings of Marc Blitzstein, Charles Seeger, and Elie Siegmeister, three of the organization's most vocal members. This new proletarian music juxtaposed revolutionary text with avant-garde musical idioms that were incorporated in increasingly greater quantities; thus, composers progressively acclimated the listener to the dissonance of modern music, a distinctive sound that the Collective hoped would become associated with revolutionary ideals. The mass songs of the two Workers' Song Books published by the Collective, illustrate the transitional phase of the musical implementation of their ideology. In contrast, a case study of the song "Chinaman! Laundryman!" by Ruth Crawford Seeger, a fringe member of the Collective, suggests that this song belongs within the final stage of proletarian music, where the text and highly modernist music seamlessly interact to create what Charles Seeger called an "art-product of the highest type."
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Demosthenous, Annika Coralia. "Poetry and national identity in Cyprus and Scotland." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ad65856c-fba7-4a7f-89be-73ddef0c5522.
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This thesis aims to engage with the poetry of Scotland and Greek-speaking Cyprus, and examine the relationship between poetry defined as high culture and articulations of national identity in the two places. Scotland and Cyprus share characteristics that make the establishment of a single, coherent national identity with the appearance of permanence challenging, including their relationships with culturally dominant neighbours, competition between local and official languages, and the insecurity of their status as nations. Both Scotland and Cyprus have historically had hybrid identities; in Scotland, British identity is made problematic by England's cultural dominance, while in Cyprus Greek-speakers have a conflicted relationship with Greece. This is made more complex by the fact that Scotland's political union with England may be ending, while Cyprus is divided in half as a result of tensions between Christian and Muslim populations and the unsubtle past involvement of Greece and Turkey in the island's affairs. This thesis aims to locate trends of national identity through the analysis of poetry and its reception in three distinct contexts. Part 1 analyses the evolution of Scottish and Greek-speaking Cypriot 'national character' through the poetry of national poets Robert Burns and Vasilis Michailidis, and the poets Walter Scott and Dimitris Lipertis. Part 2 explores the effects of modernity on the expression of national identities in literature through the lens of the Modernist movement, and how this was adopted and modified in Scotland and Cyprus. This is discussed with reference to three poets, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kostas Montis and Edwin Morgan, and their treatment of the national past and search for a national literary language. Finally, Part 3 analyses deliberate engagements of poets with national identity and issues of national importance, using Seamus Heaney's idea of 'adequate' poetry as a guide. Two functions of poetry are considered: the role it can play in transforming the landscape into the national homeland, and its potential to address communal trauma, and transform it into a unifying experience.
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MÜLLER, Martin. "Civilization, culture, and race in John Crawfurd's discourses on Southeast Asia : continuities and changes, c.1814-1868." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/28045.
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Defence date: 7 June 2013Examining Board: Professor Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität (Supervisor) Professor Jorge Flores, EUI Professor Michael Harbsmeier, Roskilde Universitet Dr. Christina Skott, University of Cambridge.
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In this dissertation I examine the uses of the notions of civilization, race, and culture within a set of British 19th century discourses on especially Southeast Asian societies, their present state and history. Taking the point of departure in John Crawfurd's (1783-1868) publications, it contains a study of the many debates on economic, ethnological, historical, and linguistic issues in which he participated throughout six decades and to which he contributed significantly. Through this approach I aim at providing a densely contextualized analysis of the colonial, intellectual, political, and socio-cultural aspects of Crawfurd et al's knowledge production, its routes of transmission, receptions, and appropriations. The analytic focus is directed at the evaluative-descriptive qualities attributed to the terms civilization, race, and culture, and immanent in the concepts they refer to; on the surface claiming to be primarily descriptive, they nonetheless were normatively cogent in their inherent hierarchal and classificatory structures, as well as in providing a theoretical template delineating the naturalized historical trajectories. Arguing that the notions of civilization, race and culture were pivotal key concepts in this colonial knowledge production, I chart the intertwined dynamics between these notions / both in their conceptual framings and contextualized uses. During this quest I endeavour to demonstrate the interpretive primacy of the concept of civilization throughout the entire period, even though racial concerns clearly were on the ascendancy and by the 1860s constituted the major theme of discussion and dissent. Common to all the analysed discourses is that they were hinged upon these three fundamental notions and their ability to address the universal as well as the particular, their capacity to encompass the past, present and future within one interpretive framework, and not at least their provision of a conceptual common ground which also, however, facilitated the possibilities of fundamental dissent within the actual interpretations.
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Crawford, A. "Synthesis: a violist's approach to preparing a program for performance." Thesis, 2013. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/18575/1/front-crawford-thesis.pdf.
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Throughout history, the viola has been considered the Cinderella of the String
Instrument Family.1 From a pedagogical viewpoint, the instrument was largely
ignored until the technical demands made by composers upon violists required
increased technical proficiency from the practitioners. These demands have only
increased with time, establishing a trend of increasing difficulty that is likely to
continue. This research has aimed to examine and document the process involved in
preparing three works for performance- Franz Schubert's Sonata for Piano and
Arpeggione in A minor D 821, Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Sonata in F Minor Opus
120, No.1 and Georges Enesco's Concert Piece. It will consider the more advanced
technical skills required for the performance of these works and analyze how the
previously existing scholarly literature has endeavored to provide performers with
resources to enable them to master these technical components. It will also address
what the existing literature has largely ignored. That is, how the body can be used to
efficiently integrate these technical components to safely and effectively
communicate the intentions of the composers as indicated in the scores. The resulting
research will provide violists with an efficient framework to enable them to
systematically address the most pertinent technical difficulties contained within these
works. It will also contribute to the existing discussion of how to deliver an
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"Voice of Her Heart: The Slipping Subjectivity of Louisa Macartney Crawford." Texas Christian University, 2010. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04282010-132858/.
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