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Whalen, Brian Phillip. "Ghost." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.
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Thompson, Robert C. "Entertaining ghosts Gettysburg ghost tours and the performance of belief /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8217.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Theatre. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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McFadyen-Ketchum, Andrew. "Ghost Gear." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1791982151&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Sellas, Alexis B. "Ghost-Jet." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/352.
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GHOST-JET is a collection of poems rooted in the lyrical tradition, often juxtaposing images of the natural world--the human body, insects, the Florida terrain--against images of surrealism--ethereal spirits, monsters, dreamscapes--in order to create metaphorical leaps of the imagination. In these poems there is the world as we know it and the world on the peripheral--zombies and babies turning into crocodiles, portraying the anxieties of the contemporary world we face as parents, children, and citizens. Written primarily in free verse, the collection also contains more traditional forms: pantoum, sestina, and haiku. There are no section breaks in this collection. Instead, the poems alternate between the personal and the political; between the particular fears of parenting and the more abstract fears in a new, post-September 11th America; between the violence perpetuated by family members and violence committed by the unknown, faceless aggressors in the world around us.
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Ligon, Rebecca. "Ghost Parties." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460297955.
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Whitby, Bess. "Ghost Machine." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822764/.
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This thesis consists of a collection of poems. By virtue of its content and arrangement, the collection ruminates on and attempts to work through the problem of corporeality and bodily experience: the anxieties surrounding illness, mortality, and the physicality of contemporary life. This collection explores the tension inherent in the mind/body duality and, rather than prescribing solutions, offers multiple avenues and perspectives through which to view bodily experience, as well as how that experience affects an individual’s identity, agency, and sense of self.
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Van, der Merwe Almini. "Ghost Limb." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27405.
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This thesis, submitted as part of an M.A in Creative Writing, takes the form of a novel set in a small coastal town outside Cape Town and follows the life of Johanna, a maid to a pastor's family in the early 90s. At the centre of the novel is the relationship between Johanna and a first-person child narrator. Johanna arrives and sets out to undermine the household and social order with increasingly bold acts of violence. She is abusive but despite the sporadic abuse the narrator and Johanna develop an odd friendship. Her past is revealed in late night confidences (a paraplegic mother, a white employer who she identifies as family and a stint in a squatter camp where she loses her ID). Near the beginning of the novel the child and Johanna embark on a quest to obtain her birth certificate from her old employer (needed for a new ID). The journey is unsuccessful but signals the start of a kind of sympathy between the two protagonists (with insight by the narrator into Johanna's past). Johanna finds a kind of belonging in the neighbourhood and with the narrator's family, particularly with the neighbourhood children. She is like a child herself and they become a neighbourhood pack roving the streets on bicycle. But Johanna has periodic rages, throwing bricks or abusing pets and comes to focus her ire on the youngest member of the family, the narrator's youngest brother. When political forces at large come into play (as well as an increased sense of danger), the adults set out to anglicize the family in a half-baked attempt to emigrate. The children are sent to English schools and Johanna, sensing her loosening grip on the family ramps up her reign of terror. She recruits the narrator in a plot against her brother, a prank only half comprehended that she consents to in order to placate Johanna. When the time comes, they dress up as "bergies", capitalising on the paranoia of the time. They ambush her brother and what (at least for the narrator) was a game turns into a horrifying dismemberment of her brother. Johanna disappears for weeks but returns for one final confrontation outside the pastorie. After this Johanna disappears permanently from the life of the narrator and her family, and her brother is patched up with little visible impairment. Soon afterwards the family moves to a security complex, an island of safety in the crime-ridden reality of South Africa that recalls their European dream. Years later the narrator interrogates this suppressed chapter and longs for the Johanna of her childhood in relief to the cultural anonymity that has become her life. Constructed in episodes that succeed each other spatially rather than chronologically the novel seeks to reconstruct the childhood landscape while building obliquely to a tragic climax. The style is lyrical, referencing magical realism and could be read as an effort in prose poetry with paragraphs operating as lyrical units. Of interest to the story are themes of cultural and physical homelessness as well as language itself as it relates to a stable cultural identity.
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Cigic, Anne E. "Tiny Ghost." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555073754387796.
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Giarratano, Natalie A. "Hungry Ghost." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4779/.
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Cobb, William Mark. "Marcuse's ghost /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Grattan, William. "Ghost runners /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3144420.
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Johnson, Perry Wesley. "Ghost and demons." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3642.
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Art. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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von, Strauss Mikael. "The BIG ghost." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Fysikum, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-56801.
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In this thesis we present work done in an analysis of models of brane induced gravity. These are higher dimensional generalizations of Einstein's General relativity where our universe is considered as a brane in a higher dimensional bulk and where the gravitational dynamics on the brane is enhanced. This provides a modification of gravity on the brane as compared to ordinary general relativity, primarily at very large distances. These models are therefore very interesting for adressing the cosmological constant problem. Even though the basic setup is natural to consider from the perspective of effective field theory and also follow from certain string theoretical considerations, the models have been plagued by inconsistencies in the form of unstable modes. In particular, a ghostlike and tachyonic scalar mode appears already at the linear level in a perturbative treatment. In order to gain a deeper insight into the nature of these consistency problems we have revisited the models, performing a more extensive analysis of the generic models than has previously been done. We have worked entirely in a gauge invariant formalism in order not to be obscured by gauge issues. We have also incorporated an effective thickness of the brane in our analysis and performed an explicit analysis of the effect of contributions from the extrinsic geometry. Although our analysis has been carried out at the linear level in a perturbative treatment we are able to get a deeper understanding of the unstable mode and illuminate some of the difficulties of these models that would likely persist even in a full nonlinear analysis.
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Phillips, Esther P. "Ghost Tree Social." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/829.
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GHOST TREE SOCIAL tells a coming out story of sorts. In terms of style, many of the poems are short, imagistic lyrics, though some are extended catalogues. Specific natural images—lakes, rivers, and snow—are often contrasted with cultural markers. The imagistic poems are thinking through the work of Sylvia Plath. The catalogue poems shift between diaristic, narrative, and critical modes, responding to the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and the essays of Edouard Glissant.
Voice-driven fragments disrupt the more traditional lyric poems. The fragments fall between formal lyrics like confetti from a gay club’s rafters; or the fragments hold the lyric poems in bondage. The lyric poem then re-signifies as form through resonances with the other discursive and poetic form of the fragment. Following critical writers such as Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, the re-signification of lyric form reflects the need for new signs for self and community organized queerly as opposed to more typical binary categories—man or woman, living or dead, rich or poor, white or black—where the first term is privileged and the second term often denigrated.
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Jenike, Lesley Marie. "Ghost of Fashion." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212075272.
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Horning, Jessie. "Record, Residue, Ghost." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492646973239208.
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Apte, Angela. "New Century Ghost." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/409.
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The poems in this collection speak of a historical, cultural and personal past through a wide range of speakers who resurrect narratives that are both domestic and historical in their scope. The collection engages in archetype and myth, traveling through time and the world, with many of the poems set in places outside of the United States, including Haiti, India, and Sri Lanka. In essence, the collection seeks to explore why must human suffering be endured in such various and bewildering ways, and why has history and the quest for social justice been so inadequate in answering this plea.
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Sharp, Michael G. "Ghost Water Exhibition." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6272.
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The Ghost Water exhibition of artworks by Michael Sharp was comprised of four main works titled: 30 x 60 Minute Grid Series, Suspension, History/Prehistory, and Lake Bonneville Remnants. The artwork was created as a reaction to the land that once held the prehistoric Lake Bonneville and to its current remnant Great Salt Lake. The work explores the dialogue between absence and presence.
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Bernardini, Erica <1984>. "The Ghost Hotel." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13465.
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My work focuses on the translation of parts of a horror/suspense novel called The Ghost Hotel written by Cai Jun, a famous and popular suspense writer in China.
The story centers around a mysterious wooden box and its connection to a renowned, ancient Chinese opera singer whose ghost seems to haunt the box and the guests of the Ghost Hotel.
The translation focuses on different parts of the three main sections that make up the story and novel. The three main sections are the introduction, where one of the main characters, Zhou Xuan, explains how he came into possession of the wooden box and the events that unfolded, leading him to the Ghost Hotel. The second and largest section of the novel, is one which includes the letters he writes to his friend, Ye Xiao, whilst staying at the Ghost Hotel. The final section is the analysis of the events that had happened, and Ye Xiao’s realization of the truth that had taken him along this intricate journey.
My interest in the horror/suspense genre inspired me to choose a Chinese novel within the same category. This was done to be able to explore the genre in China and see it expressed through the eyes of a Chinese author; Cai Jun is one of the most influential suspense novelists in contemporary China.
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Weiss, Katherine. "Animating Ghosts in Samuel Beckett's Ghost Trio and … but the clouds …" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2284.
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Van, Biljon Stefan. "KL-Metamatic Ghost Ship." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14044.
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The aim is to provide a
comprehensive representation of the project's development from theoretical
beginnings to architectural detail.
The theoretical ideas underpinning my design were developed in two
complementary papers, KL-Metamatic (theory) and Soft Machines
(technology). Three primary interests were identified:
1. The search for a design approach aimed at a more personal experience of
space.
The goal was to develop a design approach that may allow occupants to
rediscover their own imagination and senses through direct engagement with
an atmospheric site.
2. The use of site as an a priori program.
My interest in phenomenology and the subconscious was developed through a
site. KL-Berth, located within Cape Town's Duncan Dock, was selected on
the strength of its surprising atmospheric richness, movement and personal
significance for the researcher. The letters K and L indicate the berth's
position along the terminal.
3· To work in the spirit of techne.
Techne, in the true sense of the word, refers to the act of uncovering the
mysterious. Such experiments bear testament to a rigorous process of self-discovery
through invention. This is a function of both craftsmanship and
· imagination. Experimentation is emphasised over preconception.
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Pilcher, Lauren. ""A Kind of Ghost"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062809/.
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Marshall, Matt, and n/a. "GHOST STORIES WITHOUT GHOSTS: A STUDY OF AUTHORSHIP IN THE FILM SCRIPT ?THE SEABORNE?" University of Canberra. n/a, 2008. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20090106.150522.
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In 'The Crypt, the Haunted House of Cinema', Cholodenko argues that film is,
metaphorically speaking, a haunted house: an instance of the uncanny. This raises the
possibility the film script is also uncanny, from the Freudian notion of das Unheimliche,
the strangely familiar and familiarly strange - and thus also a haunted house. This
proposition engenders a search as self-reflexive practice for that which haunts the script'
an uncanny process to explore the uncanny. The search requires drawing on Barthes,
acting 'as dead' with that process' attendant contradictions and problematics' the most
likely ghost in the script being the writing self.
Establishing the characteristics of the writing self involves distinguishing that figure from
the author. This requires outlining the development of theories of the author from the
concept of authorial will, as per the argument of Hirsch, to the abnegation of the author as
a philosophical certainty. Barthes and Foucault call this abnegation the death of the
author. Rather than that marking the end of a particular branch of analysis, the death of
the author can be considered an opening to the writing practice. From this perspective,
the death of the author becomes a strategy in Foucault's game of writing, effecting the
obfuscation of the writing self, by placing a figure as dead, the author figure, within the
metaphorical topography of the text. Indeed, the author as dead is akin to a character in
the narrative but at a substratum level of the text. What places this dead figure within the
text is an uncanny writing self, a figure of transgression, brought into being in the
experience of Blanchot's essential solitude.
'The Seaborne' written by Matt Marshall, provides an example of a film script that
constitutes a haunted house, a site of the uncanny. In terms of the generic characteristics
of the film script as text type, its relative unimportance in relation to any subsequent film
based on the script becomes of itself a feature of the film script. This makes the film
script a site of negotiation and contestation between the implied author as hidden director
on the one hand and the implied reader as implied director on the other. This confirms
the film script as, using Sternberg's terminology, a blueprint text type. Examples of the
negotiation and relationship between hidden director and implied director are found in
analysis of 'The Seaborne' as are the tensions in the relationship between the
individualistic impulses of the hidden director and the mechanistic, formal requirements
of the text type as blueprint. These tensions are ameliorated by the hidden director who
is then effaced within the constructed layers of the film script text to allow interpretive
space for the implied director.
'The Seaborne' as representative of the film script text becomes the after-image of a
written text and the foreshadowing of a future filmic one. It therefore never finds
completion within its own construction process and its formation begins in templates that
accord with the Bakhtin's description of the epic, as is shown by comparing the
construction notes for 'The Seaborne' with Aristotlean dramatic requirements. But at the
same time there is present in 'The Seaborne' a Bakhtinian dialogism that points towards
the individual markers of a writing self. This writing self, referring to Kristeva, is a
figure of abjection. It transgresses itself and transgresses its own transgressions. It is a
ghost in a ghost story without ghosts.
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Garcia, del Rio Diego Fernando. "Studying protein complexes for assessing the function of ghost proteins (Ghost in the Cell)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lille (2022-....), 2023. https://pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr/ToutIDP/EDBSL/2023/2023ULILS115.pdf.
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Le cancer de l'ovaire (OvCa) est le cancer le plus mortel parmi les cancers féminins. Il est souvent diagnostiqué tardivement ou mal diagnostiqué, ce qui le rend difficile à traiter. Les options de traitement incluent la chirurgie ou la chimiothérapie, toutefois la résistance à la chimiothérapie est un problème majeur. Il est donc urgent de trouver de nouvelles cibles et de développer de nouvelles stratégies pour surmonter cette résistance.Dans ce contexte le protéome fantôme est une source potentiellement riche de biomarqueurs. Le protéome fantôme, ou protéome alternatif, est composé de protéines traduites à partir de cadres de lecture ouverts alternatifs (AltORFs). Ces AltORFs proviennent de différents codons START issus de différente région de l'ARNm, tels qu'un décalage de cadre de lecture (+1, +2) dans la séquence codante de l'ADN (CDS), dans le 5'-UTR, 3'-UTR et éventuellement de la traduction d'ARN non codants (ncRNA).Les études sur les protéines alternatives (AltProts) sont souvent complexes et nécessite des études biomoléculaires coûteuses. Cependant, leurs fonctions peuvent être déduites en identifiant leurs partenaires d'interaction, la détection des interactions protéine-protéine (PPI) entre AltProts et protéines de référence (RefProts) peut aider à identifier leur fonction. La stratégie de pontage chimique (crosslink) combiné à la spectrométrie de masse (XL-MS) est un outil approprié à cet objectif. De plus, les outils bioinformatiques qui relient les informations fonctionnelles des RefProt et les analyses d'ontologie génique (GO) permettent la visualisation des voies de signalisation et le regroupement des RefProts en fonction de leur processus biologique, de leur fonction moléculaire ou de leur localisation cellulaire, et ainsi y placer certaine AltProt.Dans ce travail, nous avons développé une méthodologie combinant XL-MS et le fractionnement subcellulaire. L'étape de fractionnement subcellulaire nous a permis de réduire la complexité des échantillons analysés par chromatographie liquide et spectrométrie de masse (LC-HRMS/MS). Pour évaluer la validité des interactions, nous avons réalisé une modélisation moléculaire des structures 3D des AltProts, suivie d'une prédiction informatique de l'interaction et de mesure des distances de pontages identifiés expérimentalement. L'analyse a révélé des rôles d'AltProts dans les fonctions et les processus biologiques tel que la réparation de l'ADN ou encore la présentation d'antigène.La protéogénomique a été utilisée pour générer des bases de données protéiques personnalisées à partir des données de séquençage ARN afin d'étudier les protéomes de deux lignées cellulaires de cancer de l'ovaire (PEO-4 et SKOV-3) en comparaison avec une lignée cellulaire ovarienne normale (T1074). L'expression différentielle de plusieurs protéines a ainsi été identifiée entre les lignées cellulaires cancéreuses et normales, avec une association aux voies de signalisation connues pour le cancer. Des PPI ont également été identifiées dans les lignées cellulaires cancéreuses en utilisant la méthodologie XL-MS.Ce travail met en évidence le potentiel de l'approche protéogénomique pour découvrir de nouveaux aspects de la biologie du cancer de l'ovaire. Il nous permet d'identifier des protéines et des variants auparavant inconnus qui peuvent avoir une signification fonctionnelle. L'utilisation de bases de données protéiques personnalisées et de l'approche de réticulation a mis en lumière le "protéome fantôme", une vision du protéome restée inexplorée jusqu'à présentOvarian cancer (OvCa) has the highest mortality rate among female reproductive cancers worldwide. OvCa is often referred to as a stealth killer because it is commonly diagnosed late or misdiagnosed. Once diagnosed, OvCa treatment options include surgery or chemotherapy. However, chemotherapy resistance is a significant obstacle. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify new targets and develop novel therapeutic strategies to overcome therapy resistance.In this context the ghost proteome is a potentially rich source of biomarkers. The ghost proteome, also known as the alternative proteome, consists of proteins translated from alternative open reading frames (AltORFs). These AltORFs originate from different start codons within mRNA molecules, such as the coding DNA sequence (CDS) in frameshifts (+1, +2), the 5'-UTR, 3'-UTR, and possible translation products from non-coding RNAs (ncRNA).Studies on alternative proteins (AltProts) are often limited due to their case-by-case occurrence and complexity. Obtaining functional protein information for AltProts requires complex and costly biomolecular studies. However, their functions can be inferred by profiling their interaction partners, known as "guilty by association" approaches. Indeed, assessing AltProts' protein-protein interactions (PPIs) with reference proteins (RefProts) can help identify their function and set them as research targets. Since there is a lack of antibodies against AltProts, crosslinking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) is an appropriate tool for this task. Additionally, bioinformatic tools that link protein functional information through networks and gene ontology (GO) analysis are also powerful. These tools enable the visualization of signaling pathways and the grouping of RefProts based on their biological process, molecular function, or cellular localization, thus enhancing our understanding of cellular mechanisms.In this work, we developed a methodology that combines XL-MS and subcellular fractionation. The key step of subcellular fractionation allowed us to reduce the complexity of the samples analyzed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). To assess the validity of crosslinked interactions, we performed molecular modeling of the 3D structures of the AltProts, followed by docking studies and measurement of the corresponding crosslink distances. Network analysis indicated potential roles for AltProts in biological functions and processes. The advantages of this workflow include non-targeted AltProt identification and subcellular identification.Additionally, a proteogenomic analysis was performed to investigate the proteomes of two ovarian cancer cell lines (PEO-4 and SKOV-3 cells) in comparison to a normal ovarian epithelial cell line (T1074 cell). Using RNA-seq data, customized protein databases for each cell line were generated. Differential expression of several proteins, including AltProts, was identified between the cancer and normal cell lines. The expression of some RefProts and their transcripts were associated with cancer-related pathways. Moreover, the XL-MS methodology described above was used to identify PPIs in the cancerous cell lines.This work highlights the significant potential of proteogenomics in uncovering new aspects of ovarian cancer biology. It enables us to identify previously unknown proteins and variants that may have functional significance. The use of customized protein databases and the crosslinking approach have shed light on the "ghost proteome," an area that has remained unexplored until now
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Groven, Marielle 1984. "The ghost in the machine /." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116133.
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The Ghost in the Machine is a piece of music far large wind ensemble. This piece is concerned with the interrelationship between the perception of time passing in music and the level of perceived density of musical activity. Specifically, the piece is designed according to the notion that the higher the level of musical activity within smaller intervals of time, the higher the perceived level of density. The piece consists of a large-scale density envelope that spans the length of the entire piece, wherein the level of density increases gradually towards and decreases away from the climax point. The shape of this density envelope is reflected on smaller scales that operate at various levels of the music, all of which are discussed in detail in the analysis part of the thesis. These density envelopes are used as a means of structuring the listening process over the course of the piece.
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Ballardini, Anny. "Ghost Dance in 31 Movements." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/826.
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A kind of poetry that tries to understand contemporary social and philosophical issues as much as behaviors by rewriting in a poetic language the video artwork of some of the main representatives of modernism and postmodernism. Such poetry is deprived of confessional hues, any personal reference has to be ascribed to a mirroring effect by which the single person empathically absorbs and projects what is conveyed, be it stemming directly from the historical time of the artwork's making and inherited, or alive at the time of its actual viewing. By following a restructuring process started at the beginning of the twentieth century, the writing analyzes possible ways to outline developments or to underline breaking points. Poetry is seen as an active medium within the formation of societies characterized as it is by its highly introspective power, not restricted to the individual but open to all beings perceived as members of one entity.
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Remic, Andy. "The Ghost of Your Father." Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2018. http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/10442/.
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The thesis contains a creative text, along with a poetics of the work. The Ghost of Your Father is the story of unusual childhood adventures in the small village of Ramsbottom, Lancashire, with chapters also dedicated to exploring the forests, mountains, rivers and family members of Trebija, Yugoslavia, during the long summer holidays of the 1980s. Remic’s father, Nikolas, was a child of Yugoslavia, enlisted in the army at the age of seventeen and captured by Germans during WWII. He subsequently escaped from a POW camp, was rescued by US troops, and brought to the UK where he joined the RAF and met the author’s mother, Sally, a Liverpudlian working in the NAAFI. The thesis is a childhood memoir of clashing worlds: village life in Lancashire, contrasted with village life in Trebija, Yugoslavia, and is infused with the new dawning age of the 1980s computer revolution, and the author’s conflicting desire to become both an author and computer game programmer. A strange merging of country life and 8-bit technology, of Tolkien fantasy novels and differing cultures and customs, the text reveals these two very different worlds, searching for linking threads, and is the source of what made Remic the genre novelist he became. The text explores life in Ramsbottom and life in Slovenija – and presents childhood adventures in the 1980s, and those same places and faces experienced a quarter of a century later. The text contains a travel section detailing an account of the events that occurred when Remic returned to Slovenija to meet his long, lost, beloved Aunty Mary, taking his children on that same voyage of discovery he experienced as a boy, and which he believes shaped his imagination and fired his creativity to create a genre novelist working in the field today. Part memoir, part travelogue, part exploration and decoding of a child’s-eye view of a world filled with fantasy monsters, pixellated graphics, mountain-top escapades and small-town haunted houses, The Ghost of Your Father is a book of contrasts, of exploring imagination, creativity, ethics, and the very twisted essence of subjective memory. It is a story of a child then, and a child now, based on memories, interviews and new experiences. It is a fictional representation of a factual past, and a factual exploration of a fictional present. It is the truth, perhaps not as it was, but as it might have been. The poetics is an exploration of the writing process of The Ghost of Your Father. It’s an investigation of why, and how, Remic decided to create this text, examining contextualisation, where this work sits in the field of contemporary memoir, reflecting on the process of writing the text, including how Remic was inspired and arrived at conclusions over memory, tone and research for form, and ultimately concluding with how this project has altered Remic’s perspective of research, creative writing, and how it has informed Remic’s genre writing and creative writing as a whole.
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Berry, Emily. "'_____' : Elegy's Ghost ; and, Stranger, Baby." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/67859/.
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This thesis comprises a creative and critical exploration of grief, loss and absence in what I call elegiac writing. The critical portion of the thesis, ‘____’: Elegy’s Ghost, marks out the terms of my creative work, by examining how other contemporary writers have addressed these themes and by considering the uses and limitations of ‘elegy’ as a formal category. My particular interest is in writings that embark from a particular loss to explore loss itself as a concept beyond (or alongside) its object and how this manifests in language. In chapter one I lay the groundwork for my study, which goes on to closely focus on elegiac works by three writers, Kristin Prevallet, Anne Carson and Noelle Kocot. This includes an overview of the history and evolution of elegy, looking at both the literary background and the influence of psychoanalytic writings in the genre, in order to position my argument. I maintain, for example, that Freud’s ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ has been profoundly misinterpreted. I argue that contemporary writers exploring grief often use the term ‘elegy’ ambivalently, as evidenced by their engagement with the concept in their work. My term ‘elegiac writing’ seeks to acknowledge this ambivalence in writings which – in keeping with the ‘vexed experience’ of writing about grief – wrestle with both content and form. Chapters two, three and four are each devoted to examining a single elegiac work, considering the different ways loss can be registered in language through, for example, holes, gaps, negation and obscurity. My poetry collection Stranger, Baby, written in conversation with the creative and critical works examined here, is an encounter with my own experience of grief and the process of writing about it. I conclude the critical portion of the thesis by reflexively examining this process and its relationship to my critical research.
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Davis, Roy C. "The Ghost of Carver Ranch." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154312646.
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Belanger, Ashley(Ashley Noel). "Where the desert ghost roams." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128982.
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The U.S. Mexico border is a challenging place to survive for a Sonoran pronghorn. Nearly two decades ago, this endangered species faced near extinction in it s only home, an embroiled, increasingly shrinking habitat in Southwest Arizona. There in the Sonoran Desert, a passionate recovery team has dedicated significant efforts and investments to sustaining the approximately 200 remaining Sonoran pronghorns left in the U.S. The team face s two enormous obstacles that mo st endangered species rescue missions don't usually have to deal with. The first: a persistent drought that zaps water and plant life from the desert, making it hard for the animal to stay hydrated a nd fed. The second: Human disturbance in its range from off road driving by U.S. border patrol agents monitoring migrants. Its home happens to be one of the most concentrated areas of illegal activity at the border, and the off road driving further dries out vital plant life and diverts waterflow in the desert. It's also not the only environmental impact of border activity, as the recovery team's research shows. For the Sonoran pronghorn -- North America's fastest land mammal, an iconic creature seen on the landscape since prehistoric times -- there is nowhere to go when the rain never comes during drought The recovery team monitors the dire situation chasing pronghorns that can sprint up to 60 miles per hour to deliver food and water when the Sonoran Desert is too dry to graze. As it become s harder for the Sonoran pronghorn to escape increasingly inescapable human activity, it also become s harder for the recovery team to ensure the Sonoran pronghorn survives its estimated nearly one in four chance of being extinct by the end of this century.
by Ashley Belanger.
S.M. in Science Writing
S.M.inScienceWriting Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Woodworth, Samuel Olson. "I Woke Up a Ghost." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81458.
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I Woke Up a Ghost is a collection of poems interacting and reacting to the death of a mother in the speaker's childhood. Through examining various relationships and states of mind, the speaker seeks new ways to imaginatively interpret and emotionally deal with loss and begin healing.Master of Fine Arts
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Smit, Reynard. "The Gavel and the Ghost." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32811.
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This thesis explores an alternative method of making Architecture based on ideas presented by Bruno Latour in “Give me a gun and I will make all buildings move” and concepts discussed by Peter Eisenman within “Diagram: An Original Scene of Writing.”
The static nature of representation within Euclidian Space requires a re-evaluation of the generative qualities inherent within diagrams. Managed through an identified mechanism, the thesis investigates the excavation of potential within Pretoria Central’s lost spaces by generating programme, response and resolution from elements inherent in the diachronic context.Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Weston, Brenna Elizabeth. "Ghosts and Graveyards: Colonial Park Cemetery and Memory Construction on Ghost Tours in Savannah, Georgia." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27970.
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This thesis examines memory construction and landscape interaction on ghost tours at
Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. The research in this thesis centers on the ways in
which ghost tours in the area interact with the cemetery?s landscape and how oral narratives
compare with written sources through the lenses of authority and authenticity. Ghost tour
narratives are included in a larger argument for their usefulness and importance to
archaeologists, especially for introducing dialogues with local communities about site
interpretation and preservation. This may also be useful for archaeologists researching
intersections of landscape interactions and modern interpretations.
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Randall, William Sanford. "How Methane Made the Mountain: The Material Ghost and the Technological Sublime in Methane Ghosts." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460722538.
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Stewart, Clare. "Fighting spirit : Victorian women's ghost stories." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1610/.
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Johnson, Jen Cullerton. "Yoshimura's Ghost: Essays on Rural Japan." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1447.
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Yoshimura’s Ghost: Essays on Rural Japan is a collection of six essays exploring the cultural phenomena and daily life of rural Japan. The collection represents my experiences of living as an educator, wife, and mother living in a post 9/11 world. Although not chronological, the essays flow episodically and illustrate examples of the social and cultural concepts that struck me as elements of otherness. Some of the essays in this collection examine the parallels between the exclusion and isolation I felt in Japan as compared to other marginalized groups. Several of the essays describe the culture of Japanese schooling, perhaps offering a perspective only accessible to a foreigner seeing the ways in which a centuries old culture, which is in many ways the most “modern” of any on the planet, absorbs and makes its own cultures from around the world.
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Abd, El-Maksoud Rania Hassan. "GHOST IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195492.
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Ghost images are caused by the inter-reflections of light from optical surfaces that have transmittances less than unity. Ghosts can reduce contrast, provide misleading information, and if severe can veil parts of the nominal image. This dissertation develops several methodologies to simulate ghost effects arising from an even number of light reflections between the surfaces of multi-element lens systems. We present an algorithm to generate the ghost layout that is generated by two, four and up to N (even) reflections. For each possible ghost layout, paraxial ray tracing is performed to calculate the locations of the Gaussian cardinal points, the locations and diameters of the ghost entrance and exit pupils, the locations and diameters of the ghost entrance and exit windows, and the ghost chief and marginal ray heights and angles at each surface in the ghost layout. The paraxial ray trace data is used to estimate the fourth order ghost aberration coefficients. Petzval, tangential, and sagittal ghost image surfaces are introduced. Potential ghosts are formed at the intersection points between the ghost image surfaces and the Gaussian nominal image plane. Paraxial radiometric methodology is developed to estimate the ghost irradiance point spread function at the nominal image plane. Contrast reduction by ghosts can cause a reduction in the depth of field, and a simulation model and experimental technique that can be used to measure the depth of field is presented. Finally, ghost simulation examples are provided and discussed.
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Chen, Qin. "Allegories and Appropriations of the “Ghost”: A Study of Xu Xu’s Ghost Love and Its Three Film Adaptations." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281931832.
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Fee, Margery. "The Signifying Writer and the Ghost Reader: Mudrooroo's Master of the Ghost Dreaming and Writing from the Fringe." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11653.
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Mudrooroo has been influenced both by Henry Louis Gates' notions of signifying, as well as by those of Roland Barthes. For Aboriginal Australians, the Dreaming Ancestors marked the world with signs that they could read. The central character in the novel, Jangamuttuk, receives the European as his "dreaming" and his totemic ancestor. He (and Mudrooroo) therefore understand and can use and combat the power of this Ghost.
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Whalen, Faraji L. "Ghost towers : distressed condominium investing in Atlanta." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54867.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in Conjunction with the Center for Real Estate , 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-57).
The purpose of this paper is to explore investment opportunities in these now-distressed residential condo properties. The paper will characterize the economic and development environment to determine the extent of overbuilding and forecast future behavior amongst market participants. It will assess the behavior of bulk condo investors in previous downturns to assess both similarities and differences in the environment, and identify best practices in investment and asset management. Additionally, the paper will characterize the legal and management risks inherent in this type of investment. The paper will conclude that there are a number of different strategies for investing in bulk condos and their underlying debt. One of the hardest hit markets is Atlanta, Georgia, which is the focus of this paper. Each of these strategies is contingent on the type and expertise level of the individual investor, but there are certainly going to be appropriate avenues for investors to create value both from the physical asset and from purchasing debt. Atlanta is likely going to be an excellent market to pursue these deals because of unique localized factors including extraordinary state distress, low asset pricing, and limited competition. The findings in this paper conclude that distressed condominium investing is an extremely localized business, and the recommendations made in this paper are specific to Atlanta. While an investor may use the paper as a guide for investment in other locales, it would not be appropriate to use a cookie cutter approach in every city. There are also many risks and a great deal of unknowns in the bulk condo space.
(cont.) This downturn differs significantly from past real estate crises because of the complexity of the financial instruments used to fund condo projects as well as a completely different government response. It is clear that the government response up to this point has been as much of a hindrance as it has been a help. Government action must engage investors in financial instruments in a more predictable manner, and assure they will not engage in punitive legislative behavior to investors who profit from this crisis.
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Sanzgiri, James Suneil. "Domesticating the ghost : constellations of Mexico, 1968." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111271.
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Thesis: S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Page 96 blank.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-95).
Organized primarily as an essayistic method of investigation to accompany and supplement my thirty-minute short film AT THE TOP OF GRASSHOPPER'S HILL, this thesis traces minor encounters or discrepant engagements¹ between myself and and images of the 1968 state-sponsored student massacre in Mexico City. I adopt these engagements, most of which exist as encounters within state-sponsored institutions, to take 1968 and the Tlatelolco Massacre as a point of departure with which to navigate the density of such questions and problems as the production of collective memory, cultural heritage, disappearance, the archive, history and authority, and above all how power and knowledge function within a hegemonic terrain. Through an analysis of the many manifestations of images surrounding the 1968 student massacre, including Hollywood-esqe adaptations and 16mm documentation of the event by the military themselves, I explore the role representation plays in political struggles as well as its potential co-optation by the state. Such co-optation I argue, perpetuates cycles of oppression that maintain the status quo; and within Mexico specifically, the nearly ninety-year rule of the PRI party. At its essence, this thesis pries open the inconsistencies of such representations within Mexico, 1968 and its aftermath. These questions are sparked by my long term considerations of theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Paul Virilio, and Michel Foucault. I have found my investigations within Mexico indicative of their writings among a range of others that appear in this text. As such, this essayistic exploration stretches and drifts across many different disciplines, geographies, and figures. Thus, I develop a "constellatory framework" to expand an analysis of technologies of reproduction themselves towards their facility to impact national memory through circulation.
by James Suneil Sanzgiri.
S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology
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Zhang, Xingwen [Verfasser]. "Supercontinuum Generation by Ghost Pulse / Xingwen Zhang." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1227301820/34.
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Cramm, Michael. "Ghost-Writer : Autorschaft in Heiner Müllers Spätwerk /." Würzburg Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. http://d-nb.info/991845609/04.
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Wang, Xiaopeng. "Applications and Principle Designs of Ghost Imaging." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18793.
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Ghost Imaging (GI) is an emerging imaging technique which originated from quantum and optical areas. GI can achieve 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) reconstructions of objects without direct involvements of spatial resolving detectors. Starting from its first experimental demonstration back to 1995, GI has drawn much attention and has been now adopted to other imaging scenarios besides optical as well. As for its potential applications in microwave imaging, I first introduce GI into the scenario of Through-wall Imaging (TWI) by using chaotic modulated signals and an array of antennas to illuminate the scenario. Then a high-resolution image of target objects is obtained by using modified reconstruction method from optical GI. As for the second approach in investigations of microwave GI, I further consider extending the indoor TWI scenario to the surveillance upon urban areas. By replacing the chaotic modulated signal with long-term-evolution (LTE) and Wi-Fi signals, the proposed system can be further integrated into existing communication networks. Then in order to reduce the difficulty in practical implementations of microwave GI, I propose a novel microwave GI scheme based on non-random EM fields. By applying purposely designed EM fields to illuminate the imaging scenario, both the requirement of randomness and the involvement of field estimations in traditional microwave GI has been removed. Motivated by the fact that both communication and imaging can be considered as an information transfer process, I integrate error-control-coding (ECC) techniques into the physical imaging procedure of GI. The proof-of-concept experiment validates that the object image can be effectively reconstructed while errors induced by noisy reception can be significantly reduced under this new scheme. The demonstrated approach informs a new imaging technique: ECC assisted imaging, which can be scaled into applications such as remote sensing, spectroscopy and biomedical imaging.
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Zhang, Ziqian. "Microwave Ghost Imaging Via LTE-DL Signals." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18797.
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Microwave ghost imaging (GI) is derived from optical and quantum areas with some unique features, such as nonlocal reconstruction, high-resolution, etc. In addition, it also benefits the penetration ability from microwave signals, which enables it to have the weather immunity. However, most of existing microwave ghost imaging systems are realized by using random signals generated from complex stochastic processes. Furthermore, transmitters served for a microwave GI system need to be purposely deployed. Thus, the system complexity and operational cost need to be further reduced. In order to address those problems, we proposed a long-term evolution (LTE) downlink (DL) signal-based microwave ghost imaging scheme. Based on previous research about radar coincidence imaging, the feasibility of employing the LTE-DL signals into the framework of microwave GI is further deduced. In order to satisfy the incoherent requirements, the structure of LTE-DL signals is analyzed and a signal selection scheme is proposed accordingly. Numerical simulation results show that our proposed LTE-DL-based microwave GI can effectively obtain the reconstruction of objects. Compared with conventional microwave GI where the illumination signals are deliberately designed, the system complexity and operational cost are significantly decreased due to the employment of pre-deployed LTE systems.
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Lovric, Ivo Mark. "Ghost Wars : the Politics of War Commemoration." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150317.
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Ghost Wars: the politics of war commemoration: research into dissenting views to war and other aspects of the Australian experience of war that are marginalised by the Australian War Memorial. A study taking the form of an exhibition of a filmic (video) essay, which comprises the outcome of the Studio Practice component, together with the Exegesis which documents the nature of the course of study undertaken, and the Dissertation, which comprises 33% of the Thesis.
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Reed, Delanna. "Ghost Stories for Historic Rugby Ghostly Gathering." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1274.
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Celebrate Halloween Rugby style at Historic Rugby’s Annual Ghostly Gathering events with ghost stories, a bonfire, and visits from some of Rugby’s most prominent haunts! Ghost stories also performed during October 2014.
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Hammerin, Olof. "Operativsystemsreplikering : Jämförelse mellan FOG och Symantec Ghost Suite." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-6145.
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För att installera flera operativsystem samtidigt finns det olika verktyg avsedda för att underlätta denna process. Det finns både kommersiella- och gratisalternativ ute på marknaden. En av de ledande kommersiella replikeringsmjukvarorna är Symantec Ghost. I detta arbete jämförs Symantec Ghosts mot Free open-source ghost (FOG) för att mäta användbarheten med avseende på kritiska attribut. Kritiska attribut är baserade på utförandet av en fullständig replikeringsprocess samt hur en användare upplever hanteringen av mjukvaran. Resultaten består av både kvalitativa och kvantitativa resultat som sammanställs i en jämförelsematris som presenterar för- och nackdelar med mjukvarorna. Resultaten visar att användbarheten är relativt likvärdig men att FOG presterar lite bättre än Symantec Ghost.
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Yamashita, Yasuho. "Embedding Ghost-free Bigravity into Higher-Dimensional Gravity." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/225402.
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Loveridge, M. M. "Marine seismic source signatures : directivity and the ghost." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355760.
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