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Veatch, Barbara Gene. "Odyssey." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303240542.

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Cogswell, Bernadette Kafwimbi. "American Odyssey." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001957.

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Rice, Carter John. "Ambient Odyssey." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368713739.

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Křepela, Martin. "The Weighted Space Odyssey." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-41944.

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The common topic of this thesis is boundedness of integral and supremal operators between weighted function spaces. The first type of results are characterizations of boundedness of a convolution-type operator between general weighted Lorentz spaces. Weighted Young-type convolution inequalities are obtained and an optimality property of involved domain spaces is proved. Additional provided information includes an overview of basic properties of some new function spaces appearing in the proven inequalities. In the next part, product-based bilinear and multilinear Hardy-type operators are investigated. It is characterized when a bilinear Hardy operator inequality holds either for all nonnegative or all nonnegative and nonincreasing functions on the real semiaxis. The proof technique is based on a reduction of the bilinear problems to linear ones to which known weighted inequalities are applicable. Further objects of study are iterated supremal and integral Hardy operators, a basic Hardy operator with a kernel and applications of these to more complicated weighted problems and embeddings of generalized Lorentz spaces. Several open problems related to missing cases of parameters are solved, thus completing the theory of the involved fundamental Hardy-type operators.
Operators acting on function spaces are classical subjects of study in functional analysis. This thesis contributes to the research on this topic, focusing particularly on integral and supremal operators and weighted function spaces. Proving boundedness conditions of a convolution-type operator between weighted Lorentz spaces is the first type of a problem investigated here. The results have a form of weighted Young-type convolution inequalities, addressing also optimality properties of involved domain spaces. In addition to that, the outcome includes an overview of basic properties of some new function spaces appearing in the proven inequalities.  Product-based bilinear and multilinear Hardy-type operators are another matter of focus. It is characterized when a bilinear Hardy operator inequality holds either for all nonnegative or all nonnegative and nonincreasing functions on the real semiaxis. The proof technique is based on a reduction of the bilinear problems to linear ones to which known weighted inequalities are applicable.  The last part of the presented work concerns iterated supremal and integral Hardy operators, a basic Hardy operator with a kernel and applications of these to more complicated weighted problems and embeddings of generalized Lorentz spaces. Several open problems related to missing cases of parameters are solved, completing the theory of the involved fundamental Hardy-type operators.

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Toresson, Fredrik. "En sublim odyssé : En studie av 2001: A Space Odyssey och det sublima." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Cinema Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1124.

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Studien undersöker det sublima i Stanley Kubricks rymdepos från 1968. Främst behandlas den estetiska dimensionen av begreppet men av stort intresse är också huruvida filmmediet rymmer en mediespecifik sublimitet. Fyra tänkare ligger till grund för förståelsen av begreppet så som det formuleras i den teoretiska inledningen av uppsatsen – Longinos, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant samt Jean-François Lyotard och varje tänkare erbjuder en unik förståelse av begreppet. Detta ger ett mångfacetterat begrepp som kommer att prägla det metodologiska förfarandet. De olika teoretiska uppfattningarna av begreppet låter sig delas in i en dikotomi om implicit respektive explicit sublimitet, och denna uppdelning ligger sedermera till grund för uppsatsens disposition: I det första analyskapitlet behandlas filmens övergripande struktur. Utifrån neoformalismens begrepp om fabel och sujett, proairetisk och hermeneutisk linje belyses filmens episodiska uppbyggnad och kausalitetens betydelse för det sublima, hur det sublima kommer till uttryck i relationen mellan händelser och representationen av dessa händelser. I analysens andra del fokuseras den explicita sublimiteten och det sublima som rumslig tilldragelse. I analysens tredje del behandlas det sublima som frambragt genom implicita medel, den utomrumsliga sublimiteten och de temporala implikationer som följer av denna. Ur filmvetenskaplig kanon beaktas i uppsatsen dessutom Gilles Deleuze och Jean Epsteins filmiska filosofier varpå det blir tydligt att dessa rymmer sublima implikationer. Rörelsebilden och tidsbilden borgar för olika slags sublimiteter och nytt ljus faller över fotogeniet då det problematiseras utifrån Kants tankar om smakomdömet.

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Gianotten, Judith. "Spermatogenic failure a genetic Odyssey /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2004. http://dare.uva.nl/document/76059.

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Clark, D. "Studies in Odyssey 13-24." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384417.

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Bellinfantie, Aldin Samuel St Patrick. "The odyssey of a principal." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21592/.

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Jamaican schools are, for the most part, driven by the principal’s persona. Many individuals within the public sphere view the school as being owned by the principal. This persona is sometimes magnified to the extent that it causes even some principals to assume this false position of ownership over the institutions they lead. It is, therefore, for this reason that I am offering an autoethnography focused on my experiences as a principal. This I hope will bring my audience closer to the subculture experience of school life, through my own experiences. The following research questions were put: 1. What were the challenges I faced during my principalship? 2. How did I respond to the challenges? 3. What occupied my time during my journey? 4. What factors and considerations determined my priorities? 5. What barriers or obstacles did I encounter in attempting to initiate and execute the institution’s first School Development Plan (SIP) and cultivating what I consider to be a positive environment, and an organizational culture that enhances teaching and learning? 6. In what ways did I develop and use a model of accountability in a positive and productive manner? Research data were garnered from my reflexive journal, personal calendar, staff agendas and memos, the principal’s log, and reflexive analysis. Reflective and retrospective insight was gained through the analysis of thematic similarities, key attributes, and the coding of the data. Secondary sources of information were substantially drawn from research findings and comparisons gained from literature reviews. The study is justified in that it provides insight into how the experience of a school principal can: help to create a possible template of school development strategies, provide aspiring and current principals an opportunity to reflect on their own careers in administration, and give insight into how the experience of a school principal can help to provide for a new governance structure for schools. I concluded with a specific appeal to principals and educational leaders to also write their own stories, and a general call for further autoethnographical research in this area from my colleagues in Jamaica and more generally in the developing world.
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Salvagni, Chiara. "'Comprehensive Odyssey' : a digital critical repository of the Odyssey and its sources : perspectives and consequences." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2017. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/comprehensive-odyssey-a-digital-critical-repository-of-the-odyssey-and-its-sources-perspectives-and-consequences(bd4dd123-e936-4fd1-be6f-f5a7822cbdbc).html.

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This dissertation includes a digital proof of concept called the “Comprehensive Odyssey”, which provides the text of the first 105 lines of the Odyssey, the secondary sources for each line and the scholia. This digital project was the focus of an analysis of the possibilities of the digital medium to produce a digital critical edition or rather a digital critical repository of the Homeric poems and their indirect tradition. The dissertation presents all the stages in this analysis. As this edition deals with Homer’s Odyssey, one chapter here takes into consideration the present situation in Homeric scholarship. The analysis also embraces an overview of the theory of oral composition, traditional referentiality, notional fixity and the process from oral to print to digital, bearing in mind that the project deals with a poem whose origin is not in the form of a written composition, but of an oral composition in performance. To assess the possibilities of creating a digital project concerning Homer, a review has been carried out of digital projects in Classics, some of which are centred on Homer. We also discuss the theories both of digital editing and of textual editing. Assessing digital theories helps when deciding about which framework to use for a digital project, and it was what assisted us in understanding the difficulties that would have to be overcome in order to make this project feasible. Moreover, this dissertation includes a detailed overview of all the technical challenges encountered while producing it, by this meaning the encoding process with XML and TEI and the visualisation process with XSLT. One chapter aims to provide examples of research that can stem from the collection of secondary sources and their understanding as fragmentary authors, together with an awareness of the problems arising from the creation of an edition from printed critical editions. The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the chances that this proof of concept may become a fully functional project and help in understanding the Homeric tradition. Most importantly, this proof of concept would be a never-ending repository which, with the help of encoding in XML and TEI, would always remain open to changes and improvements. The hindrances that the digital medium faces, such as copyright and ‘comprehensiveness’, are also pointed out. The concept of crowdsourcing is discussed, as it seems that it might serve to complete the encoding of all the sources of the “Comprehensive Odyssey”. Finally, the outcomes that might result from the above-mentioned ‘voyage’ are examined, leading to the conclusion that a project such as the one we envisaged is too ambitious, since it contains several different aspects within one project, yet is not a failure. It is a worthwhile journey that helps us understand the importance of studying orality in connection with collaboration in the digital medium and the value of studies on quotations and fragmentary authors for the secondary sources.
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Bostock, Robert Nigel. "A Commentary on Homer: Odyssey 11." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.484830.

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Besides Iliad 10 and the end of the Odyssey, book 11 of the Odyssey has been the most disputed passage in Homer in terms of authorship. This thesis presents the first modem scholarly commentary devoted to the book. It deals with the topic at more length than the commentaries of Stanford and Heubeck, and is more advanced than the commentary of Untersteiner, which is directed towards students. The introduction discusses the place of Od. 11 within the Odyssey, in terms of theme and narrative structure. It discusses the katabasis in early Greek myth and poetry, and argues that the ritual performed by Odysseus in Hades is not necromancy, but is based on an ordinary sacrifice to the dead. A survey is given of possible Near Eastern influences on the book. The 'problem' of Od. 11 is then addressed, in which it is argued that the book is not an interpolation, but that it is probably a later addition to a revised version ofthe poem. Hapax legomena and metre are also analysed. . The commentary itself is based broadly on three lines of interpretation: linguistic, literary, and historical. The main purpose of the thesis is to present a· detailed commentary on which further discussion of the book may be based. It is argued that 440-64 and 565-600 are interpolations, but that the rest of the book is genume.
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Whitehorn, Daniel J. "Stripe & dusk: a weekend odyssey." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1021242.

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I love to take in and create playful fantasy, tales set in wild and fantastic worlds peopled by wild and fantastic characters - dragons and dinosaurs, knights and robots, stars and penguins. My novella is the story of a quest set in a colourful and wondrous fantasy universe. Along the journey's tumultuous trajectory fantasy tropes and protocols are encountered, subverted, teased at, appropriated, and renovated, in order to create something both original and familiar all at once. I am happy to acknowledge and salute the influences of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Walter Moers and Manuela Draeger.
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Beasley, E. B. "Odyssey a Christian's journey into faith /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Sentilles, Renee M. "Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American odyssey." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623901.

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This dissertation explores notions of self-invention and performance in mid-nineteenth century America by examining the life and writings of actress and poet, Adah Isaacs Menken, from roughly 1835 to 1868. During America's Civil War years, Menken became an international star in the controversial title role of Mazeppa, an equestrian play. at the climax, soldiers forcibly stripped Mazeppa (Menken) to reveal her body in a costume suggestive of nudity. The soldiers tied her to a horse and sent her careening up a steep mountain into the theatre rafters. This provocative "breeches part" allowed Menken to pursue unusual freedoms for a woman of her time as she faced a public that both celebrated and demonized her physical display.;Menken maintained a complex relationship with the public that hinged upon constantly shifting identities; she wore men's clothing while emphasizing her reputation as a femme fatale, formed intellectual friendships though she perpetuated low-brow drama, and claimed African, Jewish, Irish, Spanish and British ancestry. Dime novels and Bohemian literature suggested alternative routes for a woman to fulfill her aspirations, and Menken used their tropes to explore gender and sexual identity both on and off the stage. An aspiring poet, she also used her fame to befriend some of the most famous writers of her age, including Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Charles Swinburne, Alexandre Dumas, and Walt Whitman. When she died in 1868, she left a volume of poetry, Infelicia, that has gone in and out of print for over a century.;Menken's writing and correspondence allows us to examine not only Menken but the world in which she tried to meet her aspirations. This biographical dissertation functions as a study of mid-nineteenth century America as Menken traveled from New Orleans to Cincinnati, New York, and California. Her final years in Europe also enable us to explore how Americans judged their importance in the larger culture of the western world. This dissertation adds to the history of African-Americans, Jews, and women, explores Victorian notions of gender and sexuality, and contributes to our understanding of nineteenth-century American popular culture.
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Holt, Timothy James. "Setting as a poetic device to enhance character in the apologos of Homer's Odyssey." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1303.

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Makrinos, Antonios. "Eustathius' commentary on Homer's "Odyssey" (Ch. 1379-1397)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445266/.

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Eustathius' Commentary on Homer's Odyssey is preserved in two manuscripts (Parisinus Graecus 2702 and Marcianus Graecus 460). The latest edition of the work by G Stallbaum in two volumes (1:1825, 2 1826) is a printed reproduction of the first edition by N Maioranus in 1550 which was the first attempt of comparative study of the two manuscripts. Since then, there has been no complete edition based on the scientific comparison of both manuscripts and although Stallbaum's edition corrects some minor editorial mistakes, it does not offer a text based on a full study of both manuscripts furthermore, it preserves a substantial number of mistakes and it does not provide the reader with neither an apparatus criticus or testimonia. Additionally, there are neither comments nor any translating remarks which could help the understanding of the text The aim of my research is to accomplish a comparative study of both manuscripts of Eustathius' Commentary on Homer's Odyssey and to provide a full edition of a sample of text (chapters 1379-1397). Hence, my PhD thesis is divided in three parts: the introduction, the text and the fontes and testimonia. The introduction is divided in five chapters. 1 The first chapter provides background information on Eustathius' life and writings. 2. In the second chapter I discuss the chronological order of Eustathius' Commentaries on the Iliad and the Odyssey. 3. The third chapter is a complete comparative study of the codices there is an analytical description of both codices (treating matters like the use of ink, the marginal notes, the information acquired in the first and last pages) and a comparative examination of their physical features the combination of the external evidence together with a short description of the history of the manuscripts and an evaluation of their quality provide the reader with some useful conclusions on their relationship (including a stemma of the codices and the suggestion for an Archetype theory). 4. The fourth chapter treats the subject of Eustathius as a commentator and it deals with problems like his interpretative method and terminology and his allegorical interpretative strategy 5 In the fifth chapter, there is the identification of Eustathius' sources. 6. And finally in the sixth chapter, there is a short discussion of Eustathius' style and language. The introduction is followed by the edition of the text of Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey (1379-1397), with an apparatus criticus based on the comparative study of the manuscripts, the editio princeps and Stallbaum's edition. The edition of the text also provides the reader with testimonia together with some comments and translating remarks on the most problematic passages.
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Polychronakis, Ioannis. "Song odyssey : negotiating identities in Greek popular music." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669839.

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Miller, Brett A. "Incomplete focalization and scenic rhythm in the "Odyssey"." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433491.

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Smith, David M. "A journalistic odyssey : je suis partout 1936-1944." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.541964.

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Neumeister, Scott Leslie. "Circling Back Home: A Lifelong Odyssey into Feminism." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4378.

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What happens when a classroom becomes more than just a site of intellectual growth and evolves into a locus of emotional, social, and spiritual transformation? What happens when a student in such a classroom also occupies the role of teacher and desires to reproduce such a transformative environment for his students? In brief, this thesis answers these questions by offering a narrative and critique of my personal "conscientization" via feminism and elucidates the theory behind, my approaches toward, and the results of my bringing graduate-level feminist theory and pedagogy to a middle school English classroom. I examine how my experiences as a student in both the past and the present have merged to shape my work as a teacher and have set me on the path to becoming a professor, not only in the sense of a college teacher as a profession but as a person who professes, who openly declares the truths of my past as both dehumanizer and dehumanized to help others come to critical consciousness. First, I autobiographically critique my learning and assimilation of The Iliad and The Odyssey in middle school, reflecting upon how these works occupied a major part of my indoctrination into the hyper-masculine, white, patriarchal, upper-class dogma of the culture, as well as bringing a feminist perspective to bear upon these personally influential epics. Next, I examine my studies in the University of South Florida's master's program in English literature and, in particular, my direct and life-changing encounter with feminism in a 2009 course in feminist theory, which facilitated a complete re-visioning of my life and led to a personal renaissance. The final part of this circular path leads me back to my teaching of the same classical texts that so greatly influenced me as a young man, and I explain how my transformative experiences with both feminist theory and pedagogy motivated me to distill their critical approaches into a form and format that I have successfully implemented for my middle-school classroom.
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Haslam, Bryan (Bryan Todd). "Learning diseases from data : a disease space odyssey." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114002.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-280).
Recent commitments to enhance the use of data for learning in medicine provide the opportunity to apply instruments and abstractions from computational learning theory to systematize learning in medicine. The hope is to accelerate the rate at which we incorporate knowledge and improve healthcare quality. In this thesis, we work to bring further clarity to the ways in which computational learning theory can be applied to update the collective knowledge about diseases. Researchers continually study and learn about the complex nature of the human body. They summarize this knowledge with the best possible set of diseases and how those diseases relate to each other. We draw on computational learning theory to understand and broaden this form of collective learning. This mode of collective learning is regarded as unsupervised learning, as no disease labels are initially available. In unsupervised learning, variance is typically reduced to find an optimal function to organize the data. A significant challenge that remains is how to measure variance in the definition of diseases in a comprehensive way. Variance in the definition of a disease introduces a systematic error in both basic and clinical research. If measured, it would also be possible to use computers to efficiently minimize variance, providing a great opportunity for learning by utilizing medical data. In this thesis, we demonstrate that it is possible to estimate variance in the disease taxonomy, effectively estimating an error bar for the current definitions of diseases. We do so using the history of the disease taxonomy and comparing it with a variety of external data sets that relate diseases to attributes such as symptoms, drugs and genes. We demonstrate that variance can be significant over relatively short time periods. We further present methods for updating the disease taxonomy by reducing variance based on external disease data sets. This makes it possible to automatically incorporate information contained in disease data sets into the disease taxonomy. The approach also makes it possible to use expert information encoded in the taxonomy to systematically transfer knowledge and update other biomedical data sets that are often sparse (e.g. - symptoms associated with diseases). A natural question stemming from these results is how granular does data need to be to make improvements? For instance, is patient-level data necessary to enable learning at the macro level of disease? Or are there strategies to extract information from other kinds of data to alleviate the need for very granular data. We show that detailed, patient-level data is not necessarily needed to extract detailed biological data. We do so by comparing disease relationships learned from clinical trial metadata to disease relationships learned from a detailed genetic database and show we can achieve similar results. This result shows that we can use currently available data and take advantage of computational learning to improve disease learning, which suggests a new avenue to improving patient outcomes. By reducing variance within diseases using data available today, we can quickly update the space of diseases to be more precise. Precise diseases lead to better learning in other areas of medicine and ultimately improved healthcare quality.
by Bryan Haslam.
Ph. D.
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Taylor, David L. ""A-tonal odyssey for band" : a detailed analysis /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487760357824046.

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Varga, Matthew J., and Matthew J. Varga. "The Dynamics of Dehydrogenases - A Phase Space Odyssey." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625556.

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Enzymes are immensely powerful and efficient heterogenous catalysts which are essential for life. As essential to life as enzymes are, it is still not well understood exactly how they enhance the rate of their catalyzed reactions up to 19 orders of magnitude over their solution phase counterpart reactions. Recent research has focused on sub--picosecond motions coupled to the reaction coordinate, called rate--promoting vibrations, which are important components of several well--known enzymatic mechanisms and build upon previous models of enzyme activity. Herein I present two studies which are expressly focused on providing tools and knowledge to understand how dynamics affects enzymatic reactions. First, I present a method for the calculation of kinetic isotope effects from first principles, using transition path sampling and centroid molecular dynamics. This method allows for the calculation of kinetic isotope effects without the assumptions necessitated by transition state theory or free energy perturbation methods. It was found that this method could calculate the primary H/D kinetic isotope effect of the conversion of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde in yeast alcohol dehydrogenase to within the margin of error of experimentally measured kinetic isotope effects of the same reaction. Second, I examined the role that evolution plays in the preservation of these rate--promoting vibrations, by performing a transition path sampling study of two lactate dehydrogenases, those of Plasmodium falciparum and Cryptosporidium parvum, which evolved through separate gene duplication events from a common malate dehydrogenase ancestor. It was found that though both lactate dehydrogenases share the same rate--promoting vibration, and indeed share the rate--promoting vibration found in other lactate dehydrogenases, the sequence variations in lactate dehydrogenase from P. falciparum causes a diminished contribution of the motions to the reaction coordinate. The studies presented in this dissertation contribute to the our understanding of enzymes on an atomistic level, as well as providing tools necessary for designing novel de novo enzymes and targeted drugs for enzymes of disease--causing organisms.
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Giannakopoulou, Karamouzi Iris. "Forward-backward : the odyssey as a design interface." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118505.

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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018
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The Odyssey, one of the two Homeric poems, the other being the Iliad, stands as an exemplary invention of the ancient Greek oral tradition. Odysseus's nostos, his returning journey to his homeland, Ithaca, still echoes today, as an inexhaustible source of imagination and creativity. This project postulates that in the instance of the Odyssey, Homer blends imagination with reality, history with myth, the humans with the gods, and the living with the dead. In doing so, he offers us, an affective experience of the known and the unknown territories of the Cosmos; a poetic world of sounds, images, tastes and emotions; a 'synesthetic' experience that puts into question the platonic modes of thinking that supplemented the Homeric period. This work wishes to explore the Odyssey as interface for contemporary design, looking into significant shifts in epochs, such as the one from orality to literacy and further on to what the cultural theorist Gregory Ulmer coins as electracy which describes the technological, ideological and institutional apparatus of the contemporary digital epoch. As such, what specifically interests me in the myth of Odysseus, as a creative invention of the oral tradition, are the underlying logics and characteristics of this interface, which not only allow insight into the shift from an oral to a literate ontology, but are also suggestive as we look into contemporary digital design thinking, making and doing. My exploration in this project, takes the form of a 'forward-backward' exploration between Ulmer's theories and the interface of the Odyssey, as well as a 'forward-backward' oscillation between different epochs, aspired to creatively engage with the myth of Odysseus in search of latent design intelligences for the contemporary epoch.
by Iris Giannakopoulou Karamouzi.
S.M. in Architecture Studies
S.M.inArchitectureStudies Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Potter, Kristine Louise. "Writing, computers, and rhetorical situations: A composition odyssey." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1876.

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This thesis, an autoethnography, explores my own, personal experiences using technology in various writing situations: my writing process, collaborative publishing, my M.A. internship, online tutoring, and my first experience teaching college English composition in a computer classroom.
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Raïs, Ali Setti. "Diagnostic and therapeutic odyssey : essays in health economics." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01E019/document.

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Cette thèse de doctorat met l’emphase sur les défis rencontrés par les patients atteints de maladies rares. Elle est structurée en trois parties, chacune d’entre elles dédiée aux enjeux d’un acteur au cœur de l’Odyssée diagnostique et thérapeutique des patients atteints de maladies rares. La première partie de la thèse s’intéresse au patient et à son réseau social. Le chapitre 1 considère les sources de délai à l’accès au diagnostic, et explore notamment l’effet du capital social sur le délai d’obtention du diagnostic. Le chapitre 2 évoque les externalités négatives sur la santé maternelle d’un diagnostic d’une maladie chronique chez l’enfant. La seconde partie de la thèse est dédiée à l’industrie pharmaceutique et s’intéresse aux décisions d’investissements de R&D ciblant les maladies rares. Le chapitre 3 évalue l’effet causal de l’Orphan Drug Policy sur l’effort de recherche, et le chapitre 4 envisage les inégalités d’allocation des investissements de R&D entre les maladies rares. La partie 3 est dédiée aux décideurs publics et discute des enjeux d’évaluation des bénéfices de l’innovation thérapeutique et de la définition des conditions d’accès à cette innovation. Le chapitre 5 évalue l’effet causal de l’innovation thérapeutique sur la longévité des patients atteints de maladies rares. Le chapitre 6 est une discussion critique relative à l’utilisation d’outils
This dissertation emphasizes the challenges raised by the management of rare diseases and is structured around three key actors of the diagnostic and therapeutic “odyssey” of patients with rare diseases. Part I is devoted to patients and their social networks. Chapter 1 considers demand-side sources of delay in receiving a diagnosis; Chapter 2 explores the health spillover effects from patients’ health to their direct support structure. Part II considers pharmaceutical firms and examines how firms’ decisions to allocate R&D investment to rare diseases are impacted by innovation policies in rare arenas. Chapter 3 evaluates the causal impact of the EU Orphan Drug policy on R&D efforts in orphan drugs, while Chapter 4 investigates the inequality in allocation of R&D investment within rare diseases. Part III focuses on policymakers and addresses the issues in measuring pharmaceutical innovation benefits along with costs in rare disease arenas, while considering the opportunity cost of healthcare expenditures. Chapter 5 measures the causal impact of pharmaceutical innovation in rare diseases on longevity, while Chapter 6 is a critical discussion of decision-making tools for rational allocation of healthcare resources, and the use of a cost-effectiveness threshold
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Michaelis, Olaf. "Kubricks „2001: Odyssee im Weltraum“ und Nietzsche : eine Annäherung." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2013. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/6966/.

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Die Arbeit unternimmt den Versuch, Kubricks „2001: Odyssee im Weltraum“ als Metapher für das Ringen mit den Fragen des Lebens unter wesentlicher Betonung der Eigenverantwortung zu lesen. In dieser Hinsicht bestehen erstaunliche Parallelen zum Werk Friedrich Nietzsches. Der Film greift wesentliche Gedanken des deutschen Philosophen auf, indem er seine Kritik zunächst gegen die abendländisch christliche Religion richtet, um sie anschließend konsequent auf die Überhöhung der Wissenschaft, der Vernunft, des Logos auszudehnen. Letztere äußert Kubrick nicht zuletzt durch die Darstellung des scheinbar omnipräsenten und omnipotenten Bordcomputers und die blinde Technologiegläubigkeit, die ihm entgegen gebracht wird. Nachdem die Maschine überwunden ist, tritt der Kern der zunächst vordergründig kulturell-zivilisatorisch wirkenden Entwicklungsgeschichte zu Tage: das Individuum. Der Mensch durchläuft Nietzsches Verwandlungen in Kamel, Löwe und Kind, wodurch er letztlich zu sich selbst findet. Kubricks berühmter Monolith, der gemeinhin als größtes Rätsel des Films gilt, reiht sich dabei ebenso nahtlos in das Gesamtbild ein, wie die nicht weniger Fragen aufwerfende Reise des Protagonisten durch den Lichttunnel oder das schwer verständliche Ende, bei dem sich Bowman mitsamt der Raumkapsel an einem unwirklichen Ort wiederfindet. Nietzsche und Kubrick sind sich in ihrer offenen Vielschichtigkeit so ähnlich, dass die Arbeit weder für den Einen noch für den Anderen in Anspruch nimmt, eine abschließende Deutung vorzulegen. Die Betrachtung versteht sich daher lediglich als Angebot einer kohärenten Lesart des Science-Fiction-Klassikers, deren Gedankengang auch über den für Nietzsche äußerst bedeutsamen Schopenhauer schließlich zu dem deutschen Philosophen führt, der die Schlagworte vom „Übermenschen“ und dem „Willen zur Macht“ prägte.
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Germa, Elisabeth. "L' odyssée kubrickienne : esthétique de la réception film et déconstruction des conventions audio-visuelles du cinéma classique hollywoodien dans 2001 : A Space Odyssey." Toulouse 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001TOU20014.

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Dans l'éclectisme des genres cinématographiques abordés par Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968) est considérée comme une des oeuvres majeures de ce réalisateur américain. Il constitue, en outre, une référence incontournable du cinéma de science fiction et une véritable odyssée en soi. Ce travail explore les caractéristiques sonores et visuelles du film à la lumière d'une étude de l'esthétique de la réception filmique. Avec l'analyse syntagmatique de séquences, il apparaît que 2001 : A Space Odyssey relève par certains aspects d'une déconstruction des conventions cinématographiques classiques. Cette esthétique déconstructionniste, propre au discours post-moderniste qui allait voir le jour dix ans plus tard, est confirmée par l'étude d'autres réalisations de Stanley Kubrick, et notamment par A Clockwork Orange (1971) et The Shining (1980), pour lesquelles nous avons voulu étudier ce que d'aucuns appellent le "regard kubrickien". Si, 2001 : A Space Odyssey, aux dire de tous, se présente comme une oeuvre énigmatique, pourtant, la manifestation symbolique du monolithe, objet de toutes les interrogations, a ceci de particulier qu'elle transforme le spectateur en interprète. L'ensemble de l'étude élaborée dans ce travail cherche à montrer comment ce film fondé sur l'expérience sensorielle, élabore un contenu narratif et une représentation filmique s'ouvrant sur une pluralité de sens
Within the eclecticism of the film genres approached by Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968) is considered as one of the major pieces of the American director. And even beyond kubrick's oeuvre, the film stands as a main reference in the science fiction cinema and constitues an odyssey in itself. Our work explores the visual and sound characteristics of this movie in the light of a study of the aesthetics of the cinematic reception. With the syntagmatic analysis of sequences, it appears that in some respect 2001 : A Space Odyssey displays a deconstruction of the classic conventions of cinema. This aesthetics of deconstruction, inherent to the postmodernist discourse which appeared ten years later, is confirmed by the study of other films by Stanley Kubrick, most particularly A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980) for which we wanted to explore what some call "the kubrickian look". If 2001 : A Space Odyssey, according to all, is an enigmatic piece, the manifestation of the monolith, object of many inquiries, is particular in that it requires an interpretation from the audience. The totality of our study tries to demonstrate how a film based on sensorial experience constructs a narrative content and a cinematic representation expanding on a plurality of meanings
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Lindsjö, Martin. "On the nature of main-group polycations : an odyssey." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Kemi, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-178.

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Compounds containing main-group clusters, with focus on bismuth polycations, have been synthesized and characterized using X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic methods. Six new compounds have been isolated from synthesis in GaX3-arene media; Bi8[GaCl4]2, Bi8 [GaBr4]2, Sb8[GaCl4]2, Sb8[GaBr4]2, Te4[Ga2Cl7]2 and Te4[Ga2Br7]2. Sb2+ 8 is the first homopolyatomic antimony cation to be isolated. The cation forms a square antiprism, in correlation with Wade’s rules, and displays a significant difference in length between the inter-square and intra-square Sb–Sb distances. The geometries of the Sb2+ 8 cations in Sb8[GaCl4]2 and Sb8[GaBr4]2 are in excellent agreement; the average intra-square and intersquare Sb–Sb distances are 2.87 Å and 2.97 Å, respectively. A very strong Raman band attributed to Sb2+8 is found at 180 cm-1. The Bi2+8 (square antiprismatic) and Te2+4 (squareplanar) polycations are known from earlier compounds. The Bi–Bi distances in Bi8[GaCl4]2 (3.07–3.12 Å) are in general agreement with previous structures, while the Bi–Bi distances of Bi8[GaBr4]2 (2.92–3.18 Å) display a wider distrubution than previously observed. The Te–Te distances of the cations of Te4[Ga2Cl7]2 and Te4[Ga2Br7]2 are 2.66 and 2.67 Å, respectively. Quantum chemical calculations on bismuth polycations show that all species predicted byWade’s rules are local minima on a potential energy surface. The cation–anion interactions have been considered for salts containing bismuth polycations and it has been confirmed that such interactions have a major influence on the polycation stability. The new compound Bi16I4 has been isolated from molten Bil3. The structure consists of polymerized Bi16I4 molecules forming infinite ribbons and is very similar to the structure of the known metal-rich bismuth iodides, Bi14I4 and Bi18I4. DFT calculations predict all three compounds to be metallic conductors, while Bi4I4 is a semiconductor.
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Lindsjö, Martin. "On the nature of main-group polycations : an odyssey /." Stockholm, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-178.

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Hale, Frederick 1948. "The missionary career and spiritual odyssey of Otto Witt." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17274.

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This thesis is a theological and historical study of the Swedish missionary and evangelist Peter Otto Helger Witt (1848-1923), who served as the Church of Sweden Mission's first missionary and as such launched its work amongst the Zulu people of Southern Africa in the 1870S before growing disillusioned with his national Lutheran tradition and, after following a tortuous spiritual path through generally increasing theological subjectivity, eventually becoming a loosely affiliated Pentecostal evangelist in Scandinavia. Undoubtedly owing to the embarrassment he caused the Church of Sweden Mission by resigning from it while it was in a formative stage, but also to tension between him and its leaders, Witt has never received his due in the historiography of Swedish missions. For that matter, his role in Scandinavian nonconformist religious movements for nearly a third of a century beginning in the early 1890S is a largely untold chapter in the ecclesiastical history of the region. This thesis is intended to redress these lacunae by presenting Witt's career as both a foreign missionary and evangelist as well as the contours of his evolving religious thought and placing both of these emphases into the broader history of Scandinavian and other missionary endeavours amongst the Zulus, late nineteenth-century developments in Swedish Lutheranism, and the coming to northern Europe of those religious movements in which he successively became involved. As the copious documentation indicates, it is based to a great extent on little-used materials in the archives of the Church of Sweden Mission and other repositories in Scandinavia, South Africa, and the United States of America. Witt's own numerous publications also provide much of the stuff for it. The structure of this study is essentially chronological and, within that framework, thematic with clear precedents in previous missions and ecclesiastical historiography. The first chapter is largely a critical review of previous pertinent literature, professional and otherwise, emphasising its general misunderstanding and neglect of Witt. Chapter II covers his background in nineteenth-century Swedish Lutheranism, call to the Church of Sweden Mission, and role in establishing that organisation's endeavours amongst the Zulus. Chapter Ill deals with the trauma of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1819, particularly Witt's controversial but misunderstood role in it and the place of this in the existing historiography of that conflagration. Chapter IV surveys his part in re-establishing the Swedish Lutheran mission following the war and his co-operative and at times creative role in this major task. Chapters V and VI, on the other hand, have as their respective themes Witt's consequential spiritual crisis of the mid-1880s and resulting gradual departure from the Church of Sweden Mission. The seventh chapter is a consideration of Witt's Participation in and temporarily great impact on the Free East Africa Mission, a pan-Scandinavian free church undertaking which undertook evangelisation in both Durban and rural Natal in 1889. Chapter VIII treats Witt's generally independent career in Scandinavia from 1891 until his death, focusing on the new developments in which he became involved. The final chapter is an attempt to assess his general place in the missions and ecclesiastical history of Scandinavia and Southern Africa.
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Braff, Johanna Leah. "Animal similes and gender in the Odyssey and Oresteia." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8211.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Classics. 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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Gikonyo, Barnabas Kimaru. "Silicon backbone polymers as nerve growth substrates : an odyssey /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481666341&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2007.
"Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry." Keywords: Polysilane, Silicon backbone polymers, PC-12 cell growth, Nerve cell growth, Fibronectin, Polymers, Nerve growth substrates. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-142). Also available online.
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Burg, Carol A. "Faculty Perspectives on Doctoral Student Mentoring: The Mentor‘s Odyssey." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1582.

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In recent years, mentoring has emerged as a research domain, however, the preponderance of mentoring research has been situated first, in the business or organizational settings and second, in the K-12 educational setting, focusing on protégé experiences, using quantitative survey instruments to collect data. Thus, mentoring research literature includes a paucity of formal studies in the arena of graduate education. Situated in the higher education setting, this study investigated the perspectives of faculty-mentors who provided mentoring to doctoral students who completed the doctoral degree, employing the qualitative research methodology known as phenomenology, as an orthogonal but complimentary epistemology to previous quantitative studies. Located specifically in the College of Education of a large research university, the study asked 262 College of Education doctoral graduates to nominate College of Education faculty who provided mentoring to them during their degree pursuit. A total of 59 faculty were nominated as mentors. Six of the most frequently nominated mentors participated in two semi-structured interviews (Berg, 2004). The interviews addressed the mentor's experience of the mentoring endeavor, seeking to gather a description of their lived experience (Creswell, 1998) of mentoring and the meanings (Cohen & Omery, 1994) they garnered from it. The interviews yielded several shared perspectives on mentoring, including: a Gratifying Perspective, an Intentional Perspective, an Idiographic Perspective, a Teleological Perspective, and a Dynamic Perspective. Other noteworthy concepts that emerged from the mentors' data were: values, motivations, symbiotic relationship, and contextual negotiation. Implications for mentoring theory and practice as well as mentor development were described. The study contributed to development of a fuller phenomenological understanding of the perspectives of faculty-mentors in a mentoring relationship with doctoral students.
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Bathe, David A. Schapsmeier Edward L. "Wendell L. Willkie a political odyssey from realism to idealism /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1991. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9219080.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1991.
Title from title page screen, viewed December 22, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Edward Schapsmeier (chair), L. Moody Simms, Ronald Pope, Lawrence McBride, Donald Davis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-329) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Lam, Siu. "A Teacher's Odyssey : Critical Reflections on Implementing a Writing Course." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514286.

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Kouklanakis, Andrea. "Satire, Blame Poetics, and the Suitors in the Homeric Odyssey." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11108.

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Lebowitz, Willy. "Complex unity "self" and deliberation in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1576.

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Bell, Andy. "N-Myristoyltransferase as a drug target : a (chemical) space odyssey." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/47968.

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Previous research has provided pre-clinical validation for inhibition of the enzyme N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) target as a novel treatment of fungal and parasitic infections. This thesis describes the discovery of novel NMT inhibitor series derived from high-throughput screens (HTS) of the Pfizer compound collection against NMTs from both Leishmania donovani and Plasmodium falciparum. The further development of two series using structure-based drug design will be discussed, culminating in a series of compounds with efficacy in a mouse malaria model. Following the initial HTS, the hits were triaged based on the orthogonal attributes of structural diversity of each series of analogues; synthetic ease; orthologue selectivity; and estimated ligand efficiency. Iterative screening resulted in a master set that was further triaged through dose-response assays, including selectivity screening against both human NMTs. Eight novel series of NMT inhibitors, half selective for Leishmania and half for Plasmodium NMTs were approved for disclosure by Pfizer. One Leishmania-selective series, based on a thienopyrimidine template, was selected for further development based on a physicochemical hypothesis for achieving cell-based activity. Synthesis of a close analogue of the HTS hit provided validation of the series, which was further developed through the iterative synthesis and testing. The key objective of greatly improved activity in the Leishmania cell-based assays was not achieved. Development of a Plasmodium-selective series of aminomethylindazoles was more successful. Co-crystallisation of a close analogue of the screening hit demonstrated an orthogonal binding mode to the previously published quinoline series. Use of a fragment-linking approach enabled the design and synthesis of novel, highly potent inhibitors with balanced activity against three Plasmodium spp. NMTs, while retaining selectivity over both human NMTs. Excellent translation into cell-based activity was achieved, resulting in several lead compounds with efficacy in a mouse malaria model following both intraperitoneal and oral dosing.
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Jensen, Erik Thomas. "Deconstructing Dionysus| Re-visioning Nietzsche's Writings as a Polytheistic Odyssey." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10936887.

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This hermeneutic study employs the theoretical lens of James Hillman’s archetypal psychology to re-imagine Friedrich Nietzsche’s writings as a polytheistic odyssey, that is to say, as a daring journey into the unknown, informed by an array of archetypal perspectives, each represented by a specific Greek god or goddess. Nietzsche, it is argued, anticipated archetypal psychology, most notably in his employment of the Greek gods, Apollo and especially Dionysus. This study builds on Nietzsche’s limited archetypal field, and considers other gods and goddesses essential to his thought and writing—deities that until now have remained largely unconscious factors. Two gods in particular, Hermes and Ares, are singled out and subjected to extensive analysis. The study specifically explores how these two gods contribute to the experience of reading Nietzsche and also help address the problem of personal alienation. The odyssey begins with Nietzsche’s notion of the death of god, understood psychologically as the loss of an ultimate source of meaning and values. This loss can lead to a profound sense of alienation; however, it also opens up the possibility of discovering new archetypal perspectives, and thereby new ways of meaningfully connecting to life. The study concludes that Hermes, as boundary-crosser and connection-maker, and Ares, in his capacity to fight through adversity and destroy outdated monotheistic structures, play essential roles in this process.

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Colomo, D. "Select literary papyri from Oxyrhynchus." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270888.

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Walczyk, Kevin 1964. "Two Movements from the Delphic Suite: A Composition for Orchestra." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501059/.

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Delphic Suite is a composition for orchestra that depicts specific events narrated in Homer's epic tale, Odyssey. For the purpose of this thesis the second movement, Raid on Ismarus, has been omitted so as to focus on the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic structures of the first movement, Lament from Troy, and the third movement, Ruler of the Winds. Each of these musical parameters will be analyzed in order to illustrate the Suite's imitation of compositional techniques exemplified in the music of Homer's era, and the musical results obtained by juxtaposing those parameters upon a twentieth-century tonal scheme that provides the Suite with an eclectic ambience.
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Ivanova, Anastassia. "Sergei Rachmaninoff`s piano concertos the odyssey of a stylistic evolution /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3544.

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Thesis (D.M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.
Thesis research directed by: Music. 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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Schlegelmilch, Bodo B. "Ecological, ethical and charitable concerns : traces of a personal research odyssey." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534763.

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When I was awarded my first professorship, the British Rail Chair of Marketing at the University of Wales, Swansea, I was asked to give an inaugural lecture. Then, back in 1989,1 chose to address the topic "Green, Ethical and Charitable: Another Marketing Ploy or a New Marketing Era? " The lecture sketched the rapid development of the field of business ethics from three angles: academia, companies and consumers. In academia, the fast growing interest in business ethics was reflected in the ballooning of the business ethics literature and the establishment of new professorships and research centres in the UK, the US and Continental Europe. Within companies, attention was placed on the development of corporate codes of ethics and, more widely, on the quest to portray the firm as a good citizen though emphasizing ethics, charitable contributions and environmental responsiveness in their communication. Consumers, finally, remained highly skeptical about the sincerity of such communication efforts and largely dismissed them as another marketing ploy. A paper with the same title as the inaugural lecture was later published much later in 1994 in Perspectives on Marketing Management [Paper No. 1]. Although I also turned to other topics during my subsequent academic career, I maintained an interest in this field until today. But how is it possible to stay faithful to these issues for nearly 20 years? In the following pages, I will attempt to trace my research involvement in the areas of business ethics, consumer ethics, charitable giving and related environmental issues.
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O'Maley, James. ""Like-mindedness"? Intra-familial relations in the Iliad and the Odyssey." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6725.

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This thesis argues that the defining characteristic of intra-familial relationships in both the Iliad and the Odyssey is inequality. Homeric relationship pairs that are presented positively are strongly marked by an uneven distribution of power and authority, and when family members do not subscribe to this ideology, the result is a dysfunctional relationship that is condemned by the poet and used as a negative paradigm for his characters. Moreover, the inequality favoured by the epics proceeds according to strict role-based rules with little scope for innovation according to personality, meaning that determination of authority is simple in the majority of cases. Wives are expected to submit themselves to their husbands, sons to their fathers, and less powerful brothers to their more dominant siblings. This rigid hierarchy does create the potential for problems in some general categories of relationship, and relations between mothers and sons in particular are strained in both epics, both because of the shifting power dynamic between them caused by the son’s increasing maturity and independence from his mother and her world, and because of Homeric epic’s persistent conjunction of motherhood with death. This category of familial relationships is portrayed in the epics as doomed to failure, but others are able to be depicted positively through adhering to the inequality that is portrayed in the epics as both natural and laudable.
I will also argue that this systemic pattern of inequality can be understood as equivalent to the Homeric concept of homophrosyne (“like-mindedness”), a term which, despite its appearance of equality, in fact refers to a persistent inequality. Accordingly, for a Homeric relationship to be portrayed as successful, one partner must submit to the other, adapting themselves to the other’s outlook and aims, and subordinating their own ideals and desires. Through this, they are able to become “like-minded” with their partners, achieving something like the homophrosyne recommended for husbands and wives in the Odyssey.
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Manousaki, Tereza [Verfasser]. "An Odyssey on exploring the genomic evolution of vertebrates / Tereza Manousaki." Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1034030043/34.

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Ruggiero, Pierpaolo. "A Space Odyssey: progettazione di uno showroom virtuale per prodotti d'arredo." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/25731/.

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Partendo dalla progettazione di un arredo, vista la situazione pandemica che spesso non ha permesso spostamenti tra paesi e il progressivo avanzamento del mondo virtuale (Metaverso), è nata l’idea della creazione di uno showroom virtuale per la presentazione dei nuovi prodotti. La struttura è completamente modellata in 3d e permette ai clienti di interagire autonomamente con i diversi arredi inseriti all’interno delle differenti sale o attraverso un percorso automatico preimpostato su alcune delle viste più significative. Un nuovo metodo che, a differenza dei soliti render statici, permette di scoprire gli arredi da diverse angolature, con diversi materiali e già in set di prodotti, rendendo la visita virtuale una vera e propria esperienza.
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Shah, Muhammad Athar Hussain. "The odyssey of professional excellence : becoming a highly effective TESOL professional." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/24454.

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In order to expand the institutional support base for professional learning and development of teachers in the field of TESOL and other educational disciplines, a firm resolve is needed to keep extending our intellectual frontiers for a broader understanding of a fundamental question in educational research: How do teachers learn and develop? In light of the TESOL Inc. (2003) position statement on teacher quality, which conceives TESOL to be a professional discipline, the present research was conducted on the learning biographies of those TESOL professionals who have already demonstrated their professional competence and earned the title of highly effective TESOL professionals at their workplaces. On their supposedly epic journey from being novices to becoming highly effective TESOL professionals, they are expected to have developed an advanced level of professional consciousness, which is informed by a blend of propositional, pedagogical and experiential knowledge of the profession and the noble professional and humanistic values reiterated by TESOL Inc. To enhance our understanding of the phenomenon set forth above via research on the learning biographies, the current study was primarily planned to analyse the continuing professional learning and development experience, along with the role of various influential contextual and individual factors, of three highly effective Pakistani TESOL professionals working at a Saudi university. More importantly, explanation was sought for the nature of their professional learning and development in light of the social learning theories of Vygotsky and Lave and Wenger, and the established yet evolving construct of reflective practice. With a scope for investigative depth, interpretive adequacy, and illuminative fertility (Shank & Villella, 2004), the study was designed within the ambit of Interpretive Paradigm employing purposive sampling for data collection. Following an intra-paradigm methodological eclecticism, a narrative-biographical inquiry of three TESOL professionals’ lifelong professional learning and development was conducted for fieldwork. The findings of the study have some significant implications that may be of interest to a myriad of people. The findings of these narratives of professional learning and development may be motivating for the TESOL aspirants in Pakistan and the Gulf, enlightening for fellow professionals at different rungs of their career, and thought-provoking for researchers, teacher-trainers and policy-makers in the field of TESOL. First, the findings reinforced with additional evidence that TESOL professionals learn in a variety of ways and their professional learning and development feature idiosyncrasy and complexity rendering all attempts at uniformity of the process of learning as problematic. Whereas, an inclusive, non-dichotomous approach combining a variety of learning theories can help capture the ubiquitous and variegated nature of teachers’ professional learning and development. Secondly, the findings underscored that such learning experiences which tend to effect an epistemological as well as an ontological change in teachers, lead to profound transformation in their professional-self. Thirdly, the participants’ concern for context-specificity and culture-sensitivity in their pedagogical practice, particularly in the event of boundary crossing (job in a different context), significantly contributes to their learning by challenging their existing repertoire and creating new zones of proximal development (ZPDs). Fourthly, the study envisages hope for the vital context-specific professional learning and development through participation in interdependent, synergistic professional learning communities epitomizing the features of mutual empathy and maturity. Fifthly, the analyses of these narratives offer situated understanding of professional learning and development with a scope for readers to identify with (some of) the ideas, themes, and patterns and develop them further for application beyond the research context. Finally, narratives of lifelong professional learning and development of these highly effective Pakistani TESOL professionals are a substantial contribution to the extremely deficient body of knowledge about the learning lives of Pakistani TESOL professionals working in or outside Pakistan.
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Shea, John. "Erin go bragh-less" an Irish-American odyssey in two acts." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12622.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Kim, Youmee. "An analysis and performance guide to Benjamin Lees's Odyssey I and II." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1199061624.

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Hanneman, Lauren E. "The effectiveness of experiential environmental education| O'Neill Sea Odyssey program case study." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1541512.

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Environmental education programs aim to develop participant awareness, sensitivity, and understanding of their affective relationship to the natural environment through conceptual knowledge and personal experiences. Previous findings have suggested that participation in environmental education programs leads to short-term positive increases in environmental knowledge, pro-environmental attitudes, and intentions to act in environmentally responsible behaviors; however, few studies have included long-term, follow-up assessment. This research provided an analysis of the effectiveness of the O'Neill Sea Odyssey (OSO) education program in fostering a long-term awareness of personal responsibility about ocean pollution among student participants.

A survey administered to 261 students from the greater San Francisco Bay Area in California was used to explore 7th through 10 th grade students' conceptions about the connection between ocean pollution and stewardship behaviors. The study revealed that 75% of 86 former OSO participants retained a high level of awareness of the connection between non-point source pollution and personal behaviors two to five years after the program, regardless of differences in sex, language, grade level, and community setting. These results indicate that OSO participants retained a long-term conceptual awareness about environmental stewardship behaviors taught during the OSO program.

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