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"Can the sensational be elevated by art?" :
(1997)
Since few scholars are acquainted with Braddon, I spend Chapter 1 recounting her background and the works of previous scholars about her. Chapter 2 delves into the serialized mode of production in order to contextualize ...
Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium spectrum synthesis of type Ia supernovae.
(1997)
This thesis is broken down into 4 major sections, each highlighting a different way with which to use spectrum synthesis to analyze SNe Ia. Chapters 2 and 3 look at normal SNe Ia and their potential use as distance indicators ...
Coming to Kashi: Ethnography of an American Ashram.
(1997)
Coming to Kashi: Ethnography of an American Ashram focuses on the growth and history of a "new religious movement, " its principal commune, Kashi Ashram, in Sebastian, Florida, and on the stories of its residents and the ...
Validation of a measure of teachers' efficacy and outcome expectations in the content domains of reading and mathematics.
(1997)
Confirmatory factor analysis procedures failed to produce similar findings as the Rasch procedures. This was an interesting, but not entirely unexpected result. The lack of congruence between the results of these two ...
A reconsideration of "Christian humanism" in the English Renaissance: Historicizing More, Elyot, and Spenser with a focus on Tudor nationalism.
(1997)
Chapter Two addresses Sir Thomas More as a Catholic humanist, who represents English humanism before the Henrician Reformation and nationalism. Henry's break with Rome gave momentum to the development of Tudor dynastic ...
Abundances in planetary nebulae: An autopsy of low and intermediate mass stars.
(1997)
In this work we report on the results of synthetic thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch models (TP-AGB) and compare the results to the abundance ratios in a sample of planetary nebulae. We use updated the input ...
The spatial discourse of realism and modernism in American fiction, photography, and poetry.
(1997)
The first three chapters establish the principles and methods underlying the spatial practice of realism. In Crane's Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes, and Riis's How the Other Half Lives, ...
Vehicle and Labor Requirements for Yard Waste Collection
(Waste Management & Research, 1997-12-01)
Curbside collection of yard waste material is costly because the amounts collected per residence are small compared to the total waste stream and time is wasted driving by non-setting-out residences. In this paper, ...
Examining the Life Perspective Scale: An investigation of an American Indian acculturation instrument.
(1997)
Many social science disciplines have examined the process of socio-cultural change that takes place among ethnic minority persons living in a culturally different environment. While the focus of these studies have been on ...
Impact of donor motivations and characteristics on giving to higher education.
(1997)
All factors were deemed to be significant at the.05 level using Chi-Square and Discriminant analysis. The most significant motivation factors were that the donor valued higher education, the donor was satisfied with their ...