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Balzer-Siber, Marco. "Functional and Stylistic Features of Sports Announcer Talk: A Discourse Analysis of the Register of Major League Soccer Television Broadcasts." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2515.
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This study analyzes the register of television sports announcers in Major League Soccer broadcasts, based on six 20-minute transcription samples. The first part considers individual linguistic features and inquires whether they fulfill a communicative function or whether they are of stylistic nature. In an effort to attract more viewers in the United States, production companies had originally adopted the duality model of a play-by-play announcer and a color commentary from other American sports, while many other countries traditionally feature only one commentator. Consequently, the second part of this discourse analysis will focus on the cooperative interactional behavior. The conclusion will be drawn that the register of live action announcing, in contrast to halftime as well as pre- and post-game reporting, is based on cooperative principles. Moreover, both the individual and the collaborative linguistic variables mostly reflect an effort to protect one’s own and the colleague’s public image.
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Llopart-Saumell, Elisabet. "La funció dels neologismes: revisió de la dicotomia neologisme denominatiu i neologisme estilístic." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398142.
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En aquesta tesi estudiem els neologismes des de la perspectiva de la seva funció comunicativa. Més concretament, revisem els conceptes neologia denominativa i neologia estilística, que es corresponen amb la classificació més estesa per agrupar els neologismes d’acord amb la seva funció. Tanmateix, aquesta proposta ha rebut diverses crítiques tant en relació amb els trets utilitzats per caracteritzar tots dos tipus de neologismes, com la seva conceptualització com a categories oposades i l’exclusió o subordinació d’altres funcions dels neologismes. Per aquest motiu, el nostre objectiu consisteix a estudiar els conceptes utilitzats per caracteritzar els neologismes des del punt de vista de la seva funció, que inclou aspectes lingüístics i extralingüístics, és a dir, funcionals, sociolingüístics, discursius i pragmàtics. A partir d’aquí, dissenyem una proposta metodològica per identificar els neologismes amb valors prototípicament denominatius, estilístics, de tots dos tipus o no prototípics de cap d’aquests dos valors. Els resultats de l’anàlisi mostren que, per una banda, els criteris aïllats es complementen entre si per caracteritzar un conjunt de neologismes en relació amb la seva funció i, de l’altra, permeten observar que aquestes categories no es comporten de forma oposada ni són suficients per explicar aquest fenomen.This PhD dissertation is devoted to the study of neologisms from the perspective of their communicative function. In particular, it reviews the concepts denominative neology and stylistic neology, which make up the classification most widely used to sort neologisms according to their function. However, this classification has received criticism regarding the features used to characterise both types of neologisms, their representation as opposing categories and the exclusion or subordination of other functions of neologisms. For this reason, our goal is to study the concepts used to characterise neologisms from the point of view of their function, which include linguistic and extra-linguistic aspects such as functional, sociolinguistic, discursive and pragmatic features. As a result, we have designed a methodological proposal in order to identify prototypical neologisms with either denominative or stylistic values, with both values, or with neither. The results of the analysis show that, on the one hand, the isolated criteria complement each other and they help to characterise a group of neologisms according to their function and, on the other hand, we can see that these two categories are not opposing and they are not enough to explain this phenomenon
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Lin, Shen-An. "The Lieder of Beethoven: A Stylistic Analysis." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500227/.
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Beethoven is generally acknowledged to be the most important composer of the 19th century. However, many critics and musicologists dismiss Beethoven's Lieder as being of less musical value and sophistication than his more instrumentally conceived late vocal writings. The true musical sophistication of Beethoven's Lieder can be discovered by a careful study of the harmonic structure and the relationship between the vocal and the piano part in Beethoven's Lieder. In discussing Beethoven's Lieder style based on analysis, a number of aspects shall be examined: (1) the harmonic idiom and key relationships; (2) the role of the piano; and (3) other stylistic features.
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Park, Jinha. "Piano music of Elisenda Fabregas| A stylistic analysis." Thesis, University of South Carolina, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3561836.
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The purpose of this study is to present a stylistic analysis of the piano music by American-Spanish composer and pianist Elisenda Fábregas (b.1955). Fábregas' compositional output includes more than forty works for solo, chamber ensemble, vocal, chorus and orchestra; her large-scale piano works consist of Mirage (1997), Portraits I (2000), Homenatge a Mompou (2006), and Hommage à Mozart (2006). Chapter I consists of an introduction, including the purpose of the investigation and a literature review. Chapter II covers brief biographical information, compositional genre and style, and compositional output of piano, vocal and chamber music. Chapter III provides a stylistic analysis of the four concert piano works of Fábregas: Mirage (1997), Portraits I (2000), Homenatge a Mompou (2006) and Hommage à Mozart (2006). Chapter IV consists of a summary, conclusion, and recommendations for further research.
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Goverts, Desirée Elise. "A linguistic and stylistic analysis of the Bórama." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707968.
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Svärd, Helena. "“Petra, den lugna och behärskade...” : Den stilistiska gestaltningen av Petra von Pahlen som kvinnlig huvudkaraktär i Agnes von Krusenstjernas roman Den blå rullgardinen." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Svenska/Nordiska språk, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194411.
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This study examines the female protagonist Petra von Pahlen in Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s novel Den blå rullgardinen (The blue blind). The aim of the study is to make a stylistic examination of narrative perspective, relations, and agency in several text passages from the novel, to find out how the language of the text shapes Petra von Pahlen as a female character. To see whether the linguistic choices and functions of the text form Petra as an active or passive person, her relation to four other characters in the novel are examined. The material consists of 39 passages of text taken from 10 chapters of the novel, all of which dealing specifically with Petra’s part of the story. Literary theories used for the study are narratology and systemic-functional grammar. The applied methods for analysing the passages are a selection of syntactic and semantic markers compiled by Staffan Hellberg (1985) for stylistic analysis of narrative perspective in Swedish literary texts, and a selection of the tools for investigation of transitivity and ergativity in texts available through the systemic-functional theory of grammar by Michael Halliday (2014). The results show that the narrative perspective used in the text passages are mostly internal focalization, and that the most frequently used stylistic markers are expressions for perception and reflection, similes, metaphors, and words expressing value. The results also show that Petra is most frequently realized through the participant roles of Senser in mental processes, and Goal in material processes. In the ergative analysis Petra is most frequently realized in non-ergative clauses through the participant role as Medium, both in terms of first and second participant; she is seldom realized as Agent. From the quantitative results of the study, Petra can be viewed as a passive character, however an argumentation based on previous research from the fields of literary science and feminist literary stylistics also suggests an interpretation, where the context and themes in the novel, together with an awareness of the different ‘meanings’ of linguistic features, provide a less powerless position for Petra.
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Lister, W. "A stylistic analysis of 'Jacob's Well' (chapters 1-50)." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372483.
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Keene, Nadene Ann McMahan Elizabeth. "Male/female language a stylistic analysis of freshman compositions /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1985. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8608951.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1985.Title from title page screen, viewed July 1, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth McMahan (chair), Janice Neuleib, Maurice Scharton, Ronald Halinski. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-75) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Williams, Laura M. "Libby Larsen's Seven Ghosts: A Stylistic and Gestural Analysis." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1335442135.
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Srinivasan, Sharada. "Archaeometallurgical and stylistic re-analysis of South Indian statuary bronzes." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619148.
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Broad, Lynne English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Chris Marker: A stylistic analysis of his film and media work." Publisher:University of New South Wales. English, Media, & Performing Arts, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41548.
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This thesis explores the poetics of editing in the films and multimedia works of Chris Marker. From his first essay films of the 1950s to his 1998 CD-ROM Immemory, the directors work has attracted critical attention for its beauty and originality of expression. Much existing analysis engages with this work in terms of its subject matter and themes and their relationship with its associational, rather than linear, narrative form, with relatively little focus on the stylistics of Markers editing. While questions of the directors thematic concerns also arise in my study, I argue that Markers contribution to cinema and the visual arts cannot be fully appreciated without a systematic understanding of his stylisticshis expressive use of cinematic forms and patterns. In developing such an understanding, this thesis utilises the work of a number of film writers explicitly concerned with the expressive use of cinematic space and time. From Andr?? Bazin, I take the idea of rapprochement to mean the way the comparison between two juxtaposed events or images suggests or expresses the meaning of their juxtaposition. From Jean-Andr?? Fieschi, I draw on the idea that the dialectical interaction of the plastic, formal and narrative elements of a film gives meaning to its cinematic space and time. My approach synthesises and builds upon both ideas for its account of the stylistics of Markers work. Starting with a preliminary analysis of one cinematic comparison in The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004), I then consider Markers exploration of the imaginative potential of a single image sequence in The Last Bolshevik (1993). After this, I explore examples of the stylistic figure of rapprochement in Letter from Siberia (1958), and the stylistic figure of transformation in Sunless (1982). The thesis then studies articulations of rapprochement and transformation in the museum installations Zapping Zone: Proposals for an Imaginary Television (1991), Silent Movie (1995) and the CD-ROM Immemory.
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Teranishi, Masayuki. "Polyphony in fiction : a stylistic analysis of Middlemarch, Nostromo, and Herzog /." Oxford ; Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt, M. New York, NY Wien : Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/987953192/04.
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Dicus, Kent Timothy 1958. "A stylistic analysis of selected piano works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276718.
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Although Louis Moreau Gottschalk's works are not generally recognized as being exceptionally significant in the development of musical style, they do serve as a link between the music of Frederic Chopin and that of Charles Ives. Certain stylistic characteristics of Chopin are seen in many of Gottschalk's works, especially those which incorporate "Scherzo" and "Mazurka" passages. Simultaneously, Gottschalk's concept of using popular tunes as prominent melodies and themes was later expanded by Charles Ives. Gottschalk's works include some of America's first experimentations with form through utilization and expansion of the basic form of ABA Coda. Through his use of varied ABA form with repeated and parallel passages, Gottschalk developed his particular style of phrasing, texture, and rhythm, all of which figure prominently in his works. Four pieces are examined with these concepts as the basis for analysis.
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Owiti, Beatrice. "Courtroom interpretation from Dholuo to English : a stylistic and pragmatic analysis." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2016. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/30239/.
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Earlier studies on interpretation such as Garcés (1996) and Hale (2004) show that interpreters often make the mistake of conveying only the semantic meaning; ignoring, misunderstanding or simply not conveying the pragmatic meaning of utterances. Other studies have also touched on issues of the classification of the types of errors made during interpretation Mead (1985), Karton (2008) and Kiguru (2008); they do not, however, provide a good understanding of errors that lead to stylistic and pragmatic modifications in interpretation from and to indigenous African languages. Research on interpretation in Kenyan courts is limited and there is none that examines Dholuo-English interpretations. Consequently, there is a need to have a broad and deep understanding of the stylistic and pragmatic meaning of modifications involving Dholuo-English data. The literature reviewed includes literature on courtroom interpreting and literature on meaning shifts in the courtroom. This study investigates courtroom interpretation using critical stylistic tools to determine the stylistic and pragmatic changes and their impact on ideation and interpersonal communication in the Target Text. The critical stylistic tools used from Jeffries (2010) are: presenting other people’s speech and thoughts, presenting actions and state, as well as naming and describing. In the data analysis, for presenting the speech of others, I use the reported speech categories by Short (2012) to examine fidelity to the text, for the description of actions and states I ground my work in the transitivity model by Halliday as explained by Simpson (1993) and for naming and description I use Halliday’s Functional Grammar to describe the Noun group. For analysis of pragmatic modifications during interpretation, the research is grounded in Austin’s (1962) Speech Act Theory and Grice’s (1975) Cooperative Principle. The data analysed consists of 12 court cases. The data collected is analysed using qualitative methods of analysis in order to determine inferences, give explanations and make conclusions. The results show changes in the Target Text which include: modifications to adhere to felicity conditions, passivisation to conform to how Dholuo reports speech from senior people, misreporting while using direct speech, distortion of facts, expansion of meaning, vagueness, changes to the verb processes, use of explanations, use of euphemisms that obscure meaning, changes in the tone of the source text and changes in the pre and post modifications of nouns that cause meaning loss. Reasons for these changes are: culturally bound words and phrases, legal jargon which has no Dholuo equivalents, specialised Kenyan English vocabulary, the nature of courtroom interpretation, the additional duties courtroom interpreters in Kenya carry out, as well as lack of training. This research uncovered a new role for interpreters in the courtroom of striving to maintain the dignity of the court as well as a new feature of adherence to felicity conditions in judgements.
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Holm, Margaret Ann. "Prehistoric Northwest Coast art : a stylistic analysis of the archaeological record." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29932.
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This thesis is a stylistic study of the prehistoric art record from the Northwest Coast of North America. Its purpose is three-fold: to describe the spatial and temporal variation in the stylistic attributes of prehistoric art; to evaluate theories on the evolution of the Northwest Coast art tradition; and to comment on the possible factors behind variation in the prehistoric art record.
This study examines stylistic attributes related to representational imagery, concentrating on five variables: decorated forms, carving techniques, design elements, design principles, and motifs. The core sample consists of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic images from dated archaeological contexts; a total of 242 artifacts from 58 sites are examined. The material is presented in chronological order corresponding to the Gulf of Georgia prehistoric cultural sequence.
The major finding of this study is that by the end of the Locarno Beach phase or the beginning of the Marpole phase the essential character of the Northwest Coast art style had developed. There are new developments in the late period, but the evidence presented suggests a previously undocumented stylistic continuity from the late Locarno Beach phase to historic Coast Salish art with no decline in quality or productivity. This study indicates that, as far back as the record extends, three-dimensional, naturalistic forms and two-dimensional incising and engraving techniques have equal antiquity. From the Locarno Beach phase onward the flat, engraved style and the three-dimensional sculpture style developed together; the formline concept developed very early out of the raised, positive lines created by deep engraving in antler.Arts, Faculty of
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Dizon, Rachelle. "A Stylistic Analysis of Tom Flaherty’s (b. 1950) Works for Clarinet." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27953.
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Composer Tom Flaherty (b. 1950) received a 2016 Grammy award nomination for his piece Airdancing for Toy Piano, Piano and Electronics (2013) in the category of Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. He has also received numerous grants, prizes, awards, and residencies from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Music Center. His most recognized work for clarinet is Three Pieces for Clarinet (1982), which won the Delius Composition Contest in 1985 and is included on Eric Mandat’s 1991 album, The Extended Clarinet. Even though Flaherty has received recognition for Three Pieces, his clarinet works as a whole are rarely performed today. His two works for clarinet and piano, Diversion (1985) and Scherzo (1995), remain unknown in the clarinet repertoire. Furthermore, Diversion has been available only in manuscript. Because very little information about Flaherty and his works for clarinet exists, this dissertation provides a stylistic analysis of Three Pieces, Diversion, and Scherzo, and discusses the performance implications of that analysis. Also included in the dissertation is a performance edition of Diversion and the transcription of my interview with the composer. Flaherty’s compositions for clarinet are technically and musically demanding. One of the most challenging aspects of these works is the way Flaherty manipulates pulse. Rhythmic complexity also tends to obscure the listener’s perception of steady pulse and metrical consistency. In each of these works for clarinet, three compositional elements work together to clarify form: melodic contour, intervallic emphasis, and rhythmic devices. This analysis identifies significant musical features that impact form and provides a methodological approach for musical interpretation. It also provides musicians with useful tools to perform these works with musical conviction, which in turn may bring recognition to Flaherty’s lesser-known works, hopefully making them a part of standard contemporary clarinet repertoire.
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Baljko, Melanie A. "Ensuring stylistic congruity in collaboratively written text, requirements analysis and design issues." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq29236.pdf.
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Power, Brian Edward. "The polyphonic introits of Trento, archivio capitolare, MS 93, a stylistic analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0017/NQ45757.pdf.
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Morgan, Maggie. "The polyphonic "voice of society" a stylistic analysis of Our mutual friend /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Theses/MORGAN_MAGGIE_15.pdf.
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Kim, Jichan. "A stylistic and structural analysis of the Samson story (Judges 13-16)." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Bragina, Jekaterina. "A cognitive stylistic analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3873/.
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This study provides an extensive cognitive stylistic analysis of one of the most intricate and vast high fantasy worlds created in modern literature – J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. The two most popular works that describe this single world are The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The analysis of these texts is conducted using modern cognitive stylistic and linguistic theories (Text World Theory, Schema Theory, Possible Worlds Theory and Cognitive Metaphor Theory), as well as tools from narratology (point of view and focalisation) and discourse stylistics (phraseology and reference studies). The study explores how Tolkien’s skilful stylistic usage of language enables the readers to construct a vast and detailed alternative world in their minds, making use of the combination of general knowledge and the information provided by the texts. In order to investigate and describe from a cognitive perspective some possible ways in which readers construct the fantasy world of Middle-earth, the following specific questions are addressed: 1) How does cognitive research explain how readers go beyond the words on the page to set up rich mental representations of alternative worlds? 2) How do narrative and linguistic features such as focalisation, metaphor, phraseology and reference contribute to the representation of locations, situations and characters? 3) What particular functions are performed by these linguistic features in terms of fantasy world-building? After the introduction (chapter one), the six subsequent chapters are divided into three parts analysing the texts from three different perspectives. Part I (containing chapter two) deals with the narratological aspect, analysing narrative (non-dialogue) text in terms of character focalisations, narratorial omniscience and the narrator’s identity. In part II (containing chapters three and four) world theories are used to analyse the texts. In chapter three, Text World Theory and Schema Theory are applied to The Hobbit, examining the construction of the initial text-world in the first chapter of the story, the ways the world’s inhabitants are introduced into the world, as well as the construction of the intermediate world linking the fantasy world with the empirical one. In chapter four, Possible Worlds Theory is applied to both texts, analysing the world of Middle-earth in terms of its truth-value, its distance from the empirical world as perceived by the reader and its saturation with lifelike details. Part III (chapters five, six and seven) deals with specific stylistic devices that serve as world-building tools in both texts. Chapter five draws on Cognitive Metaphor Theory to analyse personified nature, which accounts for the philosophical aspect of the world of Middle-earth. Chapter six is devoted to the analysis of stylistic modifications of idiomatic expressions (phraseological units), which are influenced by the high fantasy genre of the texts. In chapter seven, the stylistic device of underspecification (the use of indefinite referential expressions) is analysed, exposing its paradoxical expanding effect on the fantasy world. In the concluding chapter (chapter eight), the findings of the analyses are consolidated into a set of world-building functions that are performed by the linguistic features analysed.
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Dizon, Rachelle. "A Stylistic Analysis of Tom Flaherty?s (b. 1950) Works for Clarinet." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27953.
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Composer Tom Flaherty (b. 1950) received a 2016 Grammy award nomination for his piece Airdancing for Toy Piano, Piano and Electronics (2013) in the category of Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. He has also received numerous grants, prizes, awards, and residencies from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Music Center. His most recognized work for clarinet is Three Pieces for Clarinet (1982), which won the Delius Composition Contest in 1985 and is included on Eric Mandat?s 1991 album, The Extended Clarinet. Even though Flaherty has received recognition for Three Pieces, his clarinet works as a whole are rarely performed today. His two works for clarinet and piano, Diversion (1985) and Scherzo (1995), remain unknown in the clarinet repertoire. Furthermore, Diversion has been available only in manuscript. Because very little information about Flaherty and his works for clarinet exists, this dissertation provides a stylistic analysis of Three Pieces, Diversion, and Scherzo, and discusses the performance implications of that analysis. Also included in the dissertation is a performance edition of Diversion and the transcription of my interview with the composer. Flaherty?s compositions for clarinet are technically and musically demanding. One of the most challenging aspects of these works is the way Flaherty manipulates pulse. Rhythmic complexity also tends to obscure the listener?s perception of steady pulse and metrical consistency. In each of these works for clarinet, three compositional elements work together to clarify form: melodic contour, intervallic emphasis, and rhythmic devices. This analysis identifies significant musical features that impact form and provides a methodological approach for musical interpretation. It also provides musicians with useful tools to perform these works with musical conviction, which in turn may bring recognition to Flaherty?s lesser-known works, hopefully making them a part of standard contemporary clarinet repertoire.
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Odendaal, Andries Albertus. "The piano music of Peter Klatzow : a stylistic analysis of selected works." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11716.
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The piano music of Peter James Leonard Klatzow forms an integral part of his musical output. An analysis of these works may provide useful insight into the compositional style of this South African composer. Jan LaRue's theory of stylistic analysis formed the inspiration for the analytical approach of the thesis, and the main focus of this analysis is the 1994 composition, From the Poets. This work is analysed in terms of use of sound, harmony and melody in order to attempt an understanding of how these elements impact and contribute to the sense of structure. Other works that have been completed since 1980 are analysed in terms of the main motivic and harmonic material, with occasional reference to other musical parameters that are important for an understanding of the musical discourse.
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Nelson, Amy. "A Stylistic Analysis of American Indian Portrait Photography in Oklahoma, 1869-1904." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2785/.
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This thesis studies the style of Native American portrait photographs of William S. Soule (1836-1908), John K. Hillers (1834-1925), and William E. Irwin (1871-1935), who worked in Oklahoma from 1869 to 1904. The examination of the three men's work revealed that each artist had different motivations for creating Native American portrait photographs, and a result, used a distinct style. However, despite the individual artistic styles, each artist conformed to Native American stereotypes common during the nineteenth-century. The thesis includes a discussion of the history of the area, photographer biographies, a stylistic analysis of the photographs, and how the images fit into American Indian stereotypes.
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Tarafdar, Arundhati. "Wordspotting from multilingual and stylistic documents." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR4022/document.
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Les outils et méthodes d’analyse d’images de documents (DIA) donnent aujourd’hui la possibilité de faire des recherches par mots-clés dans des bases d’images de documents alors même qu’aucune transcription n’est disponible. Dans ce contexte, beaucoup de travaux ont déjà été réalisés sur les OCR ainsi que sur des systèmes de repérage de mots (spotting) dédiés à des documents textuels avec une mise en page simple. En revanche, très peu d’approches ont été étudiées pour faire de la recherche dans des documents contenant du texte multi-orienté et multi-échelle, comme dans les documents graphiques. Par exemple, les images de cartes géographiques peuvent contenir des symboles, des graphiques et du texte ayant des orientations et des tailles différentes. Dans ces documents, les caractères peuvent aussi être connectés entre eux ou bien à des éléments graphiques. Par conséquent, le repérage de mots dans ces documents se révèle être une tâche difficile. Dans cette thèse nous proposons un ensemble d’outils et méthodes dédiés au repérage de mots écrits en caractères bengali ou anglais (script Roman) dans des images de documents géographiques. L’approche proposée repose sur plusieurs originalitésWord spotting in graphical documents is a very challenging task. To address such scenarios this thesis deals with developing a word spotting system dedicated to geographical documents with Bangla and English (Roman) scripts. In the proposed system, at first, text-graphics layers are separated using filtering, clustering and self-reinforcement through classifier. Additionally, instead of using binary decision we have used probabilistic measurement to represent the text components. Subsequently, in the text layer, character segmentation approach is applied using water-reservoir based method to extract individual character from the document. Then recognition of these isolated characters is done using rotation invariant feature, coupled with SVM classifier. Well recognized characters are then grouped based on their sizes. Initial spotting is started to find a query word among those groups of characters. In case if the system could spot a word partially due to any noise, SIFT is applied to identify missing portion of that partial spotting. Experimental results on Roman and Bangla scripts document images show that the method is feasible to spot a location in text labeled graphical documents. Experiments are done on an annotated dataset which was developed for this work. We have made this annotated dataset available publicly for other researchers
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Walker, Brian David. "Character and characterisation in Julian Barnes' Talking it over : a corpus stylistic analysis." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.625457.
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This thesis combines stylistics with tools and methods from corpus linguistics to investigate character and characterisation in Julian Barnes' novel Talking It Over. The analysis is guided by Culpeper's (2001) checklist of textual character cues, which I first assess and then amend in I order to take into account the presence of a narrator in prose fiction. The corpus analysis uses primarily WMatrix (Rayson 2009), but is assisted, when necessary, by AntConc (Anthony2011). My analysis focuses on the three main characters in the novel (Stuart, Oliver and Gillian), who are also the principle narrators, and looks at how impressions of these character-narrators are formed from the information provided in their narrations. I use statistical comparison, and the associated notion of keyness, to provide potential foci for further analysis. My thesis thus tests out the potential link between statistical salience and interpretative relevance, and the link between (automated) quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis.
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Nakagawa, Eri. "A stylistic analysis of the piano trios of Saint-Sa�ens and Ravel." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1063301.
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Both Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1837) were outstanding composers of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century who followed and transmitted the specifically French tradition. Ravel studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), who was a student of Saint-Satins. SaintSaens's Trio No. 1, Op. 18, was written in 1863, while he was teaching a the Ecole Niedermeyer. As one of the earliest works by the composer, it reveals his conservative style in the well-defined four-movement structure, particularly characterized by classical periodization and clarity of texture. Saint-Sadns's Trio No. 2, Op. 92, was written in 1892, when he was more mature and better known as both composer and performer. Written twenty-nine years after the first trio, the second trio is more ambitious and complicated than the first trio. The second trio exhibits elaborate harmonies and extensive sonata structure, including a fugue within an unusual five-movement framework.Ravel's trio was completed in 1914, shortly after the start of the First World War, at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in Basque country. I The trio displays new sonorities and expression achieved by brilliant string techniques and powerful, vertical piano writing, as well as the employment of various kinds of non-traditional scales. Within a four-movement structure, the second movement, entitled Pantown, a poetic form of Malayan origin, is most original, including the middle section in polymeter.The analyses of these three trios reveal significant similarities in stylistic and formal characteristics. All three trios preserve the outline framework of the traditional sonata concept. Saint-Sa&ns's second trio and Ravel's trio include passacaglia movements, based on the Baroque form. All three trios employ folk elements: the modal style of certain themes, and certain rhythms; e.g., the Basque dance rhythm, zoriko, appears in Saint-Saans's second trio and Ravel's trio. The use of quintuple time in both trios also shows the Basque influence. Among other common characteristics are rhythmic ostinato and thematic juxtaposition. All three trios represent trends in French music between the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century: nationalism and neoclassicism.School of Music
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Caswell, Nicole I. "Sensing and intutitive preferences : a stylistic analysis of first year composition student writing." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1390653.
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Research in psychological type theory – especially that done by Jensen and DiTiberio on type and composition – has offered writing teachers another way to understand the different writing processes of their students. One aspect of composition that has not been researched with regard to psychological type theory is the writing style of students. This study proposes a relationship between psychological type theory (specifically the sensing and intuition continuum) and the writing styles of First Year Composition students. Seventy-two students participated in the study, taking the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) and submitting their diagnostic essays to be analyzed using Corbett's stylistic analysis. The results suggest a relationship between writing style and personality type that teachers can use to tailor lesson plans for students (in areas such as revision and audience awareness) to increase student growth.Department of English
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Ogborne, Jennifer Honora. "Chickahominy Stylistic Expression: Preliminary Motif Analysis of Ceramics of the Chickahominy River Drainage." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626446.
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Xin, Yuchen. "Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus and Kafka's Oktavhefte| A comparative stylistic and philosophical analysis." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1552100.
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In the mid 1920s, reflecting the concerns of the "Sprachkrise ", Ludwig Wittgenstein and Franz Kafka composed writings deeply concerned with language's ability to express human thought. In his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein attempted to draw the boundary of meaningful language. During the same period, Kafka developed his thoughts on language and ethics in his Oktavhefte. I compare these works, showing that they share an understanding of language as a domain bound within the physical world and incapable of expressing our spiritual being. Presenting itself as rigorous philosophical writing, Wittgenstein's Tractatus constantly reminds its reader of the limitations of its own logical and philosophical language by claiming itself to be "nonsense" and only a ladder the reader should climb and get rid of. Kafka, without constructing rigorous logical arguments, composed a critique demonstrating the unnaturalness of natural language and showing that its poetic nature lets language transcend its own boundaries.
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Iwamoto, Noriko. "Newspaper discourse in wartime and peacetime Japan : a contrastive linguistic and stylistic analysis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21319.
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This thesis explores the relationship between situational contexts and the linguistic and stylistic features of politicized language within the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics proposed by M.A.K. Halliday and others. The main area of research chosen is the wartime discourse of Japanese journalism during the Second World War. The research demonstrates the existence of a wartime register (as representation of real war) and characterizes its major stylistic and linguistic features. The secondary area chosen for the purpose of contrastive analysis is peacetime discourse concerning international conflict, (1) the Olympic Games and (2) whaling. In wartime discourse, journalism not only plays a significant role in maintaining public morale but is an active participant in the construction of the war effort. In the presentation of news, journalistic reports implicitly reconstruct reality by foregrounding death as sacrifice, glorious, and noble, the enemy as weak, and by obscuring a threatening situation by backgrounding defeats and losses. This reconstruction has the intention to regulate and control the ideas and behaviour of people, and to form a strong sense of solidarity in the nation. For this function, linguistic resources are exploited to structure, transform and sometimes mask 'reality' so that newly created discourse can articulate and legitimize new orders of reality which will meet the demands of a particular social situation such as consolidating the power of the state to wage war. Journalism in peacetime discourse, on the other hand, is not harnessed to a war effort and, thus, the use of linguistic devices to foreground and background news events is not an instrument of state power in an open society. The theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics is utilized in this research to provide an illustration and examination of the range and complexity of various linguistic and stylistic devices used in journalistic discourse.
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Hoffmann, Eva R. "Functional analysis of MLH1." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249558.
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Carter, Paul Scott. "Retrogressive Harmonic Motion as Structural and Stylistic Characteristic of Pop-Rock Music." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116202928.
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Smith, Nicola-Jane. "A stylistic analysis of written language behaviour with practical application to anonymous threat letters." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320911.
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Chan, Kam-wing Philip. "The stylistic analysis of literary language in relation to English teaching in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31948935.
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Chan, Kam-wing Philip, and 陳錦榮. "The stylistic analysis of literary language in relation to English teaching in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31948935.
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Grace, Victoria. "The Goddess of Victory : a philological and stylistic analysis of Sarasvatī in the Ṝgveda." Strasbourg, 2011. http://scd-theses.u-strasbg.fr/2495/.
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Ma thèse a pour objet le rôle de la déesse-fleuve Sarasvatī dans le Ṛgveda, le plus ancien texte de l’Inde en sanskrit védique (2ème millénaire av. N. è). Sarasvatī est l’une des rares divinités védiques dont le culte persiste jusqu’aux temps modernes, et cela malgré son statut mineur dans le Ṛgveda où son nom apparaît dans 71 strophes et trois hymnes qui lui sont adressés. La thèse cherche à résoudre la dichotomie entre la nature physique et mythologique de la déesse, notamment que les tribus védiques vénéraient un fleuve du nom de Sarasvatī qui se desséchait progressivement en même temps qu’elles la célébraient comme déesse de la poésie. Une analyse des attributs, des actions et des requêtes adressés à la divinité montre qu’elle a cinq fonctions distinctes : fleuve, elle est aussi une déesse de la guerre, des joutes verbales, de la poésie et de la fertilité. Ces diverses fonctions ne sont pas en contradiction les unes avec les autres : elles sont liées entre elles par une série de connexions. Il apparaît que le fleuve formait jadis une frontière territoriale séparant les tribus indo-aryennes de la population indigène du sous-continent indien, ce qui a fait de Sarasvatī une déesse guerrière. La confrontation guerrière se répercute dans la sphère du sacrifice où Sarasvatī a une fonction en tant que déesse des joutes poétiques. Les fréquentes sollicitations en vue de l’assistance aux patrons-guerriers dans les guerres et aux poètes dans les joutes montrent qu’elle est, dans le Ṛgveda, avant tout une déesse de la compétition et de la victoire. Cette interprétation de Sarasvatī est tout à fait inédite et jette une nouvelle lumière sur son personnage dans la religion védiqueThis thesis examines the role of the river goddess Sarasvatī in the Ṛgveda, the most ancient text of the Indian corpus from the second millennium B. C. E. Sarasvatī is one of the few Vedic deities to have endured through to modern-day Hinduism despite her minor status in the Ṛgveda where her name appears just 71 times with only three hymns dedicated to her. The thesis seeks to resolve the dichotomy between the physical and mythical reality of the goddess by examining why the Vedic people worshipped a river that was seemingly in a state of desiccation and simultaneously revered it as a goddess of poetry. An analysis of all her attributes, actions, and requests reveals that her personality comprises five distinct aspects, which determine her unique role in the Vedic religion: she is a river but also a goddess of war, verbal contests, poetry, and fertility. These aspects are not at variance with one another, but are rather linked via a series of connections in such a way that her function as a goddess of poetry is tied to her physical nature. It seems that the river at one time formed a territorial boundary dividing the migrating Indo-Aryans tribes from the indigenous population of the Indian subcontinent, which in turn led to Sarasvatī becoming a warrior goddess. This military competition is then reflected in the sacrificial domain where she holds the function of a goddess of poetic contests. The frequent requests for Sarasvatī to assist the warrior-patrons in battle and the poets in the verbal contests show that her most central roles are as a goddess of competition and victory. This wholly-revised perspective thus throws new light on her function in the Vedic religion
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Carter, Justin. "The chamber music of Hendrik Hofmeyr: an investigation and stylistic analysis of selected works." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30433.
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Hendrik Hofmeyr, professor and head of composition at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, is probably the most performed and commissioned composer living in South Africa today. Chamber music forms an integral part of Hofmeyr’s musical output. The overwhelming majority of these works have been produced in the last ten years, demonstrating his growing interest in this genre of music. Furthermore, this demonstrates musicians’ increasing desire for Hofmeyr to compose more chamber works, as most of these compositions are commissions or requests, intended to be premiered and played by specific artists or ensembles. His chamber works already include seven duo sonatas, two trios with piano, two string quartets and a clarinet quintet, among many other lesser works. Indeed, of his roughly 190 numbered compositions, at least 29 are original chamber works (15% of the total). These are also supplemented with several important arrangements within the genre. With this in mind, the research presented here aims to explore each of these major chamber works, contextualise them, as well as examine them from their points of origin, their stylistic conception and musical characterisation. This analysis should provide useful insights into the compositional style of this South African composer. The guidelines of stylistic analysis presented by Jan LaRue form the inspiration for the analytical approach to be taken.1 Up to this point, there has been little discourse, especially in terms of analysis or comprehensive research, which has focussed on any of the chamber works by Hofmeyr. As such this research hopes to break new ground by investigating this important portion of his oeuvre, while at the same time bringing insights and reflections upon these pieces from the composer’s points of view, and then analysing and commenting on the formal structure, harmonic language, melodic writing and musical detail they contain as well as the sound world they create. Ultimately, by comprehensively examining Hofmeyr’s chamber music, and by keeping in mind the historical context, this aspiringly ground-breaking discussion looks towards highlighting what amounts to a much under-valued body of work within South African music.
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Clarke, John Wright. "A regional survey and stylistic analysis of Tibetan non-sculptural metalworking, c.1850-1959." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309320.
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Izquierdo, Ángel Cabrera. "A functional analysis of categorization." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30522.
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Suk, Hye Won. "Functional generalized structured component analysis." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=117051.
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The invention of sophisticated measurement tools, such as motion capture devices, handheld computers, Bluetooth devices, eye-trackers, and brain scanners, has facilitated the collection of functional data that can be considered to arise from an underlying smooth function varying over a continuum such as time and space. Functional data analysis (FDA) is an emerging branch of statistics, which develops and applies statistical methods for the analysis of such types of data. Various FDA methods have been proposed by extending traditional multivariate statistical methods to accommodate functional data. Nonetheless, there has been little attempt to develop functional extensions of structural equation modeling (SEM), in spite of the remarkable popularity of SEM in various disciplines due to its flexibility of modeling complex relationships among observed and latent variables. This thesis thus aims to propose a general framework for functional SEM, called functional generalized structured component analysis (functional GSCA), to examine a variety of hypothesized relationships among observed and latent variables, while permitting observed variables to be functional rather than multivariate. The thesis begins by describing GSCA and penalized least squares smoothing as the two basic building blocks of the proposed method. Subsequently, it provides the technical details of the proposed method. The model for functional GSCA is provided and a penalized least squares criterion is developed for parameter estimation, which is minimized by an alternating penalized least squares algorithm. The thesis also demonstrates the usefulness of the proposed method by analyzing synthetic and real data sets. It concludes with discussions on limitations and possible extensions of the proposed method.L'invention d'outils de mesures sophistiqués tel que les appareils de capture de mouvements, les ordinateurs portables, les appareils Bluetooth, l'oculométrie et les scanners cérébraux ont facilité la compilation de données fonctionnelles qui peuvent être considérées comme provenant d'une fonction variant sur un continuum tel que l'espace et le temps. L'analyse de données fonctionnelles (ADF) est une discipline émergente des statistiques, qui développe et applique les méthodes statistiques pour l'analyse de ce type de données. Plusieurs méthodes d'ADFs ont été proposées en prolongeant les méthodes traditionnelles de statistiques multi variées pour s'adapter aux données multifonctionnelles. Toutefois, peu de tentatives ont été effectuées dans le développement des extensions fonctionnelles des modèles d'équations structurelles (MES), malgré la popularité significative des MESs en plusieurs disciplines grâce à sa souplesse de la modélisation des relations complexes entre les variables observées et latentes. Cette thèse a donc pour objectif de proposer un cadre général pour les MESs fonctionnels, appelé l'analyse en composantes structurée généralisée fonctionnelle (ASSG fonctionnelle), qui combine l'analyse en composantes structurée généralisée fonctionnelle avec les moindres carrés pénalisés lissés par la fonction spline dans un cadre unifié. La méthode proposée peut être utilisée pour analyser une variété de relations hypothétiques entre des variables observées et latentes, tout en permettant aux variables observées d'être fonctionnelles plutôt que scalaires. La thèse commence en décrivant l'ACSG et les moindres carrés pénalisés lisser par la fonction spline tel que les deux parties constituantes de la méthode proposée. Le modèle pour l'ACSG fonctionnelle est apporté et le critère des moindres carrés pénalisés sont développés par une estimation paramétrique, qui est minimisé par un algorithme alternatif de moindres carrés pénalisés. La thèse démontre également l'utilité de la méthode proposée par l'analyse de base de données réelles et synthétiques. En conclusion, sont présentées les discussions, limites et possibles extensions de la méthode proposée.
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Toenjes, Kurt Alan 1965. "Functional analysis of yeast fimbrin." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288802.
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The actin cytoskeleton has been implicated in the structural and mechanical properties of the cytoplasmic matrix. Actin and a number of actin associated proteins work in concert to carry out the various functions of the actin cytoskeleton. However, it is unclear how actin associated proteins function in conjunction with actin in vivo. I used Saccharomyces cerevisiae to investigate the actin cytoskeleton (1, 2, 3). Sac6 protein (Sac6p) is an actin bundling protein that consists of a head domain and two homologous actin binding domains (ABDs) (4). Despite their homology, evidence exists that there are functional differences between the ABDs. To explore these differences I asked if either ABD could function in place of the other by creating chimeric proteins with different combinations of the ABDs. When tested for function in vivo, these chimeric proteins are unable to complement the temperature and osmotic sensitivity of the sac6 null. This suggested that the ABDs of Sac6p are functionally distinct. To explore what functional differences exist between the ABDs of Sac6p, I made several truncations of Sac6p: a C-terminal deletion of Sac6p that retain the head and the first ABD (N410), and two different N-terminal deletions that contain only the second ABD (C386 & C397). Overexpression of N410 gave rise to a different organization of the actin cytoskeleton than did C386 or C397. This suggested that the ABDs/actin interactions are different. To determine whether the differences observed between the ABDs is the result of their interaction with actin, a method was developed to use allele specific suppression of the overexpression phenotype to define the region of interaction between the ABDs and actin. I tested full length Sac6p, N410, C386, and C397. The regions of actin implicated by suppression of the Sac6p overexpression and by allele specific suppression of sac6 mutants were similar. This similarity supports the validity of these two methods in mapping the regions of interaction between two proteins. Overexpression of N410 was suppressed by different actin mutations than overexpression of C386 or C397 suggesting that differences exist between the Sac6p actin binding domains in their interaction with actin.
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Ding, Z. "Functional analysis of IP3 receptors." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598546.
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I developed a high-throughput fluorescence polarisation (FP) binding assay using fluorescein-IP3 and purified N-terminal fragments of IP3R to examine the thermodynamics of ligand binding to IP3R. I demonstrate that at 4°C, equilibrium competition binding using 3H-IP3 and the FP assay provided similar estimates of the equilibrium dissociation constants (KD) for a variety of ligands. I showed that the IBC alone is sufficient for high-affinity binding of adenophostin A (AdA). Similar amounts of binding energy are diverted into rearranging the SD for IP3 and AdA, but they are distinguished by their binding enthalpy and entropy changes. I revealed that the enthalpy and entropy changes of the binding of 2-O-modified IP3 analogues are different, despite their similar free energy changes. These results prompted me to propose a new model to explain partial agonism of IP3R. Different cell-surface receptors have been reported to evoke Ca2+ release from different IP3-sensitive Ca2+ stores. I examined this phenomenon in fura 2-loaded HEK cells. Combined maximal concentrations of ATP and carbachol (CCh) evoked a Ca2+ response that was larger than the response to either alone, but smaller than the sum of the responses. In the absence of extracellular Ca2+, ATP evoked a Ca2+ release that was significantly larger than CCh in cells pretreated with CCh, but smaller than the ATP response in naïve cells. In the absence of extracellular Ca2+, CCh evoked a Ca2+ release that was significantly larger than ATP in cells pretreated with ATP, but smaller than the CCh response in naïve cells. These results suggest the existence of discrete agonist-specific Ca2+-stores that partially overlap.
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Georgiev, Plamen. "Functional analysis of Drosophila TRPM." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611931.
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Blower, G. "A topic in functional analysis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0724199d-41fd-48f1-882c-19602576a2a0.
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We introduce the class AUMD of Banach spaces X for which X-valued analytic martingales converge unconditionally. We shew that various possible definitions of this class are equivalent by methods of martingale decomposition. We shew that such X have finite cotype and are q-complex uniformly convex in the sense of Garling. Using multipliers we shew that analytic martingales valued in L1 converge unconditionally and that AUMD spaces have the analytic Radon-Nikodym property. We shew that X has the AUMD property if and only if strong Hbrmander-Mihlin multipliers are bounded on the Hardy space H1x(T). We achieve this by representing multipliers as martingale transforms. It is shewn that if X is in AUMD and is of cotype two then X has the Paley Theorem property. Using an isomorphism result we shew that if A is an injective operator system on a separable Hilbert space and P a completely bounded projection on A, then either PA or (I-P)A is completely boundedly isomorphic to A. The finite-dimensional version of this result is deduced from Ramsey's Theorem. It is shewn that B(e2 is primary. It is shewn that weakly compact homomorphisms T from the 2 disc algebra into B(e2 are necessarily compact. An explicit form for such T is obtained using spectral projections and it is deduced that such T are absolutely summing.
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Hadjipantelis, Pantelis-Zenon. "Functional data analysis in phonetics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/62527/.
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The study of speech sounds has established itself as a distinct area of research, namely Phonetics. This is because speech production is a complex phenomenon mediated by the interaction of multiple components of a linguistic and non-linguistic nature. To investigate such phenomena, this thesis employs a Functional Data Analysis framework where speech segments are viewed as functions. FDA treats functions as its fundamental unit of analysis; the thesis takes advantage of this, both in conceptual as well as practical terms, achieving theoretical coherence as well as statistical robustness in its insights. The main techniques employed in this work are: Functional principal components analysis, Functional mixed-effects regression models and phylogenetic Gaussian process regression for functional data. As it will be shown, these techniques allow for complementary analyses of linguistic data. The thesis presents a series of novel applications of functional data analysis in Phonetics. Firstly, it investigates the influence linguistic information carries on the speech intonation patterns. It provides these insights through an analysis combining FPCA with a series of mixed effect models, through which meaningful categorical prototypes are built. Secondly, the interplay of phase and amplitude variation in functional phonetic data is investigated. A multivariate mixed effects framework is developed for jointly analysing phase and amplitude information contained in phonetic data. Lastly, the phylogenetic associations between languages within a multi-language phonetic corpus are analysed. Utilizing a small subset of related Romance languages, a phylogenetic investigation of the words' spectrograms (functional objects defined over two continua simultaneously) is conducted to showcase a proof-of-concept experiment allowing the interconnection between FDA and Evolutionary Linguistics.
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Haw, Robin Andrew. "Functional analysis of yeast RAP1." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285773.
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Kolle, Gabriel Victor. "Functional analysis of vertebrate Crim1 /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16804.pdf.
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Bashton, Matthew. "Functional analysis of domain combinations." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616149.
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Ottaviano, Raffaele. "Functional analysis of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17869.
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Mammalian DNA methylathion is a chemical reaction catalyzed by DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) and involves the addition of a methyl group from the methyl donor SAM to the carbon 5 position of cytosine (C) in a CpG dinucleotide. Specifically, DNA methylation is essential for normal development and is involved in numerous key mechanisms such as genomic imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation, suppression of repetitive elements and may be involved in the regulation of single-copy gene expression. In the human genome the majority of CpGs are methylated whereas regions with high density of CpG sites, termed CpG islands and often co-localized within gene promoters, are typically free of this mark. Recently, a new modified cytosine, 5-hydroxymhetylcytosine (5-hmC), was identified and found at significant levels in mouse brain and both mouse and human embryonic stem (ES) cells. The conversion of 5-mC to 5-hmC is catalyzed by the ten-eleven translocation (TET) proteins of the 2-oxoglutarate (2OG)-and Fe(II)-dependent oxygenase superfamily. Many studies were conducted since the identification of 5-hmC and significant levels of 5-mC hydroxylation were found in many other mouse and human tissues. Importantly, many of the techniques used for 5-mC detection, such as bisulphite sequencing and methyl-sensitive restriction digestion, are incapable of distinguishing between 5mC and 5hmC implying the necessity not only to develop techniques specific for 5-hmC characterization but also reevaluation of previously published 5mC data. The biological function of 5-hmC is unknown however many recent studies have suggested a role for 5-hmC as an intermediate of either passive or active demethylation. The majority of studies of 5- hmC and TETs have used mouse ES cells as model system. Therefore, very little is known about 5-hmC patterns and TET expression within and between normal tissues. During my PhD, I used the recently developed 5-hmC-specific antibody for tiling microarrays and 5hmC-qPCR to examine both global 5hmC content and locus-specific patterns of 5hmC in several normal human tissues and breast cancer. I found that global 5-hmC content is highly variable between tissues compared to global 5-mC content. Moreover, TETs genes are highly expressed in most of tissues tested. Importantly, both global 5-hmC content and TETs genes are rapidly and significantly reduced as consequence of adaptation of cells from normal human tissue to cell culture. Using the 5hmC-specific antibody for tiling microarrays and 5-hmC-qPCR to profile locus-specific patterns of 5hmC, I found that 5-hmC patterns are tissue-specific in human samples. In addition, comparing array data to RNA-seq data, 5- hmC was found to co-localize at gene bodies of active genes. Moreover, despite the global 5-hmC reduction in cell lines, 5-hmC content remains enriched in some specific loci. In summary, my results show that tissue type is a major modifier of both global and locus-specific 5hmC at genes in normal human tissues. Furthermore, I also show that both TET gene expression and 5hmC content are significantly reduced and 5-hmC profiles reprogrammed during the passage from tissues to cell culture.