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Liu, Qingrong, and Liming Deng. "Chinese MA Student Writers’ Identity Construction in Citation Practices1." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 42, no. 3 (2019): 365–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2019-0022.

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Abstract Based on Burgess and Ivanič’s (2010) framework of the discoursal construction of writer identity, this paper explores the interaction between citation practices and identity construction in Chinese EFL learners’ MA thesis writing. A mixed approach of textual analysis and interviews was adopted to examine the citation features of MA theses and the identities Chinese EFL learners constructed through citation selection. It was found that students’ selection of citations reflects their linguistic identity, academic and disciplinary identity, as well as novice identity. Their citation practices project different discursive selves to readers. By adjusting the number and relevance of references, they intend to construct a knowledgeable and credible self. The use of ineffective citations and references not only projects an unfavorable impression on readers but reflects a lack of authorial identity. This study has significant implications for the teaching of academic English and the supervision of thesis writing.

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Sadeghi, Karim, and Arash Shirzad Khajepasha. "Thesis writing challenges for non-native MA students." Research in Post-Compulsory Education 20, no. 3 (2015): 357–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2015.1063808.

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Pérez Gutiérrez, Mikel, and Carlos Cobo-Corrales. "Martial arts and combat sports theses and dissertations indexed in BASE database: a bibliometric approach." Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas 14, no. 2s (2019): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/rama.v14i2s.5962.

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<div><p>The doctoral thesis is one of the most valued productions in a researcher’s career. They are also an important source of information despite they are usually considered as grey literature due to their limited distribution. The aim of this work was to perform a bibliometric analysis of martial arts and combat sports (MA&amp;CS) doctoral or postdoctoral dissertations indexed in the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) database. A comprehensive MA&amp;CS terms list and search strings were entered manually in the database search engine. Duplicate references were removed and obtained documents were filtered for meeting inclusion criteria. Selected references were then exported to Endnote X6 for classification and to Excel 2016 for bibliometric analyses. A total of 457 theses focused on MA&amp;CS, published from 1951 to 2019, were retrieved. The last analyzed decade collected 64.55% of total documents and judo was the most studied MA&amp;CS, with 90 documents. We conclude that MA&amp;CS theses and dissertations are an important source of information for scholars and academics, especially since the amount of them has considerably increased during the last decade at the international level.</p></div>

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Yang, Xiaomei. "How Do We Make Sense of the Thesis “Bai (White) Ma (Horse) Fei (Is Not) Ma (Horse)”?" Dao 18, no. 2 (2019): 163–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11712-019-09654-7.

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Garcia, Maria Emma, Richard W. Malott, and Dale Brethower. "A System of Thesis and Dissertation Supervision: Helping Graduate Students Succeed." Teaching of Psychology 15, no. 4 (1988): 186–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top1504_2.

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Twenty-nine psychology graduate students participated in a thesis and dissertation supervisory system. The system included weekly meetings, task specification, feedback, and incentives. Regular participants completed significantly more tasks when academic credit depended on task completion than when it did not. In comparison with a college-wide control group, a higher percentage of the participants in the supervisory group defined the topic, read relevant articles, collected data, wrote a draft, and completed their projects. In comparison with a psychology control group, the graduating participants completed MA theses of similar quality.

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XIE, Jianping. "Evaluation in Moves: An Integrated Analysis of Chinese MA Thesis Literature Reviews." English Language Teaching 10, no. 3 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n3p1.

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The ultimate communicative purpose of literature reviews is to convince the reader of the worthiness of the writer’s research, which is realized stage by stage and evaluation plays an important role in achieving this end. However, concerns about evaluation demonstration in novice academic writers’ literature reviews have been repeatedly voiced in academia. This study examines how Chinese English-major MA students utilize evaluative resources in different rhetorical stages in thesis literature reviews and whether in a way that facilitates building a coherent argument for their own studies. To achieve this, an integrated appraisal analysis applying Martin and White’s (2005) appraisal framework with a move analysis based on Kwan’s (2006) model of the move structure of thesis literature reviews is undertaken. Results show that the Chinese students generally manipulate evaluative resources in a way that is beneficial for realizing the purposes of different rhetorical stages in thesis literature reviews. However, they also have problems in deploying generic structure and constructing evaluative stances, which hamper weaving a strong argument in the texts. Findings of this study provide implications for teaching English academic writing in China and in other L2 contexts as well.

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Ariza-Pinzón, Vicky. "Analysis of MA Students’ Writing in English Language Teaching: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach." Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development 23, no. 1 (2021): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v23n1.82598.

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This study explores the ways in which master thesis writers position their research in the field of English language teaching in a context where academic literacies are still a developing field. From a social semiotic perspective, this paper aims to identify the resources writers use to represent their object of study and provide a context and justification for research. The analysis focuses on the ideational and textual metafunctions to account for patterns of meanings in seven introductory chapters of master theses in English teacher education. The results reveal a set of interconnected genres—descriptions of the object of study, definitions, and personal exemplum—that build a shared experience with the reader as well as the persuasive purpose of the text.

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Rahmani Sangani, Hamid, Seyed Iman Bassir, and Latifah Jalali. "An Effective Supervisory Model to Help MA English Students in the Process of Writing Their Thesis." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 1 (2016): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.1p.11.

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Conducting a research project and writing up a thesis could be as nearly demanding as it is essential for MA students to achieve their academic goals, particularly in developing world contexts such as Iran. One main reason for this, as experienced by some of the students, is the insufficient and inefficient guidance which the students receive from their supervisors. Meanwhile, the initial review of the available documents and syllabi in our context, Iran, demonstrated that there are no transparent comprehensive guidelines recommended for the supervisor-student relationships. In order to respond to these challenges, a multiple-case study, including four cases, was designed. Each of the four cases consisted of one MA TEFL student who was guided by a supervisory team including two of the three supervisors. The team members held their consulting sessions for each student individually. Each of the students’ activities and interactions were considered and reflected on regularly by the supervisory team in order to explore the challenges the students and their supervisors encountered and then to propose responses to them. The students were regularly interviewed about the efficiency of the whole process of the supervision, particularly the suggested responses and changes, to detect its successes and failures. An ongoing thematic analysis was used to analyse the collected data. The process helped the researchers, who were also the participants, to develop a supervisory model which hopefully facilitates the process of writing an MA thesis. The findings could be immensely helpful for the syllabus designers and supervisory teams as well as MA and PhD students.Keywords: Supervisor-Student Relationship, Supervisory Model, EL Students, MA Research, Thesis Writing

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Wuttisrisiriporn, Niwat. "Comparative Rhetorical Organization of ELT Thesis Introductions Composed by Thai and American Students." English Language Teaching 10, no. 12 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n12p1.

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Genre analysis is today’s dominant approach for textual analysis, especially in the ESP learning and teaching profession. Adopting this approach, the present study compares the Introduction chapters of MA theses in ELT (English Language Teaching) written by Thai students to those written by American university students based on the move-step analysis. Two sets of corpora comprise 30 TSI (Thai student Introduction) and 30 ASI (American student Introduction) Introduction chapters from the theses that followed the traditional five-chapter pattern or ILrMRD. All the TSI and ASI datasets were purposively collected from two electronic databases of graduate theses and dissertations, publicly known ThaiLis Digital Collection and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. These were subsequently analyzed using genre analysis approach. The modified CARS model introduced by Bunton (2002) guides the move-step analysis. To ensure the coding reliability and consistency, the coding analysis of a subset of the entire datasets between the researcher and an expert coder was checked, and the coding agreement was at a highly satisfactory level. The findings demonstrated that both Thai and American MA students followed the moves and steps proposed in the framework to construct their Introduction chapters rhetorically. Both similarities and differences were discovered in the Introduction chapters investigated, in terms of the communicative purpose, the frequency of move-step occurrences, and the move-step classification. Pedagogical implications drawn from the present study are useful for EAP practitioners and research writing instructors, allowing ESL/EFL teachers to equip their graduate students with an appropriate rhetorical outline for thesis Introduction composition.

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Wach, Aleksandra. "THE AFFECTIVE SIDE OF WRITING MA THESES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS." Neofilolog, no. 52/1 (April 25, 2019): 119–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/n.2019.52.1.10.

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Academic writing, which necessitates a coordination of multiple higherlevel cognitive skills, poses a challenge to graduate students. The heightened cognitive demands often cause negative emotions, such as stress, frustration, discouragement, but can also evoke positive ones, such as pride, satisfaction, and a feeling of accomplishment. This article reports the findings of a longitudinal qualitative study which aimed at exploring the emotions experienced by the participants, eleven students in an MA seminar, in the process of working on their theses, and the affective strategies they used. The data were collected through diaries kept by the participants over one academic year in which they recorded the emotions that accompanied them during the writing task. The data revealed a fluctuating and dynamic nature of the negative and positive emotions, out of which frustration and satisfaction were the most frequently experienced by the participants. Moreover, a range of affective strategies to control emotions and persist in writing were identified in the diary excerpts. The study illuminates the need to cater to the emotional side of graduate students’ thesis writing by providing them with support and appropriate training in self-regulation.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "MA thesis"

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Woods, Christopher Huia. "Masqueulinities [sic] an [sic] MA thesis by practice /." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://repositoryaut.lconz.ac.nz/theses/1368/.

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Ulker, Eser Meltem. "A Comparative Analysis Of Thesis Guidelines And Master Thesis Abstracts Written In English At Universities In Turkey And In The Usa." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614008/index.pdf.

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This study examines master of art (MA) theses abstracts written in English in terms of their texual structures. In order to design a comparative study, abstracts are collected from universities (i) with a guideline in Turkey (ii) without a guideline in Turkey and (iii) with a guideline in the USA. 94 abstracts, randomly selected from these three groups of universities, are analyzed according to a content criteria list developed on the basis of Swales (1981, 1990, 2004), and Hyland&rsquo<br>s (2000) textual structure models and content instructions provided in thesis writing guidelines. The analysis of data is accomplished using MS Excel 2010 ve SPSS 16.0. The comparison between abstracts written at universities with and without a guideline in Turkey revealed a significant difference in terms of methodology and statement of the problem. Also, with regards to the order of the rhetorical elements (Introduction+Methodology+Results+Conclusion), universities with a guideline in Turkey displayed more consistency than the universities without a guideline. As for the comparison between the universities with a guideline in Turkey and the USA, the results showed that there is a significant difference between the two abstract sets in terms of their methodology, results, and conclusion parts. Besides, the texual pattern analysis showed that abstracts collected from universities with a guideline in Turkey follow a more consistent order than their counterparts in the USA. The results of the thesis have pedagogical implicatons for students, teachers, academics who prepare thesis writing guidelines, and researchers who want to make publications internationally.

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Tan, Cheng-Te. "Tourism and pilgrimage host perceptions of the Ma-Tsu Religious Festival in Taiwan /." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998tanc.pdf.

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Prinsloo, Wilma. "Computational models for conformations of cell wall mycolates from Mycobacterium tuberculosis." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06122009-114802/.

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Miller, Laura I. "“Almost Astronauts”: Short Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115120/.

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In this collection of short stories, I abduct experiences from my own life and take them on an imaginative journey. I experiment with elements of structure and point of view, often incorporating the magical or surreal to amplify the narrator’s internal landscape. As demonstrated in the title story, “Almost Astronauts,” these stories all deal with a sudden and sometimes destructive shift in the narrator’s perspective.

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Howze, Sarah C. "A Birdhouse at the Bottom of the Ocean." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1637.

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Newport, Ruth A. "Arguments, argumentation and agreement a symbolic convergence study of the Lake Omapere Project : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (MA), 2007 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/163.

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Bitchener, John. "An investigation into potential mismatches between teacher intention and learner interpretation of task a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (MA), 2009 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/717.

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Thesis (MA, Applied Language Studies) -- AUT University, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (1 v. (various pagings) ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 418.0071 BIT)

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Roggendorf, Nadine. "How New Zealand universities present themselves to the public an analysis of communication strategies : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Masters of Arts (MA), 2008 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/472.

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This thesis investigates how the eight state-funded New Zealand universities present themselves in the prospectuses they publish yearly. The background for this research is the fact that the universities now have to compete for students and funding monies because the government has linked the amount of funding to the number of students and the universities’ success in research (McKenzie, 1996). Additionally, student fees and private sources increasingly contribute to the universities’ budget. The entry of competition into the tertiary education sector is a result of recent policy changes that led the education sector from an egalitarian scholarly system with a tradition of open and free access for all citizens to a market-oriented education industry, which contributes considerably to the national economy. This restructuring of the tertiary education sector is part of the major social, political and economic changes that New Zealand went through – and is still going through – beginning with the Fourth Labour Government's second term of office from 1987 to 1990 (Holland & Boston, 1990). The historical background of this thesis focuses on these policy changes that influenced all areas of the public life in New Zealand in the last 25 years. The literature review established that these reforms resulted in processes of commodification of education, competitive marketisation and corporatisation of the universities (Butterworth & Tarling, 1994). The purpose of this thesis is to find evidence of these three tendencies within the language and visual presentation of the university prospectuses. The prospectuses have been chosen as the data corpus because they provide a comprehensive overview of the institutions. Moreover, they represent a hybrid genre of an advertorial text type, being partly informational, partly promotional. The data has been analysed by applying textually-oriented discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1992). Discourse analysis has been proven to be a suitable methodology as it links linguistic analysis to the broader social context. The premise of this approach was that social changes leave traces within the discourse. The data analysis confirmed the intended outcome that the tendencies of commodification, marketisation and corporatisation are visible in the present material. This concludes that the order of discourse of business has colonised the order of discourse of tertiary education.

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Gao, Yi. "Bursting bubbles a moving image exploration of contemporary Chinese individuality : an thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art and Design (MA&D), 2008 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/485.

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This thesis is a practical project which involves moving images and paintings together as a medium that explores phenomena of contemporary China relating to personal identity, independence and its relationship with the traditional importance on collective groups, group centredness and interdependence. The project’s approach draws on sociological research on Western thought, values and beliefs naturally occurring in China since the “Open Door” policy as raw data to focus on the transition and transformation of contemporary Chinese individuality, and translates these data to form the concepts underpinning the metaphoric method of my artwork. Bubbles are the main visual symbols that metaphorically imply the incessantly transformable Chinese individuality and social cultural identity. My aim has been to portray this phenomenon through artistic practices on screens. By reflecting and engaging with moving images and paintings, underpinned by theoretical research and methods including data collecting, self-reflecting on data, practical manifestation and self-inquiry, I have attempted to unfold the phenomenon of contemporary Chinese individuality through my art practice. The thesis is composed as a creative work of moving images accompanied by an exegesis component. The moving image represents a nominal 80%, and the exegesis 20% of the final submission.

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Books on the topic "MA thesis"

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Ide, Arthur Frederick. Researching and writing the MA thesis. Monument Press, 2010.

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Abley, Lee. The reinvention of archetypes: MA Communication Design thesis 2000. Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, 2000.

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Printing, London College of. MA in photography and advertising thesis 1990: Surrealism - art - advertising. LCP, 1990.

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Printing, London College of. MA in photography and advertising thesis 1990: Chicha imagery in contemporary Peru. LCP, 1990.

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Parsons, Jackie. Open - the allure of the hand-drawn: Letterforms into the digital realm : MA Communication Design thesis 2000. Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, 2000.

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Lalaguna, Anne. A social history of the shower-bath in Britain: The re-invention of the shower culture : MA thesis submitted in partialfulfilment of the requirements of the MA in History of Design [Middlesex Polytechnic]. Middlesex Polytechnic, 1990.

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Rodriguez, Julian. Signs of change: Public house metamorphosis in the 1990s : [thesis] submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the MA in History of Design, Middlesex Polytechnic. Middlesex Polytechnic, 1991.

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Ming hua de mi ma: Dawenxi mi ma, Mikailangjiluo mi ma, zhu shi ji mi ma ...... da shi you hua bu shuo, wei he yong mi ma cang zai zuo pin li? Da shi wen hua you xian gong si, 2016.

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Alary, Gérard. Les trois vies de ma mère. Musées de Marseille, 2007.

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Albareda, Montserrat Duran i. Josep Ma. Jujol a Sant Joan Despí: Projectes i obra, 1913-1949. Corporació Metropolitana de Barcelona, Assessoria de Comunicació i Relacions, Servei de Publicacions, 1987.

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Wisker, Gina. "Writing Up: Definitions and Qualities of a Good MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD Thesis." In The Postgraduate Research Handbook. Macmillan Education UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-36494-3_27.

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Čeňková, Ivana. "MA Theses in Prague." In Benjamins Translation Library. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.33.06cen.

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Koneczniak, Grzegorz. "Alice Munro at Polish Universities: An Analysis of Selected Academic Texts, Including BA, MA and PhD Theses." In Alice Munro. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24061-9_14.

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Schachtner, Christina. "Storytelling as a Cultural Practice and Life Form." In The Narrative Subject. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51189-0_2.

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Abstract Narrative is introduced as a cultural practice and life form which contributes to creating the foundation of our lives as it helps us to interpret the world, through stories, in which we must be able to act. Borrowed from Ricœur (Time and narrative: The configuration of time in fictional narrative (Vol. 2, K. McLaughlin & D. Pellauer, Trans). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press (1985) and The course of recognition (D. Pellauer, Trans). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2005).), the concepts of time and space are presented as the contexts and products of narrative. The functions of storytelling are discussed under the heading of “technologies of Self-construction” (inspired by Foucault, Technologies of the self. In L. H. Martin, H. Gutman, & P. H. Hutton (Eds.), Technologies of the self: A seminar with Michel Foucault (pp. 16–49). Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press (1988).), which provide orientation, self-understanding, and transgression. These need to be developed within the constraints of social norms—so the theory goes—and yet subjects still have some room to move within the process of adopting norms (Butler, Giving an account of oneself. New York, NY: Fordham University Press (2005).).

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Tiwari, Udit, and Sahab Dass. "Moisture Stable Soot Coated Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Photoelectrodes for Hydrogen Production in Water." In Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63916-7_18.

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AbstractMetal halide perovskites have triggered a quantum leap in the photovoltaic technology marked by a humongous improvement in the device performance in a matter of just a few years. Despite their promising optoelectronic properties, their use in the photovoltaic sector remains restricted due to their inherent instability towards moisture. Here, we report a simple, cost-effective and highly efficient protection strategy that enables their use as photoelectrodes for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production while being immersed in water. A uniform coating of candle soot and silica is developed as an efficient hydrophobic coating that protects the perovskite from water while allowing the photogenerated electrons to reach the counter electrode. We achieve remarkable stability with photocurrent density above 1.5 mA cm−2 at 1 V versus saturated calomel electrode (SCE) for ~1 h under constant illumination. These results indicate an efficient route for the development of stable perovskite photoelectrodes for solar water splitting.

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Vlitos, Paul. "“Your Successful Man of Letters Is Your Successful Tradesman”: Fiction and the Marketplace in British Author’s Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." In New Directions in Book History. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53614-5_4.

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AbstractAs Christopher Hilliard has noted, the 1890s and 1900s saw in Britain the development of a flourishing “literary advice industry” of which the “first goods were guidebooks” (Hilliard in To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain. Harvard University Press, London and Cambridge, MA, 2006, p. 20). Examples include Arnold Bennett’s How to Become an Author (1903), Walter Besant’s The Pen and the Book (1899), E. H. Lacon Watson’s Hints to Young Authors (1902), and Leopold Wagner’s How to Publish a Book (1898). As this chapter will explore, these authors’ guides mix technical advice on the rules of fiction with practical advice on the workings of the publishing industry and the financial side of authorship—and in so doing, I shall argue, both reflect and help contribute to dramatic changes in public understandings of the nature of authorship and the relationship between the writer and marketplace.

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Nelson, Emily, and Leigh Johnson. "Addressing the Socio-Spatial Challenges of Innovative Learning Environments for Practicum: Harmonics for Transitional Times." In Teacher Transition into Innovative Learning Environments. Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7497-9_23.

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AbstractA shift to Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs) in New Zealand schools is a current Ministry of Education strategic direction challenging how we as teacher educators prepare candidate teachers (student teachers or trainee teachers) to teach in these emerging environments. Candidate teachers in our primary teaching degree increasingly are placed in ILEs on practicum as these develop in schools in our geographic area. Our students report anecdotally that teaching in ILEs poses them steep and novel challenges around how they plan, teach, assess, manage students and learning, as well as work collaboratively with associate teachers and, increasingly, other colleagues. With our current programme underpinned by a more conventional image of teaching and learning, and schools transitioning between conventional and arguably more innovative, bespoke environments, we wondered how our students navigated the novel pedagogical and physical configurations they encountered in ILEs on practicum. We conducted focus group interviews with our candidate teachers and recent graduates who had completed one or more practicum in an innovative learning environment (as defined by the practicum school). We explored participants’ perceptions of the particular demands ILEs created for them. Utilising Lefebvre’s (The production of space. Trans. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1991) socio-spatial trialectic and Monahan’s (Built pedagogies & technology practices: designing for participatory learning. Palo Alto, CA, 2000) notion of “built pedagogy” in this chapter we identify key socio-spatial entanglements, or harmonics, that emerge from our analysis and explore how these inform how we might better prepare our candidate teachers in these transitional times.

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Levy, Raymond A., and Milton Kotelchuck. "Fatherhood and Reproductive Health in the Antenatal Period: From Men’s Voices to Clinical Practice." In Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75645-1_6.

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AbstractThere is very limited literature on the experiences of fathers during Obstetric prenatal care (PNC), especially hearing from fathers’ voices directly. The MGH Fatherhood Project conducted two annual surveys—data combined for analysis—of all fathers who accompanied their partners to prenatal care visits over 2-week periods at a large, tertiary-care urban hospital in Boston, MA. The anonymous, voluntary close-ended survey was offered in multiple languages and self-administered on iPads.Results: Nine hundred fifty nine fathers participated, 86% of attending fathers, possibly making the study the largest research sample of fathers in PNC. Fathers are actively and deeply engaged with the impending birth; they have substantial physical health needs (obesity, family planning and lack of primary care), and mental health needs (stress, depressive symptoms, and personal isolation). Fathers perceived they were well treated during the PNC visit, but were desirous of more reproductive, relational, and infant health information and skills, which they preferred to receive from publications, social media, or health professionals; and they were very supportive of PNC fatherhood initiatives.Discussion: The results suggest five sets of practical recommendations to create a more father-friendly environment in Obstetric care-Staff Training; Father-Friendly Clinic Environment; Explicit Affirmation of Father Inclusion; Development of Educational Materials; and Specialized Father-Focused Health Initiatives, all with the goal of improving reproductive health outcomes for families.

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Kinsella, John. "Further reconstruction: coda or prologue?" In Polysituatedness. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526113344.003.0027.

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The plot thickens or maybe gains a little more clarity when it comes to Charles Walker and the first published volume of poetry published in Western Australia/Perth. I have got hold of pages from Beverley Smith’s 1961 MA thesis ‘Early Western Australian Literature: A Guide to Colonial Life and Goldfields Life’...

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Boggess, Carol. "The Scholar’s Tale." In James Still. University Press of Kentucky, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813174181.003.0006.

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This chapter relates Still’s experience as a graduate student in English at Vanderbilt University. He studied under well-known scholars and writers including some members of the influential Fugitive and Agrarian movements. Inspired by Walter Clyde Curry’s Chaucer class, Still wrote his thesis on Middle English Romances. Though the academic life was rigorous, Still was successful, and he found time to travel to Wilder, Tennessee, to distribute supplies to striking coal miners and to attend the 56<sup>th</sup> running of the Kentucky Derby. Still was awarded his MA on June 11, 1930.

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Conference papers on the topic "MA thesis"

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Guo, Jingxiao. "A Contrastive Study of Evidentiality in English and Chinese MA Thesis Abstracts." In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019). Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.184.

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Bopp, M. "Upgrade concepts of the PSI accelerator RF systems for a projected 3 mA operation." In CYCLOCTRONS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS 2001: Sixteenth International Conference. AIP, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1435259.

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Normand, S., V. Kondrasovs, G. Corre, J. M. Bourbotte, and A. Ferragut. "MA-NRBC: First successful attempt for neutron gamma discrimination in plastic scintillators." In 2011 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/animma.2011.6172932.

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Shimamura, Junji, Kyono Yasuda, Nobuyuki Ishikawa, and Shigeru Endo. "Ductile Fracture Behavior of Bainite-MA Dual Phase Steels." In 2014 10th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2014-33484.

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In order to achieve safety and reliability of the pipeline installed in seismic region, it is quite important to apply the high-strength linepipes with sufficient strain capacity against buckling and weld fracture by the seismic ground movement. Dual-phase microstructure control is an essential measure for improving strain capacity of linepipe steels. Ferrite-bainite or bainite-MA microstructures are practically applied to the linepipes for the strain-based design to achieve higher deformability which has low Y/T (Yield/Tensile strength) ratio and high uniform elongation even after pipe coating. On the other hand, dual-phase steels tend to show lower Charpy energy in the upper shelf region than single-phase steel. It is considered that void nucleation and growth is enhanced in the dual-phase steels due to the strain concentration at the boundary between two different phases, resulting in early cracking in the specimen that leads to lower Charpy energy. The Charpy energy of the bainite-MA dual-phase steels was strongly affected by the volume fraction and size of MA. In the case of Bainite-MA steels with fewer volume fraction of MA and smaller size of MA, the sample showed higher Charpy energy. Ductile fracture behavior was investigated through several kinds of Charpy impact tests in order to clarify the effect of these microstructure differences on the Charpy energy in the upper shelf region. From the SEM observation, it was found that void nucleation was enhanced in the sample with higher volume fraction of MA and larger size of MA. It is considered that the increase of boundary area that works as void nucleation site affected these results. Experimental results were mainly discussed in this paper.

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Ogot, M. M., and B. J. Gilmore. "An Alternative Approach to Mechanical Advantage for the Analysis of a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Mechanical Device." In ASME 1992 Design Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc1992-0144.

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Abstract The design efficiency of mechanical systems has traditionally been measured via mechanical advantage (MA) which relates the amount of force exerted at the output to the corresponding force applied at the input. MA has been confined to single-input single-output devices, and only recently to single-input multiple-output port devices. This paper presents an alternative approach to MA. The classical definition of MA required the input force to do work on the mechanism, and the output force to be worked on by the mechanism. However this may cause problems where the external loads flip back and forth between doing work to and being worked on by the mechanism at different points in the cycle. This paper overcomes this difficulty by considering the input force as that applied by the mechanism actuator, and the output force to be the external or applied load. With these definitions, a general expression for MA applicable to multiple-input, multiple-output port mechanisms is presented.

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Onashoga, Adebukola, Adebayo Akinde, and Adesina Sodiya. "A Strategic Review of Existing Mobile Agent-Based Intrusion Detection Systems." In InSITE 2009: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3372.

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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) is defined as a component that analyses system and user operations in computer and network systems in search of activities considered undesirable from security perspectives. Applying mobile agent (MA) to intrusion detection design is a recent development and it is aimed at effective intrusion detection in distributed environment. From the literature, it is clear that most MA-based IDS that are available are not quite effective because their time to detection is high and detect limited intrusions.This paper proposes a way of classifying a typical IDS and then strategically reviews the existing mobile agent-based IDSs focusing on each of the categories of the classification, for example architecture, mode of data collection, the techniques for analysis, and the security of these intelligent codes. Their strengths and problems are stated wherever applicable. Furthermore, suggested ways of improving on current MA-IDS designs are presented in order to achieve an efficient mobile agent-based IDS for future security of distributed network.

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Perot, Bertrand, Cedric Carasco, Mohamed Toure, Wassila El Kanawati, and Cyrille Eleon. "Elemental characterization of LL-MA radioactive waste packages with the associated particle technique." In 2011 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/animma.2011.6172912.

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Cowder, Justin D., Nicole J. Chimera, Thomas S. Buchanan, and Kurt T. Manal. "Estimation of Achilles Tendon Moment Arms In Vivo: A Novel Hybrid Method Using Ultrasound and Motion Analysis." In ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2008-193137.

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The musculotendon moment arm (MA) is the perpendicular distance from a muscle’s line of action to the rotational center of a joint. Moment arms are important in muscle modeling [1], and thus their accuracy is of great importance. Current in vivo techniques for computing MAs include the center of rotation and tendon excursion methods [1, 2]. The tendon excursion (TE) method relates the change in musculotendon length to an angular change in joint position [3]. This requires two measurements of musculotendon length for each MA computed. Similarly, the center of rotation method requires multiple image-based geometry measurements to compute the MA for a specific joint angle. The TE and center of rotation methods are both prone to measurement error, and thus it is difficult to ascertain the accuracy of the resulting MA. In this paper we present a novel hybrid methodology combining ultrasound (US) and video-based motion capture to compute the Achilles tendon moment arm. An advantage of this approach is that data used to derive the MA are acquired using highly accurate and reliable measurement instruments (i.e, US & motion capture), which may improve the accuracy of the MA estimate. The purpose of this paper is to present the hybrid methodology and validation results based on testing the method using an animal model.

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Yogameena, B., S. Saravana Perumal, N. Packiyaraj, and P. Saravanan. "Ma-Th algorithm for people count in a dense crowd and their behaviour classification." In 2012 International Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mvip.2012.6428750.

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Lestingi, Emily A., and Zelalem K. Bedaso. "5.8 MA CARBON ISOTOPE RECORDS OF EAST AFRICAN MAMMALIAN DIET AND THEIR MODERN RELATIVES." In 50th Annual GSA North-Central Section Meeting. Geological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2016nc-275327.

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