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Bratcher, Beau. "Much Ado About Process: One Director's Approach to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1144.

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The following thesis is a brief view of production of UNO's Spring 2009 production of Shakespeare's classic comedy Much Ado About Nothing. This thesis will include analysis, research, production book, documentation from the production, and an evaluation of the process of bringing the production to life. The play was performed in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the University of New Orleans Performing Arts Center Robert E. Nims Theatre on April 23, 24, 25, and 30 as well as May 1, 2, and 3.

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Rutz, Samuel. "International environmental agreements much ado about nothing? /." Aachen : Shaker, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/359419127.pdf.

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Whalen, David. "Much Ado About Nothing: How Much Do The Oscars Matter?" Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437752917.

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Gonzalez, Roseann Dueñas, Victoria F. Vasquez, and John Bichsel. "Language Rights and the Mexican Americans: Much Ado About Nothing." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624812.

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Kintis, Andreas G. "The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy : much ado about nothing?" Thesis, University of Hull, 2002. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:15917.

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Herman, Crystal Grace. "Costume Design and Production for Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396277499.

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Nalder, Kimberly Love. "Democracy and the electoral consequences of term limits : much ado about nothing? /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2003. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Levin, Joshua. "Much Ado About Nothing: British Non-Intervention During The American Civil War." Thesis, Department of History, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7988.

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During the American Civil War the Federals and Confederates believed that Britain was likely to intervene. This belief is pervasive in current historiography, which argues that Britain was constantly on the threshold of interfering in the American conflict. Taking a longer view of the Anglo-American diplomatic relationship, as well as the relevance of contextual British economic, social, political and foreign policy interests and limitations, this thesis argues that Britain was never going to abandon neutrality. Drawing on the personal papers and official correspondence of diplomats and politicians, it becomes clear that occasionally aggressive transatlantic rhetoric was a negotiating strategy for two nations concerned with maintaining peace at all costs.

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Owen, Gregory L. "A Lighting Design Process For A Production Of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211984241.

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Garrett, Christen A. "Mirth Matters: Creating the role of Beatrice In William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1191.

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This thesis serves as documentation of my efforts to explore and define my creative process as an actor in creating the role of Beatrice in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. This includes research, character analysis, rehearsal journal and an evaluation of my performance. Much Ado About Nothing was produced by the University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts. The play was performed in the Robert E. Nims Thrust Theatre of the Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm on the evenings of April 23 through 25 and April 30 through May 2. There was a student matinee the morning of Friday, May 1 at 9:30 am as well as one public matinee at 2:30 pm on Sunday, May 3, 2009.

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[Verfasser], Sukit Kanjina, and Volker [Akademischer Betreuer] Hoffmann. "Collaborative water governance in Thailand : much ado about nothing? / Sukit Kanjina. Betreuer: Volker Hoffmann." Hohenheim : Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1075547482/34.

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Owen, Gregory Lowell. "A lighting design process for a production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211984241.

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Nxele, Musawenkosi. "Does mining alleviate or exacerbate poverty: Are local community grievances really 'Much Ado about Nothing'?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24930.

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This study sets out to evaluate the impact of industrial mining on local economies, within a context of a developing country with a strict procurement policy on its extractive industry. It contributes empirical evidence on two main ideas on the impact of mining on local communities. The one idea is that mining has a positive impact on local communities because it creates economic activity through economic linkages with local markets; and thus contributes to local industrialisation, economic development, and poverty reduction. The other idea is that mining harms local economies through negative impacts on the environment; which hurts local agriculture and health, leading to an increase in local poverty. By evaluating a case study of a poor rural economy driven by mining and agriculture, this study measures the net average impact of the opening and expansion of mining on local income poverty. Using ward level data combined with firm data, the study essentially uses a difference-in-differences estimation procedure, by exploiting a local input demand shock from large industrial mines, as well as changes in distance to a mine, as sources of variation. The study finds that the opening of a mine is associated with poverty reduction in surrounding communities, while the impact from an expansion of a mine depends on the type of commodity mined. Unpacking these results by commodity gives insight into the concentration of labour and community unrest in the platinum and gold mining sectors in South Africa. The findings of this study remain robust to different indicators of mine expansion, and checks for alternative explanations such as selective migration and sample checks. The study uses the Limpopo Province of South Africa as a suitable case study.

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Barns-Graham, Alexander Edward. "Much ado about nothing : the superconformal index and Hilbert series of three dimensional N =4 vacua." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287950.

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We study a quantum mechanical $\sigma$-model whose target space is a hyperKähler cone. As shown by Singleton, [184], such a theory has superconformal invariance under the algebra $\mathfrak{osp}(4^*|4)$. One can formally define a superconformal index that counts the short representations of the algebra. When the hyperKähler cone has a projective symplectic resolution, we define a regularised superconformal index. The index is defined as the equivariant Hirzebruch index of the Dolbeault cohomology of the resolution, hereafter referred to as the index. In many cases, the index can be explicitly calculated via localisation theorems. By limiting to zero the fugacities in the index corresponding to an isometry, one forms the index of the submanifold of the target space invariant under that isometry. There is a limit of the fugacities that gives the Hilbert series of the target space, and often there is another limit of the parameters that produces the Poincaré polynomial for $\mathbb C^\times$-equivariant Borel-Moore homology of the space. A natural class of hyperKähler cones are Nakajima quiver varieties. We compute the index of the $A$-type quiver varieties by making use of the fact that they are submanifolds of instanton moduli space invariant under an isometry. Every Nakajima quiver variety arises as the Higgs branch of a three dimensional $\mathcal N =4$ quiver gauge theory, or equivalently the Coulomb branch of the mirror dual theory. We show the equivalence between the descriptions of the Hilbert series of a line bundle on the ADHM quiver variety via localisation, and via Hanany's monopole formula. Finally, we study the action of the Poisson algebra of the coordinate ring on the Hilbert series of line bundles. We restrict to the case of looking at the Coulomb branch of balanced $ADE$-type quivers in a certain infinite rank limit. In this limit, the Poisson algebra is a semiclassical limit of the Yangian of $ADE$-type. The space of global sections of the line bundle is a graded representation of the Poisson algebra. We find that, as a representation, it is a tensor product of the space of holomorphic functions with a finite dimensional representation. This finite dimensional representation is a tensor product of two irreducible representations of the Yangian, defined by the choice of line bundle. We find a striking duality between the characters of these finite dimensional representations and the generating function for Poincaré polynomials.

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Engel, Grace Eve Cheaney. "“The Utter Reality of Characterization”; Presentational and Representational Work in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1294188870.

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Evans, Judith Bruce. "The rush to knowledge perception and interpretation in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and The Winter's Tale /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/441849997/viewonline.

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Pahlau, Randi. "Hospitality and the Natural World within an Ecotheological Contextin William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1448050811.

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Drouin, Jennifer Suzanne. ""Sigh no more, ladies", marriages of submission in Shakespeare's "The taming of the shrew" and "Much ado about nothing"." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54528.pdf.

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Duvenhage, Arno. "Personal liability of company directors towards company creditors under the Companies Act 71 of 2008 : much ado about nothing?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75046.

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The legal fiction known as separate legal personality is the foundation of company law and attracts natural persons to incorporate companies, appoint a board of directors and raise capital. In terms of s 66 of the Companies Act, 71 of 2008 (“the 2008 Act”), directors can now be regarded as the heart of a company and represent the body through which the company takes all actions within the economic sphere. As a default position, directors owe fiduciary duties and a duty of care and skill to the company itself and not its creditors. However, on its face, this default position is placed under threat by s 218(2) of the 2008 Act. This section potentially constitutes a general remedy for any interested person, including company creditors, to hold liable any person, including company directors, for any loss or damage suffered as a result of a contravention of any provision in the 2008 Act. The potential threat posed by s 218(2) becomes heightened if one considers the prohibition on reckless trading as codified in s 22(1) of the 2008 Act. This statutory prohibition against reckless trading, considered in light of a stringent solvency and liquidity test prescribed by s 4 of the 2008 Act, places a microscope on the conduct of a debtor company vis-à-vis its creditors. The question then arises, whether or not s 218(2) read with s 22(1), and any other interrelated provisions of the 2008 Act, represent a novel and effective remedy for creditors to pursue company directors personally as a result of reckless trading? Or is s 218(2) rather, in the words of the renowned playwright Shakespeare, much ado about nothing? In order to interpret the potential operation of s 218(2), it is important to consider existing remedies available to creditors for the purpose of holding directors personally liable under South African common law and in terms of s 424 of the Companies Act, 61 of 1973 (“the 1973 Act”). This study primarily focuses on s 218(2) and its interplay with s 22(1) and other interrelated provisions of the 2008 Act and whether it creates a legal remedy for creditors to hold company directors personally liable for the reckless trading of a debtor company. It is concluded that whilst s 218(2) is a novel general remedy, the ability of creditors to enforce s 218(2) for the purpose of holding directors personally liable is hamstrung by interpretive difficulties and adverse policy considerations. In the circumstances, the existing and recognised remedies available to creditors, appear to be better calibrated for the purpose of holding directors personally liable for the reckless trading of a debtor company.
Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Mercantile Law
LLM
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De, Waal Marguerite Florence. "Revelatory deceptions in selected plays by William Shakespeare." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62673.

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This dissertation is concerned with the paradox of revelatory deception a form of 'lying' which reveals truth instead of concealing it in four Shakespearean plays: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Hamlet, and King Lear. Through close analysis, I show that revelatory deceptions in these plays are metatheatrical, and read them as responding to contemporary writers who attacked the theatre for being inherently deceitful. This reading leads to the identification of parallels in the description of theatre in antitheatrical texts and the descriptions of revelatory deceptions in the plays. I suggest that correlations in phrasing and imagery might undermine antitheatrical rhetoric: for example, the plays portray certain theatrical, revelatory deceptions as traps which free their victims instead of killing them. Such 'lies' are differentiated from actual deceits by their potentially relational characteristics: deceptions which reveal the truth require audiences to put aside their self-interest and certainty to consider alternative realities which might reflect, reconfigure, and expand their understanding of the world and of themselves. The resulting truths lead either to the creation or renewal of relationships, as in Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It, or offer glimpses at the possibility of renewal, which is ultimately denied, as in Hamlet and King Lear. In both cases the imperatives for truth and right action are underscored not obscured, as antitheatricalists would have argued through the audience's vicarious experience of either the gains or losses of characters within the plays.
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Corbett, Lisa Ashley. "Male Dominance and female exploitation: A study of female Victimization in William Shakespeare's Othello, Much Ado about nothing, and Hamlet." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2009. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/93.

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This study is a feminist-based reading of three of William Shakespeare’s works: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet. The reading, although borrowing from the feminist perspective, is not a full-blown feminist reading of Shakespeare’s works. The focus of the study comprises the social circumstances and the misogynistic actions of the male characters and how these impact on the lives of the female characters. The relationships between the male and female characters are often characterized by physical and psychological victimization arid their feelings of misery and shame, and even total destruction of life (as in the case of Desdemona and Ophelia). The three Shakespearean plays portray male rivals who take part in significant roles that cause destruction of well established relationships. The men allow their egos to persuade their decisions, attack their internal emotions, and demolish virtuous women who are forced to become victims of political intrigues and machinations. Shakespeare shows two types of women throughout the plays: women who refuse to submit to men and demand equal rights, and submissive women who carry out the roles of an Elizabethan woman. Those who followed the roles of the Elizabethan woman, which is to be submissive to men, also demonstrate that bowing down to patriarchal rules does not guarantee happiness for women. In fact, it may actually lead to their domination and victimization. Furthermore, all female characters, whether submissive or not, suffered the consequences of male dominance and victimization. However, the females who lived up to the women roles of the patriarchal society suffered more than the women who fought against male dominance.

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滝川, 睦., and Mutsumu TAKIGAWA. "“But Masters, Remember That I Am an Ass” : Much Ado about Nothing における邪視と中傷 -." 名古屋大学文学部, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/9295.

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Downes, Chris. "Much ado about nothing? Reassessing the impact of the World Trade Organization agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures on domestic food regulations." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594235.

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Legal commentary on the World Trade Organization Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) commonly portrays the regime as a constraint on, and threat to, domestic policy-making. EU adminlstrators, by contrast, generally consider international legal obligations peripheral to their work. This thesis seeks to understand these differing perceptims and ascertain the real influence of the Agreement on domestic food regulations. Part I reviews the legal literature, to better understand the assumptions underlying the prevailing characterisation of the SPS regime. It identifies a dominant paradigm fur analysing the Agreement, one fixated on jurisprudence, predominantly interested in the Agreement's significance for state sovereignty, and informed by the belief that law directly regulates state behaviour. Comrrentators' expectation of constraint flow from this analytical approach, but generally lack empirical foundation. With reference to EU fuod policy, Part II reassesses assumptions about the Agreement. It challenges the prominent criticism that the Agreement inspires regulations based on science and neglecting other vahJ!s, demonstrating that EU SPS measures remain responsive to social values in policy areas vulnerable to WTO challenge.

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Chauke, J. Thabo. "The impact of the European Union-South Africa free trade area agreement on factor returns in South Africa : much ado about nothing?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5769.

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Banks, Amy Camille Connelly. "Shakespeare's Leading Franciscan Friars: Contrasting Approaches to Pastoral Power." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8931.

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A popular perception persists that the Franciscan friars of Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing bear heavy blame for the results of the play, adversely for Friar Lawrence and positively for Friar Francis. The friars do formulate similar plans, but their roles vary significantly. I contrast their approaches using Michel Foucault's definition of pastoral power, with Friar Lawrence as an overly manipulative friar controlling the lovers in spiritual matters, and Friar Francis as a humble military friar returning from the Wars of Religion to share his authority with others. This distinction--especially with Friar Lawrence appearing chronologically first--demonstrates Shakespeare as more fluid in religious themes, contrary to a significant body of scholarship that asserts Shakespeare's pro-Catholic sympathies.

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Gavrilovic, Bojan [Verfasser], and Markus [Akademischer Betreuer] Kotzur. "Universal Panacea for Ill-treatment or Much Ado About Nothing : Assessment of National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Torture Established Under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture / Bojan Gavrilovic ; Betreuer: Markus Kotzur." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1192912993/34.

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Kulkarni, Amit Sharad. "Much ado about adherence a tale of two disease states /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1156770789.

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Meidenbauer, Joshua. "Much Ado About Eating: Dietary Therapy for Health and Disease Management." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104040.

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Thesis advisor: Thomas N. Seyfried
Dietary therapy has been used since ancient times to treat the symptoms of disease and disorder. Dietary therapy has long captured the interest of the public in modern times, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century with Englishman William Banting's "Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public", which addressed Banting's anecdotal use of a high-fat diet to treat obesity. High-fat diets became popular in the United States in the early twentieth-century to treat epilepsy. The utility of dietary therapy to treat diseases and disorder has not been embraced widely, as there is a paucity of standardized clinical trials that demonstrate robust safety and therapeutic efficacy for specific diseases and disorders. Additionally, preclinical studies of dietary therapy do not adhere to standardized guidelines, which can hinder cross-study interpretation and reproducibility. To that end, my dissertation updates diet implementation guidelines for preclinical studies that adhere to standardized experimental design and biomarker monitoring in mouse models in order to maximize therapeutic efficacy, diet regimen safety, and cross-study interpretability. With these guidelines, I explored the effect of various diets on circulating glucose and ketone bodies in mice, a measure of glycolytic flux, along with biomarkers of health. I found that calorie-restricted diets, regardless of macronutrient composition, lowers circulating glucose and increases circulating ketone levels, along with improving biomarkers of health, including lowering circulating triglyceride levels. In demonstrating the utility of dietary therapy to treat disease, I also explored the mechanisms on how dietary therapy can be used to treat epilepsy in a preclinical mouse model. I showed that reduced glucose utilization underlies the seizure-protective effects of dietary therapy in EL mice, a mouse model of idiopathic epilepsy. Lastly, I developed a novel tool, the Glucose Ketone Index Calculator, to track the progress of dietary therapy in brain cancer patients through a ratio of circulating glucose to circulating ketone bodies. Evidence is presented that demonstrates a low ratio of glucose to ketone bodies is associated with improved prognosis of brain cancer management in humans and mice. Overall, this dissertation demonstrates the utility of dietary therapy in treating disease using standardized guidelines, and suggests the use of a novel tool to apply and track the progress of dietary therapy in the clinical brain cancer population
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Biology

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Bowles, Robin. "Culture clashing in William Shakespeare's Much ado about not(h)ing." University of Portland, 2009. http://library2.up.edu/theses/2009_bowlesr.pdf.

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Honda, Ethan Philip. "Resonant dynamics within the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation : Much ado about oscillons /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992817.

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Nowlin, Christopher. "From Big Brother to Little Sister's, a century of much expert ado about obscenity in constitutional review." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0015/NQ37738.pdf.

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Sun, Yanna. "Shakespeare in China." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1219421137948-00200.

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Since Shakespeare was introduced to China at the beginning of the 20th Century, the Chinese have translated the English playwright's plays and performed them on the Chinese stage either in the form of spoken drama or the traditional Chinese opera. No matter which approach is chosen to perform the dramatist, it is an intercultural form in introducing him to the Chinese.

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Lanier, Madison Kathryn. "Much Ado About Immersion: Power, Reported Results, and the Validity of Research on the Psychology of Virtual Reality and Immersive Simulations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83778.

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Virtual reality (VR) technology has permeated consumer culture in recent years, consequentially inspiring a hotbed of interdisciplinary academic VR research to better understand its effects as a medium. It has become a popular subject of study in fields as varied as engineering, computer science, communication, and psychology. The present study evaluates methodological trends in behavioral research on VR in terms of best practices regarding data collection, reporting, and availability. A meta-scientific content analysis of 61 articles focused on power, p-values, reporting errors, and transparency of data, all of which respectively represent four stages of research: data collection, analysis, reporting, and sharing. The findings from 1,122 statistical tests show that there is room for improvement in much behavioral research on VR in terms of methodological trends regarding number of participants, reporting of results, and data availability. Although no firm conclusions can be drawn about the presence of p-hacking or other questionable research practices (QRPs), the present study demonstrates that chronically small sample sizes, instances of errors in reporting, and a lack of transparent supplemental data are evident. The trends observed are broad, yet informative, and further research in this area is crucial. Methodological recommendations are made for future research dealing with VR applications, particularly given the potential social and cultural impact of the technology.
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Roerick, Kyle. "Much Ado About Free Trade? Examining the Role of Discourse and Civil Society in Framing the Anti-Free Trade Debate, 1985-1988." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22757.

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The well-known outcome of the 1988 federal election – a Conservative Party majority in Parliament and an effective “yes” to the question of whether or not the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States was desired – tends to obscure the importance of the process by which a large non-party based opposition movement sought to cultivate and organize the public’s understanding of the election’s central premise. While the opposition movement failed to have Prime Minister Brian Mulroney removed from power, the discursive process that the movement both created and was the driving force behind, is key to understanding the historical context of the debate over free trade itself. This thesis will illustrate that there existed a discursive process amongst the efforts of the anti-free trade movement from 1985-1988 to cultivate, organize, and mobilize public opposition to Mulroney’s neo-liberal economic policies, through re-framing those objections into a larger and more deeply-rooted Canadian historical narrative. A discourse analysis was conducted using the various public education materials produced by major anti-free trade civil society organizations in Canada. The examination of that discourse revealed three major stages in the overall process: First, organizations relied heavily on classic paradigms of an anti-continentalist narrative to reinforce what was different between the two countries creating an us and them paradigm and building a case for Canadian exceptionalism. Second, there was an intensification of the us and them language into a more defined us versus them, or them against us, dichotomy. Third, the anti-free trade movement sought to effectively translate the previously established civic opposition into pragmatic political action in preparation for a national election campaign. The results show that there was an evolution in the ways members of the civil society opposition framed and evolved their arguments in order to turn their “issues” into more of a “crisis.” By employing (and expanding on) discursive tools used within that public narrative to generate fear of the other to validate illusions of self, and to construct believable threats to the collective, the more “micro” discussion over the growing pervasiveness of neo-liberalism took on a hyper-nationalistic and symbolic routine, one that mirrored the iconic political and electoral debates in 1891 and 1911, both of which had also been based upon the potential for free trade with the United States. Most of all, the evidence points to a popular opposition movement against free trade, which not only significantly pre-dated the official political opposition, but in some respects created its message and focus.

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Dezsoâ€³, Csaba. "'Much ado about religion' : a critical edition and annotated translation of the 'AÌ„gamadÌ£ambara', a satirical play by the ninth century Kashmirian philosopher BhatÌ£tÌ£a Jayanta." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404753.

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Fang, Chien-min, and 方千敏. ""Much Ado About Nothing"--A Study of Gender Consciousness in E.M.Forster's A Passage to India." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26398809603722252757.

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淡江大學
西洋語文研究所
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This thesis attempts to read Forster's A Passage to India from a perspective of gender, to explore the androcentric and eurocentric gender consciousness revealed in the text. Chapter One tries to explain that Forster, based on the gender and racial superiority, has a pessimistic attitude toward the connection between groups of different ideologies. This sense of superiority is culturally constructed, intends to consolidate patriarchy through delivering didactic messages from the text to the reader. Chapter Two and Three then try to do a close reading focused on gender; Chapter Two analyzes the "Mosque" Part, Chapter Three the "Caves" Part. Chapter Four analyzes the "Temple" Part abd ends with a brief response to the previous chapters.

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"Community development at the Department of Indian Affairs in the 1960's : much ado about nothing." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-01032007-140804.

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This thesis tells the story of the Community Development Program (CDP) of the Department of Indian Affairs. The Program was initiated in Canada in the early 1960s during a time of international popularity for the community development approach, and a national sentiment that the federal government ought to do something to positively change the situation for Indian people in Canada. The Program is probably best remembered for the commotion that its young practitioners caused when they began to encourage community development on Canadian Indian Reserves. The question that guides the research asks whether or not the CDP was different from previous policies of the Department of Indian Affairs. The author asserts that the CDP was novel in its organization, the problem it sought to address, and the way in which it treated Indian people. Data were gathered through interviews with former employees of the Department of Indian Affairs and through archival research into the files of the Department and its former employees.The author uses the theoretical framework developed by Jurgen Habermas and adapted by John Forester to interpret both traditional Canadian policies directed towards Indian people and the Community Development Program.

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Nielsen, Lene Spang Dyhrberg. "Much ado about (almost) nothing: the youth criminal justice act: paradigms & paradoxes within Canadian youth justice philosophy." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9349.

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The subject of this thesis is Canadian youth justice philosophy, and the paradigms and paradoxes within the youth criminal justice system. It focuses on the historical, socioeconomic, political and intellectual elements of the changes in Canadian youth justice philosophy. I will explore the reason behind the federal government's recent political initiative, the Youth Criminal Justice Act, and look into the question of whether the government's youth justice strategy will accomplish its objectives and make significant changes to the existing legislation and justice system in the context of young offenders. The purpose of the thesis is to delineate the development of Canadian youth justice philosophy and outline the changes in the developing process from a historical, political and intellectual perspective in order to understand the current regulatory framework. I describe and analyze the changes in youth justice philosophy using Thomas Kuhn's model of change in order to determine whether a paradigm shift has happened with the progression from the Juvenile Delinquents Act, to the Young Offenders Act to the Youth Criminal Justice Act. I go on to describe the principles and theories behind retributive and restorative justice philosophy, as it seems restorative principles might become more influential than they have been hitherto. I explore existing alternative measures within the restorative framework in Canada, such as mediation, family group conferences and circle sentencing. I argue that the federal government's intention to implement the new Act could be a step from retributive to restorative justice because of the government's promise of additional funding for restorative programs. My thesis is that the intended renewal of the youth justice system in Canada is a political response to a polarized public debate about youth crime. I argue that the Youth Criminal Justice Act is not a complete transformation of youth justice philosophy. My conclusion is that historical, political, intellectual and scientific changes in youth justice philosophy might have occurred in 1984 with the Young Offenders Act, but that the Youth Criminal Justice Act does not constitute a further advance.

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KJELDSEN, Camilla Elisabeth H. "Much ado about nothing? : an assessment of the European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Doctoral thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4674.

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Dunlop, Dustin Tyler. "Big change or much ado about nothing?: the impact of Bill C-24 and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act on political fundraising in Canada and the United States." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2300.

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Recent changes to campaign finance laws in Canada and the United States provide researchers with a unique opportunity for comparative studies on the effects of reform on fundraising at the grassroots level. In an effort to contribute to the understanding of these recent reforms the following comparative case study examines the effects of Bill C-24 (2003) and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 on the campaigns of one Canadian Member of Parliament and one American Congressional Representative. The study suggests that while the impact of the most recent American reforms has been somewhat exaggerated by scholars, changes to campaign finance laws in Canada have caused substantial change at both the national and grassroots level.

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Goossen, Jonathan. "Jonson's and Shakespeare's "Comedy of Affliction"." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14178.

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This dissertation explores the relevance of recent studies of Aristotle’s comic theory to the central dramatists of early modern England, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Applications of the Poetics to Renaissance English drama tend to treat Aristotle’s theory historically, as a set of concepts mediated to England by continental redactions. But these often conflated the Poetics’ focus on literary form with the Renaissance’s predominant interest in literature’s rhetorical effect, reducing Aristotle’s genuinely speculative theory to a series of often pedantic literary prescriptions. Recent scholarship has both undone these misinterpretations and developed the comic theory latent in the Poetics. Ironically, these studies make Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s comedy look much more Aristotelian than do Renaissance ones. So rather than taking the Poetics simply as a possible source for each dramatist, I read it primarily as a literary theory that, when reinvigorated by modern scholarship, can explain structures and effects arrived at practically by these dramatists. Three recent hypotheses are especially pertinent to Jonson and Shakespeare: that comic hoaxes aim to expose comic error, which is for Aristotle a deviation from the mean of virtue; that “righteous indignation” is the comic emotion equivalent to the “pity and fear” of tragedy; and that catharsis is a clarification, rather than purgation, of reason and emotion. In light of these, I offer detailed readings of four plays that demonstrate these authors’ comic range: from Jonson’s satirical Every Man Out of His Humour to the almost farcical Epicoene, and from Shakespeare’s romantic Much Ado About Nothing to the tragicomic Measure for Measure. These plays demonstrate a variety of ways in which catharsis, the end of drama, results directly from the comic hoax and involves both the audience’s and characters’ experience of indignation and their comprehension of its relationship to the emotions of envy and pity. In each case, Aristotle’s incisive but flexible theoretical framework enables an explanation of the emotional pain present in the these “comedies of affliction” and reveals remarkable similarities between dramatists usually described as direct opposites.

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Sung, Tzu-Hsuan, and 宋子玄. "Much Ado About Mother- A Neglected Incubator of the Chinese Renaissance Man, Dr. Shih Hu." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09065307734423720486.

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國立臺灣大學
歷史學研究所
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This is not only a story of Dr. Shih Hu (胡適) and his mother, but also a motherhood study in Modern China. Hardly anyone would doubt Dr. Shih Hu’s contribution to the development of the Renaissance China. However, few people realize that his almost illiterate and widowed mother, Shun-Di Feng (馮順弟), is the most important person to make who he is. If we want to do research about Shih Hu, we need to unveil his mother’s life story first. To reproduce the mother-son relationship is the goal of this thesis because Shun-Di Feng has been neglected by Hu’s researchers for decades. In the following chapters, I will show why the situation for a widowed mother was difficult at that time. The tricky part is, the widow identity empowered her to manage the Hu’s family and her originated one. Besides, the hardship also enhanced her kinship with her son. She insisted to give Shih Hu the best education, which is different to her value in various aspects. Constant conflicts are inevitable, but in the end we found that the Columbia University Ph.D. inherited her tradition value. I try to rethink the motherhood concept in Modern China and embodied it as the noun “Mu Qin Zhi Xu” (「母親秩序」). It illustrates how a mother manages her family and the social network to form and maintain her “Motherhood.” In Hu’s story and in many contemporaries’ stories, “fortunately” having a son is the foundation of doing it. Through this path, we can find that there is much to do about mother!

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