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Mulvanity, Laura Mathis. "Women in science stories from the margins /." Click here to access dissertation, 2008. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2008/laura_m_mulvanity/mulvanity_laura_m_200801_edd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2008.<br>"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Under the direction of John Weaver. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-149)

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Drolet, Cynthia L. (Cynthia Lea). "Four Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500548/.

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This thesis contains four stories of fantasy and science fiction. Four story lengths are represented: the short short ("Dragon Lovers"), the shorter short story ("Homecoming"), the longer short story ("Shadow Mistress"), and the novel ("Sword of Albruch," excerpted here).

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Christmas, Amy Jane. "Augmented intimacies : posthuman love stories in contemporary science fiction." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6546/.

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Science fiction in the developed world has for centuries provided a fertile space for explorations of human and cultural phenomena, on the one hand underpinning philosophical conceptions of humans and human nature, and on the other acting as a fictive mirror in which the aspects and impacts of our technoscientific cultures are reflected. Between nature and culture stands the figure of the posthuman, whose ancestry can be traced as far back as the Talmudic golems, but whose presence is most keenly felt in the genre since the mid-twentieth century, where the science has caught up with the fictio

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Geelan, David R. "School stories : weaving narrative nets to capture science classrooms." Thesis, Curtin University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/481.

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Over the past two decades, constructivism has become an increasingly influential referent for the learning and teaching of science in schools. In the role of teacher-researcher, I conducted an intensive participant observational study in an innovative Australian middle school, where both the initial planning of the school program and the principal's vision for the school took constructivism as a key referent. The research activity involved team teaching for a total of two days per week for one school year (1996) with a group of five teachers who were attempting to implement constructivist-refe

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Geelan, David R. "School stories : weaving narrative nets to capture science classrooms." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 1998. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=11790.

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Over the past two decades, constructivism has become an increasingly influential referent for the learning and teaching of science in schools. In the role of teacher-researcher, I conducted an intensive participant observational study in an innovative Australian middle school, where both the initial planning of the school program and the principal's vision for the school took constructivism as a key referent. The research activity involved team teaching for a total of two days per week for one school year (1996) with a group of five teachers who were attempting to implement constructivist-refe

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Doucet, Richard John. "Student engagement : understanding the science and the stories of motivation." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99368.

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This thesis is a third-grade teacher's examination of student engagement. The promotion of student engagement is an important issue for teachers and educational researchers since engagement is considered essential for learning to occur. The purpose of this study was to identify and discuss several classroom contexts in which students motivate themselves for engagement, that is, to behave, feel, and think in ways that relate positively to school and learning. The method chosen was self-study, which is a form of narrative inquiry, whereby the author used memory work to recall and reflect on his

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Fung, Yuk-ling, and 馮玉玲. "Junior secondary students' understanding of the nature of science through their study of science stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42576908.

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Fung, Yuk-ling. "Junior secondary students' understanding of the nature of science through their study of science stories." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42576908.

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Seow, Choong Huei. "Of frames, scripts, and stories." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108865.

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Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-38).<br>by Choong Huei Seow.<br>B.S.

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Harris, Amanda. "Stories of Success: Understanding Academic Achievement of Hispanic Students in Science." PDXScholar, 2014. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1834.

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A review of the literature shows that there is much evidence to suggest the challenges facing Hispanic students in American public schools. Hispanic enrollment in K-12 public schools has increased from 6 to 19% in the last thirty years, yet schools have not made adequate adjustments to accommodate this changing population. Issues such as remedial tracking and cultural differences have led to low high school graduate rates for Hispanic students and inequities in schooling experiences (Gay, 2000). Particularly in the area of science, Hispanic students struggle with academic success (Cole & Espin

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Ledbetter, Kelly. "The Mind's Eye and Other Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67999/.

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This collection contains a preface entitled "Of Other Worlds" and the following short stories: "The Mind's Eye," "Waking," "The Conquest of the World," "Persephone," and "Extradition." This creative thesis includes a blend of science fiction and literary realism short stories, which are collectively concerned with questions of time, narration, and the use of language. As well, the preface discusses science fiction theory, narrative strategies such as the use of the first person perspective, and the author's theory of composition.

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Grayson, Neil R. "The Bit - Collected Stories." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555428898931184.

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Kirkman, John Robert. "Trainee teachers' understandings of news stories about science : beyond ideas about uncertainty." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4407/.

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This study explores how science and history trainee teachers, who have different amounts of higher education in science, respond to news reports about science. In semi-structured interviews, using researcher and reader selected articles, readers were asked about the likelihood of veracity of knowledge claims and also their reactions to what they read. The thesis reports a range of heuristics which served to increase, or decrease, epistemic distance and so make the reader more or less willing to accept scientific claims as true. The quality of participants’ responses to news stories was also ex

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McMillan, Susan. "The screenwriter's pitch : the art and science of telling and selling stories." Thesis, Bath Spa University, 2014. http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/5199/.

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This thesis asks three main questions: within the context of the UK film and television industry what is the relationship between the film pitch and the final script? What skills do screenwriters need to sell their work? And, does the culture of the industry in which screenplays are bought and sold influence their content and meaning? Based around the art and science of pitching, this thesis uses the author's own screenplay, 'Being Kennedy', as a case study.

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Dallanhol, Heloisa. "Facilitating the Understanding of Science News Stories Through the use of Analogy." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292186.

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Behan, Maeveen. "Science and Lore in Animal Law." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194253.

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This dissertation employs techniques from folkecology to identify factors that have influenced lawmakers in their decision-making about animals. The purpose of this research is to understand the natural world as seen by lawmakers, identify and explain variation between lawmakers and scientists priorities, and, ultimately, consider ways to improve communication of understandings between these two cultures. The study is structured to follow Amadeo Rea's recommendation that scholars "note the etic while searching for the emic" (Rea 1998: xx) It compares priorities and then discusses findings t

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Lesaoana, M. "Interactive cultural story-telling virtual environments using San stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6411.

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Bibliography: leaves 80-85.<br>Story-telling is being used for the preservation of culture, and interactive story-telling in particular is attractive for its ability to provide the user with a hands-on experience. We explored the feasibility of interactive story-telling in relation to the San culture of South Africa by investigating the effect of interactivity on users' perceived levels of presence. Presence refers to the feeling of being there in a virtual environment (VE presence). We also investigated the level of presence in the story (story presence). Priming as a contributor to presence,

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Holcomb, Will. "The Sunken Country & Other Stories." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2735.

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TITLE: THE SUNKEN COUNTRY & OTHER STORIESMAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Rebekah Frumkin The Sunken Country & Other Stories collects five works that place personal tales of alienation, repression, isolation, obsession, and romance and broader themes of dramatic shifts in the workings of culture and environment under a microscope and vivisect them with tools gathered from the New Weird tradition

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Beesley, Kristen. "Conceptualizing the Tensions| Stories of Democracy from Flagstaff." Thesis, Northern Arizona University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10620052.

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<p> Democracy in the United States is in crisis. With trust in elected officials low, corporate interest high, and faith in democratic mechanisms in question, my research turns to how local community organizers of different political ideologies navigate and maintain faith in democratic practice. Gaining insights into democratic practice is critical in order to aid in the cultivation and maintenance of just and sustainable communities through collective power. To that end, my thesis investigates how organizers perceive democracy and work with it at both structural and ideal levels. My research

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Bass, Orli. "(D)urban identity : stories of an African city." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4824.

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Dihal, Kanta. "The stories of quantum physics : quantum physics in literature and popular science, 1900-present." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ebe4c5eb-ce48-495f-b015-024f8ac4f4ac.

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This thesis investigates quantum physics narratives for non-physicists, covering four interlocking modes of writing for adults and children, fictional and nonfictional, from 1900 to the present. It brings together three separate scholarly fields: literature and science, science fiction, and science communication. The thesis has revealed parallels between the approaches to quantum physics in these disparate narratives that have not been addressed before, shedding new light on the mutual influences between science and narrative form. The thesis argues that similar narrative tropes have been empl

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Thompson, Jessica Jane. "Multiple narratives : how underserved urban girls engage in co-authoring life stories and scientific stories /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7596.

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Paterson, Kimberly Laurel Ms. "TSPOONS: Tracking Salience Profiles Of Online News Stories." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1222.

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News space is a relatively nebulous term that describes the general discourse concerning events that affect the populace. Past research has focused on qualitatively analyzing news space in an attempt to answer big questions about how the populace relates to the news and how they respond to it. We want to ask when do stories begin? What stories stand out among the noise? In order to answer the big questions about news space, we need to track the course of individual stories in the news. By analyzing the specific articles that comprise stories, we can synthesize the information gained from sever

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Carey, Neil Martin. "Telling sexual auto-ethnography : (fictional) stories of the (homo)sexual in social science." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/336049/.

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The dissertation is an autoethnographic exploration of some of the meanings available, from within a contemporary British urban context, in naming and locating male same-sex genital relations (Moran, 1996). In particular, the dissertation analyses some of the dynamics at stake in locating male samesex genital relations under the sign ‘gay’. An argument is made for the pervasiveness of this nomenclature in contemporary liberal western contexts in describing male same-sex desire/attraction/activity and, concomitantly, what might be lost in consigning male same-sex sexuality thus. Autoethnography

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Smith, Jennifer Ann Reid. "Historical short stories and the nature of science in a high school biology classroom." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2010. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1476350.

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Buxner, Sanlyn Rebecca. "Exploring the Impact of Science Research Experiences for Teachers: Stories of Growth and Identity." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195355.

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Education reform in the U.S. promotes the teaching of inquiry in science to help students understand how science is done and to increase constructivist, student centered instruction. This qualitative study investigated changes in teachers' understandings about scientific inquiry and nature of science as well as science teaching as a result of participation in one of three summer science research programs. This study also explored what teachers reported valuing about their experiences as they progressed through the program and returned to their classrooms.Data were collected through open-ended

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Porta, Fernando. "Narrative strategies in H.G. Wells's romances & short stories (1884-1910)." Thesis, University of Reading, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339482.

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Quesnell, Bethany. "Trust me, I have a PhD: the effects of religion, political conservatism, and exposure to science feature stories on trust in science." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19709.

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Master of Science<br>Journalism and Mass Communications<br>Joye C. Gordon<br>Widespread debates about scientific issues, from global warming to vaccinations, have raised questions about public trust in science and scientists. Many studies have attempted to determine the cause of observed declines in public trust. This project employs framing theory, suggesting that the way science frames research might improve public trust. Research questions explore whether political conservatism, public religiosity, and exposure to a feature story about a scientist affects trust in science and scientists. A

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Chow, Mei Ling. "Engaging students through the use of dilemma stories." Thesis, Curtin University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1024.

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This study investigated students’ engagement in dilemma story activities designed to enable them to explore their personal values. This inquiry was conducted within the constructivist and critical paradigms which seek to explore and communicate the multiple realities of the participants, with the goal of forming a deeper understanding of the impact of dilemma stories on students. The findings are that dilemma stories can contribute to a stronger learning experience for students in science.

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Robins, Camille. "The Stories of Environmental Ethicists in Word and Image." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/179.

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The Stories of Environmental Ethicists in Word and Image captures the spirit of three local people: John B. Cobb, Jr., Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Dean Freudenberger. As teachers, writers, activists, and members of the progressive retirement community Pilgrim Place, they’ve had a significant influence on the global environmental movement. The photographs and small essays in this project highlight who they are and what they’ve done, and how they continue to shape contemporary intellectual discourse. An analysis of how portrait photographers use images to tell stories and how they incorporate

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Jennings, Philip Sidney. "Now that I am god." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266626.

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Cook, Peta S. "Constructing and fracturing alliances : actant stories and the Australian xenotransplantation network." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/18359/1/Peta_Cook_Thesis.pdf.

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Xenotransplantation (XTP; animal-to-human transplantation) is a controversial technology of contemporary scientific, medical, ethical and social debate in Australia and internationally. The complexities of XTP encompass immunology, immunosuppression, physiology, technology (genetic engineering and cloning), microbiology, and animal/human relations. As a result of these controversies, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia, formed the Xenotransplantation Working Party (XWP) in 2001. The XWP was designed to advise the NHMRC on XTP, if and how it should proceed in Aus

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Cook, Peta S. "Constructing and fracturing alliances : actant stories and the Australian xenotransplantation network." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18359/.

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Xenotransplantation (XTP; animal-to-human transplantation) is a controversial technology of contemporary scientific, medical, ethical and social debate in Australia and internationally. The complexities of XTP encompass immunology, immunosuppression, physiology, technology (genetic engineering and cloning), microbiology, and animal/human relations. As a result of these controversies, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia, formed the Xenotransplantation Working Party (XWP) in 2001. The XWP was designed to advise the NHMRC on XTP, if and how it should proceed in Aus

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Walden, Rachel R. "Creating Graphic Medicine: Elevating Patient Stories through Interprofessional Artwork." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8828.

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Settelmaier, Elisabeth. "Transforming the culture of teaching and learning in science: the promise of moral dilemma stories: an interpretive case study." Thesis, Curtin University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1231.

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It has become a habit of our time to lament about the state of the world and simultaneously profess that there is not really anything we, as individuals, can do about it because there is just too much that needs fixing. In this thesis, I challenge this view on the basis that science teachers in particular are in a unique position to raise students' awareness of problematic issues in relation to the world around them by providing students with necessary knowledge. However, sound knowledge does not equate with a positive attitude, this is why I contend that providing students with factual knowle

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MacGregor, Sean. "The Science of the Sirens : A Critical Analysis on the Compounded Abjection of Science, Progress and Women in Three Short Stories by H.P. Lovecraft." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30932.

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Colley, Kay Lynne Newsom Ron. "Latino success stories in higher education a qualitative study of recent graduates from a health science center /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3687.

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Colley, Kay Lynne. "Latino success stories in higher education: A qualitative study of recent graduates from a health science center." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3687/.

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This study used qualitative research, particularly life history analysis, to determine the personal pathways of success for Latino students who chose to enter a health science center for graduate study and who graduated. By giving voice to individual success stories of Latino students, some of the influences on the life pathways of these graduates were determined. For the purposes of this study, success was defined as graduation from a health science center with either a doctor of philosophy, doctor of public health or doctor of osteopathic medicine degree. Four research subjects agreed to par

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Kruvand, Marjorie Cameron Glen T. "Bioethicists in the news the evolving role of bioethicists as expert sources in science and medical stories /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/7114.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb. 23, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dr. Glen T. Cameron, Dissertation Supervisor. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Hunninghausen, Carlos Guilherme. "Imagined space : representations of the future city in science fiction short stories by Forster, Ballard and Gibson /." Florianópolis, SC, 1997. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/77337.

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Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-17T03:08:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2016-01-08T21:36:59Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 138748.pdf: 2275306 bytes, checksum: e5f7d5c5f41c0eebd543367447334c35 (MD5)

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Andrews, Daniel. "Employing branching comics to design, visualise and evaluate interactive stories." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5759/.

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This thesis presents the case for adopting comics in the design, visualisation and evaluation of interactive stories. The potential for comics to be employed in the representation of interactive story-driven material has been identified in previous work. However, there is a lack of theory or evidence upon which an informed approach can be based. Consequently, this thesis contributes a process for employing branching comics to design and visualise interactive stories informed by previous approaches to stories, interactive stories and visualisations. It is argued that comics have several advanta

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Settelmaier, Elisabeth. "Transforming the culture of teaching and learning in science : the promise of moral dilemma stories : an interpretive case study /." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2003. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=14379.

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It has become a habit of our time to lament about the state of the world and simultaneously profess that there is not really anything we, as individuals, can do about it because there is just too much that needs fixing. In this thesis, I challenge this view on the basis that science teachers in particular are in a unique position to raise students' awareness of problematic issues in relation to the world around them by providing students with necessary knowledge. However, sound knowledge does not equate with a positive attitude, this is why I contend that providing students with factual knowle

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Yarlott, Wolfgang Victor Hayden. "Old man coyote stories : cross-cultural story understanding in the Genesis story understanding system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91880.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2014.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (page 108).<br>The original question was: "Can machines think?" Alan Turing asked: "Does there exist a digital computer that can do sufficiently well at the imitation game?" Patrick Winston asked: "What makes human intelligence different from that of other primates?" Winston's answer came in the form of four hypotheses that are the core behind the vision of the Genesis group at MIT's Computer Sci

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Ceccarelli, Emanuele. "The unified plausibility parser : how story-understanding systems can read stories written for humans." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119514.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (page 91).<br>In this thesis, I describe how the difficult task of understanding ungrammatical and complex sentences may be tackled by leveraging the power of expectation. Genesis, a state of the art story understanding system, cur

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Cupitt, Catherine Anne. "Space opera: a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy." Thesis, Curtin University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1082.

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This thesis considers space opera as a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy.“Falling Stars,” the creative component which includes fantasy, space opera and science fiction stories, constitutes a spectrum of speculative fiction. In order to illustrate the similarities and difference between the genres represented in the spectrum, I focus on the central figure of the alien other and the ways in which such a figure can be gendered and embodied. The space opera novella combines motifs of both fantasy and science fiction within the figure of the cyborg, Orlando, who is transgendered and hyper

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Mamigonian, Malina. "Naughty stories : narrative and theodicy in the writings of Annie Besant and Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10910/.

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Wise, Carol Ann. "Academic and Peer Status in the Mathematical Life Stories of Students." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5782.

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Mathematics students often define themselves by their grades, test scores, how they compare to other people, how comfortable they feel in mathematics class, and so on. These experiences are all part of a student's mathematical life story. Students assume positions with particular rights and duties for themselves and for the actors in the stories they tell. Those positions reflect certain types and levels of status. Those types and levels of status have been shown to either inhibit or open a student's access to learning mathematics. Thus, a student's status in mathematics education is an issue

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Mogotsi, Isaac Carter. "What did they cover? : a cluster analysis of news stories published in the Botswana Daily News, January – December 2004." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1058.

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Thesis (MPhil (Information Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study, a cluster analysis of news stories published in the Botswana Daily News during the period January - December 2004 was undertaken. The study was exploratory in nature and sought to find out what topics were predominant during the study period. The approach we adopted can be divided into three phases, namely data collection, document pre-processing, and cluster analysis. The data used in the study was downloaded from the Botswana Daily News website using a simple program developed sp

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Proctor-Williams, Kerry. "First Words to Stories: Language Intervention for Preschool Children." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1844.

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Stories from the Bamboo Groves: Vietnam in Children’s Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2379.

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