Dissertations / Theses: 'Tender Is the Night'

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Zaring, Meredith A. ""How Art Thou Lost": Reconsidering the Fall in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/127.

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In Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald retells the story of the Fall from Genesis through psychologist Dick Diver and his wife and patient Nicole, drawing poetic and thematic inspiration from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. This essay traces the progression of the Divers’ fall and ultimate separation through the novel’s three books and considers how the highly autobiographical foundation of the novel, which has drawn considerable critical attention, may in fact allow Fitzgerald to craft a work that aligns with and simultaneously expands upon Milton’s interpretation of the Fall.

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Eugenes, Karolina. "“The Lost Caviare Days” – Gastronomy and Alcoholism in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85536.

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This thesis investigates the portrayal of gastronomy in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. The discussion is based on the ideas “we are what we eat” and “we are where we eat” and the premise that Fitzgerald creates a significant association to gastronomy by way of the critical field of Food Studies, which divide the arguments into three different subcategories: Firstly, it presents the principals of Food Studies and stylistics, which focus on literary stylistic devices such as aesthetics and figurative language. Particularly, the analysis examinesthat a close reading of the novel is futile without further considerations of contextuality. Hence, it deals with the text in terms of textuality and contextuality. Secondly, the novel dealswith food as a reflection of ethical behaviour and social class, where it examines that appearance is as significant as money. Further, it investigates the cultural influences in terms of adaption of food preferences in different environmental settings. Thirdly, it explores the association between the concept of psychopathology, mood and the absence of gourmandise in parallel to alcoholism, emotional bankruptcy, escapism and nostalgia. Finally, this thesis seeks to examine that Fitzgerald is “authoring gastronomy” in similar fashion as food critics.

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Wagenblast, Becky Ann. "Gender and agency in Tender is the Night, Save Me the Waltz, and The Garden of Eden." Thesis, Washington State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3732723.

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This dissertation centers its readings of Tender Is the Night, Save Me the Waltz, and The Garden of Eden through the women protagonists’ voices, a radical critical shift. By considering the evolutionary attempts of Nicole, Alabama, and Catherine, regardless of their ultimate level of success, reifies their autonomy as individuals capable and worthy of development themselves. Examining their use of language, emotions, and actions reasserts their voices as creators of their own narratives, recentering the texts as important explorations of Modern women and their conceptualizing of self on the Riviera.

This important work of conceptualizing the self as other, outside the normative behaviors and conditions expected of American women of the time, is figured in these stories (as in American culture at large) as mentally unstable, diseased in some way; they make poor decisions and commit regrettable actions; they destroy as much as they create. But by courageously giving voice to their own sense of selves in a world which prizes muteness in its women, their attempts at creation are inspiring nonetheless.

Chapter One examines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night and the ways in which Nicole is able to move from the oppression of dehumanizing silence to a powerful and self-affirming fluency of language and selfhood. Chapter Two looks as Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz and Alabama’s struggles toward individualization and agency. Chapter Three investigates how Catherine, the transitioning protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden, at once acts as a subversive factor against authority and is ultimately scripted as doomed because of it.

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Luong, Merry B. "A Woman's Touch in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night: Pulling the Women Out of the Background." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/74.

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This is a critical study of F. Scott Fitzgerald‟s Tender Is the Night focusing primarily on the lack of examination and criticism surrounding the women characters. Included are reviews of Fitzgerald‟s personal and professional life from the publication of his critically acclaimed The Great Gatsby until the publication of his last complete novel, Tender Is the Night, discussion of the contemporary and current criticism of the novel, and a feminist reading of the novel in order to focus more significant critical attention upon the women characters in order to create a fuller understanding of Fitzgerald‟s novel.

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Mcleod, Deborah Susan. "The "Defective" Generation: Disability in Modernist Literature." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5272.

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Abstract The "Defective" Generation: Disability in Modernist Literature aims to provide an analysis of how Anglo-American authors in the early twentieth century conceived of, utilized, and portrayed disability in their fiction. Building on the existing scholarship in the field of Disability Studies, I argue that modernists revise the tradition of representation to make disabilities a generational trait rather than a sign of individual deviance. In novel after novel, multiple characters exhibit some form of illness or impairment, which appears as both cause and effect of the instabilities and traumas of modernity. Like many of their predecessors, then, these authors portray diverse health conditions as "defects" rather than natural variations in the human body, and most draw little distinction between the types of "disorders" they represent. This perspective, however, becomes particularly destructive in the era leading up to the Holocaust, when eugenical attitudes would lead to the murder or sterilization of over a million people with disabilities. Modernists also continue to exploit disability's potential for metaphor and sometimes evoke traditional stereotypes. Unlike traditional representations, however, these works do not resolve what the authors perceive as the "problem" of disability by curing or eliminating it; instead, they portray characters struggling to lead fulfilling lives despite feeling limited by their health. Working against the public's conception of disability as solely a medical condition, many of these authors further depict the social forces that turn a perceived "difference" into a "disability." The project is arranged into four chapters. In the first, "Idiots and Other Degenerates: Disability at the Dawn of Modernism," I use Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent to illustrate how disability becomes characteristic of a generation, primarily through the influence of degeneration theory. Mocking the popular conception of a society divided into the "fit" and "unfit," Conrad creates a circle of characters who judge others to be degenerate while ignoring their own similar traits. From that beginning, I move in chapter 2, "Modernist Style: The Inward Turn and Portrayals of Mental Illness," to an analysis of the effects of stylistic experimentation on depictions of disability in both Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. The authors' use of multiple points of view in these works leads to a representation of both an individual's experience of psychosis and the stigma that can accompany such illness, and, like Conrad, both writers elide the differences between the seemingly able-bodied characters and those they deem disabled. These authors also offer a contrast in perceptions. Whereas Woolf treats shell shock and emotional instability largely as the unavoidable effects of World War I, Fitzgerald links both schizophrenia and alcoholism to decadent behavior, thus aligning himself with the public's perception of illness as a matter of intent. Moving from style to theme, in chapter 3, "Impaired Relationships: Physical Injury and the Pursuit of Romance," I explore the ways in which authors depict physical impairments as obstacles to personal relationships. Through a comparison of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and the "Nausicaa" chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses, I discuss the intersection of gender identity, disability, and romance. I argue against the critical consensus that Jake Barnes feels emasculated by his injury and that Gerty MacDowell is "doomed" to spinsterhood because she limps, contending that both authors allow their characters to maintain a sense of masculinity or femininity consistent with the hegemonic ideals of their time. While Hemingway presents Jake's wound as a physical disability that prevents his having the relationship he desires, Joyce uses Gerty's limp to mark her as an imperfect beauty in preference to an array of idealized iconic images, and in her encounter with Leopold Bloom grants her the sexual attention that she desires. In my final chapter, "African American Modernism and a Deadly Game of Blind Man's Buff," I shift focus from mainstream to African American modernism with an analysis of Richard Wright's Native Son,, addressing the author's use of folklore in relation to the metaphor of blindness. Posing the literally blind Mrs. Dalton as a revenant of the American colonists who ignored the humanity of those they enslaved and as a symbol of continuing oppression, Wright develops Bigger Thomas as both a trickster who exploits the "blindness" of others and a badman who rebels against it. My conclusion then addresses the use of disability metaphors, the attitudes those metaphors expose, and the authors' apparent agreement with or challenges to contemporary perceptions of disability. Although critics have previously analyzed specific works or certain aspects of disability representations during this era, this project seeks a more comprehensive discussion of disability in modernist fiction than currently exists. My hope is that it will enhance our understanding of both the period's literature and the harmful attitudes that existed at the time, which the work of Disability Studies has endeavored to overturn.

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Belisle, Alaina. "Almost Tender." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555613104685531.

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Short, Anna. "Tender Alchemy." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555718320899574.

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Hamri, Rachid El. "Étude stylistique des quatre romans de Francis Scott Fitzgerald." Paris 10, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA100162.

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Le but de cette thèse est d'étudier le style de Francis Scott Fitzgerald à travers ses quatre principaux romans. La première partie - intitulée "langue" - concerne la rhétorique, c'est-à-dire l'expression d'une "conscience littéraire" qui se dévoile à travers les jeux de l'écriture. De nombreuses oppositions peuvent être établies entre les langages poétique et ironique ; le point de vue interne et externe. Cette analyse sert à décrire une éthique sociale propre à l'Amérique des années vingt et trente, admirablement exprimée dans the Great Gatsby. La seconde partie, consacrée a la "structure", met l'accent sur le rôle et le traitement du temps, comme instrument de structuration du récit. L'analyse de l'intrigue permet une plus grande concentration sur la psychologie des personnages. Le dernier chapitre, consacre à l'organisation de l'œuvre, traite des relations entre l7artiste et son univers fictionnel. Ainsi, de l'étude de la cohérence, se dégage le problème de la création artistique
The aim of this research is to present a stylistic study of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s four novels. The first part attempts to demonstrate - in various ways - how language, point of view and pragmatics illustrate the social and cultural aspects of American life during the nineteen twenties and thirties. The most striking part of this study is the rhetoric function of language, through which the author examines his own consciousness. Thus, the dialectic that oppose s poetics and irony, internal and external point of view, is Fitzgerald’s way of expressing the gap that obtains between reality and fiction. Such themes, based mainly on the confrontation of the nostalgic pas with the dreary present, are beautifully and fully expressed in the Great Gatsby. The second part deals with "structure". Here, the main focus lays on the function and treatment of time, considered as a n instrument to give shape to the narrative. The plot allows the reader to concentrate on the psychology of the characters. The last chapter, coherence, shows the way Fitzgerald creates his world, with his art, expressed both in small and larger units

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Van, Langenberg Carolyn. "With tender contempt /." View thesis, 2000. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20051122.103129/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 2000.
"A thesis submitted to fulfil the requirements for the award of the degree Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Sydney, Nepean" Bibliography : leaves 327-348.

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Milvet, Karly R. "Green, Green, & Tender." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461168477.

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Pickett, Josiah D. "Pacific fleet submarine tender optimization." Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/34722.

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In this thesis, we develop a mixed-integer, linear optimization model to guide the resourcing of submarine maintenance conducted by the U.S. Navys two submarine tenders in the Fifth and Seventh Fleets. We assume maintenance demands are known over a given planning horizon, e.g., one month. Inputs to the model include travel times and costs for fly-away teams and tenders to move to where the maintenance is needed. Each maintenance demand can be divided into tasks with characteristics such as: whether or not tender presence is required; the estimated total number of worker-days required; the maximum number of workers that can simultaneously work on each task; the types of maintenance workers that can perform the task; and task due dates. The models output determines the assignment of personnel to meet the demand at minimum cost, including delay penalties. It also guides personnel travel (as a fly-away team or by tender). In addition, the model can be used to accommodate emergent, unscheduled demands by producing an updated schedule that minimizes the impact on an existing schedule. We test our model on small and realistically sized notional examples to demonstrate the input and output of the models, as well as computational run-times.

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Santiago, João Diogo Pratas Branco. "EIOPA’s digital services tender offer." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19276.

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Mestrado em Finanças
Nesta situação fictícia analisámos um procedimento de procurement a nível europeu na indústria de serviços digitais desenvolvido pela Autoridade Europeia de Seguros e Pensões (EIOPA) com o intuito de criar um Repositório Central (RC) para o reporting das empresas de fundos de pensões como primeiro passo a dar para a implementação do Produto Individual de Reforma Pan-Europeu (PEPP). Desde o processo de seleção do fornecedor mais adequado, os desafios que decorrem desta parceria empresarial são analisados através do âmbito da teoria da agência. Adicionalmente, identificámos comportamentos de risco que explicam as diferentes reacções ao risco nesta relação bilateral e propomos abordagens de gestão de risco para mitigar tais comportamentos. Além disso, observámos que os cenários político e financeiro que envolvem a EIOPA (revisão da Comissão Europeia ao mandato da EIOPA e a forte probabilidade de um Brexit próximo) explicam o nível de dependência nos procedimentos de procurement públicos para serviços digitais, e que a existência de possíveis falhas na Directiva de procurement público 2014/24/EU em relação aos artigos 67 e 72 podem constituir em potenciais situações de risco moral.
In this fictional situation we analyzed a European public procurement procedure in the digital services industry developed by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) for the creation of a Central Repository (CR) for pension funds undertakings reporting as a first step for the Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) implementation. Since the selection process of the most suitable supplier, the challenges that arise from this business partnership are analyzed through the Agency theory scope. Additionally, we identified risk behaviors that explain the different reactions towards risk in this bilateral relationship, and proposed risk management approaches to mitigate such risk behaviors. Moreover, we observed that EIOPA's political and financial background (EC revision of EIOPA's mandate and the hypothesis of a near Brexit) explain the level of dependency on public procurement procedures for digital services, and the existence of possible breaches on public procurement Directive 2014/24/EU regarding Articles 67 and 72 may allow potential moral hazard situations.
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Sheline, Kensey R. "A program evaluation of Tender Hearts." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2005. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=577.

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Stephenson, Craig Allen. "Essays on repurchases and tender offers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186799.

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This thesis examines stock repurchases. Chapter 1 begins the study by discussing and testing several possible motivations for stock buy backs, including firm undervaluation, changes in firm capital structure, expropriation from debtholders, distribution of free cash flow, and signalling informed insiders' asymmetric information to the market. Empirical tests of these hypothesized motivations are consistent with undervaluation and signalling reductions in firm risk, but inconsistent with the capital structure, expropriation, and free cash flow hypotheses. The remainder of the thesis focuses on the determinants of repurchase premiums. Chapter 2 begins with a discussion of the mechanics of share repurchase, before developing two competing hypotheses regarding repurchase premiums. The first is the liquidity hypothesis, which posits that supply curves for shares are perfectly elastic, and repurchase premiums are a function of the substitutability and liquidity of the stock. The heterogeneity hypothesis, in contrast, holds that supply curves for shares are upward-sloping, and repurchase premiums are a function of any factor that affects either the slope of the supply curve or the demand for shares along the supply curve. Chapter 2 concludes by developing a formal model of repurchase premiums, for use in empirical tests of the alternative hypotheses, which are conducted in Chapter 3. Results of these tests are inconsistent with the liquidity hypothesis, as repurchase premiums are not found to be a function of substitutability or liquidity. Repurchase premiums, however, are consistent with the heterogeneity hypothesis, as they are found to be a significant function of the variability of stockholder consensus about the stock, and the variability of the capital gains tax lock-in effect between shareholders.

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Moody, Ingrid. "Night Vision /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1404356621&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Slatton, Jason Edward. "Night moves." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2008m/slatton.pdf.

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Young, Edward Cornford Stephen. "Night thoughts /." Cambridge : [GB] : Cambridge university press, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35458618f.

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Henderson, Tasha Joi. "Blood Night." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/158.

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Johnson, Jessica D. "GRAD NIGHT." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2020. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/923.

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A coming of age dramedy in the vein of "American Graffiti" taking place in a modern, urban setting. Grad Night is about three graduating seniors trying to pull off the most epic senior prank of all time but it backfires into lessons that go far beyond high school.

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Trueblood, Jeffrey Allen. "Polar night." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2649.

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For my thesis I plan on exploring the concepts and reasons that I make my art. I will talk about how I explore the night as my subject and the emotional response I hope to evoke with my work, and my influences and inspirations while exploring this topic. I will talk about how I try to show how in the modern world we try to take that darkness and drive it back with artificial lights intending to duplicate the world of daylight, but instead we create stages of normalcy in between the depths of the night allowing the individual imaginations of the viewer to dream into the darkness bringing their own experiences and emotions to the images and making an interactive viewing experience. By trying to recreate the mental state where our minds revert to the most primal instincts of fight or flight in the face of the unknown, despite our knowledge of what exists in the daylight, I try to reach a more primal work of art that goes beyond my early influences of the western Romantic art and show how these instincts still deeply affect us in our modern world.

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Hain, James. "Night Fever." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1341508193.

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Hallman, Cavan. "Night Launch." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2326.

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Jackson, Michele R. D. "Tender and repair ship load list forecasting." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1996. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA309850.

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Karhunen, Jussi. "Essays on tender offers and share repurchases /." Helsinki : Helsinki School of Economics, 2002. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00068879.pdf.

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Fernández, Ruiz Jorge. "The Administrative Contract and the Public Tender." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118986.

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To achieve its goals, the State requires the voluntary collaboration of individuals, which takes form of an administrative contract, whose award is often disrupted by administrative corruption. Public tendering stands out among the mechanisms to prevent and fight administrative corruption in the award of administrative contracts.
Para alcanzar sus fines, el Estado requiere de la colaboración voluntaria de los particulares, lo cual se concreta mediante el contrato administrativo, cuya adjudicación suele verse trastocadas por el flagelo de la corrupción. Entre los mecanismos utilizables para evitar y combatir la corrupción administrativa en la adjudicación de los contratos administrativos, destaca la licitación pública.

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Cartwright, Ann M. "Family mathematics night." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2006. http://165.236.235.140/lib/ACartwright2007.pdf.

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McMaster, Arthur W. "Gathering night noises." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004404.

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Olson, Ted. "The Longest Night." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1146.

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Awerbuck, Diane. "Gardening at night." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7756.

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Karapetkova, Hollynd Feldman. "Deserts at Night." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1123766779.

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Sanders, Gregory L. (Gregory Lynn). "Night of Glass." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331939/.

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Night of Glass is for chamber orchestra with an estimated performance time of 14 minutes. The instrumentation for the work, using one player per part, is Flute (also small glass wind chimes), Oboe (also 1 tuned water crystal), Clarinet in A (also small glass wind chimes), Bassoon (also 1 tuned water crystal), Horn in F (also 1 tuned water crystal), Trumpet in C (also 2 tuned water crystals), Percussion (Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Chimes, Bell Tree, Hammered Dulcimer, 3 Suspended Cymbals, 1 Large Tam-tam, 4 Roto Toms, 3 Tympani), Piano, 1st Violin, 2nd Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass, While not programmatic, the work is divided into six sections each expressing a predetermined emotional content: fragility, anxiety, solitude, fear, catharsis, and reconciliation. All are emotional contents which are found in the dream-state that is reflected in the work's title. All aspects of Night of Glass (i.e., pitch material, form structure, and structural density) are centered around the unifying factor of emotional projection within each section. The work seeks emotional content through the expansion of composition procedures while being accessible to listeners.

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Cieszykowski, Jeannette Marie. "Restoring the night." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17598.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page
Restorative landscapes, healing gardens, and therapeutic gardens can improve mental and physical health. They relieve stress, slow us down and make us appreciate the present moment (Kaplan 1995). Research confirms these benefits: “A restorative environment provides measurable physical and/or psychological benefit to human health” (Krinke 2005, 107). Unfortunately, few restorative landscapes are designed for night time use, though stress and the need for healing occur at all hours of the day and night. To that end, the purpose of this research is to create a set of lighting design strategies that will enable designers to create restorative landscapes for nighttime use and demonstrate how they can be applied. A literature review synthesizing the information on healing garden types, outdoor lighting techniques, and their relationship to Attention Restoration Theory, identified four main components required for a space to be considered restorative. Two precedent studies allowed the author to explore the components of Attention Restoration Theory and healing garden types. The lighting principles that afford these four components and healing garden types that are best suited for an urban public space were layered in a final design to create a restorative urban space that is functional at night. The set of design strategies created with the support of this research was applied to Occidental Square, a public park in Seattle, Washington. The applied design strategies are represented and demonstrated through the site design. With these tools in hand, designers can create spaces for those in need of rejuvenation, restoration, and tranquility not only during the day, but also at night.

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Parijs, Sergei. "Fairness opinions and liability : a legal and economic analysis of fairness opinions in the United States and the Netherlands /." Deventer : Kluwer, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/514850620.pdf.

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Bsoul, Mohammad. "Economic scheduling in Grid computing using Tender models." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/3094.

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Economic scheduling needs to be considered for Grid computing environment, because it gives an incentive for resource providers to supply their resources. Moreover, it enforces efficient use of resources, because the users have to pay for their use. Tendering is a suitable model for Grid scheduling because users start the negotiations for finding suitable resources for executing their jobs. Furthermore, the users specify their job requirements with their requests and therefore the resources reply with bids that are based on the cost of taking on the job and the availability of their processors. In this thesis, a framework for economic Grid scheduling using tendering is proposed. The framework entities such as users, brokers and resources employ tender/contract-net model to negotiate the prices and deadlines. The brokers' role is acting on behalf of users. During the negotiations, the entities aim to maximise their performance which is measured by a number of metrics. In order to evaluate the entities' performance under different scenarios, a Java- based simulator, called MICOSim, supporting event-driven simulation of economic Grid scheduling is presented. MICOSim can perform a simulation of more than one hundred entities faster than real time. It is concluded from the evaluation that users who are interested in increasing the job success rate and paying less for executing their jobs have to consider received prices to select the most appropriate bids, while users who are interested in improving the job average satisfaction rate have to consider either received completion time or both price and completion time to select the most suitable bids when the submission of jobs is static. The best broker strategy is the one that doesn't take into account meeting the job deadlines in the bids it sends to job owners. Finally, the resource strategy that considers the price to determine if to reply to a request or not is superior to other resource strategies. The only exception is employing this strategy with price that is too low. However, there is a tiny difference between the performances of different user strategies in dynamic submission. It is also concluded from the evaluation that broker strategies have the best performance when the revenue they target from the users is reasonable. Thus, the broker's aim has to be receiving reasonable revenue (neither too low nor too high) from acting on behalf of users. It is observed from the results that the strategy performance is influenced by the behaviour of other entities such as the submission time of user jobs. Finally, it is observed that the characteristics of entities have an effect on the performance of strategies. For example, the two user strategies that consider the received completion time and both price and completion time to determine if to accept a broker bid have similar performance, because of the existence of resources with various prices from cheap to expensive and existence of resources which don't care about the price paid for the execution. So, the price threshold doesn't have a large effect on the performance.

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Fitzer, A. M. "Tender scenes, or, The sly rake in petticoats." Thesis, Swansea University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636976.

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My thesis considers the way in which the liminal female libertine or rake interrogates and actively disrupts narrative and tender scenes of literature of the mid-to-late eighteenth century. I argue that by unmasking the volatility of tenderness this metaphorically cross-dressed figure negotiates a further exploration of female possibilities, and of representative discourses in the eighteenth-century 'sentimental' romance and novel of sensibility. My consideration of the female rake's evolution as something other than the moral redundant character featured in early eighteenth-century romantic fiction begins with a detailed discussion of Fielding's Amelia. In Chapter one I suggest it is possible to explore a relationship between the obscured vitality of the tender scene and the actual dynamic potential of the relationship between articulations of tenderness, and between the idealised, virtuous heroine and her ostensibly bi-polarised Other. I prove that the very fine line which divides the ethereal object of her affection from her eroticised opposite in fact contravenes other attempts to underline hegemonic discourse in the novel. The subordination of female authority is challenged. My analysis extends from the murky vitality of Fielding's Newsgate scenes to the works of female authors and dramatists of the 1760s. My discussion of Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph in Chapter Two incorporates a study of Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. In my third chapter, I consider three novels by Frances Brooke which register the ambivalence of female sensibility and the associated shift in representative terms. I continue my analysis of narrative dissipation with a consideration of the sentimental travelogue and exotic, or oriental, tale. In these novels the female rake emerges as an agent, rather than as a displacement, of the potentially disruptive energies which are also registered in the novels of Sterne and Mackenzie. An analysis of their 'sentimental' narratives concludes my study of the way in which the rake illuminates the contradictions evident in representative discourses of feeling, passion, and desire. By incorporating a study of works by lesser known writers of the 1750s and 1760s, both male and female, I demonstrate that those fissures which appear in the narratives of respected authors can be discerned in a number of novels in this period - novels which celebrate the female libertine's dynamic textual revolution.

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Akintoye, Sunday Akintola. "Construction tender price index : modelling and forecasting trends." Thesis, University of Salford, 1991. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14768/.

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The thesis considers the construction tender price index, an important area of construction economics, and models are developed to fit the trends in this index. Between 1980 and 1987, the UK Building Cost Index produced by the Building Cost Information Service increased at an annual rate of 6.3% compared with Tender Price Index 3.3% and Retail Price Index at 6.7% per annum. This significant disparity between Tender Price and Building Cost Index is unexpected in view of the attributed importance of input prices in the tender price formation. This suggests that other factors apart from input prices may be responsible for the trends in building prices generally. The thesis reviews the pricing strategies of construction contractors leading to the conclusion that macroeconomic factors are equally important. A univariate analysis of 24 potential indicators of tender price trends identified some variables of importance. An analysis is described of these variables using the OLS system of regression analysis. Single structural equation model of construction tender price level is developed which offer structural explanation of the movements in the index. Indicators of construction price (in real terms) produced by the structural equation were found to be unemployment level, real interest rate, manufacturing profitability, number of registered construction firms, oil crisis, building cost index, construction productivity and construction work stoppages. A Reduced-form model of construction price is developed that utilises simultaneous equation models comprising construction demand, supply and equilibrium models - the reduced-form models being generally regarded as having better predictive power than structural equations. The model is validated by comparing its accuracy with forecasts produced by two leading organisations in U.K. The out-of-sample forecast errors of the reduced-form model are 2.78, 3.58, 4.28 and 5.59 RMSE percent over 0, 1, 2 and 3 quarter forecast horizons respectively, which are better than the Building Cost Information Service (3.32, 5.29, 7.57 and 9.96 RMSE percent) and Davis, Langdon and Everest (3.21, 5.01, 7.16 and 10.41 RMSE percent).

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Googer, Georgia. "The Radical Ekphrasis Of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/889.

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This thesis offers a reading of Gertrude Stein’s 1914 prose poetry collection, Tender Buttons, as a radical experiment in ekphrasis. A project that began with an examination of the avant-garde imagism movement in the early twentieth century, this thesis notes how Stein’s work differs from her imagist contemporaries through an exploration of material spaces and objects as immersive sensory experiences. This thesis draws on late twentieth century attempts to understand and define ekphrastic poetry before turning to Tender Buttons. Although the question of categorizing Tender Buttons has been an issue since its original publications, few have noted its essentially ekphrastic nature. Doing so, I argue ekphrasis helps to account for the way Stein’s poetry interacts with spatiality and temporality, illustrates sensory experiences, and plays with the multiplicity of language while also provoking readers to re-interpret their own experiences. My work with Tender Buttons seeks to extend the theoretical conversation. Applying a categorical term like ekphrasis to Stein’s work forces readers to interact with the descriptions in the text, in conjunction with their own experiences, in a way that elevates the objects rendered to pieces of art. Via an analysis of spatiality/temporality, invocations of the senses, and the plurality of diction in every poem, the reader can experience Tender Buttons through a unique and individualized approach that openly invites her to ask questions about Stein’s world and her own material surrounds. Essentially, I offer a reading of Tender Buttons as a collection that fastens materiality with language, asking anyone who interacts with the text to ask questions about the boundaries between verbal and visual material.

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Wintner, Birgit. ""Night, night, sleep tight" : Effects of exercise and light on sleep physiology." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-15510.

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DeBeyer, Michael. "The Rural night catalogue." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ62120.pdf.

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Song, Un Chu. "One full moon night." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1569052.

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One Full Moon Night, my MFA Project Exhibition, is a series of surrealistic drawings. The main inspiration of my exhibition stems from memories of my childhood fantasies. My subject matter portrays children exploring a surrealistic world and growing from this new experience. Despite their young age, my characters are often unafraid of the odd setting they find themselves in. The different kinds of animals in my drawings explore the places alongside the children.

For this MFA exhibition, I presented thirteen graphite pencil drawings on illustration board, ranging in size from nine inches by fifteen inches to eighteen inches by twenty-seven and half inches. I chose graphite as the primary medium because it allows me to accentuate details. Additionally, I intended to make people focus on my fantastical settings and stories by creating black and white scenes.

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Jensen, Amber L. "Breathing Through the Night." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1446.

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In Breathing through the Night, the author examines the moments of understanding and misunderstanding, the moments of fear, coping, and relief that occur during her husband’s deployment to Iraq and upon his return. The experiences of this military family serve as a magnifying lens through which the author explores means of coping and the role of communication in making meaning from memory, in shaping personal narratives within layers of story and history.

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Buffa, Gabriele. "A Night´s Portrait." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Filmová a televizní fakulta. Knihovna, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-371122.

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Palmer, Kassandra Boehm. "Strangers in the night." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6240.

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Moodley, Natasha. "Lies in the night." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14604.

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Dudas, Stephen P. "Bumps in the Night." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1376407973.

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Smith, Jennifer Lauren. "Every Night at 8pm." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2496.

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An experiential thesis, this document begins at dawn, travels through storms and calm air and ends at night in Argentina. It details the circumstances and influences leading to my thesis exhibition at the Anderson Gallery, including an artist’s statement told through a creative reading of Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and the excitement I found in an out-of-print text on scuba diving.

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Jones, Marie C. "Night of No Exile." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2217/.

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Night of no Exile is a collection of poems preceded by a critical article entitled "‘Exile seems both a blessing and a curse': A Blissful Reading of Li-Young Lee's Poetry." That article discusses Lee's quest to achieve communication, truth, and transcendence through poetic language and concludes that he finally reaches his goal through a leap from narrative poetry to lyricism. The "exile" alluded to in the title of the article is not only geographic, but also interioran exile due to the natural limitations of all languages, and which can be bridged only in linguistic ways. Lee's solution to that problem (lyricism) turns his poetry into what Roland Barthes would call "a text of bliss," a text that manages to deeply destabilize language, while simultaneously achieving a new kind of meaning. In the main body of the manuscript, the first section contains short love lyrics. The second section, "Night of no Exile," is an attempt at the demanding genre of the longer lyric poem. The third section uses short lyrics to explore various topics, such as discovering one's identity, friendship and solidarity between women, family history, and childhood memories. Finally, the last section includes poems, four of them longer, attempting to combine narrative and lyric impulses in a way not unlike Li-Young Lee's experimentation with those two genres.

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Whalley, James. "Saturday Night at the Movies : Saturday Night Live, Star Comedians and Contemporary Hollywood." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514263.

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The subject of this thesis is the role of television programme Saturday Night Live (or SNL) in launching the careers of a significant number of Hollywood film stars over the last three decades. Started in 1975, SNL is a 90-minute comedy variety show broadcast live by the American television network NBC. Since its inception, it has employed regular casts of performers to present comic sketches. Several cast members, including John Belushi, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Billy Crystal and Adam Sandler, have converted their exposure on the show into film stardom. In exploring the nature of SNL stars' appeal to Hollywood's filmmakers and audiences, the thesis primarily engages in two areas of debate. Firstly, it seeks to continue historicising what has been termed the "comedian comedy tradition" in Hollywood film. It has been noted that the Hollywood film industry has repeatedly turned to comic performers from other media with already well-defined, popular extra-fictional personas for use as star attractions. Certain consistencies have been found in the industry's approach to converting comedians' appeals for presentation within narrative fiction. However, approaches are also affected by historically specific industrial and social factors. I argue that the stars of SNL were instrumental to the development of a new variant of the comedian comedy tradition. Secondly, I suggest that the most important factor in explaining the nature of SNL's influence is shifts in social and cultural values in America since the 1960s. The personas of SNL stars I examine reflect trends in American public opinion connected to generational change. SNL has now employed cast members from across the baby boom generation (those born between 1943 and 1964) and Generation X (1965 to 1982). To consider the impact of generational factors, my analysis is centred around two case studies, the careers of Bill Murray and Adam Sandler.

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Elhag, Taha Mahmoud Salih. "Tender price modelling : artificial neural networks and regression techniques." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400240.

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Cost modelling in construction is the art and science of developing a reliable and effective estimation of the tender price of a project. Cost estimation is an experiencebased task, which involves evaluations of unknown circumstances and complex relationships of cost-influencing factors. Researchers argue that cost model developments lack rigour and consistent conceptual framework within which the performance of different models may be compared and evaluated. This study analyses construction cost models by classifying them into three groups according to the techniques used. These include deterministic models (regression analysis); probabilistic models (Monte Carlo simulation); and artificial intelligence models (neural networks). This research investigates the development of two methodologies for tender price estimation of buildings utilising neural computing and regression techniques. The emphasis is to provide clients and practitioners with a reliable tool, which would offer trustworthy advice and prediction of tender prices at an early stage of a construction project. The analysis in this research is based upon a data set of 230 office projects, newly constructed in the UK between 1983 and 1997. The cost data of these buildings consists of tender prices and 13 other cost influencing factors. The data extracted using the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) database of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Questionnaire survey and interviews were adopted to identify, evaluate and rank cost significant factors according to their degree of influence on tender prices. The practitioners involved in this stage were UK based quantity surveyors. Some of these cost variables formulate the basis for developing the tender estimation models. Cluster analysis was conducted to categorise the data set into more homogeneous project groups based upon the cost variables. The hypothesis is that developing estimation models using project categories would yield better performance and more efficient models. Self-Organising Maps (SOM), a type of neural networks, is used for the cluster analysis. Seventeen neural networks and thirteen regression models are developed for tender price estimation using different parameters and cost factors. The performance and efficiency of these models are analysed and compared before and after the cluster analysis of the data set. On the other hand, sensitivity analysis is conducted by developing fifty-five models to evaluate the effectiveness of different combinationso f network parameterso n the accuracyo f tenderp rice estimation. The research findings indicate that, when the whole data set of 230 office projects is used, both methodologies produced low accuracy and failed to map the relationship between the tender price and the selected influencing cost factors. On the contrary, after clustering the data set into coherent groups using Kohonen neural networks, the performance of both RA and ANN models increased dramatically, with many estimation accuracies above 80% and 90%, which is highly satisfactory for tender price estimation at an early stage of a project. The outcomes imply that: (a) clustering the projects into homogeneous categories is significant and key for model performance and accuracy; (b) after cluster analysis there is no significant difference in the performance of RA and ANN models, although the RA outperformed the ANN in some models. The results also reveal that for both methodologies the accuracy of the estimation models that utilised two cost factors (project area and duration) outperformed the estimation models that used 13 cost factors, which is an indication that area and duration are the most dominant cost determinant variables.

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Joyce, Barbara. "The Great Gatsby and Tender is the night : a feminist reading." Thesis, 1990. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/5881/1/MM64707.pdf.

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