Dissertations / Theses: ''The Story of an Hour''

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Philpott, Carey. "The story of an hour : a sociocultural understanding of student teacher narratives of experience." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658085.

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This thesis uses a framework derived from the work of Wertsch and Bruner to provide a sociocultural analysis of narratives of classroom experience created collaboratively by student teachers, school based mentors and university based tutors participating in a one year secondary Post Graduate Certificate in Education course at one English university. The narratives analysed are constructed during meetings in one placement school between students, mentors and tutors after all three have participated in an episode of teaching led by the student. The thesis explores the ways in which the Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status provide what Wertsch calls a narrative template that 'co-authors ' student teachers narratives of classroom experience and, therefore, shapes what sense they make of their experiences and what they learn from them. The thesis also explores the process through which the student teachers master this narrative template during these collaborative narrative making events.

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Prothro, Travis. "To the boundary of the zero: postmodernism as whimsical tragedy in Tristram Shandy: a cock and bull story and 24 hour party people." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3740.

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This paper attempts to solve the problem of postmodern tragedy by examining two films by British director Michael Winterbottom, Tristram Shandy: a Cock and Bull Story, and 24 Hour Party People. Actually, I am not certain that the notion of postmodern tragedy is problematic as much as it is non-traditional in terms of classical critical definitions of tragedy. The films suggest that the postmodern protagonist faces the same trials as the protagonist from any other era, but responds to them differently, if at all. My thesis states that the protagonist‘s failure to respond adequately to the consequences of his choices, indeed, his failure to learn from his own repeated failures, is the basis for the tragedy presented in the films, as well as the basis for tragedy in the postmodern era. Certainly choice has always been key regarding the tragic fall of characters, from Oedipus to Willy Loman, and beyond. The particular circumstances of the films in question, however, suggest that the fall is not here the ultimate tragedy. Rather, these films clearly portray their respective protagonists as incapable of falling, in the tragic sense, because, whether consciously or unconsciously, they tend to reach not for greatness, but for failure, and as each failure mounts, they descend a little lower, as though the true glory of endeavor is to dig as deep a hole as possible by mounting failure on top of failure. In a sense, as the paper makes clear, the protagonists of these films attempt to define success by failure, or, to use a mathematical metaphor, they attempt to define themselves by their proximity to zero.
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English.

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Rezaie, Munib. "Neutered Dragon: A Critical Look at the Career of Jackie Chan." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/22.

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Jackie Chan has had a long and consistently successful career in the entertainment industry, becoming the most universally recognized Chinese performer, second only perhaps, to Bruce Lee. His rags-to-riches path to stardom has been well documented and oft quoted. At a time when all the up-and-coming martial arts actors felt the pressure to be carbon copies of Bruce Lee, Chan made his mark on the screen by making his persona everything that Lee?s wasn?t. With 1978?s Snake in the Eagle?s Shadow and Drunken Master, Chan?s revolutionary comic and realistic persona was firmly established with audiences. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Chan remained undeniably the biggest star in the East, demonstrating wild popularity in not only Asia, but throughout Europe and Africa as well. After several failed attempts at breaking into the American market, Chan finally achieved success with 1998?s Rush Hour. Unfortunately, success in the West has come with strict limitations placed on the characters he has been allowed to play. These limitations most often manifest themselves in the sexuality and morality of the characters, as well as the dramatic opportunities available to Chan within the films. In order to keep Chan?s vast filmography ? which has recently seen him sign on to his 100th leading role ? I have separated it into three distinct stages. The first stage of his career begins with his groundbreaking turn in Snake in the Eagle?s Shadow and ends with his last Asian film before successfully breaking into Hollywood, 1998?s Who am I?. From this point on, his career takes two distinct paths: the path in Hollywood, beginning with Rush Hour, and the path in Asia, which begins with 1999?s Gorgeous. Each stage features distinct characteristics and trends with rare digression. I will provide examples from a selection of films within each stage of his career in order to clarify the traits and characteristics of the roles he has taken in each one. The purpose of this thesis is twofold. First and foremost, it will reveal the extent to which Chan faces negative stereotyping in the United States by clearly offering the contrasting positive representations he is able to achieve overseas. The second aim, which has naturally arisen from the workings of the first, is a critical look at a career that has found its actor bored with the kinds of films that have brought him worldwide fame.

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Grant, Bernard. "All Hours." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617105424447492.

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Bate, Holmberg Elizabet. "In Search of Eros and Freedom : Four Portraits of Women by Kate Chopin." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-19111.

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In this essay, Kate Chopin's portraits of women in three short stories, 'The Story of an Hour', 'A Respectable Woman', Athénaïse and the novel The Awakening are studied. It is argued that the outcomes depicted can be seen as increasingly provocative and extreme and that the main conflict and ending of The Awakening is a development and combination of the conflicts and resolutions in the three short stories.

I uppsatsen studeras Kate Chopins kvinnoporträtt i tre noveller, 'The Story of an Hour', 'A Respectable Woman', Athénaïse och i romanen The Awakening. Syftet är att visa att huvudhandlingen och slutet på The Awakening är en utveckling och kombination av de alltmer provokativa och extrema handlingarna och upplösningarna i novellerna.

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Cowan, Lee R. "24 Hour Portraits." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2150.

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I believe an individual can be profiled by their color preferences, but not indefinitely, for a shorter period of time, a 24-hour period of time. A person's state of mind will change continually based on their experiences. These experiences will affect their perception and preference of color. I developed a model that will map an individual's profile, a portrait, through color. Participants are given a worksheet and a list of terms describing personality traits and states of mind. The worksheet is categorized by event, time of day, duration, impact, and summed term. From midnight to midnight, a 24-hour period, the participant records any event that they encounter providing information-fulfilling categories stated above. I use that information to then map out their portrait of 24-hours through color.

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Arwidsson, Jacob. "Real Estate Investments in 18-hour Cities: Do 18-hour cities offer better investments than 24-hour cities?" Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-190132.

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With the rise of the millennial generation, a new roster of cities has sprung to life – the 18-hour cities. They can be defined as a vibrant second-tier city where there’s a big potential for employment and economic growth and at the same time they offer a lower cost of living and doing business than in 24-hour gateway cities like New York City or San Francisco. They have been named the hottest places for real estate investments by industry literature which poses the question if 18-hour cities really offer better investments than 24-hour cities. This paper uses a statistical analysis framework complemented with qualitative interviews of industry professionals based in 18-hour markets to test this notion. From the statistical analysis, it has been found that 18-hour cities offer higher yields than the 24-hour markets but the cash return cannot be said do differ between the two. Furthermore, the interviews with industry professionals indicate that the 18-hour markets have major future growth prospects because of their job growth, population growth and the large in-migration of high-skilled labor gravitating towards these amenity-rich areas where they can receive the highest reward-for-skill
Med millenniegenerationens framfart har en ny rad städer vaknat till liv – 18-timmarsstäderna. De kan definieras som en levande andrastad där det finns stor potential för arbete och ekonomisk tillväxt samtidigt som de erbjuder lägre levnadskostnad och kostnad för att driva företag än 24-timmarsstäder som New York eller San Francisco. De har utsetts till de hetaste marknaderna för fastighetsinvesteringar av tidsskrifter vilket väcker frågan om 18-timmarsstäder verkligen erbjuder bättre investeringsmöjligheter än 24-timmarsstäder. Denna studie använder statistisk analys kompletterat med intervjuer av personer verksamma i fastighetsbranschen för att testa den hypotesen. Från den statistiska analysen fanns det att 18-timmarsstäder erbjuder högre direktavkastning än 24-timmarsstäder men avkastningen på kapital kan inte säga skiljas mellan de två klustren. Vidare indikerade intervjuerna med branschfolk att 18-timmarsstäder har stor framtida tillväxtpotential tack vare stark jobbtillväxt, befolkningsökning och stor inflyttning av högutbildad arbetskraft som drar sig till områden med mycket bekvämligheter och där de kan få bäst belöning för sin utbildningsnivå.

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OJS, Team. "OJS in an Hour." Public Knowledge Project, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/393.

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Bomani, Mawiyah. "Twenty-Four-Hour Woman." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/896.

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"Sweet Black Pussy for Sale" sets the stage for this very feminine and colloquial laced collection of verse. Both figuratively and literally, the voices of a seldom-traveled African-American culture are depicted through these songs. In this thesis, I consider myself a GRIOT, sworn to tell nothing but the truth. These poems speak from places some might consider sacred and others quite sinful. These poems moan out the anthems of those unsung heroes and heroines from my family lineage. The voices of my long dead grandfather, grandmother, aunts and great uncle haunt poems such as "Blues," "Salvation," "A Memorial for Lawrence," and "Apartment 12 B Dwight D. Eisenhower Street." These poems say, "Even when it's sunny on the other side of town somebody could be wearing a frown. It's because the blues don't mess with folks who ain't got anything to lose.â"

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Burke, Trina. "Confinement in a Strange Hour." The University of Montana, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05022008-091642/.

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Chanchao, Chanpen. "Generation of cDNA libraries of amoeba, 8 hour, and 12 hour stages of Dictyostelium discoideum." Thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11182008-063231/.

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B, O'Connell Joan. "The effect of the 12-hour shift versus the 8-hour shift on nurses' job satisfaction /." Staten Island, N.Y. : [s.n.], 1989. http://library.wagner.edu/theses/nursing/1989/thesis_nur_1989_oconn_effec.pdf.

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Bourgeois, Paul J. "Flying hour cost estimating at COMNAVAIRPAC." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FBourgeois.pdf.

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Bennett, Graham John. "The literacy hour and teacher professionalism." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269673.

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Cha, Minjeong. "The story, but a different story." Thesis, Konstfack, Experience Design, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5428.

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This project started with my naive and utopian hypothesis: 'Is there any one experience, equally memorable for everybody, that affects people‘s ordinary lives in a meaningful way afterward?‘ To explore this matter from multiple angles, I needed a research location that already had strongly staged experiences with a clear theme, diverse actors, and its own narratives. And I hit upon the right place: Disneyland Paris. To discuss 'the experience‘, I categorized peoples‘ different impressions of their experiences at Disneyland Paris. When I interviewed staff and visitors on their way out of Disneyland Paris, some people said that their experience had been awful, while others said it had been fantastic. What makes for such different responses to the same place? Two theorists declare, 'Experiences are inherently personal and no two people can have the same experience, because each experience derives from the interaction between the staged event (like a theatrical play) and the individual‘s state of mind‘ (Pine Ⅱand Gilmore, 1998). Since the individual‘s state of mind cannot be grasped and is a broad research term, in this thesis I am mostly concerned with the key experience-generating elements: age and social role. The ultimate purpose of this project is to investigate the pre-and post-experience at the entrance and exit of a given venue for a special experience with a clear theme, that bridge connecting visitors‘ and staff‘s everyday experiences to the staged experience. The practical outcome of this research-led project consists mainly of various trials of a procession that engages visitors at the borders of the venue. This research will consist of the following: 1) Analytical reflection upon visitors‘ and staff‘s one-day experience in a Disney theme park, based on narrative structure and perception of time, 2) Observations of different time perceptions in adults and children, 3) Definition of flow of experience (pre-experience / main experience / post-experience), and 4) Presentation of a new model of participatory stories in a given theme1 to smooth the flow of experience. 1Disneyland Paris was my chosen site for the theoretical background, and the practical methodologies are developed through Konstfack‘s 2011 spring exhibition. What this project intends to do, however, is not to upgrade the experiences in both, but rather to focus on the experiments in order to vary the existing definitions of the flow of experience. The final outcome is intended to be applied to the diverse venues that aim to offer their visitors special experiences with a clear theme. This has been an in-depth exploration of how experience design can be applied as a renewing force, or 'twist‘, to help people experience immersive moments and to gain unforgettable memories which, in turn, influence their future experiences.

Research question: How can experience design be used to connect the daily experience of visitors and staff with memorable commercially staged experiences in an existing theme park (e.g. Disneyland Paris)?

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Li, Pei 1981. "Controlling hour-long power of wind farms." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112574.

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In attempting to control the power output of a wind farm, it is first necessary to smooth the power fluctuations due to wind turbulence. This is accomplished by spatial smoothing, whereby the high frequency power components of a single wind turbine generator (WTG) is reduced by a factor of N-1/2, where N is the number of WTGs in the farm. For this reason the first part of the thesis is concerned with developing a model of smoothing in a wind farm and justifying it mathematically.
After spatial smoothing, the wind farm output still contains low frequency fluctuations. The second part of the thesis makes use of a combination of: (i) pitch angle control of the turbine blades, (ii) power electronic control of the generators, (iii) spatial filtering and (iv) negative feedback control to remove the low frequency fluctuations. The wind farm output then has the quality to be sold as regulated power which fetches a better economic return than when sold as energy. This, of course, presumes that 1-hour ahead prediction of wind velocity at 1-hour long low variance is available.
The thesis also considers the case when the conditions for regulated power are not predicted. In this situation, the wind farm may opt to use the tracking mode which tracks the slowly time varying non-turbulent wind power. The thesis examines the possibility of diverting some of the wind farm power to implement dynamic performance enhancement strategies, for system damping for example.
The controllability of the wind farm is demonstrated by simulations of a wind farm made up of 24 wind turbine-generators (WTGs) using 1-hour long wind velocity data.

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Cochran, Andrew. "An Hour of Light and other stories." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001509.

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Brown, Paul W. "Chill Hour Assessment for the Yuma Area." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/215724.

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Arnold, Harry C. "Product Placement during the Family-Viewing Hour." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2238.

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The so-called family-viewing hour, the eight to nine o’clock hour of prime time, is one of the most watched hours of television by both adults and children. Advertisers, of course, favor shows that draw large audiences so their product presentations or commercials are witnessed by masses of people. Now, because of videocassette recorders and other similar control devices, viewers are eliminating commercials from their viewing experience1 and advertisers are clamoring for new ways to get their products into the mind of the consumer.2 To counteract this commercial avoidance by consumers, advertisers are embedding products within television programming thereby hindering the viewer’s ability to eliminate commercials or product promotions. The result is that products that are normally not viewed become part of the viewing experience. This study revealed that the family-viewing hour is laden with product placements that include a variety of different types of products and brands.

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Josef, Lauren Ramsey. "THE CHILDREN'S HOUR: SEEING BEYOND THE ADORABLE." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1769.

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This paper covers an analysis of The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman and my costume design process from beginning to end for the production at Southern Illinois University in May of 2015. The first chapter is my proposal for the costume design as well as a thorough play analysis and Lillian Hellman’s background. Chapter two covers my design process, and discoveries made through the design meeting process. The production is discussed in Chapter three when my designs were realized, and Chapter five is a reflection on the entire process after the show closed. The subsequent appendices include additional renderings and photographs to further enhance my written analysis.

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Lindgren, Markus. "24 hour living room : Konstruktion av en kombinationsmöbel." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Technology and Design, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2009.

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Detta examensarbete är genomfört i samarbete med produktutvecklingsavdelningen på IKEA i Älmhult.

Ingvar Kamprad startade IKEA år 1943 som en postorderfirma. Idag är företaget ett av världens största möbelföretag med 253 varuhus i 35 länder och med en omsättning på 161 miljarder kronor.

Compact living är ett område på frammarsch inom inredningsvärlden. IKEA strävar efter att kunna erbjuda marknadskraftig heminredning inom alla områden. 24 hour Living room och dess delprojekt är en utgångspunkt för framtida idéer inom området.

24 hour Livingroom är ett projekt där en urban lägenhet på cirka 40m2 skall möbleras för ett compact living. Nyframtagna möbler och prototyper skall förenkla vardagen för en familj på två vuxna och två barn. Examensarbetet som en del av 24 hour, går ut på att utveckla en möbel som kombinerar sovplats och arbetsplats, men samtidigt vara kombinerbar med förvaringsserien Bestå från nuvarande sortiment. Syftet med prototypen är att minimera oanvänd yta - att göra små ytor större.

En utförlig funktionsanalys där möbelns egenskaper och begränsningar redovisas, har tillsammans med IKEAs standarder utgjort parametrar för möbelns förutsättningar i materialtjocklekar, viktkrav och utseende. Då ergonomi står i fokus i dagens och framtidens arbetsmiljöer är möbeln konstruerad för att förenkla vardagen och minimera kroppsbelastningen.

I rapporten kommer möbelindustrins vanligaste produktionsmaterial och ytbehandlingsmetoder att beskrivas. Här kommer även områden såsom IKEAsortimentets madrassalternativ och väggfästen att redogöras.

Fokus i arbetet har legat på konstruerandet av en användbar prototyp. För att användaren skall slippa plocka bort och ställa fram dator med mera, varje gång funktion växlas, har skrivbordet utvecklats så det alltid är i ett horisontellt läge. Madrass och sängkläder lider av samma problematik, detta löses genom att madrassen står i en 90 graders vinkel under tiden kombinationsmöbeln används som arbetsplats. För att få en kortare utvecklingstid och en förenklad produktion har målet varit att använda IKEA components redan existerande beslag och förstärkningar. Ritningar för möbeln är gjorda efter IKEAstandard i 3d programmet SolidWorks och prototypen är skapad av IKEAs modellverkstad i Älmhult.

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Gardiner, Edward C. "The Marine Corps Flying Hour Program at MARFORLANT." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA358803.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998.
"December 1998." Thesis advisor(s): Lawrence R. Jones, Shu S. Liao. Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-114). Also available online.

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Kelly, Hugh F. "24-hour cities and commercial real estate performance." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550786.

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The real estate industry has posited that 24-hour cities provide superior risk-adjusted returns. This thesis examines that claim rigorously for the first time. Urban characteristics are related to literature in urban history, planning theory, and economic geography. An operational definition of the 24-hour city based on empirical data is specified. 24-hour and 9-to-5 cities are evaluated by the operational definition, and by K-means Cluster Analysis. 24-hour cities are found to have higher city densities, greater use of mass transit and walk-to-work commutation, higher percentages of late night automobile traffic, more 24-hour drug stores, lower crime rates, and higher measures of regional distinctiveness. Superior performance is observed in inflation-adjusted office rents, occupancy, and risk-adjusted return on office investment for 1987 - 2009, at the 0.01 level of statistical significance. A multivariate regression of urban attributes on CBD office building prices also finds significance at the 0.01 level. Survey data and expert interviews provide new detail on industry desiderata. 24-hour cities can be considered exceptions to the standard Alonso-Mills-Muth urban spatial model. An anentropic model based on complexity theory (requiring development) , may better explain emergent self-organisation as displayed in those cities.

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Hill, Colin J. "The 10,000-Hour Threshold: Interviews with Successful Percussionists." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/31.

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Musicians are universally reliant on practice to improve and perfect their craft and there is substantial evidence that suggests mastery can only be achieved after 10,000 hours of practice early in life. This dissertation explores the validity of this theory as it pertains to master percussionists and examines their discoveries and recommendations as to how those 10,000 hours should best be spent. Research sources include selected published literature and personal interviews with thirty-six percussionists, conducted between 2010- 2013. The research is summarized in the following six sections: the 10,000-hour threshold; planning a practice session; warming up; learning new music; problem spots; and performance preparation. The primary goal of this dissertation is to detail the specific practice methods currently implemented by many of today’s most successful percussionists. This research should reveal the various ways success can be achieved in the practice room and help aspiring and accomplished professionals alike explore and integrate new practice methods and philosophies into their own careers and the careers of their students.

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Espinosa, Stephane Alexandre. "Studies of 10 hour periodicity in Saturn's magnetosphere." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11394.

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Roberts, Ron. "In the midnight hour : systems theory and dreaming." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34686.

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The thesis begins with an examination of current problems in the nature and application of scientific method. Particular difficulties are encountered when dealing with experiences whose only criterion of existence are verbal reports and in those circumstances in which a complex array of variables are interacting to produce the observed events. Both of these difficulties are paramount in the study of dreams. It is suggested that Systems Theory offers an alternative and more fruitful method of investigating dreams in comparison to traditional scientific method. Systems thinking provides the use of a substantive methodology for approaching the field of enquiry and a set of concepts for aiding the development of theory in that field. Systems theory has been used to this effect as a critical tool in the appraisal of existing work in the psychology of dreaming. Dreaming itself has been construed as the outcome of a hierarchically organized multilevelled network of interconnecting processes which requires for its understanding a network of interconnecting models each focusing at different 'levels of resolution' and addressing limited domains of dream experience. This hierarchical process it is postulated can be found reflected in an hierarchy present in dream content --- Dream; Scenel Recurrent images and Unique images. The hierarchical scheme is extended to include issues concerning the social construction and meaning of dreams (recal1, interpretation etc). Several experiments exploring these ideas are reported and discussed with tentative suggestions offered as to how the set of processes operating at the different levels combine into a dynamic interplay.

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Morris-Nunn, Robert William, and not supplied. "Story telling." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080506.150101.

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I believe it is possible to tell stories through architecture. Indeed, it is my practice to create buildings that tell stories. It is important to build and elaborate connections between past and present, to tease out memories and discover meanings. These define and strengthen a sense of community - in this instance the very community of which I am a part. My oeuvre springs from cultural - even anecdotal - reference points, more than from the work of my architectural forebears and compatriots. Other architects design through a creative interaction with their unconscious: they develop doodles and lines, and resolve them into ordered spatial environments. Instead, when I claim to design buildings that tell stories, I mean that I create a spatial identity that resonates with memories and unconscious associations. This entails the very deliberate ordering of spaces - external and internal - where cultural considerations and their associated meanings are developed from the outset, informing the whole design process. My materials are the traditional fabric of contemporary architecture. I use them to modify buildings and shape spaces to visual symbols, objects by association. My early work evolved in such a way that projects could be read as a illustrated story. I have more recently begun to engage in a more psychological 'place making' to conceive a building's form. The functional aspect of layout is always overlaid with visual imagery designed to evoke memories among the ordinary, mostly architecturally-illiterate people who use the buildings. I am continually challenged to create architectural forms that more effectively engage with the culture and traditions of people and place. But neither my architectural practice nor my designs can be termed 'traditional'. Here I seek to describe story-telling as an architectural form. Stories are my contextual framework for thinking. And story-telling is my way to connect buildings with people.

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Crawford, Jim D. "“Inside Story”." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500092/.

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Inside Story explores the essence of story and attempts to connect the audience to the significance of story in their own lives. The documentary examines story and determines the elements necessary for its formation. The film investigates the psychological aspects of story, inspects the physiological processing of story that connects story to the way we think and perceive, and finally, emphasizes the functions and values of story.

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Low, Marcus. "Asylum story." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8237.

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Includes abstract.
asylum story is a short literary novel set in South Africa in the year 2019. The protagonist is infected with a deadly new respiratory disease and being held in a quarantine facility near a fictional town in the Karoo. The novel spans a six-month period during which the protagonist becomes involved in an ultimately failed attempt to escape. The novel is partly inspired by the Department of Health's decision in 2007 to place patients with drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis into quarantine. Many patients died in this enforced captivity. Conditions in some facilities were reportedly very poor and in 2008 there was a high-profile escape from the Jose Pearson quarantine facility. Though the disease in the novel is not drug-resistant tuberculosis, it is something similar, and the response to the fictional disease is comparable in some ways to the real-life medical response to the TB scare. The novel is set in a universe that is similar but different to our own, allowing the exploration of universal themes without the constraint of a rigid representation of current reality.

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Weaver, Grace. "LOVE STORY." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3861.

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I think of my paintings as pop songs. My aim in the work is to embrace a complicated femininity, championing and questioning the aesthetics of girliness, cuteness, and whimsy. This is the realm of the Young-Girl. The text that follows will chart a path from the cliché to the empathic—holding hands with philosophical comrades in that same territory, ranging from Taylor Swift to Kaja Silverman—seeking the way in which the paintings relate to the grand tradition of the love story.

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Blake, William R. "Fiscal constraints and the P-3 flight hour budget/." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23234.

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After seven years of exceptional growth in the 1980s, the Department of Defense (DOD) budget is confronted with Congressional budget reduction and deficit control measures. A revised Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act was passed in September 1987 setting annual deficit targets for fiscal years 1988 to 1993. If the legislation is implemented, DOD organizations face an extended period of financial constraint and budgetary uncertainty. This thesis examines the flight hour program of Commander, Patrol Wings Pacific in developing methods to prepare for an era of budget constraints. The thesis discusses the Gramm-Rudman Act and general organizational reaction to fiscal stress. It then analyzes management control of nonprofit organizations, productivity measurement, and alternative accounting and financial management information systems as means for coping with budget reduction. Decision-makers at all levels of the military must understand these methods in order to manage effectively in an era of financial constraint. Keywords: P-3 Aircraft, Management control, Flight hour program, Patrol aircraft, Theses. (sdw)

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Weatherby, Elaine. "Ringing with voices : 'guided participation' during the literacy hour." Thesis, n.p, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Zaman, Mohammad Faisal. "Degree-per-hour mode-matched micromachined silicon vibratory gyroscopes." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28168.

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Thesis (M. S.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.
Committee Chair: Dr. Farrokh Ayazi; Committee Member: Dr. Mark G. Allen; Committee Member: Dr. Oliver Brand; Committee Member: Dr. Paul A. Kohl; Committee Member: Dr. Thomas E. Michaels.

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Churchill, David. "Twenty four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391325.

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Chao, Eileen. "WWF's Earth Hour Campaign: ‘Global Village' or Eco-Imperialism?" Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32207.

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The rapid spread of digital information and communication technologies since the turn of the century has led to renewed debates about globalisation and the power of new media to connect users across national, political and cultural borders. Environmental campaigns like WWF's Earth Hour, which touts itself as “the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment,” often adopt a utopian view of globalisation that celebrates what Marshall McLuhan termed the ‘global village'. While this global ethos might be useful in engaging the publics in collective action, this article argues that the way Earth Hour and similar campaigns actively construct representations of a single global village overlooks the lived inequalities between and among peoples within this imagined community. This article explores this tension using a quantitative and qualitative mixed-methods approach that combines a semiotic analysis of the Earth Hour 2019 promotional video, social media analysis of the use of #Connect2Earth hashtag among South African Twitter users, and in-depth interviews with current and former WWF-South Africa employees. This strategic approach is designed to juxtapose socially constructed representations of Earth Hour with on-the-ground user engagement in South Africa, and then triangulating these findings with qualitative interviews. The dissertation aims to explore the research question: In what ways does WWF's Earth Hour embody Marshall McLuhan's ideal ‘global village' and in what ways might it engender a form of eco-imperialism? This research question is operationalised through three subquestions: What kind of environmentalism do global environmental campaigns like Earth Hour promote? How do audiences in South Africa engage with Earth Hour on social media? How do local WWF of ices adapt global environmental campaigns to suit local audiences? This research contributes to emerging scholarship, rooted in environmental justice and decolonial studies, that is critical of mainstream environmental movements not to discourage environmental consciousness but to ultimately reformulate it.

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Rice, Chandra. "Sometimes a story is just a story : story collections and the popularization of Buddhism in Japan." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0009/MQ43526.pdf.

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Emmel, William M. "Process improvement and information technology illustrated through the Naval Aviation Production Process Improvement (NAPPI) and the Flight Hour (FHP)/Flight Hour Other (FO) programs." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/9896.

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MBA Professional Report
Proper execution of appropriated funds is critical if the Navy hopes to maximize the optimization of their limited resources. The Navy's Flight Hour (FHP) and Flight hour Other (FO) programs are no exception. These programs are being managed by good people, utilizing inefficient and out dated practices that do not adequately take advantage of the many Process Change and Information Technology resources currently available in today's Navy. This project report will highlight the need for change in the FHP/FO budget management process, discuss successful process change efforts within the Navy, demonstrate the functionality of change in the FHP/FO management process through information technology, and provide a roadmap to a solution that is in alignment with the Navy's goals outlined in Naval Power 21p5sA Naval Vision. Process Change using Information Technology is a mandate in DoD. Information Technology can be the enabler to PC that allows more effective and efficient use of the Navy's most powerful resource - its people.

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Nitsche, Michael. "Virtual story spaces." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615792.

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Jones, Kyffin Thomas John. "The outsider's story." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/39948.

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This thesis presents perspectives upon how inclusion is experienced from the point of view of the individual. It seeks to compliment contemporary discourse by interpreting the concept as a fundamental human activity. In this way acting as a counterpoint to narrower interpretations which are often characterised by a deficit discourse or exclusionary sentiment. The research is therefore underpinned by an emancipatory drive aligned to elements of critical pedagogy. The implication of this for practice is the acknowledgement that inclusion does not just apply to those children who stand out, who are labelled in some way, not an obvious minority or indeed marginalised, but to all children in the institutional space. In this study the concept of the Outsider is used as a motif for what is both universal and subjective. Such a literary device recognises the important subjective factors that underpin the existential nature of inclusion. The study views narrative and the stories people tell of their lives as a rich source of data. Ten individuals who are new to the teaching profession participated in the study and it is their stories that form the basis of the subsequent interpretation and analysis. The research was aligned to an interpretative paradigm seeking ideographic insight. The data generated was analysed both textually and aurally through a careful iterative and inductive process of analysis. The themes of the findings suggested the nature of inclusion to be underpinned by subjective and dynamic processes. Such processes linked to the notions of familiarity, application and adaptation that are used by the individual to facilitate aspects of their inclusion in dynamic and creative ways.

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Paul, Lewis. "Story, narrative, material." Thesis, University of East London, 2014. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/4979/.

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This practice based Professional Doctorate in Fine Art explores the interaction between story, narrative, material, and related concepts. My creative practice is driven by considering autobiographical identity as a reclaimed space, the boundaries of which are adoption and sexuality. Conceptually, my work is informed by a matrix of boundary points, for example: masculine sexual identity and gender politics, (concepts that relate to the working man such as class, craft skill, visual identity) and on an experiential level, genetic and learned behaviour as considered through the nature and nurture debates concerning adoption. These conceptual positions become articulated by formally engaging strategies of doubling, reflection, hybridisation, stillness and movement. These are materially evident in the range of my creative practice where sartorial codes of male dress are deconstructed in made objects, manipulated found objects are repurposed and film-based single screen works undertake to position the body in relation to the hidden view point. My research considers the position of lyrical discourse as an artist’s strategy, reviewing contemporary practitioners that explore these concerns. Through a developed material practice I have sought an exploration of how the intersections between concepts of story, narrative and material might contribute to how concepts of gender perceptions, family perceptions, and identity perceptions might be developed and articulated.

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Ericsson, Malin, and Mia Paleka. "Making the story." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23424.

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Organisatoriskt inkluderingsarbeteMaking the storyMalin Ericsson, Mia PalekaBaserat på åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer har vi studerat hur ett större företag i finanssektorn pratar om och förhåller sig till mångfald och det lokala inkluderingsarbetet. Syftet med studien är därför att, med utgångspunkt i teoretiska begrepp som mångfald, inkludering, översättning, sensemaking och storytelling, beskriva och förstå förhållandet mellan ideologi (hur mångfaldsarbete presenteras) och praktik (hur mångfaldsarbete bedrivs). Analysen utmynnade i tre teman: Det paralogiska; bygga broar; viskningar. Vår slutsats är att det finns en särkoppling mellan vad man säger och vad man gör. Mångfaldsarbetet redigeras för att passa in i en rådande praktik och att inkluderingsarbetet framförallt har ett betydelsefullt symboliskt värde. När vi vänder blicken bort från talet om till vårt företag vars praktik vi studerat, ser vi en särkoppling mellan vad som sägs och vad som görs.Nyckelord: Inkludering; Hierarkier; Mångfald; Normativ styrning; Sensemaking; Storytelling; Översättning

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Pugh, Brigette. "Someone Else's Story." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/343.

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The following novel manuscript, Someone Else’s Story, investigates what we can’t explain—inspiration and art, attraction and love, charisma and celebrity, intuition and fear. Pulled between all of these is Madelyn, who at the opening of the novel is having a very bad week. After a childhood spent moving every few years, Madelyn has structured her life around stability, but in one week everything comes crashing down. A bad break-up, a family secret and a chance meeting at hotel in Mexico, will spin Madelyn’s future in a direction she never could have imagined for herself—one that includes a handsome movie star and a chance to reinvent an abandoned writing career—if only she can face the truth about her past. Ultimately, Madelyn will be forced to make the same decision three generations of women have faced before her: How much sacrifice is too much when it comes to love?

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Terrell, Sharese L. "His-story, her-story: names making our-story in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills, Mama Day, and Bailey's Cafe." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2000. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1986.

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This study examines the onomastic consistencies in three of Gloria Naylor's novels: Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988), and Bailey's Cafe (1992). The naming patterns exhibited by Naylor in the triad demonstrate a similar practice used by other African American writers. This thesis explores her use of the motif as well as her expansion of it to include feminist and theological tenets in order to challenge hegemonic systems, especially patriarchy. To explicate the use of names in the three texts discussed in the thesis, the original Afrofemtheological theory is utilized to embrace all three of Naylor's clear influences - Afrocentrism, Feminism, and Theology - in the naming traditions evident in her works. In using a combination of various naming strategies, the three novels indicate that the naming process and the formation of self-identity are communal processes that are multi-faceted in nature. By including community, spirituality, and cultural history in self-actualization efforts like naming, systems such as patriarchy can be fought and demolished.

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Fisher, Helen. "The literacy hour at Key Stage 2 : the child's perspective." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432096.

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Lipovats, Anthony. "Electroconvulsive shock and 24-hour rhythms in the rodent brain." Thesis, University of Bath, 1987. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376268.

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Phahlane, Motsepe Herbert. "Effect of land-use change on traffic peak hour factor." Thesis, Vaal University of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10352/385.

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M. Tech. (Department of Civil Engineering and Building, Faculty of Engineering and Technology), Vaal University of Technology
Growth in land development in South Africa resulted in large increase in traffic volumes. A Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA), as a traffic engineering tool, is commonly used to assess the possible effects of a land development project on the transportation and traffic system. During the TIA process, capacity analysis is performed to indicate the measures of effectiveness of the intersection. Intersection capacity analysis in South Africa by engineers is done on the basis of default values of the Peak Hour Factor (PHF) provided by the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) or limited traffic counts. However, the default value of PHF may be significantly affected by new developments in the neighbourhood of the intersection. This study aimed at investigating the impact land-use change has on the existing intersection PHF, thus predicting values per land-use type. Intersections with traffic counts conducted before and after land-use change in vicinity were selected and investigated. The results showed that change in land-use has an impact on the existing PHF. They also assist in identifying the appropriate intersections to predict the PHF per land-use type. Intersections were identified and analysed, and this led to the development of a design chart showing the predicted PHF per land-use type selected and measures to consider during traffic analysis. Intersection capacity analysis was performed to compare the results using the predicted PHF and the HCM default values. The results showed that traffic flow rate was adjusted by up to 26% when using the default values, 0.92 and 0.95. The results also showed that the default values could overestimate the volume to capacity ratio and the average delay by up to 15% and 35%, respectively. It was then concluded that the use of HCM default values of the PHF for every land-use type will have an effect of the final roadway design results. The computed PHF values for each land-use type were then recommended to be used to ensure fairness and consistency in traffic analysis.

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Schkolne, Deborah Stacey. "An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15709.

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This dissertation reports on an outcome evaluation of The Shine Centre's literacy intervention, Literacy Hour. The Shine Centre is a South African non-governmental organisation that offers literacy support to Grade 2 and 3 learners at risk of reading failure. The programme takes the form of one-to-one or one-to-two tutoring. The learners who are chosen to participate in the Literacy Hour programme are selected based on their results in Shine's diagnostic assessment completed at the end of Grade 1. The selected students work with trained volunteers twice a week for an hour at a time. Each hour of the Literacy Hour programme is divided into four 15-minute components, namely: (a) paired reading, (b) shared reading, (c) have-a-go writing, and (d) wordplay. The evaluation design was a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent group design. The assignment into the experimental/intervention group and the control group was done by means of a sharp regression-discontinuity cut-off. The sample included six Centres and two Chapters in the Western Cape with complete data for the 2011 to 2013 cohort. Learner results were monitored using various assessment tools at the end of Grade 1 and during Grades 2 and 3. The two Shine diagnostic assessments, D1 and D2, tested the learners' literacy skills against the level that they should have acquired by that point in their school career. Additionally, the reading level assessments were used to determine the learners' actual reading level/age.

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Martin, Keith R. "HOT CAMERA DESIGN FOR A 1000 HOUR VENUSIAN SURFACE LANDER." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1544190195149496.

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Duma, David Paul. "A cost estimation model for Commander Naval Air Forces Pacific's TACAIR F/A-18S Aviation Depot Level repair costs." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA401314.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 2001.2001.
"December 2001." Thesis Advisor(s): Jones, Lawrence R. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-48). Also available online.

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Mathieson, Rachel. "The effect of the National Literacy Strategy on Year One teachers' thinking about literacy teaching." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248937.

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