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A Shtetl in Disguise: Israeli Bourekas Films and their Origins in Classical Yiddish Literature.
(2008)
This study examines Bourekas films – a cycle of highly popular Israeli comedies and melodramas that were produced during the 1960s and ‘70s – which depict the Mizrahi community (a community of non-Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants) ...
ANN-BASED MODEL-FREE THERMAL CONTROLS FOR RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS.
(2009)
This research aimed to develop an Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based advanced thermal control method for creating more comfortable thermal environments in residential buildings. The proposed control method, which consisted ...
Quality of Experience in Mainstreaming and Full Inclusion of Blind and Visually Impaired High School Instrumental Music Students
(2009)
The purpose of the present study was to report on the mainstreaming and full-inclusion experiences of secondary school instrumental music students who were blind or visually impaired. Four research questions addressed the ...
The Politics of Representation and Transmission in the Globalization of Guinea's Djembe.
(2010)
My dissertation investigates the impact of globalization on the growth and change of a local West African musical tradition. Within the past few decades there has been a transformation of Guinean djembé music from a locally ...
Building Siwilai : Transformation of Architecture and Architectural Pricetice in Siam during the Reign of Rama V, 1868 - 1910.
(2011)
This dissertation is an interpretation of architectural transformation in Siam from the mid-nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. During the reign of King Rama V (1868 to 1910). Siamese aristocrats ...
Playing Out: Women Instrumentalists and Women's Ensembles in Contemporary Tunisia.
(2010)
This dissertation focuses on the performances and lived experiences of conservatory-educated women instrumentalists in Tunis, Tunisia. Throughout the Arab-Muslim world, women musicians have been appreciated as vocalists ...
Symphonies Nos. 8 and 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich: A Study of Sketches and Drafts.
(2009)
When asked about his compositional process at the outset and the end of his creative life, Shostakovich claimed that he conceived his pieces completely before writing them. Contemporaries who were in a position to know ...
Terahertz Time-domain Reflectrometry of Multilayered Systems.
(2008)
Presented in this work are applications of terahertz pulse ranging, spectroscopy and imaging to the nondestructive evaluation of three disparate multilayer systems for the detection and measurement of hidden layers, as ...
Modeling Heroines from Giacomo Puccini's Operas
(2011)
Scholarship on the operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) has focused on one type of female character in the composer’s work, the so-called “Puccini heroine.” This female protagonist is said to be weak, fragile, and usually ...
Transformed Triadic Networks: Hearing Harmonic Closure in Prokofiev, Copland, and Poulenc.
(2011)
This dissertation presents a methodology for hearing closing progressions in neo-tonal music; that is, music from the first part of the twentieth century that expands the tonal system in ways that are currently not well ...