A careful perusal of Shakespeare’s works leads to one outstanding conclusion. Shakespeare was preeminently interested in words, as such. His every play shows a painstaking attention to words in their various shades of meaning. It is our interest...
In studying the culture of any people we learn that no group has been absolutely independent of influences from other people. No man indeed can say that he has attained anything of value absolutely by himself; an individual must give credit to the...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of acute glutamine supplementation on maximal performance and recovery from high-intensity exercise. In a placebo-controlled, crossover study, seven (six males and one female) healthy subjects...
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700; Geographical discoveries in literature
It is the purpose of this thesis to show what influence the sixteenth century voyagers had on the Elizabethan writers. For expediency, we have divided these voyages into two classes: namely, the early, from Columbus, 1492, to Vasca de Gama, 1498;...
The aim of this thesis is to show that there is found in this "noblest of comic masterpieces" an absorbing study of mankind and a profound knowledge of the human heart. It is In his work that man gives himself to the world; in his...
Forts & fortifications; Historic sites; Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.); Buildings
Exterior view of the Alamo fort from across a road. Front wall and part of the side are visible. A star is at the top of the front wall. Title: 16578 'The Alamo' - Texas Cradle of Liberty (Dating from 1744), San Antonio. Text on left: Keystone View...
This study is a historical analysis of reasons and dynamics behind the emergence of fundamentalist religious movements. Its purpose is to develop a new conceptual apparatus to the approach toward religious fundamentalist movements that would...
Nitrile hydratase (NHase) is a metalloenzyme that contains a non-heme iron (III)
or non-corin cobalt (III) in a non-redox active role. NHase is used as biocatalyst in the
industry for the hydrolysis of nitriles to arnides. The trivalent metal ions...
Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937; Radio broadcasting--Social aspects
This dissertation is a rhetorical analysis of Guglielmo Marconi's wireless. Texts surrounding the invention reveal intersections between technology and society and communicate information about the wireless through tropes of progress. The wireless...
Algebra--Study and teaching; Academic achievement; Teachers--Attitudes
The purpose of this study was to investigate various secondary to postsecondary mathematics transition issues for students. Making successful transitions from high school to postsecondary study has become necessary if our nation's young people are...
Portraits; Group portraits; Women; Men; Government officials; Mayors
Mrs. Mae V. Cope and Mrs. Gale Sabage of San Antonio, Texas, inviting Mayor Neville Miller of Louisville, Kentucky to the Texas Centennial Exposition. The photograph has been painted on accentuating details and warped edges. Stamped on back of...
Hotels; Blue Bonnet Hotel (San Antonio, Tex.); Automobiles
Blue Bonnet Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. The tall hotel has a sign running down its side reading "Bluebonnet"; there are cars parked along the curb in front of the building. Postmarked 194? on verso. Made by MWM.
Optimizing queries in a distributed database is quite difficult. This work proposes defining new generalized quantifiers which operate on sets rather than tuples. These quantifiers would allow for easier optimization in a horizontally distributed...
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art; Breastfeeding in art
This dissertation is an analysis of Italian late medieval and Renaissance peoples’ response to the Madonna lactans image. Although the images that comprise this type are similar in that Mary holds Christ at her breast, they vary widely in...
Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942; Women photographers--Biography
This thesis is an examination of the transformation Tina Modotti's photography underwent because of the "Idols Behind Altars" project which she completed on an expedition with Edward Weston in 1926. The thesis begins with an introduction...
This thesis is an investigation into the world of sixteenth-century Venice, encompassing a group of female portraits by artist Palma Vecchio. I utilized many primary and secondary sources concerning Renaissance society, including several which...
This thesis proposes a new method of automatic taxonomy generation using the link structure of Webpages. Taxonomy is a hierarchy of concepts where each child concept is said to be encompassed by its parent concept. Techniques have previously been...
African Americans--Politics and government; Local elections; Metropolitan government; Voting research
Literature on religious involvement in public affairs typically examines the
national scene, particularly public opinion and political behavior in presidential elections.
Few scholars examine religious actors in urban politics and policymaking....
Leather-bound guest book dating from 1948 to 2011, featuring signatures of attendees of Louisville Orchestra premieres; Grawemeyer Composition winners; and official guests of the School of Music.
In this preliminary search for a coherent and continuous cohesion of western art and folk music-cultures, Berio utilizes folk songs from seven distinct as the basis for composition. The technique for combining western classical and folk music is...
