Religion in cinema : Buddhism and Taoism in popular films through a jungian lens by Low, Yuen Wei

“…The thesis concludes that the cinema allows viewers to go through a journey of individuation similar to that undergone by the protagonists of the films. While traveling together with the characters in the space of the cinema, viewers are presented with ideologies and symbols from Buddhism and Taoism that have the potential to bring about transformations in their own minds. …”
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The impression in the essays and late novels of Henry James by Scholar, J

“…While James found fault with impressionism in French painting and literature, he repeatedly called the novel an ‘impression of life’, and used the term to figure important moments of perception and action for his protagonists. This thesis offers the first full-length study of the impression on its own terms, rather than through the lens of a wider artistic or philosophical movement, the most obvious example being impressionism. …”

Towards an ecumenical ethic by Black, R, Rufus Black

“…<p>This thesis is concerned to further the renewal of moral theology in an age of ecumenism by drawing three of its important contemporary protagonists - Germain Grisez, Stanley Hauerwas and Oliver O'Donovan - into an ecumenical dialogue in the hope of reconciling their different approaches. …”

Against Self-Interest: Trollope and Realism by Small, H

“…<p>Extract: IT IS A STRIKING TRAIT of many Trollope protagonists, Stephen Wall observes in his fine study <em>Trollope and Character</em>, that they act ‘against self-interest’. …”

Marlowe and monarchy by May, S

“…It focuses on the five plays by Marlowe that feature royal protagonists: <em>1-2 Tamburlaine</em> (1587), <em>Dido, Queen of Carthage</em> (1588), <em>Edward II</em> (1592), and <em>The Massacre at Paris</em> (1593). …”

The formation of International Relations: ideas, practices, institutions, 1914-1940 by Stöckmann, J

“…Throughout the formative period of IR, from 1914 to 1940, its protagonists oscillated between understanding and making international politics.…”

When politics meets gender: trauma in Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation by Chang, Tsung-chi

“…Apart from the political turmoil, considerable anguishes caused by love and marriage converge to entangle the protagonists’ traumas. This paper focuses on how, by shifting between the multifarious narrative perspectives, O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation stitches the interwoven personal, interpersonal, and national suffering together. …”
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Loyalty in William Shakespeare's timon of Athens and pericles by Toh, Florence Haw Ching

“…While the growing body of secondary comments has focused on the plays’ protagonists, Timon and Pericles, the research devotes particular attention to two commonly neglected servant characters, the Steward and Helicanus. …”
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Priming third-party social exclusion does not elicit children's inclusion of out-group members by R. Stengelin, T. Toppe, S. Kansal, L. Tietz, G. Sürer, A. M. E. Henderson, D. B. M. Haun

“…Children across societies detected third-party social exclusion and ascribed lower mood to excluded than non-excluded protagonists. Children from Germany and New Zealand were more likely to include the out-group agent into the in-group interaction than children from Northern Cyprus. …”
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Brown Adipose Tissue Sheds Extracellular Vesicles That Carry Potential Biomarkers of Metabolic and Thermogenesis Activity Which Are Affected by High Fat Diet Intervention by Tamara Camino, Nerea Lago-Baameiro, Aurelio Sueiro, Susana Belén Bravo, Iván Couto, Francisco Fernando Santos, Javier Baltar, Felipe F. Casanueva, María Pardo

“…Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a key target for the development of new therapies against obesity due to its role in promoting energy expenditure; BAT secretory capacity is emerging as an important contributor to systemic effects, in which BAT extracellular vesicles (EVs) (i.e., batosomes) might be protagonists. EVs have emerged as a relevant cellular communication system and carriers of disease biomarkers. …”
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VOCs Sensing by Metal Oxides, Conductive Polymers, and Carbon-Based Materials by Milena Tomić, Milena Šetka, Lukaš Vojkůvka, Stella Vallejos

“…These groups of modified or functionalized structures, in which metal oxides are still the main protagonists either as host or guest elements, have proved improvements in VOCs sensing. …”
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Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture by Ferng, Jennifer H.

“…The pursuit of genius, as perceived by one of the protagonists, William Dyce of the Government School of Design, was frowned upon, not for its elevation of the individual ego in artistic creation, but for its lack of modesty (and perhaps morality) on the part of the artist in pursuing the “useless” occupation of being a painter. …”
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The sensational Victorian nursery : Mrs Henry Wood's parenting advice by Wagner, Tamara Silvia

“…Harrowing scenes were used to dramatise the effects of different parenting practices; protagonists’ quarrels about such practices served both as characterisation devices and as comments on ideological conflicts between different concepts of childrearing. …”
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El año del desierto de Pedro Mairal: una patria deconstruida by Victoria Liendo

“…La figure de l’échec est dans ce roman la véritable protagoniste, María, qui prend la forme d’un pays et, de la même façon, d’une biographie, un effondrement aux dimensions historiques qui en vient à modifier dans son entier le sens d’une existence particulière. …”
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Towards a possible “liquid mapping” by Anna Mazzanti, Matilde Marzotto

“…The second chapter gives voice to concrete experiences, in which the intertwining of artistic methods and design skills act together on the territory; at last but not least some significant actions give back all their complexity, thanks to the voice of the actors, artists, and protagonists after which we insert our reflections.…”
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Interventions at the end of life – a taxonomy for ‘overlapping consensus’ [version 1; referees: 2 approved] by David Clark, Hamilton Inbadas, Ben Colburn, Catriona Forrest, Naomi Richards, Sandy Whitelaw, Shahaduz Zaman

“…Conclusions: Our taxonomy opens up the debate about end of life interventions in new ways to provide protagonists, activists, policy makers, clinicians, researchers and educators with a comprehensive framework in which to place their endeavours and more effectively to assess their efficacy. …”
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Emanuele Trevi e la teoria iniziatica della letteratura by Andrea Rondini

“…Trevi’s fellows are historians of religion (Schuré, Corbin, Eliade), narrators (Apuelio, Melville, Collodi, Woolf, Joyce), protagonists of trips (Artaud), philosophers and critics (Agamben, Zolla, Citati, Calasso, C. …”
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The USSR State Leader in the U.S. Superhero Comic Strips in the 1980s: Constructing and Broadcasting Stereotypes About “Russians” in the Historical Context of the Cold War by Nina Sputnitskaya

“…The key motifs that made up the image were identified, an iconological analysis was performed, and the speech characteristics of the protagonists and antagonists of superheroics were analyzed. …”
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El hijo del acordeonista de Bernardo Atxaga. Un parcours spatial entre rupture et continuité by Emmanuelle Souvignet

“…El hijo del acordeonista de Bernardo Atxaga est l’histoire d’une construction identitaire, celle du protagoniste David, construction qui passe par une réappropriation de l’espace et du temps. …”
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A revolução russa e o sistema internacional The Russian Revolution and the international system by Rubens Ricupero

“…That contradicts the perception of their own protagonists and heirs as well as the contemporary observers, and their successors, of the European parlamentary democracies and the United States - a view resilient enough to persist along all the Cold War era. …”
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