Evolution of the Neocortex Through RNA-Binding Proteins and Post-transcriptional Regulation by Iva Salamon, Mladen-Roko Rasin

“…RBPs, when considered in the context of the fascinating process of neocortical development, deserve to be main protagonists in the story of the evolution and development of the neocortex.…”
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Creating Oneself as a Mother: Dreams, Reality and Identity in Doris Lessing’s the Fifth Child (1988) by Anna Casablancas i Cervantes

“…Identity is a major issue in the novels of Doris Lessing, especially those dealing with female protagonists trying to define their own selves amongst the different roles they perform in life. …”
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The institutional fate of Uexküll’s umwelt theory at the University of Hamburg by Stefan Kirschner

“…Thus, the fate of Uexküll’s research institution depended mainly on external and personal factors or, to speak in Uexküllian terms, on the umwelten of the protagonists and antagonists. …”
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Imaginative play with blended reality characters by Robert, David Yann

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Spicket River Greenway Project, Lawrence, MA : teaching & learning design with the community by Delgado, Manuel E. (Manuel Eduardo), 1949-

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Serial engagements : viewer allegiance and contemporary crime television by Mani, Saravanan

“…This study offers a close textual analysis of antiheroic protagonists to examine the significance of viewer allegiance to aberrant behavior on screen. …”
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Impacts of child gender on parents' conversational dominance by Crinis, La-Mia, Sudo, Mioko, Ting, Sharon, Setoh, Peipei

“…The picture-book was designed to facilitate parent-child conversation, and contained open and close-ended prompts about the story’s protagonists. Parent-child conversations were transcribed using the Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts format. …”
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The rhetoric of space in early twentieth century women’s writing : writing places, making spaces in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight by Foo, Carissa Cai Li

“…This paper is interested in extricating the ways in which these protagonists wander into streets and places of the metropolis and how consciousness can be etched upon places. …”
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Courtship and spatiality in nineteenth-century English novels by Divya Athmanathan

“…Through a non-dogmatic application of modern and postmodern theories on space such as those propounded by Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey, I map out the structuring role played by spaces that are also negotiated, controlled, and restructured by the spatial practices of the protagonists traversing love and marriage plots. My close study of Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855) and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859) in the context of nineteenth-century discourses such as paintings and illustrations by artists such as John Everett Millais and Anthony Hopkins demonstrates the ways in which structures such as wine-shops, prisons, and factories manipulate the narratives of affective relations. …”
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Fifty shades of complexity : representations of gender and sexuality in the twilight and fifty shades series by Le, Ariane Ai Lin

“…Drawing upon the work of feminist critic Stéphanie Genz who argues that paradox is a central defining feature of “contemporary postfeminist femininities that reference both traditional narratives of feminine passivity and more progressive scripts of feminine agency” (Genz and Brabon 59), I locate these female protagonists as occupying the liminal zone that exists between retrograde ideas of femininity and more progressive notions of feminist subjectivity in that their registering of a feminist consciousness and attempts to establish themselves as postfeminist subjects occurs within a narrative context where they are expected to submit to patriarchal figures. …”
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Reconceptualising literary translation in three acts : translingual narrative puzzles in Guo Xiaolu's novels by Lim, Eunice Ying Ci

“…Common features throughout Guo’s writing – such as the form of the epistolary novel, the multimodality of the narrative, and the thematic exploration of sociopolitical and linguistic censorship through the sexual and literary developments of each novel’s female protagonists – contribute to the performance of a self-reflexive translation through fiction that subverts translation norms, and experiment with the possibility of a new genre of fiction that positions the ongoing process of translation as a literary product, and prompt the reimagination of writing, reading, and translating as open-ended, simultaneous, and collaborative.…”
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Becoming global race women: the travels and networks of black female activist-intellectuals, 1920-1966 by Umoren, I

“…</p> <p>This study centres on three protagonists including the Jamaican writer and broadcaster Una Marson (1905-1965), the Martiniquan journalist Paulette Nardal (1896-1985), and the American anthropologist and writer Eslanda Robeson (1895-1965). …”

'Literary studies must be a science' (Yury Lotman): representing and interpreting character relationships in Russian drama by means of quantitative methods by Pavlova, I

“…These methods are then illustrated in detail by presenting a first case-study, showing how automatic methods can be used to establish the hierarchy of the protagonists in three 19th-century Russian plays.</p> <p>This thesis aims to reflect the exploratory and innovative nature of the application of digital methods to literary data. …”

The literary science of the 'Kafkaesque' by Troscianko, E

“…Modulations in narrative perspective and evocation of emotion as enactive also contribute to the experience of the 'Kafkaesque' as compelling; yet Kafka's texts simultaneously unsettle by preventing straightforward emotional identification with the protagonists, and destabilising deep-rooted concepts of selfhood as singular and unified. …”

Closing the loop: using hero stories and learning stories to remake energy policy by Janda, KB, Topouzi, M

“…In a learning story, protagonists are normal people who need to rise to a challenge. …”

Cassius Dio, human nature and the late Roman Republic by Rees, W

“…Section Three will be the first of two case studies, exploring the life of Cicero, one of the main protagonists in Dio’s history of the late Republic. In Chapter Five, I examine Dio’s account of Cicero’s career up to the civil war between Pompey and Caesar. …”

Embodying trace: the theatre of Wajdi Mouawad by Pangburn, N

“…Chapter 2 explores the significance of temporal awareness and time, as Patočka's three movements of human existence drive Mouawad's protagonists in their experience of shakenness. The plays discussed are <em>Littoral</em>, in which Mouawad first essayed non-linear time structures, and <em>Incendies</em>, which utilises a complex temporal oscillation. …”

MU'TAQAL Machine: Power, Gender and Identity in Egypt's Political Prisons, 1948-1981 by Elsisi Ashmawi, H

“…</p> <p>Drawing on archival sources in Cairo, London, Aix-en-Provence and Amsterdam, organisational and party records, prisoners’ memoirs and testimonies, literary and visual cultural production, and over 250 interviews with members of various communist and Islamist organisations, in Egypt and in exile, it tells the history of the Mu‘taqal from the perspective of its chief protagonists, the political prisoners themselves.</p> <p>The thesis critically examines the operation of power and resistance in contestations over the gendered identities of prisoners. …”

Narratives of confession in France from Musset to Zola by Lomas, F

“…— argues that the novel of confession centres around protagonists who are unsure of their (emotional, and sometimes, actual) identity, presenting characters who are fragmented within themselves, often on the point of suicide or madness. …”

Reassessing civil conflicts in Genoa, 1160-1220 by Inguscio, A

“…</p> <p>This thesis studies civil violence from a perspective that takes into account the shifting form of Genoese conflicts and their protagonists. The civil conflicts in Genoa saw constant development in their intricacy, nature and participants (<em>Chapter one</em>). …”