The political use of force is generally assumed to be the product of well thought-out decisions, where US presidents defend the nation's most vital interests. However, in recent cases leaders were reluctantly drawn to intervene through a sequence of short-term events. They found…
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Strict attention to the surface of Tamburlaine Part One reveals details about Marlowe's dramaturgy that have not been well understood before, and it shows that Marlowe was the first to make use of techniques that we now think of as characteristically Shakespearean. Tamburlaine p…
There are two main defined classes of uncertainty namely: fuzziness and ambiguity, where ambiguity is ‘one-to-many’ relationship between syntax and semantic of a proposition. This definition seems that it ignores ‘many-to-many’ relationship ambiguity type of uncertainty. In this…
Mega construction projects are complex undertakings. The complexity is increased during a construction boom in a city such as Dubai where more than 80% of material and labour resources are imported. The complexities inherent in mega construction projects include uncertainty and …
In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread as figures frozen in tragic postures. Such unrealistic portraitures replicate the traditional white-authored pathologizations of racial hybridity. Drawing on the theore…
Over the last several decades a new literary approach has studied the artful use of language within biblical literature, including, but not limited to, characterization, thematic motifs, leading words, irony, dialogue, repetition, typologies, point of view and structure. The del…
People face substantial risk and uncertainty throughout most developing countries. Economists have provided an array of economic theories to explain how decision agents make choices under uncertainty. Decision theory distinguishes between risky prospects and uncertain prospects.…
This dissertation examines the social construction of ethnic identities among Greek Cypriot children aged nine to twelve attending elementary school in Cyprus. More specifically, it examines how children construct and negotiate their identities in the social domains of everyday …
The purpose of this study is to explain French composer Henri Dutilleux’s (1916-2013) idiosyncratic musical style through the analysis of form, melody, harmony, texture, rhythm, pianistic techniques, and other features of his transitional work Sonate pour piano Op. 1. Comparison…
Why do we like the music that we like? This seemingly simple question is surprisingly understudied. This dissertation aims to give some answers to this question, with a focus on analyzing the dataset of the FAV Corpus, a collection of pieces and excerpts that 140 survey particip…
Among-individual variation in vital rates, such as mortality rates and birth rates, can generate substantial diversity across individual life histories that scales up to influence population-level processes. The effects of this individual heterogeneity on population growth rates…
In this dissertation I bring clarity to debates on the meaning and history of religion with a linguistically and anthropologically informed approach that maintains a clear distinction between language and ontology and seeks to avoid the traps of both nominalism and essentialism.…
This thesis argues that William Blake transforms the tale of Jacob and Esau, as well as a broader notion of biblical brotherhood, through using three modes of reading. Blake introduces his three modes of reading in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), but develops the third r…
Ambiguity is the presence of more than one meaning in any human spoken or written expression. Research in language and communication shows that natural languages are inherently ambiguous (Prior, Wintner, McWhinney, & Lavie, 2009). Such ambiguity can be found lexically at the sem…
A morphism σ is \emph{(strongly) unambiguous} with respect to a word α if there is no other morphism τ that maps α to the same image as σ. Moreover, σ is said to be \emph{weakly unambiguous} with respect to a word α if σ is the only \emph{nonerasing} morphism that can map α to σ…