VOLTAIRE’S OEDIPE: A CRITICAL STUDY See

Oedipe was not only the first play of Voltaire’s to be performed, it was also the first work of any kind which he had published. It is of interest as it is the first literary milestone in the&#x...

The Growth of East African Literature in English See

Starting with a broad attempt to define the general concerns in African literature, and the cultural esthetics which form the basis of this writing, this thesis tries to place the emerging East African literature in Englis...

Theoretical Investigation of Rocking Frames under Horizontal Seismic Excitation with Application to Nuclear Facilities See

The seismic risk of a nuclear power plant (NPP) depends on structures, systems and components (SSCs) that are seismically qualified to a design basis earthquake (DBE) in Canada or a safe shutdown earthquake (SSE) in the&#x...

Estimating the Spatial Dynamics of Plant Recruitment using Approximate Bayesian Computation See

We present a general statistical framework to infer processes (underlying ecological mechanisms) from patterns (observed arrangements in nature) in spatial ecology. We demonstrate our method by investigating the process of plant recruit...