This thesis is a complete edition of the journals and letters of Fanny Burney (1752-1840) for January 1789. Burney was a successful and well-known writer in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. In addition to a number of plays and essays,…

From the age of fifteen until her death, the British female novelist Frances Burney (1752--1840) kept a detailed journal. Although thousands of extant manuscript pages exist, only three inadequate editions of her journals have been published., The Burney Project at…

The research field of this thesis is framed by the major political and legal women's movement campaigns from the 1840s to the 1870s: the debates over the Married Women's Property Act; over philanthropy and methods of addressing social ills; the…

C'est André Gide qui exprimait le tourment des jeunes âmes au seuil de ce siècle tragique lorsqu'il écrivit dans son Journal (1894): " ...mais il est des instants, des heures, où tout, dans le monde, m'apparait sans ordre et perdu;…

The addition of free amines to the nitrile group of trichloroacetonitrile CCl3-C=N is not mentioned in any reviews or textbooks summarizing the general chemical properties of nitriles. The reason for this is that this reaction has not been described in…

This research examines how self-regulated learning facilitates critical analysis development among undergraduate medical students in a journal club, and how computer-supported collaborative learning influences their self-regulated learning. Fourteen of the 29 second-year medical students who initially consented to participate in…

"For some time you will have observed that in religious newspapers and magazines in Pakistan a recognition has been growing that a great mischief is arising which must be crushed." This quotation is taken from the journal published by the…

This thesis critically reviews medical journal literature on the physician-patient interview. The review focuses on literature which is written by and for physicians, in Canadian and American, English language medical journals. Articles, essays and letters to the editor are examined…

In this thesis, I describe how interactive journal writing was used to improve the understanding of mathematics, and to foster communication with two groups of remedial grade ten students. Mathematics is a gatekeeper course in high school, and students who…

This thesis is a step forward in evaluating insulin therapy and defining its role in cardiac surgery first described as Glucose-Insulin-Potassium (GIK) solution 40 years ago., Chapter (I) includes a review of the literature on insulin therapy in cardiac surgery…