(n.) A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.
Example Sentences:
(1) At university she did her dissertation on child sexual abuse and prostitution, but became inspired to campaign against sexual violence when she volunteered for the organisation that stages the one-woman play, the Vagina Monologues.
(2) We reviewed four unpublished dissertations that used Levinson's theory to study women's adult development.
(3) • Students would be stretched by being asked to write dissertations of up to 5,000 words.
(4) The purpose of his dissertation, he added, was to analyse "how to create more just and democratic global governing institutions", focusing on the importance of the role of "civil society".
(5) The scientific programme is represented by 21 books, 388 papers and 158 dissertations.
(6) Firstly we turn to Will Bouma, who with a degree in Environmental Studies and a 2003 dissertation entitled 'Greening Football, Environmental Management in Premier League Football' should know what he is talking about.
(7) This article is motivated by the current hypothesis [Kim et al., Psychological, Physiological and Behavioural Studies in Hearing (Delft U. P., The Netherlands, 1980); Neely, Doctoral dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1981); de Boer, J. Acoust.
(8) A simple technique, developed in Phillips (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, 1987), is used to approximate cov(theta MH, pi), i = 1, 2, where theta MH is the Mantel-Haenszel log-odds-ratio estimator for a 2 x 2 x K table and the pi are the sample marginal proportions.
(9) After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, Bergoglio served as a confessor and spiritual director in Cordoba.
(10) The 'three-point-attachment model' of the substrate splitting, proposed by Daniels [(1983) Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh] for the analogous liver enzyme, was applicable for beta-D-glucosidase from pig kidney too.
(11) Finally, the parameters used to describe the stopped flow results can also be used to simulate quantitatively O2 uptake time courses obtained from previous studies with thin films of red cells (Sinha, A. K. (1969) Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Francisco; Thews, G. (1959) Arch.
(12) The search produced references to 2,431 journal articles, 102 books, 79 popular magazine articles, and 551 doctoral dissertations.
(13) This is very positive and welcome news and a key recommendation of my dissertation, however the findings show that this news alone won't make all the difference.
(14) A 3, 1173 (1986)] and their failure to acknowledge the magnitude scaling aspect of B. C. Wilson's work [B. C. Wilson, Ph.D. dissertation (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1964)].
(15) She said she is withholding around £400 in rent after continuous disruptions – including workmen walking past her window all day long and a rodent infestation – made it impossible for her to stay while she completed her master’s dissertation.
(16) The scientific programme is represented by two books, 197 papers and 117 dissertations.
(17) 2 recent dissertations (Hughes, 1988; Miller, 1986) from the University of Waterloo are summarized, each of which supports the neodissociative view that hypnotic behavior can be purposeful (in the sense that the suggested state of affairs is achieved) and nonvolitional (in the sense that the suggested state of affairs is not achieved by high level executive initiative and ongoing effort).
(18) D. in medicine could be obtained after having defended the inaugural dissertation.
(19) The Italian prosecutors have been keen to find out whose idea it was that Regeni should write his PhD dissertation on independent unions, and the street vendors’ union especially.
(20) On the basis of the author's examinations described in his candidate's dissertation "syndesmolysis trigonum"--pathognostic for syndesmolysis--is dealt with.
Treatise
Definition:
(n.) A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.
(n.) Story; discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
(2) It is not a theological treatise.” Furthermore, the writer meant that as praise.
(3) Coming off an honorary Oscar win at last month’s Governors Awards , Lee has delivered one of his most daring and accomplished films to date with Chi-Raq, which transplants the Greek play Lysistrata to modern-day Chicago, to offer a passionate treatise on the gun epidemic that has crippled America.
(4) "The text in itself is probably not a landmark work of Islamic jurisprudence, but it is important because it adds to … a corpus of treatises by former militants challenging al-Qaida on theological grounds," Thomas Hegghammer of Harvard University said on the Jihadica website.
(5) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
(6) He studied Hippocrates' Airs, Waters and Places, which deals with environmental factors, and the treatise On Regimen especially thoroughly.
(7) During his stay in Berlin for many years Bilguer wrote a number of treatises, in which he expressed his opinion to many medical scientific problems and again to questions of an improved treatment of patients.
(8) Described in an excellent clinical treatise some 8 decades before the advent of radiographs, this fracture of the distal radius continues to pose a source of some disability to large numbers of patients.
(9) The writer Jon Savage is the author of the punk rock history England's Dreaming, and the epic cultural treatise Teenage, recently turned into a feature-length documentary .
(10) His pervasive influence within the field of philanthropy stems more than anything from his treatise on 'wealth' , known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' , where he concludes: "the problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship."
(11) In 1627, William Harvey was writing notes for a treatise on the movement of animals, De motu locali animalium, which in the event he neither published nor completed.
(12) Resuming his treatise the author confirms that not yet all sources are used to solve the problems regarded.
(13) Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
(14) In this part of the treatise is accentuated above all the situation of the forties of our century, in which the processes of academic graduation more than ever before could become a political fact.
(15) The third part of a treatise concerning a viatorium medico-historicum which deals with the region of Saxony-Anhalt leads through the areas of the Harz mountains and their piedmont.
(16) 20, 934-940] pathway for the formation of triacylglycerols when compared with other oil-rich plant species that have been studied [Stymne & Stobart (1987) The Biochemistry of Plants: a Comprehensive Treatise (Stumpf, P.K., ed.
(17) Friedrich Arnold's neuroanatomical treatise Icones nervorum capitis published in its first edition in Heidelberg 1834 ranks scientifically and iconographically among the most brilliant works of 19th century anatomical literature.
(18) Some implications of this treatise for modern psychiatry are discussed.
(19) During these years in Italy, Twombly's output sometimes reflected developments in the rest of the world: for example, as minimalist artists were creating a stir in America and Europe , in the late 1960s Twombly executed six monochrome canvases, the Treatise on the Veil, which are completely blank apart from measurements written in crayon over the grey paint.
(20) In her seminal treatise Man Made Language , the feminist theorist Dale Spender makes the argument that language is a system that embodies sexual inequality.