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Leonard, Marcellus J. Rutter Russell. "The classroom writers' forum teaching basic writing in the cultural context /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1991. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9203032.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1991.Title from title page screen, viewed December 9, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Russell Rutter (chair), Janice Neuleib, Douglas Hesse, Ronald Strickland, Faye Bowren. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-181) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Speer, Randall C. "THE AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM AND ITS IMPACT ON CHORAL MUSIC IN THE UNITED STATES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin991236396.
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Melo, Fernando. "Enforceability of foreign forum selection clauses in maritime bills of lading under American law." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27460.
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Traditionally, American courts refused to enforce foreign forum selection clauses as against public policy.This doctrine was abandoned in 1972 in the Bremen, where the United States Supreme Court established the presumption of validity of foreign forum selection clauses. However, the enforceability of such clauses is subject to certain exceptions which relate to particular applications of the general principles of contract law.
The Bremen analysis was modified in 1991, when the Supreme Court decided Carnival Cruise, which limited the scope of such exceptions and strengthened the presumption of validity of forum selection clauses.
In 1995, the Supreme Court decided Sky Reefer, overruling the lower court decision in Indussa, and extending the presumption of validity of foreign forum selection clauses to maritime bills of lading subject to the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA).
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Melo, Fernando. "Enforceability of foreign forum selection clauses in maritime bills of lading under American law." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq29835.pdf.
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Usher, C. Anthony. "Exploring the contributions of John G. Jackson to African historiography." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1994. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1353.
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This thesis offers a comprehensive examination of the intellectual contributions of John Glover Jackson, an African American historian. Jackson, similiar to many other African American scholars, is self trained in the field of African history. This self training is a crucial element in this presentation for it is an attempt to present the autodidact's efforts and contributions as valid. This attempt reviews the archeological, anthropological, and cultural evidence presented by Jackson relating to his interpretations of man, God, and civilization.
The methodology utilized in this research consists mainly of examining secondary data. Primary materials include interviews, video recordings, and recorded lectures. Critiques of the scholarly content of these materials are included in the assessment of Jackson's work. Iconographic, linguistic and ethnological evidence will be presented as interpreted by Jackson.
The findings demonstrate that Jackson's contributions were virtually ignored. The reasons for this disregard are several. The dissenting nature of his presentation, his atheist reasoning and his lack of diplomacy contributed to his neglect.
The results of this study carry wide reaching implications in the different fields of historical research. An Important finding, for example, is that formal university training is not an absolute prerequisite in the writing of history. Of greater significance is the evidence presented and the integrity of the historian's scholarship. The autodidact and the formally trained scholar have much to offer historiography. Neither can be ignored if honest scholastic advancements is intended. This exploring of the contributions of the self taught scholar, John G. Jackson, attempts to support such a conclusion.
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Schrag, Mitzi. "Rei(g)ning mediums : spiritualism and social controls in 19th-century American literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9321.
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Peterson, Tamalyn. "An Examination of Secrecy in Twentieth-Century African American Literature." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/110.
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This dissertation examines the legacy of secrecy, silences, and the unspoken in twentieth century African American literary texts. Using a range of texts representing various eras within the genre of African American literature, this dissertation contends that secrecy is a trope and may be attributed to inherited, maintained traditional practices from West and West Central Africa. Having read a number of African American texts and connecting my personal experiences with these works, I noticed a pattern of withheld discourse throughout.
Most notably, Leslie Lewis’s Telling Narratives posits a reason for this trope by examining earlier narratives, specifically nineteenth-century African American texts. She argues the master/slave relationship as the prevailing reason for the secretive motif. Yet, traditional and cultural practices noted in early African publications demonstrate that Africans were keeping secrets prior to their diasporic scatterings. By examining early West African-derived works, as well as nineteenth-century African American texts, I ground my position that secrecy as we see it evolves from or relates to early signifying and language manipulations, particular to African-derived people. Thus, the early works connect sustained homeland ties to the literature that follows, providing an explanation for the secrecy reflected in African American literature.
This study highlights three types of secrets: identity, family, and sexual, all of which are interrelated and, out of one, the other type may result. The texts that best demonstrate these silences are James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Nella Larsen’s Passing; James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple; and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Lalita Tademy’s Cane River. Each text group corresponds with a secret type.
Overall, this dissertation challenges the notion that secrecy as a trope in African American literature limits itself to the master/slave relationship in the United States. The previously mentioned texts highlight a direct link to West and West Central African traditions maintained after the Middle Passage. Hence, these preserved homeland customs, including secrecy, are reflected in twentieth-century African American literature.
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Neumann, Brian Fisher. "Pershing's right hand : General James G. Harbord and the American Expeditionary Forces in the First World War /." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2006. http://handle.tamu.edu/1969.1/4424.
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Ullyatt, Gisela. ""Bride of Amazement" : a Buddhist perspective on Mary Oliver's poetry / G. Ullyatt." Thesis, North-West University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9710.
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The thesis undertakes a Buddhist reading of Mary Oliver’s oeuvre. It seeks to fill a palpable lacuna in extant criticism of her work, which tends to adopt Romantic, Feminist, Ecocritical, and Christian viewpoints. Thus far, no criticism has offered a sustained reading of her work from a specifically Buddhist stance.
The thesis is structured in five chapters. The introductory chapter is followed by a literature review. The next three chapters are devoted to the Buddhist themes of Mindfulness, Interconnection, and Impermanence respectively. Each chapter opens with detailed consideration of its respective theme before moving on to the analysis and amplification of poems pertinent to it. In addition, the main Buddhist theme of each chapter is subdivided into its component sub-themes or corollaries.
The main methodological approach to Oliver’s poetry comprises explication de texte as this makes provision for detailed readings of the texts themselves. Furthermore, this approach has been adopted because it allows for in-depth exploration of Oliver’s literary devices, three notable examples of which are anaphora, adéquation, and correspondence. In the course of the discussion, reference is also made to the influence of Imagism and, more specifically, the Japanese haiku tradition insofar as they impact on her poetry. This discussion is intended to give some indication of Oliver’s place within the American poetic tradition.
The predominant subject-matter of her corpus is an all-encompassing view of the natural world with its birth-life-decay-death cycle. She does not flinch from addressing the harsh and violent aspects of nature as well as its exuberance and beauty. Her unifying topos is being the bride of amazement as witness to the natural world. For her readers, this witnessing translates into an inner, potentially transformative process, ultimately integrating mind and heart.
The thesis concludes with a list of references and a glossary of the Buddhist terms.Thesis (PhD (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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McMaster, Ann Michelle M. "The Butler Institute of American Art: Pro Bono Publico." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1437661274.
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Davis, Aaron K. "American Protestants and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Soviet Union during the Eisenhower Administration: Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and G. Bromley Oxnam." Diss., Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35407.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of History
Robert D. Linder
This dissertation considers American Protestant perceptions of U.S. foreign policy directed toward Soviet Union during the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency (1953-1961). The question of what a culture dominated by Protestant denominations thought of its global adversary has not yet been sufficiently explored by scholars of either American religious history or diplomatic history. Most scholars who deal with the intersection of religion and foreign policy during the Eisenhower Administration tend to accentuate the close relationship that existed between government policy and general religious attitudes. That is to say, a general, widespread Protestant support of foreign policy objectives stands as the prevailing interpretation. Most historians conclude that America’s Protestant church leaders—preachers, pastors, and bishops—either actively supported government foreign policy objectives or sought to insert their own stances into existing policy. More recently, historians have published monographs that further explore Protestant Christianity with regard to foreign policy in the 1950s. By acknowledging the different strands of Protestant Christianity, scholars have raised significant questions that have heretofore gone unanswered. The primary question is the one that this dissertation seeks to answer—how widespread was American Protestant denunciation of communism and, simultaneously, how broad was American Protestant support for foreign policy objectives? Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Garfield Bromley Oxnam represent the three most prominent representatives of Protestant Christianity’s three major strands. These three acknowledged opinion makers that serve as the focus of this dissertation were not uniform in their perspectives of U.S. foreign policy, yet they all denounced communism and—to a degree—supported America’s efforts to combat the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence throughout the course of the Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961). This conclusion helps explain the tremendous perseverance of containment as a strategy by attributing its success, in part, to the large, Protestant body of supporters that continued to sustain and encourage Washington’s policies directed toward the Soviet Union.
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Adeline, Sandra. "Le forum shopping dans le contentieux d'accidents de transport aérien international de passagers : analyse de droit comparé à la lumière du droit français et du droit américain." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01D059.
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Les accidents de transport aérien international de passagers sont sources de contentieux complexes, notamment parce qu’il s’agit d’affaires souvent multipartites, engendrant parfois une constellation de procédures pour un même fait générateur en raison de la pluralité de nationalités des demandeurs et défendeurs ainsi que de règles de compétence divergentes selon la qualité des défendeurs. Même si le transport aérien reste le moyen de transport le plus sûr, sa massification a conduit à la multiplication de ce contentieux, d'autant plus que la volonté de protéger les passagers a conduit les juges nationaux à une appréhension large de la notion d'accident au sens des conventions internationales. Le mouvement d'uniformisation en droit aérien n'a pas pour autant suffi à résoudre la complexité de ce contentieux. Ces conventions ne constituent pas un ensemble de règles autonomes. Elles ne règlent pas nombre de questions de droit et accordent un rôle central à la lex fori. Ainsi, malgré l'existence de ces conventions, les accidents de transport aérien international de passagers sont fortement propices au forum shopping. Plus encore, la Convention de Varsovie de 1929 et la Convention de Montréal de 1999 institutionnalisent le forum shopping en prévoyant une multiplicité de fors compétents au bénéfice du demandeur. De plus, le forum shopping est parfois exercé par le défendeur. L'absence de juridiction internationale compétente en la matière conduit inévitablement à des divergences de solutions, aucun juge ne pouvant revendiquer le monopole de l'interprétation. Cette thèse se concentrera essentiellement sur la comparaison des solutions juridiques françaises et états-uniennesInternational passenger air transport accidents often give rise to complex litigation, as they involve a diversity of parties, with a myriad of proceedings triggered by the same causing event as plaintiffs and defendants may have different nationalities and be governed by different jurisdictional rules according to their personal status. Although air transport is the safest means of transport, its massification has led to a sharp rise in litigation, as domestic courts, seeking to secure passengers’ utmost protection tend to give an extensive meaning of the term “accident”, as used in international treaty law. Although air transport law has become more uniform, these remain highly complex litigations as relevant conventions do not offer self-contained regimes. They leave many legal issues unsolved, leaving a pivotal role for lex fori, and do little to discourage forum shopping. Both the 1929 Warsaw Convention and the 1999 Montreal Convention enshrine the doctrine forum shopping as they offer plaintiffs a diversity of convenient fora. Defenders too may avail themselves of a diversity of fora. The absence of an internationally competent court leads to inconsistent outcomes as no court may lay claim to the only valid construction of a particular case. This focus of this thesis is a comparative analysis of French and U.S. legal solutions
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Blenau, Wolfgang, Cathleen Rotte, Christian Krach, Sabine Balfanz, Arnd Baumann, and Bernd Walz. "Molecular characterization and localization of the first tyramine receptor of the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)." Universität Potsdam, 2009. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/texte_eingeschraenkt_verlag/2010/4433/.
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The phenolamines octopamine and tyramine control, regulate, and modulate many physiological and behavioral processes in invertebrates. Vertebrates possess only small amounts of both substances, and thus, octopamine and tyramine, together with other biogenic amines, are referred to as “trace amines.” Biogenic amines evoke cellular responses by activating G-protein-coupled receptors. We have isolated a complementary DNA (cDNA) that encodes a biogenic amine receptor from the American cockroach Periplaneta americana, viz., Peatyr1, which shares high sequence similarity to members of the invertebrate tyramine-receptor family. The PeaTYR1 receptor was stably expressed in human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells, and its ligand response has been examined. Receptor activation with tyramine reduces adenylyl cyclase activity in a dose-dependent manner (EC50 350 nM). The inhibitory effect of tyramine is abolished by co-incubation with either yohimbine or chlorpromazine. Receptor expression has been investigated by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and immunocytochemistry. The mRNA is present in various tissues including brain, salivary glands, midgut, Malpighian tubules, and leg muscles. The effect of tyramine on salivary gland acinar cells has been investigated by intracellular recordings, which have revealed excitatory presynaptic actions of tyramine. This study marks the first comprehensive molecular, pharmacological, and functional characterization of a tyramine receptor in the cockroach.
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Faykosh, Joseph. "The front porch of the American people James Cox and the presidential election of 1920 /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1256750068.
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B, Martin Valérie. "Reassessing history : Native American narratives in Kentucky tourism." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33139.
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Dans toutes les sociétés, les rapports de pouvoir qui existent ont une grande influence sur les dynamiques de mémoire. Le colonialisme anglais et américain, et plus précisément les politiques de relocalisation comme l’Indian Removal Act (1830) ont eu un fort impact sur la présence autochtone dans le paysage culturel du Sud-est des États-Unis. La production de la mémoire collective à travers la commémoration, l’éducation et le tourisme sont un reflet de ces rapports de pouvoir. Elle démontre aussi quels évènements du passé définissent le présent. Ce mémoire de maîtrise tente de comprendre comment les récits de la présence autochtone au Kentucky sont inscrits dans le paysage culturel de l'état. Le Kentucky détient un riche passé précolonial encore visible sur le territoire. Plusieurs artefacts témoignent de l’occupation millénaire du Kentucky par des nations autochtones. Toutefois, selon l’histoire dominante du Kentucky, le territoire n’était pas occupé au moment des premiers contacts. La contradiction entre ce mythe et les preuves archéologiques qui se retrouvent dans le paysage a été peu étudiée. Ce mythe continue de servir de base pour, entre-autres, l’éducation et le tourisme et encourage une image fausse de la présence autochtone au Kentucky. Les moyens utilisés par le pouvoir colonial américain pour tenter d’effacer la présence autochtone aux États-Unis vont au-delà de la violence des politiques de relocalisation et d’assimilation. En effet, des moyens plus subtils, comme la commémoration et les mythes, ont permis à la culture dominante de se réapproprier le territoire à travers la mémoire. Quels sont les facteurs qui ont permis de créer et qui aident à maintenir un écart entre l'histoire dominante du Kentucky et les preuves archéologiques? Quelles représentations matérielles dans le paysage culturel du Kentucky définissent cet écart? Le tourisme patrimonial au Kentucky sera l'élément central de cette analyse.In all societies, power dynamics greatly influence memory. British and American colonialism, and relocation policies, like the Indian Removal Act (1830), had a strong impact on Native American presence in the cultural landscape of the Southeast United States. The production of collective memory through commemoration, tourism and education is a reflection of the power relations within society. It also shows which events in the past still define the present. This master’s thesis seeks to understand how narratives of the past influence today’s narratives about Native Americans in Kentucky, as well as how these narratives are inscribed in the cultural landscape of the state. Kentucky holds a rich pre-colonial history that is still visible on the landscape. Many artifacts can be found on the land and bear witness to the long-standing Native American presence in Kentucky. However, according to Kentucky’s dominant history, the territory was ''empty'' at the time of first contact. The contradiction that exists between this myth and the abundance of archaeological evidence, and the way it is translated into the cultural landscape, has seldom been studied. This myth provides the basis for, among other things, education and tourism, and promotes an inaccurate image of the Native presence in Kentucky, which contributes to keeping Native American identities in the past. The colonial means used to erase Native American presence in the United States went further than the violence of the federal policies of assimilation and relocation. Subtler methods, like commemoration and myths, have allowed the dominant culture to claim the land through memory. What are the factors that have created and helped to maintain the gap between Kentucky’s dominant interpretation of history and archaeological fact? What material representations on the cultural landscape of Kentucky are most evident of the gap? Heritage tourism will be the focus of this analysis.
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McCabe, Christie Renee. "A novel antibody based capture matrix utilizing human serum albumin and streptococcal Protein G to increase capture efficiency of bacteria." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002811.
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Kossak, Benjamin J. "Jack Spicer and the Phenomenology of Meaning." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1212172211.
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Harrison, Dominique N. A. "Emotional Appeals in Nonprofit Advertising: A Rhetorical Analysis of Print Ads by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the American Cancer Society." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3774.
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Emotional appeals are frequently employed in strategic messaging by nonprofit organizations. In this study, I identify instances of emotional appeals in select print adverts of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the American Cancer Society, and use rhetorical analysis to explore how each organization’s tactics are strategic in their appeal to target audiences’ emotions. In doing so, I identify several reoccurring emotional themes—including hope, love, and unity—that engage their target audiences and persuade them to respond to diverse calls-to-action. In order to make these appeals to audience emotion, the adverts employ rhetorical devices such as personification, metaphor, repetition, and imagery. Rhetorical analysis of the two organizations’ strategic messaging suggests that their calls-to-action, at least in print adverts, rely heavily on appeals to audience emotion. Taken together, the data suggest that previous efforts made by these nonprofits have been proven successful.
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Pennington, Amanda Renee. "Effects of G-CSF on Monocytes and Neurons: in vitro and in vivo studies in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4201.
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G-CSF is routinely used to treat neutropenia/leukopenia or to increase hematopoietic stem cell generation in bone marrow donors. G-CSF and its receptor, G-CSFR, are produced by various cell types both in the peripheral circulation and within brain. As a consequence, exogenous administration of G-CSF results in a broad spectrum of effects involving hematopoietic, immune and central nervous systems.
G-CSF administration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has revealed both cognitive benefits and disease modifying effects: a) decreased Aβ plaque burden, b) increased microgliosis, c) increased neurogenesis and d) improved performance in radial arm water maze (RAWM). In clinical studies, G-CSF plasma levels were found to be lower in patients with early AD in comparison to healthy age matched controls. A course of G-CSF administration in humans is known to increase levels of circulating hematopoietic stem cells (CD34 cells), monocytes and neutrophils in patients with neutropenia and when administered to patients with AD, there is also a similar increase in absolute monocyte count, CD34 cells and total neutrophils. The extent to which the beneficial effects of G-CSF in AD depend on monocyte infiltration into CNS, compared to direct neurotrophic actions of G-CSF on the CNS, is not known.
The overall goal of this study was to investigate and understand the effects of G-CSF in an AD mouse model, but more specifically to distinguish the actions of G-CSF that affect the peripheral monocyte population from the direct actions on CNS. The first approach was to examine in vitro effects of G-CSF within a monocytic cell line (THP-1) and a neuronal cell line (SH-SY5Y). The second approach was to study effects of G-CSF on infiltration of bone marrow-derived cells into the brain by utilizing a chimeric GFP+ APP/PS1 AD mouse model. The third approach was to assess the effects of G-CSF on hippocampal neurogenesis in both a wild-type and AD mouse model.
Comparison of the monocytic and neuronal cell lines showed a) G-CSF interacts with its cognate receptor with different binding kinetics and with a greater affinity for the monocyte G-CSFR, b) the number of G-CSF receptors in neurons is greater than in monocytes, and c) the anti-apoptotic response in neurons occurs at lower concentrations of G-CSF than in monocytes. Various concentrations of G-CSF increased proliferation of both the monocytic and neuronal cell line in vitro. G-CSF did not improve migratory properties of the monocytic cell line, either adhesiveness or migration through a membrane.
In vivo G-CSF treatment (250μg/kg s.c. qod for 2 ½ weeks) in both the AD chimeric and non-chimeric AD mice resulted in increased microgliosis and decreased amyloid plaque burden in the hippocampus. In the chimeric AD mice, G-CSF treatment did not increase infiltration of GFP+ bone marrow derived cells (BMDC) into brain parenchyma and did not increase adhesion to microvasculature. In the non-chimeric AD mice there was improvement of neurogenesis to non-transgenic levels after G-CSF treatment and an increase in synaptogenesis in the CA1 region of the hippocampus.
The effects of G-CSF on the endogeneous microglial population are most likely responsible for the increase in microgliosis, as no significant increase of BMDC infiltration into the brain parenchyma was found in vivo. The enhanced proliferation and improved viability of the neuronal cell line after G-CSF treatment may explain the improvement in neurogenesis and significant increase in synaptogenesis seen in the AD mouse model. The actions of G-CSF on neural stem/progenitor cells to stimulate hippocampal neurogenesis and to enhance resident microglial capacity to decrease amyloid burden are the most likely mechanisms responsible for the behavioral improvement seen in the AD mouse model.
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Morrissey, Natalie Noel. "Identifying Breast Cancer Disparities in the African-American Community Using a Mixed Methods Approach." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849721/.
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Utilizing a mixed methods approach in assessing cities and metropolitan areas with the highest rates of breast cancer disparities in African-American communities, this study presents the Affiliate perspective of the Susan G. Komen non-profit organization in combination with available socioeconomic data and academic literature. Analyzed through an anthropological lens, qualitative and quantitative data illuminate the lived experiences and dynamic circumstances in which breast cancer disparities are disproportionately experienced in 21 of the nation’s populations of African-Americans. Two main recommendations arose from this research: prioritization of granting to activities such as patient navigation, usage of patient narrative messaging, community-based participatory research methods of program development and implementation, mobile mammography delivery, usage of lay health educators, and self-advocacy education to alleviate barriers to healthcare and supplementation of the current educational activities of the Komen Affiliates through program sharing and leverage of current assets with consideration of current Affiliate capacity. These recommendations may help in alleviating breast cancer disparities present in African-American communities with the highest levels of disparities in the nation.
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Herrera, Yelenis. "Modulation of ASIC1a Function by Sigma-1 Receptors: Physiological and Pathophysiological Implications." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://digital.lib.usf.edu/?e14.2855.
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Ahmad, Asad Ali. "Surface Functionalization and Analysis Thereof for an Ovarian Cancer Diagnostic Biosensor." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2977.
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Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in United States and has an alarming 1.4% (1 in 71) lifetime risk. The lack of overt symptoms and the absence of a reliable screening test to detect ovarian cancer result in over 70% of women being diagnosed after the disease has spread beyond the ovary resulting in a poor prognosis. A key characteristic of ovarian cancer is the ability of tumor cells to evade apoptosis, or programmed cell death contributing to the limitless replicative potential, which is a hallmark of all carcinogenesis. There is conclusive evidence that levels of bcl-2 are elevated in ovarian cancer patients' indication that this protein is an ovarian cancer biomarker. The overall goal of this thesis is to functionalize a substrate for specific, sensitive and cost-effective bcl-2 capture. This surface will ultimately be incorporated into an acoustic wave-based diagnostic device for worldwide point-of-care (POC) ovarian cancer detection.
This research looks to assess the capture of this analyte protein on a series of bioconjugated surfaces. For the research to be diagnostically applicable, certain factors reveal themselves as more important than others. Since the surface-bound capture antibody must recognize the bcl-2 protein, it is vital to ensure upright orientation of this specific antibody with high affinity for the analyte. Furthermore once integrated with a nanosensor, the surface will sense a change in the mass on the surface, which requires that the surface is highly resistant to non-specific binding. Bioconjugation techniques were employed to initiate self-assembled monolayers (SAM) of silanes, immobilize antibodies (via amine-crosslinking or direct adsorption of protein A/G) and disperse polyethylene glycol (PEG) reagents to reduce non-specific binding on the glass substrates. 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (3-APTMS) and chlorodimethyloctylsilane (ODMS) were deposited on the surface to create initial hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties on which molecular self-assembly could occur. Testing a variety of assemblies with and without the presence of silanes, amine-crosslinking and PEGylation reagents, the substrate displaying the highest efficacy of bcl-2 capture was revealed. These various surfaces were assessed through contact angle and a novel sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for sensitivity and specificity of bcl-2 standard capture.
The consistently low background and facile assembly of the ODMS based substrate with direct adsorption of protein A/G and the PEGylation reagent, Pluronic, was deemed the best functionalized surface for non-specific recruitment of the bcl-2 protein. The substrate also consistently displayed low signal-to-noise ratio which was of extreme importance in this research to guarantee the prevention of false-positive results when detecting nascent carcinogenic behavior. Elucidation of this substrate assembly is the first step towards the long term objective of this thesis, which is to construct a cost-effective early ovarian cancer detection device which can be implemented at the point-of-care to those who need it the most. This is ultimately expected to dramatically improve health outcomes for females worldwide.
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Liuzzo, Rossella. "El “archipiélago” que se repite: la repetición creadora en Tres tristes tigres de G. Cabrera Infante y La guaracha del Macho Camacho de L.R. Sánchez." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667054.
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La investigación que se propone aspira a demostrar la pertinencia de la categoría de la repetición en el abordaje crítico de las novelas Tres tristes tigres (1967) del cubano Guillermo Cabrera Infante y La guaracha del Macho Camacho (1976) del puertorriqueño Luis Rafael Sánchez. La hipótesis de trabajo que se formula está orientada a demostrar que la repetición, en su acepción contemporánea de repetición diferenciadora y descentrante, constituye un mecanismo estructurador que sobredetermina los distintos niveles del mensaje literario. Utilizada, sobre todo, como herramienta hermenéutica, a través del estudio de las varias formas de repetición se intentará arrojar luz sobre la sistemática y corrosiva deconstrucción de las identidades simbólicas llevada a cabo por la estética contemporánea, a través del juego entre mismidad y alteridad. Con base en lo expuesto, un ulterior objetivo del trabajo es emprender un acercamiento a la narrativa caribeña desde horizontes conceptuales que no son estrictamente literarios, para seguir, en cambio, algunos de los planteamientos de la filosofía contemporánea.
La investigación se articula en tres bloques: en el primer capítulo se perfila conceptual e históricamente la idea de repetición que vertebra y sustenta la investigación. Sin pretensión alguna de exhaustividad, pero ahondando lo suficiente en el corpus filosófico elegido, en este espacio se proporcionan los paradigmas conceptuales de referencia necesarios para acotar esta intuición filosófica tan primordial y, a la vez, abarcadora de un vastísimo espectro de significaciones subyacentes.
El segundo capítulo aborda la repetición en Tres tristes tigres (1967) a partir dos principios fundamentales de la repetición neobarroca: la variación organizada y el dialogismo intertextual. Por lo que se refiere al primero ellos, se analiza la doble modalidad que adquiere el juego de oscilaciones entre lo que se repite y lo que difiere: la variación de un idéntico y la identidad de varios diversos. Mientras que, en realción con el segundo principio, se exploran aquellas configuraciones discursivas en las que el engranaje reiterativo subsume ciertas operaciones intertextuales a través de las cuales se injertan y transforman una serie de hipotextos, cuyas huellas siguen leyéndose en filigrana. El objetivo principal es demostrar que el orden de una obra caótica como TTT, lejos de ser un a priori, constituye un fieri, en el que el “sentido” es constantemente “producido en” y “desplazado por” la repetición.
En el tercer capítulo se indaga el valor de la repetición en La guaracha del Macho Camacho, siguiendo un recorrido hermenéutico que se despliega por tres distintas vertientes interpretativas. En
primer lugar se aborda el estudio de la repetición a nivel lingüístico en tanto característica del invasivo discurso radiofónico típico de las sociedades de masas. En segundo lugar se indaga en la repetición como mecanismo fundamental de lo kitsch en tanto «ideologema de la copia»: así entendida, diseña una nueva arena de negociación de las instancias sociales que, en La guaracha, quedan excluidas de cualquier tratamiento documental. En fin, se explora la relación entre el imaginario generado y transmitido por los medios masivos y el mecanismo que J. Butler define como «iteración performativa identitaria», en tanto repetición de gestos performativos –o performances– que, reiterados y estilizados en el espacio exterior del cuerpo, estructuran y moldean la identidad.The proposed research aims to demonstrate the relevance of the category of repetition in the critical approach of the novels Tres tristes tigres (1967) by Cuban Guillermo Cabrera Infante and La guaracha del Macho Camacho (1976) by Puerto Rican Luis Rafael Sánchez. The working hypothesis that is formulated aims to demonstrate that repetition, in its contemporary meaning of differentiating and decentralizing repetition, acts as a structuring mechanism that overdetermines the different levels of the literary message. . Through the study of the various forms of repetition, used primarily as a hermeneutic tool, an attempt will be made to shed light on the systematic and corrosive deconstruction of symbolic identities, carried out by contemporary aesthetics through the game between sameness and alterity. Based on the above, a further objective of the work is to undertake an approach to the Caribbean narrative from conceptual horizons that are not strictly literary but taken instead from contemporary philosophy. The research is divided into three blocks: in the first chapter, the idea of repetition that structures and sustains research is presented in its conceptual and historical significance. Without claiming to be exhaustive, but delving deeply into the chosen philosophical corpus, this space provides the conceptual paradigms of reference necessary to trace the boundaries of the proposed philosophical intuition. The latter is in fact both primordial and, at the same time, encompassing a vast spectrum of underlying meanings. The second chapter deals with the repetition in Tres tristes tigres (1967) based on two fundamental principles of neo-baroque repetition: organized variation and intertextual dialogism. With regard to the first one, the double modality acquired by the game of oscillations between what is repeated and what differs is analyzed: the variation of an identical one and the identity of several different ones. Whereas, in conjunction with the second principle, those discursive configurations are explored in which the reiterative gear subsumes certain intertextual operations through which a series of hypotexts are grafted and transformed, whose footprints continue to be read in filigree. The main objective is to demonstrate that the order of a chaotic work like TTT, far from being an a priori one, constitutes a fieri, in which the "sense" is constantly "produced in" and "displaced by" repetition. In the third chapter, the value of repetition is investigated in La guaracha del Macho Camacho, following a hermeneutical route that unfolds through three different interpretive aspects. In the first place, the study of repetition at the linguistic level is considered as a characteristic of the invasive radiophonic speech, typical of mass societies. Secondly, repetition is explored as a fundamental mechanism of kitsch as "ideologema de la copia": thus understood, it designs a new arena for negotiation of social instances that, in La Guaracha, are excluded from any documentary treatment. Finally, we explore the relationship between the imaginary generated and transmitted by the mass media and the mechanism that J. Butler defines as "performative identity iteration": a repetition of performative gestures -or performances- that, repeated and stylized in space outside of the body, structure and shape the identity.
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Boyd, Timothy David. "The Novel Use of Recombinant Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) to Reverse Cerebral Amyloidosis and Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models: Insights from the Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as a Negative Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3571.
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For many years, it has been known that Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a negative risk factor for the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It has been commonly assumed that RA patients’ usage of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have helped prevent the onset and progression of AD pathogenesis. Furthermore, experiments in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease have looked to inhibit inflammation, and have demonstrated some efficacy against AD-like pathology in these models. Thus many NSAID clinical trials have been performed over the years, but all have proven unsuccessful in AD patients. This suggests that intrinsic factors within RA pathogenesis itself may underlie RA’s protective effect.
My dissertation research goal was to investigate this inverse relationship between RA and AD, in order to more precisely pinpoint critical events in AD pathogenesis toward developing therapeutic strategies against AD. It seemed improbable that any secreted factors, produced in RA pathogenesis, could maintain high enough concentrations in the circulatory system to cross the blood brain barrier and inhibit AD pathogenesis, without affecting all other organ systems. It did seem possible that the leukocyte populations induced in RA, could traverse the circulatory system, extravasate into the brain parenchyma, and impede or reverse AD pathogenesis. We thus investigated the colony-stimulating factors, which are up-regulated in RA and which induce most of RA’s leukocytosis, on the pathology and behavior of transgenic AD mice. We found that G-CSF and more significantly, GM-CSF, reduced amyloidosis throughout the treated brain hemisphere one week following bolus intrahippocampal administration into AD mice. We then found that 20 days of subcutaneous injections of GM-CSF (the most amyloid-reducing CSF in the bolus experiment) significantly reduced brain amyloidosis and completely reversed cognitive impairment in aged cognitively-impaired AD mice, while increasing hippocampal synaptic area and microglial density. These findings, along with two decades of accrued safety data using Leukine, the recombinant human GM-CSF analogue, in elderly leukopenic patients, suggested that Leukine should be tested as a treatment to reverse cerebral amyloid pathology and cognitive impairment in AD patients. It was also implied that age-related depressed hematopoiesis may contribute to AD pathogenesis.
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Makkos, Joseph. "Recursive Loops." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/357.
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Siff, Sarah Brady. "Tough on Dope: Crime and Politics in California's Drug Wars, 1946-1963." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1479203861841892.
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Haynes, Steven L. "Alternative Vision: The United States, Latin America, and the League of Nations during the Republican Ascendancy." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1353120620.
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Gaolaolwe, Dikabelo. "The nature of the legal relationship between the three RECs and the envisaged TFTA: a focus on the dispute settlement mechanism." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4433_1380708981.
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Roenneke, Almuth. "Die literarische Problematisierung des Einflusses der christlichen Religion auf das indianische Selbstbild im Romanwerk von D'Arcy McNickle, Paula Gunn Allen, N. Scott Momaday und Louise Erdrich." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2002. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:14-1038465591609-48131.
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Since Native American Literature has been established, Native American authors have discussed the influence of the western world on Native traditions and Native identity within their work. Christianity is one of those elements of western cultural influences that shaped remarkably the change of Native traditions under the influence of colonialism. In this dissertation it will be discussed how the influence of Christianity is being written into the novels by Native American writers and which functions are attributed to Christianity in respect to the enforcement of colonial interests and in respect to changes within Native traditions. For this dissertation four authors (D'Arcy McNickle, Paula Gunn Allen, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich) were chosen whose pieces of work mark a difference in approach. Their novels testify to the contradictory fusion of colonial and missionary goals on the one side and to the possible enrichment of Native customs on the other side. The novels can, therefore, be characterized as an assemble that reaches from total rejection of anything that is assumed to be Christian to an affirmative way of incorporating selective aspects of Christianity to the final denial that there is an evaluation of this historical issue possible. In respect to the method applied, all pieces of literary work are discussed in their usage of Christian literary elements and intertextual references to the Bible and other Christian literary sources. An afterword refers to novels and short stories by further 17 Native American authors who are concerned with the Christian influence on Native traditions in their work as well. The results of the research in the dissertation will then be extended by discussing those pieces of fictional workSeit der Etablierung des indianischen Romans im Kanon der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur suchen indianische Schriftsteller nach Wegen, die doppelte Prägung der modernen indianischen Identität durch traditionelle Werte einerseits und westlichen Einfluss andererseits fiktional aufzuarbeiten. Ein Element der westlichen Welt, das die Veränderungen der indianischen Kulturen unter der Einwirkung der Kolonisation maßgeblich mitbestimmt hat, ist die christliche Religion. In der Dissertation wird untersucht, wie das Wirken des Christentums auf das indigene Selbstbild in der US-amerikanischen indianischen Romanliteratur thematisiert wird und welche Funktionen ihm für die Durchsetzung kolonialer Interessen und für den Wandel der indianischen Traditionen im Verlauf der letzten 500 Jahre zuerkannt werden. Für die Fragestellung wurden vier Autorinnen und Autoren ausgewählt (D'Arcy McNickle, Paula Gunn Allen, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich), deren Romanwerke die Gegensätzlichkeit zwischen der Verquickung kolonialer Interessen mit religiösen Motiven einerseits und der Bereicherung der indianischen Kulturen durch christliche Traditionen andererseits widerspiegeln. Die Romane bilden einen Spannungsbogen von strikter Ablehnung alles Christlichen, über die affirmative Aufnahme christlicher Elemente bis hin zur Pluralisierung der Bewertungsmöglichkeiten bei gleichzeitiger Aufgabe der Bewertungsgewissheit hinsichtlich des christlichen Einflusses. Methodisch wird hierbei folgendermaßen vorgegangen. Die Romane werden auf intertextuelle Verweise zu christlichen literarischen Quellen und insbesondere der Bibel untersucht, um daran die Gestaltung des Untersuchungsgegenstandes zu erörtern. Ein ausführlicher Ausblick verweist auf Romane und Erzählungen weiterer 17 indianischer Autorinnen und Autoren der Gegenwart, um hieran die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung zu präzisieren und zu ergänzen
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Roenneke, Almuth. "Die literarische Problematisierung des Einflusses der christlichen Religion auf das indianische Selbstbild im Romanwerk von D'Arcy McNickle, Paula Gunn Allen, N. Scott Momaday und Louise Erdrich." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, 2001. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A25017.
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Since Native American Literature has been established, Native American authors have discussed the influence of the western world on Native traditions and Native identity within their work. Christianity is one of those elements of western cultural influences that shaped remarkably the change of Native traditions under the influence of colonialism. In this dissertation it will be discussed how the influence of Christianity is being written into the novels by Native American writers and which functions are attributed to Christianity in respect to the enforcement of colonial interests and in respect to changes within Native traditions. For this dissertation four authors (D'Arcy McNickle, Paula Gunn Allen, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich) were chosen whose pieces of work mark a difference in approach. Their novels testify to the contradictory fusion of colonial and missionary goals on the one side and to the possible enrichment of Native customs on the other side. The novels can, therefore, be characterized as an assemble that reaches from total rejection of anything that is assumed to be Christian to an affirmative way of incorporating selective aspects of Christianity to the final denial that there is an evaluation of this historical issue possible. In respect to the method applied, all pieces of literary work are discussed in their usage of Christian literary elements and intertextual references to the Bible and other Christian literary sources. An afterword refers to novels and short stories by further 17 Native American authors who are concerned with the Christian influence on Native traditions in their work as well. The results of the research in the dissertation will then be extended by discussing those pieces of fictional work.Seit der Etablierung des indianischen Romans im Kanon der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur suchen indianische Schriftsteller nach Wegen, die doppelte Prägung der modernen indianischen Identität durch traditionelle Werte einerseits und westlichen Einfluss andererseits fiktional aufzuarbeiten. Ein Element der westlichen Welt, das die Veränderungen der indianischen Kulturen unter der Einwirkung der Kolonisation maßgeblich mitbestimmt hat, ist die christliche Religion. In der Dissertation wird untersucht, wie das Wirken des Christentums auf das indigene Selbstbild in der US-amerikanischen indianischen Romanliteratur thematisiert wird und welche Funktionen ihm für die Durchsetzung kolonialer Interessen und für den Wandel der indianischen Traditionen im Verlauf der letzten 500 Jahre zuerkannt werden. Für die Fragestellung wurden vier Autorinnen und Autoren ausgewählt (D'Arcy McNickle, Paula Gunn Allen, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich), deren Romanwerke die Gegensätzlichkeit zwischen der Verquickung kolonialer Interessen mit religiösen Motiven einerseits und der Bereicherung der indianischen Kulturen durch christliche Traditionen andererseits widerspiegeln. Die Romane bilden einen Spannungsbogen von strikter Ablehnung alles Christlichen, über die affirmative Aufnahme christlicher Elemente bis hin zur Pluralisierung der Bewertungsmöglichkeiten bei gleichzeitiger Aufgabe der Bewertungsgewissheit hinsichtlich des christlichen Einflusses. Methodisch wird hierbei folgendermaßen vorgegangen. Die Romane werden auf intertextuelle Verweise zu christlichen literarischen Quellen und insbesondere der Bibel untersucht, um daran die Gestaltung des Untersuchungsgegenstandes zu erörtern. Ein ausführlicher Ausblick verweist auf Romane und Erzählungen weiterer 17 indianischer Autorinnen und Autoren der Gegenwart, um hieran die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung zu präzisieren und zu ergänzen.
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CHEN, YI-HUI, and 陳怡卉. "Public Forum and Freedom of Speech─Focusing on American Jurisprudence." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/g6cz88.
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Freedom of speech needs breathing space to survive. In order to make the rights of speech to be exercised effectively, speakers should have adequate and suitable places to communicate. Although virtual spaces and places are indeed a critical part of the modern expressive culture, material public places still play a essential role in public expression. In addition, speech in material public places could not only achieve the purposes for free expression guarantee, but also promote democratic functions. However, when people speak in public places, they are easily restricted by content-neutral regulations, and it might cause incidental restrictions of speech, diminish and repress expressions in public places. This thesis is based on public forum doctrine in American jurisprudence. Through tracing back the cases of the U.S. Supreme Court about speech in public places, it could help us to understand the process of formation, development and categorization of public forum. Furthermore, exploring the barriers of public forum doctrine, and rethinking the purposes and functions of this doctrine. At the last part, this thesis compares the cases and discussions of public forum in the U.S., with J.Y. Interpretations, cases, and regulations related to incidental restrictions in Taiwan. Based on detailed analysis of public forum from United States, this thesis provides insights as well as suggestions and provokes questions relating to restrictions of freedom of speech in public places.
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Greene, Greg. "South American exceptionalism? : assessing the importance of location for World Social Forum events." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3990.
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World Social Forum annual events attract hundreds of thousands of global activists and members of Global Civil Society. WSF events coalesce a diverse group of social movements, NGOs, and global activists. Its open space politics is an inclusionary force that is outlined by the principles of the WSF charter. Each event occurs in a location whose contextual and environmental conditions greatly impact the outcomes of the events. Assessing the success of these individual events is multidimensional and is largely determined by their adherence to WSF charter principles. Under investigation are three case studies of events that are held in Porto Alegre, Mumbai, and Nairobi. Success for each event is largely dependent on local factors. The local variables of the state, funding, trade unions, and local civil society all impact outcomes in myriad ways. Porto Alegre is an ideal setting for WSF events but is not the only attractive venue.Graduate
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"Weed Wake-Up Call Analysis of Risk, Dangerousness, And Benefits Regarding Marijuana in an Online Social Forum." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.54875.
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abstract: Marijuana legalization will likely result in increased marijuana consumption with uncertain social and health impacts. This thesis looks to share user perspectives on marijuana, specifically addressing how users represent marijuana risks, benefits, and uncertain or unknown dangers. Data were collected from an online social-media forum that initiated the discussion by prompting readers to reflect on marijuana risks in a context of growing accolades concerning its benefits. Grounded theory and thematic analysis were both utilized to identify consistent themes or patterns across user comments. It was found that users identified both benefits and risks of marijuana, while some users had disputes about certain known risks (such as impaired driving) or uncertain or unknown dangers (such as reduced dream activity). Despite disagreements about the degree of risk associated with a particular activity (such as driving and dreaming), this thesis found risks and benefits were discussed in relatively narrow ways that suggest more education is needed around the full spectrum of the effects of various strains, including benefits, risks, and uncertainties.Dissertation/Thesis
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Lin, Pei-hsuan, and 林佩璇. "A STUDY OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS'' RESPONSES TO THE SINO-AMERICAN NET-MEETING, E-PALING AND ON-LINE FORUM." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49899861787922845343.
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Abstract: This study investigated the effects of the Sino-American net-meeting, e-paling, and on-line forum on English learning of senior high school students in the Sino-American On-Line Distance Learning (SAOLDL) project (http://163.32.84.1/master/EDL/). Specifically, the students’ perceptions of English learning in the SAOLDL project, the development of Sino-American friendship and English globalization, and the critical thinking abilities of the students in the on-line forum were investigated and discussed. In addition, the development of English learning motivation of the students, the students’ attitudes toward the three web-based activities, and the students’ learning difficulties in participating in the three web-based activities were explored and discussed. The subjects of the study included 46 students in senior high schools and vocational high schools in Kaohsiung City. All the subjects communicated with the American students in the net-meeting and e-paling activities, and posted five general and peer responses at least in the on-line forum activity in the six-week project. In addition, the subjects were asked to write a report on the participation in the SAOLDL project and answer a questionnaire about joining this project. Then, the researcher collected relevant data and student responses. Based on quantitative and qualitative data analysis, the researcher further discussed and generalized the study findings: 1.The three web-based activities in the SAOLDL project helped the students develop the four language skills. 2.Both Sino-American friendship and English globalization were built up through the three web-based activities. 3.The students demonstrated only a small quantity of critical thinking abilities in the on-line forum activity. 4.The students increased English learning motivation in the three web-based activities. Most of the students strengthened their interest and self-confidence in English learning after participating in the SAOLDL project. 5.Among the three web-based activities, the students liked the e-paling activity best; the net-meeting activity helped them most in English learning. 6.The students’ learning difficulties in participating in the SAOLDL project include the low proficiency to express ideas in English, slow English typing speed, and insufficient time for speaking English in the net-meetings. Based on the study findings, the researcher made some pedagogical implications. First, EFL teachers can improve students’ four language skills by incorporating on-line learning activities into the curriculum. Then, they can invite native speakers to join the curriculum to help develop students’ cultural competence. They also can facilitate students to think critically by providing them with more explicit instructions in the on-line forum activity. To increase students’ learning interest and self-confidence, EFL teachers can design constructive on-line learning activities. Last but not least, EFL teachers can give English support to students during net-meetings.
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Buttin, Sandrine. "Multinational corporations facing the varying concepts of jurisdiction "forum non-conveniens", contrasts between the Anglo-American and the European law systems /." 2002. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/buttin%5Fsandrine%5F200208%5Fms.
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Villagran, José Guadalupe. "Are American communities becoming more secure? : evaluating the secure communities program." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6198.
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This thesis examines the federal government’s progression in implementing the Secure Communities program. The Secure Communities program was initiated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2008 as a pilot program in only fourteen jurisdictions nation-wide. As of the writing of this thesis, four years following the initiation of the program, S-Comm. has been implemented in over 1700 jurisdictions nation-wide and it is set to be implemented in all local jurisdictions nationally by the end of 2013 (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2012). Although local law enforcement agencies had long shared the fingerprints of those they arrested with the FBI, the FBI now forwards this information to the DHS through S-Comm. who then checks the fingerprints against the Automated Biometric Identification System known as IDENT—a fingerprint database containing information on over 91 million individuals, including travelers, applicants for immigration benefits, and immigrants who have previously violated immigration laws. ICE then supposedly reviews their records to see if the person arrested is deportable. If they believe they are, or want to further interrogate them, ICE will issue a detainer. The detainer is a request to the local police to inform federal immigration authorities when the arrestee will be released from custody and to hold the individual for up to two days for transfer to ICE (The Chief Justice, 2011). This process is considered to be the most advanced form of file sharing between local authorities and federal immigration authorities yet. The focus of this endeavor is to evaluate whether this program has been effective in doing as its title maintains. If this program is one that the American people, documented or not, have to endure then it is important that we ask: has Secure Communities made American communities safer? Recent data collected on the program, reports of mass opposition to the initiative by local law enforcement officials throughout the country, and numerous personal accounts of discriminatory harassment of mostly Spanish-speaking Americans by federal immigration agents and state and local law enforcement officials participating in Secure Communities collectively demonstrate that this program has failed in making American communities more secure.text
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Messier, Vartan P. "Canons of transgression : shock, scandal, and subversion from Matthew Lewis' The Monk to Bret Easton Ellis' American psycho /." 2004. http://grad.uprm.edu/tesis/messiervartan.pdf.
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Allen, Donna E. "Toward a womanist homiletic Katie Cannon, Alice Walker and emancipatory proclamation /." Diss., 2005. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-12152005-023230/.
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Farrah, Scott David Clendinning Jane Piper. "Signifyin(g) A semiotic analysis of symphonic works by William Grant Still, William Levi Dawson, and Florence B. Price /." Diss., 2007. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04032007-154415/.
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Dissertation (PhD) Florida State University, 2007.Advisor: Jane Piper Clendinning, Florida State University, College of Music. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed 8-21-2007). Document formatted into pages; contains 170 pages. Includes biographical sketch. Includes bibliographical references.
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Meza, Rita Villanueva. "Electronic commerce & jurisdiction : are forum selection clauses in online contracts enforceable? An analysis focused on Canadian and American case law and the works on jurisdiction of The Hague Conference of Private International Law." 2004. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=95130&T=F.
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Gable, Janice Marie. ""Strange instruments" : women as vessels of the Holy Spirit in late nineteenth-century American literature /." Diss., 2002. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3073957.
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Miles, John David. "The Afterlives of King Philip's War: Negotiating War and Identity in Early America." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1572.
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"The Afterlives of King Philip's War" examines how this colonial American war entered into narratives of history and literature from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and investigates how narrative representations of the War restructured both genre and the meaning of the historical event itself. This investigation finds its roots in colonial literature and history - in the events of King Philip's War and the texts that it produced - but moves beyond these initial points of departure to consider this archive as a laboratory for the study of the relationship between genre and knowledge on one hand, and literature and the construction of (proto-) national community on the other. Because of its unique place in the history of the colonies, as well as its positioning within literary studies of Puritan New England, King Philip's War is an example not just of how one community faced a crisis of self-definition, but how that crisis was influenced by, and in turn is reflected in, the literature it produced. In this conception, genre is more than literary form, but represents a social technology with implications for the broader production of knowledge: following the use and production of genre in narrative reveals both literary history and the complicated map of how narrative constructs knowledge in tension with the conventions of genre simultaneously hem in and catalyze reading.
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Callaway, Timothy Wray. "Training disciplined soldiers for Christ : the influence of American fundamentalism on Prairie Bible Institute during the L.E. Maxwell Era (1922-1980)." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3369.
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This study presents an insider’s view concerning the significant influence of American fundamentalism at Prairie Bible Institute (Three Hills, Alberta, Canada) during the tenure of the school’s co-founder and primary leader, Leslie Earl Maxwell. During much of the period covering 1922-1980, PBI rivaled well-known American schools such as Moody Bible Institute, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIOLA) and Columbia Bible College in Columbia, South Carolina, in size. These schools were also highly efficient in producing hundreds of missionaries and Christian workers to serve the fundamentalist cause in North America and around the world.
As a belated response to Dr. John Stackhouse, Jr.’s portrayal of PBI in his 1993 book, Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character, this thesis offers clarification and modification to Stackhouse’s work regarding how PBI during the Maxwell era should be viewed by students of church history. It is argued here that the ubiquitous influence of the United States of America on Canadian life is clearly visible in the nature of the Christian fundamentalism that prevailed at PBI under Maxwell’s leadership. The work thereby lends a certain amount of credibility to the suggestions made by some scholars that PBI during Maxwell’s career might legitimately be considered an outpost of American fundamentalism.
Employing primarily a quantitative assessment of the evidence in combination with personal anecdotes and a few basic statistics, the thesis reveals that Maxwell’s personality and rhetoric were consistently more militant
than Stackhouse allows. PBI’s affinity for many of the distinctives of American fundamentalist theology and culture are also documented.
Such an approach serves the additional purpose of enabling the writer to call into question the utility of considering militancy the defining characteristic of twentieth-century evangelicalism when considered from a post-9/11 perspective. It also enables a challenge of Stackhouse’s assumption that what he identifies as “sectish” Canadian evangelicalism is ultimately as substantially different from American fundamentalism as the Canadian scholar infers.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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Poganatz, Herbert. "Francisco Penzotti, Pionier evangelischer Missionsarbeit in Peru: Ein Bibelkolporteur und Gemeindegründer als Schnittstelle im Kampf um Toleranz und Religionsfreiheit im Peru des 19. Jahrhunderts." Diss., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1771.
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This study deals with Francisco G. Penzotti, a Bible colporteur and church planter, opening in 1888 in Peru a branch of the American Bible Society. But the Peruvian con-stitution prohibited any public, non-Catholic religious activities.
The country's situation for decades had been confrontation between clerical conserva-tism and progressive liberal forces, thus dividing Peruvian society. Penzotti became a catalyst in this confrontation at a time of critical importance, thus revealing the frailty of the Roman Catholicism as an integrating force in this society. He becomes a "human interface" in the struggle for tolerance and freedom of worship, involving the participa-tion of important sectors of Peruvian society.
This paper describes the historical background and Protestant activities prior to Pen-zotti, then his work and person. A missiological summary interprets Penzottis success, acting as a human link between two distinct eras and clearing the way for a future of tolerance and religious freedom in Peru.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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Brown, Rachel Christine. "Limitations and liabilities: Flanner House, Planned Parenthood, and African American birth control in 1950s Indianapolis." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7912/C2SM0S.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This thesis analyzes the relationship between Flanner House, an African American settlement house, and Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana to determine why Flanner House director Cleo Blackburn would not allow a birth control clinic to be established at the Herman G. Morgan Health Center in 1951. Juxtaposing the scholarship of African Americans and birth control with the historiography of black settlement houses leads to the conclusion that Blackburn’s refusal to add birth control to the health center’s services had little to do with the black Indianapolis community’s opinions on birth control; instead, Flanner House was confined by conservative limitations imposed on it by white funders and organizations. The thesis examines the success of Blackburn and Freeman B. Ransom, Indianapolis’s powerful black leaders, in working within the system of limitations to establish the Morgan Health Center in 1947. Ransom and Blackburn received monetary support from the United Fund, the Indianapolis Foundation, and the U.S. Children’s Bureau, which stationed one of its physicians, Walter H. Maddux, in Indianapolis. The Center also worked as a part of the Indianapolis City Board of Health’s public health program. These organizations and individuals did not support birth control at this time and would greatly influence Blackburn’s decision about providing contraceptives. In 1951, Planned Parenthood approached Blackburn about adding birth control to the services at Morgan Health Center. Blackburn refused, citing the Catholic influence on the Flanner House board. While acknowledging the anti-birth control stance of Indianapolis Catholics, the thesis focuses on other factors that contributed to Blackburn’s decision and argues that the position of Flanner House as a black organization funded by conservative white organizations had more impact than any religious sentiment; birth control would have been a liability for the Morgan Health Center as adding contraceptives could have threatened the funding the Center needed in order to serve the African American community. Finally, the position of Planned Parenthood and Flanner House as subordinate organizations operating within the limitations of Indianapolis society are compared and found to be similar.
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Howe, Elijah Cody. "Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2727.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)In 1854 the United States Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska bill which left the question of slavery in the territory up to a vote of popular sovereignty. Upon the passage of the bill, New England’s most elite class of citizens, led by Eli Thayer, mobilized their networks of philanthropy in New England to ensure the Kansas-Nebraska territory did not embrace slavery. The effort by the New England elite to make the territories free was intertwined in a larger web of philanthropic motivations aimed to steer the future of America on a path that would replicate New England society throughout the country. The process and goal of their philanthropy in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory was not dissimilar from their philanthropy in New England. Moral classification of those in material poverty mixed with a dose of paternalism and free labor capitalism was the antidote to the disease of moral degradation and poverty. When Missourians resisted the encroachment of New Englanders on the frontier, the New England elites shifted their philanthropy from moral reform to the funding and facilitation of violence under the guise of philanthropy and disaster relief. For six years, until the outbreak of the American Civil War, New England philanthropists facilitated and helped fund the conflict known as Bleeding Kansas.
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Delamour, Carole. "« S’il faut rapatrier tout ce qui est sacré, c’est la terre qui va venir à nous ». Le processus de rapatriement des objets culturels et sacrés des Ilnuatsh de Mashteuiatsh, au Québec." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20409.
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Rubenstein, Avril. "Bearers of dreams : a study of archetypal symbolism in fantasy and science fiction." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29722.
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Cruz, Aricson César Jesus da. "Three essays on option pricing." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18898.
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This thesis addresses option pricing problem in three separate and self-contained papers:
A. The Binomial CEV Model and the Greeks
This article compares alternative binomial approximation schemes for computing the option hedge ratios studied by Pelsser and Vorst (1994), Chung and Shackleton (2002), and Chung et al. (2011) under the lognormal assumption, but now considering the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) process proposed by Cox (1975) and using the continuous-time analytical Greeks recently offered by Larguinho et al. (2013) as the benchmarks. Among all the binomial models considered in this study, we conclude that an extended tree binomial CEV model with the smooth and monotonic convergence property is the most efficient method for computing Greeks under the CEV diffusion process because one can apply the two-point extrapolation formula suggested by Chung et al. (2011).
B. Valuing American-Style Options under the CEV Model: An Integral Representation Based Method
This article derives a new integral representation of the early exercise boundary for valuing American-style options under the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model. An important feature of this novel early exercise boundary characterization is that it does not involve the usual (time) recursive procedure that is commonly employed in the so-called integral representation approach well known in the literature. Our non-time recursive pricing method is shown to be analytically tractable under the local volatility CEV process and the numerical experiments demonstrate its robustness and accuracy.
C. A Note on Options and Bubbles under the CEV Model: Implications for Pricing and Hedging
The discounted price process under the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model is not a martingale for options markets with upward sloping implied volatility smiles.
The loss of the martingale property implies the existence of (at least) two option prices for the call option, that is the price for which the put-call parity holds and the price representing the lowest cost of replicating the payoff of the call. This article derives closed-form solutions for the Greeks of the risk-neutral call option pricing solution that are valid for any CEV process exhibiting forward skew volatility smile patterns. Using an extensive numerical analysis, we conclude that the differences between the call prices and Greeks of both solutions are substantial, which might yield significant errors of analysis for pricing and hedging purposes.Esta tese aborda a avaliação de opções em três artigos distintos: A. The Binomial CEV Model and the Greeks Este artigo compara diferentes aproximações binomiais para o cálculo dos Greeks das opções estudadas por Pelsser and Vorst (1994), Chung and Shackleton (2002), e Chung et al. (2011), no âmbito da distribuição lognormal, mas agora considerando o processo constant elasticity of variance (CEV) proposto por Cox (1975), utilizando os Greeks analíticos em tempo contínuo, recentemente propostos por Larguinho et al. (2013) como referência. Entre os modelos binomiais considerados neste estudo, concluímos que um modelo extended tree binomial CEV com uma aproximação convergente e monótona é o método mais eficiente para o cálculo dos Greeks no âmbito do processo de difusão CEV porque podemos aplicar a fórmula de extrapolação de dois pontos, sugerido por Chung et al. (2011). B. Valuing American-Style Options under the CEV Model: An Integral Representation Based Method Este artigo deriva uma nova representação integral da barreira de exercício antecipado para a avaliação das opções Americanas no âmbito do modelo constant elasticity of variance (CEV), um importante aspecto desta nova caracterização da barreira de exercício antecipado é que este não envolve o usual processo recursivo que é habitualmente aplicado e conhecido na literatura como a abordagem de representação integral. O nosso método de avaliação não recursivo é de fácil tratamento analítico sob o processo de difusão CEV e os resultados numéricos demonstram a sua robustez e precisão. C. A Note on Options and Bubbles under the CEV Model: Implications for Pricing and Hedging O processo de desconto de preço no âmbito do modelo constant elasticity of variance (CEV) não é um martingale para os mercados de opções com uma volatility smile de inclinação ascendente. A perda da propriedade martingale implica a existência de (pelo menos) dois preços de opção para a opção de compra, que é o preço para qual se verifica a paridade put-call e este preço representa o menor custo de replicação do payoff da call. Este artigo deriva as soluções em fórmula fechada para os Greeks da opção call no risco neutral que são válidas para qualquer processo CEV que possui padrões de enviesamento ascendentes. Tendo por base uma analise numérica extensiva, concluímos que a diferença entre os preços da call e os Greeks de ambas as soluções são substanciais, o que pode gerar erros significativos de análises no cálculo do preço da call e dos Greeks.