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Pye, David Kenneth. "Legal subversives African American lawyers in the Jim Crow South /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3396343.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2010.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed February 25, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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McCoy, Jan. "Building a South American Network." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/295703.
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Wainwright, Michael. "Faulkner, evolution and the American South." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419802.
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Sturkey, William Mychael. "The Heritage of Hub City: The Struggle for Opportunity in the New South, 1865-1964." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343155676.
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Shah, Sahil Ashwin. "South-Asian American and Asian-Indian Americans Parents: Children's Education and Parental Participation." ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1325.
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Parental participation supports students' academic success and increases positive peer interactions. Prior to the 1980s, parental participation was viewed as a unidimensional construct; however, it has since been understood as a multidimensional one. Studies from Epstein have demonstrated that culture, community, and family structures are some of the many factors that affect parental participation. In addition, Huntsinger and Jose have demonstrated that Asian-American parents participate in their children's education differently than do European Americans, yet research has not examined the specificities of South-Asian Americans' (SAAs) and Asian-Indian Americans' (AIAs) parental involvement. There are 6 recognized methods that parents can use to participate in their child's education. Assuming that the methods of participation used by parents can affect their children's academic performance and social development, the purpose of this study was to examine these methods of parental participation with respect to AIAs and SAAs. Using Epstein's questionnaire, 308 AIA/SAA parents were recruited who had a child born in the United States and who was attending a U.S. school between kindergarten and Grade 2 at the time of the study. MANOVA and ANOVA tests were used to calculate whether a significant difference existed amongst the 6 methods of parental participation, based on the gender of the parent or the gender of the child. There was no significant preference among the 6 methods of parental participation, nor was any difference found that related to the gender of the child. However, the results indicated that mothers were more involved than fathers in their child's education, although there was no preference among the 6 methods. Given the lack of clear direction emergent in these findings, implications for future research to further the understanding of parental participation of SAA/AIA are discussed.
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Harris, Philip P. "Modelling South American climate and climate change." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436614.
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Young, Jennifer Maria. "Paradidomi : magical realism and the American South." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/169817/.
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The thesis is comprised of a novel and a critical reflection. The novel component, entitled The Mathers’ Land, draws on traditions of magical realism, storytelling, memory and metafiction. The framing narrative of the novel follows Luanne Richardson, a librarian who has moved South with her new boyfriend, Kenneth Miers. As soon as they arrive in Peebles, North Carolina, Kenneth disappears. Luanne only knows that he last visited a particular house that belongs to the Mathers, the richest family in Peebles. Luanne forces an encounter with the head of the family, Walter Mathers. Despite her initially confrontational contact, Walter Mathers offers Luanne a job to construct a history of his family through interviews and records. He hopes the history will provide an answer to why his only son Eric has not produced an heir. Luanne’s research draws her into a claustrophobic society where no one seems to notice the frequent deaths of the wives of the Mathers family or their odd attachment to roses and a dogwood tree, as elements of magical realism occur in the frame story. The interviews Luanne conducts appear on the pages of the novel as fully developed stories, which draw on themes of tradition, loss and family attachment. These themes are explored through perceptions of memory and storytelling. The critical reflection component considers both what methods and writings made it to the thesis as well as what methods and writings did not. It explores the modes of construction, from the use of Oulipian and metafictional techniques to the use of magical realism. The major influences from specific writers are addressed in terms of structure, magical realism and Southerness, specifically Harry Mathews, Joseph McElroy, Mischa Berlinksi, Sharyn McCrumb, Randall Kenan, Steven Sherrill, and particularly Doris Betts. The reflection concludes by addressing what it means to be an expatriate ‘Southern’ writer.
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Roosvall, Emilia. "Goal and source in South American languages." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182482.
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This study primarily investigates the expression of two local roles, goal and source, in South American languages. Local roles describe the direction of movement or locatedness in relation to a physical object, a ground, in a motion event. While goal expresses motion to or towards and source expresses motion from a ground, these are not always distinguished from one another but sometimes encoded indifferently. A previous cross-linguistic study by Wälchli and Zúñiga (2006) shows that the encoding of goal and source tends to be distinct in Eurasia, North Africa, and Australia, and more diverse in the Americas and New Guinea. However, the sample used in their study is not representative in the Americas. The principal aim of the present study is to determine whether the encoding of goal and source is distinct or indifferent in a representative sample of South American languages, using both reference grammars and parallel texts consisting of Bible translations. The local role path, expressing motion through a ground, is also studied to the extent that this is possible given the data. The findings show that distinct encoding of goal and source is most common in the sample. Indifferent languages are still attested for, yet to a smaller extent than in Wälchli and Zúñiga's study (2006).
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Matthews, John Barrington. "New South(Ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068427.
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Commenting on two distinct bodies of visual culture, this thesis examines how the American South has been depicted in photography, advertisement, and popular media. Exploring images of the South ranging from Depression-era Virginia to present day lower Louisiana, these papers seek to better incorporate views of a region traditionally underrepresented in visual depictions of the American landscape. Underlying both projects is an interest in utilizing visual culture as a means to understand humanity’s relationship with the nonhuman world. Taking a closer look at promotional materials from the early years of Shenandoah National Park, as well as the (post)industrial/posthumanist landscapes of Cary Fukunaga’s television serial True Detective - and the Richard Misrach photographs that inspired them - this thesis works to better understand how Americans came to understand the nonhuman world around them.
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Adins, Vanbiervliet Sebastián. "Dynamics and perspectives of the South American integration." Revista de Ciencia Política y Gobierno, 2014. http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/cienciapolitica/article/view/12537/13097.
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El presente artículo analiza el proceso de integración regional sudamericana a partir de su origen en la Cumbre de Brasilia del año 2000 hasta la actualidad. Luego de describir los cuatro ámbitos más importantes de integración, determina los principales factores que explican su estancamiento actual: 1) la politización del contenido y el proceso de integración; 2) el cre- ciente desinterés de Brasil frente al proyecto integrador; y 3) el cuestionamiento del carácter sudamericano de la integración regional por nuevos esquemas, como la Alianza del Pacífico y la CELAC. Asimismo, hace uso de los enfoques de integración de Joseph Nye y Walter Mattli para analizar qué perspectivas tiene el regionalismo sudamericano a corto y mediano plazo.
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Reilly, Elizabeth Lauren. "The "scab" of slavery interracial female solidarity in literature about the antebellum South /." Click for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1588773401&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Oliver, JoAnn Simon. "Prostate screening patterns among African American men in the rural South." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12192007-093453/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Cecilia G. Grindel, committee chair; Armenia Williams, John C. Higgenbotham, committee members. Electronic text (100 p. : ill. (some col.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 21, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-81).
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Mullis, Angela Ruth. "Voices of Exile: Reimagining a Polyvocal American South." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1214%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Barranco, Melendez Richelieu. "The characterisation and combustion of South American coals." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10197/.
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On an international basis, coal is used extensively for power generation and this is likely to remain the case well into this century. Although many standard tests are currently used to assess and select coals for combustion purposes, these have proven to be unable to predict coal burnout behaviour. For a power station based on coal combustion, a clear knowledge and understanding of the coals offered in the market is essential to achieve optimum conversions and to meet environmental constraints. There is, therefore, a need to develop suitable and efficient methods and techniques to characterise coals so that the combustion plant performance can be predicted more effectively. In the present work, a series of experiments were conducted to characterise chars obtained from a Drop Tube Furnace (DTF) and a 1 MW combustion rig from which the effect of particle size distribution on coal reactions during devolatilisation and combustion of pulverised coal have been studied. The effect of temperature on coal pyrolysis in the DTF was also assessed. The coals used in this study were mainly from South America whose coals are widely traded internationally, and were characterised by standard tests and a novel automated image analysis technique called the Reactivity Assessment Program (RAP). The morphology of the chars were examined manually and using an automated image analysis technique and thermogravimetric analysis. The aim of this study was to provide a better understanding of the RAP and the automatic image analysis of chars, particularly related to South American coals. The results indicated that temperature significantly influences the coal behaviour during devolatilisation, and hence, the reactivity and morphology of the char generated. The structure and morphology of the char were found to play a significant role in burnout of the residual char, with a significant effect of coal type and particle size. Multiple linear regressions of char properties, such as intrinsic reactivity, morphology, and burnout, against particle size and maceral content of the feed coal were performed. The results showed that there was only a good correlation of high temperature volatiles with macerals. Subsequently when rank was included in the regressions, the correlation remarkably improved in all cases. However, when a novel approach which involved the correlations of char properties with bands of the grey scale histogram (RAP profile) of the coals was performed, much better correlations were achieved. The initial improvement is related, evidently, to the inclusion of the variation of vitrinite structure with rank. The grey scale histogram of coal takes this stage further by including the variation in reflectance for all the macerals. Therefore, the results indicate that the RAP analysis provides a simple and objective technique to predict the combustion behaviour of coals.
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Perrin, Liese. "Slave women and work in the American South." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395593.
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This thesis examines slave women's work in the American South in order to ascertain the presence, extent, and nature of gendered divisions of labour, It argues that divisions of labour in field work were not as prevalent as previously thought, and that they depended on a number of factors including plantation size, crop type and season. The thesis also examines house work and argues that although gendered divisions of labour were far more apparent in this environment the important division between field slaves and house slaves was based on status rather than gender. This study interprets reproduction as a form of labour, and discusses the issue of production versus reproduction, and also slave women's resistance to reproduction, in particular through the use of birth control. Chapters on the work slaves performed for themselves, and the work they performed after freedom suggest that slave men and women subscribed to a clear gender ideology, and that it influenced gendered divisions of labour. However, they were pragmatic about its application, discarding divisions of labour whenever economic pressures dictated. The overarching theme of this thesis is that slave men and women more frequently worked together than apart and, as a consequence were able to form supportive relationships, rather than relying exclusively on their own sex for emotional and practical succour.
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Tidwell, Wylie Jason Donte' III. "Colonial South Carolina's influence on the American constitution." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2010. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/151.
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This research examines whether or not the colonial statutes of South Carolina, created between 1600 and 1787, helped to shape the American Constitution regarding race and the institution of slavery. The research suggests that South Carolina’s persistence and insistence that the institution of racial slavery be protected by the Constitution was a major influence on the perception of slavery by its framers. The Constitution was the document that ultimately encompassed most of the political thoughts and issues found in colonial America. This research was based on the premise that the field of Black Studies was in need of an analysis and comparison of the similarities between the racism that existed in colonial America and racism after the adoption of the American Constitution and its amendments. The researcher found that South Carolina’s diligence and insistence during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, that racial slavery be protected by the Constitution, was the major influence on how the American Constitution would be worded, in reference to slavery as a means of representation and possible economical gains. The conclusions drawn from the findings suggest that, the American Constitution emerged as an inherently racist document supporting slavery as a means of furthering American economic needs. The colonists in all the British colonies (South Carolina included) passed a series of laws that helped maintain the structure of slavery and gave them control over their slave labor. However, colonial South Carolina statutes, more than other colonies, were developed to maintain slavery. These statutes were later supported by the American legal system.
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Ross, Miriam. "Developing cinematic culture : a South American case study." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1669/.
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The thesis examines the way that different agents, organisations and institutions intervene in the cinema practice of South America. Using Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru as case studies, the thesis outlines the way state and institutional organisations, commercial bodies, international interests and alternative practices have converged, even with individual discrepancies, to develop a national and regional cinematic culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Practices from funding and production through to distribution and exhibition are investigated in order to provide an overview of the most significant factors shaping the way cinematic culture currently operates in the region. I argue that on the one hand, state-run initiatives (heritage drives, film councils, cinematecas, anti-piracy enforcement) attempt to reterritorialize cinema practice and create a national context for films. On the other hand, commercial bodies, international organisations and alternative practices frequently complicate or deterritorialize cinematic culture. Their various actions have an effect on the types of films that are circulated and disseminated amongst publics on the continent and in the global sphere. The complex relations between these intervening interests mean that cinematic culture is determined by various conflicting ownership claims. Furthermore, the way in which which some organisations and practices gain strength over others determines the type of access that local publics have to films and that which filmmakers have to audiences. The findings in this thesis are drawn from extensive field-work in the region and are supported by theoretical frameworks and paradigms that are relevant to the study of cinematic culture. I have made use of published literature from text books, press articles, and official websites documenting various aspects of cinematic culture in South America to literature documenting a global film context that has relevance to my field of study. Participant-observation techniques and interviews with practitioners in the region have provided me with grounded, primary-research material, while trade reports citing statistical evidence such as production figures, box office data and investments in funding have strengthened my findings.
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SANTOS, THAUAN DOS. "SOUTH AMERICAN ENERGY INTEGRATION: UNFOLDING THE INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=24008@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
O principal objetivo desse trabalho é avaliar os desdobramentos do desenvolvimento institucional sobre a integração energética da América do Sul. Sendo assim, e após o debate acerca das teorias neofuncionalistas, das teorias intergovernamentalistas e das teorias da governança multi-nível, bem como suas contribuições para o desenvolvimento institucional da integração energética, propõe-se uma ampliação do conceito de cooperação e segurança energéticas, avançando na lógica da infraestrutura física demandada para a criação de determinados empreendimentos, uma vez que a literatura atual foca demasiadamente na questão do petróleo e de seus derivados. Apresenta-se, ainda, dados acerca da atual infraestrutura física do subcontinente sul-americano. Ademais, discute-se os benefícios e os entraves à promoção da integração energética regional, que tem, em maior ou menor grau, relação com o arcabouço institucional relativo ao tema na América do Sul.
The main objective of this work is to evaluate the consequences of institutional development on energy integration in South America. So, after discussions of neofunctionalist theories, intergovernmentalists theories and theories of multi-level governance and their contributions to the development institutional energy integration, we propose an extension of the concept of cooperation and energy security, advancing the logic of demanded physical infrastructure for the creation of certain projects since the current literature focuses excessively on the issue of oil and its derivatives. We also present data about the current physical infrastructure of the South American subcontinent. Furthermore, we discuss the benefits and barriers to the promotion of regional energy integration, which has a greater or lesser degree relation with the institutional framework relating to the theme in South America.
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Menaster, Kimberly (Kimberly Ann). "Political violence in the American South: 1882-1890." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54604.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-61).
The racial status quo in the American South persisted through an unspoken detente between the federal government and the Southern state governments during the second half of the 19 th century. The political disenfranchisement of blacks took place in distinct stages following Reconstruction. In the 1880s, Jim Crowe had not yet been enacted but Reconstruction was over. Blacks were technically allowed to vote, but turnout was around five percent at any given election. The prevailing historical theory is that the threat of violence was a form of de facto disenfranchisement that prevented blacks from turning out to vote. Both historians and political scientists assume lynching to be the method through which the white population of the American South prevented political and social equality. Lynching is a form of ethnic violence, but there has not yet been a rigorous methodological examination of it as a potential form of political violence. In the following thesis I will examine the claims regarding the use of political violence within lynching in the southern United States. Under what circumstances would political violence be used or not be used in equilibrium? I begin with the assumption that lynching increases due to an impending election. Violence would be a function of the temporal proximity of a certain election. I will examine this claim using the dates of lynching and elections from 1880 to 1890. The second analysis of the paper examines whether or not political violence is due to factional politics. Violence would then be a function of the margin of the Republican or Democrat victory. The temptation to engage in political violence to manipulate election outcomes increases as the election draws closer. In this analysis, we examine the violence leading up to the election date with controls, including fixed effects (by state and county), census data and clustered standard error.
(cont.) When the United States Constitution was ratified in 1789, free male blacks could vote in Maine, Tennessee and Vermont. In 1865, free male blacks could vote in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island. In 1866, only 5% of eligible blacks voted in former Confederate states. One year of extending the franchise to blacks and the percent rose to 80.5% (Valelly 2004, pg. 3). The black vote enraged elements of the white population, substantively crystallized in movements such as the KKK, which was founded in 1868. During the 5 3 rd Congress (1893-1895), 94% of the voting rights measures legislated during Reconstruction were repealed (Valelly 2004, pg. 1). The national rates of lynching fell shortly afterwards. Violence in the American South escalated throughout the second half of the 19 th century. The homicide rate in the South was the highest in the United States and among the highest for industrialized nations (Ayers 1992, pg. 155). From 1882-1931, 4,589 people were lynched with a peak in the 1890s of 154 victims per year (Horowitz 1983). Historians see lynching as a reassertion of white Supremacy in light of the abolition of slavery and the carpetbagger occupation of the South (Horowitz 1983). Political violence during Reconstruction vastly surpassed the political violence we note in our decade of interest (1880-1890). After 1877, Republican assassinations and the threat of violence had all but suppressed opposition to the Democratic Party (Kousser 1999, pg. 22). Republicans still garnered respectable vote shares throughout the 1880s, though there were drops in their vote share immediately following violence (Kousser 1999, pg. 23). Violence was as common a tool as miscounting Republican votes (Vallely 2004, pg. 50). While Kousser believes that the vote drop-off cannot be solely attributed to the violence, he does allege a connection between elections and violence, a claim consistently present in the following literature review. Political violence was not an effective long term deterrent, repetition was necessary in order to disenfranchise blacks.
(cont.) As "redemption" ended and the "restoration" of the South began (the time periods will be subsequently discussed) lynching decreased. The national rate of lynching dropped as disenfranchisement became permanent and legal (Vallely 2004, pg. 144). Again, regardless of the effectiveness of political violence or the direct correlation to turnout, lynching persisted throughout the 1880s. Lynching peaked in the 1890s, while Jim Crowe and other legal "reforms" were being instituted, only to fall by 1900 and decrease each decade after (noted in both our dataset and the historical literature). Blacks are being excluded from voting through intimidation. If violence increases before a federal election, the powers that be are attempting to prevent an influx of blacks voting for the Republican Party or third party movements, such as Populism or Greenbacks. In the brief period where adult male blacks had the right to vote, there was evidence that the social and political structure of the South would be irrevocably altered, as over 80% of the eligible black voting population voted, even electing black representatives to Congress. The Reconstruction configuration of elites allowed the disfranchisement of a large (in some areas, a majority) group. The disenfranchisement process created high voting penalties. The Australian ballot and other double edged election reforms lowered the cost of voting "incorrectly" by privileging one's vote; at the same time, the cost of voting increases as political violence is strategically implemented to prevent blacks from going to the polls. Any lynching causal mechanism returns to this historical claim of lynching increasing before elections. Whether the impetuses for violence are an attempt to prevent wealth redistribution or reduce Republican turnout, both allege violence to be politically motivated prior to elections.
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Hechenleitner, Vega Paulina. "Biogeography and systematics of South American Vicia (Leguminosae)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225711.
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This thesis presents the first monographic taxonomic treatment of Vicia in South America, in which 20 native species are recognized. In addition to an identification key, the taxonomic account provides full synonymy, and for each species a detailed description, distribution map, notes on distribution, habitat, phenology and an IUCN conservation assessment. Vicia buchtienii P.Hechenleitner is described as new, V. bidentata Hook. is reinstated as a separate species, and the new combination of V. bonariensis (Burkart) P.Hechenleitner is made. Fifteen names are newly reduced to synonymy, 23 lectotypes are chosen, and one neotype is proposed. Four of the 20 species are considered endangered. South American Vicia species are assigned to section Australes. Based on Bayesian and parsimony analysis of DNA sequence data from chloroplast (matK and psba-trnH) and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences representing 50% of the species of Vicia in South America, sect. Australes is shown to be paraphyletic. If classification is to reflect monophyly, sect. Australes should be expanded to include three north and central American species that are nested within it. The phylogenetic results suggest a single origin of Vicia in South America resulting from long-distance dispersal from North America. A densely sampled species-level phylogeny of sect. Australes was estimated using nuclear (ITS) and chloroplast (psbA-trnH) regions analysed using Bayesian and parsimony approaches. Fourteen of the 20 South American Vicia species were included, many represented by multiple accessions, resulting in the most comprehensive phylogenetic study of the section to date. Vicia minutifora D.Dietr. is the probable sister to the remaining species in sect. Australes, and the lack of geographic structure in the phylogeny implies repeated dispersal events within South America. By revealing three probable new species from Peru and Bolivia, the phylogeny indicates the utility of combining phylogenetic and morphological analyses in the delimitation of closely related species.
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Assella, Shashikala Muthumal. "Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction : the "difference"." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29786/.
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This thesis critically explores the “difference” of contemporary South Asian American women’s fiction and their fictional narratives of women’s lives, away from the ethnic postcolonial depictions of diasporic women. The selected novels of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Amulya Malladi, Bharti Kirchner, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Nayomi Munaweera, Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi and Shaila Abdullah studied here interrogate the depiction of South Asian women characters both within diasporic American locations and in South Asian settings. These writers establish individual identities that defy homogeneity assigned to regional identities and establish heterogeneous characters that are influenced through transnational travel. This dissertation’s engagement with exotic identities, foodways, ethno-social identities and diasporic and native socio-cultural pressures for women, offers a “different” reading of contemporary South Asian women’s fiction. The identities that are being reinvented by the selected Indian, Sri Lankan and Pakistani American women writers destabilise established boundaries for women’s identity in South Asian American women’s fiction by using old and new tropes such as folkloric myths, nostalgia, food and ethnic relationships. The transnational cosmopolitan locations that enable the re-negotiation of identities enable the women characters to fashion their own uniqueness. I argue that a “difference” in South Asian American women’s contemporary writing has emerged in recent times, that looks beyond ethno-social diasporic identities. These changes not only advance the already established tropes in women’s literature, but also address important issues of individuality, personal choices and societal pressure affecting self-reinvention and reception of these women within their societies. The analysis of under-researched yet powerful contemporary women writers makes this an important addition to the existing literary debates on varied women’s identities in fiction. I identify existing trends and evolving trends which help to map the emerging changes, making it a significant contribution to the understanding of the development of contemporary South Asian American women’s literature as a distinct body of work.
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Ma, Hsi-Yen. "Submonthly variability of the South American Monsoon System." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1906574591&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Bidgood, Lee. "Bluegrass and Social Class in the American South." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1041.
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Excerpt from Introduction" Social class is one of the fundamental analytical categories for studying southern cultures. Exploring southern society as the context for cultural life is an enduring concern of scholars from such disciplines as sociology, social history, anthropology, social psychology, and political science, among others, and this volume shows the vital public policy connections to scholarly issues of social class.
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Tejada, Sánchez Erick. "Citizens of the south. South American citizenship in the process of regional integration." Revista de Ciencia Política y Gobierno, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/53705.
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El artículo plantea, en una primera parte, una aproximación conceptual preliminar a la construcción de la ciudadanía suramericana, tarea emprendida desde hace algunos años por los Estados de la región en el seno de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (UNASUR). A continuación, se propone un análisis más detallado acerca de las condiciones del surgimiento y eventual desarrollo de este proyecto de ampliación de las ciudadanías nacionales al ámbito regional, en diálogo con sus posibles implicancias para la continuidad, profundización y vitalidad delproceso de integración suramericano.
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McIntyre, Larry. "The South Carolina Black Code and its legacy." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10117988.
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In December 1865 the South Carolina State Legislature ratified a series of laws designed to control the social and economic futures of the freedpeople. Informally known as the Black Code, South Carolina’s white leadership claimed these laws protected blacks from their own naiveté in their newfound freedom. Rather, the Black Code relegated African Americans to inferiority and perpetuated the long-standing belief in white supremacy that permeated the South.
The South Carolina Black Code limited the freedmen’s civil rights, regulated their employment opportunities, and attacked the details of their most intimate personal relationships. Despite the challenges they faced, African American’s did not quietly accept their new quasi-slave status. In South Carolina, the freedmen voiced their concerns regarding the new laws and became active in state politics. African Americans embraced their opportunity to create positive political change, which along with other factors ultimately led to the demise of the Black Code. With support both locally and nationally, black South Carolinians soon gained rights previously denied to them. In less than a year’s time, the South Carolina Black Code ceased to exist as a result of state and federal legislation.
The significance of the South Carolina Black Code was not as much in the letter of the laws themselves, but rather in the message the creation of the code sent to both the freedpeople and their supporters. To South Carolina’s white leadership, though free, African Americans were not their equals. Moreover, the Black Code established precedent for future laws designed to discriminate against African Americans. The Black Code created a foundation for antebellum-like hostilities against former slaves in the post-bellum South. Segregation and violence ensued and fostered a legacy that lasted for almost a century.
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Caffera, Gerardo. "Anglo-American legal ideas in the formation of South American private law, 1820-1870." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a2ba6e12-3a93-4df6-bfc1-5312867a5c88.
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It is traditionally understood that, following the emancipation of South America from Spain and Portugal, the national private law usually encompassed by the Civil Codes of the newly independent countries was inspired by the French Civil Code, and other civil law models. The aim of this thesis is to explore whether this understanding should be revised in order to account for the influence of Anglo-American law and legal ideas. The thesis proceeds, first, to provide the context for the research: the channels of communication, the actors involved, and the different types of use of Anglo-American legal ideas during the formative period of South-American private law. Then, the three main areas of legislative use and influence of Anglo-American law and legal ideas detected are explored. First, the reform of intestate succession, which was a case of direct, and overt Anglo-American influence. Second, the use of Benthamâs ideas in the abolition of usury laws and laesio, which was a case of direct and conscious, but unacknowledged influence. Finally, the indirect influence of Blackstoneâs works on the drafting of the rules of statutory interpretation on some South-American Civil Codes. Four conclusions, which contradict the traditional account, are drawn. First, that in the process of creation of South-American private law, not only civil law sources of inspiration were used, but also Anglo-American ones, to a much lesser extent, but with a relevant impact nevertheless. Second, that while the process of formation of South-American private law has been described as a creative one by many legal historians, the influence of Anglo-American ideas in the development of the identity of South-American private law has been ignored. Third, that Anglo-American influence gave South-American private law its own identity, making it more liberal than French law in the three fields mentioned above. Fourth, that even in the face of evidence, academic adherence to the traditional view has resulted in an extraordinary relegation of the topic of this thesis.
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Billington, Edward Davis. "Spatial and temporal seismicity variations in the South Sandwich and Northwestern South American subduction." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/25950.
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Stölzl, Anna Maria [Verfasser]. "Feeding behaviour of South American camelids / Anna Maria Stölzl." Hannover : Bibliothek der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1080928898/34.
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Weaver, Mark Douglas. "American mediation and the Japan-South Korea normalization treaty." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30043.pdf.
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Lin, Mau-tong Kitty, and 練茂棠. "Constructing the identity of the American South: the Grandissimes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952744.
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Larsen, Tim. "Confederate deaths and the development of the American South." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3721840.
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In this dissertation I present the first county-level estimates of deaths in the Confederate Army for eight of the former Confederate States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia). As described in Chapter 2, I estimate the number of deaths by Confederate company (a unit of roughly 100 men) and map these back to the company's county of origin. Counties' death rates were driven by the battles in which their men fought, determined by generals for strategic reasons. This produces a wide distribution in county-level death rates, and it allows for causal inference in assessing the impacts of these losses on counties' later development.
In Chapter 3, I estimate the long-run effects of population loss on the economic geography of the South. Populations in counties with higher death rates caught up to neighboring areas within 15 years after the war, but then they kept growing. These increases were caused by migration, especially by African Americans: counties with ten percentage-point higher death rates had 14% larger black populations in 1900 and 27% larger in 1960. Migrants also increasingly went to counties that were less advantaged in Southern economy before the Civil War. The economic geography of the American South was thus changed significantly after the institutional shock from the Civil War.
In Chapter 4, I estimate the effects of relative labor scarcity on racial violence and political participation in the American South from 1865 to 1900. I find counties with 10 percentage-point higher death rates in the Civil War had 24-33% fewer lynchings of African Americans from 1866 to 1900. They also had 3.6-5.6% higher voter turnout despite a larger fraction of their population being black. These effects persisted for at least two decades after the counties' relative labor scarcity disappeared. However, in the very long run (100 years), counties with greater Civil War deaths saw a reversal, with much worse discrimination by the Civil Rights Era, likely due to their larger black populations and absence of economic incentives to prevent discrimination. This suggests relative levels of discrimination were not culturally determined and can change fairly quickly.
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Mills, Charles. "A phytochemical-microbiological survey of the South American Bromeliaceae." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365874.
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Prado, Joyce Rodrigues do. "Evolutionary studies in South American marsh rats (Rodentia: Holochilus)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/91/91131/tde-14032018-110612/.
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An interdisciplinary approach integrating micro and macroevolution, genomic, morphometric and morphological variation, systematics, quantitative genetics, and biogeography was employed to investigate the evolutionary history of the genus Holochilus (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Holochilus presents poorly defined species, with nomenclatural problems and phylogenetic relationships on species level unknown. The current species number possibly does not reflect its real diversity, and no work combining genetic and morphometric evidences from all its geographic range was performed. This genus belongs to the tribe Oryzomyini, and along with other 14 genera constitute the Oryzomyini clade D, the most comprehensive generic diversity of the tribe, occupying distinct environments. The internal phylogenetic relationship within this clade is still unclear and variable. Due to its broad geographic distribution, Holochilus also represents a key piece on the study of the evolution of oryzomines of open formations of South America. Based on a comprehensive sampling, I analyzed patterns of morphometric and genomic variation within Holochilus, in order to delimit the species belonging to this genus, as well as access the phylogenetic relationship between these lineages. I investigated the sexual and ontogenetic variation in this group, comparing natural and captive populations, seeking for understand the effect of the environmental differences in the pattern of variation and ontogenetic trajectories (Chapter 1). I also evaluated and compared the genomic variation among three species of Holochilus to verify the influence of the biomes and the climatic changes in the genomic signatures (Chapter 2). I applied a model-based approach to delimit species (Chapter 3). And finally, additional investigations were made to propose the phylogenetic relationship between members of clade D, and provide date intervals for the main diversifications events, as well as the possible process responsible for the biogeographic pattern current observed related with the forest and open areas occupation (Chapter 4). Sexual dimorphism exhibited small degree of variation among populations. The greater ontogenetic variation is found in the younger age classes, but oldest individuals also show larger degree of differentiation. There are also great differences in the ontogenetic trajectories among samples, where individuals from the captive population exhibited the lower degree of variation between all age classes. The quantitative genetic analysis showed that genomic differences are observed across the taxa, and it was associated with geography. Ecological niche models revealed that biomes with larger areas of stability also presented more genomic structure, suggesting that historical dimension impacted population isolation/connectivity. Results also shows that biomes not only differ geographically and environmentally (based on past climatic conditions), but also show significant association between the environmental space and the genetic variation that is not related with geography. Eight independent lineages within Holochilus were recovered, and the phylogenetic arrangement partially corroborates previous studies. Finally, the phylogeny proposed for the clade D presented some differences in comparisons with other previously reported, and suggest that most of the cladogenetic events happened during the Pleistocene, being the expansion of open environments an important driver of diversification in this group.Uma abordagem interdisciplinar integrando micro e macroevolução, variação genômica, morfométrica e morfológica, sistemática, genética quantitativa e biogeografia foi empregada para investigar a história evolutiva do gênero Holochilus (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). O gênero Holochilus apresenta espécies mal definidas, com problemas nomenclaturais e relações desconhecida. O número atual de espécies possivelmente não reflete a sua diversidade real e, até o momento, não foi realizado nenhum trabalho combinando evidências genéticas e morfométricas englobando toda a distribuição geográfica desse grupo. Este gênero pertence à tribo Oryzomyini, e juntamente com outros 14 gêneros (a diversidade genérica mais abrangente da tribo) formam o clado D. A relação filogenética interna dentro deste clado ainda é variável. Devido à sua ampla distribuição geográfica, Holochilus também representa uma peça chave no estudo da evolução dos oryzomíneos de formações abertas da América do Sul. Com base em uma amostragem abrangente, analisei padrões de variação morfométrica e genômica dentro de Holochilus, a fim de delimitar as espécies pertencentes a este gênero, bem como acessar a relação filogenética entre essas linhagens. Investiguei a variação sexual e ontogenética deste grupo, comparando populações naturais e de cativeiro, buscando entender o efeito das diferenças ambientais no padrão de variação e nas trajetórias ontogenéticas (Capítulo 1). Eu também avaliei e comparei a variação genômica entre três espécies de Holochilus a fim de verificar a influência dos biomas e das mudanças climáticas nas assinaturas genômicas das espécies (Capítulo 2). Em seguida eu apliquei uma abordagem baseada em modelos para delimitar as espécies (Capítulo 3). Finalmente, investigações adicionais foram realizadas para propor as relações filogenéticas entre os membros do clade D, fornecendo datas para os principais eventos de diversificação, e inferências sobre possíveis processos responsáveis pelo padrão biogeográfico atual, relacionado os mesmos com a ocupação florestal e áreas abertas (Capítulo 4). O dimorfismo sexual apresentou pequeno grau de variação entre as populações. A maior variação ontogenética é encontrada nas classes etárias mais jovens e mais velhas. Há também grandes diferenças nas trajetórias ontogenéticas entre as amostras, onde indivíduos da população cativeiro exibiram o menor grau de variação entre todas as classes etárias. A análise genética quantitativa mostrou que diferenças genômicas são observadas em todos os táxons e essa diferença está associada à geografia. Modelos de nichos ecológicos revelaram que os biomas com maiores áreas de estabilidade também apresentaram maior estruturação genômica, sugerindo que uma dimensão histórica impactou o isolamento/conectividade entre as populações. Os resultados também mostram que os biomas não só diferem geograficamente e ambientalmente (baseado em condições climáticas passadas), mas também mostram associação significativa entre o espaço ambiental e a variação genética que não está relacionada com a geografia. Adicionalmente, foi recuperado oito linhagens independentes dentro de Holochilus, e o arranjo filogenético parcialmente corrobora estudos anteriores. Finalmente, a filogenia proposta para o clado D apresentou algumas diferenças em comparação com outros estudos, e sugeriu que a maioria dos eventos cladogenéticos ocorreram durante o Pleistoceno, sendo a expansão dos ambientes abertos um importante motor de diversificação neste grupo.
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Hogancamp, Kyle J. "Characterizing South American Mesoscale Convective Complexes Using Isotope Hydrology." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1937.
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Mesoscale convective complexes (MCCs) over subtropical South America contribute an average annual volume of precipitation equal to approximately seven km3 and occur with an average regularity in the region, with more than 30 per warm season. Isotopic characteristics of precipitation, such as δ2H and δ18O values, provide information that can be used to identify unique processes and sources related to precipitation events. The largest database of isotope characteristics of precipitation within the region is the Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation (GNIP), which provides varying temporal resolution data from stations around the world, including subtropical South America.
Using this database, isotope characteristics of precipitation samples within the study area of Brazil were examined to identify patterns in storm characteristics, the isotope characteristics in MCC events, and to assess the use of event (daily) resolution data for storm events that lasted 14 hours, on average. This research resulted in Local Meteoric Water Lines (LMWL) that describe the isotopic composition of precipitation and rivers at various points throughout the year and found precipitation within the study region much closer to the Global Meteoric Water Line (GMWL) than river water. While event (daily) resolution is useful, a greater number of samples at higher-resolution would provide better descriptions for specific storm events, such as MCCs, as well as to differentiate between MCC and non-MCC events more effectively. Differences in source waters and processes were evident in the data, meaning future research at higher resolutions could benefit from identifying the contribution of each source and process to any distinct MCC event in the region.
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McGinley, Paige A. "Sound travels: Performing diaspora and the imagined American South." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. 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:3319110.
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Boninsegna, José A., and Richard L. Holmes. "Fitzroya Cupressoides Yields 1534-Year Long South American Chronology." Tree-Ring Society, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/261336.
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The longest tree-ring chronologies for the Southern Hemisphere published to date go back to A.D. 1011 in central Chile; 1028 in Tasmania, Australia; 1140 in western Argentina; and 1256 on the North Island, New Zealand. For paleoclimatic and other studies longer time series would be very desirable. Here we report on the first successful crossdating and chronology development for Fitzroya cupressoides, a redwood-like conifer in western Argentina, which goes back to 441 and exhibits desirable statistical characteristics.
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Cha, Frank Sung. "Southern Orientation: Reimagining Asian American Identity and Place in the Global South." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623363.
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Asians have been part of the American South's physical, cultural, and economic landscape since Reconstruction when plantation owners introduced Chinese immigrants to replace newly freed African Americans as their primary labor source. Nearly a century later, sweeping immigration reform led to the influx of thousands of Asian immigrants who transformed the region's social, economic, and physical landscapes. Southern Orientation: Reimagining Asian American Identity and Place in the Global South utilizes twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, film, and oral histories to investigate how the socio-spatial practices of Asians produce new iterations of place-bound identities that unsettle traditional notions of southern community. Drawing from spatial theory, cultural trauma, and ecocriticism, this dissertation argues that the appearance of the Asian engenders new anxieties and reawakens past anxieties about racial and ethnic integration in the post-Jim Crow South. However, the growing visibility of Asians in the region also hints at the possibility of new multiracial and multiethnic coalitions and new place-bound communal identities centered on the shared struggle against material, social, and spatial inequalities.;With the exception of a few studies, there is a noticeable lack of scholarship on Asian Americans in southern literature and film. But the increased focus on the South in a global context and the growing number of narratives depicting Asians living in the region are compelling reasons to further explore the ways in which Asians influence and are influenced by southern cultural practices. These recent texts highlight the global movements of peoples, cultures, and economies that mark the region as both a transformed and transformative place. Works including Monique Truong's short story "Kelly" (1991) and Cynthia Kadohata's children's novel Kira-Kira (2004) illustrate how the internationalization of southern locales can reintroduce segregationist practices as a means of safeguarding long-held communal boundaries based on racial, ethnic, and class differences. Other narratives such as Mira Nair's film Mississippi Masala (1991) and Cynthia Shearer's novel The Celestial Jukebox (2004) reveal how Asians are part of a larger narrative of exploitation, exclusion, and survival that interweaves the history of multiple "Souths.".;For Asians migrating to the American South, defining home often involves the complex interplay between stasis and movement, acceptance and opposition, remembering and forgetting. This study foregrounds the critical intersections between Southern studies and Asian American cultural politics in order to better understand how global processes influence the ways in which an increasingly multiracial and multiethnic population define, inhabit, and transform communities in the American South.
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Mills, Thomas. "Anglo-American relations in south America during the second world war and post-war economic planning." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4493.
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This thesis examines relations between the United States and Great Britain in South America between 1939 and 1945. It does so in the broader context of the economic planning for the post-war world undertaken by the US and Britain during the Second World War. Traditional interpretations of Anglo-American post-war economic planning have tended to focus on a process whereby the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration advocated a multilateral system, based on equality of access to markets and raw materials. Doubting Britain’s ability to compete successfully in such a system, the British government baulked at the US proposal and clung to its autarkic structures constructed during the interwar years. This thesis argues that relations between the US and Britain in South America followed a different and more complex pattern. In this region it was in fact Britain that eventually took the lead in advocating multilateralism. This policy was adopted following a lengthy evaluation of British policy in Latin America, which concluded that multilateralism represented the surest means of protecting British interests in South America. The US, on the other hand, demonstrated exclusionary tendencies in its policy toward Latin America, which threatened the successful implementation of a global economic system based on multilateralism. In explaining this divergence from multilateralism in the Roosevelt administration’s post-war economic planning, this thesis pays particular attention to the influence of different factions, both within the administration and in the broader US political and business establishment. By exploring Anglo-American relations in this previously neglected region, this thesis contributes toward a greater understanding of the broader process of post-war economic planning that took place between the US and Britain during the Second World War.
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Rice-Snow, Jennifer L. "Embracing complexity : an analysis of gender status in South American societies." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1133727.
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This study analyzes the status of women and men in eight South American societies, as reported in ethnographies. It uses a multidimensional model of status, examined in two aspects (distribution of economic goods and child care), and compares women's and men's resulting status configurations within societies and among them. Overall, women's statuses are highest in the domestic domain and lowest in the political public area for both variables. Men have high statuses in all areas of distribution, especially the public. Women generally have less choice than men do in their participation in both variables. An important outcome of this study is a method for analyzing qualitative information in context, allowing the researcher to present analysis in as much context as is appropriate, then display the results in a comparable form. This thesis also includes status flexibility, an innovation which allows presentation of the range of statuses for women and men.Department of Anthropology
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Howard, Lawrence C. "American involvement in Africa south of the Sahara, 1800-1860." New York : Garland Pub, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18629170.html.
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Al-Barhow, Abdul Razzak. "Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Novels and Social Change in the American South." Thesis, University of Essex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486747.
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This thesis examines the influence of social change, especially m the areas of economy, gender and race relations, in the American South during the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century on the writing of the Yoknapatawpha novel series by William Faulkner. Even though Yoknapatawpha County and the novels which brought it into existence are ultimately Faulkner's imaginative creations, they have a very strong relationship to the American South, and Faulkner's home region in northern Mississippi in particular. This part of the United States underwent a transforming process of social change during Faulkner's life, and Faulkner monitored closely the disruptive consequences of the transformation of his region from a rural place, dominated by an agricultural economy to a 'new' South, with a more diversified economy. He also observed the repercussions of this transformation in the form of social conflicts and contradictions.
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Pierre-Victor, Dudith. "Human Papillomavirus Infection and Vaccination Policies in the American South." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2591.
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In the United States, the South has a disproportionate burden of cervical cancer, yet research reporting regional prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is scarce. Since 2008, Virginia has passed a HPV vaccine mandate and Louisiana a HPV education bill. This dissertation estimated the prevalence of HPV infection among females and assessed the impact of Virginia’s and Louisiana’s HPV vaccination policy on vaccination among adolescent females.
The first manuscript estimated the prevalence of HPV infection using data from 4,250 females collected during the 2007–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Among 14–26 year-olds, the prevalence of high-risk oncogenic HPV was 25.6% (95% CI: 22.4 ̶ 33.3) in the South and 29.1% (95% CI: 24.8 ̶ 33.8) in the rest of the country (p= 0.15). Among 27–59 year-olds, infection rates were 20.9% (95% CI: 17.4 ̶ 24.9) for the South and 14.5% (95% CI: 12.9 ̶ 16.3) for the rest of the country (p=0.0001).
The second manuscript assessed the impact of Virginia’s HPV vaccine mandate on vaccination using National Immunization Survey-Teen 2008-2012 data (n=3,203). A difference-in-differences estimation and logistic regression analysis were performed with South Carolina and Tennessee serving as comparison states. Virginia’s mandate was not associated with an increase in vaccination rates. Physician recommendation was strongly associated with vaccination in the Virginia-South Carolina (aOR=10.3; p=0.0001) and Virginia-Tennessee analyses (aOR=9.33; 95%CI: 6.11 ̶ 14.3).
The third manuscript assessed the impact of Louisiana’s HPV education policy on vaccination using difference-in-differences estimation and logistic regression analysis, with Alabama and Mississippi as comparison states (n=2,327). There was no evidence that the policy increased vaccination rates. Physician recommendation was associated with vaccination in the Louisiana-Alabama (aOR=7.74; 95% CI: 5.22 ̶ 11.5) and Louisiana-Mississippi comparison (aOR=7.05; 95% CI: 4.6 ̶ 10.5).
This study found a higher prevalence of HPV infection among females aged 27 ̶ 59 years in the South compared to the rest of the country. Additionally, physician recommendation was strongly associated with vaccination despite HPV policy implementation. These findings highlight the importance of physician recommendation for HPV vaccination and the need for recommended cervical cancer screening, particularly in the South.
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Pandolfe, Frank Craig. "South American naval development 1965-1985 : a four nation study /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 1987.
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Thesis (Ph.D) -- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1987.Typescript. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 538-564. Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;
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Norberg, Matilda. "Olfactory-related behaviors in the South American Coati (Nasua nasua)." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Biologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-108920.
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Knowledge about the use and behavioural relevance of the different senses in the South American Coati is limited. The aim of the present study was therefore to investigate the use of the sense of smell in this species. Twenty-five captive coatis were observed at the zoo of La Paz for a total of 120 hours to collect data on olfactory-related behaviors. The coatis frequently performed behaviors in response to the detection of odors such as sniffing on the ground, on objects, on food, on conspecifics, or in the air. In contrast, they did not display many odor depositing behaviors such as urinating, defecating, or scent-marking. The most frequently performed olfactory-related behavior was “sniffing on ground” which accounted for an average of 40 % of all recorded behaviors. In general, both adult males and non-males (here defined as adult females, as well as sub-adults and juveniles of both sexes) performed olfactory-related behaviors at similar frequencies. However, a few frequency differences for certain behaviors were found in the morning and in the afternoon, and in food or no food conditions, respectively. When food was present, for example, the coatis spent less time on olfactory-related foraging behaviors like “sniffing on ground” and “nose-digging” compared to when food was not present. The finding that scent-marking was rare in this captive group, indicates little need for territorial marking or communication of reproductive state under these circumstances. Findings from this study support the idea that Nasua nasua use their sense of smell in a variety of different contexts, and further studies are needed to extend the results.
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Borges, Mauricio Antonio Rocha. "The Community's legal trade regulations and some South American countries." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296435.
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Fraser, Mariecia Dawn. "Grazing ecology of goats, red deer and South American camelids." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14876.
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A study was undertaken to determine and compare the grazing ecology of goats, red deer and South American camelids when pastured on three contrasting vegetation types typical of hill and upland ecosystems in Scotland: an established sown sward (Lolium perenne dominated); an indigenous grassland (Nardus stricta dominated); and a dwarf-shrub community (Calluna vulgaris dominated). Plots at each site were grazed in sequence with data collected during one spring (May/June) and two summer (August/September) experimental sessions. For each period at each site plant species composition, canopy structure and herbage biomass were characterized. Samples of the diet selected by up to five mature castrated goats, red deer and guanacos fistulated at the oesophagus were used to establish diet composition and in vitro digestibility of the diet. Herbage intake and diet digestibility of an additional five intact animals of each species were determined using n-alkane faecal markers. Total grazing time was estimated using vibracorders and bite rate data collected by observation. The influence of vegetation type and season on the diet composition and ingestive behaviour of each species was evaluated. Between species comparisons on each vegetation type were also made. Differences in selectivity for and against vegetation components indicate that guanacos are principally grazers while goats and red deer are intermediate feeders. On the Lolium sward the goats and red deer selected green leaf of both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants whereas the guanacos selected only graminoids. On the Nardus community the main dietary component for all three animal species was broad-leaved grasses selected from the species-rich intertussock areas. On the dwarf-shrub community there was strong selection for and against graminoid species and Calluna vulgaris respectively, with the dominant species of plant only making a substantial contribution to the red deer diet. Where differences between estimates of diet digestibility were identified the digestibility of material consumed by each species of animal on the sown sward was higher than that from either indigenous community; and the digestibility of material selected from the indigenous grassland was higher than that from the dwarf-shrub community.
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Vanderkooy, Patricia N. "Life Pathways of Haitian-American Young Adults in South Florida." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/411.
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This research examines the life pathways of 1.5 and second generation Haitian immigrants in South Florida. The purpose of the research is to better understand how integration occurs for the children of Haitian immigrants as they transition from adolescence to adulthood. Building upon a prior study of second-generation immigrant adolescents between 1995 and 2000, a sub-set of the original participants was located to participate in this follow-up research. Qualitative interviews were conducted as well as in-depth ethnographic research, including participant observation. Survey instruments used with other second-generation populations were also administered, enabling comparisons with the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS). The results indicate that educational and occupational achievements were markedly below the participants’ original expectations as adolescents. Gender figures prominently in participants’ familial roles and relationships, with men and women distinctly incorporating both Haitian and American cultural practices within their households. Contrary to previous research, these results on the identification of participants suggest that these young adults claim attachment to both Haiti and to the United States. The unique longitudinal and ethnographic nature of this study contributes to the ongoing discussion of the integration of the children of immigrants by demonstrating significant variation from the prior integration trends observed with Haitian adolescents. The results cast doubt on existing theory on the children of immigrants for explaining the trajectory of Haitian-American integration patterns. Specifically, this research indicates that Haitians are not downwardly mobile and integrating as African Americans. They have higher education and economic standing than their parents and are continuing their education well into their thirties. The respondents have multiple identities in which they increasingly express identification with Haiti, but in some contexts are also developing racialized identifications with African Americans and others of the African diaspora.
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Kansal, Shobha P. "The Impact of Education on South Asian American Identity Negotiation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554215844841173.
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Meisel, Jacqueline Susan. "The deepest South : a comparative analysis of issues of exile in the work of selected women writers from South Africa and the American South." Thesis, University of Cumbria, 2013. http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/3991/.
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This thesis examines the ways in which exile, both actual and metaphorical, informs the work of four path breaking female writers from South Africa and the American South: Carson McCullers, Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb and Dorothy Allison. In this study, exilic consciousness is closely linked to postcolonial, nomadic feminisms which can best be understood as liminal, as fundamentally ‘out of place’. The border-crossings involved here are not only geographical, they also signify a change in critical consciousness, as the foundational texts of this thesis – Rosi Braidotti’s Nomadic Feminism and Francoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih’s Minor Transnationalism – indicate. By exploring writers who problematise the categories of race, gender, sexuality and class I demonstrate how these writers offer new ways of reading the postcolonial condition as nomadic, and I examine the shared processes that nations and individuals undergo as they experience political and personal liberation struggles. My thesis is divided into four main parts. The opening section offers both an introduction to, and rationale for, the study, providing historical and sociocultural contextualisation linking South Africa and the American South; it goes on to establish my choices of Carson McCullers and Dorothy Allison as the southern US writers in this study and Bessie Head and Zoë Wicomb as the South Africans. In the opening chapter I interrogate self-representation and variations in autobiography by the four writers. Chapter 2 has as its focus body and exilic consciousness in selected work by all four writers. My final chapter examines identity formation as situated subjectivity in the work of Allison and Wicomb who are foregrounded here. I contend that transnationalism need not be seen as inevitably homogenising; rather, I show that minority individuals and groups can establish agency through transversal, lateral networks.
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Arora, Anupama. "Transnational (un)belongings : the formation of identities in South Asian American autobiographies /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 2004.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2004.Advisers: Modhumita Roy; Christina Sharpe. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-274). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;