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Raileanu, Nicoleta Maria. "The social and psychological relevance of Anne Rice's Queen of the damned and Pandora in the context of gothic tradition /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9924917.

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Kemp, Kurt Alan. "Anne Rice's vampire aesthetic : redefining the vampire tradition /." View online, 1994. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998858840.pdf.

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Karlsson, Louise. "The Gothic in The vampire Lestat by Anne Rice : A narratological analysis of horror, destruction and sexuality." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-49709.

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Assis, Vanessa da Conceição Davino de. "Entrevista com o Vampiro : do romance gótico ao filme de terror." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFBA, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/8413.

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Esta dissertação investiga as estratégias tradutórias presentes na releitura da obra Entrevista com o Vampiro (1976) da escritora norte-americana Anne Rice, para o roteiro cinematográfico homônimo (1994) do diretor irlandês Neil Jordan. Partindo da hipótese de que a linguagem cinematográfica não replica a linguagem literária, mesmo porque são artes diferentes, invalidando, assim, qualquer comparação entre as duas sob a perspectiva da hierarquização, discutiremos os códigos fílmicos que transformaram o conteúdo verbal do romance gótico num filme de terror. Baseadas em teóricos dos Estudos da Tradução como Roman Jakobson (1959) que adotou o termo tradução intersemiótica ou transmutação para a interpretação dos signos verbais por meio de sistemas de signos não-verbais, Gideon Toury (1995) que concentra sua pesquisa na obra traduzida para observar o processo que determina sua concretização e Rosemary Arrojo (2003) que desconstrói a idéia de estabilidade e autenticidade na tradução, examinamos a impossibilidade da fidelidade no deslocamento do livro para tela, à medida que identificamos a mescla de narrativas anteriores diluída em intertextos que se entrelaçam com a criatividade dos artistas envolvidos na adaptação. Ao apontar as narrativas que ecoam, influenciam e alimentam a obra de Jordan, atestamos que tais histórias partem de fontes múltiplas, heterogêneas, sem uma origem única, fato que comprova que até mesmo a obra de partida consiste numa colcha de retalhos. Teóricos como Gerárd Genette (2006) que trata da intertextualidade como a presença de um texto em outro, Tiphaine Samoyault (2008), que trata dos diálogos e mosaicos de citações que constroem textos nos rastros de outros textos e Robert Stam (1979) que estende a abordagem de Genette para o universo fílmico ao considerar a adaptação uma ramificação intertextual que não alude apenas ao romance no qual foi inspirado, mas possivelmente a outros que vieram antes dele, nos proporciona ferramentas valiosas para a efetuação da nossa análise. A ação de interpretar ou reescrever a história gótica nos leva a aludir o ato do tradutor/cineasta com o do vampiro,já que o tradutor “sangra” sobre sua obra ao mesmo tempo em que “bebe” de diferentes veias a fim de dar vida ao seu produto audiovisual e o vampiro além de drenar sua vítima, também a alimenta com seu sangue sobrenatural, tornando-a imortal. Para desenvolvermos a metáfora tradução/vampirização, o filósofo Jacques Derrida (2006) e a autora Cristina Rodrigues (2000) nos oferecem reflexões que elucidam a idéia da alternância de empréstimos ou sucessivas suplementações realizadas no universo vampiresco, contribuições que prolongam a eternidade das criaturas da noite a cada geração. Ao tempo em que descrevemos a trajetória da entidade vampiresca desde suas raízes folclóricas à sua ascensão a ícone pop, ressaltamos as revisitações ou atualizações que o bebedor de sangue sofreu, através dos meios de comunicação. Apoiadas em autores como J. Gordon Melton (2011) e Rosemary Guiley(2005), verificamos que a ficção vampiresca seja ela fílmica ou literária, está longe de obter seu descanso definitivo, ou ser indiferente a presença dos vestígios de sangue derramado por predecessores que marcaram o palimpsesto vampírico ao longo dos séculos.
Universidade Federal da Bahia. Instituto de Letras. Salvador-Ba, 2012.
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Hradec, Patricia. "Vampiros humanizados: análise da obra Interview with the vampire de Anne Rice." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2014. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2185.

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This dissertation aims to analyze the novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, the first of ten books in the Vampire Chronicles". The aim of this research is to demonstrate how the vampires presented by Rice are humanized. It begins with a historical study about vampires, both legendary and literary ones, then there is a study about the life and work of the American writer as well as a survey of the differences between the vampires from Rice and others described in the literature, including the icon of the genre: Dracula, by Bram Stoker. The analysis still continues with some theoretical notes on the fantastic genre, including concepts about Todorov, Ceserani, among others. There is also an analysis of the main characters: the vampire Louis who denies his vampiric nature; the vampire Lestat who also fights against human problems; Claudia, the vampire kid, who does not accept her condition as a woman stuck in a child s body; the vampire Armand, one of the oldest vampires in the world that looks for human peace. There is also an analysis of a human character, a supposed journalist, who listens to the story of mortal and immortal life of the vampire Louis. The analysis also covers the time and space in the narrative and its relationship with the fantastic genre, as well as some differences between the book written in 1976 and the film released in 1994, a big hit, reference for many other vampire movies.
Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar o romance Interview with the Vampire de Anne Rice que é o primeiro livro dos dez que constituem suas Crônicas Vampirescas . Pretende-se com esta pesquisa demonstrar como os vampiros apresentados por Rice são humanizados. Inicia-se com um estudo histórico sobre os vampiros, tanto lendários quanto literários, depois há um estudo sobre a vida e obra da escritora norte-americana bem como um levantamento das diferenças entre os vampiros de Rice e outros descritos na literatura, entre os quais o ícone do gênero: Drácula, de Bram Stoker. A análise continua ainda com alguns apontamentos teóricos sobre o gênero fantástico, incluindo conceitos de Todorov, Ceserani, entre outros. Há também uma análise dos principais personagens: o vampiro Louis que renega sua natureza vampírica; o vampiro Lestat que também luta contra problemas humanos; Cláudia, a menina vampira, que não aceita sua condição de mulher presa a um corpo de criança; o vampiro Armand, um dos mais velhos vampiros do mundo que almeja a paz humana. Há ainda a análise de um personagem humano, um suposto jornalista, que ouve toda a história de vida mortal e imortal do vampiro Louis. A análise ainda abrange o tempo e espaço da narrativa e sua relação com o gênero fantástico, bem como algumas diferenças entre o livro escrito em 1976 e o filme, lançado em 1994, um sucesso de bilheteria, referência para muitos filmes sobre vampiros.
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Chandler, Anthony N. "Vampires incorporated : self-definition in Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28234.

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This thesis examines the use of orality as a means to self-definition in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The main contention of this thesis is that within the Vampire Chronicles orality defines the self through incorporation, and that the bodily incorporation of food through a sexual consumption leads the vampire to naturally evolve a sense of who he or she is at any given moment in time. It is in this manner that this article discusses how the body, sexuality, food, and the possession of financial capital define and limit the individual's notion of self.
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Gaião, Benilde da Piedade Caldeira dos Santos. "A familia gótica na ficção de William Faulkner, Thomas Harris e Anne Rice." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15023.

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Esta dissertação é um estudo que propõe revelar a complexidade e os paradoxos da família nas obras de três autores contemporâneos, William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930) e Light in August (1932), Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (1981), The Silence of The Lambs (1988) e Hannibal Rising (2006) e Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire (1976) e The Vampire Lestat (1985). Este trabalho analisará a forma como estes autores desocultam o que convencionalmente deveria ser resguardado dos olhos do público, daí decorrendo o poder transgressor deste modo literário, evidenciado nos autores em questão. Ao expor os núcleos familiares, será fundamental reflectir na sua disfuncionalidade, no passado reprimido que “persegue” um presente condicionado pelo abjecto e repulsivo que paradoxalmente atrai o leitor. Devido à intemporalidade e universalidade do tema, serão estabelecidas relações entre estas obras e outras representações artísticas, tais como a pintura e o cinema; ABSTRACT:This dissertation is a study that aims to reveal the complexity and the paradoxes of the family in the work of three contemporary authors, William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932), Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (1981), The Silence of The Lambs (1988) and Hannibal Rising (2006) and Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire (1976) and The Vampire Lestat (1985). This work will analise the way these authors reveal what conventionally should be kept away from the eyes of the public, from this derives the transgressive power of this literary form, stressed on these authors. Showing the familiar units, it will be essential to think about its lack of functionality, in the repressed past that “haunts” a present conditioned by the abject and the repulsive, that in a paradoxical way attracts the reader. Due to the timeless and universality of the topic, it will be established connexions between these works and other visual arts, such as painting and cinema.
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Osap, Sonja. "Queer as Vampires : A study of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire through queer theory." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6262.

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This paper will focus on the homosexuality and homoeroticism that can be found in Anne Rice’s novel Interview With The Vampire using Queer theory. The paper is divided into four parts in which different aspects of the novel will be discussed. Firstly the discussion focuses on the homoeroticism which is abundant in Rice’s novel. The second part covers the subject of identity and Louis’ quest to find out what and why he is. Next the issue of family within the vampyric world is examined using the family unit that Louis, Lestat and Claudia make as its basis. Lastly the question of why the ‘gender-free’ love which is present in Interview With The Vampire is important to the vampire genre is answered.
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Paolucci, Peter Leonard. "Re-reading the vampire from John Polidori to Anne Rice structures of impossibility among three narrative variations in the vampiric tradition /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56254.pdf.

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Paquiot, Alethea. "Images de la transgression : Carmilla (1872), Dracula (1897) et les vampires d'Anne Rice." Thesis, Le Havre, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LEHA0028.

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Devenu célèbre sous les traits de Dracula, le vampire est un monstre révélateur et résilient qui s'est fait archétype incontournable de la culture populaire et dont l'existence diégétique précède le roman de Bram Stoker. Du folklore à la fiction et de l'ombre à la lumière, son évolution est représentative des sociétés et des époques dans lequel il revient à la vie. A la fois transgressifs et normatifs, ses avatars jouent un rôle cathartique en incarnant le refus des lois humaines naturelles et divines, mais aussi la réitération de ces règles et la création de canons littéraires. Cette étude diachronique centrée sur "Carmilla" (1872), "Dracula" (1897) et les vampires d'Anne Rice démontre que leurs aventures invitent à réfléchir autant aux conséquances des fautes qu'à la validité des normes, à l'essence de la nature et des failles humaine et à la fonction libératrice des personnages de fiction et particulièrement des monstres
Known to most as Dracula, the vampire is revealing and resilient monster whose diegetic existence predates Stoker's novel, and that has become a key figure of popular culture. From folklore to fiction and from shadow to ligjhte, its evolution is indicative of the times and societies in wich it return to life. Equally transgressive and normative, its avatars play a cathartic role aas they epitomize rejection of human, natural and divine laws, but also the reiteration of the rules and the creation of literary canons. This diachronic study focused on "Carmilla" (1872), "Dracula" (1897) and Anne Rice's vampires shows that their adventures induce reflection on both the consequences of wrongdoing and the validity of norms, on the essence of human nature and hubris, and the liberating fucntion of fictional characters, particulary monsters
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Ben, Slama Kaouther. "Le réel et le simulacre dans l'oeuvre d'Anne Rice : une approche postmoderne." Grenoble 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005GRE39037.

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Ce travail examine l'œuvre d'Anne Rice à travers une approche postmoderne. L'étude de quelques œuvres de Rice permet de démontrer que l'œuvre est postmoderne aussi bien sur le plan thématique que sur le plan esthétique. Les histoires que Rice nous raconte sont déconstruites, aucune vérité n'est atteinte car elle est relative et aucune certitude n'est saisie car elle est évasive. Les romans de Rice ne sont pas de simples histoires gothiques divertissantes. Elles exposent des débats philosophiques et étalent des opinions qui se confrontent dans un espace gothique ce qui affaiblit la frontière entre réalité et fiction. Rice s'approprie des conventions gothique tels que l'atmosphère, l'exotisme et les êtres surnaturels, mais elle opte pour une nouvelle péripétie en plaçant ses protagonistes dans un cadre postmoderne.
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Virag, Karen Jean. "Rebels with causes, pornography, perverse sexuality and their application in the works of Pauline Réage, Anne Rice and Marian Engel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21144.pdf.

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Johansson, Fredrik. "From Conqueror to Rebel Without a Cause : The Change in the Symbolic Function of Vampires, from Bram Stoker’s Imperialistic Dracula to Anne Rice’s Anarchistic The Vampire Lestat." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2572.

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In this essay I look at the change in the symbolic function of vampires, and to see this I use

Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat. My argument is that the

difference between Dracula and Lestat is basically that they represent different ideologies,

with Dracula being an imperialist, and Lestat being an anarchist. The difference is shown by

taking examples from the text of the two novels, and also taking information about the

ideologies, and seeing if the actions and thoughts of the characters match the suggested

ideology.

First, the essay looks at Dracula and his connection with imperialism, and then it turns to

Lestat and his connection with anarchism.

The conclusion is that the facts derived from the novels make it quite clear where the

political hearts of the vampires lie.

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Anttonen, Ramona. "The Savage and the Gentleman : A Comparative Analysis of Two Vampire Characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-535.

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The creatures known as vampires have inspired authors for several hundred years. These beings are stereotypically described as belonging to a “nocturnal species” who live “in shadows” and drink “our lives in secrecy” (Auerbach 1). However, they have by now appeared so often in literary works, and in so many different shapes and sizes, that they are much too nuanced to be called ‘stereotypes.’

This essay will make a historical comparison between two fictional vampires, one hundred years apart, in order to show that a change has taken place when it comes to how vampires as fictional characters have been portrayed in terms of their appearance, their psychology, and their roles in society. The first novel chosen is, for obvious reasons, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It was written at the turn of the nineteenth century by a male author and is probably the first novel that comes into mind when the word vampire is mentioned. The second novel, The Vampire Lestat, was written almost a century later, in 1986, by a female author, who, to readers of vampire fiction, is a worthy successor of Stoker. Her name is Anne Rice, best known for her debut novel Interview with the Vampire (1976).

The two novels are naturally chosen because of their similarities, but perhaps even more so because of their differences. Dracula is a typically Victorian Gothic novel, which is set in the remote mountains of Transylvania, and in the modern capital London, contemporary to when the novel was published. It is written in epistolary form but never allows for the main character, Count Dracula, to defend or explain himself and his actions in a first-person narrative.

The Vampire Lestat, on the other hand, is a Neo-Gothic novel that focus less on conventional Gothic elements, for example gloomy settings, and more on the psychological aspects of what it is like to actually be a vampire. Unlike Dracula, it is the main character’s fictional autobiography in which he recalls his life in France, his transformation into a vampire, and his current career in the United States as a famous rock star. Nina Auerbach calls it “a series of temporal regressions in which Lestat . . . embarks on a backward quest out of the knowable world” (172).

Both novels used in this analysis are thus part of the Gothic genre, one being a Victorian Gothic and the other Neo-Gothic, but there are significant differences between the two. I will investigate how these differences reveal themselves when it comes to setting and plot. However, the novels are similar in that they present two male vampires who belong to the nobility and have lived on through the centuries. The vampires both want to be where the power is, which means, in the case of Stoker’s Dracula, that he tries to conquer nineteenth-century London and seduce a young intelligent woman named Mina. Lestat, on the other hand, wants to become a famous twentieth-century rock star in the United States and simply have a good time while being a vampire (Auerbach 6).

The aim of this essay is to investigate what is typical of the genres that the two novels belong to and determine what has changed in the vampires’ physical appearance, their manners and their ability to adapt to modern society. In the first section of the essay I will give a description of the typical elements of the Gothic and the Neo-Gothic genres and then compare them in order to make a generic description of the two novels, Dracula and The Vampire Lestat. Vampire fiction will be treated as a sub-genre to the Gothic genre. In the succeeding two sections I will make comparative analyses of the two novels, particularly of the main characters, in order to describe the similarities and differences between the two and study how the vampire character has changed during the last century. Much of the discussion, especially regarding Dracula, will be based on Cesare Lombroso’s concept of the ‘criminal man,’ and various modern scholars’ opinion that the vampire is seen as an outcast and a threat to society.

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Sonser, Anna. "Subversion, seduction, and the culture of consumption, the American gothic revisited in the work of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Rice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0019/NQ45702.pdf.

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Gramatzki, Susanne. "Zur lyrischen Subjektivität in den "Rime" Michelangelo Buonarrotis /." Heidelberg : C. Winter, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39263177s.

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Nathanson, Shelby. "Bite Me: Sadomasochistic Gender Relations in Contemporary Vampire Literature." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1629.

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While the term sadomasochism might conjure cursory images of whips, chains, and leather-clad fetishists, this thesis delves deeper into sadomasochistic theory to analyze dynamics of power and powerlessness represented by a chosen sample of literary relationships. Using two contemporary works of vampire literature—Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series—I examine how power is structured by and between male and female characters (and vampires and humans), and particularly emphasize the patriarchal messages these works' regressive sexual politics engender. Psychoanalysis and feminist theory are employed to support my overarching argument following the gendered dynamics of male sadism and female masochism (and vampire sadism and human masochism), as this dyad reflects men's and women's "normalized" roles of power and powerlessness, respectively, in today's society. Sadomasochistic relationships as depicted in this literature are created through mutual contracts or, what I refer to as, sociocultural sadomasochism to reflect the gendered power imbalances inherent in patriarchy. By concluding with readers' responses to these franchises, this thesis further attempts to determine why such unequal and oppressive relationships are desirable. Since vampires as Gothic figures embody what specific cultures dread yet desire, this literature possesses frightening implications—gender roles are conservative and masculinity is privileged in fiction and, by extension, in twenty-first-century American culture.
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Liang, Yan. "An Ex Ante Analysis of the Effects of Transgenic Rice on Farm Households’ Nutritional Vulnerability in Bangladesh." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27841.

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Despite concerted efforts at agricultural development over many years, millions of people in developing countries still suffer from poverty and under-nutrition. New crop varieties, such as those released during the green revolution in Asia, increased farmersâ income and reduced the level of under-nutrition. In recent years, while the speed of the development of conventional breeding technology has slowed, biotechnology has developed rapidly. In 2005, about 8.5 million farmers in 21 countries grew transgenic crops. Transgenic rice has not been commercially released on a large scale, but progress has been made in developing varieties with potential to increase yield and reduce input costs. In this context, this research aims to provide empirical evidence on the potential effects of introducing transgenic rice on farm householdsâ income and nutritional well-being in Bangladeshâ including the impacts on their current nutritional status and nutritional vulnerability over time. To this end, two econometric models are constructed and estimated. A farm household model is employed to project farm householdsâ production and consumption responses to introducing improved rice varieties such as transgenic rice. The model estimates the profit effect of introducing transgenic rice. The influence of the profit effect on farmersâ consumption decisions is then considered. Due to the ex ante nature of this research and data limitations, the effects of transgenic rice are assumed to be similar to that of previous high yielding varieties (HYVs), and the impact of transgenic rice on farm household profit is assumed to be similar to the effect of the percentage of rice area in HYVs and the yield effect of transgenic rice is the same as HYVs. On the production side, the supply of three outputsâ rice, all other crops and animal productsâ and demand of labor and fertilizer were estimated. On the consumption side, both poor and non-poor householdsâ demand for rice, wheat/other food, pulse, oil, vegetables/fruits, meat/egg/ milk, fish, and spices were estimated. Based on the parameter estimates, the calorie intake and protein intake elasticities with respect to introducing transgenic rice were computed. The results indicate that the total profit elasticity with respect to the percentage of rice area in HYVs is 0.08. The calorie elasticity with respect to the percentage of rice area in HYVs ranges from 0.062 in non-poor to 0.074 in poor households, and the protein elasticity ranges from 0.075 in non-poor to 0.084 in poor households. The results indicate that transgenic rice is likely to play a positive role in improving farm householdsâ nutritional status in terms of total calorie/protein intake. The magnitude, however, is likely to be moderate, if only the profit effect is considered. A consumption forecasting model is used to examine farmersâ nutritional vulnerabilityâ a probabilistic concept defined as â having a high probability now of suffering a shortfall in the futureâ . It is assumed that when exposed to risk, farmersâ consumption decisions have already considered their risk coping strategies. The effect of transgenic rice is reflected by its impact on farm income. Farm householdsâ calorie intake in the future (hunger season) was predicted by a multivariate regression function with the logarithmic daily per resident calorie intake as the dependent variable. The independent variables include variables that represent householdsâ income, flood exposure, assets, and demographic composition. Farm householdsâ nutritional vulnerability profiles, based on the estimation of ex ante mean and variance, indicate that vulnerability exists among surveyed rice farm households. The model also predicts that the income increase induced by introducing transgenic rice will reduce each individual householdâ s probability of suffering a future consumption shortfall and subsequently will reduce its vulnerability. The overall vulnerability profile of farm households improves in Bangladesh.
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Alpuerto, Vida-Lina Esperanza Battad. "Economic Impact Analysis of Marker-Assisted Breeding in Rice." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34340.

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Abiotic stresses such as salinity and phosphorous (P) deficiency are major yield-limiting factors for rice, particularly on marginal lands. Marker-aided backcrossing (MAB), enabled by advances in genomics and molecular mapping in recent years, is said to be a more precise, time-saving, and cost-effective way to develop rice varieties that can withstand these abiotic stresses than conventional breeding. The study employs the economic surplus approach to measure the benefits of MAB for salinity tolerance in rice for Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Philippines, and for rice with tolerance to P-deficient soils in Indonesia. At a 5% discount rate, the benefits over 15 years of planting salt-tolerant varieties amount to $226.9 million in the Philippines, $3.666 billion in Bangladesh, $4.848 billion in India, and $895.7 million in Indonesia. The gains from growing varieties that can withstand P deficient soils in Indonesia amount to $2.070 billion. The incremental benefits from completing the salt-tolerant and P-deficient tolerant breeding cycles 2 years earlier are $340.5 million in Bangladesh and $192.1 in Indonesia, respectively. In India, $227.0 million is gained even if MAB develops salt-tolerant varieties just a year earlier. The additional gains from completing the salt-tolerant rice breeding cycle 4 years earlier are $40.3 million in the Philippines and $158.9 in Indonesia. In general, the gains from saline- (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines) and P-deficient (Indonesia) tolerant rice are reduced by 5%, 9%, 14%, and 18% when MAB breeding cycle is delayed by one, two, three, and four years, respectively. In India, there is 3%, 7%, 10%, and 13% loss in benefits from salt-tolerant rice for every additional year of delay in the MAB breeding cycle.
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Hareau, Guy G. "The Adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms in Uruguay's Agriculture: An Ex-Ante Assessment of Potential Benefits." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34179.

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The present study analyzes the economic impact of the introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Uruguay's agriculture. Using a partial equilibrium framework the impacts of transgenic varieties are simulated for two crops, rice and potatoes, in small open and closed economies respectively. The model accounts for the presence of market imperfections created by the monopolistic behavior of the genes' patent owner. The change in economic surplus generated after the adoption of the new technology is projected to be positive, although the seed markup charged by the monopolist reduces the surplus compared to a perfectly competitive market. Total deadweight losses and domestic losses are found to increase with the seed premium, as additional monopolist profits are extracted out of the country. Adoption decreases with the seed premium, further reducing the domestic consumer and producer surplus. The results of the study suggest an active role for national technology policies and for the agricultural R&D system in Uruguay to generate conditions that attract the technology's owner to a small market while at the same time reducing the potential losses that monopoly power creates .
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Silva, Lilian Maria Araujo da. "The Body of condemned in Anne Rices The Vampire chronicles: Interview with the Vampire." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1033.

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Esta dissertação trata do gótico literário, especialmente nas literaturas de língua inglesa. O tema principal gira em torno da figura do vampiro. A escolha do tema é resultado de minhas leituras sobre a primeira aparição do vampiro na prosa literária, figura oriunda das lendas na Europa oriental e central. Partindo do século XVIII, chego até a contemporaneidade, em solo norte-americano, onde se passa a narrativa de Entrevista com o Vampiro, romance este que será o foco principal de meus estudos sobre o gótico e o vampiro na literatura. Composta de três capítulos, esta dissertação trata das origens da lenda do vampiro e o seu ingresso na literatura, da questão do corpo humano e do corpo híbrido do vampiro. Por último, analiso o romance que impulsionou minha pesquisa, em diálogo com os capítulos anteriores
This dissertation is about the literary gothic, especially in literatures in English language. The main theme focuses on the figure of the vampire. Such a choice is the result of my readings of the first appearance of the vampire in prose fiction. The vampire arose in the legends from Eastern and Central Europe. Starting from the 18th century, I come to the present, in North-American soil, where the narrative of Interview with the Vampire takes place. This novel will be the center of this dissertation on the literary gothic and the vampire. Composed of three chapters, this work deals with the origins of the legend of the vampire and its insertion in literature; with the human body and the hybrid body of the vampire. Lastly, I analyse the novel that is in the center of my research, in a dialogue with the previous chapters
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Mamaril, Cezar Brian Castillo. "Transgenic Pest Resistant Indica Rice: An Ex-ante Economic Evaluation of an Adoption Impact Pathway in the Philippines and Vietnam for Bt Rice." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30896.

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Research and development of Bt rice in Southeast Asia has been overshadowed by the contentious debate over the potential release of transgenic food crops into the region. The study provides empirical evidence on the potential size and distribution of economic benefits of adopting Bt Indica rice in the Philippines and Vietnam through the years 2000 to 2020. Total welfare gains from Bt rice are projected at 618.8 million USD (discounted at 5 percent) and aggregate benefits by region are projected at 269.6 million USD for the Philippines, 329.1 million USD for Vietnam, and 20.1 million USD for the rest of the world. Simulation results indicate that producers in both countries will capture 66.5 percent of the total welfare effect from Bt rice adoption, 25.9 percent will accrue to consumers, 3 percent to the rest of the world, and the loss in Philippine government revenue accounts for 4.6 percent of the total welfare effect. The study also reports how other factors will determine the size and distribution of economic benefits of Bt rice.

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Morgenstern, Anne [Verfasser], and Hans-Wolfgang [Akademischer Betreuer] Hubberten. "Thermokarst and thermal erosion : degradation of Siberian ice-rich permafrost / Anne Morgenstern. Betreuer: Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten." Potsdam : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1027410456/34.

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Tollstern, Jenny. "Pans ande : En ekokritisk analys av Rick Riordans bokserie om Percy Jackson." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-70269.

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Den här uppsatsen analyserar mytanvändningen i Rick Riordans bokserie om Percy Jackson med syfte att uppenbara kopplingar till dagens miljö- och klimatproblematik. Fokus placeras på bokseriens införande av antik grekisk mytologi och de ekokritiska analysmöjligheter som det skapar. Analysen utgår ifrån den ekokritiska teorin bl.a. med begrepp som antropocentrism, ekocentrism, och dikotomin natur - kultur. Analysen genomförs genom en närläsning av karaktärernas dialog och agerande för att utröna de olika perspektiv på miljökrisen som presenteras. Dessa förs sedan samman i en slutgiltig diskussion kring bokens ekokritiska aspekter och de samhällskritiska budskap som karaktärer och läsare ges. Uppsatsen resulterade i slutsatsen att en sorts samhällskritik ligger som bakgrund genom Riordans bokserie. Användningen av den antika mytologin uppenbarar dagens enorma miljöproblematik och de olika synsätt som finns inom miljörörelsen bl.a. genom de miljöer som beskrivs och karaktärernas utspel. Miljöerna som beskrivs är främst urbana samt nedskräpade och smutsiga. Platser där mytologiska varelser inte längre kan leva. Karaktärerna uttrycker en oro och en sorg över mänsklighetens destruktiva påverkan på sin omgivning och deras agerande visar på den riktning som Riordan önskar se och mana mot. Bokserien mynnar ut i en önskan om en framtida värld där människan lever på ett hållbart sätt tillsammans med naturen.
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Stroh, Anne Catherine [Verfasser], Hans [Akademischer Betreuer] Rick, and Wolfgang H. [Akademischer Betreuer] Polifke. "Potenzial zukünftiger Hubschrauber-Triebwerke der 300 kW-Leistungsklasse durch Einsatz optimierter rekuperativer Systeme / Anne Catherine Stroh. Betreuer: Hans Rick. Gutachter: Wolfgang H. Polifke ; Hans Rick." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2015. http://d-nb.info/110015924X/34.

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Casto, Estella Kathryn. "Reading feminist poetry : a study of the work of Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Olga Broumas." Connect to resource, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1226003868.

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Cabello, León Juana F. "José de Diego ante Manuel Zeno Gandía, 1890-1918." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398393.

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La presente investigación trata el tema de José de Diego ante Manuel Zeno Gandía durante los años de 1890 a 1918. El objetivo de este trabajo es demostrar que las Crónicas de un mundo enfermo de Manuel Zeno Gandía fueron escritas en clave para ocultar el verdadero personaje que es José de Diego. Esta investigación está plenamente justificada, ya que se desconoce el pensamiento político de Manuel Zeno Gandía y la crítica que hizo sobre José de Diego en sus obras. Para lograr mis objetivos fue necesario descifrar las claves que aparecen en las novelas-crónicas de Zeno Gandía. Para descifrarlas estudié la vida y la obra política tanto de Manuel Zeno Gandía como de José de Diego. Descubrí los recursos literarios utilizados por Zeno Gandía para indicar que José de Diego es el personaje detrás de los personajes. Comparé los discursos políticos, la vida y la obra literaria de de Diego con el contenido de la obra de Zeno Gandía. Corroboré los datos históricos en Fuentes primarias y secundarias sobre el período estudiado. Utilicé como fuentes primarias la obra escrita y manuscritos de Manuel Zeno Gandía y de José de Diego, la prensa de la época y documentos de los partidos políticos en los cuales ambos autores participaron. Encontré que en las Crónicas de un mundo enfermo Manuel Zeno Gandía utiliza una serie de claves y recursos literarios para que el lector advierta que la persona oculta detrás de cada personaje es José de Diego. Un ejemplo es la alusión. Zeno Gandía hace en las Crónicas constantes alusiones a la vida y la obra de José de Diego. Otro hallazgo importante es que Zeno Gandía dirigió su crítica a de Diego porque vio en él una personalidad contradictoria, que decía tener unas posturas políticas radicales, pero al llevarlas a la práctica se convertían en moderadas. Por último, hallamos a un Manuel Zeno Gandía nuevo, el militante político participante del Partido Autonomista, el Partido Autonomista Ortodoxo, el Parido Republicano, el Partido Unión de Puerto Rico y el primer Partido de la Independencia de Puerto Rico. Antes sólo se había estudiado como literato. El primer capítulo de esta tesis está dedicado a la explicación del significado de las claves utilizadas por Manuel Zeno Gandía en sus novelas-crónicas. El segundo capítulo expone los años de militancia política tanto de Zeno Gandía como de José de Diego desde 1890 hasta 1898 y cómo se refleja en las novelas-crónicas. En el tercer capítulo se trabajan los años de transición del régimen político español al estadounidense en Puerto Rico que van desde 1898 hasta 1900, la repercusión que tiene en ambos líderes estudiados y cómo lo plantea Zeno Gandía en sus novelas-crónicas. El cuarto capítulo es sobre los años en que se afianza el gobierno civil estadounidense bajo la Ley Foraker de 1900 a 1917, estudio las posturas políticas asumidas por de Diego y Zeno Gandía ante temas como el desarrollo de esta ley, el status político de la Isla entre otros y cómo aparecen discutidos en las novelas crónicas. El quinto capítulo expone el tema del proyecto de Ley Jones de 1917, que otorgaba la ciudadanía estadounidense a los puertorriqueños, la discusión que se generó y su repercusión en las novelas-crónicas.
The current investigation is about Manuel Zeno Gandía's stance towards José de Diego during the 1890-1918 period. The primary objective of this work is to demonstrate that the Chronicles of a Sick World (as roughly translated. Crónicas de un mundo enfermo, in Spanish) by Zeno Gandía was written in code to obscure the true character in display: José de Diego's. The investigation considers the political thought of Manuel Zeno Gandía which had until then been undiscovered, and the critique expressed towards José de Diego. To back my objective, it was necessary to decipher the codes appearing in Zeno Gandía's chronicle-novels. To decipher them, I studied the life and legacies of both Zeno Gandía and compared their political discourses, life, and literary works. The historical aspect is factually backed with multiple primary and secondary sources from the time period, like published literature and manuscripts of Zeno Gandía and de Diego and other sources like newspapers and documents released by the political parties each had participated in. What I found is that in Crónicas de un mundo enfermo Manuel Zeno Gandía utilizes a series of clues as literary resources that points to José de Diego being whom is represented. An example of this is the use of the constant allusions used in Crónicas to de Diego's life and work. Another important find is that Zeno Gandía directed his critique towards de Diego because in him he found a contradictory personality, because though seeming to have certain radical political views, when put in practice de Diego turned out to be more of a moderate, in Zeno Gandía's thought. Lastly, Manuel Zeno Gandía is viewed in a new light- as a political militant, participant of the Partido Autonomista (autonomous party), Partido Autonomista Ortodoxo (orthodox autonomous party), Partido Republicano (republican party), Partido Unión de Puerto Rico (union party of Puerto Rico), and the first Partido de la Independencia de Puerto Rico (first independence party of Puerto Rico). Previously he had only been studied and regarded as a writer.
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Ramey, Margaret E. "The quest for the fictional Jesus : Gospel rewrites, Gospel (re)interpretation, and Christological portraits within Jesus novels." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1861.

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Jesus' story has been retold in various forms and fashions for centuries. Jesus novels, a subset of the historical fiction genre, are one of the latest means of not only re-imagining the man from Galilee but also of rewriting the canonical Gospels. This thesis explores the Christological portraits constructed in four of those novels while also using the novels to examine the intertextual play of these Gospel rewrites with their Gospel progenitors. Chapter 1 offers a prolegomenon to the act of fictionalizing Jesus that discusses the relationship between the person and his portraits and the hermeneutical circle created by these texts as they both rewrite the Gospels and stimulate a rereading of them. It also establishes the "preposterous" methodology that will be used when reexamining the Gospels "post" reading the novels. Chapters 2 to 5 offer four case studies of "complementing" and "competing" novels and the techniques they use to achieve these aims: Anne Rice's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt; Neil Boyd's The Hidden Years; Nino Ricci's Testament; and José Saramago's The Gospel according to Jesus Christ. Chapter 6 begins an examination of a specific interpretive circle based upon Jesus' temptation in the wilderness. Beginning with the synoptic accounts of that event, the chapter then turns to how Jesus' testing has been reinterpreted and presented in two of the novels. Returning to the Gospel of Matthew's version of the Temptation, chapter 7 offers a "preposterous" examination of that pericope, which asks novel questions of the text and its role with Matthew's narrative context based on issues raised by the Gospel rewrites. The thesis concludes by suggesting that Jesus novels, already important examples of the reception history of the Gospels, can also play a helpful role in re-interpreting the Gospels themselves.
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Buhmann, Anne Kathrin [Verfasser]. "Biological purification of nutrient-rich saline water by halophytes and their potential as valuable co-product in aquaculture systems / Anne Kathrin Buhmann." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek und Universitätsbibliothek Hannover (TIB), 2014. http://d-nb.info/1059370794/34.

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Santos, Gracineide Pereira dos. "Afinal, quantos ?ramos? Um estudo da mortalidade pret?rita na freguesia da gloriosa Sant Anna." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/13856.

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Search mortality in the glorious St. Anna Parish, hinterland of Rio Grande do Norte in the time frame 1788-1838 is the main objective of this research. Questions that the research aims to answer are: how many were after? Data parish deaths allow us to study mortality in Town? To conduct the research, first appealed to the population maps of the years 1777, 1810, 1811, 1824, 1844, 1853; censuses of 1872 and 1890. As well, the first two books of burials / deaths of the Parish, the first dating from 1788 to 1811 and the second from 1812 to 1838 and a book of baptism 1803-1806. Among the findings it was realized that, for now, the question of knowing, "After all, how many were?" Still cannot be answered, because during the analysis we noticed a high rate of underreporting, demonstrated through a study of the first infant mortality, in which the records we have was very high, which goes against the pre-transitional period, but with the exercise of inverse projection found the opposite, a population that would have a life expectancy higher. Demonstrating the problem of underreporting. Infant deaths occur mainly with the male children in the first months of the year due to infectious causes, and in the early days and weeks, we raised a hypothesis is that these deaths have as a backdrop the poor condition of the mother leading to poor training child, thus leading to his early death
Pesquisar a mortalidade na Freguesia da Gloriosa Sant?Anna, sert?o do Rio Grande do Norte no recorte temporal de 1788 a 1838 ? o objetivo principal da presente investiga??o. As perguntas ?s quais a pesquisa se prop?e a responder s?o: afinal quantos ?ramos? Os dados paroquiais de ?bitos nos permitem estudar a mortalidade na Freguesia? Para realizar a pesquisa; primeiro recorreu-se aos mapas populacionais dos anos de 1777, 1810, 1811, 1824, 1844, 1853; os censos de 1872 e 1890. Como tamb?m, os dois primeiros livros de enterros/?bitos da Freguesia; o primeiro datado de 1788 a 1811 e o segundo de 1812 a 1838 e um livro de batismo de 1803 a 1806. Entre os resultados encontrados percebeu-se que, por enquanto, o questionamento de sabermos, Afinal, quantos ?ramos? ainda n?o pode ser respondido, pois durante a an?lise percebemos um alto ?ndice de sub-registros, demostrado atrav?s de um estudo primeiro da mortalidade infantil, na qual pelos registros que temos era muito alta, o que vai de encontro com o per?odo Pr?-transicional, por?m com o exerc?cio de proje??o inversa constatou-se o contr?rio, uma popula??o que teria uma esperan?a de vida elevada. Demostrando o problema de sub-registros. Os ?bitos infantis ocorrem principalmente com as crian?as do sexo masculino, nos primeiros meses do ano por causas infecciosas, e nos primeiros dias e semanas, uma hip?tese que levantamos ? que essas mortes tenham como pano de fundo as condi??es prec?rias da m?e acarretando a m? forma??o da crian?a, culminando assim com sua morte precoce
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Jordan, Anne [Verfasser], and Guerra Max [Akademischer Betreuer] Welch. "Ein neues Stück Paris. Planungsdiskurse, Referenzen und die Formierung eines urbanen Images im städtebaulichen Großprojekt Paris Rive Gauche / Anne Jordan ; Betreuer: Max Welch Guerra." Weimar : Institut für Europäische Urbanistik, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1115342169/34.

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Little, Philippa Susan. "Images of self : a study of feminine and feminist subjectivity in the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood and Adrienne Rich, 1950-1980." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1990. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1501.

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The thesis explores the poetry (and some prose) of Plath, Sexton, Atwood and Rich in terms of the changing constructions of self-image predicated upon the female role between approx. 1950-1980.1 am particularly concerned with the question of how the discourses of femininity and feminism contribute to the scope of the images of the self which are presented. The period was chosen because it involved significant upheaval and change in terms of women's role and gender identity. The four poets' work spans this period of change and appears to some extent generally characteristic of its social, political and cultural contexts in America, Britain and Canada. (Other poets' work, for example Rukeyser, Lorde, Levertov, is included too. ) The poets were not chosen to illustrate a pre-feminist vs. feminist opposition since a major concern is to explore what I see to be the symbiotic relation between femininity and feminism (as also between orthodoxy and heresy). However the thesis is organised chronologically because periodisation is important for a consideration of the poetry's social setting. In wanting to connect the poetry with cultural and political circumstances as much as possible I have taken Edward Said's assertion of a text's position of 'being in the world', its potential as a cultural product to help reshape reality, and its value as a 'powerful weapon of both materialism and consciousness'. This is the starting point for the study which is circular and cumulative in shape, fundamentally thematic, though each chapter is a chronological exploration of the work of one specific poet, beginning with Plath and completing with Rich. A conclusion attempts to pull the strands of each together and consider the implications raised. The thesis has four general concerns which run through its particular focus on each poet. The first involves the relations between cultural practice and ideology; the second involves the ideology of gender (through exploration of femininity and feminism); the third involves authorial ideology (through the construction of self-image in relation to femininity and feminism) while the fourth involves these concerns in terms of the overall arena of women's struggle for meaning and selfdetermination in cultural practice. More specific elements of the study include collating and comparing self-images and attempting to make connections or chart changes where images such as witch, queen, handmaid, shamaness, goddess, earth mother, whore, madwoman, etc., re-occur. Usage of myth (particularly Persephone). the Gothic, 'and articulation of lesbian desire are also explored. The emergence of a female 'hero' self-image, in opposition to 'victim', seems to be a corollary of the impact , of feminism in Rich's poetry particularly, but this tendency can be traced back through Plath. I explore the celebration of nature and the power of essentialism in the construction of heroic female images, particularly in the figure of the mother flowing with milk at the centre of 'ecriture feminine'. The concluding chapter suggests that femininity did not constitute such a repressive constraint on self-image and writing practice for women as perhaps might be supposed; and that feminism, while opening up many empowering changes for women, has raised further disturbing and unresolved questions about identity, and even helped, in some of its aspects, to create a new 'orthodoxy' in which various aspects of experience cannot easily be articulated. My example is Rich's later work where it seems to admit itself limited by its own initially liberating strategies and looks further on towards new 'heresies.'
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Lindsey, Dakota Raine. "GEOCHEMISTRY OF ARTIFICALLY MATURED ANNA SHALE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE USE OF REDOX-SENSITIVE GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES IN MATURE ORGANIC-RICH SHALES." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2454.

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This study explores the validity of geochemical paleoredox proxies in mature organic-rich shales. Classically, Fe-S-Corg ternary diagrams and C-S crossplots have been used to differentiate between oxic, dysoxic, and anoxic/euxinic conditions, but should be limited to immature shales due to the loss of organic carbon during thermal maturation. Trace metal proxies are also used to elucidate paleoredox conditions, but their stability in mature shales has yet to be assessed adequately. As it would be difficult to find a shale bed with an immature and post-mature end-member, that was deposited under assumedly invariant depositional conditions, a modified version of open-system hydrous pyrolysis (OSHP) was developed. The design of this apparatus allows for a small continuous flow of only liquid-phase water to be maintained throughout the entire artificial maturation experiment, with the intention of experimentally mimicking maturation in a sedimentary basin. Using the OSHP apparatus, the Anna Shale (Pennsylvanian age) was matured artificially at experimental temperatures ranging from 300 to 360℃ for up to 72 hours. These conditions resulted in increases in vitrinite reflectance from 0.47 to 1.83% Rr and Tmax from 425 to 520℃, indicating the immature shale was matured through the oil window and into the gas window. With increased maturity, the shale exhibits an approximate loss in mass of up to 20%, likely due to the liberation of hydrocarbons and the depletion of sulfur from 2.03 to ~0.1 wt. %. The intention of the OSHP design was to mimic maturation as would occur in a sedimentary basin. However, comparison of the inorganic geochemistry of the artificially matured shale to that of shales matured by normal burial maturation versus intrusive events suggests that, based on the significant depletion of sulfur (i.e., pyrite), the current design and run parameters better replicates the extreme heating conditions associated with intrusion of organic-rich rocks. Under these conditions, the loss of sulfur and carbon demonstrates that Fe-S-Corg ternary diagrams and C-S crossplots would no longer be valid as redox indicators. Furthermore, increases in the concentrations of Ni and Co by nearly an order of magnitude and a doubling of Cr and V contents from the unaltered to artificially matured shales cannot be explained by increases in relative abundance due to mass loss alone. It is possible that the 316-stainless steel used to construct the OSHP reactor body became unstable during artificial maturation experiments and acted as a contaminant source of TMs. Therefore, further investigation is required to establish whether different run parameters could more closely mimic normal burial conditions and to explore the use of different materials for the construction of the OSHP apparatus that would better maintain resistance to corrosion.
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Caballero, Barbara Flores. "Practicas en el liderazgo educativo y la Inteligencia Emocional| Una alternativa ante los retos sociales en las escuelas publicas de Puerto Rico." Thesis, Universidad del Turabo (Puerto Rico), 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3601297.

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The knowledge that school principals acquire on the subject of leadership skills will provide them with a solid foundation for leading schools towards the success of their students, be it academic or social. The aim of this qualitative research, designed as a case study, was to determine how well prepared a school's principal is in leadership practices and in the competencies that are promoted by Emotional Intelligence to deal with the situations that take place in schools. During the investigative process the strategies that a principal uses to handle difficult situations were identified, as well as the insight that a principal has as a leader, the knowledge and mastery of leadership theories shown, and the understanding of Emotional Intelligence competencies. The data collection sources were interviews, reflexive diaries, and document reviews, which were used with the study sample. This sample was comprised of five principals of various school levels in the central area of the Island.

The findings indicate that most of the principals who participated in this study do not have a strong foundation in leadership skills and/or leadership competencies. The findings suggest coordination between the Puerto Rico Department of Education of (PRDE) and universities with the purpose of having masters programs that offer courses that strengthen the teaching of the diverse theories of leadership styles and that offer emotional intelligence courses aimed at educational environments, in a way that enables principals to be proficient in these skills and competencies when they assume their duties. Likewise, the findings recommend that PRDE continues to reinforce this foundation through professional workshops that will build upon the knowledge acquired; this will result in school principals that are well prepared in leadership skills and emotional intelligence competencies that will enable them to work effectively with the entire school community.

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Melo, Alan Jones Lira de. "Avalia??o da estrutura de tecidos t?cnicos como elemento refor?ante em comp?sitos polim?ricos sistema poli?ster isoft?lico." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/15705.

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Materials known as technical textiles can be defined as structures designed and developed to meet specific functional requirements of various industry sectors, which is the case in automotive and aerospace industries, and other specific applications. Therefore, the purpose of this work presents the development and manufacture of polymer composite with isophthalic polyester resin. The reinforcement of the composite structure is a technical textile fabric made from high performance fibers, aramid (Kevlar 49) and glass fiber E. The fabrics are manufactured by the same method, with the aim of improving the tensile strength of the resulting polymer composite material. The fabrics, we developed some low grammage technical textile structures in laboratory scale and differentiated-composition type aramid (100%), hybrid 1 aramid fiber / glass (65/35%) and hybrid 2 aramid fiber / glass (85/15% ) for use as a reinforcing element in composite materials with unsaturated isophthalic polyester matrix. The polymer composites produced were tested in uniaxial tensile fracture surface and it?s evaluated by SEM. The purpose of this work characterize the performance of polymer composites prepared, identifying changes and based on resistance to strain corresponding to the mechanical behavior. The objectives are to verify the capability of using this reinforcement structure, along with the use of high performance fibers and resin in terms of workability and mechanical strength; verify the adherence of the fiber to the matrix and the fracture surface by electron microscopy scanning and determination of tensile strength by tensile test. The results indicate that, in a comparative study to the response of uniaxial tensile test for tensile strength of the composites and the efficiency of the low percentage of reinforcement element, being a technical textile fabric structure that features characteristic of lightness and low weight added in polymer composites
Os materiais denominados de tecidos t?cnicos podem ser definidos como estruturas projetadas e desenvolvidas com a fun??o de atender a requisitos funcionais espec?ficos de diversos setores da ind?stria com aplica??es espec?ficas. Nesse sentido, este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento e a fabrica??o de comp?sito polim?rico com resina poli?ster isoft?lico. O refor?o do comp?sito ? uma estrutura de tecido t?xtil t?cnico confeccionado com fibras de alto desempenho de aramida (Kevlar 49) e fibra de vidro E. Os tecidos s?o fabricados pelo mesmo m?todo, com o objetivo do aprimorar a resist?ncia a tra??o do material comp?sito polim?rico resultante. Os tecidos, foram desenvolvidos em escala laboratorial com baixa gramatura e composi??o diferenciada de aramida (100%), h?brido 1 fibra de aramida/vidro (65/35%) e h?brido 2 fibra de aramida/vidro (85/15%) para utiliza??o como elemento refor?ante em comp?sitos com matriz de poli?ster insaturada isoft?lico. Os comp?sitos polim?ricos produzidos foram ensaiados em tra??o uniaxial e sua superf?cie de fratura avaliada por MEV. A proposta do trabalho ? caracterizar o desempenho dos comp?sitos polim?ricos elaborados, identificando as altera??es e baseando-se na resist?ncia ao ensaio de tra??o correspondente a comportamento mec?nico. Os objetivos s?o verificar a potencialidade da utiliza??o desta estrutura de refor?o, juntamente com a utiliza??o das fibras de alto desempenho e a resina, em termos de trabalhabilidade e resist?ncia mec?nica; verificar a ader?ncia da fibra ? matriz e a superf?cie de fratura atrav?s de microscopia eletr?nica de varredura e determina??o de resist?ncia ? ruptura por ensaio de tra??o. Os resultados indicam que, em um estudo comparativo para a resposta dos ensaios mec?nicos de tra??o uniaxial h? resist?ncia ? ruptura dos comp?sitos e a efici?ncia da baixa porcentagem do elemento de refor?o, sendo uma estrutura de tecido t?xtil t?cnico que apresenta caracter?stica de leveza e baixa gramatura adicionada nos comp?sitos polim?ricos
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Blanchette, Julie. "De Pauline Réage à Anne Rice : un pas vers une sexualité démocratisée." Mémoire, 2010. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3217/1/M11497.pdf.

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Le féminisme possède un champ définitionnel assez vaste, puisqu'il a engendré, avec le temps, une multitude de courants de pensée. Au départ, les féministes s'entendaient pour dire que ce mouvement vise à protéger ce qu'on appelle la « femme » et à créer, de ce fait, des rapports sociaux égalitaires entre celle-ci et l'homme. Toutefois, cette conception du féminisme a été, plus tard, remise en question par d'autres militants que l'on nomme aujourd'hui les postféministes. Pauline Réage fait, de par son chef-d'oeuvre pornographique Histoire d'O (1954), partie des adeptes de ce nouveau féminisme, qui est aussi subdivisé en sous-courants. Selon cette auteure, la représentation de la femme-esclave, dans son roman, ne signifie pas le contrôle de l'homme sur la femme, puisque la soumission féminine n'est qu'un simulacre: c'est en faisant croire aux hommes qu'ils la dominent qu'elle réussit à obtenir ce qu'elle veut. D'autres féministes plus conventionnelles estiment que le personnage féminin réagien est trop bête pour revendiquer ses droits. Anne Rice, quant à elle, dans sa trilogie intitulée The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983), Beauty's Punishment (1984) et Beauty's Release (1985), conteste également Histoire d'O, mais elle le fait, dans son cas, en introduisant la figure de l'androgyne. En effet, toute forme de dépolarisation sexuelle permet, dans son oeuvre, d'éviter l'ostracisation du sexe féminin, car la totalité des personnages sont constitués des mêmes traits. Ainsi, par le biais de la transposition d'Histoire d'O, oeuvre dans laquelle la discrimination sexuelle est évidente, Rice nous amène dans un univers où les différences physiques entre les personnages sont individuelles, et non sexuelles, et où les personnages font preuve d'un dualisme psychique, dans la mesure où il y a alternance du féminin et du masculin. Il ne s'agit pas, dans son texte littéraire, d'une masculinisation de la femme ou d'une féminisation de l'homme, mais il s'agit plutôt d'une humanisation de l'être. L'approche essentialiste des sexes dans le roman de Réage s'opposera à l'approche humaniste des personnages riciens. Enfin, quant à l'analyse des actions des personnages, nous verrons que la punition de la femme sexuée chez Réage s'oppose à l'émancipation sexuelle des personnages riciens. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Littérature pornographique, Pauline Réage, Anne Rice, Transposition, Polarisation sexuelle, Androgynie, Féminisme.
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Hobbs, Michelle. "Reshaping the archetype : mythmaking and matriarchy in Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles /." 1996.

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Silva, Vanessa Sofia Brito da. "Representações do vampiro: de Drácula de Bram Stoker a Entrevista com o Vampiro de Anne Rice." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3634.

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Dissertação de mest., Estudos Literários e Artísticos (Estudos Literários), Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Univ. do Algarve, 2013
Na Literatura e no Cinema, a temática das metamorfoses sobrenaturais tem despertado grande interesse, especialmente a dos vampiros. Assim, a nossa dissertação, intitulada Representações do Vampiro: de Drácula de Bram Stoker a Entrevista com o Vampiro de Anne Rice, versa sobre as alterações dos modos de representação da metamorfose vampírica, cronologicamente, no âmbito literário e cinematográfico, encontrando-se dividida em quatro capítulos, para além da Introdução, Conclusão e Bibliografia. No capítulo intitulado “Questões teórico-metodológicas e definição de conceitos- -chave”, tratamos as relações entre a Literatura e o Cinema, bem como a definição dos géneros narrativos associados à temática do sobrenatural. No capítulo intitulado “Representação do vampiro: da Antiguidade ao século XVIII”, apresentamos as características lendárias dos vampiros ancestrais, fisicamente monstruosos, sedentos de sangue e, até, canibais. No capítulo intitulado “O vampiro moderno: a sedução do mal” encontram-se três subpontos: “a) Representações oitocentistas do vampiro na literatura ocidental (alguns exemplos significativos anteriores ao Drácula)”, “b) O caso de Drácula de Bram Stoker (1897)” e “c) Sentidos contemporâneos da obra cinematográfica de Francis Ford Coppola intitulada O Drácula de Bram Stoker (1992)”. No século XIX, o vampiro manteve características lendárias, surgindo com aspetos novos e de forma sedutora. Depois de Polidori, Bram Stoker criou o conde Drácula, o mais célebre dos vampiros da História. No século XX, este romance originou filmes de importantes cineastas, como F.W. Murnau, T. Browning e F.F. Coppola. O capítulo designado “O vampiro contemporâneo: monstro ou vítima?”, divide-se em dois subpontos: “a) O caso de Entrevista com o Vampiro de Anne Rice (1976) e a sua adaptação cinematográfica por Neil Jordan (1994)” e “b) Séculos XX e XXI: outros marcos importantes do mito vampírico na literatura e no cinema ocidentais”. Nele aludimos à contemporaneidade, onde os vampiros surgem sedutores, ou seres angustiados devido à recusa da sua natureza monstruosa.
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SODOMKOVÁ, Kristýna. "Elements of Gothic Literature in the Works by Stephenie Mayer (Twilight Saga), Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles) and Tim Burton." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-364459.

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The purpose of this diploma thesis is an analysis of selected texts of three popular American authors (Stephenie Mayer, Anne Rice, Tim Burton), who develop the tradition of Gothic literature in their prose writing and film making. This thesis attempts to show how the particular Gothic elements are used in selected works (ex.: the vampire or monster character, the theme of violence or death). In the introductory theoretical chapter the specific character of Anglo-American Gothic prose is explained, and in the following chapters the separate themes are analysed. In this context the literary influences, as well as the originality of the stories, are considered (Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, Ch. R. Maturin, Bram Stoker), and the contribution of the analysed texts for the coming development of Gothic literature is assessed.
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Vézina, Marie-Ève. "Faith lost and regained : the evolution of Anne Rice's critique of christianity in The Vampire Chronicles." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3704.

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Ce mémoire réunit trois romans de la série Les Chroniques de vampires de la populaire écrivaine américaine Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat, Memnoch the Devil et Blood Canticle) afin d'étudier l'évolution de sa critique de la religion à travers l'écriture. Une analyse précise et complète de Lestat de Lioncourt, le personnage principal de la série, est faite afin de mieux comprendre l'impact de la transformation spirituelle du protagoniste sur l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de Rice. Dans The Vampire Lestat, le rejet de toute forme de croyances religieuses de la part de Lestat ainsi que la déconstruction et l'érotisation de rituels religieux traditionnels reflètent l'influence de l'athéisme. Memnoch the Devil représente la transition entre le refus de croire de Lestat et son retour subséquent à la religion catholique. Finalement, Blood Canticle symbolise le retour vers la foi du protagoniste et de l'auteur, en plus de marquer la fin des Chroniques de vampires de Rice. L'analyse s'inspire d'éléments biographiques afin de démontrer l'importance de la religion dans les récits de Rice, sans toutefois considérer ses romans comme des autobiographies.
This thesis brings together three of Anne Rice's novels from The Vampire Chronicles series – The Vampire Lestat, Memnoch the Devil and Blood Canticle – in order to study the evolution of her critique of religion in her writing. A precise and complete examination of Lestat de Lioncourt, the series' main protagonist, allows the reader to better understand the impact of his spiritual transformation on Rice's literary career as a whole. In The Vampire Lestat, Lestat's rejection of religious beliefs as well as the deconstruction and eroticization of traditional religious rituals hint at the influence of atheism. Memnoch the Devil represents the transition between Lestat's refusal to believe in religion and his subsequent return to the Catholic faith. Finally, Blood Canticle symbolizes both the protagonist's and the writer's return to the faith, in addition to the conclusion of Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The analysis uses elements from Rice's biography to indicate religion's importance in her works without considering these novels as autobiographies.
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Hoosain, Shakira. "In the shadow of the night : the gendered subtext of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30252.

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Anne Rice writes popular fiction. She is best known for her iconic Vampire Chronicles series. This thesis focuses on the first three volumes of this series: Interview with the Vampire (1976), The Vampire Lestat (1985), and The Queen of the Damned (1988). The main objective of this thesis is to show that whilst Rice's novels often seem very liberal, an examination of her subtext reveals a conservative message. This message helps entrench socio-cultural and political hegemonies because it does not challenge the status quo. In order to see how these conservative leanings are entrenched by Rice, this thesis examines archetypes of the female and the Feminine. Louis is male, but can be viewed as a Feminine character because of his meek subservience to Lestat (the protagonist of the series). Claudia is their daughter, but she is also a woman trapped in a child's body. Claudia seems to have great intellectual freedom, but she is trapped within her body and cannot mature. Gabrielle is Lestat‟s mother. When Gabrielle becomes a vampire, Rice tries to empower Gabrielle by androgynizing her character. However, we find that this androgyny is not empowering because Gabrielle returns to her role as a mother. Akasha is the ancient queen and source of vampirism. She wants to bring about a radical, gynocentric world by killing most men. But subtextually, Akasha‟s defeat represents the defeat of feminism in favour of patriarchy. Despite the seemingly liberal nature of the texts, subtextually there is a trend towards negating the power these characters carry in the text. To explore the flux between the text and the subtext, an array of post-modern reading tools and theoretical approaches have been used. The primary reading strategies include a close reading of the novels, informed by Feminist perspectives, together with other reading strategies such as, Queer Theory, Marxism, deconstruction and the role of the Fantastic. Little academic study has been devoted to Rice‟s work. Her work shows deep philosophical and artistic integrity which lends an elegance and beauty to her texts, but this is undermined by the conservative undertones of her work.
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Dustin, Sara Walker Eric. ""Yes, injured woman! Rise, asserthy right!" Anna Letitia Barauld and the feminine ideal /." Diss., 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06272003-143222.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2003.
Advisor: Dr. Eric Walker, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 7, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.
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Dustin, Sara Walker Eric. ""Yes, injured woman! Rise, assert thy right!" Anna Letitia Barbauld and the feminine ideal /." 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06272003-143222/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2003.
Advisor: Dr. Eric Walker, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 7, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.
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Boisvert, Chantale. "Localisation, régulation et fonction du récepteur rénal du facteur de libération de l'hormone de croissance chez le rat." Thèse, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/14767.

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Curry, Kendra Wynne. "Creative catalysts : a narrative investigation of pivotal learning experience through conversation with six contemporary artists." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1912.

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This thesis is a narrative study that examines significant life experiences of six living artists that were pivotal in their decision to pursue careers in the arts. Although the examples found in these conversations are not exhaustive—many factors play into the individuals sense of identity and agency—they serve to give voice to the multiplicity of the learning experience, underscoring that creative education occurs in the home, the community, and among social groups as frequently as it does in the classroom. Through direct, open-ended conversations with artists, research explores the setting of upbringing and education, the pivotal experiences—catalysts—that propelled these individuals into art careers, and impact of their experience on both creative practice and notions of art learning. Interviews encompass artists whose work is located in public spaces, natural landscapes, and urban environments as often as it appears in the traditional exhibition settings, whose work is both collaborative and socially constructed. They comprise Rick Lowe, artist and founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas whose community-centered social sculpture expands on our cultural assumptions about the artist and Anne Wallace, a public artist whose early work as a human right activist and bi-cultural experiences translate into videos about the complexities of the United States/Mexico border. It includes Vincent Valdez, a self-described “hyper-realist” who depicts his home city and composite life experiences of his family through allegorical paintings and drawings; Marie Lorenz, an artist explorer whose interest in urban waterways brings her work into the waters of forgotten canals and rivers; of Robert Pruitt, who critiques ever-changing political landscapes, conceptions of history, and globalism through hybrid drawings and sculptures; and Franco Mondini-Ruiz who fuses aesthetics of high and low in installations and creative economy widely accessible to people both within and outside the confines of the art world. Through narrative conversation, this thesis enriches overlapping theories that encompass our understandings of education and learning—mentorship, experiential learning, the aesthetic experience, place-based learning, communities of practice—through lived example, underscoring learning as a socially constructed phenomenon. Experiences of learning, unique and wholly individualized, contribute to a one’s sense of self and agency; in the case of the six artists featured in this study, creative experiences contribute to their identity as “artist” and motivated their pursuit of lifework and career.
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