Dissertations / Theses: 'In-Quest'

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Lavalle, Luci Maria Collin. "The quest motif in Snyder's." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/24430.

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Hood, Garfield Kevin. "Spirituality in the adult learning quest." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60394.pdf.

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Catt, Lindsay Joanne. "Quest : finding form in children's literature." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586731.

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The thesis will situate the novel Quest within the context of children's literature. It will refer to popular children's books with similar themes and styles, specifically J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy (1911), The Neverending Story (1983) by Michael Ende, and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997-2007). Quest is a fantasy novel aimed at nine to twelve year olds; it tells the story of Max, a boy who uses his imagination as an emotional shield. After a perilous journey from island to island, each one more fantastical than the next, Max learns to reconnect with his absent father. The critical element examines the role of heroes and villains within children's literature, while also looking at the contradictory figure of the 'heroic-villain' and other relevant elements of character. I take an essentially Formalist perspective in order to analyse Quest on a structural level, hoping to demonstrate that complex character arcs and themes can be realised from a strict foundation of basic rules.

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Kőpetz, Catalina Elena. "The quest for multifinality in goal pursuit." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7725.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Salisbury, Annika. "Martha's Unhomely Quest for the Homely : A Postcolonial Reading of the Protagonist Martha in Doris Lessing's Martha Quest." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-70857.

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The protagonist Martha in Doris Lessing’s Martha Quest is born to white British settler parents and grows up in a British colony in southern Africa in the 1930s. Although officially the coloniser rather than the colonised, Martha tries to reject this role mentally, verbally, and physically. This essay aims to show that a postcolonial reading of Martha in relation to the colonial context helps in understanding her double consciousness and, more specifically, her inability to find a real or lasting sense of home. Using Homi Bhabha’s concept of unhomeliness, the essay argues that Martha does not truly feel at home anywhere, because the “unhomely” always disturbs the “homely.” Through close reading of the text, it shows how Martha tries to find a sense of home in four areas of her life: her physical home, nature, her body, and her mind. This essay finds that despite Martha’s efforts in moving from her family home to rented accommodation, from the bush to the city, from girlhood to womanhood, and from her individual thoughts to the solidarity of others, she still does not feel at home anywhere. Whenever she starts to feel comfortable in a place or situation, unhomely moments, such as reminders of her nationality, race, or class, always disturb the homely feelings of belonging. Ultimately, Martha cannot escape her unhomeliness.
Huvudpersonen Martha i Doris Lessings Martha Quest är dotter till vita brittiska bosättare och växer upp i en brittisk koloni i södra Afrika på 1930-talet. Trots att hon formellt sett är kolonisatören snarare än den koloniserade, försöker Martha att avvisa denna roll mentalt, verbalt och fysiskt. Denna uppsats syftar till att visa att en postkolonial tolkning av Martha i förhållande till det koloniala sammanhanget bidrar till en förståelse av hennes dubbla medvetande och mer specifikt hennes oförmåga att hitta en verklig, eller bestående, känsla av hemma. Med hjälp av Homi Bhabhas koncept gällande o-hemlikhet argumenterar uppsatsen för att Martha inte känner sig riktigt hemma någonstans, eftersom det ”o-hemlika” alltid stör det ”hemlika.” Genom en noggrann läsning av texten visar den hur Martha försöker hitta känslan av ett hem inom fyra områden av sitt liv: sitt fysiska hem, naturen, sin kropp och sitt sinne. Denna uppsats konstaterar att trots Marthas ansträngningar att flytta från sitt familjehem till ett hyresrum, från land till stad, från ung flicka till kvinna och från sina individuella tankar till solidaritet med andra, känner hon sig fortfarande inte hemma någonstans. När hon börjar känna sig bekväm på ett ställe eller i ett läge, stör o-hemlika ögonblick i form av påminnelser om hennes nationalitet, ras eller klass alltid hennes hemlika känslor av tillhörighet. I slutändan kan Martha inte undgå sin o-hemlikhet.

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Win, Joe. "Molecular Quest for Avirulence Factors in Venturia inaequalis." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/397.

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The molecular basis for the gene-for-gene relationship of Vm-resistance in apple to Venturia inaequalis was investigated. Incompatible reactions involved a hypersensitive response (HR), which was accompanied by the accumulation of dark brown pigments and autofluorescent materials in epidermal and mesophyll cells at the site of invasion. Cell-free culture filtrates of the avirulent isolate elicited an HR in the Vm host (h5) leaves, but not in the susceptible host (h1). The elicitor activity was resistant to boiling but was abolished by proteinase K digestion. Elicitation of HR was used to monitor purification of the avirulence factor, AVRVm, from liquid cultures of the avirulent isolate following ultrafiltration, acetone precipitation and ion-exchange chromatography. The purest fraction contained three major proteins all with low isoelectric points (pI 3.0-4.5). The fraction also elicited HR on the differential host h4, but not on other resistant hosts (h2, h3 and h6) tested. Three candidate AVRVm proteins were identified and amino acid sequences were obtained using Edman degradation and mass spectrometry. Nucleotide sequences corresponding to these proteins were found in databases of V. inaequalis expressed sequence tags. There were no polymorphisms evident between avirulent and virulent isolates (representing races 1 and 5 respectively) either at genomic DNA or cDNA level of the full open reading frames. RT-PCR revealed that all genes were expressed in both avirulent and virulent isolates during in vitro and in planta growth. All three genes showed similar levels of expression between avirulent and virulent isolates during their in vitro growth. However, preliminary RT-PCR experiments showed that two of these genes were likely to be expressed at lower levels in the virulent compared with the avirulent isolate during compatible infection. Implications of this difference in expression and the future experiments to identify the genuine AvrVm gene were discussed.

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Moran, Renee Rice, and Monica Billen. "Poetry: A Remedy in the Quest for Fluency." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3590.

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Owen, Christopher. "Systemic oppression in children's portal-quest fantasy literature." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52890.

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This thesis investigates the representation of systemic oppression in Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Employing Foucauldian poststructuralism and critical discourse analysis, this research identifies how the social systems of the fantasy texts construct hierarchies based on race and gender, and social norms based on sexuality and disability. Privilege and oppression are identified as the results of the relaying of power relations by social institutions through strategies such as dominant discourses. This study questions the historically understood role of children’s and fantasy literature as socialization tools, and the potential negative consequences of this.
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Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of
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Zhang, Li. "International Branch Campuses in China| Quest for Legitimacy." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10107769.

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A new organization often encounters the “liability of newness” that increases its chance of failing as a start-up enterprise (Freeman et al, 1983). New organizations located in a foreign country also face the “liability of foreignness” (Zaheer & Mosakowski, 1997). By gaining legitimacy, organizations can obtain the resources they need to become sustainable. The liabilities of newness and foreignness aptly describe the international branch campuses that have been set up in China.

Scott’s (1995) institutional legitimacy pillars and Suchman’s (1995) legitimacy theory are combined to form a new conceptual legitimacy framework to understand legitimacy issues in China. This qualitative study selects seven cases to answer this research question: What strategies do the international branch campuses use to gain social support from different constituencies? The institutions studied are: The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, New York University Shanghai, United International College Shenzhen, Dongbei University of Economy and Finance Surrey International Institute, Southeast University-Monash University Joint Graduate School (Suzhou), and The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies.

Fifty-two interviews were conducted with senior institutional leaders, faculty, staff, students, parents, scholars, and employers. The research found that these international institutions did face the twin liabilities of newness and foreignness. However, being new and foreign could actually give these institutions legitimacy as well. The international institutions used all four strategies identified in the literature to gain the four pillars of legitimacy. An important caveat of the study is that the environment is significant in institutions gaining legitimacy, but the primary factor in acquiring legitimacy is the quality of their product.

This study has several limitations, including one missing case, fewer foreign interviewees, the uneven amount of information available at each institution, translation difficulties between two very different languages and cultures, and data provided by the institutions might be self-serving. The results indicate four avenues for further research. They are legitimacy thresholds; legitimacy from the perspective of the home institutions; the failed international branch campuses; education quality at these IBCs; and the evolving political dynamics in China.

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Dunavant, Lloyd B. "A quest for wholeness using symbolic myth in ritual." Chicago, Ill. : McCormick Theological Seminary, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Suhartono, Martinus E. "A quest for time in the Gospel of John." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337088.

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Westwood, Daniel. "The concept of quest in Byron, Shelley, and Keats." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18219/.

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This thesis examines the role of quest in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats. It argues that as proponents of a self-conscious quest poetry, each poet presents quest as a mode that gives shape to desire, but also one that demands scrutiny in its pursuit of potentialities. Utilising a new-formalist approach to poetry, the thesis presents these poets’ interrogations of quest as inseparable from the formal and generic qualities of their work, showing each poet locating artistic achievement in a performative approach to difficulty and struggle. Developing Harold Bloom’s argument that the Romantics create an ‘internalized’ quest-romance, I show each poet formulating their own unique sense of quest. While Byron tends towards disruption only to stop short of dismantling quest, Shelley’s quest revels in a purposeful precariousness. For Keats, quest represents a means of enacting his voyage towards capable poethood. The first chapter, on Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III, shows Byron disrupting his quest for self-transcendence through his use of the doubling trope. Chapter two compares Manfred and The Deformed Transformed, arguing that Byron’s dramas disrupt quest by foregrounding tensions between rhetoric and achievement. Chapter three views Shelley’s quests in Epipsychidion and Adonais as galvanised by the uncertain relationship between self and other. Chapter four traces the ambiguous role of movement in Shelley’s quest, focusing on the Scrope Davies Notebook and The Triumph of Life. Chapter five, on Sleep and Poetry and Endymion, presents rhyme as central to Keats’s quest to master a longer work of poetry. The final chapter examines the Hyperion poems, arguing that Keats refigures the epic to perform his progression towards poetic authority. By placing quest centre stage in their poetics, Byron, Shelley, and Keats produce poetry that is attuned to the aspiration underpinning human experience. Though tested, scrutinised, and interrogated throughout their works, quest also affords each poet an opportunity to glimpse the loftiest heights of possibility and achievement.

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Fakhro, Elham. "Belgrave's quest for moral order in Bahrain, 1926-1957." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e721f4e9-fdcf-4a64-a113-6f5790371a1a.

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This thesis examines how colonial decision-makers in Bahrain restricted, regulated and controlled the consumption of alcohol and practice of prostitution as immoral activities. It analyzes these activities as visible sites for understanding how colonial decision-makers relied on the Law to enforce a distinct moral authority in Bahrain, and reflects on the political imperatives behind these regulatory projects. It shows how colonial actors justified moral regulations as necessary to protect local custom, and saw their ability to be seen as protecting customary values as intimately tied to their political legitimacy in Bahrain. The thesis further identifies the impact of moral regulation in constituting and reinforcing a hierarchal social order, which posited Western nationals as the ultimate benefactors of social privilege. The thesis places the project of moral regulation in its historic context, and identifies it as a response to social and demographic changes taking place in Bahrain following two transformative events: the discovery of oil in 1932, and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the impact of these events in driving an influx of British and American oil workers and military servicemen to Bahrain, many of whom engaged in visible displays of drunkenness and debauchery. It shows how colonial officials responsible for exercising authority over Bahrain viewed these trends with alarm, as likely to spur a broader process of social decline, and ultimately bring about challenges to Britain's political legitimacy in Bahrain. The thesis analyzes the regulatory responses enacted by colonial decision-makers to limit the spread of these corrupting recreational habits, in the context of a transforming urban environment. In liquor-control, it shows how colonial actors created and enforced a liquor-licensing system, which prohibited Bahraini nationals, Muslims, and most non-Muslim Arabs from purchasing and consuming liquor, while ensuring this privilege remained available to a minority group of mostly British and American nationals. It locates a second site of moral regulation laws governing prostitution. In this area, the thesis describes how colonial officials regulated and restricted prostitution as an undesirable activity, including by confining the practice to a geographic zone, subjecting prostitute women to mandatory health screenings, and justifying these actions as necessary to curb an epidemic of venereal diseases.

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Latapie, Cecilia Marie. "The quest for entrepreneurial growth in a tumultuous Brazil." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17069.

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This case introduces the concept of entrepreneurial funding and tackles the issue of how startups can find growth amidst economic downturn. Students follow the development of Carrinho em Casa, an entrepreneurial venture that offers a grocery delivery service to its clients in less than two hours. Although it offers a unique service in its marketplace, Carrinho em Casa is having trouble scaling its business due to difficult economic conditions and limited financial flexibility. Nearly a year after its launch, the co-founders of Carrinho em Casa are at a crossroads and remain unsure of how to take their business to the next level. On the one hand, co-founder David is advocating the need for external capital, arguing that obtaining VCbacked funding would provide Carrinho em Casa with the boost it desperately needs. On the other hand, co-founder Ricardo believes bootstrapping is the wiser solution. He insists that Carrinho em Casa should continue to grow organically through its already unit-profitable business, and as a consequence maintain total ownership of the company. The case introduces the concepts of VC funding and bootstrapping and encourages students to explore the opportunities and challenges of these different types of financing. The case allows students to grapple with the strategic and tactical decisions related to funding and pushes them to better understand how such decisions can impact all aspects of the business: sales, profits, management, motivation, incentives and exit opportunities, amongst others. Finally students are encouraged to reflect on the numerous challenges and opportunities related to starting an entrepreneurial venture in emerging markets under difficult economic, political and social conditions.
Este caso apresenta o conceito de financiamento empresarial e aborda a questão de como as start-ups podem encontrar crescimento, mesmo durante uma crise econômica. Neste trabalho, os estudantes seguem o desenvolvimento da Carrinho em Casa, um empreendimento que oferece um serviço rápido de entrega de compras de supermercado. Apesar de oferecer um serviço único no mercado brasileiro, a empresa Carrinho em Casa está tendo problemas para escalar suas operações, devido a condições econômicas difíceis e flexibilidade financeira limitada. Quase um ano após o lançamento da start-up, os cofundadores de Carrinho em Casa estão em uma encruzilhada e estão discutindo como levar a empresa para frente. Por um lado, o cofundador David está defendendo a necessidade de capital externo, argumentando que a obtenção de financiamento apoiada pelos VC daria à Carrinho em Casa o impulso que precisa desesperadamente. Por outro lado, o cofundador Ricardo acredita que o 'bootstrapping' é a solução a mais sábia. Ele insiste que a Carrinho em Casa que já é 'unit profitable', deveria continuar a crescer organicamente. Consequentemente, eles deveriam manter a propriedade total da empresa. Este caso apresenta os conceitos de financiamento VC e bootstrapping e incentiva os alunos a explorar as oportunidades e os desafios destes diferentes tipos de financiamento. O caso permite que os alunos pensem nas decisões estratégicas e táticas relacionadas ao financiamento e empurra-los para entender melhor como essas decisões podem afetar todos os aspectos do negócio: vendas, lucros, gestão, motivação, incentivos e oportunidades de saída, entre outros. Finalmente, os alunos são encorajados a refletir sobre os inúmeros desafios e oportunidades relacionadas com lançar um empreendimento em mercados emergentes caracterizados por condições econômicas, políticas e sociais difíceis.

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Argade, Malaika. "Galantamine's Deconstruction in the Quest of a PAM Pharmacophore." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5461.

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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder generally affecting people above the age of 65 years. Even though the pathophysiological hallmarks of AD were established more than a hundred years ago, there is yet to be a drug that can stop its characteristic neuronal damage. Of the five currently FDA-approved drugs, galantamine has a unique mechanism of action. Apart from being an AChE inhibitor, galantamine can effectively potentiate (positive allosteric modulator) the effect of agonists at nAChRs at concentrations lower than those required for its action as an AChE inhibitor. Perhaps the clinical benefits observed with galantamine are associated mainly with its nAChRs-PAM action and not its AChE inhibitory effect. Inhibiting AChE causes a delay in the degradation of ACh and a prolonged presence of ACh might act at either nAChRs or mAChRs. By indirectly targeting mAChRs as well, AChE inhibitors may lead to potential side effects. Hence there is a need for specific nAChR agents. The aim of this study was to identify the structural features of galantamine that contribute solely towards its a7 nAChR-PAM effect. In doing so, we wish to divorce the structural features that might be important for interacting with AChE. Using the deconstruction approach, we have synthesized structurally abbreviated analogs of galantamine. To study the probable interactions, we docked these molecules in human a7 nAChR homology models. Ultimately, it is of interest to determine which analogs retain the PAM activity of galantamine and to address that, a preliminary screening was performed with a select few analogs using the two-electrode voltage clamp technique

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Charles-Lynch, Erica. "Women's Quest to Occupy Executive Positions in Corporate America." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4607.

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Women comprise 50.8% of the United States population and 47% of the workforce, and over the past few decades, many women have been promoted to midmanagement positions in Fortune 500 and other major corporations, but few run companies at the executive levels. The research problem addressed the underrepresentation of women in top leadership positions in the executive suite. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of women in upper level management in large corporations on rising to the C-suite. A basic qualitative naturalistic inquiry was used employing interviews in collecting and analyzing the data. The targeted population was 15 women in senior positions between the ages of 25 and 60, who have worked for a company with a minimum of 5 years' experience. Introductions by friends and snowballing sampling were used to select 15 participants for the semistructured interviews. The results of the interviews were analyzed through the completion of a content analysis obtained through coding to allow for the identification of emergent themes. Key findings indicated the emergence of the following themes: loss of confidence, mentoring, sponsoring, and diversity. The study was socially significant in that it provided information for policy changes, access to sponsorship and mentorship programs, and promotion of social change in relation to gender equality in the workplace.

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Miles, Lesley Margaret Pears. "The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19513.

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This study is an examination of the development of the quest motif in Alice Walker's novels, from a male quest in the first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, to the female quests which supersede it in the two later novels, Meridian and The Color Purple. In this analysis, brief reference is made to Walker's poetry, essays, and short stories, as well as to texts by black male writers and other Afro-American women writers.

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Gianuzzi, Armijo J. V. "César Vallejo’s journalism in context : a quest for autonomy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1425690/.

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This thesis examines the different production contexts of the journalistic output of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938). Taking the notion of the writer's autonomy as a guiding thread, the study traces Vallejo's development as a journalist and describes the different ways in which he negotiated with external agents when producing his articles. The first chapter explores Vallejo's early acquaintance with journalism in Peru and places his first chronicles within the discourses of literature, the academy, and the press. It reveals Vallejo's early notion of journalism as a vehicle for advancing his own literary concerns. The second chapter analyzes Vallejo's negotiations with the journalistic market after his trip to Europe. This change in production context brought about a change in his writing, as he had to model his texts considering the established tradition of the Parisian chronicle. By analyzing not only his texts but also the images he provided for his illustrated articles, the chapter shows that Vallejo's use of irony was his main tool to provide, at the same time, a description and a critique of Parisian modernity. The third chapter assesses Vallejo's place in the official and unofficial artistic world of Paris. By taking a closer look at his relationship with the Peruvian government, it demonstrates how he tried to model some of his French articles to garner future economic benefits from Leguia's regime. The last chapter traces Vallejo's politicization during the late 192os through his acquaintance with Marxism and dialectics. It examines the corrections he made when collecting some of his articles in book form in order to withdraw his writing from the more mundane context of the periodical press. The study is complemented by a complete bibliography of Vallejo's uncollected prose and by an appendix collecting eleven new articles discovered during the research.

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Danet, Georgiana. "Quest Atlantis as an alternative educational tool – Children’s voices on Quest Atlantis and a method for involving users in participatory design." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för för interaktion och systemdesign, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1766.

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Alternative educational tools have been investigated, in form of a meta-game structure, a computer-based educational software (Quest Atlantis) which was used in an after-school environment within the frame of Fifth Dimension site in Ronneby. The study is based on field material from five sessions, each of two hours. A first focus in this thesis is on the extent to which such a virtual environment can be used for educational purposes, to which extent it can supplement the traditional educational system. A second focus is on how appropriate the software is to its educational purpose and how it can be improved by means of participatory design. The analysis of the data shows that computer games are a rich setting for human learning, in a more dynamic, active and involving manner than traditional education. In this particular case, we came to the conclusion how the software has to be improved in order to suite children’s computer skills and we came up with an original method for involving users in participatory design.
Alternativa utbildningsverktyg har studerats, i form av en meta-spel struktyr, en databaserad utbildning software (Quest Atlantis), som har varit använt i en efterskola miljö, inom Fifth Dimension ramar, i Ronneby. Studiet baseras på fältmaterialet från fem sessioner, varje session på två timmar. En först fokuspunkt i det här arbetet koncentrerar sig på: till vilken mån en sådan virtuel miljö kan användas för utbildnigssyfte och kan supplimentera det traditionella utbildningssystemet. En andra fokupunkt koncentrerar sig på hur lämpligt mjukvara är för dess utbildningssyften och hur den kan förbättras med hjälp av participatory design. Analysen av data visar att dataspel är rika miljöer för mänsklig lärande, på ett mer dynamiskt, aktivt och involverande sätt än traditionell utbildning. I det här studiet har vi kommit fram till att hur man kan förbättra mjukvaran för att passa barnens datavana och vi har uppfunnit en original metod för att involvera användare i participatory design.
This thesis has been conducted at the Department of Human Work Science, Media Technology and Humanities at Blekinge Institute of Technology in the fields of work science and computer science.

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Rúnarsdóttir, Arna. "The Quest for Functional Quasi-Species in Glutathione Transferase Libraries." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för biokemi och organisk kemi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-122378.

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Glutathione transferases (GSTs) are good candidates for investigations of enzyme evolution, due to their broad substrate specificities and structural homology. The primary role of GSTs is to act as phase II detoxifying enzymes protecting the cell from toxic compounds of both endo- and exogenous origins. The detoxification is conducted via conjugation with glutathione (GSH), which facilitates their removal from the body. The work presented in this thesis has supported a theory for enzyme evolution when the multiple pathway to novel functions can been seen to involve a “generalist” state from which “specialist” states with a new activities can evolve. The generalist has broader specificity and lower activity than the specialist. The term quasi-species is used for a group or cluster of enzyme variants with similar functional properties, and this entity has been suggested as the fittest group for further evolution. This is based on studies of the evolution of new GST variants in two generation. Three diverging clusters or quasi-species, with diverging substrate selectivity, were identified from a GST M1/M2 library, by using directed evolution (family DNA shuffling), multiple substrate screening and multivariate statistics as tools. One of the clusters was M1-like and the other was M2-like, both functionally and structurally. The third quasi-species diverged orthogonally from the parent-like distributions. Its functional character can be referred to as a “generalist” as it had lower activities with most of the substrates assayed except for epoxy-3-(4-nitrophenoxy)-propane (EPNP) and p-nitrophenyl acetate (pNPA). Another round of family DNA shuffling was made with selected variants from the “generalist” quasi-species. From the second generation three quasi-species emerged with diverging functions and sequences. The major cluster contained enzyme variants that represented a direct propagation of the generalists. Diverging from the generalists was a cluster with high specificity with isothiocyanates (ITCs). Increased ITC specificity and decreased epoxide specificity was observed among the novel variants (specialists). The change in functional properties was attributed to a Tyr116His substitution in the active site. These results demonstrate the usefulness of multivariate analysis in the quest for novel enzyme quasi-species in a multi-substrate space, and how minimal changes in the active site can generate distinctive functional properties. An application of our method could be identification of enzyme quasi-species that have lost their sensitivity with alternative inhibitors.

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Verwijs, Marinus Jacobus. "Stick-slip in powder flow a quest for coherence length /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0013049.

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Yamagishi, Naomi Rochelle. "A woman of color in education, a postmodern vision quest." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21656.pdf.

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Au-Yeung, Chi-ying. "The quest for individuality student's lives in Shanghai, 1919-1937 /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37736978.

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Walker, Robin J. "Awakening tiger India's quest for expanded influence in the world." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/08Mar%5FWalker%5FRobin.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (South Asia))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2008.
Thesis Advisor(s): Knopf, Jeffrey W. ; Lavoy, Peter R. "March 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on May 16, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-103). Also available in print.

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Sirias, Silvio Vital. "The quest for meaning in "Don Quijote de la Mancha"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186351.

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The importance of the act of reading is one of Miguel de Cervantes's central concerns in Don Quijote de la Mancha. The Spanish author recognizes the importance of the reader and the role that he or she plays in the creation of the literary text. The departure point of the novel is based upon the imaginative encounters between chivalric texts and the mind of an obsessed reader--Don Quijote, himself. Don Quijote, however, is not only a book about an aged madman, it is also a book in which a legion of readers and aspiring writers dwell, and whose background knowledge at times clashes and at other times merges with the knight errant's to create a vivid theatrical atmosphere. This dissertation, The Quest for Meaning in Don Quijote de la Mancha, applies reader-centered theories, in particular schema theory, in order to analyse Cervantes's inclusion of characters who are knowledgeable about the chivalresque and how this affects our own quest for meaning. In reading the novel, it becomes easy to observe that the characters, like ourselves, struggle to create meaning out of their encounters with Don Quijote and the literary world that he represents. This study examines the literary codes that inscribe the characters within the system of Don Quijote de la Mancha. It also examines how the inscribed characters, readers and the most significant non-readers, contribute to the readability of the novel. In addition, it observes the codes and conventions, whether aesthetic or cultural, that the characters reveal to us, the external readers, which facilitate, or perhaps complicate, our making sense of Don Quijote. Among the central topics explored are: Don Quijote's chivalric framework and how he employs it to make the world outside of his library walls seem chivalric; Sancho Panza's acquisition of a chivalric framework which helps him to provide meaning to his adventures; how the knight errant and his squire develop the illusion of mastery in their professions; the secondary characters' employment of their background knowledge as readers in their quest to extract meaning from their encounters with Don Quijote; the characters as writers, themselves; and, finally, the texts which Don Quijote de la Mancha incorporates into itself, making them a part of its repertoire, and how this further complicates the creation of meaning for us, the external readers.

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Hart, Ian M. "The Quest to Institutionalise a Social Report in American Government." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519776.

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Au-Yeung, Chi-ying, and 歐陽志英. "The quest for individuality: student's lives in Shanghai, 1919-1937." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37736978.

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Chan, Mark Lap-Yan. "Hermeneutics, contingency and the quest for transcontextual criteria in Christology." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243713.

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Mitchell, Vernon Calvin. "Forgotten struggle : the quest for freedom in East St. Louis /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1422944.

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Jones, Patricia A. "Refugee Community Organisations working in partnership : The quest for recognition." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/832/.

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This thesis was based on five multi-agency, urban Partnerships at the heart of the Accommodate Project: An initiative that set out to stimulate grassroots resolution to the problem of refugee housing, settlement and integration, at a time when large numbers of people were arriving seeking asylum in the UK. Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs) were engaged by the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (hact) to work alongside housing providers, local authority partners and others, for three years in five cities where refugees were struggling to find permanent housing. My original contribution to knowledge concerned study of the Partnerships from the perspective of organisations working with the most socially excluded, the RCOs. The Partnerships created a structure where power could be brokered. Research was conducted in a critical realist tradition in order to discover the relationship between emerging themes. Connections made between structural barriers and local interaction meant this approach presented a bigger picture view that other methodologies might have overlooked. A longitudinal methodology tracked progression from the marginalised position that was the starting point for many RCOs, struggling to survive and fill the gaps in service provision for community members. By the end of the Project, RCO partners had changed attitudes, improved access to housing services and transformed institutional relations between social housing providers and refugees. Hact’s support for RCO capacity building was fundamental to their being able to influence the agenda, define the solutions and participate in policy decision-making. The Accommodate Project created a learning space that countered marginalisation by actively involving community groups in cross-sector partnerships. This study demonstrates that community empowerment is an accumulative yet uneven process. A participatory approach allows less engaged groups to learn quickly from those that are better established. If the intention of community empowerment is to lead to fundamental change, the role of active management strategies by a catalyst such as hact is paramount. The thesis deploys and develops theories of community empowerment and network management to conceptualise the social inclusion of marginalised groups.

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Kacos, Samantha Anne. "Reconstructing respect : the quest for prestige in the international system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68963.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2011.
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Prestige is a term that appears in a wide range of international relations literature, but it is rarely ever defined. There is a vague consensus that prestige involves measures of status and respect, but its exact usage is different in every work. This thesis analyzes the various manifestations of prestige to develop a workable definition of the concept and then uses this definition to show how prestige plays a role in the major foreign policy decisions of states. This thesis argues that prestige motivations can overcome security concerns in some instances and cause a state to take an action that seems irrational. This is especially true if the state has recently suffered a severe drop in prestige, such as one incurred after losing a war, becoming isolated from the international community or facing state collapse. When such a dramatic loss occurs a state must take one of four paths to salvage its lost reputation: winning a war, becoming an economic power, taking the lead on an important political negotiation or developing nuclear weapons. This thesis uses two large case studies - Iran and Egypt - along with three smaller case surveys - France, Japan and Pakistan - to illustrate these four paths of status adjustment in action. It also presents a dataset of states that have suffered a severe loss in prestige to show how states can lose prestige and how they can gain it back.
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Ropa, Anastasija. "Representations of the Grail quest in medieval and modern literature." Thesis, Bangor University, 2014. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/representations-of-the-grail-quest-in-medieval-and-modern-literature(f6ca3faa-16eb-499a-b941-10d93dd8b6cf).html.

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This thesis explores the representation and meaning of the Grail quest in medieval and modern literature, using the methodologies of historically informed criticism and feminist criticism. In the thesis, I consider the themes of death, gender relations and history in two medieval romances and three modern novels in which the Grail quest is the structuring motif. Comparing two sets of texts coming from different historical periods enhances our understanding of each text, because not only are the modern texts influenced by their medieval precursors, but also our perception of medieval Grail quest romances is modified by modern literature. Studying medieval and modern Grail quest literature side by side also places the phenomenon of modern medievalism into a new perspective; this approach brings out the differences between the Grail quest in texts written in a society that shared a set of Christian values and those written in a post-religious context. Research conducted in the thesis shows that the texts within each group also differ between themselves, depending on the socio-historical circumstances in which the texts were written and read. In the first part of the thesis (Chapters 1-4), I discuss the themes of death, the role of women as spiritual guides, and the relation between familial and world history in two medieval romances. I approach these issues from the perspective of minor characters, women and non-elect knights (who have previously been little studied). I argue that the experiences of these marginal characters are important for understanding both the context in which the romances‟ major characters operate and the representation of questers in modern literature, which often places the unheroic, ordinary or even deviant characters into the limelight. In the second part of the thesis (Chapters 5-7), I consider three modern novels that use the Christian motif of the Grail quest to structure their narratives, examining ways in which modern writers use medieval tropes in a post-religious age. In each chapter, I explore the place of death, relations between the questers and female characters and the impact of family and the world histories on the individual‟s identity in the respective novel. The conclusion brings together the research findings and suggests areas for further research in medieval and modern literature about the Grail quest.

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Orr, David J. "The existential quest for exemplary autonomy in three major novels." Scholarly Commons, 1998. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2332.

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Presenting and applying an ideal developmental model for the classical existential hero, or main character, provides a functional paradigm for discrimination between essentialist and existential texts. In particular it allows for degrees of fine existential differentiation amongst the hero's acts of any literary work. The paradigm does so by making it possible clearly to discern and describe the "recuperation" that a reader must do to render an "impaired" text intelligible. The paradigm covers four phases of transformational activity by the hero, more or less successfully negotiated, depending on the given work under analysis; vacillation/bad faith; crisis/arrest; abrogation/nothingness; and nihilation/project choice. Only one of the three novels so analyzed, Camus' The Stranger, contains a hero, Meursault, who is able to engage this paradigm successfully. The other two novels, not generally associated with existentialism, Heller's Something Happened and Chopin's The Awakening, reveal important and explicable variations of the model, but neither finally gives an exemplary authentic hero. The value of this paradigm is the way it functions as a dynamic heuristics, as a template, to isolate and render meaningful the dimensions of the career of each main character of these works as an "existential murderer." After an introduction of the paradigm, the thesis analyzes the tragic suicide of Mrs. Edna Pontellier, the comic infanticide of Bob Slocum, and the tragicomic homicide of Meursault.

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Ozertugrul, Selin. "crys.tal.line_ a quest in realms of structure, skin and space." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33895.

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The articulation of frame and skin forms the space concertedly. The project, stemming from this assertion, searches, explores and articulates the intricate relationship between structure, skin and space as prominent elements of architecture.
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Torres, David L., and Melissa Amado. "The quest for power: Hispanic collective action in frontier Arizona." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624809.

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O'Regan, Inge Brigitta. ""Zuwachs unsrer existenz" : the quest for Being in J.M.R. Lenz." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31078.

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Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792), whose plays have been acclaimed as the prototype of the modern drama of Brecht and Durrenmatt, is a controversial figure who rose to prominence on the German literary scene in the early seventeen seventies. Among Lenz's theoretical writings is the influential essay "Anmerkungen ubers Theater," in which he introduces his innovative dramatic theories and describes the independent protagonists he envisions for the German stage. In the same essay, he demands "Zuwachs unsrer Existenz" (a heightened awareness of existence) from contemporary drama. However, in marked contrast to the "Anmerkungen," the protagonists of his two most prominent plays, Der Hofmeister (1774) and Die Soldaten (1776), are self-alienated, ontologically insecure individuals who seem victims of the socio-political realities of their times. Not surprisingly, critics are divided in their opinion as to what the contradictions in Lenz's oeuvre signify. Lenz was a student of Immanuel Kant's between 1768 and 1770, a time when the latter was formulating ideas that would find their full expression years later in his critical philosophy. In 1770, Kant presented his inaugural address "de mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis" (On the Form and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World) to the assembled faculty and students of KCnigsberg Academy, among them J.M.R. Lenz. It is in the inaugural dissertation that Kant introduces his thesis of the individual as an inhabitant of two "worlds," the noumenal and the phenomenal, a central concept in his first critique, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, which would be published in 1781. This study examines Lenz's thoughts as they surface in his theoretical essays and his major plays and puts forward the thesis that it is Kant's division of the self into an intelligible and a sensible realm which prompts Lenz's call for "Zuwachs unsrer Existenz." Lenz's quest is fuelled, furthermore, by his acute awareness of the ontological insecurity of the individual self, an awareness which seems to anticipate the thought of Kierkegaard. The overriding purpose of this thesis is, through a reevaluation of Lenz's theoretical and dramatic works, to elucidate this eighteenth-century writer's quest for authentic being, a quest that he considered to be the individual's most urgent task.
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Hedayat, Roland. "Semantic Web Technologies in the Quest for Compatible Distributed Health Records." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-122645.

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There is a proliferation of patient bound Electronic Health Record (EHR) data in systems that are incompatible - challenging the goal of granting authorized access to the accumulated medical history of a patient, whenever requested, and whichever the source, in order to secure a safe treatment.

A common semantic representation is a prerequisite for validating the semantics of one EHR system against another. Therefore, assessing the semantic compatibility between systems implies having a formal method for extracting their semantics, and for validating the consistency of their combined semantics. A guiding hypothesis is that Semantic Web Technologies and Ontology Web Language (OWL) are potential bridging technologies between the EHRs and medical terminologies, and can be used to represent the combined semantics of the systems to be integrated. Furthermore, that automatic reasoners can perform semantic validation of the combined subsystems.

Some experimental steps in this direction are taken, preceded by a discussion on Medical Terminologies, Ontologies, EHR-systems and theirinterrelationships, and a summary overview of Description Logics, the Semantic Web and the Web Ontology Language, OWL.

The OpenEHR reference model is transformed from an XML-schema representation to OWL, and a couple of archetypes are transformed into OWL in a manual procedure. Subsequently, validation runs with a formal reasoner on the transformed results were performed, demonstrating the feasibility of the process.

The problems of EHR semantic interoperability are complex. Awareness of the necessity of applying formal semantic methods when dealing with inherently semantic problems will catalyze the process of solving them.

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Simsek-Caglar, Ayse. "German Turks in Berlin : migration and their quest for social mobility." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41770.

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This study examines the dynamics of German Turks' practices and life-styles and their relationship with Turkey in the context of the possibilities brought into their lives by their particular type of dislocation. Turkish migrants' "culture" and life-styles are explored in the context of their complex social space, rather than within a framework encapsulated in a reified ethnicity and/or immutable "Turkish culture".
Chapter I discusses concepts of ethnicity, culture and identity and presents a critical account of the literature on German Turks in this respect. Chapter II focuses on the ambiguities and insecurities of German Turks' legal, political and social status in both Turkey and Germany, and traces the consequences of these conditions on Turkish migrants' complex sense of place. The discussion of German Turks' "myths of return" in the context of their liminality and the impact these have on their self-image and their visions about their lives constitute the focus of chapters III and IV respectively. Chapter V explores the changing nature of Turkish migrants' interpersonal relationships. Chapter VI concentrates on the anomalies of the social space occupied by German Turks in German society and discusses their life-styles, practices and emergent cultural forms in the context of social mobility.

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Stelzig, Timea [Verfasser]. "Donor–acceptor systems in the quest for organic semiconductors / Timea Stelzig." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1022300717/34.

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Williamsen, Elizabeth A. "The quest for collective identity in the Middle English Charlemagne Romances." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. 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:3380139.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 14, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4673. Adviser: Patricia C. Ingham.

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Sammut, Jeremy 1971. "The quest for civic virtue : citizenship and politics in federal Australia." Monash University, School of Historical Studies, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7610.

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Lancaster, Daniel Foertsch Jacqueline. "A futile quest for a sustainable relationship in Welty's short fiction." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3652.

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Doyle, Rebecca. "Adam and Eve's eternal quest for Eden in the adventure game /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ard7547.pdf.

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Manetsch, Scott Michael 1959. "Theodore Beza and the quest for peace in France, 1572-1598." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289544.

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Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France examines the changing political strategies and religious attitudes of French Protestant leaders between the Saint Bartholomew's day massacres (1572) and the Edict of Nantes (1598). The hand-picked successor of John Calvin in 1564, Theodore Beza was an influential teacher, preacher, and power-broker in Geneva, as well as a prominent exiled leader of the French Reformed churches during the next four decades. Drawing on Beza's correspondence network, city archival materials and rare Huguenot pamphlets, I reconstruct the survival tactics of French Protestants in response to Catholic advances, document the decline in Huguenot expectations after 1572, and examine how social and political factors created widening ideological fissures within the Reformed movement by century's end. In highlighting the patterns of thought of the Huguenot leadership, my research contributes to an understanding of Protestant mentalities during the turbulent era of the French civil wars. In the aftermath of the massacres of 1572, Beza and other exiled leaders in Geneva were not only theorists of political resistance, but major players in Protestant agitation against the Valois monarchy. As the Reformed churches withered under royal persecution and Catholic missionary activities during the next decade, the reformer and his colleagues gradually aligned their political fortunes with Henri of Navarre. Beza tempered, but did not abandon his resistance theories when Navarre became presumptive heir to the French throne (1584). In return for a secret--hitherto unknown--annual stipend, Beza became Navarre's 'public relations agent' in Germany and Switzerland, raising money and mercenaries for Huguenot armies in the years prior to Henri's accession (1589). The bonds of friendship, patriotism and patronage made Beza a dedicated supporter of the person and program of Henri IV, even after the king converted to Catholicism in 1594. Thereafter, he urged the Reformed to trust the king's peace overtures, while attempting to silence 'moderates' who advocated doctrinal compromise in return for a political settlement. Though welcoming the Edict of Nantes, Beza and other Protestant leaders recognized that prospects for reform in France had been decisively curtained: 'the golden age has degenerated into a century of iron.'

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Nievergelt, Marco. "Spiritual Knighthood, Allegotical Quests; The Knightly Quest in Sixteenth-Century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491083.

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Mok, Ka Ho. "The quest for democracy : intellectuals and the state in contemporary China." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1378/.

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The present study first establishes a framework for examining sociologically how ideas are formed with particular reference to the examination of Chinese intellectuals' conceptualization of democracy. The basis for this framework is K. Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, together with A. Gramsci's sociology of intellectuals and P. Bourdieu's notion of intellectual field. Deriving the insights from these scholars we hope to establish a more coherent conceptual framework for the analysis of intellectual production. With this framework in hand, the next step was to determine a reasonable approach to the examination of the ideological formation of Chinese intellectuals. The source of information for the study came from the first-hand intensive interviews with the selected intellectuals. Besides, the present study also scrutinizes the works of these intellectuals whose works have spanned the years especially from the May Fourth Movement (1919) to the June Fourth Incident (1989). Their perceptions of democracy, freedom and human rights provide vital clues for determining the complete picture of the evolution on the idea of democracy in contemporary China. No one intellectual has managed to suggest what democracy is, but using the theoretical framework and examining the interviews, writings and speeches of these intellectuals over a period of several years have allowed this researcher to develop a systematic and a more integrated view of democracy as formulated by Chinese intellectuals. In the process of analyzing the ideological production of Chinese intellectuals, this writer has also discovered the emergence of new and different relationships which have developed between Chinese intellectuals and the state. At the same time as they have become more independent, the nature of their critique has changed. In the past Chinese intellectuals criticized only the corruption of government and never the system of government itself. But post-Mao intellectuals have thrown off the fetters of their predecessors and turned their attacks on the system of their repressive Communist regime. Those who, in an earlier era, were fiercely loyal to the Communist ideals now speak only of the myth of a Communist utopia. Their criticism of the crises in China and their critique of state socialism reveal not only their scepticism of socialist praxis but also their wishes to make China more democratic. One point which deserves special attention is that the present research finds that the sixth generation of intellectuals has become more conscious about their independent role, rethinking a new relationship with the state and they have distinguished themselves from the establishment. The most significant finding of the present research is the fact that the ideological formation is greatly affected by the social location, the educational orientation and generational location of intellectuals. More importantly, a deeper understanding of how Chinese intellectuals conceive the ideas of democracy is significantly determined by the particular socio-historical and socio-cultural contexts in which the ideas are formed. The present study also observes that intellectual radicalism is greatly constrained by the socioeconomic and political opportunities that intellectuals have access. With different social locations and socio-economic-political opportunities to which intellectuals access, they may adopt different strategies in coping with the state. After the June Fourth massacre, many Chinese intellectuals with critical thinking were forced to exile overseas. The writer also finds that these exiled intellectuals have deeper reflection of democracy and also their relationship with the state especially when their socio-political circumstances have changed. Adding these observations together, it is highly indicative to us that Chinese intellectuals have struggled for a more autonomous social position and endeavored to have a new relationship with the state.

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Csertháti, Márta. "Methods and models in the third quest of the historical Jesus." Thesis, Durham University, 2000. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4369/.

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In this thesis I examine some of the major contributions to current historical Jesus research, now commonly known as the third quest of the historical Jesus. As most of the participants in the third quest define their work primarily as historiography, in Chapter 11 situate these reconstructions in the landscape of present-day historiography, with special attention to the reaction of the authors in question to the challenge of postmodernism. In view of the methodological diversity of the third quest as well as the lack of consensus about the criteria to be used in the reconstructions or in their evaluation, after a brief survey in Chapter 2 of the history of "criteriology" in life-of-Jesus research, I found It necessary to devise my own list of evaluative criteria in Chapter 3. The general criteria are to do with the overall shape and style of the reconstructions, while the criteria of historical reasoning evaluate them in terms of their presentation as historiography. Finally, a modified version of the "traditional" criteria of the historical-critical method is designed to evaluate the text-related arguments within the reconstructions. In chapter 4 I analyse some selected contributions from the standpoint of the most hotly debated issue within the third quest, eschatology.

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Kaustrater, Maria Elisabeth. "Maori and Pakeha : the quest for identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248006.

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Gray, Karen Anne. "Families' lives in and out of poverty : stories from Project QUEST /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008344.

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Chua, Daniel Meng-Wah. "A quest for spiritual renewal in Mount Carmel Bible-Presbyterian Church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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