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Salameh, Hadeel J. "Dancing with Birds." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552037191445985.
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Schwartz, Katrina. ""It might be all one language" narrative paradox in Birds without wings /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1331.
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Rimmer, Valerie. "Dance, history and deconstruction : Giselle and Beach Birds for Camera as contrasting sites for a discussion of issues on meaning in dance." Thesis, City University London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301104.
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Bouton-Kelly, Ludivine. "Traduire (en) plus d'une langue : at Swim-Two-Birds de Flann O'Brien." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA121.
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Nous proposons dans ce travail de retracer le chemin parcouru depuis la lecture du roman de Flann O’Brien At Swim-Two-Birds jusqu’à sa traduction afin de croiser théorie et pratique d’écriture. La difficulté de traduire ce texte bilingue écrit en anglais et en irlandais nous conduit à chercher dans les singularités tant linguistiques que culturelles de ces deux langues des ressorts littéraires qui mêlent les notions de littéralité et de créativité, communément présentées en opposition. L’étrangeté de la langue irlandaise dans At Swim-Two-Birds nous invite à revisiter la notion d’intraduisibilité. Elle nous engage également dans une réflexion sur les opérations de transposition qu’implique la traduction de deux langues. Afin d’écarter un rapport au texte et à sa traduction trop polarisé, en particulier dans le cas des textes bilingues, la traduction est envisagée dans un spectre élargi à toutes les langues, dans un mouvement d’écriture créative « en-langues ». Traduire (en) plus d’une langue ouvre ainsi la voie à des perspectives traductologiques nouvellesIn this work we propose to trace a path leading from a reading of Flann O’Brien’s novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, to its translation. In so doing we carry out two intersecting trajectories crossing at the point where theory and practice meet. The difficulty of translating this bilingual work written in both English and Irish, enjoins the necessity of delving into both the linguistic and cultural singularities present in these two languages, as well as into literary reflections that blur the line between literality and creativity.The foreign presence of the Irish language in At Swim-Two-Birds calls for a reexamination of the notion of untranslatability. It likewise sets in motion a reflection on the operations of transposition that come into play when translating two languages at once. The approach presented here distinguishes itself from binary, polarized approaches to text and translation, in particular with regard to bilingual texts. Translation is thought within the scope of an expansive spectrum, « in-language ». Translating in/t(w)o languages thus opens onto new approaches in traductology
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Dimitrije, Radišić. "Procena efektivnosti zaštićenih područja i IBA mreže za odabrane vrsta ptica u Srbiji." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2019. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=110896&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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U radu je analizirana efektivnost zaštićenih područja Srbije u sadašnjosti i budućnosti na osnovu zastupljenosti povoljnih staništa i centara diverziteta 116 običnih vrsta ptica odabranih na osnovu 11 kriterijuma. Zasebno su evaluirana zaštićena prirodna dobara, međunarodno značajna područja za ptice (IBA) i mreža nastala preklapanjem dva tipa zaštićenih područja. Povoljna staništa istraživanih vrsta utvrđena su modelovanjem distribucije vrsta uz pomoć MaxEnt pristupa, a modeli distribucije projektovani su na četiri različita scenarija klimatskih promena u budućnosti (2050. godina). IBA mreža pokazala se kao značajnoefektivnija za zaštitu staništa istraživanih vrsta i centara njihvog diverziteta u odnosu na mrežu zaštićenih prirodnih dobara, a slična situacija predviđena je i u budućnosti. Oba tipa zaštićenih područja pokrivala su u proseku srazmerno mali procenat povoljnih staništa istraživanih vrsta (zaštićena prirodna dobra –10,4%; IBA – 21,9%) i dovela su do ostvarivanja konzervacionih ciljeva malog broja vrsta (zaštićena prirodna dobra – 11; IBA - 37), dok su centri diverziteta istraživanih vrstasrazmerno slabo zastupljeni unutar obe mreže (zaštićena prirodna dobra – 9,8%; IBA – 25,4%). Zaštićena područja nisu pokazaleznačajno veću efektivnost za konzervaciono prioritetnt vrste i njihov diverzitet. Zaštićena prirodna dobra i IBA mreža u Srbiji značajno bolje pokrivaju staništa i centre diverziteta šumskih vrsta i vrsta kamenjara, klisura i litica, dok su povoljna staništa i centri diverziteta gnezdarica poljoprivrednih staništa, naselja i vodenih staništa izrazito slabo zastupljena. Staništa gnezdarica nizijskih poljoprivrednihstaništa naročito su slabo zastupljena unutar zaštićenih prirodnih dobara i IBA mreže, koja za ovu grupu nisu dovela do postizanja konzervacionih ciljeva. Razlike u efektivnosti zaštićenih područja za gnezdarice različitih tipova staništa u budućnosti će se generalno povećavati, usled predviđenog smanjivanjaareala većine šumskih vrsta koje će se povlačiti u zaštitom bolje pokrivene planinske predele i širenja areala većine gnezdarica poljoprivrednih i vodenih staništa na nezaštićena nizijska područja. Za deo vrsta među kojima dominirajugnezdarice brdsko-planinskih šumskih i drugih prirodnih staništa glavna strategija zaštite podrazumeva precizno proširenje granica sadašnjih zaštićenih područja uz upravljanje orentisano ka očuvanju prirodnih staništa i smanjenju iskorišćavanja resursa. Sa druge strane, za većinu gnezdarica poljoprivrednih itravnih staništa, naročito u nizijskim predelima, efektivna strategija bila bi definisanje potpuno novih i prostranih zaštićenih područja orijentisanih ka održavanju povoljnog režima upravljanja i korišćenja prostora. Rad ukazujena velike mogućnosti korišćenja nesistematično prikupljenih podataka profesionalnih i amaterskih ornitologa uz primenu tehnika modelovanja distribucije vrsta, ali naglašava potrebu za pokretanjem širokih programasistematskog popisa, kartiranja i monitoringa običnih vrsta ptica.The study analyzes the effectiveness of protected areas in Serbia presently as well as in the future, based on the representation of suitable habitats and centers of diversity for 116 common species of birds, selected on the basis of 11 criteria. Nationally protected areas, Important Bird and Biodiversity areas (IBAs) and networks formed by overlapping these two types of protected areas have been evaluated separately. Suitable habitats of the species in the study were determined by species distribution modeling using the MaxEnt approach, and the distribution models were projected to four different climate change scenarios in future (year 2050). The IBA network proved to be significantly more effective for the protection of habitats of studied species and centers of their diversity, compared to the network of nationally protected areas, and a similar situation is projected for the future. Both types of protected areas on average covered a relatively small percentage of suitable habitats for most species (10.4% in nationaly protected areas, 21.9% in IBA) and meet conservation goals only for a small number of species (11 for nationaly protected areas, 37 for IBA). Diversity centers for species in the study are relatively poorlyrepresented within all three networks (9.8% for nationaly protected areas and 25.4% for IBA). Protected areas did not show significantly higher effectiveness for the conservation of priority species and their diversity. Nationaly protected areas and the IBA network in Serbia have a significantly better coverage of habitats and centers of diversity for forest species and species of rocky habitats, cliffs and gorges, while suitable habitats and centers of diversity for breeding birds of farmlands, settlements and aquatic habitats are very poorly represented. Habitats of breeding birds of lowland armlands are particularly poorly represented within protected natural assets and the IBA network, and this measure does not meet the conservation goals for this group of birds. Differences in the effectiveness of protected areas for breeding birds of various habitat types will generally increase in the future, due to the anticipated range decrease for most forest species that will withdraw to the better conserved mountainous areas, whereas range of the majority o f breeding birds of farmland and aquatic habitats will be expanded to unprotected lowland areas. For some of the species, mostly birds of hill and mountain forests and other natural habitats, the main conservation strategy implies precise boundaries extension of the current protected areas with management directed towards preserving natural habitats and reducing the utilization of resources. On the other hand, for most of the farmland and grassland species, especially in the lowlands, an effective strategy would be to define completely new and spacious protected areas oriented towards maintaining a favorable regime for management and landuse. The study demonstrates that there are great possibilities of using nonsystematically collected data from professiona l and amateur ornithologists, for application in species distribution modeling, but also emphasizes the need to launch extensive programs for systematic inventory, mapping and monitoring of common bird species.
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Ambrosio, Marjorie. "Une esthétique de la déstabilisation : poétique de la fugue dans Birds of Passe, After China, The Garden Book et The Bath Fuges de Brian Castro." Thesis, Avignon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AVIG1140/document.
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Brian Castro, écrivain australien contemporain d’origine chinoise, auteur de dix romans, a été souvent appréhendé par la critique littéraire par le seul biais de ses origines. La lecture de son oeuvre, pourtant, révèle une esthétique et une puissance poétique qui dépassent largement cette catégorie réductrice.Afin d’établir les contours de cette esthétique, le présent travail s’est intéressé à quatre romans qui synthétisent un travail d’écriture de trente années : Birds of Passage (1989), After China (1992), The Garden Book (2005) et The Bath Fugues (2009). Nous brossons tout d’abord un historique de la littérature australienne et des enjeux sociétaux et culturels qui la sous-tendent pour déterminer quelles stratégies l’auteur met en oeuvre pour affirmer une identité littéraire singulière, ni totalement nationale, multiculturelle, ou (post)moderne.Cette singularité posée, nous avons recours à des outils d’analyse empruntant à divers courants de critique littéraire pour dégager les lignes de force esthétiques de l’oeuvre de Castro. La forme musicale de la fugue est en ce sens une clé d’entrée essentielle en ce qu’elle structure autant qu’elle inspire l’écriture de l’auteur, tant au niveau de la caractérisation, du récit ou encore de la diégèse, donnant ainsi naissance à une prose dont la force créatrice n’a rien à envier à la poésie. Pour le lecteur, le résultat en est une expérience de déstabilisation qui vise à l’amener à se questionner sur la perméabilité et la futilité des préjugés et catégories, qu’ils soient sociétaux, culturels ou littérairesAustralian writer Brian Castro is the author of ten novels, among which Birds of Passage (1989), After China (1992), The Garden Book (2005) and The Bath Fugues (2009) – the four works at the core of the present study. Owing to his Chinese origins and his elaborate style, literary criticism in Australia has labelled him an ethnic writer whose novels are deemed overly – and overtly – complex and opaque.Our thesis aims at establishing why Castro’s works, precisely because of their sophistication, deserve an alternate approach. We start with a historical survey of Australia’s “national” and “multicultural” literature. This will bring to light how Castro, being well aware of his nation’s love for social, cultural and literary categorizations, strives to break free from them.This desire permeates the whole of his literary endeavour, and our analysis borrows from several traditions of literary criticism to determine the characteristics of Castro’s unique aesthetics. To achieve this, the musical form of the fugue is a particularly powerful analytic tool, in that this musical genre allows us to better understand the elaborate mechanisms at work in the way the author approaches, among others, characterization, plot and diegesis.Far from the easy reads that Australia’s literature market promotes, Brian Castro’s unique works of fiction are an invitation to embrace destabilization in order to examine a prose whose poetic force will help the reader liberate themselves from established racial, cultural and literary categories
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Mackey, Matthew C. "When Bird and Fish Fall in Love." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1596.
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A work of poetry that offers a new method of poetics. By examining translation as a means of understanding relationships, this work offers a nuanced manner for the writing and experience of poetry. When Bird and Fish Fall in Love is a close examination of language, relationships, translation, and the intimacy of conflation.
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Williams, Tennessee, and Katherine Weiss. "Sweet Bird of Youth (Student Editions)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://www.amzn.com/B00MUJDKFQ.
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Sweet Bird of Youth is Tennessee William's atmospheric play of 1959 about Chance Wayne, the one-time heart-throb of his hometown who returns hoping to break into the movies and find the girl he loved in his youth. Accompanied by faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, grieving in a haze of drugs and alcohol for her lost youth, he discovers that time is shortly to catch-up with him and wreak a terrible retribution for his past actions. In its exploration of corruption, ageing and the effects of time, the play offers a magnificent study of the dark side of the American dreams of youth and fame.This Student Edition provides an extensive introduction and notes by Katherine Weiss. The introduction includes a chronology of Williams' life and times, a summary of the plot, commentary on the characters, themes, language and context, and a production history of the play. Together with questions for further study and notes on words and phrases from the text, this is the essential edition of the play for students of literature and drama.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1184/thumbnail.jpg
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Constantelos, Stephen B. "The Narrator in the Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626052.
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Mattsson, Lisa Jo. "Using trade books for language arts skills instruction and environmental education." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1476.
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This project provides middle school teachers with instructional direction and hands-on methods to incorporate an environmentally-oriented trade book, Bird Watch (1990) by Jane Yolen, into their language arts curriculum. Bird Watch is a collection of sixteen poems which describe a variety of birds, their habitats, and activities.
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Maughan-Brown, Frances. "The Authority of the Lily and the Bird in Kierkegaard's Lily Discourses." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104816.
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Thesis advisor: Richard KearneyThis dissertation presents a systematic reading of the four discourses Kierkegaard wrote on Matthew 6:24-34, which I am calling the Lily Discourses (“What We Learn from the Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air” (1847); “The Cares of the Pagans” (1848); “The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air” (1849); “Christ as Archi-Image” (1851)). Matthew instructs the reader to “consider the lilies,” and in reading this passage Kierkegaard presents the lilies as authoritative, rather than merely “figural” or “metaphoric”. The aim of this dissertation is to describe what Kierkegaard means by the authority of the lily and the bird. Since Kierkegaard engages with and in “figural” language in his pseudonymous as well as his signed texts, what he says about the lily and the bird in these four Discourses is significant for all of Kierkegaard’s work. In the first and the third Discourses Kierkegaard writes lyrically of the beauty of nature, but concludes with a brutal picture of nature’s death and decay. It is not nature, this dissertation argues, but the trace nature leaves in language, that Kierkegaard is investigating. Kierkegaard ends the first Discourse by invoking the positing power of language: he says, “Let the lily wither”. As if in response to the death at the end of the first Discourse, the second is written in praise “on the day all goes black.” If the first two Discourses describe the authority of the lily and the bird in terms of the performative – of positing and praise – the third Discourse describes this authority in terms of receptivity. The lily and the bird are obedient, Kierkegaard says there. He develops an account of obedience that is, on the one hand, required for reading the lily and the bird (for granting authority), and on the other, is the lesson taught by the lily and the bird. In the fourth Discourse Kierkegaard presents the archi-image (Forbillede, previously translated in English as “pattern” or “prototype”) and what corresponds to it: “imitation.” Only when we imitate, rather than ape mimetically or endlessly interpret, can the image (Billede) that we are responding to be the archi-image (Forbillede). The lily and the bird, the dissertation argues, have the authority of the archi-image only if we can read them in a certain way, that is, if our reading is non-mimetic imitation. For Kierkegaard imitation is an act, made by an individual person at a concrete time and place in history; it therefore commits the reader, in her full responsibility (including “social” or “political”) in the risk of reading. The dissertation has four chapters, each devoted to one of Kierkegaard’s Lily Discourses. Accordingly, Chapter One describes Kierkegaard’s account of the authority of the lily and the bird as positing, Chapter Two as praise, Chapter Three as obedience and Chapter Four as imitation
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
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Mackenney, Francesca. ""We teach 'em airs that way" : bird-sounds, language and the mind in nineteenth-century literature." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701810.
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Poets, linguists, ornithologists and musicologists have wrestled with the apparently irreconcilable difference between the language of birds and the human forms that attempt to 'recapture' its 'rapture', in Browning's phrase. My thesis traces an alternative approach that was developing in the eighteenth century, in which the emphasis was on analogies between animal and human language (for example between the nestling learning to sing and the child acquiring speech). Such analogies worked both ways, and were given a variety of social and political, as well as aesthetic, meanings. The thesis explores this double relationship in texts including scientific treatises, works of popular birdlore, poetry, and fiction. The introduction gives an overview of the argument of the thesis and traces the historical origins of the debate about the relation of human language to the language of birds. Chapter 1 discusses the increasingly 'scientific' approaches to birdsong in the late 18th and 19th century, from Daines Barrington's 'Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds' to Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871). Chapter 2 looks at the ways in which ideas about social class and education inflected the debate about the origins and nature of language. The remaining three chapters present case-studies drawn from the work of John Clare, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy. Chapter 3 argues that Clare uses his knowledge of how birds learn . to sing as a way of reflecting on his own experience of' learning' to be a poet. Chapter 4 focuses on the serious comedy of the 'strange companions' in Barnaby Rudge (1841), the talking raven and his 'idiot master' Barnaby. The final chapter opens with the scene in Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) in which Tess is asked to 'whistle' to Mrs D'Urberville's bullfinches, and concludes with a close reading of some of Hardy's poems about birds and birdsong.
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Yoon, Hye Jung. "Birds, Birds, Bluebirds." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504802573765048.
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Na, Pattalung Piengpen. "An Analysis of Sexist Language in ESL Textbooks by Thai Authors Used in Thailand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9057/.
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This study identified the types of sexist language that appear in ESL textbooks by Thai authors. The study analyzed the ESL textbooks by Thai authors sold at the Chulalongkorn University bookstore during spring 2007. It was a qualitative case analysis of fifteen ESL textbooks covering the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of ESL instruction. The study used feminist criticism to discover what gender roles are sanctioned as appropriate in ESL textbooks by Thai authors and if the language used supports or challenges patriarchy. The results of this study show that sexist language is present in the textbooks and that the textbooks contain content that promotes sexist assumptions concerning gender roles. As a whole, the language and examples used in ESL textbooks by Thai authors support patriarchy.
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Amankwah, F. (Francis). "Indigenizing to making schooling and education one:a bird’s eye view of Yurok nation’s culture and language program in Northern California, US." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201802091202.
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This thesis focuses on the interests and attitudes shown by learners and educators towards the inclusion of the Yurok Language and Culture program in schools’ curricula across Humboldt County-Californian, USA. The program aims at revitalizing the Yurok culture and improving the academic standards of Yurok and other native American Indian students.
The main theoretical frameworks used in this research are Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) and (1994) “Ecology of Human Development” and “Ecological Models of Human Development respectively. Additionally, I used Epstein’s (2011) Model of Overlapping Spheres and Charleston’s (1994) True Native Education theories to further expand on the ideals that underpin Bronfenbrenner’s theories that were applied in this research. The significance these theories used in this case study is conceptualized in the notion that the school, family and community nexus can be effectively harnessed to boost the learning experiences of native American Indian1 students.
This is qualitative based case study, and I used narrative inquiries (to capture depth of stories told by respondents) and method of observation as tools to collect data. Purposive sampling method was used to select a sample of four. The sample includes three native American Indians, namely, the director of the Education Department of the Yurok Tribal Nation, one of the instructors of the Yurok Language and Culture program, and a female student. The fourth respondent of the sample is non-native American Indian (white). Ethical considerations were strictly followed and applied throughout the conduct of this research.
The analysis and interpretation of the findings showed that there was vested interest in the program by respondents and the rate of graduation of native American Indians has increased marginally since the program’s inception. Regardless, this research would not seek to suggest that the findings could be interpreted as panacea to the many problems that indigenous students encounter in the educational process. But rather, the findings of this research could be used to enhance discourses where “knowledge is drawn from many disciplines and integrated around a particular problem” (Craver and Ozmon 1985, p. 380) to shape pedagogy to benefit not only indigenous learners but to a larger constituent including non-natives learners as well.
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Budirska, Alzbeta. ""This Is a Forced Feminist Agenda" : IMDb users and their understanding of feminism negotiated in the reviews of superheroine films." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104302.
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The thesis examines how users of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) negotiate feminism in their reviews of four superheroine films – Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Birds of Prey: The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, and Wonder Woman 1984. By combining critical discourse analysis with methods of corpus linguists, this corpus-based study of over 18,000 reviews analyses the frequency of the topic of feminism in the reviews, words and topics associated with it and the way the reviewers reflect broader mediated discourse over the four films, and the role of IMDb as a space for these reviews. The findings show that feminism is still understood as an anti-male movement where female-led films are shielded from criticism by the mainstream media by the virtue of the lead’s gender, the superheroines are criticised for being overpowered particularly where they have no equal male supporting character and that perceived feminist messaging is usually written off as a forced political agenda or as an insincere cash grab made by corporates which effectively use feminism for promotion. It also reveals IMDb as a highly polarised platform where the users leaving 1- and 10-star reviews are generalized as representatives of different sides of the political spectrum (antifeminist vs feminist, conservative vs liberal) regardless of the actual content of the review.
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Boyce, Liel Y. "Knightly Bird Vows: A Case Study in Late Medieval Courtly Culture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3134.
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In the late Middle Ages, there was a series of instances wherein knights vowed upon birds. Two of these, the first and the last, are historical events: The Feast of the Swans with Edward I in England on 22 May 1306 and the Feast of the Pheasant with Philip the Good in the duchy of Burgundy on 17 February 1454. Edward I held the Feast of the Swans as part of his son's dubbing ceremony, including the entire court taking vows on two swans. The Feast of the Pheasant was an elaborate banquet that Philip the Good used to gather support for a crusade. The other three are literary texts: the Voeux du paon, the Voeux de l’épervier, and the Voeux du héron. The Voeux du Paon contains an account of a group of nobility connected to Alexander the Great at a truce banquet. One of the prisoners accidentally kills a lady's peacock and the group decides to take vows on it before recommencing battle. The Voeux de l’épervier concerns Henry VII of Luxembourg en route to Italy to claim the title of Holy Roman Emperor. One of his knights accidentally kills a sparrowhawk and they decide, as a court, to take vows on it. Lastly, the Voeux du héron depicts Robert d' Artois inciting Edward III to initiate the Hundred Years' War over a heron. Each of these instances creates a sub-set, the bird vow cycle, within medieval vowing tradition. The origin of the bird vow cycle lies within that vowing tradition. John L. Grigsby has declared these instances as a crystallization of the gab convention of medieval literature. However, Grigsby ignored the Feast of the Swans and the Feast of the Pheasant since he was concentrated on defining a literary genre. This thesis attempts to show the bird vow cycle as connected this this literary tradition, but also a crystallization of the courtly culture that had developped in the late Middle Ages. It also attempts to show the origins of this cycle—it not only came out of a vowing tradition, but also is tied to King Arthur traditions. The culture of the late Middle Ages was nostalgic and looking back towards an idealistic version of the past—whether in legends like Arthur or historical figures like Alexander. Thus, the knightly bird vow cycle was a particular example of that fantasy in their culture. In conclusion, this thesis not only gathers together what literature there is on the knightly bird vow cycle, but it places it within a literary and historical context. The knightly bird vow cycle would not have been possible without a culture obsessed with fantasy and idealistic courtly culture.
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Embry, Jason Michael. ""Nam-Shub versus the Big Other: Revising the Language that Binds Us in Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, Samuel R. Delany, and Chuck Palahniuk"." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/46.
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Within the science fiction genre, utopian as well as dystopian experiments have found equal representation. This balanced treatment of two diametrically opposed social constructs results from a focus on the future for which this particular genre is well known. Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17, and Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby, more aptly characterized as speculative fiction because of its use of magic against scientific social subjugation, each tackle dystopian qualities of contemporary society by analyzing the power that language possesses in the formation of the self and propagation of ideology. The utopian goals of these texts advocate for a return to the modernist metanarrative and a revision of postmodern cynicism because the authors look to the future for hopeful solutions to the social and ideological problems of today. Using Slavoj Žižek’s readings of Jacques Lacan and Theodor Adorno’s readings of Karl Marx for critical insight, I argue these four novels imagine language as the key to personal empowerment and social change. While not all of the novels achieve their utopian goals, they each evince a belief that the attempt belies a return to the modernist metanarrative and a rejection of postmodern helplessness. Thus, each novel imagines the revision of Žižek’s big Other through the remainders of Adorno’s inevitably failed revolutions, injecting hope in a literary period that had long since lost it.
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Couécou, Fabienne. "La trilogie "England & the English" au coeur de l'écriture fordienne." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30048.
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Le corpus se compose de trois ouvrages de non-fiction The Soul of London (1905), The Heart of the Country (1906) et The Spirit of the People (1907), regroupés en un seul volume sous le titre England and the English – an Interpretation lors de la publication de la trilogie à New-York en 1907. Cette trilogie a été ensuite éditée en 2003 par Carcanet Press sous la direction de Sara Haslam. Peu étudiées, ces oeuvres ont une existence propre à l'intérieur de la trilogie, au coeur del'oeuvre fordienne, voire au sein de la littérature moderne. Ce travail herméneutique permet de mettre au jour le feuilletage d'un texte prétexte à une réflexion à la fois autobiographique, philosophico-théologique, socio-historique et théorique portant sur l'écriture et l'art en général. Il révèle l'esthétique innovante d'un auteur qui cherchera sans relâche sa place dans le paysage littéraire international, entre impressionnisme et futurisme, et essaiera de recueillir l'adhésion de « l'homme moyen sensible » en la personne de son lecteur, en lui transmettant un message d'amour par le biais d'une langue hybride et plurielle inspirée de la « langue des oiseaux ». Derrière l'Angleterre se dessine la Provence et une esth/éthique du troubadourThe three books collected in England and the English are The Soul of London (1905), The Heart of the Country (1906) et The Spirit of the People (1907). Although the complete trilogy was edited in New-York in 1907 it was made available to English readers in 2003 only, when Sara Haslam edited the volume for Carcanet Press. This study means to show in what ways those so-called essays are crucial and make sense as a trilogy, within Ford's own work as well as within modern literature. The hermeneutic approach adopted here attempts to decipher a multi-layered text and brings out underlying themes and intertexts that bear on the author's biography as well as on his interests in philosophical, religious, and socio-historical topics and reflect his passion for writing. The trilogy comes out as emblematic of the original aesthetic of a writer who, hovering between impressionism and futurism, tried to find his own way within the international literary landscape. Ford defines and addresses here an homme moyen sensible, very close to his ideal reader and transmits to him a specific message of love resorting to a hybrid, joyful and plural language inherited from the medieval langue desoiseaux. England becomes indistinguishable from Provence and from aesth/ethics connected with its troubadours
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Zimmann, Angela Wallington. "Turning the Noose that Binds into a Rope to Climb: A Textual Search for Rhetorical and Linguistic Gender-markings in Speech Samples of Three Contemporary Female Orators." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1194034667.
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Robinson, Katherine Reilly. "Negotiating Identity: Culturally Situated Epideictic in the Victorian Travel Narratives of Isabella Bird." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3213.pdf.
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Bose, Anushika. "Birds & Blades." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22458.
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Kollisionen von Vögeln mit Windturbinen haben sich zu einer bedenklichen Quelle für die Gefährdung besonders von Populationen seltenerer Vogelarten entwickelt. Allerdings wird im Allgemeinen auch bestätigt, dass die Nutzung der Windenergie unverzichtbar ist. Das Hauptziel dieser Arbeit war es, die Relevanz der Wechselwirkungen zu verstehen, die zwischen technischen Infrastrukturen und den von Kollisionen betroffenen Vogelarten auf der Landschaftsebene stattfinden. Da sowohl von der Landschaft beeinflusst werden. Unter Nutzung der durch gezielte Nachsuche gefundenen Opfer der am häufigsten von Kollisionen betroffenen Artengruppen paradoxerweise as als Proxy für das Vorkommen von Arten, und Durch die Anwendung verschiedener Techniken zur Modellierung der Artenverbreitung (SDMs) die “kollisionsempfindliche Nische “für jede der Vogelgruppen beschrieben. Obwohl die vorhergesagten Gebiete mit potenziellen Kollisionsrisiko insgesamt nur kleine, aber stark verteilt im ungefährdes Bundeslandes hatten. Greifvögel mit die breiteste Nische, die zudem signifikante Überlappungen mit den kollisionsempfindlichen Nischen der anderen Gruppen aufwies. Die niedrig bewerteten Gebiete weiter differenziert, die als tatsächliche „Bereiche ohne Risiko“ interpretiert wurden, für weitere geplante Winkraftanlagen. Zusätzlich die jeweiligen Potentiale und Gefärdungen für Kollisionen auf der Basis der regionalen Dichteverteilungen der Arten in Brandenburg mit Ensemble-Methoden von Boosted Regression Trees wird ebenfalls bewertet. Zusammenfassend, diese Analysen paradigmatisch, sowohl die Gebiete als auch die Entfernungen zu den Grenzlinien der verschiedenen Landnutzungsformen ein höheres Risiko für die Kollision von Individuen der untersuchten Arten mit Windkraftanlagen ergibt ermitteln . Dieser Ansatz kann es möglich machen, zukünftige Windparkerweiterungen in der Landschaft im die möglichst kollisionsfreie und naturverträglicheStandorte in der Landschaft.Although, it is well recognized that harnessing wind energy is highly indispensable, but collisions of birds at wind turbines has also developed simultaneously, concerning multiple bird species. With wind being strongly affected by the landscape and the behaviour of birds also being strongly influenced by the landscape, the main objective of the thesis was to understand the relevance of interactions between wind energy infrastructures and bird species from an ecological perspective of the landscape. Utilizing the carcass collision datasets of the frequently-hit bird-groups paradoxically as proxies for species presence, collision sensitive ecological distances to different land-use types were ascertained, by employing multiple techniques of species distribution modelling (SDMs), to delineate their respective collision sensitive niche employing the capabilities of machine learning algorithms. The predicted areas were specialized and highly dispersed across the federal state, with raptors showing the broadest niche and significant overlaps with the other groups. Based on estimated collision probabilities of the assessed areas (between 0 and 1), further segregations differentiated only those areas with negligible collision probabilities, <0.05, which were interpreted as the actual "no risk areas, suggesting any further planned additions of wind turbines to be suitably positioned only in these “safer” areas. Additionally, these collision probabilities were translated to strike susceptibilities, by relating them to the regional density distributions of the species as well. Summarizing, these analyses paradigmatically ascertained collision risk areas, and especially the collision sensitive distances from different land-use types to these areas, enabling the accurate guidance of future wind farm expansions in the landscape. Ultimately, formulating novel wind turbine allocation strategies to minimize avian collisions, making them as compatible as possible.
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Shotton, William Howard. "Birds of Paradise." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/861.
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Kirkland, Shauna. "Birds of Prey." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3019.
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As a child growing up, I was always in love with the ritual of “dress up”. Whether it was my dolls, various reluctant pets, or myself, it was always an activity I loved. It is not surprising then that adornment has become the medium through which I express myself and bring my fantasy world to life. Jewelry and accessory have the potential to lead many lives. One particular piece can change entirely by putting it on one body as opposed to another, or by removing it to see it as an object. In fashion, the body is the canvas and the runway becomes the moment of performance. My work uses the body in much the same way where the wearer becomes performer. Through this act, we construct personal forms of armor, or “power suits”, to face the battlefield of the outside world. In harnessing this act of adorning and what it encompasses, I am consistently challenged as both designer and maker. Creating alter egos, whether subtly flirtatious or overtly sexual, demure or flamboyant, are some of the many ways in which these “power suits” can be concocted. The stories we project about ourselves daily, through how we adorn our naked bodies, become empowering. Myths versus reality, ascetic versus sensual, and beautiful versus ugly are some of the concepts from which I draw inspiration. These dualities are conceptually expressed in my work through physical combinations of opposing materials. Mixing mediums, through methods such as collaging, beading, needlepointing, knitting, and sewing, are integral in my designs. With alternative materials, such as feathers, textiles, and yarns, I add softness and new scintillating sensations when juxtaposed with the hard, cold qualities of metal. Through combining such materials, I construct pieces that not only challenge one’s notion of what “pretty” is, but also inspire the way one thinks about body adornment. The objects I create become vessels that actualize the dualities I strive to express. In producing hybrids of materials, my need to explore these dichotomies is satisfied.
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Olsen, Björn. "Birds and Borrelia." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Mikrobiologi, 1995. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-141295.
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The Lyme disease causing spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is transmitted by ticks within the genus Ixodes. These ticks are liberal host seekers and parasitise mammals, birds and reptiles. Prior to this study, the distribution of I. ricinus ticks and Lyme disease was thought to be restricted to the southern half of Sweden. On the island Norrbyskär, located in the Bothnian Gulf, there were reports of a high incidence of tick infestation on humans. To investigate the occurrence of B. burgdorferi s.l. in these ticks and to characterise presumptive isolates at the molecular level we sampled a number of I. ricinus ticks. Three different isolates were obtained from two different ticks, NBS16 from a nymph and NBS23a and NBS23b from an adult female tick. The seabird associated tick I. uriae is circumpolar distributed in both hemispheres. On the island Bonden, which house one of the largest seabird colonies in the Baltic Sea, I. uriae were collected and surveyed for spirochaetes. One isolate of B. burgdorferi s.l. was obtained. This B. burgdorferi s.l. isolate is identical to the Lyme disease Borrelia strain NBS16 isolated from Norrbyskär. To investigate the role of seabirds in the epidemiology of B. burgdorferi s.l., I. uriae were collected from seabird colonies in the southern and northern hemispheres. Borrelia DNA was extracted from the ticks and from cultured spirochaetes. Sequence analysis of the flagellin gene revealed that the DNA obtained was from B. garinii, regardless of the geographical origin of the sample. Identical fla gene fragments in ticks collected in both hemispheres indicate a transhemispheric exchange of B. garinii. A marine ecological niche and epidemiological route for Lyme disease Borrelia are proposed. The prevalence of B. burgdorferi s.l. infected ticks on migrating passerine birds was studied. A total of 22, 998 birds were caught and examined for ticks. The presence of spirochaetes in the 967 collected ticks was determined by DNA amplification by PCR on all ticks. To determine which B. burgdorferi s.l. species were present, classification was performed by DNA amplification using species-specific 16S rDNA primers and by DNA sequencing. Flagellin gene sequences of all species of B. burgdorferi s.l. previously recorded in Europe were found. B. garinii was the most prevalent. These data support the notion that passerine birds are at least partly responsible for the distribution of Lyme disease Borrelia spirochaetes in Europe. To elucidate the distribution of B. burgdorferi s.l. in subarctic regions, strains isolated from I. ricinus and I. uriae ticks found on islands in the northern Atlantic and Baltic Sea were characterised molecularly. All isolates were verified as B. garinii by 16S-rRNA gene analysis and immunoblotting using monoclonal antibodies specific for the outer surface proteins A and C. Three ribotypes (RT's) of B. garinii were found. The I. ricinus associated RT1 is phenotypically the most heterogeneous. RT2 is restricted to the islands in the northern Baltic Sea, whereas RT3 was also recovered from ticks found on islands in the North Atlantic. The heterogeneity of the B. garinii population in the Baltic Sea might be influenced by two geographically opposite directions, North Atlantic (RT3) and Euroasia (RT1).digitalisering@umu.se
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Hughes, Amy L. "Birds of Ohio." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/608.
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BIRDS OF OHIO is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that explore the interior nature of domestic life. These poems peer below the surface of ideas like home, family, faith, and marriage to reveal the complex contradictions and particular moments of love, fear, pain, and grace that create the domestic world of the speaker. Rooted in natural landscapes and often drawing on religious language, the poems point to the meeting of the physical and spiritual worlds, at times blurring the distinction between them. The collection is not divided into sections; rather, the different themes are braided together to create a portrait of domestic life where experiences of love and death, questions of faith and meaning, and conflict concerning marriage, family, addiction, and the idea of home are inextricable from one another.
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Weiss, Katherine, Stephen Bottoms, Philip Kolin, and Michael S. D. Hooper. "A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://www.amzn.com/1472521862.
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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams' artistry.
A chronology of the writer's life and work helps to situate all his works in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of Williams' writing, its recurrent themes and concerns and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on: * The context * Themes * Characters * Structure and language * The play in production (both on stage and screen adaptations) Questions for study, and notes on words and phrases in the text are also supplied to aid the reader.
The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Williams' work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Williams' greatest plays.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1183/thumbnail.jpg
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Koerner, Jane. "Perilous Pilgrimage: A Lady’s Flight into the Rocky Mountain Wilderness." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1043.
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“Perilous Pilgrimage: A Lady’s Flight into the Rocky Mountain Wilderness” is comprised of four thematically linked essays set in the Colorado Rockies. In these essays I probe my fascination with masculinity at an early age, the impact of my rape at age twenty-two, the dependency and resentment that undermined my marriage after the rape, and my quest after my divorce fifteen years later to define myself on my own terms. The link joining these strands is the tension between my drive for independence and my disassociation from my mind and body as a result of the rape.
“Perilous Pilgrimage” revisits three pivotal stages of my life: childhood, young adulthood, and middle age. As a youngster vacationing with my family in Rocky Mountain National Park, I was drawn to men who rescued lost hikers and climbed mountains. Fred Bowen, the caretaker of our rented cabin in the park, and the two California school teachers who were the first to conquer the Diamond on Longs Peak, appeared to have more freedom than I did as a middle-class girl growing up in the 1950s. That conviction was reinforced after I moved to Colorado at age seventeen. Four years later I graduated from college and began dating a man who introduced me to the thrill and terror of mountaineering. After leading me up numerous mountains, he became my husband, and we made our home in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Once married, I could no longer repress the unresolved issues of my rape and identity quest, and I revolted. At age thirty-nine, I embarked on a solo quest to reclaim that sense of wonder and independence I had felt as a child exploring Rocky Mountain National Park. Included in my essays are references to historical figures with similar urges as mine, such as the 19th-century English explorer George Augustus Ruxton and English travel writer Isabella Bird. My search for refuge and redemption in the Colorado Rockies replicated a centuries-old pattern.
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Chan, Sin-wai. "Religious release of birds in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38345821.
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Azpiroz, Adrián B. "Grassland birds in natural and cultivated grasslands in the northern campos of Uruguay diversity patterns, responses to vegetation structure, and nest survival /." Diss., St. Louis, Mo. : University of Missouri--St. Louis, 2008. http://etd.umsl.edu/r2981.
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Gram, Wendy K. "The social structure of an avian community during the nonbreeding season /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9717162.
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Nataša, Prvulović Bunović. "Дигитална мамографија и томосинтеза у детекцији и радиолошкој БИ РАДС категоризацији туморских лезија дојке." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Medicinski fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2015. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=92756&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Циљ ове студије је да се упореди дијагностичкa значајност 2Д и 2Д+3Д мамографије у детектовању тумора дојке. Испитивали смо 864 дојки у 740 пацијенткиња. Студија је спроведена у току рутинског рада у Центру за имиџинг дијагностику Институту за онкологију Војводине. 2Д + 3Д мамографија су начињене појединачно или у истом акту снимања као комбо опција на Selenia Dimensions апарату произвођача фирме Холоџик. Радиолошки извешатаји су класификовани у категорије 1-5 према АЦР БИ РAДС-у. Патохистолошка верификација је вршена у свих суспектних промена или у току њиховог праћења . Све пацијенткиње са уредним налазом или мамографски уочених бенигних промена су радиолошки праћене најкраће током 2 године. Уочено је 103 малигне лезије у дојкама класификованих као БИ РАДС 4, 5 на дигиталној мамографији и у 22 дојке чије су промене класификоване као БИ РАДС 1-3, током праћења или прегледа дојки помоћу других модалитета. На 2Д + 3Д мамографији малигните је потврђен у 125 дојке од којих је 118 класификовано као БИ РАДС 4,5 и у 7 дојки чује су промене категорисане у БИРАДС 1-3. Постоји статистички значајна разлика у дистрибуцији малигних налаза у односу на подгрупе Студија је показала 20% лажно негативних налаза на 2Д, а 5,6% на 2Д + 3Д модалитету прегледа дојки. Осетљивост у откривању рака у овој студији износи 82,4% на 2Д и 94,4% на 2Д+3Д методи прегледа, док је специфичност 90,5% и 92,0%, респективно. ППВ је већа за 2Д + 3Д технику прегледа , износи 66,7%, као и негативна предиктивна вредност која износи 99,0%. У 172 случаја (19, 9%) налази 2Д мамографије се не уочавају на 3Д техници прегледа и сматрају се последицом структурне или анатомске „буке“. Већина не -сталних налаза (85%) је класификовано као фокална асиметрија. У овој студији 500 дојки је класификовано према АЦР структури у масне (АЦР 1) или дифузне фибро-гландуларне (АЦР 2), а преосталих 264 је било хетеродензно (АЦР 3) и значајно дензно (АЦР 4). Статистички значајна разлика није показана приликом дистрибуције малигних налаза у поређењу са подгрупама дојки начињеним према њиховој густини - складу са правилима АЦР-а. Укупна тачност теста износи 89,4% за 2Д и 92,4% за 2Д + 3Д мамографију. Предиктивне вредности добијене за 2Д + 3Д мамографију су боље од оних које се односе само на 2Д мамографију, што је резултат њене веће осетљивости и шире могућности карактеризације промена. Варијабилност у интерпретацији налаза међу два радиолога је је ниска, показано је слагање у интершпретавцији евалуираних мамограма у 94.1% случајева.Cilj ove studije je da se uporedi dijagnostička značajnost 2D i 2D+3D mamografije u detektovanju tumora dojke. Ispitivali smo 864 dojki u 740 pacijentkinja. Studija je sprovedena u toku rutinskog rada u Centru za imidžing dijagnostiku Institutu za onkologiju Vojvodine. 2D + 3D mamografija su načinjene pojedinačno ili u istom aktu snimanja kao kombo opcija na Selenia Dimensions aparatu proizvođača firme Holodžik. Radiološki izvešataji su klasifikovani u kategorije 1-5 prema ACR BI RADS-u. Patohistološka verifikacija je vršena u svih suspektnih promena ili u toku njihovog praćenja . Sve pacijentkinje sa urednim nalazom ili mamografski uočenih benignih promena su radiološki praćene najkraće tokom 2 godine. Uočeno je 103 maligne lezije u dojkama klasifikovanih kao BI RADS 4, 5 na digitalnoj mamografiji i u 22 dojke čije su promene klasifikovane kao BI RADS 1-3, tokom praćenja ili pregleda dojki pomoću drugih modaliteta. Na 2D + 3D mamografiji malignite je potvrđen u 125 dojke od kojih je 118 klasifikovano kao BI RADS 4,5 i u 7 dojki čuje su promene kategorisane u BIRADS 1-3. Postoji statistički značajna razlika u distribuciji malignih nalaza u odnosu na podgrupe Studija je pokazala 20% lažno negativnih nalaza na 2D, a 5,6% na 2D + 3D modalitetu pregleda dojki. Osetljivost u otkrivanju raka u ovoj studiji iznosi 82,4% na 2D i 94,4% na 2D+3D metodi pregleda, dok je specifičnost 90,5% i 92,0%, respektivno. PPV je veća za 2D + 3D tehniku pregleda , iznosi 66,7%, kao i negativna prediktivna vrednost koja iznosi 99,0%. U 172 slučaja (19, 9%) nalazi 2D mamografije se ne uočavaju na 3D tehnici pregleda i smatraju se posledicom strukturne ili anatomske „buke“. Većina ne -stalnih nalaza (85%) je klasifikovano kao fokalna asimetrija. U ovoj studiji 500 dojki je klasifikovano prema ACR strukturi u masne (ACR 1) ili difuzne fibro-glandularne (ACR 2), a preostalih 264 je bilo heterodenzno (ACR 3) i značajno denzno (ACR 4). Statistički značajna razlika nije pokazana prilikom distribucije malignih nalaza u poređenju sa podgrupama dojki načinjenim prema njihovoj gustini - skladu sa pravilima ACR-a. Ukupna tačnost testa iznosi 89,4% za 2D i 92,4% za 2D + 3D mamografiju. Prediktivne vrednosti dobijene za 2D + 3D mamografiju su bolje od onih koje se odnose samo na 2D mamografiju, što je rezultat njene veće osetljivosti i šire mogućnosti karakterizacije promena. Varijabilnost u interpretaciji nalaza među dva radiologa je je niska, pokazano je slaganje u interšpretavciji evaluiranih mamograma u 94.1% slučajeva.
The aim of this study was to compare diagnostic importance of 2D and 2D+3D diagnostic mammography in breast tumor detection. We evaluated 864 breasts in 740 patients. Study was performed in Diagnostic Imaging Center at Oncology Institute of Vojvodina. 2D+3D mammography were performed during single procedure or via combo option at Selenia Dimensions unit, Hologic, BE. Radiological findings were classified in categories 1-5 according to ACR BIRADS. Pathohistologic verification was obtained in all suspicious findings or after follow up studies. All other patients with mammographic normal findings or benign findings were fallowed up during 2 years period or longer. We detected malignant lesions in 103 breasts classified as BIRADS 4,5 at digital mammography, and in 22 breasts classified as BIRADS 1-3 after followed up or diagnosed by other imaging modalities. At 2D+3D mammography malignancy was confirmed in 125 breasts, 118 classified as BIRADS 4,5 and in 7 breasts classified as BIRADS 1-3. There is statistically significant difference (p<0.001) in distribution of malignant findings compared to the subgroups classified according to 2D mammography. There was 20% false negative findings on 2D, and 5.6% on 2D+3D modality. Sensitivity in cancer detection in this study is 82.4% and 94.4% for 2D and 2D+3D mammography, while specificity is 90.5% and 92.0%, respectively. PPV is higher for 2D+3D technique (66.7%), as well as negative predictive value (99.0%). In 172 cases (19, 9%) 2D mammography findings did not persist on 3D mammography and were considered as structural or anatomical noise. The majority of the non-persistent findings (85%) were classified as asymmetric focal density. In this study 500 breast were classified according to ACR as fatty (ACR 1) or scattered fibroglandular densities (ACR 2), and the remaining 264 had heterogeneously (ACR 3) and extremely dense breasts (ACR 4). Statistically significant difference (p<0.001) was not shown in distribution of malignant findings compared to the subgroups of density structure according to ACR. Overall accuracy of the test was 89.4% and 92.4% for 2D and 2D+3D mammography, respectively. Predictive values obtained in 2D+ 3D mammography are better than those for 2D mammography alone, as a result of its higher sensitivity and better possibility of lesion characterization. Interobserver variability is low, there is an agreement between two radiologist between two radiologic interpretations in 94.1% cases.
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Axelsson, Erik. "Comparative Genomics in Birds." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7432.
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Jetz, W. "Biodiversity of African birds." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393561.
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Dye, Larry. "The birds of Faulkner /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1559850841&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Davis, Paul G. "The taphonomy of birds." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/66bf971f-5ef0-44ec-83e5-92c7887f7471.
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Palaeo-ornithology has been dominated by taxonomy. To try and redress the balance and help palaeoecologists interpret fossil birds in a biological and ecological perspective, the taphonomy of birds needs to be fully understood. The taphonomy of birds is concerned with all processes from death to the collection of the fossil bird. Between these two points (the transfer of the organism from the biosphere to the lithosphere) a variety of forces and processes affect the bird/fossil. By means of experiments in the natural environment and in controlled conditions in the laboratory, and subsequent comparisons of the results with case studies of fossil assemblages, the processes leading to preservation can be deduced and the former living community restored on the basis of the fossil evidence. The research involved two main approaches: 1. experimental taphonomy / observational taphonomy; and 2. case histories of fossil communities and their interpretation. Experimental work was carried out in the natural environment. Two field sites were chosen in southern Florida, a freshwater environment and a marine environment. The monitoring and controlling of these experiments required knowledge and techniques in zoology, botany, ecology, sedimentology, limnology, marine biology, microbiology, pathology and forensic science. Results obtained included the effects of scavenging, anoxia, transport, rate of burial, and temperature on rates of decay, the causes of bird mortality, the processes resulting in disarticulation, and the effects of decay upon feathers. Once the experimentaVobservational data had been collected they allowed a series of taphonomic thresholds (a decay sequence) to be defined. These data were then applied to case studies of fossil bird assemblages from different sedimentological environments. The following LagersHitten were investigated: Messel (Eocene, Germany) = restricted lacustrine; Green River (Eocene, USA) = lacustrine; Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone (Jurassic, Germany) = restricted marine; La Meseta Formation (Eocene, Antarctica) = marine; Rancho La Brea (Pleistocene, USA) = terrestrial "trap". The biases in each environment were assessed (e.g. birds in an aquatic ten-estrial environment had a higher preservation potential than birds from a tenestrial environment). The fossil record of birds is not as depauperate as previously thought but is heavily biased, depending on the proximity of the bird's habitat to that of the preserving sedimentary environment. Marine and littoral birds are poorly represented even though they inhabit sedimentary environments with a high preservation potential. This reflects low densities of birds per unit area. Aquatic birds (and terrestrial birds that inhabit the ecotone surrounding freshwater together with some larger fOlIDS from further away) are much better represented. This is because they inhabit the only terrestrial environments with a high preservation potential, coupled with the high densities of individuals per unit area. The bias towards large terrestrial birds is due to their large bones being more resistant to transport induced damage. These results have implications for the understanding of the evolution of birds. Patterns of evolution in birds can not be fully resolved on fossil evidence alone; biases in the taphonomy of birds only permit a small proportion of species from certain environments to be preserved. The taphonomy of feathers was investigated and it was discovered that the "organic trace" that commonly represents the outline of the feather trace is the diagenetically altered glycocalyx of the bacteria that were degrading the feather. In several localities these feather-degrading bactelia are preserved in authigenic minerals. The taphonomy of bats and pterosaurs was also investigated. The similarity of anatomical structures of birds, bats and pterosaurs results in similar taphonomic pathways.
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Loftie-Eaton, Megan. "Woody cover and birds." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29375.
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Major influences on biodiversity in general and on species distributions in particular have occurred on South African landscapes over time as a result of human activities and climate change. Landscapes in southern Africa are not only a product of changes in climate, but they are also a product of the changes brought about by people and their land management practices. In recent decades, bush encroachment has increased dramatically throughout the Savanna Biome of South Africa. Bush encroachment is a vegetation dynamic of global interest. It refers to the thickening or increase of woody vegetation (trees and shrubs) at the expense of grasses and/or herbaceous vegetation. In many areas across South Africa, systems that were once open grassland have become dense thickets dominated by trees and shrubs. Bush encroachment is driven by global factors like increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere as well as local factors like grazing pressures and fire management practices. In Africa, it has long been recognized that there is an influence of vegetation patterns and structure on the distribution and abundance of birds. Changes in habitats due to an increase or decrease in woody cover has been linked to changes in bird diversity and community structure. This thesis looks at what impacts bush encroachment has had on bird distributions in eastern South Africa, with a special focus on the Kruger National Park as well as Palearctic migrants. Chapter 2 of the thesis develops a new quantitative method to relate bird distributions to woody cover. The algorithm is experimental, and an important aspect of the chapter is to investigate whether the results obtained coincide with expectations. The approach first estimates the proportion of the bird species in an area which occur in each woody cover category in a region. It also calculates the proportion of the area of the region which is in each woody cover category. It then uses Jacobs Index to provide an estimate of the extent of preference/avoidance of each species for each woody cover category, on a scale that runs from +1 (the entire population of the species is in that woody cover category) to –1 (none of the population of the species is in that woody cover category). The method is tested on a region consisting of three one-degree grid cells spanning Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng which include a diversity of woody cover categories, from grassland (no woody cover) to savanna to dense woodland. Chapter 3 applies this approach to the birds of the Kruger National Park, examining which species have distributions which can, and which cannot, be explained to a greater or lesser extent by a preference for a particular range of woody covers. Bird species are selected for close monitoring for ecological management purposes of the Kruger National Park. Chapter 4 considers a set of 10 bird species, all of which are migrants to South Africa from Eurasia, and occur to a large extent during their non-breeding period within the savanna biome of South Africa. For each species, the extent of increase in relative abundance between the first and second bird atlas projects in the region (SABAP1 and SABAP2) is estimated. In most cases, the change of relative abundance can be explained in terms of bush encroachment. The likely provenance of these species in Eurasia is considered; for most species, this area lies in southwestern Asia, i.e. the Ukraine and adjacent Russia. Changes in habitat in this region are also considered and help to improve the understanding of how the populations in South Africa have changed.
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Furness, Lindsay Jayne. "Energetics, oxidative damage and ageing in birds." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25473.
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Jackson, Brandon Edward. "The allometry of bird flight performance." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-03102010-100229.
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Nicodemus, Amanda. "Social analysis of resident chickadees within hybrid-zone flocks and relationships with irruption visitors." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1820136221&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Bardsley, Sandra Eleanor. "Inaugural art of Bird Jaguar IV : rewriting history at Yaxchilan." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26781.
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Monumental art of the Maya incorporates figural imagery and hieroglyphic texts to document dynastic and mythical history. One particular monument tells us that near the end of April in 752 A.D., Bird Jaguar IV was inaugurated as ruler of the Mayan city now known as Yaxchilan. Investigation of his sculptural programmes reveals a multiplicity of innovative solutions for Bird Jaguar's unparalleled problems in validating a tenuous claim to rulership of Yaxchilan. It appears that in order to compensate for his insufficient genealogical claim, Bird Jaguar fabricated a series of ritual events which proclaimed his political legitimacy.
This study examines the intended integration of two parallel systems of communication: the visual and hieroglyphic languages of the Maya. Analysis shows how Bird Jaguar's artists presented symbolic references which manipulated the past history, justified the current history, and established the future political history of Yaxchilan.Arts, Faculty of
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Linder, Eric Thomas. "Effects of forest fragmentation on neotropical migrant landbirds in east-central Illinois /." View online, 1992. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998880980.pdf.
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Owen, Ellie. "The use of fatty acid signature analysis to investigate diets of North Sea seabirds." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=33428.
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Stephens, Jaime L. "A comparison of bird abundance and nesting in harvest units, habitat islands, and mature coniferous forests in southwestern Oregon /." View full-text version online through Southern Oregon Digital Archives, 2005. http://soda.sou.edu/awdata/050801c1.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Southern Oregon University, 2005."A thesis submitted to ... Southern Oregon University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science ..." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-73). Also available via Internet as PDF file through Southern Oregon Digital Archives: http://soda.sou.edu. Search Bioregion Collection.
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Pattinson, Nicholas Bruce. "Seasonal physiological and behavioural responses of a small bird in a hot, arid habitat." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/19728.
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The role that climate plays in the ecology of organisms is perhaps the most pronounced where the earth’s environments are most extreme. In arid-zones, organisms have to deal with large seasonal shifts and/or extremes in temperature and/or moisture levels. As a result, arid-zone species are sensitive to climatic changes. I assessed the physiological and behavioural adjustments of an arid-zone endemic passerine, the rufous-eared warbler (Malcorus pectoralis), to seasonal changes in the Karoo semi-desert of South Africa. Respirometry measurements in the field showed that the warblers’ basal metabolic rate was lower and set point body temperature (Tb) was higher in summer compared to winter. At high air temperatures (Ta) evaporative water loss (EWL) rate was significantly lower in summer compared to winter, while Tb showed a clear pattern of heterothermy that was similar in both seasons. Compared to winter, the warblers in summer were able to remain calm, and tolerate higher Ta’s, before their Tb’s increased to potentially detrimental levels. Behavioural observations showed that free-living warblers exhibited significant temperature-dependence in their behaviour; they increased panting behaviour, and reduced activity levels, time spent preening, and foraging effort at high Ta’s in summer. The warblers also displayed a considerable decrease in foraging success, and a shift in microsite use, at high Ta’s in summer. I hypothesise that the flexible responses the rufous-eared warblers show are aimed at increasing their heat tolerance in summer, and help them balance their energy and water demands in an arid environment that exhibits wide seasonality in Ta, in addition to high summer Ta. My findings emphasise the importance of identifying, as well as understanding, the associated costs of physiological and behavioural responses to environmental variables. This information is valuable in terms of predicting biologically meaningful responses (and hence, vulnerability) of arid-zone avian communities to climactic shifts.
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Fox, Elizabeth J. S. "Call-independent identification in birds." University of Western Australia. School of Animal Biology, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0218.
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[Truncated abstract] The identification of individual animals based on acoustic parameters is a non-invasive method of identifying individuals with considerable advantages over physical marking procedures. One requirement for an effective and practical method of acoustic individual identification is that it is call-independent, i.e. determining identity does not require a comparison of the same call or song type. This means that an individuals identity over time can be determined regardless of any changes to its vocal repertoire, and different individuals can be compared regardless of whether they share calls. Although several methods of acoustic identification currently exist, for example discriminant function analysis or spectrographic cross-correlation, none are call-independent. Call-independent identification has been developed for human speaker recognition, and this thesis aimed to: 1) determine if call-independent identification was possible in birds, using similar methods to those used for human speaker recognition, 2) examine the impact of noise in a recording on the identification accuracy and determine methods of removing the noise and increasing accuracy, 3) provide a comparison of features and classifiers to determine the best method of call-independent identification in birds, and 4) determine the practical limitations of call-independent identification in birds, with respect to increasing population size, changing vocal characteristics over time, using different call categories, and using the method in an open population. ... For classification, Gaussian mixture models and probabilistic neural networks resulted in higher accuracy, and were simpler to use, than multilayer perceptrons. Using the best methods of feature extraction and classification resulted in 86-95.5% identification accuracy for two passerine species, with all individuals correctly identified. A study of the limitations of the technique, in terms of population size, the category of call used, accuracy over time, and the effects of having an open population, found that acoustic identification using perceptual linear prediction and probabilistic neural networks can be used to successfully identify individuals in a population of at least 40 individuals, can be used successfully on call categories other than song, and can be used in open populations in which a new recording may belong to a previously unknown individual. However, identity was only able to be determined with accuracy for less than three months, limiting the current technique to short-term field studies. This thesis demonstrates the application of speaker recognition technology to enable call-independent identification in birds. Call-independence is a pre-requisite for the successful application of acoustic individual identification in many species, especially passerines, but has so far received little attention in the scientific literature. This thesis demonstrates that call-independent identification is possible in birds, as well as testing and finding methods to overcome the practical limitations of the methods, enabling their future use in biological studies, particularly for the conservation of threatened species.
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Ghim, Mimi M. "Spatial contrast sensitivity of birds." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/65.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.Thesis research directed by: 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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Trevelyan, R. J. "Life history variation in birds." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315861.
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Ozawa, Yukie. "Vision and movement in birds." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543000.
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Fung, Po-kei, and 馮寶基. "Invasive birds in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31255486.
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