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Jean, Natacha. "Les territoires MRC du Québec : deux décennies d'évolution dans la diversité /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1999. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Vascott, Anna Lord. "Vascular Flora of Southeastern King and Queen County, Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625329.
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Blais, Ghislain. "Le Drummond County Railway : 1886-1900." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2006/23904/23904.pdf.
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Pinero, Veronica B. "Transformations in the Canadian Youth Justice System. Creation of Statutes and the Judicial Waiver in Quebec." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24065.
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The objectives of this thesis were to observe how the Canadian youth justice system has dealt with the regulation of the transfer of young offenders to the adult court and how the Canadian statutes have regulated the imposition of adult offences for young offenders.
For this, I drew a distinction between two levels of observation: first, I observed the process of "creation of statutes" by the political system. Second, I observed the process of "understanding and interpretation of statutes" by the judicial system. The notion of "political system" includes the legislation enacted by Parliament, parliamentary debates, and reports published by the Government of Canada. The notion of "judicial system" includes the decisions of the Montreal Youth Court.
For the first level of observation ("creation of statutes"), I observed and analyzed the work of the political system for the period 1842 to 2012. Starting in 1857, many statutes regulated different aspects of the criminal law system as it applied to young people. The first statute to deal with youth offenders comprehensively and different from adult offenders was the Juvenile Delinquents Act (1908); this statute was replaced by the Young Offenders Act (1982). The current statute is the Youth Criminal Justice Act (2002).
With regard to the Juvenile Delinquents Act (1908) and the Young Offenders Act (1982), I observed how the political system regulated the mechanism of transferring a young person to the adult court. This mechanism allowed the youth court to decide a question of jurisdiction: whether the young person would be processed and sentenced within the youth justice system, or whether the young person would be sent to the adult court for him to be dealt with and sentenced therein. With regard to the Youth Criminal Justice Act (2002), I observed how the political system has regulated the imposition of adult sentences by the youth court. This statute replaced the mechanism of transfer under the two previous statutes by the imposition of adult sentences within the youth justice system.
For the second level of observation ("the understanding and interpretation of statutes"), I observed how the Montreal Youth Court had understood and interpreted the statutory provision that allowed the youth court to transfer a young person to the adult court for the young person to be dealt with and sentenced therein. My period of observation is from 1911 to 1995.
I argue that both the political and the judicial systems have been strongly influenced by the theories of deterrence, denunciation, retribution, and rehabilitation. The influence that each theory has exercised on each system varies. The political system, originally focused on the rehabilitation of young people, has been slowly “contaminated” by the most punitive theories, such as deterrence and denunciation. This shift started in the 70’s and slowly increased over the years. Conversely, while the judicial system does not seem to have been originally influenced by the theories of rehabilitation, its focus has slowly shifted towards this objective as the primary goal of their intervention towards young offenders since the 70’s. However, the “successful rehabilitation” of a young person has become a goal in itself, where “unsuccessful offenders” have been transferred to the adult court and dealt with the adult punitive justice system.
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Berard, Frederic. "Les impacts constitutionnels et politiques du renvoi relatif a la secession du Quebec /." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31088.
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Un autre essai sur la sempiternelle question de l'unite canadienne, deplorez-vous presentement. Pis encore, ajoutez-vous, on y aborde une fois de plus l'ennuyeuse et l'ennuyante problematique constitutionnelle. Et pourquoi l'auteur a-t-il choisi un tel sujet? Parce qu'il fait partie de la race des fatigants mais infatigables maniaques de cet incessant debat qu'est celui des Deux Solitudes? Possible. Surement meme. Mais il y a plus: le Renvoi relatif a la secession du Quebec ne represente pas qu'un simple episode de la saga constitutionnelle canadienne. Vraisemblablement, ces implications pratiques pourraient un jour sceller l'issue du debat. Certes, le mouvement separatiste quebecois, loin d'etre moribond, ne s'eteindra pas sur la seule base d'une decision de la Cour supreme du Canada. Pretendre le contraire releve de la fantaisie, de l'outrecuidance ou encore, d'un manque tangible de pragmatisme politique. Toutefois, un fait persiste: applique in extenso, l'Avis s'avere une serieuse embuche sur le chemin menant a l'independance. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Britland, Karen. "Drama at the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40142192q.
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Roberts, Douglas Stuart. ""The Hidden Ally: How the Canadian Supreme Court Has Advanced the Vitality of the Francophone Quebec Community"." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420395127.
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Woodell, Brandi. "The Intersecting and Integrating Identities of Rural Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Christians." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1710.
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The majority of discussions of gay and lesbian experiences in the United States associate gay culture with urban areas. However, there is still a significant population of LGBT people living in the rural United States (Baumle et al 2009). Many of these individuals identify with rural spaces and seek to maintain “country” identities. As with rural spaces, there is an assumption that Christian identities directly conflict with those of non-heterosexual identities. This study examines the ways in which these individuals create and negotiate stereotypically conflicting identities regarding their sexuality, their rural identities and their religious identities. The goal of this project is to add to currently sparse literature on rural gay Christians and give an accurate portrayal of gay Christians in rural areas. I found that the sensationalized stereotypes of what it means to be a gay Christian in the country are often far cries from the actual experiences.
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Bucholz, R. O. "The court in the reign of Queen Anne." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381790.
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Golden, Michelle. "The "roote of ciuil conuersation" redefining courtesy in book vi of The faerie queen /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-02072007-111115/.
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Thesis (B.A. honors)--Georgia State University, 2006.Dr. Robert Sattelmeyer, committee chair; Wayne Erickson, committee member. Electronic text (40 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 7, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-40).
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Barron, Natania J. "Courtly contradictions a case for Guenevere /." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1501Barron/umi-uncg-1501.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 10, 2008). Directed by Denise Baker; submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62).
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Lansberry, Kasey. "Welfare Participation Rates Among the Eligible Poor: A County-Level Analysis of the North Carolina Work First Program." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1334854306.
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Middaugh, Karen Lee. "“The golden tree”: The court masques of Queen Anna of Denmark." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1061385436.
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Cooke, Payton, and Payton Cooke. "Comparative Analysis of Multiple Data Sources for Travel Time and Delay Measurement." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622847.
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Arterial performance measurement is an essential tool for both researchers and practitioners, guiding decisions on traffic management, future improvements, and public information. Link travel time and intersection control delay are two primary performance measures that are used to evaluate arterial level of service. Despite recent technological advancements, collecting travel time and intersection delay data can be a time-consuming and complicated process. Limited budgets, numerous available technologies, a rapidly changing field, and other challenges make performance measurement and comparison of data sources difficult. Three common data collection sources (probe vehicles, Bluetooth media access control readers, and manual queue length counts) are often used for performance measurement and validation of new data methods. Comparing these and other data sources is important as agencies and researchers collect arterial performance data. This study provides a methodology for comparing data sources, using statistical tests and linear correlation to compare methods and identify strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, this study examines data normality as an issue that is seldom considered, yet can affect the performance of statistical tests. These comparisons can provide insight into the selection of a particular data source for use in the field or for research. Data collected along Grant Road in Tucson, Arizona, was used as a case study to evaluate the methodology and the data sources. For evaluating travel time, GPS probe vehicle and Bluetooth sources produced similar results. Bluetooth can provide a greater volume of data more easily in addition to samples large enough for more rigorous statistical evaluation, but probe vehicles are more versatile and provide higher resolution data. For evaluating intersection delay, probe vehicle and queue count methods did not always produce similar results.
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Tothill, Paul Gregory. "For queen and country : accountability of police in South Australia - the Salisbury affair re-examined /." Title page and contents only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09art717.pdf.
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Hunter, Sam. "Coming Out Films: Speech, Cinema, and The Making of Queer Subjects." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1562942471272232.
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Holland-Muter, Susan. "Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27892.
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This thesis explores the different modes and meanings of queer world making (QWM) of lesbians in Cape Town. Through an analysis of in depth interviews and focus groups it reveals lesbians' constructions of their intersectional and permeable QWM through a series of counter narratives enacted in three interconnected socialities. Generational narratives reveal psycho-social processes of recognition of lesbian desire and coming into a lesbian subjectivity in a range of modes of QWM. Lesbian erotic world making centres their entitlement to enact sexual autonomy and sexual pleasure. Their counter narratives reveal how they simultaneously inhabit and extend normative gender regimes. Their productions of desire reveal a lesbian centred frame of sexual pleasure that extends the erotogenic body beyond the genitalia, innovates and transforms hegemonic libidinal zones, and extends phallocentric culture. Lesbian motherhood as a site of QWM reveals the participants' negotiations, conflict, stress and agency in relation to the 'good mother' discourse that undergirds mothering practices in South Africa. Their counter narratives reveal how they simultaneously resist and re-inscribe heteronormativity in their motherhood practice. Ironically, it is through publicly assuming their sexuality that they are they able to perform 'good motherhood'. They perform private resistance and public complicity with good mother ideologies; and simultaneously centre and destabilize the role of the father. They manage their 'difference' to the heterosexual norm by providing their children with tools to navigate heteronormativity, while simultaneously claiming being an unexceptional family. Their queer place making strategies in everyday spaces in Cape Town demonstrate how they rework racialised notions of belonging to incorporate the queer body (at times ephemerally) to make Cape Town home. Their creation of lesbian social networks and communities, embodied in lesbian social scenes and within their private homes, reveals how Cape Town is experienced as a hybrid space, their contrasting and competing narratives of the city revealing narratives of fractured belonging. QWM reveals how lesbians resist and (re)shape hegemonic identities, discourses and practices, revealing 'a mode of being in the world that is also inventing the world' (Muñoz, 1999: 121). QWM is about borderlands (Anzaldúa, 1987), where one lives within the possibility of multiple plotlines (Clandinin & Rosiek, 2006). Their queer life worlds are permeable to racialised heteronormativities. But their agency reveals multi-vocal and multivalent queer life worlds, enmeshed in the web of racialised, gendered, sexualised, aged and class-based hierarchies in Cape Town. There is no singular way of doing a lesbian subjectivity, no singular utopian notion of a lesbian community. Their differences are located in their varying political perspectives and their social positionalities of privilege and penalty, in short, how they position themselves within the 'politics of belonging' (Yuval Davis, 2006).
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Adams, Caroline. "Queen and country : the significance of Elizabeth I's progress in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire in 1591." Thesis, University of Chichester, 2012. http://eprints.chi.ac.uk/949/.
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Brobeck, John T. "A MUSIC BOOK FOR MARY TUDOR, QUEEN OF FRANCE." Cambridge University Press, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621897.
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Frank Dobbins in memoriam
In 1976 Louise Litterick proposed that Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1760 was originally prepared for Louis XII and Anne of Brittany of France but was gifted to Henry VIII of England in 1509. That the manuscript actually was prepared as a wedding gift from Louis to his third wife Mary Tudor in 1514, however, is indicated by its decorative and textual imagery, which mirrors the decoration of a book of hours given by Louis to Mary and the textual imagery used in her four royal entries. Analysis of the manuscript’s tabula and texts suggests that MS 1760 was planned by Louis’s chapelmaster Hilaire Bernonneau (d. 1524) at the king’s behest. The new theory elucidates the content and significance of Gascongne’s twelve-voice canon Ista est speciosa, which appeared beneath an original portrait of Mary Tudor and was intended to mirror the perfection of the Blessed Virgin and her ‘godchild’ Mary.
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Ryu, Changsu. "Sequence stratigraphic controls of hydrocarbon reservoir architecture case study of Late Permian (Guadalupian) Queen Formation, Means Field, Andrews County, Texas /." Texas A&M University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1969/530.
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Watkins, III Jerry T. "Underneath the Rainbow: Queer Identity and Community Building in Panama City and the Florida Panhandle 1950 - 1990." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/31.
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The decades after World War II were a time of growth and change for queer people across the country. Many chose to move to major metropolitan centers in order to pursue a life of openness and be part of queer communities. However, those people only account for part of the story of queer history. Other queer people chose to stay in small towns and create their own queer spaces for socializing and community building. The Gulf Coast of Florida is a place where queer people chose to create queer community where they lived through such actions as private house parties and opening bars. The unique place of the Gulf Coast as a tourist destination allowed queer people to build and join communication networks that furthered the growth of a sense of community leading ultimately to the founding of Bay AIDS Services and Information Coalition in 1989.
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Arvidsson, Klas. "Simulering av miljoner grindar med Count Algoritmen." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2476.
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A key part in the development and verification of digital systems is simulation. But hardware simulators are expensive, and software simulation is not fast enough for designs with a large number of gates. As today’s digital zesigns constantly grow in size (number of gates), and that trend shows no signs to end, faster simulators handling millions of gates are needed.
We investigate how to create a software gate-level simulator able to simulate a high number of gates fast. This involves a trade-off between memory requirement and speed. A compact netlist representation can utilize cache memories more efficient but requires more work to interpret, while high memory requirements can limit the performance to the speed of main memory.
We have selected the Counting Algorithm to implement the experimental simulator MICA. The main reasons for this choice is the compact way in which gates can be stored, but still be evaluated in a simple and standard way.
The report describes the issues and solutions encountered and evaluate the resulting simulator. MICA simulates a SPARC architecture processor called Leon. Larger netlists are achieved by simulating several instances of this processor. Simulation of 128 instances is done at a speed of 9 million gates per second using only 3.5MB memory. In MICA this design correspond to 2.5 million gates.
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Ryberg, Ingrid. "Imagining Safe Space : The Politics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-68789.
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There is a current wave of interest in pornography as a vehicle for queer, feminist and lesbian activism. Examples include Dirty Diaries: Twelve Shorts of Feminist Porn (Engberg, Sweden, 2009), the Pornfilmfestival Berlin (2006-) and the members-only Club LASH in Stockholm (1995-). Based on ethnographic fieldwork designed around these cases, the purpose of the thesis is to account for, historicize and understand this transnational film culture and its politics and ethics. The fieldwork consists of interviews, questionnaires and participant observation, including participation as one of the filmmakers in Dirty Diaries. The thesis studies queer, feminist and lesbian pornography as an interpretive community. Meanings produced in this interpretive community are discussed as involving embodied spectatorial processes, different practices of participation in the film culture and their location in specific situations and contexts of production, distribution and reception. The thesis highlights a collective political fantasy about a safe space for sexual empowerment as the defining feature of this interpretive community. The figure of safe space is central in the fieldwork material, as well as throughout the film culture’s political and aesthetic legacies, which include second wave feminist insistence on sexual consciousness-raising, as well as the heated debates referred to as the Sex Wars. The political and aesthetic heterogeneity of the film culture is discussed in terms of a tension between affirmation and critique (de Lauretis, 1985). It is argued that the film culture functions both as an intimate public (Berlant, 2008) and as a counter public (Warner, 2002). Analyzing research subjects’ accounts in terms of embodied spectatorship (Sobchack, 2004, Williams, 2008), the thesis examines how queer, feminist and lesbian pornography shapes the embodied subjectivities of participants in this interpretive community and potentially forms part of processes of sexual empowerment.
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Safdar, Komal. "Better queue management in a busy public hospital of a developing country without appointment system : an application using data envelopment analysis." Thesis, Aston University, 2016. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/28685/.
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Queuing is a key efficiency criterion in any service industry, including Healthcare. Almost all queue management studies are dedicated to improving an existing Appointment System. In developing countries such as Pakistan, there are no Appointment Systems for outpatients, resulting in excessive wait times. Additionally, excessive overloading, limited resources and cumbersome procedures lead to over-whelming queues. Despite numerous Healthcare applications, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has not been applied for queue assessment. The current study aims to extend DEA modelling and demonstrate its usefulness by evaluating the queue system of a busy public hospital in a developing country, Pakistan, where all outpatients are walk-in; along with construction of a dynamic framework dedicated towards the implementation of the model. The inadequate allocation of doctors/personnel was observed as the most critical issue for long queues. Hence, the Queuing-DEA model has been developed such that it determines the ‘required’ number of doctors/personnel. The results indicated that given extensive wait times or length of queue, or both, led to high target values for doctors/personnel. Hence, this crucial information allows the administrators to ensure optimal staff utilization and controlling the queue pre-emptively, minimizing wait times. The dynamic framework constructed, specifically targets practical implementation of the Queuing-DEA model in resource-poor public hospitals of developing countries such as Pakistan; to continuously monitor rapidly changing queue situation and display latest required personnel. Consequently, the wait times of subsequent patients can be minimized, along with dynamic staff scheduling in the absence of appointments. This dynamic framework has been designed in Excel, requiring minimal training and work for users and automatic update features, with complex technical aspects running in the background. The proposed model and the dynamic framework has the potential to be applied in similar public hospitals, even in other developing countries, where appointment systems for outpatients are non-existent.
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Shrestha, Sajan. "SENSITIVITY OF QUEUE ESTIMATES TO THE SIZE OF THE TIME INTERVAL USED TO AGGREGATE TRAFFIC VOLUME DATA." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431087335.
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Young, Kyla Morgan. "Out at the Barrel: The Search for Citizenship at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366281032.
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Edwards, Darryn. "A World Into Which They Couldn't Follow Me: Arjie's Un-shameful Queer Awakening in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1513339069627585.
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Shirey, Jasmine. "Systems of Expression: Counter-Discourse in Online Intersex Communities." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1964.
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Individuals who do not fit neatly into the expected genetic and phenotypic XX/XY binary have been misrepresented, ignored, operated on without consent, denied legal rights, and gaslighted by multiple spheres of dominant society including, but not limited to: medicine, popular culture, and the justice system. Using Michael Foucault’s conception of 'counter-discourse' in conversation with the work of Gayatri Spivak, I ask how online intersex communities (OICs) have participated in counter-discourse by examining forums, blogs, comments, organization websites, memoirs and social media pages.
Major examples of phenomena OICs respond to, engage with, and critique include: surgery on intersex infants; the introduction of the term 'DSD'; intersexuality in popular television shows; chromosomal primacy; and legal standings of intersex individuals in different countries. I found that 'counter-discourse' within OICs include efforts to: redefine the 'truth' against common problematic appeals to medicine, morals, or nature; advocate acceptance of all bodies; and create of a sense of belonging where there is space for people to heal and organize on a foundation of affinity.
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Givelber, Jackie. "Is Love a Battlefield? The New Politics of Marriage Equality in the Aging War on Terror." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1026.
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When Donald Trump took the stage as the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in July 2016, he made a historical appeal to LGBTQ Americans: to the boisterous applause of a Republican audience, he promised "to protect LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology." Utilizing this historical moment as an indicator of shifting political views around LGBTQ rights in the Republican Party and the US nation-state as a whole, this paper links contemporary iterations of the War on Terror to the legalization of same-sex marriage in June 2015. Connecting same-sex marriage to the US nation-building project, I argue that the "dignity" newly available to certain queer folks via the institution of marriage makes possible an articulation of queer-defensibility that services a Republican investment in the aging War on Terror and the sustained targeting and hyper-surveillance of Muslims globally.
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Atwal, Rajpreet. "Between the courts of Lahore and Windsor : Anglo-Indian relations and the re-making of royalty in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8ac05e15-9293-4671-8cb1-76379f03508a.
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This thesis examines the political and social worldview of British and Indian royalty during the nineteenth century. Rather than viewing them as mere 'ornamental' figureheads, it seeks to highlight and scrutinise the ideas held by monarchs (sovereign or deposed) about empire and the role of royalty, as well as considering how their attempts at implementing such ideas can complicate existing narratives about the relative influence and authority of this group. Above all, this thesis breaks new ground by adopting a transnational approach in its study of such royal ideas and endeavours. Ruling dynasties, monarchs and courts have long been part of an interconnected, if rarefied, world encompassing Europe and Asia, though this is not adequately reflected in the historiography on the nineteenth century. This is despite the ironic fact that in that century, many royal houses were brought closer together than ever before, through the impact of growing global empires, and advancing communications and transportation networks. The first direct meetings between British and Indian royalty took place during this period, in the early 1850s, and are closely examined here. Based on a core case-study of the longstanding relationship between the Punjabi and British dynasties of Maharajah Ranjit Singh and Queen Victoria, and using a wide variety of textual and material sources, this thesis captures royal perspectives of their status and role in an evolving world, alongside considering how British and Indian royalty directly or indirectly influenced one another. This study effectively de-centres the British imperial official as the primary agent in Anglo-Indian elite encounters, and goes further to demonstrate that whether in the case of the connections between royal personages, or in the ties between âmonarchy, nation and empireâ, the capability for royal agency to shape the nature of such relationships evolved over time and was a consistently contested matter.
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McMahon, Adam Michael. "From Blooming Judicial Philosophies to Castrated Legislation: Sexuality, Desire, and Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/288.
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Society and institutions of government reinforce norms that constrain the behavior of individuals. Heteropatriarchal norms traditionally favor the perspective of white, male, heterosexual, reason, judicial restraint, and democratic authority over their binary, and minority, counterparts: black, female, homosexual, desire, judicial activism, and individual rights. According to the theory of Queer New Institutionalism, these dichotomous pairs are mutually dependent upon each other for definition and maintenance. The perpetuation of these binarisms is made through language, often assumed and unquestioned. However, the use of sexualized language and metaphors are identified in efforts to draw suspicion and consternation for these minoritized Others. When the presence of an Other is missing, those that would reinforce these norms being to skirt the line between the pairings, taking the position of the individual they would otherwise criticize. By utilizing critical discourse analysis, Supreme Court nomination hearings during the 109th and 111th Congresses were reviewed for support for the theory of Queer New Institutionalism. Senators and witnesses before the committee operated within the constraints of binary thinking and instances of sexualized and gendered language, as well as metaphors, were used to perpetuate these norms and link the nominees to the suspicion surrounding Others.
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Naimi, Mohamed. "Une structure arborescente pour une classe d'algorithmes distribués d'exclusion mutuelle." Besançon, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BESA2003.
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Dans la premiere partie, une presentation des solutions existantes pour les reseaux complets est proposee. La deuxieme partie contient l'idee fondamentale de la these: au lieu de diffuser une demande d'entree en section critique, un site va demander l'autorisation a un seul site. Les chemins d'acces a ce site sont structures en arborescence. La troisieme partie presente un algorithme de reorganisation de l'arborescence en cas de panne d'un site: un algorithme d'exclusion mutuelle, base sur la notion d'arborescence est valable quand le reseau n'est pas complet. La preuve de l'exclusion mutuelle, de l'absence d'interblocage et de la famine est aussi donnee
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Lehaire, Benjamin. "L'action privée en droit des pratiques anticoncurrentielles : pour un recours effectif des entreprises et des consommateurs en droits français et canadien." Thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LAROD002/document.
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La régulation de la concurrence est dualiste en France et au Canada. D’un côté, des autorités publiques de régulation encadrent le marché et sanctionnent le cas échéant les pratiques contraires aux dispositions législatives en vigueur, et, d’un autre côté, les victimes de pratiques anticoncurrentielles, c'est-à-dire les consommateurs et les entreprises, peuvent intenter des poursuites privées sur le fondement d’une action en responsabilité civile afin d’obtenir la réparation du préjudice concurrentiel subi. Il s’agit respectivement de l’action publique et de l’action privée en matière de concurrence, qualifiées aussi de public enforcement et de private enforcement du droit de la concurrence. Cependant, dans l’Union européenne, et en France particulièrement, le préjudice concurrentiel reste sans réparation effective. En effet, en France, les consommateurs n’avaient pas, jusqu’à l’adoption de l’action de groupe, de moyen procédural d’accéder au juge de la réparation. De plus, le droit civil français se montre trop rigide pour permettre l’indemnisation d’un préjudice économique aussi complexe que le préjudice concurrentiel. Pour alimenter sa réflexion à ce sujet, le législateur français s’est souvent tourné vers les modèles canadien et québécois pour réformer son droit civil bicentenaire. En effet, le droit civil québécois se montre particulièrement souple dans les litiges liés au droit de la concurrence. De plus, la Loi sur la concurrence canadienne offre un droit à réparation adapté aux contraintes des victimes de pratiques anticoncurrentielles. L’auteur a ainsi cherché à comprendre comment fonctionne le mécanisme canadien de private enforcement pour évaluer si ce modèle, par le truchement du droit civil québécois, pourrait inspirer une réforme du modèle civiliste français adopté par le législateur notamment lors de l’introduction de l’action de groupe. L’analyse se situe principalement en droit civil pour permettre une lecture de l’action privée qui s’éloigne des stéréotypes classiques tirés de l’expérience américaine dans ce domaine. L’objectif ultime de cette comparaison est de rendre effectif le recours privé des entreprises et des consommateurs en droits français et canadien à la suite d’un préjudice découlant d’une violation du droit des pratiques anticoncurrentiellesRegulation of competition is dualistic in France and Canada. On one side, public authority frame the market and impose sanction, if appropriate, to the practices contrary to existing legislation, and, on other side, the victims injured by antitrust practices, that is consumers and company, may bring a private procecussion based on the liability to obtain a compensation for the antitrust injury. They are respectively of public action and private action, also referred to as public enforcement and private enforcement of competition law. However, in the European Union, and particularly in France, the antitrust harm has no effective remedy. Indeed, in France, consumers had not, until the adoption of the collective redress, procedural means to access the judge of compensation. In addition, the French civil law proves too rigid to allow compensation for something as complex as the competitive harm. For its thinking about it, the French legislator has often turned to the Canadian and Quebec models to reform its bicentenary civil law. Indeed, the Quebec civil law is particularly flexible in disputes related to competition law. In addition, the Canadian Competition Act provides a right to compensation adapted to the constraints of the victims of anticompetitive practices. The author has sought to understand how the Canadian private enforcement mechanism works to assess whether this model, through the Quebec civil law, could inspire a reform of French civil law model adopted by the legislature in particular during the introduction of collective redress. The analysis is primarily civil law to allow a reading of private action that departs from conventional stereotypes of the American experience in this field. The ultimate goal of this comparison is to make effective use of the private businesses and consumers in French and Canadian rights following an injury resulting from a violation of anti-competitive practices
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Edmundson, Joshua R. "THE ONE EXHIBITION THE ROOTS OF THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT ONE MAGAZINE & THE FIRST GAY SUPREME COURT CASE IN U.S. HISTORY 1943-1958." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/399.
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The ONE Exhibition explores an era in American history marked by intense government sponsored anti-gay persecution and the genesis of the LGBT equality movement. The study begins during World War II, continues through the McCarthy era and the founding of the nation’s first gay magazine, and ends in 1958 with the first gay Supreme Court case in U.S. history.
Central to the story is ONE The Homosexual Magazine, and its founders, as they embarked on a quest for LGBT equality by establishing the first ongoing nationwide forum for gay people in the U.S., and challenged the government’s right to engage in and encourage hateful and discriminatory practices against the LGBT community. Then, when the magazine was banned by the Post Office, the editors and staff took the federal government to court. As such, ONE, Incorporated v. Olesen became the first Supreme Court case in U.S. history that featured the taboo subject of homosexuality, and secured the 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech for the gay press. Thus, ONE magazine and its founders were an integral part of a small group of activists who established the foundations of the modern LGBT equality movement.
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Maunder, Paul Allan. "The Rebellious Mirror,Before and after 1984:Community-based theatre in Aotearoa." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5381.
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In this thesis I outline the contribution Community-based theatre has made to New Zealand theatre. This involves a defining of theatre production as a material practice. Community-based theatre was a tendency from the 1930s, a promise of the left theatre movement and, I argue, was being searched for as a form of practice by the avant-garde, experimental practitioners of the 1970s. At the same time, early Māori theatre began as a Community-based practice before moving into the mainstream.
With the arrival of neo-liberalism to Aotearoa in 1984, community groups and Community-based theatre could become official providers within the political system. This led to a flowering of practices, which I describe, together with the tensions that arise from being a part of that system. However, neo-liberalism introduced managerial practices into state contracting and patronage policy, which effectively denied this flowering the sustenance deserved. At the same time, these policies commodified mainstream theatre production.
In conclusion, I argue that in the current situation of global crisis, Community-based theatre practice has a continuing role to play in giving voice to the multitude and by being a practice of the Common.
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Nyh, Johan. "From Snow White to Frozen : An evaluation of popular gender representation indicators applied to Disney’s princess films." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36877.
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Simple content analysis methods, such as the Bechdel test and measuring percentage of female talk time or characters, have seen a surge of attention from mainstream media and in social media the last couple of years. Underlying assumptions are generally shared with the gender role socialization model and consequently, an importance is stated, due to a high degree to which impressions from media shape in particular young children’s identification processes. For young girls, the Disney Princesses franchise (with Frozen included) stands out as the number one player commercially as well as in customer awareness. The vertical lineup of Disney princesses spans from the passive and domestic working Snow White in 1937 to independent and super-power wielding princess Elsa in 2013, which makes the line of films an optimal test subject in evaluating above-mentioned simple content analysis methods. As a control, a meta-study has been conducted on previous academic studies on the same range of films. The sampled research, within fields spanning from qualitative content analysis and semiotics to coded content analysis, all come to the same conclusions regarding the general changes over time in representations of female characters. The objective of this thesis is to answer whether or not there is a correlation between these changes and those indicated by the simple content analysis methods, i.e. whether or not the simple popular methods are in general coherence with the more intricate academic methods.Betyg VG (skala IG-VG)
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St-Laurent, Olivier. "L'évolution de la migration interrégionale au Québec (1991-2006)." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4711.
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Ce mémoire présente, dans une première partie, une analyse détaillée des flux
migratoires entre les différentes régions administratives du Québec entre 1991 et 2006.
Nous avons utilisé quelques indicateurs permettant de quantifier l’importance de ces
mouvements à la fois sur la région d’origine et sur la population d’accueil. Afin de
réaliser ce travail, nous avons eu recours aux matrices de flux migratoires entre les 17
régions administratives québécoises, matrices qui sont publiées par l’Institut de la
Statistique du Québec à l’aide du fichier de la Régie de l’assurance-maladie du Québec
(RAMQ). Les méthodes d’analyse utilisées nous ont permis de mesurer l’intensité de ces
flux, leur concentration spatiale, l’orientation spatiale des émigrants, les hiérarchies des
régions administratives ainsi que l’efficience des migrations interrégionales du Québec.
Nous avons analysé comment les régions administratives du Québec sont affectées par la
migration interrégionale. Dans une deuxième partie, nous avons porté notre attention sur
la migration interrégionale en fonction de certains groupes d’âge. L’étude des migrations
en fonction du groupe d’âge a permis de mieux saisir les conséquences démographiques
de ces mouvements pour les régions d’origine et de destination, particulièrement en ce
qui concerne la structure de la population résultant de ces flux. Finalement, dans une
troisième partie, nous avons analysé les mouvements migratoires entre l’île de Montréal
et les Municipalités Régionales de Comté des quatre régions qui l’entourent afin de
comprendre la part de l’étalement urbain dans l’émigration des Montréalais.
Les résultats obtenus nous permettent de conclure en dégageant certaines
tendances. D’abord, nous avons établi que les migrations dans la province de Québec se
font des régions éloignées vers les régions du centre. Ces régions gagnantes renferment
ou avoisinent les grands centres urbains de la province : Québec, Montréal et Ottawa.
Nous assistons donc à une redéfinition du paysage québécois : le nord se déserte, le
centre a une faible croissance et la grande région de Montréal, plus particulièrement les
régions en banlieue de l’île de Montréal, est en nette croissance.
Ensuite, l’analyse par groupe d’âge a illustré que les régions excentrées ont très
rarement des soldes positifs et que les jeunes sont très nombreux à quitter ces régions.
Pour l’île de Montréal, ce sont les jeunes qui arrivent en grand nombre. Cependant, après
la trentaine, les gens désertent l’île pour d’autres régions de la province. Ces départs
profitent aux régions adjacentes, qui font d’énormes gains chez les jeunes travailleurs.
Finalement, l’analyse des échanges migratoires entre l’île de Montréal et les MRC
des quatre régions adjacentes nous a permis de constater que ces MRC sont très souvent
gagnantes dans leurs échanges migratoires. Particulièrement lors de la période 2001-2006,
où seulement deux territoires sont perdants dans leurs échanges migratoires avec les
autres régions du système, soit l’île de Montréal et la MRC de Longueuil.This thesis presents in its first part a detailed analysis of migratory flows between Quebec’s different administrative regions between 1991 and 2006. We used a few indicators which enabled us to quantify the importance of these movements on both the region of origin and the host population. In order to accomplish this task, we used the migratory flow matrices between the 17 administrative regions of Quebec that are published by the Institut de la Statistique du Québec, who makes use of the file of the Régie de l’assurance-maladie du Québec (RAMQ). The methods of analysis we used allowed us to measure the intensity of these flows, their spatial concentration, the spatial orientation of the emigrants, the hierarchies of the administrative regions, as well as the efficiency of Quebec’s interregional migrations. We analyzed how Quebec’s administrative regions are affected by interregional migration. In the second part of this thesis, we directed our attention to interregional migration as a function of certain age groups. The study of migrations as a function of the age group allowed us to better understand the demographical consequences of these movements for the regions of origin and of destination, particularly on the population structure resulting from these flows. Finally, in the third part, we analyzed the migratory movements between the island of Montreal and the Regional County Municipalities of its four surrounding regions to understand the role of the urban spread in the emigration of Montrealers. The results obtained allow us to deduce a few tendencies. Firstly, we have established that migration in the province of Quebec happens from remote regions to central regions. These winning regions contain the important urban centres of the province, or are adjacent to them: Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa. We are therefore witnessing a redefinition of Quebec’s landscape: the North is being deserted, there is weak growth in the centre, and in the Montreal metropolitan area, especially in the regions in the suburbs of the island of Montreal, there is a clear growth. Next, the analysis as a function of the age group illustrated that the non-central regions very rarely present positive net migrations, and that youth leave these regions in great numbers. For the island of Montreal, it is the youth that arrive in great numbers. However, people over thirty abandon the island and head for other regions of the province. These departures are beneficial for the neighbouring regions, who receive huge growths in young workers. Finally, the analysis of the migratory exchanges between the island of Montreal and the RCMs of its four neighbouring regions allowed us to notice that these RCMs very often win in their migratory exchanges. This is particularly true for the 2001-2006 period, when only two territories lose in their migratory exchanges with the other regions in the system, namely the island of Montreal and the Longueuil RCM.
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Costanzo, Valérie P. "Le projet d’un tribunal unifié de la famille au Québec ou l’impasse d’une voie d’accès à la justice." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23934.
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L’idée d’un tribunal unifié de la famille (TUF) plane depuis longtemps. Toutefois, les contraintes constitutionnelles de la fédération canadienne en matière d’administration de la justice familiale en rendent la réalisation très difficile. En effet, l’établissement de TUF pose problème au Canada en ce que la Loi constitutionnelle de 1867 prévoit que le mariage et le divorce sont de compétence fédérale, alors que la célébration du mariage, l’administration de la justice et la procédure en matière civile, de même que toutes les matières de nature purement locale ou privée, sont de compétence provinciale.
Au Québec, à l’heure actuelle, la Cour supérieure a compétence en matière de divorce, de même que sur les demandes qui y sont accessoires, comme la garde de l’enfant et les droits d’accès et les pensions alimentaires. La Cour du Québec, quant à elle, a compétence en matière d’adoption, de délinquance juvénile et de protection de la jeunesse. Cela dit, depuis le 1er janvier 2016, la loi reconnaît à la Cour du Québec une compétence élargie lorsque saisie d’un dossier d’adoption ou de protection de la jeunesse pour se prononcer sur les demandes accessoires qui y sont liées. L’existence de ces deux instances compétentes en matière de droit familial, issues du morcellement des compétences constitutionnelles, crée des difficultés réelles pour l’accès à la justice familiale au Québec. Il en résulte de la confusion pour les justiciables, un manque d’harmonisation dans la gestion des dossiers et une division des ressources judiciaires.
Malgré les limites constitutionnelles ci-dessus exposées, plusieurs provinces canadiennes sont parvenues à créer des TUF dès 1977. Qui plus est, le gouvernement fédéral procède actuellement à une expansion des TUF dans plusieurs provinces. En revanche, en dépit des intentions maintes fois formulées par les gouvernements fédéral et provincial, un tel projet est resté lettre morte au Québec.
Il n’existe pas de recensement des travaux effectués sur le sujet ni d’analyse historique en reflétant l’évolution. Ce mémoire vise à pallier cette dernière carence en fournissant une étude approfondie de la problématique. La première partie dresse l’historique du système judiciaire québécois au regard du droit de la famille et des revendications constitutionnelles afférentes. La seconde partie expose la place qu’a occupée l’idée du TUF lors la dernière réforme du droit de la famille au Québec, au tournant des années 1980. La troisième partie brosse un portrait du projet, dont l’avènement paraît toujours plus lointain. Enfin, la quatrième et dernière partie expose les voies de solutions qui ont été envisagées pour en permettre la création dans le contexte constitutionnel actuel.The Project of a Unified Family Court in Quebec or the Roadblock to an Improved Access to Justice. The idea of a unified family court (UFC) has been embedded in the federal provincial joint policy for decades. However, the establishment of UFCs is challenging in Canada, the reason being that the Constitution Act, 1867, provides that marriage and divorce fall under federal jurisdiction, whereas the celebration of marriage, the administration of justice and the procedure for and all matters of a purely local or private nature fall within provincial jurisdiction. Currently in the province of Quebec, the Superior Court has jurisdiction over divorce, as well as ancillary claims such as custody, access rights and alimony. The Quebec Court has jurisdiction over adoption, youth delinquency and youth protection issues. Since January 1, 2016, the law has given the Court of Quebec extended jurisdiction when it hears an adoption or youth protection file in order to rule on ancillary claims. The existence of these two competent institutions on family matters, resulting from the fragmentation of constitutional powers, creates concrete difficulties for access to family justice in Quebec. The issues identified include confusion for litigants, a lack of harmonization in case management and a division of judicial resources. Despite these divided areas of jurisdiction, several Canadian provinces established UFCs as early as 1977. In addition, the federal government is currently expanding UFCs in several provinces. In Quebec, however, the creation of a UFC has remained an empty rhetoric. To date, there is no thorough review of the work and discussions held to create an UFC in Quebec, nor an analysis of the evolution of the idea. This thesis aims to overcome this void by providing a thorough and comprehensive study on the development of the idea of implementing a UFC in Quebec. The first part provides a historical overview of Quebec’s justice system with respect to family law, as well as related constitutional claims. The second part describes the place of the idea of a unified family court in the last reform of family law in Quebec, at the turn of the 1980s. The third part gives a portrait of the idea, ever distant, of such a court in Quebec since then. The fourth and last part presents the solutions that have been considered to allow the creation of such an institution in Quebec.
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Daniels, Blake. "Tales of here and later coded forms of queer counter-visuality." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24459.
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This text and project in its explorations, failures, inquiries and anxiety seeks to feel, touch and animate a working queer space of counter visuality and its sites of resistance against dominant practices of historical visualization. Through a nuanced practice of coding, in bodily performance, language and associations of space and time, queerness has managed to avoid specific associations to historical periods while creating some of the most influential cultural manifestations that have consistantly resisted power structures and the contemporary economies of the image. This paper will explore in detail how we visualize a lived experience – queerness – while further coding it to counter dominant forms of visual language that have a great deal to gain from the monetizing of such an identity. The text while grappling with these structures of language and form will furthernavigate the ambivalence of queer desire, the often unspoken violence in intimacy, and the way outing visibility can be as destructive as it can be productive. These nuanced and often highly personal experiences will take form through a process of cutting, hiding and revealing, using a shifting coded visual language that will haunt the text. This is a refusal of a linear reading as the only productive means of engagement in understanding in full the relationship between each coded layer, between queerness and our bodies, spatial communities and time. These are tales, haunted stories, of a place where body, history and time blend into one another. You will come to know these ghost that haunt as the three sisters, each with a tale of here and later.XL2018
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Nichols, Garrett Wedekind. "Rural Drag: Settler Colonialism and the Queer Rhetorics of Rurality." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151102.
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In the United States, rural culture is frequently thought of as traditional and “authentically” American. This belief stems from settler colonial histories in which Native lands are stolen and “settled” by white colonial communities. Through this process, the rugged “frontier” becomes a symbol of American identity, and rural communities become the home of “real” Americans. Because settler colonization is invested in maintaining systems of white supremacy, sexism, and heteropatriarchy, these “real” Americans are figured as normatively white and straight. This dissertation analyzes the rhetorical construction of rurality in the United States, specifically focusing on the ways in which settler colonial histories shape national discussions of rural sexuality. I theorize a rhetorical practice I call rural drag, a process by which individuals in settler society can assert membership in white heteropatriarchy by performing “rurality.”
I trace the development of this rhetorical practice through three case studies. In the first, I analyze 19th-century Texan legislative writings during the creation of Texas A&M University. These writings and related correspondences reveal a baseline of white supremacist and settler colonial rhetorics upon which the university established its ethos. In the second, I look at how these rhetorics continue to inform performances of sexuality and gender at Texas A&M. These performances derive from earlier rhetorical practices designed to create a space for white settler privilege. Together, these two case studies suggest that rhetorical practices shape and are shaped by the spaces in which they are practiced and the rhetorical histories of these spaces. In my final case study, I interrogate national discourses of rurality through an analysis of country western music to show how rhetorics of rurality are simultaneously local and national. I conclude by challenging scholars of rhetoric and queer studies to recognize that the relationship between rhetoric and place is key to recognizing our relationship to privilege and oppression in the United States. To further this, I propose a decolonial queerscape pedagogy that accounts for the multiple overlays of sexual identities and practices that travel through the academy while challenging the colonial histories and actions upon which the academy is built.
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Unnikrishnan, Sruthi. "For Queen and Country : Reproductive and Non-Reproductive Division of Labour in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia Cyathiformis." Thesis, 2017. http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/2005/3792.
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Division of labour is a hallmark of eusocial insects and is believed to be a major factor in their evolutionary success and ecological dominance. Division of labour can be of two kinds
– reproductive division of labour where a minority of individuals are egg-layers or reproductives (kings and queens) and the majority are workers or non-reproductives involved mostly in non-reproductive tasks of the colony (workers). Kings/queens and workers are often referred to as separate castes within a social insect colony. There may be further non-reproductive division of labour within the worker caste, based on their morphology or age. In primitively eusocial organisms there is no morphological caste differentiation between the egg-layers and non-egg-layers resulting in greater flexibility in the social roles of individuals within a colony. This creates a very interesting scenario to study the mechanism of division of labour. Moreover our knowledge regarding division of labour especially non-reproductive division of labour is very limited for primitively eusocial organisms.
In this thesis I have studied division of labour in a primitively eusocial wasp species, Ropalidia cyathiformis. R. cyathiformis is a tropical primitively eusocial wasp with a perennial nesting cycle. This species usually has a single dominant queen and several workers. I studied reproductive and non-reproductive division of labour, as well as the role of dominance behaviour in the regulation of both reproductive and non-reproductive activities. In addition to this I have also compared my findings with what is already known in the well-studied congeneric species, Ropalidia marginata.
Reproductive division of labour
To understand reproductive division of labour in R. cyathiformis, I studied queen succession, by experimentally removing the queen. When the queen was removed, one and only one individual increased her aggression and became the new queen of the colony, unchallenged by any other worker. Such a successor was referred to as a potential queen (PQ) until she lays her first egg. By removing the queen and successive PQs, I showed that there is not just one successor but a strict reproductive hierarchy of up to 3 PQs, who succeed the queen one after the other. Of many variables tested, I found that only the frequency of dominance behaviour was a significant predictor of whether or not an individual is part of the reproductive hierarchy and also of her position in the hierarchy. Dominance behaviour however does not perfectly predict the position of an individual in the reproductive hierarchy because I showed that an average of three more dominant individuals, are bypassed when an individual becomes the next queen or PQ. This was in contrast to the reproductive hierarchy in the congeneric Ropalidia marginata, where age rather than dominance behaviour was a predictor (though imperfect once again) of an individual’s position in the queue. Taken together, my results suggest that (a) these two sister species have evolved two rather different mechanisms of reproductive caste differentiation, (b) that neither of them strictly conform either to the so called “temperate” or “tropical” patterns of queen succession seen in most other species studied so far.
Non-reproductive division of labour
As mentioned above, non-reproductive division of labour in eusocial insects is based on either the morphology or the age of the individuals within the colony. Since there is no morphological castes present in primitively eusocial species, I focussed on the effect of age on division of labour in R. cyathiformis. I analysed the frequency as well as the probability of performance of four functionally significant tasks namely, two intranidal tasks – feed larva and build as well as two extranidal tasks – bring food and bring building material. I measured absolute as well as relative ages of the wasps. I found that there is an effect of age on division of labour. Age of first performance of the tasks indicated a clear sequence for the initiation of the tasks with intranidal tasks initiated before extranidal tasks. The frequency of task performance (FTP) and absolute age better explained the variation in the data as compared to probability of task performance (PTP) and relative age. This was in contrast to the pattern of age polyethism found in the congeneric species, Ropalidia marginata, where PTP and relative age better explains the variation in the data. This suggests a more flexible age-dependant division of labour in R. marginata and a rigid age polyethism in R cyathiformis. In addition I found that there was no clear-cut partitioning of the intranidal and extranidal tasks in R. cyathiformis, whereas in R. marginata, it has been shown that the frequency of the intranidal tasks decline with age while that of extranidal tasks increase with age. When taken together, I could say that R. marginata has a more strongly developed age polyethism as compared to R. cyathiformis. This study also shows an evolution of age polyethism with R. cyathiformis behaving more like a typical primitively eusocial species while R. marginata more like a highly eusocial species.
Role of dominance behaviour in reproductive and non-reproductive division of labour
When reproductive regulation in R. cyathiformis was studied, I found that queens of this species target the potential queen (PQ) by showing the maximum frequency per hour of dominance behaviour to the PQ. The PQs on the other hand seem to show the maximum amount of dominance behaviour towards newborns (wasps of age class 0-5 days). Queens seem to regulate only reproductive activities and not the non-reproductive activities as there was no difference in the frequency of both feed larva and bring food behaviour in the colony even after removing the queen. It also appears that dominance behaviour is not used to signal hunger or regulate foraging as there was no significant correlation between the frequency per hour of bring food behaviour and dominance behaviour received. Moreover the foragers do not receive more aggression than other wasps in the colony from either the queen, PQ or intranidal workers. I also found a significant positive correlation between the frequency per hour of bring food behaviour and feed larva behaviour implying that foraging might be a self-regulated process in this species. Hence in R. cyathiformis it appears that dominance behaviour is used only for regulation of reproductive division of labour and not for regulation of non-reproductive division of labour. This was in contrast to the congeneric species, R. marginata where the opposite has been shown to be true; the reproductive regulation is achieved by means of pheromones produced by the queen and work organisation follows a decentralised self-organised manner with intranidal workers signalling or regulating foragers using dominance behaviour.
Comparison with Ropalidia marginata
Ropalidia cyathiformis and Ropalidia marginata, although congeneric species co-existing in the same habitat, have evolved very different mechanisms for division of labour. R. marginata exhibiting features such as 1) presence of a docile queen 2) reproductive regulation by means of pheromones 3) strongly developed and flexible age polyethism 4) decentralised work organisation seem to be more similar to a highly eusocial organism than to a primitively eusocial species. R. cyathiformis on the other hand seems to exhibit several features typical to a primitively eusocial species, such as 1) presence of a dominant queen 2) reproductive regulation by physical means 3) relatively weak and rigid age polyethism 4) self-regulatory method of work organisation. Hence the two species seem to be at two different stages of evolution with R. marginata appearing to be intermediate between primitively and highly eusocial species.
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Weichel, ERIC. "Ladies-in-Waiting: Art, Sex and Politics at the Early Georgian Court." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7979.
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This thesis discusses the cultural contributions – artistic patronage, art theory, art satire - of four Ladies-in-Waiting employed at the early eighteenth-century century British court: Mary, Countess Cowper; Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon; Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk; and Mary Hervey, Baroness Hervey of Ickworth. Through a close reading of archival manuscripts, published correspondences and art historical treatises, I explore the cultural milieu, historical legacy and historiographic reception of these individuals. I argue that their writing reveals fresh insight on the switch from Baroque to Rococo modes of portraiture in Britain, as it does critical attitudes to sex, religion and politics among aristocratic women. Through the use of satire, these courtiers comment on extramarital affairs, rape, homosexuality and divorce among their peer group. They also show an interest in issues of feminist education, literature, political and religious patronage, and contemporary news events, which they reference through allusions to painting, architecture, sculpture, engravings, ceramics, textiles and book illustrations. Many of the artists patronized by the court in this period were foreign-born, peripatetic, and stylistically unusual. Partly due to the transnational nature of these artist’s careers, and partly due to the reluctance of later historians to admit the extent of foreign socio-cultural influence, biased judgements about the quality of these émigré painters’ work continue to predominate in art historical scholarship. While little-studied themselves, these Ladies-in-waiting were at the center of political, social and cultural life in Britain. Their letters therefore have much of value in reclaiming, not only their own contributions to the development of British cultural life, but those of the French or Francophile émigré artists patronized at court. By studying the work of these artists and the lives of their patrons, I examine the intersection between biography and artistic practice at the early eighteenth-century British court.Thesis (Ph.D, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2013-04-29 03:14:47.731
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Sansregret, Rachel. "Croyances populaires dans le théâtre québécois : entre le procédé ludique et le catéchisme dissimulé (1870-1900)." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7296.
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Lavoie-Coutu, Isabelle. "Postures littéraires et modernité dans les chroniques sur les régions d'Arthur Buies." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11722.
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Dans notre étude, nous cherchons à démontrer qu'Arthur Buies se présente comme le témoin d'une forme de modernité dans ses chroniques sur les régions qui sont publiées dans les années 1870 dans divers journaux puis rassemblées en trois recueils. En effet, nous nous appuyons sur l'idée qu'il observerait sensiblement les mêmes traits dans ses chroniques rurales que dans ses chroniques urbaines. Nous pensons aussi que les postures littéraires (Jérôme Meizoz) qu'il adopte permettent à Buies de transmettre - de manière formelle - sa vision de la modernité. Au terme de la recherche, il ressort que Buies, conscient de ce qu'est la modernité, juge qu'elle ne se trouve pas inéluctablement dans les villes. Pour lui, Paris et San Francisco sont modernes, alors que Québec ne l'est pas. De plus, pour lui, il existe bel et bien une forme de modernité dans les chroniques rurales, puisqu'il y observe sensiblement les mêmes traits que ceux qu'il relevait dans ses chroniques sur Paris et San Francisco. Aussi, Buies est-il convaincu que la colonisation au Québec stagne. Il en vient à ce constat lorsqu'il la compare à celle se produisant simultanément aux États-Unis. Toutefois, il remarque un certain progrès au cours de la décennie, insuffisant, selon lui, pour compenser l'absence de chemin de fer sur la rive nord du Saint-Laurent. Nous concluons, à partir de nos analyses, que les postures littéraires que Buies choisit - particulièrement celle du flâneur et celle du géographe - lui permettent de véhiculer les traits de la modernité dans l'écriture même de ses chroniques.In our study, we focus on demonstrating that Arthur Buies presents himself as a witness of a form of modernity in his chronicles on the country published in the 1870's in three collections. We lean on the idea that he would observe approximately the same characteristics in his rural chronicles as in his urban chronicles. We also think that the 'literary postures' (Jérôme Meizoz) adopted by Buies allow him to pass on - in a formal way - his vision of modernity. By the research's end, it stands out that Buies, aware of the concept of modernity, judges that it doesn't inevitably appear in the cities. For Buies, Paris and San Francisco are modern whereas Quebec City is not. Furthermore, for him, there really is a form of modernity in his rural chronicles because he notices in them more or less the same characteristics as the ones he found in the chronicles about Paris and San Francisco. Also, Buies is convinced that the colonization in Quebec stagnates. He comes to this observation when he compares it to the American colonization happening simultaneously. However, he notices some progress regarding Quebec colonization over the decade, but insufficient, according to him, to make up for the absence of a railroad on the northern bank of the St. Lawrence River. Based on our analysis, we conclude that the 'literary postures' chosen by Buies - especially the 'flâneur' and the geographer ones - are figures through which the characteristics of modernity are conveyed within the writing of the chronicles itself.
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Parent, Marylise. "Le processus de contestation d’une inscription au rôle d’évaluation foncière." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16318.
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Le financement des municipalités québécoises repose en majeure partie sur des revenus autonomes, dont la principale source découle de leur pouvoir de taxer la richesse foncière. Par conséquent, le législateur, voulant assurer la stabilité financière des municipalités, a strictement encadré le processus de confection et de révision des évaluations foncières par plusieurs lois et règlements. Ceci n’a tout de même pas empêché l’augmentation des demandes de contestations à chaque nouveau rôle.
Débutant par une demande de révision administrative, à l’aide d’un simple formulaire, le litige entre la municipalité et le contribuable peut se poursuivre devant le Tribunal administratif du Québec et même la Cour du Québec, la Cour supérieure et la Cour d’appel, où la procédure devient de plus en plus exigeante. La transition du processus administratif à judiciaire crée parfois une certaine friction au sein de la jurisprudence, notamment au niveau de la déférence à accorder à l’instance spécialisée, ou encore à l’égard de la souplesse des règles de preuve applicables devant cette dernière.
Par une étude positiviste du droit, nous analysons tout d’abord la procédure de confection du rôle foncier, en exposant les acteurs et leurs responsabilités, ainsi que les concepts fondamentaux dans l’établissement de la valeur réelle des immeubles. Ensuite, nous retraçons chacune des étapes de la contestation d’une inscription au rôle, en y recensant les diverses règles de compétence, de preuve et de procédure applicables à chaque instance. À l’aide de nombreux exemples jurisprudentiels, nous tentons de mettre en lumière les différentes interprétations que font les tribunaux de la Loi sur la fiscalité municipale et autres législations connexes.Funding for Quebec municipalities relies largely on autonomous revenues. Specifically, their power to tax property wealth is the main source of income. Therefore, in order to ensure the financial stability of municipalities, the legislator has strictly regulated the assessment review process with several laws and regulations. This still has not prevented the increase of demands for reviews with each new roll. Starting with an application for an administrative review, which in fact is simply a form, the dispute between the municipality and the taxpayer may continue before the Administrative Tribunal of Quebec and even the Court of Quebec, the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal, where the complexity of the procedure increases. The transition to the judicial from the administrative process sometimes creates friction in the case law, particularly in terms of deference to be accorded to the specialized authority, or with regard to the flexibility of the rules of evidence that apply to the latter. From a positivist study of law, we first analyze the assessment roll making process by exposing the actors and their responsibilities, as well as the fundamental concepts used for determining the actual value of the properties. We then track every stage of the contestation of an entry on the roll by identifying various rules of jurisdiction, evidence and procedure in each instance. With the help of many jurisprudential examples, we attempt to highlight the different interpretations that the courts do of the Act Respecting Municipal Taxation and other related legislation.
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KONČELÍKOVÁ, Iveta. "První recepční vlna Rukopisu Královédvorského a Rukopisu Zelenohorského v letech 1817-1852." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-55624.
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The graduation thesis The first Wave of Reception of Rukopis Královédvorský and Rukopis Zelenohorský in the period 1817 - 1852 documents the first wave of reception of Rukopis Královédvorský and Rukopis Zelenohorský. Mostly we drew from materials from periodical references and also from contemporary literature. In the first part of this thesis we introduce RKZ closer, we bring chronological survey of RKZ?s publications and we interpret them. In separate chapter we present reaction to Germen professors J. H. Dambeck and J. G. Meinert to discovery RKZ. Also we acquaint with foreign language translations of RKZ. The conclusion summarizes we represent work of art, that are affected by the existence of manuscripts RKZ.
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Herz, Silke. "Das Bildnis einer Hofmohrin mit gelber Haube, rotem Kleid und Perlenkette." 2019. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35253.
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Im Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, hing vor seiner Zerstörung das Porträt einer dunkelhäutigen farbenfroh gekleideten jungen Frau mit exotischer Kopfbedeckung. Es gilt als Kriegsverlust und ist lediglich in einer historischen Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildung überliefert. Das Gemälde gelangte 1828 aus dem ehemaligen sächsischen Schloss Pretzsch an der Elbe in die Berliner Schlösser.
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Mabilat, Julie. "La question de la sécession du Québec après l’avis consultatif de la CIJ du 22 juillet 2010 relative au Kosovo." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9166.
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Cette recherche aborde la question de l’avis consultatif de la CIJ sur la conformité
au droit international de la déclaration unilatérale d’indépendance relative au Kosovo du 22
juillet 2010 et ses possibles incidences sur la question de la sécession du Québec. Plus
précisément, ce mémoire traite de la migration des idées constitutionnelles au sujet des
questions d’autodétermination dans les cas kosovar et québécois, en effectuant une analyse
comparative des deux situations.
Le présent mémoire conclut tout d’abord à un respect du droit international public par la
CIJ dans son avis, le Kosovo remplissant les conditions de mise en oeuvre de la sécession
remède. Néanmoins, notre recherche conduit à affirmer une impossibilité de transposition
de solution du cas kosovar à la problématique québécoise, mais à une possible migration
des influences, qui assouplirait la position prise ces dernières années par le Canada,
notamment avec la Loi sur la clarté.This research studies the ICJ advisory opinion on the accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo delivered on 22 July 2010 and its probable impacts on the question of Quebec’s secession. Specifically, it examines the migration of constitutional ideas concerning the right to self-determination in the cases of Kosovo and Quebec. A comparative analysis of both situations is thereby undertaken. This thesis concludes to a non-violation of general international law by the ICJ in its opinion, Kosovo being an illustration of remedial secession. Nonetheless, our research leads us to assert an impossibility of transposition of the ICJ solution about the former Serbian province to the Quebec issue. However, the case is not closed as a migration of the spirit of the advisory opinion could take place, which would soften the position adopted by Canada, especially with the Clarity Act.
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Hlavatý, Michal. "Obraz ženy ve dvorském románu druhé poloviny 14. století." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-323018.
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This thesis deals with image of women in romances of second half of 14th century with accent on the Czech productions. Foreign productions are mentioned as well, but this productions are mentioned marginally. At the beginning of this project, there are presented primary and secondary sources on which the project is based. Methodics of project are next. Next there is described issue of romances in european and Czech environment and there is description of real stand of woman in the Middle Ages. Afterwards there are presented characters of women in particular sources with historical context. End of project includes conclusion which is trying to explain how a woman in the 14th century was perceived in used sources.