Dissertations / Theses: 'Reconstructing history'

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Bromley, Gordon R. M. "Reconstructing the History of Reedy Glacier, Antarctica." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/BromleyGRM2005.pdf.

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Peyton, Paige Margaret. "Reconstructing the Fairview School." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/774.

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McGrath, Katherine M. "Reconstructing South African Afromontane forest history with bryophyte phylogeography." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6134.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-54).
Forests occur as fragmented patches throughout Africa, however the basis for the disjunction of afromontane forests remains uncertain. The genetic structure of organisms should reflect their hi story, and in turn the history of their environment. Thus a phylogeographical study of forest-faithful mosses could provide insight into the fragmentation of forests. In this study, patterns of genetic variation in four forest-faithful mosses (Leptodon smithii, Pyrrhobryum spiniforme, Aerobryopsis capensis and Neckera valentiniana) were investigated.

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Florer, Samuel C. "Memories in Stone/Reconstructing the Street." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153826.

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Memories in Stone: The Confederate Catawba Monument Controversies surrounding Confederate monuments and symbols have brought increased attention to issues of Civil War memory. Often overlooked, Native Americans play an important role in the ways in which some people remember the conflict. A particularly interesting example of this role exists in Fort Mill, South Carolina. in 1900, the town unveiled a limestone monument to Catawba Indians who served in the Confederate Army. These Native people had a specific historical relationship with local and state authorities that shaped how the white ruling class formed a particular memorialization of the Catawba after the Civil War. Furthermore, the two leading local figures in the monument's creation had strong personal motivations to sponsor it. These factors combined with national trends in Civil War memorialization to make the Catawba monument a unique, yet still representative, example of Civil War memory making. Unique in that the design and message of the monument served a local purpose of permanently enshrining the white population's version of Catawba history in Fort Mill's public space, and representative in that it bolstered the ideals of Lost Cause ideology that swept the country at the turn of the twentieth century. Caught between these powerful ideas were the Catawba themselves, who utilized the beliefs represented by the monument for their own strategic goals. Reconstructing the Street: Confrontations Over Norfolk's Public Sphere, 1862-1866 on April 16, 1866, several hundred African Americans marched through the streets of Norfolk, Virginia to celebrate the passage of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866. on the outskirts of town, a fight occurred between white onlookers and black marchers. Violence continued into the night, as white assailants prowled the streets of the city and killed several black people. This violence, which soon became known as the Norfolk Riot, garnered national attention. But it was not an exceptional event. Rather, it was one of many violent contests between white and black people over who had access to, and influence in, Norfolk's public spaces. Reconstruction brought irreversible changes to Norfolk's political and civic status quo. Previously excluded from or constrained within the city's public sphere, formerly enslaved and free black inhabitants seized the opportunities presented by the Civil War to exercise their demands for full access to it. However, white residents consistently resisted these claims, often resorting to organized violence. By examining several violent disputes that took place prior to April 16th, the Norfolk Riot can be contextualized as but one of a series of similar battles between the city's white and black communities centered around control of Norfolk's civic arena.

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Limoges, Sarah. "Reconstructing religion: Augustus and the «Fratres Arvales»." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95063.

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The following thesis is an examination of the underlying reasons for the re-establishment of the cult of the Arval Brothers under Augustus, the first Roman Emperor (31 BC-AD14). It aims to prove that the re-foundation of this archaic Roman cult fits within the parameters of Augustus' religious, as well as political reforms after the victory at Actium in 31 BC. Moreover, it seeks to determine the reasons behind the choice of this particular cult. Although Augustus had significantly reduced the number of men in the Senate, there was still a bottleneck for the few major political offices available. Thus, he decided to give out priesthoods as thanks to his loyal supporters, and to reward those that had crossed over to his side. The members of the brotherhood in 21 BC are highly prominent men both militarily and politically, and this shows that Augustus wanted to solidify his support among the members of the aristocracy.
La présente thèse est une examination des raisons sous-jacentes du rétablissement du culte des Frères Arvales sous Auguste, le premier empereur Romain (31av. J.-C.-14 de notre ère). Elle propose de prouver que le rétablissement de ce culte romain archaïque s'accorde avec les paramètres des réformes politique et religieuse suivant la victoire à Actium en 31 av. J.-C. De plus, elle cherche à déterminer les raisons derrière le choix de ce culte en particulier. Malgré qu'Auguste avait réduit le nombre d'hommes siégeant au Sénat, il y avait toujours une route étroite menant aux offices les plus prestigieuses. Donc, il octroya des prêtrises pour remercier ses supporteurs et pour récompenser ceux qui avaient choisi de changer de camp. Les membres de la fraternité des Frères Arvales en 21 av. J.-C. sont des hommes très proéminent dans les domains de la politique ainsi que dans l'armée, et ceci démontre qu'Auguste voulait solidifier l'appui des membres de l'aristocracie.

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Palmer, Cynthia Lee. "Restoring presence, reconstructing history: Investigative narratives by Argentine women writers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284214.

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Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship from 1976-1983, and underwent a period of intense political repression. This dissertation examines how three Argentine women writers--Edna Pozzi, Martha Gavensky, and Matilde Sanchez--approach the problem of reconstructing history in the aftermath of the military dictatorship from both a feminine and feminist perspective. Three novels published after the return to democratic rule are analyzed: El lento rostro de la inocencia (1983) by Edna Pozzi, Martin o el Juego de la Oca (1986) by Martha Gavensky, and El Dock (1993) by Matilde Sanchez. The purpose of this research is to show how these works, framed as investigative narratives constructed around female absence, constitute gendered histories of the Proceso de Reorganizacion Nacional (Proceso) and the "Dirty War". The conspicuous absence of the central female subject in these novels evokes multiple levels of silence and absenting of the feminine in patriarchal society and the authoritarian state. It is suggested that these endeavor to reinscribe a multiplicity of female experiences into national history, writing against the masculinist historical tradition that has systematically "disappeared" the feminine.

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Walter, Katharine Sassandra. "Reconstructing the invasion history of Lyme disease in North America." Thesis, Yale University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10783471.

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Over the last half-century, previously undescribed tick-borne pathogens including the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, have rapidly spread across the Northeast and Midwest United States. Lyme disease is now the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in North America, with over 300,000 estimated cases each year in the United States. Despite its epidemiological importance, many questions remain about this ongoing invasion. Does the observed spread of human cases reflect the ecological spread of the Lyme disease bacteria or does it reflect changes in case reporting and recognition? How do ticks and tick-borne pathogens spread across space and why are tick-borne pathogens currently invading the US? A better understanding of the ecological and evolutionary history of Lyme disease in North America will inform predictions about its future spread and how control measures might be implemented.

Reconstructing the invasion of Lyme disease is challenging because B. burgdorferi circulates in an enzootic cycle; humans are only incidental hosts. This means that reported cases of disease may not reflect the underlying ecological spread of B. burgdorferi. Pathogen genomes offer an alternative data source for reconstructing the history of pathogen invasion. However, this requires large population-scale samples of pathogen genomes that are difficult to generate from field samples. Further, for pathogen genomes to be informative, pathogens must evolve on similar timescales to ecological spread.

My dissertation work integrates diverse data sources–human case reports and pathogen genomic data–to reconstruct the history of B. burgdorferi in North America. In Chapter One, I present a spatio-temporal model for the spread of human cases of Lyme disease and babesiosis, another tick-borne disease, across New England. Our model uses use the best available longitudinal data–human surveillance data–to model the underlying ecological spread of tick-borne pathogens. Our model predicts that tick- borne diseases spread in a diffusion-like manner, at approximately 10 km per year, with occasional long-distance dispersal, likely due to spread by avian hosts. The remaining studies rely on pathogen genomic data. In Chapter Two, I tackle the methodological challenge of generating genomic data from mixed template samples by developing a method to capture multiple pathogen genomes from individual field-collected tick samples. This approach allowed us to efficiently differentiate between pathogen DNA versus tick and other exogenous DNA, enabling efficient deep sequencing and population genomic study. In Chapter Three, I examined the genomic diversity of B. burgdorferi within individual field-collected ticks. I found that 70% of ticks are infected with multiple strains of the Lyme disease bacteria, indicating that humans may be exposed to and infected with more than one strain of the bacteria from a single tick bite. I also find evidence that the Lyme disease bacteria is evolving in response to the immune defenses of its natural hosts (including rodents and birds). Finally, in Chapter Four, I examined patterns of B. burgdorferi genomic variation across space. I find that B. burgdorferi diversity is ancient and predates not only the reported emergence of Lyme disease in humans over the last ~40 years, but also the last glacial maximum, ~20,000 years ago. Ultimately, population genomic data reveal that the recent emergence of Lyme disease in North America is not driven by a recent introduction or evolution of B. burgdorferi. Instead, the recent epidemic of human Lyme disease is likely driven by environmental and ecological changes that have increased the density of ticks, infected ticks, and/or frequency of human exposures to infected ticks in the past century.

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Pietschmann, Franziska. "A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale: Reconstructing Punk Rock History." Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-62981.

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Embedded in the transatlantic history of rock ‘n’ roll, punk rock has not only been regarded as a watershed moment in terms of music, aesthetics and music-related cultural practices, it has also been perceived as a subversive white cultural phenomenon. A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale challenges this widespread and shortsighted assumption. People of color, particularly black Americans and Britons, and Latina/os have pro-actively contributed to punk’s evolution and shaped punk music culture in the United States and England. Examining why people of color are not linked to the punk rock genre and culture in normative discourse, this paper first scrutinizes the continuously unaddressed racialization of Anglo-American popular music itself and explores how the historical development and discursive construction of racial boundaries impacted the historiography of Anglo-American popular music. Building on these premises, the second central field of inquiry probes how the music press, aided and abetted by academic texts, constructs punk as a white music mono-culture that such discourse historicizes, analyzes, and maintains. Both popular (journalistic) and academic publications have largely ignored or underrepresented the presence of people of color, especially black (American) as well as Latina/o participants, in punk rock culture. The thesis’ third major focus imagines punk as a fluid social and musical convergence culture that continuously crosses unstable boundaries of genres, races, and genders. A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale thus indicates an emerging awareness of how popular and academic discourse can become more sensitive to punk's multiracial, inclusive, and participatory mores.

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Wertheim, Joel Okrent. "Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of RNA Viruses using Relaxed Molecular Clocks." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195138.

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Teasing apart the evolutionary forces responsible for biological phenomena is difficult in the absence of a detailed evolutionary history, especially if this history is lacking a temporal component. RNA viruses, due to their rapid rate of molecular and phenotypic evolution, provide a unique biological system in which to study the temporal aspects of evolutionary processes. These types of studies are possible because of relaxed molecular clock dating techniques, which allow the rate of evolution to vary across a phylogenetic tree. The primary focus of the research presented here concerns the age of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), the primate precursor to HIV. SIV has long been thought to be an ancient infection in non-human African primates, and it has been hypothesized that codivergence with its primate hosts has shaped the SIV phylogeny and resulted in a virus capable of apathogenic infection. The codivergence theory was tested by comparing the phylogeny of a group of monkeys thought to be exemplary of SIV-host codivergence to the phylogeny of their SIVs (Appendix A). These phylogenies were incongruent, suggesting that SIV may have infected these monkeys after their common ancestor speciated. The codivergence theory was investigated further by estimating the time of most recent common ancestor for the SIV lineages that directly gave rise to HIV, found in sooty mangabeys and chimpanzees (Appendix B). The temporal estimates suggest that these SIV lineages are only of hundreds of years old, much younger than expected under the codivergence hypothesis. Next, the same dating techniques were employed to elucidate the evolutionary history of an emerging RNA virus of shrimp, Taura syndrome virus (Appendix C). This analysis provided phylogenetic confirmation that Taura syndrome virus emerged out of the Americas and spread rapidly around the world. Finally, because all of these studies utilized relaxed molecular clocks, a simulation study was performed to test the hypothesis that relaxed molecular clocks provide higher quality phylogenetic inference compared with traditional time-free phylogenetic inference (Appendix D). This simulation found no difference in the overall quality of phylogenetic inference between these methods.

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Spurgeon, Sara Louise. "History, prophecy and myth: Reconstructing American frontiers and the modern West." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284119.

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This study explores and analyzes the ways in which three contemporary writers--Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo--are revisioning the archetypal frontier myths which have shaped, and continue to shape, American culture. Just as with earlier versions, modern frontier myths are mixed and hybridized, the often troubled offspring of parents from multiple cultures and races co-existing in an uneasy intimacy. Contrary to some scholars' assumption, modern American culture is neither lacking in myths, nor unmarked by centuries of conquest and co-existence with Native cultures and their myths. The myths of both the European and Native worlds collided and combined on the various frontiers of the Americas, and the presence of Indians and Indian myths as well as Mexican and other groups have deeply impacted the shape of those myths which justify and direct American culture today. The still unresolved conflicts and tensions inherent in the history of conquest and colonization in the Americas both keeps traditional myths alive and demands their metamorphosis in response to the realities of life in the U.S. at the start of the new millennium when the very questions these myths struggled to answer--issues of national and racial identity, human interactions with the world of nature, and relationships between the conqueror and the conquered--remain painfully current. The purpose of this study is to trace the living remains of those myths and examine their rebirth at the hands of three contemporary writers. The spaces in which the works of these writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions, but the spaces in which overlap has occurred, where the myths of one culture have become inextricably, often unknowingly, intertwined with those of another, each forcing the others into new and unsuspected forms, provide the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths born from these couplings are nonetheless, like any living story, the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future.

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Heller, Michael C. "Reconstructing We: History, Memory and Politics in a Loft Jazz Archive." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10328.

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This dissertation examines a recently discovered archive of films, recordings, photographs and documents relating to the New York jazz lofts of the 1970s. The work not only reconstructs historical details about the lofts, but also explores the significance of the archival project itself, an independent venture founded in 2005 by musician and former loft organizer Juma Sultan. By combining historical research in the Sultan archive and ethnographic engagement with former loft artists, the study examines the continued symbolic significance of the loft era for musicians, listeners and historians. The jazz lofts were independently owned, musician-run spaces in lower Manhattan that served as performance venues, rehearsal halls, living quarters, classrooms and in a variety of other functions. Their emergence is best considered as part of a widespread, politically informed impetus among musicians of the period to organize their own concerts and collective organizations. While the activities shared many similarities with other artist-organized groups emerging in Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere, the lofts’ independence and lack of a central organizing body led to a more diffuse set of activities than manifested in other cities. The dissertation is structured around two primary goals. First, through archival study and ethnographic engagement, the text traces the musical and social significance of the loft period. Following a basic historical chapter, two thematic discourses are examined at length. The first deals with multivalent forms of freedom envisioned by artists, while the second explores ways that participants conceptualized community and social cohesion. The choice of these discourses is informed by descriptions offered in ethnographic interviews with former loft artists. Second, the research considers the role of the archive itself in the re/construction of historical discourses. A notable self-archiving impulse emerged among jazz artists during the years under study, resulting in thousands of amateur recordings in dozens of private collections. Using the Sultan Archive as the primary case study, the dissertation argues that this self-archiving impulse acts as an artist-initiated intervention into historiographic processes that mirrors the musician-organized ethos of the lofts themselves.
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Myers, Norma. "Reconstructing the black past : blacks in Britain, circa 1780 to 1830." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280306.

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Marín, Moratalla Miren Nekane. "Reconstructing life history traits from bone histology in extant and fossil ruminants." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/285623.

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El estudio de las life histories es de vital importancia porque proporciona evidencias sobre las condiciones ecológicas, biodiversidad, demografía, vulnerabilidad y otros muchos aspectos de la biología de las especies. La histología ósea es utilizada como herramienta para reconstruir las life histories de vertebrados, analizando el tejido óseo primario o contando el número de marcas de crecimiento (esqueletocronología). Sin embargo, se ha considerado que los endotermos, al contrario que en ectotermos, muestran un crecimiento óseo no cíclico, invalidando la histología ósea para inferir las life histories de mamíferos. El objetivo general de esta tesis es proporcionar las bases de la histología ósea en mamíferos para inferir estrategias de life history. Los objetivos concretos son: i) analizar la fiabilidad de la esqueletocronología ósea en mamíferos, ii) explorar la asociación entre las características del tejido óseo y el ambiente, fisiología, ontogenia y life history y, iii) reconstruir las características de life history en mamíferos fósiles y actuales para obtener datos sobre la evolución de las life histories y biología de la conservación. Se han analizado 274 láminas transversales de hueso de 225 individuos pertenecientes a lirones actuales (Gliridae) y rumiantes actuales y fósiles (Bovidae, Cervidae, Moschidae y Tragulidae). Se han llevado a cabo tanto análisis cualitativos como cuantitativos. Los análisis cualitativos el tejido óseo primario muestran que, en los estadios tempranos de la ontogenia, los rumiantes forman un tejido fibrolamellar (FLC), mientras que los lirones depositan generalmente un tejido parallel fibered bone (PFB). Cuando son adultos, tanto lirones como rumiantes depositan un hueso lamelar denso (External Fundamental System, EFS). Los resultados también muestran que los Lines of Arrested Growth (LAGs) están presentes de forma universal en los mamíferos analizados. Los LAGs están presentes tanto en el tejido de formación rápido (FLC) así como el tejido de formación lento (EFS). El número de líneas de crecimiento en el hueso concuerda con la edad de los animales, proporcionando la evidencia de la periodicidad anual de los LAGs en estos mamíferos. El fémur es el hueso más conservador para aplicar la esqueletocronología ya que registra el mayor número de LAGs. La remodelación y reabsorción ósea puede eliminar o enmascarar los primeros LAGs depositados durante la ontogenia. Esta investigación muestra que el crecimiento óseo se detiene durante el periodo adverso (pocos recursos), acoplado con la variación fisiológica estacional. Estos resultados apoyan que la parada de crecimiento forma parte de una estrategia termometabólica de conservación energética. Además, este trabajo muestra que las características vasculares y celulares del tejido óseo primario sufre una importante variación ontogenética asociada al descenso de la tasa de crecimiento al acercarse la madurez. La densidad vascular y celular decrece mientras que la proporción de canales longitudinales en relación a los circulares incrementa a lo largo de la ontogenia hasta alcanzar la madurez, lo cual podría estar relacionado con la madurez fisiológica. El cambio más significativo durante la ontogenia ocurre durante la transición entre el FLC o PFB a EFS, lo cual está relacionado con la madurez reproductiva. Este trabajo evidencia que esta transición registra el trade-off entre crecimiento y reproducción en rumiantes. De acuerdo con estos hallazgos, la edad de madurez reproductiva puede determinarse contando el número de ciclos de crecimiento antes del EFS. Los resultados comparando las características histológicas cuantitativas entre bóvidos sugiere que los parámetros vasculares y celulares están relacionados con la masa corporal y el metabolismo. De esta forma, el hueso FLC de grandes bóvidos tiende a mostrar más canales circulares (lo cual estaría reflejando mayores tasas de deposición de hueso perióstico) y menores densidades celulares (lo cual estaría reflejando una menor tasa metabólica específica de masa) que los pequeños.
Bone histology is a widely used tool to reconstruct vertebrate life histories, either by analysing primary bone tissue or by counting the number of growth marks (skeletochronology). However, it has long been considered that endotherms, unlike ectotherms, display a continuous or noncyclical bone growth, disabling bone histology for life history inferences in mammals. The general purpose of the research presented in this PhD Thesis is to challenge this statement, contributing to the foundations of mammalian bone histology as a tool for inferences on life history strategies. A sample of 274 bone cross-sections from 225 individuals belonging to extant dormice (Gliridae) and extant and fossil ruminants (Bovidae, Cervidae, Moschidae and Tragulidae) have been analysed under polarized and transmitted light microscopy. The results show that Lines of Arrested Growth (LAGs) are universally present in both mammalian groups analysed in this work. These growth marks are present throughout both, the fast-growing bone tissue deposited during growing period (fibrolamellar bone, FLC or parallel fibered bone, PFB) as well as the slow-growing dense lamellar tissue deposited during the adulthood (External Fundamental System, EFS). The number of rest lines in cortical bones fits well with chronological age of the animals, providing evidence of the annual periodicity of bone growth marks in these mammals. The femur is clearly the most reliable bone for skeletochronology analyses because it records the greatest number of LAGs. Despite this, bone remodelling and resorption can potentially delete or obscure the earliest ontogenetic record, especially in large ruminants. This research further indicates that bone growth is arrested during the energetically challenging period (low resource supply), coupled with physiological seasonal variation. These findings provide support that growth arrest forms part of a thermometabolic strategy for energy conservation. Moreover, this work shows that vascular and cellular features of primary bone tissue undergo strong ontogenetic variation associated with a decrease on growth rate as maturity approaches in mammals. Specifically, vascular and cellular densities decrease whereas the proportion of longitudinal canals in relation to circular ones increases throughout ontogeny until reach maturity, which may be related to physiological maturity. However, the most significant change along ontogeny occurs during the transition between the main primary tissues, from FLC/PFB to EFS, which is related to reproductive maturity. This work provides evidence that this transition reliable records the trade-off between growth and reproduction in ruminants. According to these findings, the age at reproductive maturity can be determined by counting the number of growth cycles within the fast growing tissue before the EFS. The result of comparing histological quantitative features between bovids suggests that vascular and cellular parameters are related to body mass and metabolism rather than to extrinsic factors, such as climate. Accordingly, the FLC bone of larger bovids tends to show more circular canals canals (which may reflect higher rates of periosteal bone deposition) and lower cellular densities (which may reflect lower mass-specific metabolic rate according to Kleiber’s law) than the smaller ones. Finally, the findings on fossil species provide evidence that bone histology is a valuable tool to explore evolutionary trends in mammalian life histories. Moreover, the results of bone histology to get some life history traits in endangered mammals highlight its usefulness on the field of conservation biology. To conclude, the findings of this work provide evidence that, in mammals, bone growth is mainly regulated by endogenous rates and synchronized with seasonal resource availability. The evidence of cyclical bone growth debunks the classical assumption that homeothermic endotherms grow continuously until they attain maturity, providing a clear support to the usefulness of bone histology to reconstruct life history traits in extinct and extant mammals.

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Whitman, Kevin. "Reconstructing the Mothership: Meaning and History in the Music of P-Funk." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22760.

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During the 1970s, the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, or P-Funk, performed a unique type of funk music that impacted the lives and culture of generations of fans. Their music has been a vital force in the developments of popular music, redefining the limits of concept albums and performances, and opened the doors to funk rock, hip hop, and neo-soul. I address the ways in which P-Funk has been received, interpreted, and reconstructed by the diverse constituents of American popular culture from the 1960s to the present. Each chapter explores a discrete interpretive community that has granted meaning to the collective from perspectives of history, music, iconography, consumer culture, and popular entertainment media. The resulting study unifies these threads through their engagement with history and the evolution of P-Funk through time. Ultimately, this thesis seek to shed light on a group that has lacked thorough scholarly attention.

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Colbourne, Travis. "Reconstructing Justinian’s Reconquest of the West without Procopius." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42331.

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This thesis examines the evidence surrounding the Roman emperor Justinian’s wars in western Europe (Italy and Spain) and North Africa. It argues that without Procopius’ narrative, we would be left with a very bland, cursory account and even find it difficult to get a full grip on what happened when, even though Jordanes in particular does give some sort of narrative. The thesis focuses on the narrative of Justinian’s western wars offered by sources like Jordanes’, Romana and Getica, Victor of Tonnuna’s Chronicle, Corippus’ epic poem and Marcellinus comes’ Chronicle and its addition. It also discusses when each of these sources was written and where, and the background of the author, so that the reader can identify what was important to the author and the potential biases in the presentation of the events in question. The thesis then compares the narrative of the above sources to the narrative of Procopius in order to determine what information historians and scholars would not have if they did not have Procopius’ work.

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Davey, Claire. "Reconstructing local population history : the Hatfield and Bobbingworth districts of Essex, 1550-1880." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303012.

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Forrest, Francine. "Reconstructing the trophic histories (ca. 200 years) of four lakes within the Rideau Canal system, Ontario." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59377.pdf.

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Elizalde, Emilio, Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, Diego Sa'ez-Go'mez, and Valerio Faraoni. "Reconstructing the universe history, from inflation to acceleration, with phantom and canonical scalar fields." American Physical Society, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/11281.

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Sandoval, Mendoza Karla. "Ethnicity, linguistics, and genetic diversity in native Mexicans : reconstructing the population history of Mesoamerica." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7236.

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Mesoamerica is one of the main centers of New World civilization. It represents today a large geographical area exhibiting one of the highest genetic, cultural, and archeological diversity in the Americas. Moreover, its geographic position has been a key factor for acting as a natural corridor between North and Central-South America, thus becoming a direct witness not only of the initial and subsequent human migration waves but also of the many civilizations that flourished later on. Therefore, Mesoamerica deserves special attention in the study of American history. Following a molecular anthropological approach, this thesis evaluates the genetic diversity of a representative sample of the extant Native American gene pool within Mexico, and by constructing continental datasets, it also intends to contribute to the reconstruction of Mesoamerican history and the peopling of the Americas. For that purpose, this work focuses on the study of uniparental markers located in the human mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome, which constitutes the main part of the analyses. Additionally, autosomal STR variation, linguistic diversity, and ethnographic data were also investigated. Our results, based on both mtDNA and Y-chromosome, show a clear differentiation of the Native Mexican groups that belong to Mesoamerica, suggesting that population dynamcs occurring within this cultural area were unique during the America's colonization process and thus uniquely shaped the native Mexican genome.
Mesoamerica merece especial atención dentro del estudio de la historia del Nuevo Mundo debido a que es una de las principales áreas geográficas con mayor diversidad genética, cultural y arqueológica en América. Un factor clave es su posición geográfica, ya que ha actuado como un corredor natural de unión entre Norte y Centro-Suramérica, convirtiéndose en testigo directo no solo de las primeras y subsecuentes oleadas migratorias, sino también del posterior florecimiento de grandes civilizaciones mesoamericanas. Siguiendo un enfoque antropomolecular, la presente tesis doctoral evalúa la diversidad genética de una muestra representativa del pool genético actual de las poblaciones nativas de México. Asi mismo, por medio de la construcción de bases de datos a nivel continental, pretende contribuir a la reconstrucción de la historia Mesoamericana y del Poblamiento de América. Con este objetivo, se analizaron marcadores uniparentales localizados en el ADN mitocondrial y el cromosoma Y, lo cual constituye el principal componente del trabajo. Complementarianente, también se analizó la variabilidad observada a nivel de STRs autosómicos, clasificacion lingüística y caracterisitcas etnográficas, lo cual aporta un enfoque multidisciplinario a la investigación. Nuestros resultados, basados tanto en ADNmt como en cromosoma Y, muestran una clara diferenciacion de los grupos nativos pertenecientes a Mesoamerica en comparacion con el resto, sugieriendo la presencia de una dinámica poblacional única y enfatizando la relevancia de esta área cultural en el proceso de colonización de América.

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Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi. "Reconstructing the history of women's participation in the nationalist movement in India, 1905-1945." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36330/.

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The nationalist struggle in India against British colonial rule brought about the political mobilisation of both men and women. The nationalist leaders required the participation of women in the nationalist movement because the movement's importance and success was dependent on women's contribution to and involvement in it. While the existing research has contributed to my understanding of women's interaction with political life in India, this study attempts to reconstruct the dominant interpretations on women's political involvement. In doing so, it deconstructs concepts such as 'active', 'private', 'public' and 'political'. The argument in this thesis is shaped through three inter-related themes. First, it problematises women's emergence into the public sphere from a purdah-bound domestic existence. Secondly, it locates the domestic as an equally important site of nationalist activities as the public sphere. Thirdly, in the light of the above themes, it is suggested that dichotomous concepts such as public/private do not help to explain the interaction between these spheres, which facilitated the complex process of women's emergence in the public sphere. Moreover, the associated concepts of political/apolitical do not take into account women's political contributions from within the domestic sphere. Within the domestic sphere, women's nationalist identities were continuously re-negotiated to accommodate values of ancient Indian culture and the new Western influences. These identities shifted from an educated domestic woman to a nonviolent and non-antagonistic public woman to a public woman aware of challenging Western ideas, yet primarily confined to the domestic sphere. The nationalist movement also served as an important vehicle for encouraging middle-class women to engage in activities and to adopt new role models. The representations of women constructed by the nationalist project enabled women to play a political role through the avenues they opened, in both the public and domestic domains. However, women's political past and their varied contribution to the struggle was not effective in undermining gender inequalities or improving their status in society. The ideas in this historical study are shaped primarily through oral narratives and Hindi vernacular literature. The interviews with Indian activists, as a non-Western researcher, made me aware of the negotiable category 'Other'. Official and unofficial sources provided an initial framework for the study of this historical period.

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Chen, Yun Ru. "Reconstructing Macau identity :a multi-media exhibition project of Macau's communication memory." Thesis, University of Macau, 2017. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3690753.

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Dudar, John Christopher. "Reconstructing population history from past peoples using ancient DNA and historic records analysis, the Upper Canadian pioneers and land resources." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ50990.pdf.

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Dudar, J. Christopher. "Reconstructing population history from past peoples using ancient DNA and historic records analysis : the Upper Canadian pioneers and land resources /." *McMaster only, 1998.

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Murray, Peggy L. "Dancing in the Seminary: Reconstructing Dances for a 1749 Viceregal Peruvian Opera." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1448985385.

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Zatezalo, Kayla M. "RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST: AN EXPLORATION OF THE FORENSIC FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS FOR A PREHISTORIC PUEBLO MALE." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1462803254.

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Varadi, Hannah Lynn. "Reconstructing Seville: Translating Eduardo del Campo’s Capital Sur." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1435008097.

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Barrott, Julia Jayne. "Reconstructing North-West African palaeoclimate from speleothem geochemistry : past climate variability and implications for human history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9f59f1a2-591d-4b8b-8cda-b14bbfba01a3.

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Climate north of the Atlas Mountain belt in NW Africa is dominated by extratropical disturbances. However, climatic controls to the south, where climate transitions from extratropical to tropical regimes, are poorly understood due to a paucity of both instrumental and palaeoclimate data. In this thesis past climate change between the High Atlas Mountains and Sahara Desert is reconstructed using the stable isotopic composition and radiometric dating of speleothems. A high-resolution record from the mid-Holocene and a discontinuous record covering the past 400,000 years are developed. Supplemented by U-Th dating of a further four samples, these records indicate increased humidity in this area concomitant with the wider African Humid Period, and indicate a link between the West African Monsoon and humidity north of 30°N. Reconstructed glacial-interglacial scale increases in humidity overlap with "green Sahara" conditions and evidence a recurrent humid corridor connecting NW Africa and the central Sahara that is highly relevant to discussions of prehistoric human migrations. Evidence for a strong influence of high-latitude and solar forcing on decadal to millennial time- scales in this area is also presented. Further to this work, the potential of cadmium-to-calcite ratios as a novel proxy for palaeo-hydrology is confirmed using an annually-resolved trace element, stable isotope and calcite fabric dataset from a North Moroccan stalagmite. The first measurements of cadmium-to-calcite ratios in natural speleothem are here presented, and the palaeoclimatic significance and potential of this proxy for aiding the quantitative reconstruction of changes in calcite precipitation behaviour are demonstrated.

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Juerges, Alanna. "Reconstructing the burial diagenetic history of the fractured Lower Carboniferous carbonates of the North Wales Platform." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/reconstructing-the-burial-diagenetic-history-of-thefractured-lower-carboniferous-carbonates-of-thenorth-wales-platform(c2208a62-a6cb-4b62-8f17-aa37d6f31b99).html.

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The North Wales Platform, UK, represents a lower Carboniferous carbonate platform that developed during back-arc extension on the northern margin of the Wales-Brabant Massif. This succession was faulted and folded during the Late Carboniferous Variscan Orogeny and again during the Late Jurassic extension-Tertiary Alpine Orogeny, resulting in multiple reactivations of Caledonian structural trends (N-S, NE-SW and NW-SE) and basin inversion. The platform underwent deformation, several episodes of fluid-flow, and multiple phases of diagenetic overprinting. The products of fluid circulation in this area consist of the Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) mineralisation and dolomitisation, mostly affecting the carbonates of the lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) succession. This study presents a combined regional sedimentological, diagenetic and structural framework through multiscale, interdisciplinary techniques. Techniques include field observation, transmitted light and cathodoluminescence analysis, in-situ and bulk major and trace element analysis including rare earth elements, stable isotope (oxygen/carbon), and strontium isotope analysis. The North Wales Dinantian (Asbian-Brigantian) succession developed from a ramp to rimmed platform geometry and records a range of depositional and non depositional environments including platform margin, subtidal, peritidal and emergent. Early diagenesis comprises a series of marine and meteoric calcite cements. These are volumetrically the most important cements and occlude nearly all primary interparticle porosity on the North Wales Platform. Consequently, burial calcite cements and MVT mineralisation was precipitated within fractures and dissolution-enhanced secondary porosity. Dolomitisation on the North Wales Platform occur as pods along the current day coastline/palaeo platform margin and eight dolomite phases have been identified. These are present as matrix replacive and cement phases that are spatially and temporally related to deep seated structural lineaments. It is proposed that early diagenesis resulted from the establishment of meteoric aquifers, influenced by tectono-eustatic fluctuations. Subsequently, small volumes of fluid were released following compaction and during the waning stages of lower Carboniferous extension. The onset of the Variscan compression during the mid – Late Carboniferous led to the main stage of basin de-watering on to the platform via faults/fracture systems and the development of pockets of overpressuring. Circulating marine pore-waters provided the necessary magnesium required for dolomitisation within select fault/fracture systems. A second phase of tectonic deformation with associated copper mineralisation occurred during the Triassic-Jurassic extension and Alpine uplift. Fluids and metals for the copper mineralisation were derived from the adjacent siliciclastic Permo-Triassic and Jurassic East Irish Sea Basin succession. Compared to the adjacent and time equivalent Derbyshire and Askrigg Platforms, the North Wales Platform displays a more complex paragenesis as a result of differing burial histories and fluid sources. This study highlights the importance of understanding palaeo-fluid flow and diagenesis in platform carbonates and is directly relevant to hydrocarbon production, mining and resource containment in reservoirs.

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Yacoob, Saadia. "Women and education in the pre-modern Middle East : reconstructing the lives of two female jurists (faqīhāt)." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99616.

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This thesis explores the education of women in the pre-modern Middle East, particularly in legal matters. The goal of the work is to show that women in the pre-modern Middle East not only had access to education but were also learned in jurisprudence (fiqh). The work begins with a detailed discussion of the pre-modern system of learning. The first chapter explores not only the educational institutions and methods of instruction, but also the avenues and opportunities for education available to and utilized by women. The second chapter concentrates on the lives of two female jurists (faqihat). The purpose of this chapter is to explore in detail the methods by which these women acquired a legal education and obtained their status as female jurists. This work is a rudimentary effort at investigating the role of women in the pre-modern system of learning and their access to and acquisition of a legal education.

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Carroll, Jason Scot, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Reconstructing celibacy : sexual renunciation in the first three centuries of the early church." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2007, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/534.

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This thesis explores the philosophical and theological motivations for early Christian celibacy prior to the appearance of monasticism. This thesis will challenge recent scholarly positions that portray early Christian celibacy only in light of the emergence of monasticism in the fourth century, and which argue that celibacy as an ascetic practice was motivated primarily by resistance to the dominant social structures of antiquity. The practice of celibacy was a significant movement in the early church well before the appearance of monasticism or the development of Christianity as the dominant social force in the empire, and although early Christian sexual austerity was similar to the sexual ethics of Greco-Roman philosophical constructs, early Christian sexual ethics had developed in relation to uniquely Christian theological and cosmological views. Moreover, a segment of the early Christian community idealized celibacy as an expression of the transformation of human nature amidst a community that continued to remain sexually austere in general.
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Gallegos, Juan Martín. "Reconstructing Identity/Revising Resistance: A History of Nuevomexicano/a Students at New Mexico Highlands University, 1910-1973." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318838.

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This dissertation addresses the development of Nuevomexicano/a student identity at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) during three periods: (1) New Mexico's Territorial period and early statehood, (2) the 1940s, and (3) the late 1960s and early 1970s. Nuevomexicano/a student identity was shaped through a process of accommodating to and resisting institutional powers. Since 1898, Nuevomexicano/a students have been active members of the university community, despite periods when they constituted a small portion of the student body and the institution's frequent disregard for Nuevomexicano/a culture and language. As they participated in campus activities, Nuevomexicano/as reconstructed their individual and collective identities, appropriating terms such as Spanish or Chicano/a, as a rhetorical strategy to revise their relationships with the university. Extralocal institutions, including government institutions, national protest movements, and international organizations shaped public conversations about cultural identity. During the first two periods, students employed subtle strategies of resistance that included presenting speeches and reorganizing student government. Often labeled as accommodationist, these strategies represent viable rhetorical strategies that provided students access to dominant literacies, which were used to promote social change. In the 1970s, Chicano/a students utilized more aggressive practices, such as a weeklong sit-in, to radically alter the institutional culture at NMHU. In the forty years since the sit-in, NMHU has developed into a university that supports its Nuevomexicano/a students and incorporates elements of their culture into the university's social fabric.

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黃慶恩 and Hing-yan Simon Wong. "Reconstructing the origins of contemporary Chinese law: the history of the legal system of the Chinese communistsduring the revolutionary period, 1921-1949." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31241207.

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Carlson, Nicole Marie. "Reconstructing history through stories : Julia Alvarez's In the time of the butterflies and In the name of Salomé /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1454.pdf.

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Toulmin, Matthew William Stirling, and matt_toulmin@sall com. "Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 2006. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20070411.000201.

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This study outlines a methodological framework for reconstructing linguistic history within a dialect continuum and applies this methodology to an under-described, controversial, and complex subgroup of New Indo-Aryan (NIA)the Kamta, Rajbanshi and Northern Deshi Bangla lects (KRNB). ¶ Dialect continua are characterised by non-discrete boundaries between speech communities, and as a result previously divergent lects may undergo common innovations; the result is the familiar picture of overlapping dialectological isoglosses. The sequencing of these innovations and the historical relations between the lects involved are often highly ambiguous. Given the right sociohistorical conditions, a widespread innovation may be more recent than a localised innovationthe very opposite sequencing to that implied by the splits in a family tree. ¶ Not surprisingly, discrete application to the NIA continuum of traditional methodologiesincluding the Comparative Method, etymological reconstruction and dialect geographyhas yielded unsatisfactory and at times chronologically distorted results. Historical studies, therefore, have chosen between: (a) only studying the histories of NIA lects with written records; (b) reconstructing using the chronology suggested by the shape of a family tree; or (c) settling for a flat, non-historical account of dialect geography. ¶ Under the approach developed here, the strengths of each of these traditional methods are synthesised within an overarching framework provided by a sociohistorical theory of language change. This synthesis enables the linguistic history of the KRNB lects to be reconstructed with some detail from the proto-Kamta stage (1250-1550 AD) up to the present day. Innovations are sequenced based on three types of criteria: linguistic, textual and sociohistorical. The old Kamta stage, and its relation to old Bangla and Asamiya, is reconstructed based on linguistic Propagation Events and Speech Community Eventstwo concepts central to the methodology. The old Kamta speech community and its language became divided into western, central and eastern subsections during the middle KRNB period (1550-1787 AD, dates assigned by attested sociohistorical events). During the same period, KRNB lects also underwent partial reintegration with NIA lects further afield by means of more widely propagated changes. This trend of differentiation at a local level, concurrent with reintegration at a wider level, also characterises the modern KRNB period from 1787 AD to the present. ¶ This account of KRNB linguistic history is based on a rigorous reconstruction of changes in phonology and morphology. The result is not only a reconstruction of historical changes, but of the proto-Kamta phoneme inventory, hundreds of words of vocabulary, and specific areas of nominal and verbal morphology. The reconstruction is based on data collected in the field for the purposes of this study. Phonological reconstruction has made use of the WordCorr software program, and the reconstructed vocabulary is presented in a comparative wordlist in an appendix. ¶ The methodology developed and applied in this study has been found highly successful; though naturally not without its own limitations. This study has significance for its contribution both to the methodology of historical linguistic reconstruction and to the light shed on the linguistic prehistory of KRNB.

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Craggs, Tracy. "An 'unspectacular' war? : reconstructing the history of the 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment during the Second World War." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3626/.

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This thesis focuses on one battalion of infantrymen who trained for, and served during,the D-Day landings and north-west Europe campaign. Battalion histories in this detail are rare, as they usually form part of self-serving and uncritical histories produced by the parent regiment. This small unit acts as a microcosm of the' infantry of the line during the period, reflecting the typical high casualty rates and long periods on the front line. The existing sparse evidence about the 2nd Battalion was enhanced by interviews with veterans of the unit, which proved central to the study. Their memories revealed a wealth ofrich and previously unknown detail. Existing secondary literature is critical of the battalion's, and 3rd Division's, efforts on D-Day and the units of the 3rd Division were dubbed 'The Unspectaculars' in the press. These criticisms are challenged in the first three chapters of the thesis, which examine the level of training the infantrymen received; the battalion's performance on D-Day; and the progress ofthe battalion from D-Day onwards. The performance of the battalion is argued to have been solid yet unspectacular for much of the campaign. However in February 1945 came its spectacular moment, at the Battle of the Bridge. Chapters Four and Five address what life was like for the infantrymen of the battalion and assess what happened to these soldiers when they returned home, since for many, the war did not end when Germany surrendered. The thesis provides a social and cultural history of the 2nd Battalion, albeit within the military sphere. While individual memories remain an important source, the narrative of the battalion also' forms a group memory, particularly focusing on one outstanding officer, Major 'Banger' King. A group record is also apparent during commemorative events, in particular the 60th anniversary of D-Day, in June 2004.

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Butler, Jonathan J. "Reconstructing the Quaternary denudation history of the Orange River basin, southern Africa using cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al analysis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23998.

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Cosmogenic-nuclide based estimates of denudation rates applicable over time scales of 10⁴ – 10⁶ years exist for some localities in southern Africa, but there have been no equivalent catchment-wide studies in the Orange basin, the primary drainage basin of the subcontinent. In this study a regional-scale picture of catchment-wide denudation based on ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al is presented that shows rates varying from ~ 2 to ~ 50 mm ka^-1. These rates are consistent with existing cosmogenic-derived site-specific estimates. The cosmogenic-derived denudation rates presented here, which provide mean rates over time scales of 10⁴ – 10⁵years, also provide a benchmark against which rates estimated by other methods for the past few decades in catchments in the central Orange Basin can be compared. Such comparisons reveal that short-term denudation rates, which in some cases at least have been influenced by anthropogenic factors, have been up to two orders of magnitude higher than the longer term cosmogenic-derived rates. The major knickpoint on the Orange River, the Augrabies Falls, exerts a fundamental control on landscape evolution across the two-thirds of the basin area upstream, but the rates of channel incision above and below the Falls have not previously been constrained. Site-specific cosmogenic nuclide concentration of ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al from channel bed and interfluve samples from a range of sites across the complex anabranching channel system of the Augrabies Falls region indicate that channel incision rates in the higher gradient zone above the main falls average ~ 40 mm ka^-1, whereas rates in the gorge section below the main falls are typically ~ 10 mm ka^-1. Rates of denudation on interfluves of ~3 mm ka^-1 show that local relief is increasing, albeit very slowly.

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McVicar, Michael Joseph. "Reconstructing America: Religion, American Conservatism, and the Political Theology of Rousas John Rushdoony." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284987530.

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Ukkonen, Pirkko. "Shaped by the ice age : reconstructing the history of mammals in Finland during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2001. http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/mat/geolo/vk/ukkonen/.

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Newman, Catherine Elizabeth. "An integrative approach to resolving taxonomic controversy and reconstructing the evolutionary history of the southern leopard frog (rana sphenocephala)." Thesis, [Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Libraries], 2009. http://purl.lib.ua.edu/78.

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Westaway, Kira E. "Reconstructing the Quaternary landscape evolution and climate history of western Flores an environmental and chronological context for an archaeological site /." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070117.170105/index.html.

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Hayden, Anne E. "Reconstructing the Holocene Arroyo History of the Upper Escalante River, Southern Utah, Using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) and Radiocarbon Dating." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1105.

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Arroyos are steep-walled, entrenched, typically ephemeral streams commonly found in dryland river systems that form when streams incise into previously deposited alluvial fill. Arroyos in the southwestern U.S. have been studied extensively following the historic period of arroyo cutting in the late 1800s and early 1900s A.D. The upper Escalante River in south-central Utah similarly began incising in 1909, and records evidence for past cut and fill cycles in well-exposed walls along the now continuous arroyo. Establishing robust geochronologies of past arroyo cycles in these fluvial settings has been difficult. Recent improvements in accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon (14C) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating provide an opportunity to link more highly resolved fluvial records to existing paleoclimate records. This allows hypotheses regarding the causes of arroyo cycles to be tested, and for the role of climate versus intrabasinal characteristics to be examined. One major objective of this research was to examine the applicability of OSL and AMS 14C dating in the upper Escalante, as both methods have proved problematic in similar settings. In total, 37 ages were obtained, 21 OSL and 16 14C ages. The Holocene fluvial history of the upper Escalante River was reconstructed using these age results and stratigraphic relationships. The chronostratigraphic record developed in this study suggests that at least six arroyo cycles have occurred in the upper Escalante since the middle Holocene, with incision occurring ~4.4 – 4.2 ka, ~2.6 – 2.4 ka, ~1.8 – 1.5 ka, ~1.0 – 0.9 ka, ~0.5 - 0.4 ka, and during the historic period of arroyo entrenchment. While semi-synchronous arroyo cutting (indicative of a climate signal) appears to have occurred in the Paria and Escalante drainages over the last 1 ka, correlations between proximal drainages are less clear prior to 1 ka, although this may be due in part to preservation effects. Overall, linkages to specific climate regimes and correlations to regional drainages are difficult to identify, suggesting that internal geomorphic thresholds are important in determining when arroyo entrenchment occurs in individual catchments.

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Marcott, Shaun Andrew. "A Tale of Three Sisters: Reconstructing the Holocene glacial history and paleoclimate record at Three Sisters Volcanoes, Oregon, United States." PDXScholar, 2005. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3386.

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At least four glacial stands occurred since 6.5 ka B.P. based on moraines located on the eastern flanks of the Three Sisters Volcanoes and the northern flanks of Broken Top Mountain in the Central Oregon Cascades. The youngest of these advances was the Little Ice Age (LIA) glaciation, which reached its maximum advance 150-200 yrs. B.P. and is defined by the large sharp crested and unvegetated moraines adjacent to the modern glaciers. In isolated locations less than 100 m downslope from these moraines, a second set of sparsely vegetated lateral moraines marks the Late-Neoglacial stand of the glaciers between 2.1 ± 0.4 and 7.7 ka B.P, A third set of Early-Neoglacial end moraines is 300-700 meters downslope of the modern glacier termini, and postdates 7.7 ka B.P. From SST temperature data (Barron et al., 2003) and a speleothem record (Vacco, 2003), we infer that this advance occurred between 4.5 and 6.5 ka B.P. Finally, the Fountonnor stand is marked by moraines 500-900 meters downslope of the modern glacier termini, and we infer these are latest Pleistocene or early Holocene. Modem equilibrium line altitudes (ELAs) at the Three Sisters and Broken Top are approximately 2500 - 2600 m. During the LIA, the ELAs were 40 - 180 m lower, requiring cooler mean summer temperatures by 0.7 - 1.0°C and winter snowfall to increase by 10 - 60 cm water equivalent. The average Early Neoglacial and Fountonnor ELAs were 130 - 300 m and 290 - 320 m lower than modem glaciers, respectively, requiring air temperatures to be 0.7 - 1.6°C and 1.5 - 1.7°C cooler during the summer and winter snowfall to be 40 - 100 cm water equivalent and 90 - 100 cm water equivalent greater.

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Rijsdijk, K. F. "Reconstructing the Late Devensian (20 ka - 14 ka BP) deglaciation history of the southern Irish Sea basin : testing of competing hypotheses." Thesis, Swansea University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638668.

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There has been for more than 150 years controversy whether the southern part of the Irish Sea basin deglaciated under terrestrial or glacimarine conditions at the end of the last Ice Age (22 ka BP). The controversy is due to both a problematic interpretation of fossil glacial sediments - especially glacially diamicts - and the often purely inductive approaches taken in the past. In this thesis a deductive approach is formalised for the interpretation of fossil glacial sediments, based upon the testing of competing hypothesis and identification of exclusive process-based sedimentary criteria. Fossil glacial sediments are checked against the presence and absence of multiple criteria to test whether they were formed subglacially, as sediment-flows or by subaqueous rain-out. The sedimentologies of six fossil glacial successions of key-sites around the southern Irish Sea basin were investigated. Of all studied successions the sequence of depositional processes was reconstructed for each region. These findings, together with other published studies were synthesised in a model of land-system evolution during the Late Devensian deglaciation. It is demonstrated that there is no exclusive evidence for glacimarine deposition. Evidence is presented that sedimentary successions were formed by melting retreating terrestrial ice. It seems that the bulk of the glacial successions of the southern Irish Sea basin were laid down during the last ice-retreat, and for a major part comprised accumulations of ice-proximal and distal sediment flows. It is concluded that the southern Irish Sea basin was much less sensitive to the last glacial cycle as implied from the glacimarine hypothesis, sea-levels were not raised glaci-isostatically above the present margins and deglaciation was not triggered by seawater invading the basin from the south.

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Hoffenberg, Amy. "Reconstructing the long-term history of water quality and availability using fossil diatoms at an agricultural site in the Cape lowlands." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31375.

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The Berg River is a pivotal source of fresh water for domestic, industrial and agricultural use as well as for in stream ecology, therefore knowledge of what impacts this rivers water quality and assessing whether ecological resilience has been surpassed are of the utmost importance. Since diatom assemblages are inextricably linked to the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of their environment, they were chosen for this study to investigate long-term changes in water quality and availability and suggest potential drivers of such changes at an agricultural site (Rhenostervlei Farm) adjacent the Berg River in the Cape lowlands through fossil diatom analysis of a sediment core (RV3). Diatoms were extracted along the length of the RV3 core, chemically and physically treated to remove unwanted material and then were mounted on a slide to be counted. Twenty abundant diatoms were chosen as environmental indicators for the analysis. Their abundances were plotted against depth and age and changes in water quality and availability were inferred based on their autecological characteristics. The most prominent shift in the indicator diatoms at Rhenostervlei Farm as shown by the stratigraphic diagrams, CONISS analysis and the PCA occurred at the onset of the 20th century CE and was characterised by a shift from a saline, dry and nutrient-poor environment (ca. 1790-1890 CE) to a more turbid, nutrient-rich environment with increased freshwater influence that was prone to periodic flooding (ca. 1890-2011 CE). Through the chronological analysis and the interpretation of the historical record (climate and land-use) as well as other environmental proxies (sediment accumulation rate and macro-charcoal), the causes of the detected change in water availability and quality at the floodplain site were likely related to land-use change in the form of agricultural intensification at Rhenostervlei Farm and potentially in the Berg River catchment as a whole. This could have involved burning, clearance of natural vegetation, soil disturbance and fertilizer use - all of which contributed to increased surface runoff, erosion and nutrient and sediment loading into the site. Furthermore, water extraction and diversion in the 1950s could explain the decreased flooding signal (i.e. lower abundance of Aulacoseira granulata). Although no evidence of a catastrophic regime shift was identified, if land-use practices continue to intensify (e.g. increased fertilizer use) and future climate change interacts and influences the agricultural alterations to hydrological systems, we may expect increased vulnerability to global change and unexpected ecological outcomes such as regime shifts. In order to improve the interpretation of fossil diatom records in terms of changing water quality and availability, a study with multiple proxies should be undertaken to help infer environmental conditions in a complex environment that has many potential drivers, such as the Berg River.

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Badenoch, Alexander Ward. "Echoes of days : reconstructing national identity and everyday life in the radio programmes of occupied Western Germany 1945-1949." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/50606/.

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This thesis unfolds from the observation that, in the years immediately following the defeat of Germany in May 1945, the radio was the best-preserved and most popular medium of mass communication. It explores the implications of the radio's dominance as a medium that both crosses and helps to define the boundaries of nation and region, as well as 'public' and 'private' space during a time when the upheavals of war and occupation were restructuring both the physical space of Germany as well as its political and symbolic spaces. It examines the practices of everyday broadcasting from the Allied-controlled radio stations in the western zones of occupied Germany to show how within the radio programmes, the diverse experiences of radio listeners were able to from part of a larger narrative of 'Germanness' at a time when Germany did not exist. Chapters explore the embedding of the radio within the every mental landscape of Germany, as well as within the private space of the home. It is argued that, in maintaining the relationships between the outside public world and the safe world of the home, the radio not only represented a means of remembering a collective German past, but also one of the primary places for the negotiation of new German identities in the present. Further chapters explore the ambiguities in the visions of these spaces produced by the radio. The production of private space is examined through a discussion of women's programming, showing the way that such programmes structured the debate surrounding women's position in society around their use of the scarce resource of time. A close examination how radio programming addressed the wider space of Germany shows how by imbuing the everyday visions of the broadcast region with the symbols of Heimat, radio programmes created a vision of Germany that at once embraced modernity and gave the impressions of maintaining a link with a usable past.

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Wong, Hing-yan Simon. "Reconstructing the origins of contemporary Chinese law : the history of the legal system of the Chinese communists during the revolutionary period, 1921-1949 /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22053827.

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White, Patricia J. "Reconstructing Ancient and Modern Land Use Decisions in the Copan Valley, Honduras:A GIS Landscape Archaeology Perspective." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1448275319.

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Farwig, Victoria Jane. "Evaluation of mineral magnetic properties and thermal activation characteristics of soil material in reconstructing post-fire sediment redistribution and fire history, Sydney Basin, Australia." Thesis, Swansea University, 2006. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43195.

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Workman, Terry W. "PALEOWETLANDS AND FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY OF QUEBRADA MANI: RECONSTRUCTING PALEO-ENVIRONMENTS AND HUMAN OCCUPATION IN THE NORTHERN ATACAMA DESERT." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345055481.

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Rathmann, Hannes [Verfasser], and Katerina [Akademischer Betreuer] Harvati. "Reconstructing human population structure and history from dental phenotypes : Theory, methods and application to the ancient Greek colonization of southern Italy / Hannes Rathmann ; Betreuer: Katerina Harvati." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1191752615/34.

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