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Tjio, Mi. "Grey Scarf : An artistic research into identity and scarves." Thesis, Konstfack, Textil, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5258.
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This is a report that tells the journey of the master project Grey Square. It is a project that is rooted in cultural, national and racial identity in relation to symbolism and stereotypes, through the investigation of the scarf as an object often associated with a variety of these identities. The scarf is observed through the understandings of semiotics, material culture and visual culture, and the report gives you an account of the art project’s different processes and methods in reaching its final visual design. By examining the scarf the intention is to become aware of your gaze and participation in creating meanings, symbols and stereotypes.
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Aydemir, Dilek Williamson David A. "An analysis of the opinions of university students about the current situation of the headscarf dispute in Turkey." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9799.
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Aydemir, Dilek. "An Analysis of the Opinions of University Students about the Current Situation of the Headscarf Dispute in Turkey." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9799/.
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This study examined the opinions of university students about the current situation of the headscarf dispute on the wearing of headscarves in Turkey. The influence of gender, the level of secularism, socioeconomic status and encounter with women wearing headscarves on opinions about the wearing of headscarves were analyzed in this study. The sample of this study was composed of 400 university students among whom there were 240 female and 160 male students. Moreover, the sample comprised university students from 50 universities from Turkey. The results indicated that the level of secularism and encounter with women wearing headscarves were distinguished as two determining factors of the diverse opinions of the university students on the topic. No association was found between the perceptions of university students about the issue and the independent variables of gender and socioeconomic status.
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Bowling, Tim. "Dying scarlet." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22517.pdf.
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Burd, David Andrew Ross. "Towards scarless healing." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241535.
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Clinical and experimental observations of foetal wound healing have led to a reappraisal of dermal wound repair. Because of the major contribution of collagen to scar tissue, the presence and role of collagen in scarless healing in foetal animal models has been a source of some controversy. The experimental work described in this thesis clearly establishes that foetal animals are able to deposit abundant collagen in traditional wound healing models. The emphasis of speculation subsequently shifted to consider the role of other matrix elements, particularly hyaluronan, which has particularly high levels in foetal wounds. Some investigators have proposed that the more 'fluid' nature of the matrix facilitates the remodelling of the deposited collagen. Experimental evidence presented in this thesis suggests, however, that while the physico-chemical properties of hyaluronan are important in influencing cell and matrix interactions, more specific and controllable interactions may be due to the action of proteins associated with the hyaluronan.
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Gibson, Alison J. "A Scarlet Ending." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/398.
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Masters, Nikhil. "Examining the consumer response to food scares." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546259.
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Carroll, Conor James. "Crisis communication response strategies for food scares." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539739.
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Drawing on the theoretical framework of crisis communications, risk communications, and food choice literatures, this study explores the dynamics of food scare crises within an Irish context. The consumer reactions following these risk events present an opportunity to examine risk information processing within consumer behaviour. Utilising a realist research position, initial focus group research was conducted, which drove the main phase of the research, which consisted of in-depth consumer interviews. All of these interviews were transcribed and analysed using qualitative research software. Through this extensive exploratory research several key findings emerged which advance our understanding of crises and food scares. Risk profiles of Irish consumers were identified from their beliefs surrounding food category risk. Furthermore, an extensive risk information processing framework was identified, incorporating risk profiles, determinants of risk, and behavioural consequences. Food scares exhibited wave-like characteristics in which risk is amplified through an amalgam of factors, and then subsided to a natural state of equilibrium. The intensity of perceived risk is temporally linked, in that the level of perceived risk reaches its zenith in the immediate aftermath of public risk disclosure, which is intensified through greater media scrutiny and social discourse surrounding the food risk. Subsequently the level of perceived risk subsides amongst certain consumer populations due to lack of media and social discourse on the risk issue. In addition, key consumer expectations of crisis communication responses were identified, in terms of the form and content of the response. Moreover, the evidence indicated that exposure to past food crises created inoculation effects. Consumers perceived that industry stakeholders invoke proactive preventative measures to eliminate the potential for risk reoccurrence, by enhancing their safety systems, thereby reducing future risk potential. A key conclusion of the research is that organisations need to hetter understand the dynamics of food scares, so as to develop effective crisis communication responses, and long-term effective risk communications. As consumers are deluged with risk messages on a consistent basis, particularly concerning food consumption, organisations need a greater insight into how risk information processing occurs. The findings of the research help broaden our understanding of food scares, and have implications for the management of crisis events within other industries. They provide a critical insight into how these events are perceived, which have implications for marketing and management. Moreover it demonstrates that there are indeed opportunities from crises, to improve safety protocols to prevent reoccurrence, and to solidify bonds of trust with the consumer, through ongoing communications dialogue.
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Kelly, Tessa Claire. "Angela Carter's scarred texts." Thesis, Bangor University, 1999. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/angela-carters-scarred-texts(aa8bede4-844a-41c1-a22c-9642e3768a70).html.
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This thesis aims to describe a poetics of Angela Carter's fiction. It examines the way in which Carter's novels and some of her short stories mobilise the reader into speculation about possible ontologies, provoking them to think beyond the binary oppositions which sustain Western metaphysical thought. The thesis focuses upon Carter's "originary" symbol, the first motif in her first novel, which is a scar. In Chapter One, I argue that the scar is a re-presentation of the mythical wound of female castration which actually works to challenge patriarchal discourses on femininity and female sexuality, introducing feminist theories in order to fully explain the gaps in such discourses. Each of the five chapters which construct the thesis traces the way in which the scar/womb/wound image opens up different but related issues surrounding sexuality representation, signification and transgression. Shadow Dance, The Magic Toyshop, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The Passion of New Eve, The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children are all considered as interrogatory texts in dialogue with one another and with other literature and theories, effecting a breakdown between disciplines and generic categories, yet simultaneously creating a dynamic "new" form of textuality which can be viewed as potentially transfon-native.
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Clayton, Blake Carman. "A behavioural finance approach to commodity supply scares." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:89a8f042-33f0-4da7-b0b6-e3f9c06c8db3.
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This study aims to generate a more robust understanding of public attitudes regarding non-renewable natural resource markets. Employing a comparative-historical case study method, it analyzes three waves of widespread fear that swept the United States over the course of the twentieth century regarding an imminent, irreversible shortage of oil. Each of these periods of fear over oil supply availability coincided with a significant rise in the price of crude oil, only to be followed by a sudden collapse as new production came onstream in response to higher prices. The study utilizes process tracing and pattern matching techniques to examine the linkages between fundamental supply-demand conditions in the crude oil market, oil price movements, and expert predictions of and other public expressions of belief that oil in the United States would become scarcer and more expensive in the future. This dissertation’s core arguments contribute to existing theoretical debates in three ways. First, by providing a comparative historical portrait of cyclical patterns in public and expert beliefs regarding non-renewable resource availability and long-term price behavior, the study puts contemporary debates over the future of oil supply in historical perspective. It allows the rampant claims of, and widespread belief in, a global shortage of oil that have gained popularity over the last decade—most notably, in the so-called “peak oil” movement—to be situated within a broader chronological context. It also extends and deepens earlier historical work analyzing oil shortage scares in the United States, both in terms of their underlying dynamics and their effect on federal government policy relative to the oil industry. Second, the study establishes the link between fundamental supply-demand conditions in the oil market, generally reflected in oil prices, and the degree of media attention given to, and apparent public belief in, an imminent, irreversible shortage of oil in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. In so doing, it demonstrates the applicability of Shiller’s (2000, 2005) conceptualization of new era economic theory formation and popularization to observed phenomena in the oil market, but with a crucial difference. Rather than new era economic thinking taking the form of unbounded optimism about the future, in the case of the oil market new era thinking has tended to be manifested as the pessimistic belief that an impending, irreversible shortage of oil would lead to a long-term, even perpetual, rise in oil prices. The study suggests two modifications to the concept that enhance its greater explanatory leverage with regard to exhaustible resource markets: one, that often the new era predictions most widely cited during shortage scares were actually made prior to the boom in prices, to little fanfare, but subsequently deemed prophetic by new era proponents; and two, that the new era narratives often contained normative elements. Moral judgments—in particular, condemnation of the oil economy’s degradation of the natural environment—have often intertwined with predictions that the oil supply was more limited than widely believed and that prices were destined to continue rising. Third, the study demonstrates that the concept of narratives of decline, as described by Bennett (2001) and Lieber (2008), constitutes a powerful theoretical lens through which to understand trends in popular opinion with regard to non-renewable resource availability, and to asset prices more generally—a link that has heretofore gone unrecognized. It finds that a positive feedback loop tended to exist between popular fears of a new era of oil shortages, marked by a long-term rise in prices, and related narratives of the environmental and relative political-economic decline of the United States.
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Curriers, Douglas D. "Scarabs their implications on Israelite history /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Giannelis, Georgios. "Matrix metalloproteinases in scarless wound healing." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36241.
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Objectives: Wound healing in skin often results in scar formation, whereas wound healing in oral palatal mucosa is fast and rarely results in scarring. Understanding the mechanisms that promote oral scarless wound healing may provide novel approaches to prevent scar formation in skin. The goal of the study was to compare the abundance of the major collagenases MMP-1 and MMP-13 and gelatinases MMP-2 and MMP-9 in normal unwounded oral mucosa and skin and in experimental excisional wounds in skin (healing results to scar formation) and oral mucosa (wounds heal with minimal scar formation) at various time points post-wounding at the protein level. We hypothesized that the abundance of MMPs will be higher in scarless oral mucosal wound healing, compared to skin wound healing.
Methods: Experimental wounds were created in oral palatal mucosa and dorsal skin of red Duroc pigs. Wound biopsies were collected before wounding and at various time points after wounding. The abundance of MMPs at the protein level was assessed by Western blotting and zymography.
Results: All studied MMPs showed a significantly increased accumulation in the wound tissue already at day three post-wounding. Their abundance remained high until day 28 when MMP-9 and MMP-13 returned to the level of unwounded tissue, while MMP-1 and MMP-2 remained significantly elevated. Oral mucosal wounds showed in general a robust early up-regulation of MMP-1, MMP-2 and MMP-9 as compared to skin wounds already at day 3 after wounding. In contrast, the peak abundance of these MMPs occurred at day 14 in skin wounds. Unwounded oral mucosa showed significantly higher abundance of total MMP-2 and active MMP-9 as compared to unwounded skin. Thus, MMPs needed for early wound healing response are already present in higher abundance in oral mucosa as compared to skin before tissue injury possibly allowing a fast wound healing response.
Conclusions: Results suggest that oral mucosal wound healing is associated with fast and robust regulation of MMPs. Rapid controlled processing of wound extracellular matrix may play a key role in scarless palatal wound healing. In addition, MMPs may regulate inflammatory reaction that plays a central role in scar formation.
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Hirson, Denis. "White Scars." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410222.
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Dingwell, Christopher L. "The scars." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316542218.
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Gorton, Andrée Feghali. "Egyptian and Egyptianizing scarabs : a typology of steatite, faience and paste scarabs from Punic and other Mediterranean sites /." Oxford : Oxford university committee for archaeology, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36181001m.
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MEDEIROS, VALERIA DA SILVA. "STUDIES IN SCARLET: ROADS TO THE ENIGMA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2002. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=3539@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOREm Estudos em vermelho: caminhos do enigma, estabelecemos um diálogo entre o romance policial em sua configuração clássica e narrativas contemporâneas que se apropriam de elementos estruturantes fundadores, reinventando um novo estatuto e novas funções para a figura do narrador, do personagem do detetive e o seu objeto de investigação, o enigma. Neste diálogo são aprofundados os pressupostos que sustentam as motivações e os caminhos privilegiados na busca de soluções para desvendar enigmas em analogia à função do cientista, comprometido com diversas formas de construção de conhecimento.
In Studies in scarlet: roads to the enigma, our aim is to propose a dialogue between the Poesque detective story and its elaborations and the subversion of the classical genre by a contemporary form that reshapes the seeeming dead-end racionality and its basic elements, such as the narrator, the detective and his object of investigation, the enigma. Throughout this dialogue the basic motivations and means privileged in the search for solutions to the enigma are paralleled to that of the cientist´s in his commitment to the distinct modes of construction of knowledge.
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Pinto, Humberto Pessoa. "Allegory and Symbolism in the Scarlet Letter." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1992. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157759.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo descrever as causas subjacentes ao complexo sentido do romance the Scarlet Letter, de Hawthorne. Tenta mostrar que este sentido é produzido pela tensão não resolvida entre duas forças contraditórias - alegoria e simbolismo. A alegoria é um dispositivo retórico tradicional que reduz toda a realidade a noções claras e unilaterais. Ela tende assim, a concentrar o sentido num único enunciado.
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Paley, Jeremy. "Fear of food the effect of food scares on international trade flows /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6440.
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Riechers, Sören [Verfasser]. "Scheduling with scarce resources / Sören Riechers." Paderborn : Universitätsbibliothek, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1145017339/34.
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McCord, Virgil Alexander Stuart. "Augmenting flood frequency estimates using flood-scarred trees." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185017.
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Flood-damaged trees along streams and rivers in 20 localities in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah were examined to assess the feasibility of reconstructing the frequency and magnitude of floods over the last several hundred years. Tree-ring dating of the flood damage produced evidence for 17 floods during the last 125 years, and for at least four floods prior to 1866. Most of the flood-scar dates from the historic period were found to coincide with the dates of major floods on the waterways from which they were collected, or from nearby streams. Flood damage to trees was found to be very abundant and accessible, with the most productive situation probably being that of seasonal streambeds in narrow deep canyons with relatively steep gradients. Amount of effort required to produce a flood chronology appears to be relatively small. Collections at most sites involved sampling from 1 to 5 trees, by extracting 3 to 6 increment cores from each visibly scarred tree, and 2 cores from undamaged trees to facilitate crossdating. At two sites larger collections were made, including 3 cross sections (V-cuts), which were very helpful in establishing dates of scars. For a given channel gradient, scars seem to develop only when the flood depth is above a particular threshold level. This threshold was defined by plotting scar height for scarred trees and flow depth for other floods not producing scars against the logarithm of channel slope. The scarred and unscarred individual points were separated into two well-defined fields, separated by a fairly straight line. Discriminant function analysis showed the separation to be highly significant, and classification of individual points as scarred or unscarred was usually correct. The implication of the scar threshold is that even in drainages with no gage or historical record at all, the presence or absence of flood scars on channelside trees would indicate the occurrence or nonoccurrence of floods of a certain depth over the lifetime of the trees. Basin analysis and field measurements of appropriate channel characteristics would allow this depth and the corresponding discharge to be calculated.
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Hillmer, Michael. "Pharmacotherapy of keloid scars." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0023/MQ50486.pdf.
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Dart, Kathleen Louise. "The invisible woman: The lesbian - scared straight." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3307.
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King, Catherine. "Influenza and influenza vaccination: examining parental perspectives and practices to inform vaccination policy and programs." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18937.
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Influenza is a potentially serious disease, causing hospitalisations and deaths, particularly in children and the elderly. Traditionally immunisation efforts targeted the elderly and those at high risk from the disease. As awareness of the paediatric burden of influenza disease and potential population benefits of vaccinating children grew, immunisation efforts expanded, but coverage among children remains low. Expansion of influenza vaccine funding to include all Australian children is being considered, but there is little information about whether parents accept or support this. This thesis examines preventive health beliefs, knowledge, attitudes and practices of parents, both generally and in relation to influenza and influenza vaccination of children, and explores which information sources parents value, trust and use. Methods include a systematic review, qualitative interviews and a quantitative survey. The timing of two influenza-related health scares – the 2009 influenza A H1N1 pandemic, and the 2010 suspension of influenza vaccination for children under 5 due to high numbers of adverse events – allowed examination of the impact of health scares on parents’ views and information needs. The findings revealed that parental beliefs about health and illness, and decision-making about vaccination risk, are complex, incorporating both scientific and ‘folk’ beliefs and interacting with contextual variables. Parents trust healthcare workers as information sources, and are positively influenced by vaccination recommendations from them. Pre-existing beliefs about influenza and influenza vaccine influence parents’ interpretations of influenza-related health scares. Health scares affect parents’ trust and information needs. This thesis provides practical recommendations for public health practitioners and policymakers to assist in developing appropriate influenza vaccination campaigns and information materials that meet the needs of parents.
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Brockmöller, Scarlet Fiona [Verfasser]. "Untersuchung von metabolischen Biomarkern beim Mammakarzinom / Scarlet Fiona Brockmöller." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2018. http://d-nb.info/116051481X/34.
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Rau, Douglas Harris. "Free surface scars and striations." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27062.
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Scherrer, Christina Robinson. "The Allocation of Scarce Resources in Public Health." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7229.
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As health care costs continue to increase at rates higher than the general inflation rate, there is increased focus on controlling health care expenditures in the public and private sectors. In particular, there is a compelling need for more creative and informed allocation decisions for limited government public health funds. This thesis suggests several methods for better forecasting the demand for health care and allocating health care resources more efficiently. First, productivity of dental sealant programs is studied and suggestions are made for increased efficiency. Using simulation and data from several states programs, guidelines are offered for optimal programs based on program size, distance to site, and practice act requirements. We find that under most conditions, it is better to carry an extra dental assistant to every program. The cost of satisfying practice act requirements is also quantified. Second, a model for allocating health resources to Community Health Centers (CHCs) is provided. Using the state of Georgia as a prototype, local estimation is used to forecast county insurance types, disease prevalence, and likelihood of using a clinic. Then, the optimal locations and service portfolios to be offered under financial constraints are determined using a developed mixed-integer programming model. Finally, shortcomings in current Markovian modeling of chronic disease are analyzed. Common forecasting techniques can overestimate or underestimate the population in need of care, as illustrated by analytic results and an example with lung cancer data. The chapter presents suggestions for improving such modeling. Each of these issues affect the planning models for scarce resources in health care, and improving those models can positively impact utilization of those services. Through this research, models are presented that can positively impact public health decisions in coming years, particularly those for growing high-risk and low-income groups.
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Bonificio, William Daley. "Bacterial Approaches to the Recovery of Scarce Metals." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467303.
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Many of the scarcest metals are critical to future energy technologies. However, these metals often have limited supplies, and their current production and recycling methods are complicated and use toxic chemicals. In order to ensure the availability of these metals alternative methods for their recovery need to be explored. This thesis describes biological methods for the recovery of some of these metals, specifically the lanthanides and tellurium. It is one of the first investigations for the biogenic recovery of either of these metals, making it unique in the field.
The lanthanides are critical elements in the high performance magnets used in wind turbines, electric vehicles, and other 'green' technologies, but they are difficult to separate from one another because of their chemical similarity. We demonstrate a biogenic method based on lanthanide adsorption to the bacteria Roseobacter sp. AzwK-3b, followed by subsequent desorption as a function of pKa using a semi-continuous flow process. The desorption behavior suggests that the basicity of the individual lanthanides is important in determining their biosorption and desorption behavior. Similar selectivity was also found using phosphatidic acid liposomes. It is possible to concentrate a solution of equal concentrations of each lanthanide to nearly 50% of the two heaviest lanthanides in only two stages of enrichment, surpassing existing industrial practice. This suggests that there is an opportunity to harness the diversity of bacterial surface chemistry and liposome chemistries to fine tune the separation and recovery of these technologically important metals, and to do so in an environmentally benign manner.
Tellurium is used in photovoltaic (PV) modules and thermoelectric generators, however it is not abundant in the earth's crust and is difficult to produce. We show that the hydrothermal vent microbe Pseudoalteromonas sp. strain EPR3 can convert tellurium from a wide variety of compounds, industrial sources, and devices into metallic tellurium and a gaseous tellurium species. These include metallic tellurium, tellurite, copper autoclave slime, tellurium dioxide, tellurium-based PV material (cadmium telluride), and tellurium-based thermoelectric material (bismuth telluride). Despite the fact that many of these tellurium compounds are considered insoluble in aqueous solution, they can nonetheless be transformed by EPR3, suggesting the existence of a steady state soluble tellurium concentration during tellurium transformation. Insights from these experiments on the mechanisms of tellurium precipitation and volatilization by bacteria, and their implications on tellurium production and recycling are discussed.Engineering and Applied Sciences - Applied Physics
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Thaxton, Amber E. "The scarlet "C" media portrayal of the Christian music industry /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2003. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=3246.
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Saggau, Volker. "Agent-based modelling for investigating consumer behaviour in risky markets the case of food scares /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://e-diss.uni-kiel.de/diss_1537/d1537.pdf.
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Thom, Laura Louise. "Impact of food scares on the food buying behaviour of consumers in selected EU states." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506702.
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Gonzalez, Gabriel. "Hidden Scars: The Art of PTSD." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5636.
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Through the use of mixed media, I explore imagery that reveals the trauma of returning combat veterans, of which I am one, as we try to reintegrate into a society that does not understand the war that still lingers within us. In my work, I depict emotional disturbances that are related to my personal encounters with war. My working process starts by referencing mainstream media imagery, which I juxtapose against harsh images inspired by veterans' drug and alcohol use, trauma and death. My black-and-white pixelated paintings feature the fragmented memories of a hostile combat environment, and although “Out of My Mind” depicts the chaotic emotions associated with PTSD, my whimsical style of illustration suggests a detachment from reality. Whether we call it shell shock, battle fatigue or PTSD, the war-related disorder is real. I want society to be aware of the hidden scars that our veterans carry with them. I do not anticipate my subject matter changing any time soon.M.F.A.
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Collins, Jeremy William. "Food scares and news media : a case study approach to science and risk in the news." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297505.
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Casanova, Nora Celina. "Hell, Heaven and Alchemy in Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter" according to Gnosticism." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 2013. http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/5148.
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According to Gnosticism, the original sin which prompted man to be expelled from Heaven was the sin against the Holy Spirit. This offence would be strictly connected to sexuality, consisting mainly on fornication and adultery. The disobedient behavior towards the Lord’s Laws, then, made God banish sinners to a place where they should suffer until they could be redeemed by their own good deeds and saintly conduct. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main characters have to suffer the consequences of their sin and struggle against their own nature to achieve redemption and be purified.Fil: Casanova, Nora Celina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
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Shannon, Tracy E. "Clinical Implications of Wearing a Scarlet Letter: Sex Offender Public Policy." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1347995906.
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Machemer, Ethan G. P. "A Predictive Habitat Model for Rainbow Parrotfish Scarus guacamaia." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/212.
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The rainbow parrotfish Scarus guacamaia is a prominent herbivore in the coastal waters of southeastern Florida whose life history is strongly linked to a dependence on both mangrove and coral reef habitats. Rainbow parrotfish in turn serve in maintaining the health of coral reefs by keeping algal populations in check. This study used NOAA Fisheries data from the Mangrove Visual Census and the Reef Visual Census in Biscayne Bay and Upper Florida Bay. Observations of abiotic factors at individual sites were used to correlate and predict presence and absence of this species. This was done to visualize habitat presence and ontogenetic shifts present in this species between juvenile and adult stages through ArcGIS mapping. Logistic regression analysis was used to predict presence or absence using the environmental variables of temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity, average depth, distance from channel openings, mangrove presence, temperature Δ, and salinity Δ. Average depth, distance from channel openings, temperature Δ and salinity Δ were significant in predicting the presence of this species, while salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and mangrove presence were not. Conservation efforts for this species, listed as vulnerable under the IUCN, need to be given greater consideration. The health of this and other parrotfish may have a greater impact on coral reef ecosystems across the Caribbean Sea than currently acknowledged and management breadth and priorities should be adjusted to reflect this role.
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Kleynhans, Neil Taylor. "Automatic speech recognition for resource-scarce environments / N.T. Kleynhans." Thesis, North-West University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9668.
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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology has matured over the past few decades and has made significant impacts in a variety of fields, from assistive technologies to commercial products. However, ASR system development is a resource intensive activity and requires language resources in the form of text annotated audio recordings and pronunciation dictionaries. Unfortunately, many languages found in the developing world fall into the resource-scarce category and due to this resource scarcity the deployment of ASR systems in the developing world is severely inhibited. In this thesis we present research into developing techniques and tools to (1) harvest audio data, (2) rapidly adapt ASR systems and (3) select “useful” training samples in order to assist with resource-scarce ASR system development.
We demonstrate an automatic audio harvesting approach which efficiently creates a speech recognition corpus by harvesting an easily available audio resource. We show that by starting with bootstrapped acoustic models, trained with language data obtain from a dialect, and then running through a few iterations of an alignment-filter-retrain phase it is possible to create an accurate speech recognition corpus. As a demonstration we create a South African English speech recognition corpus by using our approach and harvesting an internet website which provides audio and approximate transcriptions. The acoustic models developed from harvested data are evaluated on independent corpora and show that the proposed harvesting approach provides a robust means to create ASR resources.
As there are many acoustic model adaptation techniques which can be implemented by an ASR system developer it becomes a costly endeavour to select the best adaptation technique. We investigate the dependence of the adaptation data amount and various adaptation techniques by systematically varying the adaptation data amount and comparing the performance of various adaptation techniques. We establish a guideline which can be used by an ASR developer to chose the best adaptation technique given a size constraint on the adaptation data, for the scenario where adaptation between narrow- and wide-band corpora must be performed. In addition, we investigate the effectiveness of a novel channel normalisation technique and compare the performance with standard normalisation and adaptation techniques.
Lastly, we propose a new data selection framework which can be used to design a speech recognition corpus. We show for limited data sets, independent of language and bandwidth, the most effective strategy for data selection is frequency-matched selection and that the widely-used maximum entropy methods generally produced the least promising results. In our model, the frequency-matched selection method corresponds to a logarithmic relationship between accuracy and corpus size; we also investigated other model relationships, and found that a hyperbolic relationship (as suggested from simple asymptotic arguments in learning theory) may lead to somewhat better performance under certain conditions.Thesis (PhD (Computer and Electronic Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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Ormaux, Serge. "Paysages et geotypes : (Quelques analyses entre Somme et Scarpe)." Besançon, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986BESA1021.
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Loza, Christian. "Cross Language Information Retrieval for Languages with Scarce Resources." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12157/.
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Our generation has experienced one of the most dramatic changes in how society communicates. Today, we have online information on almost any imaginable topic. However, most of this information is available in only a few dozen languages. In this thesis, I explore the use of parallel texts to enable cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) for languages with scarce resources. To build the parallel text I use the Bible. I evaluate different variables and their impact on the resulting CLIR system, specifically: (1) the CLIR results when using different amounts of parallel text; (2) the role of paraphrasing on the quality of the CLIR output; (3) the impact on accuracy when translating the query versus translating the collection of documents; and finally (4) how the results are affected by the use of different dialects. The results show that all these variables have a direct impact on the quality of the CLIR system.
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Ormaux, Serge. "Paysages et géotypes quelques analyses entre Somme et Scarpe." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37595034k.
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Loza, Christian E. Mihalcea Rada F. "Cross language information retrieval for languages with scarce resources." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12157.
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Manrique-Alba, Àngela. "Ecohydrological relationships in pine forests in water-scarce environments." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/71184.
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El trabajo realizado incluye varias aproximaciones para comprender las respuestas de los bosques de pinares de Pinus halepensis a diferentes condiciones ambientales y en concreto a las esperadas de acuerdo con las previsiones del cambio climático. En primer lugar, se propone una herramienta que permite la aplicación de una gestión forestal hidrológicamente orientada mediante el uso de datos LiDAR. En segundo lugar, se estudia en qué medida la humedad del suelo representa una variable adecuada para explicar las variaciones de crecimiento de Pinus halepensis en un gradiente de aridez. Además, se analizan las diferentes repuestas de la variable transpiración en esta especie, dependiendo de las características de sitio e intensidad de tratamiento de clara aplicado. Por último, se examina el crecimiento y el almacenamiento de agua en el tallo en un entorno de un experimento manipulativo con condiciones realistas de cambio climático en dos coníferas del semiárido.
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Січненко, Н. С. "Клініко-епідеміологічні особливості скарлатини у дітей." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/61160.
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Скарлатина виступає гострим антропонозним захворюванням, що проявляється інтоксикацією, ураженням ротоглотки і дрібнокрапковим висипом. Ускладненнями скарлатини можуть бути отит, синусит, мастоїдит, аденофлегмона.
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Harris, Zoë. "Mad cows and journalists : how media production practices influence risk communication in news reports of food scares." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397640.
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Espregueira, Themudo Raquel. "Clinically Unrecognized Myocardial Scars Detected by MRI." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Enheten för radiologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-172017.
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A high percentage of unrecognized myocardial infarctions (UMIs) seen at delayed-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DE-MRI) are not detected by ECG. DE-MRI-detected UMIs are independent predictors of cardiovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease. In an elderly population, subjects with DE-MRI-detected UMIs do not have increased Framingham risk score or increased prevalence of artery stenosis in whole-body MR angiography as patients with recognized myocardial infarctions (RMI). Further investigation on the pathogenesis of DE-MRI-detected UMIs focus on the need to decide the management of these subjects. From the Prospective Investigation of the Vasculature in Uppsala Seniors, 248 subjects underwent cardiac MRI at age 70 and from these, 185 underwent a 5-year follow-up MR. DE-MRI-detected UMIs had lower signal intensity than RMIs probably reflecting different composition of their tissues. Subjects with UMI scar had increased levels of NT-proBNP, a predictor of increased risk of cardiovascular events. After 5 years, UMI scars were in their majority seen on the same location and with the same size, and their prevalence increased. Subjects with an UMI did not differ from subjects without a scar in terms of coronary stenosis assessed by computed tomography angiography or signs of ischemia on exercise test. In conclusion, DE-MRI-detected UMI scars are a frequent finding in an elderly population and its prevalence increases with age. The increased levels of NT-proBNP indicate that subjects with an UMI might have an increased rate of future cardiovascular events but the findings that these scars might have a different contrast distribution volume on MRI and that they are not related to CAD are indicators that they probably have a different etiology from RMIs. The prognosis of DE-MRI detected UMI scars in the general population is still unknown and therefore the clinical management of these individuals is yet to be defined.
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Hughes, Gordon. "Scare quotes, towards an ontology of antisemitism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ42241.pdf.
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PEREIRA, LUANA FLORES. "INVISIBLE SCARS: THE IMPACT OF INFANT LEUKEMIA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30395@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar o impacto da leucemia infantil na subjetividade das crianças. Assim, busca descrever os aspectos particulares desta experiência que inclui tratamentos agressivos, uma série de restrições, procedimentos médicos invasivos e dolorosos, além do risco de morte. A pesquisa pretende então investigar como estes aspectos incidem sobre a criança, ainda em fase de desenvolvimento, considerando que tais vivências apresentam um potencial traumático pelo desafio imposto pela doença e hospitalização. O trabalho é norteado pela teoria psicanalítica e apresenta o conceito de trauma principalmente em Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott e Sándor Ferenczi. Para escutar sobre as experiências das crianças internadas em tratamento para leucemia, foram realizadas entrevistas semiabertas no Hemorio (Instituto Estadual de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti). Uma análise qualitativa das narrativas evidencia os aspectos próprios do trauma, como o excesso, o desamparo, as invasões, o desmentido e a ameaça de morte. Assim, diante do impacto, resta a necessidade de elaboração: através do narrar e do brincar.
The present study aims to analyze the impact of infant leukemia on children s subjectivity. Thus, it attempts to describe the particular aspects of this experience that includes an aggressive treatment, a series of restrictions, invasive and painful medical procedures, and the risk of death. The research aims to investigate how these aspects relate to the child still in the development period, considering these experiences as presenting a traumatic potential for the challenge imposed by the disease and hospitalization. This work is guided by the psychoanalytic theory and introduces the concept of trauma by Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott and Sándor Ferenczi. To listen about the experiences of children in treatment for leukemia, semi open interviews were conducted in Hemorio (State Institute of Hematology Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti). A qualitative analysis of the narratives highlights the specific aspects of trauma, such as the excess, the helplessness, the invasions, the denial and the threat of death. Thus, from the impact remains the need to elaborate: through narrating and playing.
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Catanzarite, Lori Frances. "Fractured Environments: The Scars of our Existence." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1511686951768637.
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Fourrier, Hervé. "La plaine de la Scarpe et ses bordures (Nord de la France) : analyse séquentielle des formations superficiellesAspects sur les sols." Lille 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989LIL10114.
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L'étude des formations superficielles de la plaine de la Scarpe et de ses bordures, permet de proposer un modèle de sédimentation en milieu périglaciaire. Malgré une grande variabilité spatiale des dépôts, 17 unités géomorpho-sédimentaires sont définies. La synthèse des séquences sédimentaires, l'examen d'une trentaine de fosses pédologiques et l'interprétation de nombreuses données d'analyses, apportent les preuves d'une continuité stratigraphique entre les dépôts de versant et ceux de la plaine, selon une variation latérale de leur faciès. En terme de chronologie relative, 5 enregistrements sédimentaires sont proposés. L'absence manifeste de sol Eémien, les témoins localement conservés du niveau de Kesselt, et du complexe du sol de Warneton, permettent de considérer que les formations superficielles se sont mises en place durant le Weichselien. Sur la base de l'analyse séquentielle des dépôts et de leurs caractères granulométriques, le rôle prépondérant de l'action éolienne est démontré. Une action fluviatile, somme toute de faible énergie, est mise en évidence dans la partie ouest de la plaine, sous la forme d'un niveau discontinu et peu épais de sables à granules de craie, présent à la base des formations superficielles
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Stadtler, Scarlet [Verfasser]. "Isoprene Secondary Organic Aerosol in a Global Chemistry Climate Model / Scarlet Stadtler." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1170777880/34.
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Martin, Thomas Paul. "Observations of mycorrhizal inoculation of pin and scarlet oak production in containers." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33174.
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Over the course of the last century mycorrhizal symbiosis has come to be recognized as highly beneficial for the host plant. Increased growth, water relations, nutrient acquisition, amelioration of the effects of metal toxicity, and increased resistance to pathogens are all benefits attributed to plants colonized by mycorrhizal fungi. A large body of literature exists that indicates that mycorrhizal inoculation programs are useful for improving the performance of forest tree seedlings. Commercial mycorrhizal products, many containing the ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus tinctorius (Pers.) Coker and Couch (Pt), have emerged from this research and are now being marketed for landscape tree growers. In this study, two experiments were conducted to determine the best protocol for inoculation of landscape trees, and to determine if mycorrhizal inoculation is beneficial to trees growing in modern landscape tree container production systems. The first experiment evaluated mycorrhizal inoculation programs utilizing two inocula types employing various substrates for landscape tree production in containers. Quercus palustris Muenchh. (pin oak) and Q. coccinea Muenchh. (scarlet oak) grown in pine bark, sterilized pine bark, sterilized mineral soil, and sterilized vermiculite-based substrates were inoculated with Pt commercial spore inoculum or Pt vegetative inoculum. The vegetative inoculum was unsuccessful at forming mycorrhizae even though the Pt continued to live in the planting substrates. A higher proportion of pin oak was colonized than scarlet oak in all substrates, and vermiculite was a superior environment for mycorrhizal formation than the other three substrates. The second experiment examined the effectiveness of an indigenous mycorrhizal fungus, Scleroderma bovista Fr., to increase growth and resistance to drought stress of scarlet oak grown in containers in the pot-in-pot growing system. Scleroderma bovista did not affect tree growth, and mycorrhizal trees in containers proved to be more susceptible to drought stress than nonmycorrhizal trees. Leaf water potential was more negative for mycorrhizal trees, and conductance was lower for mycorrhizal trees after a 10 day dry down period. A commercial Pt product was also used as an inoculum in this study and again proved completely ineffective at colonizing scarlet oak in pine bark substrate.Master of Science