Dissertations / Theses: 'Witch hunt'

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Konyar, Grace Elizabeth. "Empowering Popularity: The Fuel Behind a Witch-Hunt." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1490710757496863.

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Girard, Timothy J. "Premature witch hunt? The Amerasia case in context." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26912.

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The Amerasia case concerned the theft of classified U.S. federal government documents by government officials and left-wing critics of U.S. foreign policy. The case did not result in serious criminal penalties and the failure of the prosecution has never been adequately explained. There is some superficial validity to the contention that the case was legally weak to begin with, but it is important to situate the Amerasia case in the context of the debate over the direction of U.S. foreign policy in the transition from World War II to the Cold War. Although conclusions on the subject at this point must remain tentative, there is persuasive evidence that the Truman administration ensured that the U.S. Justice Department did not prosecute the case vigorously because a committed prosecution of the Amerasia case had the potential to compromise or undermine U.S. foreign policy in the early months of the Truman presidency.

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Hunt, Cole. "The Great European Witch Hunt in Elizabethan England and Jacobean Scotland." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297652.

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The Great European Witch Hunt swept across Europe from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, but the nature of these witch hunts differed from country to country. These differences can be attributed to the fulfillment, or lack thereof, of the preconditions to the Great European Witch Hunt: the adoption of the inquisitorial judicial procedure, the use of torture, the movement of witchcraft trials to secular and local courts, a belief in maleficium facilitated by a pact with Satan, a belief that witches met in large groups to perform anti-human rituals at the sabbat and the belief in the witch’s ability to fly to such Satanic meetings. These preconditions were largely fulfilled on the Continent, while they were only partially fulfilled in England and in Scotland, and more-so in Scotland than in England. The result is that the Great European Witch Hunt took a much more extreme form on the European Continent than it did in England or Scotland, and it was more severe in Scotland than in England.

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Macdonald, Stuart. "Threats to a godly society, the witch-hunt in Fife, Scotland, 1560-1710." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0009/NQ33310.pdf.

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Hughes, Paula. "The 1649-50 Scottish witch-hunt : with particular reference to the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2008. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21948.

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Between April 1649 and July 1650, over 500 people were accused of witchcraft in Scotland. This period represented one of the five "peaks" in witch-hunting in early modern Scotland identified by Christina Larner in her landmark work on the Scottish witch-hunts, Enemies of God (1983). To this date there has been no in depth study of the 1649-50 Scottish witch-hunt. This thesis offers an examination of the 1649-50 witch-hunt, considering the response of the central authorities to the outbreak of witch-hunting in the localities and the efforts to organise and control the witch-hunt. It also considers the actions of the local presbyteries and kirk sessions in the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale in responding to community pressure for action on suspected witches. A unique approach has been adopted in considering the nature of Covenanting government and how it shaped the central response to the witch-hunt and the attempts to control the witch-hunt "from above". This thesis combines an examination of the volatile political situation in 1649-50 with an analysis of the complex social nature of witchcraft accusations. This thesis brings together the social and political history of the period in the context of explaining the 1649-50 witch-hunt, with particular regard to the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale.

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Easley, Patricia Thompson. "A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2646/.

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This thesis discusses early modern European perceptions of body and soul in association with the increasing stringency of civilized behaviour and state formation in an effort to provide motivation for the increased severity of the witch hunts of that time. Both secondary and primary sources have been used, in particular the contemporary demonologies by such authors as Bodin, and Kramer and Sprenger. The thesis is divided into five chapters, including an Introduction and Conclusion. The body of the thesis focuses on religious, scientific, and secular beliefs (Ch. 2), appearance and characteristics of witches (Ch. 3), and the activities and behaviours/actions of witches, (Ch. 4). This study concentrates on the similarities found across Europe, and, as the majority of witches persecuted were female, my thesis emphasizes women as victims of the witch hunts.

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Martin, Lisa A. "Children, Adolescents, and English Witchcraft." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4952/.

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One area of history that historians have ignored is that of children and their relationship to witchcraft and the witch trials. This thesis begins with a survey of historical done on the general theme of childhood, and moves on to review secondary literature about children and the continental witch trials. The thesis also reviews demonological theory relating to children and the roles children played in the minds of continental and English demonologists. Children played various roles: murder victims, victims of dedication to Satan, child-witches, witnesses for the prosecution, victims of bewitchment or possession, and victims of seduction into witchcraft. The final section of the thesis deals with children and English witchcraft. In England children tended to play the same roles as described by the demonologists.

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Widén, Anita. "Roten till det onda : en studie i häxmotiv, kvinnlig sexualitet, husmoderlighet och moderlighet i Ulla Isakssons historiska roman Dit du icke vill." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1819.

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Ulla Isaksson (1916 – 2000) wrote many novels, often with a woman or several women as protagonists. In Dit du icke vill (“Where Thou Willst Not”) from 1956 she depicts a crisis of faith in a woman, which would not have been successful had she chosen a contemporary setting. She uses an adequate historical framework, the prosecution of witches in Sweden in the 17^th century, well documented in reliable sources. Her novel includes a message about oppression of women, manifest in patriarchal ambition to control ancient wisdom about healing and herbs and the denial of pre-Christian habits that include knowledge about female fertility, earlier exercised by midwives and wise women and men.

In “The Root of Evil” the novel is placed in a feminist tradition, where the author, like older writers like Fredrika Bremer, Ellen Key and Elin Wägner, pleads for “social mothering”. A major difference is that, in her own life, Ulla Isaksson has experienced pregnancy, giving birth and breastfeeding which none of the pioneering Swedish feminist writers had. Emilia Fogelklou, pioneering theologian, wrote about witches as wise women, a study that influenced Ulla Isaksson. The witches are described as mirroring Hanna “the Good Mother”. Their fantasies about life at “Blåkulla” are similar to the everyday life at a wealthy farmstead. This kind of mirroring reminds of the theories of Gilbert and Gubar, who assume that female writers in the 19^th Century hid their revolt against patriarchy in mad women, like “The Madwoman in the Attic” in Jane Eyre. In the 1950s, golden age of the Swedish housewife, a female writer might well hide her anger at the circumscribed role model dedicated to women in a similar use of Anti-Women. The real witches clearly contrast the obedient protagonist, a true “Angel in the house”.

The villagers´ struggle to clear the ground from the ensnaring roots that hinder the male prosecution of witches imply a symbolic reading: this evil root is ancient matriarchal knowledge of childbearing and birth control. A theory on the original causes for the witch hunts in western Europe is introduced: the population sank in the 15^th century and one reason, beside plagues, starvation and warfare, was that women aware of how to prevent childbearing and giving birth to a lot of children were killed during the witch hunt. Churches and kings introduced the prosecution of witches and wise women, including midwives.

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Kruger, Patricia de Almeida. "Penetrando o Éden: Anticristo, de Lars von Trier, à luz de Brecht, Strindberg e outros elementos inquietantes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-20122016-152701/.

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Analisamos, neste trabalho, o filme Anticristo (2009), do cineasta Lars von Trier, tomando como base um viés crítico que contemplasse a relação entre sua construção formal e seus conteúdos implícitos e explícitos. Assim como outras obras do artista, igualmente questionadoras, perturbadoras e políticas, Anticristo mostra-se capaz de apontar dinâmicas histórico-sociais relevantes para a compreensão de seu tempo, além de desnudar diversas características substanciais do pensamento hegemônico, espantosamente naturalizadas. Nesses termos, a tese proposta é a de que o filme reapropria-se de um método estéticopolítico brechtiano com o fim de criar uma contraposição ao modelo dramático que orienta grande parte das produções cinematográficas mainstream. Sendo responsável por sua estruturação mais ampla, essa reapropriação vincula-se à formatação do foco narrativo do filme, associado à personagem masculina e plasmado com várias nuances de obras de Strindberg e de Freud, bem como do Expressionismo. Configura-se, portanto, essencial o exame da inter-relação que Anticristo apresenta entre os planos histórico e social, e os planos do indivíduo e de sua subjetividade, inclusive de sua construção psíquica. A partir dessa análise revelam-se contradições fundamentais da sociedade ocidental, sobretudo no que se refere às questões de gênero, guarnecidas pela inquietante alusão que o filme faz à caça às bruxas.
In this thesis, we analyze the film Antichrist (2009), by Lars von Trier, from a critical perspective that contemplates the relationship between its formal construction and its implicit and explicit content. As with other works by the artist, equally questioning, disturbing and political, Antichrist has shown itself capable of pointing out historical and social dynamics that are relevant to the comprehension of its time; it also lays bare several substantial characteristics of the hegemonic thinking, which are naturalized in an unsettling way. Accordingly, the proposed thesis is that a Brechtian aesthetic-political method is reappropriated by the film, in order to counterpoint the dramatic model that guides much of the mainstream film productions. Being responsible for the broader structuring of Antichrist, this re-appropriation is linked to the design of the films narrative perspective, which is associated to the male character and shaped by various nuances of works by Strindberg and Freud, and also of Expressionism. The examination of the interrelationship between the historical and social level, and the level of the individual and of his subjectivity, including his mental construction, becomes thus essential in Antichrist. From such analysis, fundamental contradictions of Western society can be unveiled, especially the ones regarding gender issues, which are furnished by the uncanny allusion to the Witch Hunt brought up by the film.

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Bashaw, Meredith Joy. "To hunt or not to hunt? : a feeding enrichment experiment with captive wild felids." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28558.

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Blackman, Claire. "The hunt for quasi-periodicities with wavelet and camera." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4413.

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Hyman, Ryan. "The Hartford area witch-hunts : 1647-1683 /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1590.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2000.
Thesis advisor: Katherine Hermes. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-89).

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Pak, Ung Kyu. "The significance of Bruce F. Hunt's ministry in Korea and Manchuria (1928-1952) with particular attention to Shinto shrine worship /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Lehnert, Claudia. "24 hour hormone and serum electrolyte levels of dogs with pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism treated with trilostane." Giessen : VVB Laufersweiler, 2007. http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2007/4678/index.html.

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Farstad, Ingunn. "Association of chronic pain and fibromyalgia with cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome: the Norwegian HUNT study." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for bevegelsesvitenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-13163.

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Background: Chronic pain is a common condition, affecting a high percentage of the population. Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome characterized by chronic widespread pain, fatigue and tenderness at specific anatomical locations (tender points), which affects more women than men. Chronic widespread pain has recently been associated with increased risk of mortality, and especially to death from cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this study was to explore if people who reported chronic pain or FM had more unfavourable levels of cardiovascular risk factors compared to people without pain, and thus a higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome. The effect of number of pain sites and physical activity level was also explored. Methods: The study was based on cross-sectional data from 53 469 persons, 25 392 men and 28 077 women, who participated in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study from 1995 to 1997 (HUNT 2). Levels of cardiovascular risk factors were compared using linear regression, and OR for metabolic syndrome (defined by the ATP III criteria) and the various components were calculated by logistic regression. Results: Men and women with chronic pain and FM had higher waist circumference, body mass index, and triglyceride level, and lower high-density lipoprotein cholesterol compared to those with no pain. Lower values on both systolic and diastolic blood pressure were observed in the pain groups. The odds ratio (OR) for metabolic syndrome among those with chronic pain was 1.05 (95 % confidence interval, 0.98-1.12) in men and 1.18 (1.10-1.26) in women, and among those with FM it was 1.53 (1.14-2.04) in men and 1.66 (1.47-1.88) in women. There was a dose-response association between number of pain sites and the continuous measures of all outcome variables (all p-trends <0.01), except glucose (p-trend= 0.437 for men and 0.209 for women). Physically active persons had more favourable levels on most variables compared to the inactive within each pain group. The combination of FM and inactivity showed the strongest association with metabolic syndrome, with an OR of 2.05 (1.29-3.27) in men and 2.34 (1.95-2.81) in women. Conclusion: In this population-based study, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was higher among women with chronic pain, and among men and women with FM, compared to people without pain. There was a dose-response association between number of pain sites and metabolic syndrome and its components. Physical activity modified some of the observed association between chronic pain/FM and cardiovascular risk factors, resulting in more favourable risk factor levels.

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Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund. "Prospective studies of cancer risk in Nord-Trøndelag: the HUNT study. Associations with anthropometric, socioeconomic, and lifestyle risk factors." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-1963.

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Lane, Michelle I. ""Why do hurt people hurt people?" A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES EXPLORING ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS IN DRAMATIC TEXTS AND ONSTAGE WITH TONI KOCHENSPARGER'S MILKWHITE." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1492704228702652.

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Nguyen, Hung Huy [Verfasser]. "Complexes of rhenium and technetium with chelating thiourea ligands / Hung Huy Nguyen." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1023749661/34.

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Wenzel, Hanne Gro. "Pre and post–injury health in persons with whiplash: The Hunt Study : Exploration of the functional somatic model for chronic whiplash." Doctoral thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-17532.

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Objective Chronic whiplash is a burden both to the individual and to the health care system in most western countries. The condition is characterized by a great variety of symptoms from all over the body, apparently without attending objective signs, making it difficult to relate the symptoms to the neck injury. The symptoms are persisting, in spite of different treatment approaches and are associated with gross disability and psychosocial problems. It has been difficult to explain these findings and that is where scientific debate has centred. Two opposing models have been proposed: the organic model, which explains the symptoms with the mechanical forces transmitted during a collision, and the functional somatic model, which explains the symptoms as expression of psychosocial factors and a sick role adopted of the individual. The aim of the thesis is to explore hypotheses derived from the functional somatic model: that whiplash is associated with an increased prevalence of anxiety and depression and that pre-injury anxiety and depression predict subsequent report of whiplash, that pre-injury poor health is associated with the report of whiplash, and that chronic whiplash is characterized by a great array of different symptoms. Finally, it is an aim to explore the association between self-reported whiplash and subsequent disability pension award. Method All studies in the thesis are based on the Health Study of Nord-Trøndelag (HUNT), which is a large population-based survey. The first two studies used cross-sectional designs based on the HUNT 2 study (1995-97), while the last two studies had a prospective longitudinal design, including baseline data from the HUNT 1 study (1984- 86) and outcome data from the HUNT 2 study. Information on whiplash was included in the HUNT 2 study. In the two prospective studies, the whiplash group was restricted to individuals reporting a whiplash injury between HUNT 1 and HUNT 2. To explore the predictive significance of self-reported whiplash for later disability award, we used baseline data from the HUNT 2 study and outcome data from the Registries of the National Insurance Administration. In all the studies, we used binary logistic regression to explore our research questions, adjusting for possibly confounding factors like age,gender, education, marital status and alcohol problems. Information on anxiety and depression was based on two different instruments: the Anxiety and Depression Index – 12 (ADI-12) in the HUNT 1 study and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in the HUNT 2 study. Information on symptoms, diagnoses, subjective health, use of health services and use of medication were self-reported without objective confirmation. Results We found, in the first study, an increased prevalence of anxiety disorder and depression in individuals reporting whiplash injuries happening more than two years ago. The increased prevalence of these disorders was partly explained by neck pain and headache, which was in accordance with findings from other chronic pain disorders. This conclusion was further explored in the second study where we compared the symptom profile of chronic whiplash with the profile of two chronic pain disorders, an organic pain disorder (rheumatoid arthritis) and a functional somatic pain disorder (fibromyalgia). Results indicated that the symptom profile of chronic whiplash was more alike the profile of fibromyalgia than rheumatoid arthritis. The chronic whiplash group had a significantly higher prevalence of symptoms from all body parts, across all organ systems, and also mental symptoms, compared to a control group without fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and whiplash. The fibromyalgia group had an even higher prevalence of all symptoms than the whiplash group, while the rheumatoid arthritis group showed an increase in particularly pain and stiffness symptoms. The perception of chronic whiplash as a functional somatic disorder was further explored in the third and the fourth study by examining the predictive significance of pre-injury health on the report of whiplash. We found, in the third study, that pre-injury anxiety and depression predicted the report of whiplash. The strength of the association of preinjury case-level anxiety and depression with incident whiplash was comparable to the previously reported cross-sectional association of anxiety and depression with chronic whiplash in the first study. Also pre-injury health, as a broader concept, was also strongly associated with incident whiplash and particularly with “whiplash with neck pain”. The association between pre-injury health and ‘whiplash with neck pain’ could not be explained by the neck pain. Finally, the third study indicated a strong association between self-reported whiplash and subsequent disability pension award, even in the absence of neck pain. Conclusions Whiplash is a complex disorder which is associated with symptoms of poor health and impairment already before the trauma, and which demonstrates a wide array of symptoms from all over the body after the injury. Pre-injury anxiety and depression predicts subsequent self-reported whiplash and individuals with whiplash have an increased prevalence of anxiety and depression long time after the injury. Award of disability pension is increased following self-reported whiplash, even in the absence of neck pain. This picture seems to give strongest support to the functional somatic model of chronic whiplash.

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Kramer, William. "FILID, FAIRIES AND FAITH: The Effects of Gaelic Culture, Religious Conflict and the Dynamics of Dual Confessionalisation on the Suppression of Witchcraft Accusations and Witch-Hunts in Early Modern Ireland, 1533 - 1670." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2010. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/327.

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The European Witch-Hunts reached their peak in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Betweeen 1590 and 1661, approximately 1500 women and men were accused of, and executed for, the crime of witchcraft in Scotland. England suffered the largest witch-hunt in its history during the Civil Wars of the 1640s, which produced the majority of the 500 women and men executed in England for witchcraft. Evidence indicates, however, that only three women were executed in Ireland between 1533 and 1670. Given the presence of both English and Scottish settlers in Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the dramatic discrepancy of these statistics indicate that conditions existed in early modern Ireland that tended to suppress the mechanisms that produced witchcraft accusations and larger scale witch-hunts. In broad terms those conditions in Ireland were the persistence of Gaelic culture and the ongoing conditions of open, inter-religious conflict. In particular, two artifacts of Gaelic Irish culture had distinct impact upon Irish witchcraft beliefs. The office of the Poet, or fili (singular for filid), seems to have had a similar impact upon Gaelic culture and society as the shaman has on Siberian witchcraft beliefs. The Gaelic/Celtic Poet was believed to have magical powers, which were actually regulated by the Brehon Law codes of Ireland. The codification of the Poet’s harmful magic seems to have eliminated some of the mystique and menace of magic within Gaelic culture. Additionally, the persistent belief in fairies as the source of harmful magic remained untainted by Christianity throughout most of Ireland. Faeries were never successfully demonized in Ireland as they were in Scotland. The Gaelic Irish attributed to fairies most of the misfortunes that were otherwise blamed on witchcraft, including the sudden wasting away and death of children. Faerie faith in Ireland has, in fact, endured into the twentieth century. The ongoing ethno-religious conflict between the Gaelic, Catholic Irish and the Protestant “New English” settlers also undermined the need for witches in Ireland. The enemy, or “other” was always readily identifiable as a member of the opposing religious or ethnic group. The process of dual confessionalisation, as described by Ute Lotz-Huemann, facilitated the entrenchment of Catholic resistence to encroaching Protestantism that both perpetuated the ethno-religious conflict and prevented the penetration of Protestant ideology into Gaelic culture. This second effect is one of the reasons why fairies were never successfully associated with demons in Ireland. Witch-hunts were complex events that were produced and influenced by multiple causative factors. The same is true of those factors that suppressed witchcraft accusations. Enduring Gaelic cultural artifacts and open ethno-religious conflict were not the only factors that suppressed witchcraft accusations and witch-hunts in Ireland; they were, however, the primary factors.

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Yeh, Hung-Yu [Verfasser]. "Period, Central Charge and Effective Action on Ricci-Flat Manifolds with Special Holonomy / Hung-Yu Yeh." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1139048961/34.

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Adams, Brian Mark. "Basin-edge effects from SH-wave modelling with reference to the Lower Hutt Valley, New Zealand." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Civil Engineering, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3885.

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A study is made of seismic wave propagation at the edge of sedimentary basins and valleys, and the subsequent amplification of earthquake shaking that occurs. The aim of this thesis is to determine the geological and seismic conditions that control the occurrence and nature of basin-edge effects. In the first half of the thesis, elastic SH-wave propagation is investigated at the edge of a two-dimensional semi-infinite homogeneous layer above a homogeneous half-space, first with a geometrical ray-path and wavefront analysis and then with finite-element modelling of plane incident Ricker wavelets. It is shown that Love waves generated at an edge produce characteristic patterns of amplification across the layer in both the time and frequency domains. In addition, occurrences of localised amplification at the edge of the layer are categorised into three different classes based on their mechanisms of development. The Airy-phase edge effect occurs when the input frequency is close to the fundamental frequency of the layer; the wedge effect occurs above shallow sloping edges; and the basin-edge effect occurs above deep basins adjacent to steeply dipping edges. The second half of the thesis makes a case study of seismic amplification and edge effects in the Lower Hutt Valley. It is found that the anti-plane seismic response is characterised by multi-dimensional resonance across the full width, and the basin-edge effect and strong differential motion adjacent to the vertically-dipping Wellington fault. Love waves generated at each edge are the primary cause of such spatially varying ground motions. Modelling results are compared with an analysis of weak ground motions recorded on a dense linear array of instruments across the fault-bounded edge of the valley. A high degree of similarity is found. Discussion is also made concerning the use of the twodimensional elastic SH-wave analysis for predicting seismic response during strong ground shaking.

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Dalen, Håvard. "Echocardiographic indices of cardiac function : Normal values and associations with cardiac risk factors in a population free from cardiovascular disease, hypertension and diabetes: the HUNT 3 Study." Doctoral thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for sirkulasjon og bildediagnostikk, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-12556.

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Ultralydundersøkelse av hjertet (ekkokardiografi) er den undersøkelsen som samlet sett gir mest informasjon om hjertets struktur og funksjon. Undersøkelsen er en hjørnestein i utredning og diagnostikk av hjertesykdom. Vevsdoppler- (hastighetsdata fra hjertemuskelen) og deformasjonsanalyser (grad av forkortning av hjertemuskelen og hastigheten det skjer med) er nye ekkokardiografiske metoder som har vist seg følsomme for påvisning av redusert hjertefunksjon. Forutsetningen for at legene mest nøyaktig skal kunne påvise svekket hjertefunksjon relatert til sykdom er at man har god kjennskap til hva som er normalt. Hovedmålet for studiene var derfor a etablere normalverdier for spesifikke metoder for kvantitering (måling) av hjertefunksjonen og a belyse hvordan hjertefunksjonen hos friske personer er assosiert med ulike risikofaktorer for hjertesykdom. I forbindelse med Helseundersøkelsen i Nord-Trondelag (HUNT 3) ble i alt 1.296 personer undersøkt med ultralyd av hjertet (ekkokardiografi) pa Steinkjer og i Namsos. Deltakerne i studiene ble tilfeldig trukket ut blant deltakere i HUNT 3 som var hjertefriske og ikke hadde forhøyet blodtrykk eller sukkersyke. Arbeidet bestar av fire delstudier. I studie 1 ble repeterbarheten av de ulike hjertefunksjonsmalene studert. Alle metodene hadde akseptabel repeterbarhet og de fleste hadde utmerket repeterbarhet. Gjennom studie 2 og 3 ble normalverdier for ulike nye hjertefunksjonsmal bade for venstre og hoyre hjertekammer publisert. Malt med de nye metodene fant man at hjertefunksjonen avtok med alder og var forskjellige mellom kvinner og menn. Normalverdiene ble derfor utarbeidet i forhold til alder og kjønn. I studie 4 ble de ulike hjertefunksjonsmalene til deltakerne studert mot nivået av ulike risikofaktorer for hjertesykdom. Studien viste at overvekt, høyt blodtrykk, høyt niva av det ugunstige kolesterolet og røyking var assosiert med darligere hjertefunksjon (malt med de beskrevne metodene) selv hos friske personer. Høyere niva av det gunstige kolesterolet var assosiert med bedre hjertefunksjon. Studien konkluderte med at risikofaktorene svekker hjertefunksjonen allerede for man kan påvise sykdom.

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Hundt, Matthias [Verfasser] [Gutachter], Rene [Gutachter] Gergs, and Bela H. [Gutachter] Buck. "Aquaculture, conservation and restoration of anadromous fish populations of River Rhine with particular regard to the re-introduction of the Allis shad Alosa alosa / Matthias Hundt. Gutachter: René Gergs ; Matthias Hundt ; Bela H. Buck." Koblenz, 2016. http://d-nb.info/111178826X/34.

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Hundt, Matthias [Verfasser], Rene [Gutachter] Gergs, and Bela H. [Gutachter] Buck. "Aquaculture, conservation and restoration of anadromous fish populations of River Rhine with particular regard to the re-introduction of the Allis shad Alosa alosa / Matthias Hundt. Gutachter: René Gergs ; Matthias Hundt ; Bela H. Buck." Koblenz, 2016. http://d-nb.info/111178826X/34.

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Hundt, Bastian [Verfasser], and Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Sengstock. "Optical Potentials for the Realization of Dissipative Fermi-Hubbard Models with Ultracold Ytterbium Atoms / Bastian Hundt ; Betreuer: Klaus Sengstock." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1127225510/34.

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Heilmann, Romy Monika, Niels Grützner, Christina M. Iazbik, Rosana Lopes, Seth C. Bridges, Jan S. Suchodolski, Guilermo C. Couto, and Jörg M. Steiner. "Hyperhomocysteinemia in greyhounds and its association with hypofolatemia and other clinicopathologic variables." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-213902.

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Background: Folate and cobalamin are essential cofactors for homocysteine (HCY) metabolism. Hyperhomocysteinemia, a multifactorial condition, may reflect B vitamin deficiency and is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, thrombosis, and neurodegenerative and chronic gastrointestinal diseases in humans. Hyperhomocysteinemia has been reported in Greyhounds with suspected chronic enteropathy. Objectives: To evaluate the frequencies of and the association between hypofolatemia and hyperhomocysteinemia in Greyhounds. Animals: Data and serum samples from 559 Greyhounds. Methods: Nested case-control study. The frequency of hypofolatemia in Greyhounds was determined by a laboratory database search. The relationship between hyperhomocysteinemia (measured by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry) and hypocobalaminemia and hypofolatemia was evaluated, and its frequency compared between healthy Greyhounds and Greyhounds with thrombosis or chronic diarrhea. Results: Hypofolatemia was identified in 172 of 423 (41%) Greyhounds and was more common in hypo- than in normocobalaminemic dogs (49% vs. 35%; P = .0064). Hyperhomocysteinemia was detected in 53 of 78 (68%) of Greyhounds, being more common in hypo- than in normofolatemic dogs (88% vs. 59%; P = .0175). All healthy Greyhounds, 21 of 30 (70%) of dogs with chronic diarrhea and 6 of 8 (75%) of those with thrombosis, were hyperhomocysteinemic. Serum HCY concentrations were inversely correlated with serum folate concentration (q = -0.28; P = .0386) and were positively associated with serum albumin concentration (q = 0.66; P = .0022). Conclusions and Clinical Relevance: Hyperhomocysteinemia occurs frequently in the Greyhound population. Its association with hypofolatemia suggests decreased intracellular availability of B vitamins, but the functional implications warrant further investigation. Hyperhomocysteinemia in Greyhounds potentially may serve as a spontaneous canine model to further investigate hyperhomocysteinemia in humans.

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Arnqvist, Caroline. "Hunden som resurs : En studie om hunden som ett pedagogiskt hjälpmedel." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21103.

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This study shows how two different schools use dogs as a method of education. The purpose was to find out what kind of pedagogical thoughts my informants have about children' slearning in their connection with dogs, and in which way the interaction between the children and the dogs could affect the learning ability. I also wanted to find out what kind of possibilities and restrictions the dogs could give to the education according to my informants but also to find out how the projects were financed. To be able to answer these questions I put together a qualitative study, I had four interviews with people that were involved in the projects in one way or the other. To analyse the empirical material I looked up different theories about teaching, communication, interaction and motivation. My results showed that both schools have applied the method of “teaching dogs” as a form of resource for students with special needs. One of the two schools only applies the method on one class consisting of six students and their teachers, who are remedial teachers. The other school cooperates with a company that educates therapy dogs. The dog handlers, who don't have a remedial teacher's education, come every week with one or two dogs. All students in the school who are in need of extra support can work with the dogs after an investigation made by the health department at the school. All my informants believe that the project has given positive results such as the notification that students are more motivated, communicate and interact better with each other and the teachers. The students are also happier and have a higher regularity of attendance in school than before. But the project requires a lot of money and also needs to be thought through thoroughly because of allergies and the risks of dogs causing any kind of physical damage. Another risk is that the dog causes the student to lose focus in their studies instead of helping them concentrate. But if the teacher is aware of these downsides it seems that the problemscan be solved.

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Töpfer, Katharina. "Characterization of the humoral immune response in dogs after vaccination against the causative agent of the Lyme Borreliosis, Borrelia burgdorferi, with different vaccines using two different vaccination schedules." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-34037.

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Lyme-Borreliose, die mittlerweile in der nördlichen Hemisphäre wichtigste durch Vektoren übertragene Erkrankung, wird durch Spirochäten aus der Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Gruppe hervorgerufen. Viele der in letzter Zeit veröffentlichten Studien haben darauf hingewiesen, dass durch Antibiotikagaben eine vollständige Erregerelimination nach Infektion nicht erreicht werden kann. Eine prophylaktische Versorgung rückt somit immer weiter in den Vordergrund des Interesses. Eine Impfung ist jedoch auch nicht unproblematisch: Untersuchungen beim Menschen haben gezeigt, dass nach zweimaliger Immunisierung im ersten Jahr lediglich 68% der Probanden geschützt waren und mit einer weiteren, sich anschließenden Immunisierung der Schutz gesteigert werden konnte. Deshalb sollte die hier an Hunden durchgeführte Studie aufzeigen, ob durch eine dreimalige Impfstoffapplikation im Verlauf der Grundimmunisierung mit kommerziell erhältlichen Impfstoffen die im Hund gebildeten Antikörperspiegel zu steigern. Ein höheres Antikörperniveau führt zu einem verzögerten Antikörperabfall und somit zu einem verlängerten Schutz. Weiterhin sollte zusätzlich das induzierte Antikörperprofil näher charakterisiert und somit auch eine Aussage über die Wirksamkeit gegenüber verschiedenen Borrelienspezies ermöglicht werden. Die im Verlauf dieser Studie durchgeführten Untersuchungen zeigen, dass zunächst eine höher als erwartete Infektionsrate für die Lyme-Borreliose in Sachsen innerhalb der Hundepopulation auftritt. Der prozentuale Anteil seropositiver Tiere beträgt 20,3%. Eine serologisch nachgewiesene Infektion steht allerdings nicht in direktem Zusammenhang mit einem Ausbruch der Erkrankung und darf demnach nicht mit der Erkrankungsrate innerhalb der Hundepopulation gleichgesetzt werden. Die bisher auf dem Markt erhältlichen und hier untersuchten Impfstoffe Merilym (B. burgdorferi s. s. Lysatimpfstoff, Merial, Deutschland), LymeVax (B. burgdorferi s. s. Lysatimpfstoff, Fort Doge, USA), Biocan (B. garinii, B. afzelii Lysatimpfstoff, Bioveta, Tschechien), ProLyme (rekombinanter Outer surface protein A (OspA) Impfstoff, Intervet, USA) und RecombitekLyme (rekombinanter OspA Impfstoff, Merial, USA) wurden in seronegativen Tieren bezüglich der induzierten Gesamtantikörper, der spezifisch gegen OspA gerichteten Antikörper und ihrer Kreuzreaktivität gegenüber heterologen Spezies untersucht, wobei der Einfluss von zwei verschiedenen Impfstrategien von besonderem Interesse war. Durch eine dreifache Antigengabe im Rahmen der Grundimmunisierung konnte nur bei zwei der untersuchten Impfstoffe (Merilym und Biocan) eine deutliche Erhöhung der Antikörperspiegel erreicht werden, die sich aber statistisch nicht signifikant von den anderen unterscheidet. Somit ist eine Umsetzung dieses Impfregimes in die Praxis nicht zu empfehlen. Es zeigt im Verlauf des Jahres bei allen Impfstoffen ein Titerabfall, sowohl bei den Gesamtantikörpern, als auch bei den OspA-Antikörpern. Mit Ausnahme von Biocan, hier sind kaum OspA-Antikörper nachweisbar, induzieren alle Impfstoffe nach der Impfung vor allem OspA-Antikörper, die jedoch sehr schnell wieder abfallen und nach einem halben Jahr nur mehr in geringem Maße nachweisbar sind. Diese OspA-Antikörper sind speziesspezifisch und nur in sehr geringem Umfang kreuzreaktiv. Diese Ergebnisse weisen auf eine Suszeptibilität der geimpften Tiere bezüglich einer Borrelieninfektion innerhalb mehrerer Monate nach Impfung hin. Es empfiehlt sich eine dritte Immunisierung nach sechs Monaten, um auch in der zweiten Jahreshälfte schützende Antikörperspiegel zu ermöglichen. Untersuchungen der Kreuzreaktivität in-vitro sprechen für eine mangelhafte Bindungsfähigkeit induzierter Impfantikörper gegenüber anderen Borrelienspezies, die in Zusammenhang mit einem geringen Schutz in-vivo gesehen werden könnten. Somit ist ein rein speziesspezifischer Impfschutz wahrscheinlich. Da vor allem in Europa eine große Borrelien-Artenvielfalt vorherrscht, deuten die hier vorgestellten Ergebnisse eine nur gegen eine Spezies gerichtete Immunität bei geimpften Hunden an. Die Notwendigkeit der Entwicklung eines neuen Impfstoffes, basierend auf einer Mischung speziesspezifischer OspA-Antigene gewonnen aus B. burgdorferi s. s., B. garinii und B. afzelii in Kombination mit weiteren Antigenen, da der Schutzmechanismus beruhend auf OspA bereits durch eine OspA-Variation seitens der Borrelien durchbrochen werden kann, wird durch die hier vorgelegten Resultate gestützt. Da ein solcher Impfstoff bisher nicht erhältlich ist und die Schutzwirkung der erhältlichen Impfung als partiell angesehen werden kann, rücken einfache, aber in der Regel zuverlässigere Methoden in den Vordergrund. Die tägliche Entfernung von Zecken ist eine wirksame Vorgehensweise, um das Infektionsrisiko zu minimieren. Auch der Einsatz akarizider Substanzen und Repellentien bietet sich an, um die Übertragung der Borreliose und weiterer, von Zecken übertragene Erreger zu unterbinden
Lyme-Borreliose, currently the most important vector-borne disease in the northern hemisphere, is caused by spirochetes from the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. Recently published studies have indicated that a complete eradication of the bacterium from the host’s tissue by antibiotic treatment is not possible. Therefore prophylactic measures become more important. However, vaccines are not unproblematic: studies in humans have shown that only 68% of the participants were protected after two immunizations applied during the first year, while the level of protection rose when an additional immunization was given. Therefore, the study presented here was designed to reveal whether three initial immunizations with commercial vaccines are able to raise the antibody levels in dogs. Higher antibody levels are the basis for a delayed disappearance of antibodies due to natural decay and therefore provide an extended protection from infection. Furthermore, the induced antibody profile was subject of a more precise characterization in order to draw possible conclusions about their efficacy against other Borrelia species. The results presented in this study show a higher than expected prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato seropositivity in dogs from Saxony. The percentage of seropositive dogs was 20.3%. Since seropositivity is not necessarily linked with the onset of the disease, this result does not describe the disease incident in the dog population. In the course of the study, commercially available vaccines, Merilym (B. burgdorferi s. s. lysate, Merial, Germany), LymeVax (B. burgdorferi s. s. lysate, Fort Dodge, USA), Biocan (B. afzelii, B. garinii lysate, Bioveta, Czech Republic), ProLyme (recombinant Outer surface protein A (OspA) with adjuvant, Intervet, USA) and RecombitekLyme (recombinant OspA without adjuvant, Merial, USA) were evaluated for induced antibody levels and the amount of OspA antibodies in seronegative dogs, in which two different vaccination schedules were of special interest. In addition the cross reaction of antibodies on heterologous antigens was analyzed. Three immunizations during the first year with two (Merilym and Biocan) of the five vaccines tested increase the vaccinal antibody levels, but this increase of antibody levels is not statistically significant. Therefore a recommendation for a third antigen application within the first six weeks after basic immunisation can not be given. All vaccine-induced antibody levels show a decrease within the first year concerning total antibody titers as well as OspA antibody titers. Except for Biocan the specificity of the initially induced antibodies by vaccination are directed mainly against OspA. These antibody titers decrease quickly resulting in minimum amounts of detectable antibodies within the period of six months. These OspA antibodies are species-specific and show only a minor cross reactivity. The results presented here suggest that vaccinated animals are susceptible for a borrelia infection within months after immunization. Therefore a third vaccination six months after the basic immunization is advisable in order to induce a long lasting protective antibody level during the period of one year. These data generated with in-vitro systems suggest that only a species-specific protection can be expected in-vivo. The species heterogeneity within Europe suggests that the vaccine available in Europe only protects from infection with the species used for vaccine preparation. These results underline the necessity to develop a new vaccine consistent of a mixture of OspA derived from at least B. burgdorferi s. s., B. garinii and B. afzelii in combination with other antigens, since protection from infection via OspA can be circumvented by minor OspA variations on the part of the borrelia. Since such a vaccine is not yet available, and therefore other methods that provide protection are necessary. Daily control of the dog and the removal of adherent ticks can help to prevent a possible infection since borrelia take at least 24 hours to migrate from the midgut of the tick to the salivary gland where they can infect the host. In addition, the use of repellent or acarizides might be helpful to avoid attachment or achieve the death of adherent ticks and therefore minimize the risk of infection with borrelia as well as other tick-borne diseases

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Walsh, Fiona Jane. "To hunt and to hold : Martu Aboriginal people's uses and knowledge of their country, with implications for co-management in Karlamilyi (Rudall River) National Park and the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Plant Biology, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0127.

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[Truncated abstract] This ethnoecological study examines land uses by modern Martu Aboriginal people on their country. They occupy very remote settlementsParnngurr, Punmu and Kunawarritjiin the Great and Little Sandy Deserts. In 1990, their country included Crown Lands and Rudall River National Park. The study investigated the proposition that the knowledge and practices of Martu were of direct relevance to ecosystem processes and national park management. This research commenced in the wider Australian research context of the late 1980s early 90s when prevailing questions were about the role of customary harvest within contemporary Aboriginal society (Altman 1987; Devitt 1988) and the sustainability of species-specific harvests by Australian indigenous people (Bomford & Caughley 1996). Separately, there was a national line of enquiry into Aboriginal roles in natural resource and protected area management (Williams & Hunn 1986; Birckhead et al. 1992). The field work underpinning this study was done in 19861988 and quantitative data collected in 1990 whilst the researcher lived on Martu settlements. Ethnographic information was gathered from informal discussions, semi-structured interviews and participant observation on trips undertaken by Martu. A variety of parameters was recorded for each trip in 1990. On trips accompanied by the researcher, details on the plant and animal species collected were quantified. Martu knowledge and observations of Martu behaviour are interpreted in terms of the variety of land uses conducted and transport strategies including vehicle use; the significance of different species collected; socio-economic features of bush food collection; spatio-temporal patterns of foraging; and, the 'management' of species and lands by Martu. The research found that in 1990, hunting and gathering were major activities within the suite of land uses practiced by Martu. At least 40% of trips from the settlements were principally to hunt. More than 43 animal species and 37 plant food species were reported to be collected during the study; additionally, species were gathered for firewood, medicines and timber artefacts. Customary harvesting persisted because of the need for sustenance, particularly when there were low store supplies, as well as other reasons. The weight of bush meats hunted at least equalled and, occasionally, was three times greater than the weights of store meats available to Parnngurr residents. ... Paradoxically, hunting was a subject of significant difference despite it being the principal activity driving Martu expertise and practice. There is potential for comanagement in the National Park but it remains contingent on many factors between both Martu and DEC as well as external to them. The dissertation suggests practical strategies to enhance co-management.

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Tran, Tuan Anh Panee Sitakalin. "Factors related to preventive behavior on home injury among mothers with children under 5 years old at communes of Hung Yen province, Vietnam /." Abstract, 2007. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2550/cd399/4938003.pdf.

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Cheung, Sai Hung Burdick Joel Wakeman Beck J. L. "Stochastic analysis, model and reliability updating of complex systems with applications to structural dynamics /cSai Hung Cheung ; Joel W. Burdick, committee chair ; James L. Beck, advisor." Diss., Pasadena, Calif. : California Institute of Technology, 2009. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05292009-102458.

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Hung, Shuan-Ju [Verfasser], and Caterina [Akademischer Betreuer] Gawrilow. "Let’s Go or Not Go! Behavioral Investigation of the Effect of Methylphenidate on Response Inhibition in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder / Shuan-Ju Hung ; Betreuer: Caterina Gawrilow." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1163461997/34.

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Chow, Samson Sik Yan. "Living with the dead : is it necessarily to be so? why not NIMBY, sense of place and spatial justice : a case study of locating funeral business in Hung Hom /." View abstract or full-text, 2010. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202010%20CHOW.

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Göthberg, Rosalind. ""He wouldn't have hurt that many students with a knife" : The Gun Control Paradox, Political Opportunities, and Issue Framing: A case study of the Never Again movement in Parkland, Florida." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354080.

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Moser, Heather S. "Silencing the Revelry: An Examination of the Moral Panic in 186 BCE and the Political Implications Accompanying the Persecution of the Bacchic Cult in the Roman Republic." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398073604.

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Kugara, Stewart Lee. ""Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" : human rights implications of witch-hunt in South Africa and Zimbabwe." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/299.

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Lee, Hui-jing, and 李惠菁. "Behind the Witch-Hunt News Narrative: Probing the Rhetorical Frame for Topicalized Women." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57225425617682933623.

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碩士
世新大學
口語傳播學研究所
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Based on the characteristics of audiovisual media, television news not only represents the real life but unavoidably resembles a drama. Social news on TV frequently becomes news drama, especially in which topicalized women are involved. Not only the intension of media sensation should be argued, the deep-rooted sex discrimination behind the topic attribution of topicalized women is also highly concerned. It can’t reach an effective solution to explore how the truth distorted by the traditional perspective “objection and representation”. However, it allows basifugal exploration and disclosure by the rhetoric perspective “reality representation”. This study targets the news of “Ni-Xia Affair” and explores the constructing process of the topic women news by rhetoric perspective. Regarding these pieces of news as the co-constructed news drama by the media and society, the author attempts to find out a possible moment to reconstruct the sex value in Taiwan by the constructed news contexts. The study is divided into three parts. First, the author probes the social position of topic women via historical contexts. The second part is grounded by Chatman’s symbolic narrative theory and analyzes how “Ni-Xia Affair” gradually becomes a news drama with narrative features and even dramatic tension. Besides the nuclear and satellite subtopics, the author digs the margined subtopics hiding in the news narrative and analyzes the relationship between news value and sex discrimination. Finally, grounded by Walter Fisher’s Narrative Rationality, the author collates the characters and narrative content in “Ni-Xia Affair” news drama to view the narrative probability and fidelity and then reflects the problem of sex biases in Taiwan. Through the thorough rhetoric analysis of “Ni-Xia Affair”, this study attempts to disclose the sociocultural element behind the phenomenon of topicalized women in Taiwan media. This news drama of a topicalzed woman is representative enough and it hides many margined subtopics to follow and develop. The author collates these subtopics for the following reasons. On one hand, media reporters can regard news writing as an important opportunity for social participation and value reconstruction. On the other hand, it is hopefully that we have a broader horizon to view our society and let the similar subtopics in news become a kairos to open up a rational discourse for civil society.

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Moreira, Vânia Daniela Martins. "Bruxaria e a "caça às bruxas": abordagens sobre a sua trajetória ao longo da Idade Moderna." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/74242.

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Dissertação de mestrado em História
Desde tempos imemoriais que a magia está presente nas sociedades humanas. Não existem povos ou culturas, por mais remotos que sejam, onde não se encontre indícios da existência de práticas de feitiçaria, tratando-se, por isso, de um fenómeno universal. Para a população do início da Idade Moderna, a magia e a feitiçaria constituíam um modo de vida, pelo que os agentes mágicos — onde se inseriam a feiticeira e a bruxa — faziam parte do quotidiano da cultura europeia. As crenças na feitiçaria acabaram por coexistir e até se imiscuir com as convicções cristãs. Contudo, a Igreja, que sempre se insurgiu contra os desvios da fé cristã, começou a conceber a imagem de uma feiticeira diabólica, seguidora de Satanás. A figura da feiticeira difundiu-se pelo Ocidente e acabou por ficar estreitamente conotada à mulher, já que se acreditava que esta seria mais propensa à malícia e a práticas mágicas. Assim, entre os séculos XVI e XVII o continente europeu testemunhou uma obsessão relativamente à feitiçaria e à bruxaria, figuras que, a pouco e pouco, se foram tornando maléficas. Este fenómeno, designado comummente como "caça às bruxas", repercutiu-se à escala europeia, sendo por isso um problema ocidental. Contudo, verificaram-se discrepâncias relativamente à distribuição geográfica e cronológica dos processos de bruxaria: se determinadas regiões viveram uma verdadeira obsessão com a "caça às bruxas", noutras praticamente não se verificou uma repressão significativa. Neste contexto, insere-se o caso de Portugal, que se transformou num caso deveras à parte, não se tendo verificado uma repressão contundente relativamente às práticas mágicas.
Since immemorial times, magic has been present in human societies. There are no peoples or cultures, remote as they may be, where there's no evidence of the existance of witchcraft practices, wich is why it is a universal phenomenon. For the population of the early Modern Age, magic and sorcery constituted a way of life, so the magical agents — where the sorceress and witch were inserted — were part of the daily life of European culture. The beliefs on sorcery ended up for coexisting and even meddling with Christian convictions. However, the Church, that always insurged against deviations from the Christian faith, began to conceive the image of a diabolic witch, a follower of Satan. The figure of the sorceress spread throughout the West and ended up being closely connected to the woman, since it was believed that she would be more willing to evil and magical practices. Thus, between the 16th and 17th centuries, the European continent witnessed an obsession with sorcery and witchcraft, figures that, little by little, became increasingly evil. This phenomenon, commonly known as "witch hunt", had repercussions on a European scale and was, therefore, an Western problem. However, there were discrepancies regarding the geographic and chronological distribution of witchcraft processes: if certain regions experienced a real obsession with the "witch hunt", in others the was practically no significant repression. In this context, the case of Portugal is inserted, wich was transformed in a very singular case, and there was no forceful repression in relation to magical practices.

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Chen, Ching-ming, and 陳鏡銘. "Development of Hunt Cohesion Method with Applied Engineering." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43573529046173458940.

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機械工程所
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This research developed a novel searching method, namely Hunt Cohesion Method (HCM), could search for several local optimized solutions in one searching process. The superior of this searching method that could provided several local optimized solutions that could be valuable for engineering application since the “optimized” solution might not possible practical applied for the really design. The ideal of polar searching method of HCM is from observation the behavior of spiders hunting through cobweb. The more cobwebs built in space could catch more insects and compared to get better one. As the best group of parameters could not be practically applied, we still have other local optimized solution could be chosen, and then select others. Several cases were analyzed by HCM method. The results show that HCM have a great performance searching for more solutions. It’s also computing fast and effective to solve engineering problems.

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Min-ChenShih and 石旻宸. "Journey with the Trolley Hut." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28607289253445393864.

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This thesis takes the trolleys in Ping-Xi, Taipei as the study case to explore how to vary tiny space for the sake of different uses or spatial units. When the industry declined, the trolleys which have transported coal or wood were also abandoned .For example, the industrial town, Pin-Xi, where there are lots light railways across mountains and brooks, is a beautiful environment but on the downgrade now. When a trolley hut appear, a new type of journey emerge: House is not burdensome anymore, and movable easily. Travelers could experience the environment beautiful , and towns could relive. The topic of this research is from the variation of tiny space: a confined space transforms into some different spatial units. The panels on the trolley is like cabinets to store all furniture. The variation of panels and combination between panels cause the panels good or bad. Then spatial variation of trolley huts is decided by this panels. The design of thesis could be applied to tiny space in cities. When there are tiny space house more and more in metropolis, the type of furniture is not same as before. It’s possible that the panel became furniture in the meantime. It causes interface in space to merge partitions and furniture.

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Chuang, Chiao-Ting, and 莊喬婷. "Dialogue with Reality: On Lin Zhaohua,Meng Jinghui, Hung Hung and Antony Chan''s adaptations of Fausts." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yyj4y2.

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Tuan, Le Cong, and 黎公俊. "Evaluate customers’ satisfaction with advertising onnewspaper at Hung Yen newspaper office." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36354002853363375882.

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樹德科技大學
經營管理研究所
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The purpose of this study is to explore and detect the factors affecting customer satisfaction with advertising services of Hung Yen Newspaper. Moreover, the study also aims to detect new factors influencing customer satisfaction besides the old factors in the traditional SERVQUAL model. The model applied in this study is SERVQUAL model. 　　The research results show that the customer satisfaction on advertising services of the newspaper office is affected by three factors including “reliability”, “competitiveness of price”, and “ad layout”. These factors have positive impact on the satisfaction of customers. Between them, the factor “reliability” has the biggest impact intensity, next is the factor “ad layout” and the last is the factor “competitiveness of price”. The study also shows its limitations and directions for furthur researches in the future.

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Hunt, Benjamin Matthew. "Recovery of transforming growth factor-[beta]2 from Whey Growth Factor Extract with immunoaffinity techniques / by Benjamin Matthew Hunt." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19851.

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Includes errata on last 3 leaves.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-246).
xix, 246 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Describes attempts to develop an immunoaffinity process for commercial-scale purification of TGF-[beta]2 from Whey Growth Factor Extract
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 2001

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Singer, Leo Pound. "The Needle in the 100 deg² Haystack: The Hunt for Binary Neutron Star Mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory." Thesis, 2015. https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/8739/1/leo-singer-thesis-2015.pdf.

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The Advanced LIGO and Virgo experiments are poised to detect gravitational waves (GWs) directly for the first time this decade. The ultimate prize will be joint observation of a compact binary merger in both gravitational and electromagnetic channels. However, GW sky locations that are uncertain by hundreds of square degrees will pose a challenge. I describe a real-time detection pipeline and a rapid Bayesian parameter estimation code that will make it possible to search promptly for optical counterparts in Advanced LIGO. Having analyzed a comprehensive population of simulated GW sources, we describe the sky localization accuracy that the GW detector network will achieve as each detector comes online and progresses toward design sensitivity. Next, in preparation for the optical search with the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), we have developed a unique capability to detect optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). Its comparable error regions offer a close parallel to the Advanced LIGO problem, but Fermi's unique access to MeV-GeV photons and its near all-sky coverage may allow us to look at optical afterglows in a relatively unexplored part of the GRB parameter space. We present the discovery and broadband follow-up observations (X-ray, UV, optical, millimeter, and radio) of eight GBM-IPTF afterglows. Two of the bursts (GRB 130702A / iPTF13bxl and GRB 140606B / iPTF14bfu) are at low redshift (z=0.145 and z = 0.384, respectively), are sub-luminous with respect to "standard" cosmological bursts, and have spectroscopically confirmed broad-line type Ic supernovae. These two bursts are possibly consistent with mildly relativistic shocks breaking out from the progenitor envelopes rather than the standard mechanism of internal shocks within an ultra-relativistic jet. On a technical level, the GBM--IPTF effort is a prototype for locating and observing optical counterparts of GW events in Advanced LIGO with the Zwicky Transient Facility.

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Ho, Tzu-Yun, and 賀子芸. "The Resistance of a Taiwan Activist, Hsieh Hsueh-hung-Comparison with The Intellectual-." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4c7y6n.

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碩士
國立臺灣大學
日本語文學研究所
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This thesis is about comparing the difference of participating of social movement between the intelligentsia and the non-intelligentsia in Japanese Colony Period. This thesis starts from the childhood and youth of Hsieh Hsueh-hung, as the representative of non-intelligentsia. The experience of lower class became the motive which made her choose to be a communist. During Hsieh Hsueh-hung studying in Communist University of the Toilers of the East, she learned how to use communism as the weapon and put it in use to fight against Japanese colonial government and colonialism after she became the leader of Communist Party of Taiwan. After 228 Incident, Hsieh Hsueh-hung turned her point from “Taiwan independence” to “ Taiwan Autonomy”. The change meant that Hsieh Hsueh-hung and the other members of Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League understood that “China legitimism” has been threating the freedom of Taiwan. The change also prooved that Hsieh Hsueh-hung did have “Taiwanese Identity”. In comparison with the intelligentsia, Tshua Pue-Hue and Su Hsin for example, obviously, Hsieh Hsueh-hung had her own “Taiwanese Identity” as a revolutionary. This thesis considers that it’s because that intelligentsia lack the experience of lower class and they can’t really understand the pain of lower class.

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Hsien-Hung, Yeh, and 葉憲宏. "With the Tender Attitude to Stride Acorss-Art Works by Yeh Hsien-Hung." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49036432819711306230.

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碩士
國立新竹教育大學
美勞教育研究所
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With the Tender Attitude to Stride Across Abstract 《With the Tender Attitude to Stride acorss》─Yeh Hsien-Hung artistic creations description was main to discussion about personal works from 2004 to 2009.The purpose of this study was to explore the deeply feelings and experiences of life by each works, and also research the philosophy of death by each works. All the descriptions are main to explore how the author experience his mother of birth passing away. According to all the process about these, the author wrote his opinions about life-and-death. At the same time, the author expanded the theory that he has learned, and debated with his own cognitions. Through this way he made his own works go into seriously introspection. The author realized that reading can deepen and clarify his own creative concept. Establishing the reading system also can set on the retreats one by one, imperceptibly. Because of the longer development of create the works, the author has the opportunity to escape from original opinions to estimate the context of all works. During whole process of creative works, the author connected each moment. So that he can realized all works has been contained about timeliness, concepts of expending or resembling, and the objective behind the subjective. To expect this description can connect to external world, not for the author himself only. Therefore, these connections regardless of what the concepts or creations were, they were view to kind of movement evolved, and also a manner to stride across, for the author. In this study, the part of theory foundation was recited by existentialism scientist—Martin Heidegger toward death, and expended the cognitions to death. Comparing and debating with the novel of life-and-death, the author can have conversation with death. This study debate the existence absurd by Albert Camus to discuss about the life, what is the "purpose" of whole life, and whether the existence of a "purpose" of lifespan. The author also debated with death that Heidegger mentioned about. Through such references the author realized the meaning of the connection and the impact of his mother passing away. The main idea of creative description is through the "stone" as a symbol, to represent the hidden and long-term relationship between the author and his mother, and the absurdity of death by helplessness feelings of human being toward death. To discuss the artistic value of this creation was through the combination of reading and writing. And the author gained the new experience of "dead issue". With the way of surrealism to create different visual effects such as loneliness and absurdity, while the author also create the mobile extension of his works. Through the process of the brush crossing by, the author also find the new meaning and new self. Although the ideas, the images and the text were differ from unequal blocks, the author through his creative process he can stride across life and death with a soft attitude, even they were two different circles could be. Keyword: "faith island”, "stride across”, "rock characterization”, "death”, "matrix”.

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Chaudhuri, Soma. "Tempest in a tea pot analysis of contemporary witch hunts in the tea plantations of Bengal /." Diss., 2008. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-07292008-211236/.

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Chang, Yu-Hsiang, and 張祐祥. "Using Alphabet Assisted Bump Hunt to Search for Z' to Zh to ll bb at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the CMS Detector." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8qw58y.

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國立中央大學
物理學系
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A search for a new particle Z’ is performed in the data collected by the CMS detector in 2016 at the LHC center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.8 fb^{-1}. The decay channel of Z’ is focused on Z’ to Z H, and the Higgs boson decays to b bar while the Z boson decays leptonically. Since the Higgs boson is highly boosted, the two b-quarks are collimated and thus reconstructed in a fat jet with a radius of 0.8. The double-b tagger algorithm and the Higgs mass window cut are applied to reduce the background events. The remaining background events are estimated by the ALPHABET assisted Bump Hunt method, where the ALPHABET method constraints the event yields in the signal region, and the simultaneous fit in both the signal region and the control region determines the shape.

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Renner, Kati. "Ein wiederentdecktes Schlüsselwerk von Otto Hettner: Das Porträt seiner Frau Jeanne mit Hut." 2019. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35263.

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Das umfangreiche, stilistisch vielfältige Werk des 1875 in Dresden geborenen Malers, Grafikers und Bildhauers Otto Hettner (1875‐1931) ist heute nahezu unbekannt. Der Künstler hatte zunächst in Karlsruhe und Paris Malerei studiert, mehrere Jahre in der pulsierenden Kunstmetropole gelebt, sich mit Edvard Munch angefreundet und intensiv mit den neuesten Entwicklungen auseinandergesetzt, bevor er sich zwischen 1905 und 1911 zusammen mit seiner Frau Jeanne (1878‐1958) in Florenz niederließ. Nach einem kurzen Aufenthalt in Berlin und der Teilnahme am Ersten Weltkrieg erhielt Hettner 1917 den Ruf an die Dresdner Kunstakademie, wo er schließlich ab 1919 als Professor lehrte und maßgeblich verantwortlich für den Anschluss der Institution an die internationale Moderne war. Unterbrochen wurde seine Tätigkeit wiederholt durch seine Tuberkulose‐Erkrankung, die ihn zu Kuraufenthalten in südlichen Ländern zwang und zu einer längeren Abwesenheit vom Akademiebetrieb führte. Hettner starb 1931 und hinterließ ein rund 4.300 Werke umfassendes OEuvre, das Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Buchillustrationen, Bühnenbildentwürfe und Skulpturen umfasste.

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