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Mueller, Jonas. "The Boys' Republic." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5345.
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The young men in The Boys' Republic live in a world that is continually falling apart. Their houses collapse into sinkholes, forest fires carve out chunks of their towns, plague spreads through their communes, the money runs out on the construction project where they work. This decay mirrors their own collapsing identities, as they are forced to question their mastery of nature, their nostalgia for their youth, their relationships with others, and the value of masculinity itself. Drawing on the work of writers like Dennis Cooper, Flannery O'Connor, and Benjamin Percy, The Boys' Republic depicts men in the midst of both an economic and an emotional recession. Some, like Carson in Hotel or Zachary in Ignus Fatuus, are trapped in their decaying suburbs by youth, poverty, or habit. Others, like Jared in Corona Radiata or Nick in The Boy's Republic, have fled or been ejected from them. Either way, they are haunted by them, and by the selfish, insecure, destructive behavior that they learned there. The Boys' Republic is about boys confronting their own selfishness, and each other's, in a world that can no longer accommodate it but offers no easy replacement.M.F.A.
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Cocks, Neil Hayward. "Reading repetition and difference in the school story and its criticism." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368663.
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Graham, Janet. "An exploration of African-Caribbean boys’ underachievement and their stories of schooling." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6260.
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This study investigates why African-Caribbean boys continue to underachieve in schools. It is based on an extensive study of one Inner London school and has also involved a thorough review of the existing literature about why this particular group of students do not fulfil their potential. The inspiration for this study has been the work of Bernard Coard (1971) who wrote influentially about how the first generation of West Indian children was branded as ‘Educationally Subnormal’ by the British school system. Over thirty years later, the failure of African-Caribbean boys continues to be an alarming phenomenon, despite years of multi-culturalism and education for ‘diversity’. One of the arguments of my study is that African-Caribbean boys can even become ‘hidden’ amongst much larger groups of students who have English as an Additional Language (EAL) and who as a result, often receive extensive additional support. British schools have changed since the time that Coard (1971) was writing, but as my study demonstrates African-Caribbean boys are still likely to be over represented in the various Behaviour or Learning Support Units. I have also discovered that, far fewer African-Caribbean boys in the school investigated are likely to go on to the sixth form in comparison to students from other backgrounds. Even though there have been many studies about race and education, far fewer researchers have tried to ‘hear it from the boys’. I have carried out extensive research at school level amongst the boys and their teachers. As well as conducting an Institutional Focus Study of the school in question. I have argued that, whilst other groups such as white working class boys have been hostile to school, on the contrary, most of the boys in my study wanted to learn or saw the importance of obtaining qualifications in order to improve their chances in life. African-Caribbean boys are not ‘their own worst enemies’, but the reasons for their underachievement are complex, being the result of a range of factors. As I am a practitioner, I have concluded my study with some practical proposals for change which I hope will make a difference to the lives of these boys.
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McGee, Chris Susina Jan. "The mysterious childhood from the Hardy boys to Harry Potter /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3128282.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.Title from title page screen, viewed Oct. 15, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Jan Susina (chair), Christopher Breu, Sally E. Parry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-181) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Arthur, Joe. "Hardly boys : an analysis of behaviors, social changes and class awareness hidden in the old text of the Hardy Boys Stories, 1927-1991 /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487693923199295.
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Keddie, Amanda, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "Little boys: the potency of peer culture in shaping masculinities." Deakin University. School of Education / School of Social & Cultural Studies, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20041216.100720.
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This study explores the peer group understandings of five male friends between the ages of six and eight years and seeks to examine the ways in which the groups social dynamics interact to define, regulate and maintain dominant and collective understandings of masculinities. Within a self-selected affinity context, and drawing on their lived and imagined experiences, the boys enact and interpret their social worlds.
Adopting the principles of ethnography within a framework of feminist poststructuralism and drawing on theories of groupness and gender(ed) embodiment, the boys understandings of masculinities are captured and interpreted. The key analytic foci are directed towards examining the role of power in the social production of collective schoolboy knowledges, and understanding the processes through which boys subjectify and are subjectified, through social but also bodily discourses. The boys constructions of peer group masculinities are (re)presented through a narrative methodology which foregrounds my interpretation of the groups personal and social relevances and seeks to be inductive in ways that bring to life the boys stories.
The study illuminates the potency of peer culture in shaping and regulating the boys dominant understandings of masculinity. Within this culture strong essentialist and hierarchical values are imported to support a range of gender(ed) and sexual dualisms. Here patriarchal adult culture is regularly mimicked and distorted. Underpinned by constructions of femininity as the negative other, dominant masculinities are embodied, cultivated and championed through physical dominance, physical risk, aggression and violence.
Through feminist poststructural analysis which enables a theorising of the boys subjectivities as fluid, tenuous and often characterised by contradiction and resistance, there exists a potential for interrupting and re-working particular masculinities. Within this framework, more affirmative but equally legitimate understandings and embodiments can be explored. The study presents a warrant for working with early childhood affinity groups to disrupt and contest the dominance and hierarchy of peer culture in an effort to counter-act broader gendered and heterosexist global, state and institutional structures. Framing these assertions is an understanding of the peer context as not only self-limiting and productive of hierarchies, but enabling and generative of affirmative subjectivities.
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Kim, Ho-Kyung. "Happiest Days or Harshest Days? : A Comparison of British and Korean Boys School Stories Written in the Twentieth Century." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515037.
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Burt, Paul A. "An investigation into how boys from different faiths, between the ages of 8 and 16, understand miracle stories from different religions." Thesis, Bangor University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502743.
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Cheney, Jeffrey Ward. "Young children's stories of love, fear and violence at home a qualitative analysis of the narrative representations of maltreated preschool boys diagnosed with disruptive behavior, regulatory dysfunction, oppositional defiant, conduct and anxiety disorders /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
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Truscello, Joseph Thomas. "The Fourth Boy." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81303.
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Lloyd, Jana. "Finding Where I Am: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction - Creative thesis." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd771.pdf.
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Ozaki, Francine Fabiana. "The Melancholy death of oyster boy e other Stories, de Tim Burton." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/33773.
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Resumo: O presente trabalho tem em vista a realização de uma leitura crítica de O Triste Fim do Pequeno Menino Ostra e Outras Histórias, tradução de Márcio Suzuki da obra The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, do diretor e gravurista Tim Burton. Para tanto, realizamos uma leitura crítica preliminar do livro dentro do contexto mais amplo de sua obra filmográfica. Após uma breve análise dos filmes, constatamos um movimento de ênfase na caracterização do personagem em sua obra filmográfica, além de uma série de traços que Burton imprime recorrentemente na construção de seus personagens, como uma espécie de assinatura. Tendo em vista essas constatações, partimos para uma leitura do livro de histórias em verso, com o intuito de verificar se também aí havia uma ênfase na caracterização do personagem e se essa assinatura se estendia também ao processo de construção dos personagens literários. Ao constatarmos que a construção de tais personagens se dava também no livro de forma semelhante, partimos então para uma leitura crítica da tradução brasileira, com o objetivo de verificar em que medida a leitura de que parte Suzuki para sua tradução se aproximava ou se distanciava da leitura que realizamos. Como essa análise do texto traduzido apontou para uma leitura diferente daquela que empreendemos, ainda que seja igualmente justificável, buscaremos sintetizar os princípios críticos de um novo projeto de tradução, nos termos concebidos pelo teórico francês Antoine Berman (1995), que tenha em vista os traços constitutivos da estética burtoniana nos termos do que constatamos.
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Machin, Simon. "Ripping yarns : the breaking of masculine codes in 'Boy's Own' adventure stories, 1855-1940." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/ripping-yarns(56f00b91-1b9a-409b-b534-a2d8b1bf7851).html.
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My thesis explores the yarn, the British masculine adventure story for boys of all ages, from 1855 until 1940. Using Raymond Williams’ concept, “structure of feeling”, the “boy’s own” ethos is examined within its material culture, strongly influenced by the public schools. The thesis follows the yarn’s mutations in popular literature from school story to maritime adventure, colonial encounter, domestic landscape fantasy, invasion scare novel and war memoir. The study argues that, when the pedagogic system privileged the study of Classics as the professional gateway to success, the yarn constructed a valorised code of masculinity as an intellectual and moral puzzle requiring decryption. Using Rudyard Kipling’s stories about adolescent males as the chronological spine, it follows the competitive discourse of different masculine codes, Christian, imperialist and sporting, which the implied reader is encouraged to “break”. Extending Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of code as cultural competence to include crypto-analysis, the thesis examines how superficially extroverted tales remain fixated upon bookish practices of reading and interpretation, through scriptural exegesis, classical translation, and scrutiny of treasure maps, genealogies, landscapes and ciphers. Chapter One considers the school story, and specifically its competitive examination as an overarching metaphor for masculinity; Chapter Two the maritime adventure as a hermeneutic quest where the adolescent struggles to read male behaviour; and Chapter Three the colonial encounter as an identity crisis when cultural hybridity challenges the construct of the White Man. Chapter Four explores the domestic landscape fantasy when imperialist anxiety becomes enmeshed within nostalgia for boyhood; Chapter Five the paranoia about invasion running parallel to imperial hubris; and Chapter Six thematic developments in two short stories by Kipling. Chapter Seven provides an aerial view (including the post-War cult of the airman), before the Conclusion summarizes the shifts in constructions of masculinity across my periodization.
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Barringer, Bobby D. (Bobby Dewayne). "From Boyd City to the Big City and Beyond: Six Stories with a Critical Introduction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500600/.
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The critical introduction to this collection of short fiction argues that writing is reading and that reading is writing. The argument draws descriptions of writing as reading from such diverse sources as Sherwood Anderson, Roland Barthes, Neil Simon, J. Hillis Miller and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, as well as from the author's own experience. Descriptions of reading from phenomenological and subjective criticism, including the theories of Georges Poulet, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish and David Bleich, affirm the creative role of the reader, show that the reader, in fact, writes the text in the process of reading. The introduction concludes that reader, writer and text are all constructs of language, that both reading and writing are, ultimately and primarily, thought.
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Zhao, Shumeng. "The Boy Who Draws Cats: 3D Animation As a Medium For Telling Culturally-specific Ghost Stories." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461265497.
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Schulhoff, Anastacia M. "More Than Bows and Arrows: Subversion and Double-Consciousness in Native American Storytelling." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3545.
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W. E. B. Du Bois‘ legendary reflections on the ―peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one‘s self through the eyes of others‖ has been applied almost exclusively to the souls of African American people (Du Bois 1903). This thesis shows how the concept of double-consciousness is alive in the stories told by Native Americans. I draw upon data from two websites that have recorded the stories told by ―exemplary indigenous elders, historians, storytellers and song carriers‖ and their oral traditions that serve the ―purpose of cultural preservation, education, and race reconciliation‖ (Wisdom of the Elders, 2009). From that population, I chose one hundred and three stories for my sample in this study. Employing qualitative methodology – thematic analysis, grounded theory, and narrative analysis - I examine these stories for the ways in which they claim to present a more satisfying identity for Native people than the myths, formula stories, and stereotypes of Native Americans that circulate through the dominant culture. They construct subversive stories that arise from their double-consciousness and challenge hegemonic concepts of Native identity, nature, and knowledge. This research will begin to fill the large gap in sociological literature on Native Americans in general and Native Americans in particular, while offering a novel application of ―double-consciousness,‖ a foundational concept in critical race theory.
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Newbery, Liz. "My life as a boy-girl and other stories, a feminist exploration of identity and outdoor pedagogy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0019/MQ53318.pdf.
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Lundin, Felix. "Consumo ergo sum : Skildringar av konsumtion i Karin Boyes Astarte och Denise Rudbergs storlek 37." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-155513.
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Den här uppsatsen analyserar och jämför skildringar av konsumtion i Karin Boyes Astarte (1931) och Denise Rudbergs storlek 37 (2002). Detta görs utifrån teoretiska utgångspunkter i Zygmunt Baumans tankar om konsumtionssamhället, samt texter av Max Weber, Walter Benjamin och Giorgio Agamben som diskuterar kapitalismens förhållande till religionen. I Astarte är religionen framträdande som tematik och metaforik i relation till konsumtionen, och det som skildras är ofta hur konsumtionen ersätter religionen, men också hur dessa liknar varandra. I storlek 37 är konsumtionen starkt kopplad till identiteten, och fungerar både som en trygghet och ett måste. Skillnaderna i romanernas skildringar återspeglar konsumtionens roller under två olika tidsperioder: i Astarte är konsumtionen ett relativt nytt fenomen i sin moderna bemärkelse, och i storlek 37 är den i högre grad central för tillvaron, och som sådan mer oreflekterad och självklar. I Astarte finns en tydlig kritik mot konsumtionen, som förs fram genom skildringar av den som ett ändlöst begär eller en illusion. I storlek 37 kan konsumtionen stundtals problematiseras, men framstår som oundviklig.This essay analyzes and compares depictions of consumption in Karin Boye’s Astarte (1931) and Denise Rudberg’s storlek 37 (2002). The theoretical framework consists primarily of Zygmunt Bauman’s thoughts on the consumer society, as well as texts by Max Weber, Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben discussing capitalism’s relationship to religion. In Astarte, religion is a prominent theme, and often used metaphorically in relation to consumption. Consumption is often depicted as replacing religion, in a way that emphasizes a resemblance between them. In storlek 37, consumption is strongly connected to identity, and functions both as a certainty and a must. The differences between the depictions in the two novels reflect the roles of consumption in two different eras: in Astarte, it is a relatively new phenomenon in its modern sense, and in storlek 37 it has become more central to human life, often occuring without reflection and perceived as a matter of course. Astarte sets out a visible critique of consumption, depicting it as an endless desire or an illusion. In storlek 37, consumption is sometimes questioned, but portrayed nevertheless as inevitable.
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Li, Yannan. "Japanese Boy-Love Manga and the Global Fandom: A Case Study of Chinese Female Readers." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1936.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009.Title from screen (viewed on September 3, 2009). Department of Communication Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): John Parrish-Sprowl. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83).
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Rodríguez, Sieweke Lara María. "Text, Image, and Nostalgia in Two Versions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy"." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75937.
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Abstract This thesis attempts to contribute to both intermedial studies and F. Scott Fitzgerald scholarship by studying the text-illustration interplay in two versions of “The Rich Boy”. Intermediality, which pays close attention to media interactions, is a natural method to explore the word-image relations in these texts: the first version, published in Red Book Magazine in 1926, and an illustrated Spanish translation from 2012. Lars Elleström’s definition of media as a combination of modes and modalities, plays a central role in the analysis, where I study how these interact in each text: For instance, in terms of the material and sensorial modalities, both illustrators try to simulate depth and convey the senses in a flat interface. In terms of the spatiotemporal modality, the anachronies in the time placement of Gruger’s images intensify the nostalgic mood in the text, while Ágreda’s adherence to the text’s time relays a certain autonomy. Both their treatments of space are often symbolic; thus, regarding the semiotic modality, the images are symbolic besides iconic. Each text is colored by the reading of the illustrator, who is also a reader and interpreter. The theoretical framework also comprises of an approach to nostalgia: While Fitzgerald’s story is nostalgic per se, the illustrators display variations of nostalgia: Gruger’s work mirrors and enhances the nostalgic mood of the text, and while to a certain extent, Ágreda’s also does this, his nostalgia is most manifest in how he attempts to recreate a particular picture of the Jazz Age.
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Taylor, Daniel. "Channel Fulfillment Characteristics, Retail Network Structure and Buy-Online-Ship-From-Store Performance: Inventory Behavior and Channel Service Implications." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531426717885577.
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Armand, Decker Stéphanie. "Développement d’une méthode d’optimisation multiobjectif pour la construction bois : prise en compte du confort des usagers, de l’impact environnemental et de la sécurité de l’ouvrage." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0189/document.
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Les pays industrialisés cherchent aujourd’hui à réduire leur consommation d'énergie et à utiliser des matières premières de substitution, notamment renouvelables dont le bois fait partie. Pour promouvoir son usage, le développement de méthodes favorisant son recours dans les systèmes constructifs pour la construction multiétage est nécessaire.La conception d’un bâtiment est multicritère. Des objectifs contradictoires sont à optimiser simultanément. Des solutions de compromis Pareto-optimaux sont par exemple recherchées entre l’atteinte des meilleures performances d’usage et la limitation de l’impact environnemental du bâtiment. Ces travaux portent ainsi sur le développement d’une méthode d’optimisation multiobjectif de systèmes constructifs bois adaptés au multiétage.Des objectifs de maximisation du confort vibratoire des planchers et de minimisation des besoins de chauffage, d’inconfort thermique, de potentiel de réchauffement climatique et d’énergie grise sont pris en compte. La méthode repose sur un algorithme d’optimisation multiobjectif par essaim particulaire capable de proposer un ensemble de solutions non-dominées constituant le front de Pareto. L’espace des solutions est contraint par des exigences réglementaires nécessaires à la sécurité de l’ouvrage. L’ensemble des fonctions-objectif est modélisé sous forme de fonctions analytiques. Les sorties d’intérêt du modèle de simulation thermique dynamique sont substituées par des métamodèles.La méthode développée est mise en oeuvre sur un cas d’étude. Les résultats obtenus offrent une grande diversité dans un panel de 20 000 solutions optimales. Ces résultats constituent un support de discussion entre les différents acteurs d’un projet de constructionIndustrialised countries are seeking to reduce their energy consumption and to use alternative raw materials, including renewables such as wood. To promote its use, multi-storey timber constructive systems need the development of new design methods.Building required a multicriteria design where conflicting objectives must be optimised simultaneously. Research solutions have to achieve the best Pareto-compromise between use performance and environmental impact of the building. This work aims to develop a multiobjective optimisation method of timber multi-storey building.The objectives of maximising floor vibration comfort and minimising heating needs, thermal discomfort, global warming potential and embodied energy are taken into account. A multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to obtain a set of non-dominated solutions which is the Pareto front. The solution space is constrained by regulatory requirements necessary for the safety of the structure. All objective-functions are modelled as analytic functions. Dynamic thermal simulation model outputs are replaced by metamodels.The developed method is implemented on a case study. The results offer a great diversity in a panel of 20 000 optimal solutions. These results provide a basis for discussion between the different actors of a construction project
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VAJANA, ELIA. "Studio della storia evoluzionistica e conservazione delle specie zootecniche attraverso analisi di genomica del paesaggio e modelli di nicchia ecologica." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/19085.
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Attività antropiche e pressioni di mercato stanno rapidamente riducendo la biodiversità. Per questa ragione, conservare il patrimonio ecosistemico, tassonomico e genetico risulta fondamentale al fine di garantire potenziale adattativo alle specie, e, in ultima analisi, un futuro sostenibile per il pianeta. Al fine di minimizzare la perdita di biodiversità, numerosi metodi sono stati proposti per priorizzare ecosistemi, specie e popolazioni. Il presente lavoro di tesi fornisce in primo luogo una revisione di tali approcci, proponendo un albero decisionale volto a favorirne un corretto utilizzo. Secondariamente, la variabilità genomica neutrale del bufalo d’acqua (Bubalus bubalis L.) è investigata per mezzo di un pannello di marcatori SNP a media densità, rivelando due centri di domesticazione (India Nord-occidentale, Cina-Indocina) e possibili rotte di migrazione per gli ecotipi ‘river’ e ‘swamp’. L’adattamento locale ad East Coast Fever, patologia endemica delle popolazioni bovine in Africa Sub-sahariana, è stato inoltre studiato in bovini autoctoni Ugandesi (Bos taurus L.) combinando tecniche di modellizzazione delle nicchie ecologiche e di genomica del paesaggio. L’approccio ha portato ad indentificare PRKG1 e SLA2 come possibili geni di adattamento. I risultati sono discussi alla luce delle possibili implicazioni nella conservazione del bufalo e nella gestione delle risorse genetiche animali Ugandesi.Biodiversity is quickly disappearing due to human impact on the biosphere, and to market pressure. Consequently, the protection of both wild and domestic species needs to become a priority in order to preserve their evolutionary potential and, ultimately, guarantee a sustainable future for coming human generations. To date, tens of methods have been proposed to prioritize biodiversity for conservation purposes. Here, an ontology for priority setting in conservation biology is provided with the aim of supporting the selection of the most opportune methodologies given specific conservation goals. Further, two case studies are presented characterizing neutral and adaptive genomic diversity in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis L.) and indigenous Ugandan cattle (Bos taurus L.), respectively. In particular, two independent domestication centres (North-western India and Indochina) and separate migration routes are suggested for the ‘river’ and ‘swamp’ water buffalo types. In the case of indigenous Ugandan cattle, the integration of species distribution modelling and landscape genomics techniques allowed the identification of PRKG1 and SLA2 as candidate genes for local adaptation to East Coast Fever, a vector-borne disease affecting bovine populations of Sub-Saharan Africa. Results are discussed for their implications in water buffalo conservation and Ugandan cattle adaptive management.
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Gerrity, Margaret L. Butler Robert Olen. "Southern boys." Diss., 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-09172003-203555.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003.Advisor: Dr. Robert Olen Butler, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed May 18, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Nishimura, Shelley N. "The unbearable greatness of adventure narrative visions of empire for Victorian boys and men /." Thesis, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=813773641&SrchMode=2&sid=7&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1233793611&clientId=23440.
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DuBose, Brennan. "Making Room: Creating Space for Black Boys to Tell Their Own Stories." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D87H31ZG.
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This dissertation examines the lives of four adolescent Black American boys as they relate to education, media, race, and the law. As a case study using elements of narrative research analysis and portraiture, this research offers an in-depth understanding of the individual journeys of these young men as a way to provide an understanding of their adolescent male urban experience. Thus, in this dissertation, I explore the intersections between media-constructed narratives and my participants’ educational experiences, as I pursue a better understanding of how the participants view themselves within the construction of their own identities.
Through conversations, this dissertation offers a platform to empower my participants’ voices and allow them to tell their stories by answering open-ended questions. For this study, I met with each participant on a biweekly basis to have conversations that lasted between 10 and 30 minutes in a New York City coffee shop in Harlem over a winter period of 3 months. This research showed that through intentional and thoughtful conversations, Black American adolescent boys who live in urban settings conveyed exactly what they need not only to survive, but also to thrive in a country that systemically puts them at a disadvantage. Finally, this study was framed by W. E. B. Du Bois’s research on how Black Americans perceive themselves in the United States; this study utilized his double consciousness theory as its theoretical framework.
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Masipa, Maria Frieda. "Life stories of boys who have been sexually abused: an educational psychological perspective." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1153.
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M.Ed.Child sexual abuse is a deep social concern in South Africa. Its impact affects all areas of development, which warrants a need for appropriate therapeutic intervention. Despite a need for such an intervention, many children, especially boys from disadvantaged African communities, are still without such services. This made me wonder, as an intern-Educational Psychologist, how to help such children. In my search to help them I found that available literature does not document sexual abuse among boys, especially from disadvantaged African communities. Instead it focuses on sexual abuse among girls, women and men. Hence, this study was proposed. The aim of this study is to describe and explore, from an Educational Psychology perspective, the life stories of boys who have been sexually abused. The study presents an in-depth exploration of how the five boys in the research group made meaning of their experiences with sexual abuse. The qualitative research paradigm with a phenomenological design was followed in this study. Data was mainly collected through Narrative Therapy sessions and other complementary methods. In analyzing data, the narrative method of data analysis categorical content mode, was followed. The findings were presented as metaphorical stories, which include: The story of ‘The Rubbish’, “it mixes up my mind” and “it tears what you like”. The conclusion was that boys who have been sexually abused can be aided in their healing process through psychotherapy. Therefore, further research should be done on an appropriate psychotherapy approaches for boys who have been sexually abused and as well as on strategies to encourage the boys to report the abuse immediately. The findings of this study may be helpful to educational psychologists and other therapists working with boys who have been sexually abused.
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Yang, Hui-Ting, and 楊惠婷. "Learning the Meaning of Inter-Subjectivity: Stories between Me and Two Little Boys from Diverse Family Backgrounds." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36822297046360391625.
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The main purpose of the study is to investigate how two marginalized students from diverse family backgrounds adapt to the interwining environment of school and family life. In particular, it focuses on how the students' family experience affects their school experience. Drawing on qualitative research methods including the case study method, participant observation method and narrative inquiry, I closely observe the difference in school and family experience between a native Taiwanese boy and an aboriginal one in the upper level of the elementary school. Moreover, through tutoring and after-school assistance, not only do I find out the close relationship between school and family experience, but also learn the essence of inter-subjectivity.
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"Quliaqtuavut Tuugaatigun (Our Stories in Ivory): Reconnecting Arctic Narratives with Engraved Drill Bows." Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.21001.
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abstract: This dissertation explores complex representations of spiritual, social and cultural ways of knowing embedded within engraved ivory drill bows from the Bering Strait. During the nineteenth century, multi-faceted ivory drill bows formed an ideal surface on which to recount life events and indigenous epistemologies reflective of distinct environmental and socio-cultural relationships. Carvers added motifs over time and the presence of multiple hands suggests a passing down of these objects as a form of familial history and cultural patrimony. Explorers, traders and field collectors to the Bering Strait eagerly acquired engraved drill bows as aesthetic manifestations of Arctic mores but recorded few details about the carvings resulting in a disconnect between the objects and their multi-layered stories. However, continued practices of ivory carving and storytelling within Bering Strait communities holds potential for engraved drill bows to animate oral histories and foster discourse between researchers and communities. Thus, this collaborative project integrates stylistic analyses and ethno-historical accounts on drill bows with knowledge shared by Alaska Native community members and is based on the understanding that oral narratives can bring life and meaning to objects within museum collections.Dissertation/Thesis
Ph.D. Art 2013
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Wright, Rachel. "The Boy in the Tunnel." 2017. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/184.
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The Boy in the Tunnel is a domestic coming-of-age novel told from three alternating perspectives. It is about two white teenage girls who cover up the accidental death of their black friend in Atlanta during the summer of 1994. The novel explored the insidious nature of racial prejudice and the many ways in which Americans deny responsibility for wrongdoing—both contemporary and historical. It also explores the intense nature of female teenage friendships and the harsh realities of the adult world in comparison with the relative simplicity of childhood.
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Oliveira, Hugo Domingos Ribeiro de. "E-commerce à portuguesa : um manual de boas práticas para lojas e-commerce de PMEs." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/35885.
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Numa uma sociedade cada vez mais digital e interligada, formas de consumo como o e-commerce têm vindo a ganhar uma importância cada vez maior no mercado global. Este tipo de comércio é o segredo do sucesso de gigantes como a Amazon, e as suas potencialidades e vantagens em relação ao comércio de retalho já levaram a que muitos consumidores adotassem esta modalidade como a sua principal forma de consumo. Para além disto, perante uma crise pandémica que obrigou à digitalização de muitos negócios, e que suscitou um aumento do e-commerce à escala global, apresentamos um manual de boas práticas, que consideramos uma ferramenta extremamente importante para guiar novos participantes no mercado digital e auxiliar na melhoria contínua dos agentes que operam neste mercado. Assim, o objetivo deste relatório de estágio foi elaborar um manual de boas práticas para e-commerce. Para atingir este objetivo foram utilizadas na
metodologia, a observação participante enquanto estagiário, a entrevista ao CEO da instituição de acolhimento do estágio, em conjunto com seis entrevistas realizadas junto de representantes de lojas de e-commerce portuguesas, e dois grupos de discussão com consumidores de e-commerce. Em termos formais, optamos por dividir este manual com base em sete pontos de análise fundamentais que foram organizados numa lógica de importância decrescente, em conformidade com os dados recolhidos na metodologia. Os resultados obtidos revelam que ambos os desenvolvedores de lojas de comércio digital, e
os seus respetivos consumidores, vêm como mais importante, numa loja de e-commerce, os aspetos de design e experiência de utilização. Para além disto, aspetos como o posicionamento na pesquisa Google, e o word of mouth postivio revelaram-se muito expressivos no seu impacto nas lojas online. Com a apresentação deste manual esperamos criar uma série de guias e indicadores gerais, que podem ser consultados por lojas de e-commerce com as dimensões de pequena e média empresa (PME) para criar, ou melhorar,
a sua presença no mercado do comércio digital.In an increasingly interconnected and digital society, forms of consumption such as ecommerce have been steadily gaining an increased importance in the global market. This type of commerce is the secret to the success of giants such as Amazon, and its potentialities and advantages over retail have already led many consumers to adopt this modality as their main form of consumption. Furthermore, in the face of a pandemic crisis that has forced the digitalization of many businesses, and that has led to an increase in ecommerce on a global scale, we present a manual of best practices, which we consider na extremely important tool to guide new participants in the digital market and assist in the continuous improvement of the agents that operate in this market. Because of this, the objective of this internship report was to develop a manual of best practices for e-commerce. To achieve this goal, the methodology used included participant observation as an intern, an interview with the CEO of the internship institution, along with six interviews with representatives of Portuguese e-commerce stores, and two focus groups with e-commerce consumers. In formal terms, we chose to divide this manual based on seven key points of analysis that were organized in a logic of decreasing importance, in accordance with the data collected in the methodology. The findings reveal that both ecommerce store developers, and their respective consumers, see design and user experience as the most important aspects in an e-commerce store. In addition, aspects such as Google search positioning and positive word of mouth have proven to be very significant in their impact on online stores. With the presentation of this manual, we hope to create a series of guidelines and general indicators that can be consulted by e-commerce stores with the dimensions of a small to medium size company (PME) to help create or improve their presence in the digital commerce market.
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Murtuza, Miriam Rafia. ""Play up, play up, and play the game" : public schools and imperialism in British and South Asian diasporic literature." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1375.
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This dissertation examines literary representations of the intersection between British imperialism and British and British-modeled public schools. I categorize British writers who have addressed this nexus in their literary works into two groups, idealists and realists, based on their views of British public schools, imperialism, and the effectiveness of the former in sustaining the latter. I present two examples of idealists, Henry Newbolt and the contributors to The Boy's Own Paper, followed by two examples of realists, Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster, who have often been viewed as opposites. I then provide an example of a South-Asian diasporic realist, Selvaduari, who builds upon the critiques of British realists by revealing the contemporary offspring of the marriage between British public schools and imperialism. By analyzing works by idealist and realist authors, I demonstrate the importance of public schools and school literature in promoting and sustaining as well as critiquing and condemning imperialism.text
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Gomes, Maria Fernando da Fonseca Alves. "Conservação preventiva : condições de reserva : novos paradigmas de visibilidade e acesso às colecções museológicas." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/27689.
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No presente trabalho de investigação2, que incide sobre condições de reserva, pretende-se realizar uma abordagem em torno dos novos paradigmas de visibilidade e acesso às colecções, decorrentes da abertura do espaço de reserva ao público, explorando a temática das reservas visíveis e ou visitáveis, assim como os sistemas de armazenamento visíveis implementados em instituições museológicas. Com vista a uma melhor percepção dos modernos arquétipos efectua-se uma síntese terminológica dos diversos conceitos introduzidos. Tendo por panorama a realidade internacional, com especial incidência na situação europeia e com destaque para Portugal, numa vertente de conservação preventiva, inclui-se a apresentação das práticas em curso e um referencial de boas práticas a ter neste domínio. Salienta-se a importante contribuição que tiveram para o estudo as visitas efectuadas, assim como as respostas obtidas ao questionário elaborado e enviado para diversas instituições internacionais e nacionais. Analisa-se como caso de estudo as Reservas da Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos, destacando-se o trabalho de campo realizado ao nível da monitorização das condições-ambiente do recinto de reserva, o qual será de extraordinária relevância em termos de conservação preventiva quando se der a transição das obras de arte da autarquia em depósito para o espaço de armazenamento do futuro Edifício Multifuncional da Fundação de Serralves, na Senhora da Hora, em Matosinhos. Abraçando a temática central desta investigação concebeu-se um projecto de implementação de uma reserva visitável na área de reserva destinada à C.M.M. no Edifício Multifuncional da Fundação de Serralves, a construir.In the present research, which focuses on storage conditions, we intend to conduct an approach around the new paradigms of visibility and access to the collections, due to the opening of the storage areas to the public, exploring the theme of visible storage and or visitable storage as well as the visible storage gallery or open storage system, implemented in museums. In order to a better understanding of moderns archetypes it is made a terminological synthesis of the various concepts introduced. Based on the international reality, with particular emphasis on the European situation and especially Portugal, in a preventive conservation perspective we intend to present the current practices and a benchmark of good practices to develop in this domain. We highlight the importance of the visits that were made in the context of this study, as well as the information obtained from the questionnaire prepared and sent to several international and national institutions. It is analysed as a case study the storage area of the City Hall of Matosinhos, especially the fieldwork carried out at the level of monitoring the environment conditions of the storage room, which will be of extraordinary relevance in terms of preventive conservation when it will be carried out the transition of of artworks of the autarchy in storage for the future storage space of Multifunctional Building of the Serralves Foundation in Senhora da Hora, Matosinhos. Embracing the central theme of this research was conceived a project to implement a visitable reserve in the reserve area for CMM in the Multifunctional Building in the Serralves Foundation, to build.
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Clark, Sherryl. "New (Old) Fairy Tales for New Children." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/36015/.
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The creative thesis 'New (Old) Fairy Tales for New Children‘ makes a contribution to the field of creative writing research. It comprises creative work in the form of four fairy tales and a novel for upper primary/early high school readers (70%) and a short exegesis (30%). The creative work uses key fairy tale elements to tell new stories for contemporary children. The four fairy tales are intended to sit within the Western European tradition, drawing on the repetitions, cadence and storytelling voice of the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.