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St, George E. A. W. "Browning and conversation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332876.
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Baker, John Haydn. "Browning and Wordsworth." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298138.
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Humble, Nicola Claire. "Robert Browning and history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316762.
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Zhang, Yan. "Browning of human white adipocytes." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12700.
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PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.In mammals, there are two types of adipose tissue, white adipose tissue (WAT) for energy storage and brown adipose tissue for thermogenic energy expenditure. Brown adipose tissue is hypothesized to be useful in combating the obesity by burning stored fat in the body, therefore, many research groups are putting efforts to generate brown or brown-like adipocytes (also called "brite" adipocytes). Previous studies showed that adipogenic progenitors could be differentiated into brown adipocytes. Also, a recent study has shown to promote browning of mouse and human white adipocytes. In the present study, our goal was to test if differentiated cultured human primary white adipocytes could be converted to brown-like adipocytes by treatment with a PPARγ-agonist, rosiglitazone. We found that the treatment of mature human white adipocytes with 100nM and 1000nM rosiglitazone for 7 days induced the expression of brown adipocyte markers, uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) and cell death-inducing DFFA-like effector A (CIDEA). The expression of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1B (CPT1β). gene associated with fatty acid oxidation, was significantly increased. Also, the expression of fatty acid-binding protein 3 (FABP3) and Perilipin 5 (PLIN5), which play a role in fatty acid handling in adipocytes, was significantly increased in rosiglitazone treated human white adipocytes. Furthermore, Perin expression, measure of mitochondrial density, was increased significantly. It was accompanied by increased oxygen consumption in a preliminary study. Moreover, we observed increased lipolysis and triglyceride accumulation in rosiglitazone treated human white adipocytes. Overall, our study shows that chronic treatment of mature human adipocytes with rosiglitazone could convert them into "brite" adipocytes.
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Zeraschi, Maria. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Italian unification." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683326.
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Henry, Boris. "Tod Browning, le spectacle du corps." Aix-Marseille 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002AIX10080.
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A partir de l'ensemble des films de Tod Browning actuellement visibles, nous tentons de repérer, cerner et analyser certains des motifs, figures, procédures présidant au spectacle du corps. Après un préambule qui replace Tod Browning dans l'Hollywood des années dix à trente et plus largement dans l'histoire du cinéma, nous nous attachons à l'importance de la nomination dès le commencement du film (titre, générique, première phrases et premiers plans); puis, à la nature et à l'espace du spectacle diégénétique : quels sont les numéros présentés ? quels sont leurs enjeux ? Cela nous conduit aux coulisses du spectacle et au spectacle des coulisses, puis aux procédures d'encadrement comme rhétorique de l'avalement. Il s'agit des ouvertures et de leurs éléments - issus du décor (portes, fenêtres, rideaux. . . ), filmiques (ouvertures et fermetures au noir, mouvements de caméra. . . ), symboliques. . . - conçus comme frontières, lieux de passage et instruments de réduction des espaces. Le spectacle est le lieu de présentation d'un corps ce qui, chez Tod Browning, implique des procédures de nomination, une onomastique particulièrement significative et la mise au travail des problèmes de l'exhibition, car le spectacle présente notamment des corps monstrueux : ceux des malfaiteurs, médiums, phénomènes de foire, artistes. Le corps orchestre alors la mise en scène du spectacle, deux procédés plus particulièrement en attestent : le retournement et le travail du burlesque. Le spectacle est une recréation du monde, il fait donc maquette par rapport au social extérieur - notamment par le travail - et il est le lieu du tout possible, de la transgression des tabous - le corps apparaît alors comme un instrument de perversion et de subversion de l'ordre, il recourt à quelques moteurs (stimulants, érotisme et sexualité) - , du rêve, du merveilleux. Il intègre et véhicule des formes de symbolisations archai͏̈ques - l'animalité, les mythes -, tandis que les croyances religieuses et superstitieuses sont traitées tel un spectacle.
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Rathjen, Anne Helen. "Characterization of a low browning grapevine mutant /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr234.pdf.
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Plamondon, Marc. "Music in the poetry of Robert Browning." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26304.
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This thesis attempts to characterize the musicality of Robert Browning's poetry. There has been much debate about whether or not Browning may be said to be a musical poet, but neither side has effectively characterized the musicality or lack thereof in his poetry. This study does not concentrate on Browning's "philosophy" of music, nor on the musical allusions in his poetry. Instead it attempts to identify aspects of Browning's art that share an affinity with music.First, the state of music in nineteenth-century England is briefly discussed, followed by a discussion of Browning's musical background and an attempt to identify some general characteristics of musical poetry. The balance of the study is devoted to a discussion of the musicality of ten poems, among them "A Toccata of Galuppi's" and "Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha". Emphasis is placed on these last two poems' ability to approximate a musical form: the toccata and fugue in the first, and the fugue in the second. The study concludes with a more general discussion of music in Browning's poetry.
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Marquis, Bruno. "Nonenzymatic browning studies using an electrolytic cell." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22769.
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The present study investigated the possibility of using an electrolytic cell to prevent nonenzymatic browning in lemon juice products. A single-strength, a double strength and a triple-strength lemon juice were subjected to four different current densities (0.116, 0.231, 0.463 and 0.926 A/m$ sp2)$ for 30 minutes using an electrolytic cell. Dissolved oxygen level, conductivity, redox potential, pH in juices and the voltage applied to the electrodes required to maintain constant current density through the cell were monitored. Juice samples were taken at 0, 5, 15 and 30 minutes and then stored for one month at 30$ sp circ$C.After one month of storage, juice samples were assessed for browning and quality alteration. The chemical indices used were the browning index and concentrations in furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). Although redox potentials and concentrations in dissolved oxygen were significantly reduced by the electrolytic cell treatment, none of the electrochemical treatments significantly retarded detrimental reactions in juices over the storage period. Initial levels in dissolved oxygen and redox potential do not seem to have any significant effect on browning or chemical quality deterioration in lemon juices. Thus, the present study suggests that nonenzymatic browning in lemon juice products may be due to factors other than oxidative reactions.
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Kenny, Paul Daniel Gregory. "Browning and his influence on Ezra Pound." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670371.
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Yegenoglu, Dilara. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Quest for the Father." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279212/.
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This dissertation explores Elizabeth Barrett's dependency on the archetypal Victorian patriarch. Chapter I focuses on the psychological effects of this father-daughter relationship on Elizabeth Barrett. Chapter II addresses Barrett's acceptance of the conventional female role, which is suggested by the nature and the situation of the women she chooses to depict. These women are placed in situations where they can reveal their devotion to family, their capacity for passive endurance, and their wish to resist. Almost always, they choose death as an alternative to life where a powerful father figure is present. Chapter III concentrates on the highly sentimental images of women and children whom Barrett places in a divine order, where they exist untouched by the concerns of the social order of which they are a part. Chapter IV shows that the conventional ideologies of the time, society's commitment to the "angel in the house," and the small number of female role models before her increase her difficulty to find herself a place within this order. Chapter V discusses Aurora Leigh's mission to find herself an identity and to maintain the connection with her father or father substitute. Despite Elizabeth Barrett's desire to break away from her paternal ties and to establish herself as an independent woman and poet, her unconditional loyalty and love towards her father and her tremendous need for his affection, and the security he provides restrain her resistance and surface the child in her.
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Haug, Jochen. "Passions without a tongue : dramatisations of the body in Robert Browning's poetry /." Frankfurt a.M. [u.a.] : Lang, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/373892160.pdf.
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Manor, Gal. "Supernatural language in the works of Robert Browning." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248427.
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Goldman, William David. "'Prophetic history' : Blake, Browning & the visionary tradition." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416427.
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Zeske, Karen Marie. "Browning and Dickens: Religious Direction in Victorian England." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500704/.
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Many Nineteenth century writers experienced the withdrawal of God discussed by Miller in The Disappearance of God. Robert Browning and Charles Dickens present two examples of "Fra Lippo Lippi" and Great Expectations model effective alternatives to accepting God's absence. Conversely "Andrea del Sarto" accepts the void the other two heroes shun.
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Petrikis, Titus. "Creating a sound world for Dracula (Browning, 1931)." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2014. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21390/.
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The first use of recorded sound in a feature film was in Don Juan (Crosland 1926). From 1933 onwards, rich film scoring and Foley effects were common in many films. In this context, Dracula (Browning 1931)1 belongs to the transitional period between silent and sound films. Dracula’s original soundtrack consists of only a few sonic elements: dialogue and incidental sound effects. Music is used only at the beginning and in the middle (one diegetic scene) of the film; there is no underscoring. The reasons for the ‘emptiness’ of the soundtrack are partly technological, partly cultural. Browning’s film remains a significant filmic event, despite its noisy original soundtrack and the absence of music. In this study Dracula’s original dialogue has been revoiced, and the film has been scored with new sound design and music, becoming part of a larger, contextual composition. This creative practice-based research explores the potential convergence of film sound and music, and the potential for additional meaning to be created by a multi-channel composition outside the dramatic trajectory of Dracula. This research also offers an analysis of how a multi-channel composition may enhance or change the way an audience reads the film. The audiovisual composition is original, but it uses an existing feature film as an element of the new art piece. Browning’s Dracula gains a new interpretation due to the semantic meaning provided by associations with major cataclysmic events of the 20th century, namely the rise of two totalitarian powers in Europe. The new soundtrack includes samples from the original that are modified, synthesised and re-worked: elements of historical speeches; quotes from Stoker’s Dracula; references to the sounds of the time period (Nazi rallies, warfare, Soviet prosecution), and the original recordings of Transylvania (similar to the geographical location and season Stoker describes in Dracula). 1 Dracula (in italics) will refer to Browning’s film (1931) throughout this paper. The soundtrack composition also includes elements of a new, specially composed Requiem, which share the same sonic and musical expression tools: music language, varying sound pitch, time stretch, granular synthesising, and vocal techniques such as singing, speech, whispering, etc.).
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Hall, Alison Jane. "An interdisciplinary study of Robert Browning and Richard Wagner." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0025/NQ36641.pdf.
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Squire, Sarah. "Poetry and autobiography in the work of Robert Browning." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315964.
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Plasa, Carl Andrew. "The economy of revision : Keats, Browning and T.S. Eliot." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328266.
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Khalil, Jihad. "Love as Seen in selected poems of Robert Browning." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-128877.
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This study explores the concept of love in some of Browning`s poems during the Victorian era in which he tried to discuss love from his own perspective. Thus the study explains the concept of love which has been a main theme in some of Browning`s poems. My study will illustrate using the feminist theory. This theory was founded in 1792 when the struggle for women’s equality was much in demand. Thus, I will try to explain Browning`s poems by application of this theory. Browning sees love as a basic need for the human soul; therefore, the study reveals how Browning saw love from his religious perspective through which he tried to tell his readers that love is a gift of God and that women are allowed to love and be loved despite the concept of the Victorian age that treated women as inferiors in comparison to men.
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Moine, Fabienne. "L'oeuvre poétique d'Elizabeth Barrett Browning : héritage, palimpseste et transition." Paris 10, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA100074.
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La poésie d'Elizabeth Barrett Browning trouve ses origines dans la tradition de la poésie sentimentale romantique dont elle s'inspire et s'écarte dans ses choix poétiques novateurs. Sa poésie-charnière remanie les textes antérieurs et les figures tutélaires inscrites en palimpseste permettant la génération et la validation de voix traditionnellement mises à l'écart. Cette poésie polyphonique remet en question l'idéologie victorienne car les genres, les normes poétiques et les images traditionnelles sont transposés et manipulés à des fins personnelles et politiques. L'instant de passage symbolisé par l'apparition et la disparition de ces voix montre que sa poésie hésite encore entre dénonciation et renoncement mais fait de cet instant éphémère intermédiaire le lieu privilégié de la création poétique. Les décentrements de cette voix et la fugacité du motif du cri indiquent que c'est l'esthétique de la transmission et de la transition qui forge de nouvelles modalités poétiques fémininesThe origins of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's works lie in the tradition of sentimental Romantic poetry in which she fends inspiration but from which she distances herself, choosing her own innovative style. Her reshaped poetry hinges on revised former texts and guardian figures that lie beneath the surface, allowing her to produce and empower voices traditionally set apart. This polyphonic poetry challenges Victorian ideology by manipulating poetical genres, norms and conventional images in order to meet personal and political ends. The transitory moment symbolized by these emerging and fading voices shows that her poetry continually hesitates between denunciation and renunciation, but transforms this moment of transience into the favourite locus of poetical creation. The displacement of this voice and the transient pattern of the cry reveal that the aesthetics of transmission and transition creates new feminine poetical forms
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Cruz, Catarina Soares de Sousa. "Disclosing the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer-induced WAT browning." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/21312.
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Mestrado em BiotecnologiaO cancro da cabeça e pescoço está associado a uma elevada mortalidade e morbilidade, e acredita-se que 50% dos pacientes com este tipo de cancro experienciem uma perda de peso significativa numa fase avançada de doença, uma condição designada de caquexia. A patofisiologia da caquexia associada ao cancro é complexa e envolve mediadores produzidos pelo tumor ou pelo hospedeiro em resposta ao tumor, que induzem alterações sistémicas que culminam na perda de peso e consequente perda da qualidade de vida. Com o objetivo de melhor compreender os mecanismos moleculares subjacentes à caquexia associada ao cancro da cabeça e pescoço, no presente trabalho colectamos dados clínicos e analisamos amostras de soro de 17 pacientes com carcinoma espinocelular na orofaringe ou hipofaringe, com e sem caquexia (determinada com base na perda de peso corporal superior a 5% nos 6 meses anteriores). Os resultados obtidos permitiram verificar que o índice de massa corporal bem como o estadio do tumor (T3 e T4 em ambos os grupos) não se relacionam com a presença de caquexia, apesar de os índices nutricionais MUST e PG-SGA serem mais elevados nos doentes com perda de peso corporal superior a 5% em 6 meses. Mais ainda, não se observaram diferenças significativas de marcadores bioquímicos indicativos de alterações metabólicas associadas à remodelação do tecido adiposo. Os níveis séricos da citocina pró-inflamatória TWEAK e da proteína de fase aguda CRP não foram significativamente diferentes entre os 2 grupos de pacientes, bem como os níveis das adipocinas, leptina e adiponectina e da hormona gástrica grelina. No entanto, observaram-se níveis séricos da citocina catabólica miostatina significativamente mais elevados nos pacientes com caquexia, o que sugere que o catabolismo muscular contribui para o desenvolvimento desta síndrome paraneoplásico. Em resumo, os resultados obtidos no presente estudo não suportam a contribuição da remodelação do tecido adiposo para o desenvolvimento de caquexia mas evidenciam a importância do catabolismo muscular para a perda de peso corporal nos doentes com cancro da cabeça e pescoço. Estudos futuros envolvendo mais grupos de doentes e mais doentes por grupo serão importantes para melhor compreender a contribuição da remodelação do tecido adiposo na patogénese da caquexia associada ao cancro da cabeça e pescoço.
Head and neck cancer (HNC) is a significant cause of cancer morbidity and mortality worldwide and it is believed that 50% of HNC patients experience significant weight loss at an advanced stage of the disease, a condition known as cachexia. The pathophysiology of cancer cachexia is complex and involves several mediators produced by the tumour or the host that induce body weight loss and, consequently, impairs quality of life. In this thesis project we aimed to better comprehend the molecular mechanisms underlying cachexia in HNC by evaluating clinical and biochemical parameters from 17 patients with squamous cell carcinoma at oropharynge and hypopharing, with and without cachexia (assessed by body weight loss higher than 5% in 6 months). Our results showed no association between body mass index and tumour staging with the establishment of cachexia in head and neck cancer, despite the higher scores of MUST and PG-SGA observed in patients with body weight loss higher than 5% in 6 months. No apparent metabolic changes associated with adipose tissue remodelling were detected among patients‘ groups. The levels of TWEAK and CRP were not significantly different among the 2 groups of patients, not supporting the contribution of inflammation to the development of cachexia. The serum levels of the adipokines leptin and adiponectin, and of the gastric hormone ghrelin do not evidence the contribution of WAT remodelling to the head and neck cancer-related body weight loss. However, the significantly higher serum levels of myostatin in the group of patients with body weight loss higher than 5% in 6 months highlights the contribution of muscle wasting to the cachexia phenotype in head and neck cancer. Taken together, our results evidence the contribution of muscle wasting but not of WAT remodelling to the development of cachexia in the set of head and neck cancer. Future studies involving a higher number of patients and more groups of patients will be important to better follow WAT remodelling and its interplay with muscle wasting in the pathogenesis of head and neck cancer.
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James, Hannah Jill. "Understanding the Flesh Browning Disorder of Cripps Pink Apples." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2182.
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The Flesh Browning (FB) disorder of ‘Cripps Pink’ apples presents a significant threat to the established market identity of the ‘Cripps Pink’ apple in Australian and export markets. Climatic conditions during fruit growth and development predispose ‘Cripps Pink’ apples to developing the FB disorder during storage. The FB disorder can be classified into two distinct disorders based on their physiological and structural differences and by seasonal climatic conditions. The diffuse type of FB (DFB) is a chilling injury, occurring in districts or seasons accumulating less than 1100 growing degree days (GDD) above 10oC between full bloom and harvest. In these climatic conditions, ‘Cripps Pink’ apples have delayed postharvest ethylene production. Diffuse FB effects fruit cortex tissue and is characterised as cellular collapse. Storing fruit at 3oC can reduce the incidence of DFB. The radial type of FB (RFB) is primarily a senescent disorder, occurring in districts or seasons accumulating greater than 1400 GDD above 10oC between full bloom and harvest. In these climatic conditions, postharvest ethylene production is not delayed. Radial FB affects the cells adjacent to the vascular tissue of the fruit and is characterised by damaged cell walls. Storing fruit at 1oC can reduce the incidence of RFB. Harvest maturity and the level of CO2 in the storage atmosphere are additive influences on the development of RFB. Seasons or districts accumulating more than 1700 GDD have a very low risk for developing RFB. Seasonal climatic conditions can provide a guide for predicting the risk of developing RFB and DFB during storage.
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Plamondon, Marc R. "The musical aesthetics of the poetry of Tennyson and Browning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58968.pdf.
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Crumière, Fabienne. "Inhibition of enzymatic browning in food products using bio-ingredients." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0034/MQ64338.pdf.
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Woodworth, Elizabeth Deloris. "Poems before Congress by Elizabeth Barrett Browning a critical edition /." Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2007. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04272007-155039/unrestricted/woodworth.pdf.
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Mng'ong'o, Othmar Simtali. "A Browning process : The case of Dar es Salaam city." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-149.
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Wynter, Jerome Samuel. "The antislavery and anti-imperialist poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8287/.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was a remarkably consistent advocate for the liberty of enslaved Africans and for the subjugated Italians during the first half of the nineteenth-century. She figured the oppression of the disenfranchised Europeans as an analogue of slavery and viewed antislavery in America and the Italian Risorgimento as part of the same problem stemming from imperial oppression. Despite the unresolved tensions between the emotional commitment to her slave-owing family and to abolitionism, her antislavery corpus – her juvenile abolition poems, her mature works on American slavery and her first volume of poems on the Italian independence – is always anti-imperialist. She engages with, borrows from, challenges and writes back to the mainstream abolitionist discourses of her predecessors and contemporaries to present an alternative image of the enslaved. This thesis considers how she combines the political-material conditions of individualised slave characters with real figures from the historical moment in her poetry, rendering them as actively resisting oppression and achieving their own liberation. Employing the rhetoric of incitement to violence, she encourages her readers to endorse the calls to resistance implied in the poems. My project demonstrates how Barrett Browning draws together the American antislavery movement and the Risorgimento into a single anti-imperialist cause, as part of her life-long commitment to political liberty.
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Wörn, Alexandra Margret Belinda. "Woman-poet as theological : a study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614368.
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Dawson, Clara Helen Mary. "Voice and reception in Tennyson, Browning, and other Victorian poets." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4932/.
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The thesis examines the relationship of Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold and Arthur Clough with their audiences. The intersection between readers conceived by addresses within poetic texts and historical readers who reviewed and commented on these works is, I argue, fundamental to an understanding of the literary climate of the nineteenth century. Using techniques associated with new formalism, the thesis seeks to expand our understanding of the relationship between aesthetic impulses and historical and social pressures. It examines the poetry’s self-consciousness towards its readers, and uses the responses of historical readers to situate patterns within Victorian poetry in a literary historical context. The introduction provides a background to the literary historical context within which my thesis operates, and sets out the content of each chapter. The first two chapters explore the early poetry of Tennyson and Robert Browning alongside their reviews and contemporary essays on poetic theory, arguing that their singular poetic voices develop through their conception and depiction of a readership. The next two chapters, on Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s Men and Women, continue to explore an often conflicted relationship between these two poets and their readership. A chapter on Arnold and Clough presents a counterpoint to Tennyson and Browning, focusing on the 1850s. I finish with two chapters on Tennyson’s Maud and Browning’s The Ring and the Book, exploring how Tennyson and Browning re-negotiate relationships with their readers through the dramatic medium. In my discussion of each poet, I examine the mixture of reciprocity and resistance towards their reviewers. The tension between the poets’ sense of responsibility towards their audience and their own aesthetic desires is a source of creativity: even through their resistance to the demands of their audience, their poetry is unavoidably shaped by those readers.
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Mustapha, Wan Aida Wan. "Influence of the physico-chemical environment on product formation in the Maillard reaction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361467.
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Rachid, Tamiris Lima. "Fenofibrato (agonista PPAR-alfa) induz a formação de células beges no tecido adiposo branco subcutâneo em camundongos obesos induzidos por dieta." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=9140.
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O atual quadro de obesidade instalado no mundo estimula o estudo em busca de seu tratamento. O fenofibrato, um agonista PPAR-α, é usado atualmente para tratar a dislipidemia. No entanto, efeitos pleiotrópicos sobre a perda de massa corporal (MC) e redução nos depósitos de gordura necessitam de maiores estudos. O objetivo do trabalho foi examinar os efeitos do agonista PPAR-α fenofibrato sobre o gasto energético, MC, metabolismo de carboidratos, perfil secretor de adipocinas, plasticidade e termogênese do tecido adiposo branco subcutâneo (TABs) em camundongos com obesidade induzida por dieta. Este experimento foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética para Experimentação Animal local sob o protocolo CEUA/032/2013. Camundongos machos C57BL/6 de 3 meses foram divididos em dois grupos: dieta padrão (SC, 10% lipídios) e dieta hiperlipídica (HF, 50% de lipídios), as quais foram administradas durante 10 semanas para induzir o sobrepeso. Em seguida, foi iniciado o tratamento com fenofibrato (100 mg/kg MC, adicionado à dieta), formando quatro grupos: SC, SC-F, HF, HF-F. O tratamento teve duração de cinco semanas, com o total de 15 semanas de experimento. A análise estatística utilizou teste t de student no pré-tratamento e one way ANOVA seguida pelo pós-teste de Holm-Sidak durante o tratamento. O two way ANOVA foi utilizado para testar possíveis interações entre dieta e tratamento. O nível de significância P<0,05 foi considerado estatisticamente significativo. O grupo HF apresentou sobrepeso, resistência à insulina, além de remodelamento do tecido adiposo branco subcutâneo (TABs). O fenofibrato atenuou significativamente estes parâmetros (P<0,05). Os grupos tratados apresentaram formação de células beges no TABs, confirmado através de maior expressão gênica do PPAR-α, PPAR-β, PGC1-α, BMP8, UCP-1, PRDM16 e FNDC5/Irisina nos grupos tratados do que em suas contrapartes (P<0,05). O tratamento com fenofibrato também foi capaz de aumentar os niveis plasmáticos de FNDC5/Irisina em ambos os grupos tratados (P<0,005). Os grupos SC-F e HF-F apresentaram aumento do gasto energético, a produção de CO2 e consumo de O2 após o tratamento com fenofibrato (P<0,05). A ativação do PPAR-α parece ser fundamental para provocar browning através da indução da irisina e da transcrição de UCP-1. O fenofibrato restaurou a MC, a sensibilidade à insulina e a morfometria do TABs. Relevantemente, o fenofibrato aumentou a expressão de genes tipicamente expressos no tecido adiposo marrom no TABs, evidenciando a plasticidade do TABs em células beges com capacidade termogênica, caracterizando o browning.The current situation of obesity in the world encourages the study for its treatment. Fenofibrate, a PPAR-α agonist, is currently used to treat dyslipidemia. However, its pleiotropic effects upon body mass loss and fat pads reduction remain to be unraveled. This study aimed to examine the effects of PPAR-α agonist fenofibrate on energy expenditure, body mass, carbohydrate metabolism, secretory profile of adipokines, plasticity and thermogenesis in adipose tissue in diet-induced obese mice. Male C57BL/6 mice were fed a standard chow (SC; 10% lipids) diet or a high-fat (HF; 50% lipids) diet for 10 weeks. Afterwards, groups were subdivided into: SC, SC-F, HF and HF-F (n=10, each). Treatment with fenofibrate (100 mg/kg BM, mixed into the diet) was maintained for five weeks, totalizing fifteen weeks of experiment. All procedures were approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of UERJ (CEUA/032/2013). The differences among the groups were tested by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), followed by the Holm-Sidak post-hoc test. Two-way ANOVA was applied to test interactions between diet and treatment upon the evaluated outcomes. In all cases, P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. HF presented overweight, insulin resistance, besides adverse subcutaneous white adipose tissue (sWAT) remodeling. Fenofibrate attenuated significantly these parameters (P<0.05). Treated groups showed beige cells in sWAT, confirmed through higher gene expression of PPAR-α, PPAR-β, PGC1-α, BMP8, UCP-1, PRDM16 and FNDC5/Irisin in treated groups than in their counterparts (P<0.05). The treatment with fenofibrate was also able to increase plasma levels of FNDC5/Irisin in both treated groups (P<0.005). SC-F and HF-F groups presented increase in energy expenditure, CO2 production and O2 consumption after treatment with fenofibrate (P<0.05). Activation of PPAR-α seems to be pivotal to trigger browning through irisin induction and UCP-1 transcription. Fenofibrate restored body mass, insulin sensitivity and sWAT morphometry. Importantly, fenofibrate increased the expression of genes typical from brown adipose tissue (BAT) in sWAT, characterizing the plasticity of sWAT in beiges cells with thermogenic capacity, a phenomenon so-called browning.
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Thomas, Jayne. "From allusion to intertext : reading Wordsworth in Tennyson, Browning and Hopkins." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/69317/.
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Critics have long acknowledged the allusive effect of William Wordsworth’s language in the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and Gerard Manley Hopkins. This thesis abjures allusive influence to focus on the intertextual presence of Wordsworth in poems by each of these authors. Its methodology hinges on a separation between an intentional authorial allusivity and an involuntary, or unbidden, intertextuality. As a result of this heuristic, the poets are seen to be caught within a Wordsworthian web, which complicates the way in which their poetry functions. The authorial entrapment that results is anxiety-generating, but the thesis does not place this anxiety within a Bloomian paradigm. Its concentration on male, canonical authors is Bloomian, however, as is its acceptance that the meaning of the texts by Tennyson, Browning and Hopkins discussed is a Wordsworthian poem. Chapter One investigates the intertextual strategies of Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’ (1842), which work to expose the loss attendant upon the Wordsworthian transcendent moment. The poem’s recasting of Arthur Henry Hallam’s own unconscious Wordsworthian allegiance in ‘Timbuctoo’ (1829) leads into the analysis, in Chapter Two, of Tennyson’s In Memoriam (1850) and its implicit reliance on the language of Wordsworthian transcendence as a means by which both to assuage the poet’s grief at the death of Hallam and his dissatisfaction with contemporary scientific and theological discourse. Chapter Three develops the previous chapters’ findings by tracing how Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) rewrites Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’ (1798). Chapter Four examines Wordsworth’s presence in two Browning monologues, ‘Saul’ (1855) and ‘A Death in the Desert’ (1864), demonstrating how the poems find a new use for the language of lyrical interiority. Chapter Five considers Hopkins’ unconscious inscription of Wordsworth’s poetry and the threat it poses to his Incarnationalism and linguistic practice alike. The thesis finds its conclusion in the literary-historical effects that the after-presence of Wordsworth’s language engenders, which become an embodiment of legacy. The depth of each poet’s literary dependency on Wordsworth is also brought into focus, allowing the thesis to claim the earlier poet as a primary influence upon the trinity of later figures it addresses.
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Martyn, Amelia. "The physiology and control of bract browning in waratahs (Telopea spp.)." Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5773.
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PhDThe waratah, Telopea speciosissma and its hybrids with other Telopea species, is an Australian native species grown for domestic and export cut flower markets. The showy floral bracts surrounding the inflorescence often suffer from bract browning, reducing the market value and export potential of the blooms. Prior to this project, the physiological cause of the disorder was not known, although bract browning had been attributed to water stress, heat stress, high light (particularly after frost), wind and mechanical damage. Bract browning was reportedly minimised when waratahs were grown in shaded conditions, although the reduction in browning by shade had not been quantified. The aim of this project was to examine the physiological cause of the bract browning disorder and investigate methods for control. The appearance, timing, and severity of the bract browning disorder was initially characterised by dissecting waratah buds from commercial growers throughout NSW. Bract browning became evident in the six to eight weeks prior to harvest, coinciding with rapid bract and flower expansion. A survey of commercial waratah growers, initiated by NSW Agriculture and the Waratah Industry Network and analysed by the author, corroborated these results. The survey showed that bract browning was observed in all years between 1999 and 2003, with relatively high severity (scores from three to five out of a possible five) in three of those years. Scores or counts of brown bracts were used to assess the severity of the disorder, the latter including the number of senesced floral bracts following browning as a measure of browning severity. The position and timing of browning suggest light damage or localised calcium deficiency could play a role in the development of browning. The bract browning disorder was studied in further experiments on potted red waratahs of cultivars ‘Fire and Brimstone’, ‘Olympic Flame’ and ‘Sunflare’ at the Mount Annan Botanic Garden; on commercially grown ‘Wirrimbirra White’ waratahs at Jervis Bay; and on natural populations in the Royal National Park. The effect of calcium nutrition on bract browning was studied at Mount Annan in 2001 and 2002, testing the hypothesis that browning may be caused by a localised calcium deficiency similar to lettuce tipburn or poinsettia bract necrosis. Waratah bracts had significantly less calcium in all fractions than leaves, with the procedure of Ferguson et al. (1980) used to separate physiologically active, oxalate associated and residual calcium. Calcium chloride sprays applied to developing bracts increased total bract calcium by about 25% in ‘Sunflare’ and ‘Olympic Flame’ cultivars, but not in ‘Fire and Brimstone’. However, application of calcium as a spray to the developing bracts, or as gypsum to the potting medium did not significantly reduce bract browning scores. These results and the development of bract browning in exposed, rather than enclosed tissue, suggest that factors other than calcium are involved in the development of bract browning. The light environment (full sun or 50% shade cloth) had a greater effect than irrigation frequency on bract browning of ‘Sunflare’ and ‘Olympic Flame’ waratahs in 2001. Waratahs grown under 50% shade cloth showed less bract browning at flower maturity than waratahs grown in full sun. This result was corroborated by subsequent experiments in 2002 and 2003. For example, in 2002, shade cloth reduced browning and bract loss by 30-60% at flower maturity, compared to waratahs grown in full sun. Shading waratahs from bud initiation in late summer (December-January) or bud opening in late winter (July-August) was equally effective in reducing browning. Shade cloth (50%) significantly reduced the light intensity experienced by waratah plants throughout the day, as well as reducing the daily maximum temperature and minimum relative humidity. Natural shade conditions at the Royal National Park effectively prevented browning of floral bracts, although the smaller basal bracts still turned brown and senesced. The development of bract browning as waratahs matured was linked to the development of chronic photoinhibition, measured as a decrease in predawn photosynthetic efficiency using chlorophyll fluorescence techniques. Waratah bracts were unable to maintain efficient photosynthesis in full sun conditions and reached saturation of non-photochemical quenching at lower light intensities than leaves. This suggests that bract tissue is adapted to a lower light environment than leaf tissue. Outer bracts had a significantly lower photosynthetic efficiency (Fv/Fm) than leaves early in flower development, as they were exposed to the environment for a prolonged period. Outer bracts also began to senesce towards flower maturity, particularly in full sun, increasing their susceptibility to damage. Inner waratah bracts were able to maintain a high photosynthetic efficiency prior to exposure, but photosynthetic efficiency decreased significantly at the intermediate stage of floral development, as inner bracts were no longer protected by outer bracts. Waratah leaves were more resilient than bracts, and did not suffer from chronic photoinhibition or browning during flower development. The increased susceptibility of bracts to photoinhibition and browning parallels results in other species, such as Dendrobium, where floral tissue experiences photoinhibition, bleaching and necrosis at lower light intensities than leaf tissue. Bracts on shaded waratahs maintained higher chlorophyll, carotenoid and anthocyanin concentrations than sun-exposed bracts, giving more intense flower colour and higher quality blooms. The significant decrease in bract pigmentation in the sun is likely to be a result of pigment destruction following photoinhibition, and has been noted in susceptible tissues of other species, such as Illicium (star anise) leaves. The presence of anthocyanins did not reduce bract browning in waratahs, with the concentration of UV-absorbing compounds showing a stronger positive correlation with protection from photoinhibition than the concentration of anthocyanins. However, anthocyanin concentrations were significantly lower in sun-exposed bracts, and brown compounds appeared to replace anthocyanins in the epidermal cells of brown bracts. Thus, it seems likely that browning in waratah bracts is the visible manifestation of oxidative damage to cell components, following chronic photoinhibition. Light-induced oxidative damage can lead to yellowing and pigment bleaching, lipid peroxidation, the development of necrotic lesions and senescence. However, lipid peroxidation as measured by the malionaldehyde assay gave no indication of oxidative damage to waratah bract tissue. This was probably due to the presence of anthocyanins and other flavonoids and sugars other than sucrose in bract tissue interfering with the colourimetric measurement of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances. The extensive planting of waratahs in NSW in the last five years suggests that the total value of lost production due to bract browning is likely to increase in the future. The browning disorder may also prevent the establishment of waratahs in other markets, as international cut-flower markets demand high quality blooms free from blemishes. The results of this study show that bract browning, photoinhibition and pigment loss are minimised by protecting waratahs from high light intensities from bud opening until harvest. However, the consequences of shading waratahs throughout the year require further investigation, as does the use of different percentages of shade cloth or other methods to reduce incident light.
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Gallagher, Sarah Louise. "'To envy this man's art' : reading Browning reading Shakespeare 1835-1864." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424065.
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Tholoniat, Yann. ""Tongue's imperial fiat" : les polyphonies dans l'oeuvre poétique de Robert Browning." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030060.
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Cette thèse explore les dimensions polyphoniques de l'œuvre poétique de Robert Browning, depuis Pauline (1833) jusqu'à The Ring and the Book (1868-9). Dès ses premiers poèmes (Pauline, Paracelsus, Sordello, Pippa Passes), Robert Browning expérimente constamment de nouveaux modes d'expression qui combinent les éléments lyrique et dramatique. Les dix années (1837-1846) consacrées à écrire des pièces de théâtre contribuent à l'émergence d'une poétique de l'oralité. Celle-ci s'épanouit dans la forme dite du monologue dramatique qui apparaît dans les recueils phares des Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Men and Women et Dramatis Personae. Dans ces recueils, la polyphonie vocale repose d'abord sur la capacité du poète à poser les voix des différents locuteurs au moyen des paratextes et de l'élément théâtral directement intégré au processus d'expression de soi du locuteur. Le dialogisme, dans ses aspects carnavalesques et intertextuels, développe la mise en écho des différentes voix. Certains tropes, appelés tropes acroamatiques, fonctionnent comme des matrices d'oralité. La typographie et la ponctuation se combinent avec la forme, le mètre et la rime pour créer un rythme ou une identité vocale propre à chaque locuteur. La polyphonie culmine dans l'écriture fuguée qui caractérise The Ring and the Book, œuvre dans laquelle l'intertextualité et le réseau métaphorique renforcent les phénomènes de répétitions avec variations. La voix auctoriale est mise en sourdine mais se profile sur le mode ironique au milieu de la polyphonie des locuteursThis thesis explores the polyphonic dimensions of the poetical work of Robert Browning from Pauline (1833) to The Ring and the Book (1868-9). From his first poems onwards (Pauline, Paracelsus, Sordello, Pippa Passes), Robert Browning systematically experimented in modes of expression combining lyric and dramatic elements. The ten years he dedicated to stage-writing (1837-1846) paved the way for a poetics of orality. This poetics is predominant in the so-called "dramatic monologues" of the famous Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Men and Women and Dramatis Personae. In these works, the vocal polyphony draws on the poet's capacity to pitch a voice thanks to the paratext and the dramatic element which is directly integrated into the monologist's process of self-revelation. Dialogism, in its carnivalesque and intertextual dimensions, develops the echoing effects among the various speakers' voices. Particular figures of speech, called acroamatic tropes, function as vocal matrices. Typography and punctuation combine with form, metre and rhyme to create a rhythm indicative of each speaker's vocal identity. The polyphony climaxes in the fugue-like composition of The Ring and the Book. In this poem, intertextual and metaphorical networks enhance the phenomena of repetitions with variations. The auctorial voice is muffled but can still be heard on an ironic mode amidst the polyphony of the speakers' voices
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Martyn, Amelia. "The physiology and control of bract browning in waratahs (Telopea spp.)." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5773.
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The waratah, Telopea speciosissma and its hybrids with other Telopea species, is an Australian native species grown for domestic and export cut flower markets. The showy floral bracts surrounding the inflorescence often suffer from bract browning, reducing the market value and export potential of the blooms. Prior to this project, the physiological cause of the disorder was not known, although bract browning had been attributed to water stress, heat stress, high light (particularly after frost), wind and mechanical damage. Bract browning was reportedly minimised when waratahs were grown in shaded conditions, although the reduction in browning by shade had not been quantified. The aim of this project was to examine the physiological cause of the bract browning disorder and investigate methods for control. The appearance, timing, and severity of the bract browning disorder was initially characterised by dissecting waratah buds from commercial growers throughout NSW. Bract browning became evident in the six to eight weeks prior to harvest, coinciding with rapid bract and flower expansion. A survey of commercial waratah growers, initiated by NSW Agriculture and the Waratah Industry Network and analysed by the author, corroborated these results. The survey showed that bract browning was observed in all years between 1999 and 2003, with relatively high severity (scores from three to five out of a possible five) in three of those years. Scores or counts of brown bracts were used to assess the severity of the disorder, the latter including the number of senesced floral bracts following browning as a measure of browning severity. The position and timing of browning suggest light damage or localised calcium deficiency could play a role in the development of browning. The bract browning disorder was studied in further experiments on potted red waratahs of cultivars ‘Fire and Brimstone’, ‘Olympic Flame’ and ‘Sunflare’ at the Mount Annan Botanic Garden; on commercially grown ‘Wirrimbirra White’ waratahs at Jervis Bay; and on natural populations in the Royal National Park. The effect of calcium nutrition on bract browning was studied at Mount Annan in 2001 and 2002, testing the hypothesis that browning may be caused by a localised calcium deficiency similar to lettuce tipburn or poinsettia bract necrosis. Waratah bracts had significantly less calcium in all fractions than leaves, with the procedure of Ferguson et al. (1980) used to separate physiologically active, oxalate associated and residual calcium. Calcium chloride sprays applied to developing bracts increased total bract calcium by about 25% in ‘Sunflare’ and ‘Olympic Flame’ cultivars, but not in ‘Fire and Brimstone’. However, application of calcium as a spray to the developing bracts, or as gypsum to the potting medium did not significantly reduce bract browning scores. These results and the development of bract browning in exposed, rather than enclosed tissue, suggest that factors other than calcium are involved in the development of bract browning. The light environment (full sun or 50% shade cloth) had a greater effect than irrigation frequency on bract browning of ‘Sunflare’ and ‘Olympic Flame’ waratahs in 2001. Waratahs grown under 50% shade cloth showed less bract browning at flower maturity than waratahs grown in full sun. This result was corroborated by subsequent experiments in 2002 and 2003. For example, in 2002, shade cloth reduced browning and bract loss by 30-60% at flower maturity, compared to waratahs grown in full sun. Shading waratahs from bud initiation in late summer (December-January) or bud opening in late winter (July-August) was equally effective in reducing browning. Shade cloth (50%) significantly reduced the light intensity experienced by waratah plants throughout the day, as well as reducing the daily maximum temperature and minimum relative humidity. Natural shade conditions at the Royal National Park effectively prevented browning of floral bracts, although the smaller basal bracts still turned brown and senesced. The development of bract browning as waratahs matured was linked to the development of chronic photoinhibition, measured as a decrease in predawn photosynthetic efficiency using chlorophyll fluorescence techniques. Waratah bracts were unable to maintain efficient photosynthesis in full sun conditions and reached saturation of non-photochemical quenching at lower light intensities than leaves. This suggests that bract tissue is adapted to a lower light environment than leaf tissue. Outer bracts had a significantly lower photosynthetic efficiency (Fv/Fm) than leaves early in flower development, as they were exposed to the environment for a prolonged period. Outer bracts also began to senesce towards flower maturity, particularly in full sun, increasing their susceptibility to damage. Inner waratah bracts were able to maintain a high photosynthetic efficiency prior to exposure, but photosynthetic efficiency decreased significantly at the intermediate stage of floral development, as inner bracts were no longer protected by outer bracts. Waratah leaves were more resilient than bracts, and did not suffer from chronic photoinhibition or browning during flower development. The increased susceptibility of bracts to photoinhibition and browning parallels results in other species, such as Dendrobium, where floral tissue experiences photoinhibition, bleaching and necrosis at lower light intensities than leaf tissue. Bracts on shaded waratahs maintained higher chlorophyll, carotenoid and anthocyanin concentrations than sun-exposed bracts, giving more intense flower colour and higher quality blooms. The significant decrease in bract pigmentation in the sun is likely to be a result of pigment destruction following photoinhibition, and has been noted in susceptible tissues of other species, such as Illicium (star anise) leaves. The presence of anthocyanins did not reduce bract browning in waratahs, with the concentration of UV-absorbing compounds showing a stronger positive correlation with protection from photoinhibition than the concentration of anthocyanins. However, anthocyanin concentrations were significantly lower in sun-exposed bracts, and brown compounds appeared to replace anthocyanins in the epidermal cells of brown bracts. Thus, it seems likely that browning in waratah bracts is the visible manifestation of oxidative damage to cell components, following chronic photoinhibition. Light-induced oxidative damage can lead to yellowing and pigment bleaching, lipid peroxidation, the development of necrotic lesions and senescence. However, lipid peroxidation as measured by the malionaldehyde assay gave no indication of oxidative damage to waratah bract tissue. This was probably due to the presence of anthocyanins and other flavonoids and sugars other than sucrose in bract tissue interfering with the colourimetric measurement of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances. The extensive planting of waratahs in NSW in the last five years suggests that the total value of lost production due to bract browning is likely to increase in the future. The browning disorder may also prevent the establishment of waratahs in other markets, as international cut-flower markets demand high quality blooms free from blemishes. The results of this study show that bract browning, photoinhibition and pigment loss are minimised by protecting waratahs from high light intensities from bud opening until harvest. However, the consequences of shading waratahs throughout the year require further investigation, as does the use of different percentages of shade cloth or other methods to reduce incident light.
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BRACCO, GIUSEPPE. "Studio dinamico della mitragliatrice browning m2 hb: ottimizzazione ed influenza dell’affusto." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/203094.
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Browning, Robin Eileen. "Evolution of roots." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-08282008-142232/.
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Renton, Robert Dougal. "The relationship between philosophy and form in the work of Robert Browning." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300286.
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Bedson, Patrick Campbell Carleton University Dissertation English. "The ring and the book; Browning, poetic voice, the question of "objectivity."." Ottawa, 1995.
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Hüffer, Angela. ""Action in character" die Dramatik von Selbstreflexion und Selbstentwurf im lyrischen Drama der englischen Romantik ; Wordsworths "The Borderers", Byrons "Manfred" und Brownings "Paracelsus"." Trier Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2826336&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Halbert, Steven Joseph Keirstead Christopher M. ""And yet God has not said a word" the dramatic monologue as inverted and secularized prayer /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/English/Thesis/Halbert_Steven_51.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Auburn University, 2008.Abstract. Vita. Includes pictures of the Institut Catholique de Paris, a seminary which was formerly the monastery where Brother Lawrence lived and wrote. Includes bibliographical references.
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Kaputo, M. T. "Reaction of melanoidins with sulphite ion." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382876.
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Mosneaguta, Ruslan. "The effect of chemical preservatives on inhibition of potato browning, volatile organic compounds profile, and microbial inhibition." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339015151.
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Zhang, Xinchen, and 张忻晨. "Controlling nonenzymatic browning reactions by selected dietary polyphenols in chemical and food models." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206348.
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Rodríguez, García Adriana Virginia. "Glandular Trichome Evaluation through Scanning Electron Microscopy and the Modified Enzymic Browning Assay." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27448.
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) ranks fifth in the USA in comparison with other countries regarding potato production. Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) is a devastating insect pest affecting potato in Canada and USA. Several researchers demonstrated that glandular trichomes on potato leaves provided CPB resistance. The experimental approach consisted of using Scanning Electron Microscope to assess the presence of glandular trichomes, the Modified Enzymic Browning Assay to screen leaves for the presence of glandular trichomes, and a two-year field trial to evaluate CPB defoliation effects on potato genotypes. The SEM provided a closer look at the morphology and quantity of glandular trichome on potato leaves. The MEBA protocol needs further refinement prior to adoption by NDSU or other potato breeding programs. The two-year field trial results indicate Ebt 6-21-3 is resistant to CPB defoliation, and combines high yield, making it an excellent genotype for parental use in cultivar development.
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Rodr?guez, Garc?a Adriana Virginia. "Glandular Trichome Evaluation through Scanning Electron Microscopy and the Modified Enzymic Browning Assay." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27448.
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) ranks fifth in the USA in comparison with other countries regarding potato production. Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) is a devastating insect pest affecting potato in Canada and USA. Several researchers demonstrated that glandular trichomes on potato leaves provided CPB resistance. The experimental approach consisted of using Scanning Electron Microscope to assess the presence of glandular trichomes, the Modified Enzymic Browning Assay to screen leaves for the presence of glandular trichomes, and a two-year field trial to evaluate CPB defoliation effects on potato genotypes. The SEM provided a closer look at the morphology and quantity of glandular trichome on potato leaves. The MEBA protocol needs further refinement prior to adoption by NDSU or other potato breeding programs. The two-year field trial results indicate Ebt 6-21-3 is resistant to CPB defoliation, and combines high yield, making it an excellent genotype for parental use in cultivar development.
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Robak, Enbratt Emelie. "Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) is negatively affected by lake browning in southern Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42381.
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Climate change and human land use leads to browning of waters with decreased visual conditions. This impacts the fish community via changes in foraging ability and food chain efficiency. There are indications that brownification leads to decreased body size of the Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) and that roach (Rutilus rutilus) are favoured over perch in brown lakes since roach is less dependent on its eyesight when foraging. The aim with this project is to examine how browning impacts the fish community in lakes in the south of Sweden and if browning reduces the size of perch in relation to their age. Data on water colour and length-at-age for 1+ and 5+ perch as well as the number of perch and roach captured was collected from 20 lakes. The data was examined using linear regression and paired samples T-test in SPSS. The results show that browning does reduce the body size of perch. Perch is smaller in relation to their age in brown lakes. There was however no evidence indicating that roach is favoured over perch in brown lakes, but there was a difference between the number of 1+ and 5+ perch caught in relation to roach. The perch: roach ration decreased for older fish (from 1+ to 5+) indicating that there is a difference in survival rate. Survival rate of perch was however not dependent on water colour or TOC. This shows that climate change and increased browning could result in changes of the fish community and size structure of fish.
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Peralta, Arribasplata Silvia Elena. "Effects of Flavonoids and Ascorbic Acid Derivatives on Non-enzymatic Browning in Peaches." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76920.
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Non-enzymatic browning (NEB) due to ascorbic acid degradation is one of the most common reasons the shelf life of many processed foods is reduced. Different methods to minimize or retard the formation of browning pigments have been studied; however, to date, refrigeration is still the most preferable. Unfortunately, the use of low temperatures to preserve food is not always available in many parts of the world. Indeed, an area of concern due to NEB has been identified in meal-ready-to-eat (MRE) individual military rations, specifically diced peaches with syrup. This product was once part of soldiers' menus; however, it was removed due to browning and textural deterioration that occurred when stored under field conditions. We examined two general approaches to reduce NEB: the replacement of ascorbic acid by a more stable form and the use of flavonoids as antibrowning antioxidants in peach systems. These approaches were studied in three objectives. In our first objective, ascorbyl-2-phosphate showed better stability than ascorbic acid at 40°C in peach puree model systems, but not at 50 or 60°C. In the second objective, after the evaluation of the effect of two forms of vitamin C (ascorbic acid and ascorbyl-2-phosphate) and Pycnogenol (0%, 0.01% and 1%) on the quality of diced peaches in retortable pouches, we concluded that neither ascorbyl-2-phosphate nor pycnogenol resulted in improved color or ascorbic acid stability. Finally, in our third objective, after the evaluation of the effect of peach source (fresh, individually quick frozen and canned), addition of calcium chloride, and the addition of a water soluble flavonoid (°-glucosylrutin, °-GR) in diced peaches packaged in retortable pouches stored at 24, 40 and 51°C, there were no significant effects of °-GR on any of the peach sources at 51°C. However, at 40°C, °-GR improved the quality of diced peaches in pouches made of individually quick frozen and canned peaches, but not for fresh peaches. Quality was assessed by color (CIELAB system), which was measured using a handheld colorimeter, and ascorbic acid levels of peaches, which was determined using high performance liquid chromatography.Master of Science