Dissertations / Theses: 'Iconographies of the organ'

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Marshall, K. "Iconographical evidence for the late-medieval organ on French, Flemish and English manuscripts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375897.

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Takesh, Suheyla. "Iconographies of pain in Mahmoud Sabri's work." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118568.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.
"June 2018." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-80).
Out of Iraq's most noteworthy modernist artists, Mahmoud Sabri was perhaps the most attuned to human suffering. Subjects of political martyrdom, social injustice, and the plight of the dispossessed permeate his work throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The period of Iraq's rapid modernization and chaotic political transition from a monarchical regime to a republic in 1958, followed by a Ba'ath military coup in 1963, left the artist with no shortage of tragic events to reflect upon and respond to in his work. His Communist beliefs and a sensitivity to social and economic inequality guided his artistic vision, presenting the world through a lens of human pain caused by political repression. This thesis argues that Sabri's practice in the 1950s and 1960s combined an abhorrence of discrimination with a constant desire to reach the people, especially the working-class, through his art. In light of this, his engagement with Iraqi heritage was not conceived around a formalist or a historicized line of inquiry, but around an exploration of the deep roots of a national identity through popular practices and vernacular customs. As an active contributor to modernist experiments in Baghdad's artistic milieu, Sabri drew from local traditions associated with the notion of martyrdom in the 1950s, which was bolstered by his turning to international iconographies of pain and oppression in the 1960s, to create realist images that condemned injustice exercised by the country's ruling elite. A paradoxical figure in many ways, Sabri combined in his work an interest in the local and the universal, the religious and the secular, in Iraq's past and its political present. Being both a man of the people and a member of the intelligentsia, an Iraqi and a long-time exile, an outspoken supporter of realism and a later convert to abstractionism, Sabri was no stranger to contradiction and internal conflict. What remained consistent in his early practice, however, was a political drive and a heightened sensitivity to the plight of the oppressed, which was layered with a belief that an answer to the predicaments of the disadvantaged could lie in Communism.
by Suheyla Takesh.
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Slaughter, Stephany Lynn. "Performing the Mexican revolution in neoliberal times reinventing iconographies, nation, and gender /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1164735049.

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Palmer, Jane Elizabeth. "Medical mythologies : iconographies, histories and counter-discourses in medicine, the arts and popular culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282587.

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Du, Crest Sabine. "Girolamo Aleandro (1574-1629) : peintures et iconographies des mondes anciens et lointains à Rome." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030090.

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Dans la recherche des matériaux constituant le monde visuel des artistes du début du XVIIe siècle à Rome, les travaux de Girolamo Aleandro, secrétaire du Cardinal-neveu Francesco Barberini ont fourni une matière jusqu'alors fort peu exploitée. Une série d'exemples de détails observés dans des peintures réalisées à Rome dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle ont permis d'entrevoir le rôle de G. Aleandro dans le milieu artistique romain des années 1620 a 1630. Il s'agit de squelettes peints par Filippo Napoletano, d'un vase camée antique par Francois-Nicolas de Bar, d'un sistre et de couleurs par Nicolas Poussin, d'abeilles par Pietro da Cortona, de japonais chez N. Poussin et Pierre-Paul Rubens. Au cœur de la capitale des lettres, G. Aleandro fut lié aux plus grands personnages de la cour papale, aux mécènes, aux collectionneurs, aux artistes, comme le cavalier d'Arpin ou Simon Vouet. Membre fondateur de l'Académie des Umoristi, où se rejoignirent critique littéraire et théorie de l'art, il introduisit à Rome de jeunes artistes comme Claude Mellan, Nicolas Lagoux, Jean Cossiers, et rencontra Rubens à Paris. L’interprétation des œuvres est éclairée par l'analyse de la méthode iconographique de G. Aleandro, une méthode originale d'interprétation, et de reproduction des antiques qui l'a placé dans une position clef vis-à-vis des artistes, auxquels il a offert, à travers le Museo Cartaceo, une iconothèque, et auxquels il a surtout propose voire impose une incarnation de l'antiquité, et un regard analytique sur le monde, notamment en introduisant le microscope à Rome. Une iconographie du détail a ainsi été élaborée, constituant un point de rencontre dans les œuvres entre les artistes et leurs destinataires. Le détail a été un enjeu majeur de la doctrine académique de l'art en France
Iin the pursuit of materials, forming the artists visual world at the beginning of the XVIIth century in rome, the works of Girolamo Aleandro, secretary of Cardinal-neveu Francesco Barberini provided a material which had barely been exploited. A series of details seen in some paintings produced in Rome in the first half of the XVIIth century show a glimpse of G. Aleandro's role in the artistic circle in Rome between 1620 and 1630. It is a skeleton of paintings by Felippo Napoletano, an antique cameo vase by Francois-Nicolas de Bar, a sistrum, and colours by Nicolas Poussin, bees by pietro da Cortona, japanese, in the works of N. Poussin and Pierre-Paul Rubens. At the heart of the capital of letters, G. Aleandro was very friendly with major people of the papal court, with patrons, with collectors, with artists, like the cavalier d'Arpin and Simon Vouet, founder member of the Academia degli Umoristi, where literary critics and theory of art were linked, he introduced in Rome young artists like Claude Mellan, Nicolas Lagoux, Jean Cossiers, and he met Rubens in Paris. The interpretation of works of art is made clear by studying G. Aleandro's iconographical method, an original method of interpretation, and reproduction of antiques, which placed him in a key position in front of the artists, to which he offered, through the museo cartaceo, an iconotheca, and to which he proposed, above all, indeed he imposed, an incarnation of the antiquity, and an analytical glance upon the the world, notably by introducing the microscope in rome. So an iconography of detail is elaborated, forming in the works of art a meeting point for the artists and their public. The detail was a major stake of the academic doctrine of art in france

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Dunn, Christine. "Victorian organ /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/7901.

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Tolia-Kelly, Divya Praful. "Iconographies of diaspora : refracted landscapes and textures of memory of South Asian women in London." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1383055/.

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Diasporic journeys of South Asian women are examined in this thesis as a record of British Asian oral history and migration. Biographical mapping is used as a means to interrogate the complex diasporic relationship between national identity and race. The thesis seeks to investigate the relationships between the racialised body and the experience of dislocation lived through by South Asian women in London. Identity, memory and landscape are core themes that run through the thesis. Remembered landscapes and environmental memories are points of identification. These environments and textures of memory have a multisensory nature. These in turn are refracted as icons in the visual and material cultures of the home. Home as a site of belonging becomes a space through which these women express their relationship with citizenship in Britain, their experience of life in the colony, and their experience of rupture with their birthplace. Relationships between various lands, landscapes, social and cultural iconographies are revealed through a study of cultures in the home. Iconographies of "home" are further investigated in the thesis through a visual project conducted with landscape artist Melanie Carvalho, and the study group. A set of 17 canvases have been painted from the women's descriptions of "home". These are, in turn, analysed as visual representations of remembered, idealised icons of intimate landscapes. This results in an examination of the multiple axes within which the diasporic group practises identification, and through which they are themselves configured. The research study uses a process of grounded theorising by examining biographies, oral histories, and investigating visual and material cultures in the home. These are treated as triggers of identification which operate as metonymical devices of negotiation, resistance and placing.

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Ben, Guiza Raya. "Une approche de la magie dans le monde phénicien et punique : iconographies, interrogations, interprétations, origines." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10105.

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Le sujet de la thèse s'intitule "Une approche de la magie dans le monde phénicien et punique : iconographies, interrogations, interprétations, origines". Nous proposons une approche inédite des pratiques magico-religieuses des Puniques en nous appuyant sur un corpus archéologique, comprenant des objets du petit mobilier funéraire, tels que des amulettes, des tablettes, des masques, ainsi que des inscriptions et des informations fournies par la littérature classique. La problématique s'inscrit dans une période allant du début du VIIIe à la fin du IIe s. Av. J. -C. Elle couvre la Méditerranée de la côte levantine, Liban et Palestine, à la péninsule ibérique en s'arrêtant particulièrement à Carthage en Tunisie, Tharros en Sardaigne et à Puig des Molins en Espagne. L'étude des amulettes puniques a permis de mettre en relief des traits iconographiques constants, faisant ressortir des fortes influences égyptiennes et orientales dans la production d'objets puniques à caractère magique. Le succès de nombreuses amulettes phénico-puniques à l'effigie de divinités étrangères à leur propre panthéon, invite à s'interroger sur l'existence de probables "interpretatio Phoenicia et Punica", en particulier celle de Sekhmet en Astart. L'épigraphie et notamment certaines inscriptions funéraires, et votives ont fourni des indices complémentaires sur les acteurs de la magie, la nature de leurs activités, leur rapport avec les cultes "officiels" et la place qu'ils occupaient dans la société. L'observation des amulettes dans différents contextes domestique, votif, et surtout funéraire, permet de mettre en évidence quelques traits constants. Ce qui permet d'envisager sous un autre jour les pratiques magico-religieuses dans la société punique. En effet, il y a tout lieu de penser que les Puniques ont dépassé le simple emprunt stylistique pour envisager une adaptation partielle d'un rituel funéraire magique égyptien.

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Shubane, Nancy. "Black critical care nurses' perceptions of organ donation and organ transplantation." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10262009-185326/.

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Stocks, Lisa Marie 1964. "Organ donor family experience." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291391.

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An exploratory-descriptive design was used to explore and describe knowledge and perceptions about the organ donation process of persons who had consented for their relatives organs to be donated. A 19 question mailed survey was administered to 110 people who met study criteria. Descriptive methods were used to analyze the data. Less than half of the respondents had discussed organ donation previously or knew if their relative carried a donor card, they indicated that they understood the concept of brain death and its cause. These families were positive about their decision to donate and perceived altruism as the most positive aspect of the process. The most difficult aspect of the donation process emerged as "reality of death." Nurses are a critical link in the organ donation process. Results of this study are useful for nursing assessment, diagnosis, and formulation of care plans for families in the position to donate organs.

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Feurstein, Doris. "ORGUMENT : upgrade your organ." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-110691.

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Humans are not ready for what humanity has created By 2020, chronic diseases will account for almost three-quarters of all deaths worldwide. This is a result of malnutrition in today’s food environment. The food industry takes advantage of predisposed human preferences for sugar, salt, and fat. This creates the necessity for individual willpower and habit control and leads to decision fatigue of healthy food choices in our already busy lives. The critical issue is that we as humans are not biologically ready for what is offered to us today. Situated between nutrition science and human psychology, this project aims to critique the food industry and our interactions with food by reflecting on human weaknesses and habits. A combination of human centered design and critical design allows this project to address this issue through communicating the needs of what might have to happen if our behavior and environment do not change. This project is meant to create a critical reflection around our personal relationship to our own body with the hopes that this may lead to an individual awareness of our own food relationship. How might we enable humans to catch up with the food environment today?

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Pummer-Verté, Lila. "Organ donation and transplantation /." Online version of thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12252.

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Desai, Rajeev Ramarao. "Organ transplantation related cancer." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6907/.

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Cancer is an important cause of mortality among the recipients of organ transplantation. Cancer transmitted from the donors has poor outcome and the fear of such transmission results in non-acceptance of certain organs. Study of the recipients in the UK over 10 years identified 15 cases of transmitted cancers. The rate of cancer transmission was 0.05%.The risk of cancer transmission was 9 times higher from donors older than 45 years. A comparison of the organ donor data with the guidelines classifying the donor’s risk showed that a selected cohort of donors, who are classed as high risk of cancer transmission, could safely donate their organs resulting in valuable additional survival for the recipients, with low risk of cancer transmission. These results provide evidence, for modification of donor classification guidelines resulting in increased availability of safe organs for transplantation. The risk of recurrence after transplantation of cancers treated before transplantation was low in selected recipients undergoing transplantation after a 2 year-wait following the diagnosis of cancer. No association was found between the donor-recipient CMV status and the risk of post-transplant cancer. This research estimated the risk of cancer transmission to the organ transplant recipients enabling improved risk assessment in transplantation.

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Poliachik, Sandra Louise. "Transplant organ preservation cooler." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41591.

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A method for preserving transplant organs for extended periods of time has been developed in the transplant organ preservation cooler. The preservation cooler enhances organ viability by maintaining a temperature controlled organ bath and pumping perfusate through the transplant organ. The emphasis on the transplant organ preservation cooler is to provide a simple and portable system which will be powered by boiled off oxygen from a liquid oxygen source. The design of the preservation cooler pump and temperature control system are presented. Results of tests proving the successful operation of the preservation cooler prototype are also presented.
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Coutant, Emilie. "Le mâle du siècle : mutation et renaissance des masculinités : archétypes, stéréotypes, et néotypes masculins dans les iconographies médiatiques." Paris 5, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA05H009.

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Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude des modèles de présentation de la masculinité dans le monde imaginal médiatique, notamment dans la publicité de mode, et des figures archétypales dans lesquels ils s’incarnent. Après une description des effervescences actuelles du masculin et des représentations stéréotypées construites autour de la notion de « crise de la masculinité » (I. 1), une délimitation du cadre épistémologique inscrit dans la sociologie de l’imaginaire (I. 2), nous avons choisi de recourir à une méthodologie mythanalytique inspirée des travaux de Durand, Jung et Bachelard (I. 3), et de circonscrire les champs d’étude dans lesquels s’ancre notre objet (I. 4). Dans une seconde partie, nous avons souhaité mettre en exergue les différentes formes dans lesquelles l’homme s’est donné à voir et à penser au cours des siècles (II. 1), interroger les normes, valeurs et idéaux autour desquels s’est construit ce genre singulier (II. 2. Et II. 3), et explorer la piste des effervescences sous-culturelles propres à remettre en cause le dualisme sexuel oppositionnel dans leur rapport spécifique au corps et à la mode (II. 4). La dernière partie de cette thèse, consacrée à la mythanalyse de la mode masculine, a pour ambition de saisir la résurgence des constructions primordiales, les archétypes ; dans les mises en scène du masculin. Des figures d’évasion à celles de la rébellion (III. 1), de l’homme sauvage à l’androgyne originel en passant par le puer aeternus (III. 2 et III. 3), le mundus imaginalis, animé par notre socialité dionysiaque, met en lumière l’émergence de néotypes, ces figures mouvantes et résurgentes qui invitent à penser la pluralité des masculinités
This thesis deals with appearance’s patterns of masculinity spread by the media and its imaginal world, in particular through fashion advertising, and archetypal figures in which those patterns tend to be embodied. Once described the contemporary effervescence of masculinity and its stereotypical representations grown from the concept of “male’s crisis” (I. 1), an epistemological demarcation of the sociology of the imaginary (I. 2), we’ve chosen to resort to a mythanalytic methodology inspired by the works of Durand, Jung and Bachelard (I. 3), thereby to define the fields in which our subject gets a firm footing (I. 4). In a second part, we wished to highlight the different shapes in which man has given himself in wonders and considerations through centuries (II. 1). So considered, we questioned norms, values and ideals around which is built this gender (II. 2 and II. 3) to explore the idea of subcultural effervescences suitable to challenge the oppositional sexual dualism in bodies’ specificities and fashion (II. 4) The last part of this thesis, an arguing with a mythanalysis of male fashion, aims to undestand the resurgence of prime constructions, the archetypes; in the staging of the masculinity. From figures of escape to those of the rebellion (III. 1), from the wild man to the original androgyne passing by the puer aeternus (III. 2 and III. 3), the “mundus imaginalis”, spirited by our dionysian sociality, enlightens the emergence of neotypes, these moving and resurging patterns which invite us to think the plurality of masculinities

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Chiang, Belinda. "Four organ recitals and an essay, the Joseph J. Birch collection of organ transcriptions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq39770.pdf.

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Labuschagne, Debbie. "An analysis of organ transplantation in South Africa with specific reference to organ procurement." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40613.

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Most South Africans die without their organs being harvested for transplantation. In a country where motor vehicle accidents or violent crime are often the cause of death, presumably leaving most of the organs fit for transplantation, it is astounding that the offer of organs doesn’t meet the demand. The aim of this dissertation is to find a practical solution for the current shortage of transplantable human organs in South Africa. This is achieved by critically discussing current South African legislation regulating organ transplantation, considering alternative organ procurement methods, as well as the impact that bioethics and the Constitution might have on the success of an organ procurement system. This dissertation is concluded with the realisation that although the current organ procurement method needs to be changed to required request, relieving the organ shortage will only be achieved by combining several proposed legislative changes, including, but not limited to, creating a national donor as well as a national waiting list; launching an educational campaign; limiting the role of relatives; and expanding the definition of death for the purpose of organ harvesting. KEY TERMS: organ procurement methods; National Health Act; Constitution; organ shortage; bioethics; autonomy; dignity; required request.
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Helgestad, B. E. "Power negotiations and distributions of knowledge : glyptic iconographies and visual media strategies in late fourth millennium BC Greater Mesopotamia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20173/.

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In Greater Mesopotamia during the fourth millennium BC, several technological developments, as well as entirely new inventions, occurred concomitantly with wide-ranging social changes. Hence, already in the last few centuries of the millennium, several societies were radically different from those preceding them. Of particular importance are aspects such as networks of exchange, urbanisation, organisation and objectification of the labour force, and the interrelated complex administrative practises; particularly writing and glyptic technologies. Beyond writing, none of these aspects were entirely new inventions of this period; however, it is argued in this thesis that the scale and complexity were unprecedented. At the core of these radical changes, were the administrative technologies’ increasing ability to transfer complex information across both geographical distances, as well as time. Most of the relevant literature explores how this made possible increasingly complex administrative practises, and how large institutions actively utilised these administrative practises to negotiate their position within society. The glyptic iconography that is part of these technologies is most commonly approached as visual documentation of fourth millennium behaviours and material culture, or as elements in notational systems, where iconography primarily signifies the identity and authority of the seal-owners. It is argued in this thesis, however, that these representations not only communicated such utilitarian administrative information, but were also elements in visual media strategies, operating as secondary agents negotiating social power and reproducing social realities. The designs of the representations were carefully selected to ‘do’ something, to communicate specific messages, and influence their intended audiences to generate specific meanings. Both the intended audiences, as well as the producers of the representations, had access to exclusive distributions of knowledge, making the iconography meaningful. The control over such distributions of knowledge became increasingly important in social power negotiations, resulting in stratified systems of knowledge, reflected in the complexity of the glyptic iconography.

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Li, Danyang. "Organ Donation, Trust and Reciprocity." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/econ_diss/93.

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This dissertation consists of three chapters that focus on topics in fields of experimental economics and health economics. The first chapter, “Do I Care if You Know I Betrayed You?” , examines how concern for others’ disutility from betrayal can affect the decision to repay trust in the trust game. We use a laboratory experiment to compare trustees’ behavior when betrayal is obfuscated to an identical monetary payoffs situation where betrayal is revealed. We find that more trustees choose to defect in our experiment when betrayal is obfuscated than when it is revealed. Our result suggests that concern for betrayal costs influences not only the decision to trust but also the decision to repay trust. The second chapter, “Increasing Organ Donation via Changes in the Default Choice or Allocation Rule”, utilizes a laboratory experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative public policies targeted at increasing the rate of deceased donor organ donation. The experiment includes treatments across different default choices and organ allocation rules inspired by the donor registration systems applied in different countries. Our results indicate that the opt-out with priority rule system generates the largest increase in organ donation relative to an opt-in only program. However, sizeable gains are achievable using either a priority rule or opt-out program separately, with the opt-out rule generating approximately 80% of the benefits achieved under a priority rule program. The third chapter, “Improving the Approach to Organ Donor Registration”, proposes to improve organ donor registry by providing a persuasive message with the registration request. I designed a laboratory experiment to examine the impact of the persuasive message on donation decisions. The results indicate that the persuasive message has a positive impact on donation decisions in the early rounds of the experiment. Subjects were about 21 percent more likely to register as a donor in round 1 of the experiment when they were provided with a persuasive message. This behavioral difference across treatment decreased as subjects played more rounds, since subjects in the control treatment learned the information in the persuasive message through playing the game. We further find this treatment effect is mainly from subjects who are not organ donors in real life, while the treatment effect is very small for those who are self-reported organ donors.

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Ruers, Theodoor Jacques Marie. "Selective immunosuppression in organ transplantation." Maastricht : Maastricht : Rijksuniversiteit Limburg ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1989. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=5415.

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Hardstaff, Ruth. "Compliance post solid organ transplantation." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493240.

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The twentieth century was a time of a lot of advances in medicine, none more so than in the field of transplantation. Thanks to the pioneering work of many different people in a variety of different fields it is now possible to transplant bone marrow and solid organs. Transplantation is a truly multidisciplinary specialty where patient care is shared between physicians and surgeons. As in all medical specialties good nursing care is essential and requires a high degree of specialisation. Pathologists are key in post operative management in order to promptly diagnose problems so that treatment can be commenced with the minimum of delays.

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Maher, John G. "Organ compositions for pedals alone." Virtual Press, 1986. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/467364.

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The purpose of the research was to add to the body of knowledge concerning pipe organ literature by locating and describing compositions for pedals alone. The search was made with indexes, abstracts, organ literature bibliographies, Union Catalogues, on-line computer services, correspondence with publishers, and an examination of the general performance literature, method books and etude books.The study included works for organ solo which are primarily for pedals alone. A work with a few manual chords was not excluded, but a work which consistently uses the manuals, even in the most subsidiary role, was not included. The study was concerned with compositions which are intended for public performance. Exercises were omitted.FindingsThe efforts of thirty-three composers have produced thirty-nine compositions or collections of for pedals alone. One of the works makes exclusive use of clusters, three use dodecaphonic techniques, and four are from the Romantic Era. The remainder are compositions divided between twentieth-century moderate styles and twentieth-century conservative styles.Seventeen of the works require a pedal board with thirty-two pedals, eighteen of the works require at least thirty pedals, and three may be played on an instrument with twenty-five pedals. One work which does not use traditional notation could presumedly be played on any instrument.Thirteen works, one of which is in Langlais' collection of etudes, employ pre-existing tunes which are treated to variations or other compositional techniques. The other works use a variety of formal designs including fugue, fantasy, sonatina, rondo, dance forms, passacaglia, free form, and other designs.Alkan has the earliest complete work for pedals alone which is readily available.

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Paris, Wayne. "Organ transplant recipient employment perception." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430282.

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Marsland, T. P. "Dielectric measurements for organ cryopreservation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373270.

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Flamíková, Eva. "Organ vo svetle katolíckej liturgie." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Hudební a taneční fakulta. Knihovna, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-177727.

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Throughout the history the organ has become a musical instrument of the Catholic Church temple. It has become a sacred instrument celebrating the God fully reflecting His majesty. During its historic development in the Catholic Liturgy the role of organ kept being restated as well as the expression of its sound. There has always been a lot of place for art in the Catholic Church. The organ as a musical instrument of the temple has become an integrated part of its beauty, nobility and dignity. Changes in the history bring changes into art, church and humanity and sometimes it can be seen that the two inseparable parts of life ? the profane and religious are put in contradiction. Then it is important to vindicate the value and position of the temple in life and so the existence of the liturgical instrument ? the organ. In spite of certain skepticism attacking liturgical congregations and their importance defending voices of popes, organists and believers themselves can still be clearly heard. They speak about a great value we have inherited from famous composers but also about life of our ancestors who have built organs to bring their spirits closer to the God and the truthful life. It is very important to spread this tradition in the present days too.

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Yoo, Doo-Sung. "Organ-machine Hybrids (Artificial Animals)." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281418915.

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Sylvester, Charlotte. "Processional for Organ and Percussion." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277154469.

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Borazjani, Ali. "Pathophysiology of Pelvic Organ Prolapse." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1432745397.

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Hornby, Karen. "Measuring organ donation performance internationally : modeling the effects of available denominators for organ donation rates." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112636.

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Objective. To evaluate organ donation (OD) policy, appropriate comparisons between different OD programs are required. The objective of this research was to investigate alternative methods of measuring national rates of OD using publicly available data and examine the implications of using each method as a measure of performance.
Method. We used 7 measures to calculate deceased OD rates, based on 7 different denominators. Data were collected from OD organizations and the World Health Organization. OD rates for each measure were calculated for 10 countries for the years 2001--2004. Relative rates were calculated using Spain as the standard.
Results. We found variations in relative rates across the proposed measures. Regardless of the measure used Spain excelled.
Conclusion. If the purpose of the OD rate is to identify the top performer internationally, it may not matter which measure is used providing this is done with an understanding of its limitations.

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Morrison, Emma Elisabeth. "Development of circulatory microRNAs as markers of organ injury and mediators of inter-organ signalling." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31118.

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Plasma contains small, non-protein coding RNA species, microRNAs (miRNAs). Circulating miRNAs originate from tissues throughout the body and circulate in the blood bound to proteins or encapsulated in extracellular vesicles (EVs). The pattern of circulating miRNAs changes in different pathological states, leading to the hypothesis that they could act as biomarkers or mediators of inter-organ signalling. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with high morbidity worldwide. Recent work has highlighted a potential role for EV signalling in the delivery of functional exogenous miRNA into kidney cells, which may contribute to the pathogenesis of AKI. The studies described in this thesis investigate the effects of circulating miRNAs on renal proximal tubular (PT) cells. Utilising next generation sequencing technology, circulating miRNA profiles were demonstrated to change significantly following myocardial injury. These findings were translated from humans into a mouse model of myocardial injury. Investigation of EV cell signalling, using flow cytometry and nanoparticle tracking analysis, demonstrated that PT cell EV uptake was not affected by known physiological agonists. By contrast, EV release from PT cells was regulated by purinergic P2Y1 and dopamine D1 receptors. Toxic cisplatin injury of PT cells resulted in increased EV release and reduced EV uptake in a dose-dependent manner. Cisplatin toxicity in PT cells was unaffected by EVs from mice with myocardial injury, but toxicity was reduced by EVs from mice with drug-induced liver injury (DILI). Circulating EVs from mice with DILI transferred the liver specific miRNA, miR-122, into PT cells in both in vivo and in vitro models. The consequence of miR-122 transfer was modulation of downstream target genes including Foxo3 which has been implicated in cell injury by apoptosis. These findings therefore show that circulatory miRNA profiles change in different models of organ injury and suggest miRNAs can be transferred to PT cells in vivo and in vitro. The improved viability of injured PT cells following co-incubation with DILI EVs, and subsequent transcriptomic work, suggests this may be as a consequence of miRNA transfer. In conclusion, circulatory miRNAs may act as mediators of inter-organ signalling and could play a crucial role in the propagation of systemic illness.

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Kolb, Kellie Elizabeth. "Single-cell response to perturbations across biological scales : single organ, organ system and phenotypic individuals." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123245.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, 2019
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
The biological processes that sustain a complex organism require the orchestrated dynamics of complex cellular ensembles. Several vital systems - such as the immune system, the digestive system and more - must process internal and external signals to maintain functional homeostasis in response to perturbations at the systems-level. To further understand how groups of cells collectively respond to perturbations, we have applied single-cell RNA-sequencing and complementary techniques to explore cellular behaviors within complex systems at multiple relevant biological scales: from within a single organ, to an organ system, to across several human individuals with differing genetic backgrounds linked by a shared phenotype. More specifically, at the level of the organ, we have explored acute injury responses in the liver. We have identified and described a new compensatory phase of the liver response to injury, in which surviving hepatocytes upregulate their expression of critical liver function genes to maintain overall organ function. Next, we extended our approach from a focus on an acute injury targeting a single organ to exploring chronic damage resulting from a long-term high fat diet across multiple gastrointestinal and immune compartments. Our analysis revealed molecular pathways and changes in stem gene expression which may contribute to obesity-related disease. Finally, we characterized shared features across multiple unique human donors with a common phenotype, elite control of HIV-1. We identified and validated a subset of highly functional dendritic cells, and developed broadly applicable computational approaches to identify reproducible responses across donors and to nominate candidate targets for rationally modulating the system. Overall, our work demonstrates the utility of single-cell RNA-sequencing for uncovering important cellular phenotypes that inform systems-level responses at any biological scale.
by Kellie Elizabeth Kolb.
Ph. D.
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry

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Gorman, William C. "Forming the organ of meaning a preliminary study of C.S. Lewis's distinction between reason as the organ of truth and imagination as the organ of meaning /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1580.

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Siegfried, Abbey Hallberg. "Contemporary American organ music : defining the compositional potential of the pipe organ in conversations with composers /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11366.

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Stuber, Jon Allan. "Pieter A. Visser, organ builder : his life, work and rejuvenation of principles of classical organ building /." Thesis, Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008253.

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WALTON, JAMES WARREN. "Taylor & Boody Organbuilders: An American Builder with a European Voice." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1217892605.

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Tornemark, Jonna, and Paulina Norman. "Säkerhetsorganisationen ombord - alltid ett fungerande organ?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Sjöfartshögskolan (SJÖ), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-25562.

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Den här undersökningen handlar om säkerhetsorganisationen ombord på fartygen hos Östersjöns tre största operatörer inom kryssningsbranschen. Syftet med undersökningen var att studera tre fartygs säkerhetsorganisationer och hur dessa verkar vid en nödsitation. Fokus låg på att undersöka vilka vitala funktioner som en säkerhetsorganisation är beroende av och hur säkerhetsorganisationen agerar om en eller flera vitala funktioner skulle falla bort. Den metod som användes var en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod i form av djupintervjuer med sju respondenter. Denna metod valdes för att ge respondenterna stor plats för att förmedla egna tankar och personliga erfarenheter. Resultatet visade att de vitala funktionerna en säkerhetsorganisation framför allt är beroende av är ledningsgruppen, maskingruppen och brandgrupperna. Säkerhetsorganisationerna säkerställer bortfall av de vitala funktionerna genom ett vice-system. De har även i ett förebyggande syfte valt att applicera en flexibilitet inom säkerhetsorganisationen som möjliggör omorganiseringar vid bortfall i en nödsituation.

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Karlsson, Veronica. "Barns tankar om kroppens inre organ." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1679.

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The purpose of this essay was to examine children’s comprehension of the internal organs of the human body and to see how this understanding varies between ages. Thirteen children in the ages between three to five have been asked questions, through qualitative interviews, about their thoughts regarding the human body.

The understanding varies depending on the children’s age. A five year old have a better knowledge than a three year old. Their spontaneous reflections regarding the inside of our bodies are that we all have food, a heart, muscles and a skeleton inside. The internal organ most children could locate to the correct place was the heart. Most children also knew the function of this organ.

Keyword: children, development, human body, organs.

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Syftet med detta arbete var att ta reda på vad barn har för uppfattningar om kroppen inre samt att ta reda på om uppfattningarna skiljer sig åt i olika åldrar. Tretton barn i åldrarna tre till fem år blev genom kvalitativa intervjuer tillfrågade om hur deras tankar om kroppen ser ut.

Barnens uppfattningar om kroppen var olika beroende på i vilken ålder barnen var i. Femåringar har större kunskap om kroppen än vad treåringar har. Barnens spontana reflektioner om vad som finns i kroppen är att vi har mat, hjärta, muskler och skelett i kroppen. Det organ som de allra flesta barnen placerade på rätt ställe var hjärtat. Hjärtats funktion kunde de allra flesta barnen.

Nyckelord: barn, människokroppen, organ, utveckling

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Matheson, Stillman James. "Four organ recitals with an essay." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21668.pdf.

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McKee, Joseph. "The organ in Ulster : a survey." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334585.

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Green, A. Christopher. "Muscarinic autoreceptors of Torpedo electric organ." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334513.

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Green, C. J. "Energy balance in multiple organ failure." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314528.

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Ambrose, Barbara A. "Floral organ specification in Zea mays /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9970673.

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Murnane, Owen D. "Clinical Assessment of Otolith Organ Function." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1930.

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Tonkin, Margaret Kathleen. "Critical fictions/fictional critiques : Angela Carter and decadent iconographies of woman." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/57419.

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Title page, table of contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library.
This thesis examines conflicting claims made about the fiction of British feminist writer Angela Carter." --p. iii.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2007

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Zietsman, Derek. "Performing masculinities in the iconographies of selected white South African male artists." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8888.

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M.Tech. (Fine Art)
In this research I explore performances of white South African masculinities in select works by the South African artists, Anton Kannemeyer and William Kentridge, as well as in my body of practical work. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the nature of performances of white masculinities depicted in the selected visual texts. The term 'performances', in the context of this study, refers to Judith Butler's (1990, 2004) concept of gender as performed identities, as free-floating, unconnected to an 'essence'. Within the context of gender performativity, I apply constructivist identity formation theory to examine masculine identities depicted in the visual texts. This research shows how the performances of white masculinity represented in the artists' selected works function to comment on how white South African men are reconceptualising their masculine performativities in order to adapt to the ideals of post-apartheid South Africa. The study explores a perceived existential crisis in emergent South African white masculinities, analysing how a changing post-apartheid socio-political environment cause white South African men to create new conceptions of identity which break down previously imposed preconceived identities. In this dissertation I explore Kannemeyer's, Kentridge's and my own visual texts relating them to a discourse of social commentary. A key deduction I make from my research is that the selected visual texts operate through Laurel Richardson's factors of lived reality and reflexivity in that the artists' appropriate elements from within their experiences and observations of South Africa to inform their visual narratives. Another key deduction is that the visual texts analysed are structured through heteroglot voices, voices the artist uses to differentiate between the artist as author (his author-voice); the artist as his recognisable alter-ego (his object-voice); and the voice that provides content, context and meaning, to the text (his subjectvoice). There are a number of white, male artists who grew up in apartheid South Africa and who critique performances of white masculinity. I choose Kannemeyer and Kentridge as, apart from their both growing up in apartheid South Africa and using their lived realities and observations of socio-political change to inform their art making, as do I, they also tend to focus on two-dimensional art.

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Lam, Hooky, and 林浩基. "A Study on Mogao Grottoes Mural’s Political Iconographies--Focus on Vimalakirti Sutra Painting." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kbk2vv.

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中國文化大學
史學系
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Political Communication is an important key to develop a regime stably. However, there isn’t a lot of exhaustive study on the political functions of the Buddhist Murals. The Vimalakirti Sutra painting in Mogao Caves 220 is very special mural, particularly the first appearance of the portrait of Chinese Emperor, the portrait of foreigner (Siyi), and the portrait of Tsenpo in Tibetan’s era. This article suggests that the appearance of the portrait of Chinese Emperor and the the portrait of foreigner had a relationship between the tradition of “Huaxia’s Monarch” and restore the “Zhongyuan’s international order”. Moreover the portrait of Chinese Emperor in Tibetan’s era does not necessarily represents that people supported Tang Dynasty by that time, and the portrait of Tsenpo should not be seen as a sign of oppression.

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Chia-Yung, Liu, and 劉家勇. "Organ Transplantation, Organ Donation and Organ Procurement -- The Lessons of American''s Experience to Taiwan." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33152748335906704678.

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長庚大學
醫務管理學研究所
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Although the improvement in medical technology has made it possible for organ transplantation to become a common operation, the biggest obstacle to the progress in organ transplantation is the organ shortage. Policies of organ donation and organ procurement have been made to cope with this problem so as to minimize whatever harm families of potential donees may suffer and to reduce the waste in the already scarce medical resources. Organ transplantation, organ donation, and organ procurement involve consideration in ethical, legal, institutional and political aspects. This paper addresses the serious organ shortage problem and the potential solution offered by organ procurement. The thesis also explores the ethical significance of organ donation and organ procurement in the context of the Taiwan society with a view to raising public awareness of this issue. The experience of organ procurement in America is also reviewed as a reference for prospective policy-making. This paper concludes with the following observations: 1. Organ shortage is an universal problem. While improving the technology for organ transplantation, a sound system should be instituted to best resolve the problem. 2. Organ procurement has direct bearing on organ donation but has ethical, social and legal ramifications. 3. Relevant laws and policies should be instituted to govern organ procurement operations. 4. Official involvement in the making of organ donation and procurement policy in Taiwan is lacking, yet undertakings by the third party are inadequate to the demand. This research suggests that at this juncture, consensus should be sought as a basis for policy implementation. An organ procurement policy should be considered in line with the latest revised National Health Insurance. Incentives in the form of payment should be provided for the medical profession.

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Macfadden, Megan. "Engendering visions of modernity: photographing women, national iconographies and excluded identities in Ecuador, 1870-1912." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7951.

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As a contribution to ethnohistorical research concerning the social construction of gender and collective identities, I analyze how visual images of women were used within various attempts to construct images of a national identity in Ecuador at the turn of the century (approximately 1870- 1912). The purpose of this essay is to reconstruct a history of image making practices in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ecuador as a way to investigate how women's identities were visually and discursively constructed by numerous (male) photographers, artists, intellectuals, politicians and writers, all of whom were members of the dominant society. I consider not only the images produced by Ecuadorians themselves, but also die longer history of European image-making in the Andes which had a significant impact on the Ecuadorian image makers whose work is analyzed in this essay. Throughout the essay I attempt to situate my reading of the visual materials discussed within specific historical and cultural contexts as a way to further examine the shifting construction of identities through visual representations. Whereas late nineteenth century Ecuadorian political elites embraced liberal ideologies and proclaimed universal rights for all citizens, the images of women incorporated into images of "the Nation" are suggestive of some of the ways in which "difference" was reproduced and hierarchies were maintained in spite of this shift in the dominant political discourse. In this paper I attempt to demonstrate how the visions of national identity as imagined by members of the dominant society were fraught with contradictions. These tensions are made visible when we consider the gender inequalities and "racial'/ethnic boundaries which were actively reproduced in images of Ecuador as a "unified nation" at the turn of the century.

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"Toward a “Green” Organ: Organ Building and Sustainability." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.26815.

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abstract: This study examines the effectiveness of various types of alternative resources in organ building in order to determine whether a change to more sustainable materials would benefit or hinder the overall sound production of the instrument. The qualities of the metals and woods currently used in organ production (e.g. lead, walnut, etc.) have been prized for centuries, so the substitution of different, more sustainable materials must be considered with regards to the sonic alterations, as well as the financial implications, of using alternatives to make the organ more “green.” Five organ builders were interviewed regarding their views on sustainable materials. In addition, the author consulted the websites of nine national and four international organ builders for information about sustainability, indicating that each organ builder defines the term somewhat differently. Decisions on the woods and metals to be used in building or refurbishing an existing organ are based more on the visual appearance, the sound desired, and the potential for reuse of existing materials. A number of sustainability practices are currently in use by organ builders in the United States and Europe. These include the reuse of transportation boxes, efforts towards recycled metal and wood pipework, and the use of high efficiency lighting. The investigations into sustainable practice that are presented here document a variety of approaches to sustainability in organ building in the United States, Canada and Europe. This research should assist in the evaluation of further efforts to conserve valuable resources while ensuring the high quality of sound that has characterized the organ throughout its long history.
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Doctoral Dissertation Music 2014

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Wu, Shih-Cheng, and 吳師誠. "Intestinal Oxidative Stress Triggers Organ-to-Organ Immunological communication in Drosophila." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48147995005093239501.

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