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Piper, Sally Lynn. "Keeping House : a novel and novel companion." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/42199/1/Sally_Piper_Exegesis.pdf.
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The creative work of this study is a novel-length work of literary fiction called Keeping House (published as Grace's Table, by University of Queensland Press, April 2014).
Grace has not had twelve people at her table for a long time. Hers isn't the kind of family who share regular Sunday meals. As Grace prepares the feast, she reflects on her life, her marriage and her friendships. When the three generations of her family come together, simmering tensions from the past threaten to boil over. The one thing that no one can talk about is the one thing that no one can forget.
Grace's Table is a moving and often funny novel using food as a language to explore the power of memory and the family rituals that define us.
The exegetical component of this study does not adhere to traditional research pedagogies. Instead, it follows the model of what the literature describes as fictocriticism. It is the intention that the exegesis be read as a hybrid genre; one that combines creative practice and theory and blurs the boundaries between philosophy and fiction. In offering itself as an alternative to the exegetical canon it provides a model for the multiplicity of knowledge production suited to the discipline of practice-led research.
The exegesis mirrors structural elements of the creative work by inviting twelve guests into the domestic space of the novel to share a meal. The guests, chosen for their diverse thinking, enable examination of the various agents of power involved in the delivery of food. Their ideas cross genders, ages and time periods; their motivations and opinions often collide. Some are more concerned with the spatial politics of where food is consumed, others with its actual preparation and consumption. Each, however, provides a series of creative reflective conversations throughout the meal which help to answer the research question: How can disempowered women take authority within their domestic space?
Michel de Certeau must defend his "operational tactics" or "art of the weak" 1 as a means by which women can subvert the colonisation of their domestic space against Michel Foucault's ideas about the functions of a "disciplinary apparatus". 2 Erving Goffman argues that the success of de Certeau's "tactics" depends upon his theories of "performance" and "masquerade" 3; a claim de Certeau refutes. Doreen Massey and the author combine forces in arguing for space, time and politics to be seen as interconnected, non-static and often contested. The author calls for identity, or sense of self, to be considered a further dimension which impacts on the function of spatial models. Yu-Fi Tuan speaks of the intimacy of kitchens; Gaston Bachelard the power of daydreams; and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin gives the reader a taste of the nourishing arts. Roland Barthes forces the author to reconsider her function as a writer and her understanding of the reader's relationship with a text.
Fictional characters from two texts have a place at the table – Marian from The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood 4 and Lilian from Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville. 5 Each explores how they successfully subverted expectations of their gender.
The author interprets and applies elements of the conversations to support Grace's tactics in the novel as well as those related to her own creative research practice. Grace serves her guests, reflecting on what is said and how it relates to her story. Over coffee, the two come together to examine what each has learned.
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Kang, Kyoung-Lae. "Novel genres or generic novels considering Korean movies adapted from amateur Internet novels /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/96/.
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Thorell, Julia. "UTOPIA." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6910.
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Mitt examensarbete består av en skriftlig del och en gestaltande del. Den skriftliga delen är en DROP, med beskrivande text och bild kring arbetsprocessen av mitt examensarbete. Den gestaltande delen består av mitt examensarbete, den grafiska novellen UTOPIA.
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MacDonald, Laura Danielle Laughlin. ""Ella," a novel : exegesis of "Ella," a novel." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52689.
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This study explores the stages of the hero’s journey in Ella by Laura Danielle Laughlin MacDonald using Joseph Campbell’s monomyth theory as well as the role of gender using Judith Butler’s theories on gender and gender performance. The study seeks to determine whether or not a female hero performing predominantly feminine gender roles can successfully complete the stages of a traditionally male-oriented hero’s journey. A literary analysis of Ella proves that the predominantly feminine gender performance of the hero, Ella, in no way interferes with her success as a hero proving that the traditional structure of the hero’s journey is unnecessarily gendered. The only stages not present in Ella are missing due to the structure of the fantasy world or the nature of the quest and not the hero’s gender.Arts, Faculty of
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Draxler, Bridget. "Novel spectators: spectatorship in the eighteenth-century novel." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2480.
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Tom Jones is a typical eighteenth-century hero: he is beaten, bullied, seduced, betrayed, and banished by numerous other characters in the narrative. He performs very little action himself, and that rather unsuccessfully. In one escapade in Book XIII, the hero overwhelmed by London society and ignored by his hosts, Fielding writes that "Poor Jones was rather a Spectator of this elegant scene, than an actor in it" (Tom Jones 451). Tom Jones is a bystander in his own story.
The same might be said of protagonists like Samuel Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda Portman--protagonists who, like Tom Jones, tend to observe more than participate in their own narratives. Belinda is remembered most for having a dry personality, while Clarissa famously spends hundreds of pages willing herself to die. For modern readers, these characters may seem to lack agency. Despite their apparent passivity, however, these characters reveal the powerful agency of spectatorship in eighteenth-century culture.
The spectator figure played a newly dominant role in both the English theater and English society at large across the eighteenth century. Many writers used theatrical imagery to justify spectatorship as more than passive observation. Analyzing depictions of spectatorship in the works of authors ranging from eighteenth-century periodical writers like Joseph Addison and Richard Steele to aesthetic theorists like Adam Smith, and from artists like William Hogarth to romantic playwrights like Joanna Baillie, I show how spectatorship offered a potent form of moral authority more rooted in judgment than action. Moreover, I argue that engaged spectatorship offered an important theatrical model for protagonists in the eighteenth-century novel.
Early novelists tended to scapegoat the theater in order to advance the novel as a morally superior genre. Recent critics have shown how novelists used the theater as a way to critique deception, artificiality, and masquerade, in contrast to novelistic virtues of sincerity, authenticity, and candor. As a result, studies of the relationship between the novel and the theater in the eighteenth century have focused almost entirely on issues of performance: ways that characters, narrators, and authors are literal or figurative "actors."
My dissertation, in contrast, studies the interrelationship between the eighteenth-century novel and theater history through the figure of the spectator. Protagonists in the early novel adopt various qualities of engaged spectators, from common sense to curiosity, demonstrating ways that good judgment may be more valuable in eighteenth-century culture than good behavior. In addition, novelists frequently aligned their definitions of ideal spectatorship with forms of engaged reading, inviting readers to imitate the participatory spectatorship of their protagonists. Spectatorship became a source of empowerment for protagonists in the early novel, but more importantly, spectatorship also became a source of agency for the eighteenth-century reader.
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Adédínà, Fémi A. "Death's laughter (novel) and crafting a novel (exegesis)." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/388.
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This thesis consists of a creative component, a novel, Death’s laughter and an exegetical essay, Crafting a novel. The novel centres on a true Nigerian story: a Pentecostal pastor, who died in a plane crash, was a government official found out to have amassed large sums of money and assets that were far greater than could be accrued from his modest salary. In addition, he was accused of bigamy because he had two wives who did not know each other in two different cities within the country. This basic story serves as the nucleus of the novel. The novel tells the stories of various characters who were created with the intention of telling their own stories and, in doing this, giving the readers a montage of the pastor who was passive but ever present in the novel. Though the pastor dies in Chapter One of the novel, each character -- who is related or has a relationship with the pastor -- tells their own stories and together builds a picture of what happened to the pastor and the kind of person he was. Pastor Jude Akanmu Babajide in the novel represents the Pastor Femi Àkànní, who was the character in the true Nigerian story. This novel does not paint a picture based on the research into the Nigerian pastor, it creates a fictional account of the pastor and of the various characters who populated the novel. As the reader goes through the various tales he/she is given an insight into Nigerian society and an introduction to some Yoruba cultural concepts.
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Salman, Dina Faisal. "J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1383.
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Scholars argue that Coetzee’s novels critique and disavow the origins and legacy of the novel tradition and its influence on the contemporary novel. They also claim that J.M. Coetzee’s novels herald in the demise of the contemporary novel. These interpretations are motivated by the political readings of postcolonialism and postmodernism. The premise of this dissertation is to depart from those postcolonial and postmodern approaches and offer close readings of Coetzee’s novels through the origins and legacy of the early eighteenth-and nineteenth century novel. My study argues that several of Coetzee’s novels allude to the intellectual, historical, and cultural legacies of the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century novel. I argue that the origin and rise of the English novel and its subgenres provide Coetzee with ideas to use in his own novels. These paradigms in Coetzee’s novels espouse —rather than renounce — the influence and tradition of the early novel, showing that its inspiration remains relevant in the contemporary novel. Thus, the general premise of this dissertation is that Coetzee does not necessarily “write back” to the canon and the origins of English novel, but rather he writes through and with those enduring forms and structures. This study shows that there are literary connections between the early beginnings of the novel and the contemporary novel that offer cogent examinations —examinations that find compromise between the past and present rarely made through postcolonial or postmodern approaches.
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García, Mínguez Sebastiana. "La ilustración como componente semiótico-discursivo de la novela corta (1900-1925). Análisis sociológico, artístico y literario." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10956.
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La tesis que presentamos se centra en la importancia que la ilustración como categoría semiótico-discursiva establece en las colecciones literarias de novela corta, que triunfan en España en los años iniciales del siglo XX. En los cinco primeros capítulos, se plantean aspectos significativos del mundo de la imagen ilustrada: una aproximación al decurso histórico de la ilustración, a su consideración como medio de comunicación de masas, y a su relación con las disciplinas artísticas clásicas como pintura y la literatura. También se realiza un análisis generalizado del ámbito y el mercado en que tiene lugar el auge de las colecciones de novela corta en sus diferentes variantes. El capítulo VI se dedica a un estudio semiótico centrado en las consideradas siete grandes colecciones de novela corta: El Cuento Semanal, Los Contemporáneos, La Novela Corta, El Libro Popular, La Novela Semanal, La Novela de Hoy y La Novela Mundial.The thesis that we defend is focused on the importance of the illustration, considered as a semiotic-discursive category, within the literary collections of short novel, those who had triumphed in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the first five chapters, we propose some significant aspects regarding the world of the illustrated image: an approach to the historic course of illustration, to its consideration as one form of mass media, and to its connection with the classic artistic disciplines such as painting and literature. Moreover, we carry out a general analysis of the cultural realm and market in which the different varieties of short novel collections reach their peak. Chapter VI is devoted to a semiotic study that is focused on the seven greatest short novel collections: The Weekly Tale, The Contemporaries, The Short Novel, The Popular Story Book, The Weekly Novel, Today's Novel and The Worldly Novel.
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Cruickshank, M. C. "Novel aluminates." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372431.
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Lin, Po-Yuan. "A STUDY OF BIOSENSORS: NOVEL APPLICATION AND NOVEL ELECTRODE." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1363961554.
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Beattie, Sarah A. "Forgiveness: A Novel." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/117.
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Bea Dumont's life was full of youthful joys; cribbage games with her grandfather and Sunday morning pancackes with her older brother, Trip. When something happens that tears her typical American family apart, she begins a lifelong struggle to understand why it all came crashing down and learns along the way what it takes to forgive.
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Lu, Xun. "Exploration of novel carbon(II) and carbon(0) catalyst systems for organic synthesis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22939.
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This PhD thesis is focused on the development of novel carbon(II) and carbon(0) catalysis for organic synthesis. More specifically, the major objective has been to explore and design non-toxic and effective catalysts based on: an unusual Bertrand carbene type, a so-called bis(dialkylamino)cyclopropenylidene (BAC), and the carbodicarbene (CDC) framework; the central carbon atom in these molecules is in the formal low-oxidation state ‘+II’ and ‘0’, respectively. These species may be used in base catalysis or as ligands in metal catalysis, and in the context of frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) or dual catalysis. Prior to catalysis studies, the Lewis basicity of such carbon-based compounds has been assessed with 11B NMR analysis using various boron-based Lewis acids. Boron binding has been detected in all cases with a BAC, thereby confirming its strongly nucleophilic character and decreased steric demand. In contrast, only few ate complexes have been identified with CDCs (or precursors thereof), which means that CDCs may be more suitable for FLP catalysis. A preliminary electrophile binding study with a BAC has provided interesting data, based on which unprecedented aldimine Umpolung may be developed in the future. In the context of organocatalysis, BAC-mediated C–C bond formations between various Michael acceptors and N-tosyl imines have been developed (aza-Morita–Baylis–Hillman chemistry). In addition, C–N or C–Hal bond formations between various Michael acceptors and azodicarboxylates or electrophilic halogen reagents have been developed. The characteristic features of these unprecedented BAC catalyses include low catalyst loading, mild reaction conditions, and broad substrate scopes. Importantly, several novel chiral BACs have been synthesized and characterized, and excellent results have been achieved in BAC-catalysed asymmetric aza-MBH reactions (ee up to 97%). To the best of our knowledge, these data represent the first highly enantioselective BAC catalysis; chiral N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have proved to be substantially less effective in this context (ee up to 38%). In the same line, BAC-catalysed asymmetric borylations and silylations of Michael acceptors have been developed (preliminary ee up to 69%). These results demonstrate the high potential of the newly developed chiral BACs in asymmetric organocatalysis. Meanwhile, several BAC–gallium and BAC–iron complexes have been synthesized and characterized. These novel complexes may be used in Lewis acid catalysis after appropriate activation of the corresponding metal sites. Finally, the exploration of the catalysis potential of various C(0) compounds, namely CDCs, is still under investigation.
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Dammert, Juan Luis. "Supe: Arguedas’s unfinished novel." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79433.
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Tuvo varios nombres: «Harina Mundo», «Mar de Harina», «Jonás», «El pez grande», y fue un proyecto literario que emprendió José María Arguedas después de la publicación de Todas las Sangres (1964). Con él quiso novelar «la transformación del puerto de Supe», lugar donde había pasado los veranos entre 1943 y 1963 y que conocía muy bien. Como sabemos, Arguedas terminó convirtiendo ese proyecto inicial en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo, una novela límite y relato ambientado en el puerto de Chimbote. Dos capítulos de esta novela sobre Supe fueron publicados en vida del escritor, «Mar de Harina» y «El Pelón». En este artículo recojo información que da luces sobre estos textos y sus personajes, ya que fueron tomados de la realidad. Me baso en fuentes orales, tanto de mi memoria personal y familiar como de las conversaciones tenidas con pobladores actuales del puerto en un conversatorio en 2004 sobre los personajes descritos en el inacabado proyecto novelístico.It had several names, «Harina Mundo», «Mar de Harina», «Jonás», «El pez grande», and was a literary project that José María Arguedas started after the publication of Todas las Sangres (1964). The novel was intended to tell the story of ‘the transformations of Puerto Supe’, a fishing town he knew well, for he spent there the summer of 1943 and 1963. As we know, Arguedas later transformed this project into his last novel called El zorro de Arriba y el zorro de Abajo, which took place in the port of Chimbote.Two chapters of the unfinished novel about Supe were published while Arguedas was still alive: «Mar de Harina» and «El Pelón». In this article I present information about those chapters and the characters they portray, given that they were taken from real life. For this purpose, I draw on oral sources, such as my personal memories and the conversations I held in 2004 with the current inhabitants of Supe, about the characters of this unfinished project.
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Crawford, Ryan. "Here's What You Might Have Missed." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1678.
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Sumanadasa, Subathdrage Dulangi Madushika. "Investigation of Novel Antimalarial Agents and Novel Target Identification Approaches." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367036.
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Malaria remains a major global health problem causing >600,000 deaths annually [1]. Efforts to control malaria are hampered by parasite drug resistance, insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, and the lack of an effective vaccine. In the last decade only one new chemotype, the spiroindolones, has progressed to clinical trials for malaria treatment [2, 3]. To address this significant problem the identification and development of new antimalarial agents is a priority. Part of this process includes ensuring that sufficient drug leads are available to prime the drug discovery pipeline, particularly those with novel modes of action in order to limit issues of cross-resistance with existing drugs [4]. While high throughput screening campaigns have identified thousands of potential antimalarial compounds from big Pharma libraries [5, 6], antimalarial target information on most compounds are lacking. Screening different libraries and pharmacophores is also recognised as being crucial to ensure chemical diversity [7]. There is also an increasing interest in repurposing existing drugs or drug classes or using them as starting point for discovery of new antimalarial agents. One of the aims of this thesis was to address the need for new antimalarial drug leads by investigating three compound classes with demonstrated clinical efficacy against cancer, HIV and other human diseases in a so called “piggyback” approach.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Garato, Giulia <1996>. "Northanger Abbey. An analysis of the novel and novel readers." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17686.
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The aim of this work is to read Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey from different perspectives, indeed the work is divided into three chapters and each one focuses on a different aspect. The first analyses the differences and the similarities between the novel and the two literary genres it parodies, the sentimental and the Gothic. The references are both to the literary theory and to the episodes of the story which take place in the two settings of the novel, Bath and the Abbey. The focus will be mainly on the protagonist’s behaviour but other characters as Isabella Thorpe will be taken into account as long as they represent a meaningful example for the parodied genre. The second chapter provides a detailed examination of the characters, starting from Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney and their love story; continuing with a comparison between the Thorpes and the Tilneys siblings, as representative of opposing values; to conclude with the villain of the novel, the General, and his complex relationship with his children Henry, Eleanor and Frederick. Finally, the last chapter first discusses the protagonist’s intellectual growth inside the novel, and then explores the psychological insight of the reading process, based on a psychoanalytic study applied to literary theory. The conclusions locate Jane Austen’s defence of novels and of novel readers in the historical background of the 18th century, with particular attention dedicated to her role as a female writer.
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Bicho, Rita Carreira. "Regulamentação europeia sobre novel food. Identificação de plantas silvestres comestiveis nacionais como não novo alimento." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10897.
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Mestrado em Engenharia Alimentar - Qualidade e Segurança Alimentar - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe Regulation (EC) No 258/97, concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients, defines these as foods/food ingredients not significantly used for human consumption, in the Community, before 15 May 1997 and establishes the trading rules. To prove the statuts of not novel food/ not novel food ingredient is necessary to demonstrate evidences to support the significant human consumption in the Community before 15 May 1997 and continuously after this date. This work has as objective to perform a survey of the national legislation and the indicative lists of plants of the Member States, in the context of Regulation (EC) No 258/97. To gather evidences that support the significant food use of national edible wild plants, in order to prove the status of not novel food and verify that they aren’t in the context of the Regulation mentioned above. And yet, to contribute to the update of the Novel Food Catalogue, of the Commission, with the elaboration of a significant human consumption dossier for each national edible wild plant selected. Was identified the existence of indicative lists of plants in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France and Italy. From the 70 national edible wild plants researched, to potencially join the Novel Food Catalogue, 50 plants aren’t referenced as food in any of the indicative lists previously mentioned. The evidence of significant food use were surveyed of 5 selected plants, due to their culinary and commercial value in Portugal, among the 50 identified (Asparagus aphyllus L., Asparagus acutifolius L., Rumex crispus L., Quercus rotundifolia Lam. and Corema album (L.) D.Don). It was also elaborate a significant human consumption dossier for the first 4 referred species. The specie Corema album (L.) D. Don doens’t have enough evidence to prove the status of food. In the future, it will be important to complete them interviewing elderly in country's coastline.
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Bansal, Rajni. "Enhancing spin current efficiency using novel materials." Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2019. http://eprint.iitd.ac.in:80//handle/2074/8134.
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LeMaster, Liane. "Wake a novel /." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/53/.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed June 16, 2010) Sheri Joseph, committee chair; John Holman Josh Russell, committee members. Includes bibliographical references(p. 210).
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Kothari, Neeraj. "Novel Polarimetry Techniques." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19779.
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Polarization specific measurements are advancing the capabilities of scientific instruments looking for ever smaller effects and material parameters. For example, the magneto-optical nonlinear Faraday effect can be used to characterize various electric and magnetic polarizability parameters of an individual molecule. Another major application is detection of desired particles in a highly scattering environment, the physical effect of which has been extensively researched, and is being overcome by using time-gated and polarization techniques. The polarimeter sensitivity is limited by the extinction-ratio obtained from polarizers. Of available polarizer materials, naturally occurring Calcite crystals provide the best extinction ratios because of their good optical homogeneity and high birefringence. However, there is a need for polarization determination with higher sensitivities, and thus a necessity to find better polarizing materials and methods.
I developed a next-generation polarimeter in an attempt to sensitively detect the second-order Faraday effect, along with a substance s chirality and Verdet constant. Also, I developed a device uniquely able to sensitively detect chiral signatures in the presence of massive depolarizing scattering. In addition, I begun developing a novel type of polarimeter based on the highly-polarization-sensitive nonlinear-optical process of harmonic generation, whose required crystals can be grown with extremely high quality.
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Burgett, Eric Anthony. "Novel neutron detectors." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39622.
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A new set of thermal neutron detectors has been developed as a near term 3He tube replacement. The zinc oxide scintillator is an ultrafast scintillator which can be doped to have performance equal to or superior to 3He tubes. Originally investigated in the early 1950s, this room temperature semiconductor has been evaluated as a thermal neutron scintillator. Zinc oxide can be doped with different nuclei to tune the band gap, improve optical clarity, and improve the thermal neutron detection efficiency. The effects of various dopant effects on the scintillation properties, materials properties, and crystal growth parameters have been analyzed. Two different growth modalities were investigated: bulk melt grown materials as well as thin film scintillators grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). MOCVD has shown significant advantages including precise thickness control, high dopant incorporation, and epitaxial coatings of neutron target nuclei.
Detector designs were modeled and simulated to design an improved thermal neutron detector using doped ZnO layers, conformal coatings and light collection improvements including Bragg reflectors and photonic crystal structures. The detectors have been tested for crystalline quality by XRD and FTIR spectroscopy, for scintillation efficiency by photo-luminescence spectroscopy, and for neutron detection efficiency by alpha and neutron radiation tests. Lastly, a novel method for improving light collection efficiency has been investigated, the creation of a photonic crystal scintillator. Here, the flow of optical light photons is controlled through an engineered structure created with the scintillator materials. This work has resulted in a novel radiation detection material for the near term replacement of 3He tubes with performance characteristics equal to or superior to that of 3He.
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Colagrande, John Jr. "Headz, a novel." FIU Digital Commons, 2007. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2401.
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This novel reveals the counterculture as seen through the eyes of a group of coming-of-age, vulnerable, reckless, and often pretentious youths. In New York, Thelonious Horowitz is an up-and-coming musician who is uninspired and decides to trek to Chicago for the biggest musical festival of the summer. A diverse cast of characters, living in New York, Miami, and San Francisco, round out the novel, of which Thelonious is the connective tissue, ultimately bringing everyone together at the festival where paths converge for an event none will soon forget, and a concert a few will get to see.
The novel explores the spirit of youth through classical themes like love, wanderlust, freedom, betrayal, and family, all placed within a contemporary context, and in opposition to technology, fame, consumerism, the New Age, and to many, responsibility. This post-modern tragicomedy captures a moment in time in the spirit of Kerouac’s On the Road and Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
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Anderson, Joseph. "Visitations: A Novel." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1267.
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VISITATIONS, a novel, explores themes of haunting and desire in New York City, in two time periods. The modern-day action focuses on Alan Philips whose wife, Beth, has recently died. His efforts to resume a normal life are sabotaged by what he comes to believe is her ghost. In the parallel story, in 1924, Oliver Nathan Blackburn, a pulp writer, in the midst of a breakdown writes a story that may play a role in Beth’s death.
VISITATIONS presents Alan and Oliver’s perspectives in third person narration, so that the reader is both close to and may question the subjectivity of their perceptions. The book employs a black-comic tone for the contemporary period and a more formal one for Oliver’s sections.
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Forsyth, Stewart Alexander 1975. "Novel organic salts." Monash University, School of Chemistry, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5833.
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Liu, Yong. "Novel nanostructured electrodes." Department of Chemistry - Faculty of Science, 2007. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/14.
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Nanotechnology provides an effective and direct way to create novel properties and phenomena through the reduction in material sizes without changing the materials’ chemical composition. A number of routes to the preparation of novel nanostructured electrodes were investigated in this thesis. These involve the formation of nanoporous opaline electrodes, three dimensional nanofibrous networks and the synthesis of flexible nanoelectrodes based on highly dense ordered aligned carbon nanotubes and conducting polymers. Excellent improvements with the use of nanostructures in a wide range of application areas such as methanol oxidation, photoelectrochemical cells, enzyme biosensors, cell culturing and energy storage are presented in this research work.Nanoporous opaline structures including inverse opals and opals were prepared by either electrodepositing Pt or sputter coating ITO onto self-assembled polystyrene (PS) synthetic opals, followed by the removal of the PS opal templates. A highly ordered dense nanoporous structure with the porous structure on the top (so-called Pt inverse opal) or with the porous structure on the bottom (so-called ITO opal) was consequently obtained after the removal of PS templates. The improvement in electrochemical area with the use of nanostructures was observed during electrochemical characterisation. The resultant nanostructured Pt inverse opal electrodes were employed in electro-oxidation of methanol. Compared with the Pt film electrode, the nanostructured Pt inverse opal electrode showed a higher catalytic performance and good stability with a 100 mV negative shift of the potential of methanol oxidation. The mesoporous ITO opal electrode was used as the substrate for the electrodeposition of polyterthiophene and the resultant structure was subsequently utilized in photoelectrochemical cells. An excellent power-conversion efficiency of 0.109% and an outstanding short circuit current density of 1470 μA•cm-2 for polyterthiophene deposited at room temperature were obtained; dramatically improved from the previous published work.Nanofibrous electrodes were fabricated from biomaterials (such as DNA and poly(styrene-β-isobutylene-β-styrene) (SIBS)) and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) using the electrospinning technique. Initial studies quantitatively determined the influence of solution properties (such as the solution ionic conductivity, surface tension and viscosity) and process parameters (e.g. tip-to-collector distance, applied potential and the feed rate) on the electrospinning results. Results showed that good electrospun fibrous networks could be obtained from the solution with comparatively high conductivity and viscosity with low surface tension. It was also found that the average diameter of the electrospun fibers decreased with decreased feed rates, increased tip-to-collector distance and increase in the potential employed. With the addition of SWNT, both biomaterial nanofiber electrodes exhibited enhanced electrochemical properties. The resulting DNA based electrospun fiber electrode showed a broad linearity range and high sensitivity in enzyme biosensors. The SIBS/SWNT nanofibrous electrode demonstrated excellent biocompatibility and suitability for the growth of L-929 cells.Flexible, light and highly conductive nanostructured electrodes were prepared from aligned carbon nanotubes (ACNTs) and conducting polymers by coating with Pt coated poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) or poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)/PVDF. Pt nanoparticles were subsequently electrodeposited on the ACNT/Pt/PVDF structure. The utilization of the nanostructured ACNT/conducting polymer electrodes in anodic methanol oxidation and as anodic materials in Lithium-ion batteries was demonstrated. Pt nanoparticles coated ACNT/Pt/PVDF electrode exhibited an outstanding electrochemical capacity (133 Fg-1) and amazing electrochemical surface area (143 m2g-1 for Pt nanoparticles). The Pt nanoparticles-ACNT/Pt/PVDF electrode also showed a 2.5 times higher steady current density for methanol oxidation when compared with the ACNT/Pt/PVDF electrode. A stable current density over a long period (more than 12 hours) was obtained. A 50% improvement in capacity during Lithium-ion battery tests when compared with a SWNT paper was obtained with the ACNT/PEDOT/PVDF electrode.Nanostructured flexible and conductive electrodes were also obtained from ACNTs and biomaterials (such as SIBS and poly(lactide-co-glycolide)). SWNTs or Pt were introduced to improve the conductivity. A significant improvement in electrochemical properties with the addition of Pt or SWNT was obtained. The biocompatibility of ACNTs, SWNTs and Pt was confirmed during cell culturing experiments.
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Holroyd, Stephen Eyre. "Novel synthetic anthracyclinones." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2032.
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Lewis acid mediated cyclisations of the ortho allyl substituted homochiral hydroxyanthraquinone acetals (37), (38), (43), and (44), prepared via optimised reductive Claisen rearrangements have been investigated. The mono and dichloro tetracyclic species (71-74), (76), (77), (83), (84), (87-90) and novel dioxepins (97), (98), (101), (102) have been synthesised and their stereochemistries assigned using NMR techniques. Mechanisms have been proposed for the formation of most of the products. An SN2-like process in which the dioxolane ring structure is maintained in an ion pair intermediate is favoured when tin(IV) or titanium(IV) chloride are used at lower temperatures (-78°C). Such a path explains the good C7 stereoselectivity in the generation of the anthracyclinones. Thereafter the direction of chloride addition is governed by the orientation of this ion pair which provides the chloride to C-9 on the A-ring. An alternative path predominates when boron trifluoride etherate is used and at higher temperatures. This probably involves a free oxocarbenium ion which explains the poor C7 stereoselectivity, since either face of the oxocarbenium ion is equally accessible to the incoming nucleophilic olefin. An adjacent methoxy group on the anthraquinone ring lowers the stereoselectivity at both C7 and C9. This effect is explained by invoking bidentate coordination of either tin(IV) or titanium(IV) chloride to the quinone carbonyl, the methoxy oxygen and the acetal. The resultant steric interactions raise the energy of the favoured transition state and thus the acetal reacts via a different conformation, or the SN1-like path may be favoured, both of which afford a lower stereoselectivity. When titanium(IV) chloride is used with the isobutylene substituted methoxy anthraquinonyl acetal (37) a reversal in C7 stereoselectivity is found which has been explained as due to a favouring of reaction in which the other acetal oxygen has become complexed. With these substrates trimethylsilyl triflate does not induce the desired acetal/alkene cyclisation, rather the isobutylene substituted acetals (37) and (38) giving the dimethyl furans (68) and (69), while the vinyl chlorides (43) and (44) were largely unreactive. Preliminary studies on modifications aimed at introducing oxygen bearing functionality at C9 in the mono and dichloro tetracyclic species have been carried out. The potential of the acetal from condensation of the conduritol dimethyl ether (140) and the aldehyde (35) in syntheses of novel anthracyclines bearing a 7-cyclitol substituent has been studied. The cyclohexenyl acetals (143), (153), (154), and (157) have been prepared but their reactions with a variety of Lewis acids give the appropriate napthacenediones (67), (91), (133), and (155) as the only tetracyclic products isolated. It is proposed that coordination of the α-methoxy groups to the Lewis acid diverts the reaction paths. A one-pot reductive Claisen/Ene reaction of the aldehyde (35) has been optimised as a method for preparing the tetracyclic anthracyclinone (163). Further modifications of this tetracycle have been investigated. Preliminary studies of a route aimed at utilising a Dieckmann condensation to furnish anthracyclinone precursors were side-tracked when rather than the desired furans an iodoetherification reaction gave a series of novel iodomethylfurans and furanocyclopropanes. The use of palladium(II) bisacetonitrile to simultaneously cleave the allyl ether and conjugate the C-allyl double bond of (33) to afford (217) has been investigated.
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Wharton, Thomas. "Salamander, a novel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0013/NQ34711.pdf.
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Babiak, Todd. "Interception : a novel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0002/MQ39914.pdf.
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Brinza, Daniel L. "Novel inorganic membranes." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0019/MQ58444.pdf.
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D'Antoni, Leanne. "Loon : a novel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59246.pdf.
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Melnyk, Sherryl Lee. "Corona, a novel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65044.pdf.
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Kemp, IV Duncan S. "Lubbers: A Novel." LSU, 2006. http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04072006-082646/.
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Saunders, Joshua Daniel. "Novel Supramolecular Polyamides." NCSU, 2005. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07242005-213223/.
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The objective of this research is to use low DP poly(p-benzamide) (PBA) segments, terminated by units forming supramolecular bonds, able to extend the overall DP of the aromatic polyamide. PBA fibers, and the related industrially produced PPTA (Kevlar), exhibit their most interesting ultra-high strength properties only when a considerably large DP (>100) is attained. Use of cumbersome and expensive syntheses and solvents are required to attain DP in the range (~200-300) of industrial interest. Moreover, the fully covalent polymers thus far produced are highly insoluble in common organic solvents. On the other hand, easier processing becomes feasible if the DP of conventional PBA (prepared by the Yamazaki reaction) is increased by supramolecular bonding through ionic or hydrogen bond interactions. The effects of three different binding methods were first investigated on short rigid monomers with promising results the same binding was then used on rigid segments of PBA. The binding methods used two diamine binders triethylenediame (TED) and bipiperidine (Bipip) to form ionic bonds with the monomer, and polymer segments. The last method utilized a 2(6-iso cyanato hexylamino carbonyl amino)-6-methyl-4[1H]pyrimidinone (Upy) end group covalently bonded to the PBA polymer. This end group has the ability to form 4 hydrogen bonds with itself and thus could be used to increase the overall DP of the polymer starting material. This is believed to be the first recorded hydrogen bonded supramolecular interaction in amide type solvents. The novel and revolutionary idea of using low DP segments of PBA to increase the overall DP of polymer could be an industrially viable way to produce the highly sought after industrial polyamides.
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Hulseman, George W. "Echoes : a novel." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001503.
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Magestro, Molly Ann. "Removed a novel /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
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Killian, Peggy Sue. "Bloodlines : a novel /." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KillianPS2006.pdf.
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Snoek-Brown, Samuel Jeremiah Tait John. "AGenesis a novel /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5119.
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Semak, Lance, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Surfaces: a novel." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2006, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/539.
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Surfaces is a novel which explores the lifestyle of exotic dancers who live and work throughout Southern Alberta, Canada. Several exotic dancers were interviewed and many academic and creative publications were consulted prior to the writing process. Elements of power, jealousy, obsession, drug addiction and depression turned up frequently in the research, and all are prevalent throughout the story. A young woman faces several problems when she returns to the world of exotic dancing: her boyfriend's jealousy pulls him into a downward spiral, an obsessive patron with deep pockets stalks her relentlessly and the forgotten mistakes of her past come back to haunt her. Those outside of the dancing industry try to persuade her to exit the field, yet she is diligent about dancing for a living. She does have long-term occupational goals that do not involve dancing, but she chooses to pursue them on her own terms.v, 298 leaves ; 29 cm.
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Coy, Christopher A. "Lamentations : a novel." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63855.
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Dilmaghanian, Shahrzad. "Novel artificial coenzymes." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386060.
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Clark, Samuel John Maclean. "Novel fluorinated polymers." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265149.
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Millward, Huw Richard. "Novel membrane bioreactors." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317837.
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Sanganee, Hitesh J. "Novel chiral auxiliaries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320629.
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Nelson, John. "Novel optical resonators." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3130/.
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Optical resonators – two mirrors facing each other, separated by a distance – are a very well studied technology. However, even such a well understood technology can sometimes present surprises. The first part of this thesis investigates the surprising properties of some canonical optical resonators. The basic properties of resonators are introduced. The imaging properties of stable and unstable resonators are examined. The second part of this thesis examines the potential use of grating- coupled cavities in gravitational wave detectors and describes an exper- iment carried out on a 10 m prototype of such a cavity.
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Vaughan, Julian F. S. "Novel perfluorinated dienes." Thesis, Durham University, 1994. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5453/.
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The research described within this thesis may be divided into four areas: 1) Unsaturated perfluorinated systems have been reduced, or defluorinated, using alkali metal amalgams to give products with a higher degree of unsaturation. For example, perfluoro-3,4-dimethylhex-3-ene (105) can be reduced to perfluoro-3,4- dimethylhex-2,4-diene (106). Remarkably, these reductions have also been performed, with equal success, using an electron rich amine, tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethene (107), which avoids the difficult, and potentially hazardous, use of amalgams. A difluoride salt, of amine (107), is produced as a by-product, which has potential as a soluble fluoride ion source.2) Diene (105) is highly electron deficient and, therefore, is susceptible to nucleophilic attack, which occurs at the vinylic positions. This compound was reacted with difunctional oxygen nucleophiles, forming potential polymer precursors, which remain reactive towards nucleophiles, suggesting the possibility of their use in block co-polymer syntheses to give highly fluorinated products.3) Calcium hypochlorite has been utilised to oxidise perfluorinated alkenes and dienes to yield the corresponding epoxide(s). An alternative methodology, using t-butyl hydroperoxide and butyl lithium, has been successfully applied to perfluorinated systems, for the first time, to give previously inaccessible compounds. The diepoxide (162) has been shown to undergo an unusual thermal ring opening, and expansion, to form a perfluorinated dioxin (179).4) An efficient route to hexakis(trifluoromethyl)cyclopentadiene (181) has been developed via an unusual cyclisation process, which is induced by fluoride ion. This diene displays an interesting chemistry, including its reduction by tetraalkylammonium iodides to form the pentakis(trifluoromethyl)cyclopentadienyl anion, as crystalline ammonium salts (tetraethyl show below), in good yields. When these salts are combined with concentrated sulphuric acid, 5H-pentakis(trifluoromethyl)cyclopentadiene (188) is produced, which is the strongest non-conjugated carbon acid known.
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Wang, Zhe. "Novel view synthesis." Thesis, University of Reading, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493748.
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Imagine taking a few pictures of a scene with a camera at several different poses, can we generate a novel image that corresponds to a virtual viewpoint where no real camera has captured an image? This is the topic of novel view synthesis. Highly driven by the commercial market in the last decade, there appears a thriving interest on this topic in both the computer graphics community and the computer vision community. The potential applications of which can be found ranging from generating photo-realistic images, the creation of virtual environments, to modelling real three dimensional scenes.
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Norbury, A. M. "Novel organoboron chemistry." Thesis, Swansea University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638337.
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The first part of the thesis deals with an investigation into some aspects of the chemistry of di-(2,4,6-triisopropylphenyl)boranes, a novel class of highly hindered organoborones. Chapter one investigates the synthesis of such compounds and discusses the formation of organoboranes in general. Chapter two discusses the chemistry of carbanions, especially those stabilized by an adjacent boron atom. The results of a study of the lithiation of ditripylboranes are reported. It is shown that the compounds are readily lithiated by unhindered bases. Chapters three, four and five report some of the reactions of the carbanions prepared in chapter two. Included are alkylation and acylation reactions, and also the reaction with halogenometal derivatives. Chapter six contains a brief dicusssion of the chemistry of allylboranes, including that of ditripylallyborane. Chapter seven reports the use of ditripylborane (a borane which is uniquely monomeric in the solid state) in the hydroboration reaction. Its properties are compared to those of other common diorganylboranes. Chapter eight charts the formation of ditripylalkylhydroborates, a novel class of highly hindred reducing agents, which display good diasteroselectivity in the reduction of methylcyclohexanones. Chapter nine discusses the hindered rotation present in some ditripylboranes. Section A of the thesis contains the results of a study on the diastereoselectivity of the condensation of aldehydes with allenyldiorganylboranes. In general the results obtained were disappointing since only low levels of stereoselectivity were obtained.
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Mitchell, Andrea Michelle. "Ngozi : a novel." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4450.
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Living as a white Zimbabwean in the 1990s meant a near-perfect life: your clothes were always clean and ironed, there was always tea in the silver teapot, gins and tonics were served on the verandah, and, in theory at least, black and white lived in harmony. As Mugabe’s presidency turned sour, however, this idyllic and privileged world began to crumble into anarchy. My family and I left to escape the political violence in 2002, and moved to New Zealand. My novel Ngozi draws on these experiences to tell the story of one troubled white family who struggle to stay afloat in the collapsing economy and escalating horror of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. The story is told through the eyes of a young white girl, who is partly based on myself. When the farm invasions begin, the violence threatens to destroy the family’s way of life forever. They eventually leave Zimbabwe, but escaping the vengeful ghosts (‘ngozi’) of their past still seems impossible.
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Allan, Thomas. "Novel fMRI analysis." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.659287.
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging using the Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) contrast allows the brain's neural activity to be measured indirectly. This BOLD signal contains a wealth of information including changes in brain activity and functional connectivity (FC). FC is a measure of how correlated spatially separate brain regions are with each other. The work in this thesis is primarily concerned with novel methods of analysing the BOLD signal, in particular to give new measures of FC. A particular problem with typical measures of FC is that they assume that the networks are large scale and distributed, and that they originate from low frequency, static oscillations. It is clear from the way that we interact with the world that these assumptions are wrong, requiring a dynamic approach to investigate FC and the origins of what might be driving this. Here, a method combining short window correlation analysis and paradigm free mapping, a technique to detect spontaneous BOLD events without prior knowledge of their timings, is used to study the dynamic nature of these networks. It is further shown that these networks are at least in part driven by spontaneous activity, and that the rate of this spontaneous activity can be modulated by a task. These spontaneous events are then combined with network masks and temporal Independent Component Analysis to decompose these large scale networks into smaller sub-networks. Finally, the effects of spontaneous BOLD events on attention and task performance during a visual task is evaluated, highlighting how different brain regions that are not associated with a task can distract the subject's attention. It is shown that BOLD events that relate to a specific task use highly focal specific regions of the brain, confirming the spatial specificity of brain regions to a particular function.
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Hart, Linda Louise. "Accommodation : a novel." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2550.