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Fortenbery, Elizabeth C. "Women, language, and respect in rural St. Vincent and the Grenadines /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6526.
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Marshall, Haydn. "Why do so few young males of St. Vincent and the Grenadines embrace Christianity?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2009.
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Buttram, Mance Edwin. "Completing the Circle: Garifuna Pilgrimage Journeys from Belize to Yurumein." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193242.
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This thesis explores the connections that the Garifuna indigenous group of Belize has with their former homeland, the island of St. Vincent. After emerging as a distinct ethnic group during the 17th century, the Garifuna were exiled from St. Vincent by British colonial rulers in 1797. For the Garifuna people, the connection to the island is more than historical. It is also spiritual. Interviews were conducted in July 2006 in Belize with members of the Garifuna community who have made the journey back to the island. In addition to presenting the results of those interviews, this thesis will also provide a history of the Garifuna people, describe some of the spiritual aspects of the culture, and a discussion of the current literature on pilgrimage.
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Prescod, Paula. "A grammatical description of the noun phrase in the English-lexicon Creole of St Vincent and the Grenadines." Muenchen LINCOM Europa, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1000541185/04.
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Westfield, Volma T. "Colonial and Post-Colonial educational policies in the Windward islands: St. Vincent and the Grenadines." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2012. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/304.
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This study examines the purpose of colonial and post education policies in the British West Indies and more specifically, the post-independent government of St.Vincent and the Grenadines. The study concurs that the purpose of education should be for one’s personal, community and country’s development. The educated is likely to become productive members of society by engaging in activities that will foster development, create opportunities and promote policies that will enhance democratization of their country. The researcher found that neither the colonial nor post colonial purposes of education policies were specifically designed to develop the country. While the colonial education policies were designed to fulfill the needs of the colonial system, the post-colonial policies are primarily based on academia which is designed for the export market due to the lack of available local vacancies for the acquired education and skills. The conclusions drawn from the fmdings suggests that a brain drain has emerged with the citizens of SVG being educated, either for education sake as a means of pride, mobility or to fill the market for qualified personnel overseas.
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Prescod, Paula. "Une description grammaticale du syntagme nominal dans le créole anglophone de St-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030073.
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Nous proposons une description grammaticale du syntagme nominal (SN) du créole à base lexicale anglaise de Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines (VinC). Ce créole, co-existant avec l'anglais, langue officielle, n'a pas encore fait l'objet d'une description linguistique étoffée. C'est pourquoi une réflexion sur le processus de créolisation, basée sur des écrits historiques, précède l'analyse syntaxique proprement dite. Suit une analyse phonologique qui donne une idée concise de la valeur phonique et accentuelle du VinC. L'orthographe proposée à l'issue de cette analyse a facilité l'écriture des exemples fournis dans l'étude. Notre approche s'appuie, essentiellement, sur les théories fonctionnaliste et structuraliste en ce qu'elle dégage les relations syntaxiques qui lient les éléments du SN. La description grammaticale se fait en trois temps. Premièrement, nous dégageons les éléments centraux du SN, i. E. Le nom et ses substituts pronominaux. Ce premier repérage précède l'étude des expansions à gauche du nom. Il s'agit des déterminants et des modifieurs. Ensuite, nous proposons une approche unifiée des expansions à droite du SN, les postmodifieurs. Ainsi, du point de vue fonctionnel, les propositions relatives, de modalité et prépositionnelles, tout comme les compléments de noms, reçoivent la même analyse syntaxique. Le Chapitre 6 est consacré à des questions afférant au concept de référence et à la façon dont il influe sur l'emploi grammatical des déterminants définis et indéfinis. Ce chapitre prône une analyse en termes de familiarité et de capacité identificatoire des interlocuteurs, pour capter les concepts de définitude et de spécificité, termes grammatico-sémantiques, qui deviennent inopérants dans l'analyse du SN sans déterminantThis study proposes a grammatical description of the noun phrase (NP) of the English-lexicon Creole of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (VinC). VinC, which coexists with its superstrate, is at present linguistically unaccounted for. As a result, prior to the syntactic analysis, we reflect on the process of creolisation that could account for the origin of VinC, based on historical documents. We then provide a phonological analysis, which gives a concise idea of the phonemic and accentual features of VinC. The alphabet recommended, is intended to render the transcription of the examples provided in the study conform to the phonological nature of the creole. The grammatical description itself, covered in three chapters, hinges on the functionalist and structuralist frameworks, as it seeks to describe the syntactic relations existing between the constituents of the NP. Firstly, we study the features of the head of the NP, i. E. The noun and its substitutes. We then analyse the left expansions of nouns, i. E. Determiners as well as modifiers. The penultimate chapter offers a unified analysis of the post-modifiers of the VinC NP, i. E. Relative clauses, complementizer clauses, prepositional clauses and noun complements. The final chapter focuses on the concept of reference and how it influences the choice of definite and indefinite determiners. Here, we advocate an analysis based on the theory of familiarity and degree of identification from the hearer's point of view that could account for definiteness and specificity: grammatical-semantic notions that often fall short in their analysis of the null determiner
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Browne, Nadia. "The challenge of estimating the prevalence and predictors of gestational diabetes mellitus in St. Vincent and the Grenadines." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110680.
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Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a disease which results in numerous consequences for both pregnant women and their infants. Objective: The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of gestational diabetes and determine the predictors associated with the development of gestational diabetes in a population of pregnant women in the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Methods: A retrospective study was performed from August to October 2011 at 29 antenatal clinics throughout SVG using perinatal and antenatal records for 454 pregnant women who had singleton pregnancies. Statistical analyses of continuous and categorical variables were performed using t test and chi square test respectively to compare differences between pregnant women with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and GDM and women without IGT and GDM. Fisher's exact test was used for analyses involving small numbers.Results: Of the 454 pregnant women, only 11 had a documented oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Of these 11, 5 women had IGT and 2 had GDM. Significant predictors for the development of GDM were higher first documented weight (p < 0.001), higher last documented weight (p < 0.001), having a previous stillborn (p = 0.030) and a past medical history of a reproductive tract surgery (p = 0.005). Predictors that showed a tendency were higher pre-pregnancy weight (p = 0.056) and a previous caesarean section (p = 0.055). The significant pregnancy outcomes were a higher neonate birth weight (p = 0.002) and macrosomia (p = 0.002).Large quantities of missing data were present particularly for maternal height and pre-pregnancy weight limiting conclusions. Heights were missing for 71% of women with IGT/GDM and 66% of women without the conditions. There was 71% missing data for pre-pregnancy weight for those with IGT/GDM and 55% for women without IGT/GDM. Conclusion: Predictors associated with GDM were a higher first and last documented weight, having a previous stillborn and reproductive tract surgery and the associated pregnancy outcomes were increasing neonatal birth weight particularly a neonate birth weight greater than 4000 grams. The prevalence of gestational diabetes in St. Vincent and the Grenadines remains unknown as there is no routine screening.Keywords: gestational diabetes mellitus, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, prevalence, predictorsContexte: Le diabète gestationnel (DG) est une maladie qui se traduit par de nombreuses conséquences affectant à la fois les femmes enceintes et leurs bébés.Objectif : L'étude visait à estimer la prévalence du diabète gestationnel et déterminer les prédicteurs associés avec le développement du diabète gestationnel dans une population de femmes enceintes dans l'île antillaise de Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines (SVG). Méthodes : Une étude rétrospective a été réalisée d'août à octobre 2011 dans 29 cliniques prénatales à travers l'île en utilisant les dossiers prénataux et anténataux de 454 femmes enceintes ayant eu une grossesse unique. Les analyses statistiques de variables continues et nominales ont été effectuées en utilisant le test T et le test chi carré, respectivement, afin de comparer les différences entre les femmes enceintes ayant une intolérance au glucose (IGT) et le diabète gestationnel (DG) et les femmes sans IGT et DG. La méthode exacte de Fisher a été utilisée pour les analyses impliquant un petit nombre. Résultats : Sur les 454 femmes enceintes, seulement 11 avaient fait un test d'hyperglycémie provoqué par voie orale (HPO). Parmi ces 11 femmes, 5 avaient un IGT et 2 un DG. Des prédicteurs significatifs pour le développement du DG étaient les premiers poids documentés (p <0,001), les derniers poids documentés (p<0,001), ayant eu un mort-né précédemment (p=0,030) et des antécédents médicaux d'une chirurgie de l'appareil génital (p=0,005). Les prédicteurs qui ont montré une tendance étaient un poids plus élevé avant la grossesse (p=0,056) et ayant eu une césarienne précédemment (p=0,055). Les résultats pour les femmes atteintes de IGT/DG étaient un poids à la naissance du nouveau-né plus élevé (p = 0,002) et une macrosomie (p = 0,002). De grandes quantités de données manquantes étaient présentes en particulier concernant la taille de la mère et le poids avant la grossesse, ce qui limite les conclusions. Les données sur la taille manquaient pour 71% des femmes atteintes d'IGT/DG et environ 66% des femmes sans ces conditions. Il y avait 71% de données manquantes pour le poids avant la grossesse et 55% pour les femmes sans IGT/DG. Conclusion: Les prédicteurs associés avec le IGT/DG étaient un premier et dernier poids plus élevé, l'occurrence d'un mort-né précédemment et une chirurgie de l'appareil génital et les résultats associés à la grossesse ont été l'augmentation du poids néonatal avec un poids à la naissance de plus de 4000 g. La prévalence du diabète gestationnel à Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines reste inconnue car il n'y a pas de dépistage systématique. Mots-clés: diabète gestationnel, Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines, prévalence, prédicteurs
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Simmons, Andrew. "Impact of climate change on youth in small island communities : the case of St. Vincent and the Grenadines." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/17553.
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Building the resilience of youth to adapt to the impact of climate change is a significant development challenge faced by policymakers in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Climate Change is already impacting negatively on youth and their communities, their enterprises and their overall wellbeing, especially in locations exposed to seasonally intense climatic events. Little progress has been made in the last two decades on how to systemically reduce vulnerability in the broader context of human and environmental systems. Minimal understanding is known on the youth perspective of climate change. This knowledge gap denies policymakers and practitioners effective climate change education and adaptation strategy implementations in preparation for youth resilience against the impacts of future climate changes. The research explores the knowledge deficit between that which is known and that which is necessary for young people to enhance local resilience to climate change. Primary data was collected through interviews with sixteen policymakers, focus group discussions with eleven youth-related organisations, participatory mapping and case studies. Theories around youth development, education and training for climate adaptation in SIDS were reviewed and implemented in the development of a framework assessing the vulnerability of youths living in small island communities. The research explores the strategic effectiveness of actions within the context of top-down vs bottom-up approaches. The framework provides policymakers with a toolkit to enhance youth resilience capacity in SIDS to create sustainable livelihoods in SID communities. The study confirms notions that youth have been neglected in climate change schemes, having inadequate knowledge and skills to adapt to climate changes affecting them. Findings support the added value of the bottom-up approach compared to the use of the top-down method within the framework to improve youth practicality and awareness. Added value can be gained when using a hybrid top-down and bottom-up approach (refer to the definition of terms on pg. xi-xiii). Findings also highlight key change enablers such as technological innovation, financial and technical resource support, key officials' engagement, conducive policy/organisational environment and regional collaborations for youth empowerment in adapting to climate change in SIDS. The outcomes of the research discussed with key stakeholders in St. Vincent and the Grenadines found the framework applicable for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) on the island. Therefore, based on the similarities of SIDS, this may encourage the application of the framework in other SIDS contexts and environments. Overall, the findings fill a gap in the literature on youth and CCA in SIDS. The framework would encourage further research potential in impact assessment and adaptation areas.
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James, Godwin E. "Principals' and teachers' experiences and perceptions of school inspection in primary schools in St. Vincent and the Grenadines." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15754/.
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This thesis aims to privilege the voices of principals and teachers by interrogating their experiences and perceptions of the new phenomenon of school inspection (SI) in primary schools in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). The study also investigates how SI helps in understanding teaching and learning and leadership and management. Additionally, it looks at the implementation of the inspection recommendations and the challenges surrounding their implementation. I did this study out of an intrinsic interest in SI. It was a qualitative case study within the constructivist/interpretive paradigm. It utilised one-on-one interviews, documents, and observations to gather data. I used a postcolonial framework, a review of literature on SI, teaching and learning, leadership and management, and Ehren and Visscher’s theory of SI, as the main means, to analyse the findings. The study finds that accountability and school improvement are among the main experiences and perceptions of SI. There is unanimous agreement with its implementation, although there was some dissatisfaction with the top-down manner in which policymakers implemented it. SI has the potential to lead to school improvement, however, there are instances in which it results in negative unintended consequences on school staff. SI reveals leadership and management in primary schools is ineffective for the most part. However, there is some degree of evidence that leadership and management can make a difference in primary schools operating in challenging circumstances. Traditional teacher-centred methods dominate the teaching and learning process. The study also reveals that the implementation of inspection recommendations is limited to those that are easy to implement. Challenges, mainly from within the schools, exist to implementing those recommendations that are likely to have the greatest impact on change. There are ways in which SI may be enacted to fit the context of primary schools in SVG.
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Nanton, P. W. "The transfer of power in a small caribbean country : The role of the state in St. Vincent and the Grenadines." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377073.
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Gibson, W. L. "Sustainable development in the micro-states of the Commonwealth Caribbean : with specific reference to Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines." Thesis, University of Essex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299137.
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Armstrong, Ayanna. "Comparative and competitive advantages of drug trafficking in the Southeastern Caribbean Islands: a comparative study of Trinidad and Tobago. St. Vincent and the Grenadines." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2012. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/355.
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The purpose of this study was to examine drug trafficking and the major challenges that it poses to Caribbean development, particularly the cases of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. The analysis offered, expresses the specific challenges to SVG and T&T due to the proliferation of DTPOs. The study’s goals were: 1) To ascertain to what extent is drug trafficking a major problem for the region, 2) To identify what are the comparative and competitive determinants of drug trafficking in the Southeastern Caribbean islands, 3) To establish to what extent does supply and demand become important to the Drug Trade in the Caribbean, and Finally, 4) the identify the implications of this research for the Greater Caribbean region. A comparative evaluation of Caribbean political economy was used in conducting this research. The primary data collection was administered through Elite interviews with policy makers and officials in the Case study countries of Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. 26 interviews were conducted over a 6 month period be 2011. This study discusses the political economy of the illegal narcotics trade among the small island states of the Southeastern Caribbean. It argues that the growth of drug trafficking operations is the product of the comparative and competitive advantages that these islands’ economies benefit from globally, relative to other states.
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Deschamps, Alice. "Characterization of modern reefs using the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) protocol and digitized aerial photographs, Tobago Cays Marine Park, St. Vincent and the Grenadines." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/8613.
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A digital thematic map of the shallow marine habitats surrounding the Tobago Cays and the Horseshoe Reef was created using a low-cost remote sensing methodology. Colour aerial photographs were selected because of their high spatial resolution and availability. The aerial photographs were scanned, georeferenced, rectified (ground control points and a second order polynomial) and mosaicked to cover the entire study arm. Benthic classes were derived and described objectively using agglomerative hierarchical classification of field data. Supervised classification of the Tobago Cays was obtained using this field derived classification. The final thematic map comprises 8 classes (mixed live coral community, dead coral substratum with mixed algae, seagrass dominated, macro algae dominated, sand dominated, rubble dominated, deep water and beach sands) with an overall accuracy of 87% and a Kappa and Tau coefficients of 85%. Producer and user accuracies of individual classes range between 53% and 100%. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Lewis, Linton Aron. "The blacklisting of St. Vincent and the Grenadines by the FATF as a non-cooperative country in the fight against money laundering and the categorisation by the OECD as an uncooperative tax haven : justified or unjustified?" Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1749/.
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Mani, Lara. "Using computer visualisations to educate and communicate volcanic hazards to at-risk communities." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/12345.
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With an increase in the number of people living in proximity to active volcanic centres worldwide, there is a greater need to provide effective and engaging education and outreach programmes to reduce vulnerability and prepare exposed communities for potential future volcanic eruptions. The finalisation of the Sendai Framework (UNISDR, 2015a) has also cemented the need for disaster risk managers to engage at-risk communities with education and outreach programmes, to reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by volcanic eruptions worldwide. Education and outreach programmes are already commonplace for disaster risk reduction, with many taking the form of traditional presentations, maps, diagrams, TV and radio broadcasts. In recent years, there has been a shift towards the use of more creative media to communicate volcanic hazards and engage populations in outreach activities. These have included films, comic strips, puppet shows, board games and video games. However, to-date there is little empirical evidence for the use of these media with at-risk communities. This research seeks to address this issue by providing evidence for the effective use of creative media for volcanic hazard education by adopting the use of video games (or serious games). To assess how effective serious games could be as an education tool, a bespoke video game (St. Vincent’s Volcano) was developed collaborative with disaster risk agencies and communities on the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent and then trialled with adults and students from across the island. A range of outreach sessions were adopted to compare and contrast the applications of the game and to identify the most effective method of its delivery. These sessions included a traditional outreach presentation used as a control, and a group of UK students for a cohort comparison. Data were collected through a mixed-methods approach. Overall the results of the study demonstrate how successful the game can be as an education tool, promoting knowledge improvement in players. The results also demonstrate how the role of the outreach instructor is important to encourage engagement and can result in higher levels of overall positive engagement exhibited by the students. The game was also successful at promoting knowledge gain and engagement with adult participants. The results also demonstrated promise for games in promoting longer-term knowledge retention and for improving awareness of existing outreach materials. This research provides a foundation for the increased integration of emerging technologies within traditional education sessions. The work also shares some of the challenges and lessons learnt throughout the development and testing processes and provides recommendations for researchers looking to pursue a similar study or to adopt the use of serious games.
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Lowe, C. J. "Analysing vulnerability to volcanic hazards : application to St. Vincent." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20466/.
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Volcanology and volcanic risk assessment have in the past been strongly biased towards pure physical sciences and the study of hazard mechanisms. Traditional vulnerability analyses undertaken at volcanoes have focused on the vulnerability of buildings and the probabilities of loss of life given proximity to a volcanic hazard. These alone, however, cannot explain losses from historical volcanic eruptions. There is an additional strong vulnerability component to volcanic disasters that includes livelihoods, demographics of the population, and economic resources. This thesis reports research findings on vulnerability to volcanic hazards on the island of St. Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean. Four different methods are used to conduct a vulnerability analysis entailing: calculation of a Social Vulnerability Index, analysis of building vulnerability, creation of stakeholder mental maps, and evaluation of historical vulnerability. This mixed-method approach has been adopted as it combines both traditional quantitative methods with qualitative techniques. Only by applying such a range of methods at one location is one able to appraise the methods and compare the geography of the different elements of vulnerability captured. The results show that high levels of social and building vulnerability do not coincide, and that proximity to the threat was the most important variable identified by stakeholders. The historical analysis suggests that vulnerability on St. Vincent is a product of the island’s colonial history, and years of slavery, indentured labour, and the culture of migration for work and education abroad. It was determined that in the case of St. Vincent, no single method is able to capture all elements of vulnerability that are important to stakeholders. This research provides evidence of the need for context-specific vulnerability analyses that utilise a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, rather than the broad application of global standardised metrics.
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Twinn, Paul William. "Hegemony, Carib history and historical consciousness in St. Vincent." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445178/.
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This thesis proposes that the Caribs of St. Vincent, who form a small minority in the island, have been the subject of a European discourse of alterity from the fifteenth century onwards. It further argues that the key tropes employed by this discourse were primarily reflexive and focused on emerging concepts of self and property. It is argued that, as a consequence of the hegemonic position that British culture attained in St. Vincent, the Vincentian population, both Carib and non-Carib alike, internalized these tropes. This has led most modern studies of the Caribs to present them as a marginalized population on the verge of extinction. This thesis argues that contrary7 to this misconception, the position of the Caribs has fundamentally altered in the period since independence and now features at the core of an essentialist discourse of national identity. Following a general introduction, the second chapter deals primarily with the construction of the traditional tropes associated with Caribness. In the third chapter the relationship of the Caribs to a developing European anthropology is examined with reference to concepts of natural law. This is followed by an analysis of the insertion of the island of St. Vincent into the mercantilist world system. In chapter four the historiography of the Caribs is considered in terms of the influence of British texts, and alternative sources of information, primarily French and Dutch, are considered in terms of the development of an historical hegemony on the island Chapter five discusses the events in the latter half of the twentieth century which served to reinforce the stereotypes of the preceeding centuries and yet which, it is argued, brought about the possibility of new forms of self-identification. The following chapter deals with the role of land ownership as a catalyst for Carib self-consciousness. The antepenultimate chapter deals with modern historiography and the influences of supra-national discourses in the Caribbean, whilst the penultimate considers the role of the Caribs in modern party politics in St. Vincent. The thesis concludes with a summary of the theoretical implications of this study.
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Wittenstein, Rebecca. "Renascence the rebirth of Edna St. Vincent Millay and sentimentalism /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1066.
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Kimble, Elicia Victoria. "Archaeological Survey and Testing on St. Vincent Island, Northwest Florida." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4349.
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St. Vincent Island is one of the barrier islands in the Florida panhandle between Apalachicola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge encompasses all 5000 hectares of the island. Archaeological fieldwork in the summer of 2009 included a survey of the entire island and a test unit at one of the island's richest sites. In spring of 2010 a second test unit was excavated at another archaeologically rich site. A total of 16 known sites were investigated and two newly discovered sites recorded. This research combines all these data with information obtained from existing artifact collections and archives, as well as results of a widespread geological survey of the island, in order to characterize the prehistoric archaeological record on the island, which stretches back at least 4000 years or more, to the time of the island's first formation.
Subsistence, settlement patterns, site use, and change through time in the human adaptation on St. Vincent are described in relation to the preexisting cultural chronology of the region, especially that of other barrier islands. Settlement from all time periods is
concentrated on the north and east shorelines, with not much human use of the island interior until recent historic time. Geological indication of sea level fluctuations on the islands oldest shoreline section, on the northeast tip, is combined with archaeological
evidence to suggest responses to rising sea levels.
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Boa, Sheena. "Colour, class and gender in post-emancipation St. Vincent, 1834-1884." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/39697/.
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This thesis examines the experiences of the inhabitants of St. Vincent during the first fifty years of freedom. It examines social changes, work opportunities and areas of conflicts that developed during the period. It also details the effects of the declining economy on the islanders. The main subjects of the thesis are the agricultural labourers who were freed from slavery. It investigates their working lives, their attempts to achieve independent status as freeholders and their family and religious experiences. It also examines the changing attitudes towards them that were held by the planter class, the clergy and colonial officials, and how these views influenced the formation of a free society. In particular, the thesis investigates how perspectives of race, class and gender differed within the island, and how these divergencies created hostilities between different social groups often leading to unrest. While the main focus of the thesis is St. Vincent, it also compares conditions in St. Vincent with other Caribbean islands and Britain. This has helped illustrate how some local conditions, such as the lack of available land, ineffective plantation management and economic factors, reduced the opportunities for the freed people of St. Vincent. However, it also illustrates a commonality of experiences among the poor in both the Caribbean and Britain. It illustrates how the lives of the poor in the Caribbean were often restricted by the same class and gender biases experienced in Britain, as well as by racial prejudices held by the ruling authorities. The thesis relies on a variety of source material. Most of the primary sources were official Colonial Office dispatches, newspapers and Wesleyan missionary letters and reports. Throughout the thesis, I have questioned the motivations of the writers of these documents and interpreted the discourses they employed. I have also attempted to place the findings of my research within current debates among Caribbean historians of the postemancipation period to illustrate the importance of further gender analysis and research.
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Forrest, Beth M. "Evolution of the beach ridge strandplain on St. Vincent Island, Florida." Tallahassee, Florida : Florida State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04062007-174654/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2007.Advisor: Joseph Donoghue, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Geological Sciences. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed on April 27, 2010). Document formatted into pages; contains xix, 269 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Andall, Glennis Margaret. "Management, control, knowledge and perception of hypertension in two Caribbean countries : implications for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366479.
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Brichto, Olga Tsyganova. "Make bright the arrows Edna St. Vincent Millay and the new lyric /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/642327100/viewonline.
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Moravetz, Iosif. "Imaging adornos : classification and iconography of Saladoid adornos from St. Vincent, West Indies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ41746.pdf.
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Meakin, Simone. "Palynological analysis of the Clinton Coal Measures, northern St. Vincent Basin, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbm481.pdf.
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Schmidt, Rolf. "Eocene bryozoa of the St Vincent Basin, South Australia - taxonomy, biogeography and palaeoenvironments /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs3491.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Discipline of Geology and Geophysics, 2003?Includes Publication list by the author as appendix A. "July 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-324).
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Doecke, Andrew Damian. "Post-glacial rebound : the early Oligocene marine transgression in the St. Vincent Basin /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbd649.pdf.
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Mohs, Stephanie Alexandra. "Schwangerschaft und Diabetes - Konnten die Ziele der St. Vincent Declaration von 1989 umgesetzt werden?" Diss., lmu, 2004. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-30866.
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Forsthoefel, Jennifer Rose. "Naming Experience and Revealing Sentiment: The Archetypal Journey in Edna St Vincent Millay's "Renascence"." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/63.
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This thesis uses archetypal theory as explained by Carol Pearson in The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By to illustrate the heroic journey undertaken by the protagonist in Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "Renascence." Feminist archetypal theory is a useful lens for gaining the reader access to the underlying paradigms of struggle experienced by the female literary character because it exposes the parallels that exist in separate female experiences. By applying Pearson's theory to Millay's work, readers are able to elucidate more clearly the methods used by the poet to create commonality and continuity with her female audience. Throughout the poem, the protagonist hero recursively circles through the Innocent, Orphan, Martyr, Wanderer, Warrior, and Magician phases. This essay utilizes a close reading strategy to illustrate its argument and provide evidence to its conclusions.
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Forsthoefel, Jennifer R. "Naming experience and revealing sentiment the archetypal journey in Edna St Vincent Millay's "Renascence" /." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/63/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed July 27, 2010) Marti Singer, committee chair; Mary Hocks, Paul Schmidt, committee members. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-64).
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April, LeQuéré Philippe. "Hydrodynamic Modeling of the Impact of a Proposed New Coastline Groyne Structure on Floating Debris Pathways at Paget Farm, in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37056.
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To accommodate an increasing number of tourists visiting Bequia, the second largest island of Saint-Vincent and the Grenadines, the local government constructed an airport, through a major coastline land-reclamation project. However, due to the prevailing ocean current patterns in the area, an inlet created on the east side of the new airport is prone to trapping significant amounts of ocean-borne debris. This litter accumulation creates a health risk to local fishermen who clean their daily catch using water from the inlet. It is proposed to install a rubble-mound groyne structure on the eastward side of the new inlet to address this problem. The utilisation of a coastline groyne in this case is somewhat unorthodox, as the latter is normally employed to mitigate against coastal erosion.
The goal of this study is to optimise the groyne design with the assistance of a 3D numerical model. The ‘Delft3D’ open-source model (WAVE and FLOW modules) was selected to examine the effects of different orientations and lengths of the proposed groyne on the movements of floating debris. Included in the initial phase of the study was a field investigation to collect certain data which were necessary for model calibration and validation. This involves the use of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to measure local shore bathymetry and also current velocities over a range of tidal cycles.
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Shubber, Basim. "Mid-Cenozoic cool-water carbonate facies and their diagenetic history , St. Vincent Basin, South Australia." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs5615.pdf.
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Copies of author's previously published works inserted. Bibliography: p. 173-197. Provides significant insight for studies on cool-water carbonate accumulations throughout the geologic record. The model effectively serves for interpreting the diagenetic pathways in ancient calcitic facies, and can be applied towards directing the course of exploration for hydrocarbons and economic ore deposits.
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Heath, Emily. "Genesis and evolution of calc-alkaline magmas at Soufriere volcano, St Vincent, Lesser Antilles arc." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360643.
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Soufriere of St. Vincent is the most active subaerial volcano in the Lesser Antilles arc, and is composed of basalts and basaltic andesites. Eruptive style has tended to alternate between predominantly effusive and explosive, although magma compositions show no systematic variations with time. New Ar-Ar and 14C dates help to constrain the geological evolution of the (- 0.6 Ma) volcano. Parental, possibly primary, magmas at Soufriere had MgO contents exceeding 12 wt.% (mg# 75) and were probably nepheline-normative. They may be representative of the parental magmas of the calc-alkaline suites of the Lesser Antilles arc. The source mantle probably resembled that of N-MORB, prior to metasomatic enrichment by hydrous slab-derived fluids, containing contributions from subducted sediments and oceanic crust. Parental magmas last equilibrated with the mantle at - 17 kbar pressure, with temperatures greater than 1130·C and f02 exceeding FMQ +1. Near-primary basaltic lavas were only erupted during the earliest (Pre-Somma) phase of volcanism. Basaltic andesites (and occasional andesites) were produced by fractionation of 01 + spinel + cpx + plag ± opx over a range of crustal pressures (5-10kbar), at temperatures mainly in the range 1000 - 1l00·C. The total amount of crystallization was some 76 wt. %, and amphibole was apparently not a fractionating phase. There is conflicting evidence as to the pre-eruptive water contents of Soufriere magmas; phenocryst compositions suggest H20 > 3 wt. %, whereas various projections into phase diagrams are more consistent with relatively anhydrous magmas. Magma mixing did not apparently play a significant role in the evolution of most Soufriere magmas, and fractional crystallization was not accompanied by crustal assimilation, judging from trace element and Sr-Nd isotope systematics. New U-Th mineral isochrons suggest that magmas resided for tens of thousands of years within the crust, which requires rather stable thermodynamic conditions in the magma chamber(s) beneath Soufriere.
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Michailidou, Artemis. "A revisionary interpretation of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry : modernism, feminism, classicism and cultural legacy." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395894.
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Miller, Jozelle Marcene. "When love becomes dangerous : an in-depth look into heterosexual relationships in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and their link to HIV transmission amongst Vincentian women." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5471/.
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Understanding why persons repeatedly place themselves at risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), amidst the wealth of prevention information available is of profound importance. Presently, scientific research of this phenomenon has been dominated by the cognitive models of health behaviour, but these were criticised for ignoring emotional, social and cultural influences on sexual behaviour. This thesis explored and investigated some of these non-cognitive factors within the specific cultural context of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, with sole reference to women, to understand why women put themselves at risk and also help inform the country’s efforts to tackle the problem. This research comprised of four studies, each targeting women ages (18-40 yrs) and sexually involved in relationships. Study one was a qualitative study (N= 10), which explored women’s perceptions of the socio-cultural influences which contributes to their decision to engage in risky sex. Study two was a quantitative study in which (N=75), HIV+ women were surveyed, on whether they contracted HIV from within their long term relationships. Study three was a qualitative Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study (N=9); in-depth interviews investigated the intricacies of long-term relationships that made them more likely to influence unsafe sexual practices. Study four was a quantitative study (N=60) women; used questionnaires to investigate the validity that tolerance to infidelity and non use of condoms in long term relationships, which contributes to HIV transmission amongst Vincentian women. This research confirmed the existing limitations of the Cognitive models on health when applied to sexual behavior and produced evidence that Vincentian women more at vulnerable to contracting HIV within their long term relationships.
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Kennedy, Laura Lynn. "The potential of agroforestry systems in controlling soil erosion on sloping lands, St. Vincent, West Indies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ38596.pdf.
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Minn, Gisela. "Kathedralstadt und Benediktinerkloster : die Abtei St. Vinzenz und die Stadt Metz im Mittelalter /." Trier : Kliomedia, 2002. http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2003-1-105.
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Kangas, M. I. "Postlarval and juvenile western king prawn Penaeus latisulcatus Kishinovye studies in Gulf St Vincent, South Australia, with reference to the commerical fishery /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phk159.pdf.
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Anderson, Kathryn Elizabeth. "“These Were the Things That Bounded Me”: A New Examination of Millay’s Dramatic Works." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207239609.
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Ålander, Jonas. ""Something to add to the body and shake" : - En studie om människan och musiken i St. Vincent och Grenadinerna." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Musikhögskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-18835.
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Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka människors förhållningssätt till musik i landet St. Vincent och Grenadinerna. Studien bygger på fältarbete som genomfördes där under tre veckor i april 2011 och undersöker hur begrepp som musik, musikalitet och ”bra” musik definieras. Vidare beskrivs hur musik kan påverka människan samt musikens funktioner i det dagliga livet. Studien bygger på sex stycken kvalitativa intervjuer av personer med olika ålder, kön, och bakgrund från St. Vincent och Grenadinerna. Intervjuerna spelades in under olika förhållanden och informanterna valdes ut genom snöbollsurval och målinriktat urval. Resultatet visar att musik är viktigt för och en stor del av informanternas liv. Musik definieras som känslor och funktioner eller ett medel för att förändra känslor. Musikalitet definieras till största del som något alla har men musiker anses ofta vara specialister. ”Bra” musik anses vara musik som berör individen. Musik betraktas ibland i det dagliga livet som en hjälp genom dagen eller en verklighetsflykt. Bland tidiga och starka minnen av musik visar resultatet att kyrkan och ”gatan” framkommer som platser där musik ofta förekommer. Samtliga informanter har erfarenheter av musikinstrument och gehör framstår som det främsta sättet att lära sig spela. Musik används vid olika situationer t.ex. när sinnestillstånd vill förändras eller yrkesliv utvecklas. Resultatet visar att musik påverkar människor på både positiva och negativa sätt. Budskap genom text i musiken är den främsta orsaken och budskap i västindiska musikgenrer diskuteras. Avslutningsvis menar informanterna att musiken förenar människor, men att det beror på kontexten.
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Smith, Jason Kihlgren. "An assessment of blue mahoe (Hibiscus elatus) growth using topographic, soil, and litter properties in St. Vincent, West Indies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ64979.pdf.
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Cann, John. "Holocene and Late Pleistocene Benthic Foraminifera and inferred Palaeo sea levels, Spencer and St. Vincent Gulfs and southeastern South Australia /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc224.pdf.
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Bristol, George S. "Embracing universal access to secondary education in St. Vincent : what are the costs and consequences for parents in beneficiary households?" Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618547.
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Governments, multilateral donor agencies, civil society, development scholars all agree that education contributes to poverty reduction. In St Vincent and the Grenadines, this conviction underpinned the implementation of the Universal Access to Secondary Education (UASE) initiative of 2005 that provided all successful Vincentian primary school students with access to live years of secondary school education. The same sort of confidence in the ability of education to reduce poverty has also motivated Vincentian parents to embrace the UASE initiative, and to make a variety of decisions that have allowed their children to take advantages of the new educational opportunities for secondary education. This dissertation investigates these decisions; highlight the cultural and economic contexts in which these decisions have been made; and illuminate the contributions that fathers and mothers have each made to the s success of the initiative. A core theme of this study is that while Vincentian households are decreasing male dominated, major gender differences remain. In particular, while adult males in some poor households have borne additional burdens because of the VASE initiative, adult females have done so in virtually all households. Previous poverty studies using statistical methods to link education to poverty reduction have been insufficiently sensitive to social changes that have proven often necessary for parents to embrace expanded opportunities for the education of their children. Therefore, this thesis adopts a qualitative case study approach that is based on 49 semi-structured interviews and 2 focus group meetings. This research strategy is well suited to capture people's lived experiences; their own understandings of these experiences; the reason why parents make important sacrifices for the sake of their children' education; and the related transformation of gender traditional gender roles and gendered division of labour, on the part of some though importantly not all mothers and fathers. Empirically, the study reflects on tensions and contradictions within households about these transformations, and the increasingly important role of women in household decision-making. These household circumstances have been an important part of the context from which poverty statistics have often emerged, and the study contributes a fuller account of the traditional expectations, practices and work orientation of Vincentian parents. A sound grasp of theses socio-cultural and historical characteristics is vital in accounting for observed changes in parents' households re1ations. In documenting and accounting for household processes and orientations that have accompanied parental embrace of the UASE initiative: this study shows how fathers have exhibited a range of dispositions to their households. These have reflected their gendered orientation to the division of labour and their varying degrees of willingness to transform their orientation. In contrast to the variability of these fathers, women - in their roles as mothers, have almost invariably borne heavy burdens in terms of added domestic labour and sometimes paid labour outside the house. Attaching tremendous importance to their roles as mothers, women have taken this responsibility upon themselves in households where adult males simply refused or at least were very reluctant to do what was necessary. These sacrifices were necessary if their children were to attend secondary school. In this sense, the success of the UASE has come at an important cost to these mothers. Mothers' pro-school actions catalysed many unintended changes to household relations and cultural practices - changes not well documented in previous poverty studies. These findings have important implications for the focus of future poverty reductions studies and poverty reduction initiatives. Poverty related studies should expand their purview to embrace more nuanced analysis on the ways in which culture and poverty have interacted to shape the lived experience of people in diverse geographical locations and have in turn shaped responses 10 education-poverty reduction initiatives.
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Ciccaglione, Julia Serafina. "Characterization of soil erosion processes and nutrient losses associated with previously forested areas, the Colonarie River Watershed, St. Vincent, West Indies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0026/MQ31337.pdf.
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Sanoamuang, La-orsri. "The ecology of mountain lake rotifers in Canterbury, with particular reference to Lake Grasmere and the genus Filinia Bory de St. Vincent." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Zoology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5726.
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Aspects of the systematics, ecology and distribution of New Zealand planktonic rotifers are examined in this thesis. Thirty-five lakes and two sets of ponds in the South Island were surveyed for rotifers during 1988-1991. Of 85 taxa identified, 32 were first records for New Zealand, bringing the rotifers recorded from the country to 332 taxa. Four species (Keratella australis, K slacki, Lecane herzigi and L. tasmaniensis), previously recorded as endemic to Australia, are added to the New Zealand checklist.
Species composition, seasonal abundance, and vertical distribution of planktonic rotifers were investigated in Lake Grasmere, South Island, based on a biweekly sampling program from November 1988 to January 1990. Of the 44 species identified in the lake, 17 were planktonic with Polyarthra cf. dolichoptera, Keratella cochlearis, and Pompholyx sulcata dominant. Maximum rotifer densities occurred in May (1600 ind.1-1) and October (1500 ind.1-1), and numbers were lowest in July
(120 ind.1-1) and March (250 ind:-1). The majority of species were most abundant in midwater (5-9 m depth), although some showed depth preferences near the surface or the bottom.
A simple, rapid technique for the preparation of rotifer trophi for scanning electron microscopy is described. The method permits careful visual monitoring of trophi during the extraction process and does not require critical point drying of specimens. Subsequently, trophi of Filinia species from 16 South Island lakes and three North Island lakes were examined and compared with specimens from
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Turkey, and Yemen. Five species of Filinia (brachiata, longiseta, cf. pejleri, novaezealandiae, and terminalis) were positively identified from the New Zealand samples. Numbers of unci teeth were considered to be the most reliable features for identification within the genus. Numbers obtained from SEM are listed for the first time.
Experiments on the influence of temperature (5°-25°C) on morphology, life history, and growth rate of F. terminalis and F. cf. pejleri were performed in replicated individual cultures with Oocystis sp. as food. Some morphological characteristics previously used in identification of both species were found to be affected by temperature and also by life cycle stage. However, numbers of unci teeth were not affected. Body and setal lengths, life spans, all stages of development, and growth rates of both species decreased with increasing temperature. Offspring number per female of both rotifers was highest at 20°C, but the maximum growth rate of F. telminalis was at 25°C, whereas that of F. cf. Pejleri was at 20°C.
Finally, I examined the effect of salinity on survival and growth of Hexarthra fennica, a species found normally in saline waters but also found in freshwater Lake Grasmere. The freshwater euryhaline H. fennica was able to survive and reproduce at salinities up to 13%, whereas a related species H. mira (found only in freshwaters) was unable to survive at > 1%.
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Bond, Kellie Anne. "All things counter : the argument of forms in modern American poetry /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061932.
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Mata, Buil Ana. "La antología como carta de presentación de un poeta. Estudio del modernismo norteamericano y propuesta de antología bilingüe de Edna St. Vincent Millay." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/387231.
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Esta tesis doctoral pretende estudiar la antología poética de un solo autor como vía de entrada de un poeta en el sistema literario de la cultura de llegada. Para ello, parte del análisis de la recepción en inglés y en castellano de un corpus de poetas del modernismo norteamericano, entendido en sentido amplio y «polifónico», y se detiene en el estudio de las antologías de poetas modernistas publicadas en castellano, relacionando el capital simbólico del autor con el del traductor-antólogo, en la línea de los estudios de sociología de la traducción. Por último, se propone introducir a la poeta Edna St. Vincent Millay en nuestro sistema literario a través del estudio de su poesía y
de la presentación de una antología poética bilingüe que aplique los principios de la hermenéutica. La investigación aportará un análisis transnacional y diacrónico (ejes de la literatura comparada) de la recepción del movimiento modernista norteamericano y reivindicará tanto la importancia de la antología poética de un solo autor como la del traductor-antólogo que la crea.This PhD research focuses on the study of a single author’s poetic anthology as a poet’s means of entry into the target culture’s literary system. Its starting point will be the analysis of the reception (in both English and Spanish) of a corpus of North American Modernist poets in the wide, «polyphonic» sense of the term. It will then look at anthologies of Modernist poets published in Spanish, relating the symbolic capital of the author with that of the translator-anthologist according to sociological translation studies. Finally, the project aims to introduce Edna St. Vincent Millay into our literary system through the study of her poetry and through the presentation of a bilingual anthology that applies hermeneutic principles. This research will provide a transnational and diachronic analysis—the axes of Comparative Literature— of the reception of the North American Modernist movement, vindicating the importance of an author’s poetic anthology as well as of the translatoranthologist who has created it.
Aquesta tesi doctoral té per objectiu estudiar l’antologia poètica d’un autor com a via d’entrada d’un poeta al sistema literari de la cultura d’arribada. A partir de l’anàlisi de la recepció en anglès i castellà d’un corpus de poetes del modernisme nord-americà, entès en sentit ampli i «polifònic», s’estudien en profunditat les antologies de poetes modernistes publicades en castellà i es relaciona el capital simbòlic de l’autor amb el del traductor-antòleg, d’acord amb la sociologia de la traducció. En darrer lloc, el projecte pretén introduir la poeta Edna St. Vincent Millay al nostre sistema literari mitjançant l’estudi de la seva poesia i la presentació d’una antologia poètica bilingüe que apliqui els principis de l’hermenèutica. La recerca oferirà una anàlisi transnacional i diacrònica (eixos de la literatura comparada) de la recepció del moviment modernista nord-americà i reivindicarà tant la importància de l’antologia poètica d’un autor com la del traductor-antòleg que la crea.
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Hackman, Richard Leonard. "Soil erosion and nutrient dynamics in tropical mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) and acacia (Acacia mangium) forest plantations of the Caratal Watershed, St. Vincent, West Indies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ38588.pdf.
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Lebel, Louis. "Mutations de la culture politique au Québec, entre 1960 et 1980 : le cas des membres de la Société St-Vincent de Paul de Québec." Thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2009/26407/26407.pdf.
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Le, Bel Louis. "Mutations de la culture politique au Québec, entre 1960 et 1980 : le cas des membres de la Société St-Vincent de Paul de Québec." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/20944.
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Cette étude tente de mettre en évidence l'évolution de la culture politique des bénévoles de la Société St-Vincent de Paul de Québec entre 1960 et 1980 et ce, en lien avec le développement de l'État-providence. Pour ce faire, une analyse des normes relatives à leur engagement civique est effectuée dans le cadre d'une refonte de la règle de la Société St-Vincent de Paul ayant cours durant la période concernée. Formulée dans un contexte où l'Église redéfinit le rôle des laïcs et dans celui du développement des mécanismes de protection sociale au Canada et au Québec, cette refonte permet dans une certaine mesure aux vincentiens de concevoir leur association comme lieu de l'engagement civique d'une manière qui leur est spécifique. Ensuite, l'étude des différentes pratiques de l'engagement mises de l'avant par les vincentiens révèle une adaptation évidente à l'empiètement graduel par l'État des champs d'action occupés jusque-là par la société civile. On peut ainsi retracer une certaine volonté de rediriger les lieux de l'engagement vers des champs inoccupés par les agences gouvernementales. Enfin, par l'examen de la place de la religion dans les normes et pratiques des vincentiens, la charité chrétienne est proposée comme ± milieu¿ de mémoire alors qu'elle est devenue un ± lieu¿ de mémoire pour la majorité des Québécois. Cela permet de proposer la charité chrétienne comme caractéristique distinctive de la culture politique des vincentiens.