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Pollack, Alexander Gregory. "Half-virgin." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5010.
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Half-Virgin is a cross-genre collection of essays, short stories, and poems about the humor, pain, and occasional glory of journeying into adulthood but not quite getting there. The works in this collection seek to create a definition of a term, "half-virgin," that I coined in the process of writing this thesis. Among the possibilities explored are: an individual who embarks upon sexual activity for the first time and does not achieve orgasm; an individual who has reached orgasm through consensual sexual activity, but has remained uncertain about what he or she is doing; and the curious sensation of being half-child, half-adult. Ultimately, I believe, a "half-virgin" possesses all of these traits. One of the goals of the collection is to scramble the prototypical coming-of-age story into bits and parts and halves. Among the approaches included are earnest memoir (the real and metaphorical costumes a young couple wears on Halloween), character-driven fiction (the life story of Marlow, a college track star who ends up the unwitting inspiration for Super Mario Brothers), and narrative experiments (a tongue-in-cheek creative writing syllabus and a bullet pointed resume of sexual conquests). By exploring the untidy fragments in love, lust, and human connection in these works, Half-Virgin aspires to find wholeness through the jagged adventures of growing up.ID: 029809539; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Includes reading list (p. 156-159).; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.
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Serravalle, Dean. "The schizophrenic virgin." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ52660.pdf.
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Forster, Wendy. "Dark Virgin of Tepeyac." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1446112.
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Pierce, Bethany M. "Courting the Virgin Mary." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154462978.
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Lavigne, Géraldine. "L'école des sculpteurs du Puy-de-Dôme." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997CLF20001.
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Cette thèse est consacrée aux sculpteurs ayant suivi une formation ou ayant travaillé dans le Puy-de-Dôme, au 19e. La 1ère partie est consacrée à l'étude des divers aspects de l'école de sculpture locale à travers l'évocation de la formation artistique, de la carrière des artisans et des artistes, et de la production sculptée. Les artistes apparaissent très marqués par leur formation classique, reproduisant les schémas enseignés par l'école des Beaux-Arts. Toutefois, ils affirment une certaine originalité dans l'affirmation de leur identité auvergnate. Ce travail est très documenté. La 2e partie est un répertoire des sculpteurs en activité durant le 19e. Chaque artiste dispose d'une notice qui indique, si nous les connaissons, des informations comme : les noms et prénoms, les dates de naissance et décès, le lieu de travail, les matérieux employés, la filiation, les sources, la bibliographie et les oeuvres. La 3e, regroupe plus de 400 illustrations présentant les oeuvres locales et des ouvrages de comparaisonThis thesis studies sculptors formed or who had worked, in the Puy-de-Dôme, during the nineteenth century. The first part analyses the school of sculptors through their formation, their careers and their production. Although, artists are influenced by their classic formation, they are original in the expression of their identity. This work is completed by different documents. The second part is a repertory of sculptors who had worked during the nineteenth century. For each artist you can find the name and the surname, date of birth and death, bibliography and works. The third part is composed of four hundred illustrations of works from the Auvergne and other parts of France
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Bates, Brian David. "Ceramic period settlement in the Virgin Island group, United States and British Virgin Islands." Thesis, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271423.
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McLaren, Mary Christina. "Marianne Moore, a notorious virgin." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0017/MQ49401.pdf.
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Troyen, Carol. "Dürer's Life of the Virgin /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : University microfilms international, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35535181v.
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Brunel, Bernard. "Le vouloir-vivre et la force des choses : Augerolles en Livradois-Forez du XVIIe au XIXe siècle /." Clermont-Ferrand : Institut d'études du Massif central, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355230064.
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Dinas, Heather, and com au heather@heatherdinas. "The Virgin and the Temptress: Scintillae." RMIT University. Creative Media, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070111.164249.
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'The virgin, the temptress and the godess' is a visual exploration of love, longing and beauty from the carnal though to the sublime. The narrative of the research has several subtexts: one that explores female archetypes, the muse as figurative source of inspiration and also beauty as a transcendental catalyst. I have sought to represent a comprehensive vision of the female muse that embraces both the spiritual and the sensual and explores the duality of corporeal and metaphysical yearning. This is done through photographic imagery; the journey that it evokes is an interior landscape that takes place in the purgatory that is longing and ascends to a sublime state of stillness and peace through the experience of the divine.
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Oldfield, Brian (Brian K. ). "US Virgin Islands renewable energy future." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83732.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The US Virgin Islands must face drastic changes to its electrical system. There are two problems with electricity production in the USVI-it's dirty and it's expensive. Nearly one hundred percent of the electricity in these islands comes from imported diesel, brought in by ship. Expensive fuel and inefficient power generation facilities have caused residential electricity rates to soar to $0.58 per kWh-five times the national average.' These electricity prices are causing businesses to close their doors and residents to camp in the dark in their own homes because they are unable to pay the bills. This must change. Electricity prices must come down, else risk political and economic disaster. The thesis proposes a set of policies to help USVI get cleaner as its energy gets cheaper. Nearly year-round, the Caribbean sun shines and the Trade Winds blow, yet both are virtually unused. The USVI is in a position to be a world leader in clean energy. The USVI government has demonstrated its commitment to this role as a clean energy leader. In 2009, Governor John P. DeJongh passed Act 7075, creating an ambitious renewable energy standard. By 2025, the USVI will reduce fossil fuel use by 60 percent. Having committed itself, the USVI must determine how it may meet this goal. In this paper, I analyze the issues and propose specific paths towards the USVI clean energy future.
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Russell, David William. "Reciprocal management of religious virgin mothers." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/337557/.
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This study concerns two women who were religiously active either side of the Great Schism (1378–1417), a period of intensification of the excesses of personal pride and political ambition that divided the western Church and caused distress to devoted, thoughtful laity and clerics alike. Devout laity sought new expressions of piety in these stressful times and through examining the written legacies of two non-enclosed religious women, Caterina Benincasa and Margery Kempe, I explore not only the contemplative/devotional practices that characterise them, but also the clerics upon whom they relied for protection, support and guidance in male-dominated, strife-ridden medieval Europe. The two women, a northern Italian lifelong virgin for Christ and an East Anglian mother of fourteen children, prima facie, appear to have little in common except claimed illiteracy, a diversity of influences and acknowledging Bridget of Sweden as a fundamental inspirational source. However, both of their personal and literary management teams included members of several religious orders and their written productions were mostly dictated to and edited by men. They both negotiated their ecclesiastical acceptance from the position of institutionally inferior women through the exclusively female rôles of mother/sister/daughter in exerting influence over their father/brother/son managers through confronting them with their male self-images. Although the management practices applied in each case were very different in terms of structure and hierarchical level, the women‘s negotiations with the men followed similar lines, albeit through different written media. Caterina‘s negotiating techniques are found in the immediate medium of her letters and they involve persuasion and instruction as she tries to create situations that she can control in furtherance of her objectives. The study includes a selection of twelve letters that I have translated in full and analysed from the perspective of the register of the dialogues, the style and the imagery contained therein. Evidence of Margery Kempe‘s influence over her managers, including her husband, comes solely from the medium of the retrospective narrative of her Book in which she chooses the events that illustrate how she reacts to and manipulates people and situations to her advantage. The clerical managers were responsible for keeping their head-strong charges compliant with ever-changing contemporary views of orthodoxy within parameters negotiated between the women and the institutional church. Although there are clear, identifiable parallels between the managers in their styles and techniques, there are also differences rooted in the managers‘ perceptions of the two women‘s respective contributions to the furtherance of institutional aims. Caterina‘s situation was that of a woman whose institutional support was considered necessary at the highest levels of the Church‘s management structure. In Margery Kempe‘s case the management seemed to use her to develop aspects of their local inter-institutional competition for status and alms in Lynn. Despite this difference in influential level there is the strong probability of personal contact and shared theological academic backgrounds among the clerics that draws the teams together. This study concentrates primarily on comparing and contrasting the subtleties of the negotiations between each woman and her managers, negotiations which are often influenced by the women‘s introduction of the transcendental force of God‘s will as revealed only to them, and secondarily on the possible connections between the managers that link England to Italy, Lynn to Siena and Margery to Caterina. The management techniques revealed are independent of any connections between the managers and there is little by way of common techniques apart from the complexities of reciprocal management and the women‘s exploitation of male conceptions of what is appropriate to themselves (the managers) and to women in the Church.
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Brunel, Bernard. "Augerolles et la Renaudie (Forez auvergnat) du milieu du XVIIe à la fin du XIXe siècle : étude démographique, économique, et sociale : essai sur le devenir d'une communauté rurale de moyenne montagne." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990CLF20030.
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Entrepris en 1983, dans le cadre d'une nouvelle thèse, ce travail de recherche en démographie historique concerne une communauté de plus de 3. 000 personnes vivant en moyenne montagne. La reconstitution complète des familles a été faite de 1663 a 1872, aboutissant à plus de 5. 000 fiches de famille de types divers. L'utilisation d'un logiciel informatique, conçu par moi-même a permis d'approfondir tous les aspects classiques du comportement démographique (nuptialité, fécondité, familles, mortalité) selon des catégories sociales bien délimitées. En plus des 40. 000 actes d'état civil concernant la reconstitution, 25. 000 actes de mariage ont été relevés dans quinze communes voisines, huit listes nominatives analysées, ainsi que 30. 000 actes divers, surtout fiscaux et notariaux. Outre des aspects méthodologiques nouveaux permettant une analyse plus large (fiche de famille enrichie, enregistrement des actes sur micro-cassettes, traitement informatique) nos conclusions démontrent une grande stabilité des paramètres fondamentaux démographiques et économiques, se traduisant par une surpopulation constante, à l'interieur d'un système technique de production et d'une transmission du patrimoine sans grands changements, dans le cadre d'une production alimentaire déficitaire et monotone, imposant un recours à la migration sous diverses formesUndertaken in 1983 as part of a new thesis this research work on historical demography concerns a community of more than 3. 000 people living in "the medium mountains". The complete reconstruction of families from 1663 to 1872 was made involving more than 5. 000 diverse family information cards. The use of personnaly devised software has enable me to study thoroughly all the classic aspects of de demographic behaviour such as the mariages-rate, birth-rate, family developpement, death-rate, within well defined social categories. Besides the 40. 000 various certificates-births marriages, deaths - needed for this reconstruction, 25. 000 marriage certificates in fifteen nearby parishes were needed and taken into account eight nominal lists were analysed as well as 30. 000 other varies certificates mostly tax certificates or certificates from public notaries. In addition to new methodological aspects permitting a deeper analysis - more detailed family information cards, records on micro-cassettes of the certificates and data processing - my conclusions show a great stability in the fundamental demographic and economic parameters resulting in constant overpopulation inside a technical system of production and transfer of capital and property without great change and in the scope
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Carvalho, Joelia Marques de. "Virgin cashew nut oil (VCNO) and extra virgin cashew nut oil (EVCNO): processing, characterization, sensory evaluation and bioactivity." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15334.
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A amÃndoa de castanha de caju (ACC) à um dos principais produtos do agronegÃcio cearense, mas tambÃm à fonte de renda para pequenos produtores rurais, principalmente nos perÃodos de estiagem. A amÃndoa de castanha de caju de maior valor para comercializaÃÃo à que aquela se classifica como inteira de primeira qualidade. As amÃndoas de castanha de caju de qualidade inferior, por cor ou quebradas durante o processamento, chegam a perder 80% do seu valor comercial. Desta forma, este trabalho teve como objetivo o desenvolvimento de um Ãleo a partir da amÃndoa de castanha de caju de classes inferiores, avaliando os mÃtodos de extraÃÃo a frio (extra virgem - OEV) e com aquecimento prÃvio em micro-ondas (virgem - OV), sua composiÃÃo e caracterÃsticas quÃmicas e fÃsicas, sua estabilidade, caracterÃsticas sensoriais e bioatividade. Na seleÃÃo das amÃndoas para extraÃÃo, considerou-se as caracterÃsticas fÃsico-quÃmicas e de qualidade oxidativa, utilizaram-se seis classes inferiores: B1, S1, W4, SP1, SP2, P1 e uma classe de amÃndoa inteira de primeira qualidade (W240) como referÃncia. Considerando os parÃmetros avaliados, optou-se pelo uso das amÃndoas SP2, de menor preÃo de mercado, visto que todas as classes avaliadas apresentaram boa qualidade fÃsico-quÃmica e oxidativa, com potencial para extraÃÃo do Ãleo (lipÃdios totais superiores a 50%). Na avaliaÃÃo dos processos de extraÃÃo, observou-se maior rendimento da amostra com aquecimento prÃvio em micro-ondas. A amostra OV tambÃm apresentou maior estabilidade oxidativa com tempo de induÃÃo mÃdio de 46,25 horas, contra 39,03 horas da amostra OEV. Possivelmente a maior estabilidade se deu pela maior presenÃa de fenÃlicos totais na amostra OV (316,4 mg/100g) do que na amostra OEV (202,17 mg/100g). Ambos os Ãleos apresentaram aÃÃo antioxidante, possivelmente pela presenÃa de compostos como tocoferÃis, Ãcidos graxos mono e poli-insaturados, fitosterÃis e fenÃlicos identificados nas amostras. Na avaliaÃÃo antimicrobiana, o Ãleo OV possivelmente pelo maior teor de fenÃlicos, apresentou aÃÃo mais efetiva contra microrganismos patogÃnicos, em especial Listeria mocytogenes. Os Ãleos de amÃndoa de castanha de caju OV e OEV apresentaram aÃÃo antiproliferativa contra cÃlulas de cÃncer de mama (MCF7), pulmÃo (A549) e fÃgado (HepG2) somente em altas concentraÃÃes, superiores a 200 Âg/mL. Nos testes sensoriais com consumidores (grupos focais) e na AnÃlise Descritiva Quantitativa Otimizada percebeu-se interesse em consumir o produto caso estivesse disponÃvel no mercado, tanto por seus atributos sensoriais como pelo apelo regional do produto. Os principais atributos das amostras foram brilho, cor amarela, odor e sabor de castanha. Dentro dos aspectos avaliados, o aquecimento prÃvio com micro-ondas pode oferecer um maior rendimento de extraÃÃo, sem perdas significativas dos compostos bioativos ou diminuiÃÃo da aceitaÃÃo sensorial.The cashew nut (CN) is a major agribusiness product of CearÃ, but it is also an income source for small farmers, especially in drought periods. The cashew nut with greater value to market is standardized as whole-grade. The cashew nut inferior grades by color or broken during processing, lose 80% of their market value. This study aimed to develop an oil from the inferior grades cashew nut, evaluating the cold extraction methods (extra virgin - EVCNO) and preheating in microwave (virgin - VCNO), its composition and chemical and physical characteristics, stability, sensory characteristics and bioactivity. In the selection of kernels for extraction, considered the physical and chemical characteristics and oxidative quality, we used lower six grades and qualities: B1, S1, W4, SP1, SP2, P1 and a whole nut-grade grade (W240) as reference. Considering the evaluated parameters, we opted for the use of SP2 kernel, due to the lower market price, since all grades and qualities evaluated showed good physical and chemical quality and oxidative, with potential for oil extraction (total lipids of over 50%). In the assessment of extraction processes, there was a higher yield of the sample with pre-heating in a microwave. The OV sample also showed greater oxidative stability with average induction time of 46.25 hours, 39.03 hours against the OEV sample, possibly given by the greater presence of phenolic compounds in sample VCNO (316.4 mg / 100g) than the sample EVCNO (202.17 mg / 100g). Both oils showed antioxidant activity, possibly due to the presence of compounds such as tocopherols, fatty acids mono and polyunsaturated, phytosterols and phenolic identified in the samples. In antimicrobial evaluation, the VCNO oil possibly due to increased phenolic content, made more effective action against pathogenic microorganisms especially Listeria mocytogenes. VCNO and EVCNO showed antiproliferative action against breast cancer cells (MCF7), lung cancer cells (A549) and liver cancer cells (HepG2) only at high concentrations greater than 200 mg/mL. In sensory tests with consumers (focus groups) and Optimized Descriptive Profile perceived interest in consuming the product if it was available in the market, both for their sensory attributes as the regional appeal of the product. The main attributes of the samples: shining, yellow color, odor and taste of nuts. Considering the evaluated aspects, preheating with microwave can offer a higher yield of extraction, without significant loss of bioactive compounds or decreased sensory acceptance.
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Gordon, Lindsay Heather Ghosh Pika. "Virgin Comics' Devi creating a new goddess /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2263.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Art and Art History." Discipline: Art; Department/School: Art.
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Ortiz-Ramirez, Eduardo A. "The Virgin of Guadalupe and Mexican nationalism : expressions of criollo patriotism in colonial images of the Virgin of Guadalupe /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1455656.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008."May, 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-126). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.
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Ciotti, Bruno. "La révolte de Vollore : et les levées militaires dans l'arrondissement de Thiers, 1793-An II /." Nonette (Saint-Germain l'Embron, 63340) : Edicentre, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb366489412.
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Hebbard, Matthew S. "The virgin of Guadalupe and Mexican religious belief." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Karterouli, Konstantina. "The Virgin of Dom Rupert: Image, Function, Assimilation." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11699.
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This dissertation examines a Mosan stone relief of the Virgin and Child Enthroned housed in the Grand Curtius Museum in Liège that has not yet been the subject of detailed analysis. This study focuses on the formal and iconographic aspects of the relief. It discusses the novel image of the Virgin and relates it to developments in medieval art during the late twelfth and the early thirteenth centuries, establishing a date for the relief to that period.History of Art and Architecture
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Bates, Stephen. "Re-imagining the Virgin Mary in Reformation England." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/62111/.
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This thesis is an interdisciplinary examination of the place of the Virgin Mary in the English reformations of the sixteenth century. Situated at the crossroads of cultural and social history, it engages with the post-revisionist debate within Reformation studies. It seeks to move post-revisionism forward by suggesting that the versatility and vitality of late medieval Mariology enabled reformers, Catholic and Protestant, to select and reject from a basket of possibilities. Consequently it contends that the fissures that had opened up by the time of the Elizabethan settlement had essentially developed along pre-existing fault lines. The first chapter explores the place of the Virgin in the late medieval context. It examines her theological significance, the way ordinary people related to her and, consequently, how they represented her in English parishes. It argues that the Virgin occupied a position which supported both affective and effective piety. The second chapter considers specific ways in which existing Mariological tropes were unsettled by the critiques of Catholic evangelicals, Renaissance humanists and Lollards. It demonstrates that the Virgin was a fluid symbol and suggests some possible trajectories that may have been followed had it not been for the rupture of the Reformation. It contends that the key focus of those advocating reform was the spiritual integrity of devotees. The third chapter investigates developing evangelical Mariology and the subsequent attempts at magisterial reform under Henry VIII and Edward VI. It explores the impact of iconoclasm on parish piety and the transformation of the Virgin into an ordinary woman. It argues for important continuities in the Protestant re-imagination of the Virgin. The final chapter looks at the policies of Mary Tudor and considers how the Virgin was re-imagined in a restored Catholic context. It contributes to the debate on the nature of Mary’s religious programme and assesses the appropriation of Mariological tropes to endorse England’s first Queen regnant. It contends that the reign’s legacy enabled the Elizabethan settlement to reject aspects of the Virgin as foreign, reshaping English identity.
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Ljunggren, Christer. "Determination of virgin rock stresses by fracturing methods." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, 1987. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26113.
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Chen, Wenhe. "Tribological Interactions between Virgin Hair Fibers at Nanoscale." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1564765772121011.
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Daniels, W. Lee. "Virgin hardwood forest soils of western North Carolina." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52288.
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Little is known about the original properties of soils in the East. Eight virgin soils and associated southern Appalachian hardwood vegetation were studied in western North Carolina. The study sites ranged in elevation from 720 to 1200 m on steep slopes. Overall these soils are quite deep and highly weathered due to high rainfall (>200 cm) and soluble feldspathic parent material. Organic matter contents of the surface·horizons were quite high (4.5 - 16 %), and they contained moderate to strong crumb structure. All but one soil contained cambic subsurface horizons and were either Typic Haplumbrepts or Umbric Dystrochrepts. The majority of soils in the watershed are formed in colluvium, but significant amounts of residual soils occur on sideslopes, and appear to be quite stable. The present day landforms appear to be the result of periglacial activity.
North-facing soils were higher in whole soil clay, organic matter, and A horizon exchangeable cations than south-facing soils. Cation exchange capacity in these soils is almost totally dependent on organic matter content, and the mineral fraction is relatively inert. All soils were in the oxidic mineralogy class. Bibbsite was common throughout all soils and hydroxy-interlayered vermiculite (HIV) is the dominant clay-sized phyllosilicate in surface horizons. Kaolinite was low in all soils, but was more abundant on south-facing slopes. The silt fractions and sand fractions contained significant quantities of weathered 2:1-type minerals
The vegetation varied from mixed-mesophytic cove hardwoods on north-facing slopes to mixed oak-hickory and oak-pine on south-facing slopes. Many trees in coves exceed 1.3 m in diameter and 50 m in height. Total litter production averaged 3494 kg/ha, and the litter layers were typified by thin leaf (L), and well developed fermentation (F) and humus (H) layers. Cations and P are concentrated in the litter layers and immediate surface soil, while N is mixed deep into the profile. Due to their oxidic mineralogy, low CEC, decreasing clay content with depth, and concentration of cations and P in litter and standing biomass these soils highly resemble tropical Oxisols.Ph. D.
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Rehatta, Gabriel. "The meaning of the Dormition of Virgin Mary." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Renard, Roger. "Le gisement moustérien de Millefleurs (63)." Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992MNHNA002.
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Fernandes, Flynn M. "Mary: Co-redemptrix, mediatrix of all graces, and advocate of the people of God: An interdisciplinary exposition and evaluation of the proposed fifth Marian dogma." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:105006.
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Thesis advisor: Margaret E. GuiderThesis advisor: Michael Simone
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
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Khoo, Jeffrey E. "The sign of the virgin birth the exegetical validity of a strictly messianic fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Rogier, G. Larry. "The virgin prophecy an exegetical and theological study of Isaiah 7:10-17 /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Gallagher, Laura. "The Virgin Mary in the early modern literary imagination." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601481.
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This thesis examines literary appropriations of the Virgin Mary in the early modem period to argue that she continued to occupy the early modern imagination. The Virgin Mary operates as a lieu de memoire, recalling the Catholic medieval past, but she was refashioned in new terms in the early modern period to ruminate on issues such as mnemonic prayer, material spirituality, motherhood and breastfeeding, female voice, appropriate grief and female authority. By reading a variety of genres, written by both men and women, Protestant and Catholic, from across the period, the thesis argues for the Virgin's sustained relevance. It demonstrates how the Virgin was contested and adapted for various ideological ends. often against the customary religious and gendered understandings of her significance. The Virgin Mary’s body is central to literary appropriations and the thesis argues that Marian imagery retained potency, relevancy and power precisely because of the figure's controversial femininity and her bodily status as virgin mother
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Gore, Shannon. "Beach geomorphology and management in the British Virgin Islands." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589521.
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The geomorphology of tropical island beaches has received little attention in literature compared to their temperate equivalents. This is particularly true of studies of the spatial and temporal variability of carbonate beaches. The British Virgin Islands (BVI), a small archipelago located in the north-eastern Caribbean contains numerous beaches in a wide variety of settings within a small geographical area. Over 100 beaches across 60+ high volcanic and reef islands were selected for study. Through the analysis of benthic habitat maps, aerial photographs, sedimentary characteristics, and ground-truthing, beach distribution and form are interpreted in terms of their geologic, oceanographic and ecologic setting. The Atlantic-facing beaches exhibit modally high energy waves which drive carbonate-rich sediment onshore from extensive reef systems and a carbonate bank. In contrast, Caribbean-facing beaches, primarily those of coral rubble, are dominated by modally low energy waves punctuated by very high energy events (i.e. hurricanes) and contain a lower proportion of fine-grained carbonate sands. While some of these high energy events have significant short-term impact, many beaches exhibit long-term stability. There has, however, been a general narrowing of beaches over the past 50 years which is tentatively attributed to sand mining in the past. In contrast to the high volcanic islands, Anegada is an emergent reef island comprising a lithified Pleistocene reef core and a sequence of Holocene deposits (beach ridges, lagoons, and mangroves). The form and distribution of the island's contemporary sedimentary environment reveal four distinctive coastlines. Three of these coastlines have shown relative stability over the past 149 years while one coastline has morphologically adjusted to surrounding environmental conditions by rotating in a counter clockwise motion. All the beaches are subject to a variety of human impacts and require a formal coastal management response, however, this has not yet been realised. Despite an existing statutory framework for beach management, environmental degradation from uncontrolled coastal development and space-use conflicts caused by unmanaged mass tourism continues. A current case study reveals the management plan requires implementation via a co-management regime between the local beach community and stakeholders with support from the local government. A simple framework is presented that provides thirteen environmental, socio-cultural, economic and governance goals which define the context in which the management plan operates. This framework ensures not only a clear understanding of what constitutes sustainable beach management, but also sustainable development specifically within the BVI.
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Vassilakis-Mavrakakis, Maria. "The church of the Virgin Gouverniotissa at Potamies, Crete." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312857.
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Kent, Michael D. "Defence development in the British Virgin Islands : 1530-1815." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681992.
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The ability of Great Britain to build what became the largest empire the world has yet known was largely influenced by the Industrial Revolution which began in the late eighteenth-century. A variety of constituents were responsible for creating the phenomena which changed the face of British history, not least the economic remittances made by the British West Indian colonies. By the end of the eighteenth-century, William Pitt estimated that four-fifths of all income received from the British overseas colonies came from the British West Indies, which once deposited into the treasury contributed significantly towards building the infrastructure which industrialised the nation. Throughout the century which spawned this remarkable change in British social and economic organisation, wars were fought which inevitably became fiercely contested in the West Indian colonies because of the revenue each produced for their respective countries. In order to protect this vital source of income, every island created a defence network which although terrestrially based, was essentially focused on the surrounding host water mass in order to prevent invasion and subsequent plunder. It will plausibly be argued in the closing chapter of this thesis that had these various defence networks not been constructed in the British West Indian colonies, the revenue which helped fuel the Industrial Revolution would have been compromised and British history could have been different. The following study traces the evolution and effectiveness of the defence network created in the British Virgin Islands, with an initiatory examination of defence development in the British Leeward region as a whole.
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Bourcier, Lauréline. "Transport et dépôt de particules et radionucléides au puy de Dôme, France." Phd thesis, Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725978.
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Ce travail est une contribution à une meilleure connaissance des facteurs influençant la composition de l'atmosphère. La specificité de notre étude est de coupler, sur un ensemble de sites (puy de Dôme, Opme et Cézeaux), des observations sur la composition chimique et l'activité des radionucléides dans les différents compartiments nuage/pluie/aérosol. Nous observons, dans la phase aérosol, des concentrations ioniques et carbonées et une activité de radionucléides plus élevées l'été que l'hiver au puy de Dôme. L'étude des pluies indique que l'activation et le lessivage des particules sont des facteurs prépondérants dans la composition de la pluie. Ceci est confirmé par une étude des facteurs environnementaux et structurels des pluies qui ne semblent pas influencer de façon significative les rapports de lessivage. Notre travail met en avant le rôle de transport longue distance de polluants particulaires dans la composition de la phase liquide atmosphérique.
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Bourcier, Laureline. "Transport et dépôt de particules et radionucléides au puy de Dôme, France." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2009. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725978.
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Ce travail est une contribution à une meilleure connaissance des facteurs influençant la composition de l'atmosphère. La specificité de notre étude est de coupler, sur un ensemble de sites (puy de Dôme, Opme et Cézeaux), des observations sur la composition chimique et l'activité des radionucléides dans les différents compartiments nuage/pluie/aérosol. Nous observons, dans la phase aérosol, des concentrations ioniques et carbonées et une activité de radionucléides plus élevées l'été que l'hiver au puy de Dôme. L'étude des pluies indique que l'activation et le lessivage des particules sont des facteurs prépondérants dans la composition de la pluie. Ceci est confirmé par une étude des facteurs environnementaux et structurels des pluies qui ne semblent pas influencer de façon significative les rapports de lessivage. Notre travail met en avant le rôle de transport longue distance de polluants particulaires dans la composition de la phase liquide atmosphérique
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Brown, G. Ronald. "Virginia elementary principals' perspectives on merit pay for classroom teachers." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54460.
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The purpose of this research study was to examine the perceptions of Virginia's elementary principals concerning the concept of merit pay for classroom teachers. The problem for investigation was: what are the attitudes of these principals toward merit pay for classroom teachers?
To identify these perceptions, a fixed-response-form-questionnaire, Survey on Perceptions of Elementary Principals on Merit Pay for Classroom Teachers, was developed by the researcher. The questionnaire was designed to gather information in six areas of concern: demographics of respondents, outcomes expected if a plan were adopted, opinions for or against merit pay plans, means for evaluation of teachers, resistance expected among teachers, and the most acceptable form of plan. Reliability was established at .85.
In a random selection, 300 elementary school principals (26%) were mailed surveys, 269 surveys (89.66%) were returned, 31 (10.33%) principals did not respond. An attempt was made to contact each nonrespondent by telephone to see if there were any particular reasons why the survey was not answered. Nine nonrespondents were contacted, and 8 of them indicated a lack of time as the reason for not responding. Because of the high response rate, it was felt that nonrespondents could not have biased the data, therefore, attempts to administer the survey by telephone were not made.
Respondents felt that teachers would become more competitive and less cooperative. Parents would make requests that their children be placed with teachers receiving merit pay, and teacher-filed grievances would increase. Respondents believed in the concept of paying more effective teachers higher salaries, but they were reluctant to recommend the adoption of a merit pay plan. Respondents felt that principals should be the main evaluators of teachers, but they endorsed the use of teachers' peers and outside evaluators. They felt that teacher associations would oppose merit pay.
Of the three forms of above-the-scale compensation defined for the study, principals surveyed felt that teachers would find differentiated staffing the least objectionable.
It was concluded that, given the attitudes of Virginia's elementary principals, it is unlikely that a merit pay plan can be successfully implemented in Virginia.Ed. D.
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Robert, Patrick. "Le bassin stéphanien de Messeix-Singles (Puy-de-Dôme) : structuration, dynamique du remplissage, pétrographie (cinérites, argiles, anthracites)." Dijon, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985DIJOS012.
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Rollet-Starckmann, Brigitte. "Etude d'un groupe de potiers de lezoux. Groupe de quintilianvs." Paris, EPHE, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EPHE4003.
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Joseph stanfield et grace simpson dans leur ouvrage, "central gaulish potters", publie en 1958, mettent en avant l'existence d'un groupe de potiers produisant des ceramiques sigillees, a lezoux, au iieme siecle : le "groupe de quintilianvs". La production de ces potiers (quintilianvs, bassvs, sissvs, ianvaris, laxtvcissa, doeccvs) comportant parfois une estampille ou un graffite, ont en commun uncertain nombre de caracteres : utilisation de metopes et de grands sautoirs pour diviser l'espace, poincons identiques, inspiration commune. Mais on a certaines difficultes a differencier les membres et a comprendre les stuctures internes de ce groupe, de nombreuses ceramiques ne comportant aucune marque. L'etude stylistique et morphologique d'un echantillonage plus abondant que celui publie jusqu'a present, conserve en grande partie au musee des antiquites nationales et provenant de la collection plicque, doit permettre d'affirmer ou de remettre en doute l'existence de ce groupe. Il resulte de cette etude qu'a l'interieur de cette association, chaque potier a su affirmer son propre style. D'autre part, un certain nombre de ceramiques anonymes posent des problemes d'attribution. Si le remise en cause de l'existence du groupe ne se pose pas, il n'apparait pas comme une stucture professionnelle homogene. Les liens entre ces potiers sont confirmes (echanges, achat de poincons, succession, travail dans un meme lieu, utilisation d'un four commun. . . ) sans qu'il nous soit possible aujourd'hui de preciser les liens unissant ces decorateurs.
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Jolly, Anna. "Madonnas by Donatello and his circle." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260560.
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Rivet, Bernard. "Une ville au XVIe siècle : Le Puy-en-Velay : une ville, une société." Paris, EHESS, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987EHES0010.
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Au xvie siecle, la ville du puy est la capitale d'un pays d'etats particuliers, le velay, extremite septentrionale du languedoc, ville de consulat, siege de bailliage et de l'eveque-comte de velay, c'est un lieu universellement connu de devotion mariale, un centre d'artisanat actif qui commerce de preference avec lyon, toulouse et montferrand. On peut estimer sa population en 1544 a 10 ou 15000 habitants. La societe est alors dominee par une classe bourgeoise dont l'implantation consulaire est ancienne, mais qui est capable de se renouveler marginalement. Une "gentry" cultivee qui n'a pas honte d'avoir ses origines dans la marchandise ou les metiers d'hommes de loi acheve la conquete entreprise par elle au xve siecle des seigneuries et du plat-pays vellaves. Les strategies de transmission des patrimoines et les pratiques liees au mariage permettent a cette "caste" de faire face aux difficultes du temps. Le reste de la population, qui ne se manifeste par aucun soulevement serieux jusqu'aux annees 80, est victime des deboires du "beau xvie", au cours duquel sa situation est de plus en plus precaire, ainsi que le demontre un long chapitre sur la "conjoncture economique". En meme temps, se creuse un fosse culturel qui, sous un sentiment general de fierte municipale, separe sur les questions religieuses une faible minorite de reformes de la majorite restee catholique qui finit par ne plus tolerer les moindres deviances. La ville s'engage ainsi corps et biens dans l'aventure ligueuse a partir de 1589, tandis que l'etat de l'economie s'est considerablement deteriore et que le velay est ebranle par les guerres civiles. La partie la plus instruite la plus riche et la plus ouverte de la classe dirigeante, dont l'eveque lui-meme, manifeste une mefiance grandissante vis a vis de l'intolerance ambiante qui est due, en grande partie, aux travailleurs issus de metiers comme celui des tanneurs et aux predicateurs mendiants. L'annee 1594 est l'occasion d'une veritable chasse aux sorcieres, sous pretexte de la "trahison" des politiques, mais qui dresse en fait pauvres contre riches. Il faudra plus de trois ans a henri iv, bien qu'il soit enfin reconnu apres le traite de folembray, pour ramener la paix civile entre les ponotsIn the xvith century, le puy en velay is the little capital of a french country having "etats particuliers". It is situated at the north end of languedoc, it is the seat of the town-council called" "le consulat du puy", the seat of a "bailliage" and of a bishop who is the earl of the country. It is also a famous pilgrinnage place to mary. Craftsmen are numerous there and there is a big trade with lyon, to toulouse and montferrand. There are about 10 or 15 thousand inhabitants in 1544. At the head of the city, there is a middle class who has got a great power for a long time in the city, but who can partly change by integrating new men. A cultivated "gentry", who is not ashamed of having its roots among tradesmen and lawyers, completes the conquest of the manors undertook in the fifteenth century in the country of the velay. The methods for handing down inheritance and the practices for mariage allow this cast to face economical difficulties. The other inhabitants, who never rose seriously until the eighties, suffer from the circumstances of the first xvith: their situation is getting worse, as it is shown in a long chapter about economy. At the same time, the cultural differences about religious problems set aparts a small minority of protestants from the majority who stay catholic. In the end, they can't bear the religious differences any longer. The town gets involved in the adventure of the "ligue", with all hands from 1589. As economy is getting worse from the middle of the century and the velay is shaken by civil wars, the most cultivated, the highest, richest and open minded part of the the leading class gets more and more suspicious towards the surrounding into lerance. This intolerance comes from the working class, led by some craftsmen- such as some tanners-, and by begging preachers. In 1594, takes place an actual and general inquisition which, under the pretence of punishing the moderates ("les politiques"), sets the poor against the rich. It will take henri iv, even admitted as the king, 3 years to bring back peace in the town
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Bourdin, Philippe. "Les lieux de la sociabilité révolutionnaire (l'exemple du Puy-de-Dôme, 1789-1799)." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010508.
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Il importait de decouvrir et de comprendre les etapes qui, localement, marquerent le "voyage" politique de la monarchie absolue a la republique. D'interpreter les contradictions entre les traditions organisatrices et discursives de l'ancien regime, et leurs corollaires revolutionnaires; entre des volontes parisiennes emphatiquement transcrites et des actions quotidiennes et pragmatiques; entre une unanimite demandee et des individualites protegees; entre les ruptures et la continuite. Non pour forcement trouver dans leur irreductibilite les raisons d'eventuels echecs, mais pour rechercher dans les amalgames et les passages reussis l'expression d'une opinion politique originale. Le choix de lieux clos, anciennement investis et recuperes pour les besoins d'une convivialite nouvelle (cabarets, cafes, theatres), condamnes par leur elitisme social (academie, loges, salons), redefinis (sections) ou fondes (clubs puis societes populaires), repondit a ce desir de privilegier les espaces ou se construisait particulierement l'echange. A travers les mots et leurs auteurs s'esquisserent alors les contours d'une sociabilite proprement revolutionnaireIt was important to discover and understand the steps which locally marked the political way from absolute monarchy to the republic. To interpret the contradiction between the traditional organization and speech of the old regime and their revolutionary equivalence; between the parisian willfulls emphaticly formulated and the every day pragmatic actions; between the reclaimed unanimity and some protected individualities; between the changes and the continuity. All these contradictions were not irreductible there were sometimes successfull amalgams, which created an original political opinion. Were have chosen inclosed places in between the following categories : old places salvaged for a new conviviality (cabarets, cafes, theaters) ; places condamned for their social elitismus (academy, masonic lodges, circles) ; restructurated places (sections) ; fondations (firstly clubs and then popular sovieties). Thus we have privileged spaces where the arguments of discussion were built. A proper revolutionary sociability was born throughout the words and their authors
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Rivet, Bernard. "Une Ville au 16e siècle, le Puy-en-Velay une ville, une société /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37609406q.
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Leist, Marnie. "The Virgin and Hell: An Anomalous Fifteenth-Century Italian Mural." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1120757484.
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Barker, Mary Christine. "A Disquieting Presence: The Virgin Mary in Rembrandt's 'Protestant' Art." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6349.
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The identification of Rembrandt as a ���Protestant��� artist has, since the middle of the
nineteenth century, defined and directed analytical perspective of his biblical works.
In the initial stages of Rembrandt���s reinvention as representative of the Protestant
culture of his age, religion was not important in terms of the art produced; it was an
indication of political identity. A recognition of the importance of Rembrandt���s
religious beliefs to his biblical works led later art historians to define these works in
terms of a Protestant identity. Rembrandt was a ���Protestant���; he was ipso facto
Protestant artist. To substantiate this claim, academic research has sought to identify
those particular characteristics which are thought to be Protestant and which can be
readily identified in Rembrandt���s work.
There is a substantial body of work within Rembrandt���s biblical oeuvre which
challenges that paradigm. These are works which show the Virgin Mary, a figure
largely marginalised in Protestant belief. These are generally acknowledged as
���Catholic��� or ���made for a Catholic audience���, but they are analysed either as
eccentricities or as Catholic subjects which Rembrandt has manipulated to allow for a
Protestant understanding. No attempt has been made to place these works within the
Catholic tradition to which they belong.
This thesis hopes to redress the balance by examining a largely un-researched body of
Rembrandt���s Marian work. The first section surveys the notion of ���Protestant��� art and
those writers who claim to recognise such a phenomenon in Rembrandt���s work. It
examines the place of the Virgin Mary in Post-Reformation Protestant ideology and
reviews Rembrandt���s history within a spectrum of religious beliefs. Finally it takes an
overview of the presence of the Virgin Mary in Rembrandt���s oeuvre, seeking possible
inspiration and explanation from the events in his daily life. The second section
analyses six representative works in order to show that these Marian subjects are not
religious works manipulated to a Protestant understanding but are artworks that show,
both overtly and covertly, that Rembrandt was aware of and actively acknowledged
the place of the Virgin Mary, both in the Catholic visual tradition and in the
contemporary Catholic theology of his age.
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Cheslek, Heather A. (Heather Année) 1976. "Water reuse and conservation in the United States Virgin Islands." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29322.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-84).
An assessment of the current water conservation and reuse practices in the United States Virgin Islands was undertaken by administering surveys to Territory Permit Discharge Elimination System permit holders and performing interviews. Currently, many resorts and condominiums in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) reclaim wastewater in response to water scarcity for such things as irrigation and toilet flushing, but few practice water conservation. Unfortunately, the municipal wastewater treatment plants do not practice any form of reuse. Because of the need for reuse and conservation planning in the community, eight reuse alternatives were developed for the two large municipal wastewater treatment plants on St. Thomas and St. Croix. Those reuse alternatives include: (1) residential irrigation on St. Thomas, (2) habitat restoration utilizing wetlands on St. Thomas, (3) community-wide conservation and habitat restoration on St. Thomas, (4) airport irrigation on St. Croix, (5) commercial irrigation and industrial process/cooling water on St. Croix, (6) agricultural irrigation on St. Croix, (7) habitat restoration utilizing wetlands on St. Croix, and (8) community-wide conservation and habitat restoration on St. Croix. Out of these eight alternatives, habitat restoration on both St. Thomas and St. Croix, community-wide conservation and habitat restoration on both St. Thomas and St. Croix, and agricultural irrigation on St. Croix are the most economical based on the normalized cost per gallon of reclaimed and conserved water. However, agricultural irrigation on St. Croix and community-wide conservation and habitat restoration on both St. Thomas and St. Croix provide the most benefits to the community. Agricultural irrigation provides farmers a low-cost option to meet water demand and production requirements. Community-wide conservation and habitat restoration alternatives provide an educational environment and promote conservation practices thus reducing water consumption, water cost, and wastewater production. From the assessment it is apparent that promoting conservation and reclaiming wastewater effluent results in a reduction of effluent discharged to the ocean, conservation of fresh-water sources, reduction of energy and pollution due to lower production needed by USVI Water and Power Authority (WAPA), and avoidance or delay in USVI WAPA expansion to meet non-potable water needs. Before undertaking design of a reuse project incorporation of public information and participation, public health impact identification, and local and federal government participation is crucial to project success.
by Heather A. Cheslek.
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Nachef, Antoine B. S. O. "Mary: virgin mother in the thought of the Cappadocian Fathers." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430404478.
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Pimenta, Soraia. "Toughness and strength of recycled composites and their virgin precursors." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11083.
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With the exponential growth in carbon-fibre use, establishing recycling routes for the composite waste is now imperative. As recycling processes are maturing, it is vital to introduce the recyclates in non-safety-critical structural applications. This work aimed at studying the mechanical response of recycled composites and developing analytical models for predicting their failure, and also that of their virgin precursors. The effect of recycling on the mechanical response of composites was assessed by comparing virgin and recycled materials with identical woven architectures. The performance depended on the reclamation cycle and loading mode; under optimal recycling conditions, above 75% of strength and virtually 100% of stiffness were recovered. An experimental study of three state-of-the-art recycled composites revealed complex microstructures, featuring fibres and bundles (held together by residual matrix) of different sizes; this microstructure was key for the fracture process, as bundles significantly toughened the materials. The unique multiscale architecture and mechanical behaviour, while making these recyclates suitable for structural applications, created a need for the development of specific mechanical models for design. In order to predict the intrinsic properties of composites with such multiscale reinforcement, original models for size effects on the tensile strength and fracture toughness of composite bundles were developed. These models combine statistics, micromechanics and self-similar processes; while their development was originally motivated by recycled composites, they are equally relevant for unidirectional virgin composites. Subsequently, a micromechanical model for the fracture toughness of recycled composites was developed; this accounts for fracture, debonding and pull-out of reinforcing units with different sizes and orientations, and was successfully validated against the wide range of toughnesses experimentally measured in the recyclates. This work shows that recycled composites offer an environmentally-friendly and performance-competitive alternative to current structural materials. The models developed can support the optimisation of recycling processes towards damage tolerant materials, as well as their application for eco-design of non-safety-critical structures.
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Smith, David E. "The historical nature of Luke's virgin birth account an apologetic /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Al-Ati, Tareq. "Oxygen permeation of virgin HDPE films versus recycled HDPE films /." Online version of thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11875.
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Morgart, John Raymond. "Desert bighorn sheep forage relationships in the Virgin Mountains, Arizona." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185076.
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Twelve desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) were captured 12-14 November 1979 in the Black Mountains, western Arizona, and translocated to a 283 ha enclosure in the Virgin Mountains, northwestern Arizona. I studied habitat and foraging relationships of the population from November 1979 to December 1981. My objectives were to investigate productivity, group characteristics and habitat use, intraspecific comparisons of diet, diet overlap with cattle, forage availability and use, diet diversity, and plant quality. Seven and 8 females in the enclosure had lambs in 1980 and 1981, respectively. Mean group size was largest in spring, coincident with the peak of lambing. The number of mixed sex groups decreased in spring and summer when adult females did not associate with adult males. The number of mixed sex groups were highest in fall and winter due to rut and post-rut aggregations. The 4 vegetation associations in the enclosure were used in proportion to availability except by adult females and lambs in spring-summer 1981. Grasses, forbs, and browse were equally important in the annual diets of bighorn sheep; the use of succulents was secondary. Browse and grasses comprised most of the cattle diet (45.4% and 40.1%, respectively) followed by forbs (13.1%). Intraspecific differences in bighorn sheep diets were not significant. Bighorn sheep and cattle diets did not overlap significantly and bighorn sheep diets were more diverse. Bighorn sheep did not eat 8 plant species in proportion to their occurrence in the enclosure. Habitat conditions and behavior patterns of bighorn sheep in the enclosure were similar to free-ranging populations. However, range conditions in the enclosure were excellent, predators were controlled, and potential competitors were excluded. The reproductive potential of desert bighorn sheep was obtained. Although I confirmed a relationship between bighorn sheep diet and plant nutrition, no intraspecific differences in seasonal nutrition requirements were established. In addition, dietary overlap between bighorn sheep and cattle was not significant; these data have important management implications for future bighorn sheep introductions onto traditional livestock grazing areas.
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McPeters, Annette Lee. "The Virgin Unmask'd: Mandeville's Response to the "Fair-Sex" Debate." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625394.
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