Dissertations / Theses: 'W-Net'

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Remo, Jonathan W. F. "Geologic controls on mass movement in the New River Gorge, West Virginia." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=789.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 1999.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 106 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-93).

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Kish, M. Patrick. "Factors controlling landslide initiation as a result of July 2001 high precipitation events in a section of the lower New River Gorge, West Virginia." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2004. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3785.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 45 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-43).

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Mellen, E. Garnett. "The Appalachian cultural landscape along the New River." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06102009-063233/.

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Isom, Margaret Smith. "Radical career changes of middle-aged professional, technical, and managerial workers in the New River Valley area of Virginia." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54202.

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The specific problem of this study was to determine common characteristics of midlife professional, technical, and managerial workers who have made voluntary radical career changes, to identify positive and negative experiences faced by these individuals, and to identify coping strategies used by the career changer and families of the career changers. Data were gathered by the participant observation method of qualitative research. Twenty purposively selected career changers were interviewed using semi- structured interview questions. Questions were categorized as follows: personal background, schooling, career history, the career change, and after the career change. The interview sessions were tape recorded. Responses to the interview questions were assembled, codified, and examined for similarities. A profile of a middle-aged professional who has made a radical career change was developed. Excerpts from the profile follow. This individual: (a) is about 43 years old, (b) has worked in the same career for about 13 years prior to the change, (c) experienced no major traumatic event before the change, (d) received no assistance from a "help" agency during the time of change, (e) had few barriers to overcome in making the transition, (f) adjusted to the change with a minimum of effort, and (g) remained financially stable after the change. A major finding of the study was that 17 of the 20 subjects said they were better off psychologically after making the career change.
Ed. D.

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Shapiro, Lou William. "Calvinism for a new democracy the origins of the New Haven theology of Nathaniel William Taylor /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1987. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0020.

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Dematteis, Alessio <1991&gt. "Vita minima archetipo della vita indistruttibile nel pensiero di F. W. Nietzsche." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13616.

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La tesi si propone di mostrare un'interpretazione della dottrina dell'Eterno ritorno, evidenziando la peculiarità che assumono le figure di Dioniso, dio portatore dell'archetipo della zoè ( la vita indistruttibile), e Arianna, la dea del bìos. Una sostanziale attenzione è stata dedicata agli studi filologici di entrambe le divinità, unita ad uno sguardo necessario sulla vita di Nietzsche, che riveste un aspetto fondamentale nella formazione del suo pensiero.

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Weihmann, Jeremias Verfasser], Ernst W. [Akademischer Betreuer] [Akademischer Betreuer] [Mayr, and Estaun Francisco Javier [Akademischer Betreuer] Esparza. "Generalized Petri Nets: Algorithms and Complexity / Jeremias Weihmann. Gutachter: Ernst W. Mayr ; Francisco Javier Esparza Estaun. Betreuer: Ernst W. Mayr." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1071947982/34.

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Loescher, Walter O. "An analysis of the anthropological and soteriological conflicts in the theology of Timothy Dwight and his influence on Nathaniel William Taylor and New Haven theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Moore, Dawn Anne. "The origins of rapids in the lower New River Gorge, West Virginia." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=998.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 1999.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 61 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59).

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Lobb, M. Delbert. "Habitat use by fishes of the New River, West Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91047.

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Density estimates of the species and life stages in different habitat types were made from electrofishing collections and underwater fish counts. During midday, fish densities in edge pool and riffle habitats were comparable, but densities in edge pool habitat were significantly higher than densities in middle pool and run habitats. Snag and edge riffie habitats supported the highest densities of fish. Habitat use and activity shifts between daytime and nighttime were found for many species. Fish species and lifestage composition and densities differed among the habitat types, and five habitat-use guilds (edge-pool, middle-pool, edge-channel, riffie, and generalists) were described. Larger centrarchids preferred deep habitats with slow velocities (deep edge and middle pool, and snags), while young centrarchids preferred shallower habitat. However, all sizes of smallmouth bass were nearly ubiquitous in the habitats of the study area. The cyprinids and percis preferred shallow areas, but preferences for velocity differed among the species and lifestages. Spawning and habitat preferences of the endemic bigmouth chub, Nocomis platyrhynchus, were described. Bigmouth chubs used areas with plenty of small to large gravel (3-64 mm diameter), shallow depths, and moderate velocities for constructing spawning mounds. Bigmouth chubs were seen only using riffie and adjacent run habitat during late summer. Within these areas, depth, velocity, substrate, and cover were used in accordance with their availability, except for an avoidance of the shallowest available depths. Bigmouth chubs occupied positions near the substrate, where velocities were slower than the mean water column velocity.
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Simpson, Edgar C. "Sustained outrage W. E. "Ned" Chilton III and the Charleston (West Virginia) gazette, 1962-87 /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1256223199.

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Scott, Mark C. "Comparative resource use by two species of black bass in riverine and impounded sections of the New River, Virginia." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01242009-063022/.

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Vestberg, Sebastian. "Bomber över Bagdad : En kvantitativ innehållsanalys av New York Times rapportering av Irakkriget." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-24745.

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Under Vietnamkrigets förlopp så ändrades sättet som samhället betraktade journalister samt hur deras egen praxis var. Daniel C Hallin beskriver det som att de gick från att ses som en del av myndigheterna till att vara ”vakthundar”. De gick från att vara soldater vid skrivmaskinen till att övervaka det politiska styret. En högre journalistisk standard blev följden. En tidigare studie av New York Times rapportering av förloppet av kriget visar förändringar i användandet av källor och hur vinklingen gick från positiv till kriget till att vara emot det. Denna studie undersöker New York Times rapportering av Irakkriget och fokuserar på om tidningens journalister agerade som vakthundar eller som skrivmaskinssoldater. Genom en kvantitativ innehållsanalys med fokus på fyra datum under 2003 och samma datum 2005 kan studien se hur tidningen använde källor och om den stod bakom bevisen som President Bush presenterade emot Saddam Hussein. Ur en teoretisk synvinkel tillämpas Pierre Bourdieus fältteori som beskriver media fältet och det politiska fältet som i en tävling mot varandra. En tävling som styrs av normer som reglerar hur interaktionen mellan fälten går till. Förändringen som tillkom under Vietnamkriget ändrade dessa normer. Tidningar som New York Times blev mer självständiga gentemot politiken och normen blev att övervaka myndigheten istället för att föra fram dess budskap. Denna studie går igenom ett antal faktorer som påverkade hur NY Times rapporterade om Irakkriget. En av dessa faktorer är ett kapitalistiskt system som gör att media känner sig tvungna att producera nyheter även om de är osäkra på källorna. Samt det politiska klimatet som existerade i USA där nationell säkerhet prioriterades. President George W Bush använde dessa faktorer på ett smart vis och skapade en situation där media återigen kopplades samman med styret under Irakkriget. Tidigare forskning gjord av Rod Brookes och Justin Lewis samt av FAIR visar att delar av brittisk media och amerikansk tv-media var för kriget i majoriteten av deras sändningar. Denna innehållsanalys visar att även NY Times rapportering var positiva till Bushs bevis och anklagelser mot Saddam Hussein. Under 2003 så var tidningen beroende av militären och det politiska styret som källor till dess rapportering. De var inledningsvis positiva till kriget och förde fram George W Bushs budskap om att kriget var nödvändigt. Ett flertal variabler visar dock att tendensen var att rapporteringen blev mer skeptisk till Bushs anklagelser mot Saddam Hussein. Under 2005 så ifrågasattes motiven och tidningens skildring vinklade kriget negativt. Uppsatsens diskussion kopplar denna tendens till att fler krigskritiska källor kommer fram på grund av att Bush förlorade kontrollen av informationsflödet. En jämförelse görs med Vietnam-studien vilket visar att rapporteringen av Irakkriget hade ett större beroende av militära källor (32,3% under 2003 och 10 % totalt under Vietnamkriget). Samt ifrågasatte sina källor mindre. En slutsats görs att den högre graden av journalistik som kom till under Vietnamkrigets tid inte var representerad under inledningen av Irakkriget.
Around the time of the Vietnam war the way journalists were looked upon by society changed aswell as their own praxis. Daniel C Hallin describes it as they went from appearing as an extended part of the government to being watchdogs. They went from being typrewritersoldiers to monitoring the government and a higher standard of journalism came with it. A previous study of mine of the New York Times report of the Vietnam war showed that the way sources were used changed during the course of the war. And the report went from being positive to opposing the war. This study examines New York Times report of the Iraq war and focuses on the role of the newspaper. Were their journalists watchdogs or typewritersoldiers. By making a quantative content analysis focusing on four dates in 2003 and the same dates 2005. The study sees how the newspaper used it 's sources and if it stood behind President Bushs motives for the war. The study applies Pierre Bourdies field theory which describes media and politics as fields that are in a contest with eachother. Their interactions are controlled by norms. This study looks at the changes that occured during the Vietnam war as the norms changning. Media grew more independent from politics and monitoring the government became the norm instead of broadcasting it 's messages. This study describes a capitalistic system that pressures the media to produce news even if they're unsure of it's sources. Aswell as a political climat in the USA that prioritised national security. President George W Bush used these factors in a smart way and created a situation where the media once again became less independent from the political field during the first stages of the war. Previous studies done by Rod Brookes and Justin Lewis and F.A.I. R have shown that parts of the brittish and american tv-media were pro-war in a majority of their broadcasts. This content analysis had a similar result. During 2003 a majority of the newspapers sources came from the american military and the political field. It concludes that the NY Times was positive to Bushs motives for the war. But grew sceptical and questioned them in 2005. The discussion in the study connects this to more anti-war sources coming forward as a consequence of Bush losing the flow of information. A comparison with the Vietnam war shows that the journalists covering the Iraq war used military sources significantly more (32,3% in 2003 and 10 % in total in the Vietnam war). And questioned their sources less than in the coverage of the Vietnam war. The conclusion of the study is that the higher standard of journalism that surfaced during the Vietnam war wasn 't present at the start of the Iraq war.

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Cebrat, Grzegorz. "Death notice as a genre : an analysis of the New York Times online edition." Doctoral thesis, Katowice : Uniwersytet Śląski, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/5878.

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The thesis presents an analysis of the death notice as a genre, which has been conducted by applying the research models of genre analysis designed by John Swales and Vijay K. Bhatia, and taxonomy of Polish death notices by Jacek Kolbuszewski. This in-depth structural analysis is based on a large corpus of texts (1843 texts consisting of 210,021 words), containing all death notices published in the online edition of The New York Times in a threemonth period (October 1st, 2012 – December 31st, 2012), and downloaded from Legacy.com (the leading global provider of online obituaries and death notices). The analysis involves identifying subgenres of the death notice and their communicative purposes, applying the Move and Steps analytical model to investigate the macrostructure of each subgenre of the death notice and its variants, and carrying out a register analysis, based on lexical and syntactic study with the aim of discovering patterns and lexemes characteristic of each move and/or step. Contrary to the well-researched staff-edited obituary, the genre of American death notice, written by non-professional authors (e.g. relatives, friends, employers or colleagues of the deceased) has not been thoroughly investigated; therefore, it is believed that the thesis will not only make a valuable contribution to the understanding of the genre in question, but it can be used as a reference manual helping prospective writers create a death notice in accordance with the American traditions and rules of the genre. The thesis consists of a theoretical part (Chapters One to Four) and a research part (Chapters Five to Eight). Chapter One revolves around the concepts of discourse, text and genre, and presents an overview of their theories. Chapter Two investigates the American discourse of death; it concentrates on the issue of death as a language taboo and various ways of coping with it, and provides a historical overview of numerous genres commemorating the dead. Chapter Three focuses on the both genres in question; it outlines their origin and evolution in the early British press, and summarizes contemporary research into them. Chapter Four introduces the research part as it discusses the corpus and principles of its division into subcorpora, the research model and applied methodology, and presents the discourse community and communicative purposes. Each of the four chapters constituting the research part deals with the Move and Step analysis of one of four subgenres of the death notice: informative (Chapter Five), farewell (Chapter Six), condolence (Chapter Seven), and anniversary (Chapter Eight); their lexico-structural analysis is illustrated with numerous excerpts from the respective sub-corpora. The Conclusion summarizes the research, and provides implications for future projects. The research has shown that the death notice is a highly conventionalized genre, deeply rooted in American culture and funeral tradition. While presenting biographies of the deceased (always in a positive way, according to the classical rule de mortuis nihil nisi bene), the American death notice emphasizes those specific periods and aspects of their lives (education, professional, political or military career, private life), accomplishments and traits that are valued and respected, and should be imitated by other members of the community. A notice usually contains a lengthy hierarchical list of relatives, both the predeceased and survivors. Each subgenre can be characterized by a specific set of communicative purposes, which are accomplished by a sequence of moves and steps. The commonest subgenre, the informative notice, continues the oldest traditions of the genre by informing the community about a person’s death (optionally its circumstances) and the date and place of the funeral and other services. The style and content of the farewell notice and the condolence notice depend on authorship: highly conventionalized formal institutional notices contrast with more original and intimate private ones. Their authors, whether representatives of an institution or relatives, friends, colleagues, etc., express their loss and grief, praise lives and deeds of the deceased, emphasize their importance for the authors or institution, and, in the case of the condolence notice, they offer their sympathy. The anniversary notice, the rarest subgenre, commemorates the anniversary of decedent’s birth or death, and frequently reminds the community about never-ending love and remembrance of its authors. A significant number of farewell and anniversary notices are addressed to the deceased themselves, the ‘virtual readers,’ which affects their structure and style. The register analysis displays a high level of intertextuality: non-professional obituarists tend to use conventional and stereotypical lexicon, phrases and structures, or even templates (they may copy or imitate other texts and study models provided in obituary manuals). There is no substantial evidence that the Internet has affected the genre: only few texts include hyperlinks that direct to the memorial sites at Legacy.com, where particular groups of the dead are commemorated (e.g. war veterans, university graduates, breast cancer victims).

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Wellman, David I. "Post-flood recovery and distributions of fishes in the New River Gorge National River, West Virginia." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2004. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3455.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
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Faber, Alexander Josef [Verfasser], Bruno W. [Akademischer Betreuer] Neu, Roland M. [Gutachter] Schmid, and Bruno W. [Gutachter] Neu. "Perkutane transhepatische Cholangiodrainage (PTCD): Ein Vergleich zwischen der konventionell fluoroskopischen und sonographisch gesteuerten PTCD-Neuanlage : Eine retrospektive Studie über 8 Jahre mit 195 Patienten / Alexander Josef Faber ; Gutachter: Roland M. Schmid, Bruno W. Neu ; Betreuer: Bruno W. Neu." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1185637702/34.

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Nennstiel, Simon [Verfasser], Bruno W. [Akademischer Betreuer] Neu, and Roland [Akademischer Betreuer] Schmid. "Perkutane transhepatische Cholangiodrainage (PTCD): Indikation, Erfolg, Langzeitverlauf, Komplikationen und deren Risikofaktoren bei Patienten mit benignen und malignen Gallengangstenosen : Eine retrospektive Studie über 10 Jahre mit 385 Patienten / Simon Nennstiel. Gutachter: Roland Schmid ; Bruno W. Neu. Betreuer: Bruno W. Neu." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1050025644/34.

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Silvia, Antone G. "Life history and production of the dominant Chironomidae in the New River, with emphasis on the effects of Bacillus thuringiensis var. Israelensis." Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05092009-040337/.

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Nemura, Adrienne Denise. "Effectiveness of weirs on the New River in retarding rapid releases from Claytor Lake Dam at Big Falls." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101138.

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Reservoir releases for power generation often cause rapidly fluctuating water levels and increased velocities in certain downstream sections of rivers. These conditions and the natural geometry of the river can render certain sections of the river dangerous for recreation. Although public utilities take precautionary safety measures immediately downstream of the dam, their measures further downstream have been limited, if not non-existent. The placement of weirs between the dam and dangerous sections would retard the flow—slowing the rise in water levels and decreasing velocities at predetermined dangerous sections. Big Falls, on the New River near McCoy, Virginia, is a popular recreation spot and becomes dangerous at certain times of the day due to releases from Claytor Lake Dam. Several people have drowned at this location over the years. In this study, the influence of weirs placed upstream of Big Falls on the rise of water level and increase in velocity is investigated by an implicit finite difference computer model of one-dimensional gradually varied unsteady flow. The model allows for investigation of different weir geometries and placements, and the effectiveness of these weirs when subjected to various boundary conditions which arise from variations of the maximum peak release hydrograph from Claytor Lake Dam from May to September of 1983 and 1984. Results of the study consist of the optimum weir geometry and placement on the New River upstream of Big Falls. Criteria for determining the weir included physical location limitations, and the effectiveness of the weir in reducing the rate-of-rise of water levels and increased velocities at Big Falls.
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Ritter, Ann Leonora. "William and Mary Windeyer in colonial New South Wales : simultaneous bearers of two traditions." Phd thesis, Department of History, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4994.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1996.
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of History, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 1996; thesis submitted 1995. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

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Neh, Siegfried W. [Verfasser]. "Die posthumen Auflagen von Feuerbachs Lehrbuch. : Zu der Konzeption C. J. A. Mittermaiers und seinem Wissenschaftsverständnis. / Siegfried W. Neh." Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1238225497/34.

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Roell, Michael John. "The roles of predation, competition, and exploitation in the community dynamics of the New River in West Virginia." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54403.

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A model of the trophic dynamics among key macroinvertebrate and fish populations in the New River, West Virginia, was developed to help define the roles of predation, competition, and fishery exploitation in the food web of this large, warmwater stream. The fates of production of the harvested crayfish (Orconectes virilis, Orconectes sanbornii sanbornii, and Cambarus sciotensis), hellgrammite (Corydalus cornutus larvae), smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui), rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), and flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) populations were quantified to evaluate the status of these stocks and to aid specification of the model. Analysis and application of the model were designed to address three research objectives, which were to (1) quantify the roles that predation, competition, and exploitation have in structuring the prey-predator assemblage, (2) evaluate through simulation the effects of multispecies exploitation, and (3) assess through simulation the impacts to the food web of reductions in aquatic insect production associated with the systematic control of black fly larvae in the New River. The trophic basis of production of smallmouth bass, rock bass, and flathead catfish was primarily aquatic insects (in young fishes) and crayfish (in older fishes). Hellgrammites and prey fishes were inconsequential in that regard. Predation by these fishes (primarily smallmouth bass and rock bass) accounted for 76% of the production of ages-1 and -2 crayfish, and harvest by people was equivalent to 5% of crayfish production. Fish predation (primarily by rock bass) and harvest accounted for 14% and 8%, respectively, of the annual production of ages-1 and -2 hellgrammites. Anglers harvested the equivalents of about 91% and 12% of the annual production of fully-recruited smallmouth bass and rock bass, respectively; the extent of flathead catfish harvest was unclear. Error analysis of the model suggested that “bottom-up" (food-limitation) effects were more important than “top-down" (mortality from predation) effects, interspecific and intraspecific competition, and exploitation in maintaining the structure of the prey-predator assemblage in the New River. Exploitation was important in causing transitions in assemblage structure. Simulations of multispecies exploitation demonstrated that production and yield of populations are strongly dependent on food web interactions. Simulation of a 50% reduction in aquatic insect production, similar to that observed following poisoning of black fly Iarvae, predicted substantial declines in insectivores and their predators. Management of New River resources for maxi- mum benefits to people will necessarily involve new approaches to addressing problems in a food web context.
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Jambard-Sweet, Carolyn Jill. "CARTE-DE-VISTE CULTURE IN MANCHESTER NH: A CASE STUDY." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1162753708.

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Migliori, Figueroa Norma Giuliana. "W de weapon, épicas neo-liberales: el caso de los guardias de seguridad privada peruanos en Irak y sus (auto) representaciones en Internet." Master's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/6894.

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La investigación que da pie a la presente tesis se origina en un proyecto artístico personal 1 sobre la percepción “diferida” de la guerra a través de las imágenes mediales y su resignificación en la pintura. Posteriormente, una vez en la Maestría de Antropología Visual, mis motivaciones se ampliaron bajo la idea de realizar un documental- ensayo con la utilización de material audiovisual encontrado y alojado en Internet sobre un caso de migración estacional laboral de ciudadanos peruanos, quienes prestaron “servicios de seguridad” en el extranjero (2005-2012) contratados por Compañías Militares Privadas de Seguridad (CMPS), entre ellas, la americana Triple Canopy Co, (Virginia); durante la invasión de Estados Unidos a Irak.
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DE, GUIO FEDERICO. "Search for a heavy gauge boson w' in the final state with electron and large missing energy in p-p collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/29499.

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In this thesis work the search for a new heavy charged gauge boson, with 1.13 inverse femtobarn of data collected in 2011 with the CMS detector at the LHC, is performed accordingly to the Reference Model by Altarelli. The Model is a generalization of the Left-Right-Symmetric Model where the gauge group of the Standard Model of elementary particles is enlarged in order to restore the Lagrangian left-right symmetry. As a consequence new heavy gauge bosons, W′ and Z′, come out as heavy partners of the Standard Model W and Z bosons. The W′ particle is searched for in the decay channel W′ → eν. The electromagnetic calorimeter of CMS plays a central role in the analysis and its performances are discussed in detail together with methods to calibrate and monitor its response. Since no excess with respect to the Standard Model background prediction were observed in the analyzed dataset, an upper limit on the W′ production cross section times branching fraction is set. The analysis result can be translated into a lower limit on the mass of the potential W′ of 2.15 TeV/c² at 95% CL.

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Romberg, Laura Kim Anh [Verfasser], Markus [Akademischer Betreuer] Gerhard, and Bruno W. [Akademischer Betreuer] Neu. "Validierung eines neuen Immuno-Line-blots zur Detektion der Helicobacter pylori Infektion / Laura Kim Anh Romberg. Gutachter: Markus Gerhard ; Bruno W. Neu. Betreuer: Markus Gerhard." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2014. http://d-nb.info/105442019X/34.

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Barnhart, Stephen H. "The nineteenth-century church history professors at Princeton Seminary a study in the Princeton theology's treatment of church history /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Vanosdol-Lewis, Teresa. "Nest site selection of the yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) in Virginia." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1137833.

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In 1996 and 1997, I studied the nest site selection of the yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) in the George Washington National Forest, southwestern Virginia. Data were collected from nine 30 ha plots. I compared the habitat features of nest sites with two types of nonnest sites (nonuse and systematically random). Habitat features were measured at 3 spatial scales: nest tree, nest tree area (0.0049 ha centered on the nest), and nest stand (forest stand surrounding the nest). Yellow-billed cuckoo nests were oriented in a nonrandom direction (mean angle = 114°, r = 0.43, P = 0.05) with respect to the bole and were concealed more from above than from below (n = 14, M = 5, p = 0.01) or from the side (n = 14, M = 4, p = 0.04). Slope aspect was nonrandom at yellow-billed cuckoo nest sites (mean angle = 143°, r = 0.52, P < 0.05). Small stem density in the nest tree area was greater (P = 0.029) at nest sites than nonuse sites but species composition was similar. The density of grape (Vitus spp.) and dogwood (Cornus spp.) snags was greater at nest sites than random sites (P < 0.001). Total basal area at yellow-billed cuckoo nest stands was lower than nonuse or random sites with (P = 0.033, and 0.016, respectively) or without (P = 0.014, and 0.004, respectively) snags. Nest sites also occurred in areas with less (P = 0.008) canopy cover but more (P = 0.038) ground cover than random sites. Yellow-billed cuckoos appeared to select nest sites based on the structure and composition of the understory vegetation. Periodic disturbance that promotes the growth of shade intolerant species, but maintains the general structure of the stand may be beneficial for this species that appears to select disturbed areas in mature forests.
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Bobinski, Clifton T. "The effectiveness of training river guides as an alternative interpretive approach in the New River Gorge." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90916.

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The effectiveness of a guide training program was evaluated as a means of providing interpretive services to commercial boaters at the New River Gorge National River. Commercial river guides attended a National Park Service sponsored training program which provided accurate information and education concerning natural and cultural history of the New River, the national significance of the New River Gorge National River, the history and purpose of the National Park Service, and information and services available at the visitor centers. The emphasis of the training session was to increase the river guides’ knowledge base and to encourage their interpretive presentation of this information to their customers. Customers of a commercial outfitter were administered a questionnaire before and after the guide training program. Significant differences in the amount of interpretation guides presented on the river, the amount of knowledge customers acquired during the trip, and the customers' overall trip rating were noted by empirical testing. Increases in the means of all three outcome variables occurred following guide training. Customers’ intentions to visit a New River Gorge Visitor Center did not significantly change following guide training. The validity and reliability of the instrument is discussed as well as potential biases and constraints of the study. Implications for management and further research are also discussed.
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Easton, Robert S. "Feeding ecology of age-o smallmouth bass in the New River, West Virginia." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10062009-020140/.

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Baumann, Lydia [Verfasser], Otto W. [Gutachter] Witte, Thomas [Gutachter] Weiß, and Jens [Gutachter] Haueisen. ""Schwarz vor Augen" : somatosensibel evozierte Felder und Potentiale bei offenen und geschlosse-nen Augen im EEG und MEG bei absoluter Dunkelheit / Lydia Baumann ; Gutachter: Otto W. Witte, Thomas Weiß, Jens Haueisen." Jena : Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1207272531/34.

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Colombo, Armando W. [Verfasser], Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Feldmann, Klaus [Gutachter] Feldmann, W. [Gutachter] Bär, Klaus [Herausgeber] Feldmann, and Manfred [Herausgeber] Geiger. "Development and Implementation of Hierarchical Control Structures of Flexible Production Systems Using High Level Petri Nets / Armando Walter Colombo ; Gutachter: Klaus Feldmann, W. Bär ; Betreuer: Klaus Feldmann ; Herausgeber: Klaus Feldmann, Manfred Geiger." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 1998. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-opus4-136547.

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Colombo, Armando Walter [Verfasser], Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Feldmann, Klaus [Gutachter] Feldmann, W. [Gutachter] Bär, Klaus [Herausgeber] Feldmann, and Manfred [Herausgeber] Geiger. "Development and Implementation of Hierarchical Control Structures of Flexible Production Systems Using High Level Petri Nets / Armando Walter Colombo ; Gutachter: Klaus Feldmann, W. Bär ; Betreuer: Klaus Feldmann ; Herausgeber: Klaus Feldmann, Manfred Geiger." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 1998. http://d-nb.info/1209741288/34.

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Gilles, Geoffrey. "Recherche de résonances W' → tb dans le canal lepton plus jets avec le détecteur ATLAS au LHC." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF22576/document.

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Le travail de recherche réalisé au cours de cette thèse s’inscrit dans le contexte de l’expérience ATLAS, l’une des quatre grandes expériences auprès du collisionneur LHC. Il fut principalement dédié à la recherche de nouveaux bosons de jauge lourds chargés, appelé W' et prédits par de nombreuses extensions du Modèle Standard de la physique des particules. Ce manuscrit présente une recherche du boson W' se désintégrant en un quark top et un quark beau à travers une approche de couplage effectif, dans des états finals de désintégrations leptoniques du quark top. Cette recherche fut réalisée avec 20.3 fb−1 de données de collision proton-proton, produits par le LHC à une énergie dans le centre de masse de 8 TeV et collectées par le détecteur ATLAS en 2012. Plusieurs scénarios d’études sont envisagés où le boson W' se couple soit à des fermions de chiralité gauche (W'L) soit de chiralité droite (W'R). Une technique d’analyse multivariée utilisant des arbres de décision boostés (BDT) est utilisée afin de mettre évidence un excès de processus de signal dans les données enregistrées. Aucun excès n’est observé au-delà des incertitudes expérimentales pour la statistique de données analysées jusque-là. Une analyse statistique est réalisée afin d’extraire des limites d’exclusion sur la masse et la section efficace de production de la particule. Des masses inférieures à 1.92, 1.80 et 1.70 TeV furent exclues respectivement pour des bosons W'R et W'L, en tenant compte ou non d’effets d’interférence. Les limites d’exclusion sur les sections efficaces de production sont réinterprétées en matière de limite d’exclusion sur le couplage effectif g'/g de la particule. Les limites d’exclusion les plus basses observées sur le rapport g'/g, respectivement de 0.20 et 0.16 pour les recherches de bosons W'R et W'L, furent obtenues pour une masse de boson W'R/L de 0.75 TeV. Une recherche de bosons de Higgs chargés se désintégrant en un quark top et un quark beau est également présentée dans ce manuscrit. Cette dernière repose sur une approche de couplage effectif décrivant un modèle à deux doublets de Higgs de type II. Cette analyse réutilise l’infrastructure développée pour la recherche du boson W' est complétée d’études phénoménologiques liées au calcul de la section efficace de ce processus ainsi que sur la caractérisation des effets de largeur de la résonance recherchée. Les premiers résultats obtenus sur la limite d’exclusion sur la section efficace de production pp → H+→ tb montrent toutefois que cette analyse ne semble pas être en mesure d’exclure un signal de boson H+ pour l’ensemble des scénarios théoriques considérés, compte tenu des faibles sections efficaces de production prédites. En parallèle de ces activités, des développements ont été réalisés pour la simulation rapide du système de calorimétrie FastCaloSim du détecteur ATLAS afin de pallier ses limitations. En particulier, un nouveau modèle de paramétrisation et de simulation rapide de la réponse en énergie du système de calorimétrie est présenté dans ce manuscrit. Ce modèle, toujours en développement, montre des résultats très encourageant pour la simulation d’événements à pion unique et permet de réduire considérablement l’empreinte mémoire de la paramétrisation en comparaison avec des versions précédentes de FastCaloSim, tout en permettant aux futures reparamétrisations d’être plus rapides et automatisées
The research work carried out during this Ph.D thesis has been performed in the context of the ATLAS experiment, one of the four major LHC experiments, and was primarily dedicated to the search for a new chaged heavy gauge boson, called W' and predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. This manuscript presents a search for W' boson decaying into a top and a bottom quark through an effective coupling approach, in the lepton plus jets final states. This search is performed with 20.3 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data, produced by the LHC with a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV and collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012. Several scenarios are considered where the W boson can couple to left-handed (W'L) or right-handed (W'R) fermions. A multivariate techniques based on boosted decision trees is used to search for an excess of W signal process in the recorded data. No excess is observed beyond the experimental uncertainties for the data analysed so far. A statistical analysis is performed in order to extract exclusion limits on the mass and the production cross section of the particle. Masses below 1.92, 1.80 and 1.70 TeV are excluded, respectively for W'R and W'L bosons taking into account or not interference effects. These exclusion limits on the production cross section are also reinterpreted in terms of exclusion limits on the effective coupling g'/g of the particle. The lowest exclusion limits observed on the ratio g'/g are equal to 0.20 and 0.16, respectively, for W'R and W'L searches, and are obtained for a W'R/L mass of 0.75 TeV. A search for charged Higgs boson decaying into a top and a bottom quark is presented in this manuscript. This search is based on an effective coupling approach describing a type II Two Doublet Higgs Model. It reuses the analysis infrastructure developed for the W' search and is completed by phenomenological studies related to the production cross section calculation for the process and the characterisation of the resonance width effects affecting the analysis. Preliminary results on the excluded cross section limits pp → H+→ tb show that the analysis is not able to exclude a signal a H+ boson for all theoretical scenarios considered, due to low production cross sections predicted. In parallel of these activities, several developments have been performed on the fast simulation of the ATLAS calorimeter system in order to overcome its limitations. In particular, a new parametrisation and fast simulation model for the energy response of the calorimeter is presented in this manuscript. This model, still under development, shows encouraging results for simulated single pion event and allows to reduce considerably the memory footprint of the parametrisation compared to previous versions of FastCaloSim, while enabling future reparametrisations to be faster and automated

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Nuttli, Emily E. "“Fixing the Italian Problem”: Archbishop of New Orleans John W. Shaw and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, 1918-1933." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2178.

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In 1918, Archbishop Shaw invited the Texas Catholic religious order, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, to New Orleans to manage the St. Louis Cathedral and its filial parish for Southern Italians, St. Mary’s Church. This thesis will look at the personalities and preferentialism that affected this early 20th century transfer of religious power from secular priests to a religious order. Comparing the language used by Archbishop Shaw in correspondence with Oblate Fathers with the language he used with his secular priests will determine that Shaw displayed favoritism in his decision to invite the Oblates. This decision was affected by four primary factors: Shaw’s prior relationship with the Oblates as Bishop of San Antonio, his concerns with archdiocesan finances, his perceived threat of encroaching Protestantism, and politics of discontent amongst his secular clergy. Shaw’s distinct idealistic pragmatism shows the dynamic nature of the institution of the Catholic Church in Louisiana.

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Katz, Robert A. "Evaluating a mental health needs assessment technique on a sample of the elderly population of the New River Valley." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44072.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Quality of Life~Contribution Model (QOLC) developed by Murrell and Norris (19S3) as a mental health needs assessment technique for the rural elderly. In this field survey method, measures of mental health areas and program targets within each mental health area are compared and prioritized according to their relative contributions to a subjective index of quality-of-life (QOL).

An inâ home survey of 60 older adults was conducted. Needs were defined in terms of problems, services, and community support and were measured across the following mental health areas: 1) Depression; 2) Organic Brain Syndrome; 3) Alcohol and Drug Abuse; 4) Anxiety; 5) Caregiver Problems; 6) Schizophrenia; and 7) Health Habits. The utility of the QOLC model was evaluated via the descriptive conclusions generated by multiple regression analysis of the sample survey data, with QOL as the dependent variable and the different need measures and mental health areas as the independent variables. A cost analysis was also completed comparing the net total cost of the QOLC with the hypothesized net total cost of a more traditional mental health needs assessment (consisting of a key informant plus a service use statistics component). The results suggest that although the QOLC mental health needs assessment costs more than simpler needs assessment techniques, it can yield important information that can prevent wasteful spending on increased direct mental health services and can also be used to determine the criteria that should be used to segment the target population.
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El, Yattioui Mohamed Badine. "Les enjeux géostratégiques des programmes publics de Washington à destination de l'Amérique Latine, de George Bush père à George Bush fils (1988-2008)." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO30059.

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Les relations entre les Etats-Unis et l’Amérique latine entre 1988 et 2008 ont connu de nombreux bouleversements et chambardements. Les nombreuses raisons qui en sont les causes ont été abordées dans cette thèse. Après avoir étudié les enjeux théoriques de leurs relations nous nous sommes demandés si la politique étrangère était une politique publique comme les autres. Suite à une comparaison générale nous avons étudié les spécificités de l’aide publique au développement et le cas d’une théorie promue par George Bush Jr qui est la « diplomatie transformationnelle ». Dans un second temps, nous avons étudié les bouleversements diplomatiques apparus dans un certain nombre de pays de cette région du fait de l’arrivée de gouvernements de gauche. Les pages consacrées aux trois programmes élaborés par Washington dans les années 2000 (MCA, les deux plans Colombie et le Plan Merida) montrent leur originalité mais aussi leur application et leurs résultats mitigés tant du point de vue de l’efficacité, de l’efficience que de la consolidation des relations diplomatiques avec les pays de cette région. Enfin, nous avons décrit et analysé l’importance des enjeux énergétiques avec l’Amérique latine pour les Etats-Unis puis développé les raisons qui les poussent à vouloir constituer la ZLEA. Cela démontre l’imbrication des questions économiques, diplomatiques et sécuritaires pour les décideurs américains
The relations between the United States and Latin America between 1988 and 2008 had known a lot of upheavals. The different reasons which were at the origin of that were approached in this dissertation. After having studied the theorical stakes concerning their relations we asked ourself if foreign policy was a classic public policy. Then, we studied development aid’s specificities and a theory promoted by George W. Bush which is the « transformational diplomacy ». In a second part, we studied diplomatical upheavals appeared in some countries of the region, consequence of the election of left wing governments. Pages dedicated to the three programs worked out by Washington during the 2000’s (MCA, both Colombian plans and Merida Initiative) showed the originality but also their application and their reserved results so much from the point of view of the efficiency and the consolidation of the diplomatical relations with the countries of this region. At last, we described and analyzed the importance the energy challenges with Latin America for the United States and developed reasons which urge them to want to constitute the FTAA. This show The interweaving of the economic, diplomatic and security questions for the American decision-makers

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Waschbüsch, Viviane. "La notion de simplicité comme concept de création dans la musique contemporaine en Allemagne : positionnement entre sources et légitimation." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040167.

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Cette thèse propose une approche transversale entre différentes disciplines : musicologie historique, musicologie analytique (analyse des œuvres et génétique de l’œuvre) et sociologie des arts (analyse socio-économique et analyse sociologique de la trajectoire de l’œuvre). Les compositeurs de la « Nouvelle Simplicité » sont à l’origine d’un courant compositionnel très large réintégrant les formes musicales traditionnelles dans une interprétation nouvelle, réactivant la fonction de la polarité des consonances et des dissonances. La notion de « simplicité » et les idées qui ont émergé de ce concept ont ainsi été un catalyseur qui a participé à l’établissement du postmodernisme en Allemagne. Toutefois, la génération de la « Nouvelle Simplicité » et leurs idées et concepts en communs ont trouvé une fin brutale avec la chute du mur de Berlin et les changements culturels et politiques induits par ce bouleversement. Les évolutions politiques et la création d’une nouvelle Akademie der Künste Berlin qui représentait une fusion de l’Akademie der Künste Berlin est et ouest ont abouti à une opposition entre deux signataires du premier manifeste de cette génération de compositeurs : W. Rihm, avec son abstention du débat, et H-J. von Bose, avec son retrait de l’Akadémie der Künste Berlin (il sera suivi de plusieurs autres artistes tels que G. Ligeti et G. Baselitz). Cela marque la fin définitive de la collaboration de cette génération de compositeurs
This thesis proposes a cross-disciplinary approach between: historical musicology, analytical musicology (analysis of pieces and the genetics of the piece) and art sociology (socio- economic analysis and sociological analysis of artistic practice). The "New Simplicity" composers were the source of a very wide compositional current reintegrating traditional musical forms in a new interpretation, reactivating the function of the polarity of consonance and dissonance. The notion of "simplicity" and ideas that emerged from this concept were a catalyst that contributed to the establishment of postmodernism in Germany. However, the generation of the "New Simplicity" and their shared ideas and concepts came to an abrupt end with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the cultural and political changes induced by this upheaval. Political developments and the creation of a new Akademie der Künste Berlin representing a fusion of Akademie der Künste Berlin East and West led to an opposing position between two first manifesto signatories of this generation of composers: W. Rihm with his abstention from the debate and H-J. von Bose with his withdrawal from the Akademie der Künste Berlin in common with many other artists such as G. Ligeti and G. Baselitz, marking the definitive end of the collaboration of this generation of composers

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Langmajer, Jakub. "Th. Roosevelt vs W. Wilson. Prezidentské volby 1912 jako střet uvnitř progresivistického hnutí." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-192738.

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The purpose of my assignment is to summarize facts, thoughts and assumptions and provide Progressive Era analyses in relation to the 1912 presidential elections. The respective campaigns of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson can -- in general terms - be considered as a contest between the theoretical and the practical. This was evident in their varying approaches to both economic and social issues. Even within the Progressivism there were different points of view on the liberalism in the American democracy and strategic issues such as tax, customs duties and anti-monopoly policies. I will specifically examine this disparity in context of the social struggle between concentrated and organized capitalism and the progressive labor movement. Who were the people designing their election platforms, defining the state politics and consequently creating the rules? What was their vision? And what assumptions underlined their thinking? Have their ideas and its application in politics been successful? Finally, what was their political legacy in American society today?

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Loitsch, Claudia, and Gerhard Weber. "Barrierefreiheit durch Personalisierung und Kollaboration." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101062.

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1 EINLEITUNG In Deutschland ist Barrierefreiheit im Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz festgeschrieben, indem festgelegt wird, dass Lebensbereiche barrierefrei sind, sofern diese von Menschen mit einer Behinderung ohne besondere Erschwernis und ohne fremde Hilfe nutzbar sind. Dies gilt auch für die Zugänglichkeit von virtuellen Gemeinschaften und neuen Medien, indem bestehende Richtlinien für barrierefreie Webinhalte eingehalten werden sollen.

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Tilbury, Simon John. "The dancer walking the ruins : Laura Riding and dialectical thought." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290212.

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This thesis explores the origin and expression of dialectical thought in the life and writings of the American modernist Laura Riding. Within a biographical framework, I trace the steps by which it became the defining characteristic of her poetic, literary and critical works. A few have noted Riding's dialectical manner; none have appreciated its centrality. This is the first detailed study. An introductory outline of the origin and definition of dialectic provides a working theoretical context for the study that follows. Riding was born Laura Reichenthal in New York City, 1901. Her father, a Jewish émigré, was a committed activist for the left and included Riding in his campaigning at a very young age, immersing and educating her in the political and philosophical radicalism thriving in New York's Jewish communities of the era. There she internalised the revolutionary dialectics that would inform her aesthetic practice. Breaking with her father in her teens, she abandoned politics for literature. As Laura Riding - the name she adopted in 1927 and with which her literary writings continue to be associated - she moved to London and began collaborating with Robert Graves, relocating with him to Majorca in 1929. Producing poetry, fiction, criticism and experimental philosophico-literary works, she became a formidable presence within European literary modernism. Many aspects of her work are dialectical. Paradox, inversion and negation are perennial textual features. Key events in her life were also experienced as dialectical. Her insistence upon 'death' as an inverted sigil of unmediated vitality points toward a negatively dialectical mode of thought. In this regard, the theories of Theodor W. Adorno prove invaluable. Adorno provides a unique lexicon of terms - 'constitutive subjectivity', 'administered world', 'true object' - with which to draw out Riding's dialectical subtleties. Reading them alongside Adorno's negatively dialectical theory of modernist art and aesthetic praxis, certain aspects of Riding's writings are illuminated and, in some respects, they correspond. After a suicide attempt in 1929, Riding's perspective changed. Before it, her point of view was positioned within institutionally determined 'reality', and 'truth' beyond it was adumbrated by dialectical means. Afterwards, she believed herself transfigured: the embodiment of immediate, consciously apprehended noumenal objectivity. But the written word remained recalcitrant toward her attempts to inscribe this newfound positive 'truth'. This frustration contributed to her abandonment of poetry at the end of the 1930s. Re-emerging in the 1960s as Laura (Riding) Jackson, her disavowal of poetry and exploration of 'truth-potential' in language utilised dialectical approaches derived from her earlier experiences and writings.

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Nord, Johan. "NASA på Nya äventyr i rymden : Populariseringen av den amerikanska visionen om rymden." Thesis, Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-12029.

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The purpose of this thesis is to bring forward and discuss the American vision for space exploration found at NASA's homepage, how the vision is popularised and why. NASA's homepage is analyzed as popularized science and the theoretical perspective emanates from the field of popular science and especially the work of Johan Kärnfelt. The historical reference is made up by Howard E McCurdy and he's thoughts about space and the American imagination. The analysis is based on a number of documents that popularize the vision for space exploration and is intended for the public. These documents describe the future plan for NASA and US space exploration.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur de amerikanska rymdvisionerna gestaltats på NASA:s hemsida, hur dessa populariseras samt vilka de bakomliggande drivkrafterna kan tänkas vara. NASA:s hemsida kommer att ses som populariserad vetenskap och det teoretiska perspektivet utgår från den populärvetenskapliga genren där en stor del av det teoretiska underlaget utgår från docenten Johan Kärnfelts tankar om populariseringen av vetenskap. Som historisk referens används professor Howard E. McCurdys tankar om den amerikanska rymdvisionen. Materialet som ingår i analysen är hämtat från NASA:s hemsida. Samtliga dokument handlar om den amerikanska visionen om rymden och USA:s fortsatta aktiviteter i rymden.

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Marinho, Kleber Maia. "In The President We Trust: uma análise da concepção religiosa na esfera política dos EUA presente nos discursos de George W. Bush." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1988.

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As a whole, the present dissertation lies at the intersection between religion and politics. Religion was embedded in the political scenario of the US at the onset of the nation and, since then, religion and politics have been intertwined into a complex system of coexistence that has strongly influenced the country s destiny. Although the debate regarding the amalgam between religion and politics in the US has been ongoing among the most diverse sectors of information and research, both locally and internationally, it was after the inauguration of George W. Bush and the attacks on 9/11, that such issue gained global repercussion, at a level never before seen in history. In this regard, the present work intends to analyze the relation of historical-cultural, sociological and psychological facts on the political-religious events, particularly those related to the international political scenario, which is hereby represented by the US. Thus, the subject of this investigation focuses on analyzing the presence of religious concepts as found in the speeches of President George W. Bush, during his two terms in office. More specifically, this dissertation examines the phenomena that are deeply rooted in the culture of the United States and have played a key role in supporting Bush s political actions. In this way, it evaluates the degree to which the events on 9/11 served as a bulwark for the religious rhetoric in Bush s discourse and became a tool to legitimate the war against Iraq, his political modus operandi and, ultimately, lead him to reelection. It is therefore concluded that, the ethical, moral and religious factors, deeply set in the culture of the United States throughout its history, together with the trauma caused by the events on 9/11, contributed to the acceptance of Bush s political decisions. The theoretical basis for the work is the hermeneutic methodology, built on a theoretical and bibliographic tripartite design that is sociological, philosophical-linguistic as well as psychological. The first line of investigation is based on the concept of Civil Religion, first developed by Robert Bellah and later expanded by other theoreticians; the second one follows Chaïm Perelman s theory of the New Rhetoric, and the third rests on C. G. Jung s Archetype.
Em termos gerais, a presente dissertação localiza-se na confluência da religião com a política. A inserção da religião na esfera política dos EUA fez-se presente desde o início de sua fundação e desde então, ambas permaneceram imbricadas constituindo um complexo sistema de convívio, cuja influência foi determinante nos desígnios da nação. Embora o debate acerca do amálgama entre religião e política nos EUA nunca ter cessado entre os mais diferentes setores de informação e pesquisa na sociedade nacional e internacional, foi, todavia, a partir da posse de George W. Bush e, após os atentados de 11 de setembro, que tal assunto ganhou repercussão mundial como talvez jamais antes na história. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho tem como propósito analisar os fatos histórico-culturais, sociológicos e psicológicos na análise de eventos político-religiosos, mais precisamente, relativos à política internacional representada aqui pelos EUA. Por essa via, o objeto de investigação em questão refere-se à análise da presença da concepção religiosa encontrada nos discursos do presidente George W. Bush durante o período de seus dois mandatos de governo. Em termos específicos, esta dissertação debruçou-se sobre o estudo de fenômenos arraigados na cultura estadunidense que foram preponderantes na sustentação da política de Bush. Assim, buscou-se avaliar até que ponto o 11 de setembro serviu de ênfase na retórica religiosa do discurso de Bush, servindo de meio instrumentário para legitimar a guerra no Iraque, seu modus operandi político e, eventualmente, ajudá-lo na reeleição. Concluímos que fatores ético-morais e religiosos profundamente incutidos na cultura estadunidense ao longo do processo histórico, aliados ao trauma do 11 de setembro, foram facilitadores para a adesão à política de Bush. Para tanto, valemo-nos, como procedimento teórico, da metodologia hermenêutica, construída em cima de uma linha teórico-bibliográfica ancorada por três frentes: sociológica, filosófico-lingüística e psicológica. A primeira embasa-se no conceito de Religião Civil inicialmente desenvolvida por Robert Bellah e, depois, ampliada por outros teóricos; a segunda pauta-se na teoria da Nova Retórica de Chaïm Perelman e a última, no conceito de Arquétipo de C. G. Jung.

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MARTELLA, Vincenzo. "Dialectics of Cultural Criticism. Adorno’s Confrontation with Rudolf Borchardt and Ludwig Klages in the Odyssey chapter of Dialektik der Aufklärung." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/26688.

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Avila, Alex. "THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/394.

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The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx. This multi-platform performance highlights the metaphorical and physical concerns with the cycle of violence. This question is answered through the Poet’s choice by selecting the pen over the gun.

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Lucas, D. Pulane. "Disruptive Transformations in Health Care: Technological Innovation and the Acute Care General Hospital." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2996.

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Advances in medical technology have altered the need for certain types of surgery to be performed in traditional inpatient hospital settings. Less invasive surgical procedures allow a growing number of medical treatments to take place on an outpatient basis. Hospitals face growing competition from ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). The competitive threats posed by ASCs are important, given that inpatient surgery has been the cornerstone of hospital services for over a century. Additional research is needed to understand how surgical volume shifts between and within acute care general hospitals (ACGHs) and ASCs. This study investigates how medical technology within the hospital industry is changing medical services delivery. The main purposes of this study are to (1) test Clayton M. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation in health care, and (2) examine the effects of disruptive innovation on appendectomy, cholecystectomy, and bariatric surgery (ACBS) utilization. Disruptive innovation theory contends that advanced technology combined with innovative business models—located outside of traditional product markets or delivery systems—will produce simplified, quality products and services at lower costs with broader accessibility. Consequently, new markets will emerge, and conventional industry leaders will experience a loss of market share to “non-traditional” new entrants into the marketplace. The underlying assumption of this work is that ASCs (innovative business models) have adopted laparoscopy (innovative technology) and their unification has initiated disruptive innovation within the hospital industry. The disruptive effects have spawned shifts in surgical volumes from open to laparoscopic procedures, from inpatient to ambulatory settings, and from hospitals to ASCs. The research hypothesizes that: (1) there will be larger increases in the percentage of laparoscopic ACBS performed than open ACBS procedures; (2) ambulatory ACBS will experience larger percent increases than inpatient ACBS procedures; and (3) ASCs will experience larger percent increases than ACGHs. The study tracks the utilization of open, laparoscopic, inpatient and ambulatory ACBS. The research questions that guide the inquiry are: 1. How has ACBS utilization changed over this time? 2. Do ACGHs and ASCs differ in the utilization of ACBS? 3. How do states differ in the utilization of ACBS? 4. Do study findings support disruptive innovation theory in the hospital industry? The quantitative study employs a panel design using hospital discharge data from 2004 and 2009. The unit of analysis is the facility. The sampling frame is comprised of ACGHs and ASCs in Florida and Wisconsin. The study employs exploratory and confirmatory data analysis. This work finds that disruptive innovation theory is an effective model for assessing the hospital industry. The model provides a useful framework for analyzing the interplay between ACGHs and ASCs. While study findings did not support the stated hypotheses, the impact of government interventions into the competitive marketplace supports the claims of disruptive innovation theory. Regulations that intervened in the hospital industry facilitated interactions between ASCs and ACGHs, reducing the number of ASCs performing ACBS and altering the trajectory of ACBS volume by shifting surgeries from ASCs to ACGHs.

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PANTINI, SARA. "Analysis and modelling of leachate and gas generation at landfill sites focused on mechanically-biologically treated waste." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/203393.

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Despite significant efforts have been directed toward reducing waste generation and encouraging alternative waste management strategies, landfills still remain the main option for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal in many countries. Hence, landfills and related impacts on the surroundings are still current issues throughout the world. Actually, the major concerns are related to the potential emissions of leachate and landfill gas into the environment, that pose a threat to public health, surface and groundwater pollution, soil contamination and global warming effects. To ensure environmental protection and enhance landfill sustainability, modern sanitary landfills are equipped with several engineered systems with different functions. For instance, the installation of containment systems, such as bottom liner and multi-layers capping systems, is aimed at reducing leachate seepage and water infiltration into the landfill body as well as gas migration, while eventually mitigating methane emissions through the placement of active oxidation layers (biocovers). Leachate collection and removal systems are designed to minimize water head forming on the bottom section of the landfill and consequent seepages through the liner system. Finally, gas extraction and utilization systems, allow to recover energy from landfill gas while reducing explosion and fire risks associated with methane accumulation, even though much depends on gas collection efficiency achieved in the field (range: 60-90% Spokas et al., 2006; Huitric and Kong, 2006). Hence, impacts on the surrounding environment caused by the polluting substances released from the deposited waste through liquid and gas emissions can be potentially mitigated by a proper design of technical barriers and collection/extraction systems at the landfill site. Nevertheless, the long-term performance of containment systems to limit the landfill emissions is highly uncertain and is strongly dependent on site-specific conditions such as climate, vegetative covers, containment systems, leachate quality and applied stress. Furthermore, the design and operation of leachate collection and treatment systems, of landfill gas extraction and utilization projects, as well as the assessment of appropriate methane reduction strategies (biocovers), require reliable emission forecasts for the assessment of system feasibility and to ensure environmental compliance. To this end, landfill simulation models can represent an useful supporting tool for a better design of leachate/gas collection and treatment systems and can provide valuable information for the evaluation of best options for containment systems depending on their performances under the site-specific conditions. The capability in predicting future emissions levels at a landfill site can also be improved by combining simulation models with field observations at full-scale landfills and/or with experimental studies resembling landfill conditions. Indeed, this kind of data may allow to identify the main parameters and processes governing leachate and gas generation and can provide useful information for model refinement. In view of such need, the present research study was initially addressed to develop a new landfill screening model that, based on simplified mathematical and empirical equations, provides quantitative estimation of leachate and gas production over time, taking into account for site-specific conditions, waste properties and main landfill characteristics and processes. In order to evaluate the applicability of the developed model and the accuracy of emissions forecast, several simulations on four full-scale landfills, currently in operative management stage, were carried out. The results of these case studies showed a good correspondence of leachate estimations with monthly trend observed in the field and revealed that the reliability of model predictions is strongly influenced by the quality of input data. In particular, the initial waste moisture content and the waste compression index, which are usually data not available from a standard characterisation, were identified as the key unknown parameters affecting leachate production. Furthermore, the applicability of the model to closed landfills was evaluated by simulating different alternative capping systems and by comparing the results with those returned by the Hydrological Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP), which is the most worldwide used model for comparative analysis of composite liner systems. Despite the simplified approach of the developed model, simulated values of infiltration and leakage rates through the analysed cover systems were in line with those of HELP. However, it should be highlighted that the developed model provides an assessment of leachate and biogas production only from a quantitative point of view. The leachate and biogas composition was indeed not included in the forecast model, as strongly linked to the type of waste that makes the prediction in a screening phase poorly representative of what could be expected in the field. Hence, for a qualitative analysis of leachate and gas emissions over time, a laboratory methodology including different type of lab-scale tests was applied to a particular waste material. Specifically, the research was focused on mechanically biologically treated (MBT) wastes which, after the introduction of the European Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC (European Commission, 1999) that imposes member states to dispose of in landfills only wastes that have been preliminary subjected to treatment, are becoming the main flow waste landfilled in new Italian facilities. However, due to the relatively recent introduction of the MBT plants within the waste management system, very few data on leachate and gas emissions from MBT waste in landfills are available and, hence, the current knowledge mainly results from laboratory studies. Nevertheless, the assessment of the leaching characteristics of MBT materials and the evaluation of how the environmental conditions may affect the heavy metals mobility are still poorly investigated in literature. To gain deeper insight on the fundamental mechanisms governing the constituents release from MBT wastes, several leaching experiments were performed on MBT samples collected from an Italian MBT plant and the experimental results were modelled to obtain information on the long-term leachate emissions. Namely, a combination of experimental leaching tests were performed on fully-characterized MBT waste samples and the effect of different parameters, mainly pH and liquid to solid ratio (L/S,) on the compounds release was investigated by combining pH static-batch test, pH dependent tests and dynamic up-flow column percolation experiments. The obtained results showed that, even though MBT wastes were characterized by relatively high heavy metals content, only a limited amount was actually soluble and thus bioavailable. Furthermore, the information provided by the different tests highlighted the existence of a strong linear correlation between the release pattern of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and several metals (Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, V, Zn), suggesting that complexation to DOC is the leaching controlling mechanism of these elements. Thus, combining the results of batch and up-flow column percolation tests, partition coefficients between DOC and metals concentration were derived. These data, coupled with a simplified screening model for DOC release, allowed to get a very good prediction of metal release during the experiments and may provide useful indications for the evaluation of long-term emissions from this type of waste in a landfill disposal scenario. In order to complete the study on the MBT waste environmental behaviour, gas emissions from MBT waste were examined by performing different anaerobic tests. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential gas generation capacity of wastes and to assess possible implications on gas generation resulting from the different environmental conditions expected in the field. To this end, anaerobic batch tests were performed at a wide range of water contents (26-43 %w/w up to 75 %w/w on wet weight) and temperatures (from 20-25 °C up to 55 °C) in order to simulate different landfill management options (dry tomb or bioreactor landfills). In nearly all test conditions, a quite long lag-phase was observed (several months) due to the inhibition effects resulting from high concentrations of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and ammonia that highlighted a poor stability degree of the analysed material. Furthermore, experimental results showed that the initial waste water content is the key factor limiting the anaerobic biological process. Indeed, when the waste moisture was lower than 32 %w/w the methanogenic microbial activity was completely inhibited. Overall, the obtained results indicated that the operative conditions drastically affect the gas generation from MBT waste, in terms of both gas yield and generation rate. This suggests that particular caution should be paid when using the results of lab-scale tests for the evaluation of long-term behaviour expected in the field, where the boundary conditions change continuously and vary significantly depending on the climate, the landfill operative management strategies in place (e.g. leachate recirculation, waste disposal methods), the hydraulic characteristics of buried waste, the presence and type of temporary and final cover systems.

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Nocoń, Kamila. "Zmiany społeczne, kulturowe i ekonomiczne w Nea Pafos na Cyprze w okresie hellenistycznym i rzymskim w świetle badań nad ceramiką kuchenną ze stanowiska Agora." Praca doktorska, 2020. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/269992.

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Yang, Chu-yin, and 楊筑尹. "G. W. Bush's Policy Towards Iraq : The Neo-conservative Perspective and Its Evaluations." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zbbtve.

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Ritter, Ann Leonora. "William and Mary Windeyer in colonial New South Wales simultaneous bearers of two traditions /." 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4994.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1996.
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of History, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 1996; thesis submitted 1995. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

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