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Pournou, Anastasia. "In situ protection and conservation of the Zakynthos wreck." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299067.
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Byrnes, Anthony. "The art of discernment in The Wreck of the Deutschland /." Title page and conclusion only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb9958.pdf.
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Crawford, James P. ""The trawler wreck all": political ecology and a Belizean village." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45062.
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Farley, Audrey. "Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/177.
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This study explores formal and thematic representations of ruins in twentieth century literary texts, including James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck.” Analyzing these texts and concepts of ruins in the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, and Julia Kristeva, I argue that ruins underscore the arbitrariness—and, thus, the fragility—of symbolic systems of signification. Ruins, by virtue of their fragmentation, invite nostalgic projections of totality only to betray totality as an illusion. Thus, the imagination of wholeness that the ruin incites allows—only to disallow—meaning. Modernity and language also initiate an allegorical process by which representation is made possible and impossible. Proclaiming an alliance (based on a contrast) between the past and the present, signifiers and signifieds, modernity and language likewise betray that representation, by invoking a radical alterity, is ruined from inception.
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Taylor, Rod C. "Modernism and the wreck of education Lawrence, Woolf, and the democratization of learning /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 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:3277978.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3875. Adviser: Susan Gubar. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 5, 2008).
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Elordui-Zapatarietxe, Saioa. "Hydrocarbons in the open ocean waters near the Galician Bank after the deep sea spill from the Prestige wrecks." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/5815.
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Hoy en día existe una escasez de estudios sobre la distribución de los hidrocarburos en mar abierto, aunque el aumento de la explotación de yacimientos de petróleo y la intensificación del tráfico marítimo más allá de la plataforma continental haya aumentado. Asimismo, se han identificado nuevas fuentes de contaminación. En los últimos años se ha puesto en evidencia el alto número de barcos hundidos en los fondos marinos que podrían potencialmente generar futuros vertidos de petróleo. En esta tesis, se investiga el accidente del petrolero Prestige cerca de Galicia en el 2002 como caso de estudio de un vertido marino en profundidad en mar abierto, ya que aproximadamente unas 43.000 toneladas de fuel oil pesado que llevaba a bordo fueron vertidas una vez el barco de rompió en dos y se hundió. Además, la zona del hundimiento del Prestige es un área hidrodinámicamente compleja. La columna de agua esta formada por cinco masas de aguas principales, de diferente origen y con características físico-químicas diferentes, que pueden contribuir activamente extender el fuel liberado por el Prestige en las aguas cerca del Banco de Galicia.
En este contexto, el principal objetivo de la presente tesis ha sido determinar la importancia de los pecios del Prestige como fuente de contaminación en las aguas cerca del Banco de Galicia varios años después del accidente e investigar el papel de las masas de agua en el transporte y distribución de los hidrocarburos en la zona del hundimiento. Estos objetivos se han alcanzado mediante la combinación de estudios de laboratorio y trabajo de campo. Por un lado, se realizaron diferentes experimentos bajo condiciones estables de temperatura y salinidad que dieron información sobre la disolución potencial del fuel del Prestige en agua marina. Además, dos campañas oceanográficas se llevaros a cabo en marzo y octubre del 2006 cerca de los pecios y las zonas adyacentes, con el objetivo de recoger agua marina. Se determinaron hidrocarburos en la materia sólida en suspensión y la fase disuelta del agua en la columna de agua de las tres estaciones. Una se encontraba encima de los pecios del Prestige mientras que las otras dos se localizaron a 73 millas náuticas, una al norte y la otra al sur de este punto.
En marzo del 2006, en la zona del hundimiento y en las otras dos estaciones, las concentraciones de hidrocarburos de origen petrogénico estaban dentro el rango los niveles descritos en la literatura para áreas similares, mientras que los niveles en octubre del mismo año era superiores. Las concentraciones de hidrocarburos poliaromáticos encontrados en la fase disuelta eran, tanto en marzo como en octubre, mucho mayores que los niveles de referencia establecidos para la zona. La huella química de los hidrocarburos en octubre del 2006 indicó que los pecios del Prestige habían estado liberando fuel oil durante varios años después del accidente. Sin embargo, a pesar de la amplia presencia de hidrocarburos provenientes del petróleo en la columna de agua de las tres estaciones, no se puede afirmar que el Prestige constituía la fuente más importante de contaminación en le área, ya que los hidrocarburos parecían provenir de múltiples orígenes. De hecho, varias masas de agua presentan contenidos distintivos de hidrocarburos en la fase disuelta y material particulado.
El estudio realizado se puede entender como un ejemplo del potencial de un pecio hundido en el Noratlántico profundo como fuente de contaminación. Aunque cada pecio representa un caso único, el conocimiento obtenido sobre la distribución espacial y temporal de los hidrocarburos después del accidente del Prestige se puede utilizar en futuros vertidos.
There is an apparent shortage of studies on the distribution and fate of oil hydrocarbons in open ocean waters. Nevertheless, given the increasing exploitation of oilfields in the high seas, and the intensification of maritime traffic, in the last decades, oil pollution of the marine environment beyond the continental platforms is increasing. In addition, new sources of pollution are being recognized. Thus, in recent years it has been noted that the high number of sunken vessels scattered in the oceans sea floor are potentially a present and future source of oil spills.
In this thesis, the accident of the Prestige tanker in 2002 off the Galician coast is investigated as a case study of a deep sea spill in open ocean waters, since around 43,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil were spilled after the vessel broke in two and sank. In addition, the area near the Galician Bank, where the Prestige wrecks are located, is hydrodynamically complex. The water column is comprised by five main water masses from different origins and physico-chemical properties, which may contribute to actively spread the oil released from the Prestige in different and distinct ways.
In this context, the main aim of this study has been to determine the importance of the Prestige shipwrecks as a source of oil pollution in the waters near the Galician Bank several years after the accident took place and to investigate the role of the water masses in the sinking area in the transport and distribution of hydrocarbons. These objectives have been tackled by a combination of laboratory and field studies. First of all, several sets of experiments were carried out under controlled temperature and salinity conditions which provided information about the potential dissolution of the Prestige fuel oil in seawater. In addition, two oceanographic cruises were undertaken in March and October 2006, near the wrecks location and surrounding areas, to collect seawater samples. Hydrocarbons were determined in the suspended particulate matter (SPM) and dissolved phase (DP) in the water column of three stations. One was located above the Prestige wrecks, and the other two 73 nautical miles north and south of the Prestige incident area.
Hydrocarbons concentrations from petrogenic sources in the SPM above the wreck and surrounding areas in March 2006 were within the range of abundances previously reported for similar areas, but much higher in October 2006. The concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons found in the DP were, both in March and October 2006, well above any expected background levels. The chemical fingerprint of the hydrocarbons indicated that in October 2006 the oil at the Prestige station originated from the wrecks. This, together with the unusually high relative concentration of hydrocarbons in the DP at the Prestige station in March 2006, indicates that the Prestige wrecks had been releasing oil for several years after the accident. However, despite the widespread occurrence of oil hydrocarbons in the three stations and throughout their water columns, it could not be concluded that the Prestige was the main source of pollution in the area near the Galician bank, which most likely has multiple origins. In fact, different water masses contain distinct contents of hydrocarbons in the SPM and the DP, which in some instances may have remote sources.
The study conducted can be viewed as an example of the potential of a sunken wreck in the deep North Atlantic as a source of pollution. Although each potentially polluting shipwreck represents a singular case, knowledge obtained about the temporal and spatial distribution of hydrocarbons after the accident of the Prestige could be applied to deal with other deep spills in the future.
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Levin, Joshua Aaron. "Western Empire: the deep water wreck of a mid-nineteenth century wooden sailing ship." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3928.
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This study of Western Empire is split into two distinct parts: (1) historical research of the
life of the vessel, relying on primary documents; and (2) analysis of the deep water
survey data. The first part concentrates on the historical documents that constitute the
history of Western Empire. The second part begins with a review of the tools and
procedures used in performing the deep water survey. An analysis of the information
that can be taken from such a study will follow, and it concludes with suggestions for
remotely operated vehicle operators when performing an on-the-fly survey of
shipwrecks in deep water. The official ship logs, crew agreements, and contemporary
newspaper articles are used to recreate the life of Western Empire and shed light on a
period in which wooden sailing ships were being displaced by iron ships and steam
power.
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Virkar-Yates, Aakanksha. "Baptism and the Heart's Ascent in Gerard Manley Hopkin's The Wreck of the Deutschland." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506962.
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Herron, Ciara. "Wreck-site formation processes in varying energy environments : an investigation in Irish coastal waters." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414105.
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Gibbins, David J. L. "The evidence of wreck cargoes for middle to late Roman amphora transport in the Mediterranean." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271904.
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Tucker, M. S. "Limitation of liability under South African law generally and in the context of wreck removal specifically." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4430.
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DeAlteris, Joseph T. "THE SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES AND GEOMORPHIC HISTORY OF WRECK SHOAL, AN OYSTER REEF OF THE JAMES RIVER, VIRGINIA." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539616626.
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Wreck Shoal is a subtidal oyster reef area located in the James River, Virginia. Two significantly different types of oyster reefs are found in adjacent areas on Wreck Shoal. Hard-rock reefs are characterized by a relatively thick oyster shell layer, higher densities of live oysters, a coarser interstitial sediment, and a negligible sediment cover. In contrast, mud-shell reefs are characterized by a very thin osyter shell layer, considerably lower densities of live oysters, a finer interstitial sediment, and a 1-2 cm layer of very fine sediments covering the reef. The contemporary sedimentation processes operating on the hard-rock and mud-shell oyster reefs are distinctly different. The hard-rock oyster reefs are in shallower water, experience stronger bottom currents, and present a hydraulically rougher surface to the flow. The mud-shell oyster reefs are in deeper water, experience weaker bottom currents, and present a hydraulically smoother surface to the flow. These factors result in substantially different bottom shear stresses at the fluid-bed interface. The hard-rock oyster reef, with the high bottom shear stress is rarely depositional with respect to fine sediments. In contrast, the mud-shell oyster reef with the low bottom shear stresses is rarely erosional with respect to fine sediments. The James River estuary has evolved, moving upstream and landward in response to a rising sea level. The Wreck Shoal oyster reefs have developed on the ridge and swale topography of a point-bar formed during the late Pliestocene Epoch. From the 1550's to the 1850's the oyster reef developed vertically almost 1.5 m. From the 1850's to present the oyster reefs have lost more than 1.0 m of elevation due to intense harvesting activity. Conceptual models of subtidal oyster reef dynamics and development are proposed and verified based on field observations. The management implications of the results of the study are presented and recommendations are made for the rational exploitation and management of the resource.
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Willson, Elizabeth Ann. "Depositional and diagenetic features of the Middle Miocene Cayman Formation, Roger's Wreck Point, Grand Cayman, British West Indies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0005/MQ34434.pdf.
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De, Decker RH. "The geological setting of diamondiferous deposits on the inner shelf between the Orange River and Wreck Point, Namaqualand." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26236.
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Clark, Caroline Frances. "Diving into the wreck : an investigation into the 'other' voices of history within the discourse of colonialism and slavery." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 1999. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31754.
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This dissertation focuses on the occlusion of 'other' voices within the discourse of colonialism and slavery. The work juxtaposes four texts from the seventeenth and twentiethcenturies, respectively, as a way of examining the continued weight of past history on our postcolonial present. The theoretical framework is drawn from postcolonial and postmodern literary theory with an emphasis on the problematics of speaking for the 'other' in twentiethcentury literary revisions.
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Spooner, Simon Quentin. "Shipwreck taphonomy : a study of four historic wreck formation processes on the north coast of the Dominican Republic from 1690-1829." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/02cfedc6-c8e6-4ee9-9f4b-31098b59152e.
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The author has conducted research on historic shipwrecks on the north coast of the Dominican Republic since 1997; this has given him the authority to discuss, from first hand experience, the problems involved in the preservation of shipwrecks. These include the survival of the remains of the shipwrecks in their surrounding shipscapes. If maritime archaeologists were to understand how the wrecking process occurs, their effectiveness would be greatly enhanced. This work clearly demonstrates that the complete wrecking process can be reconstructed. This together with an interpretation of the archaeological evidence can produce the story of the sinking with a very high degree of accuracy. This thesis is a study of the taphonomic wreck formation of four shipwreck sites. These historic wreck sites have never before been investigated. The work examines: the Tile Wreck, an English or Dutch ship, which appears to have been wrecked in the 1690s; the Musket Ball Wreck, a locally made intra-Caribbean supply ship which probably sank in the 1790s; the Carron Wreck, which is an American prototype frigate of American - French design, built in the 1740-1760's, and which was beached in action during the French re-invasion of the island in 1802. The final wreck examined proves that, if the taphonomic process and the understanding of the shipscape are correctly investigated, the clues derived from the survey will produce an accurate wrecking model. Le Casimir (the Perfume Wreck), a French merchant ship which sank on April 27th 1829 at 11.30 pm, proved that a through understanding of the wrecking process can confirm what actually occurred. This work also addressesth e on-going debatea bout whether wreck sites should be surveyed and excavated after they have been uncovered by storms, or left alone for future generationsT. he researchp roved that in situ preservationo f shallow wrecks in the Caribbean does not work and, actually, may be detrimental to the very wrecks it aims to protect.
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Vézina, Jennifer Lynn. "Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Pleistocene Ironshore formation at Rogers Wreck Point, Grand Cayman, a 400 ka record of sea-level highstands." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21215.pdf.
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Southerly, James Christopher Welliver Rodgers Bradley A. "Cedar on the reef : archaeological and historical assessments of the eighteenth-century Bermuda sloop, exemplified by the wreck of the Hunter Galley /." Access via ScholarShip, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1112.
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Carolina University, 2003.Presented to the faculty of the Department of History. Advisor: Bradley A. Rodgers. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [162]-169). Also available via the World Wide Web. Adobe reader required.
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Lodewyks, Therisia. "Siesmic Stratigraphy of Upper Pleistocene gravel and holocene mudbelt deposits between wreck point and the kamma river on the western shelf of South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4208.
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This project aims to provide a better understanding of the deposition of Quaternary and Holocene sediments along the west coast of Southern Africa between Wreck Point at approximately 28º50.00′S and the Kamma River at approximately 29º20.00′S, based primarily on seismic stratigraphy. The high resolution airgun seismic survey performed by De Beers Marine during 1998 was interpreted based on seismic stratigraphic principles and the chronology of the seismic profiles was based on correlation to radiocarbon-dated gravity cores from offshore the Holgat River determined by Herbert (2009). Seismic profiles were interpreted to the north and south of the central Holgat River sequence with the identified Type 1 Sequence divided into systems tracts. The Type 1 Sequence Boundary represents a major erosional unconformity formed as a result of tectonic uplift and a relative drop in sea level. A wave-cut knick point provides accommodation space for the deposition of Pleistocene and Holocene sediment above the erosional unconformity. The Lowstand Systems Tract (LST) consists of a condensed gravel lag. The LST is divided into subunits where possible which reflect the complex depositional history as the gravel lag was variably reworked as the strandline migrated across the shelf in response to late Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations. This study attempts to delineate some of the more distinctly different units within the economically important gravel body of the LST. The extent and seismic character of five subunits were identified within the complex LST. The Transgressive Systems Tract (TST) formed after a rapid rise in sea level between 19 and 7 thousand years ago (ka). Two transgressive packages were formed as sea level migrated landward. An older deeper water package was identified and labelled Unit 4 while a younger shallower water package was identified upslope, Unit 5, as the mudbelt depocentre migrated landward. The Highstand Systems Tract (HST) is characterized by a set of prograding sigmoidal clinoforms having formed in response to increasingly limited accommodation space after 5.5 ka. Clinoforms, seismic reflectors with slightly higher amplitude than the underlying units, represent depositional hiatuses during periods of lower sedimentation rates. The HST units show southward progradation as accommodation space around the Orange River Mouth became limited. The resulting sequence startigraphy and stratal geometries of the studied sequence are controlled by sea level fluctuation, accommodation space and sediment supply.
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Johansson, Ann. "Vad kan stickade fragment berätta? : En textilvetenskaplig analys av marinarkeologiska fynd från 1700-talet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Textilvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-450055.
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What can knitted fragments tell you? A textile scientific analysis of marine archeological finds from the 18th century. The wreck of the ship Fyrspännaren is a time capsule that provides a unique opportunity for knowledge. The purpose of this study is to increase knowledge about knitted garments and their importance in the dress code for men and women during the 1770s. An additional purpose is to test whether the knitted fragments can contribute to the interpretation of the history of the wreck. The study uses the theory and method of Material Culture. The knitted fragments are the main source of information. In the analysis, additional sources are also used. It turns out that the silk socks in the late 18th century could look different from the white socks we often see depicted in paintings. There are at least eleven different types of silk socks in different colours and with different pattern knitting in the material. Most were machine-knitted, several were well-used and repaired. But they were still highly valued, according to inserted inquiries in the newspapers of the time. There were also knitted garments in cotton such as socks, hat and sweaters. The knitted fragments can also contribute to the interpretation of the history of the wreck. The study of the fragments confirms and strengthens previous conclusions that the passenger on the ship was relatively young, well-to-do and well aware of both male and female fashion. In summary, this study shows that marine archaeological finds of textiles, that are analysed with a textile scientific method and within a cultural-historical and economic-historical context, can contribute to new knowledge.
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Wiklund, Jonas. "Vardagslivet i hamnen : Djurhamns historia belyst med marinarkeologiskt material." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-28802.
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Those who today hear the name Djurhamn are maybe first thinking of a summer resort place with sunbathing, swimming and recreational boating activities. Djurhamn has an interesting and fascinating history well intertwined with the history of Sweden. The interesting history was exposed by the Stockholm Sport Diving Club which, during the summers of 1964 and 1965, brought up a large number of finds from the bottom of Djurhamn. The findings could essentially be dated to be in the in the period 1500s to 1700s. Like other parts of the East Coast Djurhamn was hit in "Russian raids" in the early 1700s. The known meetings of warships during the Vasa era and the history of naval ship Riskswasas fate also reflects the interesting parts of Djurhamn history. While working on this, a number of dives were made at the bottom of the basin in Djurhamn. Two side-scan surveys have also been conducted. Overall, this has not resulted in any change of the picture of what's on Djurhamns bottom. A previously unknown wreck that lies south of the cemetery have, however, been located based on information from the public. The finds from the dives during 1964 and 1965 talk about food and drinks, cooking utensils, three-leg pots and bottles speaks their language. Even earlier dated bargain materials speak the same language. It is a place where everyday objects leave imprints on the bottom along with the testimony of a brickyard, which flourished for a short period. Which traces have been left from the naval activities? Practically none. On land there are no naval monuments. The objects which were brought up at the 1960 dives were almost entirely attributable to the applications connected to cooking. Our modern society is a complex reality. There are homes, workplaces, hospitals, places of entertainment, etc. People are born, grow up, grow old and die. What do we find in the signs of the Djurhamn? Well, a picture that much is a reflection of today's society. Also here you are born grown up grown old and finally dead. Heavy drinking has flourished. In addition to self-household and shipping, there has been brick industry and cholera quarantine. Finally, perhaps Djurhamn over time is best described as farmers, fishermen and hungry sailors’ history more than the history of the fleet in the Vasa kings’ service.
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Sokulu, Sila. "Skeppsteknik : en studie om teknikutveckling hos skepp i Medelhavet." Thesis, Gotland University, School of Culture, Energy and Environment, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-600.
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Techniques used in the building of a number of ships from the Mediterranean will be presented in this paper. The two techniques thnat will be discussed are shell-based technique and skeleton-basedtechnique. An attempt to clearify and delineate the transition between these two techniques will be made. The possible reasons for transition will then be described and discussed. The development ofthe techniques is going to be identified with help from four wrecks by analyzing their edge joineriesand this facts will be used as a basis for a chronological presentation. Finally, data from theanalyzed wrecks will be compared and the results are interpreted in the text.
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Bennie, Jennifer Shirley. "The wreck of the Dutch man o' war, Amsterdam, in December 1817 on the Eastern Cape coast of Southern Africa: an elucidation of the literary and material remains with an annotated translation of the Journal of Captain Hermanus Hofmeijer (1814-1818)." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002385.
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This study endeavours to elucidate the journal of Captain Hermanus Hofmeijer of the Dutch man 0' war, Amsterdam, which has been transcribed from the original script, translated from Dutch into English and interpreted from a contemporary viewpoint. It offers an opportunity to evaluate a unique primary historical document which records an important historical event. An attempt has been made to contextualise the incident in the light of the early history of the Dutch people. The contribution of the Dutch East India Company (VaC) to the trade and commerce of the Netherlands during the 17th and 18th centuries has been assessed together with the shipbuilding techniques that served to make the Dutch a major seafaring nation. The significance of Texel and Nieuwediep has been examined and the sea route and navigational instruments placed in perspective. The voyage has been analysed in some detail. The background of Captain Hermanus Hofmeijer has proved especially interesting. Although he pursued his career with the Dutch Navy, he was born and spent his early years in Cape Town, South Africa. The time spent by the Amsterdam in Batavia, Samaraog and Sourabaya gives an insight into the Dutch possessions overseas. The return voyage, storms and ultimate grounding are of special interest as Hofmeijer records the journey and events on a daily basis. The impact and significance of 217 extra people in the Eastern Cape area did not go unnoticed, and although the event was not well documented, an attempt at some contextualisation has been made. Finally a short overview of maritime archaeology in South Africa and its significance as a relatively new discipline has been included. The study of the material remains of the wreck of the Amsterdam has resulted in a new understanding of wooden ships built in the early 19th century.
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Arpayoglou, Irene. "Cultivation of Wrack Collected Seagrasses." NSUWorks, 2004. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/285.
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Franklin, Marianne. "Blood and water; the archaeological excavation and historical analysis of the Wreck of the Industry, a North-American transport sloop chartered by the British army at the end of the Seven Years' War: British colonial navigation and trade to supply Spanish Florida in the eighteenth century." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3304.
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In the 10-mer RNA duplex model system a 4-isocyano TEMPO spin-label is individually attached to one strand and two strands are annealed to measure distances. This methodology is limited to systems in which two oligonucleotides are annealed together. To circumvent this limitation and also to explore single-strand dynamics a new methodology was implemented, double spin-labeling. Double spin-labeled single-stranded RNA was investigated as a single-strand and within a duplex via MALDI-TOF-MS, EPR spectroscopy and RP-HPLC. A double spin-labeling strategy in this work will be applicable to large complex RNAs like Group I intron of Tetrahymena thermophilia. Captain Daniel Lawrence, was one of four sloops detailed to serve as a transport to
supply the British Florida garrisons. The Industry ran aground on the bar outside of
St. Augustine's harbour on May 6, 1764. The transport was carrying six-pound
cannons, ammunition and artificer's tools.
Further investigation of documents describing eighteenth-century trade and
shipping to St. Augustine led to the discovery that the Lawrence family of sea
captains provided a vital link between British New York and Spanish St. Augustine.
An examination of the materials recovered from Site 8SJ3478 sheds light on exactly
what a particular vessel carried during a period of transition in Florida's history.
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Merrett-Jones, Michaela. "The effect of sewage enrichment upon the integrity of the fabric of marine sites of archaeological importance." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2000. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/770239/.
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This research programme was instigated in response to concerns regarding the potential impact of sewage contamination from a long sea-outfall commissioned in 1991 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on the long-term quality of local, historic wreck timbers. Information pertaining to the quality of seawater and the degradation of sacrificial wood samples, with particular emphasis on the action of the wood-boring crustacean, Limnoria spp, was collected and is presented in this thesis. The data was collected from three wreck sites in the Solent and surrounding waters: the Mary Rose (1509 - 1545), HMS Invincible (1744 - 1758) and HMS Hazardous (1698 - 1706). Both the Mary Rose and HMS Invincible sites are situated in an area of the Solent that was contaminated by sewage discharge. The site of HMS Hazardous is in cleaner water at Bracklesham Bay and was therefore designated as the control. Limnoriid activity was found to be higher at the HMS Invincible site than at the Mary Rose site - the HMS Invincible site also recorded the highest levels of sewage contamination. However, limnoriid activity was greater still at the "clean" control site of HMS Hazardous, thereby ruling out a conclusive link with sewage contamination. Water quality analyses showed the existence of vertical layering in the water column for many of the parameters determined. L. quadripunctata dominated the limnoriid population at the three sites but there was a significant presence of L. lignorum at the deeper Mary Rose site. On one occasion (winter 93/94), L. lignorum dominated the limnoriid population at the Mary Rose site. At the same time, the affinity for Scots pine wood observed during the rest of the study was not apparent. Faecal indicator bacteria were isolated from the biofouling layer of the wood blocks at both the Mary Rose and HMS Invincible sites and microbiological activity appeared to be greatest at the Mary Rose site. Fouling barnacles on the wood samples appeared to offer some protection from limnoriid activity in the short-term but had no long-term protective effect.
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Guthrie, Neil. "A thousand wrecks! : rakes' progresses in some eighteenth century English novels." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b08473d6-9cae-4a14-b7a7-3e40cf7bb283.
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This thesis examines the figure of the rake as portrayed in the eighteenth-century English novel, a character strangely neglected in critical studies. The first chapter examines 'libertine' writers of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, notably Bernard de Mandeville; and the dilemma faced by educators of the day over the benefits of virtue on the one hand, and of worldly wisdom on the other. While Mandeville and other lesser defenders of the rake were very much a scandalous minority early in the eighteenth century, it appears that by about mid century a more moderate strain of libertinism received wider, but by no means universal acceptance (Johnson, Chesterfield, Smith, Hume). The second chapter seeks to define the classic conception of the rake as a young upper-class prodigal, and the standard anti-libertine view that gentleman rakes, by their neglect of social and political duties, were a serious threat to established social and political order. The chapter concludes with various examples of the standard rake in minor eighteenth-century novels that both defend and vilify him. Chapters III to V concentrate on each of the three principal novelists of mid century (Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett), and their par- ticular uses of and moral conclusions about the conventional rake. The sixth chapter suggests some conclusions to be drawn, mainly from the previous three chapters, and especially the ways in which Fielding, Richardson and Smollett com- ment on the rakes in each other's fiction; and examines the continued use of the rake topos right to the end of the century and at least into the early nineteenth, in differing types of fiction (novels of manners, of Sentiment and of radical ideas, the Gothic novel).
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Firth, Antony Julian. "Marine archaeology underwater." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243139.
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Duong, Huynh Lien Stephanie, and stephanie duong@flinders edu au. "Investigating the ecological implications of wrack removal on South Australian sandy beaches." Flinders University. School of Biological Sciences, 2008. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20091125.143045.
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Accumulations of seagrass, macroalgae and other matter, collectively known as wrack, commonly occur on many sandy beaches, and can play an important role in coastal and nearshore ecosystems. Despite this, wrack removal from sandy beaches is a widespread and increasingly common practice globally, and there is little information regarding the ecological effects of such wrack removal on sandy beaches. The aim of this thesis was to establish the ecological importance of wrack in South Australian (SA) sandy-beach ecosystems. As a first step in furthering our understanding of the effects of wrack removal, I aimed to assess the importance of wrack, independent of the effects of wrack removal. The second over-riding aim of this thesis was to assess the ecological effects of wrack removal on aspects of these systems.
To date, the methods used for quantifying the size of wrack deposits on sandy beaches have had limited use due to the time and expertise required to conduct thorough sampling. In Chapter 2, I thus tested the accuracy of a rapid photopoint method to visually estimate percentage wrack cover as well as provide an archived record. Comparisons of results obtained from conventional transects with those from photopoints indicated that the photopoint technique can be used to rapidly and accurately estimate % wrack cover on sandy beaches. The photopoint method has a wide range of potential applications and represents a valuable advance in the field.
Currently our knowledge of the amounts and types of wrack on SA shores is limited, despite these accumulations being a feature of some SA beaches. Wrack deposits in three biogeographical regions of SA were thus repeatedly surveyed to assess spatial (between and within regions) and temporal (seasonal and inter-annual) variation (Chapter 2). Both wrack cover and the composition of wrack deposits varied spatially and temporally. Wrack deposits contained a diverse array of seagrass, algal, other biotic materials and anthropogenic debris. The South East region of SA had distinctly-different wrack deposits compared to the Metropolitan and Fleurieu Peninsula regions; in general, the cover of wrack was higher, and the diversity and biomass of kelps, red algae and green algae was higher in this region compared to the other two regions. South Australian wrack deposits are thus dynamic and complex.
The amount of wrack deposited and retained on a beach may be affected by the beach morphology but, to date, few studies have investigated this link. I assessed wrack cover on beaches with a range of morphodynamic types and found that beaches that were more dissipative in nature had a greater cover of wrack than beaches of the reflective type. I also examined whether wrack deposits affected the sediment characteristics of underlying and nearby sediments. Wrack deposits had little measurable effect on underlying sediments and did not affect particle-size distribution or organic-matter content. There was, however, a trend for beaches in the South East region of SA to have higher organic matter content in their sediments, and these beaches also have higher wrack cover and higher proportions of algae in their deposits. There was also a trend for beaches with higher wrack cover to have less compacted sediments, although this trend was not consistent.
Overnight pit-fall trapping surveys of the macrofauna on four SA sandy beaches indicated that local macrofaunal communities were diverse (representing 72 species from 19 Orders in total), abundant, and variable in both time and space. The macrofauna encountered were mostly terrestrial taxa with only 2 truly marine species, and spanned multiple trophic levels, concurring with the results of previous studies. Macrofaunal abundances were higher where associated with wrack than in bare sand, and macrofaunal communities differed between the driftline of wrack and wrack patches away from the driftline. Within the driftline itself, there were few differences between bare sand and wrack-covered areas, suggesting that the entire driftline area is important as a habitat and food resource. Thus, wrack deposits provide an important habitat and food source for macrofauna, and the driftline provides an area of beach with concentrated resources, which in turn concentrates a distinct macrofaunal community.
Wrack deposition on sandy beaches varies spatially and is affected by morphological features on the beach-face such as cusps. In Chapter 5, I thus tested a series of hypotheses regarding the differences in wrack deposits, sediments and macrofaunal communities between cusp bays and horns. Bays had greater cover and larger pieces of wrack than horns. Sediment organic-matter content was greater on horns than in bays but mean particle size did not differ consistently between bays and horns. Macrofaunal diversity was higher in bays and this pattern was probably driven by differences in the cover of wrack between bays and horns. Cusp morphology thus influences the distribution of wrack on the beach-face, which in turn influences the distribution of macrofauna. Studies of sandy beaches with cusps should therefore be explicitly designed to sample cusp features and their associated wrack deposits.
Chapter 6 assesses the incorporation of wrack into beach and nearshore ecosystems via two pathways: decomposition and incorporation into trophic webs. I assessed the decomposition of algal and seagrass wrack using litterbag experiments and found that after a very rapid initial loss of mass, likely due to cell lysis and leaching, the rate of decomposition of wrack was much slower. Most release of nutrients from organic matter decay thus appears to occur in the first few days after deposition and the processes affecting the rate and nature of wrack decomposition vary among taxa (i.e. algal versus seagrass and among species). Stable isotopes of C and N were used to assess whether beach macrofauna or nearshore macro-invertebrates and fish might rely on wrack as a source of nutrition. I found that seagrasses did not provide a food source for any consumers but algae, particularly brown algae including kelps, appeared to be potential sources of nutrition for beach and nearshore consumers. The incorporation of wrack into beach and nearshore ecosystems may thus occur primarily through consumption of algal wrack by herbivores such as amphipods and dipterans, with predation on them being important pathways for the transfer of nutrients and energy into higher trophic levels. The amount of wrack in the surf zone did not affect the abundance and species richness of fish and invertebrates netted there.
The aim of Chapter 7 was to determine the effects of wrack removal on sandy beach macrofaunal communities. In the first study the effects of large-scale commercial harvest of wrack on the macrofaunal communities at Kingston were assessed. The macrofaunal communities present in the Natural area of Kingston beach were far more diverse and abundant, and included different species, compared to the Cleared area at Kingston. In the second part of Chapter 7, I experimentally removed wrack from the driftline of beaches to assess short-term effects on macrofaunal communities. The experimental treatment did not appear to have any measurable
effects on the macrofaunal communities. I also analysed material that was removed from the beach in the raking experiments and found that a large proportion of the material (e.g. 81% of the DW) was sand. I recommend that future studies into the effects of wrack removal use large cleared areas of beach, attempt to use the same wrack removal methods and/or machinery used locally, and assess the macrofaunal communities repeatedly and over longer times following wrack removal activities.
In Chapter 8, I attempt to assess the effects of removal of wrack for beach cleaning or commercial harvest of wrack by comparing key indicators from Chapters 2 to 7. Implications and recommendations for the management of wrack are discussed, including with regard to the techniques used in this thesis and their applicability in managing wrack deposits. I attempt to identify the shortcomings of this research as well as directions for further research.
Thus I have demonstrated that wrack in SA provides an important link between offshore habitat and nearshore, beach and terrestrial habitats via the transfer of organic matter and nutrients. Wrack interacts with beach morphology and sediments, provides habitat for macrofauna, remineralises nutrients through its decomposition, and provides the basis of a complex trophic web. I conclude that wrack is a key component in beach ecosystems.
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Sutherland, Julie. "Women who wreak havoc : a new perspective on early modern drama, 1603-1642." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/766/.
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This doctoral thesis looks anew at the representation of women in the non-Shakespearean plays of early Stuart England (1603-1642). The chapters progress chronologically, locating common themes of the period, which I analyse independently in each chapter, and consider in the conclusion comprehensively. The introduction serves to present these recurring themes and alert the reader to their importance and relevance to the period as a whole. Chapter 1 considers adultery and torture, as well as the ramifications of a woman's speaking and writing in George Chapman' s The Tragedy of Bussy D 'Ambois (1604). Chapter 2 investigates the nature of villainy, and also the moral ambiguity in the representation of suicide in Thomas Heywood's The Rape ofLucrece (1607-08). Chapter 3 is a reading of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (1611): the analysis takes exception to the common perceptions of villainy, and considers narcissism and melancholy in women. Chapter 4 examines early modem humoral theory in Nathan Field, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher's play, The Queen of Corinth (1616-17). The chapter also explores the period's views of the Self. In Chapter 5, on The Sea Voyage, by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger (1622), colonial discovery, its metaphorical associations with . appropriating women, and its links with utopian ideals in early modem England are explored. Chapter 6 surveys the women in John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-22). It presents a critical examination of natural law and morality, and investigates melancholy in women. Issues relating to women and knowledge, and the nature of women's revenge are also considered. Chapter 7, on The Lost Lady, by William Berkeley (1637), deals with race, the fetishising of the anatomical parts of a woman, and the representation of friendships between women. The final chapter,' on James Shirley's The Cardinal (1641), undertakes an examination of the similarities between colonial exploration and the appropriation of women's bodies. Additionally, views on both virginity and widowhood are explored. This chapter also demonstrates how the successful execution of revenge is denied to women, and how melancholy was often exhibited as madness when it was diagnosed in women. The conclusion contends that the playwrights, far from reinforcing gender stereotypes, create women with whom we can sympathise even though they ignore the period's imposed expectations and overthrow cultural assumptions about their natures. It further suggests that the reason for their having been ignored is a fault of modem scholarship, which has either exalted Shakespeare to the detriment of these other worthy plays, or turned to these plays with an essentialist analysis that excludes the multifaceted nature of women from their work.
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Ryder, Rachel. "'Moral wrecks' : a comparative historical study of the regulation of women's drinking in Britain." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2017. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/703122/.
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This is a study of the techniques of moral regulation projects which target the drinking practices of women. It takes a historical comparative approach, because women’s drinking has been identified as a perennial concern, yet the existing body of evidence points to far fewer women than men experiencing alcohol related harms. The imperative to regulate women’s drinking practices comes from government and extra-state organisations, and their attempt to shape women’s drinking practices through discourses is the focus of this study. The research focused on source materials produced by alcohol regulation campaign groups from two time periods, 1830 – 1872, and 2004 – 2014. The materials, Temperance tracts, and contemporary posters, were identified on the basis that they were widely available to drinking women in their respective time periods. The materials were analysed using a narrative analysis method, exploring both the textual and visual content of each source. The data analysis was informed by moral regulation theory, theories of governance and post-feminist theory. The key findings of the study are that women’s drinking is primarily constructed as a social problem of disorder. The use of two distinctive tropes, the ‘controlled woman’ and the ‘uncontrolled woman’ dominated the sources in both time periods. Constructed through themes of dirt, loss, sexuality, charity, feminine poise and moral governance, the tropes were underpinned by the concept of character. Undertaking a historical comparison of alcohol regulation campaign groups enabled an insight into how the discourses used in contemporary alcohol regulation campaigns show clear continuities in the themes and techniques used by campaign groups in the mid-19th century in Britain. These moral regulation projects seek to impact on women’s drinking through a technique which assumes that women possess ‘Character’ – an attribute which the campaign groups assume will respond to the discourses presented in their materials.
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Schenker, Teresa [Verfasser], Konrad L. [Akademischer Betreuer] Streetz, and Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Wruck. "Die Expression von MET im Rahmen chronischer Lebererkrankungen / Teresa Schenker ; Konrad L. Streetz, Christoph Wruck." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/117181853X/34.
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Tate, Anthony Scott. "Short-term response of coastal vegetation in northwestern Florida to experimental storm surge and wrack application." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/375.
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Climate change with concomitant increases in global sea temperatures, rising sea levels, and shifts in weather patterns may affect the frequency and intensity of tropical storms. Disturbances associated with hurricanes, such as storm surge and wrack deposition, may play crucial roles in allowing coastal species to migrate inland in response to rising sea levels. An experiment was conducted to examine changes in plant community structure in relation to simulated storm surge and wrack deposition. Vegetation plots were established in four community types (brackish marsh, freshwater marsh, wetland forest, and pine savanna) along an estuarine gradient in northwest Florida. Soil conductivity (µS) was assessed pre- and post-treatment application, as well as light attenuation (PAR) at ground level. Percent cover of each species per plot was determined prior to and after treatment applications. Post-treatment soil conductivity was significantly higher than pre-treatment values in the wetland forest and pine savanna; however, pre- and post- soil conductivity did not differ in brackish and freshwater marshes. The semi-saline conditions of the brackish marsh and frequent flooding in the freshwater marsh likely contributed to non-significant differences in soil conductivity. In brackish marsh, freshwater marsh, and pine savanna communities, light at ground level was highest for the storm surge treatment, while control and wrack plots had intermediate and low light at ground levels, respectively. The storm surge treatment reduced cover of some species, causing browning and eventual loss of leaves, particularly in pine savanna species. Wrack deposition resulted in substantial mortality to underlying vegetation and reduced species richness in all communities. New recruits into plots with wrack deposits, such as saw palmetto, suggest that these disturbances may facilitate community reassembly. This research should provide insight into how coastal plant communities respond to climate change-related shifts in tropical storm regimes.
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Miller, W. David. "The Effects of Increased Inundation and Wrack Deposition on Photosynthesis and Respiration in a Virginia Salt Marsh." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626161.
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Reitmaier, Thomas Ryffel Hans Jakob. "Vorindustrielle Lastsegelschiffe in der Schweiz /." Basel : Schweizerischer Burgenverein, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783908182191.
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Wruck, Roland [Verfasser]. "Beitrag zur Brenngaserzeugung mittels Dampfreformierung von Heizöl EL schwefelarm für die Nutzung in Niedertemperatur-PEM-Brennstoffzellen / Roland Wruck." Aachen : Shaker, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1081884983/34.
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Wruck, Robert [Verfasser], and Michael [Akademischer Betreuer] Schmidt. "Wachstums- und Sekretionsverhalten humaner fetaler Lungenfibroblasten nach Applikation von Gamma-Strahlung in vitro / Robert Wruck. Betreuer: Michael Schmidt." Würzburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Würzburg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1022790943/34.
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Mccartney, I. "The maritime archaeology of a modern conflict : comparing the archaeology of German submarine wrecks to the historical text." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2013. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21080/.
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Over the last 30 years UK Hydrographic Office marine surveys in the English Channel (the thesis Study Area) have helped uncover the wrecks of 63 German submarines (U-boats) sunk in both world wars. The author began to systematically dive on and record the wrecks in 1997, when it became clear that the distribution and numbers of the wrecks often conflicted with published histories of U-boat losses. This thesis sets out to test whether firstly; the U-boat wrecks themselves can be accurately identified from detailed examinations of their archaeological remains. If this could be achieved with a high degree of accuracy then secondly; a much clearer appreciation of U-boat losses in the Channel could be derived. This could then be used to thirdly; assess the accuracy of the original historical texts of 1919 and 1946 and reveal when and why the assessors at the time succeeded and failed in establishing the real fates of the U-boats. The U-boat wrecks themselves are either where the historic record says they should be, or they are located in positions where they reside outside of current historical knowledge. These latter cases, termed the mystery sites, are the key to understanding how, when and why inaccuracies appear in the historical texts and they were therefore accorded the highest priority during the research and were the most challenging cases to identify. Of the 63 U-boat wrecks in the Channel, it emerged during the fieldwork that 26 of them (41%) were actually mystery sites. Their impact on the accuracy of the historical texts is profound. Only 48% of the fates of U-boats recorded in 1919 are correct. The list of 1946 is 81% correct from D-day until December 1944, then only 36% correct thereafter. The accuracy of the historical record was found to be closely related to the volume of accurate intelligence on U-boat movements available at any given time and the quality of the staff work used to interpret and exploit it. Consequently the impact of Special Intelligence is keenly felt in 1944. Conversely during WW1 and in 1945 U-boat movements were not clearly understood and in both of these cases minefields emerge as the most successful weapon deployed against them accounting for over a third of the losses.
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Kyek, Philipp Sebastian [Verfasser], Christoph Jan [Akademischer Betreuer] Wruck, and Konrad Ludwig [Akademischer Betreuer] Streetz. "Die Rolle des Transkriptionsfaktors Nrf2 bei der Regeneration von Leberzellen / Philipp Sebastian Kyek ; Christoph Jan Wruck, Konrad Ludwig Streetz." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1156922747/34.
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Jühling, Marcel [Verfasser], Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Wruck, and Tim [Akademischer Betreuer] Clarner. "Untersuchungen zur Expression und Aktivität von Nrf2 in verschiedenen Geweben der adulten Maus / Marcel Jühling ; Christoph Wruck, Tim Clarner." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1233935844/34.
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Hjorth, Isis Amelie. "Networked cultural production : filmmaking in the Wreckamovie community." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c5baae87-6667-463a-bef2-b22d25c75896.
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This thesis challenges core assumptions associated with the peer production of culture using the web-based collaborative film production platform Wreckamovie to understand how peer production works in practice. Active cultural participation is a growing political priority for many governments and cultural bodies, but these priorities are often implemented without a basis in empirical evidence, making it necessary for rigorous scholarship to tackle emerging networked cultural production. Existing work portrays peer production efforts as unrealistically distinct from proprietary, market-based production, incorrectly suggesting that peer production allows distributed, non-monetarily motivated, collaboration between self-selected individuals in hierarchy-free communities. In overcoming these assumptions, this thesis contributes to the development of a consolidated theoretical framework encompassing the complicated and multifaceted nature of networked cultural production. This theoretical framing extends Bourdieu’s theory of cultural production and reconciles it with Becker’s Art Worlds framework, and further embeds and draws on Benkler’s notion of commons-based peer production. Concretely, this research tackles the emergence of new collaborative production models enabled by networked technologies, and theorizes the tensions and challenges characterizing such production forms. Secondly, this thesis redefines cultural participation and considers the divisions of labour in online filmmaking materializing from the interactions between professional and non-professional filmmakers. Finally, this study considers the social economies surrounding networked cultural production, including crowdfunding, and characterizes associated conversions of capital, such as the conversion of symbolic capital into financial capital. Methodologically, this thesis employs an embedded case study strategy. It examines four feature film productions facilitated by the online platform Wreckamovie, as well as the online community within which these productions are embedded. The four production cases have completed all production stages, and have resulted in completed cultural goods during the course of data collection. This study’s findings were derived from two and half years of participant observations, interviews with 29 Wreckamovie community and production members, and the examination of archived production-related discourses (2006-2013). Ultimately, this study makes concrete proposals towards a theory of networked cultural production with clear policy implications.
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Ingers, Ellen. "Gribshunden (1495) : En jämförande studie av samtida skeppsavbildningar." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33828.
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The aim of the MA thesis is to discuss and analyse different illustrations, paintings, carvings in wood and stone and woodcuts of ships of the new kind (Carrack, carvels), from the 15th century to the middle of the 16th century, and compare them to the Griffon-hound ship, and to understand how they have evolved. The ships of the time had large stern and end castles, three to four masts, and where built for the war tactic of boarding. The oldest ship of the new kind that have been found, is the Griffon-hound, a ship that belonged to the Danish king Hans, and sunk due to a fire 1495 outside of Ronneby in southern Sweden. Besides being the oldest of its kind, the ship also has a very specific figurehead that resembles a monster with a screaming human head in its gap. By discussing and analysing the artworks it is possible to learn more about the ships. After analysing them, the result is that the artworks do show how the ships have evolved. Some of the different attributes that the artworks display have also been found when investigating the wreck of the Griffon-hound. More attributes might still be on the wreck site, hidden under the sediment. An example is the remains of the anti-boarding nets that a lot of the artworks show, and that have been found on the wreck of the Mary Rose, the English ship that belonged to king Henry VIII. The Mary Rose is younger than the Griffon-hound, but artworks of older ships also show the anti-boarding nets, or the beams on top of the castles. The purpose behind having a large variety of different artwork is to increase the knowledge about the ships of the time, and to make sure that the attributes that is being analysed doesn’t only occur in one or two artworks.
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Tiboni, Francesco. "La navigation en Méditerranée occidentale pré-archaïque." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3069.
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Ce travail de recherche est consacré à l’analyse des évidences directes et indirectes des moyens de navigation en milieu maritime dans la partie occidentale de la Méditerranée, du début jusqu’à de l’âge du Fer Premier. A partir de la révision générale du répertoire iconographique de la période provenant de plusieurs sites colloqués entre l’Adriatique et la péninsule Ibérique, l’étude conduite souligne l’existence de plusieurs traditions locaux, reconnaissables en clé régionale, à partir du moins de l’âge du Bronze. L’identification de ces traditions, bien lisibles à travers les expressions culturelles des peuples locaux, nous permet d’affirmer que plusieurs peuples de cette partie de la Méditerranée antique avaient déjà développé, le long de la préhistoire, des solutions techniques et formelles propres dans le domaine naval. Dans les chapitres, l’analyse de ces éléments techniques et culturels de l’Occident est donc gérée tant à partir de l’iconographie qu’à la lumière des épaves. Même en absence d’un grand nombre de témoignages directs, cela nous permet d’affirmer que les traditions culturelles qu’on reconnaît à partir des premières figures gravée ou peintes dans des sites de région, ont en effet une dimension technologique. Malheureusement, les données archéologiques dont nous disposons ne nous permettent pas d’isoler tous ces éléments, ni de proposer la définition des familles architecturales locales, sauf que pour la période plus tardive, lors de l’arrivée des Grecs et des PhéniciensThis research deals with the analysis of the evidence of maritime means of transports in use in the Western Mediterranean sea between the birth of the human navigation and the First Iron Age. Starting from a general revision of the local naval iconography of the period, based on a reassessment of the evidence coming from many archaeological sites placed between the Adriatic Sea and the Southern Spanish coasts, the study shed a light the existence of many different regional traditions that date back at least from the Bronze Age. The possibility to identify these traditions, as well as to examine them from a diachronic point of view, allows the author to state that we cannot think about an introduction from the east of the concept of maritime navigation. During the prehistory, particularly from the Bronze Age, the local cultural groups of this area seem in fact to have already developed good naval attitudes and capabilities. Even the analysis of the local iconography in the light of the technological elements that we can isolate on the Mediterranean wrecks of this period seems to confirm the existence of these local traditions. Unfortunately, the lack of a good number of direct evidence pertaining to wrecks do not permit us investigating these technological traditions. Thus, we cannot not identify the architectural families of the earliest phases; we can have an idea of their existence only in correspondence with the presence of Greeks and Phoenicians merchants and ships
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Sedláčková, Daniela. "Posouzení účelnosti státní dotace." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-9352.
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The goal of this dissertation is to consider the practicity of grant for a company, which has its business line in ecological disposal of car wrecks and electric scraps. Then to describe the significancy of line of business for the company especially with the relations of impacts to the environment. Practical part is devoted to evaluation and analysis of company which is interested in acceptance of grant from the State fond for environment (SFŽP) for the development of its business activities. After this study I concur with the analysis of other actual possible forms of state assistance. They could lead to an improvement of position and no only of this concrete company, but also the others which are active in this business line of ecological disposal of car wrecks end electric scraps.
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Högberg, Lennarth. "Det dolda kulturlandskapet : Okända fartygslämningar i vår närmiljö." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-452755.
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Along Sweden’s east coast there are thousands of well-preserved shipwrecks after an extensive shipping that stretches far back in history. The Baltic Sea is a unique sea in the sense that the ship worm Teredo Navalis cannot live here, which means that the ship’s timber is well preserved under water. But we have little knowledge how many these wrecks are and where they are located. No comprehensive underwater inventory like those made on land has even been made. Therefore, these shipwrecks are threatened with destruction by our ignorance of them. By scanning water areas in our immediate environment with Side scan sonar technology, our state of knowledge can be significantly improved. With this method, these relics can be found and preserved as far as possible for future generations. The wrecks can also be used for recreation and experience activities.
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Griffin, Caroline. "The ecological and economic analysis of beach management strategies in Scotland." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26025.
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Coastlines are particularly susceptible to the necessary trade-offs which occur between different ecosystem services. Should the areas be managed for biodiversity or for people? Where sandy beaches are found there is usually a management decision to be made between managing for recreation or for biodiversity. Many popular tourist beaches (particularly those with a Beach Award) are often groomed with mechanical equipment to remove any stranded seaweed and associated litter which can get entangled in the wrack. This is likely to be having a negative impact on coastal biodiversity, with wide ranging implications for the entire habitat, including the intertidal zone, sand dunes and shorebirds. Beached wrack should be allowed to naturally decompose providing a habitat for numerous species of macro-invertebrates. These macro-invertebrate communities not only include many endemic species found exclusively along the strandline but they also provide a very rich source of food for shorebirds. The re-mineralised nutrients resulting from the decomposed macrophytes should then become available to provide a rich source of nutrients to dune, strandline and marine ecosystems populations of the strandline. In previous studies grooming has been shown to have a negative impact on the invertebrates of the strandline and this study reveals that tidal range has an effect on the impacts of grooming with a higher tidal range having a more negative impact on the invertebrates. A study to observe the impacts of grooming on both adult plant and seed bank communities of the sand dunes found that grooming is having a negative impact on these populations. Grooming is predominantly driven by beach managers who aspire to gain Beach Awards in order to attract tourists to their beaches. Using non-market valuation in the form of a stated preference choice experiment and a travel cost model, it was observed that Beach Awards are not valued by beach goers but are instead influenced to visit a particular beach by good bathing water quality, high levels of biodiversity and low levels of litter. It was also shown that stranded seaweed on the beach does not deter visitors. Future management suggestions include attempting to reduce the confusion arising from the presence of multiple beach awards by either removing them altogether or by making their criteria more clear and direct with consistency in their design and designation. Bathing water quality should be completely removed from the Beach Award system and real-time information in the form of electronic signage and a publicly available App should replace it.
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Ehrlin, Mikaela. "Floods and heavy rainfall wreak havoc in Kenya: The perception of causes, vulnerability and responsibility in media coverage of disasters : - an analysis of debates on climate change, development issues and responsibilities in media coverage of three floods in Kenya between 2013 and 2017." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353064.
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Fontaine, Souen. "Formes, usages et circulation du verre en Méditerranée nord-occidentale entre le Ier siècle av. n.è et le Ier siècle de n.è : L’apport du mobilier des sites littoraux de Narbonnaise orientale." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3109.
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Sporadiquement distribués en Méditerranée occidentale au début du Ier s. av.n.è., vaisselle et conteneurs en verre entrent dans les habitudes de consommation autour du changement d'ère et deviennent, en moins d'un siècle, des objets d'usage quotidien. Le littoral narbonnais, surface de contact entre mondes méditerranéens et continentaux, précocement soumis aux influences hellénistiques et romaines, constitue une zone propice à l'observation de cette mutation sans précédent de l'économie du verre. L'étude privilégie l'analyse d'assemblages homogènes, issus de contextes datés, autorisant une approche chrono-quantitative. Le corpus est composé de lots provenant de 18 sites du littoral de Narbonnaise orientale (épaves et dépotoirs portuaires, sites de consommation domestique, militaire et funéraire). La présence de productions non référencées ou succinctement sériées dans les classifications typologiques usuelles, invite à proposer un outil typo-chronologique adapté aux contextes précoces méditerranéens. L'approche transversale de la documentation permet de définir quatre faciès, représentatifs de quatre grandes étapes de l'évolution des productions et des habitudes de consommation. Si, en l'état des connaissances et en raison de la particularité des modes de production du verre, l'émergence et le développement des courants commerciaux sont difficiles à préciser, les abondants assemblages portuaires du littoral (Arles, Fos, Marseille, Toulon), mettent en évidence la place prépondérante des produits de consommation courante, voyageant comme vases-marchandises, dans la commercialisation des produits verriers en Méditerranée occidentale et le long de l'axe rhodanienSporadically distributed in the western Mediterranean at the beginning of the first century BC, crockery and glass containers come in consumption patterns during the augustean decades and become, in less than a century, objects of daily use. The Narbonensis coastline, key point between Mediterranean and continental worlds, early influenced by Hellenistic and Roman culture, is an propitious area for the observation of this unprecedented transformation of the economy of the glass. The study focuses on the analysis of homogeneous assemblages, from dated contexts, allowing a chrono-quantitative approach. The corpus is constituted of batches from 18 sites from eastern Narbonensis (wrecks, harbour levels, domestic, military and funeral contexts). The presence of production unreferenced in usual typologies invites to propose a suitable typo-chronological tool for early Mediterranean contexts. A transversal approach allows defining four major stages in the evolution of production and consumption patterns. If, in the state of knowledge and because of the particularity of the patterns of production of glass, the emergence and development of trade flows are difficult to specify, the abundant assemblages from harbour levels (Arles, Fos, Marseille, Toulon), highlight the preponderance of common consumer products, travelling as goods more than as containers, in the trade of glass products in the western Mediterranean and along the Rhone axis
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Hardy, Marion Ruth. "Poor travellers on the move in Devon, 1598-c.1800." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30139.
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This study examines poor travellers who were on the move during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The focus is the County of Devon, with Exeter dealt with only briefly as it was a separate county. It is shown that the travellers, including numbers of Irish in the seventeenth century and foreign-born, particularly in the eighteenth century, were affected by a number of factors, but that the most important influence on their numbers and types was the incidence of wars. Economic factors, such as food supply, were of some importance, but the economy too was influenced by the effects of wars. Legislation also was found to have had less influence than expected. However, the legislation effective from 1700 did have a marked impact on the documentation available. The main sources used for this study are the parochial documents provided by churchwardens’ accounts of payments made to travellers in need and some of those of the parish overseers. These are supplemented by the records of Devon’s County Quarter Sessions. A combination of Devon’s geography, its strong international maritime connections and the influence of wars and their locations combined to affect the chronological and spatial variations in the numbers and types of travellers through the two centuries.
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Grille, Alexandra. "Les grands navires construits à clin en Europe septentrionale et occidentale du milieu du 14ème au milieu du 16ème siècle." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01H011.
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Depuis les années 1980, des épaves de grands navires construits à clin de la fin du Moyen-Age ont été découvertes sur les littoraux des mers septentrionales et occidentales. Elles ont régulièrement suscité individuellement un intérêt de la communauté scientifique en regard de leur architecture, puisque la fin du Moyen-Age correspond historiquement à l’apparition puis à la diffusion et à l’adaptation de la construction navale à franc-bord d’origine méditerranéenne en Europe du Nord et de l’Ouest. Pourtant, la comparaison des différentes épaves entre elles pour étudier les développements de la construction navale à clin de cette période est très récente et généralement rattachée à l’analyse des épaves nouvellement trouvées.Cette thèse étudie l’ensemble des navires de plus de 20 m de long susceptibles, par leur architecture, d’avoir évolué en haute mer sur les routes du commerce lointain. En regard du contexte technique et historique, cette étude est limitée géographiquement aux mers nordiques et chronologiquement au Moyen-Age tardif et au début de la période moderne.Le navire résulte à la fois des technique de construction navale et de la demande de ses commanditaires. Durant la période d’étude envisagée dans la thèse, les marchands, qui sont également les affréteurs, constituent les principaux armateurs avec les gens de mer, marins et capitaines, qui régulièrement sont propriétaires en totalité ou en partie des grands bâtiments.De ce fait, le contexte historique, affectant les activités de commerce et de transport, contribue à expliquer les développements de la construction navale. De plus, l’analyse technique des épaves permet de comprendre comment les charpentiers de marine ont pu répondre à la demande de ces propriétaires. Pour cela, la reconstitution des épaves, comme celle de l’Aber Wrac’h 1(France), est essentielle, car les données relatives à la construction, la conception et la forme des navires fournissent des éléments de comparaison scientifique fiables en regard des typologies chronologiques et régionales et permettent de replacer le navire dans son contexte historique et socio-économiqueSince the 1980s, several wrecks of large clinker ships adting from the late Middle Ages were found on the coasts of Northern and Atlantic seas. The scientific community was regularly interested in the architecture of each site as the late Middle Ages historically corresponds to the appearance, dissemination and adaptation of the carvel shipbuilding from the Mediterranean in Northern and Western Europe. Yet the comparison of the different wrecks themselves to study the development of the clinker shipbuilding of this period is recent and usually linked to the analysis of newly found wrecks.This thesis explores all vessels over a length of 20 meters, which were able, according to their architecture, to sail on open seas for long-distance trade. Due to the technical and historical context, this study is limited geographically to the nordic seas and chronologically to the Late Middle Ages and early modern period.The ship results from the shipbuilding technology and the demand of its owners. During the late Middle Ages, the merchant class, which was the principal user, was also the main shipowner with the seafarers, sailors and captains, who regularly owned all or part of large vessels.Therefore, the historical context, affecting trade and transport activities, helps to explain the developments in shipbuilding. Therefore, technical analysis of wrecks allows understanding how the shipwrights and carpenters could meet the demand of those owners. Hence, there construction of the wreck, such as Aber Wrac’h 1 (France), is essential because the data about the building, design and shape of the vessels provide reliable scientific information for comparison in terms of chronological and regional typologies and help to place the ship in its historical, environmental and socio-economic context