<p>This paper examines Hannah Höchs photomontage <em>Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser Dada durch die letzte weimaren bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands</em>. The paper has as its aims to understand and analyze the predominated allegorical interpretation of <em>Schnitt</em> and to develop a logic how meaning is produced when a viewer look at <em>Schnitts</em> surface. The paper finds that the predominated interpretation has been arbitrarily created out of a specific spectator that acts in a specific context and conclude instead that the predominated interpretation should be understood as a potential interpretation by a potential viewer. The paper continues to create an understanding of <em>Schnitt</em> as a flatbed picture to establish that as a postulate and to use it in the later semiotic dissection of <em>Schnitts</em> surface. The paper then semiotically explains how a viewers meaning is produced by creating a chain with <em>Schnitts</em> photographical fragments and connecting these with syntagmatic relations.</p>

This paper examines Hannah Höchs photomontage Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser Dada durch die letzte weimaren bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands. The paper has as its aims to understand and analyze the predominated allegorical interpretation of Schnitt and to develop a logic how meaning is produced when a viewer look at Schnitts surface. The paper finds that the predominated interpretation has been arbitrarily created out of a specific spectator that acts in a specific context and conclude instead that the predominated interpretation should be understood as a potential interpretation by a potential viewer. The paper continues to create an understanding of Schnitt as a flatbed picture to establish that as a postulate and to use it in the later semiotic dissection of Schnitts surface. The paper then semiotically explains how a viewers meaning is produced by creating a chain with Schnitts photographical fragments and connecting these with syntagmatic relations.

Equisetum arvense is an evolutionary old species that is common as a perennial weed in Europe, North America and Australia. It reproduces vegetatively via rhizomes and tubers and due to this it spreads efficiently below ground after initial establishment. The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge of performance during early growth of the species. This included differences between clones along a gradient throughout Sweden, development of tubers and rhizomes, local adaptation and the overall variation within the species. Rhizomes of E. arvense were collected from three different places in each of four regions, up to 1000 km apart, in Sweden. Clones from the twelve places were planted in spring for a common garden study. During summer the plants were watered when needed and during late summer the plants were harvested every second week until late autumn. Data recorded were tuber and rhizome biomass, aboveground biomass, number of tubers and three different tuber characteristics. The results showed clone specific phenotypes, but no gradient response or adaptation to regions, e.g. the clone with the highest and the clone with the lowest tuber biomass in relation to the rhizome biomass were from the same region. During early growth, the plants developed continuously with rapid increase of belowground biomass after development of aboveground photosynthetic parts. Tuber productions differed a lot between clones. The relationship between tubers and rhizomes may affect the clone’s possibility to be competitive in different environments. Management advice may need to be based on clone specific knowledge.

This thesis analyses two novels taking place in the Caribbean context, Traversée de la mangrove (1989), written by Maryse Condé, and Solibo Magnifique (1988), written by Patrick Chamoiseau. Focus is on the themes of identity and resistance and how these themes are represented and problematised in the novels. Some narrative aspects are also given attention, such as how the use of different narrative techniques mirrors the themes in the novels. Objecting to the French/European obsession with rationality, transparency and linearity, the novels propose other ways of expressing identity as well as writing literature. The French language, associated with Western and colonial discourses and with the ideals of Enlightenment, is used as a tool to dominate and suppress others. Identity is described in terms of rhizomatic relationships and diversity, rather than as stable entities. Opacity is a way of resisting the violence of rational descriptions and the linear, causal narrations. By refusing to tell all, and by claiming that certain things cannot be explained in rational ways, the novels problematise the act of representing and insist upon complexity. The penchant for opacity is reflected in the narration for example in the tendency to pose questions rather than provide answers for the reader.

Thalassia testudinum Banks and Solander ex König is the dominant seagrass in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and the West Coast of Florida, yet little rhizome elongation, new short shoot production, or new rhizome meristem production data has been collected via direct measurement. A study of the rhizome growth of T. testudinum was completed in December 2004 in southern Tampa Bay that determined growth after 26.5 months. Two PVC planting frames each containing four rhizomes with 2 short shoots, two rhizomes with 4 short shoots, and two rhizomes with 8 short shoots were planted next to existing T. testudinum beds at 5 sites (n = 10 planting frames). The rhizome apical meristem was removed from half of each set of short shoot units on each planting frame. Plants initially lacking a rhizome meristem produced more new long shoot meristems than those planted with an intact meristem, and larger planting units produced more new rhizome meristems than smaller ones, P = 0.001 and P < 0.001, respectively. The total number of rhizome meristems per planting unit (new meristems + initial meristem) was greater in plantings initially lacking a long shoot meristem in the 2, 4 and 8 short shoot size classes. Only the two short shoot plants benefited from an intact rhizome meristem at planting time, elongating 66.4 cm versus 60.4 cm for plants initially lacking a rhizome meristem at 26.5 months. In the 4 and 8 short shoot classes, plants that lacked a rhizome meristem at planting outpaced those with a meristem, producing 192.1 and 277.9 for 4 and 8 short shoot plants compared to 120.9 cm and 177.7 cm for plants with a meristem during the same time period. The greatest growth rate increases were due to lateral branching on planting units that lacked a rhizome meristem in the two largest size classes (4 and 8 short shoots); the differences between plants with an intact rhizome meristem and those without with the size classes pooled did not prove to be statistically different, P = 0.112. Differences among the size classes were significant, however, P < 0.001. Analysis of new short shoots was analogous to the results for rhizome elongation, with the presence of an initial rhizome factor proving insignificant, P = 0.401, and the initial number of short shoots factor proving significant, P < 0.001. The rhizome growth, new short shoot production, and new rhizome meristem production data determined by direct measurements in this study appear to be the first planting unit measurements for this species under natural conditions.

Since hitting mass markets in the 1920s, refrigerators have occupied a lovable corner not just in American kitchens but also in American culture. The story of humankind has always been the story of food, around which we congregate, negotiate power, and explore methods of control. As the U.S. transitioned to industrial, mechanical convenience in the twentieth century, refrigerators replaced hearths as household communication centers, and it has become commonplace to decorate refrigerator surfaces with photographs, keepsakes, lists, and other items of visual culture. As meaningful, expressive arrangements, the curatorial dimensions of such displays have called for their investigation. From January to June of 2013, the Other White Cube Project studied the cultural phenomenon by collecting photographs and questionnaires online at theotherwhitecube.com. From 200 submissions, the project connected activities at home with institutional roles at large. The educational effort performed post-museum theory, in which audiences and institutions share power, build community, and promote awareness. By equating museums with everyday spaces, curators with everyday people, and art with everyday objects, the Other White Cube Project approached three keys to learning in art museums - comfort, relevance, and readability. The project also examined the aesthetic, social, and practical barometers that direct daily choices, which shape consciousness and subsequent interactions with space. In that sense, everyone is a curator - of some kind and of some place.

Rabbit Lake explores the concerns of citizens who testified at hearings held by the Rabbit Lake Uranium Mine Environmental Assessment Panel throughout Saskatchewan in 1993. The poems that form my thesis are both lyrical and experimental, derived in part from the voices found in the Rabbit Lake transcripts. Inspired by rhizome theory and rhizomorphous structures, the voices in my thesis are nomadic: their primary impulse is to map interconnected histories and geographies; in so doing, these voices transcend boundaries and coalesce to form a polyphonic, non-linear narrative. The influence of ecocritical theory is reflected in poems that draw the reader’s attention to the non-human world affected by uranium mining, most notably in an interspersed series of experiments detailing various forms of lichen found throughout Saskatchewan. Various other textual experiments, including collage and erasure, are lines of flight within the rhizome of the thesis. The inclusion of “(inaudible)” passages found in the transcripts is intended to draw the reader’s attention toward what was misheard or left unsaid at the hearings. The presence of an “unknown” speaker is designed as a poetic and political intervention that enables elaborations. Beginning with Canada’s historical involvement in the Manhattan Project, that is, the United States’ earliest attempt to build a nuclear weapon, my thesis moves from Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, and into the lakes and waterways of Saskatchewan’s north. The voices that emerge, situated in association with lakes and rivers, include a chorus of women and a chorus of Indigenous elders, an invented uranium mining corporation, “Uraneco,” and several scientists, including a biologist and geophysicist, as well as an invented cosmochemist and limnologist. From Saskatchewan’s northern waterways, the voices wander outward, evoking sites affected by the nuclear industry beyond Saskatchewan’s borders, from crops in the province’s south historically affected by fallout from nuclear weapons’ testing in Nevada, to radioactive detritus left in the deserts of Iraq due the United States’ use of depleted Canadian uranium in munitions. The intention behind this figurative explosion of the thesis is to illustrate the extent to which a seemingly isolated uranium mine may affect the whole world.

With the technological development in biologically orientated industries more and more natural products in powdered form are being handled and processed. Three differently comminuted liquorice rhizome products were classified into 23 narrow size fractions to investigate the particle and bulk characteristics of the material, and to study the influence of particle shape on powder flowability. The morphology of the fibrous particulate was investigated by using a Quantimet 720 Image Analyser. The perimeter (P), projected area (A), breadth (B), length (L), horizontal and vertical projected lengths (P V and Pi) and the horizontal and vertical Feret diameters (FV FH) were measured from which four dimensionless shape factors were evaluated, [P2/47rA, PHxPV/A, L/B, FV/FH]. The surface texture of the particles was measured by fractal analysis. The influence of particle shape and size on the mean flow rate, coefficient of flow variation and flow uniformity were measured using a specially designed inclined tube flowmeter. The failure properties of powdered liquorice when sheared under known normal compressive stresses were measured and from a series of yield loci the unconfined yield strength, major consolidation stress and effective angle of internal friction were obtained. The effects of particle shape and size on the angle of internal friction, wall friction, bulk and packed densities were. investigated and the experimental correlations expressed in terms of mathematical equations. These relationships, together with the failure function plots, indicate that comminuted liquorice powder behaves as a "simple" powder.

This document explores and expands my perspective on dealing with mental health issues, grieving and sorrow through a material based practice. It portrays private spaces that grows and seeks universal connections. Feelings that is persevered between layers that takes physical form between the skin and the fabric. Adornments manifests themselves through the body, and when they are passive and sleeping, they dream of belonging.

O ecótipo André da Rocha de Paspalum notatum destaca-se por apresentar um elevado potencial produtivo em relação a muitos ecótipos da espécie, por esta razão, objetivou-se com este trabalho quantificar os processos morfogênicos que resultam no maior acúmulo de biomassa, bem como, quantificar a distribuição da biomassa em plantas desenvolvidas isoladamente em diferentes doses de nitrogênio. O experimento foi conduzido em casa de vegetação na Faculdade de Agronomia da UFRGS e utilizaram-se vasos de Leonard com solução nutritiva completa, com exceção do N, o qual foi adicionado como NH4NO3 para atingir as doses de 37,5, 75, 150 e 300mg N/vaso. Utilizou-se sete repetições de uma planta por vaso em delineamento completamente casualizado. A taxa de surgimento de folhas respondeu positivamente ao incremento na disponibilidade de N. A taxa de expansão foliar, o número médio de folhas verdes por perfilho, a taxa de perfilhamento, a taxa de expansão do rizoma e seu tamanho final foram igualmente afetados positivamente com a adição de N, enquanto o comprimento médio final da folha e a duração de vida da folha não foram afetados. Após 110 dias de crescimento, as plantas foram separadas nos componentes raízes, rizomas, e parte aérea. Os componentes que mais responderam ao aumento do N foram a produção da parte subterrânea (raízes + rizomas), que aumentou 68%, e a produção de perfilhos, que aumentou em dez vezes. A biomassa de folhas completamente expandidas na haste principal foi maior somente na dose mais alta, enquanto a massa de folhas em expansão não foi afetada. Este ecótipo apresenta alta capacidade de resposta ao nitrogênio, manifestada através de suas principais características morfogênicas. Em situações limitantes deste elemento, ocorre a priorização da alocação de assimilados para o sistema radicular, em detrimento da parte aérea. / The ecotype André da Rocha of Paspalum notatum is noteworthy for presenting a high yield potential compared to many ecotypes of the species, that is why, the aim of this study was to quantify the morphogenetic processes that result in greater accumulation of biomass, as well as to quantify the distribution of biomass in plants developed in isolation at different levels of nitrogen. The experiment wasas conducted in a greenhouse at the Faculty of Agronomy of UFRGS and used Leonard jars with complete nutrient solution, except for the N, which was added as NH4NO3 to reach the doses of 37.5, 75, 150 and 300 mg N/pot. We used seven repetitions of one plant per pot in completely randomized design. The leaf expansion rate, the number of green leaves per tiller, the tillering rate, rhizome extension rate and its final size was also positively affected by the addition of N, while the average final leaf length and leaf life span were not affected. After 110 days of plant growth, these were separate in the components roots, rhizomes and shoots. The compartments more responsive to N were the underground portions (roots + rhizomes), which increased 68% and the tillers production that increased tenfold. The biomass of fully expanded leaves on the main stem was greater only at the highest dose, while the mass of expanding leaves was not affected. This ecotype has a high capacity to nitrogen response, manifested through its main morphogenetic characteristics. In presence of limited nitrogen supply, there is a priority of allocation of assimilates to the root system, rather the aerial part, particularly for tillers formation.