Mémoire de graduat--Sci. bibliothéconomiques et bibliographiques--Bruxelles, 1974.

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The problem of this thesis is concerned with the directing and producing of a 1936 peace play, Bury the Dead, by Irwin Shaw. The production attempts to heighten the relevancy of the play to modern audiences. The project experiments with applying contemporary machines and techniques to a dated script containing realistic dialogue, a dualistic point of view, and a surrealistic idea of dead soldiers rising from their graves. The task generates a particular responsibility and challenge in that the use of contemporary machinery must be carefully chosen in such a way that it does not interfere with the message of the play.

Burn injuries are one of the most painful and potentially debilitating traumatic injuries that a person can suffer. Every reader is likely to have, at some point in their life, suffered a burn injury, no matter how minor and therefore can have some comprehension of the pain and suffering associated with significant burn injury. Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults. Although much has been done to optimise pre-hospital care and emergent treatment of injuries in recent times, the mainstay of managing death and disability from traumatic injury must lie in preventing these injuries where at all possible. To enable effective preventative strategies to be put in place it is important to define the demographics of those injured and the mechanisms of injury for any given population. Only then can we ensure that strategies are targeted in the areas where they are most needed at the mechanisms that are occurring most commonly. This study has combined a number of data sources namely burns service, fire service, coroners' service and accident and emergency department in an attempt to define the epidemiology and aetiology of burn injury in Greater Manchester. Data from the different sources was pooled and underwent a process of data-linkage to remove duplicate records. Rates have been calculated and compared according to age group, sex group and deprivation status. Poisson regression modelling was used to calculate the rate ratios amongst the different groups. Postcode data was used to allow geographical mapping of injuries across the county to allow rates to be calculated for different areas of the city. Where rates have been calculated for small area geographies Bayesian modelling was used to predict injury rates for those areas. Maps have been produced that show the areas with the highest rates of injury. The results show that in children it is the under five age group that have the highest rates of injury, particularly the under 2's. In adults, those over 75 years of age have the highest rates of injury. For all age groups males were more likely to be injured than females. In both children and adults higher rates of injury were seen in those areas where there were increased levels of deprivation. Key mechanisms of injury for individual age groups have been highlighted. The maps of Greater Manchester and its constituent local authorities show those areas with the highest rates of injury. The definition of target demographic groups and geographical areas within Greater Manchester will be used to allow development of targeted prevention strategies in those areas.

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Using adaptation and queer theory, this essay discusses and analyzes how Henry James’ horror novella The Turn of the Screw has been adapted into a streaming show for Netflix. By showing how The Haunting of Bly Manor removes some of the ambiguity of the original text, this essay claims that the show does not fall victim to the “bury your gays” trope, as it has been accused of. Instead, this essay finds that while the show may not perpetuate this trope, it still maintains the idea that queer stories come with tragic backstories and trauma.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the lives of men and women living in London and Bury St. Edmunds in the late fourteenth - early fifteenth centuries. Sources studied include the administrative and legal records of the City of London and of the Abbot and Convent of St. Edmund's abbey; legislation and court records of royal government and the wills and testaments of Londoners and Bury St. Edmunds' inhabitants. Considerable research on a wide range of topics on London, but far less work on Bury St. Edmunds, has already been undertaken; however, this thesis is the first systematic comparative study of these two towns. The introduction discusses the historiography and purpose of the thesis; the methodology used, and the shortcomings of using medieval wills and the probate process. Chapter One discusses the testamentary jurisdiction in both towns; who was involved in the will making process, and the role that clerics played as both executors and scribes and how the church courts operated. Chapter Two focuses on testators' preparations for the afterlife, their choices concerning burial location, funeral arrangements and the provisions made for prayers for their souls. Chapter Three examines in detail their pious and charitable bequests and investigates what ‘good works' testators chose to support apart from ‘forgotten tithes'. The family and household relationships, including servants and apprentices, are examined in Chapter Four, exploring the differences in bequests made depending on the testators' marital status, together with evidence for close friendships and social networks. Chapter Five discusses the ownership and types of books referred to in wills and the inter-relationship between the donors and the recipients. Testators' literacy and the provision for education are also investigated.

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Freeways have had a strong influence not only on the urban transportation but also on downtown areas both physically and socially. Certainly, they have extended the commuting limits of the city and made lower land costs more accessible. However, many of the mid-century freeways, once championed by planners as tools for urban renewal, have created swaths of blight through city neighborhoods. Their negative impacts on the larger urban framework requires new ideas for healthier alternatives to aid in preserving and building sustainable cities. Removal of any downtown highway requires careful thought— even more consideration than when it was built. Quick solutions are what resulted in the problems that downtown highways of the Interstate-Era have today. If it is the simple interactions between people and place are that make up the positive aspects an urban environment, then what are the possibilities and strategies for removing urban highway, which are one of the primary impediments separating people in place in contemporary cities? This question is the focus of this thesis. At its core, the removal of freeways represents a trade-off between mobility objectives and economic development objectives. Evidence from other cities’ decisions to redesign or remove their downtown highways suggests multiple benefits. Making design changes, such as to replace a downtown highway with a well-designed surface boulevard, can stimulate economic activities without necessarily causing traffic chaos. Solutions come in different shapes and sizes. The selected case studies in this thesis reflect a diversity of approaches – suggesting no single strategy exists for addressing downtown highway issues. This reflects the fact that multiple alternatives must be considered in every situation because each approach varies in costs and opportunities. A typology of highway alternations derived from the case studies includes seven different techniques: burying, demolishing, taming, capping or bridging, elevating, retaining, and relocating. The final chapter applies the conclusions from the case studies to the Downtown Connector– Interstate 75/85– in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Urban design and transportation planning has an emerging new set of values. Transportation planning is seeking to promote alternate modes of transportation to the private vehicle, like transit, by foot, or by bicycle. We now understand that connectivity is not served only by highways but also by urban street networks that invite modes other than just automobiles. An important role for urban design will be to shape the way these interactions are made to benefit the citizens, its urban spaces, and the economy.