This is an original work of poetry. There are many forms used in this collection. There are found and cento poems, as well as free verse forms in this collection. Some of the poems are narrative, while others use a dissociative mode. This work represents an extension of postmodernists, like Barth and Pynchon. It also represents an extension of surrealists like Lamantia and Ashbery.

Através dos números, os homens são capazes de comparar, ordenar, medir e quantificar tudo o que há à sua volta. Além da sua utilização para a matemática, muitos números receberam significados simbólicos. Na Bíblia Hebraica, os números são freqüentes, e possuem diversas funções e significados. Alguns números se destacam, como é o caso do número cento e vinte, utilizado para medidas ou contagens de tempo, espaço (áreas ou territórios), peso, pessoas ou animais. Este número figura no Livro do Gênese (6:3), como medida de tempo, no momento em que um limite de cento e vinte anos é decretado como expectativa máxima de vida do homem uma punição às transgressões do homem, falível e mortal, comparável à expulsão de Adão e Eva do Jardim do Éden (Gn 3:23-24) ou à diversificação das línguas faladas durante o episódio da Torre de Babel (Gn 11:7). Este decreto é estabelecido em uma interpolação de uma narrativa lacônica, aparentemente mitológica, em que seres conhecidos como filhos de Deus se relacionam com as filhas dos homens, dando origem a descendentes conhecidos como gigantes ou heróis. O número cento e vinte está relacionado ao período de cento e vinte anos em que Noé construiu a arca para sobreviver ao dilúvio (Gn 6), aos cento e vinte dias em que Moisés esteve sobre o Monte Sinai em três períodos de quarenta dias cada (Ex 24:12-18, 32:15, 30-31, 34:4, 29), como também ao período de três gerações convencionais de quarenta anos cada, exemplificado pelo pacto de Deus com o povo de Israel: ...guardes todos os Seus estatutos e os Seus preceitos que eu te ordeno tu, teu filho e o filho de teu filho... (Dt 6:2). Assim, apesar de que o número cento e vinte possui uma quantidade enorme de divisores, sua subdivisão em três períodos ou gerações de quarenta anos cada possui um simbolismo que instiga a investigação. / Through the numbers, men are able to compare, sort, measure and quantify everything there is around them. Besides their use for mathematics, many numbers have symbolic meanings. In the Hebrew Bible, numbers are frequent, and have different functions and meanings. Some numbers are highlighted, such as the number one hundred and twenty, used to measure or counting of time, space (areas or territories), weight, people or animals. This number can be found in the Book of Genesis (6:3), as a measure of time, at the moment when a limit of one hundred and twenty years is decreed as the maximum life expectancy of man a punishment for man\'s transgressions comparable to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:23-24) or the confusion of speech during the episode of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:7). This decree is established on an interpolation of a seemingly mythological, laconic narrative in which beings known as the \"sons of God\" had relationships to the \"daughters of men\", giving rise to offspring known as \"giants\" or \"heroes\". The number one hundred and twenty is related to the period of one hundred and twenty years in which Noah built the ark to survive the flood (Gen. 6), to one hundred and twenty days in which Moses was on Mount Sinai in three forty-day periods each (Ex 24 :12 -18 , 32:15 , 30-31 , 34:4, 29), as well as the conventional period of three generations of forty years each, exemplified by the covenant of God with the people of Israel: \" ... keep all His rules and laws that I am prescribing to you you, your children and your childrens children\" (Deut. 6:2). Thus, although the number one hundred and twenty has a huge amount of dividers, its subdivision into three periods or generations of forty years each has a symbolism that instigates the investigation.

Através dos números, os homens são capazes de comparar, ordenar, medir e quantificar tudo o que há à sua volta. Além da sua utilização para a matemática, muitos números receberam significados simbólicos. Na Bíblia Hebraica, os números são freqüentes, e possuem diversas funções e significados. Alguns números se destacam, como é o caso do número cento e vinte, utilizado para medidas ou contagens de tempo, espaço (áreas ou territórios), peso, pessoas ou animais. Este número figura no Livro do Gênese (6:3), como medida de tempo, no momento em que um limite de cento e vinte anos é decretado como expectativa máxima de vida do homem uma punição às transgressões do homem, falível e mortal, comparável à expulsão de Adão e Eva do Jardim do Éden (Gn 3:23-24) ou à diversificação das línguas faladas durante o episódio da Torre de Babel (Gn 11:7). Este decreto é estabelecido em uma interpolação de uma narrativa lacônica, aparentemente mitológica, em que seres conhecidos como filhos de Deus se relacionam com as filhas dos homens, dando origem a descendentes conhecidos como gigantes ou heróis. O número cento e vinte está relacionado ao período de cento e vinte anos em que Noé construiu a arca para sobreviver ao dilúvio (Gn 6), aos cento e vinte dias em que Moisés esteve sobre o Monte Sinai em três períodos de quarenta dias cada (Ex 24:12-18, 32:15, 30-31, 34:4, 29), como também ao período de três gerações convencionais de quarenta anos cada, exemplificado pelo pacto de Deus com o povo de Israel: ...guardes todos os Seus estatutos e os Seus preceitos que eu te ordeno tu, teu filho e o filho de teu filho... (Dt 6:2). Assim, apesar de que o número cento e vinte possui uma quantidade enorme de divisores, sua subdivisão em três períodos ou gerações de quarenta anos cada possui um simbolismo que instiga a investigação. / Through the numbers, men are able to compare, sort, measure and quantify everything there is around them. Besides their use for mathematics, many numbers have symbolic meanings. In the Hebrew Bible, numbers are frequent, and have different functions and meanings. Some numbers are highlighted, such as the number one hundred and twenty, used to measure or counting of time, space (areas or territories), weight, people or animals. This number can be found in the Book of Genesis (6:3), as a measure of time, at the moment when a limit of one hundred and twenty years is decreed as the maximum life expectancy of man a punishment for man\'s transgressions comparable to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:23-24) or the confusion of speech during the episode of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:7). This decree is established on an interpolation of a seemingly mythological, laconic narrative in which beings known as the \"sons of God\" had relationships to the \"daughters of men\", giving rise to offspring known as \"giants\" or \"heroes\". The number one hundred and twenty is related to the period of one hundred and twenty years in which Noah built the ark to survive the flood (Gen. 6), to one hundred and twenty days in which Moses was on Mount Sinai in three forty-day periods each (Ex 24 :12 -18 , 32:15 , 30-31 , 34:4, 29), as well as the conventional period of three generations of forty years each, exemplified by the covenant of God with the people of Israel: \" ... keep all His rules and laws that I am prescribing to you you, your children and your childrens children\" (Deut. 6:2). Thus, although the number one hundred and twenty has a huge amount of dividers, its subdivision into three periods or generations of forty years each has a symbolism that instigates the investigation.

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Centromeres are responsible for sister-chromatid cohesion, kinetochore formation, and accurate transmission of chromosomes. Rice provides an excellent model for organizational and functional studies of centromeres since several of its chromosomes contain limited amounts of satellite and other repetitive sequences in their centromeres. To facilitate molecular characterization of the centromeres, we screened several BIBAC and BAC libraries of japonica and indica rice, using several centromere-specific repeat elements as probes. The positive clones were identified, fingerprinted and integrated into our whole genome physical map databases of the two rice subspecies. BAC/BIBACbased physical maps were constructed for the centromeric regions of the subspecies. To determine whether the genomic organization of the centromeres has changed since the cultivated rice split from its progenitor and to identify the sequences potentially playing an important role in centromere functions, we constructed a large-insert BIBAC library for the wild progenitor of Asian cultivated rice, O. rufipogon. The library contains 24,192 clones, has an average insert size of 163 kb, and covers 5 x haploid genome of wild rice. We screened the wild rice library with two centromere 8-specific overgo probes designed from the sequences flanking centromere 8 of japonica rice. A BIBACbased map was constructed for wild rice centromere 8. Two of the clones, B43P04 and B15E04, were found to span the entire region of the wild rice centromere and thus selected for sequencing the centromere. By sequencing the B43P09 clone, a 95% genomic sequence of the long arm side of wild rice centromere 8 was obtained. Comparative analysis revealed that the centromeric regions of wild rice have a similar gene content to japonica rice, but the centromeric regions of japonica rice have undergone chromosomal rearrangements at both large scale and nucleotide levels. In addition, although the 155-bp satellite repeats showed dramatic changes at the middle region, they are conserved at the 5' and 3' ends of satellite monomers, suggesting that those regions might have important functional roles for centromeres. These results provide not only new insights into genomic organization and evolution, but also a platform for functional analysis of plant centromeres.

Cento Probae is one the important works of late Roman literature, which had a great success both in the Middle Ages and in the humanism. This is evidenced by the large number of manuscripts and printed witnesses, to which it is possible to add two French translations from the middle of the 16th century. The main focus of this master's thesis is to propose a detailed comparison of the texts with regard to contemporary translation practice. Based on this analysis, the author examines the purpose of these translations, the audience for which they were intended and whether there is any connection between them.

Von Dantes Divina commedia sind weltweit mehr als 800 Handschriften aus der Zeit bis 1500 erhalten geblieben. Diese ungemein hohe Zahl ergibt sich nicht nur aus der künstlerischen Qualität von Dantes Hauptwerk, sondern auch aus dem hohen Grad der Alphabetisierung und des Wohlstands der städtischen Bevölkerung Mittel- und Norditaliens im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert sowie aus den Angeboten von zahlreichen Berufsschreibern, Papier- und Pergamentmachern, Buchbindern, Miniaturisten und Buchhändlern. In der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin und in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden werden zehn Handschriften der Divinia commedia aufbewahrt, die hier einzeln vorgestellt werden. Für jede Handschrift wird die Stellung in der Überlieferung der Divina commedia bestimmt, ebenso die Schrift, die Illuminierung, die Datierung und Lokalisierung sowie die Provenienz. Bis auf wenige wurden diese Handschriften vermutlich durch Berufsschreiber geschrieben. Im Ergebnis erweist sich die Qualität der meisten dieser zehn Handschriften als höher als die der Mehrzahl der erhaltenen Handschriften der Divina commedia.

The main aim of the thesis is to analyse the British foreign and defence policy attitude toward the Baghdad Pact (Central Treaty Organisation, CENTO) and the Northern Tier countries from 1955-1964. The text seeks to outline the role and importance which the British foreign and defence policy attributed to the pact as well as the British perception of the Communist threat to the Middle East as it was reflected in the documents related to the British participation in the alliance. The text concentrates on the analysis of the British interpretation of the alliance, in particular with respect to the impact of the Cold War on the international relations in the Middle East (1955-1964) and the transformation which affected the British position and Special Relationship with the United States in the Middle East. The thesis follows the development of British foreign and defence policy between 1955 and 1964. Approaching the Baghdad Pact (CENTO) as a tool of British foreign and defence policy in the Middle East (1955-1964), it seeks to identify and specify the functions attributed to the pact by the British and Foreign Policy and outline their development and changing priority. In addition, the thesis analyses the development and structural problems of the Baghdad Pact (CENTO) from 1955 to 1964, connecting...