Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on xxx x, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-64).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Edinburgh, 1988.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1980. / Title from title page screen, viewed Feb. 28, 2005. Dissertation Committee: John McCarthy (chair), John Brickell, David Franklin, Vernon Adams. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-100) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs universitet. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-343) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Illustrations not reproduced. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 416-446).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-321).

Responding to the works of artist Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963), this research aims to interrogate the social and spatial experiences of childhood, starting from the personal, childhood memory. Whiteread offers a curious collection of objects, furniture, toys, utensils, photographs and junk. Casting and collecting are Whiteread’s primary methods of artistic creation, of creative play, and these processes are at the centre of this thesis. Casting and collecting transforms objects – their uses and forms, and thus subsequent meanings and associations. Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was an early pioneer of child analysis, developing her distinctive method of the play technique. A key founder of British objects relations theory, Klein’s method incorporated creative play with objects and toys. Klein and Whiteread hold objects in common; play sits alongside casting and collecting. I use Klein’s theories to open up the childhood house of Whiteread and her methods of casting and collecting. The three chapters of this thesis, Closeted Childhoods: Closet (1988); Siblings and Seriality: Untitled [One Hundred Spaces] (1995); A Photographic Portrait of House (1993-94), draw on different aspects of Kleinian and psychoanalytical theory in response to Whiteread’s own childhood memory-work. Kleinian themes addressed include destruction and reparation, guilt and envy, loss and mourning, with the conclusion returning to that first object, the mother, and the presence of the maternal in Whiteread’s works. Primarily, I argue that Whiteread’s sculptural casts and installations are those materialised secrets of hidden and concealed childhoods denied by a mythology of familial unity. Significantly, I consider how the autobiographical childhood remembrance holds relevance for wider concerns of social and spatial experience – public and private.

Orientadora: Maria Leandra Bizello / Banca: Ana Cristina Albuquerque / Banca: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes / Resumo: A Biblioteca Central da universidade federal de Mato Grosso conta com um acervo de coleção de obras raras e especiais que recebe o nome do colecionador: Coleção Amidicis Tocantins - CAT. O colecionador, um homem comum, mas que gostava de colecionar livros de relevância social, faleceu e deixou a coleção aos cuidados da família, que decidiu doar a coleção. O processo de doação foi intermediado pelos membros da família e a reitoria da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, que no período demonstrou interesse em receber a coleção. A Biblioteca Central, como muitas outras bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, passa por problemas financeiros para o tratamento adequado da coleção, seja estrutural ou de capacitação pessoal. Dessa forma, as obras pertencentes à coleção não possuem tratamento algum, o que vem gerando muitos questionamentos. E a questão aqui trabalhada é: pode uma coleção anteriormente particular representar a memória coletiva? Na busca para a resolução dessa questão, elencou-se como objetivo principal identificar e discutir a relevância de uma coleção institucionalizada na configuração da memória social, no âmbito da Ciência da Informação, por meio do estudo do caso da Coleção Amidicis Tocantins. Nesse seguimento, busca-se analisar, no âmbito da Ciência da Informação, os termos coleção, objeto, memória e lugar de memória, estabelecendo assim um diálogo entre esses conceitos; analisar in loco a Coleção Amidicis Tocantins a fim de coletar informações e interpretar por meio da literatura as questões pertinentes ao significado e finalidade da coleção; apresentar de que forma a Coleções Amidicis Tocantins pode representar a memória social e refletir nos motivos pelo qual foi escolhida pela instituição. A metodologia do trabalho é o estudo de caso, na qual se utilizou da ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The Mato Grosso Federal University Central Library counts with a collection of rare and special works that receives the collector's name: Coleção Amidicis Tocantins - CAT. The collector, a common man, who liked to collect social relevant books, died and left the collection under the care of his family which decided to donate the collection. The donation process was intermediated by the family members and the Mato Grosso Federal University rector who in the period showed interest in receiving the collection. The Central Library, as many others Brazilian public universities, struggles with financial problems to give proper treatment to the collection, be it structural or of personal capacitation.This way the works that belong to the collection don't have any treatment, which has been causing many questioning s. And the question here worked is: Can a previously particular collection represent a collective memory? In the search for the resolution of this question it was ranked as the main objective to identify and discuss the relevance of an institutionalized collection in the configuration of social memory, in the Information Science scope, through the studying of the Amidicis Tocantins Collection case. In this sequence it is aimed to analyze, in the Information Science scope, the terms collection, object, memory and place of memory, establishing, there for, a dialogue between these concepts; to analyze in loco the Amidicis Tocantins Collection in order to collect information and to interpret, through the literature, the questions pertinent to the collection's meaning and finality; to present how the Amidicis Tocantins Collection can represent a social memory and reflect the motives for which it was chosen by the institution. The works methodology is a case study in which has been utilized the theoretical proposition to analyze the data ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Magister Chirurgiae Dentium (MChD) / Wound healing is a complex process characterised by the repair and reconstitution of lost or damaged tissue. By the mid 1990s, several methods were proposed to enhance wound healing of surgical sites by introducing high concentrations of human platelets to these areas. In the early 21st century, Choukroun et al (2006b) introduced a new type of platelet concentrate that was devoid of any additives, and required no specialised equipment for its production. This concentrate was termed Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) and although various aspects of this biomaterial had been studied, very little is currently known about its storage properties. Aim: To determine whether storage time had a significant effect on the platelet concentration of Choukroun’s PRF Method: A total of 30 patients were enrolled into the study. Three blood samples of 10ml each were drawn from each patient. Two of the blood samples (Group A and Group B) were centrifuged to form PRF. The third sample was used to measure the baseline blood platelet concentration and was therefore not centrifuged. After PRF had formed in both test groups, it was removed from the test tubes at 2 different times i.e. immediately after centrifuge (Group A) or after 60 min of storage in the blood collecting tube (Group B). The remaining blood was then tested for platelet concentration and compared to each other and the baseline reading. Results: 14 males and 16 females participated in the study (average age 41.7 years). A mean blood platelet concentration of 282.8 ± 58.3 × 109/L was recorded for the baseline reading. Group A had a mean blood platelet concentration 7.9 ± 3.03 × 109/L. Group B had a mean blood platelet concentration of 4.0 ± 1.93 × 109/L. A statistically significant difference was seen between Groups A and B (p < 0.0001). Conclusions: Storage time has a significant effect of the platelet concentration of PRF. If stored over a period of 60 min, the platelet concentration of PRF increases. Further research is required to determine whether this finding is clinically significant.

For many years, meanings and interpretations of artefacts that are taken to represent African culture including the Ife bronzes have been predominantly produced and fixed by a team of western curatorial experts (Ciolfi, 2012). Such museum practices have prevented visitors and the people being represented by the artefact from participating in the process of interpretation and meaning-making. In the particular case of the ‘Ife bronzes’, the previous meaning and implications of the Ife ‘bronzes’ as part of ‘the cradle of the world’, according to Yoruba oral traditions, are yet to be given the amount of attention they deserve. For a long time the interpretations and meanings produced by curators were drawn from the writings and accounts of earlier western travellers, explorers and colonial officials whose culture affected how the Ife bronzes have been perceived and interpreted (Coombes, 1997: Vogel, 1999). Today despite the impact of ‘the new museology’, strong traces of such biased interpretations and meanings are still evident in the framing of the Ife bronze head, exhibited at the British Museum Sainsbury African gallery as a ‘funerary object’ in postcolonial times. Such narratives highlight ‘relations of power and not relations of meanings’ (Foucault, 1980:114). These contemporary exhibitionary frames highlight the need for interpretations and meanings that will consider how changing roles, ownership, usage, political situations and geographical location have affected and will affect the Ife bronzes. In this thesis I carry out this work, documenting the social life of the Ife bronzes from pre-colonial Ife to postcolonial digital British Museum. I argue that there is a need for a new space that will encourage rewriting, revising and representing the Ife bronzes in a more capacious way to depict their changing meaning as they journeyed through time. This theory is in line with Hall (1997) and Foucault’s (1980) theories that meanings and interpretations are not static but are affected by time and changing context. The thesis therefore explores the multifaceted political, economical and sociocultural implications of the Ife bronzes. Despite these wider implications of Ife bronzes, they are still only too often shrouded in narratives that tend to validate the supremacy, civilisation and intellectual ‘supremacy’ of the West instead of substantiating the ingenuity, civilisation and intellectual capabilities of Africa. Digitisation is critically considered as offering a potential new space for representing Ife bronzes in a new light that might allow meanings with postcolonial ideology to emerge. Focusing on different periods involving the Ife bronzes (the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial) the thesis explores the potentials of digital representation. The thesis concludes that digital representation but only combined with a critical contextual approach, have the potentials of initiating a more thorough decolonisation of the Ife bronzes through an inclusive participatory culture.