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A detailed petrologic study of the maximum assemblage, minimum variance pelitic units contained within The Straits Schist in western Connecticut was undertaken to provide data on the Acadian Orogeny in the northern half of the western highlands of Connecticut. The Straits Schist, contained within the Connecticut Valley synclinorium, is structurally involved in portions of both the Hartland and Gneiss Dome belts, outlining isoclinally refolded nappes plunging off the Waterbury Dome. The Straits Schist is believed to be of Silurian—Devonian age, based on proposed correlations with the Goshen and the Waits River Formations of Massachusetts and Vermont, respectively. Furthermore, the age of metamorphism is interpreted as being Acadian based on the proposed age and stratigraphy, simple metamorphic textures, and uniform grain sizes. Quantitative estimates of the pressure and temperature conditions under which the mineral assemblages of The Straits Schist equilibrated were calculated using calibrated mineral reactions and ion exchange equilibria. Temperatures range from 607° — 747°C, and pressures range from 6.4 — 8.9 kbar across the study area. Estimates of P_H₂0/P_total were obtained and range between 0.21 and 0.57. Although exchange mechanisms have not (or could not have) been determined exactly, biotite and muscovite do show deviation from ideal tri- and di-octahedral stoichiometry, up to 13.7% di-octahedral character and 2.2% tri-octahedral character, respectively. Compositional X-ray maps indicate that The Straits Schist underwent rapid cooling. Therefore, the Acadian Orogeny in western Connecticut is characterized as a high-pressure event that underwent rapid postmetamorphic uplift and cooling. / Master of Science

The program of this thesis is divided into four parts; Investigation, Analysis, Design and Presentation. It is the objective or the thesis to investigate the conditions which have led the Ministry of' the Central Baptist Church to feel a great need for a Christian Center in connection with the church building to supplement the present neighborhood facilities in an attempt to create a better environment tor the inhabitants of the neighborhood. An investigation of these causes has enabled the ministry to set up a program and list of physical elements needed for such an undertaking. More directly, this thesis will attempt to organize and relate the various elements of such a program, on the proposed site, in such a way that these elements will become a unity and will benefit the inhabitants and the church in its attempt to carry out the teachings or the Christian Doctrine. / Master of Science

Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus is a vector-borne virus amplified by the Culiseta melanura mosquito in an enzootic avian cycle, causing high morbidity and mortality to horses and humans when contracted as incidental hosts. The virus is distributed across most of the eastern United States, Canada, and Gulf coast, and has been expanding in geographic range and season of activity over time. Spatial-temporal trends in Cs. melanura abundance were correlated with available meteorological (temperature and precipitation) and remotely sensed environmental data for the period of 1997-2012 in Connecticut. The effects of inter-annual changes in precipitation, temperature, and groundwater levels on Cs. melanura abundances using time-series linear regression and cross-correlation analyses were inconclusive. Habitat modeling using logistic regression and landscape-based predictive variables demonstrated strong efficiency (46.2%) and acceptable sensitivity and specificity (65.6 and 78.6%, respectively) using NDVI difference and distance from palustrine areas as predictive factors. Remotely sensed data can improve the understanding of vector abundance patterns, helping to forecast future outbreaks and regional expansions by guiding surveillance efforts.

Thesis advisor: Cynthia L. Lyerly / The forty year fight to reform the 1879 Comstock statute that prohibited the use of birth control in Connecticut began in 1923. When the 1879 measure was originally enacted, it was in response to the bustling market for pornography and reflected that part of the Victorian moral reform movement which classified all things that referenced sex as obscene. Throughout the lengthy struggle, several court cases were pursued and numerous bills were introduced in the state legislature to various degrees of support. Every decade had a different set of arguments for and against the legalization of birth control, spanning from economic and social to medical and moral. The law was ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in 1965 based on the burgeoning right to privacy. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Thesis. 1977. Sc.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 381-386. / Sc.D.

Thesis (M.M.E.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

<p><italic>Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America</italic> traces how modern ideas about gender and race became embedded in the institutions of law and government between the Revolution and the end of Reconstruction. Contemporary understandings of gender and race actually consolidated only in the aftermath of the Civil War, as communities embraced beliefs that women and African Americans constituted distinctive groups with shared, innate characteristics related solely to the fact that they were female or racially different. People then applied these ideas about gender and race to all arenas of life, including the law. </p> <p>Yet understanding the roles of women and African Americans through universalizing legal conceptions of gender and/or race--conceptions that crystallized in law only in the wake of the Civil War--elides the complexity of the ways in which antebellum communities responded to the interactions of women, the enslaved, and free blacks with the legal system. My study's focus on infanticide, a crime that could only be perpetrated by females, reveals how women--and men--of all races involved themselves in the day-to-day legal processes that shaped the daily lives of Americans during the early republic and antebellum periods. Communities responded to cases of infant death informed by understandings of motherhood and child mortality specific to that particular case and individual, rather than shaping outcomes--as they began to do so after the Civil War--based on broad assumptions about the race or gender of the offender. My conclusions are drawn from almost one hundred cases of infanticide and infant death between 1789 and 1877 gleaned primarily from court records and newspapers in Connecticut, Illinois, and North Carolina. In addition, the study draws on reports of other instances from around the nation, as narrated in sources such as diaries, periodicals, newspapers, crime pamphlets, and medical journals.</p> / Dissertation