Thesis advisor: Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield / In this series of interconnected vignettes, the members of the Massachusetts-based McCullough family cope in the aftermath of their patriarch's death. This family saga unfolds through memories across decades and reflection in the 21st-century present narrative, as relatives young and old move through the traditions in which the family is rooted and towards the changing world of their future. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: English.

Thesis advisor: Andrea Vicini / Thesis advisor: James Keenan / In this thesis, I am going to explore some of the significant legal and medical activities that have had a great influence on the healthcare delivery in the United States of America, focusing on the care of people that are severely sick or those whose death is imminent. Then I will discuss how the application of virtues, particularly the cardinal virtues, can inspire people not to neglect the needs of patients whenever some helpful procedures could be done, and also to enable people to desist from engaging in medical procedures that could be deemed futile. Patients and their caregivers can all benefit from cultivating virtue and hence create a way of life that respects the human dignity of patients and also uses the available resources prudently for the sake of the common good. Ultimately, I hope to suggest some theologically sound proposals that are helpful to a patient, the patient’s family and the rest of the country’s health system, with a particular focus on an ethical way of delivering healthcare services. I will show how the developments in the Western world can be applied to develop some protocols of healthcare delivery that could be helpful to Kenya. It is my belief that the universal applicability of virtues can ensure that healthcare activities uphold the human dignity of patients, provide respect for healthcare work, and also use a country’s limited resources prudently. / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

論文(碩士)--香港中文大學,1975. / Manuscript. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-179). / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue,1975. / 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 莊子死生¨Œ之類別 --- p.8 / Chapter 第一節 --- 悦生悪死 --- p.9 / Chapter 第二節 --- 悦死悪生 --- p.34 / Chapter 第三節 --- 不悦生、不悪死 --- p.39 / Chapter 第二章 --- 莊子薪尽文传之死生¨Œ释義 --- p.68 / Chapter 第一節 --- 有旦宅而无情死之死生¨Œ --- p.71 / Chapter 第二節 --- 大夢初覺之死亡¨Œ --- p.91 / Chapter 第三節 --- 「寥天一」之境界 --- p.98 / Chapter 第四節 --- 「外死生」之方法 --- p.160 / 結論 --- p.166 / 注釋 --- p.172 / 参考书目 --- p.176

Dawson, Elizabeth Marcelle. / "2002年11月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2002. / 參考文獻 (leaves 124-130). / 附中英文摘要. / "2002 nian 11 yue". / Dawson, Elizabeth Marcelle. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2002. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 124-130). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 導言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一部份： --- 宗教和性別硏究向度的電影分析 / Chapter 第一章 --- 宗教硏究與電影 --- p.7 / Chapter 一 --- 史背景與發展 --- p.7 / Chapter (1) --- 哲學的分析進路 --- p.10 / Chapter (2) --- 基督宗教的分析進路 --- p.11 / Chapter (3) --- 電影與神話的關係 --- p.13 / Chapter (4) --- 女性主義的分析進路 --- p.15 / Chapter 二 --- 「宗教電影」與「具宗教性的電影」之間的異同 --- p.16 / Chapter 三 --- 小結 --- p.19 / Chapter 第二章 --- 女性主義電影評論 --- p.21 / Chapter 一 --- 歷史背景與發展 --- p.21 / Chapter (1) --- 觀影經驗 --- p.23 / Chapter (2) --- 電影觀者論 --- p.25 / Chapter (3) --- 觀眾與認同 --- p.27 / Chapter (4) --- 女性與慾望 --- p.29 / Chapter (5) --- 作者論 --- p.31 / Chapter 二 --- 女性主義電影評論的硏究局限 --- p.33 / Chapter 三 --- 小結 --- p.35 / Chapter 第二部份： --- 電影文本分析 / Chapter 第三章 --- Ingmar Bergman的電影特色一宗教與性別問題指涉 --- p.37 / Chapter 一 --- 作者位置 --- p.38 / Chapter 二 --- Bergman電影中的宗教意識一一趟追尋生命意義的旅程 --- p.40 / Chapter 三 --- Bergman電影中的性別意識一永不終止的兩性矛盾 --- p.43 / Chapter 四 --- 對Bergman電影的詮釋´ؤ´ؤ內省的創作歷程 --- p.47 / Chapter 五 --- 小結 --- p.49 / Chapter 第四章 --- 《哭泣與耳語》文本分析：「死亡」與「母性」 --- p.50 / Chapter 一 --- 影像/音響特質與文本_ --- p.50 / Chapter 二 --- 四位女性的故事 --- p.53 / Chapter 三 --- 小結 --- p.61 / Chapter 第五章 --- 《哭泣與耳語》中的死亡意象所表現的宗教意識 --- p.62 / Chapter 一 --- 《哭泣與耳語》的「死亡」表現 --- p.63 / Chapter 二 --- 存在主義理解下的死亡「焦懼」 --- p.67 / Chapter 三 --- 《哭泣與耳語》影像符號的宗教意義指涉 --- p.75 / Chapter 四 --- 小結 《哭泣與耳語》中對死亡的討論 --- p.81 / Chapter 第六章 --- 從母性表現談《哭泣與耳語》中的性別問題 --- p.83 / Chapter 一 --- 《哭泣與耳語》中的母親形象 --- p.84 / Chapter 二 --- 基督教的母親形象一完美的理想母性 --- p.93 / Chapter 三 --- 「母親」的社會角色與文化涵意 --- p.95 / Chapter 四 --- 小結《哭泣與耳語》中對母性的討論 --- p.99 / 總結：硏究發現與期望 --- p.101 / Chapter 一 --- 整體研究發現 --- p.101 / Chapter 二 --- 詮釋 《哭泣與耳語》文本的啓發 --- p.104 / Chapter 三 --- 電影文本的持續硏究 --- p.106 / <附錄> / Chapter I --- 《哭泣與耳語》分場表 --- p.108 / Chapter II --- 參考圖片 --- p.117 / Chapter III --- Ingmar Bergman 作品年表 --- p.119 / Chapter IV --- 專用名詞 --- p.122 / 參考書目 --- p.124

Background and Aims: The population aged over 65 in the UK is increasing, however this population is traditionally underserved by clinical psychologists. Part of the reason for this underservice may relate to psychologists' reluctance to work with this group. The literature suggests a number of issues which may account for this reluctance, e. g. professional ageism, anxiety about ageing, death and dependency. This research aims to explore the relevance of these issues among clinical psychology trainees, as well as exploring their attitudes towards psychotherapy with older clients and their thoughts about how recruitment could be improved Design and Participants: A cross sectional postal design was used. Questionnaires were sent to trainees at 25 of the Clinical Psychology Training courses in the UK. Three hundred and seventy-one trainees returned questionnaires. Measures: A questionnaire was designed by the author which included a number of published measures. Results: The trainees reported that they were less interested in working within the older adult specialty than within the adult or child specialties, although older adult services were more popular than learning disability services. The trainees' interest in working with older people could be predicted by their interest in this area prior to training; by aspects of their ageing anxiety and by their experience of working with older people during training. The trainees' age; death anxiety and attitude to older people did not predict their interest in this area. Trainees further discussed how they thought approaches should be modified with older people; why they thought recruitment to this area may be problematic and how recruitment could be improved. Discussion and Implications: The discussion considers provisional explanations for the findings. The clinical implications are examined particularly in terms of recruitment to the older adult specialty. The limitations with this study are explored and ways forward suggested.

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The most succinct abstract of this thesis is the title itself. Nga Roimata O Hine-nui-te-po literally means the tears of Hine-nui-te-po (the guardian of dead). It is a phrase associated with death but not always with grief. Sadness is involved as the deceased is leaving the living but it can also imply joy as the deceased is returning home (Kainga) to the place of ancestral origin (Hawaiki). Death was and is seen as the focal point of Maori life. It was the axis around which the actions of the living revolved. It was a time of mourning but also a time of happiness as it witnessed the birth of an ancestor. This study firstly discusses traditional Maori death customs in relation to traditional Maori society. The topic has obvious limitations. The reliance on unverified records, often based on second-hand hearsay, is hopefully balanced, to some degree, by authenticated information and some material provided by recent archaeological reconstruction. Discussion with contemporary informants was also of valuable assistance. Secondly the thesis attempts to provide an under-standing as to why Maori culture has survived despite over one and a half centuries of intensive outside influence. The study of death in both its past and present Maori contexts points to the reason for the continuity of Maoritanga being held within Maori attitudes toward death. Maoritanga can only be understood via an appreciation of tangihanga. Maoritanga did and does have tangihanga as its very heart. Death was and is the centre of Maori life

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, June 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Cotton fiber has been postulated to undergo a process of programmed cell death (PCD) during the maturation phase of development. A parallel may exist between cotton fibers and xylem tracheary elements, which have periods of elongation, secondary cell wall deposition and death. Secondary wall formation and PCD are purported to be coupled events in tracheary elements. In this study, an attempt was made to observe the occurrence and timing of PCD in cotton fibers by TUNEL staining to detect DNA strand breaks, and also to monitor DNA content by PI staining. The staining patterns produced by PI and TUNEL left room for interpretation. TUNEL-positive and PI-stained areas were observed, but failure to observe nuclei of conventional appearance in my cytological preparations at any time-point, along with possible nonspecific staining or autofluorescence of cell wall and intracellular components, made it difficult to draw firm conclusions of significance. Thus, additional analyses will be needed to prove or disprove current PCD theories. Nevertheless, the differences in TUNEL and PI signals across fiber development stages indicate that the observed fluorescence patterns are marking discrete developmental phases. The PI signal is dispersed throughout the cell during the elongation phase (5-15 DPA) and appears to condense during secondary cell wall synthesis (25- 40 DPA). TUNEL-positive signal may be observed as early as 25 DPA, but the signal is not widespread until 45 DPA. At 50 DPA and beyond, PI staining is reduced. Visually detectable DNA can be extracted from cotton fiber nuclei between 5 and 40 DPA, although a laddering pattern was not visible at any time-point. The results, although inconclusive, point to the possibility that PCD may be a process leading to maturation in the cotton fiber, succeeding completion of secondary cell wall synthesis.

Vitreous humor is a fluid that is relatively well protected from postmortem degradation and contamination. Due to its postmortem stability, vitreous humor has high utility in forensic pathology. Vitreous humor biochemical constituents, especially potassium, have been widely used in the postmortem interval (PMI) estimations. The time dependant rise of vitreous potassium levels in the postmortem period has been considered to be helpful in PMI determinations. The relative stability of vitreous biochemistry is useful in assessing the antemortem metabolic status and in predicting the antemortem serum biochemistry of an individual. However, the validity of vitreous biochemistry in forensic applications has been questioned in light of the reported concentration differences of various biochemical constituents in the same pair of eyes at identical PMI. This study hypothesized that the concentration of vitreous biochemical constituents in the same pair of eyes change at the same rate and this change that occurs in a time dependent fashion may be utilized in accurately estimating the PMI. It was further hypothesized that postmortem vitreous humor biochemistry closely mimics antemortem serum biochemistry and may be a useful aid in establishing a postmortem diagnoses of hyperglycemia. To test these hypotheses, vitreous humor samples were collected from a total of 103 autopsies (Female, 35 and Male, 68; Mean Age ± SD, 60.6 ± 17.6) conducted at Royal University Hospital morgue between January 2003 to February 2005. In 61 of these subjects, the precise time of death was known. Right and left eye vitreous humor samples were collected separately through a scleral puncture at the lateral canthus. Most of the biochemical analyses were carried out immediately post-extraction. After centrifugation, the supernatant of the fluid were analyzed for sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, magnesium, urea, creatinine, glucose and lactate on an LX-20 Analyzer (Beckman-Coulter). Osmolality was measured on an Osmometer model 3900 (Advanced Instruments Inc.). Vitreous humor hypoxanthine and xanthine were analyzed using a colorimetric method (Amplex® Red Xanthine/ Xanthine Oxidase Assay Kit, Molecular Probes Inc.). Vitreous humor lipid hydroperoxides were measured using the Ferrous Oxidation in Xylenol Orange assay version 2 (FOX 2). The data was statistically analyzed by paired t-test, linear regression analysis and Mann-Whitney test using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows version 13.0. The results of this study indicated that there were no significant between-eye differences for all of the vitreous biochemical constituents that were studied. It was observed that there was a significant correlation between vitreous potassium (R, 0.731; P, <0.0001), hypoxanthine, (R, 0.450; P, <0.0001), xanthine (R, 0.590; P, <0.0001), lactate (R, 0.508; P, <0.0001), calcium (R, 0.33; P, <0.01) and PMI. The corresponding formulae derived from the linear regression equations to estimate PMI were for potassium (6.41 (K+) 46.25), hypoxanthine (0.32 (Hypoxanthine) 60.94), xanthine (0.14 (Xanthine) 50.08), lactate (5.21 (Lactate) 27.69) and calcium (200 (Ca2+) 380.4). On a comparison of the actual PMI and the estimated PMI calculated using the formulae derived from the linear regression correlationship, it was found that the lowest standard deviation and the highest correlationship was obtained for vitreous potassium. The mean paired actual and estimated PMI values were significantly correlated for potassium (P, <0.0001), hypoxanthine (P, <0.0001), xanthine (P, <0.0001), lactate (P, <0.0001) and calcium (P, <0.01). Only vitreous potassium along with lactate and xanthine were significantly correlated with PMI in the same linear regression model. It was found that there was a highly significant correlation between antemortem serum and postmortem vitreous urea (R, 0.967; P, < 0.0001) and antemortem serum and postmortem vitreous creatinine (R, 0.865; P, <0.0001) concentrations. There was a significant difference (P, <0.05) between the postmortem vitreous glucose levels in the diabetic subjects as compared to the non-diabetic subjects. Vitreous lactate and lipid hydroperoxide levels did not exhibit any significant differences in these two diagnostic subgroups. The results of the present study suggest that the previously reported between eye differences for various vitreous biochemical constituents in the same pair of eyes are insignificant so far as forensic applications are concerned. Vitreous potassium is a useful biochemical marker for PMI estimations. Vitreous hypoxanthine, xanthine, lactate and calcium are all significantly correlated with PMI and if used in conjunction with vitreous potassium may possibly enhance PMI estimations by narrowing the error margin. The knowledge of vitreous urea and creatinine levels are a useful index in predicting the antemortem metabolic and renal status of the deceased subject.