The Aquilana is the last of the eight known plays by Bartolomé de Torres Naharro, a Spanish playwright resident in Italy between 1510 and 1520. The characterization in the Aquilana represents the most advanced part of his work and brings to the stage for the first time the full range of his own created society, from the king to the gardener. It is possible to examine this range from an internal view and compare the Aquilana's strengths and weaknesses with the products of other Spanish playwrights living between 1490 and 1560. The texts selected have been the plays edited by J.E. Gillet, the earlier edition by M. Menéndez y Pelayo and the extant undated suelta of the Aquilana. The characters in the Aquilana have been examined with reference to the plays by Torres Naharro, to the society amid which they were written and to their literary counterparts by other authors. This allows some scope for the evaluation of Torres Naharro as a comic writer and for the influence of his collected works, the Propalladia, on other writers up to the time of the Golden Age. While not directly borrowing from Torres Naharro, later playwrights such as Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina employed very similar characters and dialogue as well as similar situations. While tempting, it has not been possible to go further than to compare certain features of the Aquilana with corresponding ones in a few of the best-known of the Golden Age such as EI Burlador de Sevilla and Fuente Ovejuna. What emerges from a comparison of his plays with those of his contemporaries and those of the Golden Age is that after 1525 no comic playwright until the time of Lope de Rueda managed to surpass the dramatic achievements of Torres Naharro. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

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Master of Arts / Department of Modern Languages / Abby Franchitti / The role of first language (L1) has been controversial in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching. This study examines the relationship between L1 use and gender and level of education of EFL teachers as well as gender and EFL proficiency level of learners in an Afghan university setting. It also investigates the relationship between FL use and learner anxiety by learner gender and EFL proficiency level. The study hypothesized that female FL teachers use the L1 more than male teachers in FL classrooms. Second, low FL proficiency learners consider L1 use as necessary in FL classrooms. Third, low FL proficiency students experience more anxiety with the exclusive use of FL than higher level learners. Fourth, female learners experience more anxiety than male students with the exclusive use of FL by learners and teachers. Twenty EFL teachers participated in the study by completing a 19-item questionnaire and sixty EFL learners by completing a 27-item questionnaire about their views towards L1/FL use and learner anxiety. The data, analyzed through SPSS software, included calculating frequencies and percentages, computing correlations, and conducting independent-samples t-tests to compare the mean difference between the variables. The first hypothesis was not supported as male teachers reported using the L1 more than female teachers. The study also revealed that male teachers with BA and MA degrees used the L1 more than female teachers with BA degrees. In contrast, female teachers with MA degrees used the L1 more than male teachers with BA and MA degrees and also more than female teachers with BA degrees. The results supported hypothesis two. More elementary learners considered the use of L1 as necessary than intermediate and advanced students. The findings also supported hypotheses three and four. Elementary learners as well as female students experienced more anxiety with the exclusive use of FL than intermediate and advanced level students and male learners. The principal conclusion indicated a significant positive correlation between the exclusive use of FL and learner anxiety.

李婉華. / 手稿本, 複本據手稿本影印. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學, 1987. / Shou gao ben, fu ben ju shou gao ben ying yin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 343-362). / Li Wanhua. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1987. / 鳴謝 --- p.vi / 導言 --- p.ix / Chapter 第一章 --- 論吳其貞《書畫記》在藝術史研究上之價值 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 《書畫記》的流傳經過 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 《書畫記》纂寫的特色 --- p.7 / Chapter I --- 書畫著錄的發展　 --- p.7 / Chapter II --- 《書畫記》纂寫的特色 --- p.13 / Chapter III --- 小結　 --- p.20 / Chapter 第三節 --- 《書畫記》在藝術史研究上的價值　 --- p.21 / 註釋 --- p.27 / Chapter 第二章 --- 《書畫記》所載書畫之現存情況 --- p.35 / Chapter 第一節 --- 調查的方法 --- p.35 / Chapter 第二節 --- 《書畫記》所載書畫現存調查 --- p.39 / Chapter I --- 台灣故宮博物院 --- p.40 / Chapter II --- 北京故宮博物院 --- p.53 / Chapter III --- 上海博物館　 --- p.64 / Chapter IV --- 遼寧省博物館　 --- p.67 / Chapter V --- 天津市藝術博物館 --- p.68 / Chapter VI --- 中國歷史博物館　 --- p.69 / Chapter VII --- 吉林省博物館 --- p.69 / Chapter VIII --- 南京博物館 --- p.70 / Chapter IX --- 浙江省博物館 --- p.70 / Chapter X --- 大阪市立美術館 --- p.71 / Chapter XI --- 日本（曾藏於小川睦之輔家） --- p.72 / Chapter XII --- 佛利爾美術館　 --- p.73 / Chapter XIII --- 克里夫蘭美術館 --- p.74 / Chapter XIV --- 納爾遜美術館 --- p.75 / Chapter XV --- 聖路易斯美術館 --- p.76 / Chapter XVI --- 大都會博物館　 --- p.76 / 小結　 --- p.78 / 註釋 --- p.81 / Chapter 第三章 --- 《書畫記》中之明清骨董商人及收藏家 --- p.87 / Chapter 第一節 --- 骨董商人與收藏家的關係 --- p.87 / Chapter 第二節 --- 吳其貞及其家族之考釋　 --- p.95 / Chapter 第三節 --- 《書畫記》所載骨董商人及收藏家事蹟舉隅　 --- p.121 / Chapter I --- 收藏世家 --- p.122 / Chapter 1 --- 溪南吳氏 --- p.123 / Chapter 2 --- 克里夫蘭美術館　 --- p.128 / Chapter 3 --- 叢睦坊汪氏 --- p.129 / Chapter 4 --- 小結　 --- p.134 / Chapter II --- 個別收藏家 --- p.136 / Chapter 1 --- 王廷賓 --- p.137 / Chapter 2 --- 歸希之 --- p.140 / Chapter III --- 裱褙手與骨董商人 --- p.143 / Chapter 1 --- 王際之 --- p.144 / Chapter 2 --- 張黃美 --- p.146 / Chapter 3 --- 陳以謂 --- p.147 / Chapter 4 --- 朱啟明 --- p.149 / Chapter 5 --- 王越石 --- p.150 / Chapter 6 --- 小結　 --- p.151 / 注釋 --- p.153 / Chapter 第四章 --- 總結 --- p.171 / Chapter 附編一 --- 《書畫記》之書畫品物、收藏家及骨董商人索引 --- p.172 / Chapter 附編二 --- 《書畫記》乾隆四十九年抄本及乾隆五十一年抄本校勘記 --- p.298 / 參考書目 --- p.343 / 圖錄 --- p.363

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Unification in the Description Logic (DL) FL₀ is known to be ExpTimecomplete, and of unification type zero. We investigate in this paper whether a lower complexity of the unification problem can be achieved by either syntactically restricting the role depth of concepts or semantically restricting the length of role paths in interpretations. We show that the answer to this question depends on whether the number formulating such a restriction is encoded in unary or binary: for unary coding, the complexity drops from ExpTime to PSpace. As an auxiliary result, which is however also of interest in its own right, we prove a PSpace-completeness result for a depth-restricted version of the intersection emptiness problem for deterministic root-to-frontier tree automata. Finally, we show that the unification type of FL₀ improves from type zero to unitary (finitary) for unification without (with) constants in the restricted setting.

Unification in description logics (DLs) has been introduced as a novel inference service that can be used to detect redundancies in ontologies, by finding different concepts that may potentially stand for the same intuitive notion. It was first investigated in detail for the DL FL₀, where unification can be reduced to solving certain language equations. In order to increase the recall of this method for finding redundancies, we introduce and investigate the notion of approximate unification, which basically finds pairs of concepts that “almost” unify. The meaning of “almost” is formalized using distance measures between concepts. We show that approximate unification in FL₀ can be reduced to approximately solving language equations, and devise algorithms for solving the latter problem for two particular distance measures.

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-125).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1999. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-138).