Proefschrift--Utrecht. / Summary in Dutch. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Proefschrift--Utrecht. / Summary in Dutch. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1937 W51

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Heidelberg.

Thesis (M. S.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2005. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: C. Van Shelhamer. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-86).

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1934. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 566-582).

This thesis explores the evolution of American Western narrative after the 1893 closing of the Western Frontier. Formerly representing a seemingly limitless fuel of symbolic growth, the frontier's closing threatened further national prosperity. Without new Western lands to conquer, narratives about the West began to be romanticized in a new way, selectively omitting non-Anglo narrative elements and presenting a more palatable West in the form of celebratory conquest. Ignoring its imperial roots, this new twentieth-century mythologization of the West became an increasingly ubiquitous narrative of America's honorable origins. Despite its ties to the perpetuation of empire, the pervasiveness of contemporary Western narratives remains largely benign in resonance, resulting in a past that is wholly severed from the present. Using a New Historicist approach, this study pairs literary works with cultural artifacts, tracking the role of Western narrative in the furtherance of empire. The first chapter examines Frederick J. Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Owen Wister's The Virginian (1902) as representatives of the new romanticization of the West. Chapter two looks at how Willa Cather's anti-spectacle novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), responds to the spectacle of Empire at early twentieth-century World's Fairs. The final chapter pairs Japanese-American Internment during World War II with Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses (1992), as a commentary on the oppressive rhetoric of western space.

Esta dissertação apresenta aspectos socioeconômicos e de produção relacionados às feiras-livres do Sudoeste do Paraná, comparando os feirantes e consumidores da Associação de Feirantes de Pato Branco-PR (Afepato) com os feirantes e consumidores da Associação dos Feirantes Agroecológicos de Ampére-PR (Afaeco). O estudo mostrou que os feirantes pertencem a categoria da Agricultura Familiar, a partir da análise dos meios clássicos de produção: terra, capital e trabalho. A satisfação dos feirantes da Afepato se estabelece nos vieses econômico e de produção. Os feirantes da Afaeco incorporam a questão social e ambiental às questões monetárias na busca da autorrealização. Os consumidores das duas feiras-livres estudadas buscam um espaço diferenciado de comercialização com produtos frescos, preço baixo, se comparado aos mercados convencionais, e de boa qualidade. Afepato e Afaeco vivem um momento auspicioso, no restante do Sudoeste as feiras-livres apresentam um cenário de fragilidade. / This dissertation presents socioeconomic and production aspects related to open-air markets in the Southwest of Parana State, comparing vendors and consumers of farmers market association of Pato Branco city (Afepato) to the vendors and consumers of the association of agroecological farmers market of Ampere city in Parana State (Afaeco). The study showed that the vendors belong to the category of family farming, in particular from the analysis of the traditional means of production: land, capital and labor. The satisfaction of the fair Afepato settles bias in economic and production. The farmers market of Afaeco incorporate the social and environmental issues in pursuit of monetary self- actualization. The consumers of the two open-air markets studied seek a differentiated area of marketing with fresh products, low price, compared to conventional markets, and good quality. Afepato and Afaeco live in an auspicious moment. In the rest of the Southwest open-air markets show a picture of fragility.

Class of 2016 Abstract / Objectives: This study assessed the feasibility of using a hand-held single lead ECG device to collect readable electrocardiograms (ECGs) in a community setting among the general population. Next, the goal was to determine if QT intervals could be measured from the collected ECGs. Additionally, this study was designed to examine if patients who had a prolonged QT interval were taking medications that are associated with an increased risk of prolonged QT interval. Methods: This prospective pilot study involved collecting ECGs via an AliveCor hand-held device at community health fairs. ECGs were evaluated for usefulness and QT intervals were measured if possible. Results: Forty-eight subjects participated in this pilot study. Forty-five viable ECGs were recorded using the hand-held device. Of the 45 ECGs, 38 were of sufficient quality to measure the QT interval and calculate QTc interval. There were no prolonged QT intervals observed in this study. Conclusions: The hand-held device recorded sufficient information to extract QT intervals for the majority of subjects. Due to the lack of prolonged QTc intervals, there was insufficient data to determine if this device could be utilized in the detection of QT prolongation due to medication use.