Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 21).

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Zugl.: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 2007

Thesis (D. Ed. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-130, 40-44).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Sociology, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Magnetic resonance imaging is a widely used medical imaging technique, and accelerated data acquisition is critical for clinical utility. In this thesis, new techniques that incorporate radial acquisition, compressed sensing and sparse regularization for improved rapid imaging are presented. Sufficiently accelerated imaging methods can lead to new applications. Here we demonstrate a solution to lung imaging during forced expiration using accelerated MRI. A technique for dynamic 3D imaging of the lungs from highly undersampled data is developed and tested on six subjects. This method takes advantage of image sparsity, both spatially and temporally, including the use of reference frames called bookends. Sparsity, with respect to total variation, and residual from the bookends, enables reconstruction from an extremely limited amount of data. Dynamic 3D images can be captured at an unprecedented sub-150 ms temporal resolution, using only three (or less) acquired radial lines per slice per time point. Lung volume calculations based on image segmentation are compared to those from simultaneously acquired spirometer measurements. Additionally, accelerated imaging methods can be used to improve upon widely used applications; we also present a technique for improved T₂-mapping. A novel model-based compressed sensing method is extended to include a sparse regularization that is learned from the principal component coefficients. The principal components are determined by a range of T₂ decay curves, and the coefficients of the principal components are reconstructed. These coefficient maps share coherent spatial structures, and a spatial patch--based dictionary is a learned for a sparse constraint. This transformation is learned from the coefficients themselves. The proposed reconstruction is suited for non-Cartesian, multi-channel data. The dictionary constraint leads to parameter maps with less noise and less aliasing for high amounts of acceleration.

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This thesis presents the first sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean in early modern Spanish literature. It argues that the critically-neglected ethical credo of moderation was an important part of the classical inheritance on which Golden-Age authors frequently drew, and that despite its famous origins in moral philosophy rather than literature, it was subject to just the same kind of imitative reworking as has long been acknowledged for literary predecessors. The analysis is divided into two sections. The first takes a synoptic view of the period, assessing the transmission of Aristotle's doctrine to the Renaissance and exploring what it meant to the Golden-Age mind. That includes identifying a particular early modern reformulation of the mean, which I argue was an important factor in the popularity of the Icarus and Phaethon myths, as analogues for Aristotle's moral. The body of the thesis then comprises three case studies of the role of moderation in works which span the period's chronological and generic range: the poetry of Garcilaso; Calderón's 'El médico de su honra'; and Gracián's 'Criticón'. These studies explore three important general trends in the reception of the mean: the association of excess and moderation with particular literary models; the incorporation of the mean into Christian thought; and its parallel existence as non-technical, commonplace wisdom. However, each chapter also constitutes an innovation within its own field, offering a reassessment of Garcilaso's relationship to literary tradition; a re-reading of the characters and plot structure of 'El médico', including the controversial King Pedro; and an analysis of the elusive moral approach behind Gracián's allegorical novel. The mean is thus remarkable for both the breadth and depth of its incorporation into literature, and a focus on its treatment offers substantial new insights into some of the canonical works of the age.

This thesis explores the generic interaction between Virgilian pastoral and Ovidian epic. My primary goal is to bring pastoral, substantially enriched by important critical work thereupon in recent decades, more energetically into the scholarly discussion of the Metamorphoses, whose multifaceted generic interplay is often limited to the study of its interaction with elegy. Secondarily, I hope to show how the Metamorphoses plays a pivotal role in the re-reading of the Eclogues. The fact that both epic and pastoral are written in hexameters facilitates the interaction between the two and enables the Metamorphoses’ repeated short-term transformations into pastoral poetry, which often end abruptly. I will try to show that although the engagement with pastoral occasionally appears to threaten the epic code of the poem, pastoral is ultimately integrated in the Metamorphoses’ generic self-definition as epic and partakes in Ovid’s dynamic recreation of the genre. My primary method is that of intertextuality, resting on the premise that all readings of textual relationships, as the one suggested here, are acts of interpretation. I also explore pastoral in the Metamorphoses intratextually by joining together various pastoral episodes of the Metamorphoses and arguing how similar thematics are replayed and rewritten throughout the poem. The main perspectives from which I examine pastoral in the Ovidian epic are those of fiction and the development of the thematics of the Golden Age. In the first part, I explore instances of song performances in the Metamorphoses, i) musical contests, ii) solo performances and iii) laments, in which I argue that pastoral is extensively at work. I suggest that the Metamorphoses employs pastoral’s overriding generic self-obsession and its tendency to create its own fiction internally, significantly through the means of singing performance and repetition. I argue that the mythopoetic means of pastoral are applied and reworked in the Metamorphoses for the creation of its epic world and heroes. In the second part, I explore the repeated occurrences of the Golden Age theme in the Metamorphoses and suggest that the remarkable engagement with pastoral is employed both to invite a political reading of the Golden Age, as set by Eclogue 4 and its post-Eclogues occurrences, and to recap the introversion of the pastoral enclosure and its seclusion from politics.

The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a very consumed leguminous in Brazil it have essentials nutrients for the human health. The disease occurrence and inadequate management make difficult its Cultivation and affected the quality of that culture. Among the diseases most important, are the viruses caused by Begomovirus, show off Bean golden mosaic virus (BGMV). The high severity of disease caused by geminivirus, is mainly due to the absence of varieties resistant to the pathogen and also to the increased population of the insect vector, commonly called "whitefly" (Bemisia tabaci). This project had as main objective to evaluate the influence of three different irrigation systems in the incidence and the losses occasioned by Bean golden mosaic virus (BGMV) in the bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). The experiment consisted of three irrigation systems (drip, sprinkler and micro sprinkler) on bean plants grown in an area in the centro de ciências agrárias and was assessed for two consecutive years (October 2006 to January 2007 and October 2007 to January , 2008). The viruses incidence was determined based on number of symptomatic plants in relation to the total of plants present in parcel of 1 m2 randomly distributed in the experimental area. The golden mosaic effect in production was studied in two ways: relating production (grains weight) with the plot to incidence of the disease in this plot and comparing healthy and infected plants production. It was found that irrigation system influenced the viruses incidence, drip result in highest incidence (62.13%), and sprinkling shortest (16.74%), but did not differ statistically from the micro sprinkling. There was no correlation between incidence to golden mosaic and production in the plots, but when it was compared to production of healthy plants and disease plants found a higher three times production in healthy plants about plants disease. / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas / O feijão comum (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) é uma leguminosa bastante consumida no Brasil por possuir nutrientes essenciais a saúde humana. A ocorrência de doenças e o manejo inadequado tem dificultado seu cultivo e afetado a qualidade desta cultura. Entre as doenças mais importantes, estão as viroses, ocasionadas por Begomovirus, destancando-se o Bean golden masaic virus (BGMV). A alta severidade das doenças causadas por Begomovirus, deve-se principalmente à ausência de variedades resistentes ao patógeno e também ao aumento populacional do inseto vetor, vulgarmente denominado, mosca-branca (Bemisia tabaci). O presente projeto teve como objetivo principal avaliar a influência de diferentes sistemas de irrigação na incidência e nas perdas ocasionadas pelo Bean golden mosaic virus (BGMV) em feijoeiro. O experimento consistiu de três sistemas de irrigação (gotejamento, micro aspersão e aspersão) sobre plantas de feijão cultivadas em uma área no centro de ciências agrárias e foi avaliado durante dois anos consecutivos (outubro de 2006 a janeiro de 2007 e outubro de 2007 a janeiro de 2008). A incidência da virose foi determinada com base no número de plantas sintomáticas em relação ao total de plantas presentes em parcelas de 1 m2 distribuídas aleatoriamente na área experimental. O efeito do mosaico dourado na produção foi estudado de duas maneiras: relacionando-se a produção (peso de grãos) da parcela com o a incidência da doença na respectiva parcela e comparando-se a produção de plantas sadias e infectadas. Verificou-se que o sistema de irrigação influenciou a incidência da virose, sendo o gotejamento aquele que resultou na maior incidência (62,13 %), e a aspersão na menor (16,74 %), porém não diferindo estatisticamente da microaspersão. Não houve correlação entre o a incidência do mosaico dourado e a produção nas parcelas, contudo quando foi comparada a produção de plantas sadias com a de plantas doentes constatou-se que as plantas sadias produziram cerca de três vezes mais que plantas doentes.