Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-160). Also issued on the Internet.

The main intent of this thesis is to review the history and roots of the Cossack assembly, and to analyze its connection to western civilization. In terms of the roots of the Cossack assembly, this thesis will explore the Scytho-Sarmatian, the early Slavic, the Novgorodian, as well as the Turkic-Mongol influences that led to its creation. While the Zaporozhian Cossack assembly will be discussed, the primary focus of the history of the Cossack assembly section will deal with the Don Cossacks’ assembly, since the practices and traditions inherent in this structure are representative of most Cossack groups. In addition to reviewing the Sarmatian Hypothesis, this thesis will also examine the connections and parallels between the Arthurian legends, the ancient Iranian governing practices, and the Cossack assembly. It is thus hoped that this multileveled analysis will generate a comprehensive portrait of the Cossack assembly and, through its ancient Iranian predecessor’s connection to the Arthurian Round Table, prompt a reconsideration of analytical approaches to both the foundations of Cossack and western democracy. / text

This study explores the relationship between poetry and politics in Books 1 and 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Vergil had refashioned the concept of the golden age to better resonate with Roman values, and Ovid in turn responds to Vergil by making his own golden age free from law, seafaring, and warfare (Met. 1.89-112). Ovid’s golden age clearly foils his ‘praise’ of Augustus in Book 15 (819-70), and thus challenges Vergil’s innovations. Ovid closely connects his demiurge (opifex, 1.79), who created the conditions necessary for the existence of the golden age, to himself (15.871-9); they together display the potency of poetic power. Poesis is different than the power of empire, which is inherently destructive: Jupiter terminates the golden age (1.113), and Augustus’ accomplishments are only ostensibly ‘peaceful’ (15.823, 833). Ovid suggests that the power of poesis remains beyond the destructive reach of Augustus, since Rome’s power is limited to the post-golden, chaotic world, and that poesis enjoys the status of eternality which Rome and Augustus claimed to possess themselves.

This thesis examines the structures guiding and informing reading intrinsic to James's "late" style. It seeks to explore James's analogy between reading as an ethical activity and his own and his characters' acts of storytelling. It looks first at the necessities of reading as they are presented through the character of Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, to find that reading for James is itself a form of storytelling. James's concept of "revision," which replaces the concept of "re-writing," unites the activities of reading and storytelling because both activities, to be free, must be guided by the contingencies of experience. James's emphasis on the determinations of experience, which yields changing apprehensions of the same material, at once makes reading a test of the reader's resources in dealing with unexpected and complex situations, and storytelling an act of improvisation if it is to be faithful to the demands of its subject. The second half of the thesis examines Maggie Verver's command of storytelling in The Golden Bowl. It finds that ethical storytellers must have the same faith in their subject matter as ethical readers must have in the texts they engage. Finally, the thesis unites the study of reading with storytelling by examining the ways in which stories are exemplary performances whose the most significant subject is the audience. It is the forms of judgement that a work of art elicits which are essential to establishing alternative conceptions of the good and new modes of valuation in a community.

The objective of this study was to examine the effects of a medium chain triglyceride oil mixture (MCTo), designed to increase energy expenditure and improve lipid profiles containing medium chain triglycerides, phytosterols and n-3 fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil, versus the antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid (ALA). Forty-eight hamsters were fed (i) hypercholesterol emic (HC) control, (ii) HC MCTo, (iii) HC ALA, (iv) HC MCTo/ALA diets for 4 weeks. No effects on food intake, body weight, total body water, lean body mass, fat mass, and tissue thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) were observed. ALA alone had no effect on total cholesterol (TC); however, MCTo feeding increased TC with (p < 0.03) and without (p < 0.003) ALA when compared to control. ALA increased HDL levels compared to control (p 0.04) and MCTo/ALA (p < 0.007) groups. MCTo, with (p < 0.0001) or without (p < 0.006) ALA, increased non-HDL cholesterol levels versus control. The non-HDL:HDL ratio was decreased by ALA compared to MCTo (45%) and MCTo/ALA (68%) (p < 0.0001), a similar trend was seen when compared to the HC control (22%) group (p < 0.14). Triglyceride levels were not altered by any of the dietary treatments. Liver and heart tissue reduced glutathione (GSH) was increased (p < 0.05) by all three treatments when compared to control. Both tissues showed an increase (p < 0.05) in oxidized glutathione (GSSG) when fed ALA compared to all other treatments. Hamsters fed ALA had a lower (p < 0.05) GSH/GSSG ratio compared to all treatment groups. In conclusion, MCTo feeding does not elicit beneficial effects on circulating plasma lipids and measures of body composition. In addition, our results do not clearly support an improvement in oxidative status through supplementation of ALA. However, our results do support the existence of beneficial effects of ALA on circulating lipoprotein content in the hamster.

This thesis traces the self-creation and autonomy of the woman artist figure in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, and Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye. The first chapter conveys the progression of autonomy and self-creation in Western-European philosophy through contemporary thinkers such as Charles Taylor, Robert Pippin, Alexander Nehamas, and Richard Rorty. This narrative culminates in a rift between public and private, resulting from the push--especially by Nietzsche--toward a radical, unmediated independence. Taylor and Rorty envision different ways to resolve the public/private rift, yet neither philosopher distinguishes how this rift has affected women by enclosing them in the private, barring them from the public, and delimiting their autonomy. The second chapter focusses on each woman artist's resistance to socially scripted roles, accompanied by theories about resistance: Woolf with Rachel Blau DuPlessis on narrative resistance, Lessing with Julia Kristeva on dissidence, and Atwood with Stephen Hawking and Kristeva on space-time. The third chapter contrasts the narratives of chapters 1 and 2 and reveals how the woman artist avoids the problematic public/private rift by incorporating the ethics developed within the private into her art; she balances her creative goals with responsibility to others. Drawing on the work of women moral theorists, this thesis suggests that women's self-creation and autonomy result in an undervalued but nevertheless workable solution to the public/private rift.

Cette thèse prend pour objet le concept et les modalités du destin tel qu'il est articulé dans le Cycle de Dune de Frank Herbert. Le destin est une des interrogations les plus anciennes de l'humanité. Initiatrice des grands questionnements de l'être sur sa liberté et sur lui-même, la pensée sur le destin est intimement liée au développement des civilisations. Marque des chan- gements majeurs au cœur de l'être, l'évolution du concept de destin se lie également avec les grandes découvertes scientifiques: les nouveaux savoirs sur la nature et le monde changent la manière qu'a l'humain de se considérer lui-même dans cet environnement; il se redéfinit avec chaque découverte, devient restrictif ou expansif, offre l'idée d'une liberté humaine inexistante ou ne souffrant d'aucune limite autre que la mort. Penser le destin, c'est penser l'humain dans sa plus intime conception. Sur cette toile de fond, la première partie de cette étude porte sur l'évolution du concept de destin dans la pensée occidentale, de la civilisation grecque à l'épo- que moderne, en passant par les réflexions métaphysiques sur le rôle de la transcendance dans la vie de l'humain. Au travers de cette étude diachronique, le destin est analysé afin de mettre en avant l'idée que l'individu cherche toujours plus de liberté dans son existence. La deuxième partie aborde l'évolution de la science et l'impact de cette évolution dans la pensée de l'humain sur le monde et lui-même. Dans le contexte de cette deuxième partie, la thèse explicite le rôle joué par la science, ainsi que par le discours de la science-fiction, dans les efforts humains de prendre en main son destin, de devenir de plus en plus libre. Enfin, dans la dernière partie, l'analyse du Cycle de Dune sous l'angle des trois personnages que sont Paul, Alia et Leto 2 met en avant une vision transhistorique du concept de destin, afin de pouvoir aborder son évolution prochaine, qui ne le limite plus à l'individu, mais qui place l'humain dans l'univers. / This thesis examines the concept and modalities of destiny as it is articulated in Frank Herbert's Dune series. Destiny constitutes one of humanity's most ancient themes. Instigator of the human being's wide-ranging questioning with regard to its freedom and selfhood, thought about destiny is intimately linked to the emergence of civilizations. As a sign of major changes in existence, the evolution of the concept of destiny is also linked with the important scientific discoveries: new knowledge about nature and the world change the way in which human be- ings consider themselves in their surrounding world; destiny is redefined at every discovery, becoming in turn limited or expansive, offering ideas of an inexistent human freedom or a freedom subjected to no limit other than death itself. Thinking about destiny means thinking about the human in what it holds most intimate. Against this backdrop, the first part of this study deals with the evolution of the con- cept of destiny in Western thought, from Greek civilization to the modern period, including metaphysical reflections on the role of transcendence in human life. Throughout this dia- chronic study, destiny is analyzed in emphasizing the notion of the individual’s attempt to in- crease human freedom. The second part takes on the evolution of science and the impact of its development on human thought about the world and humanity itself. In the context of this part, the thesis explicates the role played by science, as well as by the discourse of science fic- tion, in human efforts to take control of destiny and possess ever greater freedom. In the final part, by means of interpreting Dune’s three principal characters - Paul, Alia, and Leto 2 -, the analysis of the Dune series foregrounds a transhistorical perspective of the concept of destiny in order to trace out the imminent mutations of destiny that go beyond the individual, situating the human in the broader universe.

This paper hopes to analyze the intersection between diversity and numbers of visitors and landscape preservation in the National Park Service. Current scholarship addresses either diversity in the Park System or carrying capacity and human population pressures. However, both are critical issues facing the National Park Service in the 21st century, and looking at the issues in isolation means missing a key interaction and potentially working to solve one problem that in turn amplifies another. Here, diversity of park-goers and preservation priorities will be addressed together, each as part of the other. Pinnacles National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Muir Woods National Monument each face human population pressures, yet each park has unique issues that illuminate the larger struggles within in NPS to ensure its mission to preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations is still being met 100 years after conception.

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Dessa forma, o uso do seu resíduo moído como reparador da defasagem de nutrientes e de acidez em solos agrícolas pode vir a ser uma boa aplicação para esse molusco bioinvasor. Entretanto, apesar dessa ação reparadora, é necessária uma averiguação prévia da ausência de elementos potencialmente tóxicos no resíduo. Neste contexto, o presente trabalho foi realizado com o intuito de quantificar, em amostras do Limnoperna fortunei, os elementos chumbo, cádmio, alumínio, ferro e manganês, os quais dependo de suas quantidades podem ser tóxicos aos vegetais e aos demais seres vivos ao longo da cadeia alimentar. Para quantificação desses analitos foi utilizada a Espectrometria de absorção atômica com fonte contínua e de alta resolução. Foram desenvolvidos e otimizados programas de aquecimento para a determinação dos elementos traço chumbo e cádmio, empregando amostragem direta de sólidos e atomização com forno de grafite. A determinação direta de chumbo só foi possível com a utilização da calibração com o material de referência certificado para tecido de mexilhão (Mussel Tissue – 2976), empregando 5 µL da mistura 0,1% (m/v) Pd (NO3)2 + 0,05% (m/v) Mg (NO3)2 em presença de 0,05% (m/v) de Triton X-100 como modificador químico. As temperaturas de pirólise e atomização foram 1000°C e 2200°C, respectivamente. O estudo de massa permitiu a utilização de massas de amostras dentro da faixa de 0,150 a 0,850 mg. Para o cádmio só foi realizada calibração com solução padrão 12,5 µg/L, também com o uso de 5 µL do modificador químico Pd+Mg. Assim, foram alcançadas temperaturas de pirólise de 900 °C e de 1600 °C para a atomização. O estudo de massa precisou ser desenvolvido com uma das amostras coletadas e demonstrou que puderam ser usadas, para as quantificações, massas próximas a 0,250 mg. Os limites de detecção e quantificação foram, nessa ordem, 0,009 mg/kg e 0,03 mg/kg para o chumbo, e 0,0004 e 0,001 mg/kg para o cádmio. No caso dos elementos alumínio, ferro e manganês, as quantificações foram realizadas utilizando a atomização com chama. Os limites de detecção e quantificação foram, respectivamente, 0,15 mg/kg e 0,50 mg/kg para o alumínio, 0,050 mg/kg e 0,15 mg/kg para o ferro, e 0,00067 mg/kg e 0,0023 mg/kg para o manganês. Os resultados para todos os elementos quantificados nesse estudo apresentaram concordância de 95% com o test-t (Student) não pareado, o que valida e viabiliza os métodos desenvolvidos para as quantificações de chumbo e cádmio, bem como comprova a exatidão dos demais resultados obtidos. Portanto, as técnicas analíticas selecionadas foram eficientes para as quantificações dos elementos desejados no resíduo moído desse mexilhão dourado. / The golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) has caused environmental and economic disruption in the locations where it was introduced. Thus, the use of their ground waste as repairer of the gap of nutrients and acidity in soils may prove to be a good application for this mollusk bio invader. However, despite of this remedial action, a prior test of the absence of potentially toxic elements in the residue is required. In this context, the present study was performed in order to quantify, in samples of the Limnoperna fortunei, the elements lead, cadmium, aluminum, iron and manganese, which depending on their quantities they can be toxic to plants and other living beings throughout the food chain. To quantify these analytes was used high-resolution continuum source atomic absorption spectrometry. Heating programs were developed and optimized for the determination of lead and cadmium trace elements, using direct solid and graphite furnace atomization. The direct determination of lead was only possible with the use of calibration with certified reference material for mussel tissue (Mussel Tissue - 2976), using 5 uL of the mixture 0.1% (m/v) Pd (NO3)2 + 0.05% (w/v) Mg (NO3)2 in the presence of 0.05% (w/v) Triton X-100 as a chemical modifier. The temperatures of pyrolysis and atomization were 1000 ° C and 2200 ° C respectively. The mass study allowed the use of samples of mass within the range of 0.150 to 0.850 mg. For cadmium it was only performed calibration with standard 12.5 g/L solution, also using 5 uL chemical modifier Pd + Mg. Thus, pyrolysis temperatures were reached 900 ° C and 1600 ° C for atomization. The mass study needed to be developed with one of the samples collected and it showed that they could be used for the measurements, masses close to 0,250 mg. The limits of detection and quantification were, in this order, 0.009 mg/kg and 0.03 mg/kg to lead, and 0.0004 and 0.001 mg/kg to cadmium. In case of the elements aluminum, iron and manganese, the measurements were carried out using atomization with a flame. The limits of detection and quantification were, respectively, 0.15 mg/kg and 0.50 mg/kg to aluminum, 0.050 mg/kg and 0.15 mg/kg for iron, and 0.00067 mg/kg and 0.0023 mg/kg to manganese. The results for all quantified elements of this study showed agreement of 95% with the t-test (Student) unpaired, which validates and enables the methods developed for lead and cadmium quantifications and proves the accuracy of the other results. Therefore, the selected analytical techniques were efficient to the quantifications of the desired elements in the ground waste this golden mussel.

Esta tese trata de investigar as configurações das práticas equestres no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no século XX. A proposição da pesquisa parte da noção de que as práticas tiveram um papel relevante para a história do Rio Grande do Sul, em particular nos campos da sociabilidade, lazer e preservação das culturas. No cenário sul-rio-grandense, a pesquisa dedica atenção ao desenvolvimento das carreiras de cancha reta, do turfe, do hipismo, do tiro de laço, do freio de ouro e da equoterapia. Tais práticas equestres foram conjecturadas por uma perspectiva socio-histórica, cuja análise foi guiada pela categoria ―configuração‖. Esta foi operacionalizada a partir da obra de Norbert Elias, conduzindo o estudo no sentido de compreender o processo de emergência, distinção e as relações de interdependência estabelecidas entre as práticas equestres no estado. A investigação assentou-se na análise de documentos escritos e impressos, os quais foram concebidos enquanto materiais e textos históricos, portadores de mensagens, sentidos e intuitos reservados à sua conjuntura. As fontes revelaram que o processo de desenvolvimento de configurações no cenário equestre sul-rio-grandense sublinhou uma reconstrução da variada e heterogênea rede de interdependências entre os domínios socializadores representados pelas corridas de cavalos, pelo hipismo, pela equoterapia e pelo tiro de laço. De igual forma, as transformações ocorridas no contexto destes domínios socializadores, ao longo do tempo, derivam das relações de interdependência entre os mesmos, nas esferas do trabalho, da cultura, do lazer, do esporte e da reabilitação. Por conseguinte, a noção de configuração entre práticas equestres pode auxiliar a compreender um campo mais amplo de interações e intercâmbios entre os esportes em geral enquanto domínios socializadores. / This thesis is to investigate the configurations of equestrian practices in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the twentieth century. The proposition of the research builds on the notion that the practices had a significant role in the history of Rio Grande do Sul, in particular in the fields of sociability, leisure and preservation of cultures. In the scenario of Rio Grande do Sul, the research devoted attention to the development of straight line horse races, horse racing, equestrianism, shot of lasso with horse and equine-assisted therapy. Such equestrian practices were conjectured by a sociohistorical perspective, whose analysis was guided by the category "configuration". This was operationalized from Norbert Elias work, leading the study in order to understand the process of emergence, distinction and interdependence of relations between the equestrian sports practices in the state. The research was based on the analysis of written and printed documents, which are designed as historical materials and texts, carrying messages, meanings and intentions reserved to their conjuncture. The sources revealed that a configuration development process in Rio Grande do Sul‘s equestrian scene emphasized a reconstruction of the varied and heterogeneous network of independencies between socializing areas represented by the horse racing, equestrian sports, equine-assisted therapy and shot of lasso with horse. Similarly, the changes occurred in the context of these socializing areas, over time, derived from the interrelationship between them, in the spheres of work, culture, leisure, sport and rehabilitation. Therefore, the notion of a configuration between equestrian practices can help understanding a new broader field of interactions and exchanges between the sports in general as socializing areas.