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The interpretation and performance of literature is a theatre art in which literary texts are transformed into staged productions. Novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists use the symbols of written language to create an imagined world for their readers; interpretative performers present their audiences with this world through symbols of both speech and movement. Hence the interpretation and performance of literature incorporates a wide range of literary and performance theory. Unfortunately, little is known about how literary texts can be communicated through symbolic movement. The purpose of this study, then, is to propose principles of stylized movement which would be useful to the interpretative performer of literature. To develop these principles, Martha Graham's choreographic use of classical tragedy was investigated. Using a decriptive methodology based on Aristotle's elements of tragedy, four of Graham's ballets were analyzed in view of their literary sources: Cave of the Heart from Euripides' Medea, Night Journey from Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Clytemnestra from Aeschylus' The Oresteia, and Cortege of Eagles from Euripides' Hecuba and The Trojan Woman. As a result of this investigation, five principles emerged. Stated as descriptions of Graham's work, the principles are: (1) rhetoric shapes the form, (2) movement vocabularies are created, (3) synecdochical movement is expanded over time, (4) stage properties assume multiple meanings through movement, and (5) costumes expose movement and indicate character. By using these principles as guidelines, the interpretative performer may understand, create, and utilize stylized movement that communicates the ideas, images, and actions inherent in the text being staged.

Multivariate statistical techniques were applied to the development of habitat suitability models for the Mt. Graham red squirrel, an endangered species. A digital map data base and a geographic information system (GIS) were used to support the analysis and provide input for two logistic multiple regression models. Squirrel presence/absence is the dichotomous dependent variable whose probability the models pretend to predict. Independent variables are a set of environmental factors in the first model, and locational variables in the second case, where a logistic trend surface was developed. Bayesian statistics were then used to integrate the models into a combined model. Potential habitat losses resulting from the development of an astronomical observatory were assessed using the environmental model and are found to represent about 3% of currently available habitat.

Fossil bearing continental deposits, the Gila Conglomerate, of the Safford and Duncan Basins, Arizona were correlated with the magnetic polarity time scale by means of magnetostratigraphy and biochronology of mammalian fossils. Within the Safford Basin, the Bear Springs section with a middle Blancan fauna is correlated with the lower or upper Gauss chron; the 111 Ranch section with a middle to late Blancan fauna is correlated with the upper Gauss to early Matuyama chrons; and the San Simon Power Line section with probably a latest Blancan fauna is correlated with the early Matuyama chron. In the Duncan Basin, the Duncan section with a middle Blancan fauna is correlated with the middle Gauss chron; the Pearson Mesa section with a middle Blancan fauna is correlated with the Upper Gauss chron; and the Country Club section with a middle Blancan fauna is correlated with the latest Gilbert to early Gauss chrons or from the middle Gauss to the earliest Matuyama chrons. A late Blancan fauna is not recognized in the Duncan Basin at least within the study area, whereas the Gila Conglomerate in the Safford Basin includes deposits and fauna of the latest Blancan (latest Pliocene) age. A minimum of 37 taxa of small mammals are recognized among the approximately 1,600 specimens from the Gila Conglomerate of the Safford and Duncan Basins. Three new rodent species are described; they are Pappogeomys (Cratogeomys) sansimonensis, new species; Reithrodontomys galushai, new species; and Repomys arizonensis, new species. One new combination of genus and species, Hypolague virginiae, is described. In the Safford Basin, a minimum of 26 small mammal taxa are now recognized in the 111 Ranch fauna, of which three genera (Dipodomys, Peromyscus, and Repomys) are new records to the fauna; a minimum of 6 taxa of small mammals are recognized and described for the first time in the San Simon Power Line fauna. In the Duncan Basin, a minimum of 15 small mammal taxa are recognized and described for the first time.

Undersökningen genomförs baserat på finansiell data från tidsperioden 2005-2015 påStockholmsbörsen, genom fiktiva aktieportföljer som skapas efter Graham och Greenblattsstrategier. Portföljerna får ett tillskott på 50 000 kr vid två fasta datum årligen där de mest köpvärdaaktierna enligt respektive strategi inhandlas. I tillägg till dessa portföljer skapas ytterligare tvåportföljer med den skillnaden att halva placeringen årligen investeras i obligationsfonder.Resterande investeras i enlighet med Grahams respektive Greenblatts strategier. Undersökningenvisar att båda värdeinvesteringsstrategierna gav en hög avkastning. Bäst resultat fick Greenblattsportfölj som påvisade en genomsnittlig årlig avkastning på hela 19,37 procent! och ett betavärdejämfört med populationen på 0,79. Grahams strategi gav en genomsnittlig årsavkastning på 10,71procent och hade ett något lägre betavärde på 0,7. Samtidigt gav de alternativa portföljerna enavkastning på 10,93 respektive 7,52 procent med viktade betavärden om 0,39 och 0,35 jämfört medpopulationen som helhet. Stockholmsbörsen avkastade under perioden 9,44 procent.

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<p>Denna uppsats har avsett utreda och utvärdera huruvida avkastningen av en aktieportfölj, sammansatt utefter Benjamin Graham’s (1973) värdestrategi, har överträffat avkastningen av indexen OMX STOCKHOLM_PI och OMX 30 under en 20-års period med startpunkt i årsskiftet 1989/1990. Tidigare forskning kring värdestrategiers resultat indikerar att det historiskt sett varit möjligt att erhålla högre avkastning än marknaden vid användandet denna strategi. Den undersökta portföljens sammansättning är baserad på sju finansiella urvalskriterier som förespråkats av Graham (1973). Dessa urvalskriterier urskiljde sex bolag till den slutgiltiga portföljen. Resultatet av studien visar, likt tidigare studier, att portföljen erhållit högre avkastning än de jämförda indexen. Slutsatsen är att under undersökningsperioden har strategin varit mycket framgångsrik, dock ska detta inte förleda investerare att förutsätta samma goda avkastning i framtiden.</p>

Denna uppsats har avsett utreda och utvärdera huruvida avkastningen av en aktieportfölj, sammansatt utefter Benjamin Graham’s (1973) värdestrategi, har överträffat avkastningen av indexen OMX STOCKHOLM_PI och OMX 30 under en 20-års period med startpunkt i årsskiftet 1989/1990. Tidigare forskning kring värdestrategiers resultat indikerar att det historiskt sett varit möjligt att erhålla högre avkastning än marknaden vid användandet denna strategi. Den undersökta portföljens sammansättning är baserad på sju finansiella urvalskriterier som förespråkats av Graham (1973). Dessa urvalskriterier urskiljde sex bolag till den slutgiltiga portföljen. Resultatet av studien visar, likt tidigare studier, att portföljen erhållit högre avkastning än de jämförda indexen. Slutsatsen är att under undersökningsperioden har strategin varit mycket framgångsrik, dock ska detta inte förleda investerare att förutsätta samma goda avkastning i framtiden.

Numerous studies have pointed to the historiographic and metafictional aspects of Ian McEwan’s and Graham Swift’s fiction, although few have examined the connections between McEwan and Swift. This study develops from that work by proposing that McEwan’s and Swift’s fictions explore similar themes, beyond those of just history and metafiction. By situating McEwan and Swift as postmodern writers who are strikingly intertextual, in the sense initially coined by Julia Kristeva, this study will show that both authors are deeply concerned with the violence of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and the role that violence has played in the failure of metanarratives, as well as the resulting terror subjects face as they seek replacements for the personal authenticity, legitimacy, and meaning once provided by totalizing metanarratives. This study also illustrates that McEwan and Swift recognize the persistence of the metanarrative of science, as well as the psychic violence inherent in trying to replace metanarratives with received literary traditions. By developing on these ideas, this thesis argues that McEwan and Swift are actively engaged not only in exploring the anxiety subjects face as they realize there is nothing left upon which they can base their personal legitimacy, but also that the authors are suggesting there is no easy replacement for the lost, albeit fictitious, authenticity once situated in metanarratives and received genres. Finally, this paper will demonstrate that while these two contemporary novelists significantly problematize narrative and narrative frameworks, McEwan and Swift ultimately convey only one sure method to cope with the mourning and terror of the postmodern condition: continue writing.