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Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-68).

Zugl.: Karlsruhe, Univ., Diss., 2007

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Divinity School, December 2002. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Artikel über die wissenschaftliche Laufbahn von Heinz Alfred Brockhaus und seine Verbindungen zur Staatssicherheit.

Oil spills have long been recognized as a significant threat to wildlife. Historically, mortality estimates have served as the basis for assessing impact to natural resources. However, these mortality estimates alone neglect the more wide-spread impact of oil spills on wildlife including birds, many of which may not immediately succumb to exposure, but instead suffer sublethal injury that may negatively affect physiological homeostasis, reproduction, and long-term survival. Therefore, there is a need to improve our understanding of the risk of exposure and effect of sublethal oiling during damage assessments. In this dissertation I evaluated the extent of sublethal oil exposure in the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill on American oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus), black skimmers (Rynchops niger), brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis), clapper rails (Rallus crepitans), and seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) through both visual evaluation of and under the application of ultraviolet light to individual birds potentially exposed to oil. I found that there were many individual birds with modest oil exposure, demonstrating that more birds are exposed to oil than are accounted for by mortality estimates. Additionally, I developed a field-adapted technique using an in vitro method in brown pelicans that was effective in determining oxidative hematologic injury as measured by a suite of parameters including a reduction in circulating erythrocytes and hemoglobin, formation of Heinz bodies, and an increase in reticulocytes, in birds exposed to oil. I then applied this suite of parameters to individual birds affected in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill, and found that birds with modest visible or UV-detectible oil exposure suffer hematologic injury, a quantifiable adverse sublethal effect of modest oil exposure. Finally, I used an experimental approach to evaluate the pathologic effects of crude oil exposure in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), evaluating the same suite of hematologic parameters as well as gross pathology, histopathology, and electron microscopy. This controlled study provided evidence that there may be significant variability in the response of birds to oil exposure that may be attributable to species-specific sensitivity and/or other factors such as the use of dispersants after oil spills. Collectively, this body of work demonstrated that many more birds are exposed to oil during spill events than are accounted for by mortality estimates alone, and that these birds can suffer quantifiable sublethal hematologic injury. The ability to accurately assess the extent of exposure and hematologic damage caused by oil spills is critical to determine the appropriate approach to management needed to offset impacts to fisheries, wildlife, habitats, and economic resources impacted by oil spills. / Doctor of Philosophy / Fossil fuels are the world's primary energy source and are an important part of everyday life. Our reliance on petroleum requires extraction, transportation, storage, and refinement of millions of gallons of crude oil each day. As an unintended consequence, some of this oil is inadvertently spilled into the environment, and these oil spills have long been recognized as a threat to wildlife. Assessing the impact of oil spills on wildlife is a major concern to industries, government, and the general public. Historically, mortality estimates have served as the basis for assessing impact to natural resources. However, these mortality estimates alone neglect the more wide-spread impact of oil spills on wildlife including birds, many of which may not immediately succumb to exposure, but instead suffer sublethal physiologic injury that negatively affects physiology, reproduction, and long-term survival. Therefore, there is a need to improve our understanding of the risk of exposure and effects of sublethal oiling during damage assessments. In this dissertation, I evaluated the extent of sublethal exposure to oil from The Deepwater Horizon spill for several species of birds through both visual evaluation of and under the application of ultraviolet light. This demonstrated that many more birds are affected by oil exposure than are accounted for by mortality estimates. Additionally, I developed a field-adapted technique in a controlled setting that is effective in determining oxidative injury to red blood cells in birds exposed to oil, and applied this approach to several species in the field during the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Finally, I used an experimental approach to evaluate the extent of pathologic effects of Deepwater Horizon crude oil exposure in individuals under controlled dosages. The ability to accurately assess the extent of damage caused by oil spills is critical to determine the appropriate approach to management needed to offset impacts to fisheries, wildlife, habitats, and economic resources impacted by oil spills.

Bohuslav Maritnů¡¦s Oboe Concerto, H. 353 is one of the most important oboe works in the twentieth century. This Concerto is composed in 1995, in Maritnů¡¦s later life period. There are numerous mistakes and controversies over the final published version. This has resulted various interpretation of the same piece by many performers throughout the decades. The main topic of this research concerns with the differences of the published editions and six recordings. This thesis is consisted of introduction, conclusion, and other three main chapters. The introduction includes research motivation, purpose, literature review and components definition. The first chapter is the introduction of Maritnů¡¦s life and music. Also, the important features of Oboe Concerto, H. 353 are briefly described in this chapter. The second chapter detailed described and the analyzed the Oboe Concerto, H. 353. The essential materials used in this piece are analyzed and organized in table charts. Nevertheless, for giving the instructions for practicing this piece, the play-skills and teaching-materials are suggested along with the difficult parts of the whole composition. Chapter three is the most important part of this thesis. This chapter mainly focuses on the comparison between scores and sound recordings, and discusses the accuracy of these versions. The scores including the piano version and the orchestra versions and those are expounded in the section one. Furthermore, according to the literatures, the correctness of musical notes and articulation are arranged in this section. I also mark the mistakes of each movement of Oboe Concerto, H. 353 in appendix for readers¡¦ references. Section two in chapter three is the comparison of different sound recordings of this piece. The six important and accomplished oboists¡¦ recordings are discussed in order to let readers realize these great oboists¡¦ music style and their characteristics. These most influential performers are Jiři Tancibudeck, Ingo Goritzki, Heinz Holliger, Lajos Lencsés, Thomas Indermühle, and Alex Klein. The last part is the conclusion of this thesis which concluded and analyzed the whole thesis.

Thesis--Uppsala. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Bibliography: p. 342-349.

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2008

Esta dissertação se propõe a estudar o tema do duplo a partir da produção fílmica de Hanns Heinz Ewers, O estudante de Praga, e o conto de Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A confissão de Lúcio, ambos de 1913. Asduas narrativas se organizam em torno de um triângulo amoroso e compartilham o mesmo destino trágico. Tomando como suporte, inicial, de leitura os textos de Freud e Rank, de 1914, Sobre o narcisismo: uma introdução e O duplo, respectivamente, o artigo de Lacan, O estádio do espelho como formador da função do eu (1949) e seu seminário sobre a angústia, pretende-se estabelecer um diálogo entre literatura e psicanálise, considerando a questão do desdobramento do eu e suas variantes, a cisão do eu em múltiplos eus e o desaparecimento da imagem. A imagem no espelho, a princípio fonte de júbilo, escamoteia um drama: o drama de um sujeito que se constitui a partir de uma ficção / This dissertation proposes to study the theme of the double from the filmic production by author Hanns Heinz Ewers called The student of Prague, as well as Mário de Sá-Carneiros tale named Lúcios confession. Ewers and Sá-Carneiros works are both from 1913. These narratives are organized around a love triangle and share the same tragic fate. Taking as a starting-readable texts by authors Freud and Rank in 1914, called On narcissism: an introduction and The double respectively, Lacan s article, The Mirror Stage as formative of the function of the I (1949) and his seminar on anxiety, thus we intend to establish a dialogue between literature and psychoanalysis, considering the issue of deployment of the self and its variants, ego splitting into multiple selves and the disappearance of the image. The image in the mirror, originally source of joy, hides a drama: the drama of an individual who is built up from a fiction