During the summero f 1964 a taxonomica and ecological study was made of the desmids (microscopic green algae) found in Lily Lake. The study site is a subalpine lake in the Wasatch National Forest of the Uinta Mountains, Utah. The lake is located about one-half mile west of Trial Lake at an elevation of approximately 10,000 feet. The lake is an acidic, cold, lentic bog pond characteristic of this region. Desmids were collected at weekly intervals from seven sampling sites. The water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, light conditions and length of day from sunrise to sunset were recorded at the time of collection. Periphyton samples were obtained by scraping material from the stems and lower sides of leaves of water lilies, organic matter lying on the bottom of the lake, submerged logs and stems, dead sedge and grass leaves of the quaking peat, and organic matter of a floating peat mat. Surface samples were obtained by use of a plankton net. Small sheets of broken glass were suspended in the water as artificial habitats for desmid growth. There were 167 species collected representing seventeen genera of the family Desmidiaceae. Illustrations were made of every species collected. Ninety-four different species were found that have not been reported in Utah waters. The species were divided into five groups based on their percent frequency: (i) abundant (80-100%}, (ii) common(60- 79%), (iii) frequent (40-59), (iv) occasional (20-39%), and (v) scarce (5-19%). There were fourteen abundant species. four of these were observed in each to collection made: Buastrum Didelta, Triploceras gracile, Cosmarioum margaritiferum, and Xanthidium armatum var. fissum. There were twenty-two common species, twenty-four frequent species, forty-three occasional species, and sixty-four scarse species. Five genera contained the majority of species found. Cosmarium was represented with fifty one species; Closterium and Staurastrum each had twenty-five species; Micrasterias had sixteen species; and thirteen species were in the Euastrum genera. Xanthidium, Penium, Pleurotaenium, Arthrodesmus, Desmidium, Netrium, Triploceras, Hyalotheca, Sphaerozoama, Onychonema, Spondylosium and Gymnozyga were the remaining genera. There were thirty-seven species in this latter group. The natural habitats provided the best environment for the growth of desmids. Periphyton samples from the shallow water contained the largest number of species. Artificial habitats of glass sheets were especially favorable for the growth of Closterium lineatum, Closterium ralfsii var. hybridum and Closterium sp. (5). Few species were found free-floating where the lake was over six feet deep. As the pH, air, and water temperature increased during the growing season, the number of species collected increased, and as the water temperature decreased, oxygen increased, and the number of species collected decreased.

Master of Music / Department of Music / Julie Yu / This document is focused on three excerpts from a graduate vocal recital, completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree. The recital was held on January 23, 2012 at seven-thirty o’clock in the evening at All Faiths Chapel on the campus of Kansas State University. Selections for this recital were selected upon the theme of Seclusion. The three characters examined further in the document are Alcina in the G. F. Handel opera, Alcina (HWV 34), Gretchen in German Lieder Gretchen am Spinnrade (D. 118) by Franz Schubert, and Lily from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, The Secret Garden, by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman. Each chapter, devoted to a specific work, contains the following: 1) biographical information on the composer, 2) textual analysis, and 3) compositional, stylistic, and technical considerations.

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"April 2004" / Bibliography: leaves 284-295. / viii, 295 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis discusses the work of the author Lily Brett, both in terms of the themes explored in her writing, and the political and historical contexts. The interrelationships between history, memory, identity and literature are explored in order to explain both the themes of Brett's writing, and how this writing is shaped by, and shapes, contemporary discourses on Jewish identity and the Holocaust. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, Discipline of Gender Studies, 2004

The presence of flowers is felt in Catholic architecture, literature, artwork, personal histories and devotional practices. This, however, has not always been the case. The Catholic Church has had a long and tumultuous relationship with flowers, the focus of which has been the subject of considerable scholarship (e.g. Fisher (2011, 2007), Ward (1999), Winston-Allen (1997), Goody (1993), Coats (1970)). What has not been much considered is a phenomenological treatment of Catholic floral experience, and how such experiences have shaped individual and shared understandings of the Catholic faith. This thesis seeks to redress this omission through an exploration of the life of the Polish Catholic mystic, St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), whose mystical experiences with the divine were explicitly mediated and narrated through flowers. Through Faustina’s diary, Divine Mercy in my Soul, we gain access to powerful, and unequivocally Catholic, experiences with flowers which comprise the very centre of her religious convictions. This thesis queries the ways in which flowers have dynamically shaped, and have been shaped by, St. Faustina's relationship with God and Catholic holy figures. To address this question I use the semiotic, phenomenological and hermeneutic approach of Max van Manen. Van Manen uses four elements of lived experience he calls lifeworld existentials, these are: lived space, lived time, lived body and lived relationality. These four categories are applied to St. Faustina’s life as she engages with God spatially, temporally, corporeally and relationally; each reveals the centrality of flowers in her religious experiences. While this thesis focuses on the religio-floral experiences of a particular mystic-saint, its significance lies also in the broader Catholic narrative of which it is a part. Writing about flowers was a transformative medium in Faustina's life and has been historically significant in the lives of many other Catholic saints and mystics who recorded similar experiences. This thesis, in describing the details of St. Faustina’s floral-saturated experiences from her diary, reveals a particularized instance of a paradigmatic Catholic phenomenon whereby flowers provide access to the sacred.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, Discipline of Gender Studies, 2004? / Bibliography: leaves 284-295.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-08-16Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:41Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 fonseca_as_me_botfca.pdf: 702180 bytes, checksum: 9b5b3a58638e158183f40e7a446f7a49 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / O manejo de fertilizantes em agricultura irrigada juntamente com o conhecimento das demandas de nutrientes durante o ciclo das culturas contribuem para uma eficiência da fertirrigação. Frente a essa questão e a escassez de informações sobre a cultura do copo-de-leite colorido (Zantedeschia sp.), o objetivo desse trabalho foi determinar a exigência nutricional e acúmulo de nutrientes em duas cultivares de copo-de-leite colorido sob fertirrigação como meio de fornecer subsídios para o manejo nutricional bem como meio de indicar uma referência de fertirrigação à cultura. O experimento foi conduzido em ambiente protegido na empresa Pro Clone, localizada no município de Holambra – SP. Adotou-se o delineamento experimental de blocos casualizados em esquema de parcela subdividida, com 4 repetições de 10 plantas. As cultivares utilizadas foram Black Magic e Chianti e estabelecido seis épocas de avaliação: 14, 28, 42, 56, 70 e 84 dias após o plantio.A fertirrigação foi via microaspersão.Avaliou-se, a cada quatorze dias, a produção de massa seca e a quantidade acumulada de nutrientes (N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, B, Cu, Fe, Mn e Zn) nas folhas, tubérculo e raízes.Observou- se que as cultivares apresentaram comportamentos diferentes quanto a massa seca bem como acúmulo de nutrientes,onde a cultivar Black Magic apresentou maior acúmulo de massa seca e maior exigência nutricional em relação a cv. Chianti.As diferenças percentuais de nutrientes acumulados ao final do ciclo entre elas avaliadas foram na seguinte magnitude: 59 % de N, 46 % de S, 44 % de K, 43% de Ca, 38 % de Mg 38 % de Zn, 33% de Mn 22 % de P, 15% de B, 8 % de Cu e 6 % de Fe. O período de maior exigência de macro e micronutrientes para a cv. Black Magic se concentra no período entre 42 e 56 dias após o plantio, sendo para a cv Chianti no período de 42 e 56 para os macronutrientes e 56 e 70 para os micronutrientes... / The fertilizer manegement in irrigated agriculture along the knowledge of nutrients requirements during the crop cycle contribute to the efficiency of fertigation. Faced in this issue and the scarcity of information about calla lily (Zantedeschia sp.), the objective of this study was to evaluate the nutritional requirements and nutrient uptake in two cultivars of calla lily under fertigation conditions to providing subsidies for the nutritional management and as a indicating fertigation reference to the crop.The experiment was carried out under greenhouse conditions at Pro Clone Company, located in the city of Holambra - SP. The experiment was set up as a randomized block design with a split plot arrangement and four replicatios.The treatments consisted of cultivars Black Magic and Chianti and established six evaluation periods: 14, 28, 42, 56, 70 and 84 days after planting. The fertigation was under micro-sprinkler method.It was evaluated,every fourteen days the dry matter production and nutrient uptake (N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, B, Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn) in leaves, tubers and roots.The results showed different behaviors between cultivars at dry matter and nutrient uptake, where the Black Magic cultivar showed a higher biomass production and greater nutritional requirements in relation to Chianti .The percentage differences of nutrient uptake at the end of the cycle between them were evaluated in the following magnitude: 59 % de N, 46 % de S, 44 % de K, 43% de Ca, 38 % de Mg 38 % de Zn, 33% de Mn 22 % de P, 15% de B, 8 % de Cu and 6 % of Fe. The highest period of macro and micronutrients requirements for cv. Black Magic focuses on the period from 42 to 56 days after planting, and for cv. Chianti from 42 to 56 for macronutrients and 56 to 70 for micronutrients. The amount of nutrients uptake in the plant in both cultivars followed a decreasing order: K > N> Ca > P > S > Mg... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the water consumption in eight substrata: rice charred shell (CAC), ash of rice burned shell (CZ), coconut fiber (FC), soil of paradise (TP), TP+CAC, TP+CZ, FC+CAC and FC+CZ of Asian lily Orange Pixie in vase cultivation; to establish the best substrata for commercial production. The experiment was developed in the vegetation house of UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, during the period from May 17 to July 22, 2004. The experimental outlining was entirely casual by using 12 repetitions and three plants in each vase to determine the irrigation frequency and the water consumption for each substratum. In order to evaluate these parameters, limits were stipulated from at least 60% and at most 80% of the water retention capacity for the substratum in each vase being daily verified in digital scale. Due to the vegetative growing one vase of each treatment was destructed in five different periods of the lily development in order to readjust the weights of the vases in relation to the water consumption between the limits stipulated, besides establishing the evolution of the dry fitomass on aerial portion, bulbs and roots. The determinations accomplished on substrata were: the substratum density, the total porosity, the aerial space and the water availability as physics characteristics as well as the hydrogen potential, the total tenor of soluble salts and the capacity of cations exchange as chemical characteristics. In the vegetal were determined the height of the plant and of the first flower insertion, the area of the leaf, the size of the leaf, the number of flowers and leafs, the total consumption of water and the irrigation frequency. The results have showed that the Asian lily Orange Pixie in vase adapts for commercial cultivation by using 50% in volume of CAC in the substrata composition with FC and TP. / Este trabalho teve como objetivos avaliar o consumo de água em oito substratos: casca de arroz carbonizada (CAC), cinza da casca de arroz queimada (CZ), fibra de coco (FC), terra do paraíso (TP), TP+CAC, TP+CZ, FC+CAC e FC+CZ de lírio asiático Orange Pixie® cultivado em vaso; definir os melhores substratos para produção comercial. O experimento foi conduzido na casa de vegetação da UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, no período de 17 de maio a 22 de julho de 2004. O delineamento experimental foi inteiramente casualizado, utilizando-se 12 repetições e três plantas por vaso para determinar a freqüência de irrigação e o consumo de água para cada substrato. Para a avaliação destes parâmetros, estipularam-se limites de no mínimo 60 % e no máximo de 80 % da capacidade de retenção de água pelo substrato em cada vaso, verificado diariamente em balança digital. Em função do crescimento vegetativo, efetuou-se a destruição de um vaso de cada tratamento em cinco períodos distintos do estádio fenológico do lírio, a fim de reajustar os pesos dos vasos quanto ao consumo de água entre os limites estipulados, e também determinar a evolução da fitomassa seca da parte aérea , dos bulbos e raízes. As determinações realizadas nos substratos foram: densidade do substrato, porosidade total, espaço aéreo e água disponível como características físicas e, potencial de hidrogênio, teor total de sais solúveis e capacidade de troca de cátions como características químicas. No vegetal foram determinada altura da planta e da inserção da primeira flor, área da folha, tamanho da flor, número de folhas e flores, consumo total de água e freqüência de irrigação. Os resultados evidenciaram que o lírio asiático Orange Pixie® em vaso se adapta para cultivo comercial, utilizando 50 %, em volume, de CAC na composição de substratos com FC e TP. Essa combinação não é a que mais consome água, mas a que exige maior freqüência de irrigações.

The morphology of members of the isocrinid genus, Endoxocrinus, found by A.H. Clark, 1908, in the Bahamas was examined to see if current classification schemes are valid. Individuals included in this survey belonged to the current species Endoxocrinus prionodes, Endoxocrinus carolinae, and Endoxocrinus parrae. Additionally, individuals of two depth-related morphotypes of E. parrae were examined. Evidence is presented that suggests that E. carolinae should be included in E. parrae, while the validity of E. prionodes is maintained. No evidence was found to warrant the recognition of the two depth-related morphotypes as distinct. Rather, these forms, as well as traditional E. parrae and E. carolinae, encompassed a high degree of variability along a morphological continuum. The study concludes that a revision of the genus should be considered and that isocrinid species can be much more variable in morphology than was previously recognized.

The presence of flowers is felt in Catholic architecture, literature, artwork, personal histories and devotional practices. This, however, has not always been the case. The Catholic Church has had a long and tumultuous relationship with flowers, the focus of which has been the subject of considerable scholarship (e.g. Fisher (2011, 2007), Ward (1999), Winston-Allen (1997), Goody (1993), Coats (1970)). What has not been much considered is a phenomenological treatment of Catholic floral experience, and how such experiences have shaped individual and shared understandings of the Catholic faith. This thesis seeks to redress this omission through an exploration of the life of the Polish Catholic mystic, St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), whose mystical experiences with the divine were explicitly mediated and narrated through flowers. Through Faustina’s diary, Divine Mercy in my Soul, we gain access to powerful, and unequivocally Catholic, experiences with flowers which comprise the very centre of her religious convictions. This thesis queries the ways in which flowers have dynamically shaped, and have been shaped by, St. Faustina's relationship with God and Catholic holy figures. To address this question I use the semiotic, phenomenological and hermeneutic approach of Max van Manen. Van Manen uses four elements of lived experience he calls lifeworld existentials, these are: lived space, lived time, lived body and lived relationality. These four categories are applied to St. Faustina’s life as she engages with God spatially, temporally, corporeally and relationally; each reveals the centrality of flowers in her religious experiences. While this thesis focuses on the religio-floral experiences of a particular mystic-saint, its significance lies also in the broader Catholic narrative of which it is a part. Writing about flowers was a transformative medium in Faustina's life and has been historically significant in the lives of many other Catholic saints and mystics who recorded similar experiences. This thesis, in describing the details of St. Faustina’s floral-saturated experiences from her diary, reveals a particularized instance of a paradigmatic Catholic phenomenon whereby flowers provide access to the sacred.