Thirty years after its initial implementation, China’s one child per family policy has been undeniably successful statistically speaking. Over 400 million births can be estimated to have been prevented, and the birth rate per family has lowered from 2.47 in 1979 at its implementation, to 1.6 most recently in 2010. These numbers cannot be ignored. However, attributing this success to the policy restrictions alone would be viewing it outside of the context of a thirty year evolution of substantial social, political, cultural, and economic changes which have completely changed the face of China. This paper examines the far reaching effects of the one child policy as it is informed by Foucauldian post structuralist theory which defines power as productive, and re conceptualizes the policy as that which is a crucial manifestation of rising biopolitically strategic forms of governmentality which enhance nations through the subjugation, enhancement and creation of the bodies of their subjects. Critical to China’s case is rising ‘non-resistant’ behaviors and attitudes which not only comply with, but actively agree with the one child policy limitations once considered abhorrent. This paper complicates the logic behind the rise of these ‘non-resistant’ attitudes, by suggesting that they are evidence to the fact that this ‘modern’ Chinese subject is the productive outcome of several discourses which proliferated in the last thirty years during the juxtaposed implementation of both economic reforms and family planning limitations. This paper chronicles two of the productive discourses involved in the making of this newly emergent ‘modern’ Chinese subject: the culturally productive discourse involved in the care and feeding of ‘little emperors‘ and the socially exclusive discourse with paints the rural population as internal ‘rural others’.

A 147cm sediment core from Lake DV09, northern Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada (75° 34’34”N, 89° 18’55”W) contains annually-laminated (varved) sediments, providing a 1600-year record of climate variability. A minerogenic lamina deposited during the annual thaw period and a thin deposit of organic matter deposited during the summer and through the winter, together form a clastic-organic couplet each year. The thinnest varves occur from AD800-1050, and the thickest from AD1100-1300, during the Medieval Warm Period. The relative sediment density is also highest during this period suggesting increased sediment transport energy. The coldest period of the Little Ice Age appears to be during the AD1600s. Varve widths over the past century indicate climate warming in the region. / This research program was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS). A tuition bursary from Ultramar Inc. also helped in making this research possible. Logistical support was provided by the Polar Continental Shelf Project (PCSP Contribution number 04508).

A 147cm sediment core from Lake DV09, northern Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada (75° 34’34”N, 89° 18’55”W) contains annually-laminated (varved) sediments, providing a 1600-year record of climate variability. A minerogenic lamina deposited during the annual thaw period and a thin deposit of organic matter deposited during the summer and through the winter, together form a clastic-organic couplet each year. The thinnest varves occur from AD800-1050, and the thickest from AD1100-1300, during the Medieval Warm Period. The relative sediment density is also highest during this period suggesting increased sediment transport energy. The coldest period of the Little Ice Age appears to be during the AD1600s. Varve widths over the past century indicate climate warming in the region. / This research program was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS). A tuition bursary from Ultramar Inc. also helped in making this research possible. Logistical support was provided by the Polar Continental Shelf Project (PCSP Contribution number 04508).

Diatom analyses were carried out on sediment cores collected from two low-lying, closed-drainage basins (PAD 9 - 58º46. 46?N, 111º19. 48?W; PAD 12 - 58º57. 29?, 111º19. 74?) in the Peace sector of the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD), Alberta, Canada, to provide >1000 year long records of hydro-ecological change. Results from diatom analyses were compared with macrofossil and stable isotope records from the same cores and assessed within the framework of an Athabasca River headwater climate record inferred from isotope dendroclimate data. Results from PAD 9 and PAD 12 sediment cores indicated closed-drainage conditions during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the post-Little Ice Age and high water conditions during the Little Ice Age (LIA). High water levels at PAD 9 and PAD 12 reflected high water conditions on Lake Athabasca and the Rivière des Rochers or possibly the Peace River during the LIA (~AD 1600-1900). High water conditions were also observed at low-lying sites in the central and southern regions of the PAD (PAD 31 and PAD 37), and corresponded with evidence of high streamflows on the North Saskatchewan River. In contrast, desiccation evident at PAD 5, a site largely isolated from river influence, reflected atmospherically dry conditions during the LIA. Consistent with changes observed at PAD 5, sediment records at PAD 15, an oxbow lake off the Revillion Coupé, demonstrated low flood frequency during the early to mid-1700s. Increased water levels evident at low-lying sites located in proximity to the central open-drainage network of lakes and rivers were likely due to higher flows on the Athabasca River and potentially on the Peace River. High flows on rivers of the PAD may be attributed to snowmelt-dominated runoff during the LIA relative to the rainfall-dominated runoff during MWP (prior to ~AD 1600) and the post-LIA period (~AD 1900 to present).

This research is about the behavior of cultural consumption on little theaters in Taiwan. Both the provider and the consumer are discussed in this thesis and their behaviors are checked with cultural theories. The result pointed out that, to discriminate certain people in a certain group or a certain social class is a major part of the motivation and behavior of the cultural consumption on little theaters. The research methods of this thesis are semi-structured interview, focus group and literature review, to study the behavior of cultural consumption on little theaters in Taiwan. Little theaters are theaters that are relatively small, might have some amateur affiliates. They have an avant-garde image, distinctive point of view on the theater aesthetic and are a part of high art. The providers of little theater are not only providing a product. These workers of little theater also put themselves in a certain group or class when they are making the decision of being a part of the little theater circle. The audiences (consumers) they attracted are the people who have the similar qualities of themselves. They are not approaching a mass audience. The providers expect their audiences have a certain ability to understand and interpret their works. This shows distinction. The consumers of little theater believe that it¡¦s their taste and a basic need to consume art. And is also a way to approach and understand the society. Even with the similar education background and social class, these people who choose to consume little theater (while some other doesn¡¦t) said that it¡¦s because they love art. They want to participate in a certain issue. Most important of all, it¡¦s a way to express themselves, an expression of who they are and what class in the society. Not only to consume or not separate these consumers from the others, during the process of consumption, the way they interpret the work also discriminate them from the others.

The littlest Higgs model is one of the most economical solution to the hierarchy problem of the standard model. It predicts existence of new gauge vectors and also new scalars, neutral and charged. The littlest Higgs model predicts the existence of new scalars beside a scalar that can be assigned as Higgs scalar of the standard model. In this thesis, the production of scalars in $e^+e^-$ colliders is studied. The scalar productions associated with standard model Higgs boson are also analyzed. The effects of the parameters of the littlest Higgs model to these processes are examined in detail. The collider phenomenology of the littlest Higgs model is strongly dependant on the free parameters of the model, which are the mixing angles $s,s&#039 / $ and the symmetry breaking scale $f$. The parameters of the model are strongly restricted when the fermions are charged under only one $U(1)$ subgroup. In this thesis, by charging fermions under two $U(1)$ subgroups, the constraints on the symmetry braking scale and the mixing angles are relaxed. In the littlest Higgs model, the existence of charged heavy scalars also displays an interesting feature. By writing a Majorano like term in the Yukawa Lagrangian, these heavy charged scalars are allowed to decay in to lepton pairs, violating lepton number and flavor. In this thesis, the leptonic final states and also the lepton flavor and number violating final signals are also analyzed. As a result of these thesis, it is predicted that the scalar production will be in the reach for a $sqrt{S}=2TeV$ $e^+ e^-$ collider, giving significant number of lepton flavor violating signals depending on the Yukawa couplings of the flavor violating term.

The thesis commences an examination of Williams's divided nature and conflicted personality. The connection between the "hidden core" of Williams's life claimed in the Autobiography and his repressed sexual desire as divulged in his poetry is primarily concerned. From Chapter Two to Chapter Four, I attempt to demonstrate that Williams, in the poetic world, finds an outlet to release the suppression of his desire. Especially in his earlier poetry imbued with the poet's highly autobiographical elements, written from 1909 to1939, Williams projects his repressed sexual desire unto the images of nature, woman and little girl. In an essay "Vortex," Williams argues that he is entitled to take any object or even the entire world as a vehicle for self-expression. I employ this argument for approaching Williams's nature poems. The image of female can be deemed as one of the cardinal subjects in Williams's poetry. In exploring Williams's poems about women and little girls, I have two main concerns: first, I examine how he constructs the sexy nature of varied women to dissimulate his erotic nature and projection; second, I inspect how he deconstructs the innocence of little girls so as to exonerate his adult sexual deviation. The thesis concludes with a brief comparison between Williams and some contemporary poets for affirming the uniqueness of his sensual and even erotic nature as a Modernist poet. In a word, Williams is inspired to write poetry by the strong impulse of his repressed sexual desire.

Peetre characterized local operators defined on the smooth section space over an open subset of an Euclidean space as ``linear differential operators'. We look for an extension to such maps of smooth vector sections of smooth Banach bundles. Since local operators are special disjointness preserving operators, it leads to the study of the disjointness structure of smooth Banach manifolds. In this thesis, we take an abstract approach to define the``smooth functions', via the so-called S-category. Especially, it covers the standard classes C^{n} and local Lipschitz functions, where 0≤n≤¡Û. We will study the structure of disjointness preserving linear maps between S-smooth functions defined on separable Banach manifolds. In particular, we will give an extension of Peetre's theorem to characterize disjointness preserving linear mappings between C^n or local Lipschitz functions defined on locally compact metric spaces.

Sediment is a leading cause of water quality impairment throughout the United States. In the Little River watershed in eastern Tennessee, several tributaries have been classified as impaired due primarily to sedimentation. Researchers at The University of Tennessee, in collaboration with a group of local and state organizations, began monitoring Little River tributaries to better understand their sources of pollution. To investigate the rates and processes of streambank erosion, erosion-pin monitoring sites were established on 32 banks in the watershed. This thesis complements the erosion-pin monitoring efforts by determining bank characteristics and examining the relationships of streambank angles and shapes to observed erosion rates. The specific objectives of this study were to: (1) characterize streambank angles, (2) describe the relationships between streambank angles and bank erosion rates, (3) characterize bank shape, and (4) determine if bank shapes at erosion-pin monitoring sites are representative of their immediate stream reaches. Streambank angles were measured at erosion pins. Bank angles averaged approximately 55° and varied significantly between tributaries and individual monitoring sites. Bank angle measurements were compared to erosion-pin exposure using correlation analysis. Data were then sorted into subgroups by pin position, soil texture, and bank shape, and further analyses were conducted. Results indicated streambank erosion was significantly, positively associated with bank angle for angles ≥ 30°. Significant, positive relationships were also found low on banks, where soil texture was clay, and where banks were classified as undercut.Bank profiles were documented to classify the bank shapes of erosion-pin monitoring sites and assess how well the banks at those sites represented the immediate reach. In the Little River watershed, bank profile shapes vary, but nearly three-fourths of all documented bank profiles were steeply sloping or undercut. The majority of monitoring sites (78%) were representative of the immediate stream reach with regard to bank shape. However, other factors, including surrounding land use and soil type, may differ within the immediate reach. Thus, data extrapolation from erosion pins to the reach scale should be done cautiously and take into consideration variability of individual site characteristics.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-248).