This dissertation is an ethnographic analysis of the ways in which disenfranchised Black communities mobilize cultural legacies of maroonage to empower themselves through the establishment of independent educational institutions. Using Kamali Academy, an African-centered, systematic home school in New Orleans, Louisiana, as a case study and ethnographic site, I examine two primary questions: What does the relationship between maroonage, as a political-cultural praxis, and independent Black educational institutions tell us about the construction of autonomous Black communities in the United States? Specifically, what does Kamali Academy teach us about these communities’ viability as interventions into a failing educational system that marginalizes Black students and families in New Orleans? Building on existing scholarship, I highlight maroonage as a method of community construction within a dominant socio-political structure. I depart from the literature, however, by rearticulating maroonage as a translocal and transhistorical cultural tradition, a process by which individuals and communities disengage from the dominant structure and re-engage in affirming and positive institutions. When considered within the context of both the charter school movement that has taken over New Orleans public schools since Hurricane Katrina as well as the extensive legacy of the struggle for independent Black education in the United States, Kamali Academy provides insight into what I have termed institutional maroonage, or the formation and maintenance of independent Black institutions that serve as spaces for community building and benefit the interests of Black freedom. / text

A novel application of the Moore rearrangement was successfully developed and applied to the synthesis of 1,4-dioxygenated xanthones that would have been difficult to obtain otherwise. The 1,4-dioxygenated xanthone moiety is found in several naturally occurring, biologically active compounds. Several methods by which to obtain the 1,4-dioxygenated xanthone core have been reported; however, high step counts, low yields, and harsh reaction conditions preclude the use of these methods to complex xanthone natural products. Using the Moore rearrangement as a key step in the synthetic sequence has allowed us to prepare several xanthone natural products quickly and more efficiently than what is possible with the prior art. Using the Martin group’s prior experience with the application of ring closing metathesis (RCM) to the field of alkaloid natural product synthesis, the preparation of lundurine B was undertaken. Key features of the proposed synthesis to lundurine B include the formation of a cyclopropane ring by the formation pyrazoline intermediate via [3+2] dipolar cycloaddition followed by dinitrogen extrusion. A second key step in the proposed sequence to lundurine B is a double RCM to form a five- and eight-membered ring in a single operation. While double RCM strategies have been applied to several elegant natural product syntheses, the formation of a five- and eight-membered ring in a single sequence has not been reported. Should the double RCM strategy prove successful for lundurine B, the conditions could in principle be applied to other structurally related natural products. / text

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The statistics claim, that people who are not physically active live shorter and they are ill more often. Only an individual physical activity is useful. For choosing the right activity the doctors have to investigate the patient, analyse and store his data for the future.The aim of this work was to describe mathematically the integral estimation model, using the model of physical load effect. We created the information subsystem of human functional state model for individual person using the convolution of Meally and Moore automata. The result is the applied program for the consumer – physiologist. This subsystem can be used in e – health for modeling the virtual doctor.

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Das »Sächsische Informationssystem für Moore und organische Nassstandorte« (SIMON) bündelt Informationen zur Lage, Ausdehnung, Ausstattung und Gefährdung von Mooren. Landesweit vorliegende Karten zu biotischen und abiotischen Daten wurden zu Moorkomplexkarten verschmolzen. Auf dieser Grundlage konnten in Sachsen für 20 Moore Steckbriefe u. a. mit Angaben zu Fläche, FFH-Lebensraumtyp, Torfmächtigkeit, Landnutzung, ökologischem Zustand und aktuellem Schutzstatus erstellt werden. Die Gesamtfläche an Moorböden, oberflächennahen Torfvorkommen und moortypischen Biotopen beträgt in Sachsen 46.800 Hektar.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 1989. / Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-215). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, Vancouver, BC, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-157).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-250).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-250).