Thesis (D. Min.)--International Baptist Graduate School, 1995. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-170).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1976. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 272-288).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-223).

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1987. / Also available in print.

This study examines the production and consumption of a BBC World Service soap opera called New Home, New Life that is produced for the radio listening public of Afghanistan. Ethnographic fieldwork was undertaken at the BBC's radio production unit in northern Pakistan and in Pashtun communities within rural and urban areas in south-east and central Afghanistan. Critically informed by a material culture perspective, this thesis promotes a relational approach to the study of mass media production and consumption, this being perceived to represent an advance on studies that ignore spheres of production in favour of audience consumption. The choices and resources that listeners invest in radio services is addressed from the standpoint of the structuring of relations of trust, which in turn is related to issues of popularity, conflict and domestic radio use. The structures and prosaic daily patterns of radio soap opera production are addressed, with analysis being deepened to examine the production definition and audience appropriation of the soap opera's fictive context and characters. Here, issues of episodic and melodramatic structure also come to the fore. The representation of politics and religion represents a critical aspect of production, consumption and BBC impartiality, yet beneath policy it is shown that a far more social and negotiated form of production occurs. Following this analysis, the issues of localisation, romance and producer-consumer articulations are considered. Finally, the sociality of the soap opera is traced through audience gossip and the impact that emotive storylines have upon male and female listeners. Here, the issues of gender and space emerge in analytical focus.

Drainage systems for the desert Southwest are currently designed without much consideration for the climatological or surficial conditions of the region. The "100 year" flood has become the design standard throughout the United States due to misunderstandings about requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program. The effect of larger floods is virtually ignored, seasonal variations of rainfall patterns and intensities are neglected, and hydrologic data collection is extremely limited in watersheds of the urbanizing Southwest. The laws of nature are obscured by the rules of man during the planning and design of desert drainageways. Procedures for extrapolating runoff records and estimating the magnitude of the 100-year flood, including the LP III probability density function, the NOAA Atlas, and HEC-1, have been widely adopted in the arid regions as part of local drainage regulations. Plans are normally not approved unless the basis of design complies with the regulations. Assumptions inherent in the methods are questionable and data to verify the assumptions are limited. Drainage design can be improved by using available field data and a simple method--based on the Rational Method--is developed. Benefit-cost analysis is a valuable tool for establishing project alternatives, project size, and cost/benefit allocation. An equitability index is defined for evaluating fairness, and it is combined with the benefit-cost ratio for refining and selecting project design. Estimates of flood peaks can be improved by considering channel abstractions as "negative base flow"; by recognizing the presence of the n-value paradox; by extending flood records through paleohydrologic study; by monitoring rainfall, runoff, and the effectiveness of design strategies in urban catchments; and by using more suitable rainfall estimates. Drainage design can be made more rational by also considering sediment transport; by including nonstructural design alternatives; and by evaluating a range of flood magnitudes, not just the 100-year flood. A conceptual drainage ordinance not based on the NFIP is presented.

Rates of latest Quaternary slip obtained from stream terraces and glacial moraines displaced by faults of the Alpine shear system vary with space and time. Field measurements yield displacement values for faulted geomorphic surfaces, while the rate of thickening of weathering rinds and changes in soil properties, calibrated at sites of known age, yield age estimates. Precisions are 5-20% from weathering rinds and 15-50% from soil data. The oldest surfaces examined have ages of 15-20 ka and right-lateral fault displacements up to 400-600 m. Latest Quaternary lateral-slip rates are 20-45 mm/yr across the Alpine fault in the Southern Alps. To the northeast slip is distributed across a system of faults in Marlborough. The main faults of this shear system--the Wairau, Awatere, Clarence, Hope, and Porters Pass--have latest Quaternary rates of 5-10, 7-10, 7-9, 20-40, and 4-5 mm/yr respectively. Each fault has undergone a substantial decrease in lateral slip in the last 3-5 ka. Long-term rates of horizontal slip across the Australian-Pacific plate boundary--the Alpine shear system in most of the South Island--are 35-50 mm/yr parallel and 8-25 mm/yr normal. Sums of fault-slip rates exceed these plate motions for the early-middle Holocene, but late Holocene fault-slip rates are less than half the long-term average. Rates of geodetic strain and seismic moment release over the last 50-100 yr approximate the long-period rates in Marlborough but are only half in the Southern Alps. The best explanations of these variabilities are that the proportion of plate-boundary motion accommodated by fault slip changes, or that the rate of motion across the plate boundary varies, perhaps over 5 ka intervals. The first hypothesis is not consistent with the early Holocene rates exceeding the long-term average, but the second hypothesis implies that the last 50-100 yr is a period of renewed high tectonic activity. The second hypothesis is more consistent with the data, and the last 15-20 ka may be the time interval necessary to average out shorter, 5 ka episodic variations in plate-boundary motions.

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What follows is a play-by-play account of my work with DramaRama 5, followed by an explanation of my precise duties at the festival, my assessment of DramaRama 5, and my thoughts on the organization's future and what lessons I will take with me as I progress in my career.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University