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Varieties of FundamentalismDe Sousa, Rebecca M. 04 January 2007 (has links)
The term “Fundamentalism” used as a comparative category within the academic study of religion has become problematic. Fundamentalism, is not one comprehensive movement but is, in fact, a phenomenon which encompasses a variety of beliefs, practices, and expectations. This thesis will explore the diversity of several different and distinct fundamentalist movements. I will discuss the natures of four Christian movements that have been labeled “fundamentalist” – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Reconstructionists, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson – on several key points, eschatology, political philosophy, as well as level of social involvement. I will then turn to fundamentalism as it is used as a category to describe a global phenomenon. I will discuss three different scholarly approaches by turning to the work of Bruce Lawrence, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Bruce Lincoln on the Islamic “fundamentalist” group al- Qaeda. Finally I will argue that the category “fundamentalism” can be best understood in terms of a family resemblance.
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March's Gendered Madness: An Analysis of Print Media Representations of a Female Division I NCAA Women's Basketball Coach - Pat SummittAllen, Cindy Marie 12 June 2006 (has links)
This study explores the extent to which national newspaper coverage of a successful female coach reflects the broader gender ideology of society. This study looks specifically at the New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today's coverage of six Women's Division I national basketball tournaments in which Pat Summitt coached the University of Tennessee in the championship game. The years included for this analysis are 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2004. This rhetorical analysis examines this print coverage to determine if, consistent with previous research on media coverage of the female athlete, Summitt's traditional gender role is privileged over her coaching role. The results suggest that Summitt is characterized in ways that marginalize and trivialize her coaching acomplishments. The findings also suggest that even as women succeed in the male-dominated world of sport, societal pressures require that they be presented as properly gendered heterosexual females.
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Tropes and Topoi of Anti-Intellectualism in the Discourse of the Christian RightCarney, Zoe L. 2010 May 1900 (has links)
Christianity is
not
anti-intellectual;
however,
there
is
a
distinct
quality
of
anti-intellectualism
in
the
rhetoric
of
the
Christian
Right.
This
thesis
explores
the
ways
in
which
rhetors
in
the
Christian
Right
encourage
anti-intellectual
sentiment
without
explicitly
claiming
to
be
against
intellectualism.
I
argue
that
the
Christian
Right
makes
these
anti-intellectual
arguments
by
invoking
the
tropes
and
topoi
of
populism,
anti-evolution,
and
common
sense.
I
analyze
how
Pat
Robertson,
as
a
representative
of
the
Christian
Right,
used
the
stock
argument,
or
topos,
of
populism
in
his
1986
speech,
in
which
he
announced
his
intention
to
run
for
President.
I
argue
that
while
Robertson
used
the
generic
argumentative
framework
of
populism,
which
is
"anti-elitist,"
he
shifted
the
meaning
of
the
word
"elitist"
from
a
wealthy
person
to
an
intellectual
person.
This
formed
a
trope,
or
turn
in
argument.
Next,
I
consider
the
Christian
Right's
argument
against
the
teaching
of
evolution.
I
analyze
William
J.
Bryan's
argument
in
the
Scopes
Trial,
a
defining
moment
in
the
creation-evolution
debate.
I
show
that
Bryan
used
the
topos
of
creationism,
which
included
the
loci
of
quality
and
order,
to
condemn
the
teaching
of
evolution,
arguing
that
it
would
be
better
to
not
have
education
at
all
than
for
students
to
be
taught
something
that
contradicts
the
Bible.
Finally,
I
consider
how
both
Ronald
Reagan
and
Sarah
Palin
used
the
topos
of
common
sense.
Reagan
used
this
topos
to
create
a
metaphorical
narrative
that
was
to
be
accepted
as
reality,
or
common
sense.
Sarah
Palin,
then,
used
the
common
sense
narrative
that
Reagan
had
created
to
support
her
views.
By
calling
her
ideas
"common
sense"
and
frequently
referencing
Reagan,
her
rhetoric
gives
the
illusion
that
good
governing
is
simple,
thus
removing
the
space
for
an
intellectual
in
public
life.
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Design and Application of Software Sensors in Batch and Fed-batch Cultivations during Recombinant Protein Expression in Escherichia coliWarth, Benedikt January 2008 (has links)
<p>Software sensors are a potent tool to improve biotechnological real time process monitoring and control. In the current project, algorithms for six partly novel, software sensors were established and tested in a microbial reactor system. Eight batch and two fed-batch runs were carried out with a recombinant <em>Escherichia coli</em> to investigate the suitability of the different software sensor models in diverse cultivation stages. Special respect was given to effects on the sensors after recombinant protein expression was initiated by addition of an inducer molecule. It was an objective to figure out influences of excessive recombinant protein expression on the software sensor signals.</p><p>Two of the developed algorithms calculated the biomass on-line and estimated furthermore, the specific growth rate by integration of the biomass changes with the time. The principle of the first was the application of a near infrared probe to obtain on-line readings of the optical density. The other algorithm was founded on the titration of ammonia as only available nitrogen source. The other two sensors analyzed for the specific consumption of glucose and the specific production of acetate and are predicted on an in-line HPLC system.</p><p>The results showed that all software sensors worked as expected and are rather powerful to estimate important state parameters in real time. In some stages, restrictions may occur due to different limitation affects in the models or the physiology of the culture. However, the results were very convincing and suggested the development of further and more advanced software sensor models in the future.</p>
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Struggling to survive : the violent Bildungsroman of Atwood, Kosinski, and McCabe /Posh, Dorothy Ellen Kimock, January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2001. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 247-257).
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SIMULATIONS-GUIDED DESIGN OF PROCESS ANALYTICAL SENSOR USING MOLECULAR FACTOR COMPUTINGDai, Bin 01 January 2007 (has links)
Many areas of science now generate huge volumes of data that present visualization, modeling, and interpretation challenges. Methods for effectively representing the original data in a reduced coordinate space are therefore receiving much attention. The purpose of this research is to test the hypothesis that molecular computing of vectors for transformation matrices enables spectra to be represented in any arbitrary coordinate system. New coordinate systems are selected to reduce the dimensionality of the spectral hyperspace and simplify the mechanical/electrical/computational construction of a spectrometer. A novel integrated sensing and processing system, termed Molecular Factor Computing (MFC) based near infrared (NIR) spectrometer, is proposed in this dissertation. In an MFC -based NIR spectrometer, spectral features are encoded by the transmission spectrum of MFC filters which effectively compute the calibration function or the discriminant functions by weighing the signals received from a broad wavelength band. Compared with the conventional spectrometers, the novel NIR analyzer proposed in this work is orders of magnitude faster and more rugged than traditional spectroscopy instruments without sacrificing the accuracy that makes it an ideal analytical tool for process analysis. Two different MFC filter-generating algorithms are developed and tested for searching a near-infrared spectral library to select molecular filters for MFC-based spectroscopy. One using genetic algorithms coupled with predictive modeling methods to select MFC filters from a spectral library for quantitative prediction is firstly described. The second filter-generating algorithm designed to select MFC filters for qualitative classification purpose is then presented. The concept of molecular factor computing (MFC)-based predictive spectroscopy is demonstrated with quantitative analysis of ethanol-in-water mixtures in a MFC-based prototype instrument.
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Varieties of FundamentalismDe Sousa, Rebecca M. 04 January 2007 (has links)
The term “Fundamentalism” used as a comparative category within the academic study of religion has become problematic. Fundamentalism, is not one comprehensive movement but is, in fact, a phenomenon which encompasses a variety of beliefs, practices, and expectations. This thesis will explore the diversity of several different and distinct fundamentalist movements. I will discuss the natures of four Christian movements that have been labeled “fundamentalist” – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Reconstructionists, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson – on several key points, eschatology, political philosophy, as well as level of social involvement. I will then turn to fundamentalism as it is used as a category to describe a global phenomenon. I will discuss three different scholarly approaches by turning to the work of Bruce Lawrence, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Bruce Lincoln on the Islamic “fundamentalist” group al- Qaeda. Finally I will argue that the category “fundamentalism” can be best understood in terms of a family resemblance.
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Kompoziční prvky v díle Pata Methenyho / Composition Elements in the Work of Pat MethenyBeneš, Petr January 2017 (has links)
This work deals with the analysis of compositions by Pat Metheny from his early work. The aim of the analysis is to specify individual compositional elements, to describe their role in specific compositions and to evaluate how they interact and complement each other. The output of the thesis will be an analysis of the composition intention itself supplemented by the acquired experience.
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UM ESTUDO PRELIMINAR DAS INFLUÊNCIAS DO MERCADO DE COMMODITIES NA VARIAÇÃO DO CUSTO DA ALIMENTAÇÃO DO TRABALHADOR: ANÁLISE DE RISCO DA SEGURANÇA ALIMENTAR E NUTRICIONALGomes, Georgia Magri 13 February 2007 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2007-02-13 / The Brazilian Worker s Nutrition and Food Security is one in the ways of warranty of health
and consequent productivity increase contemplated by PAT Work Food Program that
completed 30 years in 2006. The objective of the study is to relate the variation of prices of
the commodities of present foods in the worker s meal in agreement with PAT s normative
system, identifying possible negative consequences to the Worker s Alimentary Safety in
Brazil. The methodology, through the analysis of multiple regression, uses the data of ICV
Cost of Living Index of feeding out of the home as proxy the worker s feeding. The foods
that presented negative variation with the types of analyzed meals, as the pork and the soy,
they can be substituted by others of same nutritional value, as the bovine meat, the chicken
and the wheat germ oil. Just the variation of the price of the bean was followed by the
increase of the price of the commercial plate, whose alternative is the change in the way of
offering the meal to the worker, as the restaurants for kilo. According to the exposed scenery,
there are indications that the variation of prices in the food commodities market would have
little influence in the final price of the meals, but the discussion around the future shortage of
offer of foods due to the increase of the world population and the change of the alimentary
patters with the urbanized societies inserts the risk of the Nutrition and Food Security in the
political and economical context of the nutrition.(AU) / A Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional do trabalhador brasileiro é uma das formas de garantia de saúde e conseqüente aumento de produtividade refletido pelo compromisso do
PAT Programa de Alimentação do Trabalhador que completou 30 anos em 2006. O objetivo do estudo é relacionar a variação de preços das commodities de alimentos presentes na refeição do trabalhador de acordo com o sistema normativo do PAT, identificando possíveis conseqüências negativas à Segurança Alimentar do Trabalhador no Brasil. A metodologia, por meio da análise de regressão múltipla, utiliza os dados de ICV Índice de
Custo de Vida - de alimentação fora do domicílio como proxy a alimentação do trabalhador. Os resultados sugerem que os alimentos que apresentaram variação negativa com os tipos de
refeições analisadas, como a carne suína e a soja, podem ser substituídos por outro valor nutricional semelhante como a carne bovina, o frango e o óleo de milho. Apenas a variação do
preço do feijão foi seguida pelo aumento do preço do prato comercial, cuja alternativa é a mudança na maneira de oferecer a refeiç ão ao trabalhador, como os restaurantes por quilo. Diante do cenário exposto, há indícios de que a variação de preços dos alimentos no mercado
de commodities teria pouca influência no preço final das refeições, mas a discussão em torno da futura escassez de oferta de alimentos devido ao aumento da população mundial e a mudança dos padrões alimentares com as sociedades urbanizadas insere o risco da SAN no contexto político e econômico da nutrição.(AU)
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Cartas de controle multivariadas para o monitoramento simult?neo do teor de isoniazida e rifampicina em uma formula??o farmac?utica empregando a espectroscopia no infravermelho pr?ximoCosta, Fernanda Saadna Lopes da 27 October 2014 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2014-10-27 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / O controle estat?stico de processos ? uma estrat?gia que tem sido cada
vez mais utilizada para o monitoramento on-line de processos industrias, no
qual a principal ferramenta utilizada s?o as cartas de controle, que podem ser
univariadas ou multivariadas, de acordo com o n?mero de vari?veis envolvidas
no monitoramento. Basicamente, as cartas de controle s?o gr?ficos estat?sticos
que possuem uma faixa de toler?ncia limitada pelas linhas superior e inferior,
calculadas com base no desvio padr?o das amostras em condi??es de
controle. Este trabalho apresenta a aplica??o de cartas de controle
multivariadas baseadas em duas filosofias: no vetor NAS (do ingl?s, Net
Analyte Signal) e na an?lise de componentes principais (do ingl?s, Principal
Component Analysis- PCA), utilizando a espectroscopia no infravermelho
pr?ximo (NIR, do ingl?s, Near Infrared) no monitoramento simult?neo de teor
de dois f?rmacos, isoniazida e rifampicina, em formula??es farmac?uticas
produzidas pelo NUPLAM (N?cleo de Pesquisa em Alimentos e Medicamentos)
da UFRN. As cartas foram constru?das utilizando amostras provenientes de um
planejamento experimental e da linha de produ??o do NUPLAM. As cartas de
controle via escores de PCA para o monitoramento simult?neo dos dois APIs
apresentaram taxas de acerto acima de 92% na classifica??o das amostras de
calibra??o e valida??o, e 100% de acerto na previs?o. As cartas via NAS para
isoniazida obtiveram 100% de acerto na classifica??o das amostras da
calibra??o e previs?o. As cartas NAS para rifampicina obtiveram taxas de
acerto acima de 90,0% na calibra??o e previs?o. A partir dos resultados
obtidos, evidencia-se a aplicabilidade das cartas de controle multivariadas para
o controle de processos de uma ind?stria farmac?utica, diminuindo custo e
tempo de an?lise, gerando menos res?duos e consequentemente, otimizando o
processo de controle de qualidade. / Statistical process control is a strategy that has been increasingly used
for online monitoring of industrial processes. It is the main tool used for control
charts, which can be univariate or multivariate, according to the number of
variables involved in monitoring. Basically, control charts are statistical graphs
that have a tolerance range bounded by upper and lower lines, calculated
based on the standard deviation of the samples in control conditions. This paper
presents the application of multivariate control charts based on two
philosophies: the NAS (Net Analyte Signal) vector and the principal component
analysis (Principal Component Analysis - PCA), using Near Infrared
Spectroscopy for the simultaneous monitoring of level two drugs; isoniazid and
rifampicin in pharmaceutical formulations produced by NUPLAM (Center for
Research on Food and Drug Administration) at UFRN. The charts were
constructed using samples from an experimental design and the NUPLAM
production line. Control Charts via PCA scores for the simultaneous monitoring
of both APIs showed accuracy rates above 92% in the classification of samples
for calibration and validation, and 100% accuracy in prediction. The charts via
NAS to isoniazid had 100% accuracy in classifying samples of calibration and
prediction. The NAS charts to rifampicin achieved hit rates above 90.0% in the
calibration and prediction. The results obtained demonstrate the applicability of
multivariate control charts for the control of pharmaceutical processes, thereby
reducing cost and time of analysis, generating less waste and thus optimizing
the quality control process.
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