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.

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.

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.

<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>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2001. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 247-257).

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.

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.

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.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-02T21:42:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GEORGIA MAGRI GOMES.pdf: 385526 bytes, checksum: 4fab675c2cb7f3907816ff26e3c26536 (MD5) 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)

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-01-26T17:52:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FernandaSaadnaLopesDaCosta_DISSERT.pdf: 4102577 bytes, checksum: 40dcaf40e371d7cc9ebd3e6a5818ae45 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-01-28T19:31:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FernandaSaadnaLopesDaCosta_DISSERT.pdf: 4102577 bytes, checksum: 40dcaf40e371d7cc9ebd3e6a5818ae45 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-28T19:31:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FernandaSaadnaLopesDaCosta_DISSERT.pdf: 4102577 bytes, checksum: 40dcaf40e371d7cc9ebd3e6a5818ae45 (MD5) 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.