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Located approximately in the middle of the central Mediterranean channel, the Maltese Archipelago was touched by the historical events that effected the political, economic and cultural environment of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The islands were close to the major maritime routes throughout history and they were often on the border between clashing military, political, religious, and cultural entities. For these reasons, the islands were presumed to have been strategically and economically important, and, thus, frequented by ships. An underwater archaeological survey around the archipelago revealed the scarcity of submerged cultural remains, especially pertaining to shipping and navigation. Preliminary findings elucidate a story that contrasts with the picture presented by modern history and historiography. In this sense, a comparison of the underwater archaeological data with the information gathered through a detailed study of Maltese maritime history clearly shows that the islands were attributed an exaggerated importance in historical texts, due to political and religious trends that are rooted in the period during which the islands were under the control of the Order of Saint John. An objective investigation of the historical and archaeological material provides a more balanced picture, and places the islands in a Mediterranean-wide historical framework from the first colonization of the archipelago eight thousands years ago to the twentieth century.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references.

Located approximately in the middle of the central Mediterranean channel, the Maltese Archipelago was touched by the historical events that effected the political, economic and cultural environment of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The islands were close to the major maritime routes throughout history and they were often on the border between clashing military, political, religious, and cultural entities. For these reasons, the islands were presumed to have been strategically and economically important, and, thus, frequented by ships. An underwater archaeological survey around the archipelago revealed the scarcity of submerged cultural remains, especially pertaining to shipping and navigation. Preliminary findings elucidate a story that contrasts with the picture presented by modern history and historiography. In this sense, a comparison of the underwater archaeological data with the information gathered through a detailed study of Maltese maritime history clearly shows that the islands were attributed an exaggerated importance in historical texts, due to political and religious trends that are rooted in the period during which the islands were under the control of the Order of Saint John. An objective investigation of the historical and archaeological material provides a more balanced picture, and places the islands in a Mediterranean-wide historical framework from the first colonization of the archipelago eight thousands years ago to the twentieth century.

As part of the sustainable management of the Port of Saint John there is a critical need to maintain sufficient under keel clearance for the various container and cruise ship traffic in and out of the harbour. Because of high and variable sedimentation rates, annual maintenance dredging is necessary and causes economic concerns for the Port. Therefore to better predict future dredging volumes and hence improve the budgeting process for the Port of Saint John, the estuarine circulation of the harbour has been analysed to better quantify the relative importance of the offshore sediments that contribute to the high dredging volumes in the Saint John harbour. The Port of Saint John lies at the mouth of the Saint John River on the north side of the macrotidal Bay of Fundy. Because of this, the harbour sedimentation is influenced by two major sources of siltation: the Saint John River and the Bay of Fundy. The sediment flux from the river is strongly modulated by the seasonal variations in river discharge. In the Bay of Fundy, there is significant resuspension of offshore marine sediments. To better understand this complex interaction between the fresh water flow and the tidal inflow of salt water, high density oceanographic surveys have been conducted at four different river discharge periods. In order to quantitatively analyse the mixing of the fresh and salt water in the harbour channels, high density ADCP currents and CTD measurements were acquired along main longitudinal axis of the Main Harbour channel and Courtenay Bay over four tidal cycles. By imaging the 200kHz acoustic volume backscatter within the water column, the appearance of interfacial waves at the pycnocline can be examined. The optical backscatter sensor provided observations used to estimate suspended sediment concentrations. A cross-sectional analysis of the flow at a location 700m south and seaward of the Rodney bay terminal in the Main Channel revealed that regardless of the river discharge rate, the interfacial waves are best developed on the rising tide. However, during the Spring freshet the interfacial waves are also developed at high tide, low tide and falling tide. Examination of the timing and location of the interfacial waves are important because they influence the nature of sediment transport in the Main Harbour Channel. During high river discharge periods, the sediment concentration and volume flux estimates indicate that the river is the main source of sediments. For the low river discharge periods, the observations suggest that the possible source of suspended sediments observed in the lower saline layer are either from outside of the harbour or bottom sediments being resuspended on the rising tide.

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Thesis (PH. D.)--University of Michigan, 1933. / Cover title. Thesis note on label mounted on p. 313. "This paper is a curtailed form of an unpublished article of the same title." "Reprinted from Papers of the Michigan academy of science, arts and letters, vol. XX, 1934. Published 1935." "Chief reference maps used in studying the region": p. 341.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1979 E38 / Master of Landscape Architecture

Ce travail de thèse propose d’étudier les œuvres de Supervielle, Saint-John Perse et Char au prisme de la dynamique animale. Il confronte ces textes du XXe siècle à des problématiques plus récentes qui, dans le courant de la « zoopoétique » développée par Anne Simon, considèrent les bêtes littéraires dans leur aspect corporel, organique, mouvant, autant que symbolique. Au-delà de leur dimension métaphorique, les animaux innervent en effet les textes d’une force de création issue de leur qualité d’êtres vivants. Des insectes aux grands mammifères, l’éventail de la relation des bêtes au monde et à l’humain ouvre dans les textes de multiples problématiques sémantiques et stylistiques, appréhendées dans la première partie de ce travail, qui analyse l’influence des existences animales au cœur de l’écriture poétique et de ses rythmes particuliers. La faune apparaît, ainsi que l’approfondit la deuxième partie, comme vectrice d’une pensée élargie de l’environnement. S’appuyant sur des approches anthropologiques, ces analyses font ressortir un traitement particulier des notions de nature ou de paysage, montrant les animaux comme outils de modélisation de l’espace, mais aussi de la pensée. Par le surgissement constant de leur altérité, désirée ou perturbatrice, ils confrontent les poètes aux frontières floues de leur propre individualité. Dans une dernière partie, l’animalité concrète est étudiée en parallèle des facultés qu’a la poésie d’interroger son siècle et une langue élargie au contact des modalités de communication animale. Nous observons que le pistage d’une bête et l’appréhension d’une pensée poétique ressortissent à des herméneutiques proches, entre veille, émerveillement et distance, quittant parfois la rationalité du langage pour explorer les marges de la folie, dans une dynamique de l’oblicité. Est révélée dans ce rapprochement de la bête et du poème une constance de la faille, et une jouissance de l’échappée. / This thesis analyses the works of Supervielle, Saint-John Perse and Char through the prism of animal dynamics. It reads these twentieth-century texts in light of recent criticism, which, in the vein of "zoopoetics" developed by Anne Simon, considers the physical, organic, moving dimensions of literary animals as well as their symbolic significance. Beyond their metaphorical meanings, animals energize the texts with a creative force that stems from their quality as living beings. From insects to large mammals, the range of relationships that animals have to the world and to humans opens up multiple semantic and stylistic problems examined in the first part of this thesis, which analyses the influence of animal existence on poetic writing and poetic rhythm. Based on anthropological approaches, the second part argues that fauna serve as a vehicle for a broader thinking about the environment. This reading illuminates a particular treatment of nature and landscape that uses animals as tools for modelling space as well as thought : through the constant emergence of their desired or disruptive otherness, literary animals confront poets with the blurred boundaries of their own individuality. In the last part, concrete animality is studied alongside poetry’s power to question its own era and its language, which extends to the animalistic modes of communication. The tracking of a beast and the apprehension of a poetic thought emerge from similar hermeneutics, encompassing watchfulness, wonder, and distance, and sometimes leaving the rationality of language to explore the margins of madness in a dynamic of obliquity This kinship between poetry and animality is revealed in the persistence of gaps, and of the pleasures of escape.

Through the process of retelling the ancient parables of the lives of three saints, I hope to revive their stories, presenting narratives on the subject of transformation to a contemporary audience.