The Piglasio children suffered great hardship after the loss of their father and the disappearance of their eldest sister. Raised by a single mother in the ruin of childhoods already long gone, Frances and Michael wrestle with young adulthood, their faith and each other. One runs hundreds of miles away to seek adventure and friendship in Maryland. While the other runs only a mile, joining the efforts of a good-hearted young man who takes in the homeless. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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'The Concerto Inn' is a work of fiction that tells the story of two sisters, each of whom kills a person she loves, each of whom is on the run. The novel traces the strand of betrayal and violence that Madeleine and Isobel enact, and in its conclusion makes it clear that the two stories are the same story repeated. 'The architect's dream - project manual for The Concerto Inn' presents itself as the workbook of the Architect who has been commissioned by the elusive author of 'The Concerto Inn' to design and construct a library. It stands as an endnote, a companion piece to the novel and is part architectural treatise and part ficto-criticism. Infiltrated by a number of different voices in different registers. it considers aspects of narrative structure using the language and metaphors of architecture. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Communication and Media)

This thesis responds to the current climate of inquiry and complaint around past practice in the work of religious, charitable and service based organisations. It does not attempt to deal with issues of abuse or of illegal or unlawful practice but rather proposes an alternative approach to inquiry into past practice. In focussing on the learnings for one organisation whose practice was under inquiry the study presents a response that is life giving, growth promoting and the first step to healing and reconciliation. In June 1998 the Honourable Faye Lo Po’, MP instructed that the Standing Committee on Social Issues inquire into Adoption Practices in NSW 1950 -1998 (the Inquiry). The Sisters of St Joseph, a religious Congregation in NSW chose to participate in the Inquiry. They had been entrusted with the care of single pregnant women since 1937 at St Margaret’s Hospital in Sydney and St Anthony’s Home in Croydon. Recommendation 17 of Releasing the Past, the final report of the Inquiry suggests that an apology from organisations involved in adoption services be forthcoming. This recommendation proved to be the catalyst for this study. No real apology exists without reconciliation. Reconciliation is possible only when both sides of the story are told and understood. This thesis seeks to understand not just both sides of the story but the changes and the learnings that have taken place in the provision of care to single mothers over the eventful fifty years embraced by the Inquiry. Using the metaphor of voice as discourse, dialogue and response the study examines the discourses that informed attitudes to the single mother in the fifty years leading up to the Inquiry; listens to the events of the Inquiry and identifies the research question which focuses on inquiry into past practice and the consequent understanding of organisational and individual learnings. The evolutionary nature of organisational learning provides a framework for understanding the learnings that have taken place. Using case study methodology the study situates the ministry in the changing social, religious and professional culture of the time. It examines the evidence of the mothers who told their stories to the Inquiry and sets up a dialogue between this evidence and the recollections of the Sisters involved in the ministry. While the discourses and the voices of the mothers have been explored in other publications the author was unable to access any other studies that examined issues through the eyes of those who were deemed to have been perpetrators of the actions under inquiry. It is hoped that the study may serve as the first step towards understanding the stories of both groups of women – for this is the first step towards reconciliation. It is further hoped that it provides a model of learning that enables organisations to understand and appreciate the richness of their learning history – especially when the catalyst for that understanding is complaint and inquiry.

Ninety-five oriented samples were obtained from nine Recent Cascade lava flows in Oregon. Directions and intensities of remanent magnetization were measured on a spinner magnetometer which measures directions of magnetization to within 1.2° s.d. Angle measurements were plotted graphically using an equal area projection. Mean directions and statistics were calculated by digital computer. Samples were demagnetized in alternating magnetic fields while being rotated in a two axis tumbling device. All flow means, except one, calculated from the original magnetization vectors are distinct from the present geomagnetic field direction. A correspondence is found between scatter observed in a flow and the type of outcrop sampled (whether natural or man-made). This is believed to be a consequence of excessive blockiness and aa characteristics of the lavas. Results of demagnetization tests indicate low secondary magnetizations. Stability is indicated by lack of anisotropy, lack of isothermal and chemical remanent magnetizations, low viscous magnetization, and divergence of flow means from the present field direction. Flow mean directions for five dated flows are used to trace the secular variation of the paleomagnetic field back to 3000 B.P. This secular variation curve agrees with data taken in southwestern United States for the same period of time. It has generally been found that Recent mean pole positions are coincident with the geographical pole within the limits of error of the data. This study yielded a mean direction distinct from an axial dipole direction. However, the age span is limited as eight of the nine flows have ages between 300 and 3850 years. / Graduation date: 1968

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-343).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Arlington, 2009.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2008. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-119). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-243). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.