This thesis examines the varied output of a small press called Nữ Lưu Thơ Quán (Women’s Bookstore) that operated in Gò Công, Cochinchina from 1928 until 1930. Under the editorial direction of a woman named Phan Thị Bạch Vân (1903-1980), this press sought to influence Vietnamese women’s involvement in their families and communities through novels and biographies, along with instructive and prescriptive literature. Bạch Vân and her cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals derived influence from women’s movements in France, the United States, China, and Japan. They translated a diverse range of ideas and concepts through their own unique lens, with attention paid to their audience and desired influence. I combine literary and historical analyses to consider the significance of works in Nữ Lưu Thơ Quán’s catalogue, such as: Phan Thị Bạch Vân’s novels, Kiếp hoa thảm sử (1928-1929), Nữ anh tài (1928), and Lâm Kiều Loan (1932), the biographies of Madame Roland (1754-1793) and Qiu Jin (1875-1907), and instructive books by Bạch Vân and a writer named Đạm Phương (1881-1947), called Vần Quốc ngữ (1929) and Gia Đình Giáo Dục (1928). This dissertation examines written media that has hitherto been unexplored and shows Vietnamese women’s serious involvement in what contemporaries termed “the Woman’s Question.” Additionally, I show how a director of a small women’s press sought to ensure a remarkable future for the Vietnamese derived from her own vision and through the direction of other women.

A majority of tornado research focuses on the Great Plains region of the United States. Knowledge of tornado environments outside of the Great Plains is limited; this is especially true for the Southeast U.S. In addition, little is known about the role of the lower troposphere on tornadogenesis. Therefore, this study examines low-level thermodynamic parameters associated with tornadoes in the Southeast U.S between 1960 and 2002. Previous studies have shown that higher values of CAPE, 0-3 km CAPE, 0-1 and 0-3 km SRH, and 0-1 and 0-1 km EHI are more likely associated with significant tornadoes. Similar studies have shown that decreasing LCL, LFC heights, and CIN are common with significant tornadoes. This study supports that higher values of shear and instability/shear and lower CIN values are associated with significant tornadoes in the Southeast. However, this study indicates that instability, LCL, and LFC heights may be poor tornado strength discriminators.

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by Lee Kwok Lun. / Title also in Chinese characters. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-147). / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iii / ABSTRACT --- p.iv / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- WINTER MONSOON IN EAST ASIA / Chapter 1.2 --- THE SURGES AND THE EFFECTS ON LOCAL WEATHER / Chapter 1.3 --- PREDICTION OF WINTER MONSOON SURGES / Chapter 1.4 --- COASTAL FEATURES AT OTHER PLACES / Chapter 1.5 --- OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- THE NUMERICAL MODEL --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- THE GOVERNING EQUATIONS / Chapter 2.1.1 --- INDEPENDENT VARIABLES / Chapter 2.1.2 --- DEPENDENT VARIABLES / Chapter 2.1.3 --- THE COMPLETE SET OF MODEL EQUATIONS / Chapter 2.2 --- MODEL DOMAIN AND GRID STRUCTURE / Chapter 2.3 --- SPATIAL FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEMES / Chapter 2.3.1 --- ADVECTION TERMS / Chapter 2.3.2 --- DIFFUSION TERM / Chapter 2.3.3 --- PRESSURE GRADIENT FORCE TERM / Chapter 2.3.4 --- INTEGRATION OF HYDROSTATIC EQUATION / Chapter 2.4 --- TIME INTEGRATION SCHEME / Chapter 2.5 --- LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS / Chapter 2.6 --- PARAMETERIZATION OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES / Chapter 2.6.1 --- PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER PHYSICS / Chapter 2.6.2 --- EVALUATION OF DIABATIC HEATING / Chapter 2.7 --- INITIALIZATION / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SIMULATIONS OF ACTUAL EASTERLY COLD SURGE EVENTS --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1 --- CHOICE OF MODEL DOMAIN / Chapter 3.2 --- INITIAL AND LATERAL BOUNDARY DATA / Chapter 3.3 --- THE ACTUAL EVENTS / Chapter 3.3.1 --- CASE STUDY1A / Chapter 3.3.1.1 --- Synoptic Environment During the Event / Chapter 3.3.1.2 --- The Simulation of the Actual Event / Chapter 3.3.1.3 --- Diagnosis of the Simulation Results / Chapter 3.3.2 --- CASE STUDY2A / Chapter 3.3.3. --- CASE STUDY3A / Chapter 3.4 --- SUMMARY / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS ON THE OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON THE EASTERLY COLD SURGE --- p.77 / Chapter 4.1 --- THE NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS / Chapter 4.2 --- NO TERRAIN EXPERIMENTS / Chapter 4.3 --- EFFECTS OF TAIWAN ISLAND / Chapter 4.4 --- IDEAL COASTAL RANGE EXPERIMENTS / Chapter 4.5 --- SUMMARY / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION OF THE FORMATION OF THE COASTAL NARROW RIDGE --- p.96 / Chapter 5.1 --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 5.2 --- THE KELVIN WAVE MODEL / Chapter 5.3 --- COMPARISON OF COASTAL PHENOMENA AT OTHER PLACES / Chapter 5.3.1 --- THE AUSTRALIA CASE / Chapter 5.3.2 --- THE NORTH AMERICA CASE / Chapter 5.4 --- THE SOUTHEAST CHINA COASTAL RIDGE / Chapter 5.5 --- OTHER MECHANISMS BESIDES OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONCLUSION --- p.109 / APPENDIX A DERIVATION OF GOVERNING EQUATIONS --- p.112 / APPENDIX B HORIZONTAL SMOOTHING AND HORIZONTAL DIFFUSION --- p.120 / APPENDIX C DIAGNOSTIC VARIABLES --- p.122 / APPENDIX D EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL KELVIN WAVES --- p.125 / APPENDIX E FORTRAN SOURCE CODE OF THE NUMERICAL MODEL --- p.129 / REFERENCES --- p.147

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-217).

This thesis investigates the potential role of historical isolation of ocean basins in promoting diversification among marine organisms in Southeast Asia. It also questions the possible effects of Pleistocene exposure of the Sunda Shelf on present day marine distributions and genetic diversity. Four species of exploited seahorses (genus Hippocampus), with differing ecological parameters, are used to test historical hypotheses. The results (based on cytochrome b DNA sequencing) suggest that significant phylogeographic structure does exist among seahorse populations in Southeast Asia, but that the patterns are only partially concordant across species. Distinct phylogeographic breaks are seen in H. barbouri, H. kuda, and H. trimaculatus, whereas greater spatial overlap of haplotypes in H. spinosissimus indicates more extensive gene flow. The phylogeographic history of the two shallow water species (H. barbouri and H. kuda) appears to have been primarily shaped by fragmentation and/or long-distance colonisation events. Both species show patterns consistent with hypotheses of divergence mediated by ocean basins separations. The deeper water species (H. spinosissimus and H. trimaculatus) show more evidence of range expansion and isolation by distance. Hippocampus trimaculatus shows a deep east-west phylogeographic division at right angles to that predicted by the separation of the Indian versus Pacific Ocean basins and instead parallels the terrestrial division known as Wallace's Line. Different species have also responded differently to the reflooding of the Sunda Shelf at the end of the last Ice Age: the two deeper water species have colonised it extensively suggesting limited barriers to movement, whereas the shallow water species have not. It is possible that the populations of H. kuda now inhabiting the shelf may stem from populations that found refuge in brackish water lakes when the shelf was exposed to the air. All four species are heav

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2007. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Arts. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-309).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1994. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [339]-366).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas Christian University, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-262). Also available online.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-217).