Inaug.-diss.--Breslau. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. vii-ix.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Barak Salmoni. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Brad Naegle, Kevin R. Gue. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

The Aegean Sea is considered to be a classic back-arc basin. Back-arc basins may develop by active processes including retreat of the overriding plate or upwelling from the subducting slab. Alternatively, back-arc basins may develop as passive responses to regional tensional stresses. The Biga Peninsula of western Turkey provides an opportunity to explore and test these models. The Biga region is characterized by granitoid plutons of Cretaceous to Miocene age that may provide insight into the nature of extension. This study focuses on understanding the evolution of three of these plutons, the Kozak, Eybek, and Kestanbolu. Geochemical and geochronological data and cathodoluminescence (CL) images of the rocks and zircons were acquired. The first in situ (in thin section) ion microprobe U-Pb ages of zircon, and the first zircon ages ever reported from the Kozak and Eybek plutons are presented. Zircon ages range from 36.5±6.6 Ma to 17.1±0.7 Ma (238U/206Pb, ±1) with two ages from a single grain of 280±18 Ma and 259±14 Ma. Samples from the Kozak and Eybek plutons are magnesian, calc-alkalic, and metaluminous, whereas the Kestanbolu rocks are magnesian, alkali-calcic, and metaluminous with one ferroan sample. The Rb vs. (Y+Nb) diagram suggests the Kozak and Kestanbolu plutons have a volcanic arc source, whereas the Eybek pluton records a within plate setting. CL imagery documents magma mixing, brittle deformation, and fluid- rock interactions based upon cracked plagioclase cores, cross-cutting microcracks, and fluid reaction textures of myrmekite and red rims on alkali feldspar. The plutons were generated following the collision of the Sakarya continent with the Anatolide-Tauride block. Geochemical data suggest the Kozak and Kestanbolu granitoids were generated by fluid flux melting from dehydration of the subducting slab of the Anatolide-Tauride block. The Kestanbolu granitoid intruded into the Vardar Suture north of this collision, whereas the Eybek pluton was created within the lithosphere during exhumation of the Kazdağ Massif. The Eocene - Oligocene zircon ages indicate emplacement and initial crystallization of the plutons. Early Miocene ages indicate ongoing extension in the region at this time and are consistent with earlier interpretations that subduction slab roll-back along the Hellenic arc formed the extensional environment in the region at this time. / text

This thesis outlines hydrological, political, economic and social facts related to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers dispute between the three major riparian states, Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Once the factual base was constructed, it describes how each of the states uses water based on direct quotes, inferences and interpretations from secondary literature, interviews and other primary sources. The author used these narratives to analyze the current level of coordination and prospects for further cooperation among the riparians. Using these narratives, the author has drafted an agreement that could be a starting point from which the riparian states could address regional water issues.

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The overall aim of this thesis was to determine if day old turkey gonads could be cryopreserved and transplanted into recipient poults. This would allow for grafts to develop and mature normally and potentially produce donor-derived offspring. In addition, the monitoring of folliculogenesis in chickens was studied to determine if ultrasonography would be a useful technique to study this biological process, with the intention of using this method in future studies on ovarian graft development. Three studies were conducted: cell and tissue viability of vitrified day old turkey gonads, transplantation of day old turkey gonads into recipient poults, and monitoring of follicle growth in chickens using ultrasonography. The objective of the first study was to determine if day old turkey gonads were viable after vitrification using a standard protocol or with variation in equilibrium solution (ES) and/or vitrification solution (VS) absorption times. Three different ES time points were tested 10, 15 and 20 min (10ES, 15ES and 20ES) and two different VS time points 2 and 3 min (2VS and 3 VS). The cell and tissue viability was determined by Trypan Blue Assay and light microscopy, respectively. Testicular cell viability was conducted using three vitrification protocols and fresh tissue. All vitrification protocols along with fresh tissue were assessed by light microscopy, to evaluate histological alterations, in ovarian and testicular tissue. Protocols with the highest cell viability and best morphological scores were selected as being the most suitable for cryopreservation. Testicular tissue vitrified using 15ES or 20ES with 3VS had the highest cell viability. Ovarian and testicular tissue vitrified using 15ES with (3VS or 2VS), showed the best morphological scores, out of all the protocols. The second study was broken down into two parts: Part A (Trial 1 & 2) was to determine the most suitable age group for poults pre-surgery to give the highest survivability; Part B (Trial 3) was to determine if previously vitrified day old turkey gonads could develop and mature normally, by retrieving grafts post-surgery, at- different time points. In Trial 1, large white turkeys (LWT) 1, 3, 4 and 7 days of age were used and for Trial 2, LWT’s aged 1, 3, 4, and 5 days of age were used. In Trial 3, bronze turkeys at 1 day of age were used, and graft tissue was used from day old LWT’s previously vitrified (10ES/2VS) or fresh. For all Trials, the survivability at each time point was analyzed, and for the third Trial, the grafts recovered were histologically analysed. From Trials 1 and 2, seven and three day old poults had the highest survivability ratios (3/5 and 6/8) respectively. For Trial 3, day old male poults (96%) had a higher survivability than the females (68%). From Trial 3, transplants were only recovered in females and males up until 4 days and 4 weeks post-surgery respectively, with no fresh tissue grafts recovered. The histological analysis of testicular transplants showed deteriorating structure, with a steady progression away from normal morphology, post-surgery. The third study’s objective was to determine the growth rates and patterns of folliculogenesis in Barred Plymouth Rock (BPR) hens by using ultrasonography. Two ultrasound Trials were performed: the first to determine the optimum time interval between serial ultrasound scans to accurately map follicles, and the second to tackle the main objective of the third part of this thesis. For the first Trial, BPR hens were scanned periodically over 24 hours, follicle diameter and position were recorded and mapped with respect to the ovary and neighbouring follicles. Proportional follicle growth, compared to the first scanning session showed that the 24hr time point had the only significant (P<0.001) proportional follicle growth. It is recommended here that scans occur twice a day (morning and afternoon) to capture a more precise growth rate of follicles. In the second Trial, BPR hens were scanned twice a day, over an 11-day period. Follicle diameters (height and width) were recorded to calculate follicle area. The growth of each follicle’s area was compared to the time before ovulation to determine the overall follicle growth rate. Additionally, it was determined if time (night, day) and type of preovulatory follicle (F1-F5) played a significant role in follicle growth rates. The overall follicle growth rate was best described by a cubic equation (R2=0.907, P<0.001). Follicle growth rates were influenced by both time (P=0.009) and type (P<0.001). With F2 and F3 follicles (P<0.05) having a higher growth rate than F1 and F5 types. In conclusion, modifications to the standard vitrification protocol used on quail gonads were necessary to increase cell viability and lower morphological alterations for turkey gonads left whole. For future work it has been shown that day old turkey poults can survive gonad transplantation. The lack of development of grafts is most likely due to a combination of tissue damage after vitrification-warming procedures and insufficient immunosuppression of the host. This work has paved the way for the poultry industry to be able to cryogenically store turkey gonads and revive lines when required. Additionally it was shown that serial ultrasound scans twice a day provided accurate monitoring of follicle growth in Barred Plymouth Rock hens. For BPR hen’s follicle growth rates and patterns were successfully measured. This gives the industry another tool to better select superior laying hens and to create a more homogeneous laying flock. Future application of ultrasonography on gonad monitoring has the potential to show growth and maturation of grafted tissue before the production of donor-derived offspring, enabling earlier detection of successful transplantation.

Early Ottoman dance practices that took place in gender segregated spaces andallowed for a certain degree of sexual explicitness and expressions of homoerotic desirewere disavowed among Turkish elites in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "Bellydance" became associated with non-Turkish performers, while the Tanzimat and YoungTurk state employed the theater to perform emerging ideas about 'Turkishness' and the'New Woman.' In the early Turkish Republic, the new cadre of Kemalist militaryofficers and bureaucrats altogether rejected its Ottoman heritage and danced the waltz ina close embrace to the music of Western orchestras.This thesis charts significant changes in dance practices between the late OttomanEmpire and early Turkish Republic in order to examine the articulation of modern viewsof gender and sexuality. Dance played a formative role in shaping Turkish modernityand framed moral issues about gender, sexuality, and public space, reflecting andreshaping social life at the same time.

This thesis explores the Ottoman guilds during the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries as they are depicted in the miniature paintings contained within two well-known and well-preserved festival albums: the Surname-i Humayun (1582) and the Surname-i Vehbi (1720). These manuscripts describe the events occurring during the festival celebrations for the circumcisions of the sons of Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-95) and Sultan Ahmed III (r. 1703-30) and while they offer an excellent portrait of Ottoman society in general, they are particularly noteworthy for their portrayals of guild processions. Based on analysis of the festival paintings as well as on existing literature, the guilds are examined in the greater context of the Ottoman Empire and aspects such as guild function, structure, hierarchy, membership, and origins and evolution of the guilds are considered.