Water isotope tracers and multi-proxy paleolimnological approaches are used to characterize the present and past hydrology of the Slave River Delta (SRD), NWT. This research addresses crucial gaps in knowledge about the role of major hydrological processes on the water balances of northern freshwater lakes, and responds to concerns expressed by local land users about declining flood frequency in the delta following upstream river regulation. Contemporary hydrological studies were conducted using multiple lakewater sampling campaigns from a suite of 41 delta lakes situated in three previously recognized biogeographical zones - outer delta, mid-delta and apex – that were initially sampled in fall 2002, and again immediately following the spring melt, during summer, and in the fall of 2003-2005. Paleolimnological studies aimed at reconstructing flood frequency in the Slave River focus on a sediment core obtained from a flood-susceptible lake in the active delta. Together, contemporary and past studies of SRD hydrology provide a detailed picture of environmental change and variability in an important northern freshwater ecosystem.

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This thesis examines the role of the prophetic chronotope as a form of alternate, circular time in Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein’s gothic romance, The Mysteries of New Orleans. As the novel’s temporal structure seemingly contains the professed slave revolution through a manipulation of a linear prophetic sequence into circular time, Reizenstein simultaneously portrays a sexual revolution within the closed temporal system; however, as he localizes the sexual revolution in the “real time” of the reader through the inclusion of extra-textual artifacts, the novel’s closed system of alternate, circular time sustains a fissure, loosing all revolutionary potential, slave and sexual, into the reader’s temporality. Reizenstein compares sexual slavery, social restrictions on sexual expression, to chattel slavery, but recognizes it as endemic form of bondage affecting every race; therefore, Reizenstein uses chattel slavery as a ubiquitous circumstance in the U.S. South to identify other covert forms of slavery. In the end, the slave and sexual revolutions become the same conflict, and the restoration of beauty becomes its primary aim.

Lake surface temperature (LSTlake) can be obtained and studied in different ways: using in situ measurements, satellite imagery and modeling. Collecting spatially representative in situ data over lakes, especially for large and deep ones, is a real challenge. Satellite data products provide the opportunity to collect continuous data over very large geographic areas even in remote regions. Numerical modeling is also an approach to study the response and the role of lakes in the climate system. Satellite instruments provide spatial information unlike in situ measurements and one-dimensional (1-D) lake models that give vertical information at a single point or a few points in lakes. The advantage of remote sensing also applies to land where temperature measurements are usually taken at meteorological stations whose network is extremely sparse in northern regions. This thesis therefore examined the value of land/lake surface (skin) temperature (LSTland/lake) measurements from satellites as a complement to in situ point measurements and numerical modeling. The thesis is organized into two parts. The first part tested, two 1-D numerical models against in situ and satellite-derived LST measurements. LSTlake and ice phenology were simulated for various points at different depths on Great Slave Lake (GSL) and Great Bear Lake (GBL), two large lakes located in the Mackenzie River Basin in Canada’s Northwest Territories, using the 1-D Freshwater Lake model (FLake) and the Canadian Lake Ice Model (CLIMo) over the 2002-2010 period. Input data from three weather stations (Yellowknife, Hay River and Deline) were used for model simulations. LSTlake model results are compared to those derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellite platforms. The main goal was to examine the performance of the FLake and CLIMo models in simulating LSTlake and ice-cover under different conditions against satellite data products. Both models reveal a good agreement with daily average MODIS LSTlake from GSL and GBL on an annual basis. CLIMo showed a generally better performance than FLake for both lakes, particularly during the ice-cover season. Secondly, MODIS-derived lake and land surface temperature (LSTland/lake) products are used to analyze land and lake surface temperature patterns during the open-water and snow/ice growth seasons for the same period of time in the regions of both GBL and GSL. Land and lake temperatures from MODIS were compared with near-surface air temperature measurements obtained from nearby weather stations and with in situ temperature moorings in GBL. Results show a good agreement between satellite and in situ observations. MODIS data were found to be very useful for investigating both the spatial and temporal (seasonal) evolution of LSTland/lake over lakes and land, and for improving our understanding of thermodynamic processes (heat gains and heat loses) of the lake/land systems. Among other findings, the MODIS satellite imagery showed that the surface temperature of lakes is colder in comparison to the surrounding land from April-August and warmer from September until spring thaw.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2008. / Principal faculty advisor: Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Dept. of Art History. Includes bibliographical references.

Habilitationsschrift--Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät--Wien--Universität Wien, 1979. / Contient le texte d'une homélie de Maximos Holobolos en vieux slave "Maksima ritora Olovola Slovo na blagověŝenie prěsvetye Bogarodice", avec traduction allemande en regard. Bibliogr. p. 11-19. Index. Glossaire.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris III, 1972. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-514) and index.

Thesis (M. A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill., 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-157).

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010. / Title from screen (viewed on July 19, 2010). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Susan C. Shepherd, Frederick J. DiCamilla, Stephen L. Fox. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

Notre travail propose une approche sociologique du processus de recomposition identitaire au Brésil à l'époque Lula. Nous considérons que cette période entraine une dynamique reconstructive du passé esclavagiste déterminée par de nouvelles conditions d'émergence des souvenirs. Cela conduit à la construction d'un nouveau « cadre » mémoriel, d'une substitution de l'idée d'un Brésil métissé à la brésilienne, dont l'assimilation culturelle des afro-descendants est le pilier, par l'idée d'un Brésil fait d‘une diversité ethnique. La question centrale à laquelle nous tenterons d'apporter quelques éléments de réponse à travers cette étude est la suivante : quels sont les impacts de la politique d'Actions Affirmatives sur les transformations mémorielles et identitaires produites au Brésil pendant cette époque Lula ? Afin de mieux saisir notre objet d'étude et tester nos hypothèses, nous avons choisi d'étudier quatre champs d'analyse : l'analyse de l'historiographie brésilienne de l'esclavage ; l'analyse de la production de nouveaux discours sur le passé visible, pendant les années Lula, dans deux journaux brésiliens ; les entretiens avec des acteurs sociaux, considérés ici comme « architectes » des Actions Affirmatives brésiliennes ; et pour finir, des questionnaires adressés aux étudiants cotistas de l'enseignement supérieur.En conformité avec la problématique posée dans notre recherche, nous considérons que trois thèses peuvent être soutenus. D'abord, des éléments d'une dynamique interne, représentée par la lutte des Mouvements Noirs du pays, et externe, fortement poussée par les demandes de la globalisation, ont contribué à ce que le passé esclavagiste devienne l'objet de l'action publique. Puis, la mémoire du passé esclavagiste brésilien fait l'objet d'une importante évolution depuis l'adoption des politiques d'Actions Affirmatives dans le pays. Ces politiques promeuvent un nouvel encadrement social des processus mémoriels à partir de l'émergence d'une nouvelle signification du passé. Et enfin, les transformations mémorielles opérées à l'époque Lula, influencent, de façon significative, l'identité brésilienne et déterminent la reconnaissance de la diversité ethnique du pays. Au-delà de ce processus, l'appropriation par les Afro-brésiliens d'une identité nationale, nous semble être un catalyseur important de ce processus évolutif. / Our work proposes a sociological approach of the process of identity reorganization in Brazil during Lula's period. We consider that this era leads a reconstructive dynamics of slave past determined by new conditions of emergence of the memories. This, drives to the construction of a new memory “ frame “, of a substitution of the idea of Brazil crossed in an interbreeding according to the Brazilians, the cultural assimilation of the afro-descendants of which is the very pillar, through the idea of a Brazil made by an ethnic diversity.The main question to which we shall try to bring some elements of answer through this study is the following ones: what are the impacts of the Affermative Actions policy on the memory and identical transformations made up in Brazil during this Lula's time ? In order to seize more easily our object of study and test our hypothesis, we chose to study four fields of analysis : the analysis of the Brazilian historiography of the slavery; the analysis of the production of new perspectives on the visible past, during the years Lula, through two brazilian news-papers; the discussions with social players, considered here as “ architectes actors”, considerated as the Brasilian Affirmative Actions; and to finish, questionnaires sent to cotistas students of the higher Education. Conforming to the problem set down in our research, we consider that three theses can be followed. At first, elements of an internal dynamics represented by the fight of the Black Movements inside the country, and external, strongly pushed by the requests of the globalization, contributed to the fact that the slave past becomes the objet of the public action. Then, the memory of brazilian slave past is the object of an important evolution since the adoption of the policy of Affermative Actions in the country. Those policies promote a new social frame of the memory processes from the emergence of a new signification of the past. And finally, the memory transformations made during Lula's time, influence, in a significant way, the Brazilian identity and determine the recognition of the ethnic diversity of the country. Beyond this process, the appropriation by the Afro-Brazilians of a national identity, seems to us to be an important catalyst of this process.