Conventional wisdom suggests that ‘nations without states’ are seeking to preserve cultural and linguistic homogeneity within their homeland by advocating for independence or political autonomy. Accordingly, large-scale immigration has typically been seen as a threat to national minorities because newcomers tend to integrate into the culture of the majority group. In addition, even if immigrants learn the minority’s language, they are unlikely to sympathize with the nationalist movement or vote for nationalist parties. This dissertation seeks to explain why Basque nationalism, despite its historical grounding in racism and exclusivity, developed a group-based multicultural approach in response to foreign immigration. To account for this unexpected outcome, I develop two interrelated causal arguments that integrate the role of ideas and the imperative of nation building for nationalist elites. Nations are forged by a rich legacy of memories and nationalist history requires both an act of collective remembering and collective amnesia. The ideas that stem from the memories of repression constrained the choices of Basque nationalists, preventing the rise of ideas of racial purity and exclusion in favour of multiculturalism and openness. A second argument that I advance is that changing contexts are motivating nationalist elites to find new policy areas with which to distinguish the values of the majority and minority nation. The emergence of a stricter immigration framework in Spain and a backlash against multiculturalism in Europe provided Basque nationalists with an opportunity to link open citizenship and multiculturalism to the distinctiveness of the Basque nation. I apply the arguments developed through an in-depth study of the Basque case to the nationalist movements in Scotland, Quebec, and Flanders and conclude that diversity is an effective, but risky, new value that minority nationalists are employing to further their case for independence.

Diagnosis of paediatric HIV infection presents a spectrum of challenges particularly in countries where resources are constrained. This program of research aims to illuminate epidemiological and clinical aspects of HIV diagnosis in resource limited settings focusing in particular on the nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG). This body of work commences with an exploration of current literature pertaining to diagnosis of HIV infection in resource constrained settings. This exploration encompasses the current epidemiological data available on HIV infection in the paediatric population worldwide, currently available methods of diagnosis and other aspects of diagnosis of paediatric HIV infection in developing nations including sampling considerations, breast feeding, health services, human resources and the relationship between early diagnosis and early treatment. The next chapter presents an epidemiological analysis of the HIV epidemic in PNG and a description of the paediatric services at Port Moresby General Hospital (PMGH) the site for most of the research presented in the thesis. The original research presented in the thesis begins with a report (Chapter 3) of a survey of paediatric diagnosis and treatment services in PNG in comparison to other countries in the Asia Pacific region. This is followed by an exploratory retrospective study elucidating factors associated with HIV testing and HIV positive serostatus in children admitted to PMGH. Selection for testing was found to be significantly associated with age, length of hospital stay and diagnoses of diarrhoea, malnutrition and oral candidiasis. Tuberculosis was associated with HIV positive serostatus. In advance of a prospective study to ascertain clinical predictors of HIV infection, a study to evaluate acceptability of HIV testing amongst carers of children admitted to PMGH was undertaken. Testing was acceptable to the majority of carers interviewed. This program of research concludes with a prospective cross-sectional study revealing low weight for age, persistent fever, lymphadenopathy and oral candidiasis to be independent predictors of HIV infection in children admitted to PMGH. An algorithm for clinically directed screening of children for HIV infection in a hospital setting was subsequently developed. Finally evidence based clinical recommendations and suggestions for the direction of future research efforts were made.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1975. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 103). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (Rev). / S. Cortellaro, Italian architect. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Env.St.) -- University of Adelaide, Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, 1995. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, 2004. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-314).

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Carleton University, 2003. / Appendix A in English and Spanish. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Auburn University. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Exercise Sciences, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-15).