I denna uppsats görs en undersökning av tidskriften lambda nordica (1989-2016) och det diskursiva utrymme för icke-binära subjekt som skapas i denna. lambda nordica är en vetenskaplig tidskrift som har haft inriktning först mot homosexualitetsstudier och senare mot queerteori och HLBTQ-studier. Undersökningen inleds med en kvantitativ innehållsanalys för att kunna se de stora dragen över tid i talet om trans* i allmänhet. Som ett andra steg görs en kvalitativ innehållsanalys för att tematiskt karaktärisera olika förhållningsätt till icke-binära subjekt som finns i materialet när trans* berörs. Tre huvudkategorier av förhållningssätt identifieras: explicit namngivning, implicita öppningar och uteslutning, och det går att se en ökning av de två första förhållningssätten under tidsintervallet 2008-2016. Slutligen analyseras dessa förhållningssätt utifrån de diskursteoretiska begreppen objektivitet, det politiska, hegemoniska interventioner och dekonstruktion. Baserat på denna analys dras slutsatsen att en subjektsposition för icke-binära etableras, implicit eller explicit, i ett fåtal texter, och analysen informeras av denna etablering i en liten delmängd av dessa. Trots att synligheten för icke-binära subjekt i viss mån ökat, så är den huvudsakliga slutsatsen att dessa subjekt till största del är uteslutna i materialet som helhet och att förekomsten av faktisk analys av icke-binära subjekt är mycket begränsad.

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This dissertation argues that the strong relationship that historians see between the South and West in the early 19th century, which allowed them to form what scholars have termed the Old South, had its origins in the twenty-year period after the American Revolution when a group of far-sighted southerners worked to form a political bond between the two regions. They did so by tirelessly defending the West and westerners against political and economic attacks, often from northerners but sometimes from people within their own region. Within the ongoing debate over the emergence of a southern consciousness, historians have overlooked one important factor in its development-the West. Although it would be incorrect to argue that southern consciousness began in the 1780s or 1790s, it would not be remiss to argue that southerners began to look at the trans-Appalachian West during this period as something more than just virgin territory. A few southerners, particularly James Madison, saw the South's political future entwined with the West's advancement and worked to ensure that a strong political relationship developed between the two regions. For people like Madison, this political merger of the two sections is what they meant when they talked about a "southern and western interest." Historians should be careful not to take the close relationship present in the nineteenth century between the South and the trans-Appalachian West for granted. Although the two regions shared many interests, family and slavery being just two, the close relationship that developed happened because of the hard work and dedication of a handful of forward-looking southerners in the late eighteenth century. The history of these two regions during this twenty-year period is far more complicated than historians have imagined and described.

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trans-2,5-Disubstituted tetrahydrofurans (THFs) are a common structural motif in a multitude of biologically active natural products. This thesis explores new synthetic routes for their synthesis and subsequent application towards the C_31-40 fragment of pectenotoxin-4. <b>Chapter 1: Introduction</b> This chapter reviews methods for the synthesis of trans-2,5-disubstituted tetrahydrofurans with a special emphasis on those that have been applied towards the synthesis of natural products. <b>Chapter 2: Results and Discussion</b> The Acyloin Coupling Reaction towards trans-THFs A brief overview of the acyloin coupling reaction is followed by description of the aim for this part of the project, using this process as a key step towards trans-THFs. Work directed towards the stereoselective protonation of the bis-enolate intermediate formed during the acyloin coupling is discussed. The exploitation of A^1,3 strain was the most effective strategy found to control the diastereoselectivity in the protonation of the bis-enolate intermediate. Desymmetrisation Using Sharpless Asymmetric Epoxidation towards trans-THFs Strategy developed towards the synthesis of a 2,5-disubstituted 3-hydroxy trans-THF is studied. The optimisation of the synthesis of meso-hepta-1,6-diene-3,5-diol was examined and subsequent desymmetrisation using the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation was explored. Approaches towards the FG Fragment of Pectenotoxin-4 The previous synthesis of the FG fragment was reviewed. Details of the retrosynthesis to be employed for the preparation of the southern hemisphere of pectenotoxin-4 are discussed. The desymmetrisation strategy previously explored was applied towards forming the F ring of pectenotoxin-4. The C_31-40 carbon skeleton was successfully formed in 12 steps using a convergent synthesis. The elucidation of an X-ray crystal structure requires further exploration to confirm the relative and absolute configuration of the THF formed. <b>Chapter 3: Experimental</b> Full experimental procedures and characterisation of compounds are reported.

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Faculty of Science; School of Chemistry; PhD Thesis / ortho-Ethoxy-trans-cinnamic acid (OETCA) has been known to form three polymorphs - the α , β and γ polymorphs which crystallize in P1 (Z=2), R3 (Z=18) and C2/c (Z=8), respectively. These polymorphs have long been of interest from polymorphism and solid-state photoreactivity perspectives but have, until now, never been fully characterized. In this thesis the complete structures of these polymorphs and their photodimerization products are presented. In addition, a new polymorph, the α' polymorph [P1 (Z=6)], which is only obtainable from the α polymorph via a reversible solid-state phase transformation at 60 °C, has been discovered and characterised. In all the polymorphs of OETCA, the smallest building component is the hydrogen-bonded carboxylic acid R22(8) dimers. These dimers further aggregate via CH...O interactions to form a ribbon motif in the α , α' and γ polymorph structures. Structural and solid-state reactivity differences in these three polymorphs are therefore due to differences in the arrangement of these ribbons. With few exceptions, solid state [2+2] photodimerization reactions have been found to obey the topochemical principle. Such reactions occur with minimal structural movement in which the contact distance between reacting double bonds is between 3.5 and 4.2 Å. In this respect the solid-state reactivity of both the α and α' polymorphs is especially interesting and unusual, and indicate that significant movement - both molecular and structural - is possible and necessary for reactions to occur in these polymorphs. Both polymorphs yield the centrosymmetric dimer product 2,2' diethoxy-α-truxillic acid. Photodimerization in the layered structure of the α polymorph, where the double bond contact distance is at 4.54 Å beyond reasonable photodimerization distance, is probably initially enabled by crystal defects. While the α' polymorph is structurally very similar to the α polymorph it is instead composed of two reaction sites with double bond contact distances of 3.72 and 4.99 Å, respectively. This polymorph's solid-state reactivity has as a consequence been found to be temperature dependent, with only 66.7% conversion being achieved at 293 K and 100% conversion occurring at 343 K; reaction at 343 K involves both a significant conformation change in a reaction product as well as a heat and reaction driven phase change. In the γ polymorph the closest distance between the double bonds is 5.26 Å, which together with the structural rigidity imposed by its herring bone structure ensures that no photodimerization occurs. The β polymorph is really a solvate containing either benzene or thiophene within channels in the structure. The interactions between the solvent and OETCA molecules play an important role in maintaining the symmetry and integrity of the structure. The thiophene and benzene forms of the β polymorph are isomorphous and yield a mirror product (2,2'-diethoxy-β-truxinic acid) upon photodimerization - the molecules involved being related by a 4.0 Å translation along the unit cell c axis.

This thesis contends that Nina Katchadourian's oeuvre can be read as subtly breaking down problematic assumptions about nature in Western thought. The second chapter draws on biosemiotics, which redefines life as semiosis, and trans-corporeality, which reconceptualizes the human body as inseparable from the environment, to show how Katchadourian's art routinely calls attention to non-human animal and material agencies. The third chapter demonstrates how Katchadourian's work implicitly reinforces Donna Haraway's idea of naturecultures, which contends that nature and culture are mutually implicated and inextricably intertwined, through a close reading of two of Katchadourian's pieces, Natural Crossdressing and Mended Spiderwebs #19 (Laundry Line). The final chapter compares the use of irony in two pieces that comment on Western animal classification--Chloe, by Katchadourian, and Scala Naturae, by Mark Dion--contending that Katchadourian's piece demonstrates what Bronislaw Szerszynski terms an "ironic ecology."

Thesis advisor: Yvette D. Kuiper / The Paleoproterozoic Foxe Fold Belt (FFB) is composed of the Penrhyn Group, a Paleoproterozoic passive margin sequence, and supracrustal Archean basement. These units were interfolded and metamorphosed at amphibolite to lower granulite facies conditions during the 1883-1865 Ma Foxe orogeny, a part of the Trans-Hudson orogeny. The purpose of this study was to constrain the timing of metamorphism and deformation within the Penrhyn Group, in order to determine the role of the Foxe orogeny within the Trans-Hudson orogeny. Petrographic analysis, P-T-X pseudosections, monazite composition, and in-situ electron microprobe U-Th-Pb geochronology from sampled metapelites were used to determine the age and significance of metamorphic and deformation events related to monazite age populations. Population 1 is composed of 1926 ± 8 Ma monazite interpreted as detrital. Population 2 consists of 1892 ± 9 Ma monazite, the youngest detrital ages seen in the Penrhyn Group. Population 3 is composed of 1853 ± 5 Ma high-Y + HREE monazite predating an episode of pervasive garnet growth. Population 4 contains 1839 ± 8 Ma lower-Y + HREE monazite related to pervasive garnet growth. Population 5 is 1819 ± 16 Ma lowest-Y + HREE monazite with high LREE and Th/U, linked to the interpreted peak reaction: Bt + Sil + Pl = Grt + Crd + Kfs + melt. Monazite constraints on deformation fabrics indicate that deformation was ongoing locally as early as 1853 ± 9 Ma and continued until at least 1814 ± 14 Ma, pre- to syn-peak metamorphism. Rare 1794-1776 Ma monazite is interpreted to constrain the age of retrograde metamorphism as the Trans-Hudson orogeny waned. These data support interpreted clockwise P-T-t-D paths consistent with metamorphism initiated by crustal thickening in an orogenic belt. / Thesis (MS) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Earth and Environmental Sciences.