Thesis--Stanford University. / Photocopy (positive) of typescript, made by University Microfilm. Bibliography: leaves 292-316.

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Many critics have seen Confessio Amantis as a work of reformist rhetoric that, drawing deeply on medieval Aristotelian conflations of ethics and politics, urges readers toward personal moral reform as the crucial means by which to heal the body politic. In such a view, the moral and public interests on full display in Mirour de l’Omme, Vox Clamantis, and elsewhere remain central to Gower’s purpose in Confessio. However, while Mirour and Vox also foreground religious concerns, Confessio is often seen as “secular” in a modern sense. I argue in this dissertation that Confessio indeed bears strong affinities to Gower’s other religious-ethical-political works, and that the main differences that set it apart from them must be understood in connection with Gower’s decision to write this work “in oure Englissh.” Notwithstanding its debt to aristocratic culture, Confessio imagines a broader and more popular audience than do Vox and Mirour. Gower’s novel language choice has major implications especially for Confessio’s uncharacteristically delicate handling of religion. Chapter 1 examines Confessio’s Ovidian debt and suggests that Confessio’s many invocations of Metamorphoses, given that poem’s fourteenth-century reception, align Confessio with Ovidian universal satire in a way that suggests totalizing religious-ethical-political synthesis. However, Confessio departs from the mainstream of fourteenth-century commentated Ovids by stripping Metamorphoses of its clergial patina and, crucially, adopting a markedly lay stance. Investigating Gower’s attitude to English vernacularity, chapter 2 notes Confessio’s association of translation with decay and demonstrates that scientific and theological passages in Gower’s English works adopt a lower register than analogous passages in his Latin works. Chapter 3 investigates the probable causes of these downward modulations, comparing Gower’s sense of linguistic decorum to those discernible in contemporary English vernacular theology. Chapters 4 and 5—on metamorphosis and art, respectively—argue that Gower finds in Ovidian writing rich resources particularly adaptable to the most delicate of Gower’s rhetorical tasks in Confessio: to address, as layman, a lay audience on matters that are unavoidably, and indeed largely, religious. The dissertation concludes by suggesting that Gower’s voice of lay religious critique plays an important role in the histories of laicization and secularization.

Many critics have seen Confessio Amantis as a work of reformist rhetoric that, drawing deeply on medieval Aristotelian conflations of ethics and politics, urges readers toward personal moral reform as the crucial means by which to heal the body politic. In such a view, the moral and public interests on full display in Mirour de l’Omme, Vox Clamantis, and elsewhere remain central to Gower’s purpose in Confessio. However, while Mirour and Vox also foreground religious concerns, Confessio is often seen as “secular” in a modern sense. I argue in this dissertation that Confessio indeed bears strong affinities to Gower’s other religious-ethical-political works, and that the main differences that set it apart from them must be understood in connection with Gower’s decision to write this work “in oure Englissh.” Notwithstanding its debt to aristocratic culture, Confessio imagines a broader and more popular audience than do Vox and Mirour. Gower’s novel language choice has major implications especially for Confessio’s uncharacteristically delicate handling of religion. Chapter 1 examines Confessio’s Ovidian debt and suggests that Confessio’s many invocations of Metamorphoses, given that poem’s fourteenth-century reception, align Confessio with Ovidian universal satire in a way that suggests totalizing religious-ethical-political synthesis. However, Confessio departs from the mainstream of fourteenth-century commentated Ovids by stripping Metamorphoses of its clergial patina and, crucially, adopting a markedly lay stance. Investigating Gower’s attitude to English vernacularity, chapter 2 notes Confessio’s association of translation with decay and demonstrates that scientific and theological passages in Gower’s English works adopt a lower register than analogous passages in his Latin works. Chapter 3 investigates the probable causes of these downward modulations, comparing Gower’s sense of linguistic decorum to those discernible in contemporary English vernacular theology. Chapters 4 and 5—on metamorphosis and art, respectively—argue that Gower finds in Ovidian writing rich resources particularly adaptable to the most delicate of Gower’s rhetorical tasks in Confessio: to address, as layman, a lay audience on matters that are unavoidably, and indeed largely, religious. The dissertation concludes by suggesting that Gower’s voice of lay religious critique plays an important role in the histories of laicization and secularization.

Inaug.-Diss.--Zürich. "Literaturverzeichnis," p. (143)--145. / Lebenslauf.

Inaug.-Diss.--Strassburg. / Lebenslauf. "Bibliographie": p. [194].

Inaug.-Diss.--Zürich. "Literaturverzeichnis," p. [143]-145. / Lebenslauf.

Clustering is an important analytical technique that has proven to affect human life positively through its application in cancer research, market segmentation, city planning etc. In this time of growing technological systems, mixed data has seen another face of longitudinal, directional and functional attributes which is worth paying attention to and analyzing. Previous research works on clustering relied largely on the inverse weight technique and B-spline in smoothing data and assessing the performance of various clustering algorithms. In 1971, Gower proposed a method of clustering for mixed variable types which has been extended to include functional and directional variables by Hendrickson (2014). In this study, we will do a comparative analysis of the performance of the hierarchical clustering mechanism using a simulated Functional data with mixed structure. We will adopt the Fourier basis smoothing procedure and use the Rand index (Rand 1971) and adjusted Rand index for the comparison of the various clustering algorithms.

The seventeenth-century epic poem Paradise Lost is one of the most widely studied texts in all of literary history. The work, written by John Milton, depicts Satan's fall from Heaven and subsequent deeds on Earth and in Hell. One of the more remarkable and, often, most overlooked scenes in the story involves the distinctive personification of Sin and Death. Milton depicts Sin as the daughter of Satan, with no mention of a mother, born through a process of spontaneous generation. Satan then becomes so captivated by his daughter's wickedness that he forces himself upon her, causing Sin to bear a son, Death. This illustration is striking, especially given that it also appears in the opening pages of the fourteenth-century Mirour de l'Omme (c. 1376) by John Gower. In both Milton and Gower's poems, Satan, Sin, and Death are personified as having this familial, incestuous relationship which ultimately creates the world's evils. Their depictions are not merely reminiscent of one another, but rather, often match up in nearly identical fashions. John S. P. Tatlock was the among the first to notice these similarities, but was also quick to express his hesitance to say with any sort of assurance that Milton had read Gower: "Since only one manuscript of the Mirour is known, and that was never published until seven years ago [1899], the chance is infinitesimal that Milton ever heard of the poem. But that his and Gower's sources are ultimately the same seems to me highly probable." Yet to date, no studies have been conducted to determine which shared sources could possibly lead Milton and Gower to construct such similar personifications of Sin and Death. Indeed, John Fisher notes that currently "the influence of the Mirour upon Paradise Lost remains an open question." It is upon this open question that I now attempt to help fill this century-old void in literary research / Master of Arts

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No. of bitstreams: 1 KarlaNCP_DISSERT.pdf: 638720 bytes, checksum: c091bd3e3df559a4dc01158993bce89b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The enormous diversity of cassava cultivars used by farmers in Brazil is partially justified by the fact that these cultivars have specific adaptations for each region and hardly a cultivar will be have in the same way in the different ecosystems. This shows the versatility and importance of conserving the genetic variability of the species, and for this main tenance there are Active Banks of Germplasms and Didactic Collections in Universities, in addition to the farmers' own contribution. One of the tools that help to identify differences among individuals is the morphological characterization, which seeks to study the external and internal structures of the plant through the acquisition of qualitative or quantitative data of inheritable characteristics. Thus, the present work aimed to analyze the genetic variability among 22 accessions of cassava belonging to the Didactic Collection of Cassava Germplasm of UFERSA by means of 37 morphological descriptors. For this, the experiment was installed in the Didactic Horta of the Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid (UFERSA) in continuous rows spaced between 1.00 m and 0.60 m between pits. For each access, 13 pits were planted using two pits per pit with five to seven buds each. The characterization was carried out in three stages and according to the development of the plant at three months (apical leaf color, pubescence of the apical bud) at six months (leaf retention; central lobe shape; petiole color; Foliar lobe length, phylloxia length, petiole length) and at nine months (stem cortex color, stem epidermis color, external stem color, habit of stem growth, color of terminal branches of adult plants, height of plant, height of first branch, habit of branching, number of tuberous roots, number of commercial roots, extension of peduncle of root, shape of root, external color of root, root pulp color, root cortex color, cortex bark ease, root cortex thickness, number of tuberous plants per pit, fresh mass of commercial and non-commercial roots, diameter and length of the cortex, HCN content in root pulp and leaf; Brix and acidity). The hierarchical groupings of the accessions were obtained by UPGMA methods. The joint analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data for the determination of the genetic distance was based on the Gower algorithm. The relative contribution of the quantitative descriptors to the genetic divergence between the accessions was determined. We verified the formation of four groups for the quantitative variables and five for the qualitative variables. The joint analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data to determine the genetic distance, based on the algorithm of Gower, generated five groups. The descriptor that contributed the most to the genetic diversity among the accessions was the fresh mass of commercial roots (88.46%). In view of the results, the existence of genetic divergence among the accessions of cassava from the Didactic Collection of UFERSA was verified / A enorme diversidade de cultivares de mandioca que são utilizadas por agricultores no Brasil é justificada, em parte, pelo fato de que essas cultivares apresentam adaptações específicas para cada região e dificilmente uma cultivar se comportará da mesma maneira nos diferentes ecossistemas. Isso mostra a versatilidade e a importância da conservação da variabilidade genética da espécie, e para essa manutenção existem os Bancos Ativos de Germoplasmas e as Coleções Didáticas nas Universidades, além da contribuição dos próprios agricultores. Uma das ferramentas que auxiliam na identificação de diferenças entre os indivíduos é a caracterização morfológica, que busca estudar as estruturas externas e internas da planta por intermédio da obtenção de dados qualitativos ou quantitativos de características herdáveis. Assim, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar a variabilidade genética entre 22 acessos de mandioca pertencentes à Coleção Didática de Germoplasma de Mandioca da UFERSA, por meio de 37 descritores morfológicos. Para tanto, o experimento foi instalado na Horta Didática da Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA) em fileiras contínuas espaçadas entre si por 1,00m e 0,60m entre covas. Para cada acesso, foram plantadas 13 covas utilizando-se duas manivas por cova com cinco a sete gemas cada. A caracterização foi realizada em três etapas e, de acordo com o desenvolvimento da planta, aos três meses (cor da folha apical; pubescência do broto apical), aos seis meses (retenção de folhas; forma do lóbulo central; cor do pecíolo; cor da folha do meio; número de lóbulos foliares; comprimento do lóbulo foliar; largura do lóbulo foliar; comprimento da filotaxia; comprimento do pecíolo) e aos nove meses (cor do córtex do caule; cor da epiderme do caule; cor externa do caule; hábito de crescimento do caule; cor dos ramos terminais das plantas adultas; altura da planta; altura da primeira ramificação; hábito de ramificação; número de raízes tuberosas; número de raízes comerciais; extensão do pedúnculo da raiz; forma da raiz; cor externa da raiz; cor da polpa da raiz; cor do córtex radicular; facilidade de descascamento do córtex; espessura do córtex radicular; número de plantas tuberosas por cova; massa fresca de raízes comerciais e não comerciais; diâmetro e comprimento do córtex; teor de HCN na polpa da raiz e na folha; brix e acidez). Os agrupamentos hierárquicos dos acessos foram obtidos pelos métodos de UPGMA. A análise conjunta dos dados quantitativos e qualitativos para a determinação da distância genética foi baseada no algoritmo de Gower. Foi determinada a contribuição relativa dos descritores quantitativos para a divergência genética entre os acessos.Verificou-se a formação de quatro grupos para as variáveis quantitativas e cinco para as qualitativas. A análise conjunta dos dados qualitativos e quantitativos para determinação da distância genética, com base no algoritmo de Gower, gerou cinco grupos. O descritor que mais contribuiu para a diversidade genética entre os acessos foi a massa fresca de raízes comerciais (88,46 %). Diante dos resultados, constatou-se a existência de divergênica genética entres os acessos de mandioca da Coleção Didática da UFERSA / 2017-07-13