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The following report documents the internship performed by Michael Indest, Jr. at the Metropolitan Opera Guild in New York City. Since 1935, the Metropolitan Opera Guild has supported the Metropolitan Opera Association as a separate nonprofit organization in order to ensure the continuing survival of this esteemed opera company. The Guild operates from its office buildings in the Rose Building at 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, in New York City. During his time at the Rose Building, Mr. Indest worked closely with the Development and Education Departments, and was responsible for writing instructional study guides and grant appropriate materials for those departments. This report catalogues the duties performed by Mr. Indest and the scope of his contribution. It discusses issues encountered during that process, and also provides a SWOT analysis of the organization. The report examines the best practices performed by similar organizations and provides practical recommendations to foster increased effectiveness within the Guild. Finally, the report discusses Mr. Indest's contributions as an intern and their short and long-term effects. It should also be noted that Mr. Indest's experience was solely with the Guild, and the statements and analysis included in this report do not in any way reflect the practices of the Metropolitan Opera Association.

Thesis (Ed.D)--Teachers College, Columbia University, l988. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Robert Douglas Greer. Dissertation Committee: Harold F. Abeles. Bibliography: leaves 442-451.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 327-334).

The members of the Chinese writers' guilds were those who not only provided scripts for plays, but participated in the creation of a great many kinds of entertainment. The first members of the writers' guilds were actor-playwrights, but with the invasion of the Mongols and the disruption of the Imperial examination system, some men of letters became members of the writers' guilds. The combination of artistic talents of the actor-playwrights and the scholar-playwrights directly affected the literary merit of Yuan drama. Moreover, as an entertainment art based in competitive economics, the writers' guilds were of primary importance to the drama of the Yuan period.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1941. / Bibliography: p. 143-151. "Doctoral dissertations in sociology before 1941": p. 157-158.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Changes in macro-moth populations related to habitat creation were monitored using light-traps between 1993 and 1995 on low-lying, previously intensively managed, arable land at College Farm, Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (grid reference SU 554 939). Research measured the effects of the establishment of set-aside and agro-forestry in farmland on macro-moth abundance, diversity, guild and seral structure. College Farm data from the newly created habitats were compared with unchanging and established ones within the Farm, a nearby Garden (500 metres away at Long Wittenham) sampled concurrently, and data from other farmland, gardens and woodland sites. Mobility was measured within College Farm and between it and the Garden at Long Wittenham. Large numbers of moths, of a comparatively small number of ubiquitous species, were found within College Farm. Abundance, which can be as high as in woodlands, indicated that the farmland environment is less hostile to moths than has been previously thought. Analyses showed rapid and large increases of abundance in the newly created habitats on College Farm related to the establishment of a more diverse and architecturally more complex ground flora. The differences in abundance between the Farm and Garden, where moths were generally more numerous but which were sampled with more effective light traps, progressively decreased throughout the research period. Changes 10 abundance were less marked in the Garden in line with regional population changes. Species richness was low on College Farm in comparison to woodlands and gardens. Within the Farm it was highest along a linear drainage Ditch but increased rapidly in a tree Plantation in association with greater diversity of the ground flora. Species richness was found to be constant between years in the Garden. Both the Farm and Garden and other sites investigated in Oxfordshire and elsewhere in Britain exhibited constant species proportions within the larger families, sub-families and genera. Alpha diversity was constant for the Farm as a whole and for the Garden (and did not increase after the first field season at either site) but was found to increase significantly in a tree Plantation in the second year after its establishment. Removal of vagrant species and individuals from analyses of the Farm and Garden totals showed that alpha diversity increased for the Farm (but not the Garden) between 1993 and 1995. Diversity, dominance, evenness and dissimilarity measures showed distinct habitat differences on the Farm and that the tree Plantation improved to a similar state to that of the permanent Ditch in its second year. These improvements were not associated with the presence of trees but were related to increased herb diversity and complexity. Intensive management in the Plantation in 1995 resulted in reductions in diversity. Analyses of guild structure showed that herb feeding individuals were most abundant in a tree Plantation, associated with the ground flora, and that grass feeders dominated the catches in a Barley-field, along a drainage Ditch and in a field of Set-aside. There were some marked changes between years with grass feeders contributing greater numbers to all habitat totals, being greatest in 1995. Abundance changed asynchronously and disproportionally for herb, grass and polyphagous guilds on the Farm in comparison to the changes in the Garden indicating that habitat creation was the cause. The proportions of herb, grass, woody-plant, polyphagous and other moth species were found to be constant on the Farm and in the Garden and in all other habitats investigated. Species represented by fewer than 10 individuals on the Farm and fewer than 100 individuals in the Garden were found to comprise the vagrant fraction of their, respective, totals. The majority of woody-plant feeding species and the guild 'others' were contained within this fraction. There was no evidence for an increase in abundance or species richness of woody-plant feeders as a consequence of tree planting on the Farm. The majority of individuals on the Farm and in the Garden were representatives from early seral communities. Almost all others were contained within the vagrant fraction of the faunas in these sites. Abundance changed asynchronously and disproportionally for early seres on the Farm in comparison to the changes in the Garden indicating that habitat creation was the cause. Species proportions within all seres were found to be constant on the Farm, in the Garden and in other habitats investigated. Mark-release-recapture studies showed that certain species arc highly mobile in farmland, others are comparatively poorly mobile, and that patterns of mobility change (mobility between Farm habitats increased each year for some species) in association with habitat creation. Moths increasingly remained within the Farm as evidenced by progressive increases in recapture proportions there, progressive decreases in recaptures of Farm marked moths in the Garden, and increasing proportions of multiple recaptures.

The thesis Guilds of tanners on Prachatice region. With special regard to Netolice The work deals with development of leather craft in the town of Netolice. In the introductory chapter are found chapters about craftmen who work with leather and problematic of guilds in our country, where is described literature used while making this work. Text is divided into five chapters which contain smaller subchapters. First part describes historical development of the town Netolice. Second chapter summarizes development of guild organizations in our land, their composition, administration and aspects until 1859. Representation of crafts and organizations associated with it are described in the third chapter. Penultimate part is dedicated to delimitation, division and history of tanning craft. The last chapter brings informations about the tanning guild in Netolice. The craft is divided on the basis of preserved documents when guild articles attracted great attention. After it work is devoted to development of guild based on nomative documents and guild accounts are disassembled. These contain informations summarized in the tables. In the end are summarized all acquired knowledge. Integral part of the work are also annexes containing images of article seals, guild books and federal list.

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 19, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Tim P. Vos. Includes bibliographical references.