Inaug.--diss.--Münster. / At head of title: Geschichte. Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": 4th prelim. leaf.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Temple University. / Bibliography: p. [159]-161.

Never before in the past century has there been such an active interest in evangelism, not only in the English speaking countries but on the Continent and in some sections of the Far East. Over ten of the leading graduate schools of theology in the United States are in the process of establishing or enlarging their departments of evangelism. One item conspicuous by its absence is the lack of material in the field of church history covering the subject of evangelism. These schools are handicapped at the very outset by a lack of research in this field. The following thesis is a study of the life and work of the one man who, above all others, led the way in establishing evangelism as a legitimate and necessary means of propagating the Gospel in Scotland. This work is neither an apology nor a vindication of this phase of church history. It is the product of research - diversified occurrences and facts - presented in narrative form. The delineation of the material requires more than a critical spirit; it is imperative that one possess a sympathetic understanding to see, in its proper perspective, the contribution of James Haldane to the improvement of the religious life of Scotland. The subject was marred by the defects caused by the taints of the times. He was dubbed narrow, purist, fanatic. We, however, would say after over a century has tried his works that he was a man of strong conviction, a Christian idealist, a man upon whom the spiritual destitution of the nation and the world lay heavy.

Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Christian Seminary, 1984. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-262).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-147).

Biologiste reconnu, notamment, pour sa contribution à la fondation de la génétique des populations, J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) est également membre du Parti Communiste de Grande-Bretagne entre 1942 et 1950 et, à partir de 1937, il défend avec force l'opinion que le marxisme est utile au travail scientifique. Notre étude porte sur les idées marxistes de Haldane et sur la manière dont elles sont historiquement produites. Elle examine d'abord son parcours intellectuel et propose de comprendre son adoption du marxisme dans le cadre d'une dynamique de recherche d'unité entre des conceptions des sciences, de la philosophie et de la politique. L'étude porte ensuite sur la manière dont fonctionne ce qui est caractérisé comme une vision marxiste du monde, c'est-à-dire un mode de production et de circulation de concepts. En particulier, l'assertion que fait Haldane d'un usage du marxisme dans son travail scientifique est confrontée à certains de ses travaux en génétique des populations, ainsi qu'aux idées qu'il émet concernant l'eugénisme. Cette confrontation permet de confirmer et de généraliser, contre Sarkar (1992) et Shapiro (1993), le résultat proposé par Hammond (2004) d'une effectivité du marxisme de Haldane dans ses sciences, et de préciser la manière dont elle se réalise. Finalement, nous proposons une compréhension du marxisme de Haldane comme un cas particulier de processus historiques plus généraux. Nous examinons l'histoire des idées marxistes sur les sciences et le phénomène d'engagement politique de scientifiques britanniques à cette époque, et interrogeons par là les racines politiques et sociales du marxisme de Haldane. / A prominent biologist, remembered as a prominent contributor to the theoretical foundations of population genetics, JBS Haldane (1892-1964) was also a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1942 to 1950. From 1937 on, he vigorously advocated the idea that Marxism was useful to scientific work.Our study focuses on Haldane's Marxist ideas and discusses the ways in which they were historically produced. We first consider the development of Haldane's intellectual positions and interpret his adoption of Marxism in the context of a dynamic search for unity between conceptions of science, philosophy and politics. Our study then focuses on the working of his Marxist thinking, which we characterize as a worldview, that is to say a mode of production and circulation of ideas. In particular, we examine the claim that Haldane made use of Marxism in his science using as evidence some of his work in population genetics and eugenics. This leads us to strengthen and generalize the case made by Hammond (2004) against Sarkar (1992) and Shapiro (1993) in favour of the impact of Haldane's Marxism on his science, and to a clarification concerning how this took place. Finally, we propose the interpretation of Haldane's Marxism as a special case of more general historical processes. We investigate the history of Marxist ideas of science and that of British scientists' political commitment at the time, and thus question the social and political roots of Haldane's Marxism.

Les phases topologiques sont des phases qui existent au delà du paradigme de Ginzburg-Landau qui dominait jusqu’à présent la compréhension des phases et transitions de phases qui apparaissent dans les systèmes de matière condensée. Des exemples paradigmatiques ont été créés pour établir un nouveau socle théorique qui rend compte de cet aspect topologique. La phase de Haldane de spin 1 est l’exemple souvent retenu pour les systèmes unidimensionnels.La présente thèse propose d’étudier cette phase et de lui trouver des généralisations en se concentrant sur l’étude d’un moyen de l’implémenter expérimentalement à l’aide d’atomes alcalino-terreux fermioniques ultra-froids qui présentent la symétrie SU(N). Le modèle qui explique cette expérience, dit de double-puits car il décrit un réseau de deux chaînes en interactions, est analysé dans son régime de couplage faible, de couplage fort et par l’outil numérique. Au demi-remplissage, et dans le régime où les répulsions entre particules au sein d’un même puits, et entre puits qui se font face, sont importantes, une phase topologiqueprotégée par la symétrie de type Haldane est systématiquement attendue pour tout N, dont la phase "chirale" Haldane. Le modèle effectif obtenu lorsque N Æ 3, l’échelle de spin 3-3bar (à deux chaînes de spins, l’une dans la représentation fondamentale de SU(3), l’autre dans sa représentation conjuguée), y est détaillée. / Topological phases exist beyond the standard Ginzburg-Landau paradigmthat dominated the understanding of phases and phase transitions in condensed matter systems. Paradigmatic examples have been derived to establish a new theoretical basis that takes into consideration these topological aspects. The spin 1 Haldane phase is one of them for the unidimensional case. The present thesis aims to study this phase as well as its suggested generalizations by focusing on a way to implement them experimentally using ultracold fermionic alkaline-earth atoms, that involve an internal SU(N) symmetry. The model describing the experiment is called the double-well model and depicts a lattice of two interacting chains. The model is analysed at weak coupling, strong coupling and using a numerical tool. At half-filling and inthe regime of srong repulsions between particles in the same well as well as two facing wells, a Haldane-like symmetry-protected topological phase is systematically expected for all N, including the "chiral" Haldane phase. The effective model obtained when N Æ 3 is the 3-3bar ladder model (describing two spin chains, one in the fondamental representation of SU(N), and the other in its conjuguate) and is particulary explored.

Wolbachien sind intrazeklluläre Bakterien die zahlreiche Arthropodenarten infizieren. Sie induzieren häufig eine zytoplasmatische Paarungsinkompatibilität die postzygotische Isolation zwischen unterschiedlich infizierten Individuen der gleichen Wirtsart verursacht, weswegen Wolbachien Beachtung als mögliche Katalysatoren von Artbildungsprozessen gefunden haben. Vorherige Arbeiten zur Artbildung untersuchten meist entweder Wolbachia-induzierte oder die klassischen, genetischen postzygotischen Isolationsmechanismen. Normalerweise sollte es aber der Fall sein dass beide Mechanism gleichzeitig auftreten. In dieser Arbeit führen wir Untersuchungen zur Rolle der Wolbachien in der Artbildung fort indem wir die Interaktionen von Wolbachia-induzierten und genetischen Inkompatibilitäten analysieren. Wir werden zeigen dass Wolbachien einen starken Einfluss auf genetisch-basierte Artbildungsprozesse haben. Insbesondere können sich die Mechanism bei gleichzeitigem Auftreten katalysieren. Außerdem werden wir zeigen dass Wolbachia Artbildungsprozesse unter allgemeineren Bedingungen beeinflussen kann als vorherige Studien suggerierten. Da die Rolle der Wolbachien in der Artbildung stark von deren Verbreitung abhängt, werden wir desweiteren eine statistische Metaanalyse von bestehenden Daten zu Infektionsfrequenzen präsentieren. Aufgrund der Methoden der Datenerhebung ist es sehr wahrscheinlich, dass der wirkliche Anteil der infizierten Arten mit 20% deutlich unterschätzt wird. Unsere Analyse bestätigt dies und zeigt dass viel wahrscheinlicher circa zwei Drittel aller Arten infiziert sind. Unsere Resultate der klassischen Artbildungstheorie kombiniert mit denen der statistischen Analyse zu Infektionsfrequenzen von Wolbachia implizieren dass Wolbachien als allgemeine Faktoren in der Evolution von Arthropoden anzusehen sind. / Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria that commonly infect arthropod species. Since they often induce a cytoplasmic mating incompatibility (CI) in their hosts that acts as a postzygotic isolating mechanism between differently infected individuals of one species, Wolbachia have received attention as a potential promoter of arthropod speciation processes. Previous studies on speciation focused on either Wolbachia-induced or the classical nuclear-based postzygotic isolating mechanism. However, it should usually be the case that both co-occur. This thesis continues investigations on Wolbachia''s role in speciation by analyzing interactions of Wolbachia-induced CI and nuclear incompatibility (NI) caused by genetic differentiation. We will show that Wolbachia have strong impact on nuclear-based speciation processes. In particular, synergy effects can occur when both isolating mechanisms act simultaneously. Furthermore, we show that Wolbachia can influence speciation processes under more general conditions than previous studies on Wolbachia''s role in speciation suggested. Since the actual role of Wolbachia in arthropod speciation will strongly depend on their abundance, we present a statistical meta-analysis of published data on Wolbachia infection frequencies. Due to the sampling methods applied in studies on Wolbachia infection frequencies, it is likely that current estimates of 20% infected species are underestimates. This is supported by our analysis and we show that more likely about two-thirds of species are infected. Combining both results, this thesis provides strong evidence for Wolbachia being a very general factor in arthropod speciation processes.

Biologiste reconnu, notamment, pour sa contribution à la fondation de la génétique des populations, J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) est également membre du Parti Communiste de Grande-Bretagne entre 1942 et 1950 et, à partir de 1937, il défend avec force l'opinion que le marxisme est utile au travail scientifique. Notre étude porte sur les idées marxistes de Haldane et sur la manière dont elles sont historiquement produites. Elle examine d'abord son parcours intellectuel et propose de comprendre son adoption du marxisme dans le cadre d'une dynamique de recherche d'unité entre des conceptions des sciences, de la philosophie et de la politique. L'étude porte ensuite sur la manière dont fonctionne ce qui est caractérisé comme une vision marxiste du monde, c'est-à-dire un mode de production et de circulation de concepts. En particulier, l'assertion que fait Haldane d'un usage du marxisme dans son travail scientifique est confrontée à certains de ses travaux en génétique des populations, ainsi qu'aux idées qu'il émet concernant l'eugénisme. Cette confrontation permet de confirmer et de généraliser, contre Sarkar (1992) et Shapiro (1993), le résultat proposé par Hammond (2004) d'une effectivité du marxisme de Haldane dans ses sciences, et de préciser la manière dont elle se réalise. Finalement, nous proposons une compréhension du marxisme de Haldane comme un cas particulier de processus historiques plus généraux. Nous examinons l'histoire des idées marxistes sur les sciences et le phénomène d'engagement politique de scientifiques britanniques à cette époque, et interrogeons par là les racines politiques et sociales du marxisme de Haldane.

<p>Owing to the rise in fossil fuel prices, overall energy security concerns, and the current push towards green engineering; renewable and green fuels have seen an increase in interest in recent years. Two notable technologies in this green movement are the production of biodiesel from microalgae and the production of biogas from anaerobic digestion of waste biomass. Production of biodiesel from microalgae was studied extensively in the 80s through the early 90s and found to be economically infeasible given the technology of the time. However, recent literature has suggested that one possible method to improve the feasability of the process would be to combine it with an anaerobic digestor to provide nutrient and biomass recycling. For such a system, having accurate models of each process would be highly advantageous for optimal design and control. To this end this thesis moves towards this overall goal by examining and modelling the anaerobic digestion of the microalgae <em>Chlorella vulgaris</em>.</p> <p>Starting with a set of experimental data (anaerobic digestion of <em>Chlorella vulgaris</em>) provided by LBE-INRA, the minimum number of kinetic equations needed to predict the data are found using principal component style analysis. This number is found to be two to three reactions. Using this as a basis for model development, a mass balance model is developed around both two and three reaction cases. To date there is very little literature on the modelling of anaerobic digestion of microalgae and so kinetic laws are selected from the general anaerobic digestion models ``Anaerobic Digestor Model 1'' (ADM1) and ``Acidogenesis/Methanogenisis Model'' (AM2). Given that the kinetic laws were derived from general literature, model fitting is a must. To faciliate this process a novel systematic parameter identification procedure to locate identifiable parameter subsets within each model is presented. Applying this novel procedure to the provided data is seen to lead to promising identification results. Through these identification trials it is shown that the three reaction model best captures the dynamics of the system. This three reaction model serves as the basis for subsequent steady state optimality and sensitivity analysis. From these efforts it is shown that the predicted optimal curves match literature data very well but uncertainty in certain key parameter estimates lead to highly sensitive model predictions (and therefore low confidence). This leads to the conclusion that the developed model is capable of predicting the kinetics of <em>Chlorella</em> digestion but additional trials are needed to further refine the model fitting results.</p> <p>Coupling an anaerobic digester to a microalgal culture is currently considered one of the most promising avenues towards the production of renewable bioenergy, either in the form of biodiesel or biogas. Accurate mathematical models are crucial tools to assess the potential of such coupled biotechnological processes and help optimize their design, operation and control. This paper focuses on the compartment of anaerobic digestion of microalgae. Using experimental data for the anaerobic digestion of <em>Chlorella vulgaris</em>, a grey-box model is developed that allows good prediction capabilities and retains low complexity. The proposed methodology proceeds in two steps, namely a structural and a parametric identification steps. The fitted model is then used to conduct preliminary optimization for the production of biogas from <em>Chlorella vulgaris</em>. The results provide some insight into the potential for bioenergy production from the digestion of microalgae and, more generally, the coupled process.</p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)