Dissertation (PhD) Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Jeffrery Kite-Powell, Florida State University, College of Music. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed 7-10-07). Document formatted into pages; contains 246 pages. Includes biographical sketch. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Spanish)--Vanderbilt University, Aug. 2007. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

University, Diss., 2004--Kiel.

University, Diss., 2004--Kiel.

Texte remanié de: Tesis doctoral--Universidad autónoma de Madrid. Titre de soutenance : Nacionalización y administración de los bienes de la Iglesia, 1835-1850. / Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. 435-437.

Thesis (MS)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Cathy Whitlock. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-77).

El presente ensayo analiza la información relativa al pasado prehispánico que contiene el manuscrito titulado «Discurso sobre la descendencia y gouierno de los ingas» con el propósito de identificar al responsable de la recopilación de tales datos y estudiar la relación entre el texto y otros escritos que tratan sobre la historia incaica. El artículo sostiene que el «Discurso» recoge información acerca del pasado prehispánico recopilada por el licenciado Polo de Ondegardo y no por Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, como tradicionalmente se ha señalado.

Las raíces de la novela Pedro Páramo emergen desde la infancia del autor. La muerte atraviesa en la novela todos los fragmentos desde el comienzo hasta el final. En la escritura de Juan Rulfo, la muerte del padre es como una cuña que marca hondo cada letra. El ir tras las huellas que deja su escritura, arrastra al lector a vivencias que van más cerca de la desilusión, de la pérdida, del dolor, del odio, de la destrucción y de la muerte que de la esperanza, del júbilo, de la luminosidad. Las imágenes que surgen de fertilidad, vida, amor, paz, unidad, tienden a desvanecerse. Forman parte de un discurso paralelo, de una dualidad que se transforma para los personajes que la padecen en un refugio, en una huida, en un recurso defensivo frente a una realidad que atemoriza, fatiga o enloquece.

El presente estudio aborda la problemática ambiental mediante el establecimiento de una zonificación ecológica del territorio, definiendo en ésta el manejo de los recursos protegidos y los diferentes usos permitidos, estableciendo algunos requerimientos básicos para alcanzar este objetivo y aunando los conceptos de conservación y desarrollo de acuerdo a la capacidad de los recursos presentes.

Hydrothermal vents are deep-sea hot springs. Vents are home to luxuriant assemblages of animals that colonize the warm venting fluids. High biomass is fed by microbes that use hydrogen sulphide and other reduced chemicals in the vent fluid as an energy source to fix inorganic carbon. Individual vents may persist for a few years to several decades. The specialized animals must find new vents, cope with changing fluid conditions and foster their offspring. The composition and structure of vent communities vary in space and time. My research at Axial Volcano, a seamount on the Juan de Fuca Ridge (JdFR) in the northeast Pacific, aims to find pattern in this variation and to propose viable hypotheses of the mechanisms driving the patterns. Axial is an ideal location as it supports mature vent fields (venting for over 15 years) and young, developing vents initiated by a volcanic eruption in 1998. Thus, I was able to study both temporal and spatial variation in vent communities at the same site and relate patterns of developing assemblages to patterns observed at longer-lived vents. Pattern detection is the first critical step in any community ecology study as it justifies and focuses the search for process. I have refined existing statistical methods and developed novel techniques to test for pattern in vent species distributions and abundances. I modified an existing null model approach and showed that species distributions among sixteen vents differ from random in a long-lived (>15 years) vent field. I also developed a novel null model to confirm that initial patterns of community assembly seven months following the Axial eruption differ from random recruitment of species and individuals to new vents. My description of the community response to the Axial eruption is the first quantitative report of patterns of vent colonization and succession. My work documents that new vents are colonized quickly (within months) and that initial assemblages are variable. However, rapid community transitions and species replacements within the first few years cause new assemblages to resemble mature vents by 2.5 years post-eruption. Three habitat factors correlate with the development of nascent vent assemblages: the recruitment timing of the tubeworm Ridgeia piscesae post-eruption, vent age and vent fluid hydrogen sulphide content. I also describe a new polynoid polychaete discovered colonizing the new vents in high densities. My major contribution to vent community ecology is revealing species patterns through extensive sampling and rigorous statistical methods. These patterns are a necessary step towards understanding the processes that structure vent communities: they direct future research effort towards the key species and generate hypotheses to be experimentally tested. My work also elucidates how vent species respond to habitat destruction and creation, which is critical information for effectively managing Canada's only hydrothermal vent Marine Protected Area on the JdFR. / Graduate