Texte remanié de: Diss.--Fachbereich Kunstgeschichte--Bonn--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1987.

Afhandling--København, 1997. / Résumé en anglais. Bibliogr. p. 785-800. Notes bibliogr. Index.

Thesis--Odense. / "Bekendtgørelse." 1 l., inserted. Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 496-506.

Thesis (D.Mus.)-University of Pretoria, 2005. / Abstract in Afrikaans and English. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

CDC's requirements for Salmonella surveillance reporting include submission of serovars from the recognized naming scheme, Kauffmann-White (K-W), using identifiers curated by the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®). Translating the serotype formula of a Salmonella isolate to the correct identifier has been a multistep manual process for users. Our goal was to determine whether a degree of automation could be achieved using an ontology based on K-W. We investigated information artifacts presently available, namely K-W, SNOMED CT and CDC's Public Health Information Network - Vocabulary Access and Distribution System (PHIN-VADS). As SNOMED CT creates identifiers and associates them with serovar names, we performed detailed analysis on its coverage of K-W. An overall error rate of 13.1% included simple omissions and transcription errors. We limited our assessment of K-W and PHIN-VADS to the functional characteristics of the resources they distribute. K-W creates serovar names but does not provide identifiers. PHIN-VADS includes the identifiers but not antigenic formulae for most isolates. In summary, neither K-W nor PHIN-VADS contained all information users require. Two different ontology prototypes were developed. Prototype I placed K-W serovars as terminal nodes in the hierarchy and these were given logic-based definitions. Prototype II added isolate classes as serovar subtypes. Only the isolate classes had complete logical definitions. Both prototypes were logically sound and functioned as expected. Prototype I paralleled existing SNOMED CT content but required more robust description logic than currently employed in SNOMED CT. Prototype II was more compatible with current functionality of SNOMED CT but created identifiers that would not meet current requirements for public health reporting. Prototype I was fully populated as the Salmonella Serotype Designation Ontology (SSDO). As it stands, SSDO reliably places isolates in the appropriate classes, with few and predictable exceptions. Although SNOMED CT cannot accommodate its functionality at this time, SSDO can serve as the basis for a stand-alone application. Ultimately whether by improving functionality of existing systems or providing a framework for an ancillary automated system, this work should facilitate real-time reporting and analysis of surveillance data that will prevent new or reduce severity of infectious disease outbreaks. / Ph. D.

G.F. Kauffmann exerted great, albeit disparaged influence on his contemporaries and the subsequent generation of organists and composers. Many of his works were copied and regularly performed by these musicians, including prominent composers such as J.S. Bach and J.G. Walther. Kauffmann is mostly associated with one of the most important collection of chorale preludes in the Baroque, viz. the Harmonische Seelenlust (Leipzig 1733), of which he is the composer. Among the numerous peculiar characteristics of this work are the registration indications supplied by Kauffmann himself. It is the most detailed source of registration in the entire Baroque era, consequently giving us a unique insight into the trends of combining stops during this period. Using Kauffmann’s particular style of registration, it becomes possible and even desirable to implement these suggestions found in the Harmonische Seelenlust in the works of his contemporaries. Kauffmann devised a specific system of registration for specific genres of works that are adaptable to his own works that were not supplied with registration, and to the works of his contemporaries. / Thesis (PMus (Performing Art))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Music / unrestricted

This dissertation examines the confluence of ideas about classicism, commerce, and authorship in Britain in the final decades of the eighteenth century, when the commercial potential of classical forms and, conversely, the artistic potential of ‘mechanical’ forms of production both seemed greater, and yet more vulnerable, than they had ever been. While classical antiquity was a crucial source of artistic authority in this period, the emergence of a model of individual, inwardly generated, original authorship provided a different opportunity for commercial classicists to distinguish themselves in a crowded and competitive marketplace. In successive chapters of the dissertation, I discuss four makers whose works were produced in the context of competing models of authorship and authority: the architect, Robert Adam; the potter and manufacturer, Josiah Wedgwood; the painter and printmaker, Angelica Kauffman; and the sculptor and designer, John Flaxman. Each of these authors straddled the worlds of the mechanical and liberal arts, using a self-consciously classical artistic vocabulary in conjunction with highly commercial production and marketing strategies. They increasingly shaped and presented their works and style as their own proprietary creations, capitalising on emerging concepts of original genius and individual authorship: the very concepts that seem to be at odds both with academic classicism and with reproductive practices. Adam, Wedgwood, Kauffman, and Flaxman demonstrate how classicism, the idea of genius, and commercial, industrial modernity were mutually constitutive, resulting in the creation of artistic styles that are still associated with their authors today.

On April 9, 1940, Germany invaded Denmark. Instantly, the fate and status of Greenland, a Danish colony, was thrust into limbo. During the war, Greenland’s vital mineral resources and location made it significant for the warring parties on both sides of the Atlantic. However, conflicting international corporate and political interests made any act to defend the island on the part of the Allies, or the officially neutral Americans, problematic. Within a year of the Danish occupation, the American government had signed an agreement for the defense of Greenland, extending the protection of both the Monroe Doctrine and the American military to the island. This action was an important step in the formal expansion of American influence in the Western Hemisphere that occurred during the Second World War. This thesis argues that global economic, political, and technological changes led to Greenland’s increased geopolitical significance and set the stage for a shift in the balance of power within the North Atlantic Triangle. It demonstrates how decisions relating to the security of the island came to be made and how conflicting interests within and between governments affected the genesis of the occupation. It explores how Winston Churchill’s decision to mine the North Sea led to the American occupation of Greenland and examines the ways in which the effects of Churchill’s actions raised concerns in Canada about the possibility of a British defeat, which in turn led Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, to align his foreign policy closer to that of the United States’ President Roosevelt. This thesis also asserts that Roosevelt successfully used the potential foreign occupation of Greenland to demonstrate to the American public the dangers of foreign conflicts to the United States and to further his hemispheric security objectives both domestically and abroad. These events had a profound and lasting impact on the relationships within the North Atlantic Triangle and on political identity in Greenland, and signalled an important shift in the foreign policy of the United States toward greater American involvement in world affairs.