The essay investigates the film adaptation process of the short story "Brokeback Mountain". The short story is compared to the film manuscript and the film. The process of adaptation is analyzed through a narratological perspective and uses Linda Hutcheon's "A Theory of Adaptation" as a starting point when analyzing matters such as focalization, narrators,voiceovers and framed narratives.

The Qilian Fold Belt is a suture belt between the China-Korea craton and Qaidam craton. There are manly Paleozoic volcanic rocks of marine origin occurred in the Qilian suture belt. According to the previous studies, these volcanic rocks are mainly spilite and keratophyre. In the present study, we have used methods of petrography and mineral chemistry to study alteration and low-grade metamorphism of Ordovician volcanic rocks in Mayahsuehshan, Minleh and Changma areas. These three areas are located in eastern, middle and western of Northern Qilian Fold Belt, respectively. On the basis of the parageneses of secondary minerals, it is indicated that the metamorphic grade of the Lower Ordovician volcanic rocks is equivalent to greenschist facies, whereas that of the upper part of the Middle Ordovician volcanic rocks is equivalent to prehnite-pumpellyite facies. The lower part of the Middle Ordovician volcanic rocks is a transition zone between prehnite- pumpellyite and greenschist facies. The metamorphic grades are thus lower for the younger volcanic rocks. The metamorphic grades of Minleh and Changma areas are prehnite-pumpellyite and prehnite-actinolite facies, respectively. The mineral parageneses of the volcanic rocks are generally consistent with that of spilite or keratophyre. It was considered earlier that the spilite and keratophyre were formed by direct crystallization from a mixture of magma and seawater. However, metamorphic grades of the volcanic rocks are shown to be equivalent to that of the intercalated metaclastic rocks in the present study. Therefor, it is implied that the spilitic volcanic and metaclastic rocks in the Mayahsuehshan area have formed as a reasult of regional metamorphism. The spilitic and keratophyric volcanic rocks from Minleh and Changma areas, respectively, are also inferred to have formed as a result of regional metamorphism. It is therefore more adequate to name them metabasalts or metandesites. Mineral assembleges and mineral chemistry are different in different parts of the rocks, because of varied effective compositions during metamorphism. According to the chlorite compositions, the chlorite/smectite mixed layering is not prevailing in the volcanic rocks of the three areas. However, interstratification of chlorite and illite appears in groundmass of some volcanic rocks in Minleh area. There are few chromium-spinel in the volcanic rocks of Mayahsuehshan area. The plots of Mg/(Mg+Fe) versus Cr/(Cr+Al) of the chromium-spinel imply that the volcanic rocks in Mayahsuehshan area may have occurred in island arc environments.

A revision of the author's Thesis (master's)--al-Jāmiʻah al-Lubnānīyah, 1982. / Title on added t.p.: Pages memorables de l'histoire de druzes en Syrie et au Liban (1685-1927). Includes bibliographical references (p. 482-489) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Oulun Yliopisto, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic format.

Inaug.-Diss.--Munich. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Barr, Donald ; Dryer, David A. Second Reader: Read, Robert R. "September 1990." Description based on title screen viewed on December 17, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Artillery, employment, battlefields, missions, platoon level organizations, fires, statistical analysis, battles, scenarios, yield. DTIC Identifier(s): Artillery fire, artillery units, army training, battery level organizations, field army, combat effectiveness, firepower, military doctrine, janus war games, military force levels, analysis of variance, factor analysis, platoon level organizations, computerized simulation, field artillery, scenarios, theses. Author(s) subject terms: Field Artillery, artillery, National Training Center, JANUS. Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-34). Also available in print.

Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone / The goal of this research is to define self sufficiency for mountain communities, understand the resources that make up a mountain community, and describe how current and future mountain communities can take steps toward self sufficiency. What the report explores and finds is that most mountain communities have all the resources available to become autonomous, sustainable areas able to support human, wildlife, and environmental health. This conclusion came from an extensive literature review on the resources of mountain communities, followed by analysis of the resources held in the mountain community of Summerhaven, Arizona. A list of prescriptive steps based on Summerhaven’s current needs is discussed, giving the community a ranked order of how they can utilize their resources to full potential and become autonomous to any outside resources. While further research into other communities is needed to more effectively understand the different scope of resource issues mountain communities are facing, this report has a general view of what effects all mountain communities. No two mountain communities will be the same in their resource needs, but the analysis on Summerhaven can be repeated in all existing communities. Self sufficiency in mountain communities is entirely possible and should be explored in order to make the mountain a healthy, sustainable, and beautiful landscape to be enjoyed by people for the rest of the time that they will be occupying Earth.

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Taxonomic descriptions in English and Spanish, and keys to 16 closely related species of the Muhlenbergia montana (Nutt.) Hitchc. complex were generated by means of DELTA programs, using morphological character data from an automated taxonomic data bank. A chromatographic survey of the flavonoid content of 14 species produced 24 different flavonoids, of which 22 were chemically identified. The flavonoid profiles supported the morphological delimitation of the species and provided a basis for clearly separating the annual species (M. crispiseta and M. peruviana) from the perennial species in this complex. Two new perennial species (M. cualensis and M. michisensis) were described from populations which are morphologically and chemically distinct.