Bear Lodge/Devils Tower National Monument, a spectacular rock formation in northeastern Wyoming, has a multiplicity of meanings, not all of which were fully acknowledged until the 1990s. It is widely known as a geologic wonder, the first national monument, a marker of local and pioneer heritage, and a premier rock climbing area. In the 1980s and ‘90s, however, the National Park Service began to acknowledge that the Tower also holds cultural and historical meaning for the Northern Plains tribes, dating back long before the colonization of the American West. Some of the tribes expressed to the Park Service that they were offended by rock climbers desecrating the Tower, a sacred site, leading the Park Service to seek to compromise between these competing uses of this public land. The controversy over climbing at Bear Lodge/Devils Tower was, and remains, a debate over history, and this thesis examines the historical foundations for the discourses of climbers, local white residents, tribal members, and the Park Service, as these various groups asserted their claims to this public space. This thesis contends that the language used by climbers and local white residents in arguing against the Park Service’s accommodation of tribal cultures and beliefs appropriated the languages of spirituality and tradition used by the tribes, and sought to delegitimize the tribal claims to the Tower. The Park Service is complicit in controlling the discourses surrounding the Tower and erasing the traditions and complex history of the Northern Plains tribal ties to this sacred place.

This paper aims to examine what the differences is between the three application types, native, hybrid and web. The main focus will be placed on the web app and investigate whether it could be an alternative to native and hybrid app. To explain what a web app has the capacity to do, a web app is created in wordpress. Web development is moving forward, which is obviously positive. The problem may be, however, for companies that come from a completely different industry and who wish to develop a new web solution for their company. A native app can be a very expensive investment and it is far from all companies that can pay this. This study wants to find out if a web app, could be an alternative to the native app. Furthermore, the report will examine what the possibilities are for a web app and what existing web apps there is today. Furthermore, a simple price comparison between the different app types to be made. / Den här rapporten syftar till att undersöka vad skillnaden är mellan de tre applikationstyperna, native, hybrid och webb. Störst fokus kommer att placeras på webb appen och undersöka om denna skulle kunna vara ett alternativ till native och hybrid appen. För att redogöra vad en webb app har kapacitet att göra kommer en webb app att skapas i wordpress. Webbutvecklingen går framåt vilket självklart är positivt. Problemet som kan bli är dock för företag som kommer från en helt annan bransch och som önskar ta fram en ny webb-lösning för sitt företag. En native app kan vara en väldigt dyr investering och det är långt ifrån alla företag som kan betala detta. Denna undersökning vill reda ut om en webb app kan var ett alternativ till native appen. Vidare kommer rapporten undersöka vad det finns för möjligheter för en webb app och vad det finns för webb appar idag. Dessutom kommer en enklare prisjämförelse mellan de olika apptyperna att göras.

The thesis investigates conversations involving native speakers and non-nativespeakers of English. The non-native speakers partaking in the study have a welldeveloped knowledge of the foreign language. The study is particularly concernedwith the function and interactional relevance of repair strategies that interlocutorsemploy when they talk to each other. The results of the analyses highlight issuessuch as participants’ self-representations as competent speakers, the notion “nonnativeness”,and language learning, relating to current developments within conversationanalytic research on second/foreign language conversations. Comparisonsbetween non-native and native speakers are made, highlighting similarities as wellas di¡erences in participants’ use of repair strategies. The study adopts a conversation analytic framework but is also in¤uenced bystudies of second/foreign language acquisition. Conversation analytic research has,until recently, dealt with conversations involving non-native speakers who have alimited or intermediate command of the second/foreign language. Repair behavioursof advanced foreign language users are thus a little investigated area. Whereasnon-native speakers with limited experience in using the second/foreign languageoften employ repair in order to solve problems that are related to their linguisticknowledge, such as ¢nding or knowing words and constructing utterances that areunderstandable in the context in which they occur, this thesis shows how an increasedknowledge of the foreign language involves a shift in focus as repair is carriedout, i.e. repair is used to address problems of a linguistic as well as of a socialnature. Since an increased knowledge of a foreign language is accompanied by an increasein the range of jobs that repair strategies do, “doing repair” is an importantpart of the development of non-native speakers’ interactional and linguistic competence.

This thesis employed an integrated approach and investigated intra- and inter-individual differences relevant for normally hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) adults in native (Swedish) and non-native (English) languages in adverse listening conditions. The integrated approach encompassed the role of cognition as a focal point of interest as well as perceptualauditory and linguistic factors. Paper I examined the extent to which proficiency in a non-native language influenced native and non-native speech perception performance for NH listeners in noise maskers compared to native and non-native speech maskers. Working memory capacity in native and non-native languages and non-verbal intelligence were also assessed. The design of paper II was identical to that of paper I, however the participants in paper II had a hearingimpairment. The purpose of paper III was to assess how NH and HI listeners subjectively evaluated the perceived disturbance from the speech- and noise maskers in the native and nonnative languages. Paper IV examined how well native and non-native stories that were presented unmasked and masked with native and non-native speech were recalled by NH listeners. Paper IV further investigated the role of working memory capacity in the episodic long-term memory of story contents as well as proficiency in native and non-native languages. The results showed that generally, the speech maskers affected performance and perceived disturbance more than the noise maskers did. Regarding the non-native target language, interference from speech maskers in the dominant native language is taxing for speech perception performance, perceived disturbance and memory processes. However, large inter- individual variability between the listeners was observed. Part of this variability relates to non-native language proficiency. Perceptual and cognitive effort may hinder efficient long-term memory encoding, even when stimuli are appropriately identified at a perceptual level. A large working memory capacity (WMC) provides a better ability to suppress distractions and allocate processing resources to meet assigned objectives. The relatively large inter-individual differences in this thesis, require an individualized approach in clinical or educational settings when non-native persons or people with hearing impairment need to perceive and remember potentially vital information. Individua  differences in the very complex process of speech understanding and recall need to be further addressed by future studies. The relevance of cognitive factors and language proficiency provides opportunities for individuals who face difficulties to compensate using other abilities. / Avhandlingens övergripande syfte var att genom ett integrerat tillvägagångssätt undersöka mellan- och inom-individuella skillnader relevanta för normalhörande och hörselskadade vuxna i svenska och engelska språket under ogynnsamma lyssningsförhållanden. Med kognitiva faktorer i fokus, omfattade det integrerade tillvägagångssättet också perceptuella-auditiva och lingvistiska faktorer. Studie I undersökte i vilken utsträckning färdigheter i engelska inverkade på taluppfattning av ett modersmål och ett andra språk som var maskerat med brus jämfört med störande tal på svenska och engelska. Normalhörande vuxna deltog. Arbetsminneskapacitet på svenska och engelska liksom icke-verbal intelligens bedömdes också i studien. Designen i studie II var identisk med designen i studie I, förutom att personer med hörselnedsättning ingick som deltagare. Syftet med studie III var att bedöma hur normalhörande personer och personer med hörselnedsättning subjektivt utvärderade den upplevda störningen från tal- och brus på ett modersmål och ett andra språk. Studie IV undersökte hur väl normalhörande deltagare kom ihåg berättelser på svenska och engelska som presenterades omaskerade eller med störande tal på svenska eller engelska. Studie IV undersökte vidare  arbetsminneskapacitet och episodiskt långtidsminne av berättelsernas innehåll liksom också färdighet i svenska och engelska språket. Resultaten visade att generellt var maskeringseffekten större vid störande tal jämfört med andra bruskällor både vad avser taluppfattning såväl som upplevd störning. Vad det gäller det engelska språket som talsignal, är störning från det svenska modersmålet påfrestande för taluppfattning, upplevd störning såväl som för minnesprocesser. Dock har stor inter- och intra-individuell variation mellan deltagarna observerats. En del av denna variation avser engelska språkfärdigheter. Perceptuell och kognitiv påfrestning kan minska möjligheten till att säkra långsiktiga minnesprocesser även om ett stimuli var korrekt identifierat på en perceptuell nivå. En god arbetsminneskapacitet kan ge en bättre förmåga att undertrycka en distraktion och därmed fördela processresurserna för att nå de uppställda målen. De relativt stora inter-individuella skillnaderna i denna avhandling gör det angeläget med en individualiserad  tillämpning, kliniskt eller inom utbildningsmässiga områden när personer med hörselnedsättning eller personer med ett annat modersmål behöver uppfatta eller minnas potentiellt viktig information. De individuella skillnader som ligger bakom taluppfattning och minnesförmåga behöver utforskas vidare. Goda kognitiva förmågor och språkfärdigheter ger möjligheter för individer som möter svårigheter till att kompensera genom att använda dessa förmågor.

Latitudinal gradient of diversity is typically being explained by the three main hypotheses: The Resources Limitation Hypothesis, The Speciation Rate Hypothesis and The Niche Conservatism Hypothesis. In my study I tested basic assumptions of these hypotheses using native and non-native vascular plants obtained from the new database GloNAF (Global Naturalized Alien Flora). I tested an effect of precipitation, NPP, temperature and historical velocity (difference in temperature and precipitation between the Last Glacial Maximum and present) on species richness. Given that the distribution of non-native species is among continents irregular (we can divide them into two groups - Australia with Europe and North America and South America with Africa and Asia), I tested the abovementioned relationships at both - global and continental scale. Species richness of native species increased with NPP, precipitation and temperature and decreased with the difference in temperature. The global distribution of non-native plants increased with precipitation and temperature velocity and decreases with temperature and precipitation velocity, although the results varied for particular continents. Unlike other studies the number of non-native species didn't correlate with the number of native plant species. Concurrently...

This diploma thesis explores the possibility of mapping the reception of a literary text in terms of language management processes and in succession unveils the main differences in the perception of a literary text by a native opposed to a non-native speaker. The first three chapters treat the research methodology, which is based on Language Management Theory, Neustupný's approach to literary criticism through this concrete theory and single elements from formalism and structuralism. The research, which is described in chapters four to seven, focuses on the different moments of noting, evaluation and problem solving strategies realised by two readers of a modern Czech short story (one native and one non-native speaker). These processes are identified and analysed by the means of follow-up interviews. The aim of the thesis is to establish a complex methodology of identifying, describing and interpreting management processes which occur during the reception of a literary text and further to investigate the main characteristics that distinguish this process in the case of a native and a non-native recipient of the text.

Neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar är en grupp diagnoser som påverkar hur hjärnan hanterar information och kan ge svårigheter med koncentration, reglera uppmärksamhet, minne m.m. En metod som används för att ge stöd till personer NPF är Tydliggörande pedagogik. Tydliggörande pedagogik går ut på att beskriva händelser och omgivningen på ett sätt som personer med NPF lätt kan förstå. Metoder som används inom tydliggörande pedagogik är visuella scheman, arbetsordningar och visualisering av tid. Det här projektet har vidareutvecklat applikationen Vardag åt uppdragsgivaren Altran. Vardag implementerar ett visuellt schema för att ge stöd till personer med NPF. Denna uppsats beskriver utvecklingen av applikationen och vilka funktioner som finns i applikationen. Uppsatsen beskriver också funktioner som kan vidareutvecklas i applikationen. Applikationen kommunicerar med ett webb-API på en server för att synkronisera aktiviteter och bilder som tillhör schemat. De funktioner som har implementerats i applikationen under projektet är bilder som synkas till server, underaktiviteter, visuella teman, token autentisering till webb-API:et och datum för aktiviteter. Vardag är implementerad med React Native för att göra applikationen kompatibel med Android och IOS. / Neurodevelopmental disorders affect the way the brain handles information and can result in difficulties with concentration, shifting attention, memory and processing the surrounding environment. Clarifying pedagogy is a method that is used to support people with neurodevelopmental disorders.  Clarifying pedagogy aims to describe the environment and events clearly to the people with neurodevelopmental disorders. Aid included in clarifying pedagogy is schedules, checklist and time visualisations. This project is continuing the development of the Vardag-application for the company Altran. Vardag implements schedules in an application to help people with neurodevelopmental disorders. Vardag is implemented with React Native to make the application compatible with IOS and Android. A web API was developed and used to communicate between the application and the server.  During this project the features upload image, sub activities, visual themes and activities on a specific date was implemented.

Dans une communication exolingue, les échecs pragmatiques ne sont pas aussi aisément reconnaissables que les erreurs grammaticales ou phonétiques et de ce fait, ils risquent de mener à des malentendus sans qu’il y ait de tentative de réparation. Comment identifier et expliquer ces difficultés pragmatiques aux apprenants ? Quels sont les moyens possibles pour la transmission du savoir pragmatique ? Cette étude vise à répondre à ces questions en coordonnant, d’une part, les problèmes rencontrés dans les interactions réelles entre Français et Japonais et, d’autre part, ceux qui apparaissent dans les situations d’enseignement du français langue étrangère au Japon. Autour de deux actes de parole (l’excuse et de la réfutation), les différences entre Français et Japonais sont examinées à l’appui de corpus variés : témoignages écrits (livres et blogs) des personnes ayant connu les deux cultures, ouvrages de savoir-vivre ou encore, extraits de films. L’étude se tourne ensuite vers les trois composantes de l’enseignement : le manuel, l’enseignant et l’apprenant. Après une analyse des manuels de français langue étrangère édités au Japon, le travail a été enrichi par des entretiens avec des enseignantes, ainsi que par des questionnaires menés auprès d’apprenants japonais. Cette étude a permis de mettre à jour les possibilités et les difficultés de l’enseignement de la pragmatique, telles que le maniement des stéréotypes, les différences entre enseignant natif et non-natif ou encore la capacité d’observation chez les apprenants même débutants. / In communication between native and non-native speakers, pragmatic failures are not as easily recognizable as grammatical or phonetic errors, and therefore, they risk to lead to misunderstandings; generally speakers have no chance to repair ommunication problems. How do foreign language teachers identify and explain these pragmatic difficulties to the learners ? What are the possible means to teach pragmatics ? This study aims at answering these questions by associating the problems in the real interactions between French and Japanese speakers and those in the situations of teaching French as a foreign language in Japan. Concerning two speech acts (apology and refutation), the differences between French and Japanese are examined using various corpuses: books and blogs written by those who experienced both cultures, French and Japanese literature on manners and etiquette, and some sequences from movies. The study then deals with the three components of education : the textbook, the teacher and the learner. After an analysis of French textbooks published in Japan, interviews were conducted with teachers of French, and questionnaires were administered to Japanese learners. This study made clear the possibilities and the difficulties of teaching pragmatics, such as the way of incorporating stereotypes, the differences between native and non-native teachers, and the learners’ ability to be aware of pragmatic features even at beginner level.

Reaktionen zwischen reaktiven Oligonukleotiden, die durch komplementäre Nukleinsäuretemplate in hoher effektiver Molarität angeordnet werden, haben auf dem Gebiet der Nukleinsäurediagnostik an Bedeutung gewonnen. Sie bieten die Möglichkeit zur Erzeugung von mehreren Signalmolekülen pro Templat, wenn die templatgebundenen Produkte durch neue Reaktanden verdrängt werden. Da die Produkte ebenfalls hohe Templataffinitäten aufweisen, schränken sie jedoch die katalytische Templataktivität ein (Produktinhibierung). In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde zunächst ein neuer Ansatz zur Umgehung der Produktinhibierung entwickelt. Dazu wurde eine DNA-vermittelte PNA-Verknüpfungsreaktion in eine PCR integriert. Die Reaktion wurde direkt durch das während der PCR vervielfältigte Templat ausgelöst und erfolgreich in der einzelbasenspezifischen Genotypisierung von genomischer DNA eingesetzt. Die Nachweisgrenze war mit 30 Templatmolekülen im Vergleich zu bisherigen templatgesteuerten Reaktionen um etliche Größenordnungen niedriger. Ein alternativer Ansatz widmete sich neuen Strategien zur Verminderung der Produktinhibierung. Templatgesteuerte Verknüpfungs-Zyklisierungsreaktionen lieferten zyklische Verknüpfungsprodukte, welche gegenüber ihren linearen Pendants durch deutlich geringere Templataffinitäten gekennzeichnet waren. Daher überstiegen die Ausbeuten jene von Verknüpfungsreaktionen ohne Zyklisierung. Die Zunahme der Templataffinität in Folge der Verknüpfung wurde jedoch durch die Zyklisierung nicht vollständig kompensiert. Daher wurden templatgesteuerte Transferreakionen entwickelt, bei denen das DNA-Templat die Zyklisierung von nicht verknüpften Reaktionsprodukten steuert. Diese waren durch geringere Templataffinitäten als die linearen Reaktanden gekennzeichnet. Die Transfer-Zyklisierungsreaktionen lieferten bei fortgeschrittener Reaktion höhere Ausbeuten als Transferreaktionen ohne Zyklisierungsschritt. Dies bestätigte die erfolgreiche Verminderung der Produktinhibierung. / Reactions between reactive oligonucleotides that are aligned by complementary nucleic acid templates at high effective molarities have gained considerable attention in the field of nucleic acid diagnostics. They are capable of generating multiple signaling molecules per target, if the template-bound products are replaced by fresh reactants. However, since product molecules usually exhibit high template affinities, they impede the catalytic activity of the template (product inhibition). This work initially describes the development of a new approach that bypasses product inhibiton. To this end, a DNA-mediated PNA-ligation reaction was integrated in a PCR. The reaction was directly triggered by the template which was amplified during PCR. Furthermore, the reaction was successfully applied in single base-specific genotyping of genomic DNA. The limit of detection (30 template molecules) was several magnitudes lower compared to previous template-controlled reactions. In an alternative approach, new strategies to reduce product inhibition were developed. Template-mediated ligation-cyclization (“cycligation”) reactions generated cyclic ligation products that were characterized by significantly lower template affinities compared to their linear counterparts. The yields upon cycligation were higher than those from ligation reactions without cyclization. However, the increase in template affinity gained upon ligation of the reactants could not be completely compensated through product cyclization. Therefore, template-mediated transfer reactions were designed in which the DNA-template actuates the cyclization of non-ligated products. These were characterized by reduced template affinities compared to the linear reactants. The transfer-cyclization reactions produced higher yields than transfer reactions without a cyclization step, thereby confirming the successful reduction of product inhibition.

In dieser Dissertation wurden Verfahren für die konvergente Synthese von Peptide entwickelt. Für die erweiterte native chemische Ligation kamen bisher raumbeanspruchende Auxiliare zum Einsatz, die anspruchsvolle Ligationen behinderten. Zudem waren die drastischen säure-basierten Abspaltbedinungen mit vielen post-translationalen Modifikationen nicht vereinbar. In dieser Arbeit wurde ein neuartiges Auxiliargerüst mit geringerem Raumanspruch untersucht, dass eine erheblich mildere Abspaltung unter basischen Bedingungen ermöglichte. Dazu wurde ein kleiner Elektronenakzeptorsubsituent eingeführt, durch den nach der Ligation eine das Zielpeptid freisetzende Eliminierungsreaktion induziert werden konnte. Weiterhin konnte die Verwendung des kommerziell verfügbaren Penicillamins als Vorläufer in der Ligations-Entschwefelungs-Strategie demonstriert werden. Abschließend wurde die Ligation mit sequenz-internem Cystein untersucht. Hierbei zeigte sich, dass Peptide mit Cystein in einer bestimmten Position bevorzugt in thioester-basierten Kondensationen reagierten. / In this thesis approaches for convergent synthesis of peptides have been developed. In the extended native chemical ligation so far space demanding auxiliaries encumbered challenging condensations. Furthermore the required drastic acidolytic cleavage conditions were furthermore incompatible with many post-translational modifications. In the thesis a nouvelle less space demanding scaffold was scrutinized which allowed a milder basic cleavage. Therefore a small electron-accepting substituent was introduced that enabled the induction of an elimination reaction liberating the target peptide after the peptide ligation had taken place. Furthermore the applicability of the commercially available penicillamine as precursor of valine in the ligation-desulfurization strategy could be demonstrated. Finally the ligation with sequence internal cysteines was scrutinized. Herein it could be shown that certain peptides with cysteine in a distinctive position of the sequence preferable reacted in thioester-based condensation reactions.