This study is concerned with an evaluation of the suffering and self of the elected characters in the novels of Patrick White. The suffering these elected characters endure, apart from the uncomprehending antagonism of society, takes place mainly in the country of the mind - "that solitary land of the individual experience, in which no fellow footfall is ever heard" (Epigraph to The Aunt's Story) - and is a form of catharsis in preparatory to a reunion with God as the Source of all Being. The suffering, whether of a psychic or physical nature - or both - is complicated by the duality between the esoteric and exoteric selves of the characters involved. The nature of the suffering is always solitary. The wisdom eventually gained from the suffering cannot be shared. Contact with fellow elect is brief and without consequence except for mutual recongnition of "outsidership". It is clear that the elected character has no apparent control of what happens to him in life. The reader gains the impression that the elected characters in White's novels are the involuntary victims of some "malign" life-force that, paradoxically, brings about a state of grace. White touches on, but wisely prefers not to examine, the problems of predestination and euthanasia. The elected characters are all outsiders in the sense that they are, in some psychic or physical manner, different from the members of the society in which they find themselves. In the earlier novels the elected characters' alienism is characterised by their intuitive awareness of another, nonphysical, transcendent plane of being - "There is another world, but it is in this one" (Epigraph to The Solid Mandala) . Progressive reading of White's novels reveals that his conception of suffering, despite disavowal, is in line with the Biblical concept of suffering as described in Paul's letter to the Romans. The non-elected members of society with whom the elect come into conflict either do not understand or are unwilling to admit their intuitive awareness that there is another world within the familiar one, a concept White frequently refers to in his image of boxes and boxes within boxes. The secret knowledge the elect seem to have antagonises the other members of society because of the sense of loss they experience. White's later novels reveal a concern with sexually aberrated suffering which is closely aligned to his own unhappiness. The sexual duality that is an essential aspect of Theodora Goodman's (The Aunt's Story) dilemma gains progressively more of White's attention and is eventually exposed in his biography of Eddie Twyborn (The Twyborn Affair). White's concern with abnormal sexuality is related to his disquiet with the mystery of the soul baing "housed” in a body not only unsuitable, but also contrary to the nature of the psyche which is either predominantly male or female. White is clearly angry that this mystery should be the profound result of momentary lust. Although so many of White's elect labour under spiritually destructive burdens of guilt, the parents who are considered the root cause of all suffering in a post-lapsarian state, feel little of any compunction because they are too concerned with their own suffering, real or imagined. God as Source or God as the "One" is an all-pervading, if unacknowledged force in White's corpus and in the lives of his elect. The elect turn to God only when they have suffered and acknowledged their dependence on Him. It is sad that White should, in the end not find himself in "the boundless garden" with Stan Parker (The Tree of Man). He seems to share the fates of Theodora Goodman (The Aunt's Story) and Arthur Brown (The Solid Mandala). / Thesis (DLitt)--UOVS, 1989

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In this study, microsatellite and mtDNA markers were successfully used to study the population structure of <i>C. carcharias.  </i>Development of new microsatellite loci and the largest sample panel so far assembled for population genetic analyses has given the highest resolution of white shark population structure to-date.  Concordance of direct (photographic identification) and indirect (molecular tools) methods of individual identification was assessed to validate proposed white shark local movements.  The utility of DNA from alternative sources to standard muscle biopsies was tested, with encouraging results obtained from attempts to extract sufficient genomic DNA from white shark teeth.  Female mating strategies were investigated and set in the context of a global phylogeographic study of the white shark, utilizing 304 individuals caught worldwide.  For the first time female promiscuity was documented in two species of Lamniformes, conforming to the typical mating pattern of elasmobranches studied to date.  Finally, the presence of two matrilineal clades in the Atlantic-western Indian and Pacific oceans was revealed, with a deeper substructure within oceans detected by nuclear and mtDNA markers, supporting the hypothesis of female philopatry with gene flow mediated by both sexes.  These findings are essential to the management of white shark populations, a species that has already been classified as ‘Vulnerable’ by the IUCN.

We have extended our detailed survey of the local white dwarf population from 20 to 25 pc, effectively doubling the sample volume, which now includes 232 stars. In the process, newstars within 20 pc have been added, a more uniform set of distance estimates as well as improved spectral and binary classifications are available. The present 25 pc sample is estimated to be about 68 per cent complete (the corresponding 20 pc sample is now 86 per cent complete). The space density of white dwarfs is unchanged at 4.8 +/- 0.5 x 10(-3) pc(-3). This new study includes a white dwarf mass distribution and luminosity function based on the 232 stars in the 25 pc sample. We find a significant excess of single stars over systems containing one or more companions (74 per cent versus 26 per cent). This suggests mechanisms that result in the loss of companions during binary system evolution. In addition, this updated sample exhibits a pronounced deficiency of nearby 'Sirius-like' systems. 11 such systems were found within the 20 pc volume versus only one additional system found in the volume between 20 and 25 pc. An estimate of white dwarf birth rates during the last similar to 8 Gyr is derived from individual remnant cooling ages. A discussion of likely ways new members of the local sample may be found is provided.

It is the purpose of this thesis to examine some of the literature of the Western world as it uses one color-related element: white, and to suggest whether or not this use of white is significant in that literature.

Previous studies have demonstrated that in some instances certain types of auditory stimulation have facilitated a subject's ability at a visual task while in other instances, the subject's ability has been inhibited. The primary objective of this experiment was to investigate the effect of auditory stimulation upon a subject's performance on a visual discrimination task.

In both fact and fiction, the lower-class intellectual is a significant figure of the years 1880--1911. I concentrate on the three novelists who have made the most sustained artistic enquiry into the subject. In the process I hope to show how in practice Victorianism developed into modernism. Hale White and his obscure provincials experience loss of faith but are unable to reject certain values that were fundamental to that faith. If they cannot return to old certainties they cannot embrace the new ones of secularism find mass opinion; significantly, White sets his novels early, rather than late, in the nineteenth century. Gissing writes of his own times but he and his characters are poor struggling scholars in a society given to vulgarity and materialism. They can, however, still respond to certain worldly preoccupations---notably gentility. They are perpetual lodgers seeking a real home. Unlike White and Gissing, Wells is consciously committed to the future. However, his ambitious young scientist or utopian is an 'Anachronic Man', a term just as applicable to a White or Gissing protagonist. The Wellsian hero, ostensibly confident, can still suffer a crisis of identity and identification. I emphasise the individual nature of every chosen example of this character-type; each of them, however, suffers from a conflict between the need to find his unconventionally individual bearings and his need to relate to his fellow human beings in the community, however crass or mediocre that community may be. He faces undesirable extremes of isolation and integration. He is in limbo, and even 'unclassed'. If he originates between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, he cannot belong to either. His intellectual qualities cut him off from the class or community of his birth but do not necessarily enable him to place himself in another. I show how the ultimate condition for him is one of isolation, but I end on a positive note.

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Thesis (M.S.) in Forestry--University of Maine, 2004. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-39).

<p>What kinds of elements determine people´s possibilities of being integrated into society? This is what the author tries to illuminate in this essay, by discussing the plots and characters in White Teeth.</p>