In this thesis, the development of the major women protagonists in Ricarda Huch's novels and short stories is investigated. Evolving from purely Romantic figures to women who combine Romantic and rationalistic qualities, Ricarda Huch's women undergo three stages of development which correspond to three distinct periods in the life of the author, spent in Zurich, Bremen-Vienna-Trieste, and Munich. In Zurich, Ricarda Huch is absorbed in the woman who is an incorporation of a completely Romantic outlook; a woman who is dominated by emotion of such power that it ultimately overcomes the will to live itself. In the second period of her writing, Ricarda Huch portrays women, whose lives are also centred in emotion but are endowed with ethical purpose. They are willing to sacrifice connections with home and society for the sake of the men they love. The third and last period dealt with in this thesis is that of Ricarda Huch's life in Munich where she is a wife and mother. The figure of Farfalla in Aus der Triumphgasse serves as a transitional protagonist leading to Ricarda Huch's final statements on woman's place in the world. Set in bleakest poverty, this novel shows us woman reduced to her most essential nature and deprived of any morality except devotion to her children. Woman is now seen as a passive creature doomed to love, to suffer and to sacrifice in vain. Nevertheless, she ensures the continuance of mankind and finds consolation and purpose in that function. Rose in Michael Unger and Maielies in Von den Königen und der Krone recapitulate the whole development of Ricarda Huch's woman. They begin as naïve creatures centred in emotion, they gradually acquire ethical purpose, they find their sacrifice rejected, they are devoted to their children and they are left as onlookers in life. Resigned but not despairing, they choose to observe the course of events rationally. An investigation of Ricarda Huch's women characters would not be complete without a discussion of the Romantic concept of woman. In no one particular chapter of her critical works on the Romantics, does Ricarda Huch deal with Romantic woman, but throughout her writings on the Romantics, she discusses in general both Novalis' and Friedrich Schlegel's views on the role of woman. The first chapter of this thesis dealing with Caroline Schlegel is included because of her affinity with Ricarda Huch. There is no doubt after reading Ricarda Huch's writings on Caroline Schlegel as a great Romantic figure, that they are kindred spirits even though a century separated them. Not only was Ricarda Huch interested and impressed by Caroline Schlegel but her female characters, especially in her later periods of writing, bear marked resemblance to Caroline. Marie Baum, one of Ricarda Huch's closest friends, has compiled Ricarda Huch's correspondence with her, other friends and business associates in two volumes, entitled Briefe an die Freunde (Tübingen, 1955), and Leuchtende Spur, Das Leben Ricarda Huchs (Tübingen, 1950). I have relied heavily on these two volumes to show the close relationship between the author's development and that of her feminine characters mentioned above. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate

Leukocyter, vita blodkroppar, utgör en del av kroppens immunförsvar. De utmognar från hematopoetiska stamceller i benmärgen. Leukocyterna kan delas in i neutrofila granulocyter, lymfocyter, monocyter, eosinofila granulocyter och basofila granulocyter. För att bestämma antalet leukocyter i blodet analyseras leukocytpartikelkoncentration (B-LPK) med cellräknare. Om B-LPK är förhöjt eller sänkt utförs en differentialräkning av leukocyter (B-Diff) för att se i vilket cellsystem förändring föreligger. Den manuella analysen utförs på perifera blodutstryk färgade med cytokemisk färg, May-Grünwald Giemsa. Utstryket granskas i ett automatiskt mikroskopiskt system som räknar, fotograferar och förklassificerar leukocyter efter deras utseende. DiffMaster Octavia och CellaVision DM1200 är två varianter av ett sådant instrument från samma tillverkare (CellaVision AB, Lund, Sverige). Syftet med studien var att utföra en metodjämförelse mellan dessa instrument genom analys av 60 patientprov bestående av venöst blod taget i EDTA-rör. Proven samlades in slumpmässigt från patienter (32 män och 28 kvinnor) mellan 19-95 år. Resultaten visade enligt tvåsidigt parat t-test ingen signifikant skillnad avseende differentialräkning av neutrofila granulocyter, lymfocyter och monocyter. Korrelationen var 0,95, 0,91 respektive 0,68. Det fanns dock en signifikant skillnad mellan instrumenten avseende differentialräkning av eosinofila- och basofila granulocyter, korrelationen var 0,91 respektive 0,20. När endast 200 celler räknas kan ett resultat på 2 % skilja upp till 1-5 %. Därför blir skillnader på leukocyttyper som utgör enstaka procent i blodet normalt mycket stora. Metodjämförelsen visade att båda instrumenten ger samma resultat och anses därför likvärdiga vid analys av manuell B-Diff. / Leukocytes, white blood cells, are cells of the immune system. They are produced and derived from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow. Leukocytes can be divided into neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils and basophils. To determine the numbers of leukocytes in blood the leukocyte particle concentration (B-LPK) can be analyzed by cell counters. When B-LPK is elevated or lowered a differential count of leukocytes (B-Diff) is performed to see in which cell systems the change exists. The manual analysis involves peripheral blood smears stained with a cytochemical color, May-Grünwald Giemsa. The smear examined in an automatic microscopically system that counts, photographs and pre-classify leukocytes by its appearance. DiffMaster Octavia and CellaVision DM1200 are two variants of such instruments from the same manufacturer (CellaVision AB, Lund, Sweden). The aim of the study was to do a comparison between these instruments by analyzing 60 samples consisting venous blood in EDTA-tubes. The samples were collected randomly from patients (32 men and 28 women) between 19-95 years old. The results from two-sided paired t-test showed no significant difference between the differential count of neutrophils, lymphocytes and monocytes. The correlation was 0,95, 0,91 and 0,68. However, there was a significant difference between the instruments differential count of eosinophils and basophils, the correlation was 0,91 and 0,20. When counting only 200 cells a profit of 2 % distinguish up to 1-5 %. Abnormalities in leukocytes which represents only a few percent in blood can therefore be very large. Method comparison showed that both instruments give the same results and are considered equivalent in analysis of manual B-Diff.

This project focuses on race and gender in the works of author Octavia Butler. The primary texts analyzed are Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. In these novels, Butler alludes to slavery in antebellum America by drawing strong parallels between the roles race and gender played in the survival of the escaped slaves of America’s past and the role they play in the survival of the main character of Butler’s apocalyptic future. The themes of race and gender frequently intersect and maintain an important role throughout the novels. I argue that, by reading Butler’s novels within this significant historical context, Butler’s use of passing as a tool for subverting both racial and gendered identity as a means to secure the safety and privilege necessary for survival emerges. Further, the parallels between racial and gender passing serve to expose the performative nature of these identifying characteristics. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2006. / English Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

This diploma thesis is aimed at radar cross section of passenger cars. Basic scattering parameters of simple targets are described. Selected numeric methods used for computing radar cross section are discussed. Shape and size of simplified vehicle models is investigated. Simulations are verified by computing RCS of objects with well-known characteristics. Radar cross section of Skoda Octavia was simulated using selected numeric methods. Results of all performed simulations are shown in included graphs. Experimental measurment of radar cross section of a vehicle was performed so the measured data can be compared with the simulations.

As renowned scholar and researcher Sara Ahmed (2004; 2015) reminds us, emotions do things to us because they are relational. This dissertation takes aim at one emotion in particular: shame. By recognizing the similarities between us - that we all feel some degree of shame - we nonetheless inevitably arrive back at our differences: Not all feminists are bombarded with shame equally or in the same way. With a particular emphasis on the ways that shame can obstruct interpersonal relationships within the feminist movement, in this dissertation, I pay close attention to the complexly suppressed shames we encounter when stepping into solidarity with one another, mapping out how negotiating shame can come to represent feminism as a multiplicity. Drawing from shame researchers like Ahmed (2015), Brown (2006), Harris-Perry (2011), and Halberstam (2005b) and Black feminist theorists like Crenshaw (1991), hooks (1992), Lorde (1984), Alexander, (2005), Hill-Collins (2017) and many others, I ask what shame does to feminists in solidarity with one another. To try to answer this question, I rely on Black feminist theory and methodology, focusing on autoethnography as well as a critical discourse analysis of two of Octavia Butler's novels, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998). The following research questions guide my analysis: 1a) How is shame conceptualized in shame research? 1b) How does shame function and why? 2) How does shame hinder our interpersonal relationships with one another? 3a) What does shame do to the mind-body? and 3b) What implications does this have for feminists? Octavia Butler's fiction provides representations of shame that help us to conceptualize harms that result when feminists are affected by an excess accumulation of shame. This study hypothesizes that, to avoid being derailed by difficult emotions like shame, we must explore different conceptions of shame as essential contributions to feminist understandings of solidarity.

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The thesis explores the theme of hybridity in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy and in her last novel, Fledgling, which both deal with complex relationships between humans and a different species. The main focus is on the characters of mixed origin - offspring of two distinct species and beings whose existence is a result of genetic experiments. These individuals occupy a metaphorical "in-between" space where cultural, racial, sexual and other boundaries meet and blur. The theoretical framework follows two sets of ideas - Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity and the so-called Third Space, and Donna Haraway's cyborg figure. The second chapter of the thesis is centered on the origins and development of the concept of hybridity and its current use in postcolonial discourse. Furthermore, it introduces the most relevant ideas from Bhabha's The Location of Culture and Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" and compares them. The following two chapters are mainly devoted to Butler's hybrid characters, Akin and Jodahs from Xenogenesis and Shori, the protagonist of Fledgling. This section analyses, among other issues, their physical features and special skills connected with hybridity, the construction of their identity, their relationship with others and their relation to the clash between different species and...

Slavery is something that cannot be taken lightly. Even Butler says no matter how harsh the slavery in her novel is, it does not compare to how gruesome actual slavery was: “As a matter of fact, one of the things I realized when I was reading the slave narrative…was that I was not going to be able to come anywhere near presenting slavery as it was. I was going to have to do a some-what cleaned-up version of slavery, or no one would be willing to read it” (qtd. in Kenan 497). Octavia Butler knew that if she presented slavery directly and in a way that called people, most likely white males, that there would not be an audience for the novel. Instead she had to present slavery as something society shaped, rather than a specific group of individuals. An analysis of Octavia Butler’s Kindred reveals that societal expectations alter the dynamics of such interracial relationships as those between Dana and Kevin, Dana and Rufus, and Rufus and Alice, determining their success or failure without regard to the foundations upon which these relationships were initially built.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-216). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.