Thesis--University of California, Los Angeles, 1975. / Xerox copy of typescript. Bibliography: leaves 257-273; discography: leaves 274-277.

2024 / OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the magnitude and distribution of stress on peri-implant bone influenced by the elastic properties of indirect restorative materials (Cerasmart, Enamic, E-max, 4Y-ZrO2, and 3Y-ZrO2), dental implant materials (Alumina Toughened Zirconia ATZ Implant vs. Ti-6Al-4V), design of the implant fixed prosthesis (full-pontic cantilevered vs. mid-pontic cantilevered) and loading conditions. Validate finite element models in dental implants by means of photoelasticity studies by analyzing fringe contours in the implant area and by means of strain gauge studies by analyzing the microstrain of the peri-implant bone area. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cerasmart, Enamic, E-max, and ZrO2 YZ CAD/CAM screw-retrievable, cement-retained implant bridges #24, 25, total as n=16 IFDP, were divided and prepared for 4.2×10 mm Nobel Pearl Tapered ATZ Zirconia prosthesis (n = 8) and for 3.75×10 mm Nobel Parallel Conical Connection Ti-6AL-4V (n = 8). Mid-pontic and full-pontic cantilevered designs were created using Dentsply-Sirona Inlab software (SW 20.0). The prosthesis was milled with a Dentsply-Sirona inLab MC X5. The restoration models used were STL-designed files IFDP of the 360 scans of the implant and esthetic abutments imported from the Dentsply-Sirona inlab CAD software SW 20 and a section of mandibular bone with a single implant containing a cemented retained implant bridge IFDP #24,25 for both implant ATZ and Ti-6AL-4V. All the implants were embedded into photoelastic PL-2 resin (Vishay Micro-Measurements Group) For the photoelastic measurement, each specimen was subjected to an axial static load related to the 3rd fringe order at the connector area using a universal testing machine (Instron 5566A). The fringe color changes were recorded using a Nikon D5600 camera. Strain gauges provide a non-destructive method used to measure microstrain in the peri-implant area, allowing for the reuse of implants. For this study sawbones blocks (21x15x15mm) were prepared and ATZ and Ti alloy implants positioned within, strain gauges were aligned and attached, and a 150 N load was applied in the connector area. Connected to a Wheatstone bridge circuit, the gauges measured microstrain around implants #24 and 25 IFDP. In the Finite Element Analysis FEA, a three-dimensional (3D) finite element analysis was performed to obtain the maximum stress on crown, bone, and implant. Different crown materials (Cerasmart, Enamic, E-max, 4Y-ZrO2, and -ZrO2 YZ were considered for each of the two implant materials: 3.75x10mm Ti Nobel parallel and 4.2x10mm ATZ. A 150-N static load was applied on the incisal edges to the axial axis of the implant with different loading scenarios: central, distal cantilevered, mid cantilevered, and multiple loading positions. The data was analyzed using a multi-way ANOVA regression model using JMP Pro. Validation tests (Load Displacement, Load to failure test) were performed on an Instron 5566A and used as a reference for experimental methods (photoelastic and strain gauges) and numerical ones (FEA). RESULTS: In general, the ATZ implant group showed a higher magnitude of stress than the Ti group, as seen as in microstrain values of peri-implant bone were 216 µε in ATZ and 185 µε in Ti groups. In the ATZ implant group, there was a higher magnitude of stress on the full-pontic design compared to the mid-pontic design. Compared to the full-pontic design, the Ti implant group showed a higher stress in the crown region for mid-pontic, while lower stress in the implant region and no significant difference in supporting bone; however, in the mid-pontic design, the stress is well distributed on both sides of the implants. No significant difference in stress magnitude was observed with different crown materials. However, in the Ti alloy and ATZ groups, e.max exhibited the highest von Mises stress among all IFDP restoration materials. CONCLUSION: The implant material with lower elastic modulus, mid-pontic cantilevered design, and central or multiple contact distributed loading showed lower stress magnitude. The mid-pontic IFDP design offers a practical option when adequate mesiodistal distance for a full-pontic design is unavailable. When using Alumina Toughened Zirconia (ATZ) implants compared to Titanium (Ti) alloy implants, there is a significant increase in stress on the peri-implant bone, no significant differences in Young’s modulus among various restorative materials, indicating similar elasticity characteristic, significant differences were observed in the cantilevered load applications across different IFDP designs, impacting their biomechanical performance. The study employed load-displacement and load-to-failure tests for the validation of photoelastic analysis and strain gauge experiments. All of these results demonstrate a strong correlation to FEA results, underscoring their reliability and accuracy in assessing IFDP designs.

Dans les montagnes pluvieuses du Nord-est de la Turquie, l’on danse et l’on chante au son du kemençe, une petite vièle à trois cordes, parmi les vaches et les fusils. A partir d’une enquête dans ces montagnes, le propos de la thèse est d’appréhender un usage communal de la musique, soit une tradition musicale qui ne relèverait pas de ce que l’on entend communément par art - la création d’artistes, eux-mêmes figures marginales au sein de leur société - mais plus sûrement d’un bien communal, quelque chose dont l’usage est donné à tous (au sein de la communauté) et la propriété à personne (en tant qu’individu). Depuis ce constat d’un communal, l’enjeu sera également de comprendre les logiques de folklorisation et de commercialisation qui travaillent les musiques turques depuis maintenant un siècle. / In the rainy Pontic mountains (Northeast of Turkey) people sing and dance at the sound of the kemençe, a tiny three stringed fiddle. Through fieldwork in those mountains, the purpose of this dissertation will be to describe what would be called a “communal use” of music: a musical tradition not understood as art (the creation of artists) but as a common within a certain community. From this observation, the goal will also be to understand the logics of folklorisation and commercialization at work in Turkish music since a century.

The cultural elements that define the identity of an ethnic group, are really important for its preservation through the ages. Language, traditions, costumes, dances, as parts of the cultural heritage, have a crucial role in it. Pontic Greeks, belong to a minority group that came to Greece after 1923. They struggled to stand on their feet again, and preserve their unique cultural characteristics.  Cuisine, as an important aspect of our everyday life, is easily conveyed from one to another. In this thesis, we examine the Pontic cuisine, as an element of the intangible cultural heritage and due to its importance regarding the preservation of the Pontic identity.  The most original recipes of Pontic cuisine, were gathered in their primarily form, through an interview with a local expert. Then they were digitized and transcribed in Omeka database. Further data were attributed in the Dublin Core metadata scheme in that database. Finally, the main discussion was focused on how preserving culinary traditions can help to preserve history and cultural identity altogether.

This essay is about use, misuse and non-use of history in politics. To recognize genocide is a use of history that has been established in politics, but also sparked debate. The position of non-use of history in international policy towards Turkey's denial policy has increasingly been replaced by recognition of genocide as a matter of making up with the story, moral consider, and where fundamental issues of culture, identity, history and morality has become guiding element in the discourse behind European expansion and integration policies. A breakthrough for this change is due to the Cold War's end; since the 1980s it has become possible to realize the humanitarianism which has its roots in the Enlightenment humanism underlying the United Nations, and later the EU conventions on human rights and genocide conventions. A genocide concept has become an important discourse in world politics that puts moral pressure on states to act. Parliamentary recognition of the genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians / Syrians / Chaldeans and Pontic Greeks, is partly redress for the victims and their descendants, but also an opportunity for reconciliation.

Pour former nos hypothèses, il fallait examiner les discours scientifiques sur le genre et leurs applications dans le cas grec, ce que nous avons essayé de faire dans notre introduction.Notre travail s’est articulé en cinq grandes parties. La première aborde la formation de la diaspora grecque de la fin du 18ème siècle aux révolutions de 1917 et les représentations féminines dans l’historiographie gréco-pontique. La deuxième partie aborde l’accès des femmes au savoir, les modes d’intégration à la nouvelle société soviétique. La conservation des rôles culturels nous mène à dresser une typologie des femmes « grecques » et des femmes « soviétiques ». La troisième s’intéresse à la reformation ou disparition des rôles au cours des répressions politiques qui affectèrent considérablement la diaspora grecque. Nous avons également dressé un bilan des femmes-victimes des purges. La dernière partie a montré enfin que l’exile constitua un moment-rupture avec le passé, au moins dans les témoignages oraux de ses protagonistes. Les femmes qui nous ont parlé d’elles-mêmes et les hommes qui se sont demandés sur les questions de genre nous ont offert une image du passé originale, digne d’intérêt. / In order to form our hypothesis, it would be necessary to examine the scientific discourse on gender and its application to the greek case, and this is what we tried to do in our introduction. Our study was organized in five large parts. The first one approaches the formation of greek diaspora from the end of the 18th century to the revolutions of 1917 and the woman representation in pontic-greek historiography. The second one approaches the access of women in education, the ways of integration in the new soviet society. The preservation of the cultural roles leads us to develop a typology between “greek” women and “soviet” women. The third part focuses on the reformation or disappearance of the roles during political repressions that would have an impact on greek diaspora. Furthermore, we discussed on the women-victims of purges. Finally, the last part demonstrates that the exile constituted a rupture with the past, at least as it resulted from its protagonists’ oral testimonies. The women who talked about themselves and the men surveyed on gender issues give us an original image of the past, worthy of interest.

In this dissertation, I investigate a number of interrelated developments affecting the morphosyntax of nouns in Cappadocian Greek. I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, and the neuterisation of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the three domains mentioned above. !ll the innovations examined in this study have the effect of rendering the morphology and syntax of nouns in Cappadocian more like that of neuters. On account of the historical and sociolinguistic circumstances in which Cappadocian developed as well as of the superficial similarity of their outcomes to equivalent structures in Turkish, previous research has overwhelmingly treated the Cappadocian developments as instances of contact-induced change that resulted from the influence of Turkish. In this study, I examine the Cappadocian innovations from a language-internal point of view and in comparison with parallel developments attested in the other Modern Greek dialects of Asia Minor, namely Pontic, Rumeic, Pharasiot and Silliot. My comparative analysis of a wide range of dialect-internal, cross-dialectal and cross-linguistic typological evidence shows that language contact with Turkish can be identified as the main cause of change only in the case of differential object marking. On the other hand, with respect to the origins of the most pervasive innovations in gender and noun inflection, I argue that they go back to the common linguistic ancestor of the modern Asia Minor Greek dialects and do not owe their development to language contact with Turkish. I show in detail that the superficial similarity of these latter innovations’ outcomes to their Turkish equivalents in each case represents the final stage in a long series of typologically plausible, language-internal developments whose early manifestations predate the intensification of Cappadocian–Turkish linguistic and cultural exchange. These findings show that diachronic change in Cappadocian is best understood when examined within a larger Asia Minor Greek context. On the whole, they make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the history of Cappadocian and the Asia Minor Greek dialects as well as to Modern Greek dialectology more generally, and open a fresh round of discussion on the origin and development of other innovations attested in these dialects that are considered by historical linguists and Modern Greek dialectologists to be untypically Greek or contact-induced or both.

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