In October 1869, the fledgling Canadian federation was preparing for the transfer of Rupert's Land and the Northwestern Territory when the Métis set up a Provisional Government in order to resist what they saw as a unilateral annexation of their homeland. Although there were multiple references made to 'republicanism' during the Resistance, no scholar has ever explored whether republican conventions were actually present in political discourse in the District of Assiniboia prior to the Resistance and whether they were effectively activated during the Resistance. Working from the Cambridge School approach of discourse analysis, this thesis first identifies the conventions of democratic rhetorical republicanism, which includes positive and negative liberty, the rule of law, the mixed and balanced constitution and citizenship, which in turn involves virtue, the militia and real property. It then looks at the gradual introduction in Assiniboia of republican discourse from multiple sources, including the United States, Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Ireland, France and Great Britain and its circulation throughout several practical political struggles during the period from 1835 to 1869. In doing so, it shows that certain 'organic intellectuals' acted as 'transmission belts' of republican conventions and that institutional structures were a factor that rendered the activation of such conventions almost inevitable. By the time the Resistance took place in 1869, a more or less fully developed republican paradigm formed part of the linguistic matrix and was available to political actors in Assiniboia. Finally, the thesis shows that republican discourse was effectively mobilised by identifying fragments of republican conventions that were harnessed in various speechacts during the Resistance. It is argued that republican language was fundamental to the success of the ideological and political manoeuvres of the leaders of the Resistance as it was particularly effective both as an instrument of anti-colonialism and as a pragmatic ideal of self-government that sought to correct the iniquities of colonial government.

Abstract Love River, the longest river in Kaohsiung City, 12 km in length, originates from Jen-Wu village of Kaohsiung County and goes into Kaohsiung Harbor from the northeast to southwest. Width of the river is increased from 14 m of the upstream to 130 m. Because there were active shipyards and many boats in Kaohsiung Harbor, TBT in paint as biocide to paint the ship will be released into seawater and cause the long-term contamination of organotin. It is possible that Love River may be polluted by the seawater from Kaohsiung Harbor for the intertidal zone of Love River reaches Chih-Ping Bridge. The goal of the present study is to analyze water and sediment of Love River in order to find out whether Love River has been polluted by organotin and, if yes, where the polluted source is. The samples were derivated with the Grignard reagent¡]n-pentylmagnesium bromide¡^and extracted by n-Hexane. Clean samples were concentrated to about 1 ml under a gentle stream of purified nitrogen gas. The final extracts¡]3£gl of each¡^were injected into a gas chromatograph with a flame photometric detector. The results reveal that TBT and DBT were predominant in the whole area of study. The concentration of TBT¡]29-360 ppt¡^was higher than DBT¡]0-292 ppt¡^in the riverwater. In the sediment, the concentration of DBT( 154-68800 ppb ) was higher than TBT ( 3650-30222 ppb )¡C Gransize between 0.053¢Pto 1.00¢P was predominant in the extent of sorption of organotin to sediments. The percentage of this gransize was from 82¢H to 98¢H. The major source of organotin pollution was Kaohsiung Harbor, but there were some other sources upstream of Chih-Ping Bridge. The polluted source of phentyltin was from the upstream of Chih-Ping Bridge and the branch of Love River¡]Canal, No2¡^. Comparing to other countries, organotin pollution was more serious in Love River. The concentration of TBT exceeded maximum allowable level of 20 ppt in accordance with regulations set by Britain. It is necessary to strengthen the regulation of organotin in Taiwan.

Estuary is an area with very complicated characteristics, which is mainly affected by tidal dynamics. The salinity of a tidal river is influenced by tidal characteristics where fresh water meets salty water and thus causing the complexity. The Love River in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has been chosen as an study area for the researches describing in this thesis work. The four sampling stations cover the tidal zone of the Love River. Through frequent sampling, which corresponds to spring tides, neap tides and even during complete tidal cycles, the water quality and the variations of particle circulation in estuary area can be comprehended better. The distributions of the nutrients in the river are different during spring tides and neap tides. Nitrite and nitrate are mainly come from the upriver or generated by the nitrification within the river. In addition, the results from the whole tidal cycle experiments show that high flow rate occurs at the bottom during the period of turning tides, which caused higher SPM concentrations in the bottom layer. This is mainly due to the accumulated agitations at the river bottom were resuspended by the strong currents. Analytical results from a Pearson product-moment correlation has shown that the SPM concentrations in the bottom water partly come from the resuspension processes of bottom sediments. Nutrients accumulated in the bottom sediments were released into the water column by the SPM resuspensions. The result of PCA shows that the changes of tides affect the distribution of salinity has a strong negative correlation with turbidity and SPM. It also shows that tides not only have a quite obvious influence on suspended particle matters but also dominate the distribution of suspended particle matters through out the Love River.

Vascular plant collections and field data compiled during a one and a half year period for the upper Frio River, Texas, produced a flora that comprises 78 families, 223 genera and 319 species. Vascular plants were collected along the upper Frio River in Real, Uvalde, Medina, and Frio Counties during the fall, spring and summer seasons to create a vouchered record of species occurrence. Plants were collected from eleven sites along the river. The largest families are Poaceae (70 spp.), Asteraceae (41spp.), Cyperaceae (19 spp.), Euphorbiaceae (16 spp.) and Fabaceae (13 spp.). These families encompass approximately 51% of the species represented. Introduced species make up 16.1 % of the flora. These percentages are similar to those of the floras of North Central Texas, Madison County, Robertson County and the La Copita Research Area. A total of 9 species endemic to Texas were collected along the upper Frio River. Throughout the northern portion of the study area there is exposed bedrock with little to no soil within the scour lines of the Frio River. Downstream a layer of soil is present, but it is shallow and composed mostly of gravel. Quantitative data on the spatial distribution, frequency and abundance of plant species was collected using a 25 X 50 cm quadrat located approximately every meter along 25 meter transects. These transects were established at seven of the thirteen locations. The most species rich location was site 3 in Real County with 45 species present at the time the transects were run. Locations 6 and 10 are the most similar of all the sites. The most frequent species were Dichanthium annulatum (Forssk.) Stapf, Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene and Helenium elegans DC. var. elegans. Rock made up most of the cover at all of the locations with the exception of Site 6 where Dichanthium annulatum made up 24% of the cover.

Kao-Ping river, so-called the largest river in Taiwan, is also known as Low Dan-Swe river. It is originated from Chi-San to the Lin-Yuan industrial section, and flow into the ocean. It is also divided the Southern Taiwan Pin-Dong province from the Kaoshiang Province. The Kao-Ping river is about 171 km long, the river surface area is about 3625 square meter. Its river roots supply more than 24 states and towns. It is said to be the largest river in Taiwan, not only because of its surface area, but also its nourish ability. In industrial use, in farming agriculture, or in water resource, the Kao-Ping river devotes itself as a river of life to many culture. In the raining season, the Kao-ping river has enough water supply, but sometimes in the hot season, the river¡¦s supply ability is limited. In this study, the drainage area's background, geographic environment, climate, hydrology goes pasturage aquatic products output and population add with analysis, and in water resource takes advantage of present situation, water quality's quality and develop in plan, with future plan adds with expound in layout. It high screen stream drainage area each plan it face problem with bottleneck, will bring up and add with analysis analyse in this article.

Love River, 12 km in length from inland to the sea, is the longest river in Kaohsiung. Love River passes through the harbor of Kaohsiung and connects with the sea bring hidden ecological crises. Because there are persistent shipping from the whole world, several shipyards and fishing ports in the harbor of Kaohsiung, the pollution of organotin is very serious in the harbor area. It¡¦s possible that Love River may be polluted by the seawater from the harbor of Kaohsiung for the long intertidal zone and the estuary, in the harbor of Kaohsiung. Upstream sections may be also polluted by organotin compounds from domestic, industrial and agricultural wastewater. This study is not only collecting the surface and bottom riverwater during winter and summer, but also sampling the sediments in Love River. These samples are derivated with NaBEt4 and analyzed the concentration of organotin by gas chromatograph with a flame photometric detector. The results reveal that concentrations of MBT are 8.2-25.0 ng/L as tin, DBT are 3.3-17.1 ng/L as tin, TBT are 4.3-9.1 ng/L as tin in the riverwater. The concentrations of MBT are 12.5-69.2 ng/g as tin, DBT are 7.1-31.2 ng/g as tin, TBT are 15.8-22.6 ng/g as tin in the surface sediments. The pollution of organotin decrease from the harbor of Kaohsiung to the water gate in the downstream. A peak of pollution is found near the Yu-Cheng bridge in the upstream. The concentrations of the vertical distribution of sediments, MBT are as high as 61.2-273.2 ng/g as tin, DBT are 22.8-256.2 ng/g as tin, TBT are 8.6-168.4 ng/g as tin, it indicates that Love River was polluted extremely seriously by organotin compounds in the past. However, phenyltin compounds were not detected in these samples. As compared with previous reports, today the pollution of organotin compounds has been greatly reduced in Lover River. But it remains to be cared in order to reduce the potential ecological crises which are brought by the pollution.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2009. / Principal faculty advisor: James E. Pizzuto, Dept. of Geological Sciences. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Chicago, 1912. / Bibliography: leaves 199-204. Also available on the Internet. Also issued online.

Habilitationsschrift--Mainz. / Bibliography: p. [449]-481.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1940. / The plates and maps are folded in pocket. Lithoprinted. "Private edition, distributed by the University of Chicago libraries, Chicago, Illinois." Bibliography: p. 110-114.