Recent years have seen dramatic growth in Internet usage and an increasing convergence between Internet and wireless communications. There has also been renewed interest in iteratively decoded low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes due to their capacity approaching performance on AWGN channels.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / This dissertation presents the biography of Solomon Stoddard, 1643-1729, and evaluates his contribution to New England Puritanism. TO achieve these goals an examination of numerous other data providing fragments of biographical detail, together with extensive reading of Puritan literature was undertaken. The form is narrative, and the underlying thesis is to sustain or refute Puritan hagiography, which has either ignored Stoddard or condemned him as a malefactor. Stoddard's life spanned a significant and critical period in the development of Puritanism in New England. In a long and distinguished career as minister of the Northampton Church, and ecclesiastical spokesman for the Connecticut Valley, he exerted an influence over ecclesiastical affairs surpassed by none of his contemporaries. However, notwithstanding the historian's familiarity with Stoddard's name, only rare attempts have been made to shed some light on his career. [truncated]

"December 2002" Bibliography: leaves 230-241. Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Historical account -- Ch. 3. Morphometrics -- Ch. 4. Osteology of Solomon Islands ranids -- Ch. 4. Karyology of the Solomon Islands ranids -- Ch. 6. Phylogenetic analysis -- App. 1: Material examined -- App. 2: Discriminant function analysis -- App. 3: Character descriptions. "This study validates the Solomon Islands taxa (using morphometrics) and explores the biology of the Solomon Islands ranids, with detailed osteological descriptions, external morphology and karyology. Using characters from these data sets a cladistic analysis using parsimony reconstructed a phylogeny of thes frogs...Phylogenetic analysis using maximum parsimony found three equally parsimonious trees. Subsequent character reanalysis (successive weighting) produced one parsimonious tree. The phylogenies indicate multiple invasion events into the Solomon Islands by these ranid frogs and despite the high level of endemism, monophyly is not supported."

"December 2002" / Bibliography: leaves 230-241. / viii. 356, [25] leaves : ill. (some col.), map (col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / "This study validates the Solomon Islands taxa (using morphometrics) and explores the biology of the Solomon Islands ranids, with detailed osteological descriptions, external morphology and karyology. Using characters from these data sets a cladistic analysis using parsimony reconstructed a phylogeny of thes frogs...Phylogenetic analysis using maximum parsimony found three equally parsimonious trees. Subsequent character reanalysis (successive weighting) produced one parsimonious tree. The phylogenies indicate multiple invasion events into the Solomon Islands by these ranid frogs and despite the high level of endemism, monophyly is not supported." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Environmental Biology, 2003

Thesis--Dropsie College. / English and Hebrew. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education, 2005. / Bibliography : p. 377-393.

Thesis--Dropsie College. / English and Hebrew. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1961. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-102)

Thesis (M.S.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2008. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

<p>During the past century, historical-critical scholarship on the reign of Solomon (I Kings 1-11) has advanced the argument that the narrative is a heterogeneous mix of material, originating from diverse socio-historical settings. Reasonably enough, critical research on the Solomon narrative has concentrated on a number of compositional or redactional questions. The result of this research, however, is that the narrative itself is no longer read as a unit or as containing a coherent message. The purpose of this thesis is to try to recover the meaning of the narrative through a holistic reading of I Kings 1-11. In particular, the thesis explores the "narrative tension," or "literary inconsistencies" in the text's portrayal of Solomon. The main problem facing the interpreter is to account for the fact that Solomon is both Israel's ideal and its apostate king. The thesis argues that this narrative tension can be explained through a holistic reading of the text, without recourse to an historical-critical analysis. The holistic approach reveals the structural unity of the text; the two dream theophanies to Solomon (3:4-15; 9:1-10) act as fulcrums which balance the narrative in two sections, one pro-Solomon, the other anti-Solomon. The unifying theme of both sections, it is argued, is Solomon's relationship with Torah and Wisdom. The development of that relationship lends a thematic tension to the narrative as well. By explicating these structural and thematic elements, the thesis demonstrates that the narrative tension in the Solomonic material is purposefully contrived. The investigation as a whole reveals that the narrative has a unit and an integrity of its own, from which a coherent message emerges.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)