Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard, Ill., 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-229).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Covenant Theological Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-95).

Thesis--University of Wisconsin. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-272).

Thesis (D. Min.)--McCormick Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-49).

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, N.Y., 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 36).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-104).

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:55:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos_Eduardo_Boaretto_Pereira.pdf: 6034832 bytes, checksum: c0f740035dbbebc46ae02e67ea6ef5c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-22 / Fundação Araucária / This dissertation is the result of research that aimed at the analysis of comic magazines of U.S. publisher Marvel Comics, The Avengers. The time frame that comprises the analysis of the magazines is from September 1963 to December 1967. This period consist into the formation of this group of superheroes (The Avengers), and the second attempt to launch a magazine with the superhero of the Second World War, Captain America, which was integrated into the group by publishers in March 1964, until the last appearance of Captain America in The Avengers magazine in the December 1967 edition. The proposal of the magazine consisted in grouping several superheroes in a single group. All the superheroes had appeared previously in other comics from this publisher. Ant-Man and Wasp in "Tales to Astonish" number 27 in January 1962. Hulk in his own magazine, "The Incredible Hulk", in May 1962; Iron Man in "Tales of Suspense" number 39, in March 1963; Thor in "Journey Into Mystery" number 83, in August 1962 and Captain America in "Captain America" number 01 in March 1941. This work has two hypotheses: The first is: the comics of superheroes Captain America and Avengers helped the project from a portion of American civil society composed by the great capitalists, and therefore, a portion of the American political society that aimed political and/or military intervention, if necessary, in other countries, to ensure raw material and consumer markets after the Second World War. And the second is: The Avengers comic books also served to minimize and even disqualify radical movements for civil rights, which in the 1960s in the U.S., began a wave of questioning the status quo of the country, coming to cogitate the transformation of the American capitalist system / Esta dissertação é resultado da pesquisa que teve como objeto de suas análises as revistas de história em quadrinhos publicadas pela editora estadunidense Marvel Comics, The Avengers (Vingadores). O recorte temporal que compreendeu as análises desse trabalho foi de setembro de 1963 até dezembro de 1967. Esse período consiste na formação desse grupo de super-heróis e na segunda tentativa de lançar uma revista com o super-herói da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Capitão América, que foi integrado ao grupo pelos editores da Marvel Comics em março de 1964, até a última aparição do Capitão América nessa revista, na edição de dezembro de 1967. Á proposta desta publicação consistiu-se em agrupar vários super-heróis diferentes em um único grupo. Todos esses super-heróis já haviam aparecido anteriormente em outras histórias em quadrinhos da editora. Ant-Man e Wasp em Tales to Astonish número 27 de Janeiro de 1962; Hulk em sua própria revista, The Incredible Hulk , de Maio de 1962; Iron Man em Tales of Suspense número 39 de Março de 1963; e Thor em Journey Into Mystery número 83 de Agosto de 1962 e o Capitão América em Captain America número 1 de Março de 1941. Esse trabalho têm duas hipótese: a primeira é que as histórias em quadrinhos dos super-heróis Capitão América e Avengers auxiliaram no projeto de uma parcela da sociedade civil estadunidense composta pelos grandes capitalistas e por consequência, uma parcela da sociedade política estadunidense que visava à intervenção política e/ou militar, se necessária, em outros países, para assegurar matérias primas e mercados consumidores após a Segunda Grande Guerra Mundial. E a segunda é que as revistas em quadrinhos dos Avengers também serviram para minimizar e até desqualificar os movimentos radicais por direitos civis, que nos anos de 1960 nos EUA, iniciaram uma onda de questionamento do status quo do país, chegando a cogitar a transformação do sistema capitalista estadunidense

The post-2007 global financial crisis, characterised by huge firm losses, especially in the USA and Europe, initiated a new strand of literature, where default models are adjusted for unobserved risk factors, including measurement errors, missing firm specific and macroeconomic variables. These new models assume that default correlations are not only driven by observable firm-specific and macroeconomic factors, but also by unobserved risk factors. This thesis present three empirical essays. The first essay estimates and predicts the within-sector failure rate and dependence of firms on the London Stock Exchange. The study offers an additive lognormal frailty model that accounts for both unobserved factors and regime changes. The analysis reveals that during distressed market periods the sector-based failure rates and dependencies tend to be high. The second essay proposes a novel approach based on a bias-corrected estimator to investigate the impact of informative firm censoring and unobserved factors on hazard rates of US firms. The approach uses inverse probability of censoring weighted scheme that explicitly accounts for firm specific factors, economic cycles, industry-level dependence and market activities induced by unobservable factors. The analysis shows that during distressed market periods the effect of informative censoring averagely increases the hazards rates, and varies across industries. The third essay employs a mixed effects Cox model to estimate the failure dependence caused by firms’ exposure to country-based and group-level unobserved factors within the Eurozone. The empirical results show that a higher failure dependence among firms in groups of countries with similar economic and financial conditions than countries with different conditions. Overall, the thesis contributes to the empirical literature on firm default in the broad area of corporate finance by offering a different approach of capturing default dependence and its variations during unfavourable market conditions and adjusting for the effects of non-default firm exit on active firms.

Using an ethnohistorical method which combines archival material with ethnographic material collected mostly by anthropologists, this thesis provides a history of Tlingit women's interaction with the Presbyterian missions. The Presbyterians, who began their work among the Tlingit of southeastern Alaska in the 1870s, were particularly concerned with the introduction of "appropriate" gender roles. Although participating in the roles and activities defined by the Presbyterians as "women's work", Tlingit women incorporated Presbyterian forms of practice into their own cultural frames of reference. The end result, unintended by the missionaries, was that Tlingit women were provided with a new power base. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

Disparities in healthcare exist in the U.S., particularly between different racial categories. This study investigated the frequency of COVID-19 cases and hypertension cases among five different racial groups (White, Black, Asian, Native American, and Native Hawaiian). The study also examined the correlation between COVID-19 and hypertension. It was hypothesized that, because of genetic predisposition to certain diseases and existing socioeconomic barriers, Black populations would have the highest rates of both COVID-19 and hypertension. It was also proposed that a positive correlation exists between COVID-19 and hypertension frequency. To test this, the Kaiser Family Foundation's data for COVID-19 cases and race were used in conjunction with Census population data to determine if COVID-19 case frequency means differ by race. The America's Health Rankings data for hypertension and race were used to determine if hypertension frequency means differ by race. The statistical analysis used for both aims was one-way ANOVA. Lastly, the correlation between hypertension and COVID-19 was found by calculating the Kendall's Tau-b Coefficient. For each ANOVA procedure, there was a statistically significant difference between the means of each dataset. The Kendall's Tau-b Coefficient for COVID-19 and hypertension was a small positive number. It can be concluded that the percentages of both hypertension and COVID-19 cases differ by race and that there is a slightly positive correlation between hypertension and COVID-19. As expected, Black individuals had the highest mean rates of hypertension; however, the highest COVID-19 case frequency was found in Native Americans. On this basis, it can be proposed that, though a correlation exists between hypertension and COVID-19, other factors also contribute to increased infection with COVID-19, and that they should be investigated.