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The Role Of The House Of Commons In The Quest For Empire : 1748-1756, Stephen E. Ford

Undergraduate Honors Theses

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Inflation And Economic Growth: A Dynamic Analysis Of Deficit Finance, Byung-Joon Whang

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This paper attempts to answer two questions. First, is a policy of inflationary capital formation (ICF) capable of permanently raising the growth path of real output? When all the dynamic propagations of the initial impact of ICF spendings are accounted for and it is shown that the resulting public capital formation is simply a substitute for otherwise available private capital formation, then the policy of ICF would have failed the first test. Second, if ICF spendings do accelerate output growth, what rate of ICF would be most conducive to a rapid relieving of factor imbalance and the sustained promotion of …

The Poetics Of Perception: A Semantic Analysis Of The Short Fiction Of Ambrose Bierce, Cathy N. Davidson

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

What I propose, therefore, is not really a new kind of criticism but a new emphasis, a criticism which combines the extensionally oriented theories and experimental findings of general semantics with many of the basic techniques of close, analytical explication of literary texts. I propose to "extend" semantic literary theory to a particular body of literature, specifically to the fiction of Ambrose Bierce.

"A Semantic Analysis of the Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce" is therefore justified because literary criticism has not dealt comprehensively with Bierce, because literary criticism has not dealt comprehensively with general semantics, because--as I think my study …

Earliest Cambrian - Latest Proterozoic Ichnofossils And Problematic Fossils From Inyo County, California, Gerald Burton Langille

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

A stratigraphic collection of ichnofossils and problematic body fossils was made from Lower Cambrian to Upper Proterozoic (sensu Cloud, 1973) strata of Inyo County, California. Specimens were collected from the Wyman, Reed, Deep Spring, and Campito Formations in the White-Inyo Mountains and compared to material from the correlated Stirling and Wood Canyon Formations in the Death Valley area. No recognizable metazoan fossils were observed in the conformable units beneath the Stirling (Noonday Dolomite and Johnnie Formation).

Twenty-five types of ichnofossil are described: Archaeonassa aff. fossulata, ?Arenicolites sp., Arthropod Trace Form A, Beerbowerichnus montenegris (ichnogen. et ichnosp. …

A Quantitative Comparative Study Of The Jewish And Palestine Political Elites (1920-48), Taisir Najm Nashif

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The object of this work is to study the backgrounds and circulation of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab political elites. Chapter I is a discussion of elite theory and its relevance for the study at hand, as well as a delineation of who constitutes the two elites and what features of their backgrounds and careers this study is concerned with.

Chapters II and III present a detailed quantitative analysis of the two elites’ backgrounds and circulation patterns. Circulation patterns are related to changes in or continuance of social background characteristics as indicators of recruitment patterns and political aims. Chapter IV …

The Délie Of Maurice Scève: A Study Of Its Structural Dynamics, Margaret Spanos

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The poetry of Maurice Scève is now beginning to receive both the interest and the serious criticism it deserves. His Délie in particular is finally being extricated from the dubious critical issues imposed by three and a half centuries of near oblivion and the verdict of obscurity pronounced against it from the start. The general trend in Scève criticism has been away from philosophical or mystic speculations in favor of a new appreciation of the intensely personal lyrical quality and contemplative richness of the poetry of Délie....[Such] criticism has contributed, and will continue to contribute, valuable insights into this …

Hydrogeology And Geomorphology Of Two Structurally Dissimilar Terranes In Pennsylvania, Stephen J. Kowall

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Eight watersheds in Pennsylvania, draining areas of uniform climate and lithology, but different geologic structure, were studied for their geomorphic, geologic, hydraulic, and hydrologic characteristics.

Low streamflow characteristics, defined by base-flow recession curves, and streamflow duration, for 25 summer months, show that streams in the folded and faulted Valley and Ridge province have stronger base-flow regimes than those in the relatively undeformed Appalachian Plateau.

The separate effects of geologic structure and lithology on groundwater regimes can be evaluated quantitatively on the basis of a single geomorphic parameter, the hypsometric integral. In the study area the integral is seen to be …

Geology And Structure Of The Serra Do Mar In Eastern Sao Paulo, Brazil, Peter Rideg

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Detailed geologic mapping in the Serra do Mar region of eastern São Paulo, Brazil, enables the definition of two northeasterly trending Precambrian lithologic complexes in heretofore undifferentiated crystalline complex rocks. These two complexes are the Suzano Complex and the Itatinga Complex, separated one from the other by the large Cubatão fault zone.

The Suzano Complex is divided into three formations: the Oropó schist, the Iupeba gneiss, and the Paranapiacaba gneiss. The Itatinga Complex is divided into four formations: the Biritiba-Mirim migmatite, the Jurubatuba migmatite, the Itapanhaú gneiss, and the Guarujá migmatite. Numerous late and post-tectonic granitic bodies occur intrusive into …

Kinetics Of Alkali Metal Ion Self-Exchange On Polystyrene Sulfonate Resin In Dimethyl Sulfoxide-Water Media, Robert Clark Johnston

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Rates of alkali metal cation self-diffusion in a polystyrene sulfonate ion exchange resin and in the external solution have been measured over a range of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-water mixtures from 0 to 70 mole % DMSO. Interpretation of results is simplified by the choice of this system which exhibits relatively constant resin swelling, fairly high dielectric constant and virtually no solvent preference over the entire composition range.

The self-diffusion coefficient of Na⁺ in the external solution shows a moderate decrease from 0 to about 40 mole % DMSO after which it tends to level off with increasing DMSO. In …

The Role Of The Budget Bureau In Truman's Domestic Legislative Program; An Examination Of Atomic Energy Control, Military Unification, Housing, And Civil Rights, Peter E. Piccillo

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The role of the Budget Bureau in the domestic legislative program of Harry S. Truman began in the latter years of the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Long before his death, Roosevelt had lost the ability to lead Congress in the direction of liberal domestic reform legislation. He did, however, retain the power of his style, and maintained a majestic image of leadership and accomplishment. In hopes of regaining the legislative initiative after the war had been won, Roosevelt campaigned in 1944 on a platform of victory overseas and an “Economic Bill of Rights” at home. With the death of …

The Function Of Duality And Trinity In The Structure Of Piers Plowman, Mary-Jo Arn

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Dualities and trinities are everywhere in the poem, sometimes conflicting, sometimes not. They govern the poem in its largest structures, overarching the entire poem, and its smallest, often evoking an additional level of meaning in just a phrase. These groupings of two and three are not ornamental or arbitrary, but thematic; the meanings of the poem are inextricably bound up in them. It will be necessary,therefore, in what follows, to discuss meaning (theme) as much as structure. The meaning of Dobest, for instance, is dependent upon its being the third part of a trinity. The other two parts must in …

Geology Of The Suapure River Area, Nw Guiana Shield, Venzuela, Vicente Mendoza

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In the Suapure River area, NW Guiana Shield (Venezuela), crops out the Cedeño Supergroup which is a Precambrian lithologic volcanic-plutonic unit that includes the Cuchivero Group (Caicara Formation rhyolitic rocks, Santa Rosalía biotite granites and San Pedro leucogranites) and the Suapure Group, (Pijiguao leucogranites and Parguaza rapakivi granites). Radiometric ages by Rb-Sr whole rock isochron method (Hurley and others, 1973) for these rocks are as follows: 1490 m.y. for Parguaza rapakivis; 1875 m.y. for Santa Rosalía and San Pedro granites; and >1750 m.y. for Caicara rhyolitic rocks. Ortho-quartzites of Roraima Group and Cinaruco Formation unconformably overlie the Parguaza rapakivis.

The …

The Danzig Churches: A Study In Late Gothic Vault Development, Helene C. Kaplan

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

A meaningful investigation of the Danzig Late Gothic sacral architecture can be achieved only by a close look into the changing political and social conditions in the city.

All the medieval churches of Danzig belong to the rare monuments of the Middle Ages whose original plans are preserved in a most remarkable work written by Bartel Ranisch (1648-1701), a man whom we may truly call the first art historian of Danzig. Without Ranisch’s work, the thirteen churches and four monasteries would have been impossible to describe, and their exact plans but a guess of historians.

However, an historical interest in …

A Study Of Photoperiodic Inhibition Of Flower Development In Lemna Persusilla 6746, Linda Lee Kirkland

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Lemna perpusilla 6746, a short day plant on Hutner's medium, is induced to flower by a single long night. Resulting flower primordia develop normally in short days but regress in unfavorable photoperiods such as long days or continuous white light. Flower development following a single long night is approximately proportional to the number of long nights given in the post-inductive treatment. The critical night length for flower development is approximately one hour shorter than that for flower initiation. Unfavorable photoperiods arrest the growth and differentiation of flower primordia. These primordia eventually break down and the adjacent axillary fronds enlarge.

Flower …

Reactions Directed Towards The Synthesis Of Selenobiotin, Robert L. Martin

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The original purpose of this investigation was to prepare and isolate selenobiotin. Several attempts were made to prepare 3-(-carboxymethylseleno-)-alanine, a critical intermediate in the proposed synthetic sequence, without success. In view of this unexpected difficulty, the object of the research was changed to the synthesis of cis-3,4-ureyleneselenophane, the parent fused heterocyclic system. The formation of this molecule has been realized, and alternate pathways have been tested which establish a model system for the synthesis of selenobiotin.

Julio Cortázar's Final Del Juego: A Translation And Critical Study, Alfredo Villanueva

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

When I came into contact with Cortázar's work for the first time, what impressed me the most was his ability to present ideas of mine about the nature of reality which I had never dared to express. I suppose many a work of criticism begins as a personal confrontation between critic and writer, leading to a cooler recollection of ideas which the critic feels he must organize and express in visible form. In my case, the shock of recognizing in a Cortázar a kind of outspoken alter ego led to the desire to study his literary output and become a …

The Individual And Society In The Novelas De La Primera Época Of Benito Pérez Galdós, Clark M. Zlotchew

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Throughout his career, Galdós' preoccupation with the relationship between the individual, and the society in which he lives, remains constant. The interaction between society, and the members who compose it, can be observed at times as confrontation, at other times as cooperation, compromise, or submission of the individual to society. A close reading of the novels of Galdós suggests that he had his own personal vision of what society, and life in society, signified. In this vision, "society" embraces all the elements of the varied groupings of a collective nature in which the individual finds himself or herself, and consists …

Generality Of Learning Differences In Mice Genetically Selected For Differences In Brain Weight, Craig Jensen

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Mice selected for high, medium, and low brain weight were raised in an enriched environment and tested on open field, active avoidance, water maze, operant discrimination, and passive avoidance tasks. Mice from one foundation stock yielded mice with high and low brain weight. The control groups for this selection were composed of one group of medium brain weight mice subjected to stabilizing selection and a heterogeneous group of mice which was not subjected to any selection. The mice in the two control groups were derived from the same foundation stock as the high and low brain weight mice. In addition, …

The Ten American Painters: Definition And Reassessment, Kenneth Coy Haley

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In 1897 three artists, John Twachtman, Childe Hassam and Julian Alden Weir, decided to leave the established Society of American Artists in New York. This small group was to serve as a core of a larger organization later named the "Ten American Painters. "(Fig. 1). Wishing to hold independent exhibitions in New York several other painters were asked to join. These men included Edward Simmons, Willard Metcalf, Edmund Tarbell, Joseph DeCamp, Frank Benson, Thomas Dewing, Robert Reid and Abbott Thayer. Thayer first agreed to join but later changed his mind. The New York Times, however, was unaware of his …

On The Transformation Problem, Mihalis Hatziprokopiou

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In the first two volumes of Capital it is assumed that commodities are exchanged according to their values; with different organic compositions of capital for each sector of the economy this assumption leads to different rates of profit, a result which is not consistent neither with the reality of a capitalist system nor with the Marxian assumptions. Marx points out the problem in the third volume of Capital where he introduces the concept of prices of production (cost plus average profit on capital employed) as deviations from the actual values of the commodities. He maintains that when the economy enters …

Ivory Carving In Later Medieval England, 1200-1400, Dean Allen Porter

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Half of a century has elapsed since any substantial scholarship of a comprehensive nature has been done on late medieval English ivories. Since the 1920s, a few studies, now hopelessly dated, have sufficed for the curious, the scholar, and the admirer of an important form of the English minor arts. During this same period, English ivories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have, with few exceptions, been neglected. There have been studies that could have discussed or reconsidered these precious objects; objects which certainly played an important role in the life of the late medieval Englishman. Several studies dealing with …

Properties Of Ultraproduct Spaces, Michael Wayne Boyd

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

There seems to be general agreement that in this stage of the development of the theory of Banach spaces a greater wealth of examples would be useful in pointing the way for future research. There has not been a great variety of procedures for the construction of Banach spaces, but one was introduced in [3] by Bretagnolle, Dacunha-Castelle and Krivine. In [4] their procedure was presented more systematically, the space constructed was termed the ultraproduct, and various applications were made. There is also a brief discussion of ultraproducts in [7].

To our knowledge the process has not been subjected to …

An Investigation Of The Satellite Poems In Melville's Clarel, William H. Wasilewski

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Though critics have completely disregarded their presence (Arvin, for example), or relegated them to a minor position, the satellite poems are one of the most important devices that Melville uses in Clarel. Forty-five in number (if one includes the bits of song that are present), they appear in a variety of forms at strategic points within the work. Melville, for example, introduces bawdy lyrics, a recitative, love songs, hymns, variations of the nursery rhyme and the traditional ballad, chants, a mystical inscription, several boisterous drinking songs, and a dirge.

Regarding the larger framework of the poem proper, the satellite …

Potential Output And Sources Of Economic Growth In The Indian Economy, 1950-51 To 1964-65, N. R. Murthy

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The study of potential output and the sources of economic growth has become in the last fifteen years an important part of economic literature. Most of the studies on potential output and the sources of economic growth have been carried out mainly for the United States, some Western European countries and Canada. There is a small number of such studies on the less developed economies. In fact, there are no studies on potential output and sources of economic growth in the Indian economy. The present study is an attempt to fill in this gap.

This chapter attempts to present an …

Part I: Search For A Correlation Between Molecular Structure And Mesogenicity. Part Ii: Cotton Effects Of Α,Β-Unsaturated Diesters, Robert L. Tuggey

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Part One of this work is a correlation of molecular structure with mesophase formation and stability. Since it has been established that mesogenic compounds are linear, rigid, and contain polarizable electron density, the synthetic approach restricts molecular structure to include these properties. In order to correlate mesomorphism with molecular structure, the central groups and terminal substituents were systematically altered, and electronic and steric factors are discussed in relation to mesophase formation and stability. Some p-substituted phenyl esters of acetylenedicarboxylic, fumaric, maleic, mesaconic, cyclohexanedicarboxylic, and benzoic acid were prepared. It was found that deviation from linearity decreased mesophase stability. On the …

Painted And Decorated Floors On The Greek Mainland And Crete In The Bronze Age, Ethel S. Hirsch

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The colorful painted plaster decoration on the walls of the Bronze Age palaces and mansions of Crete and Mycenae is a well known architectural feature. It is less widely known that a great many stucco floors were painted as well. This probably is because the information regarding these floors is scattered through the archaeological reports and seldom receives separate treatment. Only in an article by G. Rodenwaldt, "Mykenische Studien," in JdI, XXXIV, 1919, 83-106, and in the chapter by R. Hackl, "Die Fussboden," in Tiryns II, 222-237, are decorated floors treated as a separate artistic entity. The Rodenwaldt article …

Studies Of Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra Of Simple Gases, Pang-Dow Foo

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The spectra of ethylene and deuterated ethylene molecules have been photographed in the first order of a 21-foot vacuum ultraviolet spectrograph. The background continuum was provided by a xenon discharge lamp excited by a 2450 Mc/sec microwave diathermy unit. The exposure time varied from 30 minutes to four hours depending upon the slit width. Wavelength standards were provided by atomic emission and absorption lines of impurities present in the light source and also by carbon monoxide emission.

Recognition Latency To Intersecting And Non-Intersecting Memory Sets, Michael Hanley

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The present series of studies was intended to investigate the effect of presenting an item in both long and short-term memory sets. The Sternberg, the Atkinson, and the Murdock models make different predictions about what would be expected to occur in this situation. Besides these theoretical considerations, the present series of studies may also help to explain the inconsistencies which exist between studies in which both long and short-term set must be retained. Serial position effects were also investigated in conjunction with the intersecting of the long and short-term sets. Serial position results are of theoretical importance because exhaustive scanning …

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Deor, The Ruin And The Wanderer, Gary I. Rubin

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

With Bartlett and Huppé on which to rely, I will deal with three Old English poems: Deor, The Ruin, and The Wanderer. It is my belief that if we subject these poems to the kinds of analysis suggested by Bartlett and Huppé, we will be able to see that rhetoric is a determining factor in theme and structure. The elusive nature of the poems, their seeming illogic at times, may well be explained by the fact that the audience did indeed know the theme, the message, of the poem and that the delight of the poem was …

Esthetics Of Dedalus And Bloom: Nineteenth Century Roots, Structural Metaphors, And Resolutions, Marguerite Harkness

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This study explores James Joyce's use of esthetics as a structuring source in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, especially as those esthetics derive from similarities and references to and analogues from the nineteenth century tradition of English poets, novelists, and essayists which includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in Portrait, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace through Ulysses the evolution of the esthetic and its counter-traditions in the esthetics represented …