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The Economic Impact Of A Short Term Event On Tourism: 1994 National Slo-Pitch Tournament, John Macdonald
The Economic Impact Of A Short Term Event On Tourism: 1994 National Slo-Pitch Tournament, John Macdonald
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines whether short-term special events provide a positive net economic benefit to the host community with a specific focus on the 1994 Canadian National Slo-Pitch Championships held in Niagara Falls. A participant survey designed to identify demographic information and direct spending patterns was conducted, in addition to a survey of the hotels that accommodated the participants. The findings reveal that significant economic benefits can be gained by hosting short-term special events and the extent of the economic benefits is increased considerably when the event requires participants to stay in the host community overnight.
Intermunicipal Servicing Agreements: Four Case Studies In Huron County, Jennifer Hosack
Intermunicipal Servicing Agreements: Four Case Studies In Huron County, Jennifer Hosack
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines how local servicing problems – with a specific focus on sewage and water services – can be dealt with effectively based on four case studies of municipalities in Huron County. An analysis of municipal and provincial documents and interviews with key stakeholders were conducted. The findings reveal that local servicing problems can be successfully addressed with servicing agreements, which involve adjacent municipalities working cooperatively with one another in order to obtain the level of servicing that they each desire.
Evaluation Of Leadership In Ontario Public Libraries, Reed Osborne
Evaluation Of Leadership In Ontario Public Libraries, Reed Osborne
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines whether the leadership performance appraisal ratings of public library chief executive officers (CEOs) are influenced by the gender of the CEO. Surveys with 272 board members and management or professional staff at public libraries in Ontario were conducted to determine their evaluations of the CEO for 14 leadership qualities. The findings reveal that female CEOs carry an additional burden in the form of ongoing gender role tensions that male CEOs do not have to endure.
The Incidence And Impact Of Strategic Human Resource Management In Canadian Municipalities, Cheryl Smith
The Incidence And Impact Of Strategic Human Resource Management In Canadian Municipalities, Cheryl Smith
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines the incidence and effectiveness of strategic human resource management (SHRM) in Canada based on a survey of 68 municipalities in eight provinces with populations exceeding 38,500. The findings reveal that SHRM is being practiced in a small majority of Canadian municipalities and the majority of the respondent municipalities with SHRM have fully integrated their human resources function within the strategic planning process, which suggests that there is significant potential for the improvement of organizational effectiveness.
"Two Kinds Of Geography": Complicity And Resistance In Canadian Pioneer Literature, Gillian Heather Siddall
"Two Kinds Of Geography": Complicity And Resistance In Canadian Pioneer Literature, Gillian Heather Siddall
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The purpose of this thesis is to consider the Canadian wilderness as an actual and a mythological site for discursive change. Part One analyses five pioneer journal/handbooks, and Part Two examines four contemporary texts which focus on the pioneer experience.;Chapters One to Three explore the extent to which the disruption of their political and social assumptions caused the female pioneers to explore alternative constructions of gender. These chapters illustrate that the women do indeed see the potential in the wilderness for redefining themselves, for shifting away from the restrictive nineteenth-century construction of women. This shift comes in part from their …
Leaving Parental Homes In Canada: An Examination Of Gender, Family And Culture, Zhihong Zhao
Leaving Parental Homes In Canada: An Examination Of Gender, Family And Culture, Zhihong Zhao
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This dissertation first explores a theoretical synthesis for the home-leaving of young adults in Canada. It proposes that home-leaving decisions are made at the family level, instead of at the individual level. While young adults may base their considerations concerning their living arrangements primarily on their own self-interest, parents are more likely to consider not only their own interests but also the best interests of their children. Young adults from social groups with different levels of familism will also have different patterns of home-leaving.;The analysis involves the life table and the proportional hazards models, as well as logistic regression, using …
Transcriptional Regulation Of The Urea Cycle Enzyme Genes In The Liver Of Rana Catesbeiana Tadpoles During Spontaneous And Thyroid Hormone-Induced Metamorphosis, Yuqing Eugene Chen
Transcriptional Regulation Of The Urea Cycle Enzyme Genes In The Liver Of Rana Catesbeiana Tadpoles During Spontaneous And Thyroid Hormone-Induced Metamorphosis, Yuqing Eugene Chen
Digitized Theses
The ornithine urea cycle enzymes, carbamyl phosphate synthetase (CPS-1), ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) and arginase, are liver-specific proteins. Their expression is coordinately activated during the metamorphosis of the Rana catesbeiana tadpole by thyroid hormone (TH), and their presence is critical for the shift of this amphibian from an aquatic, ammonotelic larva into a terrestrial, ureotelic adult. My studies were focused on analyzing the transcriptional regulation of the genes encoding these urea cycle enzymes and determining whether these genes were upregulated directly or indirectly by TH. With this thought in mind, I isolated and characterized the sequences in the promoter regions of …
Homo- And Hetero-Nuclear Clusters Of Platinum And Rhenium, Leijun Hao
Homo- And Hetero-Nuclear Clusters Of Platinum And Rhenium, Leijun Hao
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An Examination Of Whether Irony And Sarcasm Are Different Terms For The Same Psychological Construct, Christopher James Lee
An Examination Of Whether Irony And Sarcasm Are Different Terms For The Same Psychological Construct, Christopher James Lee
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Researchers have studied counterfactual statements, such as "There's not a cloud in the sky!" uttered during a violent thunderstorm, both as instances of irony (Jorgensen, Miller & Sperber, 1984; Kreuz & Glucksberg, 1989; Katz & Lee, 1993) and as instances of sarcasm (Gibbs, 1986; Kreuz & Glucksberg, 1989). It is not surprising that some terms are used inconsistently in a young field of investigation such as the psycholinguistics of irony and sarcasm. However. the inconsistent use of the terms irony and sarcasm across different empirical studies is problematic when research participants are asked to judge whether or not counterfactual statements …
Self-Concept Dimensions Associated With Eating Disturbance, Sandra Ann Yuen
Self-Concept Dimensions Associated With Eating Disturbance, Sandra Ann Yuen
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The present thesis provided a detailed examination of the self-concept variables associated with eating disturbance. Two distinct self-concept variables, namely, the content and evaluative dimensions of self, were evaluated in relation to global measures of bulimia nervosa. These self-concept dimensions were further examined in relation to the eating pathology and general maladjustment features of bulimia, including the behavioural, motivational, and cognitive-affective components of eating disturbance.;Study 1 examined the actual and ideal self-concept content dimensions and the self-certainty and attribute importance evaluative self-dimensions, across the domains of body image, depressive personality, sociability, and social roles. Individuals reporting higher levels of bulimia …
Shakespeare's Concepts Of The Future In The Tetralogies, John David Hartley
Shakespeare's Concepts Of The Future In The Tetralogies, John David Hartley
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This thesis attempts to demonstrate that Shakespeare's conceptions of the future develop in complexity and coherence in the tetralogies and are important to readings of the plays as an indication of his developing sense of historical change. I approach the plays from a modified cultural materialist viewpoint. This critical approach offers useful presuppositions and a strategy for analysis of characterization and ideological issues that assist in understanding how the future takes shape in the plays.;Shakespeare includes a number of factors other than characterization and ideological issues that help to shape the future--fate, Providence, prophecies, dreams, and images. His concepts of …
Evolutionary Models Of Market Behavior, Guo Ying Luo
Evolutionary Models Of Market Behavior, Guo Ying Luo
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This thesis consists of three evolutionary models examining market behavior.;Profit maximization is the usual prerequisite for achievement of competition. However, for a long time it has been thought that this principle of profit maximization can be replaced by natural selection. In an evolutionary model of an industry, where firms' outputs are chosen randomly, where entry occurs with no motivation and where exit occurs when a firm's wealth becomes negative, the first paper shows that the industry converges in probability to a perfectly competitive equilibrium as firms get infinitesimally small relative to the market, as the entry fixed costs get sufficiently …
Exploration Of Partitioned State Tourism: The Example Of Partitioned China, Baodi Mao
Exploration Of Partitioned State Tourism: The Example Of Partitioned China, Baodi Mao
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The European political state system has spread throughout the world and has become the predominant geo-political organization. However, the recent partitioning of states have generated a type of abnormal political entities: partitioned states. These partitioned states have serious implications for tourism development. Despite the uncertainty created by political strife and subdivision, many people continue to travel between partitioned states. Economic necessity, religious obligations, family ties, political negotiations, and pleasure are all relevant motivations driving the movement of people between these partitioned states. However, there is a substantial lack of systematic research on the movement of tourists between divided partitioned states. …
Tonality And Atonality In Alban Berg's Four Songs, Op2 (Austria), Gary Richard Tucker
Tonality And Atonality In Alban Berg's Four Songs, Op2 (Austria), Gary Richard Tucker
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Alban Berg composed his Four Songs between 1908 and 1910; they were published in the latter year as his Op. 2. This was a critical period for Berg as for his mentor, Arnold Schoenberg, and his colleague Anton Webern. The latter two composers both later remembered 1908 as the year all three of them abandoned traditional tonality and began to write "atonal" music. There are problems, however, with the categories "tonal" and "atonal." Webern denied that the shift from one to the other really involved any radical change in how they handled pitch materials in their music. In Berg's Four …
Evolutionary Dynamics At Two Loci Of The Human Genome As Assessed By Examination Of Nucleotide Sequence Diversity And Organization, Kathleen Allen Hill
Evolutionary Dynamics At Two Loci Of The Human Genome As Assessed By Examination Of Nucleotide Sequence Diversity And Organization, Kathleen Allen Hill
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Accurate and comprehensive measurement of the extent and pattern of nucleotide diversity is necessary to refine theories on the dynamics of evolution. It is possible to determine the sequence of any genomic region for numerous individuals using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and associated techniques of DNA sequence analysis. The two regions of the human genome examined in this study were the third exon of the highly conserved (two major alleles) alcohol dehydrogenase, Adh2 locus and the second exon of the highly polymorphic (26 alleles) human leukocyte antigen, HLA-DQ{dollar}\beta{dollar}1 gene. Sequence information was determined from 25 individuals from Southwestern Ontario …
Image Correlation Spectroscopy: Development And Application To Studies Of Pdgf Receptor Distributions, Paul William Wiseman
Image Correlation Spectroscopy: Development And Application To Studies Of Pdgf Receptor Distributions, Paul William Wiseman
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Aggregation of macromolecular plasma membrane receptors following ligand binding is hypothesized to be the initial step in signal transduction in cellular systems. Quantitative measurement of receptor distributions on cell surfaces is integral for elucidating the complicated mechanisms involved in transduction of chemical signals across the cells membrane. Scanning fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (S-FCS) has been used successfully to perform quantitative measurements of receptor densities and aggregate sizes. However, these measurements take a great deal of time, and require specialized equipment to implement. Here, image correlation spectroscopy (ICS) is introduced as a novel extension of scanning fluorescence correlation spectroscopy that improves on …
The Effects Of Preadministration Of Nmda Antagonists On Kindling With Carbachol, Deborah Michelle Saucier
The Effects Of Preadministration Of Nmda Antagonists On Kindling With Carbachol, Deborah Michelle Saucier
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This thesis evaluated the hypothesis that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor activity is essential for the development of kindling and/or the maintenance of the kindled state in male hooded rats. Kindling was produced by the infusion of carbachol, a muscarinic cholinergic agonist, directly into either the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala or the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. The infusions of carbachol took place over 70 seconds and were given every 2 days. At a previously determined time before the infusion of carbachol, either APV (DL-aminophosphonovaleric acid, infused into the site of recording) or NPC 17742 (2R,4R,2S-(2-amino-4,5(cyclohexyl)-7-phosphonoheptanoic acid, i.p.) was given. Both …
Intramolecular Aldol Condensation Reactions And Transacetalization Equilibria, Junan Guo
Intramolecular Aldol Condensation Reactions And Transacetalization Equilibria, Junan Guo
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Part I. Intramolecular aldol condensation reactions. The detailed kinetics and equilibrium for the intramolecular aldol condensation reaction of 2,5-hexanedione, 2, 6-heptanedione, 1-phenyl-1, 5-hexanedione and 5-oxohexanal were studied and correlated in terms of Marcus theory. All the reactions, with the readily explained exception of the intramolecular aldol addition of 5-oxohexanal, gave us approximately constant intrinsic barriers: 14.49 {dollar}\pm{dollar} 0.82 kcal/mol for the intramolecular aldol addition step and 13.99 {dollar}\pm{dollar} 0.74 kcal/mol for the subsequent dehydration step, which are also in excellent agreement with the intrinsic barriers found for intermolecular aldol condensation reactions.{dollar}\sp{lcub}16{rcub}{dollar} This means that Marcus theory is applicable to intramolecular …
Commercial Integrity, Roles And Object-Orientation, Matunda Nyanchama
Commercial Integrity, Roles And Object-Orientation, Matunda Nyanchama
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This thesis presents a study of realizing commercial security, as defined in the Clark and Wilson Model (CW87), using Object-Oriented (O-O) concepts.;Role-based security is implied in the Clark and Wilson model in which specified operations are grouped to compose roles. This approach to protection is suitable for applications involving large numbers of users with overlapping user requirements and/or where there is a large number of objects. It presents a flexible (hence adaptive) means for enforcing differing ranges of security policies. It enforces the principle of least privilege, hence minimizing the risk of Trojan horse attacks.;Consequently, in part, this work focuses …
Maternal Depression, Perceptions, Contextual Stress, And Parenting, Christine Marie-Antoinette Wekerle
Maternal Depression, Perceptions, Contextual Stress, And Parenting, Christine Marie-Antoinette Wekerle
Digitized Theses
The relationship between maternal depression and parenting was explored in three distinct ways: (1) the direct effect of maternal depression, as it is measured proximally and distally to parenting, (2) the moderation of proximal and distal maternal depression by contextual stress, and (3) the mediation of proximal and distal maternal depression by maternal perceptions of child problem behaviour. Two aspects of maternal behaviour were examined: aversive parenting (negative control strategies, negative affect, lack of positive control strategies) and positive affect (positive affect and affection).;A community sample of 95 mother-child dyads participated in 12, 1-hr in-home behavioural observations. Also, mothers completed …
Feedback Control Mechanisms Regulating Breathing In Humans, Croix Claudette St
Feedback Control Mechanisms Regulating Breathing In Humans, Croix Claudette St
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The respiratory system regulates alveolar ventilation (V{dollar}\sb{lcub}\rm A{rcub}{dollar}) almost exactly to the demands of the body so that the PCO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} and PO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} of the arterial blood are hardly altered, even during strenuous exercise or other types of respiratory stress. The feedback control of ventilation was studied in human subjects using the technique of dynamic end-tidal forcings to produce perturbations in end-tidal PCO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} (P{dollar}\sb{lcub}\rm ET{rcub}{dollar}CO{dollar}\sb2{dollar}) and end-tidal PO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} (P{dollar}\sb{lcub}\rm ET{rcub}{dollar}O{dollar}\sb2{dollar}) to stimulate the respiratory chemoreceptors.;The purpose of the first study was to investigate the interaction between ventilatory drives from the central (cR{dollar}\sb{lcub}\rm c{rcub}{dollar}) and peripheral (pR{dollar}\sb{lcub}\rm c{rcub}{dollar}) chemoreceptors using their different …
Spectroscopic Properties Of Copper Binding To The Protein Metallothionein, Anna Rae Green
Spectroscopic Properties Of Copper Binding To The Protein Metallothionein, Anna Rae Green
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Metallothionein (MT) is a low molecular weight protein found in the kidneys and livers of all mammals. Twenty of its 61 or 62 amino acid residues are cysteinyl residues, allowing the protein to act as an impressive chelating agent. Although it has been well established that mammalian MT binds seven M(II) (M = Cd(II), Zn(II), Hg(II)) ions tetrahedrally in two metal-thiolate clusters of the form M{dollar}\sb4{dollar}(S{dollar}\rm\sb{lcub}cys{rcub})\sb{lcub}11{rcub},{dollar} (the {dollar}\alpha{dollar} domain) and {dollar}\rm M\sb3(S\sb{lcub}cys{rcub})\sb9,{dollar} (the {dollar}\beta{dollar} domain), little is known about the structure of copper-containing metallothioneins. In this thesis, absorption, circular dichroism (CD) and emission spectroscopies and excited state lifetime data are …
Contextualism And Nonlocality In Quantum Mechanics, Michael William Kernaghan
Contextualism And Nonlocality In Quantum Mechanics, Michael William Kernaghan
Digitized Theses
I describe the conceptual problems associated with the Kochen-Specker theorem including the presuppositions of the theorem and plausible interpretations of the conclusions motivated by the theorem. I describe an idealized quantum system which demonstrates both the Kochen-Specker theorem and the Bell argument for nonlocality. I present new findings about the mathematical structures which support a proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem.
Canada's Multinationals: A Study In Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Stephen Paul Meyer
Canada's Multinationals: A Study In Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Stephen Paul Meyer
Digitized Theses
Regarding the foreign direct investment (FDI) situation in Canada, most of the attention has historically been centred on incoming rather than outgoing controlling capital. Yet, the activities of Canada-based multinational enterprises (MNEs) have fostered an impressive outflow of direct investment abroad to foreign localities.;To appreciate the importance of Canada's MNEs, it is compulsory to understand the spatial and functional characteristics of Canadian parent companies and their foreign direct investments. To realize this goal, a sizeable sample of over 20,000 examples of Canadian FDI (at various points in time) has been retrieved and subsequently agglomerated into a data set. From there, …
Marcus Theory Applied To Acetal Cleavage And Aldol Reactions, Jonathan Arthur Barker
Marcus Theory Applied To Acetal Cleavage And Aldol Reactions, Jonathan Arthur Barker
Digitized Theses
The acid catalyzed and uncatalyzed hydrolysis of the acetal 2,2-dimethoxypropane (DMOP) and the ortho ester trimethylorthoacetate (TMOA) have been studied in aqueous solution at 25{dollar}\sp\circ{dollar}C. Theoretical and experimental evidence have been found for a base catalyzed E2 mechanism of DMOP hydrolysis proceeding through an enol ether. This mechanism is neither predicted nor observed for TMOA hydrolysis. The specific acid catalyzed and uncatalyzed rate constants for hydrolysis are for DMOP k{dollar}\rm\sb{lcub}H+{rcub}=(2.5\pm0.3)\times10\sp3\ M\sp{lcub}-1{rcub}s\sp{lcub}-1{rcub},\ k\sb w=(3.6\pm0.2)\times10\sp{lcub}-8{rcub}\ s\sp{lcub}-1{rcub},\ k\sb{lcub}OH-,E2{rcub}=(2.8\pm0.4)\times10\sp{lcub}-8{rcub}\ M\sp{lcub}-1{rcub}s\sp{lcub}-1{rcub},\ and\ for\ TMOA\ k\sb{lcub}H+{rcub}=(2.05\pm0.12)\times10\sp4\ M\sp{lcub}-1{rcub}s\sp{lcub}-1{rcub},\ k\sb w=(3.7\pm0.3)\times10\sp{lcub}-6{rcub}\ s\sp{lcub}-1{rcub}.{dollar} General acid catalysis was observed for TMOA with four general acids. From the Bronsted plot, {dollar}\alpha=0.76\pm0.05.{dollar} …
Electronic Structure Of Gold-Silver Bimetallics, Arthur Bzowski
Electronic Structure Of Gold-Silver Bimetallics, Arthur Bzowski
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The main thrust of this thesis concerns studies of the electronic structure of Au-Ag bimetallic materials, both in bulk alloys and in metallic overlayers on Ru(001). First, a series of bulk Au-Ag alloys: Au{dollar}\rm\sb{lcub}0.75{rcub}Ag\sb{lcub}0.25{rcub},\ Au\sb{lcub}0.67{rcub}Ag\sb{lcub}0.33{rcub},\ Au\sb{lcub}0.50{rcub}Ag\sb{lcub}0.50{rcub},\ Au\sb{lcub}0.25{rcub}Ag\sb{lcub}0.95{rcub},\ and\ Au\sb{lcub}0.05{rcub}Ag\sb{lcub}0.95{rcub}{dollar} has been studied using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), and X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES). It is found that in alloys with {dollar}>{dollar}50% atomic Au, the alloy d-band width narrows little relative to that of pure Au; however at 50% (and less) atomic Au concentration, the widths of the Au-Ag alloy d-band are much smaller than that …
Infants' Use Of Spatial Co-Location In A Cross-Modal Perception Task, Kimberley Diane Fenwick
Infants' Use Of Spatial Co-Location In A Cross-Modal Perception Task, Kimberley Diane Fenwick
Digitized Theses
The role of spatial co-location between sight and sound in infants' cross-modal learning was examined. In Experiments 1 and 2, 4- and 6-month-old infants were familiarized with toys and an accompanying soundtrack using a cross-modal learning paradigm. Across conditions, spatial congruity between sight and sound was varied so that the sound was: (1) co-located with one toy (40 cm from midline); (2) 20 cm to the far side of one toy toward midline; (3) 20 cm to the far side of one toy opposite midline; and (4) 60 cm to the far side of one toy opposite midline. In Experiment …
High Temperature X-Ray Diffraction Investigation Of The Beta-(Bismuth(2) Oxygen(3))(1-X)(Strontium Oxide)(X) Solid Solution, Edward Andrew Payzant
High Temperature X-Ray Diffraction Investigation Of The Beta-(Bismuth(2) Oxygen(3))(1-X)(Strontium Oxide)(X) Solid Solution, Edward Andrew Payzant
Digitized Theses
To investigate the controversial {dollar}\beta\sb1\leftrightarrow\beta\sb2{dollar} phase transformation in the {dollar}\beta{dollar}-{dollar}\rm (Bi\sb2O\sb3)\sb{lcub}1-x{rcub}(SrO)\sb{lcub}x{rcub}{dollar} phase, a series of compositions across the phase were prepared by conventional grinding, pressing and firing ceramic techniques. Electrical conductivity measurements demonstrated that the samples were comparable to those used in other laboratories. X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed that the cations are located on a hexagonal sublattice, but details of the anion sublattice could not be resolved, because of the low X-ray scattering factor of {dollar}\rm O\sp{lcub}2-{rcub}.{dollar};The compositional dependence of the lattice parameters of the hexagonal crystal structure of the {dollar}\beta{dollar}-{dollar}\rm (Bi\sb2O\sb3)\sb{lcub}1-x{rcub}(SrO)\sb{lcub}x{rcub}{dollar} phase, which was determined at {dollar}27\sp\circ\rm C{dollar} using …
Genome Organization, Replication And Movement Of Foxtail Mosaic Virus, Michele Rouleau
Genome Organization, Replication And Movement Of Foxtail Mosaic Virus, Michele Rouleau
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Foxtail mosaic virus (FMV) is a member of the potexvirus family which infects primarily monocotyledonous plants. Its flexuous filamentous particles are 500 nm long and consist of a messenger sense RNA encapsidated by a single type of coat protein. We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the FMV gRNA as well as the organization of its coding sequences. The gRNA is 6151 nucleotides long and contains five major open reading frames (ORF). The amino acid sequences of the putative proteins are closely related to homologous proteins of other sequenced potexviruses.;A procedure for the partial purification of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase …
The Victorian Prima Donna In Literature And The Ghosts Of Opera Past, Grace Lynn Kehler
The Victorian Prima Donna In Literature And The Ghosts Of Opera Past, Grace Lynn Kehler
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This dissertation explores the non-disjunction between eighteenth-century discourses on the early opera and the castrato and nineteenth-century discourses on the prima donna. Early opera was predicated on a series of fissures, particularly those between ideal and popular art, between a transcendent voice and a mutilated body, and between the supernatural and the unnatural. Officially, these fissures served to demarcate oppositions, but opera, from its inception, was drawn to transgression, and the fissures were crossed and recrossed, alternately endowing the castrato with transcendence and abjection. Paradoxically, then, one of the pivotal concepts in the construction of the castrato is the immanence …