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Factors regulating the recruitment of the annual alga Desmarestia ligulata along the central California coast
No full text"A thesis presented to the faculty of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories."Thesis (M.S.) -- San Francisco State University, 1996.by Matthew Sean Edwards."A thesis presented to the faculty of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.
'Woe to you, hypocrites!' : law and leaders in The Gospel of Matthew
No full textThis thesis seeks to move beyond the impasse in Matthean scholarship that posits the reason for conflict in Matthew 23 with the authorial community. A framework is developed that allows the possibility that the gospel was received and understood by a widespread, general audience that itself was not necessarily embroiled in conflict. Multiple complementary methods are used to analyze how an ancient audience might expect conflict and work through its development in the narrative. Analysis of comparative biographical literature and of Old Testament references and allusions shows that readers could expect in literature the type and intensity of conflict exhibited in Matthew 23. The gospel's internal narrative development provides unity to the conflict episodes in Matthew 9-23. It also offers rationale for the escalation of conflict for which Matthew 23 is the summary. Chapter One: The Shape of the Discussion surveys representative works including redaction, social scientific, socio-historical, narrative and genre critics, to understand the options for studying conflict in Matthew. Reader-response oriented genre criticism provides language for framing reader expectations. Chapter Two: Expecting Conflict examines expectations that can be associated with Matthew's use of the Old Testament and by comparison with ancient biographies. Chapter Three: The Conflict Builds works systematically through each of the points of contact between Jesus and the leaders of Israel in chapters 9-22 organized by three topics: legal interpretation, the identity and authority of Jesus, and the character of the leaders. Chapter Four: Woe to You takes up the task of examining Matthew 23. The analysis of Matthew 23 identifies three components in the summary of conflict: Jesus presented as the model for his audience, Jesus' final denunciation of the leaders, and the presentation of Jesus as God’s representative. The multi-methodological approach used in this study of Matthew 23 suggests a narrative that invites the reader to rethink how one knows and understands God. The study thereby provides an alternative to the assumption that conflict reflects the immediate experience of a narrowly conceived authorial community
Appropriations of Irish drama by modern Korean nationalist theatre : a focus on the influence of Sean O’Casey in a colonial context
No full textMy thesis explores how a translated author on the periphery of the host culture’s
translated repertoire can be at once subversive and innovative on the colonial scene,
using as an example the case of Sean O’Casey in colonial Korea. It explores the
importation of Irish drama in modern Korean theatre during the colonial period and
examines the appropriations of O’Casey’s plays by a central Korean playwright, Yu
Chi-jin, in creating his own plays. Under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth
century, intellectuals perceived the supreme task for the Korean people to be the
recovery of national sovereignty and independence. The modern Korean theatre
movement which rose among Korean intellectuals and dramatists during the colonial
period was to play a major part in this task. The ultimate goal of this movement was
to establish a modern national theatre promoting Korean culture and educating the
people, thereby recovering national independence. As their modernised dramatic
polysystem was still "young", Korean intellectuals and dramatists who were
involved in the theatre movement had to borrow dramatic models from other
countries. One of the models they chose was Irish playwrights, especially those who
were involved in the Irish dramatic movement. They published or staged the works
of W.B. Yeats, Lord Dunsany [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett], Augusta
Gregory, J.M. Synge, St. J. Ervine, T.C. Murray and Sean O'Casey. Although
O'Casey was considered an important dramatist in the Irish dramatic movement, he
was a playwright on the periphery in the list of translated Irish dramatists in Korea
due to the colonisers’ censorship. However, he remained as a subversive and
innovative playwright on the colonial scene by virtue of being appropriated by Yu
Chi-jin who used O’Casey’s plays as models when creating his own works. In
discussing the subject matter of my thesis, I use Even Zohar’s polysystems theory as
a starting point in looking at ideological issues surrounding translation and extend
the discussion to offer a postcolonial perspective. While most translation in a
colonial context was considered as "an expression of the cultural power of the
colonisers," my thesis shifts the focus to translation as an expression of the cultural
power of the colonised. I explore how the colonised uses another colonised culture to
subvert the colonisers’ power
Matthew’s Emmanuel Messiah: a paradigm of presence for god's people
No full textThe motif of divine presence is a clear phenomenon within the Gospel of Matthew. The modern critical means for assessing the ancient biblical text have multiplied to the point, some claim, of disparity. This study employs both narrative and redaction criticism in an attempt to respond authentically to the structural, historical and theological dimensions of Matthew's Gospel. This study begins with the presumption of the wholeness and integrity of Matthew's narrative, and assumes the gospel story to have an inherently dramatic structure which invites readers to inhabit imaginatively its narrative world and respond to its call. But since we are concerned with the role of both reader and author, this study also assumes a text with an historical author and context. The introduction focuses on the meta-critical dilemma facing New Testament students - what is the text and how do we read it? - and seeks some balance in terms of Krieger's analogy of the text as both window and mirror. Proposed is a narrative reading of Matthew's presence motif alongside a redaction critical assessment of it. In Chapter 2 the elements of narrative theory are introduced and relevant terms defined: the structure of narrative, the function of the narrator, points of view. Chapter 3 becomes an exercise in narrative reading, with Matthew's presence motif providing the focus, and the implied reader’s interaction with the story being predominant in interpretation. Characters, rhetorical devices, and points of view are discussed, to understand the motif's development throughout the story's progress. The thrust of Chapter 4 is thereafter to examine divine presence as a dominant motif within Matthew's most important literary context: the Jewish scriptures. Here the primary paradigms of divine presence provided by the Patriarchs, the Sinai experience, and the Davidic-Zion traditions are assessed. Chapter 5 follows with a more detailed examination of the OT "I am with you/God is with us" formula and its µeo' vµwv/ηuwv language, so strongly connected to Matthew's presence motif. Chapters 6-8 build on these investigations with a closer analysis of the three critical "presence passages" of Mt 1:23. 18:20 and 28:20. The passages and their contexts are probed from a redaction critical perspective, guided by the narrative investigation of Chapter 3, and the background from Chapters 4 and 5.The three major "presence passages" examined in Chapters 6-8 are also complimented by a number of secondary issues: worship, wisdom, the Spirit and the poor in Matthew, and their relation to Jesus' divine presence. These are discussed in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 summarizes and looks briefly at some implications. Matthew' presence motif proves to be an important element of the Gospel’s rhetorical design, redactional strategy and Christology. The presence of Jesus, the Emmanuel Messiah, exhibited in his risen authority, becomes the focus of his people's hopes and experiences in the post-Easter world. What the presence of Yahweh was to his people. Jesus now provides in a new paradigm for his people - his followers, the little ones, the poor and the marginalized, from all nations
Privatisation of state and territory assets and new infrastructure
No full textThis inquiry examined incentives to privatise state or territory assets and recycle the proceeds into new infrastructure.
Introduction
The Economics References Committee examined:
Incentives to privatise state or territory assets and recycle the proceeds into new infrastructure, with particular reference to:
(a) the role of the Commonwealth in working with states and territories to fund nation-building infrastructure, including:
(i) the appropriateness of the Commonwealth providing funding, and
(ii) the capacity of the Commonwealth to contribute an additional 15 per cent, or alternative amounts, of reinvested sale proceeds;
(b) the economics of incentives to privatise assets;
(c) what safeguards would be necessary to ensure any privatisations were in the interests of the state or territory, the Commonwealth and the public;
(d) the process for evaluating potential projects and for making recommendations about grants payments, including the application of cost-benefit analyses and measurement of productivity and other benefits;
(e) parliamentary scrutiny;
(f) alternative mechanisms for funding infrastructure development in states and territories;
(g) equity impacts between states and territories arising from Commonwealth incentives for future asset sales; and
(h) any related matter
Irish modernism in an international frame: Thomas MacGreevy, Sean O'Faolain and Samuel Beckett in the 1930s.
No full textPhDIn 1930s Ireland, modernist writing developed at a conjuncture of national and
international influences. The second generation of Irish modernism responded to national
culture in the context of international debates about literary form. The purpose of this
thesis is to present a nuanced understanding of the relationship between Irish and
European literary discourse in the work of Thomas MacGreevy, Sean O'Faolain and Samuel
Beckett: three writers who formulated Irish writing within a self-consciously international
frame.
Drawing on recent critical approaches to modern Irish writing and on contemporary
theories of modernism, this thesis argues that Irish writing in the 1930s reflected many of
the debates and tensions in international modernism. In the first decades of independence,
attitudes to literary form, to cultural nationalism, and to the role of the writer in the public
sphere were being reshaped. These attitudes formed the basis of alternative formulations
of Irish modernism. The three writers considered here approached the relationship
between Ireland and Europe from different perspectives, and figured the possibilities of
international influence on national literary culture in diverse ways. Consideration of the
national and international networks of influence underlying the aesthetic projects of
MacGreevy, O'Faolain and Beckett illuminates their 1930s writing, and has broader
implications for the understanding of Irish literary culture.
The first chapter argues that MacGreevy's critical writing formulated a national version of
conservative modernism. MacGreevy combined Catholic and republican attitudes with a
high modernist approach to the role of art in mass democracy. The second chapter focuses
on O'Faolain's realist aesthetic in relation to contemporary debates about modernism and
realism. O'Faolain's attitude to national culture developed from a conflict between artistic
integrity and social responsibility which reflected tensions in both national and
international literary discourse. The third chapter contextualises Beckett's 1930s fiction in
the avant gardist elements of Irish literary culture, and argues that his aesthetic developed
as a specifically national manifestation of late modernism
Hydrogen from Radiolysis of Aqueous Fluid Inclusions during Diagenesis
No full textAcknowledgments We are grateful to J. Bowie and J. Still for skilled technical support and the staff at ICL-UK’s Boulby mine (especially Thomas Edwards), STFC’s Boulby underground Laboratory and the UK Centre for Astrobiology MINAR programme team (especially Sean Paling) for their support and supervised access to the site. The critical comments of two reviewers helped to improve the manuscript. Author Contributions John Parnell undertook the sampling. Nigel Blamey performed all analytical work. John Parnell wrote the manuscript.Peer reviewe
Foreign Policy Views and U.S. Standing in the World
No full textWhat do Americans think about the US role in world affairs and why do they think the way they do? Americans typically do not think about foreign policy most of the time, and, as a consequence, know relatively little about it (Almond 1950, Lippmann 1955, Converse 1964, Erskine 1963, Edwards 1983, Sobel 1993, Holsti 2004, Canes-Wrone 2006, Page and Bouton 2006, Berinsky 2007). While foreign policy issues can become salient when major international events (like 9/11 and the Iraq War) arise or when political candidates focus on foreign policy (Aldrich, Sullivan and Borgida 1989), ceteris paribus, Americans know and care more about domestic politics (Delli-Carpini and Keeter 1996, Holsti 1994, Canes-Wrone 2006, Converse 1964). Consequently, typical Americans are broadly aware of foreign policy, and have some available attitudes about it (Page and Bouton 2006, Aldrich et al. 1989). However, except in the face of political priming by elites or exogenous shocks, such attitudes may not be broadly accessible when making political decisions, like voting.
Many Friends
No full textDuring the school year 2000 – 2001, Author/Illustrator Debby Atwell came to Peaks Island School for a week, working with the students to make a book of short stories. There were four classes that year, Kindergarten, Grades 1-2, Grades 3-4 and Grade 5. Each class created its own story in an unusual arrangement where the class collaborated on the story, with each student getting to write a page, but another child would illustrate that text. When the work was complete, Debby Atwell took it home and bound the stories into a single volume with handmade-paper-covered board covers.The Stories and the Student Authors:Chapter 1: Many Friends: Liam Fox, Emily Lani, Jamie Moore, Olwyn Moxhay, Hannah Sophie Smith, Victoria.
Chapter 2: Jimmy and Katy: Otto Barn, Nolan Bateman, Neala Broderick, Alexandra de la Bruere, Hugh Carroll, Anna Conley, Maria DeMichele, Ellis DuCharme, Olivia Edwards, Keanan Fox, Morgan McTigue, Evan Michalski, Dexter Morse, Mason Norton, Hannah Rindlaub, Lindsey Sinicki.
Chapter 3: James and the Magic Turtle: Aurimas Bukauskas, Ian Carlson, Connor Flynn, Chase Huckestein, Tori Huckestein, Mark Kinner, Leigh Mills, Jeffrey Morris, Nathaniel Coleman Mulkern, William Murdock, Cooper Van Vranken.
Chapter 4: Lobsters Can Change, Sean Broderick, Sara Cannon, Alexandra Clark, Kieran Conley, Will Day, Erica DeMichele, Ashley Gross, Markus Kamp, Jen Mulkern, Matthew Mulkern, Mitchell Murdock, Echo Presgraves, Nathaniel Walden.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_local_printed/1009/thumbnail.jp
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Effects of empagliflozin on longevity and muscle metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster
No full textType 2 diabetes (T2D) is a global health concern characterized by insulin resistance and impaired metabolic functions, with skeletal muscle playing a crucial role in glucose homeostasis. Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) are a class of antihyperglycemic drugs that lower blood glucose primarily by promoting renal glucose excretion. Recent studies suggest that SGLT2i have off-target effects on various tissues, including skeletal muscle, where they can influence metabolic pathways independent of their glucose-lowering actions, mimicking mild caloric restriction. This phenotype may improve mitochondrial metabolism and promote longevity. Understanding these effects may provide a rationale for their use outside diabetes management. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin (EMPA) on longevity and to explore whether EMPA affects muscle mitochondrial function and energetic signaling pathways without the confounding influence of the SGLT2 protein. Flies were treated with either 5,25,50µM EMPA or DMSO, and their metabolic and physiological responses were assessed through high-resolution respirometry, Western blotting, and the Drosophila Activity Monitor (DAM) system. EMPA treatment significantly increased longevity across all treated groups, with the most pronounced effects at 25 µM. We also demonstrated that EMPA treatment can significantly inhibit complex I-supported mitochondrial respiration in a dose-dependent manner, consistent with previous findings in mammalian models. EMPA treatment did not meaningfully alter energetic signaling pathways, suggesting that its effects on longevity may be through mechanisms independent from direct AMPK activation. The findings demonstrate that EMPA inhibits complex I-supported respiration and extends lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster, supporting its potential as a longevity-enhancing drug and highlighting the need to clarify the pathways through which SGLT2 inhibitors exert their off-target effects
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