Patronage and the saints in the devotional miscellany British Library ms Egerton 745

Golden, Judith Kunco University of Pittsburgh 2001 해외박사

Zur Photochemie von 5,6-epoxydienen der Jonon-Reihe : Einfluss einer benachbarten hydroxy-bzw. Methoxygruppe

Goldener, Urs ETH 1985 국내박사

(The) role and contribution of strategies and factors in the career successes of public library directors

Golden, Janine UMI Dissertation Services 2005 국내박사

"In a Position I See Myself In:" Young Men of Color (Re)Negotiating Educational Identities

Golden, Noah Asher City University of New York 2013 해외박사(DDOD)

Challenging deficit framings of young men of color in educational research, this dissertation seeks to build knowledge on how a group of young men of color in a second-chance secondary level program understand the ways in which they are positioned in and out of spaces of formal education. Specifically, this work seeks to answer the following questions: How do young men of color understand the ways in which they are represented in educational and life-outcome disparity discourse? How do these young men renegotiate and resist these namings? In exploring these questions, this dissertation offers analysis of both the young men's understandings of how they are positioned and documents strategies and cultural tools that the young men draw on when working to reposition themselves. These strategies and cultural tools have implications for a learning process dedicated to educational and life-outcome equity. The ways in which the `crisis' of young men of color in formal education and life-outcomes is framed is both a consequence of and has consequence for understandings of learning, particularly within the field of literacy. Exploring the ways in which framings of the `crisis' enable and engender both conceptions of literacy and a range of potential solutions, this work argues for a critical socio-cultural approach to literacy education that begins with a radical listening-with. A literacy education that begins with a radical listening-with has the potential to support sites of solidarity for learners who have historically been minoritized, and to make identity-negotiations central to understandings of what it means to be literate. The young men in this study are learners in the GED Connect program, a secondary-level educational alternative run by the New York City Department of Education, one of the centers of large-scale neoliberal education reform. These young men participated in an after-school Men's Group of which the primary functions were to create a network of support and engage in a concurrent [alongside the dissertation research project] Youth Participatory Action Research project. Data consist of the young men's narratives that were collected during select Men's Group sessions, and narrative analysis was employed to analyze the structures, themes, and positioning/repositioning practices present in the young men's narratives. Findings suggest that the young men are very much aware of the ways in which they are negatively positioned in discourses in and out of school, and that group identity has been tarnished in ways that diminish space for solidarity and encourage understandings of life-outcomes based on individual merit. In attempting to refuse undesirable positions, the young men draw on a variety of cultural tools and resources to reposition themselves when confronted with prevalent negative discourses on what it means to be a young man of color.

Spatio-temporal methods in the analysis offMRI data in neuroscience

Golden, Cliona M Princeton University 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

The subject of this thesis is the analysis of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data of the brain. fMRI is a technique which can be used to take images of brain activity over time. This is done with a scanner which samples the level of activity in small volume elements (voxels) at discrete times. In an fMRI experiment, a subject is usually given a specific task to perform during the scanning process. fMR images are typically very noisy and difficult to interpret, especially since the workings of the brain are only partially understood, and thus call for a variety of methods of analysis. Based on investigations of some mathematical and statistical methods for analyzing such fMRI data, this thesis consists of (i) a mathematical study of how justified and robust are techniques, such as Independent Component Analysis (ICA), that are currently being used in the analysis of fMRI data in neuroscience, and (ii) the development, using mathematical criteria, of new methods of analysis of this data. A typical assumption in analyzing fMR images of the brain is that the total brain activity at any given time is a linear combination of different "components" of brain activity. ICA methods further assume that these components are statistically independent of one another; this allows such components to be identified out of the total brain activity. We argue mathematically that independence is not a very realistic assumption for functional brain patterns, and design simulations on which to test various ICA algorithms that are used in practice. These simulations can be altered in a controlled manner to test different aspects of the ICA algorithms, and the results from running such tests provide further insight on when ICA can be expected to be successful. The new methods that we introduce employ functional criteria (rather than the statistical independence used in ICA) for the identification of the components of activity, involving certain smoothness conditions on the components, as would be expected in a biological context, and also space localization, which many neuroscientists support. We use wavelet tools (3+1 dimensions) to design these procedures.

Monitoring of organic and heavy metal contaminants in wildlife: Nonlethal methods and species selection

Golden, Nancy Heather University of Maryland College Park 2003 해외박사(DDOD)

This investigation explores the selection of species and endpoints for monitoring contaminants in wildlife, and investigates the use of a specific sampling matrix—the feather—to assess dietary exposure to metallic and organic pollutants in a minimally invasive manner. Feather and blood samples of nestling black-crowned night-herons (BCNH; <italic>Nycticorax nycticorax</italic>) collected from Pea Patch Island, Delaware revealed elevated concentrations of aluminum, barium, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, and mercury when compared to samples from Baltimore Harbor and Holland Island, Maryland (reference site). Because of its known deleterious effects on wildlife and the lack of controlled study in species other than waterfowl, lead was chosen from among these elements for further investigation into its distribution and effects in nestling BCNHs experimentally dosed in the field. Lead accumulated in feathers of 15-day old herons following intraperitoneal exposure ten days prior, and levels in feathers showed strong correlation with values in other internal organs. Furthermore, lead concentrations in feathers were associated with delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase depression and reduced tarsus growth rate. In a companion study, activity of cytochrome P450, a biomarker of organic contaminant exposure, was measured in developing feathers of mallards (<italic> Anas platyrhynchos</italic>) and black ducks (<italic>Anas rubripes</italic>) treated with beta-napthoflavone, a known inducing agent. All methods of measuring induction in feather pulp (i.e., traditional enzyme assays, immunoblotting, and immunohistochemistry) gave results that corresponded with the incidence of induction in liver. Immunohistochemical staining proved to be a valid method of assessing P450 activity in a single wing, body, or tail feather, and was successfully used to detect induction in osprey tail feathers collected from a polluted site. Finally, indices were created to assess the utility of terrestrial vertebrate species in the biomonitoring of persistent organic pollutants, cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides, mercury, lead shot, and petroleum crude oil, and to predict their vulnerability to each of these contaminants. Twenty-five species occurring on the North American Atlantic coast were ranked for each contaminant or contaminant class using Utility and Vulnerability Indices, incorporating elements of exposure potential, geographic occurrence, ease of collection, history of use in contaminant monitoring, sensitivity, and resilience of population.

Factors that impact consumer adoption of innovative technological services over time : the case of the internet

Henrichs, Roy Beddow Golden Gate University 1995 국내박사

Through the Muck and Mire: Marronage, Representation, and Memory in the Great Dismal Swamp

Golden, Kathryn Elise Benjamin ProQuest Dissertations & Theses University of Cali 2018 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation is a critical examination of both the history of the Dismal Swamp maroon communities and of the politics of race and representation of enslaved resistance in public historical narratives and in local Black collective memory. Pr. Once recently an extremely understudied and under-researched topic, my research on the history and legacy of U.S. marronage advances the fields of slavery, public history, and collective memory by: (1) connecting the activities of the Dismal Swa. This interdisciplinary project benefits from the use of mixed methods and the methodology of restorative and transformative history. This is the labor of reconstructing and reconnecting with the past toward social change. Racialized and oppresse. The first part of the dissertation focuses on U.S. marronage, its relationship to the maroons of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the activities of maroon communities in the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland straddling the Virgi. The second part of this dissertation examines the present-day relationships between the suppression of the history of enslaved agency, marronage, and resistance in public history, and collective memory. I point to the defining role race plays in.

Constraining the Parameters on the Late Time Redshift Evolution of the Stellar Mass - Halo Mass Relation

Golden-Marx, Jesse Benjamin ProQuest Dissertations & Theses University of Mich 2019 해외박사(DDOD)

We are currently in an era where our current observational capabilities have allowed for an unprecedented number of observations of galaxy clusters. These observations, along with state-of-the art cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters, can be used to constrain the connection between the central galaxy within a cluster and the cluster’s dark matter halo. This physically motivated and statistical galaxy-halo connection greatly improves our understanding of how the growth and evolution of central galaxies is intertwined with that of the of underlying and unseen dark matter halos that these galaxies reside in. In this dissertation, I address the galaxy-halo connection via the stellar mass - halo mass (SMHM) relation. The major contributions of this dissertation are to incorporate physically motivated parameters related to the galaxy cluster’s galactic population and environment that allow us to tighten the observational constraints on the SMHM as well as characterize how these parameters and the galaxies and clusters they describe evolve in the last 6 billion years.The specific contributions of the work presented in this dissertation are as follows. In Chapter III, I identify a trend between the magnitude gap, the difference in brightness between the central galaxy and fourth brightest cluster member galaxy, and stellar mass; at fixed halo mass, stellar mass and magnitude gap are linearly correlated due to the central galaxy’s hierarchical assembly. Using a hierarchical Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) framework, introduced in Chapter III, which quantifies the parameters of the SMHM relation as well as the impact of incorporating the magnitude gap, I find that magnitude gap is indeed a latent third parameter in the SMHM relation. Moreover, incorporating the magnitude gap significantly decreases the intrinsic scatter in the SMHM relation and explains the differences between previously published results. In Chapter IV, I extend the analysis of Chapter III to higher redshifts (z < 0.3) by revising the hierarchical Bayesian framework to account for redshift evolution. Using this approach, I, for the first time, identify statistically significant redshift evolution in the slope of the observed SMHM relation, which informs us about the late-time growth of the central galaxy. Additionally, I find that the slope of the SMHM relation depends on the aperture used to define the central galaxy’s radial extent, which highlights that the outer regions of central galaxies are more strongly correlated with the host halo than the core. Lastly, in Chapter V, I extend our study of redshift evolution out to z < 0.6 using Dark Energy Survey data, which allows us to further constrain central galaxy growth and also characterize how the magnitude gap-stellar mass stratification evolves over the last 6 billion years.

Bridging the gap between archaeological and indigenous chronologies: An investigation of the Early Classic/Late Classic divide at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

Golden, Charles William University of Pennsylvania 2002 해외박사(DDOD)

Defining chronology as an interpretive framework that structures understandings of time/place/person relationships and facilitates the integration of social action with a history selected from available historical possibilities, this dissertation uses the site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala as a case study to examine several interrelated issues. First, it explores the history of chronologies in American archaeology to clarify the interpretive implications that different chronological schema impose <italic>a priori</italic> on the interpretation of material culture. Second, it explores the evidence for chronological practice among the Classic Maya to outline a method whereby archaeologists may reconstruct patterns of chronological juncture and disjuncture as they were meaningful to the Maya. An understanding of the variable ways in which different materials are ascribed chronological significance through practice is important for understanding the differential rates of change in architecture, ceramics, or other aspects of material culture used by archaeologists to define cultural historical phases. Largely because of their physical make-up and modes of production, different categories of material culture allow for different references to the past, present or future that occur at different moments and change at different rates. Finally, examining the data from excavations in the palace of Piedras Negras, as well as Tikal, Guatemala, Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras, I offer a revised perspective on the divide between the Early and Late Classic periods based on the chronological practice of Maya rulers. In particular this work explores how Maya rulers engaged in chronological practice to guide their dynasties through an era of potentially devastating political upheaval. This dissertation concludes that as objects that participated in chronological practice, material culture and immaterial performances together constitute important signs of the relationship between person, temporality and place. The architectural and monumental changes evident at Piedras Negras and other sites during the mid-6<super>th</super> Century, are attributable to the needs of rulers to locate themselves in a place and time that substantiated their right to govern. Those who successfully negotiated this tumultuous period did so by creating what we see as the Early Classic/Late Classic divide.