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Perception and predication: a synchronic and diachronic analysis of dutch descriptive perception verbs as evidential copular verbs
Keywords: Germanic languages
Copular Verbs
Diachronic change
Epistemicity
Dutch
Grammaticalization
Evidentiality

Descriptive perception verbs have failed to receive a uniform analysis in previous verb classifications (cf. Chomsky 1965, Rogers 1974, Hengeveld 1992, Levin 1993, Van Eynde et al. 2014). This thesis argues that the descriptive perception verbs in Dutch (i.e. eruitzien ‘look’, klinken ‘sound’, voelen ‘feel’, ruiken ‘smell’, and smaken ‘taste’) should be classified as copular verbs, much like lijken ‘seem’ and schijnen ‘seem’. This classification is supported by both the synchronic and diachronic behaviour of these verbs in Dutch. Synchronically, proposing that Germanic copular verbs (as opposed to copulas) are defined by their syntax rather than their (empty) semantics, I discuss that the Dutch descriptive perception verbs behave like stereotypical copular verbs: they require a predicative complement, usually in the form of an adjective. Semantically, the Dutch descriptive perception verbs are much like the copular verbs blijken ‘turn out’, lijken ‘seem’ and schijnen ‘seem’ in terms of epistemicity and evidentiality. Diachronically, I hypothesize that the Dutch descriptive perception verbs have evolved from one of the following two origins: either from intransitive verbs (as is the case for klinken and ruiken), much like English remain, through grammaticalization processes of semantic bleaching and reanalysis; or from cognitive perception verbs (as is the case of eruitzien and voelen), as found in Latin, Japanese and Zulu, through the process of argument reordering. The origin of smaken is not clear, and is left for future research. I show that other Germanic evidential copular verbs (i.e. lijken, schijnen ‘seem’, scheinen ‘seem’, seem) have developed diachronically in a uniform fashion, suggesting the following grammaticalization path: from a lexical verb to a copular verb, to taking a that-complement, an infinitival complement or a like-complement, and eventually being used in parenthetical constructions. The results of this thesis indicate that the Dutch descriptive perception verbs are only at the beginning of this grammaticalization path, but are on their way to becoming grammaticalized evidential copular verbs.
Myth ascendant: issues of culture, media, and identity in the celebrity career of Glenn Gould
Keywords: Canadian Nationalism
Ideology
CBC
Columbia Records, Columbia Masterworks
Artistic Promotion, Marketing, Branding
Genius and Authenticity
Identity and Self-Identity
North
Cultural Reception
Cultural Production, Representation, Regulation, Consumption
Narrative, Discourse, Archetype, Rhetoric
Technology
Marshall McLuhan
Media and Mediation
Cultural Musicology
Canadian Broadcasting
Fame and Celebrity
Mythology and Iconicity
Circuit of Culture
Glenn Gould
Sociology

This thesis applies a sociological framework to the North American celebrity career of Canadian pianist and broadcaster Glenn Gould (1932-1982) to account for Gould’s iconic status as an artist in modern musical culture. Despite the persistent cultural fascination with Gould, as evidenced in the seemingly endless supply of biographies, films, novels, and fan texts which narrate and celebrate his life and work, modern Gould scholarship has consistently neglected issues relating to his artistic reception. This thesis proposes that the modern Gould phenomenon is productively analysed in terms of the contexts of its historical production in North America, where it first originated. Focusing on the circumstances of Gould’s career during his lifetime, it identifies three areas of overlapping conceptual interest that provide the basis for an explanatory account of his modern mythology: i) Gould's relationship to the culture of his time, particularly in Canada; ii) Gould’s relationship to the mass media; iii) Gould's relationship to his own artistic identity. This approach is refined through the application of Stuart Hall’s 'Circuit of Culture' model, which yields an understanding of Gould's celebrity in terms of the processes of its representation, production, regulation, and consumption. Against this theoretical backdrop, and consistent with the premise of my thesis, I ask some key questions: what was Gould's relationship to Canadian cultural nationalism and, specifically, a nationalist discourse of public broadcasting? How did media institutions brand his image, and for what commercial purposes? How did Gould mobilise understandings of his genius and Canadian identity through his artistic discourse and experimental media self-representations as a 'Northerner' and a technologist? Based on this analysis, the thesis concludes that Gould continues to fascinate because of the unique ideological work performed by his cultural identities, and because of the highly mediated nature of his celebrity. The ubiquity of his image on video-sharing websites and social media platforms is a vindication of his radical belief in the validity of a musical career pursued primarily through the electronic media.
Serine hydrolase activity and roles for monoacylglycerol lipase in innate immunity and intestinal inflammation
Keywords: Dendritic cells
Cannabinoid
Crohn's disease
Ulcerative colitis
Cannabis

Detection of evolutionarily conserved pathogen motifs by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), particularly on dendritic cells (DCs), is crucial for adequate immune responses. Defects in DC function are known to be associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is the system through which exocannabinoids such as Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol signal. Regarding inflammation, cannabinoids generally exert anti-inflammatory effects, including on experimental colitis. However, most work has been performed in animal models and less is known about the function of this system in human immune cells, particularly DCs. Monoacylglycerol lipase (MGLL) is the key enzyme for hydrolysis of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol, and a member of the serine hydrolase enzyme superfamily. This thesis defines the activity of serine hydrolase enzymes for the first time in human DCs upon stimulation by NOD2/TLR2 ligands using activity-based protein profiling (ABPP). MGLL is shown to be ubiquitously upregulated upon stimulation of DCs and in monocyte-derived macrophages. Through pharmacological inhibition studies, MGLL is demonstrated to regulate cellular and secreted lipids, not limited to endocannabinoids. However, overall DC function is independent of this enzyme suggesting that the effects of lipid modulation may be on bystander cells. Challenging the current literature, MGLL inhibition with a novel inhibitor worsens murine Citrobacter rodentium colitis. Finally, ABPP demonstrates a rich serine hydrolome in colonic tissue from human IBD with many enzymes previously undefined in this disease. Gene expression of ECS components suggests the enzymes ABHD12 and DAGLα/β may be potential markers of field change in IBD.
The sixth and earlier seventh centuries: preconditions of the rise of the emporia
Keywords: Trade
Early Medieval
Anglo-Saxons
Emporia
Merovingians
Post-Roman Economy

This thesis assesses the sixth-/early seventh-century socio-economic roots of the eighth-century transmarine system connecting England and the Continent through major coastal trading sites (emporia).
Part 1 discusses socio-economic developments in the coastal areas of Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and the Pas-de-Calais, through a close investigation of fifth- to early seventh-century archaeological evidence. The inclusion of later written sources has been fundamental to recognise that the two shores of the Channel were connected in a more complex network than previously assumed, beyond the major emporia.
These areas are then considered comparatively: after challenging substantivist approaches that assume an overwhelming importance of gift-exchange in sixth-century England, Part 2 stresses the role of transmarine traffic and exploitation of natural resources in the socio-economic development of coastal areas. The examination of sixth-century written sources has also proved rewarding to reconsider the sixth-century political relationships between Franks and Anglo-Saxons. The role of kings, churches and laymen in the later transmarine network (seventh/eighth centuries) is then discussed by including the Thames Valley, the estuaries of the rivers Seine and Loire, and the Rhine Delta, examined through the written sources.
One crucial question is the role of political actors in the development of a cross-Channel system of exchange. In this regard, scholars have mainly focused on the period when this system was already in place, pointing to a pivotal role of kings and political institutions for its establishment, or to the later appropriation by elites of a coastal area already integrated in the maritime network, but detached from political power. This thesis argues that a close link existed between elites and coastal areas before the emporia; thus, although kings were not the driving stimulus for the establishment of trading sites, the transmarine traffic fostered the socio-economic development of the coastal communities.
Anthologists and the literary market: a comparative study of al-Thaʿālibī’s Yatīmat al-dahr and ʿAwfī’s Lubāb al-albāb
Keywords: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ṭāhir b.  ʿUthmān Bukhārī Ḥanafī ʿAwfī d.1242 or before
literary circulation
Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Malik al-Thaʿālibī d.429/1037-8
scribal publication
'curation'
history of the book
anthologies
translation
literary criticism

This thesis offers the first detailed study of publishing culture in the medieval eastern Islamic world by examining how two influential anthologists active in Central Asia mediated between authors and their audiences. It analyses the contents of al-Thaʿālibī’s (d. 429/1037-8) Yatīmat al-dahr, a biographical anthology of Arabic poetry and prose concerned with the literature of the 4th/10th and the early 5th/11th centuries, comparing them with the material found in ʿAwfī’s (d. 640/1242 or before) Lubāb al-albāb, a biographical anthology of Persian poetry focused on verse produced between the late 3rd/9th and the early 7th/13th centuries. Yatīmat al-dahr and Lubāb al-albāb are approached as ventures which aimed to render the high culture of Arabic and Persian literature accessible to readers by presenting hitherto unpublished texts in a pedagogical fashion. The thesis contributes to a current wave of research that is concerned with the history of the book in the Islamic world, but it moves the focus of such scholarship onto literary texts and their manipulation. Its principal findings can be summarised as follows:
Firstly, it revises the prevalent idea that literary culture was entirely dependent on patronage, by demonstrating how market demand influenced the kinds of writing produced in the different regions of the Arabic- and Persian-speaking worlds. Patronage emerges as a force that was intertwined with the book trade, which had already begun to define conceptions of authorship.
Secondly, it shows that anthologies are more than collections of exemplary texts, by uncovering how al-Thaʿālibī and ʿAwfī pursue the study of society, literary history and literary theory. The anthologists did not simply reproduce extracts, but edited them in accordance with their broader intellectual projects.
Lastly, it reconstructs the cosmopolitan literary culture which existed in Khurasan and Transoxiana between the 4th/10th and 7th/13th centuries, showing that many authors worked in bilingual Arabic-Persian environments, moved between Arabic and Persian spheres, and read books in both languages.
The thesis is accompanied by an index of circa eight thousand poems catalogued by genre, and by an appendix which lists the material that the anthologists drew from their sources.
Rare hadronic decays of charged B mesons at LHCb
Keywords: Physics
Particle Physics
Flavour Physics
LHCb

This thesis documents two searches for rare hadronic decays of B+ mesons with the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Both are performed using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb−1, collected at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV during 2011–2016.
The first is a search for B+ → Ds+K+K− decays. A significant signal is observed for the first time and the branching fraction is determined to be B(B+ → Ds+K+K−) = (7.1 ± 0.5 ± 0.6 ± 0.7) × 10−6, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third due to the uncertainty on the branching fraction of the normalisation mode B+ → Ds+D0.
The second search is performed for the rare pure annihilation decay B+ → Ds+φ. No significant signal is observed and a limit of B(B+ → Ds+φ) &LT; 4.9 × 10−7 is set on the branching fraction at 95% confidence level.
Hyperbolic problems in fluids and relativity
Keywords: Transonic nozzle
Spherical symmetry
Compensated Compactness
Euler equations
Entropy solutions
Vanishing viscosity limit
Finite energy method

In this thesis, we present a collection of newly obtained results concerning the existence of vanishing viscosity solutions to the one-dimensional compressible Euler equations of gas dynamics, with and without geometric structure. We demonstrate the existence of such vanishing viscosity solutions, which we show to be entropy solutions, to the transonic nozzle problem and spherically symmetric Euler equations in Chapter 4, in both cases under the simple and natural assumption of relative finite-energy.
In Chapter 5, we show that the viscous solutions of the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations converge, as the viscosity tends to zero, to an entropy solution of the Euler equations, again under the assumption of relative finite-energy. In so doing, we develop a compactness framework for the solutions and approximate solutions to the Euler equations under the assumption of a physical pressure law.
Finally, in Chapter 6, we consider the Euler equations in special relativity, and show the existence of bounded entropy solutions to these equations. In the process, we also construct fundamental solutions to the entropy equations and develop a compactness framework for the solutions and approximate solutions to the relativistic Euler equations.
Towards stable perovskite materials for photovoltaics
Keywords: Condensed Matter Physics
Photovoltaics
Perovskites
Material Science

This thesis explores a range of photoactive metal halide perovskite materials for use in photovoltaic applications. These materials are of huge interest due to their outstanding optoelectronic properties which result in high photovoltaic power conversion efficiencies. In particular, this thesis discusses perovskites with stoichiometry ABX3 where A is a singly charged cation, for example methylammonium (MA), B is predominantly lead (Pb2+), and X is iodide (I-) and/or bromide (Br-). At present the commercial applications of these materials are limited by the chemical instability of the A-site cation. In this thesis, the effect of chemical substitution of the A-site is investigated as a way to increase the stability of the perovskite material. Full replacement with the inorganic cation caesium (Cs+) is shown to significantly improve the chemical stability. However, the inorganic lead halide perovskites with ideal bandgaps for photovoltaic applications exhibit structural instability. Routes to achieve both chemical and structural stability for these perovskites are discussed. Consequently, this thesis represents pioneering work in the field of inorganic halide perovskites and will greatly assist the development of stable inorganic perovskite materials for optoelectronic applications such as tandem photovoltaics and LEDs.
Chapters 1 and 2 of this thesis present the motivation for perovskite materials to be used in solar cells, along with relevant background information about these materials and solar cell operation in general. Chapter 3 details the methods utilised in the experimental results chapters which follow. The first experimental results chapter, Chapter 4, shows how incorporation of Br- in place of I- in CsPbI3 leads to increased ambient stability of the perovskite structure, and the first solar cells with CsPbI2Br as the absorbing photovoltaic material are reported. Chapter 5 remedies the deficit of information about the optoelectronic properties of the CsPbI3-xBrx (0 ≤ x ≤ 3) perovskites through magneto-optical measurements on thin-films. These measurements raise questions about the room temperature perovskite structure of the CsPbI3-xBrx compositions with small x, previously thought to be cubic perovskite, which is shown in Chapter 6 to be an orthorhombic perovskite polymorph. This finding motivates preliminary work presented in Chapter 7 aimed at chemical stabilisation of this orthorhombic perovskite polymorph. Finally, Chapter 8 summarises the work presented in this thesis, and recommends further research for the development of stable perovskite materials for photovoltaics.
Longterm outcomes of childhood sexual abuse: An umbrella review
Keywords: Childhood sexual abuse
Meta-analysis

INTRODUCTION: With a global prevalence of up to 10% in boys and 20% in girls, childhood sexual abuse is a serious public health concern. Primary studies and meta-analyses have investigated the long-term implications of childhood sexual abuse on a range of health and psychosocial outcomes. The aim of this umbrella review is to systematically review previous meta-analyses on the long-term outcomes of childhood sexual abuse, comparing findings across outcomes, assessing quality, and identifying gaps in the literature.
METHODS: Four databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, CINAHL, and Global Health) were searched, and 28 childhood sexual abuse outcomes were identified across 15 studies. Effect size data were extracted by two independent reviewers, and statistics were compared and pooled across outcomes. Population attributable fractions were calculated, and a subgroup analysis by gender was conducted. Quality analysis was performed using the AMSTAR (Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews) checklist, and heterogeneity, excess statistical significance, small study effects, and prediction intervals were assessed.
RESULTS: Odds ratios were small to moderate for all outcomes, ranging from OR=1.2 (95% CI=1.1-1.4) for unprotected sexual intercourse to OR=3.4 (95% CI=2.3-4.8) for sex offending versus non-sex offending. Odds ratios were pooled for psychiatric diagnoses (OR=2.6; 95% CI=2.4-2.8), psychosocial outcomes (OR=2.0; 95% CI=1.6-2.4), and other health diagnoses (OR=1.6; 95% CI=1.4-1.7). Unadjusted population attributable fractions ranged from PAF=1.7% (95% CI=0.7%-3.3%) to PAF=14.7% (95% CI=9.6%-19.9%). Of the five outcomes included in the gender subgroup analysis, two (depression and anxiety) had significantly higher odds ratios for women than men. There was variable quality of evidence and methodology across meta-analyses, indicated by AMSTAR scores, heterogeneity, excess statistical significance, small study effects, and prediction interval. The four outcomes with the highest overall quality scores were eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and sex offending versus non-sex offending.
DISCUSSION: This umbrella review found significant effects of childhood sexual abuse for most examined outcomes. However, only three outcomes had significant findings and met rigorous quality standards: eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, and sex offending versus non-sex offending. All other outcomes were either insignificant or had low to moderate quality evidence. Childhood sexual abuse was also found to have a significantly greater effect on the outcomes of anxiety and depression for women than for men. Possible mechanisms for the effects of childhood sexual abuse on the primary outcome findings, such as the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis and the victim to perpetrator cycle, could be targets for intervention.
A city of men? An ethnographic enquiry into cultures of youth masculinities in urban India
Keywords: Violence
Masculinity
Gender
India

The gender order in urban India is changing rapidly. Several economic, political and sociocultural shifts have brought with them new opportunities and challenges for Indian men and women. This thesis attempts to understand some of these social and cultural changes from the perspective of a group of affluent young men in Delhi. By ethnographically studying young men and their masculinities in urban public spaces of leisure and consumption, this thesis explores some of their relatively new practices of consumption and embodied performances of gender, as well as its consequences on gendering a city space.
Through focusing on newly commodified spaces like gyms, shopping malls, night clubs, bars, metro trains and cruising parks in Delhi, I argue that a politics of space, age, gender and class come together to mark men’s identities, bodies as well as urban spaces, creating forms of belonging and exclusions in a neoliberal India. Within this context, I explore how ideas of what it means to be a young man are changing in a consumerist India and how this in turn shapes young men’s relationships with other men, women, families and changing city spaces.
Using ethnographic data collected over fourteen months of fieldwork in Delhi, along with visual and cultural analysis, this thesis lays bare the layers of masculine performances and reveals the everyday attempts at embedding and reproducing a heterosexist patriarchal social order under the guise of a ‘new Indian man’ and his ‘new’ India. In the process, I critically but empathetically explore the gendered hierarchies and anxieties that emerge in contemporary India and its consequences on various bodies and city spaces. The chief arguments are presented in five empirical chapters: 1) A ‘New’ Indian Man, 2) A Masculine Body, 3) Desexing a Masculine Body, 4) A Smart and Masculine City, and 5) A Safe/Unsafe City.