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The manuscript and editorial tradition of William Thomas's The pilgrim/Il pellegrino inglese

This thesis examines the manuscript and editorial tradition surrounding William Thomas's 'The Pilgrim'/'Il pellegrino inglese ', a spirited defence of Henry VIII and a virulent attack on the papacy. It is largely a philological study of this Renaissance text which has been variously described as an apology, a defence, a dialogue and 'un libello propagandistico'. The text has come down to us in five English manuscripts, two English editions published in London in 1774 and 1861, and an Italian edition, of which there are few bibliographic details, save its publication in 1552 in Venice. Of all Thomas's writings, which include the first English-Italian bilingual dictionary and the first practical English-language reference history to Italy, 'The Pilgrim' has been the most neglected. The discovery, in the early stages of my research, that there existed, contrary to the unanimous conclusions of previous commentators, an autograph manuscript among the extant English copies in the British Library, Additional 33383, provided me with the incentive to produce a definitive edition based on that manuscript. The research that followed involved a close examination of the Italian edition which, notwithstanding the significant stylistic differences in the translation, bears significant resemblance to the autograph manuscript. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first, Chapter 1 includes a brief biography of Thomas and a review of his other writings. The purpose of this chapter is to acquaint the reader with the historical and thematic context in which these works were conceived. Chapter 2 introduces ' The Pilgrim', its manuscript and editorial history, and an exposition of the argument for the preeminence of the Additional manuscript as a base text for any editorial endeavors. This chapter is followed by a speculative discussion of the possible sources and traditions, English and Italian, which may have informed Thomas's treatise. It includes references to the works of John Wyclif, Francesco Negri, in addition to an analysis of the language of the Italian 'pasquinate'. The edition of 'The Pilgrim ', a diplomatic transcription of the Additional manuscript with variants and notes, makes up the second part of the thesis.
A non-Abelian analogue of the least character nonresidue

Let 'E/K' be a Galois extension of number fields with group 'G', and let [chi] be a character of 'G'. For a prime <math> <f> <ge>p</ge></f> </math> of 'K', denote by <math> <f> <g>s</g><inf><ge>p</ge></inf></f> </math> the conjugacy class of Frobenius automorphisms at <math> <f> <ge>p</ge></f> </math>. This thesis presents upper bounds on the prime <math> <f> <ge>p</ge></f> </math> of smallest norm for which <math> <f> <g>c</g><fen lp="par"><g>s</g><inf><ge>p</ge></inf><rp post="par"></fen> </f> </math>[not equal] [chi](1) under the assumption of Artin's conjecture (AC). To state the main results more precisely, let us set <display-math> <fd> <fl>p<fen lp="par"><g>c</g><rp post="par"></fen>=<rf>min</rf> <fen lp="cub">N<inf><ge>p</ge></inf>&vbm0;<g>c</g><fen lp="par"> <g>s</g><inf><ge>p</ge></inf><rp post="par"></fen>[not equal]<g>c</g> <fen lp="par">1<rp post="par"></fen><rp post="cub"></fen></fl> </fd> </display-math> For [chi] irreducible and non-Abelian we prove (Theorem 4.4) that <display-math> <fd> <fl>p<fen lp="par"><g>c</g><rp post="par"></fen><=A<sup>c<g>c</g> <fen lp="par">1<rp post="par"></fen></sup><inf><g>c</g></inf> ,</fl> </fd> </display-math> where 'A'[chi] is (essentially) the Artin conductor of [chi], and 'c' > 0 is an absolute effective constant. As well as AC, here we are assuming that the exceptional zero of [zeta]' K'('s') does not exist. We also establish (Theorem 4.3) the explicit relationship between a zero-free region for [zeta]' K'('s')'L'('s', [chi]) and the size of 'p'([chi]). Another result (Corollary 5.6) states that for [chi] not containing the trivial character, the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis implies that <display-math> <fd> <fl>p<fen lp="par"><g>c</g><rp post="par"></fen><=c<g>c</g> <fen lp="par">1<rp post="par"></fen><sup>-1</sup><fen lp="par"> <rf>log</rf>A<inf><g>c</g></inf><rp post="par"></fen><sup>2</sup> .</fl> </fd> </display-math> Finally, a version of the Deuring-Heilbronn phenomenon for non-Abelian Artin 'L'-function 'L'('s', [chi], ' E/K') has been proved. This result (Theorem 3.4) states that a zero of 'L'('s', [chi]) very close to 's' = 1 has the effect of pushing other zeros further away from the line [sigma] = 1.
Taverns and tavern-goers in Upper Canada, the 1790s to the 1850s

The thesis presents the taverns of Upper Canada as orderly places of public resort that satisfied a variety of Practical and social needs. It defines a tavern as a house that was open to the public, provided lodging and other services to travellers, and was licensed to sell liquor, wine, and beer by small measure. The first chapter introduces those places that were 'the tavern' in Upper Canada. It describes tavern clientele, hours of operation, the physical organization of public houses, and three broad grades of public houses. It measures persistence rates amongst tavernkeepers and discusses women's work in the tavern. The second chapter trams the responses of the taverns and tavernkeepers to economic and institutional development in the colony. It shows the links between the taverns and the transportation network, the taverns' extension of the economic sphere, their facilitation of five political exchange, and their use as community resource centres. A two chapter section then looks at tavern culture. While no challenge is offered to the central narrative fine of temperance historiography--that the movement wrought a cultural reorientation in peoples approach to liquor--the thesis does seek to correct certain misapprehensions about the taverns that flow from it. Chapter 3 describes the symbolic value of drink in tavern sociability and the ways in which people managed it as a substance. It stresses that the taverns were characterized, on the whole, by controlled drinking, discusses popular approaches to drunkenness and the methods employed by keep and company alike to maintain good order. Chapter 4 considers taverning beyond the culture of drink and looks at contemporary tavern pastimes amongst plebeian and bourgeois patrons with the intent of depicting the taverns as peaceful, civil places. The final two chapters ask: 'how public was the public house really?' Chapter 5 discusses colonial racialism and its effects upon Native and Black access to the public houses. Chapter 6 considers the importance of gender as an aspect of public sociability and attempts to understand women's taverning within the context of the acknowledged 'maleness' of tavern culture.
Nationalism versus continentalism, ideology in the mirror of the Macdonald Royal Commission

This dissertation examines political ideology in Canada in the period preceding continental free trade. Using a theoretical framework derived from the French regulation school, it focuses on the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Canada's Development Prospects (the 1985 Macdonald Royal Commission) whose signature recommendation prompted the Canadian government to enter into a comprehensive free trade arrangement with the United States. This study analyzes the ideological role of this Commission in an historical perspective by explaining the significance of royal commissions in Canadian politics. And it places the free trade recommendation in context by assessing Canadian economic development strategies. The Macdonald Commission served as a mirror which reflected ideology in action. This is revealed by an examination of its four major components through content analysis, interviews, a survey of relevant literature and archival research. First, the ideological content of submissions by major organized interests--namely, business, labour and popular sector groups--which presented competing ideological visions of the Canadian political economy to the Commission is examined. Second, the ideological nature of the Commission's massive research program is analyzed in the context of social science knowledge utilization. Third, the internal politics of the Commission is assessed by exposing the ideological role of a select oligarchy within the bureaucracy of the Commission in shaping its final report. And fourth, the evolution of the Commission chairperson's ideological beliefs and dominant role in the recommendation for free trade is revealed. The premise of the study is that contending economic development strategies have long vied for primacy in Canadian politics. The nationalist ideology advocates state intervention to foster Canada's development as an autonomous nation-state, and has been based since the Second World War on a left-Keynesian theory. The continentalist ideology seeks greater economic integration with the United States and is based on free market, non-interventionist principles. The Macdonald Commission offered a forum for these two contending ideologies and brought their intellectual rationales into sharp relief. It clearly reflects the ideological bases of nationalism and continentalism, and the importance of these ideologies in understanding the trajectory of the Canadian political economy.
Reading hidden layers, a genetic analysis of the drafts of Margaret Atwood's novels The edible woman and Bodily harm

Margaret Atwood's creative technique as a novelist is the subject of this thesis, which considers two of her novels, the Edible Woman (1969) and Bodily Harm (1981). The dissertation investigates Atwood's process of writing, from the earliest extant drafts of the novels to the final, published product. Genetic criticism, the methodology applied in analysing the manuscript material, studies textual versions without privileging a “best” or definitive version. This methodology traces the creative process by reviewing all draft materials pertaining to a work in order to establish a genetic dossier. The analysis presented in the thesis is based on manuscript materials collected in the Margaret Atwood Papers at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. The materials in this collection have never been used for any systematic, extended study of Atwood's creative technique. A comparison of Atwood's first published novel, The Edible Woman with Bodily Harm clearly demonstrates contrasting techniques of composition. The thesis contains a genetic dossier for each novel, cataloguing all materials relevant to their creation and in each case establishing their chronological sequence. The genetic dossier for The Edible Woman is followed by a chapter which demonstrates Atwood's systematic removal of material from this text so as to create narrative gaps which the audience is expected to fill. The chapter documents Atwood's manipulation of characters' names, shows how Marian's fear and her own insights into her emotional state disappear from the drafts, and reveals how relationships between Marian and other key characters are reconfigured. In contrast, the analysis of Bodily Harm shows how Atwood composes her 1981 novel by constantly adding material, creating a dense web of motivic structures for readers to investigate. In analysing this novel's construction through accretion, key events are highlighted through the use of title and setting, the structural changes within the novel's first section, and the novel's ending. Despite the numerous collections of contemporary literary manuscripts in Canada, this analytical tool has rarely been used. The study contributes to Canadian literary criticism by offering new insights into the interpretation of the two novels, and a new methodology transferable to the exploration of other collections.
Beginning with ourselves in second language learning and in the reading of literature

This study is a narrative inquiry which explores language learning and reading experiences and reading-responses to short stories by three undergraduates learning French as a second language in Ontario. In the first part of the thesis, I explain how I, a teacher of French as a second language from Quebec, came to my subject, following my experience of a letter-exchange with an English-speaking teacher from Quebec. I then present a pilot study with Patrick, an English-speaking undergraduate from Ontario, in which I discuss stories dealing with his personal background and language learning. I also reflect upon excerpts from reading-responses to a short story we read together. In the second part of the thesis, through a discussion of excerpts from the letters and conversations I shared with my two other participants about language-learning and reading experiences, I present the linguistic and literate selves of Tasha (a Russian-speaking Canadian of recent immigrant origin now living in Ontario) and John (an English-speaking Ontarian). In the third part of the thesis, I examine Tashals and John's responses to three short stories. For all responses to the short stories, I discuss how their personal knowledge emmeshes itself in the stories. In the study, I argue for the need for Canadian language educators, other educators and students to reflect, in a narrative mode, on language-learning and reading experiences. I also argue for the importance of renewing the pedagogy of literature in the second language classroom by using more often students' personal knowledge on the whole, the study points out the significance of examining how we cross linguistic and cultural boundaries in language learning, and of developing a better understanding of the complexity of learning a second language and of reading literature in the Canadian context.
Social support and physical activity, an analysis of the Ontario Health Survey 1990

This analysis of the 1990 Ontario Health Survey (OHS) investigated the relationship between general (global) measures of social support and physical activity. The study was based on an analysis of data provided by 29,135 adults age 18-59 completing the interview portion of the survey. Pearson correlations and multiple regression were utilized to examine the relationship between social support and energy expenditure, in the presence of several control variables: age, gender, education, income, and perceived health status. Results showed that the social support measures Social Frequency and Social Quantity (produced from factor analysis), were positive predictors of energy expenditure; while Familial Structure was a negative. although strong predictor. Functional Support showed no relationship to physical activity. The complete model of four measures of general social support and five control variables explained 12.5% of the variance in energy expenditure. Implications of these findings for policy and program development are discussed.
The lateral current injection laser, theory, design, fabrication

The theory of the lateral current injection (LCI) laser is developed for the first time. LCI laser fabrication technologies are studied, improved, and deployed in experimental trials. The first LCI laser at 1.5 [mu]m formed by ion implantation is reported. The first LCI laser at 1.5 [mu]m formed by epitaxial regrowth and dopant diffusion is reported. Full characterization and analysis of these structures in the light of the new theory yield further insight into laser operation. The limitations and constraints imposed by vertical injection of carriers in semiconductor lasers motivate this work. The vertical injection paradigm is set aside, and a new degree of freedom--the lateral dimension--is explored. The release of the lateral direction is seen to enable monolithic optoelectronic integration and novel functional optoelectronic devices. Previous LCI laser attempts were empirical and, as such, provided little insight into the nature and potential of the lateral injection paradigm. In this work, a first-principles approach is used to shed light on the essential physical mechanisms which underlie LCI laser operation. The physical model developed systematically herein is used to explain observed device performance and inspire new design methodologies. Experimental explorations are undertaken with a view to probing further the operation and fabrication of the LCI laser. Process technologies are studied and assessed critically, and are then developed and deployed in experimental trials. The resulting devices are characterized electrically, optically, and thermally. The theoretical model which underpins this work provides a new basis for explaining observed behaviour and evaluating new device concepts. In addition to developing from first principles and validating experimentally the first physical model of the LCI laser, a number of specific original contributions are made: the self-consistent evolution of carrier density and lasing modes is explained; the role of lateral heterobarriers in confining carriers is quantified; and the central role of active region differential resistance in governing LCI laser performance is revealed. The field of photonics is seen to abound with promising new directions which may be opened up by the release of the lateral dimension. The transformation wrought in electronics by the emergence of the planar transistor points to an auspicious outlook for lateral injection. This work paves the way.
Design and construction of a four-bay variable-geometry-truss manipulator arm

The purpose of this thesis was to design and construct a Variable-Geometry-Truss Manipulator (VGTM), known as Trussarm Mark II, based upon Trussarm Mark I, the VGTM built at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). VGTM's have been the focus of robotic research as the design promises to provide a large stiffness for a relatively small mass. Stacking multiple VGTM's produces a multibay VGTM, a structure with high redundancy and long reach. To date most VGTM designs have remained in the world of the computer, with assumptions being made about exact geometry, mass, and joint play. The construction of a new four-bay trussarm worked as a design exercise for the multibay VGTM concept. Trussarm Mark II represents a major step forward in the development of the VGTM concept as lessons learned in its construction and testing bring us one step closer to a working productive robot.
Extrusion foaming of plastic/wood-fiber composites using a chemical blowing agent

This Thesis presents a study on feasibility of continuous extrusion processing for the manufacture of fine-celled plastic/wood-fiber composite foams. The main benefits of incorporating wood-fibers in plastics are the increased stiffness and lowered cost of the resulting composites. However, these improvements are usually accompanied by loss in the ductility and impact resistance of the composites. These shortcomings can be removed by effectively foaming and incorporating a fine-cell structure in the composites. Moisture removal is an important requirement for improving the foam structure. Various schemes of online moisture removal were explored and a promising process for the production of fine-celled plastic/wood-fiber composites foams has been developed. HDPE/wood-fiber composite foams, with significantly improved cell structure and a high volume expansion ratio up to nine-fold, have been successfully produced. For less stringent requirements, the feasibility of using the water, inherently present in the wood-fiber, as a blowing agent was also explored. The addition of a nucleating agent significantly improved the cell structure of PS/wood-fiber composite foams.
"What should a woman do with her life?": Women and the social machinery in the novels of Anthony Trollope

Trollope criticism tends to locate female characters within Trollope's personal attitudes and cultural milieu. Adopting a different approach, this thesis examines depictions, in Anthony Trollope's novels foregrounding women, of a constraining "social machinery" within which women characters negotiate what they "should" do with their lives. The Victorian "separate spheres" ideology posited woman's invisible and intangible moral function within the domestic sphere, and man's visible and measurable functions in the public sphere. After brief historical and critical surveys, this thesis treats four major elements of the "social machinery": (1) Chapter Two analyzes female abettor-figures. Successful abettors are agents and oracles of both the social machinery and the novel's plot. Officially "invisible", they are publicly efficient, shepherding stalled marriage-plots to socially and personally appropriate conclusions. Novels examined are 'Rachel Ray, Miss Mackenzie, Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, Ralph the Heir, The Duke's Children, The Vicar of Bullhampton, An Eye for an Eye'. (2) Chapter Three describes ways successful female ambition is defined and achieved. Through conscious pre-marital negotiation with self, society and lover, a woman's initially vague ambition takes a concrete form harmonizing personal needs and social realities. Ultimate success involves achieving an official "invisibility" which permits covert use of public power. Novels examined are 'Rachel Ray, Can You Forgive Her?, Ralph the Heir, Ayala's Angel'. (3) Chapter Four describes unsuccessful female ambition as a woman's failure to negotiate with her social context. Placing personal needs first, she sells herself imprudently into marriage. Her larger personal ambitions become inaccessible, as inevitable repression precludes all exercise of public power. Novels examined are 'The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right, Phineas Finn, Ralph the Heir'. (4) Chapter Five examines use of an arbitrary "line" to police female behaviour through externally and internally conferred labels. Female sexuality becomes a regulatory mechanism defining the individual woman, her personal and social identity, and her relationships. Novels examined are 'The Vicar of Bullhampton, The Small House at Allington, An Eye for an Eye'. The Conclusion treats how female characters must negotiate "moments of visibility" which determine what they 'should '--and can--do with their lives.