In plants, genetic diversity is important for species adaptation in nature and for crop improvement through breeding. For decades, genetic diversity was measured at the nucleotide and gene level. With the abundance of whole genome sequences and chromosome level genome assemblies…
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This dissertation studies a set of public housing estates in Porto developed in the period surrounding the Portuguese revolution, part of which have rarely been examined in architectural research. In doing so, it seeks to provide a global reading of this period that may represen…
The understanding of the genetic architecture of a desirable trait is vital in enabling sustainable increased yields of a root crop such as cassava, especially in a low-input agricultural system. The understanding of desirable trait architecture is also vital for the sustained a…
Over the past twenty years there has been an exponential increase in the investigation of maternal effects. Understanding the adaptive function of maternal allocation strategies is integral to interpreting the evolutionary outcomes of sexual selection. Thus, model animal systems…
Native flora in Lebanon is threatened by tourist and urban development, urban expansion in the mountainous areas, political instability, over-collection of medicinal and aromatic plants, lack of legislation prohibiting over-collection from the wild, overgrazing and forest fires.…
This dissertation addresses the nature and process of subsistence reorganization as animals were domesticated in the Near East. It examines the faunal remains from the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Gritille in southeastern Turkey, in order to elucidate the changes in anim…
This project examines the changing geography of human-chicken relationships in Toronto, Ontario. Anchoring my project to themes of care and belonging, I first explore the city’s historical live animal debates through textual news media to highlight how arguments about the inhuma…
Plants exhibit an extraordinary diversity of life history strategies, which has allowed them to colonize every region of the world. Each species’ unique ecological and evolutionary history has shaped their relative allocation to reproduction and survival. Broadly, plants can exp…
This dissertation argues that over the course of the long nineteenth century, Gothic antagonists moved from supernatural but disembodied beings into more physically monstrous entities. The shift to monster follows traceable lines as the Gothic monster drifted from beings of terr…
Analyzing Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and linking trends of the Byronic hero that have merged into a variety of genres reveal that the hero is a mode of subversive gender expression, which has evolved within the Gothic through feminine desire. Delving into Bram Stoker’s Dra…
מחקר זה בוחן כיצד משפחות מוסלמיות דתיות בישראל מנהלות משא ומתן עם האתגרים וההזדמנויות שמציבה הטכנולוגיה, והסמארטפון במיוחד, בחייהן, ואת הדרכים בהן המזמינויות של הסמארטפון מעצבות את פרקטיקות היומיום של המשפחות. המחקר נסמך על שתי מסגרות תיאורטיות: "ביות", אשר עוסקת באימוץ מדיה במש…
Preface: Speaking in solidarity with other animals -- Introduction: Shifting perceptions on animals in human society -- Imagining animal resistance -- Societal conditions of animal oppression -- Motivations for animal resistance -- Conceptualizing animal resistance -- Methods of…
The concept of animal resistance is now reaching a wide audience across the social media landscape. Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era offers an overview of how animals resist human orderings in the context of capitalism, domestication, and colonization. Exploring th…
"This book examines the context, meaning, and implications of animals' resistance to human exploitation from a perspective that considers both the animals' lived experiences and what their resistance reveals about the societies in which they resist"-- The concept of animal resi…
This creative dissertation presents the second translation into English of an autobiographical novel titled L'écrivain public by a prominent Moroccan Francophone writer, Tahar Ben Jelloun. The work is both a translation and a critical essay about the translation. The critical es…
The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000 years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in favour of growing crops, and the creation of settled, sedentary communities. This shift into an agr…
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse thro…
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse thro…
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse thro…
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse thro…