A presente investigação propõe uma discussão acerca de relações estabelecidas entre a fotografia e a arte contemporânea, a partir de um viés em que a produção artística dialoga com a produção fotográfica íntima. A fotografia é assumida como um processo mediador culturalmente con…
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Among four largest cotton producing countries, Pakistan is the only one that had not commercially adopted Bt cotton by 2010. However, the cultivation of Bt cotton, although unapproved and unregulated, increased rapidly after 2005. This dissertation focused on two research questi…
Heat stress causes major losses to cotton seed and lint yield. Introduction of heat stress tolerance to Arkansas cotton varieties is highly desirable. However, very little is known about the molecular basis of heat stress tolerance in cotton. The present study attempted to ident…
Four tests on noctuids (Lepidoptera) attacking cotton were conducted on the effects of Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) var. kurstaki sprays and transgenic Bt-cotton (Bt-cotton) on mortality and larval development. In the first study, larvae of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa …
A trispecific F\sb2 mapping population was developed by crossing G. arboreum (A\sb2) cv. Nanking with G. trilobum (D\sb8). The diploid hybrid was treated with colchicine to produce a synthetic allotetraploid 2(A\sb2D\sb8). This hybrid was crossed with G. hirsutum (AD\sb1) cv. T-…
Raman spectroscopy has been used to monitor the deformation of natural cellulose whisker polymer nanocomposites. Cotton and tunicate whiskers were used as reinforcements in polymer matrices. Raman spectra from the nanocomposites highlight an intense band located at the 1095 cm-1…
Cotton was the most important commodity in the economy of the industrialized Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, as vital then as petroleum is today. It was widely believed that a prolonged interruption of the cotton supply would lead not merely to a severe economic dep…
This dissertation consists of three essays in housing, trade, and time series econometrics. The first essay empirically investigates cointegrating relation between housing prices and economic fundamental variables in the US housing market. Employing simple yet rigorous econometr…
In this thesis, I examine the function and logic of my process, research, and autobiographically based art practice. I address the theoretical concerns and art historical influences that ground and inform my work. Interiority and expansive space constitute the visual framework o…
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a popular Western attitude characterized the inevitable changes within the post-Soviet constituent republics as leading toward transition from Communism to Capitalism. The transition to the latter would take place over the course of …
The thesis studies problems of capital accumulation in the context of 20th century Middle Eastern economic development. It examines three debates using the tools of quantitative economic analysis. Each chapter analyzes the determinants of capital accumulation under specific inst…
In-Between Pleats is a research project constituted by a series of case studies, historical research, a short intensive pleating apprenticeship, and live performances. The research objective emerged through the exploratory making of pleats. It is to create new thinking about ple…
What is a global market? To explore this question, the dissertation examines how the world cotton market is produced and maintained. It presents a detailed analysis of the arrangements, calculative devices, power relations, and forces on which the production and circulation of c…