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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Monarchs"”.
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Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Tree Preference and Intersite Movement at California Overwintering Sites
… is critical for continued use of these sites by monarchs. Many management efforts are currently concentrating on eucalyptus-only sites because of the prevailing notion that monarchs prefer eucalyptus over native tree species. Yet, whether a preference exists or not has never been tested. Herein, …
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The butterfly clock : illuminating the molecular mysteries of monarch migration
… the continent in short generational bursts. The monarchs flying south in the fall are three generations removed from those that made the trip the previous year. With no parents to guide its way, a migrating monarch has only its genes to steer it to its Mexican overwintering site. Monarchs orient …
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Book-Burning and the Banning of Books and Authors in England, 1526 - 1558: A Sixteenth-Century Fire-Library
… (and sometimes seditious) by England’s clergy, monarchs, and Privy Councils between the years 1526 and 1558. My analysis is supported by my Appendix of Banned Books and Authors, which lists specific book titles, unspecified books, and specific authors that were prohibited in legal documents …
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Selection of Overwintering Microclimate by Migratory Western Monarch Butterflies
… form, meaning at the spatial scale where monarchs form dense overwintering aggregations within overwintering groves. We argue that since western monarch butterflies are migratory, studies of habitat selection could have commingled selection at different scales into a single spatial scale. …
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Butterflies fly away: insect decline in California, USA
… samples and found to exceed a tested LD50 for monarchs in 58 out of 227 samples. Importantly, most compounds detected have not been tested on monarchs, thus the risk inferred from our results is necessarily an underestimate. In chapter 3B we detected 61 different pesticides in milkweed leaves …
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Thomas Paine: Author of American Independence
… Revolution and independence. In an age where monarchs held power, Paine believed that the authority should lie in the hands of the people. Looking at the opinions of politicians in the Continental Congress, common colonial-Americans, as well as colonial representatives, it will illustrate that …
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Brandy Nan and Farmer George: Public Perceptions of Royal Health and the Demystification of English Monarchy During the Long Eighteenth Century
… body natural and the body politic of the English monarchs, particularly in newspapers and other forms of print culture, changed between 1688 and 1789. It argues that by examining the depth and type of reportage on royal health and the sovereign's body, coupled with Parliament's increasing …
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Christus Regnat: Inauguration and images of kingship in England, France and the Empire c.1050-c.1250
… liturgically inspired vocabulary deployed by monarchs in the three realms is made manifest. The practice of monarchical inauguration forms the focal point of the thesis, which is structured around three different types of source material: liturgical texts, narrative accounts and charters. …
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Theodoret of Cyrus and the ideal monarch
… exemplar of the ideal Christian monarch for all monarchs, especially Theodosius, to follow. A brief survey of the historical situation within which Theodoret found himself reveals a weak emperor and a persecuted bishop. Theodosius II was virtually controlled by members of his imperial court and …
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
… that Herodotus did not think that the Persian monarchs wielded tyrannical power over the Persians, but also shows that Herodotus considered tyrannical overreach to be possible in any regime, not just monarchies. This dissertation therefore serves as a first step in refuting several prominent …
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Girl of Color-Power: Resisting the Neoliberal Girl Power Agent
… the social justice oriented group, The Radical Monarchs, this project analyzes the exclusivity of girl power regardless of girl of color presence and posits girl of color-power as an inclusive framework that centers the diverse embodiments of girlhood. Through the promotion of sisterhood bore …
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The ‘Melancholy Pompous Sight’: Royal Deaths and the Politics of Ritual in the Late Stuart Monarchy, c. 1685-1714
… rituals given at the deaths of British monarchs and royals in the late Stuart period (1660-1714) with a focus on those occurring between the death of King Charles II in 1685 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714. This topic has lacked in-depth archival study and the existing historiography …
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John Hardyng's Chronicle: a study of the two versions and a critical edition of both for the period 1327-1464
… his conclusions about the reigns of previous monarchs in relation to the present governance of England; the edition is supported by full critical apparatus and a commentary for each version, containing background contextual and historical information, and comparative allusions to other …
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Leaves and Flowers of Paulownia: Aristocratic Legitimacy of the Ashikaga Warrior Leaders
… such as the imperial family in Japan and foreign monarchs in East Asia, it refutes the notion of usurpation of the imperial throne being the basis of warrior legitimacy. Instead this work argues that the warrior leaders established their political presence through ritual association with …
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Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space
… stage was a particularly conflicted forum, which monarchs and playwrights, town fathers and actors, censors and audiences, impresarios and anti-theatricalists, all strove to influence and control. The use of the metatheatrical mode allowed playwrights and players to better navigate this difficult, …
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Economic Aspects of Crop Pest Management and Monarch Conservation
… crowds in farmers motivation to conserve Monarchs. The second chapter estimate soybean farmers' value of information provided by alternative configurations of a monitoring network for soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi). It shows that a network of 400 sentinel plots can maximize the …
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Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
… that the Jesuits were willful agents of European monarchs and the papacy, but rather that the Jesuits were forced to negotiate their place between Rome and the Ottoman world. They had to amend their missionary efforts based on the circumstances in which they found themselves, and this often ran …
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A Re-examination of Reproductive Arrest in the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus.
… Reproductive arrest was studied using monarchs reared in the laboratory. Butterflies were allowed to fly, bask, and nectar freely within screened cages. Cages were kept in temperature controlled growth chambers. Oocyte presence and ovarian development score were used to determine …
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Manorial Officeholding in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, 1300-1600
… into local communities under successive English monarchs. These conclusions in turn have implications for the wider historical literature concerning late medieval and early modern England. They reinforce the revisionist argument that lord-tenant relations were not inevitability hostile and that …
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"Alla Greca"? Matter and Meaning of Greek-style bookbindings in Renaissance Venice
… a focus on the Venetian patriciate and French monarchs.
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