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    Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

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    Southern Adventist University\u27s undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2023-2024.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/undergrad_catalog/1123/thumbnail.jp

    Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2023

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    Southern Adventist University\u27s undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2022-2023.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/undergrad_catalog/1121/thumbnail.jp

    Le goût d'Orval: constructing the taste of Orval beer through narratives

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    This study explores the construction of taste through narratives, using Orval beer as a case study. Often found on lists of the best or most unique beers in the world, Orval is a bottle conditioned, dry-hopped strong Belgian ale with Brettanomyces yeast, creating an orange-hue beer topped with a large volume of white foam. It is both easy to drink and complex in flavour. Made in southeastern Belgium within the walls of a Trappist Abbey, Orval is closely associated with the country of Belgium, a pilgrimage site for beer lovers because of its unique and diverse beer culture. In 2016 “Beer Culture in Belgium” was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Orval beer also carries the Authentic Trappist Product label, ensuring that this product is brewed under the supervision of Trappist monks or nuns, within the Abbey walls, and is non-profit. Additionally, the beer has a unique, distinctive taste. This dissertation explores narratives that tell of all these aspects. The first section, Narrating Belgium, examines how social and economic histories build Belgium as a beer nation, and how conversion narratives of Belgian beer enthusiasts support this theory. The Narrating Trappist section examines how the Legend of Orval and the history of Orval Abbey create a sense of place for Orval beer and how the Authentic Trappist Product label helps construct its terroir. The last section, Narrating Taste, focuses on narratives of taste as shared in online reviews of Orval beer. I first conduct lexical and network analysis of reviews on Untappd, RateBeer, and BeerAdvocate before focusing specifically on themes found in BeerAdvocate reviews. Through ethnographic and textual research, this dissertation introduces a folkloristic approach to taste and argues that both contextual and sensory elements are essential in building taste through narratives

    Foreword to Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing

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    An Age, Size, and Climate Response Study of Old Growth Shortleaf Pine in the McCurtain County Wilderness Area, Oklahoma

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    Increment cores were extracted from 483 trees distributed over 21 semi-randomly sampled 0.1-hectare plots on three distinct landscape positions in the McCurtain County Wilderness Area (MCWA), a 57 square kilometer tract of uncut shortleaf pine in southeastern Oklahoma. Forty additional cores were taken off plot from older-appearing trees. All sampled trees were shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) with a diameter at breast height (DBH) of at least 10 cm. Hardwoods were not included in the size and age analyses. The study site chosen for the sampling was made up of four parallel east-west trending ridges near North Linson Creek, making up about 1.3 square kilometers in area. The cores and diameter measurements were used to examine the age, size, basal area, density, and growth rate of the sampled pine stands. All core samples were dated dendrochronologically using the Douglass method of cross dating (Douglass, 1941) and measured for the development of earlywood (EW), latewood (LW), and total ring width (RW) chronologies. The average diameter for all randomly sampled trees at Linson Creek was 31.3 cm at breast height, and the average age was 100.3 years (i.e., the minimum age, based on core sampling at breast height). The size-age correlation was found to be stronger for the pines with a diameter of over 40 cm. A major pulse of shortleaf pine recruitment to breast height was detected from 1920-1940, when a sizable group of sampled trees reached ~1.4 m. Cumulative radial growth curves showed a wide variety of growth rates. When the effect of topographic position was tested, south-facing plots were found to have both the oldest and slowest-growing trees on average, and the youngest and smallest were found on the north-facing plots. Ridgetop plots had both the largest and fastest growing pines. The final chronology for Linson Creek dates from 1743 to 2020, and includes some individual trees cored outside of the randomly sampled plots due to their old appearance. These off-plot samples were not used for the dendroecological analyses, which were based only on the randomly sampled trees. Data from Stahle et al. (1985) were subsequently added to the Linson Creek samples to construct final, fully replicated chronologies of EW, LW, and RW, which extend from 1688 to 2020. The measured EW, LW, and RW chronologies were correlated with gridded instrumental Palmer Drought Severity Indices (PDSI) for the United States from 1895-2005. Results showed a significant positive correlation between latewood width and August PDSI in the same year as ring formation, not just in McCurtain County but also the surrounding states. Earlywood growth, by contrast, was only weakly correlated with June-July PDSI in the summer one year prior to EW formation

    The Mother of All Pandemics: The State of Black Death Research in the Era of COVID-19 - Bibliography

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    The present bibliography was originally prepared for a webinar sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America in May 2020. The present version includes all citations added as of 30 August 2023. The Bibliography covers the Black Death as traditionally defined (the plague pandemic that struck western Eurasia and North Africa between 1346 and 1353) but sets it into new narratives of the early phases (13th through 15th centuries) of the Second Plague Pandemic, which touched major parts of Afro-Eurasia. The Bibliography will continue to be updated as a Google Doc, which can be found at this address: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0D_dwyAwp9xi9sMCW5UvpGfEVH5J2ZA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104263744463668175127&rtpof=true&sd=true

    British Anti-Slavery, Trade, and Nascent Colonialism on the Sierra Leone Peninsula, c. 1860 – 1960

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    This dissertation reveals local responses to, and influences on the nascent British colonialism, imperial policies, and trade networks at Regent, a liberated African village on the Sierra Leone peninsula during the colonial period (circa 1860 to 1960) through the study of written and archaeological data. It explores how Africans liberated from slave ships and barracoons, following the British abolition of the slave trade and therefore of varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds, established new settlements and actively changed or maintained their household spatial practices, socio-economic strategies, as well as material use and discard patterns in this foreign diasporic setting. Fieldwork for this study consisted of two years of archival research in Freetown and archaeological investigations, which included settlement-wide surveys and the horizontal excavations of two house loci at Regent Village known to contain stratified domestic deposits dating to the colonial period. I use these written records and archaeological assemblages to show how these diverse Africans adapted to this foreign diasporic environment focusing on varied house structures and the mundane things they made, bought, used, and discarded. The contextual and comparative analyses of architectural remains and artifact distributions, as well as the presence and absence of certain kinds of artifact classes, facilitate the reconstruction of material culture patterning and household economic differences. Results of the analyses indicate emerging elites in the two excavated house loci, while the settlement-wide survey data reveal that some liberated Africans and their descendants lived in foreign-style houses that were neither European nor local, used many imported materials and retailed them, obtained Western education and went to church, but never became “British.” I employ a theoretical framework that connects colonial entanglements, cross-cultural exchange, and identity formation
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