812 research outputs found
Madeleine Lavallée et Pierre Valcour,Les communautés religieuses au Québec. Il était une fois la foi, Québec, Septentrion, 2009, 390 p. (La Fondation du Patrimoine laurentien.)
Mario Brodeur, dir., La basilique Notre-Dame de MontrĂ©al, MontrĂ©al, Les Ăditions de la Fabrique de la paroisse Notre-Dame, 2009
The Functional Significance of Black-Pigmented Leaves: Photosynthesis, Photoprotection and Productivity in Ophiopogon planiscapus âNigrescensâ
Black pigmented leaves are common among horticultural cultivars, yet are extremely rare across natural plant populations. We hypothesised that black pigmentation would disadvantage a plant by reducing photosynthesis and therefore shoot productivity, but that this trait might also confer protective benefits by shielding chloroplasts against photo-oxidative stress. CO2 assimilation, chlorophyll a fluorescence, shoot biomass, and pigment concentrations were compared for near isogenic green- and black-leafed Ophiopogon planiscapus âNigrescensâ. The black leaves had lower maximum CO2 assimilation rates, higher light saturation points and higher quantum efficiencies of photosystem II (PSII) than green leaves. Under saturating light, PSII photochemistry was inactivated less and recovered more completely in the black leaves. In full sunlight, green plants branched more abundantly and accumulated shoot biomass quicker than the black plants; in the shade, productivities of the two morphs were comparable. The data indicate a light-screening, photoprotective role of foliar anthocyanins. However, limitations to photosynthetic carbon assimilation are relatively small, insufficient to explain the natural scarcity of black-leafed plants
From the Margins to the Center: Southern Women\u27s Activism, 1820-1970
In 1988, participants in the First Southern Conference on Womenâs History lamented the neglect of southern womenâs history. Despite the rich research possibilities suggested by Gerda Lernerâs 1967 biography of the GrimkĂ© sisters of South Carolina and her documentary history, Black Women in White America (1972), and by Anne Firor Scottâs The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 (1970), only a small fraction of the new scholarship on womenâs history dealt with the South.1 Womenâs historians focused largely on women in the North, while southern historians examined race, but not gender, and African American historians generally ignored black women in their analyses
\u27Parallel Universe\u27 or \u27Proven Future\u27? The Language of Dependent Means t-Test Interpretations
Of the three kinds of two-mean comparisons which judge a test statistic against a critical value taken from a Student t-distribution, one â the repeated measures or dependent-means application â is distinctive because it is meant to assess the value of a parameter which is not part of the natural order. This absence forces a choice between two interpretations of a significant test result and the meaning of the test hypothesis. The parallel universe view advances a conditional, backward-looking conclusion. The more practical proven future interpretation is a non-conditional proposition about what will happen if an intervention is (now) applied to each population element. Proven future conclusions are subject to the corrupting influence of time-displacement, which include the effects of learning, development, and history. These two interpretations are explored, and a proposal for new conceptual categories and nomenclature is given to distinguish them, applicable to other repeated measures procedures derived from the general linear model including ANOVA
National Public Defense Symposium: Finding a Silver Lining in the Darkest Clouds: How Today\u27s Economic Crisis Creates Opportunities for Reform and Cost Savings in the Administration of the Death Penalty
Systematic Analysis of 22 Microlensing Parallax Candidates
We attempt to identify all microlensing parallax events for which the
parallax fit improves \Delta\chi^2 > 100 relative to a standard microlensing
model. We outline a procedure to identify three types of discrete degeneracies
(including a new one that we dub the ``ecliptic degeneracy'') and find many new
degenerate solutions in 16 previously published and 6 unpublished events. Only
four events have one unique solution and the other 18 events have a total of 44
solutions. Our sample includes three previously identified black-hole (BH)
candidates. We consider the newly discovered degenerate solutions and determine
the relative likelihood that each of these is a BH. We find the lens of event
MACHO-99-BLG-22 is a strong BH candidate (78%), event MACHO-96-BLG-5 is a
marginal BH candidate (37%), and MACHO-98-BLG-6 is a weak BH candidate (2.2%).
The lens of event OGLE-2003-BLG-84 may be a Jupiter-mass free-floating planet
candidate based on a weak 3 sigma detection of finite-source effects. We find
that event MACHO-179-A is a brown dwarf candidate within ~100 pc of the Sun,
mostly due to its very small projected Einstein radius, \tilde r_E = 0.23+-0.05
AU. As expected, these microlensing parallax events are biased toward lenses
that are heavier and closer than average. These events were examined for
xallarap (or binary-source motion), which can mimic parallax. We find that 23%
of these events are strongly affected by xallarap.Comment: 69 Pages, 10 Figures, 24 Tables, Submitted to Ap
Variation in thermal sensitivity among coral genotypes, species, and habitats: Implications for improved restoration
Global climate change has rapidly altered marine systems, resulting in negative impacts on tropical reef-building corals around the globe. As the leading driver of coral bleaching, ocean warming disrupts the mutualistic relationship between reef-building corals and their algal symbionts (Symbiodinaceae) in a process known as coral bleaching. During periods of elevated sea temperatures corals expel their symbionts causing declines in metabolic and physiological function. Mass bleaching events deteriorate coral reefs, reducing the ecosystem services they provide including foundational habitat which host 32 of 34 recognized marine phyla of the oceanâs biodiversity, impacts on reef fisheries, physically protecting coasts from storms by reducing erosion, and elevates economic income of coastal communities. To reduce the impacts of warming, conservationists are attempting to protect and revitalize these systems by identifying resilient reefs. The goal is then to enhance coral abundance and preserve coral genetic variation with coral farming, and related restoration efforts. These activities are relatively new and identifying resilient corals and refining coral restoration techniques are only just beginning. Identifying how different coral species respond to restoration activities and their responses to temperature in general is critical in understanding coral persistence in the future. This dissertation examines the effect temperature has on coral survival, metabolism, and physiology from three conservation perspectives to enhance restoration methodologies in Caribbean and north Atlantic coral ecosystems. In Chapter 1, I identified a potential thermal refuge habitat in Bermuda by comparing thermal tolerance, optima, and sensitivities of four coral species from shallow and upper-mesophotic reef habitats. In Chapter 2, I used metabolic thermal performance curves (respiration and gross photosynthesis) to assess the effectiveness of stress-mediating interventions to alter thermal performance during heat stress, for use in coral farming. The results from this work highlight how variation in genotypes can influence metabolic and physiological responses (Acropora cervicornis) to thermal stress. In Chapter 3, I showed how genotypic variation (Orbicella annularis) and environmental interactions are necessary in planning and understanding the success of coral restoration across environmental gradients. Overall, investigating how corals respond to temperature stress and restoration methodologies are important in predicting the future persistence of corals and identifying successful procedures to enhance coral conservation.Doctor of Philosoph
Des bons pÚres aux experts : les élites catholiques et la modernisation du systÚme scolaire au Québec, 1940-1964
Dans l'enseignement catholique de la province de QuĂ©bec, Ă partir de 1940, lâaugmentation du taux de frĂ©quentation scolaire induit un mouvement de bureaucratisation. Ă cause de l'existence de trois structures juridico-administratives scolaires, la coordination et le financement deviennent les Ă©lĂ©ments clefs de cette rationalisation qui s'amorce au sein de l'Ăglise catholique. L'orientation scolaire et professionnelle s'impose comme pratique scientifique de sĂ©lection des Ă©lĂšves de l'enseignement secondaire indĂ©pendant. Elle devient une expertise sur le systĂšme scolaire pour un nouveau groupe de rĂ©formistes et de professionnels. Une nouvelle Ă©lite catholique formĂ©e aux sciences de l'homme et de la sociĂ©tĂ©, porteuse dâun mouvement de renouveau catholique, s'impose tant dans les officines que sur la place publique. Ă travers lâĆuvre de Wilfrid Ăthier, p.s.s. et de ses Ă©lĂšves, Marcel Lauzon ptre et Arthur Tremblay, ce qui, au point de dĂ©part, fut un moyen d'apostolat et d'action sociale pour des religieux et des laĂŻcs, se comprend comme le cadre de la modernisation par l'Ătat du systĂšme scolaire du QuĂ©bec pendant les annĂ©es 1960
MeV-mass dark matter and primordial nucleosynthesis
The annihilation of new dark matter candidates with masses in the MeV
range may account for the galactic positrons that are required to explain the
511 keV -ray flux from the galactic bulge. We study the impact of
MeV-mass thermal relic particles on the primordial synthesis of H, He,
and Li. If the new particles are in thermal equilibrium with neutrinos
during the nucleosynthesis epoch they increase the helium mass fraction for
m_X\alt 10 MeV and are thus disfavored. If they couple primarily to the
electromagnetic plasma they can have the opposite effect of lowering both
helium and deuterium. For --10 MeV they can even improve the overall
agreement between the predicted and observed H and He abundances.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, references and two appendices added,
conclusions unchanged; accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.
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