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Women and music in the Venetian ospedali
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Tonelli, Vanessa M.
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2013
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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The Venetian ospedali provided unique places in which women could train and perform as professional musicians. Much of our understanding of the ospedali, however, has been formed through the study of individual, male composers who wrote for the ospedali, of specific musical genres, such as motets or oratorios, or of individual archival collections. Studies of the female students and their lives are scarce. Additionally, ideas about gender shaped and continue to shape our understanding of...
Show moreThe Venetian ospedali provided unique places in which women could train and perform as professional musicians. Much of our understanding of the ospedali, however, has been formed through the study of individual, male composers who wrote for the ospedali, of specific musical genres, such as motets or oratorios, or of individual archival collections. Studies of the female students and their lives are scarce. Additionally, ideas about gender shaped and continue to shape our understanding of these all-female institutions. To address these issues, this thesis focuses on the lives and public perceptions of the ospedali musicians. Chapter One contextualizes the ospedali's organization in Venetian history and culture, addressing why Venetian society considered it acceptable for the female students to perform publically in a European society that generally frowned upon professional female musicians. Chapter Two examines contemporary commentaries and reviews (both positive and negative) about the ospedali. These descriptions are compared to contemporary ideas of femininity to show how gendered thought has influenced historical representation of the female ospedali musicians. Chapter Three focuses on the music performed and written in the ospedali, and investigates how gender typecasts influenced visitors' perceptions of the ospedali's music.
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Wolbachia-mediated population replacement in dengue mosquito vectors
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Ryan, Shawna
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2013
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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There are many vector-borne diseases, including dengue, that lack vaccines or effective treatment options, resulting in vector control being the primary disease control strategy. Wolbachia, an intracellular bacterium that can spread itself through a population via cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), has been shown to inhibit the transmission of a number of the deadly human pathogens, like dengue and Plasmodium, in mosquitoes. In order to utilize Show moreThere are many vector-borne diseases, including dengue, that lack vaccines or effective treatment options, resulting in vector control being the primary disease control strategy. Wolbachia, an intracellular bacterium that can spread itself through a population via cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), has been shown to inhibit the transmission of a number of the deadly human pathogens, like dengue and Plasmodium, in mosquitoes. In order to utilize Wolbachia to make mosquitoes inhospitable to the pathogens, we have to create a more efficient population replacement strategy such that disease transmission can be interrupted completely and rapidly. In this work, we performed Aedes aegypti laboratory cage studies in which the Wolbachia-infected females were released once, at the beginning, followed by continued inundative infected male release at every generation. We found that this inundative male release could accelerate the process of population replacement. We also designed a new mathematical model that is capable of accurately predicting the generation in which population replacement will occur. To develop a population replacement strategy for Aedes albopictus we introduced the third type of Wolbachia, wPip, into this mosquito species to create a transinfected line carrying a triple Wolbachia infection. We characterized the pattern of CI induced by this novel artificial infection through crossing assays. We found that the triply infected Ae. albopictus induces unidirectional CI when crossed with the wild type doubly infected mosquitoes, supporting its potential to be used in population replacement study.
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