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Cleveland, Larissa. "Collector : collection/possession/persona /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/6186.
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Hill, Judith M. "Cultures and networks of collecting : Henry Wellcome's collection." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411486.
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DUring his lifetime, Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) amassed a substantial collection of artefacts dedicated to the understanding of the 'history of medidne and mankind' from an evolutionary perspective. In the few existing studies of this remarkable collection, the focus is generally upon Wellcome himself as the originator of the collection, and the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in London as its principal expression. This thesis takes a different approach, in which the collection is situated in a wider set of networks and relationships which have shaped, and continue to shape, its multiple lives in different times and places. This involves tradng the entanglements of the collection within diverse cultures and networks of collecting, from its establishment in Wellcome's lifetime, through its dispersal to other sites of re-collection, up to the present day. Theoretically, the first part of the thesis draws upon recent work on cultures of collecting, on the biographies of objects and material culture, and on the spatiality of collecting and collections (chapter 1). The second part of the thesis is concerned with the acquisition and management of the collection in the establishment phase of the collection. Chapter 2 considers the role of two notable curators who worked with Wellcome during this period. Chapter 3 examines the acquisition of objects in two contrasting spaces: the auction-house and collecting in the 'field'. The third part of the thesis addresses spaces of display. Chapter 4 considers the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in London, suggesting that it was not the straightforwardly sdentific evolutionary project that Wellcome himself envisaged. In chapter 5, the focus shifts to the transfer of objects from the Wellcome Collection in London to the Fowler Museum in UCLA, part of the dispersal of objects which took place after Wellcome's death (in this case in the 1960s). The final part of the thesis focuses spedfically on the biographies of selected objects within the Wellcome Collection; a set of Medicine Chests (chapter 6); and a group of amulets and a mask from Papua New Guinea (chapter 7). As well as highlighting the complex biographies of, and investments in, particular objects, this approach serves as a way of exploring wider aspects of the collection's multi-layered lives as these have developed over time and through space.
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Tanré-Szewczyck, Juliette. "La collection Salt. Une collection européenne d'antiquités égyptiennes." Thesis, Lille 3, 2019. https://pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr/RESTREINT/EDSHS/2019/2019LIL3H012.pdf.
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Consul-Général britannique en Égypte de 1816 à 1827, Henry Salt y réunit une collection d’antiquités exceptionnelle. Dispersée en trois ensembles, elle est venue enrichir les départements égyptiens du British Museum et du musée du Louvre, alors en formation. Malgré la renommée d’Henry Salt, aucune étude d’ensemble sur sa collection n’avait jamais été entreprise. Cette thèse propose d’examiner l’impact que cette collection a eu sur une discipline égyptologique qui en était alors à ses balbutiements, et le rôle d’Henry Salt dans ce processus. Pour cela, nous avons d’abord étudié le contexte de formation de la collection à travers quatre axes de réflexion. Le premier chapitre est consacré à une étude d’Henry Salt dans ses activités égyptologiques. Le deuxième chapitre se concentre sur l’étude des processus de collecte d’antiquités sur le sol égyptien dans le premier tiers du XIXe siècle, tandis que le troisième chapitre, en miroir, s’attarde sur l’entrée de ces collections égyptiennes dans les musées européens. Enfin, le quatrième chapitre vient clore cette première partie en proposant une analyse de la place qu’occupent les antiquités égyptiennes dans le marché de l’art à cette période. La seconde partie de cette thèse propose une étude détaillée de la collection afin d’en préciser le contenu et d’affiner notre connaissance de la pratique de collectionneur du consul anglais. Les trois ensembles sont abordés successivement et l’étude est complétée par une analyse détaillée du travail de collecte effectué par Salt et ses agents dans la nécropole thébaineBritish Consul-General from 1816 to 1827, Henry Salt has gathered a remarkable collection of Egyptian antiquities. It was scattered into three groups of objects, which supplemented the Egyptian departments from the British Museum and the Louvre, at their early stages. This PhD aims to investigate the impact of this collection on Egyptology, which was then in their beginnings, and the role Henry Salt has played in this process. Despite Henry Salt’s reputation, no global study on his collection has been made until now. To achieve such a goal, we organised our thoughts into two parts. Firstly, we studied the circumstances of the setting up of this collection, by way of four focus. The first chapter is dedicated to a study of Henry Salt through his Egyptological activities. The second chapter focuses on the process of collecting activities on Egyptian soil during the first third of the nineteenth century, while the third chapter lingers on the processes by which Egyptian collections entered European museums. At last, the fourth chapter ends this first part by offering an analysis of the place of Egyptian antiquities in the art-market of the period. The second part of this PhD offers a detailed study of Henry Salt’s collection, in order to define its content and to clarify our knowledge of the English consul’s practice as a collector. The three groups of collections will be addressed one after another. The study is supplemented by a detailed analysis of Salt’s and his team’s collecting activities in the Theban necropolis
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Ramsey, Marshall C., Hsinchun Chen, and Bin Zhu. "A Collection of Visual Thesauri for Browsing Large Collections of Geographic Images." John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106407.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaDigital libraries of geo-spatial multimedia content are currently deficient in providing fuzzy, concept-based retrieval mechanisms to users. The main challenge is that indexing and thesaurus creation are extremely laborintensive processes for text documents and especially for images. Recently, 800,000 declassified satellite photographs were made available by the United States Geological Survey. Additionally, millions of satellite and aerial photographs are archived in national and local map libraries. Such enormous collections make human indexing and thesaurus generation methods impossible to utilize. In this article we propose a scalable method to automatically generate visual thesauri of large collections of geo-spatial media using fuzzy, unsupervised machine-learning techniques.
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Chang, Michelle T. "Collection understanding." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/69.
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Collection understanding shifts the traditional focus of retrieval in large collections from locating specific artifacts to gaining a comprehensive view of the collection. Visualization tools are critical to the process of efficient collection understanding. By presenting simple visual interfaces and intuitive methods of interacting with a collection, users come to understand the essence of the collection by focusing on the artifacts. This thesis discusses a practical approach for enhancing collection understanding in image collections.
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Carreau, Lucie. "Collecting the Collector : Being an exploration of Harry Geoffrey Beasley's Collection of Pacific Artefacts made in the yeads 1895-1939." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518367.
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Between 1895 and 1939, brewer Harry Beasley (1882-1939) formed one of the largest private collections of ethnographic material in Britain, numbering over 10,000 objects from Africa, Oceania, the Americas, Asia and Scandinavia. This thesis examines the context and processesth at led to the emergencea nd developmento f his collection, and its transformation into a private museum, the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum in Chislehurst, Kent (established 1928). The content of the collection and museum was dispersed after Beasley's death in 1939, enriching public and private collections worldwide. This thesis focuses on the Pacific component of the collection (over 5,570 objects) to characterise ethnographic private collecting at the beginning of the twentieth century and assessit s place within severalm ilieus: academia,m useumsa nd the market for ethnographic material. Extensive archival documentation and the large amount of objects in public collections allow for an in-depth exploration of relationships between people and things through time, space and milieus. Objects and archives permit a stretching of the collection's visible boundaries to accommodate a wider range of narratives and reveal a collection that is simultaneously coherent and multiple. This thesis contributes to a richer understanding of the intellectual and physical processes that underpin the activity of collection-making. In particular, it questions the role and place of `marginal' individuals such as Beasley in the formation of disciplines and institutions as well as their contribution to museum collections through objects and knowledge. It provides a sketch of private collecting at the beginning of the twentieth century that reflects the ambivalence and connectivity of the activity and relocates private collectors, from the margins to within the realm of academia and museums
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Yuen, Albert Wai Ling Materials Science & Engineering Faculty of Science UNSW. "Collector current density and dust collection in wire-plate electrostatic precipitators." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Materials Science and Engineering, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/28274.
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Even minimal improvements in particle collection efficiency of electrostatic precipitators significantly reduce dust emission from fossil-fuelled power stations and reduce pollution. Yet current designs rely on the Deutsch collection theory, which was developed for tubular precipitators and has been applied to wire-plate precipitators on the assumption that the inter-electrode electric fields at the same discharge distance in both were similar. Differences in geometry and associated collector electric fields and current density non-uniformity have not been taken into account, although the collector electric field and current density of the wire-plate precipitator are not uniform. And observations show that precipitated dust patterns and the distribution of collector current density are interrelated. Investigations revealed a simple square law relationship between the collector electric field and the collector current density in the space charge dominated coronas. Applying this relationship to the Deutsch collection theory led to a current-density-based collection formula that takes into account the non-uniform collector current density distribution. The current-density-based collection formula is then used to assess the impact of collector current density on collection efficiency, the results closely following published measurements. Applying the current-density-based collection formula to estimate the dust accumulation shows that most of the dust accumulates at collector locations facing the corona wires. The effect of the non-uniform precipitated dust layer on collection performance is assessed using the distributed corona impedance - the ratio of the inter-electrode voltage and the non-uniform collector current. Re-distribution of the collector current profile as dust builds up is also compatible with published measurements. Finally this is applied to optimize the wire-plate precipitator collection performance. This shows that optimal collection performance is obtained with the wire-wire spacing less than the wire-plate distance, once again confirming published experimental results. This is the first analytical approach to show better collection performance can be achieved at the ratio of wire-wire spacing/wire-plate distance not equal to unity, which has been the standard industry practice since 1960.
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López-Fanjul, Díez del Corral Maria. "Collecting Italian drawings in seventeenth-century Spain : the Marqués del Carpio’s collection." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.732024.
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Pereira, Daniel Cláudio. "DigiScope Collector - Unobtrosive collection and annotating of auscultations in real hospital environments." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/62312.
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Pereira, Daniel Cláudio. "DigiScope Collector - Unobtrosive collection and annotating of auscultations in real hospital environments." Dissertação, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/62312.
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GRECO, Luca. "AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION OF MULTIMEDIA DATA COLLECTIONS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10447/91234.
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La fotografia digitale ha avuto uno sviluppo sempre crescente negli ultimi dieci anni. Prima la diminuzione dei prezzi delle apparecchiature di acquisizione e poi l’integrazione di queste nei dispositivi portatili di uso quotidiano (i.e. smartphone, tablet) ha permesso a chiunque di potere creare e conservare semplicemente un enorme numero di immagini. Inoltre l’immagine stessa é diventata uno strumento di comunicazione, portando alla nascita di social networks basati unicamente sulla condivisione di fotografie (flickr, instagram, etc...).
La gestione di tali quantitá di dati é quindi diventato un problema reale per molti utenti, in quanto il ritrovamento e l’organizzazione di questi dati é un compito dispendioso dal punto di vista del tempo e di difficile integrazione con immagini archiviate nel passato in modo non organizzato.
Questa tesi si pone come obiettivo quello di illustrare le problematiche collegate alla organizzazione di collezioni di immagini che rappresentano eventi reali ed alla fusione tra collezioni che riguardano lo stesso evento ma che provengono da sorgenti diverse. Per effettuare una organizzazione delle collezioni é necessario innanzitutto definire una struttura degli eventi: i metodi proposti presuppongono che ogni evento non sia un blocco unitario di immagini ma che sia costituito da un numero di sotto-elementi distinguibili per la loro collocazione temporale o per il loro contenuto visivo.
Alcune tecniche dello stato dell’arte illustrate in questo lavoro hanno fornito degli strumenti utili per effettuare raggruppamenti di immagini, in special modo dal punto di vista temporale. Anche dal punto di vista del contenuto sono stati proposti diversi metodi di descrizione delle immagini, analizzando caratteristiche globali, quali il colore e la sua distribuzione, o puntuali cercando di individuare e descrivere punti caratteristici per ogni immagine.
L’ultima parte di questa tesi si basa su alcune possibili elaborazioni che si pos- sono effettuare sulle collezioni ordinate o sul risultato della fusione di collezioni differenti. Il primo metodo proposto affronta il problema dell’individuazione di soggetti all’interno delle immagini e della creazione di anteprime per la facilitazione del reperimento delle stesse o per la loro presentazione. Un secondo metodo pro- posto é focalizzato sul taglio estetico delle stesse usando un algoritmo dal basso costo computazionale che senza tenerle esplicitamente in conto rispetta le regole
classiche della composizione fotografica.
Il resto delle applicazioni invece é orientato al ritrovamento di oggetti personali all’interno delle collezioni. Una delle applicazioni usa un database di oggetti conosciuti composto per ognuno di questi da una successione di viste ruotando lo stesso di uno scarto costante. La seconda applicazione, invece, é basata su un database di video di oggetti che ruotano uniformemente e permette di effettuare query usando dei video di costruzione simile.The technological development of digital photography is ever increasing in last ten years. The decreasing costs of the acquisition devices and the integration in commonly used mobile devices (i.e. smartphones, tablets) has given to the mayority of users the possibility to create and store a very large number of images. Furthermore, the image itself has become a communication item leading to the creation of social networks totally based on picture sharing (Flickr, Instagram and so on). Managing this huge amount of data today is a real problem for many users be- cause the retrieval and the organization of these is an annoyng and time-consuming task, difficult to integrate with images stored in the past without a fixed organi- zation. The aim of this thesis is to show the issues related to the problem of managing image collections that represent real events and merging collections regarding the same event but from different sources. To make an organization of the collections it is necassary to define a structure for the events: proposed methods assume that an event is not a single block of images but is composed by a set of sub-events that can be distinguished by using temporal information or visual content. Some of the techniques of the state of the art described in this thesis provided some useful tools to cluster images, especially using the time as basis. Others use visual information to describe images, analyzing global features like color and its distribution or local features, trying to detect and describe intresting points for each image. The last part of this thesis is based on some possible elaboration on the or- dered collections or on the result of different collections fusion. The first proposed method is focused on the problem of subjects extraction in images and in thumb- nails creation to facilitate retrieval and browsing. A second method performs an aesthetical cut on images using a low computational cost algorithm that respects the common rules of photography composition without taking them into account explicitally. The remainder of the applications is oriented to personal objects retrieval in collections. One of the applications uses a multiview database of known objects. The second is based on a database of videos of uniformly rotating objects and the query are done using video with a similar construction.
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Breeden, Lauren N. "Mitosis : a collection." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2003. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/409.
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Lin, Tung-Lung. "The Heidegger Collection." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2626/.
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The dissertation consists of two parts: (1) the essay and (2) the composition. The essay elucidates the composer's creative process of the orchestral works, The Heidegger Collection. The Heidegger Collection has five movements. The titles of each movement are derived from the key philosophical concepts from Heidegger's most significant writing, Being and Time: (1) State-of-Mind, (2) Idle-Talk, (3) Moment-of-Vision, (4) Dread, and (5) Being-towards-the-End. The essay discusses the meanings of the five concepts, and explains how I express my reaction to Heidegger's thinking through music composition. The essay also discusses the essential musical language of The Heidegger Collection, such as interval cycles, polyrhythmic patterns, algorithmic elements, portamento effects, chaos theory, and oriental influence.
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Kullberg, Adam. "Backflow: A Collection." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103346/.
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This collection consists of a critical preface and nine essays. The preface analyzes, first, how the imagination influences the personal journey of a writer, and second, the techniques authors use, mainly form, time, and space, to enact the imagination and propel the reader into an imagined narrative. The essays explore themes of loss, mental illness, the rift between the “real” and the “imagined” life, and the intangibility of memory itself. Collection includes the essays “Into the Snow,” “No Longer a Part,” “Borderland,” “Still Wounds,” “What Stays in Las Vegas,” “Remnants,” “The Root,” “Your Father,” and “The Land Lord.”
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Walker, Jessica E. "Unexpected Reflection Collection." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253634229.
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Boswell, Timothy. "Portraits: A Collection." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28396/.
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This collection consists of a critical preface and five short stories. The preface analyzes what it terms 'fringe fiction,' or stories dealing with elements that are improbable or unusual, though not impossible, as it distinguishes this category from magical realism and offers guidelines for writing this kind of fiction. The short stories explore themes of attachment, loss, guilt, and hope. Collection includes the stories "Portrait," "Dress Up," "Change," "Drawn Onward, We Few, Drawn Onward," and "Broker."
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Jew, Yanni K. Carleton University Dissertation Computer Science. "Distributed garbage collection." Ottawa, 1986.
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Button, Sara Melanie. "Inheritance: a collection." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192296.
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Dixon, Robert M. W. "[Collection of publications]." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133827.
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McIntosh, Frances Claire. "The Clayton Collection : an archaeological appraisal of a 19th Century collection." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3687.
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This thesis examines the archaeological material from Hadrian’s Wall within the Clayton Collection at Chesters, Northumberland. The Collection was formed through the work of John Clayton, antiquarian and landowner in the 19th century. His work took place at a pivotal time in the study of Hadrian’s Wall, as public interest was growing, access was improving, and the discipline of archaeology was developing. As part of a large network of antiquarians, Clayton excavated, studied and published his discoveries. After his death his archaeological estate was retained, and the Collection was moved into a museum in 1896. Despite being in the public domain for so long, the material has never been studied as a whole, or in the light of its 19th century creation. One aim of this thesis is to explore the 19th century context within which this collection was formed. Using published accounts, and archival letters and other sources, Clayton’s methodology will be revealed. He was not simply a ‘wall-chaser’ or ‘treasure hunter’, but often considered carefully the motivations for his excavation. Nonetheless, he was also a man of his time, with his methodology regarding the retention of material not meeting modern archaeological standards. The second thesis aim is to use the Collection to illustrate life on Hadrian’s Wall in the Roman period. The Clayton Collection will be considered in comparison with other sites on Hadrian’s Wall, as well as other sites in Britain and on the Continent. Case studies of certain groups of material will show that despite the lack of detailed findspots, the material recovered by Clayton can still provide information about Roman life, in particular at Cilurnum. Research throughout this thesis will show that despite constraints, the Clayton Collection can still provide answers to 21st century research questions.
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Tolley, Rebecca. "Review of Chicago History Museum, Digital Collection: Costume and Textile Collection." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5646.
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Cummings, Catherine. "Collecting en route : an exploration of the ethnographic collection of Gertrude Emily Benham." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3138.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century the collecting of objects from colonized countries and their subsequent display in western museums was widespread throughout Western Europe. How and why these collections were made, the processes of collection, and by whom, has only recently begun to be addressed. This thesis is an exploration of the ethnographic collection of Gertrude Emily Benham (1867-1938) who made eight voyages independently around the world from 1904 until 1938, during which time she amassed a collection of approximately eight hundred objects, which she donated to Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery in 1935. It considers how and why she formed her collection and how, as a an amateur and marginalised collector, she can be located within discourses on ethnographic collecting. The thesis is organised by geographical regions in order to address the different contact zones of colonialism as well as to contextualise Benham within the cultural milieu in which she collected and the global collection of objects that she collected. An interdisciplinary perspective was employed to create a dialogue between anthropology, geography, museology, postcolonial and feminist theory to address the complex issues of colonial collecting. Benham is located within a range of intersecting histories: colonialism, travel, collecting, and gender. This study is the first in-depth examination of Benham as a collector and adds to the knowledge and understanding of Benham and her collection in Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. It contributes to the discourse on ethnographic collectors and collecting and in doing so it acknowledges the agency and contribution of marginal collectors to resituate them as a central and intrinsic component in the formation of the ethnographic museum. In addition, and central to this, is the agency and role of indigenous people in forming ethnographic collections. The thesis offers a foundation for further research into women ethnographic collectors and a more nuanced and inclusive account of ethnographic collecting.
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Haight, Sarah M. "American Art Lending, 1895-1975." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/344.
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This paper documents the range of art lending in the United States to individuals by libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions from roughly 1895-1975. The historical analysis includes the reasons and motivations behind the creation of each kind of lending scheme and what its proponents hoped to accomplish, as well as how these collections fit into the broader goals of each type of institution. Loans of originals and reproductions are discussed.
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Stadtlander, Mark D. "Trash collection efficiency and consumer knowledge: municipal trash collection in Manhattan, Kansas." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13158.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Landscape Architecture Regional and Community Planning
Huston Gibson
The provision of services in a community is often taken for granted, or done the way things have always been done. It is sensible to examine those practices to see if the system in place is advantageous to all parties involved. This paper examines the forms of municipal trash collection used in the United States and specifically Manhattan, Kansas. This examination includes a literature review of forms of solid waste collection and how informed vs. uninformed consumers act when purchasing goods and services. The specific traits of seven municipal trash service providers in Manhattan are analyzed. The findings of this project include a spread in prices that economic theory alone may not explain. These finding, supported by literature, would suggest that there is a breakdown in the transfer of information between service providers and consumers.
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Harrison, Caroline "Niki." "Autonomous Tick Collection Robot: Evaluating Design, Materials, and Stability for Optimum Collection." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592134543425704.
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César, Flore. "Collectionnisme et curiosité à Montpellier, de la renaissance à l'aube de la révolution." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30105.
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A partir de l'exemple montpelliérain, la présente étude s'intéresse au phénomène culturel ducollectionnisme, en appréhendant de manière conjointe collectionneurs et collections entre leXVIe siècle et le XVIIIe siècle. Considérée comme capitale scientifique durant l'époquemoderne, la ville s'offre comme un exemple privilégié pour aborder une approche croiséeentre histoire de l'art et sociologie de la culture savante.Face à une très grande diversité de sources, ce travail propose d'abord une réflexion sur lesdéfinitions mêmes de collectionneur et de collection, avant d'en présenter une analysetypologique. Le travail s'attache en second lieu à comprendre la dialectique entre lecollectionnisme et la curiosité, entendu comme désir de voir, d'avoir et de savoir. Cettedémarche ambitionne de mettre au jour les différents usages des collections et de leuréconomie, tout en abordant les différentes figures de collectionneurs, entre curieux, amateurs,connaisseurs et savants. Par ailleurs, le travail tente de rendre compte de la manière dont ceshommes, quelle que soit la nature des collections, mettent en oeuvre leur capacité de jugementen privilégiant l'expérience sensible. Lieu voué à la perception, la collection s'offre aussicomme lieu de célébration de la mémoire. Aussi l'étude s'attache-t-elle à comprendrecomment le collectionnisme contribue à la fabrique du regardFrom the city of Montpellier example, the present study focuses on the cultural phenomenonof collectionism, by approaching in a joint process, collectors and collections within theXVIth century and the XVIIIth century span. The city, recognized as a scientific capitalduring the modern period, offers a privileged example to undertake a crossed approachbetween art history and sociology of savant culture.Faced with a huge diversity of sources, the first proposal of this work is a reflexion on thecollector and the collection's very definition before presenting them in a typological analysis.In a second step, this work aims at understanding dialectics between collectionism andcuriosity, understood as desire of seeing, possessing and knowledge.This process aspires tounveil the various uses of collections and their economy, approaching jointly the differentcharacters of collectors, among curieux, amateurs, connoisseurships and savants. Moreover,attention is payed on giving account on the manner these persons, whichever the nature oftheir collection, make use of their judgement capacity while prioritizing sensitive experience.As a place dedicated to perception, the collection also offers itself a place of memorycelebration. Therefore, the study works toward understanding how collectionism contributesto the fabric of vision
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Nyström, Victor. "A Collection of Rims." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för industridesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-31945.
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The interest of cars as a hobby has been increasing over a long period of time and is continously growing stronger. There is also professional business garages that offer help to enthusiasts. This even though modern cars is getting more and more complicated to work at and give a personal touch. But one thing that still is as easy to change now, as it was 80 years ago, is to replace the wheels. Furthermore, the vast majority of car enthusiast agree to that "the weels makes the car". That means a great deal of the car´s feeling lies in the rims. The car scene is, as many other interests, depending on fashion and constantly demanding news because the customers always strive to be unique.
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Gamoh, Hidehiro, Hiroshi Itsumura, Masanori Akiyama, 英博 蒲生, 裕. 逸村, and 晶則 秋山. "The Eco collection database." IADLC Office, Nagoya University Library ; Ichiryusha, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/6096.
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Jones, John Clifford. "[Collection of published papers]." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.483618.
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Galloway, Lisa R. "Liminal : a poetry collection." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1313634.
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This project comprises the best poetry written in my graduate study at Ball State University. The title, Liminal, is a term that has reappeared thematically in my work. Merriam Webster defines it as: "the threshold of a physiological or psychological response," but more than that, for me liminality is the doorframe between things; it is poetry. Poetry is a conglomeration of splicing between inner worlds and outer worlds; it tries to capture and recreate physiological or psychological responses, bringing the reader into the threshold that the writer has exited. Poetry is a door, a threshold; it is liminal. Thresholds are infinite and immeasurable; therefore, I have tried to capture or recreate liminal moments of my life into words that are physical, measurable in a sense, and therefore create presence, inviting readers through the threshold of my literary house out of the liminal abyss. These 36 pages of poetry contain liminal subject matter, whether embodying sexuality, relationships, spirituality, or moments bordering life and death, but always the inestimable line between two things.Department of English
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Seabolt, Erin. "Watering Marigolds: A Collection." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/426.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Law, Clyde 1980. "Garbage collection in regions." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29682.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-106).
The concept of regions provides for the ability to group and scope services across a network. Issues arise when entities of a region are no longer part of the region, due to a request to leave the region, an eviction by the region, or even component or network failures. Consequently, the references to these entities must be garbage collected. Depending on the purpose and design constraints of the region at hand, there can be many ways this can be implemented. Therefore, application designers must have the flexibility to implement a region design to incorporate a garbage collection scheme that meets their needs for correct semantics as well as performance and resource requirements. We have formulated a design for the region infrastructure that allows this flexibility and looked at various implementations of region designs built on top of this infrastructure. These proof-of-concept implementations allowed us to investigate some of the issues that arise regarding garbage collection.
by Clyde Law.
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Salmons, John Andrew. "Adopting an Orphaned Collection." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64789.
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"Architecture itself is linked not only to other arts but also to the broader context of life; it is only on that scale that we may understand its specific contribution to the formation of the communicative space of culture."*
- Dailbor Vesely 2004
Architects have explored Art Galleries as a medium throughout the ages. In 2014, the Corcoran was sold, dismantled and divided between the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University signaling the end of an era of art display in the Nation's Capital. This transformation of a major DC art collection was the impetus for this thesis: to mark the end of an era and to create a new home for the Corcoran Collection. To house this orphaned collection, I have studied similar elements that earlier architects have studied such as light, shadow, and reflection, taking into account the dawn of the next generation of art galleries. The role of this museum is to educate and facilitate information about the collection and the art. Contemporary art galleries that have been built recently included additional areas of services that were originally not part of the Corcoran Museum's building program, such as the role of conservation of historical objects including paintings and works on paper. Another area of my research was the relationship between the viewer and the building. The Corcoran has an extensive collection of American art and art directly from D.C. and it is important to allow direct access for the community and accommodate enough wall space to give context to the art.
With the setting of the contemporary art gallery framed, we return back to the research to really question how each of those elements were thought about moving forward. We need light to see, but what had been seen and depicted on great Master's canvases should be protected from light. Should natural light be brought into the gallery spaces even though it damages works on canvas and paper? Can gallery spaces change over time to mirror the objects that they hold? Can the building reflect the area around the gallery but also act as a space of meditation and self-reflection?
To adopt means to take another's child, but it can also mean to embrace an idea. In this case we are adopting the collection of William Corcoran and combining it with newer elements found in modern museums. On further evaluation of the gallery it has strong ties to historic D.C. because of its collection and its community outreach however its weakness was due in part of turning its back on the same community that made it strong. I propose moving the collection into the heart of Washington D.C. and combining it with newer ideas of light and gallery services. This process will allow the Corcoran to continue its evolution as a great American collection.
*Dailbor Vesely, "Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation." (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004), 88-89.Master of Architecture
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Tsang, Kwai Tai. "A collection of writings." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1318960642.
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Evans, Renee. "Hopeful Monsters : a collection /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1791850941&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Kneale, Emily Alexandria. "Spectrum Familium: A Collection." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146596.
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This collection started with an idea: stories based around color. One story, two story, Red Story, Blue Story. In my mind, colors have great symbolic weight, flavor, cultural importance, and potential--so I thought it a great way to imbue my stories with more depth, more symbolism, and spice. I discovered a study published in 1969 called "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution" that placed the development of color terms alongside the development of language in cultures around the world. Dark-light, cool-hot colors come first--like black and white. Then red. Then green or yellow. Then blue. So that's the order I used. Of course, this order didn't work for every language, and neither did the order of my stories, because color is a fluctuating concept. Its abstract--and red means something different to each of us. Passion, fire, love, anger. So, armed with a list of simple "symbolic interpretations" of my colors, I set about to create some stories, but I really created a family. A mother dealing with bi-polar disorder. Twins hoping to cope. A husband unsure of how to deal with her, his emotions, or pancakes. Spectrum Familium: A Collection stretches beyond the colors and the theory that were, for me, a jumping off point, and into a colorful study of family dynamics, mental illness, and perspective.
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Rodrigues, Helena C. C. D. "Cyclic distributed garbage collection." Thesis, University of Kent, 1998. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/21588/.
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With the continued growth of distributed systems as a means to provide shared data, designers are turning their attention to garbage collection, prompted by the complexity of memory management and the desire for transparent object management. Garbage collection in very large address spaces is a difficult and unsolved problem, due to problems of efficiency, fault-tolerance, scalability and completeness. The collection of distributed garbage cycles is especially problematic. This thesis presents a new algorithm for distributed garbage collection and describes its implementation in the Network Objects system. The algorithm is based on a reference listing scheme, which is augmented by partial tracing in order to collect distributed garbage cycles. Our collector is designed to be flexible, allowing efficiency, promptness and fault-tolerance to be traded against completeness, albeit it can be also complete. Processes may be dynamically organised into groups, according to appropriate heuristics, in order to reclaim distributed garbage cycles. Multiple concurrent distributed garbage collections that span groups are supported: when two collections meet they may either merge, overlap or retreat. This choice may be done at the level of different partial tracings, of processes or of individual objects. The algorithm places no overhead on local collectors and does not disrupt the collection of acyclic distributed garbage. Partial tracing of the distributed graph involves only objects thought to be part of a garbage cycle: no collaboration with other processes is required.
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Evans, Renee Lyn. "Hopeful Monsters: A Collection." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/451.
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Squires, Michele B. "Marcel Schwob Digital Collection." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1355.
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This project outlines the discovery and digitization of previously unpublished correspondence composed by late 19th century author and literary critic, Marcel Schwob. Inspired by the inquiry of Bibliothèque Nationale Librarian Bernard Gauthier, Professor Daryl Lee alerted me to the presence of Marcel Schwob materials at BYU. I found that former BYU Professor John Green established a Marcel Schwob Memorial Collection and successfully published two books using the materials he gathered: Chroniques and Correspondance Inédite. After thoroughly researching the catalogued Schwob materials at BYU and comparing the contents to other Schwob publications, I found 72 previously unpublished letters. The majority of the letters (62) were written by Schwob to family members, and the remaining 9 letters were written to Schwob by colleagues. International interest in Marcel Schwob materials is one of many indicators representing renewed interest in the author, his work, and his influence. Recent publications also reflect growing Schwob interest. In Marcel Schwob, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (2002), Christian Berg and Yves Vadé shed new light on Schwob through the observations of his contemporaries and modern-day essays on the importance of his contes. In addition, Jean Lorrain: Lettres à Marcel Schwob (2006) furthers the effort to better understand Schwob through a collection of correspondence. In light of this renewed interest, I determined that the previously unpublished correspondence would serve as a useful research tool for Schwob scholars. With the guidance and assistance of employees at the Harold B. Lee Library, I subsequently converted the correspondence into a digital publication. Creating a digital publication is a multifaceted undertaking requiring the involvement and expertise of different individuals and library departments. I successfully learned how to use both the hardware and software involved in the digitization process, thereby facilitating my completion of project deliverables, including: scanning and transcribing the letters; writing letter summaries (in both French and English), extracting names, and completing other metadata; uploading metadata using the Lee Library's external database; establishing authority control records; writing website content (in both French and English), and publicizing the project. This document contains the major deliverables found in the digital publication, specifically the website content, the letter transcriptions, and the metadata.
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Hassankhan, Mokri Aria. "Efficient Garbage Collection System." Thesis, Cybercom Group AB, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18149.
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It has been for decades since invention and use of automation has become important and popular to achieve economic and technical advantages in almost all aspects of operations and productions. Integration of communication with the automation has provided many additional and practical applications in a wide spectrum of industries and the everyday life of the people.This IoT project is implemented as a thesis project for BS program for “Electrical Engineering with Emphasis on Data Telecommunication” in Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Karlskrona at Cybercom Group AB, Stockholm.The project is aiming at design and implementation of an efficient garbage collection system with the help of real-time communication, IoT techniques, sensors, and a number of computer software.The efficiency which is targeted in this project is meant to reducing environmental pollution (including toxic materials and sound pollution) manpower, operational cost, usage of urban roads and traffic grid, and increasing of overall efficiency by increasing employee’s and roads safety, use of existing installation, speed of garbage collection activities, and overall profitability for the operators.The goal is achieved by design and implementation of an intelligent system which despatches garbage collection trucks to the job only when it is the exact time when the capacity of the garbage cans is efficiently utilized, hence, saving endowments and increasing profitability. The project consists of four major parts • Design and implementation of the controller system hardware. • Design and implementation of the controller software. • Design and implementation of the user interface software. • Design and implementation of the integrated mechanical system.
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Murray, Michael Edward. "A Collection of Poetry." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3710.
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This thesis is a collection of poems which were written between 2011 and 2017. Much of my earliest work is in this collection, though, most all of it has been heavily revised over the years. The content of this collection begins with seven poems that address the death of my best friend and brother, Jon. These were some of the most difficult poems for me to write but ultimately, I found that the process, though intense, was cathartic.
The rest of the collection addresses themes regarding class, place, substance abuse, mental health; including but not limited to: suicidal ideation, depression, family, social structure, politics, and anger.
A great deal of the content is dark and melancholic in mood and moves through very deep depression at points. A few relationships I've had are addressed and wrestled with and emerge as two separate apologies of sorts. I also wrestle with the idea of home and living on the west coast. The final poem, "Choose Life" was inspired by the film Trainspotting and I felt it served the collection to have a poem that is loosely comparable to a reprise that ends the thesis with a more positive outlook on life.
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Mujahid, Siddiqah. "A Collection of Stories." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5437.
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A Collection of Stories includes a novel excerpt, two non-fiction pieces, and a short story. The novel is the story of a young woman, Amina, who returns home after the death of her father. There she will confront members of her family about various secrets and acts of indiscretion. Amina keeps secrets herself, as she hid her lovers from her current husband. Writing is aphoristic and poet. One non-fiction essay is an examination of the effects of building design on the human psyche. The other is a postpartum journey through womanhood, as the speaker decides which parts of her past to reveal to her new daughter. The short story is about a sarcastic, young girl with Daddy issues.
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Daniels, Aisha J. "The What If Collection." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5865.
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The What If Collection is a visual narrative that confronts white supremacy, the social, economic, and political ideology used to subjugate black civilization via colonial rule and enslavement in history and via structural racism today. Many white people have been socialized into a racial illiteracy that fosters white supremacy. This racial illiteracy fails to realize and understand the destructive effects of Western dominance on the rest of the world, particularly on past and present Africa and her diaspora. In response, utilizing discursive design, the collection constructs a counter-story that depicts a shift in the power structure in which the white oppressor is placed in the historical experience of the black oppressed. Moving forward from the past, a contemporary society is visualized where black people are the dominant force.
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King, John Douglas. "Deep Web Collection Selection." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15992/3/John_King_Thesis.pdf.
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The deep web contains a massive number of collections that are mostly invisible to search engines. These collections often contain high-quality, structured information that cannot be crawled using traditional methods.
An important problem is selecting which of these collections to search. Automatic collection selection methods try to solve this problem by suggesting the best subset of deep web collections to search based on a query.
A few methods for deep Web collection selection have proposed in Collection Retrieval Inference Network system and Glossary of Servers, Server system.
The drawback in these methods is that they require communication between the search broker and the collections, and need metadata about each collection.
This thesis compares three different sampling methods that do not require communication with the broker or metadata about each collection. It also transforms some traditional information retrieval based techniques to this area. In addition, the thesis tests these techniques using INEX collection for total 18 collections (including 12232 XML documents) and total 36 queries.
The experiment shows that the performance of sample-based technique is satisfactory in average.
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King, John Douglas. "Deep Web Collection Selection." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15992/.
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The deep web contains a massive number of collections that are mostly invisible to search engines. These collections often contain high-quality, structured information that cannot be crawled using traditional methods. An important problem is selecting which of these collections to search. Automatic collection selection methods try to solve this problem by suggesting the best subset of deep web collections to search based on a query. A few methods for deep Web collection selection have proposed in Collection Retrieval Inference Network system and Glossary of Servers Server system. The drawback in these methods is that they require communication between the search broker and the collections, and need metadata about each collection. This thesis compares three different sampling methods that do not require communication with the broker or metadata about each collection. It also transforms some traditional information retrieval based techniques to this area. In addition, the thesis tests these techniques using INEX collection for total 18 collections (including 12232 XML documents) and total 36 queries. The experiment shows that the performance of sample-based technique is satisfactory in average.
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Green, Kristin. "A quantitative analysis of strategy the persuasive rhetoric of collection agencies /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1939245981&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Coste-Gouzes, Ophélie. "Contribution à l'étude juridique des collections privées." Thesis, Montpellier, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MONTD042/document.
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L’art de collectionner a traversé les siècles, les collections privées sont notamment à l’origine de notre patrimoine culturel. Pourtant, malgré l’importance du rôle de la collection, cette dernière reste encore un ensemble de choses mal identifié par le droit. En tant qu’ensemble de choses créé par la volonté de l’Homme, la collection n’est pas définie, et seules certaines collections sont encadrées par quelques dispositions. Par ailleurs, les collections privées sont des ensembles fragiles, elles relèvent de la propriété privée de leur collectionneur qui est libre d’en disposer comme il le souhaite. Le risque majeur de ces ensembles réside dans leur dispersion et dans l’atteinte à leur intégrité. Souvent soucieux de préserver l’intégrité et la cohérence de son ensemble, le collectionneur doit pouvoir bénéficier d’outils juridiques protecteurs adaptés à la collection. Finalement, qu’est-ce qu’une collection ? Que signifie cette notion de collection et quel(s) droit(s) peuvent s’en saisir ? Notre droit est-il en mesure de protéger efficacement une réunion de choses comme la collection privée ? En d’autres termes, la problématique consiste à répondre à la question suivante : quelle appréhension juridique pour les collections privées ? Partant, l’objectif de la thèse est de tenter de dégager une qualification juridique de la collection pour mieux adapter sa protection. En effet, la recherche se donne pour but de définir les fondements théoriques et juridiques susceptibles d’être adaptés à l’œuvre du collectionneur, pour tenter d’aboutir à un régime de protection efficaceThe art to collect crossed the centuries, the private collections are in particular at the origin of our cultural heritage. Nevertheless, in spite of the importance of the role of the collection, it still remains a set of things badly identified by the right. As together of things created by the will of the Man, the collection is not defined, and only ones certain collections are supervised by some measures.Besides, the private collections are fragile sets, they are a matter of the private property of their collector who is free to have it as he wishes it. The major risk of these sets lives in their dispersal and in the infringement on their integrity. Often worried of protecting the integrity and the coherence of his set, the collector must be able to benefit from protective legal tools adapted to the collection.Finally, what a collection? Means what this notion of collection and which right(s) can seize with it? Is our right able of protecting effectively a meeting of things as the private collection? In other words, the problem consists in answering the following question: what legal apprehension for the private collections?Therefore, the objective of the thesis is to try to identify a legal qualification of the collection to adapt better its protection. Indeed, the search gives for purpose to define the theoretical and legal foundations susceptible to be adapted to the work of the collector, to try to end in a regime of effective protection
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Hart, Laurie Anne. "Collecting and curating objects of ethnography, an ethnohistorical case study of the O.C. Edwards collection." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ34310.pdf.
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Phillips, Glenn Allen. "Pause: a collection of poetry." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3848.
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The following thesis contains a collection of original poetry, either written or
revised during my tenure as a graduate student. This thesis also contains a critical
introduction of the collectionÂs forms, underlying themes, and writing processes.
The first priority of the introduction is to autobiographically trace the state of my
poetry from its first rhymes to this collection. With a full understanding of my poetic
history, the form and content of this current work will not only be understood in context,
but become more interesting as an evolutionary study. I will discuss the different trends
and themes I see working in my poetry. I will analyze performance poems as a unique
style of formalist poetry, tailored to reinvent its oral tradition. I will show how melding
the images of free verse and the patterning of meter creates a new poetic style designed to
engage a larger potential audience than free verse or formalist poetry. Finally I will
discuss what this collection hopes to do as a whole.
The poetry is separated into two sections. The first section, titled ÂThe Page, is a
collection of what I refer to as Âpage poetryÂÂ poetry meant to be taken in visually,
absorbed from a page. This section is divided into subsections of formalist, free verse,
and prose poetry, mirroring my own poetic evolution. The second section, titled ÂThe
Stage, is a collection of performance pieces. While ÂThe Page represents the majority
of my poetry, observations and evaluations, ÂThe Stage showcases my spoken-word
poetry, discussing social and personal issues.
These poems represent my growth as a poet, and are, hopefully, only another step
in a continual learning process.
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Kehoe, Chris. "Idiosynchronicity, a collection of poetry." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0020/MQ52725.pdf.
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