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Ozsel, Dogancan. "Challenging the conservative exceptionalism : theme of change in the conservative canon." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/challenging-the-conservative-exceptionalism-theme-of-change-in-the-conservative-canon(df168b18-085e-49d3-8055-ca9b25806bb0).html.
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The thesis focuses on the conservative canon and analyses the validity of exceptionalist claims of conservative thinking through a deconstructive reading of conservatism. The comparison of classical and radical conservatisms provides the grounds for this analysis. After the introductory chapter, the second chapter of this thesis focuses on the general characteristics of the conservative ideology. It consists of three sub-sections. The first of these presents the characteristics of classical conservatism, while the second turns to consider radical conservatism. Then, in the third sub-section, a discussion of the similarities and differences between these two conservatisms leads to a proposed definition of a core of the conservative canon. Here, it is argued that the epistemological and ontological imperfection of individuals can be regarded as the definitive core, or as the precept which the justification of conservative policies relies upon. The third chapter then focuses on the views of a number of significant figures in the development of political thought on ideology, which is used by these thinkers as a critical tool. A narrative of the historical developments in the analyses of ideology and ideologies is presented in this chapter. In the last part of the chapter, Derridian thinking is introduced. The fourth chapter problematises conservative exceptionalism, or the belief that there is a fundamental difference between conservatism and other ideologies. This chapter is founded upon the analyses of the previous two chapters, using the Derridian reading and referring to the characteristics and commonalities of the conservative canon presented. In this chapter, radicalism is argued to be a persistent theme in conservative thinking, and conservatism is claimed to be founded upon its impossibility.
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Li, Xiao. "Conservative and non-conservative optical forces." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/400.
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The fact that optical force is very significant in the microscopic world and can be used to manipulate microparticles has triggered an evolution in micromanipulation, in particular, the manipulation of biological species and colloidal particles. The induced optical force can easily be more than 103 times of the particle's weight. The particle size that are accessible to optical forces ranges from tens of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers. One of the most well-known tools in optical manipulation is called optical tweezers, which is, in essence, performing optical trapping by a strongly focused light beam. The optical force induced by the incident light wave can be generally decomposed into two mathematically and physically distinct components, namely the conservative (gradient force) and non-conservative (scattering and absorption force) forces. Such a split helps in the study of optical forces and elucidates the underlying physics (e.g., the optical trapping). For example, in optical trapping, the conservative gradient force drives the particles toward the intensity maxima and traps the particles there, whereas the non-conservative scattering and absorption force tends to push the particles away and thus has some destabilizing effects. However, while a significant portion of paper dealing with optical trapping explicitly mentioned gradient and scattering forces, the true and exact force profiles of the decomposed optical forces have been mysteries for decades. Researchers still use these concepts, and to certain extent, they imagine the force profile according to their own convenience. This thesis is mainly devoted to the analytical and numerical studies of the decomposition of optical forces. The intrinsic nature of the decomposed optical forces will be discussed, and the approaches of generating a purely conservative force field are presented.. First, the analytical approaches for decomposing the optical force into the gradient force and the scattering and absorption force are described. These approaches can be applied to different particle sizes (smaller than 40% of the wavelength if the multipoles are only considered up to the electric octopole or much larger than the wavelength under the geometrical optics limit), but they still cannot describe the experimentally accessible particle size, which is on the order of micrometer. Second, within the dipole limit, the origin of scattering force is shown to be resulted from the radiation reaction, the polarizations, and the topological charges. In addition, it is found that the conservativeness of the force is closely related to the force constant matrix (the linear term in the Taylor expansion of the optical force) at every point, and certain symmetries in these force constant matrix can guarantee the force to be conservative.. A numerical method that utilizes the fast Fourier transform (FFT) was developed to decompose the conservative and non-conservative forces. This approach is valid when the total force field is spatially localized and decayed sufficiently fast as we move away from the beam center (e.g., optical tweezers or alike) or is spatially periodic (e.g. plane incident waves). We also considered spherical aberration due to the mismatch of the refractive indices between the oil and water media in a typical optical tweezers setup within the FFT method. Various particle sizes, materials, and numerical apertures were also considered. For the periodic force field generated by a collection of plane waves, it is demonstrated that an incident 2-dimensional standing wave could generate a purely conservative force field. The accuracy of this fast Fourier transform approach is analyzed in details and shown to be quite accurate. Moreover, an incident 3-dimensional standing wave could also induce a conservative force field for intermediately sized particles.. Finally, three counter-intuitive examples obtained with the fast Fourier transform approach are presented. These examples clearly demonstrated the need to calculate the gradient and scattering forces accurately, as not doing so would lead to qualitatively wrong results.
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Watson, Terrence. "Conservative Contractarianism." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/762.
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Moral contractarianism, as demonstrated in the work of David Gauthier, is an attempt to derive moral principles from the non-moral premises of rational choice. However, this contractarian enterprise runs aground because it is unable to show that agents would commit to norms in a fairly realistic world where knowledge is limited in space and time, where random shocks are likely, and where agents can be arbitrarily differentiated from one another. In a world like this, agents will find that the most "rational" strategy is to behave "non-rationally," imitating the behavior of others in their vicinity and preserving a limited sort of ignorance.
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Arthurs, Naill. "An investigation of conservative moving-mesh methods for conservation laws." Thesis, University of Reading, 2016. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/72072/.
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In this thesis we consider a class of conservation based moving mesh methods applied to hyperbolic conservation laws. We mainly concentrate on the one dimensional case with the examples of the linear advection equation, inviscid Burgers’ equation and the Buckley-Leverett equation. The moving mesh methods are generated using the conservation of mass as a method for determining the mesh velocity at the computational nodes. We use the notion of the reference space as a mathematical tool to analyse the moving mesh methods allowing us to show the accuracy, stability conditions and convergence. In addition we use the reference space as a technique for constructing new moving mesh methods which share the accuracy and stability properties of the fixed mesh scheme they are derived from. At the end of the thesis we use the knowledge gained from the scalar conservation laws to construct moving mesh methods for the isothermal equations.
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Rodríguez, David Sarias. "All the president's conservatives : Richard Nixon and the American conservative movement." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14658/.
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This doctoral dissertation examines the relationship between the American conservative movement and Richard Nixon between the late 1940s and the Watergate scandal, with a particular emphasis on the latter's presidency. It complements the sizeable bodies of literature about both Nixon himself and American conservatism, shedding new light on the former's role in the collapse of the post-l945 liberal consensus. This thesis emphasises the part played by Nixon in the slow march of American conservatism from the political margins in the immediate post-war years to the centre of national politics by the late 1960s. The American conservative movement is treated as a diverse epistemic community made up of six distinct sub-groupings - National Review' conservatives, Southern conservatives, classical liberals, neoconservatives, American Enterprise Institute conservatives and the 'Young Turks' of the New Right - which, although philosophically and behaviourally autonomous, remained intimately associated under the overall leadership of the intellectuals who operated from the National Review. Although for nearly three decades Richard Nixon and American conservatives endured each other in a mutually frustrating and yet seemingly unbreakable relationship, Nixon never became a fully-fledged member of the movement. Yet, from the days of Alger Hiss to those of the 'Silent Majority', he remained the political actor best able to articulate and manipulate the conservative canon into a populist, electorally successful message. During his presidency, the administration's behaviour played a crucial role - even if not always deliberately - in the momentous transformation of the conservative movement into a more diverse, better-organised, modernised and more efficient political force. In the process, conservatives consciously and successfully used Nixon in their quest to gain acceptance as the legitimate sparring partners of the liberalism that had hitherto dominated post-1945 American politics. This doctoral dissertation examines the relationship between the American conservative movement and Richard Nixon between the late 1940s and the Watergate scandal, with a particular emphasis on the latter's presidency. It complements the sizeable bodies of literature about both Nixon himself and American conservatism, shedding new light on the former's role in the collapse of the post-l945 liberal consensus. This thesis emphasises the part played by Nixon in the slow march of American conservatism from the political margins in the immediate post-war years to the centre of national politics by the late 1960s. The American conservative movement is treated as a diverse epistemic community made up of six distinct sub-groupings - National Review' conservatives, Southern conservatives, classical liberals, neoconservatives, American Enterprise Institute conservatives and the 'Young Turks' of the New Right - which, although philosophically and behaviourally autonomous, remained intimately associated under the overall leadership of the intellectuals who operated from the National Review. Although for nearly three decades Richard Nixon and American conservatives endured each other in a mutually frustrating and yet seemingly unbreakable relationship, Nixon never became a fully-fledged member of the movement. Yet, from the days of Alger Hiss to those of the 'Silent Majority', he remained the political actor best able to articulate and manipulate the conservative canon into a populist, electorally successful message. During his presidency, the administration's behaviour played a crucial role - even if not always deliberately - in the momentous transfonnation of the conservative movement into a more diverse, better-organised, modernised and more efficient political force. In the process, conservatives consciously and successfully used Nixon in their quest to gain acceptance as the legitimate sparring partners of the liberalism that had hitherto dominated post-1945 American politics.
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Gissurarson, H. H. "Hayek's conservative liberalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371651.
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Bridgman, Aengus B. "Mapping Contemporary Canadian English-Speaking Conservatism: An Examination of Axioms, Core Policies, Ideological Opponents and Intellectual/Emotional Appeals." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31073.
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Canadian political ideas are commonly accessed through traditional political culture or brokerage politics frames. This literature, while explaining certain political phenomenon in a robust way, fails to adequately appreciate the nuance in contemporary Canadian political ideas. A particularly fertile ground for an exploration of these ideas is in the study of contemporary Canadian conservatism. Through an examination of conservative scholars, pundits and political actors, four distinct strains of conservatism are identified and examined for axioms, core policy recommendations and affective appeals employed. Conservatism is demonstrated to be a multilayered and complex contemporary ideology displaying a remarkable diversity of ideas and understandings of the world. Despite these broad differences in core ideas and policy prescriptions and a number of key sites of disagreement, contemporary conservative ideologies remain bound by a core set of ideas and a common vernacular.
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Neels, Mark Alan. "Lincoln's Conservatives: Conservative Unionism and Political Tradition in the Civil War Era." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1023.
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This dissertation challenges the theories of new political historians, who argue that nineteenth-century American politics was little influenced by ideology. Instead, by treating the public careers of self-identified conservatives in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet--Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Salmon P. Chase, and Gideon Welles--as exemplars of nineteenth-century political thought, this study examines the formation of American conservatism in the Civil War era from an anthropological perspective, treating it as a tribal identification shared by American lawmakers. Nineteenth-century conservatives identified themselves according to their subscription to certain common principles of governance, the ideals of which were first expressed in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Applying these principles to the nineteenth century, American conservatives thus greatly influenced public policy initiatives from civil service reform to anti-slavery reform and from public finance to presidential war powers. Although the conservative ideals espoused by these politicians--exemplified in their management of issues during the Civil War--had receded to a minority opinion among lawmakers by 1865, they were ultimately resurrected during the later years of Reconstruction, and helped to shape future political discourses surrounding public policy in the Gilded Age.
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Hayton, Richard. "Conservative Party leadership strategy and the legacy of Thatcherite Conservatism, 1997-2005." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10326/.
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This research is a detailed analysis of the Conservative Party leadership's strategy between 1997 and 2005. Through an application of the strategic-relational approach to political analysis, it examines how the party responded to defeat, and seeks to explain why it struggled to return to a position from which it could effectively challenge for power. The particular focus is on how key figures in the leadership elite interpreted and understood the context they faced, how they sought to orientate their strategies towards it, and how ideology shaped their perspective. Three dilemmas for contemporary conservatism are highlighted and considered in depth: European integration; national identity and the 'English question'; and social liberalism versus social authoritarianism. These were chosen as each presents a significant ideological challenge for contemporary conservatism. The thesis explores how the leadership handled each of these, and how they related to the party's efforts to develop a strategy for electoral revival. The research exposes the inconsistent and uncertain nature of Conservative Party electoral strategy in this period. The strategic-relational analysis suggests that this stemmed not merely from the failure of key actors in the leadership, but from the need to address competing and sometimes contradictory contextual demands, and from difficulties inherent in dealing with the legacy of Thatcherism. The thesis argues that an appreciation of the 1997 -2005 period is essential for an understanding of the trajectory of contemporary conservatism under Cameron.
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Salem, Manel. "The british Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher's leadership : conservatism seen from within." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30041.
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Cette thèse aborde le sujet du conservatisme britannique, notamment le conservatisme de1979 jusqu’à 1990, la période qui correspond aux mandats de Margaret Thatcher. Ce travail vise à démontrer que la continuité a été l’aspect déterminant du parti conservateur depuis les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Les valeurs premières du conservatisme ont continué à être appliquées avec l’avènement de Margaret Thatcher au pouvoir même si elle incarnait, pour beaucoup de gens, le changement. Ceci apparait dans les discours que Margaret Thatcher tenait quand elle était leader de l’opposition. Le changement était nécessaire selon elle car la société britannique était stagnante. En effet, Thatcher ne pouvait pas accepter ce qu’elle considérait comme étant une « société oisive ».Dès son jeune âge, elle avait appris que travailler dur était à la fois une responsabilité et un plaisir. Ce plaisir-là émane des principes d’indépendance et de persévérance auxquels elle a toujours cru très profondément. Dans ce sens, le changement signifie essentiellement la remise en question du consensus de l’après-guerre, conçu pour aider le pays et ses habitants à se reconstruire. Margaret Thatcher était déterminée à démanteler la social-démocratie keynésienne qui avait imprégné la politique britannique depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale à cause des circonstances changeantes. L’originalité de sa politique réside dans l’abandon du consensus de l’après-guerre largement basé sur l’état providence et l’intervention de l’état ainsi que l’encouragement des membres de la société à être autonomes et indépendants en plus d’une économie forte et capable de s’autoréguler sans avoir besoin d’intervention de la part du gouvernement. La liberté, l’individualisme et l’autonomie sont les conséquences ultimes de la dérégulation. Ces valeurs étaient les valeurs premières du conservatisme et leur application durant les années quatre-vingt n’étaient que retour au vieux parti conservateur. La continuité du parti conservateur, qui a été interrompue par le keynésianisme du parti travailliste, a été alors rétablie. Pour prouver de cette continuité, un nombre de documents d’archives ont été étudiés au Churchill Archives Centre à Cambridge; des archives telles que les procès-verbaux des réunions du parti conservateur et les discussions qui se sont déroulées entre conservateurs. Par ailleurs, savoir comment les conservateurs eux-mêmes définissent le conservatisme britannique élucide la nature du conservatisme. Pendant longtemps, le parti conservateur a été considéré comme étant le parti monolithique par excellence. Mais le retour en force d’autres partis, comme le parti travailliste après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, a poussé les conservateurs à réfléchir davantage, à innover, à créer des thinks tanks et à ne plus avoir peur d’exprimer leurs opinions diverses. Désormais, ils ne craignent plus le changement, partant du principe que « les choses doivent changer pour qu’elles restent identiques » (The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa). Une large partie de cette thèse porte sur la politique économique. La variable de la politique économique constitue peut-être le critère de réussite le plus visible notamment du fait qu’il est aisément quantifiable, et révèle que l’économie a toujours été une priorité chez les conservateurs. Selon Margaret Thatcher par exemple, le keynésianisme de l’après-guerre avait échoué et devait être abandonné. Pour Thatcher, le problème majeur à résoudre n’était pas le chômage mais l’inflation. La dichotomie entre continuité et changement sera analysée non seulement dans les discours publics de Margaret Thatcher mais aussi dans les discussions internes du parti conservateur. La pléthore de définitions et opinions pose également la question de l’héritage de la dame de fer, à travers son successeur John Major et des événements contemporains tels que le BrexitThis thesis focuses on the dynamics of continuity and change within the Conservative Party from 1979 to 1990, the period of Margaret Thatcher’s premierships. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that continuity had been the defining feature of the Conservative Party since the 18th and 19th centuries. The implementation of the primary values of early Conservatism continued with the advent of M. Thatcher to power although she represented, for many people, the epitome of change. This was all the more obvious in Margaret Thatcher’s public speeches when she was Leader of the Opposition. Change was, to her, necessary since British society was stagnant. In fact, Mrs. Thatcher could not accept what she considered as an “idle society.” When she was very little, Mrs. Thatcher learned that working hard was not only a duty but also an enjoyment. These feelings emanated from the values that she dearly cherished such as independence and perseverance. In this sense, therefore, change only meant the questioning of the postwar consensus. The policies implemented during the consensus period aimed at helping Britain and her citizens reconstruct. Margaret Thatcher was determined to dismantle the Keynesian social democracy that had permeated British politics since World War Two because of changing circumstances. The novelty of her politics lay in getting rid of the postwar consensus, broadly based on the welfare state and government intervention and encouraging a society whose members should be self-reliant and independent in addition to a strong economy capable of self-regulating without the need for regulation from the government. Freedom, individualism and autonomy were the ultimate consequences of deregulation. These values were the original values of Conservatism and their implementation in the 1980s was nothing but a return to Old Tory Conservatism. The continuity of the Conservative Party, which was interrupted by the politics of Keynesianism of the Labour Party, had therefore been reestablished. In order to trace this continuity, a number of archival material have been studied in the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge; archival material such as the minutes of the Conservative Party or the discussions that took place among Conservatives. Besides, how members of the Conservative Party themselves define British Conservatism sheds light on the nature of Conservatism. The Conservative Party has been considered to be the monolithic party par excellence but as a result of the increasing influence of other parties, notably the Labour Party after World War Two, Conservatives became more aware of the need to think more, innovate, create thinks tanks and express their distinct opinions more widely. They were no longer afraid of change given that “Everything needs to change, so that everything can stay the same” (The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa). An important part of this thesis deals with the economy. The variable of economic policy is perhaps the most visible criterion of success namely because it is easily quantifiable. It also reveals that economy has always been a priority among Conservatives. For Margaret Thatcher for instance, the Keynesianism of the postwar era had failed and should be abandoned. According to Thatcher, inflation was the problem to solve, not unemployment. The dichotomy between continuity and change will be analyzed not only in the public speeches of Margaret Thatcher but also the internal discussions of Conservatives. This plethora of definitions and opinions also concerns the legacy of the Iron Lady mainly through her successor, John Major, in addition to contemporary events such as the Brexit
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Auchterlonie, Mitzi Marita. "Conservative women, the Conservative Party and the campaign for women's suffrage, 1867-1914." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246385.
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Gonchenko, Marina. "Homoclinic phenomena in conservative systems." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/116418.
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The goal of this thesis is the study of homoclinic orbits in conservative systems (area-preserving maps and Hamiltonian systems). We consider homoclinic (bi-asymptotic) orbits either to saddle periodic orbits or to whiskered tori. Such type orbits, called homoclinic by Poincaré, are of great interest in the theory of dynamical systems since their presence implies complicated dynamics.
The thesis is divided in two parts according to two quite different topics considered. In the first part, we study area-preserving maps (APMs) with a nontransversal homoclinic orbit (homoclinic tangency) to a saddle fixed point in order to know the behavior of orbits near the given homoclinic trajectory. To this end, we construct first return maps, for which we use finitely-smooth normal forms of the saddle maps and introduce cross-coordinates. The fixed points of the first return maps correspond to single-round periodic orbits of the maps under consideration. Applying rescaling methods we derive the first return maps to the Hénon-like maps whose bifurcations are well known. Thus, translating the results obtained for the fixed points of the return maps to the periodic orbits, we prove the existence of cascades of elliptic periodic points. We also study the phenomenon of the coexistence of infinitely many single-round periodic orbits of different large periods (called global resonance). We consider the related problems in different types of APMs (symplectic maps and non-orientable APMs) with quadratic or cubic tangencies. We also establish the structure of 1:4 resonance for some conservative Hénon-like maps.
The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the study of exponentially small splitting of separatrices arising from a perturbation of a Hamiltonian system with a homoclinic connection (separatrix). We consider a perturbation of an integrable Hamiltonian system having whiskered tori with coincident stable and unstable whiskers. Generally, in the perturbed system, the whiskers do not coincide anymore and our goal is to detect the transverse homoclinic orbits associated to the persistent whiskered tori. The perturbed system turns out to be not integrable due to the presence of these homoclinic trajectories and, consequently, there is chaotic dynamics near them. We give a suitable parametrization to the whiskers to determine the distance between them. This distance is given by the splitting function, and the simple zeros of this function give rise to transverse homoclinic orbits. We use the classical Poincaré-Melnikov approach to measure the splitting, although in the case of exponential smallness we have to ensure that the first order approximation overcome the error term. We consider Hamiltonian systems possessing two-dimensional whiskered tori with quadratic frequencies and three-dimensional whiskered tori with cubic golden frequency. In the two-dimensional case, we find 23 new quadratic numbers for which the Poincaré-Melnikov method can be applied and establish the existence of 4 transverse homoclinic orbits. We also study the continuation of the homoclinic orbits for all values of the parameter of perturbation in the case of the silver number sqrt(2)-1. For the three-dimensional whiskered torus with frequency vector given by the so-called "cubic golden number", we establish the existence of exponentially small splitting of separatrices and detect the transversality of 8 homoclinic orbits.
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Shehata, Kamal I. "Conservative management of spontaneous miscarriage." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29361.
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The work in this thesis is mainly focused on the role of conservative management of women with retained products of conception following a spontaneous miscarriage in the first trimester in comparison to the ‘gold standard’ surgical evacuation of the uterine cavity under general anaesthesia. A self-administered questionnaire based study was conducted to investigate the impact of seeing and handling the products of conception on the incidence of psychological adverse reactions in women managed conservatively as compared to the control group (women managed by surgical uterine evacuation). Women managed conservatively seemed to recover psychologically quicker than women managed by surgical evacuation. The impact of conservative management on the reproductive potential of women with retained products of conception was assessed in the fourth chapter. The first part of the fourth chapter studied the return of ovulation in a subgroup of women (n = 30) randomised to conservative management as compared to women (n = 30) randomised to surgical evacuation. The return of normal ovulation was examined by assessing the daily urinary excretion of luteinizing hormone (LH), pregnanediol (P4) and total urinary oestrogen (E2), follicular and endometrial development using transvaginal ultrasound. The second part of this chapter concentrated on following up women who desired to become pregnant from the two management groups. Conservative management had similar outcomes to surgical evacuation in relation to the reproductive performance. Finally, a systematic assessment of the cost-effective of conservative management was carried out in comparison with surgical evacuation in the last chapter of the thesis, which revealed a potential for substantial cost savings in NHS resources with the widespread use of conservative management.
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Hungerford, Yael Levin. "Charles S. Peirce's Conservative Progressivism." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107167.
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Thesis advisor: Nasser BehnegarMy dissertation explores the epistemological and political thought of Charles S. Peirce, the founder of American pragmatism. In contrast to the pragmatists who followed, Peirce defends a realist notion of truth. He seeks to provide a framework for understanding the nature of knowledge that does justice to our commonsense experience of things. Similarly in contrast to his fellow pragmatists, Peirce has a conservative practical teaching: he warns against combining theory and practice out of concern that each will corrupt the other. The first three chapters of this dissertation examine Peirce’s pragmatism and related features of his thought: his Critical Common-Sensism, Scholastic Realism, semeiotics, and a part of his metaphysical or cosmological musings. The fourth chapter explores Peirce’s warning that theory and practice ought to be kept separate. The fifth chapter aims to shed light on Peirce’s practical conservatism by exploring the liberal arts education he recommends for educating future statesmen. This dissertation makes clear that Peirce was not a crude utilitarian or simply concerned with “what works.” He was, moreover, not anti-metaphysical. Peirce has much to instruct contemporary thinkers. His is an anti-skeptical but modest theory of reality that remains valuable to contemporary readers. His message of caution in the practical realm is sound. Finally, his call for what a university ought to be and the liberal arts education that will best groom students for a life of action is still an important message
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Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
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Miller, Edward Herbert. "Mavericks of the Metroplex: Dallas Republicans, the Southern Strategy, and the American Right." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3705.
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Thesis advisor: Cynthia L. LyerlyThis dissertation explores the ultraconservative Republican and moderate conservative Republican movements in Dallas, Texas between 1952 and 1964, an essential period in which the GOP abandoned its longstanding identification as the party of President Lincoln and Reconstruction and adopted the Southern Strategy. While the first generation of scholars of American conservatism recognized the influence of ultraconservatives who embraced conspiracy theory, absolutist thinking, and apocalyptic rhetoric, the most recent scholarship has tended to downplay the impact of this ultraconservative worldview and stress moderate conservatives' upward mobility and mainstream and modern values. Through the lens of the Republican Party in Dallas, Texas--an epicenter of American conservative Republicanism in the 1950s and 1960s--this dissertation argues that while moderate conservative Republicans were important, ultraconservatives Republicans were more essential to the conservative Republican ascendancy. The dissertation shows that ultraconservative Republicans standing on the "fringe" of mainstream conservatism served not only to push many Republicans to embrace right-wing ideas, but mainstreamed and legitimated the moderate conservative Republicans in the 1950s and 1960s. In showing that ultraconservatives mattered more than historians previously thought, the dissertation suggests that the most recent scholarship has overcompensated for the first generation of historians, who tended to pathologize the Right and dismiss its staying power
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
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Shields, Andrew. "The Irish Conservative party, 1852-1868." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0021/NQ45719.pdf.
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Healy, Anthony E. "Living Together: Conservative Protestants and Cohabitation." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_theses/27.
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Recent research finds that conservative Protestants are cohabiting in no small numbers. Given the strict moral orientation of conservative Protestants, that outcome appears paradoxical. This thesis explains that paradox through the culture in action models of Swidler (1986), given the social and economic location of conservative Protestants. The thesis employs pooled General Social Survey data from 1993 to 2008 in which a question is asked that indicates cohabitation. The thesis finds that the social and economic location of conservative Protestants is related to their cohabiting. Though conservative Protestant cohabitors have lessened religiosity, much of the decline in religiosity compared to married conservative Protestants is due to the factors leading to cohabitation. But views and practices on premarital sex are the greatest factor in reducing that difference. The evidence in this thesis lends support to Swidler’s models of settled and unsettled lives in explaining cohabitation among conservative Protestants.
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Tether, Philip. "Conservative associations : variations by electoral environment." Thesis, University of Hull, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333876.
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Forsling, Robin. "Decentralized Estimation Using Conservative Information Extraction." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-171998.
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Sensor networks consist of sensors (e.g., radar and cameras) and processing units (e.g., estimators), where in the former information extraction occurs and in the latter estimates are formed. In decentralized estimation information extracted by sensors has been pre-processed at an intermediate processing unit prior to arriving at an estimator. Pre-processing of information allows for the complexity of large systems and systems-of-systems to be significantly reduced, and also makes the sensor network robust and flexible. One of the main disadvantages of pre-processing information is that information becomes correlated. These correlations, if not handled carefully, potentially lead to underestimated uncertainties about the calculated estimates. In conservative estimation the unknown correlations are handled by ensuring that the uncertainty about an estimate is not underestimated. If this is ensured the estimate is said to be conservative. Neglecting correlations means information is double counted which in worst case implies diverging estimates with fatal consequences. While ensuring conservative estimates is the main goal, it is desirable for a conservative estimator, as for any estimator, to provide an error covariance which is as small as possible. Application areas where conservative estimation is relevant are setups where multiple agents cooperate to accomplish a common objective, e.g., target tracking, surveillance and air policing. The first part of this thesis deals with theoretical matters where the conservative linear unbiased estimation problem is formalized. This part proposes an extension of classical linear estimation theory to the conservative estimation problem. The conservative linear unbiased estimator (CLUE) is suggested as a robust and practical alternative for estimation problems where the correlations are unknown. Optimality criteria for the CLUE are provided and further investigated. It is shown that finding an optimal CLUE is more complicated than finding an optimal linear unbiased estimator in the classical version of the problem. To simplify the problem, a CLUE that is optimal under certain restrictions will also be investigated. The latter is named restricted best CLUE. An important result is a theorem that gives a closed form solution to a restricted best CLUE. Furthermore, several conservative estimation methods are described followed by an analysis of their properties. The methods are shown to be conservative and optimal under different assumptions about the underlying correlations. The second part of the thesis focuses on practical aspects of the conservative approach to decentralized estimation in configurations where the communication channel is constrained. The diagonal covariance approximation is proposed as a data reduction technique that complies with the communication constraints and if handled correctly can be shown to preserve conservative estimates. Several information selection methods are derived that can reduce the amount of data being transmitted in the communication channel. Using the information selection methods it is possible to decide what information other actors of the sensor network find useful.
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Vial, John Francis Stephen. "Conservative Sparsification for Efficient Approximate Estimation." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9907.
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Linear Gaussian systems often exhibit sparse structures. For systems which grow as a function of time, marginalisation of past states will eventually introduce extra non-zero elements into the information matrix of the Gaussian distribution. These extra non-zeros can lead to dense problems as these systems progress through time. This thesis proposes a method that can delete elements of the information matrix while maintaining guarantees about the conservativeness of the resulting estimate with a computational complexity that is a function of the connectivity of the graph rather than the problem dimension. This sparsification can be performed iteratively and minimises the Kullback Leibler Divergence (KLD) between the original and approximate distributions. This new technique is called Conservative Sparsification (CS). For large sparse graphs employing a Junction Tree (JT) for estimation, efficiency is related to the size of the largest clique. Conservative Sparsification can be applied to clique splitting in JTs, enabling approximate and efficient estimation in JTs with the same conservative guarantees as CS for information matrices. In distributed estimation scenarios which use JTs, CS can be performed in parallel and asynchronously on JT cliques. This approach usually results in a larger KLD compared with the optimal CS approach, but an upper bound on this increased divergence can be calculated with information locally available to each clique. This work has applications in large scale distributed linear estimation problems where the size of the problem or communication overheads make optimal linear estimation difficult.
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RICO, ALESSANDRO. "A Conservative Theory of Political Obligation." Doctoral thesis, Luiss Guido Carli, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11385/201061.
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The aim of this thesis is to develop a conservative theory of political obligation.
In the first chapter, I advance a series of preliminary definitions: I specify that political
obligation is the moral (not merely the legal) duty to obey the law qua law; I discuss the
requirements that a successful theory of political obligation should match; and I criticize
philosophical anarchism.
In chapters 2, 3, and 4, I analyse the notion of conservatism. I focus on the concepts of ‘status
quo bias’, ‘historical value’, ‘traditionalism’, and on the principles I label as ‘the primacy of order
over liberty’ and ‘the primacy of community over the individual’.
The idea is that conservatism is committed to the preservation of existing states of affairs and
traditions, as long as they are carriers of historical value (HV), as the means to establish a form of
intergenerational connection (what I call the ‘diachronic community’), and for reasons related to the
problem of transition costs in reforms, to policy-makers’ ignorance, and to the role of stable
conventions in political life. However, I also observe that conservatives recognize that some degree
of change is necessary precisely for conservation to be effective. This so-called ‘conservation
paradox’ is particularly evident in the case of transmission of traditions.
In chapter 6, I develop a conservative theory of political obligation based on the Oakeshottean
notion of membership in the ‘civil association’. This is a mode of relationship that members of
nation-States entertain with each other, sharing not a common purpose, but only subscribing to the
same general rules of conduct, sanctioned by the legal system. Obeying the law is the minimal, but
necessary and sufficient condition for political obligation to hold.
The so-called practice of civility, in which membership in the civil association is grounded,
connects with each other the members of the polity both synchronically and diachronically.
Therefore, it is the source of an internal good, the bond of community that citizens establish
reciprocally and across the generations, and it is a carrier of HV. Moreover, the good of ‘civility’
can also be understood in functionalist terms, as it represents the conditio sine qua non for the
realization of all other essential goods of societal life, be they primary (peace, security, etc.) or
secondary (the development of arts, science, a market system, etc.). I conclude that, since the
practice of civility generates HV and the internal good of civility, and it links together the
generations of the living, the generations of the dead, and those of the unborn, citizens do have a
moral duty to conserve it and transmit it. Consequently, they do have a political obligation, that is
to say, the duty to obey the law.
In chapter 6, I also show how the theory of political obligation developed in this thesis matches
the requirements discussed in the first chapter.
Eventually, I add an Appendix in which I analyse the problem of a ‘conservative’ civil
disobedience, by adopting a slightly modified version of the Rawlsian framework. I argue that civil
disobedience should have the following characteristics: it has to be directed against the government
and its agencies, not against private subjects; it has to be public; it has to be nonviolent; its aim has
to be the reinstatement of the transcendental conditions of the civil association, which the targeted
law or policy have allegedly damaged; it may be either direct or indirect; its purpose should be
either the repeal of the contested law or policy, or the obtainment of exemptions for the exercise of
legal conscientious objection; civil disobedients ought to be prompt to accept punishment.
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Makovac, Marcus. "Conservative shift or business as usual? : A cross-generational study in levels of social conservatism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-403138.
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The aim of this paper is to study generational differences in social conservatism. The research centered around three questions. Firstly, have levels of political social conservatism increased in the youngest generation as compared to previous. Secondly, does the presidential era a person was brought up in, explain differing levels of social conservatism. And lastly, does the results in the previous questions change when you look within the sub-group of subjects who self-identify as being conservative. To answer these questions, this study will analyse responses to question meant to operationalize social conservatism found in the General Societal Survey(GSS). And compare responses between generational birth-cohorts socialised under different presidents. Generally the results showed a decline in levels of social conservatism between generations and the youngest generation was no exception. The role of a presidential era in determining levels of social conservatism was practically non-existent. The results from questions one and two did not seem to change when looking within the subgroup of self-identifying conservatives.
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Suveren, Yasar. "The Right Wing Conservative Politicians In Turkey: Ideological And Political Imaginations." Phd thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615763/index.pdf.
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This thesis aims to describe and analyze the politicians who belong the right-wing political conservative traditions in Turkey by the mediation of their understanding and mentality. In this framework, the study primarily intends to investigate and analyze their perceptions of political and ideological imaginations. Turkish right seems to have a quite heterogeneous structure. While the recognition of the heterogeneity embodied around the political-institutional structuring is crucial to understand the Turkish right-conservatism, focusing merely on the heterogeneity and differences is inadequate to understand the right-conservative tradition. This study aims to analyze the aforesaid diversity and heterogeneity in the axes of politics and ideology. In spite of its heterogeneous qualifications, there are some attributions which made the Turkish right-wing conservative tradition homogeneous on certain economic, social and cultural issues. In this context, the study aims to analyze and understand the differentiations and affinities among the politicians who belong to the mainstream right-wing conservative political parties by focusing on the politicians discourses.
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Abdullah, Asif Farazee Mohammad. "Resource Conservative Manufacturing : New Generation of Manufacturing." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Maskin- och processteknologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-40468.
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The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmentallegislations have put the manufacturing industry with a new challenge. On theone side, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity ofcommodities, on the other side, these demands have to be met by minimumresources and with permissible pollution that the earth’s ecosystem can handle.In this situation, technologic breakthrough that can offer alternative resourceshas become essential. Unfortunately, breakthroughs do not follow any rule ofthumb and while waiting for a miracle, the manufacturing industry has to findways to conserve resources. Within this research the anatomy of a large body ofknowledge has been performed to find the best available practices for resourceconservation. Critical review of the research revealed that none of the availablesolutions are compatible with the level of resource conservation desired by themanufacturing industry or by society. It has also been discovered that a largegap exists between the solutions perceived by the scientists and theapplicability of those solutions. Through careful evaluation of the state-of-theart,the research presented in this thesis introduced a solution of maximizingresource conservation i.e., material, energy and value added, as used inmanufacturing. The solutions emerged from the novel concept named asResource Conservative Manufacturing, which is built upon the concept ofMultiple Lifecycle of product. Unlike other research work, the researchdocumented in this thesis started with the identification of the problem andfrom which a ‘wish to do’ list was drawn. The seriousness of the problem andpotential of adopting the proposed concept has been justified with concreteinformation. A great number of arguments have been presented to show theexisting gaps in the research and from that, a set of solutions to conserveresources has been proposed. Finally, one of the prime hypotheses concerningclosed loop supply chain has been validated through the system dynamicsmodeling and simulation.QC 20111004
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Harris, Jonathan Alexander. "The conservative government and the Sunningdale agreement." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491949.
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When Westminster assumed direct responsibility for the governance of Northern Ireland, in March 1972, this was intended to be an interim measure. Stormont had been prorogued primarily due to the nationalist reaction to internment. Therefore, a major political initiative was launched to increase the British Parliament's role in the province, reform the local institutions and security apparatus, and even to transform Anglo-Irish relations. The most notable features ofthis were the introduction of power-sharing and the proposal of a Council ofIreland. The aim of this thesis is to explain this policy in detail, with particular focus upon the reasons for it.
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Stewart, Alan Glen. "Moral legislation and the conservative constitutional tradition." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0006/MQ46038.pdf.
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Vroomen, Patrick Carolus Andreas Johannes. "The diagnosis and conservative treatment of sciatica." [Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht] ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1998. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=8402.
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Mcliveen, Robert. "Conservative election campaigns: Rational, Effective and modern?" Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500525.
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Evans, S. "The agonizing reappraisal : Conservative politics 1903-1931." Thesis, Swansea University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636912.
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Between 1903-1931 an agonizing reappraisal took place in the Conservative Party, the outcome of which had a direct bearing on the character of twentieth century Conservatism. After 1900 Conservatives were being taught that they needed a new mode of political practice: the spread of democracy, collectivism, and Socialism had made their stylistic approach towards politics redundant. Continuity and change, and keeping the ship of state afloat could not prevent their world from crumbling around them. It was time to behave ideologically: the Conservative Party had to believe in something and stand up for what it believed in before it was too late. Edwardian Conservatism became ideological through the messianic fervour of the tariff reform campaign and the seething hatred of Anti-Radicalism. The Conservative Party could not come to terms with ideology before 1914 though. Tariff reform's ideological potential was drained away by irreconcilable approaches and Anti-Radicalism lacked doctrinal rigour in practice. The Conservative Party needed to de-ideologize if it was going to remain a political force to be reckoned with, but it did so in a way which made it difficult to predict the future direction of Conservative politics. Conservatives did not grasp the opportunities which the Great War and the Lloyd George Coalition gave them for re-casting their political approach. By the time ill-health forced Bonar Law to relinquish the premiership in May 1923 the Conservative Party still hovered uneasily between style and ideology. It was Stanley Baldwin who gave Conservatism a sense of direction in the 1920's by returning it to the stylistic home it had left three decades before. There has thus been no continuous move towards ideology in twentieth century Conservatism and the ease with which the Conservative Party coped with ideological politics after 1975 gives a misleading view of its ability to change its spots.
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Mohammadian, Abdolmajid. "Conservative characteristic-based schemes for shallow flows." Thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2006/23535/23535.pdf.
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Les équations en eaux peu profondes, encore appelées équations de Saint-Venant, sont
utilisées dans de nombreux cas importants comme les fleuves, les lacs, les estuaires et les
océans. La conservation de certaines quantités est une propriété importante qui est
habituellement désirée pour assurer la précision des simulations à long terme et également
pour le cas des écoulements complexes avec présence d'ondes de choc. Cette thèse
examine tout d'abord la formulation de schémas semi-Lagrangiens, qui sont bien connus
pour demeurer stables pour des nombres très élevés de CFL. Cependant, ces schémas
perdent leur propriété de stabilité lorsque la conservation totale des quantités, qui est
cruciale pour une simulation correcte les ondes de chocs, est imposée. Un schéma semi-
Lagrangien entièrement conservatif est développé ici et ce dernier demeure stable pour des
nombres élevés de CFL. L'approche proposée est ensuite étendue à la méthode des
caractéristiques (MOC) et une version conservative du schéma MOC est développée.
Contrairement au schéma MOC original, qui ne peut pas simuler correctement les ondes de
choc à cause du manque de conservation, le schéma proposé les simule avec succès. De
plus, le nouveau schéma présente des avantages sur le plan numérique, tant pour la
diffusion et la dispersion que pour la stabilité. Le cas 2D est ensuite considéré, et la
méthode de volume finie est utilisée à cause de son conservation inhérente.
Le cas 2D est ensuite considéré, et la méthode de volumes finis est utilisée à cause de ses
qualités inhérentes de conservation. La plupart des méthodes numériques disponibles sont
sensibles au problème du déséquilibre entre les termes source et de flux, particulièrement
en présence d'un maillage non structuré. D'autre part, la plupart des schémas numériques
disponibles (par exemple les schémas HLL et ENO) induisent un niveau élevé de diffusion
numérique en simulant des écoulements tourbillonnaires. Trois approches différentes,
applicables sur des maillages non structurés sont développées ici. Elles peuvent simuler des
conditions complexes d'écoulement comprenant les topographies variables, les écoulements
tourbillonnaires, trans-critiques et discontinus.
Finalement plusieurs méthodes de volumes finis upwind sont utilisées, via une analyse de
type Fourier, pour évaluer le niveau d`amortissement des modes de Rossby. Contrairement
aux bons résultats habituellement obtenus par les méthodes de volumes finis upwind dans
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le cas d'écoulements dominés par la convection, on remarque ici que les ondes de Rossby
sont amorties de manière excessive.Shallow water equations arise in many important cases such as in rivers, lakes, estuaries and oceans. Conservation is an important property which is usually desired to ensure the accuracy of the long term simulations and also for the case of complex flows with shockwaves. This thesis begins with semi-Lagrangian schemes, which are well known to remain stable for very high CFL numbers. However, they lose their high stability property when the fully conservative property, which is crucial for a correct simulation of shock waves, is imposed. An inherently fully conservative semi-Lagrangian scheme is developed here which remains stable for high CFL numbers. The proposed approach is then extended to the method of characteristics (MOC) and a conservative extension of MOC is developed. Contrary to the original MOC, which is unable to simulate shockwaves due to the lack of conservation, the proposed scheme easily simulates them. Further, the new scheme presents favorable features in terms of numerical diffusion and dispersion. The 2D case is then considered, and the finite volume method is employed due to its inherent conservation properties. Most available numerical methods face the problem of imbalance between the source and flux terms, particularly when unstructured grids are used. On the other hand, most available numerical schemes (such as the HLL and the ENO schemes) induce a high level of numerical diffusion in simulating recirculating flows. Three different approaches using unstructured grids are successfully developed here. The new schemes can simulate complex flow conditions including recirculating, trans-critical and discontinuous flows over variable topographies. Finally, the performance of the upwind finite volume schemes, for Rossby waves, is studied using a Fourier analysis approach. Contrary to the usual good results obtained for those schemes in the case of convection dominated flows, it is observed here that they lead to an excessive damping of the Rossby modes.
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Le, Metais Joanna Petra Fransisca Maria. "Conservative values and education policy 1979-1990." Thesis, Brunel University, 1992. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7282.
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This study provides a systematic description of the Conservative Government's education policies and their initial implementation during the period 1979-90. It charts elements of coherence between the Government's values and policies and examples of dissonance. By analysing the underlying values, it identifies conflicts which go some way toward explaining the apparent contradictions. Government policy reflects a marked switch in emphasis from regionalized provision to institutional provision within a strong, centralized framework which reflects a move from communal provision in response to individual needs to a market model where individual effort is intended to bring its own rewards. This analysis reveals the way in which policies apparently concerned with separate aspects of public services (structure, management, funding and mechanisms of reporting and accountability) culminated in the creation of a mixed market economy as a basis for transferring responsibility for the provision of welfare services from the state to commercial and voluntary agencies, as well as to individuals and their families. Whilst responsibility for the provision of education has not itself been delegated to parents, their involvement through choice, participation and voluntary financial contributions has steadily increased throughout the period in question. The transfer from the state to commercial and voluntary agencies is also evident in the provision of services to schools (meals, maintenance, cleaning) by commercial agencies under contract and the delegation to voluntary, lay governors of many of the responsibilities formerly exercised by local education authorities.
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Quayle, Stuart McGregor. "Intra-party democracy in the Conservative Party." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289534.
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Potash, David Michael. "The emergence of conservative Republicanism, 1908-1912." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624704.
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SOSORT, guideline committee, Hans-Rudolf Weiss, Stefano Negrini, Manuel Rigo, Tomasz Kotwicki, Martha Hawes, Theodoros Grivas, Toru Maruyama, and Franz Landauer. "Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines)." BioMed Central, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610247.
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This guideline has been discussed by the SOSORT guideline committee prior to the SOSORT consensus meeting in Milan, January 2005 and published in its first version on the SOSORT homepage: http://www.sosort.org/meetings.php webcite. After the meeting it again has been discussed by the members of the SOSORT guideline committee to establish the final 2005 version submitted to Scoliosis, the official Journal of the society, in December 2005.
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Kysylytsia, S. O. "Conservative methods of treatment of acute rhinosinusitis." Thesis, БДМУ, 2022. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/19365.
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Stairs, William J. "The Conservative Party and bilingualism 1967-1976." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29219.
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Gaudillière, Alexandre. "Fuga dalla metastabililità per dinamiche stocastiche conservative." Paris 11, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA112187.
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Nous étudions la fuite de la métastabilité pour un gaz de particules évoluant sous la dynamique conservative de Kawasaki à basse température et à l'intérieur d'un domaine bi-dimensionel de volume exponentiellement grand en la température inverse. Nous décrivons d'abord les trajectoires typiques suivies par le système, dans la version locale du modèle, lors de la première transition entre la métastabilité et la stabilité. Nous établissons ensuite une propriété des marches aléatoires dans le plan qui permet d'étendre les résultats obtenus pour la version locale du modèle à la dynamique originale de Kawasaki. Nous donnons une minoration de la probabilité de non-collision avant un long temps T pour un système de n marches aléatoires avec obstacles fixes. Par ‘collision' il faut entendre collision avec les obstacles fixes aussi bien qu'entre les particules elles-mêmes. Forts de ces résultats nous pouvons prédire les principaux traits de la fuite de la métastabilité pour la dynamique originale de KawasakiWe study the escape from metastability for a gas of particles evolving under the conservative Kawasaki dynamics, at low tempure and inside a two-dimensional box with exponentially large volune in the inverse temperature. We first describe the typical trajectories followed by the system, in the local version of the model, along the first transition between metastability and stability. Then we prove a property of planar random walks which allows to extend the results obtained for the local version of the model to the original Kawaski dynamics. We give a lower bound for the non-collision probability before a long time T for a system of n random walks with fixed obstacles. By ‘collision' we mean collision with the fixed obstacles as well as collision between the particles themselves. On the basis of these results we can predict the main features of the escape from metastability for the original Kawasaki dynamics
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Cott, Nicholas Martin. "Recruitment of Liberals into the Conservative Party." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2857.
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Consideration of recruitment of Liberal politicians into the Conservative party, in the first third of the twentieth century, is an important but under-explored aspect of the political realignment which saw the demise of the Liberal party and the rise of a new duopoly between the Conservative and Labour parties. A specific and detailed investigation of the phenomenon is necessary. This study provides an opportunity to appreciate the nature of how individual Liberal politicians reacted to changing political circumstances with the weakening of the Liberal party. It examines a range of relevant factors – both of a long-term and immediate nature – and undertakes comparative analysis of the careers of the relevant politicians, including not only prominent politicians but also less well-known ones to assist in ensuring that the topic avoids being merely a study of high politics. All findings point to a diverse range of issues which influenced political thinking about party allegiances, but broadly these relate to the growth of a shared political agenda, between Liberals and Conservatives. Some Liberals wanted positively to coalesce with Conservatives, forming relationships, both in Parliament and in the constituencies, which eventually brought them inside the Conservative party or close to it, whilst others, by contrast, almost fell into working with the Conservatives due to political pressures over time. All seemed to suffer some level of disaffection from the Liberal party, which was therefore a key ingredient in hastening their change of party.
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Smith, Simon Alastair. "Understanding the non-conservative behaviour of fluorescein." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2002. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10272005-140436/.
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Subramanian, Alexandra Michos. "Caroline Gordon's Christian Vision: A Conservative Empowerment." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625719.
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Bednarek, Antje. "Young Scottish conservatives and conservative values a qualitative study of the role of values and evaluation in young Scottish conservatives’ everyday lives." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.554297.
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This thesis presents a sociological exploration of the values that underlie contemporary Scottish Conservatism. The empirical focus was on a group of young members of the Conservative Party, with whom I carried out twenty qualitative interviews and participant observation for the duration of one year, and on their specific understandings of what Conservatism means today. The group and the ways in which the members had made the decision to join the Conservative Party indicate a great variety of socioeconomic and ideological backgrounds in the Party, which contradicts the stereotypical image that Conservatives are rich and middle class. However, as a narrative analysis of five interviews shows, class-based evaluations entailing a valorisation of middle- and upper-class values and a concomitant deprecation of the working class mark many young Conservatives' social cognition. This is being disguised to an extent, in the interviews as well as in the daily practices that constitute being Conservative. Drawing on participant observation data to describe those, I show that the annual events cycle that young Conservatives participate in contains events that take place in public settings and those that occur in the privacy of inner-Party circles. In public, the Conservative Party is presented as egalitarian, warm and caring, whereas in private settings upperclass cultural practices dominate. The Conservative lifeworld is thus a bifurcated one. It is also one marked by tensions between different factions within the Conservative Party, which I also discuss.
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Rose, I. A. "The conservative dimension of foreign policy : the Conservative Party and foreign policy during the Lloyd George coalition, 1918-1922." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358587.
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Knight, C. N. "The 'Conservative educationalists', with particular reference to the making of education policy in the postwar Conservative Party, 1950-1986." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383681.
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The Conservative Educationalists made their first appearance on the British political stage in 1950. After twenty-five years of vigorous political activity they were well on their way to becoming the most important body of individuals seeking to influence Conservative education policy. The thesis seeks to examine and explain the progress of the views of the Conservative Educationalists over the formation and formulation of education policy in the postwar Conservative Party. An historical analysis was employed to answer the main research question and the subsidiary hypotheses. Whenever possible, primary sources were used including the private papers of Lord Boyle, Professor Brian Cox and Sir Gilbert Longden, and papers held in the official Conservative Party Archive. The thesis establishes that prior to 1970 there was a vacuum in Conservative Party thinking on the aims of education (Chapters 2-3). It shows how the ideas of a body of individuals (termed the conservative Educationalists by Lord Maude in an interview with the author) came to fill this vacuum between 1970 and 1974 (Chapter 4). This body was strongly critical of the Party's existing treatment of education and pressed the Party to fashion a conservative educational policy more in line with Conservative philosophy (Chapter 5). This loose-nexus of individuals changed over a period of time but its intellectual base (preservationist/ excellence in education) became firmly rooted. Between 1975 and 1979 the actions and prescriptions of the conservative Educationalists were instrumental in the construction of a conservative educational policy premised on the notion of excellence in education (Chapters 5-6). Elements of this policy were adopted by the Conservative Government after 1979 (Chapters 7-10). The thesis demonstrates that the contribution of the Conservative Educationalists (notably the preservationists) to the making of Conservative education policy was far greater than has previously been acknowledged.
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Stewart, Graham Somerville. "Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party, 1929-37." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251584.
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Henriksson, Tracey. "The metamorphosis of the Conservative Party under Thatcher." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30679.
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In the postwar era, there has been a change in the nature of the British Conservative Party caused by the adoption of classical liberal ideas antithetical to its principles. This trend rapidly accelerated during the leadership of the Party by Margaret Thatcher who appeared oblivious to the fundamental incompatibility of liberalism and conservatism. She attempted to weld them together in her economic and social policies creating strong internal tensions within what was dubbed "Thatcherism". This clash became more pronounced as her reign as British Prime Minister continued and was part of the reason for her eventual downfall at the hands of her own party.
To illustrate the conversion of the Conservative Party to a more liberal standpoint we will consider two modern day political thinkers and the popularity of their positions. This approach is taken because their philosphies parallel the thinking of the postwar Conservative Party before Thatcher and under Thatcher's leadership. Michael Oakeshott, who fits into the conservative tradition and Friedrich Hayek, who embodies liberalism. Oakeshott's philosophy is in sharp contrast at important points to the ideas of Hayek, a self-confessed and proud liberal, whose ideas nevertheless found favour within the Conservative Party while many integral parts of conservatism, of which Oakeshott is a representative, were pushed aside.
The stridency and harshness with which Thatcher preached the doctrine of economic liberalism and ideology and also tried to retain certain conservative ideals such as, authority, nationalism and militarism constituted a serious and damaging tension within her programme as well as demonstrating the depth of the change that had occurred in the Conservative Party. This thesis seeks to point out these changes and illustrate the adverse effects caused by attempting to turn the Conservative Party into a promoter of classical liberal ideology and thereby partially explain the increasing shakiness of Thatcherism in the 1980's. Even though its leader never lost faith in its convictions or her determination to translate them into concrete policies .Arts, Faculty of
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Lillian, Donna L. "Canadian neo-conservative discourse a critical discourse analysis /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ66355.pdf.
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Sherry, Jay [Verfasser]. "Carl Gustav Jung, Avant-garde Conservative / Jay Sherry." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1022912569/34.
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Gélineau, Samuel. "Commutative composition - a conservative approach to aspect weaving." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92277.
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Aspect-oriented programming is very good at separating concerns, but a little less at combining them back together; some aspects are simply incompatible, causing unexpected behaviours when used together. To prevent such conflicts, a conservative approach is to construct sets of aspects which are provably guaranteed to be compatible with one another. Surprisingly, to establish that two aspects are compatible, it is enough to show that they yield the same result regardless of the order in which they are woven. This principle can be used to construct, extend and transform sets of useful and compatible aspects.La programmation orientée aspect a atteint son objectif, la séparation des considérations. Une fois séparées, par contre, ces considérations ne se remboîtent pas toujours parfaitement; certaines, tout simplement incompatibles, se comportent de manière surprenante lorsqu'elles sont utilisées ensemble. Afin de prévenir ces conflits, une approche conservatrice consiste à définir des ensembles d'aspects pour lesquels nous avons la preuve qu'ils sont compatibles les uns avec les autres. Pour obtenir cette preuve, étonnament, il suffit de s'assurer que ces aspects produisent les mêmes effets, qu'ils soient tissés dans un ordre ou dans l'autre. Ce principe est à la base d'une série de preuves permettant de construire, d'étendre et de transformer des ensembles d'aspects à la fois utiles et compatibles.
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Bates, Jonathan William Brennan. "The Conservative Party in the constituencies, 1918-39." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295972.
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Hoover, Dennis Ray. "Conservative protestant politics in the US and Canada." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244140.
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