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Pasi, Marco. "Aleister Crowley und die Versuchung der Politik." Graz Ares-Verl, 1993. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2657338&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Tupman, Tracy Ward. "Theatre magick Aleister Crowley and the Rites of Eleusis /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054580207.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 355 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-355). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.
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Bouchet, Christian. "Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) et le mouvement thélémite." Paris 7, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA070136.
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Le but de cette thèse est d'exposer la pensée d'aleister Crowley et l'influence de celle-ci. Aleister Crowley est un des acteurs du renouveau de la magie rituelique au 20e siècle. A ce titre il a influencé la majorité des nouveaux mouvements magiques contemporains. Ceux-ci font l'objet d'une description détaillée. Aleister Crowley est aussi un poète, un écrivain et un peintre, ainsi qu'un militant politique. Ces diverses facettes de son activité sont examinéesThe aim of this thesis is to expose the thought of Aleister Crowley and the influence of it. Aleister Crowley is one of the actors of the renewal of the ritual magic in the 20e century. He influenced the majority of the new magical movements of our days. Those are the object of a circumstancial description. Aleister Crowley is too a poet, a writer and a painter. He is too a political militant. All this activities are described
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Campos, Humberto Miranda de. "Thelema em Aleister Crowley: Magick e Ciência da Religião." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2018. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/8011.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar Thelema de Aleister Crowley, tendo como ponto de partida o livro Magick Without Tears. Parte-se da hipótese de que, pelo fato de Aleister Crowley ter experiência com filosofias esotéricas ocidentais, e por ter recebido uma educação cristã, sua concepção e estruturação dos dogmas e doutrinas apresentem considerável viés judaico-cristão que podem não ter sido descartados e sim reconstruídos e relidos. Desta maneira, a investigação se focará em realizar uma pesquisa genealógica das leituras e dos símbolos trabalhados por Aleister Crowley. Como referencial teórico, adota-se Wouter J. Hanegraaff e sua metodologia denominada História das Ideias. Através deste paradigma, pretende-se identificar e analisar pontos de diálogo entre elementos do corpus de Thelema e as variadas influências esotéricas com as quais o autor trabalhou, e que são encontrados no livro escolhido. Além disso, tenta-se explicar como a mesma se desdobra num corpo de práticas denominadas Magick, resultando naquilo que Crowley definiu como Iluminismo Científico. Culminando assim, na resposta à pergunta: Thelema é uma Religião?
The aim of this research is to analyze Thelema of Aleister Crowley. Taking as a starting point the book Magick Without Tears. It is hypothesized that, based in Aleister Crowley’s experience with Western Esoteric philosophies, and in function of his christian education, his conception and structuring of dogmas and doctrines present considerable Judeo-Christian bias that may not have been discarded but reconstructed and reread. In this way, the research will focus on performing a genealogical investigation on the readings and symbols worked on by Aleister Crowley. As a theoretical reference, Wouter J. Hanegraaff and his methodology called History of ideas are adopted. Through this paradigm, we intend to identify and analyze points of dialogue between elements of the corpus of Thelema and the various esoteric influences with which the author worked, and which are found in the chosen book. In addition, it attempts to explain how it unfolds in a body of practices called Magick, resulting in what Crowley defined as Scientific Enlightenment. Culminating thus, in the answer to the question: Is Thelema a Religion?.
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Psilopoulos, Dionyscious. "A conspiracy of the subconscious : Yeats, Crowley, Pound, Graves and the esoteric tradition." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491640.
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Clanton, Amy M. "Religion as Aesthetic Creation: Ritual and Belief in William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3718.
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William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley created literary works intending them to comprise religious systems, thus negotiating the often-conflicting roles of religion and modern art and literature. Both men credited Percy Bysshe Shelley as a major influence, and Shelley's ideas of art as religion may have shaped their pursuit to create working religions from their art. This study analyzes the beliefs, prophetic practices, myths, rituals, and invocations found in their literature, focusing particularly on Yeats's Supernatural Songs, Celtic Mysteries, and Island of Statues, and Crowley's "Philosopher's Progress," "Garden of Janus," Rites of Eleusis, and "Hymn to Pan." While anthropological definitions generally distinguish art from religion, Crowley's religion, Thelema, satisfies requirements for both categories, as Yeats's Celtic Mysteries may have done had he completed the project.
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Crane, Alfred Lee III. "Mobilizing and Equipping Senior Adults at Crowley Assembly of God For Spiritual and Social Ministry." Thesis, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10263029.
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Senior adults face a quandary through the process of aging. While enjoying the benefits of retirement, the senior adult also struggles with issues of health, independence, loneliness, and society’s stereotypes concerning their relevance and usefulness. With the aging of the population and graying of the church membership, the necessity to mobilize and equip senior adults becomes critical in maintaining a healthy church. As senior adults face an ever-changing society filled with technological, organizational, and social transitions, they need assistance in coping with and managing these age-related issues.
The project includes training materials to mobilize and equip the senior adults attending Crowley Assembly for effective ministry within the church and to the local community, thus validating the significance and relevance of senior adults in the local church. The project focuses on four ministry interventions: a four-part sermon series for the congregation, a ministry opportunities seminar for senior adults, an age-related issues management seminar for senior adult leaders, and the development of a senior adult ministries manual. Post-sermon, pre-seminar, and post-seminar surveys identify the understanding of and attitude toward material presented in the respective sermons and seminars. The project promotes a biblical awareness of the importance and value of senior adults in the congregation at Crowley Assembly and encourages acceptance of intergenerational ministries. A closer evaluation reveals the keys to the project’s effectiveness and identifies improvements for future projects.
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Albin, Irgens. "Det Stora Vilddjuret och Yogan : En religionshistorisk studie av Aleister Crowleys yoga och hans påverkan på sentida efterföljare i Sverige." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-153216.
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Den här uppsatsen behandlar den brittiske tänkaren Aleister Crowley, hans tolkning avyoga, och hans tankars påverkan på moderna efterföljare av hans religion i Sverige.Uppsatsen behandlar frågorna om hur Crowleys syn på yoga utvecklats och hur denkan ses i svenska efterföljares tankar idag. Uppsatsen använder sig av litteraturstudierav Crowleys verk, samt intervjuer med medlemmar i ordern Ordo Templi OrientisSverige. Uppsatsen utmynnar i att Crowleys tankar om yoga kan ses i sin historiskakontext påverkad av bland annat orientalism och religionism, och att Crowleys tankarfortsätter påverka moderna utövare av yoga inom O.T.O.
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Keane, Lloyd Kenton. "Magick/Liber Aba and Mysterium coniunctionis, a comparison of the writings of Aleister Crowley and C.G. Jung." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0003/MQ43310.pdf.
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Keane, Lloyd Kenton Carleton University Dissertation Religion. "Magic/Liber Aba and Mysterium Coniunctionis; a comparison of the writings of Aleister Crowley and C.G. Jung." Ottawa, 1999.
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Marino, Joseph A. "The Will to Chaos and a Dancing Star: Aleister Crowley, Neo-Paganism and the Technologies of the Selves." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392818598.
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Ottley, Dianne. "Grace Crowley's contribution to Australian modernism and geometric abstraction." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2254.
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Grace Crowley was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. When she returned to Australia in 1930 she had thoroughly mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry that had become one of the frameworks for modernism. Crowley, Anne Dangar and Dorrit Black all studied under the foremost teacher of modernism in Paris, André Lhote. Crowley not only taught the golden section and dynamic symmetry to Rah Fizelle, Ralph Balson and students of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School, but used it to develop her own abstract art during the 1940s and 1950s, well in advance of the arrival of colour-field painting to Australia in the 1960s. Through her teaching at the most progressive modern art school in Sydney in the 1930s Crowley taught the basic compositional techniques as she had learnt them from Lhote. When the art school closed in 1937 she worked in partnership with fellow artist, Ralph Balson as they developed their art into constructive, abstract paintings. Balson has been credited with being the most influential painter in the development of geometric abstraction in Australia for a younger generation of artists. This is largely due to Crowley’s insistence that Balson was the major innovator who led her into abstraction. She consistently refused to take credit for her own role in their artistic partnership. My research indicates that there were a number of factors that strongly influenced Crowley to support Balson and deny her own role. Her archives contain sensitive records of the breakup of her partnership with Rah Fizelle and the closure of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School. These, and other archival material, indicate that Fizelle’s inability to master and teach the golden section and dynamic symmetry, and Crowley’s greater popularity as a teacher, was the real cause of the closure of the School. Crowley left notes in her Archives that she still felt deeply distressed, even forty years after the events, and did not wish the circumstances of the closure known in her lifetime. With the closure of the Art School and her close friend Dangar living in France, her friendship with Balson offered a way forward. This thesis argues that Crowley chose to conceal her considerable mathematical and geometric ability, rather than risk losing another friend and artistic partner in a similar way to the breakup of the partnership with Fizelle. With the death of her father in this period, she needed to spend much time caring for her mother and that left her little time for painting. She later also said she felt that a man had a better chance of gaining acceptance as an artist, but it is equally true that, without Dangar, she had no-one to give her support or encourage her as an artist. By supporting Balson she was able to provide him with a place to work in her studio and had a friend with whom she could share her own passion for art, as she had done with Dangar. During her long friendship with Balson, she painted with him and gave him opportunities to develop his talents, which he could not have accessed without her. She taught him, by discreet practical demonstration the principles she had learnt from Lhote about composition. He had only attended the sketch club associated with the Crowley- Fizelle Art School. Together they discussed and planned their paintings from the late 1930s and worked together on abstract paintings until the mid-1950s when, in his retirement from house-painting, she provided him with a quiet, secluded place in which to paint and experiment with new techniques. With her own artistic contacts in France, she gained him international recognition as an abstract painter and his own solo exhibition in a leading Paris art gallery. After his death in 1964, she continued to promote his art to curators and researchers, recording his life and art for posterity. The artist with whom she studied modernism in Paris, Anne Dangar, also received her lifelong support and promotion. In the last decade of her life Crowley provided detailed information to curators and art historians on the lives of both her friends, Dangar and Balson, meticulously keeping accurate records of theirs and her own life devoted to art. In her latter years she arranged to deposit these records in public institutions, thus becoming a contributor to Australian art history. As a result of this foresight, the stories of both her friends, Balson and Dangar, have since become a record of Australian art history. (PLEASE NOTE: Some illustrations in this thesis have been removed due to copyright restrictions, but may be consulted in the print version held in the Fisher Library, University of Sydney. APPENDIX 1 gratefully supplied from the Grace Crowley Archives, Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library)
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Ottley, Dianne. "Grace Crowley's contribution to Australian modernism and geometric abstraction." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2254.
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Master of PhilosophyGrace Crowley was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. When she returned to Australia in 1930 she had thoroughly mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry that had become one of the frameworks for modernism. Crowley, Anne Dangar and Dorrit Black all studied under the foremost teacher of modernism in Paris, André Lhote. Crowley not only taught the golden section and dynamic symmetry to Rah Fizelle, Ralph Balson and students of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School, but used it to develop her own abstract art during the 1940s and 1950s, well in advance of the arrival of colour-field painting to Australia in the 1960s. Through her teaching at the most progressive modern art school in Sydney in the 1930s Crowley taught the basic compositional techniques as she had learnt them from Lhote. When the art school closed in 1937 she worked in partnership with fellow artist, Ralph Balson as they developed their art into constructive, abstract paintings. Balson has been credited with being the most influential painter in the development of geometric abstraction in Australia for a younger generation of artists. This is largely due to Crowley’s insistence that Balson was the major innovator who led her into abstraction. She consistently refused to take credit for her own role in their artistic partnership. My research indicates that there were a number of factors that strongly influenced Crowley to support Balson and deny her own role. Her archives contain sensitive records of the breakup of her partnership with Rah Fizelle and the closure of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School. These, and other archival material, indicate that Fizelle’s inability to master and teach the golden section and dynamic symmetry, and Crowley’s greater popularity as a teacher, was the real cause of the closure of the School. Crowley left notes in her Archives that she still felt deeply distressed, even forty years after the events, and did not wish the circumstances of the closure known in her lifetime. With the closure of the Art School and her close friend Dangar living in France, her friendship with Balson offered a way forward. This thesis argues that Crowley chose to conceal her considerable mathematical and geometric ability, rather than risk losing another friend and artistic partner in a similar way to the breakup of the partnership with Fizelle. With the death of her father in this period, she needed to spend much time caring for her mother and that left her little time for painting. She later also said she felt that a man had a better chance of gaining acceptance as an artist, but it is equally true that, without Dangar, she had no-one to give her support or encourage her as an artist. By supporting Balson she was able to provide him with a place to work in her studio and had a friend with whom she could share her own passion for art, as she had done with Dangar. During her long friendship with Balson, she painted with him and gave him opportunities to develop his talents, which he could not have accessed without her. She taught him, by discreet practical demonstration the principles she had learnt from Lhote about composition. He had only attended the sketch club associated with the Crowley- Fizelle Art School. Together they discussed and planned their paintings from the late 1930s and worked together on abstract paintings until the mid-1950s when, in his retirement from house-painting, she provided him with a quiet, secluded place in which to paint and experiment with new techniques. With her own artistic contacts in France, she gained him international recognition as an abstract painter and his own solo exhibition in a leading Paris art gallery. After his death in 1964, she continued to promote his art to curators and researchers, recording his life and art for posterity. The artist with whom she studied modernism in Paris, Anne Dangar, also received her lifelong support and promotion. In the last decade of her life Crowley provided detailed information to curators and art historians on the lives of both her friends, Dangar and Balson, meticulously keeping accurate records of theirs and her own life devoted to art. In her latter years she arranged to deposit these records in public institutions, thus becoming a contributor to Australian art history. As a result of this foresight, the stories of both her friends, Balson and Dangar, have since become a record of Australian art history. (PLEASE NOTE: Some illustrations in this thesis have been removed due to copyright restrictions, but may be consulted in the print version held in the Fisher Library, University of Sydney. APPENDIX 1 gratefully supplied from the Grace Crowley Archives, Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library)
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Barrientos, Lazcano Gustavo Daniel. "M��s que una fiesta de cumplea��os: An��lisis y representaci��n de la homosexualidad en "The Boys in the Band" de Mart Crowley." Thesis, Universidad de las Am��ricas Puebla, 2012. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/lte/barrientos_l_gd/.
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Lagerstedt, Rebecca. "Wicca : beskrivning av en religion." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10714.
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My essay is a description about the religion Wicca; laws, ethics, history, rites, inauguration and how they relate to the gods and the different seasons.It’s also about the wiccan history and how wicca have created their own history by taking old mythic stories and making them their legacy.
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Mizanzuk, Ivan Alexander. ""Faze o que tu queres": as noções de ética e moral nos escritos de Aleister Crowley em sua Thelema sob a luz da sociologia sensível de Michel Maffesoli." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2145.
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The present dissertation provides a research about the writings of the English magus Aleister Crowley (1875-1946), founder of the religion Thelema, which deal with the subjects of Ethics and Moral, aiming as such a study about the possible aspects of a postmodern ethics as so understood in relation with the works of the French sociologist Michel Maffesoli in the religious field. It is followed the hypothesis that Crowley preshaped a religious thinker of a post-modern ethics, and the whole work is developed with the objective to prove such. By the end, it is concluded that, although the crowleyan ethics does possess many of the aspects of the so-called maffesolian ethic-aesthetics, there is still the presence of a categorical imperative, his concept of Will, which is inseparable of his thoughts on ethics and moral due to the mystic nature of his philosophy
A presente dissertação busca realizar uma investigação teórica acerca dos escritos do mago inglês Aleister Crowley (1875-1946), fundador da religião Thelema, que tocam nos temas da Ética e da Moral, visando assim um estudo sobre os possíveis aspectos de uma ética pós-moderna termo assim compreendido de acordo com a obra do sociólogo francês Michel Maffesoli no campo religioso. Parte-se da hipótese de que Crowley préfigurava um pensador religioso de uma ética pós-moderna, e se desenvolve o trabalho com o objetivo de comprovar tal desconfiança inicial. Ao final, conclui-se que, apesar da ética crowleyana possuir muitos aspectos da chamada ética estética maffesoliana, ainda há a presença de um imperativo categórico, o seu conceito de Vontade, que é indissociável de seu pensamento ético-moral devido à natureza mística de sua filosofia
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Payne, John. "True Will vs. Conscious Will: An Exploration of Aleister Crowley's Concepts of True Will and Conscious Will and its Possible Applications to A Midsummer Nights Dream, Marison, and Wicked." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3918.
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In our lives we will have to make hundreds upon thousands of choices. The effects of these choices will follow us with varying intervals; some effects may be brief while others may literally last a lifetime. In these moments that we are forced to chose, it ultimately comes down to two options, what we should do, and what we want to do. Essentially, it is a choice between the head and the heart. Playwrights depend on these moments of choice, for it is the basis of almost all plays. At some point, the protagonist must make a choice, even if the choice is not to choose. In the early part of the 20th Century, a religious philosopher by the name of Aleister Crowley helped to define these choices, or as he referred to them, Wills. In essence, he stated that everyone has a True Will and a conscious will, and the path that you will ultimately follow is contingent on the choices you make in your life. Following your True Will, the path of the heart will lead you to a sense of Nirvana, while following your conscious will, the path of the head leads to a life unfulfilled. While some called him demonic (he occasionally referred to himself as The Beast With Two Backs) others saw him as a sage someone to esoterically explain the chaotic and industrial world of the early 1900 s. Aleister Crowley seemed to be one of those few men that you either loved, or hated, or hated to love. At the dawn of the 20th Century, he was an English philosopher and religious guru that made a call to arms to the general populous to start living a better life. His theories will be explained fully in Chapter One, but ultimately he wanted everyone to achieve their True Will and leave their conscious wills by the wayside. He felt that this process could be achieved through what he referred to as his theorems on magick. It is unknown exactly how the idea came to him to add the k to the original magic; however speculation reveals he might have taken from the original Greek word magikE. Contrary to the modern definition of magic (the art of producing illusions by sleight of hand), Crowley felt that his magick was significantly more complex. Pulling on philosophies from the Egyptians and the Celts along with basic Buddhist principles, he defined his magick within his twenty-eight theorems . Ultimately, he philosophized that magick was a way to enlighten a person, or, for the purposes of this thesis a character s True Will4 and to avoid following their conscious will. In layman s terms, Crowley saw it as an argument between the head (conscious will) and the heart (True Will). While the main focus of this thesis is on the tension and outcome of the decision of a character to follow their True Will or their conscious will, it is impossible to talk about these two concepts without discussing, at least in part, magick. Crowley saw magick as the practice and process to achieve True Will. This study, therefore, involves both homonyms, magic and magick. By applying this process as defined by Crowley in his self-named theorems to plays and musicals that have been defined as strictly magic, I am looking for not only the exact moment in which the main protagonists in each play define and execute their decision to follow their True or conscious Wills, but also to critically examine their journey to that fatal decision. I describe it as such because I feel that a characters fate may truly depend on the choice that they make. These philosophies are not new to the philosophical world. Other theorists such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and their relation to Crowley s theories will be discussed later; however I felt that because Crowley is the one who his responsible for rejuvenating the word magick from the Greeks in the 20th Century, I should be able to use his theories as a modern lens to examine A Midsummer Nights Dream, Marisol, and Wicked. I plan to take plays that cross both genre and era and consider not only (1) what can be illuminated using this Crowlean lens , but I also to highlight (2) any universal truths, by which I mean any ideological or philosophical ideas that appear in all three plays, that can be found in works as diverse as the ones that I have chosen. While their connection to True Will may be tangential in nature, if there are things in common in these plays that are brought to light using Crowley s lens, then I feel it is worth noting. By examining these two factors I will be able to see if critics have accurately defined these plays. My goal is to add the Crowlean lens to the already existing approaches to critically examining a theatrical piece. This lens, as defined before, is simply taking Crowley s concepts of True Will and conscious will and their link to the progression of magick within a character to illuminate the characters choices leading up to their breaking point in which they must ask themselves Do I chose what I should do, or what I want to do? The three plays I chose were done for specific reasons. The basic criterion was to choose on a basis of (1) chronology, (2) genre, (3) and magical reference5. I took three plays that entertained the religious, philosophical, and fantastical nature of what I felt best applied to Crowley s theories. Keeping in mind that Crowley interpreted his magick as a philosophy, a religion, and a way of life to ultimately achieving True Will, I felt it pertinent to explore these aspects of each play as well. In the musical Wicked, the philosophical nature of the piece asks the question Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them? This question can be answered through a variety of subjects. By exploring these issues within the context of its main character, Elphaba, (pronounced EL-fa-ba), and a variety of themes throughout this musical (including behavior, appearance, deception, honesty, courage and labeling) we find that True Will and conscious will in the land of Oz are flowering. Defining our True Will, according to Crowley, takes constant affirmations and diligent calculations of our feelings and utilizing those to aid in making the right choice for that specific moment6. In this fashion, Marisol marries the idea of what the author calls magical realism in a post-apocalyptic New York City with a fervent religiosity all while underscoring the political nature of the 1980s indigent cleanup initiated by then mayor Ed Koch. Through the character of Marisol Perez, we find that not only is the choice between True Will and conscious confusing, but it can be potentially lethal. Within the structure of this play is also where Crowley s spiritual views on True Will and conscious will become highlighted. The Lovers (Helena, Demetrius, Hermia, and Lysander) in Shakespeare s fantastical A Midsummer Night s Dream is the perfect backdrop to explore Crowley s more eccentric philosophies on magick and how these philosophies relate to True and conscious will. In essence, I plan to not only explore the choices that these four individuals make due to acts of both types of magic(k), but their ultimate consequences as well. It also must be noted that during the process of this thesis, the one overarching theme throughout all three plays dealt with Crowley s theory of self-preservation. I feel that this is innately tied into the idea of True Will. By achieving True Will, we are inherently attempting to make the best choices for ourselves. This inherently keeps alive the innate human instinct of survival. At the end of this thesis, I hope to defend that Crowley s concepts of True Will and conscious will, when applied in tandem with Crowley s concepts of magick, can be a valid lens to examine theatrical works, old and new alike.M.A.
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Bourreau, Steele Anne-Françoise. "La réécriture du mythe dans la poésie de la décadence et du surréalisme : une étude des mythes de Persée et Andromède, des Argonautes et des Sirènes dans des poèmes de Jules Laforgue, Walter Crane, Alister Crowley et Robert Desnos." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040283.
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Trois mythes grecs, Persée et Andromède, les Argonautes, les Sirènes forment l'élément commun d'une étude de la réécriture dans les poèmes retenus de J. Laforgue ("Persée et Andromède, ou le plus heureux des trois", moralités légendaires), Walter Crane (the sirens three), A. Crowley (the argonauts) et R. Desnos ("Le fard des argonautes", "Sirène-anémone", le bain avec Andromède). Qu'il s'agisse de l'illustration accompagnant un texte, du traitement de la parole et du mot avec l'oracle, du débat sur la couleur de peau d'Andromède, de l'usage fait du conte de fées ou encore de la lecture conjointe des poèmes avec d'autres œuvres et du mélange des genres, le sujet se trouve porté à la fois par la singularité des poèmes étudiés et par la variété des types de réécritures. Cette étude s'intéresse moins aux formes diverses que prend le mythe dans ces œuvres que d'aller chercher, dans le poème, les replis que lui fait prendre la réécriture. En annexe sont présentés des versions manuscrites des poèmes étudiés.
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Delay, Vincent Ray. "Improving and enhancing art education and multicultural education using technology as a vehicle." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1778.
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Ljung, Peter. "Lucifer och den performativa filmkonsten : En studie kring sataniska visioner i den kaliforniska filmvärlden." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39195.
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This study regards the influence of ’modern’ satanism on performative art in the nineteen sixties- and seventies. The methodological framework consists of performativity theory, religious visual culture and aesthetics of experimental film. The material consists mainly of cinematic work by Kenneth Anger and Alejandro Jodorowsky, as well as musical performances by the likes of Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones and David Bowie. In addition to this material I also use academic texts, dissertations and books written about the subjects themselves as a foundation for my own further analysis and discussions. By looking closely at a selection of cinnematic work of foremost Kenneth Anger, I try to show how his own esoteric and occult interests are present as a fundamental part of his creative process and the following filmworks/artworks themselves. This is also put into relationship with Anton Szandor Lavey, founder of the Church of Satan, and their common thoughts concerning ritually performed magic. By using performativity theory I trie to emphasise the interlocking structures of these two worlds in the artwork of Kenneth Anger and other artists active in the culturual ’milieu’ of the sixties- and seventies. The results indicate that the religious sphere of satanism, occultism and esotericism (and alternative modes of religion in general) was closeley inflicted with counterculture-infused film and music (as represented by the selection of material).
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Ali, Saad. "Taming Crowded Visual Scenes." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3593.
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Computer vision algorithms have played a pivotal role in commercial video surveillance systems for a number of years. However, a common weakness among these systems is their inability to handle crowded scenes. In this thesis, we have developed algorithms that overcome some of the challenges encountered in videos of crowded environments such as sporting events, religious festivals, parades, concerts, train stations, airports, and malls. We adopt a top-down approach by first performing a global-level analysis that locates dynamically distinct crowd regions within the video. This knowledge is then employed in the detection of abnormal behaviors and tracking of individual targets within crowds. In addition, the thesis explores the utility of contextual information necessary for persistent tracking and re-acquisition of objects in crowded scenes. For the global-level analysis, a framework based on Lagrangian Particle Dynamics is proposed to segment the scene into dynamically distinct crowd regions or groupings. For this purpose, the spatial extent of the video is treated as a phase space of a time-dependent dynamical system in which transport from one region of the phase space to another is controlled by the optical flow. Next, a grid of particles is advected forward in time through the phase space using a numerical integration to generate a "flow map". The flow map relates the initial positions of particles to their final positions. The spatial gradients of the flow map are used to compute a Cauchy Green Deformation tensor that quantifies the amount by which the neighboring particles diverge over the length of the integration. The maximum eigenvalue of the tensor is used to construct a forward Finite Time Lyapunov Exponent (FTLE) field that reveals the Attracting Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS). The same process is repeated by advecting the particles backward in time to obtain a backward FTLE field that reveals the repelling LCS. The attracting and repelling LCS are the time dependent invariant manifolds of the phase space and correspond to the boundaries between dynamically distinct crowd flows. The forward and backward FTLE fields are combined to obtain one scalar field that is segmented using a watershed segmentation algorithm to obtain the labeling of distinct crowd-flow segments. Next, abnormal behaviors within the crowd are localized by detecting changes in the number of crowd-flow segments over time. Next, the global-level knowledge of the scene generated by the crowd-flow segmentation is used as an auxiliary source of information for tracking an individual target within a crowd. This is achieved by developing a scene structure-based force model. This force model captures the notion that an individual, when moving in a particular scene, is subjected to global and local forces that are functions of the layout of that scene and the locomotive behavior of other individuals in his or her vicinity. The key ingredients of the force model are three floor fields that are inspired by research in the field of evacuation dynamics; namely, Static Floor Field (SFF), Dynamic Floor Field (DFF), and Boundary Floor Field (BFF). These fields determine the probability of moving from one location to the next by converting the long-range forces into local forces. The SFF specifies regions of the scene that are attractive in nature, such as an exit location. The DFF, which is based on the idea of active walker models, corresponds to the virtual traces created by the movements of nearby individuals in the scene. The BFF specifies influences exhibited by the barriers within the scene, such as walls and no-entry areas. By combining influence from all three fields with the available appearance information, we are able to track individuals in high-density crowds. The results are reported on real-world sequences of marathons and railway stations that contain thousands of people. A comparative analysis with respect to an appearance-based mean shift tracker is also conducted by generating the ground truth. The result of this analysis demonstrates the benefit of using floor fields in crowded scenes. The occurrence of occlusion is very frequent in crowded scenes due to a high number of interacting objects. To overcome this challenge, we propose an algorithm that has been developed to augment a generic tracking algorithm to perform persistent tracking in crowded environments. The algorithm exploits the contextual knowledge, which is divided into two categories consisting of motion context (MC) and appearance context (AC). The MC is a collection of trajectories that are representative of the motion of the occluded or unobserved object. These trajectories belong to other moving individuals in a given environment. The MC is constructed using a clustering scheme based on the Lyapunov Characteristic Exponent (LCE), which measures the mean exponential rate of convergence or divergence of the nearby trajectories in a given state space. Next, the MC is used to predict the location of the occluded or unobserved object in a regression framework. It is important to note that the LCE is used for measuring divergence between a pair of particles while the FTLE field is obtained by computing the LCE for a grid of particles. The appearance context (AC) of a target object consists of its own appearance history and appearance information of the other objects that are occluded. The intent is to make the appearance descriptor of the target object more discriminative with respect to other unobserved objects, thereby reducing the possible confusion between the unobserved objects upon re-acquisition. This is achieved by learning the distribution of the intra-class variation of each occluded object using all of its previous observations. In addition, a distribution of inter-class variation for each target-unobservable object pair is constructed. Finally, the re-acquisition decision is made using both the MC and the AC.Ph.D.
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science PhD
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Cowie, Jill. "Crowded complexes of diphenylcarborane." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14724.
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This work concerns the synthesis of a number of new metal derivatives of diphenylcarborane 1,2-Ph2-1,2-closo-C2B10H10, in which intramolecular crowding was expected to produce either unusual cage geometry or unexpected metal co-ordination. The (η5-C5Me5)Ir and several (η6-arene)Ru complexes of diphenylcarborane, and a less congested methylphenylcarborane derivative, were prepared and structurally characterised. These compounds are found to exhibit deviations from the usual closo geometry and in the former cases have been termed pseudocloso. Detailed analysis suggests that this distortion is accompanied by a significant loss of electron density at the boron cluster vertices. The relevance of these compounds to the 'isocloso/hypercloso' debate is considered. During attempts to synthesise a truly hypercloso carbaruthenacarborane two new compounds were prepared. In one of these the carborane dianion was found to have undergone protonation, with the metal fragment, {(PPh3)2RuCl}, attached in an exo-nido fashion via three Ru-H-B bridges. This complex apparently exists as two species in solution and attempts are made to rationalise this behaviour in the light of detailed n.m.r. studies. The identical reaction in a non-protonic solvent gave a dicationic Ru dimer with two nido-carborane cages acting only as counterions. The failure to synthesise the intended hypercloso species is discussed. Three (η6-arene)Ru-carborane complexes of increasing steric congestion were exposed to elevated temperatures. All were unchanged at 65oC with the most crowded (pseudocloso) cluster rearranging [3,1,2-RuC2B9 → 3,1,11-RuC2B9] at 110oC. This isomerisation is examined with respect to the metal fragment geometry. Attempts were made to incorporate a single {CuPR3} fragment into the Ph2C2B9 polyhedron. Although this was unsuccessful, products containing two {CuPR3} units are achieved in high yield. In these complexes one metal atom is found to be bonded in an exo-nido fashion, while the other ligates the open five-membered face. In contrast with analogous complexes of less sterically demanding cages the metals are non-bonding and are found to be dramatically slipped from their preferred positions.
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Charlton, Lisa M. Pielak Gary J. "Protein behavior in crowded environments." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1662.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in the Department of Chemistry." Discipline: Chemistry; Department/School: Chemistry.
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Hutton, Brian William. "New chemistry of sterically-crowded carboranes." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2920.
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Chapter one gives an introduction into heteroborane chemistry focussing on the areas of icosahedral and supraicosahedral (metalla)carboranes and their isomerisation mechanisms. Chapter two describes attempts at placing bulky substituents onto a 1,7-closo-C2B10 species so that upon reduction and subsequent oxidation the carbon atoms are unable to connect thus potentially preventing oxidation and allowing for easier capitation to form a supraicosahedral carborane. Initial efforts to synthesise such 1,7- bulky species, using tertiary alcohol substituents, did not lead to polyhedral expansion due to undesired reactivity. Compounds with bulky substituents incorporating cobaltacarborane clusters were successfully prepared but in insufficient yield for further expansion chemistry. Chapter three discusses the synthesis and characterisation of 1,7-closo-C2B10 species which incorporate a ferrocenyl unit on each substituent. Polyhedral expansion to form a 13-vertex carborane was unsuccessful, instead upon oxidation forming significantly sterically deformed 1,2 species with unprecedentedly elongated C-C connectivities. Chapter four investigates the redox chemistry of the ferrocenyl 1,2 and 1,7 species. The electronic spectrum of the 1,2 species were compared to that given by TD DFT calculations which suggest a degree of charge transfer. Associated electrochemistry suggests this may be a sterically-induced charge transfer within the 1,2 species. The steric deformation of the bis-ferrocenyl 1,2 species leads to a relatively lowtemperature isomerisation to the 1,7 species. This has renewed interest in the elucidation of the isomerisation mechanism of icosahedral carboranes. Chapter five details the synthesis and characterisation of labelled species with labels which can be reliably tracked upon isomerisation. A comparison of the experimental findings to the results of theoretical studies on the subject is examined. Chapter six contains experimental procedures and characterisation details for all the new compounds reported herein. Crystallographic data is listed in Appendices A and B (CD) along with structure solution and refinement details.
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Bhatnagar, Deepti S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Dropped object detection in crowded scenes." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53204.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-85).
In the last decade, the topic of automated surveillance has become very important in the computer vision community. Especially important is the protection of critical transportation places and infrastructure like airport and railway stations. As a step in that direction, we consider the problem of detecting abandoned objects in a crowded scene. Assuming that the scene is being captured through a mid-field static camera, our approach consists of segmenting the foreground from the background and then using a change analyzer to detect any objects which meet certain criteria. In this thesis, we describe a background model and a method of bootstrapping that model in the presence of foreign objects in the foreground. We then use a Markov Random Field formulation to segment the foreground in image frames sampled periodically from the video camera. We use a change analyzer to detect foreground blobs that remain static through the scene and based on certain rules decide if the blob could be a potentially abandoned object.
by Deepti Bhatnagar.
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Xu, Jingxin. "Unusual event detection in crowded scenes." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/76365/1/Jingxin_Xu_Thesis.pdf.
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Novel computer vision techniques have been developed to automatically detect unusual events in crowded scenes from video feeds of surveillance cameras. The research is useful in the design of the next generation intelligent video surveillance systems. Two major contributions are the construction of a novel machine learning model for multiple instance learning through compressive sensing, and the design of novel feature descriptors in the compressed video domain.
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Pathan, Saira Saleem [Verfasser], Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] Michaelis, and Ayoub [Akademischer Betreuer] Al-Hamadi. "Behavior understanding in non-crowded and crowded scenes / Saira Saleem Pathan. Betreuer: Bernd Michaelis ; Ayoub Al-Hamadi." Magdeburg : Universitätsbibliothek, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1053914083/34.
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Pathan, Saira Saleem Verfasser], Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] [Michaelis, and Ayoub [Akademischer Betreuer] Al-Hamadi. "Behavior understanding in non-crowded and crowded scenes / Saira Saleem Pathan. Betreuer: Bernd Michaelis ; Ayoub Al-Hamadi." Magdeburg : Universitätsbibliothek, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1053914083/34.
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Malan, G., E. Strydom, S. Schulz, and G. Avery. "Diet of nesting African Crowned Eagles Stephanoaetus coronatus in emerging and forest–savanna habitats in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa." Taylor &Francis, 2016. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1002006.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the species composition of prey caught in the forest, savanna and
emerging habitats in which African Crowned Eagles Stephanoaetus coronatus breed in KwaZulu-Natal province,
South Africa. At the 17 nest sites, the remains of 195 prey individuals were collected. The five dominant prey
species caught were Rock Hyrax Procavia capensis, Vervet Monkey Chlorocebus pygerythrus, Blue Duiker
Philantomba monticola, Greater Canerat Thryonomys swinderianus and Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus. All of
these species respond positively to urban expansion. Only eagles that nested inside protected areas were recorded
preying on domestic animals. In terms of biomass, Bushbuck was one of the dominant taxa, and the remains of an
estimated 28.8 kg Bushbuck ram was found under a nest. The surprisingly high proportion of Rock Hyraxes and low
proportion of Vervet Monkeys caught in emerging habitat may indicate that African Crowned Eagles nesting in this
habitat are adapting to a more specialised feeding strategy compared with those nesting in habitats that are more
natural. Future studies should investigate how and why prey proliferates in emerging habitats and examine the
association between land uses and the diet of African Crowned Eagles.
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Polanowski, Piotr, and Andrzej Sikorski. "Simulation of diffusion in a crowded environment." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-183392.
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Janjua, Sharif F. N. "Orthodontic treatment for crowded teeth in children." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2017. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3008064/.
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Background: Crowded teeth develop when there is not enough space in the jaws into which the teeth can erupt. This gives the patient crooked or wonky teeth and cause them to present for treatment. Crowding can affect the baby teeth (primary dentition) and/or the adult teeth (permanent dentition). Crowding tends to increase with age, especially in the lower jaw, so that only a third of adults have well aligned lower front teeth (incisors)1. Crowding of the adult teeth can also occur when space is lost following the early loss of baby teeth either as a result of tooth decay or trauma. The Cochrane Oral Health Group undertook an extensive prioritisation exercise in 2014 to identify a core portfolio of titles that were the most clinically important ones to maintain on the Cochrane Library and this review was identified as a priority title by the orthodontic expert panel. Objectives: To test the null hypotheses that there are no differences in outcomes between 1) the age at which orthodontic treatment for crowded teeth is carried out; 2) different orthodontic interventions for correcting/preventing crowded teeth against the alternative hypothesis that there are. Search methods: We searched the following databases were searched up to July 2016: Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library), MEDLINE, EMBASE. No restrictions were placed on language or date of publication when searching databases. Selection criteria: We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on any active interventions such as orthodontic braces (removable, fixed, functional), head-braces or extractions, against controls of no treatment, delayed treatment or another active intervention. The studies included had at least 80% of participants aged 16 years old and under. Data collection and analysis: Two reviewers independently extracted information regarding methods, participants, interventions, outcomes, harms and results, independently and in duplicate. The Cochrane risk of bias tool was used to assess the methodological quality of the studies. Main results: 19 RCTs were identified which included 1,101 participants. A meta-analysis was carried out on four papers, two that compared copper NiTi to NiTi and two that compared vibrational appliances to controls. No difference was found between either type of intervention. Additionally, subgroup analyses were carried out on thirteen other comparisons that revealed: there is low level evidence that Lower Lingual Arches and lip bumpers maintain space and prevent crowding, that the Schwarz appliance reduces crowding in the lower arch, that coaxial NiTi is better at treating crowding in the lower arch than single stranded NiTi and that self-ligating brackets are over a minute and a half quicker to untie and ligate than conventional brackets. No other statistically significant outcomes were found that were clinically significant, in any of the other comparisons. There were an insufficient number of studies to allow analysis between different age groups. Authors' conclusions: 1) There is currently insufficient evidence to allow analysis and comparisons between different age groups. 2) There are three interventions that are effective at preventing crowding in the early dentition that are the Lower Lingual Arch, lip bumper and Schwarz appliance. There is some evidence to suggest that Coaxial NiTi is better at aligning teeth and reducing crowding than single-stranded NiTi. An additional outcome of clinical interest was that self-ligating brackets are quicker to untie and ligate than conventional brackets, saving clinical time. Further high-quality evidence is needed.
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Markus, Karsten. "Photometry of elliptical galaxies in crowded starfields." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4423.
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Li, Yi. "Sterically Crowded Copolymers Based on Functionalized Stilbenes." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77308.
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The research in this dissertation is focused on the synthesis and characterization of sterically crowded, precisely charged polyelectrolytes based on substituted stilbene comonomers.
New sterically crowded polyelectrolytes based on functionalized stilbenes with maleic anhydride or functionalized N-phenylmaleimides were prepared via a "protected" precursor polymer strategy. The polyelectrolyte precursors readily dissolved in organic solvents and were characterized by 1H NMR, SEC, TGA, and DSC. The polyelectrolytes were obtained via simple deprotection chemistries. The use of different combinations of the donor-acceptor comonomer pairs and the alternating copolymerization of these comonomers lead to precise control over charge density and placement of charged groups along the polymer backbone. Analogous styrenic copolymers, for direct comparison to the stilbene structures, were also prepared.
Broad peaks in 1H NMR spectra were observed. There were no thermal transitions measured by DSC below the degradation temperature. A strong polyelectrolyte effect, for both stilbene and styrene copolymers, occurred in deionized water and was suppressed by adding NaCl to the polymer solution. These results are not consistent with "rigid" rod polyelectrolytes in which chain collapse in the presence of added salt and chain expansion on dilution should not be observed. In response to these observations persistence length measurements were conducted on the stilbene and styrene copolymers to assess directly the steric crowding effect of added phenyl groups in stilbene copolymers. Both SEC and SAXS measurements were used to obtain persistence lengths. The results from three different approaches, Bohdanecký, graphical and Sharp and Bloomfield Global, were in good agreement. The persistence lengths of stilbene containing copolymers range from 3 to 6 nm and the added phenyl groups increase the rigidity of the polymer chain by about 30-50%. This puts these polymers into a broadly defined "semi-rigid" category of polymers and is consistent with the solution polyelectrolyte effect observed.
In dilute solution characterization of stilbene containing polyanions, a 2-step dissociation behavior was observed for the two adjacent carboxylic acids in maleic acid containing polyanions. Stilbene polyanion solutions showed high Rh values in deionized water as shown by DLS measurements and a decrease of Rh values followed by aggregation upon gradual addition of salt. Bimodal peaks were observed in SEC measurements with the copolymer of 4-methylstilbene and maleic anhydride. DLS measurements indicated interchain aggregation as the origin of the apparent high molecular weight fraction.
The antiviral activity of the polyanion based on sodium 4-styrenesulfonate and N-(4-sodium sulfophenyl)maleimide was found to be ~50 times higher than the microbicide, sodium poly(styrene sulfonate). The early study of antiviral activities of carboxylated stilbene and styrene polyanions also showed promising results. The synthesis of methyl sulfonate ester-functionalized polyanion precursors was attempted because they can be characterized without the complications caused by directly using charged sulfonate groups.Ph. D.
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Valibeik, Salman. "Human robot interaction in a crowded environment." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/5677.
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Human Robot Interaction (HRI) is the primary means of establishing natural and affective communication between humans and robots. HRI enables robots to act in a way similar to humans in order to assist in activities that are considered to be laborious, unsafe, or repetitive. Vision based human robot interaction is a major component of HRI, with which visual information is used to interpret how human interaction takes place. Common tasks of HRI include finding pre-trained static or dynamic gestures in an image, which involves localising different key parts of the human body such as the face and hands. This information is subsequently used to extract different gestures. After the initial detection process, the robot is required to comprehend the underlying meaning of these gestures [3]. Thus far, most gesture recognition systems can only detect gestures and identify a person in relatively static environments. This is not realistic for practical applications as difficulties may arise from people‟s movements and changing illumination conditions. Another issue to consider is that of identifying the commanding person in a crowded scene, which is important for interpreting the navigation commands. To this end, it is necessary to associate the gesture to the correct person and automatic reasoning is required to extract the most probable location of the person who has initiated the gesture. In this thesis, we have proposed a practical framework for addressing the above issues. It attempts to achieve a coarse level understanding about a given environment before engaging in active communication. This includes recognizing human robot interaction, where a person has the intention to communicate with the robot. In this regard, it is necessary to differentiate if people present are engaged with each other or their surrounding environment. The basic task is to detect and reason about the environmental context and different interactions so as to respond accordingly. For example, if individuals are engaged in conversation, the robot should realize it is best not to disturb or, if an individual is receptive to the robot‟s interaction, it may approach the person. Finally, if the user is moving in the environment, it can analyse further to understand if any help can be offered in assisting this user. The method proposed in this thesis combines multiple visual cues in a Bayesian framework to identify people in a scene and determine potential intentions. For improving system performance, contextual feedback is used, which allows the Bayesian network to evolve and adjust itself according to the surrounding environment. The results achieved demonstrate the effectiveness of the technique in dealing with human-robot interaction in a relatively crowded environment [7].
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Stefferson, Michael W. "Dynamics of Crowded and Active Biological Systems." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10823834.
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Interactions between particles and their environment can alter the dynamics of biological systems. In crowded media like the cell, interactions with obstacles can introduce anomalous subdiffusion. Active matter systems, e.g. , bacterial swarms, are nonequilibrium fluids where interparticle interactions and activity cause collective motion and dynamical phases. In this thesis, I discuss my advances in the fields of crowded media and active matter. For crowded media, I studied the effects of soft obstacles and bound mobility on tracer diffusion using a lattice Monte Carlo model. I characterized how bound motion can minimize the effects of hindered anomalous diffusion and obstacle percolation, which has implications for protein movement and interactions in cells. I extended the analysis of binding and bound motion to study the effects of transport across biofilters like the nuclear pore complex (NPC). Using a minimal model, I made predictions on the selectivity of the NPC in terms of physical parameters. Finally, I looked at active matter systems. Using dynamical density functional theory, I studied the temporal evolution of a self-propelled needle system. I mapped out a dynamical phase diagram and discuss the connection between a banding instability and microscopic interactions.
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Molla, E. "Some sterically hindered organoboron complexes." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381590.
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Malan, G. "Reproductive success and nesting periodicity of a pair of African Crowned Eagles breeding in KwaZulu-Natal." Ostrich, 2005. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001000.
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The African Crowned Eagle, Stephanoaetus coronatus, is a
large raptor with a particularly long breeding cycle, even
considering its size (Newton 1979). The incubation period is
49–51 days, the nestling period is 104–115 days and the
length of the post-fledging period is contentious and varies
considerably within its distribution in Africa (Steyn 1982). In
some regions where the bird breeds biennially, this period is
up to 350 days (Brown and Amadon 1989, Shultz 2002),
whereas in other regions the post-fledging period is shorter
as pairs bred annually, even for nine years in succession
(Vernon 1984). The reason for this discrepancy has been
ascribed to environmental quality and seasonal variability,
and differences in the main prey base, densities and mortalities
between populations (Newton 1979, Jarvis et al. 1980,
Steyn 1982, Vernon 1984, Boshoff et al. 1994, Shultz
2002). Furthermore, it is unclear if the fledglings disperse
from the nesting area of their own free will or are evicted by
the parents (Brown 1966, Oatley 1970).
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Crowder, Jefferson Osborn. "Data analysis for space-based gravitational wave detectors." Diss., Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/crowder/CrowderJ0506.pdf.
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Shbib, Reda. "Pedestrians counting and event detection in crowded environment." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2015. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/pedestrians-counting-and-event-detection-in-crowded-environment(76554ebe-0c0f-4409-9905-79b2f0b62bac).html.
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Crowd density estimation and pedestrian counting are becoming an area of interest such as assessing the social effect and impact between small groups of people within a crowd. Still, existing experimental crowd analyses performed by operators are time consuming. Generally, human controllers are engaged to achieve this task, however, more and more, visual surveillance are becoming an essential need, it is a hard task to watch and study all recorded video due to the huge number of cameras being installed. Currently, image-processing field has attracted all academic and research to develop automatic counting and monitoring algorithms. In this thesis, some novel contributions in different fields are presented: pedestrian counting, event detection, and queue monitoring. Firstly, this thesis presents an original contribution in the pedestrian counting domain. In recent years, many of proposed counting techniques have used global features to estimate crowd density. In this thesis, a new approach has been introduced to replace global image features by the low level- features, which are specific to individuals and clusters within the crowd. Thus, the total number of pedestrians is the summation of all clusters, which construct the crowd. Experimental results through different datasets showed that low-level features have performed better than global features. In addition to the pedestrian counting, this thesis presents another contribution in the area of pedestrian flow monitoring through the developing of a virtual door algorithm, in which pedestrians are counted while they are passing through a proposed virtual count line. Important features have been extracted from the region of interest. Discriminant features are detected, and optical flow of these points are assembled .The proposed system assembles optical flow in the trajectory direction in a discrete group of extracted feature points. Finally, this thesis presents a novel technique for estimating queue parameters, such as number of entrance, leaving and the frequency, in order to obtain a clear picture about the queue traffic and flow. Therefore, in order to obtain these parameters, the proposed pedestrian counting and virtual door approach have been integrated together. Experimental results conducted demonstrate that the proposed system is strong to real-life environments.
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Zhang, Lei, and 张磊. "Dispersion of coughed droplets in crowded indoor environment." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47049935.
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Kite, Brett Lee. "Synthesis of Crowded Tolanes: Models for Molecular Recognition." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26433.
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The development of suitable models to study and quantify the strengths of noncovalent interactions is a major goal of our group. With this goal in mind, we have synthesized octasubstituted diarylacetylenes (tolanes) as potential model systems to measure intramolecular noncovalent interactions.
The Stille cross-coupling reaction allowed synthesis of both arylacetylenes and tolanes from aryl iodides. The Stille reaction is usually slow for electron rich aryl iodides (such as these aryl iodides that are substituted resorcinol derivatives). However, these crowded penta-substituted aryl iodides underwent the Stille coupling reactions (typically 2-3 hours) at a significantly faster rate than the Stille couplings of the un-crowded tri-substituted aryl iodides (typically 24 hours). DFT calculations on 1,3-dimethoxy-2-iodobenzene (as a model system) indicate that this rate difference is mainly due to a decrease in the reduction potential of the crowded penta-substituted aryl iodides (~ 0.4 eV lower) relative to the tri-substituted aryl iodides.
The successful synthesis of the targeted crowded symmetrical tetra ester produced a mixture of atropomers, which separated into two components with similar NMR and MS data. HF calculations on 4,4',6,6'-tetra-tert-butyl-1,1',3,3'-tetramethoxydiphenylacetylene (as a model system) showed that there are five possible atropomeric conformations. We separated the component which showed a green fluorescence when irradiated with UV (254 nm) light and grew a suitable single crystal. The X-ray crystal structure revealed that this component is the syn-syn_anti atropomer. The remaining atropomers, which show blue fluorescence when irradiated with UV (254 nm) light, were not successfully separated. Comparison of the observed UV spectrum of the green-fluorescent atropomer (syn-syn_anti) with a calculated (ZINDO) UV spectrum of diphenylacetylene, with an interplanar angle of 0° between the arene rings, showed that the observed and calculated spectra closely matched. The calculated (ZINDO) UV spectrum of diphenylacetylene, with an interplanar angle of 60° between the arene rings, closely matched the observed spectrum for the blue-fluorescent component (mixture of atropomers). The combination of experimental and computational methods demonstrated the stereochemical complexities of the crowded symmetrical tetra ester.Ph. D.
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Grove, Brandy L. "Monte Carlo Studies of Diffusion in Crowded Environments." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1418057547.
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PRIMATESTA, STEFANO. "Autonomous Navigation for Mobile Robots in Crowded Environments." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2743231.
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Acharya, S. "Diffusion through crowded environment: an md simulation study." Thesis(Ph.D.), CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 2020. http://dspace.ncl.res.in:8080/xmlui/handle/20.500.12252/5986.
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Dumont, Mathieu. "L'influence du black metal sur la composition de quatre œuvres musicales originales." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/22485.
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Ce mémoire traite globalement de l'influence de la musique populaire sur la création de nouvelles musiques d'art, et plus spécifiquement de l'influence du true norwegian black metal (TNBM) sur quatre de mes compositions récentes. Dans la première partie du chapitre I, nous exposons les aspects musicaux et extramusicaux des principales périodes du black metal afin de bien comprendre la genèse du TNBM. Dans la seconde partie du chapitre I, nous abordons spécifiquement le TNBM de la même façon. Dans le chapitre II, nous démontrons concrètement, à l'aide de plusieurs exemples, les modes d'influence des musiques du TNBM sur les quatre musiques à l'étude. Ces types d'influence sont au nombre de cinq : les caractères propres au TNBM, ses caractéristiques structurelles, les techniques d'écriture employées, la gestion des hauteurs et les techniques instrumentales typiques. Je dresse un portrait sommaire en conclusion des enjeux importants de ma musique à venir : la musique de timbre et l'accessibilité de la musique d'art à un large public.
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Bernard, Danielle Summer. "A comparison of genetic variation between Black-Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) populations from contaminated and reference sites." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4698.
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I examined genetic variation for two populations of Black-crowned Night Herons
using a 467 base pair region of the mitochondrial DNA. One population inhabits an
environment highly impacted by industrial waste, heavy metals, and urbanization; while
the other, a reference population, comes from a contaminant-free area. I observed a total
of 10 haplotypes, three of which the two populations share. One individual from the
contaminated site was ostensibly heteroplasmic. I found no evidence of significant
genetic differentiation between the two populations. Coalescent simulation results
provided evidence that both populations have undergone or are currently undergoing
population expansion. The results of the biological marker I developed showed a high
diversity for the ND-6 gene, making it a useful biomarker of population effects.
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Betuz, Naima Ebru. "Assessment Of Indoor Air Quality In Crowded Educational Spaces." Master's thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615317/index.pdf.
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Indoor air quality has become a challenge together with the global aim &lsquodecreasing energy consumption&rsquo
. Increasing insulation levels of building envelopes but implementing inaccurate building system details has caused excessive heat, accumulation of pollutants, etc. in spaces. In terms of educational spaces, the increase in complaints and illnesses due to unfavorable indoor air conditions leads to a decrease in concentration and so academic performance of students and staff. In the context, the aim of the study was indicating the poor indoor air quality conditions caused by inadequate fresh air supply in crowded educational spaces and making recommendations for the improvement. In the study, a classroom and a design studio in the METU Faculty of Architecture building were investigated. In order to examine the existing situation, at two locations of each room the temperature, relative humidity and CO2 were continuously recorded between 13 September 2011 and 24 February 2012 and air speed for ten-day periods between 26 November 2011 and 5 January 2012. The evaluation of the collected data indicated that both of the rooms had temperature, so relative humidity and CO2 accumulation problems mainly due to insufficient fresh air supply in the winter period. In order to eliminate the poor conditions in the rooms, the needed outdoor air can be provided through the inlet openings coupled with fan coils, which are in existence but not in use.
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Buttrus, N. H. "X-ray structural studies of some crowded organometallic compounds." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375147.
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Chouhan, Rikesh, and Johanes Yakoub. "How do gym brands differentiate in a crowded market?" Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-48504.
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ABSTRACT Date: 9th of June 2020 Level: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration, 15 cr Institution: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University Authors: Rikesh Chouhan Johannes Yakoub (97/04/13) (96/09/02) Title: How do gym-brands differentiate in a crowded market? Tutor: Edward Gillmore Keywords: Advertisement, Brand perception, Competitive strategies, Branding. Research Questions: How are the major gym companies differentiating in order to attract new customers and keeping their old customers? What views do customers have on the different actors in the gym sector? Purpose: The study is conducted to see how gym-brands can differentiate and survive in such a crowded market. Method: A Mixed method, deductive study has been conducted. The authors collected their data through secondary sources on the internet and through a survey. Conclusion: The paper confirmed that the perception gym companies create are the same perception that members have of the targeted gym. Factors such as cost, flexibility and family/friends are key to get new customers. By using advertising and competitive strategies to differentiate they succeed to present their perception.
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Ballantyne, James. "Autonomous navigation for guide following in crowded indoor environments." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/6316.
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The requirements for assisted living are rapidly changing as the number of elderly patients over the age of 60 continues to increase. This rise places a high level of stress on nurse practitioners who must care for more patients than they are capable. As this trend is expected to continue, new technology will be required to help care for patients. Mobile robots present an opportunity to help alleviate the stress on nurse practitioners by monitoring and performing remedial tasks for elderly patients. In order to produce mobile robots with the ability to perform these tasks, however, many challenges must be overcome. The hospital environment requires a high level of safety to prevent patient injury. Any facility that uses mobile robots, therefore, must be able to ensure that no harm will come to patients whilst in a care environment. This requires the robot to build a high level of understanding about the environment and the people with close proximity to the robot. Hitherto, most mobile robots have used vision-based sensors or 2D laser range finders. 3D time-of-flight sensors have recently been introduced and provide dense 3D point clouds of the environment at real-time frame rates. This provides mobile robots with previously unavailable dense information in real-time. I investigate the use of time-of-flight cameras for mobile robot navigation in crowded environments in this thesis. A unified framework to allow the robot to follow a guide through an indoor environment safely and efficiently is presented. Each component of the framework is analyzed in detail, with real-world scenarios illustrating its practical use. Time-of-flight cameras are relatively new sensors and, therefore, have inherent problems that must be overcome to receive consistent and accurate data. I propose a novel and practical probabilistic framework to overcome many of the inherent problems in this thesis. The framework fuses multiple depth maps with color information forming a reliable and consistent view of the world. In order for the robot to interact with the environment, contextual information is required. To this end, I propose a region-growing segmentation algorithm to group points based on surface characteristics, surface normal and surface curvature. The segmentation process creates a distinct set of surfaces, however, only a limited amount of contextual information is available to allow for interaction. Therefore, a novel classifier is proposed using spherical harmonics to differentiate people from all other objects. The added ability to identify people allows the robot to find potential candidates to follow. However, for safe navigation, the robot must continuously track all visible objects to obtain positional and velocity information. A multi-object tracking system is investigated to track visible objects reliably using multiple cues, shape and color. The tracking system allows the robot to react to the dynamic nature of people by building an estimate of the motion flow. This flow provides the robot with the necessary information to determine where and at what speeds it is safe to drive. In addition, a novel search strategy is proposed to allow the robot to recover a guide who has left the field-of-view. To achieve this, a search map is constructed with areas of the environment ranked according to how likely they are to reveal the guide’s true location. Then, the robot can approach the most likely search area to recover the guide. Finally, all components presented are joined to follow a guide through an indoor environment. The results achieved demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed components.