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Sarris, Aspasia. "Australians in Antarctica : a study of organizational culture." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs247.pdf.
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Includes Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI) and 6 item subscales adapted from the OCI as appendices. Bibliography: leaves 240-255. Investigates the culture of isolated Australian Antarctic stations using qualitative and quantitative research methods. The research also investigated the assessment of person-culture fit within the context of Antarctic station life and culture. Five studies were undertaken on returned Australian Antarctic expeditioners and the results reflect a historical overview of Antarctic station culture from 1950 to 1999.
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Liegel, Roy 1940. "Paradigms of experiencing the new in Pacific voyages and explorations." Monash University, German Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9156.
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Farley, Rebecca. "Playing explorers : the re-enactment of legendary sea voyages." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2006. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.583855.
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This dissertation is concerned with the idea of play. It argues for seeing play in Foucaultian terms, not as a privileged 'object' existing concretely in the world, but as discursively constructed in a range of intersecting and sometimes competing fields. Two orders of discourse that produce play, one explicitly and one implicitly, are investigated here for the ways in which they contribute to constructions of power. In the first, scholarly discourse systematically constructs play as a problem that can only be understood through the academic practices of reading, writing, and 'objective' analysis, privileging reason as the hegemonic way of knowing and the scholar as authority. An archaeological analysis demonstrates how this discourse constructs the academic as an external observer rather than as a player, systematically 'writing out' not only the playing subject, but also the imaginative, performative, and sensuous knowledges of play. In the second order of discourse studied here, the re-enactment of legendary sea voyages, these knowledges are privileged. A genealogical analysis demonstrates how these disparate seafaring events systematically construct a discourse of play through voyagers' imaginative performance of discourses of, for example, exploration, adventure, masculinity, and legend. Attention to the construction of power in these voyaging performances also functions to provide a critique of the academic discourse of play. Alternating chapters on scholarly and voyaging discourses thus productively illuminates the struggle over knowledges of play and of the past - but also for the authority of different ways of knowing.
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Kwong, Wing-hang, and 鄺詠恒. "Lifting the legal veil in The case of the speluncean explorers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49616237.
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This dissertation seeks to “lift the legal veil” of Lon L. Fuller’s famous legal case of The Case of the Speluncean Explorers and Peter Suber’s The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions through the application of literary theories of meaning, interpretation, writing and truth, in particular Jacques Derrida’s Dissemination and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense,” to analyze the legal and jurisprudential problems in the fictional legal cases and to trace the literary qualities of law that it has consciously renounced and unconsciously forgotten. Introducing what Peter Goodrich calls “interruption of law” (Courts of Love 5) to the reading and analysis of the two legal fictions, this dissertation reveals the way that law upholds its authority and legitimacy through language, presents alternative perspectives of understanding the nature and problems of law, illustrates the relationship of “law as literature,” and discusses the utility and significance of legal fictions and stories to the understanding of law and to the illustration of the relationship between law and literature.published_or_final_version
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Wickstrom, Craig M. "A Post-Critical Science of Administration: Toward a Society of Explorers." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1513694390316079.
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Kollosche-Houston, Sandra Dianne. "The explorers : perceptions of landscape and the indigenous people, Australia, 1826-1876 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ark815.pdf.
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Thesis (B.A.(Hons.)) -- University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, Discipline of History and School of Humanities, Discipline of English, 2003."November 2003" Bibliography: leaves 70-74.
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Lewis, Beatrice Esther. "Inventors, explorers, experimenters : how parents adapt homes for children with mobility problems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75962.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Bibliography: leaves 203-207.
by Beatrice Esther Lewis.
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Chiaraluce, Ilaria. "Tradurre il fantasy per giovani lettori: "The Explorers' gate" di Chris Grabenstein." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/7152/.
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The purpose of this thesis is, on the one hand, to illustrate the peculiarities of children’s literature, fantasy fiction and their translation and, on the other hand, to propose a translation from English to Italian of some chapters of the e-book The Explorers’ Gate by American author Chris Grabenstein.
The first chapters of this work offer an analysis of different critical studies on children’s literature and fantasy fiction and illustrate the characteristics of these two literary expressions. I will also discuss the different approaches to their translation in order to produce a translated text that is consistent with its literary genre and with translation theories. The third chapter is about the author and includes an interview on his idea of children’s literature and his opinions about translation.
The second part of this thesis is represented by the actual translation of the e-book. Firstly, I will analyze the source text, dividing the analysis in extra-textual and intra- textual and focusing on sender, addressee, time and space, function of the text, plot, structure, narrator, style and language used by the author. I will also highlight those elements that probably would be challenging during the translation phase. Secondly, I will explain the macro-strategy that I adopted during the process of translation, which can be defined as child-oriented. In the last chapter I will highlight those passages that represented translation challenges and I will show how I tackled them.
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Boehme, Lars. "The frontal system of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current : marine mammals as ocean explorers." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/687.
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Dimacali, Timothy James M. "From the sea to the stars : the forgotten journeys of the Philippines' ancient explorers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119910.
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Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-30).
Linguistic, genetic, and archaeological evidence indicate that the Philippines has been inhabited by humans for many thousands of years. By what means the earliest settlers arrived in the archipelago is still a mystery, but a growing body of evidence points to the likelihood that they possessed seafaring technology. If so, then modern Filipinos -- who are even now making their first tentative steps into space -- are heirs to a rich heritage of exploration, the story of which has yet to be fully told.
by Timothy James M. Dimacali.
S.M. in Science Writing
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Andrews, Emily Katherine 1975. "Elastic elements with embedded actuation and sensing for use in self-transforming robotic planetary explorers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88866.
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Dritsas, Lawrence Stratton. "Local Informants and British Explorers: the Search for the Source of the Nile, 1850-1875." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35306.
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My thesis describes the praxis of geographical exploration in the mid-nineteenth century through the activities of members of the Royal Geographical Society of London (RGS). I focus on the First East African Expedition (1856-1859), which was led by Richard F. Burton. Geographical exploration was intended to provide data that would allow geographers in Britain to construct an accurate description of East Africa, with emphasis on the rivers and lakes that may contribute to the waters of the Nile and ethnographic research. Earlier geographies of the East African interior had relied upon a variety of sources: ancient, Arab, Portuguese, and local informants. In order to replace these sources with precise observation, the RGS provided some prescriptive instructions to explorers based upon the techniques of celestial navigation and surveying available for field research in the 1850s. The instructions emphasized careful, daily recording of data, using instruments as much as possible. However, in the field explorers experienced a diminished ability to control the consistency of their observations due to insufficient finances, politics, disease, and climate. Where unable to directly observe, they relied upon local informants for descriptions of the regional geography. These informants had a great impact upon the geographies produced by the expedition. In order to complete a full description of the praxis of geographical exploration it therefore becomes necessary to consider the expedition in its wider context--as a remote sensing tool for a scientific society and as a contingent of foreigners visiting a region for which they have little information and entered only with local permission. I propose that five steps, or contexts, must be considered during the analysis of expeditions: contact, acquisition, appropriation, reporting, meta-analysis. These steps make lucid the epistemic transformations that must take place as explorers gather data in the field. At each stage the identity of the individuals involved are contingent upon their relationship with each other and the information they desire. The relationship between explorers and local informants was especially critical to the establishment of credibility. Even when fully trusted by explorers, the British geographers who analyzed expedition data and generated maps of the region debated the veracity of local informants. Explorers (and by extension, local informants) found that other researchers, through the meta-analysis of expedition reports, appropriated any ownership of the information produced by expeditions.Master of Science
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Fawcett, Thomas. "An investigation into the perceptions of mental toughness of adventurers/explorers, elite athletes and elite coaches." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428862.
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Haider, Maheen. "Keepers and explorers: An acculturation case study of the multi-faceted identity of Pakistani graduate students navigating US culture." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104074.
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Thesis advisor: Eve SpanglerThesis advisor: Clifton Shawn Mcguffey
The research explores the influence of US culture on Pakistani graduate students studying in the US. I investigate how the students navigate through the different elements of US culture, while adhering to their pre-existing ideals of the home culture. I examine the role of gender and inter-generational differences of the students, in the process of interaction with the host culture. I use qualitative methods and conducted twenty-eight life history interviews across the students from both F1 and J1 visa categories, while maintaining the gender ratio. The duration of their stay spans over a period of 5 months to 5 years. I argue that the students adopt a keepers and explorers approach while navigating the different cultural elements of the host culture. The explorer approach is further facilitated by a select and drop mechanism, developed by the students, as they navigate the different elements of US culture, while using the value system of the home society
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology
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Hsu, Anne Y.-J. "The lived experience of transcultural identity explorers| a descriptive phenomenological psychological study on making a life in a new land." Thesis, Saybrook University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928675.
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Transcultural migration is a growing phenomenon, yet research on the lived experience of individuals who willfully leave the security and comfort of their home nation and socio-cultural support to migrate alone as adults to a foreign nation where they do not have citizenship, do not look like the locals, and do not share the local mother tongue had not been previously researched. Marcia’s (2002) work on identity exploration and May’s existential psychological works (e.g., 1953), particularly his notion of “the stages in consciousness of self” (p. 100), served as major theoretical foundations of this research. Giorgi’s (2009a) descriptive phenomenological psychological method was used, as it aligns with the qualitative and existential nature of this topic. I interviewed three transcultural migrants and analyzed the data sets with imaginative variations to yield an essential psychological structure that describes the phenomenon. Fourteen constituents were identified: the presence of a call to adventure, an urge to defy the sense of confinement or frustration, an appetite to develop one’s potential for action in the world, indefinite and flexible migration plans, an imagined or desired horizon as the destination, commitment depending on the passion for and pursuit of growth and challenges, identity reflections on being different, a sense of extra effort or work, constant revival of earlier psycho-social crises, questioning traditional cultural boundaries, integrating cultural experiences into cultural identity and orientation, rebellion against cultural judgment-based interactions, cultural flexibility through experiential understanding, and heightened awareness of global, local, and identity politics. These findings support the existing literature emphasizing migrants’ openness to experience and interest in developing personal potential (Madison, 2009), their sense of extra effort (Moreau et al., 2009), and a pluralistic sense of political and socio-cultural identity (e.g., Ortega, 2016). In addition, the present findings challenge preconceived notions of culture, suggesting that concepts of cultural orientation, rather than racial/ethnic identity, and cultural humility in place of cultural competency have greater functional applications to the transcultural phenomenon. Some clinical, educational, socio-cultural, and political implications are presented. Future studies are encouraged to examine various transcultural possibilities.
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Lucich, Rodriguez Diego Alonso. "El papel de los escenarios en el proceso de inmersión de los jugadores explorers dentro del género de aventura en los videojuegos." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/657149.
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La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar el rol de los elementos gráficos de los escenarios de los videojuegos del género de aventura en el proceso de inmersión de los jugadores explorers. Por ello, se propuso realizar un análisis de la construcción y el diseño de escenarios en videojuegos para poder así reconocer qué elementos gráficos están presentes en su desarrollo y, de esta manera, poder determinar si contribuyen a que se dé la inmersión.
Se llevó a cabo un estudio cualitativo transversal en el que se analizaron dos videojuegos pertenecientes a este género: Uncharted (2016) y The legend of zelda “Breath of the wild” (2017). Estos títulos presentan mecánicas similares con estilos gráficos diferentes, para poder analizar cómo el elemento gráfico influye en la experiencia. Entre los principales hallazgos, se determinó que los entornos realistas, la presencia de colores icónicos y una perspectiva de tercera persona son los elementos que tienen mayor tendencia a generar la sensación de inmersión debido a la gran cantidad de información que tiene que decodificar el jugador.
Si bien se determinó que los elementos gráficos de los escenarios sí forman parte de la inmersión de los jugadores explorers, también es cierto que no son el elemento más importante, ya que se determinó que la inmersión en un videojuego puede ser generada por cualquier estímulo fuerte que genere emoción y motivación en el jugador. Por lo tanto, la suma de varios estímulos solo va a mejorar y potenciar la experiencia inmersiva.The objective of this research was to determine the role of the graphic elements of the adventure genre video game scenarios in the immersion process of the explorer’s players. For this reason, it was proposed to carry out an analysis of the construction and design of scenarios in video games to be able to recognize what graphic elements are present in their development and, in this way, to be able to determine if they contribute to immersion. A qualitative cross-sectional study was carried out in which two video games belonging to this genre were analyzed: Uncharted (2016) and the legend of Zelda “Breath of the wild” (2017). These titles feature similar mechanics with different graphic styles, so you can analyze how the graphic element influences the experience. Among the main findings, it was determined that realistic environments, the presence of iconic colors and a third-person perspective are the elements that have the greatest tendency to generate the sensation of immersion due to the large amount of information that the player has to decode. Although it was determined that the graphic elements of the scenarios are part of the immersion of the explorer’s players, it is also true that they are not the most important element, since it was determined that immersion in a video game can be generated by any strong stimulus that generates emotion and motivation in the player. Therefore, the sum of various stimuli will only enhance and enhance the immersive experience.
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Cheater, Christine. "A comparative study of the impact of European philosophy and literature on the explorers' reactions to the people of Africa (1450-1550) and (1800-1900) /." Title page and introduction only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arc504.pdf.
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Banker, Catherine Mary Courser. "A structural history of the Old Stone Hotel in Daggett utilizing archaeological and documentary evidence." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/856.
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Temp, Anna Gesine Marie. "Exploring the explorers : studying the mood, mental health, cognition and the lived experience of extreme environments in a small isolated team confined to an Arctic research station." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31102.
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Background: The human ability to adapt to extreme environments is fascinating. Research into this adaptation has been lacking in Arctic isolated teams because it has concentrated on Antarctic teams. The hazards of the poles often confine the researchers indoors with their colleagues, reducing their privacy. This deployment also limits their contact with loved ones at home. Subsequently, over the course of polar night, rates of anxiety, depression, irritability and sleep disturbance increase (Suedfeld & Palinkas, 2008). Often, the teams complain of cognitive impairments. The High Arctic’s distinctive feature is the polar bear. The presence of bears requires Arctic research station teams to handle fire arms for their personal safety. It also means that fire arms – which are highly restricted in the Antarctic – are ever-present and easily accessible at Arctic stations. This poses a unique psychological challenge for these teams which has not been well-researched. Methodology: This thesis is an original contribution to science in that it employs a mixed-methods approach combining phenomenological interviews, cognitive testing and mental health assessment via questionnaires with a team spending a year at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, Svalbard. The participants were ten of the eleven winter team members who spent the year between July 2015 and June 2016 at Hornsund (“Explorers”) and an age-/gender-/education-matched control group (“Controls”). They filled in the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised and the Profile of Mood States-Brief Version in July, September, January, April and June of that year. Cognitive testing was completed in September, January and June; it comprised the Figural Learning and Memory Test, the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART), the elevator tasks of the Test of Everyday Attention (TEA) and the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices. The interviews took place at the same time as the cognitive testing. Results: The results showed that the most stressful time reported in the questionnaires was April 2016, just after the winter isolation had ended and the sun had risen again. The Explorers reported little subjective complaints about their cognition but they performed near-ceiling on the TEA while scoring far below their Controls on the SART. This implies a dichotomy between sustained attention and inhibition in the Explorers. Their lived experiences were shaped by a struggle to adapt to the other team members rather than by struggling to adapt to the hazardous environment. The environment was perceived as awe-inspiring. Over time, the Explorers shifted their view of the team from informal colleagues to a family which they did not choose to be a member of and then, to friends. Unanimously, other people were seen as the most difficult aspect of the mission. Conclusions: This thesis provides unique insight into a non-Anglo-Saxon Arctic wintering team: the conclusions suggest that participants should receive social training to get along better and be emotionally prepared. The findings can be implemented by my research partner, the Institute of Geophysics (Warsaw) to better select and prepare their future expeditions to Hornsund. Some of the insights such as the nature of the interpersonal stressors may be applicable to space missions.
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Murray, Katie. "Memorials of endurance and adventure : exhibiting British polar exploration, 1819-c.1939." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11087.
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Over eighty polar-themed exhibitions were held in Britain between 1819 and the 1930s, a time of intense exploration of both the Arctic and Antarctic. These varied from panoramas and human exhibits to displays of ‘relics', equipment, photographs and artwork, waxworks and displays shown as part of a Great Exhibition. This period also saw the creation of the first dedicated polar museums. These displays were visited by thousands of people throughout the country, helping to mediate the subject of exploration for a public audience. Despite this, the role exhibitions played in forming popular views of the polar regions has not been fully assessed. This thesis addresses this gap. It is the first to consider all the polar exhibitions held during this period as a collective body, making it possible to study how they developed over time and in response to changing circumstances. The thesis uses a variety of archival sources to both reconstruct the displays and place them in their historical and museological contexts. The study shows that exhibitions evolved in response to changes both in the museum sector and in exploration culture. It demonstrates that, while they were originally identified with the shows of the entertainment industry, polar exhibitions began to take on more of the characteristics of museum displays. At the same time their dominant themes changed; the natural world was relegated in favour of ideas relating to the human experience of the regions such as heroism, adventure and everyday life in an exotic environment. While other media may have been more effective in disseminating ideas about exploration, visitors could find the experience of visiting an exhibition more compelling. This thesis contributes to our understanding of this distinct role that exhibitions played in presenting the polar regions to the British public.
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Brock, Stephen James Thomas, and brock stephen@saugov sa gov au. "A Travelling Colonial Architecture: Home and Nation in Selected Works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon." Flinders University. Australian Studies, 2003. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150.
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This thesis is a study of constructions of home and nation in selected works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon. Drawing on the work of postcolonial theorists, it examines ways in which the selected texts engage with national mythologies in the imagining of the Australian nation. It notes the deployment of racial discourses informing constructions of national identity that work to marginalise Indigenous Australians and other cultural minority groups.
The texts are arranged in thematic rather than chronological order. Whites treatment of the overland journey, and his representations of Aboriginality, discussed in Chapter One, are contrasted with Careys revisiting of the overland journey motif in Oscar and Lucinda in Chapter Two. Whereas Whites representations of Indigenous culture in Voss are static and essentialised, as is the case in Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves, Careys representation of Australias contact history is characterised by a cultural hybridity. In Whites texts, Indigenous culture is depicted as an anachronism in the contemporary Australian nation, while in Careys, the words of the coloniser are appropriated and employed to subvert the ideological colonial paradigm.
Careys use of heteroglossia is examined further in the analysis of Illywhacker in Chapter Three. Whereas Carey treats Australian types ironically in Illywhackers pet emporium, the protagonist of Xavier Herberts Poor Fellow My Country, Jeremy Delacy, is depicted as an expert on Australian types. The intertextuality between Herberts novel and the work of social Darwinist anthropologists in the 1930s and 1940s is discussed in Chapter Four, providing a historical context to appreciate a shift from modernist to postmodernist narrative strategies in Careys fiction.
James Bardons fictional treatment of the Papunya Tula painting movement in Revolution by Night is seen to continue to frame Indigenous culture in a modernist grammar of representation through its portrayal of the work of Papunya Tula artists in the terms of the fourth dimension. Bardons novel is nevertheless a fascinating postcolonial engagement with Sturts architectural construction of landscape in his maps and journals, a discussion of which leads to Tony Birchs analysis of the politics of name reclamation in contemporary tourism discourses.
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Fournier, Martin. "Les quatre couleurs de Radisson : explorer aujourd'hui le XVIIe siècle." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0026/NQ36268.pdf.
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Dang, Dacchi. "The Artist as Explorer: How Artists from the Vietnamese Diaspora Explore Notions of Home." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366661.
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My personal experiences as a refugee inform how I see the multiple geographical and social landscapes of Australia and Vietnam, and how I mediate a new sense of home from between these diverse experiences. In turn, this provides new knowledge and understanding of the physical and cultural terrain of both countries. Within my studio work I have used this approach to create or reinvent layered landscapes through my personal experiences and memories in order to explore how a contingent, illusive/elusive ‘home’, that has also performed the role of a mythical symbol of refuge in the Vietnamese diaspora, has been inexorably linked to identity and belonging.
In my written work undertaken as part of the process of this candidature I have also examined the ways in which narratives of personal journeys within the diaspora experience have been described in ways that have avoided the usual negative associations of ‘refugee status’, and that have instead been undertaken via a more positive approach to interpreting that role as akin to that of the ‘explorer’.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Arts, Education and Law
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Minguet, Charles. "Alexandre de Humboldt : historien et géographe de l'Amérique espagnole, 1799-1804 /." Paris ; Montréal : Éd. l'Harmattan, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36200027k.
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Catena, John, Lou Frank, Rick Saylor, and Craig Weikel. "SATELLITE GROUND OPERATIONS AUTOMATION – LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTURE APPROACHES." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/607680.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 22-25, 2001 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaReducing spacecraft ground system operations costs are a major goal in all missions. The Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) flight operations team at the NASA/Goddard Spacecraft Flight Center developed in-house scripts and procedures to automate monitoring of critical spacecraft functions. The initial staffing profile of 16x7 was reduced first to 8x5 and then to “lights out”. Operations functions became an offline review of system performance and the generation of future science plans for subsequent upload to the spacecraft. Lessons learned will be applied to the challenging Triana mission, where 24x7 contact with the spacecraft will be necessary at all times.
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Baker, Nathan. "LibX IE: An Internet Explorer Add-On for Direct Library Access." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35504.
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Increasingly, students choose to use general search engines for research rather than taking advantage of the resources provided by university libraries. As university libraries offer services such as the careful selection of material and subscriptions to peer-reviewed journals, it is important that the library become integrated into research workflows. Existing technologies on library servers do not provide the level of integration we believe is most helpful to users.
LibX is a browser add-on designed to assist research by making library resources more accessible than they are through the library's own tools. It provides a client-side interface to these library services through the web browser. This integration enhances productivity and augments the user's existing information-seeking behavior.
We extended the existing Firefox version of LibX into a browser-agnostic framework, allowing LibX services to be provided on multiple browser platforms. We created a toolbar and context menu system, written in C#, to extend the existing LibX features to the Internet Explorer web browser. The primary focus of this work is on the software engineering challenges presented in creating this version.
We also designed a new framework for web localization, allowing pages viewed by the user to be modified on the client side by rules written by LibX developers, library staff, or individual users. The framework also provides a way for these rules to be distributed, updated, and composed, enhancing the browsing experience by augmenting it with additional information. The design and behavior of this framework is a secondary focus of this work.
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Christen, Victor, Michael Hartung, and Anika Groß. "Region Evolution eXplorer." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-170159.
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Background: A large number of life science ontologies has been developed to support different application scenarios such as gene annotation or functional analysis. The continuous accumulation of new insights and knowledge affects specific portions in ontologies and thus leads to their adaptation. Therefore, it is valuable to study which ontology parts have been extensively modified or remained unchanged. Users can monitor the evolution of an ontology to improve its further development or apply the knowledge in their applications.
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Crowley, Micah James. "IN VITRO PERFORMANCE OF AN ODU 11/12 DENTAL EXPLORER FOR DETECTION OF SUBGINGIVAL DENTAL CALCULUS." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/427051.
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Objectives: Subgingival dental calculus is recognized as an important contributing risk factor in the initiation and perpetuation of inflammatory forms of human periodontitis, and its removal from diseased tooth root surfaces constitutes a critical clinical end-point in periodontal therapy. As a result, the reliable detection of subgingival dental calculus on tooth root surfaces is of paramount importance in periodontal diagnostics. A wide range of manual dental instruments have been employed to detect by tactile sensation the presence of subgingival dental calculus deposits on teeth. However, the Old Dominion University (ODU) 11/12 dental explorer is presently used by all regional dental licensure examining boards in the United States to identify subgingival dental calculus on patients. Interestingly, little data is presently available to validate the ability of the ODU 11/12 dental explorer to reliably discriminate between dental calculus- positive and –negative tooth root surfaces. As a result, the purpose of this study was to to assess, with an in vitro typodont model system, the ability of an ODU 11/12 dental explorer to accurately identify subgingival dental calculus on tooth root surfaces. Methods: A total of 108 subgingival sites on mandibular posterior plastic teeth, of which 73 (67.6%) exhibited artificial dental calculus deposits, were mounted within on typodont models of the human oral cavity, comprised of white plastic teeth emerging from and surrounded by anatomically-accurate pink silicone gingival and palatal soft tissues. Each typodont was attached to a phantom head with simulated soft tissue mouth shrouds. Sheep blood was irrigated into subgingival and interproximal areas around ii typodont teeth to simulate gingival tissue inflammation, and artificial saliva applied onto supragingival typodont tooth surfaces to further simulate typical oral cavity conditions in humans. The 108 test subgingival surfaces were then evaluated for subgingival dental calculus with an ODU 11/12 dental explorer in duplicate by a primary examiner, who was a board-certified periodontist with 30 years of clinical specialty experience. A periodontist initially educated as a dental hygienist and possessing 45 years of combined dental hygiene-periodontics clinical experience, scored all of the test subgingival tooth surfaces once as a secondary examiner. The diagnostic performance of the ODU 11/12 dental explorer, relative to in vitro detection of subgingival dental calculus, was assessed among all test root surfaces, as well as among proximal and non-proximal root surfaces, with calculations of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, positive likelihood value, negative likelihood value, diagnostic odds ratio, accuracy (diagnostic effectiveness), and Youden’s Index. Results: As utilized by the primary examiner, the ODU 11/12 dental explorer yielded a sensitivity of 91.2%, specificity of 78.4%, positive predictive value of 82.5%, negative predictive value of 88.9%, positive likelihood value of 4.2, negative likelihood value of 0.1, diagnostic odds ratio of 38.5, accuracy (diagnostic effectiveness) of 85.2%, and Youden’s index value of 0.70, for in vitro detection of subgingival dental calculus. Similar diagnostic test findings for the ODU 11/12 dental explorer were found on proximal (mesial and distal) and non-proximal (buccal and lingual) root surfaces, with accuracy (diagnostic effectiveness) values attained of 82.4% and 84.3%, respectively. Good reproducibility (kappa = 0.62) was found in duplicate scoring by the primary examiner of subgingival dental calculus with the ODU 11/12 dental explorer. The iii secondary examiner produced even better performance outcomes with the ODU 11/12 dental explorer, providing a sensitivity of 91.2%, specificity of 86.3%, positive predictive value of 88.1%, negative predictive value of 89.8%, positive likelihood value of 6.7, negative likelihood value of 0.1, diagnostic odds ratio of 66.5, accuracy (diagnostic effectiveness) of 88.9%, and Youden’s index value of 0.78, for in vitro detection of subgingival dental calculus. Similar to the primary examiner, the secondary examiner also found relatively close agreement in diagnostic test findings for ODU 11/12 dental explorer on both proximal and non-proximal root surfaces, with accuracy (diagnostic effectiveness) values attained of 85.2% and 92.6%, respectively. A good level of agreement (kappa = 0.62) was found between the primary and secondary examiners in their in vitro scoring of subgingival dental calculus with the ODU 11/12 dental explorer. Conclusions: These study findings provide important in vitro validation for continued use of an ODU 11/12 dental explorer for detection of subgingival dental calculus on dental licensure examining board examinations. The ODU 11/12 dental explorer exhibited a high level of in vitro discrimination between subgingival dental calculus-positive and calculus-negative tooth root surfaces in a typodont model system with experienced periodontist examiners. The ODU 11/12 dental explorer performed with a similar high level of diagnostic accuracy on both proximal and non-proximal tooth root surfaces, and exhibited good reproducibility in duplicate assessments made by the primary examiner, and showed good agreement between evaluations made by the primary and secondary examiners. Based on these in vitro findings, routine clinical utilization of the ODU 11/12 dental explorer in dental practice for the detection of subgingival dental calculus is recommended.
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Mohlin, Andreas. "Framtagning av lämplig teknologi för konvertering av VBA-applikation till Internet Explorer." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Informatik, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-1385.
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Företaget GUTAB använder idag en frågeanalysmodul som är utvecklat i Visual Basic for Applications i Microsoft Excel. GUTAB fann det intressant att veta om modulen kunde konverteras till webbläsaren Internet Explorer samt vilken teknologi som var lämplig för detta. GUTAB var även intresserade av att veta vilken teknologi som kunde användas för att skapa grafiska manipulerbara objekt.En skrivbordsundersökning genomfördes som omfattade teknologierna ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, ActiveX samt Java applets. Skrivbordsundersökningen utgjordes av två delar där den första delen redogjorde för de två klientbaserade teknologierna ActiveX och Java applets med vilka grafiska manipulerbara objekt kunde realiseras. GUTAB ansåg att ActiveX program var mest lämpliga för detta ändamål.Baserat på skrivbordsundersökningens andra del bestämde GUTAB att ASP och ASP.NET skulle användas för att testa teknologiernas kapacitet att konvertera programlogik samt grafiska objekt från VBA-applikationen i en webbapplikation då dessa två teknologier ansågs som mest lämpliga för en konvertering.Testet som genomfördes visade att det var fullt möjligt att konvertera utvald funktionalitet med båda teknologierna. Dock kunde inte grafiska objekt skapas i asp varför befintliga objekt användes för det ändamålet. Många fördelar identifierades med ASP.NET varför GUTAB beslutade att ASP.net var den mest lämpliga teknologin att använda vid en eventuell konvertering.
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Vaught, Andrew. "Across the Great Divides: An Exploratory Tryptich." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2282.
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Knox-Shaw, Peter. "The explorer in English fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22436.
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Although there have been a number of critical works on the novel given over to topics such as adventure, colonization or the politics of the frontier, a comparative study of novels in which an encounter with unknown territory holds central importance has till now been lacking. My aim in this thesis is to analyse and relate a variety of texts which show representatives of a home culture in confrontation with terra incognita or unfamiliar peoples. There is, as it turns out, a strong family resemblance between the novels that fall into this category whether they belong, like Robinson Crusoe, Coral Island or Lord of the Flies, to the "desert island" tradition where castaways have exploration thrust upon them or present, as in the case of Moby Dick, The Lost World or Voss, ventures deliberately undertaken. There are frequent indications, too, that many of the novelists in question are aware of working within a particular, subsidiary genre. This means, in sum, even when it comes to texts as culturally remote as, say, Captain Singleton and Heart of Darkness that there is firm ground for comparison. The emphasis of this study is, in consequence, historical as well as critical. In order to show that many conventions which are recurrent in the fiction inhere in the actual business of coming to grips with the unknown, I begin with a theoretical introduction illustrated chiefly from the writings of explorers. Travelogues reveal how large a part projection plays in every rendering of unvisited places. So much is imported that one might hypothesize, for the sake of a model, a single locality returning a stream of widely divergent images over the lapse of years. In effect it is possible to demonstrate a shift of cultural assumptions by juxtaposing, for example, a passage that tricks out a primeval forest in all the iconography of Eden with one written three centuries later in which - from essentially the same scene - the author paints a picture of Malthusian struggle and survival of the fittest. And since the explorer is not only inclined to embody his image of the natural man in the people he meets beyond the frontiers of his own culture, but is likely also to read his own emancipation from the constraints of polity in terms of a return to an underlying nature, the concern with genesis is one that recurs with particular persistence in texts dealing with exploration. With varying degrees of awareness novelists have responded, ever since Defoe, to the idea that the encounter with the unfamiliar mirrors the identity of the explorer. Their presentations of terra incognita register the crucial phases of social history - the institution of mercantilism, the rise and fall of empire - but generally in relation to psychological and metaphysical questions of a perennial kind. The nature of man is a theme that proves, indeed, remarkably tenacious in these works, for a reason Lawrence notes in Kangaroo: "There is always something outside our universe. And it is always at the doors of the innermost, sentient soul".
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Söderström, Harald, and Oscar Ingels. "Automatisk kursreflektionsanalys med Gavagai Explorer." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-300057.
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Att sammanställa och analysera kvalitativ data är tids och resurskrävande. Vid många universitet är det praxis att efter en kursomgång samla in data på vad studenter tyckte om kursen i en enkät bestående av både kvantitativa och kvalitativa frågor. Kvantitativa svar är enkla att sammanfatta, medan de kvalitativa svaren behöver läsas igenom; ibland flera gånger och helst av samma person. Det är därför av intresse att kunna effektivisera analysen av dessa kvalitativa svar, särskilt i de fall då de kvalitativa svaren är väldigt många. Sådant är fallet med kursreflektioner i fritext på högskolor och universitet. I denna rapport ämnar vi därför att svara på frågan: Skulle de teman, åsikter och semantiska värden extraherade från automatisk semantisk textanalys av studenters reflektionstexter kunna användas till att underlätta innehållsanalysen av dessa texter? Explorer är ett program utvecklat av företaget Gavagai som utför en interaktiv semantisk analys på en datakälla. För att besvara ovan nämnda fråga har vi undersökt till vilken grad programmet Explorer kan göra korrekta semantiska klassificeringar när den får studenters kursreflektioner som indata. Programmet fastställer sin slutsats genom att extrahera vanligt förekommande teman ur textdatan och sedan analysera hur sentimenten är kring dessa teman. Vi använde Explorer på kursreflektionstexter som studenter vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan skrev i kursen DM1587 Programintegrerande kurs i medieteknik om kursen DT1130 Spektrala transformer. DM1587 är en metakurs där studenter reflekterar om kurser de har läst under föregående period. Från de 55 texter som analyserades av Explorer identifierades 9 relevanta teman och 467 semantiska uttryck. Av dessa semantiska uttryck fann vi att 135 av dessa var felklassificerade sett till semantiskt värde. Under arbetets gång uppenbarade det sig att oavsett den semantiska klassificeringens precision behöver det göras fler undersökningar som söker att ta reda på nyttan i en semantisk analys av denna typ av texter. Framtida undersökningar bör göras med intressenter till dessa kursanalyser i fokus för att vidare fastställa huruvida program som Explorer kan nyttjas för att effektivisera analysen av kvalitativa svar.To compile and analyse qualitative data takes a lot of time and resources. A common practice at several universities is to, towards the end of each course, collect data of what the students thought about the course through a questionnaire consisting of both quantitative and qualitative questions. Quantitative answers are easy to compile, while the qualitative answers require to be read; sometimes more than once and preferably by the same person. Therefore, it would be of interest to improve the analysis of such qualitative answers, especially in the cases where there is a large number of qualitative answers. Such is the case with open answer course reflections at universities. Thus, in this report we intend to answer the following question: Would the themes, opinions and semantic values extracted from automatic semantic analysis of student course reflections be of use when analysing the content of these texts? Explorer is a program developed by the company Gavagai and performs automatic semantic analysis on a datasource. To answer the question above we have investigated to what degree the program Explorer can do correct semantic classifications with student course reflections as input. The program assesses its conclusion by extracting common topics in the text data and then analysing the sentimental values regarding those topics. We used Explorer on course reflection texts that students at the Royal Institute of Technology wrote in the course DM1587 Program Integrating Course in Media Technology about the course DT1130 Spectral Transformations. DM1587 is a meta course where students reflect on courses they have studied during the previous period. From the 55 texts analysed by Explorer where 9 relevant themes identified and 467 semantic expressions. Amongst the semantic expressions we found that 135 of them were of incorrect semantic classification. Throughout our study it became apparent that regardless of how precise the semantic classifications were, further research is necessary that seeks the need of semantic analysis of this type of texts. Future studies should be done focusing on the stakeholders of these course analyses to further assess if a program like Explorer could be of use to improve the analysis of qualitative answers.
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Walshaw, Trevor Stansfield. "Roberto Gerhard : explorer and synthesist." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2013. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/23510/.
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There is a general perception that Gerhard’s late, modernist, style was due to a radical change of direction around the time of his First Symphony. This thesis argues that in fact several important elements integral to this ’new’ style are traceable in works as early as Dos apunts and Seven Haiku of 1921-22, and that during the intervening years Gerhard was exploring, expanding and accumulating the techniques which eventually enabled him to realise the potential of his sonic imagination. The first part of the thesis will discuss Gerhard’s origins in early twentieth century Catalonia, during the Catalan revival, with its modernisme and noucentisme, and the way in which these factors are reflected in his attitudes. In the second section the works selected will be placed in a biographical and musical context and analysed in order to demonstrate three aspects of his works. The first is that Gerhard approached each one as a separate exercise, using different methods in the most appropriate manner and disregarding questions of dogma. The second, that many of these techniques originate in the practices of the preceding generation, particularly Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Pedrell and Bartók, in addition to absorbing and applying significant elements from Catalan and Spanish traditional music. Comparators will be cited to demonstrate these facts. The final intent is to show that as the methods are applied they are explored and expanded to meet his own particular requirements and the resulting synthesis equipped him to realise their potential in his late style, fully exploited for the first time in the first movement of the First Symphony. This thesis deals with compositions preceding this work in order to demonstrate that despite the apparently disparate nature of Gerhard’s output between 1921 and 1953 there is a consistent attitude in his approach extending into the later stages of his life.
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Ronchi, Alexandra Sibertin-Blanc Daniel. "L'adolescent " voyageur " rompre, explorer, exister /." [S.l] : [s.n], 2005. http://www.scd.uhp-nancy.fr/docnum/SCDMED_T_2005_RONCHI_ALEXANDRA.pdf.
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Savalle, Caroline. "Premiers contacts entre britanniques et indiens d'Amérique du Nord et conséquences sur leurs modes de vie respectifs." Thesis, Tours, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOUR2017/document.
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Ce travail s’attache à étudier les conséquences qu’ont eu les contacts entre Britanniques et populations amérindiennes sur le mode de vie de ces deux populations dès leur première rencontre. L’idée reçue veut que seuls les Britanniques aient laissé (et lourdement) leur empreinte sur le sol et les peuples qu’ils ont rencontrés à leur arrivée sur le nouveau continent. Or le sujet est ici plutôt celui d’une influence réciproque dans une certaine mesure, au vu de données archéologiques, historiques et ethnohistoriques. Les angles d’étude choisis sont les habitudes et comportements liés directement ou non à l’alimentation (comment se procuraient-ils leur nourriture, comment la cuisinaient-ils, la partageaient-ils, quels liens sociaux découlaient de ces procédés,… ?), les différences culturelles et les rapports aux autres (autres tribus, colons originaires d’autres nations européennes…) qu’ils soient amicaux ou hostiles, diplomatiques ou économiquesThis study investigates the consequences that contacts between British people and Native American populations had on their respective ways of life. There is a widespread cliché in people’s minds according to which only British people would have had (heavily) left their marks on the North American ground and peoples that they encountered. Nevertheless, and contrarily to this idea, we shall tackle here their reciprocal influence, that is the way in which Native tribes also deeply impacted British colonists’ everyday life in the New World. We were able to witness such an influence thanks to archaeological, historical and ethnohistorical evidence. Various angles of study were chosen for this paper: the cultural habits and behaviors directly or indirectly linked to food (how did people have access to food supplies? How were foodstuffs prepared or cooked? Were food and/or meals shared? Which social links and practices -if any- derived from such habits?...). We shall also have to present to the audience what Native people’s connections and attitudes towards other tribes, or colonists from different European nations, were. And these could have been friendly, diplomatic, economical or even hostile relationships, implying political management and thinking ahead of taking actions, which was commonly omitted in the past
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Steigerwald, Heinrich Maria. "Explorer la physique de l'accélération cosmique." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM4708/document.
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L'expansion accélérée de l'univers est devenu un fait établi que personne ne pouvait prévoir il y a encore une vingtaine d'années. Pour expliquer l'accélération cosmique, l'univers doit être composé de $75%$ d'énergie noire, une matière hypothétique à pression négative. Une alternative aussi vertigineuse consiste à modifier la relativité générale d'Einstein à l'échelle cosmique.Mes travaux de thèse portent sur la contrainte des modèles d'énergie noire et de gravité modifiée avec les données observationnelles provenant de la croissance linéaire des structures cosmologiques. Une méthode basée sur une nouvelle paramétrisation de l'index de croissance des perturbations linéaires cosmologiques permet d'analyser un grand nombre de modèles "accélératoires" en même temps. Nous avons évalué et validé cette méthode par une analyse systématique de sa précision et de sa performance. Mes résultats montrent que le modèle standard de la cosmologie (le modèle $Lambda$CDM) reste en accord avec les données actuelles. Dans une étude approfondie, nous simulons les contraintes possibles avec les futures sondes cosmologiques de "précision" comme Euclid. Pour analyser encore plus de modèles en même temps, nous introduisons la théorie effective des champs de l'énergie noire (EFT) dans le formalisme développé auparavant. La EFT est un formalisme prometteur qui permet d'explorer d'une manière complète tous les modèles gravitationnels non-standards résultant de l'addition d'un degré de liberté supplémentaire dans l'équation d'Einstein. Nous proposons une paramétrisation de cette théorie que nous confrontons avec les données actuelles et futuresThe accelerated expansion of the universe has become an established fact that nobody could foresee until twenty years ago. To explain the cosmic acceleration, the universe must be composed by $75%$ of dark energy, a hypothetical form of matter with negative pressure. Alternatively, Einstein's field equation must be modified on cosmic scales. During my thesis I have worked on the constraint of dark energy and modified gravity models with data coming from the observed growth rate of cosmic structures. We have introduced a method based on a new parametrization of the growth index of linear cosmological perturbations. An advantage is the possibility of a concurrent analysis of multiple accelerating models. We have evaluated and validated the method in a systematic precision and performance check. My results show that the standard model of cosmology (the $Lambda$CDM model) remains consistent with current data. In an ongoing study, we have simulated future constraints for upcoming cosmological 'precision' probes like Euclid.In a second step, we introduce the effective field theory of dark energy (EFT) into our formalism. The EFT is a promising framework that allows to explore in a complete way all non-standard gravitational models that result from adding one degree of freedom in Einstein's field equation. Another advantage is its neat split of background and perturbation observables. We propose a parametrization of the EFT that we confront with current and simulated future constraints
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Brentzel, Kelvin, and Nicholas Speciale. "Small Explorer Project (SMEX) Telemetry Processing Systems." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611841.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1993 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaThe Small Explorer (SMEX) Program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is the first set of Goddard missions to employ Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) recommended standards(1)(2) for telemetry data transmission. These international standards form the basis for much of NASA's future telemetry data system development. The GSFC's Data Systems Technology Division (DSTD) has been heavily involved with the development of systems for both flight and ground system application of these standards since 1985 (3). The result of this effort is the development of an approach which provides basic subsystem and system solutions which meet these standards. Based on this approach, a number of generic telemetry processing systems have been adapted to meet applications for the SMEX Program. Some of these applications include: the initial capture, processing, and distribution of CCSDS data for the integration and testing of the SMEX spacecraft before launch; the ground station data acquisition, processing, and transmission; local science data distribution; and other applications involving ground system testing and verification. The purpose of this paper is to describe a number of these applications and to show how generic system elements were configured and adapted to meet all of the requirements for these applications.
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Malmström, Bonnie, and Philip Teveldal. "Forensic analysis of the ESE database in Internet Explorer 10." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för Informationsvetenskap, Data– och Elektroteknik (IDE), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23248.
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With Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft changed the way of storing web related information. Instead of the old index.dat files, Internet Explorer 10 uses an ESE database called WebCacheV01.dat to maintain its web cache, history and cookies. This database contains a wealth of information that can be of great interest to a forensic investigator. This thesis explores the structure of the new database, what information it contains, how it behaves in different situations, and also shows that it is possible to recover deleted database records – even when the InPrivate browsing mode has been used.
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Wickham, Mark E. "On-Board Spacecraft Time-Keeping Mission System Design and Verification." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608549.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, CaliforniaSpacecraft on-board time keeping, to an accuracy better than 1 millisecond, is a requirement for many satellite missions. Scientific satellites must precisely "time tag" their data to allow it to be correlated with data produced by a network of ground and space based observatories. Multiple vehicle satellite missions, and satellite networks, sometimes require several spacecraft to execute tasks in time phased fashion with respect to absolute time. In all cases, mission systems designed to provide a high accuracy on-board clock must necessarily include mechanisms for the determination and correction of spacecraft clock error. In addition, an approach to on-orbit verification of these mechanisms may be required. Achieving this accuracy however need not introduce significant mission cost if the task of maintaining this accuracy is appropriately distributed across both the space and ground mission segments. This paper presents the mission systems approaches taken by two spacecraft programs to provide high accuracy on-board spacecraft clocks at minimum cost. The first, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) program demonstrated the ability to use the NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) mission environment to maintain an on-board spacecraft clock to within 100 microseconds of Naval Observatory Standard (NOS) Time. The second approach utilizes an on-board spacecraft Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver as a time reference for spacecraft clock tracking which is facilitated through the use of Fairchild's Telemetry and Command Processor (TCP) spacecraft Command & Data Handling Subsystem Unit. This approach was designed for a future Shuttle mission requiring the precise coordination of events among multiple space-vehicles.
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Teo, Leonghwee. "Modeling Goal-Directed User Exploration in Human-Computer Interaction." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2011. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/681.
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Designing user-interfaces so that first-time or infrequent users can accomplish their goals by exploration has been an enduring challenge in Human-Computer Interaction. Iterative user-testing is an effective but costly method to develop user-interfaces that support use through exploration. A complementary method is to use modeling tools that can generate predictions of user exploration given a user-interface and a goal description. Recent computational models of goal-directed user exploration have focused on predicting user exploration of websites and demonstrated how predictions can inform user-interface design. These models employ the common concepts of label following and information scent: that the user's choice is partly determined by the semantic relevance between the user's goal and the options presented in the user-interface. However, in addition to information scent, other factors including the layout position and grouping of options in the user-interface also affect user exploration and the likelihood of success. This dissertation contributes a new model of goal-directed user exploration, called CogTool- Explorer, which considers the layout position and the grouping of options in the user-interface in concert with a serial evaluation visual search process and information scent. Tests show that predictions from CogTool-Explorer match participant data better than alternative models that do not consider layout position and grouping. This dissertation work has also integrated the CogTool- Explorer model into an existing modeling tool, called CogTool, making it easier for other researchers and practitioners to setup and generate predictions of likely user exploration paths and task performance using CogTool-Explorer.
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Bezecný, Adam. "Podpora vývoje softwaru ve Visual Studiu 2005." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-397.
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Diplomová práce popisuje vývoj softvéru na platformě Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS). Práce klade důraz především na popis funkcionality umožňující efektivní týmovou spolupráci a na popis nových inovativních rysů. Práce nepopisuje pouze pozitivní rysy produktu, identifikuje také základní nedostatky současné verze, na základě zkušeností vývojových týmů používajících VSTS a subjektivních názorech autora.
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Valoušek, Filip. "HTML 5 a CSS 3." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-74728.
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HTML 5 and CSS 3 are basic languages, without which today exists in principle any web presentation. Currently, there are in development new versions of these languages, HTML 5 and CSS 3, which gradually begin to be implemented in new versions of most popular browsers. The objective of this thesis is to present an overview of new elements in these languages and the main differences unlike previous versions. Thesis also includes a practical demonstration, in which the new properties are presented. On this practical demonstration was also made the test of support of new elements in four different browsers and results of this test are also part of this thesis.
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Foltz, Mark A. (Mark Alan) 1975. "Dr. Jones : a software design explorer's crystal ball." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38454.
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Most of software design is redesign. Redesign in the normal course of design happens when the software becomes difficult to maintain and the problem it is intended to solve has changed. Although software redesign is necessary, frequent, and pervasive, there is a dearth of tools that help programmers do it. Instead, programmers primarily use pen and paper, away from the computer where tools could help the most. To address this shortcoming, I have developed DR. JONES, a redesign assistant for Java programs. DR. JONES diagrams the class structure of a Java program and allows the programmer to modify that design by applying refactorings. Refactorings are localized patterns of structural change intended to improve a program's design, without changing its observable behavior. With DR. JONES, the programmer can explore the design space of the program, inspect future designs as visual diagrams, and get design assistance to guide his refactoring choices. As the programmer explores designs, DR. JONES explicitly maps the design space he traverses. This map lets him revisit any prior design and branch to explore an alternative design path, without having to explicitly manage versions of the program. DR. JONES is distinguished from other refactoring tools by separating the tasks of developing an improved design through design exploration from transforming the source code to execute design changes. It does so by deriving and using an abstract representation of the program that captures the essential information needed for design exploration, while omitting its source-level details.
(cont.) DR. JONES also characterizes refactorings in a novel manner suitable for interactive design exploration. Twenty-two such refactorings are incorporated into the DR. JONES prototype. This research also contributes user interface techniques for software design exploration, including multiple-level-of detail rendering for software design diagrams, and a dialogue management interface for DR. JONES' design assistance.
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Gupta, David (David Gregg) 1969. "Some tiling moves explored." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50012.
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Knapp, Christian. "Creating Music Visualizations in a Mandelbrot Set Explorer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-21135.
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The aim of this thesis is to implement a Mandelbrot Set Explorer that includes the functionality to create music visualizations. The Mandelbrot set is an important mathematical object, and the arguably most famous so called fractal. One of its outstanding attributes is its beauty, and therefore there are several implementations that visualize the set and allow it to navigate around it. In this thesis methods are discussed to visualize the set and create music visualizations consisting of zooms into the Mandelbrot set. For that purpose methods for analysing music are implemented, so user created zooms can react to the music that is played. Mainly the thesis deals with problems that occur during the process of developing this application to create music visualizations. Especially problems concerning performance and usability are focused. The thesis will reveal that it is in fact possible to create very aesthetically pleasing music visualizations by using zooms into the Mandelbrot set. The biggest drawback is the lack in performance, because of the high computation effort, and therefore the difficulties in rendering the visualization in real-time.
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Dunn, Jay Patrick. "Intrinsic Absorption with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/phy_astr_diss/21.
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We present a survey of 72 Seyfert galaxies and quasars observed by the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE). Our survey is the largest to date searching for intrinsic UV absorption with high spectral resolution, and is the first step toward a more comprehensive study of intrinsic absorption in low-redshift AGN. We have determined that 72 of 253 available active galactic nuclei (AGN) are viable targets for detection of intrinsic absorption lines. We examined these spectra for signs of intrinsic absorption in the O VI doublet (lambda lamdba 1031.9, 1037.6) and Lyman beta (lambda 1025.7). The fraction of Seyfert 1 galaxies and low-redshift quasars at z<0.15 that show evidence of intrinsic UV absorption is ~50, which is slightly lower than Crenshaw et al. found (60%) based on a smaller sample of C IV absorption in Seyfert 1 galaxies observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The intrinsic absorption lines are mostly blueshifted with respect to the rest frame of the galaxy, indicating outflow of ionized gas from the AGN. With this new fraction we find a global covering factor of the absorbing gas with respect to the central nucleus of ~0.4. We also provide a deeper analysis of the intrinsic absorption features we found in 35 objects. We have characterized the relation between luminosity and velocity, and examined the relationships between equivalent width, full width at half maximum, velocity and continuum flux. The luminosity/velocity correlation has been explored previously by Laor & Brandt (2002), but at a significantly higher redshift and heavily weighted by Broad Absorption Line quasars. Our survey is for lower redshift and lower luminosity objects, mostly Seyfert galaxies. We have also explored each object with multiple observations for variablity in each of the aforementioned quantities and characterized the variation of equivalent width with continuum flux. Variability for low-z AGN has been seen in the past. In our survey, we find that variability of O VI (lambda lambda 1032, 1038) is less common than for the UV doublets of C IV and N V seen at longer wavelengths, because the O VI absorption is usually saturated. Lyman beta absorption variability is more frequent. In the target-by-target examination we find that Broad Absorption Line (BAL) features and Narrow Absorption Line (NAL) features are related, in that they follow a single relationship between the maximum outflow velocity and the AGN luminosity, and both can be exhibited in similar luminosity objects. IRAS F22456-5125 is one particular Seyfert galaxy that we have selected for modelling due to its interesting assortment of intrinsic absorption lines. It shows a system of five individual kinematic components of absorption features in both O VI lines and in several of the Lyman series lines. We find that each of the components are relatively simple to model and appear to be weak in the X-ray.
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Karlsson, Svante. "Power Transformer Monitoring and Diagnosis using Transformer Explorer." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för teknikvetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-280958.
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Power transformers are one of the most expensive and vital components in the power system. A sudden failure could be a very costly process for both the transformer owner and the society. Several monitoring and diagnostic techniques have been developed over the last decades to detect incipient transformer problems at an early stage, so that planned outages for maintenance and reparation can be carried out in time. However, the majority of these methods are only secondary indicators which do not address the transformers fundamental function: to transfer electric energy between different voltage levels with turn ratio, short-circuit impedance and power loss within acceptable limits. Transformer Explorer is a concept developed by ABB which utilizes ordinary current and voltage signals available in the substation to extract transformer fundamental parameters such as: turn ratio, magnetizing current, impedance and power loss, which has significant diagnostic value. By estimating these parameters the method should be able to detect a number of problems related to the windings and the magnetic circuit of the transformer. Transformer Explorer is expected to find it's application in two different versions, either as an permanent on-line monitoring and diagnostic tool or as a short-time version for temporary measurements. The thesis could be divided into three main parts. The first one focusing on a quantitative study trying to answer questions regarding the concepts feasibility when the temporary version is used. The second part is about optimizing and improving the procedure by which the fundamental parameters are estimated. In the last part, a new method for reducing the impact of errors introduced by the acquisition system on the estimated power loss is proposed. All the investigations related to the three topics covered in this thesis showed interesting and promising results.
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Shi, Jeff, Tony Mao, James Chesney, and Nicholas Speciale. "Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) Packet Processing System." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611832.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1993 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaThis paper describes the design of a space telemetry level zero processing system for National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) science mission. The design is based on a prototype Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) level zero processing system, and utilizes VLSI telemetry data processing functional components, VLSI system technologies, and Object-Oriented Programming. The system performs level zero processing functions based on Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) data format [1], and features high data processing rates, highly automated operations, and Open Software Foundation (OSF)/Motif based Graphical User Interface (GUI).
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Astruc, Maxime. "Mission Programming for the Mars Moon eXplorer Mission." Thesis, KTH, Rymdteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-265608.
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This thesis presents a way to maximise the photographic coverage of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, as part of the space mission Mars Moon eXplorer. This coverage is performed by the French hyperspectral imager MacrOmega, and two criteria are selected: the area covered and the resolution of the pictures. The approach considered is a greedy algorithm, and elements of basic theory are provided. This greedy approach is compared to a chronological algorithm, whose results were already approved for the mission.Detta examensarbete presenterar ett sätt att maximera den fotografisk täckningen av Phobos, som är en av Mars två månar, som en del av rymduppdraget Mars Moon eXplorer. Den fotografiska täckningen ska utföras av den franska hyperspektralavbildaren MacrOmega, och två kriterier har valts ut: (i) området som omfattas samt (ii) bildens upplösning. Metoden som testas är en girig algoritm och baselementen i algoritmen presenteras. Den giriga algoritmens resultat jämförs med resultat från en kronologisk algoritm, vars resultat redan godkänts för uppdraget.
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Uwizeye, Clarisse. "Approches quantitatives d’imagerie pour explorer les cellules photosynthétiques." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020GRALV043.
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Le phytoplancton est le groupe de micro-organismes photosynthétiques (microalgues et cyanobactéries) vivant en suspension dans les eaux marines et douces. Grâce à la photosynthèse, le phytoplancton produit de grandes quantités d'oxygène indispensable à la vie marine et terrestre. Les microalgues marines sont également des organismes prometteurs pour les applications biotechnologiques (alimentation humaine et animale, biocarburants). En raison de leur importance écologique et économique, l'étude des réponses du phytoplancton aux défis environnementaux (y compris ceux induits par l'activité humaine et le réchauffement climatique) est un domaine de recherche en plein développement. L'activité du phytoplancton est influencée par les changements dans la stratification verticale de la colonne d'eau qui module, en fonction de la température, la disponibilité de l'énergie lumineuse ainsi que l'apport de nutriments aux cellules du phytoplancton. En raison de la disponibilité de la lumière et des nutriments, les cellules du phytoplancton ont évolué vers différents modes de vie : autotrophie (activité photosynthétique), mixotrophie (utilisation simultanée de la photosynthèse et de l’utilisation ? de sources de carbone extérieures pour la croissance) et photosymbiose (interactions symbiotiques avec des cellules animales).Dans cette thèse, j'ai étudié les réponses physiologiques des cellules du phytoplancton aux changements environnementaux au niveau cellulaire et sous-cellulaire. Pour atteindre cet objectif, j'ai mis au point un processus d'imagerie complet permettant d'effectuer des analyses morphométriques quantitatives de cellules entières d'algues représentatives à la fois d'espèces à succès écologique et de modèles de laboratoire. Le protocole commence avec l’acquisition de séries d’images hautes résolutions soit par FIB-SEM (Focused Ion Beam - Scanning Electron Microscopy) ou SBF-SEM (Serial Block Facing – Scanning Electron Microscopy). Le protocole d'analyse d'images 3D développé dans ce travail permet d'obtenir des modèles tridimensionnels à haute résolution de cellules entières permettant la réalisation d'analyses quantitatives. Grâce à ces outils, j'ai pu imager l'adaptation du phytoplancton à diverses conditions environnementales révélant ainsi : 1) le changement de taille et de morphologie des plastes et des mitochondries lors de l'acclimatation à la lumière dans les diatomées, 2) le changement dans l'interaction des organites chez Nannochloropsis lors de l'acclimatation aux nutriments, 3) les changements morphologiques qui surviennent lors de la photosymbiose dans l’algue Phaeocystis.Ces travaux révèlent plusieurs scénarios d'acclimatation du phytoplancton au niveau cellulaire et subcellulaire. J'ai également pu valider l'utilisation de ce protocole chez les plantes dans une étude sur la biogenèse des chloroplastes lors de la dé-étiolation des cotylédons d’ArabidopsisPhytoplankton is the group of photosynthetic microorganisms (microalgae and cyanobacteria) living in suspension in marine and fresh waters. Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton produce large amounts of the oxygen essential for marine and terrestrial life. Marine microalgae are also promising organisms for biotechnological applications (human and animal food, biofuels). Because of their ecological and economic importance, the study of the phytoplankton responses to environmental challenged (including the ones induced by human activity and global warming) is a developing field of research. Phytoplankton activity is influenced by changes in the vertical stratification of the water column, which modulate light energy availability as well as nutrient supply to phytoplankton cells in a temperature-dependent manner. Based on light and nutrient availability, phytoplankton cells have evolved different lifestyles: autotrophy (photosynthetic activity), mixotrophy (simultaneous use of photosynthesis and respiration of exogenous carbon sources for growth) and photosymbiosis (symbiotic interactions with animal cells).In this thesis, I have studied the physiological responses of phytoplankton cells to environmental changes at the cellular and subcellular levels. To achieve this goal, I have developed a complete imaging workflow to perform quantitative morphometric analyses of entire algal cells, representatives of ecologically-successful and laboratory-model microalgal species. The protocol starts with FIB-SEM (Focused Ion Beam - Scanning Electron Microscopy) or SBF-SEM (Serial Block Facing – Scanning Electron Microscopy), to acquire high-resolution images. By implementing the 3D image analysis protocol, it is possible to obtained high-resolution whole cells models in three dimensions, suitable to perform quantitative analyses. Thanks to these tools, I have been able to image the adaptation of phytoplankton to various environmental conditions: i. changes in the size and morphology of plastids and mitochondria during light acclimation in diatoms, ii. changes in organelles interaction during nutrient acclimation in Nannochloropsis, iii. morphological changes occurring during photosymbiosis in Phaeocystis.Overall, this work reveals several scenarios of phytoplankton acclimation at both the cellular and subcellular levels. I have also validated the use of this protocol in plants in a study on chloroplast biogenesis during de-etiolation in Arabidopsis. of plastids