Dissertations / Theses: 'Mace (Spice)'

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Brooks-Gordon, Belinda. "Prostitution in public space : kerb crawler explanations and malefactors." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272296.

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Valentine, Gill. "Women's fear of male violence in public space." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236852.

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Leung, Shuk-mun Phyllis Sylvia, and 梁淑敏. "Space and affect in made in Hong Kong and Taxi driver." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29949294.

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Grenier, David Robert. "Homo sweet homo, a play of spaces." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30793.pdf.

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Bendig, Alexander Patrick. "Biomechanics of the 50th Percentile Male Spine Under Vertical Loading." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595351343531378.

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Fortney, Christopher. ""Who Made You The Graffiti Police?": Graffiti, Public Space, and Resistance." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1400074289.

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Vyvial, Brent Aron. "Characterizing strain in the proximal rat tibia during electrical muscle stimulation." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5760.

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Hindlimb unloading is a widely used model for studying the effects of microgravity on a skeleton. Hindlimb unloading produces a marked loss in bone due to increased osteoclast activity. Electrical muscle stimulation is being investigated as a simulated resistive exercise countermeasure to attenuate this bone loss. I sought to determine the relationship between strain measured at the antero-medial aspect of the proximal diaphysis of tibia and plantar-flexor torque measured at the ankle during electrical muscle stimulation as an exercise countermeasure for hindlimb unloading in rats. A mathematical relationship between strain and torque was established for the exercise during a 28 day period of hindlimb unloading. The strain generated during the exercise protocol is sufficient to attenuate bone loss caused by hindlimb unloading. Twelve six-month old Sprague-Dawley rats were implanted with uni-axial strain gages in vivo on the antero-medial aspect of the proximal diaphysis of the left tibia. Strain and torque were measured during electrical muscle stimulation for three time points during hindlimb unloading (Day 0 (n=3), Day 7 (n=3), Day 21 (n=3)). Peak strain decreased from 1,100 strain at the beginning of the study to 660 strain after 21 days of hindlimb unloading and muscle stimulation. The peak strain rate measured during muscle stimulation was 10,350 strain/second at the beginning and decreased to 6,670 strain/second after 21 days. The changes in strain are not significant, but the underlying trend in strain values may indicate an increase in bone formation due to the electrical muscle stimulation countermeasure. A mathematical model that relates measured strain to peak eccentric torque during muscle stimulation was created to facilitate estimation of strain for future studies of electrical muscle stimulation during hindlimb unloading.

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Abate, Kiersten G. "Places That Make People Feel Good: Understanding the Relationship Between Access to Green Space and Community Well-being." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1955.

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Thesis advisor: Brian Gareau
Thesis advisor: Juliet Schor
This research seeks to understand how, if at all, access to green and open spaces impacts community well-being. Although much work has been done in the environmental justice sector on the disproportionate distribution of amenities in low-income communities, these studies have focused mainly on the negatives such as toxics and pollutants. This research is important because it seeks to understand the importance of environmental amenities that are not available to these populations. In order to understand this relationship, I conducted in-depth interviews with nine community members and observed at four green or open spaces. As a result of the above procedures, I found that green and open spaces not only have a positive impact on community well-being, but they influence personal well-being as well. Personal well-being is enhanced by activities that foster perceived mental and physical health for individuals, while community well-being has been linked to the ability to participate in social encounters with others. Although there are many other factors that inevitably provide well-being, it is important to note that all of my interviewees believed green and open spaces in their community were a prominent contributor. This research enhances the understanding of the less visible environmental injustices low-income communities suffer. I hope that this study serves as a catalyst for future research on a larger scale that will prove the importance of access to these areas. It is my hope that cities will begin to plan their parks and open spaces in ways that will benefit the most people and that areas where space is an issue will begin to create small green areas wherever possible
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology Honors Program
Discipline: Sociology

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Houlbrook, Matt. "'A sun among cities' : space, identities and queer male practices, London 1918-57." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369372.

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Ahn, Yushin. "Object space matching and reconstruction using multiple images." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1213375997.

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Barg, Jennifer Jane. "Small-scale biological phenomena in a male neotropical migrant songbird, space use, habitat use, and behaviour within territories of male cerulean warblers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2002. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65600.pdf.

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Nisbett, Nicholas Christopher. "Knowledge, identity, place and (cyber)space : growing up male and middle class in Bangalore." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413893.

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Tucker, Andrew Robert. "Male homosexual identities in Cape Town, South Africa : visibility and the appropriation of space." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614106.

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Mac, Namara Aoife. "Spaces buildings make : the work of artistic research on the experience of built space." Thesis, Ulster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.674732.

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Undertaken at a time when sweeping changes to state funding for higher education in general and the incorporation of art schools into larger higher education institutions in particular, has radically changed the role of the art school in the UK, this thesis engages a range of artistic research practices to explore, contextualize and debate the role of the built environment of the art school (and related cultural spaces) as a dynamic site of social interaction out of which artistic research practices have developed as strategies for producing both knowledge of a space and knowledge of how to understand the formation of that space, the seeing of it, listening to it and the processes through which we as students, lecturers, administrators , facilities staff, librarians, artists and researchers contribute to how such built spaces are produced and experienced over time. I make connections between local developments in the cultural politics of artist education in north London and concepts of authorship, experience and history in the context of a built space. By critically reflecting on a series of collectively produced artistic research works produced out of a specific art school site, the thesis reflects on the implications - intellectual, political, social - of placing historical, critical and theoretical studies in the art school and on the contemporaneous design of flexible multi - purposed and adaptive spaces such as the Phase II building in which much of this study is located. The art school is proposed as an active engine, an environment within which many participate in different ways at different times in a shared community of aesthetic, cultural and intellectual debate in and around which they negotiate their developing practices. Through a series of artistic research works, I argue that the experience of these spaces is comprehensible only at the point of encounter between artist, listener and work . The encounters presented here necessitate new and evolving social relations within the artistic research work and propose forms of resistance to dominant forms of subject formation within art school culture.

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Gaines, Mikal J. "Beating Songs: Blues, Violence, and the Male Body in the Films of Spike Lee." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593092170.

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Sponheuer, Silke. "Music made visible in time and space : concepts of simultaneity in tone-eurythmy choreography." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8251.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-113).
Eurythmy is an art of movement that expresses music and speech. This dissertation explores eurythmy's musical field, called tone-eurythmy, in its multifaceted appearances, background and within its philosophical context. Tone-eurythmy, carried out by performers moving in space and time, makes music visible. It transforms music into a new movement-art form, that of audible-visible music, by expressing musical components as well as the artistic intentions within a composition and those held by the performing artists. The dissertation examines how musical concepts are seen by eurythmists to integrate ideas of wholeness and to understand music as both audible and inaudible. It draws on studies and findings from music psychology to show distinct effects of musical elements on the human being, and to indicate the similarities between those and the qualitative expressions of music through tone-eurythmy.

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Thessin, Rachel Neville. "Atmospheric signal delay affecting GPS measurements made by space vehicles during launch, orbit and reentry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33211.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-182).
In this thesis, I present neutral atmosphere, ionosphere and total delays experienced by GPS signals traveling to space vehicles during launch, orbit and reentry. I calculate these delays for receivers at 0 km to 1700 km altitude by ray-tracing through the Global Reference Atmosphere Model (1999) and the International Reference Ionosphere (2001). These delays are potentially much larger than those experienced by signals traveling to GPS receivers near the surface of the Earth, but are primarily experienced at negative elevation angles, and are therefore most relevant for space vehicles with limited visibility of GPS satellites and during launch and reentry. I compare these signal delays to the delays predicted by three onboard delay models: the Altshuler and NATO neutral atmosphere delay models, and the Klobuchar ionosphere delay model. I find that these models are inadequate when the space vehicle is in orbit. The NATO model will suffice during the final period of reentry, where it predicts the neutral atmosphere delay to within 1 m of the ray-traced value, but it will not suffice when a satellite is rising or setting. I propose a method to extend the NATO model for receivers at higher altitudes. The Klobuchar model will suffice for most satellites during reentry, but will potentially predict ionosphere delays with errors up to 30 m, and will not suffice when a satellite is rising or setting.
by Rachel Neville Thessin.
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Davies, Ben. "Exceptional intercourse : sex, time and space in contemporary novels by male British and American writers." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2582.

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This thesis provides a theory of exceptional sex through close readings of contemporary novels by male British and American writers. I take as my overriding methodological approach Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, which is a juridico-political state in which the law has been suspended and the difference between rule and transgression is indistinguishable. Within this state, the spatiotemporal markers inside and outside also become indeterminable, making it impossible to tell whether one is inside or outside time and space. Using this framework, I work through narratives of sexual interaction – On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, Sabbath’s Theater, and The Act of Love – to conceptualise categories of sexual exceptionality. My study is not a survey, and the texts have been chosen as they focus on different sexual behaviours, thereby opening up a variety of sexual exceptionalities. I concentrate on male writers and narratives of heterosexual sex as most work on sex, time and space is comprised of feminist readings of literature by women and queer work on gay, lesbian or trans writers and narratives. However, in the Coda I expand my argument by turning to Emma Donoghue’s Room, which, as the protagonist has been trapped for the first five years of his life, provides a tabula rasa’s perspective of exceptionality. Through my analysis of exceptionality, I provide spatiotemporal readings of the hymen, incest, adultery, sexual listening and the arranged affair. I also conceptualise textual exceptionalities – the incestuous prequel, auricular reading and the positionality of the narrator, the reader and literary characters. Exceptional sex challenges the assumption in recent queer theory that to be out of time is ‘queer’ and to be in time is ‘straight’. Furthermore, exceptionality complicates the concepts of perversion and transgression as the norm and its transgression become indistinct in the state of exception. In contrast, exceptionality offers a new, more determinate way to analyse narratives of sex.

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James, Kandy Ann. ""I just gotta have my own space!": The role of space and audience in recreational choices made by adolescent girls in Western Australia." Thesis, James, Kandy Ann (2000) "I just gotta have my own space!": The role of space and audience in recreational choices made by adolescent girls in Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2000. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50631/.

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Adolescent girls are not as fit as adolescent boys. Although many adolescent girls pursue physically active lifestyles, others choose more passive options. This dissertation explores how perceptions towards recreational spaces may contribute to these differences. In the spirit of feminist research, girls and their perceptions were the focus of the study. After a brief exploratory stage, 276 15-year old schoolgirls were surveyed regarding their attitudes towards a range of potential recreational spaces in the school, community and their homes. A year later, a subset of these girls was interviewed about three specific spaces: public swimming pools, basketball courts and bedrooms. Four focus groups were followed by individual interviews with 16 of the girls. Emergent factors that affected girls’ recreational choices in each of the spaces were drawn out and analysed. Conceptual frameworks that shed light on the relationships between these factors are provided. My thesis is that participation in recreational activity is not spontaneous for many adolescent girls. Prior to participation, a girl appears to assess how a potential audience in a particular space at any one time might react to her physical appearance, athletic competence or behaviour. She weighs this up against other factors such as the potential of the activity to satisfy her desire for fun, inclusion, relaxation, exercise or sense of control. This may inhibit her active participation in some public spaces and make the generally passive site of the bedroom an attractive option. The study contributes to an understanding of the factors that affect an adolescent girl’s recreational participation. This understanding should be of use to recreation programmers, facility providers, educational authorities and parents in their efforts to increase girls’ levels of participation in healthful physical activity.

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Kellams, Timothy Rossiter. "The mind, the narrative, and the city: how narratives of space make place in cognitive maps." Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35517.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning
Brent Chamberlain
Narratives of urban experiences influence understanding of space and urban form. Narratives give meaning to space, creating memories of places and helping to define an individual’s cognitive map. The representation of narratives within cognitive maps impacts day to day activities, as well as, emotional, cultural, and social characteristics of one’s self. Planners and designers play an important role in crafting narratives through the implementation of designs and policies that together shape urban form. This research investigates the relationship between spatial cognitive schemas and narratives within cognitive maps. Specifically, how college students develop and use narratives within their cognitive map to help with living in a new and initially unfamiliar place of residence. Through mixed method analysis of drawn individual cognitive maps, an online survey, and a group discussion, results show that different types of experiences within narratives influence the likelihood of it appearing within the spatial cognitive schema. The findings suggest that narratives created by peak emotional experiences contain a longer and clearer representation within cognitive maps because of their personal value. By better understanding the role of these emotional responses and their connection with urban form, design professionals can aim to frame projects toward influencing individual’s lives. Understanding how individuals develop narratives of their new city may influence planning and design with the goal of creating urban projects that provide social and cultural significance through meaning of place.

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Hiltermann, Jaqueline Elizabeth. "Make yourself at home: networked domestic space, place and narrative in middle class South African everyday life." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29445.

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Domestic space and place, as well as how we conceptualise the home, are shifting in response to changes in digital and SNS technologies, and our relationships with such technologies. The home is not only the building in which we live, but a networked assemblage of material and digitally mediated space and place. This study examines predominantly white middle class arrangements of domestic space and place in South Africa, which provides insight into a relatively unexplored aspect of digital culture: the performance of domesticity via SNS, particularly Facebook. Furthermore gendered and racialised power dynamics and privilege in everyday life were investigated through a digital ethnography and critical discourse analysis of posts by 50 Facebook users. This data was supplemented by interviews and in-situ observations of five couples drawn from the broader sample. In combination, these methods revealed how space, place, and domestic responsibilities are secured through narrative practice. Through this study I show how Facebook has emerged as a collaborative platform where storytelling practices are influenced by the site architecture and algorithm. Facebook has opened up the private space of the home allowing domestic space, place, and practice to steadily gain visibility. This visibility, analysed in conjunction with Actor-Network Theory, revealed that homes, and narratives about the homes, are networked and dependent on relationships between actants. The home, and the relationships that stabilise it, are also reflective of discourses and power relations. Human actors negotiated territory and network roles, and these negotiations reveal power and hierarchy. Women remain more tightly bound to the home because of cultural and historical gendered discourses, and as a result the white women participants in this study continue to create place and ascribe space in digitally mediated and material versions of their homes. Furthermore, the resurgence of middle class postfeminist accounts of domesticity have promoted domestic idealism and many women have migrated back to the home spurred on by popular media, and economic privilege that has allowed them to forego paid employment. This study also shows that white, middle class women participants were offered choices to construct their own postfeminist narratives of domesticity. On the other hand, the black women employed as domestic workers by these middle class couples, were largely absent from such narratives and conversations. Findings further suggest that domestic space and place remained the domain of white women participants, and that white men were able to renegotiate their domestic responsibilities because they remained distant from domestic narratives and conversations, where they were largely associated with domestic inadequacy.

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Prier, Darius D. "Understanding Hip-Hop as a Counter-Public Space of Resistance for Black Male Youth in Urban Education." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250280239.

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N'guessan, Marc-Arthur. "Space adaptive methods with error control based on adaptive multiresolution for the simulation of low-Mach reactive flows." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASC017.

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Ce travail vise au développement de nouvelles méthodes numériques adaptatives pour la simulation numérique de phénomènes physiques multi-échelles en temps et en espace. Nous nous concentrons sur les écoulements réactifs à faible nombre de Mach, caractéristiques d'un grand nombre de configurations industrielles telles que la convection naturelle, la dynamique de fronts de flamme ou encore les décharges plasmas. La raideur associée à ce type de problèmes, que ce soit via le terme source chimique qui présente un large spectre d'échelles de temps caractéristiques ou encore via la présence de forts gradients très localisés associés aux fronts de réaction, génère des difficultés numériques considérables. Il est donc nécessaire de concevoir des méthodes sur mesure pour traiter la raideur de telles applications, afin d'obtenir des résultats d'une grande précision avec un coût calcul raisonnable. Dans ce cadre général, nous introduisons de nouvelles méthodes numériques pour la résolution des équations de Navier-Stokes incompressibles, une étape importante dans la réalisation d'un solveur hydrodynamique pour les écoulements à faible nombre de Mach. Nous construisons un solveur volumes finis avec adaptation de maillage par l'analyse de multirésolution, qui permet un contrôle a priori des erreurs générées par l'adaptation de maillage. Pour ce faire, nous développons un nouveau schéma de volumes finis collocalisé, avec un traitement original des modes de pression et de vitesse parasites qui n'affecte pas la précision de la discrétisation spatiale. Cette dernière est couplée à un nouveau schéma de Runge-Kutta additif d'ordre 3 pour les écoulements incompressibles, qui présente des propriétés de stabilité adaptées à la raideur des équations différentielles algébriques semi-explicites d'index 2. L'ensemble de cette stratégie est implémentée dans le code de calcul scientifique mrpy. Ce dernier est écrit en Python, et repose sur la librairie PETSc, écrite en C, pour le traitement des opérations d'algèbre linéaire. Nous évaluons l'efficacité algorithmique de cette stratégie par la simulation numérique d'un transport de scalaire passif dans un écoulement incompressible sur maillage adaptatif. Ce travail présente donc un nouveau solveur hydrodynamique d'ordre élevé pour les écoulements incompressibles, avec adaptation de maillage par multirésolution et contrôle d'erreur, qui peut être étendu aux écoulements à faible nombre de Mach
We address the development of new numerical methods for the efficient resolution of stiff Partial Differential Equations modelling multi-scale time/space physical phenomena. We are more specifically interested in low Mach reacting flow processes, that cover various real-world applications such as flame dynamics at low gas velocity, buoyant jet flows or plasma/flow interactions. It is well-known that the numerical simulation of these problems is a highly difficult task, due to the large spectrum of spatial and time scales caused by the presence of nonlinear The adaptive spatial discretization is coupled to a new 3rd-order additive Runge-Kutta method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, combining a 3rd-order, A-stable, stiffly accurate, 4-stage ESDIRK method for the algebraic linear part of these equations, and a 4th-order explicit Runge-Kutta scheme for the nonlinear convective part. This numerical strategy is implemented from scratch in the in-house numerical code mrpy. This software is written in Python, and relies on the PETSc library, written in C, for linear algebra operations. We assess the capabilities of this mechanisms taking place into dynamic fronts. In this general context, this work introduces dedicated numerical tools for the resolution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, an important first step when designing an hydrodynamic solver for low Mach flows. We build a space adaptive numerical scheme to solve incompressible flows in a finite-volume context, that relies on multiresolution analysis with error control. To this end, we introduce a new collocated finite-volume method on adaptive rectangular grids, with an original treatment of the spurious pressure and velocity modes that does not alter the precision of the discretization technique. new hydrodynamic solver in terms of speed and efficiency, in the context of scalar transport on adaptive grids. Hence, this study presents a new high-order hydrodynamics solver for incompressible flows, with grid adaptation by multiresolution, that can be extended to the more general low-Mach flow configuration

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Robinson, Jacqueline. "Participatory research with adults with Asperger's syndrome : using spatial analysis to explore how they make sense of their experience." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11040.

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This thesis explores participatory research involving the author and a small group of adults with Asperger’s syndrome, as co-researchers. The research was based on the assumption that people with Asperger’s syndrome think differently from neuro-typical people (people who do not have Asperger’s syndrome or autism). It is not denied that people with Asperger’s syndrome have difficulties, but the thesis argues that these are caused by living in a world which is dominated by neuro-typical people who do not understand or allow for the differences that people with Asperger’s syndrome have. The research is based on the assumption that adults with Asperger’s syndrome are able to be co-researchers and that part of the task of the researcher and the co-researchers was to find a way of working together that was enabling to all involved in the research. The original aim of the research was to ascertain what kind of service provision adults with Asperger’s syndrome wanted and this formed the research question: ‘What support do adults with Asperger’s syndrome want?’ The findings of the research challenge traditional notions of support as the emphasis is taken away from support to consider forms of understanding. It has resulted in the proposal of a new way of understanding Asperger’s syndrome. It proposes models for understanding how people with Asperger’s syndrome and neuro-typical people relate to each other. These models challenge a currently prevailing deficit-based understanding of Asperger’s syndrome. The author and the co-researchers worked collaboratively to design research tools, collect and analyse data and disseminate findings. The data was collected from other adults with Asperger’s syndrome who took part in questionnaires and then different adults with Asperger’s syndrome who took part in a focus group and individual interviews. The work was informed by the literature on spatial understandings of how society is ordered. The thesis uses this spatial understanding as a way of analysing how people with Asperger’s syndrome are regarded in a society which is dominated by people who are neuro-typical. Insights from a spatial understanding are also used to consider the process of the research, including an application of the social model of disability to participatory research involving adults with Asperger’s syndrome. My original contribution to knowledge is that I have demonstrated that people with Asperger’s syndrome have the potential to work in group situations on a complex piece of research. I have shown that people with Asperger’s syndrome are able to make a significant contribution to the understanding of how people with Asperger’s syndrome and neuro-typical people relate to each other. I have also demonstrated how a non-disabled researcher and co-researchers with Asperger’s syndrome can work together and devise working methods which are enabling. In the words of the thesis, I have demonstrated how an ‘autistic research space’ can be created. This thesis discusses the role of the neuro-typical researcher in the creation of this research space. The research is regarded as having been co-produced and the meaning of this is explored. The thesis discusses the nature of participatory research using a spatial understanding. Emancipatory research is said to be based on the social model of disability, where non-disabled researchers are not involved. I have shown that participatory research can also be based on the insights from the social model of disability and achieve the outcomes required for emancipatory research. I have proposed a framework for planning and analysing participatory research. Perhaps the most significant contribution to knowledge is the new way of understanding Asperger’s syndrome proposed by the research which challenges the more traditionally accepted deficit based model.

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Lind, Johan. "Make it Meaningful : Semantic Segmentation of Three-Dimensional Urban Scene Models." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Datorseende, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143599.

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Semantic segmentation of a scene aims to give meaning to the scene by dividing it into meaningful — semantic — parts. Understanding the scene is of great interest for all kinds of autonomous systems, but manual annotation is simply too time consuming, which is why there is a need for an alternative approach. This thesis investigates the possibility of automatically segmenting 3D-models of urban scenes, such as buildings, into a predetermined set of labels. The approach was to first acquire ground truth data by manually annotating five 3D-models of different urban scenes. The next step was to extract features from the 3D-models and evaluate which ones constitutes a suitable feature space. Finally, three supervised learners were implemented and evaluated: k-Nearest Neighbour (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Classification Forest (RCF). The classifications were done point-wise, classifying each 3D-point in the dense point cloud belonging to the model being classified. The result showed that the best suitable feature space is not necessarily the one containing all features. The KNN classifier got the highest average accuracy overall models — classifying 42.5% of the 3D points correct. The RCF classifier managed to classify 66.7% points correct in one of the models, but had worse performance for the rest of the models and thus resulting in a lower average accuracy compared to KNN. In general, KNN, SVM, and RCF seemed to have different benefits and drawbacks. KNN is simple and intuitive but by far the slowest classifier when dealing with a large set of training data. SVM and RCF are both fast but difficult to tune as there are more parameters to adjust. Whether the reason for obtaining the relatively low highest accuracy was due to the lack of ground truth training data, unbalanced validation models, or the capacity of the learners, was never investigated due to a limited time span. However, this ought to be investigated in future studies.

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Piqueiras, Eduardo. "Commodified Risk: Masculinity and Male Sex Work in New Orleans." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1660.

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In this research I examine the complexity of male sexuality and masculinity among male sex workers in New Orleans. Despite danger to their health and social standing, men engage in risky sexual behavior with other men for both business and pleasure. These behaviors may stem from the thrill of risk itself, or from other causes such as unexplored sexual inhibitions on the part of the male sex workers or their clients. Focusing on male sex workers, this ethnographic study explores why male sex workers engage in work that is high risk and potentially very dangerous. It examines the world of male sex work as one of the few places where men who adopt homosexual identity and those who refuse it are in intimate contact with one another. It offers us the opportunity to address questions about male sexual identity and homosexual desire, while attempting to understand the commodified spatial practices of a sexual culture in New Orleans.

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Abedi, Naeim. "Monitoring spatiotemporal dynamics of human movement based on MAC address data." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/73122/1/Naeim_Abedi_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis was a step forward in extracting valuable features from human's movement behaviour in terms of space utilisation based on Media-Access-Control data. This research offered a low-cost and less computational complexity approach compared to existing human's movement tracking methods. This research was successfully applied in QUT's Gardens Point campus and can be scaled to bigger environments and societies. Extractable information from human's movement by this approach can add a significant value to studying human's movement behaviour, enhancing future urban and interior design, improving crowd safety and evacuation plans.

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Iyyani, Shabnam. "Photospheric emission in gamma ray bursts : Analysis and interpretation of observations made by the Fermi gamma ray space telescope." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Fysikum, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-116244.

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The large flashes of radiation that are observed in GRBs are generally believed to arise in a relativistic jetted outflow. This thesis addresses the question of how and where in the jet this radiation is produced. It further explores the jet properties that can be inferred from the observations made by the Fermi GST that regularly observes GRBs in the range 8 keV - 300 GeV. In my analysis I focus on the observational effects of the emission from the jet photosphere. I show that the photosphere has an important role in shaping the observed radiation spectrum and that its manifestations can significantly vary between bursts. For bursts in which the photospheric emission component can be identified, the dynamics of the flow can be explored by determining the jet Lorentz factor and the position of the jet nozzle. I also develop the theory of how to derive the properties of the outflow for general cases. The spectral analysis of the strong burst GRB110721A reveals a two-peaked spectrum, with the peaks evolving differently. I conclude that three main flow quantities can describe the observed spectral behaviour in bursts: the luminosity, the Lorentz factor, and the nozzle radius. While the photosphere can appear like a pure blackbody it can also be substantially broadened, due to dissipation of the jet energy below the photosphere. I show that Comptonisation of the blackbody can shape the observed spectra and describe its evolution. In particular this model can very well explain GRB110920A which has two prominent breaks in its spectra. Alternative models including synchrotron emission leads to severe physical constraints, such as the need for very high electron Lorentz factors, which are not expected in internal shocks. Even though different manifestations of the photospheric emission can explain the data, and lead to ambiguous interpretations, I argue that dissipation below the photosphere is the most important process in shaping the observed spectral shapes and evolutions.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: In press. Paper 5: Submitted.

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Loomis, Geoffrey W. "Seasonal Changes in Body Composition, Block Jump, Attack Jump and Lower Body Power Index in Male Collegiate Volleyball Players." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4281.

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Jumping ability in volleyball players is crucial to a team's success. There are both muscular and neural components in jumping. Coaches often test jumping ability and body composition prior to the start of the competitive season, but many fail to monitor these important variables during the course of the season. Jumping ability can decrease over the course of the season as the focus moves from strength training in the weight room to skill development on the court. It is imperative that players maintain their jumping ability and body composition over the course of the season. Seasonal changes in elite-male volleyball players were determined by testing the players body composition, spike jump, block jump and lower body power index at three distinct time points: prior to the first game, during their bye-week, and at the end of their regular season. It was found that these players were able to maintain their vertical jump and lower body power index. Also, those who were deemed players (those who played throughout the course of the season) had lower body fat percentages and higher jump scores. These results will aid coaches in understanding the changes that occur over the course of the season in elite-male collegiate volleyball players.

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Bingham, Jane Susan. "Making space for God : psychoanalytic research interviews with six male Anglican priests who have sought psychotherapy and / or spiritual direction." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.478884.

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Ellis, Rebecca Maria. "Constructions of home - why some things 'matter' and are made to 'matter' : subjectivity, identity and performance in the home space." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392738.

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Harpster, Terri L. "Making space for critical literacy| How teachers and a principal make sense of critical literacy in a practitioner inquiry community." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10158569.

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Noticeably absent from the critical literacy field are accounts of critical literacy written from the experience and perspective of school leaders. This qualitative practitioner study examined the enactment of critical literacy by four elementary teachers and an elementary school principal in a small rural school in south central Pennsylvania. A critical literacy practitioner inquiry community was an important feature of this study, an importance that cannot be overstated. The interdependence of critical literacy and the inquiry community enabled the participants to disrupt notions of learning, teaching, and leading and what it means to be a student, teacher, and leader. This practitioner action research study contributes to the field of critical literacy in important ways. The study took place in a small rural elementary school in south central Pennsylvania, and the participants/co-researchers were all White, female, Christian educators of predominantly White students. During the study, the participants transformed learning, teaching, and leading by developing stances of critical inquiry and spaces of mutuality. The transformation changed the roles of teachers, learners, and leaders. The participants also confronted the state’s system of accountability and educator effectiveness, and through that confrontation re-imagined their own professional identities. I am the principal, co-researcher, and author of this work.

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Latreille, Emmanuel. "Le monde comme art." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN20024.

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L’art moderne et contemporain a quitté le régime de la Représentation pour expérimenter d’autres fonctions et proposer à un nouveau « regardeur » d’autres rapports avec la réalité vécue. Pour cela, il faut que quelque chose de fondamental ait changé dans la relation de l’artiste au monde : l’espace n’est plus quelque chose qu’il élabore au moyen de l’oeuvre, ou en elle. L’espace est, pour l’artiste moderne, une « donnée » dans laquelle il est placé d’emblée, à l’instar de tout être. Cela veut dire qu’il n’y a pas d’espace propre à l’oeuvre d’art qui ne soit l’espace du monde lui-même. L’art, c’est le monde, à travers l’engagement de tout ce qui l’occupe.C’est ce que Jean Paulhan (1884-1968), en parlant des cubistes, avait appelé « l’espace brut » ou « l’espace spontané », et qui est désigné ici comme « l’espace réel », pour le différencier de toute fiction spatiale. C’est aussi ce que Marcel Duchamp a élaboré à travers ses expérimentations sur les choses et le langage, l’ayant conduit à concevoir cette complexematrice de l’art qu’est le Ready-made en remplacement de la Perspective. Ainsi, ce qu’on nomme art contemporain est un art qui s’élabore dans le monde, impliquant les êtres et les choses, les formes et les signes, mais aussi la « lumière » des idées, toujours déjà là. Comprendre l’art, c’est, pour chacun, appréhender, sans pouvoir se dérober, comment se joue une rencontre entre ces entités contradictoires, visant une unité nouvelle et exprimant l’intuition du monde comme Tout.Cette thèse est un tel effort de compréhension qui, dans ma pratique de commissaire d’exposition et de critique d’art, a été partagé avec des artistes, au plus près des oeuvres et dans de multiples contextes, dans le cadre de ces institutions « d’aménagement du territoire » que sont les Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain
Modern and contemporary art have abandoned the system of Representation to experiment with other functions and to offer a new “beholder” different relations with a lived reality. To do this, something fundamental had to alter the artist’s relation to the world: space is no longer developed by means of the work, or within it. For modern artist, space is a “given” in which he is immediately placed, like any being. This means that there is no space peculiar to the work of art which is not the space of the world itself. Art is the world, through the involvement of everything occupying its space.This is what, in talking about the Cubists, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) called “raw space” and “spontaneous space”, which is here described as “real space”, to differentiate it from any spatial fiction. It is also what Marcel Duchamp developed in his experiments involving things and language, leading him to devise that new matrix of art known as the Readymade,replacing Perspective. So what we call contemporary art is an art that is developed within the world, involving beings and things, forms and signs, invariably already there. For everyone, understanding art is grasping how, without being able to sidestep, the encounter between these contradictory entities is enacted, aimed at a new unity and expressing the intuition of the world as a Whole.This thesis is such an effort at comprehension, which, in my activities as an exhibition curator and art critic, has been shared with artists, at very close quarters with works and in many different contexts, within the framework of those institutions of “regional development”, the regional contemporary art collections (FRAC)

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Nunan, Mary Bernadette. "Just one encounter : sensation, surface, space : distilling a mixed-mode heuristic, to make the process of inverting original choreographies more transparent." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2013. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/12358/.

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This research undertaking suggests that the studio-based process of inventing original choreographic works can be seen, in certain frameworks, as a complex ‘theoretical practice’. It sets out to render the decisions that I, as an artist, make in the process of inventing three choreographic works, ‘Audience (1) Waltzers’, ‘Return Journey’ and ‘HaH’, more transparent and self-reflexive, and simultaneously to enquire into the question of whether, and how, writing might serve to illuminate aspects of my overall choreographic and performance practice. The studio-based process of inventing these three works– with which the written strands necessarily engage – reflects my desire to explore questions about dance, choreography and performance as they emerge in my practice and with reference to the canon of western contemporary dance performance. In the mixed-mode heuristic framework underlying the present investigation the studio-based and text-based strands of inquiry are integrated in an extra-hierarchical mode, functioning thus interdependently as strands having equal epistemic value within that undertaking. That is, each is equivalent in terms of an ongoing enquiry into knowledge. The present undertaking examines and reflects on the ways that modes and methods of inquiry appropriated from the tradition of contemporary and post-modern dance performance, the Somatic practices of Authentic Movement and Body-Mind Centering, together with the Buddhist practice of Mindfulness Meditation, support my status as remaining ‘present with’ sensations, emotions and thoughts that arise and inflect the other-than-linguistic qualitative reasoning that underlies the decisions I make in the process of inventing ‘signature’ choreographic works – by which I mean works that are recognisably my own. Investigations into the relationship between one’s ‘self’ and one’s thoughts are extended by borrowing selectively from published research within the fields of Philosophy, Science, Cognitive Science and Psychology. The mixed-mode heuristic framework provides for the emergence of a relational space between the studio-based and text-based strands of research. In this space the subtle, layered and always evolving sub-strands of both are rendered more transparent, thereby providing for the questions and decision-making processes underlying the invention of ‘Audience (1) Waltzers’, ‘Return Journey’ and ‘HaH’ to surface and become more fully revealed: can I create choreographic structures that might provide for audiences to have an intimate experience of dance and performance? And how might these choreographies also provide for somatic experiences of dance, and the space within which it unfolds, to be shared by the dancer(s) and audience in performance? I propose to demonstrate that this project’s original contributions to knowledge are located in (i) the design of the mixed-mode heuristic framework within which I examine and reflect on how writing, in a range of registers, might serve to illuminate the process of inventing original choreographic works (ii) the choreographic works ‘Audience (1) Waltzers’, ‘Return Journey’ and ‘HaH’ (iii) what can be identified as the category of ‘somatically-revolving-empathy’

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Jones, Alena. "An eelnet made for the eel fighting: layers of obscurity and the continuous present in the space of Robert Lowell's poetry." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1351090225.

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Vyskočilová, Marie. "Merchandising segmentu dekorativní kosmetiky u vybrané mezinárodní značky." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-16273.

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This diploma thesis deals with merchandising. Merchandising is a new discipline achieveing a high development potential and being more and more important in the competitive business environment. The teorethical part describes the basic concepts of the merchandising, its definitions, types and possible merchandising strategies. The practical part explains and shows whole merchandising process of the make up merchandising on a real examples from the chosen international company.

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Körber, Martin Julius. "Phase-Space Localization of Chaotic Resonance States due to Partial Transport Barriers." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-218817.

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Classical partial transport barriers govern both classical and quantum dynamics of generic Hamiltonian systems. Chaotic eigenstates of quantum systems are known to localize on either side of a partial barrier if the flux connecting the two sides is not resolved by means of Heisenberg's uncertainty. Surprisingly, in open systems, in which orbits can escape, chaotic resonance states exhibit such a localization even if the flux across the partial barrier is quantum mechanically resolved. We explain this using the concept of conditionally invariant measures by introducing a new quantum mechanically relevant class of such fractal measures. We numerically find quantum-to-classical correspondence for localization transitions depending on the openness of the system and on the decay rate of resonance states. Moreover, we show that the number of long-lived chaotic resonance states that localize on one particular side of the partial barrier is described by an individual fractal Weyl law. For a generic phase space, this implies a hierarchy of fractal Weyl laws, one for each region of the hierarchical decomposition of phase space.

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McFarlane, Leslie R. "Breeding Behavior and Space Use of Male and Female Mule Deer: An Examination of Potential Risk Differences for Chronic Wasting Disease Infection." DigitalCommons@USU, 2007. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6619.

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The dynamics of pathogen and host relationships relative to disease transmission in wildlife populations are important ecological processes to understand, particularly since spatial dynamics of disease can be driven by movement, behavior, and dispersal of animals. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is an example of this important interface, where little is known regarding origin of the disease or routes of transmission. Surveillance data for CWD in free-ranging mule deer indicates that breeding-age male deer have 2-4 times higher prevalence rates than females or younger age males. In an effort to understand differences that might increase risk for exposure to CWD infective agents, I used GPS data to examine breeding behavior and home range sizes of mule 11 deer. GPS radiocollars were placed on adult (> 2 ½ years) males, females, and young ( < 2 ½ years) males. Data collected during the breeding season was used to infer visitation rates of males to females. Cluster analysis was used to separate data into periods of movement (spatio-temporal clusters) and non-movement. Females formed more spatio-temporal clusters and movement paths than males. However, males spent more time moving, had more long-term periods of movement, moved an estimated 1 km/day more than females, and had more tortuous movement paths. Male home ranges for winter, summer, and breeding seasons were also larger than those of females. Overall, data indicates that males may have an increased risk of exposure to CWD relative to females, because of larger movements and greater space use. These male behavioral differences may result in increased encounter rates with CWD infectious material through greater exposure in the environment to sources such as carcasses from infected animals, their excreta, or contaminated soils. Furthermore, during the breeding season increased male sociality, as suggested by increased movement rates and movement path tortuousity, combined with larger space use may further enhance direct contact with infected individuals and increase exposure to excreta sources such as feces and alimentary secretions due to licking and tending behaviors.

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Staszel, John Paul. "Beyond The Thong: Contexts, Representations, and the Performances of Erotic Masculinities in Male Strip Show(s)." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491579562554002.

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Aginsky, Kerith Dana. "Clinical and imaging features of the lumbar spine in elite male schoolboy cricketers : the effect of a pre-season lumbar stabilisation intervention." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3222.

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Current evidence indicates that schoolboy cricketers are at a high risk of injury to the lumbar spine. This is particularly relevant in the case of fast bowlers who bowl with a high degree of shoulder counter-rotation. There, however, is a lack of evidence in the literature with respect to injury research of all cricketing disciplines, as fast bowlers receive the most attention. After reviewing the literature it was evident that the effect of a cricket-specific lumbar stabilisation exercise intervention in an attempt to reduce lower back pain and alter other physiological variables, had never been studied. Previous interventions in cricketers have focused only on fast bowlers in an attempt to decrease the degree of shoulder counter-rotation. However, these studies either took two years to observe a decrease or were unsuccessful.

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Harshman, Jason R. "Our World Around the Corner: How Youths Make Meaning of Place, Belonging, and Citizenship." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403884488.

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Skandera, Richard. "You get rained on last : a study of the cultural implications of male height in the United States." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1328.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
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Wilkinson, Jemma G. "'Sugar and spice and all things nice, that's what little girls are made of' : considering the identity constructions of a girl labelled as SEBD who attends a PRU." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6738/.

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This Discourse Analytical study aims to explore the identity constructs of a girl with a label of Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties who attends a pupil referral unit (PRU) for young people in Key Stage Three and Four. A case study approach was utilised and constructions were gathered through the use of naturalistic conversations with the girl and two adults who work closely with her in her current setting. Discursive Psychology was used to analyse the constructions present within the talk. My analysis led me to propose five interpretative repertoires that were used to describe Hannah’s identity constructions: ‘identity as reflective’, ‘identity as influenced by others’, ‘identity as challenging’, ‘identity as a nice person’ and ‘identity as confused’. Through the talk a variety of subject positions for Hannah were evident presenting Hannah as both an active agent and a passive agent within her identity constructions, positioning her as powerless, vulnerable and misunderstood. I consider the impact of Hannah’s environment and the role of her peers are fundamental to her personal identity constructs, and that the process of engaging in the research also contributed to Hannah’s constructions of her identity, allowing her the opportunity to reflect on her past and consider her future. My research suggests that EPs, and other practitioners, have the potential to provide young people who have become negatively labelled with agency and support them with their identity constructions, which may in turn position them in an emancipating way. I conclude by suggesting an expansion of the research and a consideration of the importance that EPs could play in the lives of the young people with which they work by offering them, amongst other things, a non-judgemental discursive space in which they can talk.

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Reuter, William H. Howard Richard M. Hobson Garth V. Buning Pieter G. "Flowfield computations over the space shuttle Orbiter with a proposed canard at a Mach number of 5.8 and 50 degrees angle of attack /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School; Available from the National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA258058.

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Thesis (Degree of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineer) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1993.
Thesis advisors, Richard M. Howard, Garth V. Hobson and Pieter G. Buning. AD-A258 058. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

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Kanao, Yuriko. "The roles of the community-based Japanese as a Second Language classroom, the creation of the co-learning space to make a change." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0010/MQ53401.pdf.

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Reuter, William H. IV. "Flowfield computations over the space shuttle Orbiter with a proposed canard at a Mach number of 5.8 and 50 degrees angle of attack." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/39837.

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Buttar, Sarpreet Singh. "Applying Machine Learning to Reduce the Adaptation Space in Self-Adaptive Systems : an exploratory work." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77201.

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Self-adaptive systems are capable of autonomously adjusting their behavior at runtime to accomplish particular adaptation goals. The most common way to realize self-adaption is using a feedback loop(s) which contains four actions: collect runtime data from the system and its environment, analyze the collected data, decide if an adaptation plan is required, and act according to the adaptation plan for achieving the adaptation goals. Existing approaches achieve the adaptation goals by using formal methods, and exhaustively verify all the available adaptation options, i.e., adaptation space. However, verifying the entire adaptation space is often not feasible since it requires time and resources. In this thesis, we present an approach which uses machine learning to reduce the adaptation space in self-adaptive systems. The approach integrates with the feedback loop and selects a subset of the adaptation options that are valid in the current situation. The approach is applied on the simulator of a self-adaptive Internet of Things application which is deployed in KU Leuven, Belgium. We compare our results with a formal model based self-adaptation approach called ActivFORMS. The results show that on average the adaptation space is reduced by 81.2% and the adaptation time by 85% compared to ActivFORMS while achieving the same quality guarantees.

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Widäng, Ingrid. "Patients' Conceptions of Integrity within Health Care Illuminated from a Gender and a Personal Space Boundary Perspective." Licentiate thesis, Jönköping University, HHJ, Dep. of Nursing Science, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-802.

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The aims of this licentiate thesis were to explore and describe female and male patients’ conceptions of integrity within health care and to illuminate the conceptions from a gender as well as a personal space boundary perspective. A qualitative design with a phenomenographic approach was used. The participants, 17 male (Study I) and 15 female patients (Study II), all of whom had undergone medical or surgical care, were strategically selected and interviewed. The identified conceptions were also analysed from a gender as well as a personal space boundary perspective.

Three description categories emerged among the male patients (Study I); self-respect, dignity and confidence, while maintaining the self, dignity and confidence were the description categories found among the female patients (Study II). Male patients’ description of self-respect and female patients’ description of maintaining the self were for the most part similar although there were some differences. The conceptions revealed that integrity involves having the courage to set boundaries and having control over the private sphere, one’s self and one’s situation. While the male patients emphasised selfbelief and being alone, their female counterparts stressed that preserving one’s identity was essential in order to maintain the self. Dignity concerned being respected, and the male patients also described dignity as being seen as a trustworthy and whole person, while the women described it as not being exposed. Both male and female patients described confidence, which was related to handling patient information in a confidential way, trusting the professional caregivers, participating as well as balancing or changing the boundaries of integrity if necessary. The male patients also described confidence as being free.

The personal space boundary perspective was useful for explaining the process of respecting the self by opening or closing outgoing and incoming boundaries around the self. The patients had to consider who, when and to what degree others should have access to their personal spaces. The way in which the professional caregivers interacted with the patient influenced the openness of the boundaries.

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Miller, Rebecca. "Made in Grønland : How can a designer facilitate the activation of a community in the face of top-down regeneration?" Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-198117.

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Cities are highly unequal systems and rapid, top-down development is increasingly causing segregation between people of different socio-economic statuses through gentrification. In response, a bottom-up, more community centred approach is often proposed, yet this method also not without significant issues. In this thesis I investigate the role of the designer as a mediator, facilitator and translator between the top-down and bottom-up approaches to urban development. Using Grønland, Oslo as a case study, I start by gathering high-level research in order to understand the large-scale strategies that the municipality and private developers have for the area. In the second section, I undertake on-the-ground research in order to understand the everyday issues that people who live in, or use, the area face. In the final section I propose a research laboratory and makerspace that can activate the local community, providing the resources in order for everyday people to be able to have a positive impact on their city, in addition to gathering long-term, in-depth research on the area in order to influence the future of Grønland. This thesis is written as a working document that can, and should, be used by a wide range of people, from the municipality to local residents, and is designed to be added to as the project develops.

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Jensen, Amy Alexandra. "The representation of the female body/embodiment in selected mainstream American films / A.A. Jensen." Thesis, North-West University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10603.

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In her article “Visual pleasure and narrative cinema” (1975) Laura Mulvey explains how film portrays the female characters as passive sexualised objects, on display for the male (erotic) gaze. Although, Mulvey did make amendments to the original article after it was criticised, her original article is still influential and referenced in academic writing on film. This dissertation investigates how the three selected mainstream American films, namely, Alice in Wonderland, Monster and Transamerica, have female protagonists who deviate from Mulvey’s initial standpoint and enact a new dynamic, whereby the female characters possess active bodies. In order to explain this new dynamic, the dissertation provides an overview of relevant theory in order to establish the necessary analytical tools to investigate the representation of the female body. These tools are taken from feminist notions of the body, most importantly Mulvey’s notions, in order to establish what constitutes an active female body that subverts the male gaze. This subversion is most notable when examining the iconography of the active female body. The dissertation also draws from the overview the importance of place and space, the embodiment of the characters’ inner workings in specific locations, and their relationship with the locations in which they are depicted. Since all three films include a physical journey on which the respective protagonists embark the examination of borders and border crossings is included. The dissertation shows that journeys bring with them the opportunity for the body to be active, as each female protagonist is on a journey to self-discovery. The changing settings in which the protagonists find themselves are an embodiment of their inner workings. Topographical borders mark the entering of new locations. However, concomitant symbolic and epistemological borders are also crossed. The female protagonists need to make choices concerning their lives and as a consequence alter the representations to reflect bodies that subvert the male gaze. These female bodies are active. However, they are active in different ways. Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, delves into her psyche to emerge a changed and independent Victorian woman. Bree, from Transamerica, heals the relationships with her family and is able to have her gender reconstructive surgery to become a physical woman. These two female protagonists have positive representations of the active female body. The protagonist from Monster, Aileen, is represented in a constant state of abjection and her active body is portrayed in a negative light. Whether represented in a positive or egative light, these chosen films all portray an active female body that does subvert the male gaze, and hence represent a new dynamic different from the one Mulvey described.
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