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Sinclair, Sue. "Miles to the horizon." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30026.pdf.
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Magin, Carrie. "Miles of Gold for orchestra." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1299617711.
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De, Beer Marésa. "Oor die kortkuns van John Miles." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002092.
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This thesis involves intensive analyses of some of the short-short stories in John Miles's Liefs nie op straat nie, in order to reveal the narrative strategies employed in each. In other words, it is geared to "the rules that govern ... textual actualization and, consequently, those rules that govern the way literary discourse functions as communication" (Riffaterre 1983: 158). Subsequently, attention is given to the interrelationship among the texts, the way in which they act upon one another and interact with the title of the volume, in order to establish the function of such relations. The following texts are analysed in consecutive chapters: "Lucy", "Lappies, kan jy my hoor, Lappies?", "Voorgevoel", "Dom Nakkie, my Dom Nakkie" and "Wie het nog Dom Nakkie gesien?", "Hy staan by die deur en hy klop", "Gustav gaan speel", and "Liefs nie op straat nie". In a concluding chapter the implications of the title are discussed with reference to all the texts in the volume, including those not analysed individually. It is concluded that, on the one hand, the expectations raised by the title are ironicized because the title is never "completed" explicitly, and because that which, by implication, should not be seen in public ("op straat"), is specifically situated in the street and scrutinized in close-up. But on the other hand the title also evokes a peculiar mentality present in all the texts, either in the narrators, or in the characters, or in both. The discussion of "Lucy" is focussed mainly on the contrast and interaction between the world of the child and that of the adult and on the way in which this interaction is actualized within the text through the contrast in the experience of time, the use of "mémoire involontaire", "durée" and the contrasts between (and overlapping of) narrative perspective and focalization. In respect of "Lappies, kan jy my hoor, Lappies?" special attention is paid to similarities and contrasts between this text and the traditional suspense story, notably the way in which conventional techniques are employed to create suspense, as well as to generate an entire subtext which eventually "relocates" the text on the niveau of the murderer's psychological dilemma. In discussing "Voorgevoel" emphasis is not placed primarily on what is conveyed by the narrator, but on the way in which his intentions are subverted both by the window pane through which he is looking and by the narration as such. In this way he is foregrounded and revealed as narrator, just as the text is foregrounded and revealed as literature, with the emphasis, in both cases, not only on their defence mechanisms but also on their impotence. "Dom Nakkie, my Dom Nakkie" and "Wie het nog Dom Nakkie gesien?" are grouped together in one chapter in order to illuminate the interaction between the two narratives in the first text, as well as the interaction between the two texts. Ultimately, they may be seen as three narratives juxtaposed through irony and relativism. The "triumph" of the "preferably not in public" mentality, both in the text and in society, is also illustrated by the interaction between the three narratives. In chapter, 5, in which "Hy staan by die deur en hy klop" is discussed, attention is focussed on the ironic function of the Biblical references, the contrast between Jan and the rest of society, and the way in which the "climax" is located within the Iserian "blank" in the text, so that the entire process of decoding is based on a filling in of that "blank" and its implications. "Gustav gaan speel" is based loosely on Barthes's lexia model, in order to determine the signifying process in the text, and also to demonstrate the way in which the text presupposes rereading. In the discussion of the title text it is revealed how the text is centered in the basic dichotomy between the narrator-as-writer and the journalist, and the way in which this polarity is relativized by the text as such. The text is demonstrated to be the credo of the volume as a whole as well as of the fiction of the Seventies in Afrikaans.
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Bernal, Leonardo Camacho. "Miles Davis the road to modal jazz /." connect to online resource, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3693.
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Sisk, Grant. "A Thousand Miles Out of My Mind." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2552/.
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The dissertation is a collection of creative and non-fiction work, including a novel with critical introduction, four short stories, and three essays. The novel is a modern day Grail quest that takes place primarily in the Southwestern United States. The short stories are mostly set in the southwest as well, and take for their topic what Paul Fussel refers to as "hope abridged." The essays are non-fiction.
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Camacho, Bernal Leonardo. "Miles Davis: The Road to Modal Jazz." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3693/.
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The fact that Davis changed his mind radically several times throughout his life appeals to the curiosity. This thesis considers what could be one of the most important and definitive changes: the change from hard bop to modal jazz. This shift, although gradual, is best represented by and culminates in Kind of Blue, the first Davis album based on modal style, marking a clear break from hard bop. This thesis explores the motivations and reasons behind the change, and attempt to explain why it came about. The purpose of the study is to discover the reasons for the change itself as well as the reasons for the direction of the change: Why change and why modal music?
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CICOLELLA, ROSA. "DAL MILES GLORIOSUS AL VANTONE DI PASOLINI." Doctoral thesis, Università di Foggia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11369/331866.
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Il lavoro di ricerca è stato focalizzato su nuovi spunti d’indagine e di approfondimento della ricezione di opere classiche nella letteratura moderna, in particolare partendo dalla figura del MILES GLORIOSUS, passando per l’Illusion Comique di Corneille e giungendo al Vantone di Pasolini.
Plauto fu un uno dei maestri del teatro per il brio straordinario che non teme neppure la trivialità, e per il grande senso dell'osservazione delle tipologie umane che arricchì frequentando mercati, gli schiavi, i soldati, le prostitute che gli ispirarono gran parte delle commedie. Egli fu maestro del riso, se ne servì in maniera sferzante, usando i mezzi propri del teatro.
Fu abile nell'annodare intrecci e nel dipingere i personaggi messi in scena in modo preciso.
Le sue commedie avevano un prologo lunghissimo, sproporzionato, era una vero discorso rivolto al popolo sull'argomento della commedia stessa, i dialoghi erano espressi da parole saporite di pura fonte latina, la musica e il canto erano felicemente integrate.
Da Plauto parte con più forza rispetto ad altri autori l’avventura comica del soldato nella letteratura di tutti i tempi: i suoi contorni si marcano con maggior evidenza si prepara la strada per un soggetto comico multifunzionale, destinato a ibridarsi con la tradizione dell’epica classica e a disperdersi nei rivi complicati dei suoi diversi allotropi.
Da qui la “contaminatio” e l’influenza che Plauto ebbe su Terenzio. Il personaggio del miles diventa topico all’interno della palliata e si stabilizza sui binari della comicità plautina. Il grande insegnamento del teatro di Plauto perdura, infatti, per più di mezzo secolo dalla sua morte.
Sebbene l'opera di Corneille differisca nei contenuti e nella trama da quella di Plauto, si possono trovare molti elementi che, singolarmente o organicamente, l'avvicinano ad essa.
Corneille scrive nel 1635 quella che sarà la sua ultima commedia, L'Illusion Comique, che, a detta dello stesso autore, si compone dei generi più svariati racchiudendo quindi una mescolanza degli stili più diversi. Corneille utilizza molte delle maschere tipiche del teatro plautino, a cominciare dalla figura del miles stesso, che, da protagonista – o quasi – della commedia di Plauto, diviene una semplice comparsa nell'opera di Corneille, ma ne mantiene i tratti distintivi. Di contro, il Vantone non è certo un esercizio intellettuale ma assume un preciso ruolo, tenta di far rinascere il genere drammatico, dopo la crisi del dramma borghese. Lungo le pagine dello studio che andrò a presentare ci renderemo conto di quanto Pasolini abbia creduto nel suo lavoro di traduzione, condotto con un atteggiamento di grande rispetto per il drammaturgo.
Pasolini si confronta con l’autore classico e ne recupera tutti gli elementi della sua commedia, dalla fabula, incentrata intorno alla beffa, all’assetto linguistico, nonostante il traduttore ambienti le storie del suo Miles nella Roma delle borgate: alla nobiltà del latino plautino corrisponde l’utilizzo del martelliano, il verso del grande teatro del settecento cui rifarsi per la rinascita del
dramma borghese, mediante il quale filtrare il romanesco adoperato da Pasolini. Pasolini può essere considerato, a pieno titolo, allievo di Plauto, sa di disporre di un universo linguistico nascente
La ricerca, dunque, ha messo in risalto la figura del Miles nell’arco dei secoli e la sua rappresentazione teatrale.
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Brettell, Jonathan James. "Walking Severn miles : the affordances of fresh water." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/a3f9f979-c722-48c7-9dbf-45551ca10864.
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Following a call from Linton (2010) to think more relationally about water this thesis seeks to explore the infolding and unfolding relations that take-form between bodies around particular characteristics of freshwater. There is a tradition of exploration regarding the sustainability, quality, monitoring and management of water when we encounter research on human associations with fluvial hydrology, and whilst this work is important, this project looks to enrol more nascent and contemporary geographical themes to broaden our understanding of encounters with freshwater landscapes, and take a more relational approach to fluvial geographies. These works then shall address a gap in the geographical literature and describe the personal, pre-personal and affective worlds that emerge when bodies become down by the river. Whilst this is not specifically a walking project, walking the course of the River Severn serves as a trajectory along which processual ideas of bodies on the move shall be mobilised. A series of creatively written segues will link together a sequence of theoretical and conceptually driven site ontologies (Marston et al 2005; Woodward et al 2010) and relations associated with the Severn and freshwater more broadly. The flow and form of the thesis will reflect the multivariant characteristics of water and its varying speeds and slownesses. The chapters will step into puddles, mooch about in a ships graveyard, rethink the source of a river, paddle a coracle and set the scene for how an ontological, relational approach to fluvial landscapes can contribute to geographical thinking. The works will focus on human-nonhuman relations, vibrant materialities and elemental mobilities, in so doing enable further understanding of how we can apprehend sites as moments of coherence in a turbulent world, and contribute to broadening our scope of knowledge of the more-than-human.
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Kambour, Andrew Nicholas. "Federal transportation spending and vehicle miles traveled reductions." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/456287525/viewonline.
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Swiboda, Marcel. "The pragmatic constructions of Deleuze, Guattari and Miles Davis." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/369/.
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The aim of the following investigation is two-fold. Firstly, the project takes as its focus the growing corpus of secondary literature written on the work of the French philosophers and theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, whose work has generated a great deal of interest in recent years and a proportionate amount of controversy. Much of this controversy can be attributed to simplifications and misunderstandings on the part of commentators who have in some instances neglected to approach Deleuze and Guattari with sufficent rigour and care, resulting in the perpetuation of so many misunderstandings regarding their work. Secondly, the project will seek to redress some of these misunderstandings by recourse to a pragmatic embodiment of Deleuze and Guattari's concepts and ideas through a case-study based on the life and work of the African-American jazz musician Miles Davis. In attempting to provide a new and challenging case as the basis for this investigation, the overriding aim is to assess the pragmatic remit of Deleuze and Guattari's thought, in terms of aesthetics, ethics and politics, whilst remaining sensitive to the potential limitations and dangers of their project.
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anderson, Benjamin Park. "Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance." W&M ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623644.
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Using jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991) as its primary example, "Seeing (for) Miles" attempts to build on a growing discourse related to the intersection of jazz, race, and visual / material culture that has heretofore largely ignored the role of consumption. Davis' numerous decisions to spend money on expensive things and/or have them custom made, insisting these things be seen by others, and overseeing his image in advertisements are a reminder that famous musicians often found themselves straddling the line between being consumers and objects of consumption. Following Davis on both sides of that line also necessitates following him on and off the stage, in the eye of his fans as well as the general public. Each of the chapters of this dissertation seek to understand how Davis negotiated this variety of viewpoints as a musician, consumer, and African American via his colored trumpets, tailored suits, sports cars, an expensive home, and instrument advertisements.;The decisions Davis and others made with regard to their positions as consumers and African Americans reflected back on a longer history of black interaction with the marketplace while positioning themselves within existing debates concerning racial equality, jazz's status as high art, and the merits of capitalism as a catalyst for democracy. at the same time, their careers as public performers, status as celebrities, and the increasing presence of the visual mass media ensured that their consumer-related decisions reached bigger and wider audiences than ever before. In such a context, the marketplace can be understood as having constituted a unique venue in which black jazz musicians performed a variety of roles relative to their musical and racial identities. Understanding the ways Davis and others negotiated this process allows us to shed light on a relatively unexplored aspect of jazz culture while also suggesting ways in which racial and musical identities continue to be impacted by visual / material culture in modern society.
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Driscoll, Richard. "Factors Explaining Changes in Household Vehicle Miles of Travel." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7500.
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Vehicle miles of travel (VMT) is a key indicator of travel demand in the United States. Since 1995 total VMT and VMT per capita has fluctuated, with notable declines in the late 2000s and accelerated increases in the last 7 years. Since 1995, the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) has tracked the household share of total VMT to shed light on the demographic and behavioral data behind personal vehicle travel. The household share of VMT, while still a majority, has declined every NHTS year since at least 1995. Meanwhile, household VMT has stagnated around 2.25 trillion miles since the 2001 survey. With such unprecedented travel demand changes, the current transportation technology revolution, and the climate of uncertainty, it is critical to understand why household VMT is changing and how this might affect future roadway demand.
This thesis examines demographic, socioeconomic and behavioral factors that influence VMT, including both factors with existing research and some untraditional factors, using new data and methodologies.
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Wanken, Matthew David. "A 'Mity' life: the career of Miles H. Johnson." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5874.
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This thesis provides a historical account of the career of Miles “Mity” Johnson. Johnson taught music for thirty-seven years at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. During those years, he led the St. Olaf Band to national and international prominence. Johnson’s professional influences traverse his work as a collegiate band director, and horn recitalist and teacher, as well as his contributions to professional development for conductors and the adult community band movement.
This research draws heavily on archival materials from the Shaw-Olson Center for College History at St. Olaf College along with several personal collections, including Johnson’s own private collection. Oral interviews with family members, colleagues, and former students supplemented archival materials.
Johnson’s career spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a period that witnessed important growth in repertoire, professional development, and other areas in the concert band field, and this thesis highlights his reactions and contributions to those changes. Chapters explore Johnson’s family, education, and military background; followed by details of his public school and St. Olaf College teaching career. Examining the areas of domestic and international touring, concert programming, and horn teaching during Johnson’s tenure at St. Olaf reveals significant contributions to the band field. Also included are Johnson’s numerous guest conducting engagements at All-State band performances and the Vestfold Summer music camp in Norway. Research on Johnson’s establishment of the Minnesota Instrumental Conducting Symposium (MICS) and the Minnesota Symphonic Winds (MSW) adult community band, give further insight into Johnson’s broader contributions to the wind band profession.
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楊淑婷 and Suk-ting Peggy Yang. "Food miles: a case of sustainability consumption In Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41549569.
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Gassberger, Molly. "Obefläckad Maria : Miles Aldridges Immaculée analyserad i en samtida kontext." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för musik och bild (MB), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-107173.
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Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka Miles Aldridges fotografi Immaculée#5 som gestaltar en Jungfru Maria som innehar ett uttryck av extas. Med hjälp av Panofskys ikonografiska metod och feministisk och psykoanalytisk teori analyseras verket för att utforska hur det religiösa verket kan tolkas i en samtida kontext. Slutsatsen innehåller en konklusion om att en förhistorisk kontext om Jungfru Maria och genomförda kritiska analyser visar att Immaculée#5 kan representera ett visuellt kvinnoförtryck baserat på bland annat sexuell voyeurism.The purpose of the essay is to examine Miles Aldridge's photograph Immaculée#5, which depicts a Virgin Mary holding an expression of ecstasy. Using Panofsky's iconographic method and feminist and psychoanalytic theory, the work is analyzed to explore how the religious work can be interpreted in a contemporary context. The conclusion is that a prehistoric context about the Virgin Mary and critical analyses show that Immaculée#5 can represent a visual oppression of women based on sexual voyeurism, among other things.
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Van, Reenen Sandra Elizabeth. "John Miles, Kroniek uit die doofpot, polisieroman : ’n dekonstruktiewe leesoefening." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3067.
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Magister Artium - MAThis dissertation concerns itself primarily with deconstruction theory and a number of readings of this novel within the ambit of deconstruction. According to Derrida there is not a single deconstruction and in response to this remark this study undertakes more than one deconstructive reading of the same novel. These different readings are introduced by a preliminary reading of the paratext and a cryptic reading which acknowledges the fragmentary nature of this novel. Hereafter a deconstruction of the novel follows in two phases, of which the first phase focuses on the process of its production. The non-fictitious documents on which the novel is based are revealed and exposed as building blocks during this reading. The second phase of the deconstructive reading is divided into two parts. The first part is based on Derrida’s dredging machine metaphor which introduces and illustrates the concept of random reading. During this phase the novel is acknowledged and read as an intertextual reconstruction. The non-fictitious documents are acknowledged as an archive within the context of recent as well as less recent South African history which serves as intertexts along with other texts. The second part of the second phase involves a reading of this novel as an anti- Hegelian text. Hegel’s concepts of the state and law are brought into the reading process. The reading focuses on the Apartheid State, the police force as an instrument of the state, and offers a critique on the discriminatory laws and the Constitution of the time period within which the novel is contextualised.
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Abildgaard, Arne. "L’ écriture de la voix. A l'écoute d'Agharta, Miles Davis." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070134.
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Cette recherche part du constat que le nom de l'auteur continue à faire autorité. Pour la réception de l'art, toute oeuvre semble pré-classée en vertu des discours attachés à sa provenance. Mais serait-il possible de concevoir une perception d'aucune chose, sans que la langue n'intervienne et ne fasse écran entre l'objet et nous ? La difficulté est encore plus redoutable lorsqu'il s agit de rendre compte de la musique, par essence évanescente, à partir d'un disque vinyle, produit de masse et objet composite (titres, pochette, technologie). Comment dire la musique ? Parlons-nous de la même chose ? Comment entendrions-nous l'objet si nous ne savions rien de lui ? Le disque d'Agharta (1975) met à l'épreuve ces questions de communauté et de foi. A défaut de retrouver une forme de naïveté primordiale, ne peut-on essayer de désapprendre, de trouver la distance optimale ? Entendre l'objet comme une chose nommée, approfondir son paratexte pour «re»-venir à son texte (le potentiel sonore) ? Déshabiller la chose de son Nom, préparer à l'écoute réitérée. Dès lors, l'objet ne sera plus le même, le Nom non plus, si ce n'est l'expérimentateur qui s'en trouvera changéThis research begins with the observation: the authority of the name of the author prevails. To the art reception, any work seems pre-classified by the discourses tied to its provenance. But would it be possible to conceive a perception of any thing whatsoever, without language breaking in, blurring our view of the object? The difficulty is all the more fearsome when it comes to give an account of the music, essentially evanescent, starting with a vinyl record, a mass product and a composite object (titles, cover, technology). How to say the music? Are we speaking of the same thing? How would we hear and understand the object if we knew nothing about it? The record Agharta (1975) puts to the test these questions of community and faith. Abstaining from reassuming some primordial naivety, couldn't one try to unlearn, to find an optimal distance? Hear and understand the object as a named thing, delve into its paratext in order to "re"-turn to its text (the sonic potential)? Undress the thing of its Name, and prepare for the reiterated listening. From then on, the object will no more be the same, neither will the Name, if it isn't the experiencer that finds himself changed by the operation
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CAMP, OLIVIER. "Les contraintes en programmation logico-fonctionnelle : application au langage miles." Paris 6, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA066336.
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Depuis les annees 80 on s'est souvent penche sur l'integration des styles de programmation en logique et fonctionnelle. Le langage miles est le resultat d'une telle fusion. Il est obtenu en ajoutant a un noyau lisp les concepts d'un langage de programmation en logique: le non-determinisme, les variables logiques et l'unification. L'ajout de variables logiques dans un langage applicatif fait apparaitre de nouveaux objets: les expressions gelees. Dans cette these nous montrons comment celles-ci permettent, grace a l'unification, de definir des contraintes semblables a celles des clp. De plus, nous voyons comment on peut definir, en miles, un systeme de resolution gerant les contraintes numeriques du langage. Dans un premier temps nous nous focalisons sur les contraintes d'egalite. Nous etudions les algorithmes traditionnels de resolution de systemes lineaires et montrons comment ils doivent etre modifies pour permettre le traitement de contraintes d'egalite sur les reels. Nous montrons comment nous pouvons implanter ces algorithmes en miles pour obtenir un langage de programmation logico-fonctionnelle autorisant une utilisation active des contraintes d'egalite numeriques. Nous nous interessons ensuite aux contraintes d'inegalite numeriques du langage. Apres avoir montre comment une version modifiee de l'algorithme du simplex pouvait etre utilisee pour resoudre un systeme d'inequations lineaires de maniere incrementale, nous en proposons une definition en miles pour gerer les contraintes d'inegalite. Muni de ces deux systemes de resolution le langage miles devient un langage de programmation logico-fonctionnelle avec contraintes sur les reels. Il permet d'adopter les styles de programmation en logique avec contraintes et fonctionnel
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Yang, Suk-ting Peggy. "Food miles a case of sustainability consumption In Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41549569.
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González, Hernán Mauricio. "The interaction between distance to work and vehicle miles traveled." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7858.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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McRae, Chris. "Hearing Miles Davis: A Pedagogy of Autobiographical Performance and Jazz." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/358.
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This dissertation argues for a relational ethic of listening that emphasizes the pedagogical role of the listener as a student in dialogically hearing, producing, and responding to the other. This ethic of listening works to hear possibilities amongst differences, and to ethically account for and learn from the cultural, historical, and embodied differences of the other as they are produced relationally amongst macro-structures and micro-practices. In order to develop this ethic of listening, I pay specific attention to my solo autobiographical performance, Miles away from "The Cool," in which I present my autobiographical and musical reading of the autobiography of trumpet player Miles Davis, Miles. This performance and my research regarding the music, life story, and cultural significance of Davis functions as an example for my development of a listening centered approach to pedagogy. Listening to jazz and the music of Davis provides an approach to hearing possibilities as they are enabled and constrained by larger macro-structures and specific micro-practices. I argue this approach to listening can be extended to research regarding autobiography and geographic location. Listening to autobiography and location can enable a critical and ethical understanding of the ways history, context, and power play on bodies in jazz, autobiography, location and autobiographical performance. After explaining this relational ethic of listening in terms of autobiography and jazz, I make the case for listening as a performative act in which as listeners we are always students to the other. Performative listening is a critical communicative act that works to ethically and pedagogically hear and learn from the other. Performative listening emerges from a relational ethic of listening, and it is a productive pleasure that works to hear possibilities in and amongst differences.
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Miles, Lana. "Die toepassing van projekbestuursbeginsels in die proses van plaasarbeiderbemagtiging / L. Miles." Thesis, North-West University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/482.
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There are more or less 900 000 farm workers in South Africa. Among these
approximately 600 000 are permanently employed, while the rest are seasonal workers.
It is estimated that six to seven million people are currently living on farms, which
implies that up to seven people are dependent on the wages of a single farm worker. In
order to improve the situation of farm workers, the Department of Labour implemented
the minimum wage system for farm workers on 1 March 2003.
The argument is posed, however, that many farm workers would lose their jobs because
of the sectoral stipulations. Unemployment has far-reaching consequences. Farm
workers who have lived on farms before, have to resettle and adapt to new social
structures, such as community structures and new codes of conduct. In order to adapt
to social change, it is argued that training agencies could use project management as a
suitable management tool to launch empowering interventions.
The analysis of the social conditions in which farm workers find themselves ought to be
undertaken on the basis of a specific theory on changes. From this perspective certain
theories of social change have been identified. Empowerment is discussed as a process
of change. This means an increase in influence and control by acquiring knowledge and
skills by means of the necessary training. While theorists on conflict view conflict as the
main driving force in change, empowerment is considered to be the process by means
of which change can be managed effectively.
For the rest the principles of project management are discussed to show that the project
cycle is based on project management principles. If project management principles and
the project cycle are applied as yardsticks during an empowerment project, the chances
of being successful will be much better than when launching an unstructured and
unplanned project.
The most important conclusion to be made from this research is that the management
of change by means of empowerment projects is of decisive importance to unemployed
farm workers. Empowerment projects for unemployed farm workers are the first steps in
the direction of effective management of social change and sustainable development in
South Africa.Thesis (M. Ontwikkeling en Bestuur)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.
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Gaffert, Philipp Verfasser], and Susanne [Akademischer Betreuer] [Rässler. "Multiple Imputation via Local Regression (Miles) / Philipp Gaffert ; Betreuer: Susanne Rässler." Bamberg : Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1147756910/34.
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Gaffert, Philipp [Verfasser], and Susanne [Akademischer Betreuer] Rässler. "Multiple Imputation via Local Regression (Miles) / Philipp Gaffert ; Betreuer: Susanne Rässler." Bamberg : Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-opus4-498847.
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Fyffe, Jamie Robert. "'Kind of Blue' and the signifyin(g) voice of Miles Davis." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8066/.
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Kind of Blue remains one of the most influential and successful jazz albums ever recorded, yet we know surprisingly few details concerning how it was written and the creative roles played by its participants. Previous studies in the literature emphasise modal and blues content within the album, overlooking the creative principle that underpins Kind of Blue – repetition and variation. Davis composed his album by Signifyin(g), transforming and recombining musical items of interest adopted from recent recordings of the period. This thesis employs an interdisciplinary framework that combines note-based observations with intertextual theory. It maps out the intertextual associations of each piece on Kind of Blue, illuminating Davis’s creative practice and more generally, Signifyin(g) in jazz. The study presents a more rounded account of the trumpeter, identifying Significations that possess a transformative power indicative of his idiosyncratic voice. This derives from the trumpeter’s skill in recognising the musical potential implicit in each borrowed item. Davis employed varied modes of revision in response to each insight, which nevertheless exhibit common traits – simplicity/neatness of approach, economical use of materials and revisional instinct. The study catches Davis in the act of revising musical tradition, as the trumpeter renegotiates African-American traditional forms using contemporary jazz devices. Some tracks exhibit “indirection” by saying one thing but meaning another. Thus, while the bluesy vamps of “All Blues” appear to affirm the blues tradition, a series of intertextual readings reveal a hidden dialogue concerning the mutability of style, as musical items traverse stylistic boundaries with ease courtesy of Davis’s Signifyin(g) voice.
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PEROTTET, ERIC. "Miles : fonction et logique. un langage nouveau pour une algorithmique etendue." Paris 6, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA066649.
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Nous desirons definir un langage de programmation regroupant les concepts rencontres dans la programmation fonctionnelle et dans la programmation en logique. Pour cela, nous integrons, a un noyau minimal common-lisp, les concepts de prolog. Apres l'ajout de chaque concept, nous verifions la coherence de l'ensemble. Nous obtenons un langage integrant les deux styles de programmation enrichis de la gestion de contraints (issues de la confrontation des fonctions et des inconnues). Nous presentons une methodologie de programmation pour laquelle un programme miles est divise en deux classes de relations: la premiere classe est composee de fonctions, de relations et de predicats qui specifient ce que doit faire le programme (aspect logique du programme). Nous presentons alors des criteres pour utiliser une fonction, une relation ou un predicat. La seconde classe represente le comment, elle definit la structure des objets utilises, elle definit les formes de controle du non-determinisme. Nous illustrons nos propos a l'aide, notamment, d'un exemple qui resoud un sorite de lewis carroll a l'aide des objets logiques, du non-determinisme pour la gestion des attributs multivalues et des effets de bord reversibles. Nous presentons les techniques utilisees pour la definition des interpretes lisp et prolog, et definissons un interprete miles, dans un langage de programmation de bas niveau a base de regles de reecriture. Il dispose d'une couche dans laquelle est exprimee le comportement de chaque relation de l'interprete et d'une autre couche, utilisant au maximum les specificites de la machine cible et dans laquelle sont definies les structures des objets miles et les formes les manipulant. Nous deduisons une implantation tres efficace du non-determinisme et des objets partiellement definis en partant de leurs specifications. Nous presentons, enfin, les differentes gestions de la memoire dont nous pouvons disposer en miles
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Best, Russell. "U.S. City Climate Action Plans: Planning to Reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled?" University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427982751.
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Marquit, Joshua D. "Prize-Based Contingency Management: A Vehicle Miles of Travel Reduction Intervention." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/991.
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During the past 50 years, air pollution has become a growing problem throughout the Intermountain West because of increases in personal vehicle ownership and usage. Scientists continue to design interventions to improve air quality by encouraging people to reduce their personal vehicle miles of travel (VMT). However, results of these interventions have only seen modest reductions in VMT because of some methodological and measurement issues. To address these limitations, a 14-week driving reduction intervention was conducted in Cache County, Utah. This intervention employed a prizebased contingency management system within a single-subject, A-B-A withdrawal research design that rewarded participants with prizes if they were able to reduce their VMT below their baseline mean. The VMT was measured each day with an in-car GPS electronic tracking device. Results of this intervention indicate both short- and long-term reductions in VMT as a result of the treatment. Specifically, 6 of the 10 participants showed a statistically significant reduction from the baseline to the intervention stage and maintenance of this reduction during the return-to-baseline stage. The other four participants exhibited a similar pattern but their change in vehicle miles of travel was not statistically significant. Interaction effects were not found between the quo;Choose Clean Airquo; social marketing campaign, gas prices, temperature, and PM 2.5 levels. Despite some problems with the transmission and recording of VMT data, this intervention provides further evidence for the application of prize-based contingency management systems to the reduction of a problematic behavior or encouragement of proenvironmental or pro-social behaviors. The in-car GPS devices improved VMT data collection and quality of the data but hardware and software improvements are still needed to prevent data loss. Further replication is necessary to determine the efficacy of driving reduction intervention that employs prize-based contingency management systems at the community or group level. Future research should also test the possible demographic differences between those that respond favorably to this type of intervention and those that do not, and the differences between prize delivery systems (immediate versus delayed) and prize magnitude (low- versus high-dollar amounts) on driving behaviors.
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Kimball, Matthew Eric. "Using temperature tolerance to predict distribution and overwintering success of lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles complex) on the east coast of the United States." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07182003-010123/.
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Knowles, Sandra English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "The performances of a psychic privacy: waiting for the real miles Franklin." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. English, Media, & Performing Arts, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40564.
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Current scholarship on Miles Franklin emphasises the gaps and contradictions of a secretive and mysterious author. The eagerly awaited release of her private papers was marked by Paul Brunton's 2004 publication of her diaries, an edition that has been conceived and understood as a revelation of "the real Miles Franklin" (Lecture Title, State Library). This thesis disrupts the concept of a "real" Franklin by arguing that these diaries, in their manuscript form, give us more delay. Foregrounding the performative guises of the private diary subject, this thesis establishes that we are, and will always be, waiting for the real Miles Franklin to arrive. The insights of diary and textual theories illuminate Franklin, I will argue, as one who seeks the proliferative creativity of the anonymous author, and who would use her diary writing to escape definition within public discourse. Yet the tension between creativity and the daily enables us to see how potential is distorted into waiting in the surrogate space of these diaries, as Franklin seeks protection within the nostalgia of a national past and an Edenic vision of the future. This vantage point directs us to identify, as will be seen, the vulnerabilities and instabilities of this space for Franklin, as it implicates her in the dilemma of her times. In this way, we can ascertain how she holds the line as a "spotless virgin" (3 May 1942) in her resistance to the gender performances of new women, her refusal to be defined as one thing or another. This resistance to imitation will also be analysed as it plays out via the curse of Franklin's self-repetition in an Australia that waits, disrupting her attempts to achieve anonymity as the embodiment of a national literary tradition. In her avoidance of being a private text to be read, Franklin promotes herself, I will contend, as a "world classic" (Franklin Furphy 3) author of and in these diaries, resisting the transition from the readerly to the modernist writerly text at a time of artistic revolution (Barthes S/Z 4). In illuminating Franklin's exposure to these very vulnerabilities as a subject-in-process, in a document intended for posthumous publication, this thesis will establish that she has made a courageous contribution to the complexities of a particular moment within Australian modernity
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Stewart, Neal Edward. "Non-lyrical democracy : a rhetorical analysis of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/902.
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Macdonald, Lesley. "Communicating with the ethical-religious consumer : food miles and food sustainability perspectives." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2013. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/3001/.
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Ellis, Rose. "For we are young and free : a critical study of Bee Miles." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/21035.
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Gasperi, Daniela <1987>. "Urban Horticulture: Reducing Food Miles to Improve Cities Microclimate and Environmental Sustainability." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/8022/1/Gasperi_Daniela_Tesi.pdf.
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Human population growth rates determine future population and cities sizes. By gathering together people and production, cities also concentrate the demand for fresh water and other natural resources, food included. In addition, because the urban sprawl has destroyed agricultural land, it is necessary to move some of the production from rural to urban areas. This means that it is necessary to re-think our cities, our productive cities.
In this dissertation are explored major strategies for contributing to the challenge of feeding people in urban areas. Particular emphasis is placed on local low-input cultivation systems. The environmental profile of different food supply chains, based on different ‘food miles’, was assessed. ‘Food miles’, first coined in ‘90s, measure the distance that food travels from where it is grown or raised to where it is consumed. The selected methodology to assess the environmental impact was the life cycle assessment (LCA). The impact category chosen was the global warming potential (GWP), through midpoint methods, the IPCC 2013 100a. It contains the climate change factors of IPCC in a time-frame of 100 years; it is expressed in Kg CO2 eq.
Nevertheless it was also used to evaluate the urban garden’s climate mitigation using ENVI-met software and the predicted mean vote indicator.
Here, it was confirmed the important value of gardens and horticultural activities in urban contexts. That, because there is an environmental improvement and the generation of ecosystem services.
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Grigorenko, Don. "The theological method of Schubert Ogden." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Strebel, Ignaz. "Miles, Malcolm, Urban Avant-Gardes : art, architecture and change / [rezensiert von] Ignaz Strebel." Universität Potsdam, 2005. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3115/.
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Rezensiertes Werk:
Miles, Malcolm: Urban Avant-Gardes : art, architecture and change / Malcolm Miles. - London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2004. - XIV, 272 S. : Ill.
ISBN 0-415-26687-4 (Hardback)
0-415-26688-2 (Paperback)
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Sundquist, Eric William. "Reducing vehicle-miles traveled: an argument for land use as a policy lever." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45947.
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Reducing vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) has become an important goal for improving environmental outcomes and reducing the costs of travel and infrastructure. One way to accomplish such reductions could be to enact policies that foster more compact development. However, while it is accepted that compact development is associated with lower VMT, there remain disagreements about the efficacy of this policy lever. One issue casting doubt on the power of compact development relates to travelers' exposure to density. A conventional view holds that many travelers' neighborhoods are "locked in place" because change in established neighborhoods is slow. Additionally, conventional explanations of the effect of denser development focus on travelers' own neighborhoods, or on the metro area as a whole, failing to isolate the effect of densifying nodes near, but outside of, the travelers' neighborhoods. This study employs housing and travel data from the Seattle-Tacoma, Wash., where policies aimed at encouraging compact development have been in place since the mid-1990s. Findings suggest that 1) in established neighborhood, incremental change often results in exposure to substantially higher density, and 2) that even where localized density is constant, increases in density at intentional nodes or other areas near, but outside of, a traveler's own neighborhood, has a strong effect on VMT. The findings tend to undermine some of the key doubts about using land use as a policy lever for VMT reduction.
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Hughes, Rebecca Jane. "Exploring the geography of food miles : an example from the UK grocery market." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616294.
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'Food miles' are the distance that edible products are transported from primary producer(s) to end consumer(s). Over the last fifty years global economic changes, technological advances and logistical developments have led to foods being transported longer distances to their final destination. Although the modern food system allows UK retailers to meet consumer demand for high quality, low cost, exotic and out-of-season products, growing concern about the links between food miles and global warming is forcing retailers to reconsider their distribution practices. In a bid to improve their green credentials, all UK multiples are developing ' local' ranges. Locally sourced foods should, by definition, travel shorter distances to stores. This is not always the case however, because local products tend to be transported via mainstream logistics systems, which are highly centralised and circuitous. Asda is the only major UK grocer to have developed a local-specific distribution strategy. The retailer has delegated responsibilities to eleven independently operated local hubs, each one serving as a single point of delivery and consolidation for local suppliers from which their products are distributed to nearby Asda stores for sale. Asda claims that its unique hub system offers an efficient local sourcing solution. However, the associated food miles have yet to be investigated. In order to provide Asda with the means to review its local distribution strategy (as well as to encourage other retailers to adopt similar solutions), this thesis explains how a bespoke Local Food Miles Calculator was developed and utilised to investigate the efficiency of Asda's local distribution strategy (in terms of distances travelled and emissions produced) and to make suggestions as to how it could be improved. Thus, a new method for estimating food miles is presented, along with new techniques for distributing local products to the shelves of major grocery retailers' stores.
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Magnússon, Bjarni Mar. "Dispute settlement and the establishment of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7809.
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One of the central purposes of the international law of the sea is to define various maritime zones, their extent and limits. One of these zones is the continental shelf. The continental shelf in modern international law has two aspects: The continental shelf within 200 nautical miles from the shore of coastal States and the continental shelf beyond that limit. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea provides that information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles shall be submitted by the coastal State to a scientific and technical commission, namely the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. The Commission is responsible for making recommendations to coastal States on matters related to the establishment of the outer limits of their continental shelves beyond 200 nautical miles. If the limits of the shelf established by a coastal State are on the basis of the recommendations, they are final and binding. The establishment of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles has two main features: The establishment of the boundary line between the continental shelf and the international seabed area and the establishment of the boundary between the continental shelf of adjacent or opposite coastal States. Many questions concerning the relationship between these procedures have been left unanswered as well as the relationship between the Commission and international courts and tribunals. This thesis analyses the role of coastal States, the Commission and international courts and tribunals in the establishment of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and the interplay between them. It explores how the various sources of international law have contributed to the establishment of the current legal framework. The thesis explores the differences between the delineation and delimitation of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. It demonstrates that the role of the Commission is to curtail extravagant claims to the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and protect the territorial scope of the international seabed area. It also shows that the role of international courts and tribunals in this field is essentially the same as their role in other types of disputes. It explains that the establishment of the boundary line between the continental shelf and the international seabed area and the establishment of the boundary between the continental shelf of adjacent or opposite coastal States is a separate process. Furthermore, it clarifies that the three-stage boundary delimitation method is applicable beyond 200 nautical miles. It also displays that no special rule of customary international law has evolved that is solely applicable to delimitations regarding the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. The thesis addresses the interaction of the various mechanisms within the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea concerning the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. Its main conclusion is that despite the possibility for tension to arise the relationship between the institutions is clear and precise and they together form a coherent system where each separate institution plays its own part in a larger process.
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Spain, Thomas James. "'Food miles' : Britain's transition from rail to road-based food distribution, 1919-1975." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18843/.
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Britain’s railways were essential for the development of the British economy throughout the nineteenth century; however, by 1919 their seemingly unassailable position as goods carriers was about to be eroded by the lorry. The railway strike of September 1919 had presented traders with an opportunity to observe the capabilities of road haulage, but there is no study which focuses on the process of modal shift in goods distribution from the trader’s perspective. This thesis therefore marks an important departure from the existing literature by placing goods transport into its working context. The importance of food as an everyday essential commodity adds a further dimension to the status of goods transport within Britain’s supply chain, particularly when the fragility of food products means that minimising the impact of distance, time and spoilage before consumption is vital in ensuring effective and practical logistical solutions. These are considered in a series of four case studies on specific food commodities and retail distribution, which also hypothesise that the modal shift from rail to road reflected the changing character of transport demand between 1919 and 1975. Consequently, this thesis explores the notion that the centre of governance over the supply chain transferred between food producers, manufacturers, government and chain retailer, thereby driving changes in transport technology and practice. This thesis uses archival material to provide a qualitative study into the food industry’s relationship with transport where the case studies incorporate supply chain analyses to permit an exploration of how changes in structure might have influenced the modal shift from rail to road distribution. It subsequently discusses how and when the emergence of mass-consumerism, as well as the intensification of the chain retailer’s quest for competitive advantage, effected a permanent change in the balance of food logistics in Britain before 1975.
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Swenarton, Mary. "Population Ecology of Invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) in the South Atlantic Bight." UNF Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/626.
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Invasive species are a top threat to global biodiversity. Lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) are a marine invasive predator that are now established in the Western Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Studies that have documented impacts of lionfish suggest they can reduce fish recruitment and native species biomass by up to 80%. Research on lionfish impacts, biology and ecology is heavily focused in tropical and subtropical systems, with considerably less research effort occurring in the temperate regions of their invaded range, such as the South Atlantic Bight. Lionfish life history estimates are important to modeling lionfish population growth, modeling future dispersal and evaluating the efficacy of different removal strategies. Since lionfish life history will vary with a suite of environmental, biological and ecological factors, estimates of lionfish life history should be collected in all regions of their invaded range. The purpose of this study was to collect baseline information of lionfish biology and ecology in the southern portion of the South Atlantic Bight, an unstudied region for this species. As such, chapter one uses a quantitative approach to determine lionfish life history estimates important to management. Some important results of chapter one are: lionfish are recruiting at one main time throughout the year, growth changes seasonally and the population is relatively young (< 3 years of age). Chapter two takes the first step in determining lionfish impacts in this region by quantifying their diet. The main conclusion of this chapter is that round scad (Decapterus punctatus), sand perch (Diplectrum formosum) and black sea bass (Centropristis striata) are the most important prey items in the lionfish diet. Black sea bass are an important fishery in the South Atlantic Bight, and lionfish could be negatively affecting recruitment. Together, these chapters provide important insight into lionfish ecology in this region and in general.
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Munyon, Vinola Vincent. "Vehicle Fuel Economy And Vehicle Miles Traveled: An Empirical Investigation Of Jevons’ Paradox." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1415710122.
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Azaria, Dale. "Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in Chittenden County Via Modifications to the Built Environment." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2012. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/13.
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Vehicle Miles Traveled (“VMT”) is a measure of how much driving a person or a population does in a given period for time. VMT per capita is widely viewed as the strongest correlate of environmental degradation and resource consumption in the transportation sector, a sector that accounts for approximately 1/3 of our greenhouse gas emissions and 1/3 of our overall energy use. An integrated land use- transportation model was used to simulate the impact that an urban growth boundary would have on VMT over a 40-year modeling horizon in a small metropolitan area, Chittenden County, VT. The results indicate that even in an area with low to moderate population growth, an urban growth boundary has the potential to reduce VMT per person by as much as 25% from a business-as-usual scenario over a 40-year period. The reduction would result primarily from a shift from driving to public transit or walking for many trips. One version of the urban growth boundary would also benefit from shorter average trip lengths. The obstacles and opportunities for implementation of an urban growth boundary or similar land use regulation are also considered. One pre-requisite for successful implementation of this dramatic change in land use regulation is the existence of a policy champion, who would build support for the idea that ever-increasing VMT should be a concern, and that land use regulations can stem that tide. A second pre-requisite is a new regional-level entity, preferably one endorsed and supported by the state or federal government, to develop boundaries, design restrictions, create incentives, and ensure coordination among the many local entities that would be involved and affected
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Withers, Felicity. "Individuality : a dream for the Australian woman? ; specifically addressing My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin, and the Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson /." Title page and introduction only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arw824.pdf.
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May, Michael J. "The Effects of Airline Alliances on Airfares, Revenue Passenger Miles, and Available Seat Utilization." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1820.
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Thesis advisor: Michael BarryThis paper will study the effects of airline alliances on the economic welfare of passengers and airlines by studying how membership in an airline alliance affects ticket price, revenue passenger miles, and available seat utilization. This paper will analyze three sets of data from the US Department of Transportation, including the DB1BTicket Report, the T-100 International Segment Report, and the T1: US Air Carrier Traffic and Capacity Summary by Service Class. The purpose of this paper is to determine how airline alliances effect consumer welfare. The results show that airline alliances lead to higher fares on domestic routes as well as greater passenger revenue miles and available seat utilization. This paper shows that more anti-trust investigation should be taking place regarding airline alliances
Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: Finance
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Burton, Shelia. "Frequent Flyers: Profiled While Accumulating Disciplinary Miles-The Color and Voice of School Discipline." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406892877.
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Servis, Joseph. ""I Rode Six Miles to Zion": The Experiences of a Circuit Rider in Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626075.
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Linde, Erling Wegger. "Achieving loose coupling in the component-based Miles software development Platform : A Proof of Concept." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-8875.
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The overall aim of this Master Thesis was to achieve a long life-time for the Miles Platform by enabling loose coupling between its various components and tools. The Miles Platform is a software development platform consisting of several interconnected tools and components. For this platform to survive future changes in technology it must be possible to replace the various components without requiring large changes to the surrounding dependent components. Based on a preceding prestudy, a layered Proof of Concept was implemented and evaluated with respect to the success of the implementation, coupling (modifiability) and amount of work. Simple prototypes involving the two first layers, namely the RESTful and the Atom Publishing Protocol based layers were implemented. The final prototype included all three layers, which involved using Semantic Web technology in addition the RESTful Atom Publishing Protocol. Only a few non-blocking issues are unresolved for this final prototype. Both the RESTful, Atom Publishing Protocol and Semantic layer contributed to maintaining a stable interface on top of the issue tracker component. By enforcing stable interfaces and serving as wrappers or intermediares between the issue trackers and their dependent components, each layer contributed to achieving looser coupling, if not in all dimensions. If the issue trackers have many dependent components that needs customization in order to communicate with the issue trackers, and the issue trackers are expected to be replaced one or preferably several times, a positive return on investment are expected from this Proof of Concept.
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Schlichting, Arthur [Verfasser], and Miles [Akademischer Betreuer] Simon. "Smoothing singularities of Riemannian metrics while preserving lower curvature bounds / Arthur Schlichting. Betreuer: Miles Simon." Magdeburg : Universitätsbibliothek, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1054638039/34.
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Miles, Benedict [Verfasser]. "Practical approaches to modelling natural attenuation processes at LNAPL contaminated sites / vorgelegt von Benedict Miles." Tübingen : Inst. für Geowiss, 2007. http://d-nb.info/998359998/34.
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