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Beattie, Malcolm I. C. "Towers, modules and Moore spaces in proper homotopy theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240518.
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Fearnley, David L. "Dense embeddings of #sigma#-discrete #pi#-based spaces." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244550.
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Burstow, Robert. "Modern public sculpture in 'New Britain', 1945-1953." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369070.
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Law, Ka-man Emma. "Towards more user-friendly public open spaces in high density areas." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25798777.
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Rose, McKenna Suzanne. "Caliban's robes transformative domestic spaces within early modern utopias /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433624.
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羅嘉雯 and Ka-man Emma Law. "Towards more user-friendly public open spaces in high density areas." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980399.
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Wickman, Thomas. "Snowshoe Country: Indians, Colonists, and Winter Spaces of Power in the Northeast, 1620-1727." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10439.
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This dissertation is a political and environmental history of winter in the colonial Northeast during some of the coldest years of the Little Ice Age. Unlike conventional histories of Atlantic encounters and environmental change, which overwhelmingly concern the warmer half of the year, this dissertation asks how encounters and ecological change functioned in the colder half of the year. Indians and English settlers adapted differently to the vicissitudes of climate change in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, respectively creating winter spaces of power within the varied landscapes of the Maritime Peninsula. This dissertation takes a broad geographical view of the Northeast and incorporates political ecology into the history of early America, stressing the importance of conflicts over access to long-distance travel routes and wild resources, both along the coasts and in the vast uplands. Using captivity narratives, diaries, letters, treaty minutes, and war records, it recovers the ways that winter knowledge and winter technologies both inhibited and facilitated colonialism in the Northeast. Over the course of the seventeenth century, settlers transformed winter ecologies along the coasts and isolated indigenous people in cold conditions. In response, Native Americans increasingly spent longer winters in the interior uplands, dividing themselves into family hunting bands, drawing sustenance and power from wild environments that colonists could not reach, and launching winter raids upon vulnerable English towns. The last quarter of the seventeenth century, one of the coldest periods of the last millennium, presented comparative advantages to mobile Indians, whose snowshoes kept them afloat in times of deep and long lying snows. In the early eighteenth century, however, the English systematically adopted this same indigenous technology to use against Native Americans, disrupting the activities of family hunting bands and raiding parties. English patrols on snowshoes penetrated Native Americans’ winter hunting grounds as never before, and with this winter strategy, colonial leaders attempted to impose a new political ecology in the greater Northeast. Conquest of the northern uplands was incomplete, however, leading to slow and sparse settlement in the interior and leaving ample opportunities for indigenous people to return to their winter lands.
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Robinson, Daniel Mark. "The homotopy exponent problem for certain classes of polyhedral products." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-homotopy-exponent-problem-for-certain-classes-of-polyhedral-products(a20ca2ac-540b-41e9-8af7-1f76d8f5ed84).html.
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Given a sequence of n topological pairs (X_i,A_i) for i=1,...,n, and a simplicial complex K, on n vertices, there is a topological space (X,A)^K by a construction of Buchstaber and Panov. Such spaces are called polyhedral products and they generalize the central notion of the moment-angle complex in toric topology. We study certain classes of polyhedral products from a homotopy theoretic point of view. The boundary of the 2-dimensional n-sided polygon, where n is greater than or equal to 3, may be viewed as a 1-dimensional simplicial complex with n vertices and n faces which we call the n-gon. When K is an n-gon for n at least 5, (D^2,S^1)^K is a hyperbolic space, by a theorem of Debongnie. We show that there is an infinite basis of the rational homotopy of the based loop space of (D^2,S^1)^K represented by iterated Samelson products. When K is an n-gon, for n at least 3, and P^m(p^r) is a mod p^r Moore space with m at least 3 and r at least 1, we show that the order of the elements in the p-primary torsion component in the homotopy groups of (Cone X, X)^K, where X is the loop space of P^m(p^r), is bounded above by p^{r+1}. This result provides new evidence in support of a conjecture of Moore. Moreover, this bound is the best possible and in fact, if a certain conjecture of M.J Barratt is assumed to be true, then this bound is also valid, and is the best possible, when K is an arbitrary simplicial complex.
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Jewell, Mark D. (Mark David) 1973. "A proposal for the inhabitation of space ... : or how to put more stuff in less space Mark D. Jewell." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67534.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-104).
This thesis is based on the premise that a need exists for the densification of our existing urban centers. The investigation then becomes how to put more stuff in less space. The objective, however, is not a technical optimization exercise, but rather the pursuit of a palatable set of ideas that enable densification. This presupposes an essential net gain from the trading of personal space for 'architectural value.' Consequently, the thesis is a quest for alternate processes that will lead to unconventional built form. The project outlines a set of episodes that attempt to abstract or develop criteria that can then be executed in the creation of more compact and rewarding environments. Each episode has its own focus and a limited dependency on the criteria of the others.
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Badger, Jeffrey R. "Designing for Space, on Earth: Creating More Livable Extraterrestrial Habitats Through Architectural Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337351533.
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Padmanabhan, Sathya. "Broad-band space conservative on wafer network analyzer calibrations with more complex SOLT definitions." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000318.
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Flanagan, Anthony. "People and space : building a design and development model for a more meaningful relationship." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66332.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-165).
This thesis is an exploration of architecture and real estate development that seeks to find a method for recognizing and utilizing city structure and uniqueness of place as primary catalyst for change. The concern behind this work is the disparity in contemporary models for design and development, which neither acknowledges nor integrates the existing values of a community. This inquiry attempts to identify and transform the existing framework of the city, allowing for change without losing the continuation of meaningful urban relationships. Thus, this experimentation challenges the conventional approach to design development ventures which begin with a program and build architecture around use. At a macro and micro scale, Venice, Savannah, and New York City are chosen to exemplify the arguments of this discussion. They illustrate the issues of autonomy of architecture, collective memory of the city and sensitivity of place, as vehicles to understand the elements which makeup the urban framework. Using San Francisco as the test case, this thesis introduces the possibility of an alternative model for design and development endeavors, attempting to understand the underlying structure of the city through time as a primary generator for decision making.
by Anthony Flanagan.
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Zhang, Xiaoli. "More than Relational Information in Space: The Role of Nontargets in Target Localization across Saccades." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467892193.
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Delgado, Alexander C. "More Than Just Empty Space: Integrated Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Crystal River Site (8CI1) Plaza." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7015.
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Crystal River (8CI1) is a Woodland period archaeological site on the west-central Gulf Coast of Florida, famous for its diverse suite of exotic artifacts typical of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere, as well as its monumental shell mounds which surround a central plaza. Historically, these plazas are utilized as spaces for cultural expression, daily interactions between members of the community, economic exchanges, and discourse of all types. They also serve as a symbolic space, embodying social and political relations that are critical to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity. These spaces are challenging to study using conventional archaeological techniques since they were often swept clean and kept free of debris, thus discouraging the possibility of recovering artifacts of any significant size. Instead, my study utilizes integrated geoarchaeological techniques, such as microartifact analysis, soil chemical analysis, ground-penetrating radar, and magnetic survey in order to reconstruct plaza activities.
The results indicate a stark difference in function between the northern and southern ends of the plaza. The South Plaza demonstrates high concentrations of elements associated with food preparation and consumption, particularly P, Sr, K, and M, high microartifact densities, and an associated strong magnetic anomaly. On the other hand, phosphate depletion is observed in the North Plaza, and it is generally barren of micro-artifacts, despite the possible presence of a few geophysical anomalies. This area appears to have been kept free of debris, save for a charcoal deposit and elevated K and Mg directly in front of Mound H, which may allude to ceremonial or other functions not associated with food.
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Ricci, Daniella. "Building a More Trusting and Caring Society : Surveillance and the Evolving Role of Architecture in Developing Positive Community Spaces." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-138798.
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Our right to privacy is often taken as being an implicit right, one that is rarely questioned as we move about the city. However, standing in marked contrast to this right, is the government’s need to surveil and control society in delivering the narrative to provide security for its citizens. Over the years, the UK government have continued to increase both the number and use of surveillance cameras, with an estimated of 4.9 million cameras in comparison with previous years projections of 1.5 million. 1Now, in the name of security, we are being profiled, categorized, and our rights undermined. It is the purpose of this proposal to educate, disclose such facts whilst exploring a different, more empowering function for surveillance, as part of an effort to gain our rights over the city. London is the most surveilled city in the world, and it is here in the neighborhood of Bow, that I have attempted to explore the possibility of managing some of the footage from CCTV cameras for the public benefit. My thesis will propose to change the way surveillance is currently utilized. By re-appropriating these devices to a network of various community actors and collaborators, so they can be part of a self-managed, evidence building platform, fore fronting social values of the everyday city, rather than surveillance and control of a dominant entity. Towards this end, evidence of underused car park will be collected so that they can be argued as ineffective revenue generators towards public assets. The final goal being to generate safety through use, rather than employing more cameras or applying further measures of control. The method for implementing this proposal, will take the form of using an independent and self managed digital surveillance platform, to store evidence of use. Utilizing this process as a means of empowerment within the neighborhood.
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Lin, Meihui. "The Design of a Storage Product to Help People Live Happier and more Comfortably in Small Spaces based on Design Research and Environmental Psychology." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1267048705.
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Enslin, Claire. "Mapping the spaces in-between: how ICT can assist in providing a safer and more efficient commuter experience for all." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23034.
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Contemporary societies are facing rapid growth, urbanization and migration into the form of urban cities and environments. This requires the ever-expanding need for urban infrastructures to facilitate growing populations, communities and economies within cities. A vital elements within modern urban environments is the need for different forms of urban mobility in order to facilitate the movement and flow of people, goods and communication networks. Within the realm of urban mobility is the important aspect of public transport infrastructures as a system of creating more sustainable and equitable mobility for people within urban environments. Within cities of the global South, such as Cape Town, greater public transport systems are highly reliant on non-motorized transport (NMT) systems. This is due to issues of affordability, efficiency and spatial proximity of large portions of the population in relation to public transport facilities. Therefore, a substantial amount of urban mobility is facilitated by walking as a mode of transport. However, public transport within Cape Town are impacted by issues of personal safety. This is most visible in the Cape Town central business district (CBD). There is a lack of knowledge, design and planning around how people move within the city, and how NMT systems are used within the greater public transport domain. Issues of personal safety become the dominant focus for NMT and human-scale mobility within the city centre. This research examines these issues in more detail. In order to gain deeper knowledge around the experiences of NMT users within the CBD – a qualitative method of research was applied. The research used a gender-sensitive lens in order to gain an understanding as to how gender roles contribute to issues of personal safety and issues of mobility within the urban environment. The objective was to demonstrate the intersection of issues of personal safety within mobility and within space. The research is used as a foundation for creating a mobile phone App prototype. The design is based on user-generated data to create a tool that can help commuters find the safest human-scale mobility routes within the CBD. This tool demonstrates how ICT (information and communication technology) systems can be used to create safer mobility infrastructures and networks. The prototype relies on user-generated data that creates a platform for citizens to become planners in their everyday transport navigations. Thus the research also explores how technology and user-generated data can inform planning and urban management. This resulted in a tool that enables a cyclical system that blends the knowledge of the user and planner in the co-productive design of space and mobility infrastructures.
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Lancione, Michele. "Homeless subjects and the chance of space : a more-than-human geography of homelessness in Turin." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3266/.
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This work is based upon an ethnographic enquiry in Turin, North-West of Italy, to interrogate homelessness as a subjective condition that emerges from the entanglements of the individual and the city. Arguing that canonical framing of homelessness do not take into full consideration the relationalities and nuances that intervene between homeless people and the mechanosphere of the city, this work develops a detailed theoretical and empirical investigation of the more- than-human entanglements through which homeless subjects emerge in the opening and closures of urban spaces. Three research questions are pursued: the first two investigating how subjects are constituted in the process of being and becoming a homeless individual, and the third questioning how the public and private institutions that provide service to homeless people actually open or close opportunities to them. The concept of chance of space has been developed to sustain the hypothesis that city’s space offers infinite potentialities to homeless subjects, which however are constantly codified and normalized by the discursive and relational powers consciously and unconsciously at work in the urban fabric. The research questions have been tackled through an in-deep ethnographic investigation developed in three long chapters, which lead to theoretical and political outcomes. This work shows that interrogating homelessness in a more-than-human fashion a world of multiples subjects emerges, with various attitudes, capabilities, relational and affective characterizations. It opens the door to the recognition of spatial chances that might lead, if recognized and enacted, to enrich homeless subjects’ perspectives. According, a critique of the mainstream normative approach on homelessness is developed, arguing in favour of new ethical stances that extend the validity of this enquiry beyond Turin’s case. This ethics claims the necessity to take seriously the entanglements between space, time and the homeless subject; advocates a right to difference and consequently to differentiated interventions; and argues for the necessity to challenge the rigidity of certain urban contexts in order to enact homeless people own capabilities.
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Bican, Nezih Burak. "Towards A More Socially Inclusive Urban Space Stimulated By Sports: The Case Of 19 Mayis Sports District, Ankara." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610786/index.pdf.
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The thesis puts forward the problematic situation in the very urban center of Ankara with an
analytical method to investigate the roots of several problems. Building its argument on historical
facts, in depth observations, and political, social, and urban analysis, it proposes a rational basis
for the rehabilitation of 19 Mayis Sports District, mainly focusing on the means of elevating the
physical quality through the capacity of social inclusion concerning the sports activity settings
and places in the region. All in all, the basic argument stands on the belief that the spatial basis of
the 19 Mayis Sports District and the neighboring urban tissue around it might be re-defined and
rehabilitated, if only its historical, political, ideological, and socio-cultural bases are redefined.
Therefore, the study searches for rehabilitation of the 19 Mayis Sports District in Ulus, Ankara,
by adapting and integrating sports with other cultural collective practices, and defining it as an
alternative life-style for citizens. Because the district lays on the second division of Atatürk Culture Center Region, a sports culture and its policy should be defined and designed for to amend that division of the region by preparing a principal master plan for the region and for the division.
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Swann, Devon Nicole. "Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/468.
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“Liminal Spaces and The Disabled Body” explores Edmund Burke’s aesthetic paradigms as established in his An Enquiry into the Origin of Our Notions of the Sublime and the Beautiful to recover what disability meant for an eighteenth-century audience. I examine Burney’s Camilla and Eugenia’s disability as well as Dacre’s Zofloya and Victoria’s figurative hermaphroditism in terms of eighteenth-century views of deformity and physiognomy to argue that both Eugenia’s and Victoria’s deformities—Eugenia’s smallpox scars and injured leg and Victoria’s beautiful but too boldly delineated features—challenge the prevailing structures of aesthetics and expectations of feminine beauty. My thesis questions how eighteenth-century aesthetic theory constructs the modern concept of the “disabled” individual to argue that the female body with a disability or deformity surpasses the terms of submission and diminution instated by Burkean aesthetics. In turn, the disabled female gains purchase in literature due to her “liminal, between-categories status” as it strains masculine power structures and aesthetic and gender classification systems.
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Strauss, Miriam Jasmin. "Deadmall Revitalization for Hawthorne, CA: Underutilized Suburban Public Space can be Retrofitted to Create a More Urban and Sustainable City." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578943.
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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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Moreira, Juliana Segóvia. "Bailes da terceira idade : espaços de socialidade e consumo musical na cidade." Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 2015. http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/436.
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Na cidade, produzem-se espaços de socialidade destinados a distintos públicos, com variáveis que vão desde a faixa-etária, gosto musical e níveis socioeconômicos, fundamentadas em relações de pertencimento e afinidades diversas que sedimentam o “estar-junto à toa”. O recorte temático da pesquisa se dá a partir do universo do idoso frequentador de bailes da terceira idade, na cidade de Cuiabá (Mato Grosso, Brasil), suas práticas de socialidade e seus processos de ressignificação da música, enquanto formas de consumo e produção de subjetividades. Analisa-se a música mais popular como um produto cultural que possibilita a produção de sentidos e interação entre indivíduos, quando inscrita em um universo social e simbólico específico, permeando mundos intersubjetivos circunscritos na cidade. Nove espaços de socialidade, classificados como bailões, foram identificados em bairros com localidades distintas entre si – em regiões centrais e periféricas, variando entre espaços públicos e privados – possibilitando o desenvolvimento de uma cartografia de um circuito especifico, daqueles que fazem dos bailes parte relevante de seus cotidianos.
In the city, socialization spaces are destined to different kinds of public, which vary according to age, appreciation for music and socioeconomic level, based on belonging relations and several affinities between people, which reinforce the “being together to spend time”. The thematic approach of the research is focused on the universe of old people who frequent elderly`s dancing parties in Cuiabá (Mato Grosso, Brazil), their social practices and their music re-signification process, as consumption forms and subjectivity production. The more popular music is analyzed as a cultural product which allows the meaning production and the interaction between individuals when it is inscribed in a specific social and symbolic universe, permeating intersubjective circumscribed worlds in the city. Nine socialization spaces, classified as “bailões”, were identified in distinct neighbors – downtown and suburbs, varying between public and private spaces – allowing a mapping of a specific route of those who have the dancing parties as a relevant part of their daily life.
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Oliveira, Francisca Alves da Mota. "Mais tempo na escola: estudo de caso sobre as experiências de ampliação da jornada escolar do município de Juazeiro-Bahia, Brasil." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14993.
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A presente investigação tem como objetivo descrever os efeitos do Programa Mais Educação no processo de ensino-aprendizagem na rede pública municipal de ensino fundamental, nomeadamente, o município de Juazeiro (BA) no Brasil. A investigação de caráter descritiva teve como base metodológica o estudo de caso. Para isso, foi realizada uma investigação por intermédio de consultas documentais, aplicação de questionários e entrevistas em profundidade. O tratamento dos dados foi feito utilizando-se as técnicas de análise de conteúdo apoiada pelo software NVivo10, para as entrevistas, e, para os questionários, o software SPSS. Tanto as entrevistas como os questionários realizados com a comunidade escolar proporcionaram suporte para dialogar com a revisão da literatura pertinente e com os princípios norteadores do programa e, assim, revelar limites e possibilidades, na perspectiva dos alunos beneficiários e, dos professores articuladores, dos gestores escolares, dos coordenadores pedagógicos e dos decisores políticos da ampliação da jornada escolar rumo à efetivação da educação em tempo integral. Os achados trouxeram contribuições importantes que podem constiuir-se em alternativas para melhorar a qualidade da educação na escola pública e, importante, também, para compreender essa forma de reorganizar a educação pública brasileira; MORE TIME AT SCHOOL: A CASE STUDY ON THE INCREASE OF JOURNEY EXPERIENCES IN JUAZEIRO-BAHIA, BRASIL
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This present research aims to describe the effects of MORE EDUCATION PROGRAM in the teaching-learning process in municipal public elementary education, namely, the municipality of Juazeiro (BA) in Brazil. The investigation was descriptive character as methodological bases of the case study. For this, a research through documentary consultations, questionnaires and in-depth interviews was conducted. The data analysis was done using the techniques of content analysis supported by NVivo software 10, for interviews and questionnaires for the SPSS software. Both the interviews and questionnaires conducted with the school community provided support for dialogue with the literature review and the guiding principles of the program and thus reveal the limits and possibilities from the perspective of the beneficiary students, articulators teachers, school managers, the coordinators and policymakers extension of school hours toward realization of full-time education. The findings brought important contributions that may form in alternatives to improve the quality of education in public schools and, also important to understand that way of reorganizing the Brazilian public education.
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Tiffin, Daniel Joseph. "Orbital Fueling Architectures Leveraging Commercial Launch Vehicles for More Affordable Human Exploration." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1575590285930015.
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Farry, James. ""Far more to it than appears on the surface" : an historical investigation of the interface between space science and the British mass media." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/far-more-to-it-than-appears-on-the-surface-an-historical-investigation-of-the-interface-between-space-science-and-the-british-mass-media(57002bff-b98f-4a6a-8d7b-4a24778bd964).html.
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In November 1953, the editor of the Manchester Guardian, AP Wadsworth, responded to Jodrell Bank Director Bernard Lovell regarding a complaint over an article that had appeared on the observatory's radio telescope project. Wadsworth understood there had been much collaboration between Lovell and his journalists in regard to the construction of the article and so the complaint suggested that there was 'far more to it (production) than appears on the surface'. Many scholars of science and the media point to the importance of uncovering the context of production from which popular science emerges in interactions between science and media actors. However, these and many other scholars also point to the difficulty of symmetrically unravelling the production context because of the complexities of such interactions and the diverse actors and agendas at play. To view and draw out these complexities, I employ the analytical flexibility and utility of space science as a lens because the production of popular space science was of interest, and valuable, to diverse scientific and media actors. I also use a broad and triangulated selection of primary sources, including from the often-elusive media context, to explore episodes of contingency where agendas and approaches are revealed. I hypothesise the notion of a 'common arena' to aid understandings of the context of production of science and the media. Within this common arena scientists, media professionals and science-mediating specialists met to negotiate the production of popular scientific representations. Scientific and media culture and science-mediating specialists sought authority over and identities within the arena through 'contributory expertise'. In such negotiations, popular scientific representations became a form of 'boundary object'. Across the middle of the twentieth century, and especially in the space age, popular space scientific representations were prestigious and high-profile and the subject of much negotiation. In many ways, the media gained much at the expense of science by redrawing the arena, exploiting science in the way that science sought to exploit the media. On reflection the arena is too simplistic a concept to support the rich narrative history and, in future, it is hoped, will be surpassed by a more constructivist encounter model that characterises interactions and developments at the science-media interface. Despite these limitations, two supplementary arguments emerge from the empirical application of the arena concept. Firstly, that the 'problem' of science and the media is historical and its origins long precede the political movement of the same name of the 1970s. In fact, the problem originated in the 1930s as soon as the traditional authority over the production arena enjoyed by scientific culture, and celebrity scientists such as cosmologist James Jeans, was challenged by media professionals. The Council of the British Interplanetary Society identified it, for example. Motivated by increased public demand for popular scientific material and intensifying competition among media industries, print and broadcasting media professionals extended their cultural authority over the common arena. This extension was facilitated because technological developments, such as satellite broadcasting, further restricted membership of the arena to those who understood the demands of media technique and were committed to serving the interests of audiences rather than science; in sociological terms arena and production authority was 'reduced' to media culture. Such developments reduced the ability of experts to directly address audiences and, thus, the influence of scientists over popular representations of science. In other words, mediation was a threat to the social authority of science. However, this problem was not mobilised into a movement because the relationship between scientific and media actors remained somewhat deferent and symbiotic. This fluidity allowed the likes of radio astronomer Lovell to continue to popularise, at least for a time. Another reason why the problem was not mobilised, and comprising the second supplementary argument, was the development of science-mediating specialists as 'boundary spanners'. Public eagerness for popular science, and the tensions between scientific and media culture for authority over its production, provided the opportunity for new social identities to emerge in the arena. Science writers such as JG Crowther, Ritchie Calder, and John Maddox, and science broadcasters such as Mary Adams, Aubrey Singer, and James McCloy, developed who mediated between, and were expert in and partisan to, both media and science; they were intercultural boundary spanners. However, the extension of the cultural authority of the media over the arena meant that membership of the arena became predicated on producing copy and programming that served the commercial interests of the media. Combined with, and reflecting, growing popular ambivalence with science, such pressures on science writers and broadcasters to actively challenge the social authority of science were the catalyst for the mobilisation of the problem movement by the scientific establishment. This movement sought to redraw production arena authority and re-establish the influence of scientists over popular scientific representations, as with Beagle 2.
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Karacali, Bilge. "Vector Space Methods for Surface Reconstruction from One or More Images Acquired from the Same View with Application to Scanning Electron Microscopy Images." NCSU, 2002. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08042002-221210/.
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This dissertation develops novel methods to reconstruct a three-dimensional surface together with a characterization of the surface composition given one or more images obtained from the same viewing direction. First, a vector space method to reconstruct a surface given a gradient field is developed using the linear relationship between a surface and its gradient field in discrete surface domains. The developed gradient field representation is generalized to alleviate the common assumption of uniform integrability in gradient fields to partial integrability, allowing adequate reconstruction of surfaces with non-integrable gradient fields. In addition, the developed technique is further explored for gradient field noise reduction, by embedding multiscale properties providing sparse gradient field representations. Next, the ambiguity in possible surface gradients obtained by a two-image photometric stereo analysis is resolved using a cyclic projections algorithm based on the set of possible gradient fields and the previously developed gradient field representation. An algorithm that provides accurate surface reconstructions and surface type characterizations given two images of an unknown composite surface is established. We then apply this algorithm to Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images to extract specimen surface topography and material type information from a pair of Secondary Electron (SE) and Back-scattered Electron (BSE) images. We then use a similar cyclic projections algorithm to reconstruct a surface from a single image. The simulation results indicate that the developed algorithm solves this classical shape-from-shading problem in a robust and accurate manner for varying illumination conditions. Finally, we establish a unified surface reconstruction framework using previously developed techniques on a photometric stereo image triplet containing shadows. We categorize the surface pixels as those illuminated in all three images, only two images and only one image. We then establish through simulation results that the developed method uses the surface gradient information obtained from the brightness images efficiently and effectively, and provides an accurate surface reconstruction.
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Young, Katie Elizabeth. "More than "Wisteria and Sunshine": The Garden as a Space of Female Introspection and Identity in Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April and Vera." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3033.
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Recent scholarly interest in Elizabeth von Arnim has related Elizabeth and Her German Garden and The Solitary Summer to the New Woman and Female Aesthete movements, concluding that von Arnim does not align herself with any movement per se. Rather, in these early works, Elizabeth advocates and adamantly defends her right to time in her garden, which becomes her sanctuary for reading and thinking. Little critical attention has been paid to von Arnim's later works; however, many of the themes established in von Arnim's early works can be traced through her later novels. In The Enchanted April Lady Caroline retreats to the garden at San Salvatore in order to escape the attention of others and discover who she really is and what she wants out of life. Because she follows the early von Arnim model by defending her garden sanctuary, she is able to find the strength to insist on being treated as a person rather than a beautiful object. Additionally, Lucy Enstwhistle's interrupted time in the garden in Vera demonstrates the importance of the role of von Arnim's garden in forming an identity and developing the ability to make decisions for oneself. Because Lucy allows Everard Wemyss to rob her of these opportunities, she loses the opportunity to create her identity. She soon becomes the second Mrs. Wemyss, realizes that she is abject, and begins taking on first wife Vera's attributes and passions to cope with Everard's constant demands. Because Lucy has forfeited the formative experiences the garden space can provide, Lucy is left to take up Vera's identity and tragic fate.
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Slatter, R. L. "A 'more-than-architectural' approach to Wesleyan space : how can material and spatial approaches to metropolitan Wesleyan Methodist practices provide insights into congregational experiences between 1851 and 1932?" Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1565424/.
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Using metropolitan Wesleyan Methodist practices in London between 1851 and 1932 as a case study, this thesis proposes a 'more-than-architectural' (MTA) approach to congregational experiences of faith spaces. Critically developing existing architectural histories of Methodist buildings, it explores how material & spatial sources and analytical approaches can provide insights into historical experiences of Methodist practices. Existing architectural approaches to Methodist buildings focus on designers’ intentions, the theological implications of buildings’ external styles and the liturgical reasons for their internal arrangements. They consider buildings as architectural representations, approaching them as consistent and unchanging forms. Critiquing these approaches, this thesis's MTA approach considers spaces of Wesleyan practices as becoming material things and mutable networks, arguing that these perspectives provide insights into congregational experiences of Wesleyanism. It demonstrates how Wesleyan spaces changed over time as they were extended, redesigned, cleaned and repaired and argues that these changes contributed to congregational experiences of Wesleyan practices as the sound, smell, size, temperature and aesthetic appeal of their buildings changed. It also discusses Wesleyan spaces as mutable networks comprised of chapel complexes and spaces appropriated for Methodist uses beyond their chapels, considering how they changed as different people, activities and material things circulated through them. It argues that approaching Wesleyan spaces as networks usefully demonstrates how the physical form, use and users of Wesleyan spaces contributed to congregational experiences. The MTA approach is also a response to recent geographical and historical studies of religion. Increasingly interested in everyday-religious practices and the experiences of individual religious adherents, theses studies have also begun to embrace material analysis methods. Developing these ideas, this thesis accompanies its discussions of Wesleyan buildings as becoming material things and mutable networks with an MTA exploration of Wesleyan fundraising practices, considering how its material and spatial infrastructures contributed to congregational experiences of Wesleyanism.
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DiBari, Michael Jr. "Advancing the Civil Rights Movement: Race and Geography of Life Magazine's Visual Representation, 1954-1965." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1304690025.
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Routledge, Andrew James. "The internal structure of consciousness." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-internal-structure-of-consciousness(4e91f257-fa9f-4a53-81be-e30cdb0002a5).html.
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Our understanding of the physical world has evolved drastically over the last century and the microstructure described by subatomic physics has been found to be far stranger than we could previously have envisaged. However, our corresponding model of experience and its structure has remained largely untouched. The orthodox view conceives of our experience as made up of a number of different simpler experiences that are largely independent of one another. This traditional atomistic picture is deeply entrenched. But I argue that it is wrong. Our experience is extraordinarily rich and complex. In just a few seconds we may see, hear and smell a variety of things, feel the position and movement of our body, experience a blend of emotions, and undergo a series of conscious thoughts. This very familiar fact generates three puzzling questions. The first question concerns the way in which all these different things are experienced together. What we see, for example, is experienced alongside what we hear. Our visual experience does not occur in isolation from our auditory experience, sealed off and separate. It is fused together in some sense. It is co-conscious. We may then ask the Unity Question: What does the unity of consciousness consist in? The second question is the Counting Question: How many experiences does a unified region of consciousness involve? Should we think of our experience at a time as consisting in just one very rich experience, in a handful of sense-specific experiences, or in many very simple experiences? How should we go about counting experiences? Is there any principled way to do so?The third and final question, the Dependency Question, concerns the degree of autonomy of the various different aspects of our unified experience. For example, would one's visual experience be the same if one's emotional experience differed? Is the apparent colour of a sunset affected by the emotional state that we are in at the time? I offer a new answer to the Unity Question and argue that it has striking implications for the way that we address the Counting Question and the Dependency Question. In particular, it supports the view that our experience at a time consists in just one very rich experience in which all of the different aspects are heavily interdependent.
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Vestin, Albin, and Gustav Strandberg. "Evaluation of Target Tracking Using Multiple Sensors and Non-Causal Algorithms." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-160020.
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Today, the main research field for the automotive industry is to find solutions for active safety. In order to perceive the surrounding environment, tracking nearby traffic objects plays an important role. Validation of the tracking performance is often done in staged traffic scenarios, where additional sensors, mounted on the vehicles, are used to obtain their true positions and velocities. The difficulty of evaluating the tracking performance complicates its development. An alternative approach studied in this thesis, is to record sequences and use non-causal algorithms, such as smoothing, instead of filtering to estimate the true target states. With this method, validation data for online, causal, target tracking algorithms can be obtained for all traffic scenarios without the need of extra sensors. We investigate how non-causal algorithms affects the target tracking performance using multiple sensors and dynamic models of different complexity. This is done to evaluate real-time methods against estimates obtained from non-causal filtering. Two different measurement units, a monocular camera and a LIDAR sensor, and two dynamic models are evaluated and compared using both causal and non-causal methods. The system is tested in two single object scenarios where ground truth is available and in three multi object scenarios without ground truth. Results from the two single object scenarios shows that tracking using only a monocular camera performs poorly since it is unable to measure the distance to objects. Here, a complementary LIDAR sensor improves the tracking performance significantly. The dynamic models are shown to have a small impact on the tracking performance, while the non-causal application gives a distinct improvement when tracking objects at large distances. Since the sequence can be reversed, the non-causal estimates are propagated from more certain states when the target is closer to the ego vehicle. For multiple object tracking, we find that correct associations between measurements and tracks are crucial for improving the tracking performance with non-causal algorithms.
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Tunková, Martina. "Městské lázně." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215713.
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Nailana, Koena Rufus. "Ordered spaces of continuous functions and bitopological spaces." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17559.
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This thesis is divided into two parts: Ordered spaces of Continuous Functions and
the algebras associated with the topology of pointwise convergence of the associated
construct, and Strictly completely regular bitopological spaces.
The Motivation for part of the first part (Chapters 2, 3 and 4) comes from the
recent study of function spaces for bitopological spaces in [44] and [45]. In these
papers we see a clear generalisation of classical results in function spaces ( [14] and
[55]) to bi-topological spaces. The well known definitions of the pointwise topology and
the compact open topology in function spaces are generalized to bitopological spaces,
and then familiar results such as Arens' theorem are generalised. We will use the same
approach in chapters 2, 3 and 4 to formulate analogous definitions in the setting of
ordered spaces. Well known results, including Arens' theorem, are also generalised
to ordered spaces. In these chapters we will also compare function spaces in the
category of topological spaces and continuous functions, the category of bi topological
spaces and bicontinuous functions, and the category of ordered topological spaces and
continuous order-preserving functions. This work has resulted in the publication of
[30] and [31].
Continuing our study of Function Spaces, we oonsider in Chapters 5 and 6 some
Categorical aspects of the construction, motivated by a series of papers which includes
[39], [40], [41] and [50]. In these papers the Eilenberg-Moore Category of algebras of
the monad induced by the Hom-functor on the categories of sets and categories of
topological spaces are classified. Instead of looking at the whole product topology we
will restrict ourselves to the pointwise topology and give examples of the EilenbergMoore Algebras arising from this restriction. We first start by way of motivation, with
the discussion of the monad when the range space is the real line with the usual topology.
We then restrict our range space to the two point Sierpinski space, with the aim
of discovering a topological analogue of the well known characterization of Frames as
the Eilenberg-Moore Category of algebras associated with the Hom-F\mctor of maps
into the Sierpinski space [11]. In this case the order structure features prominently, resulting in the category Frames with a special property called "balanced" and Frame
homomorphisms as the Eilenberg-Moore category of M-algebras. This has resulted
in [34].
The Motivation for the second part comes from [20] and [15]. In [20], J. D. Lawson
introduced the notion of strict complete regularity in ordered spaces. A detailed study
of this notion was done by H-P. A. Kiinzi in [15]. We shall introduce an analogous
notion for bitopological spaces, and then shall also compare the two notions in the categories
of bi topological spaces and bicontinuous functions, and of ordered topological
spaces and continuous order-preserving functions via the natural functors considered
in the previous chapters. We further study the Stone-Cech bicompactification and
Stone-Cech ordered compactification in the two categories. This has resulted in [32] and [33]Mathematical Sciences
D. Phil. (Mathematics)
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Hsieh, Ming-hsien, and 謝明諴. "Context of Design Thinking Shifted： More Chaos of Contemporary Architectural Space." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14072418875700387009.
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Contemporary architecture versus the monotonous International Modern architecture, the trend of space development during the late 20th century showed diversity, mixing, dynamic and open features which the essence of the building is no longer only a single linear consideration of the solid, but turning into the nonlinear natural system for seeking how to harmonize with the environment. As to the new generation designers of 21st century, they presented the inner concepts and contexts continuously through their projects, showing a fuzzy, weaving, ambiguous but the clearer characterization of contexts. Chaos theory is the characterization of many modern concepts, providing a more realistic natural rule of nonlinear principle. This study is based on the Chaos Theory, trying to summarize the transmission rule of this theory, and to compare with the theories and cases of Fujimoto in order to investigate their relation demonstrations and application rules. Then, there are three architectural designs dominated by this rule on implementation. Implemented through the first group starts with a simple square box, which intertwine the space into the composite of "synchronic" through spatial location 、dimension hybrid and coincidence. The building ontology presents a certain transparency other than the substance. The second group uses the combinations of basic squares and then misplaces them, bringing space as a "separating and linking" concept which inspired the cohesive meanings from the graphics. This is more important as an initial rule. The third group is illustrated the basic interactive relationships between people and literatures, which result is similar to the caves of the motivation theory and explains the exact meanings behind the complex. After discussion of these three designs, they all show a similar cross-dimension of the inner imagery and meaning.
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Maddison, Tasha, and Li Zhang. "More, Less, Love @mylibrary: Surveying library users for service and space planning." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/6731.
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This case study described how a simple, low cost survey of library users was conducted at the Engineering Library of the University of Saskatchewan in order to better understand user needs and prepare for the service and space planning.
The results show that students wanted more computers, more group and individual study space, and longer library hours. Based on the results, quick actions have been taken. The results also provided valuable information for the planning of the rejuvenation of the Engineering Library.
Allowing each member of the team to showcase their talents, this project was a great team building exercise, and resulted a stronger , more cohesive working environment.
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Vasconcelos, Francisco. "Is there space to build one more transshipment terminal within Portuguese territory?" Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14936.
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Ung, Ricardo. "Moose (Alces alces) Movement and Space Occupancy within Their Home Range in Southern Ontario." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/27363.
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As land-use change threatens wildlife viability, the understanding of how animals move through spatially fragmented landscapes has important implications for the long-term persistence and management of species. This research compares moose movement and space-use patterns between Algonquin Provincial Park (20 moose) and Wildlife Management Unit 49 (17 moose) in southern Ontario from 2006 to 2008. Moose were found to be using areas in the home range that are not normally used more often in the park relative to the management unit, and that there are signs, although not significant, that the use of land covers between the two locations may be diverging. These differences are likely driven by the differences in predator and road densities between the two locations. I interpret these findings to suggest that Algonquin Provincial Park is protecting moose from the impacts of roads, but that moose can survive in the road-fragmented landscapes if there is enough habitat available.
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Atkins, Carrie E. "More than a Hull: Religious Ritual and Sacred Space on Board the Ancient Ship." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7485.
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Greco-Roman religion in the ancient Mediterranean permeated aspects of everyday life,
including seafaring. Besides cargo, ships transported mariners' religious beliefs from
port to port, thus disseminating religious culture. Shipboard ritual, however, remains
largely inferred from Latin and Greek texts, iconography, and isolated archaeological
finds. Several accounts record that tutelary statues were carried on board to deliver a
ship from peril. These accounts are supported by iconographic representations of deities
on the hull and a relief scene which shows the use of altars and incense in shipboard
ritual. Moreover, ritual objects, including altars, small statuary, incense burners, and
lustral basins, have been found among shipwrecks, but prior archaeological research has
been particularistic, singling out ritual objects in shipwrecks. Their presence, however,
does not necessitate shipboard ritual since these items may have been cargo.
To distinguish between personal items and cargo on board ancient shipwrecks, I analyze
such objects both objectively and subjectively: first focusing on an object to discern a
potential purpose and then again within a spatial context to define its actual purpose.
Additionally, I develop religious and social space theories for shipboard analysis,
identifying ritual at the bow and stern and concluding that the stern in particular served
as an axis mundi, a central location for divine communication. Furthermore, because of
this comprehensive approach, large ritual objects such as altars and lustral basins often
can be identified primarily as cargo. Ultimately, applying social space theory to
shipwrecks can redefine our interpretation of religious activity on board the ship, an
intermediary in the dissemination of culture.
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Hsin, Chung-Han, and 辛忠翰. "More Space Efficient and Practical Framework for Time Travel Phrase Queries on Versioned Documents." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p8hvb8.
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資訊工程學系所
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Version documents are growing faster nowadays. Answering time-travel phrase queries is getting more and more necessary. There are lots of methods to improve the performance of answering time-travel phrase queries. In this paper, we reference the implementation of "Space-Efficient Index Framework for Time-Travel Phrase Query on Versioned Document". However, we find that Kuo's implementation use lots of index space, so we want to reduce the index space. In order to achieve this purpose, we have two implementations, Impl1: compressed suffix tree + treating versions as different documents and Impl2: compressed suffix tree + K^2-Treaps. Comparing with the total index of Kuo's implementation, Imple1 reduced by 63% and Impl2 reduced by 80%, and these two implementations also support time-travel phrase queries and Top-k queries.
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Huang, Paul Hsinkai, and 黃信凱. "Liminal Space: A Post-Colonial Reading of Salman Rushdie''s The Moor''s Last Sigh." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97880151684716143022.
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Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh delineates, fictively and historically, a family saga in India. The four-generation family approximately spans the twentieth century that, generally speaking, has gone through colonization and imperialism in the first half as well as de-colonization and nationalism in the second half. Accordingly, they bring forth a few significant issues, such as hybridity, multiculturalism, and nationalism. Homi Bhabha’s idea of ‘liminal space’ is conducive to the evaluation of the novel, and expressly to the discussion of the above three concepts in a more specific way. He subsumes a lot of ideas under the umbrella term ‘liminal space’, so this thesis is to extract three ideas─hybridity, cultural difference, and nationness─to elaborate on the novel. The introductory chapter expounds Bhabha’s idea of ‘liminal space’ and also explores a few post-colonial issues in the novel. The issues in question are related to Bhabha’s idea of ‘liminal space’, from which some key ideas are derived so as to appreciate the fictional world Rushdie constructs in the novel. The following three chapters are respectively based on the three liminality-related ideas, whereby to find the relation of the novel with Bhabha’s ‘liminal space’. The second chapter is to obtain a deeper apprehension of colonial and post-colonial hybridity through Bhabha’s argumentation concerning the ambivalent relationship between colonizer and colonized. The ambivalent relationship is theoretically associated with the othering process. In the process, identification and subjectification are moot questions not only in post-colonial theory but in the novel as well. The third chapter is intended to make use of Bhabha’s idea of ‘cultural difference’ to review and redefine what the word ‘multiculturalism’ is like. In turn, it helps to shed much more light upon Rushdie’s palimpsesting modern India over Moorish Spain. In addition, liminal space refers to a contact zone of cultural difference that elucidates Rushdie’s eclecticism between popular culture and high culture in the novel. The fourth chapter is to discuss the way Bhabha colligates liminal space and the idiolect ‘nationness’ and the way he relates the idea of nation to narration. The relationship between nation and narration is applied to the understanding of how Rushdie utilizes literary techniques, especially intertextual materials and historical allusions, for a re-construction of a nation in a fictional world. The conclusive chapter is to reiterate some important arguments that are germane to the above key concepts and to the reciprocal clarification between Bhabha’s ‘liminal space’ and Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh.
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Anani, Yazid [Verfasser]. "A new common border space : towards more justice in cross-border development ; the case of imbalanced power relations / written by Yazid Anani." 2006. http://d-nb.info/99786057X/34.
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Wu, Hsin-Yin, and 吳星瑩. ""Back And Forth I Pace,What More Is There To See":A Research On The Thought Of Time And Space Of Juan Chi(A.D.210-263)''s Literary Work"." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84911148302050605044.
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Zaleski, Kathryn N. "More than a Classroom: Learners Voices - How should Iskashitaa use our ESL Classes as a Space to Increase Self-Sufficiency, Language Acquisition and as a Bridge to the Community for our Adult Refugee Students?" 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196869.
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Peace Corps Fellows award for commitment to the communityWhat are Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network’s roles and objectives in teaching English as a Second Language to adult refugees in the Tucson community? How can we create a classroom environment that builds their language acquisition while promoting self-sufficiency? To inquire into these questions, interviews were conducted with adult refugee students who attend the classes, anecdotal records were kept of the ESL teachers’ weekly reflections and classroom observations were performed. Iskashitaa’s ESL classes should provide a space for English language acquisition, assisting in the acculturation process through introducing material that is based on life-skills, with the teachers serving as a cultural broker, advocate and friend and finally, introducing the adult refugees to the community through volunteer activities with Iskashitaa. There is a need for more inquiry and discussion about the pre-literate refugee population, especially in effective teaching strategies, curriculum ideas and a better understanding of literacy practices within the home. These are matters that merit a larger discussion by people who work in education and with refugees, as feedback would be beneficial from all who work with refugees and can recommend what they have observed, experienced and envision to help in the language acquisition, self-sufficiency and acculturation process for refugees.