Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Physical Illustrations'

This dissertation is an attempt to define the constellation of circumstances and ideas, which has determined my strategy in the paintings and performances submitted for examination. Unlike many artists I do not accept the fact of postmodernity. On the contrary, art and life remain suspended between the future and the past, the essential modernist condition. I argue for this in the introduction and the first two chapters, through a description of the performance work of Joseph Beuys and on my reaction to it in a performance in which I attempted to examine the practical paradoxes of art making in late modernity. I take my position largely from the Frankfurt school and succeeding debates about their work up to Zizek. For, while we remain in modernity we cannot regard it simply as an unfinished project. It is no longer possible to adopt an avant-garde position in one�s practice. The central section of the thesis contains a series of studies of the careers of major artists who have faced up to the paradoxes of modernity from Picasso to Richter and Parr. Through their successes, failures and sometimes duplicity, a practical profile emerges � a guide to the limits of contemporary practice. The last chapter concerns my paintings as a response to this profile.

The main focus of the multidisciplinary nature of design is to provide users a better life in terms of enabling the products to be safe, usable and pleasurable to use. Therefore, physical pain is always avoided. However, physical pain is involved in our daily lives, not only as an avoided concept, but also as a constructive concept. It is used for functional or hedonic purposes
whether consciously or not. The focus in this research is exploring these &lsquo
used&rsquo
pains, and their relations to product design
in other words, how products are (or how they may be) used or manipulated to use pain instead of avoiding it. Eventually, the aim is to map the pain experience as a constructive element of experience and to come up with a statement for the usage of physical pain in product design as a beneficial tool, instead of just being a tool for pleasure as it has been used in product design till now. In order to explore the pain experience with products, a contexmapping study and a focus group study have been done. The phenomena of &lsquo
good, transitional and bad pain&rsquo
were introduced. Following this, pain experience with products model was proposed utilizing the results of the studies and for the exploration of the implementation of the model in practicum, a generative session study to obtain initial design ideas was done.

Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka läroböcker i matematik för att se om det fanns några svårigheter kring uppgifter med tillhörande bilder. Vi ville även se om förändrade bilder till en uppgift påverkade elevernas förmåga att lösa den, i förhållande till hur de löste uppgiften med de ursprungliga bilderna. För att ta reda på detta valde vi att granska tre olika läroböcker i matematik. Dessutom gjorde vi en elevundersökning då en elevgrupp fick lösa en och samma uppgift men med olika bilder. Resultatet har visat att det finns en del uppgifter med tillhörande bilder som saknar vardagsanknytning och där bilden är orealistisk, vilket skulle kunna skapa svårigheter för elever. Vidare visade resultatet från elevundersökningen att bilders utformning spelar roll för elevers förmåga att lösa uppgiften.
Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka läroböcker i matematik för att se om det fanns några svårigheter kring uppgifter med tillhörande bilder. Vi ville även se om förändrade bilder till en uppgift påverkade elevernas förmåga att lösa den, i förhållande till hur de löste uppgiften med de ursprungliga bilderna. För att ta reda på detta valde vi att granska tre olika läroböcker i matematik. Dessutom gjorde vi en elevundersökning då en elevgrupp fick lösa en och samma uppgift men med olika bilder. Resultatet har visat att det finns en del uppgifter med tillhörande bilder som saknar vardagsanknytning och där bilden är orealistisk, vilket skulle kunna skapa svårigheter för elever. Vidare visade resultatet från elevundersökningen att bilders utformning spelar roll för elevers förmåga att lösa uppgiften.

Cette thèse explore le comportement quantique des appareils de mesure avec des illustrations en optique quantique. Il s'agit de la première étude des propriétés quantiques de mesures effectuées par n'importe quel type d'appareil de mesure. Nous montrons que les propriétés quantiques d'une mesure, comme son caractère projectif ou non-classique, ne peuvent être révélées que par les états quantiques d'une approche inhabituelle de la physique quantique : l'approche rétrodictive. Cette approche consiste à faire des rétro-prédictions sur les préparations d'états conduisant à un certain résultat de mesure, contrairement à l'approche prédictive avec laquelle nous faisons habituellement des prédictions sur les résultats d'une expérience. En précisant les fondations mathématiques de l'approche rétrodictive, nous mettons en évidence une procédure générale de reconstruction des états quantiques de cette approche : les états rétrodictés. Nous avons réalisé ces reconstructions pour des détecteurs de photons uniques, très utilisés dans les protocoles de cryptographie quantique par exemple. Il s'agit de la première tomographie d'états quantiques entièrement fondée sur l'approche rétrodictive et des choix de préparation, contrairement aux reconstructions habituelles basées sur des résultats de mesure. Ces tomographies nous ont permis d'étudier expérimentalement l'influence du bruit sur les propriétés quantiques des mesures effectuées par ces détecteurs, en particulier leur transition d'un comportement fortement quantique vers un comportement plus classique. Enfin, nous proposons un détecteur d'états " chat de Schrödinger " de la lumière qui sont des superpositions d'états quasi-classiques de la lumière. Dans une version moderne d'une expérience de pensée imaginée par Eugène Wigner en 1961, un tel dispositif permettrait à " l'Ami de Wigner " de détecter un chat de Schrödinger, contrairement à l'œil humain dont nous précisons certaines propriétés quantiques. Nous généralisons l'usage d'un tel détecteur non-classique à un protocole d'estimation de paramètre, entièrement fondé sur l'approche rétrodictive et des choix de préparation. Une telle procédure permettrait de réaliser des estimations optimales, en atteignant la limite de Cramér-Rao quantique, qui est un enjeu très actuel de la métrologie quantique.

Ce travail de thèse porte sur l'étude des excitations élémentaires de la matière dans des nanoparticules de ZnO: phonons et excitons.
Nous montrons que les modes de vibration permettent d'illustrer des effets de surface, lesquels sont de deux types. Premièrement vient la réduction de la taille. L'élasticité linéaire ne décrit plus correctement les modes propres acoustiques pour des tailles inférieures à 2.5 nm. Les expériences que nous avons menées sont en accord avec ce point. Deuxièmement, nous montrons que les ligands qui habillent les nanoparticules sont préférentiellement localisés sur la surface latérale de ces dernières; et qu'ils étirent légèrement la maille cristalline de ZnO.
Concernant les propriétés excitoniques, l'exciton est piégé à la surface des nanoparticules. En outre, de part la dynamique de recombinaison très rapide, le processus de recombinaison de l'exciton est dominé par des mécanismes non-radiatifs.

Includes bibliography.
This research study employed the single case-study method with the aim of illustrating the complex nature of a woman's separation from her physically abusive husband. An alternative framework for analysis is proposed, which incorporates literature stemming from psychoanalytic and feminist origins into a unified understanding of the battering and escape process. Instead of focussing on society and context, the proposed model initially takes into account the effect of the battered woman's impoverished developmental history in relation to her paradoxical attachment to her abuser. Thereafter, the impact of such an upbringing is kept in mind when considering the broader factors that such a woman encounters within society and her context as she negotiates her separation and escape process. Material was gathered over an eleven-month treatment period that highlighted ambivalence on the part of a 37-year-old woman to truly separate and prosecute her abusive partner. It was shown in this study how it is possible to make sense of this behaviour by utilising the psychoanalytic concept of splitting, as well as by taking account of the developmental hurdle of separation-individuation. The impact of socialised, patriarchal religious values about a woman's role in relationships was also taken into account and shown to reinforce her powerful psychological defences and attachment to her abusive partner. In addition, inefficiency on the part of the police and the courts were shown to exacerbate her sense of helplessness, and frequent courtroom postponements served as a vehicle for ongoing harassment. Within this context, her ongoing exposure to violence, harassment and verbal abuse served to isolate and tap her already limited resources, which further hindered her ability to manage herself and the complex process of severing her ties to her abusive partner.

Astronomi fascinerar många och har spelat en avgörande roll i fysikens utveckling. I det svenska gymnasiets läroplan Gy2011 ingår astronomi i kursen Fysik 2. Tidigare intervjustudier har visat att lärare som undervisar i Fysik 2 ofta ger astronomidelen låg vikt och att den ofta knyts starkt till lärobokens innehåll. Det senare gör det intressant att granska hur de aktuella läroböckerna i Fysik 2 behandlar den astronomiska delen av denna kurs. I detta arbete granskas illustrationer ur astronomikapitlen i fyra läroböcker i Fysik 2 utgivna 2012-2019. För att avgöra vilka möjligheter illustrationerna erbjuder att urskilja detaljer som är relevanta för ämnet används begreppen affordans, disciplinär urskiljning och variation. Med dessa begrepp som stöd granskas ett urval av illustrationer (ett fotografi av den variabla stjärnan RS Puppis, bilder av Krabbnebulosan i olika våglängdsområden respektive tre versioner av hubblediagrammet). En del illustrationer visar sig ha lågt pedagogiskt värde, vilket beror på att de inte valts ändamålsenligt eller på att de kopplas svagt till omgivande text. Storleken hos synfältet i de sammanlagt 42 astronomiska bilder (t.ex. fotografier) som finns i kapitlen granskas också. Synfältets bredd i bilderna sträcker sig från 0,000002' till 120 grader (med medianvärdet 12') men synfältens storlek kommenteras inte i kapiteltexterna och variationen används inte för något pedagogiskt syfte.

La médecine physique et de réadaptation (MPR) s’est développée autour d’une approche globale de l’individu et des multiples conséquences des déficiences et incapacités résultant d’un problème de santé. La détermination de ces conséquences nécessite le recours à l’évaluation, concept largement utilisé en médecine lors de la pratique clinique, la thérapeutique, la recherche… Cette évaluation, qui repose elle-même sur la nécessaire évaluation de l’outil de mesure et de ses modalités d’utilisation, constitue le corps de notre travail de thèseLa vision MPR s’est construite sur la Classification internationale du fonctionnement, du handicap et de la santé (CIF) qui fournit un cadre biopsychosocial pour la description des états de santé, pouvant ainsi servir à la définition du mesuré. Les liens étroits entre MPR et CIF nous ont amenés à nous interroger sur les différentes manières de développer des outils d’évaluation adaptés à chacune des dimensions de la CIF : la fonction, l’activité et la participation.À travers différents états de santé, nous avons donc exploré ces trois dimensions cliniques en utilisant des méthodes valides en métrologie, via trois outils de mesure : (1) de la fonction neurologique chez des enfants ayant eu un accident vasculaire cérébral néonatal, (2) d’activité physique et cognitive chez des patients hospitalisés en soins de suite et de réadaptation et (3) de la participation d’enfants ayant une maladie neuromusculaire. Les résultats et leur interprétation placent la participation comme critère principal des actions en MPR tout en soulignant l’importance de maitriser la limite de chaque outil de mesure bien avant de valoriser de leurs avantages
Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) has been developed around a holistic approach of the individual and the multiple consequences of impairments and disabilities resulting from a health problem. Determining these consequences requires the use of assessment, which is a concept widely used in medicine in clinical practice, therapy, research, and which is based on the use of measuring tools. The PRM vision was built on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) which is a biopsychosocial framework for the description of the health state, which can thus be used to define of the measured. The close links between PRM and ICF led us to question the different ways of developing assessment tools adapted to each of the dimensions of the ICF: function, activity and participation. We have therefore through various health states, explored these three dimensions in clinical practice using valid methods in metrology, via three measurement tools: (1) neurological function in French-speaking children with a neonatal stroke, (2) a score of physical and cognitive activity in patients hospitalized in follow-up care and rehabilitation, (3) participation of children with neuromuscular disease. The results and their interpretation stemming from this work, clearly place participation as the main criterion for actions in PRM while highlighting the importance of mastering the limits of measurement tools before taking into account their advantages

This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition at the Slocumb Galleries in Ball Hall at East Tennessee State University, from February 23rd through February 27th 2009. The exhibition is comprised of eight graphite drawings, one ink drawing, eight vinyl prints, two hundred sixty lenticular prints, over fifty digital inkjet prints, and one video installation. The exhibition presents the artist's exploration into using drawings and prints as installation as they relate to quantum physics and universal scale. Subjects discussed, on a project-by-project basis, include thought, ideas, methods, influences, and process by which the work in the exhibition was achieved.

This document contains a variety of lesson plans that can be readily used by a teacher of intermediate students. This thesis contains two units in Probability and one unit in Statistics. Any educator can supplement this document with any curriculum to teach lessons from vocabulary to concept.

Sélectionner des traitements de surface pour l’industrie nécessite de prendre en compte :les propriétés à conférer au substrat, la nature et la géométrie de celui-ci et les caractéristiques du milieu extérieur. Certaines combinaisons de ces paramètres rendent difficile la sélection d’un traitement unique, d’où le recours à des multitraitements de surface. Dès lors, se posent les questions suivantes :

- Utiliser des multitraitements de surface peut se faire en scindant les différentes requêtes en sous-ensembles, de manière à ce que chaque traitement réponde à l’un d’eux. Dans quel ordre ces requêtes doivent-elles être introduites par rapport au substrat ?

- Comment sélectionner les traitements de surface répondant à chaque requête individuelle ?

- Comment classer des multitraitements en termes d’adéquation au problème posé ?

Dans ce travail, les première et troisième questions sont abordées, en explorant les requêtes concernant habituellement les dispositifs de moulage de l’aluminium :

- Résistance aux contraintes d’origine thermique.

- Résistance à la corrosion par les métaux fondus.

- Résistance au frottement.

L’analyse de la bibliographie relative aux traitements de surface utilisés dans ces systèmes a été analysée et des « architectures »-types ont été identifiées (chapitre 3). On prévoit, par exemple, un traitement conférant la résistance à la fatigue superficielle, ainsi qu’un revêtement étanche et résistant à l’aluminium fondu. Une barrière thermique est parfois préconisée.

Pour chacune des architectures, des traitements de surface individuels peuvent être sélectionnés. Un « facteur de performance » permettant de classer les solutions par rapport au problème de la fatigue thermique a été construit (chapitre 4) et discuté dans deux situations :

- Lorsqu’un revêtement est présent, et que les contraintes d’origine thermique (différence de dilatation thermique couche-substrat) menacent de le rompre lors de l’immersion dans un milieu corrosif à haute température. Des essais de corrosion dans de l’aluminium fondu ont été réalisés sur un acier revêtu par du nitrure de chrome dopé à l’aluminium, synthétisé par déposition physique en phase vapeur (chapitre 5 – collaboration :Inasmet).

- Lorsque des variations thermiques rapides menacent de rompre le substrat et la (les) couches. Des essais de fatigue thermique ont été réalisés sur de l’acier à outils pour travail à chaud non traité, boruré ou recouvert d’un multitraitements (zircone yttriée / NiCrAlY / boruration / acier). Le revêtement en zircone yttriée a été obtenu par projection par plasma. L’essai de fatigue thermique a été modélisé et le facteur de performance, discuté (chapitre 6).

Au chapitre 7, les architectures-types ont été introduites dans une méthodologie de sélection des multi-traitements de surface, qui a été appliquée dans deux cas :

- Celui des moules de fonderie, devant résister à la fatigue thermique et à la corrosion par l’aluminium fondu. Le facteur de performance a été extrapolé à d’autres situations qu’aux chapitres 5 et 6. Les solutions habituellement proposées pour résoudre ce problème sont retrouvées.

- Celui de deux pièces en acier frottant l’une contre l’autre en présence d’aluminium fondu.

To select surface treatments, one must account for the required functional properties, the substrate features and the solicitations the substrate must endure. Certain combinations of these parameters make it difficult to select a single surface treatment, a reason why several successive treatments are preferred. To select them, one needs to determine:

- How to divide the several requests into groups and how to stack up these groups from the substrate to the outer surface, so that each treatment deals with one specific group of requests/properties.

- How to select individual layers for each group of properties.

- How to rank the multi-treatments in terms of relevance for a given application.

In this work, one tries to answer the first and the third questions, by studying the case of aluminium foundry, in which the industrial devices frequently face the following solicitations:

- Thermal stress (thermal fatigue, thermal expansion mismatch).

- Presence of corrosive molten metal.

- Sliding wear.

In the literature, several “standard” architectures are proposed (chapter 3), like a diffusion layer reducing superficial fatigue plus a corrosion barrier layer. A thermal barrier coating is also sometimes proposed.

For each of these architectures, one can select individual treatments. To rank them, one devised a “performance index” for thermal stress (chap.4), which is discussed for two cases:

- For large differences between layer and substrate thermal expansion coefficients, when both are put into contact with a high temperature corrosive medium, the layer may be damaged. One discusses this case by examining the corrosion caused by molten aluminium for a steel substrate coated by anticorrosive chromium nitride doped with aluminium. The layer is produced by physical vapour deposition (chap. 5 – cooperation: Inasmet).

- Repeated fast surface temperature transients can also damage the substrate and/or the layer by thermal fatigue. One conducted thermal fatigue tests with samples of hot work tool steel, respectively untreated, simply borided and protected by a multilayer. In the last case, top coat is yttria stabilised zirconia, followed by a nickel superalloy and then a borided layer (undercoat). One synthesized the zirconia coating by plasma spray and one modelled the thermal fatigue (chap. 6).

In chap. 7, architectures from chap. 2 are introduced in a multi-treatment selection routine, which is applied in two cases:

- Foundry moulds for molten aluminium, withstanding both thermal fatigue and corrosion. The devised performance index is extrapolated beyond the tests of chap. 5 and 6 to treatments for this industrial application, thereby quantifying their respective merits.

- A foundry device exposed to molten metal and sliding wear.

Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur
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Mirrors and Vanities is a multi-modal collection which showcases the diversity of working in long and short storytelling forms. Featured in this thesis are fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, and screenplay. Using unconventional approaches to storytelling in order to achieve emotional resonance with the audience while maintaining high standards for craft, these stories and essays explore the costs inherent to the subtle nuances of interpersonal relationships. The fiction focuses on the complications of characters keeping secrets. A husband discovers the truth behind his wife's miscarriage. A girl visits her fiance in purgatory. A boy crosses a line and loses his best friend. Meanwhile, the nonfiction centers on self-discovery and gender roles associated with power struggles. A schizophrenic threatens to ruin my mother's wedding. I rediscover my relationship with my father through food writing. Sword-work teaches me to fail and succeed at making martial art. The title work of the thesis is a collaged story highlighting the tribulations of a physicist fixated on recovering his lost love by manipulating the multiverse. The multi-modal format implicates the nebulosity of physics theories and how different aspects of the narrative can be presented in various formats to best suit the nature of the storytelling. Through the interactions of characters in mundane and extraordinary circumstances, the works in this thesis examine the consequences of choice, the contrast between reality and expectation, coming of age, and the Truth of narrative.
M.F.A.
Masters
English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing

M. Tech. Education
It is well known that learners do not perform well in physical science. The purpose of this study was to investigate how learners interpret the role of photographs and other illustrative devices in physical science and whether learners are able to identify physical science concepts that they think are embedded in the photographs found in grade 12 physical science textbooks. The study focused on photographs found in physical science textbooks as it is clear that photographs are explicitly used in physical science textbooks as pedagogical resources. It is of great significance for learners to also understand the physical science concepts embedded in photographs.

碩士
樹德科技大學
建築與室內設計研究所
100
2007, Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea had became the world''s first disappeared island because of the sea-level rise. Taiwan is the island-oriented country, Topography of Taiwan''s rivers are short and turbulent, debris is often washed away and it is not easy to use. As the ecological resources barren islands, the western plains are mostly wilderness ecology, are likely to be another group of climate refugees, especially when flooding come often resulted in losing lives and property of residents. Ever years when Taiwan''s typhoon season comes, the residents living in low-lying areas are always suffer by the flooding troubled, especially the flooding brought on by Typhoon Morakot in 2009, let all the residents in Taiwan experienced a painful experience. In this reason, Taiwanese government try to follow the Dutch water-floating building, plans to built in the higher frequency of flooding areas. In promoting, this project at the same time, how to transform the existing water-floating building "? This study is on the Sun Moon Lake’s in “Water-floating building’s” interior space, with the physical factor instrument measured the indoor thermal environment and use the CFD computer simulation analysis the natural ventilation, the change of airflow in the interior space, combined-site determination of the quantitative data and chart, the thermal comfort impact of changes in the numerical simulation method to explore the Taiwan water floating building "in the indoor space environment and simulation analysis of the best natural ventilation mode. The results of this study can be summarized to the following conclusions and recommendations: 1.In air temperature: the temperature near the opening part of the construction is the partial heat of 29.51 ° C, if we set appropriate rain shelters in the opening part to reduce the direct sun light into the room, and the introduction of adequate ventilation, will enhance the comfort of the living quality of the environment in the indoor staff. 2.In the vertical temperature: indoor vertical temperature variations in the western site, the temperature in the afternoon session is higher than the morning and evening session. I suggest to open the windows to import the outdoor’s cool breeze by the Sun Moon Lake, and the window part is easier to cooling down than the internal part. So the fenestration amount is one of the important indicator of the indoor temperature 3.In relative humidity: Sun Moon Lake region is belong to summer heat and rainy climate, is not suitable to directly introduced the humid air from outdoor, but must consider both the moisture absorption, anti-dew design; night can considered a mechanical dehumidifier to help reduce indoor moisture phenomenon. 4.In wind speed: on matter the windows are opened or not, the indoor wind speed is always maintain between 0.05 ~ 0.3m / s, this wind speed is belongs to the human comfort wind speed of 0.5m / s within the range, the average wind speed is 0.13m / s, so it would not be necessary to improve. 5.Prediction of natural ventilation: the outdoor’s fresh air can be led in by the leeway cause by the fenestration, form cross flow ventilation to maintain indoor comfort

碩士
樹德科技大學
經營管理研究所
104
Although after the Second World War self-government in Taiwan was restored, the development and continuity of the academic tradition of Taiwanese physical education (PE) was profoundly affected during Japanese control. Moreover, in 1949, a group of PE scholars journeyed to Taiwan with the retreat of Nationalist Government. Furthermore, the advocacy of students who returned from sojourns in foreign countries during that period also ushered in distinctive influences. The current Taiwanese PE historical tradition was formed by these three factors: Japanese control, return of self-government, and return of students following sojourn. This article discusses the past, present, and future visions of the academic tradition of Taiwanese PE from the self-governance of Taiwan to now. The rationale of this study is to share the findings with the PE community. Also, it is anticipated that the introduction of these historical accounts will stimulate further exploration among researchers that is hitherto largely neglected. In addition to contributing to this discussion it is hoped the status and awareness of this discipline will be elevated and in turn encourage younger generations to become involved in the process of transmitting the tradition of PE history. This is a future goal and ambition for practitioners concerned with the development of the academic tradition of PE history.

碩士
國立體育大學
體育推廣學系碩士班
98
Background: The purpose of this study was to understand the cognitive of early childhood education teachers and early childhood physical education teachers in teaching rhythmic movement which using the researcher-designed doll illustration of symbols in rhythmic movement system. Moreover, the researcher was trying to analysis how the system could benefits for participants in studying children's rhythmic movements and served to record movement patterns for future study. Methods: A total of twelve subjects (n=12) participated in this study which included six early childhood education teachers (n=6) and six early childhood physical education teachers (n=6). A semi-structural interview was conducted to collect all the data. Results: a). The system presented a warm, lively, and friendly expression of the children's movements to the participants; b). The system embodied the rhythmic movements and was able to inspire leaning interest and motivation in the participants; c) The system represented the child's body and help the participants richly experience the rhythmic movement; d). The system used revolution, combination, and differing viewing angles to clearly display different body areas, a wide variety of movements can be clearly expressed to participants; e). The system combined several different symbolic movement elements, the flow and sequence of the movements can be expressed in a way that participants can easily grasp; and f). The system assisted with their memorization, cementing complex patterns permanently in the participant's cognition while improving the participant's attitude toward studying. Conclusion: The system represents a completely new method for learning rhythmic movement by using these illustrations. Using the system to record rhythmic movement was helpful in presenting ideas, and can express concepts that words cannot.