Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Piecirng'

My thesis is part story telling, part exploration of research and part narrative of my experience in graduate school that culminated with my thesis work Piecing. My work explores how memory and history are connected to objects and the role they play in our ability to feel ‘at home’ at a moment when that is challenged in many ways. I extensively explore recent literature on the topic of nostalgia that is described as a reaction to the fragmentation and dislocation of our current moment, nostalgia as mal du siecle.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a generic hybrid, being both one continuous epic poem (carmen perpetuum 1.4) and staying true to Callimachean principles of episodic, finely spun poetry (deducite 1.4). Covering around two hundred and fifty stories across the (more or less continuous) fifteen books, the multifaceted and complex narrative is necessarily characterised by fragmentation and segmentation. There has been much work on the narrative of the Metamorphoses and its complexity, but studies often focus on the poem's narrator(s) - often seeing the multiple internal narrators as in some way reflective of the aims of the single external one. Few studies embrace this narrative fragmentation, seeking to organise and compartmentalise the Metamorphoses' many discrete narrative parts. This study aims to build on the existing work on the poem's narrative with a particular and fresh focus on reading rather than upon narrating, analysing how readers negotiate and piece together the many fragments of narrative in Ovid's epic poem. This thesis, therefore, will explore how readers of Ovid's Metamorphoses are directed to construct meaning from its fragmented narrative, and I will explore this through examining instances of internal audiences, interpreters and readers. However, the instances of reading that I will examine within the text will not straightforwardly be focused on narratees and their responses and readings to internal narratives (though many instances will be, and of course this will bleed into other focuses). I will also be examining instances of fragmented bodies, as metaphors for the fragmented narrative of Ovid's epic poem, for specific clues as to how we might read Ovid's fragmented epic. Given that the Latin word corpus - much like the English word body - refers to both a physical and poetic body, I will take up the recurring etymological and metaphorical link between the physical and poetic body within the Metamorphoses, and demonstrate how physical bodies within the poem can be seen to act as metaphors for the poetic body. The connection between books and bodies is a material and physical one, and the word itself hints at fragmentation in wholeness too: Ovid's carmen perpetuum, is one continuous song, and yet it is composed of many different parts (or limbs). This link between physical bodies and poetic ones therefore offers a particularly pertinent way of examining the role of reading and interpreting texts in Ovid's epic poem. Examining the internal responses to (fragmented) physical bodies, as metaphors for poetic bodies, will therefore provide a potential model for how external readers of Ovid piece together meaning from its fragmented narrative( s). My investigation of how readers are directed to construct, deconstruct and reconstruct meaning(s) from the fragments of narrative and fragmented narratives within the Metamorphoses begins with the early books of the Tristia, looking there for an Ovidian model of reading and readership. The Tristia often recalls and revisits the Metamorphoses, and through this we are presented with a first, authorial reading of the epic. Within the Tristia there is an impetus and invitation for all readers, especially Augustus, to reread and revise their original interpretations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, highlighting the importance of retrospective reading. Therefore, through an examination of the reading processes presented in these early books of the Tristia, I hope to determine a methodological approach to reading fragmentation which I will use as a lens to retrospectively reread the Metamorphoses.

Epistolary Archaeology: Piecing Together \"The Self\" in Victorian-American Love Letters is a thesis resulting from four years of extensive research, transcription, editing, and writing about the question of authorial identity in post-Civil War life writings, particularly love letters. Epistolary Studies first became interesting to me in July of 2005 while I was researching a family-related collection of documents being housed at Dartmouth College\'s Rauner Special Collections Library. During this week of sifting through 30 boxes of my family\'s military, publishing, and teaching careers going back to pre-Civil War American times, I uncovered a collection of 142 love letters written from my great-great grandfather, Montgomery Meigs, to my great-great grandmother, Grace Cornelia Lynde, during their trans-Atlantic epistolary courtship of 1875-1876. From this project, I have gained a better understanding of how men and women communicated with one another romantically through letter writing in the Victorian American time period, post-Civil War. A conclusion that I came to through my research methods and applied theories is that the question of authorial authenticity becomes even more complicated when attempting to analyze life writings such as love letters because of the public practices and constraints placed upon writers who attempt to create a private intimate space through letters to one another. However, one can gain a better understanding of life writing authorial identity and can make a more educated assumption of what a writer\'s personality may have been like by piecing together contextual clues through extensive research. The process of what I call Epistolary Archaeology is shown in practice throughout the following thesis.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185).
Developing applications for distributed platforms can be very difficult and complex. We have developed a software framework to support distributed, interactive, collaborative applications that run on collections of self-organizing, autonomous computational units. We have included modules to aid application programmers with the exchange of messages, development of fault tolerance, and the aggregation of sensor data from multiple sources. We have assumed a mesh network style of computing, where there is no shared clock, no shared memory, and no central point of control. We have built a distributed user input system, and a distributed simulation application based on the framework. We have demonstrated the viability of our application by testing it with users.
by Diane E. Hirsh.
S.M.

This study will explore my own perception of my personal and professional roles as a language teacher in Nunavik and in Japan. In this qualitative study, I attempt to understand the negotiation of language and culture both in and out of the classroom. Using the autobiographical narrative method, I investigate questions about language and identity through my own personal lens and voice. My inquiry comprises two elements; it examines and interprets key episodes in my life as a learner and teacher, and as a researcher, I link these topics to theoretical and empirical knowledge. My narrative begins with the early years of my life as a Francophone immersed in an English neighbourhood in Montreal, grounding it in the particular experiences of my own learning and teaching. The study also includes a comparative analysis of my teaching experiences in Northern Quebec and in Japan. The journals I kept throughout my teaching assignments provide material for analysis which contributes a unique perspective to the body of literature addressing the relationship between culture, values, language and identity. I close the discussion with recommendations for the improvement of second language teaching and teacher development in intercultural contexts.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine how the information practices of rural clinicians in fifteen counties have changed over the last twenty years. This data is needed to design programs to meet the information needs of the population. Methods: This study is a longitudinal cross-sectional study. A validated survey methodology was used to gather data at a specific point in time. Physicians’ names were gathered from the state licensing verification database and librarians’ personal knowledge. Advanced practice and registered nurses were identified from a list from the state center for nursing. The questionnaires were sent by mail with a self-addressed stamped return envelope with a cover letter explaining the purpose of the survey. Returned surveys were accepted for a 6 week period. The physicians surveyed were the complete population of a fifteen county area and nurse/nurse practitioners were a random sample of the population. Previous iterations were done in 1998 and 2009. Results: In 1997, names of physicians and nurses in 17 rural Tennessee counties were obtained. A random sample (p=.05) was surveyed for a total of 707-(357 RNs and 350 MDs). In 2009, this exact procedure was replicated with slight adjustments to the survey instrument (477 RNs and 312 MDs=789). Eighteen percent (125) of the information questionnaires were returned in 1997. In 2009, sixteen percent (124) of usable surveys were returned. In 2015,one hundred thirty useful surveys were collected. Clinicians were measured as to information barriers, resources, access points, smartphone use, and practice demographics. Conclusions: We need to be out in the community improving access to health information. A longitudinal, cross-sectional study is a good methodology to map progress and trends. Making changes in the community is hard. Hospital purchases by large corporations affect outreach opportunities.

Thesis (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [100]-107).
The primary purpose of this thesis is to explain the benefits and limitations of modular construction as it pertains to primarily wood-frame, multifamily housing in the United States. This thesis attempts to educate the consumer/builder/developer about what the modular construction process entails from beginning to end. Long term demographic trends point to a steady and increasing need for housing production. Decreasing development yields and increasing construction costs and regulations are making it more difficult for the market to meet this need. It is the authors' goal that the knowledge contained in this thesis helps to introduce developers to the basic issues involved in this relatively underutilized but potentially beneficial process.
by Peter J. Cameron, Jr. and Nadia G. Di Carlo.
S.M.in Real Estate Development

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This think piece considers a range of theoretical and conceptual tools that may assist with the emergence of a research agenda for climate change in education. It considers the conditions that are created by climate change in and for southern African contexts, and then deliberates which contextually related theoretical tools may be useful to frame research questions for climate change education. I consider the educational research implications of adaptation practices, reflexive justice and agency, reflexivity and capability, noting that a climate change education research agenda, not different to a wider reflexive environmental education research agenda dealing with transformative praxis in southern Africa, is essentially a sociologically and historically emergent ‘researching with’ agenda, and is in effect a social learning process. In putting together these conceptual framings for a climate change research agenda in southern Africa, I am interested in exploring how participatory social learning research may strengthen agency and reflexivity (development of capabilities) in response to socio-ecological conditions.

This program of research linked police and health data collections to investigate the potential benefits for road safety in terms of enhancing the quality of data. This research has important implications for road safety because, although police collected data has historically underpinned efforts in the area, it is known that many road crashes are not reported to police and that these data lack specific injury severity information. This research shows that data linkage provides a more accurate quantification of the severity and prevalence of road crash injuries which is essential for: prioritising funding; targeting interventions; and estimating the burden and cost of road trauma.

Seamless tube manufacturing utilises continuous cast cylindrical billets that, after piercing, are rolled until a specified diameter, thickness and length are reached. The hollow part can be industrially obtained through cross roll piercing. The main characteristic of this process is the local failure at the billet centre due to the so-called Mannesmann Effect. In general the cylindrical billet is introduced into the piecing mill after a pre-heating stage, it is dragged and radially deformed by two skew conical rolls that create the stress state generating the internal cavity and then it is effectively pierced by a plug that enlarges the axial crack. The knowledge of the industrial parameters, which determine the beginning and the propagation of the axial fracture, is crucial because it determines the optimal position of the plug in order to grant the best quality of the tube and service life of the plug. Despite the vast industrial experience, the scientific knowledge of the Mannesmann Effect is quite limited. Fracture initiation has been widely studied at room temperature and many contributions can be found in scientific literature, but there is a substantial lack in fracture modelling when applied to forming operations at elevated temperatures. The objective of this work is to develop a reliable numerical model capable to describe the industrial conditions that lead to Mannesmann fracture through the implementation into a commercial FE code of a damage law appropriately calibrated on experimental material behaviour. experimentally it can be noted that the solidification phase of steel after the continuous casting process provokes a differentiation of the billet material in terms of the amount of voids fraction and phase distribution that is reflected on its behaviour during the forming operation. Material workability under process conditions is investigated through hot tensile tests carried out on specimens machined from a continuous cast billet and microscopic observations are performed in order to correlate the sample location in the billet section with its micro-structural characteristics. The fracture condition characterization is possible using a damage model according to the Lemaitre formulation and the identification of damage parameters is based on the inverse analysis on hot tensile test results. In particular, a modification to the standard damage law is adopted in order to describe the different behaviour of the material in the billet section and to take into account the effect of porosity and phase distribution on the initial material state. Finally, the developed numerical model is validated, through the comparison between numerical results and industrial trials of non-plug piercing, showing that there is a good agreement in regards to the length and initiation site of the Mannesmann cone fracture.
La produzione di tubi in acciaio senza saldatura si basa sull’utilizzo di barre cilindriche ottenute per colata continua che, dopo aver subito il processo di perforazione, vengono sottoposte a diverse operazioni di laminazione per l’ottenimento delle caratteristiche specificate in termini di lunghezza e spessore del tubo finale. Industrialmente il forato è ottenuto mediante il processo di perforazione obliqua, la cui caratteristica principale è una frattura lungo l’asse longitudinale della billetta che si crea per il cosiddetto Effetto Mannesmann. Nel processo industriale, in seguito a una fase di riscaldamento, la billetta cilindrica viene introdotta nell’impianto di perforazione, trascinata e deformata dall’azione di due rulli tronco-conici ad assi sghembi che generano lo stato di sollecitazione caratteristico per la comparsa della frattura interna. Solo a questo punto la billetta viene effettivamente perforata da un mandrino che svolge la funzione di allargare la cavità ottenuta longitudinalmente e laminare le pareti interne del forato. La conoscenza delle condizioni industriali di laminazione che determinano la comparsa e della frattura lungo l’asse della billetta e la sua propagazione, è di fondamentale importanza in quanto essa determina la posizione ottimale del mandrino perforatore al fine di garantire un’elevata qualità del prodotto laminato e massimizzare la durata della punta. Nonostante l’elevata esperienza dei produttori industriali, la conoscenza scientifica sull’effetto Mannesmann e sulle condizioni che lo determinano è notevolmente limitata. In generale, la letteratura tecnico-scientifica raccoglie numerosi studi sull’insorgere della frattura nei processi di deformazione in condizioni di lavorazione a freddo, c’è invece una sostanziale assenza di modellazione della rottura nel materiale in deformazione per quanto riguarda le lavorazioni ad elevata temperatura. L’obiettivo di questo lavoro sta nello sviluppare un modello numerico in grado di riprodurre in modo affidabile le condizioni che industrialmente provocano la frattura per effetto Mannesmann nel processo di perforazione, mediante l’implementazione in un codice di calcolo di una legge di danneggiamento opportunamente calibrata sulla base del reale comportamento del materiale. Mediante studi di carattere sperimentale, si dimostrato come la fase di solidificazione del’acciaio dopo l’operazione di colata continua provochi una forte differenziazione del materiale della billetta in termini di porosità e distribuzione delle diverse fasi che si riflette nel suo comportamento durante l’operazione di formatura. La lavorabilità del materiale in condizioni di processo è esaminata mediante prova di trazione ad elevata temperatura su provini estratti da billetta ottenuta per colata continua e osservazioni a microscopio sono svolte al fine di correlare la posizione dei campioni sulla billetta con le sue caratteristiche microstrutturali. La caratterizzazione delle condizioni di frattura è possibile grazie all’utilizzo di un modello di danno secondo la formulazione di Lemeitre e l’identificazione dei parametri di danno dipendenti dal materiale è basata sull’uso di tecniche di analisi inversa in riferimento ai risultati sperimentali dei test di trazione a caldo. In particolare, una modifica alla legge di danno è introdotta al fine di descrivere correttamente le differenze nel comportamento del materiale nella sezione della billetta e considerare quindi l’effetto di porosità e distribuzione di fasi nello stato del materiale iniziale. Al termine, il modello numerico sviluppato è validato mediante il confronto dei risultati da simulazione e fermi-macchina in impianto perforatore industriale in assenza del mandrino, che dimostra la bontà del modello per quanto riguarda la previsione del sito di frattura e della lunghezza del cono Mannesmann.

Nomenclature for the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic strata along the south flank of the Uinta Mountains has been somewhat confusing because of the position of the study area between southern Wyoming, where one set of names is used, and central/southern Utah where a different set of formation names is used. The Nugget Sandstone or Glen Canyon Sandstone of the eastern Uinta Mountains overlies the Upper Triassic Popo Agie or Chinle Formation. The nature of the contact between these two formations is unclear both in stratigraphic location and conformability. The Chinle Formation consists, in ascending order, of the Gartra Member, the purple unit, the ocher unit, and the upper red unit. The overlying Nugget Sandstone consists of two members, the lower Bell Springs Member and the overlying unnamed cross-bedded member, typically believed to be Navajo Sandstone equivalent. These two units of the Nugget Sandstone are thought to represent the Glen Canyon Group of the Colorado Plateau, although no obvious Wingate or Kayenta Formation equivalents have been recognized. The Bell Springs Member contains abundant fine-grained, ripple-laminated sandstones, red and green mudstones, occasional mudcracks and salt casts, evidence of burrowing and exposure, and some medium- to coarse-grained sandstones with small-scale (30-40 cm high) cross-beds. This member was deposited in a marine tidal flat environment, quite different from the mainly eolian environment of the rest of the Nugget Sandstone. The Bell Springs Member appears to be entirely Upper Triassic, based upon dinosaur tracks, while the upper windblown unit's age is unknown, but probably straddles the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. During mapping in the Donkey Flat, Steinaker Reservoir, Dry Fork, and Lake Mountain quadrangles, the Bell Springs Member of the Nugget Sandstone was mapped as a separate unit.

This diploma thesis describes methods of textile fibers treatment, production levels with detailed focus on spinning process especially by Rieter AG in Winterthur, Switzerland, subsidiary company in Usti nad Orlici. Thesis also describes production materials and it’s behavior in relations to production machines. Analysis of the current solution, it’s pros and cons is also done. Setting of requirements of new solution. Creating proposals of design solutions of yarn keeper with mechanic clamp situated on spinning unit on Air-Jet machine. Creating concepts and proposal schemes. After choosing of best possible solution considering production costs, electric consumption during working machine and during active cycle was this variation produce. At the end is review of complete solution and prospective next steps in testing not only in laboratory and prospects of using in field.

碩士
輔仁大學
非營利組織管理碩士學位學程在職專班
103
Typhoon Morakot triggered enormous mudslides and killed nearly five hundred people living in the Xiaolin Village in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Xiaolin’s survivors and family members reconstructed the community – Sunshine Xiaolin Community, and it became a well-known successful case of post-disaster reconstruction. The study analyzed the Xiaolin’s reconstruction process and found that the community’s autonomy in reconstruction was not taken for granted; rather, it was earned by villagers’ aggressive fighting for autonomy. Additionally, it is found that autonomous reconstruction is critical for the success. Based on the case analysis of the Sunshine Xiaolin Community, the study developed a model of autonomous reconstruction of post-disaster community, and the model include three closely inter-connected dynamics: (1) community leadership and group dynamics, (2) community consciousness and community resilience, and (3) a “piecing together approach” that encompasses all of the residential, economic, and socio-cultural aspects with good balance of inclusiveness and purposefulness for community reconstruction.

碩士
淡江大學
建築學系碩士班
95
This studying in point of group of dormitories of American army in Yang-Ming-Shan, and it’s a subject under discussion of preservation movement recently. The influence to Taiwan’s socity of outcome after a particular period of cold war and discusses it. Makes a research basis of background of group of dormitories of American army and build environment, and analyzes the problem about group of dormitories of American army and commune of Shan-Zhai-Hou, and tries to add setting of activities of program to produce the probability of using space, and expects the assume of design of artistic conception of space will go a step further to supply the development of commune in the future and plan principles. In this studying, discussing the subject about modern of colonization and exoticism.The author argues that Shan-Zhai-Hou has mystery from culture of other country of group of dormitories of American army and also let taiwan’s people contact the sense of modern in the first time. Pass through cold war in 1950, produce the transplant of modern and structure of modern of colonization. And talks about meaning of commune and gets the concept of city of garden of Ebenezer Howard and the example of Cung-Hsin New Village to compare with environment quality of American house in outskirt. Author also argues that few people discuss in the point of commune the fluence about the group of dormitories of American army to development of commune in our country in Yang-Ming-Shan and hope that rallies the value and attitude about commune environment by discussing this subject. To continue the subject, hope that find the problem and ability of development of subject by background of group of dormitories of American army and special architecture and high quality of environment, and change the commune university of Se valley and the concept of study of Yang-Ming-Shan and let commune of Shan-Zhai-Hou not only reserves the product of culture but supply space of learning in the culture. Finally, advances the setting of program activities and give a foreground of development of commune in the future and principles by coming into a reference of plan for people in the commune and studio of history of literature.

碩士
東海大學
美術學系
101
A room is the place where a person can still be tolerated after he/she unloads the external image and defense. Such imagery also includes the image projection of home; similar to a storage room, we all need a place like this to store up our personal secret and privacy. We try to present all kinds of beautiful imagination towards life there, and it is there that we treasure up some items or some lovely time which are specific to us. The topic of the creation paid close attention to the continual accumulating traces in the room from people. The idea was from my personal experience about the deep comprehension and imagination to the things and the memory traces that once existed but disappeared now. The goal of this research was to find out the mutual life traces in the past which were both shown in “my own room” and “the views changed in the room” by the topic and the definition of “room”, cutting in with my personal experience. The form and character of puzzle itself allowed people to move and to reorganize freely on the image. The incompletion of the missing memories was deepened, like the puzzle which was broken up and was difficult to be recovered, through the narration of continuous and discontinuous images. The abnormal connection and observation experience was established during the process of direct interaction with viewers and the generation of playfulness, and further recalled the missing memories and the experience compensation status of the viewers. Chapter one is the introduction of the research motivation and goal from creator; Chapter two is the discussion of the changes and development among creator’s background, network and the topic; Chapter three is the analysis of core topic developed for the artwork and its form & presentation; Chapter four is the style collection of the whole series of the artwork created with research topic, and the discussion of the connection among artwork development; Chapter five is the conclusion of the research, and it summarized the completion of the creation development and the potential of future expectation.

Change all but defines the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in American history. In the midst of these tumultuous times, America experienced a revolution of reform meant to develop and enhance all areas of life from politics to society, which led historians to call this time period the Progressive Era. However, the progress of the nation was not always the winning ideology. At times, the backlash against progressive ideas restrained innovators and caused them to disappear into the mires of history. One reformer who experienced this backlash was Fred Morrow Fling. Although he was an internationally-known historian, he remained a rather invisible history education reformer because his ideas were overshadowed by the enormous human events of his lifetime, including the work of other reformers and his unexpected death in 1934. As a trained scientific historian, Fling was a pioneer of historical method and the application of what became known as “source method” in the classroom and he espoused a radical approach to critical education that sought to embed a scientific approach into the teaching of history that has clear parallels with best teaching practices today. Thus, using traditional historical research methods and archival records from both Bowdoin College and the University of Nebraska, the author presents in this dissertation a biographical portrait of Fling’s life. Through the analysis of these historical documents and the evidence of his life recorded in publications and the public press, this portrait will serve to uncover both how Fred Morrow Fling’s conception of history education influenced his practice as a history professor and researcher and how Fred Morrow Fling’s philosophy of education formed and developed over his lifetime. Specifically, this author will consider: how can the philosophy of history education created by Fred Morrow Fling inform our current history education practices today? By investigating Fling’s life, researchers will finally be able to acknowledge Fling’s myriad contributions to history education, which are vital to composing a fuller picture of the history of social studies education.

博士
國立臺灣師範大學
翻譯研究所
107
The New Woman phenomenon that emerges during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a result of industrialization and urbanization, is seen as a milestone of woman emancipation in the process of modern civilization. These professional and unmarried women, more often than not, coinciding with the emergence of feminism that champions sexual equality and decries traditional gender roles, epitomize the societal development of the time in many countries. Even in Japan new woman were identified with and advocated mainly by feminists who understood the former’s needs as the subjugated sex, however, in China, the construction of new woman relied heavily on their male counterparts who, with the Qing dynasty’s defeat by Japan and the West in mind, late Qing and early Republic Chinese intellectuals narrate a new China with the rhetoric of ‘A strong nation must have strong offspring’, which upholds the dictum of ‘good mother wise wife’ and places new woman on the forefront of reconstructing a new China. Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé is written as his response and challenge to Victorian taboos and moral standards with the intention of shocking the philistines, and probably with new woman as the protagonist in mind, it coincides with the emergence of new women and benefits from many of them contributing to the play’s success and notoriety in history, and was closely weaved into the lives and personae of these turn-of-the-century female artists, including Ida Rubinstein, Allan Maud, and Matsui Sumako, boasting a provocative and daunting narrative which allowed them to channel their talents into and left an indelible impression with which no other fin-de-siècle dramatic roles could compare. With such personal and unusual association between artists and character, Salomé therefore serves as an embodiment of new woman of that period, and in turn empowers them in real life as new women capable of defying traditional social values by enjoying economic and emotional independence. This research tries to incorporate Foucault’s sexual discourse in investigating an aspect left out by previous studies about both Japanese and Chinese new woman inspired by literary figures during the late nineteenth century, which Salomé bestowed on new women when the play was first introduced into both countries.