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Bakkenberg, Mikael. ""Crossing the River" : the complexity of colonialism and slavery." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8538.
Full textLinthicum, David W. "Crossing the River : A Conceptual Framework for Response to Chaos." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6822.
Full textThis thesis suggests that the existing protocols for initial emergency response to a chaotic event do not take advantage of the decision-making skills of front-line responders. Building from a foundation derived from the concepts of reductionism, holism and the Cynefin framework, a purposeful sample of real-world incidents was examined in an attempt to understand and demonstrate how front-line, emergent decision making can positively impact a chaotic emergency scene. From the research and sampling, a conceptual framework was developed that supports the implementation of a protocol that encourages front-line decision making. The research also identifies a point during the response that signifies entry into the chaotic domain. The REACT framework (respond, engage, act, communicate and transition) is proposed to empower first responders and give them the ability to respond to a crisis when there is not plan. The REACT framework is capable of being implemented at the lowest level of emergency response agencies. The utilization of this framework allows the decision-making skills of responders to develop incrementally. In addition, this thesis suggests that the framework serves as a mechanism to teach critical thinking and decision making.
Ueda, Satoru. "Conflict management in the design of the Charles River crossing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70242.
Full textDoyle, Susan. "Ambiguity and Ambiguous Identities in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23161.
Full textNilsen, Kristine. "Crossing the river : inequities in maternal health services in Cambodia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417787/.
Full textWåke, Anders. "Crossing the River : An Example of Black Politics of Resistance." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36245.
Full textChoi, Sze-wai Tony, and 蔡詩偉. "A study of tense and aspect in Caryl Phillips crossing the river." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951934.
Full textChoi, Sze-wai Tony. "A study of tense and aspect in Caryl Phillips crossing the river." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161525.
Full textGao, Bo. "Crossing the Ya-Lu River : Chinese economic activities in North Korea post-2002." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42857/.
Full textOdenyo, Tanya. "The African Presence and Limits of Double Consciousness in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36079.
Full textLiu, Hongling. "Crossing the river by feeling the stones : Approaches to Sustainable Urban Development in China." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-141032.
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Pirker, Eva Ulrike. "Erinnerung in Caryl Phillips' Romanen der Neunzigerjahre Cambridge, Crossing the River, The Nature of Blood /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11078316.
Full textNarus, Joseph John. "Coal to Oil in China: Scientific Development or Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones?" PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/169.
Full textMazza, Silvia. "Dynamic behaviour of the railway steel bridge crossing Po river at Ostiglia: global and local analysis." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016.
Find full textHolmlind, Ann-Louise. "The Adopted Daughter of Africa : A Close Reading of Joyce in Crossing the River from Postcolonial and Feminist Perspectives." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35935.
Full textTwitchell, Sara Erin. "Evaluating the Effects of Road Crossing Structures on Stream-Associated Amphibians in the Wilson River Watershed, Tillamook State Forest, Oregon." Thesis, Portland State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1535858.
Full textAs replacement and removal of undersized culverts gains momentum as an effective technique for restoring natural stream flows and removing fish passage barriers, it is important to evaluate the benefits of these efforts on the in-stream and adjacent riparian habitat for other species of potential concern. This study compares stream-associated amphibian (SAA) occurrence in streams adjacent to different road crossing structures on unpaved forest roads in the Wilson River watershed located within the Tillamook State Forest, Oregon. Surveys were conducted at road crossing structures for three taxa of SAA; Pacific giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus), coastal tailed frog (Ascaphus truei), and Columbia torrent salamander (Rhyacotriton kezeri). Statistical models were created to analyze the effect of habitat variables on SAA occupancy, and determine whether those variables changed relative to road crossing structures.
Results showed that coastal tailed frog occupancy was positively associated with dissolved oxygen and crayfish presence, negatively associated with longitude, and had a slight quadratic relationship to channel confinement. Because all sites were highly saturated with oxygen, percent dissolved oxygen was likely a surrogate for one or more other covariates, such as in-stream habitat or substrate size. Detection rates of Pacific giant salamander were too high and detection rates of Columbia torrent salamander were too low to provide reliable models, but they did provide some insight into the factors affecting occupancy in the study area, including information about their interactions with road crossing structures. Occupancy rates of Pacific giant salamanders in the study area appear to be unaffected by road crossings, fish passable or otherwise. Conversely, torrent salamanders seemed to be mostly absent from the study sites altogether, but based on the one stream where they were detected, they are not excluded from occupying fish barrier culvert sites.
Top weighted habitat covariates, including dissolved oxygen, channel confinement, crayfish and fish presence, and flow constriction are all indicators of disturbance that can be linked to road crossings. Although the size and structure of road crossings did not prove to significantly influence SAA occupancy, indicators of stream disturbance that can be related to road crossings were included in the best models for predicting occupancy, demonstrating the importance of reducing disturbance related to road crossings on streams.
Mufamadi, Fholisani Sydney. "Crossing the river by groping for stones : statist fostering of the automotive industry in China, South Africa and Thailand, 1994-2008." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539548.
Full textWoods, David. "The Giving Up of Greer: The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Janus-Faced Empire : Writing Back Against the British Imperial Discourse." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35862.
Full textWike, Sofia. "The Denial of Motherhood in Beloved and Crossing the River : A Postcolonial Literary Study of How the Institution of Slavery Has Restricted Motherhood for Centuries." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23447.
Full textFaulkner, Marie-France. "Belonging-in-difference : negotiating identity in Anglophone Caribbean literature." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2013. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/294464/.
Full textFaulkner, Marie-France. "Belonging-in-difference: negotiating identity in Anglophone Caribbean literature." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2013. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/294464/1/Belonging-in-Difference%202013.pdf.
Full textAhoua, Raymond. "The transference of the three mediating institutions of salvation from Caiaphas to Jesus : a study of Jn: 45-54 in the light of the Akan myth of the crossing of a river /." Bern [u.a.] : Lang, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016727072&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textMansfield, W. A. "The hydrogeomorphological effects of river channel crossings." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376040.
Full textKrasnoshchekov, Sergey Yurievich. "Determining lateral river channel activity with respect to safety of pipeline crossings." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/165455/.
Full textWhite, Joshua A. "Geomorphic analysis of stream crossings in a portion of the Upper Cheat River basin." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2004. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3688.
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Laws, Jason G. "Localized, flow dependent, sweet corrosion at regions of drastic changes in elevations hilly terrain and river crossings." Ohio : Ohio University, 2000. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1172265737.
Full textTait, Michelle Louise. "Navigating terragraphica : an exploration of the locations of identity construction in the transatlantic fiction of Ama Ata Aidoo, Paule Marshall and Caryl Phillips." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71769.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Seeking to navigate and explore diasporic identity, as reflected in and by transatlantic narrative spaces, this thesis looks to three very different novels birthed out of the Atlantic context (at different points of the Atlantic triangle and at different moments in history): Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (1977) by Ama Ata Aidoo, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1969) by Paule Marshall and Crossing the River (1993) by Caryl Phillips. Recognising the weight of location – cultural, geographic, temporal – on the literary construction of transatlantic identity, this thesis traces the way in which Aidoo, Marshall and Phillips use fictional texts as tools for grappling with ideas of home and belonging in a world of displacement, fracture and (ex)change. Uncovering the impact of roots, as well as routes (rupta via) on the realisation of identity for the diasporic subject, this study reveals and wrestles with various narrative portrayals of the diasporic condition (a profoundly human condition). Our Sister Killjoy presents identity as inherently imbricated with nationalism and pan-Africanism, whereas The Chosen Place presents identity as tidalectic, caught in the interstices between western and African subjectivities. In Crossing the River on the other hand, diasporic identification is constructed as transnational, fractal and perpetually in-process. This study argues that in the absence of an established sense of terra firma the respective authors actively construct home through narrative, resulting in what Erica L. Johnson has described as terragraphica. In this way, each novel is perceived and explored as a particular terragraphica as well as a fictional lieux de mémoire (to borrow Pierre Nora’s conception of “sites of memory”). Using the memories of transatlantic characters as (broken) windows through which to view history, as well as filters through which the present can be understood (or refracted), are techniques that Aidoo, Marshall and Phillips employ (although, Aidoo’s use of memory is less obvious). Tapping into various sites of memory in the lives of the fictional characters, the novels themselves become mediums of remembering, not as a means of storing facts about the past, but for the ambivalent purpose of understanding the impact of the past on the present.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In ’n poging om diasporiese identiteit te karteer en te ondersoek, betrek hierdie verhandeling drie uiteenlopende romans wat in die Atlantiese konteks, naamlik vanuit die verskillende hoeke van die Atlantiese driehoek en verskillende geskiedkundige Atlantiese momente, ontstaan het. Die drie romans sluit in: Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (1977) deur Ama Ata Aidoo, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1969) deur Paule Marshall en Crossing the River (1993) deur Caryl Phillips. Deur die belangrikheid van plek – kultureel, geografies en temporeel – in die literêre konstruksie van transatlantiese identiteit, te beklemtoon, spoor hierdie verhandeling die manier waarop Aidoo, Marshall en Phillips fiktiewe tekste aanwend na om sin te maak van idees oor tuiste en geborgenheid in ’n wêreld van verdringing, skeuring en (ver)wisseling. Deur die impak van die oorsprong op, asook die weg (rupta via) na, die verwesenliking van identiteit vir die diasporiese subjek te toon, onthul en worstel hierdie tesis met verskeie narratiewe uitbeeldings van die diasporiese toestand (’n toestand eie aan die mens). Our Sister Killjoy stel identiteit as inherent vermeng met nasionalisme en pan-Afrikanisme voor, terwyl The Chosen Place identiteit as tidalekties uitbeeld – vasgevang tussen westerse en Afrika-subjektiwiteite. In Crossing the River word diasporiese identifisering egter gekonstrueer as transnasionaal, fraktaal en ewigdurend in ’n proses van ontwikkeling. Hierdie studie voer verder aan dat die onderskeie skrywers tuiste aktief deur narratief konstrueer in die afwesigheid van ’n gevestigde bewustheid van terra firma, of onbekende land of plek. Die gevolg is ’n voortvloeiing van wat deur Erica L. Johnson beskryf word as terragraphica. Vervolgens word elk van die romans gesien en verken as ’n spesifieke terragraphica asook ’n fiktiewe lieux de mémoire, gegrond in Pierre Nora se konsep “sites of memory”. Die benutting van transatlantiese karakters se herhinneringe as (gebreekte) vensters waardeur die geskiedenis bespeur kan word en filters waardeur die hede verstaan (of gerefrakteer) kan word, is die tegnieke wat Aidoo, Marshall en Phillips aanwend – alhoewel Aidoo se gebruik van geheue minder ooglopend is. Deur verskeie terreine van geheue in die lewens van die fiktiewe karakters te betrek, ontwikkel die romans tot mediums van onthou, nie in die sin van feite van die verlede wat gestoor word nie, maar met die dubbelsinnige doel om die impak van die verlede op die hede te verstaan.
Gnieser, Christoph. "Terrain disturbances by winter roads in the lower and central Mackenzie River Valley, N.W.T., Canada." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4165.
Full textO'Neal, Sean S. "Building bridges and crossing rivers a primer for training church leadership within the Church of God denomination or congregations to do effective ministry in culturally diverse communities /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBocanegra, Vinasco Ricardo Andres. "Evaluation of the risk due to fluvial flooding in vehicles and road infrastructures at basin scale." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/157654.
Full text[CAT] Les inundacions poden desestabilitzar els vehicles i aquests, al mateix temps, poden exacerbar els efectes negatius de les inundacions quan són arrossegats pel flux, generant no solament pèrdues econòmiques sinó també de vides humanes. A les ciutats, la major part de les morts durant les inundacions ocorre a l'interior dels vehicles pel fet que els conductors intenten creuar amb els seus vehicles per zones inundades (Jonkzman and Kelman 2005; Drobot et al. 2007; Kellar and Schmidlin 2012). En països desenvolupats, un alt percentatge d'aquestes morts ocorre durant inundacions llampec quan els conductors intenten creuar per zones inundades en lloc d'evitar-les (Fitzgerald et al. 2010; Kellar i Schmidlin 2012). A causa d'això, en àrees subjectes a inundacions llampec, quasi la meitat de les víctimes són passatgers atrapats en els seus propis vehicles (Versini et al. 2010a) Entre les parts de les vies que resulten afectades per les crescudes dels rius es troben els ponts, les quals són obres d'infraestructura molt importants. Un alt percentatge de les fallades dels ponts a nivell mundial es presenta com a conseqüència de les crescudes dels rius, la qual cosa té un impacte altament negatiu en els vehicles i els sistemes de transport.. A causa d'això, amb la finalitat de realitzar una adequada gestió de les inundacions és necessari determinar el risc d'inestabilitat al qual estan sotmesos els vehicles en una zona inundable. No obstant això, malgrat l'impacte negatiu de les inundacions, fins a la data es disposa de pocs estudis que permeten determinar els efectes negatius que les condicions climàtiques generen sobre els sistemes de transport (Molarius et al., 2014). En la present investigació es va desenvolupar una nova metodologia per a calcular aquest risc a partir de les característiques de les crescudes, els ponts, els vehicles, i el trànsit vehicular. Aquesta metodologia va ser generada a partir d'una estructura conceptual i un desenvolupament matemàtic nous i permet determinar el risc a través de la integral estadística de l'amenaça d'inestabilitat i la vulnerabilitat dels cotxes. En àrees urbanes i en les interseccions entre els corrents d'aigua i les vies, l'amenaça s'estableix a través d'una funció d'estabilitat de cotxes parcialment submergits, les característiques geomètriques dels vehicles i les característiques hidrodinàmiques de les crescudes (calats i velocitats) i la seua probabilitat d'ocurrència, mentre que la vulnerabilitat es calcula per mitjà de la combinació de la susceptibilitat i l'exposició dels cotxes. En ponts, la perillositat s'obté a través de l'anàlisi de les dades de cabal disponibles i la vulnerabilitat mitjançant l'anàlisi de l'estat estructural del pont, les característiques de la conca i del llit aigües amunt i aigües avall de l'estructura, l'estabilitat del canal i la potencial acumulació d'enderrocs. La metodologia desenvolupada es va implementar per a determinar el risc en els següents casos d'estudi, els quals estan localitzats en territori espanyol: (i) en les àrees urbanes corresponents als municipis d'Alfafar i Massanassa, (ii) en els llocs d'intersecció entre vies i rius localitzats en el municipi de Godelleta; i (iii) en 12 ponts fluvials. Els resultats obtinguts podrien estar indicant que el mètode proposat té en compte els elements més importants que han de considerar-se en establir aquest tipus de risc. La metodologia desenvolupada permet obtindre un panorama detallat del risc de desestabilització dels vehicles a causa d'inundacions en una zona determinada. En conseqüència, la implementació d'aquesta metodologia pot ajudar a disminuir els efectes negatius abans i durant aquesta mena d'esdeveniments, resultant de gran ajuda per a les entitats encarregades de la planificació urbana i de la protecció civil amb la finalitat de dissenyar i implementar accions que permeten disminuir els efectes negatius de les inundacions.
[EN] Flooding can destabilize vehicles which might, in turn, exacerbate the negative effects of floods when vehicles are swept away by flows, leading to economic loss and fatalities. The main cause of death in cities during flood events corresponds to cars being swept away when they are driven by flooded roads (Jonkzman and Kelman 2005; Drobot et al. 2007; Kellar and Schmidlin 2012). In developed countries a high percentage of these deaths occurs during flash floods when drivers try to cross overflowing water bodies instead of avoiding them (Fitzgerald et al. 2010; Kellar and Schmidlin 2012). Hence, in areas subject to flash floods almost half of the victims are passengers trapped inside their own vehicles (Versini et al. 2010a). Among the parts of the roads that are most affected by floods are bridges, which are very important infrastructure works for society. Because of this, a high percentage of bridge failures worldwide occur as a result of river floods, which has highly negative impacts for vehicles and transportation systems. Therefore, in order to suitably manage floods, it is necessary to determine the risk of instability to which vehicles in flood-prone areas are subject. However, Despite the negative impact of floods, very few studies have centred on determining the negative effects of floods on transport systems (Molarius et al., 2014). In this research, a new methodology to estimate this risk based on the characteristics of vehicles, floods, bridges and vehicular traffic was developed. This methodology was generated from a novel conceptual structure and mathematical development and allows to determine the risk by the statistical integral of the instability hazard and the vehicles' vulnerability. In urban areas and stream crossings, the hazard is determined by a stability criterion of partially submerged cars, the geometric characteristics of the vehicles and the hydrodynamic characteristics of the floods (depths and velocities) and their probability of occurrence, while vulnerability is calculated by combining the susceptibility and exposure of cars. In bridges, the hazard is obtained by analysing available discharge data and the vulnerability by examining the structural condition of the bridge, the characteristics of the watershed and watercourse upstream and downstream of the structure, the stability of the channel and the potential accumulation of debris. The developed methodology was implemented to determine the risk in the following case studies, which are located in Spanish territory: (i) in the urban areas corresponding to the towns of Alfafar and Massanassa; (ii) in the stream crossings located in the municipality of Godelleta; and (iii) in 12 river bridges located. The results obtained could be indicating that the proposed method takes into account the most important elements to be considered when establishing this type of risk. The developed methodology provides a detailed vision of the vehicle instability risk due to flooding in a given area. Consequently, implementing this methodology can help to reduce negative effects before and during flooding events, which is extremely helpful for those organizations in charge of urban planning and civil protection to design and take actions that cushion the negative effects of flooding.
I thank Colciencias for financing this research through call 728-2015.
Bocanegra Vinasco, RA. (2020). Evaluation of the risk due to fluvial flooding in vehicles and road infrastructures at basin scale [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/157654
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Ligairi, Rachel Mae. "The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/935.
Full textABBIATI, MICHELE. "L'ESERCITO ITALIANO E LA CONQUISTA DELLA CATALOGNA (1808-1811).UNO STUDIO DI MILITARY EFFECTIVENESS NELL'EUROPA NAPOLEONICA." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/491761.
Full textThe Italian Army and the Conquest of Catalonia (1808-1811) A Study of Military Effectiveness in Napoleonic Europe Academic Fields and Disciplines SPS/03 – M-STO/02 The research has the purpose of reconstruct and evaluate the military effectiveness of the Italian Army existed under the reign of Napoleon I. Firstly through a statistic and strategic analysis of the development, and the following deployment, of the military institution of the Kingdom of Italy in the years of its existence (1805-14). Afterwards, a particularly significant case study was chosen, as the campaign of Catalonia (1808-11, in the context of the Peninsular War), in order to assess the operational and tactical contribution of the regiments sent by the Government of Milan and their integration in the overall military apparatus of the First Empire. The thesis wanted to respond to the lack of studies on the Italian army’s behavior in war and, at the same time, to introduce the methodology of the Military Effectiveness Studies (of British and American origin and, by now, enriched by a thirty-year old tradition) in the Italian historiography. The research is primarily based, besides the numerous memoirs of the Italian and French veterans, on the archive documentation of the Secrétairerie d’état impériale (Archives Nationales of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Paris), of the French Ministère de la Guerre (Service historique de la Défence, of Vincennes, Paris) and of the Italian Ministero della Guerra (Archivio di Stato di Milano). About the results, it has been verified how the Italian army has become a flexible and suitable instrument for Bonaparte, albeit in a context of substantial overall numerical marginality in comparison to the heterogeneous forces available to the Empire and its others satellites and allied states. Regarding the campaign of Catalonia, instead, it was possible to ascertain the fundamental contribution of the Italian regiments, in an operational and tactical perspective, for the success of the invasion. This was primarily due to the excellent general characteristics shown by the expeditionary force, but also to disciplinary and organizational peculiarities that have made the Italian corps suitable for particularly aggressive operations.
Lin, Yu-Fang, and 林俞方. "African Victimization in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vu36mg.
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外國語文研究所
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Abstract African victimization plays an important part in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River. With his unique fragmented writing style, Phillips retells the slavery history with four different stories in different periods of time and each story shows the African victimization. After the shameful discourse between the African father and the slave trader, the tragic lives of Nash, Martha and Travis can be seen as the continuity of African victimization. Phillips reveals the fact that both the white and the black share the same responsibility of the slavery history. By adopting Benjamin Mendelsohn’s and Hans von Hentig’s victim typology, I discover that these characters separately fall into different victim types according to their situations. Their victimization can be divided into the active victimization and passive victimization based on the sources of victimization. If the oppression comes from the internal thought, it is called active victimization. If the oppression comes from the external world, it is called passive victimization. Nash and Martha belong to the type of active victimization. Travis and the slaves on Hamilton’s slave ship belong to the type of passive victimization. By comparing the passive victimization, I find that Phillips brings up the idea that the white in the racial mix-up family can be the victim, instead of the oppressor. My purpose is to demonstrate that African victimization is not equal to the unwritten rule that the white one-sidedly oppress the black. Through analyzing the types of African victimization, I consider that Phillips points out the importance of humanity which people need in the future. Keywords: Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River, African victimization
Wu, Ming-Kun, and 吳明昆. "A Study of River Crossing Structure Protection Designs." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64649864183708990474.
Full text國立屏東科技大學
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Common failures of river crossing structures in Taiwan are caused by the steep channel slopes and rapid flows, as well as weak geological formations. There are nine different types of structure protection works commonly used in Taiwan. The present study considers flexible weirs and the use of grade control structures; those downstream of Kaoping Bridge and on the Laonung River are used for observation, analysis and evaluation. By analyzing the displacement of concrete blocks and strips at the grade control structure downstream of Kaoping Bridge, prior to and after the 2003 flood season, it has been shown that stability analysis of sliding and overturning single and multiple concrete blocks can be used for concrete block design. Laboratory studies indicate that concrete strips can be effectively used instead of 40 cm diameter rocks in preventing the loss of fill materials between concrete blocks. By measuring cross-section variations downstream of the grade control structure prior to and after the flood season, it was also found that the Bligh equation can be used to determine the required length of river bed protection downstream of grade control structures. Cross-section data upstream of the Tuku grade control structure on Laonung River were analyzed for the period 2001-2003. The results indicate that commonly used empirical equations can be used to determine the slope of deposition upstream of the grade control structure located in the reach adjacent to the confluence of Laonung and Ailiao Rivers. The results from this study are based on limited data, because the grade control structure downstream of Kaoping Bridge has been completed for only one year. However, the results can be used as reference to design similar types of grade control structures and to verify laboratory test results. It is recommended to continue data collection, to install monitoring instruments at the site for further investigations, and to continue studies to improve the design criteria.
Ivey, Lindsay M. "Screening guide for critical river crossing structures with earthquake disruption risks." 2006. http://etd.louisville.edu/data/UofL0160t2006.pdf.
Full textTitle and description from thesis home page (viewed Jan. 30, 2007). Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Vita. "August 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p.78-79).
SU, Ting-Yun, and 蘇亭云. "An Action Research on Problem-Based Learning in Discuss River-Crossing Problem." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tyutf3.
Full text國立臺北教育大學
數學暨資訊教育學系(含數學教育碩士班)
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This study aimed to explore problem-based learning to discuss the issue river-crossing problem , its implementation process, students reflect on the difficulties, action strategies and teachers. The subjects were four sixth-graders, mining action research, carried out for three action cycle, through continuous cycle of planning, action, reflection and correction, to collect data, including teacher observation records, student personal record table, group record table discussion, self-assessment form, peer assessment form, record interviews and teaching survey form, and recording, video mode records the discussion. The main findings of this study First, teaching course (A) the implementation of PBL, must pay attention to distribution and application time. (B) Students completing the structure of the table is more strange, can gain experience through more write better. (C) to assist the animation game can help students to think in the abstract concrete, help to improve interest in learning. Second, the difficulties encountered by students and action strategies to solve (A) the implementation of PBL, students' thinking speed becomes faster, reasoning ability, skills has improved. (B) The student self-learning situation, the better, the more growth. (C) Students have their own strengths, their own expertise to play. Third, teaching reflection researcher (A) Degree is for students to design issues can affect the implementation of results. (B) the implementation of PBL promotes professional growth of teachers. 1. Master teaching time. 2. The concept of lay, so that students can successfully solve problems. 3. Change faith, student-centered, given the waiting time. 4. The time-consuming to implement problem-based learning, students can learn skills and express the problem-solving process.
Cunha, Claudia Minervina Souza. "Crossing the river: the dental Morphology of Chalcolithic populations in the Middle Guadiana." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/28240.
Full textDental morphological studies are based on the analysis of genetically controlled discrete traits, which are expressed on the morphology of teeth and bones of the oral cavity. Population studies at different geographical and chronological levels have demonstrated that frequency patterns of those traits differ in human populations. The similarities and differences in the distribution of those patterns can be statistically compared in order to calculated biological affinities of human populations. Three human osteological samples were used in this study as proxies for dental variability of archaeological populations in the Middle Guadiana Valley. These series are chrono-culturally affiliated to the Chalcolithic (also referred to as Copper Age). Two of them were exhumed from tombs 1 (PDG1) and 2 (PDG2) in the Archaeological Complex of Perdigões, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal. The third one comes from the tomb of Cerro de las Baterías, La Albuera, Extremadura, Spain. The human remains were excavated from collective burials in which most of the skeletonized elements were disarticulated. Anthropic and natural taphonomic alterations were limiting factors of the study. The main limitation introduced by taphonomy is the impossibility to identify craniomandibular compatibilities. Consequently, individual dentitions could not be isolated. The main objectives of this research were: (I) to characterize the dental morphology of the samples; (II) to gather information on the biological affinities of these samples among themselves and to other series in comparative analyses at synchronic and diachronic levels; (III) to contribute to the resolution at their status in relation to major dental complexes; (IV) to identify possible exogenous contributions to the local phenetic profile; and (V) to provide useful data to future comparative studies on the dental morphology of local/regional populations. The Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS) was used to identify and evaluate almost all discrete traits used in the morphological analysis of the osteological series. The only trait not included in that method is a recently described variation for the human dentition, identified in the process of this study: Hypotrophic Roots of the Upper Central Incisors (HRUCI). This morphological variation is characterized by the occurrence of UI1 roots that are equal in length to or shorter than their respective crowns. In total, thirty two dental non-metric traits were employed in this analysis. Nine of those were registered on more than one type of tooth. Simple descriptive statistics was used to calculate the frequency for each discrete trait and other data relevant to tooth morphology such as average tooth wear. Bivariate correlation (Kendall’s tau-b) tests were used to evaluate the intra-observer error and inter-sample correlations. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) was used to calculate biological affinities of the samples among themselves and to other series published by different authors. Results of the intra-observer error was based on two observations of the largest series. They indicate high precision for both non-dichotomized and dichotomized frequencies. Positive correlation among samples was stronger between PDG1 and PDG2 than between either of them and BT07. This result suggests that both samples from Perdigões were probably drawn from the same population or from biologically close related ones. Average tooth wear in the three samples was low when compared to other series from geographically and chronologically similar contexts. This dental morphological study on the three Chalcolithic series contributed to their inclusion within the Eurodont Dental Complex. They suggest a borderline position between the European and the North African expression of that dental complex. The European populations sampled in the Guadiana display North African influences in the distribution of some non-metric traits. These influences possibly result from genetic exchanges with North Africa in prehistoric times. Positioning of the samples here is compatible with the dental morphological cline in the expression of discrete traits between the Afridont and the Eurodont patterns. PCA tests applied to the biological affinities of these populations to others indicate strong phenetic (and by proxy, genetic) similarity to the modern Portuguese population and to other Iberian archaeological populations. The Chalcolithic samples from PDG1, PDG2 and BT07 are biologically related to North Africans to a lesser extent. They share less phenetic similarities with prehistoric populations from the Italian Peninsula. Finally they seem to have little biological affinity with populations from eastern Mediterranean and North Europe.
Os estudos de morfologia dentária não métrica baseiam-se na análise de caracteres discretos geneticamente controlados expressos na forma dos dentes e dos ossos da cavidade oral. Estudos populacionais a várias escalas geográficas e cronológicas demonstram que diferentes populações humanas são caracterizadas por padrões de distribuição específicos para as frequências em que estes caracteres ocorrem. Estes padrões podem ser usados para calcular estatisticamente as afinidades biológicas entre as populações. Três amostras osteológicas humanas foram analisadas para auferir sobre a variabilidade dentária de populações arqueológicas da região do Vale Médio do Rio Guadiana entre Espanha e Portugal. As três séries são crono-culturalmente atribuíveis ao Calcolítico (ou Idade do Cobre). As primeiras duas amostras provêm dos túmulos 1 (PDG1) e 2 (PDG2) do Complexo Arqueológico dos Perdigões, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal. A terceira amostra foi exumada do túmulo de Cerro de las Baterías, La Albuera, Extremadura, Espanha. Os restos humanos estudados provém de contextos de inumação coletiva em que a maioria dos ossos estavam desarticulados. Alterações tafonómicas antrópicas e naturais foram fatores limitadores do estudo, impedindo inclusivamente a identificação de conexões crânio-mandibulares e consequentemente de dentições individuais. Os objetivos principais deste trabalho foram: (I) caracterizar a morfologia dentária destas amostras; (II) obter informações sobre as afinidades biológicas entre estas amostras Calcolíticas e outras, ao nível sincrónico e diacrónico; (III) contribuir para a caracterização da sua relação aos complexos dentários macrorregionais das destas amostras em estudo; (IV) identificar possíveis contribuições exógenas ao perfil fenético local, e (V) fornecer dados úteis para futuros estudos comparativos da morfologia dentária de populações pré-históricas. O Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS) foi usado como metodologia de identificação e aferição dos caracteres discretos a serem usados na análise morfológica das populações estudadas. O único caracter discreto não constante nesta metodologia consiste numa variação morfológica recém-descrita para a dentição humana, identificada no curso deste trabalho: Raízes Hipotróficas do Incisivo Central Superior (Hypotrophic Roots of the Upper Central Incisors ou HRUCI). Esta alteração é caracterizada pela ocorrência de raízes com comprimento igual ou menor que o comprimento máximo da coroa em incisivos centrais superiores. Trinta e dois caracteres discretos dentários foram incluídos nesta amostra. Nove destes caracteres foram aferidos em mais de um tipo de dente. Estatística descritiva simples foi usada para a obtenção das frequências de cada caracter discreto, bem como para a obtenção de outros dados relevantes à morfologia dentária como a média do desgaste dentário. Testes de correlação bivariáveis (tau-b de Kendall) foram utilizados para avaliar o erro intra-observador e a correlação inter-amostra. A Análise de Componentes Principais (PCA) foi aplicada para os cálculos de afinidades biológicas entre as amostras aqui estudadas e entre estas e outras publicadas por diversos autores. A avaliação do erro intra-observador baseado na correlação entre duas observações da maior amostra osteológica resultou numa alta precisão tanto para frequências dicotomizadas quanto não dicotomizada. A correlação positiva entre as amostras foi mais forte entre PDG1 e PDG2 do que entre ambas e BT07. Este resultado sugere que ambas as amostras exumadas nos Perdigões provavelmente provêm de uma mesma população ou de populações biologicamente muito próximas. O desgaste dentário médio nas três amostras foi considerado baixo em comparação com outras séries geográfica e cronologicamente próximas. O estudo morfológico das amostras contribuiu para o seu enquadramento dentro do padrão Eurodonte, evidenciado pela sua posição limítrofe entre a expressão Europeia deste complexo dentário e a expressão Norte-Africana do mesmo. As populações amostradas no Guadiana, apesar de geograficamente localizadas na Europa, apresentam influências Norte-Africanas na distribuição de frequências para alguns caracteres dentários. Estas influências possivelmente resultam de trocas genéticas com o Norte da África em períodos pré-históricos. O posicionamento das amostras aqui estudadas é compatível com a variação clinal morfológica na expressão de carateres discretos que ocorre entre os padrões Afridonte e o Eurodonte. Os testes de PCA aplicados à afinidade biológica entre estas populações e diversas outras resultam em forte proximidade fenotípica (e indiretamente, genética) com a população portuguesa atual e com outras populações arqueológicas Ibéricas. Em menor grau, as amostras Calcolíticas relacionam-se biologicamente com populações arqueológicas Norte Africanas. Menor proximidade biológica é observável entre estas amostras e outras populações pré-históricas provenientes da Península Itálica. Por fim, as amostras Calcolíticas parecem ter pouca afinidade biológica com populações do Mediterrâneo oriental e do Norte da Europa.
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Cheng, Yung-Shang, and 鄭詠尚. "Fuzzy Distinguish Method for Bridge Crossing Priority Index of Ships in Inland River." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/htd5nz.
Full text國立臺灣海洋大學
運輸科學系
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Base on the numbers of ships density and bridge have been rapidly increased, therefore, the risks of collisions between the ship-to-ship and ship-to- bridge in the river have been increased substantially. The behavior of ships has been more important and become a new issue. For solving this inland river transportation issue, this study proposed the novel Fuzzy model which is called Bridge Crossing Priority Model (BCPM), the BCPM is combined with ship condition data includes length, width, speed and heading collected from Automatic Identification System (AIS) and environmental data obtained from local weather station as Fuzzy linguistic variables. There are two inputs with one output in every Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) system of this model. In order to confirm the index can work successfully, this research adjusts the fuzzy linguistic language in the last FLC system of the model. This research applies Fuzzy Logic Control theory and spatial decision assessment by Marine Geographic Information System (MGIS). In the past, there were no scholars applied the fuzzy distinguish method into the study of ships behavior in the inland river. The contribution of the study is it the first research of applying the real AIS data as parameters, and using the fuzzy distinguish method to build the Bridge Crossing Priority Research on Index (BCPI). Finally, after considerate ships characteristics, and the hydrologic environment in the real-time around the bridge area, the study has proposed the novel BCPI for inland river vessels, which can provide the best decision support for Inland River Vessel Traffic Service (IRVTS) to enhance the inland river navigation safety. Therefore, BCPI will promote traffic circulation and reduce the waiting time for ships, and reduce the pollution of ships emissions.
Nguyen, Anne Chieu Hien. "Crossing the river : an ethnohistorical study of ancestor worship in two central Vietnamese villages." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/788.
Full textBowes, A. G. "Erosion control on a steep slope pipeline crossing of the Sikanni Chief River, northern British Columbia." 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12873.
Full textHsieh, Min-Wen, and 謝旻紋. "The Spatial Characteristic and Functional Analysis of Taiwan’s Banking Industry in Crossing Strait Financial Interaction:The Case Study of Changjiang River Delta." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45195002509212110806.
Full text國立臺北大學
不動產與城鄉環境學系
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During the process of economic development, Taiwan banking is allowed to set up branch offices in China, but branch offices can not provide financial services to Taiwanese business. Therefore, Taiwan banks try to use another way to provide financial services to Taiwanese business. This study thus aims to analyze the influence of Taiwanese business and Taiwan banking industry in crossing strait financial interaction under the restriction and opening in crossing-strait financial decrees. And discuss the relationship of Taiwanese business, Taiwan Banking and Taiwan government in crossing strait financial interaction. Finally, this study will take the Changjiang River Delta as an example, to analyze the spatial characteristic and function of Taiwan banking industry in crossing strait financial interaction. This study discovers the limitation of the special political environment between Taiwan and China, and the restriction of the decree makes branch offices not only can not provide financial services to Taiwanese business, but also can not try to use another way to provide financial services. Taiwan banks that cooperate with foreign invested banks or Chinese invested banks usually provide financial services to the medium sized Taiwanese business, because they under the headquarters, and there is no language and culture barrier, so medium sized Taiwanese business also trends to cooperate with Taiwan banks. Besides, the spatial distribution of the crossing-strait investment of Taiwan banks can be divided into three areas: Changjiang River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Northern China, but the financial function of each area is slightly different. Though there are close economic and trade contacts between Taiwan and China, the limitation of the special political environment between Taiwan and China, and the restriction of the decree make the crossing-strait financing function of Taiwan banks is limited. Taiwanese business lacks financial support of national banking in crossing-strait investment. And also limits the development of Taipei into international financial center.
Lo, Hsiu-ju Stacy. "Crossing Rivers and Lakes: The Art of Everyday Life in Contemporary China." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8D23F2V.
Full textNorman, James Randolph. "Effects of road-stream crossings on stream geomorphology and the movement of small bodied fishes in the Etowah River Basin, USA." 2006. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/norman%5Fjames%5Fr%5F200612%5Fms.
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