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Thumm, Sarah Reynard. "Swift's Vexed Satire of Hobbes and Lucretius." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626122.
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Martins, Thais Lima Fernandes. "The cost of reproduction of swifts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314908.
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Connolly, Creighton Paul. "A landscape political ecology of 'swiftlet farming' in Malaysian cities." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-landscape-political-ecology-of-swiftlet-farming-in-malaysian-cities(c44a80de-103d-4f0a-9e83-c62b40d5ac3b).html.
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This dissertation develops the conceptual framework of landscape political ecology (LPE) to consider particular forms of socio-ecological transformation resulting from the relatively re- cent but heavily contested practice of ‘swiftlet farming’ in Malaysian cities. Swiftlet farming is a colloquial term given to the semi-domestication of edible-nest swiftlets (Aerodramus fuciphagus) in converted buildings within urban areas in order to harvest their nests. These nests have long been a highly sought-after delicacy in China and overseas Chinese communities, and subsequently fetch over US$2000 on the international market. The primary research question investigated asks how the industry has been perceived and contested on an everyday basis in Malaysian cities. Engaging these controversies provides the opportunity to capture the significant negotiation that is embedded in the mechanisms of landscape production and capital accumulation as they take place through struggles over swiftlet farming in contemporary Malaysian cities. This research also seeks to understand how the swiftlet farming industry has transformed not only the cities in which it has been located, but also the ecology of swiftlets and their breeding patterns. The dissertation is centered on a six-month participatory ethnography which took place primarily in the city of George Town, Penang, but also investigated other related sites in peninsular Malaysia. I maintain that such ‘co-productive’ research has enabled a more situated view of socio-ecological transformations that have transpired through urban swiftlet farming in Malaysia, and the controversies surrounding them. The empirical chapters aim to unpack the controversies and discourses that emerged in response to swiftlet farming in the study areas, primarily its perceived impact on urban health, forms of cultural heritage, and the wider implications of ‘farming’ such animals in urban residential areas. In exploring these topics, LPE provides a cohesive and integrated approach that helps to untangle the interconnected economic, political, ecological and discursive processes that together form increasingly heterogeneous socio-natural landscapes. The implications of this thesis thus speak to the fraught cultural politics underlying processes of urban socio-ecological transformation in contemporary Southeast Asian cities.
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Trapp, Jaime A. "The Reader's Reflection in Swift's "A Voyage to Laputa"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625742.
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Thomas, Fabrice. "Calibrages et études applicatives de la technologie SWIFTS." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAT136.
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SWIFTS (Stationary Wave Integrated Fourier Transform Spectrometer) est une nouvelle technologie innovante de spectrométrie qui permet une réduction radicale de la taille des spectromètres à Transformée de Fourier, tout en conservant, et même en améliorant leurs performances. Grâce aux avancées de l'optique intégrée et des nanotechnologies, SWIFTS repose sur une méthode de détection optique originale, sans aucune partie mobile, où des nanoplots métalliques échantillonnent directement le champ évanescent d'une onde stationnaire dans un guide d'onde.Dans cette thèse, nous proposons de présenter le cheminement complet qui a mené, en partant du concept original, au développement puis à la mise en pratique de la technologie SWIFTS. Le document illustre notamment les caractérisations optiques, les choix technologiques et les optimisations entrepris pour la réalisation de spectromètres fonctionnels dans le domaine visible et proche-infrarouge. Des procédures de calibrages novatrices et complémentaires, basées sur du multiplexage fréquentiel et sur de l'interférométrie à faible cohérence temporelle, ont été développées pour déterminer avec précision les différentes irrégularités de fabrication et de comportement de l'appareil complètement intégré. Les spectromètres calibrés permettent à présent d'aborder des applications diverses en industrie et en recherche, de la caractérisation hautes performances de lasers, à l'interrogation de capteurs fibrés à réseaux de Bragg, aux techniques de spectrométries Raman et LIBS, et de tomographie optique OCT, jusqu'aux sciences de l'Univers (géophysique, astrophysique).SWIFTS est une innovation de rupture qui, de part sa miniaturisation obtenue sans compromis avec de hautes performances d'analyse spectrale, a la capacité de faire passer la spectrométrie du stade de la mesure complexe en laboratoire à celle d'un simple composant intégré pour des applications exigeantesSWIFTS (Stationary Wave Integrated Fourier Transform Spectrometer) is a new innovative technology of spectrometry that allows a drastic reduction of the size of Fourier transform spectrometers, while maintaining, and even improving their performance. With advances in integrated optics and nanotechnology, SWIFTS is based on an original method of optical detection, without any moving part, where metallic nanodots directly sample the evanescent field of a standing wave in a waveguide.In this thesis, we propose to present the complete process that led, starting from the original concept, to the development and the applications of the technology. The document illustrates the optical characterizations, the technological choices and the optimizations made for the realization of functional spectrometers in the visible and near-infrared range. Innovative and complementary procedures of calibrations, based on frequency multiplexing and low coherence interferometry, have been developed to accurately determine the various irregularities of the manufacturing and of the behavior of the integrated device. The calibrated spectrometers allow to address various applications in industry and research, such as high performance characterization of lasers, interrogation of fiber Bragg gratings sensors, Raman and LIBS spectrometry, optical coherence tomography OCT, and sciences of the Universe (geophysics, astrophysics).SWIFTS is a breakthrough innovation in spectrometry, without trade-off between miniaturization and high performance, that opens the way for product development based on the most demanding applications currently performed in research laboratories
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Salvucci, James Gerard. "Gulliver's travels and constructs of the primitive in Swift's time." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49887.pdf.
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Eilon, D. "Private spirit : A moral and political theme in Swift's prose." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373671.
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Burrow, R. W. "Rhetoric and philosophy in Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub'." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1986. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/09ab9d80-56ce-4141-b952-d7c47d5e6d6b/1/.
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My aim is to show that Swift's rhetorical method in the Tale is determined by his adherence to a tradition of political philosophy which held that there is a radical distinction between the philosopher, or lover of knowledge; and the non-philosopher, or lover of delusion. In this ultimately Platonic view, 'noble lies' are though to be more useful to the generality of mankind than certain truths which weaken the fabric of society. The philosopher must work with illusions rather than attempting to destroy them; in fact, to be of any use to the state, he must vigorously maintain opinions which he secretly believes to be false. If he wishes to speak to his philosophical readers as well, his text must contain a second, concealed level which can be uncovered by readers with enquiring minds, but which is not apparent to the non-philosophical majority. I suggest that the forceful defence of Anglicanism in the Tale is swift's popular level, and is secretly contradicted by an argument addressed to the philosophical reader, in which swift admits that established opinions - among which we can number not only Anglicanism but Christianity itself - are false, but asserts that it would nevertheless be folly to discard them. Form and content are thus perfectly welded, as swift practises exactly what he preaches. The Tale's rhetorical method is shaped by a dual aim: to lead on the enquiring reader to its deepest levels, and to exclude'superficial' readers from all but a defence of healthy illusions. The Tale encourages two types of response because what is beneficial to one type of reader is not so to the other. This study treats equally of form and content because the Tale both utilizes and illustrates the principles which it secretly advocates.
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Schrock, Laura Russell Richard Rankin. ""The waters return" myth and mystery in Graham Swift's Waterland /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5224.
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Koon, Lim Chan. "Sustainable harvesting and conservation of the edible nest swiftlets (Aerodramus spp.) of Sarawak." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298159.
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He, Xiyao. "The doubting deanJonathan Swift's Critique of reason in the age of enlightenment." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2016. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/291.
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By drawing on the two waves of critique of the Enlightenment and its version of reasonone after the French Revolution and the other after WWIIthis research pushes the timeline to an even earlier point and tries to study the critique of the Enlightenment and its version of reason within the Enlightenment itself. In doing so it chooses the English/Irish writer Jonathan Swift for case study, because in his works he repeatedly levels scathing criticisms of his age and the reason upheld by many of his contemporaries.;In his critique of the Enlightenment and its version of reason Swift appeals to a long tradition in Western intellectual history which regards human reason as twofold: a discursive part which proceeds in a step-by-step manner, through analysis, calculation, and demonstration; and an intuitive part which reaches the conclusion directly, immediately, and with much certainty. The Enlightenment, however, breaks the balance between the two by promoting discursive reason and eliminating intuitive reason. As a result, discursive reason is easily instrumentalized without the check of intuitive reason, which is thrown into oblivion.;Swift's critique is essentially a protest against this trend that was going on at his time. In contrast to it, he denounces discursive reason while champions intuitive reason. In his critique, the main target is discursive reason, and it necessarily also involves the most representative embodiment of discursive reason that was prospering at the time, namely, natural science. The critique of discursive reason and of science is made partly by relying on intuitive reason, which makes it, in a sense, also reason's critique of itself.;Of course, Swift does not regard human reason, either intuitive or discursive, as the panacea for human beings. As a priest of the Anglican Church, he thinks reason should always be subordinate to faithin other words, reason is limited. But perhaps ironically, in his emphasis on the limit of reason and the consequent need for faith as embodied and ensured in an authoritative institution, Swift reveals his own bigotry, intolerance and authoritarianism, which shows how he was historically and ideologically limited.
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Menzel, Lorenzo P. "Aspects of the Innate Immune System in the Caribbean Octocoral Swiftia exserta." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1025.
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The immune systems of cnidaria are important to study for two reasons: to gain a better understanding of the evolution of immune responses, and to provide a basis to partially redress the precipitous world-wide die-offs of reef corals, some of which have been attributed to diseases and stress. Many immune responses share ancient evolutionary origins and are common across many taxa.
Using Swiftia exserta, an azooxanthellate ahermatypic local octocoral, as a proxy model organism to study aspects of innate immunity in corals and cnidaria allows us to address both of the reasons listed above while not using endangered species. Utilizing a coral that does not contain symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae) simplifies the system by restricting the source of proteins to a single genome. The lack of zooxanthellae in Swiftia exserta also allows the animal’s simple adaptation to lab settings.
This study of the innate immune system of an octocoral demonstrates: 1) a novel understanding of the microanatomy of octocoral tissues; 2) that Swiftia exserta has at least two cell types that function as constitutive immunocytes; and 3) the presence of two potent antibacterial peptides, one with a mass between 4694 and 4696 Daltons. My report on the microanatomy of the coenenchyme, the tissue between polyps, advances the understanding of octocoral anatomy by systematically comparing histology sections with electron micrographs. Applying various techniques of enzyme histochemistry, coupled with cryo-preservation, to the coenenchyme I have identified at least two populations of constitutive immunocytes in Swiftia exserta. Two antibacterial proteins are identified by protein purification and antimicrobial testing techniques. The more active protein is partially characterized with modern hyphenated mass-spectrometry techniques, and can be the focus of future study.
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Higgins, Ian. "The sentiments of a Church-of-England man : a study of Swift's politics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1989. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4210/.
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This contextualist study re-examines the contested critical question of Jonathan Swift's political character. It is concerned with the historical meaning of Swift's texts and attempts to recover their original political impact. Politically-literate contemporaries claimed to read Jacobite Tory politics in Swift's texts. Rather than dismiss the judgement of Swift's contemporaries, this study asks whether there is anything about Swift's political writing in polemical context that could have led contemporaries to construe the politics of his texts as Jacobite Tory. The conclusion this study reaches is that aspects of Swift's political rhetoric are consonant with Tory and Jacobite polemic. While contesting current conceptions of Swift as a Whig, this study offers a partial revision of that scholarship which describes Swift as a non-Jacobite Tory. The thesis is based on an analysis of Swift's prose, poetry and correspondence and contemporary (mainly printed) sources books, pamphlets, poems on affairs of state and newspapers. Some new or neglected polemical contexts and analogues for Swift's works are suggested. Chapter 1 considers some of the problems and contested issues in interpretation of Swift's political biography and writing. Chapter 2 witnesses Swift's combination of High Church attitudes with a radical political critique of Whig establishment. Swift is read in juxtaposition with Jacobite Tory authors such as George Granville, Lord Lansdowne. Chapter 3 relocates A Tale of a Tub in historical context to reveal the satire's relation to High Church Tory polemical languages. Chapter 4 discusses the disaffected Tory aspect of Gulliver's Travels. Chapter 5 attempts to register the complexity of the textual evidence of Swift's attitude to Jacobitism. Detailed attention is given to his politically-revealing attitudes to the Dutch. A coda briefly describes Swift's discontent with the Revolution settlement, examines this Church-of-England Man's sentiments on the crucial ideological issue of resistance, and suggests the importance of Hugo Grotius in Swift's political thought.
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Jones, David Francis. "Swift's use of the literature of travel in the composition of "Gulliver's travels"." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1987. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4211/.
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The primary aim of this thesis is to identify and assess the correspondences which occur between Gulliver's Travels and non fiction travel writing to which Swift is known to have had access before and during the period of composition. Books of travels listed by Harold Williams in Dean Swift's Library (Cambridge, 1932) have been consulted. In particular, the thesis examines the possible contribution of travel documents published by Hakluyt and Purchas. The method of research employed has been to concentrate upon themes such as the veracity of travel writers, stylistic features, primitive savages, strange islands, magic,attitudes to voyaging, bows and arrows, pygmies and giants, motives for travel, law and customs. The first chapter summarizes known and possible influences, considering the broad combination of fabulous and imaginary prose travel with Swift's mock realism. The second chapter develops the analysis of literary parody and considers the uneasy satirical relationship between travel lies and Gulliver's ironic veracity, with particular reference to magic and astrology. Chapters 3-7 comprise five regional studies of several themes which have been considered of special relevance to Gulliver's Travels, following this survey of travel writing. The conclusions reached in the course of the thesis relate to the allusive power and ironic depth of Gulliver's Travels. Whereas R.W. Frantz, W.A. Eddy, Arthur Sherbo and others have noticed incidental parallels in real travel literature, no comprehensive study exists of the subject as a whole. The thesis treats Hakluyt and Purchas in detail in working towards establishing the conventions of travel writing which are partly imitated and partly mocked by Swift. The extent to which it is intended that the reader should be conscious of the real travel background is also explored. Although source hunting can be an unprofitable activity, the large number of correspondences between Gulliver's Travels and the literature of real travel upon which the work is partly based suggest Swift was more conversant with voyages and travels than may have been presumed. These travel features appear to have been carefully intermingled with recognizable Homeric, Rabelaisian and Lucianic elements.
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Weiger, Rebecca. "Imaginary Specters, Imagined Listeners: The Undecidable in Graham Swift's Tomorrow and Mothering Sunday." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42950.
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This paper aims to investigate the possible connection between specters and silence in Graham Swift’s Tomorrow (2007) and Mothering Sunday (2016). In both novels, the protagonists predominantly speak in interior monologues, recounting the memories and secrets that haunt them, in what could be construed as an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of their past. The paper’s understanding of specters is based on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1993), and the idea that specters - as figures that exist in states of in-between - disrupt not only temporality, but what we know to be true. Much like specters, the protagonists vacillate between states, neither speaking nor remaining silent, as they address absent or imagined listeners. This undecidability leaves one to wonder if their ghosts are - or ever can be - truly exorcised.
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Ferrand, Jérôme. "Etude et réalisation d'un spectromètre intégré à transformée de Fourier (SWIFTS)." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00554948.
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En 1859 les physicien et chimiste allemands G. Kirchhoff et R. Bunsen ont découvert que chaque élément chimique dispose d'une signature spectrale unique. Suite à cela, la spectrométrie s'est imposée comme un outil d'analyse majeur y compris en astrophysique (notamment grâce à l'italien A. Secchi). Ainsi la plus grande partie des informations dont nous disposons sur les objets astrophysiques proviennent de l'analyse spectrale ; la découverte des premières planètes extra-solaires est même due à celle-ci. Depuis ses débuts, cette technique a trouvé de nombreuses applications dans des domaines aussi variés que la médecine, la détection de gaz ou encore l'étude des polluants. Dans cette thèse nous nous proposons d'étudier et de développer un nouveau type de spectromètres nommés SWIFTS (pour Stationary Wave Integrated Fourier Transform Spectrometer) basés sur la détection d'une onde stationnaire obtenue à l'intérieur d'un guide optique. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons une technique originale dite de " détection évanescente ". Dans cette thèse nous étudions et modélisons les performances d'un tel spectromètre notamment en utilisant une méthode matricielle et une méthode de décomposition dans le domaine de Fourier. Les premiers prototypes ont été réalisés dans les bandes I et R du système photométrique de Johnson, ces bandes ayant été choisies pour la facilité d'obtention de détecteurs et guides optiques efficaces. Étant donné les technologies disponibles, ces prototypes ne peuvent atteindre l'efficacité théorique maximale d'un SWIFTS (environ 73%) ; néanmoins elles nous ont permis de mesurer des résolutions de l'ordre du cm-1 sur un large domaine spectral (650 nm à 900 nm).
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Bolaños, Fernando. "Acceso a justicia laboral en Centroamérica." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116664.
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Access to labor justice in Central AmericaThis paper presents a reflection of general character on the most important values and principles that underlie a system of access to the democratic, efficient and fair labor justice. The paper also tries to establish a systematic connection between the concepts of institutionality and access to justice, referring to the interrelationship between both notions and values that feed one another. For work purposes are mentioned and then analyzed four great subthemes: transparency, balance of parties in the labor process, the issue of speedy justice and the principle of effective judicial guardianship. All the above with references to Central America and Dominican Republic legislation and the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.Esta ponencia nos presenta una reflexión de carácter general sobre los valores y principios más importantes que subyacen a un sistema de acceso a la justicia laboral democrático, eficiente y justo. El trabajo pretende además establecer una vinculación sistemática entre los conceptos de institucionalidady de acceso a la justicia, refiriéndose a la interrelación entre ambas nociones y entre los valores que alimentan el uno y el otro. A los propósitos del trabajo se mencionan y analizan entonces cuatro grandes subtemas: la transparencia, el equilibrio de las partes en el proceso laboral, el problema de la justicia pronta, y el principio de tutela judicial efectiva. Todo lo anterior con referencias a la legislación centroamericana y de República Dominicana y la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.
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Just, Melanie Maria. "Jonathan Swift's "On poetry : a rapsody" : a critical edition with a historical introduction and commentary /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39265551p.
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Walker, Mark David. "An investigation into the host-parasite interrelationship between Common Swifts and Hippoboscid Louse-Flies." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2011. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/14064/.
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Parasitism is defined as an obligatory hetero-specific relationship where resource transfer between a host and parasite occurs. This results in the sub-optimal expression of host life-history traits and a consequent reduction in host fitness. The Louse Fly, Crataerina pallida (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), is a monoxenous haematophagous nest ectoparasite of the Common Swift, Apus apus (Aves: Apodidae). Despite expectations, no detrimental effect to hosts from C. pallida has been determined. Here this relationship is re-apprised. C. pallida life-history is investigated, with particular reference to those traits of pertinence to its parasitic efficacy. Whether C. pallida has a detrimental effect upon A. apus is subsequently investigated. C. pallida was found to exhibit life-history characteristics strongly indicative that it is parasitic in nature. Morphological and ecological adaptations towards a parasitic lifestyle were identified. Higher levels of prevalence, aggregation, and population abundance were observed than previously reported. Populations were discovered to decline over time and to be heavily female biased. Evidence for previously unreported phenomena such as horizontal parasite transmission, intra-brood host selection, population fluctuations, male mating competition, and host facultative heterothermy was discovered. However, no detrimental impact upon a number of host traits, including previously unstudied aspects of nestling post-natal development and parental investment, were ascertained as a result of C. pallida parasitism. Therefore C. pallida does not fulfil the criteria of the standard definition of a parasitic species. The long term intimacy of the association between C. pallida and A. apus may have resulted in the development of reduced parasitic virulence as expected by hostparasite theory. The discoveries made, especially those pertaining to C. pallida population stability and abundance, may have implications for further studies investigating C. pallida virulence. This study emphasizes the need for substantial knowledge of parasitic life-history before the functioning of host-parasitic relationships can be understood. When examining host-parasitic systems the underlying species specific context in which parasitism occurs needs to be considered.
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Bundschuh, Julia. "Molecular studies in gorgonian alloimmunity : search for gene homologs of the immunoglobulin gene superfamily in Swiftia exserta." FIU Digital Commons, 1991. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1942.
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Humoral and cells surface molecules of the mammalian immune system, grouped into the Immunoglobulin Gene Superfamily, share protein structure and gene sequence homologies with molecules found among diverse phylogenetic groups. In histocompatibility studies, the gorgonian coral Swiftia exserta has recently demonstrated specific alloimmunity with memory (Salter-Cid and Bigger, 1991. Biological Bulletin Vol 181). In an attempt to shed light on the origins of this gene family and the evolution of the vertebrate immune response, genomic DNA from Swiftia exserta was isolated, purified, and analyzed by Southern blot hybridization with mouse gene probes corresponding to two molecules of the Immunoglobulin Gene Superfamily, the Thy-1 antigen, and the alpha-3 domain of the MHC Class I histocompatibility marker. Hybridizations were conducted under low to non-stringent conditions to allow binding of mismatched homologs that may exist between the mouse gene probes and the Swiftia DNA. Removal of non-specific binding (sequences less than 70% homologous) occurred in washing steps. Results show that with the probes selected, the method chosen, and the conditions applied, no evidence of sequences of 70% or greater homology to the mouse Thy-1 or MHC Class I alpha-3 genes exist in Swiftia exserta genome.
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Hodson, Katrin C. "The Plight of the Englishman: The Hazards of Colonization Addressed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617896210333106.
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Bicak, Ivana. "Roman satiric modes in English verse satire, 1660-1740, with special reference to Swift's Horace and Pope's Juvenal." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10736/.
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This thesis questions the traditional dichotomy between the satires of Horace and Juvenal, a binary satiric theory that has strongly influenced twentieth-century readings of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. It is argued that the works of both Horace and Juvenal are too complex to be reduced to a single well-defined ‘type’ of satire. Hence, the popular labelling of Pope as a ‘Horatian’ satirist and Swift as a ‘Juvenalian’ satirist is shown to be as synthetic as the duality between Horace and Juvenal itself. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the Restoration theory of satire as a background for the study of Pope and Swift. Chapter 2 is a close reading of Juvenal, which questions the conventional portrayal of him as ‘the angry satirist’. Chapter 3 challenges the widespread characterisation of Pope as a Horatian satirist, and argues that even in his Horatian poems he has as much in common with Juvenal. Chapter 4 offers a close reading of Horace, which disputes the popular portrayal of him as ‘the smiling satirist’. Finally, Chapter 5 debunks the exclusive reading of Swift as a Juvenalian satirist, demonstrating his frequent use of Horace’s own satiric tactics. The aim throughout the thesis is to establish a less polarised and more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Juvenal and Horace, which can encourage a subtler appreciation of Pope and Swift as satirists.
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Mengin, Fondragon Mikhael de. "Etude d'un spéctromètre intégré SWIFTS pour réaliser des capteurs optiques fibrés pour les sciences de l'observation." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENT085/document.
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SWIFTS (pour Stationary-Wave Integrated Fourier-Transform Spectrometer) est un concept de spectromètre s'appuyant sur l'optique intégrée pour proposer un système de mesure compact et de très haute résolution. Il combine une technique d'interférométrie développée par Gabriel Lippmann avec des technologies de microélectroniques actuelles. La technologie SWIFTS sera ici utilisée en tant qu'interrogateur de fibre de Bragg. En effet, combiner ce spectromètre avec des fibres de Bragg très sensibles, telle qu'une cavité Fabry-Perot à réseaux de Bragg (GFPC) d'une longueur de 20 mm, permettra de mesurer des variations de température et de déformation très précises. Les applications des fibres de Bragg sont nombreuses, particulièrement dans la surveillance de structure de génie civil ou dans la sureté nucléaire avec des précisions de l'ordre du microstrain. Cependant, les capteurs par fibres de Bragg n'ont jamais atteint la sensibilité nécessaire aux observations en science de la terre. Une précision de quelques dizaines de nanostrain serait pourtant d'un intérêt majeur dans l'étude des processus volcaniques et sismologiques. Je présente dans cette thèse la première utilisation d'un tel spectromètre de Fourier associé à des capteurs de Bragg pour mesurer des déformations dans différentes gammes allant du millistrain au nanostrain. Dans un premier temps, des déformations sur une petite structure en béton armé amenée jusqu'à l'état limite de fissuration permettront de qualifier différents capteurs à fibres de Bragg dans leur milieu d'usage. Dans un deuxième temps, des mesures de déformations liées au phénomène de la marrée terrestre sont proposées. Ces mesures, effectuées au Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit (LSBB) de Rustrel, donnent des précisions de l'ordre de 30 nanostrains sur une courte base et ouvrent la voie à d'autres mesures de phénomènes géophysiques pour cet instrumentSWIFTS, or Stationary-Wave Integrated Fourier-Transform Spectrometer, is an extremely integrated very high resolution spectrometer. This spectroscopy technology represents a major advance in the field and will be used here as a Fiber Bragg Gratings interrogator. Combining such a spectrometer with very sensitive Bragg sensors, like grating Fabry-Perot cavity (GFPC) as long as 20 mm, will allow to measure high precision temperature or strain variation. Applications of Bragg sensors are numerous, especially in structure monitoring and nuclear power plants safety. Despite promising capabilities, Bragg sensors never reached the desired sensibility for earth-science observation purposes. Present applications are restricted to civil-engineering strain-gauge sensors with microstrain sensitivity. However, the ability to detect and record signals of the order of a few tens of nanostrain is of great interest to monitor and model the volcanic and seismological processes. I demonstrate in this thesis the first use of a Fourier-Transform spectrometer combined with Fiber Bragg Sensors in a field configuration to achieve extremely high precision measurement on earth's crustal deformation. Precisions of thirty nanostrains on a very short base were achieved in the Low-Noise Underground Laboratory (LSBB) at Rustrel. Crustal monitoring opens the way for numerous applications especially in geophysics. A second study presented in this thesis aims at benchmarking several strain sensors based on optical fiber Bragg grating. For this purpose, two reinforced concrete beams have been tested in three points bending up to ultimate limit state
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Cowan, Thomas C. S. B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Network control in a globalized world : how Visa and Swift's founding structures serve their stakeholders on the International stage." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112017.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The Visa credit card network and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) network both provide a backbone for financial interchange across the world. Visa's network connects consumers, merchants, banks, and processors to ease the purchases of millions of consumer-facing products worldwide. Swift's interbank network connects banks, corporates, and other financial institutions to ease the flow of high-value, highly-secure international financial transactions. Both networks grew to become industry incumbents in the second half of the 20th century, connecting nearly every country on earth. However, the globalized networks differ in their organizational structures: Visa utilizes a centralized, U.S. focused, hub-and-spoke model; Swift uses a decentralized, transaction-volume neutral, point-to-point network. Although Visa's centralized network fosters innovation, standardization, and security, its U.S.-centered hub pulls the organization from global neutrality and aligns it with the United States on global issues. Meanwhile, although Swift's decentralized network nurtures technological localization-at the expense of technological standardizationits transaction-based global governing structure promotes a relative international neutrality among global organizations. This contrast between Visa and Swift-both networks that balance local and global, centralized and decentralized, and technical and non-technical tensions across the world-reveals the structural effects of worldwide networks, and how network system design impacts global stakeholders in the societies that they touch.
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Guinn, Dana M. "Proloquo2Go or SwiftKey Symbols: Which Leads to Better Acquisition of Targeted Phrases for a Student with Intellectual Disability and Articulation Concerns?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3196.
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Having a meaningful system for expressing common needs and thoughts is important for overall quality of life for students with intellectual disability and limited expressive language. The current study was conducted to evaluate whether one communication system, Proloquo2Go ($249.99) or SwiftKey Symbols (FREE), is more effective in the acquisition of targeted expressive phrases in one student with intellectual disability who exhibited expressive communication difficulties. The student was provided with instruction in both systems using task analytic instruction and system of least prompting and encouraged to use each system at different times in a single case, alternating treatment design. Results indicated that Proloquo2Go led to faster acquisition of targeted phrases, although gains were shown with both devices. Although, given the cost difference, teachers and parents may want to consider free options, like SwiftKeys, given the student made gains with this device. Future research is needed to provide generalizability of these results.
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Ward, James Gearard. "Reading Swift and Ireland, 1720-1729 : constituences, contexts and constructions of identity in Jonathan Swift's occasional writings of the 1720s." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/388/.
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The 1720s was a decade of crisis in Ireland. Jonathan Swift's occasional writings from these years extend the country's political and economic crises into dramas of personal and national identity. Part One of this thesis investigates the material conditions of the relationship between Swift, his Irish audience, and the underlying problems of identity that such an audience simultaneously poses and occludes. Part Two is an anatomy of the literary modes through which that relationship is figured. The first chapter offers the 1720 Declaratory Act as an important subtext for Swift's 'inaugural' work of the decade, the 1720 Proposalfor the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture. Challenging retrospective constructions of the author's textual and political authority, the chapter examines how Swift the 'Hibernian patriot' was largely an invention of the crisis surrounding the act. Chapter Two argues that The Drapier's Letters reconfigure the language that had been used in the past to depict the Catholic threat to Protestant Ireland, and use it to depict the threat emerging from England. Part Two moves to the question of identity, which Chapter Three designates a kind of 'style', both a mode of expression and a trend in polite society. The writing of history and the social signification of language are the main concerns of this chapter, which investigates how Irish historiography becomes the focus for a range of concerns in the 1720s. Chapter Four nominates the pastoral genre as an alternative vehicle for the reading and writing of history in Swift's Ireland. It identifies a Virgilian dialectic of expropriation and protection by a patron as an important method of 'reading' oneself into history and identity. Looking at various manifestations of crisis in Ireland in 1729 - famine, fuel shortages and emigration, the final chapter argues that A Modest Proposal uses techniques of allegory to produce a crisis of interpretation. By promoting and perpetuating misreading, it mirrors the pervasive climate of error that produced this text. As a whole the thesis documents three transitions. It traces the emergence of a parodic method of literary and political representation which eventually overwhelms any claims Swift's writing might once have made to positive advocacy. Once considered the dominant and definitive voice of 1720s Ireland, Swift is re-appraised as one writer among many, and his writing as a product of his society rather than an authoritative comment on it. Finally, the Presbyterians of Ireland are shown to emerge by the end of the decade as the primary focus for the anxieties and aggressions that animate Swift's occasional writings.
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Cavalier, Paul. "Echantillonnage direct de franges lumineuses avec des nanodétecteurs supraconducteurs dans un interféromètre en optique intégrée : application à la conception et la réalisation d'un micro-spectromètre SWIFTS." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00622518.
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Ce travail porte sur la réalisation d'un microspectromètre SWIFTS (Stationary Wave Integrated Fourier Transform Spectrometer) incluant des compteurs de photons SNSPD (Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector). Il met en œuvre un interféromètre intégré à guide d'onde en arête bouclé, en SiN, sous lequel sont disposés 24 nanofils supraconducteurs SNSPD en NbN échantillonnant les interférences au pas de 160nm, à une longueur d'onde centrée sur 1.55µm. La conception, l'étude des composantes optique et électronique, la fabrication et la caractérisation à 4.2K sont décrites, jusqu'à la mise en évidence d'une modulation de puissance lumineuse dans le guide conformément à la formation attendue d'interférences. Le SWIFTS-SNSPD constitue le premier dispositif optoélectronique supraconducteur à part entière, doublement intégré. Sa capacité unique d'échantillonnage direct de franges d'interférences ouvre de nombreuses perspectives, pour des applications allant de l'astrophysique aux télécoms.
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Lockard, Amber. "The Library, the labyrinth, and "things invisible" a comparative study of Jonathan Swift's A tale of a tub and Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Lombard, Johanna Christina. "A pangalactic gargle blaster of Lilliputian proportions: A comparative analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62647.
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Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift are satirists who lived and worked 250 years apart. Swift's eighteenth-century text, Gulliver's Travels, tells the story of an Englishman's adventures during numerous sea voyages that bring him into contact with fantastical peoples and places. Adams's twentieth-century text, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, relates a hapless Englishman's trials and tribulations during an intergalactic voyage which takes him and his companions to bizarre destinations. This study considers key similarities and differences between the texts. Resonances between Gulliver's celestial navigation in the eighteenth century and Arthur Dent's navigation among those very heavenly bodies in the twentieth century are explored. The novels are examined for evidence of satire, the travel genre, proto science fiction and mock science fiction and for generic similarities between the works. Through a process of elimination, Gulliver's and Arthur Dent's respective journeys are abstracted, summarised and represented graphically. Communication theory and linguistic trends during the Enlightenment and the twentieth century, as well as the science and technology of each era are also briefly reviewed. This study finds that, through the exploitation of the journey as literary device which allows Gulliver and Arthur Dent to view England and Earth from different places and from different times, both Swift and Adams are able to comment on and satirise humankind. The illustrations of the journeys highlight the differences between the two novels in terms of structure and adherence to markers of time and place. Lemuel Gulliver's journeys are shown to be radial voyages with England as the core location of departures and arrivals, whereas Arthur's appear to be random and follow neither the expected and known rules of travel, nor the laws of time and space. The study furthermore considers the nature of the locations visited and finds resemblances and differences between the authors' and readers' known worlds, and the fictitious worlds described. This naturally leads to a consideration of the degree of alienation experienced by the protagonists and, indeed, humanity. Finally, the texts are examined for communication problems faced by the protagonists. The conclusion of this study suggests that in Gulliver's Travels and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy both Adams and Swift show their awareness that language is not neutral, and that it possesses the power to entertain, inform, deceive and destroy. Both texts function metonymically to highlight the perilous complexity of the human condition and show that humanity's journey through space/time in the twentieth century remains as treacherous as one by sea during the Enlightenment.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Bouraoui, Jihene. "The power of negativity and its functioning in the metafictional text through five works : vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, John Barth’s Coming Soon!!!, Graham Swift’s Waterland, Robert Coover’s Gerald’s Party and Don DeLillo’s White Noise." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100139.
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La thèse se donne comme objectif l’appréhension des catégories de la négativité dans le texte métafictionnel en tant qu’une force libératrice et transformatrice qui, à la fois, assure la survie du texte malgré son aspect fragmentaire et multidirectionnel, et pousse le lecteur à s’engager dans une quête de l’insensé et du paradoxal qui n’embarque pas sur le nihilisme ‘négatif’, mais aboutit plutôt à la découverte de la face cachée constructive de la négativité, qu’est l’autocréation. Pour mener un tel projet, un assemblage littéraire de cinq œuvres disparates- Pale Fire par Vladimir Nabokov, Coming Soon!!! par John Barth, Waterland par Graham Swift , Gerald’s Party par Robert Coover et White Noise par Don Delillo- sert de terrain propice au travail de la négativité qui consiste essentiellement à démystifier et détruire des systèmes clos d’origine métaphysique et construire de nouveaux systèmes de valeurs, sans aucune prétention ou aspiration à la transcendance et la suprématie. Pour comprendre l’économie d’un tel texte, on va suivre trois étapes dont chacune correspond à une partie de la thèse : « L’éthique du texte métafictionnel », « L’esthétique du texte métafictionnel » et « La politique du texte métafictionnel ». La première partie s’engage à dégager l’ensemble d’impératifs éthiques qui mettent en œuvre la force de négativité. La deuxième partie s’engage à étudier les techniques de narration et d’écriture mises en œuvre pour activer les impératifs éthiques. La troisième partie s’engage à explorer la faisabilité et les limites des principes que l’on peut se construire en s’appropriant la négativité du texte. Le processus mis en œuvre dans les trois parties de la thèse est marqué par un combat perpetuel qui démontre l’aspect fallacieux et artificiel des construits et prouve, paradoxalement, notre incapacité de s’en passer pour existerThe dissertation addresses the challenge to think the power of negativity and its ultimate constructive objective. It launches an enterprise, both at the textual and extratexual levels, that requires the individual to destroy and create at once, without any pretention to establish an everlasting system that dictates the encoding and decoding of thoughts and perception and management of cognitive, bodily and everyday life needs. Such an enterprise is based on the consideration of a literary assemblage of five novels: Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, John Barth’s Coming Soon!!!, Graham Swift’s Waterland, Robert Coover’s Gerald’s Party and Don Delillo’s White Noise. It demonstrates that the text is governed by an economy that does not embark on « negative » nihilism; it is rather an economy that transforms the unproductive forms (abyss, loss, spectre, madness, excess, death) into a capacity for resistance and a creative departure. It is an economy that sustains the text and prevents it from collapsing, through a set of ethical imperatives, a poetics of self-creation and a politics whose objective is not to resolve the paradoxes underlying the text. Throughout the three part of the dissertation, there is a continuous struggle to unveil the constructs and to explain the rationale behind our unavoidable need for them to keep going
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Morand, A. "Apport de la modélisation à base d'une décomposition modale ou harmonique dans le domaine de la photonique." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université de Grenoble, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01067424.
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Durant ma première année en tant que maître de conférences, j'ai travaillé dans le domaine des microondes où j'ai appris à utiliser la TLM [35]. Cet outil permet la modélisation de la propagation de signaux électromagnétiques en 3D. Ayant fait auparavant une thèse dans le domaine de l'optique intégrée, j'ai naturellement changé d'équipe en travaillant sur la thématique de la photonique en 2000 en collaborant étroitement avec Pierre Benech. Alors que les outils commerciaux de FDTD n'étaient pas encore très développés, j'ai commencé mes recherches en appliquant la TLM sur des structures semi-conductrices tel que des réseaux de Bragg dans des guides réfractifs [36]. Il a été notamment mis en avant les problèmes de profondeur de gravure et d'adaptation de modes entre celui du réseau et celui du guide d'onde. Je me suis ensuite investi sur la modélisation de guides à cristaux photoniques. J'ai participé à des collaborations pour étudier notamment les pertes radiatives d'un guide à cristal photonique 2D sur membrane en mettant en avant que sous certaines conditions ces pertes pouvaient être faibles [38]. Suite à ce travail, j'ai participé à deux projets RMNT et ACI pour la modélisation de microdisques ainsi qu'à leur couplage avec un guide adjacent soit pour une application laser ou une application de dé/multiplexeur. Je me suis donc intéressé à ces structures cylindriques du type microdisque, microanneau ou microtore. Il a été notamment proposé une nouvelle structure de microdisque dentelé dit "microgear" simulée avec une méthode basée sur une décomposition de Fourier plus rapide et rigoureuse. Ces structures présentent de bons facteurs de qualité avec pour certaines des volumes de modes optiques faibles, compatibles avec une intégration planaire. Généralement ces structures suivent une certaine forme de symétrie. Les microdisques et les microanneaux peuvent ainsi être représentés avec des coordonnées cylindriques. Dans ce type de repère, il est alors possible dans un premier temps d'utiliser des fonctions de Bessel pour représenter les modes résonants qui parcourent ces structures. De nombreux calculs en 2D sont alors possibles pour décrire la propagation de ces modes ou leur interaction avec un guide par exemple. Les modes de galerie des sphères peuvent être décrits par des fonctions de Bessel sphériques. Dans ce cas, la description se fait complètement en 3D sans recours à des outils numériques spécifiques. Néanmoins, pour modéliser ces objets en 3D avec la possibilité de les compléxifier ou de briser leur symétrie, il est important d'utiliser un outil 3D numérique adapté. Je me suis intéressé alors à des méthodes modales. Celles-ci permettent en effet d'avoir plus d'informations sur les phénomènes physiques mis en jeu. J'ai notamment porté mon choix sur des méthodes donnant accès à une décomposition en modes propres par l'intermédiaire d'une décomposition en série de Fourier la RCWA pour Rigorous Couple Wave Analysis. Initialement, elle fut plutôt utilisé pour étudier des structures périodiques notamment des réseaux de Bragg [49, 48, 47]. Mais maintenant, cette méthode peut être aussi appliquée sur des structures apériodiques comme des guides intégrés [46]. Au vu des potentialités de la méthode, j'ai décidé de m'approprier cet outil dans le même type de système de coordonnées en 2D. Je me suis tout particulièrement intéressé à l'interaction d'un mode guidé faiblement confiné avec un nanobjet métallique. Cet exemple montre tout l'intérêt de cette méthode capable de simuler des objets avec un indice de réfraction complexe et une taille largement inférieure à la taille du mode d'excitation. J'ai ensuite proposé un nouveau type de développement de cette méthode pour décrire des modes respectant une symétrie cylindrique. Une première solution consiste à utiliser une transformation conforme de la structure pour retrouver les propriétés de l'AFMM en coordonnées cartésiennes. Puis une nouvelle solution en cours de développement est actuellement étudiée pour modéliser directement la structure dans un repère cylindrique. Cette nouvelle description a débouché sur une description 3D de la méthode permettant de modéliser des guides courbes. Une autre méthode légèrement différente a été aussi proposée calculant uniquement des modes résonants dans des structures 3D à symétrie cylindrique. En fixant l'évolution azimutale du mode, on peut aussi utiliser une variante de la méthode précédente 2D en périodisant la structure selon un axe perpendiculaire aux axes radial et azimutal. Ce travail est issu d'une collaboration entre l'INP et l'université de Ferrara. Il a été montré qu'avec cette méthode, il était possible de simuler des microdisques ou des microanneaux. Il a été aussi montré qu'avec l'ajout d'une fente d'un indice de réfraction plus faible, il était possible d'avoir des volumes de modes plus faibles en utilisant la propriété de confinement des guides à fentes. Ces différents développements ont aussi été appliqués sur des systèmes photoniques réalisés en optique intégrée sur verre. Je me suis notamment investi dans le développement de spectromètres optiques de Fourier intégrés. J'ai participé pour cela à des projets CNES et FUI pour modéliser le spectromètre SWIFTS (Stationnary Waves Interferometer Fourier Transform Spectrometer). Ce nouveau système dont la puce en verre est d'une taille d'une allumette couplée à une barrette de photodétecteurs linéaires permet d'atteindre des résolutions spectrales de 10pm sur une bande spectrale allant de 700nm à 1000nm. Une brique de base de son fonctionnement est notamment l'interaction du mode guidé avec des nanoplots métalliques. Un autre type de spectromètre moins complexe a été aussi mis en œuvre pour étudier des spectres dans le proche infra-rouge avec des résolutions spectrales de l'ordre du nanomètre. Ce système nommé LLIFTS (Leaky Loop Interferometer Fourier Transform Spectrometer) est constitué notamment de guides courbes couplés à un guide plan. La méthode AFMM cylindrique nous permet donc de simuler directement ce type de structure. Je dirige notamment un projet ANR pour utiliser ce type de composant dans un système OCT.
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Bigot, Rodolphe. "L'indemnisation par l'assurance de responsabilité civile professionnelle : L'exemple des professions du chiffre et du droit." Thesis, Tours, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOUR1006.
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En matière de responsabilité civile des professionnels du chiffre et du droit, l’indemnisation est intégralement réalisée par l’assurance privée. Il existe donc, à cet égard, une nette différence entre l’indemnisation dans le domaine de la responsabilité médicale et dans le domaine objet de la recherche entreprise. Pourtant, les enjeux économiques y seraient d’importance supérieure. Une mutualisation optimale est souvent réalisée par les instances professionnelles du chiffre et du droit. Celles-ci ont souscrit des contrats d’assurance collective créés et proposés dès le dix-neuvième siècle par un même assureur, à présent en situation de quasi monopole de fait.De 2001 à 2010, plus de 100 000 sinistres ont été déclarés par des professionnels du chiffre et du droit auprès de cet apériteur dominant. Un échantillonnage approfondi a permis de constater que l’indemnisation n’a pas toute l’efficacité espérée, étant elle-même contrecarrée par l’action du système assurantiel de défense professionnelle fédéré autour de comités de gestion concertée. Ce système aurait ainsi pris le contrôle de l’indemnisation, de sorte à réaliser une forme d’écrasement des préjudices indemnisables, notamment par le jeu des règlements extrajudiciaires prédominants. En même temps, ce système ne serait pas toujours en mesure de protéger pleinement cette incroyable mutualisation qu’il a pourtant réalisée avec succès. En effet, une altération de la responsabilisation des professionnels assurés pourrait être à la fois la cause et la conséquence de cette importante sinistralité pour laquelle les techniques assurantielles d’autodiscipline semblent être tombées en léthargie, au détriment de l’indemnisationIn the field of the civil liability of law and accounting practitioners, the compensation of victims is entirely carried out by a private insurer. There is, therefore, in this respect, a plain difference between compensation in the field of medical liability and compensation in the area addressed in this research. Nevertheless, the economic stakes would be rather higher. An optimal mutuality is often done by law and accounting professional bodies. They have entered into collective insurance contracts created and proposed as from the nineteenth century by a sole insurer, today in an almost situation of de facto monopoly. From 2001 to 2010, more than 100 000 claims have been declared by law and accounting professions together with the dominant insurer. A detailed sampling has enabled us to notice that the compensation does not have its entire hoped efficiency, itself being thwarted by the insurance system’s action of professional defense federated around concerted management committees. This system has therefore taken control of the compensation process, in a way to conceive a form of crushing of the prejudices entitled to compensation, mainly through amicable settlements. At the same time, the abovementioned system is not always in a position to fully protect this incredible mutuality that it has however carried out with success. The impairment which affects the responsibilization of insured practitioners could be at the same time the cause and the consequence of this important sum of claims for which the self-disciplined methods used by insurance seem to have faded, to the detriment of compensation
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Chen, Fay, and 陳慧琴. "Nomadism in Graham Swift’s Waterland." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38821373596186770320.
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Nomadism in Graham Swift’s Waterland Abstract Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in A Thousand Plateau (1980), a book which theorizes difference, multiplicity, and becoming, describe nomadism as the process of “the war machine” creating and propagating “nomad space.” The philosophers use the metaphor of nomad resistance to suggest a way of escaping from social boundaries and restrictions to liberate primordial desire energies. Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), as a historiographic novel in its critique of the Enlightenment, also suggests a nomadic—“land reclamation”—process of storytelling as a way to cope with terrible events in life. This thesis applies several of Deleuze and Guattari’s key concepts to generate further dialogue on Waterland. To cope with his mid-life crisis, Tom Crick abandons traditional history lessons to reconstruct a reality that is rhizomatic nature. In the process, he retrieves the Fenlands water and landscape, people and ghosts, history and mysteries from his past. Tom’s narrative exemplifies a type of “war machine” in its collage form, defamiliarizing strategies, disrupted chronology, and sensory activation. In providing multiple “entryways” and “exits,” Tom’s stories invite multiple interpretations from his audience. Tom, while realizing the impossibility of ever telling “the complete and final version” of his stories, gradually finds a “line of flight” in “becoming-eel” and “becoming-nomad” as he allows himself to be guided by an instinctual desire to return to his past in order to tell more stories. The novel not only discusses what storytelling means to Tom, but values the nomadic process of continuous storytelling to learn how to live. Keywords: nomad thought, rhizome, storytelling, becoming, desire
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Hsu, Tsai-ling, and 許采齡. "The Figuring of Cannibalism in Swift’s Time." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78069619832887814280.
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Abstract This thesis examines the figuration of cannibalism in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) in relation to works in his time, including George Psalmanazar’s Description of Formosa (1704-1705), Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1689). The historical formation of cannibalism in Swift’s works illustrates that Swift may have not only been indebted to the long tradition of the figuration of cannibalism since Christopher Columbus and Michel de Montaigne but also owed much to the rhetorical concepts of cannibalism in the works of his contemporaries. This thesis highlights these issues in Swift’s works: How is the representation of cannibals significant in the construction of the other in his time? What are the differences between Swift’s and his contemporaries’ view on cannibals? How does Swift complicate and politicize this subject in Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal? Hayden White’s idea of “historical discourse” will frame my exploration of the figuration of cannibalism in Swift’s works. The thesis would be divided into two major parts: Each probes cannibalism as a historical discourse under modern interpretation in relation to Swift and his contemporaries. I aim to clarify how Swift complicates and politicizes the cannibalistic figure in his works. The Introduction concentrates on the beginning of modern cannibalism since Columbus and Montaigne, investigating how the figures of cannibalism are applied to several uses. The tradition of the figures of man-eating can be traced back to Greek myth, Homer, and Herodotus’s Histories. The cannibalistic figures were presented either as an indication of deep hatred to an enemy or a sign of cultural difference. The practice of cannibalism was looked upon with no moral judgment. Modern concepts of cannibalism began in Columbus’s naming the Caribbean anthropophagi “cannibals.” The figuration of cannibalism has been turned into a form of a “historical discourse” since 1492 when Columbus famously categorized Amerindian savages as man-eating cannibals and associated the figures of cannibalism with an indication of extreme barbarity and a cultural trope that denotes a group of people who are in need of conversion and colonial civilization. Montaigne’s seminal essay “Of Cannibals” (1580) led cannibalism to another direction—that is, it functioned as a weapon for self-criticism, which spoke out the fact that the civilized Europeans could be much crueler than the cannibals. For Montainge, cannibals were still those naked savages, but Europeans might be worse than these people if they continued performing brutal acts. Chapter Two focuses on the images of cannibals in works by Psalmanazar, Defoe, and Behn to figure out the general concepts of cannibalism in Swift’s age. Later in Swift’s time, the two main concepts of cannibalism from Columbus and Montaigne were applied in travel accounts and other literary works about the savage other. Psalmanazar’s Description of Formosa succeeded the tradition of the stereotypes of the exotic other, reinforcing his fake identity as a native Formosan by eating raw meat and telling sensational stories about the cannibalistic practice in Formosa. The images of cannibals in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe are presented according to the stereotypes of the savage other at that time, which justify European domination and colonization. Behn’s Oroonoko, on the other hand, follows Montaigne’s tradition, criticizing Europeans’ brutality by comparing them with savages. My main concern in Chapter Three is how Swift criticizes his contemporaries’ ideas of cannibalism in Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal. Basically, Swift agreed that Europeans were no better than the bloodthirsty cannibals, but his attitude toward the savage other was not sympathetic, either. The figuration of cannibalism in both Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal forms a particular historical discourse, under which both Europeans and the savage other victimize the other and are victimized by each other. This thesis concludes that Swift’s idea of cannibalism broadens modern meanings of the cannibalistic figure.
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Shojania, Mohtaram Gharib. "The gospel according to Gulliver : Swift's unorthodox Christian apologetics." 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/29495.
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Wang, Tzu-yun, and 王慈韻. "The Fictionality of Historical Narrative in Graham Swift’s Waterland." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91594026950479268484.
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Historiographic metafiction, a type of postmodern novels defined by Linda Hutcheon, refuses to clarify the distinction between history and fiction, emphasizing that history is never the mirroring of the real past itself but the textualized remains based on people’s subject imagination and interpretation. Due to its elaborate meditation on the nature of history, Graham Swift’s Waterland serves a great example of this kind of postmodern metafiction. Tom Crick, the narrator of the novel, is a history teacher who bears the burden to pass down the historical knowledge to the next generations. Faced with his personal crisis, Tom starts to tell his personal and family history in the middle of teaching the French Revolution. Intertwined with Tom’s narrative is his discussion of the nature of history and the close relationship between history and story-telling. This thesis aims to examine the fictionality of history that is explored by Swift in Waterland. With his self-reflexive narrative, Tom shows that the causality and meanings that are found in historical events are not found but constructed by people. By juxtaposing multiple versions of explanations of the events of the Fens, Tom makes an implication of the elusiveness and indeterminacy of historical truth. In addition, by illustrating many inevitable retreats and regressions that human history and human nature have displayed throughout generations, Tom’s exposure of a circular human history undermines the credibility of the Idea of Progress that was thought to be the truth since the Enlightenment age. In the process of drawing attention to history as a human fabrication, Tom reminds the students and readers to always be skeptical when learning history and to always look at one thing from different angles rather than just hold on to one single and totalizing perspective.
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Lee, I.-Ting, and 李宜庭. "Swift’s Travels beyond Children’s Literature: A Generic Study of Gulliver’s Travels." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22087380089955945417.
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碩士中興大學
外國語文學系所
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This thesis is a generic study of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. It aims to point out that Gulliver’s Travels is a unique example of Swift’s swift shift from children’s literature to satire, that is, from a children’s genre to an adults’ genre. In the introductory chapter, Swift’s life and works are briefly mentioned. Noted particularly are the facts, among others, that Swift seems to lack a memorable childhood, that he traveled constantly between Ireland and England and got involved in the political and religious affairs of the two nations, and that his greatest achievement lies in his writing, especially in his prose satire as seen in Gulliver’s Travels. The second chapter defines children’s literature, discusses its subgenres, and enumerates its characteristics, besides defining satire, discussing its types, and considering its characteristic contrasts with children’s literature. Based on the greatest contrasts, that is, the fanciful content and the playful tone of children’s literature versus the factual content and the painful tone of satire, the third chapter provides a detailed discussion of Gulliver’s four voyages to the “wonderlands.” In the fourth chapter, then, the focus is on how Swift “travels” beyond children’s literature. Four adaptations of Swift’s original Gulliver’s Travels are introduced: the Longman Edition, the Macmillan/Bookman Edition, the Oxford Edition, and the Penguin Edition. Such adaptations are all simplified and abridged versions intended for children. They reveal Swift’s potential for children’s literature. They also show Swift’s swift shift from the potential to his talented genre, satire. The thesis concludes in the fifth chapter that Gulliver’s Travels demonstrates Swift’s uniqueness in the postmodern tendency towards “hibridity”: he succeeds in making Gulliver’s Travels a great hybrid, combining the fantastic and amusing in children’s literature with the factual and instructive in adults’ literature. That is why the work is more popular than Robinson Crusoe and Candide.
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Lin, Yen Sanmr, and 林沿杉. "ACTING WITH SWIFTNESS AND ACCURACY ～ THE STUDY OF A FENCING COACH’S LIFE HISTORY." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53125163092813038529.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
體育學系碩士班
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This is the story of a fencing coach who has been involved in the fencing sport for over three decades. The text is used to describe fencing master’s experience in the fencing sport and his involvement in the promotion thereof. What is his vision of development during the period of fencing promotion? How does he promote the fencing sport? How does he expand his business horizon of fencing into schools, as well as inter-school and societal sport? This study utilizes the evolving systems approach proposed by Gruber and Wallace as the theoretical framework seeking to construct the fencing master’s path of promoting the fencing sport through in-depth interviews and the collection of relevant literature. It is the finding of this study that the fencing master converts the inability to participate in overseas matches during his high-school years and the disappointment of the broken dream contesting in the Olympics into his ultimate objective to promote the fencing sport. The time, monetary resources and manpower that have been poured in allow the fencing master to occupy a space in the arena of the fencing sport, yet a shred of imperfection still exists due to the lack of extraordinary results out of international matches that continues driving him to promote the fencing sport – the fencing master’s life of fencing sport is thus constructed with the said involvement and imperfect sense of achievement. It is with such imperfect sense of achievement lacking for extraordinary results in international matches that the fencing master promotes the fencing sport with swiftness and accuracy.
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Wu, Tzu-Yen, and 吳姿燕. "A Comparative Study on Two Chinese Versions of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87547016670851023832.
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碩士長榮大學
翻譯學系碩士在職專班
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This research paper is aimed to investigate and compare the two translated Chinese versions of Gulliver’s Travels by employing the translation theory of foreignization and domestication by Lawrence Venuti. The two Chinese versions are “Gulliver’s Travels”, published by Lingking Publishing in 2004 and the “Gulliver’s Travels”, published by SITAK Group in 2000. This research paper is categorized into 5 chapters. Chapter 3 is dedicated to studying the translation strategies and Chapter 4 the translation techniques. Each of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are followed by two sub-chapters. Each of chapter 3 and Chapter 4 contains 5 sub-categories, including the tone of speaking, domestication, foreignization, amplification, context, false translation, omission, order of words, and professional phrases, total of 10 sub-categories in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. The purpose is to study in-depth the process of translation, the intervention of translators, the influence of different translation strategies adopted, and the translation techniques employed. By studying in depth the two Chinese versions, it is hoped that this research paper will make a contribution to probe the complexity of the Chinese translated texts of Gulliver’s Travels for future studies.
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Lin, Cheng-Fu, and 林正福. "The Cognitive Process of Satire Comprehension in Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72921514991129282882.
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碩士國立政治大學
英國語文研究所
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This thesis aims to design a cognitive process of how the reader comprehends Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” as a satire. This cognitive process includes two steps: (A) to infer that the author is satirical, (B) to infer that the author intends to satirize some real person. This thesis is cut into three parts to tackle (A) and (B). The first part (Chapters 2-5) is on (A), and (A) is subdivided into: (a) to judge that AMP1 seems to be false, (b) to infer that the author intends it to be false, (c) to infer that the author intends the reader to find it false. However, (a) impedes (b) and the sequential (c), because AMP is seemingly false, not normatively false, in the eyes of the reader. The reader thus has the difficulty to eventually interpret AMP as a satire. However, when the reader feels extremely amused after reading AMP, he will more easily fulfill (b) and (c), because he will infer that the author is joking. The second part (Chapters 6-7) aims to design a cognitive theory of amusement and that of humor. I define amusement as an emotion, caused by the cognitive appraisal of the humor as pleasant. And I define humor as basically a reaction to incongruity. Humor can be: (1) the perception of incongruity, (2) the perception of incongruity and its resolution, or (3) the perception of incongruity and its resolution with comprehension. The third part (Chapter 8) is on the cognitive process from (A) to (B). The reader in this stage comprehends that the fictional speaker in AMP is a metaphor of some bigwig in reality who proposes an outrageous solution to the Irish problems. Throughout this thesis, I try to demolish the author’s AMP (that it is a satire) and restructure it with the reader’s interpretations (that AMP is a good plan, a hypocritical lie, etc.). Sometimes, the author is dead and his identity is unrecognizable. At the end, I will apply this interpretative instability (to AMP) to the dissension over the Taiwan 319 (gunshot) incident in 2004. ------------ 1 Herein Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” will be referred to as AMP.
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Cunha, André Gonçalves Falcão e. "Rehabilitation of Swifts. Apus apus and Apus pallidus Morphometric Parameters Analysis." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10348/9229.
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Dissertation of Integrated Masters in Veterinary MedicineA conservação da fauna selvagem ocorre a diversos níveis, um dos quais é o trabalho realizado nos centros de recuperação de fauna selvagem. Estes são responsáveis não só pela reabilitação de espécies animais selvagens autóctones, mas também pela sensibilização e educação da população para estas mesmas espécies. O andorinhão preto (Apus apus) e o andorinhão pálido (Apus pallidus) são duas espécies de aves que todos os anos são recebidas nos centros de reabilitação portugueses por diversos motivos. O principal objetivo deste trabalho é o estudo das características morfológicas destas duas espécies no momento de devolução ao seu habitat natural, e a subsequente comparação com valores referenciados de forma a detetar diferenças que poderão ter impacto na sua sobrevivência após a sua libertação. Também se pretende analisar as taxas de sucesso e as causas de ingresso com a finalidade de identificar fatores de risco. Para tal foi elaborada uma base de dados com os dados de ingresso e libertação, e as biometrias de 312 andorinhões recebidos no CERVAS (Centro de Ecologia, Recuperação e Vigilância de Animais Selvagens) em Gouveia. Neste estudo observámos que o ingresso destas aves é máximo em Julho, e que as entradas no centro devem-se principalmente a traumas e quedas do ninho. Os casos de trauma têm taxas de libertação (41.1%) menores devido às elevadas taxas de eutanásia (45.2%). As quedas de ninho têm uma elevada taxa de devolução à Natureza (73.3%). O peso de andorinhões no ingresso é maior em aves que são libertadas. Observámos também que as aves juvenis requerem um tempo de reabilitação (13.2 dias em andorinhões pretos e 14.2 dias em andorinhões pálidos) mais longo que adultos (1.4 dias em andorinhões pretos e 3.9 dias em andorinhões pálidos). O ganho de peso nestes animais está correlacionado com o período de reabilitação (r=0.492). Observámos ainda que o comprimento da asa de um andorinhão juvenil (160.74 milímetros em andorinhões pretos e 168.43 milímetros em andorinhões pálidos) é menor que o de um andorinhão adulto (160.84 milímetros em andorinhões pretos e 170.64 milímetros em andorinhões pálidos), nas duas espécies.Podemos concluir que o estudo das características morfológicas permite delimitar valores padrão para andorinhões recuperados, o que poderá ser desenvolvido de forma a melhorar o processo de recuperação de forma a atingir valores biométricos previamente definidos, garantindo um desenvolvimento mais perto do natural, e aumentar a taxa de sobrevivência de animais libertados. A análise da causa de ingresso poderá permitir que o centro de reabilitação dirija melhor os seus esforços e recursos para otimizar o seu funcionamento e taxa de sucesso.
The conservation of the wildlife occurs at various levels, one of which is the work which takes place in wildlife rehabilitation centres. These are responsible not only for the rehabilitation of autochthonous wild animals, but also the sensibilization and education of the population for these same species. The common swift (Apus apus) and the pallid swift (Apus pallidus) are two bird species that every year are received in the Portuguese rehabilitation centres for several reasons. The main objective of this work is the study of the morphologic characteristics of these two species at the moment of reintroduction in their natural habitat, and the subsequent comparison to referenced values in order to detect differences which might impact their survival post release. We also intend to analyse the rates and the causes of ingress with the purpose of identifying risk factors. For this purpose, a data base was developed with the admission and release data, and the biometrics of 312 swifts received in CERVAS (Centro de Ecologia, Recuperação e Vigilância de Animais Selvagens) in Gouveia. In this study we observed that the ingress of these birds is maximum in July and the admissions in the centre are mainly from traumas and nest falls. The cases of trauma have lower release rates (41.1%) due to the high euthanasia rates (45.2%). The falls from the nest have high reintroduction rates (73.3%). The weight of ingress of swifts is larger in birds that are released. We also observed that juvenile birds require a longer rehabilitation period (13.2 days for common swifts and 14.2 days for pallid swifts) than adults (1.4 days for common swifts and 3.9 days for pallid swifts). The weight gain of these animals is correlated to the rehabilitation period (r=0.492). We observed as well that the wing length of a juvenile swift (160.74 millimetres in common swifts and 160.8 millimetres in pallid swifts) is smaller than the one of an adult swift (168.43 millimetres in common swifts e 170.64 millimetres in pallid swifts), for both species. We can conclude that the study of the morphological characteristics allows the delineation of pattern values for rehabilitated swifts, which can be developed in order to improve the rehabilitation process by reaching biometric values previously defined, ensuring a development closer to natural and increasing the survival rate of released animals. The analysis of the admission cause may allow the centre to better use their efforts and resources to optimize its operations and success rate.
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CHEN, SHI-ZHE, and 陳世哲. ""This isthmus of a middle state":Johathan Swift's concept of man in Gulliver's travels." Thesis, 1988. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47961018992682700845.
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Wong, Margaret. ""The projecting species": Reading Swift's critique of the scientific project in Book 3 of "Gulliver's Travels"." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16792.
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Book 3 of Jonathan Swift's Travels into the Remote Nations of the World offers a thorough critique of the eighteenth-century scientific world--a world marked by systematization, theoretical speculation, stories of "progress," and innovation, which people have commonly embraced and into which the "modern" mind had unresistingly and perhaps unconsciously placed itself. Because Book 3 appears to indulge in a transparent attack on some specific eighteenth-century events, ridicule seems to be the primary device used to undermine the practices of the scientific community. However closer inspection reveals that Swift's satire is not grounded in the topical particulars of the Eighteenth Century, but addresses such general problems, such as moral deficiency, intellectual arrogance, tyranny, which are common to human experience. Moreover, his attack, not dependent upon ridicule, involves complex rhetorical strategies, including some subversive reader-indicting techniques that challenge and ultimately compel readers to take an active role in resolving the dilemma (intellectual, philosophical, moral, etc.) into which he has placed them. Thus the process of reading Book 3 makes the reader both an active supporter and sympathetic critic of scientific practices. The resulting tension is a primary contributor to the textual problems that have troubled the critics of Book 3 since the Travels first came out, but it is also what makes scrupulous attention to the text worthwhile.
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Groeneveld, Cheryl A. "“Foreigners in their own country”: The Struldbruggs and the changing language of aging in Swift's world." 2007. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3275769.
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This study uses the Struldbrugg episode in Swift's Gulliver's Travels as a focal point in an investigation of important shifts in perceptions of aging in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. While modernity brought many benefits for the elderly, it also delivered more equivocal changes: the loss of a narrative of comfort and meaning for aging in a society increasingly telling itself a story of progress, perfectibility, and novelty; the slide from an ontological to a pathological view of the manifestations of aging; a mounting belief in self-efficacy that extended to economic and medical issues related to age; the growth of "political arithmetick" and the consequent categorization and enumeration of the human population which often both defined and marginalized the elderly; the growing conviction that the life span could be extended indefinitely; the related increase in economic gerontophobia (the fear of the old depleting the resources of the young); and the shift in both the very language of aging and the locus of control of that language. Finally, while memory became more important in theories of personal identity, the memories of the long-lived lost value in an increasingly documentary society. I contend neither that these phenomena were entirely new in the early eighteenth century nor that losses outweighed the benefits of the new age; however, in the early modern era these attitudes became incrementally more institutionalized and collective, while the rhetoric of progress—then and now—has consistently privileged positive changes and minimized losses. Reading back and forth between historical documents and the Travels and between the words Swift puts in the mouth of the aging Gulliver and the words of the aging Dean himself (both are fifty-nine when Gulliver concludes his adventures), this work traces developments in such issues as economic gerontophobia and ageism. The Struldbruggs' linguistic isolation makes them "Foreigners in their Own Country"; Swift—through the Struldbruggs and documentation of his own old age—gives us the foreign world of senescence in his time and offers us a chance to juxtapose the place of aging as modernity begins with the situation of senescence as, perhaps, modernity ends.
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Chang, Shu-ling, and 張淑玲. "A Study on Teenagers’ Reading Reflection in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels and Its Application to English Teaching." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85120186607047833664.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
英語學系
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Abstract This study aims to explore teenagers’ reading reflection in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels and to apply children’s literature to English teaching for EFL students in a junior high school classroom setting in central Taiwan. The study consists of six chapters. Chapter One includes five sections, which are motivation and background, purpose and significance of the study, major research questions, literature review, and organization of the study. The literature review section explores the benefits of children’s literature and the use of it in EFL classroom, and investigates content-based instruction and its application to language teaching. The three models proposed by Carter and Long (1991) are also employed in this study. The criteria of choosing appropriate children’s literature and the suitability of Gulliver's Travels as teaching material is also analyzed. In Chapter Two, the biography of Jonathan Swift and a brief illustration of Gulliver's Travels are first presented. In the brief examination of Gulliver's Travels section, the first voyage to Lilliput, the second voyage to Brobdingnag, the third voyage to Laputa and other Islands, and the fourth voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms are illustrated. Finally, the last section of this chapter discusses the elements of satire in Gulliver's Travels. Chapter Three examines the feature and value of various literary passages and language elements in Gulliver's Travels. Consideration of their application to teaching is also presented. In Chapter Four, the details of the main study are presented, including the participants, the instruments, the data collection procedures, and the teaching procedures. In Chapter Five, comparative analysis of the responses in students’ pre-instructional and post-instructional questionnaires is included. Then, the results of the pre-test and the post-test for the comprehension of the reading texts are also presented. Finally, Chapter Six concludes the findings of this teaching experiment. In this final section, major findings of the study, recommendations and pedagogical implications, limitations of the study, and suggestions for further studies are discussed. Key words: children's literature, satire, Gulliver's Travels
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Lee, Wan-lun, and 李宛倫. ""Between Tick and Tock": Bridging the Gap between Story and Reality in Graham Swift's "Waterland" and Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient"." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41838509289353553011.
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碩士國立成功大學
外國語文學系
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Living "in the middest," in a world which is not our own, our sense of crisis produces in us an overwhelming itch for telling stories or hearing stories in order to make sense of the world, to look for beginnings, middles, and ends in concord, and to impose some kind of order and design on "the contingencies of reality." The problem, however, is that things in life usually "just happen," without displaying the kind of formal attributes or the kind of coherence and sequence that our stories possess. It seems that our inherited ways of storytelling do not accord with the nature of reality, that we just impose our preferred versions of life on a past that cannot resist us. In order to reconcile such dissonance between the form of story and the nature of reality, our postmodernist novelist-storytellers, such as Graham Swift and Michael Ondaatje, move further away from conventional narrative sequences and try to establish a new paradigmatic form of storytelling, or of fiction-making, which can reconcile the conflict between our desire for the form of story and our need to mime contingent reality. Swift's Waterland and Ondaatje's The English Patient, through their use of postmodern narrative techniques, not only make us confront the ways in which we make sense of the world and how we organize our knowledge of reality, but also offer us prime examples of how to bring story and reality together. Far from finding a coherent, structured, meaningful story as in conventional fiction, readers of such postmodernist texts are likely to get lost in strange, non-sequential, unstable orders of reading. However, the fragmentary, indefinite, and unfinished quality of postmodern fiction also challenges readers to piece all the fragments together, word by word, page by page, for themselves and to re-establish an order which the text itself does not entirely give them. The first chapter of this thesis discusses the importance of storytelling in human life and the shapelessness of reality. It then moves to a brief introduction of Frank Kermode's richly suggestive exposition of the dilemma between story and reality and the achievement and predicament of modern writers in their dealing with such a problem. In order to give an account of postmodernist anxieties and an examination of the relation between story and reality, the second chapter is concerned with Graham Swift's Waterland, analyzing how such a novel, cast in the form of a fictional autobiography, can find a way to establish a new contact with reality. The third chapter examines a second example of the tension between story and reality in a late-twentieth-century postmodern fiction, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. This novel proceeds in a much more fragmented, discontinuous, and cyclical narrative pattern than Swift's Waterland but leaves its readers with an even clearer and more understandable story through its "unique qualities of connection and coherence." The fourth chapter arrives at the conclusion that, though we cannot break free of the forms of story, we must change them to make them go on working. Just like the repeated, endless process of land reclamation or desert exploration, the efforts of our postmodern novelist-storytellers to discover new ways of storytelling or fiction-making, of "filling the interval between the tick and tock," have to be continued to "reclaim the world by revealing it as it is."
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貝業明. "Utopian Speculation in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Its Application to English Teaching." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22732011519596789978.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
英語學系
95
This thesis aims to explore western utopian speculation in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Both these novels survey the possibilities of realizing utopia and the predicaments that utopists have to face. The other objective is to apply utopian issues in Gulliver’s Travels to the EFL classroom in junior high school in Taiwan. The whole thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter One explains that now it is more suitable than before to teach literature in junior high school and that utopian speculation is worth introducing to junior high students, because exploring this issue can make them more concern about their society and country, and help them cultivate their citizenship. The born aspiration for better life crystallizes into different ideal phases that reveal the diversified social problems of the time. The types of ideal life evolve from simple to complex, from the satisfaction of desires to the fulfillment of ideal social structure, such as good institutions, just laws, preferable customs and even egalitarianism. Chapter Two discusses the differences between utopia and other types of ideal life. Utopia is not like the Golden Age and Millenarianism that are bestowed by God. It is usually achieved by human design and effort, intends to revolutionize the social, economic, political or religious systems. But its reforming plans are often one-dimensional and naïve. As a result, utopian literature is just for consoling. Gulliver’s Travels and A Connecticut Yankee both inherit these features from Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, but they have differences in terms of the following points: Gulliver’s Travels expresses explicit and positive attitude toward utopia, while A Connecticut Yankee, ambiguous one toward utopia; the former praises technologically primitive utopia, while the latter prefers technologically advanced utopia; and the former longs for the past simpler and more natural England, while the latter intends to civilize and modernize Arthurian England. Chapter Three explains satire, which is the most conspicuous feature of utopian literature. Satire and utopia are nearly born with each other: utopia aims to establish a norm, a standard of excellence, against which folly and vice are judged; satire attacks folly and vice. Chapter Three shows its use in Gulliver’s Travels and in A Connecticut Yankee, and the device of inversion to achieve satire. Chapter Four provides the analysis of the application of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to English teaching, including appropriateness of Gulliver’s Travels as a teaching material and its research design. Questionnaires were used in order to investigate their opinions on applying the novel and its utopian issues to English teaching. Chapter Five is concerned about the results and discussion of the teaching experiment. The results show that the participants are interested in the utopian speculation and consider that studying fictional work indeed promotes their English learning. In general speaking, Gulliver’s Travels is appropriate for students’ learning in terms of language and content. It is beneficial for students in cultural enrichment, language learning, and personal growth. Major finding, limitation of the study, and suggestions for further study are also proposed here.
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Hedderman, Simon Peter. "Developments for a Swept Wing Airfoil to Study the Effects of Step and Gap Excrescences on Boundary Layer Transition." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149269.
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Skin friction drag reduction is one of the most promising paths in the investigation of the reduction of aircraft fuel burn. 40 – 50% of overall drag comes from the surfaces of the wings and stabilizers. Natural laminar flow airfoils can extend the region of laminar flow and reduce skin friction drag. However, real-world aircraft wings do not have perfectly smooth surfaces, and therefore the tolerances for step and gap excrescences on these airfoils must be investigated. Previous work has focused on excrescences on flat plates, and only recently included pressure gradient effects.
A new three-dimensional swept wing airfoil with an actuated leading edge (SWIFTER) has been constructed, and will extend the body of knowledge of step and gap excrescences to a more real-world configuration and higher Reynolds numbers. An integrated control system for the leading edge actuation system is proposed, including both interface hardware and control code. A heating system for the test surface is also discussed, and the controller hardware, sensors, and code specified. For wind tunnel testing, a proposed set of wall liners are developed from zero-lift condition streamlines and divided into parts suitable for manufacturing, assembly, and installation. Finally, preliminary wind tunnel step excrescence tests using an existing swept-wing model and applique step material were conducted, and the results are discussed with relevance to testing on the new model.