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Rance, Philip. "Tactics and 'tactica' in the sixth century : tradition and originality." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11070.
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The subject of this thesis is a collection of military handbooks or tactica produced in the East Roman Empire in the 6th century. Although all these texts are discussed in turn, the study naturally concentrates on the two largest works, the "Compendium" of Syrianus Magister and the Strategikon attributed to the Emperor Maurice (582-602). The approach to these tactica has been on a number of levels. The first half of the thesis is primarily a textual study, which examines the inter-relationships between the 6th century works, their probable dating and authorship and their manuscript transmission. There follows a detailed analysis of the extent to which they were influenced by earlier works within this literary genre, which dates back to the 4th Century B.C., and the manner in which this traditional material was adapted to the military circumstances of the 6th century. These classical influences, both stylistic and conceptual, are balanced by a study of the influence exerted on East Roman military theory and practice by neighbouring peoples, particularly those relatively new to the Empire's cultural sphere, notably the Avars and the Turks. This involves an examination of the processes by which military technology and techniques were diffused between pre-industrial societies, and the extent to which the Romans actively studied the military methods of their enemies. This study is set within the context of a long-standing Roman tradition of military eclecticism. Having assessed the degree of traditional and empirical content, the thesis then compares the theoretical precepts of the textbooks with the military practices described by contemporary historians and chroniclers, with a particular regard to the development of tactics – how Roman armies prepared for and engaged in combat. By such a comparison the thesis aims to establish the relationship between theory and practice, and ultimately to provide an assessment of the practical utility of this sort of technical literature in Late Antiquity.
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Klenell, Simon. "Frigger tactics." Thesis, Konstfack, Keramik & Glas, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3350.
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My work centers around the fact that I am a glassblower working with glass objects within a glasstradition. My BFA project from 2009 entitled ”the bastards have landed” was my first attempt atmapping out what that ultimately meant to me as a practitioner in a contemporary craft context. Theresult of that project was a discovery of my making as a way of using tradition to tell stories aboutitself. My conclusion was that by using the traditional objects as symbols I had a channel throughwhich I could communicate. Glass is a material who´s domains are closely connected to a domesticand consumeristic environment. It is put in a position where we react to its appearance with ourbody memory while also carries different social and material values depending on its appearance.When entering the master program at Konstfack University of Art Craft and Design, my idea wasthat over the next coming two years my focus would lie in the exploration and research of thesemechanisms as well as my own position as a maker and practitioner within these mechanisms.Craft, design and making are subjects that are constantly being talked about and analyzed from anumber of perspectives. There are philosophers, sociologists, historians and art historians constantlynegotiating what the field of craft is dealing with. This is something that I over the years have foundas something quite disturbing in some cases. This leaves me in a situation where I am no longerdefining my own practice. And when I am to define my practice I always do it through the ideas ofpeople from ”outside” my own position. There are many good writers from variousdisciplines writing about craft and making that I have had great use of and input from but I feel thatthere is a big lack of craft practitioners who are defining their discipline from their own standpoint.This situation is to me a bit outdated.So as mentioned above I have entered the master program with an idea to find out how to deal withveiled subjects such as tacit knowledge and material culture in order to try to transform them into acommunicative body of knowledge. My work during the past three semesters have been spread outover a number of different projects dealing with these subjects both based on objects as well asforming a discussion together with my master group.The main cause in this thesis is as always in my case to shed light on and to formulate questionsand hopefully answers around my own practice and its related subjects.The main reason for this is that craft and making as a tool for knowledge production is a cloudedsubject but according to me it holds a lot of potential. Not only for understanding questions outsidethe field but also to unveil and strengthen the practice itself.
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Abdal, Alia Farid. "Diasporic tactics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45966.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61).
This document acts as the written form of an art practice that can be described by making an analogy between the artist and the itinerant migrant worker. This thesis is an elaboration on certain viewpoints, encounters, and case studies that have lead me to do my actual [art] work. In it I attempt to describe the intricate human processes involved with immigration, adaptation, and transformation, specifically in the case of Villa Victoria: a community of incredible social capital that established itself when urban renewal planners threatened two thousand Puerto Ricans out of their homes in Parcel 19 of Boston's South End during the late 1960s. Personally, I like to accredit the success of Villa Victoria to a form of behavior called "hustling" which most displaced people quickly turn to in order to fulfill their very basic needs. Lately "hustling" has become a strong performative aspect of my work, as in the end, what I am really interested in is discovering forms of power for the oppressed rather than dwelling on the power of the oppressor. Key terms: the neoliberal city, the informal economy, (im)migration, assimilation, hybridity, distinction, rupture, subculture, commemoration, (mis)representation, lyric and sound.
by Alia Farid Abdal.
S.M.
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Kleinschmidt, Frank. "Street tactics." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28255.
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Spatial inequality is the development of public space that selects and benefits certain constituencies over others, with direct effects on how space is used, and by whom. Over time it can contribute to social and political conflict and unrest. In Cape Town, spatial inequality originated largely through apartheid-era strategic planning. Then, as in contemporary Cape Town, this planning typically focused on large-scale infrastructure projects, requiring massive amounts of capital, and was tasked with economic generation in areas that were already yielding returns. Thomas Piketty's definition of inequality as an economic system that favours capital growth over economic growth demonstrates how spatial inequality is essentially the development of spatial capital in areas that already see spatial growth and improvement. Enter tactical urbanism. Mike Lydon, one of its proponents, defines it as a "deliberate, phased approach to instigating change", where local, short-term solutions are found that manage expectations & risk while building social capital. This approach is commonly referred to as "bottom-up", differing from the "top-down" strategic approach of most private and public institutions. Tactical urbanism has the potential to solve spatial inequality by offering a low capital intervention that operates on a small scale with maximum public participation and limited bureaucratic interference. This paper concludes with a discussion on how intervention may exist within Cape Town, specifically in the areas of Woodstock and Salt River. By considering tactical urbanism along with informality, the common characteristics of these two can be utilised to encourage further initiatives, especially ones that accommodate adjacency and counter-gentrification movements.
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Nordin, Joanna. "Catalog Tactics, A Tactics Cat Log, A Cat's Tact Logic." Thesis, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-71.
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Börger, Luca. "Roe deer mating tactics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614310.
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Ebeltoft, Todd W. "Localized Tactics | Territorial Impact." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407407244.
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Farmer, Warren Edgar. "Tactics: Analysed and described." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/136084/2/Warren_Farmer_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis analyses and describes tactics in resolution of conflict. The relationship and delineation between strategy and tactics, both being inherent to conflict, is poorly articulated. Consequently, tactics are inadequately defined, understood and applied. They are frequently confused with physical application of a technique rather than addressing the psychology and science inherent in decision attainment. This definitional inadequacy results in actions that are neither efficient, effective or ethical. Tactics are determined to be not only decision making but the attainment and sustaining of the decision sought in keeping with higher order intentions and constraints in conflict situations.
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Berggren, Jennie, and Carina Engström. "Defensive Tactics : In hostile takeovers." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-469.
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Read, Andrew F. "Comparative analyses of reproductive tactics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.256378.
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Kryvchanska, M. I., O. V. Pishak, and V. I. Chokan. "Chronopharmacological therapy tactics for desychronosis." Thesis, БДМУ, 2019. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/19232.
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Godfrey, Jeremy. "Between Tactics of Hope and Tactics of Power: Liminality, (Re)Invention, and The Atlanta Overlook." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/112.
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This dissertation focuses on the potential empowerment writing has among a homeless community in Atlanta, Georgia. Through the participation in a newly created writing workshop and a street newspaper in that community, the narrative and communication among writing participants demonstrate negotiations of self-identification as public and private writers and the situational influence writing has on their lives.
The study adds to the “public turn” of writing instruction with the intention of helping to bridge the gap between traditional composition pedagogy in academia and such education in outside community. That participatory instruction reinforces the notion that writing and rhetorical performances can effect positive change in individual lives beyond that institutional space.
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Besich, Marilyn Ann. "Learning tactics of successful online learners." Diss., Montana State University, 2005. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2005/besich/BesichM0505.pdf.
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Perreault, Stéphane 1967. "Reproductive tactics in the American redstart." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22789.
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The occurrence of three reproductive tactics in a population of American redstarts was estimated: extra-pair fertilization, egg-dumping, and male polyterritoriality. Using DNA fingerprinting we show that none of 108 nestlings samples were the result of egg dumping. In contrast, 40% of nestlings were the result of extra-pair fertilizations. Males sired a greater proportion of their broods as they aged. In addition, promiscuous females were never fertilized by males that were younger than their social mates. Whether the poor reproductive performance of younger males was caused by female preference for older males or by intra-sexual competition was not determined. In any case, females would have benefited by mating with older males, if the traits that allowed the survival of the father were inherited by the females' offspring. Only three of 80 males attracted two females through polyterritoriality. One male fledged two broods: he sired both nestlings from his first brood, but none of the four nestlings from his second brood. We concluded that male redstarts can improve their reproductive success by trying to obtain extra-pair copulations, but less so by establishing a second territory.
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Barrett, Ferrier Michelle Paulette. "Patchwork Culture: Quilt Tactics and Digitextuality." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4153.
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Embedded in the quilt top, the fabric patches are relays, time pathways to stories and memories of their former owners. Through the quilts, the voices of the past survive. The stories trace a path of connection between oral traditions, storytelling, the invention of meaning, and the preservation of cultural memory. The theory and method described herein use the quilt patchwork metaphor as the basis for a web interface for designing and modeling knowledge-based graphical, narrative, and multimedia data. More specifically, the method comprises a digital storytelling and knowledge management tool that allows one or more users to create, save, store, and visually map or model digital stories. The method creates a digital network of a community's stories for digital ethnography work. Digital patches that represent the gateway to the stories of an individual are pieced together into a larger quilt design, creating a visual space that yields the voices of its creators at the click of a mouse. Through this narrative mapping, users are able to deal with complexity, ambiguity, density, and information overload. The method takes the traditional quilt use and appropriates it into a digital apparatus so that the user is connected to multiple points of view that can be dynamically tried out and compared. The hypertextual quilting method fulfills the definition of a deconstructive hypertext and emancipatory social science research methodologies by creating a collaborative, polyvocal interface where users have access to the code, content and conduits to rewrite culture's history with subaltern voices. In this digital place of intertextuality, stories are juxtaposed with images in a montage that denies the authority of a single voice and refuses fixed meaning. In dialogue, contestation, and play, the digitextuality of the Digital Story Quilt provides a praxis for critical theory. The Digital Story Quilt method concerns itself with questions of identity, the processes through which these identities are developed, the mechanics of processes of privilege and marginalization and the possibility of political action through narrative performance against these processes.Ph.D.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
Texts and Technology PhD
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Beaton, Jonathan Scott. "Human inspiration for autonomous vehicle tactics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36172.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260).
Tactical control is needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and continuous, dynamic change. Given the likelihood of time constraints and high risks associated with poor tactical choices, current autonomous vehicles do not possess the decision making abilities to successfully perform in these environments. However, human experts frequently operate in these domains where they are forced to make quick, reactive decisions based on incomplete information. We propose, then, that the first step in augmenting autonomous vehicles (AVs) with improved tactical control capabilities is to learn, encode, and apply tactics exhibited by human experts. To test the method, five human subjects were given the task of performing an armed reconnaissance mission in a simulation environment over multiple cases with varying terrain and probability of enemy contact. By scoring the performance in each case, the best actions and decisions were filtered out and analyzed in depth to understand the strategies and tactics behind them. Human cognitive models and decision making theories were utilized to determine the cognitive processes underneath the decisions as displayed by the human subjects' think aloud reports and surveys.
(cont.) A baseline autonomous vehicle controller was designed independent of the human-in-the-loop experiments that could also perform the reconnaissance mission. After capturing the human tactics and encoding them into statechart form, a revised AV displayed a superior ability to engage enemy contacts uncovered during the reconnaissance when compared to the baseline AV. A final framework is presented that outlines how to learn and apply human-inspired tactics in future settings.
by Jonathan Scott Beaton.
S.M.
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Nicoll, William, James Bitter, Oscar Christensen, and Claire Hawes. "Adlerian Brief Therapy: Strategies and Tactics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2000. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6052.
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Ringley, Brian Timothy. "PERIPH FLUIDE: Siege Tactics in Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242841884.
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Barrie, Ian, and Ian Barrie. "Leadership: Strategies and Tactics for Success." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624909.
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Throughout the course of this paper I will look at the various leadership methods described throughout the semester. I will evaluate my own leadership methods and compare methods I am using, compared with those discussed throughout the course. This paper will be broken into three main sections. First I will discuss my scores on various leadership tests, and see how they rated compared to an average. I will compare this to personal interviews with my McGuire Entrepreneurship group, and make high level comments on where I see the status of my leadership skills. I will then give a broad overview of the knowledge we have acquired through hearing 12 different speakers and compare that to my own skills. I will take the tips I found most constructive, and plan on utilizing while moving into my career. Lastly, I will develop a plan on how to connect the dots and set a plan for moving into the future as a leader.
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NOGUEIRA, PEDRO CAETANO EBOLI. "FROM TACTICAL URBANISM TO URBAN TACTICS: BODY AND POLITICS ON THE POETICS OF OPAVIVARÁ! COLLECTIVE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=31017@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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A presente dissertação é fruto de uma investigação sobre formas e possibilidades de atuação política na cidade contemporânea. Em contraponto direto à crise de projeto e da representatividade política instaurada na contemporaneidade, as ações de urbanismo tático pareciam inicialmente responder aos anseios desta investigação. Tratam-se de atos apropriativos e de ativação de espaços da cidade movidos pelas próprias populações. Mas uma análise dos discursos políticos produzidos pelos agentes do caso de urbanismo tático desenvolvido no Largo da Batata (SP), dão a ver a fraqueza de atos baseados na oposição entre sociedade civil e Estado. Explicitamos de que forma estas ações são atravessadas pelo poder biopolítico e pelas estruturas da cidade neoliberal. Mas se a cartografia complexa e microfísica das relações de poder contemporâneo incide sobre os corpos e vidas de todos e de cada um, então uma ação política não necessariamente deve se dar em afronta ao aparelho de Estado. Assim vemos emergir de uma miríade de práticas sua potência micropolítica, dentre elas, a arte no regime estético. Seu caráter eminentemente dissensual produz fissuras na partilha do sensível e, em contato com o espectador emancipado, possibilita a produção de singularidades, a contrapelo das experiências massificantes que predominam nas grandes cidades contemporâneas. Ao final desta dissertação nos debruçamos sobre as relações entre corpo, política e cidade nos trabalhos artísticos do coletivo Opavivará!, apresentados de forma ensaística.
This dissertation is the result of an investigation about forms and possibilities of political action in the contemporary city. In direct counterpoint to the project and the political representativeness crisis established in contemporary times, the actions of tactical urbanism seemed initially to respond to the aspirations of this investigation. These acts of appropriation and activation of public spaces are put in place by the populations themselves. However a careful review of the political speeches produced by the agents of the Batata Precisa de Você, a case of tactical urbanism developed in Largo da Batata (SP), shows the weakness of any political act based on the opposition between civil society and State. We explain how these actions are crossed by biopolitical power and inscribed inside structures of the neoliberal cities. But if the complex and microphysical cartography of contemporary relations of power affects the bodies and lives of each person and everyone, then a political action does not necessarily takes place in defiance of the State apparatus. Thus we see emerge from a myriad of practices the emergence of its micro political potential, amongst them art in the aesthetic regime. Its eminently dissensual character produces cracks in the distribution of the sensible and, in contact with the emancipated spectator, enables the production of singularities, in opposition to the mass experiences that prevail in most of great contemporary cities. At the end of this dissertation we focus on the relations between body, politics and city in the artistic works of the collective Opavivará!, presented as an essay.
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Sloan, Matthew. "Developing the Reappraisal Tactic Questionnaire: Examining the Relationships of Reappraisal Tactics with Affect and Well-being Outcomes." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1606840999980038.
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Savage, James L. "Maternal investment tactics in cooperative breeding systems." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245526.
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Whenever multiple individuals contribute to the care of offspring, the optimum level of investment for each carer depends on the behaviour of the others. Previous theoretical and empirical work has largely focused on carer contributions within a single stage of a breeding attempt, neglecting the potential for investment during earlier stages to influence later care decisions. Typically, mothers have much greater control than other carers over the number and quality of offspring, and hence by altering her investment during offspring production a mother can adaptively adjust offspring phenotype to match or exploit the predicted care paradigm. In this dissertation, I use theoretical, empirical and comparative methods to investigate the influence of maternal tactics on investment rules in cooperative breeding systems, where ‘helpers’ care in addition to parents. In three chapters I model maternal control of offspring quality and offspring number across a cooperative breeding attempt, and investigate how the costliness of different reproductive stages, the kin-structure of the care group, and the consequences of offspring early-life condition influence the investment rules of carers. During offspring rearing, fair division of labour within a cooperative group can theoretically be resolved using simple turn-taking rules, leading to efficient outcomes for all carers. To test whether such a rule is employed in nature, a later chapter analyses empirical provisioning data from the chestnut-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps), a cooperatively breeding bird endemic to the Australian outback. I use a Markov chain Monte Carlo approach to determine whether individuals alter their provisioning rate when other carers visit the nest, and identify both ‘passive’ and ‘active’ turn-taking behaviour. Finally, I present a comparative analysis of studies on provisioning rules in cooperatively breeding birds, and investigate whether the level of investment mothers must contribute to offspring influences the later care paradigm observed. My results indicate that maternal costs contribute to variation in both breeding group size and female provisioning behaviour. I conclude that maternal investment tactics are an underappreciated influence on carer investment rules in both the theoretical and empirical literature, and that incorporating them is crucial to understanding variation in cooperative care behaviour in nature.
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Giebel, Kathleen A. "Counterterrorism tactics A model of cell dynamics." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Jun%5FGiebel.pdf.
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Buseri, J. C. "Strategies and tactics of Nigerian science teachers." Thesis, Bangor University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378664.
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Hrotic, S. M. "Academic peer-evaluation tactics : An evolutionary approach." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517348.
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Angles, Zachary (Zachary John). "Narrative tactics for making other worlds possible." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115724.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "February 2018."
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Be they childhood games of make-believe, sophisticated literary projects, or political inventions (a "Great America") authors have taken advantage of a world-building imagination creating their own worlds, and theorizing what they were doing. From the 1960s onwards, fictional worlds were studied from a philosophical point of view, using "possible worlds" theory and modal logic, which consider the ontological status of fictional worlds, the nature of their functioning, and their relationship with the actual world. These ideas have been combined with literary theory, setting the foundation for the study of imaginary worlds. Architects and Urbanists have used facets of world-building arguably for as long as the disciplines have existed. Though modernity launched a highly conscious tradition of imagining worlds in literature and creative culture, it also stained imagination and dreaming with a connotation of frivolity and a wastefulness that was antithetical to modern projects of utility and rationality. In the later half of the twentieth century there was an increase in number of architects exploring the irrational and imaginative in defiance of the reign of rationalism. A chasm tore through the discipline: grounded and rational practitioners on one side and imaginative inventors of form, indulgently entrapped in their fantasies, on the other. World-builders have developed robust methods for producing visions for futures, pasts, and other worlds. A study of worldbuilding and narrative methods and their possible application to architectural and urban design has remained largely unaddressed. This thesis proposes methods for design and tests these methods through a case study. The case study is the city of Boston in the year 2100 being changed by many factors not least of which are the effects of sea level rise. A story has been authored, the world surrounding that story has been structured, and designs within that world have been represented. This thesis seeks to combine methods from storytelling, world-building, and scenario planning in order to allow imaginative explorations of, and design for speculative environments, in response to, and preparation for, challenging situations. And, in the end it seeks to provide tools to tell better stories and see better worlds.
by Zachary Angles.
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Fuentes, Martinez Ana. "Teachers’ tactics when programming and mathematics converge." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för medier och design, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-16379.
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Teachers’ everyday practices are embedded in school contexts in which their teaching autonomy is constrained by rules, moral obligations, physical settings,and official directives. When a curricular revision mandated that programming was to be a part of mathematics in upper secondary education, teachers’ conditions changed. How teachers adapted to the new curriculum and how they navigated the tensions and contradictions that they encountered is in this thesis analyzed in terms of teachers’ tactics and policy strategies. The overall goal of the investigation is to contribute to a critical understanding of how mathematics teachers integrate programming in their professional practice and how this integration aligns and diverges from the intentions behind the reform. The empirical material is drawn from nine individual interviews with mathematics teachers that were already proficient in programming. The teachers’ unit plans and other lesson materials featuring programming activities served as a trigger point to delve into further reflections upon their own professional practices. To complete the scene, the policy documents were also examined. These included the mathematics curriculum, as well as related official documents and a collection of institutionally sanctioned programming exercises and demonstrations. Two tactical approaches were made apparent when mathematics teachers began to integrate computer programming in their subject: Dual teaching and Interspersed programming. The teacher’s use of dual teaching practices or interspersed programming are tactics shaped by and in response to the conditions of the new curriculum and their own preferences and views on student learning. These two tactics disclose different ontological commitments in relation to the strategies dictated by the curriculum and reflect a cardinal distinction between planning mathematics activities with elements of programming and planning programming activities with elements of mathematics. Of relevance for teachers and curriculum designers is the understanding of (a) how the notion of programming and mathematics as separate subjects oversimplifies teachers’ actual integration practices, and (b) how the curricular choices made by policy can shape the teaching tactics adopted by educators.
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Stoughton, John Philip. "INFILLtrate: Reconstructive Tactics for Over-the-Rhine." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242929312.
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Sharkey, William Francis. "Intentional embarrassment : goals, tactics, responses and consequences /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487681788251909.
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Höjesjö, Johan. "Behavioural tactics and domestication effects in salmonids /." Göteborg : Département de zoologie, Université de Göteborg, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399304702.
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Driggers, Jacquelyn LeAnne. "Resiliency factors associated with adaptive conflict tactics." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/924.
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0716104-224347 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
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Thomas, Brendan Nigel. "An analysis of tactical thinking in tennis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6549.
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Thesis (PhD (Sport Sc) (Sport Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge of tennis tactics of a group of South African tennis coaches. A secondary purpose was to gather their perceptions about where they believe they learned about tactics. A mixed methodology approach was used. The first was a quantitative knowledge test administered to 37 coaches. The second was a qualitative semi-structured interview with five coaches. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference in the choices of tactical options in 43 game scenarios between the less experienced and the more experienced coaches. No differences were found between coaches who were coaching at the top level compared to the lower levels. No differences were found between coaches who had been top tennis players and those who had not. The majority of the coaches in this study reported that they had learned tactics through trial and error. Problems facing the development of top level tennis coaches in South Africa are discussed in relation to their knowledge of tactics and the priorities for the development of mass participation supported by national sport policy.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die hoofdoel van hierdie studie was om ʼn groep Suid-Afrikaanse tennisafrigters se kennis van tennistaktiek te ondersoek. ʼn Sekondêre doel was om uit te vind waar die afrigters glo hulle sodanige kennis opgedoen het. Die navorsingsbenadering het uit gemengde metodologieë bestaan. Die eerste was ʼn kwantitatiewe kennistoets wat onder 37 afrigters afgeneem is. Die tweede was ʼn kwalitatiewe semigestruktureerde onderhoud met vyf afrigters. Die resultate van die studie dui daarop dat die minder ervare en meer ervare afrigters geen beduidende verskil getoon het in hul taktiese keuses in 43 wedstrydscenario’s nie. Geen verskil is opgemerk tussen afrigters op die topvlak en dié op laer vlakke nie. Boonop was daar geen verskil tussen afrigters wat eens topspelers was en diegene wat nié was nie. Volgens die meeste van die afrigters in die studie het hulle hul kennis van tennistaktiek deur die metode van leer en probeer opgedoen. Die studie bespreek die uitdagings in die ontwikkeling van topvlaktennisafrigters in Suid-Afrika wat betref hul kennis van taktiek en die prioriteite vir die bevordering van massadeelname ingevolge nasionale sportbeleid.
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Lee, Myung-Ah. "Generalization of supporting movement in tag rugby from practice to games in 7th and 8th grade physical education." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1086195558.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 168 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Phillip Ward, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-137).
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Stroud, John M. "Plan for improving the quality of a naval combat system test and integration process." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01122010-020109/.
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Cares, Jeffrey R. "The fundamentals of salvo warfare." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA227003.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1990.Thesis Advisor(s): Hughes, Wayne P. Second Reader: Parry, Samuel H. "March 1990." Description based on signature page on August 25, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Salvos, tactical analysis, warfare, quantitative analysis, models, computers, theses, naval operations, vehicles, military tactics, surface to surface missiles, naval equipment, entropy, simulation, data bases, guided missiles. Author(s) subject terms: Naval combat theory, Naval tactics, Naval combat modeling. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62). Also available online.
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Engen, Mark C. "Adapting the vehicle mounted tactical loudspeaker system to today's operational environment." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2501.
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From the time they were first used by the United States Army during World War II, loudspeakers have proven to be an effective means for tactical psychological operations (PSYOP) teams to disseminate messages to their intended target audiences. The vehicle mounted family of loudspeakers (FOL) is the loudspeaker system currently being utilized by tactical psychological operations forces as the primary mobile means of disseminating messages or sound effects to their target audiences. In its current configuration, the vehicle mounted loudspeaker system is not meeting the needs of the tactical PSYOP teams (TPTs) conducting operations in today[alpha]s operational environment. The objective of our project is to determine why the current loudspeaker system is not meeting the requirements of the TPTs, and provide recommended changes to the current FOL system.
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Parker, Joel R. "Methodology and analysis of ground maneuver synchronization at the National Training Center." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA238161.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1990.Thesis Advisor(s): Read, Robert R. ; Dryer, David A. Second Reader: Johnsen, Laura D. "September 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on December 17, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Ground Level, Warfare, Infantry, Attack, Shortages, Synchronization(Electronics), Arms Control, Maneuvers, Deserts, Measurement, Missions. DTIC Identifier(s): Land Warfare, Combat effectiveness, Attack, Military Tactics, Army Operations, Military Doctrine, Synchronism, Command and Control Systems, Joint Military Activities, Desert Warfare, Measures of Effectiveness, Army Training, Military Exercises, Task Forces. Author(s) subject terms: Mass, Velocity, Momentum, Mission Critical Point, Strong Point, Defensive Belt, Synchronization, Command and Control. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85). Also available in print.
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Saraoglu, Emre. "Target states' engagement with and tactics against international alliances : North Korea's tactics vis-a-vis the U.S.-South Korea alliance." Kyoto University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/144069.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(人間・環境学)
甲第12413号
人博第331号
新制||人||81(附属図書館)
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京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生文明学専攻
(主査)教授 西井 正弘, 教授 中西 輝政, 教授 足立 幸男
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Bakos, George K. "Submarine approach and attack tactics : simulation and analysis /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA297450.
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Rueger, Markus. "Alternative reproductive tactics in the ant genus Hypoponera." Diss., lmu, 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-84165.
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Campbell, Lee. "Tactics of interruption : provoking participation in performance art." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/21786.
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This thesis addresses a research study predicated on practice in order to explore aspects of participation in Performance Art. The study makes a contribution to knowledge in participative performance practice and the positive deployment of using interruptive processes; this is in order to provoke participation within the context of Performance Art as well as gain a better understanding of the operations of power relations at play. Within the discourse of impoliteness study (Bousfield, 2008; Culpeper, 2011 et al.), there is a term that deserves much greater attention: interruption . Examining interruption and exploiting its virtues using practice brings out some productive insights that go beyond abstract theorisation. Working in response to Nicolas Bourriaud s conception (1998) of participation in Relational Aesthetics as a means of attacking power relations, I use my practice as an artist/performance provocateur and amplify consideration of my previous usage of interruption in order to provoke participation and then interrogation of power relations. Slapstick and heckling as extreme versions of interruptive processes that are physical in nature are put forward as tactics of interruption that extend comedy tactics within my practice. Circumventing commentary of interruption that often posits the term and its affiliation with impoliteness and capacity to be disruptive as negative (Bilmes, 1997), interruption is used for the purposes of my study as the key strategy that underpins the performance Lost for Words (2011) and the collaborative project Contract with a Heckler (2013), and are presented as prime examples of the operations of interruption in practice. Lost for Words supports the difficulties of participation when interruptive processes connected to physical and bodily slapstick are structurally engineered into a live performance and Contract with a Heckler supports power relations when live performance is predicated upon physical and linguistic interruptive processes relating to heckling. Both Lost for Words and Contract with a Heckler demonstrate a complex knitting of theory and practice whereby argument is supported by the undertaking of action (by the necessity of experiencing interruption in practice). The written dimension of the thesis operates in conjunction with the accompanying photographs and video recordings included here as documentation serving to deconstruct the examples of practice presented. Writing adds detail in the form of critical analysis, reflective commentary and personal experience to the supplied documentation and is used as a tool to communicate that working with interruption on a theoretical, practical and emotional level can be exciting, provocative and dangerous.
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Altenburger, Susan. "Successful political and military tactics of terrorist organizations." Click here for download, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1276419921&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Rüger, Markus H. "Alternative reproductive tactics in the ant genus Hypoponera." kostenfrei, 2007. http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8416/.
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Thorpe, Ann. "Design and Political Resistance : Tactics, Power, and Transformation." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524786.
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Watling, Dawn Marie. "Assertive and defensive self-presentational tactics in children." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399821.
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Kings, Michael. "Foraging tactics and social networks in wild jackdaws." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34567.
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Individual variation in asocial and social behavioural traits can affect patterns of social association. Resultant individual-level variation in sociality can be quantified using social network analysis. Social network analysis has recently been applied to the study of the evolution and development of social behaviour. Though captive systems have provided useful contributions to this endeavour, investigating the factors shaping social structure in wild populations affords superior ecological relevance. The characterisation of the social structure of wild animals has been greatly aided by improvements in automated data collection methods, particularly the miniaturisation of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for the purposes of studying the social foraging behaviour of wild birds. In this thesis, I use RFID methods to examine the factors influencing between-individual variation in foraging routines (Chapter Two) and social network position (Chapter Three) in wild populations of a colonial corvid species, the jackdaw (Corvus monedula). I then relate social network position to reproductive success (Chapter Three) and investigate the developmental plasticity of jackdaw social behaviour by determining the effect of early life conditions on social network position (Chapter Four). Finally, I describe the fine-scale temporal dynamics of social foraging, the nature of accompaniment during paired foraging and the foraging benefits of social support (Chapter Five).
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Matias, J. Nathan (Jorge Nathan). "Networked tactics for gender representation in the news." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82429.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2013.Page 108 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis presents research on gender disparities in online news, followed with three open source designs that attempt to address those disparities. Open Gender Tracker is a platform that applies automated gender analysis to electronic content sources. FollowBias is a behavioral experiment on the effectiveness of personal trackers to manage the biases of journalists and curators. Passing On uses data and stories to attract and coordinate participants to expand the visibility of women in Wikipedia. These three designs are offered as inspirations for a paradigm of technologies to measure and change women's representation in the news.
by J. Nathan Matias.
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Rahaim, Margaret. "Material-digital resistance : toward a tactics of visibility." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2015. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1685/.
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This research considers the ways in which digital, networked technologies influence contemporary everyday life and creative practice. Through studio practice and writing, I ask how a contemporary condition of everyday life, characterised by the suppression of distance in speed of communication and the ubiquitous presence of surveillant apparatuses, affects the way we understand and use the image. I also consider the role of the digital image in both destabilizing and reinforcing human agency. In the past, tactical creativity was protected by a level of invisibility from the vision of authority, as described by Michel de Certeau. With the the spread of networked technologies, that invisibility is no longer possible. I take Vilem Flusser’s methodology of ‘playing against the camera’—a recipe for overcoming of the functionalist relationship between human and image technology—as a possible model for establishing my own and identifying other artists’ practices as tactics of visibility. I seek to develop a material consciousness of the digital image based on ontologies that assert the materiality of its processes and effects. In studio work, I blend manual and digital techniques for image-making in order to expose the structure of the digital image. I attempt the work of the apparatus outside the apparatus, by performing digital processes by hand, creating a model of difference and refining a physical sense of the disparity between human and computer scales through the reassertion of the body in a process of making. Using Kendall Walton’s notio of photographic transparency, I make an argument for the affective potency of the ‘poor image’, evidenced in artwork and mass media, as inseparable from its materiality. I fictionalize aspects of this transparency, depicting an impossible reality and allowing me to model present anxieties stemming from the rise of digital image production. I find that transparency and the instantaneity of the digital network are responsible in part for the obfuscation of digital materiality, as well as a confused sense of spatial relationships and personal interconnection. Image quality is politicized by connotations of credibility or agenda as it bends to the need for ever-faster communications. Though certain characteristics of the digital image encourage or sustain an ignorance with regard to its materiality, these characteristics can also be exploited to foreground materiality in art practice that aligns itself with the spirit and purpose, if not the invisibility, of de Certeau’s tactics, and the critical methods of resistance to a programme of technology suggested by Flusser.
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Hollindale, Janice. "Auditor orientation, strategies and tactics in audit negotiations /." Gold Coast, Australia : Bond University, 2008. http://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/hollindale.
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Rüger, Markus H. Foitzik Susanne Heinze Jürgen Fröba Janine. "Alternative reproductive tactics in the ant genus Hypoponera." Connect to this title online (Universität München site) Connect to this title online (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek site), 2008. http://d-nb.info/988903725/34.
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