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Journal articles on the topic "Theory and criticism not elsewhere classified"
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Greene, Robin J. "Callimachus’ Taxonomy of Men (Iamb 2.10-13)." Mnemosyne 72, no. 1 (December 6, 2018): 53–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12342445.
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AbstractThis study argues that Callimachus’ treatment of his ‘animal-voiced’ contemporaries at the conclusion of the fable inIamb2 reflects zoological and physiognomic practices so as to represent the poetic narrator as a taxonomist of men. Elsewhere the classification of men as if they were flora or fauna appears, like fable itself, in distinctly moral and ethical contexts, as, for example, in Theophrastus’Characters. Callimachus’ formulation of his narrator as a taxonomist who classifies ‘species’ of men based upon their literary ‘voices’ thus plays with modes of invective new toiamboswhile uniting moral criticism with literary polemic.
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Siegel, David M. "The Ambivalent Role of Experiential Learning in American Legal Education and the Problem of Legal Culture." German Law Journal 10, no. 6-7 (July 2009): 815–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2071832200001358.
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Recent criticism of American legal education has focused on its being theory-driven rather than practice driven, which either produces or reinforces a divide or gap between theory and practice. Yet two features of American legal education expressly draw upon experiential learning, one directly by sending students into experiential learning situations (legal clinics) and the other indirectly by bringing instructors who are engaged full-time in active practice into the classroom (i.e. adjunct faculty). If skills development is a feature of American legal education, to what degree can, or should, this be transplanted to other systems of legal education? Are American experiential techniques of legal education meaningful elsewhere?
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Morgan, Daniel. "Bazin's Modernism." Paragraph 36, no. 1 (March 2013): 10–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2013.0075.
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One of the basic assumptions about André Bazin's theory of cinema has been that his idea of realism stands in direct opposition to modernism. In this article, I further develop a revised account of Bazin's realism that I have offered elsewhere, which rethinks the basic assumptions of ontology and realism in his work. This brings Bazin into a surprising affinity with tenets of high (reflexive) modernism. From this position, a re-examination of his engagement with the films of Orson Welles not only shows Bazin to be wrestling with those issues in his criticism but also provides a way to rethink a number of positions in film theory that have historically been associated with a stringently reflexive modernism.
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Murray, Robert W. "Sound Change, Preferences, and Explanation." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 16, no. 2 (January 1, 1992): 421–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.16.2.09mur.
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Based on data from Romance historical phonology, Picard (1990) attempts to demonstrate that the preference theory for syllable structure developed in Vennemann (1988a), Murray (1988), and elsewhere is inadequate. In this response, I argue that Picard's criticisms are vitiated by a number of flaws including a) the fact that he misconstrues basic concepts of preference theory in a number of cases and accordingly develops false extensions which have little relevance to the original theory and b) that his criticism of consonantal strength does not take into consideration different theoretical frameworks. Although some substantive points remain including the status of sibilant plus plosive clusters, the internal structuring of syllables, and Proto-Romance syllabication, I argue that preference theory provides a suitable basis for the fruitful development of research along these lines.
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Mulyana, Novita, Made Budiarsa, and Made Sri Satyawati. "Politeness Strategy Used in 10th Grade Students’ Anecdote Text." RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa 5, no. 1 (April 29, 2019): 72–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.22225/jr.5.1.1079.72-78.
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This research was aimed to find out the types of politeness strategy that is used by 10th grade students to express criticism towards public issues through an anecdote text as well as the implication on the teaching and learning process of anecdote text in SMK TI Bali Global Jimbaran. There were fifteen anecdote texts analyzed in this research and they were collected through a writing test conducted in a 10th grade class in SMK TI Bali Global Jimbaran. The data were classified and analyzed based on the politeness strategy theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987) and ethnography of communication theory proposed by Hymes (1973). The result of the analysis shows that from the fifteen anecdote texts collected, there were only two types of politeness strategy found to be used in expressing criticism, they are bald on record strategy and off record strategy. There are ten anecdote texts composed by the students found using bald on record strategy, while the other five anecdotes using off record strategy in expressing criticism towards public issues. In other words, more students still used the more risky way of expressing criticisms, therefore it is important for the teacher to choose or design a better model of learning which can improve the students’ pragmatic competence.
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Turvey, Malcolm. "Introduction: A Return to Classical Film Theory?" October 148 (May 2014): 3–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_e_00180.
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When cinema studies was institutionalized in the Anglo-American academy starting in the late 1960s, film scholars for the most part turned away from preexisting traditions of film theorizing in favor of new theories then becoming fashionable in the humanities, principally semiotics and psychoanalysis. Earlier, so-called “classical” film theories—by which I mean, very broadly, film theories produced before the advent of psychoanalytic-semiotic film theorizing in the late ′60s—were either ignored or rejected as naive and outmoded. Due to the influence of the Left on the first generation of film academics, some were even dismissed as “idealist” or in other ways politically compromised. There were, of course, some exceptions. The work of pre-WWII left-wing thinkers and filmmakers such as Benjamin, Kracauer, the Russian Formalists, Bakhtin, Vertov, and Eisenstein continued to be translated and debated, and, due principally to the efforts of Dudley Andrew, André Bazin's film theory remained central to the discipline, if only, for many, as something to be overcome rather than built upon. Translations of texts by Jean Epstein appeared in October and elsewhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and Richard Abel's two-volume anthology, French Film Theory and Criticism 1907–1939 (1988), generated interest in French film theory before Bazin. But on the whole, classical film theory was rejected as a foundation for contemporary film theorizing, even by film theorists like Noël Carroll with no allegiance to semiotics and psychoanalysis.
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Berszan, Istvan. "In Eastern Europe it is unusual to write a new theory – the exceptions are indeed exceptional. Considering the alternative versions of modernities, Romanticisms or Reformations, it seems that we can at last set aside the compulsory model of the West-East transfer of knowledge, in order to reveal particular aspects of the Central-East European cultures or different ways the local contexts transform adapted key concepts and theorems. Instead of their simple assimilation into the Western canonic patterns, there are two more directions which complement this tendency: on the one hand, we can investigate the local import of historical criticism dismantling the hegemony of theory, and on the other hand we can study the local embeddedness of circulating theoretical trends from before the new historical turn. However, this is again, as usually, the application of a recent – albeit elsewhere more advanced – Western methodology, this time that of comparative literary and cultural studies. Facing this situation, I will try to dislocate the theory of the contextualist approach through questioning its conception of time as canonized in fundamental terms like histor(icit)y." Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8, no. 2 (December 19, 2022): 151–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.10.
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In Eastern Europe it is unusual to write a new theory – the exceptions are indeed exceptional. Considering the alternative versions of modernities, Romanticisms or Reformations, it seems that we can at last set aside the compulsory model of the West-East transfer of knowledge, in order to reveal particular aspects of the Central-East European cultures or different ways the local contexts transform adapted key concepts and theorems. Instead of their simple assimilation into the Western canonic patterns, there are two more directions which complement this tendency: on the one hand, we can investigate the local import of historical criticism dismantling the hegemony of theory, and on the other hand we can study the local embeddedness of circulating theoretical trends from before the new historical turn. However, this is again, as usually, the application of a recent – albeit elsewhere more advanced – Western methodology, this time that of comparative literary and cultural studies. Facing this situation, I will try to dislocate the theory of the contextualist approach through questioning its conception of time as canonized in fundamental terms like histor(icit)y.
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JONES-KATZ, GREGORY. "“THE BRIDES OF DECONSTRUCTION AND CRITICISM” AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF FEMINISM IN THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMY." Modern Intellectual History 17, no. 2 (June 28, 2018): 413–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244318000318.
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“The Brides of Deconstruction and Criticism,” an informal group of feminist literary critics active at Yale University during the 1970s, were inspired by second-wave feminist curriculum, activities, and thought, as well as by the politics of the women's and gay liberation movements, in their effort to intervene into patterns of female effacement and marginalization. By the early 1980s, while helping direct deconstructive reading away from the self-subversiveness of French and English prose and poetry, the Brides made groundbreaking contributions to—and in several cases founded—fields of scholarly inquiry. During the late 1980s, these feminist deconstructionists, having overcome resistance from within Yale's English Department and elsewhere, used their works as social and political acts to help pave the way for the successes of cultural studies in the North American academy. Far from a supplément to what Barbara Johnson boldly called the “Male School,” the Brides of Deconstruction and Criticism arguably were the Yale school. Examining the distinct but interrelated projects of Yale's feminist deconstructive moment and how local and contingent events as well as the national climate, rather than the importation of so-called French theory, informed this moment gives us a clearer rendering of the story of deconstruction.
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Bula, Andrew. "Literary Musings and Critical Mediations: Interview with Rev. Fr Professor Amechi N. Akwanya." Journal of Practical Studies in Education 2, no. 5 (August 6, 2021): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jpse.v2i5.30.
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Reverend Father Professor Amechi Nicholas Akwanya is one of the towering scholars of literature in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world. For decades, and still counting, Fr. Prof. Akwanya has worked arduously, professing literature by way of teaching, researching, and writing in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. To his credit, therefore, this genius of a literature scholar has singularly authored over 70 articles, six critically engaging books, a novel, and three volumes of poetry. His PhD thesis, Structuring and Meaning in the Nigerian Novel, which he completed in 1989, is a staggering 734-page document. Professor Akwanya has also taught many literature courses, namely: European Continental Literature, Studies in Drama, Modern Literary Theory, African Poetry, History of Theatre: Aeschylus to Shakespeare, European Theatre since Ibsen, English Literature Survey: the Beginnings, Semantics, History of the English Language, History of Criticism, Modern Discourse Analysis, Greek and Roman Literatures, Linguistics and the Teaching of Literature, Major Strands in Literary Criticism, Issues in Comparative Literature, Discourse Theory, English Poetry, English Drama, Modern British Literature, Comparative Studies in Poetry, Comparative Studies in Drama, Studies in African Drama, and Philosophy of Literature. A Fellow of Nigerian Academy of Letters, Akwanya’s open access works have been read over 109,478 times around the world. In this wide-ranging interview, he speaks to Andrew Bula, a young lecturer from Baze University, Abuja, shedding light on a variety of issues around which his life revolves.
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Wagner, Christian, and Tobias Nicklas. "THESEN ZUR TEXTLICHEN VIELFALT IM TOBITBUCH." Journal for the Study of Judaism 34, no. 2 (2003): 141–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006303766489979.
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AbstractThe article deals with some problems concerning the textual transmission of the book of Tobit. A few of its Greek manuscripts cannot surely be classified in the categories of GI, GII and GIII. The newly edited Qumran fragments should not be interpreted as witnesses of a single Urtext but point to a variety of different semitic Tobit 'texts'. The impossibility to reconstruct an Urtext of Tobit also raises methodological questions about the relations of textual, form, source, and redactional criticism. The authors plead for a synoptic approach which does justice to the value of this textual diversity.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Theory and criticism not elsewhere classified"
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Gaffney, Kiley. "Cosmopolitan tendencies in recent intersubjective art." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89196/1/Kiley%20Gaffney%20PhD%20Thesis%20for%20QUT.pdf.
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This thesis uses cultural studies approaches to ask in what ways can intersubjective art act on the disparities brought about by late capitalism through the auspices of cosmopolitanism? How do the same processes that oppress others allow the artist to be mobile and self-reflexive while accruing and deploying a broad range of knowledges and competencies? The answer is paradoxical: those oppressed by the processes of late capitalism become the focus, theme, and content of the intersubjective artwork while the artists benefit from a system they seek to problematise and critique. Three case study chapters highlight these complex and disconcerting politics.
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Zhu, Huaiyu. "Neural networks and adaptive computers : theory and methods of stochastic adaptive computation." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1993. http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/365/.
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This thesis studies the theory of stochastic adaptive computation based on neural networks. A mathematical theory of computation is developed in the framework of information geometry, which generalises Turing machine (TM) computation in three aspects - It can be continuous, stochastic and adaptive - and retains the TM computation as a subclass called "data processing". The concepts of Boltzmann distribution, Gibbs sampler and simulated annealing are formally defined and their interrelationships are studied. The concept of "trainable information processor" (TIP) - parameterised stochastic mapping with a rule to change the parameters - is introduced as an abstraction of neural network models. A mathematical theory of the class of homogeneous semilinear neural networks is developed, which includes most of the commonly studied NN models such as back propagation NN, Boltzmann machine and Hopfield net, and a general scheme is developed to classify the structures, dynamics and learning rules. All the previously known general learning rules are based on gradient following (GF), which are susceptible to local optima in weight space. Contrary to the widely held belief that this is rarely a problem in practice, numerical experiments show that for most non-trivial learning tasks GF learning never converges to a global optimum. To overcome the local optima, simulated annealing is introduced into the learning rule, so that the network retains adequate amount of "global search" in the learning process. Extensive numerical experiments confirm that the network always converges to a global optimum in the weight space. The resulting learning rule is also easier to be implemented and more biologically plausible than back propagation and Boltzmann machine learning rules: Only a scalar needs to be back-propagated for the whole network. Various connectionist models have been proposed in the literature for solving various instances of problems, without a general method by which their merits can be combined. Instead of proposing yet another model, we try to build a modular structure in which each module is basically a TIP. As an extension of simulated annealing to temporal problems, we generalise the theory of dynamic programming and Markov decision process to allow adaptive learning, resulting in a computational system called a "basic adaptive computer", which has the advantage over earlier reinforcement learning systems, such as Sutton's "Dyna", in that it can adapt in a combinatorial environment and still converge to a global optimum. The theories are developed with a universal normalisation scheme for all the learning parameters so that the learning system can be built without prior knowledge of the problems it is to solve.
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Laverick, Craig. "Enforcing the ISM Code, and improving maritime safety, with an improved Corporate Manslaughter Act : a safety culture theory perspective." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2018. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/23768/.
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The International Safety Management (ISM) Code was introduced in 1998 in response to a number of high-profile maritime disasters, with the aim of establishing minimum standards for the safe operation of ships and creating an enhanced safety culture. It was the first piece of legislation introduced by the International Maritime Organisation that demanded a change in the behaviour and attitude of the international maritime community. Whilst there is no doubt that the ISM Code has been successful at improving maritime safety, there is now an increasing problem with complacency. The aim of this thesis is to consider how complacency with the ISM Code in the UK can be tackled by using reformed corporate manslaughter legislation. This thesis adopts a Safety Culture Theory approach and uses a multi-model research design methodology; a doctrinal model and a socio-legal model. The thesis hypothesis and the author's proposed corporate manslaughter reforms are tested through case studies and a survey. The thesis proposes the introduction of secondary individual liability for corporate manslaughter, in addition to existing primary corporate liability. If the proposed provisions were to be implemented, a gap in the law would be filled and, for the maritime industry, both the ship company and its corporate individuals would be held accountable for deaths at sea that are attributable to non-implementation of the ISM Code. It is suggested that this would deter further ISM complacency and so encourage the ISM Code’s intended safety culture. This thesis contributes to the intellectual advancement of the significant and developing interplay between criminal and maritime law, by adding to the scholarly understanding of the safety culture operating within the international maritime community, and examining how corporate manslaughter legislation could be used to improve implementation of the ISM Code. It offers sound research for consideration by legal researchers and scholars, and also by those working within the field of maritime safety regulation.
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Oliver, Christine. "Systemic reflexivity : building theory for organisational consultancy." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/567099.
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This dissertation argues for the value of the concept of systemic reflexivity in sense making, orientation and action in systemic practice, and in organisational practice in particular. The concept emerges as a theme through the development of two specific strands of published work from 1992 to 2013, that of Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory (CMM) and Appreciative Inquiry (AI). Both lines of inquiry highlight the moral dimension of practitioners’ conceptualisation and practice. Systemic reflexivity alerts us to the opportunities and constraints system participants make for the system in focus, facilitating exploration of a system’s coherence, through a detailed framework for systemic thinking which links patterns of communication to their narratives of influence and narrative consequences. It provides the conditions for enabling individual and collective responsibility for the ways that communication shapes our social worlds. The concept is illustrated in practice through a range of case studies within the published works.
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Edmonds, Andrew Nicola. "Time series prediction using supervised learning and tools from chaos theory." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/582141.
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In this work methods for performing time series prediction on complex real world time series are examined. In particular series exhibiting non-linear or chaotic behaviour are selected for analysis. A range of methodologies based on Takens' embedding theorem are considered and compared with more conventional methods. A novel combination of methods for determining the optimal embedding parameters are employed and tried out with multivariate financial time series data and with a complex series derived from an experiment in biotechnology. The results show that this combination of techniques provide accurate results while improving dramatically the time required to produce predictions and analyses, and eliminating a range of parameters that had hitherto been fixed empirically. The architecture and methodology of the prediction software developed is described along with design decisions and their justification. Sensitivity analyses are employed to justify the use of this combination of methods, and comparisons are made with more conventional predictive techniques and trivial predictors showing the superiority of the results generated by the work detailed in this thesis.
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Sacchetti, Maria José. "A minimal aesthetic : the relationships between fashion and art in New York and Paris, from 1964 to the present day." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2013. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/6528/.
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This thesis identifies and characterises a minimal aesthetic evident in a strand of fashion emerging in New York and Paris from 1964 onwards. It examines the way in which a minimal aesthetic has been applied to the practice of fashion design and retail architecture, specifically in a high-fashion context. The research establishes that the earliest manifestation of a minimal aesthetic in fashion design, took place in 1964, in the work of the French fashion designer André Courrèges. Designers who later adopted similar principles include Jil Sander (1968), Calvin Klein (1968), Zoran Ladricorbic (1976), Donna Karan (1984), Helmut Lang (1986) and Narciso Rodriguez (1997), among others. The study identifies the origins of the principles of a minimal aesthetic and examines them through two distinct case studies that consider the practice of designers Donna Karan and Helmut Lang, both of whose work emerged during the 1980s. The investigation re-evaluates the significance of Minimalism in fashion history. It challenges accepted views of Minimalism in fashion as merely a trend of the mid-1990s, or as a local phenomenon. The thesis maintains that these principles find expression in the designers’ work, in the architecture of the flagship stores and in the inter-relationship between the two. Additionally, it investigates the meanings that these products convey to the consumer. Through an evaluation of the retail architecture, it establishes parallels between the principles of this aesthetic and earlier elements of a post-war Modernist architecture. The study of the dynamic inter-relationship between elements of fashion design and those of architecture focuses on the definition of a minimal aesthetic. Furthermore, these claims are contextualized within other fields such as material culture, cultural and historical studies and sociology. The thesis employs a qualitative methodology comprising empirical research based on case studies and object-based analysis, all of which draw upon theory that addresses the means of interpretation. The study has developed through an analysis of dress and the retail architecture associated with the case study designers’ work. Through empirical research, the research shows how contemporary attitudes, practices and theories have emerged which are essential for the analysis of dress and the spaces it inhabits. The primary sources, garments from the collections of André Courrèges, Donna Karan and Helmut Lang held at key international costume archives at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are discussed in relation to other archival and published sources.
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(11178198), Harrison Wong. "K-theory of certain additive categories associated with varieties." Thesis, 2021.
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Let K0(Vark) be the Grothendieck group of varieties over a field k. We construct an exact category, denoted Add(Vark)S, such that there is a surjection K0(Vark)→K0(Add(Vark)S).If we consider only zero dimensional varieties, then this surjection is an isomorphism. Like K0(Vark), the group K0(Add(Vark)S) is also generated by isomorphism classes of varieties,and we construct motivic measures on K0(Add(Vark)S) including the Euler characteristic if k=C, and point counting measures and the zeta function if k is finite.
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(5930021), Paulami Majumdar. "Density Functional Theory Investigations of Metal/Oxide Interfaces and Transition Metal Catalysts." Thesis, 2021.
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One of the most important advances in modern theoretical surface science and catalysis research has been the advent of Ab-Initio Density Functional Theory (DFT). Based on the electronic structure formulation of Pierre Hohenberg, Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham, DFT has revolutionized theoretical research in heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, batteries, as well as homogeneous catalysis using first-principles electronic structure simulations. Combined with statistical mechanics, kinetic theory, and experimental inputs, DFT provides a powerful technique for investigating surface structure, reaction mechanisms, understanding underlying reactivity trends, and using them for rational and predictive design of materials for various catalytic chemistries, including those that can propel us towards a clean energy future – for example water gas shift (WGS), methanol synthesis, oxidation reactions, CO2 electroreduction, among many others. Fueled by advances in supercomputing facilities, numerous early and current DFT studies have been primarily focused on idealized simulations aimed at obtaining qualitative insights into experimental observations. However, as the immense potential of DFT has been unfolding, the demand for closer representation of realistic catalytic situations have rapidly emerged, and with it, the recognition of the need to reduce the disparity between theoretical DFT structures and real catalytic environments. Bridging this ‘materials gap’ necessitates using more rigorous catalyst structures in DFT calculations that can capture realistic experimental geometries, while at the same time, are creatively simplified to be computationally tractable. This thesis is a compilation of several projects on metals and metal/oxide systems that have been undertaken using DFT, in collaboration with experimental colleagues, with the goal of addressing some of the challenges in heterogeneous catalysis, while decreasing the ‘materials gap’ between theory and experiments.The first several chapters of this thesis focus on bifunctional, metal/oxide systems. These systems are quintessential in numerous heterogeneous catalysis applications and have been the subject of extensive study. More interestingly, they sometimes exhibit synergistic enhancement in rates that is greater than the sum of the individual rates on the metal (on an inert support) or on the oxide in isolation. Such bifunctionality often stems from the modified properties at the nanoscale interface between the metal and the oxide and is an active field of research. In particular, while a large body of literature exists that investigates the activity of metals, the role of the support in bifunctional systems is often uncertain and is the subject of investigation of the first few chapters of this thesis. We chose to study WGS on Au as support effects are particularly prominent on this system. The second chapter examines WGS on Au/ZnO, where realistic catalytic environment at the interface is reproduced by analyzing the thermodynamics of surface hydroxylation of the oxide under reaction conditions, and its effect on WGS kinetics is quantified through a microkinetic analysis. This study highlights the importance of considering spectator species which can drastically influence the energetics and kinetics of a reaction at a metal/oxide interface. In addition, fundamental aspects of the effect of surface hydroxyls on the electronic structure at the interface is also discussed.
The third chapter of the thesis builds on this theme and analyzes the effect of systematic perturbation of electronic structure at the interface through substitutional doping of the oxide. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on Au/MgO, a system which has been previously studied in extensive detail in our group and benchmarked through experiments. The effects of a series of dopants of varying electronic valences have been analyzed on a number of properties at the interface – vacancy formation energies, adsorption energies of intermediates, scaling properties, activation energy barriers and so on. Exciting new scaling relationships are identified at this interface, having properties different from that observed on extended surfaces, and are interpreted using an electrostatic model. In the subsequent chapter, we identified Bronsted-Evans-Polanyi relationships for the different steps in the WGS pathway for a series of dopants. Coupled with the scaling relations, these trends were then used in conjunction with a dual-site microkinetic model to perform a volcano analysis for interfacial rates. Our analysis thus builds, for the first time, a rational design paradigm for electronic structure perturbation of the support at a bifunctional interface. The next chapter further investigates support effects, both geometric and electronic, in greater detail for Au supported on a series of oxide supports and discusses accelerated identification of an activity descriptor through a close fusion between computations and experiments.
In addition to interfacial effects of the support, this thesis also briefly examines a more apparent role of the oxide, wherein it influences the geometry of the supported metal. Two different Au-based systems are investigated using surface science approaches in Chapter 6 - the segregation properties of a bimetallic Au/Ir alloy on anatase and wetting behavior of Au-FexOy heterodimers – both of which are representative of the structural evolution of a supported catalyst under reaction conditions. Through our analysis, we show that the oxide directly influences these behaviors of the supported metal.
The next few chapters explore catalysis using metallic systems, focusing on transition metals, an important class of materials in heterogeneous catalysis and constitutes the major body of DFT literature for trend based catalytic analyses. A crucial factor that contributed to the success of such high-throughput screening studies was identification of linear scaling relationships on transition metals, whereby the adsorption energy of complex molecular fragments was linearly related to that of simple atomic adsorbates. However, while these relationships are valid for low adsorbate coverages, at higher, catalytically relevant coverages, deviations from linearity are common, thus presenting a materials gap in volcano analyses. The incorporation of coverage effects, therefore, in scaling relations has been a pressing challenge. This thesis describes a simple means of systematically capturing changes in reaction energies due to coverage effects through a pairwise interaction model, where the changes in adsorption energies are shown to be a direct function of the number of neighbors and interaction parameters determined through DFT. In addition, we also draw a mathematical correspondence between scaling relations at high coverage and that at low coverage and discuss its implications on the existence of linear scaling relations.
In Chapter 8, we discuss collaborative work on Pt based catalysts, an active catalyst for many chemical and electrochemical systems. We explore trends in WGS on bimetallic Pt-M systems and identify an activity descriptor by correlating experimental rates with the binding strength of OH* on model surfaces of bimetallic alloys. In addition, we also investigate the interaction between Na promoter and Pt under reaction conditions, using an inverse oxide model, to obtain insights into the nature of promotion of alkali metals on WGS on Pt catalysts.
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(11178675), Reza Soltani. "COLLISION AVOIDANCE FOR AUTOMATED VEHICLES USING OCCUPANCY GRID MAP AND BELIEF THEORY." Thesis, 2021.
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This thesis discusses occupancy grid map, collision avoidance system and belief theory, and propose some of the latest and the most effective method such as predictive occupancy grid map, risk evaluation model and OGM role in the belief function theory with the approach of decision uncertainty according to the environment perception with the degree of belief in the driving command acceptability. Finally, how the proposed models mitigate or prevent the occurrence of the collision.
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(10676241), Stacy Lynn Walker. "Connecting Through Communication: Scripts Enacting Three Theories." 2021.
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This creative non-thesis project includes three theories from communication studies. Uncertainty Reduction Theory, Cultivation Theory, and Cognitive Dissonance Theory. Each theoretical framework also includes a script written with the intent of filming in the future. Those videos could be shown in communication classes. These three theories cover a breadth of knowledge in the field as they pertain to interpersonal communication, media studies, and persuasion.
Books on the topic "Theory and criticism not elsewhere classified"
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Orr, Leonard. Research in critical theory since 1965: A classified bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
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Crawford, Ilene Whitney. Building the road to "elsewhere": Forging the syntheses between liberatory discourses. 1995.
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Mirka, Danuta, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841578.001.0001.
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The concept of topics was introduced into the vocabulary of music scholars by Leonard Ratner to account for cross-references between eighteenth-century styles and genres. The emergence of this phenomenon followed the rapid proliferation and consolidation of stylistic and generic categories. While music theorists and critics classified styles and genres, defining their affects and proper contexts for their usage, composers crossed the boundaries between them, using stylistic conventions as means of communication with the audience. Such topical use of styles and genres out of their proper contexts and their mixtures with other styles and genres became the hallmark of South-German instrumental music, which engulfed the so-called Viennese Classicism. Since this music did not develop its own aesthetics and, in its days, received no adequate critical appraisal, topic theory developed from Ratner’s seminal insight by Wye J. Allanbrook, Kofi Agawu, Robert Hatten, Raymond Monelle, and others can be considered a theory of this music, andThe Oxford Handbook of Topic Theorygoes some way toward reconstructing its aesthetic underpinnings. The volume grounds the concept of topics in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism; documents historical reality of individual topics on the basis of eighteenth-century sources, traces the origins of topical mixtures to transformations of eighteenth-century musical life, and relates topical analysis to other kinds of music analysis conducted from the perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners. It lays the foundation under further investigation of musical topics in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
Book chapters on the topic "Theory and criticism not elsewhere classified"
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Czarnecki, Kristin. "Heritage, Legacy, and the Life-Writing of Woolf and Rhys." In Virginia Woolf and Heritage. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781942954422.003.0029.
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My paper considers how Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys conceived of their heritage in their memoirs along with the effect of their life-writing upon their literary legacies. Focusing on Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” and Rhys’s Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography, I consider the catalysts for their autobiographical impulses and how they shaped their lives on the page. What aspects of their heritage do Woolf and Rhys include, rework, veil, or perhaps suppress? Can their life-writing and concepts of heritage be classified in any particular way? Given the imbalance between the number of biographies and critical books and articles on Woolf as compared to Rhys, I then consider whether “Sketch” and Smile Please might be said to play a role in each woman’s legacy. To what degree does their life-writing determine their status within the academy? Does it influence the courses we teach and the articles we write—as well as those that get published? Does a certain kind of life-writing provide greater fodder than another for biography and literary criticism? In exploring such questions, I turn to autobiography theory: Smith, Watson, Benstock, Marcus, and Friedman, for example, along with work on Woolf, Rhys, and memoir by Dahl, Dalgarno, Johnson, Sellei, and Zwerdling. I also discuss David Plante’s most ungracious memoir of working with Rhys on her autobiography. In sum, I believe “A Sketch of the Past” and Smile Please can serve as fruitful gateways into both the heritage and legacy of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys.