Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Trans Mann'

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000.
Vita. Two folded maps in pocket. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-213). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

La tesis es un estudio analítico de la obra literaria y teórica de la escritora afrocaribeña afincada en Canadá Marlene Nourbese Philip según teorías postcoloniales y posmodernas.
Tras algunas consideraciones sobre la estructuración y enfoque del estudio, y una primera aproximación al contexto actual de la literatura y la comunidad canadiense afrocaribeña, el texto elabora una sucinta arqueología de la posmodernidad y establece unos principios para una "literatura posmoderna" que se aplicarán al corpus literario analizado. El análisis posterior pone de manifiesto la pertinencia de combinar etiquetas relacionadas con lo posmoderno con una literatura aparentemente minoritaria como es la de Philip, una literatura, por lo demás, marcada por el deseo de combatir el endémico racismo de que adolece la sociedad canadiense, y consagrada a hallar caminos de representación de la subjetividad de todo un colectivo: el de las mujeres afrospóricas de origen caribeño que viven en Canadá.

This thesis, starting from the now-defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), analyses the main economic and political developments in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on a selection of the main actors in the Asia-Pacific: China, the US, Japan, Australia and ASEAN. The US, once the main proponent of the TPP as a way to counterbalance China and then the one that effectively killed it, is dealing with the Trump presidency and seems to lack an overall strategy. China, living through an economic miracle after the lost decades in the nineteenth and twentieth century, wants to achieve its full potential and assert its power in the region. Japan is caught in the middle: suffering from economic stagnation and torn between nationalistic ambitions and American military dependency. Australia finds itself economically linked to China but diplomatically is a long-term US ally. ASEAN, on the other hand, is testing the limits of cooperation and respect of sovereignty. The interplay between all these factors and actors will determine who will be “writing the rules” in a region that shows a lot of economic and political dynamism.

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229).
The presence of strong interactions in quantum many-body systems makes the analytical treatment of such systems very difficult. In this thesis we explore two possible proposals for simulating strongly correlated, quantum many-body systems: quantum simulations using trapped-ion quantum computers, and optical lattice simulators. In the first part of the thesis we describe the recent advances in Quantum Information Processing. In particular, we focus on the trapped-ion quantum computer. One of the main experimental roadblocks for this architecture is the "anomalous heating". This refers to the motional heating of the ion after being cooled to its ground state. In this thesis we present the first ab-initio and microscopic model for this noise. This model attributes the noise to fluctuating dipoles formed by adsorbates bound on the trap surface. The second part of the thesis studies three different lattice boson systems. First, we study the Bose-Hubbard model for hard-core bosons, interacting via dipole-dipole interactions. The resulting extended Bose-Hubbard model can be experimentally realized by polar molecules, Rydberg atoms, or magnetic dipoles in optical lattices. We use quantum Monte Carlo simulations, using the two-worm algorithm to study the ground-state phase diagram of dipolar, hard-core bosons, trapped in a bilayer geometry. Each layer is a quasi two-dimensional lattice, the dipole are aligned perpendicular to the layer, and inter-layer hopping is suppressed. We present zero- and finite-temperature results. Next we use a novel multiworm algorithm, along with bosonization, to study the ground-state phase diagram of bosons trapped in a stack of one-dimensional tubes. We study two different inter-particle interactions. First, we consider nearest-neighbor attractive interactions between the layers, and set the intra-layer interactions to zero. Next we study dipolar bosons with their dipole moments aligned perpendicular to the tube axis. Inter-layer tunneling is suppressed in both cases. Finally, we explore the possibility of using few-body phenomena to create exotic quantum many-body systems. We present a novel scheme to realize a tunable, onsite, three-body interaction. We study the resulting extended Bose-Hubbard model with a three-body on-site term using the Gutzwiller mean-field method, as well as quantum Monte Carlo simulations using the Worm algorithm.
by Arghavan Safavi-Naini.
Ph. D.

Ce travail se pose pour objectif de démontrer la coïncidence de deux phénomènes, l'écriture subjective et le found footage film, tout en articulant des approches différentes autour des problèmes de l'autoportrait et de l'écriture subjective au cinéma, de la représentation de l'identité de genre, de l'histoire et de la critique du film d'avant-garde. Le rapprochement des notions de réécriture filmique (Marie-Claire Ropars) et d'entre-images (Raymond Bellour) conduit d'abord à la problématisation d'une question centrale concernant la pratique de l'autoportrait : le rapport de ressemblance entre le référent et l'objet de la représentation. L'analyse de films de remploi, réalisés dans le cadre de la production cinématographique féminine à partir des années quatre-vingt, articule ultérieurement la réflexion au vu des débats occasionnés autour de la valeur du remploi artistique du film d'archive – entendu en tant qu'outil de ré-évaluation générale du cinéma comme dispositif (Christa Blümlinger) – aussi bien que de la répétition (Judith Butler) entendue en tant que stratégie pour dévoiler et mettre en discussion les mécaniques sous-jacents à la représentation de l'identité de genre. En valorisant la nature physique et matérielle des travaux analysées et en prenant en considération le contexte bio-politique de la réflexion post et trans-féministe, cette thèse vise enfin à définir le corps comme support et modèle d'une « micro-politique du soi » dont la réécriture se ferait instrument spécifique dans la détermination d'une subjectivité à la fois intermédiaire et inter-médiale, associée par un lien charnel aux technologies mais, dans le même temps, libre de la « chair » de l'image
This work aims to study the coincidence between two phenomenons, subjective writing and found footage film, articulating different approaches around themes as filmic self-portrait and subjective writing, gender identity representation, the history and the critique of avant-garde film. Through the link between the notions of réécriture filmique (Marie-Claire Ropars) and entre-images (Raymond Bellour), this thesis problematise one of the main topic of self-portraiture practice: the resemblance bond between the referent and the object of representation. The analysis of “second hand” films – realized in the frame of woman's avant-garde cinema since the eighties – allowed me to articulate this theoretical reflexion in the light of recent debates around found footage film. Following the researches of Christa Blümlinger, I focused notably on the practice of reusing archive films as a form of analysis, critic, and reevaluation of cinema as a dispositif. Secondly, according to Judith Butler, I interpreted repetition as a strategy to discuss and dismantling the underlying mechanisms of gender identity representations. Finally, putting a specific emphasis on the physical and material nature of the work analysed, I highlighted a precise relationship between the material body of the filmic archive and the natural body of the artists. In this sense, the bio-political context of post and trans-feminist self-representation practices permitted me to conceive the natural body as both a surface and a medium of rewriting, shaping and determining an intermediate subjectivity which is linked “fleshly” to technologies as well as it is “freed” from the flesh of the image

The current approach to managing the distal pancreas after pancreaticoduodenectomy is to anastomose the stump to either the jejunum or the stomach. However, occlusion of the main pancreatic duct (usually sutured, ligated or glued), remains an option in certain circumstances, even if it does involve a greater risk of pancreatic fistula. Recent studies suggest that distal pancreatic transection by radiofrequency-assisted transection (RFAT) devices can seal the main pancreatic duct easily and safely. The goal of this thesis was to elucidate whether the RFAT of the main pancreatic duct may avoid the risk of both necrotizing pancreatitis and postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) formation. Using murine and porcine experimental models, we performed a transection of the neck of the pancreas by RFAT without pancreatic anastomosis in both species. Thirty-two rats were subjected to the procedure and were killed at 3, 7, 15 and 21 days. Two additional control groups; sham operation (n=3) and user manipulation only (n=4) of 15 days of postoperative period (PO) were considered. On the porcine model, thirteen animals were subjected to the same procedure and killed at 1 and 6 months, and 11 pancreatic specimens were used such as histological controls. Histologically, both models showed a rapid atrophy of the distal pancreas by apoptosis with no signs of necrotizing pancreatitis. The atrophic pattern of the distal pancreas was characterized by acinar-ductal metaplasia which was replaced by fibrotic and adipose tissue at long PO period (6 month in the porcine model). The insulin area increased over the PO in both proximal and distal pancreas, though we identified a significant increase of clusters of ß-cells in the distal pancreas in both species after the transection. The proximal pancreas was totally preserved at all time of the PO. As a general finding, we observed biochemically a significant increase in serum amylase levels on the immediate PO which return to baseline levels in the following weeks. Two biochemical grade A POPF and a pseudocyst were diagnosed in the porcine model, while any POPF was observed in the murine model. Overall, our results show that the RFAT of the neck of the pancreas achieved and efficient sealing of the stump of the pancreas and led to the complete exocrine atrophy of the distal remnant pancreas without leading necrotizing pancreatitis. This technic could be considered as an alternative in difficult circumstances where anastomosis of the distal pancreatic stump is believed to be unwise.
Hoy en día la duodenopancreatectomía es el procedimiento estándar para el tratamiento del adenocarcinoma ductal y consiste en la anastomosis del remanente pancreático al estómago o yeyuno tras una transección corporocaudal. Sin embargo, la oclusión del ducto pancreático principal (mediante sutura, ligadura o pegamento) sigue siendo una buena opción en algunas circunstancias en las que el riesgo de fístula pancreática es elevado. Estudios recientes sugieren que la transección asistida por radiofrecuencia (RFAT) del páncreas distal es una técnica fácil y segura. El objetivo de ésta tesis es evaluar si la RFAT del ducto pancreático principal reduce el riesgo de pancreatitis necrótico hemorrágica y de fístula pancreática (POPF). Para ello, se utilizaron dos modelos experimentales, murino y porcino, a los cuales se les realizó una RFAT del cuello del páncreas sin anastomosar el remanente pancreático. Treinta y dos ratas fueron sujetas al procedimiento con supervivencia de 3, 7, 15 y 21 días de postoperatorio (PO). Además, se consideraron otros dos grupos controles de 15 días de PO sujetos a toda operación excepto la transección pancreática (sham, n=3) y otros animales sometidos únicamente a manipulación preoperatoria (control, n=4). En modelo porcino, 13 animales fueron sometidos al mismo procedimiento pero con periodos de supervivencia de 1 y 6 meses (n= 8 y n= 5, respectivamente), y 11 especímenes pancreáticos se utilizaron como controles histológicos. Histológicamente, ambos modelos mostraron la rápida atrofia del páncreas distal sin signos de pancreatitis necrótico hemorrágica y total preservación del páncreas proximal. El patrón de atrofia se caracterizó por una respuesta apoptótica que parece estimular un proceso de metaplasia acino-ductal que con el PO tardío (6 meses en modelo porcino) desencadena el reemplazo de los pseudoductos por tejido fibrótico y posterior metaplasia grasa. Con el PO se observó un aumento del área de insulina en el páncreas distal y proximal, aunque se identificó un aumento de agrupaciones de células β en el páncreas distal de ambas especies tras la transección. Bioquímicamente, se identificó un aumento significativo de amilasa en suero durante el PO inmediato que se estabilizó a valores basales a la semana. Se diagnosticaron 2 POPF grado A (bioquímicas) en modelo porcino y ninguna en modelo murino. En conclusión, nuestros resultados sugieren que la RFAT del cuello del páncreas consigue un sellado eficiente del remanente pancreático y desencadena una atrofia exocrina total del páncreas distal sin signos de pancreatitis necrótico hemorrágica. Ésta técnica puede ser de especial interés en casos en que la anastomosis no esté recomendada

This thesis addresses the Design centrum HANÁK NÁBYTEK a.s., Popůvky u Kojetína - This is a new object had the basement and a second floor. The thesis includes - Technical report on the construction technology of the project , which are described in each chapter building equipment, coordination of building relationships with the wider transport routes , the study of the main technological stages, the design of the main building machines and mechanisms. There is a solution on time and financial plan object , the schedule object SO03 - Rapid technological and construction timetable and plan for securing material resources SO03 object . This thesis addresses the technological specification for excavation work with the control and test plan then is solved problems of chemical anchoring pillars object SO203 , which are included tensile tests on chemical anchors.

This thesis solves the construction technology project extension at Three Steeples in Střítež, building apartments. Work includes the complete study of the implementation, including timing and the financial plan, assessment of the wider relations of transport routes, the project site equipment, design of the main building machines and mechanisms, technological specifications for masonry, inspection and test quality plan for walling, technological prescription for clay plasters and itemized budget rough construction of the main building.

The masters thesis prepares the project of a prefabricated hall in the premises of Bosch Diesel s. r.o. The work completely elaborates the technical report, the coordination situation with the relations to the wider transport routes, the study of the main technological stages, the project of the building site, the design of the machines, the schedule of the main building, the material and human resources, the technological regulations, the control and test plan, safety and health protection during work, noise study, budget and building details.

Master thesis solves construction and technological project which deals with data processing, documentation and technological processes of building reconstruction and extension realization in Muzeum of Česká Třebová. The work contains technological building study, assessment of relationships to the wider transportation routes, time and financial plan, building-site organization project, design of the main building machines and mechanisms, technological prescriptions for excavation work and micropile injection, occupational safety and health protection management, project calculation budget.

Architectural and technological project of building the housing Terraces Havlickova contains technical report on construction technology project,coordination situation, building relationships with the wider transport routes, time and financial plan of the building object, study the implementation of major technological stages of a residential building,Project construction site, design of the main building machines,schedule of the main building construction object SO-01,plan for securing material resources for the construction of residential house,technological regulation for the implementation of excavations and roofs,inspection and test plan for the implementation of the excavations and roofs. The other award was prepared itemized budget apartment house SO-01, calculation of construction according to THU, health and safety plan and Listing of security risks and security measures on site

British Columbia amateur natural historians were among the most vocal advocates of scientific forest conservation at the turn of the twentieth century. They were uniquely positioned to document the environmental changes that their colonial society had brought to the province and their observations enlivened them to petition government to control these changes. In response to the appeals of such individuals as James Robert Anderson (1841-1930), John Davidson (1878-1970), and Chartres Cecil Pemberton (1864-1945), government embraced the empirical theories of Prussian Forstwissenschaft. However, the forest botany that complemented these forest mensuration techniques (and necessary to implement sustained-yield forestry) did not survive the trip from Europe intact. Upon creation of the B.C. Forest Branch in 1912, staff adopted natural history techniques to make sense of, and then manage, the provincial forests under its control. The natural historians and the foresters were thus joined by the causeway of ecology as it was then emerging in North America. It was over this ecological bridge that traffic flowed back and forth between the old scientific culture of the natural historians and the new North American forestry. The Branch initially pursued a brand of egalitarian science whereby each and every employee was responsible for compiling policy-relevant sample-plot observations. A lack of trust between headquarters and those in the field changed this strategy and gave rise to a different geography of expertise, with the consequence that the original structure of scientific interaction became obstructed from historical view. By jettisoning the idea that the science that underpinned early forest management was solely an homogenous uptake of European Forstwissenschaft, we allow for different (and often competing) scientific cultures to exist at the same time and in the same place. We can also better understand the naturalists’ influence upon and their eventual marginalization by the Forest Branch and its nascent philosophy of sustained-yield. The thesis explores each of these themes by way of chapters on scientific culture in British Columbia; three quite different botanists; and research as practised by the British Columbia Forest Branch.
Science, Faculty of
Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for
Graduate

Packaging is an important element responsible for brand growth and one of the main rea-sons for producers to gain competitive advantages through technological innovation. In this re-gard, the aim of this work is to design a fully autonomous electronic system for a smart bottle packaging, being integrated in a European project named ROLL-OUT. The desired application for the smart bottle is to act as a fill-level sensor system in order to determine the liquid content level that exists inside an opaque bottle, so the consumer can exactly know the remaining quantity of the product inside. An in-house amorphous indium–gallium–zinc oxide thin-film transistor (a-IGZO TFT) model, previously developed, was used for circuit designing purposes. This model was based in an artificial neural network (ANN) equivalent circuit approach. Taking into account that only n-type oxide TFTs were used, plenty of electronic building-blocks have been designed: clock generator, non-overlapping phase generator, a capacitance-to-voltage converter and a comparator. As it was demonstrated by electrical simulations, it has been achieved good functionality for each block, having a final system with a power dissipation of 2.3 mW (VDD=10 V) not considering the clock generator. Four printed circuit boards (PCBs) have been also designed in order to help in the testing phase. Mask layouts were already designed and are currently in fabrication, foreseeing a suc-cessful circuit fabrication, and a major step towards the design and integration of complex trans-ducer systems using oxide TFTs technology.