Rozprawy doktorskie na temat „Running races in art”

Faults are common-place and inevitable in complex applications. Hence, automated techniques are necessary to analyze failed executions and debug the application to locate the fault. For locating faults in programs, dynamic slices have been shown to be very effective in reducing the effort of debugging. The user needs to inspect only a small subset of program statements to get to the root cause of the fault. While prior work has primarily focussed on single-threaded programs, this dissertation shows how dynamic slicing can be used for fault location in multithreaded programs. This dissertation also shows that dynamic slices can be used to track down faults due to data races in multithreaded programs by incorporating additional data dependences that arise in the presence of many threads. In order to construct the dynamic slices, dependence traces are collected and processed. However, program runs generate traces in the order of Gigabytes in a few seconds. Hence, for multithreaded program runs that are long-running, the process of collecting and storing these traces poses a significant challenge. This dissertation proposes two techniques to overcome this challenge. Experiments indicate that the techniques combined can reduce the size of the traces by 3 orders of magnitude. For applications that are critical and for which down time is highly detrimental, techniques for surviving software failures and letting the execution continue are desired. This dissertation proposes one such technique to recover applications from a class of faults that are caused by the execution environment and prevent the fault in future runs. This technique has been successfully used to avoid faults in a variety of applications caused due to thread scheduling, heap overflow, and malformed user requests. Case studies indicate that, for most environment bugs, the point in the execution where the environment modification is necessary can be clearly pin-pointed by using the proposed system and the fault can be avoided in the first attempt. The case studies also show that the patches needed to prevent the different faults are simple and the overhead induced by the system during the normal run of the application is less than 10 \%, on average.

Experienced male marathon runners, 9 black and 10 white, with marathon times of 2 hours 45 minutes or faster, acted as subjects for the study, the purpose of which was to determine whether black runners are better suited to marathon running than whites. Body composition was determined by anthropometry. Maximal oxygen uptake (VO₂ max) and other physiological variables were measured during a continuous, speed-incremented treadmill protocol using a computer-aided data acquisition system. Subjects also ran a simulated marathon at 92.5% of the running speed at which the ventilatory threshold (VT) occurred. Physiological, gait and RPE variables were measured at 10 minute intervals during the marathon. Major findings are detailed below:- The VO₂, max averaged 60.4 ∓ 6.5 and 63.2 ∓ 2.9 mI. kg⁻¹.min⁻¹ in the black and white runners respectively and was highly correlated with best marathon race time (r = 0.86 and 0.85 respectively) and VT (r = 0.84 and 0.60 respectively) (p < 0.05). No significant differences existed between the groups in submaximal oxygen uptake (VO₂,) or % VO₂ max utilised at 16 km.hr⁻¹, but the estimated % VO₂ max utilised during a marathon race was higher in the black (89.0 ∓ 5.5%) than the white runners (81. 5 ∓ 3.1%) {p .( 0.05). The % VO₂ max utilised at 16 km.hr⁻¹ (84.8 ∓ 9.1 and 78.6 ∓ 5.8% in the black and white runners respectively) was significantly correlated with the % VO₂, max utilised while racing in the white (81.5 ∓ 3.1%) (r = 0.70) (p < 0.05), but not the black runners (89.0 ∓ 5.5%). The VT occurred at 82.7 ∓ 7.7 and 75.6 :∓ 6.2% VO₂; max in the black and white groups respectively (p < 0.05). Post-marathon blood lactic acid levels were lower in the black (1.30 ∓ 0.26 mmo1.l⁻¹) than the white runners (1.59 ∓ 0.20 mmol.l⁻¹). The respiratory exchange ratio (R) was higher in the blacks than whites when running at 16 km.hr ⁻¹ (1.03 ∓ 0.07 and 0.98 ∓ 0.03 respectively) and during the marathon (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference in pulmonary minute ventilation (Vı) between the groups, but breathing frequency (f) was higher in the black (59 ∓ 12 breaths.min⁻¹) than the white runners (45 ∓ 8 breaths. min⁻¹ ) and tidal volume (V⊤) lower in the black ( 1.33 ∓ 0.16 l.breath⁻¹) than the white runners (1.75 ∓ 0.36 I.breath⁻¹) during submaximal running at 16 km. hr⁻¹ (p < 0.05). The same trend was observed during the marathon run. During the time-course of the marathon f increased and V⊤ decreased In both groups (p < 0.05). Stroke volume decreased and heart rate increased In both groups during the time-course of the marathon (p< 0.05). Cardiac output was therefore maintained. Thermal responses were similar in the two groups. A significant increase in rectal temperature coincided with a decrease in skin temperature and may have been related to an increase in f (r = 0.86 and 0.67 in the blacks and whites respectively), H/R (r = 0.70 and 0.67 respectively) and "local" (leg) RPE (r = 0.84 and 0.82 respectively). It was concluded that black runners were able to run marathon races at a higher % VO₂ more than whites due to the blacks having lower blood lactic acid levels when running at a similar % VO₂ max. Given similar maximal oxygen uptakes, this would enable blacks to run faster. Cardiopulmonary adjustments occur during the time-course of a marathon which maintains Q and Vı

The basic, universal movement of the running body has been repeated and made visible in aesthetic, scientific, and political debates. Such debates of the body may depend on live movements in real space-time, movements articulated by motion capture devices, or movements that exercise in imagination: a head of state who uses the running body to manipulate his political subject, for example, or a series of images taken from an optical motion capture system that simultaneously represents and dissects movement patterns of the body in its swiftest motions, or a sound art installation that voices the familiar dynamics of running steps and heavy breathing. In each instance, the bodily practice of running is extracted from its seemingly unmediated everyday, placed instead within aesthetic methodologies and technologies to scrutinize the movement and its complex of meanings. This action is meant to reveal that real experience-that nonfictional movement, as it were-of the body running, to see into the rhetorical, cultural productions of our public, bodily realities. I begin this inquiry by defining the term "running body" and examining the manner in which that body was scientifically observed and aesthetically codified in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Then, the running body is investigated in experimental choreography, visual arts, and political demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s. Thirdly, I will address the use of the actual running body within contemporary art exhibitions, as either an intervention or interruption to accustomed meaning-making within traditional spaces for art. At the dissertation's end will be an exploration of the running body as a critical method for reorienting the narrative of contemporary history with image technologies, art installation devices, and the moving body. This study demonstrates that if, at the very base of our existence, our bodies move the world and, in turn, the world around us moves our body, this same reciprocity can hold true in shaping historical consciousness and self-consciousness.

Thesis (MTech (Tourism and Hospitality Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007.
South Africa is a fast growing and developing sport tourism destination and has hosted various international sport tourism events. With specific reference to the 2006 Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon (OMTOM), which is considered one the most beautiful marathons in the world, this study focuses on different stakeholders' perceptions concerning the management and socio-economic impacts of sport tourism events. Questionnaire surveys for spectators (n=200), participants (n=200) and residents (n=400), as well as key informant interviews for established businesses (n=20), stallholders/exhibitors (n=20), sponsors (n=4), the event organiser (n=1) and the destination marketing organisation (n=1), were designed specifically for this study. Spatially-based random sampling for spectators and participants, was implemented, while purposive sampling for residents, stallholders/exhibitors, established businesses, sponsors, the event organiser and CTRU, were adopted to collect data. Volume counts were undertaken to estimate the number of spectators, while the number of participants was provided by the event organisers. The direct economic impact of the total of the event's contribution to the local economy was ascertained by utilising spending patterns of the spectators and participants. The contribution of the event to the local economy is estimated at R44.7 million, which is relatively significant. The event is diverse in terms of spectators and participants. The stakeholders were generally satisfied with the event organisation. Engendering community pride, utilising a sport tourism event as a regional showcase and providing economic opportunities for local businesses in terms of leveraging opportunities, were key benefits for local businesses and residents in close proximity to the race route. However, problems such as traffic congestion and insufficient parking were raised by all stakeholders and there is still room for improvement in this area as well as the management on the day of the event. The study reveals that there is a greater need to consider attendees' motivations, spending patterns, perceptions and altitudes, demographic profiles, the dire need for community involvement, as well as current and possible event leveraging opportunities for local businesses to enhance the management and positive impacts of sport tourism events. Furthermore, this study also provides holistic information to manage sport tourism events and to retain standard service quality, fulfil customer satisfaction and generate more economic, socio-cultural benefits for the tourist destination in a sustainable manner. Stakeholders can share information, which would improve relevant performance problems in the sport tourism event industry, moreover, effectively make management decisions and assess the socio-economic impacts of sport tourism events.

Since ancient times, the encounter with faraway and exotic people has captivated the curiosity of Western armchair travelers and, in the meantime, has set in motion a query about identity, questioning who is the ‘other’ and how should it be conceived, thus triggering a supremacist struggle. But, has the quest for identity an impact over the way we perceive the world? To what extent? And how does the cultural background mediate for the aesthetic interpretation of ‘other’ artistic streams? In this final MA thesis, I focused my attention on the strong relationship between identitarian policies related to racial claims, and monstrosity, showing how these two aspects came to mold and affect different mindsets when they came to interpret the world, in particular other artistic forms. Albeit it is clear that aesthetic gradients vary from one culture to another so that it resulted in diverse beauty canons, monstrosity is an evergreen aspect common to human communities all over the world, from the Greek civilization and even before, until today, because “there is a deep-seated emotional need for monsters in our world of imagination. […] To me, this expresses a universal need that transcends local considerations” (Mitter, 2012, p. 341). In this sense racial orientalist claims and the cultural-mediated conception of monstrosity came to shape the colonial English approach towards Indian art, depicting the Hindu gods as pagan monsters, whereas Gandharan Buddhist sculpture as a magnificent manufacture because of its inherited Hellenized 'influences'.

This Thesis is organized in two parts based on two different investigations about human motion: the metabolic and mechanical analysis of ‘skyscraper running’, and the estimation of the visceral mass displacement in vertical jumps. Skyscraper running is a novel sport activity, in which the athletes run on emergency stairs of the tallest building of the world, during the ‘run up’ races of the world championship circuit. In PART I of this Thesis, this topic has been analysed in terms of mechanical and metabolic requirements, both at general and individual level. Skyscraper runners’metabolic profile, has been inferred from the total mechanical power estimated in 36 world records (48-421 m tall buildings), ranked by gender and age range. Individual athlete’s performance (n=13) has been experimentally investigated during the Pirelli Vertical Sprint, with data loggers for altitude and heart rate. At a general level, a non-linear regression of Wilkie’s model relating maximal mechanical power to event duration, revealed the gender and age differences in term of maximum aerobic power and anaerobic energy resources particularly needed at the beginning of the race. The total mechanical power was found to be partitioned among: the fraction devolved to raise the body centre of mass: W˙ STA.EXT = 80.4 ± 2.9%, the need to accelerate the limbs with respect to the body: W˙ STA.INT = 4.5 ± 2.1%, and running in turns between flights of stairs: W˙ TUR =15.1 ± 2.0%. At the individual level, experiments revealed that these athletes show a metabolic profile similar to middle-distance runners. Furthermore, best skyscraper runners keep constant vertical speed and heart rate throughout the race, while others suddenly decelerate, negatively affecting the race performance. In PART II of this Thesis another interesting study has been discussed: the mechanics of visceral mass motion in vertical jumps. This internal mass motion could occur in all the locomotion paradigms, and also in all the movements characterized by a high centre of mass vertical displacement. Moreover, visceral mass shows significant couplings with the respiratory system, as has been discussed in the past in famous studies on quadruped locomotion. Here viscera motion has been analyzed in a simple and well know motor task as the vertical jump, focusing on the effect of respiratory and muscle contractions strategies to limit its displacement, and to improve trunk-pelvis segment stiffness. A validated method for the estimation of visceral mass displacement has been applied during jump sequences with two different techniques: six subjects before and after a specific training period, executed the natural jump and the “controlled” jump sessions. In that method, the simultaneous measurement of ground reaction forces and spatial coordinates allow the estimation of the relative movement between the ‘invisible’ abdomen content and the ‘container’, i.e. the rest of the body as described by the position of external markers. The results show a significantly higher (p < 0.05 – paired t-test) mean of visceral mass displacement (Total = 0.087 ± s.d. 0.021 m) of all the subjects, in normal jumps, compared to the mean of visceral mass displacement (Total = 0.070 ± s.d. 0.027 m) in controlled jumps. An analysis of variance (ANOVA 2-ways) shows a significant effect of jump technique but also of subject and jump-subject interaction, confirming an elevated variability between the subjects. A intraclass-correlation exhibit a significant pattern (ICC= 0.791; p = 0.017) and in 5 of 6 subjects, there is a higher mean nominal value of VMD in normal jumps. Also pectorals and low abdominal fat displacements has been measured, showing mean values (weighted by a scaling factor) of 4.5×10-4 m and 8.9×10-4 m in normal jumps, and 4.5×10-4 m and 9.6×10-4 m in controlled jumps respectively. A quantitative and qualitative analysis on visceral mass displacement curve has been completed for both the jumping techniques: a comparison with the ‘periodic’ curve of body centre of mass show a constant delay (‘phase shift’) with a mean value of 18.1 ± s.d. 5.73 ms during the aerial phase and 18.8 ± s.d. 9.8 ms in the landing phase. Finally a preliminary estimation of the internal mass vibration parameters has been showed: the mean values and s.d. of the stiffness in normal and controlled jumps are k1= 18.2 ± 13.5 KN/m and k2= 17.9 ± 12.1 KN/m respectively, while the damping constant mean values and s.d. are c1 300.3 ± 170.7 N/(m/s) is and c2 is 287.3 ± 129.8 N/(m/s). For the first time, a method for the estimation of visceral mass displacement, useful in biomechanics and in locomotion-respiratory coupling investigations, has been used in an applied condition. The effects of the “controlled” jumping techniques using respiration and muscles contraction strategies to limit viscera displacement has been demonstrated. The displacement of visceral mass and the body frame have been quantified and compared, and a preliminary estimation of vibration parameter of the internal system has been showed. We foresee an increasing interest in sports biomechanics to improve athletes jumping performance, as well as in the energetics and biomechanics of locomotion.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-369).
American modernism was formulated at the turn of the twentieth century, when artists and intellectuals became newly self-conscious of their aesthetic strategies in a rapidly urbanizing United States. During that same period, new immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe poured into the U.S., native-born black and white Americans undertook internal migrations to northern cities, and advances in the technology of image making - photography, film, and even improvements in the graphic reproduction of caricature in newspapers - provoked uncertainty in the art world. This dissertation explores the intersections of these two trajectories in period artworks and debates about artistic medium, examining how notions of America as a diverse nation operated at an aesthetic and a cultural level.The immigrant critics and practitioners at the center of my study - Japanese-German critic Sadakichi Hartmann, Mexican-born artist Marius De Zayas, and English-Sri Lankan curator Ananda K. Coomaraswamy - each formed conflicted partnerships with the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. These allies attacked America's homogeneous arts, positioning themselves as critical hybrid outsiders, and identifying marginal media as means by which to devise and theorize a new art in the U.S. This dissertation examines three episodes in their formulation of American modernism, arguing that each aesthetic breakthrough informed and was informed by a double debate: one occurring in the political and cultural sphere, and a parallel discourse about artistic media themselves.
(cont.) Part one traces the origins of "straight" photography in relation to the nascent philosophy of cultural pluralism (1895-1907); part two explores caricature's role as a hybrid medium for negotiating between African and modern European art (1907-1917); and part three examines how the motion picture served to engage both popular white nativism and avant-garde celebration of ethnic spiritualism (1917-1925). With independent expressive properties, each art form could restructure the artistic canon and enable the formulation of what I term a "composite" American modernism.Formalist criticism has used medium specificity to isolate the study of art from other modes of history writing, but this dissertation restores a crucial historical context for modernist media theory to reveal that the ongoing American dilemma of integrating difference lies at the heart of American modernism.
by Lauren Kroiz.
Ph.D.

The focus of my PhD is to examine the role of cultural regeneration through arts and architecture using Tate Modern as the principal case study. My analysis questions the role of culture in acting as an urban regeneration tool in north Southwark and in London more widely and how cultural output connects with those who influence the urban environment of Tate Modern. I begin by examining the ways in which the establishment of Tate Modern as an internationally acclaimed gallery of art has influenced the cultural regeneration of Bankside and London more broadly. I discuss local planning policy in which the former Power Station was situated, in order to understand the impact of the subsequent gallery of art socially and economically. I then discuss the wider ramifications of the establishment of Tate Modern by examining the recent history of developments around Tate Modern, in relation to the changing urban environment, as well as the jostling for urban ʻimaginariesʼ that potentially prioritises one direction of urban growth over another. In discussing how the regeneration affected the social conditions and concepts of community I consider how the institution adopted and implemented a strategy of inclusion towards the local community prior to its opening in 2000. Through my research I embedded myself within key grass roots organisations working directly or alongside Tate Modern (Better Bankside and Bankside Open Space Trust) and the local community in order to gain close access and observation of and into the field. Key to this project is identifying how the public interact with the gallery, and the ability of the building to act as a key urban element by knitting the hitherto underused North Southwark site into the surrounding urban fabric, whilst at the same time enabling key connections through and across the site. The focus of my research narrows from a micro to the macro-analysis in which, central to resolving the debate about the unique urban potential of the site and the building and institutionʼs ability to extend a definition of public within the urban environment, I focus on the spatial condition of the Turbine Hall. My analysis of the Turbine Hall as a public space, mediated through a major arts institution, enables me to arrive at a definition of public, which transgresses the urban and art sphere. This research is supported by an architectural theoretical analysis combined with art theory, and examines primary research material made up of photographic images posted on the social networking site Flickr as well as my own photographic images of the area.

As the traffic intensity gets lower, we find that staffing results based on the PASB are similar to staffing results based on the Erlang loss formula. These findings suggest that the PASB can be a valuable tool to aid race directors in making staffing decisions for races of all traffic intensities.; We examine the problem of staffing refreshment stations at a long distance road race. A race is modeled as a mixed queueing network in which the required number of servers at each service station has to be estimated. Two models to represent the progress of runners along a long distance road race course are developed. One model is a single-class model that allows a road race manager to staff service stations assuming the runners are identical to those in some historical dataset. Another model is a multi-class simulation model that allows a road race manager to simulate a race of any number of runners, classified based on their running pace into different runner classes. Both the single-class model and the multi-class model include estimates for the rates at which the runners arrive at specified locations along the course. The arrival rates, combined with assumed service rates, allow us to base staffing decisions on the Erlang loss formula or a lesser known staffing rule that gives a lower bound for the required number of servers. We develop a staffing strategy that we call the Peak Arrival Staffing Bound (PASB), which is based on this staffing bound. The PASB and the Erlang loss formula are implemented in the single-class model and the multi-class simulation model. By way of numerical experiments, we find that the PASB is numerically stable and can be used to get staffing results regardless of the traffic intensity. This finding is in contrast to the Erlang loss formula, which is known to become numerically unstable and overflows when the traffic intensity exceeds 171. We compare numerical results of the PASB and the Erlang loss formula with a blocking probability level of 5% and find that when the traffic intensity is high, staffing results based on the PASB are more conservative than staffing results based on the Erlang loss formula.
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Ph.D.
Doctorate
Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
Engineering and Computer Science

This thesis focuses on the ways in which identity and ritual converge within the emancipatory performances of the Trinidad Carnival and the Caribbean inspired Carnivals of Notting Hill and Cardiff. The work looks as the ways in which Carnival performances can be interpreted in order to investigate how these interpretations can be practically utilised within art-making or art presentation. The thesis develops an innovative reading of the word mas' (masquerade/mask) offering new perspectives that can serve as a nucleus for ways of engaging with and analysing Carnival. The consideration of mas' as a performance activity with traits that can be manifested within and outside of the Carnival environment is highly relevant and has been applied in my practical art experiment called 'Mama dat is Mas'. The project also aims to analyse the ways in which re-interpretations of mas' can engage with issues of social anxiety and feelings of displacement.

Orientador: Fábio Santos Lira
Resumo: O objetivo deste estudo randomizado duplo-cego controlado por placebo foi investigar o efeito agudo da suplementação análoga de capsaicina (CAP) na corrida, em teste contra-relógio de 10-km, sobre o desempenho fisiológico e variáveis perceptivas de esforço em atletas amadores. Vinte e um participantes (idade = 29,3 ± 5,4 anos; peso = 74,2 ± 11,3 kg; altura = 176 ± 0,0 cm), completaram dois testes de 10-km na condição CAP ou placebo. Foram consumidas duas cápsulas de CAP (12 mg) ou de placebo, 45 minutos antes e imediatamente no início dos testes. Entre as condições CAP e placebo, não houve diferença significativa no desempenho dos participantes em relação às variáveis fisiológicas e perceptivas avaliadas no teste de corrida de 10-km (p> 0,05). Portanto, a suplementação de CAP não melhorou o desempenho de atletas amadores na corrida em teste contra-relógio de 10-km.
Abstract: The aim of this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was to investigate the acute effect of analog capsaicin supplementation (CAP), in a 10-km timetrial running test, on the physiological performance and perceptual responses of amateur athletes. Twenty-one participants (age = 29.3 ± 5.4 years; weight = 74.2 ± 11.3 kg; height = 176 ± 0.0 cm), completed two 10-km tests in the CAP or placebo condition. Two capsules of CAP (12 mg) or placebo were consumed 45 minutes before and immediately at the beginning of the trials. Between CAP and placebo conditions, there was no significant difference in the physiological performance or perceptual responses of the participants in the 10-km running test (p> 0.05). Therefore, CAP supplementation did not improve the performance of amateur athletes in the 10-km time-trial running test.
Mestre

Book Summary: The first comprehensive collection on Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique version of noir since the late 1940s, while drawing upon and enriching global neo-noir cinemas. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary manifestations, and its connection to mainland China before and after the 1997 Handover. Case studies include classics such as The Wild, Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997), Exiled (2007) and Shinjuku Incident (2008). It provides a fresh look at the careers of iconic figures Johnnie To, Jackie Chan and Fruit Chan. By examining the films of émigré Shanghai directors, the cool women killers, the hybrids and noir cityscapes, Hong Kong Neo-Noir explores the complex connections between a vibrant cinema and global noir.

The aim of this thesis was to examine changing representations of men and masculinities in a particular historical period (“The Sixties”) and to explore the impact that this had in a period of rapid social change in the UK and the legacy of that impact. In order to do this, a multi-method study was developed, combining documentary research with a set of eleven semi-structured interviews. The documentary research took the form of a case study of The Beatles, arguing that their position as a group of men who became a global cultural phenomenon, in the period under study, made theme a suitable vehicle through which to read changing representations of masculinities in this period and to reflect on what this meant for men in UK society. The Beatles’ live action films were chosen as a sample of Beatle “texts” which allowed for the Beatles to be looked at at different points in the “The Sixties” and for possible changes over that time period to be tracked. Textual analysis within discourse analysis (based on a framework suggested by van Dijk [1993], Fairclough [1995] and McKee [2003]) was used to analyse the texts. Ideas advanced by the Popular Memory Group (1982) about the interaction of public representations of the past and private memory of that past were influential in the decision to combine this piece of documentary research with interviews with a sample of men, in an age range of 18 to 74. The interview stage was designed to elicit data on the perception of the participants of the role of representation (with particular reference to the Beatles) of masculinities on them as individuals and their ideas about how this may have had an impact in terms of longer term social change. Ehrenreich’s (1983) notion of a male revolt in the late 1950s, an emergence of a challenge to established ideas about men and masculinity, was also influential, particularly as it is an idea at odds with the “crisis in masculinity” discourse (Tolson, 1977; Kimmel, 1987; Whitehead, 2002) at work in a number of texts on men and masculinity. Examining further Inglis’ (2000b : 1) concept of The Beatles as “men of ideas” with a global reach, the chosen Beatle texts were examined for discourses of masculinity which appeared to be resistant to the dominant. What emerged were a number of findings around resistance, non-conformity, feminised appearance, pre-metrosexuality, the male star as object of desire and The Beatles as a global male phenomenon open to the radical diversity of the world in a period of rapid social change. The role of popular culture within this process was central to the thesis, given its focus on The Beatles as a case study. However, broader ideas about the role of the arts also emerged with a resultant conclusion that “the sixties” is where a recognition of the importance of representation begins as well as a period where representations of gender (as well as class and race) became more accessible due to the rise in popularity of TV in the UK and a resurgence in British cinema. The thesis offers a number of ideas for further research, building on the outcomes of this particular study. These include further work on the competing crisis/ revolt discourse at work in the field of critical men’s studies, ascertaining female perspectives on representations of masculinities and their impact, further work on the Beatles through fans and an application of some of the ideas at work in the thesis to other periods of British history.

My practice-related Fine Art thesis performs a discourse of ‘trans-running’ – running physically and poetically, as subject and medium – as a playful way to transform our world today. There are two components. In my written thesis (Part I), I propose that trans-running enables us to claim ownership of the city and resist political control in the ‘real world’, as well as dodge online surveillance in the ‘digital world’. Running physically can cause the ‘runner’s high’, which I argue may create a euphoric, poetic mode of thinking applicable for the exploration of discourses. Since ‘discourse’ means ‘running from place to place’ in Latin, and as runners were historically ambassadors, I additionally propose the ‘trans-runner’ as the new ‘running-ambassador’ capable of activating new discourses and creating new knowledge. A running-ambassador myself, I run back-and-forth between discourses. Apart from art and sport, I draw on the Chinese Daoist wanderers’ playful, poetic, techno-sceptic and transgressive ways to generate a playful, performative practice of writing and art-making. Consisting of artworks online and offline, my studio practice (documented in Part II) is collectively entitled Kaidie’s 1000-Day Trans-Run 12.12.2009-09.09.2012. I play ‘Kaidie’, a ‘trans-runner’ who explores trans-running as a mode of art. My entire thesis is an artwork that performs the discourses of the trans-runner. Mobilising ‘run’-related idioms, wordplay, alliteration, etymology, metaphor and analogy, my written thesis and artworks are performative. I invite you, the reader/audience, to perform trans-running yourselves, to better grasp it. Trans-running aims to be trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary, transgressive and transformative. It introduces ‘running’ to the art world as a counter to the well-established tradition of walking, and as a mode of relating distinct discourses. Utilising non-Western and non-canonical discourses, my thesis contributes to debates about cultural difference. Integrating theory and practice, it seeks to contribute to the discourses of Fine Art research.

The Edmonton Arts and Youth Feasibility Study was conducted as a result of the question being asked "Can a structured art program be run with youth in conflict with the law?" It was a three month, arts-based, targeted prevention program run in an already existing drop-in centre for delinquent youth. This article reports on the qualitative findings of in-depth interviews conducted with the key stakeholders: participating adolescents (aged 14-19 years), lead artists, research assistants, and site directors. Findings suggest that the art curriculum, the strong relationships built, and the gains made were all strengths of the program. These gains include the acquisition of art skills, social skills and an improved ability to problem solve. Findings from this study also suggest the need for future research, including outcome studies and a program evaluation.

This master’s thesis deals with the analysis, design and implementation of a system for organizing running races with the support of racers registration and the possibility of multiple online and offline checkpoints during the race. The system is composed of two web applications and a client desktop application. An administration web application is used to create and manage the race. A presentation web application with optional registration is responsible for publishing the race. It is possible to scan RFID chips of the racers on multiple track stations during the race using a client application. The RFID chips are scanned by an RFID reader connected to host device. If the client application is connected to the internet, the scanned times of racers are displayed on the presentation application in real time. Web applications are implemented with the ASP.NET MVC technology. Authorization and Authentication is provided by ASP.NET Identity. The client application is implemented using the WPF technology.

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臺北市立教育大學
藝術治療碩士學位學程
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The approach adopted in this study is an art-based research. Through persistent art creations of Mandala, the author practices the beauty of “art as therapy” during and after her pregnancy. The transition, physically and mentally, can be observed through the presentation of art creations. Meanwhile, the dialogues with Mandala enable the author to find out the value of “self” in the process of taking art creations of Mandala as self-care. The author experiences the true core value of “self” led by the art creations of Mandala in the implementation of art-based research. Self also is the center of Mandala, that is, the center of a circle. Mandala has its therapy effects on adjustment and integration of individual’s mental and physical conditions. This study utilizes the art creation of Mandala to adjust the mental and physical discomfort during and after the pregnancy and, as a result, to gain the effect of self-care and therapy. During and after the pregnancy, Mandala at first presents the image of “womb” and gradually extends to reflect the nature of motherhood. The whole process of art creation produces a circulation of every important event occurred in author’s life and re-adjusts self-value of the author. This study begins with the retrospect of past experiences of the author, then shares the author’s life story, and ends with the wholly devotion to art creations of Mandala. The dynamic process of art creations inspires and experiences different new stages of life. It also is a real reflection of the author herself. By continuously changing and creating, this study is full of strength of action, vitality and ultimate completeness.

The overall aim of this research was to examine the factors that influence the coach-biomechanist relationship in the elite sprinting context and gain an understanding of the factors that impede and enhance performance environments and relationships. It is thought that the transfer of sport science research into coaching practice is not as efficient as it should be, as it has been established that coaches are not using sport science as a source of knowledge. Subsequently, this insufficient transfer of knowledge could be limiting potential improvements in athlete performance. Technique analysis is a common area of expertise for both sprint coaches and biomechanists in high-performance sport and was therefore the ideal context to explore the coach-biomechanist relationship in detail. The first phase of research examined the coach and biomechanists’ understandings of optimal sprint running technique and determined the relationships between the experiential knowledge of the two groups. Findings showed elements that are crucial to optimal sprinting technique, such as the position of the contact foot and extension of the leg during stance. Differences in knowledge between the two groups were complimentary. For example, the biomechanists’ focus on the transition from swing into stance phases and the coaches’ interest in upper body movement. Moreover, the communication of these knowledge differences was potentially problematic. The second phase of this research determined if the knowledge differences found in the first phase influenced the visual search patterns of coaches and biomechanists. This difference was not observed, with visual search behaviour not reflecting the differences in knowledge seen in phase one. The third phase aimed to establish the context in which coaches and biomechanists interact to improve performance. This phase supported previous phases’ results in that communication styles and knowledge differences were impeding factors and added lack of role clarity to this list. The fourth and final phase investigated the interactions and exchange of information that occurs during the technique assessment process. Results showed that the process is a coach-led partnership where rapport building, and equal sharing of knowledge are emphasised. In summary, this research contributes to the understanding of the coach-sport science relationship by providing practical evidence for numerous concepts in a novel and more specialized population. It increases our understanding of coach technical knowledge and visual perceptual behaviour as well as uniquely incorporating the sport biomechanists’ knowledge and perspective into these investigations. The multi-layered approach used allowed the knowledge, behaviours and interactions that comprise qualitative analysis of technique to be investigated. This has greatly improved our understanding of the coach- biomechanist relationship and the factors that impede and enhance it.