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Rajaie, Hamid R. [Verfasser]. "Distributed Architecture for Mobile Robots / Hamid R Rajaie." Aachen : Shaker, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1159836612/34.
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Olshavsky, Peter. "Questions concerning architectural machines: or 'pataphysics in early modern architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110410.
Анотація:
The primary contention of this study is that there are ways to orient architecture other than technological concerns. By studying the nature of architectural machines and their changes through history, their reduction to instrumental and aesthetic concerns is shown to be problematic. These aspects have dominated architectural thinking and making since modernity; however, this history also shows the limits and possibilities of these technological concerns. But modernism has not been homogeneous. During this period, the literary and theatrical works of Alfred Jarry and his science of pataphysics offered a significant approach to engage and resist the machine. His work challenged technological practices through the machine itself. I explore this relative to the human will, knowledge, and creative practices. Modernist architectural machines by Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, and Paul Nelson are then studied with respect to this intentionality. Ultimately, these works attempted in various ways to reconcile poetics and ethics in the design of pataphysical machines for living in.La thèse principale de cette étude est qu'il existe d'autres façons d'orienter l'architecture en dehors des préoccupations technologiques. Par l'étude de la nature et les modifications aux machines architecturales dans l'histoire, leur réduction à des préoccupations instrumentales et esthétiques se révèle être problématique. Puisque la modernité, ces aspects ont dominé le domaine de l'architecture. Cependant, cette histoire montre aussi les limites et les possibilités de ces préoccupations technologiques. Mais le modernisme n'est pas homogène. Durant cette période, les œuvres littéraires et théâtrales d'Alfred Jarry et sa science de la pataphysique offre une approche profonde à s'engager et à résister à la machine. Son travail défit pratiques technologiques à travers la machine elle-même. L'étude explore ce rapport à la volonté, la connaissance humaine et des pratiques créatives. Cette intentionnalité est également découverte et étudiée dans certaines machines architecturales modernistes de Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, et Paul Nelson. Finalement, tous ces «solutions imaginaires» tentative de réconcilier la poétique et l'éthique en la conception de machines pataphysiques à habiter.
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Coetzee, Justin Sean. "Ma(r)king time : threads of an architecture of slow time." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45284.
Анотація:
The intention and aim of this investigation is to pursue a coherent and cogent argument,
as the architectural discipline exists as a profession of relationships, where nothing exists
in isolation. Volume 1 is a vantage point from which to view and interpret the ensuing
volumes. The project flowed from a personal belief and passion shared by both students. The
project aims to allow each student to develop and situate their individual schemes around
this central argument, responding to various inputs and effects that the volume offers.
The approach to this project is rooted in an understanding of past, present and future,
with particular focus on the future as a response to the past. The project is
speculative in nature, and should be viewed, understood and interpreted as such.Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014.
Architecture
MArch(Prof)
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Sirithanawat, Chaiboon. "Architecture as criticism : from mannerism to the architecture of Nicholas Hawksmoor." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60103.
Анотація:
The author discusses the idea of architecture criticism and its interpretation. Criticism, in addition to its traditional literary role, is considered as an act of making. Consequently, architecture is understood as criticism--i.e. a making of critical architecture. The making of critical architecture, as an activity prevalent throughout history, is discussed. Two types of this architectural phenomenon are identified as the critical zeitgeist phenomenon and the critical individualist phenomenon. The critical making of this architecture, supported by two operations or manipulations--the principles of integration and inversion, is described and illustrated. These principles are used to analyze Mannerist architecture (the critical zeitgeist phenomenon) and the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor (the critical individualist phenomenon).
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Rothfarb, Ed. "The architecture of Raja Bir Singh Dev of Orchha (r. 1605-1627) continuity, adaptation and invention /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2024771351&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Stepanov, Evgueni A. "Implementing Cognitive Grammar On A Cognitive Architecture: A Case Study With Act-r." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605536/index.pdf.
Анотація:
Cognitive Grammar is a theory within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics that gives an account of human linguistic ability based entirely on general cognitive abilities. Because of the general complexity and open-endedness of the theory, there is not much computational work associated with it. This thesis proposes that ACT-R cognitive architecture can provide the basic primitives for the cognitive abilities required for a better implementation of Cognitive Grammar. Thus, a language model was developed on the ACT-R architecture. The model processes active and passive sentences, constructs their propositional representations, and tests the representation on a sentence verification task of the experiment of Anderson (1974).
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Fourie, Morne. "Mêmes in amaNdzundza architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30129.
Анотація:
The amaNdzundza are a South African abaNtu people. This thesis sets forth to determine the role of their world (in the Heideggerian sense) as it impacts on their Architecture. First the evolutionary process of the amaNdzundza architecture is established. An infinite series of memes (much like genes) that function both on an intra- and inter-cultural level govern this process. Next, the cultural interaction of the amaNdzundza over a period of half a millenium are mapped (and a space-time matrix drawn up: ch.3), as to find the sources of introduction on an intercultural level. Finally, the architecture of the amaNdzundza milieu, both of their settlements and of the cultures with which they shared their environment, is analyzed and a sample of memes identified, which best illustrate the meme-exchange and evolution. This is done in a structure comprising the analysis of selected religious spatial incentives, and some aspects and elements of the settlement, the dwelling and the mural. A summary is given of the memes involved in the amaNdzundza architecture, and their evolutionary dynamics and origins. The researcher thus concludes that, rather than a singular factor such as the patronage of apartheid, the cultural 'memes' in the amaNdebele ya amaNdzundza milieu played the predominant role in the shaping of their existential, spatial and structural dwelling, through a process of 'loci meme' evolution.
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Alghamdi, Jahad. "Epidemiology and genetic architecture of blood pressure : a family based study of generation Scotland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7540/.
Анотація:
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and mortality, and a growing global public health concern, with up to one-third of the world’s population affected. Despite the vast amount of evidence for the benefits of blood pressure (BP) lowering accumulated to date, elevated BP is still the leading risk factor for disease and disability worldwide. It is well established that hypertension and BP are common complex traits, where multiple genetic and environmental factors contribute to BP variation. Furthermore, family and twin studies confirmed the genetic component of BP, with a heritability estimate in the range of 30-50%. Contemporary genomic tools enabling the genotyping of millions of genetic variants across the human genome in an efficient, reliable, and cost-effective manner, has transformed hypertension genetics research. This is accompanied by the presence of international consortia that have offered unprecedentedly large sample sizes for genome-wide association studies (GWASs). While GWAS for hypertension and BP have identified more than 60 loci, variants in these loci are associated with modest effects on BP and in aggregate can explain less than 3% of the variance in BP. The aims of this thesis are to study the genetic and environmental factors that influence BP and hypertension traits in the Scottish population, by performing several genetic epidemiological analyses. In the first part of this thesis, it aims to study the burden of hypertension in the Scottish population, along with assessing the familial aggregation and heritialbity of BP and hypertension traits. In the second part, it aims to validate the association of common SNPs reported in the large GWAS and to estimate the variance explained by these variants. In this thesis, comprehensive genetic epidemiology analyses were performed on Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS), one of the largest population-based family design studies. The availability of clinical, biological samples, self-reported information, and medical records for study participants has allowed several assessments to be performed to evaluate factors that influence BP variation in the Scottish population. Of the 20,753 subjects genotyped in the study, a total of 18,470 individuals (grouped into 7,025 extended families) passed the stringent quality control (QC) criteria and were available for all subsequent analysis. Based on the BP-lowering treatment exposure sources, subjects were further classified into two groups. First, subjects with both a self-reported medications (SRMs) history and electronic-prescription records (EPRs; n =12,347); second, all the subjects with at least one medication history source (n =18,470). In the first group, the analysis showed a good concordance between SRMs and EPRs (kappa =71%), indicating that SRMs can be used as a surrogate to assess the exposure to BP-lowering medication in GS:SFHS participants. Although both sources suffer from some limitations, SRMs can be considered the best available source to estimate the drug exposure history in those without EPRs. The prevalence of hypertension was 40.8% with higher prevalence in men (46.3%) compared to women (35.8%). The prevalence of awareness, treatment and controlled hypertension as defined by the study definition were 25.3%, 31.2%, and 54.3%, respectively. These findings are lower than similar reported studies in other populations, with the exception of controlled hypertension prevalence, which can be considered better than other populations. Odds of hypertension were higher in men, obese or overweight individuals, people with a parental history of hypertension, and those living in the most deprived area of Scotland. On the other hand, deprivation was associated with higher odds of treatment, awareness and controlled hypertension, suggesting that people living in the most deprived area may have been receiving better quality of care, or have higher comorbidity levels requiring greater engagement with doctors. These findings highlight the need for further work to improve hypertension management in Scotland. The family design of GS:SFHS has allowed family-based analysis to be performed to assess the familial aggregation and heritability of BP and hypertension traits. The familial correlation of BP traits ranged from 0.07 to 0.20, and from 0.18 to 0.34 for parent-offspring pairs and sibling pairs, respectively. A higher correlation of BP traits was observed among first-degree relatives than other types of relative pairs. A variance-component model that was adjusted for sex, body mass index (BMI), age, and age-squared was used to estimate heritability of BP traits, which ranged from 24% to 32% with pulse pressure (PP) having the lowest estimates. The genetic correlation between BP traits showed a high correlation between systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) (G: 81% to 94%), but lower correlations with PP (G: 22% to 78%). The sibling recurrence risk ratio (λS) for hypertension and treatment were calculated as 1.60 and 2.04 respectively. These findings confirm the genetic components of BP traits in GS:SFHS, and justify further work to investigate genetic determinants of BP. Genetic variants reported in the recent large GWAS of BP traits were selected for genotyping in GS:SFHS using a custom designed TaqMan® OpenArray®. The genotyping plate included 44 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that have been previously reported to be associated with BP or hypertension at genome-wide significance level. A linear mixed model that is adjusted for age, age-squared, sex, and BMI was used to test for the association between the genetic variants and BP traits. Of the 43 variants that passed the QC, 11 variants showed statistically significant association with at least one BP trait. The phenotypic variance explained by these variant for the four BP traits were 1.4%, 1.5%, 1.6%, and 0.8% for SBP, DBP, MAP, and PP, respectively. The association of genetic risk score (GRS) that were constructed from selected variants has showed a positive association with BP level and hypertension prevalence, with an average effect of one mmHg increase with each 0.80 unit increases in the GRS across the different BP traits. The impact of BP-lowering medication on the genetic association study for BP traits has been established, with typical practice of adding a fixed value (i.e. 15/10 mmHg) to the measured BP values to adjust for BP treatment. Using the subset of participants with the two treatment exposure sources (i.e. SRMs and EPRs), the influence of using either source to justify the addition of fixed values in SNP association signal was analysed. BP phenotypes derived from EPRs were considered the true phenotypes, and those derived from SRMs were considered less accurate, with some phenotypic noise. Comparing SNPs association signals between the four BP traits in the two model derived from the different adjustments showed that MAP was the least impacted by the phenotypic noise. This was suggested by identifying the same overlapped significant SNPs for the two models in the case of MAP, while other BP traits had some discrepancy between the two sources.
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Brosch, Franz [Verfasser], and R. [Akademischer Betreuer] Reussner. "Integrated Software Architecture-Based Reliability Prediction for IT Systems / Franz Brosch ; Betreuer: R. Reussner." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1024312801/34.
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Sonnenwald, Diane H. "The conceptual organization: an emergent organizational form for collaborative R&D." Beech Tree Publishing, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105537.
Анотація:
Analysis of organizational documentation, sociometric survey and observation data from a two-year field study of an R&D organization suggests that a new type of research and development (R&D) organization, called the conceptual organization, is emerging. The conceptual organization relies on and facilitates collaboration in research and development; it is based on a long-term vision that addresses large complex and challenging problems of national and global importance. Its purpose is to work towards this vision, quickly and effectively contributing to relevant dynamic knowledge bases and meeting diverse stakeholder needs with minimum capitalization and start-up costs. To achieve this, it has an explicit conceptual organizational structure in addition to a physical structure, both of which are interwoven across other external organizational and physical structures. Conceptual organizations engage scientists through the appeal of their vision and socio-technical infrastructures that encourage and facilitate collaboration. Challenges for conceptual organizations may arise due to conflicts with traditional norms and practices embedded in university and R&D settings.
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Lerner, Isaac. "Architecture as discourse : form follows fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61707.
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Langhammer, Michael [Verfasser], and R. H. [Akademischer Betreuer] Reussner. "Automated Coevolution of Source Code and Software Architecture Models / Michael Langhammer ; Betreuer: R. H. Reussner." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1132997526/34.
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Fossier, François. "Architecture et décor : étude des dessins du fonds R. de Cotte de la Bibliothèque nationale /." Paris : F. Fossier, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35609744t.
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McEwen, Indra Kagis. "Vitruvius : writing the body of architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37779.
Анотація:
Vitruvius dedicated his, the only work on architecture to have survived from classical antiquity, to Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, and claimed repeatedly that he was "writing the body of architecture (corpus architecturae)." A detailed examination of meaning of this claim, read in the specific imperial context that brought De architectura to light in ca. 25 B.C., is the principal focus of this study, which has been undertaken less as an effort to come to positive terms with the relevance (or irrelevance) of Vitruvius' normative prescriptions for Roman building practice than in the attempt to try to understand what he was trying to say about architecture and why.The exegesis is developed in four parts. The first deals with the corporeal identity of the book itself: a ten-scroll "angelic" messenger, whose written form proves to be as significant an index of its meaning as its content. The second part assesses Vitruvius' presentation of his treatise to Augustus in the preface to Book 2 of his treatise as the emperor's Herculean body: at once the agent and proof of Roman conquest and, like Hercules, the philanthropic purveyor of the benefits of civilisation to conquered peoples. The third unravels what Vitruvius meant when he said that buildings, temples especially, were to be put together in the same way that nature puts together the bodies of beautiful men. The fourth part concludes that the beautiful body, in question is the body of the king: that of the emperor himself, whose body---corpus imperii---was, at that historical juncture, imagined as congruent with the body of the Roman world. For Vitruvius, through architecture---as architecture---this kingly body was to be the chief agent of the empire's enduring coherence.
That the project of Roman world dominion so consistently shaped this first self-conscious attempt to give a comprehensive account of architecture raises troubling questions about the discipline itself. It is in raising such questions that Vitruvius' De architectura acquires more than antiquarian interest.
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Zarate, Eduardo. "The religious architecture of Alvar Aalto /." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61785.
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Neveu, Marc J. "Architecture-as, an ethics of function." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31028.
Анотація:
Carlo Lodoli (1690--1761), architect, storyteller, and generally caustic individual, was a friar at San Francesco della Vigna in Venice, where he offered non-professional lessons in architecture. In his garden, he had collected a series of architectural fragments for use in his dialogues with students. He would use the fragments as examples of good and bad architecture to allow for his peripatetic teachings. These lessons, described by his faithful student Andrea Memmo as talking in images were sweeping, often ethical. As the Socratic Lodoli did not commit to text any formal treatise, we must look to his student's interpretations and various built projects. It is within these traces we begin to discover Lodoli's proposal for a non-reductive functional architecture based upon the imagination. By looking into this performing aspect of function we may begin to realize an architecture that both invites and constitutes essential meaning.
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Martínez, Coromoto. "Syntheses of polymers with dendrimer architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39962.
Анотація:
Cascade poly(aryl ether) containing aryl sulfide or aryl sulfone groups, and aryl fluoride terminal functionality, were synthesized. Four generations of the dendrimers were prepared. The divergent initiator core method was employed, using 4,4$ sp prime$-difluorodiphenyl sulfone, as the core precursor, and a relatively high molecular weight phenol as the monomer. The strategy is based on an activation/condensation sequence that involves oxidation of the aryl sulfide group and the displacement of the activated aryl halide moiety by a phenolate ion. The aryl halide was activated by a sulfone group formed by oxidation of a sulfide group.Optimum conditions for the condensation reaction utilized a very active metal carbonate, such as cesium carbonate, in conjunction with magnesium hydroxide or calcium carbonate which removes some of the fluoride ions formed. The phenolate was generated in situ from an organic carbonate, thus eliminating the usual dehydration step. NMR characterization indicated that the reactions were most quantitative and MALDI-TOF-MS confirmed those results up to the third generation. No reaction intermediates were detected. Imperfections in some molecules of the dendrimers, formed by reaction of the core precursors with an impurity present in the phenol, were also identified.
Simultaneously, aryl halide-terminated and phenol-terminated hyperbranched poly(ether sulfone)s were prepared by the polycondensation of A$ sb2$B monomers via a one-pot approach. Syntheses were developed for all the new monomers required. The main advantage of this method is its simplicity, which allows rapid access to large amounts of hyperbranched polymers. Molecular weights and viscosities were controlled by the concentration of the monomer and temperature of the reaction. The best conditions were obtained when the condensation agent was a mixture of $ rm Cs sb2CO sb3$ and Mg(OH)$ sb2$ and the displaced halide was a fluoride.
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Zhang, Mingsheng. "A new architecture of multimedia distributed systems." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20137.
Анотація:
This paper proposes a now architecture for distributed multimedia systems, we called it MSZ, which allows users to access multimedia documents in the system. MSZ assumes a system consisting of a not of client machines and a got of server machines. All of these machines are connected through the Internet. A user can ask for a document to be played with the desired quality of service from any server; MSZ is responsible for selecting the beat server that is able to deliver the document to the user most efficiently. The best server satisfies the following properties: (1) It stores the requested document and has the ability to deliver the document to the user (the ability includes its free CPU time and free bandwidth and free memory space). (2) The server is much closer to the user geographically in comparison to other servers in the system, and the related network path has the most available resource, which is more than the service requires. (3) The server has a lighter system load compared to other servers.MSZ is able to minimize the response time and optimize the service quality as much as possible (the users are rejected only when the requested document is unavailable in all servers or servers are all loaded at maximum, or the communication network resource is less than the service required). Also MSZ has the self-learn ability. The more it is used, the better it works.
The system has the ability to detect any degradation in service and to automatically recover during the presentation of the document. A server's failure doesn't affect the whole system and it is very easy for the system to add and remove a server. Generally, MSZ offers a better service to users with less blocking time, less cost and higher quality service.
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Berns, Torben. "The paradox of a modern (Japanese) architecture /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38463.
Анотація:
This thesis analyzes the problems and contradictions inherent in modernity's levelling of the fabricative and political realms. Seeking a broader perspective on the origins of aesthetic culture and aestheticized politics, it examines the relation of architecture to technology, culture, and politics. The thesis examines the consequences of the Enlightenment and "Radical Enlightenment" (understanding the rise of the modern nation-state as a direct consequence of the 18th century's yoking of history and nature) from the perspective of Japan and its encounter with modernity. Japan as a modern nation-state, neither part of the European Enlightenment nor colonized by its instruments, was able to initiate a unique discourse around the question of history and the concomitant issues of identity and nihilism.The thesis tracks the discourse through architecture as the terms shift and become more and more indistinguishable from the Western manifestations from which the Japanese architects wished to claim distinction.
The discussion on difference and possibility---cultural identity and the creative project---as fundamental questions for a contemporary practice of architecture is undertaken through an analysis of the polar positions of Tange Kenzo and Shirai Sei'ichi.
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Klassen, Helmut W. "Michelangelo : architecture and the vision of anatomy." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22384.
Анотація:
Michelangelo considered a mastery of the body and anatomy to be the essential "theory" articulating the practice of architecture. For him, the reality of the moving human figure embodied the supreme difficulty of life as animation. By his architectural appropriation of the figure, human artifice was understood to be circumscribed by the radical intelligibility of the processes of life. This study is an articulation of his vital understanding of the living body and artifice by the "vision" of anatomy. The outline of an artifice faithful to the radical life of things is first examined in the thought and practice of medicine in the Renaissance. Upon this understanding, the coherence of Michelangelo's unprecedented emphasis upon the living body for architecture may be articulated. It concludes with an elaboration of his "theory"; the vision of anatomy as a dynamic drawing of things as they appear.
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MacElwee, Andrea L. (Andrea Laurel). "Allegory and the architecture of Francesco Borromini." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22545.
Анотація:
This thesis relates the aspirations (examined in political treatises, literary programs and scientific treaties) of Pope Urban VIIIth with the allegorical spaciality of the architecture of Francesco Borromini. The projects initiated under the patronage of the Pope are particularly related to the Pope's election. Urban's personal impressa, the Angelic Sun is an emblem of this election, a reborn sun, a second personal birth and the elevation of the Angelic Pope (the leader of the age of the Holy Spirit). This is allegorically a metamorphosis like the re-birth of Daphne into Laurel; the Tree of Aeneas and Rome and the principal Barberini impressa. As a dynastic emblem the Laurel unites the cosmic territories of the sun and the moon, the traditional emblems of cosmic kingship and world domination. The metaphysical marriage to Rome (coronation and marriage are ritually linked, like the union of the sun and the moon) metaphorically appropriates the capacity of giving birth through construction, to a new city, an intellectual city in the image of Urban, the threshold for spirit. The architecture 'contains' this intellectual body (city), a dynastic emblem of the Angelic Pope.
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Rifkind, David. "The all-but architecture of Richard Serra /." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27982.
Анотація:
Richard Serra's sculpture constitutes a political act through its analytical and operative strategies: analytical, when the work exposes the structures that frame our intersubjectivity, and operative, when the work acts as an example of resistance to the habitual acceptance of these structures. The significance of this oeuvre to architecture is that Serra's sculpture deliberately presents itself as something just shy of architecture, claiming its critical role to be that abandoned by--and proper to--architecture.
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Jia, Ning. "Architecture and implementation of socially governed networks." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97229.
Анотація:
Social networks play an increasingly important role on the behavior of communication on the Internet. We present a general framework called socially governed networks that provides a network protection scheme at the level of social individual/social organization instead of the traditional level of physical address. The functionalities of socially governed networks are mainly composed of two parts: social accountability and social computation based security policy generation. For social accountability part, we design Gates (Personal Gate and Social Gate) binding users' actions on the Internet with users' social identities issued by given online social network (such as Facebook) instead of physical IP address, so that users are trackable throughout the Internet avoiding being impersonated. Gates are incrementally deployable without modifying the existing operating system running on the endpoints on the Internet and can be used to monitor, control, and report accountable communications betweenusers. For social computation based policy generation part, the framework is flexible and extensible to generate and attach new security policies to Gates. We introduce an Analysis Center for collecting traffic report data from Gates and generating a real-time social graph which can be used by a social computation model to compute the social power, a kind of individual capability used to control resource access. Security policy strings are then populated with the social power values and plugged into Gates to control the communication among the accountable users on the Internet. In this thesis, we provide the design of the whole framework and analyze the social computation results: which factors impact the social power value. Additionally, to reduce the computation complexity, we extract small sub-graphs being able to reflect the major properties of the original social graph and discuss which extraction method is the best among BFS, RW and MHRW.Les réseaux sociaux jouent un rôle de plus en plus important sur notre façon de communiquer sur Internet. Nous présentons un modèle général intitulé "réseaux dirigés socialement" qui contient une mesure de protection de réseau au niveau de l'organisation individuelle et sociale plutôt qu'au niveau traditionnel d'adresse physique. La fonction de ces réseaux socialement dirigés est principalement composée de deux parties: la responsabilité sociale et la génération de mesures de sécurité basée sur la computation sociale. Pour la partie de responsabilité sociale, nous désignons des Identités (Identité Personnelle et Identité Sociale) liant les actions des utilisateurs sur Internet à leur identité sociale conférée par un certain réseau social (tel que Facebook) plutôt qu'à leur adresse physique (IP), pour que les utilisateurs soient reconnus partout sur Internet sans qu'on leur emprunte leur identité. Ce système d'Identités est déployable progressivement sur Internet et peut être utilisées pour surveiller et contrôler les échanges entre utilisateurs. Pour la partie de génération de mesures de sécurité, le modèle est flexible et extensible pour générer et ajouter des nouvelles mesures de sécurité aux Identités. Nous introduisons un Centre d'Analyse pour collecter les rapports de données provenant des Identités et pour générer un graphe social en temps réel, qui peut être utilisé par un modèle de computation sociale pour calculer le pouvoir social, une sorte de capacité individuelle utilisée pour contrôler l'accès d'un individu à certaines ressources. Les mesures de sécurité sont ensuite assignées aux valeurs de pouvoir sociale puis associées aux Identités pour contrôler les communications entre les utilisateurs responsables sur Internet. Dans cette thèse, nous donnons le design du modèle au complet puis analysons les résultats de la computation sociale: Quels facteurs impactent le pouvoir social et lequel est le plus important. De plus, pour réduire la complexité du calcul, nous extrayons un petit sous-graphe représentatif des propriétés majeurs du graphe social original, puis discutons de la meilleure méthode d'extraction entre BFS, RW et MHRW.
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Omar, Mona A. E. "Translation of Islamic culture into Arabian architecture." Curtin University of Technology, School of Architecture, Construction and Planning, 2000. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=10038.
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In the past, researchers in the field of art and architecture have searched for a definition of Islamic architecture, its history and its social meaning. This study focuses on the Islamic culture of the Arab world and its influences on the architecture of the region, giving an overview of contemporary architecture in the Arab world, its situation, cultural crisis and hope for the future.This research aims to identify the principal characteristics of Islamic architecture, which embody the needs and demands of Muslims according to their Islamic teachings. Muslims form one of the biggest communities in the world, which is suggested to be more than one fifth of the world's population, about one and half billion.This community has special architectural needs related to their religious teachings, traditions and culture, because Islam is not only a religion, it is a complete way of life, which covers all social, political, economic, educational, cultural, hygienic, and behavioural aspects.For a great number of people, the concept of Islamic architecture denotes tangible characteristics of some architectural features like Mashrabiah, arch, dome, or any other architectural pattern that distinguishes this typical style of architecture. But, Islamic architecture is more than just a spectacle of domes and minarets; it is a deep expression of a rich culture that has unified countries across the globe.In the last fifty years, contemporary architecture of the Muslim world in general, and the Arab world in particular, has been exposed to several outside influences that have eventually caused it to be alienated from its particular sense of identity and, thus, to lose its character. It is believed that such matter requires immediate attention towards attempting a "revival process" by uncovering the bases and principles of Islamic architecture, as manifested throughout Islamic history. ++These principles could be integrated and molded into the contemporary architecture of the Arab world, which reflects a rather complicated and, sometimes, contradicting set of values.The aim of this study is to develop an appropriate definition for Islamic architecture of the Arab world in terms of Islamic teachings and doctrine.Associated with this aim, this research will include within its scope:Understanding Arabian Islamic culture, traditions and environment and how they have affected architectural design.Translating some principles from Islamic doctrine, which can be applied to architectural practice, and to recognize Muslims' architectural needs and demands, according to Islamic teachings.Developing architectural standards that satisfy Muslims architectural needs and a definition of what, in an Islamic context, could be considered as successful Arabian Islamic architecture.Analyzing to what extent contemporary architecture meets Muslims' needs, according to their Islamic teachings by undertaking a Case Study of pre-Modern and contemporary architecture in Egypt.
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Dietl, Reinhard. "A Reference Architecture for Providing Latent Semantic Analysis Applications in Distributed Systems. Diploma Thesis." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2010. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3016/1/EPUB_Thesis_Dietl.pdf.
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With the increasing availability of storage and computing power, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has gained more and more significance in practice over the last decade. This diploma thesis aims to develop a reference architecture which can be utilised to provide LSA based applications in a distributed system. It outlines the underlying problems of generation, processing and storage of large data objects resulting from LSA operations, the problems arising from bringing LSA into a distributed context, suggests an architecture for the software components necessary to perform the tasks, and evaluates the applicability to real world scenarios, including the implementation of a classroom scenario as a proof-of-concept. (author's abstract)Series: Theses / Institute for Statistics and Mathematics
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Vinegar, Aron. "Architecture under the knife : Viollet-le-Duc's illustrations for the Dictionnaire Raisonné and the anatomical representation of architectural knowledge." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23248.
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The numerous illustrations--or better yet demonstrations--in Viollet-le-Duc's Dictionnaire Raisonne of Gothic architecture were the most powerful means of implementing biological metaphors in order to transfer or situate the discourse of architecture within the realm of nineteenth century positivistic science. Viollet-le-Duc borrowed dissective strategies of representation from the field of anatomy to implement his alternate 'vision' for appropriating architectural knowledge. By inscribing anatomical metaphors within his architectural drawings, Viollet-le-Duc could filter the viewer's conception of architecture through his own appropriation of anatomy's critical and selective methods of representation. This scientific approach to architectural drawing was in perfect harmony with Viollet-le-Duc's textual and conceptual mission in the Dictionnaire to not only demystify architectural knowledge as practiced at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, but also to critically reconfigure the reader's relationship to it according to his own system. Through this process, it was his intent to change the public's way of thinking and seeing architecture.
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McEwen, Indra Kagis. "Socrates' ancestor : architecture and emerging order in archaic Greece." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60468.
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Socrates claimed Daedalus, the mythical first architect, as his ancestor. Taking this as a point of departure, the thesis explores the relationship between architecture and speculative thought, and shows how the latter is grounded in the former. A detailed examination of the Anaximander fragment, the earliest surviving record in Western philosophy, is considered in relation to Anaximander's built work. This three-part cosmic model which included a celestial sphere, the first map of the world, and a sun clock (the gnomon), reveals the fragment to be a theory of the work in that the cosmic order Anaximander was the first to articulate was discovered through the building of the model. The model is seen as comparable to a daidalon, a creation of Daedalus, whose legend reflects the importance of craft in the self-consciousness of archaic Greece where the kosmos (order) of civilization were seen as having emerged with the kosmos allowed to appear through the making of the artifact. Archaic self-consciousness is further examined through the emergence of the Greek city-state (the polis) and in the building of the first peripteral temples, both of which are revealed as necessary antecedents to birth of theory, understood as the wondering admiration of the well-made thing.
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Livesey, Graham. "Narrative, ephemerality and the architecture of the contemporary city." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60547.
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This thesis proposes the exploration of three architectural sources that are narrative in nature: the Renaissance Entry of a Monarch as a public event in the city, the Surrealist novel as a critical medium, and the Teatro del Mondo project by Aldo Rossi for the Venice Biennale of 1979-80, in order to address the making of architecture in the contemporary city. The royal entry and the modern novel are forms that provide for possible interpretation of the city and reflect the difference between the modern and the pre-modern eras. Aldo Rossi's Teatro del Mondo as a work of architecture that was both ephemeral and a place of narrative, was a project that addressed the difficult problems of the architecture of the city. Architecture no longer participates in the realization of ritualistic narrative, as when the festival gave permanence to urban institutions by revealing the order of the Cosmos. However, there remains the necessity for architecture to engage imagination and the narratives implicit in the world.
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Chewning, John Andrew. "William Robert Ware and the beginnings of architectural education in the United States, 1861-1881." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14983.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING.
Bibliography: leaves 482-490.
William Robert Ware (1832- 1915) planned and directed the first collegiate program in architectural education i n the United States. He was educated in the liberal arts and civil engineering at Harvard University and received further training in architects' offices before entering into practice with Henry Van Brunt (1832-1903). In 1865 Ware was appointed to the newly established Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He remained on the faculty until 1881, when he was called to Columbia University to organize still another collegiate program in architecture. During 1866-67, Ware traveled in Europe, paying particular attention to the role of national schools and professional organizations in the teaching of architecture in Britain and France. Formal instruction in architecture at M.I.T. began in the fall of 1868. Ware devised a curriculum, which he adjusted throughout the 1870s, including drawing and design, architectural history, and construction and practice (i . e., building materials and components, specifications, and contracts). In the spring of 1872, he recruited Eugene Letang (1842-1892), an alumnus of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, to teach design. From this time on, the routine studio problems at M.I.T. began to emulate those of the Ecole, and the eclectic neoclassicism of the Beaux-Arts began to predominate in students' drawings. The Department of Architecture at M.I.T. in these earliest years functioned best in providing a one- or two-year course of special study for persons who were graduates of four-year colleges or who had some experience in architects' offices. It also served to prepare Americans for the formal or informal study they intended to pursue in Paris. Ware's department offered, in effect, a postgraduate program, a program in continuing education, and a preparatory program for advanced study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. By virtue of its location in cosmopolitan Boston, the M.I.T. Department of Architecture emerged in the 1870s as the preeminent American collegiate program, attracting more students from more diverse parts of the country than the other important early programs at Cornell University and the University of Illinois. Ware trained some 235 students at M.I.T., and many of them became the leaders in architecture and architectural education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
by John Andrew Chewning.
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Wu, Chao-Jung. "Molecular architecture of a dual lysine acetyltransferase complex." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:8881/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92354.
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Hassan, Abu S. M. (Abu Saleem Mahmudul). "Testing of board interconnects using boundary scan architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74304.
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The testing of printed circuit board (PCB) interconnects is a complex task that requires enormous amount of resources. With the increasing use of new technologies like surface mounting technology (SMT), testing PCB interconnects using the available techniques, like in-circuit testing and functional testing, is becoming very difficult. To make testing manageable, it must be considered earlier in the design process. This is known as 'design for testability' (DFT). A hierarchical DFT approach known as boundary scan architecture has recently become an increasingly attractive solution for PCB interconnect testing problems. This framework provides a scan path for electronic access to the interconnect test points, thus removing the need for accessibility through electro-mechanical contacts known as 'bed of nails'.In the recent past, several researchers have proposed different schemes for PCB interconnect testing based on the boundary scan architecture.
In this dissertation, a new approach, based on the concept of built-in self-test (BIST), is developed using the boundary scan architecture for PCB interconnect testing. BIST, at the component level, generally consists of incorporating additional circuitry on the chip to generate test patterns and to compact the response of the circuit under test into a reference signature. For the PCB level BIST, the board is considered as the unit under test. A family of BIST schemes are developed for board interconnect testing utilizing the properties of the boundary scan architecture. The BIST approach has removed the dependence on automatic test equipment (ATE) for generation of test vector sets and analysis of output data sets. Techniques are developed for the generation of test vector sets which require very simple test generation hardware. Test vector sets are shown to be independent of the order of the input/output (I/O) scan cells in the boundary scan chain and of the structural complexity of the interconnects under test. Response compaction techniques proposed in the schemes are such that fault detection and diagnosis can be done independent of the topological information about the interconnects. These response compaction techniques can be implemented within each boundary scan cell or outside the boundary scan chain, providing a trade-off in terms of test time and hardware complexity. The various uses of the boundary scan architecture make the proposed schemes more attractive and advantageous than the existing approaches for board interconnect testing.
Moreover, a family of interconnect testing schemes is proposed for a partial boundary scan environment. Partial boundary scan environment refers to a board with a mix of boundary scan and non-boundary scan components. Such an environment is more complex compared to a complete boundary scan environment. The proposed schemes are BIST-able despite the inherently complex test environment. However, fault coverage is limited because of the reduced accessibility of the partial boundary scan environment.
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Ali, Shamir Sultan. "Contquer: An optimized distributed cooperative query caching architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103746.
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The backend database system is often the performance bottleneck in multi-tier architectures. This is particularly true if there is a cluster of application servers while there is only a single database backend. A common approach to scale the database component is query result caching. The idea is to cache the results of a query submitted to the database in a cache. If the query is consequently requested again, the result can be retrieved from the cache instead of the query again being submitted to the database. Query caching can play a vital role in reducing latency by avoiding access to the database, and improving throughput by avoiding a database bottleneck. Existing approaches, however, have two limitations. First, they do not exploit the full capacity of the caches. Each application server has its own cache and frequently used objects will likely be cached in all caches, limiting the number of different objects and queries that can be cached. Furthermore, a query can only be served from the cache if previously the exact same query was posed. In this thesis, we introduce Contquer, a distributed cooperative caching algorithm that uses a distributed caching architecture where each object is only cached at one application server and each application server has access to local and remote caches. Thus, the full capacity of all caches can be exploited. Furthermore, we optimize the query cache by exploiting the cache even if only part of a query can be served from the cache. For that we analyze the containment of queries within other queries. Contquer determines when a query can be fully or partially served from the cache, and automatically generates remainder queries to the database if necessary. This thesis reports on the design and implementation of Contquer. It also conducts experiments that show that performance is improved considerably with the proposed algorithm. We conclude that the use of a distributed caching infrastructure and the ability to retrieve partial results from the cache improves performance in terms of hit-rate, throughput and latency.Le système de base de données est souvent un point critique en terme de performance dans les architectures multi-tiers. Ceci est particulièrement vrai dans le cas d'un groupe de serveurs d'application alors qu'il y a seulement une seule base de données. Une approche commune pour améliorer la performance de base de données est la mise en cache de résultat de requêtes. L'idée est de mettre en cache les résultats d'une requête soumise à la base de données. Si cette requête est demandée à nouveau, le résultat peut être récupéré à partir du cache au lieu de soumettre la requête à nouveau à la base de données. La mise en cache de requêtes peut jouer un rôle vital dans la réduction de latence en évitant l'accès à la base de données, et d'améliorer le débit en évitant la congestion de la base de données. Les approches existantes ont cependant deux limitations. D'abord, ils n'exploitent pas la pleine capacité des caches. Chaque serveur d'application a son propre cache et des objets fréquemment utilisés seront probablement mis en cache dans tous les caches, ce qui limite le nombre d'objets et de requêtes qui peuvent être mis en cache. En outre, une requête ne peut être servie à partir du cache que si elle a déjà été servie de la base données. Dans cette thèse, nous introduisons Contquer, un algorithme de mise en cache distribué et coopérative qui utilise une architecture de mise en cache distribuée où chaque objet est uniquement mis en cache à un seul serveur d'application et que chaque serveur d'application a accès à des caches locaux et distants. Ainsi, la capacité totale de tous les caches peut être exploitée. En outre, nous optimisons le cache de requête en exploitant la mémoire cache, même si une partie seulement d'une requête peut être servie à partir du cache. Pour cela, nous analysons le confinement de requêtes dans les autres requêtes. Contquer détermine le moment où une requête peut être totalement ou partiellement servie à partir du cache, et s'il le faut génère automatiquement le reste des requêtes à la base de données. Cette thèse porte sur la conception et la mise en œuvre de Contquer. Il mène également des expériences qui montrent que la performance est considérablement améliorée avec l'algorithme proposé. Nous concluons que l'utilisation d'une infrastructure de mise en cache distribuée et la possibilité de récupérer les résultats partiels de la mémoire cache améliore la performance en termes de taux de réussite, de débit et de latence.
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Topper, Anthony. "A computing architecture for a multiple robot controller /." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60484.
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This thesis describes the architecture of the Kali multi-arm robot control system, including discussions on design trade-offs and performance, as well as a detailed implementation using off-the-shelf hardware and software. Kali's main objectives are flexibility, integration, and hardware and software modularity so as to facilitate programming, experimentation and portability. It is used primarily to prototype concepts in multi-arm coordination, teleoperation, force control, and sensor fusion etc. To implement Kali requires only a minimal real-time kernel, a sufficiently powerful computer and a robot interface. It is based on the principle that, today, computational hardware, real-time operating systems and robot interfaces no longer impede robot controller design. Rather it is control software and system integration which are now the main problems. To that end, this work also discusses in depth the fundamental problems in the design and engineering of robot controllers from an implementational point of view using Kali as a primary design example.
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De, la Riva Richard. "Architecture and music : on rhythm, harmony and order." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22393.
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This paper examines the relationship of architecture to music in terms of rhythm, harmony and order in both the Greek Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. These basic concepts are crucial because they emphasize 'fullness' of experience and demonstrate the extent to which our own regulating experience of the world has become empirical (or formal). The discussion thus places architectural theory within the movement of ideas between mythical thought and metaphysical construct; it places architectural practice within the movement between bodily experience and reasoning.
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Mah, Kai Wood. "Architecture and domestic culture in eighteenth-century China." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19665.
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This thesis examines architectural discourse and spatial practices as manifestations and experiences of order in eighteenth-century Qing dynasty China. It reviews the development of the historiography of Chinese architectural history as an academic discipline, and proposes that in the Qing there was an unprecedented rupture between domestic architectural style from that of the court. An alternative design strategy in spatial planning and detailing was adopted. It is argued that the Qing architectural discourse, its intertextuality, was implicitly linked to the historical formation of the Qing self, and that it was pivotal to the rise of domestic culture. The study approaches architecture as historical statements and arguments, and focuses on the production of space, human agency, gender, and subject positioning in early modern China. The study analyzes the Yugong mansion, Beijing, the Rong mansion in the Qing novel The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the Manchu imperial city, as examples.
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Fayad, Gilles. "Towards the design of an intelligent hypermedia architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61212.
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A design for a unified model based on the hypermedia paradigm is proposed as a means to a better synergism of the functionalities of different knowledge manipulation tools. A survey of past and present hypermdia systems has been achieved, and their characteristics examined. Intelligent hypermedia-based system architectures have been evaluated, from which functional requirements for a unified architecture have been derived. Equivalence mappings based on Petri nets, that equate the structure and behavior of hypermedia networks and expert systems in a loose way, have ben developed. A unified model, that synthesizes the structural and behavioral equivalences among different knowledge representations in an object-oriented architecture is proposed.
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James, Susan Helen. ""Bedroom problems" : architecture, gender, and sexuality, 1945-63." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23699.
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Postwar North America saw a fundamental change in the function, layout, and location of the parents' bedroom and bathroom in the typical middle-class home. This thesis argues that the representations of bedrooms and bathrooms in house plans published by the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), in bathroom advertisements which appeared in women's magazines, trade periodicals, and architectural journals, and, in the 1959 film Pillow Talk, point to women's increased power in the immediate postwar years and constitute a foreshadowing of the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1960s. By revisiting the domestic landscape of postwar North America, this thesis provides an account of women's changing role in postwar society and suggests that architecture played a part in this transformation.
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Thomson, Graham R. "A model and architecture for pervasive situation determination." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2010. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12829.
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Koziolek, Anne [Verfasser], and R. [Akademischer Betreuer] Reussner. "Automated Improvement of Software Architecture Models for Performance and Other Quality Attributes / Anne Koziolek. Betreuer: R. Reussner." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1017321884/34.
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Stier, Christian [Verfasser], and R. [Akademischer Betreuer] Reussner. "Adaptation-Aware Architecture Modeling and Analysis of Energy Efficiency for Software Systems / Christian Stier ; Betreuer: R. Reussner." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2018. http://d-nb.info/116180174X/34.
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Fecheyr, Lippens Daphne. "Implementing Biomimicry Thinking from fundamental R&D to creating nature-aligned organizations." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1506510439362348.
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Wong, Yunn Chii 1954. "The geodesic works of Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1948-68 : (the universe as a home of man)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9512.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 29-105).
The thesis investigates the geodesic structure and dome phase in the corpus of Richard Buckminster Fuller's artifactual production and writings. It offers a history of the meteoric rise of the geodesic structure, its production, deployment, reception and subsequent marginalization. The geodesic work, as a pinnacle of Fuller's life work, form a multi-layered symbolic project with significance that extends beyond architecture. While the geodesic dome is an aspect of Fuller's many artifactual productions, it is studied here as a culmination of a set of ideas that Fuller developed and refined over a course of forty years, beginning with the 4D-Dymaxion House. These ideas represent a set of poignant observations and critique of design and design practices in particular, and of contemporary American culture in general. At a cursory level, Fuller's invention of the geodesic dome in the late forties appears to be a historical aberration, given the traditional, deeply symbolic significance of the dome and the fairly entrenched modem aesthetic sensibility based on planes and asymmetry. Yet, over a period of twenty years, the geodesic invention reinvigorated a traditional archetypal form besides charging up new interests in all types of space-frame structures. The invention of the geodesic structure invention enjoyed professional attention and rallied public enthusiasm. However, with its swan-song at the Montreal Expo '67, it was quickly eclipsed and marginalized. The thesis shows that Fuller's geodesic work is an attempt to create a seamless continuity between nature and society, following on the heels of his first attempt (in the 4D-Dymaxion House phase) to create a similar continuity between society and industry and between production and consumption. To understand anyone of these aspects, one must posit the invention in the context of its inventor and the relationship of the desires he brought to bear on American society and culture in his time.
by Yunn Chii Wong.
Ph.D.
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Brun-Ozuna, Barbara Suzanna. "Marshall Robert Sanguinet, Architect." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332820/.
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Sanguinet was one of the most important early architects in Texas. His partnership with Arthur and Howard Messer was responsible for the development of Arlington Heights, a prominent resort community. With partner Carl Staats and later partner Wyatt Hedrick, Marshall Robert Sanguinet designed most of the early towers of the Fort Worth central business district. In addition, the firm also designed residences, churches, educational facilities, courthouses, and club buildings in Fort Worth as well as in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Wichita Falls, where branch offices are located.
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Armstrong, Jeffrey Kent. "The homeowner as designer : a method for improving architect-clinet communication." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61677.
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Slights, Jessica. "The moral architecture of the household in Shakespeare's comedies /." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35946.
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Critics have long neglected Shakespearean comedy's examination of the household's role in the formulation of community values by reading its references to domestic life allegorically as commentary on the ostensibly more important public realms of marketplace and state. This dissertation argues that representations of the household in the comedies are best understood as theatrical explorations of ethical inquiry as it pertains to everyday lived experience. Using contemporary sermons, political tracts, and conduct books to situate Shakespeare's plays within a larger cultural movement that was coming to understand the household as a foundation of the moral economy of early modern England, this study provides readings of The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and The Tempest that emphasize each play's investigation of the household as a potential locus of the good life. The characters in these plays develop an awareness of themselves as members of broader communities by negotiating the particular details of household existence---by sharing meals, exchanging gifts, and falling in love. This awareness is in turn presented as a necessary component of personal happiness and a fundamental constituent of a just and merciful state. By developing an account of household life in the plays, this dissertation argues that recognizing the importance of affective domestic relations to constructions of the self as socially embedded moral agent is crucial to understanding the comedies' nuanced analysis of gender, class, and race relations.
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Khan, Nadeem. "A distributed server architecture for massively multiplayer online games /." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101150.
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There has been a tremendous growth in the popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (or MMOGs) with millions of players interacting in their virtual game space at the same time. However, the centralized server architecture of most modern day MMOGs is unable to cope with this increase in the number of participating players. Hence, there is a need for a scalable network architecture which can support these large number of players without affecting the overall gaming experience for each player. In this thesis we propose a scalable distributed server architecture which divides the virtual game space in smaller sub spaces and assigns them across a cluster of server nodes thereby reducing the overall load per server. It is based on a distributed publish/subscribe architecture which takes care of client-server as well as server-server communication. We discuss the implementation of this architecture in a real MMOG and experimentally prove that it shows better scalability than the centralized server architecture.
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Farah, Leila. "Food paths, architecture and urban form. A case study." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104615.
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Architectural scholars have studied the origins, growth, and development of New World settlements and their works document aspects such as land division, infrastructure, construction materials and building techniques. Often overlooked, however, are the physical effects that everyday food-related activities had in shaping these places.This thesis explores the relationships that linked subsistence to the architecture of the cold-climate settlement of Montreal in seventeenth and eighteenth century New France. It investigates food production cycles and transformation processes, and seeks to reconstruct the spatial-temporal chains through which food made its way from field to table to wastes in a pre-industrial urban context. It does so, through introducing the concept of food paths. The correlation between food trajectories, the form of the settlement and its social structure are discussed through an investigation of areas dedicated to the production of cereals, meats and produce, their processing, consumption, storage and discharge. Methodologically, the scarcity of the relevant physical evidence, the fact that the interaction between food paths and architecture deals with several unknowns related to the timeframe, as well as the very perishable nature of food and the transient character of its trajectories pose major challenges that require an inter-disciplinary approach towards reconstructing related processes. Hence, this work seeks evidence from primary sources that include both iconographical data and manuscripts. Maps, travelersř notes, notariesř acts and archaeological data referring to landscape, urban form, architecture and artefacts also find their place in this study, in complementary roles.Among this dissertationřs original contributions is its interpretation of architecture and the development of a human settlement, by adding a new and complementary layer to morphological analysis. By examining and differentiating food paths, this work also creates a framework for the study of food and architecture that can be applied to cases across both time and space. Finally, it also contributes to understanding space beyond the paradigm of form and function and considers architecture as part of daily life processes.Les chercheurs en architecture ont étudié l'origine et le développement des colonies dans le Nouveau Monde et leurs travaux documentent des aspects tels que la division territoriale, l'infrastructure, la planification urbaine, les matériaux et techniques de constructions. Toutefois, les répercussions physiques que les activités journalières des colons ont eues sur l'environnement qu'ils ont occupé, particulièrement celles liées à l'alimentation, n'ont pas fait l'objet d'études approfondies. Cette thèse explore les relations entre la subsistance et l'architecture au cours du 17ième et 18ième siècles dans l'établissement de Montréal en Nouvelle France. Elle étudie comment les aliments se sont déplacés depuis les espaces de production aux lieux de consommation et de déchet. Pour cela, elle introduit le concept de trajectoires alimentaires qu'elle analyse selon les catégories suivantes: céréales, viandes, fruits et légumes. Ce travail examine les liens entre les flux alimentaires, la forme urbaine, le bâti, la structure sociale et les rythmes temporels de l'établissement humain en question. Méthodologiquement, les nombreux inconnus liés à la période de recherche et à la nature périssable des aliments ont constitué un défi de taille et ont requis une approche interdisciplinaire. Ce travail s'appuie sur des sources iconographiques et manuscrites (plans, carnets de voyage, ordonnances, actes notariés, débris archéologiques) liés au paysage, à la forme urbaine, à l'architecture et aux artéfacts de l'époque et du site en question. Cette thèse contribue à une nouvelle interprétation de l'architecture et du développement des colonies. A travers l'analyse des trajectoires alimentaires, elle crée un nouveau cadre d'étude qui pourrait être ajusté et réutilisé pour d'autres cas circonscrits à des périodes temporelles et des espaces géographiques différents. Au delà du paradigme forme/fonction, cette étude permet une nouvelle compréhension de l'architecture qu'elle lie à des processus.
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Hum, Herbert Hing-Jing. "The super-actor machine : a hybrid dataflowvon Neumann architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39346.
Анотація:
Emerging VLSI/ULSI technologies have created new opportunities in designing computer architectures capable of hiding the latencies and synchronization overheads associated with von Neumann-style multiprocessing. Pure Dataflow architectures have been suggested as solutions, but they do not adequately address the issues of local memory latencies and fine-grain synchronization costs. In this thesis, we propose a novel hybrid dataflow/von Neumann architecture, called the Super-Actor Machine, to address the problems facing von Neumann and pure dataflow machines. This architecture uses a novel high-speed memory organization known as a register-cache to tolerate local memory latencies and decrease local memory bandwidth requirements. The register-cache is unique in that it appears as a register file to the execution unit, while from the perspective of main memory, its contents are tagged as in conventional caches. Fine-grain synchronization costs are alleviated by the hybrid execution model and a loosely-coupled scheduling mechanism.A major goal of this dissertation is to characterize the performance of the Super-Actor Machine and compare it with other architectures for a class of programs typical of scientific computations. The thesis includes a review on the precursor called the McGill Dataflow Architecture, description of a Super-Actor Execution Model, a design for a Super-Actor Machine, description of the register-cache mechanism, compilation techniques for the Super-Actor Machine and results from a detailed simulator. Results show that the Super-Actor Machine can tolerate local memory latencies and fine-grain synchronization overheads--the execution unit can sustain 99% throughput--if a program has adequate exposed parallelism.
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Shen, Xijin 1966. "Environment support for business modelling : concepts, architecture and implementation." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26456.
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The goal of business modelling is the design, analysis, and simulation of an enterprise's architectural structures and their information technology components. To comprehensively support business modelling, an appropriate modelling environment with adequate visualization mechanisms is required. Such an environment may handle model information in a flexible, yet expressive way and support substitution, documentation, validation and dynamic analysis of models as well as model visualization and alternative representations.We have developed a business modelling approach which is based on the formalism of extended, colored Petri nets. To support and validate our approach, we have engineered the Macrotec environment. Macrotec meets a list of requirements we have identified as crucial for the quality of a comprehensive modelling environment. It is conceived as a set of various tools which are seamlessly integrated. Our experience with Macrotec suggests that our concepts and environment substantially facilitate business modelling.
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Djavaherian, Negin. "Not nothingness: Peter Brook's "empty space" and its architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114248.
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The thesis explores architectural potential and experience in the theatre of Peter Brook (1925-). The importance of his thought, writings and theatrical creation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reaches far beyond the question of theatre. It prepares a ground for exploring the ethical and poetic dimensions of architecture. Refusing to reduce the role of theatre to making 'pictures,' Brook's theatre strives to offer us ephemeral experience in space and to engage us with the power of individual and communal imagination. What is explored and can be learned from Brook's theatre cannot be considered as a 'practical prescription' or methodology, but rather as a call to an incessant quest. It offers an entry to rethinking the role of architecture not as a finished design, but as a phenomenon that emerges through an 'event' and engages its inhabitants and their being in the world. The dissertation, seen through the lens of an architect, embarks on a journey into Brook's theatre in which it unravels crucial concepts from his discourse and theatrical experiments offering insights of great value to architects and architectural creation alike. The idea of "empty space," the relationship between visible and invisible, and the notion of 'Immediate Theatre' resonate throughout the investigation. Along the way, I study three theatrical plays: Orghast at the tombs of the Persian kings at Persepolis and Naqsh-e-Rustam (Iran, 1971); The Mahabharata at the Callet Quarry in Boulbon (France, 1985); and Eleven and Twelve at the theatre of Bouffes du Nord (Paris, 2009). The investigation reveals the unusual approach toward places of performance, the exploratory process of creation, and the audience's involvement in space/time. In the view of this thesis, Brook's theatrical creation invokes an architecture that temporalizes space and recognizes the 'present moment,' immersing its participants in a wholeness of narrative, play and place.Cette thèse explore le potentiel offert à l'architecture par le théâtre de Peter Brook (1925-). L'importance de sa pensée, ses écrits et sa création théâtrale dans les vingtième et vingt-et-unième siècles atteint bien au-delà de la question du théâtre. Son travail nous donne un terrain fertile pour explorer les dimensions éthique et poétique de l'architecture. Refusant de réduire le rôle du théâtre à faire des images, le théâtre de Brook s'efforce de nous offrir une expérience éphémère dans l'espace et nous engage par le pouvoir de l'imagination individuelle et collective. Ce qui est exploré et qui peut être compris du théâtre de Brook ne peut pas être considéré comme une « recette » ou méthodologie, mais doit plutôt être perçu comme un appel à une quête incessante. Cette approche permet de repenser le rôle de l'architecture non pas comme une maquette, mais comme un phénomène qui émerge à travers un « événement » et engage ses habitants et leurs questions existentielles les plus fondamentales. Vu à travers de la lentille d'un architecte, la thèse examine les concepts cruciaux dans le théâtre de Brook, particulièrement les notions d'« espace vide », la relation entre le visible et l'invisible, et la notion de « théâtre immédiat ». Pour ce faire, j'étudie trois pièces de théâtre : Orghast, sur les tombes des rois de Perse de Persépolis et de Naqsh-e Rustam (Iran, 1971); Le Mahabharata, à la carrière Callet à Boulbon (France, 1985), et Onze et Douze, au théâtre de Bouffes du Nord (Paris, 2009). La recherche révèle l'approche inhabituelle vers les lieux de performance, le processus d'exploration de la création et la participation du public dans l'espace/temps. La création théâtrale de Brook apparaît comme une architecture qui induit le temps à l'espace et reconnaît le « moment présent », plongeant ses participants dans une plénitude du récit, du jeu et du lieu.