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| The project is the design of an urban park in the city of Los Angeles and the design of a building element within the urban park. | 28 |
| The site and project were selected because they offered a good opportunity to explore the issues of designing an integrated environment at the macro/urban scale as well as the micro/building scale. | 32 |
| The study provides an overall awareness of both the difficulties and opportunities presented in dealing with creative ideas within a greater context of realities of practice. | 44 |
| as a profession, | 46 |
| landscape architecture is practiced within a team environment-not in creative isolation. | 48 |
| That team is comprised of a myriad of individuals that influence the realization and perpetuation of built-works. | 48 |
| the assertion that there is one optimal answer to a design solution by one individual voice. | 54 |
| it is from the context of all their interactions that a project emerges. | 62 |
| how does a designer who is trained by academia as a convergent, | 62 |
| how does a designer who is trained by academia as a convergent, | 64 |
| individual thinker-"my design" evolve into a divergent, | 66 |
| This suggests a need for academic development of a more effective methodology that offers the landscape architecture student the understanding of multiple perspectives, | 66 |
| This suggests a need for academic development of a more effective methodology that offers the landscape architecture student the understanding of multiple perspectives, | 68 |
| including the need for a new framework in landscape architecture that involves all the voices in the process to become a greater creative collective. | 74 |
| including the need for a new framework in landscape architecture that involves all the voices in the process to become a greater creative collective. | 76 |
| People and flowers have a strong relationship. | 80 |
| Their findings suggest that people have a positive emotional response to flowers. | 88 |
| and emotional responses to flowers in landscapes have been not studied to a significant extent. | 92 |
| Participants were shown slides and asked to choose from a range of emotional responses using a two- dimensional structure measuring degrees of feelings of activation and pleasantness. | 96 |
| Participants were shown slides and asked to choose from a range of emotional responses using a two- dimensional structure measuring degrees of feelings of activation and pleasantness. | 96 |
| Participants in this study who were surveyed were from eight university course classes (201 college students) and one scheduled session at a retirement community (15 people). | 100 |
| that flowers have a positive influence on emotional response. | 106 |
| while the absence of flowers tends toward a deactivated response. | 110 |
| proximate views of flowers (a distance of less than 2 meters) demonstrate higher impact on emotional responses. | 118 |
| has a tree ordinance that protects both the Monterey cypress and the Torrey pine in the city on public and private property. | 124 |
| Bernhardt and Swiecki (1991) state that public support is vital to the overall success of a tree ordinance. | 128 |
| a mail survey was sent out to 500 owner-occupied residences in the city of Del Mar. | 130 |
| there is about a fifty-fifty percent split in those people who support tree protection on private property vs. | 142 |
| Many homeowners would resist planting a new Torrey pine on their property and would even cut down a wild sapling before it grew large enough to gain protected status. | 144 |
| Many homeowners would resist planting a new Torrey pine on their property and would even cut down a wild sapling before it grew large enough to gain protected status. | 146 |
| are elements of a landscape that denote "neatness, | 160 |
| and are symbols by which natural landscapes are presented to the general public in a more acceptable and attractive manner (Nassauer 1995, | 162 |
| and appropriateness within a natural landscape. | 170 |
| Pomona (231) were asked to rate their preferences on a 7-point Likert scale. | 178 |
| Additional surveys are needed to better understand the issue of appropriateness for the local communities using a particular nature park. | 188 |
| The results provide an increased comprehension of how these site features affect the public's perceived experiences and may play a role in increasing the acceptability and appreciation of created natural parks within the southern California urban area. | 204 |
| Anxiety is an important issue in cancer care and is often associated with a cancer diagnosis and the subsequent oncology treatment process (Skeel, | 206 |
| and a feeling of hopelessness are less likely to enjoy recurrence- free survival than those who adopt a more optimistic/fighting attitude (Gordon, | 210 |
| and a feeling of hopelessness are less likely to enjoy recurrence- free survival than those who adopt a more optimistic/fighting attitude (Gordon, | 212 |
| My study analyzed patient stress within the context of a medical oncology treatment facility that offers treatment rooms with and without landscape views. | 218 |
| A self- assessment mood profile survey was administered shortly after the patient entered the room, | 228 |
| The results indicate that landscape views have a profound effect on lowering anxiety levels and improving overall patient outlook. | 236 |
| Medical complications were attributed to the two patients showing a decline. | 244 |
| All patients in the study noted a strong personal preference for a view or a window when interviewed. | 244 |
| All patients in the study noted a strong personal preference for a view or a window when interviewed. | 244 |
| All patients in the study noted a strong personal preference for a view or a window when interviewed. | 244 |
| While patients sometimes had a positive first impression of the non-view rooms, | 250 |
| The patients also expressed a greater awareness of their sickness and their medical surroundings in the non-view rooms. | 252 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted established landscape architecture as a profession dedicated to land and people. | 266 |
| continues to provide a foundation for landscape architecture today. | 268 |
| landscape architects can deliver a clear and understandable message about their ability to design livable spaces. | 276 |
| There is a renaissance of landscape painting in southern California. | 284 |
| I do not consider this group of artists to be a "school" of painting -- but loosely conceived, | 288 |
| a republic of artists who each have a single vote. | 290 |
| a republic of artists who each have a single vote. | 290 |
| five identifiable themes have emerged: a certain view of topography, | 292 |
| It is important for landscape professionals to look and learn from their work partly because it is a different way of looking at the southern California region. | 302 |
| and in a more compressed form, | 302 |
| A painting is not just a recorded response to the landscape it depicts, | 310 |
| A painting is not just a recorded response to the landscape it depicts, | 310 |
| but involves the artists' accumulation of experience over a whole lifetime, | 312 |
| There is a dynamic and reciprocal interplay between the artists' personal vision - the inner landscape, | 318 |
| The study employed: 1) a survey instrument. | 326 |
| The findings were used to develop a strategy for a community outreach program. | 340 |
| The findings were used to develop a strategy for a community outreach program. | 340 |
| With the continuing influx of people into the area and growing symptoms of a degraded environment, | 348 |
| The study relied on field research a multi-method approach that included open-ended intensive interviews, | 366 |
| As a result a preliminary model of labor demands, | 372 |
| As a result a preliminary model of labor demands, | 372 |
| The degree to which it may be applied to a watershed was investigated by literature search, | 402 |
| The projected growth for southern California will create unprecedented needs for water supplies in a region that is not naturally endowed to support huge urban populations. | 428 |
| there are tremendous opportunities for the landscape architect to make use of treated wastewater for landscape irrigation and other water reuse schemes that may have a great effect on the future of southern California's development This report also describes a systematic approach for measuring or predicting water use in the landscape. | 446 |
| there are tremendous opportunities for the landscape architect to make use of treated wastewater for landscape irrigation and other water reuse schemes that may have a great effect on the future of southern California's development This report also describes a systematic approach for measuring or predicting water use in the landscape. | 450 |
| The Center for Regenerative Studies is proposed as a way of designing human systems that function on the same principles as ecosystems, | 462 |
| using a minimum of imports and exports and cycling wastes efficiently. | 464 |
| The Center for Regenerative Studies is a student community proposed for a site on the campus of the California State Polytechnic University, | 474 |
| The Center for Regenerative Studies is a student community proposed for a site on the campus of the California State Polytechnic University, | 474 |
| Energy conversion systems in the future will be more diverse and integral with the landscape and will therefore have a profound effect on existing and future landuse patterns. | 488 |
| providing a framework for further analysis. | 494 |
| These issues are discussed and a systematic approach is presented to assess their implications on the land. | 504 |
| There is a definite biological need for an appropriate level of complexity in human surroundings. | 506 |
| as a result of both technological innovations and the ideologies of designers. | 512 |
| Adding to this is a review of scientific research done with both animals and humans which demonstrates an innate desire for variety. | 514 |
| The perceptual process is discussed and it is shown how human perception is specialized for sensing and organizing a middle range of complexity. | 518 |
| Since reclamation efforts are dictated by regulations to a large extent, | 538 |
| a summary of reclamation regulations is also included. | 538 |
| This paper investigates four aspects of Edward Huntsman-Trout: 1) his development as a landscape architect, | 544 |
| and he was one of the last landscape architects to maintain a practice in the artist- patron tradition. | 588 |
| Most European shopping environments also demonstrate a vitality, | 606 |
| a system for organizing some of the information available seems necessary for use in future shopping center design synthesis. | 610 |
| To establish a system or process, | 612 |
| It also appears that the archetypes could provide a tool for evaluating existing designs. | 624 |
| The thrust of this thesis was to find a means by which a landscape architect could legally, | 628 |
| The thrust of this thesis was to find a means by which a landscape architect could legally, | 628 |
| and profitably offer his services to the average homeowner at a cost the homeowner could reasonably afford. | 628 |
| A number of alternatives were developed and theoretically evaluated against a predetermined set of constraints. | 630 |
| A number of alternatives were developed and theoretically evaluated against a predetermined set of constraints. | 632 |
| Those faring best from this evaluation were then field tested on a number of different professions. | 634 |
| all alternatives were eliminated except the one that proposes that the landscape architect expand his business holdings so as to provide additional income beyond just design fees and also to provide a vehicle for reducing his burden of overhead costs. | 636 |
| allowing the average homeowner to acquire the amenities and cost benefits of a professionally landscaped home. | 640 |
| Integration of the natural ecosystem with a human system in turn creates a new, | 648 |
| Integration of the natural ecosystem with a human system in turn creates a new, | 650 |
| a planned river basin system. | 650 |
| a major function of any river system is the production of energy. | 654 |
| in a comparative study of river basin planning, | 656 |
| is to apply a nine-step process. | 662 |
| The steps systematically analyze the attributes of a variable, | 664 |
| or of a significant subject in river basin planning; | 664 |
| Modern architecture is a creation of the West. | 674 |
| In a non-Western context, | 674 |
| it normally reflects a direct intervention of Western powers through colonization. | 674 |
| and in essence show a manifestation of social and political awareness, | 686 |
| By examining these dwellings it is possible to understand how designers and planners utilized a mixture of contemporary and traditional forms in an attempt to create a more civilized and Modern environment for the city's working class. | 712 |
| By examining these dwellings it is possible to understand how designers and planners utilized a mixture of contemporary and traditional forms in an attempt to create a more civilized and Modern environment for the city's working class. | 712 |
| and creating a public health program. | 716 |
| Britons touted the city as a leader in town planning. | 718 |
| Better housing for the working class might have remained the field of philanthropy if it had not been for fearing a Russian-styled revolution in Britain at the end of World War I. | 722 |
| Birmingham was still a nineteenth-century city, | 730 |
| These homes were part of a system designed to make the working class good citizens of the British Empire. | 736 |
| architects in Europe and Britain attempted to create a modern architecture that met the needs of an increasingly democratic culture. | 744 |
| Despite the fact that Britain developed a program which met the social, | 746 |
| DTM are often used as a component in complex Geographic Information Systems (GIS) modelling, | 754 |
| As well they supply a Digital Surface Model (DSM), | 758 |
| In order to produce a more accurate DTM of the bare earth, | 762 |
| For a more accurate DTM, | 770 |
| The Dempster-Shafer approach is a statistically- based classification algorithm used for data fusion. | 784 |
| is presented which combines evidence from three data sources to effectively guide the segmentation to a suitable solution. | 794 |
| A number of test areas have been investigated, | 794 |
| The church's worship is a central expression of these commitments, | 800 |
| Evangelical architecture has been constrained in its theological expression by a Spirit-space tension in which people are so much God's dwelling that the potential for place lies unexamined. | 804 |
| It is the purpose here to construct a theology of architecture that locates itself more usefully in relation to scripture and mission than has traditionally been done so. | 806 |
| I argue that vernacular architecture has the potential to embody such a theology because its characteristic values of creation (nature), | 810 |
| To understand how a building might be theologically more expressive than another, | 814 |
| The church in the Spirit is God's presence in the world and its attention to architecture is a new creation product, | 832 |
| a spiritual sacrifice. | 832 |
| community and culture stands released from the constraints of the traditional Spirit-space tension and refitted as a suitable servant to the gospel on its global march. | 836 |
| This work of creative nonfiction involves the reading of a century-old ancestral house as a cultural text, | 840 |
| This work of creative nonfiction involves the reading of a century-old ancestral house as a cultural text, | 840 |
| and religion particularly Mormonism are addressed through using the house as a lens, | 848 |
| as well as the pleasure that comes with the preservation of an ancestral home juxtaposed with the guilt that necessarily follows the inevitable destruction of a family's tangible links to history as the house becomes modernized. | 852 |
| Written as a series of vignettes, | 854 |
| the essays work together to create a mosaic that tells a story of the author's journey to find her place in a house and a family. | 854 |
| the essays work together to create a mosaic that tells a story of the author's journey to find her place in a house and a family. | 854 |
| the essays work together to create a mosaic that tells a story of the author's journey to find her place in a house and a family. | 856 |
| the essays work together to create a mosaic that tells a story of the author's journey to find her place in a house and a family. | 856 |
| to depict how a popular multifamily house was transformed into a symbol of bad housing. | 862 |
| to depict how a popular multifamily house was transformed into a symbol of bad housing. | 864 |
| Boston provides a unique backdrop because wooden three-deckers were prohibited in the city center by fire limits and were generally not legislated as tenements; | 872 |
| when a severe housing shortage helped create a demand for multifamily dwellings. | 876 |
| when a severe housing shortage helped create a demand for multifamily dwellings. | 878 |
| The moral dimensions of the housing problem are established through a careful reading of the ambivalence toward multifamily housing and the increasing association of tenements with the poor. | 880 |
| Chapter Five uses oral histories and information from census returns to illustrate how three-deckers fostered a sense of community that bolstered their popularity. | 898 |
| When a designer's ideas are still in gestation, | 908 |
| We introduce a new approach to transform existing 2-D sketches directly into a new kind of sketch-like 3-D model. | 916 |
| We introduce a new approach to transform existing 2-D sketches directly into a new kind of sketch-like 3-D model. | 918 |
| we present a novel sketching technique that removes the distinction between 2-D and 3-D altogether. | 918 |
| and a sketching interface that dissolves the boundaries between 2-D and 3-D representation. | 924 |
| we present a technique, | 928 |
| whereby the designer can explore a range of curves with a single stroke. | 930 |
| whereby the designer can explore a range of curves with a single stroke. | 930 |
| we present a method to enable smooth exploration of sketched form by point-dragging. | 934 |
| The user constructs a high-level proxy description that can be used, | 936 |
| somewhat like a skeleton, | 938 |
| to deform a sketch independent of the internal stroke description. | 938 |
| Our reconstruction techniques generate a novel kind of 3-D model which maintains the appearance and stroke structure of the original 2- D sketch. | 942 |
| One technique transforms a single sketch with help from annotations by the designer; | 946 |
| Camera planes provide a complex 3-D scaffolding on which to hang sketches, | 954 |
| A sparse set of 2-D sketches placed on planes provides a novel visualization of 3-D form, | 954 |
| A sparse set of 2-D sketches placed on planes provides a novel visualization of 3-D form, | 956 |
| A. | 968 |
| a site neighboring Chau Hiix that was inhabited into the period of Spanish Conquest, | 974 |
| another neighbor that was largely abandoned after the 9 th century A. | 976 |
| Research findings include a tendency for buildings at Lamanai and Chau Hiix to become progressively restricted prior to about A. | 986 |
| Research findings include a tendency for buildings at Lamanai and Chau Hiix to become progressively restricted prior to about A. | 988 |
| architecturally-focused patterns of sociopolitical interaction is postulated to have contributed to (or to index a process that explains) the persistence of certain Belize Maya communities after the period of widespread site abandonment following the 9th century Maya collapse. | 992 |
| These data emphasize the complexity of the Terminal Classic period by illustrating how contrasting community trajectories were not only the result of distinct strategies of manipulation of material culture but also almost certainly a consequence of distinct social processes operating in different parts of the Southern Maya Lowlands Reading in Three Dimensions: Architectural Biography from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith Wharton is a multidisciplinary work that combines literary studies with biography, | 998 |
| These data emphasize the complexity of the Terminal Classic period by illustrating how contrasting community trajectories were not only the result of distinct strategies of manipulation of material culture but also almost certainly a consequence of distinct social processes operating in different parts of the Southern Maya Lowlands Reading in Three Dimensions: Architectural Biography from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith Wharton is a multidisciplinary work that combines literary studies with biography, | 1002 |
| The project draws upon a wide variety of sources - houses, | 1012 |
| It offers a new lens through which to examine the lives and literature of four of America's greatest realist authors. | 1022 |
| New Urbanist neighborhoods are a new dimension in urban planning. | 1026 |
| New Urbanist communities are popular with today's homebuyers as they provide for a small town atmosphere. | 1030 |
| This study assesses the residential perceptions of a New Urbanist community in Mt. | 1040 |
| The results indicated that Lynch's principles and methodology are valid approaches to determine the residential perceptions of New Urbanist environments This thesis introduces a Participatory Virtual Preservation model, | 1046 |
| a human-centered approach for architectural history inquiry using digital media technologies. | 1046 |
| a literature review is presented dealing with geometric representation, | 1046 |
| Once a background has been established, | 1050 |
| the thesis moves to a proposal for a virtual architectural preservation approach that makes use of augmented reality applications. | 1052 |
| the thesis moves to a proposal for a virtual architectural preservation approach that makes use of augmented reality applications. | 1052 |
| a context- based and customized user interface for an interactive and collaborative digital media environment. | 1058 |
| and define a common ground, | 1062 |
| the US Government has authorized funding for the design and construction of a building that serves as a center for women's leadership internationally. | 1074 |
| the US Government has authorized funding for the design and construction of a building that serves as a center for women's leadership internationally. | 1074 |
| The project proposed herein provides such a facility and is hereafter referred to as WILL, | 1076 |
| The Conservatory is a historically significant cultural institution that gives the region of Tolima cultural identity and pride. | 1084 |
| Located on a site near the cliff of the downtown district of Ibagué , | 1088 |
| the Conservatory has potential for a great view of adjacent topography. | 1090 |
| While creating a new edge, | 1094 |
| * *This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). | 1102 |
| * *This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). | 1102 |
| * *This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). | 1102 |
| The accompanying design proposal responds to the site adversities of one Ottawa scrap site and shows how a mixed-use high-density development can be produced in a contextually appropriate way. | 1122 |
| The accompanying design proposal responds to the site adversities of one Ottawa scrap site and shows how a mixed-use high-density development can be produced in a contextually appropriate way. | 1122 |
| A purposive sample of 37 adolescents of ages 11-17 years residing in group homes in Oklahoma and Tennessee was used in this study. | 1128 |
| Results of this study show that the dually diagnosed adolescents prefer a landscape dominated by natural vegetation such as trees and plants over man-made structures and a combination of both natural vegetation and man-made structures. | 1134 |
| Results of this study show that the dually diagnosed adolescents prefer a landscape dominated by natural vegetation such as trees and plants over man-made structures and a combination of both natural vegetation and man-made structures. | 1136 |
| To walk among the grove of cottages at Chester Heights Camp Meeting is to experience the surroundings of a Victorian religious resort. | 1154 |
| and ornament foster a feeling of community and playful escapism, | 1166 |
| I outline a model of commemoration that I use to examine how the culture of art music functioned as a form of commemorative practice in nineteenth-century Germany. | 1174 |
| I outline a model of commemoration that I use to examine how the culture of art music functioned as a form of commemorative practice in nineteenth-century Germany. | 1176 |
| A backdrop of this discussion will be the nineteenth-century reception of Johann Sebastian Bach, | 1182 |
| German associations collectively functioned as one of the most efficient conduits through which historical knowledge and political consciousness was transmitted among the middle classes and played a central role in solidifying Brahms's historical consciousness during his years of study. | 1198 |
| Even as historical knowledge functioned as a concrete means of confirming professionalism, | 1204 |
| facilitated a distinctive dialogue between idealist and materialist modes of understanding in an attempt to reify historical forces and access the real idealism of history. | 1206 |
| a Dominican tertiary influenced by Savonarola who founded and built the convent of la Crocetta in Florence in 1511. | 1212 |
| A mystic, | 1214 |
| Suor Domenica has been the subject of studies that treated her role as a religious leader and prophet in the post- Savonarolan period. | 1216 |
| These legends became the standard explanation in the seventeenth century for how this lower class woman was able to build a convent. | 1228 |
| and the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence has allowed for a reconstruction of the process by which Suor Domenica was able to build her convent. | 1234 |
| reveal that Suor Domenica was in large part funded by a network of members of the Florentine ruling class including Girolamo Gondi, | 1238 |
| Through a close investigation of the late twelfth-century architectural design and construction in northern Burgundy, | 1250 |
| In focusing on a key Cistercian monastery of Pontigny (second daughter-abbey of Citeaux, | 1254 |
| this study reveals the consistency in construction of a group of Early Gothic churches in a microregion of the Yonne Valley. | 1258 |
| this study reveals the consistency in construction of a group of Early Gothic churches in a microregion of the Yonne Valley. | 1260 |
| this hands-on examination isolates distinct architectural elements and connects them directly to a northern Burgundian builder and his workers. | 1264 |
| Approaching the question through a detailed investigation of a group of related churches, | 1272 |
| Approaching the question through a detailed investigation of a group of related churches, | 1272 |
| This study demonstrates that smaller churches have a great deal in common with larger churches. | 1276 |
| A wealth of information such as layouts, | 1280 |
| My research has revealed that the Yonne Valley has a substantial number of Early Gothic churches with elements consistent with current trends in Î le-de-France construction. | 1286 |
| Communities of place are in need of a design praxis that can help them deal with the rapid changes they are facing, | 1292 |
| in a socially engaged architectural praxis. | 1298 |
| The objective of this study is to enhance Bourdieu's theory by developing a framework to inform an understanding of the process by which social capital is objectified in the built environment. | 1304 |
| The framework is developed in a two-step process. | 1306 |
| a small costal town in Texas. | 1314 |
| This research focuses on developing a tool to improve energy efficiency of the built environment. | 1330 |
| The buildings in which we live or work have a great impact on our natural environment. | 1342 |
| The problem of this study was to develop and validate a salient set of related attributes in assessment for design features of Indoor Games Hall (IGH). | 1374 |
| A total of 39 subjects and 26 subjects, | 1376 |
| A total of 60 IGH design features attributes were generated from these two methods. | 1380 |
| A close-ended questionnaire, | 1388 |
| was constructed for a pilot study with 299 respondents and subsequently the main study with 675 patrons. | 1394 |
| this study constitutes a valid process for attribute development within the context of the conditions set forth in this study. | 1406 |
| The eighteenth century was a period of renovations and repairs, | 1424 |
| the hamam entered a new economic context, | 1430 |
| in the second half of the twentieth century the hamam took on a new identity: that of a tourist attraction. | 1442 |
| in the second half of the twentieth century the hamam took on a new identity: that of a tourist attraction. | 1442 |
| Now the bath has become a space contested/shared by its employees and managers, | 1442 |
| A discussion of the hamam as a node in a network of global flows underscores how this institution has exchanged its place in the endowment's network for the network of global tourism. | 1444 |
| A discussion of the hamam as a node in a network of global flows underscores how this institution has exchanged its place in the endowment's network for the network of global tourism. | 1444 |
| A discussion of the hamam as a node in a network of global flows underscores how this institution has exchanged its place in the endowment's network for the network of global tourism. | 1446 |
| the Çemberlitas Hamam has never been a strictly local institution, | 1448 |
| a group of pensionnaires argued for freer assembly of architectural elements that would allow diachronic reading of historical fragments as opposed to synchronic antique-looking motifs. | 1482 |
| Eclecticism taught them that mixture of antithetical things gave birth to something new after a transitory phase. | 1490 |
| While neo-classical architecture imitated the mature architectural representation of a distant past, | 1492 |
| The buildings of the second group revealed a new problem of representation in architecture, | 1496 |
| a problem that had begun to emerge already in the architecture of the eighteenth- century: the problem of style, | 1498 |
| expressed most famously if pathetically in the early nineteenth-century as a question: in what style shall we build? | 1502 |
| celebrating it as a vigorous, | 1506 |
| responding to an imminent threat of class war and reformulating the building type with a sophisticated, | 1538 |
| which united opera and big business in a stunning, | 1542 |
| The project is located in Villa el Salvador (VES) a planned shantytown in southern Lima and is part of a proposed network of infill development for the 144 vacant urban spaces in the district. | 1562 |
| The project is located in Villa el Salvador (VES) a planned shantytown in southern Lima and is part of a proposed network of infill development for the 144 vacant urban spaces in the district. | 1564 |
| Each space is considered as a core containing mid-density infill housing, | 1566 |
| a public plaza, | 1566 |
| A progressive housing scheme is proposed which provides an initial basic core that is designed to support future expansion through self-help construction. | 1566 |
| The challenge is to provide a higher density model for self-help construction that replaces the predominant scheme of the single house per lot. | 1570 |
| and architecture in a single community: Boston from 1783-1803. | 1578 |
| and communicate their elite status in a supposedly classless society by fundamentally altering the physical and built environment of the early republic town. | 1590 |
| Rather than a celebration of revolutionary-era republicanism, | 1592 |
| While offering a new interpretation of post-revolutionary building, | 1616 |
| this study also offers a different view of Charles Bulfinch, | 1616 |
| but more as a dependent cog in a larger process that remade Boston in the first decades of the republic. | 1620 |
| but more as a dependent cog in a larger process that remade Boston in the first decades of the republic. | 1620 |
| to what extent can urban design and architecture re-weave and revive a once thriving district on the verge of collapse? | 1630 |
| serving as a prototype for development within Newport News and beyond. | 1636 |
| A variety of housing options will be explored, | 1636 |
| close to work and other amenities that can result from a dynamic urban waterfront community. | 1640 |
| Collaborative design is a complex cognitive and social activity that requires coordination of both processes and products between its participants. | 1644 |
| Information required for this coordinative activity are descriptions of the various tasks and products found within a design project, | 1648 |
| or can arise from a social process of consensual, | 1652 |
| then members of the design team must work together and find a mutually agreeable assessment of state. | 1658 |
| With this information designers are better able to determine the progress and status of a design process, | 1660 |
| and to assess their roles and responsibilities within a design team. | 1662 |
| This research describes the design and implementation of a design support tool that enables distributed teams to collaboratively determine the state of design entities, | 1662 |
| and enables users to communicate simple looped state-transition models that they feel suitably describe the possible states and transitions that a design entity could experience. | 1668 |
| degree of acceptance within a team, | 1672 |
| or progress with respect to a series of milestones. | 1672 |
| and supports a form of bottom- up design coordination that requires no centralized policies or inputs, | 1682 |
| a group of reformed nuns called the Fogliante, | 1714 |
| Susanna into a new neighborhood called the Borgo Felice di S. | 1720 |
| I offer a description of archaeological evidence and a reconstruction, | 1736 |
| I offer a description of archaeological evidence and a reconstruction, | 1738 |
| I argue that the Lincoln faç ade was a royal portal decades before the development of the - portail royal at Saint-Denis and Chartres. | 1756 |
| as a culturally pervasive force. | 1762 |
| the obvious as well as the obscure references that a building might make. | 1766 |
| is traditionally looked upon as a retail hub. | 1774 |
| The unique ability of downtown to serve a variety of functions - commercial, | 1776 |
| This thesis proposes a new anchor building that will assist downtown in fulfilling this role. | 1778 |
| Its location along El Camino Real - the county's main traffic corridor - will spark the creation of a new master plan that will include public and cultural facilities that help define and enhance downtown's sense of place. | 1782 |
| The proposed San Mateo Institute of Culinary Arts is a mixed-use development composed of institutional, | 1786 |
| The college complex is comprised of a professional culinary school, | 1788 |
| a series of food service and retail facilities, | 1790 |
| a small inn, | 1790 |
| while encouraging development that speaks of the imagery of a Downtown district. | 1794 |
| the concentrated architectural effort seen on the Maxentian Sacra Via focused in time and place and under the guidance of a single patron offers an ideal venue to explore questions of urban planning in early fourth-century Rome. | 1806 |
| a chapter devoted to methodological issues, | 1810 |
| and a final chapter evaluating the structures as a group. | 1810 |
| and a final chapter evaluating the structures as a group. | 1812 |
| each class of evidence used to date or name the patron of a tetrarchal structure is analyzed to determine how narrow a date it can offer, | 1816 |
| each class of evidence used to date or name the patron of a tetrarchal structure is analyzed to determine how narrow a date it can offer, | 1816 |
| Each case study addresses a core set of questions: how is the structure associated with Maxentius? | 1820 |
| Chapter Six concentrates on understanding the three structures as a cohesive unit. | 1828 |
| The American architect Claude Bragdon (1866-1946) squared the circle using his Theosophic architectural theory that was based on a neo-Pythagorean emphasis on Number, | 1840 |
| The accumulation of wealth or what is called a forced savings plan, | 1866 |
| Since owner's payments on mortgage principals are retained as equity in a comparatively illiquid asset, | 1868 |
| The single-family house is the only architectural type driven almost entirely by the commodity practices of a market economy; | 1874 |
| a condition which encourages standardization and thus stifles architectural innovation. | 1874 |
| as reflected in a restrictive attitude towards neighborhood change and the symbolic demands of large-scale housing markets with which homeowners engage for purposes of wealth accumulation and social mobility. | 1894 |
| The research also includes a critique of this model of city management insofar as it entails housing discrimination, | 1902 |
| while programmatically distinct incorporate images drawn from a common set of ideas and images. | 1912 |
| One observes that during a long historical period, | 1914 |
| after conquering a symbolic path of sins and difficulties, | 1918 |
| arrives at a space that represents liberation; | 1918 |
| The conditions for the development and conception of a new civic theme in French cemeteries is examined, | 1934 |
| particularly as exemplified in the works of the architects Durand- Thibault and especially in the works of Etienne-Louis Boullé e in his seminal work for a Temple of Nature. | 1938 |
| The formal and symbolic strategy for a cemetery presented by Grandjean de Montigny is analyzed, | 1940 |
| with a description of how symbolic ideas and spatial narratives were appropriated and adapted to form a new symbolic formatting for this novel architectural program. | 1942 |
| with a description of how symbolic ideas and spatial narratives were appropriated and adapted to form a new symbolic formatting for this novel architectural program. | 1944 |
| this dissertation analyzes how these ideas and symbols contributed equally to the development of a personal project - the construction of Grandjean's residence in Brazil - describing how they were appropriated and adapted not only to a new gram of domestic habitation, | 1946 |
| this dissertation analyzes how these ideas and symbols contributed equally to the development of a personal project - the construction of Grandjean's residence in Brazil - describing how they were appropriated and adapted not only to a new gram of domestic habitation, | 1950 |
| but also to a new physical, | 1950 |
| Advertising bans within this ethics typify a general difficulty with payment for service, | 1956 |
| forming a dysfunctional symptom of market bound professionalism. | 1958 |
| This dissertation illustrates this thesis by examining the ethics of professionalism through a series of case studies. | 1964 |
| that such practices lingered within modernity from a by-gone era (18th Century gentility), | 1974 |
| sustain a thesis that such bans mask the marked relations of professionalism in a rather odd way. | 1984 |
| sustain a thesis that such bans mask the marked relations of professionalism in a rather odd way. | 1986 |
| This realigns the unsubstantiated sociological presumptions as part of a problem to be addressed in future work, | 1994 |
| it compiles and presented a substantially complete chronology of AIA disciplinary cases for the first time. | 2000 |
| the dissertation produces a history of building product advertisements and the place of architects within them. | 2004 |
| This material therefore provides a resource to further consider the ethics of professional ethics. | 2006 |
| The final issue of Assemblage marks a new form of discourse in architecture: compilations of short responses to general provocations about architecture from numerous writers active in the field. | 2010 |
| The provocations imply a fundamental uncertainty, | 2014 |
| a gnawing existential angst. | 2014 |
| This trend relates to a current fascination in the broader architectural discourse with self-organizing systems. | 2016 |
| provides a false sense of accomplishment. | 2022 |
| but also provide enclave type atmospheres that promote the sense of identity that people associate with living in a planned community. | 2046 |
| Typical developments have a simple language of abutments to convey these edge conditions. | 2052 |
| to develop a new prototype of residential living. | 2056 |
| the culmination of which is the design for a new intermodal transit facility. | 2060 |
| and propose a formal and programmatic development strategy allowing Sacramento to balance downtown growth through renewed connections into its North End. | 2064 |
| the smaller 45 acre transit district will balance growth between the central business district and a new activity district in the North End; | 2072 |
| and finally the transit facility will itself act as a bridge across the tracks allowing for direct communication between the new and the old city fabrics This dissertation is a social and cultural history of the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair, | 2074 |
| and finally the transit facility will itself act as a bridge across the tracks allowing for direct communication between the new and the old city fabrics This dissertation is a social and cultural history of the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair, | 2076 |
| also known as A Century of Progress. | 2076 |
| and engineering backgrounds to create a male- dominated organizational model that staged a civil-military enterprise. | 2086 |
| and engineering backgrounds to create a male- dominated organizational model that staged a civil-military enterprise. | 2086 |
| This fair reinvented the concept of world's fairs by seeking private funding rather than government support and by eliminating competitive industrial exhibits in favor of exhibits that offered a narrative of scientific discoveries and their applications to everyday life. | 2090 |
| the controversy over a separate woman's building; | 2106 |
| Their interior domestic spaces served to assert the Aikens' social identity and established their home as a place for both physical comfort and aesthetic enjoyment. | 2124 |
| This dissertation is an account of a 27-month action research project that took place in an adult/dementia day center (ADC), | 2128 |
| which began as a modest architectural problem and ultimately evolved into a venture in organizational transformation. | 2130 |
| which began as a modest architectural problem and ultimately evolved into a venture in organizational transformation. | 2132 |
| Where the purpose of the project was to facilitate change in the ADC through the development and adoption of a person-centered approach to care, | 2140 |
| relating to establishing a formative link between person-centered care and the physical setting. | 2148 |
| and training materials that support the organizational transformation to a person-centered approach to care in an adult/dementia day center. | 2170 |
| A questionnaire was used to gather information about their backgrounds, | 2214 |
| It was anticipated that the participants would have an increased sense of well- being as a result of the design of the space. | 2224 |
| It was predicted that people would have an increased sense of well-being with exposure to aspects of spaces designed to reflect a sense of spirituality. | 2232 |
| The dissertation offers a critical analysis of the political underpinnings, | 2252 |
| and the creation of an archeological museum as well as a national library, | 2262 |
| the project of Iran's cultural heritage was not just about a series of public monuments, | 2264 |
| its safest and fastest corridor to a progressive, | 2270 |
| Stein (1994) suggested a feasible explanation for South Mesopotamia by bringing the idea of staple finance economy to the fore. | 2290 |
| a functional analysis of the material culture is undertaken to shed light on the ways in which the community was organized. | 2300 |
| Analyses at the end of this study suggest a model for this expansion: a process of hybridization for the inhabitants of Degirmentepe. | 2306 |
| Analyses at the end of this study suggest a model for this expansion: a process of hybridization for the inhabitants of Degirmentepe. | 2308 |
| I conclude that the case of Degirmentepe indicates a society that did not place emphasis on status, | 2318 |
| but probably belonged to a chiefdom with at least one tier hierarchy. | 2320 |
| Migge was a close colleague and collaborator of many important modern architects including Hermann Muthesius, | 2330 |
| Although he was a talented garden designer, | 2334 |
| his greatest significance comes from his ability to synthesize practical and theoretical developments from a variety of fields, | 2336 |
| He was a central figure in four great movements: garden and park reform, | 2338 |
| a figure that he probably took from Le Corbusier. | 2348 |
| Migge argued that the original dwelling had been purposely constructed as a movable or temporary structure in order to facilitate relocation in search of food or new ground. | 2352 |
| many of his conceptual paradigms are of such a fundamental nature that they remain relevant to contemporary discussion. | 2360 |
| This dissertation investigates the practice of founding new cities in the ancient Near East as a socio- cultural phenomenon. | 2364 |
| the idea of establishing new urban settlements was a cross-culturally shared landscape strategy. | 2368 |
| understood as a cross-cultural historical problem and explored on an interregional scale. | 2372 |
| and attempts to develop a discourse on how social memories are constructed through space-producing activities. | 2388 |
| but rather marked a hallmark of settlement trends across Upper Mesopotamia in the EIA, | 2392 |
| The construction projects involved the narrativization of urban spaces through the making of a constellation of commemorative monuments. | 2402 |
| a technique that became an interregional practice among EIA cities. | 2406 |
| As a technological style and architectonic aesthetics in the urban landscapes, | 2406 |
| The three scales of analysis contribute to the interpretation of new urban foundations as a material as well as a representational practice of spatial production and signification. | 2412 |
| The three scales of analysis contribute to the interpretation of new urban foundations as a material as well as a representational practice of spatial production and signification. | 2412 |
| a comprehensive investigation of indigenous plants for each of these regions will be carried out, | 2428 |
| and I show that the performance of this liturgy in Auxerre in 1537 was imbued with a local significance at a time when episcopal authority was being challenged. | 2470 |
| and I show that the performance of this liturgy in Auxerre in 1537 was imbued with a local significance at a time when episcopal authority was being challenged. | 2470 |
| public spaces within the city take on multiple identities because these spaces do not conform to a coherent identity, | 2484 |
| The concept of public space adopted in this research is one that is constructed not only as a product of political, | 2490 |
| it is necessary to develop a methodology for this research that does not assume an a priori model of public space, | 2496 |
| it is necessary to develop a methodology for this research that does not assume an a priori model of public space, | 2498 |
| but opens up the potential for constructing a model within the Singapore context. | 2500 |
| Within a framework of constructing public space, | 2500 |
| The research constructs a Singapore model of public space, | 2510 |
| While not citing such a model as an ideal, | 2510 |
| and why such a model is important for understanding public space in a non-western context. | 2514 |
| and why such a model is important for understanding public space in a non-western context. | 2516 |
| Changes on a global scale have prompted some to look closely at Singapore as a sort of prototypic global city-state, | 2516 |
| Changes on a global scale have prompted some to look closely at Singapore as a sort of prototypic global city-state, | 2518 |
| the construction of such a model of public space will have wide ranging relevance in other globalizing cities. | 2520 |
| This thesis proposes a trail of pavilions along the full length of the Mississippi to encourage exploration of the river's diverse settings and cultures. | 2524 |
| A concept of regional and universal design will govern the form of each pavilion, | 2526 |
| Convention Center has proven to be a catalyst for revitalization and improvement in Downtown D. | 2540 |
| This thesis proposes the construction of a dynamic mixed-use community providing varied retail options and increased housing opportunities at all income levels. | 2546 |
| A prominent new downtown landmark will also be created a new Martin Luther King Memorial Library to replace the existing library, | 2548 |
| A prominent new downtown landmark will also be created a new Martin Luther King Memorial Library to replace the existing library, | 2548 |
| via a dynamic and intuitive path. | 2558 |
| The new MLK Library will educate and entertain District residents and visitors at all hours creating a place of public interaction and exhibition - in addition, | 2560 |
| Wool has long been used by nomadic Mongolian herds-people as a cladding for their traditional dwellings and as a material for crafting everyday objects. | 2564 |
| Wool has long been used by nomadic Mongolian herds-people as a cladding for their traditional dwellings and as a material for crafting everyday objects. | 2566 |
| A moldable, | 2566 |
| wool felt has a distinct aesthetic and an inviting tactile duality. | 2568 |
| felting wool can produce claddings whose function and program vary across a continuous surface or landscape. | 2578 |
| I see Felt PET as a viable and critical choice for a contemporary cultural artifact. ( | 2582 |
| I see Felt PET as a viable and critical choice for a contemporary cultural artifact. ( | 2584 |
| This study established a place-making strategy to examine the regional identity and formulate interactions between the global and the regional in the discourse of architecture. | 2630 |
| This place-making strategy also limits and establishes a methodology to achieve regional identity in a world of globalization. | 2634 |
| This place-making strategy also limits and establishes a methodology to achieve regional identity in a world of globalization. | 2634 |
| the study of topography provides a re- examination of the concept of place in contemporary cultures and a re-reading of the relationship between globalization and regional culture. | 2638 |
| the study of topography provides a re- examination of the concept of place in contemporary cultures and a re-reading of the relationship between globalization and regional culture. | 2640 |
| On a more concrete level, | 2642 |
| and future development of a Chinese village were explored in order to re- construct identity to Chinese villages that are experiencing transformation under the pressures of globalization. | 2644 |
| Topography is not simply the contours of a given place, | 2648 |
| but a dynamic 3- dimensional structure with ever-shifting layers embedded within. | 2648 |
| It is a matrix with embedded human memory and experience and an accumulation of diverse forces, | 2650 |
| This position encourages us to view topography as a potential to create place. | 2654 |
| topography is not a framed picture. | 2656 |
| and materiality - topography has constructed a mechanism for pursuing the collective social relations and generating the social conditions of its making. | 2656 |
| a village in the Huizhou area of China, | 2660 |
| Spatial fabric as a labyrinth, | 2668 |
| but they also attempt to build a new context and direction for the built environment as a mediator between architecture and the environment and for the way that we develop the village in the age of globalization. | 2676 |
| but they also attempt to build a new context and direction for the built environment as a mediator between architecture and the environment and for the way that we develop the village in the age of globalization. | 2678 |
| Oregon - a city renowned for its superior public transit and pedestrian-friendly streets are Pioneer Courthouse Square and Urban Center Plaza. | 2686 |
| They are a pre- and post-American Disabilities Act (ADA) sites, | 2688 |
| Using Lynch's concept of legibility as a framework for analysis, | 2692 |
| France faced the urgent challenge to reconstruct not only a signification portion of its architectural fabric, | 2704 |
| but also its very identity as a nation. | 2704 |
| some argued for the return to a pre-war and ostensibly traditional France while others sought a new, | 2712 |
| some argued for the return to a pre-war and ostensibly traditional France while others sought a new, | 2714 |
| By the close of the 1920s these views confronted one another on an increasingly politicized stage: a series of vociferous debates between regionalist and avant-garde architects over whether architecture should be traditional and French, | 2716 |
| a project at the 1937 Paris Exposition that showcased pavilions designed to represent each region of France. | 2720 |
| Re-examining the modern movement through the lens of regionalist architecture allows for a more full-bodied story of the architecture of interwar France. | 2734 |
| The story of the rivalry between regionalist and avant-garde architecture illustrates how architecture functioned as a powerful metaphor for France's struggle to define itself in the troubled interwar years. | 2742 |
| when America was emerging as a world economic power and cultural center, | 2746 |
| The Small Parks Act (1887) marked a critical step toward the fulfillment of Olmsted's dream for what he called lungs for the metropolis; | 2768 |
| Because parks and gardens symbolize a city's wealth and power, | 2780 |
| A History of Central Park The primary communication method between the construction site and the architectural information had mainly been the highly symbolic two-dimensional manually drafted drawings which were interpreted by architects and the construction personnel for the purpose of constructing the building. | 2790 |
| This effort resulted in the emergence of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in which building components are represented as a digital database that holds information about the geometry of the building components as well as all the data relevant to these components. | 2808 |
| current BIM tools are geared toward producing a two-dimensional representation of the building in the form of printed drawings. | 2812 |
| to integrate the information into a new delivery process. | 2818 |
| The objective is to develop a system that communicates information from the digital model to the construction site via the web, | 2820 |
| The focus of the research is the technologies needed to achieve a seamless digital relationship between the architectural office and the construction site and the goal is to develop an appropriate data transfer system that is both cost effective and easy to use by all types of users. | 2824 |
| Using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) as a programming language, | 2828 |
| Leopold Eidlitz (1823-1908) was born in Prague and trained in Vienna as a land manager, | 2838 |
| a position in which he would have worked for the Austrian government as a building inspector or designer of small, | 2840 |
| a position in which he would have worked for the Austrian government as a building inspector or designer of small, | 2840 |
| and within three years moved from a job with Richard Upjohn, | 2846 |
| He subsequently married into an old New England family and began a career in which he worked with the most prominent members of the New York City and State political and architectural communities Although Eidlitz's architectural ideas were progressive, | 2848 |
| He held that a building's massing should emerge from its plan, | 2854 |
| that materials should be used in a rational manner, | 2854 |
| a little-theorised architect, | 2874 |
| and Magic Realism - each drawn out from and typified by readings of a particular work. | 2890 |
| The metaphor of suspension is employed as a heuristic device to elaborate configurations as yet little considered. | 2890 |
| Whereas Sartoris' hovering axonometric images were caught between a rationalism of functionalism but also of ratio (a transcendent surpassing of material and earth), | 2894 |
| Whereas Sartoris' hovering axonometric images were caught between a rationalism of functionalism but also of ratio (a transcendent surpassing of material and earth), | 2894 |
| suspension in Persico and Albini was a freedom within, | 2896 |
| Suspension is as much a withholding as it is freedom and release. | 2896 |
| became a medium of the irreducibility of potentiality to actuality. | 2906 |
| provide through their play with suspension and potentiality rich material for a re-examination of current accounts of modernist grids, | 2914 |
| and a profusion of arts patronage followed shortly thereafter. | 2926 |
| It is my contention that many of the works of art produced during this period were consciously intended (1) to create and disseminate a particular collective memory and feeling of nostalgia for the pre-Mughal Sisodia past, | 2928 |
| Healing the circulatory wound is not a project embedded in architectures contemporary preoccupation with romantic relationships between highway and building through circulatory fluxes, | 2986 |
| this thesis is about developing a more socially responsible urban relationship between the highway and its immediate context by understanding the latent potentials to be found in the lost spaces under, | 2990 |
| It is a process of organizing the future metropolis and its physical, | 2996 |
| rituals of housebuilding and domestic remedies) employed the house as a device to prevent ill fortune, | 3002 |
| The thesis bases its analysis on the philosophical background of dwelling that our home satisfies us with a sense of protection (Heidegger, | 3020 |
| The thesis adopts a method of qualitative research using unstructured interviews and house- visits to elucidate how Thais cope with their fear. | 3024 |
| The findings show that: in contemporary Thai society where fear has become a dominant part of daily life, | 3028 |
| The argument proposes that the modernised Thais are reusing and reinventing some of the techniques of the traditional practices as a solution for their anxiety, | 3034 |
| the excessiveness of the practices has turned the familiar space of home into a profoundly ambivalent sphere. | 3038 |
| I argue that a new understanding of architecture what I term the systems aesthetic emerged from Cambridge during this period. | 3046 |
| Both as an electronic tool and as a conceptual model computing exerted a profound effect on architectural theory and forms in the 1960s. | 3054 |
| Both as an electronic tool and as a conceptual model computing exerted a profound effect on architectural theory and forms in the 1960s. | 3054 |
| I show how the computer contributed to the collapse of functionalism and to the development of a new approach to architectural design that was based on the sequential use of transformational operations such as duplication, | 3058 |
| gives a history of the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Study at Cambridge, | 3072 |
| In a conclusion I consider the implications of the systems aesthetic as a general trend and its connection to later developments such as the topological architecture of recent years. | 3074 |
| In a conclusion I consider the implications of the systems aesthetic as a general trend and its connection to later developments such as the topological architecture of recent years. | 3076 |
| Concern about environmental quality and the long-term livability of urban areas is now a driving force in urban planning and design. | 3082 |
| Aerial photos of each site from the three time periods were classified into forested and non- forested classes and the landscape structure was quantified with a number of landscape metrics related to fragmentation - an indicator of habitat degradation. | 3108 |
| The ecologically planned community shows a less fragmented forest pattern and more restrictive development guidelines result in more ecologically structured environments. | 3120 |
| In current practice to design buildings requirements are recorded in a building program, | 3128 |
| this can lead to a design solution that may not meet the original requirements. | 3134 |
| the requirements documentation is usually not updated accordingly because a method to link requirements and design solutions does currently not exist. | 3138 |
| The key limitation is the lack of a theory to link the requirements to the design systems. | 3146 |
| I addressed this problem by formalizing a requirements model specification which can be linked to building-product-model-based design models. | 3148 |
| The requirements model specification is based on three main concepts: (1) division of a project's data set into requirements, | 3156 |
| the main concepts of the specification are not domain-specific and apply to a general interface between objects in different models. | 3164 |
| I also propose some improvements in the current specifications for the IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) a standard format for the representation of building product models. | 3172 |
| The research also creates a basis for many future research topics to expand the requirements model specification and its use. | 3174 |
| Since the late nineteenth-century architects and historians have made comparisons between clothing and architecture considering modern clothing as a metaphor for modern architecture. | 3178 |
| The argument of this study is similar in the sense that drapery has been considered as a metaphor for the billowing surfaces of contemporary architecture. | 3180 |
| It argues that in the current practice of architecture there is a shift from tailored architecture towards draped architecture where its exterior surface appears like a drapery loosely laid over buildings. | 3184 |
| It argues that in the current practice of architecture there is a shift from tailored architecture towards draped architecture where its exterior surface appears like a drapery loosely laid over buildings. | 3186 |
| Looking at paintings and sculptures by a variety of artists and sculptors this study explores the crossovers and intersections between the representation of drapery in art and in architecture. | 3186 |
| Each chapter ends with a critical assessment of a recent building by Frank O. | 3198 |
| Each chapter ends with a critical assessment of a recent building by Frank O. | 3198 |
| rendering of a drapery is not an easy task. | 3212 |
| it becomes a vehicle for displaying technological virtuosity, | 3212 |
| The objective of the study was to gain new insight into archival building documentation in the United States since 1933 focusing on Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) as a case study. | 3216 |
| This language specifically addresses the needs in systematically communicating architects' intent with a wide range of stakeholders and to organize knowledge from various domains. | 3244 |
| Our investigation into existing architecting approaches and technologies has pointed out the need to develop a simple and intuitive, | 3246 |
| A small set of linguistic primitives, | 3252 |
| a software environment has been developed and applied to define meta-models of large-scale complex system architectures such as space transportation systems. | 3258 |
| As a declarative language, | 3262 |
| OPN provides a diagrammatic formal language to help architects specify the space of architectural options. | 3262 |
| As a simulation language, | 3268 |
| OPN uses a function-algebraic model to subsume and compose discrete, | 3268 |
| OPN was able to significantly change the modeling and architectural reasoning process by automating a number of manual model construction, | 3276 |
| and simulation tasks Leon Battista Alberti explicated his whole architectural theory adhering to the framework of a basic theoretical model in which regio was the first in the series of six universal constituencies of every architectural endeavor whether practical or interpretative. | 3280 |
| Both categories extended beyond [com]partitio the immediate scope of a project. | 3286 |
| He therefore instituted the concepts of both modern landscape and modern region which was not only his original but a fundamental contribution to the art of building, | 3290 |
| the issues surrounding his views on region constitute a lacuna in the existing scholarship on Alberti and his time. | 3292 |
| even regional planning on a wide, | 3302 |
| He also introduced the cultural region as a set of particular ethno- and anthropo- values available for participation in the architectural enterprise. | 3304 |
| the architectural region was not clear cut and Alberti treated it in a variety of ways, | 3310 |
| This is a study of Alberti's regio and his contribution to the fields of landscape, | 3310 |
| I decided to treat his use of the notion of patria as a special region separately. | 3320 |
| urban areas face increasing pressure to distinguish themselves in a world dominated by globalization. | 3322 |
| A new interrelationship between both organizational systems must be addressed. | 3332 |
| Eco-metropolis is the touristic investigation of strategies using both urban and natural systems of organization to create a unique territory of cohesive balance within the urban ecology of Houston. | 3336 |
| Eliot Noyes and Eero Saarinen were nodes in a relatively closed network that dominated the design of academic, | 3350 |
| Linking these case studies is not only a cast of characters, | 3352 |
| but a series of preoccupations. | 3352 |
| It replays the planning process of CG as a realization of the Taylorist aesthetic fetishized by interwar architects: an architecture based on the route of the insurance policies assembled, | 3356 |
| but with a harder edge. | 3360 |
| Deere's Saarinen-designed headquarters translates the company's identity into a masculine, | 3364 |
| both as thoroughly modern and as down to earth as Deere chairman William A. | 3366 |
| it has become one of the most valuable pieces of advertising a big commercial enterprise could conceive. | 3372 |
| and developed a skyscraper statement for CBS that, | 3374 |
| Their search for modernity became a model of design organization, | 3378 |
| There remains a lesson in the way the best of these projects transformed business necessity into philanthropic enterprise. | 3380 |
| In a privatized city, | 3384 |
| Houston suffers from a lack of public open space. | 3384 |
| What it does have is a glut of wasted space. | 3386 |
| like a snake that swallowed an egg. | 3392 |
| This thesis will explore the validity of the insertion of a new mixed-used commercial, | 3402 |
| cultural and residential complex into a 6. | 3402 |
| 5- acre traditional city block in a very heterogeneous urban space of Shanghai. | 3404 |
| to redefine the place of history in a new urban environment. | 3412 |
| PHARM_STAD proposes a comprehensive planning strategy for the Somkhele community in KwaZulu Natal, | 3412 |
| PHARM_STAD harnesses the responsive and generative mechanisms of field cultures as a means of choreographing agricultural production, | 3418 |
| These three forms of land occupation enable the site to evolve into a productive pharmaceutical farm and community stadium. | 3422 |
| It then focuses on a historically disputed territory in Ciudad Juá rez and El Paso as a laboratory for the redeployment of these elements, | 3434 |
| It then focuses on a historically disputed territory in Ciudad Juá rez and El Paso as a laboratory for the redeployment of these elements, | 3436 |
| Personalization began as a sociological concept that slowly began to be of interest to architecture and design professionals in an effort to make the built environment more receptive to the desires of the ultimate inhabitants. | 3440 |
| New Urbanism is a relatively new theory of urban design which began to be developed and published in the 1990's. | 3444 |
| Its chief construct is essentially a manual of urban design and development aimed at remedying the deleterious effects of unbridled suburban development. | 3448 |
| Beginning with a thorough description of the concept of personalization in all its varied aspects, | 3450 |
| The process of this examination is a comparative consideration of the CC & R's (covenants, | 3462 |
| a direct comparison of those aspects of the developments that pertain to personalization shows that New Urbanist developments are neither more restrictive nor less restrictive than other, | 3466 |
| Church dedication and figurative imagery are the most inescapably public forms of expression of the veneration of a saint. | 3476 |
| The monuments of this study were selected not because they allowed the tracing of stylistic filiations from a mother monument, | 3478 |
| but because of their relation to a single and singular cult figure. | 3478 |
| Benedict are assumed to have been constructed by monastic patrons for a monastic audience. | 3482 |
| Benedict demonstrates how seventeenth-century historical narratives first situated these churches within a monastic purview. | 3488 |
| a commemoration of his embrace of religious life while a student in Rome. | 3498 |
| a commemoration of his embrace of religious life while a student in Rome. | 3498 |
| Agnese fuori le mura suggests a shift in the saint's persona from local intercessor to universal abbot, | 3508 |
| a shift that nevertheless perpetuates a veneration grounded in the city's local hagiographic tradition. | 3510 |
| a shift that nevertheless perpetuates a veneration grounded in the city's local hagiographic tradition. | 3510 |
| The dissertation shows how Broch's novels comment on the social forces of spatial production and form a representation of architecture during the period of the trilogy's action (1888-1918) and the period when Broch writes the trilogy (1929-33). | 3522 |
| A reading of the trilogy focused on its architectural representations reveals that the dual role of architecture as both a visual and spatial experience is in crisis. | 3530 |
| A reading of the trilogy focused on its architectural representations reveals that the dual role of architecture as both a visual and spatial experience is in crisis. | 3532 |
| Forcing the reader to become a producer converts a representation of crisis in aesthetic modernism and the evidence of its effects on society and the modern individual from a passive reading experience into an active one. | 3544 |
| Forcing the reader to become a producer converts a representation of crisis in aesthetic modernism and the evidence of its effects on society and the modern individual from a passive reading experience into an active one. | 3544 |
| Forcing the reader to become a producer converts a representation of crisis in aesthetic modernism and the evidence of its effects on society and the modern individual from a passive reading experience into an active one. | 3546 |
| This new approach to Broch's Schlafwandler uncovers a trilogy that tests the boundaries of architectural and literary modernism, | 3548 |
| Yet after the bankruptcy of the second duke of Buckingham in the middle of the nineteenth century Stowe became instead an emblem of aristocratic ostentation and a harbinger of political and economic change. | 3560 |
| in a decades-long campaign to promote Stowe as an icon of English history and culture, | 3560 |
| the head of a powerful political faction in Parliament, | 3580 |
| Although Stowe's fame is a shadow, | 3590 |
| It treats architectural discourse as a lens into the changing relationship between the state and the architectural profession, | 3596 |
| It traces how architecture in the 1950s served primarily as a tool of political representation, | 3602 |
| in the 1960s as a weapon of social reform, | 3602 |
| while in the 1980s it became a cultural medium through which these societies tried to regain their distinctive national identities and historical traditions, | 3604 |
| The analysis also underscores that these professional discourses have to be interpreted in a larger international context, | 3614 |
| the so-called Tulip Debate that revived a deep-rooted controversy about the status of national identity in Hungarian architecture, | 3630 |
| Microbial growth is a major cause of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) problems. | 3642 |
| Mold is likely to occur when a favorable combination of humidity, | 3648 |
| recent research has shown that mold occurrences are influenced by a multitude of parameters with complex physical interactions. | 3658 |
| The presented research takes a radically different approach, | 3674 |
| based on the assessment of the uncertainties of all parameters and their propagation through a mixed set of simulations using a Monte Carlo technique. | 3676 |
| based on the assessment of the uncertainties of all parameters and their propagation through a mixed set of simulations using a Monte Carlo technique. | 3676 |
| This approach generates a mold risk distribution that reveals the probability of mold occurrence in selected trouble spots in a building. | 3678 |
| This approach generates a mold risk distribution that reveals the probability of mold occurrence in selected trouble spots in a building. | 3680 |
| leading to a set of clear specifications for remediation and, | 3682 |
| Thirty-eight entities of established and plausible structures were catalogued in a set of data sheets that include photographs whenever possible. | 3700 |
| The result is a description of the Muller style, | 3702 |
| and a compilation of information on his career during his decade in Galveston. | 3706 |
| The view of surface parking lots as simple surfaces has led to a stagnation of articulation and a collective acceptance of banality in parking lot design. | 3708 |
| The view of surface parking lots as simple surfaces has led to a stagnation of articulation and a collective acceptance of banality in parking lot design. | 3710 |
| The aggregation of these simple surfaces is beginning to have a negative effect upon the micro-ecology and infrastructural layout of the city and those systems with the potential to mitigate this effect are being supplanted by the singular nature of the surface. | 3712 |
| This thesis proposes a design schematic for the surface parking lot population that will promote a more symbiotic integration between the surface parking lot and other environmental systems within the city. | 3714 |
| This thesis proposes a design schematic for the surface parking lot population that will promote a more symbiotic integration between the surface parking lot and other environmental systems within the city. | 3716 |
| Through a better understanding of the networked relations of these systems, | 3718 |
| * *This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). | 3724 |
| * *This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). | 3726 |
| * *This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). | 3726 |
| They have a universal quality to them. | 3730 |
| I also picked a designed object that has so many characteristics and provokes so much change. | 3732 |
| This grew out into a large comparison of other elements in the city such as housing, | 3738 |
| In photographing them I produced a new way of seeing: seeing as an act of stilling like things and therefore I could examine them. | 3752 |
| architecture was not a visual art. | 3754 |
| functions as a metaphor or analogy; | 3758 |
| one could not read a building by reading a text, | 3758 |
| one could not read a building by reading a text, | 3760 |
| the relationship between reading a book and reading a building is often not one of metaphor or analogy; | 3762 |
| the relationship between reading a book and reading a building is often not one of metaphor or analogy; | 3762 |
| This dissertation considers a series of authors who write fluently about architecture, | 3770 |
| a way of recording the detailed and specific histories of individuals, | 3774 |
| and secular functions of a parish church porch. | 3786 |
| but as a skillfully executed, | 3792 |
| The Alhambra is a walled collection of structures built predominantly in the 14th Century by the last Islamic dynasty in Spain. | 3794 |
| Although previously considered in a variety of disciplines, | 3794 |
| the present work is a comparative interdisciplinary study of the archetype of the Islamic palace-city and of the specialized population necessary to fulfill both symbolic and functional roles. | 3796 |
| is a palace-city precisely because it shares with the Andalusi sites a dual sacred and secular symbolism and also a series of defining features of a palace-city - multiple residences, | 3808 |
| is a palace-city precisely because it shares with the Andalusi sites a dual sacred and secular symbolism and also a series of defining features of a palace-city - multiple residences, | 3808 |
| is a palace-city precisely because it shares with the Andalusi sites a dual sacred and secular symbolism and also a series of defining features of a palace-city - multiple residences, | 3810 |
| is a palace-city precisely because it shares with the Andalusi sites a dual sacred and secular symbolism and also a series of defining features of a palace-city - multiple residences, | 3810 |
| Because palace- cities are limited in size yet aim to represent a possible model for the ideal city, | 3816 |
| In establishing a criterion for applying the term palace-city to a particular site, | 3822 |
| In establishing a criterion for applying the term palace-city to a particular site, | 3824 |
| a space surrounded by walls limiting access and social interaction with the outside world, | 3824 |
| to a given site. | 3828 |
| A palace-city served dual roles, | 3828 |
| while at the same time serving a more practical role as an elaborate residence for the ruler, | 3830 |
| To make possible a full and complete understanding of architecture in Hegel's system we necessarily have to examine the other arts in the system. | 3836 |
| architecture plays a formative and organisational role for Hegel's entire text by providing certain structures and techniques of development that underlie the progression of each individual art in itself and as a part of the system. | 3842 |
| architecture plays a formative and organisational role for Hegel's entire text by providing certain structures and techniques of development that underlie the progression of each individual art in itself and as a part of the system. | 3846 |
| This involves both a pré cis of Hegel's discussion of architecture, | 3852 |
| a critical exposition of that structure and a degree of imaginative re-casting of Hegel's arguments. | 3854 |
| a critical exposition of that structure and a degree of imaginative re-casting of Hegel's arguments. | 3854 |
| We do not provide a detailed account of each of these arts, | 3858 |
| both provide spirit with a world: a physical world from architecture and an intellectual world from poetry. | 3866 |
| both provide spirit with a world: a physical world from architecture and an intellectual world from poetry. | 3866 |
| Displacing the traditional approach to schematism as solely a systemized procedure, | 3874 |
| Schematic is described by Bragdon as a systematic disposition of parts according to some co- ordinating principle, | 3876 |
| a spiritual essence, | 3880 |
| universal truths for architects in a secular age. | 3902 |
| it was Bragdon's reputation as a Theosophist and his advocacy of a four- dimensional theory of ornament, | 3906 |
| it was Bragdon's reputation as a Theosophist and his advocacy of a four- dimensional theory of ornament, | 3906 |
| This thesis seeks to place a centralizing node amongst the greatest concentration of Virginia wineries in the city of Charlottesville. | 3912 |
| 2 This unique project will examine the bridging of a typically agricultural typology into the realm of an urban environment, | 3924 |
| but as a demonstration of sustainable design in an urban context, | 3932 |
| melding contemporary technology with a with a historic city fabric, | 3934 |
| melding contemporary technology with a with a historic city fabric, | 3934 |
| a direct view to the outside is blocked. | 3944 |
| A balance between a sufficient amount of daylight and protection from overheating of the space in summer is not often achieved due to inappropriate control of the blinds' tilt angle. | 3944 |
| A balance between a sufficient amount of daylight and protection from overheating of the space in summer is not often achieved due to inappropriate control of the blinds' tilt angle. | 3946 |
| There is also a need for specific guidance for the selection and design of shading device systems in the windows. | 3948 |
| This research develops a general decision-making framework (DMF) that can be used by architects and manufacturers of shading devices. | 3952 |
| The general DMF is a guide for the user in analyzing shading device performance in the process of selection/design of the shading device. | 3952 |
| This research also develops a specific DMF to better understand and validate the general DMF. | 3956 |
| analyze various systems of blinds applied on a particular building and at a given location. | 3964 |
| analyze various systems of blinds applied on a particular building and at a given location. | 3964 |
| The specific DMF proposes a methodology for both the analysis of the daylighting performance and for the process for making a decision based on the results of the analysis. | 3970 |
| The specific DMF proposes a methodology for both the analysis of the daylighting performance and for the process for making a decision based on the results of the analysis. | 3972 |
| A case study is conducted in order to validate the DMF. | 3974 |
| a patented system, | 3976 |
| and a new system, | 3976 |
| is used as a basis for making the decision about which type of blinds to apply. | 3982 |
| A new system of shading device, | 3984 |
| which has a triangular cross section and is made of clear plastic with a silver coating on one side, | 3984 |
| which has a triangular cross section and is made of clear plastic with a silver coating on one side, | 3986 |
| a shading device manufacturer/designer is able to understand the shading device daylighting performance from his design-imposed criteria. | 3990 |
| Existing shading devices are also able to be analyzed from a building designer's perspective. | 3996 |
| The decision-making framework is a model for development of decision- making software that will help designers of buildings, | 4002 |
| and even define the identity of a place. | 4006 |
| This study analyzes how Klumb's understanding of the natural and cultural environment and his social concern helped define the identity of a changing Puerto Rico on its road toward modernization. | 4022 |
| and they need to provide a significant degree of protection from direct sunlight and frequent rains. | 4026 |
| He favored a modernity based on existing conditions and local traditions, | 4030 |
| it establishes a universal method for better understanding the spatial relationships from which they originate or that they instigate and/or eliminate. | 4036 |
| Through historical examples and a selection of Klumb's buildings, | 4038 |
| I propose a three-part approach for the study of architecture by identifying three mutually dependent provisions: recognition, | 4042 |
| an architect builds on an architectural objective that instigates the use of a distinctive tectonic device. | 4048 |
| The study of beauty in morphological design is conducted using a computer-based system for quantification of aesthetics in the presence of proportionality. | 4052 |
| When the computation of proportionality is encoded as quantifiable criteria into a design machine, | 4062 |
| a quantification of proportionality aesthetics is defined as the mechanization of the human process in selecting an optimum design. | 4062 |
| a description of a given design artifact consists of the dimensions of the artifact. | 4064 |
| a description of a given design artifact consists of the dimensions of the artifact. | 4064 |
| it is selected as the optimum among the alternatives generated from the given artifact using a design optimization methodology. | 4072 |
| The analysis component of Hermes is designed as a plug-in application for AutoCAD and is tested with a group of 38 buildings designed by the Italian architect Palladio to discover the extent of proportionality rules used in his work. | 4076 |
| The analysis component of Hermes is designed as a plug-in application for AutoCAD and is tested with a group of 38 buildings designed by the Italian architect Palladio to discover the extent of proportionality rules used in his work. | 4078 |
| The program provides a better understanding of the master's usage of proportionality in the design. | 4086 |
| this approach may address a variety of issues about aesthetics in design, | 4094 |
| digital tools to assist in architectural design to generate innovative tall building forms have not progressed at a comparable rate. | 4108 |
| This research will discuss the generative concepts of a tall building forms and an innovative design process using digital tools that are based on a parametric design approach. | 4110 |
| This research will discuss the generative concepts of a tall building forms and an innovative design process using digital tools that are based on a parametric design approach. | 4112 |
| The research will discuss a series of transformations based on architectural as well as geometrical properties that can be used to define tall building forms and the development of a process to generate representations needed for visualization and study model making. | 4112 |
| The research will discuss a series of transformations based on architectural as well as geometrical properties that can be used to define tall building forms and the development of a process to generate representations needed for visualization and study model making. | 4114 |
| The intention of the research is to inspire continued interest in new concepts of tall building forms and to investigate a design process that integrates architecture with digital methods. | 4118 |
| This study contributes to a better understanding of how architects can use computers during the conceptual design phase to enhance their design ability. | 4134 |
| A survey on tools for conceptual design and a series of interviews with architects and others working at design-related software companies complement the case studies. | 4142 |
| A survey on tools for conceptual design and a series of interviews with architects and others working at design-related software companies complement the case studies. | 4142 |
| This study also identified a unique characteristic of the conceptual design process, | 4152 |
| they either trigger alterations that refine the design solution or provoke the architect to reject the idea and pursue a better one. | 4156 |
| This thesis uses EXPRESS modeling language to develop a conceptual data structure for POE data, | 4178 |
| This study develops a data structure based on post-occupancy evaluations of state and federal trial courtrooms conducted by the researcher. | 4184 |
| An EXPRESS-G schema was developed and was translated into a relational database for holding data and running queries. | 4190 |
| The investigator illustrated a range of query-generated outcomes to support decision-making during design and design review. | 4192 |
| and predicting a designed environment's supportiveness to task performance. | 4200 |
| Major factors contribute to both their evolution and deterioration as recognizable characteristics of a society. | 4210 |
| There is never a seamless transition when societies adopt new ways of communicating and interacting, | 4218 |
| This thesis reclaims a vital part of the urban experience in the form of a public forum while at the same time celebrating the creation, | 4226 |
| This thesis reclaims a vital part of the urban experience in the form of a public forum while at the same time celebrating the creation, | 4228 |
| and a number of cultural institutions. | 4232 |
| Grundbegriffe der Kunstwissenschaft reflected its author's conviction about the role of space and the significance of its expression in a particular period of history. | 4256 |
| By examining these dwellings it is possible to understand how designers and planners utilized a mixture of contemporary and traditional forms in an attempt to create a more civilized and Modern environment for the city's working class. | 4272 |
| By examining these dwellings it is possible to understand how designers and planners utilized a mixture of contemporary and traditional forms in an attempt to create a more civilized and Modern environment for the city's working class. | 4272 |
| and creating a public health program. | 4276 |
| Britons touted the city as a leader in town planning. | 4278 |
| Better housing for the working class might have remained the field of philanthropy if it had not been for fearing a Russian-styled revolution in Britain at the end of World War I. | 4282 |
| Birmingham was still a nineteenth-century city, | 4290 |
| These homes were part of a system designed to make the working class good citizens of the British Empire. | 4296 |
| architects in Europe and Britain attempted to create a modern architecture that met the needs of an increasingly democratic culture. | 4304 |
| Despite the fact that Britain developed a program which met the social, | 4306 |
| This design project attempts to enlarge the role of urban codes to deal with issues relevant to the condition of the metropolis as a type of ecological niche. | 4312 |
| This is especially the case in a metropolis without zoning such as this. | 4318 |
| The project is a master planned community in an urban instead of ex- urban context as is typical, | 4320 |
| formed on a brownfields site, | 4322 |
| in this case a polluted parking lot lying in a floodplain. | 4328 |
| in this case a polluted parking lot lying in a floodplain. | 4328 |
| To a certain extent these conditions pervade the landscape of Houston itself, | 4328 |
| and so this is in a sense a case study for a wider field of operation. | 4330 |
| and so this is in a sense a case study for a wider field of operation. | 4330 |
| and so this is in a sense a case study for a wider field of operation. | 4330 |
| The purpose of this research is to develop methods that reduce energy consumption in a residential building in a hot and humid climate region (Thailand) using efficient architectural building components and renewable energy (solar energy) to produce electricity, | 4332 |
| The purpose of this research is to develop methods that reduce energy consumption in a residential building in a hot and humid climate region (Thailand) using efficient architectural building components and renewable energy (solar energy) to produce electricity, | 4334 |
| is an option to reduce energy consumption in a building. | 4340 |
| The hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collector system is a combination photovoltaic (for producing electricity) and solar thermal collector (for producing hot water). | 4350 |
| very little experimental data exists that demonstrates the advantages of a combined system. | 4358 |
| one of the objectives of this study conducted was an experimental study of this system as an auxiliary energy source for a residential building. | 4362 |
| Night sky radiation has also been studied as a cooling strategy. | 4364 |
| no attempt so far could be found to integrate it to a hybrid PV- T collector system. | 4366 |
| The research methods used in this work included instrumentation of a case-study house in Thailand, | 4374 |
| and a calibrated building thermal simulation. | 4376 |
| A typical contemporary Thai residential building was selected as a case-study house. | 4376 |
| A typical contemporary Thai residential building was selected as a case-study house. | 4378 |
| A calibrated computer model of the case-study building was constructed using the DOE- 2 program. | 4382 |
| A field experiment of the thermal PV system was constructed to test its ability to simultaneously produce electricity and hot water in the daytime, | 4384 |
| and shed heat at night as a cooling strategy (i. | 4388 |
| This research provided the following benefits: (1) experimental results of a hybrid PV-T solar collector system that demonstrates its performance compared to typical system of separate photovoltaic and solar collector, ( | 4398 |
| 2) results of night sky radiation experiments using a photovoltaic panel as a radiator to demonstrate the performance of this new space cooling strategy, | 4402 |
| 2) results of night sky radiation experiments using a photovoltaic panel as a radiator to demonstrate the performance of this new space cooling strategy, | 4402 |
| The habitation of place generally fosters a deep connection with the natural and climatic conditions of that place, | 4408 |
| Yet our technological advances and cultural patterns have brought us to a time where that connection has been lost. | 4412 |
| The perceived inhospitableness of Houston's heat and humidity has shaped a consciousness where our expectations of comfort (and therefore our methods of manipulation) are wholly unrelated to the intrinsic nature of our place. | 4414 |
| this industry plays a vital role in the healthy growth of the economy of many countries throughout the developed and developing world. | 4422 |
| Effective management of construction projects has been a major research subject in the last century due to the importance of this industry and the amount of money it attracts. | 4426 |
| These procedures are important in a growing economy to ensure delivery of projects on time and within budget, | 4438 |
| the construction industry in Thailand played a critical role during a period of strong economic growth. | 4442 |
| the construction industry in Thailand played a critical role during a period of strong economic growth. | 4442 |
| Construction cost control was not a major concern as developers rushed to capitalize on the booming market. | 4444 |
| Project cost control became a critical issue for the developers as well as the construction companies in managing construction projects. | 4448 |
| A significant number of projects in Thailand in the late 1990s had significant cost overruns. | 4450 |
| Cost overruns had been a problem during the high growth period in the early 1990s, | 4452 |
| The use of good project cost control procedures has become a concern of project investors and construction companies in Thailand since the recession of the late 1990s. | 4456 |
| Project managers and developers are now aware that the failure of a cost control system or use of a poor system can lead to project failure. | 4460 |
| Project managers and developers are now aware that the failure of a cost control system or use of a poor system can lead to project failure. | 4460 |
| is still redolent of a mythic modernism, | 4484 |
| one encounters an important moment in which the German architectural profession was forced to negotiate a position between modernization and the humanist values and traditional cultural ideals of their practice. | 4490 |
| many promoters of iron adopted a neoromantic rhetoric in their writings that accommodated both avant-garde transformation and romantic cultural ideals. | 4500 |
| members of the fields of engineering and architecture engaged in a fluid discourse on iron as a medium of modern progress and romantic identity. | 4516 |
| members of the fields of engineering and architecture engaged in a fluid discourse on iron as a medium of modern progress and romantic identity. | 4518 |
| this study seeks to answer two questions: (1) What can the debates and choices about how the French should dwell (as well as the reactions to these) tell us about what was felt to be at stake in a changing France? ( | 4528 |
| The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a new interest in Italian rural architecture, | 4542 |
| A nostalgia-driven, | 4560 |
| revival of picturesque rustic models competed with a disciplined study of the vernacular as a source for rational tectonic and design ideas. | 4560 |
| revival of picturesque rustic models competed with a disciplined study of the vernacular as a source for rational tectonic and design ideas. | 4560 |
| Protagonists of the latter identified with so-called Razionalismo (Rationalism) and looked to architettura rurale (rural architecture) for a deeper understanding of its timeless tectonic systems and building elements in order to promote an anti-rhetorical and rational approach to contemporary design. | 4568 |
| and hill-town vernacular forms whose dramatic expressivity and quotidian vitality challenged developments within a European modernism heavily influenced by classicism - but also in thrall to machine- age aesthetics and abstraction - allowed a uniquely Italian domestic design culture to emerge. | 4578 |
| and hill-town vernacular forms whose dramatic expressivity and quotidian vitality challenged developments within a European modernism heavily influenced by classicism - but also in thrall to machine- age aesthetics and abstraction - allowed a uniquely Italian domestic design culture to emerge. | 4580 |
| a modern reformist project emerged that was at once nostalgic and utopian, | 4584 |
| this new relationship engenders a new collective perception and understanding of space in which both the space and the occupant can be viewed as dynamic. | 4596 |
| This project focuses on the development of a methodology for creating a Dynamic Architecture that not only knows who its occupants are but also how they are, | 4604 |
| This project focuses on the development of a methodology for creating a Dynamic Architecture that not only knows who its occupants are but also how they are, | 4604 |
| Imagine a space that knows if you need more light to read and increases the light level in a room, | 4608 |
| Imagine a space that knows if you need more light to read and increases the light level in a room, | 4610 |
| or even a room that reconfigures its layout depending on your position, | 4610 |
| What would it be like to step into a room that reflected your excitement level? | 4614 |
| How would it feel to stand next to a wall that visually, | 4616 |
| This new relationship between the occupant and the surroundings inevitably sets forth a new perception of space where architecture is not only the physical setting in which we exist, | 4618 |
| It then proceeds to the applied research and user needs study towards developing a communication device to test the preliminary ideas related to use and interactions. | 4632 |
| The test results and user-feedback help to further establish a set of design methodology which can be used by the industrial designers and media designers to develop a communication device ideally suited to meet the requirements of elderly users. | 4634 |
| The test results and user-feedback help to further establish a set of design methodology which can be used by the industrial designers and media designers to develop a communication device ideally suited to meet the requirements of elderly users. | 4636 |
| A new strategy is needed in the housing industry. | 4640 |
| With a flux of unconventional residents moving back into the city an entire industry of urban housing has emerged. | 4640 |
| producing a homogenized and compartmental housing as found in conventional suburban housing. | 4648 |
| It uses industrialized techniques to produce a range of units that serve a variety of lifestyles. | 4652 |
| It uses industrialized techniques to produce a range of units that serve a variety of lifestyles. | 4652 |
| Assembled as a whole, | 4652 |
| these units react and grow into a complex body that nests private, | 4654 |
| public and communal territories within a mat of housing. | 4656 |
| this study attempts to establish a logical expansion and adaptation of Bale's Four-Stage Ideal-type on the Evolution of the Modern English Soccer Stadium appropriate for the history of professional baseball and football and that predicts future changes in American sport facilities. | 4662 |
| it is the author's intention to provide a more coherent and comprehensive account of the evolving professional baseball and football sport facility and where it appears to be headed. | 4668 |
| Stage seven surfaces as a multi-purpose facility which attempted to accommodate both professional football and baseball equally. | 4680 |
| stage eight demonstrates a breaking away from the multi- purpose facility back to the single-purpose structure. | 4682 |
| is the story of man's eager search to make human interaction easier and more pleasurable in a permanent environment. | 4700 |
| this dissertation brings to light a previously unstudied phase of New York City apartment house building and its relationship to the idea of community design. | 4708 |
| completed a few of the most interesting buildings in New York City and at the same time provided the Indian government with master plans for several cities. | 4740 |
| They all attest to Mayer's dedication to creating humane environments in a variety of scales (from the apartment to the new city) and they provide the context to understanding Mayer's post-War North American full-scale neighborhood unit community, | 4744 |
| suburban design spirals inward to a terminating node where stored equipment augments an increasingly static lifestyle. | 4754 |
| It is a journey from community to singularity. | 4764 |
| A building enclosure system, | 4776 |
| A variety of drying mechanisms can be identified and utilized to remove moisture in the building enclosure system. | 4780 |
| Ventilation drying is affected by a variety of parameters, | 4788 |
| A sheathing membrane is an important component in a wall assembly in that it performs numerous functions. | 4792 |
| A sheathing membrane is an important component in a wall assembly in that it performs numerous functions. | 4792 |
| There is a need to develop structural mechanics to model the membrane ballooning and to identify its implications. | 4798 |
| A series of tests were carried out to confirm the ballooning shape of the membrane and to measure its maximum deformation. | 4818 |
| This work is a study in urban history, | 4826 |
| one that examines a crucial period in the rise and development of large cities and metropolises in the region of Sogdiana within Central Asia, | 4826 |
| All of these processes were initiated as a result of the Arab invasions between 625 and 750 A. | 4834 |
| All of these processes were initiated as a result of the Arab invasions between 625 and 750 A. | 4836 |
| Traditional cities in the Islamic world further west and south of Central Asia had a dense structure within an encircling wall, | 4848 |
| only themselves to be surrounded by a third outer wall. | 4860 |
| In this way the Central Asian city developed into a distinct type, | 4862 |
| a term introduced and defined in this dissertation, | 4868 |
| Unlike a facade that behaves as a visual object, | 4874 |
| Unlike a facade that behaves as a visual object, | 4874 |
| like a picture plane in the street, | 4874 |
| the thin window-wall as a representative modern style was exploited as a voyeuristic tool and picture frame. | 4882 |
| the thin window-wall as a representative modern style was exploited as a voyeuristic tool and picture frame. | 4882 |
| My emphasis on human use is motivated by a desire to redirect considerations of form and function toward the questions of what a building does to us and what a building represents. | 4890 |
| My emphasis on human use is motivated by a desire to redirect considerations of form and function toward the questions of what a building does to us and what a building represents. | 4892 |
| My emphasis on human use is motivated by a desire to redirect considerations of form and function toward the questions of what a building does to us and what a building represents. | 4892 |
| and regional - and propose a more embracing mode of architectural presence, | 4894 |
| representatively will support this proposal and provide a diversity of human use, | 4902 |
| This argument suggests a new concept of the physiognomy of architecture in the perception, | 4908 |
| was the sum product of a panoply of official codes, | 4932 |
| that together constituted a broadly understood language of performative authority. | 4934 |
| A practicing architect in Germany before the First World War, | 4962 |
| Baader abandoned architecture to become a writer and, | 4964 |
| became a founding member of Berlin Dada. | 4966 |
| and proposed that his biography be considered a mirror of this period. | 4992 |
| Just as the era had been brought to a violent end, | 4994 |
| in his Dada self-portraits Baader represents a life exploded by the First World War. | 4996 |
| This effects a reconsideration of Berlin Dada in general: a movement commonly understood to have reacted to its tumultuous times but rarely considered in terms of its historical consciousness. | 5000 |
| This effects a reconsideration of Berlin Dada in general: a movement commonly understood to have reacted to its tumultuous times but rarely considered in terms of its historical consciousness. | 5002 |
| The integration of the multi-zone model and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation provides a way to assess the performance of natural ventilation in whole buildings, | 5014 |
| A new program, | 5018 |
| has been developed with a web- server that can provide online calculation for the public. | 5020 |
| A criterion has been set up for dividing the large opening and the connected atrium space into at least two sub-openings and sub- zones. | 5028 |
| A brochure about the Planning Unit stated that it grew out of a demand by private and architect- clients to provide interiors in which the concept embodied in the Knoll line of furniture and fabrics is carried to its logical conclusion: fusion of architectural space and its contents. | 5052 |
| A brochure about the Planning Unit stated that it grew out of a demand by private and architect- clients to provide interiors in which the concept embodied in the Knoll line of furniture and fabrics is carried to its logical conclusion: fusion of architectural space and its contents. | 5054 |
| Planning Unit offices are distinguished by a humanized modernism which combined spare form with sumptuous textures and conspicuous color. | 5062 |
| a recognizable combination of furniture, | 5064 |
| Through a combination of auspicious clients, | 5066 |
| the Planning Unit turned this corporate humanized modernism into a ubiquitous reality. | 5070 |
| Santa Caterina de' Sacchi is a little known church in the northern fringes of Venice closed to the public, | 5072 |
| the absolute focus on a single painting and, | 5090 |
| while investigating the nuns' impact on the visual arts as a group with a distinct identity. | 5102 |
| while investigating the nuns' impact on the visual arts as a group with a distinct identity. | 5104 |
| His achievements in this regard continue to enthrall many a contemporary scholar solicitous in identifying the larger polemical and theoretical context within which he imaginatively depicted architectural figures. | 5108 |
| locations in the Roman campagnia to which he had been compulsively attracted throughout his career as both had demonstrated the presence in antiquity of a plethora of grotesqueries whose meaning Piranesi sought to decipher. | 5132 |
| he undertook a journey to the origins of ornaments in ancient ritual practices. | 5134 |
| Seminal in this regard had been the ancient city of Herculaneum in whose excavated fragments a culture endowed with a surplus of licentious manners had been recognized. | 5138 |
| Seminal in this regard had been the ancient city of Herculaneum in whose excavated fragments a culture endowed with a surplus of licentious manners had been recognized. | 5138 |
| he sought to resurface a narrative dimension of architectural ornaments increasingly obfuscated by modernity. | 5150 |
| Drawing on several theories that reflect on the dialectic of science and culture (or technology and art) as well as those that address architecture as a series of processes or objects in time, | 5166 |
| architectural design is addressed as a reconciliation of planes, | 5168 |
| a series of seamless connections of parts, | 5168 |
| as matter fuses in time and space as a series of events that is architecture. | 5172 |
| and as such reveals a promise for new adaptations, | 5174 |
| and a practice that seeks to articulate new orders in the domain of representation. | 5182 |
| as situations that can have an experimental character or spaces than can act in a compensatory fashion. | 5192 |
| can perform a critique, | 5202 |
| artifice and play has to be based in a different kind of experience and spatial practice, | 5208 |
| The task of our project was to provide NMFS with basic profiles of fishing communities for NMFS to develop a culturally appropriated intervention. | 5230 |
| By a comparison of three groups of fishing communities, | 5242 |
| the thesis suggests that a solution to ease the decline of fishing communities requires cooperation of all parties concerned, | 5248 |
| Scholars and mainstream media have referred it to as a spiritual movement or religion, | 5256 |
| although practitioners claim it is not a religion. | 5258 |
| It has been called a cult, | 5260 |
| in the pejorative sense rather than in a sociological context, | 5260 |
| though primarily as a cultivation practice. | 5262 |
| To a limited degree, | 5266 |
| the Internet has played a vital role in Falun Gong's growth and continuation after the crackdown. | 5290 |
| Dostoevsky's novels have contributed to a conception of man that reverberates in the conclusions of prominent twentieth-century philosophical anthropologists. | 5292 |
| The main thesis is substantiated with a careful analysis of four novels: Notes From the House of the Dead (Zapiski iz mertvogo doma), | 5304 |
| Based upon a close reading, | 5318 |
| a sub-type of kegare, | 5338 |
| Three hypotheses are stated and supported: (1) the shi-e concept began in Japan during the Yayoi period (300 BC - 300 AD) rather than at a later date as previously hypothesized; ( | 5346 |
| can be a vague process due to incipient gender bias in interpretation. | 5374 |
| Comparative and contrasting analyses are made of contemporary and related cultures to investigate gender role assunptions on a wide basis. | 5384 |
| and a new synthesis is proposed for ongoing analysis. | 5386 |
| This synthesis includes strict application of refined anthropometric methodology and the resolution of paradox by adoption of a revised underlying hypothesis A correlation is observed between use of the horse and a significant blurring of gender role stereotypes, | 5388 |
| This synthesis includes strict application of refined anthropometric methodology and the resolution of paradox by adoption of a revised underlying hypothesis A correlation is observed between use of the horse and a significant blurring of gender role stereotypes, | 5390 |
| This synthesis includes strict application of refined anthropometric methodology and the resolution of paradox by adoption of a revised underlying hypothesis A correlation is observed between use of the horse and a significant blurring of gender role stereotypes, | 5390 |
| This is examined in light of the proposed new synthesis for a consequential or coincidental relationship, | 5392 |
| Seventy skeletons were archaeologically recovered from the unmarked section of a suburban Adelaide church cemetery. | 5398 |
| A total of 50 (71. | 5400 |
| Observed among the group were a variety of infectious, | 5408 |
| spinal and joint lesions corroborated historical records indicating a hardworking and physically active community. | 5414 |
| the skeletal collection showed a society, | 5418 |
| Mary's people were a population in transition. | 5422 |
| a growing awareness of personal hygiene; | 5428 |
| Analysis of the skeletal material provided an opportunity to gain insight into the lifeways of a little known and discrete group of people. | 5436 |
| Motor vehicles have been on the roads of Western nations for over a century and in that time they have changed the world in which they operate to the point that today's society could not exist in its current form without them. | 5446 |
| They have gone from being places of private pleasure for a select few to being places of public recreation and education. | 5452 |
| there has been a sudden increase in the number of motor museums in existence. | 5458 |
| there are probably well over a thousand in the Western world. | 5462 |
| This thesis uses the National Motor Museum at Birdwood in South Australia as a lens through which to examine motor museums generally through a face to face survey of visitors to that museum. | 5464 |
| This thesis uses the National Motor Museum at Birdwood in South Australia as a lens through which to examine motor museums generally through a face to face survey of visitors to that museum. | 5464 |
| A further postal survey of motor museums in English speaking countries, | 5466 |
| to a point beyong their original, | 5478 |
| These permitted consideration of assemblage accumulation as a temporal process. | 5502 |
| there is a distance decay relationship in the reduction of silcrete, | 5510 |
| This is interpreted as a possible impulse for the punctuated record of human occupation in the area during the last 2000 years. | 5522 |
| It is concluded that the approaches to reconstructing past settlement systems in the Australian arid zone are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the formation of deflated archaeological deposits. | 5532 |
| content and chronology are used to establish a framework to describe variability in the regional archaeological record through space and time. | 5550 |
| Radiocarbon determinations are critically assessed to provide a reliable basis for calibrating radiocarbon dates into an absolute regional chronology. | 5558 |
| Local marine and estuarine reservoir effects are characterised through a study of known-age marine shell specimens and archaeological shell/charcoal paired samples. | 5560 |
| The determined values suggest a minor revision to Reimer and Reimer's (2000) recommended value for near-shore open marine environments in northeast Australia from DR= +11 +/-5 to +12 +/-7, | 5564 |
| data obtained from estuarine shell/charcoal pairs demonstrate a general lack of consistency, | 5568 |
| a DR value of more than -155 +/-55 may be appropriate. | 5570 |
| the open sites studied exhibit a high degree of vertical and horizontal integrity. | 5578 |
| A regional trajectory towards increased site occupation, | 5582 |
| A three-phase cultural chronology is developed for the region which proposes initial occupation before 4000 years ago and significant changes in resource use after 1500 BP, | 5582 |
| 1500 BP) saw ephemeral coastal occupation by groups which occasionally used coastal resources as part of a diffuse and highly-mobile settlement strategy covering a broad area. | 5588 |
| 1500 BP) saw ephemeral coastal occupation by groups which occasionally used coastal resources as part of a diffuse and highly-mobile settlement strategy covering a broad area. | 5588 |
| This phase is defined by a localisation in the use of resources. | 5592 |
| The predictive model developed utilises Dempster-Shafer Belief theory (a branch of Bayesian statistics) and the IDRISI32 GIS in order to make use of the vast corpus of biased data housed in the AAV database. | 5620 |
| This thesis presents the conclusions of a variety of scientific and archaeological techniques used to investigate ancient Aboriginal subsistence patterns in southeastern South Australia. | 5622 |
| Many of the investigations look at a wider land area within South Australia; | 5624 |
| The primary aim was to combine the results from these disciplines with the outcome of a stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis programme to decipher ancient Aboriginal dietary patterns. | 5630 |
| A map of isotopic variability for plants and animals that may have been consumed by Aboriginal people living at Swanport was developed and nutritional analysis produced a model that could test hypothetical diets inferred from stable isotope analysis. | 5640 |
| A map of isotopic variability for plants and animals that may have been consumed by Aboriginal people living at Swanport was developed and nutritional analysis produced a model that could test hypothetical diets inferred from stable isotope analysis. | 5642 |
| Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope results for each of these groups exhibited a distinct signature, | 5648 |
| although a degree of overlap existed between the groups. | 5648 |
| 11 individuals exhibited a unique isotopic signature (with a higher proportion of marine food) that suggests a coastal diet. | 5656 |
| 11 individuals exhibited a unique isotopic signature (with a higher proportion of marine food) that suggests a coastal diet. | 5656 |
| 11 individuals exhibited a unique isotopic signature (with a higher proportion of marine food) that suggests a coastal diet. | 5656 |
| The results confirm the validity of using stable isotope analysis as a means of increasing the knowledge base of past Aboriginal lifeways. | 5664 |
| A multi-disciplinary approach has particular relevance for studies of riverine and coastal areas and also highlights the potential and importance of using stable isotope analysis in confirming the provenance of Aboriginal human skeletal material in South Australia. | 5666 |
| patterns in the distribution of archaeological features were derived using a combination of two spatial scales and three levels of archaeological feature classification. | 5674 |
| the types of features occurring at these locations is driven by a multitude of other factors, | 5692 |
| analysis of the distribution of rock art figures shows that the depiction of different types of figure demonstrates a northeast to southwest trend, | 5698 |
| the thesis illustrates that understanding the dynamics of regional hunter-gatherer behaviour requires an understanding of the factors driving archaeological pattern occurring at a variety of scales, | 5714 |
| and across a range of evidence. | 5714 |
| The thesis suggests that scale is therefore a critical, | 5714 |
| This thesis presents a qualitative investigation of sixteen Indigenous South Australian perspectives of archaeology. | 5722 |
| The study is based upon results obtained from in-depth interviews conducted over a two-year period. | 5724 |
| it is argued that relationships between archaeologists and Indigenous peoples can be improved further by taking a highly educative approach to cross-cultural awareness issues in relation to archaeology, | 5734 |
| As a result, | 5742 |
| A number of areas have been identified for structured discussions in this regard including: 1) Training students to understand power differences; | 5746 |
| A critical review of Higham's model reveals weaknesses in the use of regional scale neo-evolutionary theoretical framework, | 5760 |
| A comprehensive study of agate and carnelian beads at both regional and site-base scales is used to investigate the origin, | 5766 |
| Alternative scenarios for bead exchange are investigated at the regional scale via a geochemical sourcing analysis and an analysis of the spatial and chronological distribution of the beads. | 5770 |
| The factors that determine the trajectory of social complexity dynamics in any area are identified as the character of social organisation prior to exposure to new exotics and the degree of control a society has over external exchange. | 5780 |
| As a result, | 5782 |
| Ethnohistorical and local indigenous oral histories indicate that this resource was exploited as a major part of the regional precontact economy. | 5794 |
| In this study a landscape analysis was used to determine the associations between the archaeology on the lava flow and its environmental context. | 5800 |
| On the basis of the data generated by the landscape-scale studies individual sites were selected for a more detailed investigation. | 5806 |
| The archaeological study produced a model of Gunditjmara settlement on the Mount Eccles lava flow. | 5810 |
| The multifarious approach proved crucial for determining aspects of a past economy not previously identified but highly significant to the settlement model. | 5812 |
| They strongly support a methodology designed to determine ecological and archaeological relationships to accurately interpret the evidence. | 5818 |
| It has been recognised outside of Australia that the procurement and storage of a seasonally abundant resource may lead to the emergence of social organisation and inequality. | 5822 |
| supports the existence of a social hierarchy among the southwest language groups of Victoria. | 5824 |
| A global ethnographic and archaeological comparison was undertaken of the technology used in the trapping of Anguilla spp., | 5830 |
| and the lack of a suitable chronological framework for investigating Aboriginal ‘use of place’. | 5838 |
| accelerated as a result of the introduction of sheep grazing in the mid 1800s has resulted in exposure of artefact scatters in some areas, | 5842 |
| The result is a patchwork of artefact scatters exhibiting various degrees of preservation, | 5844 |
| A sampling strategy stratified on the basis of landscape morphodynamics is presented that allows archaeologists to target areas of maximum artefact exposure and minimum post-discard disturbance. | 5848 |
| a combination of radiocarbon determinations on associated heat-retainer ovens, | 5856 |
| allows a two-stage chronology for hunter- gatherer activity to be developed. | 5858 |
| dating of the valley fill by OSL established a maximum age of 2040 ± 100 yr BP for surface artefact scatters. | 5860 |
| that the Stud Creek valley was occupied intermittently for short durations over a relatively long period of time, | 5864 |
| a gap in oven building between about 800 and 1100 years ago was evident. | 5866 |
| but the palaeoenvironmental record for this part of the Australian arid zone is too sparse and too coarse to provide explanations of human behaviour on time scales of just a few hundred years. | 5870 |
| Having established a model for Stud Creek of episodic landscape change throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene, | 5872 |
| its veracity was evaluated in a pilot study at another location within the region. | 5874 |
| is a function of geomorphic dynamics, | 5876 |
| with a record of a few hundred years from sites located on channel margins and low terraces, | 5876 |
| with a record of a few hundred years from sites located on channel margins and low terraces, | 5876 |
| I propose a new geoarchaeological framework for landscape-based studies of surface artefact scatters that incorporates geomorphic analysis and dating of landscapes, | 5890 |
| The various ways in which people use the traces of the past in the present are examined in this thesis with reference to a case study in archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in the southeast Kimberley with the ‘Lamboo mob’, | 5898 |
| a group of Jaru language speakers who are former pastoral workers from Old Lamboo Pastoral Station. | 5898 |
| A sample of these places was then selected for more detailed archaeological study. | 5902 |
| followed by a much more recent period of diaspora from these same pastoral properties to settle on the margins of towns throughout the study area. | 5912 |
| the thesis makes a methodological contribution to the growing field of ‘contact archaeology’ in Australia, | 5922 |
| surface collection and excavation focussed on a series of historic Aboriginal pastoral worker’s encampments associated with the Old Lamboo Homestead site. | 5928 |
| A dialectic approach, | 5932 |
| Analysis of artefacts from a series of pre- and post-contact open artefact scatters is employed to develop a model of post-contact changes in stone tool manufacture in the study area. | 5942 |
| Analysis of artefacts from a series of pre- and post-contact open artefact scatters is employed to develop a model of post-contact changes in stone tool manufacture in the study area. | 5942 |
| A unique and significant feature of the inland Pilbara is the Hamersley Plateau, | 5966 |
| a massive plateau and escarpment feature that concentrates plateau runoff into long and deep gorges with aquifer-fed pools. | 5968 |
| the inland Pilbara has been suggested to be a bridge for populations or ideas moving between the coast and the interior. | 5980 |
| This evidence suggests that there is a relationship between cultural, | 5988 |
| A growing trend to use institutions to deal with perceived problem groups within society supported the development of a system of government-funded lunatic asylums across Britain. | 5992 |
| A growing trend to use institutions to deal with perceived problem groups within society supported the development of a system of government-funded lunatic asylums across Britain. | 5994 |
| and that its design encompassed a whole range of ideas both explicit and non-explicit. | 5996 |
| both required the provision of specific features in a lunatic asylum that would aid in the cure of the insane person and their management on a daily basis. | 6002 |
| both required the provision of specific features in a lunatic asylum that would aid in the cure of the insane person and their management on a daily basis. | 6002 |
| To access these ideas the techniques of historical archaeology are used to examine a range of documentary sources from the nineteenth century that dealt with the construction and arrangement of lunatic asylums. | 6004 |
| This in turn led to the development of a series of ‘ideal’ asylum models that were then tested against the lunatic asylums actually built in the nineteenth century to determine whether these works actually influenced the design of these lunatic asylums. | 6006 |
| Tasmania was for many decades a penal colony, | 6012 |
| while South Australia was established as a free colony and never received convicts. | 6014 |
| It will be argued that the adoption of the ‘ideal’ asylum features can be directly related to a number of key factors. | 6016 |
| These were access to a pool of knowledge about lunatic asylum design; | 6016 |
| It represents a comparative, | 6020 |
| non-particularist approach that seeks to understand abandoned vessels within a diverse theoretical framework. | 6022 |
| This view sees the remains of abandoned watercraft as an important component of Australian maritime heritage with the potential to shed light on a number of areas. | 6024 |
| A database of over 1500 discarded and demolished watercraft sites, | 6026 |
| and technological developments throughout the many phases in the life history of a vessel. | 6038 |
| this illustrates that abandoned watercraft are not only a prominent part of the Australian landscape, | 6040 |
| in the country of a group of non-Pama-Nyungan language speakers, | 6044 |
| In this thesis I put forward a portrayal of the late Holocene subsistence and settlement patterns of the indigenous inhabitants of the Darwin region. | 6046 |
| particularly as a growing number of Australian archaeologists are beginning to employ Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a research and management tool. | 6070 |
| particularly as a growing number of Australian archaeologists are beginning to employ Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a research and management tool. | 6072 |
| If GIS are to be employed successfully then they must be underpinned by a well- designed database and this in turn must be based on an accurate classification system. | 6074 |
| To redress the above situation a classification system is developed that explicitly ignores the site type concept by concentrating on what is actually on the ground and the polythetic nature of the archaeological record. | 6076 |
| Using a conceptual level database design technique known as Object Role Modeling the classification system is translated first into data model and then into a fully-functional relational database. | 6078 |
| Using a conceptual level database design technique known as Object Role Modeling the classification system is translated first into data model and then into a fully-functional relational database. | 6080 |
| To reduce the potential for error when employing this new approach an interpretive model is also developed to ensure that analysis is always undertaken in a logical and meaningful fashion. | 6082 |
| Using a data set from Bribie Island, | 6082 |
| a series of tests are undertaken in conjunction with a GIS to determine the overall success and potential of the approach. | 6084 |
| a series of tests are undertaken in conjunction with a GIS to determine the overall success and potential of the approach. | 6084 |
| Non-equilibrium ecology provides a useful framework for examining vegetation change by identifying disturbance regimes and individual species response. | 6096 |
| Rock outcrops are a visual, | 6104 |
| The decline in cultural fruit seed deposition and the contemporary disparity in fruit species viability across the region can be explained by a significant shift in fire regimes and Aboriginal occupation since European arrival. | 6128 |
| In this thesis I illustrate a complex picture of continuity and change in Aboriginal interaction with the environment of the Keep region over the past 3500 years. | 6142 |
| a forest type identified as difficult to occupy. | 6150 |
| and a hearth at 1, | 6174 |
| when a thick hearth layer was built up. | 6178 |
| but no climatic change could have required people to abandon Tunnel Cave as a campsite from 8000 to 1400 BP. | 6180 |
| A more likely factor in cave occupation/abandonment in the Holocene was change in the vegetation surrounding cave sites. | 6182 |
| A change in vegetation structure or habitat is indicated by the proportions of mammal species in bone fragments (excluding hunter-gatherer prey animals deposited out of proportion to their natural representation). | 6184 |
| and in all regions where vegetation communities form a mosaic, | 6200 |
| The origins of modern human behaviour have been construed by some archaeologists as a question of the origins symbolism. | 6204 |
| In this thesis I take the position that consciousness is embodied and that body modifications are a key element in generating symbolic behaviour, | 6206 |
| The presence of use-wear and human body residues on stone tool edges provides a means of detecting symbolic body practices that is not dependent on stylistic judgements of stone tool form, | 6218 |
| To test this I analyse a collection of flaked bottle glass razors used for shaving the head from the Andaman Islands. | 6224 |
| The results of this analysis are compared to a further series of glass and obsidian razors from Antigua, | 6226 |
| and wear traces that indicate a scraping/slicing motion, | 6228 |
| adaptation and the maintenance of cultural continuity occurred in one Aboriginal community during the transition from a mobile hunting and gathering lifestyle to a less mobile lifestyle in station camps. | 6236 |
| adaptation and the maintenance of cultural continuity occurred in one Aboriginal community during the transition from a mobile hunting and gathering lifestyle to a less mobile lifestyle in station camps. | 6238 |
| An objective of the study is to identify a methodology through which elements of cultural continuity and adaptation are able to be identified and located in time, | 6238 |
| This approach to the analysis allows for a defined range of inputs from each of the four periods identified between the 1880s and the 1960s. | 6246 |
| historical and ethnographic records are used to locate the data within appropriate socio-economic contexts and to reconstruct a model of cultural change for each of the four periods. | 6254 |
| This study provides a methodology for demonstrating changes in the use of technology and material culture through time and provides information about how and when those changes occurred. | 6256 |
| Cuppacumbalong is studied as an example of maintaining the squatting run over a period of time against broad processes such as economic fluctuations and the mid to late 1800s selection movement. | 6284 |
| The methods chosen by the Government to promote selection varied over time and from State to State but shared a general idealistic view of the economies of small farming and ignorance of the environment. | 6298 |
| Selection pitted the squatter and selector in a conflict to attain the same ideals of respectability and domesticity often on the same piece of land. | 6302 |
| Research into Lanyon resulted in a substantial review of the established view of Lanyon as a landscape of "captive labour" to one where evidence of coercion in the landscape does not exist. | 6310 |
| Research into Lanyon resulted in a substantial review of the established view of Lanyon as a landscape of "captive labour" to one where evidence of coercion in the landscape does not exist. | 6310 |
| husbanded his estate to create a freehold estate out of the squatting run. | 6320 |
| This was done by a mixture of using family and dummies to select important areas of the estate (the flats) that gave the family control of the most economically valuable parts of the land. | 6322 |
| Thus the creation of squatting landscape in the case was a complex interaction of the desires of the de Salis's to maintain their estate, | 6332 |
| Overall the thesis concludes that in order to understand squatting and squatting landscapes both the broad process that shaped the development of squatting and the individual responses to the process need to be understood in order to break free from historical cliches and to paint a rich picture of Australian history. | 6338 |
| with many types of stone thought only to be available beyond the region - a factor which would have necessitated the involvement of long-distance trade/exchange systems and all the social interactions these entail. | 6352 |
| yellow artefacts have not been heated and their colour may help to identify a source. | 6370 |
| where a number of other knappable rock types were also available, | 6376 |
| A territorial and socio-economic organisational model covering this study area is based on five 'tribal' or 'dialect group' territories, | 6396 |
| In each of these five territories the proximity of archaeological sites to a similarly wide range of productive coastal and hinterland habitats is interpreted as evidence for broad-scale adaptive strategies. | 6400 |
| Local group socio-economic reciprocity is seen as a key factor in the adaptive strategies developed in regional foraging systems. | 6448 |
| In this study I use the historical archaeological investigation of the lives of the inmates and staff at the Lazaret to examine the role of paternalism as a governing force in the organisation of the place and in the lives of the people forced to live within its boundaries. | 6456 |
| To undertake this study I develop a methodology based on the work of Kosso that uses the distinct, | 6460 |
| From the analysis a number of important developments occur. | 6470 |
| an understanding of the spatial and material aspects of paternalism and a demonstration that philosophies, | 6474 |
| This thesis uses an archaeological perspective to examine the ways in which a consumer society became established in Australian colonies between 1788 and the middle of the 19th century. | 6476 |
| It provides a theoretical and methodological model for the systematic analysis of consumer goods that can be used to better understand cultural aspects of colonial settlement. | 6492 |
| A major part of the archaeological data used in this research is drawn from the assemblages of four post-settlement shipwrecks excavated in Australian waters during the past 30 years: Sydney Cove, | 6500 |
| The search for a reliable and non-invasive technique for the dating of rock art has produced an array of different, | 6504 |
| it identifies the cultural and non-cultural variables that structured long-term regional settlement patters of a hunter-gatherer population in a particular environment. | 6532 |
| it identifies the cultural and non-cultural variables that structured long-term regional settlement patters of a hunter-gatherer population in a particular environment. | 6532 |
| This is achieved through a case study providing an analysis of the cultural and environmental factors that structured the traditional settlement patterns of the Garawa. | 6534 |
| is shown to be a legitimate means of approaching the interpretation of the regional archaeological record. | 6546 |
| This thesis analyses a stone assemblage with a large quartz component spanning 20, | 6550 |
| This thesis analyses a stone assemblage with a large quartz component spanning 20, | 6550 |
| This research suggests that the difficulties associated with the analysis of quartz may be overcome by selecting a range of technological attributes that can be compared with other raw materials. | 6576 |
| This thesis documents the importance of quartz in the Coonabarabran/Warrumbungle region as well as in a wider Australian context. | 6584 |
| One important development has been the initiation of full pre-disturbance studies of a shipwreck's biological and electrochemical properties, | 6590 |
| Site inspection revealed that Xantho was powered by a former Royal Navy gunboat engine, | 6598 |
| of a type that was evidently the first high pressure, | 6600 |
| The ship itself was a former paddle-steamer built in the formative years of iron shipbuilding. | 6602 |
| After 23 years of service it was sold to a scrap metal merchant who joined the hull to the second-hand screw-engine and offered the revamped hybrid for sale. | 6602 |
| This thesis centres on the excavation of Broadhurst's ship and describes the recovery of the ship's engine from a highly-oxygenized salt-water environment. | 6620 |
| This enables anomalies noted at the Xantho site to be assessed and quantified against a broader sample, | 6634 |
| leading to a focus on the behaviour of steamship owners in a frontier environment and the postulation of a number of testable propositions about the material residues of such behaviour. | 6634 |
| leading to a focus on the behaviour of steamship owners in a frontier environment and the postulation of a number of testable propositions about the material residues of such behaviour. | 6634 |
| leading to a focus on the behaviour of steamship owners in a frontier environment and the postulation of a number of testable propositions about the material residues of such behaviour. | 6636 |
| From a theoretical standpoint, | 6644 |
| was without a resident convict population, | 6650 |
| From these sources a model was developed of the characteristics that defined a workhouse, | 6654 |
| From these sources a model was developed of the characteristics that defined a workhouse, | 6654 |
| while the Destitute Board sought to operate the Destitute Asylum as a form of workhouse, | 6658 |
| This in turn led to the failure of attempts to establish a moral environment where the inmates might be reformed. | 6660 |
| the Destitute Asylum shows a marked similarity in room and space allocation. | 6666 |
| a chapel and lying-in wards. | 6668 |
| A building is in effect a shell, | 6670 |
| A building is in effect a shell, | 6672 |
| and understood meanings within society identify a building and its role. | 6672 |
| Room provisions may present a guide to a building's function, | 6672 |
| Room provisions may present a guide to a building's function, | 6672 |
| but identification of the exact role and the social meanings implicit in a building may need to be found in documents and oral histories that relate to the structure in question. | 6674 |
| My main concern is the development of a practical framework for the analysis of style in indigenous visual arts. | 6678 |
| Since different media within an artistic system are likely to exhibit a unique combination of stylistic characteristics, | 6686 |
| it is incorrect to assume that a single art form will be indicative of an artistic system as a whole. | 6688 |
| it is incorrect to assume that a single art form will be indicative of an artistic system as a whole. | 6688 |
| but should be used as a basis for inquiry into the likelihood of alternative scenarios that coexist with the main explanation. | 6696 |
| discourses rooted largely in feminist and postmodernist theory questioned the enterprise of the museum in a post-industrial society. | 6702 |
| These writings demythologized the concept of the museum as a universally representative institution and placed its authority in doubt. | 6702 |
| the museum as a political vehicle vesting the interests of culture in the hands of the 'public' has been surrounded by contesting discourses of politics and power. | 6704 |
| both as a popular national symbol and as a signification of culture, | 6708 |
| both as a popular national symbol and as a signification of culture, | 6708 |
| is also based on a complex network of representational practices. | 6710 |
| and which in turn 'naturalizes' a particular view of history; | 6714 |
| This study is a particular 'reading' of the architecture of the National Gallery of Canada, | 6716 |
| taken at a specific point in time, | 6720 |
| The marginalization of women's art within the Canadian art history canon articulates the dichotomy which exists between the practice of making art in a Canadian context and the selective recording of that practice within written history. | 6722 |
| their work does not appear in a position of significance in Canadian art history texts. | 6732 |
| May was among a small number of Canadian women artists of the early decades of the twentieth century whose non-traditional commitment to their craft transcended academic principles, | 6740 |
| winning critical respect and contributing to the emergence of a Canadian modernism. | 6744 |
| The work she produced during this period affords us a compelling re-view of the appropriation of new pictorial vocabularies in Montreal, | 6746 |
| and consequently assumes a new significance. | 6746 |
| Anne Kahane is a renowned Canadian sculptor and yet an in-depth analysis of her development does not exist. | 6748 |
| Her development falls in distinct periods although these do not occur into a convenient order. | 6750 |
| for a time, | 6754 |
| Kahane was a maverick who did not follow the prevailing abstract movement in Canada. | 6762 |
| Kahane developed a figurative form that can be identified as hers alone. | 6768 |
| For a time, | 6770 |
| Kahane believed that her adherence to the human form was a handicap. | 6770 |
| she was mistaken because today many artists turn to the figurative as a form of expression. | 6770 |
| The formation of the Group also coincided with a period in Canadian history when Canada was casting off its colonial ties to England. | 6776 |
| a nationalist cultural agenda developed among members of the English-Canadian intelligentsia. | 6778 |
| One of the goals of this network was to strike a national note in Canadian art, | 6782 |
| Through the intermediary of Group of Seven member A. | 6784 |
| that while there was a large contingency of female members, | 6788 |
| the issue of the Group’s membership is discussed and a revised roster of members is proposed. | 6794 |
| Research is divided into three main areas: how Kelsey developed his reputation as a stained glass artist in Canada, | 6804 |
| This thesis studies the importance of fur as a feature of fashion in clothing through the extensive evidence provided by William Notman in his photo-portraits of Montreal residents during the 1860s. | 6814 |
| the study represents a preliminary incursion into a vast but neglected field of art history and underlines the significance of photographic records as a unique source of historical record. | 6828 |
| the study represents a preliminary incursion into a vast but neglected field of art history and underlines the significance of photographic records as a unique source of historical record. | 6828 |
| the study represents a preliminary incursion into a vast but neglected field of art history and underlines the significance of photographic records as a unique source of historical record. | 6830 |
| whether he chose a simple or elaborate setting, | 6846 |
| It is evident from the study that Notman developed a personal style within the established traditions that continued to evolve throughout his career. | 6854 |
| He was an accomplished photographer whose distinctive approach to photography was so characteristic of the studio that the portraits of children are a reflection of his formidable talent regardless of the probable involvement of staff photographers. | 6858 |
| This is a selected catalogue of the works of William Brymner, | 6860 |
| presented in a formal catalogue structure. | 6860 |
| Included are: a chronology of the artist's life; | 6862 |
| and eighty full catalogue entries of works which would be hung in a retrospective exhibition; | 6866 |
| with correct entries and photographs which in a published catalogue would be used to illustrate the text. | 6868 |
| William Brymner has been largely forgotten except as a teacher of painting at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. | 6870 |
| In the years between 1896 and 1921 a massive influx of immigrants to Canada directly affected the economic, | 6876 |
| By examining the use of the photograph in several types of immigration-related material the thesis serves as a study of the relationship between photographic discourse and issues of national and ethnic identity. | 6888 |
| He experienced a short term financial bankruptcy 1821, | 6904 |
| When he opened a studio in St. | 6906 |
| he was owner of a sizable plantation, | 6908 |
| Impressed by the work of water-colour painters he had seen during a London journey in 1831, | 6910 |
| Eagar established a drawing academy in Halifax 1834 where he served as drawing master to daughters of leading families who believed art was a necessary accomplishment of a first class education. | 6916 |
| Eagar established a drawing academy in Halifax 1834 where he served as drawing master to daughters of leading families who believed art was a necessary accomplishment of a first class education. | 6918 |
| Eagar established a drawing academy in Halifax 1834 where he served as drawing master to daughters of leading families who believed art was a necessary accomplishment of a first class education. | 6920 |
| Competition from a similar work, | 6926 |
| and early 1970s translations of the work of a number of important 20th-century French and German intellectual figures began to appear on the English speaking market. | 6938 |
| both marginal and central roles within the production of a number of writers who began to write on the visual arts in English Canada. | 6944 |
| A prominent sociological feature of this group of writers was the sense of frustration and exclusion that a high proportion of them felt, | 6948 |
| A prominent sociological feature of this group of writers was the sense of frustration and exclusion that a high proportion of them felt, | 6948 |
| within a number of university art history departments in Canada. | 6950 |
| would have a profound effect on writing on the visual arts by the1980s. | 6958 |
| This paper is a study of the artistic philosophy of J. | 6976 |
| A close study of his oeuvre reveals that his pictorial vocabulary of archetypal forms corresponds to a tradition of morphological research in biology and that his treatment of pictorial space was informed by scientific theories and by speculation about the "fourth dimension." | 6990 |
| A close study of his oeuvre reveals that his pictorial vocabulary of archetypal forms corresponds to a tradition of morphological research in biology and that his treatment of pictorial space was informed by scientific theories and by speculation about the "fourth dimension." | 6992 |
| Macdonald found in Theosophy and Anthroposophy a means to reconcile his fascination with science with his innately mystical apprehension of nature. | 6994 |
| The thesis contains a chapter in the form of catalogue raisonné on the history and provenance of the church's memorials (dating from 1870-1948), | 7008 |
| this study contributes to an understanding of architectural practice and social history in Montreal during this 125 year period and provides a model for future research. | 7018 |
| Their respective works synthesize indigenous North American arts to forge a new definition of painting by artists of Native ancestry, | 7022 |
| each artist's contributions to Canada's artistic identity have been excluded from the modern art history as a result of a problematic Western discourse, | 7030 |
| each artist's contributions to Canada's artistic identity have been excluded from the modern art history as a result of a problematic Western discourse, | 7030 |
| which has remained active for over a century. | 7030 |
| The term Precisionist refers to artists who worked in a similar hard-edged style; | 7046 |
| and architectonic structure in this art and used the term precision as a common denominator. | 7048 |
| as well as how the mythology of the American land as a site of renewal and redemption was part of modernist thought. | 7064 |
| The examination of the past through a modern lens is at the heart of this project. | 7074 |
| A dictatorship weighed upon Montmartre and Montparnasse, | 7080 |
| certain artistic practices and liaisons were proscribed: To paint a décor, | 7084 |
| above all for the Ballets Russes was a crime, | 7084 |
| This perspective restores what was lost in earlier interpretations: a vital sense of how performers' bodies activated artists' designs as they traversed the Ballets Russes' stage. | 7104 |
| these productions exhibited classic symptoms of the postmodern: a synthetic heterogeneity and engagement with the real world, | 7116 |
| Clothing the Corps thus participates in a larger historiographic project of recovering the anti-modernist strain running through much art of the early twentieth century. | 7118 |
| this dissertation expands the narrative of American Modernism with a discussion of the centrality of the city of Boston in understanding the development of Modernism in America. | 7122 |
| as a way to describe the progression and decline of Boston's modern moment throughout the 1880s and 1890s. | 7126 |
| reveal a complex network of association in fin-de-siecle Boston. | 7136 |
| The individuals at the heart of this dissertation continually attempted to balance a desire for a simpler life focused around the appreciation of the beautiful and progressive social reform within the confines of an increasingly fast-paced world. | 7144 |
| The individuals at the heart of this dissertation continually attempted to balance a desire for a simpler life focused around the appreciation of the beautiful and progressive social reform within the confines of an increasingly fast-paced world. | 7144 |
| The American sculptors examined in this thesis responded to Native American sources in a unique and independent manner. | 7158 |
| Native American art will be established as a new source for American sculptors, | 7160 |
| and Michelle Stuart and demonstrate that they share a common bond. | 7170 |
| or they treat the subject in a rudimentary manner. | 7190 |
| not a summary of every work in the field. | 7200 |
| The author found the state of the historiography at century's end to be healthy with a promising future. | 7208 |
| A brief summary of Indian history, | 7226 |
| a respite from a dysfunctional family situation, | 7240 |
| a respite from a dysfunctional family situation, | 7240 |
| Alumni were able to view Chemawa in a positive light because students molded their boarding school experiences to fit their needs. | 7250 |
| yet he was unquestionably a North Atlantic Puritan. | 7258 |
| who provided a framework of what Independency might look like, | 7272 |
| he was a Calvinist modeled after Calvin, | 7278 |
| More than just a North Atlantic Puritan, | 7286 |
| This dissertation provides a needed intellectual biography of Owen, | 7292 |
| one that explains his development as a thinker and explores his impact within the North Atlantic World of Christianity. | 7294 |
| This study provides a postcolonial theoretical framework for interpreting twelfth- and thirteenth-century English historiography. | 7298 |
| I argue throughout how disjunction serves as both a rhetorical effect of the historiographer's narrative vision and as an indicator of present-day negotiations with the medieval past. | 7310 |
| This study therefore concludes with a reading of the Old English poem The Ruin and the ways the medieval past intrudes upon the present, | 7316 |
| I argue that the theology of separate races derives from a white southern Protestant biblical hermeneutic that formed the religious basis for racial segregation, | 7324 |
| the post-Civil War southern Protestant notion of God having dispersed the human races through Noah's three sons - exerted a remarkable influence on American attitudes toward race, | 7340 |
| and offers a framework for current discussions on religion and same-sex marriage. | 7356 |
| Charles Kikuchi was a second-generation Japanese American, | 7366 |
| where he would work as a psychiatric social worker for twenty-four years. | 7378 |
| The diary provides a canvas upon which the history of racial and ethnic formation in the 1940's can be projected, | 7378 |
| as a majority of internees were permitted to leave their camps as early as 1943 and relocate to Chicago and New York City, | 7384 |
| based on his own vision of a multiracial and multiethnic America, | 7408 |
| Beardsley's compositions are physical objects conditioned by a physical setting--i. | 7428 |
| and paper are a few of the signifying systems described. | 7438 |
| this investigation draws upon the model presented by Philip Gaskell in A New Introduction to Bibliography. | 7442 |
| and to turn to an empirical method for a socialized model of literary production. | 7450 |
| There is a genre of literature in which the work is purposely written within the diary format; | 7452 |
| Diary novels traditionally reflect what the authors think real diaries are or are written as a parody of the diary as a negative model. | 7456 |
| Diary novels traditionally reflect what the authors think real diaries are or are written as a parody of the diary as a negative model. | 7456 |
| The authors of diary novels choose the diary form because its artistic quality expresses a greater sense of immediacy to the reader than other forms of literature. | 7458 |
| Turgenev's "Diary of a Superfluous Man" represents the marriage of a memoir and a diary, | 7466 |
| Turgenev's "Diary of a Superfluous Man" represents the marriage of a memoir and a diary, | 7466 |
| Turgenev's "Diary of a Superfluous Man" represents the marriage of a memoir and a diary, | 7466 |
| resulting in a work with more contemporaneous content than recounting of memories: a diary novel. | 7468 |
| resulting in a work with more contemporaneous content than recounting of memories: a diary novel. | 7468 |
| This dissertation provides a coherent, | 7478 |
| I test the grammar empirically in a number of ways to determine its goodness of fit to Russian. | 7480 |
| I aim to avoid making untested (or even incoherent) generalizations based on only a handful of examples. | 7484 |
| a baseline is set against which future theories can be measured, | 7486 |
| I show that all of the phonological or morphophonological processes reviewed can be described by a grammar no more powerful than context-free. | 7490 |
| This allows a neat explanation of the voicing assimilation properties of /v/, | 7502 |
| Testing the grammar suggests that while epenthesis cannot be regarded as a major factor in explaining vowel-zero alternations, | 7508 |
| it might be used to explain a significant minority of cases. | 7510 |
| Beardsley's compositions are physical objects conditioned by a physical setting--i. | 7540 |
| and paper are a few of the signifying systems described. | 7548 |
| this investigation draws upon the model presented by Philip Gaskell in A New Introduction to Bibliography. | 7552 |
| and to turn to an empirical method for a socialized model of literary production. | 7560 |
| This study proposes a new genre: La novela de las transnacionales, | 7562 |
| Acknowledging the fact that there are a great number of novels that address -to varying degrees- the topic of the transnational companies (TNCs), | 7568 |
| The first work is considered a proletarian novel; | 7576 |
| and the last is classified as a fictionalized account of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala. | 7578 |
| there exists a category that unites the three novels, | 7580 |
| this category is of a general nature and embraces a wide range of novels. | 7582 |
| this category is of a general nature and embraces a wide range of novels. | 7582 |
| The Yasukuni Shrine -- Japan's national memorial enshrining the spirits of Japanesesoldiers killed in domestic and foreign wars -- occupies a peculiar chapter in Japanese history. | 7598 |
| Originally designed as a sanctuary to house the spirits of those who died in overthrowing the Tokugawa Regime, | 7600 |
| Yasukuni was nurtured by the state and then the military into a powerful religious and iconographic center to promote Japanese ultranationalism. | 7602 |
| consigned themselves to the task of finding a place for Yasukuni as they worked on their postwar project of reinventing nationalism and cultural identity. | 7608 |
| This thesis provides a narrative review of Yasukuni's history from its inception to the present, | 7612 |
| when Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro sanctioned a commission to settle the Yasukuni problem. | 7616 |
| This study also represents one path in a quest toward a deeper understanding and definition of postwar Japanese nationalism and identity. | 7618 |
| This study also represents one path in a quest toward a deeper understanding and definition of postwar Japanese nationalism and identity. | 7618 |
| he contributed a unique synthesis of Anglo-Catholic sensibilities to the enduring legacy of the Oxford Movement. | 7622 |
| Sir Percival: A Story of the Past and of the Present (1886), | 7640 |
| A Teacher of the Violin (1887), | 7642 |
| Afflicted with a lifelong stammer, " | 7644 |
| the author of John Inglesant" proved himself a master of cadenced rhythms and "enspiritualised" prose in quest of "the great musical novel". | 7644 |
| Shorthouse integrated Quietism with Platonism into a religious aesthetic, | 7650 |
| a sacramental vision of "the Divine Principle of the Platonic Christ". | 7650 |
| a mutual influence, | 7666 |
| This dissertation is an attempt to define a Chinese "modernism," | 7670 |
| I propose that modernity of Taiwanese fiction is not so much a result of Western influences as an evolution of Chinese narrative tradition itself. | 7676 |
| To argue my point I delineate a poetics of Chinese narrative, | 7678 |
| from which I devise a method of reading and a criterion of evaluation for contemporary Taiwanese fiction in defining its achievement and historical significance. | 7678 |
| from which I devise a method of reading and a criterion of evaluation for contemporary Taiwanese fiction in defining its achievement and historical significance. | 7678 |
| This study of Taiwanese fiction also aims at providing a better understanding of fundamental aesthetic assumptions of Western "modernism" in the context of its own literary tradition. | 7682 |
| A final section gives a critical overview of the literary scene in Taiwan. | 7692 |
| A final section gives a critical overview of the literary scene in Taiwan. | 7692 |
| I suggest that instead of stretching the metaphorical potential of fiction to a highly intellectualized abstraction or playing down the interpretive claims of fiction by dramatizing its vulnerability like their Western counterpart, | 7696 |
| this is expressed as a battle between a lyrical vision of ideological values and an instinctive self-clowning, | 7704 |
| this is expressed as a battle between a lyrical vision of ideological values and an instinctive self-clowning, | 7704 |
| as a form of competition between pattern and contingency, | 7706 |
| as a celebration and abuse of the fictionality of fiction, | 7708 |
| inherent with a resistance to didacticism, | 7712 |
| The work is thus partly a comparative study of two important Renaissance playwrights; | 7724 |
| this dissertation considers the Afro-American writer as a contemporary "American" writer, | 7774 |
| A revival of critical interest during the 1950's and 1960's has done little to change a generally unfavorable opinion of the work. | 7780 |
| A revival of critical interest during the 1950's and 1960's has done little to change a generally unfavorable opinion of the work. | 7782 |
| With a few notable exceptions, | 7782 |
| These interpretations provide the basis for a re-appraisal of the work. | 7788 |
| A study of the structure, | 7788 |
| The Marble Faun is a work capable of standing on its own merits. | 7794 |
| the value of a work of art depends upon the mood of the viewer. | 7802 |
| Hawthorne explores a problem which has become almost an obsession of modern man. | 7810 |
| This problem is the question of man's moral position in what seems to be a meaningless, | 7812 |
| The most important theme of The Marble Faun is a consideration of the consequences of man's alienation from other men, | 7812 |
| and Kenyon are each transformed by a fall from relative innocence into a world of suffering humanity. | 7818 |
| and Kenyon are each transformed by a fall from relative innocence into a world of suffering humanity. | 7820 |
| which makes The Marble Faun a work of enduring importance to our civilization. | 7836 |
| critics have overwhelmingly sought to situate him as a surrealist. | 7840 |
| These opinions were met with opposition from a minority group who argue that specialists of surrealism have historically sought to annex the author's work. | 7840 |
| and is the first to link the author to a post-German Romanticism, | 7846 |
| a rich interim period. | 7848 |
| illustrating Gracq's notion of a temporal flow between past and present in his reappropriation of symbolism. | 7862 |
| An art-historical appreciation of Gracq's anachronism in the fourth chapter uncovers the author's inspired use of a literary painting by British Pre-Raphaelite Burne-Jones whose legendary sources and historicity are traced, | 7866 |
| Alfred Kazin writes that the documentary writing of the 1930s amounted to a vast granary of facts, | 7880 |
| a sub-literature that lacks the formal sophistication a vigorously modern art requires. | 7880 |
| a sub-literature that lacks the formal sophistication a vigorously modern art requires. | 7880 |
| Kazin's early verdict has been upheld by many subsequent judgments: critics still largely think of the documentary mode as a residue of the realism that modernism supersedes. | 7884 |
| My project does not so much aim to add yet another neglected set of texts to an expanded canon as to provide a new vision of inter- war American culture as a body of work that reflects and responds to parallel emergences in American society: new desires bound up in the migration of groups from rural to urban areas, | 7892 |
| My project does not so much aim to add yet another neglected set of texts to an expanded canon as to provide a new vision of inter- war American culture as a body of work that reflects and responds to parallel emergences in American society: new desires bound up in the migration of groups from rural to urban areas, | 7894 |
| Acosta's The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People , | 7930 |
| An abiding concern for all four authors is the manner in which region plays a decisive role in the construction of normative identities that subsume and give structure to gender, | 7938 |
| as a result, | 7942 |
| they are equally preoccupied with how region can operate as a site for the creation of counter-hegemonic cultural identities. | 7942 |
| As a regionalist critique of modernism and as a modernist investigation of Chicano writing, | 7944 |
| As a regionalist critique of modernism and as a modernist investigation of Chicano writing, | 7944 |
| my dissertation has three larger implications: it concretely delineates a national component to modernism, | 7948 |
| which is evaluated most commonly as a transnational phenomenon; | 7948 |
| and Leni Riefenstahl - it demonstrates the emergence of a frayed modernism. | 7960 |
| My chapters situate this artistic production - what Walter Benjamin referred to as a mighty recasting of literary forms - within the cultural landscape of fascist and antifascist organizations such as the Bureau of Beauty of Labor and Mass Observation. | 7966 |
| my dissertation argues that the political commitment and resistance of the 1930s resulted in a poetic realism or documentary modernism that fostered intense change and revaluation of modernist beliefs about the meaning, | 7980 |
| By focusing on four of Hemingway's most experimental texts it shows how a figure of both high and popular modernism sought to occupy a heterogeneous space of cultural queerness vitalized by masculinity, | 7988 |
| By focusing on four of Hemingway's most experimental texts it shows how a figure of both high and popular modernism sought to occupy a heterogeneous space of cultural queerness vitalized by masculinity, | 7990 |
| and literary discourses reflected period obsessions with authenticity in the face of a rising commodity culture. | 7994 |
| It also introduces the dissertation's argument that Hemingway's success in becoming a valuable literary property rested on a queer authorial engagement with definitions of American masculinity. | 7996 |
| It also introduces the dissertation's argument that Hemingway's success in becoming a valuable literary property rested on a queer authorial engagement with definitions of American masculinity. | 7996 |
| The transatlantic and transgressive aspects of Hemingway's times illustrate his authoritative and authorial confounding of a highbrow/lowbrow divide of cultural production and affiliations. | 8004 |
| Chapter Two examines The Sun Also Rises as a text deeply divided against itself as the product of Jake Barnes and Hemingway's authorship simultaneously. | 8006 |
| and resentments that constitute Hemingway-cum- Barnes's efforts at rendering and remembering lost manhood in the wake of WWI in ways that raise complicated gender questions involving racialized and sexualized boyhood as a promising yet problematic queer zone. | 8012 |
| constitutes a deliberately queer authorial project where Hemingway attempts to move his writing and popular authorial standing in new directions in order to assert and transcend his public identity as a man, | 8016 |
| constitutes a deliberately queer authorial project where Hemingway attempts to move his writing and popular authorial standing in new directions in order to assert and transcend his public identity as a man, | 8020 |
| Chapter Four examines Green Hills of Africa as a political critique of imperialism and manhood that manifests itself through Hemingway writing himself and his shortcomings as a white modern man and hunter as a self- deprecating literary joke. | 8022 |
| Chapter Four examines Green Hills of Africa as a political critique of imperialism and manhood that manifests itself through Hemingway writing himself and his shortcomings as a white modern man and hunter as a self- deprecating literary joke. | 8022 |
| Chapter Four examines Green Hills of Africa as a political critique of imperialism and manhood that manifests itself through Hemingway writing himself and his shortcomings as a white modern man and hunter as a self- deprecating literary joke. | 8022 |
| In writing such a joke, | 8024 |
| -1983) was a poet and a playwright, | 8028 |
| -1983) was a poet and a playwright, | 8028 |
| a director of film and live- drama performance, | 8028 |
| and a popular critic of politics, | 8030 |
| propositions for a fresh understanding of fictionality, | 8046 |
| The core project might be described as a delimitation of fiction to the knowledge of not-knowing, | 8052 |
| but a not-knowing that forces motion rather than pause - a poetics of agnosticism against stasis. | 8054 |
| but a not-knowing that forces motion rather than pause - a poetics of agnosticism against stasis. | 8054 |
| This study presents a microethnographic linguistic analysis of how working-class African American high school students resist and accommodate to the efforts of a teacher to apprentice these students into using elite-aspiring rhetorical inquiry. | 8062 |
| This study presents a microethnographic linguistic analysis of how working-class African American high school students resist and accommodate to the efforts of a teacher to apprentice these students into using elite-aspiring rhetorical inquiry. | 8064 |
| - and the teaching and learning of the abstract/speculative style as a hegemonic social process. | 8088 |
| it provides a linguistic and microethnographic focus to the macroethnographic notion of resistance, | 8092 |
| not learning elite- aspiring ways with words has much to do with students deliberately refusing to embrace a way of talking that puts one's own standing as an authentic African American into question This thesis is concerned with a certain kind of non-sentential utterance occuring in dialogue, | 8100 |
| not learning elite- aspiring ways with words has much to do with students deliberately refusing to embrace a way of talking that puts one's own standing as an authentic African American into question This thesis is concerned with a certain kind of non-sentential utterance occuring in dialogue, | 8102 |
| is intended to convey a proposition, | 8104 |
| a question or a request. | 8106 |
| a question or a request. | 8106 |
| as in 'A: Who came to the party? | 8108 |
| We argue that consequently only a theory that has at its disposal a wide array of information sources - from syntax through compositional and lexical semantics to domain and world knowledge, | 8122 |
| We argue that consequently only a theory that has at its disposal a wide array of information sources - from syntax through compositional and lexical semantics to domain and world knowledge, | 8122 |
| Our main thesis then is that the resolution of the intended content of fragments can be modelled as a by-product of the establishment of 'coherence' in dialogue, | 8132 |
| fails to offer a convincing model of the interpretation of fragments where missing content is linguistically implicit and has to be inferred. ( | 8146 |
| and we provide a computational and formally precise theory of how the compositional semantics is supplemented with further content via reasoning about the context - both linguistic and non-linguistic. | 8160 |
| based on an extension of a wide- coverage grammar and an accompanying discourse reasoning component for a simple domain. | 8164 |
| based on an extension of a wide- coverage grammar and an accompanying discourse reasoning component for a simple domain. | 8166 |
| The present study is a cross-linguistic analysis of Thai contrastive discourse markers (hereafter, | 8170 |
| a teaching module designed to facilitate the teaching of ECDMs to Thai learners of English is proposed. | 8176 |
| there is not a one-to-one correspondence between the CDMs of the two languages. | 8186 |
| The contrastive rhetoric hypothesis argues that texts written in different native languages exhibit different organizational patterns as a result of differences at the cultural dimension. | 8202 |
| A multi-level model of contrastive analysis is designed for the purpose of comparing the texts in terms of these three categories. | 8210 |
| It is suggested that these differences are a consequence of cultural differences between the two speech communities rather than a consequence of linguistic differences between the two languages. | 8220 |
| It is suggested that these differences are a consequence of cultural differences between the two speech communities rather than a consequence of linguistic differences between the two languages. | 8220 |
| Chapter 1 attempts a review of the main defining features of contrastive rhetoric and its development. | 8224 |
| and a specially compiled two-million word corpus of texts, | 8246 |
| and by means of a diachronic comparison, | 8256 |
| A detailed analysis is provided of differences between the administrative language as a whole and other registers of French, | 8260 |
| A detailed analysis is provided of differences between the administrative language as a whole and other registers of French, | 8260 |
| as a statistical notion, | 8268 |
| the translation process itself has acted as a conservative influence on the EU discourse. | 8276 |
| This is a study of the distribution of simultaneous speech in a 91, | 8278 |
| This is a study of the distribution of simultaneous speech in a 91, | 8278 |
successful/unsuccessful turn-competition and backchanneling) were analyzed in terms of a) characteristics of the prosodic, | 8284 |
| In a complementary case study, | 8294 |
| 288 instances of simultaneous speech in Chinese (Cantonese) were also analyzed in a 10385 sample of Chinese conversation, | 8296 |
| The descriptive findings of the study help to explain why Chinese learners of English find it difficult to take a turn in English conversation, | 8300 |
| and especially to bid for a turn. | 8302 |
| the computer corpus approach adopted in the research provides a way of obtaining rich input for teaching English discourse devices in terms of prosody, | 8306 |
| This dissertation is a corpus-based analysis of the bei-construction in Chinese written dicourse with special reference to the English be-passive. | 8312 |
| agency and the humanness of the patient and agent within and across a large variety of genres, | 8318 |
| I propose a unitary functional analysis of the bei-construction in that the use of the bei- construction is motivated by the cognitive role prominence of the patient NP referent in a situation. | 8324 |
| I propose a unitary functional analysis of the bei-construction in that the use of the bei- construction is motivated by the cognitive role prominence of the patient NP referent in a situation. | 8326 |
| "Power" is a word with myriad definitions and has been studied by linguists and other scholars in as many contexts. | 8352 |
| 1995) examine accommodation not in opposition to power but as a differently-derived variety of power, | 8360 |
| whether or not the instructor is a Native English Speaker or a speaker of English as a Second Language, | 8374 |
| whether or not the instructor is a Native English Speaker or a speaker of English as a Second Language, | 8374 |
| whether or not the instructor is a Native English Speaker or a speaker of English as a Second Language, | 8374 |
| and whether the class is held in a computer-mediated or traditional classroom environment. | 8376 |
| and the students were given a questionnaire inquiring about the classroom environment, | 8378 |
| and two instructors teaching in a computer- mediated classroom and two teaching in a traditional classroom environment. | 8388 |
| and two instructors teaching in a computer- mediated classroom and two teaching in a traditional classroom environment. | 8390 |
| and the instructors’ role as a leader or as a facilitator. | 8398 |
| and the instructors’ role as a leader or as a facilitator. | 8398 |
| The notion that a text is coherent in virtue of the 'relations' that hold between its component spans currently forms the basis for an active research programme in discourse linguistics. | 8404 |
| The aim of this thesis is to contribute towards the development of a standard set of relations. | 8416 |
| We begin from an explicitly empirical conception of relations: they are taken to model a collection of psychological mechanisms operative during the tasks of reading and writing. | 8418 |
| A methodology for investigating these mechanisms is then presented, | 8426 |
| which takes as its starting point a study of cue phrases---the sentence/clause connectives by which they are signalled. | 8428 |
| Both tests are functional in inspiration: the former test identifies a heterogenous class of phrases used for linking one portion of text to another; | 8438 |
| and the latter test is used to discover when a writer is willing to substitute one of these phrases for another. | 8442 |
| from which a corpus of over 200 cue phrases is assembled. | 8448 |
| The substitutability test is then used to organise this corpus into a hierarchical taxonomy, | 8452 |
| The taxonomy of cue phrases lends itself neatly to a model of relations as feature-based constructs. | 8456 |
| it sets out a methodology for motivating a set of relation definitions, | 8466 |
| it sets out a methodology for motivating a set of relation definitions, | 8466 |
| which rests on a systematic analysis of concrete linguistic data, | 8468 |
| and demands a minimum of theoretical assumptions. | 8468 |
| and offer a number of innovative insights into text coherence. | 8474 |
| The findings are based on transcribed audio recordings of interviews that took place at a privately funded social service agency. | 8486 |
| a number of predictable frames comprise the interview process (these frames are explored in Chapters Three through Six). | 8490 |
| this research suggests that a reformulated approach to the social service interview is absolutely necessary in order to ensure fair and equitable treatment of clients by the interviewers Naturally occurring Finnish-English bilingual conversations are examined in order to discover the syntactic principle constraining the distribution of intrasentential code-switching. | 8506 |
| and a structural explanation to this observation is offered in the general syntactic principle of government. | 8516 |
| The purpose of the study is to provide a structurally based explanation for a phenomenon which has earlier received its explanation as 'nonce borrowing' (Poplack, | 8520 |
| The purpose of the study is to provide a structurally based explanation for a phenomenon which has earlier received its explanation as 'nonce borrowing' (Poplack, | 8520 |
| Looking at the phenomenon of intrasentential switching from a hierarchical, | 8526 |
| according to which code-switching within a governed element is possible if and only if the governed element includes a 'language-carrier' whose language index is identical with the language index of the governor. | 8532 |
| according to which code-switching within a governed element is possible if and only if the governed element includes a 'language-carrier' whose language index is identical with the language index of the governor. | 8534 |
| In a few instances an explanation for code-switching needs to be looked for in sociolinguistic factors, | 8552 |
| The study aims at a comprehensive explanation of Finnish-English intrasentential code- switching, | 8556 |
| The study assumes that text production involves satisfying a text at three related levels: the schematic superstructures, | 8570 |
| A sociopragmatic approach based on the theory of intentionality and a rational choice model as explicated in the Markedness Model (Myers-Scotton 1993 & 1998), | 8590 |
| A sociopragmatic approach based on the theory of intentionality and a rational choice model as explicated in the Markedness Model (Myers-Scotton 1993 & 1998), | 8590 |
| A major result of this study shows that effective writers used more meta-discourse features to express messages of intentionality than ineffective writers; | 8600 |
| and concludes that meta-discourse features structure discourse at a higher level than propositional content. | 8610 |
| An explanation is given here using the notion of 'semantic range' (a description of a word's typical collocation patterns); | 8622 |
| An explanation is given here using the notion of 'semantic range' (a description of a word's typical collocation patterns); | 8624 |
| antonyms are shown to be words which have a great deal of semantic range in common. | 8624 |
| a new characterization of antonymy in terms of shared semantic range is proposed. | 8630 |
| Adjective-noun co-occurrence patterns from a large corpus are used as the main source of data. | 8652 |
| antonyms are found to be adjectives which have a high degree of overlap in semantic range; | 8656 |
| and 'big'/'small' are found to share a great deal of semantic range but 'large' and 'little' have almost no shared semantic range and thus are not antonyms. | 8658 |
| as a starting point in teaching, | 8662 |
| we therefore put forward a framework of text description, | 8672 |
| For this we design a research corpus of medical research articles. | 8678 |
| We also argue that if frequency is to be exploited then we must specify a framework of semantic networks and text organisation. | 8682 |
| Tense plays a role in the shift in reference. | 8694 |
| In this thesis we further argue for a pedagogical corpus, | 8700 |
| to organise the teaching materials in a syllabus based on collocations. | 8702 |
| A pedagogoc corpus is argued to organise item, | 8702 |
| This thesis is a study of discursive change in a corpus of election manifestos and party election broadcasts (PEBs) produced by the Labour and Conservative parties in the period 1964- 1997. | 8708 |
| This thesis is a study of discursive change in a corpus of election manifestos and party election broadcasts (PEBs) produced by the Labour and Conservative parties in the period 1964- 1997. | 8708 |
| A related process of change is ‘marketization’, | 8716 |
| whose conclusions about the extent to which public discourse has been influenced by these processes are based on the detailed analysis of a limited set of features in short texts or textual extracts. | 8724 |
| This thesis supplements Fairclough’s work by offering a methodology which identifies 46 lexicogrammatical ‘markers’ of informalization. | 8726 |
| The texts in the corpus were then given a ‘score’ for each feature and compared against each other. | 8732 |
| there was a general increase in informalization over time, | 8738 |
| There are also several case-studies which allow a detailed exploration of the textual manifestation of the markers. | 8748 |
| a distinctive feature of the analysis of informalization and marketization in the thesis is this ‘multiple perspective’, | 8750 |
| which results in a richer account of the data than would have been achieved with a single approach. | 8752 |
| which results in a richer account of the data than would have been achieved with a single approach. | 8754 |
| Two corpora of South African undergraduate essays (writing in first and second language English) are compared to a corpus of academic papers (PW). | 8756 |
| The comparison is in terms of corpus-analytic methods and a discourse analytic approach to using definite expressions. | 8758 |
| 1999) shows they are a core feature of English academic vocabulary. | 8764 |
| Distinguishing between sense and reference clarifies a crucial difference between nouns with vague denotation, | 8766 |
| A quantitative analysis of the corpora reveals that the students and PWs use both 'shell' nouns, | 8768 |
| Using a discourse-based approach, | 8774 |
| a second analysis focuses more closely on the discoursal structure of the texts, | 8774 |
| A specially developed method of coding is used to categorise the way writers specify and constrain the referents of NPs containing 'abstract' nouns. | 8776 |
| learning to write for a 'general readership' must be seen as a crucial part of their training. | 8786 |
| learning to write for a 'general readership' must be seen as a crucial part of their training. | 8786 |
| A model of universal passive types within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is presented. | 8798 |
| This is accomplished by proposing a set of type definitions, | 8800 |
| preference principles in the construction of passive type matrices in HPSG are introduced: a metagrammar provided by Universal Grammar describing the markedness of each type with respect to its supertype. | 8808 |
| The resulting system models a passive prototype within HPSG. | 8810 |
| Croft's (2001) notion of plotting constructions in 'conceptual space' is exploited as a means of cross-linguistic comparison using these topicality measures. | 8818 |
| their position being consistent whether Referential Distance or Topic Persistence is used as a measure. | 8824 |
| there is no comprehensive study of individual stance markers across a large, | 8834 |
| This study uses a multi- dimensional approach to identify 1) identifying the main patterns of stance use in English, | 8834 |
| a multivariate statistical technique, | 8852 |
| These moods can be identified through a multi-dimensional analysis. | 8874 |
| The semi-phonological transcription of realisations of offers and requests yielded a corpus of 2, | 8890 |
| Linguistic variables included the presence/absence of a main-clause verb, | 8898 |
| politeness is presumed given a minimal context. | 8920 |
| Such context is modelled as a frame combining information about extra-linguistic features of the situation and the (socio-culturally defined) appropriate use of language therein. | 8920 |
| The presumptive nature of the implicatures arising when a frame of this kind is instantiated guarantees that politeness, | 8924 |
| defined as a perlocutionary effect consisting of the addressee holding the belief that the speaker is polite, | 8926 |
| A natural explanation is thus provided for the oft-repeated observation that politeness commonly passes unnoticed. | 8928 |
| They then give rise to particularised implicatures which necessitate a reference to the nonce context of utterance. | 8940 |
| we highlight contributions to linguistic theory that such a thorough analysis of indi vidual variation provides. | 8960 |
| This module is responsible for transforming underlying lexical pronunciations from a lexical database into contextually appropriate surface postlexical pronunciations. | 8964 |
| This transformation is achieved by machine learning of a corpus of hand- labeled postlexical pronunciations that have been aligned with lexical pronunciations. | 8966 |
| The machine learning is conducted by a neural network, | 8970 |
| A thorough analysis of the performance of the postlexical module is offered, | 8970 |
| with attention to the relative success of the neural network at learning a wide range of postlexical phenomena. | 8974 |
| We examine the extent to which a symboli c approach to allophony is warranted, | 8976 |
| based on the experience of generating a complete postlexical phonology of English for use in synthetic speech. | 8980 |
| each of these research projects has hypothesized only one recurrent feature of translation at a time, | 8994 |
| along with a fourth (levelling-out), | 8998 |
| they constitute a broad sample of non-literary texts. | 9006 |
| and it is recommended that a standardized protocol for recording the attributes of future comparable corpora should be adopted. | 9024 |
| Tone contour type and token The register domains were evaluated as a group and in pairs on each intonational measure. | 9048 |
| A significant effect for register was found for every measure at the group level and in more than half of the register domain pairs. | 9048 |
| These results confirm for intonation what has already been demonstrated through analyses of lexical and grammatical characteristics of other aspects of language: a register is distinguished by a constellation of features and their relative distributions. | 9052 |
| These results confirm for intonation what has already been demonstrated through analyses of lexical and grammatical characteristics of other aspects of language: a register is distinguished by a constellation of features and their relative distributions. | 9052 |
| The results of this study overall suggest that a general model of intonation probably glosses over a range of significant situation-based intonational behavior. | 9068 |
| The results of this study overall suggest that a general model of intonation probably glosses over a range of significant situation-based intonational behavior. | 9068 |
| The historical research section examines the emergence and manifestation of an aesthetic shift which began in the early 1970s as a reaction to Modernism. | 9078 |
| Luigi Nono (1924-1990) came to prominence as a member of the European avant-garde in the 1950s, | 9094 |
| but he insisted that his methods of composition and his political beliefs were of a piece. | 9100 |
| and to propose a mode of analysis sympathetic to the composer's avowed motivations. | 9114 |
| After a general introduction in Chapter One, | 9116 |
| Chapter Three is a close study of Incontri (1955), | 9122 |
| whose form proves to be a musical model of materialist dialectics. | 9122 |
| a work in which both the texts and the musical processes take on a distinctly hortatory tone. | 9122 |
| a work in which both the texts and the musical processes take on a distinctly hortatory tone. | 9124 |
| proves to be a much more introspective work, | 9126 |
| but the disposition of its musical material enacts a kind of immanent social statement similar to those made more explicitly in the earlier works. | 9128 |
| Close study reveals a highly coherent and self- consistent logic in the relationship between Nono's compositional method and his political aims for his music. | 9130 |
| a search for scholarly resources on the choral works by significant African- American composers is more limited. | 9140 |
| had a tremendous impact upon the cultural development of African- Americans in North America. | 9148 |
| a prominent African-American composer states, | 9150 |
| the music of African-Americans became a vital component of American history and American music. | 9154 |
| There is a considerable number of African-American composers who continue to make significant contributions in all genres of music, | 9162 |
| however only a limited amount of resources, | 9164 |
| 2) to present his choral works in the form of a descriptive analysis; | 9172 |
| and (3) to provide a summary of his career as a performer, | 9172 |
| and (3) to provide a summary of his career as a performer, | 9172 |
| A review of related literature in Chapter Two provides a Black perspective on twentieth century classical music. | 9178 |
| A review of related literature in Chapter Two provides a Black perspective on twentieth century classical music. | 9178 |
| and career as a concert pianist, | 9182 |
| like the cry of a baby, | 9192 |
| which is done with a harmon mute. | 9194 |
| The first movement begins with a birth, | 9196 |
| reminiscing about a childhood from the past. | 9200 |
| The words of a Tennessee Williams poem are expressed through the trumpet, | 9202 |
| Through a detailed study of String Quartet No. | 9214 |
| I will show how Ives manipulates time to counteract forward motion and project a multidimensional musical image. | 9218 |
| I introduce a new concept called fictional time and discuss the role of the listener's initiative in approaching Ives. | 9218 |
| He is a contemporary American composer, | 9234 |
| as a corollary, | 9252 |
| The question of a possible Manichaean influence is particularly pertinent because Manichaeism is at heart a dualistic solution to the issue of good and evil. | 9254 |
| The question of a possible Manichaean influence is particularly pertinent because Manichaeism is at heart a dualistic solution to the issue of good and evil. | 9256 |
| evil is thought of as a disturbance of this state, | 9268 |
| Wickedness and mortality are deemed to be both spiritually and physically evil in Manichaean terms because they disturb a person's tranquil existence. | 9282 |
| hence imposing on them a causal relation that makes the conception of a vicious circle mechanism possible. | 9284 |
| hence imposing on them a causal relation that makes the conception of a vicious circle mechanism possible. | 9286 |
| Augustine's notion of concupiscentia is also linked directly to the Manichaean idea of evil as a disturbance of a person's inner tranquility. | 9304 |
| Augustine's notion of concupiscentia is also linked directly to the Manichaean idea of evil as a disturbance of a person's inner tranquility. | 9304 |
| Augustine had imported into that notion a strong sexual overtone by equating concupiscentia with the Manichaean term libido, | 9306 |
| To respond to the Manichaean view of the universe as a mixture of good and evil, | 9312 |
| an order portrayable with a two-tiered frame. | 9318 |
| as a spiritual creature, | 9320 |
| due to his conviction that personal evil is inevitable (a view shared by the Manichees and demonstrated in his conceptions of consuetudo and concupiscentia), | 9322 |
| he was able to achieve what other Christian leaders of his time could not: a Christian theory of the inevitability of personal evil and the cosmological implications for the role played by predeterminism in the doctrine of predestination. | 9340 |
| a God who remains unalterable, | 9392 |
| Is God simply a static Being? | 9394 |
| Classical Tradition has presented us with a picture of an immutable God, | 9398 |
| a mono-polar God, | 9398 |
| Yet scriptural revelation and personal religious experience presents us with a God who, | 9402 |
| a God who is affected by, | 9404 |
| a God who listens and relates. | 9406 |
| of a static mono-polar God and the Process view of a dipolar God of becoming. | 9422 |
| of a static mono-polar God and the Process view of a dipolar God of becoming. | 9424 |
| a reinterpretation of the Classical viewpoint. | 9426 |
| MAJOR CONCLUSION William Norris ClarkeÕs neo-Thomistic consideration of the nature of GodÕs immutability rests on the basis of the notion of the Dynamic Being of God and forms the final focus and basis for our seeking a reconciliation of tradition, | 9432 |
| Discussion of Norris ClarkeÕs work is supplemented by a consideration of the work of Robert A. | 9436 |
| Discussion of Norris ClarkeÕs work is supplemented by a consideration of the work of Robert A. | 9436 |
| the basic tenet of dispensationalism (a school of Protestant theology which holds that God deals with humankind in different ways in different periods of time called dispensations) has been that the church and Israel are two sharply distinct peoples of God. | 9444 |
| The tenet of theological distinctiveness has always been the cornerstone for the dispensationalist's belief in the pretribulation rapture of the church: the belief that at the first stage of Christ's two-stage second advent he will endue all who comprise the true church with a resurrected body like his own, | 9456 |
| progressive dispensationalists have rejected the view of a sharp theological distinction. | 9464 |
| From their study of Scripture they observe a soft non- theological distinction. | 9464 |
| They describe the church and Israel as different redemptive dimensions of the same humanity that share in a holistic and unified eternal salvation. | 9468 |
| I will examine the theological developments that led to this loss of a sense of human freedom and creativity in the face of the divine, | 9492 |
| and how Christian contacts with the pagan philosophical schools came to have a profound effect on Eastern Patristic theology and philosophy. | 9502 |
| The final section of this study will suggest some ways in which the history of Patristic eschatology - especially Origen and Maximus - may serve as a fruitful source for contemporary theologians who are concerned with issues of personhood, | 9508 |
| The 'introduction' gives a brief survey of parabolic studies, | 9518 |
| My approach has been negatively to demonstrate the weakness of the scholarly arguments against authenticity and positively to offer a case for authenticity via (a) a study of background, | 9530 |
| My approach has been negatively to demonstrate the weakness of the scholarly arguments against authenticity and positively to offer a case for authenticity via (a) a study of background, | 9530 |
| My approach has been negatively to demonstrate the weakness of the scholarly arguments against authenticity and positively to offer a case for authenticity via (a) a study of background, | 9530 |
| and (b) a careful use of the criterion of multiple attestation which demonstrates that our material is linguistically and theologically coherent with other well-attested Jesus tradition. | 9532 |
| The originality of the work lies apart from anything else in the fact that a full length defence of the authenticity of Mt 13:24-30, | 9536 |
| suggesting a background to the Son of Man tradition in Ezekiel and the Similitudes of Enoch, | 9540 |
| A series of maps and charts have been assembled to indicate the diffusion patterns of these six religious institutions. | 9558 |
| The first section points out the historical background of the time that was considered to be a spiritually significant age according to Buddhist chronology. | 9570 |
| The next section on the "Religious Answers to National Problems" provides a prelude to how the indigenous religious tradition of Shinto attempted to define its leaders and their right to rule as well as the divine protection that was to be given them by the native deities. | 9572 |
| The imported Buddhist teachings provided a new perspective to the national problems through an examination of existing conditions as possibly being consequences of immoral acts. | 9576 |
| a few specifics on the differences and similarities of the nationalistic perspectives of the first four Buddhist reformers are examined. | 9584 |
| looks at the particulars in the fifth reformer's life that can help to clarify his approach toward providing a viable solution for the nation's problems. | 9588 |
| This is done by examining his life as being the product of "A Buddhist-Shinto Fusion." | 9590 |
| Nichiren's affirmation of Shinto is presented in a comparison and contrast of his Budddhist teachings to his Shinto activities. | 9604 |
| I conclude with some reflection on how Nichiren was primarily a Shinto influenced nationalist who supported his views with Buddhist teaching and how this imported religion (Buddhism) was made Japanese by its interdigitation with Shinto. | 9606 |
| Part one of this four-part study examines Plato's eschatological myths and provides a complete catalog and brief discussion of all references in them to conduct and behavior that affect one's fate in the afterlife. | 9616 |
| This study argues that there is some evidence in the early texts of both societies for a belief that commoners could also be rewarded or punished in an afterlife. | 9646 |
| In later periods both societies' religious texts dealing with the afterlife exhibit a much more developed democratization. | 9650 |
| are responsible for the proper ordering of the cosmos and that violations of that order will call down the most dire consequence -- the loss of a beneficent afterlife. | 9658 |
| Aristotle had reasoned from the contingency of the world to the necessity of a God. | 9668 |
| as God could not be concerned with a world which was significantly different from God himself. | 9670 |
| A hidden assumption in Aristotle's reasoning is exposed. | 9676 |
| The thesis argues that the world we know represents a stage in a process towards the possible self-creation of an entity which is similar to God, | 9682 |
| The thesis argues that the world we know represents a stage in a process towards the possible self-creation of an entity which is similar to God, | 9682 |
| Only a process of self-creation could produce an entity which would be self-existent, | 9684 |
| Each stage of such a process of self-creation, | 9686 |
| The thesis argues that the world can be understood as a process involving the possible self- creation of an entity like God. | 9700 |
| The possible outcomes of this process of Emergence could be either the self-creation of a stratum which is not significantly different from God, | 9712 |
| Christ could be considered to be a proleptic exemplar of the final emergent stage. | 9714 |
| as a union of bodies; | 9716 |
| marriage was an exclusive contract by which a man and a woman mutually handed over their bodies for the purpose of acts which led to the procreation of children. | 9718 |
| marriage was an exclusive contract by which a man and a woman mutually handed over their bodies for the purpose of acts which led to the procreation of children. | 9718 |
| a new age dawned whereby canonists, | 9722 |
| were henceforth to view marriage as a union of persons. " | 9726 |
| Person" is more than a "body"; | 9726 |
| a person is an individual consisting of wants, | 9726 |
| "Union" is not only simply understood as a "contract", | 9730 |
| but also is now once again recognized as a "covenant", | 9730 |
| a concept which, | 9732 |
| complicated by today's western society's stress on individualism and permeated by a divorce mentality, | 9744 |
| a partnership of the whole of life which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring". | 9760 |
| with its extensive footnotes and up-to-date bibliography will not only be of benefit to all who read it but also will serve as a spring board for further discussion and use of this canon as a ground for nullity and other pastoral uses. | 9766 |
| with its extensive footnotes and up-to-date bibliography will not only be of benefit to all who read it but also will serve as a spring board for further discussion and use of this canon as a ground for nullity and other pastoral uses. | 9768 |
| might influence a career choice in psychotherapy, | 9774 |
| Statistical analysis included multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) for investigating interrelationships among variables related to repressive- defensiveness and a series of Chi-square tests to delineate differences in expected and observed values between groups on variables such as repressor status, | 9782 |
| Results indicated that there was a repressive defensive trend among counseling psychology students. | 9786 |
| There was also an overall preference for a cognitive behavioral modality in terms of psychotherapeutic style. | 9788 |
| which also showed a preference for a more dynamic style of psychotherapy. | 9796 |
| which also showed a preference for a more dynamic style of psychotherapy. | 9796 |
| evidence was found that clinicians do generally abide by best practice guidelines and are able to accurately diagnose individuals experiencing a psychiatric emergency. | 9812 |
| and personal comfort in dealing with persons in a psychiatric emergency were found between groups when they were divided into three groups by degree. | 9814 |
| and knowledge of laws and patient rights regarding a psychiatric emergency than the other two groups. | 9828 |
| In the attempt to develop a Maori and psychology course, | 9846 |
| the first of itÕs kind in a New Zealand university, | 9846 |
| questionnaires seeking comment on the content and process of such a course were administered to fourty four undergraduate Maori psychology students from the University of Waikato. | 9848 |
| The respondents identified Pakeha psychology as monoculture and provided this as a rationale for the development of Maori psychology. | 9850 |
| staffed by Maori and located within a University Psychology Department. | 9856 |
| The respondents were reluctant to break away from the controls of Pakeha academia and did not envisage a course or programme over which Maori would have absolute control. | 9858 |
| international trends in academia present a fundamental threat to the sanctity of ÔwesternÕ derived knowledge which underpins the practise of psychology in New Zealand. | 9860 |
| Four of the six interviewees were working in a clinical setting at the time the research was undertaken. | 9872 |
| Two were working in a tertiary education institution. | 9874 |
| A standardised open-ended interview was used to gather the information. | 9876 |
| Preparation refers to the ways that either the organisation or the psychologist prepare themselves to work in a culturally safe way with Maori clients. | 9884 |
| Skills refers to those skills that were considered essential to have if one wanted to service Maori in a culturally safe way. | 9886 |
| Practices were those procedures that the Maori psychologists identified as important to implement when wanting to work in a culturally safe way with Maori clients. | 9888 |
| The research also identified a number of differences between the way Maori clinical psychologists worked with Maori and Pakeha clients. | 9892 |
| A model of these four key areas was developed that might serve as a catalyst for future research into a possible training programme to be used with clinical psychology students. | 9892 |
| A model of these four key areas was developed that might serve as a catalyst for future research into a possible training programme to be used with clinical psychology students. | 9894 |
| A model of these four key areas was developed that might serve as a catalyst for future research into a possible training programme to be used with clinical psychology students. | 9894 |
| It is hoped that in some small way this piece of research will contribute to the development of a culturally safe practice for Maori clients. | 9896 |
| that Maori university students taking Maori studies are more likely to prefer a cooperative learning mode than Pakeha students taking Maori studies. | 9902 |
| The results indicated that most respondents did not express a preference for an intra- ethnic learning mode. | 9912 |
| Pakeha respondents expressed a significantly lower preference for an intra-ethnic learning mode than Maori respondents. | 9914 |
| results clearly indicate that most respondents had a preference for a cooperative learning mode. | 9916 |
| results clearly indicate that most respondents had a preference for a cooperative learning mode. | 9916 |
| The aim in this study was to develop and validate a set of scales to measure subject motivation and behaviour in psychological experiments. | 9920 |
| This was achieved by factor analyzing the responses by 140 subjects to 60 statements concerning the feelings aroused and the behaviour adopted when a subject in a psychological experiment, | 9924 |
| This was achieved by factor analyzing the responses by 140 subjects to 60 statements concerning the feelings aroused and the behaviour adopted when a subject in a psychological experiment, | 9924 |
| using a sample of 96 psychology students. | 9944 |
| The thesis examines a small sample of the public's perception of the level of violent crime in New Zealand, | 9948 |
| A. | 9956 |
| A non representative sample of 59 (50 females and 9 males) Psychology students at the University of Waikato aged 18 years and over responded to a range of questions about violent crime and sentencing. | 9958 |
| A non representative sample of 59 (50 females and 9 males) Psychology students at the University of Waikato aged 18 years and over responded to a range of questions about violent crime and sentencing. | 9958 |
| Participants' attitudes to violent crime and sentencing of violent offenders were of a retributive nature. | 9972 |
| this study finds a strongly perceived and contextualised awareness of creative drive and a sense of directionality in that perception to be most significant. | 9996 |
| this study finds a strongly perceived and contextualised awareness of creative drive and a sense of directionality in that perception to be most significant. | 9998 |
| and a participatory approach to research, | 10002 |
| an idea which will be developed with reference to a theory of holons throughout the thesis, | 10018 |
| Context-dependency is reviewed in terms of multidimensional life experiences and reality as a whole, | 10020 |
| This thesis unfolds a case for transpersonal healing and creativity enhancement through receptive multiple-state consciousness and lucid rehearsal. | 10024 |
| They identify parallels which indicate a form of inbuilt directionality in the developmental stages of human life and consciousness, | 10038 |
| this study then proposes that these currents-in-conflict explain the devastating effects and consequences of a grand-scale hegemony of reductionism which manifests as a widespread loss of the spiritual in the West. | 10046 |
| this study then proposes that these currents-in-conflict explain the devastating effects and consequences of a grand-scale hegemony of reductionism which manifests as a widespread loss of the spiritual in the West. | 10046 |
| It also explains the resultant collapse of the multidimensional Kosmos into a monological cosmos. | 10048 |
| The core of this thesis is about the exciting way a group of people exhibit their creative processes by using proactive lucidity to transcend ceilings. | 10060 |
| The study examined the usefulness of place attachment dimensions as a cultural framework to explore the attachment of Ngai Te Ahi, | 10068 |
| a hapu from Tauranga, | 10070 |
| a place all Ngai Te Ahi have in common. | 10070 |
| Marae have become a focal point for Maoridom as a surviving institution that has cultivated identity, | 10072 |
| Marae have become a focal point for Maoridom as a surviving institution that has cultivated identity, | 10072 |
| A thematic analysis of data obtained using two procedures, | 10088 |
| a survey (n=23) and in-depth interviews (n=12), | 10090 |
| as family connections and social networks ensure a link to Hairini is sustained and permanent. | 10100 |
| Participants also revealed that future implications of this study may address such issues as how an increasingly mobile M~ori society can fulfil leadership and traditional roles on marae now and in the future This abstract examines literature surrounding schizophrenia as a diagnostic entity. | 10106 |
| utilized a qualitative methodology work utilizing two focus groups as an exploratory measure. | 10130 |
| Once these were discussed and a common meaning found for each term the ESS. | 10138 |
| Once these were discussed and a common meaning found for each term the ESS was identified as being useful in that there was a high degree of congruence between caregiver and whanau ratings. | 10142 |
| Once these were discussed and a common meaning found for each term the ESS was identified as being useful in that there was a high degree of congruence between caregiver and whanau ratings. | 10142 |
| The University of Waikato driving simulator was used to test drivers' headway distance over a series of simulated roads. | 10150 |
| It was hypothesized that drivers are prepared to accept a set level of risk in a traffic situation and drive to maintain this as characterized in Risk Homeostasis Theory. | 10156 |
| It was hypothesized that drivers are prepared to accept a set level of risk in a traffic situation and drive to maintain this as characterized in Risk Homeostasis Theory. | 10156 |
| incorporating a driver's motivational goals such as avoidance of negative consequences to help understand their behaviour. | 10158 |
| were assessed through their ability to correctly identify a safe headway, | 10160 |
| In many respects the existence of a Pakeha ecology has played a major role in weakening Maori identity. | 10186 |
| In many respects the existence of a Pakeha ecology has played a major role in weakening Maori identity. | 10186 |
| it has instilled a passion and desire amongst Maori to defend, | 10188 |
| The author suggests that a significant factor weakening Maori identity was the reduction in the primacy of those characteristics that Maori defined as meaningful. | 10194 |
| It is suggested that future studies on Maori and whanau identity should be understood from the cultural context in which it is embedded rather than solely from a Pakeha ecology. | 10236 |
| A t - test was computed to determine whether video or written treatment had an effect on the self efficacy of counselors in training. | 10250 |
| Using a two-tailed t - test for independent groups, | 10252 |
| This study found that the more negative behaviors a child exhibits towards an alienated parent, | 10280 |
| PAS is a distinctive form of child abuse generally found in intractable custody disputes. | 10284 |
| this study initiated preliminary analyses that (1) contributed to the identification of a typology of firesetters, ( | 10292 |
| Predictors were restricted to a limited set of exploratory variables; | 10296 |
| This quest for adult roles leads teens through a variety of rites of passage both formal and informal. | 10336 |
| leaves her without a father to mediate between mother and daughter. | 10388 |
| or rejection of maternal closeness like Joy/Hulga who attempts to forge a father in the creation of a name. | 10394 |
| or rejection of maternal closeness like Joy/Hulga who attempts to forge a father in the creation of a name. | 10394 |
| This study of eighteen adults of African-American and Jewish-American heritage explores how biracial subjects of two minority parents negotiates mixed race heritage and identity in a society that maintains a hostile attitude toward interracial unions. | 10398 |
| This study of eighteen adults of African-American and Jewish-American heritage explores how biracial subjects of two minority parents negotiates mixed race heritage and identity in a society that maintains a hostile attitude toward interracial unions. | 10400 |
| Data collection included1) a semi-structured interview to determine subjects' own sense of racial/ethnic identity, | 10400 |
| 2) a measure of parental closeness, | 10402 |
| and 3) a series of twelve anecdotal hypothetical situations as a stimulus to revealing subjects' affective, | 10402 |
| and 3) a series of twelve anecdotal hypothetical situations as a stimulus to revealing subjects' affective, | 10404 |
| A qualitative analysis, | 10406 |
| 2) a hierarchy of color and racial categorization, | 10408 |
| 3) Closeness to the Jewish parent is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for children of mixed-race/Jewish heritage to identify with Jewish heritage. | 10422 |
| 3) Closeness to the Jewish parent is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for children of mixed-race/Jewish heritage to identify with Jewish heritage. | 10422 |
| When grade was analyzed in the treatment group as a factor on the impact of the program, | 10450 |
| students at the grade 10-12 level reported a lower level of bullying than their grade 7-9 counterparts. | 10456 |
| when gender was examined in the treatment group as a factor on the impact of the anti-bullying program, | 10458 |
| The present project addresses these issues by focusing on a description of the relationship between personality (authoritarianism & sex-role attitudes), | 10474 |
| 149 males completed a questionnaire containing the Conflict Tactics Scale, | 10478 |
| subjects responded to a variety of demographic items designed to assess income level, | 10482 |
| they provide a new, | 10502 |
| the systemic approach of community attachment by looking at its concepts from a structural symbolic interactionist approach. | 10506 |
| The structural symbolic interactionist model was tested on a sample of farmers and their spouses residing in five South Dakota counties. | 10518 |
| This dissertation examines the sociological process of conflict resolution and consensus building in South Florida Everglades Ecosystem Restoration through what I define as a Network Management Coordinative Interstitial Group (NetMIG). | 10532 |
| The process of conflict resolution can be summarized as the participation of interested and affected parties (stakeholders) in a forum of negotiation. | 10534 |
| I study the case of the Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida (GCSSF) that was established to reduce social conflict. | 10536 |
| the forum aims to formulate consensus through envisioning a common sustainable community by providing means to achieve a balance between human and natural systems. | 10546 |
| the forum aims to formulate consensus through envisioning a common sustainable community by providing means to achieve a balance between human and natural systems. | 10548 |
| Data were gathered using participant observation and document analysis techniques to conduct a theoretically based analysis of the role of the Network Management Coordinative Interstitial Group (NetMIG). | 10550 |
| The purpose of this study is to substantiate the role of the Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida (GCSSF) as a consortium of organizations in an effort to resolve conflict rather than an ethnographic study of this organization. | 10556 |
| The purpose of this study is to substantiate the role of the Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida (GCSSF) as a consortium of organizations in an effort to resolve conflict rather than an ethnographic study of this organization. | 10558 |
| Environmental restoration of the Everglades is a vehicle for recognizing the significance of a Network Management Coordinative Interstitial Group (NetMIG), | 10562 |
| Environmental restoration of the Everglades is a vehicle for recognizing the significance of a Network Management Coordinative Interstitial Group (NetMIG), | 10562 |
| namely the Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida (GCSSF), | 10562 |
| as a structural mechanism for stakeholder participation in the process of social conflict resolution through the creation of new cultural paradigms for a sustainable community. | 10564 |
| as a structural mechanism for stakeholder participation in the process of social conflict resolution through the creation of new cultural paradigms for a sustainable community. | 10566 |
| This thesis proposes a reconceptualization of the "attitude" as a multidimensional latent process, | 10568 |
| This thesis proposes a reconceptualization of the "attitude" as a multidimensional latent process, | 10568 |
| A review of the literature in light of this reconceptualization reveals aspects of the survey situation that may systematically influence measures of attitudes, | 10570 |
| A reflexive research strategy is proposed, | 10576 |
| This strategy is applied in a case study of attitudes, | 10580 |
| Analyses test the sufficiency of a revised Model of Reasoned Action for predicting members' intentions to abstain from eating beef, | 10582 |
| This dissertation reports the results of a sociological analysis of the narrative form and functions of revolutionary discourse. | 10592 |
| Chapter II reviews relevant sociological concepts and articulates a dramatistic political-sociology of death, | 10598 |
| Chapter III presents the results of a formal, | 10602 |
| and semiotic analysis of a large sample of revolutionary statements ( Saussure, | 10602 |
| revolutionaries employ a tragic narrative form, | 10606 |
| revolutionary action is a form of tragic drama, | 10616 |
| an violent appeal to a 'public' audience made on behalf of 'powerless' people, | 10616 |
| a statement that one is willing to kill and die in the name of the ultimate principles of social order. | 10618 |
| and factors that influence a rape reporting decision, | 10626 |
| ’ a broader public administration framework, | 10646 |
| and finally a wide-ranging sociological/ social psychological framework, | 10648 |
| the research uses a qualitative approach. | 10652 |
| The complaints managers’ interviews are supplemented with documentary analysis of job descriptions and person specifications of NHS complaints managers and email interviews with ‘NHS complaints experts’ (who are not complaint managers) who have a specialist knowledge of the complaints manager role. | 10662 |
| a typology of complaints managers was generated with specific reference to their responses and reactions to the inherent contradictions in their role, | 10668 |
| a time when women might experience a great deal of change, | 10684 |
| a time when women might experience a great deal of change, | 10684 |
| But menopause can also be understood as a natural physical change, | 10686 |
| or a time of hormonal change, | 10686 |
| or as a passage from one way of life to a different one, | 10688 |
| or as a passage from one way of life to a different one, | 10688 |
| Taking a feminist approach to poststructuralism enables women’s voices to be recognized as meaningful within this framework, | 10702 |
| From a poststructuralist perspective, | 10706 |
| the aim is to increase understanding through a multiplicity of methods, | 10706 |
| and presenting the data in a variety of ways. | 10708 |
| the data is displayed in a form that enables readers to read and reflect on what the women say and on their creative writing, | 10710 |
| A survey questionnaire was developed through a pilot study, | 10732 |
| A survey questionnaire was developed through a pilot study, | 10732 |
| The study also found that Black students have a more positive attitudes regarding the importance of distraction, | 10742 |
| Modernisation theory represents a multidisciplinary effort to examine the prospects for Third World development. | 10748 |
| It is also a multidimensional phenomenon, | 10750 |
| and a syndrome of cultural, | 10752 |
| as a developing country, | 10760 |
| government policy in this regard being underpinned by a view of modernisation akin to that of many Western theorists, | 10764 |
| Personal and demographic characteristics had a significant effect on the respondents' attitudes towards some modernity dimensions, | 10782 |
| and (2) the transnational processes by which health policy and organizational responses are created within a nation and in the transnational border area between two nations. | 10810 |
| The methodological design is a qualitative, | 10812 |
| I also conducted similar research in Mexico City to highlight the importance of geo-political context and provide a comparison between binational and international collaboration. | 10820 |
| Taking into consideration the dual nature of transnational networks allows for a theory that explains how (1) the simultaneous reduction and (re)production of inequities between local organizational actors occurs; ( | 10826 |
| A series of hypotheses regarding trademark design dynamics is tested. | 10862 |
| This research study examines how faculty perceive academic freedom at a metropolitan university. | 10876 |
| The following five questions were the central research questions: (a) how do core faculty in the social sciences at VCU define academic freedom; | 10886 |
| (b) do these same faculty perceive academic freedom to be a significant feature of a career in higher education; ( | 10888 |
| (b) do these same faculty perceive academic freedom to be a significant feature of a career in higher education; ( | 10888 |
| this research targeted a fairly homogenous population of faculty in order to identify any common socialization experiences, | 10898 |
| The findings suggest that these faculty do not share a common perception of academic freedom. | 10902 |
| Most of the respondents considered academic freedom to be a significant feature of an academic career. | 10910 |
| they believed that a top-down business model of leadership coupled with a weak academic culture to be the most significant threats to academic freedom. | 10914 |
| they believed that a top-down business model of leadership coupled with a weak academic culture to be the most significant threats to academic freedom. | 10914 |
| They defined tenure primarily as a means of protecting their own academic freedom through job security. | 10916 |
| Ongoing cross-neighborhood conflict heightens the salience of neighborhood as a form of identity, | 10938 |
| adolescents in disadvantaged neighborhoods are confronted with a mix of competing and conflicting cultural models, | 10956 |
| there is a much weaker relationship between an adolescent's own cultural models (goals, | 10960 |
| The graphs considered are in the form of a single vertex together with a single edge (a loop). | 10968 |
| The graphs considered are in the form of a single vertex together with a single edge (a loop). | 10970 |
| The graphs considered are in the form of a single vertex together with a single edge (a loop). | 10970 |
| According to the Bass-Serre theory there is a group associated to the graph, | 10974 |
| Moreover there is a tree on which this group acts freely. | 10976 |
| and is a locally compact Hausdorff space. | 10982 |
| The action of the fundamental group on the boundary gives a dynamical system whose C*-algebra is the object of study. | 10984 |
| the fundamental group is a solvable Baumslag- Solitar group. | 10988 |
| 1 are given by the identity and A, | 10992 |
| where A is an n x n integer matrix with | A | > 1, | 10992 |
| where A is an n x n integer matrix with | A | > 1, | 10994 |
| nuclear and purely infinite if A satisfies an extra condition. | 10994 |
| the Smith normal form for powers of A is studied. | 10996 |
| the fundamental group is a non-solvable Baumslag-Solitar group. | 10998 |
| Groupoid C*-algebras are used to compute K-theory for the reduced C*-algebra of a portion of the dynamical system. | 11002 |
| we use the notion of cohomological degree to study the HomAB problem: the problem of finding a uniform bound on the number of generators of the module Hom sub>R IS revealed significant differences from zero as a result of heterozygote deficiency. | 11038 |
| we use the notion of cohomological degree to study the HomAB problem: the problem of finding a uniform bound on the number of generators of the module Hom sub>R IS revealed significant differences from zero as a result of heterozygote deficiency. | 11112 |
| 2) between populations revealed a significant separation of the Azores and Peniche (continental Portugal) populations as well as a moderate differentiation among subpopulations of the Azores archipelago. | 11118 |
| 2) between populations revealed a significant separation of the Azores and Peniche (continental Portugal) populations as well as a moderate differentiation among subpopulations of the Azores archipelago. | 11118 |
| decadactylus and there was a strong genetic differentiation between Cape Verde and the rest of the NE Atlantic populations when analysed for the same molecular markers. | 11130 |
| The basic requirements for a ligand to form a monolayer protecting a gold cluster were established some time ago for alkanethiolate MPCs, | 11152 |
| The basic requirements for a ligand to form a monolayer protecting a gold cluster were established some time ago for alkanethiolate MPCs, | 11152 |
| The basic requirements for a ligand to form a monolayer protecting a gold cluster were established some time ago for alkanethiolate MPCs, | 11152 |
| Conjugates of a glutathione monolayer protected gold cluster (MPCs) with a single chain Fv antibody fragment (scFv) a presenting reduced cysteine residue were created. | 11162 |
| Conjugates of a glutathione monolayer protected gold cluster (MPCs) with a single chain Fv antibody fragment (scFv) a presenting reduced cysteine residue were created. | 11162 |
| Conjugates of a glutathione monolayer protected gold cluster (MPCs) with a single chain Fv antibody fragment (scFv) a presenting reduced cysteine residue were created. | 11164 |
| The interaction between the scFv and MPC is such that a gold-thiolate bond is made between the scFv protein's cysteine residue and the core of an MPC. | 11166 |
| These properties are remarkable because previous reports showed that gold nanoparticles modified with a discrete number of short oligonucleotides were neither electrophoretically isolable nor capable of DNA hybridization. | 11186 |
| I used a mixed qualitative and quantitative methods approach, | 11192 |
| The national economic collapse of 2001 had a strong influence in the region. | 11220 |
| Hunting by villagers increased as a result of growing unemployment, | 11222 |
| a national change in economic policy produced a local change in land use that is jeopardizing the peasants culture and the region's biodiversity. | 11234 |
| a national change in economic policy produced a local change in land use that is jeopardizing the peasants culture and the region's biodiversity. | 11236 |
| all the while limiting the damaging consequences associated with delitarious side reactions that can occur as a result of various reactive intermediates intrinsic to the system. | 11246 |
| Such a feat requires a high degree of inherent flexibility. | 11248 |
| Such a feat requires a high degree of inherent flexibility. | 11248 |
| is shown to be attributable to changes in the proton conductivity of the ATP synthase and variable storage of the proton motive force as a proton diffusion potential versus an electric field. | 11254 |
| for which there is a fluctuating need, | 11256 |
| a feat that is suggested rather to be attributable to changes in the fractional turnover of cyclic electron flow around photosystem I. | 11256 |
| These results are discussed in the context of a novel model for regulation of the light reactions. | 11260 |
| validating shotgun scanning as a high throughput method for mapping receptor-small molecule interactions. | 11272 |
| In a second example, | 11276 |
| A series of experiments examined the importance of the Vif N-terminus, | 11280 |
| a phage display system was also developed to decrease background binding to high pI target proteins. | 11284 |
| and expressed from a pET expression vector. | 11292 |
| Programmed self-assembly using non-covalent DNA-DNA interactions is a promising technique for the creation of next-generation functional devices for electronic, | 11304 |
| These studies provide fundamental information needed for deploying a programmable process for the bottom-up assembly of smaller species into large aggregates. | 11316 |
| DNA microarrays have become a standard tool for gene expression analysis. | 11320 |
| the effects of immobilized probe density on DNA hybridization were examined by employing a mixed silane chemistry to systematically control the density of immobilized probe DNA strands (0. | 11326 |
| The strong effects of surface probe density on hybridization performance indicate that it can be a useful parameter for improving the signal-to-noise ratios for assays performed on microarrays. ( | 11336 |
| In a second multi-compartment model, | 11358 |
| I develop a third model to specifically address the dual role of DCs in CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell activation versus infection via cell-associated virus. | 11366 |
| Model results indicate that full activation of DCs and CTLs is a multistep process, | 11370 |
| I develop a fourth model to encompass the effect of LN structure and composition on overall infection dynamics. | 11372 |
| I apply an agent-based modeling technique to capture stochastic processes involved in antigen presentation and HIV-1 infection among DCs and CD4+ and CD8+ T cells within a single human LN. | 11378 |
| cells react rapidly to correct ER dysfunction through a set of pathways known collectively as the ER stress response (ESR). | 11386 |
| In a screen for small molecules that protect cells from ER stress-induced apoptosis (Chapter 2), | 11398 |
| a selective inhibitor of cellular complexes that dephosphorylate eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 subunit alpha (eIF2& alpha;). | 11402 |
| dephosphorylation mediated by a herpes simplex virus protein and inhibits viral replication. | 11404 |
| We also used sal as a tool to discover new biology related to the ESR. | 11410 |
| In a search for cellular effects of sal (Chapter 3), | 11412 |
| demonstrating a novel role for EF2K in apoptosic signaling downstream of the ESR. | 11416 |
| we have undertaken a pilot genetic screen for genes that protect mammalian cells from ER stress. | 11424 |
| which makes this group a good model to test sexual selection theories and study the evolution of multiple mating and male care. | 11430 |
| As a result eggs in larger clutches (>3 eggs) have significantly higher individual survival probability than eggs in smaller clutches (3 eggs). | 11444 |
| which I propose have evolved as a female signal to indicate nest location to other females, | 11458 |
| and geographical distribution of a medium-sized genus Depressaria Haworth (Depressariinae), | 11494 |
| The phylogeny of Nearctic Depressaria is constructed using a morphological data matrix analyzed under the parsimony criterion. | 11502 |
| and provide a key and illustration of genitalia and abdominal modifications. | 11510 |
| A list of Gelechioidea was produced from trap sites from an Appalachian forest in southern Ohio. | 11520 |
| The composition and diversity of Ohio Gelechioidea captured in a passive, | 11522 |
| a candidate gene approach identified loss of oestrogen receptor-β | 11538 |
| as a possible mechanism for aberrant proliferation and differentiation resulting in PC. | 11538 |
| expression were associated with a higher rate of recurrence. | 11544 |
| a gene discovery approach was undertaken to identify new gene targets through transcript profiling which may provide novel molecular prognostic markers as well as insights into the biology of PC. | 11544 |
| A polyclonal antibody to sFRP4 was raised, | 11560 |
| These demonstrated that decreased membranous sFRP4 expression in localised PC predicts for a shorter relapse-free survival. | 11564 |
| a phenotype which appears to be mediated by the Wnt/β | 11566 |
| -catenin is associated with progression to localised PC and predicts for a poorer prognosis in localised PC in particular in the low-risk PC group with pre- operative PSA concentrations ® suite of programs. | 11570 |
| surface reactions and species have been generated to develop a comprehensive mechanism for epoxidation. | 11648 |
| As a result of these developments in the thesis, | 11648 |
| with or without employing a chiral stationary phase. | 11670 |
| A chapter is then presented describing the enantiomeric separation of a variety of sulfoxides and sulfinate esters on four derivatized cyclodextrin chiral stationary phases. | 11670 |
| A chapter is then presented describing the enantiomeric separation of a variety of sulfoxides and sulfinate esters on four derivatized cyclodextrin chiral stationary phases. | 11672 |
| Room temperature ionic liquids are a class of ionic, | 11678 |
| The second part of this dissertation begins with an introduction of ionic liquids and a review of their applications in analytical chemistry. | 11684 |
| A linear free energy approach is used to characterize ionic liquids on the basis of their multiple solvation interactions. | 11688 |
| A new class of high stability ionic liquids are introduced that can provide high efficiency gas chromatographic separations at high temperatures. | 11690 |
| a class of geminal dicationic ionic liquids is introduced and their physico- chemical, | 11696 |
| The final chapter introduces a thermodynamic model which can be used to predict enthalpies and entropies of solvation and provide an understanding of ionic liquid-alkane interactions. | 11700 |
| The rate constants measured indicated that rearrangements occurred through a rate-limiting heterolysis in high polarity solvent mixtures. | 11708 |
| -acetate radicals suggested a dissociative pathway in all solvents for migration of these latter leaving groups. | 11712 |
| An ion pair was detected during reaction of a β | 11714 |
| The kinetic values indicated that for this latter system the rearrangement occurred by a heterolysis pathway in all solvents. | 11716 |
| Kinetic modeling permitted development of a complex ion pair model describing the chemistry of β | 11718 |
| Excitation of acoustic waves in quartz discs has been instigated by exposing the piezoelectric substrate to the electromagnetic field generated from a nearby spiral coil. | 11742 |
| A comparison of acoustic resonance envelopes derived in air and under liquid demonstrate that the spurious resonant modes, | 11746 |
| increased viscosity of the overlying liquid dampens the mechanical resonance manifesting itself as a change in frequency coupled with a decrease in resonant amplitude and quality factor. | 11756 |
| increased viscosity of the overlying liquid dampens the mechanical resonance manifesting itself as a change in frequency coupled with a decrease in resonant amplitude and quality factor. | 11756 |
| Careful manipulation of a number of instruments settings, | 11758 |
| although at this level the resonant envelope begins to break down due to a significant reduction in the acoustic Q value. | 11764 |
| Using quartz crystals with a higher fundamental frequency allowed the generation, | 11766 |
| The application of higher harmonics demonstrated a linear dependence between the applied harmonic with the observed frequency shift. | 11770 |
| rather at a defined plane within the adsorbed layer. | 11776 |
| The new EM configuration was directly compared to a more conventional acoustic wave sensor, | 11784 |
| A compared response of the new EM configuration to the introduction of the protein neutravidin demonstrated a signal-to-noise ratio that was at least seven times higher than the conventional bulk-acoustic wave structure. | 11790 |
| A compared response of the new EM configuration to the introduction of the protein neutravidin demonstrated a signal-to-noise ratio that was at least seven times higher than the conventional bulk-acoustic wave structure. | 11792 |
| The two structures were again compared in response to the interaction of the tat protein to a TAR RNA sequence. | 11796 |
| The new EM configuration again outperformed the conventional device by demonstrating a three-fold increase in sensitivity to the TAR-tat interaction. | 11798 |
| The use of metal-ligand binding as the driving force for the self- assembly polymerizations of a ditopic ligand offers a facile route to the preparation of organic/inorganic hybrid materials. | 11810 |
| The use of metal-ligand binding as the driving force for the self- assembly polymerizations of a ditopic ligand offers a facile route to the preparation of organic/inorganic hybrid materials. | 11810 |
| Such metallo-supramolecular polymers potentially offer the functionality of the metal ion along with the processibility of a polymer. | 11814 |
| This thesis reports the preparation and investigation of a series of metallo-supramolecular polymers prepared from different (macro) monomer units, | 11816 |
| Addition of a metal ion (e. | 11820 |
| to a solution of the (macro) monomer results in the self-assembly of linear supramolecular polymers. | 11822 |
| A series of studies (including DSC, | 11828 |
| It was also possible to prepare gel- like metallo- supramolecular polymers from one of the monomer units mixed with a lanthanoid metal (e. | 11836 |
| Eu(III)) and a transition metal ion (e. | 11838 |
| Such materials show dramatic reversible responses to a variety of stimuli, | 11840 |
| Surface water chemistry from a tropical and temperate rivers system was studied in order to understand the controls on longitudinal variation of stream chemistry. | 11850 |
| I examined changes in stream chemistry associated with a change in bedrock composition from intrusive quartz diorite (upstream) to volcaniclasitc material (downstream). | 11854 |
| A better understanding of the mechanisms of nonheme systems may lead to the design of more efficient catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation. | 11904 |
| which decays via a 2-electron process as indicated by a site-specific ligand modification. | 11910 |
| which decays via a 2-electron process as indicated by a site-specific ligand modification. | 11912 |
| a putative oxoiron(V) species is proposed. | 11916 |
| a 2- pyridylmethyl moiety, | 11918 |
| and Lo provides a weaker ligand field than Lu. | 11920 |
| The approximately square-planar L8Py2 ligand affords high-spin alkylperoxoiron(III) complexes with a site that allows coordination of a variable sixth ligand trans to the alkylperoxo moiety. | 11924 |
| The approximately square-planar L8Py2 ligand affords high-spin alkylperoxoiron(III) complexes with a site that allows coordination of a variable sixth ligand trans to the alkylperoxo moiety. | 11924 |
| The complex [FeII(TMCS)](PF6) has a square pyramidal N4− | 11932 |
| A second oxoiron(IV) species was characterized in which the thiolate ligand was oxidized to a sulfinate moiety. | 11938 |
| A second oxoiron(IV) species was characterized in which the thiolate ligand was oxidized to a sulfinate moiety. | 11940 |
| -H)(CO)18(L) (2) with a rare, | 11944 |
| It has a spiked kite Os-Os4 nucleus rather than the bow-tie Os5 motif in Os5(CO)19. | 11958 |
| 5 and 6 form a unique series and are models for the bonding of alkynes to various sites in heterogeneous metal catalysts. | 11968 |
| From a consideration of their structures (especially that of 4) a new model is proposed for site-specific metal catalysis. | 11968 |
| From a consideration of their structures (especially that of 4) a new model is proposed for site-specific metal catalysis. | 11970 |
| The investigations reported in this thesis represent a significant contribution to the field of metal carbonyl cluster chemistry. | 11986 |
| Shape classification is a challenging image processing problem because shapes can occur in any position, | 11986 |
| and test a general, | 11994 |
| which learns to classify shapes in ALISA geometry maps derived from a supervised set of training images. | 12000 |
| These learned shapes are stored as a set of vectors that are then used to classify shapes in test images. | 12002 |
| This is a more difficult problem that can be solved by relatively complicated algorithms. | 12018 |
| We attack the first problem by introducing a new data structure - Relaxed Heaps that implements efficiently two main operations critical for the improvement of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. | 12018 |
| R²-heaps with suspended relaxation proposed in this research gives the best known worst-case time bounds of O(1) for a decrease_key operation and O(logn) for a delete_min operation. | 12024 |
| R²-heaps with suspended relaxation proposed in this research gives the best known worst-case time bounds of O(1) for a decrease_key operation and O(logn) for a delete_min operation. | 12026 |
| R²-heaps can be used in a large number of applications in which set manipulations should be implemented efficiently. | 12034 |
| we present a new approach of reweighting graphs by first reducing the graph to its canonical form, | 12038 |
| These results open new prospects to improve algorithms for a wide variety of problems including different network optimization problems that use Dijkstra's algorithm as a subroutine, | 12048 |
| These results open new prospects to improve algorithms for a wide variety of problems including different network optimization problems that use Dijkstra's algorithm as a subroutine, | 12050 |
| A synopsis of eminent computer chess programs reveal that they are designed around a 'brute force' approach. | 12052 |
| A synopsis of eminent computer chess programs reveal that they are designed around a 'brute force' approach. | 12054 |
| and a discovery is made that humans use a form of intuition, | 12056 |
| and a discovery is made that humans use a form of intuition, | 12058 |
| A paper by Margulies is cited which formulates principles of beauty which apply to chess. | 12058 |
| Three versions of a chess program are developed, | 12062 |
| This thesis reviews the different classes of distributed languages and presents a new approach to develop efficient distributed programs using the Ada language. | 12084 |
| This study explored the question of whether a student's "readiness" to be a self-directed learner is a predictor of student success in an online community college curriculum. | 12092 |
| This study explored the question of whether a student's "readiness" to be a self-directed learner is a predictor of student success in an online community college curriculum. | 12092 |
| This study explored the question of whether a student's "readiness" to be a self-directed learner is a predictor of student success in an online community college curriculum. | 12094 |
| The specific goal of this investigation was to determine whether there was a significant relationship between self- directed learning readiness-as measured by Guglielmino's (1977) Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS)- and student success-as measured by course completion, | 12096 |
| A correlational research design was used to test the explanatory power of self-directed learning readiness and to describe the relationships between variables. | 12106 |
| The expected outcome of this study was to confirm or disconfirm a statistically significant relationship between self-directed learning readiness and student success in an online community college curriculum. | 12114 |
| 3) a nonresponse effect; | 12118 |
| and (4) a self-selection effect. | 12120 |
| The unanticipated outcome of this study was evidence that student perception of student/instructor interactions is a single variable predictor of student success among community college students in an online learning environment. | 12122 |
| a new spare capacity planning methodology is proposed utilizing path restoration. | 12128 |
| The proposed methodology applies to a wider range of fault scenarios than most of the current literature. | 12136 |
| It consists of two stages: the first stage generates a set of network topologies that maximize the sharing between backup paths by forcing them to use a subset of the original network. | 12140 |
| It consists of two stages: the first stage generates a set of network topologies that maximize the sharing between backup paths by forcing them to use a subset of the original network. | 12142 |
| The second stage utilizes a genetic algorithm to optimize the set of solutions generated by the first stage to achieve an even better final solution. | 12144 |
| it can incorporate QoS variables in both the objective and constraints to design a survivable network that satisfies QoS constraints. | 12148 |
| It was applied on networks with different sizes ranging from a 13-node network to a 70-node network. | 12162 |
| It was applied on networks with different sizes ranging from a 13-node network to a 70-node network. | 12162 |
| It was able to solve the 70-node network in less than one hour on a Pentium II PC. | 12164 |
| Graph tracing algorithms must account for every live object in the system before any resource can actually be reclaimed which compromises both their scalability and robustness in a distributed environment. | 12172 |
| This thesis contends instead that distributed cycles of garbage are as likely to occur as local cycles and that a comprehensive alternative to graph tracing GGD is possible. | 12178 |
| the combined effects of the application processes and local garbage collectors fulfill the role of a global mutator. | 12180 |
| A subset of events of this global mutator's computation, | 12182 |
| The causal history of a log-keeping event corresponds to the set of events responsible for the creation of all the paths ever created that are incident to an object. | 12186 |
| The path history of this event is defined as a subset of its causal history and contains only those events responsible for the creation of the extant paths to this object. | 12188 |
| This dissertation presents a novel approach to comprehensive GGD that entails computing dependency vectors which characterize the path history of log-keeping events that reflect the destruction of a path. | 12190 |
| This dissertation presents a novel approach to comprehensive GGD that entails computing dependency vectors which characterize the path history of log-keeping events that reflect the destruction of a path. | 12194 |
| this algorithm reacts to events that may result in the creation of garbage and identifies garbage without requiring a complete scan of the whole object graph. | 12200 |
| In conjunction with a lazy log-keeping mechanism, | 12202 |
| This research investigates how computers might be enabled to understand natural language in a more humanlike way. | 12208 |
| EBLA can watch a series of short videos and acquire a simple language of nouns and verbs corresponding to the objects and object- object relations in those videos. | 12212 |
| EBLA can watch a series of short videos and acquire a simple language of nouns and verbs corresponding to the objects and object- object relations in those videos. | 12214 |
| using a variation of the mean shift analysis image segmentation algorithm to identify and store information about significant objects. | 12222 |
| EBLA is not primed with a base lexicon, | 12230 |
| For a test set of simple animations, | 12234 |
| For a larger set of real videos, | 12238 |
| EBLA is the first known system to acquire both nouns and verbs using a grounded computer vision system. | 12244 |
| In this thesis we advance the state-of the practice in the Space Mission Operations domain by leveraging single spacecraft technologies along with classical scheduling frameworks and notation to create a scheduler for a constellation of spacecraft. | 12250 |
| In this thesis we advance the state-of the practice in the Space Mission Operations domain by leveraging single spacecraft technologies along with classical scheduling frameworks and notation to create a scheduler for a constellation of spacecraft. | 12250 |
| We define a scheduling product that is focused on the problem of scheduling networked groups of spacecraft, | 12252 |
| Within this thesis we show that the constellation schedule problem is a very complex problem, | 12256 |
| This background provides a foundation for understanding the constellation scheduling problem domain. | 12260 |
| is to provide a representation and description of the components of a constellation system, | 12262 |
| is to provide a representation and description of the components of a constellation system, | 12264 |
| and a formal definition of the constellation schedule problem via existing formal scheduling frameworks and notation. | 12264 |
| is to present techniques that allow us to leverage single spacecraft scheduling techniques to construct a constellation scheduler. | 12270 |
| is to propose a scheduler architecture that satisfies a typical constellation scheduling problem. | 12270 |
| is to propose a scheduler architecture that satisfies a typical constellation scheduling problem. | 12272 |
| Context Mediation is a field of research that is concerned with the interchange of information across different environments, | 12274 |
| which provides a vehicle to bridge semantic gaps among disparate entities. | 12276 |
| A challenge that has received relatively little attention is knowledge discovery in a highly disparate environment, | 12278 |
| A challenge that has received relatively little attention is knowledge discovery in a highly disparate environment, | 12280 |
| domain knowledge and knowledge patterns in a knowledge discovery process using context mediation. | 12284 |
| a context mediator prototype is developed and performance tests are carried out. | 12292 |
| Three manipulative operations are introduced which provide a further vehicle to tailor knowledge sets, | 12322 |
| Comparison of discovered knowledge provides a powerful mechanism to evaluate the equivalence between two or more knowledge patterns or pattern objects. | 12324 |
| A summary value is introduced which is used to calculate pattern equivalence and example summary values have been given for segments and associations. | 12324 |
| covering disciplines from a wide range of industry, | 12330 |
| including the co- authorship of a book, | 12336 |
| a journal editorship and one conference best paper award. | 12336 |
| Cross Language Text Retrieval (CLTR) has been defined as the retrieval of documents in a language different from that of the original query. | 12338 |
| Though all these methods deal with a way of translating as much information as possible from the source query, | 12346 |
| I will describe how a MT system has been adapted without much effort to translate Spanish queries of a specific domain, | 12348 |
| I will describe how a MT system has been adapted without much effort to translate Spanish queries of a specific domain, | 12350 |
| and areas with a large variety in products, | 12370 |
| Since government is characterized by a significant number of services or products, | 12372 |
| In a third step, | 12378 |
| America's infrastructure assets are in a state of decay. | 12384 |
| 2) a strategic assessment of the agency's goals and market environment concluding with the development of a corresponding list of potential capital projects, | 12396 |
| 2) a strategic assessment of the agency's goals and market environment concluding with the development of a corresponding list of potential capital projects, | 12398 |
| 3) the compilation of a baseline resource profile of the portfolio of projects, | 12400 |
| 5) the choice of a capital program that most closely fits agency resource constraints and strategic goals, | 12404 |
| There are three major advantages to implementing a capital programming process that is focused on achieving strategic agency goals through the use of performance analysis and variable project delivery strategies. | 12406 |
| This thesis presents a detailed description and analysis of a strategic capital programming model and its applicability to government agencies. | 12418 |
| This thesis presents a detailed description and analysis of a strategic capital programming model and its applicability to government agencies. | 12418 |
| A case study of the Massachusetts Port Authority compares the proposed process to capital programming processes currently in use in advanced government agencies. | 12420 |
| The case study validates the inclusion of agency audit and strategic programming processes in capital programming and establishes the need for a new standard of market- and performance- oriented decision-making incorporating increased communication and feedback within the organization. | 12424 |
| The implementation of the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model for the provision of infrastructure facilities in the United States constitutes a paradigm shift, | 12430 |
| and a recent innovation, | 12432 |
| A key factor contributing to the sustainability of the BOT approach as a viable procurement strategy for infrastructure projects, | 12438 |
| A key factor contributing to the sustainability of the BOT approach as a viable procurement strategy for infrastructure projects, | 12438 |
| and providing a decisive competitive advantage to prospective private sector respondents interested in pursuing these ventures, | 12440 |
| financial engineering is the systematic process that enables a private company to decide first in which BOT project to invest, | 12446 |
| This thesis proposes a formal procedure for the financial engineering and modeling of BOT infrastructure projects. | 12448 |
| analytical tools and techniques that enable the objective evaluation of the economic attractiveness and financial viability of a BOT venture. | 12454 |
| a case study consisting of the Canada Confederation Bridge Project is presented. | 12456 |
| This was accomplished through a literature review, | 12464 |
| This thesis examines the globalization of construction and real estate companies through mergers and acquisitions using a modern management approach and a practical analysis of selected case studies. | 12470 |
| This thesis examines the globalization of construction and real estate companies through mergers and acquisitions using a modern management approach and a practical analysis of selected case studies. | 12470 |
| A new capital programming tool, | 12502 |
| CHOICES©MIT 1998 is a decision support tool that is used to assess and compare alternative configurations of a collection of projects (ìa portfolioî) of interest to procurement officials. | 12504 |
| CHOICES©MIT 1998 is a decision support tool that is used to assess and compare alternative configurations of a collection of projects (ìa portfolioî) of interest to procurement officials. | 12504 |
| including construction of a new rail system, | 12516 |
| The software was also used to create a portfolio of projects that includes the Construction Improvement Program, | 12518 |
| The model was used to make a sensitivity analysis of the capital programming variables. | 12522 |
| For a civil structure, | 12526 |
| such as a bridge or a dam, | 12528 |
| such as a bridge or a dam, | 12528 |
| a monitoring smart system often includes a set of sensors, | 12528 |
| a monitoring smart system often includes a set of sensors, | 12528 |
| whose data is passed onto a controller. | 12530 |
| The latter analyzes the data and outputs commands to a set of actuators that will modify the structure properties in response to the new sensors' environment. | 12530 |
| a simulation run under MATLAB applies this concept of neurocontrol to a cantilever beam supporting fluctuating loads. | 12544 |
| a simulation run under MATLAB applies this concept of neurocontrol to a cantilever beam supporting fluctuating loads. | 12546 |
| In the past twenty years there has been a new wave of global interest in project finance as a tool for financing capital- intensive projects all around the world. | 12546 |
| In the past twenty years there has been a new wave of global interest in project finance as a tool for financing capital- intensive projects all around the world. | 12546 |
| The crucial elements in structuring a project finance transaction are: the risk allocation process, | 12548 |
| and the development of a complete and integrated set of financial and contractual arrangements. | 12552 |
| Selection of the form of business organization for a project is an important step in project development and depends on a variety of business, | 12556 |
| Selection of the form of business organization for a project is an important step in project development and depends on a variety of business, | 12558 |
| This thesis presents four forms of ownership structure most frequently used for developing a project and highlights the reasons of selecting one of them. | 12562 |
| with a trend towards the increasing development of sophisticated capital market instruments, | 12564 |
| provides project sponsors with flexibility to select the appropriate structure to finance a project. | 12566 |
| This thesis presents the three types of capital used in project financing and details the alternatives for financing a project from its development phase to its operating phase showing that the project financing is a dynamic process. | 12568 |
| This thesis presents the three types of capital used in project financing and details the alternatives for financing a project from its development phase to its operating phase showing that the project financing is a dynamic process. | 12570 |
| After having developed a basic framework for structuring an international project finance transaction, | 12570 |
| this thesis ends by exposing projects financed on a project-financing basis. | 12572 |
| have led to a more efficient production process. | 12580 |
| Large and complex projects have started to be partially funded by the private sector as a result of the will to cut public spending . | 12582 |
| will maybe constitute a major innovation and will allow financial engineers to access a new set of investors: small bondholders. | 12592 |
| will maybe constitute a major innovation and will allow financial engineers to access a new set of investors: small bondholders. | 12592 |
| This research was compared to a set of twenty-five general case studies, | 12616 |
| the function and purpose of a building determines its critical systems. | 12620 |
| With a degrading road infrastructure and dwindling public funds, | 12634 |
| they were not able to provide a fair return to the sponsors and investors while guaranteeing the public welfare and satisfying the government interests. | 12640 |
| A review of the international experience of toll roads, | 12642 |
| with a focus on developing countries, | 12642 |
| suggests that if a thorough and pertinent risk management program is implemented by private concessionaires, | 12642 |
| we suggest a three-step risk management process. | 12646 |
| the third step is risk analysis which consists of accounting for risks when evaluating a project. | 12654 |
| This shift from a regulated to a market driven environment has fundamental consequences for many aspects of the electric power plant business. | 12672 |
| This shift from a regulated to a market driven environment has fundamental consequences for many aspects of the electric power plant business. | 12672 |
| The discussion starts with a review of traditional approaches to investment under uncertainty and presents the main characteristics and advantages of the real option framework. | 12680 |
| the thesis develops a case to study an investment decision faced by an electric utility in a deregulated competitive electricity market. | 12684 |
| the thesis develops a case to study an investment decision faced by an electric utility in a deregulated competitive electricity market. | 12686 |
| A generic model is presented under the assumption of stochastic behavior for electricity price, | 12686 |
| Large-scale engineering and construction projects are unique endeavors that require a high level of human creativity from multiple professional disciplines. | 12694 |
| This research presents a new approach to enhance collaboration in large-scale projects through a conflict management simulator. | 12704 |
| This research presents a new approach to enhance collaboration in large-scale projects through a conflict management simulator. | 12706 |
| PR as a case study. | 12710 |
| partnering has become a more common practice in North America; | 12712 |
| a 17. | 12720 |
| multi-phase environment offers a new set of challenges for obtaining an effective partnering environment. | 12724 |
| and the initial partnering efforts in a project. | 12730 |
| and a continued support for the partnering effort. | 12732 |
| The model demonstrates that the partnering effort in the Tren Urbano project was adequate for a traditional procured, | 12746 |
| for a project like Tren Urbano, | 12746 |
| This thesis presents portfolio management as a means of controlling and managing deferred maintenance at universities. | 12750 |
| is utilized to provide a planning framework for managing capital projects and deferred maintenance at the portfolio level. | 12756 |
| The CHOICES model aggregates discounted life cycle cash flows along with forecasted operating revenues and expenses as a bases for comparison. | 12762 |
| Analysis of the scenarios suggests benefits to utilizing a portfolio decision support tool that allows variable delivery and finance methods. | 12766 |
| in order to create a successful BOT project, | 12770 |
| The first main objective is to create a risk management model. | 12774 |
| the answer to the creation of a successful BOT project is that an active participation of government in risk sharing is necessary. | 12784 |
| As a result, | 12798 |
| With an economy in the midst of a transition from controlled to open market, | 12810 |
| and a legal system offering little enforceability of contracts, | 12812 |
| from currency convertibility and inflation to government approval problems and the lack of a reliable legal system. | 12818 |
| To be able to consider such a pier in tactical planning, | 12832 |
| There is a group of technicians in the U. | 12832 |
| is used to provide a rapid estimate of the load capacity of the pier. | 12838 |
| This study focuses on a strategy for providing a rapid structural assessment of a waterfront pier given the information gathered during the on-site inspection combined with principles of waterfront structure design. | 12840 |
| This study focuses on a strategy for providing a rapid structural assessment of a waterfront pier given the information gathered during the on-site inspection combined with principles of waterfront structure design. | 12840 |
| This study focuses on a strategy for providing a rapid structural assessment of a waterfront pier given the information gathered during the on-site inspection combined with principles of waterfront structure design. | 12840 |
| The author has developed a program using the C programming language that, | 12844 |
| A text file is produced which contains the inspection record that reflects the users input and the assessment results for the pier being analyzed. | 12850 |
| A MATLAB script file is produced which can be used for subsequent processing. | 12854 |
| A sample of 37 unique design strategies is identified through interviews with construction industry professionals and a review of recent literature. | 12866 |
| A sample of 37 unique design strategies is identified through interviews with construction industry professionals and a review of recent literature. | 12866 |
| Benefits of each design strategy are evaluated over the full life of a building. | 12876 |
| A building designer or facility manager could use this framework to properly select one or more design strategies that would satisfy the needs set forth by an owner for a particular project. | 12882 |
| A building designer or facility manager could use this framework to properly select one or more design strategies that would satisfy the needs set forth by an owner for a particular project. | 12884 |
| a separation of the costs and benefits of mitigation, | 12904 |
| which is primarily interested in reaching a standard of living equitable to the developed world, | 12908 |
| A robust planning and control methodology is developed by integrating the applications of axiomatic design concept, | 12938 |
| The goal of the proposed methodology is to help create a robust project plan for design-build fast-track civil engineering projects where unforeseen changes can be absorbed in the project schedule without creating major interruptions. | 12942 |
| The concept of concurrent engineering is adapted to develop a fast-tracking framework based on the task production rate, | 12952 |
| and further identifies the important variables that determine the success of a particular overlapping strategy. | 12960 |
| In order for the government to effectively use project delivery as a variable, | 12968 |
| The identification of ideal project planning and management principles led to a new framework for capital planning, | 12972 |
| The proposed Project Configuration Process is based on the premise that a public owner can identify a realistic need, | 12976 |
| The proposed Project Configuration Process is based on the premise that a public owner can identify a realistic need, | 12976 |
| add a Third Harbor Tunnel, | 12984 |
| The Central Artery/Tunnel Project is a useful case study for it facilitates the examination of a large-scale infrastructure project utilizing traditional design-bid-build procurement methods in conjunction with a management consultant assisting the Department of Public Works. | 12986 |
| The Central Artery/Tunnel Project is a useful case study for it facilitates the examination of a large-scale infrastructure project utilizing traditional design-bid-build procurement methods in conjunction with a management consultant assisting the Department of Public Works. | 12988 |
| The Central Artery/Tunnel Project is a useful case study for it facilitates the examination of a large-scale infrastructure project utilizing traditional design-bid-build procurement methods in conjunction with a management consultant assisting the Department of Public Works. | 12988 |
| The objective of applying this research to Tren Urbano is to identify essential project management issues in a mixed delivery setting. | 12996 |
| Phase I of Tren Urbano posses a unique project management problem as it is divided geographically into seven alignment sections and contractually into a portfolio of contracts containing one design-build-operate contract and six design-build contracts. | 12996 |
| Phase I of Tren Urbano posses a unique project management problem as it is divided geographically into seven alignment sections and contractually into a portfolio of contracts containing one design-build-operate contract and six design-build contracts. | 12998 |
| This risk is even higher when the project is located in a foreign country. | 13004 |
| Based on the results of a survey conducted with the major US commercial banks, | 13028 |
| An assessment framework that presents the critical attributes that influence the accommodation of change within a building, | 13036 |
| or building deterioration) and instead concentrates on the physical engineering systems within a building that influence the feasibility of renovation and reuse. | 13042 |
| A sample of 45 general building renovation case studies was examined according to two dimensions, | 13046 |
| a set of building systems and a set of changes which they experience over time. | 13048 |
| a set of building systems and a set of changes which they experience over time. | 13050 |
| The examination of these case studies and the development of the assessment framework show that a movement towards accepting and incorporating new methods, | 13058 |
| and renovation from a concentration on initial costs to a broader encompassment of a building's lifecycle costs. | 13064 |
| and renovation from a concentration on initial costs to a broader encompassment of a building's lifecycle costs. | 13064 |
| and renovation from a concentration on initial costs to a broader encompassment of a building's lifecycle costs. | 13066 |
| This change in thought has incited a movement towards incorporating capabilities to accommodate change within building designs. | 13066 |
| This document summarizes the creation and use of a spreadsheet model designed to estimate the visitor capacity, | 13072 |
| The capacity section of the model shows that the capacity of BOHA depends mostly on the capacity and frequency of the ferry system rather than the inherent ability of any island to support a certain number of visitors. | 13090 |
| The model and its illumination of the importance of ferry service led the author to propose one possible future for the park based on a high usage concept. | 13096 |
| or project dynamics for a particular installation project. | 13122 |
| Plumbing and fire protection systems for a prototype building were designed, | 13130 |
| The completed models represent a new methodology for simulating plumbing and fire protection installation, | 13150 |
| and contractors with a unique and flexible tool for analyzing alternatives accurately and quickly. | 13152 |
| a monitoring and control scheme, | 13164 |
| A monitoring scheme is designed to interpret data assessed by the sensors for state identification. | 13170 |
| a control strategy is developed. | 13176 |
| a fuzzy logic based control scheme is proposed. | 13178 |
| the problems associated with integrating the system components into a single system are discussed. | 13182 |
| These improvements include a range of steps, | 13190 |
| from the conceptual point of view and also from a more close real approach through the presentation of current mathematical developments for modeling maintenance and maintenance plus improvement problems. | 13206 |
| a review of four specific systems (a pavement management system, | 13210 |
| a review of four specific systems (a pavement management system, | 13210 |
| Two valuation methods (DCF and Real Options) are applied to data from a completed gold mining development project by Ashanti Goldfields Company in Bibiani-Ghana to evaluate the managerial decision to invest. | 13222 |
| A detailed comparison and evaluation of the two methods is presented to support the claim that DCF understates the value of mining investments and the use of Real Options valuation is capable of partially remedying the situation. | 13224 |
| There is a need for buildings to be "open" so that unforeseen changes can be accommodated, | 13234 |
| The research develops a systematic methodology to look at the mapping of the physical boundaries and the linkages of the various systems, | 13246 |
| a total of 16 innovative alternative proposals have been developed in this research. | 13250 |
| which represents the major life stages of a built structure. | 13258 |
| The systematic methodology proposed in this research provides a significant procedure for owners, | 13260 |
| a new organized and systematic co-operational framework between the various designers can be possible to maximize their creative and innovative potentials. | 13268 |
| it should be highlighted that fast-tracking also inherits a greater potential for an unexpected cost increase due to uncertainty in planning and management. | 13274 |
| fast-tracking should be undertaken with proper planning and management in a systematic manner. | 13280 |
| A closer observation of the design and construction process reveals that all of the cost-increasing factors in fast-tracking are directly or indirectly related to non value-adding or corrective changes. | 13280 |
| reducing this interdependency and managing the undesirable interactions among project tasks hold a key to successful fast-tracking. | 13286 |
| a robust planning and control methodology is developed to provide a systematic solution. | 13288 |
| a robust planning and control methodology is developed to provide a systematic solution. | 13290 |
| The foundations of this research emerge in part from a project initiated by the World Economic Forum in the late 1980s aimed at connecting its members, | 13306 |
| through a virtual network. | 13308 |
| and it was a first attempt in developing an information technology solution focused on executiveÌs needs. | 13308 |
| This analysis is done in this thesis via a survey of about 20 executives from the engineering and construction industry. | 13316 |
| The survey is based on a series of interviews, | 13316 |
| followed by a questionnaire. | 13316 |
| The questionnaire acts as a follow-up to the interviews and reveals the interest of using the web as a content provider to executives for issues such as industry specific economic and financial information. | 13322 |
| The questionnaire acts as a follow-up to the interviews and reveals the interest of using the web as a content provider to executives for issues such as industry specific economic and financial information. | 13324 |
| many business leaders and academicians hail the arrival of a new decentralized economy based on globally networked teams. | 13334 |
| This dispersed "market-oriented" structure is a new reality for many current industrial organizations who must transform from fully-integrated, | 13336 |
| An analysis of the construction industry provides a unique opportunity to analyze the innovative nature of the multi-organizational project teams. | 13350 |
| A combination of organization, | 13352 |
| This research is a step towards understanding the nature of the multi- organizational project team and its capacity to innovate. | 13370 |
| the problem is not merely one of interdisciplinary collaboration within a vertically integrated firm, | 13380 |
| but one of inter-firm collaboration over the life of a project because dozens of specialized firms typically work together on the delivery of built facilities. | 13380 |
| a contractor would be more likely to implement cost-saving innovations. | 13402 |
| A strong relationship was found between innovative activity and the integration of the design and construction functions, | 13402 |
| is a barrier to innovation. | 13408 |
| a real estate venture, | 13424 |
| a construction-related Internet venture. | 13426 |
| The results show a strong fit between the model and the two successful ventures, | 13426 |
| A system-based framework creates the ability to integrate operational, | 13436 |
| The development of a Dynamic Process Model for Light Wood Framing (DPM-LWF) represents the framing construction process for the prototype designs, | 13456 |
| A 'case result format' presents the results of the multiple alternatives for direct comparison, | 13464 |
| The EPW components demonstrated a 95% benefit for the electrical load of the "Modern Design" in Phoenix (currently), | 13466 |
| But at the same time this rapid economic growth is placing a major burden on the city's infrastructure and local environment. | 13474 |
| the thesis will describe a general picture of Shanghai including geological location, | 13478 |
| The conflict between the continually increasing demand for infrastructure facilities with the environmental and financial constraints is not a problem unique in Shanghai. | 13490 |
| Some specific comparison with other mage-cities will be made to develop a better understanding the related issues and the possible strategies to improve the environment and infrastructure performance in the city will be analyzed. | 13492 |
| the resolution of disputes has become a key to forging stronger and longer-lasting relationships with their clients. | 13516 |
| As a result, | 13518 |
| This research presents and reviews a significant number of new and innovative ways to promote collaborative environments and resolve disputes in construction, | 13520 |
| including some practical applications of DART in the construction industry of a number of nations with the aim of providing the reader with data to support the successes or failures of these methodologies in multiple cultures. | 13524 |
| The intent of this thesis is to propose a framework for strategic thinking in the global market for large-scale Japanese construction firms. | 13528 |
| That framework would enable firms to perform strategic thinking in a changing environment, | 13530 |
| the thesis applies the framework to a Japanese construction firm through some case studies, | 13544 |
| competitive stresses exist in their relationships and as a result, | 13552 |
| Pe"a-Mora andWang (1998) have developed a preliminary collaborative negotiation methodology for facilitating/mediating the negotiation process of conflicts. | 13554 |
| Because contracts define the temporary formal and informal relationships among the different parties in a project and subsequently, | 13562 |
| indexes of negotiation effectiveness for each delivery system are developed in order to quantify the advantage of implementing the collaborative negotiation methodology in a large-scale project within a particular delivery system. | 13580 |
| indexes of negotiation effectiveness for each delivery system are developed in order to quantify the advantage of implementing the collaborative negotiation methodology in a large-scale project within a particular delivery system. | 13582 |
| The total (direct and indirect) energy intensities provide a very different perception of each sector's energy consumption than the perception of direct energy intensities. | 13596 |
| The industrial mix-effect is too small to play a significant role in reducing Taiwan's national energy intensity. | 13606 |
| Taiwan needs a more aggressive energy conservation policy to improve its energy efficiency; | 13606 |
| any international regulation would be a serious threat to Taiwan's economic development. | 13608 |
| Infrastructure provides a foundation on which to build a strong nation. | 13610 |
| Infrastructure provides a foundation on which to build a strong nation. | 13610 |
| As a result, | 13618 |
| our infrastructure has deteriorated at a faster rate than we have been able to maintain it. | 13618 |
| A survey that has been used to determine the current infrastructure management policies and practices of North American urban rail transit agencies will also be discussed. | 13638 |
| The results of this survey will provide a broad view of the policies, | 13640 |
| Tren Urbano is being built as a Federal Transit Administration Turnkey Demonstration Project. | 13652 |
| This project provides a relevant example of both the implications of delivery method on infrastructure management policies and the initial variables affecting implementation of effective infrastructure management. | 13652 |
| Projects are usually evaluated by economic and financial cost -benefit analysis obtained by a typical cash-flow study. | 13660 |
| one of the European Union's main objectives is a proper socio-economic integration of the different regions between themselves in order to foster regional development and sustainable mobility. | 13668 |
| The implication would be that governments should pay more attention to maximizing the socio- economic impacts and environmental standards and delegate to the private sector the task of making the projects profitable on a financial analysis basis. | 13686 |
| a unified set of recommendations that, | 13692 |
| could help drastically reduce unpredictability of the outcome of a project and boost productivity. | 13694 |
| The appearance of a new form of project management, | 13698 |
| offers the interface perspective a more comprehensiveand supportive environment, | 13700 |
| as a method to shorten time-to-market. | 13708 |
| requires a careful and systematic approach to its planning and management, | 13710 |
| have increased the demand for a more efficient planning and control method. | 13716 |
| this thesis presents Dynamic Planning and Control Methodology (DPM) that has been developed to help prepare a more robust construction plan against uncertainties and to provide policy guidelines for the planning and control of a construction project, | 13726 |
| this thesis presents Dynamic Planning and Control Methodology (DPM) that has been developed to help prepare a more robust construction plan against uncertainties and to provide policy guidelines for the planning and control of a construction project, | 13728 |
| Before committing to a project, | 13752 |
| the sponsors will perform a technical and economical evaluation to analyze the feasibility and opportunities that the project will bring to the company. | 13754 |
| The evaluation is a very important part of the development phase and depending on the level of uncertainty different evaluation methods are available to analyze the economic feasibility of the project. | 13756 |
| the sponsor will start looking for financial sources to fund the project construction following a project financing approach. | 13764 |
| and the different risk categories that can be a threat for the project and the participants. | 13770 |
| Risk exposure of each participant on every project phase will be analyzed and the three projects will allow a comparison of the different approaches followed by the sponsors to manage the risk. | 13778 |
| Supporting the ships and submarines berthed at United States Navy installations is a core capability and essential to mission-readiness. | 13782 |
| coupled with a change in Presidential administrations, | 13788 |
| This thesis proposes a three-tiered approach to procurement packaging. | 13794 |
| The combination of both is present as a framework for packaging Navy waterfront projects that are attractive to the private sector. | 13798 |
| and a second base in the continental United States. | 13810 |
| Relocation of inhabitants and infrastructure development for urban renewal is a main problem facing major cities and their suburbs. | 13848 |
| by using a case study in Beirut, | 13858 |
| aims at providing a framework that integrates construction management, | 13858 |
| and that offers a stronger and robust platform for solving urban relocation and infrastructure development projects. | 13860 |
| is chosen as a case study to investigate the economic/financial component of the overall multiobjective-multicriterion decision-analysis problem and to suggest ways for the public sector to increase the project's revenue stream, | 13862 |
| The involvement of the private sector in project implementation is also tested and the feasibility of a public-private partnership is evaluated. | 13876 |
| but concludes that real estate cannot be treated as a primary source of financing for an authority's capital or operating programs. | 13894 |
| and an innovative program intended to make authority-owned development parcels accessible to a broader real estate investment and development market by breaking down the existing barriers to entry in to authority-sponsored development processes. | 13902 |
| The study was based in part on a series of in- depth interviews with development professionals and current and former government officials, | 13916 |
| even whether B2B e- business is a temporary phenomenon; | 13928 |
| Carbon policies certainly have impacts on air pollution since one of their consequences is a structural change in fuel consumption. | 13972 |
| a policy aiming at reducing urban pollution certainly has impacts on climate change. | 13972 |
| this thesis develops a methodology to account for end-of- pipe abatement opportunities for PM within the EPPA model, | 13978 |
| It first develops a methodology to estimate the gains that can be generated by jointly implementing policies on both greenhouse gases and particulate matter. | 13984 |
| The cost savings from such a joint policy can be measured by subtracting the welfare cost of the joint policy from the theoretical sum of the costs of the two separate policies. | 13986 |
| Kyoto with trading as a climate policy and maintaining PM at their current level as an urban policy, | 13990 |
| This thesis then looks at the pollution impact of a climate policy on pollutants that have both climate and air pollution effects. | 13994 |
| I show that the introduction of a trading system for one pollutant, | 13998 |
| The empirical example involves a hypothetical policy where black carbon, | 14000 |
| With a trading system introduced in BC between the sectors of the economy both for the U. | 14002 |
| The question that I would try to answer is whether the port of Beirut can take advantage of his geographical position and try to redefine its new strategic position as either a transshipment hub or a transit gateway. | 14008 |
| The question that I would try to answer is whether the port of Beirut can take advantage of his geographical position and try to redefine its new strategic position as either a transshipment hub or a transit gateway. | 14010 |
| A five-force model will be used to assess the level of competition in the field and the ease of entry. | 14018 |
| According to the analysis we will have to determine on what basis the port can compete and what he has to do internally and externally to be able to gain a certain niche of the market. | 14024 |
| this potential liability has had a dampening effect on the willingness of investors to acquire and develop property that is or may be contaminated with hazardous materials. | 14040 |
| As a result, | 14042 |
| and 2) that the most effective means for minimizing liability is a clear understanding of the laws, | 14046 |
| The results indicate a correlation between public concern and Congressional hearings. | 14056 |
| as demonstrated by the increase in Congressional hearings leading to a modification of Federal environmental legislation to encourage development and remediation, | 14060 |
| environmental liability does and should remain a legitimate concern in real estate development. | 14076 |
| There are key items - which could be considered a "checklist" - that a real estate developer needs to consider in the planning of transactions to undertake any development, | 14078 |
| There are key items - which could be considered a "checklist" - that a real estate developer needs to consider in the planning of transactions to undertake any development, | 14078 |
| we extend the traditional decision analysis theory of buying price and selling price of a lottery. | 14084 |
| We allow the decision maker to rebalance his financial portfolio in the course of determination of a lottery's buying (selling) price. | 14086 |
| The first essay generalizes the treatment of the buying price and the selling price of a private risk lottery by allowing portfolio rebalancing in the course of determining these prices and outlines the implications of this generalization for distributive bargaining. | 14092 |
| The second essay is a study of methods for pricing unique risks in real options problems. | 14096 |
| This essay is a critical evaluation of how methods currently in vogue for pricing private risks affect real option value. | 14098 |
| We build a framework for valuing investments under uncertainty in the presence of private risks and demonstrate by example that different methods for pricing private risk can lead to decisively different real option values. | 14100 |
| alternative methods for valuation can lead to large differences in choice of a development policy and in associated valuations. | 14108 |
| Solutions to meet NISAC objectives using the agent-based simulation model implemented with web services and a combination of hardware configurations are proposed. | 14134 |
| In order for developing countries to take a more sustainable development path, | 14140 |
| urban sprawl is a major source of energy inefficiency. | 14144 |
| by reshaping the travel and land-use patterns into a more sustainable form. | 14150 |
| To achieve the full potential of a TOD it is critical to have long-term strategic planning, | 14152 |
| As part of a team assigned to assist with the implementation of the new system, | 14164 |
| I propose that such an endeavor could be more successfully undertaken by a private contractor in future installations throughout the United States. | 14166 |
| By establishing a solid working agreement with a municipality, | 14168 |
| By establishing a solid working agreement with a municipality, | 14168 |
| a private contractor would be better positioned than the municipality to provide the necessary data collection and software support services to implement the asset management system. | 14170 |
| Through a series of rigorous data collection and user interface development techniques, | 14172 |
| With a slowly decaying environment, | 14176 |
| This is due to a rather limited research on the economical side of sustainable strategies and a lack of incentives to push developers and investors into a trend still perceived to be very expensive. | 14182 |
| This is due to a rather limited research on the economical side of sustainable strategies and a lack of incentives to push developers and investors into a trend still perceived to be very expensive. | 14184 |
| This is due to a rather limited research on the economical side of sustainable strategies and a lack of incentives to push developers and investors into a trend still perceived to be very expensive. | 14186 |
| Both would be reflected in a higher asset value, | 14192 |
| it will evaluate 'green' strategies as separate investments within a construction project. | 14200 |
| through a critical review of previous studies, | 14204 |
| The outcome would be analyzed in the framework of a certification system adapted to indoor environmental quality. | 14210 |
| a comparative case study will investigate the financial performance of a regular office development versus a 'green' version of the same project, | 14212 |
| a comparative case study will investigate the financial performance of a regular office development versus a 'green' version of the same project, | 14212 |
| a comparative case study will investigate the financial performance of a regular office development versus a 'green' version of the same project, | 14214 |
| has gradually added a new driver in services. | 14222 |
| these two major economic forces present a special opportunity for Singapore to use Build- Operate-Transfer (BOT) project delivery method to not only capture a solid share in the privatization market, | 14230 |
| these two major economic forces present a special opportunity for Singapore to use Build- Operate-Transfer (BOT) project delivery method to not only capture a solid share in the privatization market, | 14232 |
| but also secure a long-term demand for its engineering & construction services, | 14232 |
| GASB 34 has forced a renewed focus on infrastructure portfolios at the local level. | 14252 |
| This research develops a strategy and methodology for small local governments to create flexible, | 14252 |
| Faced with the management of a global infrastructure portfolio exceeding $130 billion in 2001, | 14256 |
| is examined as a model for small towns to emulate during the development of GASB 34 compliant asset management systems. | 14260 |
| The resultant methodology provides a simple, | 14262 |
| This doctoral research aims to bridge the knowledge gap in strategy and formulates a conceptual model suited for construction. | 14288 |
| a common methodology used in economics and investment studies, | 14290 |
| two organizational mechanisms and a boundary notion that divides the external environment from the internal aspects of a firm. | 14298 |
| two organizational mechanisms and a boundary notion that divides the external environment from the internal aspects of a firm. | 14300 |
| The model works as a process that runs parallel to mainstream strategic management functions. | 14300 |
| 2) interaction among these variables automatically promotes higher order differentiation factors that enhance the strategic outlook of a firm. | 14306 |
| and the challenges of implementing cohousing on a large enough scale to make an impact in nation-wide consumption trends. | 14336 |
| a theoretical discussion about outsourcing and contracting shows that railway track maintenance can be outsourced to enhance operating efficiency. | 14352 |
| Evaluating maintenance contractor’s performance by several comprehensive performance metrics is also a useful tool to manage and control the contractor’s performance, | 14358 |
| but still imbues a traditional style. | 14364 |
| a long-term, | 14364 |
| LEM is a framework derived from lean manufacturing principles by MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) for the aerospace industry. | 14404 |
| Lean enterprise could assist in the development of a new business model. | 14410 |
| A matrix has been created in which six key construction characteristics are compared to six key lean enterprise principles in order to asses how compatible would the lean enterprise model be taking into account the particularities of the construction industry. | 14412 |
| while in others the application of lean principles would require a big mindset and cultural change, | 14420 |
| and a Case Study. | 14424 |
| this first part identifies the general different types and reasons for mergers and acquisitions while attempting to tailor them to the needs of a construction company. | 14436 |
| The second part elaborates on the concept of valuation and on the different methodologies used by valuators when estimating the value of a construction company. | 14438 |
| The theoretical concepts discussed in the first two parts of the thesis are then applied to a case study. | 14446 |
| Finally this thesis proposes the use of the asset-based or earnings-based approach as the most appropriate methodology in quantifying the value of a construction company. | 14452 |
| It also recommends that the use of three different approaches to valuation be applied so as to derive a value for the company after an assessment and appraisal of the value of the company has been completed. | 14454 |
| it must be noted that this valuation process can only begin to be accurate and complete if the valuator has a great deal of familiarity with the construction industry. | 14456 |
| As a result of the diverse locations and project types that the Naval Construction Force experiences, | 14470 |
| the logistics of providing project material and construction equipment to multiple global locations is a major challenge. | 14476 |
| it will not have the ability to fully operate as a private construction company, | 14492 |
| Construction firms in Japan are struggling with the change in construction industry environment and need a new business model to meet the change. | 14498 |
| The construction industry is a non-manufacturing business; | 14506 |
| lean concepts could assist in the development of a new business model in the construction context. | 14508 |
| A case study of a new airport construction project in Japan supported this conclusion. | 14518 |
| A case study of a new airport construction project in Japan supported this conclusion. | 14518 |
| the author proposes a modified version of the weights of the PDRI scoring sheet that better adjusts to the definition principles of the tool. | 14532 |
| A novel approach to miniaturize antennas and microwave filters for wireless systems is presented. | 14536 |
| This approach is based on a proper choice of a miniature topology, | 14536 |
| This approach is based on a proper choice of a miniature topology, | 14536 |
| which at the same time offers a minimal loss. | 14538 |
| The proposed topology has been used to design a miniaturized slot antenna structure whose dimensions are as small as 0. | 14540 |
| 0 with a gain of –3dBi. | 14542 |
| A number of similar miniaturized topologies, | 14542 |
| including a miniaturized folded-slot, | 14542 |
| Although miniaturization is expected to adversely affect the Q of a filter, | 14546 |
| the proposed filters exhibit a comparable Q to that of standard-size microstrip filters due to the inherent higher Q of a slot-line. | 14546 |
| the proposed filters exhibit a comparable Q to that of standard-size microstrip filters due to the inherent higher Q of a slot-line. | 14548 |
| a high-impedance miniaturized antenna is proposed, | 14548 |
| Such a high impedance antenna may be a suitable candidate for emerging high-impedance low-power micro- and nano-devices used in future wireless systems. | 14550 |
| Such a high impedance antenna may be a suitable candidate for emerging high-impedance low-power micro- and nano-devices used in future wireless systems. | 14550 |
| The Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS) environmental monitor testbed (EMT) is a multicomponent microelectromechanical system (MEMS), | 14558 |
| The goal of the WIMS-EMT is a wristwatch size device capable of detecting semi-volatile and volatile organic compounds in the environment. | 14562 |
| reduction of devices into microdevices requires a complete system redesign, | 14566 |
| and developed a strategic approach for the design and selection of power supplies for both single- and multi-component devices, | 14570 |
| we examined four strategies in reducing power demand by the largest consumer of power in a model micro GC, | 14576 |
| and incorporation of a gas dwell time during preconcentrator heating. | 14578 |
| we developed a strategic method for the selection and design of power systems, | 14582 |
| including 1) specification of a single, | 14588 |
| resulting in a single electrochemistry and cell size; | 14588 |
| by a priori division of power sources by power range; | 14590 |
| we implemented the algorithm into a MATLAB code comprising several GUIs (graphical user interfaces), | 14596 |
| wherein a user supplies system and environmental constraints of ambient temperature, | 14596 |
| and power supply solutions are provided based on data stored in a commercial battery database. | 14598 |
| we conducted a number of experiments to establish empirical relationships between discharge rate of cells and capacity. | 14600 |
| We concluded our work with a study on capacity fade on both primary and secondary cells due to discharge rate and temperature, | 14602 |
| The flows of heat and electricity in a column-type microthermoelectric cooler are analyzed by modeling the various interfacial resistances. | 14608 |
| it is predicted (for an available power of 3V) that a micro TE cooler with 50 TE pairs (high performance TE films), | 14618 |
| should deliver a load of 10mW with temperature 10K below ambient. | 14622 |
| This device will operate with a current of 11mA and will require a power of 34mW. | 14622 |
| This device will operate with a current of 11mA and will require a power of 34mW. | 14622 |
| Chemical comp- osition and crystal structure of the films were recorded and compared with a standard Bi 2 Te 3 and Sb2Te3 single crystal samples. | 14630 |
| High performance TE films (which prop- erties were assumed in the TE model) presented at% Te around 60 and should be deposited at a substrate temperature between 260° and 270°C. | 14634 |
| the TE films were deposited with a maximum substrate temperature of 130°C. | 14638 |
| The cooling performance of devices with 60 TE pairs and a column width of 40µm was evaluated under a minimal cooling load (thermobuoyant surface convection and surface radiation). | 14644 |
| The cooling performance of devices with 60 TE pairs and a column width of 40µm was evaluated under a minimal cooling load (thermobuoyant surface convection and surface radiation). | 14644 |
| These systems utilize a loosely- coupled transformer to enable sensing systems that provide remote readout of temperature, | 14652 |
| A fully passive device has been developed implementing resonant-frequency-shifting telemetry in a wireless pressure sensor. | 14658 |
| A fully passive device has been developed implementing resonant-frequency-shifting telemetry in a wireless pressure sensor. | 14660 |
| The wireless sensor has been realized as a double-sided single-chip device that utilizes a bulk- micromachined capacitive pressure transducer and an on-chip spiral antenna. | 14660 |
| The wireless sensor has been realized as a double-sided single-chip device that utilizes a bulk- micromachined capacitive pressure transducer and an on-chip spiral antenna. | 14660 |
| 5mm with a resonant frequency of 12MHz. | 14664 |
| The pressure sensor is fabricated using a dissolved-wafer silicon-on-glass process. | 14664 |
| Tradeoffs between resolution and coupling range limit the coupling distance to 8mm for a 1mmHg pressure resolution. | 14668 |
| Hybrid system is implemented using a single-chip transducer front-end that monolithically integrates transducers for temperature, | 14674 |
| and relative humidity in a silicon-on- glass process. | 14676 |
| This process combines anodic bonding and a silicon-gold eutectic to realize vacuum-sealed cavities with low-impedance (6?) | 14678 |
| Temperature is sensed capacitively using a row of Si/Au bimorph beams that produce a sensitivity of 15fF/°C from 20 to 100°C. | 14680 |
| Temperature is sensed capacitively using a row of Si/Au bimorph beams that produce a sensitivity of 15fF/°C from 20 to 100°C. | 14680 |
| The absolute pressure sensors have a sensitivity of 15fF/Torr and a range from 500 to 1200Torr, | 14682 |
| The absolute pressure sensors have a sensitivity of 15fF/Torr and a range from 500 to 1200Torr, | 14682 |
| A relaxation oscillator implements low-power capacitance-to-frequency conversion on a second chip with a sensitivity of 750Hz/pF at 15kHz, | 14686 |
| A relaxation oscillator implements low-power capacitance-to-frequency conversion on a second chip with a sensitivity of 750Hz/pF at 15kHz, | 14688 |
| A relaxation oscillator implements low-power capacitance-to-frequency conversion on a second chip with a sensitivity of 750Hz/pF at 15kHz, | 14688 |
| forming a 341µW transducer interface. | 14688 |
| The system is remotely powered by a 3MHz carrier and has a volume of 32mm, | 14688 |
| The system is remotely powered by a 3MHz carrier and has a volume of 32mm, | 14688 |
| The system has a read range of 4cm with the current interrogator system and provides a transducer resolution of resolution of 1°C, | 14690 |
| The system has a read range of 4cm with the current interrogator system and provides a transducer resolution of resolution of 1°C, | 14690 |
| The fabricated system has a volume of 2mm and can detect a 13% reduction in peak arterial flow. | 14698 |
| The fabricated system has a volume of 2mm and can detect a 13% reduction in peak arterial flow. | 14698 |
| a novel current mirror and a comparator offset cancellation technique are proposed. | 14710 |
| a novel current mirror and a comparator offset cancellation technique are proposed. | 14710 |
| Experimental results from a TSMC 0. | 14722 |
| The sum of the work in this thesis provides a framework for the development of an analog-to- digital converter and phase-locked loop circuitry for the embedded and high-end nanoscale markets. | 14724 |
| with a large number of stimulating sites for use in neural prostheses. | 14728 |
| arranged in a 3-D configuration, | 14730 |
| a telemetry interface chip for operating the existing micromachined hardwired active stimulating probes by providing regulated power, | 14736 |
| a modular, | 14740 |
| a modular, | 14742 |
| a 4. | 14752 |
| fabricated in a 1. | 14754 |
| using a 5/10MHz FSK carrier. | 14756 |
| followed by a series regulator, | 14756 |
| and a wide voltage compliance range that extends within 150mV and 250mV of the 5V, | 14762 |
| while sharing a single receiver LC-tank circuit, | 14768 |
| in order to support a total of 2, | 14768 |
| To accurately and independently transduce analytes from within a complex mixture in solution requires multi-modal chemical sensing systems. | 14774 |
| Three criteria must be achieved to produce these chemical sensors in a manner that is conducive to commercialization: production cost must be low, | 14778 |
| or the concentration of the molecule under analysis cannot be detected in a clinically relevant range. | 14786 |
| Several innovations were achieved in this research toward the integration of optical and potentiometric sensors into a single system. | 14794 |
| the electrochemical performance of the potentiometric sensors was significantly improved in the clinically relevant range using a new manufacturing technique. | 14796 |
| a new patented innovation involving the use of wells or rings around the sensing sites was implemented to provide the ability to place the sensing sites closer together while maintaining membrane integrity, | 14798 |
| and digital signal processing on a single-chip microinstrument. | 14816 |
| CMOS switches cannot pass rail-to-rail signals when supply voltages are under a Volt. | 14824 |
| A mixed-signal microcontroller was developed that integrates sensor interface circuitry, | 14830 |
| a temperature sensor, | 14830 |
| the signal chain achieves a dynamic range of 58dB (50Hz bandwidth). | 14834 |
| A 900mV, | 14836 |
| rail-to-rail opamp was developed using weak-inversion biasing and threshold shifting and achieves a gain of 80dB, | 14838 |
| a gain-bandwidth of 1. | 14840 |
| and a 60 phase margin when driving a 10k, | 14840 |
| and a 60 phase margin when driving a 10k, | 14840 |
| The enabler of a sub-1V S modulator is a new dynamically-biased pseudo-differential integrator. | 14842 |
| The enabler of a sub-1V S modulator is a new dynamically-biased pseudo-differential integrator. | 14842 |
| the modulator achieves a dynamic range of 62dB (100Hz bandwidth) and consumes 370nW—a new level of performance for reset-opamp modulators. | 14846 |
| the modulator achieves a dynamic range of 62dB (100Hz bandwidth) and consumes 370nW—a new level of performance for reset-opamp modulators. | 14846 |
| Classical electroanalytical chemistry is reviewed and applied to develop a mixed-domain simulation environment for analyzing system-level design trade-offs. | 14858 |
| An electronic subsystem including a novel chemical sensor interface circuit, | 14862 |
| Through a custom CMOS post-processing technique described in this work, | 14864 |
| The system occupied 36mm 2 and achieved a minimum detection limit of 0. | 14868 |
| These results represent a 13 times improvement in detection limit / area trade- off as compared to current state-of-the-art instruments. | 14870 |
| The system dissipates 16mW of power which is a 58 times improvement in detection limit/power trade-off versus current state- of- the-art instruments. | 14874 |
| the CMOS- integrated potentiometric array achieved a 200 times improvement in response time, | 14878 |
| a nearly 3 times improvement in lifetime versus passive electrodes, | 14878 |
| and a 40 times improvement in lifetime versus commonly used PVC based ion-selective electrodes. | 14880 |
| A thorough treatment of phase noise and jitter is presented in this work. | 14896 |
| and a new systemic top-down clock synthesis approach is presented as a consequence of this analysis. | 14898 |
| and a new systemic top-down clock synthesis approach is presented as a consequence of this analysis. | 14900 |
| micromachining techniques for RF passive devices are explored in an effort to develop a precision harmonic reference for this work. | 14906 |
| A maskless post-process for fabricating RF MEMS components in commercial CMOS is presented. | 14906 |
| A successful prototype of a complete monolithic harmonic clock synthesizer is demonstrated with these passive devices. | 14912 |
| A successful prototype of a complete monolithic harmonic clock synthesizer is demonstrated with these passive devices. | 14912 |
| 2% is also demonstrated using a novel frequency- pulling approach. | 14918 |
| A top-down microsystems methodology has been proposed, | 14922 |
| and a software tool has been developed for the synthesis of MEMS devices related to this research. | 14924 |
| a surface micromachined porous polymer electro-osmotic pump (pp-EOP) and thermally responsive polymer valve have been developed to serve these purposes. | 14932 |
| The electro-osmotic pump uses a porous polymer (with an average pore radius of 150nm) plug, | 14934 |
| eliminating pressure effects while allowing electro- osmotic flow in a parylene channel with embedded planar or vertical electrodes. | 14936 |
| 8nL/min volumetric flow-rate and a maximum pressure of 1541Pa. | 14938 |
| A new drive, | 14940 |
| net zero average AC current signal at around 1Hz frequency has been tried to prevent bubble generation while producing non-zero average voltage and thus a net lateral motion. | 14942 |
| A liquid bridge configuration has been developed to allow the application of DC voltages to drive pp-EOPs without any bubble generation problems. | 14944 |
| This device gives a flow-rate of 1. | 14950 |
| 76nL/min and a maximum pressure head of 1673Pa at 50V DC. | 14950 |
| A simple device fabricated to prove the concept gives a flow-rate of 16nL/min with a pressure head of 2. | 14958 |
| A simple device fabricated to prove the concept gives a flow-rate of 16nL/min with a pressure head of 2. | 14960 |
| A simple device fabricated to prove the concept gives a flow-rate of 16nL/min with a pressure head of 2. | 14960 |
| 3Pa in response to a 1KHz AC square signal with a magnitude of 17 volts. | 14960 |
| 3Pa in response to a 1KHz AC square signal with a magnitude of 17 volts. | 14960 |
| a thermally responsive polymer has been surface micromachined using spinning and/or casting for thin-film formation and patterning lithographically. | 14960 |
| thus a big potential to realize valves with low leak. | 14966 |
| This polymer is integrated into parylene channels with embedded microheaters to form a valve. | 14968 |
| The sensors output a differential capacitance signal based on the displacement of a seismic mass in reference to an externally applied rotation. | 14974 |
| The sensors output a differential capacitance signal based on the displacement of a seismic mass in reference to an externally applied rotation. | 14976 |
| The angular acceleration sensor is comprised of a non-resonant spring suspended seismic mass. | 14980 |
| Displacement of the seismic mass as a function of angular acceleration is sensed by dual differentially referenced arrays of interdigitated variable capacitors. | 14980 |
| Both angular rate and acceleration sensors require an electrical transduction scheme to convert their differential capacitance outputs to a voltage representing the applied external reference frame inertial condition. | 14984 |
| A complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) based switched capacitor architecture was designed to convert the capacitive sensor signal into a voltage output. | 14984 |
| A complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) based switched capacitor architecture was designed to convert the capacitive sensor signal into a voltage output. | 14986 |
| This circuit architecture is based on a novel charge redistribution technique used to expose multiple sensor nodes to single reference voltage source. | 14986 |
| A fully-implantable 3-D neural recording microsystem has been developed that features site selection, | 15002 |
| The 256-site 3-D microsystem is capable of recording up to 32 channels of simultaneous neural signals at a data rate that is compatible with current transcutaneous telemetry platforms. | 15010 |
| A capacitively-coupled neural recording amplifier has been developed to solve the dc baseline stabilization problem. | 15010 |
| The amplifier has a high-frequency cutoff of 9. | 15016 |
| which is lower than that of a 165mm 2 iridium electrode in saline. | 15020 |
| The current multiplexer design samples 8 neural channels onto a single output lead at a sampling frequency of 20kHz/channel. | 15032 |
| The current multiplexer design samples 8 neural channels onto a single output lead at a sampling frequency of 20kHz/channel. | 15032 |
| A spike detection ASIC has been developed to compress the neural data in-vivo, | 15032 |
| allowing hundreds of channels to be recorded simultaneously over a wireless interface. | 15036 |
| and achieves a bandwidth savings of 92%, | 15036 |
| When a spike is detected, | 15040 |
| this ASIC serially shifts the 5-bit amplitude and 5- bit address of the spike off of the chip over a single data lead at 2. | 15042 |
| 6mW of power from a 3V supply. | 15044 |
| leakage power consumption has emerged as a critical metric in the design of integrated circuits, | 15048 |
| a great emphasis is being placed on the design of low-leakage circuits. | 15052 |
| This work focuses on the growing problem of leakage power consumption and develops efficient techniques that facilitate low-leakage design from a technology, | 15056 |
| This dissertation provides a better understanding of the major components of total leakage power and their dependencies on technology, | 15056 |
| Efficient automation approaches for estimating the chief leakage components and total leakage power are proposed to be within a 5% error bound. | 15062 |
| a novel heuristic for input vector control, | 15064 |
| The various leakage reduction schemes presented in this dissertation are very relevant to current generation designs and have a great potential of being widely used in future, | 15072 |
| and a new optimization framework for yield and shipping frequency maximization is pre- sented. | 15074 |
| A novel fully depleted SOI device, | 15076 |
| Two packages are presented: a hermetic package to seal miniaturized implantable devices, | 15082 |
| and a hollow cavity vacuum package for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). | 15082 |
| The low-profile hermetically sealed package (less than 350°C fabrication temperature) utilizes a 3mm film of gold that is electroplated over a 2mm polyimide layer to enclose a section of an implantable system, | 15086 |
| The low-profile hermetically sealed package (less than 350°C fabrication temperature) utilizes a 3mm film of gold that is electroplated over a 2mm polyimide layer to enclose a section of an implantable system, | 15088 |
| The low-profile hermetically sealed package (less than 350°C fabrication temperature) utilizes a 3mm film of gold that is electroplated over a 2mm polyimide layer to enclose a section of an implantable system, | 15088 |
| This package was implemented on an implantable silicon probe substrate to demonstrate a future application of the technology, | 15090 |
| with a yield of 88%. | 15090 |
| The vacuum package (less than 250°C fabrication temperature) is fabricated by electroplating a 40mm thick nickel film over an 8mm sacrificial photoresist that is removed prior to package sealing. | 15094 |
| It enabled construction of a MEMS package that also forms the basis of an electrical interconnection structure. | 15096 |
| a mold and transfer technique to pre-form and outgas solder balls in a silicon mold prior to transfer to a MEMS wafer was developed. | 15098 |
| a mold and transfer technique to pre-form and outgas solder balls in a silicon mold prior to transfer to a MEMS wafer was developed. | 15100 |
| a mold and transfer technique to pre-form and outgas solder balls in a silicon mold prior to transfer to a MEMS wafer was developed. | 15100 |
| including an integrated leak detecting resistor (LDR) and a micro Pirani gauge (thermal pressure sensor). | 15106 |
| The LDR predicted the implantable package to have a lifetime of greater than 30 years when soaking in Phosphate Buffered Saline. | 15106 |
| These gauges demonstrated that the vacuum package has a MTTF of 78. | 15112 |
| Two versions of the device are presented: a passive device containing only the chemical sensing array, | 15120 |
| and a prototype active device with on-board signal amplification. | 15120 |
| The passive device contains a four by four array of sixteen neurochemical/neuroelectrical sensors. | 15122 |
| The neurons survived and produced data throughout a study period of seventy-five days. | 15134 |
| Calibration curves for dopamine taken in buffer solution with commercial equipment show a detection limit of 662nM with a sensitivity of 224nA/M on the 64µm 2 working electrode devices. | 15138 |
| Calibration curves for dopamine taken in buffer solution with commercial equipment show a detection limit of 662nM with a sensitivity of 224nA/M on the 64µm 2 working electrode devices. | 15138 |
| A technique for creating miniature silver/silver chloride reference electrodes in standard reactive-ion etch equipment is also presented. | 15142 |
| A device using the optimized set of parameters should last approximately 35 days in phosphate buffer solution. | 15148 |
| The research presented describes investigations of three vital aspects of a BMI-system: (1) characterization of chronically implanted cortical probes, ( | 15168 |
| The development and use of field portable instruments for on-site analysis is a growing area of research. | 15196 |
| A meso- scale gas chromatograph, | 15200 |
| uses ambient air as a carrier gas and microfabricated sensors as detectors to eliminate the need for onboard gas tanks. | 15202 |
| but the use of air as a carrier gas also reduces the optimal carrier gas velocity, | 15204 |
| A 9-m column assembly was chosen (as a compromise between resolving power and analysis time) based on spreadsheet models of the Golay-Guiochon equation. | 15206 |
| A 9-m column assembly was chosen (as a compromise between resolving power and analysis time) based on spreadsheet models of the Golay-Guiochon equation. | 15208 |
| A series coupled tandem column ensemble containing a non-polar first column and a polar second column was used to enhance the separation of compounds separated by the first column, | 15212 |
| A series coupled tandem column ensemble containing a non-polar first column and a polar second column was used to enhance the separation of compounds separated by the first column, | 15212 |
| A series coupled tandem column ensemble containing a non-polar first column and a polar second column was used to enhance the separation of compounds separated by the first column, | 15212 |
| A series of 3 pressure pulses were used to enhance the separation of a 13 component mixture with 3 coelutions, | 15216 |
| A series of 3 pressure pulses were used to enhance the separation of a 13 component mixture with 3 coelutions, | 15218 |
| A delay of the temperature ramp on the second column was used in conjunction with a single temperature pulse to enhance the separation of an 18 component mixture with 3 coelutions. | 15220 |
| A delay of the temperature ramp on the second column was used in conjunction with a single temperature pulse to enhance the separation of an 18 component mixture with 3 coelutions. | 15220 |
| The operation of a multi-bed sorption trap, | 15222 |
| and inject them as a 1–2s wide plugs onto the separation column, | 15224 |
| The microsystem includes a telemetry chip and an active neural recording microprobe. | 15228 |
| Powered through a wireless RF link, | 15230 |
| The wireless microsystem receives power from an external transmitter through an inductive RF link over a distance of 1mm to 15mm. | 15236 |
| A bit rate of 33kbps is achieved for sending command data to the implant. | 15240 |
| Eight sites from a total of 64 sites on the microprobe can be selected according to the command and sampled for neural recording. | 15244 |
| is used to send the results back to an external receiver with a bit rate of 2. | 15252 |
| The bit error rate is less than 10 -7 over a range of 10mm or shorter and the carrier frequency is adjustable from 50MHz to 150MHz. | 15254 |
| The microsystem has been tested in-vivo to record neural action potentials from a rat’s motor cortex. | 15256 |
| 5µm AMI ABN CMOS process with a die size of 4. | 15266 |
| The sensory perception controller (SPC) is formulated as a sequential Markov decision problem. | 15270 |
| For a discrete event control system running in normal operation, | 15276 |
| the confidence levels are typically large and only a few event recognisers are needed. | 15278 |
| the theory of discrete event systems is applicable to a wide range of systems. | 15288 |
| the dynamics of the sensing signals used by the event recognisers are often strong and contain a large amount of information at the occurrence of discrete events. | 15292 |
| the discrete events are a natural common representational format for the sensors. | 15298 |
| A common sensor format aids the decision process when dealing with different sensor types. | 15300 |
| In this thesis we present a unique approach to on-line discrete event identification. | 15302 |
| The main theoretical contributions of the thesis are 1) the development of a sensory perception controller for the dynamic real-time selection of event recognisers. | 15306 |
| SDP guarantees cost-efficiency of the real-time SPC by solving a sequential constrained optimisation problem. | 15310 |
| 2) A sensitivity analysis method for the sensory perception controller has been developed by exploring the relationship between Markov decision theory and linear programming. | 15312 |
| several event recognition techniques have been developed for a robotic assembly task. | 15318 |
| Force measurements in particular contain a significant amount of information when the contact state changes. | 15322 |
| the sensory perception control theory and the sensitivity analysis have been demonstrated for a mobile navigation problem. | 15326 |
| Localisation is the ability of a vehicle to determine its position and orientation within an operating environment. | 15332 |
| The need for such a localisation system is motivated by the requirement of developing autonomous vehicles in applications such as mining, | 15332 |
| This is a key driver in the practical implementation of a localisation algorithm. | 15342 |
| This is a key driver in the practical implementation of a localisation algorithm. | 15342 |
| The development of an Iterative Closest Point - Extended Kalman Filter (ICP-EKF) algorithm - a map-based iconic algorithm that utilises measurements from a scanning laser rangefinder to achieve localisation. | 15346 |
| The development of an Iterative Closest Point - Extended Kalman Filter (ICP-EKF) algorithm - a map-based iconic algorithm that utilises measurements from a scanning laser rangefinder to achieve localisation. | 15346 |
| The ICP-EKF algorithm entails the development of a map-building algorithm. | 15348 |
| It also explicitly takes into account the uncertainty associated with measurements and has the ability to include measurements from a variety of different sensors. | 15352 |
| The development and adaptation of a view-invariant Curvature Scale Space (CSS) landmark extraction algorithm. | 15358 |
| The integration of the information metric and the CSS and ICP- EKF algorithms to arrive at a unified localisation framework that uses measurements from both artificial and natural landmarks, | 15364 |
| The localisation framework developed is sufficiently generic to be used on a variety of other autonomous land vehicle systems. | 15368 |
| The first trial was carried out on a four-wheel drive vehicle in an underground mine tunnel. | 15370 |
| The second trial was conducted on a Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) truck in a test tunnel constructed to emulate an underground mine. | 15372 |
| The second trial was conducted on a Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) truck in a test tunnel constructed to emulate an underground mine. | 15372 |
| The estimates of the proposed localisation algorithms are compared to the ground truth provided by an artificial landmark-based localisation algorithm that uses bearing measurements from a laser. | 15376 |
| these are also implemented on a utility vehicle in an outdoor area within the University's campus. | 15378 |
| The results demonstrate the robustness of the proposed localisation algorithms in producing reliable and accurate position estimates for autonomous vehicles operating in a variety of unstructured domains. | 15382 |
| This dissertation involves a preliminary study into the structural dynamic behavior of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), | 15382 |
| Chapter 1 deals with the response of a simplified model of the arm, | 15394 |
| Chapter 2 deals briefly with a simplified model of the same system for the purpose of obtaining dynamic response factors to be associated with the gimbal ring and to justify the simplifications implicit in the model used in Chapter 1. | 15398 |
| The following assumptions have been made in order to obtain a solution within a reasonable time period for the preliminary study: 1. | 15410 |
| The following assumptions have been made in order to obtain a solution within a reasonable time period for the preliminary study: 1. | 15410 |
| The gondola will be considered to be a rigid body; | 15412 |
| The gimbal ring will also be considered to be a rigid body in the analysis of Chapter 1, | 15414 |
| and will be considered to be a simple spring-mass system in the analysis of Chapter 2; | 15416 |
| acting as a uniform cantilever with a mass at its tip; | 15418 |
| acting as a uniform cantilever with a mass at its tip; | 15418 |
| 2) The lumped parameter method is a conventional method of analysis; | 15434 |
| and 5) Neglecting the extensional mode is a conventional assumption and dynamic augmentation of centrifugal force is negligible. | 15438 |
| torsional and vertical modes for three types of generalized impulsive loading functions: 1) a square pulse, | 15446 |
| 2) a saw-tooth ramp, | 15446 |
| and 3) a half sine pulse. | 15446 |
| The estimates of the proposed localisation algorithms are compared to the ground truth provided by an artificial landmark-based localisation algorithm that uses bearing measurements from a laser. | 15454 |
| these are also implemented on a utility vehicle in an outdoor area within the University's campus. | 15456 |
| The results demonstrate the robustness of the proposed localisation algorithms in producing reliable and accurate position estimates for autonomous vehicles operating in a variety of unstructured domains. | 15460 |
| As an application we give numerical bounds for an equivalence of norms on a particular subspace of the Hardy space. | 15462 |
| We also introduce a Hilbert space of analytic functions on the unit disc, | 15466 |
| and give a characterization of its elements. | 15468 |
| Combinatorial Games are a generalization of real numbers. | 15472 |
| Each game has a recursively defined complexity (birthday). | 15474 |
| We find some limit cases for how big and how small a game can be, | 15476 |
| Radiative transfer of photons though a random distribution of scatterers is considered. | 15486 |
| The Boltzmann transport eq is used to develop a program to obtain real values of intensity based on a set of discrete time intervals. | 15488 |
| The Boltzmann transport eq is used to develop a program to obtain real values of intensity based on a set of discrete time intervals. | 15490 |
| A Newton-Raphson method is used to determine a set of eigenvalues based on the boundary conditions and system geometry. | 15490 |
| A Newton-Raphson method is used to determine a set of eigenvalues based on the boundary conditions and system geometry. | 15490 |
| A numerical method due to Lanczos is used to approximately invert a Laplace transform. | 15492 |
| A numerical method due to Lanczos is used to approximately invert a Laplace transform. | 15494 |
| PART II: Eigenvalues for the intensity distribution from the one speed Boltzmann transport equation can be computed using an iteration method with the roots and coefficients for the zeros of the Legendre polynomials and the results converge to the known values based on a Newton-Raphson method used in an earlier treatment for a radiative transfer . | 15500 |
| PART II: Eigenvalues for the intensity distribution from the one speed Boltzmann transport equation can be computed using an iteration method with the roots and coefficients for the zeros of the Legendre polynomials and the results converge to the known values based on a Newton-Raphson method used in an earlier treatment for a radiative transfer . | 15502 |
| A spherical harmonic expansion of the intensity and the application of laplace and finite fourier transforms was used to solve the problem . | 15502 |
| The zero of a transcendental equation based on the differential equation for the boundary conditions was approximated for the eigenvalues . | 15506 |
| A Newton-Raphson method was used . | 15506 |
| A S16 approximation of the intensity distribution using Fast Fourier Transforms for the coefficients of the interpolating polynomial is given . | 15512 |
| The program for the coefficients is from a standard Numerical Methods text (Burden and Faires, | 15514 |
| is an untwisted affine Lie algebra and k is a positive integer, | 15526 |
| 0) has the structure of a vertex operator algebra. | 15528 |
| where a probabilistic generative model, | 15536 |
| where a novel algorithm, | 15540 |
| The Nonnegative Boltzmann machine (NNBM) is a recurrent neural network model that can describe multimodal nonnegative data. | 15544 |
| Application of maximum likelihood estimation to this model gives a learning rule that is analogous to the binary Boltzmann machine. | 15548 |
| A second- order mean-field approximation for the Nonnegative Boltzmann Machine model, | 15554 |
| obtained using a high- temperature expansion is also presented. | 15556 |
| The two approaches to learning the model are tested on learning a bimodal 2-dimensional model, | 15558 |
| a high-dimensional translationally- invariant distribution, | 15558 |
| a generative model for handwritten digits, | 15560 |
| and a generative model for face images. | 15560 |
| the groundstate of a quantum system is approximated using a method based on perturbation theory. | 15566 |
| the groundstate of a quantum system is approximated using a method based on perturbation theory. | 15566 |
| a given optimization problem involving the minimisation of a cost function can be restated as the problem of finding the ground state of the QM system with a potential specified by that cost function. | 15570 |
| a given optimization problem involving the minimisation of a cost function can be restated as the problem of finding the ground state of the QM system with a potential specified by that cost function. | 15572 |
| a given optimization problem involving the minimisation of a cost function can be restated as the problem of finding the ground state of the QM system with a potential specified by that cost function. | 15574 |
| can be cast as QM problems involving a quartic polynomial potential. | 15578 |
| Our method of approach is to view the vanishing of the Ambient Obstruction tensor as an nth order system of equations for the components of a compactification of the given metric. | 15590 |
| In classical homological algebra one studies objects by taking injective or projective resolutions of an object (usually a module) and then applying an additive functor to the deleted resolution and computing homology. | 15598 |
| For example there are the so called relative projective and injective resolutions in group cohomology and there are the resolutions of a sheaf by flabby sheaves in sheaf cohomology. | 15604 |
| We will develop some new tools in relative homological algebra but with a special interest in the variety that is called Gorenstein homological algebra and in its connection with Tate cohomology and its generalizations. | 15610 |
| C such that P C and a left R-module M. | 15614 |
| N and show that there is a long exact sequence connecting these modules and the modules ExtnCM, | 15620 |
| When P is the class of projective modules and C is the class of Gorenstein projective modules over a left noetherian ring R and when Gor proj dim M Ext&d14; | 15624 |
| Then we show that there is a dual result. | 15630 |
| Using the dual result we prove that over Gorenstein rings Tate cohomology can be computed using either a complete resolution of M or a complete injective resolution of N. | 15634 |
| Using the dual result we prove that over Gorenstein rings Tate cohomology can be computed using either a complete resolution of M or a complete injective resolution of N. | 15634 |
| N by means of a right I - and a right E - resolution of N, | 15642 |
| N by means of a right I - and a right E - resolution of N, | 15642 |
| N fit into a long exact sequence. | 15646 |
| We show that there is a long exact sequence of Ext*E, | 15646 |
| - associated with a Hom(−, | 15648 |
| 0 and a long exact sequence of Ext*E, | 15650 |
| N associated with a Hom(−, | 15652 |
| the generalized Tate cohomology can be computed either using a left C -resolution and a left P -resolution of M or using a right E -resolution and a right I resolution of N. | 15670 |
| the generalized Tate cohomology can be computed either using a left C -resolution and a left P -resolution of M or using a right E -resolution and a right I resolution of N. | 15670 |
| the generalized Tate cohomology can be computed either using a left C -resolution and a left P -resolution of M or using a right E -resolution and a right I resolution of N. | 15672 |
| the generalized Tate cohomology can be computed either using a left C -resolution and a left P -resolution of M or using a right E -resolution and a right I resolution of N. | 15672 |
| Diffeomorphisms are a classical tool and object of study in theoretical mathematics. | 15672 |
| diffeomorphisms have appeared as a new and potent tool in image analysis. | 15676 |
| There is a growing interest in understanding computationally efficient mechanisms for representing and manipulating diffeomorphisms. | 15676 |
| we describe a multiscale transform acting on diffeomorphisms. | 15680 |
| The transform produces a collection of coarse scale coefficients indexed by location and a collection of detail coefficients indexed by scale and location. | 15686 |
| The transform produces a collection of coarse scale coefficients indexed by location and a collection of detail coefficients indexed by scale and location. | 15688 |
| there is no corresponding basis element for a coefficient in the transform. | 15690 |
| we introduce a new collection of nonlinear refinement schemes. | 15694 |
| The substitution method has proven to be an effective tool for bounding the critical probability of a variety of percolation models. | 15702 |
| Our goal is a little different from that of most algorithmic investigations. | 15712 |
| Since the substitution method constitutes a proof, | 15714 |
| there is little reason to perform a particular computation more than once. | 15714 |
| We use each speed improvement to attempt a new, | 15716 |
| the use of network flow techniques to prove stochastic ordering on a partially ordered set, | 15726 |
| The exploitation of symmetry often makes the difference between a calculation that is feasible versus one that is not. | 15732 |
| Non-crossing partitions take advantage of planarity of a substitution region. | 15734 |
| Curriculum reform in Ontario secondary schools proposed new methods for assessing student achievement as well as a new streaming model that separates students based on their learning needs. | 15746 |
| A questionnaire was distributed to grade 9 mathematics teachers attending a provincial mathematics conference. | 15752 |
| A questionnaire was distributed to grade 9 mathematics teachers attending a provincial mathematics conference. | 15754 |
| A number of teachers reported they continued to include the assessment of homework accuracy in with a student's academic achievement. | 15764 |
| A number of teachers reported they continued to include the assessment of homework accuracy in with a student's academic achievement. | 15766 |
| a significant difference was found in teachers' reported assessment practices that called for reporting a student's most recent and most consistent evidence of achievement and the method in which teachers integrate various measures of student achievement to determine a student's final grade. | 15772 |
| a significant difference was found in teachers' reported assessment practices that called for reporting a student's most recent and most consistent evidence of achievement and the method in which teachers integrate various measures of student achievement to determine a student's final grade. | 15774 |
| a significant difference was found in teachers' reported assessment practices that called for reporting a student's most recent and most consistent evidence of achievement and the method in which teachers integrate various measures of student achievement to determine a student's final grade. | 15776 |
| Four African-American mathematics teachers (three females and one male) were interviewed and completed a questionnaire for this qualitative document. | 15788 |
| The investigator was also a participant. | 15790 |
| the other has a Master's Degree. | 15792 |
| a connectedness with the church, | 15804 |
| A documented relationship exists between an individual's ethnicity/culture and both affect and cognition in the learning of mathematics. | 15814 |
| disproportionately represented in the population of those who have earned a Ph. | 15818 |
| can be attributed to a number of different factors. | 15822 |
| This study is a theoretical investigation of the electronic and optical properties of intrinsic semiconductors using the orthogonal empirical tight binding model. | 15856 |
| The second part of this work examines a number of applications of the theory. | 15866 |
| We present a new microscopic derivation of the intervalley deformation potentials within the tight binding representation and computes a number of conduction-band deformation potentials of bulk semiconductors. | 15866 |
| We present a new microscopic derivation of the intervalley deformation potentials within the tight binding representation and computes a number of conduction-band deformation potentials of bulk semiconductors. | 15868 |
| We have also studied the electronic states in heterostructures and have shown theoretically the possibility of having barrier localization of above-barrier states in a multivalley heterostructure using a multiband calculation. | 15872 |
| We have also studied the electronic states in heterostructures and have shown theoretically the possibility of having barrier localization of above-barrier states in a multivalley heterostructure using a multiband calculation. | 15872 |
| Another result is the proposal for a new "type-II" lasing mechanism in short- period GaAs/AlAs superlattices. | 15874 |
| a new formalism, | 15874 |
| for computing interband optical matrix elements has been obtained and has been used to compute the linear and second-order nonlinear optical properties of a number of bulk semiconductors and semiconductor heterostructures. | 15880 |
| The continuous processing of superconducting tapes and wires is a necessary stage that will open up the industrial market to the designers of a diverse range of time and energy saving devices, | 15890 |
| The continuous processing of superconducting tapes and wires is a necessary stage that will open up the industrial market to the designers of a diverse range of time and energy saving devices, | 15892 |
| and a less well known electrochemical route. | 15896 |
| The PIT research yielded partially textured (a characteristic not found in previously reported thallium-based PIT tapes) and high purity tapes with promising transport properties. | 15898 |
| This is not a well researched area. | 15906 |
| Therefore the research herein deals with the mechanisms of the deposition process in order to achieve a high standard of reproducibility in producing a variety of superconductor precursor films. | 15908 |
| Therefore the research herein deals with the mechanisms of the deposition process in order to achieve a high standard of reproducibility in producing a variety of superconductor precursor films. | 15908 |
| The electrostatic interaction between two charged spheres in the presence of a screening electrolyte is calculated at the level of the linearized Debye-Hückel theory. | 15918 |
| The calculation is performed analytically as a multipole expansion by applying two-center spherical harmonic expansions and symbolic manipulation methods. | 15920 |
| Assuming a spherical micelle, | 15942 |
| I find a smaller aggregation number and a larger micellar hydration than literature values. | 15952 |
| I find a smaller aggregation number and a larger micellar hydration than literature values. | 15952 |
| A radiative transfer model which includes the effects of hydrometeors on atmospheric radiation was linked to the adjoint modeling system to assimilate microwave radiance observations. | 15968 |
| microwave radiance observations for Hurricane Bonnie (1998) were assimilated in a 4-dimensional variational data assimilation framework using the COAMPS adjoint model. | 15992 |
| where the presence of frozen hydrometeors can have a large impact on the radiance value, | 16000 |
| will most likely be needed to see a greater forecast impact from the assimilation of these observations. | 16008 |
| Density functional theory (DFT) is a tool of many-body physics whose popularity has grown over the years, | 16012 |
| primarily because it provides a useful balance between accuracy and computational cost, | 16014 |
| allowing large systems to be treated in a simple self-consistent manner. | 16014 |
| Effective field theory (EFT) is a framework which allows us to study the low-energy phenomena of a system in a systematic fashion. | 16016 |
| Effective field theory (EFT) is a framework which allows us to study the low-energy phenomena of a system in a systematic fashion. | 16018 |
| Effective field theory (EFT) is a framework which allows us to study the low-energy phenomena of a system in a systematic fashion. | 16018 |
| EFT methods are applied to DFT as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. | 16020 |
| A system of fermions with short-range, | 16022 |
| fermionic atoms in an optical trap) serves as a laboratory for studying DFT/EFT. | 16024 |
| An effective action formalism leads to a Kohn-Sham DFT by applying an inversion method order-by- order in the EFT expansion parameter. | 16026 |
| a local (semi-classical) expansion of is used to write the energy as a functional of the density alone, | 16036 |
| a local (semi-classical) expansion of is used to write the energy as a functional of the density alone, | 16038 |
| which in the Skyrme case include a spatially varying effective mass. | 16040 |
| The success of laser cooling and trapping led to an explosion of new physics and had a major impact on atomic physics. | 16056 |
| the requirement of particles with simple internal structure has limited its use to a few atomic species. | 16058 |
| One possible technique is the use of a modified straight Stark guide to filter the slow moving molecules from a thermal source. | 16064 |
| One possible technique is the use of a modified straight Stark guide to filter the slow moving molecules from a thermal source. | 16064 |
| Here I present such a technique and the design of the necessary apparatus. | 16066 |
| I present experimental results for creating a molecular source of nitric oxide (NO) whose temperature is controlled. | 16068 |
| Results showing the effects of the guide on the lowest ro-vibrational states of NO and a new technique for measuring the speed distribution of a cold molecular sample are also discussed. | 16070 |
| Results showing the effects of the guide on the lowest ro-vibrational states of NO and a new technique for measuring the speed distribution of a cold molecular sample are also discussed. | 16072 |
| the use of the guide to produce cold NO molecules at a temperature of 7 ± 2 K is described. | 16074 |
| This dissertation describes the measurement of the top quark mass using events recorded during a ≈ | 16076 |
| 1 exposure of the DØ detector to proton-anti-proton ( pp¯ ) collisions at a center of mass energy of 1. | 16078 |
| The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that the top quark will decay into a bottom quark and a W boson close to 100% of the time. | 16080 |
| The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that the top quark will decay into a bottom quark and a W boson close to 100% of the time. | 16080 |
| The bottom quark will hadronize (bind with another quark) and produce a jet of hadronic particles. | 16082 |
| The W bosons can decay either into a charged lepton and a neutrino or a pair of quarks. | 16084 |
| The W bosons can decay either into a charged lepton and a neutrino or a pair of quarks. | 16084 |
| The W bosons can decay either into a charged lepton and a neutrino or a pair of quarks. | 16084 |
| The first is based on the unique topology of the final state particles of a heavy particle. | 16088 |
| A kinematic fit to the top quark mass is performed on the tt¯ candidate events using the final state particles that are seen in the detector. | 16098 |
| A likelihood technique is then used to extract the most likely value of the top quark mass, | 16100 |
| 8 (systematic) GeV while the results on the sample selected from identification of a b quark in the event is mt = 170. | 16104 |
| The metal palladium readily absorbs hydrogen (1H) or deuterium (2D) to a high density into its crystalline interstitial sites. | 16108 |
| A two-part 2D NMR lineshape due to this was sought, | 16120 |
| and the spin-lattice relaxation rates over a range of temperatures. | 16132 |
| The structure of ettringite incorporates a great deal of water (about 26 waters per formula unit, | 16140 |
| New Scientific missions call for emerging propulsion technologies capable of fine tuning a satellite's relative position and cancelling small disturbances. | 16148 |
| An important advantage is that with proper choice of propellant and operating regime their specific impulse can be tailored from 500-7000 seconds making them viable candidates for a multitude of mission profiles. | 16162 |
| we have undertaken the development of a numerical simulation of a colloid thruster to complement experimental and analytical research in the area. | 16166 |
| we have undertaken the development of a numerical simulation of a colloid thruster to complement experimental and analytical research in the area. | 16168 |
| The goal of this project has been to create a flexible numerical tool to compute single-emitter current, | 16170 |
| electric field strengths for a given geometry, | 16172 |
| We have approached this issue from the numerical perspective by developing a simulation of a colloid thruster operating in the single cone-jet pure droplet mode. | 16174 |
| We have approached this issue from the numerical perspective by developing a simulation of a colloid thruster operating in the single cone-jet pure droplet mode. | 16174 |
| thus reproducing a typical electrospray experimental configuration. | 16180 |
| The equations have been simplified by employing a slenderness approximation except for the free surface boundary conditions where the terms have been kept exact, | 16184 |
| Simulation results are shown to compare well to experimental data for a variety of liquids, | 16190 |
| this thesis presents (a) results for a broader parametric range than previously published materials; ( | 16192 |
| this thesis presents (a) results for a broader parametric range than previously published materials; ( | 16192 |
| This dissertation is divided into two parts and consists of a series of contributions to searches for new physics with LEP and the LHC. | 16202 |
| A detailed full simulation study of Vector Boson Fusion Higgs decaying to tau leptons confirms the qualitative conclusion that the channel is powerful near the LEP limit. | 16220 |
| Governments who need to satisfy a broad swathe of the population in order to retain power will liberalize their economies slowly, | 16238 |
| governments who need only satisfy a small portion of the population are much less concerned about producing fiscally sound economic policies and consequently get themselves into more economic difficulties. | 16248 |
| This increases the probability of rebellion as political entrepreneurs capitalize on such situations persuading groups that have lost our to demand a redistribution of power and wealth for their own benefit. | 16260 |
| A second set of analyses found that rapid economic liberalization reduces the probability of major civil war in the 1870-2000 and minor civil war in the 1950-2000 periods, | 16272 |
| the findings indicated there is a relationship between the selected virtual team leaders' attributes and the motivation of a virtual team. | 16292 |
| the findings indicated there is a relationship between the selected virtual team leaders' attributes and the motivation of a virtual team. | 16294 |
| only one variable among the four was found to be the statistically significant and thus a source accounting for variation in virtual team motivation: behavior. | 16296 |
| This suggests support for the Path Goal theory in the virtual environment and that a significant attribute of a virtual leader is her behavior with respect to virtual team motivation. | 16298 |
| This suggests support for the Path Goal theory in the virtual environment and that a significant attribute of a virtual leader is her behavior with respect to virtual team motivation. | 16298 |
| also has a strong positive correlation with the traits and decision styles of the leader. | 16308 |
| The study findings also suggest that a reasonable emphasis should be placed on leaders' behaviors if virtual teams are to be motivated. | 16310 |
| attribute framing effects were analyzed in a capital budgeting decision context. | 16318 |
| When the accounting data elicited a positive or negative evaluative reaction, | 16324 |
| These results suggest that persuasive descriptions are not effective in capital budgeting contexts when accounting data provides a clear picture as to the investment's future success; | 16338 |
| The synthetic lease is a hybrid financing structure that allows a company to have many of the benefits of asset ownership, | 16344 |
| The synthetic lease is a hybrid financing structure that allows a company to have many of the benefits of asset ownership, | 16344 |
| the probability of choosing synthetic lease financing is increasing in the strength of a firm's board of directors, | 16366 |
| We use a model of heterogeneous agents with discrete work choice in order to quantitatively assess the impact of income tax reforms on the observed patterns of married couples' labor supply. | 16380 |
| We use a model with heterogeneous agents, | 16398 |
| The key finding is that changes in the distribution of potential wages can account for 88% of the observed increase in the labor supply of married females and in a manner consistent with some cross-sectional properties of the female labor supply that we document using the U. | 16404 |
| The nominal value of each variable is decomposed into prices and volumes in a way that secures consistency in aggregation as well as self-duality (i. | 16428 |
| The accounting framework is brought to life by a set of differential equations describing the economic behavior of the agents of the model economy. | 16432 |
| it is not intended as a conclusive statement about the right way to model an economy. | 16438 |
| since the baseline creates a subsidy to output. | 16458 |
| we developed a computerized laboratory environment in which subjects, | 16464 |
| Subjects trade emission rights in a uniform price sealed bid-ask auction. | 16468 |
| All decisions are tracked through a double-entry bookkeeping system. | 16470 |
| After creating a laboratory implementation of the theoretical setting, | 16478 |
| we report results from simulations with robot traders in a long-run environment. | 16480 |
| As a first step towards testing the long-run model with human subjects, | 16484 |
| this dissertation reports on a laboratory experiment designed to test the short-run predictions. | 16486 |
| The 1994-95 Mexican financial crisis was a result of structural problems like financial fragility, | 16494 |
| in what Taylor (1998) has called a Frenkel-Neftci cycle, | 16498 |
| the financial institutions faced a dual financial problem: a weak financial linkage, | 16504 |
| the financial institutions faced a dual financial problem: a weak financial linkage, | 16504 |
| a high forward and backward linkage, | 16506 |
| which meant a higher financial fragility as a result of the liberalization reforms. | 16508 |
| which meant a higher financial fragility as a result of the liberalization reforms. | 16508 |
| the structural financial problems can be diagnosed as a real potential risk of generalized economic crisis nowadays. | 16508 |
| a better understanding of the structural financial conditions that led developing countries like Mexico toward generalized economic crises in the process of economic liberalization. | 16516 |
| there are some dimensions of fragility that are considered with a SAM framework and some standard data; | 16522 |
| we sketch the dynamics of the crisis a la Taylor, | 16524 |
| The Mexican financial crisis of 1994-95 was a result of structural problems like financial fragility, | 16534 |
| the dynamics of such a crisis evolved, | 16536 |
| in a Frenkel-Neftci cycle. | 16538 |
| structural financial problems can be diagnosed as a real potential risk of generalized economic crisis nowadays. | 16540 |
| The results indicate that relatively greater compliance with IAS is not associated with a statistically significant difference in the proxies for information asymmetry. | 16552 |
| There is also evidence that the auditor's confirmation of the use of IAS impacts a firm's bid-ask spread and its idiosyncratic risk, | 16560 |
| If the relative informational content of the separate components provided by this model better explains a firm's market value of equity than that of current accounting measures, | 16570 |
| 1) If the market acts like there is a debt component to convertible debt, | 16588 |
| In a content analysis of over 400 accounting articles published since 1926, | 16612 |
| The study suggests that accounting has played an instrumental role in constructing retirement as a (largely individualized) savings problem and in preparing calculative citizens for their participation in retirement. | 16622 |
| it was intended to observe whether the presence of a personal benefit affected both ethical orientation and the level of professional commitment. | 16660 |
| Using a sample of 145 accounting students and 230 non-accounting students from one large mid- Atlantic university and two smaller mid-Atlantic colleges as proxy for entry-level managers, | 16664 |
| the current study proposed a causal model to assist in explaining an individual's judgment with respect to ethical dilemmas in accounting/management. | 16668 |
| the results of this research indicate a significant relationship between an individual's ethical orientation and their ethical judgment. | 16672 |
| It was empirically supported that individuals with a higher level of professional commitment would be less likely to engage in earnings management practices while their counterparts, | 16676 |
| individuals with a lower level of professional commitment, | 16678 |
| The addition of the benefit manipulation in this study resulted in a fluctuation in both the ethical position and the level of professional commitment of the individual. | 16682 |
| The results should provide a better understanding of the significance of ethical orientations in earnings management behaviors, | 16696 |
| Accurate forecasts are crucial to a revenue management system. | 16702 |
| and constant fare changes are a few of the hurdles that must be overcome. | 16706 |
| The number of seats an airline can sell on a flight is determined by the booking limits set by the revenue management system. | 16714 |
| An airline continues to accept reservations in a fare class until the booking limit is reached. | 16716 |
| A literature review explores the current methods for unconstraining censored data. | 16734 |
| An extension to the EM algorithm that results in a 41% improvement in forecast accuracy is presented. | 16742 |
| by demonstrating that a novel form of continuous action research can contribute such evidence. | 16752 |
| Firstly a community of practice was formed from practitioners with major corporations interested in answering the question, | 16752 |
| A programme was developed that centred around project management, | 16754 |
| A well-resourced support structure was established to administer the programme, | 16758 |
| It also gave the chance to make a free selection and comparison between the prices of goods at the electronic department stores throughout the Internet. | 16788 |
| All such facilities are given to the consumers in a very short time without causing them to leave their office or home. | 16792 |
| Funding private projects in emerging markets - in a safely manner - requires a thorough evaluation and analysis of several aspects that are constituent to the project itself, | 16820 |
| Funding private projects in emerging markets - in a safely manner - requires a thorough evaluation and analysis of several aspects that are constituent to the project itself, | 16820 |
| By developing a model and researching its components breakdown, | 16828 |
| The methodology used was basically a result of a detailed research throughout years of experience, | 16832 |
| The methodology used was basically a result of a detailed research throughout years of experience, | 16832 |
| have been examined and partially incorporated in this Dissertation in order to make a significant paralell to the components of the model. | 16840 |
| TQM gurus and consultants market it as the best change initiative that provides organizations with a competitive advantage. | 16846 |
| They also say that it is a cure for all problems that companies face. | 16846 |
| There are areas where TQM provides a needed change initiative along with others. | 16850 |
| once most companies treat improving their processes as a priority, | 16852 |
| TQM ceases to give a competitive advantage since it becomes a basic entry point into the competition. | 16854 |
| TQM ceases to give a competitive advantage since it becomes a basic entry point into the competition. | 16854 |
| It is not a panacea for all problems in organizations and that it fits all types of organizations, | 16856 |
| It is not the only way to give organizations a competitive advantage, | 16858 |
| This study provides a policy analysis of publicly funded school voucher programs. | 16866 |
| A synopsis of student test score analyses and parental surveys provides a basis for analyzing the effect of programs on participants. | 16868 |
| A synopsis of student test score analyses and parental surveys provides a basis for analyzing the effect of programs on participants. | 16870 |
| A survey of 30 individuals working with the Cleveland and Milwaukee public schools or voucher programs clarifies the effect of the programs on the overall educational environment. | 16872 |
| A review of financial data from the programs, | 16876 |
| school vouchers have become politically and programmatically viable as a policy alternative. | 16886 |
| The study concludes that vouchers programs are a beneficial and, | 16888 |
| it is critical for companies of all sizes to have a comprehensive Workplace Violence policy. | 16892 |
| An empirical study was undertaken (a) to examine the characteristics, | 16906 |
| and effectiveness of a distinctive Chinese management model adopted by the newly founded private enterprises in mainland China, | 16908 |
| The study was based on a random sample of 124 standardized personal interviews with CEOs of Chinese industrial and service companies in Beijing and Shanghai. | 16910 |
| The findings provided support for the re-adoption of a distinctive Chinese management model in private companies, | 16928 |
| which had a direct impact on organizational design and an indirect influence through its negative association with company size, | 16934 |
| Managerial recommendations were codified in a CHINA© strategy framework for high effectiveness. | 16946 |
| A cross sectional mail survey of Indiana SMEs in four NAICS sub- sectors was used to acquire data for this research. | 16948 |
| As part of this research a model of purchasing development was created and empirically tested. | 16954 |
| A conclusion of this study is that the level of purchasing complexity can vary widely between organizations even within specific industry sectors. | 16962 |
| The results also show that organizations with a high level of purchasing development are likely to be larger organizations, | 16966 |
| The results of this study establish that a significant positive relationship exists between the level of purchasing leverage and the level of purchasing development within SMEs. | 16972 |
| This study also shows that when there is a high level of purchasing complexity there is a positive relationship between the alignment of purchasing development to purchasing complexity and organizational performance. | 16976 |
| This study also shows that when there is a high level of purchasing complexity there is a positive relationship between the alignment of purchasing development to purchasing complexity and organizational performance. | 16976 |
| The purchasing model and measures developed for this study provide a starting point for future research on this subject. | 16982 |
| Using a two-step inverse variance weighted mean method and panel estimation methods, | 16992 |
| If outside investors are to have any chance of beating a buy and hold strategy by imitating insiders, | 16998 |
| This paper also a has significant methodological contribution. | 17004 |
| if deployed carefully can be a tool to reduce the DD within a country. | 17036 |
| if deployed carefully can be a tool to reduce the DD within a country. | 17036 |
| This study presents a systematic approach for doing the latter by identifying the ICTs, | 17038 |
| and the model is based on the United Nations Development Program report titled Creating a Development Dynamic: Final Report of the Digital Opportunity, | 17046 |
| A four level hierarchical decision model has been developed using weights provided by an expert panel. | 17046 |
| The study found that a reduction of the DD in the education sector would have the highest impact followed by the DD in the economic, | 17052 |
| In addition to developing a general modeling approach for prioritizing ICTs, | 17068 |
| this research provides the Costa Rican government officials with a solid basis for making important policy decisions related to reducing DD. | 17070 |
| A survey composed of questions concerning demographics, | 17074 |
| were identified on a 5-point ordinal scale. | 17082 |
| Educational major was identified on a 5-point nominal scale. | 17084 |
| For this purpose a canonical correlation was used. | 17092 |
| Five opinion questions concerned influence of college education on business success among college graduates and non-college graduates were identified on a 5-point Likert scale and tested using one-way ANOVA, | 17096 |
| a statistically significant relationship was found between years of formal education, | 17098 |
| a statistically significant relationship was found between founders' educational level and age, | 17102 |
| A statistically significant and negative relationship was found between founders' educational major and industry, | 17106 |
| adapt and maintain a successful business. | 17112 |
| The influence of a college education on small business success was noticeable and reflects the continuing need for higher education to cope with technological advances, | 17112 |
| (2) to develop a database of franchising in Puerto Rico; ( | 17122 |
| 3) to perform a survey to test the hypotheses; | 17122 |
| and (4) to establish a future research agenda. | 17124 |
| and the first that include the cultural moderation in a franchisor-franchisee relationship. | 17140 |
| The results of the data collected from a sample of 172 Puerto Rican franchisees of U. | 17144 |
| Using planned portions of the interstate highway system as a source of exogenous variation, | 17174 |
| Calibrations of a land use and commuting model imply that one new highway passing through a center city reduces the center city population by about 18 percent, | 17178 |
| Calibrations of a land use and commuting model imply that one new highway passing through a center city reduces the center city population by about 18 percent, | 17180 |
| a magnitude that is consistent with estimates from the data. | 17182 |
| Chapter 2 presents land use data demonstrating that this assumption is a strong one. | 17192 |
| In 1990 less than 50 percent of metropolitan area employment was located in center cities with a significant fraction located in peripheral subcenters. | 17194 |
| Chapter 2 proposes a model that endogenizes the location of employment and population in a metropolitan area simultaneously. | 17194 |
| Chapter 2 proposes a model that endogenizes the location of employment and population in a metropolitan area simultaneously. | 17196 |
| The model employs a production externality that pushes firms to locate together and emphasizes the value of workers' travel time as a mechanism to keep the metropolitan area spatially unified. | 17198 |
| The model employs a production externality that pushes firms to locate together and emphasizes the value of workers' travel time as a mechanism to keep the metropolitan area spatially unified. | 17200 |
| Using a developer equilibrium concept, | 17202 |
| A descriptive research strategy was used to conduct this study that targeted prospective MBA students in the United States and in the world at large. | 17212 |
| The primary data were collected via a self-administered online questionnaire, | 17216 |
| The research population was all prospective MBA students who planned to enroll in a face-to-face or Web-delivered MBA program. | 17218 |
| A total of 123 responses were collected. | 17226 |
| Five dimensions of preprogram quality were examined: (a) tangibility, ( | 17230 |
| The overall predictors for the selection of the type of MBA programs were associated with three service quality dimensions: (a) program content and class structure, ( | 17244 |
| users of the technology often cite a lack of ownership as the root cause for failed implementations of technology. | 17252 |
| this study uses a mixed-method approach, | 17260 |
| Data were obtained from interviews with 8 members of a team recently involved in implementing a complex technology system at a mid-size company; | 17266 |
| Data were obtained from interviews with 8 members of a team recently involved in implementing a complex technology system at a mid-size company; | 17268 |
| Data were obtained from interviews with 8 members of a team recently involved in implementing a complex technology system at a mid-size company; | 17268 |
| and from a qualitative and quantitative Internet survey of 33 members of professional organizations for practitioners in manufacturing and operations management. | 17268 |
| Results from these interviews and surveys reveal a positive relationship between (1) the interactive effects of change ownership variables and the implementation process used, | 17272 |
| A cutover implementation style leads to more control by the implementation team and increases opportunities for decision-making, | 17276 |
| nurturing a culture of ownership, | 17290 |
| I investigate whether the quality of corporate governance of a firm is associated with how credible investors perceive its reported earnings numbers to be. | 17296 |
| I test whether the relation between governance quality and the credibility of accounting numbers varies with the level of agency costs in a firm. | 17302 |
| I measure the credibility of reported earnings by the volatility of stock returns in earnings announcement periods (a non-directional measure), | 17304 |
| and the earnings announcement period excess returns (a directional measure). | 17306 |
| To determine the quality of corporate governance of a firm, | 17310 |
| I apply the principal components analysis procedure on 23 governance variables to obtain 8 factors that represent the different dimensions of governance for a firm. | 17314 |
| a very limited number of the governance factors are significantly related to the credibility of earnings for the lowest agency cost group. | 17322 |
| the evidence indicates that a significant association between governance, | 17324 |
| as well as provides evidence of the importance of various characteristics of the board of directors as a governance mechanism. | 17334 |
| These results demonstrate statistically significant evidence of a positive relationship between design-development performance and corporate performance. | 17358 |
| Additional evidence suggests that Product Social Capital could be a leading indicator of product sales. | 17360 |
| The Product Capital Model provides a framework by which the enterprise can rationalize their product innovation endeavors. | 17370 |
| End user response to product experiences as measured by Product Social Capital proves to be a leading indicator of downstream sales. | 17372 |
| These results reinforce the role of the design-development team as a source of value creation in the enterprise. | 17376 |
| the use of online customer reviews is a rich design research dataset for unraveling complexity in the product-user relationship. | 17378 |
| I argue that a poor institutional environment that restrict healthy development of markets in general, | 17390 |
| I find that regulations - activity restrictions to be specific - rather than institutions play a key role in determining the extent of foreign presence. | 17406 |
| Retail mail-order catalogs seek to define a niche and develop a brand in order to set themselves apart from the competition. | 17414 |
| Retail mail-order catalogs seek to define a niche and develop a brand in order to set themselves apart from the competition. | 17414 |
| we focus on the unexplored problem of catalog product demand modeling in a spatial context and examine methods to study how catalog creative can be optimized to increase a catalog's profitability and cross- merchandising potential. | 17420 |
| we focus on the unexplored problem of catalog product demand modeling in a spatial context and examine methods to study how catalog creative can be optimized to increase a catalog's profitability and cross- merchandising potential. | 17422 |
| We propose a reduced-form, | 17424 |
| we operationalize a set of continuous and discrete distance metrics that can be used to quantify aspects of catalog creative designs and products. | 17436 |
| We utilize a two-stage estimation procedure to estimate our model parameters while accounting for spatial correlations and price endogeneity problems in a catalog retailing context. | 17442 |
| We utilize a two-stage estimation procedure to estimate our model parameters while accounting for spatial correlations and price endogeneity problems in a catalog retailing context. | 17446 |
| We estimate our demand model for catalog merchandise using a data set from a catalog-marketing firm selling fashion apparel. | 17446 |
| We estimate our demand model for catalog merchandise using a data set from a catalog-marketing firm selling fashion apparel. | 17448 |
| Deliberative democracy can be defined as a political system based on citizens' voluntary and free discussions on public issues. | 17464 |
| this study finds the concept of public sphere a useful framework for operationalizing the normative concept of deliberative democracy, | 17470 |
| it includes a set of 63 items to probe where people talk and what they talk about in their daily life. | 17476 |
| An experimental treatment (a "stop-and- talk" question) is also included in the survey to simulate the effects of real conversation. | 17478 |
| Through a set of data gathered from a nationwide survey, | 17482 |
| Through a set of data gathered from a nationwide survey, | 17482 |
| 3) it combines an experimental design with a nationwide survey; | 17498 |
| This cross-cultural content analysis (which merged traditional content analysis method with semiotic concepts) compared advertising in the United States (a highly individualistic and low-context culture) and India (a highly collectivist and high-context culture). | 17506 |
| This cross-cultural content analysis (which merged traditional content analysis method with semiotic concepts) compared advertising in the United States (a highly individualistic and low-context culture) and India (a highly collectivist and high-context culture). | 17508 |
| A stratified random sample of advertisements for consumer products was selected from nationally circulated news magazines and business magazines of each country between January 1993 and December 1994 (Time and Business Week from the United States; | 17510 |
| Parasocial interaction was first introduced by Donald Horton and Richard Wohl (1956) and became known as a one-sided friendship television viewers have with a mass media character. | 17540 |
| Parasocial interaction was first introduced by Donald Horton and Richard Wohl (1956) and became known as a one-sided friendship television viewers have with a mass media character. | 17540 |
| Using a total sample of 332 White and African American participants from the University of Kentucky (Lexington) and Tougaloo College in (Jackson) Mississippi, | 17544 |
| All of the participants were exposed to an edited version of a prime-time situation comedy that contained White and African American characters and asked to complete a post-viewing survey. | 17550 |
| All of the participants were exposed to an edited version of a prime-time situation comedy that contained White and African American characters and asked to complete a post-viewing survey. | 17552 |
| Although commodity theory is not always articulated as a part of critical studies, | 17572 |
| The overall aim of this thesis is to alert journalists and journalism educators to a serious lacuna in current news coverage, | 17582 |
| Simply stating that a gap in coverage exists, | 17584 |
| would be unlikely to convince members of such a notoriously skeptical profession. | 17586 |
| A survey questionnaire was developed through a pilot study, | 17606 |
| A survey questionnaire was developed through a pilot study, | 17606 |
| The study also found that Black students have a more positive attitudes regarding the importance of distraction, | 17614 |
| biological sex is usually a factor. | 17626 |
| The classroom is a small society with its own special language, | 17628 |
| a language that contributes to classroom events. | 17628 |
| a behavior that provides information on how students adapt and function within the classroom, | 17630 |
| and audio-taping over a period of two months [thirteen observations]. | 17638 |
| from a popular event for the masses, | 17644 |
| active participation and the media as key areas of concern in order to attain a coherent culturally democratic society. | 17660 |
| there are a number of problems revolved around most cases, | 17680 |
| Parthenon Marbles case study is used to research to what extent the Internet can be introduced as a means of providing a form of cultural repatriation through the idea of a Virtual Museum. | 17690 |
| Parthenon Marbles case study is used to research to what extent the Internet can be introduced as a means of providing a form of cultural repatriation through the idea of a Virtual Museum. | 17690 |
| Parthenon Marbles case study is used to research to what extent the Internet can be introduced as a means of providing a form of cultural repatriation through the idea of a Virtual Museum. | 17690 |
| design and construction of a Virtual Museum for the Parthenon Marbles. | 17692 |
| The web site is a pilot application implementing some sides of the temple, | 17694 |
| the VR Museum concept as a means of repatriation is evaluated, | 17700 |
| Copyright represents a delicate partnership between public and private interests. | 17704 |
| copyright reveals itself as a form of private property and an instrument of public policy. | 17706 |
| It offers a means of compensation to creators by granting time-limited monopoly rights of reproduction and distribution, | 17708 |
| yet they represent a relationship between individuals and a community. | 17718 |
| yet they represent a relationship between individuals and a community. | 17720 |
| it is a relationship where one individual is granted the privilege of excluding the community from access to the property. | 17720 |
| I illustrate a strengthening in the position of the individual, | 17724 |
| Adam Smith's eighteenth century dictum that the wealth of nations rested upon a triad of capital, | 17734 |
| between the rights of an individual and the resources of a community. | 17744 |
| While labour is typically classified as a civil society organization within policy network studies, | 17748 |
| using the unions’ engagement with the issue of Canadian dramatic programming from 1998 to present as a case study. | 17756 |
| The wedding of two people is a very old ritual that has been celebrated in many different ways. | 17758 |
| This thesis explores the phenomenon of media weddings where the couple to be married experiences the ritual in separate locations and the ceremony includes a technological or human mediator. | 17760 |
| in which the absent groom (or bride) is represented by a stand-in. | 17766 |
| It attempts to inverse our perceptions of a normal, | 17770 |
| I built an archive as a memory of media weddings. | 17780 |
| 2) A fresh look at the history of wedding ceremonies shows that media weddings are less exceptional than one would assume. ( | 17794 |
| the couple experiences emotions very similar to those of a traditional couple. | 17800 |
| a critical examination of the paradigm of face-to-face interactions as the most rich and fulfilling form of communication follows. ( | 17800 |
| The notion of the Urbraut implies a wedding experience as a reconstitution of exposure to and memories of previously attended weddings as observers, | 17808 |
| The notion of the Urbraut implies a wedding experience as a reconstitution of exposure to and memories of previously attended weddings as observers, | 17808 |
| I argue that the advent of ICTs has generated a myth of global integration (Castells, | 17836 |
| Global integration is defined as the integration into a perceived modern world via the transnational and transcultural interactions taking place in the cyberspace, | 17838 |
| a space into which people of all backgrounds and cultures exchange, | 17840 |
| 2001) and the hope of blending into a global world of economic and social opportunities. | 17850 |
| I show that the discourse related to ICTs reveals a prevalence of technocentrist ideas which prolong theoretical constructions favoring third world countries participation into so-called knowledge societies. | 17854 |
| the existence of a growing group of national Internet promoters as well as NGOs, | 17860 |
| gave rise to a modernist discourse centered on the use of ICTs and a change in social and technological practices. | 17862 |
| gave rise to a modernist discourse centered on the use of ICTs and a change in social and technological practices. | 17864 |
| Del folletí n al reality: una aproximació n teó rica a modelos de lectura y consumo sobre la ficció n y la realidad (From the Serialized Story to the Reality Show: a Theoretical Approach to Models of Reading and Consuming about Fiction and Reality) discusses and combines three hypotheses. | 17864 |
| Del folletí n al reality: una aproximació n teó rica a modelos de lectura y consumo sobre la ficció n y la realidad (From the Serialized Story to the Reality Show: a Theoretical Approach to Models of Reading and Consuming about Fiction and Reality) discusses and combines three hypotheses. | 17866 |
| this research intends to expand Reader Response theories proposing that the reading experience occurs in a concrete frame of time and space. | 17872 |
| and identify another level of manipulation over a spectator, | 17882 |
| Chapter II studies a third facet of literary domination exerted by popular culture artifacts; | 17884 |
| its presents the second hypothesis of this research: the consumption of fiction works as a synecdoche regarding the consumption of exchange goods in a consumerist society. | 17888 |
| its presents the second hypothesis of this research: the consumption of fiction works as a synecdoche regarding the consumption of exchange goods in a consumerist society. | 17890 |
| It reviews a necessity of fiction in contemporary society to explain daily life experiences, | 17892 |
| motivating a cultural sense that reality pretends to imitate fantasy. | 17892 |
| Chapter IV states the third hypothesis of this investigation: serialized stories and reality shows share a similar structure of distribution and content to present its message. | 17898 |
| the tenuous boundary between reality and fiction becomes a becomes an experience manipulated by mass media which turns out, | 17900 |
| turning out serialized stories as valid referent for a hyper- media and hyper-consumer society. | 17902 |
| African-American women and offers baseline exploratory data about how a majority cultural artifact like televised depictions become utilized in the everyday lives of an underrepresented group in media studies. | 17912 |
| This research represents one of a few studies to explore how black females decode and utilize TV content, | 17916 |
| and offers a new theoretical framework to explain informants' decoded receptions, | 17918 |
| An inductive analysis of interview narratives found that viewers use TV content like a - looking- glass to understand how they are seen by others and where they fit in the larger social arena. | 17920 |
| Television's ubiquitous nature warrants a closer look at its influence and utility on TV audiences. | 17936 |
| Using a theoretical perspective combining Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), | 17950 |
| this study examines the homelessness coverage in two elite American newspapers (The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post) to discuss how the representations are informed by ideologies in a wider social context. | 17956 |
| This study seeks to go further by analyzing what linguistically comprises a negative newspaper stereotype of homelessness in discursive terms. | 17960 |
| and ethnographic text analysis to conduct a content and textual analysis of newspaper articles appearing during two-week periods in June and December in 1986, | 17964 |
| A pressing global health concern in the 21st century is the risk of rapid and widespread disease transmission and its negative demographic consequences. | 18016 |
| Episodes of colonialism allow for a clear picture of how the movement of people and social and environmental change are associated with population health and demographic change. | 18028 |
| Although disease is not usually thought of as having a large impact on fertility, | 18038 |
| Fertility usually has a larger impact on population growth than mortality. | 18042 |
| in a situation of an uncontrolled epidemic such as tuberculosis on Yap during the Japanese occupation, | 18044 |
| increases in mortality rates were a greater determinant of population growth than were depressed fertility rates from gonorrhea infections. | 18048 |
| this dissertation uses a simulation model to clarify the role of migration in disease transmission. | 18050 |
| A general assumption is that return migrants are responsible for spreading infection. | 18052 |
| we show that even after accounting for selection there is a cohabitation wage premium, | 18068 |
| We find empirical support for a joint human capital hypothesis which suggests that intra- household spillover effects of partner's education can explain the existence of the wage premiums. | 18072 |
| A recent strand of literature in demography argues that young unmarried Americans value marriage so highly that it is perceived as a family status to be chosen after certain economic preconditions are fulfilled - after they have achieved the so-called white picket fence dream (a house, | 18074 |
| A recent strand of literature in demography argues that young unmarried Americans value marriage so highly that it is perceived as a family status to be chosen after certain economic preconditions are fulfilled - after they have achieved the so-called white picket fence dream (a house, | 18078 |
| A recent strand of literature in demography argues that young unmarried Americans value marriage so highly that it is perceived as a family status to be chosen after certain economic preconditions are fulfilled - after they have achieved the so-called white picket fence dream (a house, | 18080 |
| analysis using a proportional hazard model indicates a positive association of asset ownership with transition into marriage, | 18086 |
| analysis using a proportional hazard model indicates a positive association of asset ownership with transition into marriage, | 18086 |
| we develop a simple two-period model of family union that distinguishes cohabitation and marriage. | 18102 |
| providing a picture of women's everyday lives and adding to the information that historians have gathered about the amounts of weapons, | 18138 |
| This thesis argues that economic theory should integrate with Darwinian theory through the creation of a "genetic evolutionary economics". | 18160 |
| The promise of genetic evolutionary economics is a better understanding of human nature and, | 18162 |
| a more accurate and comprehensive economic science. | 18162 |
| Economic theory rests on a set of assumptions about human nature. | 18166 |
| As a result, | 18170 |
| human behavior and economic predictions of that behavior diverge in a variety of important settings. | 18170 |
| Chapter 3 builds a genetic evolutionary model relevant to this issue, | 18180 |
| and concludes that a Darwinian lens removes many of the apparent paradoxes. | 18182 |
| Genetic evolutionary economics is a scientific endeavor. | 18186 |
| Chapter 4 reports on a theoretical and experimental investigation of gift giving. | 18188 |
| A genetic evolutionary model organizes the existing data on gift giving and makes novel, | 18188 |
| Recent changes in the New South Wales water utilities show a trend towards usage- related pricing, | 18194 |
| using a quarterly time-series data from 1970/71 to 1995/96. | 18200 |
| a residential water demand model is developed using a panel data set (constructed for the analysis), | 18202 |
| a residential water demand model is developed using a panel data set (constructed for the analysis), | 18202 |
| therefore price can be considered as a tool in the implementation of demand management strategies. | 18218 |
| the simulation results show that in the case of movement from the actual tariff structure to a two-part tariff policy (where the usage charge is equal to the short-run marginal cost), | 18224 |
| This represents a total response rate of 62 percent, | 18236 |
| the multinationality of a firm or a group of firms operating across national boundaries is not necessarily synonymous with international production -- the main subject of contemporary multinational theories. | 18250 |
| the multinationality of a firm or a group of firms operating across national boundaries is not necessarily synonymous with international production -- the main subject of contemporary multinational theories. | 18250 |
| The respondents generally perceived the competitiveness of MNCs operating in Saudi Arabia as a function of a number of economic, | 18256 |
| The respondents generally perceived the competitiveness of MNCs operating in Saudi Arabia as a function of a number of economic, | 18256 |
| An empirical study was undertaken to (a) examine various determinants influencing (de- )centralisation in Trans-World, | 18272 |
| The research was based on a sample of 63 standardised personal interviews with all Trans-World employees. | 18278 |
| participant observer and archival data were combined with the survey data to test a model predicting uncertainty and interdependence as primary drivers of decentralisation. | 18280 |
| Managerial recommendations included the use of a "company profile grid" to determine the optimal degree of decentralisation. | 18290 |
| The executive government is a client of the Auditor-General's, | 18320 |
| providing both a 'demonstration' effect and a competitive spur to indigenous companies that it is believed has the power to transform the UK's competitiveness. | 18340 |
| providing both a 'demonstration' effect and a competitive spur to indigenous companies that it is believed has the power to transform the UK's competitiveness. | 18340 |
| which is the home to a significant cluster of Japanese investors, | 18348 |
| with a composition that broadly reflects FDI into the UK from Japan as a whole. | 18350 |
| with a composition that broadly reflects FDI into the UK from Japan as a whole. | 18352 |
| Rather than looking at a single event, | 18362 |
| thirty catastrophic events were aggregated into quintiles and the cumulative abnormal returns around these events were found to be significantly positive over a 25 day trading window. | 18366 |
| The second essay analyzes the effect of a large land grant university, | 18370 |
| It was found that all levels of education have a positive return not only for the individual, | 18382 |
| This is in excess of any non- pecuniary benefits to the State of having a better educated population, | 18386 |
| a financial crisis hit the Kibbutzim and many Kibbutzim shift, | 18402 |
| I build a simple theoretical framework to capture the main tradeoffs facing the Kibbutzim. | 18406 |
| A study of the Kibbutzim allows us to deal with fundamental questions in economics such as how insurance can be provided despite the problems of moral hazard and adverse selection, | 18414 |
| I address the following questions: how did the voluntary egalitarian Kibbutzim coexist with a more capitalist environment? | 18422 |
| What level of equality can be sustained within a Kibbutz as an equilibrium? | 18424 |
| the Kibbutzim can continue to survive in a changing economic environment, | 18430 |
| Forward markets with a lead time longer than the time required to invest and complete new production capacity are shown to be an effective way to reduce future commodity prices, | 18438 |
| forward markets that occur only after the investment decision is committed may discourage total investment and result in a Pareto-inferior outcome. | 18446 |
| These findings have important policy implications for capital-intensive industries where capacity expansion requires a long lead time (e. | 18448 |
| Simulations of the model detail the shape of a social welfare function under a fixed length copyright protection. | 18458 |
| Simulations of the model detail the shape of a social welfare function under a fixed length copyright protection. | 18458 |
| I also analyze social welfare implications of replacing a fixed length copyright with infinitely renewable copyright. | 18460 |
| An infinitely renewable copyright regime increases social welfare provided works with a long duration of optimal copyright length have high initial or ex-post investment returns. | 18462 |
| The disturbances are assumed to follow a continuous, | 18474 |
| A life-cycle model in which workers choose consumption levels and job fatality risks implies that the effect of age on the value of statistical life (VSL) is ambiguous. | 18500 |
| the VSL for a worker aged 55-62 is $3. | 18506 |
| 8 million - about one-third the VSL for a worker aged 35-44. | 18508 |
| Controlling for birth-year cohort effects in a minimum distance estimator flattens the age-related relationship. | 18508 |
| the VSL peaks at age 46 and the value of a statistical life-year peaks at age 56. | 18510 |
| Forecasts based on a Markov chain transition matrix framework show further near-term divergence and very little long-term emissions convergence. | 18516 |
| The chapter concludes with a review of the shortcomings of environmental Kuznets curve regressions and structural models in characterizing emissions distributions. | 18520 |
| A superfund sites, | 18532 |
| This study also documents a significant amount of direct property valuation impacts through the demographic changes in neighborhoods that proximity to toxic waste sites can produce, | 18534 |
| a phenomenon which McCluskey and Rausser (1999) refer to as path dependence. | 18538 |
| the findings in this study confirm that there is a significant degree of post-remediation price recovery, | 18542 |
| A designation of Superfund sites; | 18544 |
| the persistence of the demographic effects on price account for a large portion of the resistance in price recovery. | 18548 |
| there remains a significant amount of inertia in the price recovery process, | 18552 |
| This thesis consists of three essays that examine a variety of issues in the economics of natural disasters. | 18556 |
| The essay examines whether the existence of an uninsurable risk is a market failure, | 18562 |
| whether transaction costs are a cause of market failure and whether government intervention in insurance markets is justified on efficiency grounds. | 18562 |
| The third essay uses a forest rotation model that incorporates risk to investigate empirically the economic effects of forest fires on black spruce and jack pine stands in various site classes in Ontario. | 18574 |
| The main overall findings of this study are that the existence of uninsurable risk does not constitute a market failure per se; | 18580 |
| that transaction costs are not a cause of market failure; | 18582 |
| that most loss estimation studies are incorrect because of double counting and their focus on the short term effects of natural disasters on special groups and not the effects on the community as a whole; | 18588 |
| and that although a reduction in fire risk results in economic gains in the form of increments in the net present values of the returns from forest stands that are subject to reduced fire risk, | 18588 |
| and the advent of universal procurement (procurement open to anyone with a website). | 18616 |
| It does so through the use of a simulation experiment designed to include non-economic factors such as the level of technology and the type of organizational culture. | 18622 |
| The simulation itself was designed as a complex environment where separate organizational simulations operated within a simulated market. | 18630 |
| The simulation itself was designed as a complex environment where separate organizational simulations operated within a simulated market. | 18630 |
| The organizations were given the ability to change themselves to better achieve a single goal, | 18632 |
| The results of the experiment can be summarized in a simple statement; | 18634 |
| they do so in a manner that does not radically change the structure of interactions between businesses. | 18636 |
| The number of suppliers utilized by a buyer does not radically increase; | 18642 |
| The first essay examines the extent to which non-random selection in labor market affects assessing black-white wage differences by applying a longitudinal method of imputing wages for nonworkers. | 18650 |
| as a result, | 18666 |
| play a small role in reconciling the disparity of the black- white wage gaps between the two datasets. | 18666 |
| This thesis is a collection of three empirical essays on economic development and finance. | 18680 |
| Using a regression discontinuity design, | 18698 |
| Villages whose banks were nationalized received a substantial increase in agricultural and total credit, | 18702 |
| a process whereby a slave purchases her own freedom. | 18708 |
| a process whereby a slave purchases her own freedom. | 18708 |
| I first paint a qualitative and quantitative portrait of manumission. | 18710 |
| there was a precipitous drop in the number of manumissions, | 18720 |
| a two-stage, | 18736 |
| the findings suggest that the presence of a discount retailer is positively related to a municipality's sales tax collections and negatively related to collections of a competing retailer's community. | 18740 |
| the findings suggest that the presence of a discount retailer is positively related to a municipality's sales tax collections and negatively related to collections of a competing retailer's community. | 18742 |
| the findings suggest that the presence of a discount retailer is positively related to a municipality's sales tax collections and negatively related to collections of a competing retailer's community. | 18742 |
| The rising cost of hurricanes and other natural hazards has long been a concern to policy makers and insurance industry executives. | 18750 |
| A heretofore over-looked explanation of rising hurricane damages is offered here - improved hurricane forecasts and more extensive evacuations have made hurricanes less lethal and reduced the full cost of living on hurricane prone coasts, | 18750 |
| A time varying measure of hurricane lethality is estimated for land falling hurricanes in the mainland U. | 18754 |
| Results from this estimation are used to confirm that the reduction in fatalities in coastal counties has played a role in increasing both population and hurricane damages in these areas. | 18760 |
| A study of business tax planning is meritorious in light of the recent erosion of state corporate income tax bases and the corresponding search for solutions. | 18770 |
| A consideration of income tax compliance behavior among self-employed individuals is warranted due to the costly distortions that could arise from asymmetric tax compliance patterns across groups. | 18776 |
| Tax planning is defined as a broad set of actions undertaken by firms to reduce their tax liability. | 18784 |
| Results from a fixed effects instrumental variables regression model using a 1985-2001 panel of state-level data provide highly suggestive evidence that tax planning activity significantly diminishes taxable corporate profits in high tax states. | 18790 |
| Results from a fixed effects instrumental variables regression model using a 1985-2001 panel of state-level data provide highly suggestive evidence that tax planning activity significantly diminishes taxable corporate profits in high tax states. | 18792 |
| results indicate that state corporate income tax bases decline by around seven percent following a one-percentage-point increase in top marginal corporate income tax rate, | 18796 |
| a 1989-2001 panel of state-level data is used to examine the influence of state tax policies on entrepreneurial activity. | 18806 |
| experimental methods are used to better understand personal income tax compliance when a portion of an individual's income is relatively difficult to detect upon audit by the tax authority. | 18820 |
| This is motivated by the likelihood that individuals whose income is not reported by a third party, | 18824 |
| an appropriately designed experiment will allow for a better isolation and control of the fundamental influences arising from variations in income matching policy across modes of employment, | 18830 |
| The dissertation develops a macro-micro analytical framework that links a dynamic (recursive) computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with micro data to simultaneously capture and quantify the net impacts (direct and indirect) of trade policy reforms on growth, | 18848 |
| The dissertation develops a macro-micro analytical framework that links a dynamic (recursive) computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with micro data to simultaneously capture and quantify the net impacts (direct and indirect) of trade policy reforms on growth, | 18848 |
| the dissertation employs a cross entropy (CE) technique to construct a 1999/2000 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Egypt with multiple trading partners, | 18854 |
| the dissertation employs a cross entropy (CE) technique to construct a 1999/2000 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Egypt with multiple trading partners, | 18854 |
| a dynamic CGE model, | 18856 |
| The gains are slightly higher when the rest of the world follows a free trade path - all trading partners grant Egypt exports duty-free access to their markets. | 18866 |
| a unilateral trade liberalization path and a free trade path magnify the gains - higher growth and lower poverty rates. | 18868 |
| a unilateral trade liberalization path and a free trade path magnify the gains - higher growth and lower poverty rates. | 18870 |
| a combination of productivity enhancing measures along with a reallocation of government transfers to rural households where poverty is relatively high is a recipe for higher growth and significant reductions in poverty gap between rural and urban households. | 18872 |
| a combination of productivity enhancing measures along with a reallocation of government transfers to rural households where poverty is relatively high is a recipe for higher growth and significant reductions in poverty gap between rural and urban households. | 18874 |
| a combination of productivity enhancing measures along with a reallocation of government transfers to rural households where poverty is relatively high is a recipe for higher growth and significant reductions in poverty gap between rural and urban households. | 18876 |
| The results imply modestly accelerated growth from trade liberalization when the model introduces a mechanism by which trade openness can increase productivity growth. | 18880 |
| Weak shareholder rights reduce these incentives and should be offset by higher equity incentives or a lower level of compensation. | 18894 |
| a higher annual increase in compensation, | 18898 |
| They have a higher accounting performance and a higher firm valuation. | 18910 |
| They have a higher accounting performance and a higher firm valuation. | 18910 |
| an equal-weighted investment strategy that had invested in founder-CEO firms from 1993-2002 would have earned a benchmark-adjusted return of 8. | 18916 |
| A value-weighted investment strategy would have earned an abnormal return of 10. | 18918 |
| after controlling for a wide variety of firm characteristics, | 18920 |
| This study adds to the research on banks engaging in securities underwriting activities by exploring a unique detailed micro data set for securities affiliates operating in the U. | 18932 |
| a small urban community known for shipbuilding and fishing. | 18972 |
| Fuller students come from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds (from public housing facilities to affluent families) and a variety of ethnic groups (including Italian, | 18974 |
| Fuller students come from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds (from public housing facilities to affluent families) and a variety of ethnic groups (including Italian, | 18976 |
| the Fuller School represented an excellent environment to test the use of Multiple Intelligences (MI) as a foundation for its curriculum. | 18980 |
| this result of no differences between programs can be thought of a success for the MI community. | 19000 |
| This case study is unusual because public schools rarely assigned their students randomly to experimental programs through a lottery process. | 19006 |
| provides a much-needed comparison for those interested in implementing it as one component of educational reform. | 19020 |
| The "glass ceiling" is a term that symbolizes a variety of barriers that prevent qualified individuals from advancing higher in their organization. | 19026 |
| The "glass ceiling" is a term that symbolizes a variety of barriers that prevent qualified individuals from advancing higher in their organization. | 19026 |
| an ethnographic study was conducted at a hospital. | 19034 |
| The findings revealed: (a) having opportunities to be participating, | 19042 |
| valued family members and to compete in activities while young helps girls to develop a sense of competence and mastery; ( | 19044 |
| e) the women did have a career plan, | 19050 |
| not in the sense of a linear career plan, | 19050 |
| f) the hospital is a structure which provides opportunities to develop careers; ( | 19052 |
| i) the amount of prejudice a woman encountered depended upon several components; | 19058 |
| The underlying assumption is that this is a new and untested fad in education. | 19072 |
| This is due in part to a lack of documentation within academia of the early development of online distance education, | 19074 |
| to a shortage of experienced, | 19076 |
| one may become confused by the flurry of activity and by the various claims from organizations that they are providing a revolutionary method of instruction--online teaching. | 19078 |
| and the public must be assured that online distance teaching is a valid and proven instructional method. | 19090 |
| Through historical analysis and the presentation of a practicing Internet-based school, | 19092 |
| The author concludes that: (1) online distance education has a proven track record; ( | 19106 |
| as well as a public demand for traditional institutions to accept this nontraditional method of study; | 19108 |
| Men Against Violence is a peer advocacy organization at a large, | 19120 |
| Men Against Violence is a peer advocacy organization at a large, | 19122 |
| Through participation in a wide array of service learning, | 19124 |
| Utilizing a sociological, | 19132 |
| this dissertation is a case study of the organization Men Against Violence. | 19134 |
| It examines the ways in which a close-knit association of men generated and sustained an organizational culture that encourages and rewards non- violence among its members, | 19136 |
| Primary research questions were: (1) What are the characteristics of an organizational culture of non-violence that is created and maintained among a close-knit group of male college students? | 19146 |
| Chapter 4 provides a historical narrative of the founding and development of MAV; | 19150 |
| Adventure-based training has become an effective medium for delivering experiential training programs within a variety of disciplines such as; | 19160 |
| A control group from a rival interstate team made up the control group (n=12). | 19182 |
| A control group from a rival interstate team made up the control group (n=12). | 19184 |
| The GEQ was derived from a conceptual model that considers cohesion to be a multidimensional construct that includes task and social aspects, | 19188 |
| The GEQ was derived from a conceptual model that considers cohesion to be a multidimensional construct that includes task and social aspects, | 19188 |
| each of which reflects both an individual and a group orientation. | 19190 |
| Using a quasi-experimental design, | 19196 |
| a series of 3 (group) X 4 (time) repeated-measures analyses were conducted, | 19204 |
| Further testing was conducted using a series of analysis of variance tests to assess differences in groups at each time-period within each sub-scale. | 19206 |
| focus group and one on one phenomenological interviews were triangulated against observational and statistical data to help build a picture of the athletes experience. | 19220 |
| A phenomenological approach to qualitative data collection was followed based on the work by Dale (1996). | 19226 |
| is a critical question often overlooked by researchers. | 19228 |
| It employs movement as the primary vehicle for a wide range of personal explorations, | 19248 |
| using the Elements both as a framework and as a set of symbolic tools. | 19248 |
| using the Elements both as a framework and as a set of symbolic tools. | 19248 |
| The first two sections offer a review of the literature on Elemental, | 19250 |
| The third section outlines a basic conceptual framework, | 19252 |
| this book is also designed as a handbook for its practice. | 19256 |
| It describes and offers a creative synthesis of the experiences of seven co-researchers who participated in and evaluated an Elemental Movement workshop. | 19262 |
| This dissertation is an interpretive case study that examines alcohol use by a specific subculture of undergraduates, | 19264 |
| a college fraternity. | 19266 |
| this study takes a detailed look at the organization's indoctrination process and the ways that their practices are explained by its most astute observers, | 19268 |
| The multiple purposes of this research were to offer a thick description of college student drinking practices, | 19274 |
| This work focused on the way that a social fraternity communicates to its newest members the ways of the world with respect to alcohol consumption and its concomitant attitudes, | 19278 |
| A theoretical model of organizations as addictive systems is refined in this study and used as a basis for understanding the organizational dynamics. | 19282 |
| A theoretical model of organizations as addictive systems is refined in this study and used as a basis for understanding the organizational dynamics. | 19284 |
| a small village in Ecuador's predominantly-black Chota Valley, | 19290 |
| to begin a six-month teaching assignment at the Escuela "Hernando T quez" (the local primary school). | 19292 |
| the various shortcomings attributed to the school (and documented as a case study in chapters three and four of this book) are so glaring that the author was led to question how such a dysfunctional school could be allowed to exist in a country where the government states that "to improve education is to improve the quality of life of Ecuador's people." | 19300 |
| the various shortcomings attributed to the school (and documented as a case study in chapters three and four of this book) are so glaring that the author was led to question how such a dysfunctional school could be allowed to exist in a country where the government states that "to improve education is to improve the quality of life of Ecuador's people." | 19302 |
| the various shortcomings attributed to the school (and documented as a case study in chapters three and four of this book) are so glaring that the author was led to question how such a dysfunctional school could be allowed to exist in a country where the government states that "to improve education is to improve the quality of life of Ecuador's people." | 19304 |
| the author (in chapter five) asks whether there might be a hidden agenda regarding the state's role in public education. | 19320 |
| Proposing a new understanding of development based on humanist ideals, | 19332 |
| selected events in the history of a public special education school and its school culture. | 19340 |
| This is a story of one special education school's founding, | 19354 |
| The story presents a saga of success and survival as the school faced a new social construction of schooling called the "inclusive schools movement." | 19358 |
| The story presents a saga of success and survival as the school faced a new social construction of schooling called the "inclusive schools movement." | 19360 |
| This study provides a number of stories which serve as evidence of how the continuum of services for students with disabilities continues to work as inclusion efforts in some public schools often go awry. | 19368 |
| and (3) the school as a model day school in special education's continuum or Cascade of Services. | 19376 |
| Study results offer a collection of stories from one educational setting over two decades. | 19382 |
| Discussion of these stories is followed by study conclusions that provide support for special education schools and a continuum of service and placement options for students in need of special settings with appropriate curricular content and instruction. | 19386 |
| It is a unique story of a special education school and its history over 20 years between 1975 and 1995. | 19388 |
| It is a unique story of a special education school and its history over 20 years between 1975 and 1995. | 19388 |
| Students come to school with a wide variety of experiences and economic backgrounds. | 19392 |
| Middle school is a time of many changes for students. | 19394 |
| in the middle school general music program would have a positive effect on the motivation, | 19406 |
| a study was conducted in which at-risk learners received instruction delivered through a higher concentration of technology. | 19408 |
| a study was conducted in which at-risk learners received instruction delivered through a higher concentration of technology. | 19408 |
| Students completed a pretest and a posttest consisting of the Motivation Achievement Profile, | 19410 |
| Students completed a pretest and a posttest consisting of the Motivation Achievement Profile, | 19410 |
| The experimental group received music instruction through a higher concentration of technology while the comparison group participated in an equally desirable music program. | 19414 |
| in which the posttest mean of the experimental group was compared with the posttest mean of the comparison group with the pretest scores used as a covariate. | 19428 |
| there was a remarkable degree of consistency for the experimental group. | 19428 |
| consistency was seen with the experimental group scoring higher on 18 of the 22 measures indicating that perhaps if there had been more students a significant effect might have been seen. | 19434 |
| There is an implication that a positive, | 19436 |
| Amerasians are persons of American and Asian ethnic heritage who have appeared as a group mainly in the past forty years. | 19438 |
| How Amerasians attempted to resolve these issues and concerns was a major focus of the thesis. | 19450 |
| This study is a critical ethnography of Cameroonian secondary school teachers, | 19470 |
| As Cameroon is a recently- independent, | 19474 |
| a further focus is an analysis of continuing Western influence on Cameroonian teachers' perspectives, | 19476 |
| This study seeks to make sense of and provide insight into a group of Cameroonian educators' processes of educating in a non- Western setting from an inherited, | 19480 |
| This study seeks to make sense of and provide insight into a group of Cameroonian educators' processes of educating in a non- Western setting from an inherited, | 19480 |
| Coming from a primarily Freirean critical perspective, | 19484 |
| a secondary data source includes surveys conducted with non-mathematics teachers. | 19492 |
| participants generally value Western influence as a means for more rapid development. | 19500 |
| many teachers also express a value for increased access to vocational/technical education. | 19502 |
| This is a comparative study of pedagogy in the various educational settings in which Buddhism is taught to lay persons in modern Burma: formal and non-formal, | 19506 |
| Central to the meditation monks' pedagogy is the instilling of a conscience of the Buddha, | 19520 |
| the ability of a people to remember and be moved by ethics as embodied in the Buddha (Obeyesekere 1991). | 19520 |
| a conscience of the Buddha entails faith in his perfections and a willingness to develop one's own ability to judge right from wrong. | 19530 |
| a conscience of the Buddha entails faith in his perfections and a willingness to develop one's own ability to judge right from wrong. | 19532 |
| the meditation monk teachers help to prevent notions of the Buddha's greatness from becoming a mere nationalist symbol or propaganda tool of the state. | 19546 |
| including a week at the Rural Alaska Honors Institute. | 19558 |
| this dissertation reveals the powerful movement through which Native Alaskan Elders have created a healing space for youth to link livelihoods back to the land, | 19576 |
| The Alliance High School is a boys' boarding school in Kenya so prestigious that a president of the nation claimed that he could have been among its graduates. | 19582 |
| The Alliance High School is a boys' boarding school in Kenya so prestigious that a president of the nation claimed that he could have been among its graduates. | 19582 |
| Founded by a group of Protestant missionary organizations in 1926, | 19584 |
| Alliance's publicly known history is a string of firsts, | 19590 |
| This dissertation is an attempt to describe and to locate historically and culturally an institution that is both the unique product of extraordinary people and circumstances and a window on broader issues - of schooling and society and of enduring oppositions. | 19600 |
| This dissertation describes the results of a fourteen-month ethnographic study of Mexican-origin teenagers now living in Lexington, | 19612 |
| A random sample of 35 students was taken from a population of over 180 students who had enrolled in the Introduction to African American Studies course during the past six semesters. | 19656 |
| A random sample of 35 students was taken from a population of over 180 students who had enrolled in the Introduction to African American Studies course during the past six semesters. | 19656 |
| These students were given a survey instrument that investigated their personal experiences in African American Studies courses. | 19660 |
| we should conduct more research that focuses on the attitudes and perceptions of students as a way to evaluate our teaching practices in African American Studies on other fields of study. | 19694 |
| while other studies indicate intercollegiate athletics are either a positive or negative influence on institutional giving. | 19708 |
| These results were used to establish a framework for further investigation into the complex interaction between athletics and private giving. | 19742 |
| Online distance education provides students with a wealth of information. | 19744 |
| A student's particular learning style is not taken into consideration. | 19748 |
| a visually oriented student may benefit more than others from viewing videos and interacting with simulations. | 19750 |
| We address this problem by designing and developing a knowledge-based system for the initial assessment of students' learning styles. | 19752 |
| Each student's membership in a learning style dimension (e. | 19754 |
| We reach this probability value by using a sequential Bayesian approach to administer a dynamic questionnaire that aims to attain a desired confidence level estimate with the minimal number of questions. | 19758 |
| We reach this probability value by using a sequential Bayesian approach to administer a dynamic questionnaire that aims to attain a desired confidence level estimate with the minimal number of questions. | 19758 |
| We reach this probability value by using a sequential Bayesian approach to administer a dynamic questionnaire that aims to attain a desired confidence level estimate with the minimal number of questions. | 19760 |
| A multi-agent online tutoring system uses this initial learning style model to start suggesting learning material matching the student's style. | 19760 |
| Each agent is an expert in a learning style dimension and can suggest the learning materials matching the student's style. | 19764 |
| the multi-agent system delivers the search matches in a cycle-free preference order influenced by the students' multi-dimensional learning style model. | 19770 |
| ProgrammingLand is a computer-based system for strengthening instruction in Computer Science. | 19778 |
| It may be used as a stand- alone basis for online distance education or as a supplement for a classroom course in the early programming classes. | 19780 |
| It may be used as a stand- alone basis for online distance education or as a supplement for a classroom course in the early programming classes. | 19782 |
| It may be used as a stand- alone basis for online distance education or as a supplement for a classroom course in the early programming classes. | 19782 |
| It is structured in the paradigm of a museum with exhibits connected by paths. | 19784 |
| The system contains content material similar to a textbook. | 19786 |
| each exhibit contains a small amount of material that the students may browse in many different orders of their choice. | 19786 |
| ProgrammingLand records the visited exhibits and provides a variety of interactive objects that enhance the learning experience. | 19790 |
| The structure of the MOO is based upon the notion of a lesson. | 19792 |
| A lesson may have prerequisites, | 19792 |
| exercises to perform and a concluding assignment. | 19794 |
| The completion of certain lessons may prompt an agent to visit the student and give an assignment that requires the completion of a program or some other activity. | 19800 |
| A course may be flexibly superimposed upon the lesson structure of ProgrammingLand. | 19802 |
| This system has been used as an online distance education mechanism for a small number of students. | 19812 |
| It also has been used as a textbook substitute in several introductory programming classes. | 19812 |
| An experiment was conducted which compared the results of one of these classes with comparable classes from three other institutions that grant a Baccalaureate degree. | 19818 |
| This experiment indicates that substitution of ProgrammingLand for a textbook had no deleterious effect on the students, | 19818 |
| while offering a number of advantages not available to either text-based or web-based methods. | 19820 |
| The use of satellite remote sensing for modeling net primary production (NPP) was evaluated in sixty boreal forest stands spanning a range of site conditions. | 19824 |
| particularly through analyses of respiratory carbon costs in relation to assimilation gains (the R:A ratio), ( | 19832 |
| the R:A ratio and assimilation per unit APAR (Eg). | 19834 |
| The analyses showed that observed variability in "En" reflects a decoupling of PAR harvesting and utilization, | 19836 |
| primarily as a result of differences in the R:A ratio. | 19838 |
| primarily as a result of differences in the R:A ratio. | 19838 |
| the R:A ratio and standing above-ground biomass were related to differences the carbon (energy) costs associated with synthesis and maintenance of plant constituents, | 19840 |
| Estimating the R:A ratio from above- ground biomass, | 19844 |
| was found to be problematic owing primarily to covariation of R and A with the amount of respiring biomass (i. | 19848 |
| The aim of this thesis is to undertake a comprehensive dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of 35 sites (44 log structures) in Jasper, | 19864 |
| and (3) a detailed dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of three structure case studies. | 19874 |
| I explore Walden as a place of pilgrimage. | 19882 |
| a place associated with Henry David Thoreau, | 19884 |
| a 19th century icon of American environmentalism. | 19884 |
| The site of his simple dwelling (and the focus of his book by the same name) is now a state park and national landmark that receives over half a million recreational users and tourists each year, | 19888 |
| The site of his simple dwelling (and the focus of his book by the same name) is now a state park and national landmark that receives over half a million recreational users and tourists each year, | 19888 |
| in addition to visitors with a particular interest in Thoreau's life and writing. | 19890 |
| using phenomenological methods to explore the poetics of pilgrimage and a hermeneutic reading of the landscape to interpret Walden's sacred space. | 19894 |
| In-depth interviews of ten Walden pilgrims provided the basis for a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to eliciting themes of pilgrim movement and connection. | 19896 |
| I approached the politics of place through a critical hermeneutic reading of the historic and contemporary landscape. | 19902 |
| By drawing on both a hermeneutics of suspicion to explore the production of space, | 19912 |
| and a hermeneutics of recollection to recover the phenomenal experience of pilgrimage, | 19914 |
| we move beyond the mystical naiveté of a purely poetic perspective and the nihilism associated with a solely political approach to understanding sacred space. | 19916 |
| we move beyond the mystical naiveté of a purely poetic perspective and the nihilism associated with a solely political approach to understanding sacred space. | 19918 |
| Recent work in economic geography suggests a link between performance of firms and their location relative to other firms in the same industry. | 19922 |
| the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) framework developed by the World Bank as a means of assessing the distributional impacts of policy reform on vulnerable populations in developing nations is applied to a critical case in the United States - Tunica County, | 19952 |
| the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) framework developed by the World Bank as a means of assessing the distributional impacts of policy reform on vulnerable populations in developing nations is applied to a critical case in the United States - Tunica County, | 19954 |
| This is accomplished by using a realist methodology to amass conclusive evidence to argue that despite the success of the casino industry in Tunica County, | 19962 |
| Communication is frequently identified in the literature as a major factor impacting Information Technology (IT) project failure. | 19968 |
| A multi-method approach is used with a quantitative analysis of a worldwide survey with 200 responses, | 19980 |
| A multi-method approach is used with a quantitative analysis of a worldwide survey with 200 responses, | 19982 |
| A multi-method approach is used with a quantitative analysis of a worldwide survey with 200 responses, | 19982 |
| followed by a qualitative analysis of three interviews with pairs of project sponsor and manager, | 19982 |
| A model shows the development from frequent informal communication to formal communication between project managers and sponsors. | 19986 |
| A second model shows how communication in high performing projects is determined by the level of collaboration between project managers and sponsors, | 19988 |
| A series of recommendations is provided to improve project sponsor - manager communication. | 19994 |
| with video developing as a technology of images and audio as one of signals. | 20000 |
| This is a semantic issue. | 20000 |
| Current research in multimedia on semantic content-based models has adopted a structure-oriented approach, | 20002 |
| where video and audio content is described on a frame-by-frame or segment-by-segment basis (where a segment is an arbitrary set of contiguous frames). | 20002 |
| where video and audio content is described on a frame-by-frame or segment-by-segment basis (where a segment is an arbitrary set of contiguous frames). | 20004 |
| This thesis develops a full-scale semantic content-based model that caters for the above seven semantic aspects of video and audio. | 20014 |
| instead of a structure-oriented one, | 20018 |
| A method for developing an interactive MMIS that encompasses the model is also described. | 20020 |
| The use of mobile computing technologies in foreign exchange trading represents a mode of remote working in a highly dynamic and fluid environment. | 20052 |
| The use of mobile computing technologies in foreign exchange trading represents a mode of remote working in a highly dynamic and fluid environment. | 20054 |
| I have undertaken empirical case study research at a large banking organisation in the Middle-East. | 20058 |
| I have adopted Weick’s theory of ‘organising as sensemaking’ which offers a conceptual framework that consists of ecological change and three sensemaking processes (i. | 20058 |
| Although evolutionary prototyping has been proposed before as a solution, | 20080 |
| This thesis assesses the evolutionary development approach and on the basis of the findings of an exploratory case study conducted in a large car manufacturer company, | 20084 |
| proposes a new perspective in this approach. | 20084 |
| The cornerstone of the proposed persective is a semantic analysis technique which complements evolutionary prototyping. | 20088 |
| The perspective builds on three cycles of planned change model: a vision cycle providing easy access to design knowledge, | 20090 |
| and a fusion cycle institutionalising design understanding. | 20094 |
| An explanatory empirical study conducted in a management consultancy, | 20096 |
| provides a first step towards a subjective validation of the proposed approach. | 20096 |
| provides a first step towards a subjective validation of the proposed approach. | 20096 |
| A conceptual training process is suggested as a means of partnership between designer and user. | 20098 |
| A conceptual training process is suggested as a means of partnership between designer and user. | 20098 |
| This process provides a way for both user and designer to find a common designation for the terms they share in their communication, | 20100 |
| This process provides a way for both user and designer to find a common designation for the terms they share in their communication, | 20100 |
| and to build a shared meaning and interpretation of actions in the workplace. | 20102 |
| The need to take a wider view of IT use has become important due to the ease with which IT and associated management practices now pervade countries. | 20110 |
| are becoming increasingly universal as a result of the globalisation process. | 20114 |
| The Nigerian economy was deregulated towards the end of the 1980s and different sectors of the economy - including banking - were liberalised with a view to promoting competition and efficiency. | 20118 |
| This understanding is achieved in the thesis by incorporating ideas from both resource-based theory and new institutional theory within a contextualist framework, | 20130 |
| With the expanding use of the Internet information systems security has become a more important issue than ever. | 20150 |
| My argument is that information security is less important when individuals deal with a trustworthy and credible institution. | 20160 |
| Based on these models I developed and further modified a trust analysis framework. | 20162 |
| This framework is used as a theoretical base for the collection and analysis of data of both the case study and the survey. | 20164 |
| A survey with the bank 's customers is conducted to obtain complimentary empirical evidence to understand better how trust and credibility relate to information systems security. | 20174 |
| A role oriented classification of evaluation studies is proposed and mapped onto the extended system life cycle. | 20184 |
| A pluralistic research method combining a case study and a field survey made up of a questionnaire and interviews is used to provide the necessary data. | 20190 |
| A pluralistic research method combining a case study and a field survey made up of a questionnaire and interviews is used to provide the necessary data. | 20190 |
| A pluralistic research method combining a case study and a field survey made up of a questionnaire and interviews is used to provide the necessary data. | 20190 |
| A pluralistic research method combining a case study and a field survey made up of a questionnaire and interviews is used to provide the necessary data. | 20190 |
| The results show that evaluation can bring a range of benefits across the extended life cycle, | 20192 |
| This thesis examined the relationship between formal systems and informal norms in internal control systems in a global bank. | 20200 |
| A broad range of literature has been reviewed and it was found that little research in information systems security had previously focused on the internal control systems. | 20210 |
| this research presents a new area in information systems security study. | 20212 |
| This research aimed to provide a qualitative approach to increase an understanding of the relationship between formal and informal systems. | 20216 |
| More focus was placed on the study of people who played a significant role in the control systems. | 20218 |
| the interpretive case study of a global bank in two branches was conducted. | 20220 |
| In order to study and analyse such a complicated socio-economic phenomenon an interpretive epistemology was adopted. | 20242 |
| The research method followed is a multiple case study analysis. | 20248 |
| One case study was conducted in Emilia-Romagna and provides a point for reference for the cases of flexible specialisation in Cyprus, | 20250 |
| The case study in Cyprus was conducted over a period of three years, | 20252 |
| large companies not only have to tackle a new technology that could permeate throughout the entire organization, | 20270 |
| a new channel for marketing and sales, | 20274 |
| and a heightened service expectation from consumers. | 20276 |
| In order to capture a more comprehensive and dynamic understanding of how organizations undergo change, | 20290 |
| As a methodology, | 20300 |
| a case study represents the pre-eminent means of understanding the "how" and "why" of a phenomenon. | 20300 |
| a case study represents the pre-eminent means of understanding the "how" and "why" of a phenomenon. | 20302 |
| and termination of a special purpose e-business staff unit at the European corporate headquarters of an American Auto Manufacturer (from June 2000 to December 2002). | 20304 |
| to create and integrate a local practice of e-business. | 20310 |
| on a more prescriptive/strategic level, | 20312 |
| it suggests ways in which top executives can design and improvise interventions and provides lessons for established organizations in implementing a new technology that could have very pervasive effects throughout the entire organization. | 20316 |
| A major focus of contemporary IS research is the emergent nature of organisational use of information technologies: its contextual, | 20318 |
| Most studies have approached this topic from the viewpoint of emergence in IT based practices as a process, | 20322 |
| the investigation of emergence as a property has been neglected. | 20324 |
| this research presents a new framework of interpretive systems thinking for performing such analysis. | 20328 |
| This framework permits a researcher or organisational analyst to form an understanding of emergent phenomena in IT based operations as constituted by the interaction of various elements or factors in relations of contrariety, | 20330 |
| or form a persistent pattern in its functioning. | 20336 |
| property-focussed account of emergence in IT based operations provides a different but complementary emphasis to the micro agency-centred model of emergence that has dominated recent IS studies. | 20348 |
| implement and evaluate a Case-Based Learning and Reasoning (CB-LR) model to assist accountants in identifying Top Management Fraud (TMF). | 20352 |
| and highlights a need for new computer-based learning and reasoning paradigms in this domain. | 20360 |
| a Top Management Fraud diagnostic application, | 20370 |
| has been designed with a specific methodology derived from Schank and Riesbeck's principles. | 20370 |
| INCASE works on the basis of the interviewees' concerns so that it can act as a `stimulus agent' for decision support. | 20374 |
| The intention is for auditors to use it proactively in a conversational mode, | 20376 |
| Since there is no agreed and established method for evaluating a case-based tool, | 20382 |
| a new approach is discussed including verification (where the focus is on response accuracy of information retrieval) and validation (where user judgement and satisfaction are key issues). | 20382 |
| Findings from the evaluation of the TMF diagnostic system suggest that case-based learning and reasoning has a valuable part to play in assisting auditing profession in the detection of fraud. | 20388 |
| over a period of 18 months. | 20398 |
| It is argued that only by understanding education as a collective endeavour, | 20428 |
| The management of adverse events within organisations has become a pressing issue as the perceptions of risk continue to heighten. | 20432 |
| design and management of computer based information systems in two large organisations - a British National Health Service Hospital Trust and a Borough Council. | 20442 |
| design and management of computer based information systems in two large organisations - a British National Health Service Hospital Trust and a Borough Council. | 20442 |
| As a result, | 20454 |
| In such an environment there is a strong likelihood that security measures may either be ignored or are inappropriate to the real needs of an organisation. | 20456 |
| The research findings deny both the technology and social deterministic perspectives and argue that the technology effect is a result of negotiation between the technology and society. | 20482 |
| The findings also argue that implementing a large, | 20482 |
| By focusing on a structured technology, | 20490 |
| This novel application of ANT as a theoretical framework and analytical vehicle provides an alternative way of analysing the role of technology in organisations. | 20496 |
| This could provide a solution to one of the main difficulties of IS research, | 20502 |
| which makes them the main focus for an administrative history of communication and a history of the administration of communication. | 20522 |
| yet education is always given a prominent role. | 20530 |
| The findings indicate that for a variety of reasons, | 20536 |
| These characteristics of higher ICT education in India are impacted by a process that can be described as institutional collaboration – several diverse institutional forces are acting in ways that are coherent and mutually reinforcing. | 20540 |
| characterised by a looming conflict between Old and New Barbarians. | 20550 |
| The research question "How can financial institutions manage customers’ personal information policies in a virtual banking context over time? | 20552 |
| It explores the nature of a personal information policy, | 20554 |
| The research approaches the research problem from a new perspective and helps map the direction of ongoing privacy research. | 20558 |
| when seen from such a knowledge creation perspective, | 20564 |
| situated case study of the maintenance division of a major Greek petrochemical refinery. | 20572 |
| This use of a process view of knowledge creation helps explain a wide variety of complex and situated interrelations that demonstrate the existence of different modes of knowledge creation. | 20590 |
| This use of a process view of knowledge creation helps explain a wide variety of complex and situated interrelations that demonstrate the existence of different modes of knowledge creation. | 20590 |
| The core theoretical contribution of the research concerns the provision of a process view of knowledge creation. | 20594 |
| Other theoretical implications of the research findings relate to insights on the complex nature of the knowledge creation process within a work environment, | 20598 |
| Capabilities develop through a prescient understanding of the environment, | 20626 |
| This research seeks to explicate the concept of information systems capability by drawing on examples from a developing country context. | 20634 |
| A framework for IS capability building is proposed. | 20638 |
| The thesis starts with a review of the relevant literature from a variety of social science disciplines including information systems, | 20644 |
| The thesis starts with a review of the relevant literature from a variety of social science disciplines including information systems, | 20644 |
| This allows the identification of prominent research themes that are used to build a research framework for empirical work. | 20646 |
| with a particular attention to the issues of negotiation and intergenerational or gendered conflict. | 20652 |
| The empirical work consists of a series of in- depth interviews with families, | 20654 |
| and investigates the implications of conflicting perspectives on the role and status of the computer within a same family. | 20662 |
| Orlikowski’s Practice Lens is extended and applied to a contextualist longitudinal case study involving the use of learning technology in an academic setting over a period of three years. | 20684 |
| Orlikowski’s Practice Lens is extended and applied to a contextualist longitudinal case study involving the use of learning technology in an academic setting over a period of three years. | 20686 |
| the practice of academic learning is gradually reshaped and enhanced through a process of mutual configuration, | 20696 |
| The thesis makes a theoretical contribution by extending the structurational model of the Practice Lens, | 20696 |
| Banking as we know it today is governed by a capitalist philosophy. | 20710 |
| However the last two decades have witnessed a significant growth of a banking practice i. | 20710 |
| However the last two decades have witnessed a significant growth of a banking practice i. | 20710 |
| I studied the existing practice of Islamic banking b primarily borrowing concepts from the work of Berger and Luckman’s (1996) ‘social construction pf reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge’. | 20722 |
| there is a continuing need for state policy to play the role of a nurturer of high technology industries in many countries. | 20744 |
| there is a continuing need for state policy to play the role of a nurturer of high technology industries in many countries. | 20746 |
| India’s IT industry has experienced a variety of policy interventions, | 20756 |
| thus providing a rich area for research. | 20758 |
| they provide a pathway to continuous technological upgrading, | 20768 |
| This thesis argues that liberalisation implies a continuing link between government and industry, | 20772 |
| The state has a continuing role to play in fostering the IT industry and creating the conditions for international competitiveness, | 20776 |
| the industry’s future can be better secured by a renewed policy emphasis on developing the domestic industry and market, | 20782 |
| accompanied by a push for IT consumption as against mere production and export. | 20784 |
| where their purpose is to provide system users with the underlying reasons for why the system reaches a particular conclusion or makes a particular recommendation. | 20810 |
| where their purpose is to provide system users with the underlying reasons for why the system reaches a particular conclusion or makes a particular recommendation. | 20810 |
| Theory of explanation is a field of study in which philosophers attempt to describe the unique nature of explanation and to identify criteria for explanation evaluation. | 20814 |
| The design rationale approach goes beyond specification and suggests that to understand a system requires knowledge of the arguments that led to its realisation. | 20824 |
| This study proposes a model of IS explanation structure and content derived from formal theories of explanation with a method for obtaining this content based on design rationale. | 20824 |
| This study proposes a model of IS explanation structure and content derived from formal theories of explanation with a method for obtaining this content based on design rationale. | 20826 |
| The study has four goals: to derive a theory of explanation specific to the domain of information systems; | 20828 |
| to examine this definition empirically through a study involving IS development and management professionals; | 20828 |
| to investigate in a case study whether the information needed to populate the explanation model can be captured using design rationale techniques; | 20830 |
| The research aims to understand policy discourse as a contest of principles involving various government actors advocating multiple regulatory mechanisms to maintain their surveillance capabilities, | 20848 |
| As a result, | 20858 |
| By capturing the interpretations and articulations of social and technological actors we may attain a better understanding of the regulatory landscape for information and communications technologies. | 20862 |
| This research is interested in collaborative learning through computer conferencing in a context of distance education. | 20868 |
| interaction analysis is used to investigate the interpersonal dimension of a collaborative learning group’s interaction over a period of time. | 20880 |
| interaction analysis is used to investigate the interpersonal dimension of a collaborative learning group’s interaction over a period of time. | 20880 |
| this research will provide a greater understanding of the learning process evolved through computer conferencing. | 20884 |
| Based on the idea that sense-making is a crucial aspect of all social systems, | 20894 |
| that is a set of two contingent responses between or among perceived others, | 20896 |
| as its unit of analysis to cast a new light on the coordination processes within exploration-oriented open source projects in general and the Linux kernel development in particular. | 20898 |
| developers coordinate their networked interdependencies through the additive use of a wide set of mechanisms ranging from standardised patch submission procedures and bug reporting routines to planned social filters and localised adjustments. | 20906 |
| It is further maintained that these mechanisms fall within a broader set of collective assumptions, | 20910 |
| it is claimed that the focus on social epistemology is a fruitful area for future research on coordination processes within virtual work environments because it accounts for the patterned and predictable reproduction of social interactions over time. | 20914 |
| This dissertation offers a phenomenological approach to the comprehension of Information Technology (IT) and Strategy, | 20918 |
| An essential uncovering of that which IT and Strategy are can only take place as long as we lay bare a primary position on the nature of that which is. | 20930 |
| to a lesser extent, | 20932 |
| However we extend the Husserlian formulation in a last phase by using the arguments of Heidegger on the opening up of possible concealed meanings of phenomena. | 20946 |
| has been unfolding throughout History guided by the concealed meaning of a striving for an authentic identity. | 20956 |
| These essential notions uncover a complex set of relationships between the two phenomena. | 20958 |
| a leading Turkish bakery equipment manufacturer, | 20988 |
| The result is a multiplicity of different and in some cases contradictory ‘knowledge-based’ approaches. | 20992 |
| This project can be seen as part of such a programme, | 21004 |
| applying naturalistic epistemology to the field of development and technology as the basis of a more grounded and general theory with a range of empirical applications. | 21006 |
| applying naturalistic epistemology to the field of development and technology as the basis of a more grounded and general theory with a range of empirical applications. | 21008 |
| It begins with a discussion of the philosophical position, | 21008 |
| leading to the articulation of a generic theory of ‘knowledge capability’. | 21014 |
| The second half of the project applies the general theory to a case study of Internet use among AIDS NGOs in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, | 21016 |
| existing capabilities and wider environmental factors in determining the degree to which technology can in this case be considered a knowledge tool. | 21026 |
| mobility is a significantly pervasive term; | 21028 |
| This thesis aims to offer a theoretical foundation for the concept of mobility, | 21032 |
| maintaining a highly level of ‘mobility’ is becoming critical for contemporary workers, | 21040 |
| the thesis discusses a distinct mode of mobility in mobile professional work. | 21052 |
| The main argument is that banks are a type of technological institution having the potential to promote innovation, | 21066 |
| In a survey of innovation in the banking industry, | 21076 |
| there remained a moderate level of innovative capabilities among the banks studied. | 21082 |
| the role of the central bank in creating a conducive environment for innovation is also important, | 21088 |
| have come to play a progressive part in promoting technological innovation in banking. | 21094 |
| have influenced the set-up of a national innovation system in banking, | 21100 |
| This thesis explores a number of interrelated factors that influence the development of telehealth. | 21102 |
| The study is based on a fundamental claim that technology does not follow a pre- determinate path but is shaped by people, | 21112 |
| The study is based on a fundamental claim that technology does not follow a pre- determinate path but is shaped by people, | 21112 |
| This research takes into consideration a number of such defining structures, | 21116 |
| Insights into these concepts and their practical manifestations are explored through a case studies, | 21130 |
| which investigates a variety of telehealth projects and initiatives in London Borough of Lewisham. | 21132 |
| offering a new approach and focus that is not substantially found in other telehealth studies. | 21134 |
| In this the thesis makes a contribution to the ongoing debates about telehealth's potential as a means of organizational reform and the means and methods used in its evaluation. | 21136 |
| In this the thesis makes a contribution to the ongoing debates about telehealth's potential as a means of organizational reform and the means and methods used in its evaluation. | 21138 |
| This journey witnessed: a historically dominant model of managing the IT function breakdown, | 21150 |
| and the process that gave rise to a fundamentally different organizational arrangement. | 21154 |
| This process was captured through a longitudinal case study lasting several years. | 21156 |
| a review of the subset of literature related to the transformation of the IT function takes a predominately one-sided perspective that relies on what Orlikowski calls ‘planned change’ models. | 21162 |
| a review of the subset of literature related to the transformation of the IT function takes a predominately one-sided perspective that relies on what Orlikowski calls ‘planned change’ models. | 21164 |
| This perspective suggests that IT governance arrangements within some organizations possess a deeply ingrained, | 21178 |
| We submit that a neo-institutional approach provides us with a well-established body of knowledge that allows us to conceptualize the IT function, | 21180 |
| We submit that a neo-institutional approach provides us with a well-established body of knowledge that allows us to conceptualize the IT function, | 21180 |
| in a more meaningful, | 21180 |
| where a substantial literature has emerged describing and analysing the unpredicted outcomes of such projects. | 21216 |
| The research is based on a model of systems adoption as a continuous process, | 21220 |
| The research is based on a model of systems adoption as a continuous process, | 21220 |
| The analysis of the early stages of a project can be significant in explaining subsequent levels and degrees of system use. | 21222 |
| It is argued that in order to provide a more complete description of the adoption process one needs to go back to the origins of a project and to examine the choices and decisions made during that period. | 21224 |
| It is argued that in order to provide a more complete description of the adoption process one needs to go back to the origins of a project and to examine the choices and decisions made during that period. | 21226 |
| The thesis presents a detailed review of CSCW and related literature, | 21232 |
| The thesis then develops a research framework to explore initiation, | 21236 |
| based on a synthesis of the contextualist approach with a cognitive model based on Orlikowski's notion of technological frames. | 21236 |
| based on a synthesis of the contextualist approach with a cognitive model based on Orlikowski's notion of technological frames. | 21238 |
| These studies produce an account of initiation activity that offers a particular emphasis on how time plays multiple roles in the process, | 21244 |
| Terrorism was once a topic limited to certain sectors of the world, | 21256 |
| A growing number of countries must take measures to protect citizens and visitors from the threat of terrorism. | 21260 |
| It has become evident in recent years that terrorism is no longer a localized event, | 21264 |
| It has also become obvious that terrorism requires a global solution as well. | 21264 |
| The findings of this report support the thesis that terrorist groups indeed are cooperating for the purposes of a common cause. | 21280 |
| Better communications technology has played a significant role in the formation of these groups and the abilities of these groups to conduct coordinated acts of terrorism against multiple nations. | 21284 |
| Although the term "New World Order" has been a buzzword since the Bush era, | 21292 |
| As few things have only a single cause, | 21318 |
| and by a substantive incident or reality such as the ever increasing number and sophistication of nuclear weaponry. | 21320 |
| such as the move towards deployment of a potentially destabilizing ABM system by both the USA and USSR. | 21324 |
| and to a lesser extent, | 21330 |
| the MIRV would turn out to be a major arms control problem: far greater than the hotly contested ABM system which spurred so many debates. | 21332 |
| There is of course a fluke of history which brought this all to light. | 21360 |
| Using case studies from two areas of Ethiopia and one area of Eritrea the dissertation demonstrates the role of political factors such as interest group preference and state intervention in directing property rights development away from a linear path. | 21378 |
| changes in property rights followed a change in the relative price of land, | 21384 |
| by the intervention of the government or interest groups in guiding property rights in a particular direction. | 21388 |
| leading to a drag on economic efficiency in the overall economy of the region. | 21398 |
| the incorporation of political factors into the model of changing property rights leads to a less parsimonious, | 21402 |
| This thesis provides a detailed analysis of UK Aid policy over the period 1974-90. | 21406 |
| This theme permitted a comparison to be made between the records of the Labour administration of 1974-79 and the Conservative administration of 1979-90. | 21410 |
| A quantitative comparison is made of the two aid programmes. | 21412 |
| The results of this investigation indicate that official aid during the period under scrutiny was characterised by a continuity dictated by the exigencies of the export lobby, | 21428 |
| A quantitative increase in aid was negotiated in return for the introduction of the Aid for Trade Provision. | 21432 |
| resulting in a shift away from the poorest countries and the sectors most critical to the poorest. | 21434 |
| A sectoral analysis of British aid reveals a heavy bias towards cash crops and a lack of emphasis on sub-sectors critical to basic needs and human development. | 21444 |
| A sectoral analysis of British aid reveals a heavy bias towards cash crops and a lack of emphasis on sub-sectors critical to basic needs and human development. | 21444 |
| A sectoral analysis of British aid reveals a heavy bias towards cash crops and a lack of emphasis on sub-sectors critical to basic needs and human development. | 21444 |
| Very few projects can be said to be relevant to women in a conscious, | 21448 |
| gender-conscious or environmentally-sensitive projects are unlikely to ever account for more than a tiny fraction of the aid budget. | 21452 |
| It is argued that the conditionality attached to an increasing amount of aid is a mechanism for imposing a model of economic development in the interest of the donor, | 21454 |
| It is argued that the conditionality attached to an increasing amount of aid is a mechanism for imposing a model of economic development in the interest of the donor, | 21454 |
| New Democrats in Hawaii shifted from a class-based appeal to an ethnic-based appeal over time. | 21480 |
| Democrats found that appeals to Japanese-Americans were a particularly successful strategy. | 21484 |
| Our research strategy involved a qualitative technique of collecting and analyzing a significant body of data relating to the political history of African states. | 21504 |
| Our research strategy involved a qualitative technique of collecting and analyzing a significant body of data relating to the political history of African states. | 21504 |
| For a second and perhaps authentic emancipation of Africa, | 21508 |
| This should form the base for a democratic environment that will usher in effectiveness and legitimacy in governance in those states. | 21512 |
| A democratization front, | 21514 |
| The philosophy of the democratization front would include a pan- African mobilization against the forces of political, | 21518 |
| The motivation for this research stems from a conviction that the cultural imperialism perspective on the nature and modes of transnational television are erroneous and therefore susceptible to a wide and often misleading theoretical assumption, | 21530 |
| The motivation for this research stems from a conviction that the cultural imperialism perspective on the nature and modes of transnational television are erroneous and therefore susceptible to a wide and often misleading theoretical assumption, | 21532 |
| aided by Johan Galtung's model of a global communication in four worlds, | 21538 |
| we see a pattern of global television that suggests a similar motivation underlying media ownership in all societies. | 21538 |
| we see a pattern of global television that suggests a similar motivation underlying media ownership in all societies. | 21540 |
| with the support of a literature review and other data sources, | 21542 |
| the existence of a global systemic order where technology rich nations dominate technology over poor nations. | 21544 |
| This makes it more difficult to explain cultural imperialism simply as a relationship where developed and developing nations are arranged in dominant/subordinate or top/down order. | 21550 |
| Through a strategy of original intent, | 21552 |
| This text marks a little milestone in the understanding of the democratic peace theory in transitional states. | 21558 |
| It brings in a much needed perspective on the achievements and limitations of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, | 21558 |
| The author provides a differentiated view of the traditional Western notions of democracy and its role in the search for political stability and nation-building. | 21562 |
| A series of fragile democratic developments in contemporary politics in the continent have set in processes of change in governance patterns and understandings about the idea of a nation state. | 21566 |
| A series of fragile democratic developments in contemporary politics in the continent have set in processes of change in governance patterns and understandings about the idea of a nation state. | 21568 |
| The author takes a critical look at the reasons for this limitation, | 21572 |
| This text offers students and researchers a quick glance at the sources of conflicts in Sub- Saharan Africa and an assessment of the implications of attempting to use democracy alone as a solution. | 21576 |
| This text offers students and researchers a quick glance at the sources of conflicts in Sub- Saharan Africa and an assessment of the implications of attempting to use democracy alone as a solution. | 21580 |
| Many African countries consider regional integration as a vehicle for achieving economic development. | 21580 |
| As a result, | 21586 |
| The eclectic approach used in the analysis benefits from political science theory on regional integration as well as the customs union theory of economics thus providing a robust approach to the study of Comesa. | 21602 |
| There is a lot of progress in the harmonization of policy, | 21612 |
| This study conducts a real-world natural experiment, | 21650 |
| examining interjurisdictional competition (IJC) - a government's offer of incentives for businesses to locate within its environs as opposed to the territories of others - in the setting of urbanized areas of various degrees of fragmentation (political organization as one, | 21652 |
| IJC has been portrayed in game theory as a prisoners' dilemma. | 21660 |
| each posing a related collective action problem. | 21662 |
| additive indices from a nationwide survey of economic development practices measure the intensity of IJC effort. | 21664 |
| The major hypothesis - IJC is a function of fragmentation - is analyzed using OLS regression. | 21668 |
| a case study of Hampton Roads (the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, | 21674 |
| Virginia metropolitan area) provides a historical narrative of the efficacy of communication and leadership in successful collective action as well as a possible example of game transition from the prisoners' dilemma to an assurance game. | 21676 |
| Virginia metropolitan area) provides a historical narrative of the efficacy of communication and leadership in successful collective action as well as a possible example of game transition from the prisoners' dilemma to an assurance game. | 21680 |
| They may engage in a self-fulfilling prophecy where beliefs about the future economy translate into personal financial behavior (e. | 21710 |
| What is a global market? | 21740 |
| It presents a detailed analysis of the arrangements, | 21742 |
| studying struggles of humans and non-humans to control the massive power of a little plant, | 21754 |
| Markets do not just emerge as a relationship among self-interested buyers and sellers, | 21762 |
| the dissertation presents an analysis of how a multitude of market agents, | 21780 |
| resist and reproduce a global market field that connects social positions to power. | 21784 |
| Political science does not have a systematic understanding of order. | 21788 |
| It builds a formal theoretical framework to answer the opening questions. | 21790 |
| The framework is composed of a family of formal bargaining models that specify the conditions under which war, | 21792 |
| The models are built upon the notion that the existence and type of political order is determined by the way in which powerful actors in a polity solve key distributive conflicts. | 21798 |
| Authoritarianism is formalized as an agreement among political actors on a distribution of the pie of rule (set of elective public jobs valuable for their policy and patronage attributions); | 21800 |
| In the 19th century an exogenous change - the unprecedented availability of foreign risk capital - generated a paramount increase in the expected value of collusion. | 21824 |