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Brow, Lawrence Michael. "Clay Chairs." Thesis, University of Iowa, 1989. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2796.
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Defibaugh, Elaine R. "Did you see that chair /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11323.
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Haywood, Mark. "Venus in chairs : a neo-Darwinian analysis of classical beauty in art and its subsequent passage from art to design." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326050.
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Thomas, P. R. "The poetics of thresholds : chair as a social portrait /." View thesis, 1995. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030909.153426/index.html.
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Russo, Anna Cecilia. "La chaise, objet de design entre communication et esthétique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA065.
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Il est patent que les objets de design, en particulier les objets d’ameublement que sont les chaises, exercent un rôle social dans l’espace privé et public, mais ils peuvent aussi fonctionner symboliquement et produire une expérience esthétique. Cette thèse mène une réfl exion critique sur le rôle du design à partir de bases pragmatiques. Ainsi que le suggère Nelson Goodman dans Manières de faire de mondes, les œuvres d’art sont loin d’être les seules choses qui symbolisent. Notre travail consiste à montrer que les chaises, en tant qu’objets de design peuvent aussi fonctionner communicationnellement. Ayant constitué un corpus de 11 types de chaises selon deux critères caractéristiques du mode d’évaluation et de qualifi cation des œuvres de design ‒ l’innovation et la diff usion ‒, nous analysons les chaises comme des natures mortes, en tant qu’objets isolés. Et c’est pour mieux montrer ensuite la relation intime existant entre le corps d’un usager et la chaise qui devient alors un objet vivant, riche de cette relationIt is clear that objects of design, especially design furniture in the case of chairs, not only fulfi ll a social function in both the private and public spheres, but they can also take on a symbolic role and produce an aesthetic experience. Based in pragmatic thinking, the present thesis aims to develop a critical line of questioning for studying the role played by design. As Nelson Goodman claims in his Ways of Worldmaking, works of art are not the only things that can symbolise. Our goal consists in showing that, insofar as they are objects of design, chairs also function communicatively. Drawing from a corpus of eleven diff erent types of chairs, put together according to two characteristic criteria related to the evaluation and description of works of design – i.e. innovation and distribution – we fi rst analyse chairs in terms of still life, that is to say, as isolated objects. This preliminary analysis allows us to underscore, in a subsequent move, the intimate relationship that prevails between the user’s body and a chair, which now becomes a living object, one that is enriched by this very relationship
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MUKUNDAN, KUMAR ABHIJITH, and SAM THOMAS. "PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF WORK CHAIRS AND OFFICE CHAIR." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-41344.
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Work chair is considered as an important element for the users to improve comfort in work environment. An ergonomic chair design and engineering is therefore considered very important for its usability and comfort view of point for the users. The aim of the thesis is to improve the mobility and ergonomics of the existing chair in all aspects. Ergonomically designed chairs are important for long time seated workers to increase their productivity and also to reduce low back injuries which arise due to the poor design chairs in ergonomic aspects. In addition, ergonomically designed chairs help to increase the seating comfortability of the chair users. QFD and waterfall model was followed for the work execution. In this paper, we discuss a design of an ergonomically efficient chair with simple adjustments which gives more comfortability. This will give us a better likelihood to stay in a neutral position. The Ergonomics of the chair is improved in various steps. This thesis focuses on many ideas in which some of them are implemented and evaluated.
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Scott-Felder, Jessica. "I Remember." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/43.
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I Remember…, a series of drawings, is based on personal social experiences starting from the age of thirteen. This series begins with a memory of the first time I had to speak to a room full of people and the unexpected events of that followed. My own relationship with one of the primary subjects, the chair refers to memories of being raised in a home where certain furnishings were “off-limits.” Even more important is the presence of a cryptic narrative, fractured and dreamlike, similar to the style of writing created by Alain Robbe-Grillet. It has been a lifetime goal to create drawings that are interactive with the viewer. The baroque embellished chairs and piano provide a point of departure encouraging contemplative involvement by the viewer conceptually through imagery and physically through scale. Also, showing multiple viewpoints of the object simultaneously creates an atmosphere that is dreamlike and ghostly.
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Gallagher, Judith. "A Study of Department Chairs in Two-Year Colleges: A Comparison of the 1992 International Community College Chair Survey to Department Chairs in the North Texas Community College Consortium." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4329/.
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A study was conducted to gather information from department chairs serving in the 26 two-year colleges that are members of the North Texas Community College Consortium using the International Community College Chair Survey (ICCCS). The ICCCS is designed to gather insights into four aspects of the chairs' professional lives: personal characteristics, responsibilities challenges, and strategies. The study compared the demographic data and the respondents' perceptions of the challenges their units will face in the next 5 years to the original survey conducted in 1992. The regional sample included 616 first-line administrators, and a 30.5% response rate was achieved. The demographic distribution of the regional respondents shows significant shifts in gender, age, education, experience and release time but constancy in race and stability of the population. Similarities between the two samples exist regarding the challenges of maintaining program quality, providing technology, and managing financial issues. The regional sample expresses greater concern about the challenges of distance education, external accountability, and student matters.
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Nong, Xian Wen. "L’autorité de la chaise : de sa fonction à sa transformation en oeuvre dans l’art chinois et occidental." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0009/document.
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Socrate dirait que le Dieu a créé la forme de la chaise, que les artisans fabriquent d’autres chaises d’après cette forme, et que les artistes créent des chaises artistiques d’après des chaises fabriquées par les artisans. Il y a une vérité dans ces idées. La chaise est la chaise, elle a une forme propre à elle. Elle ne prend pas la forme d’un piano, ni celle d’un lit. Ces idées conduisent à la définition, la forme, la fabrication, l’utilisation, la transformation et la signification de la chaise. On attribue, dès l’ancienne Égypte, deux fonctions à la chaise : une matérielle (s’asseoir) et une immatérielle (symboliser). Quand la chaise est utilisée dans l’activité sociale, politique ou artistique (transformée, détruite, reconstruite, etc.), elle est symbolique (elle symbolise), et c’est la seule condition dans laquelle la chaise peut dénoter et signifier. Entrons en contact avec la chaise pour qu’elle puisse signifier ! Un changement apparut à partir de la fin du XIXe siècle. Les designers ont conçu et fabriqué une grande diversité de chaises novatrices à la fois utilitaires et artistiques ou classiques dans leurs œuvres d’art. Bien que les designers aient cherché de nouvelles formes, leurs chaises étaient encore pourvues de la forme de base (pieds, siège et dossier) donnant la fonction fondamentale : s’asseoir. Il apparaît que la forme de la chaise soit déjà définie. Par qui la forme de la chaise fut-elle définie ? Par quoi la chaise signifie-t-elle ?Socrates would say that the God created the form of the chair, that the craftsmen make other chairs according to this form, and that the artists create artistic chairs according to chairs made by the craftsmen. There is a truth in these ideas. The chair is the chair, it has its own form. It does not take the form of a piano, nor that of a bed. These ideas lead to the definition, the form, the manufacture, the use, the transformation and the significance of the chair. The human beings, from ancient Egypt, attributed two functions to the chair: one is material (sit) and the other is immaterial (symbolize). If the chair is used in a social, political or artistic activity (transformed, destroyed, rebuilt, etc.), it is symbolic (or symbolizing), this is the only condition where the chair can denote and signify. Get into contact with the chair so that it can mean! A change appeared from the end of the 19th century, designers designed and built a wide variety of innovative chairs, both utilitarian and artistic when the artists used simple and ordinary chairs or classical chairs in their art works. Although designers have sought new forms, but their chairs were still provided with the basic form (legs, seat and backrest) providing the fundamental function : sit. It appears that the form of the chair has already been defined. Who defined the form of the chair ? What does the chair mean?
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Ross, Haley C. "Chains: Process, Form, and the Psychoanalytic." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/558.
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This project is a composition of the intersectionality between process, structure, and materiality, and an obsession, fixation, and fetishization of the simplistic yet repetitive ‘chain’ form. The thematic infatuation with the chain form became evident throughout my work in Spring 2014, while working with bronze, wood, and brass at the Slade School of Fine art in London, England. This fall I expanded on this concept to create my own representations of the chain form, abstracting and deterring it from any sociocultural origins, contexts, or landscapes.
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Chateau, Canguilhem Johann. "La chair virtuelle du cyberérotisme." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30017/document.
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L’approche pluridisciplinaire de cette thèse a pour objet principal la définition et l’évaluation du concept de « cyberérotisme ». L’évocation de cette notion est d’une prégnance telle au sein de la représentation du « corps virtuel » qu’il semble désormais possible de la considérer comme la figure emblématique des rapports au corps qui émergent dans le champ contemporain. Notre méthode, alliant esthétique, études culturelles et psychanalyse, s’établit en trois temps. Il s’agit tout d’abord d’élaborer une base de données afin de mettre en évidence l’appréhension conceptuelle qui va nous permettre de composer une première grille de lecture ; pour ce faire, nous établissons un corpus des films consacrés qui témoignent d’une approche spontanée du sujet, principalement eXistenZ, Demonlover, The Cell et Le Cobaye. Une seconde base de données est constituée à partir de l’observation des jeux vidéo, notamment les jeux pornographiques et hentai, afin de cerner les conditions de l’expérience dans son accomplissement actuel. Enfin, la rémanence des thèmes de la violence, du sadisme, de l’abandon du corps, de son renouvellement ou sa reconfiguration désignent finalement l’angoisse comme l’aspect central de l’expérience. C’est à partir de cette hypothèse de recherche que s’élabore, in fine, la dernière partie de cette thèseThe main purpose of this multidisciplinary research is to define and assess the concept of “cybereroticism”. This notion is of such significance in the « virtual body » representation that it now seems possible to consider it an emblematic figure of the way the body is implicated in the contemporary field. Our method, combining aesthetics, cultural studies and psychoanalysis, is set up in three steps. First of all, we will provide a database highlighting the conceptual framework, which will allow us to create the initial terms of reference. In order to achieve this, we will provide a corpus of serious movies reflecting a spontaneous approach of this topic, mainly eXistenZ, Demonlover, The Cell and The Lawmmower Man. A second database will be achieved by observing video games, including pornographic and hentai games, in order to identify the conditions of the experience in its current state. Lastly, we will demonstrate how the persistence of the themes of violence and sadism, as well as the abandon of the body, its renewal or its reconfiguration, refer ultimately to anguish as a key aspect of the experience. This research hypothesis will eventually represent the last part of this thesis
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Blinkhorn, Jessica Elaine. "Stories from a Chair: A Life Exquisite." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/58.
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Exquisite is defined as carefully selected or sought out. I believe myself to be a selected soul placed in a body of circumstance. My work is self-explorative and telling of those circumstances in hopes of evoking empathy. Our bodies function and exist on many different levels. What I understand as normal for most differs vastly from what is normal for me. I aim to offer my perspective on the world, establish understanding, and blur the lines of normalcy.
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Gutowski, Sarah Margaret. "The bright side of failure: developing a set of lamps from an unsuccessful chair." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5487.
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A detailed account of how failure can lead to success. Through my attempts to design a chair, I developed a method of bending plywood using Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) routing. Ultimately, I considered my chair a failure. The method I had developed to wood was not suitable for my chair because it left the material too flexible. Determined to find another application for my wood bending method, I applied it to a new series of lamps. Bending thin plywood with a similar cut pattern on the CNC Laser cutter gave the perfect balance of flexibility and strength for lamp shades. Simple as the new lamps may be, they leave numerous possibilities for development in scale and shape.
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Zhang, Fangjin. "Optimising additive manufacturing for fine art sculpture and digital restoration of archaeological artefacts." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/14886.
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Additive manufacturing (AM) has shown itself to be beneficial in many application areas, including product design and manufacture, medical models and prosthetics, architectural modelling and artistic endeavours. For some of these applications, coupling AM with reverse engineering (RE) enables the utilisation of data from existing 3D shapes. This thesis describes the application of AM and RE within sculpture manufacture, in order to optimise the process chains for sculpture reproduction and relic conservation and restoration. This area poses particular problems since the original artefacts can often be fragile and inaccessible, and the finishing required on the AM replicas is both complex and varied. Several case studies within both literature and practical projects are presented, which cover essential knowledge of producing large scale sculptures from an original models as well as a wide range of artefact shapes and downstream finishing techniques. The combination of digital technologies and traditional art requires interdisciplinary knowledge across engineering and fine art. Also, definitions and requirements (e.g. 'accuracy'), can be applied as both engineering and artistic terms when specifications and trade-offs are being considered. The thesis discusses the feasibility for using these technologies across domains, and explores the potential for developing new market opportunities for AM. It presents and analyses a number of case study projects undertaken by the author with a view to developing cost and time models for various processes used. These models have then been used to develop a series of "process maps", which enable users of AM in this area to decide upon the optimum process route to follow, under various circumstances. The maps were validated and user feedback obtained through the execution of two further sculpture manufacturing projects. The thesis finishes with conclusions about the feasibility of the approach, its constraints, the pros and cons of adopting AM in this area and recommendations for future research.
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Di, Santo Prada Sara Emilia. "Dino Buzzati et Claude Louis-Combet entre la chair et l'âme." Thesis, Besançon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BESA1004/document.
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Dans le cadre d’une étude comparatiste, ce travail vise à analyser, en les rapprochant pour la première fois, les univers créatifs de l’écrivain italien Dino Buzzati (1906 – 1972) et de son confrère français Claude Louis-Combet (1932 –), selon la dualité chair et âme, qui est une constante de leur oeuvre respective. Les deux auteurs, par le biais de l’autobiographie romancée, de la réélaboration mythique, comme d’une vision originale de l’art figuratif, ont exprimé une sensibilité et un imaginaire étonnamment proches. Ils auront été accompagnés par des figures légendaires et des amis artistes, afin de guider le lecteur vers la dimension fantasmatique et mystique de son inconscientAs part of a comparative study, this work aims to analyze, by bringing them together for the first time, the creative worlds of the Italian writer Dino Buzzati (1906 – 1972) and his French colleague Claude Louis-Combet (1932 –), according to the flesh and soul duality, which is a constant in their works. Both authors, through the fictionalized autobiography, the mythology reworking, as an original vision of figurative art, expressed sensitivity and imagination surprisingly close. They have been accompanied by legendary figures and fellow artists, to guide the reader into the mystical and fantasy dimension of his unconscious
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McKnight, Debra Gayle. "Breaking Accidental Behavior Chains." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28453/.
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Accidental behavior chains are a common problem in dog training. Many handlers inadvertently reinforce undesirable behaviors. The behavior analytic literature already contains articles describing methods of breaking chains; however, those methods either are not used in dog training for practical purposes or are ineffective in dog training. This experiment investigated two ways to break a behavior chain, including extending the chain and introducing a delay into the chain. The results of extending the chain showed that it is possible to decrease the target behavior using this method, but it was not eliminated in this study. Adding a delay into the behavior chain resulted in a quick elimination of the target behavior.
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Magnien, Aline. "La nature et l'antique, la chair et le contour : essai sur la sculpture française du XVIIIème siècle /." Oxford : Voltaire foundation, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391633713.
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Sinram, Marianne 1963. "Faith and bondage: The spiritual and political meaning of chains at Sainte-Foy de Conques." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278370.
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The early medieval abbey church of Conques, located in a treacherous mountain region of southern France, received few visitors until the relics of the virgin martyr Ste. Foy were brought there. Among her abilities, Ste. Foy was credited with the power to provide protection from capture and to free prisoners. The themes of bondage and liberation are found throughout the church in the sculpture, grillwork and especially in the Liber miraculorum. This paper argues that the repetitive imagery of chains and release from bondage had a twofold function which increased the wealth and power of the monks at Conques. First, the images evoked the power of the Ste. Foy to absolve and release one from the bonds of sin through pilgrimage and donation to this church, and second, the images referred to Ste. Foy's renowned power to provide protection and free prisoners, powers especially attractive to those involved in the Reconquista in Spain.
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Valhère, Didier Vacher dit. "Le visionneur de chair : la pornographie comme mobile de création picturale." Paris 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA010546.
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La représentation du corps est fondamentale dans la peinture Occidentale. Art ( sacré et profane) et images de toutes natures se sont toujours influencés mutuellement. Depuis la transition vers l'art moderne, l'artiste s'est progressivement intéressé aux diverses manifestations du quotidien, non pour confondre sa pratique avec des activités banales, mais pour révéler son temps, l'intensifier aux yeux de ceux qui auraient trop tendance à vouloir l'ignorer ou le cacher. Le nu académique, relatif à une idéologie bien connotée, s'est progressivement décalé vers le nu trivial. Aujourd'hui, ce thème tend parfois jusqu'au " pornographique " comme pour mieux traduire notre tendance socioculturelle à surinvestir le rapport du corps au sexe. L 'Homme devient " chair à jouir ", il est dénudé sans artifice, morcelé dans sa représentation, révélé dans des situations intimes, fétichisé. Tout cela ne traduit pas son émancipation, mais exprime le désarroi profond face à une désincarnation qui met en scène le désir fruste pour exorciser les craintes du présent. L'obscène est le fruit d'une Histoire et d'un contexte, les artistes ne deviennent pas des pornographes parce qu'ils manipulent ces images triviales. La pornographie n'est pas de l'érotisme, même si ces notions sont très subjectives. Le corps exhibé de manière outrancière ne laisse jamais indifférent et même s'il n'est que représenté, il fait écho à notre condition humaine, déclenchant des réactions parfois vives/
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El, Jebbari Zyad. "State of the art of supply chains and network design optimization in Emerging Economies : an Indian case study." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106244.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, System Design and Management Program, Engineering and Management Program, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-67).
Emerging Markets are defined as nations with social or business activity in the process of rapid growth and industrialization. Market penetration of products across the country is an extremely difficult task due to poor infrastructure and prohibitive costs of infrastructure. The motivation for this thesis is to 1) develop a framework to reduce the complexity of the study by clustering a diverse pool of products into fewer major classes of products sharing similar features, 2) design a network optimization model to better serve the end consumer in two different states in India, and 3) assess and improve the scalability of the distribution network. The results of this research directly enhance the distribution models used to scale production and efficiently use supply chains in low to middle income countries, leveraging existing resources (retail outlets) to deliver goods in two Indian states and can be generalized to other states. The SKU classification methodology (clustering) can be generalized to other classes of products that logistics companies are currently delivering in rural India (food, pantry, commodities,'...). To the extent of our knowledge, this optimization network modeling has not been researched yet in developing economies. It was found that our methodology could help retailers get access to customers more efficiently. We finished by determining the optimal scalability strategy using cost effectiveness and service level effectiveness for two different Indian states, Maharashtra and Bihar. Keywords: scalability, supply chain, developing economy, case study, network design
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Smit, Jeanne. "'N Vergelykende kwalitatiewe beskrywing van die ontwikkelingstadia van Erik Erikson en Chakra-ontwikkeling." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11092004-150318.
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Steedman, Sam, and sam steedman@gmail com. "Change and Growth of Australian Music Value Chains." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091029.161558.
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The Australian music industry is growing and developing yet specific information about the ways in which distribution systems develop is limited. In this study I examined the growth and change of the Australian music value chain. This includes the development of digital distribution systems and the effect that peer-to-peer technology has on system development, specifically the disintermediation between consumers and artists to the detriment of the multinational value chains. The drivers of this change are broken into social and technical elements in order to describe the growth and change occurring. The method used included a comprehensive literature review and use of secondary data from key music industry associations. The Australian music industry is a subset of the global industry and is led by foreign markets and their methods in which music content moves from the creators to the consumers. The consumption patterns of Australian music consumers are changing. The overall value of the music industry is dropping as the new digital downloads market emerges and the overall volume of sales increases; this reflects similar trends in foreign markets. CD single sales have dropped and digital single sales (in MP3 format) have increased. However, there needs to be a balance in the future development of Australian music distribution systems between the needs of music consumers and the sustainability of music companies, where there is both connectivity and steady revenue flow. There are technical elements that have caused a movement away from the traditional forms of music distribution as new technologies facilitate the change, such as Apple's iPod and broadband Internet connections. Advancement of distribution systems has increased piracy levels and the response has been the implementation of digital rights management (DRM), which prevents connectivity. There are also social elements that affect growth and change such as connectivity, or the consumers freedom to choose when, where and how to listen to their music. When music product has a restriction placed upon it its value to the consumer drops. Multinational music companies have failed to recognise the value users place on the freedom to pick and choose and have tried to control rather than to co-develop systems that meets both parties needs.
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Paillard, de Chenay Célio. ""L'art numérique" : un nouveau mouvement dans le monde de l'art contemporain." Paris 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA010655.
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L'appellation «art numérique » s'impose dans le paysage artistique français au début du XXIe siècle. Dans quel contexte est-elle apparue, quels sont ses objectifs et espoirs? Cette thèse s'intéresse aux processus de constitution de ce nouveau mouvement artistique. Pourquoi prend-il la forme d'un art spécifique, qu'est-ce qui le distingue dans le paysage artistique actuel, comment le reconnaît-on ? Une fois installé, peut-on s'affranchir de ses règles pour épouser celles du monde de l'art contemporain ? Les approches historiques, esthétiques, sociologiques sont nécessaires pour étudier ce nouveau devenir - numérique - de l'art: ce n'est pas un évènement universel et univoque mais le résultat de circonstances particulières, et la rencontre de différents acteurs, concernés par un idéal commun sinon proche. Cette étude ne se résume donc pas à l'analyse des seules oeuvres, mais prend en compte tout le contexte de monstration, et singulièrement le bagage théorique qui les accompagne.
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Wrona, Carole. "Le nain, cette "chair-fiction" : une problematique de la taille, du temps et de l'espace dans le septieme art." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030123.
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Juste pour une question de taille, le nain s'est metamorphose en representations incessantes : lutin, ange-gardien, double, revenant, fantome, bouffon. Ces diverses images s'actualisent dans l'espace du cinema, justifiant les utilisations malefiques ou benefiques de ce personnage. Cependant, le corps-taille, ainsi nomme car ce corps n'est defini que par la taille, bouleverse manifestement la narration comme la mise en scene. L'intrusion du nain pose alors les problemes de la taille, du temps et de l'espace dans un lieu revelateur, le cinema, qui comprend aussi ces memes enjeux. Bien plus, ce corps, constitue image par le regard, est devenu une fiction malgre lui. Le spectateur projette angoisses ou desirs inconscients, delivre sur son corps des recits et des mythes, esperant par la combler la difference. Le nain est alors une << chair-fiction >>. Ancienne image de cinema dans les fetes foraines, a la cour de france, il devaste montage et mise en scene dans le septieme art. Sa specificite s'actualise dans la specificite du cinema.
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Halbauer, Karl. "Predigstül : die spätgotischen Kanzeln im württembergischen Neckargebiet bis zur Einführung der Reformation /." Stuttgart : W. Kohlhammer, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37197031b.
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Hernandez-Katz, Melissa. "Leadership Styles and Cultural Sensitivity of Department Chairs at Texas Public Universities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc499977/.
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As the U.S. population diversifies, so do its higher education institutions. Leadership at these institutions should be prepared for this diversification of students, faculty, and staff. The purpose of this study was to gain greater knowledge about the leadership styles and cultural sensitivity of department chairs. Survey research was used to determine if department chairs’ leadership styles correlated with their cultural sensitivity. The target population was department chairs from public universities in the state of Texas. The survey was distributed to 406 randomly selected department chairs. The participants completed three measures: Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire (LDBQ) for leadership style, the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) for cultural sensitivity, and a demographic questionnaire (gender, age range, race/ethnicity, and years of service as department chair). The sample included 165 usable surveys (40% return rate). The department chairs were primarily male (72%), White (78%), and over 50 (71%) years of age. First, a statistically significant negative correlation (r = -.431, p < .0001) occurred between LBDQ overall scores and overall ISS scores: As chairs scored higher on leadership ability, they scored lower on intercultural sensitivity. Second, leadership style by demographic variable displayed mixed results. No significant difference was found for leadership style by age, gender, years of service, or region of service. For ethnicity, White participants scored significantly lower than Minority participants on the LBDQ scales of consideration (t [162] = -2.021, p = .045), structure (t [162] = -2.705, p = .008), and overall (t [162] = -2.864, p = .005). Minority participants might work more diligently to increase their leadership abilities based on their higher LDBQ scores. Third, findings on intercultural sensitivity by demographic variable were mixed. No statistical significance was observed between any of the ISS scales and age, gender, years of service, and region. For ethnicity, Minority participants’ scores showed significantly lower intercultural sensitivity than White participants scores on two of six ISS subscales: interaction enjoyment (t = -2.46, p = .015) and respect (t = 2.107, p = .037). It was concluded that the Minority and White department chairs’ leadership style and intercultural sensitivity differences could be due in part to differences in the chairs’ ethnic affiliations, associated cultural backgrounds, and views of dominant versus non-dominant cultures. Recommendations for study are included.
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Rodrigo, Brenni Monica C. "E2s act sequentially in the assembly of ubiquitin chains by the anaphase-promoting complex." Diss., Search in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. UC Only, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378504.
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De, Palma Myriam. "Maurice Chabas (1862-1947) : du symbolisme à l'abstraction : essai et catalogue raisonné." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040145.
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La qualité esthétique et l'ampleur de l'œuvre de Maurice Chabas (peinture de chevalet et art monumental) ainsi que le mouvement de pensée auquel il a participé ont cristallisé notre intérêt pour un artiste important et injustement oublié du symbolisme. Maurice Chabas poursuivit tout au long de son œuvre une quête spirituelle qu'il traduisait par des tableaux empreints d'une harmonie noble et sereine. L'imagination et le désir d'innovation de Maurice Chabas le mèneront à diversifier sa technique, par ailleurs habile, en usant d'une purification et d'une simplification de la forme. L'œuvre, dans un premier temps académique, se rallia aux tendances symbolistes, proche de Puvis de Chavannes. Maurice Chabas fut un fervent défenseur des Rose+Croix et exposa à tous leurs salons. Par la suite, l'artiste fut tenté par les techniques néo-impressionnistes et synthétiques. A la fin de sa carrière, sa peinture devient de plus en plus éthérée, lumineuse et colorée ; ceci le conduit à se tourner vers l'abstraction qui se prête, selon, lui naturellement à la communication des mystères de la religion chrétienne. Un des premiers objectifs de cette thèse (première partie) a été d'établir la biographie de Maurice Chabas, une étude de ses principes artistiques théoriques et une analyse de son œuvre. Nous nous sommes référés aux lettres personnelles et aux écrits de l'artiste ainsi qu'aux articles de presse et catalogues d'expositions pour éclairer sa personnalité et la portée de son œuvre. La seconde partie de la thèse a consisté à effectuer un recensement le plus exhaustif possible des différents tableaux, commandes et écrits illustrés par Maurice Chabas. Cette recherche compose le catalogue raisonné de l'artiste (903 numéros dont 873 illustrés)The aesthetic quality and the extent of the work accomplished by Maurice Chabas as well as his evolution of thinking have focused our interest for this important artist, unfairly forgotten in the symbolist movement. All through his artwork, Maurice Chabas searched a spiritual quest which he translated through his paintings into a noble and serene harmony. His imagination and desire to innovate led him to diversify his technique through a purification and simplification of the form. At the beginning, his work was academic but expressed rapidly symbolic tendencies reminding Puvis de Chavannes. Maurice Chabas was a fervent defendant of the Rose+Croix. He participated in all their art exhibitions. Later, the artist was also tempted to investigate the techniques of impressionism and synthetic art. At the end of his career, his work became gradually more esotheric, bright and colourful. This style of work conducted him to abstraction which (he thought) will provide the ways to the "mysteries" of the Christian religion. One of the primary objectives of this thesis has been to establish a biography of Maurice Chabas. Our aim was also to provide a study of his theoritical artistic principles and an analytical investigation of his work. To highlight the personality of Maurice Chabas and the magnitude of his work, we currently referred to his personal documents, press artcles and exhibitions catalogues. The second part of this thesis is aiming to establish, to the largest possible extent, an inventory of his paintings, work orders and writings. This study is covered by the reasoned catalogue of the artist
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Österström, Philip, and Ludvig Kamlin. "How well are the two chains linked together? : A study about the perceived effects of blockchain on transaction costs within supply chains handling physical goods." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412796.
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The purpose of this study is to produce new knowledge concerning the perceived effects of blockchain technology on transaction costs within supply chains handling physical goods through the created and hypothetical TCE-matrix. The study followed an abductive research approach where initial found facts were matched against an appropriate theory in order to be put in context and understood. The study’s data was gathered through semi-structured interviews with experts who were active within the research area and chosen based on their practical experience. The results imply that blockchain holds the possibility to affect five out of nine cells within the TCE-matrix out of the experts’ perception, through its increased trust and transparency between its supply chain actors within the network and the enhanced traceability of physical goods. This study further highlights practical implications concerning the technology’s adoption in practice. It is concluded that the blockchain is perceived to have an effect on transaction costs activities out of the TCE-matrix, which is found to be partly applicable when assessing the blockchains potential effect on transaction cost activities in a general manner, where further studies should apply the matrix in the assessment of one specific transaction to take full advantage of the matrix’ potential.
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Rashti, Sogol. "Persian in practice." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2003.
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Since the beginning of humankind, architecture has been a sacred source for all civilizations, and that has provided a gateway for man to reach the heavens above. In terms of concept and value, Persian art and architecture is considered as a rich source to be acknowledged. Within Persian architecture, the emphasis was placed strongly on beauty and sacred geometry; Persians calculated the proportions of heaven reflected upon them in the dimensions of buildings on the earth.
Iranian culture has utilized the written word as an art form; this goes beyond normal means of communication. Iranian calligraphers produced eloquent styles and patterns through their divine talent, and this was displayed in the architecture. Parviz Tanavoli, as the greatest contemporary artist of Iran, has a strong tendency to be attracted to words and letters which has a long history in Iranian culture.
Experimenting through aspects of cultural interaction in fine and applied arts has led to the understanding that when aesthetic elements of cultures are used to create a new design, it leads to both a new aesthetic creation and a fresh understanding of the cultures involved. This collection was designed and manufactured by concentrating on organic and curved forms and utilizing them in the design practice, while having a touch on cultural elements such as patterns and alphabets. The curved abstract shapes create a conceptual harmony, depicted in Persian patterns via functional three dimensional pieces.
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Plath, Robert. "Der Streitwagen und seine Teile im frühen Griechischen : sprachliche Untersuchungen zu den mykenischen Texten und zum homerischen Epos /." Nürnberg : H. Carl, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36678845s.
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Nelson, Margaret. "Karo-kari and chadors appropriation of oppressors' tools in Salman Rushdie's Shame and Shirin Neshat's visual art /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
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Mounce, Kiersten. "Revolution through Beautiful Modern Art: René Herbst's Chaises Sandows and the Union des Artists Modernes (1929-1937)." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18376.
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At the Salon d'Automne of 1929, French designer René Herbst (1891-1982) inaugurated the Chaises Sandows, a series of mass produced chairs built with seamless tubular steel and brightly colored elastic straps (sandows). The chairs were deemed beautiful modern art by the Union des Artists Modernes (U.A.M.), a revolutionary artist collective that Herbst co-founded the same year. The group defined beautiful objects as those that provided psychological repose and were financially attainable for every class, highly functional and socially engaged. Based on the naturalism of Hyppolite Taine, the U.A.M. believed that if beautiful art like the Chaise Sandows was consumed en masse, an egalitarian utopia would be produced. This thesis offers comprehensive understanding of their project as defined by Herbst and their manifesto and the group's connection with larger political concerns during the interwar period.
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Liu, Siming. "TESTING THE MULTI-DYNEIN HYPOTHESIS BY MUTATING INNER ARM DYNEIN HEAVY CHAINS IN TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1077152822.
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Ambike, Satyajit S. "Characteristics of Spatial Human Arm Motion and the Kinematic Trajectory Tracking of Similar Serial Chains." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325169225.
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Macedo, Vanessa Freitas de Paiva. "Frida Kahlo : entre chagas e borboletas." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285124.
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Orientador: Julia Ziviani VitielloDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo Esta pesquisa propõe perceber a simbiose entre o artista e sua obra, reconhecendo a proximidade que vida e criação artística podem assumir, convergindo para uma arte autobiográfica. Investiga-se a relação entre dor e arte/ morte e criação como ciclo possível e necessário ao processo criativo. Frida Kahlo é escolhida como artista expoente para suscitar essas questões. A pesquisa mergulha em seu universo para, a partir dele, ver surgir o seu próprio, numa criação em dança. Nasce Entre Chagas e Borboletas. Os intermédios por que ela passa para estruturar-se - o processo criativo - são o material que interage com todos os temas investigados, para registrar o caminho anterior à obra.
Abstract This research propose to sense the symbiosis between the artist and his work, recognising the proximity that life and artistic creation can built, converging to an autobiografic art. Investigating the relation between pain and art, death and creation as a possible and necessary cicle to creative process. Frida Kahlo is chosen as an expoent artist to bring up these questions. The research dives deeply into her universe to, starting from that, built its own universe in a dance creation. Among Wounds and Butterflies born. The inner - ways it passes though to built itself - the creative process - is the material that interacts with all the themes investigated, to register the path before the creation.
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Carpio, Kristine Joy Espiritu, and kjecarpio@lycos com. "Long-Range Dependence of Markov Processes." The Australian National University. School of Mathematical Sciences, 2006. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20061024.131933.
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Long-range dependence in discrete and continuous time Markov
chains over a countable state space is defined via embedded
renewal processes brought about by visits to a fixed state. In the
discrete time chain, solidarity properties are obtained and
long-range dependence of functionals are examined. On the other
hand, the study of LRD of continuous time chains is defined via
the number of visits in a given time interval. Long-range
dependence of Markov chains over a non-countable state space is
also carried out through positive Harris chains. Embedded renewal
processes in these chains exist via visits to sets of states
called proper atoms.
Examples of these chains are presented, with particular attention
given to long-range dependent Markov chains in single-server
queues, namely, the waiting times of GI/G/1 queues and queue
lengths at departure epochs in M/G/1 queues. The presence of
long-range dependence in these processes is dependent on the
moment index of the lifetime distribution of the service times.
The Hurst indexes are obtained under certain conditions on the
distribution function of the service times and the structure of
the correlations. These processes of waiting times and queue sizes
are also examined in a range of M/P/2 queues via simulation (here, P denotes a Pareto distribution).
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Kim, Dong-Choul. "La chaise, objet et témoin : étude sur l'art des années 1960 et mes travaux personnels." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081530.
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La chaise, a la fois sujet et objet, est prise comme temoin pour degager la relation entre les termes du binome banalite et creativite, tout d'abord en partant des preoccupations de l'art dans les annees 1960. Puis c'est a travers nos realisations personnelles que nous eprouvons l'hypothese degagee de notre reflexion theorique : c'est en raison de sa banalite que la chaise est source de creativite. Cette these est donc un temoignage et une experimentation sur l'art aujourd'hui, qui endosse sa constitution artistique a travers le processus d'un objet ordinaire et banal en apparence, de ce fragment de la realite (a la fois vie et art), c'est a dire d'une chaise, dans sa rencontre avec l'artThe chair, both subject and object, is called on as a witness to bring to light the relationship between banality and creativity, taking as our starting point the issues which informed artistic conception in the 1960s. We then put the fruits of our theoretical reflection to the test in our own work : it is because of its very banality that the chair is a source of creativity. This thesis is thus both testimony to, and an experiment on, art today which assumes its artistic constitution through the process of an outwardly ordinary and banal object, through that fragment of reality (both life and art), which is a chair, in its encounter with art
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Carlsson, Niclas. "Markov chains on metric spaces : invariant measures and asymptotic behaviour /." Åbo : Åbo akademi university, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400328312.
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Worinu, Mark. "The operation and effectiveness of formal and informal supply chains for fresh produce in the Papua New Guinea highlands." Master's thesis, Lincoln University. Agriculture and Life Sciences Division, 2007. http://theses.lincoln.ac.nz/public/adt-NZLIU20080318.100431/.
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The research aim was to gain a more detailed understanding of the operation of different key segments for fresh produce supply chains originating in the Highlands Provinces in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The research investigates a number of supply chain dimensions of effectiveness which include, value creation and integration of processes, logistics, quality, information, relationship/vertical integration and overall effectiveness. These were linked together in SC framework. Two potato chains were investigated, one formal, the other informal. The informal potato chain involves small holder farmers, input suppliers and local markets including kai bars and the urban market. The chain originates and ends within the Western Highlands Province. The formal potato chain has farmers, input suppliers, wholesaler/marker, transport companies (trucking and coastal shipping agents), supermarkets, hotels and kai bars. This chain originates in Mt Hagen, Western Highlands Province and ends in Port Moresby, National Capital District. The effectiveness of both the formal and informal chains was identified, and comparisons were made to see how each chain differed. The informal chain was found to have different problems to the formal chains. However, participants to both chains demonstrate a high entrepreneurial behavior. A key finding of the study was that the chains spread their risk by operating in multiple market segments and this can help to solve issues with variable quality. The marketers in each chain position themselves in these different market segments. It was clear from this work that focusing on functions and not the whole chain can lead to a distorted view of chain performance. For example, for the informal chain, a focus on logistics issues, particularly poor roads and problems with availability of seeds, can misrepresent the effectiveness of this chain. Therefore, it was concluded that it is important to look at the overall performance of each chain rather than looking specifically at particular chain functions in isolation.
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Magnien, Aline. "Entre la chair et le contour, entre la nature et l'antique : essai sur la sculpture et ses principes en France au XVIIIe siècle." Paris 10, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA100006.
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Le but de ce travail est de relier théorie et pratique, oeuvres et discours dans le cadre d'une réflexion sur la sculpture du XVIIIe siècle entre 1680-1830 environ. Cette réflexion s'articule autour de trois grands axes, la théorie des proportions, les enjeux anatomiques et la relation avec l'antiquité. La première partie concerne les proportions, ce "vêtement d'idées", selon l'expression de Husserl mais qui s'inscrit pour les artistes dans une pratique. A partir du terreau que constituent les textes de la Renaissance et du XVIIe siècle, elle s'efforce de montrer l'arrière-plan intellectuel et les évolutions de ces schémas de pensée. Il s'agit d'articuler les relations entre l'antiquité et la création, les proportions et l'anatomie. La deuxième partie a, en effet, pour objet principal l'anatomie et son enseignement au XVIIIe siècle. Notre hypothèse étant qu'il existe une interaction entre le canon médical et le canon artistique, il nous fallait cerner comment évoluait l'anatomie dans sa perspective de savoir autonome et dans ses liens avec la sculpture. La question du beau, beau naturel, beau artistique sont aussi au coeur du sujet. L'évolution des conceptions anatomiques et la théorie des proportions ont un lien direct avec un autre des pôles majeurs de l'art à l'époque, l'expression des caractères et des passions. Se mêlent donc dans la troisième partie, questions de composition et disposition dans le cadre d'une réflexion sur l'imitation dans l'art sculptural. Enfin, dans la dernière partie, nous avons essayé de cerner les enjeux esthétiques du travail matériel et de nous pencher sur des aspects très concrets des oeuvres sculptées. La querelle de la chair et du contour n'est pas l'équivalent de celle de la couleur et du dessin, mais entretient des liens avec cette problématique. D'autre part, le nu pose la question des limites de la représentation dans la sculpture. Le texte se clôt par la mise en parallèle d'Emeric-David et de Quatremère de Quincy, qui ouvre en même temps sur les problèmes esthétiques du XIXe siècle. Le plan est donc à la fois chronologique, partant du XVIe siècle pour conclure avec les théories sur l'idéal de Quatremère de Quincy en 1837, et thématique en même temps, les textes et les oeuvres ne respectant pas les distinctions chronologiques classiquesThis thesis is a reflexion on eighteenth-century sculpture, between 1680 and 1830. Its intention is to link theory and pratice, and works of art and discourse. It is based on three main approaches : the theory of proportions, anatomical issues and relations with antiquity. The first part is concerned with proportions, the "clothing of ideas" in Husserl's expression, but which, for artists, is a component of their practice. Drawing on the rich material of Renaissance and seventeenth-century texts, the aim is to examine the intellectual background and evolution of these modes of thought articulating the relations between antiquity and creation, proportions and anatomy. Anatomy, and the way anatomy was taught during the eighteenth century, is the central object of the second part. Our hypothesis is that there a certain interplay between the medical canon and the artistic canon. Within this hypothesis, it was necessary to look at how anatomy was evolving both as an autonomous domain of knowledge and in its links with sculpture. Questions of beauty, natural beauty and artistic beauty are also central here. The development of anatomical conceptions and the theory of proportions have direct associations with another of the major poles of art at the time, that is to say the expression of characters and of passions. The third part of our theisis, then is a mix of questions to do with composition and disposition as they relate to the question of imitation in the art of sculpture. In the last part of the thesis, we have tried to identify the aesthetic issues in the material aspects of creation, addressing the concrete aspects of sculpted works. The quarrel between flesh and contour is not the equivalent of the quarrel between colour and line, but nonetheless has links with this problematic. Furthermore, the nude raises the question of the limits of representation in sculpture. The thesis concludes by a parallel approach to the writings of Emeric-David and Quatremère de Quincy, a comparison which is also an opening to the aesthetic problems of the nineteenth century. Starting in the sixteenth century, then, and concluding with Quatremère de Quincy's theories on the ideal, in 1837, the thesis is both chronological and thermatic, the texts and works not respecting classical chronological distinctions
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Coelho, Jose Flavio Guerra Machado, and f. coelho@bigpond com. "SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS MODEL FOR INDIVIDUAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAINS." Central Queensland University, 2006. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20060720.094327.
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The title of the research is Sustainability Performance Evaluation Management Systems Model for Individual Organizations and Supply Chains. This research has achieved its aim to develop and demonstrate the practical implementation of a simple and objective sustainability performance evaluation management system model for individual organizations and supply chains. It has resulted in the recognition that a new concept Network of Interested Partners underpins the achievement of sustainability. The term acknowledges the interdependence and reflects the essential cooperation that must be achieved between business organisations, their commercially related entities and the local community if progress towards sustainability is to be achieved. It therefore encompasses and extends the concept of a supply chain as currently used.
Sustainable Development is defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development as development, which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future societies to meet their own needs. Organizations, as part of human activities, also have to be sustainable. The sustainability of organizations is directly linked to the continual improvement of business performance. Many organizations have found a way to improve performance through the establishment of management systems. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards are recognized worldwide as reliable and efficient tools for the implementation of management systems. However, they do not always result in the desired improvement in outcomes. Therefore, if the required improvement of business performance is to be achieved, improved methodologies for development and implementation of performance evaluation (PE) processes are necessary. These methodologies must take into consideration sustainability principles. They also have to be applicable to individual entities and supply chains, with or without management systems in place. Supply chains are important because it is being increasingly recognized that overall supply chain performance is a means of adding value and competitive advantage to all businesses.
In the first part of the research a performance evaluation model or PE (version 1 model) was developed. This was used as criteria to compare and evaluate existing performance evaluation processes and outcomes of individual organisations and their respective supply chain within the Gladstone region, Australia. Questionnaires have also been used to identify and evaluate the needs of the interested parties in relation to the organizations and supply chains business performance and processes of performance evaluation.
All the information provided in the first part of the research was used by the researcher to develop the Sustainability Performance Evaluation Management Systems model or SPEMS (version 2 model). This incorporates the concepts of Network of Interested Parties/Partners. In particular, one of the outcomes is recognition that organizations need to establish partnerships if effective supply chain performance improvement is to be achieved. Therefore the establishment of partnerships has become a key requirement for the implementation of SPEMS.
The establishment of partnership among participants of a supply chain of Gladstone and implementation of the eight first steps of the SPEMS (version 2 model) in this supply chain was commenced successfully through workshops. The supply chain was formed by commercial organizations, government entities and interested parties from the community. SPEMS requires that partners all have the same level of ownership and authority in the decisions of the supply chain.
Some new terms and their definitions have been created within the research to support the new SPEMS model. They include: Network of Interested Partners, sustainability for organizations, sustainability KPI and sustainability friendly organizations.
All of the above are encompassed within the final SPEMS (version 3 model).
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Simmons, Dayton C. (Dayton Cooper). "Applications of Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains to Problems in Graph Theory." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277740/.
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In this dissertation the results of Jerrum and Sinclair on the conductance of Markov chains are used to prove that almost all generalized Steinhaus graphs are rapidly mixing and an algorithm for the uniform generation of 2 - (4k + 1,4,1) cyclic Mendelsohn designs is developed.
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Vianès, Laurence. "La chaine monophysite sur Ezéchiel 36-48 : présentation, texte critique, traduction française, commentaire." Paris, EPHE, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997EPHE5002.
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La chaine du type 1 sur Ezéchiel a été compilée entre 538 et 618 en milieu monophysite à partir d'une chaine plus ancienne qui contenait des fragments de Theodoret de Cyr, Apollinaire de Laodicée, Polychronius d'Apamée. L'auteur anonyme ("Allos") qui y apparait n'est pas une chaine. Les deux premières parties de la thèse fournissent une description des manuscrits, un texte critique de la chaine sur les chapitres 36 à 48 d'Ezéchiel et sa traduction française. Le commentaire, fondé sur les quatre auteurs susdits, met en valeur la diversité des eschatologies qui avaient cours dans l'école exégétique antiochienne, et y voit l'expression d'attitudes vis-à-vis du judaïsme et de la Palestine.
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Pirotte, Emmanuelle. "La Chair du verbe: l'image, le texte, l'écrit dans les évangéliaires insulaires (VIIeme-IXeme siècle)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211997.
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Woods, Linda Del. "Seven sacred spaces : an intertextual investigation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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This exegesis is the intertextual investigation of the work, Seven Sacred Spaces. It is a multilayered text documenting the process that occurred as both the work and the artist evolved and the dialogue that transpired between
the theory, the work and the artist.
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Niyogi, Sandip. "Synthesis and characterization of molecules to study the conformational barriers of fluorocarbon chains." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2511/.
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Fluorocarbons are known to be stiffer than their hydrocarbon analogues, a property that underlines the extensive industrial application of fluorocarbon materials. Although there has been previous studies on the rotational barrier of molecules having fluorocarbon centers, a detailed systematic study is necessary to quantify flurocarbon stiffness. The molecules, Pyrene-(CF2)n-Pyrene, Pyrene-(CF2)n-F, Pyrene-(CH2)n-Pyrene and Pyrene-(CH2)n-H were therefore synthesized to enable the determination of the barrier to rotation of the carbon backbone in fluorocarbons. Conformational studies will be completed with steady-state and time-dependent emission spectroscopy.
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Jünger, Frank. "Gespann und Herrschaft : Form und Intention großformatiger Gespanndenkmäler im griechischen Kulturraum von der archaischen bis in die hellenistische Zeit /." Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40929844f.
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Carre, Wilfrid. "Etude de la variabilité génétique de l'état d'engraissement chez le poulet de chair par analyse différentielle des ARN messagers hépathiques." Rennes, Agrocampus Ouest, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001NSARI025.
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L'objectif de ce travail est d'identifier des gènes responsables de la variabilité de l'état d'engraissement chez le poulet. Suite à une approche "gènes candidats", une démarche anonyme, par analyse différentielle des ARNm hépatique, a été mise en place sur deux populations de poulets d'élevage présentant des aptitudes différentes à l'engraissement (Grasse ou Maigre). L'analyse différentielle, réalisée avec 26 couples d'amorces différents, a permis de mettre en évidence 290 fragments différentiels. Parmi ceux-ci, 183 ont conduit à une séquence exploitable et sont représentatifs de 142 gènes différents. La recherche d'homologies dans les banques d'acides nucléiques a conduit à l'identification de 62 gènes et 17 EST (Expressed sequence tag) non annotées. Pour 63 produits, aucune similitude avec des gènes répertoriés n'a pu être mise en évidence. Les gènes identifiés donnent une vision parcellaire de quelques métabolismes et suggèrent une sur-expression des gènes de la phosphorylation oxydative chez les individus de la lignée grasse et une synthèse protéique plus importante chez les individus de la lignée maigre. L'analyse d'expression par dot-blot et par northern-blot de 31 des 142 produits a confirmé une différence d'expression entre lignées grasse et maigre pour 16 d'entre eux. L'analyse northern-blot a par ailleurs mis en évidence des différences structurales entre ARNm des individus gras et maigres pour certains produits différentiels. Ceci suggère que les produits issus de l'analyse différentielle ne sont pas dus seulement à une différence d'expression mais peuvent résulter de différences structurales. Enfin, 12 produits différentiels ont été localisés par hybridation in situ sur chromosomes. Cette localisation a confirmé 4 conservations de synténie avec les cartes humaines. De plus, la localisation de 2 autres produits, a également permis de relier ceux-ci à d'éventuelles zones QTL (quantitative trait loci) pour le caractère de l'engraissement.
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Burgess, Kevin, and kezmoon@bigpond com. "The Role of the Social Factors in Generating Innovation within Mature Industry Supply Chains � A Case Study." RMIT University. Management, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080414.143047.
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Supply chain literature has increasingly argued that supply chains are being used by a wide range of industries to generate innovations which deliver competitive advantage, and that social factors such as trust and collaboration play a key role in making effective supply chain management (SCM). Closer examination of the research suggests that much of this literature is based on studies of industries which deliver consumer products and these studies are predominantly conducted within a positivist research framework. This research bias has resulted in far less attention being paid to studies of mature industrial markets. This case study seeks to redress such bias by posing an overall question regarding the role of social factors in innovation within a well established supply chain which existed across three mature, capital intensive industries � steel manufacturing, transport and railroad track construction and working outside the positivist paradigm by using a m ultidisciplinary research approach within a �critical realist framework�. In responding to the overall research question, three subordinate questions were explored. Firstly, how well suited are present corporate governance structures of individual organisations to deal with the newly emerging interconnected organisational structures in order to support the generation of innovations within supply chains? Secondly, what has been the impact of the widespread adoption of information technology in generating innovation in supply chains? And thirdly, what is the role played by interorganisational social networks in generating innovations within supply chains? The overall findings were that the social factors played a far more important role than had hitherto been acknowledged in either supporting or inhibiting innovation within supply chains. Corporate governance was seen to generally inhibit innovation between organisations. The claims of much of the SCM literature which asserts a strong link between IT and innovation in supply chains was not supported. In fact, it was found that the majority of subjects preferred to get information through social systems. The role of interorganisational networks (IONs) was found to be most effective at generating incremental innovations aimed at maintaining operational efficiency. A critical realist research approach was able to uncover some difficulties associated with a purely positivist research paradigm which restricts investigation to the empirical level of ontology. The critical realist approach was able to explore social causal mechanisms and structures which were not as readily accessible at the empirical level of inves tigation. It was found that multiple realities existed across the supply chain, and that the positivist assumption of a mono reality which underpins much of the enterprise resource planning (ERP), process management and governance approaches was in fact inhibiting the ability of the social system to be innovative and ultimately driving up costs. In fact a process management approach supported by information technology and operating within present corporate governance structures created conflicting goals which increased complexity. A key finding of this study was how the open social system of the supply chain used dynamic relationships to overcome the rigidities and complexity of a closed systems logic embedded in the formal governance and information systems.