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Sundin, Jan-Erik, Marcus Almén, Johan Jonasson, and Henrik Ivansson. "Fool Factory." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1675.
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Projektet och examinationen är uppdelad i två delar. En reflekterande del och en produktion. Den reflekterande delen handlar om att vi ska få svar på de frågor vi ställde oss innan projektets start. Dessa frågor (se projektplanen) ska vi nu ha ett svar på samt att vi nu ska kritiskt granska vår process samt arbete. Vi måste också kunna svara på frågan om vi uppnådde de mål som vi satte upp i starten av projektet. Var målet, processen, syfte och metod överensstämmande med vår arbete? Detta hoppas vi kunna svara på i denna reflekterande del Vi har gjort en dokumentärfilm riktad mot ungdomar i samarbete med SVT i Växjö. Målet har varit att göra ett så bra arbete att vår film sänds på TV. Vi strävade efter att göra positiv TV som alla kan ta till sig. Vår inriktning under de två sista åren på Medieteknik har varit video, ljud och musikproduktion. Alltså var valet ganska lätt, vi ville göra en film och när vi pratade med SVT i Växjö var de också intresserade att påbörja ett samarbete med oss på Medieteknik. Vi har alltså SVT i Växjö som extern uppdragsgivare, detta faktum har naturligtvis påverkat oss då vi gör en film som kommer att visas på SVT i januari 2004. Denna yttre faktor har gjort oss mer noggranna och mer resultatinriktade. Samarbete med SVT har varit mycket givande och intimt, vi har fått mycket hjälp av Rune Johnsson som är fotograf hos SVT i Växjö. Utan Runes engagemang och framåtanda hade vi inte uppnått detta resultat som vi är väldigt nöjda med. Vår interna handledare, Paul Carlsson, har också varit till stor hjälp, han har stöttat oss och kommit med goda råd när vi kört fast. Det är Paul som kommer att examinera oss Att göra en dokumentär som är tänkt att visas på TV har varit en stor utmaning för oss men vi såg inga hinder som skulle göra att vi misslyckades. Vi har jobbat målmedvetet för att lyckas prestera det bästa, med ett acceptabelt sevärt resultat. Med detta arbete har vi fått offra mycket av vår fritid. Inspelningen har skett mestadels på kvällar och helger. Samtidigt har tre av våra medverkande bott i Växjöområdet så det har även inneburit många resor fram och tillbaks till Växjö. Vi är alla överens om att det har varit värt allt slit. Nu vet vi vilka misstag som vi kommer att göra i framtiden samt hur vi undviker dem.<br>The documentary that we have made is about four youngsters who, for one reason or another, have chosen not to prioritize school. We were already from the start of this examination job, agreeing on making a documentary film in a positive spirit. What we mean is that we wanted to make a film that is focused on a common phenomena that occurs in our society, from a objective angle. That we wanted to tell people that there are other ways to go, than the conventional life at school. At the same time we want to wash away the brand that people who has no higher education are losers, useless and with no future. We managed to find four colourful youngsters who where very different from each other. These girls and boys have all chosen not to prioritize school. Maybe not forever, but they have made a decision to quit, not caring about, or never starting school. So the film is about why they made their decisions and what they are doing instead. We also want to show their social life, their parents and their friend’s reactions. Will they be isolated from the society when they have chosen another lifestyle? Do they have any goals? What are they doing with their new won freedom? We want the viewer to react on one or more of the people in this film, maybe recognize that he or she knows someone that is in the same situation. Another thing that we want the audience to think about is what will happen to these young people in the future. Will they survive or will they become victims of the society? This film is made in co-operation with SVT (Swedish National Television) and will be broadcasted in January 2004. The reason for making a film is that we want to work with film production and everything it involves. Now when the movie is done and we have made all the mistakes that can be done, we have got the experience that is needed to start a new career.
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Lai, Peter Shung Kin. "Oscillating foil propulsion." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325277.
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Martinez, Daniel. "Play the Fool." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/d2h1z.
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Weisbach, Tobias, Jens Sumpf, and Christian Bumm. "Thermoplastic Multilayer Slide-Foil." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-231676.
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The training of movement procedures to increase the skills of athletes is a fundamental part of competitive sports. A realistic training, supported by technical equipment provides athletes a better success of training and is requested by trainers and training centers all over the world. Especially in winter sports, like luge or bob, a realistic training simulation is not always possible and demands adaptations of specific training procedures. As a part of this article, a new multilayer slide-foil will be presented, which allows athletes an even more realistic training. For this purpose the structure and production process of the foil composite will be shown, as well as results of the tribological behaviour of the foil<br>Das Training von Bewegungsabläufen, zur Steigerung von Fähigkeiten, ist ein fundamentaler Bestandteil im Leistungssport. Ein realistisches Training, unterstützt durch technische Systeme, ermöglicht es Athleten optimale Trainingserfolge zu erzielen und wird dementsprechend von Trainern und Leistungszentren überall auf der Welt gewünscht. Insbesondere in Wintersportarten, wie z. B. Rennrodeln oder Bobfahren, kann dies allerdings nur bedingt realisiert werden und erfordert oftmals Abstriche bei der Trainingsgestaltung. Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird daher eine mehrschichtige Verbundfolie vorgestellt, welche den Athleten ein realistischeres Training ermöglichen soll. Hierzu werden zum einen der Aufbau und die Herstellung des Folienverbundes erläutert sowie tribologische Untersuchungsergebnisse präsentiert
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Gore, Ashley N. "Being the Beautiful Fool." TopSCHOLAR®, 2013. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1283.
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Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other” (305). With that, I created a collection of short stories that analyzes my generation of women’s struggles. Framing the thesis are two stories involving three women, Lindsey, Jenny, and Sarah, “The Generation of Discontent” and “Revisions,” with the characters attempting to sort through love, success, and happiness in society. The piece “The Bachelor” has Amanda torn between her currently successful life and the glamour and sometimes infamy of being on ABC’s reality show The Bachelor. In “Eggs Kennedy Style,” the fine line between delusion and dreams becomes defined in both Nan and Kelley of being one of America’s royal Kennedy family. “Cops and Robbers” shows the inner turmoil of women who do not aspire to be mothers and feel guilty for their aspirations as well asthe resulting resentment when they have to give up their dreams. The ideas of taking your loved one for granted and life goals become the driving aspect of “Flat Tire” where story picks up in the middle of major fight between Nicole and Tommy stemming from him dropping the garter the night before at their friend’s wedding. “Almond Blossoms” between a flashback to Amsterdam with Sam’s Dutch fling Andric and present time suburban Ohio with her finance Kevin showing the conflict of being single compared to being settled. As Fitzgerald said, “An author ought to write for his generation” (ix) and I wrote based on my personal experiences as well as my friends’ tales and tribulations that tell of our generation’s struggle. Giving a voice to the high hopes and resulting discontent I feel is important which models the Modern writers like Fitzgerald’s Gatsby’s green lighted hope for Daisy. I hope to revive a bit of that Modern era in my time though our green light just might be the glow of The Bachelor from the television.
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Thomas, Gareth William. "Fell pony foal syndrome." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269579.
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Keeling, Linda Jane. "Social spacing in domestic fowl." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12338.
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Sullivan, Ellen Mowson. "The Journey of the Fool." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35309.
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Design in the civic realm demands opportunities to recognize commonality. Architecture, therefore, must provide a call and response between visitor and space. This intimate dialogue can only occur where landscape elements speak a universal language. Revelatory, Allegorical, Cosmological and Vernacular methods of design have traditionally been employed to communicate in the landscape. This project explores the method of Archetypal design as a means to avoid the culturally-dependent, and hence, esoteric language of design and so create an exoteric language more appropriate for civic space.<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Langlands, Trevor. "Modelling the foil rolling process." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2000. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37054/7/37054_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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A review of the main rolling models is conducted to assess their suitability for modelling the foil rolling process. Two such models are Fleck and Johnson's Hertzian model and Fleck, Johnson, Mear and Zhang's Influence Function model. Both of these models are approximated through the use of perturbation methods. Decrease in the computation time resulted when compared with the numerical solution. The Hertzian model was approximated using the ratio of the yield stress of the strip to the plane-strain Young's Modulus of the rolls as the small perturbation parameter. The Influence Function model approximation takes advantage of the solution of the well-known Aerofoil Integral Equation to gain an insight into how the choice of interior boundary points affects the stability of numerical solution of the model's equations. These approximations require less computation than their full models and, in the case of the Hertzian approximation, only introduces a small error in the predictions of roll force roll torque. Hence the Hertzian approximate method is suitable for on-line control. The predictions from the Influence Function approximation underestimates the predictions from the numerical results. Better approximation of the pressure in the plastic reduction regions is the main source of this error.
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Afrin, Sabrina. "Thermal performance analysis of ETFE-foil panels and spaces enclosed with ETFE-foil cushion envelope." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43977/.
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Ethylene-tetra-fluoro-ethylene (ETFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer. In the form of ETFE-foil it is applied in building envelopes in a single layer or more commonly, as inflatable cushions composed of multiple layers. ETFE-foils are widely used as a lightweight building envelope where high translucency, low structural weight, and complex shape is essential. However, limited research in the field of thermal performance of ETFE-foil panels and spaces enclosed with it instigated this study. Therefore, this study investigated (I) the thermal behaviour of ETFE-foil materials and the thermal performance of spaces enclosed with ETFE cushion roofs, (II) used commercially available thermal simulation software to predict the thermal performance of spaces enclosed with ETFE cushion and glass roofs and compared this with actual monitored behaviour (III) identified strategies to improve the thermal performance of spaces enclosed with ETFE cushion roofs in current and projected climate scenarios; and finally (IV) proposed design recommendations of ETFE-foil panels/cushions as a building fabric components. Material properties were investigated in laboratory based experiments. Further data were collected from two custom built outdoor test-rigs equipped with single-, two- and three-layer ETFE-foil panels. Environmental data were collected from two case study buildings to evaluate the thermal performance of the spaces enclosed with ETFE-foil cushion roofs. In addition, building simulation was conducted using EDSL TAS version 9.3.3.b to further analyse the indoor thermal environment and compare with monitored behaviour. The study identified variable thermal-optical properties of ETFE foils caused by various percentages of fritted area and its pigment density. The results also identified that the thermal environment of the test-rigs was affected by the variations in the surface temperatures of ETFE-foils and the temperature of air volume between multiple ETFE-foils (in case of two and three layer panels) by convective and radiative heat transfer mechanisms. The results from the case study buildings identified that during hot summer days, indoor air temperature and temperature stratification was higher in the atrium space enclosed with three-layer ETFE-foil cushions compared to the space enclosed with two-layer ETFE-foil cushion covered with rain mesh. However, both of the spaces were overheated during the summer of 2015. To develop an accurate simulation model for ETFE cushion roofs, a novel approach of modelling was developed. The simulation model was validated and calibrated by comparing with measured data from test-rigs and case study buildings. A comparison of predicted results of the spaces enclosed with a multi-layer ETFE-foil cushion roof and a glass roof showed that the extent of overheating was high when spaces were enclosed with glass roofs. Among two-and three-layer ETFE-foil cushion and glass roofs, two-layer ETFE-foil cushions with 75% fritting and rain mesh effectively reduced air temperature and cooling load during the peak summer period. The findings of this study will enable designers to select and develop design strategies for applying ETFE-foils in building envelopes on the basis of thermal and optical requirements. The study also suggested to change the view of current design practice that only focused on current conditions; such as the use of ETFE-foils may require more adaptive approach to mitigate overheating problems in projected climate.
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Ploskonka, Mitchell. ""'The fool. Shoot the fool': Ability, Super-ability, and Disability in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian"." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460363663.
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Borgen, Christian Thomas. "Application of an Active Foil Propeller." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for marin teknikk, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-11443.
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In this master thesis the author has investigated the potential benefits from an active foil propeller. Foils are mounted on the hull and take advantage of the heaving and pitching motion of the vessel travelling and produce thrust, similarly to the tail find of aquatic mammals. Active foil means that the angle of the foil has been controlled to constantly maximise the thrust. The author has investigated the potential fuel savings for three vessels, an offshore supply vessel, a coastal tanker and a purse seiner. Calculations have been done considering 9 different foil configurations and five wave headings at forward velocities of 10, 12, 15 and 18 knots. In regular waves six wave periods have been used and irregular waves are also considered. The structural aspect and the possibility of fatigue are investigated and concepts for storing the foils when not used are suggested. ShipX, a program developed my MARINTEK, has been used to find the motions of the vessels and other vital information needed to predict the potential fuel savings. The thrust force is calculated using MATLAB. The results show large potential benefits. Especially for irregular waves we have calculated fuel savings of more than 60 % at 10 and 12 knots. Higher velocities are less beneficial. A large aspect ratio combined with a large foil area produces the most promising results, but if the aspect ratio becomes to large there is a danger of fatigue and the foil structure must be strengthened. The foils are quite large and when not in used they would be stowed away. The ideal method is to store the foils in a compartment of little use, like in the collision bulkhead. There is no easy way of doing this, so the storing system would probably be costly. Over all the potential fuel savings are large for a range of wave conditions up to a certain vessel velocity, but there are practical aspects that would reduce the total benefits.
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Craig, Charles Horace. "Enhanced radiopacity austenitic stainless steel foil." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2007. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/2059.
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Austenitic stainless steel designed for implant applications is used to fabricate balloon expandable coronary stents. The alloy was not designed for this purpose but has been found to work well except for relatively low radiopacity in the energy range used for stent deployment, typically 80kV to 100kV. Stents made of more dense elements such as tantalum exhibit high radiopacity in this energy range. Low radiopacity is due to a combination of tubular stents having a thin wall (strut) thickness (less than 0.13mm) and the alloy being comprised of low-density elements, approximately 2/3 iron and 1/3 chromium and nickel. To retain the desired thickness and increase radiopacity, alloy density may be increased by partial substitution with dense element(s). The new alloy must maintain the biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, non-ferromagnetic structure, strength, ductility, and fatigue- and fracture-resistant characteristics that made the original alloy attractive to stent designers. Coronary stents are subject to intensive review by regulatory authorities prior to being approved for human use, thus stent designers are hesitant to depart from accepted standards in selecting new alloys. Revising an existing alloy is the preferred approach to achieve subtle feature changes. A set of criteria was set that maintained chromium, nickel, and molybdenum within prescribed compositional ranges and diminished iron to its minimum level, allowing platinum to be substituted for approximately 1/3 the total elemental weight (wt%). Above 20wt% platinum, undesirable precipitates were found. An alloy containing 20wt% platinum, in the form of foil and at a thickness of 0.127mm, was found to be free of precipitates not found in the base or original alloy and to provide approximately 20% radiopacity increase at 80kV and 15% radiopacity increase at 100kV, exceeding minimum programme goals at 80kV and equaling those at 100kV.
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Craig, C. H. "Enhanced radiopacity austenitic stainless steel foil." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/2059.
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Austenitic stainless steel designed for implant applications is used to fabricate balloon expandable coronary stents. The alloy was not designed for this purpose but has been found to work well except for relatively low radiopacity in the energy range used for stent deployment, typically 80kV to 100kV. Stents made of more dense elements such as tantalum exhibit high radiopacity in this energy range. Low radiopacity is due to a combination of tubular stents having a thin wall (strut) thickness (less than 0.13mm) and the alloy being comprised of low-density elements, approximately 2/3 iron and 1/3 chromium and nickel. To retain the desired thickness and increase radiopacity, alloy density may be increased by partial substitution with dense element(s). The new alloy must maintain the biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, non-ferromagnetic structure, strength, ductility, and fatigue- and fracture-resistant characteristics that made the original alloy attractive to stent designers. Coronary stents are subject to intensive review by regulatory authorities prior to being approved for human use, thus stent designers are hesitant to depart from accepted standards in selecting new alloys. Revising an existing alloy is the preferred approach to achieve subtle feature changes. A set of criteria was set that maintained chromium, nickel, and molybdenum within prescribed compositional ranges and diminished iron to its minimum level, allowing platinum to be substituted for approximately 1/3 the total elemental weight (wt%). Above 20wt% platinum, undesirable precipitates were found. An alloy containing 20wt% platinum, in the form of foil and at a thickness of 0.127mm, was found to be free of precipitates not found in the base or original alloy and to provide approximately 20% radiopacity increase at 80kV and 15% radiopacity increase at 100kV, exceeding minimum programme goals at 80kV and equaling those at 100kV.<br>Boston Scientific Corporation/SCIMED (Sponsor) has granted Cranfield University permission to publish this Thesis.
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Larnerd, Joseph Harold. "Foreboding Foil: The Throne's Militant Materiality." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/150143.
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Art History<br>M.A.<br>A glistening armada advances--airborne atomic assailants, the Christian soldiers of the nuclear age. Barrels fixed, scopes centered, abstracted pilots attentive and alert, James Hampton's colossal assemblage The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly (c. 1950-1964), an anticipatory altar of Christ's Second Coming, threatens viewer annihilation. Radiating foils besiege spectators in total illumination. Hampton's friend Otelia Whitehead, who viewed the work in its creator's company, recalled, "it was like the wings of Gabriel were beating in...extremely bright light." The Throne's lustrous reflection evokes its historical moment, an era entrenched in glaring fears of nuclear holocaust. Despite pervasive mid-century malaise and Hampton's direct participation in World War II, previous studies largely neglect his Cold War consciousness, focusing instead on the altar's Christian character. Radiating foil, evocations of WWII aircraft, and apocalyptic allusions to President Harry Truman, I contend, conspire to lend this evangelical altar secular urgency at the advent of the "atomic age."<br>Temple University--Theses
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Russo, Frank. "The writer and the holy fool." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29917.
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The exegesis focuses on the writer’s process of writing The Book of Gesuino, a novel of 165,000 words, whose protagonist develops aspects of the persona of a holy fool. The exegesis explores the historical development of the archetype of the holy fool in the hagiographies of early Christian saints, such as Saint Symeon of Emesa, and the development of the holy fool in the Eastern Orthodox tradition and secular variants in Western literature, as well as the adaptation of the Jesus narrative within Denys Arcand’s film Jesus of Montreal.
The difficulties inherent in writing a modern novel containing a holy fool as a central character are explored in light of approaches taken in two recent Russia texts, Svetlana Vasilenko’s novella, ‘Little Fool’ and Eugene Vodolazkin’s novel, Laurus. The writer also examines the historical research that informed the novel, with the Kingdom of Naples during the seventeenth century as its setting, including research regarding the historical presence and veneration of ascetic saints within Southern Italy and the repositioning of the holy fool within the era within which the novel is set. The writer does so with reference to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Matthew and his use of the Southern Italian landscape as the setting for his biblical epic. The writer uses the approach of personal essay to explore personal influences in writing the text, including oral storytelling.
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Park, Soongook. "Hybrid air foil bearing with external pressurization." Thesis, [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1350.
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von, Sicard Brunes. "Non-magnetic pitch and heavestabilizing T-foil." Thesis, KTH, Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-11029.
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<p>Pitch and heave are limiting motions when driving at high speed on water. The installation ofa T-foil is an effective solution that reduces these motions. Commercial T-foils are available,but today none of them are non-magnetic. This thesis studies the possibility to design anon-magnetic T-foil that can carry the considerable loads that such a constructionexperiences. The T-foil is designed for vessels such as the Visby Class corvette.</p><p>Vortex lattice theory is used to calculate the pressure distribution acting on the construction atdifferent load cases. Required laminate thickness is determined by iteration using a linearfinite element model of the fin.</p><p>The conclusion is that it is possible to manufacture a non-magnetic T-foil of the required size.A critical area in the construction is the T-joint between the vertical strut and the horizontalfoil. Future investigations should include laboratory tests of the T-joint as well as moredetailed hydrodynamic analysis for more accurate input parameters of the T-foil.</p>
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Eitzen, Fridtjof Camillo. "Mathematical Modelling of a Foil Propulsion System." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for marin teknikk, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-18604.
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This thesis considers a foil propulsion system on a supply vessel. In analysing the potential of a foil propulsion system, it is imperative to establish a rigid mathematical model. In that respect, modelling of the dynamic system is emphasised, and a comprehensive study is presented on the matter. The equations of motion for an oscillating foil and a vessel are derived, separately. The two systems are then combined, to form the coupled vessel-foil structure. For the vessel, a time-domain model based on Cummins' equation is proposed. Cummins' equation has proven efficient in assessing a unified seakeeping and manoeuvring problem (Fossen [2011]). In line, the vessel-foil system will be exposed to both vessel oscillatory motion due to waves and forward speed effects, i.e seakeeping and manoeuvring. Moreover, the efficiency of the foil is directly dependent on the two.Additionally, aspects of foil control is looked into. In theory, active control could maximise thrust while preventing stall, which would be ideal. The validity of simulations with active control, however, is highly dependent on the accuracy of the emph{basic} vessel-foil model. Consequently, effort has been focused on presenting a rigid mathematical foundation.
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Pernstich, Christian. "Protein dynamics of the restriction endonuclease Fokl." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.526007.
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Pizzari, Tommaso. "Reproductive strategies in feral fowl, Gallus gallus." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310796.
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Steele, Stephanie Chin. "Global vorticity shedding for a vanishing foil." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78192.
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Thesis (S.M. in Ocean Engineering)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60).<br>We explore several aspects of the phenomenon we call global vorticity shedding. Global vorticity shedding occurs when an object in viscous fluid suddenly vanishes, shedding the entire boundary layer vorticity into the wake at once. In our experiments we approximate the disappearance of a towed foil by rapidly retracting the foil in the span-wise direction. Global vorticity shedding is in distinct contrast with conventional shedding, in which vorticity is shed from a body from only a few separation points into the fluid. In this work, we show that for a square-tipped vanishing foil at an angle of attack, the globally shed boundary layer vorticity forms into primary vortices, which evolve and eventually amalgamate with secondary vortices to leave two lasting vortices in the wake. The secondary vortices are a result of three-dimensionality in the flow. For a streamlined-end foil, we achieve a simpler and less three-dimensional wake with no secondary vortices, arid only one lasting vortex dominating the wake. However, due to the initial vorticity distribution near the streamlined end of the foil, the initial circulation is reduced. We also show that the lasting vortices are capable of producing reasonably large forces on a body through simple potential flow estimations, aid that vortex formation times are small, with vortices fully formed nearly instantaneously in the flow. These features are promising for a force transducer using global vorticity shedding to impart large and fast maneuvering forces on an underwater vehicle.<br>by Stephanie Chin Steele.<br>S.M.in Ocean Engineering
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Robinson, Brooklyn D. "Playing the Fool: Feste and Twelfth Night." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/865.
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Twelfth Night does not end with the acceptance and consummation of these “alternative couples.” Instead, the reveal of the twins has a clarifying effect and the characters are returned to the partner who is considered socially acceptable. The final relationships are heterosexual matches that do not stray from class or any other societal confines. Indeed, the story serves to reinforce common standards equating alternative love with madness and proper love with lucidity. Standing outside of the couplings are only bachelor men: Antonio, Sir Andrew, Feste and Orsino’s pages. In effect, these men are desexualized without romantic counterparts. While they are deemed outcasts in Illyria, one character in particular stands to gain from this seeming lack of sexuality and outsider status: the clown, Feste.
Gender and power find clarification through the character of Feste because he is afforded all of the privileges of a male in a patriarchal society and in order to analyze him, his positionality within the function and structure of the story must be acknowledged. Usually the character of Viola holds this position in scholarship, but the possibility of Feste played by a female actor introduces similar themes of cross-gender disguise while decoding the heteronormative standards reinforced by the conclusion of the play.
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Ren, Ziyuan. "Crack Analysis of Notched Alpha Brass Foil." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271438213.
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Watts, Oliver. "Power and Misrecognition: The Cordelia/Fool Series." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16820.
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Power and Misrecognition: The Cordelia/Fool Series asks which qualities of painting can help in our understanding of ourselves as subjects of law and power. I have developed a mode of theatrical, performative painting that stylistically and narratively remains open. The narrative of the tableaux seeks to account for the law’s inability to totally account for its subjects. The medium of painting is revisited as the traditional courtly or authoritative art, especially the genre of history painting; in this series though painting’s agency is shown to be displaced and debased. The painting itself also embodies the foreclosure of the law’s complete imagining and imaging of the subject. My approach is contextualised within a variety of alternative artistic responses to legal subjecthood: post-conceptual painting, psychoanalytic theory, and critical legal studies. Ultimately this research paper and body of paintings argue for a meaningful and ethical response to “interpellation” constituted through an aesthetic acknowledgment of openness and law’s incompleteness. In this process the subject of the law is paradoxically shown to be the site of control but also the site of resistance and negotiation. This mode of resistance, from within the law’s structures, is defined through the act of artistic praxis as something that is ultimately part of the legal irrational, and also through a close law rereading of Cordelia’s character from King Lear, who becomes a proxy for the misrecognition of the law. My overall research findings have been presented in this research paper, an illustrated play (and set of tableaux scenes) and a series of paintings.
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Hoover, Michelle R. "The Fool and the Flood: A Journey." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2464.
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This journey based narrative inspired by the traditional narrative of the Major Arcana cards in the tarot, centers on The Fool and his interactions with the rest of the Major Arcana. The Fool’s journey centers on memory, regaining personal power, admitting and accepting weakness, and creating a personal place in relation to a larger world. This evolution throughout the journey is explored through detailed repeating imagery and symbols drawn from a mixture of traditional tarot imagery and the author’s personal image set created for this narrative.
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Pandit, Kalyan Kumar. "Detection of serotype and potential virulence determinants in Pasteurella multiocida of different host origin." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306277.
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Cassell, Santha. "The Fool As a Provisional Role in Shakespeare: Three Examples." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1396871859.
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Burgardt, Kyle. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me: learning from the events of 9/11." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2008. http://165.236.235.140/lib/KBurgardt2008.pdf.
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Dickman, Joseph Robert. "An Investigation of Gas Foil Thrust Bearing Performance and its Influencing Factors." Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270153301.
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Thesis (Master of Engineering)--Case Western Reserve University, 2010<br>Department of EMC - Mechanical Engineering Title from PDF (viewed on 2010-05-25) Includes abstract Includes bibliographical references and appendices Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center
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Seaton, Henry. "Playing the fool : a re-view of some of the many 'voices' of the fool in productions of King Lear." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396862.
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Avis, John Spencer. "Reducing added resistance using an anti-pitch foil." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27758.
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In this study, the use of a passive bow anti-pitch foil for the purpose of reducing the vertical motions and added resistance in waves of a small marine vehicle is investigated. The difficulties, limitations and assumptions inherent in studying ships in waves are discussed.
A mathematical model is developed incorporating linear strip theory, Joosen added resistance theory and oscillating hydrofoil theory in an attempt to predict the effect of a hypothetical anti-pitch foil on the heave and pitch motions and added resistance in head seas of the 12-metre yacht Canada II.
The results of regular head wave towing tank experiments on a 1:8 scale model of Canada II are presented for both the bare hull and for the hull fitted with a model anti-pitch foil to demonstrate the experimental effect of the foil on vertical motions and added resistance.
The results of the theoretical and experimental investigations show that the anti-pitch foil is in fact very effective in reducing the motions and added resistance of the Canada II hull. Experimental results show heave amplitude is reduced by as much as 15%, pitch amplitude by 22% and added resistance by as much as 40%.
The heave and pitch motion amplitude responses predicted by the linear strip theory for the hull with no foil, do not agree well with experiment, especially in the region around resonance. It is concluded that the linear strip theory used is not completely adequate in predicting the hydrodynamic coefficients and consequently the heave and pitch motions of Canada II due to non-linearities in her hull form. These non-linearities, in particular the flared topsides and large fore and aft overhangs, violate the linear assumptions of strip theory and result in increased hydrodynamic damping and speed dependent restoring coefficients that are not accounted for by theory. The Joosen added resistance theory predictions for the bare hull do agree well with experiment despite the hull non-linearities.
The change or percentage reduction in heave and pitch amplitude response due to the addition of the anti-pitch foil is predicted well by the oscillating hydrofoil theory, in spite of the inaccuracies of the strip theory in predicting the actual motions. Also, the Joosen theory predictions of the percentage reduction in added resistance due to the addition of the foil agree very well with experiment.
It is concluded that the mathematical model provides a very good conservative estimate of the amount of reduction in heave and pitch motion and added resistance that can be expected from the addition of a passive bow anti-pitch foil. The model could be very useful as a preliminary design tool for naval architects, where no such tool existed before.
The findings of this study indicate that the concept of using a passive bow anti-pitch foil to reduce the vertical motions and added resistance in waves is well worth pursuing.<br>Applied Science, Faculty of<br>Mechanical Engineering, Department of<br>Graduate
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Fox-Clipsham, Laura Yana. "Foal immunodeficiency syndrome : identification of the causal mutation." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569771.
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Foal Immunodeficiency Syndrome (FIS), is a disease that affects both Fell and Dales Ponies. FIS results in a profound anaemia and a severe deficiency in the number of circulating Bvlymphocytes. Consequently, FIS-affected foals begin to lose condition and suffer from multiple opportunistic infections; FIS is eventually fatal. Pedigree analysis, incorporating the knowledge of FIS-affected individuals, suggested that FIS is a genetic disorder, with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Further, analysis of the Fell and Dales Pony stud book revealed a common founder stallion, in the maternal and paternal lineage of all Fell and Dales FIS-affected individuals. Based on this, the primary aim of this investigation was to characterise the genetic lesion responsible for FIS, and subsequently develop a diagnostic test which could be used to identify asymptomatic carriers. Two approaches were taken in this study to definitively map the FIS locus; a micro satellite whole-genome scan, and a genome-wide association study. Linkage analysis and homozygosity mapping of the micro satellite marker data revealed a single locus which showed significant linkage to FIS. This was then further supported with the genome-wide association study, using the EquineSNP50 Beadchip, which identified the same locus with a significant disease association. After additional fine-mapping of the associated region, four plausible candidate genes were identified and subsequently investigated, although none revealed the causative mutation. Therefore, the entire FIS critical interval was sequenced using next-generation re-sequencing. This led to the identification of a non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphism, in the single ex on of the sodium/myo-inositol cotransporter gene (SLC5A 3) , which is highly associated with the FIS phenotype. This gene plays a crucial role in the osmoregulation of tissues, a process which has been shown to be extremely important in the development of lymphoid tissues, lymphocytes, peripheral nerves and during early embryonic development. Further functional studies are now required to assess the functional consequences of this mutation. The identification of this mutation has led to the development of a diagnostic test, which is not only used to identify asymptomatic carriers of FIS, but also to definitively diagnose foals which are suspected FIS-affected. Additionally, this test has been used to perform a population screen, to assess the prevalence of the FIS mutation and investigate possible transfer into other equine breeds. This revealed that carrier prevalence is approximately 40-50% in the Fell Pony and 10-20% in the Dales Pony. Further, this confirmed that the FIS mutation had transferred into the Coloured pony population. Global transcriptional changes in FIS-affected foals were evaluated as part of a pilot study. This revealed significant disruption of multiple pathways, including those responsible for the haematological system and its development, tissue development and cell growth. Due to the severe clinical presentation of the FIS-affected foals used in this study, this data provides limited information on primary consequences of the causal variant. Rather it provides a snapshot of the transcriptional changes associated with the downstream effects of the FIS-causal variant and the multiple pathological effects associated with this.
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Dean, Rebecca Fay. "Male ageing and sexual selection in the fowl." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525290.
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Delaurier, April Felicia. "The aetiopathogenesis of feline osteoclastic resorptive lesions (FORL)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1383225/.
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External feline osteoclastic resorptive lesions (FORL) of the tooth occur in 20-75% of domestic cats. Epidemiological studies have shown that the incidence of FORL increases with age, and premolars and molars are the most commonly affected teeth. However, the aetiological mechanisms of tooth destruction in FORL are unknown. In this study, the normal surface anatomy of the tooth, and the surface features of early and advanced FORL were described using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The local expression of mediators involved in the differentiation and activity of osteoclasts in teeth was investigated using RT-PCR and immunocytochemistry. Markers of bone turnover were measured in serum and urine to assess systemic processes of bone formation and resorption in normal cats and in cats affected with FORL. SEM demonstrated that the enamel at the cemento-enamel junction (CEJ) of the tooth was thinner than at other sites. There was reduced mineralisation of enamel and dentine at this location, potentially predisposing it to damage by resorption. In radiographically normal teeth, early resorption occurred most frequently at the CEJ, and involved enamel. This was the only region of the tooth that did not show evidence of repair, providing compelling evidence for the CEJ-origin of FORL. Resorption was prevalent among young animals, indicating that the initiation of disease occurs early in life. mRNA expression of interleukin- IP and interleukin-6 was elevated in teeth affected with FORL. mRNA and protein expression of Receptor Activator of NFKB (RANKL) was elevated in normal teeth and gingiva, while osteoprotegerin (OPG) was elevated in teeth and gingiva affected with FORL. The presence or severity of FORL was not associated with alterations in bone turnover markers, indicating that the stimulus for resorption occurs locally in the tooth microenvironment. This study has identified a number of factors that may be important in the pathogenesis of FORL, including features of the CEJ and changes in the expression of local cytokines in the tooth microenvironment; however, FORL does not appear to be associated with systemic alterations in bone cell activity.
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Edgar, Robert Charles. "The schlemiel and anomie : the fool in society." Thesis, University of Hull, 2001. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3533.
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This thesis examines the character of the schlemiel in comparative Jewish and Gentile American literature and cinema. It is the central claim that whilst the schlemiel is a strong Jewish character type this figure also appears in the texts of other socio-cultural groupings to an ever increasingly degree. With this is mind the character is examined in relation to the contemporary Western world, or Postmodern society.To achieve this aim the study is divided into three sections. The first deals with traditional perspectives on the schlemiel, examining prior definitions and gives a brief historically linear overview. Key examples are given to provide `case studies' in both literature and film. The examples chosen represent those characters considered to be archetypes, specifically Hyman Kaplan and the characters created by Woody Allen. Section Two examines processes of characterisation in literature and film to investigate whether there is anything at the most basic level of the text which identifies the traits and attributes of a schlemiel or from where an audience may derive information. This section examines a range of Jewish and non-Jewish texts via Structuralist and Narratological analysis. Section Three looks at the contemporary social function of schlemiels. Even if it is possible to clearly identify what schlemiels are their socio-cultural function remains important. The character is placed in a `postmodern' context. The final chapter develops from this into looking at the function of the schlemiel as a comic character and theories of comedy.Whilst the theoretical approaches utilised are there to test the character it is inevitable that the schlemiel will test the theories. It is the irrational and illogical nature of . schlemiebthat dictates that they will have problems fitting into the rigid patterns created by any neo-Structuralist approach such as Narratology. The character also tests rationalist responses to the `Postmodern condition' and this in turn provides a critique of the Aristotelian principles of Section Two and the socio-temporal definitions of Section One. This work attempts to provide a re-evaluation of a historically entrenched character for the late twentieth century and to provide a critique of theories, which purport to provide universal answers.
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Ousey, Jennifer C. "Thermoregulation and energy metabolism in the newborn foal." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304028.
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Spencer, S. R. "Androgen metabolism in the domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus)." Thesis, University of Kent, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380574.
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Vick, Lorraine Mary. "Genetic manipulation of fowl via primordial germ cells." Thesis, University of Reading, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317960.
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Jones, Emma Kathleen May. "Behavioural responses of broiler fowl to atmospheric ammonia." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271753.
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Holdstock, Nicola B. "Electrolyte and water homeostasis in the perinatal foal." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362971.
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Beal, David Nelson 1973. "Propulsion through wake synchronization using a flapping foil." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17599.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-150).<br>The design issues associated with underwater vehicles operating in the surf zone or other high-energy environments are likely to have viable biomimetic solutions. The flapping fin is capable of producing high instantaneous forces, giving fish the ability to turn and accelerate rapidly, and fish are capable of sensing the flow characteristics in their environment using the lateral line, aiding obstacle entrainment, schooling, rheotaxis, and prey detection. A highly maneuverable vehicle that is capable of sensing the changing flows in its environment would have a considerably higher survival rate in dangerous currents. As an initial foray into the sensory and control methods that could be used by a biomimetic vehicle, we studied energy extraction through synchronization with an incoming Karman wake for both fish and mechanical flapping foils. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) swimming within a flow channel voluntarily positioned themselves 4D downstream from a 2" D-section cylinder, and synchronized with the cylinder wake in both frequency and phase. The phase of the trout's lateral position relative to the wake, described through a Wake Function W(x, t) defined as the lateral-sum of vorticity at a point downstream from the cylinder, was 100Ê» for the head, 160Ê» for the center-of-mass, and 240Ê» for the tail, implying that the trout's mass was moving laterally with the flow in a low-power swimming mode, but that its head and tail had flow across them. A euthanized trout passively synchronized with the wake and accelerated forward towards the cylinder, through fluid-excited motion only, proving that trout benefit not only from drafting in the velocity deficit behind the cylinder, but also through interaction with the vortices in the wake.<br>(cont.) The thrust and efficiency of a heaving and pitching foil depends on how the foil interacts with the wake of an upstream cylinder. A systematic set of tests varying foil motion within the wake revealed that thrust was considerably more sensitive to wake interaction then efficiency, with the coefficient of thrust varying by 0.4, and the efficiency by 0.1, depending on the phase between foil and cylinder heave motions. Thrust and power input was always highest when the foil leading-edge motion opposed the lateral velocities in the wake, likely due to an increase in the angle-of-attack across the foil. When thrust production was high (CT 1), the foil was most efficient when it led the wake by 30Ê» for the leading-edge and 120Ê» for the trailing-edge, but when thrust was low (CT 0.3), efficiency was highest for interactions similar to that of the trout, leading the wake by 125Ê» for the leading-edge and 215Ê» for the trailing-edge. Since the trout's coefficient of thrust was also low, these results were in agreement despite the many differences between the fluid-mechanical systems. I designed and tested an algorithm that could synchronize the foil with an unknown wake using simple sensors and calculations. Additionally, I studied the foil moving passively in the wake using force-feedback to model the foil supports as a spring-mass-damper. The foil produced 0.27 N of thrust at a negative mean power input of 90 mW (energy extraction), a feat impossible for a passive device within a uniform stream.<br>by David Nelson Beal.<br>Ph.D.
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Mongrard, Olivier 1976. "High-accuracy foil optics for X-ray astronomy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82233.
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Stahl, Brian James. "Thermal Stability and Performance of Foil Thrust Bearings." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333722754.
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Koubová, Monika Bc. "Uplatnění marketingového řízení v podniku FOPO II, s.r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165172.
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V teoretické části se práce zaměřuje na podklady sloužící pro analýzu marketingového řízení. Společnost FOPO II., s.r.o. je autorizovaný dealer značky FORD s hlavním sídlem v Počátkách. V praktické části jsou popsány jednotlivé fáze marketingového řízení a jednotlivé nástroje marketingového mixu. V závěrečné části práce jsem zhodnotila marketingové řízení a využívání jednotlivých nástrojů marketingového mixu a navrhla jsem zlepšující opatření do budoucna.
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Paganucci, Craig J. "The optimization of a dual foil flapping device." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03sep%5FPaganucci.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003.<br>Thesis advisor(s): Kevin D. Jones, Max F. Platzer. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56). Also available online.
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Bleck, Lena [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Stieglitz. "Chip-in-foil systems for miniaturized smart implants." Freiburg : Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1214592686/34.
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Netherwood, Trudy. "The association of Clostridium perfringens with foal diarrhoea." Thesis, Open University, 1995. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57556/.
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Several case reports of Clostridium perjringens involvement in equine enteric disease have not identified the prevalence and statistical association of these bacteria with foal diarrhoea. Each of five methods which favoured the recovery of C. perjringens in different physiological states were chosen to improve the sensitivity of isolation in a survey of foal diarrhoea for C. perjringens and other pathogens. C. perjringens was significantly associated with foal diarrhoea (isolated from 57% of 421 scouring anjmals but from only 33% of 222 controls; odds ratio 7.4; p < 0.001 by multivariate analysis); it was also associated with fatal diarrhoea (odds ratio 2.7; p=0.047). Rotavirus, Cryptosporidium sp. and large numbers of Strongyloides westeri were the only other pathogens associated with diarrhoea although they were less prevalent than C. perjringens; Salmonella sp. was the only other pathogen associated with fatal diarrhoea. Enterotoxin production was detected by reverse passive latex agglutination test (RPLA) amongst isolates of C. perjringens from scouring and healthy foals. The enterotoxin gene from an equine strain was cloned and its sequence was essentially identical to that published for a human isolate. Less than 5% of C. perjringen isolated from scouring foals and 0.5% from controls were positive for the enterotoxin gene by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (odds ratio 19.1; p<0.005). Presence of the enterotoxin gene was confirmed in representative isolates with a gene probe of chromosomal DNA and PCR product as well as neutralisation of cytotoxicity by antitoxin. Enterotoxigenicity of half ofRPLA positive isolates could not be confirmed in this way. Enterotoxigenic C. perfringens were a probable cause of foal diarrhoea. However, a greater proportion of the disease was associated with nonenterotoxigenic . perjringens. There is now a need to identify molecular differences between non-enterotoxigenic C. perjringens strains from scouring and healthy foals which might be associated with pathogenicity.
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Clark, Amy Ruth Wilson. "Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels: Contemporary subversive tales." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2986.
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Drawing especially on Donna Haraway's notion of the cyborg, this thesis argues that Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels, through their depiction of the cyborg and their use of metafiction, intertextuality, and irony, subvert binaries and hierarchies that cause social injustice. Chapter one argues that Colfer's characters disrupt the oppressive binary opposition between innocence and experience that characterizes children's literature. Chapter two argues that Colfer's fairy hierarchy satirizes the human hierarchy. Chapter three argues that Colfer's cyborg, by disrupting the boundary between machine and organism, breaches the wall around the pervasive garden hierarchy of childhood innocence. Chapter four argues against the traditional textual hierarchies which classify children's literature as inferior, and which give adult writers power over child readers.
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Aslett, Michelle. "Fowl feathered fox: Monsters, pipers, families and flocks." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1633.
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Fowl Feathered Fox: Monsters, Pipers, Families and Flocks is a doctoral work consisting of a full-length stage play and an exegesis. An introduction outlines the scope of the doctoral work, while a concluding chapter reflects on research findings and considers staging issues and implications. Appendices include images incorporated into the play’s action as well as photographed excerpts from a series of visual diaries used to document the play’s evolution. The play, Fowl Feathered Fox, explores the nature of delusion, deception and the tragedy of The Beast Within. Borrowing as it does from the traditions of revenge tragedy, comedy and horror, the style of Fowl Feathered Fox is both sensual and sensationalistic. Indeed, by virtue of overstepping traditional ideological, stage and venue boundaries to tap into an audience’s faculties of taste, physical sensation and smell, I aim to confront, seduce and repel on every possible sensory level. Here, in keeping with the conventions of Renaissance revenge tragedies as well as contemporary re-imaginings of the genre in popular culture, a tragic protagonist is forced to behave as a detective in order to put an end to a terrible, taboo curse. As a black comedy however, Fowl Feathered Fox makes light of taboo topics, as the darkness of the subject matter is buoyed by meta-theatrical gags, ironic humour, word-play and brief forays into interpretive dance. In the tradition of horror film and fiction, my eponymous ‘fowl feathered fox’ is a specifically Australian re-imagining of the archetypal shapeshifter, blending the qualities of the wolf in sheep’s clothing, the false prophet, the Pied Piper and the werewolf. Surrealism, with its roots in psychoanalysis, underscores the play’s visual aesthetic: this stage is littered with fearful, surgically invasive and aggressively sexual forms, objects and images. The exegesis, Monsters, Pipers, Families and Flocks, interrogates various mythic, historical and fictional examples of charismatic cult leadership, locating patterns in the paradigmatic nexus shared by monsters, cults and families. A trio of exegetical essays considers the tragic nature of lycanthropy, Nietzsche’s conception of the Apollonian/ Dionysian dichotomy, the socio-cultural dynamics of charismatic cult leadership and the frightening, fascinating phenomenon of pseudologia fantastica. The first exegetical essay explores the lycanthropic and messianic qualities of two real-life malevolent cult leaders: Rock Theriault (Canada) and William Kamm (Australia). The second exegetical essay interrogates the enthralling, intoxicating qualities of the Pied Piper of Hamelin and Greek demi-god Dionysus, finding parallels in tragic revenge narratives wrought by infamous American cult leaders such as Charles Manson and David Berg. Finally, the third exegetical essay examines monstrous, messianic mothers from Greek myth, horror fiction and memoir: specifically, the goddess Demeter, Margaret White from Brian de Palma’s Carrie (1976) and notorious Australian cult leader, Anne Hamilton-Byrne.