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Jefferis, Todd. "Orchestration as structural determinant in George Crumb's A Haunted landscape." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2261.
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Research Project (D.M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2001.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 100, [327], [287] p. : ill., music. Unpaged appendix: I. The score of A Haunted landscape; II. Music by Todd Jefferis. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-100).
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Jefferis, Tamlynn Charmaine. "Primary school educators' perceptions of emotional problems in children during middle childhood / Tamlynn Charmaine Jefferis." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8501.
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The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of primary school educators regarding emotional
problems in children, as well as their perceived role therein. In order to reach these aims, a qualitative
exploratory research design was used, and focus group interviews were conducted with primary school
educators from three urban schools in Gauteng, South Africa. The focus group interviews were
transcribed verbatim, and the transcripts were analysed through thematic content analysis. Themes
regarding educators' perceptions include extemalised and internalised behaviours, changes in children's
usual behaviour, the impact on school work, and physical or behavioural signs. In addition, the following
themes emerged regarding the perceived role of educators in relation to emotional problems in children:
educators identify emotional problems in children and love and support those children, they play an active
role in the lives of children, and educators utilise resources to assist them with interventions. Participants
in this study show insight into emotional problems in children, and are in need of extra support and
resources from helping professionals such as counsellors, psychologists and social workers in order to
intervene more effectively with children suffering from emotional difficulties.Thesis (M.A. (Research Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012
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Lagayette, Pierre. "Robinson Jeffers l'homme et l'oeuvre /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37606853m.
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Olson, Ted. "Robinson Jeffers: Appalachian, Californian, Poet." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1129.
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Excerpt: April is also National Poetry Month, and this column will focus on an April-themed poem—not one of the many April poems evincing sincere religiosity or forced sentimentality, and not that famous poem that cynically asserts that “April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land.
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Lagayette, Pierre. "Robinson jeffers : l'homme et l'oeuvre." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040133.
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La presente etude, la premiere de son genre consacree a robinson jeffers depuis vingt ans, est conduite d'un double point de vue, biographique et critique, s'attachant a suivre, selon une stricte progression chronologique, les interactions constantes entre la vie de l'ecrivain et son oeuvre. Elle offre, en s'appuyant sur de nombreux documents d'archives inedits, une recapitulation des evenements qui ont marque l'existence de jeffers, en les organisant selon trois sequences: la premiere concerne les annees d'apprentissage, c'est-a-dire la jeunesse itinerante du poete, de pittsburgh en suisse, puis en californie, jusqu'a l'installation definitive a carmel et a la publication du long poeme "tamar". La seconde couvre la periode de la maturite, caracterisee par la construction de tor house, l'adoption d'un mode de vie sedentaire et essentiellement familial et la composition des oeuvres majeures. Elle s'acheve, a la fin des annees trente, par l'emergence d'une crise conjugale qui culmine avec le suicide manque d'una jeffers, la femme du poete. La troisieme s'ouvre sur la seconde guerre mondiale et l'amorce d'un lent declin de l'ecrivain, ou se melent le traumatisme des annees de guerre, la maladie, la mort d'una et le tarissement progressif de l'inspiration poetique. Les poemes, quant a eux, font l'objet d'un examen approfondi qui englobe les circonstances de leur composition, l'historique de leur publication et l'incidence, sur la renommee du poete, des reactions critiques qu'ils ont suscitees. On peut ainsi suivre dans le temps la courbe ascendante, puis l'effritement de sa celebrite litteraire. Certains themes poetiques et philosophiques sont abordes a partir d'une analyse textuelle des oeuvres, principalement la conception de la mort et ses relations avec la creation artistique, la vision mystique et esthetique de la nature, ainsi que la fonction tragique du destin. La conclusion insiste sur le caractere tropique des personnages de jeffers, utilises par le poete pour symboliser la destinee mortelle de l'homme et presenter la souffrance comme son unique moyen de redemptionThis study, the first of its kind in twenty years, provides both a biographical and a critical approach to robinson jeffers and examines, within a strictly chronological sequence, the permanent interactions between the writer's life and his work. Using many unpublished documents, it surveys the main events in jeffers' life and gathers them into three periods: the first is devoted to the early vagabond years extending from his birth in pennsylvania, through switzerland and california, to the final settlement in carmel and the publication of the long poem "tamar". The second corresponds to the years of maturity, characterized by the building of tor house, the sedentary family life there, and the writing of his major works. It ends, in the late 1930's, with the appearance of a matrimonial crisis culminating with una jeffers' attempted suicide. The third opens with worl war ii and the beginnings of the poet's slow decline due as much to the trauma of the war, as to illness, una's death and the growing lack of inspiration. As for the poems, they are thoroughly examined from various points of view: how they were written, how published, and how they affected the poet's reputation through the critical reactions they entailed. We can thus follow the intensification, then the progressive decline of his literary fame. Some of jeffers' poetical and philosophical themes are investigated, starting from a textual analysis of the poems: mainly his conception of death and its relation to artistic creation, his mystical and esthetic vision of nature, and the tragic function of fate. To conclude, the emphasis is shifted to jeffers' characters as tropes, used by the poet to symbolize human destiny and mortality, as well as to present pain as man's only possible salvation
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Gadomski, Christopher. "Scenic design for Robinson Jeffers' Medea." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2399.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 2002.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 63 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 16).
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Reiswig, Amy. "Robinson Jeffers, hermit of Carmel : recontextualizing inhumanism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64185.pdf.
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Yozzo, John Michael. ""In Illo tempore, ab origine" violence and reintegration in the poems of Robinson Jeffers /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1985. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/8603797.
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Danezi, Irene. "Richard Jefferies as a social critic : modern loneliness." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683338.
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Grimble, Simon. "Landscape and the condition of England 1878-1917." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246496.
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Boro, Saikia Sudeshna [Verfasser], Sandra V. [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Jeffers, Stefan [Gutachter] Dreizler, and Jürgen [Gutachter] Schmitt. "Magnetic and activity cycles of cool stars / Sudeshna Boro Saikia ; Gutachter: Sandra V. Jeffers, Stefan Dreizler, Jürgen Schmitt ; Betreuer: Sandra V. Jeffers." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1142001598/34.
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Pittalis, Patrick. "La poétique de Robinson Jeffers sur "La route inhumaine"." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040048.
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La présente étude propose une approche critique de l'œuvre du poète californien Robinson Jefferson et s'articule à partir de la notion d'inhumanisme développée par le poète. Organisée en trois séquences et suivant une progression logique, l'étude s'efforce de révéler les articulations de la réflexion qui anime l'œuvre et examine ses dimensions critique et programmatique. La première séquence interroge les fondements de la réflexion jeffersienne de laquelle émerge une analyse critique sociale et culturelle de la civilisation occidentale moderne. L'étude des rapports conflictuels que le poète entretient tant avec la modernité qu'avec la religion, la science et l'humanisme révèlent les principes de la réflexion poétique de Jeffers qui permettent de proposer une tentative de définition de l'idée inhumaniste qui caractérise son œuvre. La deuxième s'attache à mettre au jour le programme poétique de Jeffers, fonde tant sur le sens de la solitude que sur une réévaluation du rapport de l'homme au monde et sur l'élaboration d'une esthétique de la nature. Au travers de l'étude des notions et concepts de solitude, monde, terre et nature, cette séquence établit un lien entre phénoménologie et poésie d'où il ressort que l'œuvre repose sur une vision biocentrique du monde. Enfin, la dernière séquence examine les moyens mis en œuvre dans l'écriture poétique jeffersienne pour soutenir et développer l'idée inhumaniste : l'étude du recours aux mythes, à la tragédie, aux poèmes narratifs ou didactiques, et aux principaux éléments de rhétorique (la rime et le rythme) dévoile la technique jeffersienne et permet de situer l'œuvre dans le cadre plus vaste de l'époque moderniste (que le poète rejette mais dont il partage néanmoins les préoccupations) et du rapport au romantisme. La conclusion insiste sur l'idée que l'œuvre de Jeffers se situe en marge de la poésie américaine moderniste et ouvre la voie du long poème narratif et de l'écopoésie qui émergeront du mouvement postmodernisteThis study aims at a critical approach to Robinson Jeffers's works and unfolds from the notion of inhumanism the poet coined. Following a logical progression in three sequences, it aims at revealing how Jeffers' poetic thought developed and examines its critical and programmatic structure. The first sequence, dealing with the conflicting views of the poet on modernity, science, religion and humanism, exposes Jeffers social and cultural critical analysis which led him to the idea of inhumanism and which reveal the basis of his poetics. The second examines his poetic program based on the concept of solitude and on a revaluation of the role of man in nature. The study of notions and concepts as solitude, world, earth, nature reveals the poet's biocentric vision and his aesthetics of nature, both establishing a connection between poetry and phenomenology. The study ends with an examination of Jeffers rhetorical devices and use of myth, narrative, and didacticism in order to support and nourish his idea of inhumanism; it also leads to a reconsideration of Jeffers' poetics in the vaster framework of modernism and the response to romanticism. To conclude, the emphasis is laid on Jeffers' importance as a turning point towards postmodernism. His poetry, written during the emerging and blooming years of modernist poetry opens the way to a postmodern narrative poetry and ecologically responsible poetry. Though it cannot be considered as a major poetic work, it must be seen as a precursor
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Poupon, Frédéric. "Trois poètes du sauvage : Robinson Jeffers, Gary Snyder et Kenneth White." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020BOR30012.
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La poésie et l’écologie entretiennent des relations étroites que le discours scientifique écrase. Pourtant la poésie étoffe nos imaginaires. Aux États-Unis, Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) célèbre dans des poèmes courts la beauté sauvage de la côte californienne. Après lui, un autre californien, Gary Snyder (1930-), installé dans les montagnes de la Sierra, poursuit une œuvre littéraire initiée aux débuts de la Beat Generation. Parce qu’il est un vrai montagnard, ses poèmes et ses essais interrogent ensemble les enjeux d’une écologie poétique. Pour Robinson Jeffers et Gary Snyder, le wild est une notion clef. Ils l’empruntent à H. D. Thoreau. Leurs œuvres littéraires sont tournées vers la vie « sauvage », la vie au grand air au contact des bêtes, des pierres, des hommes. Existe-t-il en France et en Europe une telle tradition poétique ? L’écrivain Kenneth White (1936-), né en Écosse, est un poète français de langue anglaise qui représente cette école littéraire. White la nomme « géopoétique ». Son entreprise littéraire est résolument tournée vers les espaces géographiques et naturels, et vers les livres qui les célèbrent. White est un chaînon pour articuler dans une approche comparatiste une poésie engagée dans le refus de l’envahissement total du Terrestre. En étudiant le rapport des poèmes à l’espace (première partie) nous avons observé qu’ils s’inscrivaient dans une histoire de la poésie américaine, où les figures d’Ezra Pound, de Charles Olson et de William Carlos Williams dominent. Cette inscription procède de choix esthétiques qu’il convient d’observer et de distinguer (deuxième partie). Or, les poèmes de Jeffers, Snyder et White révèlent qu’une poésie soucieuse d’écologie mène à une écologie de la poésie : celle-ci naît dans des lieux, se développe dans un climat, comme une plante sauvage, une bête, un Indien, un moine Japonais ou un vacher américain. L’oïkos de la poésie, c’est la Terre ; et la vocation de la poésie sauvage est de proposer une vie nouvelle, peut-être une paideia sauvage (troisième partie)Poetry and ecology enjoy a deep relation relationship with scientific discourse usually thwarts. Yet, poetry expands our imaginary powers. In the United States, Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) sings of the wild beauty of the Californian coast in his short poems. Following in his steps, another Californian, Gary Snyder (1930-), settled in the Sierra mountains, pursues a literary oeuvre he started at the beginning of the Beat Generation. Being a true man of the mountains, his poems and essays question the issues raised by a poetical ecology. For Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder, “the wild” is a key notion, descending from H. D. Thoreau. Their literary works deal with life “in the wilderness”, life in the open air, in proximity with beasts, rocks, and men. Do France and Europe have such a poetical tradition? Writer Kenneth White (1936-), born in Scotland, is a French poet writing in English who is part of this literary school, which he calls “geopoetics”. His literary enterprise is most definitely oriented towards the natural, geographical spaces and the books that celebrate them. White is a link that allows the fitting of a poetry that refuses to be totally invaded by that which is entirely Terrestrial, in a comparatist approach. By studying the rapport between poems and space (Part I), we have found that they were in line with an American poetry history, where such figureheads as Ezra Pound, Charles Olson and William Carlos Williams are dominant. These three poets make aesthetic choices we must examine and distinguish between (Part II). As it happens, Jeffers’, Snyder’s and White’s poems reveal that a form of poetry that cares about ecology leads to an ecology of poetry, born in specific loci, developing in a specific climate, just as wild plant, a beast, an Indian, a Japanes monk or an American cowboy would. Poetry’s oïkos is the Earth ; the call of wild poetry is to offer new life – a wild paideia, perhaps (Part III)
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Jeffery, William Edgar. "The worlds of James Jeffery, Victorian teacher." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2155.
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This thesis closely studies the career of James Jeffery as a
teacher, teacher politician and newspaper columnist from the earliest
days of the national system of primary education (1879) through to his
retirement in 1914, and beyond. It outlines his relationship with his
school committees and the inspectorate, showing him to have been an
innovative, articulate teacher, actively involved in the educational
controversies of that era, but ultimately much less successful
professionally than his early promise suggested he might have been.
Recruited newly certificated from Victoria along with others who
came to occupy significant positions in the Otago Education Board's
schools, he was promoted early (1886) to the headmastership of a
suburban Dunedin school. An inveterate proselytizer, self-educated
through omnivorous and life-long reading, he aimed at preparing
pupils for citizenship by having them think for themselves and form
their own conclusions. He advocated and practised studying the world
beyond the classroom - the events of the day, their background and the
world of nature. As an extension of these aims he conducted two longrunning
weekly newspaper columns which dealt with those worlds, and
which consequently provide an insight into the interests and opinions
of Victorian and Edwardian New Zealand.
Throughout he sustained an active role in teacher affairs, being
twice president of the Educational Institute of Otago, and of the New
Zealand Educational Institute 1904-1905. He was an important and
combative figure in many contemporary Otago educational
controversies, and nationally in the battle to gain a superannuation
scheme for teachers.
This combativeness, coupled with his inability or unwillingness
to contain his teaching within the confines of inspectorially approved
systems and syllabuses were factors contributing to his failure to be
promoted and to his early retirement, aged 56, in 1914.
Wartime secretaryship of the Otago institute, technical college
teaching, and patriotic work followed, and finally a brief foray into
local politics as a city councillor.
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Welshman, Rebecca. "Imagining archaeology : nature and landscape in the work of Thomas Hardy and Richard Jefferies." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/10921.
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Over the last two decades the potential for the combined study of literature and archaeology has been increasingly recognised. The Victorian era, which gave rise to new literary forms, and to archaeology as a science, offers a fertile area of enquiry. This thesis seeks to bring together the imaginative possibilities of archaeology and literature, conceiving their close association to be rooted in the observance and appreciation of the natural world. Focusing on the work of Thomas Hardy and Richard Jefferies, who both wrote about Wessex landscapes rich in archaeology, the thesis identifies the processes involved in the authors’ engagement with nature in archaeological settings. In 1851, Sir Daniel Wilson welcomed archaeology into the ‘circle of the sciences’, and the subject rose to popularity in the periodical press alongside rural pursuits; driven by the closing divide between town and country. Literary depictions of nature in ancient settings elevated the imaginative conception of the past, and found a receptive audience in London papers such as the Graphic and the Pall Mall Gazette, to which Hardy and Jefferies contributed. Both authors associate the mysterious qualities of prehistoric times, and the consonant sense of ‘untrodden space’, with the discovery of new subterranean territories in the self. In a society that was ‘adrift on change’, and seeking new meaning, these connections between the literary and archaeological imagination, and between the present and the past, forged at least temporary consolation. Both authors anticipated early Modern approaches to an archaeology of mind.
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Hutton, Mark. "Only the Earth Remains: Exploring the Machine in Selected Lyric Poetry of Robinson Jeffers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3322.
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In The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Idea in America, Leo Marx “evaluates the uses of the pastoral ideal in the interpretation of American experience” (Marx 4). While Marx explores ways that pastoralism has been impacted by factors such as industrialism, it is the purpose of this project to explore Marx’s assertion regarding the presence of the figurative and literal machine within the poetry of Robinson Jeffers.
Jeffers’ poetry is generally located within the landscapes of California. His lyric poetry has a distinct connection to the land and is driven by inhumanism, which works to shift the “emphasis and significance from man to not-man…” (Oelschlaeger 246). Jeffers’ machine like elements highlight the relationship between the natural world and humanity’s intrusion; in doing so, Jeffers furthers Marx’s supposition that American literature continues to be impacted by the machine, by “forces working against the dream of pastoral fulfillment” (Marx 358).
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Mosher, Melissa Beth. "Elizabeth Perkins and Jefferds Tavern: A n Example of the Influence of the Colonial Revival Upon Museums." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625434.
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Owen, Catherine R. "Poet of stone and planets, counter-pastoralism, inhumanism, and literary ecology in the work of Robinson Jeffers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ61598.pdf.
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Jefferies, Dominic [Verfasser], Dietmar [Akademischer Betreuer] Göhlich, Dietmar [Gutachter] Göhlich, Natalia [Gutachter] Kliewer, and Kai [Gutachter] Nagel. "Auslegung, Simulation und Optimierung elektrifizierter Stadtbussysteme / Dominic Jefferies ; Gutachter: Dietmar Göhlich, Natalia Kliewer, Kai Nagel ; Betreuer: Dietmar Göhlich." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1239729316/34.
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Stanton, David Jeffery. "Development and testing of an underground remote refrigeration plant / David Jeffery Stanton." Thesis, North-West University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/225.
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The objective of this study was to develop, install, and test a small underground
mobile refrigeration plant (M.R.P.) to deal with some of the real problems associated
with mine cooling in an operating mine.
The requirement for cooling the underground environment is discussed with
particular emphasis on the need for this method of cooling, with the concomitant
benefits.
The research investigated current methods of cooling and reasons for previous
failures in (M.R.P.). Both static and dynamic simulations were conducted to increase
the confidence level under operating conditions.
Implementation and testing, resulted in "lessons learnt" requiring modifications,
which are documented. Actual results have been recorded. These results have
proved that significant cooling via (M.R.P) is feasible.
Main benefits include positional efficiency, cost per kilowatt of cooling and cooling
opportunities for remote areas of a mine.
Finally, a proven technology is now available for large-scale implementation into the
mining industry. Now the ventilation engineer has another system of cooling, which
can be utilized in the quest to create an occupational environment, which meets the
physical and mental health requirements of the worker.Thesis (M.Ing.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2003.
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Rademeyer, Jefferey Rodney. "The role of total quality management in enhancing service delivery at Sedibeng District Municipality / Jefferey Rodney Rademeyer." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8494.
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Sedibeng District Municipality (SDM) falls within the category of local government, a sphere of government and being part of public sector management. The South African public sector management is affected by factors of globalization and finds it in competition with the private sector. Competition of this nature is about best practices and how to apply management systems, methods and standards that were successfully applied in the private sector and public sector institutions throughout the world. It is within this context that the study focuses on ways and means to address the inefficiencies, duplication of resources and wastages in SDM exacerbated by the silo approach between different clusters and departments. All of these have a negative effect on quality service delivery. Government has created an enabling environment through the enactment of legislation as well as adoption of policy frameworks to allow the public sector to pursue management theories such as Total Quality Management (TQM).
Literature review on TQM and business process mapping techniques is in abundance and attests to the usefulness of these techniques with practical examples. It is acknowledged that the concentration of TQM implementation is in relation to the product other than the service. The public sector is distinct from the private sector as the one is caring, developmental and democratic, whereas the other is profit driven. The ideological discourse on TQM and the perception that was created around it by labour, require further engagement in order to address mutual concerns. Stakeholders form an integral part of the public sector environment. The literature review draws a distinction between the citizen and the customer. Amongst the many examples, one is the implementation of TQM in the Japanese economy and the turnaround that it brought about, especially when applied in the manufacturing industries. Another example is the introduction of TQM and business process management in the Iranian public sector. Furthermore, the literature review highlighted contrasting views of TQM between labour and the private sector, which find themselves from time to time at loggerheads. Labour is protecting the workers from downsizing as a result of the implementation of TQM.
TQM and strategic business process mapping management techniques were identified in the hypothesis to improve quality in service delivery. Empirical research conducted which involved key municipal role players both internal as well as external endorsed the literature review. Research methods applied assisted in arriving as the following findings:
• Strategic business process mapping and TQM are mutually inclusive. Most of the responses received confirmed that top management is ready to embrace TQM as a management philosophy. They further demonstrated a profound sense of knowledge to the business process re-engineering within the TQM context. Silo-ism was evaluated and it can be overcome with the implementation of continuous improvement methods .. Many of the respondents responded favourably towards managing processes qualitatively, which can only be achieved through the application of strategic •business process mapping as an enabling tool. Strategic business process mapping bring about coherent and integrated processes, reducing inefficiencies and increasing effectiveness. Continuous improvement and customer orientation were rated equally high by respondents and therefore addressed the hypothesis as outlined above. All the variables associated with the assessment on awareness contribute towards improved service delivery.
• Incoherent public sector practices were illustrated in the form of the existing organizational culture. Of the participants who responded to questionnaires, some are of the view that the municipality subscribes to business organizational excellence and others not.
• SDM leans strongly towards strategy, which is a good sign in delivering on a quality-based strategic plan. The organization is becoming a learning organization that can align its vision and mission and strategic objectives to the TQM philosophy.
The study ends with recommendations for management action by the Executive Mayor and the Municipal Manager of Sedibeng District Municipality.Thesis (M. Development and Management)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010
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Jansen, Lloyd A. "Explaining rural calm and rural unrest in Costa Rica : the coffee and banana export sectors /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10702.
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West, Alan George H. "The natural history of the future: The related importance of history and nature to the work of Richard Jefferies, William Morris, H. G. Wells, and Aldous Huxley." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6083.
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Utopias and dystopias are forms of social criticism in which the author draws on an existing society to create a perfected (utopian) or exaggerated (dystopian) projection which is set in a different time and/or space from the original. As reactions to problematic, or potentially problematic, situations and developments, utopias and dystopias are always connected to change---they explicitly or implicitly present an argument for change, and/or they embody a response to it. This thesis focuses on four English authors who wrote utopias and/or dystopias between the latter part of the Nineteenth Century and the middle part of the Twentieth: Richard Jefferies, William Morris, H. G. Wells, and Aldous Huxley. In each case they not only responded to recent, endemic, or continuing change, but also implicitly or explicitly sought it. The narratives they wrote are founded in change and emerged during a time of flux. Jefferies responded to a declining rural culture, Morris to an expanding industrial culture, Wells to the material uncertainties evoked by evolution theory, and Huxley to the post-Darwin, post-War metaphysical incertitude which appeared to him to have decentred the culture. Each author also sought appropriate change to remedy the particular circumstances of which he was critical. This thesis looks at these authors, not simply in terms of their response to change, but in terms of their attitudes to the relatively enduring structures of nature and history. Nature, in its various manifestations, had different connotations for different authors. To Jefferies, nature---as local landscape and cosmic immensity, as ears of corn and universal life force---offered, amongst other things, an essential continuity that modern life was eroding. For Morris, nature offered inspiration and the possibility of a harmonious interrelationship with humanity once the restless era of capitalism had been succeeded by a restful future in communism. To Wells, both external and internal nature offered a dangerous unpredictability which must be controlled, while Huxley believed that humanity's struggle with the environment and consequent negative impact on it could be dissolved in the possibility of epiphanic fusion with the cosmos. Central to all their various conceptions of, and attitudes toward, nature, however, is the question of what are the shaping characteristics of humanity's relationship with nature. The unfolding of history, in the simple sense of time passing, was not synonymous with progress for these writers, and the perception that the temporal current was actually carrying society, or elements of it, toward regression and/or fragmentation inspired their remedial dystopian and utopian texts. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Telewski, Frank W. "Ethylene Production By Different Age Class Ponderosa and Jeffery Pine Needles as Related to Ozone Exposure and Visible Injury." Springer-Verlag, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/303765.
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Author's manuscript for published article. See Additional Links field for link to published version.Ethylene production by different needle age classes was characterized using a mercuric perchlorate traps in natural populations of two ponderosa pine varieties (Pinus ponderosa var. arizonica [Engelm] Shaw and var. ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.) and Jeffery pine (Pinus leffrevi Grev. and Balf.). All ozone -exposed populations contained individuals which were symptomatic and asymptomatic with respect to visible ozone injury. Ethylene production of different needle age classes was also characterized in Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa seedlings grown in open top ozone fumigation chambers. Older age class needles produce more ethylene than younger age class needles. Needles of both P. ponderosa var. ponderosa and P. jeffreyi exhibiting ozone injury in the field produced significantly (p >0.05) higher levels of ethylene than asymptomatic conspecifics. Seedlings exposed to highest treatment level of ozone in the fumigation study produced the highest levels of ethylene followed by fumigation with medium and low ozone concentrations and carbon filtered air. These data indicate that measurement of ethylene in conifer needles as a measure of stress needs to be calibrated for needle age class. It also suggests that the sensitivity of a tree to ozone injury may be regulated by the inherent ability of the individual to produce ethylene.
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Gozali, Harris K. "New Breed Leaders in Indonesian Democracy: A Critical Pluralist Examination of Ganjar Pranowo's Election as Governor of Central Java Province in 2013." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1127.
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A phenomenal thing is occurring in Indonesia’s young democracy. Politicians who are actually interested in propagating good governance and addressing the needs of their constituents are coming to power across the archipelago in increasing numbers. These fresh faces bring with them a pragmatic style of leadership that balks the trend of poor governance set by their distant, corrupt, and bureaucratic predecessors. Unsurprisingly, they have been lauded as the heroes of the people and the products of a maturing democratic regime. The foreign media, in particular, seem convinced that the people’s power, as expressed through democracy, is the driving force behind the rise of such “new breed” leaders. A closer look at the Central Java gubernatorial elections, however, reveals a more complex picture.
Through the use of a critical pluralist framework, this paper aims to shed light on the reality of how power is organized between oligarch and non-oligarch actors in the Indonesian polity. In the process, we also build a systematic framework that can be applied to other cases of “new breed” leaders coming to office, so that in the future, a more comprehensive comparative analyses on the topic can be done.
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Gano, Geneva Marie. "Continent's end literary regionalism in the modern West /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467886391&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Zimmann, Angela Wallington. "Turning the Noose that Binds into a Rope to Climb: A Textual Search for Rhetorical and Linguistic Gender-markings in Speech Samples of Three Contemporary Female Orators." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1194034667.
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Hedengren, Mary L. "National Identity Transnational Identification: The City and the Child as Evidence of Identification Among the Poetic Elite." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3452.pdf.
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Van, der Merwe Schalk Willem. "A MEMS based valveless micropump for biomedical applications." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4230.
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Thesis (MScEng (Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The valveless micropump holds great potential for the biomedical community in applications such as drug delivery systems, blood glucose monitoring and many others. It is also a critical component in many a lab-on-a-chip device, which in turn promises to improve our treatment and diagnosis capabilities for diseases such as diabetes, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. The valveless micropump has attracted attention from researchers on the grounds of its simple design, easy manufacturability and sensitive fluid handling characteristics, which are all important in biomedical applications. The pump consists of a pump chamber with a diffuser and nozzle on opposing sides of the pump chamber. The flow into the diffuser and nozzle is induced by an oscillating piezoelectric disc located on top of the pump chamber. The nozzle and diffuser rectify the flow in one direction, due to different pressure loss coefficients. The design process however is complex. In this study, we investigate the characteristics of a diffuser / nozzle based micropump using detailed computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analyses. Significant parameters are derived using the Buckingham-Pi theorem. In part based on this, the respective shapes of the diffuser and of the nozzle of the micropump are selected for numerical investigation. Hence the influence of the selected parameters on the flow rate of the micropump is studied using three-dimensional transient CFD analyses. Velocity profiles from the CFD simulations are also compared to the Jeffery-Hamel solution for flow in a wedge shaped channel. Significant similarities exist between the data and the predicted Jeffery-Hamel velocity profiles near the exit of the diffuser. Three different diffuser geometries were simulated at three frequencies. The flow rate and direction of flow are shown to be highly sensitive to inlet and outlet diffuser shapes, with the absolute flow rate varying by as much as 200% for the geometrical perturbations studied. Entrance losses at both the diffuser inlet and nozzle inlet appear to dominate the flow resistance at extremely laminar flow conditions with the average Reynolds number of Reave ≈ 500.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die kleplosemikropomp hou groot potensiaal in vir die biomediese gemeenskap in toepassings soos medisyne dosering sisteme, bloed glukose monitering en baie ander. Dit is ook ’n kritiese komponent in “lab-on-chip” sisteme, wat beloof om die behandeling en diagnose van siektes soos suikersiekte, tuberkulose enMIV/VIGS te verbeter. Die kleplose mikropomp het tot dusver die aandag van navorsers geniet as gevolg van sy eenvoudige ontwerp, maklike vervaardiging en sensitiewe vloeistof hantering. Hierdie kenmerke is krities inmenige biomediese toepassings. Die pomp bestaan uit ’n pompkamer met ’n diffusor en ’n mondstuk aan teenoorstaande kante van die pompkamer. Vloei in die diffusor en mondstuk in word geinduseer deur ’n ossillerende piëso-elektiese skyf wat bo-op die pompkamer geleë is. Weens verskillende druk verlies koëffisinëte van die diffusor en diemondstuk word die vloei in een rigting gerig. Die ontwerp-proses is egter kompleks. In hierdie studie word die eienskappe van die diffusor /mondstuk ondersoek deur gebruik temaak van gedetailleerde numeriese vloei-dinamiese analises. Belangrike parameters word afgelei deur gebruik te maak van die Buckingham-Pi teorema. Gedeeltelik gebaseer hierop word die onderskeidelike vorms van die diffusor en die mondstuk van die mikropomp geselekteer vir numeriese ondersoek. Gevlolglik word die invloed van die geselekteerde parameters op die vloei tempo van diemikropomp ondersoek deur gebruik temaak van drie-dimensionele tyd afhanklike numeriese vloei-dinamiese analises. Snelheids profiele van hierdie simulasiesword vergelykmet die Jeffrey-Hamel oplossing vir die vloei in ’n wigvormige kanaal. Daar is oorwegende ooreenkomstighede tussen hierdie data en die voorspelde Jeffrey-Hamel snelheids profiele veral by die uitgang van die diffusor. Drie verskillende diffusor vorms is by drie frekwensies gesimuleer. Daar is bewys dat die vloei tempo en vloeirigting baie sensitief is vir inlaat- en uitlaat diffusor vorms en dat die absolute vloei tempo kan varieermet soveel as 200%vir die geometriese versteuringswat ondersoek is. Inlaat verliese by beide die diffusor inlaat en die mondstuk inlaat, blyk om die vloei weerstand te domineer waar die vloei uiters laminêr ismet ’n gemiddelde Reynolds getal van Regem ≈ 500
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Bagge, Joar. "Numerical simulation of an inertial spheroidal particle in Stokes flow." Thesis, KTH, Numerisk analys, NA, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-180290.
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Particle suspensions occur in many situations in nature and industry. In this master’s thesis, the motion of a single rigid spheroidal particle immersed in Stokes flow is studied numerically using a boundary integral method and a new specialized quadrature method known as quadrature by expansion (QBX). This method allows the spheroid to be massless or inertial, and placed in any kind of underlying Stokesian flow. A parameter study of the QBX method is presented, together with validation cases for spheroids in linear shear flow and quadratic flow. The QBX method is able to compute the force and torque on the spheroid as well as the resulting rigid body motion with small errors in a short time, typically less than one second per time step on a regular desktop computer. Novel results are presented for the motion of an inertial spheroid in quadratic flow, where in contrast to linear shear flow the shear rate is not constant. It is found that particle inertia induces a translational drift towards regions in the fluid with higher shear rate.Partikelsuspensioner förekommer i många sammanhang i naturen och industrin. I denna masteruppsats studeras rörelsen hos en enstaka stel sfäroidisk partikel i Stokesflöde numeriskt med hjälp av en randintegralmetod och en ny specialiserad kvadraturmetod som kallas quadrature by expansion (QBX). Metoden fungerar för masslösa eller tröga sfäroider, som kan placeras i ett godtyckligt underliggande Stokesflöde. En parameterstudie av QBX-metoden presenteras, tillsammans med valideringsfall för sfäroider i linjärt skjuvflöde och kvadratiskt flöde. QBX-metoden kan beräkna kraften och momentet på sfäroiden samt den resulterande stelkroppsrörelsen med små fel på kort tid, typiskt mindre än en sekund per tidssteg på en vanlig persondator. Nya resultat presenteras för rörelsen hos en trög sfäroid i kvadratiskt flöde, där skjuvningen till skillnad från linjärt skjuvflöde inte är konstant. Det visar sig att partikeltröghet medför en drift i sidled mot områden i fluiden med högre skjuvning.
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Angel, Julie R. "Location, Location, Location: A Probabilistic Model of Banked Earthwork Placement Within the Central Ohio Landscape During the Early and Middle Woodland Periods." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274205403.
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Saunders, Brian J. "A Total Cost Approach to Supply Chain Risk Modeling." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3179.
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The modern supply chain is long, complex, interconnected and global, and plays a fundamental role in business competitiveness. These conditions, along with various supply chain management trends in recent years have increased risks in supply chains which threaten supply chain performance. Greater impact, especially on cost, from an increased threat of supply disruptions is one area of particular concern. Companies today are struggling to find effective means to manage this increased risk and avoid adverse financial impacts. An approach to managing supply disruption risk in supply chains based on the minimization of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the supply chain is explored in this thesis. Insights are provided into an appropriate view of supply chain risk and a general four step risk management process to guide the design and evaluation of a new risk management tool based on such an approach. A prototype of the new total cost-based, modeling and simulation tool was created in partnership with ProModel Corporation and a government contractor that requested to remain anonymous. A preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of this tool in minimizing TCO and providing an interface useable by non-modelers is provided. This study also reviews and compares a sample set of current supply chain risk management methods and tools and compares them with the new tool for relevance in aiding users in managing supply disruption risk. Based on literature findings and preliminary feedback from pilot contextual demonstrations of the tool, the total cost approach to risk modeling appears promising, although the execution needs to be improved with further enhancements made to the prototype tool. In this preliminary study and evaluation, sufficient evidence is not available to determine that the new prototype tool is any more effective than other currently available risk management tools to provide necessary information to make supply chain risk management decisions that minimize TCO of a supply chain. Suggestions for further development of the tool, especially for improvement of the total cost approach, are provided as well as a preliminary evaluation procedure and survey instruments for a more robust evaluation of the new tool.
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Jeffers, Victoria [Verfasser]. "Shedding light on Plasmodium knowlesi food vacuoles / Victoria Jeffers." 2010. http://d-nb.info/1009462865/34.
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Jeffries, Tania. "Women, marriage and survival in early modern England: the Hastings, Earls and Countesses of Huntingdon, 1620 to 1690/ Tania Claire Jefferies." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22302.
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"24 June 2005"Bibliography: leaves 282-293.
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Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
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Kaminski, Matthew James. "In the root of wisdom the role of the double-bladed axe in Robinson Jeffers's "The inhumanist" /." 2007. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/kaminski%5Fmatthew%5Fj%5F200708%5Fma.
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Bubel, Katharine. "Edge effects: poetry, place, and spiritual practices." Thesis, 2018. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9318.
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"Edge Effects: Poetry, Place, and Spiritual Practices” focusses on the intersection of the environmental and religious imaginations in the work of five West Coast poets: Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hass, Denise Levertov, and Jan Zwicky. My research examines the selected poems for their reimagination of the sacred perceived through attachments to particular places. For these writers, poetry is a constitutive practice, part of a way of life that includes desire for wise participation in the more-than-human community. Taking into account the poets’ critical reflections and historical-cultural contexts, along with a range of critical and philosophical sources, the poetry is examined as a discursive spiritual exercise. It is seen as conjoined with other focal practices of place, notably meditative walking and attentive looking and listening under the influence of ecospiritual eros. My analysis attends to aesthetics of relinquishment, formal strategies employed to recognize and accept finitude and the non-anthropocentric nature of reality, along with the complementary aesthetics of affirmation, configuration of the goodness of the whole. I identify an orienting feature of West Coast place, particular to each poet, that recurs as a leitmotif for engagement of such aesthetics and related practices. In chapter one, I consider a group of Jeffers’s final poems as part of a project he designated “our De Natura,” attending especially to his affinity for stones and stars. In chapter two, I investigate both Roethke’s and Hass’s configurations of ecospiritual eros in accord with their fascination for flora, while in chapter three, I employ the concepts of “aura” and “resonance” to explicate Levertov’s meditations on the “coming and going” Mount Rainier-Tacoma and Zwicky’s reflective iterations of the sea.Graduate
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Ospald, Felix. "Contributions to the Simulation and Optimization of the Manufacturing Process and the Mechanical Properties of Short Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Parts." 2019. https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A36522.
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This thesis addresses issues related to the simulation and optimization of the injection molding of short fiber-reinforced plastics (SFRPs).
The injection molding process is modeled by a two phase flow problem.
The simulation of the two phase flow is accompanied by the solution of the Folgar-Tucker equation (FTE) for the simulation of the moments of fiber orientation densities.
The FTE requires the solution of the so called 'closure problem'', i.e. the representation of the 4th order moments in terms of the 2nd order moments.
In the absence of fiber-fiber interactions and isotropic initial fiber density, the FTE admits an analytical solution in terms of elliptic integrals.
From these elliptic integrals, the closure problem can be solved by a simple numerical inversion.
Part of this work derives approximate inverses and analytical inverses for special cases of fiber orientation densities.
Furthermore a method is presented to generate rational functions for the computation of arbitrary moments in terms of the 2nd order closure parameters.
Another part of this work treats the determination of effective material properties for SFRPs by the use of FFT-based homogenization methods.
For these methods a novel discretization scheme, the 'staggered grid'' method, was developed and successfully tested. Furthermore the so called 'composite voxel'' approach was extended to nonlinear elasticity, which improves the approximation of material properties at the interfaces and allows the reduction of the model order by several magnitudes compared to classical approaches. Related the homogenization we investigate optimal experimental designs to robustly determine effective elastic properties of SFRPs with the least number of computer simulations.
Finally we deal with the topology optimization of injection molded parts, by extending classical SIMP-based topology optimization with an approximate model for the fiber orientations.
Along with the compliance minimization by topology optimization we also present a simple shape optimization method for compensation of part warpage for an black-box production process.:Acknowledgments v
Abstract vii
Chapter 1. Introduction 1
1.1 Motivation 1
1.2 Nomenclature 3
Chapter 2. Numerical simulation of SFRP injection molding 5
2.1 Introduction 5
2.2 Injection molding technology 5
2.3 Process simulation 6
2.4 Governing equations 8
2.5 Numerical implementation 18
2.6 Numerical examples 25
2.7 Conclusions and outlook 27
Chapter 3. Numerical and analytical methods for the exact closure of the Folgar-Tucker equation 35
3.1 Introduction 35
3.2 The ACG as solution of Jeffery's equation 35
3.3 The exact closure 36
3.4 Carlson-type elliptic integrals 37
3.5 Inversion of R_D-system 40
3.6 Moment tensors of the angular central Gaussian distribution on the n-sphere 49
3.7 Experimental evidence for ACG distribution hypothesis 54
3.8 Conclusions and outlook 60
Chapter 4. Homogenization of SFRP materials 63
4.1 Introduction 63
4.2 Microscopic and macroscopic model of SFRP materials 63
4.3 Effective linear elastic properties 65
4.4 The staggered grid method 68
4.5 Model order reduction by composite voxels 80
4.6 Optimal experimental design for parameter identification 93
Chapter 5. Optimization of parts produced by SFRP injection molding 103
5.1 Topology optimization 103
5.2 Warpage compensation 110
Chapter 6. Conclusions and perspectives 115
Appendix A. Appendix 117
A.1 Evaluation of R_D in Python 117
A.2 Approximate inverse for R_D in Python 117
A.3 Inversion of R_D using Newton's/Halley's method in Python 117
A.4 Inversion of R_D using fixed point method in Python 119
A.5 Moment computation using SymPy 120
A.6 Fiber collision test 122
A.7 OED calculation of the weighting matrix 123
A.8 OED Jacobian of objective and constraints 123
Appendix B. Theses 125
Bibliography 127Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit Fragen der Simulation und Optimierung des Spritzgießens von kurzfaserverstärkten Kunststoffen (SFRPs). Der Spritzgussprozess wird durch ein Zweiphasen-Fließproblem modelliert. Die Simulation des Zweiphasenflusses wird von der Lösung der Folgar-Tucker-Gleichung (FTE) zur Simulation der Momente der Faserorientierungsdichten begleitet. Die FTE erfordert die Lösung des sogenannten 'Abschlussproblems'', d. h. die Darstellung der Momente 4. Ordnung in Form der Momente 2. Ordnung. In Abwesenheit von Faser-Faser-Wechselwirkungen und anfänglich isotroper Faserdichte lässt die FTE eine analytische Lösung durch elliptische Integrale zu. Aus diesen elliptischen Integralen kann das Abschlussproblem durch eine einfache numerische Inversion gelöst werden. Ein Teil dieser Arbeit leitet approximative Inverse und analytische Inverse für spezielle Fälle von Faserorientierungsdichten her. Weiterhin wird eine Methode vorgestellt, um rationale Funktionen für die Berechnung beliebiger Momente in Bezug auf die Abschlussparameter 2. Ordnung zu generieren. Ein weiterer Teil dieser Arbeit befasst sich mit der Bestimmung effektiver Materialeigenschaften für SFRPs durch FFT-basierte Homogenisierungsmethoden. Für diese Methoden wurde ein neuartiges Diskretisierungsschema 'staggerd grid'' entwickelt und erfolgreich getestet. Darüber hinaus wurde der sogenannte 'composite voxel''-Ansatz auf die nichtlineare Elastizität ausgedehnt, was die Approximation der Materialeigenschaften an den Grenzflächen verbessert und die Reduzierung der Modellordnung um mehrere Größenordnungen im Vergleich zu klassischen Ansätzen ermöglicht. Im Zusammenhang mit der Homogenisierung untersuchen wir optimale experimentelle Designs, um die effektiven elastischen Eigenschaften von SFRPs mit der geringsten Anzahl von Computersimulationen zuverlässig zu bestimmen. Schließlich beschäftigen wir uns mit der Topologieoptimierung von Spritzgussteilen, indem wir die klassische SIMP-basierte Topologieoptimierung um ein Näherungsmodell für die Faserorientierungen erweitern. Neben der Compliance-Minimierung durch Topologieoptimierung stellen wir eine einfache Formoptimierungsmethode zur Kompensation von Teileverzug für einen Black-Box-Produktionsprozess vor.:Acknowledgments v Abstract vii Chapter 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.2 Nomenclature 3 Chapter 2. Numerical simulation of SFRP injection molding 5 2.1 Introduction 5 2.2 Injection molding technology 5 2.3 Process simulation 6 2.4 Governing equations 8 2.5 Numerical implementation 18 2.6 Numerical examples 25 2.7 Conclusions and outlook 27 Chapter 3. Numerical and analytical methods for the exact closure of the Folgar-Tucker equation 35 3.1 Introduction 35 3.2 The ACG as solution of Jeffery's equation 35 3.3 The exact closure 36 3.4 Carlson-type elliptic integrals 37 3.5 Inversion of R_D-system 40 3.6 Moment tensors of the angular central Gaussian distribution on the n-sphere 49 3.7 Experimental evidence for ACG distribution hypothesis 54 3.8 Conclusions and outlook 60 Chapter 4. Homogenization of SFRP materials 63 4.1 Introduction 63 4.2 Microscopic and macroscopic model of SFRP materials 63 4.3 Effective linear elastic properties 65 4.4 The staggered grid method 68 4.5 Model order reduction by composite voxels 80 4.6 Optimal experimental design for parameter identification 93 Chapter 5. Optimization of parts produced by SFRP injection molding 103 5.1 Topology optimization 103 5.2 Warpage compensation 110 Chapter 6. Conclusions and perspectives 115 Appendix A. Appendix 117 A.1 Evaluation of R_D in Python 117 A.2 Approximate inverse for R_D in Python 117 A.3 Inversion of R_D using Newton's/Halley's method in Python 117 A.4 Inversion of R_D using fixed point method in Python 119 A.5 Moment computation using SymPy 120 A.6 Fiber collision test 122 A.7 OED calculation of the weighting matrix 123 A.8 OED Jacobian of objective and constraints 123 Appendix B. Theses 125 Bibliography 127
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MacLeod, Suzanne. "From the "rising tide" to solidarity: disrupting dominant crisis discourses in dementia social policy in neoliberal times." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5213.
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As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive.Graduate
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