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Amoui, Kalareh Kurosh. "Arabian Knights : punk Islam and selected works of Michael Muhammad Knight." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46008.

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This thesis is an analysis of Michael Muhammad Knight’s works with a particular focus on The Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, Osama Van Halen, Impossible Man, William S. Burroughs vs. the Quran, and Tripping with Allah. It differs from earlier critical writing on Knight by taking a Bakhtinian approach to his ground-breaking first novel The Taqwacores and its attempt to open a dialogue on reforming American Islam, focusing on Knight’s relationship to the Beats and their often overlooked Islamic discourses as his ideal model for this artistic/social reform, and tracing a shift in his work from reformist, documentary fiction to self-focused, “cool” autobiography. It argues that what enables Knight to initiate a punk reading of Islam, to cut-up the Quran, and to prescribe ayahuasca (a psychoactive vine native to Amazonian Peru) to pilgrims going to Mecca is his interpretation of the famous statement attributed to Hassan Sabbah: “Nothing is true; everything is permitted.” Meanwhile, Knight’s approach differs from that of many writers from Rabelais and Dostoyevsky to Nietzsche and Burroughs who have cited or paraphrased this statement. While these writers describe how devastating it would be to live in a godless world where everything is permitted with no hereafter, Knight stresses a vague “coolness” in Sabbah’s statement which he uses to guide his own style of living. This is a criticism, not of his belief, but of its consequences. What is absent in Knight’s works is a consideration of the matter of death, and this absence opens a space in which everything is permitted since there would be no final judgment. Moreover, although Knight has successfully brought some marginalized narratives of Islam to public attention, his disrespect towards mainstream, middle class Muslims, whether orthodox or progressive, in his recent works closes off the dialogue which seemed to open with the publication of his first book.

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Nash, Stephen John. "Uncertainty and adversity : an examination of Knightian economic theory." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620593.

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Herrmann, Ricardo Guimaraes. "Planejamento hierárquico sob incerteza Knightiana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/45/45134/tde-06082008-171546/.

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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo estudar a combinação de duas técnicas de planejamento em inteligência artificial: planejamento hierárquico e planejamento sob incerteza Knightiana. Cada uma delas possui vantagens distintas, mas que podem ser combinadas, permitindo um ganho de eficiência para o planejamento sob incerteza e maior robustez a planos gerados por planejadores hierárquicos. Primeiramente, estudamos um meio de efetuar uma transformação, de modo sistemático, que permite habilitar algoritmos de planejamento determinístico com busca progressiva no espaço de estados a tratar problemas com ações não-determinísticas, sem considerar a distribuição de probabilidades de efeitos das ações (incerteza Knightiana). Em seguida, esta transformação é aplicada a um algoritmo de planejamento hierárquico que efetua decomposição a partir das tarefas sem predecessoras, de modo progressivo. O planejador obtido é competitivo com planejadores que representam o estado-da-arte em planejamento sob incerteza, devido à informação adicional que pode ser fornecida ao planejador, na forma de métodos de decomposição de tarefas.
This dissertation\'s objective is to study the combination of two artificial intelligence planning techniques, namely: hierarchical planning and planning under Knightian uncertainty. Each one of these has distinct advantages, but they can be combined, allowing the planning under uncertainty a performance gain and giving the hierarchical planning the ability to produce more robust plans. First, we study a way of performing a transformation, in a sistematic way, that enables forward-chaining deterministic planning algorithms to deal with non-deterministic actions, that doesn\'t take into account the probability distribution of actions\' effects (Knightian uncertainty). Afterwards, this transformation is applied to a hierarchical planning algorithm that progressively performs decomposition starting from tasks without predecessors. The obtained planner is competitive with state-of-the-art non-deterministic planners, thanks to the additional information that can be given to the planner, in the form of task decomposition methods.

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Santos, Nelson Seixas dos. "O oligopólio diferenciado sob incerteza Knightiana." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/221.

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Simkins, William Scott. "Steinbeck the Writer-Knight." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625595.

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Boff, Hugo Pedro. "Competição oligopolística em ambiente de incerteza knightiana." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/77.

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Este artigo aplica rn.n teori,ma de existência de equilibrios de Nash sob incerteza (Dow & Werlang, 1~4) a um problema clássico da Teoria da Competição Oligopolística. Particularmente, mostra como se pode mapear todos os equilibrios de Cournot (que incluem as soluções de monopólio e de bloqueio total da produção) unicamente em função da aversão à incerteza dos produtores. Os efeitos das variações destes parâmetros sobre as produções de equilibrio são estudados. Também, as soluções de Cournot sob incerteza são comparadas com a solução do monopolio standard. Particularmente, mostra-se: que existe um nível de incerteza tal que toda aversão à incerteza (do mercado) superior à este nível, induz os agentes a produzir, agregadamente, quantidades menores que as de monopolio. Enfim, as soluções de equilibrio são particularizadas explícitamente nos casos da Demanda Linear e do Duopolio de Cournot

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Tebbit, Alistair. "The household knights of Edward II." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434773.

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Ingamells, Ruth Louise. "The Household knights of Edward I." Thesis, Durham University, 1992. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1509/.

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The royal household lay at the heart of the king's army in the late thirteenth century. The military importance of the knights attached to Edward's household has been examined by M.0 Prestwich. Although Prestwich acknowledged that the knights did serve in other areas of royal government no systematic study of their role has been attempted. Based on an examination of the surviving wardrobe accounts and other documents the role of the household knights in many areas of royal government in England and Edward's other dominions has been assessed. The part they played in newly or partially conquered territories of Wales and Scotland has also been considered. The knights attached to Edward's familia were employed as sheriffs, justices, constables of castles and diplomats and councillors. However the proportion of knights who served in these areas remained small. The knights were appointed With any regularity only to posts which demanded a combination of military and administrative skills. A large number held royal offices in Scotland and Wales. However, there were a small number of knights hose skills as diplomats and councillors were clearly of more importance to the king than military prowess. This inner circle of knights were probably the forerunners of the chamber knights of the fourteenth century. The rewards received by the knights in return for their services have also been considered in great detail. The knights were rewarded in accordance with their status and length of service within the household. The major grants of lands, wardships and offices went to a fairly small group of men. The others received more minor gifts of grants of timber and animals. Edward was not a king who was renowned for his generosity. However, the loyalty of the knights to their master suggests that the rewards they received were adequate.

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Mitchell, Shelagh Margaret. "Some aspects of knightly household of Richard II." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298273.

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O'Malley, G. J. "The English Knights Hospitaller, c.1468-1540." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272606.

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Eckersley, Rosanna. "A study of Winifred Knights, 1915-1933." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/58565/.

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Winifred Knights, 1899-1947, was a student at the Slade School of Art from 1915, where she developed a decorative manner of rhythmic, repetitive forms, one form of cautious modernism. In 1920 she was the first woman to win the Rome Prize in Decorative Painting. The award was for three years at the British School at Rome. Knights often chose to base her paintings on biblical subjects, or the lives of saints. She was not religious and I argue that these stories, which were well-known in Britain at the time, were vehicles to represent the lives of women and families in the unsettled years during and after WWI. Many women artists have depicted domestic scenes, but Knights chose the exterior and multi-figure compositions, including many self-portraits. She used these compositions to explore women‟s vulnerability, rebellion against male control, maternity and the self-sufficiency of a women‟s community. Personal material is present in all her work and much of it deals with the traumas she suffered. My thesis argues that her paintings‟ engagement with the viewer is not restricted by this material: the themes she explored resonated with contemporaneous viewers, as they do today. The argument closely examines Winifred Knights‟ paintings, including their art historical sources. It draws on her correspondence and on the social conditions of Britain and Italy. The small number of her oil paintings is no measure of Knights‟ success as artist and woman. Indeed, the many dimensions of life as artist, woman, mother and wife were important to Knights. While previous studies of women artists have regarded biography as artistic source material or distraction, I argue that it is central to understanding Knights and her contexts. This thesis therefore argues that the many aspects of a complete life fed into Knights‟ painting and can be seen in her sensitive depictions of women‟s lives.

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Wheet, Carson Taylor. "THE CREATION AND DEMISE OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193529.

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Ross, Marion E. "Schopenhauer and Beckett : 'knights with death and devil'." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329516.

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Faulkner, Kathryn Helen. "Knights and knighthood in early thirteenth century England." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267719.

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Jencks, Alden. "Maccabees on the Baltic : the Biblical apologia of the Teutonic Order /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10370.

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Roubaud, David. "Options réelles et ambiguïté." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX32040.

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Cette thèse se positionne au croisement de la théorie de la décision en univers incertain et de la théorie des choix d’investissements irréversibles (options réelles). Elle poursuit trois objectifs principaux :1. Tout d’abord, elle s’inscrit dans un courant de recherche dynamique, notamment en économie et en finance, qui vise à modéliser l’impact de l’ambigüité à laquelle des décideurs sont parfois confrontés lorsqu’ils contemplent des choix aux conséquences irréversibles. 2. Ensuite, elle met l’accent sur la persistance de fortes controverses théoriques portant sur les fondements axiomatiques des modèles de décision face à l’ambigüité. Aussi, nous proposons d’utiliser certaines propriétés des modèles non linéaires pour aborder sous un angle original la représentation de l’ambigüité et des préférences des individus face à celle-ci. En particulier, nous suggérons de ne pas restreindre a priori la nature des préférences individuelles face à l’ambigüité. Pour cela, nous adoptons les fondements de l’approche de Choquet, à savoir tout particulièrement l’emploi de capacités (probabilités non additives) pour pondérer les différentes alternatives ambigües. Tout en proposant ce processus stochastique ambigu, dit Choquet-Brownien, nous soulignons les conditions de l’inévitable arbitrage entre réalisme des hypothèses et souplesse d’utilisation du modèle. D’un point de vue axiomatique, une attention particulière est portée au respect de la cohérence dynamique.3. Enfin, cette thèse vise à encourager une prise en considération plus ambitieuse des sources d’incertitude dans le cadre des options réelles. Alors qu’ils sont présentés comme des outils privilégiés pour affronter le risque, les modèles d’options réelles ont certainement beaucoup à gagner à s’enrichir par la prise en compte également de l’ambigüité. En effet, alors que le risque est largement discuté dans la littérature des options réelles, l’impact de l’ambigüité est très largement ignoré
The need to elaborate innovative methods to analyze risk and uncertainty has become increasingly obvious over the last decades, especially due the growing perception of the multiplicity of social and economical issues characterized by the weight of uncertainty (natural disasters, ecological risk, financial crises…).This thesis is at the crossroad between decision theory under uncertainty and the irreversible investment theory (real options). Consequently, the main goal of this thesis is three-fold: 1. First, it contributes to the dynamic stream of literature in economics and finance that models the impact of ambiguity that individuals may often face and/or perceive when contemplating irreversible choices.2. Next, this thesis emphasizes that even with the plethora of decision models already dealing with uncertainty, elaborating sound axiomatic foundations largely remains an open question. This leads us to recommending the use of non linear models (such as multiple-priors, Choquet expected utility, robust control, smooth ambiguity), which in turn raises many challenging theoretical and practical obstacles. We explore original ways of addressing some of these issues and suggest the construction of ambiguous stochastic processes in a Choquet expected utility framework (that are called Choquet-Brownian motions): ambiguity preferences are thereby directly embedded into the trajectory of some random variables that may drive a decision, such as the expected cash flows of an investment project or its exit value.3. Finally, this thesis also aims specifically at encouraging the enrichment of real option models. It is striking that only the impact of risk has been widely discussed by the real option theory so far, while the specific impact of ambiguity has been largely ignored. Considering that the real option theory is directly concerned with sources of flexibility, irreversibility and uncertainty in general, ambiguity represents a promising expansion

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Slattum, Kevin James. "Sherlock Holmes in Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner's "Knight's Gambit" and Detective Fiction." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625359.

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Durrer, Rebecca A. (Rebecca Ann). "Knightly Gentlemen: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and His Historical Novels." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500933/.

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This thesis analyzes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contribution to the revival of chivalric ideals in late Victorian England. The primary sources of this study are Doyle's historical novels and the secondary sources address the different aspects of the revival of the chivalric ideals. The first two chapters introduce Doyle's historical novels, and the final four chapters define the revival, the class and gender issues surrounding the revival, and the illustration of these in Doyle's novels. The conclusion of the thesis asserts that Doyle supported the revival of chivalric ideals, and the revival attempted to maintain, in the late nineteenth century, the traditional class and gender structure of the Middle Ages.

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Kim, Eunsik. "Knight shift anomalies in heavy electron materials /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487936356157588.

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Hyttenrauch, David Edward. "Ladies and their knights in Middle English Arthurian romance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239380.

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Mahoney, Peter J. "The Seven Knights of Lara: annotated translation and study." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12813.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
In his monumental study of 1896, La leyenda de los infantes de Lara, Ramon Menendez Pidal rescued the story of the Seven Knights de Lara (SKL) from near oblivion and sought to resolve the more problematic issues of the narration included in the thirteenth-century Estoria de España for the first time. Approximately a half-century later, the same story was retold in the Crónica de 1344 with more vivid and novelistic details, as well as episodes that were absent from the earlier version. Many scholars have dedicated their careers to studying the medieval epic, yet they have never read the SKL because there was no English translation of it. I have pioneered the first bilingual edition of the legend with the hope of making it accessible to a broader audience ofscholars and students ofthe Middle Ages. My objective was to capture accurately the details of the original texts while providing a translation that can be read independently of them. In order to achieve this goal, I took minor liberties and suppressed unnecessary repetitions, modernized the syntax, and divided the text into paragraphs. Keeping in mind the needs of an audience of scholars and students, I have provided explanations about key historical figures and events, geographical names, concepts of medieval law, specific points of contention among critics regarding certain passages or characters, and references to other literary works. A principal component of the edition is the preliminary study that presents the social, political, and literary contexts in which the narration was composed as well as the major problems that literary scholars discuss today: the questions about the origins of the legend and its authorship, the date of composition, medieval historiography, history and fiction in the SKL, the structure of the two versions and their differences, and the representation of the SKL in later literary works. In the study I not only present the major trends of scholarship that have emerged, but also develop and expound my own perspective on the legend. I assert that the chroniclers included the SKL in the Estoria de España to preserve a well-known story with a moralizing lesson about the dangers of internal enemies and treason.

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Lightfoot, K. W. B. "The household knights of King Henry III, 1216-1236." Thesis, Swansea University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637915.

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This thesis examines the indispensable role played by the household knights of King Henry III in the governance of England, Ireland, and those parts of Wales under Crown rule between the years 1216 and 1236. A large part of this study is devoted to reconstructing the membership of the familia regis from the fragmentary evidence for this period. Building on that reconstruction and the identification of king’s knights it provides, the major duties and functions of the milites regis are examined. It will be shown that their greatest contribution as a group was through their performance as sheriffs castle custodians, diplomats, and guardians of important state prisoners. How the king’s knights were compensated for their service is also examined. This thesis shows how the terra Normannorum was used as a preserve by Henry III to reward his knights for their services, and how tenure of these escheats, given initially at pleasure, were gradually secured as hereditary grants guaranteed by royal charter. The process whereby this occurred is discussed as well as the political implications. The development of a system of monetary rewards during the minority and early years of Henry III’s personal rule involving annual Exchequer fees is also examined.

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Morton, Nicholas Edward. "The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land :1190-1291." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486329.

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This study is a comprehensive analysis of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land. It discusses their early development and their rising importance in the Latin East. It explores the strong connection between the order's growth and the enthusiasm of the Gennan nobility for crusading to the Holy Land. Within this the brethren's relationship to the empire and the papacy at this time is examined closely. Crucially, this thesis seeks to nuance the current contention that the order was merely an expression of the emperor's Mediterranean policies and demonstrate that its intentions, like its interests, lay in the defence of Christendom, not in the wars ofthe papacy and empire. Over time the order acquired major territorial holdings in Livonia and Prussia and the effect of these growing military and financial commitments upon its Levantine branch is examined to show the way in which defeats and opportunities on these northern frontiers could impact upon the Levant. Within the Latin East itself, the order's relationship with the lay and ecclesiastical hierarchies is analysed to evaluate their contribution to the local politics of the Holy Land. Furthennore, the brethren's role in the Eastern Mediterranean is continually contrasted with that of the Templars and Hospitallers to highlight the similarities and differences between their institution and these older orders. Internally, the order's system of control and organisation is examined to discuss how effectively the institution overcame the challenges of its geographically dispersed commitments and how factions within the order, which advocated the needs ofeach separate frontier, affected its general policy. In short, this is a detailed study of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land which places both their military and internal affairs in the context of their responsibilities in the Baltic and the wider poli~ics of the medieval world.

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Abram, Zachary. "Knights of Faith: The Soldier in Canadian War Fiction." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34613.

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The war novel is a significant genre in twentieth-century Canadian fiction. Central to that genre has been the soldier’s narrative. Canadian war novelists have often situated the soldier’s story in opposition to how war has functioned in Canadian cultural memory, which usually posits war as a necessary, though brutal, galvanizing force. This dissertation on how novelists depict the Canadian soldier represents a crucial opportunity to examine Canadian cultures of militarization and how Canadian identity has been formed in close identification with the mutable figure of the soldier. The most sophisticated Canadian war novels engage with how militarism functions as a grand narrative in Canadian society, while enabling Canadians to speak about issues related to war that tend to be over-simplified or elided. This dissertation examines emblematic Canadian war novels – The Imperialist by Sara Jeanette Duncan, Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison, Turvey by Earle Birney, Execution by Colin McDougall, The Wars by Timothy Findley, Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins, The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart, etc. – in order to trace how the representation of the Canadian soldier has shifted throughout the twentieth-century. Canadian war novels are culturally cathartic exercises wherein received notions of Canadian moral and military superiority can be safely questioned. The Canadian soldier, often characterized in official discourse as the personification of duty and sacrifice, has been reimagined by war novelists throughout the twentieth century as a site of skepticism and resistance. In many Canadian war novels, the soldier affords the opportunity to claim counter-histories, reject master narratives, and posit new originary myths.

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LEITE, LUIS ALBERTO MELCHIADES. "REAL OPTIONS UNDER KNIGHTIAN UNCERTAINTY IN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (P&D)." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=19880@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
A tese busca aprimorar, em termos teóricos e práticos, a modelagem de valoração econômica de investimentos sob alto grau de incerteza, tais como os projetos de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (P&D), sobretudo os de natureza incremental. Partindo de um modelo de valoração de projetos baseado na Teoria das Opções Reais, incorpora uma concepção de incerteza mais completa, que alcança aspectos ligados ao ato decisório, conhecida como Incerteza knightiana, onde são separados os conceitos de risco e incerteza. A aplicação integral da concepção de Knight (1921) em modelos quantitativos é possível em função do desenvolvimento matemático de Schmeidler (1982), que resultou em nova fórmula de cálculo de valores esperados, baseada na integral de Choquet (1953). O novo modelo compreende um cálculo de valor esperado que reconhece no agente uma aversão à incerteza nessa conceituação, conhecido como valor esperado de Choquet.
The Thesis aims to improve, on theoretical and pratical terms, the modeling of economic valuation of investments under high uncertainty, such as Research and Development projects (R&D), especially those that are incremental in nature. From a valuation model based on the design of Real Options Theory, it incorporates a more complete view of uncertainty, which reaches the decisionmaking aspects of the act, known as knightian Uncertainty, where the concepts of risk and uncertainty are separated. The full implementation of the concept of Knight (1921) on quantitative models is possible according to the mathematical development of Schmeidler (1982), which resulted in a new formula for calculation of expected values, based on the Choquet integral (1953). The new model includes a calculation of expected value that makes it possible for the agent to recognize an uncertainty aversion in this concept, known as the Choquet expected value.

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Lucas, Karen. "Middle English romance, attitudes to kingship and political crisis, c.l272-c.l350." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4637/.

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This study used mostly printed sources to investigate wider attitudes to kingship than those of the political philosophers and to consider their implications for the understanding of the political crises of 1297, 1326 and 1340-41.Middle English romances are suitable for determining more 'popular' attitudes to kingship because of their subject matter, the length of texts, their dissemination and their receptivity to contemporary opinion. These 'popular' attitudes were those belonging to the audience of the romances, being the large and increasingly politically influential group comprising knights and gentry. The romances contain substantial images and concepts of kingship, revealing strong expectations of the king in the areas of justice, good government and defence. They reveal an understanding of questions such as the nature of royal power and the king’s position with regard to will and law. The perception of kingship which animated the relationship between king and people was shown to be that of familiar social bonds. The images of kingship found in the romances are supported by those in a second type of popular literature, the legendary histories of Britain. The romance images provide legitimate evidence for the attitudes to kingship of knights and gentry. They are both representative of the opinions of this social group and capable of influencing the opinions of the people who had contact with the romances. Edward 1 was familiar with the attitudes of his people towards kingship and he appealed to these extensively to gain support for his requests for military service, money and supplies in 1297. The deposition of Edward II in 1326 showed royal opposition to be equally at ease in appealing to 'popular' attitudes to generate public support for the rebellion. The attitudes also created a receptive background for the removal of the king. In 1340-41 Edward III and his opponent Archbishop Stratford appealed to royal subjects' attitudes on kingship in order to try to achieve their practical and political aims. 'Popular' attitudes towards kingship became strengthened by association with particular kings and events.

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Nievergelt, Marco. "Spiritual Knighthood, Allegotical Quests; The Knightly Quest in Sixteenth-Century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491083.

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Southwick, Leslie. "Knightly armour in England in the age of the black prince." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325983.

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Boyce, Liel Y. "Knightly Bird Vows: A Case Study in Late Medieval Courtly Culture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3134.

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In the late Middle Ages, there was a series of instances wherein knights vowed upon birds. Two of these, the first and the last, are historical events: The Feast of the Swans with Edward I in England on 22 May 1306 and the Feast of the Pheasant with Philip the Good in the duchy of Burgundy on 17 February 1454. Edward I held the Feast of the Swans as part of his son's dubbing ceremony, including the entire court taking vows on two swans. The Feast of the Pheasant was an elaborate banquet that Philip the Good used to gather support for a crusade. The other three are literary texts: the Voeux du paon, the Voeux de l’épervier, and the Voeux du héron. The Voeux du Paon contains an account of a group of nobility connected to Alexander the Great at a truce banquet. One of the prisoners accidentally kills a lady's peacock and the group decides to take vows on it before recommencing battle. The Voeux de l’épervier concerns Henry VII of Luxembourg en route to Italy to claim the title of Holy Roman Emperor. One of his knights accidentally kills a sparrowhawk and they decide, as a court, to take vows on it. Lastly, the Voeux du héron depicts Robert d' Artois inciting Edward III to initiate the Hundred Years' War over a heron. Each of these instances creates a sub-set, the bird vow cycle, within medieval vowing tradition. The origin of the bird vow cycle lies within that vowing tradition. John L. Grigsby has declared these instances as a crystallization of the gab convention of medieval literature. However, Grigsby ignored the Feast of the Swans and the Feast of the Pheasant since he was concentrated on defining a literary genre. This thesis attempts to show the bird vow cycle as connected this this literary tradition, but also a crystallization of the courtly culture that had developped in the late Middle Ages. It also attempts to show the origins of this cycle—it not only came out of a vowing tradition, but also is tied to King Arthur traditions. The culture of the late Middle Ages was nostalgic and looking back towards an idealistic version of the past—whether in legends like Arthur or historical figures like Alexander. Thus, the knightly bird vow cycle was a particular example of that fantasy in their culture. In conclusion, this thesis not only gathers together what literature there is on the knightly bird vow cycle, but it places it within a literary and historical context. The knightly bird vow cycle would not have been possible without a culture obsessed with fantasy and idealistic courtly culture.

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Chaltain, Sam. ""The Poet, the Poem, and the People": Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics." W&M ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626201.

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Kerbawy, Kelli R. "Knights in white satin women of the Ku Klux Klan /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=758.

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Theses (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2007.
Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains v, 116 pages including illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-116).

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Graham, Tom. "Knights and merchants : English cities and the aristocracy, 1377-1509." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6cbaed78-e5fb-4b31-94b8-5d9df7a0ef72.

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This thesis examines how English towns and townsmen interacted with the aristocracy in the late middle ages. To do so, it compares the experiences and behaviour of four towns and their inhabitants across a 'long' fifteenth century running from 1377 until 1509. These four examples - Exeter, Norwich, Salisbury and Southampton - represent a cross-section of important provincial towns, with each providing a different picture because of their differing contexts and circumstances, particularly the contrasting political societies of the counties which surrounded them. The first half of the study considers links between individual townsmen and aristocrats. In particular, it discusses the patterns displayed by both groups' property ownership as well as their involvement in royal government, before investigating direct connections which existed between them. It concludes that although links did emerge between these groups, most were short-lived and had few political or social implications. The exception was a group on the boundary of gentility, including lawyers, administrators, royal servants and a small number of prosperous townsmen. These men moved relatively easily between town and country and often had interests in both spheres, but their activities rarely combined the âaristocratic' and the 'urban'. In addition, their low status in landed society meant that they rarely drew wider urban and aristocratic society into contact. The second part of the thesis examines the relationship between aristocrats and town governments. It argues that aristocrats could provide significant benefits to towns, but only if they possessed national influence and local authority. This combination was originally exclusive to regional magnates, but the 'new monarchy' empowered progressively minor figures, and towns ultimately preferred to seek the aid of these junior men. It also argues that aristocrats received some benefit to their prestige and worship from helping towns, and that magnates were perhaps even expected to do so by both towns and the king.

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Hefferan, Matthew. "Edward III's household knights in war and peace, 1327-1377." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51579/.

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Over the last thirty years, Edward III has claimed his rightful place amongst the most successful kings of medieval England. A significant aspect of Edward’s reign that has as of yet been largely overlooked, however, is the place of the royal household knights within it. This is a significant omission for the household knights permeated many aspects of Edward’s reign and were integral to the way in which he conducted his wars and governed his kingdom. In order to provide a comprehensive investigation of Edward’s household knights, this thesis consists of four principal sections. The first concerns the composition of the knightly household under Edward III. It considers, in turn, the mechanisms by which the household knights were bound to the king and his household, and who Edward III’s household knights were and why they were retained. The second section focusses on the military duties of the household knights, examining their role in military organisation and financial administration, the conduct of foreign warfare, international diplomacy and defensive warfare. The third section investigates their place in national and local politics and government, and how this changed over Edward’s reign. Finally, the fourth section addresses the rewards on offer to the household knights in return for time in service. By providing a study of Edward’s reign through the prism of this group of knights, this thesis allows for a number of important revisions to be offered concerning late-medieval kingship, politics and warfare.

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Maxson, Brian. "Humanists, Knights, Gifts, Guelfs, and Ghibellines in Fifteenth-Century Florence." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6221.

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Silva, Patricia Tachinardi Andrade. "Ritmo circadiano de temperatura corporal no tuco-tuco (Ctenomys aff. knighti), um roedor subterrâneo sul-americano." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/41/41135/tde-11102012-111208/.

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Em mamíferos, a temperatura corporal (Tc) varia ao longo do dia, de forma rítmica, bem como a atividade locomotora. Essa ritmicidade diária é gerada endogenamente, por osciladores circadianos. Em geral, os valores mais elevados de Tc concentram-se nos mesmos horários em que há atividade locomotora. No entanto, variações diárias de Tc são observadas mesmo em indivíduos imóveis, evidenciando que o ritmo de Tc não é uma mera consequência dos efeitos agudos da atividade locomotora. Este trabalho teve o objetivo de estudar o ritmo circadiano de Tc no roedor Ctenomys aff. knighti (tuco-tuco) e sua relação temporal com o ritmo de atividade locomotora. A caracterização do ritmo de Tc nesse animal é particularmente interessante, pois ele habita o ambiente subterrâneo, que impõe desafios tanto à expressão rítmica (pois os ciclos ambientais são ausentes ou têm baixa amplitude) quanto à termorregulação (devido à características como alta umidade e atmosfera hipóxica e estagnada). Medimos a Tc e a atividade locomotora dos tuco-tucos em condições controladas de laboratório. Na caracterização inicial, constatamos que o ritmo de Tc dos tuco-tucos persiste mesmo em escuridão e temperatura constantes. Quando houve exposição a um ciclo diário de claro/escuro, o ritmo de Tc foi sincronizado, e os valores mais altos ocorreram na fase de escuro. Os ritmos de Tc e de atividade locomotora mostraram-se fortemente associados no tempo. Investigamos, então, se a corrida na roda de atividade modificaria a amplitude do ritmo de Tc, por envolver atividade muscular intensa. Observamos, no entanto, que a amplitude é pouco alterada com a retirada da roda e que na sua ausência os animais substituem a corrida por outras atividades que também causam efeitos agudos na Tc. Em seguida, estudamos a variação da sensibilidade da Tc aos efeitos agudos da atividade ao longo do dia. Através de um método estatístico, que também foi utilizado para filtrar os dados de Tc, verificamos que há maior correlação entre variações de Tc e de atividade no início da noite. Por fim, investigamos se o controle do ritmo de Tc é exercido pelos núcleos supraquiasmáticos, os quais são os osciladores circadianos do ritmo de atividade locomotora. Nossa abordagem utilizou animais neurologicamente intactos, comparando os padrões do ritmo de Tc e de atividade locomotora durante a ocorrência do fenômeno de \"partição do ritmo\". Constatamos que na maioria dos casos os padrões de partição, tanto da Tc como da atividade locomotora são idênticos, sugerindo um controle temporal comum. No entanto, em um dos animais observamos diferenças entre os dois ritmos, sugerindo que esse controle circadiano pode ser ainda mais complexo.
In mammals, body temperature (Tb), as well as locomotor activity, changes during the day, exhibiting a rhythmic pattern. This daily rhythmicity is generated endogenously by circadian oscillators. Usually, the highest Tb values occur simultaneously to locomotor activity. Nevertheless, daily Tb changes are observed even in immobile individuals. This fact is evidence that the Tb rhythm is not a mere consequence of the acute effects of locomotor activity. The present work,which os performed in the research center CRILAR, in Argentina, had the objective of studying the circadian rhythm of Tb. in the rodent Ctenomys aff. knighti (tuco-tuco) and its temporal relationship with the locomotor activity rhythm. The characterization of the Tb rhythm in this animal is especially interesting because it inhabits the subterranean environment, which poses challenges to both rhythmic expression (because environmental cycles are either absent or have low amplitude) and thermoregulation (due to high relative humidity, hypoxic atmosphere and limited ventilation). We measured Tb and locomotor activity of tuco-tucos under controlled laboratory conditions. An initial characterization showed that the tuco-tuco\'s Tb rhythm persisted even in constant darkness and constant temperature. This rhythm synchronized to a daily light/dark cycle, with highest values occurring during the dark phase. Tb and locomotor activity rhythm were robustly associated in time. Then, we investigated whether the wheel running would modify the Tb rhythm amplitude, because this behavior involves intense muscular activity. However, we observed that the amplitude is only slightly altered upon running-wheel removal and that in the absence of the wheel tuco-tucos substitute running with other behaviors which also have acute effects on Tb. Applying a statistical method, which was also used to filter Tb data, we verified that there is a stronger correlation between Tb changes and activity in the beginning of the night. Finally, we investigated whether the Tb rhythm is also under control of the suprachiasmatic nuclei, which are knowingly the circadian oscillators for the locomotor activity rhythm. We used an approach which involved neurally intact animals, by comparing the rhythmic patterns of Tb and locomotor activity rhythms during the occurrence of a phenomenon called \"splitting\". In most cases, splitting patterns of both Tb and locomotor activity rhythms were identical, indicating a common temporal control of these two variables. Nevertheless, we observed, in one animal, differences between the two rhythms, which suggest that the circadian control might be even more complex.

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LaBurre, Jennifer. ""Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/125.

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The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of their bestial counterparts it was conventionally meant to highlight some derogatory aspect of that character. Chaucer makes use of the animal-image throughout The Canterbury Tales, especially in "The Knight's Tale," to stress a break in each character from humane reason or to emphasize a lean towards a bestial nature. The degree of this departure is showcased in the ferocity of the animal-image in question and the behavior and nature of the character, i.e. the animals of a more timid nature or neutral standing highlight a much less negative nature than the ferocious predators present in the battle scenes.

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Orr, Eric D. "Six degrees of Guillelmus Mancip : a study of connections between donors to the military orders in 12th century Toulouse /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131458162.pdf.

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Strickland, Matthew James. "The conduct and perception of war under the Anglo-Norman and Angevin kings, 1075-1217." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272192.

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Ballantyne, Andrew Noel. "The architectural theory of Richard Payne Knight, 1751-1824." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443310.

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Robinson, Lillian S. "Monstrous regiment : the lady knight in sixteenth-century epic /." New York N.Y ; London : Garland, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb349232810.

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Casanova, Laura. "Vom Narren zum Gralskönig : Die Bedeutung der minne für Parzivals Entwicklung." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för tyska, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-64762.

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From an ingenious fool to the Grail King: the significance of courtly love in Wolfram’s Parzival The focus of this thesis lies on the doctrines in courtly behavior, a multifaceted system of chivalric norms and behaviors often referred to as the knightly virtue system based on the literature of the early and high Middle Ages. The aim of this thesis is to study the different aspects, such as religious, military, courtly and romantic, of the knightly virtue system. The romantic aspect of the knightly ideal is given particular attention, as it is the focus of this paper. The word minne is the bearer of the romantic aspect and is central in Wolfram’s von Eschenbach Parzival which is the main source studied. The following issues are discussed in more detail: how the knightly ideal is presented in Wolfram’s epic and to what extent the minne affects the development of Parzival to the Grail king. In the course of this thesis it will also be shown that the romantic aspect is the most influential aspect of the knightly virtue system and that this particular aspect truly defines an ideal knight.

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Case, Theresa Ann. "Free labor on the southwestern railroads the 1885-1886 Gould system strikes /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3077430.

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de, Blois Mallory. "Dark Horses or White Knights: Donors and Gender Projects in the oPt." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23266.

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Financial dependency and a trend in donor-driven gender equality and women’s empowerment projects in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) have undoubtedly had an effect on the way in which NGOs are working and evolving: often projects are designed to fulfill donor requirements – and thereby policies - instead of creating an agenda which is politically and socially “home grown”. This paper analyses the USAID gender policy paper (as an example of foreign donor policy) and interviews conducted with legal, programme and gender experts in the oPt, exploring the challenges and gaps between policy and practice. The research uses qualitative research methods to analyze USAID discourse - exploring concepts such as representation, ideology and power - and general assumptions and perspectives towards women’s equality and empowerment in the Opt versus how this translates into practice.

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Anley, Maxwell Lydston. "The wisdom of brainless knights : paradox, dialectics and literature's conditions of possibility." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11003/.

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This product of doctoral labour is a reappraisal of Russian Formalism. It establishes the convergences between the thought of key Formalists Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yury Tynianov and German Idealist Philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel. The Formalists’ conceptualization of literary art is shown to be consistent with Kant’s programme of practical critique and Hegel’s objective dialectics, albeit without the reductive closures which Kant and Hegel programme into aesthetic theory. On this basis, the Formalists’ dialogue with the Bakhtin School is reconsidered, along with the utility of Formalist critique for how we are to understand the cultural environment of the Soviet 1920s, and the practice of theory in the present context of its own death.

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Fernandes, Vincent John. "Volunteer Motivation, Organizational Commitment, and Engagement| Knights of Columbus Explanatory Case Study." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10748228.

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The purpose of this qualitative explanatory single case study was to understand why Knights of Columbus (KofC) volunteers in Ontario, Canada demonstrate motivation, organizational commitment, and engagement. The scope of the study was guided by two main research questions: “Why do KofC members volunteer?” and “How do KofC members combine elements of motivation, organizational commitment, and engagement in their volunteer activity?” The triangulation of participant interviews, observations from KofC general meetings, and online archived documents supported the study’s qualitative methodology that required rich, descriptive data. For feasibility, the population of this study was comprised of KofC volunteers within three councils in Ontario, Canada and 17 KofC members were selected purposively based on age and experience criteria for face-to-face interviews. Transcribed interview data, observational field notes and archival documents were analyzed and coded using NVivo 11 to uncover three emerging themes: living one’s faith, loyalty, and flexibility. The findings indicated that KofC members have alignment between personal and organizational values, intend to follow Biblical scripture to live their faith in the public square, and feel obligated to help others in need. Fraternity and unity were welcomed benefits that KofC members enjoyed while volunteering. KofC provides volunteers with role and task variety, which allows volunteers to choose the activities that suit their interest, skill set, and time commitment. By gaining insights from these themes, organizational leaders can improve their communication to potential and existing volunteers, foster stronger relationships among volunteers, and develop programs that engage volunteers through catered recruitment and retention strategies.

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Donnelly, Linda Marie Asfodel. "The anonymous fairy-knight lays, Tydorel, Tyolet, Doon and Espine." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0003/MQ28888.pdf.

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Wisotsky, Meriel Riggs. "A woman's touch in the literary initiation of the knight /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Hartland, Beth. "English rule in Ireland, c.1272-c.1315 : aspects of royal and aristocratic lordship." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1662/.

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Lewis, Robert Lee III. "Changing Perceptions of Heraldry in English Knightly Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277947/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and discuss the changing ways in which the visual art of heraldiy was perceived by the feudal aristocracy of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. It shows how the aristocracy evolved from a military class to a courtly, chivalric class, and how this change affected art and culture. The shifts in the perceptions of heraldry reflect this important social development of the knightly class.

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Webb, Anthony James. "The propagation of the internal tide around a bend in Knight Inlet, B.C." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25997.

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This thesis seeks to answer the question "how much of the internal tide propagating up Knight Inlet, B.C. is reflected by a right-angled bend ?" The internal tide in Knight Inlet is generated by the interaction of the barotropic tide with a shallow sill seaward of the bend. It then propagates in both directions as a travelling Kelvin wave. The up-inlet propagating wave then encounters the bend, where some of it may be reflected. This question is looked at with both theory (Chapter 2) and observations (Chapter 3). The theoretical study investigates the propagation of a Kelvin wave around a bend in a channel. The solution of the linearised long wave equations is expressed as a truncated series of cross-channel modes in each of three regions. The solution is matched across the two common boundaries by a least squares point matching process. The "rectangular bend" gives unsatisfactory results because of a singularity in the velocity field at the sharp inside corner. However, the "annular bend" gives good results. The bend acts as a diffraction grating, with total transmission for certain bend angles and "lobes" of high reflection for intermediate angles. Bends to the left give rise to the same reflection as bends to the right of the same angle, even if the incident Kelvin wave has a small cross-channel decay scale. For the parameters corresponding to the M₂ internal tide in Knight Inlet, the energy flux reflection coefficient is very small, much less than 1%. The method of solution breaks down inexplicably for diurnal tides. The observational study is based upon 2⅓ months of cyclesonde current meter data from four stations in Knight Inlet taken during the summers of 1981 and 1983. The vertical profiles of amplitude and phase of the M₂ constituent of longitudinal velocity and density fluctuations are found to be the same from month to month at a particular station, but different from station to station. These complex amplitude profiles are decomposed into a truncated series of normal modes for waves propagating both up-inlet and down-inlet. The phase speeds and zero-crossing depths of the normal modes do not agree with those calculated by Farmer and Smith (1980a) using 1977 data. Two simple models of the stratification are used to explain the differences in the normal modes in terms of differences in the Brunt-Väisälä frequency profile used to calculate them. At the two stations up-inlet of the sill, acceptable fits can be obtained using only two up-inlet propagating waves, indicating that the data are compatible with the low reflection found in the theoretical study. When down-inlet waves are included in the fit, their amplitudes are found to be small, although care must be taken to avoid trying to fit too many modes since some of them are highly correlated in the depth range for which data are available. At the two stations seaward of the sill, the up-inlet energy flux is of the same order of magnitude as the down-inlet flux, indicating a second source of internal tide seaward of those two stations. The results indicate that only 30-50% of the power removed from the barotropic tide is being fed into the internal tide in the summer. This conclusion is at variance with that of Stacey (1985), whose model shows that most of the power lost from the barotropic tide is being fed into the internal tide. A consistent interpretation of these results is that most of the power lost from the barotropic tide initially goes into the internal tide, but that 50-70% of it is rapidly dissipated through turbulence within a couple of kilometers of the sill. The low frequency component of the velocity signals from the cyclesonde data is also presented (Chapter 4), with a brief analysis . The monthly averaged residual velocity profiles are also found to be fairly repeatable from month to month at a particular station, but different from station to station. These profiles could be useful in validating general circulation models.
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