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King, Barbara Amelia. "Space Art + Space Science a polymathic paradigm shift in the art/science dialogue." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32739.

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Perhaps no other field of scientific endeavor has been more influenced by the arts than space exploration. The artistic visions of yesteryear are the technological realities of today. These realities in turn create new possibilities for artistic expression. However, Space Art and Space Science have shared a convoluted history. Their forerunner disciplines of the Humanities and Natural Sciences and their practitioners were entrenched as polar opposites for centuries. Recent research, however, has revealed the reverse; that the psychological profile and the creative processes of artists and scientists are actually similar, often to the point of the practitioners being polymathic. Moreover, it has been discovered that polymathic ability nurtures two qualities essential for the survival of both Space Art and Space Science: that of creativity and innovation. Current literature has taken note of the commonality of polymathic ability between the practitioners of the arts and sciences. Academic and industry think tanks have examined the virtues of artists as space researchers, and conversely, scientists developing an artistic approach as a design strategy. Thought leaders have expressed faith in trans-disciplinary collaboration as the way forward in the global affairs of space. Yet, therein lies the problem. These various studies individually lack a cohesive strategy to leverage their findings and transform the Art/Sci dialogue into a disruptive force that sustains a paradigm shift in the arts, space and society agendas going forward. The impetus for this dissertation is the unique opportunity to amalgamate those disparate studies by utilizing the momentum of New Space culture, and its focus on societal inclusion and environmental concerns to serve as anchors for space research and sustainability. Further, we argue that the next logical step is to inculcate a fundamental Art/Sci paradigm shift within the space community to exploit the unprecedented global drive towards space exploration and colonization, thereby solidifying the influence of the space art and space science agendas in the service of the global commons on Earth and in space.
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Barry, Andrew Michael. "The science of science : programmes of British space research." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333979.

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White, Craig (Craig E. ). 1971. "Science fiction to science fact : the link between early science fiction and the space programs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9572.

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McCalden, Alec John. "User interfaces in space science instrumentation." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/14194/.

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This thesis examines user interaction with instrumentation in the specific context of space science. It gathers together existing practice in machine interfaces with a look at potential future usage and recommends a new approach to space science projects with the intention of maximising their science return. It first takes a historical perspective on user interfaces and ways of defining and measuring the science return of a space instrument. Choices of research methodology are considered. Implementation details such as the concepts of usability, mental models, affordance and presentation of information are described, and examples of existing interfaces in space science are given. A set of parameters for use in analysing and synthesizing a user interface is derived by using a set of case studies of diverse failures and from previous work. A general space science user analysis is made by looking at typical practice, and an interview plus persona technique is used to group users with interface designs. An examination is made of designs in the field of astronomical instrumentation interfaces, showing the evolution of current concepts and including ideas capable of sustaining progress in the future. The parameters developed earlier are then tested against several established interfaces in the space science context to give a degree of confidence in their use. The concept of a simulator that is used to guide the development of an instrument over the whole lifecycle is described, and the idea is proposed that better instrumentation would result from more efficient use of the resources available. The previous ideas in this thesis are then brought together to describe a proposed new approach to a typical development programme, with an emphasis on user interaction. The conclusion shows that there is significant room for improvement in the science return from space instrumentation by attention to the user interface.
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Jafari, Rad Shirin. "Time, knowledge & space sharing : Science & Discovery Centre - Lund Science Village." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-133493.

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The buildings face into the landscape & influence the urban fabric around where the sculptural interplay of the envelope & ground transforms onto its glass facades. Here time, ideas, space & knowledge is shared by creating environments where the participants can inform & be re-informed by the adaptiveness of the architecture surrounded. The dynamic of the spaces generates creative thinking & increases the social interaction & sharing throughout the transformational sequences giving various spatial experiences.
Byggnaderna står i landskapet och påverkar stadsstrukturen runtom där det skulpturala samspelet utav höljet & marken transformeras på dess glasfasader. Här kommer tid, idéer, utrymme och kunskap delas genom skapandet av miljöer där deltagarna kan informera och åter-informeras av arkitektur omgiven. Dynamiken i rummen genererar kreativt tänkande och ökar den sociala interaktionen & utbytet emellan genom de transformbara sekvenserna i de olika rumsliga upplevelserna.
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Daneshpour, Negar. "Time, knowledge & space sharing : Science & Discovery Centre - Lund Science Village." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-123064.

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The buildings face into the landscape & influence the urban fabric around where the sculptural interplay of the envelope & ground transforms onto its glass facades. Here time, ideas, space & knowledge is shared by creating environments where the participants can inform & be re-informed by the adaptiveness of the architecture surrounded. The dynamic of the spaces generates creative thinking & increases the social interaction & sharing throughout the transformational sequences giving various spatial experiences.
Byggnaderna står i landskapet och påverkar stadsstrukturen runtom där det skulpturala samspelet utav höljet & marken transformeras på dess glasfasader. Här kommer tid, idéer, utrymme och kunskap delas genom skapandet av miljöer där deltagarna kan informera och åter-informeras av arkitektur omgiven. Dynamiken i rummen genererar kreativt tänkande och ökar den sociala interaktionen & utbytet emellan genom de transformbara sekvenserna i de olika rumsliga upplevelserna.
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Watkinson, Emily Jane. "Space nuclear power systems : enabling innovative space science and exploration missions." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40461.

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) 241Am radioisotope power systems (RPSs) research and development programme is ongoing. The chemical form of the americium oxide ‘fuel’ has yet to be decided. The fuel powder will need to be sintered. The size and shape of the oxide powder particles are expected to influence sintering. The current chemical flow-sheet creates lath-shaped AmO2. Investigations with surrogates help to minimise the work with radioactive americium. This study has proposed that certain cubic Ce1-xNdxO2-(x/2) oxides (Ia-3 crystal structures with 0.5 < x < 0.7) could be potential surrogates for some cubic AmO2-(x/2) phases. A new wet-chemical-synthesis-based process for fabricating Ce1-xNdxO2-(x/2) with a targeted x-values has been demonstrated. It uses a continuous oxalate coprecipitation and calcination route. An x of 0.6 was nominally targeted. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and Raman spectroscopy confirmed its Ia-3 structure. An increase in precipitation temperature (25 °C to 60 °C) caused an increase in oxalate particle median size. Lath/plate-shaped particles were precipitated. Ce Nd oxide PXRD data was Rietveld refined to precisely determine its lattice parameter. The data will be essential for future sintering trials with the oxide where variations in its crystal structure during sintering will be investigated. Sintering investigations with micrometric CeO2 and Nd2O3 have been conducted to understand how AmO2 and Am2O3 may sinter. This is the first reported pure Nd2O3 spark plasma sintering (SPS) investigation. A comparative study on the SPS and the cold-press-and-sinter of CeO2 has been conducted. This is the first study to report sintering lath-shaped CeO2 particles. Differences in their sizes and specific surface areas affected powder cold-pressing and caused variations in cold-pressed-and-sintered CeO2 relative density and Vickers hardness. The targeted density range (85-90%) was met using both sintering techniques. The cold-press-and-sinter method created intact CeO2 discs with reproducible geometry and superior Vickers hardness to those made by SPS.
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Zanin, Serena <1988&gt. "The space challenge in Soviet bloc science fiction." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2582.

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Durante la Guerra fredda, le due nazioni più potenti al mondo si impegnarono in una competizione le cui radici riguardavano la diversa ideologia, economia e cultura. A seguito del discorso del presidente Kennedy nel 1961, la luna diventò la componente più suggestiva di questa corsa allo spazio, infatti, la prima potenza che avrebbe raggiunto la luna, avrebbe dominato sia nello spazio che in terra. Durante gli anni ’50 e i primi anni ’60, l’Unione Sovietica compì una serie di importanti primati (come il primo missile balistico intercontinentale, il primo satellite artificiale, il primo uomo e la prima donna sullo spazio) che favorirono la realizzazione della propaganda sovietica e la creazione dell’“uomo nuovo sovietico”. L’entusiasmo per il cosmo e il successivo disincanto influenzarono profondamente la cultura letteraria e, in particolar modo, la science fiction sovietica e russa. I due esempi presi in considerazione sono: l’introspezione psicologica dell’essere umano nell’opera “Solaris” (1961) di Stanislaw Lem e la satira post-sovietica dell’esplorazione spaziale in “Omon Ra” (1992) di Viktor Pelevin.
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Godwin, Matthew Thomas. "The Skylark rocket, British space science and the European Space Research Organisation." Thesis, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424926.

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Kneale, James Robert. "Lost in space? : readers' constructions of science fiction worlds." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309071.

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Carlton, Ashley Kelly. "Characterizing high-energy electrons in space using science imagers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120413.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-140).
Harsh radiation in the form of ionized, highly energetic particles is part of the space environment and can affect the operation, performance, and lifetime of spacecraft and their instruments. Jupiter has the largest and strongest magnetosphere of all of the planets in the solar system and it is dominated by high-energy electrons. Measuring and characterizing megaelectron volt (MeV) particles is fundamental for understanding the energetic processes powering the magnetosphere, interactions of the particles with surfaces of the Jovian satellites, and the effects of these particles on spacecraft near or in Jovian orbit. Electrons in Jupiter's magnetosphere can interact with spacecraft and lead to component failures, degradation of sensors and solar panels, and physical damage to materials. Dedicated instruments to monitor the radiation environment are not always included on spacecraft due to resource constraints. Measurements of the high-energy (>1 MeV) electron environment at Jupiter are currently spatially and temporally limited, predominantly coming from the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) on the Galileo spacecraft. In this thesis, we develop ways to use existing hardware on spacecraft to measure the energetic particle environment. Solid-state detectors are commonly used as scientific imagers on spacecraft. In addition to being sensitive to incoming photons, semiconductor devices also are affected by incoming charged particles collected during integration and detector readout. These radiation hits from the space environment are typically considered "noise" at the detector. We develop a technique to extract quantitative high-energy electron environment information (energy and flux) from science imager radiation "noise". We use data from the Galileo spacecraft Solid-State Imaging (SSI) instrument, which is a silicon charge-coupled device (CCD). We post-process raw SSI images to obtain frames with only the radiation contribution. The camera settings are used to compute the energy deposited in each pixel, which corresponds to the intensity of the observed radiation hits. The energy deposited in the SSI pixels by incident particles from processed SSI images are compared with the results from 3D Monte Carlo transport simulations of the SSI using Geant4. Simulating the response of the SSI instrument to mono-energetic electron environments, we find that the SSI is capable of detecting >10 MeV electrons (>90% of <10 MeV particles are stopped with 95% confidence). Using geometric scaling factors computed for the SSI, we calculate the environment particle flux given a number of pixels with radiation hits. We compare the SSI results to measurements from the Galileo EPD, examining the electron fluxes from the >11 MeV integral flux channel. We find agreement with the EPD data within 3-sigma of the EPD data for 43 out of 43 (100%) of the SSI images evaluated. 62% of fluxes are also within 1-sigma of the EPD data. To demonstrate that the general technique is applicable to other imagers, we also analyze the Galileo Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS). We find that NIMS is sensitive to >5 MeV electrons and the calculated fluxes are consistent with the EPD. This approach can be applied to other sets of imaging data (star trackers, etc.) in energetic electron environments, such as those found in geostationary Earth orbit. This thesis also includes a summary of required and recommended information (tests, models, etc.) for the use of science imagers as high-energy electron sensors.
by Ashley Kelly Carlton.
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Hicks, Adam S. "A.C.C.E.S.S. - Alternative Conceptions: a Comprehensive Examination of Space Science." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250084491.

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Hicks, Adam Scott. "A.C.C.E.S.S. alternative conceptions : a comprehensive examination of space science /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1250084491.

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Denault, Alexandre. "Journey, a shared virtual space middleware." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96773.

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The complexity of developing multiplayer games, along with their popularity, has grown tremendously in the recent years. The most complex of these, Massively Multiplayer Games (MMOGs), require developers to deal with many issues, such as scalability, reliability and cheat prevention. Although individual solutions to these problems exists, very little academic work has been done to address all these issues simultaneously. In addition, experimentation in these areas can require a significant implementation effort.In this work, we present Journey, a unified framework that address all these issues in a simple, modular and efficient architecture leveraging replicated objects. Scalability is addressed through the use of a dynamic cell load-balancing strategy while fault tolerance and cheat prevention are achieved by leveraging existing replicated objects in the system. The proposed framework is implemented using numerous enhancements not found in traditional replication, like obstacle-aware partitioning and remote procedure call systems.The efficiency of this framework is illustrated through the use of Mammoth, a massively multiplayer research framework. Using experimental data from human players, artificial players (NPC) were built and used to stress test and gather performance data. Analysis of this data demonstrated that load balancing provides important scalability benefits while very little overhead is incurred from the fault tolerance and cheat prevention systems.
Dans les dernières années, la popularité des jeux multi-joueurs a connu une croissance sans égale. Cette croissance a aussi provoqué une augmentation importante dans la complexité de développement, surtout pour les jeux en ligne massivement multi-joueurs (MMOGs). Ces jeux posent des problèmes sérieux, tel que la croissance de capacité, la fiabilité et la prévention de la tricherie. Quoiqu'il existe de nombreuses solutions pour chacun de ces problèmes, très peu de travail académique adresse tous ces problèmes ensembles. De plus, l'expérimentation dans ces domaines nécessite de grands efforts de développement.Ce document présente Journey, un cadre de librairies informatiques unifiées qui adresse tous ces problèmes avec une architecture simple, modulaire et efficace tirant parti de la technologie des objets répliqués. Journey utilise un système d'équilibrage de charge avec cellule dynamique pour pallier aux problèmes de capacité. De plus, les défis de tolérance des failles et la prévention de la tricherie peuvent être adressés à l'aide des objets déjà répliqués dans le système. L'outil proposé utilise plusieurs améliorations qui n'existe pas dans la réplication traditionnelle, tel que la division des espaces prenant compte des obstacles et l'exécution de méthode distantes.La performance de Journey est évaluée à l'aide de Mammoth, un outil de recherche pour les environnements massivement multi-joueurs. À l'aide de données expérimentales de joueurs humains, des joueurs artificiels on été construits pour mesurer la capacité et la performance de l'outil proposé. L'analyse de ses données démontre que l'équilibre des charges démontre une grande augmentation de capacité. De plus, les systèmes de tolérance de fautes et de prévention de la tricherie on très peu d'impact sur la performance du système.
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Toal, Ciaran. "Space and spectacle : science and religion at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1840-1890." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.580114.

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This thesis examines public encounters between science and religion that took place in connection with the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) between 1840 and 1890. Throughout, it is argued that these encounters are always made in place, and are profoundly shaped by the local, regional and national settings in which the BAAS met. This is explored through five meetings of the Association, including Cork (1843), Edinburgh (1850), Bath (1864), Bristol (1875) and Montreal (1884). From the politic-religious debates around Irish Repeal in Cork, the Disruption in Edinburgh's Established Church and the publication of Vestiges, or indeed the civic divide between Montreal's Protestant elite and the ultramontanist Catholic population, in each the boundaries between science and religion were differently shaped, contested and framed by local circumstances. As well as placing each meeting in its local, regional and national setting, attention is drawn to the importance of rhetorical geographies and 'communicative acts' in making science-religion encounters. The BAAS's dedication to political and religious neutrality in 1831 was a crucial organising protocol that limited the expression of religious ideas and the use of confessional language in the official confines of the meeting. Breaching this protocol, more often than not, invited controversy. At the same time, 'communicative acts' in different places also played a crucial role in mediating encounters. Spectacles, such as John Tyndall's 1874 'Belfast address', or the appearance of Bishop Colenso in Bath, or even minor religious services, were central in shifting and staging science-religion boundaries in particular times and places. Throughout the thesis, the profound spatial implications of the BAAS's prohibition on religion is highlighted. Indeed, attention is drawn to how the Association's leadership fostered the middle Sunday of the Association's week - a day left free from official business in the programme - as a rhetorical and material space where ideas banned from the Association could find expression. This space helped relieve tension between the Victorian appetite for religion and the BAAS's proscription. Finally, uncovering the Sunday activities attached to the Association helps, as is shown, counter a grand narrative of secularisation that ties science and professionalisation to religious decline.
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Kass, Natalie. "Science in the Sun: How Science is Performed as a Spatial Practice." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6657.

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This study analyzes how spatial organization impacts science communication at the St. Petersburg Science Festival in Florida. Through map analysis, qualitative interviews, and a close reading of evaluation reports, the author determines that sponsorship, logistics, exhibitor ambience, and map usability and design are the factors most affecting the spatial performance of science. To mitigate their effects, technical communicators can identify these factors and provide the necessary revisions when considering how science is communicated to the public.
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Godwin, Matthew. "The Skylark rocket : British space science and the European space research organisation, 1957-1972 /." Paris : Beauchesne, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411905977.

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Martin, Claudette. "Examining Visitor Attitudes and Motivations at a Space Science Centre." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Vetenskapskommunikation, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-1162.

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The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is a multi-faceted organization whose mission is to educate, inspire and evoke a sense of wonder about the universe, our planet and space exploration. As a popular, Vancouver science centre, it faces the same range of challenges and issues as other major attractions: how does the Space Centre maintain a healthy public attendance in an increasingly competitive market where visitors continue to be presented with an increasingly rich range of choices for their leisure spending and entertainment dollars?This front-end study investigated visitor attitudes, thoughts and preconceptions on the topic of space and astronomy. It also examined visitors’ motivations for coming to a space science centre. Useful insights were obtained which will be applied to improve future programme content and exhibit development.
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Mejia, Lillian Lynette. "Snow White in Space| Science Fiction Reimagines Traditional Fairy Tales." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1593257.

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This thesis explores the intersection of fairy tales with late twentieth and early twenty-first century science fiction - specifically, the reimagining of classic fairy tales within science fictional settings. I will begin with an overview of the ways in which fairy tales and science fiction seem particularly well-suited for such an endeavor, in terms of similarity of common themes, structure, and narrative device. Next, I will examine two recent examples: Caitlín R. Kiernan's "The Road of Needles," and Tanith Lee's "Beauty," noting deviations from the traditional source material and highlighting the ways in which the original stories have been updated for modern audiences. Finally, I will offer several of my own stories that reimagine fairy tales in science fiction settings: "Curiosity," a retelling of "The Little Mermaid," "I Dream the Snowfall, the Red Earth of Mars," a retelling of "Snow White," and "Match Girl," a retelling of "The Little Match Girl."

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Lange, Alissa A., Lori T. Meier, R. Murphy, C. Clevenger, Q. Tian, and E. Shock. "To the Moon and Back: Exploring Space Science with Preschoolers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5891.

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Cupitt, Catherine Anne. "Space opera: a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy." Thesis, Curtin University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1082.

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This thesis considers space opera as a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy.“Falling Stars,” the creative component which includes fantasy, space opera and science fiction stories, constitutes a spectrum of speculative fiction. In order to illustrate the similarities and difference between the genres represented in the spectrum, I focus on the central figure of the alien other and the ways in which such a figure can be gendered and embodied. The space opera novella combines motifs of both fantasy and science fiction within the figure of the cyborg, Orlando, who is transgendered and hyperchangeably embodied.The exegesis offers a theoretical context through which to view the creative work. I argue that space operas are melodramatic adventure stories, which operate as a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy, using the non-realist expectations inherent in both, but mixing the extrapolations and icons of science fiction with the self-consistent but unbelievable discontinuities of fantasy. I also consider space opera’s tendency to exhibit a conservative, unexamined colonialistic imperative, with the attendant assumptions that create a potential for feminist subversion.
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Agnan, Marco. "SmallSats : Technical developments to address contemporary goals in space science." Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022UPASP119.

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Cette thèse réalisée en Validation des Acquis par l'Experience (VAE) explore comment les petits satellites (typiquement de CubeSat jusqu'à 500kg) permettent de nouvelles missions et découvertes en science spatiale. Les disciplines étudiées vont de l'observation de la Terre, la physique solaire à l'astrophysique à distance et in-situ.A l'ère du NewSpace, de nouveaux objectifs scientifiques sont maintenant accessibles grâce à ces petits satellites qui bénéficient des avancées technologiques récentes en termes de miniaturisation et de réduction des coûts d'accès à l'espace. Ces points les rendent particulièrement adaptés aux cas :- en constellation pour de la science multi-point (in-situ ou à distance)- en contexte à haut risque/ haut retour scientifique.Au travers d'une présentation détaillée des projets auquel l'auteur a participé durant sa carrière, cette thèse explore les domaines scientifique dans les différentes disciplines ou les petits satellites pourront avoir une utilisation innovante en mettant en avant les limitations et solutions technologiques associées à de telles plateformes.Le sujet de l'exploration d'asteroides via l'utilisation de petits satellites y est exploré plus en details, ou une quantification du retour scientifique des concepts y est proposé
This thesis in Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) explores how SmallSats (from CubeSats to 500kg) are unlocking new possible missions and discoveries in space science. The topics of interests go from Earth science, Solar science to remote and in-situ astrophysics.In the NewSpace era, benefiting from recent technological advances of hardware miniaturization and launch cost reductions, new scientific objectives are now accessible thanks to SmallSats, finding their best uses in:- constellation for multi point science (remote or in-situ) cases;- high risk / high return cases.Through a detailed presentation of the Project addressed during the author's carreer, this thesis explores scientific domains where SmallSats will have an innovative use in the future, highlighting limitations and technological solutions associated with such platforms.The topic of asteroid exploration using SmallSats is presented in more details, with a quantification of the scientific return of proposed concepts
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Handmer, Annie Grace. "Making a success of ‘failure’: a Science Studies analysis of PILOT and SERC in the context of Australian space science." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27383.

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This thesis presents an in-depth empirical investigation, based on participant observation, interviews and publicly available materials, of PILOT and SERC, two recent Australian space science projects that were both connected to the problem of space debris. While PILOT’s proposal for funding failed, SERC was successfully funded yet failed to reach its initially stated goal of demonstrating the possibility of Active Debris Removal (ADR) using a ground-based high power laser combined with laser guide star adaptive optics. My analysis illustrates that the Australian space science funding and policy environment changed significantly in the brief period between PILOT’s unsuccessful proposal and SERC’s formation, marking the period of time in which dual-use space capability development was recognised as a political strategic priority. In SERC’s case, dual-use technology has been developed through (substantially) publicly funded institutions and by civil scientists. I argue that the current arrangement of policy and funding structures in the Australian space sciences sector facilitates engagement in dual-use technology development in such a way that two outcomes emerge: first, that moral responsibility for the products of such research is institutionally and individually avoided by distributing it ‘up the chain’ to national governmental entities, and second, that international legal responsibility is likewise avoided at a national level by distributing it ‘down the chain’ to institutions. I demonstrate how policy and funding conditions in Australia allowed individuals working in, and adjacent to, the space sciences to maintain, unchallenged, the convenient fiction that science is itself amoral and, to some extent, apolitical.
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Maharaj, Doraisamy Ashok. "Space for "development": US-Indian space relations 1955 -1976." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45973.

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Through four case studies of technological systems - optical tracking of satellites, sounding rockets, instructional television through a geosynchronous satellite, and a launch vehicle--I explore the origins and development of the Indian space program from 1955 through 1976, a period critical in shaping the program's identity and its relationship to the state. Institutionalized, and constructed in different geographic regions of India, these systems were embedded in the broader political, economic, and social life of the country and served as nodes around which existing and new scientific and technological communities were formed. These organic, highly networked communities in turn negotiated and developed a space program to meet the social and strategic demands of a new modernizing nation state. That modernizing program was, in turn, embedded in a broader set of scientific, technological and political relationships with industrialized countries, above all the United States. The United States' cooperation with India began with the establishment of tracking stations for plotting the orbits of artificial satellites. Cognizant of the contributions made by Indian scientists in the field of astronomy and meteorology, a scientific tradition that stretched back several decades, the officials and the scientific community at NASA, along with their Indian counterparts outlined a cooperative program that focused on the mutual exploration of the tropical space for scientific data. This initial collaboration gradually expanded and more advanced space application projects brought the two democratic countries, in spite of some misgivings, closer together in the common cause of using space sciences and technologies for developing India. In the process India and the United States ended up coproducing a space program that responded to the ambitions of the postcolonial scientific and political elite of India. The global Cold War and the ambiguities, desires and tensions of a postcolonial nation-state vying for leadership among the newly decolonized states in the Afro-Asian region are critical for understanding the origins and the trajectory of India's space program. Without this political context and the construction of a transnational web of relationships, it is highly unlikely that the Indian scientific and technological elite, along with their industrial and political partners, would have succeeded in putting India on the space map of the world.
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Corbin, Benjamin Andrew. "The value proposition of distributed satellite systems for space science missions." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103442.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2015.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-402).
The resources available for planetary science missions are finite and subject to some uncertainty. Despite decreasing costs of spacecraft components and launch services, the cost of space science missions is increasing, causing some missions to be canceled or delayed, and fewer science groups have the opportunity to achieve their goals due to budget limits. New methods in systems engineering have been developed to evaluate flexible systems and their sustained lifecycle value, but these methods are not yet employed by space agencies in the early stages of a mission's design. Previous studies of distributed satellite systems (DSS) showed that they are rarely competitive with monolithic systems; however, comparatively little research has focused on how DSS can be used to achieve new, fundamental space science goals that simply cannot be achieved with monolithic systems. The Responsive Systems Comparison (RSC) method combines Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration with Epoch-Era Analysis to examine benefits, costs, and flexible options in complex systems over the mission lifecycle. Modifications to the RSC method as it exists in previously published literature were made in order to more accurately characterize how value is derived from space science missions. A tiered structure in multi-attribute utility theory allows attributes of complex systems to be mentally compartmentalized by stakeholders and more explicitly shows synergy between complementary science goals. New metrics help rank designs by the value derived over their entire mission lifecycle and show more accurate cumulative value distributions. A complete list of the emergent capabilities of DSS was defined through the examination of the potential benefits of DSS as well as other science campaigns that leverage multiple assets to achieve their scientific goals. Three distinct categories consisting of seven total unique capabilities related to scientific data sampling and collection were identified and defined. The three broad categories are fundamentally unique, analytically unique, and operationally unique capabilities. This work uses RSC to examine four case studies of DSS missions that achieve new space science goals by leveraging these emergent capabilities. ExoplanetSat leverages shared sampling to conduct observations of necessary frequency and length to detect transiting exoplanets. HOBOCOP leverages simultaneous sampling and stacked sampling to study the Sun in far greater detail than any previous mission. ÆGIR leverages census sampling and self-sampling to catalog asteroids for future ISRU and mining operations. GANGMIR leverages staged sampling with sacrifice sampling and stacked sampling to answer fundamental questions related to the future human exploration of Mars. In all four case studies, RSC showed how scientific value was gained that would. be impossible or unsatisfactory with monolithic systems. Information gained in these studies helped stakeholders more accurately understand the risks and opportunities that arise as a result of the added flexibility in these missions. The wide scope of these case studies demonstrates how RSC can be applied to any science mission, especially one with goals that are more easily achieved with (or impossible to achieve without) DSS. Each study serves as a blueprint for how to conduct a Pre-Phase A study using these methods.
by Benjamin Andrew Corbin.
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McFarthing, James. "Jules Verne and the utopias of space, time and science fiction." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665460.

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This thesis seeks to cohere two strands in the work of Jules Verne, namely that of science and utopia. The role of science is of paramount importance to Verne's fictional practice in the Voyages extraordinaires, yet its elucidation, I will argue, is dependent upon aesthetic innovations that lend science a spatial and temporal structure. The spatial and temporal manifestations of science help form a 'chronotope of science' that allows Vernian protagonists to gain access to scientific phenomena using an aesthetically charged epistemology. The chronotope of science is accompanied by further motivic chronotopes, which I identify as key in the depiction of Vernian utopia and dystopia respectively. The vehicles of some of Verne's earlier and most successful novels, such as the Victoria of Cinq semaines en ballon (1863) or the Nautilus of Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (1870), illustrate the ways in which Verne reconfigures ideology and history in new spatial and temporal categories. These utopian figurations will be subverted, so I argue, in the Vernian utopian community as depicted in the Voyages extraordinaires of the 1870s. Here, the utopian communities of L'Ile mysterieuse (1874) and France-Ville from Les Cinq cents millions de la Begum (1879) are subverted by a chronotopic recalibration of their utopian content, which sees the anti-utopian Le Chancellor and the Germanic Stahlstadt emerge as thematic opposites. This dystopian turn becomes more concretely established in Vernian production of the 1880s and 1890s, which sees various of Verne's earlier utopian motifs transformed into instruments of dystopia and terror, from destructive cannons to tyrannical airships. The thesis will conclude that the challenges initially met by Verne in the depiction of science and the rapidly changing industrial world of the nineteenth century led to the development of a unique aesthetic and spatio-temporal constructions that could frame not only the changing spatial environment, but also the unfolding temporal field of human history. These structures, both scientific and utopian, would help inform the generic development of science fiction, whose use of science and positing of alternative futures owes much, thematically and stylistically, to the Vernian literary aesthetic.
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Van, der Post Leda. "Creating a space for integrative education within the sciences." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1012677.

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This thesis documents an action research project that was carried out within the Department of Computing Sciences at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), South Africa, from January 2010 to December 2011. The overall aim of the research was to foster an environment in which academics could explore ways to teach using an integrative approach to education. Previous research within the department had raised the concern that students were graduating without the type of high-level cognitive skills that were required in the workplace. While the students’ technical skills were perceived as being excellent, employers indicated that students would benefit from opportunities to develop or improve skills such as communication, teamwork, innovative thinking and time management. These skills include high-level cognitive skills, and are often referred to as “soft skills”. The academics participating in the research project came to believe that it was essential to develop teaching methods that would provide opportunities for students to develop these soft skills, in conjunction with the content and technical knowledge currently addressed in their courses. The research project followed the living theory approach to action research. A living theory action research project allows the researcher to investigate her own teaching, and develop a theory of practice. The theory of practice can be applied to the issues under investigation, to improve the situation or solve problems. At the same time, the theory of practice can contribute to the body of knowledge within the academic domain of the research. Action research is an iterative, cyclical process. There were four research cycles, each one semester in length, during the two years of the project. The project will continue, with a fifth research cycle, starting in January 2012. By the end of the fourth research cycle—Semester Two, 2011—there were eleven academics actively participating in the research group. The project had extended its influence to include academics from the Department of Mathematics at NMMU. The academics ranged from senior, long-serving professors to junior lecturing staff. The results of the research, or the researcher-practitioner’s living theory, explain the process by which an effective and enthusiastic community of practice, dedicated to improving the academics’ teaching and learning practice, was developed. The living theory is applicable to academics within a scientific discipline, desiring to explore and improve their education practice. My living theory explains the characteristics of the TLC (The Learning Community) space, and the action strategies for creating such a space. The explanation of the process of this project includes an analysis of the development process of the research group, typical characteristics of the environment or “space” of the group, and action strategies that other academics could use to create a similar community of practice.
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Anderson, Clinton W. "Probing Space: Formative Assessment in a Middle School Inquiry-Based Science Classroom." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5103.

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This action research thesis was performed to explore the research questions: How did the use of formative assessment affect student performance data in understanding the concepts of the Sun-Earth-Moon system?, How did the use of learning scales as formative techniques impact student self-assessment of their knowledge of the Sun-Earth-Moon system?, How did the implementation of formative assessment techniques affect student discourse on the topic of the Sun-Earth-Moon system? Formative assessment techniques including “talk-friendly” probes, sticky bars, and agree-disagree statements were used in the classroom to expose gaps in knowledge, to facilitate discourse, and promote self-assessment. A triangulation of data included a district-provided pre/post-test, teacher observation, written and oral student responses of formative assessment, self-assessment, discourse, and student self-assessment on a learning goal tracker. Data gathered from student responses to formative assessment techniques given during discourse, lab experiences, in written responses, and from the student learning scale tracker were analyzed to expose misconceptions and gaps in knowledge and guide classroom instruction. Data showed that student performance data improved overall and students narrowed gaps in knowledge of the Sun-Earth-Moon system. Improvement in student participation and skill of discourse was evident; however students needed more practice developing written explanations for phenomenon within the Sun-Earth-Moon system. Through the use of self-assessments students showed improvement in ability to self-assess and realized gained knowledge toward their learning goal.
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Masters
Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
Education and Human Performance
K-8 Math and Science
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Divine, Susan Marie. "Utopias of Thought, Dystopias of Space: Science Fiction in Contemporary Peninsular Narrative." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195666.

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This study serves as an introduction to three recent narratives in Spanish Science Fiction. While this literary genre has long been read in Spain in translation, it is only recently that Sci-Fi has been successful as a popular literature produced by native authors. Álex de la Iglesia, Gabriela Bustelo and Rafael Reig have worked in realist and genre fiction through their careers but chose to use Science Fiction to speak of the rapidly changing space of Madrid. Their criticism is centered on the changes to the physical, social, economic and political landscape of Madrid post-1992. My analysis is based on the works of the geographer David Harvey, among others, which helps to underline the importance of the urbanization of capital and consciousness that the three narratives disentangle. While being three very different texts - one film and two novels -, they all manipulate concerns of time and space to come to a similar conclusion. Their narratives serve as a warning about how the good intentions of humanist theories like feminism or scientific advancement can easily turn into a nightmare by instead serving the needs of capitalism rather than those of social justice.
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Pratz, Gunther. "Space, time and transcendence : Karl Heim's philosophy of spaces at the encounter of natural science and theology." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271491.

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Pak, Anne On-Yi 1977. "Euclidean space codes as space-time block codes." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86722.

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Aktug, Irem. "State space representation for verification of open systems." Licentiate thesis, Stockholm, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3973.

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Nilsson, Michael, and Sebastian Piwell. "Bridging the Gap: Providing Public Science Dissemination through Expert Tools." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-134382.

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This thesis aims to provide public science dissemination of space weather data by integrating a space weather analysis system used by experts in the field into an interactive visualization software called OpenSpace; designed to visualize the entire known Universe. Data and images from complex space weather models were processed and used as textures on different surface geometries, which are then positioned, oriented and scaled correctly relative other planets in the solar system. The obtained results were within the goals of the thesis and has successfully incorporated several features that will help understanding of space weather phenomena.
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Varga, Ian Jasper. "FROM LIVING WORLD TO A DEAD EARTH:MARS IN AMERICAN SCIENCE SINCE THE SPACE AGE." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461578235.

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DeWitt, Sarah Louise. "Creating space for science and celebrity in the public discussion of climate change." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/dewitt/DeWittS0806.pdf.

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Nunez, Jose Luis. "DEVELOPMENT OF A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT MODEL IN LARGE-SCALE INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE PROJECTS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2873.

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Large-scale international science projects (LISPs) are those projects where two or more countries formally agree to cooperate toward the achievement of a scientific, research and development, or engineering goal. In general, only projects exceeding $1 billion U.S. are considered LISPs, so sheer size commands attention, and because they are so costly and visible, failure can lead to significant scientific, financial and political consequences. This researched focused on how 7 different critical success factors impacted the level of technical interface knowledge shared among international partners involved in a large-scale international space science project (LISSP) – the International Space Station (ISS), which is currently under assembly and testing at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The research methodology employed documentation review, individual interviews and surveys of experienced engineers and managers from three different countries associated with the ISS. The research methodology was applied to three different cases (retrospectively) involving the processing of flight hardware from the three different international partners. The analysis showed that only 5 out of the 7-factor model played a significant role in the level of knowledge sharing between partners. The developed model provides future international partnerships with critical success factors that they can apply to their specific project / mission teams in order to improve the level of knowledge shared between them.
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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
Engineering and Computer Science
Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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Gilchrist, Kathryn. "Finding headspace in green workplaces : the restorative value of science park open space." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2777.

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Person-environment relationships in five urban-fringe science parks in central Scotland were investigated through the application of a mixed method case study design. The study sought to explore the impact of greenspace at these knowledge-sector workplaces on employee wellbeing, with particular focus on restorative effects of viewing and spending time in green environments. The thesis also aims to develop understanding of how workers at these sites engage with, and relate to, the outdoor environment at their workplace. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected; the former through an online questionnaire (n=366), and the latter through in-depth semi-structured walking interviews (n=16) conducted on and around the sites. This research is the first to provide evidence of wellbeing benefits of greenspace in the context of UK workplaces. Its focus on the landscape of science parks is of particular relevance given the prominence of this development model in planning policy to promote regional economic growth, as well as the central role of employee functioning in the productivity of innovative knowledge-sector businesses. The insights gained through the research point to a number of conclusions for the planning and design of future business sites at the urban fringe. The research also makes an original contribution to the international research on restorative environments in its exploration of how different types and designs of open space impact on the wellbeing of workers and, in particular, how individual factors influence responses to elements of open space design and management in the workplace context.
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Torres, Matos Edgar Omar. "Science frequency analysis of temperature sensors for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Jin, Jiayi. "When exhibitions become experiences : the nARration of augmented space inside a science museum." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50489/.

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This Ph.D. thesis is focused on the concept of ‘Augmented Space’ and its design sensitivities, not only by combining physical space and all kinds of AR technologies as the one, but also exploring this new spatial format in a broader sociological context of augmented interaction that flows between digital and physical layers inside museums. Throughout the article, augmentation is reconceptualised as an idea/concept and cultural/aesthetic practice rather than as the pure technology. It first articulates the notion of augmented space, highlights different dimensions of augmented space that visitors perceived from science exhibition settings, and further generates theoretical convergences; technical implications and practical reflections. Then aims at bringing novelty from spatial, technological and experiential perspectives to the co-productive exhibition-making. This thesis finally points out the shortcomings and limitation of this Ph.D. research and provides advice and directions for future curating works with AR.
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Mariotti, Gilles <1985&gt. "An Integrated Transmission-Media Noise Calibration Software For Deep-Space Radio Science Experiments." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6519/4/Gilles_Mariotti_PhD_Thesis.pdf.

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The thesis describes the implementation of a calibration, format-translation and data conditioning software for radiometric tracking data of deep-space spacecraft. All of the available propagation-media noise rejection techniques available as features in the code are covered in their mathematical formulations, performance and software implementations. Some techniques are retrieved from literature and current state of the art, while other algorithms have been conceived ex novo. All of the three typical deep-space refractive environments (solar plasma, ionosphere, troposphere) are dealt with by employing specific subroutines. Specific attention has been reserved to the GNSS-based tropospheric path delay calibration subroutine, since it is the most bulky module of the software suite, in terms of both the sheer number of lines of code, and development time. The software is currently in its final stage of development and once completed will serve as a pre-processing stage for orbit determination codes. Calibration of transmission-media noise sources in radiometric observables proved to be an essential operation to be performed of radiometric data in order to meet the more and more demanding error budget requirements of modern deep-space missions. A completely autonomous and all-around propagation-media calibration software is a novelty in orbit determination, although standalone codes are currently employed by ESA and NASA. The described S/W is planned to be compatible with the current standards for tropospheric noise calibration used by both these agencies like the AMC, TSAC and ESA IFMS weather data, and it natively works with the Tracking Data Message file format (TDM) adopted by CCSDS as standard aimed to promote and simplify inter-agency collaboration.
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Mariotti, Gilles <1985&gt. "An Integrated Transmission-Media Noise Calibration Software For Deep-Space Radio Science Experiments." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6519/.

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The thesis describes the implementation of a calibration, format-translation and data conditioning software for radiometric tracking data of deep-space spacecraft. All of the available propagation-media noise rejection techniques available as features in the code are covered in their mathematical formulations, performance and software implementations. Some techniques are retrieved from literature and current state of the art, while other algorithms have been conceived ex novo. All of the three typical deep-space refractive environments (solar plasma, ionosphere, troposphere) are dealt with by employing specific subroutines. Specific attention has been reserved to the GNSS-based tropospheric path delay calibration subroutine, since it is the most bulky module of the software suite, in terms of both the sheer number of lines of code, and development time. The software is currently in its final stage of development and once completed will serve as a pre-processing stage for orbit determination codes. Calibration of transmission-media noise sources in radiometric observables proved to be an essential operation to be performed of radiometric data in order to meet the more and more demanding error budget requirements of modern deep-space missions. A completely autonomous and all-around propagation-media calibration software is a novelty in orbit determination, although standalone codes are currently employed by ESA and NASA. The described S/W is planned to be compatible with the current standards for tropospheric noise calibration used by both these agencies like the AMC, TSAC and ESA IFMS weather data, and it natively works with the Tracking Data Message file format (TDM) adopted by CCSDS as standard aimed to promote and simplify inter-agency collaboration.
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Kumaran, Vikram. "Plan Recognition as Candidate Space Search." NCSU, 2006. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-10312006-000347/.

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Effective human computer interaction is enhanced by a machine?s ability to make educated guesses about the intention of its user. In our research, we have developed a novel plan recognition algorithm ? based on plan space search planners ? to recognize plans given a limited set of observed actions. Our focus in this research is towards accurately picking possible plans and not towards disambiguation or building plan libraries and therefore we complement other advances in this field, namely probability based recognition and other plan library based recognition systems. Along with the ability to recognize overall goal of an agent our algorithm also allows us to make local predictions, a feature absent in most of the other system.
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Ng, Tobun Dorbin. "A concept space approach to semantic exchange." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289095.

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This dissertation work investigates the use of information technologies that clarify semantic meaning to help users elaborate their information needs by providing library-specific knowledge to the information seeking process. The research involved two interdependent semantic technologies: concept space consultation and library-specific, domain-specific, automatically generated concept spaces. The concept space consultation phase used spreading activation algorithms--branch-and-bound and Hopfield net algorithms--to explore knowledge sources in specific domains. This research demonstrated the comparable effectiveness of exploration of a library database using a man-made classification scheme and thesaurus as opposed to an automatically generated concept space. The results showed that the use of spreading activation algorithms identified more relevant concepts than the use of the manual browsing method. The concept space technique automatically identifies and extracts concept from a library collection while at the same time computing the strength of associations between concepts. This research demonstrated that the concept space technique was able to create human-recognizable concepts and their associations. In addition, the technique could be scaled to generate very large library-specific concept spaces for a very large underlying library collection. Moreover, the interdependent use of both semantic technologies creates a semantic medium for users and library-specific knowledge sources to exchange content with context--context in user information need and that in corporeal knowledge.
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Amorena, Maria Florencia. "Science, art, fiction : l'image chez Juan José Saer." Thesis, Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080143.

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Cette recherche se donne pour objectif d’analyser les images verbales dans l’œuvre de l’écrivain argentin Juan José Saer (Serodino 1937- Paris 2005). Elle s’appuie sur une étude du corpus littéraire ainsi que sur le scénario inédit Las nubes de Magallanes. Elle vise à comprendre dans quelle mesure les images verbales et mentales sont pertinentes dans la construction d’une esthétique et d’une épistémologie saeriennes. A partir d’une analyse des images verbales et mentales dans l’œuvre de Saer, cette étude veut non seulement montrer que description et narration sont intimement liées, mais que leur relation constitue une possibilité pour penser la présence des arts et des sciences dans l’œuvre de Saer autrement que de manière dichotomique. En tant qu'éléments de son programme d’écriture, les arts et les sciences sont insérés dans un ensemble plus vaste. En conséquence, la structure narrative configurée à partir des images vise davantage à la complémentarité des contraires. Elle implique donc également une possibilité pour penser le lien entre l’homme et le monde, ainsi qu’entre les sciences et les arts, à partir d’un système holistique et non dualiste. La clé de cette nouvelle forme narrative sera, non l’opposition, mais au contraire une esthétique de l’empathie
The objective of this thesis is to analyze verbal images in the work of the Argentinian writer Juan José Saer. By analyzing his novels, shorts stories and the unpublished film script Las nubes de Magallanes, we wish to understand the implications of the verbal images in the construction of a specific aesthetics and epistemology.Throughout the analysis of verbal and mental images in the work of Saer, this study has two fundamental aims: first, to show that description and narration are intimately linked; second, that this link enables us to think arts and sciences in the work of Saer in a non-dualistic way. The narrative structure by which we analyze the images seeks the complementarity of the opposites. This allows us to think the connection that man has with the world as well as the link between art and sciences as elements of a holistic system, instead of dualistic. The key to this new form of narration will be an aesthetic of empathy
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Kelly, Michael Robert 1953. "Intelligent space laboratory organizational design using system entity structure concepts." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291985.

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This thesis is the product of a knowledge acquisition effort, whose objective was to obtain information essential to the modelling and simulation of a robotically operated laboratory on board the forthcoming space station "Freedom." The information is represented using the system entity structure, a knowledge representation scheme that utilizes artificial intelligence concepts. The system entity structure details the design information and associated knowledge required for the intelligent autonomous operation of the space-based laboratory. The approach is proven to be very beneficial for organizing and displaying the vast amounts of information that constitute this intricate system design. Knowledge management, representation, and the nature of a future software implementation are also addressed.
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Chiku, Takemi. "Japanese space policy in the changing world." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12825.

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Johnston, Gordon Innes 1953. "Strategic architecture of an integrated earth and space-based observation network for earth science." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91759.

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Page-Lippsmeyer, Kathryn. "The space of Japanese science fiction| Illustration, subculture, and the body in "SF Magazine"." Thesis, University of Southern California, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10160154.

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This is a study of the rise of science fiction as a subculture in the 1960s through an analysis of the first and longest-running commercial science fiction magazine in Japan: SF Magazine. Much of the research on science fiction in Japan focuses on the boom in the 1980s or on the very first science fictional texts created in the early years of the twentieth century, glossing over this pivotal decade. From 1959-1969, SF Magazine ’s covers created a visual legacy of the relationship of the human body to space that reveals larger concerns about technology, science, and humanity. This legacy centers around the mediation of human existence through technology (called the posthuman), which also transforms our understanding of gender and space in contemporary works. I examine the constellation of Japanese conceptions of the body in science fiction, its manifestations and limits, exploring how the representation of this Japanese, posthuman, and often cyborgian body is figured as an absence in the space of science fiction landscapes. SF Magazine was used by consumers to construct meanings of self, social identity, and social relations. Science fiction illustration complemented and supported the centrality of SF Magazine, making these illustrations integral to the production the of science fiction subculture and to the place of the body within Japanese science fiction. Their representation of space, and then in the later part of the 1960s the return of the body to these covers, mirrors the theoretical and emotional concerns of not just science fiction writers and readers in the 1960s, but the larger social and historical concerns present in the country at large.

The horrifying and painful mutability of bodies that came to light after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki manifests, in the latter years of the 1960s in science fiction, as the fantastically powerful mutating bodies of super heroes and cyborgs within the science fictional world. The bombed spaces of the postwar (largely ignored in mainstream 1960s media) were reimagined in productive ways on the covers of SF Magazine, mirroring the fiction and nonfictional contents. It is through this publication that a recognizable community emerges, a particular type of identity becomes associated with the science fiction fan that coalesced when the magazine began to offer different points of articulation, both through the covers and through the magazine’s contents. That notion of the science fiction fan as a particular subjectivity, as a particular way to navigate the world, created a space to articulate trauma and to investigate ways out of that trauma not available in mainstream works.

My work seeks to build on literary scholarship that considers the role commercial and pulp genres fiction play in negotiating and constructing community. I contribute to recent scholarship in art history that investigates the close relationship of Surrealism to mass culture movements in postwar Japan, although these art historians largely center their work on advertising in the pre-war context. Furthermore, my project reconsiders the importance of the visual to a definition of science fiction: it is only when the visual and textual are blended that a recognizable version of science fiction emerges – in the same way the magazine featuring the work of fans blurred the boundary between professional and fan. Hence, although the context of my study is 1960s Japan, my research is inseparable from larger investigations of the visual and the textual, the global understanding of science fiction, the relationship between high art and commercial culture, and contemporary media studies. This work is therefore of interest not only to literary science fiction scholars, but also to researchers in critical theory, visual studies, fan studies, and contemporary Japanese culture.

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Gstalder, Steven Herbert. "Understanding Library Space Planning." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10289537.

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The role of the academic library has shifted from developing book collections to serving the information and technology needs of students and faculty. The needs of library users change more quickly and unpredictably than the needs of books, and library directors have pushed beyond the traditional incremental approach to library development to respond to changing needs. As many universities struggle to balance budgets, library directors must demonstrate the value and demand for library spaces and services to justify investments in construction and renovation projects. This study investigates the reasons that the new library space projects were undertaken and the forces driving decisions about investments in the library facilities. The cases in this dissertation present studies of three private, non-profit liberal arts institutions in the Eastern United States that have recently invested in major renovation or construction projects for new library spaces. At each site, interviews and focus group sessions were conducted with librarians, students, faculty, and library administrators. Archival material was researched to supplement the data collected from the subjects of the interviews. A multi-lens framework of strategic change is used to examine the forces and factors that influenced the decisions to pursue new library spaces in each case study. The institutions in the study successfully developed new learning commons and library spaces through renovation or construction projects. Each of the libraries in the study faced similar factors leading to a new space, including overcrowding, interest from students in collaborative learning, increased demand for access to technology, and the decline in the use of the printed book. The strong leadership of the library director, with support from the institution’s president, contributed to the success of each project in the study. The importance of this study derives from its examination of the changing factors and forces that drive the uses of new library spaces, highlighting the need to build flexibility into new construction projects.

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Bouland, Adam Michael. "The space around BQP." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113997.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268).
This thesis explores the computational power of quantum devices from the perspective of computational complexity theory. Quantum computers hold the promise of solving many problems exponentially faster than classical computers. The computational power of universal quantum devices is captured by the complexity class BQP, which stands for "bounded-error quantum polynomial time." We hope that quantum devices will be capable of the full power of BQP in the long term. However, quantum computers are difficult to build, so the experimental devices of the near future may be incapable of universal quantum computation. As a result, a number of recent works have studied "weak" models of quantum computers which lie "below BQP." The first part of this thesis examines the space "below BQP" and describes a number of sub-universal models of quantum computation which can nevertheless perform sampling tasks which are difficult for classical computers. We show that prior models maintain hardness when their set of quantum operations is restricted, and describe two new models of "weak" quantum computation which also show advantage over classical devices. A major theme in this work is that almost any weak device can perform hard sampling tasks. We find that almost any model which is not universal, but not known to be efficiently classically simulable, admits a speedup over classical computing for sampling tasks under plausible assumptions. This work can be seen as progress towards classifying the power of all restricted quantum gate sets. On the other hand, quantum gravity theorists have considered modifying quantum mechanics to resolve the black hole information paradox. Inspired by these debates, the second part of this thesis explores the computational power of modified theories of quantum mechanics. We find that almost all modifications allow for drastically more power than BQP i.e. these modifications lie "above BQP" - and we find that these speedups may be related to superluminal signaling in these models. Surprisingly, we find one model which is only slightly more powerful than BQP. Inspired by this model, we study and resolve an open problem in classical complexity related to the power of statistical-zero knowledge proof systems.
by Adam Michael Bouland.
Ph. D.
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