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Geldenhuis, Andre. "The Atmospheric Gravity Wave Transfer Function above Scott Base." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Physics and Astronomy, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3698.
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Gravity waves have a significant dynamic effect in the mesosphere. In particular, they drive the mesospheric circulation and are the reason that the summer polar mesosphere is cooler than the winter polar mesosphere. This thesis examines whether the effects of gravity waves are largely determined by filtering effects which allow only gravity waves with certain properties to propagate into the atmosphere. The filtering of gravity waves above Scott Base, Antarctica is examined using a radiosonde derived gravity wave source function, an MF-radar derived mesospheric gravity wave climatology, and a model derived filtering function. Least squares fitting of the source function and filtering function to the observed mesospheric gravity wave climatology allows us to determine which gravity wave phase velocities and propagation direction are likely to be present in the mesosphere and the relative importance of filtering and sources in this region. It is concluded the blocking of eastward gravity waves is important in winter and westward waves in summer.
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Frye, Jake. "Performance-objective design of a wind-diesel hybrid energy system for Scott Base, Antarctica." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1157.
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New Zealand's Antarctic research station, Scott Base, is currently 100% reliant on aviation turbine fuel and existing diesel generator sets to produce the heat and electricity necessary to sustain staff activities. Decreasing fuel consumption at Scott Base has benefits economically, politically and environmentally. A method of reducing fuel consumption and increasing base independence that is receiving considerable attention from Antarctica New Zealand is the addition of wind power to the existing energy system. A performance-objective design of a wind-diesel hybrid energy system for Scott Base is proposed in order to determine the most effective hybrid system configuration with the lowest cost within a set of system constraints. A demand side management technique is also evaluated as a measure to further increase potential fuel savings. Modelling is completed using the simulation tool HOMER and results are presented for several different system configurations.
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Fortune, Adrienne L. "Biosecurity at the Extreme: Pathways and Vectors between New Zealand and Scott Base, Antarctica." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Forestry, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1135.
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Biosecurity is one of the main mechanisms used to protect and mitigate the introduction of non-indigenous species. Effective biosecurity requires a knowledge and understanding of pathways and vectors along which invasion can occur. This study contributes to our knowledge and understanding of possible biosecurity risk factors in the Antarctic by identifying potential vectors for invasive species in the pathway between New Zealand and the Antarctic. The Antarctic has important indigenous terrestrial and marine, plant and animal species, all of which contribute to the food chain in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. This study seeks to contribute some baseline data about pathways and vectors between the two regions and the implications for the biosecurity of both. An assessment of some of the risks associated with human activities within the Antarctic region, including the traffic of people and goods to and from the area, are the focus of this thesis. Current biosecurity practices with regard to personnel, shipping containers, and fresh produce are examined and where appropriate, recommendations to alleviate any detected risks are made. The results of the research indicate a significant volume of seed and plant material being unintentionally transported to Antarctica. The most striking finding was the presence of seeds in new clothes, which have previously been assumed not to be vectors. The presence of seeds in soil samples in Antarctica suggests that seeds have probably already been transported to Antarctica. Presently the climate in Scott Base seems to prevent non-indigenous species from becoming established. However, with the increases in temperature being experienced in Antarctica, this may not always be the case, therefore greater attention to biosecurity legislation and its implementation is required.
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Williams, Thomas Mervyn. "Monitoring the Impact of Scott Base in Antarctica: A Recent Evaluation of Wastewater, Water and Soil Quality at Pram Point, Ross Island." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Gateway Antarctica, Chemistry and Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9333.
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Antarctica is widely perceived as the most untouched continent on Earth. However, increasing anthropogenic presence in Antarctica is creating continual pressure on the pristine environment. To protect the Antarctic environment, monitoring and reporting procedures must be a priority for Nations wishing to conduct research on the continent. A significant contributor to environmental degradation is poor waste management and waste disposal, in particular the discharge of sewage and wastewater into the marine environment. This study provides information on the potential impact of Scott Base wastewater on the local marine environment, which can be used to improve operating systems and as a tool to ultimately reduce the environmental footprint of the base.
This study investigated the characteristics of the sewage from Scott Base, Antarctica, and the water quality within the wastewater discharge plume beneath the sea ice. Results from seawater analysis were then compared with Redvers (2000) to give an indication of how contamination levels have changed over the last decade. Results show that in the vicinity of the wastewater outfall, seawater samples contained no faecal coliforms or Escherichia coli. Nitrate-Nitrogen (NO3ˉ- N) concentrations were recorded up to 1.1 mg/L, while phosphate (PO43-) ranged from 0.28 to 0.45 mg/L. The pH ranged from 7.84 to 7.92. Dissolved oxygen ranged between 10.05 and 13.02 mg/L, and conductivity between 48.4 to 55.2 mS/cm. Concentrations of copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), and zinc (Zn) were greatest at sites within 30m of the outfall. Iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni) were detected at most sites within the plume. The general spatial extent of the plume is now approximately 50m long-shore, and 30m offshore. Compared to Redvers (2000) the current plume is more localised, with a reduction of approximately 100-125m long-shore and 10-20m offshore. Faecal coliforms have reduced to no longer be detected within the plume, while dissolved oxygen and total organic carbon concentrations in the plume have increased, and conductivity has decreased.
Soils surrounding Scott Base were also investigated as a potential source of trace metal (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) discharge to the marine environment. Total recoverable soil metal concentrations and readily leachable metal concentrations were measured. Sites were selected on the basis of being potential sources of contamination (fuel storage areas or refuelling areas), or potentially effecting the marine environment (shorelines). Results show that the greatest concentrations of metals and readily leachable metals were found primarily along the shoreline, and not necessarily where contamination related to current base activities is likely to occur. The results indicate that historic contamination may still persist in the terrestrial environment, and has the potential to be transported into the marine environment.
Domestic and drinking water samples were analysed for trace metals and nutrients to ensure that contaminants from the wastewater outfall were not entering the reverse osmosis plant. Results show that the drinking water meets New Zealand Drinking Water Standards (Ministry of Health, 2008).
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Weinhold, Carsten [Verfasser], Hermann [Akademischer Betreuer] Härtig, and Scott [Akademischer Betreuer] Brandt. "Reducing Size and Complexity of the Security-Critical Code Base of File Systems / Carsten Weinhold. Gutachter: Hermann Härtig ; Scott Brandt." Dresden : Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1068447419/34.
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Hicks, Stephen Walter. "The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58 - How the crossing of Antarctica moved New Zealand to recognise its Antarctic heritage and take an equal place among Antarctic nations." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Gateway Antarctica, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10485.
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The thesis analyses the expedition (TAE) led by Dr.Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary from three vantage points: 1)the years from 1948 to 1955 leading up to the expedition 2) the interaction between the IGY and the TAE projects and 3) the role of the US Navy as the expedition unfolded. The thesis also investigates key events including the purchase of the ship Endeavour from Britain, the competition for leadership of the UK and NZ parties, the 'dash to the Pole' by Hillary, and the search for base sites and routes to the Polar Plateau. The thesis contains an overview historical introduction, a comprehensive literature review as well as a broad-based set of conclusions.
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Mosberger, David. "Scout: A path-based operating system." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288704.
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Scout is a new operating system architecture that is designed specifically to accommodate the needs of communication-centric systems. An important class of such systems is formed by information appliances, which, broadly speaking, are devices whose primary task is to facilitate communication. Appliances are typically relatively small, special-purpose, and often mobile devices such as remote controls, personal information managers, network-attached disks, cameras, displays, or dedicated file-servers. Scout has a modular structure that is complemented by a new abstraction called the path. The modular structure enables the efficient building of systems that are tailored precisely to the requirements of a particular appliance. Paths address issues related to the performance and quality with which a communication service is rendered. A path can be visualized as a vertical slice through a layered system or viewed abstractly as a bidirectional flow of data. As such, a path typically traverses multiple modules in a Scout system. This means that paths provide additional context to the modules that process data that is being communicated through the system. This context often makes it possible to implement data processing more efficiently or to improve the quality with which resource management, such as CPU scheduling or memory allocation, is realized. This dissertation develops the path abstraction from first principles and then introduces the various aspects of the Scout architecture. Aside from the path abstraction, Scout uses a novel approach for network packet classification. With the Scout architecture defined, two studies are presented that provide an in-depth look at how to use Scout and its path abstraction. The first study employs the path abstraction to reduce processing latency in the networking subsystem. Evaluating these path optimizations also provides important insights on the performance behavior of networking subsystems on modern RISC machines. The second study employs the path abstraction to improve resource management for an information appliance that involves a networked TV displaying MPEG encoded video.
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Favre, Anne-Catherine. "Single and multi-site modelling of rainfall based on the Neyman-Scott process /." Lausanne : EPFL, 2001. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=2320.
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Withill, Ronald Adrian. "Maximising the effectiveness of SCOOT based urban traffic control systems." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283466.
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Çolak, Deniz. "Analysis of the performance of the 3-PG model for Scots pine in Turkey." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7411.
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Mestrado - Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe 3-PG (Physiological Principles in Predicting Growth) is a dynamic, process-based model of forest growth developed in order to bridge the gap between empirical models and very detailed physiological models. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the performance of the model 3-PG for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) with data from Turkey. A first step was to identify and organise data for this purpose. Two important data sets were found in Turkey, the first containing 68 trees that were destructively sampled for biomass assessment, the second from 135 temporary plots. The absence of data from permanent plots lead to the use of existing yield tables, that were complemented in order to provide foliage and stem biomass, as growth data. The first runs of 3-PG were based on parameters available from the literature, followed by the calibration of as many parameters as possible with the data available, namely the age-related and the allometric and partitioning parameters. The model showed quite reasonable results in predicting the above-ground biomass and stand density, but some problems with the prediction of leaves biomass whose estimations in the yield table were also questionable. The results are promising and point out for research lines that must be pursued in order to improve the performance of 3-PG for Scots pine in Turkey.
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Freitas, Eduardo Noronha de Andrade. "SCOUT: a multi-objective method to select components in designing unit testing." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5674.
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The creation of a suite of unit testing is preceded by the selection of which components (code units) should be tested. This selection is a significant challenge, usually made based on the team member’s experience or guided by defect prediction or fault localization models. We modeled the selection of components for unit testing with limited resources as a multi-objective problem, addressing two different objectives: maximizing benefits and minimizing cost. To measure the benefit of a component, we made use of important metrics from static analysis (cost of future maintenance), dynamic analysis (risk of fault, and frequency of calls), and business value. We tackled gaps and challenges in the literature to formulate an effective method, the Selector of Software Components for Unit testing (SCOUT). SCOUT was structured in two stages: an automated extraction of all necessary data and a multi-objective optimization process. The Android platform was chosen to perform our experiments, and nine leading open-source applications were used as our subjects. SCOUT was compared with two of the most frequently used strategies in terms of efficacy.We also compared the effectiveness and efficiency of seven algorithms in solving a multi-objective component selection problem: random technique; constructivist heuristic; Gurobi, a commercial tool; genetic algorithm; SPEA_II; NSGA_II; and NSGA_III. The results indicate the benefits of using multi-objective evolutionary approaches such as NSGA_II and demonstrate that SCOUT has a significant potential to reduce market vulnerability. To the best of our knowledge, SCOUT is the first method to assist software testing managers in selecting components at the method level for the development of unit testing in an automated way based on a multi-objective approach, exploring static and dynamic metrics and business value.
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Crawford, Michael Scott [Verfasser], Florian [Akademischer Betreuer] Jeltsch, Volker [Akademischer Betreuer] Grimm, Felix [Gutachter] May, and Uta [Gutachter] Berger. "Using individual-based modeling to understand grassland diversity and resilience in the Anthropocene / Michael Scott Crawford ; Gutachter: Felix May, Uta Berger ; Florian Jeltsch, Volker Grimm." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1221183605/34.
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Xenakis, Georgios. "Assessment of carbon sequestration and timber production of Scots pine across Scotland using the process-based model 3-PGN." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2038.
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Forests are a valuable resource for humans providing a range of products and services such as construction timber, paper and fuel wood, recreation, as well as living quarters for indigenous populations and habitats for many animal and bird species. Most recent international political agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol emphasise the role of forests as a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide mitigation. However, forest areas are rapidly decreasing world wide. Thus, it is vital that efficient strategies and tools are developed to encourage sustainable ecosystem management. These tools must be based on known ecological principles (such as tree physiological and soil nutrient cycle processes), capable of supplying fast and accurate temporal and spatial predictions of the effects of management on both timber production and carbon sequestration. This thesis had two main objectives. The first was to investigate the environmental factors affecting growth and carbon sequestration of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) across Scotland, by developing a knowledge base through a statistical analysis of old and novel field datasets. Furthermore, the process-based ecosystem model 3-PGN was developed, by coupling the existing models 3-PG and ICBM. 3-PGN calibrated using a Bayesian approach based on Monte Carlo Markov Chain simulations and it was validated for plantation stands. Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses provided an understanding of the internal feedbacks of the model. Further simulations gave a detailed eco-physiological interpretation of the environmental factors affecting Scots pine growth and it provided an assessment of carbon sequestration under the scenario of sustainable, normal production and its effects from the environment. Finally, the study investigated the spatial and temporal patterns of timber production and carbon sequestration by using the spatial version of the model and applying advanced spatial analyses techniques. The second objective was to help close the gap between environmental research and forest management, by setting a strategic framework for a process-based tool for sustainable ecosystem management. The thesis demonstrated the procedures for a site classification scheme based on modelling results and a yield table validation procedure, which can provide a way forward in supporting policies for forest management and ensuring their continued existence in the face of the present and future challenges.
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Gorge, Vanessa. "Caractérisations de matériaux et tests de composants des cellules solaires à base des nitrures des éléments III-V." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00707717.
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Parmi les nitrures III-V, le matériau InGaN a été intensément étudié depuis les années 2000 pour des applications photovoltaïques, en particulier pour des cellules multi-jonctions, grâce à son large gap modulable pouvant couvrir quasiment tout le spectre solaire. On pourrait alors atteindre de hauts rendements tout en assurant de bas coûts. Cependant, l'un des problèmes de l'InGaN est l'absence de substrat accordé en maille provoquant une grande densité de défauts et limitant ainsi les performances des composants. Nous avons donc étudié la faisabilité de cellules solaires simples jonctions à base d'InGaN sur des substrats alternatifs comme le silicium et le verre afin de baisser les coûts et d'avoir de larges applications. Afin d'adapter l'InGaN sur ces substrats alternatifs, nous avons utilisé une couche tampon en ZnO. Ce travail a été réalisé dans le cadre du projet ANR NewPVonGlass. Plus particulièrement, dans ce projet, mon travail avait pour objectifs de réaliser des caractérisations électriques et optiques des matériaux et des composants. Les deux premières parties de cette thèse introduisent le matériau InGaN et l'effet photovoltaïque. Les techniques de caractérisation utilisées sont expliquées dans le troisième chapitre. Ensuite, les résultats obtenus lors de la caractérisation cristalline du matériau InGaN sont présentés en fonction du substrat, de la concentration d'indium et de l'épaisseur de la couche. Puis, la cinquième partie développe les caractérisations des premières cellules à base d'InGaN sur saphir. Enfin, dans le dernier chapitre, des simulations de cellules solaires à base d'InGaN ont été réalisées. Le modèle développé nous a permis d'optimiser la structure et le dopage du composant et de déterminer les paramètres critiques. Nous montrons donc, dans ce travail, le développement d'une cellule solaire à base d'InGaN : des caractérisations des matériaux de base à celles des cellules solaires, en passant par la modélisation.
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Rothe, Andrea Kerstin [Verfasser], Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Banse, Scott [Gutachter] McDonald, and Harald [Gutachter] Grethe. "Impact of the Exit from Nuclear and Fossil-fuel Energy on the German Economy : A General Equilibrium Analysis with Special Emphasis on Agriculture and Electricity / Andrea Kerstin Rothe ; Gutachter: Scott McDonald, Harald Grethe ; Betreuer: Martin Banse." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1162339691/34.
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Rothe, Andrea Kerstin Verfasser], Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] [Banse, Scott [Gutachter] McDonald, and Harald [Gutachter] Grethe. "Impact of the Exit from Nuclear and Fossil-fuel Energy on the German Economy : A General Equilibrium Analysis with Special Emphasis on Agriculture and Electricity / Andrea Kerstin Rothe ; Gutachter: Scott McDonald, Harald Grethe ; Betreuer: Martin Banse." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1162339691/34.
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Wu, Sihong. "Modeling the Seasonality of Carbon, Evapotranspiration and Heat Processes for Cold Climate Conditions." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Biogeofysik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-26918.
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The productivity of agricultural and forest ecosystems in regions at higher latitudes is to a large extent governed by low temperature and moisture conditions. Environmental conditions are acting both above- and below-ground and regulating carbon fluxes and evapotranspiration. However, the understanding of various feedbacks between vegetation and environmental conditions is still unclear. In this thesis, two studies were conducted to understand the physical and biological processes. In the first study, the aim was to simulate soil temperature and moisture dynamics in the bare soil with seasonal frost conditions in China. In the second study, the aims were to model seasonal courses of carbon and evapotranspiration and to examine the responses of photosynthesis, transpiration and respiration on environmental conditions in a boreal Scots pine ecosystem in Finland. In both studies the CoupModel was applied to simulate the dynamic responses of the systems. Both sites represented investigations from which a high number of measurements were available. To understand to what extent the data could be used to increase the understanding of the systems, the Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) was applied. The GLUE method was useful to reduce basic uncertainties with respect to parameter ranges, model structures and measurements. The strong interactions between soil temperature and moisture processes have indicated by a few behavioral models obtained when constrained by combined temperature and moisture criteria. Model performance on sensible and latent heat fluxes and net ecosystem exchange (NEE) also indicated the coupled processes within the system. Seasonal and diurnal courses were reproduced successfully with reduced parameter ranges. However, uncertainties on what is the most general regulation for transpiration and NEE are still unclear and need further systematic investigations.QC 20101206
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Maunder, Paul Allan. "The Rebellious Mirror,Before and after 1984:Community-based theatre in Aotearoa." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5381.
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In this thesis I outline the contribution Community-based theatre has made to New Zealand theatre. This involves a defining of theatre production as a material practice. Community-based theatre was a tendency from the 1930s, a promise of the left theatre movement and, I argue, was being searched for as a form of practice by the avant-garde, experimental practitioners of the 1970s. At the same time, early Māori theatre began as a Community-based practice before moving into the mainstream.
With the arrival of neo-liberalism to Aotearoa in 1984, community groups and Community-based theatre could become official providers within the political system. This led to a flowering of practices, which I describe, together with the tensions that arise from being a part of that system. However, neo-liberalism introduced managerial practices into state contracting and patronage policy, which effectively denied this flowering the sustenance deserved. At the same time, these policies commodified mainstream theatre production.
In conclusion, I argue that in the current situation of global crisis, Community-based theatre practice has a continuing role to play in giving voice to the multitude and by being a practice of the Common.
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Kraevska, Sofia. "Terra Mirabilis: A Composition for Symphony Orchestra in Three Movements." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/199.
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Terra Mirabilis is a three-movement musical composition for symphony orchestra with piano solo inspired by natural landscapes photographed by the composer. The three movement composition and its corresponding landscapes portray three times of a day: early morning (I. The Mists), evening (II. Oceanus), and late night (III. Nocturne). Each chapter is devoted to the discussion of one movement, wherein overall concept and form are addressed, followed by detailed analyses of harmonic structure, motivic and thematic development, orchestration, and representational elements. As a complement to the score and the text, a CD-R audio recording of orchestral mock-ups accompanies this dissertation.
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Frye, Jake A. "Performance-objective design of a wind-diesel hybrid energy system for Scott Base, Antarctica : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury /." 2006. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20070515.210232.
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Geldenhuis, André. "The atmospheric gravity wave transfer function above Scott Base : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a masters degree in Physics at the University of Canterbury /." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3698.
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Weng, Ming-Hong, and 翁銘鴻. "FPGA-Based Adaptive Backstepping Fuzzy Control for aMicro-positioning Scott-Russell Mechanism." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37377151779742800006.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
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This paper utilizes the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Nios II embedded processor technologies to design a controller IC for a micro-positioning Scott-Russell (SR) mechanism, which is driven by a piezoelectric actuator (PA). The analog to digital (A/D) and digital to analog (D/A) conversion circuits are important role to achieved the communicated objective with the FPGA. In system identification, the main objective is to identify the hysteresis effect of the piezoelectric element (PE), and shows its influence on the dynamic responses of the SR mechanism. The identification method based on real-coded genetic algorithm (RGA) has the advantages to identify the parameters of the SR mechanism and the Bouc-Wen hysteresis model simultaneously. For the controller design, the adaptive backstepping fuzzy control (ABFC) method is developed to achieve the motion control and the fuzzy logic method (FLM) is utilized to find the best adaptation gain of the adaptation law and control gain of the stabilization controls. This ABFC controller method can improve the transient and asymptotic tracking performances, and make the SR mechanism keep good working performance when external disturbances exist in the control system. Finally, we successfully apply the system-on-a-programmable-chip (SoPC) technologies to develop the motion controller IC, and achieve the advantages of reduce space, high performance and low cost.
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Everingham, Scott. "Based on a True Story." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4418.
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The paintings in Based on a True Story are at once illogical and concrete – implying both failure and the hope of figurative and architectural construction. Developed as a kind of psychological landscape, they suggest a depiction of contemporary societal / political, and environmental instability. Neither true nor false: the paintings are spaces in which one may become dislocated, anxious, and unsettled. Inclusion of architectural fenestration suggests one’s fractured location and continually shifting ground. Furthermore, literary and cinematic fiction plays an important role to the work in that they both suggest landscapes that may never exist literally. Fiction is also indicative of the close relationship between the utopia and dystopia as environments for escape. This sense of balance or lack thereof, becomes important to the development of the theatrically absurd, so that an audience may be implicated as the tragic and comic active participant. While investigating the work of Peter Doig, Stephen Bush, and Dana Schutz, for example, I suggest that the trail of the painter’s hand becomes a necessary mode of entrance into the work, offering a closer relationship to the act of painting as another form of escape. This gestural mark-making runs counter to current pushes toward technology, and suggests the re-emergence of painting as a primary approach in which to investigate the development of personal space and experience.
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Chen, Chih-Nan, and 陳志南. "Development and Implementation of A Web-based Performance Support System in Scout Camping." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45104168383148127974.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
數位學習設計與管理學系研究所
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The purpose of this study was to construct a “Web-based Performance Support System in Scout Camping” (WPSS_SC) for adult leaders of scouting in their preliminary administrative work before scout camping. Firstly, the study adopted documentary analysis to discover required administrative operations for scout camping. The initial framework for administrative management system in scout camping was built based on principles and applications of both the “Electronic Performance Support Systems” and the “web-based learning portfolio construction model” developed by Chang (2001). The prototype of the system was modified based on the evaluation carried out by adult leaders and experts of scouting and educational technology specialists. The final product was evaluated by three rover scouts and seven adult leaders who had partaken in scouting for more than fifteen years to realize the effectiveness of the system in preparing scout camping. The results show that the key factors in affecting the construction of WPSS_SC are technique, time and fund. The participants of the study reported positively toward most of the features of the system such as first, communication can be enhanced by diversified and effective means. Second, the presentation of the activities are clear and therefore is easier to understand and control the working procedures. Third, knowledge sharing improved learning, work performance, and confidence of each individual user. Fourth. the system provided necessary assistance that enhanced the effectiveness of preliminary administrative work in scout camping. The rover scouts reported that the system engaged them in scouting because the system provided particular features such as first, WPSS_SC improves their work performances by helping them prepare their activities beforehand. Second, WPSS_SC enables direct discussion which lead to effective preparation of the activities. Third, knowledge sharing improves work performances and confidence for preparing and promoting scout camping. However, the participants also responded that a training would be required in order to efficiently manipulate the features of the system. Overall, WPSS_SC was effective in achieving communication, control of working procedures, personal work performance, and preparation for scout camping.
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Chen, Jie-Sheng, and 陳傑昇. "The research of curriculum design and implementation of the Literacy-based in 12-Year Basic Education Curricula: A Case on Integrated Activities Area with Scout Education." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p8apt8.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
公民教育與活動領導學系
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The purpose of this study is to research the curriculum design and implementation of the Literacy-based in 12-Year Basic Education Curricula: A Case on Integrated Activities Area with Scout Education. The researcher is a teacher in junior high school. Through the action research in the course of teaching, we give feedback on the revision of the curriculum based on the results of student assessment and the opinions of experts and scholars so as to meet the learning objectives and the needs of students' learning. The topics of this research is relatively new, the related research is rare. Development of assessment tools, the completion of the design unit scoring standards into learning objectives, and then view the relevance of learning activities design activities. The results of the study have four findings on the curriculum design and implementation of the Literacy-based in 12-Year Basic Education Curricula. Directions Governing for the 12-Year Basic Education Curricula and Integrated Activities Area have not yet been formally implemented. There are still many room for research. I hope that teachers should continue their lifelong learning attitude Curriculum development and design and implementation in the future. I hope that subsequent researchers should strengthen the confidence of research and field communication in advance. There are some problems in this topic, like administrative staff with course preparation, equipment preparation, funding, flexible replacement, senior teacher heritage and other supportive actions to foster more teachers willing to invest in teaching and research.
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