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Kosinski, Clare Therese. "Taming the Shrew: Media Editing Project of The Taming of the Shrew." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146597.
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The honors thesis project is the final editing of one act of the filmed production of The Taming of the Shrew, performed by the Arizona Reparatory Theater. The honors thesis is a project to apply and analyze the editing techniques learned during research. The thesis project explores the intersections of film narrative, both linear and non-linear, and editing as they work together to shape film language. The project consists of observing rehearsals of the production so as to establish a shot list to shoot during later dress rehearsals performances. After filming the performances, the rest of the semester was spent editing the footage together in two different approaches that apply the techniques learned during the research semester of Fall 2009. These techniques are silent film editing style and traditional continuity editing style.
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Ripa, Elisabeth. "Who Is the Shrew? : Irony as deconstruction in The Taming of the Shrew." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-6488.
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In this thesis William Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of The Shrew is analyzed from a feminist perspective. It is argued that the female characters Katherina and Bianca are mainly constructed through language expressed by male characters as binary oppositions. By an act of deconstruction within the play, these images, or constructed representations, are adjusted and somewhat reversed in the end. In addition, it is shown how the Induction, an introductory part of the play, adds aspects of construction and deconstruction, which supports an ironic reading and a questioning of the constructed gender roles.
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Parsons, Elinor. "The framing of the shrew : screen versions of The Taming of the Shrew." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504952.
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My thesis analyses the journey that The Taming of the Shrew has made on screen. It is arranged with a broad sense of chronology but it does group different versions generically. The argument is led by inquiry into the notion of the 'frame'. Stage productions too often cut the Christopher Sly sequence or rework the text to include the scenes from A Shrew by way of closure. I argue that screen versions of the play are able to find a televisual or cinematic framing which parallels how Shakespeare's theatrical technique functions.
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Luetkenhaus, Jeffrey M. ""The Taming of the Shrew" : a journey of discovery /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1324373831&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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McKimpson, Karl F. "Meaning well status and significance in The taming of the shrew /." View electronic thesis (PDF), 2009. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2009-1/mckimpsonk/karlmckimpson.pdf.
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Mattsson, Lisa. "Women and Film Adaptations : Feminism in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10816.
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This paper will focus on feminism over time as well as film adaptations. By comparing the play The Taming of the Shrew, written by William Shakespeare, with the movie from 1967 with the same name and also the movie 10 Things I Hate about You from 1999, the aim is to see if, and how, the specific wave of feminism, and the woman, is portrayed in the different film adaptations. The different waves of feminism and the movie of that wave are presented together, one by one. Lastly, an analysis of the movies follows.
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D'Addio, Joanne F. V. "Young women reading women, girls' perceptions of The taming of the shrew." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq20621.pdf.
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Springer, Stephanie M. ""Taming" Feminism: Tracing Women and Culture Through Adaptation." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363353110.
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Murphy, Stephanie Miranda. "Beggars, Brides, and Bards: The Political Philosophy of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84258/.
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To do justice to Shakespeare’s comprehensive moral and political thought this paper seeks to discover what we can learn from the political philosophy of his largely neglected comedy, Taming of the Shrew. Not only does this endeavor provide a valuable forgotten link within the critical analyses of the theorists, but it also corrects the various misinterpretations of the play among contemporary critics. I argue that the play surveys various key themes that are rooted in classical political philosophy – such as education, the problems of anger, and the dynamic between nature and convention – and takes into consideration how they apply to modern man. Shakespeare borrows Plato’s idea that eroticism is central to education and explicitly references Ovid’s love books to reexamine our conceptions about one’s formation of character, the proper standards for judging the ideal mate, and the effects of these issues on the stability of the community. I also submit an innovative explanation of the relation between the induction and the main plot. Taken together they exhibit a critique of the role of the poet and his art in modern civil society.
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Facio, Robert J. "How to Tame a Shrew (11 Things I Hate About Her) An Actor's Method to Characterizing Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1794.
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The Taming of the Shrew is an early comedy that exposes the oddities we take for granted: curious conventions, wild assumptions, gender roles, relationships, social status, fashion, and everything else we know so defectively. The given circumstances of the script and Petruchio are specific in choice, yet broad in interpretation. Petruchio, the catalyst behind Katherine’s character arc, needed to not only be believable in his ways, but likeable by the audience.
This thesis examines the process required to successfully develop and bring to life the character of Petruchio to our modern audience. It includes historical background information on William Shakespeare and the origins of the play itself, Sanford Meisner’s Techniques (moment-to-moment analysis & actioning) and Konstantin Stanislavski’s system are included with the scored actor’s script, journals recorded by the actor to verify his victories and defeats during the six-week production process and critiques to support the success of the production.
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Reed, Nannie Natisha. "'TAMING OF THE SHREW':DIALECTICS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S RAGE IN DOMINANT AMERICAN FILMIC DISCOURSE." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1145674408.
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Schulz, Sarah [Verfasser], and Jonas [Akademischer Betreuer] Kuhn. "The Taming of the Shrew - non-standard text processing in the Digital Humanities / Sarah Schulz ; Betreuer: Jonas Kuhn." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1154434974/34.
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Drouin, Jennifer Suzanne. ""Sigh no more, ladies", marriages of submission in Shakespeare's "The taming of the shrew" and "Much ado about nothing"." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54528.pdf.
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Griffin, Katrina Renee. "On her own terms preparation & performance of the role of Katherine in William Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew /." Gainesville, FL, 2004. http://www.archive.org/details/onherowntermspre00grif.
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Hubner, Julia [Verfasser], and Hans [Akademischer Betreuer] Sauer. "We will compound this quarrel (The Taming of the Shrew, 1.2.552) : Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and their use of compounds / Julia Hubner ; Betreuer: Hans Sauer." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2018. http://d-nb.info/116244374X/34.
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Guban, Andrew John. "Lighting design of William Shakespeare's the taming of the shrew, Ina and Jack Kay Theatre, Department of Theatre, University of Maryland at College Park." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2527.
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Theatre. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Feinberg, Eve Reina. "A scenic design of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Ina and Jack Kay Theatre, Department of Theatre, University of Maryland at College Park /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2655.
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Thesis (M.F.A) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Theatre. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Stålnacke, Klara. "Equality in the Classroom : A Norm Critical Approach to Teaching Democratic Values Using Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-160125.
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The curriculum for upper secondary school clearly states that every school is obliged to ensure that teaching centres on and implements democratic values in order to prevent discrimination (Skolverket, 2013). How to do this however, is up to the local school to decide. Norm-critical pedagogy shows that in order to inculcate democratic values in education, the individual teacher must design the teaching material so that it focuses on such values (Bromseth & Darj, 2010). The purpose of this study, and the aim of this essay, is to investigate how democratic values can be implemented in classroom practice using Shakespeare’s The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of The Shrew. English classes in the courses English 5 and English 6 were asked to read extracts from each of the plays, and then evaluate the play of choice in terms of the socio-political reality of the late Renaissance portrayed in the extracts, through the prism of today’s democratic values. The pupils were assisted in the task by having close-reading questions to answer, and later a smaller written assessment in form of a blog-entry, in order to help develop their thinking. The results of the study show that the pupils were perfectly able to evaluate and discuss values and practices such as equality, racism or sexism based on their reading. From a normpedagogical approach to teaching, it therefore seem that Shakespeare’s The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of The Shrew can be utilised as teaching material in order to help foster the development of democratic values, and discussions around the same, into the classroom.
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Drake, Susan Wiebe. "Maria Felix: the last great Mexican film diva: the representation of women in Mexican film, 1940-1970." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1118953316.
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Harelik, Elizabeth A. "Shrews, Moneylenders, Soldiers, and Moors: Tackling Challenging Issues in Shakespeare for Young Audiences." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461187189.
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滝川, 睦., and Mutsumu TAKIKAWA. "Christopher Sly はどこへ消えたのか - The Taming of the Shrew と近代初期英国における放浪との関連性について -." 名古屋大学文学部, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/8438.
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Silva, Christielen Dias da. "A dial?tica do amor em pigmale?o, de G. B. Shaw." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2009. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16169.
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Pygmalion (1913), by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), has many studies in literary criticism. However, this study brings a new interpretation to Shaw s play based on Harold Bloom s theory and methodology, that is, the anxiety of influence and the dialectic of revisionism. Through the analysis of poetic influence and the dialectic of love, we can see that Pygmalion represents an apophrades in relation to William Shakespeare s The Taming of the Shrew (1593) and Ovid s myth of Pygmalion and Galatea in Metamorphosis (c. 14), which creates a family romance between the three stories. Shaw s play surpasses The Taming of the Shrew when it shows the possibility of the relation between this parent poem and Ovid s myth, which it is also its parent poem, and because it represents a strong misreading of Shakespeare s play as well as of Ovid s myth.
Pigmale?o (Pygmalion, 1913), de George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), possui uma grande fortuna cr?tica. Entretanto, o presente estudo oferece uma nova interpreta??o para a pe?a de Shaw, com base na teoria e metodologia do cr?tico norte- mericano Harold Bloom (1930- ), a saber, a ang?stia da influ?ncia e o revisionismo dial?tico. Atrav?s da an?lise da influ?ncia po?tica e da dial?tica do amor ? que se pode perceber que Pigmale?o representa uma apophrades em rela??o ? pe?a A megera domada (The Taming of the Shrew, 1593) de William Shakespeare (1564-1616) e ao mito de Pigmale?o e Galat?ia encontrado em Metamorfoses (c. 14) de Ov?dio (43 a.C.-17), formando um romance familiar entre as tr?s. A pe?a de Shaw supera seu poema pai (A megera domada) ao mostrar a possibilidade de rela??o deste com a hist?ria de Ov?dio (sendo assim seu poema pai) e por fazer uma desleitura forte n?o s? da obra de Shakespeare, como tamb?m do mito de Ov?dio.
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Dubrau, Anton. "Taming Matlab." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107702.
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MATLAB is a dynamic scientific language used by scientists, engineers and students worldwide. Although MATLAB is very suitable for rapid prototyping and development, MATLAB users often want to convert their final MATLAB programs to a static language such as FORTRAN, to integrate them into already existing programs of that language, to leverage the performance of powerful static compilers, or to ease the distribution of executables. This thesis presents an extensible object-oriented toolkit to help facilitate the generation of static programs from dynamic MATLAB programs. Our open source toolkit, called the MATLAB Tamer, targets a large subset of MATLAB. Given information about the entry point of the program, the MATLAB Tamer builds a complete callgraph, transforms every function into a reduced intermediate representation, and provides typing information to aid the generation of static code. In order to provide this functionality, we need to handle a large number of MATLAB builtin functions. Part of the Tamer framework is the builtin framework, an extensible toolkit which provides a principled approach to handle a large number of builtin functions. To build the callgraph, we provide an interprocedural analysis framework, which can be used to implement full-program analyses. Using this interprocedural framework, we have developed value analysis, an extensible interprocedural analysis to estimate MATLAB types, which helps discover the call edges needed to build the call graph. In order to make the static analyses even possible, we disallow a small number of MATLAB constructs and features, but attempt to support as large a subset of MATLAB as possible. Thus, by both slightly restricting MATLAB, and by providing a framework with powerful analyses and simplifying transformations, we can "Tame MATLAB".MATLAB est un langage scientifique utilisé par des ingénieurs, scientifiques, et étudiants à travers le monde. Bien que MATLAB soit très approprié pour les prototypages et les développements rapides, les usagers veulent souvent convertir leurs programmes MATLAB finaux vers un langage statique tel FORTRAN, dans le but de les intégrer à des programmes existants dans ce langage, de tirer avantage des performances des compilateurs statiques plus puissants, ou de faciliter la distribution des fichiers exécutables. Cette thèse présente un toolkit extensible orienté objet pour faciliter la production de programmes statiques à partir de programmes MATLAB dynamiques. Notre toolkit à code source libre, appelé MATLAB Tamer («dompteur MATLAB »), vise un large sous-ensemble de MATLAB. À partir d'informations sur le point d'entrée du programme, le MATLAB Tamer construit un graphe d'appels complet, transforme chaque fonction en une représentation réduite intermédiaire et fournit l'information sur le typage pour faciliter la production du code statique. Pour fournir cette fonctionnalité, nous devons manipuler une grand nombre de fonctions MATLAB intégrées. Une partie du cadre du Tamer est le cadre intégré, un toolkit extensible fournissant une approche de principe pour manipuler un grand nombre de fonctions intégrées. Pour construire le graphe d'appels, nous fournissons un cadre d'analyse interprocédural pouvant être utilisé pour implanter des analyses de programmes complets. En utilisant ce cadre inter-procédural, nous avons développé l'analyse des valeurs, une analyse inter-procédurale extensible pour estimer les types MATLAB, pour aider à découvrir les arrêtes d'appels nécessaires pour construire le graphe d'appels. Pour pouvoir rendre faisable une analyse statique, nous interdisons un petit nombre de concepts et caractéristiques de MATLAB, mais nous tentons de supporter un sous-ensemble de MATLAB aussi grand que possible. Conséquemment, en restreignant légèrement MATLAB, en fournissant un puissant cadre d'analyse et en simplifiant les transformations, nous pouvons «dompter MATLAB».
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Paré, Jean-David. "Taming the wind." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ31631.pdf.
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Jenny, Matthias (Matthias Christian). "Taming the impossible." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113731.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-157).
The semantic paradoxes and other statements about impossibilities have proved to be obstacles to a satisfactory theory of conditionals. In my dissertation, which consists of two parts, I propose a new approach to the impossible that yields an improved theory of conditionals. A prominent response to the semantic paradoxes is glut theory. Glut theorists avoid paradox by giving up material modus ponens. But they argue that they can help themselves to this rule in areas where no paradoxes loom. In chapter 1, I argue that this does not work and that giving up modus ponens in paradoxical domains leaves glut theorists with a weak logic everywhere. One option that's available to glut theorists involves pragmatic innovation. In chapter 2, I explore the consequences of giving glut theorists the pragmatic resources that are already available the proponents of gap theory, the dual of glut theory. The resulting hybrid theory, which makes use of two distinct speech acts of assertion, is glap theory. Surprisingly, the logic of glap theory is a quite strong logic that adds to the logics of glut and gap theory two hybrid forms of modus ponens. Turning to counterfactual conditionals, the second half of my dissertation concerns the vacuity thesis, which says that all counterpossible conditionals are vacuously true. In chapter 3, I argue that the strongest case against the vacuity thesis comes from counterpossibles as they appear in relative computability theory. I show that relative computability theorists crucially invoke counterpossibles when they define the central notions of their theory. I also provide a model theory for a quantified language that can express such counterpossibles. The logical properties of counterfactuals about relative computability deserve closer attention. In chapter 4, I provide an axiomatization of a propositional fragment of the model theory developed in chapter 3 and prove that the axiomatization is complete and that the resulting conditional logic is decidable. This logic display some surprising features. While validating modus ponens, it also contains a restricted form of the import-export law.
by Matthias Jenny.
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Kelley, Elizabethe. "Taming the butterfly [poems] /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.
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Ali, Saad. "Taming Crowded Visual Scenes." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3593.
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Computer vision algorithms have played a pivotal role in commercial video surveillance systems for a number of years. However, a common weakness among these systems is their inability to handle crowded scenes. In this thesis, we have developed algorithms that overcome some of the challenges encountered in videos of crowded environments such as sporting events, religious festivals, parades, concerts, train stations, airports, and malls. We adopt a top-down approach by first performing a global-level analysis that locates dynamically distinct crowd regions within the video. This knowledge is then employed in the detection of abnormal behaviors and tracking of individual targets within crowds. In addition, the thesis explores the utility of contextual information necessary for persistent tracking and re-acquisition of objects in crowded scenes. For the global-level analysis, a framework based on Lagrangian Particle Dynamics is proposed to segment the scene into dynamically distinct crowd regions or groupings. For this purpose, the spatial extent of the video is treated as a phase space of a time-dependent dynamical system in which transport from one region of the phase space to another is controlled by the optical flow. Next, a grid of particles is advected forward in time through the phase space using a numerical integration to generate a "flow map". The flow map relates the initial positions of particles to their final positions. The spatial gradients of the flow map are used to compute a Cauchy Green Deformation tensor that quantifies the amount by which the neighboring particles diverge over the length of the integration. The maximum eigenvalue of the tensor is used to construct a forward Finite Time Lyapunov Exponent (FTLE) field that reveals the Attracting Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS). The same process is repeated by advecting the particles backward in time to obtain a backward FTLE field that reveals the repelling LCS. The attracting and repelling LCS are the time dependent invariant manifolds of the phase space and correspond to the boundaries between dynamically distinct crowd flows. The forward and backward FTLE fields are combined to obtain one scalar field that is segmented using a watershed segmentation algorithm to obtain the labeling of distinct crowd-flow segments. Next, abnormal behaviors within the crowd are localized by detecting changes in the number of crowd-flow segments over time. Next, the global-level knowledge of the scene generated by the crowd-flow segmentation is used as an auxiliary source of information for tracking an individual target within a crowd. This is achieved by developing a scene structure-based force model. This force model captures the notion that an individual, when moving in a particular scene, is subjected to global and local forces that are functions of the layout of that scene and the locomotive behavior of other individuals in his or her vicinity. The key ingredients of the force model are three floor fields that are inspired by research in the field of evacuation dynamics; namely, Static Floor Field (SFF), Dynamic Floor Field (DFF), and Boundary Floor Field (BFF). These fields determine the probability of moving from one location to the next by converting the long-range forces into local forces. The SFF specifies regions of the scene that are attractive in nature, such as an exit location. The DFF, which is based on the idea of active walker models, corresponds to the virtual traces created by the movements of nearby individuals in the scene. The BFF specifies influences exhibited by the barriers within the scene, such as walls and no-entry areas. By combining influence from all three fields with the available appearance information, we are able to track individuals in high-density crowds. The results are reported on real-world sequences of marathons and railway stations that contain thousands of people. A comparative analysis with respect to an appearance-based mean shift tracker is also conducted by generating the ground truth. The result of this analysis demonstrates the benefit of using floor fields in crowded scenes. The occurrence of occlusion is very frequent in crowded scenes due to a high number of interacting objects. To overcome this challenge, we propose an algorithm that has been developed to augment a generic tracking algorithm to perform persistent tracking in crowded environments. The algorithm exploits the contextual knowledge, which is divided into two categories consisting of motion context (MC) and appearance context (AC). The MC is a collection of trajectories that are representative of the motion of the occluded or unobserved object. These trajectories belong to other moving individuals in a given environment. The MC is constructed using a clustering scheme based on the Lyapunov Characteristic Exponent (LCE), which measures the mean exponential rate of convergence or divergence of the nearby trajectories in a given state space. Next, the MC is used to predict the location of the occluded or unobserved object in a regression framework. It is important to note that the LCE is used for measuring divergence between a pair of particles while the FTLE field is obtained by computing the LCE for a grid of particles. The appearance context (AC) of a target object consists of its own appearance history and appearance information of the other objects that are occluded. The intent is to make the appearance descriptor of the target object more discriminative with respect to other unobserved objects, thereby reducing the possible confusion between the unobserved objects upon re-acquisition. This is achieved by learning the distribution of the intra-class variation of each occluded object using all of its previous observations. In addition, a distribution of inter-class variation for each target-unobservable object pair is constructed. Finally, the re-acquisition decision is made using both the MC and the AC.Ph.D.
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Engineering and Computer Science
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Zucker, Meesh(Meesh Lauren). "Taming the city wilderness." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129065.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, September, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
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The City Wilderness (1898), a settlement study conducted in Boston's South End neighborhood. The study was greatly influenced by European values of settler colonialism, and subsequently shaped traditional methods of early planning efforts. This process is now ingrained in the institutional knowledge of the field and built into the foundations of the former industrialized city center of the South End. By overlaying resident narratives on expert city plans, I reveal new spatial patterns of oppression to unearth the voices of those who the history of our profession once silenced and erased. In response to a statement recently released by the American Planning Association (APA) asking planners to address the structural disadvantages inflicted on the Black community by the profession and in support of our efforts to "raise the voice of the voiceless," the APA claims to provide new tools. In response, I argue that instead of wasting time, money and resources to create new tools, practitioners and the APA should work to apply a historic lens to existing tools and planning efforts to ensure we understand where the roots of structural racism grew to divide our communities. To achieve this goal, I will focus on pivotal decades between 1880 and 1910 that provided the foundation and framework for contemporary planning practices and settlement efforts. I predict that in doing so, planners and practitioners will gain a clearer understanding of where traditional methods and studies may have built the racial divides felt deep in the hearts of our communities still to this day.
by Meesh Zucker.
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M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Fagelson, Marc A. "Taming TBI-Associated Tinnitus." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1594.
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Regardless of the tinnitus sound (itself), tinnitus can be especially challenging for clients when paired with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. Research offers insight into how clinicians can help clients manage this co-occurrence.
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Epps, Susan Bramlett. "Taming the Online Beast." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2570.
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Classroom Management: Even though our classrooms are “out there”, we still have classroom management issues, just like we do in face to face classes. Some of these issues are similar but some are different enough that we may not think about them. Come find out what those are and ways to address them!
New to Online: Teaching class in your pajamas may sound like a great idea, but when you’re into the semester and pulling your hair out over the various and sundry “stuff” that happens in your online classes, you may think you’re alone. You’re not! Come join other online instructors for some problem solving and idea sharing specifically aimed at instructors new to online teaching.
Share and Tell: Teaching online is constantly changing and evolving. Come hear other instructor’s tips and tricks for teaching online and bring your own experiences to share in this informal discussion hosted by Dr. Susan Epps, Assistant Professor in Allied Health.
Assignments and Discussions, Tests…Oh My!: Tired of reading the same thing over and over? Discussions falling flat? Tests – Ugh! How about some ideas for keeping assignments fresh, discussions going and tests – well, maybe there is another alternative!
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Freitas, Paulo Luis de. "Shakespeare's Shrew : orthodoxy and carnival." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397965.
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Thornton, Neil P. "The taming of London's commons /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pht514.pdf.
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Grimm, Alexander Rudolf. "Taming of Complex Dynamical Systems." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24775.
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The problem of establishing local existence and uniqueness of solutions to systems of differential equations is well understood and has a long history. However, the problem of proving global existence and uniqueness is more difficult and fails even for some very simple ordinary differential equations. It is still not known if the 3D Navier-Stokes equation have global unique solutions and this open problem is one of the Millennium Prize Problems. However, many of these mathematical models are extremely useful in the understanding of complex physical systems. For years people have considered methods for modifying these equations in order to obtain models that still capture the observed fundamental physics, but for which one can rigorously establish global results. In this thesis we focus on a taming method to achieve this goal and apply taming to modeling and numerical problems. The method is also applied to a class of nonlinear differential equations with conservative nonlinearities and to Burgers’ Equation with Neumann boundary conditions. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the ideas.Master of Science
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Jones, Ross M. "The Oxford Hermitage common shrew hybrid zone." Thesis, University of York, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507556.
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Lewis, Alexandra J. G. "Spatial distribution and movement of the common shrew (Sorex araneus) and the pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus) in a heterogeneous landscape." Thesis, University of York, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9793/.
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Readinger, Charles C. "Taming the frontier a myth of impossibility /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FReadinger.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010.Thesis Advisor(s): Kapur,S. Paul. Second Reader: Khan, Feroz H. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 21, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pashtun, Islamist Militancy in Pakistan, South Asian Geopolitics, British Policy in the Frontier. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-92). Also available in print.
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Schardong, Frederico. "Taming NFV orchestration using decentralised cognitive components." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/184344.
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Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) separa as funções de rede dos dispositivos físicos, simplificando a implantação de novos serviços. As típicas funções de rede, como firewalls, aceleradores de tráfego, sistemas de detecção de intrusão e sistemas de prevenção de intrusões, são tradicionalmente realizadas por equipamentos físicos proprietários, que devem ser instalados manualmente pelos operadores de rede. A implantação de equipamentos físicos é desafiadora porque eles têm requisitos específicos de encadeamento e ordenação. Ao contrário dos equipamentos físicos tradicionais, as funções de rede virtuais (VNFs) podem ser dinamicamente implementadas e reconfiguradas sob demanda, colocando desafios de gerenciamento rigorosos aos sistemas em rede. A seleção das VNFs mais apropriadas para atingir um objetivo específico e a decisão sobre onde implantar essas VNFs e por quais caminhos elas se comunicarão são responsabilidades de um orquestrador de NFV. Nesta dissertação, propomos orquestrar VNFs usando componentes cognitivos interativos estruturados com a arquitetura belief-desire-intention (BDI), levando a soluções emergentes para enfrentar os desafios da rede. A arquitetura BDI inclui um ciclo de raciocínio que fornece aos agentes um comportamento racional, permitindo que lidem com diferentes cenários nos quais o comportamento flexível e inteligente é necessário. Estendemos a arquitetura NFV substituindo seu orquestrador centralizado por agentes BDI. Nossa proposta inclui um protocolo de leilão reverso e uma nova heurística de licitação que permite que os agentes tomem decisões sobre as tarefas de orquestração. Por fim, nós fornecemos uma plataforma de testes que integra uma plataforma para o desenvolvimento de agentes BDI com um emulador de rede, permitindo que os agentes controlem as VNFs e percebam a rede. Essa plataforma de testes é usada para implementar VNFs e avaliar empiricamente nosso modelo teórico em um ataque de negação de serviço distribuído. Os resultados da avaliação mostram que uma solução para o ataque DDoS surge através da negociação de agentes, mitigando com sucesso o ataque.Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) decouples network functions from physical devices, simplifying the deployment of new services. Typical network functions, like firewalls, traffic accelerators, intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems, are traditionally performed by proprietary physical appliances, which must be manually installed by network operators. Their deployment is challenging because they have specific chaining requirements. As opposed to traditional physical appliances, virtual network functions (VNFs) can be dynamically deployed and reconfigured on demand, posing strict management challenges to networked systems. The selection of the most appropriate VNFs to achieve a particular objective, the decision on where to deploy these VNFs and through which paths they will communicate are the responsibilities of an NFV orchestrator. In this dissertation, we propose to orchestrate VNFs using interacting cognitive components structured with the belief-desire-intention (BDI) architecture, leading to emergent solutions to address network challenges. The BDI architecture includes a reasoning cycle, which provides agents with rational behaviour, allowing agents to deal with different scenarios in which flexible and intelligent behaviour is needed. We extend the NFV architecture, replacing its centralised orchestrator with BDI agents. Our proposal includes a reverse auction protocol and a novel bidding heuristic that allow agents to make decisions regarding the orchestration tasks. Finally, we provide a testbed that integrates a platform for developing BDI agents with a network emulator, allowing agents to control VNFs and perceive the network. This testbed is used to implement VNFs and empirically evaluate our theoretical model in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The evaluation results show that a solution to the DDoS attack emerges through the negotiation of agents, successfully mitigating the attack.
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Chen, Bo. "Taming Interference Through Collaboration in Network Systems." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437752972.
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Lau, Shing Hing. "Organic synthesis : taming chemistry using enabling technologies." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273347.
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This thesis describes the application of flow chemistry to discovery and development of medicinal compound synthesis and new chemical methodologies respectively. It is divided into three distinct sections. The first section addresses a brief introduction to flow chemistry, highlighting the advantages and challenges that have been faced in the past and present and also the outlook to the future. The second section reports the integration of machine-assisted methods with batch processes to produce two medicinal compounds, a precursor to the sacubitril and OZ439 respectively. In the respect to the precursor to sacubritil, a flow-batch integrated synthesis is developed to provide the desired product in 54% yield over 7 steps from commercially available 4-iodophenyl. In particular, a tube-in-tube gas flow reactor was employed in three gas-liquid reactions without the need for installing a costly highpressure autoclave. These gas-lquid reactions were an ethylene Heck coupling reaction, an anti-Markovnikov Wacker oxidation and a rhodium-catalysed stereoselective hydrogenation respectively. In addition, a diastereoselective Reformatsky-type carbethoxyallylation using zinc metal was also highlighted in this synthesis to install an important stereocentre. A new antimalarial agent, OZ439 containing a trioxolane unit as the main structural feature, has the unique property of providing a single-dose cure for malaria in humans and has recently completed phase IIb trials. A machine-enabled process for the preparation of OZ439 was developed in 33% overall yield over 5 steps without the need of column chromatography purification. This preparation features a selective continuous hydrogrenation, Griesbaum ozonlysis and a Zn-catalysed amide reduction in the present of triethoxylsilane. The third section contains the development of two new methodologies of diazo compounds with organoboron compounds. The first methodology involves an in situ generation of transient allylic boronic species by reacting TMSCHN2 and E-vinyl boronic acids in flow, followed by subsequent trapping with a range of aldehydes (15 examples, 55-97% yield) and on a large scale (10 mmol) to provide homoallylic alcohols with high diastereoselectivity (>20:1 dr confirmed by 1H NMR). This multicomponent metal-free reaction could also be applied under batch conditions (20 further examples, 60-82% yield). The second methodology involves the preparation of an organodimetallic compound, α-trimethylsilyl benzylboronic acid pinacol esters, by reacting TMSCHN2 and phenylboronic anhydrides (21 examples, 60-91% yield), and the development of their applications as bifunctional building blocks to complex structures.
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Zhang, Yang. "Taming factions in the Chinese Communist party." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2170.
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How does the Chinese Communist Party tame factions from breaking it apart? Relying on thousands of biographies, the dissertation attempts to uncover the complex network of Chinese political elites and investigate how institutions constrain the expansion of factions.
First, it finds that the rule of avoidance has been effectively implemented. Native provincial officials are often assigned with secondary party positions, especially so in deeply indebted provinces that are heavily reliant on the central government for fiscal transfer. Second, the centralization of the disciplinary inspection system helps maintain the momentum of the anticorruption campaign since the 2012 leadership succession. Compared to native officials, the officials who were transferred from a different province or a central government agency are likely to investigate much more corrupt party cadres in their jurisdictions. Third, when it comes to promotions of provincial party secretaries, many performance-based criteria appear to be less important than factional ties. Good economic performance such as fast GDP growth does not increase a provincial party secretary’s odds to join the Politburo. However, the effects of factional ties are mixed. For example, family ties to a top party leader greatly increase the likelihood of promotion, but college ties disadvantage the candidates. Finally, the dissertation shows that network centrality in the Central Committee is a strong predictor of the outcomes of the Politburo turnover. The network centrality is positively associated with party seniority, but due to the age limits, it cannot grow without a ceiling.
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Stockley, Paula. "The mating system of the common shrew (Sorex araneus)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315787.
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Bray, Daniel Peter. "Host-parasite interactions in the common shrew (Sorex araneus)." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408575.
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Pierce, G. J. "The foraging behaviour of the common shrew, Sorex araneus." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1985. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU362790.
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Witte, Brian Hurin. "Taming the Wild RubisCO: Explorations in Functional Metagenomics." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1331562390.
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Ithete, Ndapewa Laudika. "Molecular identification and characterisation of rodent- and shrew-borne Hantaviruses." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5231.
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Thesis (MScMedSc (Pathology. Medical Virology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.Bibliography
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Throughout history disease entities have been described which match the description of diseases now known to be caused by hantaviruses; however these viruses were first identified as the aetiologic agent in 1976, the first species named Hantaan virus after the river near which its natural host, the rodent species Apodemus agrarius, was captured. Since then numerous species in the Hantavirus genus, family Bunyaviridae, have been found, with today more than 30 species worldwide being known. Hantaviruses are hosted by rodents from the Muridae and Cricetidae families and by shrews (insectivores) in the Soricidae family. There are two types of hantavirus disease, Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in the Old World and Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in the New World. The first two African hantaviruses were identified in 2006 in Guinea, West Africa; Sangassou virus (SANGV) in a rodent, the African wood mouse (Hylomyscus simus), and Tanganya virus (TGNV) in Therese’s shrew (Crocidura theresae). In this study, rodents and shrews were trapped at localities in the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa, and in the southern regions of Namibia. RNA was extracted from their lungs and screened for hantavirus sequences by RTPCR, using degenerate primers designed to detect all members of the Hantavirus genus. In addition, an in-house IgG ELISA assay was set up, based on recombinant N antigen from Dobrava virus, DOB-rN, and Puumala virus, PUU-rN. The assay was used to screen patient sera collected in an anonymous convenience serological survey using residual serum samples left over from routine testing at NHLS laboratories in the Western Cape for hantavirus-specific antibodies. RNA from 576 animal specimens was screened by RT-PCR; no hantavirus genome was detected in any of the specimens. Sera from 161 patients were screened for hantavirus antibodies; 11.18% of the sera were reactive to DOB-rN, 4.97% against PUU-rN and 2.48% against both antigens. v Though no virus was detected in the animals screened, this does not necessarily mean that there are no hantaviruses present in Southern Africa. A previous seroepidemiological survey conducted in South Africa reported on the presence of hantavirus specific antibodies by IFA in two species of rodents trapped in the Western Cape and Northern Cape Aethomys namquensis and Tatera leucogaster. Our was the second known study in South Africa conducted that determined and proved the presence of hantavirus specific antibodies in humans.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Dwarsdeur die geskiedenis was daar beskrywings van siektes wat ooreenstem met die beskrywing van hantavirus simptome, maar die eerste etiologiese oorsaak van die siekte is eers in 1976 geïdentifiseer en Hantaan virus genoem, vernoem na die rivier waar naby die gasheer, Apodemus agrarius, gevang is. Van daar af het die soektog na nuwe hantavirusse intensief gevorder en vandag is daar meer as 30 spesies wêreldwyd wat aan die Hantavirus genus, ’n lid van die Bunyaviridae familie, behoort. Knaagdiere van die Muridae en Cricetidae families, sowel as spitsmuise (insekvreters) in die Soricidae familie is gasheer vir hantavirusse. Twee tipes hantavirus siekte is bekend, hemorragische koors met nier sindroom (HFRS) in die Ou Wêreld en hantavirus kardiopulmonale sindroom in die Nuwe Wêreld. Die eerste twee Afrika hantavirusse is in 2006 in Guinee Wes-Afrika geïdentifiseer; Sangassou virus (SANGV) in ’n knaagdier, die Afrika hout muis (Hylomyscus simus) en Tanganya virus (TGNV) in Therese se spitsmuis (Crocidura theresae). In hierdie studie is knaagdiere en spitsmuise op verskeie plekke in die Wes- en Noord-Kaap provinsies, asook die Suide van Namibië, gevang. RNS is onttrek vanuit die longe en hantavirus volgordes is gesoek deur middel RT-PKR deur gebruik te maak van Pan-Hanta primers wat ontwerp is om alle lede van die Hantavirus genus op te spoor. ’n Self-ontwerpde IgG ELISA, gebasseer op rekombinante N antigeen van Dobrava virus, DOB-rN en Puumala virus, PUU rN, is opgestel en gebruik om pasiënt serum, verkry in ’n anonieme serologiese opname, te toets; oorblywende serum, na toetse uitgevoer is deur NHLS laboratoriums in die Wes-Kaap, is verkry en getoets vir hantavirus spesifieke teenliggaampies. RNS van 576 dier monsters is getoets deur middel van RT-PKR en geen hantavirus is in enige van die monsters geïdentifiseer nie. Serum van 161 pasiënte is getoets vir hantavirus teenliggaampies; 11.18% van die serum was reaktief teen DOB-rN, 4.97% teen PUU-rN en 2.48% teen albei antigene. Alhoewel geen virus in die diere geïdentifiseer is nie, beteken dit nie noodwendig dat geen hantavirusse in Suidelike-Afrika voorkom nie. ‘n Vorige sero-epidemiologiese opname wat in Suid-Afrika gedoen is het die teenwoordigheid van hantavirus spesifieke teenliggaampies in twee knaagdier spesies, Aethomys namquensis en Tatera leucogaster gevang in die Wes-en Noord-Kaap, gevind. Ons studie is die tweede studie bekend in Suid-Afrika uitgevoer, wat die teenwoordigheid van hantavirus spesifieke teenliggaampies bevind en bewys het.
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Givel, Reto. "Taming Glaucon through instrumental rationality to the Golden Rule /." Bern : R. Givel, 2006. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Velian, Alexandra. "Taming reactive phosphorus intermediates with organic and inorganic carriers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97986.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Vita. Page 216 blank.
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Complexes (THF)₀-₂E[P₃Nb(ODipp)₃]₂ (E = Sn, Pb; Dipp = 2,6-iPr₂C₆H₃) were prepared and characterized as potential precursors to new tetrel phosphides. Treatment of (THF)Sn[P₃Nb(ODipp)₃]₂ with pyridine-N-oxide effected the formation of ONb(ODipp)₂(py)₂ and a new tin phosphide, [(THF)SnP₆]x, characterized using a multitude of techniques. Additionally, P₃Nb(ODipp)₂(py)₂, prepared from [Na(THF)₃][[P₃Nb(ODipp)₃] in the presence of pyridine and salts of coordinating cations, was found to successfully produce AsP₃ upon treatment with AsCl₃ Dimer [P₂Nb(ODipp)₃]₂ has been obtained via a novel "2(3-1)" synthetic strategy. The mononuclear diphosphorus complex P₂Nb(ODipp)₃ proposed to be generated transiently by formal P- abstraction from previously reported [Na(THF)₃][P₃Nb(ODipp)₃] undergoes irreversible dimerization to form the [P₂Nb(ODipp)₃]₂ complex, and is alternatively trapped reversibly by a 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) to form in situ C₆H₈P₂Nb(ODipp)₃ Unprotected dibenzo-7[lambda]³A3-phosphanorbornadiene derivatives RPA (A= C₁₄H₁₀ or anthracene; R = tBu, dbabh, HMDS, iPr₂N, cis-Me₂ Pip, Cy₂N, Me₂N) were synthesized by treatment of the corresponding phosphorus dichloride RPCl₂ with MgA-3THF. Thermolysis of RPA benzene-d₆ solutions leads to anthracene extrusion. Experimental and computational thermodynamic activation parameters suggest this process occurs through the intermediacy of a singlet phosphinidene for the iPr₂N derivative. The [RP] unit could be transferred to CHD, a carbene and an ortho-benzoquinone, with formation of the corresponding anti-7-phosphanorbornene, phosphaalkene and phospholane. The anthracene diphosphorus adduct P₂A₂ was synthesized from Me₂NPA, through isolated intermediates CIPA and [P₂A₂Cl][AlCl₄]. P₂A₂ was found to transfer P₂ efficiently to N-₃ CHD, 1,3-butadiene and (C₂H₄)Pt(PPh₃)₂ to form 1,2-cyclo-[P₂N₃]-, P₂(CHD)₂, P₂(BD)₂ and (P₂)[Pt(PPh₃)₂]₂ . A complete kinetic and computational study of the P₂(CHD)₂ formation from P₂A₂ suggests P₂ is a productive intermediate in solution. Additionally, a molecular beam mass spectrometry study on the thermolysis of solid P₂A₂ reveals the direct detection of molecular fragments of only P₂ and anthracene thus establishing a link between solution-phase P₂-transfer chemistry and production of gas-phase P₂ by mild thermal activation of a molecular precursor. The HCP precursor Ph₃PC(H)PA was synthesized directly from C1PA. The activation of P₄ with [Na][SnPh₃ ] and sodium naphthalenide led to the synthesis of phosphide compounds [Na(benzo-15-crown-5)][P(SnPh₃)₂], P(SnPh₃)₃, (XL)₂InP(SnPh₃)₂, (Ph₃P)AuP(SnPh₃)₂, P₇(SnPh₃)₃ and P7(SiMe₃)₃, characterized using a variety of techniques.
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Skrotzki, Eric. "Taming Highly Reactive Species for Use in Organic Synthesis." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42739.
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Chemical processes and reactions are never perfect; there are always some problems in scope, scalability, applicability or safety. Sometimes, if these limitations pose a seemingly insurmountable barrier to the chemistry’s overall usefulness, decades can go by without a single new development even in fields that were initially very promising or popular in their infancy. By looking back on these forgotten topics through the lens of modern technology, new cutting-edge materials and methods can be applied to solve the problems that posed too great a challenge in previous decades. In this thesis, two such examples of reactions initially discovered and developed around the late 1960’s and remained largely untouched ever since will be explored.
Chapter 1 will describe the use of ozone as an oxidant to transform amines into the corresponding alkyl nitro species. Ozone is a very powerful oxidant but tends to overreact with most organic substrates, which significantly reduces its potential as a commonplace synthetic tool. These limitations in applicability stem from an inherent lack of control over the reaction, which is the issue that we sought out to address. By applying modern principles of flow chemistry, the functional group tolerance of this oxidation reaction has been drastically increased from its initial state of simple small hydrocarbons.
Chapter 2 will follow a similar narrative involving the use of ‘super-bases’ to activate benzylic C-H bonds and generate a variety of benzyllithium species. Organolithiums have also had historic issues with tolerance in transition metal-catalyzed cross coupling reactions. With a surge of new publications addressing this issue by using principles of flow chemistry, there remains a lack of easy methods to generate organolithium nucleophiles as coupling partners. Generation of benzyllithiums from toluene derivatives has historically been limited to require solvent quantities of substrate, along with unreasonably long reaction times at cryogenic temperatures. By utilizing modern tools and synthetic strategies, an easy and streamlined path from toluene derivatives to organolithiums for direct use in cross coupling has been developed.
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xu, rui. "WEBEVO: TAMING WEB APPLICATION EVOLUTION VIA SEMANTIC CHANGE DETECTION." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1595242401982817.
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Carter, Elizabeth Lee. "Taming the Gypsy: How French Romantics Recaptured a Past." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13064929.
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In this dissertation, I examine the evolution of the Gypsy trope in Romantic French literature at a time when nostalgia became a powerful aesthetic and political tool used by varying sides of an ideological war. Long considered a transient outsider who did not view time or privilege the past in the same way Europeans did, the Gypsy, I argue, became a useful way for France's writers to contain and tame the transience they felt interrupted nostalgia's attempt to recapture a lost past.
My work specifically looks at the development of this trope within a thirty-year period that begins in 1823, just before Charles X became France's last Bourbon king, and ends just after Louis-Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France in 1852. Beginning with Quentin Durward (1823), Walter Scott's first historical novel about France, and the French novel that looked to it for inspiration, Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), I show how the Gypsy became a character that communicated a fear that France was recklessly forgetting and destroying the monuments and narratives that had long preserved its pre-revolutionary past. While these novels became models in how nostalgia could be deployed to seduce France back into a relationship with a particular past, I also look at how the Gypsy trope is transformed some fifteen years later when nostalgia for Napoleon nearly leads France into two international conflicts and eventually traps the French into what George Sand called a dangerous "bail avec le passé." In new readings of Prosper Mérimée's Carmen (1845) and George Sand's La Filleule (1853), I argue that both authors personify the dangers of recapturing the past, albeit in two very different ways. While Mérimée makes nostalgia and the Gypsy accomplices, George Sand gives France an admirable Gypsy heroine, a young woman who offers readers a way out of nostalgia's viscous circle. I conclude by arguing that nostalgia and this Romantic trope found their way back into France at the dawn of a new millennium, and the Gypsy has once again been typecast in art and politics as deviant for refusing to dwell in or on the past.Romance Languages and Literatures