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Kacofegitis, Andreas. "Theme-based literate programming." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9613.
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In this thesis we introduce and evolve the paradigm of theme-based literate programming (TBLP). TBLP enhances on the literate programming (LP) model, as invented by Donald Knuth in the early 1980s. TBLP provides a generic model that copes with current and future software development methodologies and practices. We show that through this extended chunk and processing model, XML-based support, and a pipelined document develop-ment process, an elegant and powerful system of exposition and development is facilitated. We introduce the concept of themes as a solution to breaking the tyranny of dominant decomposition and show how TBLP can provide equal opportunity perspectives.
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Tsagaanchuluun, Bekhbat. "Variations on a Rococo theme." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1763.
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As a student aspiring to be a cellist, it is essential to conduct an in-depth research on works for cello. There are many famous composers such as J.S.Bach, J.Haydn, L.Beethoven, J.Brahms, A.Dvořák, C. Saint-Saëns, R. Schumann, S.Prokofiev, S.Rachmaninoff, D.Shostakovich and P.I. Tchaikovsky who wrote wonderful pieces for cello. In my opinion however students and musicians are putting more emphasis on improving their playing techniques and philosophy, but not on the main theme, structure, and theoretical aspect of the work. Therefore, I chose to study main theme and structure of the Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33, for cello by P.I. Tchaikovsky.Examens konsert i Vilunda kyrka 2014.05.31 Music av Beethoven,Chopin
och Britten. Bekhbat Tsagaanchuluun ,cello. Asuka Nakamura ,piano.
Bilaga: 1 CD.
3
Parenti, Christian. "Policing the theme park city." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325921.
4
Malaba, Mbongeni Zikhethele. "Shaka as a literary theme." Thesis, University of York, 1986. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10877/.
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Carter, Drew Allen. "Elaboration on a permissible theme." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2009. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/67b3b61f9426eff3626c8e35c28097b82346cecd1ea5e2f3883bfa001f43e6c1/1506607/64818_downloaded_stream_43.pdf.
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The experience of being overwhelmed or speechless is very common, but it has insufficiently informed contemporary moral philosophy. My thesis seeks to redress this. Iris Murdoch wrote that 'art is the great clue to morals'. In tragic drama she saw a doomed but noble attempt to answer to the worst in life and in sublime experience an emblem of goodness: loving attention to the 'unutterably particular'. Form generally, artistic or intellectual, falters before both the awful (in tragic drama) and the wonderful (in the sublime), and these extremes reveal what might no less, but only less obviously, pertain in the everyday. Raimond Gaita acknowledges a mystery in the standard to which we are called both in remorse and in wonder at 'saintly love', but his allegiance to a particular view on the nature, operation and even, one might say, sovereignty of concepts in our inner lives (developed after Ludwig Wittgenstein) may limit his appreciation of the broader implications and possibility of this mystery. Christopher Cordner may better suggest them in, for one, his discussion of one's admiration for their beloved's beauty. Thus do I examine the philosophical work of Murdoch, Gaita and Cordner in connection with the themes of tragedy, the sublime and individuality. I then examine the view of concepts to which Gaita and Cordner generally subscribe.;I conclude with an extensive and philosophically alive reading of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. This constitutes both an extension and application of my thought. The novel presents paradoxes (or 'outward nonsense') in its portrayal of both the despair possible before great suffering in this world and the deliverance that can follow from a sense of personal responsibility and a gratitude for the beauty of all creation. Simone Weil sees in such paradoxes opportunities to transcend reason in view of spiritual elevation and attraction to a higher truth. In the practical consideration of lesser evils, much contemporary moral philosophy seems reduced to, in Dostoevsky's words, an 'eccentric question on an impermissible theme'. This thesis opposes that orientation, following Murdoch, Gaita and Cordner in returning love to the centre of discussion about morality.
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Gaspar, Cristian. "Variations on the Theme of Caching." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1048.
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This thesis is concerned with caching algorithms. We investigate three variations of the caching problem: web caching in the Torng framework, relative competitiveness and caching with request reordering. In the first variation we define different cost models involving page sizes and page costs. We also present the Torng cost framework introduced by Torng in [29]. Next we analyze the competitive ratio of online deterministic marking algorithms in the BIT cost model combined with the Torng framework. We show that given some specific restrictions on the set of possible request sequences, any marking algorithm is 2-competitive.
The second variation consists in using the relative competitiveness ratio on an access graph as a complexity measure. We use the concept of access graphs introduced by Borodin [11] to define our own concept of relative competitive ratio. We demonstrate results regarding the relative competitiveness of two cache eviction policies in both the basic and the Torng framework combined with the CLASSICAL cost model.
The third variation is caching with request reordering. Two reordering models are defined. We prove some important results about the value of a move and number of orderings, then demonstrate results about the approximation factor and competitive ratio of offline and online reordering schemes, respectively.
7
Fox, Anthony M. "The literary theme of Luke's Gospel." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
8
Anderson, Shawny L. "Farm Aid : a fantasy theme analysis." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/488765.
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The Farm Aid benefit concert in September of 1985 was one member of a long list of such philanthropic events. It proved itself unique, however, in a number of ways. Most notably, the concert failed to reach the goals which its organizers had set, unlike most of the other benefits of the same decade. This study attempted to explain the failure of the event.Chapter One is an introduction which helps to justify the study, review existing literature on the subject, and preview the method used within the analysis. Chapter Two includes a general history of benefit concerts, helping to explain the evolution of such persuasive events.Concerts such as the early work of Harry Chapin, the Concert for Bangladesh, Concerts for Kampuchea, and others are discussed. The contemporary trend of successful benefits including the Band Aid, USA for Africa, and Live Aid efforts are also considered, helping to establish the context in which Farm Aid occurred.Next, an explanation of the situation facing American farmers in 1985 is provided, establishing the need for the concert.Chapter Three is an evaluation of the fantasy themes presented to the American public by the media. By chronologically examing the changes in the characters, plots, and settings set forth by the media, certain general themes can be identified.These themes glorified the effort and its participants, conjuring high expectations in the minds of many Americans.Those expectations could not be met, however, guaranteeing failure for the event.Chapter Four draws conclusions about the weaknesses of Farm Aid. By examining the timing of the concert, its focus, and the persuasive appeals used by its participants, the study reveals that Farm Aid's failure was the result of a combination of different factors. First, the organizers had left themselves very little time to plan the event.Also, many Americans were suffering from boredom with the notion of the benefit concert after the highly successful events which preceded Farm Aid. The ideas expressed within the concert were not focused in a unified manner. Different participants presented differing appeals for action, making the public's role in the event unclear.Finally, the appeals which were presented were not well planned, preventing them from adequately moving the public. In general, the media had created a picture in the minds of the public that could not be fulfilled, especially not with the weak attempts of the concert's participants.
9
Kowalewski, Ludwik Marian. "The Jason theme in classical literature." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328273.
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Proodian, John D. "Fantasy on a Theme of Luther." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1123529520.
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Lehr, Susan Stewart. "A child's developing sense of theme /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260531957457.
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Robertson, Gillian. "Variations on a Theme by Paganini| Narrative archetypes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theme-and-variation sets." Thesis, The Florida State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3705915.
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This dissertation explores the applicability of musical narrative models to the genre of theme and variations focusing on large-scale structural transformations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theme-and-variation sets. Narrative archetypes proposed by Byron Almén (2008) are useful frameworks for understanding and interpreting the types of transformations that are typical in this genre, despite the paratactic and repetitive nature of the variations. My analysis focuses on three variation sets all based on the same theme (Paganini's Twenty-Four Caprices, Op. 1, No. 24): Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35 Book I; Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, and Rochberg's Caprice Variations . This invariant theme enables me to demonstrate not only the possibility of diverse narrative readings of these works, but also how each composer treated the theme in his own setting.
Chapter one provides a review of literature on the genre of variations and the sub-discipline of musical narrative. I discuss my eclectic methodological approach, one that includes Almén's theory of musical narrative in conjunction with musical agency, Schenkerian analysis, musical borrowing, topic theory, and integration models. A short analysis of Paganini's Caprice no. 24 from Op. 1 provides context for the remaining works and demonstrates a simple narrative interpretation as a preview of the analysis in the remaining chapters. Chapters two through four offer detailed analyses of the variations by Brahms and Rachmaninoff. The second chapter explores the application of a single narrative archetype to the first book of Brahms's variations, while chapters three and four expand the narrative model to include interpretations of multiple narrative archetypes within Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody. These two chapters focus on intra- and extra-musical narratives and present the notion of embedded narrative models, which provide nuance to an analytical interpretation. Chapter five summarizes my findings from chapters two to four and includes a sample analysis of Rochberg's Caprice Variations in order to demonstrate analytical questions pertinent to a post-modernist theme-and-variation set as well as the narrative or "anti-narrative" possibilities in twentieth-century Western art music.
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BUROT, GILDAS. "Figures du double." Nantes, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992NANT119M.
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Lee, Sug-Ho. "Unbelief as a theme in Mark's gospel." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09292006-142658/.
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Sangiorgi, Simona <1976>. "Reading the west through its theme parks." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2008. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/944/.
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Horn, Kristina K. "Paul Simon's Graceland : a fantasy theme analysis." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/560298.
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Chapter one began with an introduction to the rhetorical study of Paul Simon's Graceland album. The events which led to the recording and release of the album were discussed, showing the significance of the album in the context of 1985-86, and research questions were posed, showing the focus of the study. Furthermore, the definition of rhetoric was given beginning with Aristotle's "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" (Rhetoric I: 1356a) through the advancements made by the National Development Project on Rhetoric, which included music in the study of rhetoric. Finally the literature review included articles which showed the relationship between music and rhetorical theory, and James Irvine and Walter Kirkpatrick's six musical variables along with Ernest Bormann's method of fantasy theme analysis were discussed for the purposes of critical analysis. Chapter two presented the historical, political, and social contexts surrounding the recording and release of Graceland. Most importantly, U.S. attempts to intervene in the affairs of South Africa as well as musical attempts at intervention were discussed as background material to understand more clearly the impact of the Graceland album.Chapter three moved from the context to the people involved on Graceland. Paul Simon's and Ladysmith Black Mambazo's musical careers and interests were recounted. The importance of Paul Simon in boosting the careers of Ladysmith Black Mambazo as well as concert co-stars Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela was also emphasized.Chapter four presented the critical analysis. First the album analysis based on the musical variables of James Irvine and Walter Kirkpatrick was discussed. What was found on the album itself seemed very innocent and nonsensical; thus, the importance of the media and the ideas it imposed became very clear. However, the major section of analysis involved the identification of mediated fantasy themes based on Ernest Bormann's method of fantasy theme analysis. Chronologically, characters, plots, and settings were portrayed, which helped to explain the development of Graceland as a rhetorical drama. Finally, one overarching rhetorical vision was identified, "The Unification of an Unaware Public," which was evident throughout the drama.Chapter five concluded the findings of the study. Because of the unrealistic goals that the media placed on Graceland, the many successes that came as a result of Paul Simon and Graceland were overshadowed by political controversy. Thus, the impact of the media on the outcome of persuasive events is of the utmost importance to consider.Department of Speech Communication
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Lomholt, Jane. "The American Dream and theme park cities." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367014.
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Penim, Ana Sofia Conceição. "Integrating the theme approach with aspectual scenarios." Master's thesis, FCT - UNL, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/1962.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Engenharia InformáticaAspect-oriented requirements engineering emerged to deal with crosscutting requirements, i.e. requirements that are scattered in the requirements document and tangled with other requirements. There are several aspect-oriented requirements approaches - Theme, proposed by Baniassad and Clarke [7], is one of them. This approach is characterized by the identification of a set of actions associated to verbs present in requirements documentation. These actions are then analyzed in order to identify crosscutting behaviours, each one constituting a potential theme. One problem with this approach is that the composition mechanism is not expressive enough even when the Theme models are integrated to analysis models (e.g. UML diagrams). The MATA approach [24] provides powerful composition mechanisms, based on graph transformations that used UML models, in particular behaviour models (e.g. sequence or activity like diagrams). These models express scenarios that constitute a very popular and used technique to specify a system’s behaviour. Therefore, the result of the integration of these two approaches will be synergetic. Also, considering that in a system not only the expected situations happen, scenarios can also be used to illustrate unexpected situations, making their treatment possible. Negative scenarios are thus also considered, besides the positive ones: their representation is similar, only differing from an optimist and mostly assumed vision of the system’s behavior. These scenarios could be identified with Theme and mapped into MATA. In summary, the objective of this dissertation is twofold: firstly, we will integrate Theme with Aspectual Scenarios (specified in MATA); secondly, we will extend Theme to include the modeling of negative scenarios. The result will be the synergy between two complementary techniques, including the specification of undesirable situations, where behavioral and structural aspect modeling are integrated.
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Dausse, François. "Ecrit et intonation le theme a l'ecrit." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030036.
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L'idee d'une intonation a l'ecrit n'a aucun statut linguistique parce que le schema de communication qu'il implemente n'est pas pris en compte dans sa globalite. Celui-ci repose sur la presence d'un co-enonciateur mais sur l'absence du co-locuteur (impossibilite d'interrompre le discours ecrit). La prise de connaissance du texte se fait mot apres mot, ceci etant a la base d'un mouvement intonatiffondamental. Par ailleurs, le scripteur se met continuellement a la place du lecteur grace a la relecture. Il n'y a aucune : ambiguite intrinseque a l'ecrit. Celui-ci est presyntactise et repose sur une enonciation qui precede la prise en note par le scripteur. Ce dernier intervient dans sa scription par la mise de ponctemes (semantisme de la mise de ponctuation) pour guider le lecteur dans sa reconstruction de renonciation en lui indiquant a chaque fois le type de probleme rencontre (semantisme du poncteme lui-meme). Le lieu ou il se place et la forme du poncteme lui-meme sont motives. Fondamentalement, les ponctemes se comportent comme des adverbes de phrase. L'etude d'un poncteme en particulier, la virgule, nous a permis de preciser l'idee de signalement d'un probleme: les ponctemes nesont la que pour confirmer la mise de la bonne intonation. L'un des roles de la virgule en premiere partie de phrase est de confirmer le changement de theme (utilisation d'un circonstant antepose / incise entre virgules apres le sujet grammatical). D'une maniere generale, le role des ponctemes est de reveler qu'il y a conflit entre deux linearisations (syntaxique, enonciative, discursive, de l'histoire, du recit), chacune de ces linearisations se decomposant dichotomiquement en theme et rheme.
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Groenewald, Madeline. "Variations on a theme by John Herschel." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13166.
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Includes bibliographical references.Herschel resided in Cape Town until 1838. He set up a telescope in the orchard of their estate, Feldhausen, in Wynberg, and worked towards completing a systematic survey of the southern hemisphere for stars, nebulae and other celestial objects (Warner, 1996:55 & Buttmann, 1974:104). Herschel’s observations in the Cape were not only focused on astronomy. His scientific contributions included work in the fields of geology, meteorology and botany and this scope of diversity extended beyond the disciplines of science since he also pursued his interests in poetry, music and visual art (Buttmann, 1974:112 & Schaaf, 1989:10). Herschel played the flute and was also an avid draughtsman, evident in the extensive collection of sketches that he made of Cape botanicals and landscapes (Schaaf, 1989:10). In addition to these sketches, his diary entries from his stay in Cape Town, published in “Herschel at the Cape: diaries and correspondence of Sir John Herschel, 1834 to 1838” provide another affirmation of his variety of skills, since poetic descriptions and multi-sensory observations can be found amongst scientific and analytical inquiries. For example, in his diary entry March 1836 he commented on a nightjar’s song and included a music staff with an accurate notation of the bird’s melody. In a letter to William Henry Harvey in 1837 Herschel wrote about the scents of Cape flowers, applying perceptive metaphors for each flower species, such as cinnamon, pepper and ginger (Warner, 2011:34-35). He often created links between his observations from these different fields, such as applying his study of botany to that of photography by using Cape flower juices for photographic colour filters (Schaaf, 1992:98). The title of my MFA project references John Herschel as well as the Theme and Variation form in music in which a single musical theme, often written by a different composer, is followed by a series of developments of this theme through the employment of a range of compositional techniques (Lindsay, n.d.). The body of work that I created is structured according to this musical form. I used Herschel’s representations from and of the Cape as the basic theme which I then developed through a series of variations, employing media and methods across disciplines, time periods and sense modalities. By way of this process of mediation, the resulting art works become parallel records of my own specific experience of Cape Town.
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Li, Yumin. "A study of theme park circulation concepts." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407398194.
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Hillyer, Josh Brown Mary Helen. "Help, is there a doctor in the forum? a fantasy theme analysis of the student doctor network forums /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SUMMER/Communication_and_Journalism/Thesis/Hillyer_Joshua_25.pdf.
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Rashidi, Bahareh. "Divided screen : the doppelgänger in German silent film." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6578.
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The proliferation of the doppelgänger theme in so many films of Wilhemine and Weimar Germany raises the question of its historical significance, in particular during Germany’s “crisis of classical modernity”. While previous studies have addressed the double from a narrative perspective, focusing on its psychological significations as divided self, this thesis instead considers the theme from a structural and historical perspective: how, as a technical reproduction of the human body that is ontologically double, at once real and unreal, it serves as a site for reflection on the visual experience of modernity and on the medium of cinema. The thesis begins by considering the relationship between the theme of the double, born circa 1800, and the burgeoning visual regimes of modernity. Important aspects of this relationship are the abstraction of representation from stable referents in the aftermath of Kantian thought, the empirical study of the observing subject, and the development of new technologies of recording and projection. Nineteenth-century technologies of optical illusion, such as the phantasmagoria and lifelike automata, as well as the itinerant showmen who displayed them, gave rise to doubles of the human body with uncanny effects of ontological uncertainty. These not only influenced the doppelgänger stories of German Romanticism and after, but also were ancestors of cinema’s doubles and their showmen. This study considers the “cinematic” themes of a set of stories and films of the double, including repeatedly performed scenarios of exhibition and voyeurism, visual pleasure and anxiety, foregroundings of the narration, and allusions to the history of cinema and media technologies. The central chapters of the thesis offer readings of five classics of German film: The Student of Prague (1913), The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920), The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920), Waxworks (1924), and Metropolis (1926). Addressing the double as a reflexive theme of optical uncertainty, these readings focus on how moments of optical distress are depicted and how film language is used to construct a cinematic uncanny: an ontological problem arising from the ambivalent character of visual experience that affects the narrative and film form, characters and spectator alike. This perspective sheds light on the historical significance of the double theme, revealing its close relationship with the problematic status of vision and the observing subject in modernity, and with a special case of modern visual experience, the technological medium of cinema.
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Khavari, Nazanin. "The theme of nature in Victor Hugo's (Contemplations)." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9741.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of French and Italian. 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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Toprak, Elif. "The Kafkaesque Theme Of Menace In Harold Pinter." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609509/index.pdf.
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Harold Pinter is deeply intrigued by Franz Kafka&rsquos fiction. Both writers&rsquo
works are imbued with ambiguity or mystery, and the feelings of disintegration, evasiveness, and domination. The atmosphere of menace and terror permeate their works. Kafka&rsquo
s fiction is characterized by the existence of an invisible guilt, a prevailing sense of ambivalence and the impossibility to obtain knowledge from the omnipotent sources. The mainspring of menace in Pinter is usually the outside forces, which are latent and invisible. In Pinter&rsquo
s violent dramatic world, the individuals are subjected to an unreasonable treatment of torture, imprisonment and dehumanization. His recurrent theme of torture is in fact traceable to Kafka&rsquo
s themes of punishment and execution. The characters can find comfort neither in their physical surroundings nor in an understanding relationship with others, and finally they are driven into a state of disintegration of self-image. Man&rsquo
s predicament is reflected in a layered manner, embarking on his relationship with the outside world, and then moving towards his inner anguish about the self. This study focuses on the common aspects of the two literary figures in terms of the concept of menace. The sense of menace is reflected in certain human feelings like fear, insecurity and hopelessness. Menace may appear in a number of ways including physical, psychological and mental ways. However, the characters, in both Kafka&rsquo
s and Pinter&rsquo
s works, make use of some defense mechanisms to cope with menace. Evasiveness and inaction are efficient in situations where the dominant character exerts his power by means of the information obtained through questioning the victim. Pinter&rsquo
s characters also remain silent to protect themselves from the torture and violence exerted by the mechanism. The characters also question the system to gain insight to its true nature. Lastly, the individuals seek relief in self-delusion and denial of reality as the reality itself is essentially ruthless. All these coping strategies, however, prove fruitless in the end, and both Kafka&rsquo
s and Pinter&rsquo
s characters become a victim of unspecified menace.
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佐久間, 淳一, and Jun'ichi SAKUMA. "ON THE DEFAULT THEME IN THE FINNISH LANGUAGE." 名古屋大学文学部, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/9279.
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Dube, Allison Douglas. "The theme of acquisitiveness in Bentham's political thought." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.725243.
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Hagiwara, Takao. "The theme of innocence in Miyazawa Kenji's tales." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27103.
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Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), an exceptionally prolific poet and children's story writer, was little appreciated by his contemporaries, but after his death his literary fame grew rapidly. This neglect can be traced to a lack of understanding of Kenji's cosmology which gave rise to his unique sense of innocence. He expressed this sense of innocence through both his literature and his life. This dissertation is an attempt to clarify the nature of Kenji's idea of innocence as exemplified, specifically, in his tales.
Chapter 1 presents a biographical sketch of Kenji. It provides the necessary contextual information for analyzing his tales and explores the ways in which he expressed innocence in his life. Indeed, Kenji's life closely parallels his literature and can be seen as a "meta-text," as yet another tale whose central theme is innocence.
Chapter 2 dicusses the relationship between Kenji's ideas of innocence and "the other world," or ikukan. in terms of certain dichotomies such as Iwate (nature) vs. Tokyo (culture), art (imagination) vs. life (reality), and life vs. death. These conceptual pairs will also be considered in relation to another opposition, the center-periphery or "unmarked-marked" opposition.
Chapters 3 and 4 focus on how Kenji uses symbolism in his tales to express his ideas of innocence. Ideas from a wide variety of sources, including psychoanalytic theory, various schools of literary criticism, anthropology and religion, are used in analyzing Kenji's symbolism. These chapters will establish that Kenji's innocence is of cosmic scale and is often expressed through mandala-like images in which the center and the periphery interpenetrate.
Chapter 5 examines stylistic features of Kenji's tales such as his use of Iwate dialect, songs, onomatopoeia, and scientific vocabulary, in their relationship to the Issues of innocence, ikukan and the center-periphery dichotomy.
The conclusion attempts to provide a synthetic view of innocence in Kenji. This chapter argues that Ken j is ideas of innocence are best understood in relation to his cosmology which can be explained in terms of a special type of cyclicity and circularity. Indeed, the structure of Kenji"s universe may be compared to that of the Mobius strip in which ends are connected to beginnings through a simple half twist; this built-in twist generates the vital and energetic innocence seen in Kenji's literature as well as in his life.Arts, Faculty of
Asian Studies, Department of
Graduate
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Bostock, David. "The theme of faith in the Hezekiah narratives." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4075/.
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This study examines the Hezekiah narratives as found in 2 Kgs 18-20 and Isa. 36-39, with special reference to the theme of faith, using narrative criticism as its methodology. Attention is paid especially to setting, plot, point of view and characterization within the narratives. The Kings version is taken as the main text for exegesis purposes, but relevant differences in the Isaiah text are noted. Articles and books on "faith" in the Old Testament rarely mention Hezekiah as an example of faith. Until recently, studies that have treated the theme of faith in the book of Isaiah have tended to neglect this section because of their historical-critical stance. Again, there are many studies of the Hezekiah narratives, but few focus on literary methods and/or the theme of faith. The major part of the study involves an exegesis of the text. How the narratives function within the context of the book of Kings is also considered. Furthermore, faith as a theme in the book of Isaiah is examined, and comparison is made especially between Isa. 36 and Isa. 7. The plot of the longest narrative (2 Kgs 18:13-19:37/Isa. 36-37) proves to be very instructive in the way that the verb nn (to trust) is used. Isaiah, YHWH, Sennacherib and Hezekiah emerge as main characters within the narratives. Different points of view and the use of temporal and geographical setting also reinforce the characterization. In particular, a largely positive portrait of Hezekiah as an example of faith emerges.
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Ormianin, Maria Ascensión Jiménez Martin. "The theme of infanticide in modern American drama." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/24337.
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Hunt, Kevin T. Salgado María Antonía. "Beyond indigenismo contemporary Mexican literature of indigenous theme /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,805.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish-American)." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.
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Walsh, Susan Ann Bintu. "Untheming the theme : the child in wolf's clothing." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367713.
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Raof, Abdul-Hussein F. "Subject, theme and agent in Modern Standard Arabic." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328901.
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Al-Muttalibi, Aziz Yousif. "The imperial theme and vision of J.G. Farrell." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288716.
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FREITAS, ANDRÉA PESTANA CAROLI DE. "CITIZENSHIP AND THEME MEDIA-SCHEDULING IN PARTNER RJ." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27325@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A presente pesquisa analisa o fenômeno da popularização midiática, a partir do quadro Parceiro do RJ, veiculado pela TV Globo, busca-se entender os temas que sustentam a construção de uma cidadania midiática veiculada pela emissora referente às comunidades populares. A propossta do estudo é o acompanhamento da tematização e agendamento promovidos pelas pautas exibidas pelo programa. Três categorias temáticas foram identificadas na representação de cidadania proposta pelo telejornal: problemas de infraestrutura urbana; religiosidade; e expressões culturais. A partir das análises das categorias temáticas, evidencia- se o modo pelo qual a emissora se utiliza de agentes das comunidades representadas no quadro, Parceiro do RJ, para a construção e legitimação de sua dinâmica discursiva.
This study issues the phenomenon of media popularization by analysing the Brazilian news show Parceiro do RJ -TV Globo, in order to aprehend the elements that compose the representation of a media citizenship expressed in its agenda. By analysing this agenda, three main topics were identified on the representation of the media citizenship proposed by the news show: urban infrastructure; religiosity; and cultural expressions. The analysis showed the way through which the media corporation uses social agents discourse to legitimate their own positions.
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Soubigou, Gilbert. "Le theme de l'aventurier-roi au vingtieme siecle." Nantes, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988NANT3004.
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L'aventurier-roi est un personnage oublie en marge du pouvoir colonial. Dans la realite, james brooke, david de mayrena et t. E. Lawrence ont ete des aventuriers fondateurs de royaumes. En litterature, le theme de l'aventurier-roi au vingtieme siecle est illustre par kipling (le personnage de dravot dans l'homme qui voulut etre roi), conrad (kurtz dans coeur des tenebres), jules et michel verne (killer dans l'etonnante aventure de la mission barsac), malraux (perken-grabot dans la voie royale et clappique-mayrena dans le miroir des limbes), schoendoerffer (learoyd dans l'adieu au roi). Dans la realite comme dans la fiction, le reve eveille et la quete prometheenne conduisent a la prise de pouvoir mais aussi a la chute, et l'itineraire de l'aventurier-roi se termine dans la derision et le "qu'importe?". L'aventure du royaume a ete, neanmoins, un anti-destinThe king-adventurer is a forgotten character, on the fringe of colonial power. In their lives, james brooke, david de mayrena and t. E. Lawrence have been king-adventurers, adventurers who have founded kingdoms. In literature, that theme has been respectively illustrated by kipling (the character of dravot in the man who whould be king), conrad (kurtz in heart of darkness), jules and michel verne (killer in l'etonnante aventure de la mission barsac), malraux(perkengrabot in la voie royale and clappique-mayrena in le miroir des limbes), schoendoerffer (learoyd in l'adieu au roi). In reality as in fiction, the promethean quest for a kingdom, born in day-dream, ends in derision and in the "is it worth it?" nevertheless, the adventure of the kingdom has been a counter-fate
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Chandler, Clive. "Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22121.
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Bibliography: pages 170-180.The territorial expansion of Rome in the second and first centuries B.C. was accompanied by an influx of foreign luxuries and fashions into Italy. Roman,society and literature responded to this influx ambiguously, but the overall tone was one of disapproval. The association of luxury with women, attested dramatically at the rescinding of the lex Oppia, was firmly established in erotic literature by the latter part of the first century B.C. Latin Love Elegy provides an opportunity for studying the response of a particular genre to the phenomenon of luxury in an erotic context. After a general introduction to the role of luxury in the economic life of Republican Rome, the literary response to luxury is investigated with special emphasis on erotic literature. Following this, the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid are analysed sequentially and in detail with respect to how these poems treat luxury. It is found that luxury in Latin Love Elegy retains the ambiguity associated with it outside erotic literature, and functions as a rhetorical tool in the process of seduction. ,The attitude of the elegiac persona to luxury sheds light on the fictional lover, and demonstrates how the elegists accommodate in their poetry traditional and contemporary views of a real phenomenon.
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Schmidt, Mellis I. (Mellis Irene). "Forgiveness as the Focus Theme in Group Counseling." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330735/.
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This study reviewed the literature regarding forgiveness and developed a structured group counseling format with the theme of forgiveness. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of forgiveness as used in group counseling upon depression, generalized anxiety, dogmatism, relationships, guilt, and forgiveness in the participants. Thirty subjects were selected to participate in one of three groups: an experimental group, a comparison treatment group, and a control group. The experimental group and the comparison treatment group participated in two-hour group sessions, once a week for ten weeks. The experimental group was didactic and experiential with the focus on forgiveness, whereas the comparison treatment group was problem solving using Redecision Therapy. All groups participated in pre and post test sessions. The seven hypotheses in this study were tested with a multivariate analysis of covariance as well as univariate analysis of covariance for each hypothesis. Significance in differences between means was tested at the .05 level of significance.
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Moore, Anthony Michael. "The theme of Creation in the Fourth Gospel." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1497/.
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This thesis is an exploration into the relationship between the narrative of the Fourth Gospel and the opening chapter of the book of Genesis. Following the understanding established by E. D. Freed, Maarten J. J. Menken and others that John had knowledge of or access to the Septuagint, the Greek text of the Fourth Gospel is combed for vocabulary that might allude to the creation sequence in Gen. 1:1-2:4a. The purpose of the study is to approach the question of whether or not John was intentionally alluding to the creation narrative, not only in the Prologue or in the Passion and Resurrection Narratives but throughout the gospel as a whole. Beginning with the reference to the Risen Jesus as 'the gardener' in Jn 20:15 and the associated' garden' setting of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, the issue of intentional authorial allusion to the garden of Paradise in Gen. 2-3 is addressed; this connection, suggested by E. C. Hoskyns, R. H. Lightfoot and others, had been dismissed by Raymond E. Brown but this thesis shows that there is scope for reexamining the allusion and opening up the possibility that there was a broader theological schema in John's mind. Assuming the literary unity of the gospel in its present canonical form, a chapter is devoted to the listing of 'creation indicators' and a comprehensive survey reveals that much of the vocabulary of Gen.1:1-2:4a is peppered throughout the Fourth Gospel and, most significantly, within the 'signs' narratives. An original study argues that the signs are a re-presentation of the days of creation in the Genesis sequence. The thesis concludes by inviting a re-reading of the Fourth Gospel with the creation theme as an Ursatz and an implied 'high' Christology with Jesus as the Creator/Gardener.
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Levin, Darren Eric. "New themed attraction for the theme park industry-western/equestrian production show." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-840.
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This thesis explores creation of new themed entertainment attractions for the Theme Park Industry. The creative process of new work, centering on the devising, designing, and preproduction stages of this industry and theatre is the focus of this thesis. The product is an Equestrian/Western Production Show including live vocalists, recorded music, lighting, scenic design, and costume design. The extending goal is to begin to prepare documents for a pitch proposal to a major Theme Park/Themed Entertainment Corporation for inclusion in their Western themed entertainment offerings. This themed entertainment attraction is created to introduce people to historical Rodeo and Western Variety show traditions and spectacles. Honoring these traditions and forms of entertainment provides thrilling visual experiences for the audience. Research, development, and show content focus upon historical and present day western shows. Production concepts outlined include the show concept, soundtrack, script, lighting design, scenic design, sound design and costume design. Central to the creation of the production show is the script and full sound design which are included as a part of this thesis. Scenic Design renderings, ground plan and centerline section illustrate the layout of the performance space. Lighting research images, storyboards, renderings, plot and centerline section illustrate the further visual composition. Costume elements are presented through research morgues broken down by character, act, and clothing look.text
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劉佳瑛. "Anselm Kiefer's Kabbalistic Theme." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40937189439211754433.
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Chou, Ko-Yuan, and 周克遠. "Thememory: Theme with Memory." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46698394249407311704.
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碩士臺灣大學
資訊管理學研究所
98
People take more and more digital photos nowadays due to the convenient digital cameras and rapidly growing storage devices. However, people have limited time to browse these tremendous amounts of photos and there is nearly no good ways to reuse them. We present a new concept, Thememory, in this paper. Thememory, refers to Theme With Memory, embeds the photos into the program themes by retrieving the region of interest, as known as ROIs, from the user''s personal photos and synthesizing the themes to become a program theme. Unlike traditional photo browsers that the user has to intentionally arrange a specific time to browse the photos, Thememory utilized users'' fragmented time and programs'' fragmented space, and reuse the tremendous amount of photos in an implicit and efficient way, letting the users embraced by their precious memory while using their computers for doing something. To build this system, we recruit professional designers to design templates of different themes using photos as materials, and then extracted the design principles. Furthermore, we give the interaction features to help users recalling memory with a pleasing user experience.
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Li, Xiaoyu. "Winnie-the-Pooh theme park." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/5272.
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Theme parks have a long history. Throughout this history, they have experienced two major growth spurts, in the 1920s and in the 1960s. The best-known contemporary theme parks are the Disney facilities, the first of which officially opened in Anaheim, California in 1955 and, as part of that second period of growth, changed the amusement industry beyond recognition. Since then, the theme park industry in the United States has grown dramatically.
Winnipeg is recognized as the hometown of Winnie-the-Pooh. This begs the question of why there are no activities or events in Winnipeg that celebrate this figure.
This practicum will analyze two books in the Winnie-the-Pooh series - Winnie-the-Pooh and The House At Pooh Corner and identify the significant storylines that might be represented in a themed parkland setting. The proposed site is in Assiniboine Park to the west of downtown of Winnipeg. The practicum is based on the methods outlined in Miodrag Mitrasinovic's Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space. In that book Mitrasinovic addresses the properties of what he calls "privately-owned publicly accessible space in themed mode" (PROPASt) as a model for an holistic approach to the creation of public space. The proposed site will designed as a theme-based year round area within Assiniboine Park.
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Ho, Min-ching, and 何旻璟. "Theme-Based Music Structural Analysis." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44660768551042091182.
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碩士國立政治大學
資訊科學學系
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Music segmentation is one of the important issues in music analysis. Music segmentation can be utilized for music structure analysis, music browsing, content-based music retrieval, and music summarization. In this theis, we proposed a music segmentation method based on the music theme to provide users the capability to browse music segments by theme. Motives, the concepts of the composer, are the basic elements of music themes. Music themes were constructed by motives. In order to segment music by themes, we have to discover motives. Most motives repeated in the music by some motivic treatment rules. Therefore, motives can be discovered by these rules. We proposed the theme segmentation method. There are four steps. Firstly, we extract main melody from original music. In the second step, rough segments are generated from main melody by mining non-trivial repeating patterns. Then, motives are detected from rough segments. We modify the mining algorithm for discovering frequent patterns by applying motivic treatment rules proposed by Stein. Finally, we segment main melody based on the generated motives. Moreover, a system for segmentation of music in MIDI format was implemented. Concerning the effectiveness evaluation of music segmentation, precision and recall are used in previous research. We proposed an effectiveness measure and corresponding algorithm to evaluate the accuracy of music segmentation. Experimental results show that our proposed music segmentation method achieves 65% accuracy.
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Lin, Yi-Ru, and 林怡茹. "Service quality of theme park." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15393165379902885866.
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碩士輔仁大學
管理學研究所
94
With the relation of the national income increasing as well as the government to rest two days per week, urges the people to promote largely regarding the sightseeing leisure activity request. The theme park is engaged in the leisure for the populace to travel one of most main products. Not only but also the recent years entrepreneur for could attract the tourist to introduce the advanced game facility positively, arranged each item to perform theatrical troupe of with the subject correlation, hoped for could take to the tourist the dissimilar leisure experience. Increases unceasingly along with the management and the competition pressure, the entire topic service quality promotion turns the primarily important topic. Grounded on the scholar, managers of the enterprise and consumer's questionnaire interview, this research constructs the theme park service quality’s whole appraisal model. The model contains the facility, the service and the corporate image three main construction surface, six construction surface as well as 39 appraisal target. This research applies FAHP (fuzzy analytic hierarchy process) calculates each service quality construction surface and the appraisal target weight value. The research discovered the service construction surface is the most important appraisal project of the consumer weighs fit or unfit quality of in the various theme park service qualities. The research conducts the real diagnosis research of theme park by the four main theme parks in Taiwan at the same time, confirms feasibility of the appraisal model.
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Hsu, Liang-Long, and 許良榮. "Domestic Theme Fund Performance Study." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43471228847446903429.
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碩士臺灣大學
財務金融學研究所
98
In recent years, domestic investment and trust companies continue to release new funds in order to increase their categories of funds. Due to the reason that a variety of categories flooded into each mutual fund house, the diversities among them disappeared. For the purpose to attract investors, mutual fund houses successively create many subjects and design theme funds with different investments. For the view of the investors, to choose among varieties funds for a suitable investment has become tricky and confusing. General investors found it rather difficult to make decisions on policy making relevant to funds. They wonder whether to involve into standard stock fund which managers of mutual found houses would decide on the investment; or to observe the trend and invest in specific goods or theme fund. This research selected four domestic theme funds since year 2000. Simulate investors made investments when the funds were established and analyzed the investment return of one, three, six months, one, two, three and five years. Simulate investors also compared the investment return based on the standard of MSCI WORLD INDEX as the reference for investors. Meanwhile, this research probed into investors’ inclinations toward this type of fund from the size of theme funds and changes of unit numbers. In addition, this research also observed if this type of funds could be qualified for investors’ requests, which the size will grow with increasing years of establishment. The analysis result shows that investment return of theme fund is not superior to MSCI WORLD INDEX. Besides, with longer period of establishment, the investment return and the AUM decrease. The final conclusion shows the performance of Theme fund is affected by global economic status. The investment that focused on a specific theme should not be used as the core investment. However, it could be used for short term investment of high return with high risk or as an option of short term portfolio allocation.
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Hse, Chin-Yi, and 許勤易. "Exploring Service Quality of Theme Park by Applying IPAModel --- A Case of E-Da Theme Park." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hufmn4.
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碩士義守大學
管理碩博士班
102
With the increase on income, people have an urgent need for improving their quility of life. The demands for people to visit theme parks as a way spending holidays are also increased. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to explore the importance and satisfaction of services quality that visitors percieved for E-DA theme park. With convinience sampling, totally 446 questionnaires were received. Data were analylized via descriptive statistics, reliability and validity analysis, t-test, ANOVA analysis and Important-Performance analysis which is used to identfy the importance and the satisfation of service quality at E-DA Theme Park. According to the reseach, 1.) The importance of service quality is higher than the satisfication of service quality of E-DA theme park. 2.) There are differences among visitors’ background on their perception of service quality. 3.) Based on Important-Performance analysis, four items of service quality are needed to be improved, cincluding: Staffs execute safety regulations certainly, staffs take care of visitors voluntarily and find out what they need, businese hours meet visitors’ needs, reduce waiting time in line. Based on the results of this study, managerial suggestions and directions for future researches were provided.
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Huang, Hui-Lan, and 黃蕙蘭. "The Strategy of Theme Park Practicing Corporate Social Responsibility - Take F Theme Park as an Example." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tvqknn.
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碩士國立東華大學
企業管理學系
104
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming an increasingly important issue of business strategy in recent years. The management guru, Michael Porter, believes that if the enterprise attempts to be more competitive, it has to invest in CSR as part of business strategy. For the past few years, Taiwan’s social pandemonium aggravated by the social website and media resulted in the fact that organizations’ CSR strategy has become a critical element in influencing corporate reputation and competitiveness.The accident of Formosa Fun Coast explosion in 2015, once again attracts the public’s attention to CSR in theme park industry. This study is designed to help organizations conduct CSR strategy through literature review and case study. An organization – F Theme Park, located in the eastern part of Taiwan, would be used as a case company in this research. In order to understand the current situation and problems F Theme Park encountered while implementing CSR strategies, in-depth interviews will be employed in this study. The results indicate that theme park’s CSR strategy is restricted to market economy and cost reduction. In addition, organizational recognition and the implementer department are also crucial factors. Thus, the company must evaluate potential reputation risk and corporate responsibility to develop feasible CSR strategies; and more importantly, to be thoroughly executed.
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"Theme and Variations for String Quartet." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61939.
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This piece contains a theme and nine variations exploring a chromatic harmonic pattern. The variations range from gentle and whimsical to stark and serious to wild and virtuosic, all within a world of romantic, futuristic idealism inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen, Ben Johnston, Kelley Polar, and Morgan Geist. An important concern in the composition of this piece was flexibility in its tuning possibilities---the quartet may be performed in either twelve-tone equal temperament or strict five-limit just intonation, or an intuitive compromise between the two.
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Roberson, David E. "Variations on a Theme: Graph Homomorphisms." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7814.
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This thesis investigates three areas of the theory of graph homomorphisms: cores of graphs, the homomorphism order, and quantum homomorphisms.
A core of a graph X is a vertex minimal subgraph to which X admits a homomorphism. Hahn and Tardif have shown that, for vertex transitive graphs, the size of the core must divide the size of the graph. This motivates the following question: when can the vertex set of a vertex transitive graph be partitioned into sets which each induce a copy of its core? We show that normal Cayley graphs and vertex transitive graphs with cores half their size always admit such partitions. We also show that the vertex sets of vertex transitive graphs with cores less than half their size do not, in general, have such partitions.
Next we examine the restriction of the homomorphism order of graphs to line graphs. Our main focus is in comparing this restriction to the whole order. The primary tool we use in our investigation is that, as a consequence of Vizing's theorem, this partial order can be partitioned into intervals which can then be studied independently. We denote the line graph of X by L(X). We show that for all n ≥ 2, for any line graph Y strictly greater than the complete graph Kₙ, there exists a line graph X sitting strictly between Kₙ and Y. In contrast, we prove that there does not exist any connected line graph which sits strictly between L(Kₙ) and Kₙ, for n odd. We refer to this property as being ``n-maximal", and we show that any such line graph must be a core and the line graph of a regular graph of degree n.
Finally, we introduce quantum homomorphisms as a generalization of, and framework for, quantum colorings. Using quantum homomorphisms, we are able to define several other quantum parameters in addition to the previously defined quantum chromatic number. We also define two other parameters, projective rank and projective packing number, which satisfy a reciprocal relationship similar to that of fractional chromatic number and independence number, and are closely related to quantum homomorphisms. Using the projective packing number, we show that there exists a quantum homomorphism from X to Y if and only if the quantum independence number of a certain product graph achieves |V(X)|. This parallels a well known classical result, and allows us to construct examples of graphs whose independence and quantum independence numbers differ. Most importantly, we show that if there exists a quantum homomorphism from a graph X to a graph Y, then ϑ̄(X) ≤ ϑ̄(Y), where ϑ̄ denotes the Lovász theta function of the complement. We prove similar monotonicity results for projective rank and the projective packing number of the complement, as well as for two variants of ϑ̄. These immediately imply that all of these parameters lie between the quantum clique and quantum chromatic numbers, in particular yielding a quantum analog of the well known ``sandwich theorem". We also briefly investigate the quantum homomorphism order of graphs.