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Tampalini, Serge. "Affective space (looking back) /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20071116.144247.
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Ro, Sung-Woo. "Space machine : the evolution of theater and its development." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21751.
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Conrad, Sydney Luisetti Federico. "Speed, time, and space in the futurist synthetic theater." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2189.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in the Department of Romance Languages Italian." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.
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Abdel-Latif, Mahmoud Hammam. "Rhythmic space and rhythmic movement : the Adolphe Appia/Jaques-Dalcroze collaboration /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487596307356836.
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Wille, Dennis G. "A proposed architecture for theater coordination of global space capabilities." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2669.
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This thesis proposes an architecture for the coordination of global space capabilities in a joint force commanderâ s theater of operations. The current architecture for space capabilities coordination in a geographic area of operations is not standardized, and is instead left up to each theater to develop independently. As dependence on space capabilities proliferates to the lowest levels of operations, while the capabilities and products provided by space systems becomes increasingly complex, ad hoc relationships are no longer sufficient. Purely because of physics, assets on orbit are global, rather than theater, in nature, and require a global level of control. The interaction of a unified global controlling organization with disparate theater coordination constructs results in confusion, inefficiency, and potentially lost opportunities to influence or support operations. The standardization of space coordination across theaters will ensure that similarly trained and operating organizations are able to interact within their theater, across theaters, and up to the space command and control organization. This thesis proposes the establishment of a theater space coordination cell on the staff of the joint force commander in order to provide theater-wide space capabilities coordination and reach-back to U.S.-based space resources.
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Law, Peter Z. "Traveling Theater." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31774.
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This thesis proposes that architecture has the potential to organize experience through its sensory effects and that the body is the fundamental link between experience and the imagination.
The project in this thesis is a traveling theater. It was inspired by an interest in the intersection between architecture and contemporary theater. The theater borrows elements from traditional theaters and street theater in an effort to establish a separation between actor and spectator while also encouraging exploration of that basic theatrical relationship. There were three fundamental moves in the theater: the cubic volume; the siting and decision to travel; and the separation of the structure and skin. Each of these was a starting point for sensory effects explored in the theater.Master of Architecture
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Griff, Adam M. (Adam Michael) 1974. "Open space : theater and public life on the Central Artery." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29299.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 89).
In the light of changes to the composition of society and the emergence of new technologies, conventional understandings of public space and inherited spatial forms no longer apply. Yet, for all the pessimism about whether these spaces will continue to exist, people still flock to places where they can be together. At the heart of this urge lies a crucial understanding of the modern city. Instead of being a closed community the modern city is cosmopolitan, a place for the gathering and living together of strangers. The city is the place where one goes to know people different from one self. Consequently, the city's reason for being is to socialize- for information, for business, for the development of the self. Like any place for socializing, it has its roots in pleasure. Located on the North End parcels of the central artery, my thesis project employs those programs that emerged right as this new understanding of the city dawned -- hotels, clubs, coffee shops, public promenades, restaurants, theaters, and pubs- to create spaces for socializing within the city. Social interaction is discursive, based on communicating, instead of being a visual relationship. The goal of the design is to create those moments where individuals can approach each other instead of being passive spectators to one another. Despite its lightheartedness, socializing and pleasure are serious because they set the terms on which different people can communicate and relate to one another, which ultimately is the basis for any democratic politics.
by Adam M. Griff.
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Pugh, Ian Bradford Ngongotoha. "“Devoted & Disgruntled”: Improbable’s Devising, Eldership, and Open Space Technology." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366467614.
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Pieschel, Alex. "Character in the cue space| An analysis of part scripts in Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" and "Julius Caesar"." Thesis, The University of Alabama, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1584499.
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This paper aspires to perform an analysis of Early Modern character by thinking of character as a formative process, spanning playwriting to part-learning to dramatic performance. My analysis, which will focus on Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, dismisses any notion of the Shakespeare play as holistic or complete text. I draw from Tiffany Stern and Simon Palfrey's Shakespeare in Parts, which establishes a methodology for the analysis of "part" or "cue" scripts, texts that feature a single character's lines amputated from the larger play.
In the Early Modern period, an actor's "part" or "side" would have included his own lines and the cues he needed to know to enter the scene or begin speaking. The part would have been learned in isolation, so the actor would have relied on cues to understand how his role fit into the larger play. I argue that the function of isolated parts and cues, or the last three to five words of any character's lines, is currently underestimated in critical analysis of Shakespeare texts, especially in literary close readings that focus on "character."
The textual space that Palfrey and Stern label the "cue space" continues to be underestimated, I imagine, because critics still view this space as an overly speculative construct. It is true that we cannot speak concretely about what an Early Modern actor would or would not have done, but we can highlight the implications of a potential performance decision. Cues, sites of stability surrounded by malleability, are ripe with potential performance decisions. By drawing from a methodology grounded in an understanding of parts and cues, we may more clearly contextualize the combative collaboration between actor and playwright through which character is formed.
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Willmer, David. "Theatricality, mediation, and public space : the legacy of Parsi theatre in South Asian cultural history /." Online version, 1999. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/21701.
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Rouault, Marjolaine. "Agulhas current variability determined from space : a multi-sensor approach." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8500.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-132).Satellite remote sensing datasets including more than 6 years of high frequency Sea Surface Temperature (SST) imagery as well as surface current observations derived from 18 years of merged-altimetry and over 2 years of Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) observations are combined to study the variability of the Agulhas Current. The newly available rangedirected surface currents velocities from ASAR, which rely on the careful analysis of the measured Doppler shift, show strong promise for monitoring the meso to sub-mesoscale features of the surface circulation. While the accuracy of ASAR surface current velocities suffers from occasional bias due to our current inability to systematically account for the wind-induced contribution to the Doppler shift signal, the ASAR surface current velocities are able to consistently highlight regions of strong current and shear. The synaptic nature and relatively high resolution of ASAR acquisitions make the ASAR derived current velocities a good complement to altimetry for the study of sub-mesoscale processes and western boundary current dynamics. Time-averaged range-directed surface currents derived from ASAR provide an improved map of the mean Agulhas Current flow, clearly showing the location of the Agulhas Current core over the 1000 m isobath and identifying the region at the shelf edge of the north-eastern Agulhas Bank as one of the most variable within the Agulhas Current. To determine the variability of the Agulhas Current, an algorithm to track the position of the current is developed and applied to the longer merged-altimetry and SST records. Limitations associated with altimetry near the coast favour the use of the SST dataset to track the position of the Agulhas Current in its northern region. In the southern Agulhas, where the current lies further from the coast, altimetry is suited to monitoring the position of the Agulhas Current. The front detection analysis conducted on the SST dataset in the northern Agulhas reveals the complex nature of Natal Pulses. The downstream passage of the Natal Pulses is associated with the generation of secondary offshore meanders at the inshore edge of the current. Perturbations formed during the passage of Natal Pulses evolve rapidly to either dissipate, re-merge with the initial Natal Pulse or in some rare occasion, detach from the Agulhas Current.
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Wenzel, Andreas. "Adoptable Space." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36195.
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This project investigates an idea of adoptable space as opposed to adaptable space of generic felexibility.
An Experimental Performing Arts Center on a site in Downtown Chattanooga is used as a vehicle to define the nature of space, which offers itself for an architectural adoption.
Simple elements like platforms, walls, doors, windows and curtains are interpreted in a new way and can be used experimentally to let a theater play happen.Master of Architecture
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Bernebring, Journiette Irina. "Theater as the Elicitive Third Space: How Theater for Development has been used to prevent violence in Kenya." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22838.
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In this paper theater is understood as a tool to communicate social transformation and the purpose of this study is to investigate the use of Theater for Development in relation to preventing violence and explore if, how and why the use differ in relation to preventing direct or structural violence. By analyzing the narrated experiences of Kenyan theaterpractitioners work through the theoretical perspectives presented by Homi K. Bhabha and John Paul Lederach this paper then argues that theater can create an elicitive Third Space where the passive spectators in the audience can be turned into empathetic, conscientized spect-actors and where conflicting communication can occur without violence. It then goes on to theorize on how the explanation to the differences exists in what the performance need to achieve in the elicitive Third space.
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Schwartz, Janet Elizabeth. "The city as theater / by Janet Elizabeth Schwartz." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23441.
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Zang, Xiaoyun 1971. "Space and time scales of low frequency variability in the ocean." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59085.
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Seidl, Christoph. "Integrated Management of Variability in Space and Time in Software Families." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-218036.
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Software Product Lines (SPLs) and Software Ecosystems (SECOs) are approaches to capturing families of closely related software systems in terms of common and variable functionality (variability in space). SPLs and especially SECOs are subject to software evolution to adapt to new or changed requirements resulting in different versions of the software family and its variable assets (variability in time). Both dimensions may be interconnected (e.g., through version incompatibilities) and, thus, have to be handled simultaneously as not all customers upgrade their respective products immediately or completely. However, there currently is no integrated approach allowing variant derivation of features in different version combinations.
In this thesis, remedy is provided in the form of an integrated approach making contributions in three areas: (1) As variability model, Hyper-Feature Models (HFMs) and a version-aware constraint language are introduced to conceptually capture variability in time as features and feature versions. (2) As variability realization mechanism, delta modeling is extended for variability in time, and a language creation infrastructure is provided to devise suitable delta languages. (3) For the variant derivation procedure, an automatic version selection mechanism is presented as well as a procedure to derive large parts of the application order for delta modules from the structure of the HFM. The presented integrated approach enables derivation of concrete software systems from an SPL or a SECO where both features and feature versions may be configured.
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Wei, Shu-Mei. "Unpacking identities : performing diasporic space in contemporary Taiwanese theatre." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1201/.
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My thesis interrogates the complex and indeterminate nature of Taiwanese identity as it is articulated in post- I 980s Taiwanese theatre productions. I argue that Taiwanese identity is negotiated in a 'diasporic space' that has manifestations through cultural hybridity, spatio-temporal disruption and homing in travelling. Initially, I establish the conceptual framework of diasporic space through critical investigations of the sociality of modem diaspora, post-dolonial notions of cultural difference and hybridity (Homi Bhabha) and space-time dynamics as elaborated in Foucault's conception of heterotopias. The subsequent chapters consist of performance analyses and provide dramatic illustrations of these theories as they are imbricated in diasporic space. Subsequently, I examine the appropriation of Beijing Opera aesthetics in a Taiwanese context, and argue that it engenders a hybrid identity by defying the totalising force of Chineseness. I also consider how national space and its attendant essentialist identity is attempted via a sacralised home of homogeneous constitution, thus arguing for the impossibility of identifying a stable national cultural identity due to infracultural differences in the diasporic community of. Taiwan. To fully account for the lived experience of the Taiwanese, I then explore the dialectic force of history that shapes the cultural imaginary of home and identity in ten theatrical productions. I argue that, rather than being bound to a fixed home/land, Taiwanese identity is mediated in the spatio-temporal difference between the homes in the past in China and the present in Taiwan. In addition, I examine the internal conflicts in present-day Taiwan that are unfolded through stories depicting everyday life. The Taiwanese constantly travel in and out of the present locality, and each journey in its own particularity touches upon broader cultural politics of locating home identity. Probing the various manners in which these chosen performances locate Taiwanese identity, I evaluate their achievement in presenting a multiplicity of theatrical possibilities and alternative perspectives of cultural reality that helps envision a 'new' 'diasporic' understanding of homing through travelling, inhabiting shifting moments and movements when/where identity is always being re-configured.
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Sen, Shiladitya. "Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/165652.
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My dissertation examines how early modern metatheater enabled the Renaissance stage and its original audience to develop a complex and symbiotic relationship. Metatheater--by which I mean a particular mode of theatre, in which actors, playwrights, dramatic characters and/or (in particular) audiences express or share a perception of drama as a fictional and theatrical construct--pervaded Renaissance drama, not by simple happenstance but arising almost inevitably from the complex context within which it functioned. The early modern stage was a particularly conflicted forum, which monarchs and playwrights, town fathers and actors, censors and audiences, impresarios and anti-theatricalists, all strove to influence and control. The use of the metatheatrical mode allowed playwrights and players to better navigate this difficult, sometimes dangerous, space. In particular, the development of Renaissance metatheater derived from (and, simultaneously, affected) the unique nature of its original spectators, who practiced a much more actively engaged participation in the theater than is often recognized. Performers and playwrights regularly used metatheatricality to adapt to the needs and desires of their audience, and to elicit the intellectual and emotional responses they desired. My study utilizes a historically contextualized approach that emphasizes the material conditions under which Renaissance drama arose and functioned. It begins by examining the influence of the surrounding milieu on the Renaissance stage and its spectators, especially its facilitation of the development and use of metatheater. Then, via close readings of four plays--Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Shakespeare's Henry V and Antony and Cleopatra, and Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle--the dissertation indicates how varied and versatile early modern metatheater was, and how it responded to and influenced the nature of its audiences. My study demonstrates the centrality of metatheater to early modern theatrical practice, delineates its pervasive influence on the stage-audience relationship in Renaissance theaters, and underlines the influence of material conditions on the creation and dissemination of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
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Santos, Walter Abrahão dos. "Adaptability, reusability and variability in software systems for space on-board computing." Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 2008. http://www.bd.bibl.ita.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=747.
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Software industry is currently moving towards automation of business processes and applications increasing architectural complexity and the dynamics of requirements change. This work proposes a novel software development process, called SPAREv that includes all todays critical innovations on four areas: Model-Driven Development (MDD); Systematic Reuse; Development by assembly; and Process frameworks. SPAREv employs for: (1) Safe architectural reuse - intent specifications and a customized domain-specific pattern-based software framework; (2) Project variability - metaprogramming and Software Product- Line Engineering (SPLE); and (3) Adaptability - round-tripping and software automation by adopting MDD. A case study on satellite on-board software considers an architectural pattern or framework where project specificities are added as plug-ins, e.g. different control algorithms. Software dependability in this domain is discussed and a novel concept of Pattern-Based Software Fault Tree Analysis (PB-SFTA) presented. Finally, impact is inferred via reuse metrics, e.g. Return on Investment (ROI), and Cost/Benefit analysis. Trends and perspectives are presented highlighting assets and knowledge management, and a Reuse Maturity Model. In order of relevance, the author considers that the three major contributions of this work are: (1) The SPAREv process; (2) The PB-SFTA approach; and (3) The application of metaprogramming into the space software domain.
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Bernard, Hope Celeste. "Playing (with) Space in The Author on the Wheel." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1237499016.
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Bowler, Lisa Marie [Verfasser], and Christopher [Akademischer Betreuer] Balme. "Theatre architecture as embodied space : A phenomenology of theatre buildings in performance / Lisa Marie Bowler ; Betreuer: Christopher Balme." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1124395792/34.
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Trucks, Jesica Lynn. "A Variability Study of Y Dwarfs: A Spitzer Space Telescope Program." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1564689621551064.
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Margarella, Robert Jonah. "Festival and Gallery: Exhibition Space for the People of Baltimore." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35485.
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The principle notion of this thesis has been to propel ideas derived through architecture, experience, intuition, and program in order to transform idea into form. The attempts to understand gallery as a place where people can show their work for a short amount of time, allowing for a continual engagement between works and viewers.Master of Architecture
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Gray, Leslie. "A Home You Can’t Live in: Performances of the Black Body and Domestic Space in Contemporary Drama." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19318.
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Theatre is often an invitation to enter the black home subject to its violations and crisis; this thesis repositions the black home and body in contemporary American and British theatre as constructed by the narratives and transgressions of the moment they are in. I examine Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood, Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop and Sabrina Mahfouz’s Chef as sites of memory, nostalgia, and trauma where what is considered “home” resists the safety of concrete walls and a white picket fence. Instead, I argue the playwrights suggest, with their black female protagonists, that home transcends the material. Parks, Hall, and Mahfouz each meditate on what it means for black women to dwell in unsafe places, the home you don’t want to return to. This is significant in that it encourages a respect for the lived experiences and cultural knowledge acquired in autonomous homes and bodies of black women whose narratives have often been made invisible.
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Kennedy, Cecilia Jeanette. "Space and Place in the Out-of Doors settings of the Farsas Y Eglogas by Lucas Fernandez, Spanish Playwright (1474-1542)." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364218236.
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Wilson, Geoffrey. "Confronting Violence: Citizenship Performance and Urban Social Space in Bogota, 1985-2015." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555499239195763.
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Volpe, Gianluca. "A satellite view of the space-time variability of phytoplankton biomass in the Mediterranean Sea." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/168941/.
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The general thesis objective is to determine, with sufficient accuracy (i.e. using the most reliable datasets and techniques) the phytoplankton space time variability in the Mediterranean Sea (MED) using satellite data (SeaWiFS), at different timescales, and their relationship with the physical environment. A validation exercise was performed over SeaWiFS data in the context of the reliability of both oceanic and atmospheric remote sensing data, and using the most comprehensive in situ bio-optical dataset over the MED basin. This exercise led to the development of an ad hoc regional ocean colour algorithm, which has then been implemented as standard algorithm within the operational satellite data processing chain at the Group for Satellite Oceanography (GOS) at the Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima of the Italian National Research Council, Rome. Moreover, within this context, the MED basin bio-optical signature has been found to be significantly different than the global ocean, ultimately justifying the adopted approach. The derived product (i.e., chlorophyll concentration, CHL) has then been used in the rest of the thesis to answer relevant questions, such as how the phytoplankton dynamics is influenced by its physical environment, from the water column stratification to the atmospheric input of nutrients, at different space and time scales: from daily to seasonal and interannual, and from hundreds of km to the basin scale. The basin scale interannual variability of phytoplankton has been found to be very sensitive to circulation patterns in both the western and eastern sub-basins. A phytoplankton biomass decrease, at basin scale, is significantly correlated with the longterm reduction of the cyclonic circulation in the eastern basin. Similarly, the transport variability associated with the Algerian Current system has been found to play an important role in affecting the cyclonic circulation of the Ionian Sea, which in turn determines a phytoplankton decrease on a multi-year time scale in the area. Seasonally, localized to the northwestern MED and in the southern Adriatic Sea, where deep water formation processes are active during autumn-winter, the phytoplankton spring bloom dynamics is found to be significantly correlated to the surface thermal field of the previous season: a time lag of six months identifies the coupling between the preconditioning phase to deep water formation and the spring bloom. A debated and still open question concerns with the role of atmospheric dust in the regulation of the biogeochemistry of oligotrophic gyres, so that one of the challenges of this study was to investigate the impact of the atmospheric nutrient deposition on the phytoplankton dynamics of the basin, i.e. to test the Dust Fertilization Hypothesis (DFH) in a Low Nutrient Low Chlorophyll (LNLC) region. This issue has important scientific and to a non lesser extent technical implications, but the DFH is shown here to play only a minor or even negligible role in the regulation of the phytoplankton dynamics in the MED.
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Bolshakova, Virginia L. J. "Causes and Consequences of Local Variability in Aroga Websteri Clarke Abundance Over Space and Time." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2014.
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With increasing pressures on sagebrush steppe ecosystems, the sagebrush defoliating Aroga moth, Aroga websteri Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) has become a critical organism of concern. Despite the cyclic nature of A. websteri outbreaks throughout the Great Basin, there is limited information on the moth’s population dynamics. The goal of this dissertation was to develop effective means of assessing and describing population trends of the Aroga moth across space and time, and potentially promoting biological control of the moth to prevent unnaturally large, prolonged and destructive outbreaks. Field studies were conducted to: 1) monitor and quantify activity of the Aroga moth and its damage to sagebrush across a montane landscape, 2) assess the effects of parasitoid and floral diversity on parasitism of the moth, and 3) develop a degree-day (D) model to describe the phenology of the insect, as well as field populations studied previously. North-facing stands of sagebrush, characterized by low values of solar radiation, appear to be especially suitable local habitats for the Aroga moth. High habitat suitability may result from favorable microclimate, both in its direct effects on the Aroga moth and in indirect effects tied to sagebrush plant community productivity and performance. Parasitoid and floral diversity differed strongly and predictably across space and time, with greatest overall parasitism occurring when three major parasitoid species were present. Field experiments revealed individual species of parasitoids differed substantially and complemented one another in their patterns of attack among local populations of the Aroga moth across the montane landscape. Differing responses to provision of floral resources and methyl salicylate (an herbivore- induced plant volatile) support the general hypothesis that over large scales of space and time, species diversity of natural enemies promotes suppression of insect herbivores. Lastly, degree-day models were developed and least variation among years in (D) phenology resulted with the single-sine method with base temperature of 5C. Years of historical Aroga moth outbreaks had characteristic seasonal patterns of D accumulation that were intermediate and characterized by high precipitation in June and July during late stage larval development. Thus, it appears that periodic outbreaks of the defoliator are due to favorable weather conditions.
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Gillette, Kyle. "Stages of locomotion : the space and time of railway travel in modern European and American theater /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Downs, Marco Vicente. "MainStage: Building Active Listening Space on UC Campus." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242939153.
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Abbas, Nadeen, and nadeen2000@yahoo com. "Psychological and Physiological Effects of Light and Colour on Space Users." RMIT University. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070213.160424.
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The impact of colour and lighting conditions on the emotions and performance of people is gaining greater importance in our urban societies. While large resources are allocated for well designed spaces with the right choices of colour and lighting conditions, there is little scientific evidence that supports these choices. Although the literature on light and colour is extensive, it does not present a uniform set of findings for a consistent perspective on the influence of colour and light. Most of the research reported in this field uses subjective measures to study the emotional effects of light and colour on people. It has been reported in literature that emotion manifests itself in three separate sections; (i) physiological (i.e. objective measures), (ii) psychological (subjective measures), (iii) behavioral, and it is necessary that studies not be limited to the assessment of a single response but include sample measures from each of the three manifestations. This research is built on the current body of knowledge that there is a need for a study on the emotional effects of light and colour on people using physiological and psychological measures, to ensure the objectivity and reproductivity of the experiments. It is well documented in literature that there is close correlation between emotions, heart rate (HR), and skin conductance (SC). Hence HR and SC are expected to be good physiological measures of environmental conditions on people. Thus this thesis reports changes in the HR, SC and self-assessment reports of arousal and valence (SAM) for people when exposed to different colour and intensity lights. The aim is to help provide an objective rationale for the choice for light intensity and colour by architects, interior designers and other professionals. The experiments were conducted on 15 participants who were exposed to 8 different colour and intensity light conditions. The participants' HR and SC were recorded under each colour and intensity light, and they were asked to complete SAM. The research demonstrates that there is a change in HR, SC, arousal and valence of participants due to change in the colour and intensity of lights. However, the direction of change was subject dependent, where the same colour and intensity light can have different effects on people. The research suggests that architects and designers of any space must take into account the individual differences of the predicted users when designing the lights and colours. It is also seen from the results that some colour and intensity lights have greater impact on the emotions of participants than others. Although it is not possible to correlate the colour and lighting conditions to a specific effect on all participants, general effects for some colour lights were drawn from the results. It is well documented in literature that HR and SC are a good measure of emotion. However the results of this study show very high inter subject variation in HR and SC. This is due to people having different HR and SC in normal conditions. This research demonstrates that the use of HR and SC to measure the effect of a stimulus on a group of people is unreliable because it is hard to compare the results.
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Howell, Amy Beth. "Line, Space and Plane." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1259177315.
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Georges, Pierre Marie. "Dramatic space : Jerzy Grotowski and the recovery of the ritual function of theatre." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32820.
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This thesis explores temporal forms of architectural meaning through the investigation of the dramatic space of "ritual theatre." In particular, it analyzes the thought and several theatrical productions of the twentieth century Polish theatre director, Jerzy Grotowski: Grotowski is of particular interest because he designed a "total dramatic space" that incorporated both the actors and the spectators (although without necessarily integrating them) for each of his dramatic works. In each case, the spatial relationships created by the theatrical architecture were indissolubly connected to the meaning of the drama itself. In this way, space was used as a kind of third protagonist that, along with the actors and spectators, participates in the theatrical ritual.
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McGlynn, Sean Andrew. "Investigating proximal predictors of intraindividual affect variability in older adults." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55048.
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The aging process is often coupled with major life changes such as retirement, death of friends and family members, and declines in physical and psychological functioning. Intuitively, any one or a conjunction of these events might be expected to lead to decreases in positive affect (PA) and increases in negative affect (NA). However, older adults tend to be emotionally positive and stable even late in life. Thus, it is possible that emotion-based strategies for coping with the challenges presented in later life can be used effectively by older adults, even amidst potential vulnerabilities in other domains. The design of effective interventions and technologies aimed at facilitating this coping process, will depend on understanding that emotions can influence health in different ways. Affect level and intraindividual variability (IIV) are independently related to distal factors such as personality and health-related outcomes such as immune functioning and mortality, among others. By nature, emotions are subject to daily fluctuations that cannot be captured by investigation of mean affect levels alone. Research on affect IIV has focused primarily on whether there are stability differences in younger and older adults. In general, older adults tend to be more stable, perhaps because the failure to regulate emotions is particularly detrimental for older adults’ physiological health. It is therefore important to understand how proximal factors in everyday life lead to intraindividual emotional changes.
The primary goal of this study was to identify the factors occurring within older adults’ daily lives that predicted emotional deviations and to determine whether individuals differed in the types of factors that were emotionally-relevant. As such, it was imperative to employ a methodology that could differentiate the factors that evoked consistent emotional responses across all individuals from the factors whose impact on affect were person-dependent. Specifically, participants were given online surveys three times per day for 20 consecutive weekdays that included assessments of their current positive and negative emotional states and questions (at least once per day) about their stress, pain, sleep quality, life space, physical activity, and social activity. Multilevel modeling (MLM) was used to determine if there was significant affect IIV for these older adults and how much IIV could be explained by these proximal predictors. This analysis approach was used because it is well-suited for nested data (in this case, observations nested within-persons) and does not assume independence of observations (which is a concern when individuals receive repeated assessments). Additionally, MLM analyzes the complete dataset rather than complete cases (individuals), which allowed for comparison of fixed effects regression models and random effects regression models. Random effects models, which are the hallmark of MLM, enabled the analysis of potential individual differences in the within-person relationships between the predictors and affect. As expected, there was significant affect IIV in these older adults for both PA and NA. The predictors of PA and NA were analyzed first in isolation (referred to as “isolated models”) and then when controlling for the other proximal variables (referred to as “full models”). The random effects isolated models were generally better fitting than the fixed effects isolated models, indicating that the models that did not constrain individual predictor-affect slopes to be the same across persons (random) were more accurate representations of the observed data than models that constrained individuals’ slopes to be the same (fixed). Full fixed slopes and full random slopes models were built in stepwise fashion based on the results of the isolated models. Again, the random effects full models better fit the observed data than the fixed effects models for both PA and NA, providing strong evidence in favor of the hypothesis that a larger percentage of affect IIV would be explained when allowing individual differences in the within-person predictor-affect relationships. The full random models accounted for 32% of the PA IIV, and 45% of the NA IIV. These were both better fitting than their respective null models, indicating that overall, the proximal predictors accounted for significant proportions of the within-person PA and NA variance.
Certain factors accounted for larger percentages of the IIV than others and in general, there were differences between the PA and NA model in terms of which factors led to emotional fluctuations. Subjective health accounted for the largest percentage of PA IIV and stress accounted for the largest percentage of NA IIV. Additionally, subjective health, life space, stress, and pain were significant unique predictors of PA, NA, or both. However, there were specific unique effects across both PA and NA, namely, the slope variances for stress and pain. Follow-up analyses were unable to account for these slope variances using person-level predictors. In essence, an individual’s emotional reactivity to pain and stress did not depend on his or her overall mean level of those factors, or of the other daily predictors. This provided further evidence that PA and NA should be treated as separable variables (e.g., it is possible for a daily event to decrease older adult’s positivity without necessarily increasing their negativity) but also highlighted factors that have pervasive influences on emotion regardless of valence, which is harmonious with models of affect that propose a dynamic relationship between PA and NA. The results from this study have theoretical and practical implications. Theories on emotional stability often focus on if and why older adults are more stable than younger adults. Findings of the present study both support and expand upon these theories by identifying within an older adult population, which proximal factors were likely to cause emotional deviations after partialling out the effects of other daily variables, including factors that were previously unstudied in this domain. The analysis methodology implemented in the present research allowed for direct investigation of whether certain individuals were more prone to the influences of these factors than others. These results are discussed in the context of coping and resiliency theories that posit individual differences in emotional responses to stimuli based on these capabilities. From a practical perspective, these results highlight that the design of interventions and technologies intended to provide older adults with effective skills and resources to maintain or improve their emotional well-being should be tailored to individuals’ affective profiles.
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Yi, Lu S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "A new approach in data visualization to integrate time and space variability of daylighting in the design process." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43754.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-126).
Daylighting design has great impact on the performance and aesthetical quality of a work of architecture but requires many issues to be addressed during the design process. The way existing daylighting tools deliver data to designers is still inefficient. The output display has no quick switch between quantitative and qualitative data and simply considers single moments with fixed weather condition. Designers are interrupted in their design process, and they usually need to make a data synthesis themselves, with the risk of overlooking critical periods or aspects of the design. Therefore, this thesis proposed a new data visualization method to improve this situation and create a more efficient data transmission between the designer and the program to better inform and support the design process. It used some existing research work in progress and developed a functional data visualization platform to simultaneously present sufficient quantitative and qualitative data over the year while linking closely the performance to annual weather variations, sun positions, and surroundings. As a result, designers are able to focus on refining their design while still taking into account the environmental influence over time in a convenient way. The proposed platform will work as an analysis interface for the ongoing LightSolve project at MIT Daylighting Lab.
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Seidl, Christoph [Verfasser], Uwe [Akademischer Betreuer] Aßmann, and Andrzej [Gutachter] Wa̢sowski. "Integrated Management of Variability in Space and Time in Software Families / Christoph Seidl ; Gutachter: Andrzej Wąsowski ; Betreuer: Uwe Aßmann." Dresden : Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1128036622/34.
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Lochau, Malte [Verfasser]. "Model-based Quality Assurance of Cyber-Physical Systems with Variability in Space, over Time and at Runtime / Malte Lochau." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1147968470/34.
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Onojeghuo, Ajoke Ruth Olorunfemi. "Variability and trends of NO₂ and CO over West Africa from space coupled to climate, fire and soil moisture." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40872.
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Emissions of ozone precursors from biomass burning, soil microbial processes and gas flaring activities over West Africa play major roles in local, regional and global air quality. This thesis investigates the sources, sinks, annual cycles and decadal trends of atmospheric NO2 and CO over West Africa between December 2004 and November 2014 using freely available remotely sensed data and software. Datasets used were soil moisture from ASCAT (MetOp-A/B), CO from IASI (MetOp-A/B), NO2 from OMI, CO from TES (AURA), FRP from SEVIRI (Meteosat) and burned area generated from MODIS (Terra/Aqua) and other sensors. Major contributors to pollution variability considered were climate, biomass burning, gas flaring, soil moisture and atmospheric transport (in the case of CO seasonality). The Savitzky-Golay smoothing algorithm was applied to eliminate false peaks from each time series to improve the identification of seasonality. The trend analysis showed significant decline in NO2 over areas where biomass burning was the main driver of NO2 variability and a significant increase in areas where soil moisture and urban emissions were main drivers. Overall, CO declined inland but trends between December 2008 and November 2014 showed a strong land-ocean difference in linear trends such that inland, CO declined significantly but increased insignificantly offshore. Pixel-wise seasonal relationships between both ozone precursors, biomass burning and soil moisture were assessed using linear regression models. Granger causal tests were carried out to determine the Granger causality of soil moisture and biomass burning on the annual cycles of NO2 and CO. This showed strong soil moisture Granger causality on atmospheric CO in equatorial winter grasslands and NO2 in arid steppe/desert grasslands/shrublands. Burned area showed a strong causality on CO in equatorial winter grasslands. Finally, the dispersion models indicate that beyond biomass burning, gas flaring may contribute to CO transported from the SHA to West Africa in the SHA biomass burning season.
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Wiehe, Thomas [Verfasser], Peter [Gutachter] Schuster, Wolfgang [Gutachter] Stephan, and Gottfried [Gutachter] Jetschke. "Processes determining genetic variability : mutations in sequence space and hitchhiking / Thomas Wiehe ; Gutachter: Peter Schuster, Wolfgang Stephan, Gottfried Jetschke." Jena : Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 1995. http://d-nb.info/1228432236/34.
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Noronha, Patricia de Azevedo. "Seis espaços: possível referência para o estudo e a construção do corpo cênico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27155/tde-25102010-163905/.
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Nesta dissertação apresenta-se uma reflexão acerca do Espaço Pessoal, Espaço Parcial, Espaço Total, Espaço Social, Espaço Cênico e a espacialidade Ma, Tendo como bases a extensa bibliografia e a também extensa experiência artística e pedagógica da autora como atriz-dançarina, professora, pesquisadora, diretora e coreógrafa. A dissertação visa servir de ponto de partida para que alunos e professores em Artes Cênicas pensem a abordagem do corpo cênico em sala de aulas e em criações artísticas. No início há definições de conceitos a respeito do corpo, assim como o estudo sobre abordagens teóricas significativas, tais como a teoria do Corpomídia e a Teoria do Corpo Sem Órgãos, para que sirvam como referência compartilhada com a autora, a fim de que se possa seguir para a reflexão acerca dos espaços propostos. A seguir há a apresentação de cada espaço. Ao se referir à espacialidade Ma, pela sua complexidade, já que se trata de um conceito da cultura japonesa de difícil compreensão pelos ocidentais, dadas as diferenças que existem entre as culturas ocidental e oriental, a autora se dedica ao estudo detalhado da tese de Doutorado de Michiko Okano, Ma: Entre-espaço da Comunicação no Japão Um estudo acerca dos diálogos entre Ocidente e Oriente, relacionandoa com as Artes Cênicas para, ao final, se esforçar em apontar espacialidades Ma nas montagens cênicas O Olho do Tamanduá, com direção de Takao Kusuno, e Lucíola cena 1, com direção da própria autora, sendo que em ambas ela participa como atrizdançarina- criadora. São mencionados especificamente os trabalhos de Rudolf Laban, Michiko Okano, Patrícia Stokoe, Eugênio Barba, Takao Kusuno, Antonin Artaud, Hideki Matsuka, Akira Kasai, Ko Murobushi, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Gattari, Helena Katz, Christine Greiner, Cassiano Quilice.This dissertation presents a reflection on the Personal Space, Partial Space, Total Space, Social Space, Scenic Space and the Ma spatiality, having as basis the extensive bibliography and the extensive artistic and pedagogical experience of the author as an actress-dancer, teacher, researcher, director and choreographer. The dissertation aims to function as a starting point for Performing Arts pupils and teachers to think bodys scenic approach in classroom and in artistic creation. At the beginning there are definitions of concepts about the body and the study of major theoretical approaches, such as the Corpomedia and Body Without Organs theories, which serve as a shared reference to both author and reader and define a way of reflection about the spaces mentioned. Then we have the presentation of each space. As it concerns Ma Spatiality, because of its complexity and also because of the fact that it is a Japanese cultural concept of difficult understanding (concerning the differences between Western and Eastern cultures) the author engaged herself in the detailed study of the doctoral thesis of Michiko Okano, Ma: an inter-space of communication in Japan - a study on the dialogues between East and West. At the end, the author links it to Performing Arts and focuses on appointing the presence of Ma spatiality on Takao Kusunos work O Olho do Tamanduá, in which she has participated as an actress-dancer-creator, and Lucíola cena 1, directed and performed by the author herself. The work of Rudolf Laban, Michiko Okano, Patricia Stokoe, Eugenio Barba, Antonin Artaud, Kusuno Takao, Hideki Matsuka, Akira Kasai, Ko Murobushi, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Gattari, Helena Katz, Christine Greiner and Cassiano Quillice are specifically mentioned.
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Elango, Vetri Venthan. "Methodology to model activity participation using longitudinal travel variability and spatial extent of activity." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54290.
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Macroscopic changes in the urban environment and in the built transportation infrastructure, as well as changes in household demographics and socio-economics, can lead to spatio-temporal variations in household travel patterns and therefore regional travel demand. Dynamics in travel behavior may also simply arise from the randomness associated with values, perceptions, attitudes, needs, preferences and decision-making process of the individual travelers. Most urban travel behavior models and analysis seek to explain variations in travel behavior in terms of characteristics of the individuals and their environment. Spatial extents and temporal variation in an individual’s travel pattern may represent a measure of the individual’s spatial appetite for activity and the variability-seeking nature on his/her travel behavior. The objective of this dissertation effort is to develop a methodology to predict activity participation using revealed spatial extents and temporal variability as variables that represent the spatial appetite and variability-seeking nature associated with individual household. Activity participation is defined as a set of activities in which an individual or household takes part, to satisfy the sustenance, maintenance and discretionary needs of the household. To accomplish the goals of the dissertation, longitudinal travel data collected from the Commute Atlanta Study are used. The raw Global Positioning Systems (GPS) data are processed to summarize trip data by household travel day and individual travel day data. A methodology was developed to automatically identify the activity at the end of each trip. Methods were then developed to estimate travel behavior variability that can represent the variability-seeking nature of the individual. Existing methods to estimate activity space were reviewed and a new Modified Kernel Density area method was developed to address issues with current methods. Finally activity participation models using structural equation modeling methods were developed and the effects of the variability-seeking nature and spatial extent of activities were applied to the models. The variability-seeking nature was presented in the activity participation model as a latent variable with coefficient of variation of trips and distance as indicator variables. The dissertation research found that inclusion of activity space variables can improve the activity participation modeling process to better explain travel behavior.
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Digesto, Salvatore. "Verum a fontibus haurire. A Variationist Analysis of Subjunctive Variability Across Space and Time: from Contemporary Italian back to Latin." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39410.
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This dissertation investigates the use of the subjunctive in completive clauses governed by verbs in Italian, both synchronically and diachronically, and in Vulgar Latin. By making use of the tools provided by the Variationist Sociolinguistic framework (Labov 1972, 1994), the current study sheds light on the underlying conditioning on variability using actual usage and speech-surrogate data. Contemporary actual speech data comes from LIP (De Mauro et al. 1993) and C-ORAL-ROM (Cresti & Moneglia 2005) corpora, providing spontaneous discourse in casual and careful speech as well as sub-sample divisions representative of geographical variation. In order to measure any changes in the underlying conditioning on subjunctive selection, a diachronic benchmark is established: a corpus of speech-like surrogates of 16th to 20th century Italian, COHI (Corpus of Historical Italian), and a corpus of Vulgar Latin (Cena Trimalchionis, from the Satyricon by Petronius). The subjunctives were extracted in adherence to the principle of accountability (Labov 1972), using the method developed by Poplack (1992): every complement clause governed by a matrix verb (governor) that triggered the subjunctive at least once was included. This method enables us to circumvent the issue of the lack of consensus in the literature on exactly which contexts, i.e. verbs and/or meanings, should trigger the subjunctive in discourse. This issue surfaces as well from the meta-linguistic analysis of a compendium of 58 Italian grammars and treaties (CSGI, Collezione Storica di Grammatiche Italiane), constructed for the purpose of this research.
A series of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors proposed by formal and prescriptive literature are operationalized and tested against the corpora of both Italian and Vulgar Latin, in order to ascertain the nature of variability in discourse: i.e. whether the use of the subjunctive is semantically motivated, productive in speech or undergoing desemanticization and lexicalization. Despite widespread assumption of a change that occurred after the political and the subsequent linguistic unification of Italy, i.e. that the subjunctive has lost ground in favour of the indicative when it was supposedly used categorically in the past, quantitative and statistical evidence shows that subjunctive selection is largely determined by lexical identity of the governor as well as embedded suppletive forms of essere, and that this pattern has been operative at least since the 16th century.
On a more socio-linguistic aspect, this study confirms the linguistic prestige that the subjunctive has acquired in contemporary speech, being selected with a wider range of infrequent and singleton governors by highly educated speakers. Also, the highly lexicalized pattern on variability was found to be largely shared amongst the four main urban centres of Florence, Milan, Rome, and Naples, thus countering the assumption of divergent linguistic behaviour between northern and southern varieties of Italian.
The study also shows that despite the significant time span targeted, no evidence of desemanticization has been found. Likewise, the variationist analysis on the Vulgar Latin subjunctive shows that subjunctive choice was already largely determined by, and restricted, to a few governors, identified as ‘volitive’ and ‘emotive’ matrices. These governors remained strong predictors for the selection of the subjunctive in Italian as well, suggesting that this lexical pattern has been transferred and consistently retained in the daughter language.
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Mangine, Heather Noelle. "Variability in experimental color matching conditions effects of observers, daylight simulators, and color inconstancy /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117549884.
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Seong, Rok. "An Urban Park Pavilion as a Sense of Place: A Community Theater and Water Taxi Terminal at the Foot of King Street." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71283.
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My thesis is regarding the regeneration of identity and a sense of place on the unappealing nature of public open space, in terms of its urban context and architecture.
A sense of place is related to the quality and character of making a place unique or special. It could be described as the established atmosphere or character of an individuals relationship with a place. So a good sense of place becomes a place that people would like to be a part of and enhances a human's positive emotional attachment making people feel connected to a place. So creating a sense of place should be based on understanding the cultural identity, social activity, physical environment and heritage of a place.
Shown on the left are two images captured from the movie "Lost in Translation"an American comedy-drama film directed and written by Sofia Coppola in 2003. The film revolves around an aging actor, Bob Harris, and a recent college graduate actress, Charlotte. These two Americans develop empathy after meeting by chance at their hotel bar in Tokyo. The movie explores themes of loneliness, insomnia, existential boredom and culture shock against the surroundings of a modern Japanese city. Both images from the movie show an unbalanced scale of the environment around the actor. These images reminded me of the first impression of disconnected or disappointed that I had of the atmosphere at the end of King Street in Alexandria, Virginia. The place was not comfortable to be in with its own character and the access to the water was hard to be sense visually. The first impression of this place still occupied my mind rather than any other attractive aspects within the area. This unpleasant experience arose from my own individual relationship with the place but later I figured out that it had already been seen as a public issue. These circumstances motivated me to think about how to regenerate a strong local sense of place in the area.
The site of the project is an entire block from the Old Dominion Boat Club at the King Street Park to the Waterfront Park on Prince Street along the Potomac River in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. The main access to the site is at the end of King Street. King Street has been the dominant connection to the water and the main corridor, carrying most of the entertainments in Old Town. Currently though, it lacks designated routes to the water at the end of the street.
This project, an urban park pavilion, is composed of four different programs: the roof park, plaza, community performance Theater and boat taxi terminal which will be treated as equal value by a juxtaposed arrangement and interconnected street grids. My thesis will narrates how to develop a sense of place through the interaction of quality of architecture, infrastructure, cultural identities, social activities and the environment.Master of Architecture
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Obney, David M. "The Actor in the Space: The Influence of Space on the Construction and Creation of the Role of Macbeth." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1191335507.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, School of Dance, Theatre and Arts Administration, 2007."December, 2007." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 02/22/2008) Advisor, James Slowiak; Committee member, Chris Hariasz; School Director, Neil Sapienza; Dean of the College, James Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Baldwin, Lind Paula. "Looking for privacy in Shakespeare : woman's place and space in a selection of plays and early modern texts." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5848/.
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Grounded in a multi-faceted theoretical framework that examines the dynamic interaction between the public and the private spheres of Elizabethan everyday life, this thesis aims to trace how the concept of privacy and its associated terms were developed, constructed, evoked, and configured both in Shakespearean drama and in other illustrative early modern texts. The author suggests that Shakespeare's configuration of space results from a combination of the conditions of representation - empty stages - metaphorical language, technical dramatic devices, and textual markers that create a sense of space in the texts and onstage. The research also explores the place and space of early modern women and of Shakespeare's female characters in terms of their relation to the private space; that is to say, their construction of 'self-in-relation-to-space', as well as their movements and activities within and outside the private's real or imagined boundaries, thus their ability to fashion the public sphere from within the private. Rather than analysing the role of women in the plays exclusively from the point of view of opposition between spheres - public man versus private woman - the study wants to question and pose, at the same time, the relevance of approaching Shakespearean texts from a spatial perspective, a choice that may have an impact on the very interpretation of them.
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La, Coe Jodi Lynn. "Constructing Vision: László Moholy-Nagy's Partiturskizze zu einer mechanischen Exzentrik, Experiments in Higher Spatial Dimensions." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89334.
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In 1936, while an expatriate in London, László Moholy-Nagy signed the Manifeste dimensioniste, crafted by Hungarian poet Charles Sirató, declaring his allegiance to the pursuit of creating artistic works in higher dimensions. In his artworks and writings, Moholy-Nagy was deeply invested in emerging technologies of the early twentieth century in the service of seeing the world differently, augmenting and training the sensory organs to visualize higher dimensions of space, essentially to see what does not appear, what is apparently invisible. Through his work with light and movement, which took many forms, painting, photography, film, kinetic sculpture, and theater, he worked through traditional and avant garde notions of space and time as related to psychophysical experience. Moholy-Nagy held that higher dimensions could be experienced through a re-education of human senses and began to lay out his claim for the education of the senses in order to see the world differently as early as 1922 in "Produktion–Reproduktion" (De Stijl). In Malerei, Fotografie, Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Moholy-Nagy asserted that through the visual objectivity produced photographs, especially in oblique photographs, "[w]e may say that we see the world with entirely different eyes."
In this dissertation, I examine the influence of contemporary psychophysical, space-time theories on a stage/ performance design created by Moholy-Nagy, in particular, the two versions of his design for a synaesthetic theatrical performance entitled, Partiturskizze zu einer mechanischen Exzentrik (Score-Sketch for a Mechanical Eccentric): one a hybrid, mixed media drawing (c. 1923) and the other a revised version printed in Die Bühne im Bauhaus (The Stage of the Bauhaus, 1925). Following the structure of the hybrid drawing, each chapter is an interpretation of a single panel of the drawing, corresponding to the prelude and the five acts of the performance. This interpretation was made through a close reading of the drawing itself, examining the references made in the images and notations, comparing the two versions, and uncovering similar themes in his lectures, writings, and artistic works, and, in turn, pursuing references to physics, psychology, mathematics, and literature, whose profound influence was acknowledged by Moholy-Nagy in those texts. These influences include the writings of Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, János Bolyai, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Carnap, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Wundt, E. T. A. Hoffmann, James Joyce, and many others. Through this analysis, I reveal the ambitious intention at the heart of the Exzentrik, to immerse the audience in a synaesthetic experience that expands their psychophysical consciousness using electromagnetic vibrations in the form of visible and invisible light and sound, as well as shocking and comedic forms and movements, and that, thereby, opens the audience to the construction of a new vision that endows them with the capacity to envision higher dimensions of space.Doctor of Philosophy
In 1936, while living in London, László Moholy-Nagy signed the Dimensionist Manifesto, written by Hungarian poet Charles Sirató, declaring his allegiance to the pursuit of creating artistic works in higher dimensions, such as three-dimensional paintings or four-dimensional space-time constructions. In his artworks and writings, Moholy-Nagy was deeply invested in the emerging and advancing technologies of the early twentieth century in the service of seeing the world differently, augmenting and training the sensory organs to visualize higher dimensions of space, essentially to see what does not appear to the naked eye, for instance x-ray images reveal what is apparently invisible. Through his work with light and movement, which took many forms, painting, photography, film, moving sculptures, and theater, he explored how a person experiences space and time both physically and intellectually and Moholy-Nagy began to lay out his claim for the education of the senses in order to see the world differently. In Malerei, Fotografie, Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Moholy-Nagy asserted that through the visual objectivity produced photographs, especially in oblique photographs, “[w]e may say that we see the world with entirely different eyes.” In this dissertation, I have examined the influence of contemporary space-time theories on two versions of Moholy-Nagy’s design for a theatrical performance called the Score-Sketch for a Mechanical Eccentric, one a hand-drawn and painted collage (c. 1923) and the other a revised version printed in The Stage of the Bauhaus (1925). Following the structure of the former, each chapter is an interpretation of a single panel of the drawing/collage, corresponding to the prelude and the five acts of the performance. This interpretation was made through a close reading of the drawing itself, examining the references made in the images and notations, comparing the two versions, and uncovering similar themes in his lectures, writings, and artistic works, and, in turn, pursuing references to physics, psychology, mathematics, and literature, whose profound influence was acknowledged by Moholy-Nagy in those texts. These influences include the writings of Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, János Bolyai, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Carnap, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Wundt, E. T. A. Hoffmann, James Joyce, and many others. Through this analysis, I will reveal the ambitious intention at the heart of the performance, to immerse the audience in a multi-sensory experience that will expand their consciousness, thereby, to expand their sensory perception, using shocking and comedic displays to psychologically open the audience to the possibility of perceiving higher dimensions of space.
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Jonsson, Carla. "Code-switching in Chicano Theater : Power, Identity and Style in Three Plays by Cherríe Moraga." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Modern Languages, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-498.
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The thesis examines local and global functions of code-switching and code-mixing in Chicano theater, i.e. in writing intended for performance. The data of this study consists of three published plays by Chicana playwright Cherríe Moraga.
Distinguishing between code-switching and code-mixing, the investigation explores local and global functions of these phenomena. Local functions of code-switching are functions that can be seen in the text and, as a consequence, can be regarded as meaningful for the audience of the plays. These functions are examined, focussing on five loci in which code-switching is frequent and has clear local functions. The loci are quotations, interjections, reiterations, ‘gaps’ and word/language play.
Global functions of code-switching and code-mixing operate on a higher level and are not necessarily detected in the actual texts. These functions are discussed, focussing on two main areas, namely power relations (addressing questions of domination, resistance and empowerment) and identity construction (addressing questions of how identity can be reflected by use of language and how identity is constructed and reconstructed by means of language).
The study suggests that code-switching fills creative, artistic and stylistic functions in the plays and that code-switching and code-mixing can serve as responses to domination in that they can be used to resist, challenge and ultimately transform power relations.
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Holmwood, Clive. "An investigation into the space where drama education and dramatherapy meet : what does this mean in conceptual and practical terms for practitioner and participant?" Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/56006/.
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The aim of this research is to explore the space between drama education and dramatherapy as practised in the UK and find a way of describing it. I begin by looking at five areas relevant to both professions: theatre and anthropology, theatre and therapy, the history of dramatherapy, drama education and story followed by an explanation of my methodology. Through two case studies I use the dramatic art form of drama to explore the spaces between these two professions in order to open up a debate around the shared spaces which exist between them. I use the same dramatic activities, exercises and materials as a starting point in two different school environments. In school ‘A’ I practised as a drama teacher; in School ‘B’ I practised as a dramatherapist. I then explore the spaces in which drama and dramatherapy exist and consider the space that exists between them through four conceptual lenses: context, discourse, art form and liminal space. This study shows that the space between the two professions is shifting and nebulous and that it is not an either/or scenario. It will also highlight the historical connections between the two professions and acknowledge that a greater dialogue is required in order for each profession to benefit from the other.
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Bonnet-Lebrun, Anne-Sophie. "Intraspecific variation in environmental and geographic space use : insights from individual movement data." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275584.
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Species’ ranges arise from the interplay between environmental preferences, biotic and abiotic environmental conditions, and accessibility. Understanding of – and predictive models on – species distributions often build from the assumption that these factors apply homogenously within each species, but there is growing evidence for individual variation. Here, I use movement data to investigate individual-level decisions and compromises regarding the different costs and benefits influencing individuals’ geographic locations, and the species-level spatial patterns that emerge from these. I first developed a new method that uses tracking data to quantify individual specialisation in geographic space (site fidelity) or in environmental space (environmental specialisation). Applying it to two species of albatrosses, I found evidence of site fidelity but weak environmental specialisation. My results have implications for how limited research efforts are best-targeted: if animals are generalists, effort are best spent by understanding in depth individual patterns, i.e., better to track fewer individuals for long periods of time; whereas if animals tend to be specialists, efforts should be dedicated to tracking as many individuals as possible, even if for shorter periods. I then investigated individual migratory strategies and their drivers in nine North American bird species, using ringing/recovery data. I found latitudinal redistribution of individuals within the breeding and non-breeding ranges that generally did not follow textbook patterns (‘chain migration’ or ‘leapfrog migration’). Migratory individuals tend to trade off the benefits of migration (better tracking of climatic niche; better access to resources) and its costs (increasing with migratory distance). I found that birds are more likely to remain as residents in areas with warmer winter temperatures, higher summer resource surpluses and higher human population densities (presumably because of a buffering effect of urban areas). Overall, my results highlight the importance of considering individual variation to understanding the ecological processes underpinning species’ spatial patterns.