Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'WARSET'

The goal of this thesis is to analyze and compare the main characteristics of Prague Stock Exchange and Warsaw Stock Exchange. At first the attention is paid to the concept of "stock exchange" in the legal system of both countries. A short summary of the history of both exchanges is followed by a description of the organizational structure and comparison of the basic conditions of exchange membership. The individual market segments are analyzed as well as conditions for admission of financial instruments to those segments. The thesis also outlines the essential characteristics of trading systems in Prague and in Warsaw together with a list of basic types of trades. The final comparative analysis is devoted to the type and volume of financial instruments traded on both exchanges and settlement of those trades.

This thesis is in support of the exhibition entitled Getting Warmer, on display in Slocumb Galleries at East Tennessee State University from March 19 to March 23, 2007. The exhibition represents an exploration in the medium of fibers, incorporating digitally printed photographs on fabric and quilted structures. The collage of photographic textures and the stitched lines of machine embroidery reflect the artist's interest in the formal qualities of mapmaking and topography. Conceptually, the work is concerned with the idea of material as landscape and artwork as personal geography. This thesis addresses the artistic and cultural influences, the artistic process and previous works, and the conceptual development of the work.

John A. Warden III är en av vår tids mest inflytelserika luftmaktsteoretiker och Wardens teori är vida omskriven och ligger till grund för flertalet undersökningar. Warden redogör själv för att teorin inte skall ses som en mall utan att det snarare är generella idéer och riktlinjer. Det gör att teorin går att applicera på många olika fall men det lämnar också utrymme för tolkning. Syftet med denna uppsatts är att undersöka ifall allmängiltigheten i Wardens teori gör att teorin tolkas olika. För att besvara frågeställningarna har en kvalitativ textanalys genomförts på ett antal utvalda uppsatser skrivna av studerande vid Försvarshögskolan. Det övergripande resultatet visar att allmängiltigheten i Wardens teori inte kan anses vara något problem då de undersökta författarna tolkat Wardens teori på ett liknande sätt.

John A. Warden’s theory the enemy as a system has been influential and attributed to large scale victories, such as Operation Desert Storm. It advocates offensive use of air power by parallel attacks on the enemy’s strategic center. While doctrines of small states are dependent and influenced by the military thinking of great power nations, its capacity and necessary priorities for the use of air power may differ. This study examines Warden’s theory through two cases, the Six Day War and the Second Lebanon War. Both relied on air power executed by a small state, Israel. The result show that Warden’s theory can partly explain Israelic victory during the Six Day War, but with substantial differentiations from the theory’s advocation of attacks on the enemy strategic leadership. The findings are ambiguous and neither strengthens nor weakens the theory. The analysis of the Second Lebanon War indicates that air power was insufficient in achieving strategic victory in the war against Hezbollah, even though the execution of the air operation had significant resemblance to Warden’s theory, thus weakening the theory.

This study intends to contribute to the understanding of air power theory by studying the contrasting theories of John A. Warden and Robert A. Pape onto a single case. Warden advocates strategic bombing, while Pape condemns it. The theories are applied onto the Israeli air power in the Six-Day War, a war which played an important role for air power and where air power played an important role for the outcome. Both theories are among the most discussed and criticized ones, including by the other author respectively. By thoroughly examining them onto the same single case, their generalizability is evaluated in relation to each other. The empirical data consisted of six descriptive works of the war, from which each event of air sorties was analysed and matched with the theories. The air sorties of each theory were then evaluated by occurrence and effect to the wars outcome, i.e. the contribution to the Israeli victory. The results of the analysis imply that Warden’s theory have a better ability to explain the success of the Israeli Air Force than Pape’s theory, but no major conclusions of their generalizability can be drawn. None of the theories where found fully sufficient to explain the case, i.e. some parts of the theories did not occur in Six-Day War according to the study.

Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 50).
by Robert W. Marcato, Jr.
S.B.and M.Eng.

During the Six-day war, Israel unexpectedly defeated four enemies and emerged victorious in only six days. This study attempts to examine how this was accomplished and the extent to which Sweden, also a small state, might be able to apply the lessons learned from Israel’s use of air power. To this end, the present study’s analysis draws on the theoretical perspectives of two widely known and acknowledged air power scholars, Robert A. Pape and John A. Warden. Their respective theories ”Coercion by Denial” and ”The Enemy as a System” on the use of air power seem in important ways to be in opposition to one another. However, study findings indicate that Israel combined elements from both approaches and neither theory can alone provide sufficient guidance for a small state. Therefore, the two theoretical perspectives were found to be complementary, where drawing on certain key dimensions of each could be the most favourable for a small state such as Sweden. In particular, the results of the analysis underline the importance of achieving air superiority. This study concludes that the uniqueness of each nation’s strategic context indicates the potential need for new theoretical insights, better tailored for small states.

The potential increase in frequency and magnitude of extreme floods is currently discussed in terms of global warming and the intensification of the hydrological cycle. The profound knowledge of past natural variability of floods is of utmost importance in order to assess flood risk for the future. Since instrumental flood series cover only the last ~150 years, other approaches to reconstruct historical and pre-historical flood events are needed. Annually laminated (varved) lake sediments are meaningful natural geoarchives because they provide continuous records of environmental changes > 10000 years down to a seasonal resolution. Since lake basins additionally act as natural sediment traps, the riverine sediment supply, which is preserved as detrital event layers in the lake sediments, can be used as a proxy for extreme discharge events. Within my thesis I examined a ~ 8.50 m long sedimentary record from the pre-Alpine Lake Mondsee (Northeast European Alps), which covered the last 7000 years. This sediment record consists of calcite varves and intercalated detrital layers, which range in thickness from 0.05 to 32 mm. Detrital layer deposition was analysed by a combined method of microfacies analysis via thin sections, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), μX-ray fluorescence (μXRF) scanning and magnetic susceptibility. This approach allows characterizing individual detrital event layers and assigning a corresponding input mechanism and catchment. Based on varve counting and controlled by 14C age dates, the main goals of this thesis are (i) to identify seasonal runoff processes, which lead to significant sediment supply from the catchment into the lake basin and (ii) to investigate flood frequency under changing climate boundary conditions. This thesis follows a line of different time slices, presenting an integrative approach linking instrumental and historical flood data from Lake Mondsee in order to evaluate the flood record inferred from Lake Mondsee sediments. The investigation of eleven short cores covering the last 100 years reveals the abundance of 12 detrital layers. Therein, two types of detrital layers are distinguished by grain size, geochemical composition and distribution pattern within the lake basin. Detrital layers, which are enriched in siliciclastic and dolomitic material, reveal sediment supply from the Flysch sediments and Northern Calcareous Alps into the lake basin. These layers are thicker in the northern lake basin (0.1-3.9 mm) and thinner in the southern lake basin (0.05-1.6 mm). Detrital layers, which are enriched in dolomitic components forming graded detrital layers (turbidites), indicate the provenance from the Northern Calcareous Alps. These layers are generally thicker (0.65-32 mm) and are solely recorded within the southern lake basin. In comparison with instrumental data, thicker graded layers result from local debris flow events in summer, whereas thin layers are deposited during regional flood events in spring/summer. Extreme summer floods as reported from flood layer deposition are principally caused by cyclonic activity from the Mediterranean Sea, e.g. July 1954, July 1997 and August 2002. During the last two millennia, Lake Mondsee sediments reveal two significant flood intervals with decadal-scale flood episodes, during the Dark Ages Cold Period (DACP) and the transition from the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) into the Little Ice Age (LIA) suggesting a linkage of transition to climate cooling and summer flood recurrences in the Northeastern Alps. In contrast, intermediate or decreased flood episodes appeared during the MWP and the LIA. This indicates a non-straightforward relationship between temperature and flood recurrence, suggesting higher cyclonic activity during climate transition in the Northeast Alps. The 7000-year flood chronology reveals 47 debris flows and 269 floods, with increased flood activity shifting around 3500 and 1500 varve yr BP (varve yr BP = varve years before present, before present = AD 1950). This significant increase in flood activity shows a coincidence with millennial-scale climate cooling that is reported from main Alpine glacier advances and lower tree lines in the European Alps since about 3300 cal. yr BP (calibrated years before present). Despite relatively low flood occurrence prior to 1500 varve yr BP, floods at Lake Mondsee could have also influenced human life in early Neolithic lake dwellings (5750-4750 cal. yr BP). While the first lake dwellings were constructed on wetlands, the later lake dwellings were built on piles in the water suggesting an early flood risk adaptation of humans and/or a general change of the Late Neolithic Culture of lake-dwellers because of socio-economic reasons. However, a direct relationship between the final abandonment of the lake dwellings and higher flood frequencies is not evidenced.
Ein verstärktes Auftreten von Hochwassern, sowohl in ihrer Häufigkeit als auch in ihrer Frequenz, wird im Zuge der Klimaerwärmung und einer möglichen Intensivierung des hydrologischen Kreislaufs diskutiert. Die Kenntnis über die natürliche Variabilität von Hochwasserereignissen ist dabei eine grundlegende Voraussetzung, um die Hochwassergefahr für die Zukunft abschätzen zu können. Da instrumentelle Hochwasserzeitreihen meist nur die letzten 150 Jahre abbilden sind andere Methoden erforderlich, um das Auftreten von historischen und prä-historischen Hochwassern festzustellen. Jährlich laminierte (warvierte) Seesedimente sind bedeutende natürliche Archive, denn sie liefern kontinuierliche Zeitreihen > 10000 Jahre mit einer bis zur saisonalen Auflösung. Seebecken stellen natürliche Sedimentfallen dar, wobei eingetragenes Flusssediment in den Seesedimenten als eine distinkte detritische Lage aufgezeichnet wird, und daher zur Rekonstruktion von extremen Abflussereignissen genutzt werden. Im Rahmen meiner Doktorarbeit habe ich einen 8.50 m langen Sedimentkern aus dem Mondsee (Nordostalpen) untersucht, welcher die letzten 7000 Jahre abdeckt. Dieser Sedimentkern besteht aus Kalzitwarven und eingeschalteten detritischen Lagen mit einer Mächtigkeit von 0.05-32 mm. Detritische Lagen wurden mit Hilfe einer kombinierten Methode untersucht: Mikrofaziesanalyse, Rasterelektronenmikroskopie, Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse (µXRF) und magnetische Suszeptibilität. Dieser Ansatz ermöglicht die Charakterisierung der einzelnen detritischen Lagen bezüglich der Eintragsprozesse und die Lokalisierung des Einzugsgebietes. Auf Grundlage der Warvenzählung und 14C Datierungen sind die wichtigsten Ziele dieser Arbeit: (i) die Identifizierung der Eintragsprozesse, welche zu einem Sedimenteintrag vom Einzugsgebiet bis in den See führen und (ii) die Rekonstruktion der Hochwasserfrequenz unter veränderten Klimabedingungen. Diese Arbeit zeigt eine Untersuchung auf verschiedenen Zeitscheiben, wobei instrumentelle und historische Daten genutzt werden, um die Aufzeichnung von pre-historischen Hochwasser in den Mondseesedimenten besser zu verstehen. Innerhalb der letzten 100 Jahre wurden zwölf Abflussereignisse aufgezeichnet. Zwei Typen von detritschen Lagen können anhand von Korngröße, geochemischer Zusammensetzung und des Verteilungsmusters unterschieden werden. Detritische Lagen, welche aus siliziklastischen und dolomitischen Material bestehen, zeigen eine Sedimentherkunft vom Teileinzugsgebiet des Flysch (nördliches Einzugsgebiet) und der Nördlichen Kalkalpen (südliches Teileinzugsgebiet) auf. Diese Lagen sind im Nördlichen Becken mächtiger (0.1-3.9 mm) als im südlichen Seebecken (0.05-1.6 mm). Detritische Lagen, welche nur aus dolomitischem Material bestehen und Turbititlagen aufzeigen (0.65-32 mm), weisen auf eine Herkunft aus den Nördlichen Kalkalpen hin. Im Vergleich mit instrumentellen Zeitreihen, stammen die mächtigeren Lagen von lokalen Murereignissen im Sommer und feinere Eintragslagen von regionalen Frühjahrs- und Sommerhochwassern. Extreme Sommerhochwasser am Mondsee werden hauptsächlich durch Zyklonen vom Mittelmeer ausgelöst, z.B. Juli 1954, Juli 1997 und August 2002. Die Untersuchung des langen Sedimentkerns vom Mondsee zeigt während der letzten 2000 Jahre signifikante Hochwasserintervalle mit dekadischen Hochwasserepisoden während der Völkerwanderungszeit und im Übergang vom Mittelalter in die Kleine Eiszeit. Dies weist auf eine Verknüpfung von Abkühlungsphasen und Sommerhochwassern im Nordostalpenraum hin. Während der Mittelalterlichen Wärmephase und in der Kleinen Eiszeit kam es jedoch zu einer geringeren Hochwasseraktivität. Dies zeigt einen komplexen Zusammenhang von Temperaturentwicklung und Hochwasseraktivität in den Nordostalpen, mit einer erhöhten Zyklonenaktivät in den Übergängen von wärmeren zu kälteren Phasen. Während der letzten 7000 Jahre wurden 47 Muren und 269 Hochwasser aufgezeichnet, wobei es eine signifikante Änderung mit erhöhter Häufigkeit um 3500 und 1500 Warvenjahre v. h. gab (v.h. = vor heute = AD 1950). Diese signifikante Änderung stimmt mit einem langfristigem Abkühlungstrend überein, welcher durch alpine Gletschervorstöße und das Absinken von Baumgrenzen seit etwa 3300 Warvenjahre v.h. berichtet wird. Trotz relativ geringer Hochwasseraktivität um 1500 Warvenjahre v.h., könnte das Auftreten von Hochwasser auch das Leben Menschen in Neolithischen Pfahlbausiedlungen (5750-4750 cal. yr BP) beeinflusst haben. Während die ersten Pfahlbauten noch als Feuchtbodensiedlungen am Land entstanden, wurden spätere Siedlungen eventuell als Anpassung an stark schwankenden Seewasserspiegeln auf Pfählen im Wasser gebaut und/oder zeigen eine allgemeine Veränderung der Siedlungsaktivitäten der Neolithischen Pfahlbaukultur an, aufgrund sozio-ökonomischer Veränderungen. Ein direkter Zusammenhang zwischen dem Verlassen der Pfahlbausiedlungen und einer erhöhten Hochwasseraktivität konnte jedoch nicht festgestellt werden.

The Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air of 1929 is a multilateral treaty that seeks to unify the legal regime the international carriage of passengers, baggage and cargo by air. One aspect of this regime is the regime of liability imposed on air carriers, which is characterised by a presumption of fault and liability on the carrier, thereby reversing the burden of proof, while at the same time imposing monetary limits to the damages for which the carrier is liable.
In the sixty-one years that the Convention has been in force, several points of controversy have arisen in the interpretation of the Convention. Of these, the main controversies are whether carriers are liable for mental injury under Article 17, whether punitive damages may be awarded to victims, and what is meant by willful misconduct under Article 25.
Since there are 126 States party to the Convention, the investigation of the above issues is necessarily multi-jurisdictional. The conclusion of the investigation is that in the course of judicial interpretation by the various courts, applying various approaches and guided by different policy considerations, the Convention has unfortunately become disunified.

International air travel is the chosen means of transportation for hundreds of millions of people around the globe. At the same time, international civil aviation has witnessed a systemic threat from terrorists, who consider aircraft and other aeronautical facilities as surrogate targets. Among others, innocent travellers and passengers dissociated entirely from terrorists' personal or political ambitions are the victims. The Warsaw Convention, and subsequent modifications thereto, devised to regulate the civil liability of the air carrier vis a vis its passengers, falls short of recognizing this particular class of victims and may not be seen as an efficient legal instrument for the resolution of the consequences of terrorist related aviation disasters.

Models with warped extra dimensions offer a promising solution to the hierarchy problem. However, it is known that flavour changing neutral currents arise at tree level in models with warped extra dimensions, which can lead to fatally large corrections to rare processes in the standard model. Since the introduction of the warped mechanism in 1999 by Randall and Sundrum, modifications of the original AdS5 geometries have been considered, having different phenomenologies. In particular, it has been previously shown that CP-violation in the K-K mixing system can be suppressed in what is known as the soft-wall model, in which the extra dimension is effectively compactified via a background scalar dilation field. Prior to the work presented in this thesis, however, this study had been limited to a background geometry with a specific form. A detailed study of bosonic propagators in soft-wall models has been conducted as part of this research, yielding some novel results, which permit the study of particle interactions throughout an extended family of warped 5D backgrounds in a practicable way. This methodology has then been applied, via the development of numerical routines, to an investigation of K and B meson phenomenology in a range of geometries in this family. The relevant and necessary technical prerequisites are reviewed and discussed, including (but not limited to) some of the general properties of warped extra dimensions, the application of Kaluza-Klein theory in warped 5D, topics in flavour physics and quark mixing and the application of effective field theory methods in perturbative calculations of flavour observables. It is found that there is indeed a significant interplay between the structure of the extra dimension and flavour phenomenology at a scale of 1-10 TeV. Although it turns out that the previously studied construction was already quite well-optimised with regard to flavour constraints, it is demonstrated that one can do more to ameliorate these via deformations to the background geometry and modifications to the power law dependence of the fermion masses on the extra dimension.

A current project for the City of Tucson is the Broadway Boulevard Expansion Project. This is a complete redesign of Broadway Boulevard from Euclid to Country Club. The senior design project is a smaller scale version of this real-life design project up to the 30% plans submittal. First semester each team was tasked with "winning" the project by compiling a Design Summary Report and Statement of Qualifications. These first submittals encompassed the area between Euclid and Campbell. Second semester focused more on the actual design, including Drainage, Traffic, Structural, Landscape, and Pavement design reports as well as a set of design plans and a cost estimate. Because of the more intensive designs these submittals were only from Highland to Warren.

This report includes the complete documentation of the 2017 Civil Engineering senior capstone project. The project is a theoretical design project based on a real, local project currently in production. The scope of the project includes widening the Broadway Boulevard Corridor from Highland Avenue through Warren Avenue in order to meet growing capacity demands. The new design expands Broadway Blvd to include six through lanes, three in each direction as well as a median, bus pullouts, improved curb and drainage features and new landscaping. The report is broken up into multiple sections. The first two sections, the Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) and the Design Summary Report (DSR) were completed during the Fall 2016 Semester. The remaining sections include the various technical reports completed in the Spring 2017 Semester in the following order: Pavement Design Report, Landscape Report, Traffic Analysis Report, Drainage Design Report, Structural Report, Plan Cost Estimate, and the Plan Sheets.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att pröva självständigheten och originaliteten i John Wardensteorier om ”The Enemy as a System” gentemot ”Industrial Web Theory” som utveckladesoch presenterades vid Air Corps Tactical School, ACTS, i USA under 1930-talet.Uppsatsen konkretiserar de valda teoribildningarna, jämför dess olika innebörder och därefterbelyser eventuella skillnader respektive likheter, i syfte att belägga eller motsägaWardens originalitet.
This essay discusses the similarities between USAF Colonel (ret.) JohnWarden’s airpower theories produced in the late 1980, and those of the USArmy Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) formed during 1926 – 1935.Their relatively obvious resemblance would suggest that Warden in fact wasinfluenced by ACTS when he was producing his theories to such an extent,that his novelty would come in question.An analysis of the contents of the two theories is conducted in order to compareand evaluate the actual resemblance, following a discussion that clarifiesif one could assume that Warden is a copy cat or not. He is thoughfound to be so to a lesser and natural extent. On the other hand he contributesat such a degree with the work he offers that one has to say that he givesas well as takes.One can say that Warden fertilises the theories already presented some 50years before and, recycling the concept of centres of gravity and the importanceof strategic paralysis. He does though introduce the concept of parallelwarfare and takes the systematisation to the next level.• The most significant conclusions of the analysis wold be the following:• Warden utilises the same conceptual groundwork för his theories as didthe ACTS.• Both ACTS and Warden addresses an industrialised and known enemy,with a favourable structure to attack.• Warden introduces parallel warfare and aims ti incapacitate an enemy at amuch higher rate than did the ACTS• Warden also makes a science out of analysing and assessing an enemiescenters of gravity.As a tool for analysis, this essay has used one presented by USAF ColonelPeter Faber, found after evaluation to have been sufficient for the task.
Avdelning: ALB - Slutet Mag 3 C-upps.Hylla: Upps. ChP 01-03

Private international air law encompasses the delicate balance of interest between the air carriers and the consumers of their service. This balance is made by states according to their socioeconomic and political conditions. Since these conditions differ among states, another, yet more complex conflict of interests arises between states as to how the interest of air carriers and consumers should be balanced. This difference between states has been, and still is, the biggest obstacle in the way of unifying private international air law.
Giving an overview of the present situation and the possible future implications, this thesis highlights the balance of interest of the successive private international air law instruments and examines the factors that lead thereto. This thesis further analyses the crisis of unified private international air law and the actions taken to confront it by examining the reasons behind it in order to understand the current situation and apprehend the future.

Durant la passada d`ecada, els models de dimensions extra corbades han estat estudiats com a candidats per a completar el Model Est`andard (ME) de la f´ısica de part´ıcules. En aquesta tesi estudiarem una s`erie d’aspectes dels models amb una dimensi´o extra corbada; en particular, la possibilitat de generalitzar la ben coneguda soluci´o de Randall-Sundrum (RS), la qual es basa en la m`etrica Anti-de Sitter (AdS). Primer, discutim la construcci´o dels models de soft-wall, que s´on una modificaci ´o de RS on la brana infraroja ha sigut substitu¨ıda per una singularitat nua a la m`etrica. Donem receptes per a construir models consistents d’aquests tipus i estudiem com la longitud de la dimensi´o extra pot ser estabilitzada. Tamb´e estudiem l’espectre de les fluctuacions que apareixen en els models de soft-wall, i trobem que podem obtenir des d’un espectre continu a partir d’una certa massa fins a un espectre discret amb un espaiament variable. Discutim les possibles aplicacions dels models de soft-wall, i finalment presentem un model concret on es pot generar una jerarquia ultravioleta/infraroja prou gran sense necessitat de cap ajust fi. Despr´es, retornem a la construcci´o original amb dues branes per tal d’estudiar com la simetria electrod`ebil pot ser trencada en models amb m`etriques generalitzades quan el bos´o de Higgs es propaga a l’engr´os de la dimensi´o extra. Veiem com les cotes sobre l’escala dels modes de Kaluza-Klein (KK), que apareixen a causa dels observables electrod`ebils de precisi´o, poden ser redu¨ıdes quan el Higgs est`a localitzat a prop de la brana infraroja. Apliquem els nostres resultats a una extensi´o m´ınima del ME en 5D, i considerem la geometria AdS i una deformaci´o d’aquesta inspirada pels models de soft-wall. Trobemque la geometria deformada redueix enormement les cotes sobre l’escala de KK, fins al punt en qu`e els estats de KK es poden trobar dins del rang de l’LHC i el problema de la petita jerarquia pot ser eliminat sense requerir la introducci´o de cap simetria custodial. Finalment, estudiem la propagaci´o de tots els fermions del ME al llarg de la dimensi´o extra, la qual cosa fem servir per tractar el problema del sabor en el ME. Trobem expressions generals i expl´ıcites per als observables electrod`ebils oblics i no oblics, aix´ı com per als operadors que violen sabor i la simetria CP. Apliquem aquest resultat al model RS i al model amb geometria deformada, per la qual cosa fem un estudi estad´ıstic a partir d’un conjunt aleatori d’acoblaments de Yukawa en 5D. La comparaci´o de les prediccions amb les dades experimentals actuals mostren una millora de les cotes en el nostre model en comparaci´o amb RS.
Models of warped extra-dimensions have been studied over the last decade as candidates to complete the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, for they provide a natural mechanism to address its hierarchy problem. In this thesis we study a number of aspects of the five-dimensional warped models, and in particular the possibility of generalizing the well-known Randall-Sundrum (RS) solution, which is based on the Anti-de Sitter metric (AdS). We first discuss on the construction of soft-wall models, which are a modification of RS where the infrared brane is substituted by a naked singularity in the metric. We provide recipes for constructing consistent models of this kind and address the issue of how the length of the extra dimension can be stabilized. We also discuss on the spectrum of fluctuations that arise in soft-wall models, finding that it can range from a continuous spectrum above a mass gap to a discrete spectrum with a variable level spacing. We discuss on the possible applications of soft-wall models, and finally present a concrete model where a large ultraviolet/infrared hierarchy can be generated without any fine-tuning. Next, we return to the original two-brane setup to study how the electroweak symmetry can be broken in warped models with generalized metrics when the Higgs boson propagates in the bulk. We show how the bounds on the Kaluza-Klein (KK) scale that arise from electroweak precision observables can be alleviated when the Higgs is localized towards the infrared brane. We apply our results to a minimal 5D extension of the SM and consider the AdS geometry and a deformation of it inspired by soft-walls. We find that the deformed geometry greatly reduces the bounds on the KK scale, to a point where the KK states can be within the range of the LHC and the little hierarchy problem can be removed without requiring the introduction of any custodial symmetry. Finally, we study the propagation of all SM fermions in the bulk of the extra dimension, which we use to address the flavor puzzle of the SM. We find general explicit expressions for oblique and non-oblique electroweak observables, as well as flavor and CP violating operators. We apply these results to the RS model and the model with deformed geometry, for which we perform a statistical analysis departing from a random set of 5D Yukawa couplings. The comparison of the predictions with the current experimental data exhibits an improvement of the bounds in our model with respect to the RS model.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-123). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9948029.

It has been known for some time that warped extra dimensions offer a potential explanation of the large hierarchy that exists between the electroweak scale and the Planck scale. The majority of this work has focused on a five dimensional slice of AdS space. This thesis attempts to address the question, what possible spaces offer phenomenologically viable resolutions to this gauge hierarchy problem. In order for a space to offer a potential resolution to the hierarchy problem two conditions must be met: Firstly one should be able to demonstrate that the space can be stabilised such that a small effective electroweak scale (or large effective Planck scale) can be obtained. Secondly one must demonstrate that the space allows for a Kaluza Klein (KK) scale that is small enough such that one does not reintroduce a hierarchy in the effective theory. Here we focus on the second condition and examine the constraints, on the KK scale, coming from corrections to electroweak observables and flavour physics which arise when gauge fields propagate in an additional dimension. We study a large class of possible spaces of different geometries and dimensionalities. In five dimensions it is found that such constraints are generically large. In more than five dimensions it is found that a significant proportion of such spaces suffer from either a high density of KK modes or alternatively strongly coupled KK fields. The latter would not offer viable resolutions to the hierarchy problem. Models in which the Higgs propagates in the bulk are also studied, in the context of models with a ‘soft wall' and it is found these have significantly reduced constraints from flavour physics as well as a notion of a minimum fermion mass.

Uppsatsens övergripande syfte är att undersöka författarens hypotes om att Warden och Papes teorier om luftmakt utgår från ett stormaktsperspektiv vilket minskar deras överförbarhet för mindre stater. I uppsatsens redogörs och blottläggs Wardens och Papes luftmaktsteorier för att förstå deras bakomliggande resonemang och krav. Ett urval av teoretikernas texter har analyserats enligt Fabers analysmodell vilket genererat en fragmenterad men analyserbar bild över respektive teori. Underlaget möjliggjorde för författaren att besvara uppsatsens två frågor: Vilka är huvuddragen i respektive teori? Vilka grundläggande förmågor är framträdande i respektive teori? Huvuddragen i Wardens teori kan sammanfattas med samhällets sårbarhet, parallell attack samt systemkollaps. Huvuddragen i Papes teori kan sammanfattas med att orsaka förluster, gemensam operation samt vinna territorium. Undersökningen visade att underrättelser, rörlighet samt skydd är framträdande förmågor i Wardens teori samt att uthållighet är framträdande i Papes teori. Avslutningsvis anser författaren att undersökningens resultat verifierar uppsatsens hypotes om luftmaksteoriernas stormaktsperspektiv minskar dess överförbarhet för mindre stater.

In this thesis we introduce a notion of graphs approximating actions of finitely generated groups on metric and measure spaces. We systematically investigate expansion properties of said graphs and we prove that a sequence of graphs approximating a fixed action ρ forms a family of expanders if and only if ρ is expanding in measure. This enables us to rely on a number of known results to construct numerous new families of expander (and superexpander) graphs. Proceeding in our investigation, we show that the graphs approximating an action are uniformly quasi-isometric to the level sets of the associated warped cone. The existence of such a relation between approximating graphs and warped cones has twofold advantages: on the one hand it implies that warped cones arising from actions that are expanding in measure coarsely contain families of expanders, on the other hand it provides a geometric model for the approximating graphs allowing us to study the geometry of the expander thus obtained. The rest of the work is devoted to the study of the coarse geometry of warped cones (and approximating graphs). We do so in order to prove rigidity results which allow us to prove that our construction is flexible enough to produce a number of non coarsely equivalent new families of expanders. As a by-product, we also show that some of these expanders enjoy some rather peculiar geometric properties, e.g. we can construct expanders that are coarsely simply connected.

Senator Warren Robison Austin (R-VT) was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to be the US Representative to the United Nations in June 1946. While a member of the US Senate, Austin had been a great advocate for internationalism and the United Nations. His tenure as Representative lasted until January 1953. The growing pains of the new organization were complicated by myriad contentious problems, not the least of which was the dawning of the Cold War. Austin was caught between the Soviet delegation, who were bent on opposing virtually all US initiatives at the UN, and members of the Truman Administration who were adamantly anti-communist/anti-Soviet. This thesis examines the role that anti-communism played in establishing an atmosphere of distrust leading, at least partly, to the Cold War; and Austin’s role at the United Nations as regards three representative issues that confronted the international organization during his tenure. The first issue was how the Soviets and the Western Powers disagreed over the question of unanimity of the permanent five members in the Security Council. Next, I will show how irreconcilable differences between the United States and the Soviets thwarted the functioning of the Atomic Energy Commission of the Security Council. Lastly, the Korean War is examined as the first use of a military response by the United Nations to international aggression. Austin dutifully represented the administration at the United Nations, but often expressed his own less confrontational views in meetings, speeches outside the UN, and in letters to friends and loved ones. He held the United Nations to be a positive force for peace, while other members of the administration were stridently anti-Soviet and found the United Nations to be the perfect ideological battleground while acting unilaterally outside the organization. I will show how Austin had an idealistic view of the United Nations and maintained that it was the best vehicle for the maintenance of peace. Also how he was, initially, more even-handed in dealing with the Soviet delegation than his overseers in the Truman administration. He eventually grew weary of Soviet tactics and their alleged aggression in Korea leading him to harden his outlook.

During the last decades, air defense has been the core mission of the Swedish Air Force. This has come at the expense of offensive strike capability. However, this may be about to change. In the coming defense bill it is proposed that the Swedish Air Force will acquire cruise missiles during the 2020´s. With the aim of ensuring that this new capability will generate the maximal operational effect for the Air Force, this essay has examined how the current Swedish air doctrine,TR LuftOp 2017, views offensive strike operations today and how this possibly may change with the new capabilities offered by cruise missiles.  This has been done through a qualitative text research method where John A. Warden´s and Robert A. Pape´s theories of offensive air power have been used as the theoretical framework. The result shows that the Swedish air doctrine today closely resembles Robert A. Papes theory, with the exception of some signs of Warden´s thoughts. However, most signs suggest, and it is this essays conclusion, that the acquisition of cruise missiles probably will result in the Swedish air doctrine adopting more of Warden´s theory at the expense of Pape´s theory.

Housing and health care are more closely related than ever before. To address this issue head-on, Ballad Health, Appalachia Service Project, and East Tennessee State University's College of Public Health created a regional partnership to research and provide a more holistic and effective approach to healthcare by meeting the housing needs of families in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Presenters will be Nicole Intagliata, Director of Programs at ASP, and Megan Quinn, Associate Professor at East Tennessee State University. (Megan is replacing Paula Masters from Ballad Health who was originally scheduled to speak.) The session will conclude with a short presentation by Nick Oliver of Hinton Rural Life Center, winner of the Best Practices Award for Home Repair Practices. He'll share about their Healthy Homes Checklist, work with their local Red Cross chapter to check for proper smoke detector installation, and partnership with health care providers to help improve conditions at homes that are linked to health concerns.

We set out on the ambitious journey to fuse inflation and string theory. We first give a somewhat extensive, yet free from the most complicated details, review of string inflation, discussing concepts as flux compactifications, moduli stabilization, the η-problem and reheating. Then, we consider two specific configurations of type II supergravity; type IIB on T6 with D3-branes and O3-planes, and type IIA on a twisted torus with D6-branes and O6-planes. In both cases, we calculate the scalar potential from the metric ansatzes, and try to uplift it to one of de-Sitter (dS) type. In the IIA-case, we also derive the scalar potential from a super- and Kähler potential, before we search for stable dS-solutions.

The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore respiratory-related quality of life among people that have been exposed to Libby amphibole asbestos. This thesis analyzed data from a descriptive research study conducted by a team from Montana State University College of Nursing in collaboration with the Center for Asbestos-Related Diseases (CARD) clinic in Libby from September 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007. The main goal of the parent study was to examine the bio-psychosocial health status of persons exposed to Libby amphibole asbestos. This thesis augments that work by examining respiratory-related quality of life from a Libby sample and comparing with other groups reported in the scientific literature. Findings show that overall respiratory-related quality of life for persons exposed to Libby asbestos was similar to other respiratory-related disease cohorts. Implications to nursing practice and limitations of the study are discussed.

This study constructs a historical-geographical narrative of Poplar, Montana and explores residents' place-identity in the context of economic restructuring. Located on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana, Poplar offers an ideal setting to better understand how economic restructuring affects the lives of residents in northern Plains reservation communities. Loss of businesses, consolidation of services, and general economic restructuring continue to challenge communities on the Great Plains. For Great Plains Indian reservations, however, these problems are compounded by additional variables such as persistently high poverty rates, a dynamic relationship with the federal government, and increasing populations. Archival research, landscape analysis, and interview data are all used to better understand the influence of economic restructuring in shaping Poplar. This study demonstrates the value of historical and cultural geographic approaches in understanding the past evolution as well as the contemporary challenges of reservation communities in the American West.

A generic missile warner decision algorithm for airborne platforms with an emphasis on multiple classifier systems is proposed within the scope of this thesis. For developing the algorithm, simulation data are utilized. The simulation data are created in order to cover a wide range of real-life scenarios and for this purpose a scenario creation methodology is proposed. The scenarios are simulated by a generic missile warner simulator and tracked object data for each scenario are produced. Various feature extraction techniques are applied to the output data of the scenarios and feature sets are generated. Feature sets are examined by using various statistical methods. The performance of selected multiple classifier systems are evaluated for all feature sets and experimental results are presented.

In order to receive full compensation for damage caused during air transportation, plaintiffs try to get around the liability limitations of the Warsaw regime, inter alia, by alleging willful misconduct on the part of the carrier or its agents and servants under Article 25 of the Warsaw and Hague Conventions. On their part, carriers have an interest in limiting their potential liability under the said regime, and in avoiding any possibility of breaking the stipulated monetary limitation. Consequently, the said provisions are litigated frequently without, however, bringing uniform results in different jurisdictions of the world.
This thesis makes a study of the application and interpretation of the willful misconduct exception (Article 25) of the original Warsaw Convention as well as its subsequent amendments. The study reviews the treatment accorded to the relevant provisions in different common and civil law jurisdictions. Further, the problem is examined from the point of view of Muhammadan Islamic jurisprudence. This paper also traces the legislative history of the relevant provisions of the original treaty and its subsequent amendments.
The final chapter of the thesis assesses the possibility of a "new" consolidated regime for international air carriage and concludes that at present Montreal Protocols Nos. 3 and 4 may be allowed to work.

The primary objective of this research was to develop a spending model for biltong hunters in South Africa. Biltong hunting has developed into a popular recreational activity that provides economic benefits for South Africa over the past years and is the single biggest source of income for game farm owners. Biltong hunters spend money on game hunted, accommodation, fuel, hunting gear, equipment, food and beverages. One method to help stimulate hunters to increase their spending on a game farm is to determine and manage the determinants of expenditure which can be managed within a specific model. A spending model can also assist practitioners and researchers to determine the contribution of hunting to an area or country, as spending is the main element to economic impact. Therefore it is important to determine the variables that form part of such a spending model, also seen in the light that hunting contributes significantly to the economy of South Africa and the fact that South Africa has a vast numbers of game and hunting destinations. A spending model includes socio–demographic, travel behaviour and geographic characteristics of the object studied. A study of literature revealed that no spending model exists for biltong hunting. Quantitative research was conducted and a probability sampling method was used. Questionnaires were mailed to the members of the SA Hunters and Game Conservation Association together with their monthly magazine (SA Hunters/SA Jagters) during November/December 2007. An interactive questionnaire was loaded onto the websites of the South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association (SAHGCA), the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa (PHASA) and the national Confederation of Hunting Associations of South Africa (CHASA) during the months of September/October 2007. In total, 676 questionnaires were received back via e–mail, fax and mail. The results of this research show that biltong hunting appeals primarily to a niche market, comprising married Afrikaans males between the ages of 49 and 56 years. The level of education shows that the majority of hunters have either a degree or a diploma and are self–employed. Hunting is a social and cultural activity with most hunters hunting in groups. Hunters go on an average of five hunting trips per annum and spend an average of four days hunting. This analysis will examine the total spending by biltong hunters as well as these variables. Most of the hunters hunt in their province of residence as well as adjacent provinces. Therefore the geographic location of a game farm plays a role in a hunter’s choice of hunting destination as well as the level of their spending. The top five game species hunted by South African biltong hunters are springbok, blesbok, impala, kudu and blue wildebeest. Hunters of these popular species in all cases originate from Gauteng. The preferred species are mainly hunted in two provinces, Limpopo (blesbok, impala, kudu & blue wildebeest) and the Northern Cape Province (springbok). From a game farmer’s as well as marketing perspective, this research makes an important contribution. This is the first research of its kind done in South Africa and this research contributes towards the body of knowledge on the spending behaviour of biltong hunters in South Africa. Contribution of this study to the discipline of Tourism Management The study made the following contribution to the field of hunting research: ? This study is the first to suggest a spending model for biltong hunters in South Africa. ? It increases the understanding of the socio–demographic and travel behaviour attributes of biltong hunters. ? It determines which species generate the greatest income for game farms. Understanding which species generate the greatest income and are more popular than others for hunters will enable game farmers to host these species and, as a result, meet the needs and expectations of hunters, thereby generating more revenue ? As proof of the above, a first article was published in Acta Academica, 42(3):61–85 under the following title: Socio–demographic profile and travel behaviour of biltong hunters in South Africa. ? Different methods used on the same data set, impacts on the outcome of results. For example: Article 1, a regression analysis was conducted using SPSS 16 (using the whole sample pertaining the nine provinces in South Africa); Article 2, firstly, a statistical analysis was conducted using SAS System for windows (SAS) and secondly, a linear regression analysis using the five most important provinces where hunters’ originate from. From the statistical analysis and sections of data used in this thesis different outcomes were obtained. With regards to this study the following discrepancies in results were detected: ? Article 1: Professional and occasional hunters spend more than dedicated hunters. ? Article 2: Dedicated hunters spend more. ? Article 1: Married hunters spend more. ? Article 2: Unmarried hunters spend more. ? Article 1: There is a positive correlation with spending and hunters residing in Gauteng, Free State, North–West and Western Cape. ? Article 2: Hunters residing in Gauteng, North–West and Northern Cape spend less.
Thesis (Ph.D. (Tourism))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden zwei Verfahren untersucht, die eine erfolgreiche Protektion vor hepatischer Ischämie/Reperfusionsschädigung versprachen: ischämische Präkonditionierung (IP) und pharmakologische Konditionierung mit Methylprednisolon (MP). Dabei wurde zunächst das Ausmaß der hepatozellulären Schädigung nach warmer Leberischämie durch Abklemmen der blutzuführenden Gefäße im Ligamentum hepatoduodenale (Pringle-Manöver) analysiert, wobei beide Behandlungsstrategien eine vergleichbar starke Gewebsprotektion erzielten. Nach 70%-iger Leberteilresektion mit Pringle-Manöver war jedoch trotz reduzierter Ischämie/Reperfusionsschädigung die Leberregeneration nach IP-Behandlung nachhaltig eingeschränkt. Im Gegensatz dazu waren die regenerativen Vorgänge nach MP-Behandlung nicht schneller, aber doch mit einer vergleichbaren Kinetik zu unbehandelten, ischämischen Kontrollen abgelaufen. Zusammenfassend gilt, daß sowohl IP- als auch MP-Behandlung die Ischämie/Reperfusionsschädigung deutlich reduzieren. Dies hat jedoch keinen positiven Einfluß auf die nachfolgende Regeneration nach Leberteilresektion mit Pringle-Manöver.
The present study analyses two strategies to protect from hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury: ischemic preconditioning (IP) and pharmacologic administration of methylprednisolone (MP). First, the extent of hepatocellular damage after warm liver ischemia induced by cross clamping of the hepatic vessels in the hepatoduodenal ligament (Pringle manöver) was analysed demonstrating comparable tissue protection by both treatment modalities. After 70% partial hepatectomy including Pringle manöver however, the hepatocellular regerneration was markedly decreased after IP treatment, despite reduced ischemia-reperfusion injury. Moreover, MP treatment did not improve hepatic regeneration since it showed a comparable timing to untreated, ischemic controls. In conclusion, both IP and MP significantly reduced hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury. However, no beneficial effects on hepatocellular regeneration after partial hepatectomy including pringle manöver were observed.

Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
Parade Square in Warsaw is a battleground where different political projects are confronted, without any possibility of a seamless reconciliation. Prior to World War II, the area used to be a dense residential neighborhood. In the post war years, it was reconfigured by the socialist urban design project. It became the site of a monumental skyscraper commissioned by Stalin, called the Palace of Culture and Science. Today, having been used as a parking lot for the past quarter of a century, Parade Square is about to be reconfigured again, this time by the neo-liberal economic forces. This thesis positions the square as an agonistic space, in which every order is political and based on some form of exclusion. The project seeks to disrupt the prevailing contemporary discourse about the future of Parade Square and to bring to the fore other possibilities that have been repressed and that can be reactivated.
by Blanca Abramek.
M. Arch.

This thesis describes the design, development, and installation of a computer program which compiles unit clauses generated in a Prolog-based environment at Argonne National Laboratories into Warren Abstract Machine (WAM) code. The program enhances the capabilities of the environment by providing rapid unification and subsumption tests for the very significant class of unit clauses. This should improve performance substantially for large programs that generate and use many unit clauses.

In this work we introduce an analytical approach for the frequency warping transform. Criteria for the design of operators based on arbitrary warping maps are provided and an algorithm carrying out a fast computation is defined. Such operators can be used to shape the tiling of time-frequency plane in a flexible way. Moreover, they are designed to be inverted by the application of their adjoint operator. According to the proposed mathematical model, the frequency warping transform is computed by considering two additive operators: the first one represents its nonuniform Fourier transform approximation and the second one suppresses aliasing. The first operator is known to be analytically characterized and fast computable by various interpolation approaches. A factorization of the second operator is found for arbitrary shaped non-smooth warping maps. By properly truncating the operators involved in the factorization, the computation turns out to be fast without compromising accuracy.

Konflikterna i södra Afrika under 1900-talets andra hälft är något som idag är främmande för många och som direkt för tankarna till apartheid regimen. Hårt pressat av omvärlden på grund av deras raspolitik kämpade Sydafrika i många år en oftast anonym konflikt mot kommunistiska styrkor som hade stöd från Kuba och Sovjetunionen. Under vissa perioder, speciellt mot krigsslutet, eskalerades stridigheterna och stora konventionella operationer bedrevs långt in i Angola för att hindra framfarten av fientliga styrkor.  Sydafrikas användandet av stridsflyg kopplas i denna studie till John A. Warden III:s teorier om hur luftmakt bör användas. Warden är mest känd från perspektivet att hans teorier var grundläggande i planerandet av Gulfkriget i Irak och andra amerikanska luftoffensiver under 1990- och 2000-talet. I detta arbete undersöks i hur stor utsträckning det är möjligt att finna spår av Wardens luftmakts-teorier i Sydafrikas gränskrig. Resultatet av studien visar, genom en analys, hur enskilda händelser och operationer korrelerar med utvalda begrepp ur Wardens teorier. Däremot finns det inga indikationer som pekar på att det större strategiska perspektivet överensstämmer med Wardens större konceptuella idéer.
The conflicts in southern Africa during the second part of the 20th-century are today a piece of half-forgotten history that immediately invokes images of the South African apartheid regime. Under immense pressure from the outside world, South Africa fought a conflict against a communist force that enjoyed support from states such as Cuba and the Soviet Union. The conflict tended to rise and fall in intensity and during the latter part of the war; conventional operations were executed deep into Angolan territory in order to halt the enemy offensive. In this study the South African use of fighter jets are compared to John A. Warden III’s theories on how an air war should be fought. Wardens claim to fame came with the Gulf war and the following conflicts that used methods that spawned from his ideas on how airpower should be used. This essay examines to what extent Wardens ideas are applicable to the South African border war.  The analysis shows that specific events and operations correlate with Wardens ideas, however there are no significant signs of what might be interpreted as operations of the type of conceptual thinking that Wardens uses on the larger, strategic scale.

This thesis aimed to model agricultural outcomes that are important to Vermont dairy farms and their surrounding communities -- runoff, erosion, nitrogen and phosphorus losses, crop yields, and timeliness of farm operations -- under a set of possible future climates. The Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model was used for this work, and the models were calibrated using data from a project that measured most of these outcomes on a set of local farms. The model setup and calibration methodology is thoroughly documented and may be a useful starting point for others who are new to agricultural modeling. Applied to two farms growing continuous corn, the future climate simulations showed that increasing temperatures by 2 C, combined with raising total precipitation or changing the seasonality of precipitation, had little effect on any outcome. Intense rainfall has increased greatly in recent decades, so a combination of higher temperatures and more intense precipitation was also simulated. This led to more runoff, more soil loss, and more nutrient losses. While median values were only modestly increased, the 95%-ile and total losses over the simulation period increased by a larger amount (as much as 53%, depending on the site). Management practices that can reduce runoff and soil/nutrient loss exist, but their effectiveness when a higher fraction of losses occur in large events is not well known. Crop yields changed by <10% in all simulations, and in some cases increased slightly. Other studies have warned of decreases in yields because of high summer temperatures and droughts. The pilot simulations in this thesis probed only a limited range of climate parameter space, so running the models for a wider range of scenarios may illuminate the circumstances in which particularly harmful and beneficial outcomes occur. Finally, APEX can in principle calculate the delays to corn planting that are expected if climate change leads to wetter conditions in the spring. However, the models consistently predicted that only harvest operations will be delayed. The reasons for this are not well understood, and it may be a useful avenue for future work. The present work is limited in a number of ways. Chief among these are somewhat mediocre model performance, and the narrow range of farming systems and climate scenarios investigated. Statistics describing the performance of the calibrated models were poorer than anticipated, and satisfactory results could not be obtained for some nutrient loss pathways. Only two farms were modeled, in just four hypothetical future climates; results for other relevant farming systems and climates may be quite different. Nonetheless, it is hoped that this thesis serves as a useful illustration of the potential and limitations of utilizing the APEX model in this context, and that it lays the groundwork for a more extensive investigation of agricultural outcomes under climate change in Vermont.

ETSU Elevates Housing placed third and is represented by Appalachia Service Project (ASP), ETSU College of Public Health and Ballad Health Department of Population Health. The groups will work together to launch “Healthy Homes: Tri-Cities” to provide critical home repairs for families in the Tri-Cities region in need of warmer, safer and drier housing. The majority of these repairs will be made by volunteers from the region to elevate one family at a time out of substandard housing. In an effort to select the projects with the greatest potential return on investment for the patient and stakeholders, projects may be referred by Ballad Health or ASP will select applicants with stated health concerns.