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Glabasnia, Arne. "Molekulare und sensorische Untersuchungen zu geschmacksgebenden Verbindungen in Whiskey sowie von verarbeitungsbedingt gebildeten Ellagtannin-Transformationsprodukten /." Münster : Schüling, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2917149&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Zweizig, Suzanne M. "Bang, whiskey, roost." [Gainesville, Fla.]: University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000837.
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MacNamara, Kevin. "Flavour components of whiskey." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52849.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Aged distilled spirits such as whiskey are complex mixtures of flavour compounds in an ethanol-water matrix. The flavour compounds involved can have widely different volatility and relative amounts. Many of the organoleptic properties that make whiskey suitable for commercial sale have their origin in reactions occurring during the ageing process in oak wood barrels. To investigate the complex changes that take place during spirit ageing a preparative fractional vacuum distillation process was developed. Both high and low volatility compounds could be individually isolated as fractions and free from both the ethanol matrix and the fermentation fusel alcohols. This allowed a range of sensory and analytical procedures to be conducted on these fractions, in particular to investigate changes occurring during ageing. Gas chromatographic (GC) analysis of the low volatility fraction is complicated by the fact that both the compounds and their ethanol matrix have very similar chromatographic behaviour when separated simultaneously on standard chromatographic phases. Compound and matrix co-elution becomes a major problem and conditions for mass spectrometric (MS) investigation are disadvantageous. A two-dimensional GC configuration using dissimilar chromatographic phases was configured to overcome these limitations. Using this approach 27 compounds were separated and identified. Headspace injection was used to increase detection sensitivity. Changes with ageing for seven compounds present at very low levels were quantified. In addition changes in the most abundant compounds were quantified by standard split injection, and changes in trace level sulfur compounds by headspace injection with sulfur chemiluminescent detection (SCD). Increases of the concentrations of pleasant fruity ethyl esters and acetates were established. Volatile sulfides with generally objectionable aroma showed concomitant major decreases. Appropriate techniques could also be applied to the low volatility compounds recovered from the whiskey water fraction. High temperature GC-MS analysis of an extract of the water fraction allowed the identification of 30 compounds. Three phenolic esters were identified in whiskey for the first time. These compounds were synthesised and shown to be contributory to desirable ageing flavour. Increases in concentrations of 16 oak derived compounds during alO year ageing period were established. Several compounds increased significantly over this time period. Ratios of aromatic phenolic aldehydes, and changes in these ratios during ageing, were unique to the type of barrel used in these experiments. This suggests that the final sensory properties of aged whiskey may be more dependent on wood parameters than previously thought. Preparative reverse phase High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with an ethanol water gradient was used to further fractionate an extract of the low volatility compounds. Subsequent analysis and sensory testing allowed a group separation of compounds with each group contributing characteristic attributes to the total flavour. One group contained the three new phenolic esters together with a number of other unidentified compounds. This group was found to be important for desirable ageing flavour that seems to develop slowly with time. Further studies in this area to understand the individual and synergistic contributions of the many facets of ageing chemistry will have important commercial implications.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Verouderde spiritus soos Whiskey is 'n komplekse mengsel van geurstowwe in 'n etanolwater oplossing. Die vlugtigheid van die geurstowwe asook die konsentrasies waarin hul aanwesig is, varieer aansienlik. Verskeie van die sintuiglike eienskappe wat kommersiële waarde aan whiskey verleen, het huloorsprong in reaksies wat tydens die verouderingsproses in eikehoutvate plaasvind. Ten einde die ingewikkelde veranderinge wat tydens die veroudering van spiritus plaasvind, te ondersoek, is 'n preparatiewe fraksionele vakuumdistillasieproses ontwikkel. Hoogs vlugtige en minder vlugtige verbindings kon geskei word in afsonderlike fraksies wat vry was van etanol en fuselalkohole. Dit het die sintuiglike en fisies-chemiese analises van die fraksies moontlik gemaak, veralom die veranderings wat tydens veroudering plaasvind, te ondersoek. Gaschromatografiese (GC) analise van die fraksie met 'n lae vlugtigheid word gekompliseer deur die feit dat hierdie komponente en die etanol waarin dit opgelos is soortgelyke chromatografiese eienskappe toon wanneer hul gelyktydig op standaard gaschromatografie fases geskei word. Die gelyktydige eluering van dié komponente en etanol waarin hul opgelos is, skep 'n probleem wat nadelig vir massaspektrometriese (MS) analise is. Die beperkings is oorkom deur die gebruik van tweedimensionele GC en stasionêre fases met uiteenlopende eienskappe. Op dié wyse is 27 verbindings geskei en geïdentifiseer. Die veranderinge in konsentrasies tydens veroudering is vir sewe verbindings gekwantifiseer. Veranderinge in die konsentrasies van die verbindings teenwoordig in die hoogste konsentrasies is gekwantifiseer deur split-inspuitings, terwyl veranderinge in die spoorkonsentrasies van vlugtige swawelverbindings mbv dampfase-inspuitings en met swawel chemolumisensie deteksie (SCD) bepaal is. Toenames in die konsentrasies van die aangename vrugtige esters en asetate is bepaal. Vlugtige sulfiede met meesalonaanvaarbare aromas toon gelyktydige groot afnames. Geskikte tegnieke is ook gebruik vir die herwinning van minder vlugtige verbindings met die waterfase van whiskey. Hoë temperatuur GC-MS analises van 'n ekstrak van die waterfase het die identifikasie van 30 komponente moontlik gemaak. Drie fenoliese esters is vir die eerste keer in whiskey gevind. Hierdie verbindings is gesintetiseer en hul bydrae tot die gewenste verouderingsgeur is sintuiglik bevestig. Toenames in die konsentrasies van 16 eikehoutverwante verbindings gedurende 'n verouderingsperiode van 10 jaar is bepaal. 'n Betekenisvolle toename het voorgekom in die konsentrasies van verskeie van hierdie whiskey verbindings. Die verhoudings van aromatiese fenoliese aldehiede en die verandering in die verhoudings tydens veroudering was kenmerkend van die tipe eikehoutvat wat gebruik is. Dié bevinding dui daarop dat die fenole sintuiglike eienskappe van verouderde whiskey meer afhanklik mag wees van eikehout parameters as wat voorheen algemeen aanvaarbaar is. Preparatiewe omgekeerde fase hoëdrukvloeistofchromatografie met etanol/water as 'n gradient elueermiddel is gebruik om 'n ekstrak van die minder vlugtige verbindings verder te fraksioneer. Verdere GC-, MS- en sintuiglike analise het die skeiding van groepe van verbindings waarvan elk kenmerkende bydraes tot die totale geur lewer, moontlik gemaak. Een groep het drie nuut geïdentifiseerde fenoliese esters, tesame met 'n aantal ongeïdentifiseerde verbindings, bevat. Daar is vasgestel dat hierdie groep 'n belangrike bydrae maak tot die gewenste geur wat klaarblyklik stadig tydens veroudering ontwikkel. Verdere ondersoeke in hierdie verband om die individuele en sinergistiese bydraes van verskeie fasette van die chemie van veroudering te verstaan, kan belangrike kommersiële implikasies hê.
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La, Grange-Nel Karin. "Characterisation and improvement of whiskey yeast." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53327.
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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Scotch whiskey is of two main types, namely Scotch malt whiskey, made from malted barley alone, or Scotch grain whiskey, made from cereals, such as wheat or maize, together with malted barley. In both processes, the enzymes from the barley are responsible for starch conversion and should always be derived entirely from the malted barley. No exogenous enzymes are allowed to be added to any mashing. The enzymes involved in the conversion process to fermentable sugars, are the aand p-amylases, limit dextrinase and p-glucosidase. Maize, on the other hand, contains no enzyme activity, therefore enzymes need to be added when producing whiskey from maize alone. In other whiskey-producing countries where maize is freely available and cheaper than barley, the use of exogenous enzymes are allowed in the mashing process and is crucial for the formation of fermentable sugars from complex carbohydrates. The cost of the enzymes, however, can push the production cost of whiskey to higher levels. Saccharomyces cerevisiae does not have any amylolytic activity, but is an excellent fermenter and produces favourable organoleptic notes, which makes it very suitable for producing potable spirit. Efforts have been made to genetically improve industrial strains, relying on classical genetic techniques followed by the selection of broad traits, such as ethanol tolerance, absence of off-flavours and carbohydrate/starch utilisation. No strain has thus far been selected for total starch degradation during the fermentation of whiskey mash. Over the last decade, considerable progress has been made in the development of genetically improved strains for the distilling, wine, brewing and baking industries. The expression of heterologous genes introduced a new dimension in approaches to the genetic improvement of industrial strains. It would therefore be cost-effective to use a yeast strain that can produce active and sufficient enzymes to ferment raw starch efficiently to alcohol without lowering the quality of the end product. No such strain has been developed to date, but the continuous improvement of starch-utilising strains has made this goal more achievable. Two a-amylase genes, namely LKA 1 and LKA2, were previously isolated from Lipomyces kanonenkoae. In this study, we selected 4 strains on the basis of criteria that are important for whiskey-specific strains. The selected strains were transformed with LKA 1, as well as with a combination of LKA 1 and LKA2 genes. The wine yeast VIN13 was included in the transformation of LKA1 and LKA2 because of its rapid fermentation rate. The genes were integrated into the genomes of the yeast strains and were stable after many generations. Assays showed that a significant increase in enzyme activity was induced in the whiskey strains, compared to the untransformed strains. The strains also showed good fermentation ability in whiskey fermentations, although optimum alcohol production was still not achieved.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Skotse whiskey bestaan uit 2 tipes, nl. mout whiskey, gemaak slegs van mout d.w.s. gars wat die mout proses ondergaan het, en graan whiskey wat gemaak word van gewasse soos mielies of koring, waarby mout gevoeg word. Die ensieme afkomstig van die mout is verantwoordelik vir die omsetting van stysel na fermenteerbare suikers en geen eksogene ensieme mag by die gars- of graanmengsel gevoeg word nie. Die ensieme wat betrokke is by die omsetting van stysel, is die a- en ~- arnitases, limiet dekstrinase en ~-glukosidase. Mielies bevat geen ensiemaktiwiteit nie, dus moet ensieme by die proses gevoeg word indien slegs mielies vir die vervaardiging van whiskey gebruik word. In whiskey produserende lande waar mielies vryelik beskikbaar is en goedkoper is as gars, word eksogene ensieme by die graanmengsel gevoeg vir die vrystelling van fermenteerbare suikers vanaf komplekse koolhidrate. Die hoë koste van die ensieme kan egter die produksiekoste van whiskey verhoog. Saccharomyces cerevisiae besit geen amilolitiese aktiwiteit nie, maar is 'n uitstekende fermenteerder en produseer gewensde organoleptiese geure. Om hierdie redes is S. cerevisiae baie geskik vir die produksie van drinkbare etanol. Navorsingspogings om industriële rasse geneties m.b.v. klassieke genetiese metodes te verbeter, kom wydverspreid in die literatuur voor. Dit sluit in die seleksie van rasse met 'n verskeidenheid van eienskappe soos etanol toleransie, die afwesigheid van afgeur produksie en koolhidraat/stysel benutting. Geen ras is egter tot op hede geselekteer vir totale stysel afbraak gedurende fermentasie nie. Groot vordering is gedurende die laaste dekade gemaak in die ontwikkeling van genetiese verbeterde rasse vir die wyn- stokery- en brouers industrieë. Die uitdruk van heterogene gene in gisrasse gee 'n nuwe dimensie aan die genetiese verbetering van industriële rasse. Die gebruik van 'n gisras wat aktiewe en genoegsame ensieme produseer om rou stysel te fermenteer, sonder om die kwalitiet van die eindproduk nadelig te beïnvloed, kan die produksiekoste van whiskey aansienlik verminder. Geen gisras met hierdie eienskap is tot op hede ontwikkel nie, maar die voortdurende verbetering van rasse om stysel af te breek maak hierdie doel meer bereikbaar. Twee a-amilase gene, nl. LKA 1 en LKA2 is voorheen uit Lipomyces kononenkoae geïsoleer. In hierdie studie is 4 gisrasse geselekteer op grond van die kriteria wat nodig is vir whiskey giste. Die geselekteerde rasse is getransformeer met LKA 1 sowel as 'n kombinasie van LKA 1 en LKA2 gene. Die wyngis VIN13 is ingesluit by die transformasie met die LKA1 en LKA2 gene, omrede VIN13 bekend is as 'n vinnige fermenteerder. Die gene is geïntegreer in die genoom van die verskillende gisrasse en is stabiel na vele generasies. Die getransformeerde rasse het 'n betekenisvolle verhoging in ensiemaktiwiteit teenoor die nie-getransformeerde rasse getoon. AI die transformante het ook goeie fermentasie vermoë getoon in whiskey fermentasie proewe. Optimum alkoholproduksie is egter nie verkry nie.
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Yuan, Kam-wing Kenneth. "A study of whisky market in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18024956.
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Tannerfalk, Joel. "KLASSISK RETORIK I REKLAM : en analys av reklambilder för whiskey." Thesis, Växjö University, Växjö University, Växjö University, School of Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-4882.
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I uppsatsen behandlas tre reklambilder för whiskey utifrån teorier om klassisk retorik, visuell retorik och semiotik. Hypotesen för whiskeyn och dess reklam är att avsändaren måste övertyga betraktaren om att åsidosätta en viss typ av negativa associationer som finns i samband med alkohol för att den ska få en önskad effekt.
I uppsatsen undersöks begreppen ethos, logos och pathos i samband med bildernas retoriska utgångspunkter. Här hävdas att det finns mönster eller olika strategier och tendenser i bildernas uttryck. Dessa mönster är intressanta eftersom de positionerar whiskeyn som produkt och övertygar betraktaren om hur whiskey ska uppfattas.
Retorikens utveckling beskrivs tillsammans med semiotiken och en analys presenteras i en avslutande del inspirerad av Bo Renbergs modell för retorikanalys.
Generellt framhåller författaren att reklambilderna byggs upp på ett liknande sätt eftersom de tillhör samma produktkategori. Denna kategori distanserar sig i sitt budskap från andra typer av alkohol.
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DeVlieger, Dana Lauren. ""Whiskey in the Jar": History and Transformation of a Classic Irish Song." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461254655.
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anderson, Anna Catherine Borden. "A Study of Transition in Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799." W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626357.
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Mosedale, Jonathan R. "Variation of oak wood properties influencing the maturation of whisky." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0383556-7c95-48d7-902b-ef4a9f0732dc.
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Oak casks are used for the maturation of a wide variety of alcoholic beverages including Scotch whisky. The process of maturation has a profound but variable effect on the colour and flavour of the whisky, with cask wood playing an important role, particularly through the release of extractives to the distillate. This thesis examines variation in European oak wood (Quercus petraea Matt. Liebl. and Q. robur L.) of ellagitannins, oak lactones and other extractives, and physical wood properties. Investigations particularly sought to establish whether the properties and their effects on flavour can be predicted from either the species, the various forest origins, or identifiable wood or tree characters. The treatment of wood after felling, through seasoning and particularly the toasting or charring of casks, has a major effect on the levels of many extractives. Heating reduces the concentrations of ellagitannins and increases levels of lignin-derived extractives. However, the effects are not such as to render variation in untreated wood inconsequential. Within trees, the concentration of soluble ellagitannins declines and the composition changes with heartwood age. When heartwood of a similar age is compared concentrations vary by up to ten times between different trees, making up to 14% of the heartwood dry weight. Concentrations of oak lactones appear to increase with heartwood age and are also very variable between trees. Wood samples were taken from two different forests, corresponding to opposing types of French oak used for cooperage. Over 70% of the total variation of soluble tannins in the wood occurred between the forests. A difference between the two forests in the rate of tree growth and the heartwood age of samples could not explain all of the difference in the amounts of soluble tannins. After heating the wood, the concentrations of other extractives and the flavour and colour imparted to solutions, also varied significantly between the two forests and between trees within each site. Studies on clonal, progeny and provenance material concluded that the concentration of ellagitannins, oak lactones and many physical properties of heartwood are under strong genetic control. However, a large proportion of this variation is attributable to variation between the two species Q. robur and Q. petraea. Q. robur is characterised by high concentrations of tannins and, after heating, of lignin-derived products, but low or negligible levels of oak lactones. Q. petraea has opposing extractive properties and after heating, imparts a more pleasant and complex flavour. Although there is large variation between trees within each species, this difference between the species is proposed as the main factor explaining the different flavour and extractive properties found in European oak wood from different origins.
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Wongtee, Rattanawadee. "The advertising campaign for the Diamond brand, a Thai whisky, focusing on three provinces of Northern Thailand." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2349.
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The purpose of this project is to apply marketing tactics and advertising strategies in the form of an advertising campaign. The goal of this campaign is to increase the sales and profits of the "Diamond drink."
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Glabasnia, Arne. "Molekulare und sensorische Untersuchungen zu geschmacksgebenden Verbindungen in Whiskey sowie von verarbeitungsbedingt gebildeten Ellagtannin-Transformationsprodukten." Münster Schüling, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2917149&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Fenton, Connor. "’Wretched Petitioners’: Jamaican Maroon’s Petitions/ Catiline and Caesar in Early American Insults and the Whiskey Rebellion." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639575.
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The ‘Wretched Petitioners’: Jamaican Maroon’s Petitions, 1795-1800 In 1795 the Jamaican Maroons from Trelawney Town revolted against the British. The rebellion was short lived but sent shockwaves across the Island that saw the British Governor, Lord Balcarres, gather the Assembly of Jamaica and order the removal of the rebellious Maroons. The Jamaican Maroons responded to Barclarres, not with renewed violence, but with British legal strategies by employing petitions in order to try and salvage their stay on the Island. Sic Semper Tyrannis: Catiline and Caesar in Early American Insults, Allusions, and The Whiskey Rebellion, 1789-1804 The use of classical allusions in Early America was commonplace amongst elites. But the way these allusions were employed as insults during the Whiskey Rebellion helps to better understand what was at stake for both the rebels and the government trying to crush them.
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Yuan, Kam-wing Kenneth, and 袁錦榮. "A study of whisky market in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31267816.
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Papoušek, Jiří. "Analýza image produktu Jack Daniel´s Tennessee Fire na českém trhu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-261753.
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This Diploma Thesis focuses on a new alcoholic product in the Czech Republic - Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire. It examines its popularity amongst consumers, its relation to other products in the range of the brand and to the main competitors of the other brands. For better interpretation of the results there is a questionnaire research. The aim of this work is the image analysis of this product in the Czech market and to offer potential recommendations for the brand in the future which come out of the own author's analysis and the results of the research.
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Tumberg, Timothy Andrew. "Digging Up Whiskey Row: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of Industrial Capitalism on the North Shore of Lake Superior." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/247273.
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Following years of speculation about the potential economic value of mineral deposits in northeastern Minnesota, the first full-scale attempts to exploit that potential began in 1882. That year, the Minnesota Iron Company (MIC) imported dozens of miners to start extracting iron ore from the Soudan Mine on the south shore of Lake Vermilion. They concurrently imported hundreds of men to Agate Bay on the north shore of Lake Superior, approximately 70 miles south of the mine. The MIC selected Agate Bay as the spot for their ore shipping port and they needed men to start the simultaneous construction of an ore dock in the harbor and a railroad north from the harbor to the mine. Immediately after choosing Agate Bay as the spot for their shipping port location, the MIC bought up all the land along the north and west sides of Agate Bay except for a four-acre parcel that owner Thomas Sexton refused to sell. As the MIC-controlled community of Two Harbors developed around it, Sexton's parcel, which he platted as the community of Agate Bay, remained outside of company control. It quickly developed a reputation as a sea of iniquity that eventually became known as "Hell's Four Acres," which included a particularly notorious section called Whiskey Row. Sexton's platted community of Agate Bay existed for just a few years before the iron company acquired it early in 1886. At that point the company removed or demolished all of the remaining structures and covered much of what had been the settlement of Agate Bay with a coal storage platform. This project examines the town site of Agate Bay by looking at the documentary information in the historical record as well as the material culture remains recovered during archaeological excavations. Agate Bay is examined in terms of its position in a world economy (World Systems Theory) with consideration of the potential impacts of industrial capitalism.
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Hauck, Kathryn. "Prey and habitat availability in the Whiskey Jack Forest (Kenora Management Unit, Ontario), to support a cougar (Puma concolor) population." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq60846.pdf.
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Calmein, André. "Whisky écossais : histoire et économie : terminologie (anglais-français des whiskies)." Lille 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994LIL30008.
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Cette thèse vise à définir la spécificité du whisky écossais. La première partie s'éfforce de situer le produit dans son environnement régional, national et international. Bien que le whisky ne soit pas né en Ecosse, son pays d'accueil lui a offert et lui offre toujours un cadre propice à son expansion. L'histoire du produit épouse souvent celle de l'Ecosse, en particulier son antagonisme avec l'Angleterre. La revolution industrielle devait entrainer des changements considérables et aboutir au déplacement du centre nerveux des hautes-terres vers les basses-terres. Le vingtième siècle devait confirmer et même amplifier cette tendance vers l'internationalisation de l'industrie, et les centres de décision sont maintenant à la cité de Londres ou à l'étranger. L'industrie se compose de multinationales qui ont integré tous les aspects du métier à côté d'entreprises familiales de taille beaucoup plus réduite. Sa contribution à l'économie britannique est considérable puisqu'elle exporte 85% de sa production. Pour lutter contre toutes les entraves à son expansion, elle applique une politique de lobbying intense, faisant appel au public, aux medias et au monde politique. L'appartenance de la Grande-bretagne à l'Union Européenne à ajouté une nouvelle dimension à la fois à la croissance et à la stratégie de l'industrie. La seconde partie est une étude de la terminologie (anglais-francais) des whiskies, accompagnee d'exemples, extraits d'ouvrages traitant de la question, et de leur traduction. Elle permet une étude approfondie de la question, des matieres premières aux produits finis, en passant par les techniques, les procedés. .This thesis aims at defining the specific nature of scotch whisky, the first part attempts to place the product in its regional, national and international environment. Although whisky did not originale in scotland, the host nation has offered an environment ideally suited to its development. The history of the product often follows that of scotland very closely, particularly regarding the antagonism to england. The industrial revolution brought about considerable changes with a shift of the nerve centre from the highlands to the lowlands. The twentieth century was to confirm and even amplify the trend towards internationalisation : the decision-making centres are now in the city of london and overseas. The industry is at present made up of multinationals, integrating all aspects of the trade, along with small or medium-sized family concerns. It makes a significant contribution to the british economy as 85% of the production is exported. To overcome the numerous obstacles to its expansion, its policy has been one of intense lobbying, involving the general public, the media and the political scene. Both the growth and the strategy of the industry have been affected by britain's european union membership. The second part is a study of the terminology (englishfrench) of whiskies, illustrated by extracts from books and their translations, providing an insight into the subject matter. It includes tje study of raw materials, techniques , processes equipment
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Tomé, Brunno Conrado Bertolucci. "Ensaios colorimétricos para detecção de etanol em amostras de uísque utilizando dispositivos poliméricos." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8441.
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This report describes the fabrication of devices in poly(dimethyl)siloxane (PDMS) for colorimetric determination of ethanol in whisky. The devices were fabricated via 3D printing and used to perform colorimetric assays with image detection using a scanner. The PDMS devices were evaluated comparing the results obtained from the water aliquot scans by extracting the pixel intensities in the RGB channel, where there was no statistical difference for a confidence level of 0.05. The iron complexation reaction with 1,10-phenanthroline was also evaluated by comparing the results of two different devices. Ferrous ammonium sulphate solutions were used at concentrations of 0,1 to 10 mg.L -1 , where correlation curves were obtained from the pixels intensities extracted in the yellow channel. The obtained equations were used to estimate the concentration of a known iron solution of 8 mg.L -1 , obtaining a difference of 0.74% between the results of both devices. The oxidation reaction of ethanol with potassium dichromate was used to determine ethanol in samples of seized whiskeys by Federal Police. It was possible to determine ethanol in the range of 0% to 60% (v/v), using a gray color channel for the concentration range of 0% to 20% (v/v) with R 2 = 0.993, with a detection limit of 0,86% and quantification limit of 1.44% and the yellow color channel for the concentration range of 20% to 60% (v/v) with R 2 = 0.998. It was possible to determine the ethanol content in 66 samples of seized whiskeys. Where 53 samples were discriminated as falsified and 13 samples were not discriminated from original samples based on the ethanol content.
O presente trabalho descreve a fabricação de dispositivos em poli(dimetil)siloxano (PDMS) para determinação colorimétrica de etanol em uísques. Os dispositivos foram fabricados via impressão 3D e utilizados para a realização de ensaios colorimétricos com detecção por imagem a partir de um scanner de mesa. Os dispositivos de PDMS foram avaliados comparando os resultados obtidos de digitalizações de alíquotas de água extraindo as intensidades de pixel no canal RGB,onde não houve diferença estatística para um nível de confiança de 0,05. Foi avaliado também a reação de complexação do ferro com a 1,10 fenantrolina comparando os resultados de dois dispositivos diferentes. Foram utilizadas soluções sulfato ferroso amoniacal nas concentrações de 0,1 até 10 mg.L -1 , onde foram obtidas curvas de correlação para as intensidades de pixels extraídas no canal amarelo. As equações obtidas foram utilizadas para estimar a concentração de uma solução conhecida de ferro de 8 mg.L -1 , obtendo-se uma diferença de 0,74% entre os resultados dos dois dispositivos. A reação de oxidação de etanol com dicromato de potássio foi utilizada para determinar etanol em amostras de uísques apreendidos pela Polícia Federal. Foi possível determinar etanol na faixa de 0% a 60%(v/v) utilizando canal de cor cinza para a faixa de concentração de 0% a 20%(v/v) com R 2 =0,993, com um limite de detecção 0,86% de e limite de quantificação de 1,44% e o canal de cor amarelo para a faixa de concentração de 20% a 60%(v/v) com R 2 =0,998. Foi possível determinar o teor de etanol em 66 amostras de uísques apreendidos. Onde 53 amostras foram discriminadas como falsificadas, com 13 sendo classificadas como autênticas com base no teor de etanol.
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Borra, Venkata Shesha Vamsi. "Whiskers: The Role of Electric Fields in the Formation Mechanism and Methods for Whisker Growth Mitigation." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1513381893591481.
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Sara, Frisell Eriksson, and Lilja Louise. "’Att ge sprutor till en narkoman är som att ge en flaska whiskey till en alkoholist’ : En kritisk diskursanalys av den svenska politiska debatten gällande sprututbytesverksamheten under perioden 1995-2016." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-298220.
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Abstract: Sprututbyte har länge varit en kontroversiell fråga i Sverige. Den politiska debatten har pågått sedan 80-talet när denförsta testverksamheten infördes. Trots kritik från internationella organisationer som FNhar Sverige ännu inte infört ettnationelltprogram för sprututbyte. Syftet med denna studie är att undersökahur diskursen kring sprututbyte konstruerats i motionerunder perioden 1995-2016. Detta genom att se till hur sprututbyte har kommit att problematiseras och vilka antaganden som ligger till grund för dessa problem. Studien är en kritisk diskursanalys somfokuserar på att synliggöra debakomliggande föreställningarnasom har kommit att ses som självklara i debatten. För att studera vilka problem och antaganden som debatten bygger på har en diskursorienterad teori och metod utvecklad av Carol Lee Bacchi (1999, 2009) kommit att användas. Denna ansats fokuserar på att utreda vilka problem som framkommer inom specifika policyförslag. Vidare utreder studien vilka föreställningar om risk som kan utläsas i diskursen. Detta genom att utgå från sociologiska teorier som beskriver hur risker fått en ny karaktär idet moderna samhället. Materialet består av motioner kring sprututbyte framlagdai Sveriges riksdag. I resultatet presenteras hur diskursen kring sprututbyte konstrueras utifrån fem framträdande teman. Dessa temanhandlar om att drogliberalisering och narkotika beskrivs som ett hot mot samhället och att sprututbyte är en åtgärd för att minska smittspridning. Ytterligare ett tema är att sprutor benämns i två bemärkelser, dels som ett brottsverktyg, dels som att utbyte av sprutorger fel signalertill ungdomar och missbrukare. Vidareatt verksamheten utgör en samhällelig kontaktyta och social insats för missbrukare, samt huruvida det finns evidens för verksamheten eller inte.Vidare framkommertvå föreställningar om risk, risken för ett drogliberalt samhälleoch risken för smittspridning. Dessa resultat konstruerar gemensamt en del av den svenska diskursen kring sprututbyte.
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Wojnar, Magdalena. "“The bottle of whiskey – a second one – was now in constant demand by all present” : Alcohol Consumption as Cultural Capital and Part of Habitus in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101165.
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This essay investigates the status of alcohol consumption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925). The analysis focuses on character study reading of Jay Gatsby, and Tom and Daisy Buchanan in conjunction with Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, by placing habitus in the specific historical context of the novel. The analysis focuses on the social structures of the alcohol-consuming upper-class Americans, and the reproduction of internalized practices during Prohibition. Drinking alcohol is seen as a valued, cultural capital among the elite society and used as a tool in a competition of power. The Buchanans, as true members of their class, are constantly intoxicated. For Gatsby, a sober man and an imposter of the elite society, drinking has no cultural value. I argue that, from the cultural aspect, Gatsby’s fall is a consequence of his soberness among the drunkenness of the hierarchy.
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Killefer, Morgan. "Whisker Growth Induced by Gamma Radiation on Glass Coated with Sn Thin Films." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1501783073245894.
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Andrýsek, Michal. "Příprava vysoce dopovaných ZnO nanodrátů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-382256.
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This diploma thesis is about ZnO nanowires growth, their doping and analysis. High temperature and pressure oxidation of brass foil and deposition from effusion cell in oxidative atmosphere utilized for nanowires growth. The growth is affected by different temperature and pressure. It has been shown that under certain experimental conditions nanowires can be prepared by the former method. However, the growth was hindered when effusion cell was used.
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Sturgeon, Sinéad. "Law & literature in the writings of Maria Edgeworth, William Carleton, and James Clarence Mangan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711601.
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Fang, Tong. "Tin whisker risk assessment studies." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3079.
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Thesis (D. Eng.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Mechanical Engineering. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Struyk-Bonn, Christina. "Whisper." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1150.
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Whisper was a reject, living in a world so polluted and damaged that many humans and animals alike were born with defects. She'd grown up in an outcast camp far from any village, and those who lived in the camp were like her: disfigured. But on her sixteenth birthday, Whisper's father came to take her back to the village where she was to fill her mother's vacated spot and perform duties for the family. Her job was to cook, clean, wash the clothes, and maintain the family property. At night she was chained to the doghouse. Her uncle decided that Whisper could make far more money for the family by other means. He escorted her to the city where he brought her to the Purgatory Palace which was full of people like her, people with disfigurements who had been abandoned by their families and lived in the city for one reason only -to beg for money. Whisper refused to beg, and instead used the violin she'd received from her mother, and played songs for the money she earned. This became tolerable for a time. But Whisper missed her forest home with an ache as cold as the city and she missed the other rejects from the camp in the woods. When she was accused of attacking a store attendant, she found herself in jail. She was rescued by Solomon, a man who had heard her songs on the street corners and said that she played as only a genius could. He offered her a place at The Conservatory of Music, where she would study the violin with him. Whisper accepted this offer but even though she was warm, safe, and played music every day, she did not fit in at The University and knew that she never would. This is a young adult novel about Whisper, trying to find a place in a world that doesn't accept her. It is a story of rejection, pollution and social status. Whisper discovers that through perseverance, friends and determination, anyone can find a way to fit.
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Jonsson, Daniel, and Victor Ericsson. "Livscykelanalys av en flaska whisky." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-15484.
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Målet med detta examensarbete är att i samarbete med Mackmyra Svensk Whisky undersöka miljöpåverkan från deras whisky. Utöver detta undersöks även vilka delprocesser av produktionsprocessen som orsakar mest miljöpåverkan, och hur påverkan på miljön kan minskas. Generellt sett används stora mängder resurser inom livsmedelsindustrin, vilket kan ge stor påverkan på miljön. För att identifiera och mäta denna påverkan används i detta examensarbete metoden livscykelanalys. Ett viktigt steg i början av livscykelanalysen är att välja en eller flera funktionella enheter för vilka miljöpåverkan ska beräknas. Denna studie har två funktionella enheter. Den första är en flaska på 70 cl som motsvarar ett genomsnitt av den whisky som Mackmyra Svensk Whisky levererar till Systembolaget. Mackmyra säljer även hela 30-litersfat till privatpersoner, och den andra funktionella enheten är en flaska på 50 cl som innehåller ett genomsnitt av denna whisky. Systemet som undersöks sträcker sig från framställning av råvaror som exempelvis korn fram tills det att whiskyn levererats. Information om bland annat utsläpp och energianvändning har sedan samlats in. I den mån det har funnits information att tillgå har data i första hand samlats in från företag som Mackmyra köper in råvaror och andra resurser ifrån. När detta ej varit möjligt har data från liknande verksamhet, databaser eller i sista hand rimliga uppskattningar använts. Miljöpåverkanskategorierna som undersökts är global uppvärmning, försurning och övergödning, och resultatet varierar mellan dessa kategorier. Generellt sett står dock produktion av korn, framställning av glasflaskorna och transporter för den största delen av miljöpåverkan. Mackmyra använder sig av två sorters malt, varav en är egenproducerad och torkas med en dieseldriven värmefläkt. Jämfört med den inköpta malten (som använder sig av fjärrvärme från främst avfall och biobränsle) är miljöpåverkan betydligt högre. Eftersom Mackmyras malt används i mindre mängd per funktionell enhet står den dock totalt sett för en liten miljöpåverkan. En undersökning har gjorts för att se vad effekten skulle bli om den dieseldrivna värmefläkten ersattes med värmefläktar drivna med elektricitet, vilket minskade miljöpåverkan från mältningsprocessen. Ingen jämförelse har dock gjorts på skillnaden i kostnad mellan värmefläktarna.The goal of this thesis is to, in collaboration with Mackmyra Svensk Whisky, investigate the environmental impact of their whisky. In addition to this it is also investigated which sub-processes that cause the most environmental impact, and how the environmental impact can be reduced. Generally, large amounts of resources are used in the food industry, which can cause great impact on the environment. In this thesis the methodology Life Cycle Assessment is used to identify and estimate the environmental impact. An important step in the beginning of the LCA is to select one or more functional units for which the environmental impact is calculated. This study has two functional units. The first is a 70 cl bottle containing an average of the whisky that Mackmyra Svensk Whisky delivers to Systembolaget. Mackmyra also sells whole 30-liter whisky barrels to individuals, and the second functional unit is a bottle of 50 cl containing an average of this whiskey. The system under study begins with the production of raw materials such as barley and stops when the whisky is delivered to Systembolaget. Information about emissions and energy use was then collected. The data is primarily collected from companies that Mackmyra purchase raw materials and other resources from, if they had information available. When this was not possible, data from similar operations, databases or ultimately reasonable estimates were used. The environmental impact categories examined are global warming, acidification and eutrophication, and the results varies between these categories. Generally speaking, however, the production of barley, the manufacture of glass bottles and transports dominate the environmental impact. Mackmyra uses two kinds of malt, of which one is self-produced and makes use of a diesel-powered heater for drying. Compared with the purchased malt (which uses district heating primarily from waste and biomass), the environmental impact is significantly higher. Since the Mackmyra malt is used in small amounts per functional unit it does, however, not cause huge environmental impact. A study has been made to see what the effect would be if the diesel heater was replaced with heaters powered by electricity, which showed a reduction of the environmental impact. No comparison has been made of the difference in cost between the heat fans.
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Cabrera-Anaya, Juan Manuel. "Growth of zinc whiskers." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENI039/document.
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Les whiskers, filaments métalliques qui poussent sur des surfaces métalliques, sont unproblème très important pour la fiabilité des composants électroniques. Depuis ces dernièresannées, il y a eu un regain d’intérêts industriels dans le domaine de la croissance des whiskers,principalement en raison de la miniaturisation des dispositifs électroniques et des réglementationsenvironnementales interdisant l'utilisation du plomb.Alors que la plupart des recherches concernent les whiskers d'étain, il y a encore peu detravaux sur les whiskers de zinc. Les revêtements d’électrodéposés de zinc sont utilisés commeprotection anticorrosion pour les aciers faiblement alliés dans diverses industries, commel'automobile, l'aéronautique ou l'énergie, ainsi que dans les structures de soutien ou les planchersfaux plafonds dans les centres de données informatiques. Afin d'atténuer, de prévenir et deprédire les défaillances causées par les whiskers de zinc, les mécanismes de sa croissance doiventêtre compris.Grâce à des tests de stockage accéléré et à des observations par microscopie électronique àbalayage (MEB), la cinétique de croissance des whiskers de zinc a été étudiée sur des tôles d'acierau carbone faiblement allié, galvanisé et chromé. Afin de comprendre les mécanismes de lacroissance des whiskers de zinc, la caractérisation quantitative ainsi que les excroissances (densité,volume et vitesse de croissance) ont été reliées aux paramètres suivants: la température, le bainpour l’électrodéposition du zinc, la chromatation, l’épaisseur du substrat d’acier, l’épaisseur durevêtement de zinc ainsi que la contrainte résiduelle.En outre, la microstructure et la cristallographie du revêtement de zinc, des racines deswhiskers ainsi que des whiskers elles-mêmes ont été étudiées par diffraction des électronsrétrodiffusés (EBSD), microscopie électronique à transmission (MET), microanalyse par rayon X(EDX) et le dispositif ASTAR pour l'orientation locale des grains; la préparation des échantillonsa été réalisée à l’aide d’un faisceau d'ions focalisés (FIB). La recristallisation ainsi que lesdislocations dans les whiskers et les excroissances ont été observés; aucun composéintermétallique n’a été observé que ce soit dans les échantillons issus de différents bainsélectrolytes ou encore dans les films / whiskers.Il a été montré que la relaxation de contrainte de compression résiduelle et la croissance deswhiskers sont deux phénomènes différents mais fortement reliés et thermiquement activés.Chacun d'entre eux suit un mécanisme différent; les énergies d'activation apparentes des deuxphénomènes ont été établies, et la diffusion aux joints de grains est proposée comme le principalmécanisme de diffusion pour la croissance des whiskers.Des cinétiques de la croissance des whiskers, à la fois analytique et phénoménologique sontproposées. Une bonne estimation de la croissance des whiskers et de leur vitesse de croissance àdes températures proches des conditions de fonctionnement est obtenue par comparaison avecles données expérimentalesWhiskers, conductive metallic filaments that grow from metallic surfaces, are a very importantissue for reliability of electronic components. Through recent years, there has been a renewedindustrial interest on whisker growth, mainly due to the miniaturization of electronic devices andthe environmental regulations forbidding the use of lead.While most of the research has been focused on tin whiskers, there is still little reference tozinc whiskers. Electroplated zinc coatings are actually used as anticorrosive protection for lowalloy steels in diverse industries such as automotive, aerospace or energy, as well as for supportstructures or raised-floor tiles in computer data centers. In order to mitigate, prevent and predictthe failures caused by the zinc whiskers, the mechanisms of growth must be understood.By accelerated storage tests and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) observation, kinetics ofgrowth of zinc whiskers was studied on low alloy chromed electroplated carbon steel.Quantitative characterization of both whisker and hillocks (density, volume and growth rate) wasrelated with the parameters temperature, electroplating electrolyte, presence of chrome, steelsubstrate thickness, zinc coating thickness and residual stress, in order to understand themechanisms of growth.Additionally, both microstructure and crystallography of zinc coating, whisker roots and actualwhiskers were studied by Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD), Transmission ElectronMicroscopy (TEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and local grain orientationwith ASTAR setup, using Focused Ion Beam (FIB) for samples preparation. Recrystallization aswell as dislocations were observed in both whiskers and hillocks; no intermetallic compoundswere seen in neither electroplated nor whiskers.It is found that compressive residual stress relaxation and whiskers growth are two differentbut strongly interconnected phenomena both thermally activated, an each of them follows adifferent mechanism; apparent activation energies of the two phenomena are calculated, andgrain boundary diffusion is established as the main diffusion mechanism for whiskers growth.Whiskers growth kinetics, both analytical and phenomenological is proposed. Goodestimation of whiskers growth and whiskers growth rate at temperatures close to operationconditions is obtained when compared with experimental data
Whiskers, filamentos metálicos que crecen en superficies metálicas, son un problema muyimportante para la fiabilidad de componentes electrónicos. Durante los últimos años, ha habidoun renovado interés industrial en el crecimiento de whiskers, debido principalmente a laminiaturización de dispositivos electrónicos y a las regulaciones ambientales que prohíben lautilización de plomo.La mayoría de las investigaciones se concentran en los whiskers de estaño y hay todavía pocostrabajos sobre los whiskers de zinc. Los recubrimientos de zinc electrodepositado son utilizadoscomo protección anticorrosión para los aceros de baja aleación en diversas industrias, comoautomotriz, aeronáutica o energética, así como en la estructuras de soporte o tejas de techosfalsos en los centros de datos informáticos. Para atenuar, prevenir y predecir las fallas causadaspor los whiskers de zinc, los mecanismos de crecimiento deben ser comprendidos.Gracias a experimentos de almacenamiento de muestras y a observaciones por microscopíaelectrónica de barrido (SEM), la cinética de crecimiento de whiskers de zinc ha sido estudiada enaceros de baja aleación recubiertos de zinc y cromados. Para comprender los mecanismos decrecimiento de whiskers de zinc, la caracterización cuantitativa de whiskers y de protuberancias(densidad, volumen y velocidad de crecimiento) fue relacionada con los parámetros siguientes:temperatura, electrolito usado en la electrodeposición de zinc, cromado, espesor del substrato deacero, espesor del recubrimiento de zinc al igual que el estrés residual.Adicionalmente, microestructura y cristalografía del recubrimiento de zinc, de raíces dewhiskers así como de los propios whiskers fueron estudiadas por medio de la difracción deelectrones por retrodispersión (EBSD), microscopía electrónica de transmisión (TEM),microanálisis por rayos X (EDX) y el dispositivo ASTAR para la orientación local de granos; lapreparación de muestras fue realizada con la ayuda de un haz de iones localizados (FIB). Larecristalización así como las dislocaciones en whiskers y protuberancias fueron observadas;ningún compuesto intermetálico ha sido observado en los recubrimientos ni en los whiskers.Se determinó que la relajación del estrés residual de compresión y el crecimiento de whiskersson dos fenómenos diferentes pero fuertemente interconectados y térmicamente activados. Cadauno de ellos sigue un mecanismo diferente; las energías de activación aparentes de los dosfenómenos han sido establecidas, y la difusión por bordes de grano es propuesta como elprincipal mecanismo de difusión para el crecimiento de whiskers.Cinéticas de crecimiento de whiskers, a la vez analíticas y fenomenológicas son propuestas.Una buena estimación del crecimiento de whiskers y su velocidad de crecimiento a temperaturascercanas a las condiciones de operación es obtenida por comparación con los datosexperimentales
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Rodekohr, Chad L. Bozack Michael J. Flowers George T. "Material factors influencing metallic whisker growth." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/FALL/Mechanical_Engineering/Dissertation/Rodekohr_Chad_16.pdf.
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Muscat, Daniel. "Silicon nitridesilicon nitride whisker-reinforced composites." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60102.
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One of the major setbacks of ceramic materials is their inherent brittle nature which often leads to catastrophic failure, especially under impact and tensile stress conditions. Whisker-reinforcement of ceramic matrices has been shown to be an effective way of increasing toughness. However, the hot-pressing techniques being used at present are expensive. Si$ sb3$N$ sb4$ is a major contender for high temperature application, mainly due to its excellent mechanical, chemical and thermal properties.In this work Si$ sb3$N$ sb4$ whiskers have been incorporated into a Si$ sb3$N$ sb4$ matrix and densified using pressureless sintering. An isotropic distribution of whiskers in the starting powder was seen to inhibit shrinkage of the bulk material as a result of whisker bridging.
An extrusion process was developed to align the whiskers such that they do not impinge on one another. This was done using a water soluble, cellulose based plasticizer. The process was sensitive to water content and mixing. Entrapped air caused problems in the extrudate, resulting in misaligned areas in the microstructure. Relative densities of 94.5% were obtained for composites having 15% whiskers. The toughness of this material was measured to be 13.5MPa.m$ sp{1/2}$ in the direction perpendicular to the direction of extrusion.
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Jadhav, Shantanu Prafull. "Neural coding during active whisker sensation." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3320109.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 11, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Xu, Wenting. "Volvo's Whisper." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171723.
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The reason why the author came to Sweden made her think about her own experience living in the megacities. She realized that the people live nearby nature have more attention care about themselves, others, and the environment. They have a sensitivity of quality, comfort, and freshness, and even sustainability since they are young. Those are also the brand cores of Volvo. Besides, the comparison between the childhood living environment of her generation and that of her parents’ generation made her think about the expectation for the future. So the author thought why not use this project to bring the values she understands now to children. Since she was one of them, it would be interesting to think about the usages and experience from their perspectives. How would they like to perceive nature? How would they like to travel to nature? How would the whole society’s attitude be towards this? These questions guided the author to go into the research phase. Imagining being a kid again was the most delightful part of this project. The author implements creativity in two lines together. On one hand, she collaged natural elements to create an inspiration board, to think about the new possibilities of structure and atmosphere. On another hand, she abstracted her thoughts and imagination to communicate with children, so that she could get clear feedback and preference from her users, and finally was able to settle the concept. Forms and shapes were developed further during the design and refinement process. Sketches, immediate tests, modeling, and additional researching, and data queries were included along the way. The final result is the interior concept ‘ Volvo’s whisper’, one autonomous electric minibus, supporting children’s educational trips around the city. The Interior structure represents the natural unstructured environment. Physical shapes and visual interaction would inspire kids to care about lives in nature. and also teach them about safety. This is the way the author designed to show her thinking of how to encourage children’s biophilia.
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Venner, Jason Christopher. "Whisper Shifter." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1207924961.
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Davies, Kyle. "Encoding models of the subcortical whisker system." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/encoding-models-of-the-subcortical-whisker-system(5c19f02a-de41-4729-813e-e227bed5a891).html.
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The purpose of the brain is to allow animals to make rapid, complex responses to external circumstances, which requires sensitive and effcient sensory systems. The use that can be made of a sensory modality depends entirely on how the sensory information is encoded by the primary afferents; hence, understanding the early stages of a sensory pathway can help to understand how that sensory information can be used by the brain. In this thesis we show that a simple Generalized Linear Model (GLM) describes stimulus response properties of the primary afferents of the rat whisker system to submillisecond precision, and analyse the parameters to reveal that the encoding mechanism of the system as a whole can be seen as a sparse, overcomplete basis of a low-dimensional projection of the stimulus space. We also show that although the neurons of the Ventro-Posterior Medial (VPM) nucleus of the thalamus can be described well by a GLM, more powerful models, with nonlinear multi-feature stimulus dependencies, are able to predict their responses to a much greater degree of accuracy, and that therefore the form of the information entering the somatosensory cortex and the brain beyond has already undergone some degree of information processing.
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Bjartmar, Hylta Sanna, and Emma Lundquist. "Pricing Single Malt Whisky : A Regression Analysis." Thesis, KTH, Matematisk statistik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189001.
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This thesis examines the factors that affect the price of whisky. Multiple regression analysis is used to model the relationship between the identified covariates that are believed to impact the price of whisky. The optimal marketing strategy for whisky producers in the regions Islay and Campbeltown are discussed. This analysis is based on the Marketing Mix. Furthermore, a Porter’s five forces analysis, focusing on the regions Campeltown and Islay, is examined. Finally the findings are summarised in a marketing strategy recommendation for producers in the regions Campbeltown and Islay. The result from the regression analysis shows that the covariates alcohol content and regions are affecting price the most. The small regions Islay and Campbeltown, with few distilleries, have a strong positive impact on price while whisky from unspecified regions in Scotland have a negative impact on price. The alcohol content has a positive, non-linear, impact on price. The thesis concludes that the positive relationship between alcohol content and price not is due to the alcohol taxes in Sweden, but that customers are ready to pay more for a whisky with higher alcohol content. In addition, it concludes that small regions with a few distilleries result in a higher price on whisky. The origin and tradition of whisky have a significant impact on price and should thus be emphasised in the marketing strategy for these companies.Denna kandidatuppsats undersöker de faktorer som påverkar priset på whisky. Multipel regressionsanalys används för att modellera förhållandet mellan de identifierade variablerna som tros påverka priset på whisky. Vidare diskuteras den optimala marknadsföringsstrategi f ̈or whiskyproducenter i regionerna Islay och Campbeltown. Analysen baseras på en Marknadsmix-analys för whisky i Skottland. Detta följs av Porters femkraftsmodell med fokus på regionerna Islay och Campeltown. Slutligen sammanfattas resultaten i en rekommendation av marknadsföringsstrategi för producenter i regionerna Islay och Campbeltown. Resultatet från regressionsanalysen visar att kovariaterna alkoholhalt och regioner har störst påverkan på priset. De små regionerna Islay och Campbeltown, med få destillerier, har en stark positiv inverkan på priset. Whisky från ospecificerade regioner i Skottland har däremot en negativ inverkan. Alkoholhalten har en positiv, icke-linjär inverkan på priset. I kandidatuppsatsen dras slutsatsen att det positiva sambandet mellan alkohol och pris ej kan förklaras av Sveriges alkoholskatt, utan att kunder är redo att betala mer för en whisky med högre alkoholhalt. Vidare konstateras att små regioner med få destillerier resulterar i ett högre pris på whisky. Whiskyns ursprung och tradition har en stor inverkan på pris och bör därför betonas i marknadsföringen.
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Bampilis, Tryfon. "Greek whisky : the localization of a global commodity /." Leiden, the Netherlands : Bampilis, 2010. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018877844&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Mebane, David Spencer. "Impedance response of alumina-silicon carbide whisker composities." Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11222004-113508/.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.Hamid Garmestani, Committee Member ; Arun M. Gokhale, Committee Member ; Rosario A. Gerhardt, Committee Chair.
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Fukuda, Yuki. "Experimental investigations of whisker formation on tin platings." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3058.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Mechanical Engineering. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Mebane, David Spencer. "Impedance Response of Alumina-silicon Carbide Whisker Composites." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7615.
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The impedance response of silicon carbide whisker-alumina composites is investigated utilizing novel stereological techniques along with a microstructural simulation. The stereological techniques developed allow for a measurement of the trivariate length, radius and orientation distribution of whiskers in the composite from measurements made on two-dimensional sectioning planes. The measured distributions are then utilized in a Monte Carlo simulation that predicts connectivity in the composite for a given volume fraction. It is assumed in the simulation that connectivity factors dominate the electrical response, not interfacial phenomena. The results of the simulation are compared with impedance spectra taken from real samples, and conclusions are drawn regarding the nature of the impedance response.
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Gong, Yuze. "Wear Studies on Silicon Carbide Whisker Reinforced Alumina." Thesis, KTH, Materialvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-35923.
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Wear and biological response to wear debrisof artificial joints remain the major concerns in total hip arthroplasty (THA) [1].Silicon carbide reinforced alumina, Al2O3-SiCw,can be considered as a candidate for hip implants due to its high hardnessand toughness, aswell as chemical inertness. In this study, thewear and friction properties of Al2O3-SiCw areinvestigated by pin-on-disc experiments, with Hank’s Buffered Salt Solution(HBSS) as lubricant. Comparisons with BIOLOX®delta,the most commonly used ceramic in THA, under the same test conditions are made as well.
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Beem, Heather Rachel. "Passive wake detection using seal whisker-inspired sensing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97768.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2015This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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This thesis is motivated by a series of biological experiments that display the harbor seal's extraordinary ability to track the wake of an object several seconds after it has swum by. They do so despite having auditory and visual cues blocked, pointing to use of their whiskers as sensors of minute water movements. In this work, I elucidate the basic uid mechanisms that seals may employ to accomplish this detection. Key are the unique ow-induced vibration properties resulting from the geometry of the harbor seal whisker, which is undulatory and elliptical in cross-section. First, the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) characteristics of the whisker geometry are tested. Direct force measurements and ow visualizations on a rigid whisker model undergoing a range of 1-D imposed oscillations show that the geometry passively reduces VIV (factor of > 10), despite contributions from eective added mass and damping. Next, a biomimetic whisker sensor is designed and fabricated. The rigid whisker model is mounted on a four-armed flexure, allowing it to freely vibrate in both in-line and crossflow directions. Strain gauges on the flexure measure deflections at the base. Finally, this device is tested in a simplified version of the sh wake { seal whisker interaction scenario. The whisker is towed behind an upstream cylinder with larger diameter. Whereas in open water the whisker exhibits very low vibration when its long axis is aligned with the incoming ow, once it enters the wake it oscillates with large amplitude and its frequency coincides with the Strouhal frequency of the upstream cylinder. This makes the detection of an upstream wake as well as an estimation of the size of the wake-generating body possible. A slaloming motion among the wake vortices causes the whisker to oscillate in this manner. The same mechanism has been previously observed in energy-extracting foils and trout actively swimming behind bluff cylinders in a stream.
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Podešva, Lukáš. "Řezná keramika a její efektivní využití." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-229214.
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In the first part of this diploma thesis there are discribed basic findings about cutting ceramics (sorts, notation, structure, physical-mechanical properties, using, production) and it evaluates this tool material from the aspect of cutting power. The second part focuses on complex data processing about assortment of ceramics cutting materials of significant tool materials producers and comparison of service conditions (kind of mechanided materials, cutting conditions), which are recommend for effective turning by producers.
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Evans, Mathew H. "Tactile discrimination with whiskers." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2342/.
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Rodents are excellent at tactile discrimination. They use their whiskers to extract tactile infor- mation about the world. Though a huge amount of research has looked at the rodent whisker sys- tem is great detail, it remains unclear what kinds of tactile information can be encoded through a whisker in principle, and how such processing can be performed in practice. The goal of this thesis is to determine what sort of tactile information can be sensed with a whisker, and to evaluate different methodologies for processing this tactile information. Tactile data is generated using a biomimetic artificial whisker and an XY positioning robot, providing a comprehensive test bed for numerous classifiers of different tactile features. A new framework for whisker based tactile sensing is described, to organise and simplify the task of gathering information. Each part of the framework is then addressed to build a complete system for deter- mining the nature of a surface encountered during exploration. Previously proposed model-based methods, and new data-driven model-free approaches are compared rigorously on a common data set to establish a benchmark for whisker based tactile sensing. These methods are compared in the task of determining the radial distance to contact of an object, and the texture of a surface under different whisker movement conditions. Classifier robustness is evaluated by testing performance in conditions where different contact parameters are changed simultaneously. The best classifiers in each instance are demonstrated on a se- ries of whiskered robots, generating tactile 'reports' that could be used for object identification, localisation and navigation.
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Wolfe, Jason Hunter. "Resonance and texture coding in the rat whisker system." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3273477.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed August 31, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Weber, Mark 1964. "Mechanical and microscopic investigation of whisker-reinforced silicone rubber." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55654.
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Anderson, Carlos. "INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION OF POLAR BEARS BY WHISKER SPOT PATTERNS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3274.
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Many types of ecological studies require identification of individual animals. I developed and evaluated an automated identification system for polar bears (Ursus maritimus) based on their whisker spot patterns. First, I measured the reliability of using whisker spot patterns for identification from polar bear photographs taken in western Hudson Bay. This analysis involved estimating the complexity of each whisker spot pattern in terms of its information content. I found that 98% of patterns contained enough information to be reliable, and this result varied little among three different observers. Based on these results, I implemented a computer-aided identification system for polar bears based on whisker spot pattern recognition. I used standard computer vision techniques to pre-process images and the Chamfer distance transform to compute similary scores between images. In addition, I evaluated the system by testing the effects of photographic quality and angle on system accuracy. I found that excellent and moderate quality/angle provided best results, with system accuracy of 90-95%. These findings suggest that individual identification of polar bears in the field based on whisker spot pattern variation is possible. Researchers studying polar bear behavior or estimating population parameters should benefit from this noninvasive technique.M.S.
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Kambara, Hajime. "The rheological properties of aluminum borate whisker filled resins." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057599821.
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Ofem, Michael. "Properties of chitin whisker reinforced poly(acrylic acid) composites." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/properties-of-chitin-whisker-reinforced-polyacrylic-acid-composites(dd295cc1-3972-4544-be7d-9e80fafe5d19).html.
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Composites, in which the matrix and the reinforcing fillers are respectively, poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) with two different molecular weights, and chitin whiskers (CHW) were successfully prepared using an evaporation method. The weight fraction of CHW was varied from 0.03 to 0.73. Mechanical and thermal properties and crystallinity of the composites were characterised using tensile testing, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis and X-ray diffraction. The tensile strength of the composite increased up to 11 wt % CHW after which it decreased. XRD characterisation showed a decrease in crystalline index, crystalline size, chitin crystalline peak and intensity as the content of PAA and its molecular weight increased. Raman spectroscopy was used for the first time to monitor the deformation of chitin film and CHW reinforced PAA composites. The Raman band located at 1622 cm^(-1) was monitored for deformation. On application of tensile deformation the Raman band initially located at 1622 cm^(-1) shifted toward a lower wavenumber. Raman band shift rates of -1.85 cm^(-1)/% for chitin film and -0.59 and -0.25 cm^(-1)/% for 73 and 23 wt % CHW content, respectively, were measured. The modulus of a single chitin whisker and composites were found to be 115, 37 and 16 GPa respectively, for a two dimensional (2D) in-plane distribution of CHW. CHW within a PAA matrix did not show any preferential alignment in a polarised Raman. The Raman intensity ratio〖 I〗_1698 /I_1622 showed that the strongest interaction of the carboxylic group in the composites occured at 3 wt % CHW content. The interaction gradually reduced as the CHW content increased. 〖 CaCO〗_3 crystals were grown in CHW, PAA and CHW/PAA composites by a solution and evaporation casting method. In the absence of PAA and CHW, rhombohedral calcites were observed while rod-like aragonite polymorphs were seen when only PAA was used as a template. In the presence of only CHW, a morphological mixture of ellipsoidal and disc shape with traces of rhombohedral aggregate calcite were the features. In the presence of both PAA and CHW, the rhombohedral shape showed roughness with irregular faces while the vaterite polymorph continued to agglomerate with the observation of porosity at higher CHW content. The vaterite particles gradually decreased as the CHW content was decreased. At lower CHW content aragonite polymorph growth was favoured to the detriment of calcite. The results showed that the vaterite polymorph can be grown even at higher filler loading. The effect of 〖 CaCO〗_3 growth on the mechanical properties of CHW reinforced PAA indicated that better mechanical properties can be achieved at a CHW content of 3 wt % when compared with neat PAA and when 〖 CaCO〗_3 was not incorporated into the CHW/25PAA composites.
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Furusawa, Toshiya. "The formation and reactions of sulphur compounds during distillation." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1215.
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Jameson, Robert P. M. "Processing of cereals for the production of grain whisky." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/517.
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