Dissertations / Theses: 'World Trade Center 5'

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LaMalva, Kevin Joseph. "Failure Analysis of the World Trade Center 5 Building." Digital WPI, 2007. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1178.

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This project involves a failure analysis of the internal structural collapse that occurred in World Trade Center 5 (WTC 5) due to fire exposure alone on September 11, 2001. It is hypothesized that the steel column-tree assembly failed during the heating phase of the fire. The results of this research have serious and far-reaching implications, for this method of construction is utilized in approximately 20,000 existing buildings and continues to be very popular. Catastrophic failure during the heating phase of a fire would endanger the lives of firefighters and building occupants undergoing extended egress times (e.g., high-rise buildings), or relying upon defend-in-place strategies (e.g., hospitals). Computer software was used to reconstruct the fire event and predict the structural performance of the assembly when exposed to the fire. Results from a finite element, thermal-stress model confirms this hypothesis, for it is concluded that the catastrophic, progressive structural collapse occurred approximately 2 hours into the fire exposure.

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Siebrasse, de Sanchiz Donna Sue. "World Trade Center Panamá." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2016. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/145852.

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TESIS PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE MAGÍSTER EN MARKETING
Este Plan de Marketing trata sobre la comercialización a través de arrendamientos y ventas de las oficinas en la Torre de Oficinas del World Trade Center Panamá, un centro empresarial internacional de uso múltiple, afiliado a la red de 324 WTC’s en 89 países del mundo. El WTC Panamá cuenta con una gama completa de servicios y amenidades bajo un solo techo, así como una excelente ubicación y fácil acceso vía terrestre y con la posibilidad de acceso aéreo en algún futuro, aprovechando de su helipuerto en el techo de la torre. La marca WTC es reconocida a nivel mundial por las torres gemelas en la ciudad de Nueva York que sufrieron la tragedia del 9/11. Ahora, el imponente “Freedom Tower”, conocido también como “One World Trade”, fue construido a solo algunos pasos del sitio original. En muchas ciudades del mundo, incluyendo a Santiago de Chile, hay un World Trade Center. El WTC Panamá fue inaugurado hace 20 años. Su oferta inmobiliaria no es nueva y compite en el mercado de espacio B. La construcción de nuevas torres, clasificadas con espacio A+ y A, combinada con el inventario actual de oficinas de torres existentes de Clase B, A y A+, crea un desafío competitivo, así como un reto para la industria para absorber las nuevas ofertas de oficinas para mantener tasas de desocupación razonables en la industria. En este Plan de Marketing para la torre de Oficinas del World Trade Center Panamá, se toma en cuenta estas variables y otras más, incluyendo los resultados de nuestros estudios de mercadeo, para crear una propuesta contundente de valor, respaldado por un Plan integral de Marketing para el año 2017, que incluye KPI’s, Carta Gantt y Presupuesto, entre otros detalles requeridos. Este Plan de Marketing bajará la tasa de desocupación de la torre de oficinas del WTC Panamá en el año 2017 a 0%, mientras que subirá sus arrendamientos promedios por aproximadamente 30%, para concordar con estudios internacionales que muestran que los espacios de oficinas de los WTC’s en otras latitudes, logran arrendamientos más altos de oficinas sin la marca.

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JENKINS, JAMES GILBERT. "NEW WORLD TRADE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053541827.

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Kirk, Jeremy Abraham 1977. "The World Trade Center disaster : Analysis and recommendations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/31114.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-43).
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 brought about the destruction of two symbols of American economic strength, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. These towers remained standing for some time after the initial aircraft impact, allowing many occupants to escape, but eventually collapsed to the ground. Much research has been done to determine the precise mechanisms of collapse, but there is not yet a consensus. This thesis explores and summarizes the leading theories to date, with particular emphasis on the ongoing research by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Several ideas for improving building performance and for preventing progressive collapse are also presented.
by Jeremy Abraham Kirk.
M.Eng.

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Dawley, John C. "The Portland World Trade Center : a case study on the conversion of a corporate headquarters facility to a world trade center." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65453.

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Allen, Aden M. (Aden Martin) 1980. "Explosive energy yield analysis of World Trade Center crash." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29588.

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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references.
An estimation of the energy yielded from the explosion created by the crash of United Flight 175 into the World Trade Center was conducted to rule out the possibility of other explosive elements (i.e. a bomb) on board. The amount of fuel ignited and the corresponding energy yielded by the fireball was estimated by studying videotapes of the crashes. The calculated volume of fuel vapor, which is consumed to form the fireball, is a fraction of the estimated total fuel aboard the plane upon impact. Due to thermal expansion, the fuel vapor quickly expands forming a high fuel/air mixture and ignites. The energy yield from combustion estimated from the videos using maximum rise height and burning time corresponds with a rough initial estimate of the energy yield using a fraction of the volume of fuel estimated on board the plane at impact. A conservative estimate of the energy released by TNT explosives is significantly less than the energy yielded by the jet fuel aboard the plane. Therefore, the presence of explosives on the plane is highly unlikely. In addition, although a bomb would not contribute significantly to the energy yielded, it is hypothesized that one could have been used to ensure that the fuel ignited after impact. This would also be unnecessary because the material properties of the fuel makes ignition almost certain. Recommendations for future studies are to develop methods of flying that have lower energy potential, to examine how a plane breaks apart during impact, and to prevent ignition of jet fuel when released.
by Aden M. Allen.
S.B.

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Fusscas, Andrew F. (Andrew Francis). "The New York World Trade Center : a performance study." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66350.

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Cann, Nicole B. Sutton David Lee. "The World Trade Center Site: Who Won? Fisher's narrative paradigm and conflicting narratives in the analysis of the World Trade Center Site controversy /." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Summer/Theses/CANN_NICOLE_37.pdf.

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Fagerlund, Catarina. "World Trade Center : ett arbete om hur myten påverkar oss." Thesis, University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för religionsvetenskap, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-3874.

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Det här arbetet fokuserar på den profana och religiösa människans omedvetna arketypiska arv som vi fått genom myterna, och vidare på hur detta påverkar oss i särskilda situationer. Som exempel har jag fördjupat mig i terroristattacken mot World Trade Center den 11 september 2001.

I min första del beskriver jag myterna och olika mytkriterier, hur de är uppbyggda och vad de innehåller. Gemensamt för de olika myterna visar sig vara kampen mellan kaos och ordning och/eller det onda och goda, där harmoni måste råda på det jordiska planet såväl som på det gudomliga. I denna del tar jag också upp tidens betydelse och hur både den profana och religiösa tiden är av cyklisk natur där nyåret och återupprepning av högtider är av stor vikt för den psykologiska bearbetningen och personliga existensen.

I min andra del beskriver jag staden New York och dess betydelse för innevånarna själva och omvärlden, som en stad med grandios arkitektur som själv talar om sig som en stad som symboliserar absolut frihet, välgång och tillväxt. Jag beskriver också tvillingtornen i World Trade Center som en axis mundi, ett mänskligt strävande åt det gudomliga, i världens navel, den absoluta mittpunkten. Samt hur förstörelsen av denna symbol kom att påverka människor och beslut så starkt. Här jämför jag även George W Bush och Usama bin Laden, där president Bush blev den goda representanten och Usama bin Laden tillskrevs det onda. ”Kriget mot terrorismen” blev den formella beteckningen på det kommande efterspelet, alltså kriget som bekämpar de onda krafterna i världen.

Jag tar i arbetet även upp hur Ground Zero, platsen där tornen en gång stod, snabbt förvandlades till ett minnesmärke dit människor årligen vallfärdar för att återskapa den mytiska tiden. Den planerade återuppbyggnaden är idag igång och det nya tornet skall heta ”frihetstornet” och bli det högsta tornet i världen.

I diskussions- och analysdelen flätar jag samman myterna med attacken och jämför främst de forntida myterna ”Inannamyten” samt ”Myten om Isis och Osiris”. Och jag kommer här åter in på vilken stor betydelse de gamla myterna har för människor än idag och hur dessa påverkar vårt synsätt och vårt handlande på ett omedvetet plan. Jag ifrågasätter vidare kriget mot Afghanistan och Irak som föddes ur attacken, och om även detta får sin motivation från de mytologiska berättelserna, där den harmoniska tillvaron i myten endast kan bildas genom den gudomliga kampen mellan gott och ont. Till arbetet medföljer även en bilagedel över några olika myter från förr fram till idag.

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Murray, Angela N. (Angela Nora). "The influence of the Taiwan international trade environment on the Taipei World Trade Center." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69303.

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Kringsberg, Sara. "Krishantering : New York Citys hantering av terroristattacken mot World Trade Center." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-254.

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“Crisis Management– New York Citys management of the terroristattack against World Trade Center”

Essey in political science, C-level, at Karlstad University, by Sara Kringsberg.

Spring 2006. Tutor: Susan Marton

The purpose of this essay is to study New York Citys management of a larger crisis and to see how states are coping with stress. It is important to study how states manage stress so that states can learn to cope with larger crisis. That is important for the survival of the state and the protection of its citizens. David Easton is a political science author that write about this. There are four authorities under study in this essey and the following question will be poised for all of them : did the FDNY, the NYPD, the EMS and the PAPD manage the terroristattack against World Trade Center according to relevant crisis management?

This essay will be in the form of a case study and to be able to answer the specific questions I have studied three kinds of crisis management theories. I have taken some of the most central points from these theorys and used them to study the response of the different departements of New York City. The result of my study is that the different authorities did not act according to relevant crisis management. The biggest flaws where the lack of cooperation, the break down in almost all communications systems and the lack of preperation for large terroristattacks.

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Fredriksson, Tobias. "NATOs användande av luftmakt : Vilken påverkan hade terrorattentatet mot World Trade Center?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-4101.

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Attacken den 11 september 2001 mot USA och World Trade Center blev händelsen som startade hela världens krig mot terrorism. I och med detta har flertalet terrornätverk dykt upp och terrorismen har lämnat få människor opåverkade. Detta arbete syftar till att analysera hur attacken på World Trade Center påverkade händelseförloppet i USA och den militära insatsen. Genom att använda John Wardens teori om luftrumskontroll kommer en jämförande studie mellan hur luftstridskrafterna användes under konflikten i Kosovo år 1999 och under den i Afghanistan för att förklara likheter och skillnader. Studien utgår från en kvalitativ dataanalys av rapporter skrivna i direkt närhet till respektive konflikt. Undersökningens resultat visar på ett väl organiserat och standardiserat sätt att utföra luftstrid på. En tydlighet i taktiken där fokus genomgående, i respektive konflikt, läggs på samma sorts mål. Men även tydliga skillnader mellan konflikterna går att särskåda men det påpekas dock att en direkt kausalitet mellan dessa skillnader och attacken är svår att peka ut. Slutligen förs en diskussion kring hur attacken kan ha påverkat den insats som gjordes i Afghanistan genom en jämförelse mellan båda konflikterna. Under senare av konflikterna kan exempel på en offensivare politik och ett högre politiskt operationstempo tydas. Kanske kan det vara tecken på ett större stöd hos befolkningen? Det kan i sin tur mycket väl ses som en direkt följd av terrorattacken den 11 september 2001.

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Nagle, Geoffrey T. (Geoffrey Thomas). "A benefit analysis of the world trade center concept : case study, WTC Amsterdam." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69529.

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West, Aaron William. "An Exploration of the Natural Ventilation Strategies At the World Trade Center, Amsterdam." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35628.

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The push to design environmentally conscious and sustainable buildings has surged over the past twenty year, thus leading to the development of new methods for harnessing the natural elements of the earth. In recent years the international firm of Kohn, Pederson and Fox has been a champion of the sustainability movement. In fact many of the newer passive ventilation strategies under development can be seen in Kohn, Pedersen Fox International (KPFI) current commission for the World Trade Center (WTC) currently under construction in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This multi-million square foot complex has been designed to service the growing needs of Europe's free market economy and the fledgling European Union (EU). The complex is a series of five towers with connecting multi-storied atriums in the interstitial spaces. While the towers are actively heated and cooled using modern energy efficient systems the atrium areas are ventilated using an innovative passive system. This passive system relies on turbulence and negative pressure along the roof system to draw air through the space and positive pressure (due to wind driven forces) at the inlets located above the ground level doors to bring air into the atrium. The primary concept behind this strategy is that the difference between the positive and negative pressure zones will induce a convective current within the atrium space and there by create a continuous air-change system. The intent of this thesis is to analyze and report on the findings of the wind tunnel tests done on scale models of the complex and, propose alternative ideas to strengthen the current design.
Master of Science

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Johnson, Katherine A. "Gradients of Meaning: Spatial Mediations within Liminal Conditions at the World Trade Center." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397477242.

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Cailao, Alberto P. "A real options case study : The valuation of flexibility in the World Trade Center redevelopment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54852.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in Conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, 2009.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-54).
This thesis will apply the past research and methodologies of Real Options to Tower 2 and Tower 3 of the World Trade Center redevelopment project in New York, NY. The qualitative component of the thesis investigates the history behind the stalled development of Towers 2 and 3 and examines a potential contingency that could have mitigated the market risk. The quantitative component builds upon that story and creates a hypothetical Real Options case as a framework for applying and valuing building use flexibility in a large-scale, politically charged, real estate development project. Through this demonstration, it is observed that applying Real Options "in" the World Trade Center Towers 2 and 3 projects minimizes losses in weaker markets and maximizes gains in stronger markets.
by Alberto P. Cailao.
S.M.

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Minnis, Justine Laurel 1974. "Between remembrance and rebuilding : developing a consensus process for memorialization at the World Trade Center." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68815.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.
"June 2002."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-91).
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a national tragedy. Communities across the United States and internationally both directly and indirectly affected by the terrorist attacks are in debate about how to appropriately memorialize such catastrophic events and loss of life. This thesis focuses on the response in New York City to remember and rebuild at the World Trade Center site. This thesis explores spontaneous public responses to the events of September 11th by individuals, victims' families groups and civic organizations that claim a stake in the memorialization and rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. During the first several months following the terrorist strikes, the absence of an inclusive decision-making process for remembrance and rebuilding at the World Trade Center site produced conflicts between stakeholders, particularly victims' families, and New York decision-makers. To illustrate this tension between remembrance and rebuilding, this thesis discusses the "temporary memorial" development in New York City in March 2002 and the PATH train and site rebuilding disagreements that escalated during April 2002. Traditional decision-making processes maintain the public voice at a distance from the decisionmaking powers. Elected and appointed officials arbitrate public voices that are restricted in advisory roles and produce final decisions. As an alternative, consensus building involves a range of stakeholders in decision-making roles. A consensus building process would earn civic endorsement, lead to a durable outcome and would capture this unprecedented opportunity for grieving participants and witnesses to engage in a planning process. The thesis argues that the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the state-city agency convened by New York Governor George Pataki to oversee development of Lower Manhattan and the WTC site, could convene a consensus building process. The process would provide neutral facilitation and management of stakeholders who select representatives for an open and ongoing dialogue about such contentious issues as sacred ground, rebuilding, memorialization, and economic recovery. A consensus building process is an inclusive conversation that could reach agreement on a plan of action for the rebuilding and memorialization on the WTC site. This process would recognize the rebuilding of the WTC site as one of the greatest planning projects in New York history. The process would embrace the diversity and number of stakeholders, the destruction and trauma on the site witnessed world-wide and the challenge of achieving agreement on a technically complex site in the center of one of the world's leading financial marketplaces.
by Justine Laurel Minnis.
M.C.P.

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Fischer, Mark. "WHILE AMERICA SLEPT." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4037.

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This study briefly examined the terrorist attacks that occurred between the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that occurred on September 11, 2001. Specifically, this study examines the reactions of the public and press to the attacks on the military barracks in Riyadh, the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Zambia and Kenya, and the attack on the U.S.S Cole in Yemen. This study examines the effect public opinion had on the President and Congress and their reactions to the public pressure. The primary purpose of this thesis is to briefly examine the reactions of Presidents and Congress to the attacks on Americans at home and abroad, and that effect on their efforts to prevent further attacks on the United States. Did the President use his office to activate and motivate public officials and the public to the dangers of terrorist attacks? Was the public effective in persuading Congress to enact legislation to increase funding for terrorist prevention? And, how effective was the press in its role to educate and define the issues surrounding terrorist attacks on Americans.
M.A.
Department of Political Science
Arts and Humanities
Political Science

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Gustafsson, Staffan, and Linus Adre. "Alternativ utformning av WTC i Växjö." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för teknik, TEK, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-19542.

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Stationsområdet i Växjö genomgår omfattande förändringar, där bland annat planer för ett WTC finns. Ett förslag på nämnda byggnad har tagits fram, men det fick kritik. Man menade att det inte stämde in i stadsbilden. Vårt syfte och mål har därför varit att ta fram alternativa förslag på utformning av ett WTC, med hänsyn till kritiken. Vår metod bestod i att sätta oss in befintliga detaljplaner och utföra eget skissningsarbete. Detta har resulterat i två förslag på utformning, som sedan jämförs och analyseras utifrån en uppsättning värderingspunkter. Från detta följer en diskussion där vi dragit en del slutsatser, som blir vårt inlägg i den pågående diskussionen om detaljplanen.

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Wang, Ming. "Scale modeling of structural behavior in fire." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3841.

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Westberg, Sunesson Terese, and Karolina Thornefors. "11 september under elva år : En kvantitativ studie av Dagens Nyheters rapportering om 11-septemberattackerna i USA på årsdagarna 2001-2011." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15931.

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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om nyhetsvärderingen har ändrats under åren 2001-2011 i Dagens Nyheters nyhetsrapportering om attackerna mot USA den 11 september 2001. Detta har vi gjort genom att studera bevakningen av årsdagarna för terrordåden. Dagens Nyheter valdes eftersom tidningen har en tillräckligt stor redaktion och tillräckligt med resurser för att täcka internationella händelser. Vår teoretiska ram utgörs av tre nyhetsvärderingsteorier. Med dessa som utgångspunkt utformade vi variabler och gjorde en kvantitativ innehållsanalys. Denna kompletterades med intervjuer med två av Dagens Nyheters före detta korrespondenter i USA. Vår hypotes var att fokus under de första åren skulle ligga på kategorin "offren och/eller terrordåden" för att sedan förflyttas till "terrordådens påverkan på samhället" och på "återuppbyggnaden av Ground Zero", men också till "ifrågasättandet av USA:s krig mot terrorismen" och "terrordåden ur terroristernas synvinkel". Resultatet visade att Dagens Nyheter till störst del har fokuserat på "offer och/eller terrordåden" samt "terrordådens påverkan på samhället". Ofta förekommer "kända personer och politiker" eller "representanter för USA" i artiklarna. I så väl text som i bild är amerikaner och svenskar överrepresenterade då artiklarna utspelar sig huvudsakligen i USA och i Sverige. Tvärtemot vad vi trodde förekommer sällan personer från Mellanöstern eller misstänkta terrorister. Inte heller ifrågasätts USA:s krig mot terrorismen.

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Schwartz, Megan Lindsay. "Emotional intelligence in hypercrisis: A content analysis of World Trade Center leadership response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1368188438.

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Cherrie, Carron C. "Traumatic loss and transformative life experiences : the lived experience of Green Cross traumatologists deployed to the New York City World Trade Center disaster." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001619.

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Lamont, Susan. "The behaviour of multi-storey composite steel framed structures in response to compartment fires." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1485.

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For many years, the ability of highly redundant composite framed structure to resist the effect of a fire have been undervalued and misunderstood. A great deal of work on the behavior of composite steel-concrete structures in fire has been developed since the Cardington frame fire tests (UK) conducted in the 1990s.

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Jonasson, Annika, and Tina Nyrén. "Terrorism i svenska tidningar : en diskursanalys av Aftonblader, Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladets rapportering från terrordåden München 1972, Lockerbie 1988 och World Trade Center 2001." Thesis, University West, Department of Economics and Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-861.

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Vårt syfte med undersökningen är att undersöka hur de diskursiva praktikerna ser ut för terrorrapporteringen på 1970, 1980 och 2000-talet, vi kommer särskilt att fokusera på beroendeförhållandet mellan terrorism och massmedier. Vi har valt ut tre terrordåd, München 1972, Lockerbie 1988 samt World Trade Center 2001. Vid varje terrordåd har vi tagit två artiklar vardera från tidningarna Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter och Svenska dagbladet. Det blir totalt arton artiklar som vi har använt oss av. Terrorism lever i ett beroendeförhållande till massmedia. Om massmedia skulle sluta rapportera om terrordåd skulle terroraktioner förlora sitt värde för terroristerna som deras huvudsakliga kommunikationsform. Eftersom journalister oftast befinner sig i samma sociala kontext som sina läsare skriver de om händelser ur den kontext som vi är vana vid. Detta innebär att manuset redan är färdigskrivet då olika terrorattacker sker, terroristerna behöver bara addera våldet. Terrordåd är deras sätt att tvinga allmänheten och omvärlden att lyssna på dem. Ett annat resultat som vi kommit fram till är att terrorister ofta likställs med araber och muslimer. I München var det palestinska gerillamän, i Lockerbie "den islamiska revolutionens väktare" och i World Trade Center "militanta muslimer" och al Qaida. Ett annat huvudresultat är att offren oftare beskrivs som individer än vad terroristerna gör. Undantaget är Usama bin Ladin som själv fick stå som aktör för attentatet mot World Trade Center.

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Armbäck, Hanna, and Emma Danielsson. "Tragedi som underhållning." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2381.

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Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur två verklighetsbaserade Hollywoodfilmer, Pearl Harbor och World Trade Center, framställer det amerikanska folket samt dess fiender när landet blir attackerat.

Vår studie är baserad på en kvalitativ kritisk diskursanalys förankrad i hermeneutiken, Vi väljer ut två filmer som vi sedan granskar och analyserar.

Analysen visar att trots filmerna skiljer sig i handling och när de utspelar sig, så har de många gemensamma faktorer. Det framstår som att USA blir oskyldigt attackerat eftersom det inte redogjorts i filmerna några bakomliggande faktorer till vad som hänt.

Genom symboler, handlingar, musik och tal speglas en påtaglig amerikansk patriotism i båda filmerna, det amerikanska folket framställs som hjältar, både uniformsbeklädda och privatpersoner. Fienden är en anonym makt som publiken aldrig får chans att identifiera sig med och framställs som hjärtlös och kall genom musik, färger och bildberättande.

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Burns, Kelly Dugan. "The Effects of Perceived Life Threat and Direct Exposure on Psychopathology in Parents and Their Young Children Following the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center Attacks." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32274.

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The impact of the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks was expansive in nature, and so many people were deeply affected by this disaster. In the years following this attack, many researchers attempted to assess this level of impact. Data point to increased prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress and depressive symptomatology among adults and a variety of difficulties among children following trauma. Additionally, research has shown that geographic proximity to a traumatic event plays a role in identifying those with increased psychological distress. Oneâ s subjective experience of a traumatic event, and in particular, oneâ s perception of threat to life, also appears to be important in the identification of those in need. Moreover, understanding the psychological effects of individuals who have experienced a traumatic event is essential to the effective screening and identification of those in need of mental health services. As such, the purpose of this study was to examine the ability of geographic exposure and the perceived life threat to predict psychological outcomes in parents and their young children following the World Trade Center attacks in New York City. Additionally, the moderational roles of race/ethnicity and socio-economic status were also examined. Neither maternal geographic exposure nor perception of life threat significantly predicted mental health outcomes in mothers or their young children. However, socio-economic status significantly moderated the relationship between maternal geographic exposure and childrenâ s externalizing behaviors. Finally, the effect of race/ethnicity approached significance for maternal PTSD symptoms; however, no significant moderation was found.
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Von, Wielligh Jacobus Petrus. "The impact of the attacks on 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Centre on the tourism industry in the Western Cape : a case study /." Thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2009. http://dk.cput.ac.za/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=td_cput.

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Jonsson, Simon. "Förtvivlan, Sorg, Hämnd : En analys av spelfilmerna World Trade Center och Zero Dark Thirty, en inblick i det sociala minnets rekonstruktion av traumat den 11 september 2001." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60949.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine popular cultures impact on the social and collective memory in the post 9/11 era, more specific visual medias reconstruction of the traumatic event of September 11, 2001. The movies that will be in the center of this paper is World Trade Center (2006) produced by Oliver Stone and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) by Kathryn Bigelow. This paper will argue that the movie World Trade Center and Zero Dark Thirty is maintaining and reproducing the ideological discourses set by the Bush-administration after the events of September 11. The result of the investigated movies is that they are characterized by “we against the other” perspective and is reproducing stereotypes that will function as a mean to exclusion of minority’s. This is linked to the social and the collective memory. Where social and collective identities define, who belongs or not.

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Taylor, Jonathan Lorin. "Lines of Discovery." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35461.

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An entry for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition was expanded upon as a study into the nature of design. The project influenced its own evolution and revealed exciting outcomes. The memorial is a reinforced concrete tower with an acrylic water tank at the top. The water tank acts as a prism casting colorful light displays both in the tower and around the site. The tank is also the source for continually falling droplets of water. The drops fall 450 feet through an open chamber to land in a shallow overflowing pool and then wash over a stone sepulcher containing the unidentified remains of victims.
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Wiklöw, Christoffer. "Media : Terroristens medhjälpare?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-73344.

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C-uppsats kandidat 2011 Title: Media – terroristens medhjälpare? Författare: Christoffer Wiklöw Språk: svenska Instution: JMK, Stockholm Universitet En kvalitativ studie om New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism. De valda frågeställningarna blev: Hur är New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism och 9/11 2001, respektive 2011? Hur har mass-mediated terrorism-diskursen förändrats mellan året 2001 och året 2011 i New York Times nyhetsartiklar om terrorism och 9/11? Hur ser en reporter på sin roll som skribent om 9/11, och hur kommer detta att indikera på att journalisten kanske faller offer för att vara terroristens medhjälpare? Och materialet för studien blev fyra artiklar från New York Times, och en intervju med en skribent bakom en av artiklarna. Teorival blev en kritisk teori-inriktad del med en socialkonstruktionisktisk infallsvinkel som stöd. Birgitte L. Nacos (2002) har teorier om ”mass-mediated terrorism” som stöd. Det finns även framing, nyhetsvärdering med i valet. Metodval blev Peter Berglez tolkning av van Dijks strukturerade nyhetsschema, vilket fick stöd av Norman Fairclough’s CDA. I resultatdelen ser vi hur New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism, och dess val av nyhetskonstruktion gör att de ändrar nyhetsvärdering till allt som kan beröra något av dessa tre: terrorister, makthavare/regering, och samhälle. Helst alla tre tillsammans. En intervju med en reporter fick ge en belysning på hur denna konstruktion av nyhet kan se ut, och även om denne var införstådd med känsligheten att rapportera om terrorism så fanns det tendenser för att han blir terroristens medhjälpare omedvetet.

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Douillet, Géraldine. "Esthétique de la destruction : voir, prévoir, revoir le 11 septembre 2001 à New-York." Paris 7, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA070068.

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Le 11 septembre 2001, les Etats-Unis sont victimes d'attentats terroristes d'une ampleur inégalée. Deux des quatre avions détournés percutent de plein fouet les tours du World Trade Center de New-York, qui s'écroulent peu après, devant le regard médusé de millions de téléspectateurs. Cet événement sans précédent est à ce jour l'événement le plus photographié de l'histoire. L'objet de cette thèse est l'étude de la multiplication des réponses artistiques à l'événement 11 septembre 2001 à New York. Ce travail dresse un état des lieux des productions artistiques permettant d'obtenir une vue d'ensemble des productions iconographiques nées du 11 septembre et d'en dégager les motifs récurrents, et ainsi comparer ces motifs aux images de presse. Le défi à relever pour les artistes étant de réunir à la fois la force du témoignage et la puissance esthétique, seront-ils capables de dépasser, voire de surpasser les images médiatiques ? Cette thèse tente de dégager quelles peuvent être les fonctions de l'art dans ce contexte peu favorable : l'art comme forme de catharsis, témoignage, expérience, l'art comme forme de deuil puis de guérison, l'art comme moyen de donner un sens à la réalité et se relever du trauma, l'art comme véhicule d'accès à l'émotion ou à la vision tragique etc. Ce travail ne pouvant en aucun cas être exhaustif en raison de la profusion des créations, il est une sorte de catalogue raisonnable à défaut d'un catalogue raisonné des productions artistiques inspirées par les événements de New York
On September 11, 2001, the United States was the victim of unprecedented terrorist attacks. Two of the four hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, which eventually collapsed before the eyes of millions of incredulous spectators. That event has been the most photographed ever. This thesis studies the multiple artistic answers to the events of 9/11 in New York and is an overview of artistic productions born after that day. Focused on presenting images, it aims at showing the different motives of 9/11's imagery, the challenge for artists being to gather the force of testimonies as well as the aesthetic power of the press images. This thesis aims at underlining the different functions of art in an unfavorable context : art as a form of catharsis, testimony, experience ; art as a form of mourning and healing ; art as a means of giving sense to reality and recovering from trauma ; or as a means of giving access to emotions or tragic visions. It is also an extensive inventory of artistic productions inspired by 9/11 in New York

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Moonitz, Allison B. "“An Experience Outside of Culture”: A Taxonomy of 9/11 Adult Fiction." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/247.

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Serving as an unfortunate benchmark for the twenty-first century, 9/11 has completely altered society’s perceptions of personal safety, security and social identity, along with provoking intense emotional reactions. One outlet for these resulting emotions has been through art and literature. Five years have since passed and contemporary authors are still struggling to accurately represent that tragic day and its consequent impression. This paper provides an analysis of how the events of 9/11 have been incorporated into adult fiction. Variations of themes related to psychology, interpersonal relationships, political and social perspectives, and heroism were found to be used most frequently among authors.

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Perri, Emanuela. "The Trauma Towers: Dimensions of Trauma in 9/11 Literature." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8147/.

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The topic of this dissertation is the aspects of trauma and reaction to the traumatic experience that can be found in 9/11 literature. The research engages in a comparative analysis of five books that can be categorised as 9/11 literature, which means that the events of 9/11 are central in the novels and are a recurrent theme. The books have been written by authors of different nationalities: "Extremely Loud & Incredibily Close" by J. S. Foer, "Falling Man" by D. DeLillo, "Windows on the World" by F. Beigbeder, "Saturday" by I. McEwan and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by M. Hamid. The characters have either experienced the attacks personally or their lives have been largely influenced by the event. In either case, the protagonist has been traumatised by the tragedy. Therefore, in this study two different fields are fused together – the field of comparative literature and that of trauma studies.

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Casetta, Leonardo. "Contribuições à mecânica dos sistemas de massa variável." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3152/tde-05082009-100852/.

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Desde 1814, quando então se deram seus primeiros estudos, a mecânica de sistemas de massa variável tem se constituído como um ramo particular dentro da mecânica clássica. Suas aplicações encontram-se espalhadas por diversas áreas do conhecimento e vão desde a engenharia até a medicina, por exemplo. No entanto, apesar dessas aplicações de sucesso, ainda hoje são encontradas na literatura discussões acerca dos fundamentos da mecânica de sistemas de massa variável. Nesse cenário, figuram os chamados aparentes paradoxos que envolvem diferentes equações de movimento para um mesmo sistema de massa variável. É o que pode ser encontrado, por exemplo, com relação ao problema de Wagner, no âmbito do estudo do impacto de corpos sólidos contra superfícies de líquidos, e ao problema da corrente em queda. Nessa tese, questões como essas serão abordadas. Mas o cerne do escopo do presente trabalho é a apresentação de uma discussão de caráter mais geral e interpretativa sobre a teoria e aplicação da mecânica de sistemas de massa variável, mantendo-se como foco principal a contribuição para um melhor entendimento desse importante ramo da mecânica. Para tal, resultados teóricos originais serão apresentados, e discussões e aplicações sobre os mesmos serão feitas. Inicialmente, uma discussão sobre os primeiros trabalhos que fundamentam a dinâmica de uma partícula de massa variável é feita. Nesse contexto, interpretações originais do autor dessa tese são apontadas. Em seguida, a aplicação da equação de Lagrange a sistemas de massa variável é abordada. Nesse cenário, esse autor apresenta a chamada equação de Lagrange para um volume de controle onde a massa varia com as coordenadas e velocidades generalizadas. Esse também é um dos resultados originais dessa tese. Por fim, é apresentada a extensão do princípio variacional para um líquido para um volume de controle, que também é um resultado original desse trabalho. Dois problemas clássicos dentro da teoria de sistemas de massa variável são então tratados, i.e. o problema da corrente em queda e o problema de Wagner. Trata-se de dois problemas aparentemente paradoxais. A resolução desses aparentes paradoxos é abordada, o que também se constitui em um dos resultados originais dessa tese. Uma breve discussão sobre o problema do colapso das torres gêmeas do World Trade Center à luz da mecânica de sistemas de massa variável é também feita.
Since 1814, when the first researches on the topic were carried out, variable mass system mechanics has become a particular branch within classical mechanics. Applied problems involving variable mass systems are sparsely distributed over a wide range of different areas of knowledge, and go from engineering to medicine, for example. However, despite these successful applications, even today one can find in the specialized literature discussions on the fundamentals of the variable mass system mechanics. In this scenario, apparent paradoxes, which are based on different equations of motion for a same variable mass system, figure out. In this sense, the Wagners problem, in the context of the study of the impact of solid bodies into liquid surfaces, and the falling chain problem can be cited as didactic examples. In this thesis, topics like this one will be treated. However, the main scope of this work is to present a more general and interpretative discussion on both the theory and application of the mechanics of variable mass systems, but keeping the focus on contributions that enable a better understanding of such an important branch of mechanics. For that, original theoretical results will be presented, as also discussions and applications of them. In the beginning, a discussion on the first fundamental works about the dynamics of a variable mass particle is done. In such a context, original interpretations of this author are pointed out. Then, the application of Lagrange equations on variable mass systems is discussed. In this scenario, this author shows the so-called Lagrange equation for a control volume where mass varies with generalized coordinates and velocities. This is also an original result of this thesis. By the end, an extension of a variational principle to a control volume is shown, also an original result of this work. Two classical problems within the theory of variable mass systems are then treated, i.e. the falling chain problem and the Wagners problems. Both are apparently paradoxical problems. The resolution of such apparent paradoxes is addressed, what is also an original result. Within the present context of the mechanics of variable mass systems, a brief discussion on the problem of the collapse of the World Trade Center twin towers is also done.

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Westcot, Julia Ellen. "The September 11th tragedy: Effects and interventions in the school community." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2271.

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Urban, Jennifer Danielle. "Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in police officers following September 11, 2001." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2474.

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The purpose of this study was to examine what, if any, symptoms of a traumatic stress reaction were still being experienced by police officers, as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, who were geographically distant from the events of that day. Participants included 60 police officers at two southern California law enforcement agencies.

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Claassen, Andrew Robertson. "After the Towers Fell: Musical Responses to 9/11." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/204.

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The tragic and devastating September 11 attacks resulted in a variety of original musical responses. Exemplary works expressed their reactions through overt 9/11-concentric dialogues to express themes of mourning, military retribution, dissent and commemoration. An examination of such works concludes that effective musical responses express a direct message clarified by supporting musical and/or textual materials. Musical materials can accentuate the specific thematic message of the responsive work as they often evoke images and emotions reminiscent of the attacks and their aftermath. Compositional techniques used in these works are often reminiscent of historical works written in similar circumstances. The recurrence of these historical approaches illuminates the timeless compositional design of historical examples and exemplifies modern advancements in music composition and production. A comparison between classical and popular post-9/11 musical compositions concludes that certain classical and popular genres deal with responsive themes more effectively than others. A recommendation for further study is enclosed.

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Olson, Danel. "9/11 Gothic : trauma, mourning, and spectrality in novels from Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Jess Walter." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25276.

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Al Qaeda killings, posttraumatic stress, and the Gothic together triangulate a sizable space in recent American fiction that is still largely uncharted by critics. This thesis maps that shared territory in four novels written between 2005 and 2007 by writers who were born in America, and whose protagonists are the survivors in New York City after the World Trade Center falls. Published in the city of their tragedy and reviewed in its media, the novels surveyed here include Don DeLillo’s _Falling Man_ (2007), Jonathan Safran Foer’s _Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_ (2005), Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s _The Writing on the Wall_ (2005), and Jess Walter’s _The Zero_ (2006). The thesis issues a challenge to the large number of negative and dismissive reviews of the novels under consideration, making a case that under different criteria, shaped by trauma theory and psychoanalysis, the novels succeed after all in making readers feel what it was to be alive in September 2001, enduring the posttraumatic stress for months and years later. The thesis asserts that 9/11 fiction is too commonly presented in popular journals and scholarly studies as an undifferentiated mass. In the same critical piece a journalist or an academic may evaluate narratives in which unfold a terrorist's point of view, a surviving or a dying New York City victim's perspective, and an outsider's reaction set thousands of miles away from Ground Zero. What this thesis argues for is a separation in study of the fictive strands that meditate on the burning towers, treating the New York City survivor story as a discrete body. Despite their being set in one of the most known cities of the Western world, and the terrorist attack that they depict being the most- watched catastrophe ever experienced in real-time before, these fictions have not yet been critically ordered. Charting the salient reappearing conflicts, unsettling descriptions, protagonist decay, and potent techniques for registering horror that resurface in this New York City 9/11 fiction, this thesis proposes and demonstrates how the peculiar and affecting Gothic tensions in the works can be further understood by trauma theory, a term coined by Cathy Caruth in Unclaimed Experience (1996: 72). Though the thesis concentrates on developments in trauma theory from the mid 1990s to 2015, it also addresses its theoretical antecedents: from the earliest voices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that linked mental illness to a trauma (Charcot, Janet, Breuer, Freud), to researchers from mid-twentieth century (Adler, Lindemann) who studied how catastrophe affects civilian minds not previously trained to either fight war or withstand cataclysm. Always keeping at the fore the ancient Greek double-meaning of trauma as both unhealing “wound” and “defeat,” the thesis surveys tenets of the trauma theorists from the very first of those who studied the effects on civilian survivors of disaster (of what is still the largest nightclub fire in U.S. history, which replaced front page coverage of World War II for a few days: the Cocoanut Grove blaze in Boston, 1942) up to those theorists writing in 2015. The concepts evolving behind trauma theory, this thesis demonstrates, provide a useful mechanism to discuss the surprising yearnings hiding behind the appearance of doppelgängers, possession ghosts, terrorists as monsters, empty coffins, and visitants that appear to feed on characters’ sorrow, guilt, and loneliness within the novels under discussion. This thesis reappraises the dominant idea in trauma studies of the mid-1990s, namely that trauma victims often cannot fully remember and articulate their physical and psychic wounds. The argument here is that, true to the theories of the Caruthian school, the victims in these novels may not remember and express their trauma completely and in a linear fashion. However, the victims figured in these novels do relate the horrors of their memory to a degree by letting their narration erupt with the unexpectedly Gothic images, tropes, visions, language, and typical contradictions, aporias, lacunae, and paradoxes. The Gothic, one might say, becomes the language in which trauma speaks and articulates itself, albeit not always in the most cogent of signs. One might easily dismiss these fleeting Gothic presences that characters conjure in the fictions under consideration as anomalous apparitions signalling nothing. However, this thesis interrogates these ghostly traces of Gothicism to find what secrets they hold. Working from the insights of psychoanalysis and its post-Freudian re-inventers and challengers, it aims to puzzle out the dimensions of characters’ mourning in its “traumagothic” reading of the texts. Characters’ use of the Gothic becomes their way of remembering, a coded language to the curious. This thesis holds that unexpressed grief and guilt are the large constant in this grouping of novels. Characters’ grief articulation and guilt release, or the desire for symbolic amnesia, take paths that the figures often were suspicious of before 9/11: a return to organized religion, a belief in spirits, a call for vengeance, psychotherapy, substance abuse, splitting with a partner, rampant sex with nearby strangers, torture of suspects, and killing. All the earnest attempts through the above means by the characters to express grief, vent rage, and alleviate survivor guilt do so without noticeable success. True closure towards their trauma is largely a myth. No reliable evidence surfaces from the close reading of the texts that those affected by trauma ever fully recover. However, as this thesis demonstrates, other forms of recompense come from these searches for elusive peace and the nostalgic longing for the America that has been lost to them.

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Lamy, Aurélia. "La médiatisation de "l'Apocalypse" : le traitement médiatique des attentats du 11 septembre 2001 aux Etats-Unis dans la presse et à la télévision française (11-18 septembre 2001)." Metz, 2005. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/2005/Lamy.Aurelia.LMZ0506_1.pdf.

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Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 aux Etats-Unis sont un événement "limite", inachevé dans le réel, dans le temps, ils sont synonymes du rupture et de changement brutal. La médiatisation dans l'urgence, engendrée par le caractère inattendu du drame, influence les dispositifs et les processus de circulation sociale du savoir sur l'événement. Les usages informationnels sont ici au centre de la connaissance relative à l'événement, ils lui donnent un cadre interprétatif. Nous avons choisi d'analyser la transmission d'informations relatives aux attentats dans une démarche sémiopragmatique. La construction du discours médiatique sur l'événement, plus particulièrement à la télévision et dans la presse française (près de 2000 documents analysés), est au cœur de nos préoccupations. Par la mise en place d'un discours simultané, les médias jouent le rôle de filtrescréateurs de stéréotypes et de représentations mentales et contribuent ainsi à la construction de représentations du réel. Nos analyses nous permettent de rendre compte des activités communicationnelles dans une situation d'urgence informationnelle. En effet, devant la soudaineté des faits, la diffusion d'informations est novatrices, la recherche du scoop et l'entre des médias dans une logique de concurrence conduit à une redéfinition de l'information en temps de crise. La médiation, fortement ancrée dans la communication de crise, est un mode de régulation collective. Elle construit une mémoire collective et commune des faits vécus à l'international, et permet en cela d'historiciser l'événement, le faire entrer dans une "histoire présente"
Nine-eleven attacks in the United States are a "limiting" event, unfinished in reality, in time, the are synonymous of rupture and brutal change. The mediatization in urgency, generated by the unexpected character of the drama, influences the devices and the processes of social circulation of knowledge on the event. The informational uses are here in the center of knowledge relating to the event, the give him an interpretative framwork. We chose to analyze the tramsmission of information relating to the attacks in a semiopragmatic way. The construction od media speech on the event, more particularly on television and the french press (nearly 2000 analyzed documents), is in the middle of our concerns. By the installation of a simultaneous speech, the media play the part of creative filters of stereotypes and mental representations and thus contribute to the construction of representations of reality. Our analyses enable us to account for the communication activities in an urgently informational situation. Indeed, in front of the suddenness of the facts, the diffusion of information is innovative, the research of the scoop and the entry of the media in a competition logic leads to a redefinition of information in times of crisis. The mediatization, strongly anchored in this communication of crisis, is a mode of collective regulation. It builds a collective memory and common facts lived to international, and allows to insert the event in a "historical present"

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Tsai, Sung-Hwa, and 蔡松樺. "Practical Experience of Flash Deployment of Indoor Localization System at World Trade Center." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14216892412904238877.

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RSSI fingerprinting-based localization technique is widely used for indoor localization because it could capture obstruction and multipath effect, which are commonly seen in indoor signal propagation, as unique feature for each location. Unlike testbeds, there are usually various constraints in the real world environment and the accuracy of location estimations may be reduced indirectly due to some factors limited by them while using RSSI fingerprinting-based technique. Therefore, we implemented a flash deployment of RSSI fingerprinting-based indoor localization system at World Trade Center (WTC) exhibition hall 3 for 5 days only to verify the feasibility of it in the real world environment. In this work, we shared our practical experience of flash deployment firstly. It includes the detail descriptions of the used hardware and the implemented localization mechanisms followed by the evaluations of them. Secondly, the challenges and limits of flash deployment at WTC are well discussed. In addition, the evaluations of the effects of them on the accuracy are presented and the possible improvements are proposed. The result indicates that the error distance of the indoor localization system deployed at WTC is 9.01m at 80th percentile with the most accurate localization mechanism among the ones we discussed. Beacon placement limit, time and space limit, environmental change challenge, and signal variation challenge are the four challenges and limits for flash deployment at WTC. Among these, signal variation introduces the most error distance. Thus, the possible improvements to it, using other kinds of fingerprint in addition to RSSI and using Bayesian filter, may be the most effective ways to improve the accuracy of location estimations for flash deployment of RSSI fingerprinting-based indoor localization system.

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Carr, Geoffrey Paul. "Rupture, loss, and the performance of masculinity at the World Trade Center : a post-9." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/710.

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Chang, Yao-Jen, and 張耀仁. "A Study on Customer Loyalty of Exhibition-A Case Study of World Trade Center Taichung." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93452206274601146039.

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The major purpose of this research executes statistics analysis by using Structural Equation Model (SEM), and focus on the different effects of Taiwan MICE industry, motive, store Image, customer satisfaction, repurchase intention, and Word-of-Mouth. In order to make the business strategy on Company and have close look on customer needs is essential. This study is to explore the relationships among motive, store image, customer satisfaction, repurchase intention and word-of-mouth. Four hundred questionnaires were issued, and 296 questionnaires collected were valid for data analysis. In the meantime, 117 respondents participated in the network survey. A total of 413 copies are valid for the survey. The findings in this study are as follows: (1) As a whole, our study is testable and well-grounded. There are clear and definite causal relationships among the five constructs, (2) The motive has positive influence on the customer satisfaction, (3) The store image has positive influence on the customer satisfaction, (4) The customer satisfaction has positive influence on the repurchase intention, (5) The customer satisfaction has positive influence on theword-of-mouse intentionMotive and customer satisfaction

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邱駿翔. "A Study of Consumer Behavior and Benefit Segmentation of participants of a Trade Exhibition─The Case of Taipei World Trade Center." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64553638235610160023.

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管理科學系所
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In Taiwan, the thematic exhibition is increasing frequency those years, from the beginning of the home appliances exhibition; Furniture, to recently food fair; Comic Con, and the subject of this study - computer exhibitions…etc. Exhibition exactly brought huge crowds and business opportunities in the market. Base on product features and market situation to design the suitable marketing plan and on demand sales kit for customers, exhibition becoming the major platform to communicate with end users to get the maximum voice and exposure in the market. This study is not only taking Taipei World Trade Center – the major and the biggest exhibition center in Taiwan as the role model; but also reference from people’s fair actual participation experience as my analysis source. To use customer’s expectation to define the market segmentation; the structure factors then cluster analysis to differentiate the consumer and the consumer segment after multivariate cluster analysis, chi-square test was used to investigate the cluster of all segments of consumer behavior in the demographic variables and variables on the differences, to understand Among the three segments of the consumer characteristics, marketing strategy for the layout of the reference. In my study results showed that the consumer can be expected by exhibition and separate the interests of effective market segmentation in variables : 『emotion cluster』『fashion professional players』, and『shopping clusters』, each cluster between demographic variables, sources of information and consumer behavior significantly associated. My marketing recommendations for these three clusters are as follows:『emotion cluster』should strengthen staff training and service processes, improve customer satisfaction, with low or promotional strategies to enhance consumer willing; 『fashion professional players』should be the most popular cluster , demand for higher quality products to meet the value-added features strategies, such as hire purchase, to stimulate consumer desire for this cluster; 『shopping clusters』despite their low desire, but can participate in activities through their high level of interest design a series of publicity activities to create a sense of crowds to attract other consumers.

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Chang, Tai-chun, and 張泰鈞. "The study of customer satisfaction of exhibition hall facility in Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07834881315644152540.

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輔仁大學
餐旅管理學系碩士班
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This research aims to explore the exhibitioner between relationships from customers’ satisfaction of exhibition hall facility in Taipei world Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall. The questionnaire survey method was used to collect secondhand-data through an information counter from the exhibition booths where had delivered their questionnaire in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. A total of 5209 questionnaires were gathered. The descriptive statistical analyses were used to test the hypotheses of the study, the results indicated that according to yearly, three-same exhibitions exerted significant positive effects on customer’s satisfaction of exhibition hall facility in serious of 3 years in 2008, 2009, and 2010; According to exhibition, seven-different exhibitions exerted significant positive effects on customer’s satisfaction of exhibition hall facility in serious of 1 year in 2011. We expect the results of this study makes a valuable and reference of host and building the new exhibition contributions to MICE industry in Taiwan.

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鄧文心. "The Research Study on the Evacuation Model for Buliding. Example: The Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Buliding." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02223847901606602081.

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中華大學
建築與都市計畫學系
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The economic fast growth of Taiwan area has greatly enhanced the life quality and standards of living. Building itself does not only mean the use of living, as it is much more important to provide the refuge to human life and property. Actually, building has provided multi-function in sense of high living quality nowadays, but fire disaster that always cause serious damages to the guman life and property has happened moe frequently than before. 　　The research study relative articles to define space elements of building inte-rior by their useing traits, and explore theirs influence on evacuation when a fire disaster happens. Model these space elements in evacuation model and computer-ize the model. The model is conducted to explore the suitable interior space arragement, evacuating routes, and the maximum people capacity of the space and to evaluate an actually public building that maybe have a huge damage when a disas-ter happens. The purpose of the research study is to provide references for plan-ning and checking on evacuation of actual buildings and desingning a new building. 　　The organization of the chapters in this research study is as follows: 　　Chapter1:　Introduction of the motive, purpose, scope, content, method and procedure. 　　Chapter2:　Study on related articles of definition & specialty of fire disaster, correlative ordinance with evacuation and evacuation theories. 　　Chapter3:　The calculation principles of time required for evacuation are con-ducted by studying on related articles. 　　Chapter4:　Establishment and evaluation of an evacuation model based on the calculation principles of time required for evacuation. 　　Chapter5:　Analysis of the mission of exhibition, specialties of exhibition building and space, and traits of fir disaster of exhibition building. 　　Chapter6:　Investigation is conducted on building, fir-prevention facilities and user straits of the Taiper World Trade Center Exhibition Building, andactually public building. 　　Chapter7:　Analysis, evacuation modeling and evaluation of the Taiper World Trade Center Exhibition Building. 　　Chapter8:　Conclusion and Comments of Suggestions.

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Badger, Steven R. "Treatise of world trade center (WTC) dust generated during the september 2001 terrorist attacks on the WTC towers." 2006. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-1283/index.html.

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Lai, Wei-Chung, and 賴緯駿. "From the Viewpoint of Universal Design to Explore Planning and Design of Fire Evacuation of Indoor Routes in Exhibition Space - A Case Study of the Nangang Exhibition Hall of Taipei World Trade Center." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m27aqt.

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國立臺北科技大學
建築與都市設計研究所
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To make provided the best of Asian international exhibition space in Taiwan, in 2010, the government releases the "Meet Taiwan" plan, the project includes exhibition Industry, personnel training and certification program, enhance the project of upgrading and improvement of hardware and software of the exhibition space. Yet looking at the construction design of the existing regulations of the convention and exhibition space, though already in the building rules and fire law formulate relevant regulations, such as size, building materials, but to user needs color, touch, psychological ... e.t.c are Less consideration. Therefore, the main research objective is hoe to us the universal design to improve the Nangang Exhibition Hall of Taipei World Trade Center’s fire evacuation of indoor routes to effective solution to all users in the convention and exhibition space for the use of the moving lines of escape, can safe, convenient to use, and as a follow-up of research. The study of universal design point of view, select the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall for the case, through the literature analysis Recalling, and sort out Universal design, escape moving lines, exhibition space…e.t.c’s relevant information. to understand Taiwan''s fire evacuation of indoor routes in exhibition space’s design concept, now. Then ues the Post-Occupancy Evaluation(POE), and by field observation, survey to collect empirical data of the research base, to analyze the design issues of moving lines of the existing exhibition space fire escape, and interviews with 20 users uncluding the five types of general, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, disabled and with the Product Performance Program (PPP) assessment, in order to understand the user''s needs. Through empirical studies of the different ethnic groups. Finally, the study assessed Nangang Exhibition Hall of Taipei World Trade Center’s fire evacuation of indoor routes ‘s missing, now. To recommended Exhibition space fire escape routes should consider the user''s physical and mental characteristics and the use of scale, and the use of color and texture to match the design of the concept, in order to put forward the planning and design for all users have encountered to meet the demand for exhibition space indoor fire escape moving linesreference.

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Rogers, Paul F. "Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6264.

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'Losing Control combines a glimpse behind the security screens with sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability.' The New Internationalist The attacks in New York and Washington on 11th September 2001 took most of the world by surprise. It showed that, for those living in the West, the threat of terrorist attack is now very real. Maintaining control of global security has become a matter of paramount importance to all Western governments. As the war against 'terrorism' widens into a war against particular states who may have played little part in the disaster, the idea that we can maintain global security by desperately clinging to our current security paradigm becomes increasingly improbable. In Losing Control, Paul Rogers calls for a radical re-thinking of western perceptions of security that embraces a willingness to address the core issues of global insecurity. This acclaimed book has already become an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the current crisis, and this updated edition contains a new preface and a new chapter which address the specific problems that have arisen since the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Drawing on examples from around the world, Rogers analyses the legacy of the Cold War's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; the impact of human activity on the global ecosystem; the growth of hypercapitalism and resulting poverty and insecurity; the competition for energy resources and strategic minerals; biological warfare programmes; and paramilitary actions against centres of power. The new edition brings the whole analysis right up to date, arguing persuasively that the world's elite cannot maintain control and that a far more emancipatory and sustainable approach to global security has to be developed.
Also published in Japanese

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Teasdale, Mathieu. "La mise en récit de l'espace : le monument, le mémorial et le WTC comme dispositifs rhétoriques." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18702.

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Penser la mise en récit de l’espace permet de circuler dans des marges que sont celles de l’art, de la littérature, de la politique, du cinéma. L’analyse rhétorique des processus de mise en récit de l’espace montre, en trois temps, que l’apport architectural définit et redéfinit les possibilités de déplacements des discours dans leur ouverture ou leur fermeture. Dans un premier temps, le passage du modernisme au postmodernisme, par l’analyse du Mémorial des vétérans du Vietnam, à Washington, qui déconstruit le récit programmatique d’un ordre, permet une nouvelle performativité du réel. Dans un deuxième temps, la monumentalité du Lower Manhattan, par sa verticalité, présente sa mise en récit comme un palimpseste dont toutes traces, idées, pratiques, utopies et destructions constituent des éléments légitimant et critiquant le récit en train de s’écrire. Par un passage de sa représentation, dans la littérature, notamment, la verticalité est alors une ligne de fuite dont le mouvement ascendant, puis descendant, montre l’inachèvement du récit. Dans un dernier temps, l’édification du Mémorial du World Trade Center, se réinscrit dans un modèle discursif unitaire compris comme un vaste dispositif qui réaffirme un retour à un ordre du discours, à un âge politique de la mémoire. Cet espace, c’est celui du pèlerinage, du lieu sacré qui fait parler ses morts au nom d’une autorité, la catastrophe, l’indicible, qui met en suspend la possibilité de la parole qui est autre. Cette réflexion entend présenter ces espaces qui se mettent en récit.
Thinking space narrative helps circulate in the margins of those of art, literature, politics, film. The rhetorical analysis of space narratives and its storytelling process shows, in three stages, that architectural contribution defines and redefines the possibilities of movement of speech in their opening or closing. First, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, by the analysis of Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, which deconstructs the programmatic narrative of an order allows a new performativity of reality. Secondly, the monumentality of Lower Manhattan, by its verticality, presents its narrative process set as a palimpsest where all traces, ideas, practices, utopias and destruction are legitimizing and criticizing elements in the narratives being written. By passing its representation in literature, in particular, the verticality is then a leakage whose upward movement, then down, shows the incompleteness of the story. Last, the building of the World Trade Center Memorial, re-entered into a unitary discursive model understood as a wide dispositif that reaffirms a return to an order of discourse, a political age memory. This space is one of the pilgrimage, the sacred place which makes his dead speak on behalf of an authority, which withhold the possibility of speech form outside. This reflection intends to present those spaces which are put in narrative.

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