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Habilitationsschrift--Fachbereich Neuere fremdsprachliche Philologien--Berlin, Freie Universität, s.d. / Bibliogr. des œuvres de P. Emmanuel p. 244-246. Bibliogr. p. 247-251.

The French surrealist poet, Henri Michaux, has remained aloof from all groups and schools of writers, preferring to pursue independently his principal aim in writing which is to resolve, or at least approach, the problem of being, the problem of the meaning of life itself. His works reveal two distinct visions of the world. One is the real world, the world of the outside, of tangible things and places, the world of the daily routine of reality. The other is the imaginary world, the world of the inside, of the "self", the world of dreams, fantasies, inventions and hallucinations. In each of these worlds, Michaux is threatened by what he calls '"presences'* and '"absences". The former represent all the hostile forces in his worlds, all the things which get in the way and add to the anxiety of his existence. The latter represent nothingness, complete emptiness, the great void which brings fear and solitude. Confronted with these "presences" and "absences", his mental life becomes one of anguish. It is the purpose of this study to identify the "presences" and "absences", to define them, whenever possible, and to show how they form, in large measure, the poetic world of Henri Michaux. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

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This work investigates the organizational differences among organizations which have experienced and responded to acts of international terrorism and those which have not. The author investigates several organizational characteristics, using both qualitative and quantitative data collection methodologies. The relationship between organizational experience with international terrorism and the external focus of the subject organizations is examined. Specifically, the author compares experienced and non-experienced organizations on the following variables: perceived importance of external organizations; perceived sources of organizational information; perceived sources of organizational innovation; perceived sources of external communication; and existence of formal external coordination mechanisms. Comparisons are drawn across managerial and technical levels of the experienced and non-experienced organizations. / Ph. D.

The three major satires by the seventeenth-century poet John Dryden are reassessed for their mutual similarities to literature with burlesque elements. Focusing on his greatest satire, "Absalom and Achitophel ," this study shows Dryden's political, intellectual, and literary appropriateness for incorporating in the poem sexual and scatological imagery which is hidden by syntactical ambiguity. Dryden's satiric style is unified by this burlesque and ambiguity, and thus, the conservative appearance of "Absalom and Achitophel" is shown as hiding its true kinship with the vulgar comedy of "Mac Flecknoe" and the savage satire of "The Medall." Dryden's covert analogy in "Absalom and Achitophel" is revealed as equating King Charles II's physical body with the "Body Politique" of his politically troubled State, and Dryden's own analogy between himself and the physician/ satirist thus leads to his prescription of a purge to restore the State's good health. This burlesque image is in keeping with the traditional elements of satire, the intellectual and social environment of Restoration England, and also the conservative ideology of Dryden, for his purge metaphor constitutes a defense of the King's control, despite the burlesque elements. Furthermore, despite the iconoclastic appearance of this reading, Dryden scholarship supports it in many ways, especially recent criticism on Dryden's ambiguity, for which this study is a comprehensive test case. / Master of Arts

Since 1901, when G. G. Stokes published his equation for drag force on a uniform sphere settling in a liquid, researchers have searched for a modification of this equation that would predict particle settling behavior in concentrated suspensions such as sludges. During the 1960’s, researchers such as Michaels and Bolger (1962) and Javaheri and Dick (1969) developed an index of the relative amount of water associated with a floc particle that appeared to have broad application in predicting sludge settling behavior. The objective was to attempt to apply various direct laboratory methods of wet particle density to the analysis of sludge floes. The second objective was to use the analysis of Javaheri and Dick (1969) to evaluate the thickening characteristics of four non-biological sludges including the relevance of particle size, density, and water content to thickening rates. Aggregates of sludge floes do not appear to retain their integrity during mechanical dewatering, although they do over the linear portion of the batch thickening curve. It appears that the floc density rather than the aggregate density may represent the highest bulk density achievable by mechanical dewatering. The aggregate volume index (AVI) of Javaheri and Dick (1969), which can be used to determine aggregate size and density, predictively described the settling behavior of the four chemical sludges evaluated. This indicates that the analysis of Javaheri and Dick (1969) may be the first mathematical description of settling of slurries broadly applicable to the settling of water and wastewater treatment sludges. / M.S.