La performance financière d'une firme dépend à la fois de son efficacité productive et de l'environnement économique dans lequel cette firme exerce son activité. Cette thèse enrichit cette littérature en développant de nouveaux liens entre l’efficacité productive, la performance financière et la distribution des gains de productivité. Trois contributions principales y sont développées. Premièrement, nous proposons une manière originale de décomposer les écarts de profit entre les firmes au niveau spatial en tenant compte de leur inefficacité productive et en reliant ensuite ces écarts aux avantages/désavantages prix des parties prenantes de la firme. Deuxièmement, nous définissons, d’un point de vue méthodologique, un indicateur de l'environnement prix pour une firme en comparant sa distance à la frontière d'efficacité estimée, d’une part, avec des volumes et, d’autre part, avec des valeurs. Cet effet d'environnement prix a été ensuite appliqué pour l’ensemble des industries américaines sur la période 1987-2014. Troisièmement, nous développons une approche méthodologique pour décomposer l'inefficience technique globale des firmes à un niveau agrégé tel que le secteur ou l’économie en deux composantes : l’inefficacité technique individuelle et l’inefficacité structurelle. Au final, ce travail de thèse tend à montrer que la génération des gains de productivité et leur distribution entre les parties prenantes d’une firme sont les deux facettes d'une même pièce. La première est liée à l'analyse économique de la PGF basée sur l'estimation d'une technologie de production tandis que la seconde traite d'une approche comptable et managériale de la performance des firmes. / The financial performance of a firm depends both on its productive efficiency and the economic environment in which this firm performs its activity. This thesis adds to the literature by developing new links between productive efficiency, financial performance and productivity gains distribution. Namely, this doctoral thesis contributes in the three following ways. First, we propose an original way on how to decompose the profit gaps among firms at the cross-sectional level taking into account their productive inefficiency and then relating these productivity-based gaps to the price advantages/disadvantages of the firm’s stakeholders. Second, we define an indicator of price environment for a firm comparing its distance to the volume- and value-based efficiency frontier. These price environment effects were computed for US industries from 1987 to 2014. Third, we suggest a decomposition of the overall technical inefficiency of firms at the aggregated level into two components: individual technical and individual structural inefficiencies. This essay tends to show that generation of productivity gains and their distribution are two sides of the same coin. The former is related to the economic analysis of TFP based on the estimation of a production technology while the latter deals with an accounting approach of business performance.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University.

The problem that this thesis seeks to address is the hermeneutic tension between practical reason and technology. According to hermeneutics, the types of knowledge associated with practical understanding incorporate questions of the self and lived experience. In contrast, the types of knowledge and capability associated with modern technology are independent of questions of self-understanding. Technical approaches to practical dilemmas produce generalizable, detachable solutions, thereby disavowing the central role of hermeneutic appropriation in the process of understanding meaning. If a technology works in the same way across different contexts and applications, the notion of an interpreting, appropriating self seems superfluous to the question of technology. However, following an analysis of Paul Ricoeur’s distinctive understandings of hermeneutic distanciation, appropriation, and technique, I argue that technologies can become objects of hermeneutic engagement once we recognize their variable and uncertain nature at the practical level. Using Ricoeur’s conception of the productive circle between distanciation and belonging, the alienating distances associated with technologies can be re-read as moments of distanciation, i.e., as reflective outcomes of practical engagements that, in turn, project new possibilities for action an understanding. This means that our practical self-understanding is as bound to techniques and technologies as it is to more conventional hermeneutic objects like a text, narrative or artwork. For Ricoeur, hermeneutic techniques are meaningful because they reveal possibilities for action that would otherwise remain concealed. Likewise, subjects engaging with technologies develop unanticipated applications and functions at the practical level through appropriating technologies in novel, creative ways. In this way, practical self-understanding and technologies depend on one another for development. This mutual, interpretive interaction reveals a hermeneutic circle between the practical self and the technical devices and artefacts that mediate self-understanding at a distance.

細胞為本生物檢測法（CBB）是指任何一種以細胞系統及其身上發生的生物反應為基礎原之直接檢測方法。在這篇文中，有關CBB 的工作大致分為個主要章節，描述如下： / 第一章節探討以可調控式納米孔為基礎的電阻脈衝感應檢測法（RPS）進人血紅細胞的毒學研究。我們成功檢測到血紅細胞在低滲環境下的體型大小變化，並以式細胞儀及激光共焦掃描顯微鏡驗證上述實驗結果。此外，我們亦使用重皂甙（PD）及四溴雙酚A（TBBPA）種化合物以進毒試驗。在此章節，我們展示以RPS 在人體細胞系統的首次應用。這種RPS 無疑成為一種創新及低成本的技術，有助快速研究與血液有關的疾病。 / 第二章節探討以細胞為本的納米毒學研究。由於納米子已被廣泛應用於生物醫學上，它的應用同時帶出有關其毒性及其帶出的健康問題。在這章節，我們主要研究種同塗層的納米條（Au-NRs），其塗層分別為十烷基三甲基溴化氨（CTAB）及聚乙二醇（PEG）。透過一在人嗜鹼性細胞KU812 的毒實驗，我們展示Au-NRs 的生物相容性取決於它的塗層。CTAB 塗層的Au-NRs 會引發KU812 細胞死亡及其過敏性反應，而PEG 塗層的Au-NRs 則會引發以上反應。 / Cell-based Bioassay (CBB) refers to any kind of assay which detection principle is based on direct monitoring of biological events in living cell systems.The work in this thesis is divided to two main chapters described as follows. / The first focus was the characterization of human erythrocytes toxicology using tunable nanopore-based resistive pulse sensing (RPS). We successfully monitored the size changes of the erythrocytes in hypotonic environment. Results were confirmed with flow cytometry and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). Furthermore, drug assays were performed, in which the erythrocytes were treated with polyphyllin D (PD) or tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA). Here we reported the first application of the tunable nanopore-based RPS on human live cell system. This RPS system served as a novel and low-cost technique for rapid analysis of bloodrelated diseases at point-of-care. / Another focus was cell-based bioassays in nanotoxicology. As nanoparticles have been widely applied in biomedical and biological aspects, health issues have been raised and the toxicity of nanoparticles is much concerned. In this study, we investigated the cytotoxicity of CTAB- and PEG-coated gold nanorods (Au-NRs). Through a series of toxicological studies and using human basophils cell line KU812, we demonstrated the biocompatibility of coating of Au-NRs was critical to the cytotoxicity to cells. CTAB-coated Au-NRs, rather than PEG-coated Au-NRs, were able to induce cell death and allergic response in KU812 cells. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Cheung, Ka Lun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Members of Examination Committee --- p.i / Declaration --- p.ii / Publications --- p.iii / Abstract --- p.iv / Acknowledgements --- p.viii / List of Figures --- p.xi / Table of Content --- p.xii / General Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Cell-based Bioassays using Resistive Pulse Sensing --- p.13 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter 1.2 --- Materials and Methods --- p.26 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Preparation of human erythrocytes --- p.26 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Resistive pulse sensing (RPS) --- p.26 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Hemolysis assay --- p.27 / Chapter 1.2.4 --- Osmolarity assay --- p.28 / Chapter 1.2.5 --- Confocal laser scanning microscopy --- p.28 / Chapter 1.2.6 --- Flow cytometry --- p.29 / Chapter 1.2.7 --- Polyphyllin D (PD) assay --- p.29 / Chapter 1.2.8 --- Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) assay --- p.30 / Chapter 1.2.9 --- Statistical analysis --- p.30 / Chapter 1.3 --- Results --- p.31 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Measurement of human erythrocytes using RPS --- p.31 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- RPS measurement of human erythrocytes in hypotonic enviornment --- p.36 / Chapter 1.3.3 --- RPS measurement of PD-treated human erythrocytes --- p.48 / Chapter 1.3.4 --- RPS measurement of TBBPA-treated human erythrocytes --- p.55 / Chapter 1.4 --- Discussions and Conclusion --- p.64 / Chapter 1.5 --- References --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Cell-based Bioassays on Human Basophils --- p.71 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.72 / Chapter 2.2 --- Materials and Methods --- p.74 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Reagents --- p.74 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Preparation of the CTAB-coated and PEG-coated nanorods --- p.74 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Cell culture and preparation --- p.75 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Alamar blue assay --- p.76 / Chapter 2.2.5 --- Calcein leakage assay and propidium iodide staining assays --- p.77 / Chapter 2.2.6 --- Histamine release assay --- p.78 / Chapter 2.2.7 --- Beta-hexosaminidase release assay --- p.79 / Chapter 2.2.8 --- Statistical analysis --- p.80 / Chapter 2.3 --- Results --- p.81 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Physical and optical properties of the gold nanorods --- p.81 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- CTAB-, but not PEG-coated Au-NRs elicits allergic degranulation --- p.83 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- CTAB-coated Au-NRs are more cytotoxic than PEGcoated Au-NRs --- p.88 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- CTAB-, but not PEG-coated, Au-NRs cause plasma membrane permeabilization --- p.96 / Chapter 2.3.5 --- CTAB-, but not PEG-coated, Au-NRs disrupt plasma membrane asymmetry --- p.108 / Chapter 2.4 --- Discussions and Conclusion --- p.113 / Chapter 2.5 --- References --- p.116 / General Discussions and Conclusion --- p.118 / References --- p.124

梁靜雯. / "2010年8月". / "2010 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-49). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Liang Jingwen. / Chapter 第一章: --- 有關繪畫中的時間性研究 / Chapter 1.1 --- 前言 --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2 --- 研究範圍 --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- 藝術與社會的關係 --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4 --- 重複的定義 --- p.9 / Chapter 1.5 --- 重複與時間的關係 --- p.11 / Chapter 第二章： --- 線性的時間觀 / Chapter 2.1 --- 重複影像中的故事 --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2 --- 經歷英雄的事蹟 --- p.17 / Chapter 第三章： --- 由刹那到刹那與刹那之間 / Chapter 3.1 --- 刹那 --- p.19 / Chapter 3.2 --- 刹那與刹那之間 --- p.23 / Chapter 第四章： --- 由線性的時間觀到環狀的時間觀 / Chapter 4.1 --- 環狀的時間觀 --- p.28 / Chapter 4.2 --- 由英雄意識的破滅到個人的抽離 --- p.31 / Chapter 第五章： --- 抵抗習以為常的重複 / Chapter 5.1 --- 從彰顯到進入 --- p.34 / Chapter 5.2 --- 對於本人作品的思考 --- p.37 / Chapter 5.3 --- 總結 --- p.43 / 附錄：本人作品 --- p.45 / 參考書目 --- p.48

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A Research Report submitted towards a MAAD by Course Work and Research Report / This is an auto ethnographic project in which I explore how my personal and cultural narratives can be used for healing and transformation through a theatre making process. I look at performance as an object of making meaning while placing myself at the centre of the study as the subject of this research. During this process, I was looking at discovering a personal theatre making language with an aim of finding my voice. The outcome of my journey was an experimental creative project titled Eenganga which was performed in an alternative and nontraditional form in terms of space, text and the overall theatre making process. This study is an account of a journey that initially began as a performance ethnography project which collected cultural narratives of black urban traditional healers from Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia. There was an internal and an external data collection process. My body as a site of knowledge was the main research instrument.

abstract: As clarinet students progress in their studies, there comes a point at which many are assigned to perform contemporary repertoire that is either overplayed due to accessibility and use in pedagogy, or includes difficult extended techniques like microtones, multiphonics, and more. This project identifies a “gap” in unaccompanied clarinet repertoire and seeks to expand this repertoire by outlining a program of study featuring five newly commissioned unaccompanied clarinet solos through which students can learn both traditional and untraditional techniques. Each of the first four works focus on one aspect of clarinet technique—musicality, the altissimo register, microtones, and multiphonics, respectively—and the final work is a culmination of all these techniques. Included in this document is biographical information for each composer, program notes, a brief description, and a performance guide for each piece. Additionally, each work was recorded by the author and included with this document. / Dissertation/Thesis / Performer: Olivia Meadows, Composer: Zachary Bush / Performer: Olivia Meadows, Composer: Josh Gottry / Performer: Olivia Meadows, Composer: Kurt Mehlenbacher / Performer: Olivia Meadows, Composer: Spencer Brand / Performer: Olivia Meadows, Composer: Eric P. Mandat / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2019