this house began as a desire to place a single floating mass on the horizon, but became an exploration of proportion, material, and volume, and how they relate to each other. / Master of Architecture

The project is a columbarium and crematorium complex. It is located on the Eastern peripherie of Blacksburg, Virginia. The site slopes downward to the South East. The project is organized in an axial arrangement following the direction of the slope. The program of the building does not follow any religious ritual and is culturally determined only in so far as cremation is an acceptable form of disposal of the deceased. In this sense the building itself becomes a memorial of the dead. With the exclusion of formal ritual as a guiding principle for an architectural expression of the contemplation of death simple geometric figures are meant to evoke a general sense of proper emotional and intellectual response to the phenomenon of death, perhaps to dying. This approach hopes to allow for individual contemplation of the ending and the end of human life. / Master of Architecture

An object or thing with no interiority is sculpture. Architecture begins with the making of an interior. The real character of Architecture is revealed in the distinguishing qualities of the interior: the arrangement of spaces, the heights of the ceilings and the placement of walls, the entrance of light, the colors, the textures, the patterns and the surfaces. Emphasis on and development of these formal elements elevates a work from the world of building into the realm of Architecture. The study of internal relationships in this project, specifically the geometric and proportional, patterning, and color relationships, as well as the relation of elements of the structure to one another, is an attempt to elucidate the nature of Architecture as the presence of an interior. / Master of Architecture

The Golden Ratio House is primarily an architectural object constructed from a cube, which is the necessary point of origin for this project. Similar to the rules of invention, its purpose lies in its own making. Its rational construction, using the proportion of the golden ratio, produces an autonomous form. The translations and transformations of the cube are dialectic. The resulting form of the House is a product of the logic necessary for its existence. / Master of Architecture

A musician and an architect, Richard Wagner and Gottfried Semper, two German artists, influenced the theory of art in the nineteenth century in Germany. Wagner met Semper in a music shop and later they participated in various discussions regarding the history and theories of art and they both held their own perspectives. Wagner developed the theory of Gesamtkunstwerk in Germany, based on the integration of music, dance, and poetry, while Semper worked on the integration of music and architecture based on the common character of proportion and scale. This dissertation traces the evolution of this theory in nineteenth century Germany, introducing each person's perspective while summarizing the synthesis of the notion of the arts at the end, aiming to develop a general perception of its function in art. In addition, Semper expanded the notion of mathematics in art by exploring and bringing the example of natural forms and patterns. For him, mathematics had been categorized into three aspects of Symmetry, Proportionality, and Movement. In addition, movement and direction for him were the beginning of the exploration of Vitruvius's idea of eurhythmy. Semper brought the example of the human body as a reference for measuring and scaling the architectural drawings. This research focused on three crucial questions and the discovery of Semper's work, Second Dresden Theater. First, it investigated the connection between Semper's architectural drawing and musical notation. Second, it scrutinized the attitude toward the integration of arts among artists and philosophers in nineteenth century Germany. Third, it explored the role played by / Doctor of Philosophy / A musician and an architect, Richard Wagner and Gottfried Semper, two German artists, influenced the theory of art in the nineteenth century in Germany. Wagner met Semper in a music shop and later they participated in various discussions regarding the history and theories of art and they both held their own perspectives. Wagner developed the theory of total work of art in Germany, based on the integration of music, dance, and poetry, while Semper worked on the integration of music and architecture based on the common character of proportion and scale. This dissertation traced the evolution of this theory in nineteenth century Germany while summarizing Wagner and Semper's perspectives. In addition, Semper expanded the notion of mathematics in art by exploring and bringing the example of natural forms and patterns. For him, mathematics had been categorized into three aspects of Symmetry, Proportionality, and Movement. In addition, movement and direction for him were the beginning of the exploration of Vitruvius's idea of the harmony of proportion. Semper brought the example of the human body as a reference for measuring and scaling the architectural drawings. This research focused on three crucial questions and the discovery of Semper's work, Second Dresden Theater. First, it investigated the connection between Semper's architectural drawing and musical notation. Second, it scrutinized the attitude toward the integration of arts among artists and philosophers in nineteenth century Germany. Third, it explored the role played by

L'intervalle de confiance le plus connu pour une différence de deux proportions est l'intervalle de Wald. Cet intervalle a l'avantage d'être simple à construire, mais il est anti-conservateur. Il existe plusieurs intervalles alternatifs à l'intervalle deWald qui performent beaucoup mieux. Dans ce mémoire, on s'intéressera particulièrement à l'intervalle d'Agresti-Coull et à l'intervalle bayésien approximatif. Ces intervalles performent très bien tout en étant simples à construire. On regardera d'abord la performance de ces intervalles lorsqu'on a deux échantillons indépendants de tailles fixées au départ. On regardera aussi leur performance lorsque le nombre d'observations dépend des vraies proportions, soit dans une expérience à étapes multiples, soit dans une expérience à allocations séquentielles ou un plan adaptatif est utilisé.

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Mémoire (M.A.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1990. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Ce travail de thèse porte sur la variation exo- et endostructurale des couronnes des dents permanentes du maxillaire et de la mandibule chez les Néandertaliens et les Hommes modernes. Il intègre trois champs d’investigation faisant appel à l’imagerie a haute-résolution (e.g. μCT-scan) et a la 3eme dimension appliquées sur les canines, les prémolaires et les molaires. L’un de ces champs concerne l’épaisseur et la proportion de l’email 3D, le deuxième concerne la forme de la surface externe de l’email et de la jonction email-dentine (morphométrie géométrique 3D) et le dernier concerne les traits non métriques a la surface externe de l’email et à la jonction email-dentine. Cette étude comprend un échantillon microtomographique de 190 dents néandertaliennes, incluant les données inédites des dents de l’Hortus (Hérault, France) et du Portel-Ouest (Ariège, France) (n=45), et de 300 dents d’Hommes modernes. Les résultats montrent que l’approche 3D des couronnes dentaires au moyen de la microtomographie s’avère être très utile pour distinguer les Néandertaliens des Hommes modernes en termes d’épaisseur et de proportion d’email 3D pour la majorité des dents étudiées, a l’exception des M1/M1 et de la forme 3D du contour marginal de la JED de la majorité des dents. De plus, des différences dans l’organisation des tissus des couronnes ont été observées au sein de l’échantillon des Néandertaliens entre les spécimens de Krapina, pouvant être considères comme des premiers représentant de ce taxon (SIM5e, env. 130 ka) et ceux de l’Hortus et du Portel, pouvant être considérés comme des derniers représentants (SIM3, env. 44 ka) et dont l’organisation des tissus des couronnes dentaires se rapproche de celle des Hommes modernes. Cela suggère une importante variation intergroupe chez les Néandertaliens d’ordre géographique ou diachronique, lequel se traduirait par une réorganisation endostructurale des tissus coronaires en lien avec la réduction du volume absolu des couronnes dentaires. / This work focuses on the exo- and endostructural crowns variations of maxillary and mandible permanent teeth of Neandertals and modern Humans. It integrates three fields of investigation using high-resolution imaging (e.g. μCT-scan) and the third dimension applied in canines (excepted 3D geometric morphometrics), premolars and molars. One of these fields relates to the 3D enamel thickness and the 3D tissues proportion, the second concerns outer enamel surface and enamel-dentine junction shapes (3D geometric morphometrics), and the third concerns the nonmetric traits at the outer enamel surface and enamel-dentine junction. This study includes a sample of 190 microtomographic Neandertal teeth, including unpublished microtomographic data of Hortus (Hérault, France) and Portel-Ouest (Ariège, France) teeth (n = 45), and microtomographic sample of 300 modern Humans teeth. The results show that 3D approach of dental crowns using microtomography data is very useful to distinguish Neandertals from modern Humans in terms of 3D enamel thickness and tissues proportions (except for the M1 / M1), as well as in terms of the EDJ marginal edge shape, for the majority of studied teeth. Moreover, differences of tissues organization in crowns were observed within the Neandertal sample, between the Krapina specimens, that can be considered as a group of early Neandertals (MIS 5e, approx. 130 ka), and the Hortus and Portel specimens, that can be considered as a group of least Neandertals (MIS 3, approx. 44 ka) and show a tissues organization of dental crowns more similar to modern Humans. This suggests a significant geographic or diachronic inter-group variation among Neandertals that seems to relate endostructural reorganization of the coronary tissues to the reduction of the absolute volume of dental crowns.

This diploma thesis deals with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). The term stands for a teaching method used in the non-language classes that has a content-oriented and lingual goal. CLIL has been incorporated into the learning process as one of the instruments that leads to improving language learning in Europe. The aim of my thesis was to prepare, realize and evaluate a twomonth long process of using CLIL in lessons of Math for lower secondary pupils. In the experiment I surveyed the impact of the connection between Math and English language on pupils' motivation and Math knowledge. The experimental lessons were focused on the topics of ratio, direct and inverse proportion. The main method used in the thesis was action research. Other applied methods were quantitative methods (questionnaires) and qualitative methods (interview and mediated observation). Parts of the thesis include preparations of seven CLIL lessons accompanied by methodical description and worksheets. These materials were used in lessons during the experiment. The experiment showed and proved the procedure of successful CLIL method implementation to the lessons of Math. The implementation did not have a negative impact on pupils' motivation, knowledge and activity on the lesson's.