International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / The Common Airborne Processing System (CAPS) provides a general purpose data reduction capability for digitally recorded data on a PC. PCM or MIL-STD-1553 data can be imported from a variety of sources into the CAPS standard file format. Parameter dictionaries describing raw data structures and output product descriptions describing the desired outputs can be created and edited from within CAPS. All of this functionality is performed on an personal computer within the framework of the graphical user interface provided by Microsoft Windows. CAPS has become the standard for digitally recorded data reduction on a PC at Eglin AFB and many other sites worldwide. New features, such as real-time inputs and graphical outputs, are being added to CAPS to make it an even more productive data reduction tool.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1995 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Common Airborne Processing System (CAPS) provides a general purpose data reduction capability for digitally recorded telemetry data on a cost-efficient platform. Telemetry data can be imported from a variety of formats into the CAPS standard file format. Parameter dictionaries describing raw data structures and output product descriptions describing the desired outputs can be created and edited from within CAPS. All of this functionality is performed on an IBM compatible personal computer within the framework of the graphical user interface provided by Microsoft Windows.

This dissertation takes the form of a chronologically arranged, biographical survey of the career of Bonifacio de' Pitati in the form of seven interconnected essays that address areas in which the artist's impact and contribution to Venetian painting is in need of definition. These chapters are in turn subordinate to a format that splits itself into the following three parts: Part One deals with Bonifacio the artist; his life, reputation and his early emergence from Palma's studio: In summarising the archival and critical heritage, Chapter One addresses the changing identity and reputation of the artist. Chapter Two investigates Bonifacio's early career and his sustained affiliation to his master, Palma Vecchio. Part Two provides an anatomy of Bonifacio's workshop and the key commissions upon which it was engaged: Chapter Three discusses Bonifacio's production of sacre conversazioni, while Chapter Four reconstructs Bonifacio's contribution to the decoration of the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, the site of the Venetian Treasury. Chapter Five further investigates the artist's workshop production, his commercial identity and business strategy. Part Three deals with Bonifacio's artistic legacy and the influence he exerted over a number of disciples who flourished during his later years and after his death: Chapter Five analyses the evidence for Bonifacio's role in the early careers of Tintoretto and his contemporaries, while Chapter Seven addresses Bonifacio's late work, the unravelling of his enterprise and his relationship to his artistic descendants. A conclusion is provided, alongside a series of appendices which include a register of documents, an inventory of paintings originally in the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi and a discussion of Bonifacio's career as a portraitist.

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From 1589 to 1599, the relation between Henri IV and the Parlement of Paris was a tumultuous one. Some parlementaires associated with the Catholic League refused at first to recognize Henri of Navarre as their king. These magistrates met in Paris until April 1594. Meanwhile, their royalist colleagues congregated in Tours where, in March 1589, Henri III had transferred his sovereign court. From there, the royalist councillors helped Henri IV reconquer his realm. This, they did in spite of his religion, although they frequently asked him to convert to Catholicism. After the reunification of the two rival courts in April 1594, the parlementaires seemed to work as one and blocked the verification of numerous edicts presented by the king. Their opposition was so strong that it has led some historians to claim that it was endangering the State's survival. It slowly faded away after the verification of the Edict of Nantes in February 1599. In a pacified France, the conflicts between a king finally in control of his realm and his parlementaires became rare. The magistrates finally had confidence in the government which seemed to take adequate measures to stabilize France after more than thirty years of civil wars. / The difficult relationship between Henri IV and the Parlement of Paris between 1589 and 1599 was not created by the egoistic nature of the magistrates or their incompetence as claimed by numerous historians. If some of the Parlementaires--we will call them the "opportunists"--put their own interests before those of the realm, a majority of their colleagues had a very high idea of their political role within France, an idea based on centuries of relation between the kings of France and the Parlement as well as on the political role of the court as defined by theorists of the time. Confronted to a king they hardly knew, these "traditionalists", on whom this work will be centered, tried to make sure that the interests of the kingdom, its king and its inhabitants were protected. They would not give Henri IV's government the leeway it sought but would scrutinize and frequently block the edicts presented to them, and this until Henri IV proved that he could be trusted as the head of the realm.

This Master's thesis belongs to the field of sixteenth century studies. The text I have chosen to study is the Memoires of Marguerite de Valois, begun in 1594 and published in 1628, thirteen years following the death of this queen. My analysis encompasses both the conventions of genre and rhetoric evidenced in the text. The first chapter explores the peculiarities inherent in the memoirs genre, especially where these explicitly distinguish it from the autobiography. The second chapter examines the rhetorical aspects of Marguerite de Valois' Memoires. In doing so, I have highlighted and analyzed the rhetorical strategies employed in the text, whose ultimate intent was to convince the initial reader, Brantome, and subsequently posterity, of the political astuteness of an author who was also worthy of her correspondent's trust as a loyal ally.

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