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The purpose of this thesis is the determination of the efficiency of a particular small sample of observations and to gain therefrom an insight into the approximate efficiency of these rank order tests for small samples when the population means of the two groups differ by fixed amounts. This problem will be approached experimentally because all attempts to use mathematics in the solution have thus far been held at an impasse because of the difficulties encountered in the integration of portions of the expression which result when the various consideration and relationships involved in the problem are expressed in mathematical terms. In the analysis of the results of this experiment, the 10% level will be considered as the level of significance in the computation of the efficiency since the sample size selected does lend itself to the use of the 5% level of significance. The reader may possibly wish to consider half of the efficiency at the 10% level of significance as roughly indicative of what the efficiency at the 5% level would be. The use of the 10% level of significance in non-parametric tests does seem unrealistic, because, in general, non-parametric statistics tend to be more conservative than parametric statistics. In case non-parametric methods are applied to samples from a population which is normally distributed, the conservativistic tendencies of non-parametric inference validate the use of the higher significance level. The results of this experiment should prove helpful in the setting up of non-parametric quality control systems for such activities as subjective testing between a control group and a group receiving some particular treatment, the effects of which cannot be measured in any definite units. In addition to information of a general nature concerning these tests, this thesis also hopes to provide relatively concrete information about the particular test in which three observations are taken from each group. Some insight into the efficiency of these tests for this particular sample size is of interest because in industrial applications of non-parametric quality control limits, it is frequently possible to fix the sample size. / M.S.

Master of Science

It is of utmost importance to note that the Sound-Space approach to subsonic compressibility effects is an exact solution to the problem. That is, equation 19.5 is an exact relation between the compressible and incompressible local pressure coefficients. Nowhere in the preceding analysis was it necessary to make simplifying assumptions such as small perturbations, etc. It is true that the Sound-Space Theory assumes steady reversible–adiabatic flow and consequently it is to be expected that there will be discrepancies in the calculated and experimental values. The validity of the physical principles upon which the Sound~Space Theory was founded and the consequent exact solution to the problem of subsonic compressibility effects, should signify an important advance to the better understanding of compressable fluid phenomena. / Master of Science

Master of Science

Montréal Trigonix inc. 2018

From general observations while making this survey the conditions which seem to limit the production of duck foods in the Virginia marshes are salinity, type of bottom, and tide fluctuation. The marshes that are high producers of duck foods all have a low salinity, soft muck bottoms that are covered by water except at the lower stages of the tide. On the other hand the low production marshes have a high salinity, hard bottoms that are only covered with water during the latter stages of the high tide. / M.S.

O personalismo de Emmanuel Mounier não é nem uma filosofia do sujeito, nem uma de suas expressões, como filosofia do Eu ou filosofia da consciência; nem uma filosofia da morte do sujeito e nem também uma filosofia do objeto. O personalismo de Emmanuel Mounier é uma filosofia da relação. Ao eleger a intuição da experiência originária como sendo o modo de ser da relação, ele junta a conseqüente inscrição da afirmação da vida no cerne mesmo do movimento mais próprio da pessoa criadora em sua luta pelo real. Isso faz com que ele perspective, por sua vez, sob o modo de ser do artefato, a maneira pela qual a pessoa se compreende a si mesma e compreende o mundo. Ou seja, não somente como quer a ideologia do trabalhismo como homo faber. Pois desde a manifestação do Ser em suas formas mais simples até a sua expressão mais grandiosa, que é a pessoa criadora e afirmadora de vida não somente enquanto expressão empírica, quantitativa, mas qualitativa, ou seja, como afirmação do amor, quer dizer, Eros cativo por Agápe, o personalismo vai dizer não somente homo artifex est, mas homo perfectibilis est e, em seguida, ampliará mais ainda para omnia arte facta sunt. Para o personalismo: tudo está por se fazer, a própria pessoa e o mundo. Essa tarefa é realizada em dois níveis em mútua interação: no da expressão singular, em que à pessoa cabe a execução de uma tarefa que pertence só a ela como expressão de sua especificidade na realização de sua vocação singular e única, em sua luta pelo real, e no da expressão da pessoa em comunidade. Não há aqui separação, mas distinção, pois se trata, em suma, para o personalismo, de uma mesma tarefa cujas dimensões e tratamento das problemáticas específicas implicarão o êxito ou o fracasso na realização integral da vida pessoal, quer dizer, em sua manifestação singular e em comunidade. A manifestação da pessoa singular, portanto, só encontrará sua realização plena quando ela tomar parte, como elo insubstituível, na formação de uma pessoa de pessoas: a comunidade. Todavia para essa tarefa coletiva cada um é convocado, pois cada pessoa, em sua expressão singular, é, para o personalismo, o nó górdio que desata um mundo de criação e de sentido insuspeito. Assim, Mounier colocará, em sua busca de diálogo, como critério para avaliar e pesar a densidade das outras filosofias, compreender o quanto elas, permanecendo fiéis a si mesmas, ou seja, aos seus valores, permanecerão fiéis, 10 ao mesmo tempo, à pessoa e o quanto os seus conteúdos cooperarão para o cumprimento dessa vocação fundamental da pessoa ou se elas não serão apenas mais um adiamento e protelação ocidentais que, apesar de sua maior antiguidade, Mounier prefere datar do século XVI e com o surgimento da burguesia e do individualismo reivindicador; adiamento e protelação ocidentais sempre da escolha da pessoa livre e criadora por alguma outra coisa, ou seja, para o personalismo, mais um tipo de alienação fundamental, ou mais um tipo de objetificação da pessoa. Assim, a crítica personalista, entendendo a Razão como a lógica da personalidade integral, será um complemento necessário à crítica kantiana ao dogmatismo do além da razão; ou seja, a crítica personalista será uma crítica ao dogmatismo do aquém da razão que tem se fixado dentro do pensamento contemporâneo, quer dizer, pós-kantiano, como sendo a última palavra. / The personalism of Emmanuel Mounier isnt a philosophy of the subject, or one of its expressions as a philosophy of the I or a philosophy of consciousness; or a philosophy of the death of the subject; or even a philosophy of the object. The personalism of Emmanuel Mounier is a philosophy of connection. When He elects as a fundamental intuition of originary experience the mode of being of connection, he attaches the consequent inscription of the affirmation of life into the pith even of movement more proper of creator person in its fight for the real. This makes him to put in perspective, consequently, under the mode of being of artifact the way by means of that the person comprehends him/herself and the World. In other words, it isnt as the ideology of labourism wants: to present man only as homo faber. The personalism of Emmanuel Mounier wants to go farther: till the manifestation of Being in its more simple forms until its more sublime, that is, the creator person and affirmer of life, and that not only as empiric expression, or quantitative, but qualitative expression, it sees the manifestation of person as unconditional affirmation of love, that is, Eros captive for Agápe. So, personalism goes to say not only homo artifex est, but homo perfectibilis est and, in continuation, it increases still more for omnia arte facta sunt. In the personalism of Emmanuel Mounier all is yet to be made, the person itself and the World. The latter task is realized in two levels in loan company interaction: in the singular expression, in which only to the person belongs the action of the accomplishment, task that belongs him/her as a realization on the strength of the expression of his/her specific character in his/her accomplishment of his/her singular and unique vocation in his/her fight for the real, and too in the expression of the person in the community. There isnt here separateness, but distinction, for this matter, in short, for the personalism of Emmnauel Mounier, is one same task whose specific dimensions and treatment of the specific problems will implicate the success or the ruin in the integral realization of personal life. That is, in its singular manifestation and in its life of the inter-connection in community. The manifestation of the singular person, therefore, only will meet its full realization when the person takes part, as an irreplaceable link, in the constitution of the one person of persons: that is, the community. However, for this collective task each one is convoked, 12 for each person, in his/her singular expression, is, for the personalism of Mounier, the Gordian-knot that unfastens a World of creation and sense unexpected. Then, Mounier posits, in his quest for dialogue, as the criterion by which he evaluates and to ponder the density of others philosophies and by which he understands how far persons have been faithful to themselves, that is, to their worth, and at the same time have been faithful to the person. If their contents announce the accomplishment of this fundamental vocation of the person or if they would be only one more occidental adjournment and procrastination that, in spite of their more ancient history, Mounier prefers to start from XVI century and with the appearance in history of the bourgeoisie and claimant individualism; Occidental adjournment and procrastination that has been in all time the choice of other thing than free and creator person. That is, for Mounier, one more kind of fundamental alienation, or one more kind of objectification of the person. Thus, Personalist criticism, which understands Reason as the logic of integral personality, will be a necessary complement to Kantian criticism of the dogmatism of the beyond of reason; that is, Personalist criticism will be a criticism of the dogmatism of the below of reason, that has fixed itself into contemporary thought, that is, pos-Kantian, as being the last word.

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