This creative project is a treatise on a leading personality of Czechoslovakian musical life, the composer, Jan Kapr. The author discusses the following:1. The complicated development of Kapr's career and work, 2. Kapr's method of organization of musical material in a composition, as described in his book Constants,3. His former and current style which is demonstrated in two of his compositions, Concert Variations, for flute and string orchestra and Testimonies for four solo instruments,4. Two of his recent works, Exercises for Gydli and the Symphony No. 7, Country of Childhood.

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It is the argument of this thesis that Robert Duncan's poetry arises out of a conviction that the poem is a vital process, depending on an active interaction or interplay between the poet and language, his medium. The argument rests on the assumption that Duncan's poetry as a whole, is a testimony of a spiritual process, with each individual poem being in some way a mystery and a revelation and, therefore, an instrument in the process of the spirit. The aesthetics underlying this concept of art are examined in the introductory chapter. In the next four chapters, the elements that contribute to the poetic process - generally defined as the work of the poem and the work of the poet - are analyzed, through an examination of selected poem and prose statements. A division is made of Duncan's work into two periods, in Chapter 2, with the rest of the study being focused on the second (later) period of writing, where Duncan's increased attention to language process is found to be instrumental in creating a poetry that is truly a vital process. The early work is briefly discussed in Chapter 2, as an exploration of the subject of love, that being its distinguishing characteristic, and also as a foundation for the later work. Germs of later developments are noted in Duncan's attention to psychological, magical, and musical processes in the the poem, and are discussed in "Towards an African Elegy," "Medieval Scenes," and "The Venice Poem," respectively. Chapter 3 turns to the later work, Letters, The Opening of the Field and Roots and Branches. Duncan's evolving concept of language as the source and place of revelation, and as the instrument, also, of approaching a transcendent communal reality, is traced through Letters to its full definition in the first poem of The Field, "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow." Preparatory to discussing the other half of the process - the poet's actual workings in the poem - Chapter 4 considers the poet's place in the poem, and his general function in its process. Duncan's two major poems of the later work, "The Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar," and "Apprehensions" are discussed here to demonstrate the claim that Duncan assumes no omniscience in the poem; his position is one of limited awareness. It is found that he functions in the poem through an interplay or interaction between the creation of the poem and his consciousness. Finally, the precise nature of his participation, his working of the language toward a possible music through tone leading of vowels and thematic composition, is examined in Chapter 5. The concluding chapter summarizes Duncan's concept of process and then gives a brief sketch of areas not covered in this study. Duncan's major subjects and sources are outlined, with possible approaches to a study of his subject matter being suggested. Finally, it is claimed that however his work is approached, the spiritual centre of Duncan's art emerges as primary. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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A method of predictive control is used in the regulation of a vehicles' speed in an environmental test cell with a wind tunnel. The vehicle speed is regulated through the throttle while the vehicle torque is controlled with a dynamometer. The predicted throttle position for the requested speed is based on torque, speed, and throttle position curves. The predictive control works in conjunction with an integrating speed regulator. The predictive control sets the throttle position when the speed error is above a set limit. Otherwise, the integrating regulator controls the speed. A description of both the dynamometer and throttle control hardware is included in the thesis. The throttle control software is described in detail since most of the regulating functions are digital. Both simulation and on-site tests are described. Test results are provided by strip chart recordings. / Master of Science

A Prolog based approach towards the recognition of logic functional blocks in CMOS circuits is described in this thesis. A transistor level description of the circuit is assumed to be available. Predefined gates and logic blocks are extracted from such a description. This recognition procedure is a step towards raising the level of description of a network. An extracted block level description can be used to verify the correctness of the implemented logic. The approach described here uses a circuit partitioning technique to divide a given circuit into smaller subcircuits. This is followed by the extraction of logic expressions at the output nodes of subcircuits. From these logic expressions, gates are recognized. Functional blocks in the circuit are recognized based on rules which define such blocks in terms of their structural configuration. / Master of Science

This thesis is an attempt to arrive at a poetic form for a house in a city. It is a form that relies an the nakedness of things (walls, columns and platforms) to define a space. / Master of Architecture

This study investigated the relationship between anxiety and attention in high and low anxiety readers during the reading of materials of verging difficulty levels. An A-state reading anxiety scale was developed for the purpose of identifying high end low reading anxiety participants. Response times to a secondary task were measured while high end low reading anxiety participants were engaged in orally reading materials at easy, average, and hard difficulty levels and when not engaged by a primary task. A repeated measures design was implemented to describe relations between response times to a secondary task and high and low A-state reading anxiety groups for a baseline measure and for the reading of easy, average, and hard materials. Response times served as the dependent measure. Reading anxiety groups (high and low) end difficulty levels (baseline, easy, average and hard) served as independent measures. Difficulty levels were identified relative to both comprehension scores and word recognition scores and analyses were conducted separately for difficulty levels as identified by comprehension scores and for difficulty levels as identified by miscue scores. The repeated measures analysis demonstrated a significant interaction effect between high and low anxiety groups and difficulty levels (baseline, easy, average, and hard). The results indicated that attention to the reading task differed for high and low anxiety readers at varied difficulty levels. It was demonstrated that high anxiety readers reached high levels of attention to reading materials only at easy reading levels. At average and hard reading levels, high anxiety readers were unable to maintain high levels of attention to the task. Low anxiety readers generally followed the predictions of the Yerkes-Dodson law (1908), allocating more attention to average reading tasks. Findings were discussed with regard to implications of the effects of anxiety on attention to reading and the development of this methodology. / Ed. D.

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Orientador : Argelina Maria Cheibub Figueiredo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-14T04:14:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leme_HeladioJosedeCampos_M.pdf: 6714743 bytes, checksum: 86c6fae394a0495ccb9c9be1e7751662 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992 / Resumo: Não informado / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Mestre em Ciência Política