Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Music. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-102). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL:http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss&rft%5Fval%5Ffmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss:MQ99285

Faith is a phenomenon that engages the individual into emotional, social and daily manners. Religion tends to engage the individual in different levels in the daily life. In the church communion, there is a belief to the traditional and the repeteated behaviour. This shared group is strength by ceremonies and rituals and people in this collective somehow experience another type of reality. This study has a social - psychological perspective and the purpose is to study people’s know-how of faith and why they seek religion in today´s secularized society. A quantitative approach was applied through interviews with five independent religious women. The theoretical framework is mainly built by theories that deal with trust, reflexivity and fellowship. The result indicates that the respondents have a similar view on the fellowship with other religious in the church communion, all respondents describes that the relationship to God have a central meaning. This follows a further description and motive to their faith. Religion is an obvious part of their life and something they cannot be without, thus this generates feelings of wellbeing to the individual religious.

The project was carried out with SwedSafe AB, engaged in hearing and manufacture of earplugs. Since the company is a world leader in the sale of these products, it is important that they keep a higher level of quality of these products. Production of earplugs is currently a automated manufacturing process that is divided into four conveyor belts and one of the conveyor belts is what will be affected in the project. The belt affected during this process is exposed to various elements such as filling, closing, fermentation and extraction of products. Because the belt gets dirty, degraded products and the work environment is affected. To increase the quality of products and improve the working environment requires an automatic cleaning process, which collects dirt from the belt. The aim of the project is to design a machine that prevents the belt from becoming dirty, preserve molds clean and improve the working environment without disrupting production. The project will also be documented for further development of the machine, to use it on other conveyors. During the working time used Fredy Olsson Principle Design, Primary Design and Manufacturing process to construct the machine. Catia V5 for the compilation of the machine in 3D, drawings, and Pay-off approach to economic calculation. The goal of the project is to run the machine, and maintenance will be low and that improving any product quality. / Projektet utfördes tillsammans med SwedSafe AB, som sysslar med hörselskydd och tillverkning av öronproppar. Eftersom att företaget är världsledande inom försäljning av dessa produkter är det viktigt att de håller en högre grad av kvalitet på dessa produkter. Tillverkning av öronproppar sker i dagsläget av en automatisk tillverkningsprocess som är delad till fyra transportband och ett av transportbanden är det som kommer beröras i projektet. Bandet som påverkas under den här processen utsätts till olika moment så som påfyllning, stängning, jäsning och uppsugning av produkter. Det bidrar till att bandet blir smutsigt, produkterna försämras och arbetsmiljön påverkas. För att öka kvalitén på produkter och förbättra arbetsmiljön krävs en automatisk rengöringsprocess som samlar upp smuts från bandet. Syftet med projektet vara att konstruera en maskin som hindrar transportbandet ifrån att bli smutsigt, bevara gjutformer rena och förbättra arbetsmiljön utan att störa produktionen. Projektet skall även dokumenteras för vidare utveckling av maskinen för att kunna använda den på andra transportband. Under arbetsgång användes Fredy Olssons Principkonstruktion, Primärkonstruktion och Tillverkningsmetod, för att konsturera maskinen. Även Catia V5 för sammanställning av maskinen i 3D samt ritningar och Pay-off metod för ekonomi beräkning. Målet med projektet vara att drivningen av maskinen och underhållning ska vara låga samt att förbättre produkternas kvalitet.

Projektbeskrivning: Bakgrund: Vid valsning av tunna band med hög hållfasthet används reversibla mångvalsarsverk. Kundkraven är höga vad gäller bandens planhet. Planheten kan styras genom de planhetsställdon som valsverket är utrustat med. Syfte: Förvärva kunskap om hur de olika ställdonen inverkar på planheten. Varje enskilt ställdons inverkan på planheten kan undersökas genom att genomföra en föreskriven förändring av ställdonets läge och därefter utvärdera planhetsförändringen som uppkom. Försöken utförs i ett 20-valsarsverk vid Sandvik Materials Technology i Sandviken. Mål: Förbättra den automatiska planhetsregleringen.

This report presents concepts for a planar active electronically scanned antenna(AESA). The goal of the project was to devlop a low-weight, low profile, thin, S-band antenna with wide-scan angle capabilities. In the final concept the service aspects of the T/R-modules was also taken into acount in order to allow easy and fast replacements of these components. The antenna was designed and optimised using the commercial software Ansoft HFSS. A prototype of the antenna was constructed and later measured and verified. The final concept is a 2m×2m antenna with an estimated weight of around 320 kg, around 11 cm thick (where the thickness of the antenna element is 1.76 cm) and has a maximum scan angle range of more than 45 degrees (with <–10dB active reflection) in the frequency band 3–3.5 GHz.

This research is for the purpose of constructing curriculums and solutions for beginner-level of percussion skill teaching. The researcher, in view of percussion learning difficulty, establishes "the national elementary school percussion teaching curriculums", containing percussion learning methods and key points in teaching. This research utilizes 12 fifth-graders from WuTang Elementary School in Pingdong County as study object. With tools such as class evaluation records, class activity records, teachers-students interaction records, to carries out complete observation records, which leads to a complete curriculum involving five mail subject units and 16 teaching units, over a total of eight weeks, 32 classes. Upon completion of this curriculum, 13 concrete methods were developed to improve problems with the fundamentals such as improper grasps of drum sticks, which may effectively address and solve beginners¡¦ learning-related problems; In order to improve teaching progress, the researcher also proposed that the learners become familiarized with the 16 percussion key points, such as the music melody etc..

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

ITC/USA 2014 Conference Proceedings / The Fiftieth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 20-23, 2014 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA / Over the past few years, papers have been presented relating to the design and development of a telemetry section used to compare the performance between S-Band and C-Band telemetry links. In addition, the flight test plans to make this comparison have been discussed. Captive Carry Test Flights (on a F-18 fighter jet) over the NAVAIR Sea and Land Ranges at Point Mugu and China Lake were conducted during the April-July 2014 timeframe. In addition a Live Fire Test Flight over the Land Range of the specially outfitted missile was performed in July 2014 as well. This paper will discuss these series of flights tests and provide a performance assessment of the data quality between the C-Band and S-Band telemetry data links. In addition, lessons learned from the various test flights will be included as well. Due to publication deadlines, the results will be summarized at the actual conference.

ITC/USA 2014 Conference Proceedings / The Fiftieth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 20-23, 2014 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA / Airbus is authorized to use S-band for Telemetry transmission until 2015. In October 2011, the decision was taken to move to C-band in 2013, to cope with Airbus development aircraft planning. The objective was a real challenge for 2 main reasons: C-band channel was not characterized in Airbus transmission environment and it was necessary to validate the propagation performance for Flight Tests uses. The selected solution is based on Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) modulation. There was no existing solution so it has led the Airbus Test Centre to drive the development of its own C Band solution. C-band telemetry at Airbus has been tested and evaluated in flight from April 2012. The first goal was to check the coverage and the impact of the bad weather condition. Besides, it was necessary to characterize the channel to choose the optimised parameters for the waveform in the Toulouse Blagnac environment. This selection of parameters allows the high quality and increased data rate required for Airbus Telemetry to be reached. The test results consolidated the choice of a COFDM modulation, when given the high sensitivity to multipath of usual Frequency Modulation in the airport environment full of buildings and aircrafts. Moreover, it has been possible to reach a similar quality to the S-band telemetry systems, thanks to a fine tuning of the waveform parameters, and tracking system. Deployment of the system by modifying 8 reception antennas and 12 development aircrafts was done over a span of 4 weeks in January 2014. No impact on Airbus A350 certification campaign occurred due to close collaboration with Flight Test Operations. The new Telemetry system enables an increase of telemetry capabilities in the future, especially the data throughput, simplified remote control and monitoring. This experience is an opportunity to set up a new standard.

ITC/USA 2013 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Ninth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 21-24, 2013 / Bally's Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV / The physics associated with transmitting and receiving a telemetry signal at a frequency greater than an octave above the current operating band is such that an end-to-end evaluation of the complete data link system (both the transmit and receive side) is required. In 2012, Airborne Instrumentation Systems Division (AISD), Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to develop a couple of short-range air-to-air missile platforms that use a specially-designed warhead-replaceable telemetry section incorporating three data links: (1) an S-band link to transmit Time- Space-Position Information (TSPI), (2) an C-band link, and (3) an additional S-band link where the latter two are transmitting the same pseudo-random bit sequence at the same effective radiated power level. Flight testing will consist of a series of captive tests conducted over land and water. The tests will be performed under a variety of conditions to induce potential issues caused by multipath, atmospheric ducting, fast-slewing of the tracking antenna, and large propagation losses. Flight testing will culminate with the live-fire of a missile over a military land range. This paper describes the continuing efforts of this test program from these series of flight tests, thus quantifying the performance of C-band telemetry data transmission as compared to the S-band.