Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 136 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-118).

Assigning stereotypical behaviors and traits associated with young people—selfabsorbed, narcissistic, lost, technologically dependent, disrespectful, financially unstable, etc.—to Millennials have become common practice in popular media and colloquial discourse and are not without consequence. Although the contemporary discourses circulating through society appear to be characteristically Millennial, similar discourses have historically appeared in conversations surrounding preceding generations. This thesis uses five popular culture case studies that capture the zeitgeist of both young Boomers and Millennials to compare discourses and critically examines the overlapping references between age groups and generational categories. This research also aims to bring visibility to the relevance of age getting lost amidst discourses about generations. Using textual analysis via discursive formations, this project reveals the reproduction of dominant power structures among generational discourses and poses implications to those power structures. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (MA)--Florida Atlantic University, 2021. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

While research focusing on the retirement intentions of individuals within the general population has been undertaken, only two empirical studies have examined the retirement intentions of professional workers. This study expands the small, existing body of literature focusing on this topic by presenting eighteen hypotheses, grouped into five categories of factors, and testing them with the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience.

Essa tese se propõe a realizar uma reflexão acerca da produção dos espaços públicos urbanos na cidade de Goiânia, capital do estado de Goiás. Dedica-se, mais especificamente, aos espaços públicos produzidos como uma espécie de \"resíduo\" da atuação de empresas do mercado imobiliário formal, no período que a bibliografia convencionou chamar \"boom imobiliário\" (2007-2015). Neste período, as incorporadoras, mais capitalizadas e competitivas, desenvolveram estratégias de desenho que aplicadas aos seus produtos permitem \"criar localizações\". O processo de \"criar localizações\" possibilita o aumento significativo da margem de lucro dos empreendimentos, na medida em que se pode optar por terrenos cada vez mais longínquos. Com a possibilidade de poder buscar áreas fora das regiões mais equipadas da cidade, torna-se mais fácil encontrar terrenos mais baratos e/ou maiores. Terrenos maiores permitem, ainda, ganhos de escala na medida em que possibilitam a produção de um maior número de unidades habitacionais por empreendimento, o que também incrementa a rentabilidade. O resultado são entornos habitacionais, horizontais ou verticais, localizados à nas margens da área urbanizada, marcados pela fragmentação física e pelas estratégias de auto segregação. O espaço público se torna amorfo e estéril; e se presta unicamente à circulação motorizada. A caminhabilidade é a lente através da qual esse processo de deterioração dos espaços públicos urbanos será analisado. Para realizar essa reflexão tomou-se o caminho da pesquisa empírica. Primeiro foram escolhidas áreas da cidade, que pudessem representar a variedade das estratégias do mercado imobiliário na criação desses novos produtos; e que em consequência permitisse avaliar processos distintos de rearranjo no desenho dos espaços públicos. Foram escolhidas primeiramente três amostras, diferentes entre si, e que representassem esse processo. Posteriormente foi escolhida uma \"amostra de referência\", um bairro considerado \"caminhável\", que servisse de parâmetro para a análise das demais amostras. Para completar o panorama estudado foi acrescentada uma ultima amostra, localizada numa área em que se agrupam grandes plantas de varejo, na qual é possível observar uma variação do mesmo fenômeno aplicada à empreendimentos comerciais. Estudos com abordagens semelhantes foram analisados no sentido de fornecer um rol de variáveis urbanísticas que atuassem sobre a caminhabilidade. A partir dessas variáveis foi elaborada uma metodologia de análise que, uma vez aplicada às cinco amostras, possibilitou um conhecimento mais detalhado do impacto da proliferação dos \"enclaves fortificados\", sobre a constituição de um espaço público de qualidade e em consequência de uma cidade que priorize o transporte a pé. / This thesis aims to think about the urban public spaces in city of Goiânia, main city in State of Goiás. Specifically, the text treats on the created public realm as a remainder from real state companies\' agency, between the years 2007 and 2015, period called by researchers as \"real state boom\". In this run, incorporating companies, vastly more capitalized and competitive, developed strategies for engineering design to create literally concepts of sites and lucrative addresses. Creating localizations increases profits to companies, once the agencies could search for large and far lands. Seeking this type of realty, far from urban community facilities, it is possible to find out cheap and/or large places. Consequently, large realties mean more housing units, making possible that companies get more profitability by unit. In this way, the result is housing environment, horizontal or vertical, located in suburbs, based on the self-segregation and the fragmentation. Thus, these spaces become a \"shapeless\" and ungrateful location, serving merely the cars circulating. The perspective, wherewith this process of deterioration will be analyzed, is the walkability. Thereunto, the empirical research was chosen. City areas - which have performed the variety of real state market strategies and also have permitted distinct reshuffles to design some public spaces - were selected and, from them, three samples, different from each other. After that, a reference sample of a sector was taken: a walkable sector of community. Added to this, a last sample was chosen: a neighborhood where large retailer layouts are clustered and, besides, it is possible to observe the same conditions as in commercial companies. Furthermore, some studies with similar approaches were analyzed to give us a role of urban elements that acts on the walkability. From this, a methodology of analysis was elaborated and, after applied to the five samples, this methodology enables a knowledge more detailed about the impacts from proliferation of fortified enclaves and its relevance to a public space with quality and pursuant to a city that prioritizes a transport by foot.

Essa tese se propõe a realizar uma reflexão acerca da produção dos espaços públicos urbanos na cidade de Goiânia, capital do estado de Goiás. Dedica-se, mais especificamente, aos espaços públicos produzidos como uma espécie de \"resíduo\" da atuação de empresas do mercado imobiliário formal, no período que a bibliografia convencionou chamar \"boom imobiliário\" (2007-2015). Neste período, as incorporadoras, mais capitalizadas e competitivas, desenvolveram estratégias de desenho que aplicadas aos seus produtos permitem \"criar localizações\". O processo de \"criar localizações\" possibilita o aumento significativo da margem de lucro dos empreendimentos, na medida em que se pode optar por terrenos cada vez mais longínquos. Com a possibilidade de poder buscar áreas fora das regiões mais equipadas da cidade, torna-se mais fácil encontrar terrenos mais baratos e/ou maiores. Terrenos maiores permitem, ainda, ganhos de escala na medida em que possibilitam a produção de um maior número de unidades habitacionais por empreendimento, o que também incrementa a rentabilidade. O resultado são entornos habitacionais, horizontais ou verticais, localizados à nas margens da área urbanizada, marcados pela fragmentação física e pelas estratégias de auto segregação. O espaço público se torna amorfo e estéril; e se presta unicamente à circulação motorizada. A caminhabilidade é a lente através da qual esse processo de deterioração dos espaços públicos urbanos será analisado. Para realizar essa reflexão tomou-se o caminho da pesquisa empírica. Primeiro foram escolhidas áreas da cidade, que pudessem representar a variedade das estratégias do mercado imobiliário na criação desses novos produtos; e que em consequência permitisse avaliar processos distintos de rearranjo no desenho dos espaços públicos. Foram escolhidas primeiramente três amostras, diferentes entre si, e que representassem esse processo. Posteriormente foi escolhida uma \"amostra de referência\", um bairro considerado \"caminhável\", que servisse de parâmetro para a análise das demais amostras. Para completar o panorama estudado foi acrescentada uma ultima amostra, localizada numa área em que se agrupam grandes plantas de varejo, na qual é possível observar uma variação do mesmo fenômeno aplicada à empreendimentos comerciais. Estudos com abordagens semelhantes foram analisados no sentido de fornecer um rol de variáveis urbanísticas que atuassem sobre a caminhabilidade. A partir dessas variáveis foi elaborada uma metodologia de análise que, uma vez aplicada às cinco amostras, possibilitou um conhecimento mais detalhado do impacto da proliferação dos \"enclaves fortificados\", sobre a constituição de um espaço público de qualidade e em consequência de uma cidade que priorize o transporte a pé. / This thesis aims to think about the urban public spaces in city of Goiânia, main city in State of Goiás. Specifically, the text treats on the created public realm as a remainder from real state companies\' agency, between the years 2007 and 2015, period called by researchers as \"real state boom\". In this run, incorporating companies, vastly more capitalized and competitive, developed strategies for engineering design to create literally concepts of sites and lucrative addresses. Creating localizations increases profits to companies, once the agencies could search for large and far lands. Seeking this type of realty, far from urban community facilities, it is possible to find out cheap and/or large places. Consequently, large realties mean more housing units, making possible that companies get more profitability by unit. In this way, the result is housing environment, horizontal or vertical, located in suburbs, based on the self-segregation and the fragmentation. Thus, these spaces become a \"shapeless\" and ungrateful location, serving merely the cars circulating. The perspective, wherewith this process of deterioration will be analyzed, is the walkability. Thereunto, the empirical research was chosen. City areas - which have performed the variety of real state market strategies and also have permitted distinct reshuffles to design some public spaces - were selected and, from them, three samples, different from each other. After that, a reference sample of a sector was taken: a walkable sector of community. Added to this, a last sample was chosen: a neighborhood where large retailer layouts are clustered and, besides, it is possible to observe the same conditions as in commercial companies. Furthermore, some studies with similar approaches were analyzed to give us a role of urban elements that acts on the walkability. From this, a methodology of analysis was elaborated and, after applied to the five samples, this methodology enables a knowledge more detailed about the impacts from proliferation of fortified enclaves and its relevance to a public space with quality and pursuant to a city that prioritizes a transport by foot.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-149).

Le stockage des déchets radioactifs dans les formations géologiques profondes peu perméables comme les argilites et les argiles plastiques est envisagée comme une solution possible et fait l'objet de nombreuses études depuis une trentaine d'années. Dans le cadre du projet européen TIMODAZ, l'accent a été mis sur l'étude des effets d'une augmentation de la température engendrée par les déchets exothermiques sur la zone endommagée autour d'une galerie souterraine de stockage. Dans le cadre de ce projet, une étude expérimentale sur le comportement thermique de l'argile de Boom et de l'argile à Opaline a été réalisée. Afin de surmonter les difficultés reliées à l'étude expérimentale des matériaux peu perméables en laboratoire, une nouvelle cellule triaxiale à court chemin de drainage a été mise en œuvre. Les essais ainsi qu'une modélisation numérique montrent que la re-saturation des échantillons désaturés par le processus d'excavation, transport, stockage et préparation peut être réalisée beaucoup plus rapidement par ce dispositif. Les essais de chargement mécanique et thermique en condition drainée (c'est-à-dire avec une surpression interstitielle engendrée négligeable) peuvent être réalisés également dans cette cellule avec des vitesses de chargement plus élevée comparée aux cellules triaxiales classiques. La possibilité de réactivation d'une bande de cisaillement par pressurisation thermique du fluide interstitiel dans un échantillon de l'argile de Boom est mise en évidence. On observe qu'un plan de rupture préexistant dans l'échantillon agit comme un plan de faiblesse pouvant être réactivé de façon préférentielle au moment de la rupture. La résistance au cisaillement obtenue sur le plan de rupture est inférieure à celle de matériau intact pour l'argile de Boom. Le comportement thermique de l'argile à Opaline a été étudié à partir d'essais de chauffage en condition drainée et non drainée sur des échantillons saturés. L'essai de chauffage drainé montre un comportement thermo-elasto-plastique avec limite expansion/contraction à 65°C. Ce comportement est similaire au comportement des argiles faiblement surconsolidées. L'analyse des résultats de l'essai de chauffage non drainé met en évidence que l'eau interstitielle dans l'argile à Opaline a un coefficient de dilation thermique plus important comparé à celui de l'eau libre. Dans la gamme de températures étudiées (25°C-80°C), les mesures de perméabilité sur les échantillons endommagés par un chargement déviatorique ne montrent aucun effet de l'endommagement sur la perméabilité, ce qui prouve la bonne capacité de scellement de l'argile de Boom et l'argile à Opaline saturées / Storage of exothermic radioactive waste in deep low permeability geological formations such as clayey rocks and plastic clays is a solution considered for long term repositories. However the excavation of underground galleries creates a damaged zone (EDZ). The effect of the damage zone on the transport properties of the geological barrier has been widely studied. Within the framework of the TIMODAZ European project, emphasis has been put on the effect of temperature. As a partner of this project, the current work is performed to investigate the coupling effect between temperature, damage and permeability on Boom clay and Opalinus clay through an experimental study. View to the experimental difficulties related to the low permeability materials, a new hollow cylinder triaxial cell with short drainage path specifically designed to study the thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of very low permeable materials is developed during this work. The tests and the numerical analysis show that the short sample drainage path reduces significantly the time needed to resaturate an initially unsaturated sample and it also permits to achieve drained conditions (i.e. negligible excess pore pressure during testing) with a higher loading rate. For Boom clay, the effect of the pore water thermal pressurisation on a sample with a pre-existing shear band is investigated. The undrained heating under shear stress decreases the effective stress on the sample which leads to its failure. An existing failure plane in the sample behaves like a preferential weakness plane which can be reactivated by pore water thermal pressurisation. The estimated shearing resistance along the sheared plane is smaller than that of the intact material. For the Opalinus claystone, drained heating on a saturated sample shows that this claystone behaves like a slightly overconsolidated material (thermo-elasto-plastic behaviour) with transition from expansion to contraction at 65°C. The decrease of the permeability of the sample before and after the heating-cooling cycles proves the irreversible volumetric compaction of the sample. The undrained heating test on the Opalinus claystone induces an excess pore pressure in the sample which cannot be explained by the difference between the free water thermal expansion coefficient and that of the solid matrix. The back analysis of the results shows a higher value for the water thermal expansion coefficient as compared to that of free water. Permeability measurements at 25°C and 80°C on samples previously damaged by deviatoric loading show no significant effect of damage on the permeability of the samples. These results confirm the good sealing capacity of both clays at various temperatures

En este estudio se examina la creación de la idea de negocio llamada Easy Move. Esta idea de negocio quiere aprovechar el boom inmobiliaria que se presenta en Perú adaptando las necesidades del mercado al servicio. El concepto de este servicio es de conectar a un transportista independiente con un cliente interesado en el servicio de mudanza. Por medio de hipótesis y concierge se examinan los posibles escenarios de este negocio y se va dando forma a la idea negocio de acuerdo a las necesidades de los clientes. Los datos analizados muestran que existen diferentes tipos de necesidades en las personas que se quieren mudar. Se identifican diferentes tipos de clientes, las personas que planifican su mudanza, las personas que no planifican su mudanza y necesitan mudarse de inmediato y los transportistas independientes que necesitan clientes interesados en sus servicios. Además, los datos analizados reflejan que, si se resuelve el problema de un potencial cliente, este se sentirá satisfecho y adquirirá el servicio. / This study examines the creation of the business idea called Easy Move. This business idea is going to take advantage of the real estate boom that is present in Peru, adapting the needs of the market to the service. The concept of this service is to connect an independent carrier with a customer interested in moving services. By means of hypothesis and concierge, the possible scenarios of this business are examined, and the business idea is shaped according to the needs of the clients. The data analysed showed that there are different types of needs in people who want to move. Different types of clients are identified, the people who plan their move, the people who do not plan their move, and need to move immediately and the independent carriers that need clients interested in their services. In addition, the analysed data reflects that if the problem of a potential client is solved, they will feel satisfied and will require the service. / Trabajo de investigación

Commercial aircraft are subject to noise regulations imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Currently, the FAA limits overland flight of supersonic airplanes due to the negative effect of the sonic boom on communities. The annoyance produced by the impulsive signature of sonic booms, particularly indoors, cannot exceed that of the broadband, low-overpressure noise produced by subsonic airplanes for the restriction to be lifted. Therefore, the ability to understand and accurately reproduce the acoustic response of a sonic boom is important for psychoacoustic classification of their tolerability within residences. This thesis presents and interprets results of the propagation and transmission of simulated sonic booms incident on wood-framed structures. The testing environment, sonic boom simulation method, and associated instrumentation are described. The effects of the traveling blast on the structure are investigated through pressure loading and structural response measurements. The ensuing interior acoustic responses for several different configurations are presented, including the effects of room cavity interaction and exposure of the room cavities to the traveling wave through an open door. Calculated transfer functions between the interior acoustic response and the free-field incident wave are computed to assess the extent to which wood-framed buildings transmit energy to their cavities. In all cases tested, significant transmission of the sonic boom's low frequency content into the structures was apparent through direct apertures and the excitation of structural components. The data show that sonic booms provide significant excitation of structural and acoustic modes that drives the interior acoustic response in residential structures. / Master of Science

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