This research aims at developing a better understanding of commuters preferences and mode switching behaviour towards local transit for work trips. The proposed methodological approach incorporates three main stages. The first introduces a conceptual framework for modal shift maximized transit route design model that extends the use of demand models beyond forecasting transit ridership to the operational extent of transit route design. The second deals with designing and implementing a socio-psychometric COmmuting Survey for MOde Shift (COSMOS). Finally, the third stage focuses on developing econometric choice models of mode switching behaviour towards public transit. Advanced mode shift models are developed using state-of-the-art methodology of combining Revealed Preference (RP) and Stated Preference (SP) information. The results enriched our understanding of mode switching behaviour and revealed some interesting findings. Some socio-psychological variables have shown to have strong influence on mode shift and improved the models in terms of fitness and statistical significance. In an indication of the superiority of the car among other travel options, strong car use habit formation was realized for car drivers, making it hard to persuade them to switch to public transit. Further, unlike conventional choice models, the developed mode shift models showed that travel cost and in-vehicle travel time are of lower importance compared to other transit Level of Service (LOS) attributes such as waiting time, service reliability, number of transfers, transit technology, and crowding level. The results also showed that passengers are more likely to shift to rail-based modes (e.g. LRT and subway) than rubber-tyred modes (e.g. BRT). On the other hand, the availability of park-and-ride facilities as well as both schedule and real-time information provision did not appear to be significant for mode switching to public transit for work trips. This research provides evidence that mode shift is a complex process which involves socio-psychological variables beside common socio-demographic and modal attributes. The developed mode switching models present a new methodologically sound tool for evaluating the impacts of alternative transit service designs on travel behaviour. Such tool is more desirable for transit service planning than the traditional ones and can aid in precisely estimating transit ridership.

This research aims at developing a better understanding of commuters preferences and mode switching behaviour towards local transit for work trips. The proposed methodological approach incorporates three main stages. The first introduces a conceptual framework for modal shift maximized transit route design model that extends the use of demand models beyond forecasting transit ridership to the operational extent of transit route design. The second deals with designing and implementing a socio-psychometric COmmuting Survey for MOde Shift (COSMOS). Finally, the third stage focuses on developing econometric choice models of mode switching behaviour towards public transit. Advanced mode shift models are developed using state-of-the-art methodology of combining Revealed Preference (RP) and Stated Preference (SP) information. The results enriched our understanding of mode switching behaviour and revealed some interesting findings. Some socio-psychological variables have shown to have strong influence on mode shift and improved the models in terms of fitness and statistical significance. In an indication of the superiority of the car among other travel options, strong car use habit formation was realized for car drivers, making it hard to persuade them to switch to public transit. Further, unlike conventional choice models, the developed mode shift models showed that travel cost and in-vehicle travel time are of lower importance compared to other transit Level of Service (LOS) attributes such as waiting time, service reliability, number of transfers, transit technology, and crowding level. The results also showed that passengers are more likely to shift to rail-based modes (e.g. LRT and subway) than rubber-tyred modes (e.g. BRT). On the other hand, the availability of park-and-ride facilities as well as both schedule and real-time information provision did not appear to be significant for mode switching to public transit for work trips. This research provides evidence that mode shift is a complex process which involves socio-psychological variables beside common socio-demographic and modal attributes. The developed mode switching models present a new methodologically sound tool for evaluating the impacts of alternative transit service designs on travel behaviour. Such tool is more desirable for transit service planning than the traditional ones and can aid in precisely estimating transit ridership.

Entre 1759 et 1822, Diderot, Rétif de la Bretonne et Fourier coopèrent à distance et sur le mode de la fiction à la formation d'une utopie sexuelle libérale. Les " êtres de fiction " (Souriau/Latour) qu'ils mettent en scène expérimentent dans l'espace, dans des décors merveilleux ou dans une campagne réenchantée par une humeur gaillarde, des relations sexuelles utopiques. Ces relations tissent un " nouveau monde amoureux " qu'on peut qualifier de " libéral " par le soin accordé aux goûts de chacun-e, la générosité à l'égard des déshérité-e-s de l'amour et la pluralité de ses formes d'association. Notre enquête dégage ainsi un nouveau type de coopération, indissociablement littéraire et intellectuelle, entre des auteurs et des textes d'époques différentes, qui pouvaient ne se connaître que de loin, mais qui s'avèrent consonner de près : une même ouverture cosmique, un éthos sexuel commun, une semblable gaieté fictionnelle se traduisent par la formation d'une utopie sexuelle et textuelle convergente. La texture de cette utopie conduit notre enquête à emprunter aux études littéraires, pour l'analyse du merveilleux et de la gaieté notamment, ainsi qu'aux études philosophiques, pour l'analyse de la pensée sexuelle - mais surtout aux deux à la fois, car ce sont les " êtres de fiction " délégués par Diderot, Rétif et Fourier qui façonnent cette pensée et lui confèrent son originalité utopique.

「西風東漸」，指的是東方文化在吸收西方文明後所產生的「質變」，過去常適用在文化與科技領域的論述，但從2006年起，這股風潮已逐漸吹向台灣金融業，才剛完成金控轉型的台灣金融業，因遭逢雙卡風暴導致虧損擴大、淨值下降，最後給予國際私募基金揮軍來台的極佳機會。 在這波「金融業西風東漸」的浪潮中，萬泰銀行無疑是最受矚目的一家金融機構，原因包括：一、非常單純的小銀行，無金控財團奧援；二、私募基金SAC入主過程一波三折，最後還牽涉到銀行團「由債轉股」的爭議；三、SAC入主後隨即面臨全球金融風暴洗禮，導致裁員、關閉分行、專業經理人出走等跡象出現。 在台灣特殊的政經文化與金融環境下，SAC入主萬泰銀後績效之所以會被外界賦予高度重視，是因為萬泰銀行算是台灣金融業「過度競爭與切割化」的縮影，私募基金讓金融業起死回生的例子在日本可以被成功塑造，但來到台灣是否行得通？以目前SAC入主跡象看來，還有待繼續觀察。 基本上，私募基金「藉由營運效率讓企業在短期內獲得轉機機會」，但是短時間內獲利了結並退場，在民風「相對保守」的台灣容易受到非難。因此，正確的認識私募基金之運作模式，並進而了解私募基金對台灣未來經濟發展之可能影響，實為台灣企業界及政府部門均不能忽視之重要課題。 現在，博智欲入主南山人壽的適格性與否，正鬧得沸沸揚揚，顯示國際私募基金的手已由銀行業伸向壽險業，看到南山人壽工會的極力抗爭，在在都凸顯金融業身為百年大業，是否適合以「短線投資利益」為主要考量的私募基金來振衰起弊，尤其是政經環境都複雜許多的台灣金融市場，都會增加私募基金運作的難度，萬泰銀行即是一例。 但無論如何，本研究欲從諸多面相探討SAC入主萬泰銀的利弊得失，也希望能提供外界觀察私募基金在運作台灣金融業更多的參考意義。

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1992. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-169).

Ce travail est une analyse du concept de représentation tel qu'il peut s'élaborer à partir de la symbolique des quatre éléments (air, terre, eau, feu) dans des textes aussi bien religieux ou littéraires que philosophiques. A travers les notions voisines de participation, d'analogie, de pli ou de chair qui posent le problème du rapport de l'âme au corps, nous cernons peu à peu la représentation comme une prise de conscience saisissante qui, paradoxalement, correspond à un acte de distanciation du sujet par rapport à son monde. Quel est le statut de cette "présence-absence"? C'est non seulement le rapport du subjectif à l'objectif qui est interrogé mais aussi de façon plus générale celui de l'intimité à l'altérité. Nous tentons de montrer comment ces matières premières que sont les quatre éléments, "hormones de l'imagination" selon Gaston Bachelard, figurent concrètement la problématique d'une médiation entre le sensible et l'intelligible. Ils articulent en effet nos perceptions à diverses symbolisations par un recours à l'image. En ce sens, on peut les définir comme de véritables métaphores d'un processus de représentation ouvert sur la réflexion et la création. Au-delà de l'analyse d'une articulation entre la sensation et l'idée, c'est bien la question du sens qui est posée : que se joue-t-il, affectivement, dans notre attention au monde ? Comment la littérature utilise-t-elle la symbolique des éléments afin d'extérioriser la subjectivité et de partager une spiritualité commune ? Pourquoi les hommes ont-ils besoin de mettre leur vie en scène et de lui accorder une dimension sacrée ? / Confronting different philosophical, religious and literary pieces of work, this thesis studies the concept of representation through the use of the four elements: Air, Earth, Water and Fire. Through the similar notions of participation, analogy, fold or flesh which bring up the question of relationship between body and soul, we realize that the representation, or staging, is an obvious way to understand this relationship, and is also, paradoxically, a way for the subject to put a distance between himself and the world. How can we understand this "presence-absence" ambivalence? In order to do it we have to question the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity and furthermore the one between intimacy and otherness. We want to demonstrate that these four elements, these raw materials also known as "hormones of the imagination" in Gaston Bachelard's work, are, in practical terms, a link between our senses and our mind. Using the medium "image" they help us to understand how we perceive different symbolisms. Therefore, they are metaphors of a representation process open upon the thinking and the creative worlds. Beyond studying the connection between feelings and thoughts, we are interested in the senses themselves: how do they affect our perception of the world? How does literature use the symbolic nature of the elements in order to express a subjectivity and to share a common spirituality? Why do human beings need to dramatize life and add a sacred dimension to it?

Orientadora: Profª. Drª. Anastasia Guidi Itokazu / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, São Bernardo do Campo, 2017. / A pesquisa investiga a arquitetura do universo tal como proposta por Vitrúvio no século I a.C. São apresentadas as artes e disciplinas da arquitetura vinculadas às práticas da gnomônica e o contexto que envolve o arquiteto na Antiguidade, tal como alguns aspectos políticos e religiosos que integram o discurso das estruturas do universo descritas no Tratado de Arquitetura. São desenvolvidas as questões que envolvem o livro como objeto traduzido e transformado ao longo de milhares de anos e algumas reflexões quanto aos desenhos e as pinturas mencionadas na obra. Também temos os comentários e desenvolvimentos das questões quanto à cosmologia junto às elaborações de mapas e ilustrações a partir do conteúdo descrito pelo arquiteto. Foram pesquisadas as teorias de autores que antecedem o período da obra e que forneceram os ensinamentos para a execução das enxertias de Vitrúvio, assim como também se buscou aplicar os termos que são apresentadas como definições constitutivas da arquitetura, ao considerarmos o livro como um produto desta arte. / The present research investigates the architecture of the universe as proposed by Vitruvius in the first century BC. The arts and disciplines of architecture related to the practices of gnomonics and the context surrounding the architect in Antiquity are presented, as well as some political and religious aspects that end up integrating the discourse about the structures of the universe as described in the Treatise on Architecture. The book is hereby presented as an object translated and transformed over thousands of years and some reflections on the drawings and paintings are proposed. Comments and developments regarding the cosmology required for the elaborations of maps and illustrations are also examined in the text provided by the architect. Finally, some of the the theories of authors that precede the period of the work and who provided the teachings for Vitruvius' graftings were investigated, as well the applications tof terms that are presented as constitutive definitions of the architecture, the book being taken as a product of this art.

The aim of this thesis is to examine the problem of soul in Plato's Timaeus while paying due respect to its close connection with the topics of cosmology and cosmogony. The inquiry proceeds from the highest level of the cosmos itself to the lowest level of the souls of mortal beings. In the first chapter, an important question, whether the cosmos singularly came into being or not is being examined. In this context, two traditional approaches are distinguished and it is argued that a proper answer to this question has to contain some elements of them both. The second chapter examines the nature of Plato's maker of this world, the demiurge. It is argued that he is a primordial deity who should not be identified with any aspect of the created cosmos or the intelligible being and who not only creates the bodily world and its soul but serves as a sort of paradigm for the soul in respect to its capacities as well. The topics of soul and cosmos blend equally in the third chapter which is devoted to the world-soul. It concentrates on three main topics which are relevant also for the souls occupying a lower position in the hierarchy. These are the blending of the soul that explains its basic properties, the structuring of the soul and attributing it a particular motion and finally the problem of cognition...

Rather than separating moral and political virtue through reason of state, the Pax Romana presents a sophisticated moral-political vision of the interrelationships between cosmology, memory, founding, violence, and freedom. Nevertheless, its complex integrative vision is also perilous to humanity, demanding a morality of forbearing the adverse consequences of endless cycles of political violence. Pax Gandhiana presents an alternative integrative vision engaging many of the same concerns as the Romans, such as cosmos, ubiquitous violence, and freedom. By contrast, however, its political vision demands forbearing the adverse consequences of repudiating as opposed to embracing the ubiquity of violence in the cosmos. Hence, Pax Romana and Pax Gandhiana rest on closely related but ultimately very different political visions. Consistent with Gandhi, my objective in this article is to show how the Romans provide us with an object lesson in why we should repudiate such violence, as guaranteeing our downfall into misery, chaos, and even madness.

Accumulation of Divine Service is a ceramic installation referencing the sublime attribute of service, and how it relates to our temporal existence. Many aspects of the sublime are implemented into the contemporary art world today. The sublime can refer to ideas from terror to joy, and all across the spectrum of human emotions. The unifying element that seems to tie them together is a quality of awe-inspiring greatness, or the metaphysically divine. These attributescan inspire the mind and often lead one to dwell on the existence of a Supreme Being or Deity,what His purposes are, and how we as mortals work with or for that purpose.This installation encompasses some of my thoughts on the divinity that I believe dwells within all mankind. I do this by incorporating into the installation two repeated elements, the finial and the mug. The finial is an architectural element that is implemented at the apex of most religious meetinghouses. It is used for this purpose because it points toward the heavens and lifts the mind upward toward God. The mug, on the other hand, is one of the most humble and universal ceramic service vessels. It is used around the world as a drinking container whose sole purpose is service, or to give life-sustaining nourishment to mankind. The combination of these two visual elements seeks to encompass my personal art practice, my research, and the element of the sublime that we all possess.