<p>This essay analyzes how issues related to money and social class are presented in Jane Austen’s Persuasion. The method used will be a close reading as well as aspects of Marxist literary criticism, a theory that will be presented in the second chapter. Background information about the author and her time will then be given in the third chapter. In chapter four, the character of Sir Walter Elliot will be analyzed, in chapter five Elizabeth Elliot, and in chapter six William Elliot. Some of the other characters will be analyzed, more briefly, in the seventh chapter. Conclusions will then be drawn in the eighth and final chapter.</p>

This essay analyzes how issues related to money and social class are presented in Jane Austen’s Persuasion. The method used will be a close reading as well as aspects of Marxist literary criticism, a theory that will be presented in the second chapter. Background information about the author and her time will then be given in the third chapter. In chapter four, the character of Sir Walter Elliot will be analyzed, in chapter five Elizabeth Elliot, and in chapter six William Elliot. Some of the other characters will be analyzed, more briefly, in the seventh chapter. Conclusions will then be drawn in the eighth and final chapter.

Due to the lack of feedback networks, digital class D amplifiers operating in open loop typically have inferior performance when compared to analog class D amplifiers in closed loop configuration. This thesis presents an integrated distortion suppression circuit design for digital class D amplifiers, which forms a feedback loop around the output stage. This circuit suppresses the output stage distortion and noise by equalizing the modulator effective duty ratio and the output stage effective duty ratio. The suppression circuit is integrated with the class D modulator. An integrated class D amplifier output stage is implemented separately using a 0.35μm HV-CMOS technology. Experimental results confirm that the closed loop PSRR is improved by 15dB. The THD+N value is reduced by a factor of 2 to 30. The minimum THD+N is 0.03%, which is among the state of the art class D amplifiers.

Due to the lack of feedback networks, digital class D amplifiers operating in open loop typically have inferior performance when compared to analog class D amplifiers in closed loop configuration. This thesis presents an integrated distortion suppression circuit design for digital class D amplifiers, which forms a feedback loop around the output stage. This circuit suppresses the output stage distortion and noise by equalizing the modulator effective duty ratio and the output stage effective duty ratio. The suppression circuit is integrated with the class D modulator. An integrated class D amplifier output stage is implemented separately using a 0.35μm HV-CMOS technology. Experimental results confirm that the closed loop PSRR is improved by 15dB. The THD+N value is reduced by a factor of 2 to 30. The minimum THD+N is 0.03%, which is among the state of the art class D amplifiers.

With the increase in national income, demand for residential dwellings from the shelter, basic needs, thus taking into account the domestic situation, ventilation, lighting and other home within their own conditions, and noise, sanitation, etc. the quality of the external environment, gradually become the focus of concern, while the home security, life and leisure sports such as convenience demands increasing attention. In particular, the middle-class constitutes the backbone of society, to social development and stability of a great force in Kaohsiung local consumption patterns and cultural differences, the middle-class homebuyers demand for their own use and purchase of residential the decision-making may be different from other areas. Housing is a not a small number of financial decisions and expenditures, as housing is different from general merchandise, with durability, high prices and the repeat purchase rate of the smaller features, is the homebuyers in the decision-making process must be highly involved, and in the face of housing decisions, the consideration of the housing a myriad of factors. Residential properties for different homebuyers have different degrees of importance, is a very complex decision-making process, this study of " analytic hierarchy process (AHP) " to complex problems systematically, from different perspectives given level of decomposition and, through quantitative judgments, will be a comprehensive assessment of relevant information to provide homebuyers in the purchase decision-making appropriate and adequate information, decision-making aimed at resolving the difficulties of the temporary surface, reducing the risk of making a wrong decision, enabling more homebuyers transaction capacity to make the right decision. The use of " hierarchy analysis, " the establishment of multi-level evaluation model, the middle class-occupied residential property for Kaohsiung weight requirements analysis to understand the priority order; through the Conclusion of this study was to provide middle-class homebuyers Kaohsiung's reference, also provide Government and civil construction industry in the planning and building of own house, they can meet the Kaohsiung middle-class preferences.

Thesis (M. Hous. Man.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.) in History--University of Maine, 2003. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 248-264).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2003. / Spine title: A test of the epidemiology of health. Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-201). Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1973. / Typewritten.

Thesis--M. Phil., University of Hong Kong, 1983.