Thesis advisor: Donald Fishman / The whistleblower has emerged as a relevant player in today's shifting economic and corporate landscape. Using a critical-historical methodology, this thesis explores the dimensions and boundaries of the concept of the “whistleblower”. The specific case studies of WorldCom, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, and WikiLeaks are examined. The analysis includes an investigation into the shifting role of the whistleblower in society and whether legislative enactments have been able to support society’s need to protect current and future whistleblowers. Finally, this thesis examines the whistleblower's implications for a more ethical future. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication.

This thesis investigates the use of single Cooper-pair transistor (SCPT) for fast and sensitive detection of quasiparticle dynamics. This investigation is motivated by the possibility of quantum information processing using superconducting nanoscale circuits, such as the SCPT and the Cooper-pair-box (CPB). In the SCPT coherent charge transport can be temporarily halted due to quasiparticle tunnelling, known as quasiparticle poisoning. Quasiparticle poisoning can be reduced by the use of engineered island and lead gap energies. The thesis begins by reporting measurements of the superconducting gap in aluminium - aluminium-oxide - aluminium tunnel junctions, as a function of film thickness. We have observed an increase in the superconducting energy gap of aluminium with decreasing film thickness. This method is used to engineer the island and gap energies in a SCPT and consequently we observe reduced poisoning and a modification of the thresholds for finite bias transport processes. Radio-frequency reflectometry is used to perform high-bandwidth measurements of quasiparticle tunnelling in a gap engineered SCPT. A model for the radio-frequency (rf) operation of the SCPT is presented and shows close agreement with experiment. Thermal activation of the quasiparticle dynamics is investigated, and consequently, we are able to determine energetics of the poisoning and unpoisoning processes. This enables an effective quasiparticle temperature to be determined, allowing the poisoning to be parametrised. An investigation of the use of normal metal quasiparticle traps for suppression of quasiparticle poisoning in SCPT devices is performed. To date, there has been little quantitative information about the behaviour of quasiparticle traps even though they have been used extensively. The work presented serves to clarify the nature of quasiparticle trap performance. Finally the single-quasiparticle sensitivity of the SCPT is employed to directly probe a few quasiparticle gas in a small superconducting volume. The quasiparticle population is monitored both in the steady-state and under non-equilibrium conditions of injection. In the non-equilibrium regime the quasiparticle recombination time is accessed from the response of the SCPT to pulsed injection. Agreement to previous experimental studies of recombination times in aluminium is found.

At head of title: National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. / CD-ROM contains Appendices (1-10) in PDF. / Includes copies of papers co-authored by the author. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [471]-499 in vol. 2) / System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh or IBM compatible computer with Windows NT. Other requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. / 2 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Studies the provenance and diagenesis of the Merrimelia Formation in South Australia and Queensland; a complex mosaic of glacial facies in which the Tirrawarra Sandstone and Merrimelia Formation exhibit an interfingering relationship, and defines the relationship further. Indicates that the Tirrawarra Sandstone should be included in the Merrimelia Formation as a "facies type" as both the Merrimelia and Tirrawarra sediments form an integrated suite of sediments. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology, 2000?

Introduktion. Handboll är en olympisk gren som spelas internationellt, men främst i Europa. Idrotten ställer höga krav på både aerob och anaerob metabolism. Syfte. Syftet med studien var att studera överensstämmelsen mellan Cooper Test (CT) och Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 1 (YYIR1) för unga handbollspelare. Dessutom om möjligt även studera spelpositionens betydelse för utfallet. Metod. 56 unga handbollsspelare bjöds in att deltaga i studien. Deltagarna utförde CT och YYIR1 och överensstämmelsen mellan testerna studerades med hjälp av Spearmans korrelationskoefficient (rs). Resultat. 11 män och 10 kvinnor deltog i studien. Resultatet visade på en god överensstämmelse mellan CT och YYIR1 för gruppen som helhet (rs = 0,79, p = < 0,001). Ingen slutsats kunde dras utifrån spelarnas position och resultaten av de båda testerna. Indelat efter kön skiljde sig överensstämmelsen för män (rs = 0,28, p = 0,4) och för kvinnor (rs = 0,61, p = 0,06). Slutsats. Överensstämmelsen mellan CT och YYIR1 var god på gruppnivå och därför skulle testerna kunna vara utbytbara. Men eftersom det fanns en tydlig skillnad mellan könen krävs större studier.

Late transition metal complexes bearing nitrogen-containing ligands have many applications in biotechnology or industrial catalysis. In this thesis, we react two nitrogen-containing tridentate ligands with some late transition metal salts to yield complexes (1)-(18). Besides spectroscopic characterization, complexes (3), (5)-(7), (8), (10), (12)-(16) yielded crystal structures analyzed using X-ray single crystal diffraction. From crystal structure of complexes (3), (5)- (7), we concluded that the reaction of ligand and Cu(£L£L) salts always gave the CuLX2 products. In Ni series, structures of different coordination types were obtained by using different crystal-growing methods. Crystals obtained using diffusion method take on the form of MLX2 while different structures of complexes (8), (10) were obtained using double layer method. Judging from the result of ESI-Mass analyses, complexes (8) and (10) were both of the dimeric form[NiL1Cl(£g-Cl)]2. However complex (10) was shown by X-ray single crystal to be [NiL 2(H2O)2 Cl]Cl. This could be the hydration product from [NiL1Cl(£g-Cl)]2.

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Diss.--Techn. Univ.--Berlin, 1998. / Bibliogr. p. 157-161.

Inaug.-Diss.--Breslau. / Lebenslauf. "1. Teil und 2. Teil, 1. Abschnitt und 2. Abschnitt, Anfang." Published in full (4 p. l., 104 p.) as Breslauer Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte, n.f., 34. Hft. Bibliographical "Anmerkungen": p. 31-33.

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This thesis investigates the use of single Cooper-pair transistor (SCPT) for fast and sensitive detection of quasiparticle dynamics. This investigation is motivated by the possibility of quantum information processing using superconducting nanoscale circuits, such as the SCPT and the Cooper-pair-box (CPB). In the SCPT coherent charge transport can be temporarily halted due to quasiparticle tunnelling, known as quasiparticle poisoning. Quasiparticle poisoning can be reduced by the use of engineered island and lead gap energies. The thesis begins by reporting measurements of the superconducting gap in aluminium - aluminium-oxide - aluminium tunnel junctions, as a function of film thickness. We have observed an increase in the superconducting energy gap of aluminium with decreasing film thickness. This method is used to engineer the island and gap energies in a SCPT and consequently we observe reduced poisoning and a modification of the thresholds for finite bias transport processes. Radio-frequency reflectometry is used to perform high-bandwidth measurements of quasiparticle tunnelling in a gap engineered SCPT. A model for the radio-frequency (rf) operation of the SCPT is presented and shows close agreement with experiment. Thermal activation of the quasiparticle dynamics is investigated, and consequently, we are able to determine energetics of the poisoning and unpoisoning processes. This enables an effective quasiparticle temperature to be determined, allowing the poisoning to be parametrised. An investigation of the use of normal metal quasiparticle traps for suppression of quasiparticle poisoning in SCPT devices is performed. To date, there has been little quantitative information about the behaviour of quasiparticle traps even though they have been used extensively. The work presented serves to clarify the nature of quasiparticle trap performance. Finally the single-quasiparticle sensitivity of the SCPT is employed to directly probe a few quasiparticle gas in a small superconducting volume. The quasiparticle population is monitored both in the steady-state and under non-equilibrium conditions of injection. In the non-equilibrium regime the quasiparticle recombination time is accessed from the response of the SCPT to pulsed injection. Agreement to previous experimental studies of recombination times in aluminium is found.