This report is a collection of articles that represent the style, content and idea of what can be found in any bridal magazine. The report consists of five features about individual weddings from different parts of Texas, including a Houston couple’s destination wedding in Turks and Caicos. Each of the individual wedding features shows the bride’s point of view and explores the planning process, wedding themes and overall feel of the wedding day itself. As a whole, the report shows the variation of wedding styles, traditions and approaches across different parts of Texas, as well as a current trend in the wedding industry – elaborate elopements. The report is written in a way that allows for each of the four articles to stand alone and possibly gain publication in a bridal magazine, while also following a cohesive style and theme so that they may be viewed as a collection. This report is representative of what is being published in Texas bridal magazines today and includes photographs from real weddings. Bridal magazines will publish information like this in order to help inspire other weddings and direct couples to different wedding vendors and services. / text

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The aim of this thesis was to investigate views on the the traditional Levirate custom in modern society specifically regarding repercussions on the freedom of widows in the traditional Luo community. Qualitative research has been used this thesis, using both primary and secondary sources. Phenomenology as a principle of science has been adopted. Though much research has been done on this subject matter, this study hopes to provide a new approach by addressing the issues mentioned above. The findings of this study have shown that the Levirate custom seems to infringe on the freedom of the widows in the traditional Luo community. Evidence of male dominance due to values attached to the traditional Levirate custom has been observed.

This thesis presents a study into the feasibility of applying a Knowledge Based Engineering System to the manufacture and prescription of custom contoured seating. The custom contoured seats are designed to meet the needs of clients of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Rehabilitation Engineering Unit who have neurological, musculoskeletal and/or other conditions that result in limited movement, complex body shapes and poor posture. The custom contoured seats provide accommodation or correction for poor posture whilst improving the client’s function and comfort level, minimising risk to the client and in some cases providing therapeutic benefits such as improving the client’s unsupported posture. The literature review showed that there is not currently a technique in development or envisaged that would perform the task of the system being investigated in this thesis. Three techniques were identified, two for the prescription of wheelchairs based on a series of extensive questions, the output of which is a wheelchair with no custom contoured seating. The third technique converts pressure readings of clients with low complexity conditions sitting on a flat surface into a custom contoured seat. The client group being investigated in this study are unable to sit unsupported and would not be able to provide a meaningful pressure reading when held in position due to the shape of most of the clients’ bodies. Algorithms were developed to extract useful features from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Rehabilitation Engineering Unit’s mechanical shape sensor; which is called the Cardiff Body Match. The features extracted from the measurements were designed to reduce the dimensionality of the data and inform a clinical engineer as to the anthropometry of the client seated in the Cardiff Body Match mechanical shape sensor. The algorithms developed were able to correct errors in measurements, estimate the location of pelvic landmarks and provide a classification of the curvature of the back. Engineering rules were elicited from clinical engineers at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Rehabilitation Engineering Unit and from the literature. The engineering rules were described in plain English and represented using a novel approach based on notations used in predicate calculus. The engineering rules’ application was tested and the shape of a custom contoured seat that could be produced with the Knowledge Based Engineering System was demonstrated. This study has shown that through further research a Knowledge Based Engineering System for the manufacture and prescription of custom contoured seating for clients of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Rehabilitation Engineering Unit is possible. This thesis contributes to the knowledge by demonstrating the feasibility of the Knowledge Based Engineering System, developing the bespoke algorithms and the novel collection of knowledge through elicitation.

This thesis offers an archaeological and ethnographic examination of the coin-tree custom, which is essentially what its name suggests: the practice of inserting coins into trees. These trees are often in the form of logs or stumps, and they are commonly located beside well-traversed footpaths in rural/semi-rural areas. The custom can be traced back to the 1860s in Scotland, but has experienced a late 20th/early 21st-century renaissance, with clusters of coin-trees emerging across England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. No previous academic attempt has been made to either catalogue these structures or contextualise the practice; it is the aim of this thesis, therefore, to do both. Proffering a catalogue of 197 individual coin-trees distributed across 34 sites (detailed in the appendices), this thesis draws on a wide range of resources in order to elucidate the custom: literary works, both historical and contemporary; the empirical data of the coin-trees themselves; and the ethnographic material of over 200 participant interviews. The history of the custom is traced, including a consideration of why it has experienced a recent resurgence – particularly at a time popularly conceived of as a ‘secular age’. The questions of how and why people participate are examined in detail, revealing a mutability to the ‘meaning’ of the custom, and a consideration of the future and heritage of the coin-tree structures themselves is also offered. The thesis closes with a suppositional vignette: what would an archaeologist find if she uncovered a coin-tree site in the future? How would she interpret the remains? And what does this reveal about archaeological methodologies, ritual interpretations, and the relationship between folklore and material culture?

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is being adopted in networks around the world as the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addressing space reaches its maximum capacity. Although there are IPv6 applications being developed, there are not many production IPv6 networks in place in which these applications can be deployed. Simulation presents a cost effective alternative to setting up a live test bed of devices to validate specific IPv6 environments before actual physical deployment. OPNET Modeler provides the capability to simulate the IPv6 protocol and System-in-the-Loop, an add-on module, allows for real communication traffic from physical devices to be converted and sent over the simulated network. This research has developed a campus framework, modeled after the Virginia Tech Blacksburg campus, to verify and validate standard and custom IPv6 applications. Specifically, the framework was used to test MT6D, a custom IPv6 security application developed in the Virginia Tech IT Security Lab (ITSL) as well as test Voice over IP (VoIP) as a somewhat bandwidth demanding benchmarking standard application. The work presented shows that simulation helped to identify potential issues within the applications and verified the results after fixes were applied. It also reveals challenges and shortcomings of OPNET Modeler's IPv6 implementation and presents potential solutions to these problems. / Master of Science

Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 2004. / A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

I ett modernt industrisammanhang spelar kommunikation mellan inbyggda komponenter en viktig roll. Svetsmaskins företaget ESAB (Elektriska Svetsar AB) producerar och utvecklar svetsmaskiner med ett flertal olika inbyggda komponenter som kommunicerar sinsemellan för att konfigurera operationen för svetsning. Inom ramen för projektet på ESAB analyseras nätverkspaketen som skickas inom svetsmaskiner och som hämtas ut med hjälp av Wireshark. Nätverkspaketen används för systemkommunikations analys och hämtas ut i Pcapng-filformatet. Pcapng-filernagranskats manuellt med hjälp av Wireshark och deras skräddarsydda plugin, vilket kräver att varje paket inspekteras för att identifiera innehåll och potentiella felmeddelanden. Pcapng Analysatorn är ett program för att automatisera denna process och framhäva enbart de meddelanden och data som är av relevans för företaget. Denna rapport fokuserar på tekniker för manipulering och hantering av Pcapng-filer, samt metoder för extrahering av felmeddelanden från specialanpassade Pcapng-filer. Projektet representerar ett viktigt steg mot att effektivisera analysen av Pcapng-filer och att förse ESAB med en mer automatiserad och produktiv lösning för dataanalys inom sina verksamheter. / In a modern industrial context, communication between embedded components plays a crucial role. The welding machine company ESAB (Electric Welders AB) produces and develops welding machines with various embedded components that communicate with each other to configure the welding operation. Within the framework of the project at ESAB, network packets sent within welding machines are analysed and retrieved using Wireshark. These network packets are used for system communication analysis and extracted in Pcapng file format. The Pcapng files have been manually reviewed using Wireshark and a custom-built plugin, requiring each packet to be inspected to identify content and potential error messages. The Pcapng Analyzer is a program designed to automate this process and highlight only the messages and data relevant to the company. This report focuses on techniques for manipulating and managing Pcapng files, as well as methods for extracting error messages from customized Pcapng files. The project represents a significant step towards streamlining the analysis of Pcapng files and providing ESAB with a more automated and productive solution for data analysis in its operations.

How facticity influences normativity: conventions in law This thesis is about social practice and its influence on the legal system. We examine the basic philosophical approaches to law and use them to challenge the very existence of conventions in law. After we derive the basic notion of convention we develop the three-step test to guarantee that we are able to identify conventions within the legal system and distinguish them from other categories of legal notions. The three-step test presented in chapter two is slightly modifying Andrei Mamor's test. The first criterion of the test is the existence of certain social group that maintains in certain situation specific conventional rule. The second criterion is build around the idea that conventions exist when there are people who have certain reasons to comply with this rule. Final criterion represents the existence of an alternative rule that could be upheld by those people as well. Nevertheless, those people rather comply with the conventional rule. If those three criterions are met, it is probable that we are dealing with conventions. We conclude that the conventions are present within every system of social norms although its importance within various legal cultures and systems varies dramatically. The value of social practice for legal practice shall...

The position and concept of custom in contemporary international law Summary: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the position and concept of customary law in contemporary international law. The terms "position" and "concept" are used in the meaning of the actual status of the custom within the system of sources of the international law, as well as in the meaning of "value" or "usefulness" of customary law in contemporary international society, also regarding the discussion of authors concerning increasing pace and extent of international relations as a potential ground for diminishment or refusal custom as a valid source of international law. The reason why we chose this topic is, amongst others, to show that even today, under contemporary situation, customary law still have the value within the system of the sources of international law, and its' position should not be abolished or even significantly diminished. The thesis consists of three main chapters. First chapter provides the look into the history, theory and position of custom as a socio-legal phenomenon in different legal cultures in order to describe the key aspects of the view of each of those cultures on intrastate (or intra-cultural) custom and customary law, allowing to stress certain similarities and differences. Subsection one of this...