This thesis considers entanglement, an important resource for quantum information processing tasks, while taking into account the theory of relativity. Not only is this a more complete description of quantum information, but it is necessary to fully understand quantum information processing tasks done by systems in arbitrary motion. It is shown that accelerated measurements on the vacuum of a free Dirac spinor field results in an entangled state for an inertial observer. The physical mechanism at work is the Davies-Unruh effect. The entanglement produced increases as a function of the acceleration, reaching maximal entanglement in the asymptotic limit of infinite acceleration. The dynamics of entanglement between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors, one stationary and the other undergoing non-uniform acceleration, was studied numerically. In the ultraweak coupling limit, the entanglement decreases as a function of time for the parameters considered and decreases faster than if the moving detector had had a uniform acceleration.

The aim of this essay is to examine why Swedish-English code-switching occurs, focusing on one person. The idiolect examined is Simon Davies, hosting the TV-show Design: Simon & Tomas where Simon Davies and his colleague Tomas Cederlund travel around Sweden helping Swedes with interior design. Season three of the show was transcribed into written data and theories were later used when analyzing the data transcribed from the TV-show. The data was analyzed from a qualitative and a quantitative aspect as well as mixed and unmixed utterances. This was done in order to see if there is a pattern in the way Davies switches as well as further understand what kind of items are switched. As this is done, the essay analyses the possible reasons for why Davies switches using the theories displayed earlier. The results show that Davies’ idiolect does not fully follow any specific pattern, however most of the words switched are nouns and the least common word class is prepositions. However, theories applied show that Davies’ switching could be a way for him to create an identity and connect with Swedes. The use of Swedish could help him seem friendlier and less like a stranger.

<p>The aim of this essay is to examine why Swedish-English code-switching occurs, focusing on one person. The <em>idiolect</em> examined is Simon Davies, hosting the TV-show <em>Design: Simon & Tomas</em> where Simon Davies and his colleague Tomas Cederlund travel around Sweden helping Swedes with interior design. Season three of the show was transcribed into written data and theories were later used when analyzing the data transcribed from the TV-show. The data was analyzed from a <em>qualitative</em> and a <em>quantitative</em> aspect as well as <em>mixed</em> and <em>unmixed</em> utterances. This was done in order to see if there is a pattern in the way Davies switches as well as further understand what kind of items are switched. As this is done, the essay analyses the possible reasons for why Davies switches using the theories displayed earlier. The results show that Davies’ idiolect does not fully follow any specific pattern, however most of the words switched are nouns and the least common word class is prepositions. However, theories applied show that Davies’ switching could be a way for him to create an identity and connect with Swedes. The use of Swedish could help him seem friendlier and less like a stranger.</p>

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-180). / iv, 180 leaves, bound 29 cm

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Note: This version has been edited to remove names for privacy reasons. For a full copy please contact the author. / Writers of PhDs have a unique, personal and in-depth relationship with their subject-matter, which develops over a number of years. What happens when life intrudes so much into the research and writing that it takes over the subject matter, so that the original struggle for objective scholarship threatens to become subsumed in emotion and self-discovery? How does the supervisor, forced to keep a certain distance from an intimate and tumultuous relationship, still teach? The supervisor can do worse than guide their student towards the genre of Life-Writing, within which a flourishing of sub-genres may be accommodating to such a journey. For a closed-records adoptee caught up in the reunion processes sparked by the 1990 changes to the Adoption Act, critical readings of Peter Carey and Janette Turner Hospital developed into the invention of the Adopted Body, the Subject Adoptee and a new way of seeing: ado/aptive reading and writing. Perhaps in the field of ado/aptive theory, the stolen generations, intercountry adoptees and the white closed-record adoptees of Australia can re-invent themselves, develop their identities and create a genre of academic theory unique to Australia.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Title from title screen (viewed 29 Apr. 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Tese (Doutorado)–Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, 2010. / Submitted by Shayane Marques Zica (marquacizh@uol.com.br) on 2011-02-18T18:14:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_ElendeSousaGonzaga.pdf: 2888485 bytes, checksum: 0f35f56dab02744332741e5c8927ee63 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luanna Maia(luanna@bce.unb.br) on 2011-03-10T13:32:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_ElendeSousaGonzaga.pdf: 2888485 bytes, checksum: 0f35f56dab02744332741e5c8927ee63 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-03-10T13:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_ElendeSousaGonzaga.pdf: 2888485 bytes, checksum: 0f35f56dab02744332741e5c8927ee63 (MD5) / O presente trabalho tem como objeto de estudo a construção da imagem da feiticeira na literatura inglesa contemporânea. O corpus dessa pesquisa é constituído por romances, contos e obras da historiografia. Temos a análise d‘O Asno de Ouro, de Apuleio, e dos contos Young Goodman Brown e Cabeça-de-Pena: uma Lenda Moral, de Nathaniel Hawthorne. Além desses textos literários, analisamos O Manual dos Inquisidores, de Nicolau Eymerich e o Malleus Maleficarum, de Heinrich Kramer e James Sprenger, manuais utilizados principalmente durante a Caça às Bruxas. Essas obras, de autoria masculina, são confrontadas com textos contemporâneos de autoria feminina, foco principal de nossa pesquisa. As obras selecionadas são As Sete Gerações, de Eva Figes, a metaficção historiográfica Impassioned Clay, de Stevie Davies, e a obra historiográfica Unbridled spirits: women of the English Revolution 1640 – 1660, também de Davies. A hipótese é que, a partir desses recortes, podemos analisar os sentidos que a imagem da feiticeira imprimiu – e ainda imprime – sobre a realidade. A análise das obras de autoria masculina selecionadas, problematizadas sob a perspectiva da crítica literária feminista, procura detectar até que ponto a representação da feiticeira foi usada para legitimar a imagem da mulher dependente, submissa e passiva. As obras de Figes e de Davies reconstroem a imagem da feiticeira e colocam em discussão o estereótipo tradicional que apresenta essa personagem como indesejável e antagonista do mundo masculino. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / The present work has as object of study the construction of the witch‘s image in the contemporary English literature. The corpus of this research is comprised of novels, short-stories and works of historiography. We analyze the novel The Golden Ass, by Apuleius and two short-stories, Young Goodman Brown and Feathertop: a Moralized Legend, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Besides these literary works, we analyze The Inquisitors’ Manual, by Nicolau Eymerich and the Malleus Maleficarum, by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, which were used specially during the Witch Hunt. These works, written by men, are confronted with contemporary texts written by women, the main focus of our research. The selected works are The Seven Ages, by Eva Figes, the historiographic metafiction Impassioned Clay, by Stevie Davies, and the historiography Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution 1640 – 1660, also by Davies. The hypothesis is that, through this selection, we can analyze the meanings that the image of the witch has impressed – and still impresses – on reality. The analysis of the selected texts, written by men, from a feminist literary criticism standpoint, tries to identify the use of the witch‘s representation to legitimize the image of the dependent, submissive and passive woman. Eva Figes and Stevie Davies rebuild the image of the witch and discuss the traditional stereotype that presents this character as undesirable and as an antagonist of the masculine world.

This thesis traces the history and development of the facilities for electronic music in the UK. It covers the early attempts to experiment with electronic music and create studios in less than ideal circumstances and the subsequent bids to create a national centre. It also covers some elements of worldwide development of electronic music and sound recording, in particular those which occurred before 1965. The thesis calls upon non-traditional sources and the author was able to access many documents in the personal archives of electronic music pioneers. There is substantial reference to committees and societies for electronic music and their effects on the development of facilities for electronic music in the UK. Some of the early pioneers are studied in detail; these include Daphne Oram, Tristram Cary and Hugh Davies. Unprecedented access to information on Hugh Davies and Daphne Oram was provided by the family estates of these recently deceased composers. This allowed the author to gain valuable insight into the working patterns and methodology of these composers. Many references to later pioneers such as Trevor Wishart are also made but the focus remains on the facilities available to composers rather than the composers and their works.

The Eight Songs for a Mad King lends itself very nicely to the analysis of the various Sprechstimme and "extended vocalism" techniques. Peter Maxwell Davies uses all the conventional Sprechstimme techniques as well as vocal sounds and notation of his own design. By explaining and illustrating these techniques before the performance of the work, the audience can gain additional insight into and understanding of the performance. The historical aspect of the text used in the Mad King is also of interest to the listener. The poems were inspired by a small mechanical organ supposedly once owned by King George III and which played eight tunes. A scrap of paper sold with the organ explains that "This organ was George the third for Birds to sing". The songs are understood to be his monologue while listening to his birds perform. The text incorporates many sentences actually spoken by George III in both his sane and insane moments.

This thesis examines the development of self-help as an ideology and as an organisational principle for poor relief and how it came to dominate discussions over poverty and crucially inform the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The continuity of self-help with earlier discussions and reviews of the poor laws is explored and emphasised, as is the continuing moral core of poor relief despite historians’ frequent ascription of de-moralisation to the new political economy that came to heavily influence poor law discourse. The thesis analyses the evolution of the poor laws and of attitudes to poverty and begins with an examination of a divergence in the discourse relating to poverty between a more formal and centralised institutional approach and a more devolved, permissive institutional approach; the latter gained precedence due to its closer proximity to a dominant mode of thinking (as analysed by A. W. Coats) about the poor that held self-betterment as offering a solution to poverty most appropriate to the governance structures of the day. The greater role given to self-betterment and the natural affinity of more devolved schemes with a macroeconomic political economy framework pushed the evolution of poor law discourse along a route of emphasising individual probity and agency over the established model of community cohesion. Parallel to this divergence was the development of distinct intellectual traditions within poor law discourse between the older natural-law tradition of a natural right to subsistence and a new ideology of the natural law of markets and of competition for resources. By analysis of the thought of writers such as Thomas Robert Malthus, Jeremy Bentham, Patrick Colquhoun, David Davies, Frederick Morton Eden, Edmund Burke, etc., it is shown that this newer conception of natural law, encompassing a less interventionist and more macroeconomic approach (involving the deployment of statistics and abstraction, as explored by S. Sherman), proved more compatible with the devolved, more permissive institutional approach and so came to take precedence over that of the natural right to subsistence, which was associated more with traditional paternalism and community-level responses to scarcity and poverty. The natural law tradition spoke more to the abstract conceptions of poverty associated at this time with the greater deployment of statistics and tables in the analysis of social problems. It is demonstrated how writers of the period utilised utilitarian conceptions and nascent political economic arguments to portray the greater good of the country as a whole as possessed of greater moral and economic authority than more traditional ‘moral economy’ responses, and that vocabularies of virtue and duty were used to illustrate and justify such a shift. This set the scene for self-betterment as an economic strategy to evolve into an ideology of self-help which was developed as the panacea of poverty and the answer to the social dislocations caused by industrialisation. Self-help came to the fore as an approach that was more politically resonant in the era of revolutionary France and which enabled a more permissive institutional apparatus to be advanced. These institutions, such as allotments, savings banks and schools of industry, came to prominence in the period 1816-1820 and pertained more to macroeconomic understandings of poverty. They were expounded using a theme, that of ‘character’, that described poverty as the result of personal imprudence and hence as treatable, the most appropriate level for this treatment being that of the individual. The reforms of 1818-19 and the debates that informed them are given an extended analysis as they formed the crucial juncture in the cohering of self-help as an ideology and a paradigmatic shift in poor law policy towards greater discrimination underwritten by self-help. Finally, the 1834 Poor law Reform Act is explained in terms of the ideological development of arguments of self-help and character towards a more punitive and disciplinarian platform for enforcing self-help, with the cost-efficient and systematic institutional approach of Bentham adapted to the purpose.