A two-part project was used to study the idea of demonstration in architecture. The first was the design and fabrication of cycloidal drawing tools. The second was the design of another studio building for the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. First, the study of cycloidal lines became the catalyst for designing and fabricating cycloidal drawing tools. Drawing a cylcoid is a demonstration of its construction. There are no specialized tools available for drawing these types of lines, so several iterative generations of design were needed to refine the form of the tool and reach adequate accuracy. Second, an additional studio building for the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech was designed. It was designed to be a place for the demonstration of craftsmanship. The building was placed adjacent to Cowgill Hall. The form of the building was explored through traditional tools of architectural design, namely drawings of plans, sections, elevations and details. For the best representation of this thesis, please refer to the book found in the Art and Architecture library. / Master of Architecture

The design of a conical room for experiencing a fleeting moment was developed through a series of demonstrative studies. The desired effect of a momentary appearance of a ray of light striking a reflective surface in a room based on the predicted relative position of the sun at set times determined the form, shape, proportions, and surface conditions of the room. / Master of Architecture

This diploma work deals the possibilities of use of demonstration set in teaching of optics in the physics. It is focused on general use of technical didactical means in teaching and various approachs to experiments in the school physics. Comparison of actually available sets for demonstration experiments is incorporated in this work. It contains also set of selected experiments and worksheets which were used for verification of tasks. Results of the worksheets are analysed and form the part of the work. The aim is to verify the benefit of use of demonstration sets in the physics teaching.

Den 1 december 2021 beslutade Regeringen att införa vaccinpass vid allmänna sammankomster för att minska smittspridningen av Covid-19. Pandemin som utbröt i Sverige under våren 2020 var då inne i sin tredje våg. För ovaccinerade personer betydde vaccinpass en radikal inskränkning av friheterna i vardagen. Den 22 januari 2022 samlades tusentals demonstranter i både Göteborg och Stockholm för att demonstrera mot vaccinpass. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur svenska nyhetsmedier rapporterade om dessa demonstrationer. Frågorna som ska besvaras är hur olika identiteter och maktrelationer är konstruerade i rapporteringen, vilka aktörer som ges tolkningsföreträde, vilka ord, begrepp och ordkluster som kopplas till diskursen samt vad som beskrivs som normalt eller avvikande. Metoderna som används för att besvara frågeställningen är kritisk diskursanalys som kompletteras med digital textanalys. Studiens empiri består av artiklar som publicerades om dessa manifestationer i svenska nyhetsmedier. De teoretiska ansatserna som används för att tolka resultaten är gestaltningsteorin och dagordningsteorin som är två medievetenskapliga teorier. Teoretiska ansatser kring etos används men även ideologi där kritiska perspektiv tillämpas. Studiens resultat visar på att mediernas rapportering som undersöktes präglas av ett ideologiskt perspektiv om det som kan anses vara korrekt i samhället. Konkret främjar medierna det rätta och korrekta i samhället enligt demokratiska principer med hög tro på lag och ordning. Ordning har således stor betydelse i diskursen. Manifestationerna har påverkat ordningen, exempelvis genom deltagandet av högerextremistiska grupper. Medierna låter flera deltagare som har ett etos som är i enlighet med samhällets rådande normer och regler komma till tals men varken extremistiska grupper eller så kallade ”foliehattar”. På så vis framställs inte alla demonstrationsdeltagare som fel, men medierna påpekar att deras åsikter avviker från den kollektiva uppfattningen i diskursen. Tolkningsföreträdet i diskursen ges till polisen som beslutar om demonstrationernas legitimitet och som relativiserar demonstrationens påverkan i det sociala fältet. Genom att ge tolkningsföreträdet till polisen förblir medierna objektiva. / On the 1st of December 2021, the Swedish government decided to implement the use of vaccination certificates for public gatherings and events aiming to reduce the spread of infection of Covid-19. On 22nd of January, protestors gathered in the two biggest cities of Sweden, Stockholm and Gothenburg, to demonstrate against the limitations on freedom in conjunction with vaccination certificates. The purpose of this study is to investigate how Swedish news media has reported on these demonstrations, to establish an understanding how different identities and power relations are developed, whom the interpretive precedence is given to, which words and word clusters are connected to the discourse and which topics are framed as normal or deviating in the news articles.  To answer these questions, a critical discourse analysis in combination with digital text analysis has been used by analyzing articles reporting on the manifestations on the 22nd of January 2022, published in Swedish news media. The theoretical framework is based on framing theory and agenda setting theory as well as the concepts of ethos and critical perspectives on ideology.  The results after the data has been analyzed, reflected and discussed with the theoretical framework and the previous research show that the reporting has been affected by an ideology of what is considered as correct in society. Media is encouraging a correct society based on principles of democracy, law and order. Order is significant in the discourse. The demonstrations against vaccination certificate have affected the order in Swedish society, for example with the participation of right-wing extremist groups. Media do not promote these groups nor so called “foil hats”, but participants with an ethos close to the norms of society. By that, media do not frame all participants of the demonstrations as wrong, but media does indicate that their opinion differs from the normal perception of the discourse in society. The interpretive precedence is given to the police which determines the legitimacy of the demonstrations. The police also relativize the impact of the demonstrations on the social field. By giving the interpretive precedence to the police, media remain nonpartisan.

Demonstrations are considered an important illustrative tool in chemistry education. Quite often teachers use demonstrations of experiments and multimedia demonstrations. Besides, "non-experimental" demonstrations might also be useful, such as material models and demonstrations based on macroscopic analogy that can be usually carried out only with household items and materials. This dissertation is especially aimed at selecting appropriate demonstrations, at their design, development and use of "non-experimental" demonstrations. Moreover, special attention was paid to the interdisciplinary demonstrations concerning the nanoworld, so called "nanodemonstrations". All "nanodemonstrations" presented are safe, cheap and rather timesaving. Furthermore, they can be carried out in a form of lecture and / or students' demonstration. Newly created as well as adopted (and modified) "nanodemonstrations" were collected into the Czech database of "nanodemonstrations". The database was additionally accompanied with following educational materials concerning "nano": two PowerPoint presentations, worksheets that supplement students' "nanodemonstrations" and worksheets with interdisciplinary tasks. This thesis also deals with the evaluation of "nanodemonstrations" and worksheets in secondary school classes. The...

The first part of this thesis is focused on the advantages of using the experiments during the physics education and their educational values. Furthermore, some types of experiments, their correct metodology of implementation and some other aspects which should be given an appropriate attention by the teacher are theoretically described. Then, some types of demonstrational sets and their brief history are described. The attention is aimed at the demonstrational set of DIDAKTIK, its content and composition. One chapter is devoted to the research of schools equipment for using the demonstrational experiments of electricity and magnetism and their evaluations. The last part deals with some experiments which can be made within this set, their documentation and evaluation. Further, there were worksheets created for some of these experiments. Two of these sheets were used among primary schools for didactic exploring and the reasults were evaluated.

Tidigare forskning visar att nyhetsmedia ofta gestaltar demonstrationer enligt våld och konflikt. Nyhetsrapporteringen om protester är övervägande negativ och utformas många gånger på ett sätt som hindrar demonstrationers bakgrund och budskap från att ta plats. Demonstranter söker sig ofta till nyhetsmedia för att kunna sprida sitt budskap till en större publik. Vad medierna väljer att framföra kan ha en stor påverkan på hur en demonstration uppfattas och även utfallet av den. En negativ nyhetsrapportering kan få en demonstration att framstå som onödig, vilket i sin tur kan leda till att demonstranterna i fråga inte får ta plats på den politiska scenen.   Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur demonstrationerna i Hongkong 2019 gestaltades i svensk nyhetsjournalistik och om den svenska medierapporteringen följer protestparadigmet. Studien utgår från gestaltningsteorin, the protest paradigm och nyhetsvärderingsteorin. En artikel från Dagens Nyheter och en artikel från Göteborgs-Posten har analyserats med en kvalitativ textanalys som metod.   Resultatet visar att artiklarna på vissa sätt korrelerar med protestparadigmet. Våld och konflikt är frekvent förekommande i både Dagens Nyheter och Göteborgs-Postens rapportering om demonstrationerna i Hongkong, speciellt i början av artiklarna. Däremot går resultatet emot protestparadigmet på flera punkter, då tidningarna skriver om demonstranternas syfte, mål och bakgrund samt fokuserar på polisens våld mot demonstranterna. / Earlier research shows that news media use violence and conflict to frame demonstrations. A protests news coverage is often negative and portrayed in such a way that impedes the background and message of a demonstration. Demonstrations usually seek media attention to spread their message to a bigger audience. What the media choose to present can have a big impact on how a demonstration is perceived and the outcome of it. Negative news coverage can make a demonstration appear unnecessary and can lead to a loss of power and status in the society.    The purpose of this study is to examine how the protests in Hong Kong 2019 were framed in Swedish news media and if the news coverage follows the protest paradigm. The framing theory, the protest paradigm and news value theory are the theories applied in this study. The method used was a qualitative textual analysis and one article from Dagens Nyheter and one article from Göteborgs-Posten were analyzed.    The results in our study show that the articles, in some way, correlate with the protest paradigm. Violence and conflict occur frequently in both Dagens Nyheter and Göteborgs-Posten’s news coverage of the protests in Hongkong, especially in the beginning of the articles. However, the results also go against the protest paradigm in multiple ways. The newspapers do write about the protesters purpose, goals and background, as well as the police violence.

This study analyzed how mass media portrays specific groups of actors involved in burnings of the quran, more precisely, burners of the quran and demonstrators opposed to it. The study has compiled 18 digitally published news articles derived from four different news agencies. By using critical discourse analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework, the study has applied the three-dimensional model developed by Norman Fairclough to examine the empirical findings. Conducted analysis of the news articles resulted in the identification of three prevalent themes also referred to as discourses. Identified themes were as follows: “The normalization of violent riots”, “Collective culpability of demonstrators”, “The quranburners as victims and the process of victimization of the quranburners” Furthermore, an analysis of the identified themes was conducted. The mentioned themes were further analyzed with textual tools as provided by Fairclough, as well as two sociological theories as necessitated by Fairclough’s theory of critical discourse analysis. The theory of stigmatization and labeling theory were applied. The empirical findings suggest that violent riots are depicted as inevitable consequences, thus undergoing a process of normalization. Furthermore, the protesters present during the manifestations are generalized into specific social groups such as muslims or arabs. Burners of the quran were on the contrary depicted as victims in a vulnerable position. Lastly, a discussion is held regarding the possible repercussions the discourses may have on a societal level and their potential impact on the field of social work. / Denna studie analyserade hur massmedia porträtterar en specifik grupp av aktörer som är involverade i koranbränningar, nämligen, koranbrännare och demonstranter utifrån en kritisk diskursanalys. Studien har sammanställt 18 digitalt publicerade nyhetsartiklar från fyra olika nyhetsbyråer. Genom att använda kritisk diskursanalys som ett teoretiskt och metodiskt ramverk har studien tillämpat den tredimensionella modellen utvecklad av Norman Fairclough för att undersöka de empiriska resultaten av materialet. Genomförd analys av nyhetsartiklarna resulterade i identifierandet av tre förekommande teman, även refererade till som diskurser. Temana är följande: "Normaliseringen av våldsamma upplopp", "kollektiv skuldbeläggning av demonstranter", "Koranbrännarna som offer och viktimiseringsprocessen av koranbrännarna". Slutligen förs en analys av samtliga temana, nämligen "kampen mellan olika diskurser – hegemoni kontra antagonism". De nämnda temana analyserades vidare med diskursiva verktyg som tillhandahålls av Faircloughs tredimensionella modell och två sociologiska teorier som nödvändiggjordes av Faircloughs teori om kritisk diskursanalys, nämligen stigmatiseringsteorin och stämplingsteorin. Det empiriska resultatet tyder på att våldsamma upplopp framställs som oundvikliga konsekvenser och genomgår därmed en normaliseringsprocess. Vidare generaliseras demonstranterna under manifestationerna till specifika sociala grupper som muslimer eller araber. Koranbrännarna avbildades i kontrast som offer i en utsatt position. Slutligen diskuteras de möjliga konsekvenserna diskurserna kan få på samhällsnivå och deras potentiella inverkan på det sociala arbetets domän.

Programming a complex robot is difficult, time-consuming and expensive. Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a methodology where a teacher demonst--rates a task and the robot learns to execute the task. This thesis presents a method which generates reactive robot behaviour learned from demonstration where sequences of action are implicitly coded in a rule-based manner. It also presents a novel approach to find behaviour hierarchy among behaviours of a demonstration.In the thesis, the system learns the activation rule of primitives as well as the association that should be performed between sensor and motor primitives. In order to do so, we use the Playful programming language which is based on the reactive programming paradigm. The underlying rule for the activation of associations is learned using a neural network from demonstrated data. Behaviour hierarchy among different sensor-motor associations is learnt using heuristic logic minimization technique called espresso algorithm. Once relationship among the associations is learnt, all the logical relationships are used to generate a hierarchical tree of behaviours using a novel approach that is proposed in the thesis. This allows us to represent the behaviour in hierarchical way as a set of associations between sensor and motor primitives in a readable script which is deployed on Playful.The method is tested on a simulation by varying the number of targets, showing that the system learns underlying rules for sensor-motor association providing high F1-score for each association. It is also shown by changing the complexity of simulation that the system generalises the solution and the knowledge learnt from a sensor-motor association is transferable with all the instances of that association. / Att programmera en komplex robot är svårt, tidskrävande och dyrt. Learning from Demonstration (LfD) är en metod där en lärare visar en uppgift och roboten lär sig att utföra uppgiften. Denna avhandling presenterar en metod som genererar reaktivt robotbeteende lärt från demonstration där handlingssek--venser implicit kodas på ett regelbaserat sätt. Den presenterar också ett nytt tillvägagån- -gssätt för att hitta beteendeshierarki bland beteenden i en demonstration.I avhandlingen lär sig systemet aktiveringsregeln för primitiva såväl som sambandet som ska utföras mellan sensor och motor primitives. För att göra det använder vi det lekfulla programmeringsspråket som bygger på reaktivt programmeringsparadigm. Den underliggande regeln för aktivering av föreningar lärs med hjälp av ett neuralt nätverk från demonstrerade data. Beteendeshierarki mellan olika sensor-motorföreningar lärs med hjälp av heuristisk logikminimeringsteknik som kallas espressoalgoritm. När förhållandet mellan föreningarna har lärt sig används alla logiska förhållanden för att generera ett hierarkiskt beteendeträd med den nya metoden som föreslås i avhandlingen. Detta gör att vi kan representera beteendet på hierarkiskt sätt som en uppsättning associeringar mellan sensor och motorprimitiv i ett läsbart skript som används på lekfull.Metoden testas på en simulering genom att variera antalet mål, vilket visar att systemet lär sig underliggande regler för sensor-motorassociation som ger hög F1-poäng för varje association. Det visas också genom att ändra komplexiteten i simuleringen att systemet generaliserar lösningen och kunskapen som lärts från en sensor-motorförening är överförbar med alla förekomster av den associeringen.

ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / This paper discusses the methodology, requirements, tests, and implementation plan for the live demonstration of the Enhanced Flight Termination System (EFTS) using a missile program at two locations in Florida: Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) and Tyndall AFB. The demonstration included the integration of EFTS Flight Termination Receivers (FTRs) onto the missile and the integration of EFTS-program-developed transmitter assets with the mission control system at Eglin and Tyndall AFBs. The initial test stages included ground testing and captive-carry flights, followed by a launch in which EFTS was designated as the primary flight termination system for the launch.