Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-139). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 208-212).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2009. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, page: 1953. Adviser: Deanna M. Hoelscher. Includes bibliographical references

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2000. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 9, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Dianne Ashby (chair), Jeffrey Hecht, Rodney Riegle, Glenn Schlichting. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-107) and abstract. Also available in print.

Au croisement de l'histoire politique, des études sur le genre et de l'analyse du discours, cette thèse étudie les professions de foi électorales des candidat-e-s à la députation sous la Cinquième République (1958 – 2007). Le corpus, constitué sur la base d'hypothèses de travail relatives au genre en politique, rassemble la quasi-totalité des proclamations électorales des députées et un échantillon raisonné de textes d'hommes rédigés dans des conditions politiques comparables.Acte performatif par excellence, la déclaration de candidature établit les locuteurs et locutrices en personnalités politiques. Le fait-elle de manière contrastée selon le sexe des candidat-e-s ? Comment le genre façonne-t-il les prises de parole politiques et comment est-il façonné par le langage ? Comment se recompose-t-il au gré des douze législatures du régime quinto-républicain ?Pour répondre à ces questions, cette recherche s’appuie, dans le cadre des Humanités numériques, sur des méthodes d’analyse assistées par ordinateur.Elle décrit les modalités de l'élaboration d'un ethos féminin singulier et de l'expression de thématiques originales dans le discours électoral des femmes briguant la députation durant cinquante ans. / At the crossroads of political history, gender studies and discourse analysis, the present PhD dissertation gives a detailed study of the statements of principles of MP women candidates under the French Fifth Republic (1958-2007). The corpus is designed according to a set of gender hypothesis in political context. It gathers almost all the declarations of women candidates under the French Fifth Republic, together with a reference corpus sampling a representative set of men declarations, made under similar political conditions.Statements of principles are performative acts setting speakers as political figures. Does gender impact political discourse and speeches? Did gender representations significantly evolve within the 12 legislative periods of the Fifth Republic?To answer these questions, we resorted to a set of text statistics methods in the framework of digital humanities. The thesis provides a comprehensive description of the development of women ethos within fifty years, bringing to light the gradual emergence of original themes and subjects.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho se propõe a analisar o discurso profético de Padre Antônio Vieira, por meio das obras Esperanças de Portugal. Quinto Império do Mundo e Livro Anteprimeiro da História do Futuro. A construção singular de tais textos será evidenciada a partir da articulação de três importantes conexões: conexão teológico-política; conexão mística e conexão histórica. Assim, a partir da abordagem de elementos biográficos e de uma reconstrução sócio-histórica, demonstraremos a lógica peculiar dessa escrita marcada pelo risco, pela fé e pelo delírio / This work aims to analyzeing Priest Antônio Vieiras prophetical speech, by the study of Esperanças de Portugal. Quinto Império do Mundo and Livro Anteprimeiro da História do Futuro which are some of the texts related to his work. The unique construction of such texts is evidenced through the composition of theological-political, mystical and historical connections. The particular logical of this written material, which is marked by risk, faith and day dreamine, is demonstrated in this study through the appreciation of not only the biographic elements, but also the historic-societal reconstruction

Compared to current single-standard radio solutions, multi-standard radio transceivers enable higher integration, backward compatibility and save power, area and cost. The primary bottleneck in their realization is the development of high-performance frequency-reconfigurable RF circuits. To that end, this research introduces several CMOS-integrated, transformer-based reconfigurable circuit techniques whose effectiveness is validated through measurements of designed transceiver front-end low-noise (LNA) and power amplifier (PA) prototypes. In the first part, the use of high figure-of-merit phase-change (PC) based RF switches in the reconfiguration of CMOS LNAs in the receiver front-end is proposed. The first reported demonstration of an integrated, PC-switch based, dual-band (3/5 GHz) reconfigurable CMOS LNA with transformer source degeneration and designed in a 0.13 μm process is presented. In the second part, a frequency-reconfigurable CMOS transformer combiner is introduced that can be reconfigured to have similar efficiencies at widely separated frequency bands. A 65-nm CMOS triple-band (2.5/3/3.5 GHz) PA employing the reconfigurable combiner was designed. In the final part of this work, the use of transformer coupled-resonators in mm-wave LNA designs for 28 GHz bands was investigated. To cover contiguous and/or widely-separated narrowband channels of the emerging 5G standards, a 65-nm CMOS 24.9-32.7 GHz wideband multi-mode LNA using one-port transformer coupled-resonators was designed. Finally, a 25.1-27.6 GHz tunable-narrowband digitally-calibrated merged LNA-vector modulator design employing transformer coupled-resonators is presented that proposes a compact, differential quadrature generation scheme for phased-array architectures.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho se propõe a analisar o discurso profético de Padre Antônio Vieira, por meio das obras Esperanças de Portugal. Quinto Império do Mundo e Livro Anteprimeiro da História do Futuro. A construção singular de tais textos será evidenciada a partir da articulação de três importantes conexões: conexão teológico-política; conexão mística e conexão histórica. Assim, a partir da abordagem de elementos biográficos e de uma reconstrução sócio-histórica, demonstraremos a lógica peculiar dessa escrita marcada pelo risco, pela fé e pelo delírio / This work aims to analyzeing Priest Antônio Vieiras prophetical speech, by the study of Esperanças de Portugal. Quinto Império do Mundo and Livro Anteprimeiro da História do Futuro which are some of the texts related to his work. The unique construction of such texts is evidenced through the composition of theological-political, mystical and historical connections. The particular logical of this written material, which is marked by risk, faith and day dreamine, is demonstrated in this study through the appreciation of not only the biographic elements, but also the historic-societal reconstruction

Esta tese analisa as narrativas de sonhos proféticos no Portugal Moderno, entre 1600 e 1750. Investigou-se como se constituíram os principais temas oníricos, os corpos de sonhos mais citados e recorrentes, as interpretações e leituras de sonhos bíblicos e/ou de divulgação ampla. Procurou-se perceber quais os entendimentos e percepções de sonho (e profecia) que embasavam e estavam presentes nas narrativas oníricas portuguesas, observando o repertório de referências e textos oníricos e a circulação desses. Partindo da constatação que as narrativas oníricas participaram de modo capital na fundamentação do Sebastianismo e depois do Messianismo Brigantino, observou-se os imbricamentos dos sonhos com esses movimentos e crenças messiânico-proféticas, buscando entender os diversos projetos político-proféticos em e para Portugal durante esse período. / This thesis analises the prophetic dreams narratives in Modern Porugal between 1600 and 1750. Its goal was to investigate how the main onirical themes, the most recurrent dreams, the interpretations and readings of biblical dreams were constituted. It was sought to perceive what were the perceptions of dreams (and prophecies) which sustained and were present in the portuguese narratives, observing the repertory of onirical references and texts and its circulation. Assuming that dream narratives had a capital role in the formulation of Sebastianism and after that, Brigantine Messianism, the links between the dreams and these movements and prophetic messianic beliefs were observed, aiming to understand the diferent political projecs in and for Portugal during this period.