The biblical narrative of Jephthah and his daughter (Judges 11:31-40) recounts the story of the judge, Jephthah, who vowed to sacrifice to God whatever came to greet him upon his return from a victorious battle with Ammon, and whose daughter became the victim of this vow. The goal of this thesis is to examine a sample of the Jewish responses to this biblical narrative from ancient and medieval times through the twentieth century. The analysis demonstrates the difficult nature of this text, its linguistic and conceptual ambiguities, the solutions to a well-defined series of problems proposed by more than two dozen interpreters, and their failure to deal with most of the historical and ethical problems that emerge from the story.

One critical component of the communication receiver of front-end system is the low-noise amplifier (LNA). For good sensitivity and dynamic range, the LNA should provide a low noise figure and maximum attainable power gain. Another concern is the linearity of the LNA. Strong signals produce intermodulation products in a frequency band close to the operating frequency that might affect the performance of the receiver. In many cases, the intermodulation products can be reduced by increasing the current through the active device. Hence, a trade-off between power consumption and linearity must be considered when designing the LNA. The thesis includes the bias network design, stability analysis, matching network design and layout design of the LNA RF module with layout simulation. The simulation has been performed using Advanced Design System (ADS) simulation software. After implementation of LNA on a PCB, the LNA is measured with the help of the power supply unit and vector network analyzer. The proposed design aim is to provide a low noise figure (NF) and high gain while maintaining the low power consumption.

This research undertakes to examine factors that contribute to make Australian national and cultural identity: shared history, narratives symbols, icons, places and memories that are united by a single political and geographical boundary. In particular, it considers the role of place on Australian national and cultural identity. This is a timely exercise since 'Australianess' is increasingly cited as a factor in federal government policy development. In order to address such a broad and complex area, the agenda has been limited to three specific locations: the beach, the verandah and the backyard. These sites have been selected first because of their prominent iconic status within the notion of 'Australianess' and, second, because of the underlying functional parallels that unite them. The present thesis contends that, unlike the function-specific sites where identity is neutralised by globalised standards of appearance, behaviour and harsh fluorescent light, the beach, the verandah and the backyard are ambiguous zones of in between that provide escape, shelter as well as spiritual sanctuary. The figures engage with the nominated locations in accordance with the significance, the meanings that they ascribe to that particular site. These meanings, however, vary greatly from person to person and from demographic to demographic, hence, the grasp of a universally binding sense of identity becomes a slippery proposition. National and cultural seity - the way we are and the way we perceive ourselves as a unified collective - is conditional to a number of factors, the most enduring and pervasive of these is the sense of place, the landscape, the way we affect it and, reciprocally, the way it affects us. National and cultural identity is never static, but remains in a state of perpetual evolution. It must be continually re-assessed in order to remain abreast of the cultural palimpsest as successive waves and generations of people from a variety of backgrounds, situations, ideas and forms of expression inscribe notions of self into their immediate environment.

This MFA project aims to express a particular range of emotions in an attempt to convey a sense of timelessness through a series of single figure paintings done from life. This project derives from an interest in exploring the concept of timelessness. Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin's Little Girl with Shuttlecock, 1737, gave me the idea to convey timelessness figuratively. The project has employed some of the strategies established by both Chardin and Johannes Vermeer's single figure paintings in relation to composition and design, colour and tone, the brush mark and the narrative. Nevertheless, the expression of stillness is vital in conveying a sense of timelessness.

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The first aspect of the problem of this study is to investigate a number of drawing characteristics, the interpretation of which is frequently associated with dynamics of the maladjusted personality. This investigation is primarily concerned with validity as it occurs in a significant appearance of these characteristics in the drawings of maladjustedd individuals as compared with an assumed significantly lesser appearance in the drawings of relatively well-adjusted individuals. The second aspect of the problem is concerned with distinguishing those characteristics which show the greatest significance of occurrence from those of no significant occurrence in the maladjusted group. The former can be, thus, considered as possibly valid and important for further testing.

Cette thèse est consacrée à l'étude sémiotique des figures mises en discours dans l'information-people. L'étude des figures concerne la sémiotique figurative. La sémiotique figurative ouvre à deux possibilités d'analyse des objets: la première qui correspond à la dimension figurative et la deuxième à la dimension figurale. Ces deux dimensions renvoient à l'acte énonciatif. Cette thèse interroge les discours de l'information-people à partir d'un corpus constitué des articles de presse. Elle montre comment l'information-people déforme des figures qu'elle met en discours, autrement dit, les discours de l'information-people ne se contraignent pas à représenter le monde tel qu'il se présente à nous, ils déconstruisent ses structures logiques, les figures ne sont pas en rapport avec la représentation du monde naturel, elles n'ont de sens que dans le discours. Ainsi notre analyse prend en compte les opérations rhétoriques mises en valeur pour déformer les figures en discours. L'importance que nous donnons à notre étude se situe à la conversion des figures mises en discours non plus en signe-renvoi, mais plutôt en des ensembles signifiants qui renvoient à la question de l'énonciation assomptive et subjective. Notre travail de recherche s'attache aussi à montrer la structuration des discours people. Ce sont des discours qui sont structurés sous forme de mythes, de contes, de légendes, d'épopées, de blâme, d'éloge, d'ironie et de drame. C'est à partir de l'usage de ces formes que nous mettons en lumière la question de la figuralité / This thesisis focus on the semiotic study of journalistic discourses of information-people. Figurative semiotics indeed opens up two possibililities for the analysis of objects: the first which corresponds to the figurative dimension and second to a figural dimension. thse two dimensions refer to the enunciative act. This thesis questions the information-people speech, from a corpus of press articles, it shows how the information-people distorts the figures it puts into speech, in other words the speech of information-people do not contraint hemselves to reprensent the world as it presensent it self to us, they deconstructits logical structures, the figures are not sometimes related to the representation of the natural world, the only have meaning in figures in speech. Thus, our analysis takes care of the rhetorical operations shighlighted to distort the figures in speech. The importance we give to our study resides in the conversion of the figures put into speech no longer a sign-reference, but rather in meeaninful sets thatrefer to the question of assumption or subjective enonciation. Our research work also focuses on showing the structuring of people' s discourses. These are discourses that are strutured in the form of myths, legends, tales, epics, blame, drama, praise . It is useof these forms that high lights the issue of figurality.

The nature of figure-ground relationships and their potential for use as a tool for architectural composition was investigated through the design of a winery. Included in the winery were facilities accomodating both the production and consumption of wine. These programmatic elements were used as guides for the development of multiple figure-ground relationships at a variety of scales. In addition, the dialogue between different figures as well as the careful development of the backdrop surfaces were topics of study. Several design strategies were employed to create relationships between figure elements and their backdrops, including the insertion of volumes into and through one another, the careful development of material and surface, and light. From this work, as well as previous projects, several key findings can now be articulated concerning the potential use of figure-ground relationships in the development of a work of architecture. These include the need to optimize the proportion of figure(s) relative to a given background and the key role that the disposition of figures relative to one another plays in the development of a meaningful figure-ground relationship. / Master of Architecture