Ce mémoire porte sur l’utilisation des unités sémiotiques temporelles en tant qu’outil compositionnel. Les UST sont définies par François Delalande comme des segments musicaux qui présentent une signification temporelle précise due à leur organisation morphologique. La démarche suivie – axée sur leur emploi à des fins expressives – conduit à une plus consciente maîtrise du phénomène temporel. Par suite d’un renversement de leur fonction conventionnellement analytique, ces unités participent activement au processus poïétique et abordent la condition intérieure du matériau sonore. Les analyses présentées dans ce mémoire suggèrent que la manipulation du temps de l’écoute – lorsqu’elle est fonction des stratégies cognitives de l’auditeur – constitue une partie importante de l’expérience esthétique. Ainsi, les UST peuvent représenter une ressource puissante au service d’une communication musicale efficace. / This thesis investigates the use of temporal semiotic units in music composition. Temporal semiotic units have been defined by François Delalande as musical segments that possess a precise temporal signification linked to their morphological organization. This research focuses on how their descriptive function can be exploited as a mean for music composition, contributing to the overall aesthetic and expressive qualities of music. By reversing their conventional analytical function, these units can actively engage in the poietic process, addressing the inner conditions of the sound material. The artistic research outlined by this thesis suggests that a thorough control of time – which relates to the cognitive strategies of listening – plays a powerful role in shaping the musical experience of the listener. Therefore, these units can represent a useful resource for effective communication in music.

Introduction: Motor tests in figure skating for children to determine the level of fitness and coordination skills. It contains a selection of individual movement tasks and their justification. Aims: Analysis of assumptions and prediction of fitness assumptions for figure skating in children. Assembly of a battery of field motor tests, evaluating general and specific readiness for figure skaters. Another goal is to prove whether there is a relationship between current sports performance and the analysis of assumptions for figure skating at the age of 10-12 years. Methods: quantitative and qualitative analysis of motor skills, method of questioning, examples, observation, testing and evaluation. Results: The relationship between sports performance and analysis of assumptions was not fully confirmed. All initial assumptions were not confirmed and the work allows a more accurate focus of subsequent research. Conclusion: The set goals were achieved. Author: Jaroslava Bartošková Title: Motor tests in figure skating for childern Objectives: Analysis of assumptions and prediction of fitness assumptions for figure skating in children. Keywords: condition, coordination, figure skating, sport performance, test battery

Syfte och frågeställningar Syftet med arbetet är att skapa en strukturerad litteraturöversikt som sammanställer existerande biomekanisk forskning på hopp inom konståkning, och även beskriva vilken betydelse muskelstyrkan i relevanta muskelgrupper har för rotation.  •    Vilka biomekaniska parametrar är viktiga att eftersträva för hopp med olika antal rotationer? •    Vad är forskningsläget kring muskelstyrkan som behövs för hopp med olika antal rotationer? Metod En strukturerad litteraturstudie genomfördes. Litteratursökningen gjordes i databaserna SportDiscus och PubMed på ett strukturerat sätt med olika sökkombinationer av nyckelord. Manuella sökningar gjordes även via referenslistor i artiklar och böcker. 150 artiklar extraherades och slutligen inkluderades 15 vetenskapliga originalartiklar i studien. Artiklarna valdes med hjälp av inklusions- och exklusionskriterier och granskades sedan kritiskt med hjälp av granskningsmall. Resultat Resultaten presenterade flera olika biomekaniska parametrar som är viktiga i konståkningshopp med olika antal rotationer och att kunna genomföra dessa på ett gynnsamt sätt. Resultaten visade också att muskelstyrkan verkar vara en väsentlig del för att klara av hopp med olika antal rotationer och ha en positiv effekt på rotationen. Resultaten presenterar även relevanta muskelgrupper för detta. Slutsats Denna litteraturstudie ger en unik sammanställning av de viktigaste biomekaniska parametrarna som är viktiga vid konståkningshopp för att uppnå fler varv, och även de viktigaste fokusområden för styrka för utveckling av konståkningshopp. Ytterligare forskning med hög kvalitet kring detta behövs för att få en bredare översikt kring ämnet. / Aim The aim of this study is to create a structured literature review that compiles existing biomechanical research on jumps in figure skating. The aim is also to describe the importance of muscle strength in relevant muscle groups for rotation. •    What biomechanical parameters are important for jumping with different numbers of rotations? •    What is the state of research on muscle strength needed for jumps with different numbers of rotations? Method A structured literature study was conducted. The literature research was done in the databases SportDiscus and PubMed in a structured manner with different search combinations of keywords. Additional sources were compiled via reference lists in articles and books. 150 articles were extracted and finally 15 original scientific articles were included in the study. The articles were chosen using inclusion and exclusion criteria and then critically reviewed using review templates. Results The results present several different biomechanical parameters that are important to strive for in figure skating jumps with different numbers of rotations and to be able to execute them out in a favorable way. Results also showed that muscle strength seems to be an essential part of coping with jumps with different numbers of rotations and has a positive effect on the rotation. The results also present relevant muscle groups. Conclusion This literature study provides a unique compilation of the most important biomechanical parameters that are essential in figure skating to achieve more rotation. The most important focus areas for strength for the development of figure skating are presented. More comprehensive and in-depth research to obtain a broader overview of the subject is required.

My work is an attempt to express some of the deepest emotions held within myself; truths that seem to flow straight from my unconscious to the surface through forms that are raw, powerful, ambiguous, mysterious, emotional, and pure. In my paintings, I am dealing with the aftermath of rape. In my paintings, I combine content with complex studio processes by using the figure, limited watercolor palette, expressive mark making, and a distressed surface.

This thesis explores the insider/outsider dynamic experienced by individuals as they enter diverse social situations. The shift from insider to outsider is evoked through an art installation of 18 sculptures drawing influence from "goth" subculture, as the viewer enters and interacts with the art space. The subjects of culture and identity are discussed as they pertain to insider/outsider status.

The purpose of this study is to determine, in so far as is possible, the views held by various leaders of the Latter-day Saints relative to Adam; and more especially, the official doctrine of the Church as to his place in its theology. The problem is based, in part, on the divergent, and oft times bitter, claims and counter-claims of members, ex-members, and non-members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over "Mormon" teachings concerning Adam in the light of a certain address given by president Brigham Young in 1852. Indeed, this address, and the man who gave it, remain the focal point of much discussion to this day. From time to time, articles, anti-Mormon in spirit and purpose, appear attacking the Latter-day Saints and citing the aforementioned address as irrefutable evidence of the "blasphemous beliefs" of Mormonism in general, and its concept of God and man's relationship to him in particular. It is hoped that this study will prove of some value in establishing the actual doctrines of the Church, thus revealing the truth - whatever that truth may be. It is in that spirit that this thesis hase been written; the writer trusts that it will be received in a like one.

Silicon CMOS Technology is now the preferred process for low power wireless communication devices, although currently much noisier and slower than comparable processes such as SiGe Bipolar and GaAs technologies. However, due to ever-reducing gate sizes and correspondingly higher speeds, higher Ft CMOS processes are increasingly competitive, especially in low power wireless systems such as Bluetooth, Wireless USB, Wimax, Zigbee and W-CDMA transceivers. With the current 32 nm gate sized devices, speeds of 100 GHz and beyond are well within the horizon for CMOS technology, but at a reduced operational voltage, even with thicker gate oxides as compensation. This thesis investigates newer techniques, both from a systems point of view and at a circuit level, to implement an efficient transceiver design that will produce a more sensitive receiver, overcoming the noise disadvantage of using CMOS Silicon. As a starting point, the overall components and available SoC were investigated, together with their architecture. Two novel techniques were developed during this investigation. The first was a high compression point LNA design giving a lower overall systems noise figure for the receiver. The second was an innovative means of matching circuits with low Q components, which enabled the use of smaller inductors and reduced the attenuation loss of the components, the resulting smaller circuit die size leading to smaller and lower cost commercial radio equipment. Both these techniques have had patents filed by the University. Finally, the overall design was laid out for fabrication, taking into account package constraints and bond-wire effects and other parasitic EMC effects.

With the rise of soft-switched converter topologies which enable high-frequency power conversion, there has been a premise that these converter topologies can help achieve loss-less switching in a power device. However, this theory is not completely true as there even with soft-switching there is some degree of loss associated in the form of output capacitance-related hysteresis loss, channel turn-off loss, and loss during the dead-time period in these converter topologies. The soft-switching converters utilize the existence of the device's output capacitance (COSS), which is charged and discharged consecutively at each switching cycle, and a hysteresis loss exists due to the difference in charging and discharging output capacitance. In order fully utilize the potential of these novel soft-switching topologies, we need to investigate further into the origins of these losses or loss mechanisms, methods to measure or compute these losses, and then devise ways to optimize the loss for a given application. This work focuses on exploring methods to quantify this loss for different operating conditions like device current, switching frequency, dV/dT, etc. In this aspect, some methods have been studied and used to quantify this hysteresis loss for a variety of power devices like SI and GaN. It is reported that only channel turn-off losses exist in devices with ZVS transition, however, we found that the charging and discharging of COSS is not loss-free and thus it is important that we account for this loss in the design process. Finally, the loss data obtained from these tests are compared with each other for five different power devices to validate their applicability, and later these test results are used to get an optimized device selection criterion for the best possible efficiency and minimal losses for a ZVS application. / Master of Science / To eliminate the switch-related losses, soft-switching or zero-voltage switching (ZVS) was introduced which provides a soft transition of voltage and current instead of a sharp transition like in hard-switched converters. Moreover, the output capacitance of the devices is charged/discharged to achieve soft switching, which also possesses a loss (hysteresis loss) due to repeated charging and discharging of output capacitance. Soft-switching converter topologies have gained quite a momentum for almost a decade, and it keeps on increasing in the distant future, to extract the maximum benefits from these topologies is to operate at high switching frequencies to minimize the size and volume of the converter. However, the hysteresis loss can severely impact the converter efficiency on even a few 100 kHz and MHz levels. This work focuses on exploring methods to measure hysteresis loss in output capacitance which has a major share in the overall switching loss. In this regard, some methods have been investigated that deal with the measurement of the output capacitance-related hysteresis loss and are implemented to get the hysteresis loss data for different power devices. Two test methods (calorimetric and non-linear resonance) are implemented on five different power devices (3 SI and 2 GaN) to get the energy loss in the output capacitance; these test results are used to explain the switching loss in an isolated boost resonance DC-DC converter, and a concept of ZVS figure of merit is used to obtain the optimized device. Moreover, a design example of a soft-switched converter is presented to highlight the impact of COSS hysteresis loss in the overall switching loss of primary side devices.

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