This dissertation examines the intersection of gender and culture in the process of identity formation among Kanaka 'Oiwi Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) men in the Hale Mua 0 Maui. Throughout the neocolonial Pacific, indigenous Oceanic men have engaged in gender practices that historically have had widely different consequences for their positions of power or marginality; the cases of Hawai'i and Aotearoa/New Zealand offer important insights into the gendered dynamics of colonialism, decolonization, and reclamation. Focusing in on a deeper history of colonization and revitalization at Pu'ukohola heiau (Kawaihae, Hawai'i), I highlight the ways in which the birth of a newly gendered tradition of bravery and warriorhood in Na Koa (The Courageous Ones) led to a reconsideration of men's roles in different sectors of the Hawaiian community. One outcome was the formation of the Hale Mua, or the "Men's House," on the island of Maui. Against the legacy of American colonialism and its concomitant discourses of death, disappearance, feminization, and domestication, the Hale Mua has endeavored to build strong, culturally grounded men that will take up their kuleana (rights and responsibilities) as members of their 'ohana (families) and the larger lahui (nation). In particular, I examine the role of discursive and embodied practices of ritual, performance, and narrative in the transformation, (re)definition, and enactment of their subjectivities as Hawaiian men. The processes through which the members of the group come to define, know, and perform these kuleana articulate with the larger projects of cultural revitalization, moral regeneration, spiritual/bodily healing, national reclamation, and the uncertain and ambiguous project of mental and political decolonization. Likewise, the very writing of this dissertation has fore-grounded both the possibilities and problematics of conducting indigenous anthropology and research at home.

Master of Engineering (Research) / The overall objective of this research was to realise the practical application of Hierarchical Asynchronous Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-objective and Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO) of UAV Systems using high fidelity analysis tools. The research looked at the assumed aerodynamics and structures of two production UAV wings and attempted to optimise these wings in isolation to the rest of the vehicle. The project was sponsored by the Asian Office of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under contract number AOARD-044078. The two vehicles wings which were optimised were based upon assumptions made on the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk (GH), a High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) vehicle, and the General Atomics Altair (Altair), Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) vehicle. The optimisations for both vehicles were performed at cruise altitude with MTOW minus 5% fuel and a 2.5g load case. The GH was assumed to use NASA LRN 1015 aerofoil at the root, crank and tip locations with five spars and ten ribs. The Altair was assumed to use the NACA4415 aerofoil at all three locations with two internal spars and ten ribs. Both models used a parabolic variation of spar, rib and wing skin thickness as a function of span, and in the case of the wing skin thickness, also chord. The work was carried out by integrating the current University of Sydney designed Evolutionary Optimiser (HAPMOEA) with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools. The variable values computed by HAPMOEA were subjected to structural and aerodynamic analysis. The aerodynamic analysis computed the pressure loads using a Boeing developed Morino class panel method code named PANAIR. These aerodynamic results were coupled to a FEA code, MSC.Nastran® and the strain and displacement of the wings computed. The fitness of each wing was computed from the outputs of each program. In total, 48 design variables were defined to describe both the structural and aerodynamic properties of the wings subject to several constraints. These variables allowed for the alteration of the three aerofoil sections describing the root, crank and tip sections. They also described the internal structure of the wings allowing for variable flexibility within the wing box structure. These design variables were manipulated by the optimiser such that two fitness functions were minimised. The fitness functions were the overall mass of the simulated wing box structure and the inverse of the lift to drag ratio. Furthermore, six penalty functions were added to further penalise genetically inferior wings and force the optimiser to not pass on their genetic material. The results indicate that given the initial assumptions made on all the aerodynamic and structural properties of the HALE and MALE wings, a reduction in mass and drag is possible through the use of the HAPMOEA code. The code was terminated after 300 evaluations of each hierarchical level due to plateau effects. These evolutionary optimisation results could be further refined through a gradient based optimiser if required. Even though a reduced number of evaluations were performed, weight and drag reductions of between 10 and 20 percent were easy to achieve and indicate that the wings of both vehicles can be optimised.

"The purpose of this paper is to bring together information about the life of Nancy Hale, one of the superior story-tellers among writers today, and about the published books that she has written. In spite of the rather extensive recognition which Miss Hale has received, there seems to be a dearth of biographical material about her; and this material is available only in bits and pieces of information dispersed throughout a wide body of literature. Her writings too are somewhat elusive since many of them appear in magazines which are not included in any of the indexing services"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1956." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Sarah Rebecca Reed, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55).

The problem of this thesis concerns itself with the questions: Why did Emma Smith oppose the men who were in the leading council of the Church and who were the closest friends of her husband? What was her attitude towards the Church her husband founded? What kind of woman was she, and what effect did she have upon her husband and the Church he organized?It will be the purpose of this thesis to point out some significant facts pertaining to these questions, garthered in the main, from primary sources such as the Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, news clippings from newspapers published in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri at the time Emma Hale was living and from the Woman's Exponent of the same time. A gleaning of material has also been made from the six volume History of the Church and the Comprehensive History of the Church, Mormon source books, and the one volume, Story of the Church and from the four volumes of the History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, source materials of the Reorganized church.The more personal details in the life of Emma Smith as recorded in this thesis are statements made by her mother-in-law, by a grand-daughter, and by her husband.

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Esta dissertação descreve e analisa os verbos da língua Juruna (Yudja) a partir de suas estruturas argumentais e conseqüências sintáticas. O objetivo é contribuir com um material para a escola indígena Juruna assim como contribuir com os estudos teóricos da perspectiva gerativista de estudos sobre a linguagem. O texto é dividido em duas grandes partes (descrição e análise) sendo a primeira delas uma descrição de 302 verbos da língua. Nesta parte dividimos estes verbos em dezoito classes verbais a partir de critérios morfológicos, sintáticos e semânticos. Estes critérios foram estabelecidos a partir de características da língua, quais sejam estas: duplicação verbal, propriedades semânticas, afixos, causativização e propriedades das raízes - as quais associadas a verbalizadores formam os verbos. Nesta seção apresentamos quais são as construções e operações morfológicas que cada verbo descrito realiza (tais como: alternâncias de valência (por afixação e via alternância labile), duplicação e supleção verbal) e suas funções na língua. A segunda parte do texto denominada \"análises\" apresenta uma análise gerativa para os fatos da língua Juruna. Para a questão da formação dos verbos, partimos da proposta de Hale & Keyser (1993; 2001) segundo a qual os verbos são formados de forma estrutural e hierárquica a partir de duas estruturas básicas (monádica e diádica) nucleadas por núcleos verbais (V1 e V2). Estas estruturas são utilizadas de forma paramétrica a partir de restrições das raízes verbais e seus traços sintáticos e semânticos. Considerando esta proposta teórica, argumentamos que os verbos da língua Juruna são formados estruturalmente a partir de restrições dos traços que formam as raízes verbais, os quais também serão determinantes nos processos de atribuição e mudança de valência e voz assim como no processo de duplicação e supleção verbal. Após a análise referente à formação dos verbos apresentamos a formação de sentenças na língua Juruna partindo do Programa Minimalista (Chomsky 1995; 1998; 1999). Nesta seção apresentamos o processo de inserção de sujeitos (a partir de formas pronominais, demonstrativos e sintagmas nominais) em vP, discutimos os processos de concordância, analisamos a inserção de modo realis/ irrealis, bem como questões relacionadas a ordem sentencial, adjunção de advérbios e o paralelismo entre os planos nominal e verbal, a partir das questões associadas à cumulatividade e quantificação. O ponto central desta dissertação é, portanto, argumentar que todas as propriedades sintáticas da língua Juruna decorrem essencialmente dos traços formadores de seus verbos. Desta forma, para a compreensão da sintaxe de uma língua é necessário compreender a estrutura argumental de seus verbos. / This dissertation describes and analyzes Juruna (Yudja) verbs based on argument structure and its syntactic consequences. We aim to offer to the Juruna School useful material about verb classes and also to contribute to the advancement of language studies in the generativist framework. The dissertation is divided in two parts - description and analysis). The first is a description of 302 verbs in this language. In this part, we divided verbs in eighteen classes based on morphological, syntactic and semantic criteria established from phenomena present in Juruna. These phenomena are: verb reduplication, semantic properties of roots and affixes, causativization and properties of roots that, associated to verbalizers, form verbs. We presented constructions and morphological operations that each verb described realize, for instance: valence alternation (by affixation or labile alternation), reduplication and suppletion and their functions in this language. The second part of the dissertation - entitled \"analysis\" - presents a generativist account of some Juruna facts described in the first part. To discuss verb formation we based ourselves on Hale & Keyser\'s (1993; 2001) proposal that verbs are formed from two basic structures (monadic and dyadic) with verbal nuclei (V1 and V2) organized structurally and hierarchically. These structures are utilized parametrically, taking into consideration verbal root restrictions and syntactic and semantic traces. Supported by this theorical proposal, we argued that verbs in Juruna are formed structurally based on restrictions of their root. These restrictions will also determine the process of attribution and change of valence and voice and the processes of verb duplication and suppletion in the language. After the analysis of verb formation, we present a hypothesis of sentence structure in Juruna based on the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995; 1998; 1999). In this section we discussed: 1) subject insertion (taking into consideration pronominal forms, demonstratives and nominal phrases) in vP; 2) agreement processes; 3) the insertion of mood realis/ irrealis; 4) sentential order; 5) adverbial adjunction and 6) the parallelism between nominal and verbal domains based on cumulativity and quantification. The central theoretical point of this dissertation is to argue in favor of the idea that syntactic properties may be explained, in large part, as a consequence of verb formation. In this sense, to understand the syntactic structure of a language it is essential to understand the argument structure of its verbs.

Esta dissertação descreve e analisa os verbos da língua Juruna (Yudja) a partir de suas estruturas argumentais e conseqüências sintáticas. O objetivo é contribuir com um material para a escola indígena Juruna assim como contribuir com os estudos teóricos da perspectiva gerativista de estudos sobre a linguagem. O texto é dividido em duas grandes partes (descrição e análise) sendo a primeira delas uma descrição de 302 verbos da língua. Nesta parte dividimos estes verbos em dezoito classes verbais a partir de critérios morfológicos, sintáticos e semânticos. Estes critérios foram estabelecidos a partir de características da língua, quais sejam estas: duplicação verbal, propriedades semânticas, afixos, causativização e propriedades das raízes - as quais associadas a verbalizadores formam os verbos. Nesta seção apresentamos quais são as construções e operações morfológicas que cada verbo descrito realiza (tais como: alternâncias de valência (por afixação e via alternância labile), duplicação e supleção verbal) e suas funções na língua. A segunda parte do texto denominada \"análises\" apresenta uma análise gerativa para os fatos da língua Juruna. Para a questão da formação dos verbos, partimos da proposta de Hale & Keyser (1993; 2001) segundo a qual os verbos são formados de forma estrutural e hierárquica a partir de duas estruturas básicas (monádica e diádica) nucleadas por núcleos verbais (V1 e V2). Estas estruturas são utilizadas de forma paramétrica a partir de restrições das raízes verbais e seus traços sintáticos e semânticos. Considerando esta proposta teórica, argumentamos que os verbos da língua Juruna são formados estruturalmente a partir de restrições dos traços que formam as raízes verbais, os quais também serão determinantes nos processos de atribuição e mudança de valência e voz assim como no processo de duplicação e supleção verbal. Após a análise referente à formação dos verbos apresentamos a formação de sentenças na língua Juruna partindo do Programa Minimalista (Chomsky 1995; 1998; 1999). Nesta seção apresentamos o processo de inserção de sujeitos (a partir de formas pronominais, demonstrativos e sintagmas nominais) em vP, discutimos os processos de concordância, analisamos a inserção de modo realis/ irrealis, bem como questões relacionadas a ordem sentencial, adjunção de advérbios e o paralelismo entre os planos nominal e verbal, a partir das questões associadas à cumulatividade e quantificação. O ponto central desta dissertação é, portanto, argumentar que todas as propriedades sintáticas da língua Juruna decorrem essencialmente dos traços formadores de seus verbos. Desta forma, para a compreensão da sintaxe de uma língua é necessário compreender a estrutura argumental de seus verbos. / This dissertation describes and analyzes Juruna (Yudja) verbs based on argument structure and its syntactic consequences. We aim to offer to the Juruna School useful material about verb classes and also to contribute to the advancement of language studies in the generativist framework. The dissertation is divided in two parts - description and analysis). The first is a description of 302 verbs in this language. In this part, we divided verbs in eighteen classes based on morphological, syntactic and semantic criteria established from phenomena present in Juruna. These phenomena are: verb reduplication, semantic properties of roots and affixes, causativization and properties of roots that, associated to verbalizers, form verbs. We presented constructions and morphological operations that each verb described realize, for instance: valence alternation (by affixation or labile alternation), reduplication and suppletion and their functions in this language. The second part of the dissertation - entitled \"analysis\" - presents a generativist account of some Juruna facts described in the first part. To discuss verb formation we based ourselves on Hale & Keyser\'s (1993; 2001) proposal that verbs are formed from two basic structures (monadic and dyadic) with verbal nuclei (V1 and V2) organized structurally and hierarchically. These structures are utilized parametrically, taking into consideration verbal root restrictions and syntactic and semantic traces. Supported by this theorical proposal, we argued that verbs in Juruna are formed structurally based on restrictions of their root. These restrictions will also determine the process of attribution and change of valence and voice and the processes of verb duplication and suppletion in the language. After the analysis of verb formation, we present a hypothesis of sentence structure in Juruna based on the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995; 1998; 1999). In this section we discussed: 1) subject insertion (taking into consideration pronominal forms, demonstratives and nominal phrases) in vP; 2) agreement processes; 3) the insertion of mood realis/ irrealis; 4) sentential order; 5) adverbial adjunction and 6) the parallelism between nominal and verbal domains based on cumulativity and quantification. The central theoretical point of this dissertation is to argue in favor of the idea that syntactic properties may be explained, in large part, as a consequence of verb formation. In this sense, to understand the syntactic structure of a language it is essential to understand the argument structure of its verbs.

Lilian Westcott Hale (1880-1963) and her daughter Nancy Hale (1908-1988) built successful careers during a period of transition in America, as Victorian mores were replaced by new modern freedoms. Greater independence for women had evolved during the preceding century, before the influential cultural factors which occurred during the early twentieth century like urbanization and world war. This interdisciplinary analysis of Lilian Hale‘s artwork and Nancy Hale‘s writings demonstrates the imprint of the surrounding world on their work. Lilian Hale‘s art is influenced by her Victorian childhood, and Nancy Hale‘s fiction reveals many conflicts of the modern era. The study of these two women is enhanced by the wealth of primary documentation connecting their ideas and their lives to their artistic works. Both of the women ranked among the most respected in their fields during their lifetimes. Their works resonate with elements of their eras, demonstrating what it was to be a woman during the first half of the twentieth century. Lilian Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale both engage the gender constructs of their periods through their work. Lilian Westcott Hale‘s art is divided here into three distinct genres: her still lifes and landscapes express the confining environment the Victorian woman occupied; her idealized women reflect the period‘s taste for female perfection and beauty; her portraits and figure studies point to Hale‘s own distinction between males and females through their clothing and their poses. Unlike Lilian Westcott Hale, Nancy Hale demonstrates woman‘s new freedoms in an open manner, a result of the break with Victorianism. Hale‘s use of a literary medium allows her direct examination of the turmoil caused by the modern breakdown of Victorian structures. Lilian Westcott Hale refrains from harsh judgment of her daughter‘s world, while Nancy Hale‘s modern challenge of the previous era‘s standards leads her into troubling relationships and difficulties balancing her career with her personal life. Their work reveals the cultural ideologies of their respective eras and particularly the changes taking place for women.

William Hale White "Mark Rutherford", (1831-1913) est avant tout connu comme auteur d'une autobiographie romancée écrite sous la pression d'une intense inquiétude spirituelle et métaphysique. Né à Bedford dans un milieu de dissidents non-conformistes, ses écrits ne se font pas seulement l'écho de l'expérience poignante de la perte de la foi et de l'irruption du doute religieux sous l'effet de la critique biblique et du développement de connaissances dans le domaine des sciences, mais ils mettent aussi en évidence avec beaucoup de subtilité le très grand fractionnement du paysage religieux anglais dans une petite ville de province. White ne se considéra jamais comme un professionnel de l'écriture. Il avait cinquante ans lorsqu'il publia The Autobiography (1881) puis The Deliverance (1884), deux courts récits qui constituent lřhistoire fictionnalisée de son expérience personnelle dans lesquels il décrit les difficultés rencontrées par le narrateur-personnage principal dans son désir de trouver une forme de « délivrance » qui lui permette de refonder ses certitudes ébranlées en redonnant à son existence une orientation rassurante et clairement définie. Ce travail accorde une large place à l'histoire des idées religieuses et intellectuelles, aux relations entre religion et culture ; il s'efforce de reconstituer certains aspects du paysage religieux et idéologique de l'époque victorienne à partir de la prise en compte de l'itinéraire de White, qui est entièrement placé sous le signe de la rupture avec les formes les plus traditionnelles de croyance. Il s'intéresse aussi à la dimension sociale, culturelle et éthique des débats spirituels et religieux en Grande-Bretagne. / William Hale White "Mark Rutherford" (1831-1913) is best known as the author of a fictionalized autobiography written under the pressure of intense spiritual and metaphysical concerns during the Victorian period. Born in a non conformist background in Bedford, his writings not only mirror his loss of faith and the Victorian crisis of doubt triggered by Biblical criticism and the new developments in sciences at the time, but they also highlight with great subtlety the varied religious and political landscape in an English country town. White did not consider himself as a professional author. He was fifty when his first works were published. In his fictional autobiographical writings, The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1881) and Mark Rutherford's Deliverance (1884), William Hale White describes the agonies of religious doubt in the mid-19th century. This dissertation is not only a study of White's work and background, but also a study of the history of intellectual and religious ideas, as well as an analysis of the social, cultural, ethical and religious debates in Great Britain. The intellectual and historical approach of this work discusses the debates between culture, religion and ethics in the Victorian period.

The objective of this work was to develop an analysis framework for the structural design of the Human-Powered Ornithopter (HPO). This framework was used in a kinematicaerostructural optimizer for apping-wing ight (Ornithia), as well as analytically to design the HPO, and focused on three goals. First was the development of an accurate and computationally inexpensive nite-element method, to be integrated with Ornithia, which would capture the geometric nonlinearity of the aerostructural interaction of the wing when subjected the large deformations in ight. Second was the assembly of a model by which the aircraft primary structure, the wing main spar especially, could be exactly characterized and designed. Third was the establishment of a process and toolbox for failure analysis which could be applied universally in the design of the HPO. The validation and tuning of these models involved extensive testing on prototype carbon ber composite components.