Zugl.: Ludwigsburg, Pädag. Hochsch., Diss.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Music, Dec. 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

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Title: Marketing research of the customers satisfaction with services of the company "Hardcore Tréninky" Objectives: The main aim of this diploma thesis is to analyze current level of customer satisfaction with the services of Hardcore Tréninky, discover their opinions and reveal potential drawbacks by using questionnaire survey. Base on the results of empirical research, define any problem areas and suggest appropriate management recommendations, which would let to increase the customers satisfaction. Methods: To determine the satisfaction of the customers of the company Hardcore Tréninky, it has been used the quantitative method, which is called questionnaire survey. Respondents were interviewed mostly by electronic questioning, but few of them were also asked personally. Results: From the results of marketing research is clear that the customers of the company Hardcore Tréninky are satisfied with the quality of its services. They positively evaluated especially characteristic features of the HCT services. On the other hand, the biggest problematic area was discovered in the technical condition of equipment and the building of the Vinohradská gym. It is suggested to enable paying by the internet, promote the new Opatov gym and buy new equipment and reconstruct the locker room in the Vinohradská...

In light of the specific challenges of assessing a thesis film—a project which contains artistic and academic components—the author examines his own short film For Want Of as a prototype for future work in film and as an opportunity for introspective investigation into the nature of filmmaking and personal artistic process. Reference is made to specific episodes during the film’s conception and production, as well as higher-level insight gained from following the film through an 18-month production cycle.

This study investigates presence of religion in Hardcore/Punk. While Hardcore/Punk traditionally is a secular subculture, study investigates how bands with religious agendas claim space within this subculture and the attitudes they encounter within it. That is, how they relate to the subculture, and consequently the mainstream culture. Further, the study takes interest in how non-religious bands relate to religious history, institutions and faith. This is done through a qualitative content analysis of lyrics from American hardcore/punkbands between 1986-2007. The bands investigated devote themselves to one of the three beliefs: Hare Krishna, Christians or Non-believers. The main findings are that hardcore/punk bands, despite of religion, share common ground. They all carry strong convictions, share the same artistic expressions and make use of the same language. Yet, the respective convictions, grounded in different religious worldviews, sometimes clash. Religious as well as nonreligious bands express the same attitudes to a large extent, even though these attitudes are grounded in different worldviews (e.g., religious or political). However, in spite such differences, they still have managed to share space within the subculture. What we see is that the two religious’ groups of Hare Krishna and Christians make themselves, through their presence in hardcore/punk, subcultures within a subculture.

Strongly correlated systems on geometrically frustrated lattices can stabilize a large number of interesting phases that includes a wide array of novel Mott insulators in both bosonic and electronic systems. Charge fluctuations in a Mott insulator are suppressed due to strong mutual interaction among the particles. The presence of frustration is of particular importance as the physics it offers is often rich, unexpectedly complicated, and continues to raise many open questions. The thesis elucidates some of these issues on a kagome lattice where strong interactions among the particles in the Mott phase impose non-trivial local constraints depending on the filling fraction on the lattice. These Mott insulators, in addition to featuring unusual magnetic and/or charge ordering, can also harbor topologically ordered states of quantum matter, e.g., resonating valence bond liquids realized in certain quantum dimer models on non-bipartite lattices. The dimer models can be regarded as low-energy effective theories for different types of bosonic models in the strong-coupling limit. Exploring this connection is a central theme of this thesis with the aim of realizing novel strongly correlated ground states. Past studies of these models have revealed the existence of various ordered and disordered phases with distinct signatures. Among these low-energy phases, the presence of a stable topological liquid at a particular point, known as Rokhsar-Kivelson point, in the phase diagram is notable. The classical versions of the dimer model are also known to have garnered a vast interest in various fields ranging from problems of pure mathematical origin to ones in physical chemistry as well as statistical physics. Pioneered by Kasteleyn, several analytical works came forward to exactly calculate the partition function of the problem from which other physical observables can be derived. Classical numerical methods are extensively applied to these models to verify the analytical predictions. We introduce a new classical algorithm here to compute the correlation functions of a classical dimer model on a square (bipartite) and a triangular (non-bipartite) lattice based on a tensor network construction. The method, called tensor network renormalization group, turns out to be a powerful tool for simulating short-ranged gapped systems as inferred from our results benchmarked against the classical Monte-Carlo technique and compared with past analytical studies. One should note that the quantum dimer model at the Rokhsar-Kivelson point can also be described as an infinite temperature canonical ensemble of classical dimers because of the particular structure of the ground state which is an equal weight superposition in the configuration manifold. The geometry of the lattice plays a pivotal role in deciding the nature of the phases that arise in the dimer models. Many physical properties of the dimer liquid phase can be extracted in the simple classical setting which certainly allows for a deep understanding of the classical models to be developed. The liquid phase is gapped on non-bipartite lattices and gapless on bipartite lattices, which is reflected in the decay of correlation functions with spatial distances. In general on non-bipartite lattices, the topological nature of the dimer liquid is characterized by a Z2 topological order which survives even when the model is perturbed away from the Rokhsar-Kivelson point. Stability of this liquid phase not only depends on the lattice geometries but notably on dimer concentrations also. In this context, we focus on a particular variant of the dimer model on a triangular lattice which is known as the quantum fully packed loop model. The model is composed of nonintersecting closed loops made of dimers and governed by the same Hamiltonian as the quantum dimer model. The loop model provides an effective low-energy description of a strongly correlated bosonic system at 1/3 filling on the kagome lattice. The corresponding Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian consists of nearest-neighbor hopping and all possible repulsive interactions within a hexagonal plaquette. Conspicuous features of the zero-temperature phase diagram for this model include (i) presence of a stable Z2 liquid even without any Rokhsar-Kivelson potential term (in distinction to the standard quantum dimer model), and (ii) an unconventional phase transition from the liquid phase to a novel crystalline phase that has nematic order (dubbed lattice nematic). For a deeper understanding of the physics, a mapping to an Ising gauge theory is presented. The gauge theoretic description provides a useful way to predict the nature of the quantum phase transition to lie in the O(3) universality class. Finally a fermionic model at the same 1/3 filling is considered in which the ground state exhibits a number of exotic local orderings resulting from the spin-charge interplay of electrons. The Hamiltonian comprises nearest-neighbor hopping, strong on-site Coulomb interaction, and repulsive interaction terms only between nearest-neighbors. In the strong correlation limit, this fermionic problem maps to a two-color fully packed loop model – a model in which the loop segments carry an additional quantum number as color on a honeycomb lattice. The effective theory is governed by coherent three-particle ring exchanges and nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic spin exchanges. The competition between these two leads to a phase diagram composed of a novel plaquette ordered state (known as the plaquette phase) that undergoes phase transition to a new kind of charge ordered state which we call a short loop phase. From our numerical analysis, we conclude that the plaquette phase features an unusual antiferromagnetic order with gapless spin excitations while the charge-ordered state is subjugated by spin fluctuations of localized electrons arranged in small hexagonal loops on the kagome lattice.

The thesis is focused on the DIY principle that can be a catalyst for collectives and individuals aiming to emancipate (consciously or unconsciously) from individualization and commodification that is symptomatic for today's society. This principle is adopted by various subcultures, but I am focused particularly on the hardcore-punk subculture (or precisely said - counterculture), which ideology is based on the idea of non-consumer society emancipated from values, norms and rules, that are being introduced to us by the mainstream society and its power structures. The analytical part of the thesis is focused on particular individuals and collectives, their activities, motivation, as well as the internal functioning of collectives. A combination of methods of qualitative research, especially participant observation and semi- structured interviews, were used for data collection. Data was analyzed using open coding. The collectives show better ability to resist commodification based on long-term practices commonly used in hc-punk to resist to the process of individualization. Their ability to create communities and collective activities is limited. Key words individualization, commodification, hardcore-punk subculture, diy principle, colectives, anarchism

Als Beitrag zu einer verbesserten Filtration von Metallschmelzen werden stochastische Modelle für den essentiellen Mechanismus der Koagulation von Brownschen Partikeln und Partikeln in turbulenten Strömungen entwickelt und untersucht. Formeln für die zeitliche Entwicklung der Partikelkonzentration in diesen Systemen erlauben die Bestimmung von physikalischen Parametern, welche die Koagulation und somit die Filtration begünstigen. Um wichtige Resultate im Zusammenhang mit der traditionellen Herangehensweise für Brownsche Partikel zu berichtigen und zu erweitern, wird ein neuer Ansatz in Form zweier Modelle entwickelt. Für beide werden Formeln für die Partikelkonzentration, auf Basis einer neuartigen Verallgemeinerung der Matérn Hard-Core-Punktprozesse, abgeleitet. Um im Hinblick auf die Koagulationsgleichung der fraktalartigen Gestalt der Agglomerate besser Rechnung zu tragen, wird deren Morphologie anhand zweier neuer Modelle quantifiziert. Die Arbeit wird durch Anwendung der Modelle und numerische Simulationen von Koagulation und Abscheidung in turbulenten Strömungen abgerundet.

Ce mémoire porte sur la notion de résistance sous-culturelle chez la sous-culture straight edge dans le contexte du Québec et s’intéresse à la place et au rôle de la musique hardcore à travers cette résistance. S’inscrivant dans le domaine de la sociomusicologie, il est le résultat d’une étude de terrain menée à l’aide d’entretiens auprès de participants à la sous-culture straight edge québécoise. Il s’intéresse au développement de la culture straight edge dans le contexte du Québec et à son organisation en marge de l’industrie culturelle mainstream en explorant son lien et son positionnement par rapport à la scène hardcore québécoise. Cette enquête se penche sur la perception de l’identité sous-culturelle ainsi que sur la représentation du système de valeurs straight edge chez les participants à la sous-culture. Il explore également, à travers l’analyse du discours des participants, leur conception de la société mainstream, des structures de pouvoir et de l’idéologie dominante afin de comprendre leur conception de la résistance. Le mémoire s’intéresse ensuite aux caractéristiques esthétiques du genre hardcore straight edge à travers ses paramètres musicaux et la production et l’utilisation de la voix dans le genre. Il est finalement démontré que la musique hardcore soutien et appuie la résistance sous-culturelle straight edge à travers diverses stratégies d’interprétation, compositionnelles et scéniques, soutenues par les paramètres vocaux et musicaux du genre, les textes des chansons ainsi que le contexte du concert live. / This thesis examines the notion of resistance in the straight edge subculture in the context of Quebec, focusing on the place and role of hardcore music through this resistance. It is part of a sociomusicology field study consisting in interviews with participants in the Quebec straight edge subculture. It is interested in the development of straight edge culture in the context of Quebec and its organization on the margins of the mainstream cultural industry. It also explores the relationship of this subculture with the Quebec hardcore scene. This thesis examines the perception of subcultural identity and the representation of the straight edge value system amongst subcultural participants. It also explores, through the analysis of the participants' discourses, their conception of mainstream society, power structures and dominant ideologies in order to understand their conceptions of resistance. The thesis then looks at the aesthetic characteristics of the straight edge hardcore genre through its musical parameters and the production and use of the voice in this genre. Finally, it is shown that hardcore music supports and sustains straight edge subcultural resistance through various performances, compositional and scenic strategies, supported by the vocal and musical parameters of the genre, lyrics, as well as the context of the live concert.