Master of Music / Department of Music / Frank C. Tracz / The following report is research and analysis from the comprehensive examination question based on the Graduate Conducting Recital of Andrew D. Feyes. The recital, performed by the Kansas State University Symphony Band, was given in McCain Auditorium on the campus of Kansas State University on March 13, 2007 at 7:30pm. The repertoire included Fanfare for La Peri, by Paul Dukas, Concerto for 23 Winds, by Walter S. Hartley, and Incidental Suite, by Claude T. Smith. This examination contains thorough theoretical and historical analyses of the included literature. The report also includes the procedures of planning and performing the graduate conducting recital.

The presence of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) has been analyzed in fibers and neurons within the guinea pig intrinsic cardiac ganglia and in fibers innervating cardiac tissues. In whole-mount preparations, VIP-immunoreactive (IR) fibers were present in about 70% of the cardiac ganglia. VIP was co-localized with neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in fibers innervating the intrinsic ganglia but was not present in fibers immunoreactive for pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide, choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), tyrosine hydroxylase, or substance P. A small number of the intrinsic ChAT-IR cardiac ganglia neurons (approximately 3%) exhibited VIP immunoreactivity. These few VIP-IR cardiac neurons also exhibited nNOS immunoreactivity. After explant culture for 72 h, the intraganglionic VIP-IR fibers degenerated, indicating that they were axons of neurons located outside the heart. In cardiac tissue sections, VIP-IR fibers were present primarily in the atria and in perivascular connective tissue, with the overall abundance being low. VIP-IR fibers were notably sparse in the sinus node and conducting system and generally absent in the ventricular myocardium. Virtually all VIP-IR fibers in tissue sections exhibited immunoreactivity to nNOS. A few VIP-IR fibers, primarily those located within the atrial myocardium, were immunoreactive for both nNOS and ChAT indicating they were derived from intrinsic cardiac neurons. We suggest that, in the guinea pig, the majority of intraganglionic and cardiac tissue VTP-IR fibers originate outside of the heart. These extrinsic VIP-IR fibers are also immunoreactive for nNOS and therefore most likely are a component of the afferent fibers derived from the vagal sensory ganglia.

Ce mémoire étudie deux familles de fonctions orthogonales, soit les fonctions d'orbite de Weyl et les fonctions d'orbite de Hartley. Chacune de ces familles est associée à une algèbre de Lie simple et cette recherche se limite aux algèbres A₂, C₂ et G₂ de rang 2. Les fonctions d'orbite de Weyl ont été largement étudiées depuis des années en raison de leurs propriétés exceptionnelles. Nouvellement, elles ont été utilisées pour générer des polynômes de Chebyshev généralisés et calculer les fonctions génératrices de ces polynômes pour les algèbres de Lie simples de rang 2. Les fonctions d'orbite de Hartley, quant à elles, ont été récemment introduites par Hrivnák et Juránek et l'étude de ces dernières ne fait que débuter. L'objectif de ce mémoire est de définir des polynômes de Chebyshev généralisés associés aux fonctions de Hartley et de calculer les fonctions génératrices de ceux-ci pour les algèbres A₂, C₂ et G₂. Le premier chapitre introduit les systèmes de racines et le groupe de Weyl, original et affine, ainsi que leurs domaines fondamentaux, afin que le lecteur ait les notations et définitions pour comprendre les chapitres suivants. Le deuxième chapitre présente et étudie les fonctions de Weyl. Il définit également leurs polynômes de Chebyshev généralisés et se termine en présentant les différentes fonctions génératrices de ces polynômes pour les algèbres de Lie simples de rang 2. Finalement, le troisième chapitre contient les résultats originaux; il expose les fonctions de Hartley et certaines de leurs propriétés. Il définit les polynômes de Chebyshev généralisés de celles-ci et énonce également leurs relations d'orthogonalité discrète. Il conclut en calculant les fonctions génératrices de ces polynômes pour les algèbres A₂, C₂ et G₂. / This master's thesis studies two families of orthogonal functions, the Weyl orbit functions and the Hartley orbit functions. Each of these families is associated to a simple Lie algebra and the present work is limited to the algebras A₂, C₂ and G₂ of rank 2. Weyl orbit functions have been widely studied for years because of their exceptional properties. Recently, these properties have been used to generate generalized Chebyshev polynomials and to compute the generating functions of these polynomials for the simple Lie algebras of rank 2. Hartley orbit functions, on the other hand, were recently introduced by Hrivnák and Juránek and the study of the latter has only begun. The objective of this thesis is to define the generalized Chebyshev polynomials of Hartley orbit functions and to compute their generating functions for the algebras A₂, C₂ and G₂. The first chapter introduces root systems and the Weyl group, original and affine, and their fundamental domains, so that the reader has the notations and definitions at hand to read the following chapters. The second chapter introduces and studies Weyl orbit functions. It also defines their generalized Chebyshev polynomials and ends by presenting the different generating functions of these polynomials for simple Lie algebras of rank 2. Finally, the third chapter contains the original contribution; it presents the Hartley functions and some of their properties. It defines the generalized Chebyshev polynomials of these and also states their discrete orthogonality relations. It concludes by computing the generating functions of these polynomials for the algebras A₂, C₂ and G₂.

AbstractTitle: Swedish social media services (A study about Swedish social media services birth andhow they benefit from the Swedish climate)Number of pages: 38Author: Robin SchwabeggerTutor: Else NygrenCourse: Media and Communication Science CPeriod: Fall 2009University: Division of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.Purpose/Aim: To see if the Swedish advantage or interest in developing new social mediaservices and networks has anything to do with our society. With society I mean our culture,attitudes and history. Do people, especially young people, have a more positive attitudetowards the Internet and has the fact that we, as a country, were among the first to use theInternet anything to do with it.Material/Method: Data collected from books, newspapers and articles from several sites onthe internet. I’ll use the information I’ve gathered to try to find an answer to my givenproblems for the paper. To mark off my problem and information gathering I’ve decided touse three research questions which my work will circle around.Main Result: You can clearly tell that Sweden has a great climate for social media services tobe created. Sweden, as a country, had access to computers and internet in a very early stageand took great advantage of that. Their culture encourages creativity which is important andpeople in Sweden aren’t afraid to run into problems. Teenagers start uses internet in a veryearly age and they have a higher percent of daily usage then other countries.Keyword: File-sharing, Social media, Sweden, Skype, Spotify, Voddler, The Pirate Bay,Communication, Internet, Culture, Users, Consumers, Developers, Hofstede, Hartley

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A new circuit is proposed that uses an RC-CR filter in a feedback configuration to achieve a wideband precision quadrature phase shift with constant amplitude response. Such a circuit can be used to perform image rejection in a low IF receiver using the Hartley method. Simulation results show that the circuit can achieve an average image rejection ratio of 50 dB over a 16 MHz bandwidth. The feedback loop enables the circuit to maintain high accuracy over process and temperature.

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My thesis studies Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth to redress the unjust neglect of Hartley’s work, and to reach a more positive understanding of Dorothy’s conflicted literary relationship with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I provide a complete reassessment of the often narrowly read prose and poetry of these two critically marginalized figures, and also investigate the relationships that affected their lives, literary self-constructions, and reception; in this way, I restore a more accurate account of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers, and also highlight both the inhibiting and cathartic affects of writing from within a familial literary context. My analysis of the writings of Hartley and Dorothy and the dialogues in which they engage with the works of STC and William, argues that both Hartley and Dorothy developed a strong relational poetics in their endeavour to demarcate their independent subjectivities. Furthermore, through a survey of the significance of the sibling bond – literal and figurative – in the texts and lives of all these writers, I demonstrate a theory of influence which recognizes lateral, rather than paternal, kinship as the most influential relationship. I thus conclude that authorial identity is not fundamentally predetermined by, and dependent on, gender or literary inheritance, but is more significantly governed by domestic environment, familial readership, and immediate kinship. My thesis challenges the long-standing misconceptions that Hartley was unable to achieve a strong poetic identity in STC’s shadow, and that Dorothy’s independent authorial endeavour was primarily thwarted by gender. To replace these misreadings, I foreground the successful literary independence of both writers: my approach reinstates Hartley Coleridge’s literary standing as a major poet who bridged Romanticism and Victorian literature, and promotes Dorothy Wordsworth as one of the finest descriptive writers of nature and relationship.

Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) has gained increasing attention over recent years with much research directed at the nature of persisting symptoms experienced by individuals with MTBI. Owing to the subtle nature of cognitive-communicative difficulties after MTBI, as well as the lack of sensitivity of traditional assessment tools in identifying these difficulties, individuals with MTBI are seldom referred for speech-language therapy services. The need has therefore arisen for the communicative abilities of individuals with MTBI to be assessed in ways other than through the implementation of traditional assessment tools. This preliminary study, for which a qualitative approach with a multiple case study design was adopted, aimed to investigate communication following MTBI from the perspective of a spouse. The spouses of three individuals with MTBI were selected to participate in this study. Semi-structured interviews consisting of two open-ended questions were held with each spouse. The content obtained from the interviews was subjected to a discourse analysis (DA) and the themes that were identified were interpreted within the Model of Social Communication (Hartley, 1995). The results of this study revealed that each of the participants perceived changes in the communication of their spouses since the MTBI. When interpreted within the Model of Social Communication (Hartley, 1995), these communication difficulties were considered to be either the result of impaired internal processes (including impairments in executive control, stored knowledge, subcortical and limbic input or cognition) or the interaction between these impaired internal processes and the environment. The implications of these results regarding the role of the speech-language therapist in MTBI are highlighted. The potential value of the spouse, and the use of DA as both a methodological and clinical tool in the field of speech-language therapy are discussed. Recommendations for future research are made. / Dissertation (M (Communication Pathology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology / M (Communication Pathology) / unrestricted

This thesis discusses the history of the closed shop as a form of union security and the changes that arose with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Law in 1947 which declared the closed shop illegal and morally reprehensible.