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O trabalho investiga a relação entre documentação e internacionalismo na obra de Paul Otlet (1868-1944), com foco particular no papel do internacionalismo sobre a formação das problemáticas e soluções em torno do documento. Adotaram-se como procedimentos metodológicos levantamento, revisão e análise bibliográfico-documental, constituindo-se um corpus da produção de Otlet e de textos de seus intérpretes. Observa-se a centralidade da Primeira Guerra Mundial na argumentação de Otlet quanto ao funcionamento da vida social, e os modelos descritivos baseados na biologia, na físico-química industrial e no racionalismo pelos quais ele compreende a dinâmica social. Expõe-se seu diagnóstico de crise de crescimento e adaptação das estruturas sociopolíticas frente à internacionalização - a insuficiência do Estado-nação, a proliferação das associações internacionais, a necessidade de uma Sociedade das Nações -, e aponta-se como o internacionalismo se manifesta em seu pensamento tanto como fato quanto como posição política. Discute-se o entendimento de Otlet quanto à documentação como um fenômeno sociotécnico, observando como sua construção fundamenta e fundamenta-se sobre uma visão evolucionária do homem e da sociedade. Observa-se sua articulação das figuras de matéria e força para descrever a ação da documentação sobre o pensamento humano, expondo o documento como condição material para as possibilidades de comunicação duradoura, construção de conhecimento objetivo e em última instância de coesão social. Demonstra-se o contexto do entre-guerras como o momento em que Otlet buscara viabilizar institucionalmente a relação entre documentação e internacionalismo por meio de uma nova estrutura organizacional, o Palais mondial (mais tarde Mundaneum), e pela demanda de reconhecimento pela Liga das Nações das demandas sociais por cooperação intelectual internacional. Expõe-se como Otlet conectaria assim o desenvolvimento de consenso e a possibilidade de ação democrática ao desenvolvimento do conhecimento e à organização dos documentos. Aponta-se, por fim, a interdependência entre documentação e internacionalismo em Otlet como exemplo da necessidade de se considerar os elementos políticos e sociais subjacentes às concepções teóricas e técnicas na Ciência da Informação. / This research investigates the relationship between documentation and internationalism in Paul Otlet\'s (1868-1944) thought, focusing specifically in how internationalism informs the problematics and solutions surrounding the document. The methods employed were bibliographic and documentary survey, review and analysis of a corpus of Otlet\'s texts, as well as texts form his interpreters. It observes the centrality of the First World War in Otlet\'s reasoning concerning the workings of social life, and the descriptive models based on biology, industrial physics and chemistry, and rationalism through which he understood social dynamics. It exposes his diagnosis of a crisis of social growth and adaptation to internationalization - the insufficiency of the Nation-State, the proliferation of international associations, the need for a Society of Nations -, and it establishes how internationalism manifests in his thought both as a fact and as a political position. It discusses Otlet\'s understanding of documentation as a sociotechnical phenomenon, following how its construction supports and is supported by an evolutionary view of man and society. It observes how he employs the images of matter and force to describe the effect of documentation on human thought, pointing out the document as the material condition for the possibilities of sustained communication, the development of objective knowledge and ultimately social cohesion. It demonstrates how in the years between the World Wars Otlet aimed to establish institutionally the connection between documentation and internationalism, both by conceiving a new organizational structure, the Palais mondial (later Mundaneum), and by arguing for the League of Nations\' recognition of the social demands for international intellectual cooperation. It exposes how Otlet connected thus the development of social consensus and the possibility of democratic action to the development of knowledge and the organization of documents. Finally, it points out the interdependence between documentation and internationalism in Otlet\'s thought as an example of the need to consider the political and social elements underlying theoretical and technical conceptions in Information Science.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the nature of military behaviour during the High Middle Ages, in what is normally called the Age of Chivalry. I am not entirely comfortable with this appellation, which is why I have chosen to discuss the ethos and practice of warfare. My focus is essentially on the societies of north-western Europe which displayed certain characteristics in warfare, which they exported into the Mediterranean region and further east. It is somewhat of a simplification to describe this military culture as that of 'knight and castle'; but it is a convenient starting point. In what follows I have drawn together fourteen of my published articles over the period 1982-2005, in order to present my interpretation of the main strands that can be identified in warfare between 1050 and 1250. Although I continue to be research active and have published, or I am still in the process of publishing, half-a-dozen articles over the last five years, I felt that I could best present a coherent thesis from the pieces which I have selected.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1999. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Sept. 22, 2005). Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued also in microfiche. Issued also in print.

<p> Frequent droughts are common and extreme precipitation is a normal weather pattern for the Navajo country and has been for almost 6000 years. The Navajo do not abandon the often that drought stricken areas demonstrating their ability adapt to extreme weather conditions. For almost 300 years, the Navajo, while in a state of constant warfare with many different surrounding peoples, continued to develop and grow as a tribe, while living off of livestock, farming and hunting. Currently open for public review and comment is a new proposed Navajo Rangeland Improvement Act of 2014. It is the people, the tribal citizen&rsquo;s needs that need administration.</p><p>

From 1960-4 the British government embarked on two large-scale space research programmes to develop satellite launchers. After first being cancelled as a military project in 1960, the Blue Streak missile was converted into the first stage of a British-led European collaborative project to build a three stage satellite launcher (through the European Launcher Development Organisation - ELDO). Born out of the Black Knight warhead re-entry testing vehicle, the independent Black Arrow project aimed to launch small satellites for scientific experimentation. With European collaborations, American scientific knowledge, and an Australian testing site, decisions affecting British space research had wide reaching diplomatic as well as domestic consequences. However, by 1973, both of these programmes had been cancelled. By examining the complex formation of British policy on these two space research projects, I will identify the alliances of actors involved focusing on understanding the role of civil servants, and the domestic, economic, and foreign policy priorities which directed their policy-making. This thesis seeks to address two contradictions raised by British policy on space research, and historical analysis of this period. Firstly, if we accept that Britain was not in decline in this period, the how can the history of two projects which is dominated by their cancellation be explained? Secondly, how British governments could reconcile their policy towards ELDO (threatening to withdraw almost yearly from 1966-73) with their stated aim to accede to the European Communities and their repeated rhetoric that the increased potential for scientific and technological collaboration was a key benefit of British accession? In order to address these contradictions I focus on decisions and decision-makers within government. By tracking policy arguments and options to their very beginnings I show throughout this thesis the way in which individuals frame, shape and direct policy. This thesis provides new insights into the foreign and domestic policy priorities of the four governments in this period by tracking the balance of priorities in policy making in two major space research projects. Close examination of ELDO and Black Arrow highlights that their cancellation is not a symbol of British decline, but instead represent active choices by decision-makers to engage in new areas of research. This supports the work of historians challenging the idea that Britain was in decline in this period, and suggests that cancelled projects should be re-examined.

O trabalho investiga a relação entre documentação e internacionalismo na obra de Paul Otlet (1868-1944), com foco particular no papel do internacionalismo sobre a formação das problemáticas e soluções em torno do documento. Adotaram-se como procedimentos metodológicos levantamento, revisão e análise bibliográfico-documental, constituindo-se um corpus da produção de Otlet e de textos de seus intérpretes. Observa-se a centralidade da Primeira Guerra Mundial na argumentação de Otlet quanto ao funcionamento da vida social, e os modelos descritivos baseados na biologia, na físico-química industrial e no racionalismo pelos quais ele compreende a dinâmica social. Expõe-se seu diagnóstico de crise de crescimento e adaptação das estruturas sociopolíticas frente à internacionalização - a insuficiência do Estado-nação, a proliferação das associações internacionais, a necessidade de uma Sociedade das Nações -, e aponta-se como o internacionalismo se manifesta em seu pensamento tanto como fato quanto como posição política. Discute-se o entendimento de Otlet quanto à documentação como um fenômeno sociotécnico, observando como sua construção fundamenta e fundamenta-se sobre uma visão evolucionária do homem e da sociedade. Observa-se sua articulação das figuras de matéria e força para descrever a ação da documentação sobre o pensamento humano, expondo o documento como condição material para as possibilidades de comunicação duradoura, construção de conhecimento objetivo e em última instância de coesão social. Demonstra-se o contexto do entre-guerras como o momento em que Otlet buscara viabilizar institucionalmente a relação entre documentação e internacionalismo por meio de uma nova estrutura organizacional, o Palais mondial (mais tarde Mundaneum), e pela demanda de reconhecimento pela Liga das Nações das demandas sociais por cooperação intelectual internacional. Expõe-se como Otlet conectaria assim o desenvolvimento de consenso e a possibilidade de ação democrática ao desenvolvimento do conhecimento e à organização dos documentos. Aponta-se, por fim, a interdependência entre documentação e internacionalismo em Otlet como exemplo da necessidade de se considerar os elementos políticos e sociais subjacentes às concepções teóricas e técnicas na Ciência da Informação. / This research investigates the relationship between documentation and internationalism in Paul Otlet\'s (1868-1944) thought, focusing specifically in how internationalism informs the problematics and solutions surrounding the document. The methods employed were bibliographic and documentary survey, review and analysis of a corpus of Otlet\'s texts, as well as texts form his interpreters. It observes the centrality of the First World War in Otlet\'s reasoning concerning the workings of social life, and the descriptive models based on biology, industrial physics and chemistry, and rationalism through which he understood social dynamics. It exposes his diagnosis of a crisis of social growth and adaptation to internationalization - the insufficiency of the Nation-State, the proliferation of international associations, the need for a Society of Nations -, and it establishes how internationalism manifests in his thought both as a fact and as a political position. It discusses Otlet\'s understanding of documentation as a sociotechnical phenomenon, following how its construction supports and is supported by an evolutionary view of man and society. It observes how he employs the images of matter and force to describe the effect of documentation on human thought, pointing out the document as the material condition for the possibilities of sustained communication, the development of objective knowledge and ultimately social cohesion. It demonstrates how in the years between the World Wars Otlet aimed to establish institutionally the connection between documentation and internationalism, both by conceiving a new organizational structure, the Palais mondial (later Mundaneum), and by arguing for the League of Nations\' recognition of the social demands for international intellectual cooperation. It exposes how Otlet connected thus the development of social consensus and the possibility of democratic action to the development of knowledge and the organization of documents. Finally, it points out the interdependence between documentation and internationalism in Otlet\'s thought as an example of the need to consider the political and social elements underlying theoretical and technical conceptions in Information Science.

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The first four decades of the twentieth century was a period of rapid development in physics. The late nineteenth century discoveries of X-rays, Becquerel rays and subatomic particles had revealed new properties of matter, and the early twentieth century quantum and relativity theories added to the notion that the discipline was undergoing a fundamental change in thought and practice. Historians and scientists alike have retrospectively conceived of a sharp divide between nineteenth century and twentieth century physics, applying the terms ‘classical’ and ‘modern’ to distinguish between these two practices. However, recent scholarship has suggested that early twentieth century physicists did not see this divide as self-evident, and in fact were responsible for consciously constructing these categories and definitions. This thesis explores the creation of the terms ‘classical’ and ‘modern’ physics in Britain, and the physicists responsible. I consider how these terms were employed in ‘public’ arenas (lectures, books, newspapers, museums) influencing the wider reception of ‘modern’ physics. I consider not only the rhetorics employed by ‘modern’ physicists, but also those we would now consider to be ‘classical’, revealing a diverse range of potential definitions of ‘modern’ physics. Furthermore, even within the ‘modernists’ themselves, there was considerable disagreement over how their work was to be presented, as industrially applicable, or of value simply as intellectual knowledge in and of itself. There were also different notions of how scientific ‘progress’ should be portrayed, whether knowledge advanced through experimental refinement or theoretical work. Early twentieth century ‘modern’ physics appeared to discard long held theories, rejecting much of the discipline’s past. As such, physicists’ connection to the legacy of Newton was under threat. Furthermore, the instability of science more generally was revealed: if physicists had shown the old theories to be wrong, then why should the new ones be any different? This had severe implications as to how the public placed ‘trust’ in science. I explore how physicists carefully managed the ‘public’ transition from ‘classical’ to ‘modern’ physics, regaining public trust during a period of scientific ‘revolution’ and controversy.

Anyone who has gazed at a cloud free sky during daytime certainly havenoticed that the colour of the sky is blue. A careful observer may also havenoticed that the sky can look darker or lighter blue. The actual reasonsbehind this nature phenomena were not resolved until the second half ofthe 19th century but the variation of blue was already investigated duringthe time of Enlightenment by the Genovan scientist, aristocrat and mountainexplorer Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740{1799). De Saussure wasa scientist of his time and he measured many natural constants. When deSaussure climbed the Alp mountains he noticed that the sky turned darkerwith a more intense blue, at higher altitudes. To get a relative measure onhow blue the sky was, de Saussure invented a device he called cyanometer.It is a colour chart containing dierent hues of blue, starting with very lightblue, ranging all the way to dark blue. With this simple device de Saussurecould get a recordable measurement on how blue the sky was at the timefor the observation.This thesis deals with the cyanometer as a scientic instrument. It is ofinterest to investigate the cyanometer from a history of ideas perspective,so that this scientic instrument can be put in a visual culture context.Moreover, an investigation of how de Saussure developed the instrumentcan also show his thinking for the modications of it that he made. Further,the visual culture ideas can be applied on the main article de Saussure wroteabout the cyanometer in 1789.During the period when de Saussure was an active mountain explorer,he made several cyanometers which all varied in layout and the number ofblue colour sections included. In this thesis an analyse of the four dierentoriginal cyanometers that de Saussure made will be done. This analysis includesa quantitative comparison between the versions and a discussion onhow the instrument was made and operated. In order to trace a biographicalviewpoint on the cyanometer the thesis will also discuss how de Saussure'sidea, to measure the blueness of the sky, developed after his lifetime.