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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1979. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Jerome Fessard. / M.S.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(農学) / 甲第19778号 / 農博第2174号 / 新制||農||1041(附属図書館) / 学位論文||H28||N4994(農学部図書室) / 32814 / 京都大学大学院農学研究科応用生物科学専攻 / (主査)教授 左子 芳彦, 教授 澤山 茂樹, 准教授 吉田 天士 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Agricultural Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Decision-makers involved in material choice decisions in the United States infrastructure were surveyed to identify factors which are important in the material choice decision and to determine the perceptions of wood in various infrastructure applications. This information led to the development of strategies to increase the use of wood in infrastructure markets across the US. The highway, marine/inland waterway, railroad and utility systems composed the four markets representing the US infrastructure. A total of 2344 questionnaires were mailed nationwide. The perceptions of wood were further defined through personal interviews with 112 individuals in four geographically dispersed states. The most important factors in material choice decisions were durability, maintenance and cost. Environmental impact, ease of design and innovativeness of material were less important in the material choice decision. Highway and marine/inland waterway respondents perceived wood to be among the lowest materials in overall performance. Railroad and utility respondents perceived wood to have significantly better overall performance than highway and marine/inland waterway respondents. Respondents perceived wood's advantages to be its aesthetically pleasing appearance, low initial cost, ease in repair and ease in field modification. They perceived the disadvantages of wood to be high life-cycle costs, high maintenance requirements and low biological decay resistance. Several strategies are suggested to increase wood use in infrastructure, including: greater market approach by the wood products industry, improved timber structure design details, and increased service life of wood through improved chemical preservative treatments. / Master of Science

This positivist research project will attempt to show a correlation between levels of child neglect and proportionate levels of methamphetamine abuse. The term abuse will be used to refer to the chronic, compulsive use of methamphetamine in such a manner, that it will assume a central and negative role in the individual's life style and will result in impaired functioning and parenting.

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The Inland Revenue Department (Inland Revenue) launched the Industry Benchmarking Programme (Benchmarking Programme) in 2011; which closely followed the Small Business Benchmarking Programme (SBBP) which was released by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in 2009. These programmes took data from tax returns and other sources, and turn this into a series of financial benchmarks for specific industries. The data from these programmes was then published on the respective websites of Inland Revenue and the ATO. It was envisaged by both tax administrations that this data would be used by taxpayers to benchmark their financial performance against others in their industry. The Benchmarking Programme was designed to assist Inland Revenue with its compliance strategy and to better its their audits. This exploratory research was mainly focused on the use (or lack of) of Inland Revenue’s Benchmarking Programme by taxpayers and tax practitioners. Other aspects of the Benchmarking Programme were investigated. Interviews with six tax practitioners were conducted, supplemented by documentary analysis of the Benchmarking Programme and other sources of data. It was found that the tax practitioners do not use the data for several reasons, including issues with the integrity of the data and its usefulness. It suggested that taxpayers do not use the data from the Benchmarking Programme, and indeed may not have any knowledge of it. The overall impact of the Benchmarking Programme was deemed to be minimal. Several recommendations were to be presented for consideration by Inland Revenue as a result of the findings in the project.

This paper discusses the emergence of vaudeville in California’s Inland Empire region of San Bernardino and Riverside counties. It will consider the social changes underway in late nineteenth-century America and their impact on attitudes towards popular entertainment. This paper will draw on Lawrence Levine’s observations of cultural hierarchies that emerged during the late nineteenth century and shaped American understandings of culture. Entertainment of the nineteenth century will be examined for the ways it was unable to match urban trends, and contrasted with vaudeville’s appeal to a diverse urban populace. The cities of San Bernardino, Redlands and Riverside were home to a number of opera houses and theaters to serve rapidly growing communities, and a review of the performances offered in these communities and at these venues will demonstrate these shifts in popular entertainment.

The subject of this study is the determination of the resistance of an inland vessel engaged in cargo transport in the lower course of the Magdalena River, considering that the hydrodynamic effects in shallow water navigation are very different compared to the effects in deep water navigation. The hydrodynamic analysis is realized numerically using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The Reynolds-Averaging Navier-Stokes equation (RANS) solver is applied to simulate viscous and pressure effects around a tank and a hull in confined tank considering the wall bottom and side effects in shallow water navigation. For turbulence effects, realizable k-? model is used. The motion of the vessel causes elevations of the free surface, in which, is captured using the Volume of Fluid method (VOF). For discretization of flow domain, the Finite Volume Method (FVM) is applied. The motion of the fluids is updated for each time step that allows the calculation of the resistance acting on the hull. The numerical simulation results are compared with experimental data obtained by the Technological Research Institute of the State of São Paulo (IPT, acronym in Portuguese) together with the existing empirical methods for this type of cases. / É apresentado um estudo para determinar a resistência de uma barcaça empregada no transporte de carga que poderia operar no setor baixo do rio Magdalena. Os efeitos hidrodinâmicos de um navio em águas rasas são muito diferentes, comparados a esses efeitos em águas com profundidade infinita. A análise hidrodinâmica é realizada numericamente usando a Dinâmica dos Fluidos Computacional (CFD, acrônimo em inglês). A solução das equações de Navier-Stokes (NS) junto com a decomposição do Reynolds (RANS, acrônimo em inglês) é aplicada para simular os efeitos viscosos e de pressão em torno de um tanque e de uma embarcação em um tanque confinado que é caracterizado pelos efeitos do fundo e das paredes. Para efeitos de turbulência, o modelo realizado k-? é usado. O movimento da embarcação do rio provoca elevações da superfície livre que são capturadas usando o método do Volume de Fluido (VOF, acrônimo em inglês). Para a discretização do domínio de fluxo, o Método dos Volumes Finitos (FVM, acrônimo em inglês) é utilizado. O movimento dos fluidos é atualizado para cada intervalo de tempo o que permite o cálculo da resistência atuando no casco. Os resultados da simulação numérica são comparados com dados experimentais obtidos pelo Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo (IPT), juntamente com os métodos empíricos existentes para esse tipo de casos.

Orientador: Rosa Fátima de Souza / Banca: Antonio Celso Ferreira / Banca: Carlota Josefina Malta Cardoso dos Reis Boto / Banca: Bruno Bontempi Júnior / Banca: Wrnceslau Gonçalves Neto / Resumo: Nas primeiras décadas do século XX, a região que atualmente é conhecida como Noroeste Paulista, à época chamada de Oeste Paulista ou Araraquarense, constituía-se como uma das últimas grandes porções de terras ainda parcialmente intocadas do Estado de São Paulo. Particularmente nas décadas de 1920 e 1930, essa zona viveu um verdadeiro surto de desenvolvimento econômico, cultural e social impulsionado, sobretudo, pelas levas maciças de migrantes e imigrantes que aportavam nas estações de trens atraídos pela prosperidade e progresso, que parecia tocar a todos indistintamente. A economia se diversificava para além da cafeicultura, as ruas se alargavam para a convivência muitas vezes conflituosa entre automóveis, pedestres de diversas etnias e classes sociais, carros-deboi e jardineiras; emergiam inéditos padrões de comportamento e sociabilidade até então inexistentes por essas plagas. No meio desse complexo conjunto de mudanças que então caracterizava a Araraquarense, também passaram a circular diversos jornais produzidos regionalmente e que colaboravam de maneira decisiva para que esse turbilhão de novidades e estilos de vida ecoasse - ou mesmo acontecesse - por entre os pujantes municípios, pequenas cidadezinhas e vilarejos da região. Da análise minuciosa dos jornais A Cidade, de Catanduva; O Municipio, A Noticia, Folha de Rio Preto e Diario da Araraquarense, de São José do Rio Preto; além do Correio de Mirasol, da cidade Mirassol, todos recentemente redescobertos nesta derradeira zona pioneira paulista, duas temáticas em especial foram perscrutadas em função da importância que adquiriram no imaginário regional do período: a contraditória apropriação feminina dos espaços públicos, que naqueles tempos ganhava grande publicidade; e a preservação, educação, exaltação, assistência e ordenação das crianças do sertão. / Abstract: In the first decades of the 20th century, a region currently known as Noroeste Paulista, at the time named Oeste Paulista or Araraquarense, was one of the last large portion of partially untouched land of the State of São Paulo. Specially in the 1920þs and 1930þs, this area faced a fast economic, cultural e social development driven, in major part, by the immigrants attracted by prosperity and progress, which seemed to reach everyone indistinctly. The economy was being diversified at that moment beyond coffee, the streets became wider so that pedestrian from every ethnic background and social classes, cars, carts as well as open buses could live together; There would emerge unknown patterns of behavior and sociability non - existent at the place then In middle of these complex changes that featured Araraquarense at that time, several newspapers published in the region began their distribution, which helped greatly to new life style in towns and villages in the region. From a detailed analysis of newspapers named A Cidade, from Catanduva; O Municipio, A Noticia, Folha de Rio Preto and Diario da Araraquarense, from São José do Rio Preto; as well as Correio de Mirasol, from Mirassol, all recently rediscovered in this pioneer land of São Paulo, two themes in special were studied due to the importance in the imagination of the region at the time: a contradictory seizure of public spaces by women, which at that time gained publicity; as well as the preservation, education, exaltation, assistance and order of the children from the backwoods. / Doutor