Thèse (M.A.Plas.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2003. / Bibliogr.: f. 70-73. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Plusieurs accidents nucléaires majeurs ont montré la dangerosité de l’industrie nucléaire civile. En droit, les efforts de l’AIEA ont consisté depuis l’origine à développer la sûreté nucléaire. L’objectif est d’assurer le fonctionnement des installations dans de bonnes conditions. La sécurité qui vise à protéger les installations contre des actes malveillants est plus récente. La police et les forces de sécurité en général, sont en charge de la protection des installations contre les menaces criminelles. Si les installations fixes constituent la partie la mieux identifiée du problème, la circulation des sources radioactives dans le monde est le point faible du dispositif industriel. Les règlementations de plus en plus complexes doivent être appréciées en fonction d’une réalité simple : les forces de police ne sont pas mieux protégées que le reste de la population en cas d’accident majeur. Ce constat oblige à déployer des moyens importants dans le domaine de la prévention et de la planification. Les effets massifs d’une urgence radiologique ne reconnaissent pas les frontières des États. La dimension internationale de cette menace est incontestable. Les forces de police préparent les plans d’évacuation des populations. Mais les rayonnements invisibles mortels constituent des défis pour leur mise en œuvre. En réalité, les évacuations pratiquées ces dernières années ont toutes présentées des différences sensibles par rapport aux prévisions. Il ne s’agit pas d’une réflexion théorique sur le droit et les faits. Dans la perspective future d’une attaque terroriste sur une centrale, les moyens de la réponse sécuritaire sont devenus essentiels à la survie des sociétés modernes. / Several major nuclear accidents have shown the dangerousness of the civilian nuclear industry. In law, the IAEA's efforts have been, since the beginning, to develop nuclear safety. The objective is to ensure the operation of the facilities in good conditions. Security which aims to protect facilities against malicious acts is more recent. Police and security forces in general are in charge of protecting the facilities against criminal threats. If fixed installations are the best identified part of the problem, the circulation of radioactive sources in the world is the weak point of the industrial device. Increasingly complex regulations must be assessed according to a simple reality: police forces are not better protected than the rest of the population in the event of a major accident. This observation requires to deploy significant resources in the area of prevention and planning. The massive effects of a radiological emergency do not recognize the borders of states. The international dimension of this threat is indisputable. Police forces prepare evacuation plans for the population. But deadly invisible radiation constitutes a challenge for their implementation. In fact, the evacuations carried out in recent years have all presented significant differences compared to the forecasts. It is not a theoretical reflection on the law and the facts. In the future prospect of a terrorist attack on a power station, the safety response means have become essential to the survival of modern societies.

Power of Wrapping explores and communicates the somaesthetically inspired artistic act of wrapping as a generative force for healing. This thesis exhibition is an installation of artwork comprised of the combined forms and outcomes from two types of investigation. One, a studio practice in which my own somatic engagement, collaborates with my personal aesthetics of form, to produce two kinds of exhibited work. The first is a large traditionally wrapped Japanese temari and the second, involves twenty low-relief two dimensional wrappings on eight-inch stretcher frames and configured in a circular pattern with a larger wrapped stretcher frame in the center. Two, a social practice which embodies relationally and somaesthetically inspired art making within community groups, as generators of a large hanging form of wrapped hula hoops. In its totality, the installation is an expression of the idea that the body is essential to both making art and experiencing art. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

My ceramic sculptures are abstracted portraits of friends and family. They reveal no clues about the age, the gender, or the physical identity of the subjects. Instead, they are abstracted character traits rendered in clay with a biomorphic sensibility. I translate a particular personality trait of a friend or family member into a tangible object and arrange those pieces referencing botanical forms. I tend to choose the negative traits that cause friction in our relationship. My work is a way of acknowledging and dealing with the struggle these traits have caused. I structure my pieces as a floral arrangement to transfer an otherwise unfavorable experience into a positive one.

This Master’s Thesis Report is a chronological investigation into the ideas and processes that I have researched and explored during the last three years at the University of Texas at Austin. This exploration has led to a body of work that examines material culture and the way that historical context affects the understanding of the objects and environments of our culture. / text

Thesis (MVisualArts)--University of South Australia, 2001.

Thesis (MA (Visual Arts))--University of South Australia, 2001

Exegesis (MA--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (64 leaves : col. ill. ; 22 x 30 cm.) in City Campus Collection (T 709.93 CUN)

Exegesis (MA--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2007. / Appendix 4 contains 2 DVDs. Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (55 leaves : col. ill. ; 22 x 30 cm. + 2 DVDs) in City Campus Collection (T 709.93 FIN)

Thesis (MA--Art and Design) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2003. / Also held in print (57 leaves, col. ill., 30 cm.) in Wellesley Theses Collection. (T 709.05 HAR)