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11	Developing Guidelines for Including Mobility-Based Performance Specifications in Highway Construction Contracts Larson, Shawn J. 17 December 2013 (has links) (PDF) Construction zones can greatly affect the traffic flow on roadways, especially when lane closures are required. Traditionally, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has used traffic management specifications that only allow lane closures and road work to be done during predetermined hours or specifications that require a certain number of lanes to be open at all times. Recently, mobility-based work-zone traffic flow maintenance has been considered. This method requires continuous monitoring of mobility-based performance data and a mechanism to send alerts to the contractors when the mobility data does not meet the standards set by the specifications. UDOT recently tested mobility-based performance specifications at an urban arterial work zone and studied issues related to implementation of mobility-based performance specifications. Parallel to this experiment, UDOT funded a study to develop guidelines for implementing mobility-based performance specifications to manage traffic flow in work zones. Dynamically collecting mobility-based data such as travel time and speed is now feasible using technologies such as Bluetooth and microwave sensors. The core benefit of using mobility-based performance specifications is that they can give the contractor more flexibility in construction work scheduling while maintaining an acceptable level of traffic flow. If the level of traffic flow is not maintained, then the contractor is assessed a financial penalty. The penalty is determined by the amount of time where the flow is not maintained at a predetermined condition. To discuss issues and develop guidelines, a task force consisting of UDOT representatives, several representatives from the construction industry, and researchers from Brigham Young University was formed. Through three task force meetings, a set of 12 guidelines were developed, including guidelines about when mobility-based performance specifications should be used and which mobility data should be used. Some of the issues were difficult for the task force members to agree on, and a decision-making theory called the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) was used to find best approaches to deal with some of the difficult issues associated with the implementation of mobility-based performance specifications in highway construction contracts. These guidelines should be reviewed as appropriate in the future as UDOT accumulates experience in using these types of specifications. Shawn Larson construction mobility-based performance specification incentive disincentive work zone TOPSIS task force Civil and Environmental Engineering
12	Clinton Larson's "the Witness": the Quest for a Mormon Mythic Consciousness Perry, Dennis R. 01 January 1981 (has links) (PDF) "The Witness" can be viewed as Clinton F. Larson's poetic manifesto that points the direction for much of his subsequent work. Although his poetic "mormonism" has been questioned by several of his critics, this thesis shows that Larson definitely expresses his Mormon faith in "The Witness" as a metaphorical quest for mythic consciousness. While searching in the poem for sacred space and time, Larson seeks to become closer to the divine and powerful center of being, creating at once a metaphor for his quest to understand and assimilate Christ's atonement and a poetic voice from which he can speak for and of God. It is from this imagined pinnacle as poet-prophet that Larson seeks to establish a Mormon poetic that boasts a Mormon "restoration" structure analagous to the Catholic "epiphanous" structure characteristic of much of Joyce's and O'Conner's work. Clinton F. Larson 1919- Witness Criticism interpretation English Language and Literature Mormon Studies
13	Bayard Taylor's the Prophet: Mormonism as Literary Taboo; Calaveras County Comes of Age; the Erosion of Belief in the Poetry of Clinton F. Larson Schwartz, Thomas D. 01 January 1972 (has links) (PDF) The three papers included in this thesis reflect my development as a graduate student during the course of my master's program at Brigham Young Universtiy. I came to Brigham Young University interested in creative writing and developed a love for research and criticism. My work in nineteenth century American literature led to the first two papers. Both deal with literary history, the first narrow in scope, devoted to a study of the significance of a single play, the second broad in scope, devoted to a study of the unifying thread of anti-sentimentalism in the writings of the major American realists. These papers reflect both my research in and commitment to American literary criticism. My third paper is a study of the significance of violence in the poetry of Clinton F. Larson. I have attempted to be objective and honest in my assessment of Dr. Larson's poetry. My thesis on his poetry is entirely my own. To my knowledge this is a first: a first study of Dr. Larson's poetry, and a first paper on his work ever included in a master's thesis. I am happy to have the privilege of opening up this area of investigation. It is my hope that this study will stimulate further discussion of his work. Bayard Taylor 1825-1878 Prophet Clinton F. Larson Mormons Poetry American literature 19th century History criticism English Language and Literature Mormon Studies
14	營利事業合併經營之財務管理研究吳雅章, Wu, Ya-Zhang Unknown Date (has links) 本研究概述：擴大企業規模，促進合理化經營，以提高生產力，加強我國產品國際市場的競爭力量，是政府及企業界共同努力的目標，而企業合并是達成目標的可行策略之一，筆者乃基於此引發本研究之動機。研究範圍：乃針對民國六十五年至六十九年經濟部工業局核準之專案合併營利事業為研究對象。資料收集及分析：設計問卷，以郵寄及人口訪問取得資料，并收集股票上市公司合併廠商的財務資料；採用的分析方法有描述性分析、評價尺度法因素重要性須序分析及變異數分析。本研究主旨在探討：(1) 合併策略及計劃之擬訂。(2) 合併之雙方公司資產重評價。 (3) 換股比例之決定及股權交換之方式。(4) 合併後之經營績效。及(5) 合併過程中政府所扮演之角色。本研究大綱：第一章、緒論：含研究目的、研究方法、研究範圍、相關研究之文獻探討、問卷設計、資料收集及分析、研究限制。第二章、企業合併之基本瞭解：含合併之定義、方式、種類、動機、法律程序及效果、合併運動及發展、異議股東之處理。第三章、企業合併的策略分析與計劃評估：含制定策略的環境因素、企業的成長與擴充、合併策略及計劃、與個案研究。第四章、企業合併的資產重評價：含評價公司價值時考慮因素、資產重估價、商譽之評估及處理、及企業合併之會計處理。第五章、換股比例之決定及股權交換：含企業經營目標－股東財富最大化之假定，La rsson＆Gonedes換股比例模式、及我國實務上企業合併時換股比例計算。第六章企業合併後經營績效之分析：含合併經營績效模式之探討，本研究衡量經營績效的方法及實證結果、與個案研究。第七章、政府在企業合併過程中扮演的角色、含政府對合併的獎勵與輔導，企業合併對金融機構放款的影響。第八章、結論與建議。營利事業合併經營財務管理合理化經營股東財富最大化之 GONEDES換股比例企業管理管理 LARSON BUSINESS-ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT
15	Music in Motion: A Metaphoric Mapping of Forces in Piano Concertos by Mozart and Schumann Roy, Adam January 2015 (has links) In this thesis, I demonstrate the dynamic way in which musical processes can be described as metaphors. Using Steve Larson’s three main metaphors (gravity, inertia, and magnetism) as a starting point, I propose additional metaphors (friction, repulsion, momentum, wave, orbit, and oscillation) to analyze the first movements of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K 466 and Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54. These metaphors provide a means to discuss points of convergence and divergence between the Classical style and the early-Romantic style. Additionally, most theorists of the energeticist tradition only discuss motion through prose; I introduce a way to represent these metaphors as musical examples. By focusing on the listener’s experience through musical motion, the model proposed in this thesis is useful, not only for the theorist, but for all who wish to communicate ideas about music in a dynamic way. Metaphor Motion Larson Musical Forces Energetics Mozart Schumann Piano Concerto Movement Cross-Domain Mapping Genre Classical Style Romantic Style Conceptualization Embodied Knowledge Gravity Magnetism Inertia Orbit Oscillation Friction Repulsion Momentum Wave
16	<i>Hair</i> for Rent:How the Idioms of Rock 'n' Roll are Spoken Through the Melodic Language of Two Rock Musicals Stark, Eryn E. 15 September 2015 (has links) No description available. Music music rock rock n roll rock and roll Hair Rent Jonathan Larson James Rado Gerome Ragni Galt MacDermot harmonic language melodic analysis musical Broadway rock musical rock opera laundry list
17	Tingens lydnad och människans väntan : Nödvändighet, nåd, handling och tänkande i Simone Weils filosofi / The obedience of things and the waiting of man : Necessity, grace, action and thinking in Simone Weils philosophy Christola, Victor January 2017 (has links) This bachelor thesis engages in a quest to understand the concepts of necessity and grace in Simone Weils thinking. The question in play, in which many more questions lie hidden, reads as follows: How does Weil understand the operations of grace in relation to the ”blind necessity” of the natural world, and what are the philosophical implications of this concept of grace? What are, for instance, given her understanding of the world as God’s creation, the metaphysical grounds for a basic human activitiy such as thinking or reflexion? A reading of Simone Weils works on necessity, grace, affliction and attention is contrasted with her thoughts on science, method and truth. The concept of necessity is compared to the one of Spinoza, especially on the subject of how the good or the just relates to the true and the necessary: it shows there are interesting similarities and illuminating differences between the two philosophers’ lines of thought. Here, the concept of attention becomes central to the image: the idea of a cultivated mode of reception of the world and of the Other. Attention is analogously understood as a method of prayer and a cultivated ethical attitude towards other human beings – and an ideal scientific state of mind. In the final chapter of the analytic part of the composition, Weils concept of grace is investigated in regard to concepts of thinking and understanding. Here, Leibniz idea of the divine world and the divine mind plays a concise but important role on the matter of a tentative metaphysical grounding of thinking as such – how this can be thought and how it reflects and deepens Simone Weils metaphysics, especially her understanding of the highest states of insight into the nature of the world as partly a work of divine grace. In the last chapter Walter Benjamins vision of the coming philosophy as a consolidation between Immanuel Kants transcendental philosophy and religious experience – and religious thought – show the way for further investigation into the field, a field that the thesis has outlined at the same time as it has attempted to answer some specific questions that seems to be the most urgent ones. Weil Simone Weil nödvändighet nåd handling tänkande amor fati uppmärksamhet kärlek rättvisa etik moral epistemologi vetenskapsteori vetenskap empiri deduktion analogi matematik ödet tyngden tyngdlagen insikt styrka Homeros Galilei Newton Spinoza Winch Leibniz Nietzsche Cockburn Kate Larson Rhees Herakleitos Parmenides Lacan Boethius Jesus Platon Walter Benjamin Philosophy Filosofi

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