Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2008. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1991. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

With the rise in computational power, the prospect of simulating a complex engineering system with a high degree of accuracy and in a meaningful way is becoming a real possibility. Modelling and simulation have become ubiquitous throughout the engineering life cycle, as a consequence there are many thousands of existing models and simulations that are potential candidates for integration. This work is concerned with ascertaining if systems engineering principles are of use in the support of virtual testing, from desire to test, designing experiments, specifying simulations, selecting models and simulations, integrating component parts, verifying that the work is as specified, and validating that any outcomes are meaningful. A novel representation of systems engineering framework is proposed and forms the bases for the methods that were developed. It takes the core systems engineering principles and expresses them in a way that can be implemented in a variety of ways. An end to end process for virtual testing with the potential to use existing models and simulations is proposed, it provides structure and order to the testing task. A key part of the proposed process is the recognition that models and simulations requirements are different from those of the system being designed, and hence a modelling and simulation specific writing guide is produced. The automation of any engineering task has the potential to reduce the time to market of the final product, for this reason the potential of natural language processing technology to hasten the proposed processes was investigated. Two case studies were selected to test and demonstrate the potential of the novel approach, the first being an investigation into material selection for a squash ball, and the second being automotive in nature concerned with combining steering and braking systems. The processes and methods indicated their potential value, especially in the automotive case study where inconsistences were identified that could have otherwise affected the successful integration. This capability, combined with the verification stages, improves the confidence of any model and simulation integration. The NLP proof of concept software also demonstrated that such technology has value in the automation of integration. With further testing and development there is the possibility to create a software package to guide engineers through the difficult task of virtual testing. Such a tool would have the potential to drastically reduce the time to market of complex products.

Le travail mené au cours de cette thèse s’est intéressé à l’étude de la propagation des sources d’incertitudes (données nucléaires, paramètres technologiques, biais de calcul) sur les paramètres intégraux, et à la mise au point d’une méthode d’optimisation multi-critères basée sur l’approche de représentativité et de transposition, permettant de réduire cette incertitude a priori sur une grandeur ciblée (keff , distribution de puissance,...) dès la phase de conception d’un nouveau programme expérimental. La première partie de cette thèse s’est intéressée aux schémas de calcul pour la détermination des profils de sensibilité des paramètres intégraux aux données nucléaires pour différentes échelles de modélisation (cellule, assemblage et cœur), et à leur optimisation multi-filière (REL et RNR). Un schéma de calcul simplifié, basé sur les théories des perturbations standard et généralisée, permet dès à présent la propagation de ces incertitudes sur un large type de grandeur intégrale. Ces travaux ont notamment permis de vérifier la bonne représentativité des réseaux UOX et MOX mis en œuvre dans l’expérience EPICURE par rapport aux REP actuels avec chargement mixte, et de mettre en évidence l’importance de certaines données nucléaires dans l’effet de bascule des nappes de puissance dans les grands cœurs de réacteurs. La seconde partie du travail s’est focalisée sur la mise en place d’outils et de méthodes d’aide à la conception des programmes expérimentaux dans les maquettes critiques. Ces méthodes sont basées sur une approche d’optimisation multi-paramétrée de la représentativité en utilisant simultanément différentes grandeurs d’intérêt. Enfin, une étude originale a été réalisée sur la prise en compte des corrélations entre informations intégrales dans le processus de transposition. La prise en compte de ces corrélations, couplée à la méthode de transposition multi-paramétrée permet l’optimisation de nouvelles configurations expérimentales, répondant au mieux aux besoins de qualification complémentaires des outils de calcul. / The work performed during this thesis focused on uncertainty propagation (nuclear data, technological uncertainties, calculation biases,...) on integral parameters, and the development of a novel approach enabling to reduce this uncertainty a priori directly from the design phase of a new experimental program. This approach is based on a multi-parameter multi-criteria extension of representativity and transposition theories. The first part of this PhD work covers an optimization study of sensitivity and uncertainty calculation schemes to different modeling scales (cell, assembly and whole core) for LWRs and FBRs. A degraded scheme, based on standard and generalized perturbation theories, has been validated for the calculation of uncertainty propagation to various integral quantities of interest. It demonstrated the good a posteriori representativity of the EPICURE experiment for the validation of mixed UOX-MOX loadings, as the importance of some nuclear data in the power tilt phenomenon in large LWR cores. The second part of this work was devoted to methods and tools development for the optimized design of experimental programs in ZPRs. Those methods are based on multi-parameters representativity using simultaneously various quantities of interest. Finally, an original study has been conducted on the rigorous estimation of correlations between experimental programs in the transposition process. The coupling of experimental correlations and multi-parametric representativity approach enables to efficiently design new programs, able to answer additional qualification requirements on calculation tools.

Studie om hur ett grafiskt uttryck kan formges för två musikalartister.

Conference interpreting in general and simultaneous interpreting in particular are practice-based activities. In training future interpreters, conference interpreter trainers rely heavily on practical exercises that enable students to apply the skills they previously learnt and acquired in class in interpreting situations. For various reasons, the latter, however, may not be as realistic as a simulated conference, thereby preventing students from fully experiencing the atmosphere of real-life conference interpreting. This study begins with the hypothesis that mock conferences such as Model United Nations (MUN) conferences are effective in the training of postgraduate student interpreters in simultaneous interpreting. To examine this hypothesis, and present an alternative view if possible, the researcher observes postgraduate students in the MA Applied Language Studies (option: Translation and Interpreting) at the University of Pretoria performing in the simultaneous interpreting mode during a Model United Nations conference organised by the University‘s United Nations Association. Using a setting such as this, which simulates United Nations General Assembly or Security Council conferences, the researcher observes the students‘ performances and the delegates‘ reactions and analyses trainees‘ perceptions regarding the opportunity to use their skills set in a more realistic environment. / Mini-dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / tm2015 / Modern European Languages / MA / Unrestricted

The IT-development of services and employment mean increased interaction with digital products and tools for the users. The users’ experiences regarding the interaction with digital systems is therefore a fundamental aspect of product development. Accordingly, as companies expand their business, they develop more systems which need to be integrated to send information to one another. To ensure that the flow of information between systems works soundly, responsible developers must be able to visualize the flow.This study, in collaboration with a company that wishes to remain anonymous, has explored how their visualization system for integrations can be improved to increase the user experience. Through a user-centered design process this study will fathom how users experience the current system, how attention and working memory relates to those experiences and how a new user interface could be designed to ease the users cognitive load.The study results in a proposition, presented as a mock-up, of how the most central aspects of the interface could be redesigned in order to improve the users’ experiences of the interaction with the system. The proposition is designed to support an open way of navigating, easy access of relevant information, users’ freedom to adjust the interface in accordance to individual needs, the communication between system-human and human-human as well as reducing the visual space of less important components. / IT-utvecklingen av tjänster och arbeten betyder ökad interaktion med digitala produkter och verktyg för användarna. Människans upplevelse av interaktionen med digitala system är därmed en central del i av produktutvecklingen. Allt eftersom företag utökar sin verksamhet utvecklas flera olika datorsystem som behöver integreras så att information kan flöda systemen emellan. För att säkerställa att flödet fungerar behöver ansvariga utvecklare visualisera hur informationsflödet går till.Denna studie har i samarbete med ett företag som önskar vara anonymt, utforskat hur användarupplevelsen för deras integrationsvisualiseringssystem ska kunna förbättras. Genom en användarcentrerad designprocess kommer studien utforska hur användarna upplever systemet idag, hur uppmärksamhet och arbetsminne relaterar till upplevelserna samt hur ett nytt gränssnitt skulle kunna utformas kan underlätta användarnas kognitiva belastning.Resultatet av undersökningen mynnar ut i ett visualiserat designförslag av gränssnittets mest centrala delar i form av en mock-up. Förslaget är utformat för att stödja öppnare navigationsmöjligheter, lättillgängligheten för relevanta data, friheten att anpassa gränssnittet efter eget behov, kommunikationen mellan system-användare och användare-användare samt för att minska visuell plats åt mindre nödvändiga komponenter.

Mitt examensarbete handlar om övningsprovspelningar. Syftet med mitt arbete har varit att undersöka hur mitt spel påverkas under en provspelningssituation då jag blir nervös. Jag har i mitt arbete genomfört fem olika övningsprovspelningar och fått kritik och kommentarer från en jury bestående av hornklassen på Kungliga Musikhögskolan. Vid varje tillfälle har jag spelat fem olika orkesterutdrag. Under tiden mellan varje övningsprovspelning har jag läst igenom kritiken och försökt förbättra mitt spel till nästa övningsprovspelning. Jag har på förhand kommit överens med juryn om att begränsa kritiken till att handla om vanliga musikaliska aspekter som rytm, tempo, klang, dynamik, artikulation, intonation och karaktär. Därefter har jag jämfört all kritik som jag har fått och sett vilken kritik som har varit återkommande vid varje övningsprovspelning, trots att jag har försökt förbättra mitt resultat mellan tillfällena. Efter att ha analyserat kritiken kan jag dra slutsatsen att de flesta aspekter i mitt spel försämras i pressade provspelningssituationer då jag blir nervös. Mitt resultat och mina slutsatser kommer att vara till hjälp för mig inför framtida provspelningar och konserter. / <p>Mikael Larsson och Joel Jaakkola genomförde en gemensam examenskonsert i Nathan Milstein-salen den 24 maj 2021 19:00. Konsertprogram: Canto Serioso, Carl Nielsen (Mikael Larsson) 2 Stücke, Op. 28: No. 1. Lied, Leone Sinigaglia (Mikael Larsson) Horn Sonata in F Major, Op. 17., Ludwig van Beethoven (Joel Jaakkola) Thema und Variationen, Op. 13, Franz Strauss (Mikael Larsson) Horn Concerto in A Major, Op. 28, Kurt Atterberg (Joel Jaakkola) Blåskvintett, Op. 43, Carl Nielsen (Mikael Larsson) Medverkande musiker: Mikael Larsson, Joel Jaakkola, valthorn, Johan Ullen, piano, Kajsa Nilsson, flöjt, My Svenman, oboe och engelskt horn, Maria Victoria Fernandez Caballero, klarinett, Ciaran Hayes, fagott.</p>

This dissertation explores the ethical and aesthetic stakes of readers’ judgments by analyzing mock trials of literary characters that were performed in Soviet Russia and abroad in the 1920s and 1930s. Literary trials were part of a larger craze for public mock trials in the decades after the Russian Revolution. Mock trials functioned as a participatory and educational form of entertainment. Fictional defendants included Lenin, invented characters accused of drunkenness and hooliganism, and the Bible. At the same time as increasingly propagandistic mock trials were being performed, intellectuals staged trials of characters from nineteenth-century and contemporary Russian literature. In émigré communities such as Berlin, Paris, and Prague, literary trials were popular as entertainment and fundraisers through the 1920s and 1930s. My analysis focuses on mock trials of characters from works by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, whose novels proved especially popular for mock trial adaptations in the 1920 and 1930s. I also consider Nabokov’s participation in a mock trial based on The Kreutzer Sonata as a bridge between Tolstoy’s novella and Nabokov’s later novel Lolita. I read back and forth between the literary works and their mock trial adaptations in order to explore both how trial participants interpreted the texts and how the texts respond to the kinds of judgment at work in the trials. The challenges that Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s fiction pose to readers became the central questions of mock trial adaptations: What is the relationship between interpretation and truth? Do we have the right to judge others? Does narrative have the power to redeem? I argue that while Soviet and émigré literary trials offer selective, politically motivated readings of the original works, they also enter into dialogue with the works’ major ethical questions and offer new ways of thinking about how truth, judgment, and redemption operate in them. As a result, the mock trials bring together two approaches to literature: a reader-centric approach that interprets the text in order to reveal something about the reader’s current reality, and a text-centric approach that aims to uncover the original meaning. While some of the literary trial interpretations and judgments appear to be misreadings, or bad readings, of the original works, I argue that this kind of reading, which closely attends to textual details while asking the text to speak to the readers’ present, offers a model for an ethically engaged approach to literature.

The purpose of the study was to examine whether a potential juror would give harsher sentences to defendants based only on the manipulation of the defendant's personal hobby. This was investigated by manipulating the hobby through a hypothetical manslaughter scenario in a vignette. Participants were asked to answer questions pertaining to the defendant's guilt and potential sentencing. Results indicate that participants' sex, participants' authoritarianism, and defendant's hobby were significant factors. Significant interactions were found pertaining to whether the defendant should receive counseling across sex by violence and sex by avocation. These results are evidence that the use of jurors in the legal system is flawed and needs to be improved upon. Future research should examine an age distribution closer to the national mean, and the online setting should be replaced with an in person mock jury that will have more realistic group dynamic and higher ecological validity.