I denna uppsats undersöks creature design samt narrativ teori kring skräckfilmer för att ta reda på hur man kan skapa filmmonster vars utseende kan berätta och föra fram en fängslande historia. Ett väldesignat monster lever kvar i publikens minnen, och skapar ikoner för sin tidsperiod eller sin genre. Uppsatsen använder sig av en semiotisk metod för att analysera monstren i filmerna Alien, The Thing och Rovdjuret. För att designa monster till science fiction kan man kombinera zoologi, anatomiska studier samt mänsklig psykologi och fobier för att skapa ett visuellt fascinerande monster som skrämmer publiken och lever kvar i det allmänna medvetandet.

The effect of initial out-of-straightness of steel beams with wide flange cross-sections on their elastic lateral torsional buckling strength is investigated analytically and numerically. A variational principle is first developed and then used to obtain the governing equilibrium conditions and associated boundary conditions for a beam with general patterns of initial out-of-straightness and initial angles of twist. The principle is then used to develop a finite element formulation to characterize the lateral torsional response of beams with initial out-of-straightness under general transverse loading. The validity of the finite element formulation is verified through comparison against results from models based thin-walled beam finite element and shell element models available in ABAQUS. Since the load lateral displacement responses do not exhibit a distinct point of loss of stability, two design criteria are proposed for the characterization of the failure. The first criterion is based on a threshold value for additional lateral displacement and the second criterial is based on a threshold value for the normal stresses. Both criteria are applied in conjunction with the analytical solution and finite element formulation in order to determine a moment resistance based on lateral torsional buckling that incorporates the effect of initial out-of-straightness. The moment capacity based on the displacement-based criterion is shown to solely depend on the ratio between the initial out-of-straightness component associated with the first buckling mode and the additional displacement threshold value specified. To the contrary, moment capacity based on the stress criterion, was found to depend upon the initial out-of-straightness magnitude, the normal stress threshold value and the geometry of the cross-section. The effects of the above parameters on the predicted moment capacity were investigated for beams with common sections in a systematic parametric study. Possible means of modifying the present provisions of CAN-CSA S16 relating to elastic lateral torsional buckling to incorporate the effect of initial out-of-straightness effects are discussed and illustrated through examples. The load-deformation plots for beams with initial out-of-straightens as predicted by the formulations developed in the present study are then used to extend the Southwell plot technique, originally developed for buckling of column with initial out-of-straightness, to the lateral torsional buckling of beams with initial out-of-straightness. The study shows that the plot, either experimentally or analytically obtained, of the applied load versus lateral displacement, at any point or angle of twist at any section, for a beam with initial out-of-straightness case can predict (a) the elastic critical moment of an analogous initially straight beam, and (b) the first buckling mode contribution to the initial out-of-straightness.

In this thesis, I chose to identify and evaluate different monitoring methods on surgeon specific outcomes in colorectal surgery. An initial literature search identified different methods that were applied to a cohort of colorectal patients operated on by general surgeons using an electronic hospital database. Surgeon specific complications were validated with a chart review. General surgeons at The Ottawa Hospital were surveyed on their opinions regarding monitoring outcomes. We can conclude that different methods may be needed as they are dependent heavily on specified target limits. With our derived cohort, we had adequate risk adjustment using a modified Escobar model for 30 day mortality and morbidity. These complications were derived from electronic algorithms and had excellent specificity and sensitivity. General surgeons at The Ottawa Hospital have different opinions regarding monitoring their outcomes and surgeon engagement is necessary to make monitoring fruitful for patients, public, hospital administration, and surgeons.

This thesis, then, has evolved out of the need for such study and will deal specifically with the novels of the first two series of the Episodios Nacionales. It will be an attempt to present a preliminary survey of the most important characters, both major and minor, to present a composite picture of the story and plots within the two series of novels, and to indicate the relation of the influences pointed out in the preceding pages.

The thesis deals with the visualization of biomedical data in MATLAB environment. The thesis contains following statistical methods and their descriptions: P-P plot, Q-Q plot, histogram, box plot, kernel denstity estimation, scatter plot and several time series metrics. Some functions are programmed from buil-in functions of MATLAB and others using external functions, which are changed to fit to this thesis’s purpose. First part of the thesis conserns theoretical background, whereas the second part conserns practical programmed realizations of mentioned functions. The program contains a graphical user interface - GUI, which the thesis describes in detail. The purpose of the GUI is to ensure ease of use and also data processing. The output graphs of GUI are shown in chapter 5. The last part deals with the possible extensions of the program.

This dissertation thesis is dedicated to the heart rate variability and methods of its evaluation. It mainly focuses on nonlinear methods and especially on the Poincaré plot. First it deals with the principle and nature of the heart rate variability, then the ways of its representation, linear and also nonlinear methods of its analysis and physiological and pathophysiological influence on heart rate variability changes. In particular, there is emphasis on the metabolic syndrome. In the next section of the thesis there are compared and evaluated different ways of representation of the heart rate variability and further are tested selected methods of heart rate variability analysis on unique data from patients with the metabolic syndrome and healthy subjects provided by the Institute of Scientific Instruments, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic. In particular, they are used the Poincaré plot and its parameters SD1 and SD2, commonly used time domain and frequency domain parameters, parameters evaluating signal entropy and the Lyapunov exponent. SD1 and SD2 combining the advantages of time and frequency domain methods of heart rate variability analysis distinguish successfully between patients with the metabolic syndrome and healthy subjects.

The first study to examine the status of plot in the modernist novel and the integral role that commercial narrative film played in shaping it, Missing Story reads the modernist novel in conjunction with the evolution of cinematic narrative. It argues that an exemplary subset of modern novelists detected in narrative cinema of the early twentieth century an attempt to co-opt realist storytelling, and to ignore the social, political, economic, and philosophical reasons why modernist authors sought to displace realism. Plot has been considered anathema to a modernist narrative difficulty meant to challenge the ideology of Enlightenment progress and bourgeois values for which realist plot was assumed an aesthetic proxy. Missing Story, however, reveals that far from expunging realist plot, the modernist novel attempted to recuperate it in complex ways, and that cinema’s increased reliance on realist storytelling played a hitherto un-recognized role in this aesthetic crisis. Narrative film forced modern novelists to acknowledge the affordances of realist plot—its ability, in the nineteenth-century realist tradition, to generate coherent selfhood over time, to lend narrative shape to the changing tides of history, and to secure social belonging. My project shows how the novel’s relinquishment of realist plot thus generated a surge of contradictory textual dynamics and affective intensities in modernist narrative form and its characters. Demonstrating that modernist novelists were drawn to film’s powers of storytelling rather than abstraction, my project also revises recent scholarship on modernism and the new media. Even though media histories of modernism have broadened their purview to include a diversity of mass cultural—rather than solely avant-garde—texts, they still tend to focus on the breakdown of form and the ways that modernist literature sees itself in popular culture’s fissures and lapses. Through readings of works by Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Max Ophuls, I argue that it was commercial film’s ability to suture stories together—not to break them apart— that generated a formal and ideological crisis in the modern novel. That crisis, I contend, resulted from an intense ambivalence toward plot, ambivalence fueled by critique and colored by longing. / 2021-11-12T00:00:00Z

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Submitted in the fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of the DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Department of African Languages, at the University of Zululand, 2010. / This study gives the critical analysis of Ngcobo’s sociological radio plays. The written plays are examined. The work is arranged as follows: Chapter one is the general introduction of the study. It paves the way the study will be conducted which includes among other things; hypothesis, aim of study, scope of study, definition of concepts, research methodology, theoretical approaches to the study, the characteristic nature of radio drama, an influence of traditional drama and the synopsis of all serial radio plays. Chapter two explores the various theoretical approaches that are applicable in such the study of radio plays; inter alia; sociological, structuralism, reader, moral – philosophical, reception, intention, historical – biographical, semiotics and New Criticism approaches. Chapter three looks at the understanding structure of the radio plays where amongst other things explores the aspects of society that radio play addresses. It gives comparisons of social aspects, social disorder / revolt and looks at how Ngcobo addresses such social revolts in order to bring about social restoration. Chapter four focuses on the comparisons of the radio plays with regard to style, temporal which includes time and space. It further focuses characters / actors and narration. Chapter five looks at the linguistic appropriateness of the radio plays. It seeks to ascertain Ngcobo’s language how it suits his characters, situation, addresses the questions and answers’ relationships as they crop up in the plays. Monologue as an integral part of psychological process describes a mode of mental processes which include sadness, elation and desolation as felt by characters. It assesses Ngcobo’s usage of dialogue and also looks at other factors such as mood, place, sound effects, music and sound effectiveness as important components that heighten the development of the play to the horizons for its effectiveness. Chapter six deals with meaning and interpretation of the radio plays whereby it deals with the intention, significance, emerging factors that arise further enhance the development of the plays. Apparent and challenges that the playwright poses on his plays are also highlighted. Chapter seven is the concluding chapter. This looks at the thesis in its final analysis which gives the summary, findings and observations. It examines the challenges and contributions of the study with a critical overview and conclusions. Lastly it suggests some future research on the study of serial radio drama by showing the important elements as discovered in this study.

Preliminary plots are required when beginning a cruise for a timber sale in order to get an idea of how much variation in volume exists within the sale area. This variation is known as the coefficient of variation (CV) and is subsequently used to estimate the number of plots needed to implement the cruise to a desired level of accuracy (allowable error). By looking at a large number of sale inventories and finding similarities among key attributes (trees per acre, diameter at breast height and an estimate of variance), two models were derived based on simple stand observations to aid field personnel in determining a more accurate estimate of the CV. Furthermore, the models estimate the number of 1/10 acre plots needed to sample a stand to within a ± 10% allowable error at the 90% confidence level for total tonnage.