Dans ce mémoire, nous analyserons le roman Passages de l'écrivain québécois d'origine haïtienne Émile Ollivier selon les poétiques hybrides et impures associées, d'une part, au paysage littéraire québécois des années 1980 et 1990 - période durant laquelle les « écritures migrantes » constituent le courant dominant -, ainsi qu'au postmodernisme et à l'époque postcoloniale d'autre part. En nous basant sur les travaux de plusieurs critiques littéraires québécois contemporains, mais également en considérant les grandes lignes des théories sur la littérature haïtienne et antillaise, nous développerons le thème de la « contamination réciproque », expression empruntée à Pierre Nepveu, comme une poétique des « écritures migrantes ». Divisée en trois chapitres, notre étude s'attardera d'abord à la double trame narrative du roman d'Ollivier qui alterne sa focalisation entre Haïti et Montréal. Nous observerons l'échange réciproque des paradigmes du Sud et du Nord qui s'opère dans les deux premières parties du roman alors que, dans la troisième partie, la narration se concentre à Miami. Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous nous nourrirons des théories de la « transculture » afin d'en dégager les poétiques principales. À travers trois thèmes présents dans Passages et liés à cette pensée née dans les pages de la revue Vice Versa, à savoir le mouvement, l'espace et la mémoire, nous verrons que la « contamination réciproque » s'inscrit au sein des théories de la « transculture » qui redéfinissaient à la fois la société et le paysage littéraire québécois à l'époque où les écrivains migrants investissaient massivement le corpus québécois. Enfin, dans le troisième chapitre, nous aborderons la place du corps dans Passages. La construction identitaire des différents personnages se fait à même le corps, celui qui s'énonce dans l'espace, mais également celui qui met en jeu son identité par rapport à l'altérité, en une forme d'interfécondation. Nous verrons enfin que le roman Passages prend forme en différé à travers la mort qui situe évidemment le corps à l'avant-plan. Nous nous nourrirons d'autres ouvrages d'Émile Ollivier ainsi que de plusieurs textes d'écrivains migrants afin d'accentuer l'importance et la pertinence de la « contamination réciproque » comme poétique des « écritures migrantes ». ______________________________________________________________________________

Modern gas turbine engines run at extremely high temperatures which require the high pressure turbine blades to be extensively cooled in order to reach life requirements. This must be done using the minimum amount of coolant in order to reduce the negative impacts on the cycle efficiency. In the design process the cooling configuration and stress distribution must be carefully considered before verification of the design is conducted. Improvements to all three of these blade design areas are presented in this thesis which investigates internal cooling systems in the form of ribbed, radial passages and leading edge impingement systems. The effect of rotation on the heat transfer distribution in ribbed radial passages is investigated. An engine representative triple-pass serpentine passage, typical of a gas turbine mid-chord HP blade passage, is simulated using common industrial RANS CFD methodology with the results compared to those from the RHTR, a rotating experimental facility. The simulations are found to perform well under stationary conditions with the rotational cases proving more challenging. Further study and simulations of radial passages are undertaken in order to understand the salient flow and heat transfer features found, namely the inlet velocity profile and rib orientation relative to the mainstream flow. A consistent rib direction gives improved heat transfer characteristics whilst careful design of inlet conditions could give an optimised heat transfer distribution. The effect of rotation on the heat transfer distribution in leading edge impingement systems is investigated. As for the radial passages, RANS CFD simulations are compared and validated against experimental data from a rotating heat transfer rig. The simulations provide accurate average heat transfer levels under stationary and rotating conditions. The full target surface heat transfer in an engine realistic leading edge impingement system is investigated. Experimental data is compared to RANS CFD simulations. Experimental results are in line with previous studies and the simulations provide reasonable heat transfer predictions. A new method of combined thermal and mechanical analysis is presented and validated for a leading edge impingement system. Conjugate CFD simulations are used to provide a metal temperature distribution for a mechanical analysis. The effect of changes to the geometry and temperature profile on stress levels are studied and methods to improve blade stress levels are presented. The thermal FEA model is used to quantify the effect of HTC alterations on different surfaces within a leading edge impingement system, in terms of both temperature and stress distributions. These are then used to provide improved target HTC distributions in order to increase blade life. A new method using Gaussian process regression for thermal matching is presented and validated for a leading edge impingement case. A simplified model is matched to a full conjugate CFD solution to test the method's quality and reliability. It is then applied to two real engine blades and matched to data from thermal paint tests. The matches obtained are very close, well within experimental accuracy levels, and offer consistency and speed improvements over current methodologies.

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Pages 19 to 23 have been omitted because of Revision / Elizabethan prose fiction has been virtually ignored for a long time. The question of rhetoric in this fiction is an extremely complex issue, and studies which have examined this aspect are usually stylistic analyses that fragment the works by dissecting isolated passages for stylistic data concerning an author's manipulation of particular schemes and tropes. This approach has often tended to ignore the possibility that larger ideals and attitudes may underlie the use of rhetorical figures (i.e. elocutio) in particular passages. While this dissertation does not attempt to resolve the problems of the relationship between rhetorical training in the grammar schools and Elizabethan fiction, or between the English vernacular rhetorics and Elizabethan fiction, it offers some idea about what these writers thought about rhetoric beyond its status as ornamentation. This thesis tries to discover what these writers thought about the possibilities of rhetorical training --that is, about its moral status as an art of persuasion. In my view, the major writers of Elizabethan prose fiction dramatize the abuses of verbal skills; they explore some of the techniques of deception, distortion and manipulation that are afforded by rhetorical training. The subject-matter of this fiction is largely concerned with verbal methods of persuasion that manipulate and distort, that rely on false logic and dishonesty; these writers are concerned with rhetorical attempts to change the face of the "real" world in order to justify a particular idea, action, or belief. My thesis explicates the prose fictional works of Gascoigne, Lyly, Sidney, Nashe and Deloney with this theory in mind. As well as suggesting the ways in which rhetoric is handled as a subject in a variety of fictional contexts, my thesis also explicates the rhetorical strategies which these authors themselves use to involve their reader in evaluating rhetoric. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

"Liszt's music, unlike that of Mozart, projects the man. With rare immediacy, it gives away the character of the composer. ... " (Brendel 1986, 3) The purpose of this study is to examine Liszt's song genre from an historical and stylistic standpoint as a reflection of Liszt's ongoing personality and style development. this end the following will be presented: - an overview of Liszt's life circumstances which reflect his personality development - a chronological classification ofLiszt's song genre - the songs viewed historically as a reflection of the man - characteristics in the revisions of the songs which reveal Liszt's ongoing developing style - a study of the development ofLiszt's harmonic and tonal language as agents of colour and textual imagery. Liszt's song oeuvre will be studied in relation to the man himself in order to revtal his motives, his values, the experiences that moved him, and the ways in which he reproduced them in music. / Department of Musicology / M.Mus.

METHODE: Aus den Protokollen von Ertrunkenen des Sektionsgutes der Jahre 1991-2000 der Rechtsmedizinischen Institute der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (n=129) und der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald (n=209) wurde versucht die Häufigkeit und Bedeutung von Mageninhalt in den Luftwegen zu beurteilen. In diesem Zusammenhang sollte auch die Herkunft und Verwendung des Begriffs des "Sehrtschen Magentodes" durch eine Literaturrecherche ergründet werden. Der "Sehrtsche Magentod" ist per definitionem ein Erstickungstod durch Aspirieren von erbrochenem Mageninhalt beim Ertrinken. RESULTS: Von den 129 Ertrunkenen in Berlin fanden sich 8, unter den 209 Ertrunkenen in Greifswald fanden sich 12 mit Mageninhalt in Kehlkopf, Trachea oder Bronchien. Es konnte ein Hinweis auf ein mögliches häufigeres Auftreten von Mageninhalt in den Luftwegen bei Ertrunkenen mit einer Mageninhaltsmenge > 500ml gefunden werden. Es fanden sich keine Hinweise dafür, daß es häufiger zum Auffinden von Mageninhalt in den Luftwegen bei Ertrinken in kaltem Wasser, in Salzwasser oder bei starker Alkoholisierung kommt. Des weiteren wurden bei den Fällen mit Mageninhalt in den Luftwegen der Lungenbefund auf die Frage einer vitalen Aspiration kasuistisch-deskriptiv untersucht und diskutiert. Unterschiede zwischen Berlin und Greifswald hinsichtlich der statistischen Verteilung von Alter, Geschlecht, Art, Ort und Zeitpunkt des Ertrinkens, Liegezeit im Wasser, toxikologischen Befunden, Lungenbefund und Magenbefund wurden herausgearbeitet. / The coronial files of drownings from the period 1991-2000 in Berlin (n=129) and Greifswald (n=209) were analysed to assess the frequency and significance of the occurrence of gastric content in the air passages of the deceased. In this context the origin and use of the term "Sehrtscher Magentod" was also clarified by means of a literature review. The "Sehrtscher Magentod" per definition occurs through asphyxiation as vomited stomach content is aspirated during the drowning. RESULTS: From 129 drownings in Berlin, 8 showed signs of gastric content in the air passages (larynx, trachea, bronchis), whilst in Greifswald this figure amounted to 12 out of 209. The study revealed a possible higher occurrence of gastric content in air passages where the deceased were found to have a gastric content quantity exceeding 500ml. Drownings in cold or salt water, or with a high blood alcohol concentration, did not show signs of a possible higher occurrence of gastric content in the air passages. Furthermore, the lung content of those cases showing gastric content in the air passages was examined and discussed regarding the question of a vital aspiration talking in a casuistic descriptual approach. Differences between the two cities with regards to the statistical distribution of age, gender, nature, location and time of drowning, toxicological findings, and lung and gastric features are also included in the study.

The diploma thesis deals with the analysis of particular detective and Gothic elements in Christopher Pike's adventurous series Remember Me. The main aim of the thesis is to analyse themes and motifs of Pike's work with respect to the Gothic tradition and the development of detective prose. The thesis is formally divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical chapter is devoted to the genre of the detective and Gothic literature, as well as metaphysical detective story. The theoretical part is followed by the practical analysis of selected Pike's works. The practical analysis involves the characteristics of the main protagonists and the influence of horror and metaphysical detective elements on the search of individual identity.

La sécurité des personnes et des équipements est un élément capital dans le domaine des transports routiers et ferroviaires. Depuis quelques années, les Passages à Niveau (PN) ont fait l'objet de davantage d'attention afin d'accroître la sécurité des usagers sur cette portion route/rail considérée comme dangereuse. Nous proposons dans cette thèse un système de vision stéréoscopique pour la détection automatique des situations dangereuses. Un tel système permet la détection et la localisation d'obstacles sur ou autour du PN. Le système de vision proposé est composé de deux caméras supervisant la zone de croisement. Nous avons développé des algorithmes permettant à la fois la détection d'objets, tels que des piétons ou des véhicules, et la localisation 3D de ces derniers. L'algorithme de détection d'obstacles se base sur l'Analyse en Composantes Indépendantes et la propagation de croyance spatio-temporelle. L'algorithme de localisation tridimensionnelle exploite les avantages des méthodes locales et globales, et est composé de trois étapes : la première consiste à estimer une carte de disparité à partir d'une fonction de vraisemblance basée sur les méthodes locales. La deuxième étape permet d'identifier les pixels bien mis en correspondance ayant des mesures de confiances élevées. Ce sous-ensemble de pixels est le point de départ de la troisième étape qui consiste à ré-estimer les disparités du reste des pixels par propagation de croyance sélective. Le mouvement est introduit comme une contrainte dans l'algorithme de localisation 3D permettant l'amélioration de la précision de localisation et l'accélération du temps de traitement.

"Liszt's music, unlike that of Mozart, projects the man. With rare immediacy, it gives away the character of the composer. ... " (Brendel 1986, 3) The purpose of this study is to examine Liszt's song genre from an historical and stylistic standpoint as a reflection of Liszt's ongoing personality and style development. this end the following will be presented: - an overview of Liszt's life circumstances which reflect his personality development - a chronological classification ofLiszt's song genre - the songs viewed historically as a reflection of the man - characteristics in the revisions of the songs which reveal Liszt's ongoing developing style - a study of the development ofLiszt's harmonic and tonal language as agents of colour and textual imagery. Liszt's song oeuvre will be studied in relation to the man himself in order to revtal his motives, his values, the experiences that moved him, and the ways in which he reproduced them in music. / Department of Musicology / M.Mus.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:00:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCLGKJ.pdf: 4913515 bytes, checksum: df91d15585b7987e19462170703fc9f7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-06 / The present dissertation work in Urban Engineering of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) aims to define an easy and practical form of evaluating the level of service in public spaces destined to the carriers of physical deficiency (sidewalks and streets passages) through the determination of an index that considers the parameters of higher importance by the point of view of wheelchair users. The index is defined through the identification and the ordinance of variables based on physical and environment characterization of sidewalks related to aspects of quality such as comfort, security and conditions of the environment. The weighing scale of the variables of physical and environment characterization of sidewalks (importance degree) is carried through analysis based on wheelchair users perception, therefore defining the ISPA - Index of Sidewalks and Passages Accessibility, and verifying its functionality through auditor work also performed with wheelchairs users advice in two places of São Carlos city. Through this tool of evaluation, the agencies of road management can evaluate the quality of the public spaces in a total route or specific stretches of the essential displacements for the real participation of the person with locomotion difficulties in society. / O presente trabalho de dissertação do mestrado em Engenharia Urbana da UFSCar - Universidade Federal de São Carlos visa definir uma forma fácil e prática de se avaliar o nível de serviço dos espaços públicos destinados aos portadores de deficiência física (calçadas e travessias de ruas) através da determinação de um índice que considere os parâmetros de maior importância sob o ponto de vista dos usuários de cadeira de rodas (cadeirantes). O índice é definido através da identificação e a ordenação de variáveis de caracterização física e ambiental das calçadas relacionadas aos aspectos de qualidade de conforto, segurança e condições do ambiente. A ponderação das variáveis de caracterização física e ambiental das calçadas (grau de importância) é realizada através de análise da percepção dos cadeirantes, definindo-se, desta forma o IACT Índice de Acessibilidade das Calçadas e Travessias, e verificando sua funcionalidade através de auditoria realizada com auxílio também de cadeirantes selecionados para realizar testes em dois locais da cidade de São Carlos. Através desta ferramenta de avaliação, os órgãos de gestão viária podem avaliar a qualidade dos espaços públicos em uma rota total ou em trechos específicos dos deslocamentos imprescindíveis para a real participação da pessoa com dificuldade de locomoção na sociedade.