Master of Music / Department of Music / Julie Yu / This document is focused on three excerpts from a graduate vocal recital, completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree. The recital was held on January 23, 2012 at seven-thirty o’clock in the evening at All Faiths Chapel on the campus of Kansas State University. Selections for this recital were selected upon the theme of Seclusion. The three characters examined further in the document are Alcina in the G. F. Handel opera, Alcina (HWV 34), Gretchen in German Lieder Gretchen am Spinnrade (D. 118) by Franz Schubert, and Lily from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, The Secret Garden, by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman. Each chapter, devoted to a specific work, contains the following: 1) biographical information on the composer, 2) textual analysis, and 3) compositional, stylistic, and technical considerations.

Master of Music / School of Music, Theatre, and Dance / Anna Marie Wytko / Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra is considered a master concert work in saxophone literature. The work was written for saxophone pioneer Sigurd Rascher who was active in commissioning new works for the instrument. Piet Swerts’ Klonos, composed over 40 years after Dahl’s Concerto, is a much newer composition. The work has gained national recognition as a popular competition piece and is a synthesis of new and old compositional styles. These two works strongly showcase the flexibility and virtuosity capable of the skilled saxophonist. This master’s report, presented as extended program notes, includes biographical information about the composers, a historical and stylistic overview of the selected compositions, and a harmonic and formal analysis of the music with respect to performance considerations.

Doctor of Philosophy / Curriculum and Instruction / Jana R. Fallin / Various challenges face rural areas when providing programs similar to those offered by their suburban counterparts. It is difficult for rural areas to provide experiences that larger urban and metropolitan areas can offer. Cooperation is vital to developing arts programming in rural areas. Development and Perceptions of Rural Arts Experiences: A Case Study of the Marshall County Arts Cooperative (MCAC) represents a unique setting where students, teachers and community members were given opportunities to collaborate for the common good of all participants. On September 2nd, 2005 a two-year plan was approved to make a Community Arts Program a reality and operational in all parts of Marshall County, Kansas. Under the guidance of Kansas State University Music Education Department, the researcher developed and studied the Marshall County Arts Cooperative (MCAC). Perceptions of Marshall County students, parents, educators and community members were analyzed. MCAC programs worked in continued cooperation with area public and private schools and eleven arts organizations within Marshall County. The plan provides for the documentation of the project with a completed doctoral dissertation entitled: Development and Perceptions of Rural Arts Experiences: A Case Study of MCAC. The research design is framed into four main categories: (1) MCAC Development, (2) Rural Locale Codes, (3) Arts Experiences and (4) Perceptions of MCAC. A diverse collection of samples include, direct and indirect observation, interviews, documents, artist rosters and audio/video artifacts. Following a thorough analysis, emerging themes provide insight into the development and implementation of the MCAC. Results indicate that cooperation from a variety of people including staff, artists, students, educators and community members played a significant role in the success of MCAC and experiences created diversity in remote and isolated areas.

Master of Music / Department of School of Music, Theatre, and Dance / Frank Tracz / The following report is a comprehensive analysis of two works for wind band and one work for small chamber ensemble, prepared by Patrick Sullivan. The report was completed in addition to a Graduate Conducting Recital, taking place on Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 3:00pm. The concert featured the Kansas State University Wind Ensemble and took place on the Kansas State University Campus in McCain Auditorium, the conductors were Andrew Feyes and Patrick Sullivan. Audio and video recordings of the conducted performance can be found within the K-State Research Exchange database. The following report includes three comprehensive Unit Studies or Teacher Research Guides found in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band book series. The report also includes three Tracz Analysis Grids, newly published in The Art of Interpretation of Band Music. The examined pieces are as follows. Full band works, Flight by Claude T. Smith and Baron Cimetiére’s Mambo by Donald Grantham. A chamber work for double woodwind quintet, Suite Persane by André Caplet.

Le Burkina Faso fait face à la récurrence du faible rendement scolaire, lequel constitue une menace sérieuse pour le développement économique et social du pays. Les explications que l’on donne à ce constat font intervenir des facteurs d’ordre économique, politique, social, pédagogique, géographique. Très peu de place est accordée à la psychologie. Or, la recherche savante est suffisamment édifiante aujourd’hui sur le rôle séminal du facteur psychologique dans l’orientation des conduites humaines d’une manière générale, dans les conduites scolaires d’une manière spécifique. Parmi les facteurs psychologiques dont le rôle est souligné dans la littérature, il y a l’estime de soi et le locus de contrôle. La présente recherche se propose d’examiner les liens entre ces deux variables psychologiques et les performances, chez des apprenants en début et à la fin de l’adolescence, dans le contexte socio-économico-culturel du Burkina Faso. A l’aide de questionnaires d’estime de soi et de questionnaires de locus de contrôle, nous avons réalisé une série de trois études sur un échantillon de six cent quatre-vingts seize élèves filles et garçons de CM2 & de 3ème. Les performances scolaires ont été mesurées à partir des notes en situation d’évaluation classe et en situation d’évaluation indépendante. Les données recueillies et analysées mettent en évidence des liens, somme toute, modestes entre estime de soi et performances scolaires, entre locus de contrôle et performances scolaires tout au long des trois études. / The Burkina Faso faces the recurrence of poor academic performance, which is a serious threat to economic and social development. The explanations we give to this observation involve economic factors, political, social, educational, geographical. Very little attention is paid to psychology. But scholarly research is sufficiently instructive today on the seminal role of psychological factor in shaping human behavior in general, in the school conducted in a specific way. Among the psychological factors whose role is emphasized in the literature, there is the self-esteem and locus of control. This research will examine the links between these psychological variables and performance among learners in the beginning and the end of adolescence, in the socio-economic-cultural context of Burkina Faso. Using questionnaires of self-esteem and locus of control questionnaires, we conducted a series of three studies on a sample of six hundred and eighty six male and female students of CM2 and third. School performance was measured from notes in class Assessment situation and in a situation of independent evaluation. Data collected and analyzed highlight links, overall, modest between self-esteem and school performance between locus of control and academic performance throughout the three studies.

Cette thèse vise à développer des stratégies permettant d'augmenter la puissance du calcul séquentiel et des systèmes distribués, elle traite en particulier, la décomposition séquentielle des opérations ainsi que des systèmes d'édition collaboratifs décentralisés. Nous introduisons, une méthode d'indexage avec précision contrôlée. Celle-ci permet la génération d'identifiants uniques utilisés dans l'indexage des communications dans les systèmes distribués, plus particulièrement dans les systèmes d'édition collaboratifs décentralisés. Ces identifiants sont des nombres réels avec un motif de précision contrôlé. Un ensemble fini d'identifiants est conservé pour permettre le calcul de cardinalités locales et globales. Cette propriété joue un rôle prépondérant dans la gestion des communications indexées. De plus, d'autres propriétés incluant la préservation de l'ordre sont observées. La méthode d'indexage a été testée et vérifiée avec succès. Ceci a permis la conception d'un système d'édition collaboratif décentralisé. Aussi, nous explorons les stratégies existantes, relatives a la décomposition séquentielle d'opérations, que nous étendons à de nouvelles stratégies. Ces stratégies mènent à une optimisation (processeur, compilateur, mémoire, code). Ces styles de décomposition portent un intérêt majeur à la communauté scientifique. Des recherches et des implémentations de plus en plus rapides résultent de la conception d'unité arithmétique. / This thesis aims at developing strategies to enhance the power of sequential computation and distributed systems, particularly, it deals with sequential break down of operations and decentralized collaborative editing systems. In this thesis, we introduced precision control indexing method that generates unique identifiers which are used for indexed communication in distributed systems, particularly, in decentralized collaborative editing systems. These identifiers are still real numbers with a specific controlled pattern of precision. Set of identifiers is kept finite that makes it possible to compute local as well as global cardinality. This property plays important role in dealing with indexed communication. Besides this, some other properties including order preservation are observed. The indexing method is tested and verified by experimentation successfully and it leads to design decentralized collaborative editing system. Dealing with sequential break down of operations, we explore limitations of the existing strategies, extended the idea by introducing new strategies. These strategies lead towards optimization (processor, compiler, memory, code). This style of decomposition attracts research communities for further investigation and practical implementation that could lead towards designing an arithmetic unit.

Cette thèse porte sur le développement et l’implémentation des algorithmes de détection et de correction des erreurs dans les images, en vue de contrôler la qualité des images produites en sortie des décodeurs numériques. Pour atteindre les objectifs visés dans cette étude, nous avons commencé par faire l’état de lieu de l’existant. L’examen critique des approches en usage a justifié la construction d’un ensemble de méthodes objectives d’évaluation de la qualité visuelle des images, basées sur des méthodes d’apprentissage automatique. Ces algorithmes prennent en entrées un ensemble de caractéristiques ou de métriques extraites des images. En fonction de ces caractéristiques, et de la disponibilité ou non d’une image de référence, deux sortes de mesures objectives ont été élaborées : la première basée sur des métriques avec référence, et la seconde basée sur des métriques sans référence ; toutes les deux à distorsions non spécifiques. En plus de ces méthodes d’évaluation objective, une méthode d’évaluation et d’amélioration de la qualité des images basée sur la détection et la correction des pixels défectueux dans les images a été mise en œuvre. Les applications ont contribué à affiner aussi bien les méthodes d’évaluation de la qualité visuelle des images que la construction des algorithmes objectifs de détection et de correction des pixels défectueux par rapport aux diverses méthodes actuellement en usage. Une implémentation sur cartes FPGA des techniques développées a été réalisée pour intégrer les modèles présentant les meilleures performances dans de la phase de simulation. / This thesis deals with the development and implementation of error detection and correction algorithms in images, in order to control the quality of produced images at the output of digital decoders. To achieve the objectives of this work, we first study the state-of the-art of the existing approaches. Examination of classically used approaches justified the study of a set of objective methods for evaluating the visual quality of images, based on machine learning methods. These algorithms take as inputs a set of characteristics or metrics extracted from the images. Depending on the characteristics extracted from the images, and the availability or not of a reference image, two kinds of objective evaluation methods have been developed: the first based on full reference metrics, and the second based on no-reference metrics; both of them with non-specific distortions. In addition to these objective evaluation methods, a method of evaluating and improving the quality of the images based on the detection and correction of the defective pixels in the images has been implemented. The proposed results have contributed to refining visual image quality assessment methods as well as the construction of objective algorithms for detecting and correcting defective pixels compared to the various currently used methods. An implementation on an FPGA has been carried out to integrate the models with the best performances during the simulation phase.

L'utilisation du kaolin calciné, sous forme de métakaolin, comme matériau pouzzolanique pour le mortier et le béton a suscité une attention considérable ces dernières années. Le travail actuel décrit les résultats d'un projet de recherche lancé pour étudier la calcination d'un kaolin local sous diverses températures (650-950°C) et durées (2, 3 et 4 heures) qui ont produit le métakaolin avec une activité pouzzolanique élevée. L'activité pouzzolanique a été évaluée par des méthodes de la chaleur d'hydratation et la résistance à la compression à 28 jours. L'activité maximale a été obtenue à une température de 850°C pendant 3 heures. Les résultats observés établissent qu'une augmentation de la chaleur d'hydratation et de la résistance à la compression a été obtenue lorsque le ciment Portland Ordinaire a été remplacé par 10% de métakaolin. L'utilisation du ciment ternaire améliore la résistance au jeune âge et à long terme. La durabilité a été également améliorée où une meilleure résistance des mortiers à l'attaque des acides a été observée. / The utilisation of calcined clay, in the form of metakaolin as a pozzolanic material for mortar and concrete has received considerable attention in recent years. The present work describes the results of a research project initiated to study the calcination of a local kaolin at various temperatures (650-950°C) and durations (2, 3 and 4 hours) to produced a metakaolin with a high pozzolanic activity. The pozzolanic activity was assessed by 28-days compressive strength and hydration heat methods. The maximum identified activity was obtained at 850°C for 3 hours duration. The observed results establish that an increase of both hydration heat and compressive strength was obtained when ordinary Portland cement was replaced by 10% metakaolin. The use of ternary blended cement improves the early age and the long-term compressive strength. The durability was also enhanced as better acidic resistance was observed.

Cette recherche est basée sur une étude numérique de performances thermiques d'un habitat bioclimatique. Dans cette étude, nous avons considérés deux habitats bioclimatiques, l'un concernant un habitat classique de toiture en tôles d'aluminium, de faux plafond en laine de bois et le second, un habitat intégrant du panneau de MCP qui sépare la toiture en tuiles transparentes de l'enceinte parallélépipédique. Les équations de transfert de chaleur dans l'habitat sont basées sur la méthode nodale et sont déduites d'un bilan thermique établi pour les différents composants de l'habitat. Les transferts de chaleur dans l'unité de stockage sont axées sur la méthode enthalpique et purement conductif. Elles sont résolues par une méthode implicite aux différences finies et les algorithmes de Gauss et de Thomas. Nous avons analysé l'influence de certains paramètres tels que : le flux solaire, l'épaisseur du mur, la température maximale et minimale, et le taux de renouvellement d'air sur les distributions de températures des composants de l'habitat et de l'unité de stockage, les efficacités thermiques de stockage et de déstockage de l'unité de stockage. Une modélisation des phénomènes de transfert de chaleur dans l'habitat et dans l'unité de stockage est présentée, complétée par une simulation du fonctionnement du système basée sur les notions de journée type à travers les données météorologiques de la région de Ouagadougou et terminé par une analyse technico-économique. / This research is based on a numerical study of thermal performances of a bioclimatic habitat. In this study, we considered two bioclimatic habitats, one concerning a conventional aluminum roofing habitat, wood-wool false ceilings, and the second, a habitat incorporating a MCP panel that separates the roof into tiles transparent parallelepipedic enclosure. The heat transfer equations in the habitat are based on the nodal method and are deduced from a heat balance established for the different components of the habitat. The heat transfers in the storage unit are focused on the enthalpy and purely conductive method. They are solved by an implicit finite difference method and the Gauss and Thomas algorithms. We analyzed the influence of certain parameters such as: solar flux, wall thickness, maximum and minimum temperature, and the rate of air exchange on the temperature distributions of the components of the habitat and water. Storage unit, the thermal efficiencies of storage and retrieval of the storage unit. A modeling of the heat transfer phenomena in the habitat and in the storage unit is presented, completed by a simulation of the functioning of the system based on the notions of typical day through the meteorological data of the region of Ouagadougou and ended by a technical and economic analysis.

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