Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1965.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title screen. Sushil Prasad, committee chair. Electronic text (106 p. : charts) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 11, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-53).

The first purpose of this thesis is to implement an efficient Cross Ambiguity Function (CAF) algorithm to compute the Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Frequency Difference of Arrival (FDOA) between two sampled signals. Two CAF-related MATLAB functions were written and analyzed. One implements a βcoarseγ mode and a βfineγ mode to accurately compute the TDOA and FDOA. The second plots different views of the resulting three-dimensional CAF surface. The second purpose is to develop a program to generate geometry-specific signals. Some software packages can artificially embed constant TDOAs and FDOAs between two signals. In real-world emitter-collector geometries (one emitter and two separate collectors), however, movement of the emitter and/or collectors causes time-varying TDOAs and FDOAs. A MATLAB function was written to generate pairs of Binary-Phase-Shift-Keying signals according to user-defined signal parameters and Cartesian geometries. The resulting signal pairs have realistic TDOAs and FDOAs that vary with time according to geometry and relative motion. Several signal pairs with different geometries are generated and input into the CAF functions, and the results are compared with theoretical TDOA and FDOA calculations. Finally, signals with low signal-to-noise ratios are generated to evaluate the CAFαs ability to find Low Probability of Detection signals. / US Navy (USN) author

This research created an Expectation Enactment Analysis, which was used to study the Chancellor of a Christian, faith-based, missions-oriented university. The study was grounded in the field of managerial work, jobs, and behaviour. It also drew on symbolic interactionism, role theory, role identity theory, and enactment theory. The framework for Expectation Enactment Analysis contains seven components viewed from three perspectives. The components are 1) identification of contextual parameters, 2) Role Episode analyses, 3) interviews of the Chancellor and his Role Set Members, 4) identification of Managerial Agenda items, tasks, and activities, 5) identification of three Expectation Enactment Programs, 6) expectations enacted, and 7) Impact Analysis. The three perspectives are organizational, interpersonal, and personal. This Analysis developed the Expectation Enactment Program model-an open systems, role construct--integrating the managerial agenda as an internal standard for internal processing and external performance. Additionally, the Analysis linked external performance to expectation enactment and the Role Incumbent's impact on the organization, his Role Set Members, and himself. The study employed a naturalistic, "inquiry from the inside" approach characterised by a longitudinal, field based, case study format relying on qualitative methods. It was an exploratory study designed to create a conceptual framework for further developing an understanding of managerial roles. This methodology involved intensive participation on the part of the researcher. As a result, it extends this type of research only occasionally seen in the field of managerial work, jobs, and behaviour. Expectation Enactment Analysis integrates work from a breadth of related disciplines. Such an Analysis offers the possibility of understanding 1) the functioning of a Role Incumbent in role, 2) the impact of that functioning on an organization, Role Set Members, and him/herself, and 3) potential leverage points for creating change within the organization through the Role Incumbent. The Analysis offers future possibilities for application in research, management education, and executive development.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Stanford University, 1998. / Title from pdf t.p. (viewed April 3, 2002). "December 1998." "Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19990326"--Metadata.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Program note was introduced into the European concert hall in the mid 19th century when instrumental music began to predominate the public concert repertoire. It inculcates the public audience through a specific mode of listening to music. The program notes, largely written in line with the contemporaneous hermeneutical approach, emphasize the importance of the composer’s life and compositional intention, and in turn, stage the work as an expression of the composer’s spirit. This thesis contemplates the way in which program notes encourage a kind of understanding that brings forth the biographical quality of non-programmatic instrumental music, and hence, lead to the construction of certain musical meanings. In cases of symphonies whose contexts connote a great deal of heroic and humanistic struggles in association with the composer’s life, their program notes tend to elicit the personal utterances of the composer. These utterances, when empathized with by a large group of audience, are no longer only perceived as the composers’ personal expressions of heroism and humanistic struggle but also identified as expressions of the community. With the close reading of program notes of Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 5 and 10 written for a selection of American orchestras before and after the publication of Testimony, this thesis shows how program notes contribute to the shift in the meaning of Shostakovich’s music in reliance upon the related historical context. It furthermore aims to discuss the aesthetic dilemma of extra musical association in the listening of “absolute music” and the intricacy of treating history and biography as important agents for understanding music. / published_or_final_version / Music / Master / Master of Philosophy

Development of efficient and correct parallel programs is a complex task. These parallel codes have strong requirements for performance and correctness and must operate robustly and efficiently across a wide spectrum of application parameters and on a wide spectrum of execution environments. Scientific and engineering programs increasingly use adaptive algorithms whose behavior can change dramatically at runtime. Performance properties are often not known until programs are tested and performance may degrade during execution. Many errors in parallel programs arise in incorrect programming of interactions and synchronizations. Testing has proven to be inadequate. Formal proofs of correctness are needed. This research is based on systematic application of software engineering methods to effective development of efficiently executing families of high performance parallel programs. We have developed a framework (P-COM²) for development of parallel program families which addresses many of the problems cited above. The conceptual innovations underlying P-COM² are a software architecture specification language based on self-describing components, a timing and sequencing algorithm which enables execution of programs with both concrete and abstract components and a formal semantics for the architecture specification language. The description of each component incorporates compiler-useable specifications for the properties and behaviors of the components, the functionality a component implements, pre-conditions and postconditions on the inputs and outputs and state machine based sequencing control for invocations of the component. The P-COM² compiler and runtime system implement these concepts to enable: (a) evolutionary development where a program instance is evolved from a performance model to a complete application with performance known at each step of evolution, (b) automated composition of program instances targeting specific application instances and/or execution environments from self-describing components including generation of all parallel structuring, (c) runtime adaptation of programs on a component by component basis, (d) runtime validation of pre-and post-conditions and sequencing of interactions and (e) formal proofs of correctness for interactions among components based on model checking of the interaction and synchronization properties of the program. The concepts and their integration are defined, the implementation is described and the capabilities of the system are illustrated through several examples.

Piano Performance