Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1969. / Includes vita. Digitized and made available by the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse, Murphy Library. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-157). Online version of print edition.

Cette thèse analyse le développement des agences de presse en Roumanie ainsi que la circulation internationale de l’information, sur une période comprise entre 1877 et 1940. Les agences de presse sont étudiées comme acteurs et vecteurs de la communication internationale et,dans le même temps, comme rapporteurs de l’actualité.Les trois parties de l’étude détaillent cette problématique : la première partie examine les notions de l’événement, de l’information, de la circulation de l’information et de la dépêche dans le but de les confronter à l’activité de l’agence de presse ; sont aussi introduits les contextes géopolitiques, géoéconomiques et géotechnologiques dans lesquels ont évolué nos acteurs. La deuxième partie tente d’apporter des réponses au sujet de l’histoire, des actions et des interactions des agences de presse qui ont opérées sur le territoire roumain dans l’espace-temps analysé. Constatons que les agences de presse représentent un terrain privilégié sur lequel se sont exprimées des options de politiques étrangères. Dans notre cas, nous nous sommes davantage intéressés aux relations de la Roumanie avec la France et ses voisins. La troisième et dernière partie explore le processus de circulation de l’information de et vers la Roumanie, analysant les rapports étroits entre les agences de presse et les ministères des Affaires Étrangères ainsi que l’influence éventuelle sur les conditions de production et de diffusion de la dépêche d’agence. Ce parcours a été enrichi par deux études de cas.Notre conclusion est qu’une agence de presse joue un double rôle : celui de collecteur-producteur-diffuseur d’information et, éventuellement, celui d’acteur idéologique. / In this thesis we analyze the development of press agencies in Romania and the international circulation of news during the period of 1877-1940. The press agencies are studied as actors and vectors of the international communication as well as reporters of the same events.The three parts of the study address the following questions: the first part examines the notions of event, information, circulation of information, and dispatch, in order to explain them in the contextof the work of a press agency. In this first part we have also considered the geopolitical,geoeconomical and geotechnological background of the evolution of our actors. The second part ofthe thesis attempts to answer questions on the history, actions and interactions of the press agencies which operated on the Romanian territory in period and location analyzed. It turns out that the pressagencies make a privileged ground for airing foreign policy options. In our case, we mainly focusedon the relations Romania had with France and neighbors, while only briefly touching those withother countries in Europe. The third part of the thesis explores the process of news circulation fromand to Romania during the time we mentioned, trying to answer the question whether the close linkbetween the agencies and the foreign ministries of affairs have influenced the release andtransmition of the agency’s dispatch. In support of this assessment two case studies were analyzed,zooming in the in critical moments.Our conclusion is that a press agency has plays a double role, of collector-producer-broadcaster ofinformation as well as an ideological actor.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Lausanne--Universität, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 341-410.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common monogenic disorder and the leading cause of sudden arrhythmic death in children and young adults. It is typically asymptomatic and first manifests itself during cardiac arrest, making it a challenge to diagnose in advance. Computational models can explore and reveal underlying molecular mechanisms in cardiac electrophysiology by allowing researchers to alter various parameters such as tissue size or ionic current amplitudes. The goal of this thesis is to develop a computational model in MATLAB and to determine if this model can accurately indicate cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This goal is achieved by combining a three-dimensional network of the bidomain model with the Beeler-Reuter model and then by manually varying the thickness of that tissue and recording the resulting membrane potential with respect to time. The results of this analysis demonstrated that the developed model is able to depict variations in tissue thickness through the difference in membrane potential recordings. A one-way ANOVA analysis confirmed that the membrane potential recordings of the different thicknesses were significantly different from one another. This study assumed continuum behavior, which may not be indicative of diseased tissue. In the future, such a model might be validated through in vitro experiments that measure electrical activity in hypertrophied cardiac tissue. This model may be useful in future applications to study the ionic mechanisms related to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or other related cardiac diseases.

This essay presents an example of the musical life of a female composer active in Sweden during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through a case study on composer Sara Wennerberg-Reuter (1875-1959), the essay contributes information to her biography, which had been lacking specific details. Wennerberg-Reuter's biography has been discussed regarding traditional roles of women in music, her relationship to her own artistry and other active women composers, and finally the contemporary reception of Wennerberg-Reuter as a legitimate composer. Aesthetical theories prevalent during Wennerberg-Reuter’s life has been applied in these discussions, such as those presented by Citron, Öhrström and Hanson, combined with Citron's additional theories considering masculine/feminine elements in the musical approach. The main conclusions reached regarding the specific conditions enabling a professional status as a composer and woman in Sweden during the given time are; a) the liberal permission by the family to pursue higher education in composing, since this was in opposition to the traditions of the time. b) the access to a network of musically active women, from which a sense of being part of a female community can be created. c) the acceptance from musical institutions such as higher educations, composer's societies and media critics.

Cette thèse analyse le développement des agences de presse en Roumanie ainsi que la circulation internationale de l'information, sur une période comprise entre 1877 et 1940. Les agences de presse sont étudiées comme acteurs et vecteurs de la communication internationale et,dans le même temps, comme rapporteurs de l'actualité.Les trois parties de l'étude détaillent cette problématique : la première partie examine les notions de l'événement, de l'information, de la circulation de l'information et de la dépêche dans le but de les confronter à l'activité de l'agence de presse ; sont aussi introduits les contextes géopolitiques, géoéconomiques et géotechnologiques dans lesquels ont évolué nos acteurs. La deuxième partie tente d'apporter des réponses au sujet de l'histoire, des actions et des interactions des agences de presse qui ont opérées sur le territoire roumain dans l'espace-temps analysé. Constatons que les agences de presse représentent un terrain privilégié sur lequel se sont exprimées des options de politiques étrangères. Dans notre cas, nous nous sommes davantage intéressés aux relations de la Roumanie avec la France et ses voisins. La troisième et dernière partie explore le processus de circulation de l'information de et vers la Roumanie, analysant les rapports étroits entre les agences de presse et les ministères des Affaires Étrangères ainsi que l'influence éventuelle sur les conditions de production et de diffusion de la dépêche d'agence. Ce parcours a été enrichi par deux études de cas.Notre conclusion est qu'une agence de presse joue un double rôle : celui de collecteur-producteur-diffuseur d'information et, éventuellement, celui d'acteur idéologique.

Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A wet-cooling tower fill performance evaluation model developed by Reuter is derived in Cartesian coordinates for a rectangular cooling tower and compared to cross- and counterflow Merkel, e-NTU and Poppe models. The models are compared by applying them to a range of experimental data measured in the cross- and counterflow wet-cooling tower test facility at Stellenbosch University. The Reuter model is found to effectively give the same results as the Poppe method for cross- and counterflow fill configuration as well as the Merkel and e-NTU method if the assumptions as made by Merkel are implemented. A second order upwind discretization method is applied to the Reuter model for increased accuracy and compared to solution methods generally used to solve cross- and counterflow Merkel and Poppe models. First order methods used to solve the Reuter model and crossflow Merkel and Poppe models are found to need cell sizes four times smaller than the second order method to obtain the same results. The Reuter model is successfully implemented in two- and three-dimensional ANSYS-Fluent® CFD models for under- and supersaturated air. Heat and mass transfer in the fill area is simulated with a user defined function that employs a second order upwind method. The two dimensional ANSYS-Fluent® model is verified by means of a programmed numerical model for crossflow, counterflow and cross-counterflow. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: ‘n Natkoeltoring model vir die evaluering van pakkings werkverrigting, wat deur Reuter ontwikkel is, word in Kartesiese koördinate afgelei vir ‘n reghoekige koeltoring en word vergelyk met kruis- en teenvloei Merkel, e-NTU en Poppe modelle. Die verskillende modelle word vergelyk deur hulle op ‘n reeks eksperimentele data toe te pas wat in die kruis- en teenvloei natkoeltoring toetsfasiliteit by die Universiteit van Stellenbosch gemeet is. Dit is bevind dat die Reuter model effektief dieselfde resultate gee as die Poppe model vir kruis- en teenvloei pakkingskonfigurasies sowel as die Merkel en e-NTU metode, indien dieselfde aannames wat deur Merkel gemaak is geїmplementeer word. ‘n Tweede orde “upwind” metode word op die Reuter model toegepas vir hoër akkuraatheid en word vergelyk met oplossingsmetodes wat gewoonlik gebruik word om kruis- en teenvloei Merkel en Poppe modelle op te los. Eerste orde metodes wat gebruik is om die Reuter model en kruisvloei Merkel en Poppe modelle op te los benodig rooster selle wat vier keer kleiner is as vir tweede orde metodes om dieselfde resultaat te verkry. Die Reuter model is suksesvol in twee- en driedimensionele ANSYS-Fluent® BVD (“CFD”) modelle geїmplementeer vir on- en oorversadigde lug. Warmte- en massaoordrag in die pakkingsgebied word gesimuleer mbv ‘n gebruiker gedefinieerde funksie (“user defined function”) wat van ‘n tweede orde numeriese metode gebruik maak. Die tweedimensionele ANSYS-Fluent® model word m.b.v. ‘n geprogrameerde numeriese model bevestig vir kruis-, teen- en kruis-teenvloei.

This dissertation investigates the way that feminist resistance is expressed in two Swedish and two German so-called New Woman novels from the turn of the twentieth century: Elin Wägner’s Pennskaftet (1910, Penwoman), Gabriele Reuter’s Aus guter Familie (1895, From a Good Family), Hilma Angered-Strandberg’s Lydia Vik (1904), and Grete Meisel-Hess’s Die Intellektuellen (1911). The theoretical apparatus is comprised by the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Jacques Lacan, and Jessica Benjamin. By introducing a psychoanalytic and feminist perspective, this dissertation seeks to develop the possibilities for agency and resistance within the framework of Foucault’s theories. It investigates four textual and contextually grounded strategies of resistance that are prominent in these novels: individuality, openness, desire, and eugenics. This study demonstrates how Gabriele Reuter, Grete Meisel-Hess, and  Hilma Angered-Strandberg, inspired by the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ellen Key, depict feminine individuality in relation to a scientific and philosophical discourse that specifically denied women individuality. The authors anchor individuality in a corporality that was similarly denied to women by a bourgeois and dogmatic Christian discourse. Openness and wit function as resistance strategies in Elin Wägner’s Pennskaftet. Humorous rejoinders and narrative comments can disarm a conservative. An open attitude towards the emancipation project could also help to resolve the conflicts between different feminist positions and between different women. Desire functions as an important resistance strategy in each of the novels examined. It is variously represented as a vital instinct, a desire for knowledge, and a sexual desire, as in Gabriele Reuter’s Aus guter Familie – or as a desire for suffrage, as in Pennskaftet, or for maternity legislation, as in Grete Meisel-Hess’s Die Intellektuellen. By formulating a notion of feminine desire, turn-of-the-century feminists were able both to seize control of sexuality from the church and to wrest morality from the grasp of the bourgeoisie. These resistance strategies could also have a biopolitical character: in Grete Meisel-Hess’s Die Intellektuellen, woman is placed at the service of humanity on eugenicist grounds, and her good qualities are seen as capable of promoting humanity’s progress. This dissertation shows that in these novels desire at the individual level serves to reinforce feminine subjectivity. Love is seen as associated with an intensified sense of life and as a precondition of creativity. At the social level, desire also functions as the basis for a feeling of solidarity among women that instils in them courage and an urge to persevere in the suffrage struggle, this latter a highly protracted process. In this way desire acquires political potential. A framing chapter on context provides the intellectual and philosophical backgrounds of the various strategies of resistance. It is followed by four analytical chapters, each of which addresses one novel.

This research report focuses on the origin and development of the Medingen Mission Station, near Ga-Kgapane in the Limpopo Province, and the provision of education at this station since its establishment in 1881. After an account of missionary endeavours in South Africa during the second half of the nineteenth century (with the emphasis on the activities of the Berlin Missionary Society), an explanation is provided of how missionaries became involved in the weal and woes of the Balobedu tribe. This is followed by an indication of how Reverend Fritz Reuter took the initiative to provide basic education to the inhabitants of Ga-Kgapane and how education provision developed at Medingen since then. Reasons are advanced for the prominence Medingen Primary School currently enjoys and the study concludes with the assertion that Medingen Mission Station can be regarded as an important, though not exclusive source of the Balobedu’s present-day identity. / Educational Foundations / M.Ed. (History of Education)

This research report focuses on the origin and development of the Medingen Mission Station, near Ga-Kgapane in the Limpopo Province, and the provision of education at this station since its establishment in 1881. After an account of missionary endeavours in South Africa during the second half of the nineteenth century (with the emphasis on the activities of the Berlin Missionary Society), an explanation is provided of how missionaries became involved in the weal and woes of the Balobedu tribe. This is followed by an indication of how Reverend Fritz Reuter took the initiative to provide basic education to the inhabitants of Ga-Kgapane and how education provision developed at Medingen since then. Reasons are advanced for the prominence Medingen Primary School currently enjoys and the study concludes with the assertion that Medingen Mission Station can be regarded as an important, though not exclusive source of the Balobedu’s present-day identity. / Educational Foundations / M.Ed. (History of Education)