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181	High Magnetic Field Neutron Stars : Cyclotron Lines and Polarization Maitra, Chandreyee January 2013 (has links) (PDF) This thesis concerns with the study of X-ray binaries which are gravitationally bound systems consisting of a compact object (either a neutron star or a black hole) and usually a non degenerate companion star, both rotating around the common centre of mass. The compact star shines brightly in the X-ray regime. Emission from these systems are powered by accretion which is the most radioactively efficient mechanism known in the universe by the release of gravitational potential energy when matter from the companion star falls on the compact object. Accretion onto high magnetic field neutron stars are special as the magnetic field plays a crucial role in governing the dynamics of gas flow and the flow of the matter close to the compact object. The radiation emitted from these systems are anisotropic and for a distant observer, the intensity is modulated at the spin period of the neutron star, hence these objects are called accretion powered pulsars. The angular pattern of the emitted radiation is also highly anisotropic and depends on the mass accreted and hence the luminosity. The beaming pattern commonly known as the pulse profiles exhibit a wide variety in the pulse shape and pulse fraction and vary with energy as well as intensity. They also exhibit cyclotron absorption features in their energy spectrum which are a direct probe to the magnetic field geometry of these systems. This thesis is dedicated to the study of the magnetic field and emission geometry of accretion powered pulsars through the pulse phase resolved studies of the cyclotron absorption features which are a direct probe of the magnetized plasma. In order to study these features in detail broadband continuum modeling of the energy spectrum is done, taking care of all other factors which may smear the pulse phase dependence. Another prerequisite for detailed continuum modeling is accounting for the low absorption dips in the pulse profiles of many these sources. The dips are presumably formed by phase locked accretion stream causing partial covering absorption when the stream is along our line of sight towards the emission region. Studying the pulse phase dependence of this partial covering absorber also provides us with important clues on the local environment of the neutron star and the structure of the accretion stream. All of these studies are performed with data from the broadband and most sensitive instruments onboard the Japanese satellite Suzuki. Lastly we provide estimates of the polarization expected to be detected from these sources by a Thomson scattering polarimeter being developed to observe the polarization of X-rays in the energy range of 5--30 keV. Along with the X-ray pulsars, we also make an estimate of the likelihood of detection of X-ray polarization from black hole X-ray binaries in different spectral states. This is a particularly interesting topic as it will play a crucial role in providing additional handles on the magnetic field geometry in accretion powered pulsars as well as constrain the fundamental parameters of a black hole like its spin. Neutron Stars X-Ray Binaries X-Ray Sky Accretion Powered X-ray Pulsars Cyclotron Lines Polarization (Neutron Stars) Accretion Powered Pulsars Black Holes (Astronomy) Neutron Star Binaries Broadband X-ray Spectroscopy - Pulsars Pulse Phase Resolved Spectroscopy X-ray - Pulsar Pulsars Thomson X-ray Polarimeter Magnetic Fields (Cosmic Physics) Astrophysics
182	Nové brněnské hlavní nádraží a jeho veřejná prostranství / Brno New Train Station and its Public Spaces Zrníková, Kamila January 2020 (has links) The subject of proposal is a new dominant of the city of Brno. It is a building which will affect panorama of the city, a building which will be important part of a new South district and a new Brno Railway Station. The building will become orientation point in long-distance views as well as in the area. The proposal works with a building which is open and alive thanks to mix-use and public access on different height levels. Greenery forms the corner of the building and creates it’s identity. The base for architectural study became urban concept designed as a pre-diploma project. Important element of the concept is axis which draws the greenery from the river Svratka into the area and connects it with the new station. The Europoint – proposed building – becomes termination of the axis. The building is situated on a unique site which requires unique concept. The motive of the house is greenery and future vision of buildings which enrich surroundings in some ways. The basic volume is triangular and uses area of the site on maximum level with corner towards boulevard. This corner becomes the central element, especially from entry and view from the boulevard. I recreated the corner using vegetation into green and living. The green corner gives a new perspective on creating exposed corners, adds value to the urban area and creates identity of the building. The green motive intertwines with the building from entrance hall up to the bar at the highest floor. The volume of the building is defined by the inside usage and then form follows function. When choosing the functions I took into account needs of the area and took advantage of high-rise building. Commercial areas in the ground floor, administration centre of Czech Railways and conference rooms were created. The administrative use is added by co-working in the middle if the building, the upper part offers flats with view over Brno and in the crown is the highest placed bar in Brno.
183	Problematika zavdÄn ADS-B ve vzdun©m prostoru Evropy a Äesk© republiky / Problems of ADS-B introduction into European as well as Czech Republic air space Bertok, Tibor January 2014 (has links) This diploma thesis focuses on implementation issues of ADS-B in the airspace of Czech republic and Europe. Our introduction contains a review of necessity of this system and describes ADS-B. The next part addresses the legislation of this system in detail, also sums up the state of its implementation and the plan of implementation. Our conclusion shows the problems connected with the system , offers their solution and views for the future.
184	Denní osvětlení prostor světlovody / Daylighting of spaces with light guides Machová, Petra January 2016 (has links) This thesis deals with the illuminance space through light guide. It describes it's basic principles, technical features and ways of differentiation between the technologies. The thesis also includes latest methods for evaluation of illumination of space supported by various computer simulations.
185	Art as Activism: The Lives and Art of Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Nina Simone Campbell, Katy M. January 2021 (has links) No description available. African American Studies Black History Gender History Modern History Music American History Billie Holiday Lena Horne Nina Simone Civil Rights Movement Harlem Renaissance Black Power Activism Art Paul Robeson Strange Fruit Mississippi Goddam Cabin in the Sky WEB DuBois Criteria of Negro Art Cotton Club Count Basie Communism
186	Optimalizace světelných podmínek v budovách / Optimisation of light conditions in buildings Vajkay, František January 2013 (has links) Building physics as a branch of architecture must ensure an indoor comfort of each user and inhabitant of a building object. This involves, acoustics, indoor thermal conditions and among others also daylighting and artificial lighting of buildings. Light as a particle and an electromagnetic wave, is required by the different aspects of the human organism. It allows the living beings to see, influences skin and bones, the biorhythms, etc. Therefore, it is necessary for the engineering community to predict the correct illuminance and luminance levels acting insides. The thesis deals with such issues. More precisely, it assesses the quality of design tools and methodologies, either against CIE reference cases described in CIE 171/2006 and against real measurements done over the working plane of an indoor space located in the attic of Building D of the Institute of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, too. The tools tested throughout the solution of the dissertation did involve three computer programs: RADIANCE, WDLS v3.1 and WDLS v4.1, and one numerographical approach, namely the Daniljuk’s innovated methodology (sometimes even combined with the theories of BRS). In addition several software’s have had been created alongside the process assessment, just to mention the “RADIANCE Script”, “RADIANCE Data Evaluation Script” or “MuuLUX“. The later was written as a communication software allowing the connection of the KONICA-MINOLTA T10 illuminance meter to a computer with the aim of data collection while long term observation. The solution did also require the establishment of a measuring element for the determination of the light reflectance values of surfaces. The solutions, results and conclusions do describe how well did the design approaches deal while predicting the resulting awaited daylight factor levels in points over the working plane.
187	Carving a place in the Canadian imagination : (re)writing Canada's forgotten history in a selection of Chinese Canadian historical fiction Van Horne, Mary 16 April 2018 (has links) Ce mémoire étudie un échantillon de fictions historiques écrites pour les adultes ou les enfants par les auteurs contemporains chinois canadiens Paul Yee et Sky Lee. Ce mémoire soutient que dans ces œuvres de fiction, les auteurs tentent de réviser et de réécrire l'histoire, longtemps passée sous silence, des canadiens d'origine chinoise. Ces œuvres mêlent des faits historiques avec le récit de fiction dans le but de contester non seulement les nombreuses idées préconçues au sujet des canadiens d'origine chinoise retrouvées dans l'histoire canadienne, dans le folklore et dans la mythologie traditionnelle, mais aussi les nombreuses représentations stéréotypées des canadiens d'origine chinoise dans la littérature et dans l'histoire canadiennes. Ces œuvres contestent ouvertement le fait qu'une version de l'historié puisse détenir la vérité en créant de nouvelles versions de cette histoire qui transforment radicalement certains mythes et motifs concernant la construction de la nation canadienne. Ces travaux sont ainsi destinés à être considérés comme des œuvres de fiction canadiennes et pas multiculturelles. En effet, ces auteurs tentent de redéfinir leur identité culturelle et ethnique au sein du Canada en écrivant leur histoire au sein de notre histoire nationale. Au-delà d'être simplement des œuvres de fiction historique révisionniste, les deux auteurs mettent en avant le fait que l'histoire est une construction en utilisant des techniques de métafiction historiographique post-moderne, tel que l'utilisation de plusieurs narrateurs et l'incorporation de plusieurs sources, à la fois historiques et fictives, dans leur réécriture de l'histoire. PS 8012.5 UL 2010 V256 Yee, Paul -- Critique et interprétation Lee, Sky -- Critique et interprétation
188	Aerospace - Futuristický kokpit moderního letounu / Aerospace - Futuristic Aircraft Cockpit Design Bílek, Jan January 2010 (has links) This work describes the visualization design of the flight related quantities in a cockpit of a modern light sport aircraft. It focuses on the utilization of the state of the art trends in flight data displays and introduces the innovative implementation of the aircraft's energy state smart clues that reduce pilots' workload. The initial part of the work presents a research into the flight, engine and navigation data presentation on analog instruments, followed by their illustrative depiction in glass cockpits. Within the framework of this thesis, Microsoft Flight Simulator has been used as a source of the flight related data. Final advances in the display design were introduced through the implementation of the synthetic vision system and a visualization of the virtual tunnel in the sky.
189	L’Union européenne et l’ordre international de l’aviation civile : la contribution de l'Union européenne aux évolutions contemporaines du droit aérien international / The European Union and International Civil Aviation : the contribution of the European Union to modern developments in International Aviation Law Correia, Vincent 10 December 2012 (has links) La redéfinition des conditions d’exercice de la souveraineté aérienne des États membres, par un transfert progressif de compétences au profit de l’Union européenne, ne peut être analysée uniquement en termes de dépossession et de réduction de leur puissance individuelle. Les compétences aériennes confiées à l’Union permettent l’affirmation de l’ensemble européen sur la scène internationale. Ce processus, mouvant et encore inachevé, se traduit par une prise en compte accrue de la spécificité européenne en matière d’aviation civile. Malgré des réticences certaines émanant aussi bien des États membres que des États tiers, l’Union s’érige progressivement au rang d’acteur de poids, capable d’influencer le contenu normatif du droit aérien contemporain, de la même manière que le font les puissances aériennes traditionnelles et notamment les États-Unis. Ces nouvelles tendances, révélatrices de la souplesse et de la plasticité de la convention de Chicago, permettent de dresser des perspectives quant aux possibles évolutions futures de l’ordre international de l’aviation civile. / The way in which the Member States have redefined the conditions regarding how they exercise their air sovereignty, by progressively transferring power to the European Union, cannot be viewed solely as them removing and reducing their individual powers. The powers conferred to the European Union in aviation matters are resulting in an affirmation of the international role of Europe as a whole. This on-going, and as yet incomplete process, may be seen in a greater recognition of the specific European aspect regarding Civil Aviation. In spite of the hesitance of Member States and non-member States, the European Union has progressively taken its place among the key players, able to influence developments in modern aviation law, in the same way as other established aviation authorities and especially the United States. These new trends reveal the flexibility and elasticity of the Chicago Convention and the potential future developments in International Civil Aviation. Accords « Ciel ouvert » Accords mixtes Ciel unique Convergence règlementaire Compétences externes Droit aérien Droit public Droit de l’Union européenne Liberté d’établissement Principe de coopération loyale Principe de souveraineté aérienne Reconnaissance par les tiers Régionalisme aérien Relations de voisinage Relations transatlantiques Sécurité aérienne Territoire de l’Union européenne « open skies » agreements Mixed agreements European aviation safety agency Single European sky Nationality clauses Regulatory convergence External competence Aviation law Public law Law of the European Union Liberalization of air carriage Freedom of establishment Internal market of civil aviation Duty of co-operation Principle of air sovereignty International recognition Regionalism in civil aviation Neighbourhood relations Transatlantic relations Aviation safety The territory of the European Union 340
190	Beyond the electronic connection : the technologically manufactured cyber-human and its physical human counterpart in performance : a theory related to convergence identities Sharir, Yacov January 2013 (has links) This thesis is an investigation of the complex processes and relationships between the physical human performer and the technologically manufactured cyber-human counterpart. I acted as both researcher and the physical human performer, deeply engaged in the moment-to-moment creation of events unfolding within a shared virtual reality environment. As the primary instigator and activator of the cyber-human partner, I maintained a balance between the live and technological performance elements, prioritizing the production of content and meaning. By way of using practice as research, this thesis argues that in considering interactions between cyber-human and human performers, it is crucial to move beyond discussions of technology when considering interactions between cyber-humans and human performers to an analysis of emotional content, the powers of poetic imagery, the trust that is developed through sensory perception and the evocation of complex relationships. A theoretical model is constructed to describe the relationship between a cyber-human and a human performer in the five works created specifically for this thesis, which is not substantially different from that between human performers. Technological exploration allows for the observation and analysis of various relationships, furthering an expanded understanding of ‘movement as content’ beyond the electronic connection. Each of the works created for this research used new and innovative technologies, including virtual reality, multiple interactive systems, six generations of wearable computers, motion capture technology, high-end digital lighting projectors, various projection screens, smart electronically charged fabrics, multiple sensory sensitive devices and intelligent sensory charged alternative performance spaces. They were most often collaboratively created in order to augment all aspects of the performance and create the sense of community found in digital live dance performances/events. These works are identified as one continuous line of energy and discovery, each representing a slight variation on the premise that a working, caring, visceral and poetic content occurs beyond the technological tools. Consequently, a shift in the physical human’s psyche overwhelms the act of performance. Scholarship and reflection on the works have been integral to my creative process throughout. The goals of this thesis, the works created and the resulting methodologies are to investigate performance to heighten the multiple ways we experience and interact with the world. This maximizes connection and results in a highly interactive, improvisational, dynamic, non-linear, immediate, accessible, agential, reciprocal, emotional, visceral and transformative experience without boundaries between the virtual and physical for physical humans, cyborgs and cyber-humans alike. 700

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