This project proposes a performing arts center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a 170-year old industrial city. As part of the city revitalization, the design seeks to build up a "stage", and create a piece of edge at the city's northern boundary. Two folded bands, one made of skeletal steel and surfaced with copper connecting the river and the mountainous landscape beyond with the city, the other made of reinforced concrete folded to form a spatial intersection housing a series of activities: performing, spectating, and exhibiting. A curved metal screened circulation wall opens at the bottom to allow the copper band to pass as an entrance into the lobby to develop its folded intersection. Through it, an industrial stack in the middle of the site is isolated from busy city, and anchored with the building as a monument. Along the west side, an additional element characterized as the education box hovers over the ground, with unobstructed views of the river and the old steel bridge on one end, and the green hill on the other. / Master of Architecture

This Thesis presents the various materials that evolved while designing the lighting for the Theatre Arts - University Theatre's production of A Little Going Away Party. Through various meetings with production staff the design objectives and styles of the premiere production were established. We determined that the production was dealing with an upcoming death in a positive manner and that the production elements should reflect this. The lighting design created a coolly lit cellar that was warmed progressively to reflect the growth of one of the characters as the story developed. The design also aided in drawing the audience's focus to different areas of the stage when action and dialogue required it. / M.F.A.

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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1965 H39 / Master of Science

La formation des enseignants d'éducation physique (EP) se base sur le développement de compétences professionnelles en stage au Québec et en France.La description et l'analyse des pratiques d'accompagnement mises en place par les maîtres de stage dans les stages en responsabilité sont au coeur de cette recherche. Nous avons plus précisément souhaité comprendre comment ils accompagnaient les stagiaires au plan des contenus à enseigner en EP. Le cadre théorique et conceptuel se base sur une utilisation successive de concepts issus de l'approche nord-américaine de l'écologie de la classe (Hastie et Siedentop, 2006) et de la théorie de l'action didactique conjointe (Sensevy et Mercier, 2007) davantage européenne. Nous avons effectué deux études de cas, pendant toute la durée du stage en responsabilité (respectivement de sept semaines et de sept mois). Pour chacun des cas, nous avons réalisé un entretien pré-stage et un post-stage avec les maîtres de stage et les stagiaires, des entretiens téléphoniques avec les stagiaires tout au long du stage en responsabilité et des enregistrements vidéos des séances des stagiaires suivis des enregistrements audio des entretiens post-leçons maître de stage/stagiaire correspondants. Nos résultats montrent que l'intensité des pratiques d'accompagnement est faible pendant la durée du stage (moins de 20 min. par semaine). En moyenne, 48 % des sujets discutés dans les entretiens post-leçons sont en lien avec les contenus d'enseignements. Ces discussions sur les contenus sont généralement associées au contrat et au milieu didactique. De plus, les deux maîtres de stage ne connaissent pas les compétences professionnelles que ces derniers doivent développer durant leur stage en responsabilité. Au regard des résultats, les conditions de l'accompagnement nous semblent questionnables, autant dans le cas québécois que dans le cas français, pour permettre aux maîtres de stage de porter un regard professionnel et formateur sur les pratiques d'enseignement des stagiaires.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify how clothing companies are striving for sustainability within their product life cycle; to which extent these companies are working on the sustainability of the use and disposal stage; and their willingness to interfere more in these stages by improving the use and disposal habits of their customers by offering care, repair and end of use services. Research questions: What activities are the clothing companies undertaking in order to improve the sustainability of the use and disposal stage? o How are the clothing companies communicating correct use, maintenance and disposal of their products to consumers? o What are the difficulties the clothing companies are facing in their efforts to become more engaged in the use and disposal stage? Method: The research was conducted with an inductive approach, by collecting secondary data from previous studies and theories, and by accumulating primary data from semi-structured interviews with the CSR coordinator of Didriksons, the Director of Sustainability of Haglöfs and the CSR manager of Nudie Jeans. Findings: Throughout the study acknowledgements have been received about the ongoing activities, the possible difficulties, and the communication in regards to the three clothing companies work on sustainability in the use and disposal stage. The results pointed out the differences between the companies concerning the ways of offering services in the use and disposal stage, and their ways of communicating these services to consumers. The key findings showed that the companies find consumer education important, however each company could improve their communication towards consumers in some of the discussed stages. Governmental support and more advanced recycling technologies are of importance in order to facilitate the aim of creating a more sustainable use and disposal stage. / Program: Textilt management med inriktning styrning av textila värdekedjor

William Shakespeare and Sarah Kane are playwrights who for drastically different reasons have left indelible impacts upon the theatrical world. A key factor in each of their plays is the presentation of violence. Shakespeare uses violence for observable, orthodox reasons of driving the plot forward, while Kane uses it for sensory effect, social commentary, and for subverting traditional narrative expectations. This study examines how violence and fighting work as dramaturgical tools in these playwrights’ work, by individual examination, juxtaposition, and the use of other pieces of drama to inform these two differing schools of theatrical violence.

Sociala nätverkssidor är för människor idag en del av vardagen då vi skapar nya umgängen, bekantskaper, vänskaper och fiender. Vi träffar framtida arbetsgivare och finner i visa fall kärleken med hjälp av detta nu vardagliga verktyg. Eftersom vi gör allt detta är uppbyggnaden och utvecklingen av användarens profil ett viktigt hjälpmedel för att lyckas presentera sig själv på ett positivt sätt. Målet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur svenska kvinnor framställer sig själva inför andra användare och vad de delar med sig av sin identitet på det sociala nätverket Twitter. Vi utgår från tre frågeställningar: • • • På vilka sätt framställer sig svenska kvinnor på Twitter? Vilka skillnader finns mellan användare beroende på antal följare? Vilken gräns sätter kvinnor för vad de delar med sig till sin publik på Twitter? De teoretiska utgångspunkterna för denna studie är i Erving Goffmans teorier om ”front stage”, ”back stage” och ”impression management” och nyare forskning gjord av bland andra danah boyd samt begreppet representation. Vi har använt oss av kvantitativ innehållsanalys och kvalitativa intervjuer för att få svar på våra frågeställningar. Resultatet visar att användarna är medvetna om hur de framställer sig och är försiktiga med vad de delar med sig av på Twitter. Användandarna på Twitter i denna undersökning anser att det är jobbigt att deras uppdateringar är sökbara på Google och genom detta finns det en viss censur hos användarna. Det är inte bara Twitters öppenhet gentemot sökmotorn Google som gör att användarna själva censurerar sig utan detta kan även påverkas av arbetsgivare och läsare som är inom samma bransch. Det är viktigt för användarna att de ger en korrekt framställning av sig själva för att inte kränka någon eller få negativa följder i till exempel arbetslivet. Genom undersökningen har vi sett att användarna är medvetna om sin framställning och agerar på Twitter på olika sätt för att lära sig hur just de vill framställa sig själva. Det tar lång tid för användarna att lära sig hur de ska hantera och framställa sig på Twitter.

Grove and Fisk ¡]1983¡^ had used the noun and idea of drama performance in the theater to compare the offering of service, such attendants as known as performer, customers as known as audience, and separate the front and back stage of service encounter clearly. At the same time, they offer the structure to easily understand the process of the wholly service contact and to help estimate the influence of each important link of service contact. So, this research focused on ¡§perceived value¡¨ of customer experiences through which, the ¡§visualized service backstage¡¨ in the service contact promotes the interaction of consumers and suppliers. Moreover, this study used the involvement of the back stage information and attention of attendants¡¦ appearance to moderate consumer experiences. The results showed that ¡§visualized service backstage¡¨ has positive influence on ¡§perceived value¡¨ with different levels, and customers have more consciousness on ¡§experience value¡¨. Actually the service with ¡§visualized service backstage¡¨ can really improve customers¡¦ perceived value. It not only can strengthen consumers¡¦ experience value, but also promote other different values of consumers. In fact, if service providers can use this advantage to create more perfect service performance by which the front stage and the back stage fully support. And it could bring to people more different service value than others. In addition, through the analysis of this study and real practices, it can help the service providers understand which value is the key factor to be attention for offering visualized service backstage.

Carbon dioxide is a natural refrigerant that has been considered for certain refrigeration and air conditioning applications. The coefficient of performance (COP) of carbon dioxide cycles is low compared to classical vapor compression cycles. The aim of this portion of the thesis is to present a thermodynamic analysis of carbon dioxide cycles in order to evaluate the potential performance of a refrigeration cycle using carbon dioxide. A thermodynamic model for the cycle is proposed which can simulate the operation of a carbon dioxide refrigeration cycle. This model takes into account the practical effects of the thermo-physical properties of carbon dioxide as a refrigerant in a trans-critical cycle. One and two-stage compression processes were considered for comparison purposes. A sensitivity analysis has been conducted so that cycle performance can be estimated. The effect of cycle components on system capacity and cycle performance was investigated. The second portion of the thesis deals with the concept of reheat air conditioning, and looks at the performance of different reheat cycles. The thesis looks at reheat systems that utilize different placements of the reheat coil. The overall performance of these reheat systems is then calculated. These systems require no additional electric power to reheat the air after it is cooled and dehumidified in the evaporator. Instead, they use heat from the condenser heat exchanger to reheat the air during partial load conditions. Four different reheat configurations are discussed and analyzed to determine performance levels. Visual Basic programs were written for each of the four cycles to simulate the different configurations and to evaluate key performance parameters. Graphs were developed based on these programs, where critical variables were changed to monitor trends in coefficient of performance. The thermodynamic cycle of each reheat configuration is developed, with equations presented with figures depicting the cycles. Refrigerant 134a was used in the programs throughout the reheat section of the thesis. The reheat coefficient of performance is used as the basis for cycle comparison. The relative performance of the four cycles is illustrated in the figures and explained in the Results and Discussion section at the end of chapter 3.