Recent decades have seen heightened interest in Charles Brockden Brown and his contribution to American literature. Scholars have worked to reclaim Brown from the margins of literary history, but he remains on the outskirts of literature classrooms and conversations. In an effort to further map Brown's influence and significance in the American literary tradition, I discuss his most famous novel, Wieland, in relation to Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Brown has not previously been linked to James or The Turn of the Screw in any significant way, but the similarities between the texts provide plenty of room for discussion. I use current trends in adaptation theory to make the link from Wieland to The Turn of the Screw, with particular emphasis on issues of intertextuality in adaptation rather than fidelity to an origin text. I argue that adaptation study is a way of looking at texts rather than the examination of a certain kind of text. With this foundation, I assert that The Turn of the Screw functions as an adaptation of Wieland insofar as both explore reason, conflict, and psychological haunting in the context of late eighteenth-century Enlightenment and late nineteenth-century almost-Modernist America. The juxtaposition of these texts allows for a new reading of The Turn of the Screw, one that explores the often discussed ambiguity and instability of the text as a symbolic critique of America and, more specifically, of democracy.

This paper is a bachelor thesis in machine design where screaming screw tightenings are discussed. The research was initiated with a preliminary study in screw mechanics and the tightening process, as well as the stick-slip phenomenon. Furthermore, interviews were conducted with people at Scania and Atlas Copco who have relevant experience in screaming screw tightenings. These interviews strengthened the theory that screaming is caused by stick-slip. The natural frequency of a screw joint with a M8 x 60 mm screw and M8 M6M nut were approximated with FEM-analysis in Ansys. This in order to provide data for comparison with measured screams in future practical tests. The initial hypothesis that stick-slip causes scream was considered plausible since the natural frequency for the screw joint’s torsional oscillation is within the audible range. / Denna rapport är ett kandidatexamensarbete i maskinkonstruktion där skrikande skruvdragningar undersöks. Undersökningen inleddes med en förstudie i skruvens mekanik och åtdragningsprocessen. Stick-slip-fenomenet har även undersökts i förstudien. Vidare har intervjuer gjorts med personer som har erfarenhet inom området på Scania och Atlas Copco. Dessa intervjuer stärker teorin om att skrikfenomenet orsakas av stick-slip. Egenfrekvenser för ett skruvförband med dimensionerna M8 x 60 mm för skruven och M8 M6M för muttern togs fram genom en FEM-analys i Ansys. Detta för att i framtida praktiska tester kunna jämföra dessa frekvenser med uppmätta skrik. Den ursprungliga hypotesen om att stick-slip orsakar skrik bedömdes rimlig då egenfrekvensen för skruvförbandets torsionssvängning faller inom det hörbara intervallet.

Continuous wet granulation using a twin-screw extruder has attracted considerable attentions in pharmaceutical industry as it ensures consistent tablet quality at a high production rate. However, challenge still exists in controlling desired granule properties especially when different sized twin-screw granulators are used. This study therefore explored the potential of scalability of two sized twin-screw extruders and the how raw materials affect granules properties in two twin-screw extruders. The first study focuses on aspects of scaling using two twin-screw extruders, 18mm and 27mm. Dimensionless groups including Fr Number, Powder Feed Number and Degree of Fill (<30%) were studied to observe their influences on granule attributes. It was found that these dimensionless groups demonstrated inconsistent effects on granule properties and the effect of Powder Feed Number was highly dependent on Degree of Fill. Different extruder still exerts significant impact on granule properties. A scaling rule was established for median granule size (d50) only, but only moderate degree of fit was found. Although a considerable number of studies have been published on controlled-release and extended-release excipients, little attentions have been given to the influence of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) grades in twin-screw wet granulation. The second study therefore investigated the processability of five grades MCC from the Avicel® PH family using two twin-screw extruders again, 18mm and 27mm. Granule attributes including particle size, density, moisture, and strength were tested and it was found that MCC inherent density has the most significant impact on granule properties while particle size of MCC has minor positive effect on granule size. This study also concluded that better granule flowability and uniformity can be achieved by using low moisture, larger particle size and high density MCC as excipients. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

Screw cap wine closures provide many benefits in maintenance of wine quality over time, however acceptance of their use by purchasers has varied. This work first investigates how factors like age, gender, income and education affect the decision to purchase screw cap wines and to what extent these factors impact consumer decisions to bring screw cap wine to various social settings. The results of a questionnaire pooling attitudes and behaviors of wine purchasers (n=319) indicate that factors such as age, wine knowledge, income and gender influence a consumer’s decision to purchase screw cap wine. Education and income positively impact the acceptance of screw cap wines and the likelihood of purchasing them. Age has a negative effect on acceptance of screw cap wines in social situations. Gender was found to not be significant in regards to likelihood of screw cap wine purchase generally, however men tended to view screw cap wines as more acceptable in more social situations than women.

The demands for an increase in productivity and reduced assembly costs require engineers to automate solutions that replace manual labor. This work concentrated on a common assembly primitive, threaded fastener insertion, in an effort to determine the nature of contact between a bolt and nut during thread mating. The assembly problem was initially simplified as a two-dimensional analysis to gain an understanding about how contacts between the bolt and nut change during counter-clockwise motion. Tessellated solid models were used during three-dimensional collision analysis in such a way that the approximate location of the contact point was enumerated. The advent of a second contact point presented a more constrained contact state since we are interested in maintaining both contacts; thus the bolt rotated about a vector defined by the initial two contact points until a third contact location was found. By analyzing the depth of intersection of the bolt into the nut as well as the vertical movement of the origin of the bolt reference frame, we determined that there are three types of contacts states present: unstable two-point, quasi-stable two-point, stable three point. Though the unstable case remains to be deciphered, the parametric equations derived in this work can be used without modification to create a full spectrum of maps at any point in the history of a threaded assembly problem. We investigated 81 potential orientations, each of which has its own set of contact points. From this exhaustive examination, we are capable of detailing a contact state history and, from this, have the potential to develop a constraint network. / Master of Science

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Background: Maxillary expansion has long been used in children and adolescents for transverse discrepancies and dental crowding. With age, the mid-palatal suture becomes increasingly mature, requiring heavy, rapid force in order to achieve skeletal expansion. As an individual grows into adulthood, it has been demonstrated that a skeletally anchored expander can be used in order to achieve successful sutural separation. The side effects between these two types of expanders, including dental tipping with relative extrusion of buccal segments and clockwise mandibular rotation, have been demonstrated to have differences in their degrees of severity. However, most of the studies have evaluated the effects immediately following the expansion and not through a prolonged period in which growth may occur. The purpose of the present study was to investigate long-term skeletal differences in two types of expansion (RPE vs MARPE) on a growing population. Methods: This retrospective study included 39 adolescent subjects (mean age = 13.8 years) who had received maxillary expansion (20 RPE, 19 MARPE) with subsequent completion of orthodontic treatment. Initial and final CBCTs were used to analyze cephalometric and transversal changes between the two groups. Transverse measurements were repeated two weeks apart to test intra-observer reliability. Results: Cephalometric analysis demonstrated no significant differences in changes of FMA (p = 0.549) or MP-SN (p = 0.722) between the two groups following expansion and completion of orthodontic treatment. There were statistically significant differences in transverse changes between the two groups, with the MARPE group displaying more skeletal expansion. Conclusions: The results of the present study suggest that skeletally anchored expander - MARPE and conventional expander have similar skeletal effects in adolescents.

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