Thesis (M.S. in chemical engineering)--Washington State University, August 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A. (Journalism and Media Studies))--Rhodes University, 2005. / "A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts" -T.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Este trabajo de título tiene como objetivo el investigar y aplicar dos estándares de servicios Web llamados WS-Attachment y WS-Security. Estos estándares proveen una mejor comunicación y coordinación entre aplicaciones colaborativas que necesitan intercambiar información y autenticarse. Además, ellos facilitan la integración de servicios expuestos o consumidos en dispositivos computacionales móviles, lo que permiten un trabajo colaborativo en escenarios adhoc. Para llevar a cabo este trabajo se tomó como base un servidor Web para dispositivos móviles, el cual fue diseñado para ocupar el mínimo de recursos de hardware. Este servidor solamente aceptaba clientes que solicitaban algún servicio Web, ejecutaba el servicio requerido y enviaba al cliente la respuesta del servicio. Por lo tanto, luego de conocer en detalle las especificaciones estándares para adjuntos (WS-Attachments) y seguridad (WS-Security), se estudiaron los procesos generados por el servidor Web, para así poder agregarle de la forma más modular posible, las nuevas implementaciones correspondientes a dichos estándares. De esta forma, se obtuvo un MicroServidor Web ideal para aplicaciones colaborativas móviles que necesiten intercambio de archivos y autenticación. Además, este producto utiliza pocos recursos de hardware y permite obtener buenos tiempos de respuesta aún en dispositivos pequeños como PDAs. El MicroServidor fue sometido a pruebas de desempeño y de concurrencia, alcanzando resultados muy alentadores. Sin duda, las mejoras desarrolladas en el MicroServidor, sobre adjuntos y seguridad, le permiten a los servicios Web abarcar muchos más escenarios de integración de sistemas. La memoria también presenta un par de aplicaciones colaborativas, cuyos desarrollos fueron inicialmente independientes del MicroServidor. Sin embargo, luego de re-implementarlas sobre el MicroServidor, se pueden ver las mejoras en los servicios introducidos por el uso de este componente base. A pesar de lo útil que es ahora el MicroServidor, se debe continuar su desarrollo en base a otros estándares, para un mayor beneficio a usuarios que, con el uso de dispositivos móviles, buscan mejorar sus capacidades de trabajo.

Esta tese consiste em um estudo das representações do islã, de árabes e muçulmanos veiculadas pela telenovela O Clone. Seu objetivo principal é verificar como a novela levou a cultura islâmica para a televisão na conjuntura do imediato pós 11 de setembro de 2001. Utilizando como fonte principal o discurso presente na telenovela, concluímos que O Clone funcionou como um instrumento didático para as audiências, oferecendo informações da cultura e religião islâmica em um momento em que essa tradição cultural era bastante estigmatizada. A novela, apesar de reiterar algumas caricaturas e de generalizações decorrentes acima de tudo de sua natureza folhetinesca-melodramática, ofereceu representações positivas oportunizando uma leitura mais humanizada do Outro muçulmano. Concluímos também que O Clone levou para a televisão elementos que estão presentes no contexto contemporâneo e que impregna as relações do Oriente islâmico com o mundo moderno e o Ocidente. Identificamos que a telenovela também ofereceu um retrato dos dilemas que atravessam a contemporaneidade islâmica. Por fim, percebemos também que o folhetim eletrônico de Glória Perez se utilizou do recurso intertextual ao levar representações, ideias e imagens já estabelecidas na tradição literária orientalista derivada das Mil e Uma Noites e suas adaptações e reelaborações. Através do primado da orientalidade, um acervo de imagens canônicas sobre o Oriente, possibilitou uma rápida identificação do público com um antigo imaginário, já estabelecido e bastante familiar para uma população que assiste TV. / This thesis is based in a study of representations of Islam, Arabs and muslins broadcast by the soap opera O Clone (The Clone). Its primary goal is to verify how the soap opera carried the Islamic culture to the post 9/11 television. Using as a primary source the discourse present in the soap opera, we concluded that O Clone has worked as a didactic instrument for the audiences, offering information from the Islamic culture and religion in a moment in which such cultural tradition was quite stigmatized. The soap opera, despite the reuse of some caricature and generalization derived, foremost, from its feuilletonistic-melodramatic nature, managed to offer positive representations enabling a more humanized reading of the muslim Other. We conclude, as well, that O Clone has brought to television elements that are present in the contemporary context and pervade the Eastern Islamic relations with the modern world and the West. We could also identify that Gloria Perezs electronic feuilleton made use of the intertextual asset by leading representations, ideas and images already settled in the orientalist literary tradition derived from the The Thousand and One Nights and its adaptations and revisions. Through the primacy of orientality, a pile of canonic images about the East, made possible a fast identification of the public with a ancient imaginary, previously settled and very familiar to a population that watches TV.

Diplomová práce se zabývá možnostmi poskytování a konzumování webových služeb v systému Lotus Notes/Domino. V práci jsou popsány webové služby, jejich architektura a pojmy, které s nimi souvisí. Dále je v krátkosti představen systém Lotus Notes/Domino a jeho přednosti. Hlavní část práce se zabývá rozdíly v oblasti webových služeb mezi jednotlivými verzemi Lotus Notes / Domino a to ze dvou pohledů: z pohledu poskytovatele webové služby a z pohledu konzumenta webové služby. Na praktických ukázkách jsou demonstrovány základní postupy, pomocí kterých je možné detailně pochopit celou problematiku. Dále jsou popsány problémy, které se mohou vyskytnout, a možná řešení těchto problémů. Poslední část mé práce se zabývá bezpečností webových služeb poskytovaných a konzumovaných v systému Lotus Notes/Domino.

Soaps operas, or daytime serials, have long been a staple of American culture. In April 2011, ABC-Disney announced the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live. Cancellations propelled the fans of these programs to launch efforts to save not only the shows, but the genre. Through the use of social media, websites, and traditional off-line activities that included calling and letter-writing, fans strived to make their voices heard. The study examines the creation of an online community and discourse through a textual-analysis case study of blogs on two fan activist websites. Dahlberg’s criteria for presence in an online public space and Habermas’ public sphere allows for the presentation of ideas within a group to encourage a sense of democracy in a grassroots effort to be heard against corporate interests. The case study will examine a fan website, Sudz.Tv, as a group organized in a virtual public space.

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This research analyzes the reproduction of patriarchal ideological hegemony in the soap opera Another World using Stuart Hall's theory of the mass media and his conceptualization of ideology. A structural analysis of five one hour video-taped episodes of Another world reveals how the soap opera text constructs meaning fulfilling the three functions of the mass media, and thus, reproducing patriarchy's hegemony. This research confirms Hall's theory of the mass media and the propositions which flow from his conceptualization of ideology. Moreover, this research is the first attempt to systematically apply Hall's theory to the study of soap opera. It goes beyond .the generalizations of his theory to look at the particularities of soap opera which contribute to the reproduction of patriarchal ideological hegemony. However, it is seen that what is problematic to this research, and all research on soap opera, is a lack of a theory of the reader. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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<p> This thesis examines the influence of size and ownership of plants on the employment characteristics and locational behaviour of plants. The variables utilized to attain this objective were: foreign and Canadian-owned plants; single and multi-plants; plant, office and executive employment; location of plants within Toronto Census Metropolitan Area; and location of plants among aggregated areas in Ontario. Two methods were used in analysing the data. First, the mean of plant and employment data were obtained to provide employment characteristics. Second, regression analysis was performed to obtain in what areas there was a growth or decline of plants and employment. </p> <p> The result of the study show that foreign-owned plants employ a greater proportion of unskilled labour and are growing in reletively rural areas. On the other hand, single plants employ a greater proportion of executives and are growing within the outskirts of the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)