An impression which has dominated both the clinical setting and research literature is that patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) not infrequently issue "bitter" complaints about their memory function. This observation has rarely been subjected to investigation, based as it is, on the implicit assumption that TLE subjects are "entitled" to a memory disturbance given the involvement of a critical memory structure (i.e, hippocampus) in the pathogenesis of the disorder. While it is almost axiomatic that clinicians become aware of memory difficulties because of the subjective complaints issued by patients, there is growing awareness that the relationship between complaint and objective memory disturbance is a complex and often counterintuitive one. This is particularly true of many patients with TLE who while complaining about their memory function often do so in the presence of objectively normal interictal memory function. / This thesis addressed the question: Why do patients with TLE complain about their memory? It was premised on the notion that memory self-report is not a unidimensional construct explicable in terms of an underlying memory dysfunction alone, but the perception and expression of memory may arise from seemingly disparate sources. The principal objective of the thesis was to systematically and comprehensively investigate the complaint in TLE, and to derive an understanding of the variables which contribute to the perception and expression of poor memory in members of this population. The variables selected for investigation emerged from a detailed review of the literature and can be grouped into five broad conceptual domains: demographic, epileptological, psychological, cognitive, and metacognitive. (For complete abstract open document)

This exegesis seeks to explicate the current Masters project Dwelling in Architecture. The design component of the project a House for Two Strangers seeks to design a hypothetical domestic dwelling for two unrelated domestic strangers to inhabit. The site for the House for Two Strangers is located in Central Auckland City, on the corners of Beresford Square and Hopetoun Street.Dwelling in Architecture seeks to explore the possibility of engaging with notions of spatiality or temporality outside of homogeneous demarcation of space and time. Through the project a number of texts have been referred to in regard to questions concerning of the movement of subject-bodies through a spatio-temporal field. In conjunction to this questioning, has been a question concerning the locale of dwelling.

Thesis (M.Sc.)(Psych.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Behavioural Sciences, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-148).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 3, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-137).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, August, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-141).

Thesis (D. Psych.)--Victoria University (Melbourne, Vic.), 2007.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2010. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-114).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2010. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-104).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107).

Autonomous vehicles are increasingly being used in mission-critical applications, and robust methods are needed for controlling these inherently unreliable and complex systems. This thesis advocates the use of model-based programming, which allows mission designers to program autonomous missions at the level of a coach or wing commander. To support such a system, this thesis presents the Spock generative planner. To generate plans, Spock must be able to piece together vehicle commands and team tactics that have a complex behavior represented by concurrent processes. This is in contrast to traditional planners, whose operators represent simple atomic or durative actions. Spock represents operators using the RMPL language, which describes behaviors using parallel and sequential compositions of state and activity episodes. RMPL is useful for controlling mobile autonomous missions because it allows mission designers to quickly encode expressive activity models using object-oriented design methods and an intuitive set of activity combinators. Spock also is significant in that it uniformly represents operators and plan-space processes in terms of Temporal Plan Networks, which support temporal flexibility for robust plan execution. Finally, Spock is implemented as a forward progression optimal planner that walks monotonically forward through plan processes, closing any open conditions and resolving any conflicts. This thesis describes the Spock algorithm in detail, along with example problems and test results.