<p>Using Fort Bragg and Fayetteville, North Carolina, as a local case study, this dissertation examines the GI dissent movement during the Vietnam War and its profound impact on the ending of the draft and establishment of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973. I propose that the US military consciously and methodically shifted from a conscripted force to the All-Volunteer Force as a safeguard to ensure that dissent never arose again in the ranks as it had during the Vietnam War. This story speaks to profound questions regarding state power that are essential to making sense of our recent history. What becomes of state and military legitimacy when the soldier refuses to sanction or participate in the brutality of warfare? And perhaps more importantly, what happens to the foreign policy of a major power when soldiers no longer protest, and thereby hold in check, questionable military interventions? My dissertation strives to answer those questions by reintroducing the dissenting soldier into the narrative of the All-Volunteer Force.</p> / Dissertation

An oral history of television comedy from the early 1950s through the mid 1970s as told by the writers Sydney Zelinka, Larry Rhine, Milt Josefsberg, and the team of Seaman Jacobs and Fred S. Fox. The shows they wrote for included "The Honeymooners," "The Phil Silvers Show," "The Red Skelton Hour," Bob Hope specials, "Here's Lucy," "All in the Family," and "Maude." These five writers were working in the earliest days of the medium and spent years writing for the personalities--from performers to producers--who pioneered and defined it. Most of them also wrote scripts during one of broadcast television's greatest periods of transformation, when comedy took a decidedly topical turn that continued to have a significant impact on television comedy in the decades that followed. / text

Στην εργασία αυτή μελετήθηκε το μελλοντικό δίκυο 4G UMTS με ΙΡ διασύνδεση στο δίκτυο πυρήνα. Επίσης μελετώ τα νέα πρωτόκολλα για mobile internet IPV4, IPV6 καθώς επίσης και την πολυμεσική δομή ΙΜS. / In this Maste thesis, study the 4G UMTS network with IP conection in the core network. So i analyze the new protocolls for mobile internet IPV4, IPV6 and the multimedia structure IMS

Den moderna resenären har allt mer ansvar i köpprocessen utav sin resa, förr låg det hos researrangören att förse kunderna med information och sköta bokningen, något som kunderna idag kan göra själva genom Internet. Många kunder väljer charter då det är ett bekvämt sätt att resa, researrangören agerar försäkran om ett professionellt bemötande samt att personal finns vid deras sida. Vårt intresse fastnade vid den motsägelsen att kunden tar större ansvar i charterreseprocessen samtidigt som de avstår mer och mer från att paketera sin egen resa. Syftet med denna uppsats är att kartlägga och analysera kundens roll som medverkande part inom charterbranschen. I undersökningen har vi haft en kvalitativ forskningsansats och utifrån detta antagit ett abduktivt perspektiv där vi använt oss utav den kvalitativa metoden med semi- strukturerade djupintervjuer. Vi har genomfört sju intervjuer med personer som har anknytning till resebranschen, av dessa har sex skett fysiskt och en via telefon. Vi har sedan analyserat svaren och satt dessa i relation till teorin för att komma fram till vår slutsats. Vår främsta slutsats är att charterföretagens bild av kundens medverkan bör ändras. Företagen ser idag endast de uppenbara aktiviterna i form av att kunder checkar in på flygplatsen och liknande händelser. I denna uppsats har vi konstaterat att kunder medverkar i större utsträckning än så, de medverkar hela tiden. Företag vill öka den uppenbara kundmedverkan genom att skapa en situation där kundens aktivitet skapar en effektivitet som inte är möjlig när personal sköter hela processen. I vår slutsats har vi även konstaterat att kundernas primära anledning till att åka på charterresor istället för med reguljärflyg, är tryggheten och säkerheten charterarrangörerna tillför processen.

Pastaruoju metu fizinį aktyvumą, kaip vieną iš sveikos gyvensenos sąlygų, pripažįsta vis daugiau tarptautinių ir nacionalinių sporto, sveikatos, švietimo, jaunimo organizacijų. ES dokumentai rodo, kad sporto socialinis vaidmuo vis labiau vertinamas ir tai įpareigoja plėtoti gyventojų sveikatos ugdymo per sportą sritį - masinį sportą. Tačiau mūsų šalyje kūno kultūra dar netapo prioritetine sveikatos stiprinimo dalimi, taipogi netobula visuomenės informavimo fizinio aktyvumo, sveikos gyvensenos skatinimo sistema. Todėl šis darbas yra skirtas išnagrinėti asociacijos "Sportas visiems" veiklą plėtojant masinį sportą Lietuvoje. Nes šiuo metu ši asociacija su savo organizacijomis narėmis labiausiai prisideda skatinant gyventojų fizinį aktyvumą per neprofesionalųjį sportą ir kūno kultūrą. / For the several years physical activities as one of the healthy life condition recognize many international and national sport, health, education, yputh organizations. EU documents shows that sport social role is more estimates and it's obligate to develop inhabitant's health bringing up through sport for all spheres. However in our countri physical activities not become yet a priority part of health bringing up and also there are incomplete public information in physical activity, healthy life stimulation system. That is why this paper separate for investigation association Sport for all development activities in mass sport in Lithuania. Because at this time this organization with her members there are the only organization who takes part in physical activities development for inhabitants through non professional sport.

The primary objective of this study was to assess the relationship between dietary patterns with diabetes and mortality risk from all-cause and cardiovascular disease while controlling for the confounding effects of fitness. The secondary objective was to examine the combined effects of dietary patterns and fitness on chronic disease and mortality risk. Participants consisted of 13,621 men and women from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study who completed a standardized medical examination and 3-day diet record between 1987 and 1999. Reduced rank regression was used to identify dietary patterns that were predictive of unfavorable profiles of cholesterol, white blood cell count, glucose, mean arterial pressure, HDL-cholesterol, uric acid, triglycerides, and body mass index. One primary dietary pattern emerged, which was labeled the “Unhealthy Eating Index”. This pattern was characterized by a large consumption of processed meat, red meat, white potato products, non-whole grains, added fat, and a small consumption of non-citrus fruits. After adjustment for covariates, the odds ratio for diabetes and the hazard ratio for all-cause mortality were 2.55 (95% confidence interval: 1.81-3.58) and 1.40 (1.02-1.91) in the highest quintile of the Unhealthy Eating Index when compared to the lowest quintile, respectively. After controlling for fitness, these risk estimates were reduced by 51.6% and 55.0%. The Unhealthy Eating Index was not a significant predictor of cardiovascular disease mortality before or after controlling for fitness. Examining the combined effects of dietary patterns and fitness revealed that both variables were independent predictors of diabetes (Ptrend <0.0001), while fitness (Ptrend <0.0001) but not unhealthy eating (Ptrend=0.071) significantly predicted all-cause mortality risk. These results suggest that both diet and fitness must be considered when studying disease. / Thesis (Master, Community Health & Epidemiology) -- Queen's University, 2009-07-08 07:11:06.809

This thesis studies issues in auctions and contests. The seller of an object and the organizer of a contest have many instruments to improve the revenue of the auction or the efficiency of the contest. The three essays in this dissertation shed light on these issues. Chapter 2 investigates how a refund policy affects a buyer's strategic behavior by characterizing the equilibria of a second-price auction with a linear refund policy. I find that a generous refund policy induces buyers to bid aggressively. I also examine the optimal mechanism design problem when buyers only have private initial estimates of their valuations and may privately learn of shocks that affect their valuations later. When all buyers are \emph{ex-ante} symmetric, this optimal selling mechanism can be implemented by a first-price or second-price auction with a refund policy. Chapter 3 investigates how information revelation rules affect the existence and the efficiency of equilibria in two-round elimination contests. I establish that there exists no symmetric separating equilibrium under the full revelation rule and find that the non-existence result is very robust. I then characterize a partially efficient separating equilibrium under the partial revelation rule when players' valuations are uniformly distributed. I finally investigate the no revelation rule and find that it is both most efficient and optimal in maximizing the total efforts from the contestants. Within my framework, more information revelation leads to less efficient outcomes. Chapter 4 analyzes the signaling effect of bidding in a two-round elimination contest. Before the final round, bids in the preliminary round are revealed and act as signals of the contestants' private valuations. Compared to the benchmark model, in which private valuations are revealed automatically before the final round and thus no signaling of bids takes place, I find that strong contestants bluff and weak contestants sandbag. In a separating equilibrium, bids in the preliminary round fully reveal the contestants' private valuations. However, this signaling effect makes the equilibrium bidding strategy in the preliminary round steeper for high valuations and flatter for low valuations compared to the benchmark model. / Thesis (Ph.D, Economics) -- Queen's University, 2010-04-20 21:34:12.295

<p>The number of children with disabilities under the age of 18 years around the world varies from 120 to 150 million. In many countries, throughout the world, the majority of children with disabilities either do not receive any form of education or, if they receive any, it is often inappropriate. UNESCO estimates that more than 90% of children with disabilities in developing countries do not attend schools. Rwanda has recently started inclusive education in a number of schools around the country for ensuring that children with disabilities have access to education. Despite this, in Rwanda, many children with disabilities do not attend school and this number is not known. This study aimed to identify the barriers to school attendance by children with disabilities in Rwanda.</p>

The introduction of artificial illumination has brought extensive benefits to mankind, and during the last years we have seen a tremendous progress in this field with the introduction of the energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) and the high-contrast organic LED display. These high-end technologies are, however, produced using costly and complex processes, and it is anticipated that the next big thing in the field will be the advent of a low-cost and “green” illumination technology, which can be fabricated in a cost- and material-efficient manner using non-toxic and abundant raw materials, and which features attractive form factors such as flexibility, robustness and light-weight. The light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) is a newly invented illumination technology, and in this thesis we present results that imply that it can turn the above vision into reality. The thin-film LEC comprises an active material sandwiched between a cathode and an anode as its key constituent parts. With the aid of a handheld air-brush, we show that functional large-area LECs can be fabricated by simply spraying three layers of solution -- forming the anode, active material, and cathode -- on top of a substrate. We also demonstrate that such “spray-sintered” LECs can feature multicolored emission patterns, and be fabricated directly on complex-shaped surfaces, with one notable example being the realization of a light-emission fork! Almost all LECs up-to-date have been fabricated on glass substrates, but for a flexible and light-weight emissive device, it is obviously relevant to identify more appropriate substrate materials. For this end, we show that it is possible to spray-coat the entire LEC directly on conventional copy paper, and that such paper-LECs feature uniform light-emission even under heavy bending and flexing. We have further looked into the fundamental aspects of the LEC operation and demonstrated that the in-situ doping formation, which is a characteristic and heralded feature of LECs, can bring problems in the form of doping-induced self-absorption. By quantitatively analyzing this phenomenon, we provided straightforward guidelines on how future efficiency-optimized LEC devices should be designed. The in-situ doping formation process brings the important advantage that LECs can be fabricated from solely air-stabile materials, but during light emission the device needs to be protected from the ambient air. We have therefore developed a functional glass/epoxy encapsulation procedure for the attainment of LEC devices that feature a record-long ambient-air operational lifetime of 5600 h. For the light-emission device of the future, it is however critical that the encapsulation is flexible, and in our last study, we show that the use of multi-layer barrier can result in high-performance flexible LECs.

Due to the prevalence of pulse encoders for system state information, an all-digital proportional-integral-derivative (ADPID) is proposed as an alternative to traditional analog and digital PID controllers. The basic concept of an ADPID stems from the use of pulse-width-modulation (PWM) control signals for continuous-time dynamical systems, in that the controllers proportional, integral and derivative actions are converted into pulses by means of standard up-down digital counters and other digital logic devices. An ADPID eliminates the need for analog-digital and digital-analog conversion, which can be costly and may introduce error and delay into the system. In the proposed ADPID, the unaltered output from a pulse encoder attached to the systems output can be interpreted directly. After defining a pulse train to represent the desired output of the encoder, an error signal is formed then processed by the ADPID. The resulting ADPID output or control signal is in PWM format, and can be fed directly into the target system without digital-to-analog conversion. In addition to proposing an architecture for the ADPID, rules are presented to enable control engineers to design ADPIDs for a variety of applications.