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This paper examines the education, events, and experiences of the Wright brothers in order to determine how they developed the necessary skills to engineer the first viable aircraft. Without high school diplomas, and with no advanced formal education, the Wright brothers were able to develop aircraft that far exceeded the capabilities of aircraft designed and built by professional engineers that had worked on the problem of flight for much longer and with substantially larger research budgets. I argue that the Wright brothers’ success resulted from their experiences in the printing and bicycle industries as well as their formal and informal educations at school and in the home. In the printing business it was their experiences designing and building printing presses, printing newspapers, and operating a job printing shop that taught them how to build machinery and work efficiently and methodically. These same skills were perfected as the Wright brothers managed their second business venture: The Wright Cycle Exchange.While working at the bicycle shop the Wrights learned to be proficient machinists as well as expert mechanics and frame builders. This industry provided them with many skills such as brazing and machining that would be directly applicable to aircraft fabrication. In addition to these skills, building bicycle frames and wheels taught them practical material limits and structural design that informed their aircraft design decisions. Moreover, bicycle design influenced their approach to aircraft control and aerodynamic theory that gave them an edge over other aeronautical experimenters in their race to the sky. When these skills were combined with their rigid religious upbringing, the Wright brothers were uniquely prepared to solve the complex problem of practical human flight. It was the combination of their fabrication skills, understanding of material limits, dogged determination, methodical testing procedures, and their unique approach to aircraft control that was informed by their experiences with bicycles that made them the first in flight.

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This thesis presents the first full account of the life and achievements of Bradford-born W. Riley (1866-1961), once internationally known as a popular and prolific Yorkshire author. Before becoming a famous writer, he was Managing Director of the successful Bradford Optical Lantern Company, Riley Brothers and was also, for 75 years, a Methodist local preacher and an important layman within northern Methodism. He wrote 39 books, published many stories and articles, and was a busy lecturer. Riley located most of his 30 novels in the Yorkshire Dales and has left a legacy of vivid portraits of people and places in the dales that he knew and loved. This biography of Riley draws upon material never seen hitherto, expanding upon the author's diffident autobiography. The complete bibliography of his extensive writings includes much new and long-lost material. In presenting Riley to a new generation, this account places him in context with his contemporaries. Riley proclaimed his Christianity sympathetically and attractively to his receptive public in much of his output. This thesis includes an insight into the spiritual life, outlook and thinking of a popular and much-respected committed and active Methodist local preacher. Riley's life story is the account of a remarkably successful, self-motivated Victorian. He was a household name in his time, both in Yorkshire and internationally. The research for this thesis has uncovered important material relating to Riley, which will be held in the W. Riley Archive, at the Special Collections Section of the University of Bradford J.P. Priestley Library.

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Lee Lut-man, Raymond. / Thesis submitted in: November 2003. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 330-363). / Abstract and questionnaires in English and Chinese. / Table of Contents --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.ii / Abstract (in English) --- p.iii / Abstract (in Chinese) --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Understanding of Autism --- p.6 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Literature Review --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- "Research Questions, Hypotheses and Conceptual Model" --- p.79 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Methodology --- p.95 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Results --- p.114 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Discussion and Implications --- p.189 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Contributions of the Study --- p.244 / Chapter Chapter 9 --- Future Research Directions --- p.247 / Chapter Chapter 10 --- Limitations of the Study --- p.249 / Chapter Chapter 11 --- Summary and Conclusions --- p.252 / Chapter Appendix A: --- Major Findings and Recommendations of the Report on Overseas Study Visit on Autism --- p.264 / Chapter B: --- Questionnaires for the Study Sample (in Chinese) --- p.266 / Chapter C: --- Questionnaires for the Study Sample (in English) --- p.285 / Chapter D: --- Questionnaires for the Comparison Sample (in Chinese) --- p.302 / Chapter E: --- Questionnaires for the Comparison Sample (in English) --- p.316 / Chapter F: --- Invitation Letter to Parents of Adolescents with Autistic Siblings (in Chinese) --- p.329 / References --- p.330

The Perpetual Motion Machine is a collection of creative nonfiction essays about the author and her brother as they have experienced growing up both together and then apart throughout the years of their lives. The essays deal with the pair’s childhood, adolescence and adulthood as well as the issues of depression, anxiety and drug addiction. Some pieces are flash-style and others are longer works of lyric essay or general narrative. The pieces can both stand alone and work to create a larger, substantial narrative on how drug addiction affects an entire family, one’s whole world, thus telling a story about how the author must find herself through investigating her brother’s trials and tribulations with addiction. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

The academic literature on Islamist moderation offers several explanations for why some Islamist political movements are moderate and others radical. These theories focus on the movements' ideology, tactics, and internal democracy. Few accounts address, however, how an Islamist movement's relations with external powers influence this outcome. This paper finds that "moderation" reflects an Islamist movement's relationship of compliance or defiance with external powers rather than its essential organizational characteristics. In comparing the Moroccan Justice and Development Party (PJD) with the Egyptian Muslim Brothers, it explores why the United States has built good relations with the former but not with the latter. Employing approximately 20 interviews conducted with Islamists, U.S. diplomats, and Moroccan experts in 2009, I show that the PJD's compliance with U.S. foreign policy decisions and interests helps to shape perceptions that the movement is more moderate than its Egyptian counterpart, despite the two movements' similar ideology, tactics, and internal practices. / text

M.A. / This investigation aims to address and explore the experience of sibling head injury which appears to have been largely neglected in research. It seeks those themes, emotions and thoughts which are central and significant to the sibling's experience. it explores the manner in which the event of sibling head injury is incorporated into the adolescent's emerging identity, sense of self and understanding of the world. Overall, this research aims to provide some understanding of what the experience of living with a head-injured sibling entails and the personal meaning it holds for adolescent siblings. The existential-phenomenological system of inquiry is employed as a mode of research in an effort to study this experience of adolescent siblings of head-injured persons. Siblings are understood as beings-in-the-world who coconstitute their realities and interpret and act upon their own existence. Qualitative access to this subjective realm or individual lifeworld of siblings, is attempted through a qualitative design, where rich data is collected through in-depth, open-ended interviews which facilitate unique and personal descriptions. Eight siblings of an adolescent or young adult age, were sourced through Headway and interviewed for the purpose of this study. The 'Adolescent Coping Scale' was administered to gain further qualitative information which could be incorporated into a greater understanding of sibling coping under such circumstances. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim, providing the database from which intraindividual analyses and discussions were conducted on each participant. Only three of the original eight participants were selected for the purposes of in-depth analysis and final inclusion in the study, for reasons of manageability and research size. These participants were selected on the basis of their rich and varied descriptions. The analyses rendered an understanding of each sibling's perceptions, cognitive conflicts and emotional experience, while an inter-individual analysis of the accounts permitted an exploration of contrasting themes and emerging patterns. An integration of the research data revealed the complexity and ambiguities inherent in the sibling experience of head injury, and the long-term nature of such a phenomenon. This phenomenon was found to be characterised by much change and feelings of loss, by a pervasive sense of helplessness accompanied by anger and depression, by feelings of abandonment and of being alone in their experience. Such themes confirmed many of those explicated in the literature review. However, the research findings also suggest a sense of being overwhelmed by threatening emotions, a strong reliance on avoidance coping, and a specific complexity inherent in the sibling experience, which creates a challenging experience which is long-term and for some, may be perceived as getting worse over time. The value of this research lies primarily in the neuropsychological field of family interventions and rehabilitation. It is hoped that the in-depth description of the experience of ado!escent siblings of head injury, presented here, can promote a greater understanding of this experience, and facilitate the establishment of appropriate interventions which focus on the provision of much-needed education and support. It is also hoped that this understanding can assist in raising awareness of the stressful and long-term nature of such a phenomenon, in schools and universities, among peers, facilitators, counsellors - those who have daily contact with adolescents. It is proposed that future research explores those aspects of the sibling experience which mediate its nature, dynamics and severity. Studies investigating the role played by race, culture and religion, gender and age, as well as those which focus on the long-term consequences of such a phenomenon, are likely to facilitate a deeper and more in-depth understanding of the experience of sibling head injury.

L'objectif de cette thèse est double : évaluer, mesurer et analyser les effets de contagion sur les banques américaines et européennes lors la crise financière globale de 2008-2009 et étudier les canaux financiers qui ont contribué à la propagation de la crise aux pays du G7. En suivant une approche microéconomique de la définition de la contagion, nous testons, premièrement, l'hypothèse d'un effet de « contagion » sur les marchés boursiers à l'aide de la méthode des études d'évènements. Nous qualifions ensuite la contagion de « contagion pure » ou de « contagion rationnelle ». Deuxièmement, nous testons l'hypothèse de « contagion » contre « interdépendance » sur le marché des dérivés de crédit avec les modèles de corrélations conditionnelles asymétriques dynamiques. En troisième lieu, nous cherchons à répondre à une question macroéconomique : quel choc joua le rôle majeur dans la transmission de la crise financière globale, celui dû à la pénurie de liquidité ou celui provoqué par la dévaluation des actifs financiers? Pour cela, nous analysons, à l'aide d'un modèle vectoriel autorégressif à paramètres qui varient dans le temps, l'effet de chaque choc, venu des États-Unis, sur les marchés monétaires et boursiers des pays du G7. Enfin, nous questionnons l'intérêt de la régulation Bâle 3 portant sur le capital des banques du point de vue des banques contaminées durant la crise financière globale. / The objective of this thesis is the twofold: to assess, measure and analyze contagion effects to American and European banks during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and to study the financial channels that contributed to the spread of the crisis to G7 countries. Following a microeconomic approach of the definition of contagion, firstly, we test the hypothesis of “contagion” on stock markets using the event study methodology. Then, we qualify it as “pure contagion” or “rational contagion”. Secondly, we test the hypothesis of “contagion” versus “interdependence” on credit derivative market using the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlations models. Thirdly, we aim to answer a macroeconomic issue: which shock played the major role in spreading the crisis from U.S. to money and stock markets of G7 countries, the shock due to liquidity shortage or the shock due to the devaluation of financial assets? We use a Time-Varying Parameters Vector-Auto Regression methodology. Finally, we provide insights into the impact of Basel III regulation of banks capital, by focusing on banks contaminated during the global financial crisis.