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Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale has been largely ignored in comparison to the rest of The Canterbury Tales due to the rhetorical embellishment in the tale. However, examining the tale in the cultural context of its narrator, as well as in the context of the textual and oral rhetorical strategies of the fourteenth century, reveals that the Man of Law creates an argument out of his fictional tale that ties the developing fourteenth century common law system to divine justice, thereby justifying his profession to his audience

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Human operator models developed using optimal control theory are typically complicated and over-parameterized, even for simple controlled elements. Methods for generating less complicated operator models that preserve the most important characteristics of the full order model are developed so that the essential features of the operator dynamics are easier to determine. A new formulation of the Optimal Control Model (OCM) of the human operator is developed that allows order reduction techniques to be applied in a meaningful way. This formulation preserves the critical neuromotor dynamics and time delay characteristics of the human operator. The Optimal Projection (OP) synthesis technique is applied to a modified version of the OCM. Using OP synthesis allows one to determine operator models that minimize the quadratic performance index of the OCM with a constraint on model order. This technique allows analysts to formulate operator models of fixed order. Operator model reduction methods based on variations of balanced realization techniques are also developed since they reduce the computational complexity associated with OP synthesis yet maintain a reasonable level of accuracy. Computer algorithms are developed that insure that the reduced order models have noise to signal ratios that are consistent with OCM theory. The OP method generates operator models of fixed order that are consistent with OCM theory in all respects, i.e. optimality, neuromotor lag, time delay, and noise to signal ratios are all preserved. The other model reduction techniques preserve these features with the exception of optimality. Each technique is applied to a variety of controlled elements to illustrate how performance and frequency response fidelity degrade when the order of the operator model is reduced. / Ph. D.

This is a long building comprised of a series of five rooms set in a field and open to the sky and the surrounding landscape in varying degrees. It is a building that makes a place that encourages manâ s contemplation of the world and the role he and his works play within it. I believe there is no one correct reading of, or meaning to, the work, just as there is no one correct answer to such a broad and complex issue on which individual perspectives can often be very personal and given to unanticipated changes. After all, the world is a very fluid place and the ambiguities of meaning are many. Because of this complexity as well as my own personal desire to make work that can support a number of different readings, the elements of the building have been abstracted to their essential characteristics and identities in order to free up their symbolic potentials. The architectural elements are open vessel into which one can pour their own thoughts and feelings and questions on the matter. I have done my best to communicate my own thoughts on the work, as both they and it stand now, in the text to follow. / Master of Architecture

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This thesis explores the relationship between proto-democracy, multiculturalism, and state formation. In the introduction, I express the desire to ascertain how legal multiculturalism on the Isle of Man could be viewed as a product of the shared proto-democratic character of the Irish and the Norse legal traditions. Further, I wish to explore how this multiculturalism influenced the development of the state on the island and, coming full circle, what multiculturalism and state formation meant for the future of proto-democracy on the island. In this thesis, I conclude that many of the institutions that played a role in fostering state formation on Man, such as the keys, coroners, and parishes, were themselves a product of legal multiculturalism. Further, I argue that this legal multiculturalism and state formation in turn results in a loss of institutions on Man that characterized the separate legal traditions as proto-democracies. / Master of Arts

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The purpose of this study was to examine how two of Sweden's largest newspapers wrote about homeless men and women. This was done by analyzing the approach to homelessness and homeless individuals from a gender perspective, by looking at how notions of homeless men and women appeared in texts. The material was analyzed with a discourse analytical approach and a gender perspective. The main results are that homelessness are defined and problematized in media with different terms of vulnerability. The portrayal of vulnerability in relation to homelessness differs in regards to the sexes. Women are portrayed as passive victims of homelessness and men as active beings who can choose to break off homelessness. The women are also portrayed as mothers in bad relationships with men and the home is viewed as an essential arena. The men are viewed as the norm for homelessness and identified as lonely and criminal individuals. / Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka hur två av Sveriges största dagstidningar skriver om hemlösa män och kvinnor. Detta gjordes genom att analysera hur tidningarna  förhåller sig gentemot hemlöshet och hemlösa individer med ett genusperspektiv samt genom att studera vilka föreställningar om hemlösa kvinnor och män som framkommer i texterna. Materialet analyserades med en diskursanalytisk ansats och med ett genusperspektiv. Huvudresultaten som framkommit är att hemlöshet definieras och problematiseras i media i termer av utsatthet och denna utsatthet varierar mellan könen. Kvinnorna porträtteras som passiva offer för hemlösheten medan männen är aktiva varelser som kan välja att ta sig ur hemlösheten. Kvinnorna porträtteras också som mödrar med dåliga relationer till män och hemmet är en betydelsefull plats. Männen framställs som normen av hemlöshet och han identifieras som en ensam och kriminell varelse.