This thesis is composed of a number of fragments, each revealing an aspect of the dynamic, complex and reciprocal relationship that we form with architecture. Architecture is brought to life through the animation of light and shadow, through the construction of atmospheres and rhythms, and through the selection and use of materials which evoke time. We find meaning in architecture when it is able to communicating stories of our past, and when it is able to awaken emotions which are latent within us. Our connection with architecture is formed because we relate to it as a temporal art, and strengthened because it is through temporal and corporeal things that we understand the eternal and the spiritual. It is the existence of atmosphere in a space which seduces us to enter into a prolonged engagement with architecture. Atmosphere is that which lies at our core experience of time. We move through architecture, sensing its life through its materiality and its relationship to the environment. During this physical journey we also experience a mental journey, one which is stimulated by the unknown and driven by our imagination. This thesis posits shadow as a principle element of atmosphere, responsible for evoking life, mystery, depth, and seduction in architecture. The unknown world that exists inside each of us, and the world which exists on the far side of time, is always veiled in shadows. The fragments presented in this thesis are organized into two parts. The first group explores this argument in an abstract way, through a number of representational mediums including photography, film, literature, art and drawing. The second part focuses on an existing architecture, the Patient Built Wall at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Heath in Toronto.The Patient Built Wall is viewed as having a ‘thickness’ past its physical form; one that exists in our collective imagination as a result of the layers of history and time embedded within it. Each work presented in this section attempts to vivify the ‘life’ of the wall, and its ability to communicate meaning to an interested group. An exhibition of this work arranges these fragments spatially so that they can be understood in relation to one another, thereby forming a newly constituted whole. The aim is to create a communicative space which tests principles of light, shadow, reflection, movement and temporality, while exploring the tension that exists between our subjective and shared experience of architecture.

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1984. / Bibliography: leaves 182-190. / Photocopy. / Microfilm. / xii, 190 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Typescript. / Thesis (M. S.)--University of Hawaii, 1969. / Bibliography: leaves 103-107. / vii, 107 l illus

A performance evaluation of CSTC (Cooperative Space Time Coding) with spatially cor-related fading and imperfect channel estimation in Gaussian as well as impulsive noise is presented. Closed form expressions for the pairwise error probability conditioned on the estimated channel gains are derived by assuming the components of the received vector are independent given the estimated channel gains. An expurgated union bound using the limiting before averaging technique given the estimated channel gains is then obtained. Although this assumption is not strictly valid, simulation results show that the bound is accurate in estimating the diversity order as long the channel estimation is not very poor. It is found that CSTC with block fading channels can reduce the frame error rate (FER) relative to SUSTC (Single User Space Time Coding) with quasi-static fading channels, even when the channel gains for each user are strongly correlated and when the channel estimations are very poor. A decision metric for CSTC with spatially correlated fading, imperfect channel estimation, and impulsive mixture Gaussian noise is derived which yields lower FERs than the Gaussian noise decision metric. Simulation results show that the FER performance of CSTC with mixture Gaussian noise outperforms CSTC with Gaussian noise at low SNR. At high SNR, the FER performance of CSTC with Gaussian noise is better than the FER performance of CSTC with mixture Gaussian noise due to the heavy tail of the mixture Gaussian noise.

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Bibliography: leaves 126-131. / 131 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Addresses the problem of obtaining exact solutions to Einstein's field equation describing rotating perfect fluids and also whether or not the known chaotic nature of geodesics in the relativistic fixed two centre problem is due to the non-linear nature of general relativity or the kinematic properties relativistic mechanics. The conclusion drawn from the two studies is that the properties of relativistic stationary axisymmetric spacetime are quite different from what is found in Newtonian physics. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics, 1999?

x, 251 leaves + photos, tables, graphs ; 30 cm / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Philosophy, 1977

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 228-243). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR19762

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science (Industrial and Systems Engineering), 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (ℓ. 42-47)