This study addresses the shortage of research on the meaning of travel experiences for tourists as well as research on female travelers. I examine the activities of Canadian women who backpacked in Europe and to what extent, if any, these activities facilitated identity development. The sample group is comprised of 19 Canadian women ranging from 20-40 years of age. E-mail interviews were conducted with participants to gain information about their travel activities and the meanings of these activities. Identity growth was evaluated on the basis of participants’ reports including the extent to which participants reported experimentation. I hypothesized that during travel women would partake in risky behaviours (defined as increased alcohol and drug use, participation in adventure sports and atypical sexual activities) and thereby explore their identities. Interviews revealed that while women did explore their identities during travel, it was not primarily through risky behaviours. Moreover, participants responded with difficulty to questions concerning their out-of-character behaviours. Participants reported that while their behaviours may have been atypical, they did not necessarily define their behaviours as out-of-character. Rather, participants framed these behaviours as extensions of typical activities. Identity development principally resulted from respondents having to navigate the trip for themselves, which conferred a sense of independence and personal strength.

This study addresses the shortage of research on the meaning of travel experiences for tourists as well as research on female travelers. I examine the activities of Canadian women who backpacked in Europe and to what extent, if any, these activities facilitated identity development. The sample group is comprised of 19 Canadian women ranging from 20-40 years of age. E-mail interviews were conducted with participants to gain information about their travel activities and the meanings of these activities. Identity growth was evaluated on the basis of participants’ reports including the extent to which participants reported experimentation. I hypothesized that during travel women would partake in risky behaviours (defined as increased alcohol and drug use, participation in adventure sports and atypical sexual activities) and thereby explore their identities. Interviews revealed that while women did explore their identities during travel, it was not primarily through risky behaviours. Moreover, participants responded with difficulty to questions concerning their out-of-character behaviours. Participants reported that while their behaviours may have been atypical, they did not necessarily define their behaviours as out-of-character. Rather, participants framed these behaviours as extensions of typical activities. Identity development principally resulted from respondents having to navigate the trip for themselves, which conferred a sense of independence and personal strength.

The Time-Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem is a generalization of the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem, where the cost for travel between two nodes is dependent on the nodes and their position in the tour. Inequalities for the Asymmetric TSP can be easily extended to the TDTSP, but the added time information can be used to strengthen these inequalities. We look at extending the Lifted Cycle Inequalities, a large family of inequalities for the ATSP. We define a new inequality, the Extended Cycle (X-cycle) Inequality, based on cycles in the graph. We extend the results of Balas and Fischetti for Lifted Cycle Inequalities to define Lifted X-cycle Inequalities. We show that the Lifted X-cycle Inequalities include some inequalities which define facets of the submissive of the TDTS Polytope.

The theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that at high energies, such as those investigated in deep inelastic scattering experiments, hadrons evolve into dense gluonic states described by the BFKL equation, and at very high densities, the more general BK equation. In certain approximations, the BK equation reduces to a well studied reaction-diffusion type nonlinear partial differential equation, the FKPP equation, for which analytical results are known. In this work, we model the BK equation using a classical branching process rooted in the dipole model of QCD evolution. Because the BK equation is inherently two dimensional, our model allows dipole impact parameters to occupy the full transverse space. A one dimensional limit of this model is studied as well. Results are compared with the predictions of the FKPP equation, and correlations between evolution at different impact parameters are presented. The general features of previously studied one dimensional impact parameter models are verified, but the details are refined in what we believe to be a more accurate model. / text

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The Time-Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem is a generalization of the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem, where the cost for travel between two nodes is dependent on the nodes and their position in the tour. Inequalities for the Asymmetric TSP can be easily extended to the TDTSP, but the added time information can be used to strengthen these inequalities. We look at extending the Lifted Cycle Inequalities, a large family of inequalities for the ATSP. We define a new inequality, the Extended Cycle (X-cycle) Inequality, based on cycles in the graph. We extend the results of Balas and Fischetti for Lifted Cycle Inequalities to define Lifted X-cycle Inequalities. We show that the Lifted X-cycle Inequalities include some inequalities which define facets of the submissive of the TDTS Polytope.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 101-104.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-117).

Thesis (Masters)--Philadelphia College of Art and Design at University of the Arts, 2002.