abstract: In this thesis, I present the study of nucleon structure from distinct perspectives. I start by elaborating the motivations behind the endeavors and then introducing the key concept, namely the generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs), which serves as the frame- work describing hadronic particles in terms of their fundamental constituents. The second chapter is then devoted to a detailed phenomenological study of the Virtual Compton Scattering (VCS) process, where a more comprehensive parametrization is suggested. In the third chapter, the renormalization kernels that enters the QCD evolution equations at twist- 4 accuracy are computed in terms of Feynman diagrams in momentum space, which can be viewed as an extension of the work by Bukhvostov, Frolov, Lipatov, and Kuraev (BKLK). The results can be used for determining the QCD background interaction for future precision measurements. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Physics 2016

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T17:19:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CAPA - SUMARIO.pdf: 307847 bytes, checksum: 431911d5eb22b3080df0c9228cba482d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / With increasing competition and reliability in modern equipment, is of vital importance to studies on the structural fatigue life in the time domain and frequency domain, the advance speed and cost reduction in computing greatly simplifies the prediction fatigue life. But it is also necessary to know the modes of fatigue crack growth, and its mechanisms. After a review appropriate to implement a program to estimate the loss of torsional stiffness in a specimen with a crack in Mode II, was developed a device torsional fatigue tests in an attempt to identify the onset of macroscopic crack and study its growth. With learning the operation of the drive system, the system data acquisition device testing, and design and construction of an electronic circuit to shutdown device tests at the beginning of the crack in the specimen, an adequate control and calibration of these components was performed, generating confidence in that joint. This document is the experimentally determined curve of fatigue specimens of SAE 1020 Steel, Grey Cast Iron and Aluminum 6063. They also studied the failure modes of cracks from the beginning until the final rupture of the specimen to verify the failure modes, the crack initiation and propagation of macroscopic materials. It still made a numerical prediction by finite element method the size of the crack. / Com aumento da competitividade e da confiabilidade em equipamentos modernos, é de vital importância os estudos em relação à vida em fadiga estrutural no domínio do tempo e no domínio da freqüência, o avanço da velocidade e redução de custos na área computacional facilita bastante a previsão de vida em fadiga. Mas é necessário também conhecer os modos de crescimento de trinca por fadiga, e seus mecanismos. Após revisão bibliográfica adequada, com implementação de um programa para estimar a perda de rigidez torsional em um corpo de prova com trinca no Modo II, foi desenvolvido um dispositivo de testes de fadiga torsional na tentativa de identificar o início da trinca macroscópica e estudar o seu crescimento. Com o aprendizado do funcionamento do sistema de acionamento, do sistema de aquisição de dados do dispositivo de testes, e a elaboração e construção de um circuito eletrônico para desligamento do dispositivo de testes ao início da trinca no corpo de prova, um adequado controle e calibração destes componentes executou-se, gerando confiabilidade nestes conjuntos. Neste documento é determinada experimentalmente a curva de fadiga de corpos de prova de Aço SAE 1020, Ferro Fundido Cinzento e Alumínio 6063. Também são estudados os modos de falha desde o início da trinca até a ruptura final do corpo de prova para verificar os modos de falha, início e propagação da trinca macroscópica desses materiais. É feita ainda uma previsão numérica através do Método dos Elementos Finitos do tamanho da trinca.

A aplicação de materiais cerâmicos na indústria têxtil, em especial nos processos de produção e modificação de fios é amplamente difundida no mundo. O fator chave para definição da necessidade do uso de um material cerâmico é a abrasividade dos fios associada à velocidade de processamento desse material. Nesse estudo foi focado o processo de texturização por falsa torção, e foi proposto analisar e compreender o impacto da variação de rugosidade de discos de cerâmica (que já tenham sofrido desgaste durante o processamento), sobre as características físicas de um fio de poliamida. Para isso efetuou-se a seleção de discos de cerâmica com diferentes faixas de rugosidade, fixou-se todas demais variáveis da máquina de texturização, e foram produzidos fios em cada uma das faixas. Depois de produzidos, os fios foram submetidos a testes físicos laboratoriais, e os resultados analisados pelo método ANOVA. Foi observado que a variação na rugosidade dos discos afetou principalmente as características de volume do fio (EKB%), não afetando significativamente o alongamento e tenacidade. / Use of ceramic materials in the textile industry, particularly in production and converting processes of yarns is widespread in the world. The key factor which defining the use of a ceramic material is the abrasiveness of the yarns associated by processing speed of the material. This study focused the false twist texturing, and has been proposed to analyze and understand the impact of variation in roughness of ceramic discs (which have already undergone wear during processing) on the physical characteristics of a polyamide yarn. So, the ceramic discs have been selected with different ranges of surface roughness, settled all other variables of the texturing machine, and each yarn were produced in each of the ranges. Once produced, the yarns were subjected to physical testing laboratory, and the results were analyzed by ANOVA. This study indicated that the variation in roughness of the disks mainly affected the characteristics of the yarn crimp (EKB%) not significantly affecting the elongation and tenacity.

Non-standard language, or dialect, often serves a specific purpose in a literary work and it is therefore a challenge for any translator to recreate the non-standard language of the source text into a target language.  There are different linguistic tools an author can use in order to convey non-standard language, and the same is true for a translator – who can choose from different strategies when tasked with the challenge of translating dialectal features. This essay studies the challenge of recreating dialectal, non-standard speech in a work of literature and compares four different translations of that same piece of literature into another language. With this purpose in mind, the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is analysed using samples of non-standard language which have been applied to indicate a character’s speech as dialectal. The same treatment is given to four different Swedish translations. The method consists of linguistically analysing four text samples from the original novel, to see how non-standard language is represented and which function it serves, and thereafter, comparing the same samples to the four Swedish translations in order to establish whether non-standard features are visible also in the translated novels and which strategies the translators have used in order to achieve this. It is concluded that non-standard language is applied in the source text and is represented on each possible linguistic level, including graphology, morphosyntax, and vocabulary. The main function of the non-standard language found in the source text samples was to place the characters in contrasting social positions. The target texts were found to also use features of non-standard language, but not to the same extent as the language used in the source text. The most common type of marker was, in all five of the texts, lexical items. It was also concluded that the most frequently used translation strategy used in the target texts was the use of various informal, colloquial features.

A simple method for increasing the stable temperature range of the liquid crystalline blue phase is demonstrated, by mixing a non-mesogenic polymer of low molecular weight into the blue phase material. In a mixture of cholesteryl benzoate and cholesteryl nonanoate the addition of polystyrene increased the stable blue phase range from 0.5K to 12K. This was measured strictly on heating from the chiral nematic phase through the blue phase in order to minimise non-equilibrium effects, and is one of the largest ranges so measured. The stability range can be closely tuned by changing the polymer concentration and molecular weight. The maximum range found by adding a particular compound seems only to depend on its saturation point in the liquid crystal, and the dependence of the range on concentration is non-linear. These features were explained by a numerical model of a blue phase unit cell incorporating the mean field Flory-Huggins and Maier-Saupe theories where the polymer could fill the high energy defect regions. Two of the oligomers which are shown to stabilise the blue phase are fluorescent, at 450nm and 500nm respectively, and it is proposed that tests on these mixtures could reveal photonic effects caused by the concentration of the fluorophores in the blue phase defect regions. The twist-grain boundary (TGB) phase is present in mixtures of cholesteryl oleyl carbonate and cholesteryl nonanoate over a range of up to 0.3K. The addition of polystyrene has no effect on the stability of the TGB phase. Conventional, in situ UV-initiated polymer stabilisation does not appear to stabilise the TGB phase, but is capable of stabilising over at least 30K the micron-size filaments which appear in the TGB phase when it is heated from the smectic phase in a cell with homeotropic alignment. Some notes are made on the causes and structure of this filament texture, and it is observed that the filaments tend to grow with a characteristic curvature. It is shown theoretically that the correct material could stabilise the TGB phase similarly to the polymers in the blue phase, by extending the previous model to include the Kobayashi-McMillan theory of smectic ordering. A second theoretical model of chirality around the transition to the smectic phase is then presented which takes account of fluctuations, based on an analogy with the state of a smectic-forming material infiltrated into an aerogel. A phase resembling the TGB phase emerges from this model. The model gives two first order transitions in accordance with experiments on the TGB phase, and reflects other experimental pitch and calorimetry measurements too. The electrochemical polymerisation of an acrylate monomer in the nematic and smectic-C* phases is investigated. 30-100V is applied across a cell containing the liquid crystal-monomer mixture, with no additional initiating compound. In both phases, the texture during polymerisation is frozen in by the polymer formed. In a nematic phase in a cell with initially planar alignment, the director in the field off state can be observed to tilt toward the homeotropic over a number of hours. In the ferroelectric case, as well as the textural freezing there is a somewhat reversible agglomeration of polymer strands into micron-scale structures. Scanning electron microscopy reveals a range of structures on both electrode surfaces, including in the nematic case corrugations with a periodicity of 500-750nm. There is no evidence of a polymer network spanning the thickness of the cell - rather the liquid crystal seems to be realigned by a polymer film at the electrode surfaces.

The aim of submitted thesis "The Study of Inventory Management in Connection with Manufacturing Process" is to analyze stock management system with relation to IS in chosen company. The first part of this diploma thesis is focused to the description of actual knowledge of inventory management and warehousing. Further I describe individual problems contextual to the actual situation and suggestions for inventory management optimization in company TWIST, spol. s r. o.. The purpose of this diploma thesis is to submit suitable suggestions, how to improve the processes.

In this article, I investigate the video game BioShock for its political and cultural work and argue that it offers a popular platform to discuss the politically charged question of choice, both inside and outside the realm of video games. In a first section, I introduce the game’s basic plot and setting, propose a way to study how video games operate narratively, and briefly discuss the ‘political’ dimension of games in general. Afterwards, I look at how BioShock is influenced by Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism, a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of individual choice and self-interest, and I trace this influence specifically in the game’s main antagonist, Andrew Ryan, and its setting, the underwater city of Rapture. With these elements as a basis, I analyze how BioShock engages with the politics of choice, focusing on a major twist scene in the game to demonstrate how BioShock deals with the question of choice on a metatextual level. Reading this scene in the context of the game’s overall narrative, specifically of moral choices in the game that lead to different endings, I argue that the game metatextually connects the political question of choice inherent in objectivism to the narrative and the playing of the game, pointing to the ambivalences inherent in questions of choice, agency, and free will.

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Additiv tillverkning, AM, är en teknik som utvecklas med stormsteg. Konventionella tillverkningsmetoder, som exempelvis svarvning eller formgjutning, är begränsade när det kommer till att ta fram produkter med komplexa geometrier och därför är AM ett bra komplement. Tidigare har dock andra materialegenskaper såsom brott- och sträckgräns varit något som kompenserats med inom AM. Men i den takt som AM utvecklas kan tekniken snart ersätta de flesta konventionella tillverkningsmetoderna helt. Syftet med denna rapport är att redogöra vad som är möjligt att producera med dagens AM och vad som kan förväntas i framtiden.Eftersom att komplexa former inte är ett problem med AM så går produkterna att ta fram i ett enda steg jämfört med när de tidigare blivit hopmonterade av flera mindre delar. AM i metall är något som är under snabb utveckling och i dagsläget finns det många metoder för detta, bland annat Selective Laser Sintering, Selective Laser Melting, Beam Metal Deposition, Electron Beam Melting och Binder Jetting. Metoderna använder olika typer av teknik för att skapa modeller och de har alla sina för- och nackdelar vad gäller kostnad, hållfasthet och arbetshastighet.Verktyg i alla dess former är exempel på produkter som kräver hög prestanda och lång livslängd. För att integrera de höga kraven på prestanda och möjligheterna till komplexa geometrier med AM så är det en spiralborr med invändiga kylkanaler som tas fram i denna rapport. De invändiga kylkanalerna skiftar i diameter för att optimera intaget av kylmedel samtidigt som trycket på utloppet ökar.Som tidigare nämnt finns det många metoder för AM i metall. Den metod som anses bäst lämpad för detta ändamål är Selective Laser Melting då denna metod skapar kompakta metallprodukter med hög hållfasthet. En 3D-modell av Spiralborren skapas i Solid Edge ST9 och modellen simuleras i ANSYS Workbench för att se hur kylkanalerna påverkar borren vid användning. Resultatet av simuleringen visar på att den totala deformationen blir 0,68μm och den maximalaspänningen blir 33,95MPa, båda uppstår i mitten på spiralborren. Varken totala deformationen eller spänningen i borren når alltså en kritisk gräns, och därför dras slutsatsen att detta är en konstruktion som skulle klara de krav som finns på en borr.Utvecklingen av nya metoder för AM i metall går snabbt och inom en snar framtid kommer de nya teknikerna ha så pass hög arbetshastighet och vara så pass priseffektiva att de kommer kunna ersätta de flesta konventionella tillverkningsmetoderna helt och hållet. / Additive manufacturing, AM, is a technique that is developing in an incredible pace. Conventional manufacturing methods, like lathe turning or casting for instance, are limited when it comes to creating products with complex geometries, in these cases AM is a good complement. Previously though, material characteristics like tensile strength and yield point is something that AM has been compensating with. But in the current rate of development, the AM-technique can soon replace most conventional manufacturing methods completely. The purpose of this project is to describe the possibilities in AM today and what could be expected in the future.Since complex geometries is not a problem with AM, the products can be produced in only one step compared to conventional methods where it often takes several steps to produce a product. AM with metal is something that is developing fast and there are already many different methods, for instance Selective Laser Sintering, Selective Laser Melting, Beam Metal Deposition, Electron Beam Melting and Binder Jetting. These methods use different techniques to create prototypes and they all have their pros and cons what matters cost, strength and working speed.Tools in all forms are examples of products that requires high performance and a long life-span. To integrate the requirement of high performance and the possibilities with complex geometries through AM, a twisted drill with internal cooling channels is produced in this project. The internal cooling channels are shifting in diameter to optimize the inlet of coolant and at the same time increase the outlet.As mentioned earlier there are many different methods for AM in metal. The method that is considered the best for this purpose is Selective Laser Melting since this method creates compact metal products with high strength. A 3D-model of the twisted drill was created in Solid Edge ST9 and was then analyzed in ANSYS Workbench to see the impact of the internal cooling channels during use of the drill. The results show that the total deformation is 0,68μm and maximum tension is 33,95MPa, both in the middle of the drill. Neither the total deformation or the maximum tension reaches a critical limit and therefor the drawn conclusion is that this model would reach the requirements given to a drill.The development of new methods in AM with metal is going fast and in a near future the new techniques will have increased in working speed so much and be price effective enough to replace most of the conventional manufacturing methods completely.

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) exercise training, which traditionally involves the prescription of moderate intensity continuous exercise, can slow the progression of heart disease and improve cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). Cardiac function is typically investigated using calculations of ejection fraction (EF) from echocardiography, yet EF measures do not provide information about the unique twisting motion of the heart. Novel measures of cardiac function, such as LV twist, myocardial performance index (MPI) and global longitudinal strain (GLS), may provide additional information about changes in LV mechanics associated with exercise training for individuals with coronary artery disease (CAD). The aims of this study were to investigate the changes in cardiac function, using both standard and novel measures, at baseline (0 weeks; T1), post-initial training (4 weeks; T2), and post-training (12 weeks; T3) in response to either stair climbing-based high intensity interval training (STAIR) or traditional moderate intensity continuous training (TRAD). We recruited 16 individuals with CAD (61±7years; 1W) and randomized them into TRAD and STAIR groups (n=8/group). Standard (CRF and EF), and novel (LV twist, MPI, GLS), measures of cardiovascular function were assessed at all three timepoints. CRF improved in both groups, after 4 and 12 weeks (STAIR: T1:22.1±4.2, T2:24.7±4.9, T3:25.4±5.2 and TRAD: T1:22.8±2.5, T2:25.2±4.9, T3:26.0±5.0 mL/kg/min; P<0.005) of CR exercise. We observed an increase in apical rotation (P=0.01) and LV twist (P=0.03), but no changes in either traditional (EF P=0.15), or novel (MPI P=0.19; GLS P=0.81) measures of cardiac function over time, in either group. It is possible that the relatively short training period (12 weeks) was not sufficient to result in significant changes in cardiac function, despite improvements in CRF. Future research should assess both standard and novel indices of cardiac function over longer exercise training periods to determine the ideal indices for tracking changes over time with interventions in this population. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc) / Cardiac rehabilitation exercise is an important part of recovery after a heart attack, and it has been shown to improve heart function measured using standard ultrasound assessments. Studies have suggested that novel measures of heart function may be more sensitive in comparison to these standard ultrasound measures, yet these novel measures have not been examined in individuals completing stair-climbing based high intensity cardiac rehabilitation exercise training. This work examined the changes in both novel and standard ultrasound measures of heart function after either stair climbing-based high intensity interval training or traditional moderate intensity exercise training in individuals who have heart disease. While this study found that both stair climbing based high intensity interval training and traditional cardiac rehabilitation both resulted in increases in cardiorespiratory fitness after 12 weeks of training, no changes were observed in any of the standard measures of heart function. Supporting the concept that novel measures of heart function might be more sensitive, as some training associated changes were observed in the novel measures of heart function.