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Let R be a ring. We say x ∈ R is clean if x = e + u where u is a unit and e is an idempotent (e2 = e). R is clean if every element of R is clean. I will give the motivation for clean rings, which comes from Fitting's Lemma for Vector Spaces. This leads into the ABCD lemma, which is the foundation of a paper by Camillo, Khurana, Lam, Nicholson and Zhou. Semi-perfect rings are a well known type of ring. I will show a relationship that occurs between clean rings and semi-perfect rings which will allow me to utilize what is known already about semi-perfect rings. It is also important to note that I will be using the Fundamental Theorem of Torsion-free Modules over Principal Ideal Domains to work with finite dimensional vector spaces. These finite dimensional vector spaces are in fact strongly clean, which simply means they are clean and the idempotent and unit commute. This additionally means that since L = e + u, Le = eL. Several types of rings are clean, including a weaker version of commutative Von Neumann regular rings, Duo Von Neumann regular, which I have proved. The goal of my research is to find out how many ways to write matrices or other ring elements as sums of units and idempotents. To do this, I have come up with a method that is self contained, drawing from but not requiring the entire literature of Nicholson. We also examine sets other than idempotents such as upper-triangular and row reduced and examine the possibility or exclusion that an element may be represented as the sum of a upper-triangular (resp. row reduced) element and a unit. These and other element properties highlight some of the complexity of examining an additive property when the underlying properties are multiplicative.

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / Many people believe that ‘purpose-built’ facilities will diminish some of the challenging behaviours exhibited by older people with dementia or psychiatric conditions. This study aimed to explore and understand what hands-on nurses in psychogeriatric assessment units experience and think of the built environment as a part of their day to day work. Twenty-one unstructured interviews were conducted with nurses at three psychogeriatric assessment units. The units ranged in style from an ancient adapted building to a contemporary 'purpose-built' facility. A critical hermeneutics derived from Gadamer was used to explore the interviews. It found that nurses think of the built environment in relation to the care needs of their patients, and feel bureaucratic restrictions in using the built environment more keenly than the shortcomings of the built environment itself. Nurses saw themselves and their patients as 'outcasts' or victims of those with money and power. The study concludes with suggestions for challenging the status quo, but also considers that being regarded as 'outcasts' allows opportunities to avoid being overly impressed by technological marvels.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Stanford University, 1999. / Title from pdf t.p. (viewed April 3, 2002). "March 1999." "Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19990407"--Metadata.

Sequence stratigraphy relates changes in vertical and lateral facies distribution to relative changes in sea level. These relative changes in carbonates effect early diagenesis, types of pores, cementation and dissolution patterns. As a result, in carbonates, relative changes in sea level significantly impact the lithology, porosity, diagenesis, bed and bounding surfaces which are all factors that control fracture patterns. This study explores these relationships by integrating stratigraphy with fracture analysis and petrophysical properties. A special focus is given to the relationship between mechanical boundaries and sequence stratigraphic boundaries in three different settings: 1) Mississippian strata in Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming, 2) Mississippian limestones in St. Louis, Missouri, and 3) Pennsylvanian limestones intermixed with clastics in the Paradox Basin, Utah. The analysis of these sections demonstrate that a fracture hierarchy exists in relation to the sequence stratigraphic hierarchy. The majority of fractures (80%) terminate at genetic unit boundaries or the internal flooding surface that separates the transgressive from regressive hemicycle. Fractures (20%) that do not terminate at genetic unit boundaries or their internal flooding surface terminate at lower order sequence stratigraphic boundaries or their internal flooding surfaces. Secondly, the fracture spacing relates well to bed thickness in mechanical units no greater than 0.5m in thickness but with increasing bed thickness a scatter from the linear trend is observed. In the Paradox Basin the influence of strain on fracture density is illustrated by two sections measured in different strain regimes. The folded strata at Raplee Anticline has higher fracture densities than the flat-lying beds at the Honaker Trail. Cemented low porosity rocks in the Paradox Basin do not show a correlation between fracture pattern and porosity. However velocity and rock stiffness moduli's display a slight correlation to fracture spacing. Furthermore, bed thickness is found to be only one factor in determining fracture density but with increasing strain, internal bedforms and rock petrophysical heterogeneities influence fracture density patterns. This study illustrates how integrating sedimentologic and sequence stratigraphic interpretations with data on structural kinematics can lead to refined predictive understanding of fracture attributes.

The primary function of a power system is to supply its customers with electrical energy as economically as possible and with acceptable reliability and quality. Generating capacity adequacy evaluation is the oldest and most extensively studied aspect of power system reliability assessment. A wide range of methods have been developed to perform this evaluation. Two computer programs were developed based on the analytical and simulation techniques and used as tools in this research work. A number of basic considerations in generating capacity adequacy evaluation are investigated. Generating unit residence time distributions and peaking load units are incorporated in the analysis.<p> Two commonly encountered misconceptions regarding the basic system reliability indices are examined by applying the two programs to two reliability test systems. Reliability index probability distributions can be used to supplement the information provided by the expected index values. The concept of creating distributions and the additional information that can be obtained is illustrated in this thesis. <p> Generating unit residence time distributions are generally categorized as being either exponential or non-exponential in form. The exponential distribution is utilized, however, in virtually all practical system studies. The impacts on the system reliability of non-exponential unit state residence time distributions are examined in this research. <p> Peaking load units and base load units have different operating characteristics. The functions of peaking load units vary with changes in the system operating conditions. This is examined in this research. <p>The conclusions and techniques presented in this thesis should prove valuable in power system planning and operation.

Análisis de las relaciones entre el cine norteamericano y la historia. Atendiendo al carácter humanístico de la investigación se amplían las perspectivas de análisis a otras disciplinas como la literatura, la filosofía o el arte. Se entiende el término historia desde la polisemia, esto es, atendiendo al conjunto de sucesos o hechos políticos, sociales, económicos o culturales, de un pueblo, de una nación o de un individuo, desde el ámbito público o desde el privado.Para todo ello resulta necesario superar la clasificación de géneros cinematográficos y buscar las huellas de la historia en géneros diversos.Asimismo, se analizan diferentes modelos de discurso, como enunciado cuyos elementos y la organización de los mismos presentan el acontecimiento o hecho histórico.El arte (más concretamente el cine, para los intereses de la investigación), y sus múltiples discursos y voces narrativas, como elemento necesario en el acercamiento a la historia, significando el carácter poliédrico de las manifestaciones humanas y de sus diversas lecturas y (re)presentaciones. / We analyse relations between North-American cinema and history. Taking into account the aspects of this research related to the different humanities, we widen our analysis perspectives to other disciplines like Literature, Philosophy and Art. We understand the term history in its multiple meanings, that is - referring to the set of political, social, economic or cultural events of a specific people, nation or individual, public or private.In order to do so, we need to overcome cinema genre classifications and look for the imprints of history in several genres.Likewise, we analyse different patterns of discourse as statements whose different elements and organisation introduce us to the specific event or historical fact.Art (more specifically cinema, for our research interests), as well as its multiple discourses and narrative voices, is a necessary element in our approach to history, representing the multiple-faced character of human manifestations and their different readings and representations.

The primary function of a power system is to supply its customers with electrical energy as economically as possible and with acceptable reliability and quality. Generating capacity adequacy evaluation is the oldest and most extensively studied aspect of power system reliability assessment. A wide range of methods have been developed to perform this evaluation. Two computer programs were developed based on the analytical and simulation techniques and used as tools in this research work. A number of basic considerations in generating capacity adequacy evaluation are investigated. Generating unit residence time distributions and peaking load units are incorporated in the analysis.<p> Two commonly encountered misconceptions regarding the basic system reliability indices are examined by applying the two programs to two reliability test systems. Reliability index probability distributions can be used to supplement the information provided by the expected index values. The concept of creating distributions and the additional information that can be obtained is illustrated in this thesis. <p> Generating unit residence time distributions are generally categorized as being either exponential or non-exponential in form. The exponential distribution is utilized, however, in virtually all practical system studies. The impacts on the system reliability of non-exponential unit state residence time distributions are examined in this research. <p> Peaking load units and base load units have different operating characteristics. The functions of peaking load units vary with changes in the system operating conditions. This is examined in this research. <p>The conclusions and techniques presented in this thesis should prove valuable in power system planning and operation.