In this essay, I intend to analyze and respond to criticism directed towards the subjective component of Susan Wolf’s Bi-partite “Fitting Fulfillment View”, criticism directed from Thaddeus Metz, Ben Bramble, and Aaron Smuts. Wolf offers a theory about meaning in life which considers both that the subject should find it meaningful and that the source of this meaningfulness should be objectively valuable. However, critics have argued that a subject’s attitude towards meaningfulness should not affect whether one’s life is meaningful or not. Out of the critics I found promising and responded to I did not find any that seriously threatened Wolf’s theory and, in some cases they even seem to misunderstand Wolf’s claim. In the final section, I raise a question for Wolf’s account that I believe would be interesting to pursue in a further study.

Thesis advisor: Susan Michalczyk / This thesis explores crow and wolf symbolism within the mythology of Western Tradition, focusing on the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, Native American folklore, Shakespeare, and Aesop's fables. Much of the animal imagery in literature is negative and does not truthfully represent the animals symbolized. This thesis investigates why these negative associations are formed, how they relate to the biological lives of wolves and crows, and explores their ambiguity in relation to the positive symbolism that exists. Negative symbols acquire strength as cultures grow further away from the land they live on and focus on industry and humanity instead of the world around them. The behavior of both wolves and crows is secretive, causing people to create stories to explain their actions. Furthermore, humans use these animals as a "shadow" to themselves, bestowing characteristics upon them which are found in human nature but are generally considered unacceptable. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

by Chan Yuet Chun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references. / List of tables --- p.1 / Introduction --- p.2 / Chapter Chapter I. --- "The Song Writer, Hugo Wolf" --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter II. --- Johann Wolfgang Goethe - the Man and his Poetry --- p.27 / Chapter Chapter III. --- H. Wolf and J. W. Goethe's Lyrics --- p.31 / Chapter Chapter IV. --- "An Analysis of the Forms Used in Selected ""Goethe Lieder"" by H. Wolf" --- p.35 / Chapter A. --- Varied Strophic Form --- p.46 / Chapter B. --- Bipartite Form --- p.49 / Chapter C. --- Rondo Form --- p.52 / Chapter D. --- Tripartite Form --- p.60 / Chapter E. --- Mixed Form --- p.82 / Chapter F. --- Free-structured Form --- p.91 / Chapter G. --- Through-composed Form --- p.105 / Chapter H. --- Cyclical Treatment in Wolf's Aus dem 'Buch Suleika' des West-ostlichen Divans --- p.119 / Chapter Chapter V. --- Conclusion --- p.131 / Chapter Appendix 1. --- Tables --- p.133 / Chapter 2. --- English Translations of the Selected Goethe Lieder --- p.155 / Bibliography --- p.168

The purpose of this essay is to explore the commissioning process of a wind ensemble piece by notable composer Christopher Rouse, and its significance to the wind ensemble repertoire. This essay will use the University of Miami Frost Wind Ensemble and Christopher Rouse's Wolf Rounds as the primary example. This discussion will provide an extensive background review of Christopher Rouse's early musical experience and life's accomplishments. It will focus on his creative process and document the performance preparation of Wolf Rounds as experienced by the Frost Wind Ensemble, conducted by Professor Gary D. Green. The final part of this essay will investigate the compositional insight of Wolf Rounds as well as the inspiration and motivation of Rouse to write for the wind ensemble genre. While Rouse has written for many different types of ensembles, this will be his first published addition to the wind repertoire. Wolf Rounds was chosen as the primary composition because of its significance to the composer as his first composition for winds and percussion.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

The growing popularity of video sensor networks and video celluar phones has generated the need for low-complexity and power-efficient multimedia systems that can handle multiple video input and output streams. While standard video coding techniques fail to satisfy these requirements, distributed source coding is a promising technique for ??uplink?? applications. Wyner-Ziv coding refers to lossy source coding with side information at the decoder. Based on recent theoretical result on successive Wyner-Ziv coding, we propose in this thesis a practical layered Wyner-Ziv video codec using the DCT, nested scalar quantizer, and irregular LDPC code based Slepian-Wolf coding (or lossless source coding with side information) for noiseless channel. The DCT is applied as an approximation to the conditional KLT, which makes the components of the transformed block conditionally independent given the side information. NSQ is a binning scheme that facilitates layered bit-plane coding of the bin indices while reducing the bit rate. LDPC code based Slepian-Wolf coding exploits the correlation between the quantized version of the source and the side information to achieve further compression. Different from previous works, an attractive feature of our proposed system is that video encoding is done only once but decoding allowed at many lower bit rates without quality loss. For Wyner-Ziv coding over discrete noisy channels, we present a Wyner-Ziv video codec using IRA codes for Slepian-Wolf coding based on the idea of two equivalent channels. For video streaming applications where the channel is packet based, we apply unequal error protection scheme to the embedded Wyner-Ziv coded video stream to find the optimal source-channel coding trade-off for a target transmission rate over packet erasure channel.

Darbo objektas – Šiaulių ir Telšių gyventojų nuomonė ir žinios apie vilkus. Tyrimo tikslas – išsiaiškinti Šiaulių ir Telšių miesto gyventojų žinias apie vilkų biologiją bei ištirti šių žinių poveikį tiriamųjų nuomonei apie vilkų apsaugą.. Uždaviniai: 1. Išsiaiškinti Šiaulių ir Telšių miesto gyventojų žinias apie vilkų biologiją. 2. Ištirti šių žinių poveikį tiriamųjų nuomonei apie vilkų apsaugą. 3. Remiantis atlikto tyrimo duomenimis ir jų sąsajomis su įvairių mokslų laimėjimais pateikti rekomendacijų gyventojų ir vilkų darniai koegzistencijai užtikrinti. Duomenims surinkti naudojamas anketinis metodas, kai respondentai atsako į anketoje pateiktus klausimus. Tai pusiau uždara anketa, su pateiktais atsakymų variantais ir tuščiomis eilutėmis respondento nuomonei įrašyti. Anketoje yra 19 klausimų, iš kurių 17 klausimų yra uždaro tipo, su pasirinkimo variantais, vienas klausimas atviro tipo, paliekant vietos respondentui įrašyti savo nuomonę, paskutiniam klausimui naudota Likerto skalė, kurioje respondentas nurodo ar sutinka ir kokiu lygiu su išvardintais teiginiais. Anketos įvadinėje dalyje nurodomas apklausos tikslas, anketos pildymo būdas. Demografinėje dalyje respondentų prašoma nurodyti savo lytį, amžių bei socialinę padėtį. Pagrindinėje dalyje siekiama gauti informaciją apie Šiaulių ir Telšių rajonuose gyvenančių žmonių žinias apie vilką ir kokią įtaką tos žinios daro jų nuomonei apie vilkus. Didžioji dauguma Šiaulių ir Telšių miestų gyventojų supranta vilko svarbą... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Subject of the paper: awareness and opinion of Šiauliai and Telšiai residents about wolves. Aim of the study: to find out awareness of Šiauliai and Telšiai Residents about biology of wolf and to analyse impact of the awareness on their opinion about wolf protection. Tasks: 1. To find out awareness of Šiauliai and Telšiai Residents about biology of wolf. 2. To analyse impact of the awareness on their opinion about wolf protection. 3. Basing upon the study data and its relationship with achievements of various sciences to give recommendations for assuring harmonious co-existence between people and wolves. The data was collected by means of questionnaire method, when respondents reply to the questionnaire questions. This is a semi-closed form, along with given options to choose from and blank lines to record the respondent’s opinion. The questionnaire contains 19 questions of which 17 questions are closed-ended, with a choice of options, one question is open-ended, leaving room for the respondent to record his opinion, and for the last question Likert scale is used in which the respondent indicates whether and to what extent he/she agrees/disagrees with the statements listed above. The introductory part of the questionnaire survey states purpose, filling method. In the demographic part the respondents are asked to indicate their gender, age and social status. The main section is sought to obtain information about awareness of Šiauliai and Telšiai district residents about wolf... [to full text]

Copies of author's previously published articles inserted. / Errata pasted onto front end-paper. / Bibliography: leaves 111-139. / xii, 139, [34] leaves, [25] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Defines the origin of ring extra structurally abnormal chromosomes (ESACs), relates the genetic content of different ring ESACs derived from the same chromosome with the patient's pheuotype, generates probes for diagnostic use and refines the critical region of Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Paediatrics, 1998

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Paediatrics, 1998. / Copies of author's previously published articles inserted. Errata pasted onto front end-paper. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-139).

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit.opg. en samenvatting in het Nederlands.