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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-89). / This thesis seeks to examine the extent of the role that the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) played in Taiwan's high-technological development and whether developing countries of today can promote such development by creating similar institutional arrangements. Literature on innovation systems was reviewed, particularly national innovation systems and the role of R&D institutions within these. Taiwan's recent economic success, deemed attributable to economic and institutional reforms in recent decades, was also studied. In depth analysis was carried out of its leading high-technological research institute, ITRI, which bridges the gap between industry and academia. Although the case of Taiwan is sometimes presented as a unique example of industrial success of an SME-based state, this thesis argues that this success was possible because the research and development process had a large institute at its core. One way of creating such a research scale is by merging existing institutes, a process that would result in more efficient use of capital and human resources. The case of high-technological development in Pakistan is briefly assessed in order to gauge how its existing institutions structure could be amended to allow such changes to be made. The study concludes with the following three main points: (i) scale is an important factor: Taiwan's SME-based industry was able to succeed because of a large research institute at its core; (ii) in developing countries, governments decide which form of high-technology to pursue and when; thus, timing and choice of sector are important; and (iii) political leadership was seen to be important in the case of Taiwan's development in high-technology, and can play a key role in developing countries of today. / by Fareeha Yasmin Iqbal. / M.C.P.

A measurement of the Drell-Yan differential cross section at low invariant mass is presented in the di-muon channel. A 1.64 pb−1 dataset of √s = 7 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is used. The measurement is made in an invariant mass range of 26 < M < 66 GeV where M is the invariant mass of the muon pair. A review of the relevant theoretical physics and the ATLAS detector is made. The analysis is described with particular attention paid to the determination of the isolation efficiency corrections for the Monte Carlo and the estimate of the multijet background. The fiducial differential cross section is calculated with a statistical uncertainty that varies between 0.8% and 1.2%. The systematic uncertainty is seen to vary between 2.4% and 4.1%. A cross section extrapolated to the full phase space is also presented. This is dominated by theoretical uncertainties from the variation of the factorisation and renormalisation scales. The obtained fiducial differential mass cross section is compared to theoretical predictions at NLO and NNLO in perturbative QCD. It is shown that a move beyond NLO is needed to describe the distribution well due to the restrictions of using a fixed order theoretical prediction. A combination with the electron channel measurement is also briefly discussed as well as comparisons to a di-muon measurement in an extended invariant mass range. This allows similar, but stronger conclusions to be drawn. A discussion is made of a PDF fit that uses the measurement presented here. The fit demonstrates the impact of the measurement on the PDFs and further supports the conclusion that a move to NNLO in pQCD is needed to describe the data.

Abstract The family can be viewed as a reflector of culture, which becomes increasingly rich and varied as time goes by. It is like a person who undergoes all the vicissitudes of human beings' experiences, so it is not only a valuable specimen for us to have a better understanding of the course of human history but also an important basis for us to know ourselves. For this reason, the family novels have always been a extremely flexible and rich narrative genre, which represent complex social performance and the culture world in both eastern and western literature. This thesis is focused on Mo Yan's four novels related to the family. They were "Red Sorghum Family", " herbivorous Family", " Big Breasts & Wide Hips", and " Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out". For one thing, we deconstructed the survival ethics masked in these novels, analyzed the heroic image described in these novels, and discussed the issue of "degradation of species ". In what follows, we explored the underlying love ethic in these novels from the two perspectives: the suspension of moral and the reversion of tradition. Previous studies have demonstrated that in Mo Yan's family novels, making the flesh public is used as a method of unfolding primitive vitality. Third, we delved into the connotation after the pleasure of making love (body of pleasure) through an analysis of Mo Yan's praising body and preference over the land and lower body. Mo Yan's family novels are also filled with the plots about hunger and violence. Finally, we attempted to investigate the narrative skills and moral of Mo Yan's family novels. With the fact that Mo Yan elaborated the plots, his works about the family are one of the most brilliant novels. These novels describe the lifeblood of both paternal and maternal family system; they also revealed the implications about Mo Yan's viewpoints on the relationship between nation and country in the society intertwined with war, hunger, and violence.

LHC proton-proton collisions at a centre of mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV were observed in 2011. From a 1.68 fb$^{-1}$ sample of the data collected using the ATLAS detector, electron-positron pairs originating from the Drell-Yan process were selected using a cut based analysis. After the selection process, an estimate of the background was determined followed by the selection efficiency, detector resolution, reconstruction efficiency, and kinematic acceptance. Using these, the Drell-Yan differential cross section was calculated as a function of invariant mass between 26 and 66 GeV/c$^2$. This measurement has a precision between 12.4\% and 8.01\% from the lower invariant mass bins to the higher ones. The Drell-Yan cross section in proton-proton collisions depends on empirical quantities known as parton distribution functions which parametrize the structure of the proton. The measurement outlined in this thesis observes a region in parton distribution function phase space previously untouched by experiments. / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Jun 4, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Filmography : p. 264-270. Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-284).

Thesis (M.CM)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2006. / Dissertation submitted to the School of Chinese Medicine. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 27-36).

Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 2007.

Zugl.: Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 2008 u.d.T.: Tabery, Thomas: Selbst- und Weltkultivierung in der Philosophie des Yan Yuan (1635 - 1704)

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1966. / Also available in print.