The target of this master’s thesis is to design a functional sample of radiofrequency power amplifier for short waves radio amateur bands and measure its basic parameters such as required input power, output power, output spectrum purity and efficiency. The construction is based on results of behavioral simulation of the amplifier’s model obtained from circuit simulator cadence™OrCAD 16. The amplifier ought to be later used as an output stage for a small radio amateur transceiver.

L’évaluation classique de la posture rachidienne chez les patients porteurs d’une scoliose idiopathique de l’adolescent (SIA) se fait habituellement dans une position contrainte et statique en radiographie standard. Les conséquences sur la fonction rachidienne dynamique de ces déformations sont mal connues. Par ailleurs, les changements de la posture rachidienne au cours de la croissance et avec l’acquisition d’une marche stable n’ont encore jamais été explorés. L’analyse quantifiée du mouvement (AQM) d’une cohorte d’enfants sains a permis de mettre en évidence des modifications de la posture rachidienne dynamique au cours de la croissance, avec une augmentation de la gîte du tronc vers l’avant. Ces modifications s’accompagnaient de modifications anatomiques, en particulier au niveau des facettes articulaires cervicales. En AQM, les patients porteurs d’une SIA avaient des modifications du schéma de marche avec un décalage de phase à la marche entre la rotation des épaules et du bassin chez les patients scoliotiques. Il n’y avait pas de différence dans le schéma de marche entre les patients ayant une courbure thoracique droite et ceux ayant une courbure lombaire gauche. L’analyse de ces patients à 11 mois postopératoire a montré une restauration de certains paramètres grâce à la fusion vertébrale. Notamment, l’arthrodèse rachidienne postérieure de la courbure scoliotique a pour effet de faire disparaître le décalage de phase dans le plan transversal. L’AQM permet de mettre en évidence des modifications de la posture rachidienne chez ces patients et apparait comme un outil d’évaluation fondamental, qui pourrait nous permettre de mieux évaluer les traitements de la SIA. / In adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients, spinal posture is usually assessed in a constraint position with radiographic evaluation. However, the consequences of spinal deformity in these patients on the daily functioning of the spine remains unclear. On the other hand, spinal posture changes with normal growth and mature gait achievement have never been explored.A gait analysis was performed on a cohort of healthy children and highlighted changes in dynamic spinal posture with growth, showing that the trunk was increasingly leaning forward with mature gait achievement. These modifications were associated with anatomical changes, especially in the cervical spine.Changes in gait pattern were also observed in AIS patients thanks to gait analysis. In particular, there was a modification of upper trunk and pelvic rotation during gait. There was no difference in gait pattern according to major curve location. Eleven month postoperatively, our results showed that spinal fusion allowed restoration of a normal gait pattern, especially in the transversal plane.Gait analysis was able to highlight changes in dynamic spinal posture that occur in AIS patients, and thus appears as a major tool for spinal posture assessment in these patients. It could help us to improve the evaluation of the treatments that are proposed for spinal deformity correction.

Face à la demande croissante de débits de données de plus en plus élevées, l’une des principales solutions proposées par la 5G est de densifier le réseau en y intégrant notamment de nouvelles « Small cells ». La réorganisation de l’architecture du réseau mobile pour s’adapter à l’intégration poussée de ces Small cells, fait naître la problématique de la connexion backhaul entre les stations de bases desservant les Small cells et le cœur de réseau. Ainsi, des liaisons backhaul de plusieurs Gb/s de données sont nécessaires pour pouvoir assurer un débit de données d’au moins 100Mb/s à l’utilisateur qui est l’un des objectifs fixés pour la 5G. Les solutions de connexion backhaul sans fils ont un avantage indiscutable face aux coûts de déploiements de fibres optiques qui sont très élevés. Pour augmenter la capacité spectrale des liaisons sans fils, l’utilisation des fréquences millimétriques au-delà de 6 GHz caractérisées par des larges bandes passantes sera prochainement discutée pour la 5G durant le World Radiocommunication Conference 2019. Parmi ces fréquences, les bandes V (57-66GHz) et E (71-76 GHz et 81-86 GHz) ont un intérêt indéniable grâce aux larges bandes passantes disponibles ainsi qu’aux conditions de licenciement peu exigeantes. Les travaux développés dans cette thèse consistent à concevoir des antennes directives à large bande passante permettant d’établir les liens backhaul point-à-point sans fils (LoS). En exploitant les technologies de fabrications à faibles coût telles que l’impression 3D et Printed Circuit Board (PCB) sur des substrats FR4, la conception de deux types d’antenne directives a été étudiée à savoir des antennes lentilles et des antennes réseaux. / In order to address the ever-increasing demand of higher data rates, adding small cells to the existing macrocells infrastructure is one of the most important milestones of the 5G roadmap. With the integration of small cells and the re-organization of the network topology, backhaul bottleneck is the main challenge to address in the near future. Facing the costs of deployments of fiber optic connections, point-to-point wireless backhaul links using millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies are gaining prominence. 5G future frequencies, to be discussed under the World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) open-up the way towards mmW frequency band where large bandwidths are naturally available. The high bandwidths available at these frequencies enable several Gbps data rate backhaul links, which is un utmost necessity to respect the 100 Mbps user-experienced data rate promised by the 5G standard. Millimeter-wave frequencies in V and E-bands unlicensed/light licensed spectrum are considered as primary candidates for backhaul links. In addition to the light license regime, the high free space path loss experienced at these frequencies is rather beneficial to limit the interference between small cells links. Moreover, the high available bandwidths at V and E-bands enable to achieve multi Gb/s links without using complex modulation schemes. In this thesis, we focused our research study on developing high gain wide-band antennas usable in point-to-point backhaul links in a Line of Sight (LoS) context. Leveraging cost-efficient technologies like 3D printing and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) on FR4 substrates, we studied two high-gain antenna types: lens antennas and flat array antennas.

Iridium complexes with a chiral metal center and chiral carbons, Λ/Δ-(dfppy)₂Ir(chty-R) and Λ/Δ-(dfppy)2Ir(chty-S), were synthesized and characterized. These isomers have the same steadystate photophysical properties, and obvious offsets in ECD spectra highlight both the chiral sources. Each enantiomeric couple shows mirror-image CPL bands with a dissymmetry factor in the order of 10ˉ³.

The wind bands in Japan are considered by many scholars and wind band conductors to be among some of the finest ensembles in today's wind ensemble medium. The literature and repertoire of Japanese ensembles have evolved from orchestral transcriptions, patriotic music, and military marches to original compositions by European, American, and Japanese composers. British conductor Timothy Reynish states that Japanese wind band music has looked traditionally towards the United States and occasionally United Kingdom for inspiration and repertoire. This phenomenon can be attributed to the many collegiate American and the few English wind band conductors who traveled to Japan as guest conductors, and in some cases, became residents of Japan. The focus of this study is to closely examine this significant impact of American collegiate wind band conductors, their influence on Japanese programming and how that programming has affected the collegiate repertoire. This study includes surveys of repertoire, concert programs, discographies of recordings, and interviews with prominent American conductors currently conducting in Japan. This research documents the impact that American wind band conductors have had on the programming of Japanese wind bands and how their influence have altered the collegiate repertoire. Evidence of this impact is documented by Toshio Akiyama, who states that "The influence of visiting musicians from abroad must be measured as one of the most influential aspects affecting Japanese band growth. Although the effect of Japanese musicians traveling to the United States or Europe has been beneficial, the overall impact on large numbers of people has been more directly due to the visitors from abroad."

The first purpose of this study was to describe collegiate band members' preferred teacher interpersonal behaviors and perceptions of self-efficacy based on the gender, year in college, instrument, and major. The second purpose of the study was to measure the relationship between preferences of interpersonal teacher behavior and self-efficacy scores. The non-probability purposive sample (N = 1020) was composed of band members representing 12 universities from different regions of the United States. There were 4 large public, 4 small public, and 4 private universities that participated in the study. Participants completed 2 questionnaires, the Teacher Interaction Preference Questionnaire (TIPQ) and the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SEQ). Descriptive statistics were calculated for each of the questionnaires. Results for the TIPQ showed that all sub-groups most preferred the dominant-cooperative behaviors, followed by submissive-cooperative behaviors, and least preferred the dominant-oppositional behaviors. Results for the SEQ showed subtle variations for all subgroups. Three Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients were calculated to measure the relationship between the three teacher interaction styles (dominant-cooperative, submissive-cooperative, dominant-oppositional) and students' perceived self-efficacy. Due to the possible over-use of the data with multiple correlations, a Bonferroni adjustment was made to avoid a Type I error (.05/3 = .016). A significant positive relationship was found between self-efficacy and dominant-cooperative with 22% shared variance. A significant positive relationship was found between self-efficacy and submissive-cooperative with 7% shared variance. Finally, a significant positive relationship was found between self-efficacy and dominant-oppositional with 5% shared variance. This study's results indicate that it may be beneficial for band directors to measure students' preferences and perceptions of teacher interpersonal teacher behavior in order to find ways to interact better with the students. In addition, due to the relationship between students' preferences of teacher interpersonal behavior and perceived self-efficacy, collegiate band directors may wish to examine their own behaviors to determine how they align with the students' preferences.

This doctoral dissertation compares three types of military institutions of performing arts-military bands, military theatres and military artistic ensembles in cases of Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic and Poland since World War II to the fall of communism. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This degree work deals with the design and implementation of an automatic antenna tuner for short-wave transmitters. The device works within the short-wave range in (1.5 MHz - 30 MHz) band according to the selection of the given frequency. Its principle is that the tuner has a small range of adapted impedances, but it is usually sufficient for fine tuning of most deviations in the system of antenna 50 - feeder 50 - transceiver outlet 50 . It is also equipped with memories which the settings for the individual bands or frequency segments are stored into. Then the transition from one band to another is quick, easy and, first of all, safe, which is a great advantage. In automatic mode, a SWR limit from which the tuner should start to tune can be set. Interconnection with a TRX is not necessary in a fully automatic mode, the device tunes automatically after keying if the set limit of SWR has been exceeded. The automatic tuning is very quick with this device, if the antenna being tuned is not stored in the memory the tuning lasts ca 0.5 - 6 s, if the tuner uses the memory. It could be said that the work with the tuner is without problems, it is possible to learn to control it in a short time. The tuner is small and light. The result of the whole project is a compact device controlled by the user by means of push buttons.

Fundamental understanding of high strain rate deformation behavior of materials is critical in designing new alloys for wide-ranging applications including military, automobile, spacecraft, and industrial applications. High entropy alloys, consisting of multiple elements in (near) equimolar proportions, represent a new paradigm in structural alloy design providing ample opportunity for achieving excellent performance in high strain rate applications by proper selection of constituent elements and/or thermomechanical processing. This dissertation is focused on fundamental understanding of high strain-rate deformation behavior of several high entropy alloy systems with widely varying microstructures. Ballistic impact testing of face centered cubic Al0.1CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy showed failure by ductile hole growth. The deformed microstructure showed extensive micro-banding and micro-twinning at low velocities while adiabatic shear bands and dynamic recrystallization were seen at higher velocities. The Al0.7CoCrFeNi and AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high entropy alloys, with BCC and FCC phases in lamellar morphology, showed failure by discing. A network of cracks coupled with small and inhomogeneous plastic deformation led to the brittle mode of failure in these eutectic alloys. Phase-specific mechanical behavior using small-scale techniques revealed higher strength and strain rate sensitivity for the B2 phase compared to the L12 phase. The interphase boundary demonstrated good stability without any cracks at high compressive strain rates. The Al0.3CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy with bimodal microstructure demonstrated an excellent combination of strength and ductility. Ballistic impact testing of Al0.3CoCrFeNi alloy showed failure by ductile hole growth and demonstrated superior performance compared to all the other high entropy alloy systems studied. The failure mechanism was dominated by micro-banding, micro-twining, and adiabatic shear localization. Comparison of all the high entropy alloy systems with currently used state-of-the-art rolled homogenous armor (RHA) steel showed a strong dependence of failure modes on microstructural features.

High-pressure die casting of semi-solid aluminium-silicon alloys is used in the automotive industry to manufacture components, like housings, brackets, and bars. It is commonly known that during high-pressure die casting, defect bands may be created that follow the contour of the component surface. These bands consist mainly of a eutectic phase. This phenomenon is also observed in semi-solid metal slurry high-pressure die casting. These bands could lead to premature failure of the component in service. The origin of these bands is not fully understood and so this research focuses on investigating these bands and their origins further. A series of casting trials were conducted with varying plunger velocity. Subsequent investigation using optical and scanning electron microscopy showed that a change of the plunger velocity alters the number of bands present in the samples. Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy revealed that a measurable difference in aluminium quantity across the band was noticed and it was postulated that aluminium migrates towards the component centre. Therefore, different mechanisms responsible for particle migrations found in literature were investigated and assessed quantitatively using experimental data and information from published literature. It was found that the Saffman lift force and the Mukai-Lin-Laplace effect were the mechanisms that were most likely to cause such a migration of aluminium. Further experimental investigation is recommended to identify which of the two mechanisms is ultimately responsible for the migration and to optimise the high-pressure die casting procedure to minimise defect band formation. / Produktion av högtrycksgjutning av halvfasta aluminium-kisellegeringar används i fordonsindustrin för att tillverka komponenter, som exempel till kåpor, konsoler och stag. Det är allmänt känt att defektband kan formas under högtrycksgjutning som följer konturen av komponentytan. Dessa band består huvudsakligen av eutektisk fas. Detta fenomen har också observerats vid högtrycksgjutning produktion av halvfast slurry. Potentiellt kan dessa band leda till en försämring av komponentens mekaniska egenskaper och resultera i ett förtida brott. Ursprunget av dessa band är inte helt kartlagda och det är därför viktigt att fokusera ytterligare på denna forskning och att undersöka dessa band och deras ursprung. En serie med gjutningsförsök genomfördes med varierande kolvhastighet. Efterföljande undersökning med optisk- och svepelektronmikroskopi visade att en förändring av kolvhastigheten förändrar antalet band som finns i proverna. Energidispersiv röntgenspektroskopi avslöjade en mätbar skillnad i aluminiumkvantitet över bandet, och det antogs att aluminium migrerar mot centrum av komponenten. Därför undersöktes och utvärderades olika mekanismer som ansvarar för partikelmigrationer som finns att finna i litteratur med hjälp av experimentella data och information från publicerad litteratur. Det visade sig att Saffman lyftkraft och Mukai-Lin-Laplace effekten var de mekanismer som mest troligen orsakade migration av aluminium. Ytterligare experimentella försök rekommenderas för att identifiera vilken av dessa två mekanismerna som i slutändan är ansvarig för migrationen. Detta för att optimera gjutningsprocessen och därmed minimera uppkomsten av defektband.